//------------------------------// // Secret Meetings // Story: Eternal Love // by BumbleFlow //------------------------------// "Luna?!" Celestia yelled to the two ponies that looked near exact alike. Lunar Shadow looks up to the he sun princess very angrily trotting to him, he was hardly awake, so he thought he was dreaming. And after wiping his eyes, and blinking a few times, he then realizes that it's actually princess Celestia, he quickly wakes up the sleeping Luna. Luna, just awoken, see's her sister and her eyes widen. "Sister?!" "Who is this pony?! And why did you not set the moon for me to raise the sun?!" Celestia furiously yelled to her sister, tears started to swell up in her eyes. "I, I can explain sister!" Luna exclaimed to her surprisingly emotional sister known as Celestia. "Then please do so explain to me what is going on here!" Celestia stand above both lunar ponies, Luna and Lunar Shadow both stood, only about 3/4's the size of Celestia, and look up at her. "This," Luna looks over to Lunar Shadow, "Is my companion. His name is Lunar Shadow." Celestia takes a good long look at him, she see's near everything is exactly alike about them, besides their gender, mane, and tails, "That explains him, but why did you not lower he moon dear sister?" She looked devastated, seeming to have calmed down. "I.. Wanted to make him live for eternity, like we can, so we shall forever be together." Luna blushed slightly, along with Lunar Shadow, but Celestia was not happy to hear this. Calmly, she answers, "I will not allow you to do that dear sister. What if something goes wrong? What if he ends up breaking your heart? No offense to you Mister Shadow, I am just worried for my only sibling." He nods, "None taken.." "Well, I love him!" Luna brings him to her side with her left wing, showing her affection to him in front of her sister, "And I feel he would never break my heart. I mean really, he looks near exactly alike as I." "No. Luna, I'm sorry, but I forbid you to see him any longer." Celestia stomped her hoof down, and levitated the two away from one another. "You must lower the moon, and let me raise the sun, and you cannot meet with him any longer, so as long as I live." Celestia did not want to do this to her only sister, going through a tough stage, coming back recently to Equestria after banishment to the moon. Luna took it hard. "No sister!" Luna cried out, "This is not fair! All I want is one special pony, you have Twilight after all! And she will live for eternity, such as us, and Cadence. I will not allow you to keep me away form the one pony who truly understands me!" Luna stepped away from her sister, "I promise! I will not let the moon and stars be this way again! Just please let me be with Lunar Shadow!" Luna broke, and cried, tears flowed down her dark blue cheeks, that had a slight red to them. "I am doing this for your well being! Now come sister, and lower the moon and stars. Please. We must go back to the castle, it is time for you to rest, such as you do during the day. And Lunar, I know this may be hard, but you must understand. I cannot let you see my sister, for it's for her well being. I am sorry I must do this to the both of you." Celestia explained to them, she let out a sigh, and led Luna to the royal carriage, Luna lowered the moon and stars, and went to sleep in the carriage, for she was very tired from staying up longer than she normally does. "I'm sorry Luna.." Lunar Shadow whispered. He had failed yet another pony, he lay on his cloud and it turned from white and fluffy to grey and static with electricity that run through the cloud. It seems they change due to pegasi's feelings from time to time. Luna and Celestia reach the castle only about an hour later, the sun now risen to it's position, and moving, Celestia sat thinking. She brought Luna to her room by levitation, she did not want to wake her sister. Not knowing what she may be dreaming. Not knowing her sister is a dream-walker. Luna and Lunar Shadow meet up in Lunar's dream, where him and Luna talked, of course the Luna in his dream was almost exactly like Luna, with few subtle differences, she talked to Lunar Shadow, head on. They made a plan to meet up secretly when Celestia was surely sleeping, and made sure to teleport out of the castle first instead of going past the guards, of which would tell Celestia that Luna had left, without hesitation. But Luna said to give it about a week or so, when her sister would have more trust in her sorrow-filled sister, missing the stallion she loves. Lunar Shadow awakens before their conversation ends, it's the next night, and mentally, he talks to Luna, although really he isn't, it's just to keep himself busy over the course of the next seven to ten days of loneliness to come. He stares at the stars and moon. Waiting days and days, Luna starts to come back, not every night, so the guards would not suspect the princess, but enough to satisfy the both of them. They met up once every few days, weeks, or maybe months. Whatever Luna could do to see her special stallion, she would. One night was different than the others, "Shadow, I want to cast the eternal life spell upon you, so we may live together, and be with one another for eternity, but I will only do so if you really want to. And I've been wanting to know, if you wish to?" Luna asked Lunar Shadow. He quickly answered, "Of course I want to. That is what I have wanted from the beginning, is to be with you." being as charming as ever. Luna nodded her head, "This may take some time. For it is not easy to cast the spell. So please, get into a comfortable position, and relax." Luna took a subtle breath, and lit her horn with magic. She started to cast the spell, Lunar had lay down onto the grass the position he finds most comfortable, and Luna enchanted the words to the spell softly out loud to herself, and focused upon Lunar Shadow.