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// Together Forever 
// Story: Pony Split 
// by Ark125 
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Pony Split

Chapter 23 – Together Forever

"Okay Luna, just like I showed you." I was teaching her how to effectively use her twin blades in battle. I made them myself, so she could have her own swords that could split just like mine. One of them was sapphire and the other was onyx, of course both were strengthened by bits of diamond placed all throughout the structure of the blades.

Luna focused and then said, "SPLIT!" Her swords turned into multiple daggers, which see then proceeded to launch into a target. Each one hit dead center.

I clopped my hooves, "Brava! You're a natural!"

She blushed as she retrieved her daggers. "Ah, you're just saying that."

"Your right." I gave her a smug grin and she hoofed me in the shoulder. "Ow! You know if the daggers don't work on Nightmare Moon, you can always beat her to death." I gave her another smug grin which in turn earned me another hoof to the shoulder. "Ow! So abusive!"

She giggled, "You big foal."

"Oh, a foal am I! We'll just see who the foal is when I bring out the tickle hoof!" I held up my hoof in the air and held it there for a second as if the majesty of it was so awesome, it had to be shown off. I swear I heard a crack of thunder somewhere.

"No, not the almighty tickle hoof! Someone please save me!" She feigned in fear.

"Ahh!" I lunged at my fiancé and immediately began to tickle her.

"P-please! Have m-mercy upon m-me!" She said in a giggling fit.

"NEVER! Buwahaha!"

This went on for a couple minutes before I finally settled down. We got up and walked to the palace garden, over to our favorite spot: a patch of thick grass in the shade of a beautiful cherry blossom tree.

We laid down in our thicket of grass and rolled onto our backs so we could look up into the branches of the blossoming foliage. The freshly dewed grass moistened our coats as we settled in the shade of the tree. I cinched myself closer so I was right next to the love of my life.

"Luna?"

"Hmm?"

"Will you and I be together forever?"

"Of course."

"I mean in the sense of you being am immortal deity and I being a mortal unicorn. Will we still be together forever?"

"Yes Pure Heart, we will."

I turned on my side to face her and furrowed my brow. "But how?"

She kept looking up into the sky as she explained, "When you marry an alicorn, a reaction should occur that immortalizes the pony being wed to said alicorn."

I was kind of getting worried, "Should occur? Why would it not occur?"

"If the mortal's heart is not pure as a whole, then the immortalizing process will be reversed."

"Meaning what?"

She sighed, "Meaning that the mortal pony's life, instead of being extended, will be shortened…"

I gulped, "Really?"

"Really."

"By how much?"

Luna was really solemn now, "Well, let us just say that you would not see the birth of your first foal."

"… Are you pregnant?"

Luna turned to me quickly, "NO!"

"Thank goodness." I grinned.

"I am just saying that if I were to conceive sometime after our wedding, you would not live to see the birth of our first foal."

"Well, would there be any way of rectifying this?"

She turned back to face the sky. "Yes, if you were to make your heart whole and pure, then you would gain both of your wings."

"Wings? Wait, are you saying I get to be an alicorn?"

"Yes."

"Freakin' epic!" I turned to face the sky again and hoofpumped continually. After a minute of this, I said, "Wait, both of my wings?"

"Yes, when you get married to an alicorn, you will get one wing no matter what, the other one depends on you."

"This sounds oddly familiar. Oh well."

"Why the sudden interest in all of this?"

I tried to think of a way to explain it. "Well, in my culture, we believe that marriage can last for all eternity, even after we die. But only if we are sealed together in the correct setting."

"Oh! I see. So what you are saying is that you were worried that our love would not transcend time because we could not get married in this correct setting of yours. Am I correct?"

I nodded my head.

"Look at me Pure Heart."I turned on my side to stare into her eyes. "No matter what, we will always be connected. Love always find a way. We will be together forever."

"Promise?"

She smiled, "Promise."

I faced the sky again and yawned.

Luna giggled, "Looks like it past somepony's bedtime."

"No, I'm not tired really." I yawned again.

"Shh, it is okay. We can sleep here tonight," she said in a very soothing voice.

"Luna?" I whispered as I was falling asleep.

"Yes Pure?"

"I love you."

She smiled, "I love you, too." Her horn glowed to raise the moon and then she snuggled up close to me and fell asleep. We cuddled there all night long.