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// An Innocent Memory 
// Story: The Moon Worshiper After the Fact: Dream Wedding. 
// by CreatureofTheNight 
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Luna was sweating bullets. Sure meeting up with her mother again helped, but she's going to be freaking married soon! She's going to spend the rest of Dark's natural life with him, and she didn't know what she was doing. 

Thankfully Celestia was here to ease Luna's nerves. Celestia smiled and said "Thank goodness you aren't a bridezilla" Luna paced around only giving a slight chuckle. "If you want I can tell you another Charming Heart story" 

Luna paused mid walk and asked "Is that really okay?" 

"On days like this' Celestia started "There are few other ponies I like thinking about" 





"Lets see" Celestia started "Ah I got it, let me tell you the tale of our first date. 

It was two months after he and I got together, a beautiful late summer day. I had the sun shining just as we planned, this was days in advanced. We had to, because it was the night of what I lovingly named the Twin Sisters Meteor shower. This shower is a celebration of both myself and my sister, so I thought I could spend the day with my "Prince Charming".

I went down to his room first and then I heard something I didn't want to hear, loud, bourus, coughing. I went back in and saw that poor Charming had got himself sick. 

Charming smiled and said weakly "Hey" 

"Oh no really tonight?" I said with concern and looked at Charming "Are you okay?" 

Charming smiled and said "A little queezy but I'm better now that you're here" He smiled and said "I'm looking forward to tonight" 

I looked at Charming, he was a sickly green color, and he looked like he would puke at any minute. I couldn't let him strain himself and said "Charming..." 

Charming smiled and said "This meteor shower is dedicated to you and your sister, I'm not missing it due to be a little under the weather" 

As if on cue, Charming floated a bucket to him and uncontroablly threw up in it. I sighed and said "That's not a little under the weather" 

"But..." Charming again attempted to protest, but I wasn't hearing any of it. 

Using my magic I brought in a small medical mask for myself and some water, Charming looked so disappointed when I sat next to him and started to put one of those hot water medical bags on his head. I smiled and Charming and patted his head "It's okay, I'm disappointed sure but your health is more important" 

Charming said "I know, it's just I wanted our first date to be special. You're the first mare I had this strong of an affection for. I wanted  you to be happy."

Thinking fast, I said "Who says we aren't on our first date now?" I pulled up a chair and continued "Every pony else will be watching the meteor shower tonight, so how about you and I spend the night together"

He smiled at me then looked down "But what are we gonna do?" 

It was my turn to get a clever little smile and said "Well, how about you and I play a game called Back and Forth, where the two of us ask questions about each other back and forth" I admit this game had another motive. As much as I knew Charming, and I knew his sweet-hearted nature, there were things that I didn't know about him. Especially his deepest darkest secrets, and I admit that I was of a curious mind. 

Charming smiled and agreed "Okay, Princess's first" 

I wasted no time starting with "when you first met me you were scaling a tower trying to find me. Why didn't you take the stairs?" 

"I tried, your guards wouldn't let me. They thought I was some raving fan boy with a delusion" Charming started "My turn! What's your favorite memory of your sister". 

I admit that I cursed him slightly, having me remember Luna as I was trying to keep her buried deep down in my mind, but I answered anyways. "When we were fillies, it was the middle of the afternoon. Luna was trying to prove herself to me, father, and especially our mother. She bet that she could lift the moon, just like our parents. I told her that she didn't have to, but she insisted. She went and tried anyways. She kept trying and trying, and I could hear her crying when it wasn't working. However, in a fit of rage she screamed out and mighty magic rocked the old castle. With a lift of her head the moon rose and she collapsed. Mother put the moon back into place as Father and I scolded her. However, I was so proud of her." I smiled as I remembered my younger sibling and how strong she was. 

"My turn' I paused and had to ask something very personal. "Since you went personal" Charming paled "How did you break your horn?" 

Charming looked down as I immediately regretted my choice. I began to apologize to him telling him that he didn't have to, and was about to ask him a new question. When suddenly he started "I was just a little one...about five years old." He let out a hefty sigh which made me gulp. "My mother and father didn't like each other, in fact they hated each other. So much so that Mom decided to be unfaithful for dad, with a stallion that was in her own words "four times the horse than he would ever be".  I was the result of that affair. Father hated me, he hated my horn on my head saying that I was an abomination. Eventually he snapped at my mother and in a fit of rage took it out on me. He tossed me out of a window...to kill me..." Charming smiled "Obviously he failed, but...I landed on my horn and it...broke off..."

He sighed "it really hurt. I ran away from home after that, and found refuge in an orphanage. I'm grateful I found that place...if I didn't, I would have ended up just like him: Bitter, Angry, and Destructive" 

I winced as I looked at him "Charming, I'm so sorry, I shouldn't have asked this..." I looked down guilty as Charming pulled him to him and held me close "Charming...are...are you" I felt something wet on my shoulders. 

"It felt so good to finally tell some pony else" Charming said smiling with tears streaming "I...I had that held in for so long..." 

I paused as Charming asked "My turn? Do you love me?" 

"Of course I love you" I said with a smile as I leaned into him. I opened the window, and we both watch meteors flying by. I saw the moon, which still had Nightmare Moon on it, and whispered "I love you too"





Luna heard the bells of Canterlot ringing at the end of the tale. Celestia smiled and said to Luna "Shall we?" 

Luna smiled "We shall" 

Celestia paused and looked up in the sky saying "I hope you're happy Charming"