“Wake up! The princesses want you in the throne room!” The famous guard yelled as he bashed the door of the cell.
It was not the best way to wake up from a good night of sleep, but blaze couldn’t really complain since that was the first real sleep he had in a thousand years. But that guard was asking for trouble.
“Just a minute.” Blaze groaned as he struggled to get up from the hay bale.
Blaze couldn’t stop a small sigh from getting out. It was finally happening after all this years of waiting. But, what now? He knew it was happening but he was not sure what was happening. The guard knocked on door once again and interrupted his thoughts. He took a few steps towards the door and the guard opened it.
“Follow me I’ll show you the way. You should take a shower before you go to the throne room though. This way.” The guard said as he started walking into a corridor.
Was he being nice? Or just plain rude? Either way a shower wouldn’t hurt and would help him wake up to the day ahead. Blaze followed him through the corridor into what seemed to be some sort of locker room. He took a step forward to examine the room but before he could turn around he was greeted by a bucket of ice cold water to the face.
“What the hell!?” It was all Blaze managed to say before containing himself.
The Guard started laughing. “Nice shower, don’t you think? Here’s a towel. Now hurry up the princesses are waiting!”
“Can I ask your name?” One more little play like this and he was going to the medical bay.
“Why?”
“Well you know mine why can’t I know yours?”
“Okay… My name is Jake.”
“Nice to meet you Jake. Let’s go. We don’t want to keep the princesses waiting, right?”
And with a confused look, Jake started walking towards the maze of corridors.
After arriving to the throne room and sending a guard to bring Blaze to them, the princesses were alone waiting for him. Celestia looked neutral as always but Luna knew her too well for it to fool her.
“Do you trust him?” Celestia finally asked.
This question surprised Luna. She wasn’t expecting Celestia to ask her that.
“Tia… I know there are a lot of reasons to not trust him but after all you did to him, after all he’s been through… If he wished us harm he could have killed us both, and you know he could have. But instead he came to talk to us, he was willingly to forgive you!” Luna took a step towards her sister and started speaking with a sweet but sad voice.
“Can’t you see it sister?”
“I don’t know Lulu…” A tear rolled down her cheek and her posture broke.
“Ever since you two got close, I grew this feeling that he wanted to harm you… At first I thought it was just jealousy but as time went by it got stronger, every single bone in my body told me something was wrong with him… I still have that feeling… But everything else is telling me otherwise…”
Luna hugged her sister and tried to calm her down, cleaning her tears in the process.
“In time you’ll see that this will soon be a part of our past.”
While she was in the embrace of her sister, Celestia let her thoughts roam free.
“Oh Lulu if you knew how scared I am… I don’t want to lose you again… I just wished I could see what you and Twilight see… but then again… My instincts never have failed me.”
Luna Let go of her sister and with a gentle spell she clean hers and her sister’s tears.
“Just give him a chance, and to yourself as well. You’ll see it’s all going to work out.”
Celestia just nodded.
Their conversation was interrupted by Blaze’s arrival with the sound of the double doors opening and closing.
“Morning.” Blaze said as he walked into the room.
“I hope you slept well, you have a busy day ahead of you.” Luna replied smiling.
“So, what does await me?” Blaze asked.
“Well, we are going to walk around Canterlot showing you the city and it’s citizens, show you how everything works and hopefully find you a hobby.” Luna started to explain.
“But first…”
“First, something I know you’ll love: history lessons!” Celestia finished in a sarcastic tone.
“So you do still know me! I was starting to lose hope.” Blaze smiled at her and looked around.
“Have you had breakfast? I really wanted a cup of coffee… Coffee is still a thing right?” Blaze asked.
Both princesses shared a laugh.
“What? How am I supposed to know?” Blaze protested.
“Yes, coffee is still a thing. Now let’s go to the library, I’ll ask a guard to bring some coffee.” Celestia said in a surprisingly happy tone.
“Never thought I would go back to school. And Celestia seems to be handling things better today.” Blaze thought to himself as he followed Celestia through the double doors leaving Luna alone in the throne room.
“Oh Blaze, I think you would prefer spending another day in Tartarus than having history classes again! But don’t worry after that I have some plans to un-bore you.” She said as she left to start the day.
Luna was right, Blaze faced one of the most boring days of his life, but it was necessary. Celestia started by a history lesson of all major events in the last 1000 years, she couldn’t go in detail but it still was almost a whole morning of learning. Next came geography, Blaze learnt where everything was and what is the purpose of every city. After a quick lunch break, they restarted classes and now it was time for social studies; learning customs, traditions, expressions and generally what everyday life is for a pony. It was a lot to learn in a morning and half of an afternoon, but it was enough to know the basics. And Blaze would learn the rest in everyday life. Celestia seemed to be in a good mood, that or she was enjoying seeing Blaze go through that torture. Either way it was done and both of them managed to share a couple of laughs.
“Go on, you’re free. Luna is probably waiting for you in the castle’s entrance, and I need to go catch up on work. And do try not killing everyone that makes you angry.” Celestia said as she stood in the entrance of the library.
“I’m going. And thank you for dealing with me but I’m sure you enjoyed seeing me suffering for the past hours. And you have my word that if I kill someone they will have deserved it.”
Celestia let go a small smile and closed the library doors.
Blaze could feel his hearth rate going up as he walk up to the castle entrance knowing he would spend the rest of the afternoon with Luna. It had been so long since the two of them were together, the day could go either way. His thoughts were interrupted by the sight of an ethereal blue glow coming from the entrance of the castle. And that glow spoke.
“So you can still walk, that must be a good sign!” She joked as she smiled at him.
“It wasn’t that bad. I even managed to make your sister smile!”
They both laughed.
“So what do you have in store for me?”
“Well… Since you had to go through all of that, I thought we could start by something I know you’ll enjoy.”
As she was speaking, she pulled with her magic something from the shadows. It was her halberd! After all this time it was still her weapon of choice!
“How about we go to the barracks so you can learn about the guards? And I need to see if you still can handle yourself.” A teasing smile grew in her face.
“Now were talking! But I’m afraid I’m going to have to borrow a weapon from the royal armory.”
“Don’t worry everything is already arranged. Our best generals are waiting for us. Follow me.”
And Blaze did. They went to side of the castle, climbed a small staircase and, in front of them, was the courtyard were the guards were trained. Four generals and a couple of curious guards were there waiting for their arrival.
“Aww, an audience and everything? You shouldn’t have.” Blaze commented.
Luna discreetly smiled at Blaze before addressing everyone in the courtyard.
“Listen up!” shouted Luna in fiery tone.
“First of all, this is Blaze. And yes all the rumors are true! He indeed came from Tartarus. But I can assure you he is in our side. Secondly as of tomorrow his former rank is being restored, meaning he will be the highest rank of authority. He will not be leading you but if he orders you to so something you will do it! This also applies to all of you generals.”
Even though Luna had the name “Princess” behind her, she acted more like a goddess of war in front of her guards. It wasn’t for nothing that everyone was afraid of her.
"We are going to need to test him of his combat strength. General Iron Hoofs, how would you like to test Blaze’s hoofs?”
General Hoofs – how everyone called him – stepped up to the arena in the center of courtyard. He was a strong stallion, confident and had a strong ego as well, he was known for his hoof on hoof combat and he wasted no time in starting to taunt Blaze.
“Come on White Wings! I’m waiting.” He said with a rusty voice.
Blaze, unfazed, flew to the arena. Blaze was bigger than any stallion there, his height was only surpassed by the princesses.
“I won’t use my wings to keep this fair, as long as you don’t use magic.”
“As you wish. Now let’s see what you’re made of!”
General Hoofs charged Blazed at an amazing speed, when he got close he stood up in his hind legs launching is right hoof in Blaze’s direction. Blaze toke advantage of his blind attack and in a swift motion he grabbed his right hoof and toppled him to the dirt. General Hoofs slid across the arena covering his white fur in dirt. He stood up. His anger was fueling his strength. He wasn’t going to let some pegasus humiliate him like that.
“Well I think that more than proves that Blaze is fit for combat.” Luna said in hopes that General Hoofs would calm down.
Unfortunately the combination of the rumble of the group of guards and the look of cockiness in Blaze’s face didn’t allow him to calm down. Blaze was walking to side of the arena, he stopped when he saw the General looking at him.
“Don’t do it.” He thought.
And a few seconds later, General Hoofs was charging again.
“Oh well… You’re going to wish you hadn’t.”
The General changed his tactic and stopped in front of Blaze, he swung his right hoof in Blaze’s direction and he had his left hoof ready for a second attack. Blaze dodged his first hoof but he wasn’t so merciful in the second one: he grabbed his left hoof and, using momentum, he turned him around and grabbed him in a choke hold. They fell to the ground, rustling and kicking. They lifted a cloud of dust. Blaze wasn’t going to lose his strength but General Hoofs was going to lose his breath rather quickly.
“Blaze, I think you made your point.” Luna said seeing that the situation was growing out of control.
“He… Damn it! He’s still kicking!” Blaze answered as he struggled to maintain his grip.
“BLAZE!” Yelled Luna.
Hearing the tone in Luna’s voice, Blaze let go of his grip. The general gasped in relief, he bucked in the dirt trying to stand up. But he was tough so in a few seconds he was already walking away hiding his embarrassment. He not only lost in a hoof fight, but he also let his anger get the best of him.
“Very well… Since Blaze as proven to be fit for combat, I think it’s only fair that he fights against the best of us.” And with a simple spell she grabbed her halberd.
The soldiers that were watching started to cheer, it wasn’t often that they got to see a princess fight. Blaze smiled and asked.
“Well I only need my weapon. What do you have for me?”
And with another spell Luna brought a shelf full of all kinds of weapons. It had everything from the longest spears to the shortest daggers. Blaze spent a lot of time fighting so he knew witch type of weapon he preferred. But he also spent a long time improving said weapon, it was a real shame that he had to leave it behind. He grabbed a war axe from the shelf, he gave it a few swings. It was far from the perfection of his last war axe but it would do.
“You always preferred the sword, finally changed your mind?”
Luna never liked the fact that Blaze fought with a sword, it didn’t seem to fit his style of battle. It suited his agility but it was quite underpowered, lacking a staggering effect.
“Indeed, it needs a lot of modification but it will do.” He said as he span the axe around with his wings.
“Now, I don’t want you to go soft on me. As long as I can fly around, you can use your magic.”
Luna agreed with a nod and with a flap of wings she was air born, holding her spear with her magical grip. Blaze followed her up, holding his axe with his hoofs. They were both hovering above the arena looking at each other, spinning their weapons, preparing. The guards’ eyes were glued to those two powerful beings and a small crowed had formed at the entrance of the courtyard. From the inside of the castle, in one of the windows, Celestia watched curiously, but fearful as well.
“Ready?” Luna asked as her eyes locked on Blaze’s.
“Ready.”
And with the confirmation, both of them launched at each other, in a dance of steel bashing against steel. It was an hypnotizing, dance of death of two different but equal powers. The elegant and powerful spear blows Luna stroke were countered by Blaze’s quick and unrelenting axe swipes Blaze displayed. And Blaze’s quick and staggering attacks were ineffective towards the sly alicorn. As they hovered around the arena, trails of dust followed them and even thought this was a beautiful show of skill and technic, it could only end in one way.
Blaze clashed his axe against Luna’s spear, and with a flap of his wings he rammed Luna, causing her to lose balance. They both fell to the ground, Blaze was on top of Luna with his axe’s blade touching her neck.
“Gotcha!” Blaze smiled victorious.
Luna smiled as well and demonstrated how wrong Blaze was. Her spear was right above his head.
“Touché…” Blaze acknowledged the draw.
Mutual destruction.
They were made to fight alongside each other not against each other. Blaze stood up and helped the princess getting up.
“You know, some day one of us is going to win.” She said as she leaned against Blaze.
As much as Blaze wanted to know who of them was stronger, it was also sad to know that someday they would have no reason to test it.
“Someday, yes, but not today.” And he hugged her with his wing.
“So… what now?” asked Blaze.
“Now I have a present for you. Follow me.”
Luna toke him to armory not too far away, and inside was Blaze’s old armor.
“When I was rounding up some of the weapons I found this lying on the floor, do you think it still fits you?”
It was a bit dusty but a good armor lasted forever. It was made with steel mail, thick leather and the vital parts were also covered with scaled steel. It had the Equestria flag in his right flack and his cutie mark on his left. A steel plate adorned his front, protecting his lower neck; his hoofs and joints were also protected by steel.
“Wow… Probably does, but where did you find it?” Blaze finally asked after spending a minute looking at it.
“Well, while you were with Celestia I decided to go to the old castle and sure enough it was where I left it.”
“Damn… It’s as beautiful as I remember it… But, I got to ask, I know it’s a good piece of armor, but a 1000 years and no rust nor rotting?”
"I might have used some spells to fix it.” Luna confessed.
“But go on, try it!”
With a bit of help of Luna’s magic Blaze dressed his armor.
“It’s a bit thigh, but it fits.”
He walked around a bit, moving every joint to test it. He placed his axe in the holster and he was ready for combat.
“I think you look cute.” Luna commented, with a teasing look.
“Cute!? From the whole array of compliments you choose cute?” Luna chuckled.
Blaze smiled, he was really lucky to have her by his side.
“But for real now, thank you Luna, this really means a lot. When i came back, I hadn’t the slightest clue of what to expect, if you hadn’t vouched for me, I don’t know wha- “Luna placed her wing in his lips silencing him.
“I know, you don’t have to thank me.” She smiled and withdrew her wing.
“Now, I still need to show you the city, so bring your armor and your axe, so you can get used to carrying all that and, who knows, maybe you’ll have to defend me.”
“Defend you? You sure I don’t need to defend everypony from you?” They both smiled.
Blaze holstered his axe, made some adjustments in his armor and toke a deep breath. He couldn’t screw up now; the princesses had given him a chance to prove himself so he had to contain his anger. It wasn’t so much a problem of people messing with him, but more of people messing with Luna. And now he had an axe.
“Let’s hope no one gets funny ideas…” He thought.
They both left the armory and started to walk the streets of Canterlot. From shady, narrow alleys to the luxurious main streets. Everyone where ever they went had their eyes on them. Ponies bowing, cheering or just outright paralyzed by the sight of the Princess of Night. But Luna noticed some stray eyes that refused that temptation and were looking instead at who was accompanying her. She could see the rumors starting to form. As they walked Luna lectured Blaze about the purpose of every major building they came across, every passage and the people they came across. It had been a while since Luna went in a walk like this, she preferred the quiet zones of Equestria but it was nice to vary from time to time. Two pats on her back interrupted her thoughts, it was Blaze.
“Keep walking and pretend like I’m not talking.” He was tense, like a cat just before an earthquake.
“Three stallions, see them? Right behind us… We stop, they stop… We turn, they turn…”
“Blaze… It’s normal that we have some ponies following us… I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more.” Luna tried to calm him down.
“There are but… Their different… Leather armor… and I’ve seen that look before...”
“Blaze… Look, we’ll do circle, through that quiet street, if they follow you’ll talk to them”
“Okay…”
“Blaze… Talk okay? No need for anything else.” Luna cemented.
They turned to the street and the density of ponies diminished with each steep. When there seemed to be no pony around them, they stopped. Blaze looked back, and sure enough, two unicorns and a pegasus in formation and in leather armor followed them there. Blaze placed his wing on the hilt of his axe just in case. He walked to them and asked.
“Good afternoon, is there anything I can assist you with?”
The three of them looked at Blaze with disgust in their eyes.
“So Nightmare Moon is now recruiting ponies from Tartarus? That’s right! We know all about you, and your dark lord! You can drop the act!” One of them yelled.
Blaze jaw just dropped. He looked back at Luna who had her hoof covering her face. Luna had herd some rumors that a group was lurking Canterlot that believed that she was still Nightmare Moon and was controlling Celestia. She was more embarrassed than anything.
Blaze, on the other hand, was plain confused.
“Hum… Sure, I might have come from Tartarus… I understand that that might cause some… insecurity, but… I’m pretty sure Nightmare Moon was banished a couple years ago, And Princess Luna here… not evil, probably.” Yes, Blaze saw the embarrassment of Luna and he was managing to joke a bit about the whole situation.
“SHUT YOUR FILTHY MOUTH! If you thought you could deceive us all you were wrong! The Light Ponies see through your shadowy lies! We will NOT let you bring darkness into Equestria!”
As they yelled their last words, they teleported their weapons and charged against Blaze and the princess. Luna seeing the magic flash started to teleport her spear and armor.
“Oh, for the love of…” Was the only thing Blaze managed to say.
Blaze waited for them to get close. One of the unicorns was running straight at him with a dagger floating in front of his head. With one move, Blaze ducked, grabbed his axe with his right wing and as he rotated to the left he lifted his wing and axe striking his foe in the head, shattering his skull. Blood and bone shards squirted from the impact.
Using the momentum he gained, Blaze turned to face his next opponent, grabbed his axe with his front hoofs and lifted up and started to fly towards the pegasus, also armed with an axe. The pegasus tried to strike Blaze as he was closing the distance. Blaze stopped, dodged the attack and punished him for trying anything else than surrendering. He bashed against the pegasus making him fall, and before he had time to pick up his axe, Blaze fell from the skies carving his axe in his skull.
Only then Luna’s spell ended she teleported next to the remaining pony. When she was about to stab him with her spear, he stopped. He was in shock, his magic failing to hold his sword.
“Why… why would they attack…” Blaze muttered as he walked towards Luna. His axe was dragging across the floor.
“I had to Luna… Don’t send me back… They were going to…”
Luna looked at him.
“Blaze… you did your job… there was no other way. And of course I’m not sending you back!”
Blaze holstered his axe, and looked at the two bodies on the floor. The blood was starting to flow down the street.
“What a mess… What were they hoping to achieve?”
Luna wasn’t listening. She was looking at the unicorn in front of her. Paralyzed… As soon as it saw the unicorn dying, he couldn’t move. She removed the sword from its magic field and dropped it on the floor.
“We should call the guards or something…” Blaze informed.
“Their coming… I took the armor so they’re probably racing here” Luna assured.
Luna turned to face Blaze. He had sprays of blood covering his face. His wings were shaking.
“Hey…”
Blaze looked at her; she took a step and hugged him.
“Thank you, if it wasn’t for you I wouldn’t have seen them and… Whoever they follow, they’ll think twice before doing anything like this…” She could feel his rapid heartbeat slowing down.
“I hope so… And I hope Tia sees that there was no other way of dealing with this.”
“Don’t worry about her… You protected me… She’ll see that”
In the distance you could hear the rumbling of guards trotting towards them. Blaze stepped away from the hug.
“Well… Cavalry is here. You’ll do the talking okay?”
Luna nodded. But what she saw next surprised her. Her sister, Princess Celestia, fully armored and armed leading a group of five guards, running towards them.
“Sister?”
“Luna! Are you alright? Are you hurt?” Celestia was dead worried and strategically placed herself between her and Blaze.
“Yes… three stallions tried to… But Blaze was ready. Thanks to him I didn’t even had to fight.” Celestia calmed down.
She couldn’t control her emotions and ran towards Blaze and hugged him.
“Thank you…” Blaze was surprised to say the least.
“So where are the… Oh…“ She was looking for the attackers and she found two of them. She looked at Blaze amazed. Then she started giving orders to the guards.
“Hum… You two. Clean the streets and bring the bodies to the cemetery.”
“Yes, princess” They rushed to the location of the bodies.
“You said there were three, where is the other one?” Celestia asked.
Blaze pointed to a pony sitting with his back against the wall, eyes wide opened, focused on nothing.
“He’s been like that since… well, since the first one died.” Luna explained.
“I have no idea why they thought attacking an alicorn was a good idea…” Blaze was still confused.
Celestia toke a closer look at the paralyzed pony in front of her. She hadn’t seen someone in that state since Sombra’s time. She ordered one of the remaining guards to escort him to the dungeon, and the others to keep curious ponies of that street. She noticed one of the guards that were cleaning up was struggling to not puke. She didn’t blame him, none of her guards had had a real fight in a long time.
“We should head back to the castle and clean ourselves.” When Celestia hugged Blaze she failed to realize him and his armor were a bit bloody.
And with that, Luna and Celestia started casting their teleportation magic, not forgetting about Blaze of course. They teleported into the corridor of the two princesses rooms.
“I need a shower… Where can I take one?” Indeed he needed it, his axe was still slowly dripping blood.
“You can use my bathroom, I only need to clean my armor.” Luna said without hesitation.
Celestia on the other hand, still gave a funny look at Luna, but she let it pass.
“I’ll come with you I also need to clean mine” And they trotted to Celestia’s room.
Blaze was left alone for the first time since the attack, he sighed… he slowly started walking to Luna’s room. The adrenaline was finally kicking off, he started to feel the filth in is fur and mane, the sweat forming a layer between him and his armor and his muscles finally relaxing.
He opened Luna’s room and entered for the first time in her intimacy. Her room was tidy as always. The dark blue sheets in her bed, the low lighting and dark wallpaper contrasting with the bright white decorations, even the darker color of her quill, it all screamed her name. Blaze headed towards the opened bathroom door trying his hardest not to soil the floor. He entered, closed the door and looked at the mirror. His face was bloody, bits of gore were stuck to his fur and mane. He sighed.
Blaze started to unbuckle his armor to clean it. Was he the bad guy here? He started to wonder. No, he did what he had to do, there was no other way. He kept telling himself that. But his doubts kept coming, questioning his every move. He needed to get in the shower.
After he cleansed his armor of blood, he stepped into the bathtub and turned on the shower. The cold water made his whole body shiver and distracted him from his thoughts.
After a long shower, he stepped into Luna’s room dragging his armor. He felt he wasn’t alone in the room.
“Let me get that for you.” It was Luna.
With a cyan glow, Luna grabbed his armor and set it on an armor stand in a corner of the room.
“Oh, didn’t know you were here.”
“Well, it’s my room.” She smiled, and sat on her bed
Blaze walked up to her and sat next to her.
“So, does Tia want me to spend some days on the dungeon or what?” Blaze asked, with a bit of humor in his question.
“No, she was just a bit worried of your “excessive” force and that I need to keep my eyes on you, but she seems to be accepting you presence.”
“I hope so…”
There were a few seconds of silence.
“Doesn’t it bother you… your feathers are like… sorry, I just…” Indeed her wings were in need of preening.
Luna blushed a bit
“Well… I can preen them before going to bed.” A bit of shyness was showing in her voice.
“Let me do it.”
“Blaze, you don’t need too…”
But before she could do anything, Blaze had already moved behind her. She extended her left wing, Blaze started nibbling her feathers into the right place. After testing Blaze and the long day she really needed it, and she couldn’t deny that Blaze knew what he was doing. She could feel his every move, every feather being put in his place. Her breath was getting heavy. A rush of magic flooded the world. The Sun was coming down.
“Hope you don’t mind I need to raise the moon.” Luna informed.
“If you want I can wait…”
“No! Hum… You can keep… doing it.” Now Luna’s cheeks were bright red.
She raised an ethereal cyan glow with her horn and the sunset began.
Blaze continued her preening. He could feel Luna’s heartbeat slightly raising as his rose. Everything Luna felt was carried to her spell, she knew that tonight’s night sky was going to be beautiful.
Then she felt a touch on her back, very close to her neck.
She turned her head to see what Blaze was doing and found his eyes looking at hers.
Blaze moved closer and Luna turned to face him.
Their snouts touched and a second later their lips sealed.
A thousand year old passion had been reawakened. Luna’s magical glow was brighter than ever and in the already beautiful night sky an astonishing aurora had formed.
Blaze hugged Luna tight; both their wings were flared opened as they shared this passionate kiss.
When the moon was firmly in place and the stars were shimmering with passion, Luna’s spell ended and so did their kiss.
“I missed you so much…” Luna said with a tear rolling down her eye. She tightened the hug.
“I’m here now.” Blaze consoled.
They prolonged that hug for what seemed to be an eternity, until a knock on the door interrupted them.
“Yes?” The princess asked.
“Just a reminder that dinner is going to be served shortly, your highness.” A shy maid answered from then outside of the door.
“Thank you, I’ll be down shortly”
Blaze moved to her side and hugged her with his wing, Luna rested her head on his shoulder.
“Your sister is probably waiting for us, we shouldn’t keep her waiting.”
“I know.”
They stayed like that for a couple of minutes before getting out of the bed. They walked to dining room and indeed Celestia was there waiting.
“There you are. I wanted to congratulate you on the beautiful night sky you raised today.” She had her teasing face on.
“Well… Thank you… I…” They were both blushing.
“You don’t have to say anything.” She giggled.
As dinner went by the awkwardness faded away. Celestia told them that the prisoner they made was still not talking and that the streets were already full of Luna’s new body guard rumors.
But at the end of dinner another topic came up.
“Oh, and Blaze, our guest room is ready for you.”
“Hum… Tia, I was thinking… Blaze could, maybe, stay in my room.” Celestia almost didn’t recognize her sister with that much shyness in her voice.
Celestia hesitated for a moment.
“Well in light of recent events, I think Blaze as earned our trust, for now. So yes that’s an option.”
“Thank you Tia. I know how hard this whole situation is for you and I understand your lack of trust in me. I just hope we all can get through this. Just like back in the day.” That brought a smile even to Celestia.
“Now I need to go finish some work, if you excuse me, goodnight.”
“Good night Tia” Luna and Blaze went to their room.
Luna opened the door of the room, toke of her shoes and crown and went to the balcony. Blaze followed her. He placed his wing on Luna holding her tight. They were both looking at stars.
Luna turned her gaze towards Blaze.
His orange eyes focused on the aurora.
She kissed his neck, Blaze turned his head and complied with a kiss bringing life to the night above them.
Celestia was almost falling face first into her desk, it was probably time to finish her work. She put down the candle that was sitting in her desk and jumped to her bed.
My little sister is growing up, she thought.
She wasn’t a filly anymore. But she was still her little sister and having Blaze around her… She still felt there was something not right… But Luna was happy with him. And he seemed to only want the best for her. Her thoughts grew numb, and she fell asleep.