Chris flipped open his phone and put it to his ear, already regretting not just walking outside and throwing it as far as he could.

"I don't know how you're calling me, but what do you want Sophie?"

There was a slight static noise before a female voice responded.

"Chris? Oh thank God you answered. I've been ringing everyone I could but no one answered apart from you."

Chris raised an eyebrow before pressing a button and switching the phone into a mode so that everypony could hear her.

"What do you mean you've called everypo-everyone? Where are you?"

"I don't know. One second I was walking home with Andrew and the next I was standing outside of a forest."

Celestia raised an eyebrow at Chris's phone but decided to ask him about it later.

"For now it appears another Human has arrived…But how?"

"Sophie did you just blink and find yourself there or did you fall?" Chris asked, seemingly thinking the same as Celestia.

"I-I fell. I was just walking and then I fell backwards and found myself lying down on some grass."

"She must have fallen out of the same thing that I did then." Chris concluded. He looked at Celestia who nodded in confirmation.

"Right then Sophie I need you to listen to me and follow my instructions. Can you do that for me?"

He heard a brief incoherent mumble before she spoke once again.

"Y-Yeah sure thing."

"Huh the one time she actually listens to me and it's because she's scared…No none of that Chris. Let's just find her and hope that Tia can send her back."

He noticed Celestia looking at him with concern and smiled at her assuredly.

"Okay then Sophie I need you to see if there's anything that looks like a village nearby"

There was a slight sound of walking before a sigh of relief.

"There's a little village in front of me. I'll go into it now."

Chris's eyes widened and he rapidly tried to tell her not to.

"Sophie don't go into the village, just stay outside of it okay. I don't think the uhh people could take your screaming."

"What are you talking about? I'm not gonna…."

Chris quickly put the phone away from his ears as an ear splitting scream came from his phone, making everypony including the guards wince slightly.

"C-C-Chris there are TALKING PONIES IN THE VILLAGE!"

Chris couldn't restrain a grin at her hysterics but for the safety of the ponies he decided to speed things along a bit.

"Right! Good. Now just stay in the village and I'll come and get you. And for the love of God don't scream anymore."

Before she could respond, Chris flipped his phone down, ending the call.

He looked at everypony and smiled at their confused expressions.

Celestia was the first to snap out of it and stood up from her throne, walking over to Chris and looking him questioningly.

"Chris."

Chris suddenly had the strangest sensation that he was about to be interrogated and forced himself not to swallow nervously.

"Tia?"

"Who is Sophie?"

"She's my uh…Ex-Girlfriend."

He saw Celestia's eyes narrow slightly and wondered just how much of a benevolent Princess she could be when it came to his past relationship.

"You had a relationship with her?"

"It didn't last."

"Why?"

"Long story."

"I've got time."

"She's in a village with talking ponies. I don't think we have any time."

Celestia looked at him sternly but then sighed and smiled at him, nuzzling his cheek lovingly.

"Alright love. I'll teleport you too her so you can explain where she is. But when I teleport you back we're having a little chat."

Chris gulped audibly and heard a few guards chuckling quietly.

"Won't I have to bring her back for her to be sent home? Which means Tia and Sophie are going to…meet…Crap."

Celestia smirked at him as she read his mind but chose not to tease him just yet and shone her magical aura around him.

"I'll teleport you back in ten minutes Chris. Make sure you and her are touching when you start to glow okay?"

Chris nodded at her and gave her a quick kiss. Celestia blushed faintly but focused her magic on him. The next thing Chris knew he was standing just behind a crowd of fast talking ponies.

He instantly spotted Sophie in the middle of the crowd and waved to her. Sophie saw him and forced her way out of the crowd, running over to him and attempting to hide behind him. She looked pretty much the same as she did the last time he saw her. She had long black hair that reached just beyond her shoulders, brown eyes, tanned skin and an hourglass figure. She was currently wearing a pair of skinny blue jeans, slip on shoes and a black T-shirt with the words "Rock on!" on it.

The ponies saw Chris and to his utter surprise, they stopped everything they were doing and bowed down at him.

"They're bowing at me?"

"Chris why are they bowing at you?" Sophie asked.

"I don't know." He replied confusedly.

"What do you mean you don't know you silly stallion?"

A pink blur suddenly appeared in front of him and began to bounce around the two of them happily.

"Uhh I mean I have no idea why you lot are bowing at me."

A purple Unicorn came out of the crowd and walked over to him. She had a multi-coloured mane that was purple with a red stripe down the middle. Her eyes were an inquisitive purple and her Cutie Mark was a six pointed star.

She bowed again to Chris before speaking in an intelligent tone.

"Well everypony knows that you're Princess Celestia's lover. And so that does by default give you the same respect as her and Princess Luna. In other words since you're her lover, you're technically a Prince."

"I'M A WHAT?!"

"Oh...Well Tia and I have only just…come to terms with everything. I'll talk about this with her later I suppose."

"What does she mean by you being the "Princesses" lover? And why do you have a tattoo of the sun on your head?"

Chris turned around to look at Sophie and had to bite his tongue in order to repeal the amount of satisfaction he got off of her incredulous expression.

"Well how do I explain this? Tell you what, when the Tia is about to send you home, I'll tell you then."

Chris's body suddenly began to glow and he quickly grabbed Sophie's arm, before turning back to the ponies and giving them a mock salute.

"Thanks for the info everypony. I'll be back I suppose."

The all bowed down at him once again before the world around him flashed and found himself once again in the throne room.

He let go of Sophie's arm and proceeded to rub his eyes to get the white dots to disappear.

Once he had cleared his vision he noticed that all the guards had gone. The only ponies in the room were Celestia, Cadance and to his surprise Luna. Cadance and Luna stayed where they were but Celestia walked down to Chris and gave him a loving nuzzle against his neck. She then stopped and looked at Sophie, who was looking at them with an expression that Chris recognized as disgust.

"Oh boy, here it comes."

"Well uh Sophie this is Princess Celestia. Tia this is Sophie." He said with a slight twinge of nervousness.

Celestia and Sophie looked at each other and Chris absentmindedly wondered if they were staring each other down.

"Greetings Sophie. I understand that you want to get back to your world." Celestia said calmly, but still refusing to take her eyes off of her.

"Yes I do but…Chris what is this?" She replied, her voice becoming a slightly higher pitch with each word.

Chris was about to reply but his lover beat him too it.

"If by this you mean Chris and I. Then this is in your Human terms, a relationship."

Chris smiled at how calm she was being and guessed that it came with centuries of experience.

Sophie's eyes widened in utter disbelief at what Celestia said and shook her head as if to rid herself of an annoying insect.

"A relationship? Chris are you right in the head? She's a horse!"

Chris didn't know what it was exactly but the room suddenly became a lot colder for a second.

"Actually the correct term is Alicorn, Human." Celestia said, a little less calmly this time. "But if you have any problems with this then do say it now."

"Any problems with it? Chris is a Human and you are a horse, Alicorn or whatever. I mean did you bewitch him or something?"

Chris smirked involuntary at her and started talking without actually meaning to.

"Oh she certainly cast a spell on me. I think it was just me, the oak tree and a beautiful Alicorn running through the sunflowers and ow ow ow ow!"

Chris put a hand to his head and shook of the invasive feeling that was making him speak. Celestia nuzzled him worriedly but couldn't contain a smile at him remembering how they met. Unfortunately her state of happiness was broken up by a particularly annoying voice.

"See you've cast some sort of spell on him! I knew he wasn't right in the head."

"Be silent Human, you do not know anything about him."

This time it was Luna who had spoken. She had come down the steps when Chris started clutching his head in pain, feeling that protective sensation that she used to get when they looked out for each other all those years ago.

She walked over to Chris who was now focusing back on the situation at hand, although he was still rubbing his head slightly. Once she reached him she stood on his right, mirroring her sister who was on his left and blatantly showing how protective she really was of him. Cadance watched from afar and smiled at this display, having never really seen Luna or Celestia be so caring over any one being before.

Sophie was staring at this display incredulously.

"What the fuck is this Chris? Are you really still that broken up about me cheating on you with Andrew that you're fucking horses now?"

Chris visibly winced at Sophie's accusation. Not over him "fucking horses" but on how easily she could admit to her cheating on him.

"You…Cheated on him?"

Celestia's voice was a shadow of its former self. Her once calm tone had changed into something akin to cold fury.

Apparently Sophie didn't hear her anger or just didn't care as she just kept on effortlessly ripping Chris apart.

"Damn right I did. You weren't there when we were about to shag. Honestly I've never been so embarrassed in my life. One second we were about to do it and the next he's yelling for some other girl named Tia. "You're not Tia!" "Where is Tia!?" And then he runs outside and passes out on the pavement."

Chris looked down at the ground in shame at her revealing this.

"Of course she would say it…Why not she told everyone else."

Celestia heard this thought and although she obviously realized why Chris had refused to have sex with Sophie, she still refused to allow this selfish girl to get away with cheating on him. She looked at Luna who in turn looked back at her with a furious expression.

"I gave him another chance but he never took me out anywhere after that and so I moved on to another guy. He obviously didn't care about me so why should I have told him?" Sophie finished.

She felt quite pleased with herself for telling that to the two Alicorns. In truth she had been so embarrassed that night that she had made it her duty to ruin any relationship Chris got into.

Cadance was looking at Sophie with a mixture of shock and disgust. In all of her life she had never come across anypony like this Human and felt sorry that Chris had ever crossed her path. But there was a silver lining in Sophie's tale.

"Tia? He was calling out for Celestia even though he didn't remember her…Even a lost memory couldn't shake his loyalty toward my aunty."

Sophie had folded her arms and was staring at Chris with a victorious smirk across her face.

Chris kept his focus down on the shiny floor as he had nothing to say that could help him here.

"I realize now that I was calling out for Celestia, but I did it before I was about to have sex…Tia's probably disgusted with me now."

Chris suddenly felt a strange sensation flood his mind and body. It made him feel warm and comfortable to the point where he just wanted to go to sleep. And then he heard her. Celestia, talking to him so lovingly that he couldn't help grinning like an idiot.

"I could never be disgusted with you Chris. You didn't remember who I was and you still refused to betray me. Chris…I'm so proud of you that I can't even describe how badly I want to hold you right now."

Chris raised his head and looked at Celestia who's eyes were fixated on him with so much love…love for him and him alone. He couldn't describe the sensations he got every time she looked at him. Care, love, adoration…this and many more he got from a single glance.

Sophie watched the two lovers gazing at each other and her expression quickly changed from smug to disgust once again.

"Are you actually serious about this Chris?" she asked disbelievingly.

Celestia looked at her with barely restrained fury which for the first time that day Sophie actually noticed.

"You are the most vile and spoilt little filly I've ever had the displeasure of meeting. You try to insult my relationship with Chris and then deliberately try and ridicule him!"

Celestia was practically breathing out smoke as she began to walk over to Sophie.

"But you're not even Human!" Sophie pointed out.

"And do you think that matters to me? To him?"

Sophie had backed herself into a pillar with Celestia glaring down at her at this point. Chris didn't know whether he should intervene or not. Luna apparently sensed what he was thinking and put a hoof on his shoulder, to which he looked at her whilst she shook her head at him.

"Leave them. This is Tia's fight." She said quietly.

Chris wasn't sure what to do and so stayed where he was, watching Celestia as she stared down his Ex.

Celestia had to force herself not to attack Sophie. Never in all of her life had she ever wanted to hurt somepony so badly. She stopped herself from doing anything and took a deep breath, using a technique that had helped her over the years when she came to dealing with particularly annoying nobles.

She looked back down at Sophie and narrowed her eyes at her.

"You know something Human? In a way I'm happy that Chris met you. Because it's showed just how loyal he actually is."

"What are you talking about?" Sophie replied nervously.

Celestia snorted at her ignorance but merely looked down at her with a small smile.

"Tia. He was calling out for somepony called Tia." She continued.

"Yeah so?"

"Think it through Human. Really think it through."

Sophie's eyebrows furrowed as she tried to figure out what Celestia was talking about. Suddenly her eyes widened and stared at the Princess in shock.

"You're Tia?"

Celestia smirked at her and nodded. She then turned around and made to walk back to Chris.

"Jesus Chris! How long were you shagging this horse?"

Celestia stopped in her tracks and slowly turned around to face the girl. The expression on her face made Luna cringe, having only seen it one time. When she had threatened her as Nightmare Moon. Celestia started walking back over to Sophie who in turn started backing away, the thunderous expression on the Alicorns face terrifying her.

"Chris and I met two thousand years ago, we loved each other very much. We mated only once and that was the night when he was taken away from me. Taken by ponies with an attitude just like yours. Ponies who couldn't see past who and what he was, ponies who came during the same night we mated and attacked us."

Sophie's back hit a wall and she cowered before the furious Princess.

"I honestly have no idea what Chris ever saw in you but I will tell you this. You had a chance with him and you threw it away. Now he is back and everypony forgive me for sounding so selfish but I will never let him go back to such a cruel and ungrateful world such as yours!"

Chris's eyes widened as she said this. He had already decided on staying in Equestria but to hear Celestia talk about him with such passion and fire…

"Tia…I think it's time she went back."

Celestia blinked as she heard Chris's thought and turned to face him. It only took a mere glance for Celestia to feel all the negativity fade from her.

She took a deep breath before walking back over to Chris and flaring up her magic. She aimed her horn at the centre of the room and smiled as a portal appeared and opened in front of her. She looked back at Sophie with something akin to a glare and motioned with her head for her to go into it.

Sophie looked at it warily but walked over to it and looked back at Chris.

"You're really staying here?"

Chris looked down at Celestia for a moment before looking back at Sophie with a small grin.

"There's nothing for me back on Earth."

Sophie narrowed her eyes and shook her head.

"You're just sick. You know tha-"

She never got to finish her sentence as a golden hand materialized out of nowhere and backhanded her hard. She flailed a little and slipped backwards, falling through the portal which closed after her.

Chris blinked in surprise at this and looked at Celestia's horn which was glowing. Said Princess looked at him and smiled innocently.

"What?"

Chris smirked at her and pulled his phone out of his pocket. He looked at it for a few moments and then at Celestia.

"Do you mind? I don't need any more calls." he asked.

Celestia raised an eyebrow at the contraption but smiled and levitated it out of his hand. She looked at Chris once more to which he nodded at her to continue. The Princess smiled at him before focusing back on his phone and concentrating briefly. The phone turned red hot all over and disintegrated into dust.

Chris smiled as he watched the dust fly away, taking any chance of being contacted with it. Suddenly he remembered what the ponies had told him during his brief stay in Ponyville.

"Tia when I was in Ponyville the locals…well they sort of bowed at me."

Celestia smiled at him before walking back to her throne, both Luna and Chris in tow. Luna sat beside her sister whilst Chris stood in front of both of them with his arms crossed. Cadance merely watched them from afar, wondering what was going to happen now.

Celestia looked at her beloved and started to speak.

"Do you remember when I told the guards to treat you no different than they would myself or Luna?"

Chris nodded at her, wondering where she was going with this.

"Well before I said that I told them to spread the word that you were my lover. I know you don't remember this but being the lover of a Princess, namely myself or Luna, automatically brings you to the same respect that a Prince would receive."

"Wouldn't we have to be married to me to gain such a title?" Chris asked curiously.

Celestia blushed lightly and nodded at him.

"Yes. To actually gain the title of Prince we would have to be married. Back when we…used to be together, that title would have been impossible for you to receive. But now that there are no more male Alicorns that rule has been removed."

"Married? Me?"

Chris noticed Celestia grinning at him and figured that she was reading his mind. He furrowed his brows and took a deep breath, readying himself to finally ask the questions that had been plaguing him the moment he arrived.

"Tia…who am I?" he asked questioningly.

Celestia's smile widened as he said this, happy that he had finally asked that one particular question.

"Who are you? Well there are so many answers to that question…Your name isn't really Chris for a start. Chris is just a pet name I gave to you, as you did with Tia for me."

Chris raised an eyebrow in surprise at this revelation.

"Then what is my name?" he asked tentatively.

"Your real name was given to you by a family of Earth ponies that looked after you until you moved into the palace with me. You were called Crystal Justice, Chris for short."

Chris felt a strange pang of familiarity at the name and somehow felt deep down that it meant something to him.

"Crystal Justice…I think I'll just stick to Chris for now." He said, feeling somewhat safer with the name he had used his whole life…or at least this one.

"That's fine. In truth I prefer Chris too." Celestia replied, giggling at him musically.

Chris furrowed his brows as he tried to figure out what else to ask her.

"How…How old am I exactly? I mean I know I'm eighteen now but…"

"Your soul is as old as I am Chris. And I am just over two thousand years old."

"I know Cadance said my soul was two millennia but it just seems so…surreal."

"You get used to it after a time, believe me."

Chris looked up as Celestia said this, noticing how tired she sounded.

"Okay there's one more thing that's bothering me." He said nervously, completely unsure what the answer was going to be. He looked down at the ground as he prepared himself to ask her it.

Celestia nodded for him to continue but felt just how unsure he was and couldn't help but worry what this question was.

"You're two thousand years old but you don't look or sound any older than somepony in their mid-twenties. But what about me? Humans age to around eightyish and die…I couldn't be with you and force you to watch me grow old and die..."

Chris felt slightly nervous when Celestia didn't say anything and looked up at her. To his surprise however she was smiling at him widely.

"Do you remember when I told you about the link we share?"

He nodded nervously and waited for her to continue.

"It does far more than just bind us Chris. Some of its properties you'll learn later but its best by far is the way it connects us. Chris…when I used the magic to bond us all those years ago, I didn't just lock away your feelings for me. I wrapped our souls around each other and put a dampener on them so that you wouldn't feel it until we touched once again. If you really focus you can feel our souls caressing each other. What I'm trying to tell you is that…with our souls bonded so too is our age. You will physically age to twenty five and then stop, just like I did and Luna too."

Chris was completely shocked at this. He wouldn't age past twenty five. In a sense he could say that he was immortal.

Celestia saw the shock on his face and felt sympathetic for him. It wasn't every day you were told that you wouldn't die of old age.

"I…I need to be alone for a while." Chris muttered, still trying to grasp the concept of immortality.

He turned and walked out of the throne room. Celestia tried to follow after him but felt a hoof stopping her and turned to face Cadance.

"Give him some time alone, he needs it right now." She said supportively.

Celestia wanted to protest but sighed and sat back down on her throne.

"This must be a lot for him to take in one go…oh I hope he is alright."

Chris had wondered outside and was sitting down against the palace wall. The sun was starting to set and was currently creating an orange glow.

"I guess Lulu is practicing on raising the moon aga-STOP IT!"

He put a hand to his head and shook it vigorously.

"I hate this! Every memory scrapes against my mind…Jesus I've got a headache."

Chris exhaled and looked back at the sky. The moon was clearly visible behind the sun, rising as the sun fell. After around twenty minutes he stood up and began to walk around the palace, mindful to avoid stepping on any of the flowers and plants.

After a while he noticed the oak tree from before and made his way over to it. Once he was in front of it he knelt down and touched the inscription on it, staring at it in wonder.

"Could we really have written this all those years ago?"

"Yes we did."

Chris looked behind him to see Celestia sitting down, smiling at him lovingly. She looked at the inscription and put her hoof on Chris's comfortingly.

"It was you who thought of what to put there you know." She said, her gaze on him never wavering.

"Really?"

Celestia nodded and took her hoof off of his hand, wrapping both it and her other one around Chris in a comfortable embrace.

"I know that the concept of never aging must be intimidating to you my love. I was told when I turned twenty five and it was scary at first for me to."

"How did you cope with it?" Chris asked, wanting…no. Needing to know how she hadn't yet gone insane.

Celestia smiled and put her forehead against his, mindful to avoid jabbing him with her horn.

"I thought of you."

Chris's eyes watered slightly as she said this. The fact that he meant so much to someone was so alien to him…and yet so undeniably beautiful.

"Chris."

Chris looked at her eyes. They were so close to his own that he could see his reflection deep within them.

"It is Luna's turn to watch over Equestria…I am going to retire to my chambers and…I'd like you to join me."

Chris merely smiled at her and touched her cheek tenderly.

"Of course…"

Celestia smiled back at him and flared her magic for a brief moment. Chris blinked and he was no longer outside by the oak tree. He looked around for a moment, taking in the familiar surroundings of cyan and pink that had haunted his dreams as of late.

"Chris."

Chris looked over at Celestia who had already removed her royal garments and was lying in her bed. A flap had been made for him to climb into.

He looked at his clothing and frowned, unsure whether to take it off or not.

"Oh come on Chris just live a little. Besides it's not like she hasn't seen you naked before."

He actually wasn't sure whether he meant just after he had had a shower or back in the times that his memories had been showing him.

He merely smiled and took off his all his clothing except for his boxers. He looked at Celestia nervously but felt a lot better when she merely blushed and smiled approvingly. Not wanting to waste any more time, he walked over to her bed and climbed in, pulling the covers back over himself and turning to face the Princess of the day.

Said Princess bit her lip nervously before moving closer to him and wrapping her hooves around him and putting her head on his chest. As if by instinct, Chris moved his right arm and pulled her closer to him. Together they both looked at each other for a mere moment, taking in the others expression and relaxing as simultaneous comforting feelings washed over the both of them.

They moved their faces closer to one another and kissed each other gently, allowing themselves to really enjoy the moment to its absolute intensity. They drew back from each other at the same moment, Celestia resting her head back on his chest and Chris stroking her mane absentmindedly.

"Goodnight my love." Celestia murmured, already closing her eyes as she felt sleep take her.

"Goodnight Tia…" Chris replied. For the first time since he came back his tone sounded surprisingly gentle…loving actually.

And there they lay, falling asleep in each other's embrace. Their souls silently rejoicing at the first intimate contact the two lovers shared in two thousand years.

Even in her sleep Celestia could only think of one thing, one dream. A dream that could soon become reality.

She saw herself and Chris, her lover and one and only.

She was wearing a beautiful band around her left foreleg. Chris had one around his left arm.

Both were identical.

And this was her dream. To finally have the love that she cherished so much promised to her for eternity.

This was her dream.

Author's Notes:

Told ya!

Two chapters within the hour...more or less XD

Anyway tell me what you think and whenever you think I should chuck up another chapter.

Now then...DINNER TIME!