(cliche alert! )

The timberwolves crept low and stalked Princess Luna and Secundus. The wolves were deep in the forest, but they made their way quickly and silently enough to see their prey.

Their black eyes stared at the two rears of the ponies as they waited patiently for the right time to strike. The possessed timberwolves stayed away from the edge from being seen, but close enough to get a good broad view.

"So, what's Canterlot like, Luna?" Secundus asked as the two walked on.

"It's a magnificent city if you ask me." Luna replied as a shuffle was heard behind them.

"Huh, what was that?" Secundus asked out loud as his soldier instincts kicked in.

He crept a little low and looked behind him, in the hope to see anything in the trees. Princess Luna stopped walking and looked at the black stallion looking back.

There was nothing. There wasn't anything that seemed to follow them.

"It must've been a small creature." Princess Luna said, wanting to reassure the stallion that it was fine.

She saw that the stallion was very alert and seemingly protective. But the only thing that bugged her was that feeling in that tormented was her stomach. The same feeling when the shadows chased after her.

"Ye-yes, you're right." Secundus said, standing straight up now. "I'm just a bit jumpy, that's all."

A sudden roar broke through the air as a timberwolf lunged on top of Luna.

"Watch it!" Secundus said as he brought his hind hooves and kicked the timberwolf in the jaw.

His strong legs went by Luna's face and hit the timberwolf right on the snout. The kick should've been strong enough to daze it, but somehow, it didn't.

The timberwolf shrugged off the kick and counterattacked by using it's jaws to bite Secundus's leg. The sharp teeth pierced his tissue and flesh as blood was drawn.

"ARGH!" Secundus yelled out in pain as he used his other hoof to kick the timberwolf off.

His hoof made the timberwolf fly back and crash at the edge of the forest - where other timberwolves were.

"Th-they're never like this!!" Secundus said as Princess Luna tried to overlook the situation.

She should've at least sensed danger when it was coming. But somehow, a strong power seemed to knock out her senses. After that thought, she could see that Dusk was injured and was heavily bleeding.

"You're hurt!" Princess Luna exclaimed.

"Just a small wound." Secundus said, giving a strained smile. "Luna..." he said, looking at the mare in the eyes. "I want you to fly away from here right now."

"How can I do that?" Princess Luna asked. "You told me that-"

As Princess Luna was talking, she could start to see a horn manifest on top of the pegasus's head. A black sharp horn that was a Changeling's. Soon, the red blood eyes were replaced by a clear blue texture. The whole black coat soon turned into a Changeling's as the wound healed on his leg.

"Go now, Luna." Secundus said as he was now in his Changeling form.

His horn lit up a green color in which Princess Luna's horn and wings glowed in response. The alicorn's wings and horn healed up and was completely healthy. Princess Luna was amazed to see such magic, but amazement soon turned to horror.

Secundus's own horn and wings were now damaged as the wolves began to circle around Secundus and Princess Luna.

"What did you do, Dusk?" Princess Luna asked towards the Changeling.

"Your safety, Luna." Secundus replied. "Also, 'Dusk' isn't my name. Not that my name matters anyway... Go! Now!"

Princess Luna knew that the Changeling kind was considered an enemy of the ponies. Their differences soon broke the relationship of them so many years ago. At one point, the ponies and changelings lived in harmony and peace, but that all broke. Ever since then, the pony kind and changelings were bitter to each other.

But to Luna, the Changeling in front of her had a different heart. Even as an enemy of the ponies, he couldn't leave anything that saved her life.

"What are you waiting for?" Secundus asked as his breath got heavier by the second.

Princess Luna hesitated before her wings took flight high above the battlefield, leaving the changeling alone to get slaughtered. The princess of the night started to fly, but looked back in pain and sorrow.

"Come... and get me..." Secundus said out of breath as the wolves' attention went to Princess Luna.

"Mistress..." a dark voice said, escaping out from one of the timberwolf's mouth.

A few started to run after the mare, but Secundus took a hold of the timberwolf's hind wooden legs with his teeth. The timberwolves tripped and glared their black eyes at the changeling. All the attention from the wolves drifted from Princess Luna to the changeling.

Secundus was the first to attack and crushed his hooves on the hind legs of the wolves. A sound of splintering wood crashed as the changeling jumped up to evade an incoming attack. The wolf's attack destroyed the pack that was on Secundus's sides, completely obliterating it. Already out of breath, Secundus knew it would only be a matter of time before he would fall.

The timberwolves were never this savage before. Their black eyes seemed to be a trait of it.

With a roar, three timberwolves rushed Secundus from all sides and aimed for his neck - a lethal attack. Secundus sidestepped a wolf's attack and slammed his hoof onto another. He couldn't defend from the third timberwolf's attack.

The third timberwolf ripped off one of Secundus's wings with it's powerful jaws as another timberwolf joined in and bit his front hoof.

The sound of the wing ripping and the crush of the hoof filled the air as Secundus's body was filled with pain.

"ARRRRRGGGH!!!" Secundus yelled out as the wolves continued to attack him.

Their sharp teeth and powerful paws continued to tear up his coat as bloody streamed out of the wounds. The changeling was in extreme pain and couldn't do anything about it. A powerful paw from one the wolves jabbed one of Secundus's eyes, leaving a puncturing black eye wound.

The sounds of screaming of pain was loud enough for Princess Luna to hear. She was flying away from the place she left the changeling as her heart couldn't take it anymore. She couldn't bear to leave something that saved her life to just die.

With her body facing the opposite direction, Princess Luna flew like she never flew before. A sonic boom exploded through the air as a black trail left behind her.

A tear fell down from one of the princess's eyes as she flew down to the place she left. Lowering her speed, Princess Luna could see the changeling getting torn to shreds. The yelling of pain brought another tear down of Princess Luna's eyes as the timberwolves stopped and looked up in the sky to see the princess of the night.

All the wolves stopped what they were doing and looked up at her. Secundus struggled and twitched in pain was blood was all over his body. He was suffering so much, he couldn't stop yelling out in pain.

With gritted teeth, Princess Luna's horn lit up with her dark blue magic and brought down a giant ray of forked lightning down to each wolf. All the wolves in one shot was completely destroyed and was left nothing but ashes. All was left was a dying changeling that was in major pain.

Princess Luna flew down to Secundus's sides and looked at the bloody mess the changeling had. The sight brought more than a tear down Princess Luna's eyes as Secundus tried to talk.

"H-hey Luna..." Secundus said weakly as blood was all over his face and body.

Princess Luna couldn't bring herself to say anything and just stared into the changeling's eyes.

"Is Canterlot a nice place?" Secundus asked weakly again as he coughed up blood.

The princess could only nod as Secundus struggled to put his hoof up. He raised a bloody, crushed hoof and brought it to Luna's cheek.

"Luna... I just want to... say..." Secundus struggled to say as his eye got weaker and weaker. "You're beautiful..."

With that said, Secundus's eyes closed slowly as a breath escaped from his mouth. His bloodied hoof dropped to the ground with a crash as his body was now lifeless.

"No..." Princess Luna said as she tried to contain her tears in.

As a princess, she had to contain herself. Contain all emotions in and never let it get the best of her. But the thought of a changeling giving his life for her just touched her. She didn't even know the changeling's name.

With her horn glowing, Princess Luna gave her magic strength and power to bring back the fallen changeling. A bright dark blue light lit around Secundus's body as many injuries were healed rapidly with her magic. Many dangerous injuries were healed as the changeling still laid on the ground.

"Come back... Please..." Princess Luna whispered as a lifeless look from the changeling still stayed the same.

Princess Luna's magic was at her limit as she tried her best to repair all the damage the changeling took for her.

Nothing.

Just nothing.

The changeling didn't even move a muscle as Princess Luna had a saddened look and moved closer to him. Princess Luna's horn suddenly exploded in magic as it enveloped around the changeling. All the wounds began to slowly heal as Luna began to run out of breath.

"Please get up." Princess Luna whispered as a final drop of magic entered inside the fallen changeling.

The final drop of magic seemed to come out of her horn like the final drop of water from a faucet. As the 'drop' hit the changeling, it seemed to seep inside him like a rag soaking up water.

Even the last bit of magic seem to not make a difference. The body still laid lifeless, limp, and dead.

Not even a simple movement of the chest moved.

He was gone.

Princess Luna fought the tears the best she could as a single drop escaped from her eye. As she began to turn away, the open lips of Secundus was a little open, catching her eye. Walking closer, Princess Luna got closer as her lips almost reached his.

All of the sudden, the fallen changeling coughed - all into Princess Luna's mouth.

Secundus hacked violently as his lungs seemed to be in a state of shock. Princess Luna also joined in on the coughing as her mouth also wanted to get rid of Secundus's salvia. His lungs began to take in air as Luna soon quickly realized that he was up.

The battered up changeling soon began to control his breathing as he rubbed his eyes. His vision was very blurry as his hooves helped in clearing it. But before he could finish what he was doing, he was tackled by the princess of the night.

"You're up!" Princess Luna exclaimed as her voice went into the volume of a Canterlot voice.

A few tears of joy leaked out of Princess Luna's eyes as Secundus got the breath knocked out of him. She wrapped her hooves around Secundus, hugging him rather tightly. Not expecting this, Secundus became to hyperventilate and almost suffocate.

"L-Luna!!" Secundus tried to yell as a large group of birds from the nearby forest suddenly retreated up into the sky.

He was too weak to even lift a hoof up as his body was very bruised and beaten. Luckily, he didn't have any broken wounds.

"I-I thought you were-"

"LUNA!!!" Secundus managed to yell out and a much larger volume.

But as he did, he began to cough again. Luna noticed did and unwrapped her hooves quickly and walked back a step, blushing.

She had let her emotions for just a moment and felt a bit embarrassed. She wiped away the tears from her eyes as her face was a little bit red.

Secundus soon calmed his breathing as he continued to rub his eyes with his hooves. Luna took a deep breath before she began to say something.

"I-I'm glad you're well up and running... Dusk..." Princess Luna said as Secundus's ears twitched a bit up.

"Wait, what? Did I do something cool?" he asked as looked over to Luna.

Secundus's body was very beaten and bruised, it was almost pitiful to look at. His wings were almost shredded to the point that it couldn't be used and his horn was almost gone.

"You... saved my life." Princess Luna said as Secundus looked down.

"Yeah... B-but you saved mine..." Secundus said, sighing in a little bit of disappointment.

Luna couldn't believe what he was saying.

"Is there a problem with that?" Princess Luna asked, walking closer to Secundus. "I know that you're a changeling and-"

"I-what?!" Secundus exclaimed as his face turned to pure horror.

He lifted his black hooves up that looked like Swiss cheese in front of his eyes.

His smashed horn began to emit a small faint green light before a horrifying crack was heard. Secundus's already shattered horn began to almost disintegrate as he tried to transform.

"Stop what you're doing!" Princess Luna said as Secundus collapsed to the ground.

He was breathing heavily as black powder seemed to come off his horn.

"Wh-why do you want to hide your identity for what you are, changeling?" Princess Luna asked. "Now, I don't want to to call you 'changeling', what is your real name?"

"S-Secundus." he admitted, seeming to put his head down in shame.

"Why are you... ashamed of what you are Secundus?" Princess Luna asked as she walked closer to him.

Secundus looked at Luna and then back to the ground.

"I've been told by my sister that ponies... hated us with all their hearts..." Secundus said before Princess Luna was now by his side. "And I didn't want you to see... this." he said, lifting his hooves up.

"There was a time before when ponies and changelings alike lived together in harmony long ago." Princess Luna said as Secundus's face brightened.

"Really?"

"Yes." Princess Luna said with a smile.

"Th-that's all I want..." Secundus said, looking up at Luna.

The princess then lowered herself down with the poor changeling.

"How about Canterlot?" Princess Luna asked, smirking a bit.

"T-that too!" he said, with a bright smile.

But his face dropped along with his ears. With that, Princess Luna's face also dropped.

"What's wrong?" Princess Luna asked, seeming to be sad also whenever the changeling frowned.

"Look at me..." he said. "What would the ponies think when they see me?"

"Don't worry Secundus." Luna said, resting her head on the changeling's shoulder. "I know a way." she whispered.

Secundus blushed a little bit as he never had a mare been close to him before. Not counting his sister, Secundus felt a bit... buttery.

Princess Luna smirked in teasing way, out of Secundus's line of sight. By being a the princess of the night, she did have a way in.

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A few minutes later...

Underneath the cover of the night and two simple magic spells, Princess Luna covered Secundus, who was weak and defenseless in an invisibility spell.

"Hey, quit struggling!" Princess Luna hushed softly as the city's light lit up the sky.

"Sorry, but it hurts!" Secundus whispered back weakly as the levitation spell barely got him off the ground.

*BONK*

"Ow! That was a root!" Secundus said as his head made contact with a tree root.

"Sorry!"

*BONK*

"Argh! Hey, that was the same root!"

"Sorry, I thought I saw a guard!" Princess Luna whispered as the sentries from the city walls patrolled back and forth.

"Now I can't feel anymore..." Secundus whispered.

"That's good." Luna whispered back.

"How is that good?"

"I'll need to sneak you past the guards." Princess Luna replied as she slowly dragged Secundus across the ground with the spell. "It's good if you don't feel any pain, you'll all be good. You just don't have to move a muscle."

"What about you?" Secundus asked. "And can't you just fly over stealthily or something?"

"There's a magical shield that protects Canterlot." Princess Luna explained as Secundus struggled to see.

"Oh, I see..." he said, his neck at an odd angle.

"When I say 'don't move a muscle, I literally mean 'don't move a muscle'. Got it?"

"Y-yes, Luna..."

She lifted the invisible changeling from the ground onto her back, in which Secundus had not expected at all. The moment he was placed on her back, Secundus gasped as his lungs exhaled hot air right down Luna's neck.

Luna almost moaned by the feeling, but shook it away as the red in her face faded away.

"Now's not the time..." she said, approaching the city she ruled.

It was the fastest way in, but not the easiest. It was all on Secundus.

A fully armored guard spotted her and bowed politely. Not even questioning where she was, he kept his mouth shut as he held his head low.

A guard on the other side did the same and bowed.

The guards made the forcefield passable as Princess Luna walked in without any problem.

Secundus however, have a race of thoughts the moment Luna placed him on her back. The moment she placed him on her, the scent of her exploded into Secundus's nostrils, frying his brains out. Her scent was just mysterious, sweet, dark... and lovely...

His boys began to get slightly aroused, a thing he didn't want to do.

"Oh shit!!" Secundus thought wildly. "Think! Think! Think!!" he thought as his loins were getting harder.

"Think!" Secundus thought as hard as he could.

The very aggressive stallion side of him almost roared as Luna's scent just aroused him. An image Luna laying on a bed seductively clouded his mind.

"Hey..." the Luna said in his thoughts with a flirty tone. "I know what you want me..."

"No, no, NO!! Think muscle stallions!!"

The sudden image of Luna shifted towards a buff stallion showing off his muscles. A gray stallion with amazing arms showed them off as sweat dropped from his brow, making it very unattractive to Secundus.

"Whew!" Secundus sighed very softly.

His perverted thoughts were soon erased as an image of a stallion dominated. But as he took a breath in, he took a load of Luna's scent.

"Tame me..." the Luna in his thoughts said seductively.

Luna wore a very eye appealing outfit with her ass hanging out of a bed.

"Muscle stallions!! Muscle stallions!!!"

Very buff stallions seemed to be in steroids with their muscles popped out, crushing the thoughts of Luna once again.

"There..." he thought, very relieved.

He sighed as he saw Luna walk into the forcefield.

As Luna walked in, she something very warm on her hind. It was almost something that she wanted... But not exactly what...

Author's Notes:

Cliche! Cliche for days! You guys knew that he was going to be alright, right? I just had to put in a cliche scene for more emotions and what not. As I was writing it, I felt a bit to just write a cliche scene.

It was too cliche that I didn't want to do it. So, please forgive me!

Anyway, what do you think?

Likey? No likey?