With a quick pace, I made my way out of our chambers with nothing more than my saddlebag.

Said saddlebag begin filled with essentials for what I planned to do.

But first I needed to find a way inside the Noble records.

"The mare was obviously from money, I could see it in the way she walked and talked. All I need to do is find her family file...but first I need to figure out her family's name."

I turned the corner and walked up to the Noble record door.

Standing guard there were two of Celestia's Royal Guard...I was already working my brain at stupidly fast speeds in order to figure out how to get past them.

Princess I may be, but the Noble records require Celestia's approval none the less.

As I neared the guards and prepared to use my silver tongue...I got the surprise of the hour.

"Evening Princess," The guard on my right said stoically...before stepping to the side to let me pass. "You can go right in, her surname is Sapphire."

"What?"

How did they know what I wanted to find out?

Did some Noble not like her either?

"Thank you gentlecolt, you've helped me immensely."

With a smile for the both of them, I made my way inside and looked at what lied within.

Here in front of me were the files that contained every valuable bit of information about all the important Noble families within Canterlot. Every mistake they made, every good thing they did and bad thing that they tried to cover up.

I could potentially learn everything about every important pony within Canterlot.

A part of me considered that what I was about to do was...wrong.

But all it took was a single flash of that Unicorn's muzzle touching my beloved snuggle honey's mouth...and like that what I was about to do became absolutely necessary. I wanted that mare out of our lives forever...but to do so I needed to be subtle, not violent.

Public violence would just land me in jail and leave Alex all on his own for a year or two, Princess or not. I was NOT going to let that happen...ever!

No, in order to make this mare disappear I would first need to learn what made her tick...and to do that I needed to learn everything there was to know about her.

I walked over to a shelf and continued searching until I found the families listed under the letter "S".

"Soundwave, Seasearcher, Shine, Star...Aha Sapphire!"

You'd think that whoever sorted the files out would place them in the right order, but whatever.

I pulled out the file with my magic and placed it on a table carefully.

Everything that had anything to do with that mare and her family were right here in front of me. And so it was with little hesitation that I opened the first file and began the slow but rewarding process of learning every fault and problem she'd ever had.

The details held within were quite...informative to say the least.

Soul Sapphire was her name.

She was a seventeen year old mare that had attended Canterlot high school, but had never shown up to most of her lessons due to some...interesting reasons. Apparently this little whorse really was A WHORSE. Almost every stallion in Canterlot knew who she was...quite intimately.

Her poor Father had to pay off every stallion she met just to stop them from publically humiliating him. Even his own daughter threatened to tell unless he spoiled her rotten.

Soul's Father was called Blast Sapphire, a thirty two year old Unicorn who wasn't really that important when compared with the other higher class Nobility.

"He actually sounds like a decent stallion. Money given to local orphanages and charities, the rest given to his daughter for necessary indulgences. Heh, necessary my flank."

Her Father wouldn't be of any help here, so I put that file back and pulled out her Mother's.

Her Mother was called Fallen Star.

"Hmm Blast and Fallen aren't married. Interesting..."

She was a twenty nine year old mare that was currently working in Manehattan as a...

"Well, well...what do we have here?" I chuckled darkly.

As I read what her file had to tell me, certain parts of Soul's emotions when she kissed Alex began to make sense to me.

Not an hour had escaped my notice by the time I closed the file for good, having absorbed the final bit of information from the last file.

I had learned everything I'd ever needed to in order to talk to that slut now.

With a bit of righteous anger behind every step, I made my way out of the room and quickly trotted out of the palace. The moment I arrived outside, a cool breeze caressed my fur. I smiled at this and breathed in the chilly night air, before grinning happily as I looked down at Canterlot.

"Okay then, it's time to rid myself of that whorse."

I didn't take me too long to find out where she was living. The address was inside her family file after all.

Blast Sapphire had bought his daughter a rather big but unattractive looking house. The entire outside of it was painted an ugly yellow color. It took everything I could think of not to retch just from looking at it.

"A bit of revenge of his part I imagine," I thought humorously.

I shook the thought from my mind and cast a very useful but difficult chameleon spell. Invisibility was beyond me at the moment, but given that it was about eleven in the evening, blending in with the environment was all I needed to do to stay hidden.

"Okay in and out. I know what I have to do...and I don't want to be apart from Alex any longer then I have to."

I noticed that she had left a window open right at the top of her house. Said realization caused me to smirk at her idiocy and fly up to the open entrance. Peering in, I could see that it was in fact a bathroom was the window belonged to.

The window itself was big and encrusted with what appeared to be real diamonds.

"Who shows off something like that? She'd get robbed the moment she opened it."

I quietly and might I say flexibly manoeuvred my way through her window, before casting a cushioning spell on my hooves in order to remain silent. I then closed the window behind me and dispelled the chameleon charm.

"Phew, I haven't had to cast this many spells for a while."

When push comes to shove I do know a decent amount of spells. And my being an Alicorn allows me to cast the more complex ones with relative ease. But Celestia told me that I would have to wait until my mid twenties before I could cast anything truly powerful.

I opened her bathroom door and carefully made my way into what must have been her bedroom.

"She has an en-suite? Of course she does."

Speaking of the slut in question, she was comfortably asleep in a large double bed.

I smiled victoriously at this and quickly cast two separate spells around the room, one to make it soundproof and another to keep the room clean of any hoof prints.

I then reached into my saddle bag and levitated some quality rope out of it, before looking down at Soul Sapphire with a smirk.

"Is it wrong that I feel so...excited about this?"

To my surprise she didn't actually stir until I tied the final knot around her left hind leg. Her covers had been carefully thrown on the floor, leaving the mare quite...open.

"It's not like her legs aren't permanently spread anyway."

It was only as I looked at her flank that I noticed her Cutie Mark for the first time. It was the image of a heart with a hammer and nail above it.

"Wha...what's going on?" she mumbled sleepily.

Apparently she wasn't awake yet. This was quickly rectified however by chucking a cup of water over her face.

"WHAT THE BUCK!" she screamed shrilly, looking around the room until she rested her panicked eyes on me.

"What...What are YOU doing in my house?!"

I have to admit that I was very amused when she tried to sit upright. Unfortunately for her, with the rope keeping her tied down she had little to no chance of escaping...at least not until I was done with her.

That viscous thought hit me like a ton of bricks...was...was I going far?

"No...No this is right. She will learn her place even if I have to force it into her head myself!"

With that comforting thought in my head, I smiled at the panicking mare and slowly walked closer to her.

"Oh nothing too serious," I replied calmly. "I'm only going to break you."

Her eyes widened dramatically as I said this, the iris's contracting in obvious fear.

"B-B-Break m-me?"

I nodded at her stammered question before slowly walking closer to the bed, and in turn her. She began to panic as I neared her and began yelling loudly for help.

"Scream all you like Sapphire, nopony can hear you."

The distressed mare didn't seem to quite grasp this fact, choosing instead to yell herself hoarse. I merely waited patiently for her to stop, which to my displeasure took at least a good ten minutes.

"You're annoying me Sapphire," I warned darkly.

"Why should I care?!" she yelled angrily. "You broke into my house, tied me to my bed, threatened to break me and now you have the gall to say that you're annoyed. Buck you!"

I stared at her rapidly breathing chest for a few moments before gazing back at her furious expression...and then I smiled.

"Are you done now?" I asked patiently. "Or do you feel like yelling some more?"

"W-What do you want?" she asked pleadingly, a few tears dripping from her eyes.

I grinned at the question before sitting myself down on her carpeted floor and staring at her intently.

"To talk to you."

She blinked in surprise at my reply, having obviously expected something different to come out of my mouth.

"T-Talk to me?" she echoed.

"Indeed. Your actions today were most...unpleasant." I replied, my voice darkening as I recalled what she did. "And so I need you to shut up and listen...or is that too difficult for you?"

"Buck you!" she yelled. "I don't have to do anything. Daddy will-"

With a snarl I quickly interrupted her with a short yet painful jolt of electricity. She reacted to this quite splendidly...

Namely by jerking rapidly whilst she screamed in pain from my magical assault. I waited patiently for her to stop moving before leaning over her until my face was looking down at her pathetically weeping one.

"You know there's two different types of Ponies that I simply cannot stand," I told her quietly. "The ones who depend on their parents to do everything for them, and the ones that seek attention via deplorable acts."

I grinned down at her briefly as I turned her face in my direction with my magic.

"And guess what slut." I growled angrily. "You fit into both of those categories. So don't infuriate me any more than you've already have and you may walk away from this...relatively unscathed."

I drew back from her and sat down on the floor yet again, watching her expressions change from fear to anger and back to fear again. I could even feel her emotions welling up inside her.

She was terrified of me...was it wrong to smirk at that?

"Now then whorse, is there anything you want to say before we begin?" I asked. "But do be quick if you do, I don't like being away from Alex any longer then I have to."

She looked up at me scathingly for a moment, but at my glare she shook her head at me fearfully, not even a sob left her.

"Good...now let's start at the beginning shall we." I began apathetically.

"You," I said, pointing at her with my right hoof. "Interrupted a touching moment between me and Alex, insulted him and I, and then had the sheer audacity to try and force yourself on him whilst I was away."

I leaned over her once again and pressed my face against hers harshly.

"What I want to know is why?" I growled quietly.

The mare stuttered out words fearfully...and unfortunately incoherently.

Well, unfortunately for her anyway.

I drew my hoof back and sharply slapped her muzzle, stunning her out of her babbling whilst simultaneously causing her to tear up in pain.

"I won't ask again Sapphire," I warned dangerously.

My tone seemed to shock the slut out of her fear momentarily, allowing me to finally get the answers I sought.

"I don't know!" she cried pitifully, her eyes wide with fear as my own narrowed dangerously.

"That's not good enough for me slut," I uttered quietly. "But I think it's okay, I know why you did it anyway."

"Then why ask me?" she whispered half curiously, half hesitantly.

I smiled at this question and began to slowly pace around her bed, forcing her to subconsciously follow my every movement.

"Well for one I wanted to see how...honest you were going to be with me tonight," I began truthfully. "As we can see, you are not dishonest but are merely ignorant of your own intentions."

"W-What?"

I stopped my pacing and sat at the foot of her bed, smirking at her strained expression as she painfully lifted her head to look down at me.

"Your Cutie Mark is most peculiar is it not?" I asked rhetorically. "The symbol of something about to break a heart is something not seen on most Ponies nowadays is it?"

"In a way your talent is kind of the opposite of mine." I finished curtly.

"What are you talking about?" she asked...by Celestia this mare was slow.

"I know what you've been up to these past few years Sapphire," I said with certainty.

"I haven't been up to anything!" she denied fervently.

"Oh?" I asked sharply. "So I suppose going around and breaking every stallion's heart in Canterlot is nothing nowadays then."

She said nothing at that, her expression stony even whilst her eyes flashed with worry.

"Do you want to follow in your Mother's hoofsteps Sapphire?"

She snapped out of the stony facade at that, spinning her head around to meet mine with an angry expression on her face.

"You don't know anything about her!" she growled furiously.

"Her name is Fallen Star," I began calmly. "She works as a prostitute in Manehattan and she left you and your Father when you were seven because she preferred fucking another stallion called Filthy Rich."

Sapphire's mouth hung open slightly as I bluntly stated what I had learned in the palace.

"So is all of this just you trying to become like your Mother then?" I asked slyly. "Whorse Junior? Fallen Star's slutty little daughter?"

I had to admit that Sapphires furious expression was most amusing. But then again the truth can be quite funny sometimes.

"But I have to know!" I growled suddenly, shocking her out of her fury and into something more...preferable. "What the actual buck did you think would happen when you forced yourself on MY coltfriend?"

"I-I didn't..."

"I'm an Alicorn, I could fry you in five different ways without much more than an ounce of magic."

"Y-You were just a-always so meek and-"

"And what?!" I practically yelled. "What do you think I am?"

"I-I don't know!" she replied fearfully. "I didn't think that y-you'd react like you did!"

"Didn't you?" I asked angrily. "Are you completely sure of that, because I'm not completely sure of that."

Soul quietened down at my rapid questions, giving me the ideal time to say what I REALLY thought.

"I don't think that you stumbled into our little picnic by accident Soul Sapphire," I admitted sternly.

"Maybe it was all rehearsed in order to make me feel angry at Alex, maybe you saw Alex and I many weeks before today and became jealous."

I stopped ranting momentarily and allowed myself to luxury of deep, steadying breaths. Even now I could feel the confidence I felt earlier...I could feel that voice within me demanding that I KILL this mare.

"Why kill what you can break?"

"Either way it doesn't matter," I breathed. "Because from the moment you acquired your special talent, you lost the ability to be anything but a heartbreaker, a tease...somepony who will NEVER know true love."

Her expression had rapidly become pale, almost ill actually.

"I've spent almost all of this night trying to figure out a suitable punishment for all you have done. Not just to Alex but to every other stallion you bedded in the name of love and then abandoned."

I quickly dashed over to her side and peered down at her terrified face...Ohh the sensation of pure pleasure I felt at that expression was disturbing.

"But I have just the right punishment for you," I grinned darkly. "A mare who can never know true love, true pleasure must first experience what it is that they will never have in order for it to fully affect them."

I lit up my horn with a very difficult spell...but it would be so worth it once she felt its effects.

"Don't hurt me please!" she squealed pathetically.

I tilted my head inquisitively at this...only to smirk and shake my head disappointedly.

"My dear Soul Sapphire...hurt you? No...being hurt is much too simple a punishment for you."

I leaned my head down and touched her horn with my own, sending the spell directly into her mind.

"I don't want to hurt you...I want you to feel GOOD!"

I felt the spell take effect almost immediately!

Everything I had ever done and felt with Alexander hit Soul Sapphire's mind and body with the force of a buffalo. I could see what she saw, I could feel what she felt.

And what she was witnessing was every single pleasurable experience I had shared with Alex. Every night of passion, every morning of sweet tender lovemaking, every spontaneous moment of raw, wild and terribly good sex.

She saw how I made him tremble under my attentive hooves...as well as how I shuddered under his amazing hands, and teeth and lips and...everything.

But that was not all she felt.

Along with the lust...came the love.

She saw the moment we shared under the Benzivlian Oak Tree. She experienced the raw and unbridled emotions I felt at the dance. She witnessed every single one of our loving moments, felt every touch he gave me...enjoyed every shuddering breath on my skin as I touched and caressed his body with such love and adoration that it neared worship.

Then without any warning it became too much for her. Her body thrashed around, still bound by the rope as she screamed in pure pleasure, her eyes wide and sparkling, her mouth open with her tongue lolling out.

In short she had just experienced a VERY powerful orgasm.

I simply watched and waited patiently for her to calm down...it took some time.

"Perhaps I should have brought a book with me...what was that one that Alex didn't want me to read for his safety or something? Fifty shades of-"

"Holy fuck..." Soul Sapphire drawled breathlessly. "What...what just...did I just see your memories?"

"See, felt and experienced," I replied honestly. "How do you feel?"

"Bucking...Amazing..." she replied in awe.

"I do believe you said that my sex life was pathetic."

"I...take...it...back..." she panted happily.

"Better than yours?" I asked curiously.

"Much...better. Great Celestia...I could never...have imagined that he could feel so good inside me...you even..."

I grinned at this smugly and silently agreed with her opinion on Alex's bedroom skills. I then waited a little longer for her experience to fully sink in.

And then I proceeded to carry out my revenge.

"Good, good...then you won't mind if I erase that from your mind now will you," I said victoriously.

Her expression at this was slow and unresponsive for a moment...but quickly became instantly panicked as she began to pull and thrash against the rope. I merely smirked and shocked her briefly, resulting in a rather shrill sounding scream before silence filled the room once more.

"It's not a nice feeling is it?" I asked rhetorically. "To feel love and pleasure in such a wonderful way only to have it torn away from you suddenly."

Soul's eyes widened as I said this, apparently becoming intelligent enough to figure out the comparison her talent and what I was about to do.

"You've broken so many hearts Soul Sapphire. You nearly caused my beloved to leave me in fear...and now you will pay the consequences for these actions."

"N-No p-please, I'll do anything," she pleaded pitifully. "I can pay you anything, I can get you anything. There's no need to be rash here!"

I shook my head at her offers in pity.

"You're quite pathetic Sapphire, it's almost pitiful."

To my surprise the mare actually began nodding vigorously in agreement.

"Yes, yes I'm pathetic! I admit it! Just please don't take what I'm feeling away from me!"

Oh how it must burn her. To feel what I feel for Alex is something that she simply could never understand. But I know she found it something truly beautiful...wonderful.

I could feel her awe, her pleasant surprise and most strongly...her realization of what she constantly rejected actually felt BETTER then the cheap thrill she obtained from a quick seduce and betrayal.

"Such a shame isn't it? I asked in amusement. "To have what you now feel dangled in front of you like a carrot on a stick, only to realise that you will never know the carrots taste...or remember it."

"P-Please don't take it away from me...it's so warm...I love him. I feel love for HIM!"

"It's not yours to feel Sapphire," I said with finality. "What you now feel is MY love for Alex. The one you called a creature and a freak if you recall."

She looked up at me with tears running down her face...she did truly look apologetic in that moment, I could feel it to.

"I'm sorry..." she whispered pitifully.

Unfortunately for her...she was the one who decided it would be clever to piss off me, an Alicorn and a Princess of Equestria.

"I'm not." I replied darkly. "The subconscious is a funny thing Sapphire. I believe that deep down you will always know what I did to you tonight...and it is this that will always keep you away from me and my beloved."

Yet again I lowered my glowing horn to her own, the terrified tears flowing freely from her eyes as I touched her and activated the counter spell to the one she had just experienced.

Memory after memory was absorbed from Sapphires mind and back into my own. She was pulling weakly against the rope, muttering and whimpering pleadingly even as her eyes began to glaze over.

"Please...don't leave me Alex...I love...love...you...Alex...I...you..."

The final memory was sucked out of her with a popping sound; her head fell back against her pillow with her eyes staring blankly up at me.

Already I could see a confused despair reflecting out of them. I could feel what she felt, and what she felt was a great loss...but she couldn't remember why.

She couldn't even see me, lost in her forgotten memories like she was.

I flared up my magic yet and tapped her head once, instantly causing her to close her eyes as the second memory spell that night took effect.

"She won't remember anything past what happened at the park this afternoon...good."

I carefully removed the rope and threw the covers back over her. I noticed a wet spot where she had not moments ago had quite an orgasm.

"It's probably nothing new for her to wake up to anyway."

Without a shred of guilt for what I had done, I made my way out of her house through her window and silently flew back to the palace.

"My little snuggle honey must be so cold without me there to warm him," I thought sadly. "No matter, I'll be back under the covers with him and then I can hold him...soothe him...Mhmm..."

I would have done all of this...but unfortunately for me, I didn't make it past the throne room.

Celestia was sitting there on her throne, her eyes straight on me the moment I soared through the doors.

"Oh buck."

She stood up and slowly walked down to face me, her expression calm...too calm.

"Come with me Niece, we have much to discuss," she said smoothly.

I didn't see any room for argument here...but holy...what did I just...my emotions were everywhere!

"I barely felt anything not two minutes ago! Where did this come from?!"

I sluggishly followed Celestia through her door and closed it behind me, before walking over to one of her giant pink cushions and sitting on it. Celestia had already sat down, gazing at me with an understanding yet...disappointed expression.

"Tell me everything," she said simply.

And I did...I told her everything that I did to Sapphire...nothing was left out.

By the time I was done, Celestia was gazing at me with her familiar mask of neutrality.

"How do you feel?" she asked quietly.

"Alright..." I replied slowly, unsure what to say with the sheer amount of emotions swarming around me.

Celestia shook her head and brought her face down to my own.

"I don't think you understood the question Cadenza," she said apathetically. "How do you feel?"

I blinked at the repeated question and prepared to respond with the same answer...only to grimace as flashes of Soul Sapphires terrified eyes appeared in front of me.

"Terrible..." I confessed shamefully.

This had to be it now. There was no way Celestia was simply going to ignore what I had done to Sapphire...no matter how much the little slut deserved it.

"Did you enjoy it?" Celestia asked emotionlessly.

Enjoy it...did I...

Her screams as I shocked her when she spoke out of term.

Her raw and petrified emotions as I effortlessly tore apart her confidence, her swagger, her dreams and aspirations of finally feeling true love...only to have it snatched away from her forever.

Her tears as I took away something she had quickly come to adore.

"Did I really enjoy what I did to her?"

"Yes..." I admitted shamefully.

Celestia sighed at my answer and put a hoof to her temple, rubbing it gingerly as she clenched her eyes shut in frustration.

Then all of a sudden...she laughed.

It wasn't a happy laugh, but rather one filled to the brim with bitter understanding.

"It's happening again," she muttered.

"What's happening again?" I asked, only to flinch as she snapped her eyes onto my own.

I could see the sorrow held within them.

"Cadance..." she sighed deeply before laying down on her stomach, gesturing for me to do the same.

"What happened tonight with you and Soul Sapphire...has happened in the past. An Alicorn much like you tortured a mare very much like her...and it was all done in the name of love and protection."

"Wh-"

"The Alicorn," she continued before I could speak. "Was called Luna...and Luna...is my Sister."

"You have a Sister?!" I blurted uncontrollably.

Celestia nodded almost apologetically but said no more for a short while. She merely kept her eyes shut as she breathed in calm...deep breaths.

And then she looked at me again.

"A long time ago my Sister ruled alongside me. She held power over everything nocturnal and thus controlled the night, amongst other similar things like dreams and nightmares."

"I'm sure I've heard something like this before..." I thought quizzically.

"I'm sure you've heard the tale of the mare in the moon?" Celestia asked me, briefly knocking my currant train of thought aside. "About how Nightmare Moon tried to block out my sun with her darkness."

I nodded none the less but remained silent, wondering mentally why Celestia had never told me about her Sister beforehoof.

"Then remember from this day onward that nearly everything in that tale is false."

"W-What?" I stammered in surprise.

Celestia smiled kindly at me for a brief moment...but said smile was quickly replaced by a tired frown.

"Nightmare Moon is indeed Princess Luna...and like the legend tells everypony, she did indeed try to bring about everlasting night. What almost everypony else doesn't know however is that it wasn't her jealousy towards my sun that made her do it."

"If not jealously then what?" I asked curiously.

I was trying my hardest to swallow this new information...but it was a tad difficult now that the voice within me had long since disappeared.

I did not feel strong or confident anymore.

"Love Cadance...Luna did it for love."

I had absolutely no idea what to say...and thus I decided to remain silent and take in all that Celestia was trying to tell me.

Celestia apparently took my silence as a nod to continue.

"In her youth Luna met a strange creature by the name of Xander. I never once saw what he looked like myself, although I did hear from many others that he was one of a kind."

She stopped talking momentarily and looked at the ground in thought.

"At the time I never really cared much for him, because from what Luna told me he was angry at the world and lashed out repeatedly at anypony who tried to help him."

"Xander? I've never heard of a name like that before...I wonder what it means."

"It didn't stop Luna from trying though," Celestia continued, shattering my thoughts with her exhausted tone. "She saw what I was too idiotic to understand. She saw the pain he held inside and tried her best to soothe it."

Celestia's expression became angry all of a sudden, prompting me to nearly back away instinctively at the sudden heat.

"And in my arrogance I tried to pry him from her. He was no good for her I told myself. We were all powerful Gods and he would dare to drag her down to his level and taint her with his disgusting non-pony peasant nature!"

"Whoa..."

"So I tricked, blackmailed and threatened everypony I knew until I found just the right mare to take Xander away from my beloved Sister."

My Aunty sighed tiredly and chuckled as she put a hoof to her temple.

"The mare had been bribed with enough promises and bits to last her until the day she passed on...she wouldn't tell anypony of my involvement I told myself...so foalish. I was too arrogant to think that Luna wouldn't find out what I had tried to do."

She took a deep, shuddering breath and looked me right in the eye.

"But she did find out..."

By all that is...wow. In all my life I have never sensed Celestia's fear like that before...old and nostalgic yet still very raw and...real.

"I found the mare that I had hired in my bed the next morning...she was ripped and torn and broken in so many different ways that I barely recognized who she was. As for Luna...she had become unrecognizable as well. Even when she screamed and destroyed everything in her path, it still took me far too long to realize just who was trying to kill me."

"She became Nightmare Moon because she figured out that you tried to take Xander away from her?" I asked questioningly.

"No...she became Nightmare Moon because Xander had been taken away from her."

"How?"

"I don't know," Celestia admitted. "Luna was ranting and raging at me whilst flinging every spell she knew in my direction. I didn't exactly have time to sit and talk with her...and I didn't deserve too either. She loved him so much...she told me beforehoof that she was going to share her divinity with him...and even though I didn't take him away from her, I would have given the chance."

She shook her head suddenly before gazing at me sadly.

"My point here Cadance is that the instinct you now carry can and will take you over. When I was young it made me arrogant and vain, but now it demands that I deliver justice to those who harm the ponies...and non-ponies that I love more than anything."

She looked at me and I knew right there and then that she was talking about the incident in Griffonia.

"I'll have to ask Alex about it later."

I was suddenly shocked out of my thoughts as a clear spike of sadness radiated from my Aunt.

A single tear trickling down her face...

"The one I love like my own son nearly died and I..." she whispered nostalgically. I could sense the emotions she felt that day cycling through her once more, only to escalate ever so slightly as she looked back me.

"It turned Luna into a hysterical, hateful and angry mare that I barely recognised. And you turned to torture in order to protect the one you love."

She let out a sigh at my frightened expression, but smiled at me kindly and shook her head.

"I'll clean up any loose ends and I'm not going to punish you for it Cadance, your memories will do that for me. Just know that all it takes is one moment, one tiny broken snap of control and you'll become obsessed with protecting Alexander...even if you have to harm him to do it."

"I would never hurt him!" I shouted angrily.

How dare she suggest that I would do that...Could I ever hurt my little snuggle honey?

NEVER!

"Even if hurting him kept him within your sight at all times?" Celestia asked smoothly. "Even if it stopped him from doing something potentially foalish and dangerous?"

I...wait what?

"No...no I would never...but if it made sure he was safe and by my side...if it meant that he was away from those who would dare to harm him...If it stopped him from hurting himself..."

Celestia smiled sadly at my answer, silent yet obvious as it was.

"Go to sleep before he wakes up Cadance...we'll talk more about this later."

"What about Soul Sapphire?" I asked incredulously. "I...I tortured her, you're going to let me get away with it?"

"Your memories will be punishment enough, besides who do you think let you into the Noble records?"

I blinked in surprise at that revelation!

"Celestia knew what I was going to do but helped me anyway?"

"Why did you...?"

"Because if I hadn't then you could have become just like my Sister...and I refused to let that happen again. I feel pity for Soul Sapphire, nopony deserves that type of punishment however much they might have brought it on themselves...Like I said, I'll clean up any loose ends and make sure that she has a happy life. With luck she won't ever come back to Canterlot again."

"I doubt she'll ever feel truly happy with the hole she will always feel inside."

I stood up and made my way over to the door as I contemplated what Celestia had said. It would never make up for what I did, even if deep down I couldn't have cared any less...

However there still something about her story that bothered me slightly.

"Aunty?"

"Yes."

"If Luna ever comes back and see's Alex...what do you think she'll do?"

There was a few seconds of silence before I turned my head back around and looked at Celestia curiously. Said mare was looking up at the ceiling in obvious thought, I could practically hear the gears turning in her head.

"I'm not sure Cadance," she eventually confessed. "But I fear her reaction none the less."

Feared it?

"Why would you fear it?" I asked questioningly.

"Because the creature she fell in love with was bipedal and unknown...and Alex is..."

She stopped talking and shook her head slowly, before gesturing to the door and gazing up at me sharply.

"Go to bed Cadance," she said softly.

I blinked rapidly at this but complied none the less and began to make my way out of her room.

"And Cadance."

I stopped walking but didn't turn around as I waited for whatever else she had yet to say.

"Don't tell Alexander about what you did," she ordered sternly. "It'll break his heart if he found out...and I guarantee that's not something you want to accomplish in my palace."

"Was that a threat?"

I nodded silently at this and quickly made my way out of her chambers. I couldn't help but feel slightly afraid and unhappy at what she said...I felt as though I had just lost her respect, despite the fact that she admitted to helping me in the first place.

A few minutes later I opened the door to mine and Alex's chambers, before proceeding to silently trot inside and remove my saddlebag. Alex was fast asleep on the bed, although he had managed to kick the covers off of his body.

He still had his boxers on unfortunately.

I snuck my way onto the bed and carefully pulled the covers over the two of us. I wanted to rest my head on his chest badly...but did I really deserve it after what I-

"Yes I do deserve this! That slut deserved what she got and in any case she won't even remember it...Besides Alex needs my touch...and I need his so much..."

Without so much as a second thought, I shimmied over to my beloved and rested my head on his chest, snuggling deeply and embracing him with my hooves as I did so.

It felt wonderful...

"I deserve this. I've protected him from any more of that whorse's slutty flirtations...Whatever I may feel towards hurting somepony, in this case it doesn't matter. She won't remember and Alex...my lovely, wonderful Alex is all the better because of my protection."

I sighed happily as I felt his arms snake around my back and pull me closer, making it easier for me to place my muzzle into the crook of his neck and kiss him.

My body shivered as I felt the familiar pull of sleep embracing me...

But before it did so...

I pulled myself from him and carefully lifted his head up from the pillows, before fluffing them as best I could with my tail. Then with as much gentleness as I could muster, I placed my lovers head back down on them and kissed his cheek lightly.

"It wouldn't do for him to be uncomfortable after all."

I snapped out of my thoughts as I noticed his face scrunching up in slight worry. His arms suddenly began to reach out for something...for me...he wanted my touch.

"He craves me just as much I do him."

I quickly snuggled myself back into the crook of his neck and smiled as I heard him sigh happily.

"It's okay baby, I'm here. Nothing will ever take me away from you like this again," I whispered adoringly. His left arm went around my body and held me to him tightly, causing me to let out a small growl of satisfaction.

I would always be there for him. I would always protect him, love him and cherish him for as long as we both lived...and beyond.

Like I told Soul Sapphire. The subconscious is a powerful thing and whether she remembered what I did or not...her subconscious would make her fear me anyway.

Her arrogance nearly caused me to lose myself. I could have lost my beloved in my rage...he looked so frightened of me for a moment.

"I will never scare him like that again!" I vowed mentally, nuzzling my muzzle under his chin comfortingly.

Thankfully that whorse would never come anywhere near him again, not as long as I was there as well.

I breathed in deeply and smiled reflexively at his scent...he smelled like home, he smelled like me, my mate...mine...

I finally felt satisfied...

"He's mine..."

And so help anypony who tries to take him away from me.

Author's Notes:

And there we go!!!

I hope you enjoyed this story, and do forgive me for any mistakes. It's three am over here and I am very tired.

Hospital again in seven hours!! Go me...

Next Story- The Endless Dream.

Coming...soon....