Chapter 36: Wedding of Two Immortals

Hope: Day 7
Nightfall: Day 21

Nightfall’s POV (Alicorn Form)

The time has come. Today was the day me and my mare will be wed. Many ponies all across Canterlot and Ponyville were all gathered here to witness this wonderful day. Just about near everypony was here.

All our guests were all in the hall were the wedding is set to be held. All except just a few of us however were in this small room together getting dressed.

So far. The preparations for the wedding were near all complete and we were nearly set to go. Twilight had gone through and double checked everything on her to-do list, to make sure she didn’t overlook a single detail.

Hope sure looked different since last time I saw him, like he had a good combing recently. I wouldn’t be surprised if Fluttershy had helped him. I just hadn’t seen those two so close till now.

“Check. Check. And we’re all set,” Twilight spoke, teleporting her checklist away in a small purple burst of magic.

Luna spoke smiling happily, “Thank thou, everypony… for everything. I haven’t been so happy for so long.”

Applejack says reassuring, “Glad we all could help ya, Prin- I mean, Luna. If there’s a friend in need. We’ll be there. If there’s princess in need. We’ll be there . If there’s a mare giving birth and the darn little bugger won’t come out. We’ll also be there too. Right y’all?”

The element wielders, who were all gathered round, all hummer in agreement.

In my mind. I was laughing and I was like ,“What? Haha,” at the near last thing Applejack said.

Princess Celestia looked like she had something concerning her for the past few minutes. So she asked me, “Nightfall, may I have a word with you privately, please?”

I reply, as I follow my sister-in-law to another private empty room, “Of course.”

Just before we left. Pinkie says out loud staring at the wedding cake, “Ohhhhh I’m so having a slice of that.”

Celestia spoke giggling just as I entered the room, while I waited for her to follow in, “Haha. Make sure to save a slice for all of us, after the wedding.”

Pinkie replied excitedly, “Okai-doki-loki.”

The door closes behind Celestia, shutting out the sound of the conversation from outside and preventing them from hearing us inside here.

I ask her in concern, feeling nervous as I could tell it was something very important or else she didn’t want it private, “Is-… Is everything okay, sister?”

She replied, serious but calm, “I just want to clarify some things before we proceed any further. And I need to make sure I know exactly what actions you intend to do next after the wedding.”

I begin to reply, nervously, “Um, well, I’m-”

Celestia interrupted, “Pardon me. I apologise. But just let me ask you the questions and we will talk about concerns after. Now. How much, deep down, do you love my sister? Are you sure it’s love you’re experiencing, or something you believe to be love?”

I answer, “She has a heart. She’s fresh and blood like me with feelings. Somepony that comfort me in my imagination is real. Ever since she brought me here, I’ve opened up and spent time with the real her. I’ve fallen in love with her so deeply after I’ve spent nights with her. I would do almost anything for her. Even give her my life.”

Knowing I’ve finished. She then asked, “You realise you are having an immortal relationship, right? I’m sure I don’t need to explain.”

I’m sure she just wanted to make sure I understood what I’m doing. I answered again, “Of course. I know life may get boring. I already knew what I was putting myself into before the transformation. But as long as I see her smiling face, knowing we are both happy. That’s all that matters to me.”

She carries on, “Mhmm. Don’t forget, you will also be a Prince. Not only will you be with my sister but you will be looking after our citizens.”

I answered, feeling pressured, “It’s normally hard for me to care about others I don’t know. But I’m there for when my friends need me.”

She stares seriously, waiting if I was going to say anything else. I respond, “I… I understand. I’ll make sure to prioritize our citizens welfare.”

I look down for a moment and she assures, “That’s all I wanted to hear. Don’t worry. I just wanted to make sure you do care for her and that you will be a good Prince for our citizens.”

She nods her head and carries on, “Also. Don’t worry about the work. You and my sis can help each other out during the night. Keep her company, knowing her special pony is there and will be there for her,” she whispers the last word, “…you.”

I look up and smile and then embrace my sister-in-law in a hug as she returns it.

After we released the hug, after a moment, she says, “I think you got a wedding to attend to, Your Highness.”

I smile, “Thanks, Princess.”

As we came out of the room. Rarity asks, “Everything alright, dears?”

Celestia answered, “Yes, everything is fine, Rarity. Thank you. I’m just letting our new Prince know his responsibilities.”

Rainbow flies back in the room, after not realising she wasn’t here, “Everypony waiting for us.”

Twilight speaks, “That’s our cue.”

As we all began leaving the room together and getting into our positions. Luna spoke, “I’ll be right behind thou, love.”

I replied, smiling, “I’ll be waiting for you too, love.”

Walking in the corridors. I saw Hope whispering with Twilight. I hadn’t seen him talk with anyone else hardly back on earth. Now he got a marefriend, I believe I’ve done the right thing in bringing him here.

Taking a breather. I prepare myself.

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Hope’s POV

Not long now before we entered the hall. I began talking quietly with Twilight since I just realised somepony was missing, “Where’s that bug? I hadn’t seen him since breakfast yesterday.”

Twilight, not looking approved one bit, answers after rolling her eyes, “If ‘bug’ you mean, His Highness, ‘Cocoon’. He left early yesterday. I don’t know why though. Saying something about his time here was up.”

Getting a bad feeling. I replied, “Or he means our time is up.”

Still having the conversation. We began entering the hall. In front of us was Nightfall and the element wielders, all dressed up in their outfits. However, some element wielders were starting to wonder what we were whispering about.

Twilight, silently sighing, then responds, “What is on your mind, Hope?”

I answered, “Has it not occurred to you that they’re probably planning another attack?”

Rainbow then speaks as she turns around in a hurry, “Don’t worry about starting without me, guys. I’ll be back in a flash.”

I look around the room, seeing if there’s anything suspicious. If there was indeed a changeling hiding in here it be near impossible to identify it without it casting off its magic first.

Meanwhile, Twilight answers curiously, “So you’ve heard about what happened other month ago? Also, yea, I have thought about it. But. Nothing seems out of the ordinary. I’m sure that’s the real Luna. Doubt there’s a changeling that knows Old English. What about your friend?”

Still walking, just about half way down the red carpet, I look towards my Alicorn friend. I hadn’t noticed anything odd or different about him. I sigh saliently and answer, “No. I’m sure that’s him. I can tell he’s nervous and happy but he’s the Nightfall I know.”

Twilight speaks, “Well, I’m sure everything is okay. Cocoon hadn’t tried to cast any spells. Though. He did seem interested about having his race living with us. Of course, only exchange that we hadn’t to mind them feeding off love. I got a little worried. But he said just a small aroma in the air is okay, it won’t really effect anypony much.”

After listening. I hadn’t noticed that we reached the alter of the hall. Everypony got in our positions and just as we turned around to face Celestia, I quietly say, “Well. Here goes nothing.”

“Hey Twily,” Shining Armour calls from a bench sat at the front with his wife Princess Cadance.

Twilight, smiling, replies back, “Hey, Big Brother.”

Then suddenly, the organist- well, my Flutterlove- began to play the wedding theme with her pet birds. At the entrance to the hall, the unicorn guards proceeded to open the entrance door allowing the bride, Princess Luna, to walk in and make her way to the alter. She really looked pretty.

Luna, halfway down the hall. I could had sworn I just noticed two shadow figures move fast on the ground and vanish. I look around the room without trying to move my head much.

There was nothing. I even looked out all of the windows. Must had just been a cloud passing by. Maybe little too fast to be a cloud actually. Doubt it was my imagination, and I couldn’t do anything at this moment in time without disturbing the wedding.

When Luna had finally reached the alter. Celestia, clearing her throat, then began, “Mares and gentlecolts. We gather here today to celebrate the reunion of my sister, Princess Luna, and Nightfall. Their paths had crossed and found true happiness in their hearts. A deep love within each others eyes. A bright star in the night.”

Both, the husband and bride to be, looked towards and smiled at each other. They have both found their soul mate. I could really see and just feel the love they were emitting to each other while just standing here. Just seeing them made me completely forget for a moment about the worries of wedding crushers.

Celestia, turning her focus to Twilight, “May we have the rings please,” as she magically lifts the rings from the pillow Twilight was holding, with a golden glow, and then she slid them on Nightfall’s and Luna’s horn.”

She finishes, “I pronounce you both mare and cult.”

All the ponies cheer and Fluttershy proceeds to play the wedding theme again, as the wedded Prince Nightfall and Princess Luna turn and began walking back down the red carpet together. Both smiling and almost shedding a tear.

I watched and smiled as they began walking down the hall. To the right, me and everypony else suddenly heard the sound of glass shattering.

The wedded couple, with everypony else gasping in surprise, paused and turned their attention at the source. As I do the same. I see Rainbow Dash flying in. Before I could react, Applejack catches her before she would had landed on her back and responds, not happy, “Rainbow Dash, that’s no way for ya to enter when ya late comin’ back.”

Rainbow Dash, regaining focus, looks towards the broken window and shouts while pushing Applejack aside, “Look out!”

Suddenly, there multiple green magic blasts coming through the broken window, just missing the mares. Getting frustrated. I ran towards the window and look outside. What I saw made me grit my teeth with a slight growl and say, “Alright. Now I’m pissed!”

Outside was a huge swarm of changelings. Every one of Chrysalis’s changeling army was probably here, right now.

Looks like the plan to have changelings and ponies together is a failure. I knew it wouldn’t work. I just knew it. I knew that bug was up to something all this time. Meanwhile. Celestia speaks worriedly to everypony, “My ponies. I think we are under attack.”

“O-On my wedding?” Luna spoke, sadly with a hint of anger in her voice that I could tell she was going to explode. I look towards them and didn’t know what to say.

Luckly. Nightfall comfort his wedded mare and help her keep calm, “It’s- It’s alright, my love. We are both wedded together. It was completed before interruption.”

Luna smiles a little, “But still…”

Shining Amour then spoke angrily with an easy solution, “Me and Cadance will send them away.”

Twilight stopped them for a moment, “Wait. Big Brother. Cadance. I-”

However, her speech was cut short as the changeling that attacked Rainbow Dash flew in and snarled at her. Rainbow snorted in return and attempted to fly kick the bug. But before her kick made contact. Luna blasted the bug back out the window with a bolt of lightning. I got to admit. I really felt that must had hurt.

With every pony speechless, her sister, Princess Celestia, had a shocked expression. Luna commented with a angry tone, but keeping her cool, “They will think twice before crushing my wedding!”

Our celebration was cut short, again, as a bunch of changelings came flying through the window attacking us. Some even willing to break through new holes in the windows with their green magic blasts.

Near all our guests were panicking in fear. Some taking cover from attacks and some attempted to leave through the entrance. The place was in chaos now. Shining Armour then spoke, “Twily, we need to get rid of them.”

As Shining Amour about to get into position with his wife, Twilight hastily spoke, “Brother, wait!”

“Sis, we have got to-,” Shining Armour got interrupted by his little sister again.

Twilight, blasting a few changelings away with her purple magic, “Just wait! I wanna find and speak to their queen first. And their king.”

While those two were arguing. I was busy going ape shit on these bugs. My arms were sparking with lightning and I was punching every bug coming my way. Funny enough, me and Applejack did a quick one two by me punching one of them flying and her back hoofing it out a broken window in midair, even knocking one of their friends out too before they could get in. I yelled through the angry chaos of the bug storm, “Rrrrgh, just let them blow them out!”

I’ve lost track of were three fourth of my friends were. The changelings were disguising themselves as allies now, making both friend and foe harder to tell. Through the storm, Twilight yelled out in disagreement, “Don’t!”

I say under my breath silently, “Damn it! Rrrrgh!”

Then I realised, in order to stop the attack, I had to take down their queen. So I began fighting my way to the entrance, taking care to be careful with who is friend and foe.

One thing I saw, that made me laugh was Rarity telling an attacking changeling to wait. Causing it to halt its attack, confused. She then pulled out a jar and brushed some red powder on its cheek. Making it look like a bruise. However that bruise became real as Rarity fully hoof it in the make up, its face.

Half way down the hall. I punched changeling disguised as Nightfall in the face. After, he had a stunned hurt expression and he spoke lowly, “H-Hope!”

I just realised I just actually hit the real one and replied, hastily, “You all look alike,” noticing an incoming attack behind him, with Luna having her hooves full banging two changelings unconscious together with magic, I shouted, “Watch out!”

He ducked and I rolled over his back and kicked the bug in the face sending it sliding across the floor. Pinkie at side of me says excitedly, “Bowl me! Bowl me! Bowl me!”

I say confusingly, “Oooookay,” as Pinkie then curled up into a ball and I picked her up like she was an actual bowling ball and I rolled her down the red carpet sending changelings flying like bowling pins.

Satisfied, and noticing Fluttershy grouped with the mares, which I’m sure are the real ones. I responded, “That works,” as I then start running down and out the entrance.

Outside, I noticed many changelings sitting around. Some even scared and shaking to move. I asked myself mentally, confused, “Where have I seen this… before?”

There were like five more the size groups of changelings outside here than inside that room with were the wedding was. At the moment, not many were flying inside. So I took it as an opportunity and looked around were their queen is. Judging the group that are staring and readying for a fight, were the tower were the Princess’s throne are, I take it she’s there waiting for us. Or maybe just me.

Not wasting time. I ran around the castle. Beating down each bug getting in my way.

Finally. I had managed to reach the sister’s Throne Room. The changeling guards give me a few painful burn marks from their magic but it was nothing compared to that night with the Hydra. Panting exhaustedly, with Chrysalis’s guards outside the room out cold. I enter the Throne Room itself and found some unknown… dark unicorn there, sat upon the throne, waiting with his legs up lazily.

Something about him looked like a villain. Dark gray coat. Red eyes, horn and ripped cloak. Short black mane with a wave effect like Celestia’s and Luna’s. Even wearing a tiara or crown of his own. Clearly, it was obviously a villain. One I never seen before. Oddly, he looked cracked with scares all over him.

He noticed that a guest had just entered. First thing I could say was, “Wow. You- are- ugly.”

He responded, but in a female voice, “Hahaha. Why thank you, dear.”

I sigh, knowing it’s Chrysalis’s voice and then respond already angry, ready to burst, “That wasn’t supposed to be a complement!”

She morphs back to her normal self and spoke in her usual disgusting tone, “Well, tut-tut. I can’t stand being that vile unicorn myself. Here’s me, hoping to see one of your precious princesses. Instead, I found a fur ball.”

I grit my teeth already pissed and responded angrily as I begin walking towards her, “Shout up! First you try ruin Cadance and Shining Armour’s wedding and now my best friend’s. I’m taking you down once and for all, you vile insect!”

She laughs, only fuelling more rage to me and responds, “Right… A snappy wolf, like you, thinks he can outmatch the Queen of the Changelings. Until one of your princesses arrive. I put you on a tight leash. So I can deal with them personally.”

I growl and begin running towards her. Noticing her horn glow green, I predicted and jumped away of the circling flames before she would had successfully trapped me. Then, I charged towards her, both my paws completely electrified in purple energy.

Chrysalis gasps in shock and teleports to a corner near the entrance, not expecting that. Keeping distance. She taunts, gaining confidence, “Ah ha, I’ll think I feast on you first, dear. This queen has been hungry all week and I can taste your love aura from here!”

She begins blasting multiple green beams down towards me, panting and not focusing her aim very well, in fury. Some just scaring me barely as I was just too fast. I then attempt to throw lighting at her in return. One or two hits her as one hit me right in the chest, causing me to yelp in pain and fall to my knees. She, however, gasps in shock and screaming from being electrified.

Both of us, quickly recovering. I’ve just lost it and growled as she also had a pissed off expression and fired green magic blasts more rapidly while panting tiredly from exhaustion.

I charge and manage to block a blast from her attack with my hand electrified and attempted to counter her by throwing lighting at her and dodging her next strike. Just a meter away from her, she grabs me with her magic aura, breathing between breaths, before I would had hit her in the face.

She smirks laughing, “Why didn’t I think of this before? Haha.”

Right now. I’ve just lost it. I say in return yelling out with all my electricity covering my body, “You forgot what you did to me other night, bitch!? Also… Will- unicorns- and- changelings- STOP FUCKING GRABBING ME WITH MAGIC!” I then hold my arms to my chest focusing my energy as I flip my arms out exploded her magic aura of me, with sparks scattering everywhere, and sending her flying upwards into the air.

After I landed, and with her still screaming in midair due the powerful force just now. I took the opportunity to run under her, sending a blast from both my arms, in turn, up at her, effectively hitting and keeping her airborne for a moment. I then roar and jump towards her, grabbing her by her waist and then completely electrifying us, together, making her scream in agony and in pain. I then throw her on the ground, coming back down. Her green blood, bleeding from were I had focused my energy on her waist, as I land beside her.

Panting. I charge both my arms with electric and say to her, “I’m putting an end to you!”

Chrysalis could only whimper and protect herself with her cheese-hooves, shaking and terrified of me.

Just before I was about to blast her to oblivion. I had an epiphany while seeing her cower in fear of dying. But not just that. I pant and gasp in breathes at what Fluttershy would think of me killing somepony. As for the epiphany. I remember that this is supposed to be a world of happiness. Not death and sadness.

Taking seconds to let myself cool down for a moment. I let my paws rest from being electrified and Chrysalis responds, slightly moving her hooves from her face, worriedly, “Y-you n-not going to kill me?”

Before I could answer. I heard Twilight shouting from the entrance, “Hope, stop!”

When I looked towards the entrance. I was greeted with a hoof in the face from Cocoon, charging at me full speed with an angry snarl, sending me flying and rolling across the floor. As I then back flip to my feet right after, growling at him.

At the entrance. I just noticed that Twilight and the rest of the element wielders. Even the princesses were running besides them with Nightfall.

Celestia, calming the situation, shouted, “Stop! Both of you!”

Twilight explained to us, “The fighting as stopped outside. There’s no need to fight now.”

Cocoon could only look and snarl rudely at Celestia in return. As he then kneed down near his fallen queen, trying to comfort her. She spoke weakly, “M-My king.”

He hugs her and replies, worriedly and upset while getting covered in her blood, “M-My queen.”