Chapter 9: A Night to Remember

Hope: Day 1
Nightfall: Day Unknown

Hope’s POV

After that eventful day and that totally unexpected ‘wolf whistle’ from Fluttershy, which shocked everypony there, including me mostly. It was time for Celestia to lower her Sun and to make room for Luna to raise her Moon. Fluttershy had offered me to stay, to help her with taking care of the animals, which I always wanted to do. Some ponies were quite surprised about this and so was I, just a little.

Not long when we were leaving, I had to take my shoes and socks off, because they were quite tight on my paws now. They were a bit difficult to take off, but I managed. The cold on the ground didn’t bother me, now that I got paws. I thought I’ll keep hold of the shoes and socks in the meantime.

As the Moon was raised me, the Mane Six, Spike and Trixie said our goodbyes to the princesses and Nightfall. Including Cadance and Shining Armor too. Then we took the sky-chariot back to our homes.

After near a minute, I noticed that I was starting to feel quite warm in these clothes, maybe a little hot, now that I got a fur coat instead of flesh.

A moment later, I finally decided to take off my jumper, which I was a bit nervous of doing, with the seven girls in here with me.

Twilight noticed and then asked in concern, “You okay?”

I replied, “Just feeling a bit hot now that I got a fur coat, just like all of you?”

Spike spoke out, with his arms crossed, sounding a bit down with tiredness, “Except me.”

Rainbow then shouted out playfully, just noticing, “Oh boy, oh boy, Hope’s striping everypony!”

At that moment I thought I was going to blush red the second time in one day but I didn’t, somehow.

Rainbow, Applejack, and Spike couldn’t resist as those three just burst out laughing. Everypony else tried not to laugh except Twilight and Fluttershy, who were trying not to blush. I almost couldn’t resist chuckling too, so I said to Rainbow, “Good one Dash.”

After another unexpected moment, it didn’t take long to drop everypony off. We were the last ones to be dropped off, but we didn’t mind it.

As me and Fluttershy got… home. I put my no longer useable socks, shoes and jumper near the corner the front door, neatly. I then thought, ‘They may just come handy for Winter.’

Then we fed all the critters, as it was already nearly 7:00 at night. The thing that surprised me tonight was, that they didn’t show any signs of worry towards me. Well we do have a minotaur in Ponyville, why not an ampwolf?

We both had an apple each for tea as we were quite full still, from the meal we had at Canterlot. After that, we both just rested on the couch, with me at the back and Shy at the front.

After resting for like fifteen minutes, she asked me, calmly, “Do you like me?”

I was still awake partly. I replied back, calmly while being honest, “Yes…”

Fluttershy took a deep relaxing sigh and then cuddled up to me on the couch, with her back towards me and with my arm round her for the rest of the night. Well, until we went to bed, which she offered me to share hers with.

My last thought for that night, before falling asleep were, ‘This has gone quicker than I thought…’

Nightfall’s POV (Alicorn Form)

It looked like the day had ended well. After Luna had woken up to raise the Moon the Mane Six, Trixie, Spike and Hope were just saying their goodbyes to the princesses and me. Even Cadance and Shining Armor said goodbye with us. The moment after they had left in the sky-chariot, I decided to morph back to my alicorn form, as I was starting to get a little tired.

Cadance and Shining Armor had left for their room for the night, while the sisters asked me to follow them to the throne room. I had an idea what they wanted to talk about…

When we arrived, the sisters walked to their seat and then turned their attention towards me, with Luna standing on the right side of her sister. Celestia then asked the guards to leave, to give us some privacy.

After they had left, the Sun Princess asked me, with concern, “Do you think it was the right decision for you and my sister to bring Hope here?”

I replied, “Yes, I believe so. I know that he likes Fluttershy back on Earth. But for Fluttershy, it has gone faster than I thought it would have today. But I believe we made the right decision.”

Luna then asked, “There is something else that thou haven’t told us about, isn’t there?”

I replied, while getting a little nervous, “Yes, if it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t be standing here right now. I never would have met you Luna. So I thought as a thank you gift, I thought allow him the chance I got, for him to meet the mare he likes too.”

Celestia then asked, I couldn’t tell what her emotion was but I guess it was concern, “You really care about my sister, don’t you, Nightfall?”

I paused for a moment, feeling quite nervous, but I knew that this time would come after two weeks since I been here. So I replied honestly, “Yes…”

I looked towards Luna and saw that she looked quite surprised at my words. I carried on with my speech, “It is that reason I made that ‘wish’ that night, upon that star, back on Earth. ‘To be with Princess Luna.’”

Silence filled the room that must have lasted for about a minute. I was worried about what Luna was thinking, as she looked like she was deep in thought. I took a glance at Celestia before looking back at Luna, my princess looked like she had an idea what was going on over the past two weeks since I been here.

Princess Luna’s POV

After hearing those words from Nightfall, I was… I don’t know what I felt. I knew after hearing his ‘wish’ back on Earth, ‘he wanted to be with me’. But, I didn’t think that he would care deeply that much for me.

I was getting quite emotional, thinking about it. I didn’t want to have another break down, like I did one thousand years ago, when I got jealous of my sister that turned me into Nightmare Moon.

Not knowing what to do, I asked, trying to sound natural as possible, while I was leaving the room to my private chamber, “Excuse me.”

Just while I was leaving, Nightfall called out to me, in a calm concern voice, “Luna…?”