Twilight trotted happily down the dirt path leading towards Ponyville, she had a great time talking to her friend Zecora over some of her famous tea. The blend was from a group of different plants native to her land that she grew on her own. Enjoying the still night air she decided to take the scenic route home, normally the Everfree forest scared her but tonight she wasn't worried. She took in the crisp air laced with the scent of rotting leaves and.... something else.

*Twilight tried to place the sickly sweet smell to anything but came up at a loss, as she walked the wind blew a leaf into her face. she reached up and wiping it away found her hoof covered in a red liquid. Stifling her immediate horror at the blood on her hooves she looked around and found that the puddle of blood she was in led to a small clearing, at the center was a black stallion covered in his own blood. Around the stallion were a group of ponies one of which was holding a bloodied knife in his hoof murmuring in a strange language.

Horror and hatred rushed though Twilight as she gazed at the scene unfolding before her eyes. Anger rushed forward like a torrent of water being released from a flood gate. She magically formed twin blades at her side and in a swift motion beheaded the grey pony holding the dagger. The rest looked at her with disdain in their eyes, but no horror or surprise. Several of them drew daggers and started toward her, she murmured a few words under her breath and a torrent of purple flame leaped forward consuming all in its path.

The others reacted more severely at this and one of them spoke an incantation and the still living cultists vanished in a green haze. Safe for the moment she ran over to the still form of the black alicorn with streaks of blue in his mane. He was about her size and build save for slightly broader shoulders, his neck was slashed open and had ceased bleeding. She thought he was dead until his chest rose and fell unsteadily, reacting on the spot she focused her magic and teleported them to the nearest place of refuge she could think of Zecora's.

The zebra had been looking over a set of herbs when Twilight appeared covered in blood the unconscious alicorn by her side. "Help him" the words had barely come out of her mouth before Zecora leaped to her hooves to grab some bandages. They worked tirelessly into the night applying poultices, using anesthetics, feeding him potions to help restore lost blood and close the wound. Eventually the zebra said "there is not to do but wait and leave the rest to fate". Twilight stayed by his side the whole night never once leaving his side until she eventually drifted into sleep.

The following morning she awoke when she felt him shift slightly in his sleep. Looking up she found opening her eyes to be a big mistake. After her eyes adjusted to the light and no longer blind she looked at the mystery stallion from last night, she gazed upon him now without fear of his death. Also he looked much more pleasing without blood covering him.

Naga opened his eyes to find a beautiful purple mare looking at him intently and a pleased expression passing over her face when she saw him wake up. "Umm who are you?" he asked. "Twilight Sparkle and you?" she asked. "Naga." he responded. "Ok Naga do you remember what happened last night?" He tried but all that he could remember was an immense pain and he told her so, she looked worriedly at him "I think you have amnesia, can you recall what happened before the pain?"

When he shook his head no she sighed and retold to him the events that transpired, he took it rather well with a mere "well I guess I'm lucky." After telling Zecora she decided to take him to her house and see if she could get Fluttershy to take a look at him. The spell took a few trips seeing as how the distance would have been too much to teleport that far. After a few hours Fluttershy decided that he was low on blood but was otherwise fine aside from a slight scar on his neck where the slash had been. Twilight was surprised by his rapid recovery but attributed that to Zecora's potions rather than an anomaly.

After a time she asked him about his cutie mark after re-explaining to him what it was, "I guess it has something to do with magic" he said. "Well let’s test that out" Twilight said and they walked into the main room. He focused and a cloud of black shadows enveloped him as he did, opening his eyes an empty white light that was painful to see emanated from his eyes. Suddenly a rainbow blur launched itself from the doorway barely doing so before the cyan pegasus was stopped by Naga's magic.

"Let me go!" Rainbow Dash screamed "Run Twilight I'll take him" she added swinging her hooves in his direction. Naga looked at her, no longer pouring off exes’ energy and eyes returned to normal silver, with a pleading face. She face-hoofed and explained to Dash that he was her guest not attacker. She soon after sent her away with a Daring Doo book hoping that she kept at least mildly quiet.

The rest of the day was spent re-educating Naga on the history of Equestria and other things like the princesses and lore. She even brought him up to speed on the latest subjects like Discord and Nightmare Moon. He payed apt attention and absorbed every word as a sponge took in water. Eventually they ate dinner and Naga said goodnight, "where will you go?" she asked. "I'm not quite sure but I think I’ll be ok" he responded. "No" she said firmly, "No you won’t be, your going to stay here tonight, I'm not about to let my new friend walk off into the night all alone."

Tears welled up in his eyes and he ran up to her and hugged her with his arms and wings saying "I love you." Realizing his mistake he took a step back and ran out into the night a look of horror on his face. After her initial shock she looked deep inside herself to find that she wasn't mad but actually relieved. Even knowing him for so short a time she couldn't help but feel drawn to him as if a force stronger than them was pushing them together. She made up her mind and dashed off into the night chasing after him in hopes of catching him before he was lost to her forever swallowed up by the night sky.

Twilight ran for all she was worth, Naga had accidentally admitted feelings for her and ran off for fear of her nonacceptance. With unicorns there was more magic than choice in love, if two unicorns found another attractive their respective magic would put them in situations that set up romance or randomly blurting out their love like he had. Of course without his memory he wouldn't remember this, to tell the truth Twilight was probably partly at fault as she found him attractive and mst likely her magic had been at least partly responsible for his outburst,

She ran until she heard a loud crash, she turned towards the sound using her magic to illuminate the corpse of a hooded pony she recognized from the night before. She saw Naga battling three more a few feet away his aura blending in with the night. Shadows leaped forward and skewered two of the ponies the third dogging and unleashing a torrent of flame that Naga tried to block but ended up being thrown a few feet into a tree smoking. Twilight teleported behind the pony and promptly stuck her horn to the back of his head, "fuck" the hooded buck said before a blast of telekinetic energy blasted his skull open.

"Naga!" she yelled teleporting over to him. He looked up at her and out of breath said "I'm s-s-sorry." She smiled weekly him and said "it's ok I love you to, I'm sorry I scared you but I do like you and I want to give us a shot please.." As soon as the words left her mouth it was filled by his, she gave in kissing him back feeling the unicorn magic start to act. She found herself looking into his mind, a cloud covered nearly all of it save for his feelings to her and the few memories he had accumulated over the day. She focused and a beam of light shot out of her horn iluminating and opening his mind, Memories came rushing to her, Equestria during it's early days. two mares smiling over her the purple one bringing her close whispering "it's ok son mommy's here".

Dumbfounded she recognized the mares, Luna and Celestia. He was Luna's son, other memories came and went until she reached the time he was ritually killed and sent forward in time in order to prevent interference, unsuccessfully. She had saved the son of princess and they were now in love in less than a day. 'Holy shit!' was all she could think. As her mind returned to herself she found herself staring at an equally surprised Naga. "Your Luna's son?!?" she gasped.

"You know my mother and aunt?!? Wow this is unexpected... but the good kind like a surprise party." he said. Across the town a pink mare sat up in bed and said "did somepony say party?!!!" Twilight pulled him along the path back to the library saying "never say the p-word unless you want Pinky Pie to mob you." Remembering what he had seen in her memories he shuddered and followed faithfully.

When they returned they set up wards to prevent Pinky Pie form getting in, "So.... um you like me?" Naga asked when they finished. She looked over to him to find him nervously looking at the floor, "Wow, the son of Luna shy... priceless, and if I didn't do you think a memory link would have happened?" He face-hoofed at his idiocy remembering that only unicorns (and alicorns) only linked minds if they loved each other.

She laughed and kissed him on the cheek, he proceeded to blush furiously and keel over. She laughed even harder, "If I hadn't seen the memory with my own eyes I wouldn't believe you two were related." He chuckle a little at this as he stood up "My mother said almost the exact same thing to me." She was on the ground laughing hysterically now unable to contain herself. Naga joined her a few seconds later finding her laughter infectious. Spike groaned and pulled a pair of ear plugs out and put them in and turning over.

They spent the night having fun and talking about different things, She asked him about his childhood and he asked her about her friends. As the sun crested the mountains Twilight yawned and pulled herself and Naga to their hooves, "Time to catch a train" she said. They trotted out the door leaving a note to spike that they were going to Canterlot to talk to Celestia and Luna about a very important issue that needed instant attention, Luna's long (not so)dead son.

The train ride was uneventful due mainly to the fact that they slept through it, I mean the got no sleep during the night even alicorns need to sleep. They were awoken by the train brakes as they slowed to a stop. Naga lost his balance and fell forward crashing into the seat. For a powerful and wise practitioner of magic he sure was clumsy, after telling him so and laughing vigorously Twilight and Naga both left the train and started the walk to the castle.

The distance from the station to the actual palace was short but they decided to make a day of it, first they went to a used book store and browsed until they decided that there was nothing there that they hadn't already read. Naga had caught up on most of his reading at Twilight's but still enjoyed the time. Next they went to a coffee shop at the corner next to the book store, Naga had a frappuccino and Twilight a Chi tea. Eventually they decided to face the inevitable and walked up to the gates of the palace.

"This is new" Naga said as he took in the architecture "I remember our castle being in the Everfree forest last time I was here." She regarded his words and said "When your mom went nightmare form she obliterated most of the castle so Celestia rebuilt here. From our combined memories I can only guess that she became Nightmare moon after your alleged death." He nodded in agreement as the guards parted recognizing Twilight on the spot. However as they reached the throne room a guard stooped them saying "sorry Twilight the princesses said no visitors today, apparently somepony they loved dearly died one thousand years ago yesterday." Twilight smiled and said "I'm sure you can make an acception for us." as Naga released the spell hiding his wings.

The look on the guards face was priceless as they trotted past him and into the throne room, the first thing they saw was a sobbing Luna being held by Celestia. As soon as she turned around and saw Naga her arms fell away from her sister and he mouth fell agape "how?" she said weakly as Luna turned around and instantly her face went from that of heartbreak to one of pure joy. Without a word she tackled, or tried to, Naga who fazed through her turning his body into shadowy smoke. Luns regained her composure and looked into his eyes and hugged him. This time he let her, alowing himself to be wraped in a bundle of blueish purple and sobs of joy. Twilight looked at her mentor who regarded her with serious expression and said "you got some splain'in to do."

After a few minutes recalling what had happened to Naga between the time they saw him last and now, she mentioned the cult and was met with a resounding knowledge of it. As it happens the cult was reminiscent of the worshipers of discord who had now devoted themselves to killing all alicorns. The genocidal organization was wiped from existence shortly after Luna's imprisonment on the moon. Their return was a shock and disturbance to the princesses but they said that any attempt would likely fail due to lack of leadership and low numbers.

However Celestia notified her guards to be on the lookout for suspicious pony's who might be hostile. Naga meanwhile explained to Luna how Twilight had helped restore his memory and how they had decided to try a relationship, she was very surprised to find out that her savior and son were in love. But as much as it unnerved her she pushed past it and simply enjoyed the fact that her son was returning home alive. She knew that as the element of magic Twilight was exposed to a godly amount of raw power making her virtually immortal meaning that Naga wouldn't outlive her so she took comfort in the fact that as long as nothing terrible happened they would be happy for as long as they decided to live.

Upon Luna's insistence they decided to spend the night, they had planed for this and told spike in the note that they may be gone for a few days. The three of them walked into the grand hall where a marvelous feast had been laid out, "We were just preparing for dinner when you arrived, Twilight I cant thank you enough for saving Naga if it hadn't have been you..... I dread to think what may have happened." Luna said a tear forming in her eye that she quickly brushed away. Twilight looked confused and asked "But anypony could have helped him, and Zecora did most of the healing all I did was help."

Luna looked at her dead serious "No, not his physical recovery his emotional and mental. I doubt that anypony else would have given him the chance and if you hadn't he would still be lost to us." Twilight realized with a shock that if she hadn't given him a chance he would be dead or worse in the hooves of that cult, she shuddered at the thought. Seeing her discomfort Naga walked up to her and put a wing around her and held her close. They were very close even after knowing each other for such a short time. Joining minds, even for a brief moment, had made them feel as though they had known each other for their entire lives.

The trio proceed to eat a variety of foods ranging from the exotic to the basic done up in ways nopony ever thought of before. Afterwards they all retired to their chambers Naga and Twilight deciding to sleep together. They curled up in bed and Naga wrapped her in his wings and soon they drifted off into blissful sleep dreaming of each other and of the days to come. Luna sighed as she looked down on her son and his mare joy mixed with reluctance filled her heart. "Sleep tight my little prince, I will never let them take you again this I swear"

Celestia's sun piqued over the horizon spilling light onto the dozing pair. Naga and Twilight lay sleeping in peaceful tranquility when the sun stirred them from peaceful dreams, "fuck you aunt Celestia I really hate your job." Naga muttered as he raised himself from the bed. A twinge of pain shot up his wing as he remembered that Twilight was sleeping on it, phasing through her he freed his wing and looked down at the sleeping mare.

Her mane was disheveled from sleep giving her a very attractive look in the morning light. Naga felt his wings lock out and a familiar hardness grew between his legs. He saw her stir and furiously blushing he ran for the bathroom he closed the door and locked it turning on the shower with his magic to the coldest setting and jumping in. As ice poured from the fauset he cursed, "Damn you auntie your such a fucking troll."

After a cold shower and taking time to sooth his wings he stepped out of the shower to find Twilight staring at him grinning wildly "Why the long shower?" she asked playfully. He fell down legs giving way as she laughed at him. They ate a quick breakfast and left the castle to do some book browsing at the archives. They spent about half the day exploring the labyrinth of books, disarming traps and freeing trapped pony's who had become victims of bookalances. As they made there way to the exit they found a massive stack of books in there path, turning around they found a group of hooded pony's blocking there path.

"In the name of Discord you will die." one of the hooded figures said before launching a barrage of metal rods at them. His aura flaring around him Naga used his shadows to knock the spears away. "Pathetic!" he spat as his shadow output doubled enveloping several ponies and leaving nothing but skeletons behind. Twilight teleported to a shelf above the remaining 3 and launched several gleaming daggers of pure will into them riddling them like machine gun fire.

The two cleared the books away and proceeded to walk out leaving a gruesome seen behind them. The library guards swarmed around them as they left babbling about how a few armed figures were on the loose but Naga simply pointed a hoof in the direction they had come and walked off Twilight under his wing. Naga Took her to a fancy upscale restaurant where they ordered ratatouille and a bottle of cherry wine.

On the way back to the castle Twilight stopped Naga and turned him to face her. "Yes Twi..mfff" he said (or tried to) as Twilight kissed him on the lips. He returned the kiss, when they finally broke he looked at her a bemused expression on his face "And what was that all about?" he asked. This time it was Twilight's turn to blush "I just wanted to know." she said. "Know what?" he asked perplexed.

"If you wanted me still, or if you didn't find me attractive." He looked at her a hurt expression crossing his face, "What made you think that I don't?" he asked with worried expression on his face. "Well when you went into the bathroom this morning i thought..." he silenced her with another kiss. They wasted no time in returning to their chambers in the castle where they passionately began kissing again.

Twilight flopped onto the bed and used her tail to stroke his sheath seductively, "it's my first time so be gentle." He positioned himself above her saying "Well that goes for me to soooo yea." She looked at him then spread her legs and wrapped them around his waist saying, "Well I cant do all the work."

He entered her with a thrust and they both gasped in pleasure. He began to work up a rhythm as he continued the pair of them moaning and crying out in pleasure. The recruit outside the door started to open the door but the seasoned guard next to him put a hoof on his shoulder and said "You don't want to stop that attack kid. Trust me they'll kill you if you do." confused the rookie stopped and went back to his post pondering until he reached a conclusion that made him blush.

They went on for a few more minutes before finally reaching their climax. They screamed each others names into the night air as they came their passion flaring brilliantly before fading away. Naga collapsed next to Twilight exausted and panting, "I love you Twi." he said calling her by her pet name. "I love you to.... lover stallion" she said before snuggling up next him and drifting off to sleep. The thought that resonated in both their minds was 'how did I ever get so lucky' before giving in to exhaustion.