It was a sad day for the princess of the night as Luna herself wandered through the garden.

She was still feeling down about what happened years ago. But that would change real soon.

Luna walked aimlessly through the topiary, but stopped when a rustling sound came from the bush.

"Who dare to intrude upon us!" called Luna who readied her horn.

The brush parted to reveal a small figure that made Luna both confused, yet relieved.

"Aunty...Luna...?" Asked a surprised Spike as he looked at the princess in front of him. "Is that you?"

"Indeed we are, young Spike..." Said Luna in her canterlot accent from a thousand years ago. "What are thou doing here? Were thee invited to the gala too?"

"Yeah, I was invited by Mom alongside Twilight and the others, but when we arrived they went their separate ways to realize their dreams...instead of being together and spending fun..." Spike finished in a sad tone as Luna looked at him in pity. "So what are you doing here?"

"We..." Luna was nervous about the question, but she decided to answer her nephew. "We were wondering through the garden remembering our past..."

"Oh..." Spike remembered what happened and understood why she needed the silence, but maybe she also needed something else. Like somepony to talk to. "You want to talk about it?" asked Spike.

Luna was taken back by the offer. She had wanted to talk to anypony for so long about what happened, but they were usually too scared to talk about it.

"Well, if thou offers.." started Luna who sat down on the grass as Spike followed her example. Soon the princess of the night began to tell what happened all those years ago.

After Luna finished telling her past, from when she and her sister Celestia got their cutie marks by controlling the moon and the sun respectively, to when they became alicorns by creating a new magic each one, to when they fought against some villains like Tirek, whom was sealed in Tartarus, Sombra, who was banished to the northern blizzards, and Discord, whom defeated them several times until they found the tree of harmony and got the elements of harmony from there and used them to seal the chaos god in stone, and finally how she began to be jealous of her own sister until she snapped and became Nightmare Moon followed by the battle between sisters and Celestia using her elements to seal her in the moon.

Spike was silent through the whole tale, laughing at the happy moments between sisters and crying at the sad moments, especially when Luna ended her tale upon being sent to the moon.

"That was a great tale, Aunty Luna..." Spike said, surprising the princess whom had expected him to be wary of her. "And I'm sorry if I made you remember some things you didn't like..."

"It's alright, young Spike..." Luna said while blushing a little. "So why don't you tell us about thee?"

"Well, I guess I could do so..." And so Spike told his aunt about his life, from when he was born by Twilight, then raised by Celestia as her own son, him becoming Twilight's assistant, going to Ponyville, and several of the adventures that the mane 6 had, and now him arriving at the gala.

Luna frowned after hearing about this Rarity that her nephew seemed to be close to. By the sounds of it, he had a crush on the mare. She scoffed at that in her head. Her nephew deserved someone who could truly understand him. Someone who held true grace and kept herself calm and composed. Someone who understands what it means to be an outsider. Someone....like her.

Luna's eyes widened at that as she wondered where that came from. True, she has admired him since he was young, but brushed it aside as mere enjoyment at seeing a baby dragon. This had happened before her banishment, so she got a chance to see him before her banishment. She always got butterflies in her stomach at seeing young Spike giggle whenever she would tickle him with her own wings.

'Could I...be falling for my own nephew?' wondered Luna in her head.

Meanwhile, Spike was looking at Luna with a blush on his face upon seeing how beautiful she was, and remembered that when he was a baby, there was a pony that made him laugh in happiness when his mom was working on royal duties, but then one day she vanished, causing him to get sad and eventually forget the mare by trying to find someone else, and that's why he went after Rarity, but now that she was going after his troublesome cousin Blueblood, and spending time with his aunty, he remembered that Luna was the pony that made him happy back then!

'Wait...A-am I...falling for my aunt?' Wondered Spike with his blush getting bigger.

Spike and Luna turned towards each other and kept their gazes on each other. They needed to confess.

"Aunty Luna..." began Spike.

"Spike..." started Luna.

"I love you!" they both yelled at the same time. Both of them had their eyes widened in shock before they walked closer to each other and held each other like a pair of true lovers.

Spike looked up and pressed his scaly lips against his aunt while she gladly returned the passion.

Both of them broke apart as they heard a loud scream of "You're going to LOVE ME!", before they heard the sound of what seemed like a stampede. Both of them ran to the gala and were stunned to see it swarmed with all kinds of small critters and animals.

"Well, I'm definitely glad I didn't join them." replied Spike who held Luna's hoof.

"We agree as well, Spike." replied Luna bringing Spike closer to her as they watched the chaos unfold.

"Yeah, by the way, wanna go out to Joe's Donuts? They have some great sweets!" Spike said, surprising the alicorn.

"Are thou...asking us out?" Luna asked in a hopeful tone, to which her nephew nodded, making her cry in joy and hug him.

"Good! Also I'll help you with your language since ponies speak differently from a 1000 years ago." Spike suggested, making the night princess nod as they walked out, ignoring the chaos and some shocked ponies whom saw them together.

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Twilight sighed as she and the girls were heading to Joe's Donuts to try and forget this night. Celestia tagged along as she told them that the gala was the best she had ever seen, which lifted their spirits a little.

When they entered, they were stunned to see Spike and his own aunt Luna, currently making out on one of the tables. Each mare had their own reaction.

Applejack covered her blush with her hat.

Rainbow's jaw hit the floor.

Twilight was stunned speechless.

Pinkie was smiling and thinking of throwing a party to celebrate this new couple.

Fluttershy fainted from shock and embarrassment.

Rarity gawked at the sight before congratulating the two, even though she didn't realize that Spike was her nephew, or that he was a prince.

Celestia held a stern gaze at the two, but said, "I approve" as she held up a sign of the two of them in chibi form.

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