Author's Notes:

I don't do the whole romantic dinner thing considering my table manners are atrocious and I couldn't stand wearing a tuxedo or anything so forgive me if this part doesn't quite meet expectations for this type of situation.

"If you want more answers you will need to find them on your own, it will be then that things will become your past, present, and especially your future will become all the more clearer." The words of voice said from earlier this week still ran around in my head as I tried to figure out what he meant. The only thing I could think of regarding anything of my past is how I came to possess my dark power, other than that it must have been talking about my ancestors which is probably the most probable but like it said. I have to find out about these other ponies that took control of darkness and light to find out. I'll have to ask Luna and Celestia if they know anything and if all else fails I'll ask Discord when he's released.

"Dark Heart,"

Though I'm not sure if I should wait till after he's considered reformed or as soon as he's released.

"Dark Heart!"

Probably as soon as he's released, that could get a conversation going between us towards other things and help him see why being friends with ponies and not using his chaos so liberally all the time is a good thing.

"DARK HEART!" I heard Luna shout in my ear and making me jump a little in the carriage that we're in currently. I look over at Luna who was wearing a worried look. "Are you alright Dark Heart?"
"Yeah I was just thinking about something."

"Can I ask what about?"

"I'll tell you tomorrow, I don't it ruining our date so I suggest we forget about it and just enjoy the evening." I say as I pull Luna into a kiss.

"Okay Dark Heart but don't hesitate to tell me if something is wrong. I want you to enjoy the night just as much as me." Luna says upon breaking the kiss. "So where are having us go tonight?"
"That's for me to know and you to find out though I wouldn't expect the trip to be too much longer." I tell her as I look out the window and see the the her night sky as we traverse up Canterlot Mountain.
"Can't I have a wittle hint?" Luna asked in a child like tone and big, wet eyes. I put my hand over her face to block that look before I felt I could say anything.
"N-n-no Luna, I'm not ruining the surprise because of your anxiety. You're just going to have to wait till we get there." I tell her sternly as possible as it seemed that her gaze just passed through my hands and I felt that I had no choice to look away but before I do I no longer feel it's presence and feel Luna push my hand away to reveal a pouting Luna who stuck her nose in the air and turned away with a huff. "Aw, now doesn't my Lulu look adorable when she's acting like a filly?" She turned her head so that I could one of her eyes and gave me a glare before turning away again. Not one to just let her push me away I scoot closer and pull her closer to me as she struggles in my grasp. I wrap my arms tightly around her as she's still trying to get away from me but I refuse to let her go.
"Let me go you jerk." Luna states as she squirms back and forth in my grasp and I comply with her request as I see that this approach isn't working. I decide to try another tactic that she'll probably hate me for but it'll ruin the whole evening if she insist on keeping up the charade.
"Okay then, if you think I'm a jerk then I guess the date is off and I'll go back home." I state seriously though with a smirk hidden away as I turn away from her and open the carriage door on my side. I catch Luna looking at me in worry out of the corner of my eye but she isn't making any move to stop me as I proceed to step out the door and climbed on top of it. I bent my legs in preparations to jump down the mountain.
"Darky wait!" Luna shouted as she grabbed me from behind. "I don't really think you're a jerk and I want to go no this date with you, please don't leave." She says as if on the verge of tears which makes me decide to not go through with my original plans and just play along.
"Alright Luna I won't go." I tell her as I turn around while still in her grip and embrace her. "But you do know I wasn't really going to leave right?"
"I thought so but you sounded so serious and I didn't want to take the chance. Despite having kept an eye on you since that day your parents brought you in and getting to know you since you got released you are still too unpredictable for me not to be cautious of everything I say and do."
"Sorry about that Luna. I really try not to be an inconvenience for you like that but there something I can tell you that might make it easier for you to figure it out on your own."
"And what's that?" She asked as she looks up at me curiously.

"Listen to my voice, there are always hidden elements in it that can tell you how I might react to something, even when I say nothing." I tell her sincerely. "Though I will admit that I was originally going to leave and come back when the carriage stopped at it's location so you could feel guilty and sad about it so I could some sick joy in the misery and then reveal myself afterwards."
"Really?" She asked with tearful eyes.
"No, well at least not the taking a sick joy out of it, and I actually would've been there waiting for you to arrive after leaving." I tell her with a smile and she slaps me though I more than deserve so I have no right to complain.
"You really are a jerk sometimes Dark Heart." Luna says as I wipe away to last remnants of her tears.

"I know but I promise you that I'll cut back on it when it comes to you, but almost everypony else will feel the full sting of my jerkiness!" I shout into the sky and shake my right hand in the air like I'm making an important declaration and cause Luna to start laughing her ass off as she falls down on the top of the carriage and starts rolling around. I catch her when she almost fell off and cast a spell to make the top intangible so we could drop through it. I place the still giggling Luna on the seat as I watch her in amusement.
After a good ten minutes she finally calms down as she wipes away some stray tears from her giggle fest. "Feeling better sweets?" I ask as I nuzzle her which she happily returns.
"Mmhm, thank you Dark Heart. Sorry my if my impatience was beginning to become irksome though." Luna apologized.

"It's alright Lulu considering it wasn't your impatience that was getting to me in the first place. Seriously for a thousands year old mare you can act like such a spoiled filly sometimes." I told honestly.
"I blame you."

"Mind explaining how you came to that conclusion?" I ask her as I bring over to sit on my lap.

"Because you're an enabler."

"How is this, last I checked I haven't been spoiling you that much for you to turn out like that."

"But you spoil me none the less so therefore you're an enabler. Need I go on Dark Heart or do you need more information?" Luna asked smugly as she shifts her rear in my lap to get more comfortable.
"So you're saying that I shouldn't get you anymore while we're in this relationship?"

"NO! Luna says quickly as she spins around in place to be face to face.

"Then stop being a brat otherwise that is exactly what's going to happen, got it?" She lowers her head like a filly who was just scolded by her parents and nods. "Good, now what do you say we enjoy the rest of the ride in silence while in each other's arms?" She perks up and wrapps her arms around and I do the same as I maneuver around so that I was laying corner with a view of the night.
"So how much longer is it going to take to get where we're going tonight?"

"About ten more minutes, it's a ways up the mountain but I assure you that the trip will be worth it that I can promise you."

"I hope so, it would be a shame to have put all that extra work into not only my appearance but tonight's sky to have it locked away in a dusty old carriage."
"This thing is far from being dusty and old but I know what you mean. You need the feeling of all eyes on you as ponies admire your beauty because you're a bloody attention hound." I mocked her as I lick her snout.
"I am not an attention hound Dark Heart, you're the only one,besides my sister, whose opinion I care about, though I was hoping to be able to show my new coltfriend a little." Luna confesses with a faint blush that makes her look adorable.
"Of course you do. You won't have to worry about that as I'm sure you'll get the chance soon."

"What do mean?" Just as Luna finished asking the carriage jerks to a stop and the sound of the door opening causes Luna to jolt up. I stood up and walk out first before helping Luna out. When she steps out Luna is in absolute awe as she gazes upon the building in front of us.
Embedded into the mountain was a restaurant that had had the front shaped and painted to blend into to the face of the rock and jutted out into a canopy and pillars as though you were looking at the entrance of cave that was lit up by magical light crystals that lined the walls and ceilings. The sign itself was also made of the same light crystals and spelled out "Seclusion". "Seclusion?" Luna looked at me in hope of getting an answer that I could not provide.
"I have no idea why the owner decided to call it that but I had heard about this place from Spitfire when you two sent me over for those meeting with her and I let it slip that I was taking you out this weekend. It apparently opened up a couple of months ago but they still have reservations going on into next year."
"Next year? Then now did you get a reservation for us?" I only look at her with a raised eyebrow. "You made mention of me and they made arrangements to have us come instead of whoever was supposed to have the reservation didn't you?"
"No I wasn't going to exploit our relationship like that. Actually when I was trying to make reservations I was on the point of begging when they told me they didn't have any other tables available. They finally relented when I made the shadows start chanting and I was told that the only table to had was reserved for the princesses themselves and that nopony was allowed in that area just in case you or your sister decided to show up so I had to no choice but to mention that this was for me and you. Of course the idiot didn't believe me so I had to go get that letter from you."
"So that's what you needed it for. You know I thought you were using it to get some new gear or something but were too lazy to earn the bits to pay for it." Luna confessed with an apologetic look and I shook my head in amusement.
"Ignoring that, but anyway after I had returned the hostess called the owner and he too was skeptical but accepted it anyway. He'll be waiting for us when we walk in to see if I was lying about our date."
"And why would he do that when I sent him a letter that you delivered personally instead of a guard?"

"That's probably the reason why. He could believe that I was friends with somepony that could forge or handwriting, that or he's doing it for the publicity so it's 50/50 chance."
"You know you're making this more complicated than it should?" Luna asked with a sly grin.

"Well you're the one who asked." I countered as we began walking to the entrance. "Have I told you how beautiful you look in that dress?" I asked her as she leaned on me.
"Yes, several times in fact." She stated with her eyes closed and a smile of her face.

"Sorry but every time I look at you I just seem to forget about everything else." Luna blushed at my statement as she faced me with her shimmering blue eyes.
"Thank you Dark Heart, and I would just like to note that you do rather handsome in that suit of yours. I take it you asked miss Rarity to create it for you?" Luna asked me and to her surprise I shook my head no. "But then who made you such a piece?"
"I did. I didn't ask Rarity for help considering how she despises me and you seem to forget that I lived alone for three years with seldom contact with anypony, let alone going into town. Although my suit for my darkness form remained intact my normal clothes didn't so I had to learn to create my own ensembles." I explained to her as we walk into the doors of Seclusion and were immediately greeted by the owner himself who was a dragon with ocean blue scale and green frills and spines.
"Ah, Mister Dark Heart, it's nice of you and the princess to have finally made it. Did you two run into any trouble flying up here?"

"No we took a carriage up here and enjoy a trip up the mountain. Thanks for the concern though Chef Sapphire." He nodded in understanding before looking towards Luna.
"Well I am glad that you could make it tonight Princess Luna I do hope you enjoy your evening." He stated as he bowed before her and she rolled her eyes at him. "I shall have one of the waitresses escort you to your table." Gesturing to a unicorn mare just standing by the podium with the reservation book she grabbed a couple of menus and moved over to us and Chef Sapphire left back into the kitchen. The waitress motioned for us to follow and we did so but not without more than a few stares and whispers as they spotted me and the Luna though I could tell that most of them were about me if the dirty looks I was getting were anything to go by.
"You alright Dark Heart?" Luna whispered into my ears as she noticed me tense up.

"Yeah, just all the whispering and dirty looks reminding of when I was back in Nieghburg. Don't worry about though, this is our night and I'm not going to let anypony ruin it. Besides they're all just jealous that I have you and they don't." I whisper back as I tickle her with my muzzle and get her to giggle cutely. I noticed the our waitress looking back at us with smile before noticing that I was staring at her and she quickly turned to face forward. Finally we arrived at the designated area which was a tunnel that was cut off from the rest of the area with a velvet rope and a big, hulky earth stallion standing in front of it. He moved aside to let us through as we approached and we immediately noticed the change in lighting as the light crystals in here glowed dimmer and a more bluish hue than the ones in the rest of restraurant. We were awestruck by what we saw when we exited the tunnel and entered into a cavern that was decorated with a glimmering foliage that lined the walls in intricate patterns. There was also somehow a waterfall that far enough from the table to where the noise of the crashing water was loud enough to hear but not so much that it wouldn't keep us from conversating normally. Last but not least was the skylight over our table that used the natural light of the moon act as our light source and I knew Luna was glad that she made it shine brighter than normal for tonight.
I pulled a seat out for Luna after we got over our amazement and went over to the table. I took to my own seat across from her after she sat down and the waitress laid out our menus. "Good evening you two, I'm Green Shore and I'll be your waitress for tonight. Can I start you off with a drink, we have a fantastic collection of wine that I could recommend."
"Oh no thank you, my Dark Heart doesn't drink." Luna stated with that shit eating grin of hers.

"I don't, but I know that that isn't the real reason you don't want any, isn't it Luna?" I asked casually as I look through my menu with a smirk on my muzzle.
"You're never going to let me live that down, are you?"

"Nope, but that shouldn't stop you from getting some wine though. I know how much you love drinking the stuff and if you need further reassurance I promise that I won't make fun of you if anything does happen tonight." That seemed to be enough for her as she ordered some old, fancy Prench wine whose name I couldn't pronounce while I went with water and Green Shore left as we looked over there dinner choices. Aside from the normal vegan stuff for everypony there was also a selection of gem and meat dishes for their more exotic customers and I was planning to take advantage of that. I'm glad that Luna is comfortable with my eating habits thanks to having visited both the Griffon and Dragon Kingdoms.
"Darky, you're drooling." I heard Luna state amusingly as there was indeed drool running out of my mouth as I looked upon a gem encrusted steak that looked absolutely delectable and- "And you're drooling again." I heard Shadow say with laughter in his voice as I snap out it and shake my head to bring myself back into reality.
"Ah, I see you have an excellent eye though I do not see why you would be looking in this section seeing as only dragons would be able to enjoy this dish." I heard Chef Sapphire say from behind me.
"If I was a normal pony I would agree with you but," I say as I transform into my darkness form, "I am not a normal pony and I would very much like to order this fine looking meal." I tell the shocked cook. He snaps out of it as Luna laughs at his reaction to my transformation and recomposes himself.
"Ahem, well then it shall be done, and for you princess?"

"I think I'll try some of your spaghetti with your tomato and basil garlic bread." Sapphire nodded as he took our menus and left. I was looking around the room to take it in a little more while Luna was idly sipping at her glass of wine. "You sure you don't want to try any it really is define."
"Nah, I'm alright sweets."

"Are you ever going to let yourself let go and enjoy a night out?" Luna asked much to my confusion.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean you're always tense and on guard, even when we're trying to enjoy each other company and that would include now." Luna said as she put down her glass.
"*sigh* I know but I just can't help it. Ever since Spirit almost killed Fluttershy I haven't really been able to let my guard down. Plus with what happened with that unicorn Trixie and the alicorn amulet, that demon lord, and Fratamantus I can't help but be tense. I know you're trying your best to help, and I appreciate that more than you know, but now I've recently had this weird vision that I can't seem to stop thinking about and I want answers that hopefully you or Tia could provide but I don't want to ask because then I'll start thinking about that then the whole night will be ruined because-" I started going off on a rant until Luna hit me in the head with a rock that was near the waterfall and I was sent to the floor.
"Feel better?" Luna asked as she knelt down in front of me. I shook my head yes as I smile appreciatively at her for knocking some sense into me. "Good, now Dark Heart I'm going to need to listen to me. I know that now you have more responsibilities than you ever had in your short life and I understand that that can be overwhelming at times. But you need to remember that you're no longer alone like you used to be all those years ago when it was just you and your parents seemingly against the world. You have friends and two marefriends that are here for you, well one is the other you still need to rescue." I look at her with a deadpan expression for that last part. "Hehe, sorry, my point still stands though. You have ponies here to help you now but you need to trust them enough to let us actually help you because if you try to take on all of this by yourself then it will eventually destroy you and none of us want that. You're an amazing stallion Dark Heart and it's obvious that you were meant for great things but you need to remember to enjoy the little things about life, okay?" Luna asked as she cupped both sides of my face and kept ours eyes in contact the entire time.
"Okay Lulu, I'll try," I tell her as she smiles and brings me into a kiss that melted away my worries. "And thanks for talking to me though next time...I could go without a rock being thrown at my head." I tell her as I pick up the rock that she threw at me and lightly knocked it upside her head to get my point across. She looks away shamefully before I turn her back around and pull her into another kiss that she returns.
"D'aaaaaawwwwwwwwwwww, that's so sweet." We hear Green Shore say before she yelps in surprise as Sapphire nudges her.

"Hehe, it's alright Chef Sapphire, we don't mind." Luna says as we sit back down at the table, though not before dusting ourselves off.

"Ahem, yes well your orders are done and we were hoping to you would taste them to see if everything is to your liking before we leave you to enjoy your meals." We did just that and affirmed him that everything was fine before he and Green left. From there we enjoyed our dinners and continued to chat about others things and I couldn't help but think of how the night has been going so far.

Luna's right, as long as I have her, Diamond, and the others I'll never be alone again.