"You do know that you're still in your darkness form don't you?" Luna asked me as we walked out of Seclusion.

"Yeah, what you don't like it?" I asked her.

"No, I just thought that you were unaware."

"Oh, alright, so you want to go home or. . ."

"What else do you have in mind?" Luna asked already knowing that I was up to something.

"Nothing much, just a walk in the park if you're up to it." I answered her as I nervously scratched the back of my head.

"I take it you don't one here in Canterlot, do you?" She asked with a knowing smirk and cause me to chuckle.

"Have you heard of a place called Lover's Falls?"

"No, I haven't, pray tell where are these falls?" Luna asked with genuine curiosity and a cute tilt of her head.

"Well it was actually a place not to far from Neighburg. It's a short trek through Meadow Park and we should be there." I told her as my crimson aura enveloped my horn.
"I never knew there was a falls near there, in fact I wasn't even aware there was a lake or river nearby either."

"It was one of the town's best kept secrets. There is in fact a lake there that everypony went to during the summer that is hidden in a cavern in the side of mountain. Nopony talks about it so that it wouldn't become polluted by careless travelers that stopped by. It truly is a beautiful place and has remain in pristine condition even without anypony there."
"I take it you checked around the location before our date?" Luna asked as I merely nodded. "Well then what are we waiting for?" She said happily before we vanished from Canterlot Mountain and reappeared in Meadow Park. I didn't want her to have walk through the rubbage that was once my home town. That didn't stop her from looking around at the town that was slowly being reclaimed by nature.

"It seems like only yesterday me, my sister, and your parents were ready to do whatever it took to stop you. . . ." Luna stated as she looked towards the crater I stood in all those years ago, ready to fight for my freedom. "Dark Heart, I'm sorry that I didn't visit you more often while you were younger and suffering through those nightmares. I'm the guardian of dreams but yet I allowed you to go through all of that alone instead of trying to help you. I should have tried harder to find out the reason for your endless nightmares and stopped them but I was too worried about my own selfish desires to do so." Luna said before looking to me with tearful eyes.
I wiped away Luna's tears and pulled her closer to me while I stroked her mane. "Luna I already told you that I forgave all of you for what happened that day. I've gotten over it, to an extent, and you should too. Now come on, we're supposed to be enjoying the evening and I don't like having a sad marefriend." I ended the statement with a kiss, a short but passionate kiss. When I pulled back I was met with a smiling Luna who brought me into another hug and nuzzled my chest.
"Thank you Dark Heart, I needed to hear that."

"No problem Luna. Now let's go see those falls." She nodded in agreement and took my arm as we headed down the path that led from the park and into the forest. We admired the beauty that could be found in the nature around us before I spotted the entrance to the cavern. I led Luna through it with only the glow of my horn lighting our way through the tunnel before another light was spotted from the other side. When we walked into the underground chamber Luna was in awe at what she was seeing. The cavern's chamber was huge and was illuminated by the bioluminescence of the natural flora that grew in here. The tunnel gives way onto the shores of the lake whose water is kept at a comfortable temperature despite not having a heat source to keep it from getting too cold. Not to far from us was the waterfall with walkway to it's left. This place has remained untampered with since its discovery thanks to its popularity as it is.
"Wow, this is incredible Dark Heart."

"Glad you like it because I'm trusting you to keep this place a secret."

"But how come?"

"Because nopony in Neighburg was all that curious so none of them looked into this cavern for anything but to have fun and I don't anypony ruining the beauty of this place. I don't care if you tell Celestia or the girls as long as they don't mess around with the look of this place. It can be like our own private get away. Shit maybe we can clear out this area and build a summer home here or something like that for when any of us want to get away from the bullshit and take a vacation. That can only happen though as long as nopony else knows about this place, understand?" Luna straighten up her posture with her arms pressed against her sides and legs together as she gave me a salute.
"I understand captain Dark Heart, sir!" I look at her with a raised eyebrow before responding back.

"At eases soldier." I tell as I decide to play along.

"So I then you wouldn't mind me telling Cadance and Shining Armor?"

"Who?" Luna is taken back when I asked as if she actually thought I was supposed to know them.

"Me and my sister's niece, Princess Cadance, and her husband, and former captain of the royal guard, Shining Armor? Didn't Tia tell about either of them?"
"I'm afraid not Luna, though when did you two have a niece and is she a princess as well?"

"Yes, she is the princess of love and now rules over the Crystal Empire with Shining Armor and Tia told me she came amongst our ranks some time during my banishment of the moon. Are you sure Tia didn't say anything about them?"
"Yeah I'm sure though now you've got me curious as to who they both are."

"I guess I will have to inform you the next time they're in Canterlot though I'm not sure if you'll get along with either of them right away."

"And why is that?"

"Well Shining Armor is Twilight's older brother and Cadance her old foalsitter. They are really close to her so if she's said anything about you there is a chance that you will not be greeted warmly." Luna explained and I shook my head in understanding. "So with that out of the way what say we enjoy a nice dip in the lake?"
"Alright but what about-" I went on to say before with a flash of light her dress was replaced with a two-piece bikini that looked to be a size too small for her.
"so what about you?" Luna asked smugly before I was enveloped in another bright flash and my suit was replaced with a pair of swim trunks but I also appeared on top of the waterfall.
"So you coming up or what!" I yelled over the falls and Luna turns around towards my voice. I see her shake her head in amusement before she flared opened her wings and ascended up the falls.
"Don't you know how to slow down and enjoy yourself a little?" Luna asked as she touched down next to me.

"If I didn't you think we'd be on this date right now. If I wanted things to go by quickly I would attempt to go after Rainbow Dash." I remarked as I give her a smack on the ass and am rewarded with a surprised yelp from the lunar princess. She scowls at me for moment as I give her an innocent looking smile.
"That hurt you know." Luna stated as she rubbed the spot my hand made contact.

"Would you like a kiss to make it better?" I asked playfully and she nods as she looks at me with sad eyes. I stand it when she gives those eyes so I walked over to her and told her to bend over. She does so but not without looking at me with a surprised expression. When she's fully bent over, an evil grin grew on my muzzle as I grabbed a handful of the flesh and started massaging it a little which caused her to let out a moan. After a minute of doing this I stopped and pulled back my right hand. Luna whined when I halted my ministrations and looked back just in time to see my hand come down on her ass cheeks. She moaned sounded that of a mixture between pain and pleasure. I did it again to hear the sweet noise once again and went on until the exposed skin was nice and red. After that I stopped and began to gently massage her glorious plot once again to help ease to pain and planted small kisses across each butt cheek. Luna sighed when my gentle ministrations began once again and laid the upper half of her body atop the boulder she was leaning on.
"You know I was planning on punishing you severely for spanking me but I think your little massage has granted you to receive a lesser punishment." Luna stated breathily.
"And that punishment would be?" I ask as I gave her another kiss.

"I have yet to determine it but rest assure that you will get your just desserts." She states before putting a hand on my head as I was leaning down to give her another kiss. "Now let us move our shenanigans to the water while the night last." She says and I cock an eyebrow.
"Shenanigans, really? Who uses that anymore?"

"Shut up, ponies today still use it." I look at her skeptically but shake my head as I tell myself that this is a pointless argument that doesn't need to be had.
"You know what Luna, just forget it. You're you and it's you I've fallen for so if you want to speak in old Equestrian go right on ahead. It is what makes you, you and don't let anypony tell you otherwise, not even me." I tell her and get her beaming at me before being tackled down by my princess.
"Thank you Dark Heart, I really appreciate everything you've been doing to help other ponies love me as much as my sister, even if your reputation isn't helping." I was happy that she liked my help, up until it got to that point.
"And what's wrong with my reputation? I've done nothing but help everypony and let's not forgot to mention that I did save a town from annihilation from a demon lord as well." I say in a hurt tone.
"Well word about some of the things that have happened in Ponyville have leaked out to other cities and towns as well as some rumors about your dark magic and true intentions."
"Of course there are." I say in a monotone voice as I help Luna up off the rock. Just then visions of my past in Neighburg appeared before me as it came down upon a scene I was all too familiar with.

There was my younger self surrounded by other kids and a teacher right watching the entire thing but not doing any a damn thing to stop what's about to happen. After a second the group of children move in closer and closer to me, throwing insults and the such with each step. When a few of them were close enough I watched as they started to turn to physically attacking me. Slaps, punches, and pinches were thrown at my younger self who stood with his arms up doing everything he can to protect himself and the teacher still did nothing. I would have been angry at the scene but if my memory is correct this was is one of the best days of my life as a kid despite all what was happening right now.
This day my elementary school was getting a visit from both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna though they weren't scheduled to show up until the last hour of school thanks to their duties. But as I said this was one of the best days of my life, and it was because of their visit but the thing was they had showed up early, in fact their chariot was pulling up when the other kids started circling around me. Our playground is behind the school so they didn't see it when they arrived but the thing was the entire was going outside since it was to only place big enough to hold everypony at once and as soon as the princesses were spotted the principal had told everypony to go outside. Everypony saw what was happening to me as they walked out but instead of stopping it they just ushered the entire group around the corner so the princesses couldn't hear the commotion. I was forced to move as I was pushed in the direction they were ushering everypony else but had no idea what was going on as I was more worried about when they were going to stop the beating.
When the princesses made it outside they used the royal canterlot voice to address the crowd of rowdy fillies and colts and thus alerting me of their presence. If it was my parents of Tender Heart I would have done the same thing as what I was about to do. "Somepony help me!" I shouted at the top of my lungs and immediately the teacher reacted my covering my mouth so that I wouldn't do it again but of course it was too late as Celestia and Luna ran around the corner and saw the scene before them. To say they were angry would have been an understatement as Celestia grabbed all of them in her magic and brought them over to the guards they had with them and threw the teacher into some of the others. Celestia stormed to the front of the gathering and started yelling something that I couldn't hear as I had collapsed, the pain from the beating finally getting too much for me to hold myself up any longer. Before I had hit the dirt I felt somepony catch me and soon found myself in gentle embrace.
I had looked up to see Luna staring at me with a motherly smile though I could see the concern in her eyes. Being in her caring arms I couldn't help but cry as she held against her. I don't know how long I was crying but when I had finally stopped Luna's dress around her shoulder was soaked through to her fur but it seemed that she didn't care about it. "Are you done Dark Heart?" she asked tenderly which caused me to look up at her deep blue eyes. I didn't answer immediately as I had wrapped my arms around her neck and rested my head on her shoulder in order to be closer to her. Taking this as my response she adjusted her grip on me before picking me and cradling me in her arms as she walked back to her sister. I had looked over to Celestia as I still heard her yelling and saw that she was leading everypony back into the school with their head hung down and tears running down their faces. I'm not sure what had happened or what she told them but I couldn't help but let a small smile break free as I witnessed the scene before me. A little while later there was nopony else on the playground besides Celestia, Luna, and myself. "Are you alright Dark Heart?" Celestia had asked after taking a few deep breaths. "Y-yeah." I squeaked out as I looked the sun goddess. "What happened? Why were those children beating you up and why was one of your teachers just sitting there watching it happen?" Luna asked as she held me tighter. "Because everypony here hates me but I don't why. My parents try to get ponies to stop but nopony listens to them and they keep picking on me. Thank you for helping me Princess Luna and Princess Celestia. They wouldn't have stopped until recess was over." I say as Celestia embraces me and Luna and we're in a big group hug.

That was the last thing I saw before my sight became black and that was quickly replaced with a concerned Luna looking up at me. "Dark Heart! Dark Heart what's wrong!?" She yells as she shakes me.
"Calm down Moon Butt, I'm fine." I tell her as I remove her hands to stop her incessant shaking.

"Dark Heart what happened to you?" Luna asked worriedly.

"Nothing, I just a trip down memory lane to one of the greatest days I ever had when I was kid." Her ears perk up upon hearing this as she looks at me quizzically.
"And what day would that be Dark Heart?"

"That day you and Celestia brought down the hammer on everypony at Neigh Elementary after seeing me get beat up by some of my classmates." I state happily as Luna frown as she seemed to remember that day as well.
"I wish that those school ponies were full grown adults so that we could offer a harsher punishment but I'm glad that we had gotten our message across either way but why would you consider it one of your best days?"
"Because I got to see all of them suffer as much as me on a daily basis. I was especially happy when you and Celestia decided to teach the whole town a lesson. I probably wouldn't have had released shadow a few years after that but there was always that one pony that's too damn stubborn to quit but luckily that kept them off my case a little longer since they thought I would place a curse on them or something." I tell with a stupid grin on my face as I imagined what I would have done if I was like this when I was a colt.
"I normally wouldn't allow you to think such a thing those ponies deserved it for the way they treated you but what do you say we finally go jump into the lake before dawn arrives." Luna stated as she grabbed my hands and dragged me over to the edge of the cliff. We stood for a second and looked down towards the lake before bring our gazes up to each other and we each had a smile on our faces. We looked back at the lake and didn't hesitate a second further as we jumped together. Half way down I pulled Luna to me and brought her above my head and tossed her into the water at high speeds before I was plunged down into the depths myself.
I came up a moment later but was immediately dunked down as Luna had come back for revenge. I grabbed her legs from under the water and dragged her to me and held her tightly so she wouldn't escape and just swam around underwater with her cradled in my arms. She had stopped fighting and enjoyed the scenery as the same plants that lit up the cavern also lit the lake's floor. Luna tapped my sides and we surface to regain some fresh air. After greedily sucking in air we exchanged looks again and I saw Luna had an evil grin plastered on as I saw her horn light up. I tried to prepare for the worst as I suspected what she was going to do but was unprepared as a huge wave came crashing down on me from behind me. It forced underwater so that I wouldn't be consumed by it and teleported back to the top of the falls. There I pulled out a couple of spheres of water from the river supplying the falls and walked over to the ledge as I saw Luna looking around for me. She had her back turned to falls so I took the opportunity and launched one of the balls of water at her and waited till it was a few feet away before launching another. The first one hit and jerked her forward before she turned around and was hit in the face by the second one and from there the splash wars had started. It lasted for a few hours before we tired out and rested on the lakeshore. We snuggled and cuddled for a good while as we dried before we decided to call it a night. I teleported us just outside Canterlot's city limits and we strolled through the city with our arms linked and Luna rested her head on my shoulder while I rested mine atop her head.
The guards bowed to Luna as we walked through the gates and we went up to her room. "Thank you for the date Dark Heart." Luna said as we reached the door to her room and gave me a kiss on the cheek. "I had a lot of fun tonight."
"Glad you liked it and I hope we can do something like this again soon." I tell her before pulling her into another kiss though I directed it towards her lips.
"Are you sure you don't want to sleep here tonight Dark Heart? I know you want to wait till you rescue Diamond Sky before we go any further but that's not what I'm asking. I've had such a wonderful night with you that it wouldn't feel right to just part ways now even though I know I'll see you in the morning I would much rather wake up in your arms than alone." She pleads as she nervously draws circles on my chest. I look towards her face as she looks off into nothingness and can't help but think how cute she looks when she's nervous.
"Well I am pretty tired after our war so I guess I could crash here tonight to keep you company." She squee's when she hears this and gives me a kiss more intense than the last one before dragging me into her room with her. She goes into the bathroom to get changed and I take off my suit before using the device on my chest to summon a pair of shorts to out on. I climb into Luna's bed and lay on my back as I stare up at the ceiling. I was too engrossed in nothingness to notice that Luna had come out of the bathroom and start to climb into her bed until she poked my nose and drew my attention to her finger before looking to her.
"Boop." She says which causes me to chuckle a little before wrapping my arms around her. She lays her head on my chest and yawns cutely before looking up at me.
I pull into one more long kiss, "I love you Luna."

"I love you too, Dark Heart." She says and we both close our eyes and allowed the warmth of the other to lull us to sleep.