Author's Notes:

Warning: The following chapter contains a sex scene.

Although I don't believe it to be too graphic, reader discretion is advised. In other words, if you find sex between two ponies disturbing, skip this chapter !

We landed back at the facility and trotted to the showers after dropping off my belongings in my billet, I’d sort through them later.

The smell of soap and warm steam emanating from the shower room was amazingly inviting, and I quickly stripped off my coat, collecting a basket of toiletries in the process. I could almost feel the warm water on my coat now and shivered slightly in anticipation. For a brief moment I paused, Tingles was uncharacteristically quiet behind me. Looking about, she was nowhere to be seen. A twinge of guilt hit me, I was the cause of this wasn’t I? She was hurt because of me, nearly died. Fuck me I’d tried to take her life myself! Some partner I was.

The attractive tangerine mare, my comrade from the watch, deserved so much more. I couldn’t risk losing another. To hell with ‘ponies shouldn’t be alone’, if anypony was going to be put at risk, it was me. This was a matter for later of course, but one I had to address, if for no other reason than my own sanity.

Warlock was in his office shuffling paperwork, the smell of coffee was delicious but I had no time for one now, I had to deal with this matter head on.

“Agent Nox?” he asked in his usual disinterested manner.

I took a deep breath, “I want agent Tingles re-assigned”

“No” He didn’t even look up from his paperwork.

“I’m not giving you a choice Warlock, I’m not working with her or any other mare. Do you understand ? No more mares!”

He looked up now, irritation in his expression, “You don’t get a choice here Nox, nopony does. We’re in the agency, you are too whether you like it or not.”

For Luna’s sake, I could have seen this coming a mile away. My frustration at the intransigent unicorn was bubbling up, my emotions talking instead of my head, “Whats to stop me telling you to go fuck yourself and walking out that door right now huh?”

“You can’t Nox, you need us as much as we need you. The mistress needs you, Equestria needs you.”

“Yeah, fucking right. Where is the mistress then Warlock? Answer me that? I’ve tried to see her, I don’t know how many times and she never answers the door. I agreed to help the agency so I could find Shadow, helping Equestria is secondary to that. I’m being played like a fiddle here and you know it.”

“Now you listen to me agent Nox!”, Warlock shouted across the desk, “The mistress risked her life saving your miserable fucking hide and you’d throw that back in her face because you don’t like Tingles? What the fuck is going through your head?!”

I took a calming breath, trying to slow my heartbeat, “How many of your partners have died Warlock? How many died in your hooves? You sit there behind your desk like you’re something bloody special but you haven’t got a fucking clue have you? Do you know how many of my friends and family I’ve buried? Looked into their eyes as the spark of life goes out? I’m not going to lose another one, not one more, for the goddesses sake Warlock, try to understand…”

“NO!”, he bellowed slamming the desk, “We all lose partners Nox, my niece, my daughter, I’ve buried more of them than you damned well know. We’re at war and we need every soldier we can get right now, including you!”

“Then I’ll do your dirty work for you, I’ll do my duty, but re-assign Tingles. That’s all I ask, please Warlock.”

“No Nox. I have my orders too.”

“Then i’ve no other choice, I resign”

He laughed, “Nopony resigns from the agency Nox, nopony”.

I could feel the anger beginning to boil inside me, my eyesight taking on the blue corona, my teeth itching. I headed for the door and looked back at him over my shoulder, “Think you can stop me Warlock?”, I hissed, “Try…”

A bolt of purple magic sent through me across the room into the wall, showering me with posters and other assorted paperwork in the impact. I was straight back on my hooves, magic pulsing through my horn, ready to release at the cloaked attacker in the doorway. The attacker with the…silver shoes, oh fuck me…

She advanced on me, her horn glowing and eyes shining white, “Warlock, you may leave us”

“Mistress!”

She shot him a look which said much more than words, you did not argue with the princess of the night. Warlock scuttled out the office, glowering at me as he did so. The threat of retribution was all too present in those eyes.

The mistress stood staring at me until with a click, the office door closed behind Warlock. He wouldn’t be far away. Luna threw back the hood of her cloak and surveyed me calmly, “Can you release your power fully Fairlight?”

Well, this was a surprise. I expected a reprimand if not an outright attack for my behaviour. But here, the princess of the night wanted me to…change…before her? I nodded, in the presence of her majesty, my resolve to storm out of the place disappeared. I lifted my restraint on the spirits power and felt its strength flow through me, the white fog swirling around my haunches and hind legs, my teeth sharp and long. The muscles in my chest and legs throbbed with the otherworldly energy, I felt strong, invincible…nopony could challenge me…

“Impressive”, Luna said looking me up and down, “We…I, have not seen a wendigo warrior for a long time Captain, a very long time.”

“Your majesty”, I said quietly, “I…”

She held up a hoof to my mouth, smiling, “I know what you’re going to ask me Captain. Come, let us retire to my quarters to talk. Please, would you retain that form for me? I find its nostalgia…pleasing.”

I barely nodded before a pulse of purple energy surrounded us both and with a loud ‘pop’, we appeared in her quarters near the open fireplace. I’d never teleported before, something I’d heard of but never seen or experienced. A higher level of magic that few unicorns had ever achieved. I marvelled at the ease in which the princess has performed such an amazing feat, while Luna glided across the deep rug to ensconce herself in the large velvet chair. With a glow of magic, she removed the cloak from around her shoulders, revealing the princess of the night in all her glory.

“I have something for you”, she said in her soft tone and fished about in a saddle pack next to her chair.

“Aha!”, she cried in triumph, levitating a large glass bottle from its depths along with a glass. The liquid inside sparkled and danced in the firelight, I found I couldn’t keep my eyes from it for some reason. Watching my every move, Luna poured out a glass full and levitated it over to me which I took gratefully. Sniffing the contents, I began to salivate, thick mist pouring out from between my fangs. She laughed mischievously, “I thought you’d like that” and snuggled herself deeper into the chair.

I looked back up at her while she poured herself a glass from a different bottle. The princess smiled, eyes shining, “Oh don’t stand on ceremony, please Captain, drink up. Its not poisoned I assure you, it was made with true love”.

That didn’t assure me at all! but the smell, I knew what this was on an instinctual level and with a greedy gulp, downed the contents of the glass. The feeling of being filled was ecstatic, I felt alive, truly alive, my senses keen and razor sharp. I rumbled in satisfaction, watching Luna watch me, those big azure eyes never left my face.

“Life energy, such a rare commodity and yet so abundant…given the right ‘conditions’. I’ve never failed to be impressed by your kind, you are truly a rare item.”

Gathering my resolve, I faced the alicorn mare, “Princess, I’m sorry for my behaviour in Warlock’s office. It’s about Tingles, the agent assigned to me. I can’t work with her anymore. Its not her, goddesses know, it’s just that I cant risk losing another partner, I don’t think I could bare to see another pony die because of me”

Luna looked into the fireplace appearing to be deep in thought, “Do you know why I assigned that pony to be your partner Captain?”

“Yes, she said that she’d asked you specifically as she’d worked with me before”

“Tingles is special, she has a heart which is generous and kind. She joined the agency because she wanted to help Equestria, Captain and I agreed to allow her to work with you in that capacity. You share a bond, one i’m sure you have noticed at least a little? I’m afraid that regardless of your protests, my mind is made up. Agent Tingles is your partner until I say otherwise, is that clear Captain?”

“Yes, my lady”

Luna’s ears perked up, “’My lady…’”, an odd look flashed across her features momentarily, “Yes, well…I hope you will understand Captain that I cannot tell you everything, a lady must have her secrets, no?”

Luna’s eyes bored into me and I could feel goosebumps prickling my hide. She sighed and whispered so quietly I could barely make out the words, “…a secret, never to be told”

The princess stood abruptly, walking over to me and ran a hoof over my neck and back, “So strong, powerful…beautiful in a terrible, terrifying way. Tell me Captain, do you remember your people?”

“Some of it, princess, my aunt helped me to see the past, I’m not sure how she did it or what it truly means.”

“Yes, yes she did didn’t she? I thought she might. Pewter is a clever witch, but has her limits.” Luna grew closer, lifting my tail and…was she sniffing me?

“What do you recall, Fairlight?”, she purred, “Who do you remember?”

My voice quavered for a moment before I took it back under control, “My lady I, I recall the battle, the great war, I was there but not there. In the body of a wendigo, one called Lord Maroc.”

Luna paused, her hoof momentarily stopping in its travel down my flank before continuing, “Lord Maroc? Yes…I remember him, such a powerful warrior. Your ancestor Fairlight, did you know?” Her voice was smooth like honey, alluring.

“No, I…I didn’t know my princess”.

“Call me, ‘My lady’, I like that”, she nuzzled my hind leg and gave it a lick. I nearly jumped from the sensation. I had to regain the initiative and press my questions, goddesses knew when I’d have another chance.

“Pr…My lady, may I ask, have you had any success in finding Shadow?”

She continued to examine me, holding my mane up to her muzzle, “Yes, I have found her.” She barely whispered, “Bringing her to the mortal world though, may prove a little difficult, although I do have faith that I can do this for you.”

She appeared back in front of me, eyes glowing, “Do you have faith in me, my subject?”

“Yes my lady, I do”

“Good…then you are willing to pay me my price for this help?”

“Price? My lady, I thought my help in the agency was…”

“…not enough” she interrupted, “You are unique my wendigo warrior, and it has been a long time…such a long time, my Lord Maroc...”

She leaned forward and brushed her lips softly against mine. I jumped back in shock, what was she doing? I wasn’t this lord Maroc!

“Luna, my lady, I beg you, I think you’ve mistaken me for this lord Maroc, he died a thousand years ago. Besides, I’m married, I cant…I mean, you’re the princess…!”

She laughed girlishly, holding a hoof up before her muzzle, eyes catching the flickering light from the fire. Goddesses, she was so beautiful…

“Oh my!”, she teased, “Quite the shy gentleman aren’t we?”

Luna walked over to pick up her glass, taking another mouthful. Looking into the flames, she spoke, “Lord Maroc did die, my dear Fairlight. Nopony lives forever, not even alicorns like my sister and I. Eternity can be a long time…such a very long time”

She turned to face me, her mane flowing out behind her, the stars twinkling brighter than I remembered the last time I had seen the princess.

“Your dedication to a dead pony is admirable Captain, admirable but foalish. I cannot help but wonder why you refer to being married to Meadow when you were happy enough to ‘mate’ yourself with the thestral. Pray tell me, how can you explain this contradiction?”

I hung my head shamefully, “I was…alone. My wife, as you say, is dead. Shadow and I grew close, I never meant what happened to…it just…it just did” Goddesses I was hopeless.

The midnight mare stepped closer, “You spoke to Meadow afterwards didn’t you, shared your time with her, and the lady Shadow, in the wheat fields of Elysia.”

I balked, “My lady! How can you know that, I didn’t tell you what happened there!”

Luna smiled, “No Captain, you didn’t. I don’t think you know your wife as well as you think you do, or mares generally, be they equestrian ponies, wither world thestrals or wendigo. I have lived for over a thousand years, been to places and seen things you could not even begin to imagine. Do you think the land of the eternal herd is unknown to me?”

I shook my head silently.

My dear Fairlight…”, she moved her muzzle next to my ear, “…do you know yourself?”

I shut my eyes tight, it was like she was staring into my very being, “I don’t know my lady, my heart is in turmoil, my soul divided. I had hoped to try to accept the spirit and somehow make myself whole again, but it’s so hard to remain…me.”

Luna ran a hoof through my mane and under my chin, her silver filigree shoes cold against my snowy white coat, “There was a way, once. The wendigo’s would initiate selected members of their tribe to become one with the spirits of the Wither world. That knowledge may still exist somewhere, but even I do not know everything Captain. What I do know, is that you are without doubt the descendant of the Lord of the fortress of the four winds, the commander of the wendigo forces which my sister defeated. Seeing you stand before me now…you look so much like him.”

She rubbed her head up against me and breathed deeply, “You even smell like him”.

Luna nuzzled my neck softly, “Ponies shouldn’t be alone Fairlight, don’t deny yourself love, it’s what makes us whole”

I stood drinking in the sensation of the alicorn against my fur, her wings slipping over my flank, her breath on my cheek.

“Tell me Captain…”, her lips brushed mine sending a bolt of electricity through me, “…do you love your princess?”

“Yes…”

“Do you want her?”

“Yes”

Need flooded through me, my mind a blaze of urgent desire. Luna groaned as I grabbed her in my forelegs and pulled her into an embrace, kissing her deeply until the necessity for air parted us. She gasped, pupils dilated, wispy motes of sparkling silver mist edging her mouth, “My lord, you have returned…”

She trailed off, breathing in the mist, moaning in ecstasy before she reached across and kissed me. Her lips were soft, her breath warm and exotic. Luna inhaled a little more of my life energy into her. I could feel it draining from me, only a trickle, but just enough to bring her a pleasure beyond the physical.

The princess pushed me onto the rug before the fire, pushing into me, her breast heaved and her mouth hung open. She was grinding her hips against me wantonly, “My lord, your princess has waited a millennia for you. I have been so alone without anypony to hold me, to be with me.”

She pulled me into an embrace and I could feel tears soaking into my fur, “I don’t want to be alone again, please…never again…”

Luna pulled back, shining tears dropping onto my chest. I gazed into her fathomless azure eyes, feeling like I was falling into them. The shimmering star field of her mane and tail sang a song of her loneliness in the night.

“My lady…”

I rolled her off me and picked her up, balancing on my hind legs, not something I had ever done before, but now, it seemed right. The world, myself, were gone in this moment. I laid my princess on her back in the large chair, making sure she was comfortable and moved forward.

She watched me, tears still dripping from her eyes in wonderment. With a cry, she covered her mouth with her hooves as I leaned in to taste her. She was as wonderful as a mare could be, a treasure of the heavens and the earth. On my knees I brought the alicorn to a groaning climactic shudder, her hind legs clamping around me until eventually, she released me. The tears had gone, replaced with a smile so gentle, I thought my heart would stop beating from sheer joy.

The princess needed me and goddess help me, I needed her. Even in our different worlds, we were both alone, but not tonight, this night I would fulfil my ladies desires.

She smiled at me, a little unsure, then nodded. I leaned forward to kiss her, trickling a little more essence into her mouth, sending her shaking with bliss. Luna’s wings shivered in anticipation, “Please…”, she whispered.

I obeyed, “Yes, my lady Luna…”

Pushing my hips forward, my princess and I became one in the warmth from the fire. She moaned and cried out, an animalistic howl of passion and pain, loneliness and joy combined. Together we made love, Luna pushing back against me, harder, her gasps and moans rising until she reached up and sank her teeth into my shoulder, all but screaming. Losing myself in the torrent of ecstasy, I too leaned in and gently but still firmly, bit into her immaculate hide eliciting a high pitched cry, her whole body shuddering as she reached her pinnacle of intimacy.

“Gods…Yes!”, she screamed. The room darkened as her magic, unleashed and wild, whirled around us in a hurricane of raw energy. The windows double doors blew open, the cold night air chilling the room. I gasped as I released myself inside the princess, filling her, my knees beginning to lose their strength.

I took my mouth away from Luna’s shoulder, glad I hadn’t bitten too hard. I would never forgive myself if I’d hurt her. The princess, for her part, gave me a hard nip and then pulled me into a crushing hug and kiss. Her tongue pushed into my mouth, wrapping around my tongue and teeth. Gasping, she pulled away, eyes narrowed,

“I hope there’s more left my lord Fairlight, there are a thousand years of desires your princess wishes to address. Would you leave her wanting?”

I smiled, taking a quick draft of the life energy from the glass beside me, “Never my lady Luna”

She pushed me off and twisted to lay on her stomach, tail brushing against my nethers, “The night is still young, and it ends, when the princess of the night has had her fill.”

Inside my soul, a voice answered. In that moment, there with the princess, the Wither world spirit and I both wished that the night could truly last forever…