Author's Notes:

FILLERS WILL BE BROKEN UP BECAUSE FUCK THAT NOISE. Also because I don't know... reasons. its late sue my father's brother's son's chicken. He has more money than me.

Luna was traversing the dreamscape silently watching and protecting her dear subjects from the nightmares that would plague their slumbers. While she may have adjusted well to the new and current era she was happy and relieved to know that dreams stayed relatively the same over the years. There were dreams of love, dreams of adventure, dreams of pure insanity that would rival Discord’s own imagination, dreams of lust, but most importantly dreams of happiness. She never interfered with the dreams and their dreamers unless absolutely necessary but she did watch some of the happier ones from time to time. Now each dream in the dreamscape was a like a bubble and they all varied in size and color based on the dream and the imagination of the dreamer. The biggest bubbles were the ones of those who were mainly artists of some kind but the most expansive bubble that she has ever known belong to her dear sister you could see it from anywhere in the dreamscape no matter how far away you were from it due to the golden glow it emitted.

Though… ever since 5 years ago a bubble of another has been growing exponentially and it is very close to match Celestia's in size and brightness. It belonged to Christopher, the human brought to Equestria though the means of the last dragon queen, The Ice Empress Ixis. Luna made her way to the bubble and stared at it much like she did every night. The bubble of this one intrigued her as the color it gave off was a dull gray and had no image within it and when she put her hand up against it, it was bounced back after several seconds like a force field was protecting it.

Luna and placed her hand against his bubble, "We shall try to peer into his dreams one last time and if it doesn't work we shall not try again." After a few seconds her hand was bounced off as per the usual.

She gave out a defeated sigh, "As is the usual, tis strange, we have not come across anyone who can block their dreams from us and we shall not lie to ourself but it has piqued our curiosity. We are a mare of our word and shall not interfere with his dreams again." She quickly turned and was about to make her way before she heard what sounded like the cracking of glass coming from behind her, she was too late to react as a loud explosion rocked the dreamscape and cleared away hundreds of neighboring dreams the only thing left that she could see was the light from Celestia's dream in the distance but even that was dwarfed from the light emitting behind her.

She turned looked behind her only to give out a small gasp, "Oh my… what in Faust's name?" What she was staring at was a bubble at least twice the size taking place of the one that was there not but five seconds ago. But that wasn't the most surprising thing to her, the fact that the bubble was emitting three different colors was. Now multiple colors aren't unusual, it's very common amongst pregnant mares. But even if they are having twins or triplets the colors are only relegated to two. So even if he just had two colors it would still throw her off as Christopher was still a male, at least to her knowledge, but three? Three was unheard of, what was even more strange were the colors themselves. A bright white, an empty black, and a cold blue, when it came to multiple colors they stayed relatively close to each other's colors but these were so vastly different.

Even the image was strange, it didn't involve Christopher, it was a woman with snow white hair, pale skin, and icy blue eyes sitting in a large room staring intently at a strange device Luna has never seen. "We know we said we would leave his dreams alone from now on, but this deserves my attention." She placed her hand against the new bubble and shivered, at the cold but also at a very familiar feeling of darkness. Much unlike every other time she actually was able to push through the thin barrier and into the dream itself.

The woman looked up and directly at the moon princess, "Ah Luna, it's a pleasure to see you again, come come." She patted a place on the couch next to her.

Luna's head tilted but she complied and moved to sit down, "How do you know who we are?"

"Simple, really we were friends… well I hope we still are, but we were friends long before your banishment happened. And you know who I am, surely you remember Chris talking about me, you know we share a mind." The woman smiled.

It took Luna a little bit but it clicked and when it did she blushed heavily, "Oh dear, Lady Ixis, we apologize. How could we have forgotten our childhood friend? We even ask Christopher how you are doing when we talk at formal meetings." She looked around for a bit, "Though we have a question."

"Im guessing is if this is Chris' dream where is he?" Ixis asked, getting a nod in response. Ixis gestured to the device in front of her.

Luna finally looked at and was surprised at what she saw, it was an image of Chris, but he was on a ship in a vast ocean amongst a very strange looking crew of what seemed to be only 9 members. A man with a straw hat, one with three swords, a woman with red hair and a large bust holding what looked like a staff, another man with goggles and a long nose, a man wearing a black suit with a curly eyebrow, a small deer looking creature, another woman with long black hair, a man that looked like he was half machine and a skeleton.

"What in Equestria?" Luna moved her hand to the screen only to have Ixis pull it back.

She shook her head, "Not yet, now to answer your many questions, this is a device from his world, I would explain more but you have more questions. Where he's at is in his actual dream, which is about a show, imagine a long movie but split into roughly 30 minutes parts, and a book from the Neighpan of his world."

Luna was able to accept that this was from his world, but something that just made her have more questions was, well… "You said that the place he's at now, is his actual dream, so where are we then?"

"We are my region of his mind, he is in his. While he is asleep or awake I can see everything he does through this TV. Now while he's asleep I have more control over his mind, in a sense, than when he's awake. You see, I can actively change his dream from here if I wanted to but, his mind itself does that on its own. But I also have kept outside forces from being able to interfere with his dream. This would explain the force field you encountered every night." She explained.

"Then why did it shatter tonight?"

She pointed to the far side of the room and Luna's gaze followed. What it saw was a large white door with serene and peaceful images on it. "You remember the darkness you felt as you entered?"

"I do, yes, it reminded me much of _" Luna said.

"Indeed, I've only just gotten that door built from the happiest and brightest light I could forge from Chris' mind. It will be holding _ back, but it took me years to do so, and even now some of his darkness is leaking out."

"Yes the color of this bubble in particular was white, blue, and black. I'm assuming the black would be him?"

"That it would, but you shouldn't have to worry, he can't be freed unless either I open the door or Chris succumbs to certain emotions. The door can be opened temporarily for… reasons, but it has to be closed within a few seconds or else."

"We see, well that would mean you are the white and Christopher is the blue."

"Most likely, most likely, but that's enough of that, place your hand on the TV."

Luna did as she was instructed and placed her hand to the TV, it caused the image to shake and distort. After several seconds the image faded and all that was left was a blank screen

"Oh man and it was just getting good." Said a new voice from behind them, "I swear Ixis, this better be good."

Ixis looked behind the couch to see Chris standing there, "Well, how about Luna visiting us good?"

I looked to the body next to her on the couch and gave a wide smile as it was indeed Luna, "Moonbutt, It's good to see you here, wait if you are here that means." I looked to Ixis, "Does that mean the door is done."

"Yep, it's right over there, we can do this whenever you want." She stood up pretty much knowing I wanted to get this over with now.

"Right well let's get started." I walked to the door and twisted the handle, opening the door and backing way.

Luna jumped up, "Chris what are you doing?!" She yelled out with wide eyes.

Ixis stopped her by encasing her in a room made of ice, "It's ok Luna."

Luna's voice switched to Royal Canterlot mode, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S OK? HE IS ABOUT TO UNLEASHED THAT DARKNESS BACK INTO HIS OWN MIND AND I WILL NOT ALLOW IT!"

I looked back at her, "And that's why it's ok. You'll be here to stop it if anything goes wrong, just calm down and watch for now." She did stop pushing against the ice wall but she was giving me a deathly glare.

"Good, now remember what I told you, what we've been practicing Chris." Ixis said in a calming voice.

I nodded and took a deep breath and closed my eyes, "I call forth upon my greatest fears, my darkest secrets, my rage and hatred my depression and sorrow. I call upon you and summon you to me." I opened my eyes and saw inky blackness pouring from my chest, it began to form into a body, a very similar one but also very different.

"By Faust what is that?"

"That, dear Moon Goddess is Chris' darkness." Ixis told her.

I was staring at myself except his skin was a pale grey to counterbalance my light brown skin. His eyes were blazing red and black, his hair was pure white, and his teeth were flat, instead of pointed like mine. His horns were short and point and his tail was as crimson as blood when he breathed out his nose jets of smoke bellowed out. He was my exact opposite. While I was Ice he was fire.

"You again, eh? You don't remember the last time you called me forth without miss cold shoulder over there putting up a barrier around you?" He asked me giving a wicked smile knowing that memory bothered me.

Luna looked at me and then to Ixis, "What does he mean the last time?" Ixis didn't answer.

"Nothing, he meant nothing." I said quickly.

"Oh please, this whelp got his ass knocked flat by a Lamia, a young one at that because he was holding back. So I, being the nice guy I am whispered into his mind how to call me forth completely." The dark half paused and laughed.

"And how did you come across this knowledge creature?" Luna asked him.

His grin faded for a second, "Oh you see, oh Goddess of the Moon, feh, when little miss thing here became one with my old boy Chris I was sent so far back into Chris's mind I found interesting things interesting things indeed."

Ixis huffed, "Honestly he wasn't so bad until the Lamia incident so I just put up with him and Chris was able to put a lid on him enough. But, I'll let him continue."

He smirked and held out his hand and a small image of books came to be. "Rows a upon rows of books that hold knowledge from the past lives he has been endowed and this chicken shit has no idea how to access them without the help of the Ice Princess. I on the other hand had free reign… that was until she started blocking out and destroying the darkness in his mind when Sombra tried to invade which of course included yours truly. But she really couldn't fully get rid of me due to me being as much of a part of Chris as she is. But eventually she did manage to seal me away and muffle my voice for a bit until Chris, like I said got knocked flat on his ass."

Luna snarled, huh never seen that before, "Get to your point you foul being."

He put his hands up in mock fear, "Ooooo scary, what are you gonna do moonbeam me to death you do that and you'll kill him."

Luna looked to me and I rubbed the bridge of my nose, "He's right, we can't kill him, or get rid of him, if we did I'd either be put in a vegetative state or die. And neither sound appealing."

"Anyway I got him to summon me forth before Ice Princess could do anything and I took over his mind." He snickered.

I stopped him from talking, "Alright that's good enough and that's all she needs to know."

He shot a small fireball into my chest sending me back against the wall of ice containing Luna, "Don't interrupt me; I know you're going to seal me away for good. So your flux of emotions won't allow me to take over when you're weak enough. And if I can't have free reign of you when you're at your weakest then I will make sure people fear you."

I tried to sit up but the pain made me sit back down, "I swear to-"

"TO WHAT?! YOU DON'T HAVE ANY LEVERAGE AGAINST ME! SO WHAT IF I GET SEALED AWAY?! YOU'LL NEED ME EVENTUALLY WHETHER YOU BELIEVE ME OR NOT! SO I REALLY HAVE NOT A DAMN THING TO LOSE!"

Ixis made a move forward but another larger fireball hit the wall next to my head, "Make another move and he dies."

"What? But you would die too." Luna said obviously confused.

He shrugged, "Personally I don't care, and if I kill him I'm fine with that. Now where was I, oh yes. When I took over the Lamia was about to kill him but me being better than he is in every sense I caught that snake bitch by the head and started to beat her ass around the arena. And when she couldn't move anymore I took her head and looked into her eyes and started to squeeze ever so slowly." He had a malicious grin that thrived of bloodlust plastered on his face and then it faded, "And then he had to wake up, he HAD to see the pleading in her eyes."

I got up on my feet albeit shakily, "I'm glad I did, it gave me enough strength to take over my body again." I walked to him and gave him the hardest kick I could muster, it sent him flying and the sheer look of surprise was almost worth it. The kick sent him into the open door which slammed shut and gave a clicking noise before a key shaped like fire popped out onto the ground. "Ixis, can you get that, I need to sit down for a minute." I walked passed Luna's container and ran my hand against it, melting it. I sat on the couch, having Luna join me moments later.

She put a hand on my shoulder, "Are you alright Christopher?"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm good. It's just… that's not a proud moment for me. The girl, Cami, was fine, a bit of a fracture on her jaw but nothing else."

"Was she really going to kill you? We don't recall much about the Lamia, but we do know that their ignition match never allowed killing, at least 1000 years ago they did not."

"No, she was, she was just going to stab her spear into the ground next to me to end the match."

"Did she hold any grudges against you?"

I shook my head, "No, she didn't, thankfully, she knew that wasn't me, she said she could tell because my eyes went from the normal blue to red and my voice changed to a mixture of mine and his and if you remember his it's a higher pitch than mine."

"What about the Chief?"

I laughed, "She actually was going to kill me, Cami is her niece you see, anyway after I explained things and Cami vouching for me I was let off the hook. Shoot Sikasso even took a liking to me after that, t'was a bit strange."

Luna's eyes widened at the mention of the leader's name, "That old snake is still around? How old is she now?"

I tapped my chin in thought, "Around 1,763 years I think. So like 160 in Lamia years."

"Surprising, most Lamia die in their late 90's"

"So early 1000's late 900's for normal years then? She still looked pretty young for being that old honestly. And I heard that Lamia, much like dragons can live a very long time if they don't sustain too damaging injuries. And considering how warrior like 98% of their race is it makes sense they die in their late 90's."

Ixis joined us with a plop, "Personally I'm just glad he's on their good side. The Dragons and Lamia have always been good friends and Allies."

Luna nodded in agreement, "Still, according to Tia, Sikasso hasn't been to a mandatory race meeting in quite some time. But I suppose I can let that off due to her being such an age, she was always such a loose cannon though. I don't think she'll be lasting much longer if the clans go into a war again."

"Does that happen often?" I asked a bit worried, while Sikasso was a bit flirty I didn't want her to die anytime soon. Same with Cami and a lot of the other Lamia, after you get passed all of the warrior stuff it's a lot like one huge family.

Ixis had a frown on her face, "I'm afraid so, someone is always trying to take over the rightful ruler or take out one section of the clans or something else. It's a terrible thing really, though I suppose us dragons weren't any better early on either." She laughed bitterly.

"When that day comes will Arisha take over?"

Arisha… Arisha…. Who? "Oh Cami's mother? No… no she died years back, Cami is actually the next in line. Which kinda… sucks all things considered."

"All things considered?"

"Oh yeah, well, Cami actually quite dislikes violence. She'll do what she has to if it's necessary but she tries her best to avoid it."

"I see poor girl, I hope by the time that day comes she will… at least be a bit more battle oriented so the clans won't be in such a state of war."

"Yeah…well getting away from that, Luna I was wondering if you could talk to Celestia about me hiring Bon Bon and Lyra as my royal candy makers and such."

Luna was taken aback by this, "Christopher, this is the first time you've ever used your royal status… Are you sure you want to do this?"

"Yeah, it's not like I’m deciding to declare war on Tauronto or anything."

"This is true but if all of the Princesses and Prince Armor approve it will be put in the paper and ponies will know you are an official member of the royal family."

"Huh… well shit. Wait what about Blue Blood? Don't you need his approval?"

Luna scoffed, "Please the bumbling idiot of a nephew? No, we only require approval of those ruling over a kingdom of their own."

"But Twilight?"

"Twilight's Kingdom is Ponyville, it's officially classified as a subkingdom of Equestria but it is still a Kingdom."

I face palmed, "Oh so I guess Twilight was the one who I really should've asked about this?"

Luna chuckled and gave me a warm smile, "Tis fine, it would've had to have been approved by all of us regardless."

"Oh cool, uh then yeah so since it'll be in the paper… Can it wait until after this weekend? I'm going to Cloudsdale with Shy and Goldy."

"Indeed it can, we shall speak to our sister and the others about this, but I have no doubts that they would approve."

"Good, then Monday it is and we can get the whole shebang done with the announcement of me as a prince on the same day. Oh one more question because I can feel that it's morning and I'll be waking up soon. If you don't need Blue Blood's approval because he doesn't rule over a kingdom, would you need mine then for anything since I don't actually rule over the Crystal Empire?" Luna looked to Ixis nervously, which was confusing to me but whatever.

"You do Christopher and that is all I can say. But to answer your question, yes we will seek your approval on matters." Luna said before standing up, "Now I must go before the sun fully rises to check up on the dreams that yours have scattered. It was good to see you again Lady Ixis."

"As was you Luna, tell Celestia I said hi." She waved as Luna vanished from sight.

I looked at Ixis, "What did she mean by 'You do'?"

"You aren't ready to know yet, but I'll tell you when you are, I promise."

I looked at her for a second to see if I could see any hint to anything, if I could search her mind for something but I couldn't so I just agreed and thanked her for keeping my dreams peaceful yet again and went on to waking up.

I stretched and woke up, albeit, very uncomfortably which was weird because I'm pretty sure I fell asleep on Shy and she is anything but uncomfortable. Eh she was probably just downstairs in the kitchen. I went to the bathroom to start my daily routine. I disrobed and hoped into the shower wincing at the warmth of the water so I put it to as cold as it could be which was much better. It was much like any other shower really except when I got to my horns and especially my tail. My horns I used normal soap for but I have to file them to a point to keep up appearances. Now my tail is what made taking showers a pain, if I was taking a bath this would be much easier. Basically I have to let the tub fill up with water while filling it up with this special kind of soap that kept my scales nice and shiny and strong. I would sit at the edge of the tub and let my tail soak in the water, swishing it back and forth, normally I would have servants that were always sent to me by the rulers of the kingdoms I went to, despite my protests, to help me with this or Shy, now that I'm home, but I didn't feel like bothering her right now so I brought my tail across my lap and began the process of meticulously cleaning each scale as well as under it.

"Man how did you guys stand doing an entire body clean of this?" I asked frustrated.

+We honestly just got used to it and a few hours is not much to dragons.+

I groaned but also sighed in content, "Honestly it's not that bad, it feels nice but it takes so much time. Easily the worst part of this whole deal."

Ixis giggled, +Wait until your wings come in, the scales on them while, much more pliable are also much smaller, and flying tends to get wings dirty very fast.+ I groaned again and buried my head in my tail. +Oh don't whine, you still haven't started shedding yet.+

My head shot up in surprise, "I do that?!"

+Well, you should, I don't know about your skin but I'm at least 90% sure that when it's your time to shed you'll be forced into your dragon form.+

"Fucking fantastic…"

+Though your daughter will have it worse. Considering she has fur and scales.+

I looked at my tail at that thought, "Then I guess I don't have it that bad but poor Goldy." I sighed and resigned to finish cleaning my tail. After I was done I wrapped myself in a towel and brushed my teeth with a specially designed toothbrush. Why was it special? It was made by Matoxyhyte, the only known gem that dragons can't eat and it’s bristles were made of magically infused Tanzotite, a surprisingly malleable gemstone that is more known for its property of expelling grime and dirt. In other words it was an extremely expensive toothbrush. Also booth gemstones were surprisingly good tasting so I had to resist chewing on them even if I couldn't eat one of them. After that I brushed my hair and put some clothes on and made my way downstairs to find that no one was there.

"Ok then, I know I was in the bathroom for like 2 hours but come on it's still only 8. Shy, Goldy, anyone home?" I called out, only to have no answer. "I guess Shy took Goldy to school early today." I shrugged and made my way into town.

Now while I will admit I'm a bit oblivious to things, I will not admit that it took me much longer than normal to realize ponies were avoiding me or just not present at all, it was like the town was being abandoned. I wandered town for a bit trying to figure out what was going on before everyone was gone. I stopped by Rarity's, no one. Twilight's, no one. Back home, no one. Rainbow's, no one. At the school, no one, which was extra strange. I even went to sugar cube corner and no one was there.

"WHERE IS EVERYONE?!" I screamed out to the heavens, and conveniently it was also the same time I caught a glimpse of a familiar grey Pegasus darting off in the direction of Sweet Apple Acres.

+I think it would be in your best interest to follow her if you want to know what's going on.+

"Yeah most likely, rooftops or streets?"

+Hmmmm, rooftops.+

I grinned happily, "I was hoping you would choose that." I formed the ice claws on my hands and took a running start to the nearest building and a few feet before I reached it I leapt up and dug them into the wall, climbing straight up to the roof. When I reached the top I stood up and looked around trying to spot Derpy if I couldn't see the Acres from here and lo and behold she was still within sight.

I got down in a starting stance letting her get a bit further away, "3"

+2+ I bent down placing my hands on the roof of the house.

"1" I dug my feet in.

"/+ LET'S GO! +/" And then I rocketed off, sprinting and jumping over gaps of the roof tops.

"Wahahahoo!" I yelled out happily as I chased after the clumsy flier, though she did hear my cries and when she saw me chasing after her, she took off at speeds I didn't know she could reach. "Good, if she kept up that pace this would've been boring, ready to kick it up a notch?" I stopped and got down on all fours, and let out a deep growl before breaking into a full on sprint on all four limbs. Which is the fastest way I've learned how to run, which is surprising since humans can't actually move properly on all fours, but due to my training and my half dragon side I'm a bit more flexible than what I used to be so yeah, fast.

I got close Derpy to hear her going, "Oh no oh no… he's catching up, must go faster!" and she managed to get a bit faster, which was enough for her to make it to the edge of town close to Sweet Apple Acres.

I jumped off the last building and sighed, "Well there goes my fun." I looked up and saw her dart into the barn.

+Yep that's where everyone is.+

I knew that, I could smell them, normally it's just a smell that's all around me but… now it's all coming from the barn. It's actually interesting that I couldn't smell this much pony from town, "Surprise party?"

+Most likely.+

"Should I act surprised?"

+You owe it to her.+

"That I do. Alright let's get this over with." I made my way to the barn and pushed open the heavy wooden doors. Letting light into the dark room only to have lights click on with the entire town there yelling out "SURPRISE!"

I actually jumped back a foot or two, no acting, the sheer noise surprised me, "HOLY CRAP!" and to top it off Pinkie appeared out of nowhere and caught me in a bone crushing hug.

I gulped, "H-Hey Pinkie…"

'Please don't kill me, please don't kill me.'

+She is so going to kill you.+

'Not helping!'

"CHRISSY I MISSED YOU!" She squeezed me harder.

"I, uh missed you… nrgh… too Pinkie." Can't breathe.

"Sooo, why didn't you tell me you were back, I could've thrown the surprise party sooner. Shoot you visited everyone before me too…" Her eyes got super big and watery and she just squeezed me more and I could've sworn I felt my elbow pop out of place, "Do… do you now like me anymore? Did I do something wrong?"

I coughed, losing my ability to breathe even more. "What? No, of course not! I couldn't dislike you Pinkie, you're way too fun to be around. I was just scared that you would be mad at me for not letting you know I came home early in advanced. I know it sounds silly, sorry."

She perked up instantly, "Oh don't be sorry Chrissy I could never be mad that one of my bestest best friends in the whole world came home sooner than expected." She hugged me even tighter, I have no idea how, but she did, but before I blacked out from air loss she let me go and I took the most delicious breath of air I've ever breathed in.

"Jesus…. Flim flaming Christ…." I was bent over a bit catching my breath, with most of the town laughing at the antics that just ensued. "Ok, enough laughing over my pain, let's have a rip roaring good time!"

We partied like it was 1994… wait is that the saying? Shit I forgot, I've been away from Earth so long… Anyway, apparently since Pinkie is so closely related to the Apples she gets run of the place while they're out. Which, is actually pretty smart because when Pinkie is dedicated to something… man is she dedicated to something. This was very similar to my welcome to Equestria party but unlike that, I actually picked up a few dance moves whilst traveling as well as inventing my own crazy ones. Everyone loved what I learned from the Minotaurs and Centaurs, hey what do you know something useful came out of them. But something they really haven't seen anything yet.

"Alright, alright, this is one yours truly made up while visiting the Lamia Clans, now you all are going to want to stand back for this. Vinyl, give me something… fast." The ponies backed up a bit, but I could still feel the excited energy flowing through them.

She gave me a wide grin, "You got it." (Put on anything you want that's face paced)

I tapped my foot along to the song, getting into the beat before jumping and landing on the tip of my tail, coiling it like a spring. I stuck a foot out onto the ground and started to spin myself, when I gained enough speed I pulled my foot in as I had enough momentum to keep it going without it.

"Wow, he's like a top!" Somepony exclaimed.

I started to do random poses while spinning, picking up some speed, not much because I kept switching positions.

"Come on Chris, is that it?" Rainbow chided.

I smirked, "Alright Rainbow, you asked for it." My voice was a bit distorted due to my rotations. I pulled all my limbs in close, allowing me to gain speed at a quick rate, eventually, I was just a blur.

"Whoa, ok that's really fast…" Rainbow said.

"How in the world is he doing that Twilight?" Rarity asked.

Twilight examined me and point to at the floor, "He iced over that section of the floor, that way there won't be any friction in his spinning, in addition I believe he also iced the tip of his tail, so he almost frictionless, there is still air friction to account for but you get the gist of it."

Smart girl, right now, time for the finale I uncoiled my tail which made me rocket into the air while I was still spinning. While I was up in the air I started shooting off mini ice explosions in a circle around me and before gravity could reclaim me I shot off one large one above and below me simultaneously. I landed back on the ground in the classic Iron Man pose.

Pinkie was jumping up and down clapping excitedly while everyone else was in stunned silence, "Holy moly guacamole!"

"So how did you all like that?" It was a few seconds before I was met with a wall of cheers.

"DUDE THAT WAS SO… AWESOME! What do you even call that?" Rainbow asked.

I shrugged, "No clue, never really thought about that."

"Oh oh oh oh oh I know I know. Iceworks, you know like fireworks but ice." She suggested happily.

"Hm… not bad, do you mind if I use that?" She shook her head no.

"Chris that was spectacular! Such beauty, and coming from you no less." Rarity… what kind of pseudo-compliment is that?

"Chris you said you came up with that while visiting the Lamia?" Twilight asked.

"Yep, it was while I was watching a mock battle that this Lamia got on the tip of his tail and started spinning while holding out his swords, becoming something like a makeshift buzz saw. I added in the spring with my tail when I saw it used in a later dance ritual. Honestly… now that I think about it I originally planned to use it in combat but I thought it would go well as a dance move too."

"Well you were right about that." Twilight laughed.

I looked around and realized I was surrounded by my closest friends except Shy, Goldy, Lyra, and Bon Bon but the latter were of at the punch table since most of the crowd dispersed whilst I was talking. "Hey have you guys seen Shy?"

"I think she went to the house." Rainbow said.

"And I saw Goldy with the crusaders, speaking of, I need to see about Scootaloo's birthday in 4 months. Adios!" And with that Pinkie zipped off.

"She will always confuse me." The rest of the girls nodded in agreement, "Well, go and enjoy the party, I'm gonna go talk to Shy." I made my way inside the house and I saw Shy sitting at the table drinking some tea that she freshly made. I snuck up behind her and kissed her cheek, making her jump a little. "Hehe, sorry, couldn't resist."

She turned in the chair and gave be a pointed look before poking me in the stomach, she'd never hit me but she got payback in her own adorable way.

I sat in the chair across from her, "So what are you doing in here all by your lonesome?"

"Oh… I'm just not comfortable in parties remember?"

"I know but you normally stay and at least talk with your friends anyway, what's up?"

She looked to the side then down at the cup and then finally to me, "Well… you just seemed like you were having such a good time, and I didn't want to get in your way."

Ah so that was it, she's always worried about that, "Shy, why are you always so worried that you'll be in my way?"

"I don't know, I just get this feeling that… you are destined for something amazing, something big and I don't want to get in your way and burden you from that. I know it sounds silly but I just don't think I will be able to keep up."

"Destined for more? Why is it because I'm a Prince, because if it is, it's honestly just a title I really don't do anything."

"N-no it's not that… I really can't explain it, I can just tell you are going to change a lot about this world." I blinked… that was… surprisingly deep.

"And you're afraid, you'll be holding me back, getting in my way of whatever that is?" She nodded. I got up and walked over to her and picked her up, sitting down and putting her on my lap and wrapped my tail around her waist which garnered a small 'Eep' from her. "Fluttershy, you silly silly shy Pegasus you. I don't care what I'm 'destined' for. You and Goldy are the most important things in my life. And if you feel like you won't be able to keep up, I'll slow down or I'll carry you, whichever you want. I'll be there as long you will, you know that right?"

She nodded and rested her forehead on mine, she wrapped her arms around my shoulders and pulled me in for a kiss, "Do you think we'll ever get married?" She asked out of the blue.

"Of course… in fact here." I held out her hand and formed a ring made out of ice on her ring finger. "It may not be the most romantic of engagements but… I hope you accept."

"I do." She pulled me into another kiss which I more than happily returned, as indicated from the tip of my tail twitching rapidly, the consequence for this however was that it was tickling Fluttershy causing her to start laughing.

"Oh that tickles huh?" I wrapped my tail around her tighter so she couldn't escape as I started to tickle her, she was squirming and laughing uncontrollably, eventually we fell of the chair, with her on top of me but I honestly didn't care and I kept on tickling her until we heard an 'Ahem' from behind us. I tilted my head up to see our friends giggling and smirking, Shy eeped again and my tail quickly let her go, she got up and did her best to hide behind her wings and hair.

"Having fun are you?" Rarity teased.

"Awwww I wanted to be tickled too…" Pinkie… that sounds so wrong, and it looks like everyone else agrees from how awkwardly silent things got.

I sat up and scratched my head, nervously pulling at my horns, "Uhm so how about the party?"

"Oh, it's over. It was a quick one today." Pinkie said sadly.

"Pinkie, 10 hours is not a quick party."

Twilight looked at the clock on the wall, "IT'S TEN?! OH NO, I HAVE TO GO!" and she was gone in a poof of purple along with Spike, who you could hear all the way out here yelling out, "OH COME ON!"

"Oh dear it does look like that is the time, well I suppose we must be going too, Come along Sweetie." Rarity and her younger sister left and Rainbow Dash followed without a word, she just waved us off.

"So are you guys doing anything tomorrow?" Pinkie asked as we walked back into town, making our way to our house.

"We're going to see Grandma and Grandpa tomorrow!" Goldy exclaimed happily.

Pinkie pouted, "Oh…"

I gave Shy a look and she nodded back, "Pinkie, would you like to go with us to Cloudsdale for the weekend?"

She bounced back from her sulking almost instantly, "Would I?! I would love to! Oh can I spend the night at your house?"

"Sure we have a spare room."

"Actually, we don't."

"Well I can sleep on the couch. I don't mind."

I shook my head, "No the couch is too small to be slept on, and Goldy's bed is only big enough to hold Goldy. And I really don't want you to sleep on the floor." I tilted my head in thought. "That really only leaves our bed, it's big enough but…"

"Oh I don't want to intrude if that's the case." Pinkie said softly.

"Oh I don't mind, it'd be like old times." Shy said happily.

I swallowed and looked at my Fiancée, "Uh…. I mean…. I… ok?"

Pinkie clapped happily, "Yay, I get to sleep with Chrissy and Flutters!"

My face reddened and then paled as I opened the door kinda stun locked, 'What in the hell….'

+Don't ask me I'm just as confused.+

"I'm… gonna go… I'm gonna go change into… night clothes, you do… whatever." I went to go change and I looked at myself in the mirror… "Ixis… What is my life?"

+Chris I honestly wish I knew how to answer that.+ She sounded just as stunned as I did.

I lifted up my eye patch cleaned what was under it. "Ah… better." I changed into my night clothes which consisted of just a T-shirt and some shorts. I made my way to my room and saw Shy already in bed on her side with the light off, for a second I relaxed again, and climbed into bed with her and pulled her close, "Where's Pinkie?"

"She's downstairs working on something for tomorrow, she said she'll be up soon." She said quietly, obviously on her way out of the waking world.

"Oh, alright." I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep, only to be woken up by the bed creaking behind me and something soft and warm pressing against my back. 'And…. This is when I go to sleep and ignore everything else.' And so I did, with great difficulty.