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Secret of Flying

by Hiver

Chapter 43

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“You sure you got it?” I asked Swift and Cloud, adjusting my new cloak with my magic.

Swift nodded with a grin. “Don’t worry. We got it. Everything will go great, I promise.”

Taking a deep breath and closing my eyes, I then nodded. “Okay, in positions. Won’t be long now.”

Cloud tapped my shoulder with his hoof. “Good luck.”

“Thanks.”

As they left to relieve the guards already standing there on each side of the airship dock, I just sat down and waited in the shade of a cargo box.

You would think I would be nervous, but not really.

I was just excited. Well, mostly excited. Also, a bit terrified.

But mostly excited.

“Page!”

Startled, I looked back to see Twilight approaching. “Oh… hi Sparks. What’s up?”

Twilight smiled and hesitated, one hoof slightly off the floor. “Hi… uhm… can we talk?”

I glanced back at the dock. “…I have a few moments.”

“Thanks.”

She seemed really nervous. I had a pretty good idea of why. I’m fairly sure none of them noticed when I opened the door, but…

Sparks flicked her ears nervously. “Page, I need to tell you something…”

I smiled at her. “Don’t worry about it. I already figured it out.”

She blinked at me. “You did?”

“Yeah,” I said and nodded. “I… kind of saw it,” I admitted with a small cringe. “Sorry. Didn’t mean too.”

Twilight looked nervous. “…And you are okay with it?”

“Of course! I’m happy for you!”

“You are?”

I nodded. “Of course! Why wouldn’t I be?”

Twilight smiled. “Page, that’s such a relief. She was so afraid to let anyone know.”

“She has nothing to be nervous about. As long as she is happy…”

Twilight frowned. “Well… I wouldn’t say happy. But he hasn’t caused any trouble.”

My mind did what could only be described as a double take.

“Wait, what?” I asked. “He? What exactly are we talking about?”

Twilight looked unsure. “…Discord hiding with Fluttershy. What did you think we were talking about?”

DISCORD IS WHAT!?

I stared at her. “…Discord is what?”

Twilight cringed. “…He came to her after Tirek was defeated. He was terrified after seeing him get killed. He begged her to hide him and she just couldn’t say no. I found out a few days ago, and talked them into letting me talk to you, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna about it. I… figured I would go to you first.”

I facehoofed. “…Twilight, you couldn’t have waited two hours? I really don’t need this shit right now. Okay, you say he has behaved?”

Twilight nodded. “Ponyville didn’t notice anything. Fluttershy says he even helped out around the house and kept it down to small pranks.”

I glanced back. That dot in the sky was an airship.

I turned back to Twilight. “Then he can wait. I’m not dealing with this right now, go tell Celestia or something. He can be her problem, I don’t want it.”

Twilight cringed. “I’m sorry, I should have told you when I found out.”

“…Don’t worry about it,” I sighed and glanced back at the quickly growing airship. “Just hurry out of here!”

She tilted her head. “I was thinking I would be saying hi to Luna.”

“Say hi to Luna later!” I said and guided her away. “Or at least stay behind the corner!”

“What’s going on?”

“You’ll see! Just stay quiet and hidden!” I said and pushed her behind the corner before rushing back into position.

I didn’t have time for some stupid chaos spirit right now! I had more important things to do.

The airship slowly slowed and pegasi jumped off to start dragging out lines to the dock to pull it close. I ignored them and focused on my magic. I needed to do this just perfectly. Luckily, I had had quite a bit of practice with illusions lately.

I glanced around the corner. The ramp was lowering.

It took a few moments before Luna exited, followed by a couple of ponies in her group, carrying items, mostly papers. The unicorn next to her was talking to her while floating a paper up for her to look at.

Now.

I rounded the corner and finished my illusion as I spread my wings, making dark smoke flow around me and down towards the ground as I laughed.

“Muhahaha!”

Everyone stopped and stared at me before Swift and Cloud sprung into action. “Protect the Princess!”

Lowering myself slightly, I lit my horn up with a red light and shot a red light at each of them. Swift threw himself back and rolled over, laying still.

Cloud reared up and clutched his chest. “Ah! I’m dying! Dying!” he exclaimed before he fell over, his tongue hanging out of his mouth, his right rear leg twitching.

Awesome job, Cloud. You missed your calling as an actor.

Fucking damn it.

The ponies around Luna cowered back and Luna raised her eyebrows. “…Page, what are you up to?”

“Ah ha!” I said, spreading my wings. “I am not Page! I am Lord Darth…” oh crap, didn’t think of something... “Darth Rune! The new EMPEROR OF EQUESTRIA!”

Nailed it!

Luna just smiled and shook her head. “My Page, you would hate being Emperor. But very well, I’ll play along. What are your plans, Darth Rune?”

I slowly approached. “My plan is quite simple, my dear Princess. I will cover the land in darkness, forcing the population to cower before me. I will kidnap their Princess to a faraway land, keeping her prisoner! In sweltering heat and bright sun…”

“That would be nice…” Luna admitted with a sigh, “but I can’t just…”

“…While forcing her to marry me,” I finished as I reached her so we were nose to nose.

Luna blinked. “Marry.”

I smiled and nodded, allowing the illusion of dark smoke flowing off me to stop as I looked up at her. “Marry me,” I said, folding my wings. “I… I didn’t know how to ask you. I wanted to make it memorable. I understand if you don’t wa…”

“Yes. Yes and yes!” Luna answered and captured my lips in a kiss as she pressed close.

When we broke the kiss, I smiled up at her, "Oh, good. Because I was a bit fuzzy on exactly how to take over Equestria."

Author's Notes:

And that's the last part for now. We will be returning to Blank Page again at a future time though. Thank you everyone for reading and hope you enjoyed it.

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