It was a calm morning in Canterlot. Everypony was enjoying themselves in the daylight, living their daily lives in excitement and thrilled to start this new day of the year. The sky was blue as water, with white clouds decorating it with white dots. The ground's green grass was just as green as the dirt was brown.

The streets of Canterlot was just as lively as the days before, with the citizens enjoying the warmth of the day.

In the palace of the city, inside the Princess' chambers, a group of ponies was looking at their ruler with worried eyes as they watched her slowly waking up.

Groaning, Princess Celestia had a wondered. How'd she get in her chambers? It was still a bit fuzzy of how she got here, but that didn't matter for now.

"Princess Celestia?" Twilight's soft voice called.

As she looked, Celestia saw the seven ponies watching her with expected and worried looks. "Yes?" She asked in turn.

"Do you remember what happened?" Twilight asked softly, not intending to cause a headache to her mentor.

"I remember a little." Celestia remembered, rubbing her head with a hoof. "I was at the garden, looking at the plants. Then, all of a sudden, a strange creature came in front of me as I was about to feel dizzy. When I lost consciousness, I only heard it say, "Mother". But, how is it possible? I had no children, after all."

"Well," Twilight looked at her friends as they nodded as they walked out of the room to give them privacy. Once they were outside of the room, and outside of earshot, Twilight continued. "Do you recall what happened to your son, if you know what I mean?"

"Well," Celestia started. "All I remembered was that gang of thieves taking him in their clutches, and that I was desperate to get him back." It was then she realized something important. "Wait, you don't mean that strange creature could be him, do you, Twilight?"

"Look who now know it," a third unexpected voice joined in the conversation. Celestia's head quickly turned to the source of the voice, and saw a four-legged dragon standing in the corner of the room, sitting on its butt as it stared at her with intense eyes that looked like they were going to pierce through her very soul. Its bluish-yellow eyes were awfully familiar, but she couldn't quite picture why it was so familiar.

"Well, well," it said in a chortling voice, as though it was going to laugh. "You certainly took your time in recounting the times when we were together, Mother." There was it again. It called her "Mother".

The dragon raised an eyebrow. "You know that it's rude to call a dragon "it", right?" Celestia's eyes widened in shock. How'd it knew about that thought? "Psychic abilities. Telepathic, telekinesis, all you could had dreamt of are counted in psychic abilities."

"Alright," Celestia said, composing herself straight. "How did you had those abilities?"

"I have a friend who taught me on how to use the psychic element." The dragon answered her question. Though, it frowned after that. "You don't remember me at all?" It asked in slight worry.

"Well," Celestia answered honestly. "Not that I know of. But your eyes seems awfully familiar. How is it that you called me "Mother", actually?"

"mother, Mother, Mother." The dragon shook its head. "You should at least know about this other form." Then, a strange bright red light lit up the room. Celestia's eyes shut closed in order to protect them from the light. When the light faded, she opened them as she saw a strange, ape-like creature standing in the corner of the room. While it looked like an ape, it had no fur nor tail. It was standing perfectly on all two of its legs. It had a red jacket with black stripes, blue jeans and green shoes. It had brown hair, brown eyebrows while its eyes were the same bluish-yellow as the dragon had.

"Do you remember me now?" The human asked hopefully.

" "Remember you"? How?" Celestia asked in shock.

"You remember the day that I promised to keep at your side?" The human questioned her. "Well, I did in fact promise that, didn't I? It was because that I was taken by the thieves that I was not able to keep my promise. But, since I was told that they were either dead or in the dungeons for the rest of their lives, I can finally fulfill my promise in keeping me by your side.

"However, with my job as a Predator Hunter, it might be easier said than done, as I had been that for the past year now. It might never be like what it used to be, that's for sure."

Predator Hunter? What had happened to her son for the last eight years? Well, it was about tiem to find out,right? When she realized that her son was right in front of her, Celstia broke into tears as her eyes were watering with them.

With his arms spread out, Moon braced himself for the crushing hug he was about to get. However, the crushing hug felt more like a death uhg when Celestia got him into her grasp, crying aloud as she began to cry out.

"OH, MY SON IS BACK!" She shouted delightfully. "I'VE ALWAYS KNEW YOU WERE HIM! WELCOME HOME, SWEETIE!" She started to peck him all over his ehad as he jerked his head back in surprise and shock.

"Gee, a little warning next time would be fine, Mother." Moon, though, didn't mind being kissed by his own mother, but with two mares in the room was a completely different thing.

Celestia, however, continued to kiss her missed son all over his head, hearing a tired sigh from him as he didn't fight back.

"What happened to you after all these years?" She began questioning him. "How did you manage to survive? How did you get all those musces? And, for that matter, how did you get yourself that dragon to be replaced by your form?"

"One question at a time, would be nice." Moon complained as she finally stopped kissing him. When she loosened her grip on his for him to breathe, he began answering her questions one after one. "For how I survived, was that I was found by my other species' race, dragons. They took care of me, well, most of them. For how I managed to survive, is that I was found by the Princess of Dragons, Ember, at the great river. For how I got these muscles, is that I have trained for the last eight years with normal and intense methods. How I got my true form, is that my inner powers were released with my father, Lord Torch."

Celestia was shocked. The Dragon Lord was his father?! That's actually amazing. So, it was true then?

"Yes. It's true." Moon answered her inner question. "I am the son of the Dragon Lord himself, though more like an adopted son, in reality. I have met with my real parents in my dreams."

Waiting outside of the Princess' chambers, were almost all of the guards, maids, Shining Armor, the rest of the Mane Six, and even Prince Blueblood, whom looked disgusted for some reason.

"Why is it taking so damn long?" Blueblood asked in frustration, breaking the ice of excitement. "Why is my auntie taking her "sweet" time?"

"Zip it, Blueblood." Applejack pointed at him with a hoof. "You'd better be thankful that he was in there for now, and not outside with his abilities. You should be grateful for that."

"Oh please." Blueblood huffed, then realized what she said. "Wait, what do you mean by "abilities"? The monk-" He then also realized something horrifying in that thought.

"I wouldn't finish that sentence, Blueblood." Shining warned him. "From what we've seen or heard of, he had taken on an entire army of Changelings all by himself with a few clones of his own. He even took on that horrid Queen Chrysalis in singe combat. He's quite amazing, I'd say."

"Yes." Rarity agreed. "He's the true hero of Canterlot. His abilities are simply diving, as are his new form. It most truly feel special to have them, doesn't it?"

From his place, Blueblood began to sweat drop as he overheard everything. If the monkey was back, he was going to have a hard time getting him away now, especially if he had taken on a whole army by himself.

Seeing him sweating, Rarity smiled greedily. "Oh, we didn't tell you? Well, guess what, O all mighty Prince. The boy has quite amazing arm muscles, as well. He's so diving, as a matter of fact. He'd even had a side of him that show how aggressively he can be if you anger him to that level."

Blueblood now panicked after that line. The monkey can be aggressive? But, isn't that what all monkeys are when they're angered? It all made a little sense, but he was still going to have nightmares for his life when he finds out what he was told was the truth.

"In fact, I'd love to see what he can do to you," Rarity said, smiling mischievously. Blueblood let out a cry of a big "No!" and ran for the hell out of here, passing through the crowd of maids and guards, who looked at him suspiciously.

With the door to the Princess' chambers slowly opened only a little, the head of Celestia peeped through the hole and looked at the crowd awaiting for her.

"Captain Shining Armor." She called from the hole. "Please, inform everypony that it may take some time for us to be acquainted. Would you do that?"

"Of course, Princess." Shining bowed respectfully as the door closed again. "Alright, everypony," he turned to the crowd that watched in confusion. "You heard her. Let's give them some time alone." The crowd dispersed as the rest of the Mane Six and Shining also left the chamber door to Princess Celestia.

Inside the chambers' door, Moon was sitting on his mother's bed as she began counting his childhood with her.

"Well," Celestia began, recounting the times they used to live in. "It sure feels nice to be together again, doesn't it?" Moon nodded in agreement. "Although I'm still not used to you being a dragon, it sure feels safe whenever I look t your eyes. They represent the same kindness as it once held, but more of a sharper kindness than ever. How did you change, son?"

"It was my training, Mother," Moon replied honestly. "When I first arrived in Dragon Lands, I was cocky in my abilities and confidence. However, as the years passed by, my ego was slowly disappearing, to my father's approval. It feels nice to have some "replacement" parents than my true parents, Susan and Jonathanl, are their names."

"I see." Celestia said. "It must be nice to feel whole again, won't it?" Her son nodded his head a little. "Can you tell me about that "Predator Hunter" thing, son?"

"Well, it's hard to explain," Moon said with honest. "But, I've received quite a few numbers with wounds in the job. Ever since my first requirement , I was at first cocky with my confidence like I used to. But, that soon faded when my training as a Predator Hunter grew more in accurate. You need to be less egotistically to be able to have more seriousness in the training. The job is to find a lot of monsters, predators mind you, and stop them before they terrorizing the cities of creatures alike.

"When I first discovered one of them, I was feeling confident in my abilities to take it down. But, that soon came to my almost downfall as the predator weree nearly about to eat me. But, I managed to tap into my fire powers to burn it down, stopping its rampage as it laid there, dead."

"So, you need to kill in order to live?" Twilight asked, anxiety overtaking her mind.

"Yes." Moon nodded his head in confirming. "I had killed a lot of predators, however I won't do it to innocent lives, mind you."

"Well, that's a relief." Cadance sighed in relief.

"But, don't think that I won't be just as merciful to you than the predators." Moon reminded them. "There were times when my darkness overtook my being, mercilessly killing the predators to nothingness."

"That seems rather scary." Celestia said, with her child nodding his head again. "But, how did you get that darkness in the first place, son?"

"Well," Moon recounted the times of being consumed by hatred. "Whenever I feel angered, my darkness comes and takes over my being. The first time it happened, was because of my pride taking its toll over me. After the trial, the Dragon of Courage, I was overtaken by the darkness again when I was battling a one-headed hydra named Hydra. It was also when I was battling a gang mocking a young colt in a nearby forest of a nearby town in the west of here. There were also two times when Twilight and Cadance here tried to take me back to you, Mother."

"Never thought you would had been consumed by darkness that much, son," Celestia said in worry. "How did it feel?"

"It was scary. I was scared that I might hurt everypon else, innocence lives along with you, Mother. But, there was a time, in the middle of my battle with Daybreaker, the darkness took its toll over me again. So, that counts as six times when I was consumed by the darkness in my heart."

"Man, never thought you had that rough of a life, cousin." Cadance said sympathetically, looking at him with sad eyes.

"Well, yeah," Moon said. "I've had a tougher life back in the Lands with the dragons. But, you've heard my story, Cadance, but not my Mother." Celestia looked at him as he took a deep breath and began telling her his teen years of living with dragons: how he was saved by Princess Ember, taken in by her father as an adoptive son and brother to them, that he was going to have a race in three months after that. Also, that there was a going to be a trial in six years afterwards. So, he trained intensely after meeting up with tall dragon by the name Garble, who was now a rival to him. After three years of training, his first mission had begun; he should be at the minotaur kingdom that had a group of unicorns that threatened its citizens. It was here that the darkness first overtook him when his pride was high.

After the incident at the minotaur kingdom, he had trained for the next three years as the trial neared. With the Dragon of Courage taken place around the Dragon Lands and the Everfree Forest, he had been taking down twelve manticores down with Garble, which surprised the three ponies. After the first two trials were complete, Moon, whom had taken by the name Virin back then, had a long battle with Garble to determine who was the better dragon. Moon, or Virin, won the battle, being the better dragon in the Lands after using many multi-coloured attacks to take Garble down.

After the Dragon of Courage, Moon, or Virin, had battled a creature called Hydra the year afterwards. In the battle, the small dragon had been overtaken by the darkness again and fought viciously against Hydra, to Celestia's raised eyebrow of concern. As the battle ended, her child had used the loudest voice to be ever heard in Equestria and used a calledUltimate Boostto take out Hydra. But, he knew that it was not over as Hydra had just vanished out of thin air. A few months after that, he had trained again, with normal methods this time, but he still trained intensely in secret from his dragon family and friends. As the eight years were almost over, Moon, or Virin, decided to leave the Lands for Ponyland to find his other self, which he had now found, and battled an entire army of creatures known as Changelings, to Celestia's impressed expression.

With the story coming to now, Moon was almost out of breath as he finished it with saying that he had been overtaken by the darkness two times; the first when Twilight and Cadance tried to take him back, and the other was in the middle of an duel with Daybreaker. They knew the rest.

Gasping for breath, Moon was hugged by his mother as she held him with her wings around his body, tears of pride coming out of her eyes.

"I don't know what to say," she said. "But, all I know is, you had one of the toughest life in Equestria history. No doubt about it."

"Believe me," Moon gasped for breath, but still smiled at the gesture he was given. "I was called terrible things by Garble and his gang whenever I came across them. It was simply rough, to say in the least."

Celestia smiled at him kindly. "Thank you for telling me your story, son. It really helped me out as to why I couldn't find you for the last eight years." She cried at that, but Moon wiped the tears away with a hand, to her surprised look.

"Don't cry." He said. "I hate seeing people, or ponies, showing weaknesses. I haven't cried in my teenager life for the last years of living in the Dragon Lands. That was because I didn't want to be called "weak"."

His mother nodded her head, it was true. If she cried, she would just show her weakness. "Have you heard about your childhood life in this palace?" She wondered.

"Yes." Moon replied. "I heard it from Cadance." Twilight looked at her former foalsitter in surprise, but she just shrugged her shoulders in exaggerated.

In the alleyways of Canterlot, a shadowy silhouette was sneaking away from a barn, having an apple in its tail, and carrying one in its mouth along with its right paw. It was walking to the female that rested in the corner of the alleyway, having had coiled into a ball as her head lifted itself up at the sound of paws walking up to her.

"Here." The male's voice muffled, putting the apple in his mouth down in front of his sister, who took it in her left paw gratefully.

"Thanks, bro." She thanked sadly, taking a bite of the apple with a moaning sound coming from her, tears slowly beginning to form in her blue eyes.

"You okay, sis?" The male asked, concerned for his sister's well-being.

"O-oh, I'm fine." The female lied, taking another bite on her apple, but her gaze was downwards as she ate.

"You miss mother?" Her brother suddenly asked.

"Y-yes," his sister finally confessed. "What about you, bro? Do you miss her?"

"Of course I do," her brother said, adding, "I also wonder who our father is. Since I have his red scales, he must have been a red, fire dragon. Grandpa were also red, but our grandma was purple. So, I guess his scales must had come from grandpa."

His sister nodded sadly, tears striking down on her cheeks but her brother wiped them away with a free paw, holding his balance with his tail. The small youngling, without the shadow covering them anymore, was a red scaled dragon with bluish eyes as his spikes were relative small. His tailblade was a sword-shaped at the end.

The female, his sister, was a wyvern-like dragon. As she were a wyvern, she had the characteristics of a dragon, too. She stood on all four, with her wings connected to her forepaws. Her tailblade was a scythe-shaped at the end. Her eyes were a pinkish colour. She had no spikes on her back at all. It was just a smooth back.

After having lost their mother to the humans, the two small ones were transported to this new, strange colourful world with no intentions at all. They were completely lost, as they had lost their home, the White City, by the humanoid creatures with guns and bazookas. It was just a horrible sight of seeing their home being torn apart by them, so they were transported to this world by their grandmother in order to be protected.

Although they had no memory of what their home looked like anymore, they were reminded themselves of what their family had been like before they had come here. Since living in this new world now, they had to be extra careful of not being spotted by these strange, talking hoeses.

"Bro?" His sister's voice got him out of his trance of thoughts. "You alright?"

"Yeah, just thinking." He answered.

"Hey you!" A sharp voice got their attention as they were being taken outside of the alleyway by a gang of unicorns, revealing themselves to the public, who gasped at seeing two such young dragons in the city.

Standing on his balcony, Moon took in the fresh air as he breathed out, inhaling and exhaled again. Just then, he heard a loud commotion coming from below the palace. He looked down to see a crowd surrounding two very young creatures that looked like a dragon and a wyvern from the myths.

Gasping in shock, Moon transformed into his dragon form, spreading his wings out and took flight down to where the commotion happened.

Hearing the sounds of wings flapping, the crowd of ponies looked up to see a third dragon landing in front of the two small ones in a protective matter, with a scowl and stern expression on his face.

"What's going on here?" The Prince demanded in sternness. "Why are you surrounding these young ones?"

"Step aside, dragon." The leader of the gang called from his place. "These two must be dealt with before they decides to eat more of our food."

Moon heard the two young ones gasp in shock. He glanced briefly at them from over his shoulder before sternly looked back at the one who dared to talk to him. "you have no respect for your Prince, do you?" He questioned.

The ponies gasped in shock and a little bit of fear. He's their Prince? When did that happen?

"Just a few hours ago, actually." Moon answered their thoughts. "Now, disperse!" However, they didn't listen to him, just standing there, as though motionless. Gritting his teeth in anger, Moon tried again. "I'll repeat myself more clear. Disperse!"

"We do not take orders from you, dragon." The leader laughed greedily and evilly. "We only takes orders from the Princess herself."

"Well, let's to be clear on one thing, shall we?" Moon said, angrily. "Iamyour Prince. Princess Celestia's son, nephew to her sister, and new ruler of Canterlot. I'll say this one more time before I get angry. Disperse!" They didn't listen to him,again, however. They just stood there, angry scowls on their faces.

"Sorry, "Prince", but we takes no orders from the likes of you anymore." The leader of the unicorn gang reminded him. "Now, where were we, oh dear young ones?" His horn lit up with a bluish colour, but Moon let loose a small fireball in his face, stopping the magic before it was ready to levitate the two young ones. "You dare attack me?!"

"Hey, if this is going to stop you from taken this too seriously, then so be it." Moon spat in disgust, spitting in the unicorn's face, who wiped the spit away with a hoof, staring angrily at the Prince.

"Normally we don't like violence, but this'll have to do." The leader's horn lit up with a bright blue colour and shot a magic beam at Moon, hitting him in the chest, but it did no damage at all. "What?!"

"I don't take damage that easily, you piece of dirt." Moon shouted, creating gasps of horror from the ponies at his bad wording. The dragon got into his defense stance as the unicorn blinked at him. He really want to fight? Alright, that does it.

The leader's thugs charged at the dragon, ignoring their leader's cries of stop. The dragon punched the one leading the charge hard in the face, forcing him to stagger back in surprise. When the unicorn's horn lit up with a brown colour, he shoot a magic beam at the trio of dragons, with the younglings gasping in horror. However, to the younglings' amazement, Moon let out aFire Shieldto protect them from any harm, shocking the one who attacked a great deal.

With the shield disappearing, Moon charged forward with an angry scowl on his face as he gritted his teeth. He punched a unicorn in the face, while kicking another in the side, causing them to cry out in pain. Moon did the same with the opposite way, making more cry of pain appear in the air. The unicorns' horns lit up with different coloured magic, and shoot two beams at the dragon, but he jumped above them to avoid the being hit, with the unicorns themselves being hit by their own partner. Chuckling at that, Moon punched and kicked one of the unicorns all over with his forepaws and backpaws, causing great cries of pain from them.

When he stopped, Moon looked over at the younglings, now being held by two of the gang's unicorns. He gritted his teeth, and opened his mouth while firing two fireballs at each of the unicorns, causing them to drop the younglings to the ground. Moon charged at one of the two unicorns who dared hold his two young ones, kicking and punching him in the front all over, making him being paralyzed in shock as he fell to the ground, unmoving. The partner of the unicorn's horn lit up with magic as he shot a beam from his horn, but Moon fired a fireball at the incoming beam, resulting in a shock lock between the two attacks. The unicorn ran for the dragon, but the dragon punched him in the face, while kicking him on the side, sending him in a few of the innocent watchers of the crowd, being paralyzed like his partner.

The two young ones ran up to Moon, who soothed them that everything was going to be alright. His voice, being protective of them, was like he was their father all along, in the younglings' sparkling eyes.

"Hey!" The leader shouted. "We're in the middle of an battle here!" The younglings winced at the voice, but Moon was unfazed by the threat that the leader made, running up to one of the unicorns and started punching and kicking him all over as he cried out to stop. But, Moon didn't listen as he continued with his assaults as he managed to get him paralyzed as he coiled himself down on the ground in defeat. The leader gritted his teeth in rage. What was going on here?! Everything was happening so fast!

With the unicorn being defeated, Moon focused his angry stare at the leader, who cowered back in fear as he was next in line. Moon charged at the leader, with his young ones watching in amazement as he hit the leader hard as the leader fell backwards ni pain from being hit by the horns in the chest. Moon ran up to him and began kicking and punching him all over, eventually managed to paralyze him as well as he laid there, defeated in a matter of seconds.

That was a quick battle,Moon thought, panting as he headed over to protect the young ones more as the crowd began to walk closer to them. Just then, a booming voice came from above them.

"What's going on here?!" The voice of the Princess demanded heatedly. They all looked up and saw the Mane Six and Cadance with the Princess, standing on a balcony overlooking the streets.

Motioning them to hop on his back, the two young ones obliged as Moon spread his wings and flew up to his mother and friends as he hovered in the air.

"Moon, what happened?" Celestia asked in worry, looking at the frightened children on her son's back as they shivered.

"These two young ones were being threatened by the gang below, whose intention was to harm them with their magic. However, I managed to step up and got them down in a battle." Moon replied honestly, shrugging his shoulders a little, not wanting to drop the young children.

"Thank you for being honest, son." Celestia thanked him gracefully. "You didn't use your fire did you?"

"Only at a minimum level." Moon answered with honest. "I didn't burn them, as you are seeing below."

"Is he being honest, Applejack?" Twilight asked her friend, who looked at him with sharp eyes, before jerked her head back in surprise.

"Aye. He's being honest." Applejack finally answered. Moon smiled at the blonde haired Earth pony, happy for being honest.

"Do you think you could gather them together, son?" His mother asked him. "I would like to have a word with them for threatening these children." She motioned her head to the frightened children.

"Sure." Moon hovered over to his cousin. "Take care of them, would you?" He asked her.

"Of course." Cadance nodded, lighting up her horn with a pink magic and levitated hte scared children over to her so she could soothe them. Moon flew straight down to the ground, and began gathering the paralyzed unicorns together.

With his telekinesis ability activated, Moon levitated the unicorns with his eyes glowing a bright bluish colour, to the ponies' shock and amazement. Moon's wings began flapping as he hovered into the air, with the paralyzed unicorns following him by his will, flying up to his mother as she nodded in thanks.

After what seemed like hours, the children that Cadance had finally submitted to sleep as the group watched them with smiles on their faces. Moon, though, watched them with a frown on his face. He still didn't know how they got here, mostly the same as him with his mother transporting them to Equestria.

As they continued to watch the sleeping children, the group walked out of the room without talking, intending to let them sleep.

As the door slowly closed behind them the group finally began to speak but lowly.

"What do you think could had happened to them?" Twilight asked, her voice low.

"I don't know." Rarity admitted. "But, those poor darlings sure had a rough life, especially after what happened earlier today."

"It was just so horrible seeing them like that," Fluttershy said in a whisper, only be heard by her friends. "It felt like I was being torn apart just by seeing them getting bullied by that gang."

"Aye," Applejack nodded her head, tapping her hat with a hoof. "It wasn't a pleasant sight, that's for sure." It was then that she realized something. "Was it them that took some of my apples?" She whispered sharply.

"Shh!" Her friends shushed her. "Don't wake them." However, although she hate to admit it, Applejack thought it was alright for them to take her apples.

"Jeez." The orange mare whispered. "Calm down. I was fine with them not being hungry to death. Besides, they're just apples." She shrugged after that.

Moon had been quiet in the whole whispered conversation. He just stared at the door to the children the whole time, as though he wanted to check up on how they were doing. He touched his scar on the left eye with an flat hand, letting out a sigh as he prepared to enter the room again.

"Hey!" Twilight cried out lowly. "Where are you going?"

"Just checking up on them, actually." Moon replied, though he didn't lower his voice as he slowly entered the room to the two younglings, closing the door as he had entered.

Letting out a low groan, Twilight looked at her friends as they nodded for her to let them be. They walked down the hall to the throne room where Princess Celestia was already punishing the gang for bullying the two younglings.

With his friends finally leaving, Moo had peeped through a small crack of the door so he could see them that they had left. Sighing in relief, he closed it whole as he transformed into his dragon form as he waited for the two young ones to wake up.

After what had seemed like hours, two groans were heard from them. They blinked a few times until their visions became clear as they looked around for the red dragon. They saw him sitting in the middle of the room, waiting patiently for them to come over.

They obliged as Moon hugged the children warmly, whispering, "Good afternoon."

"It's already afternoon?" The male asked in surprise.

"Yes." Moon confirmed. "You slept through the noon until it were fourteen AM." Their eyes widened in sudden shock. They had slept that long? "Actually, yes." The fire dragon confirmed again.

The young hatchlings' eyes nearly popped out of their sockets as they had heard him just confirmed their inner thoughts.

"Long story short," Moon started. "Psychic abiility, able to read inner minds of people. Though, I do it respectfully with their permission. But, in this case, I allowed myself to touch your minds willingly, whether you wanted me to or not."

"It was fine...dad." The female rubbed his chest with her head.

Moon's eyes widened in shock and a bit of anxiety. "What did you just call me?" He whispered, as though not to frighten her.

"I called you daddy." She clarified. "Why, is that bad?"

"Oh no." Moon shook his head as she perked up at that. "I would love to be your protective parent. I love children, in fact. So, it was no problem for you to call me dad, or daddy."

Eyes watering in tears, the female wyvern rested her head on his chest again as Moon tried to soothe her with small and kind words, with her brother helping their new father.

After she calmed her tears down, Moon began asking her one question. "If you don't mind me asking, dear daughter," he started. "What kind of species are you?"

"A wyvern and dragon hybrid." His daughter answered his question, resting her head on his warm chest again, eyes beginning to water again as she felt so happy with emotions trigger inside her. They were positive emotions; happiness, calmness, innocence, and a bit of both of anxiety and fear.

Moon felt her waves of emotions in his body. She felt so happy for him to confess that he wanted them to be his children. It was then that he decided to show them their grandmother and her sister.

"Come, dear children," Moon got their attention. "I want to show you around the palace, your new home, and how it has many guards to protect you."

"Really, dad?" His son asked. "You want to show us around, like a tour?"

"Of course." Their father nodded. "However, since I'm still readjusting to these surroundings, I'll get us two guards to show us around since I'm not very familiar with these grounds." His voice began calling for duo of guards to come. "Guards!"

Just as quickly, two guards came to the room in a rushing manner. "Yes, our Prince?" They asked in unison.

"Would you please show us around the palace?" Moon asked. "I want to show these children of how great it is."

"Of course." The guards bowed respectfully to him. "This way." They motioned for the door. Deciding to trust their father's words, the two younglings stayed close to him as he walked out of the room, with the guards following them behind and began leading them around the palace.

After what had seemed like hours, the tour came to an end to the throne room. Moon had just showed his new children around like how a real father would do if it was a normal house.

With the doors to the throne room opening by a blue magic aura, Moon led his children in the room as the Mane Six greeted them with expected eyes, as though they had just realized something while they hadn't.

"Welcome, dear young ones," Celestia, from her throne, greeted the two. "Please come closer." Looking at their father, who nodded in reassurance, the two younglings came over to their grandma as she went down to their level with expected pink eyes. "I've heard that my son had confessed his feelings for you two."

"Y-You have?!" The two sputtered together.

Giving them a soft laugh, Celestia nodded. "Of course. He can't hide anything from his mother." From where he was standing, Moon gave an unnoticeable blush as he flushed in embarrassment. His mother giggled at that, she had clearly seen his blush.

"W-What do you mean, mother?" Moon stuttered in shock.

"Oh, please." Celestia giggled again. "Like you can hide anything from mares, dear son. Though, I thank you."

"For what, mother?"

"For bringing me some grandfoals." Celestia thanked gratefully. "I've always wanted to feel what it was like being a grandmother to children of my child. But, since you're clearly a human I guess, you can't produce any foals with another mare as your marefriend."

Blushing noticeable, Moon spluttered out, "I-It's not like I had found anypony yet!" It felt still weird saying "anypony", especially in front of his friends and mother, who all chuckled at the now family's embarrassment.

Celestia composed herself. "I have an announcement to the citizens of Canterlot that their Prince has returned. Would you like to attend?" She gave him the puppy eyes, but he could nearly resist them.

"Sure, why not?" Moon sighed in defeat. Celestia smiled gracefully and nodded in thanks, with her son rolling his eyes in exasperation as he watched her going down to his children's level again.

"What is it?" They spoke in unison.

"Before the announcement, would you like to meet your grandmother's sister?" Celestia asked them softly with a motherly voice. Feeling soothed and safe by her voice, the younglings nodded as they made an agreement to give her a visit. "Excellent. Now, if you all would please..." The Princess looked at the Mane Six and Shining as they nodded knowingly as they walked out of the throne room with smiles on their faces.

"Why did you send them away?" The wyvern asked her grandma.

"For nothing, my dear." Celestia smiled at her kindly. "If you would just follow me this way." She walked down from the two thrones, going over to the hallway with a moon symbol above it, with the trio following her as they walked down the hall to Luna's room.

After a few more minutes of walking, they came to a stop in front of an door with a moon symbol on the front side of it. Moon chuckled as he recognized the symbol as it had probably gave him his name.

"Wait behind me, okay?" Celestia asked the family kindly. They nodded as the Princess slowly opened the door to her sister's room as she walked inside with the family walking after her from behind. "Luna, wake up."

Groaning the dark blue mare said, "Why wake us up, Tia? We are sleepy."

Both Celestia and her son chuckled at that. It was Old English to the human's eyes, that's for sure.

"Remember to say "I", sister. We're not in the old literature anymore." Celestia reminded her sister.

"W-I am sorry, Tia." Luna groaned, rubbing her azure blue eyes that seemed familiar with the human. "But, after what thou had taught me, I felt more sleepiness overtaken me." It was an excuse; no doubt about it.

Chuckling again, Celestia began asking her sister one question. "Do you remember my son?"

"Oh, you mean the child that was foalnapped and was murdered?" Luna questioned.

Moon's eyes, from behind Celestia, widened in shock at that brutal response.

"Now, sister, that wasn't very nice thing to say-" Celestia was cut off as Luna began booming in front of her.

"Tia! Watch out! A strange creature is behind you!" Her horn lit up with an azure blue aura and fired it at Moon just as he managed to get a bright red light to protect himself, causing Luna to shield her eyes from the light.

When the light faded, a dragon was in place of the human that Luna had tried to strike with her magic, with an angry scowl on his face, to the dark blue mare's confusion.

"Okay, now I'm angry." Moon growled. "Oh, one last thing before I attack, never anger dragons!" He flew straight at a shocked Luna, who didn't have enough time to dodge the incoming assault from the dragon as they flew out of the window behind the bed and landed down in the garden, with a duel that had commenced.

Moon charged at the dark blue alicorn with his horns in front, hitting her directly at the chest, sending her back as she lit her horn up with an azure blue aura as she fired an magic beam from it and at the dragon, who managed to hover in the air to avoid being hit.

Luna gritted her teeth as she fired another magic beam at the dragon, who flew around to dodge the attacks from the alicorn as he let out anFire Shieldattack to defend himself from the coming attacks by the alicorn, who was supposed to be his aunt.

With her horn lit up with an azure blue aura, Luna fired an consecutively attack at the shield that protected the dragon from her own assaults. Gritting his teeth in rage as the shield had broke after a tenth attack, Moon charged down at the alicorn and hit her hard in the chest when he landed and ran straight for her, staggering her back in mild surprise.

After an intense duel, lasting for a few more minutes, it finally came to an end with both creatures panting hard as they gave each other a small smile at the duel that had just ended in a draw.

"Now, feel our wrath and go to the moon, dragon!" Luna shouted in rage, but a voice stopped her from doing so.

"Stop!" A young feminine voice yelled and a wyvern-like dragon ran up to her exhausted father, who hugged her as she had tears in her eyes.

Seeing them like this, made Luna's eyes go wide open in shock. The way they hugged, reminded her of the times when she had been hurt on the inside with her sister. They must be a family, which was true.

The female wyvern begged Luna with, "Please don't send my daddy to the moon. He's quite a nice and cool dragon once you get to know him." She had tears in her eyes as she sobbed, resting her head on her father's chest, who gave her comforting words that everything was going to be alright.

Luna's eyes widened even more in shock. He's that creature's father?! It didn't make any sense. How can a dragon be a parent to a wyvern hybrid? It all just doesn't make any sense at all. It was just impossible.

"Nothing's impossible. It's actually quite possible." Moon groaned as he had heard her thoughts with his psychic abilities. He had pain all over his body from being hit by that alicorn from the sides. It was too much for him to handle, but he managed to evn hug his daughter despite the pain he felt.

Luna widened her eyes even more. He had heard her, then? Weren't that against privacy?

"I know that it's against the privacy of one's inner thoughts, that's why I do it respectfully and only be allowed to do so if the creature allows me to. But, in my family, I had permission from my mother to read your thoughts with my psychic abilities." Moon groaned in pain at each word he had mouthed.

Luna narrowed her eyes at him. Why would her sister be a family to a brute dragon like him? It didn't make any-

"Actually, it does make sense." Moon grunted to her. "Before you had finished that inner sentence, I read your thoughts with my abilities. For how do I have these abilities you may ask? I have a friend that is unique for being a psychic dragon, or drake if you may so decide to call us, whom has elemental attacks, that. And, it's quite rude to call a human a brute dragon if he's a cool one that decides to spare an innocent being like you."

Luna narrowed her eyes even more. "How are thou a "human", dragon?" The wvvern didn't ask the same question as she just rested her head on his chest while he rubbed her back comfortingly.

"It's because I am a shape-shifter, or an Halfling, a being that is capable to transform into any creature if they do so choose. I chose to be a dragon for standard and decided to always change into that." Hearing wings flapping, Moon raised his head to see his mother coming down to him as she hugged him with her wings around him, gently, though.

Luna was confused at that.

"How are you feeling, son?" The dark blue mare's eyes widened at that. Her sister called that creature "son"? She titled her head as she listened to the conversation.

"Pain. Too much pain." Moon groaned painfully. "She sure got me good. I've never seen anypony attack that violently before."

"Trust me," Celestia said. "She'd never attack that violent when she would had found out that you were my son and his children my grandfoals."

Luna's eyes widened again. That wyvern is a grandfoal of her sister's? Well, it made sense since she was the child of the red dragon. After a few minutes of talking, Celestia unwrapped her wings from her son's body, as he felt to one knee as he summoned a red gem that glowed a brighter colour and healed him with energy, feeling refreshed after that.

"Well, that sure was quite a display you showed us, son," Celestia gave a weak chuckle as her son were done healing with the red gem growing a darker colour for being left out of energy.

"I concur." Luna agreed, walking over to them. "It was quite refreshing to have a sparring partner once in a while. It usually gets boring in the day than at night." Her sister chuckled at that.

With his daughter coming over to her grandma, Moon narrowed his eyes at Luna, who leaned back at the stare giving her way.

"You think this was a spar, do you?" He snarled. "It was dangerous, especially if you were happen to send me in the moon for a thousand years. From what my dad told me, you were the new alicorn that came a year back, right? Then, you must be it."

"Why are thou snarling at me?" Luna demanded in a heated voice.

"Because you just tried to "kill" me." Moon sneered, keeping the word "kill" as a minimum word to his daughter.

"We did not."

"Did so."

"Not."

"So."

"Stop it." Celestia came in-between them with her granddaughter at her side. "Arguing isn't going to sole anything. Try and be calm and nice to each other. I want our family to be together again." She had tears in her pink eyes after that.

Luna and Moon regretted everything they now had done, with the latter coming close to his mother and hugged her, whom hugged him back as they stayed like that for a few minutes.

After a few more minutes, the heated argument between aunt and nephew finally calmed down, with the former apologizing to him.

"Sorry." Luna apologized. "I did not mean to sound anything harsh towards thou. I was just hoping to scare thou."

"Hey, you didn't say "we" this time." Moon chuckled, happy that his aunt forgave him after she had threatened to send him to the moon.

Hearing hooves coming their way, the four looked over to see the male dragon, the Mane Six and Shining coming over to them, with the siblings hugging one another in happiness that the other was alright.

Smiling at his children, Moon looked at the group apologetically. "Sorry if we scared you just now. We didn't mean to go into a duel, right, aunt Luna?"

"Yes, dear nephew." Luna gave a nervous chuckle along with him. "We were sorry if we happened to create a commotion in the palace."

"It's mighty fine, Princess." Applejack said, accepting the apology. "Just happy that you two were being honest is all." Her friends nodded at that.

A day passed by after the little duel between Luna and her nephew, with the former still apologizing to her nephew after what she had said to him. He still forgives her, but said that she needed to be more careful with her words from then on.

Luna was happy that she had found a better nephew than Blueblood, who was a spoiled brat to her eyes, believing to be the stronger pony in all of Equestria, although he wasn't.

Moon had explained his story to his aunt, who was both surprised and shocked to hear how he had gotten his scar from a violent drake called Azam. She noted that she want to deal with him when she sees him in Ponyland. When he had told his story again, Moon was almost out of breath, but luckily, Luna had summoned a glass of water for him to drink when he were done with his story.

He had also told her about his old childhood here in the palace, to her wide smile of happiness for her sister.

The next day came, where the announcement was going to happen, Celestia had prepared a stage in front of the palace for them to meet up with the citizens of Canterlot. Moon, as always, was shivering at the very thought of going onstage for a whole city. He hated the very thought about it, but he agreed with his mother to do it, despite his fright of stages.

Walking through the crowd of ponies, who watched her with amazed eyes, she was curious as to why she was here.

"Mom, why are we here again?" She asked her mother, bearing an azure blue coat with a brown fedora on her to keep her hidden from the stares. "After when he was gone for eight years, I thought of never coming back here."

"It was a special delivery from the Princess herself," her mother reminded her. "We just couldn't say no, and besides, I'd bet that he would be here if he's even are here."

Sighing, the cloaked mare looked at the stage decorated with red curtains and yellow stars on them with curiosity.

If he was indeed here, then she would love to just see him one last time to see if the rumour was true. After hearing about a strange two-legger had taken out an entire army of Changelings, she was curious as to who it could had been that had taken them out of Canterlot.

Afraid, Moon was hiding behind the curtains with the Mane Six who stared at him with confused eyes.

"Why are ya scared, Prince Moon?" Applejack asked in wonder.

"Afraid of stages." Moon replied honestly.

Applejack blinked at him by the honest answer. She gave a soft laugh, to his inquisitively look.

"What's so funny?" He asked sternly.

"You." Applejack replied. "Afraid of stages? Oh, please, don't be so frightened of that. It's just a stage. Nothing to be worried about."

"Says you." Moon rolled his eyes, with his children staring at him incredulously. Hearing a cry, they looked around for the source of the voice. With something landing on his head, Moon smiled a little as he remembered its name as he perched on his shoulder. "Hello, P-Philomena." Philomena's eyes sparkled and nuzzled his cheek gently. Moon scratched the pheonix gently at its feathers, gaining an enjoyable grunting sound from it.

"Well," his mother's voice came from behind him. "I see that she has fully regenerated herself. I'm not surprised that it wanted to look for you first."

Moon turned his head to her, asking, "She's mine, then?"

"Oh, yes." Celestia nodded. "I gave her to you as a birthday present at the age of seven, or was it six? I don't remember." She gave a soft laugh at that, with her son giving one as well. The Princess then asked him curiously, "Are you really scared of stages, son?"

"Yes." Moon sighed. "After an experience with a large group of dragons, with I on a stage with the old grey dragon, I was scared. Heck, I was frightened out of my mind after I won the Dragon of Courage."

"I'd imagine you were." Celestia laughed softly when he finished the sentence. "But, you don't have to worry. I am right here next to you when you go out on the stage."

Sighing again, Moon continued to scratch Philomena gently on her feathers, gaining a moaning sound from her as she flapped her wings and flew over to Twilight, landing on her back as Celestia walked out on the stage, with the crowd cheering for her to finally announce what they had come for.

"Hello, dear citizens." Celestia greeted, gaining another round of cheering. "I am here to announce that, for ten years, have I kept hidden that I had a child all of these years all along."

The crowd was curious, especially the cloaked mare standing next to her azure blue mother.

"I have a bit of an announcement, he is the one that had defeated the Changelings that had attacked our dear city. I am grateful to him, as I know you all are as well."

The cloaked mare perked up at this. The city had been attacked? That's legally impossible.

"With the army defeated, the hero of Canterlot had fled the city to go to his home, which I was worried about when I found out about his appearance that were similar to my own child. The way he looked, the way he moves, and his agile, were all in a rush as he came back into this city.

"After he had come back, a gang of unicorns had attacked him a few days later." A collective gasps of shock. "But, he defeated them in single combat, overpowering them with his swift movements and quick scanning of their own movements. From what I had heard, he defeated them without using his fire power. An noble goal to beat a group of ponies, I say."

Moon blushed at that, hiding behind a cargo with his arms folded.

"But, just after a few days again, two young ones were reported being in the city. However, he protected them from another group of unicorns with relative ease. He was capable of defending both them and himself."

The ponies were happy after that. He was a noble hero, they think.

"However, this isn't an announcement for the recent events that had occurred in the city. I am here to announce you that my son has returned to me after eight long years of being separated."

The ponies cheered her and were happy for her.

"Thank you." Celestia had tears in her eyes at this. "You don't know how much this means to me and my son. I would be sure to tell him how you care for the both of us. Now, with the announcement nearly done, I am hereby going to present you the Hero of Canterlot. Everypony, I give you my son, your Prince: Moon." She motioned her head behind for him to come forth.

Giving a shaken breath, Moon summoned his wings as he looked at his children who gave him courageous eyes. Nodding to them, Moon smiled at them as he hovered above the cargo as he landed beside his mother, to a confused crowd of ponies as they went silent and stayed still.

"Hello, everypony!" Moon called out. "As for what my mother has told me, I am the Hero of Canterlot, the creature you had seen taken on an entire army of Changelings by himself. I, however, had cloned myself in order for me to defeat the Queen's army, just so I could take on her myself. With the clones taking on the army, I decided to go to the palace and attack the Queen herself.

"After a long, or short, battle, I defeated her with one of my attacks just right above her from the skies of Canterlot. However, it was truly one of your Princesses that defeated the Changeling army, I just exhausted them to allow them to send them away. I confess, I wasn't the true hero this time around.

"When I found out about that I was grown up here, I decided to be your Prince again after eight years of being away. For where I was, it's a secret to you. However, I suspect that you might had heard of an long battle between me and my rival in the skies, correct?"

The ponies stayed silent, giving their expressions as the answer.

"I'll take your inner thoughts as a yes." Moon said aloud. "For how I am able to hear your thoughts, it's also a secret." As he continued with talking about how he had defeated two groups of unicorns just after he had arrived in the city, the cloaked mare couldn't take her eyes off of him as she looked at his bluish-yellow eyes that were all but familiar to her.

After a long speech, Moon ended it with, "I thank you for listening. Now, I will be on my way with my mother as we want to reconcile ourselves a bit more." Applejack narrowed her eyes. It was a lie, no doubt about it.

The cloaked mare, however, slowly began to walk up to the stage when he was about to turn away along with the Princess, who was disappointed at the crowd for being silent for her son.

"Wait!" The cloaked mare called out finally, gaining the two's attention as they turned back around to her. Two unicorn ponies, both females, walked up to the stage as they watched the human with curious eyes.

"Are you really him?" The mother of the cloaked mare asked.

"Him, who?" Moon questioned inquisitively, eyeing her suspiciously.

"No need to be suspicious." The mare told him. "We're just familiar with your eyes, that is all." The cloaked mare couldn't take it anymore; she ran up and hugged the human tightly, resting her head on his chest as he looked at her in shock. However, while he was shocked, his mother smiled gracefully at the display before her.

Celestia turend her head to the crowd that looked quite surprised. "Well, unlike this cloaked mare, all of you are dismissed. I am very disappointed in you all." The crowd dispersed finally, giving the group some space alone.