It was like any other day. The sun was blazing gracefully in the blue sky above the land, its yellow setting slowly rising the sky. The trees were as green as the day before, with the ground filled with grass and beautiful flowers. The cities were just as lively as they always were, even the quiet towns. The birds chirped happily while some of them gave their young some food in the nests.

In the city of Canterlot, on the balcony overlooking the ponies below, a human of average height was resting his arms on the rails as his two children were looking down with him. He was smiling in pure happiness, as his family were whole again.

After a strange encounter with the cloaked pony, Moon was suddenly happy to see her again. Again was another word new for him. He hadn't seen her in ages, not before he had received his amnesia and the like. But, just that one encounter with her, filled him with emotions of happiness and joy, filling his once anger away.

Just by seeing her one time made him either shocked or innocent, as he hadn't felt this kind of emotions before in his life.

"Dad?" His son's voice gained his attention as he looked down at him.

"Yes?" Moon gave a small pouting look as his son nuzzled his leg.

"We're happy to be your children." The small dragon smiled in pure happiness.

"And I'm happy to be your father," Moon admitted. "Also, while we're on topic, I didn't quite catch your names before. What are they?"

"I'm Jaxar." The small dragon introduced himself. "And my sister's name is Varin."

"Hm. Varin sounds like Virin in some ways." Moon hummed in interest, looking at his innocence daughter. "Just with the "I" replaced with an "A" in the name. I approve of it, actually."

"I'm glad you like it, daddy," Varin gave a noticeable blush of embarrassment, nuzzling his other leg as he patted her on the back, her winged arms close together while she nuzzled him.

Hearing his door opening from behind them, Moon turned his head over his shoulder, seeing his mother standing in the doorway with a knowing smile on her face.

"Breakfast is ready, you three." Celestia called to them.

"Be there in a few seconds." Moon called back, as the Princess closed the door with her magic as he looked down at his children. "Let's go slowly there, alright? There's no need to rush to the dinner hall." Varin and Jaxar nodded as the trio made their way towards the door, with the human opening it by the handle with a hand, with his children walking out first before he closed the door behind him as he got out of his room.

As they walked down the hallway, Moon bumped into someone, or somepony, by accident, causing him to fall on his butt on the floor.

"Hey, watch where you're going!" The voice of Blueblood rumbled angrily. When he noticed who he bumped into, he narrowed his eyes in rage. "Oh, it's you. What do you want?"

"Nothing for today." Moon grumbled, dusting himself as he got up. "What do you want, Blueblood?"

"It's Prince Blueblood to you, monkey!" The Prince yelled at him, but he was unfazed by the yell.

"Say that again, and I will burn you to ashes." Moon threatened, scaring Blueblood as he thought that he now had a fire power inside him that he want to play with. Sweating like paper, Blueblood dashed away from him in a sprint, passing through curious stares of guards on the way.

Sighing in relief of that very short encounter, Moon assured his children with a smile. "I just joked around. I promised mother that I wouldn't hurt anypony unless threatened."

Varin and Jaxar smiled in response, glad that was settled. Resuming their walk to the dinner hall, Moon greeted the many guards and maids with a "Good morning" which they greeted back with as they passed by him and the two younglings.

As they made their way towards the dinner hall's door, Moon opened the door and narrowed his eyes at his mother whilst her horn had lit up with an magic aura. She smiled sheepishly at him, with her horn's magic fading away as she chuckled nervously.

"Why that narrow stare, son?" Celestia sheepishly asked.

"Not going to happen this time, mother." Moon simply replied, getting two chars out to his children when they hopped on them and sat down. He took a seat between his mother and son, ready to eat some breakfast to start the day.

"What's for the menu?" Moon asked her, resting his arms on the rather large round table, taking a deep breath as he smelt some food in the kitchen.

"I ordered some oatmeal for you, son." Celestia replied. "It's because, when you were little, you always loved to have some oatmeal to breakfast and lunch. So, I thought why not order that like good old times?"

"Works for me." Moon shrugged his shoulders. "I can't live on gems and crystals, you know. So, I believe some oatmeal will have to do for the time being when I'm here."

Nodding in pleasure, Celestia looked at the two small ones with a reassuring smile. "And I ordered the same thing for you two, my dears."

"Thanks, grandma!" Both Jaxar and Varin chirped happily, causing their father to chuckle at that.

"I still don't get the reason why they're your grandfoals, Princess." Rainbow said, looking at the children with a curious look. "And especially two who'are not ponies."

Shaking his head, Moon reminded her, "Rainbow Dash, any being can be a grandfoal, adopted or not. I adopted these two as my own, so they're her grandfoals now. Accept it that way."

"Fine." The rainbow maned pegasus said grumpily, rolling her pink eyes.

Chuckling again, Moon turned to the cloaked pony that sat between Twilight and Rarity. "What's your name? I don't think I heard about it before."

Breaking up in a few tears, the cloaked mare answered, "Radiant Hope, my Prince. And, for that matter, we were once friends in your foalhood."

"Were we?" Moon repeated. "Strange, I don't remember." Radiant teared up at that moment, with Rarity soothing her with motherly words.

"You could've been more approachable than that." The white unicorn scolded him.

Shrugging, Moon turned to the mother of the cloaked mare. "I don't think of seeing you before. Were you in any way my foalsitter?"

"Yes." The azure blue mare nodded. "when you were just a small child, I was the foalsitter of you when your mother had Day Court with the nobles of Canterlot."

"Huh." Moon said in surprise. "That's definitely something. What's your name, then?"

"Crystal Rose, my dear." Rose introduced herself with a bow of her head, making Moon chuckle at the humbleness giving to him. Unlike Blueblood, he were more approachable to their subjects than him. Subjects were another new word for him, since he wasn't a dragon prince back when he lived with Princess Ember and Lord Torch. That was because the dragons were rejecting and objecting the fact about it. So, his father accepted that when they objected that the human shouldn't be their prince.

As they talked amongst themselves, the door to the dinner hall opened. Moon expected it to be his male cousin, but it wasn't him. Instead, it was Princess Cadance and Shining Armor, along with the latter's presumably parents, whose coats were a dark blue and greyish purple colours.

The latter immediately noticed the human getting up as he prepared to introduce himself. She broke into tears as she tackled him into a hug, crying outloud at that.

"It's okay. It's okay." Moon tried to soothe her along with the dark blue unicorn. The grey mare finally calmed down as she looked at him in the eyes, staring in his bluish-yellow orbs caringly.

"Are you really him...?" She asked slowly.

"Him, who?" Moon cocked his head to the side in confusion. Then realization came to him being. "Oh, yes. The hero of Canterlot. That's me."

"I wasn't asking about you being the hero of Canterlot." The mare corrected him. "About if you were my nephew or not."

"Oh, that?" Moon gave a sheepish smile, as he nodded in confirming. "Well, since I learned that there were the Sparkle family being in this family, then I guess I am your nephew in some ways."

The mare broke into tears again and hugged him once more. The two small ones were confused at the display before them, not understanding the situation around them nor did their father.

The mare continued to hug the human, who pleaded with a mouthed "Help me" to his mother, who finally nodded as she began speaking to the grey mare.

"I think that's enough, my little pony." Celestia called to her as the mare stopped hugging the human, to his breath of relief. The dark blue unicorn also breathed out in slight relief after the display that had just occurred with his wife.

Just then, breakfast was served to the two families. Oatmeal to the trio consisting of a human, dragon-slash-wyvern hybrid and dragon, with the two small ones already digging in their food, making chuckle echo around the table at their hunger, to their ignorance as they continued to eat their meal.

Chuckling to himself at his children, Moon began to eat his own oatmeal as he took a fork to eat with, while the unicorns used their magics to levitate their own forks to eat their own breakfast.

After a few minutes of eating, they were already full with stomachs as they all breathed out in huge relief as their hunger stopped. The two small younglings rested themselves on their father's lap and shoulders, which made him chuckle in enjoyment as he enjoyed the company of his two young ones. Varin was on the lap on her farther whilst her brother rested on his shoulders.

When Moon prepared to stand, he took his daughter under his left arm as he walked to the door, with his son still resting on his shoulders as he slowly breathed in and out with his breath.

Opening the door, Moon looked behind him as he nodded his head as the ponies nodded back as he walked out to his room to let his children rest for the morning until noon. When he came to his room's door, Moon opened the door with his free arm, walking inside it and got over to his bed as he raised his daughter to the blanket and let her rest on it for the time being. He took his son and rested him beside his sister, giving them a pleasant smile on his face as he made his way to the balcony overlooking the city below.

Thinking back to his dragon family, Moon wondered how they were doing. Was they worried for him being gone for two weeks? They must be. But, even so, he knew they were strong enough to not show that emotion for when he would return one day.

Just then, his eyes glowed a brighter colour as he got a vision of the future.

In a dark and spooky forest, laid a red dragon with a yellow underbelly beside a campfire. It was resting for the day, dreaming for that matter. Just then, Moon saw the scenario change into something horrific.

Blood, loads of blood, were spread on the ground like a pool. There were bodies of ponies and dragons lying down, dead. They weren't breathing as they were still. Their heartbeats couldn't be heard, nor their pulsing sensation. They were still like a rock, gone for good.

A two headed hydra stood tall and mighty, laughing out in an evil and scary way. It looked over to the spirit of the human envisioned this horrifying sight. It prepared to launch an attack on him, but the scene stopped right there as the human spirit screamed for it to stop.

Gasping for breath, Moon looked quickly back at his children, still lying down on the bed in a restful sleep. He sighed in great relief. It was a luck that they weren't up yet, or else they would had questioned him for what he had just experienced in a vision. It was also a luck that they didn't know what a vision was. He tried to explain it to them, but they just cocked their heads to the side in confusion. This was from two days ago.

Sighing and inhaled and exhaled a breath, Moon walked inside his room from the balcony, holding on his children's shoulders and began shaking them gently.

"Varin, Jaxar, wake up." He called softly, smiling as they yawned while waking up, blinking a few times and staring up at their father with innocence.

"Why wake us, dad?" Jaxar groaned. "We had such a wonderful sleep."

"Well, for one, it's noon." Moon replied. "And two, we should interact with the citizens some more. They're still scared for seeing three "unwanted" beings in their city, after all. I know two friends that could help us with that problem."

Yawning again, the two children nodded their heads a little, prompting Moon's small smile as he went for the door, opening it by the handle and was met with Cadance, who stood outside of the doorway with a surprised expression.

"Well," she began. "Never expected you to answer it, especially since you have two children now."

Moon chuckled. "Believe me, I'd would've answered it anyhow." His smile grew as his two children ran up to their aunt, hugging her by the hooves, who smiled with happiness down at them.

"You two sweethearts are so adorable." Cadance cooed, still smiling at them. The two young ones blushed noticeably, prompting a chuckle to come out of their father.

"That, they are." Moon teased them a little, "And, they're so small they could fit through a crack."

"No teasing." Cadance scolded him by pointing a hoof at him. He shrugged his shoulders.

"Well, what do you want, Cadance?" Moon asked in wonder. "I believe that your wedding was postpones, but what would you do in the meantime?"

"Hang out with my family is all." The Princess of Love answered kindly. "What better way to spend one's time with? Training? As if I need something like that, unlike you of course."

"Of course." Moon rolled his eyes. "Teasing about my exercising."

"That's not about teasing it," Cadance reminded him sweetly. "All I said was that you could spend less time training with your family. That's all."

"Huh." Moon hummed, looking down on his two innocent children. "Now that you think of it, all I ever did in my time in the Lands, was all but training and exercising. I've never really did spend time with my family back then." He shrugged after that. "Sure, why not? I'll hang out with you guys, just for one day in the least. That should probably get all that fighting out of my head for the time being of me being here."

"Glad you would like the idea." Cadance nodded approvingly, motioning him with a hoof behind her. "Shall we?"

"Ladies first." Moon motioned with his own hand.

Laughing at that, Cadance smiled at him. "You're too kind." She led the two curious children out of the room and walked down the hallway with the human to the throne room where Celestia was waiting for them.

As they neared the throne room, and with the guards opening the doors for them, Moon narrowed his eyes at his mother as her horn had lit up with magic again, smiling sheepishly down at him from her throne. Beside her, Luna chuckled at the display before her, as she liked Moon's sharp expression with her sister.

"I see that you've decided to take the rest of the day off, son?" Celestia asked him, making him flinch a bit at that.

"How...?"

"You can't hide anything from us mares, dear nephew." Luna chuckled weakly at his sharp stare coming towards her.

"Hardy har." Moon gave her a suspicious stare instead of an sharp one, wondering how they had known about his day-off. Maybe he needs to be more careful with revealing anything to these mares. They can be much of an pushover sometimes.

"Don't be like that, son." His mother said warmly. "Be happy. Your day-off might be one to remember. I take it you would visit your two friends, right?"

"H-Yes." Moon re-composed himself with a nod. "Fancy Pants and Fleur, two kind ponies who were amazed by my skills at fighting, and for the show I gave them a while back."

"You know Fancy and Fleur?" Radiant asked him hopefully, eyes sparkling with interest.

"Why yes, I do." Moon nodded again, more clear now. "After that encounter with that gang, I made the city a more proper place to live in. However, there are still those that resists some of them. So, that's why I can sometimes get into a few fights here and there."

Celestia hummed at that, eyes looking in wonder at him. "And, you're sure you don't mind taking a day-off of your training?"

"I am." Moon nodded. "Though, still skeptical about the idea." He side-glanced at Cadance, who whistled innocently at the look she was given.

"Of course you are." His mother chuckled at his skepticism. "Radiant Hope, if you would please help my son show around the city's streets? He is still adjusting his old life, after all."

"I don't think that's necessary-" Moon was cut off by the once cloaked mare, giving him a full body view of her. She had an azure blue coat, with sparkling eyes that were quite beautiful. Her tail and mane were a light blue colour.

For something as her, she sure was beautiful.

Radiant nodded her head to the Princess. "I'll be glad to." She turned to the skeptical human. "What do say you, Prince Moon? You up for it or what?"

Looking at his two young ones, Moon saw them giving him nods of agreement. Sighing, he gave her a nod as she clapped her forehooves together in anticipating, smiling in a pleased way that could melt Moon's very core down.

After showing him around the castle, which he already notifying her about he had already done, Radiant led Moon and his children to the castle doors, which prompted the guards standing at the door to open for them as they thanked them for the gesture.

Walking outside to the open world, Moon's eyes clenched shut at the sunlight shining brightly at them, as he regretfully followed Radiant downtown to the streets of Canterlot. He had promised her to be kind and let her be his guide along with his children, so he'd let her be on her own business once he were away from her. But, he just couldn't take his eyes off of her ever since this noon when she had revealed her true form to him.

As they walked down the streets, Moon bumped into somepony that happened to be in his path, causing him to fall to the ground on his butt, grunting in little pain at the fall.

"Hey, watch it, you vermit!" The stallion sneered at him. "Well, look who we got here. A two-legger in our city? As if I would accept that fact."

Gritting his teeth, Moon composed himself from attacking the pony as he stood back up. He sure was getting on his nerves, despite the little error he had just shown.

"Well, sorry 'bout that, pony" Moon impolitely snarled at the stallion. "But, you were happen to be in my way. So, just get out of the way, would you?"

"I think not, monkey." The stallion gave him his own snarl as he continued to sneer at the human. "It was very much you who bumped into me. I was looking for where I was going, you did not."

"Oh, pleease." Moon rolled his eyes in boredom. "As if it was just an accident."

"As a matter of fact, it was." The stallion gritted his teeth.

Tensing, Moon couldn't take it anymore. He grabbed the stallion by the throat, as though he was preparing to choke him to death.

"Listen here, pony." Moon downright growled at him. "Let's get this out of the way. It was you who had bumped intome.I was just in my thoughts, nothing more and nothing less. If you have any problems with that, run the damn off." Scared, the stallion was released as he breathed in the fresh air and ran for the hills away from the human.

Galloping up to him, Radiant reminded him, "It wasn't very polite to growl at him, y'know."

"Sorry." Moon apologized with a sigh. "But, guys like him tad to get on my nerves sometimes. Just be glad that I hadn't burned him to ashes."

Sighing, Radiant gave a nod of her head to the road. "I can show you three around a bit. Sounds like a wonderful idea, doesn't it?"

Moon nodded in agreement. "Please do show us around." Jaxar and Varin gave their own nods of agreement. Smiling in a beautiful way, the azure blue mare led the trio around the city.

First, they pitched a stop to Joe's doughnut shop, which Moon reminded her that he had already been there. Joe were warmly anticipating their arrival, especially Moon's, to the human's raised eyebrow of amusement. Jaxar and Varin had eaten a few doughnuts to the point where their father had stopped them from overdoing it, to their small complaints.

After that, they made a stop to the park of Canterlot, where Moon played a little with his children for a bit to spend the time around. The small ones enjoyed the company of Radiant, like she were their mother all these years of being lost in a world unkindly to them. Moon had noticed their sad expressions when they watched them from a bit afar away in the park, but didn't say anything.

Afterwards, they payed a visit to Radiant's old house, which was close to the castle, to Moon's amused look that they were practically neighbors. Radiant also found that a bit of amusing, but not as much as the human's bemusement, not since moving to Manehattan for the time he were gone and about getting a job while there. Though, she didn't say it aloud so he could hear it, it was a little secret to herself, after all.

When they prepared to move back to the castle for the evening, a gang stopped them mid-walk on the way to the castle, to Moon's annoyance and dangerous expression. However, the gang weren't fazed by his mere expression.

"Can we help you?" Moon asked annoyingly to them.

"As a matter of fact, yes." The leader replied. "Give us her, and we'll be on our way." He had pointed to a shocked Radiant when he said that.

Narrowing his eyes, Moon spat at them in disgust. "Fools like you never seems to be give up when they know they're outmatched."

"Stop talking about that." The leader shook his head. "If you're not going to hand her over, then we'll force her to be with us. She's more safe with ponies like her than a mere monkey-" He was punched in the face when he had that word aloud.

"Nobody calls me a monkey, since I'm not one." Moon growled at him in a dangerous way. "You shall be lucky that I am a day off right now. So, leave us and never cross our paths again." He narrowed his eyes again. "Got it?"

However, the leader were unfazed by the threat. He stood his ground in a firm desire. "Just give us her, and we'll be on our way." He repeated his first sentence.

"You wanna try?" Moon threatened, eyes glowing a bright colour as a bright red light engulfed him and blinded everypony around him. When the light faded, a four-legged dragon was in place of the "monkey". It was snarling at the gang with bared fangs, showing his sharp teeth and growled dangerously, body shaking with rage as it was visibly dangerous to come in contact with.

The gang was shocked to see a dragon instead of the monkey.

"Your move." The dragon sneered coldly.

"But, you've promised not to engage in a fight." Radiant reminded the dragon, holding the two children close to her.

"Sorry." The dragon apologized. "But, looks like I can never truly catch a break when I'm here." He turned his head back at the gang with a threatening snarl. "As I said, your move."

Letting out a battle cry, the leader ran for the dragon, but was punched in the face hard, forcing him back to his comrades.

Hearing the cry, the citizens looked at the new fight that was currently happening in the streets. Interest blooming in them, they walked over and watched as the dragon roared out as it made an impressive agile move against the nine ponies, punching the first pony in the face and kicked the second in the side, causing them to cry out in slight pain.

The eighth and ninth ponies of the gang ran for the dragon, either punching or kicking him in the sides and face, making the dragon to roar out in pain as it growled dangerously at them in a threatening way. Taking challenge of the threat, the two ponies made a teamwork that confused the dragon for a moment as it tried to look after them while they ran all around him, making it tilt its head in concentration.

Concentrated, the dragon opened its once closed eyes and quickly grabbed the two ponies by the throats in an impressive way, making bemused expressions from the watchers that looked on the fight. With the two ponies in his grip, Moon threw them to their leader, making groans of pain from them to prompt Moon to take action as he ran for the three ponies in a fast way. He punched the leader in the face, kicking the two other ponies in the stomachs, which nearly made them to throw up by the force of the two kicks.

Moon tackled the first of the two ponies, causing them to slid across the ground after the pony was forced on his back. Moon did something horrible to the audience, by biting into the flesh of the pony that he had grabbed, causing him to cry out in agony as he trashed wildly to shake the dragon off of him. However, Moon held on the pony, sinking his bite more in the flesh, making blood to appear in the bite's force. Satisfied, Moon leaned back with an evil grin as he leapt into the air, after he had grabbed the pony by the shoulders and threw him hard on the ground, making another cry of agony come out of him.

Satisfied, Moon looked to his next victim, who was scared as heck as he tried to run. However, as fast as he was, Moon grabbed him by the tail, throwing him on the ground hard, and landed on top of him as he bit into his flesh, causing the pony to cry out in pain as the teeth sank into his neck as blood began to appear after the stronger force of the bite from the dragon. Moon continued to sink his teeth in the pony's neck, before had enough as he threw him into his fallen partner's side, making groan of agony come out of the pony.

Deciding to spare him for now, Moon turned his attention to the last seven ponies of the gang, who tensed up by the stare he was giving them. Moon ran for the closest pony as he bit onto his neck and made him cry out in pain. A second pony came to try and punch him away from his friend, but Moon grabbed him by the throat and threw him away to the side. Moon's bite continued to sink into the pony's flesh as he let out cries of pain from the bite as Moon was satisfied by the cries and threw him to the two fallen ponies to the side, causing more groans of pain come out from them.

One of the last six ponies stood up for the dragon, kicking him in the guts, which caused Moon to roar in pain as he bit onto the pony's neck and let him feel his bite as the pony cried out in much agony as the dragon's bite became more intense than the last three times. Moon continued to sink his bite into the pony's neck, causing him to cry out to stop and in pain. But, suddenly, the dragon stopped as he threw him to his fallen comrades, groaning in pain as he looked at the dragon one last time before going unconscious and into the land of dreams.

Moon decided to use his martial arts against the last five ponies, kicking and punching them all over as they tried to overrun him but the dragon ran backwards in an attempt to shake them off. The ponies, however, pursued him as they overcome him by their own martial arts, kicking and punching the dragon all over the body as he roared out in pain. The dragon stopped with the roars of pain, though, as he gritted his teeth in anger as he kicked one of the last remaining ponies in the guts, causing him to cry out in pain as he punched the dragon in the face, grabbing him by the throat and threw him to the fallen ponies as he made his angered way towards the last four ponies in a dangerous way as he slowly walked forward.

"What's gotten into him?" The leader asked as the dragon slowly marched forward. "We hadn't done him anything!" The dragon, though, didn't acknowledge him and it made its way towards them dangerously and threateningly as the leader finally had enough of this. The leader ran for the dragon, but was forced back by the punch he had been given as a reward for being foolish to challenge a dragon. The dragon slowly, but menacingly, walked forward still, intending to end their lives here and now. But, he want to give them a well-deserved punishment as a reward for being such a fool to duel him.

The four remaining ponies had enough of this and ran for the dragon, with each one of them giving them either a kick or a punch all over his body. However, the dragon's didn't acknowledge the pain he was feeling and stood tall and mighty as he took the attacks dead-on while trying to be feeling nothing. The dragon, on the other claw, made finally a move as he gave them tail slaps with his tail as he also kicked and punched them in the faces, as though he had just broken their skulls hard. But, that was untrue as he flapped his wings and flew above them as he gave a roar of a challenge, diving straight down to the ground, landing on all four at the last second and started to consecutively kicking and punching one of the ponies at a time. After a few more punches and kicks, the ponies all but laid on the ground, either in agony or pain as the dragon stood in a victorious way as he spread his wings out majestically as he let out a victorious roar.

Sighing as he transformed back into his human form, Moon was met with two hugs by his children, who cried in happiness that he was alright.

"We're so glad you're unharmed, dad." Varin whispered sadly, tears in her eyes.

"I did tell you I would be, didn't I?" Moon asked in amusement, smiling down at his daughter as she wiped her tears away.

Radiant walked up to him firmly, saying, "You need to be more careful next time we're in the city, Moon."

Chuckling nervously, Moon merely shrugged his shoulders in exasperation. "What can I say? I attract battles like these." He said innocently.

"Clearly." Radiant rolled her beautiful eyes knowingly. "Shall we head out of here before they get back to their business? I'd like to stay away from guys like them."

"Sure." Moon nodded in agreement, motioning his children to follow him and Radiant to the park of the city.

Coming to the part, the four met up with Fancy Pants and Fleur on the way to a bench as the three friends talked about what the commotion was.

"So," Moon started, recalling the events before. "I used my martial arts on the gang, but they somehow also knew about martial arts. It was martial arts versus martial arts. It was kind of an rumble between us. But, in the end, I won the rumble." He shrugged in exaggeration. "I guess you can say I just love to fight guys like them."

"It clearly shows us." Fancy gave him a nod with his head. "However, like before, we weren't there because we didn't like the violence that had previously occurred in our beloved city. First the invasion, then three gangly fights between a group of ponies and a dragon. I'd say you're really liking the city in the last, am I right?"

"Well, yes." Moon said. "As I told you about my previous life, I only fought in order to survive in the Lands where dragons like me lived. Some of them were violent, while others were nice enough to let me be one of them. There were others, though, that reconsidered the very idea of me being in the Lands, my rival's gang was one of them." He looked over at his children, who played Hide and Seek nearby, smiling fondly at them playing.

Seeing him smile at the two young ones, made Fancy and Fleur smile as well, along with Radiant Hope who looked at the children with fondness.

"Tell me," Fancy started, gaining the human's attention. "How did you even find them? I've never seen them around before."

"Well," Moon sighed, trying to recall the events that happened. "When a group of ponies, five unicorns, ganged up on them, I stepped up in front of the small ones to protect them from possible serious injuries. Although I defeated them with my martial arts, the other citizens looked generally disgusted at what they saw. So, I decided to bring the young ones to the Princess of Love for them to be calmed. When they calmed down, I talked with them for a bit and became their father, only a few hours after I've met them. A little fast, I know, but I like kids in fact."

Fleur looked horrified when he said one of the parts in the story. "That must truly be terrible to experience in their age." She breathed uneasy.

"Aye." Moon nodded his head. "Those poor young ones were also happened to have lost their mother, whom I don't know was or who she were, but all I know is that they lost her against some species of sorts. It must possibly be hunters that hunted dragons, but who knows. I don't know much about their home, after all. But, I would like to visit it sometime."

"Maybe because they were the same species as you, Moon, that they lost their mother?" Radiant guessed quizzically.

"Could be." Moon rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "However, I'm not sure that there are others of my kind's race. I haven't seen another human for ages. Well, unlike that white cloaked guy from my storytelling to my other friends."

"Did you tell the Elements a story?" Fleur asked in wonder. "What kind of an story was that?"

"About my teen life with the dragons." Moon replied, smiling warmly at his two children, while Jaxar has found his sister from beneath the bush she was hiding behind. "It's a long story, but my breath is almost out whenever I tell it to somepony." Again, it was weird for him to say "somepony", but it felt good somehow.

"It must be really long, then." Fleur nodded in acknowledgement, not wanting to hear the story, to Moon's relief.

"Believe me, it is." Moon responded. "It's about my eight years of living with dragons. So, I guess in a way that it is my most experienced story to tell somepony to. However, I'm not in the mood to tell it again, since it is such a long one at that."

"Dad!" Varin ran up to him, making him stand and kneel down as he grabbed her in his grasp, hugging her gently. "Can you tell us your story? Pleease?"

Cursing himself silently in his thoughts, Moon decided to speak of his story to his two curious children. To make it short, he didn't include the parts where he was found by a Princess. He spoke of how he met up with his old friend Nightwing, and met up with four others called Zach, Amber, Minuette and Gilda.

Of course, at the mention of Gilda, Radiant silently told herself to meet this Gilda griffon in person someday.

Continuing on with the story, Moon told his curious kids about how he battled a cyborg by the name Helios, tying with him in a long fight, making almost amends with Garble at one of the final battles against him. He also told them that he was the son of the current Dragon Lord, to their amazement and more of their curiosity. When the story was about to come to an end, Moon was almost out of breath from telling it in the first place.

When the story came to an end, Moon was out of breath as he inhaled some fresh air and exhaled it out a few times before catching his own breath at telling the stort again.

When he finished, Varin was in awe of his long story. In her sight, he was the best storyteller in the world. It was such an amazing story that she wanted it to be a book of sorts. But, she knew he couldn't write well.

As he had finished his story, Moon panted for breath as he knelt down to his daughter's height, smiling at her with fondness.

"Now you know my story." He said, getting her attention to his eyes. "Now, tell me, how did you end up here in the first place? I'm a bit curious myself."

"Sorry, dad," Jaxar said apologetically. "But, we don't know about that either. It was such a rush; we've never had time to prepare ourselves when we knew we were going to be sent to another world."

"What do you mean by "another world"?" Fleur asked him kindly. "We've never heard of another planet in the middle of the universe."

Sweat dropping, Jaxar cursed himself silently in his head. "Sorry, but it's not my story to tell." He apologized. "Nor my sister's to tell you."

"We understand, son," Moon replied understandingly. "But, out of curiousness, why did you be sent to Canterlot in the first place? It must had been the same way as I was used to be sent here." He was told by his mother that he had been sent to this very location by her own powers.

"Well," Jaxar began. "It all happened in a flash. We didn't had time to react when grandma used her teleportation spell on us. In fact, we hadn't known she could even do that."

"A teleportation spell, you say?" Radiant asked in interest. "I need to learn more about teleportation in a few more months."

"Sorry to say this," Jaxar apologized. "But, our grandma died out of exhaustion when she used it on a third being, whom we now realized was our father all this time, and because she didn't had any time to prepare when the outsiders attacked our city."

"I see." Radiant said. "So, I need to learn them on my own, then. Or I could just ask Twilight for help."

"Twilight's the best choice, I think." Moon added to her. "Since she know many different spells, as far as she told me, she knows a lot about magic. That's because she studied them during her youth, which is impressive mind you."

"I know." Radiant nodded. "She's amazing isn't she? All the possibilities while studying under the mighty ruler of Ponyland." That caught the human's attention as he focused his gaze on her.

"Come again?" He asked. "Did you say she studies under my mother, the most graced pony all of kind? That's just legally impossible."

"But, it's true." Radiant argued. "She's under her wing. She even comes to the palace often to learn more about magic from the Princess herself. Even I would be impressed with it if it was I who was under the ruler's wing."

Titling his head, Moon reminded her, "But, you're not, are you?"

"Obviously not." Radiant sighed. "But, it would had been the best if I even was."

Humming to himself, Moon thought of something important about his life. Ever since learning about life from his father Torch, he had been taught many different things about how predators hunts on herbivours for food, and that herbivours ate plants and some of the disgraced food to predators. Ponies are herbivours, while dragons are part predator, that is all he could think of for now. Even she should know about it as much as he do.

Learning about life from his father, Moon had also been told that humans were omnivours that are both part predator and herbivour, eating both of the things that dangerous predators could think of eating, like fish and sharks for example. However, Moon was different from the rest of the humans, as he could eat gems and crystals by his inner draconian instincts. Although he eats crystals and gems, Moon could also eat a few predators that he could hunt whenever he was on his solo hunts alone, eating them either dead or as a whole meal, the latter of which was unlikely.

"Moon?" Radiant called. "You okay? You look lost in thought."

"Huh?" Moon redirected his shape as he gave her a shrug of his shoulders. "I am, just thinking about my life lessons with my father is all."

"You learned life lessons?" Fleur asked next. "When did that happen?"

"It was because I was the most curious being Father had ever met." Moon replied, looking down on his feet. "Whenever I would ask a question about something, he would respond, saying "It's what life is, son". That was because I asked him why a predator would hunt an herbivour, which I understood why the predator would hunt. Whenever I see something move or do something, I would ask him about what that being was doing.

"Also, out of my curiosity, I had learned about life lessons because I asked too many questions one time. Overtime, I learned why a predator would hunt down an herbivour; it was so the predator could eat food. I also wondered what a big, mighty ancient alpha would be. Father said that an ancient alpha was nothing more than a myth, but he was wrong I just know it. Ancient alpha predators exists in the world, since learning from my darkness, I was related to one of them.. However, unlike it, I didn't hunt for outlining or overpopulated areas or world. Whenever I gazed up at a star at night, I would think of the predator I was related to, thinking it could be blood-related to my family. Once I see it, I would like to watch every one of its movements and attack styles. When I get the chance, I would be happy to meet it, since I didn't know that an ancient alpha predator was in my family."

"Well," Fancy said after a moment's silence. "I would also think that an alpha predator is in your family. Although I don't like predators, I too would like to meet it one day, however it may be, I have no clue."

Nodding his head, Moon looked down on his two watching children. "So, you see, we have a large family. That is all I know of for now."

"Wow." Was all Jaxar and Varin could breathe out.

Moon chuckled at his children's amazement, especially their sparkling eyes of wonder.

"Shall we head back to the castle now, Moon?" Radiant asked him suddenly. "I bet the others are worried for us."

Eyes widening in shock, Moon nodded a bit rapidly with his head. "Yes. Let's go." He turned to Fancy and Fleur. "It was nice meeting up with you two again."

"Please, it was all a coincidence that we would meet in a place like this." Fancy shook the offered hand by the human. "We could hang out some more often, I'd like to know more about you if you would be so kind the next time we meet."

"Sure." Moon nodded in agreement.

After saying farewell to Fancy and Fleur for now, the four walked straight back to the castle and was met up with Shining in his clad of armour, his expression firm and strong as though it would tear through their inner minds.

"Took you long enough." He said flatly. "What kept you?"

"Sorry." Moon apologized. "But, we had, or should I say I had, run into another gang of ponies, nine this time, and engaged them in a good fight. After that, we met up with my friends Fancy Pants and Fleur at the park. We talked for a bit and lost track of time."

Looking more at him, Shining gave him a nod. "I see. So, that's your excuse for being away the whole noon and afternoon? It's almost evening, and my wedding is closing in."

Eyes widening in shock, Moon, Radiant, Jaxar and Varin looked at each other as though they were just paralyzed.

"Your wedding's today?!" Moon exclaimed.

"Yes." Shining responded. "It was decided that we couldn't wait any longer after the invasion. So, Cadance and I came to an agreement that almost three weeks later, we would be having our wedding. I'd expected you four to be there when it was coming. But, since knowing you and your battle-hunger personality, Moon, we made so it was today."

"Hey!" Moon proclaimed. "I'm not a "battle-hungry" person. So, be a little bit nice since I had just come back for three weeks, okay?"

"Sorry." Shining gave an apologetic look. "But, I've been a bit stressed today, since my wedding was coming closer any hour. Whenever something important is on the line, I'm tad to get stressful when that situation comes."

"Oh." Moon flatly said. ""So, it's like whenever you have important matters to attend to?"

"Something like that."

"I see." Moon then added quickly. "But, since your wedding's this evening, then we'd better get ready. Or else, we won't look as fancy as you will."

Chuckling at his nervousness, Shining reassured him, "It's fine. Nopony's perfect when it comes to fashion, nopony like Rarity for example."

Sighing, Moon nodded finality, saying, "Okay. So, we'll be off to our rooms." Shining nodded as the four made their way inside the castle, making their way to their respective rooms.

Coming to his door, Moon opened it by the handle, allowing his children to enter it excitedly. Chuckling at their excitement, Moon walked to his closet and opened it to reveal some fancy outfits for an important event. Before he even got back, Rarity was quick enough to create a fancy outfit just for him, to fit on him in perfect size.

He'd gotta hang it to her; she sure knows how to make outfits that suits his delight. He took the outfit out of his closet, walking to his bathroom door and opened it while walking in it and closed the door.

Curious, Jaxar and Varin looked at where their father has gone. When the door opened, their eyes almost popped out as they were almost ready to pounce on their dad, but he raised an hand.

"Don't make it stinky now, children." Moon told them. "I would need to look nice, don't I?" He smiled teasingly at them, which they returned as they exited the room, making their way towards the throne room.

After coming to the doors of the throne room, Moon opened it, revealing the ponies that were going to attend the wedding today. When the ponies saw him, their eyes widened in amazement and were utterly breathless at seeing him.

The outfit Moon had on was a black attire. The upper part of the jacket was covered in yellow stripes, with a small bit of blue in them. The jeans were a marvelous purple colour, it had small green stripes from bottom to top of the jeans. The brown hair was combed to look as nice and comfy as possible. He had sleeves that were not quite as long as the ponies expected them to be. They were going to the middle of Moon's arms, only showcasing the front of the arms while the muscles were under the sleeves. Even the jeans weren't as long as the ponies expected them to be. They fit perfectly on the legs, showing that they were as long as the flesh of the legs would allow them to come down, almost touching the shoes. The shoes were a marvelous reddish colour, with a few black stripes on the sides.

"Wow." The ponies breathed out in the silence.

"You look...marvelous, darling!" Rarity exclaimed, running up to him.

"Well, it was actually you who made it, didn't you?" Moon raised an eyebrow.

"Oh." Rarity realized. "Oh. Yes. It was. And I must say, it suits on a perfect colt like you."

"Okay then let's get this wedding started." Twilight called out, creating a collective of chuckles throughout the room. "I have just perfected everything that needed to be done. So, all we need now is the brides themselves."

"And they're right here." Celestia called, seeing the brides coming in, smiling fondly at the soon-to-be couple.

Moon looked behind him and saw their outfits. Cadance's dress was a beautiful pink colour, with its length going quite far from her back. There were a few flowers on her headdress, but they weren't the one that were outstanding to him. The only thing that were outstanding was his beautiful cousin that looked really beautiful. On the side of her, Shining's outfit was a bluish colour as it matched his eye colour. His attire was consisting of a black outfit, with a few blue stripes on it while the stallion himself looked quite amazing.

"Wow, Shining, Cadance," Moon breathed. "You both look amazing." The two chuckled at his touching words.

"Thank you kindly, cousin." Cadance thanked him. "You look quite amazing yourself." She winked at him as he gave an unnoticeable blush on his cheeks. Jaxar and Varin giggled at his embarrassment.

Holding back a giggle, Twilight said, "I think they suits you two."

"Thanks Twily." Shining thanked his sister, blue eyes sparkling elegantly. "And yes, let's get this wedding started." Twilight couldn't help but agree on that. Pinkie Pie already blowing her party cannon, making confetti appear all over the place.

Moon blinked at that eagerness to get this started, that he couldn't help but chuckle at the pony's bouncing as she bounced all over the place, setting up what fell on the ground.

What followed next could only be described as an overjoyed party of ponies of nobles, human and Elements alike. All were happily enjoying themselves, either chatting with one another or spending time alone. Moon was one of the ones that spend time alone, as he was much of an silent-type when at parties like these.

Standing on the balcony on the right side of the throne room, Moon smiled as he watched the ponies enjoying themselves in the room with his cousin, brother-in-law and mother, who enjoyed herself with some cakes, which he couldn't help but chuckle at seeing her like that. He sure was happy for his cousin for having such an lovable aunt, even he thought she was an lovable mother to have, but she was unlike anything from his real mother, who was sweet, kind and warm towards him on a different level.

I'll take your word for it,his mother suddenly spoke in his mind, ignoring the party-loving ponies.

Mom?Moon was surprised to hear her voice again after so long of being silent.

Believe me.Susan's voice said sweetly.I was cheering for you when you would make a turn to join the ponies of this land and world. In truth, I always believed that you couldn't ignore your childhood for long. In fact, I believed that you wanted to come back here, correct?

That's correct, mom.Moon clarified.But, still not getting used to all this telekinesis and psychic abilities stuff. It'll take a while for me to adapt to them still, as I am new to this kind of stuff unlike Minuette.

I know, son.Susan's sweet voice echoed in his mind.But, take this as a word of advice, never leave them out of sight when they're in for a great need of help. A tyrant is coming back from Tartarus, but I've never known about him. So, that's all I know of.

Alright.Moon mentally sighed.At least that gives me enough time to prepare myself. When's that tyrant coming?

That, I do not know.His mother seemingly shook her head, he felt it.

Damn.Moon cursed mentally in his head.

No need to be cursing, son,his mother reminded him.For, one day, it may be your downfall as well as another creature's own downfall.

Sorry.Moon apologized.

"Moon?" Cadance's voice came to him as he shook his head as he looked at her. "You okay?"

"Yeah." The human nodded in reassurance. "Just spoke with my draconian mother is all."

"I see." Cadance said. "What is she like? Your real mother I mean."

"Well, where do I start?" Moon smiled as he remembered what she was. "She's kind, mentally and psychically strong-minded. She's sweet, warm and has a willpower that is of sweetness and kindness. She's the kindest dragon I've ever heard of. She told me that she saved a bunch of dragons by her ancestral powers over time itself. She even saved an entire city of dragons from other people like me from total destruction. For what I know, she's one of the strongest dragons in the world other than myself, Garble and Helios."

"Wow." Cadance breathed. "I've never thought she was that strong. She would sure had been amazing to meet." Her eyes went downcast at that, knowing that she was dead from what her cousin had told her.

"Yeah." Moon sighed sadly. "It's too bad she was killed in one of the assaults by my other race. From what I believe, it was during the Siege of the White City, an event that had occurred after my birth. It must had been horrible to get killed in the middle of a war, huh?"

"I know the fact." Cadance nodded. "It's not fun of being killed when you have somepony to protect. I don't imagine what pain she was in when she died."

"Don't be sad." Moon told her. "It's my people we're talking about. So, it should just be I to be that."

"No." Cadance objected. "It's too tragic. Other people must also feel sad when it's one of their relative's family had died in warfare."

Sighing, Moon's gaze went downcast at that. Well, she weren't kidding about it being too tragic, that's for sure. But, he should be feeling sadness now and not happiness for what was currently happening. Whenever he thought of his true parents, he would feel down when he thinks of them, along with his dead sister that was killed right before his own birth. It must had been terrible to die at such a young age.

It was by luck that his mother had sent him to Equestria in a last moment, which was by just luck nothing more. From what he was told, other humans, not evil by choice, infiltrated their beloved city in an attempt to stop the War of Man and Dragon, a war that happened since long ago in the Middle Ages on their homeworld.

Little understanding, Moon had decided to train intensely in order to prepare with entering that war to turn the tide of it to the dragons' favour. However, his mother strictly told him not to enter for it would just kill him instead and he needed here in this world, something he didn't like being held back from possible action and many fights. That was a bummer.

When he would grow up, Moon, going by Virin back then, wanted to change into something big and frightening that the humans would runaway in fear and despair from just by seeing him.

"You okay?" Cadance called, getting his attention to her. "You look deep in thought."

"Yeah. I was." Moon gave her a reassuring smile. "Cadance, whatever happens to me, do you promise to keep it a secret? I won't like to hurt my pony mother's feelings, after all."

Blinking, Cadance gave him a small nod of assuring. "Cross my heart, hope to fly, and stick a cupcake in my eye."

"What?" Moon asked in bafflement.

"It's a Pinkie Pie Promise." Cadance clarified. "It means that I can never break it. If I do, it would just make her go crazy."

"You can never break a Pinkie Pie Promise!" Suddenly, the pink pony appeared beside the alicorn, causing her to jump all of a sudden. Moon, on the other hand, blinked at the sudden appearance of the pony.

"Where did you come from?" He just had to ask.

"I come from everywhere, silly." Pinkie smiled giddily, jumping back into the party.

"She's so..." Cadance started, looking at her cousin.

"Weird." They stated together.