A soft ray of moonlight peeked through the blinds of a window, hitting Prim’s closed eyes. Muttering to herself she shuffled in her sleep to get away from the bright light.

Flare noticed this shuffling, taking a look at Prim to see if she was awake. When he saw she wasn’t he went back to reading his book. Last night was quite interesting, with the games and such. Though Flare’s mind still couldn’t understand the questions that related to Prim, both straightforward and more conspicuous.

Hearing a low groan, Flare once more took his eyes off of his book. Prim had now moved her head to lay on Flare’s forelegs. This didn’t bother him much, he had magic, after all, so he simply switched the pages with his magic. Prim, however, unconsciously grabbed and held on to Flare’s foreleg, squeezing it like she was about to lose somepony she held dear.

Flare sighed, now no longer being able to focus on his book he moved his head down and nudged Prim.

Prim awoke on the second nudge, her eyes heavy and her mouth as dry, if not drier, than sandpaper.

“Hmmmm...” Was Prim’s response upon waking up. She felt a soft blanket over her back, and she was holding onto something even softer as well. She looked down at what she held so tightly in her hooves. In her hooves was Flare’s hoof, and from what she could see out of her blurry eyes, Flare was next to her. She squeaked (rather horsely) when she saw the stallion she just had a dream about, laying next to her, a book in his magical grasp.

“Mornin’, sunshine. Sleep well?” Flare asked softly, as he didn’t want to wake the others. Prim blushed profusely, her cheeks could have lightened up the room if they were to glow.

Flare merrily chuckled, he nuzzled her (Which caused her to blush even more), and promised he didn’t mean to embarrass her. Prim was about to ask him what happened last night, but, her mind and tongue had different ideas. She had a wicked headache, her mouth drier than sandpaper. She pointed to her head, then, her mouth, indicating that she had a headache and couldn’t speak.

Flare laid there next to her, wondering what she meant when she pointed at her mouth. An idea came to Flare. Shifting to rise, Flare replied,”I’ll go get you some food and water, wait here a moment.”

Flare was about to stand, but Prim thought differently. She heard blood helped with hangovers from Rose, so she was about to get a good amount from Flare. With great strength, she pulled Flare down next to her, his back next to her side. To make sure he didn’t squirm out of her grasp, she put her wing softly over his belly, a move that caused Flare to stop squirming entirely. She mentally repeated ‘sorry’ as she lunged and bite Flare on the neck, her teeth puncturing his flesh.

Flare, however, wondered why she had pulled him into a vice-like grip, he started to squirm, trying to get Prim to let go of him. He was confused until he felt her wing softly land over his belly, he stopped squirming, confused even more by the action until he felt it. A sharp pain rippled up Flare’s neck, as he tried to look back at Prim to see what she was doing, but, his head wouldn’t budge. He felt blood start to leave his body from the two new puncture wounds on his neck, a sucking sensation followed suit.

As soon as he felt the sucking sensation, he understood. Vamponies drink blood as both a food and drink, sometimes as a healing property. This was what Prim was now doing, what she wanted from Flare. The sensation of one of his two life forces being drained from him, understandably, left him a little woozy. With a soft popping noise, Flare felt her fangs leave his neck, he groaned as he felt a little light-headed from the amount of blood he had just lost.

Prim smacked her lips, it had been a while since she had gotten blood straight from a living creature. Her headache started to fade and her mouth felt less dry. She didn’t want to let Flare go, but, when the others woke up, what would they think? So she compromised with herself, she would snuggle the stallion, in return for randomly attacking, biting, then draining his blood. She smiled at her one-sided deal, her snuggle hug was going to be a good one for what she did.

Flare, even after being attacked, had to admit, he liked the snuggle. He also liked how she didn’t have him in a vice-like grip anymore, he could barely breathe while in it, not that he really needed to. He melted into the snuggle as Prim’s hooves hooked underneath and over him, pulling him into her fluffy and soft form.

“So, uh, mind explaining why you got a sudden taste for my blood?” Flare asked quietly, surprised none of the others had awoken from the commotion. He heard Prim sigh, her hug started to tighten.

“My mouth w-was dry and I had a headache. And I heard from Rose that blood helps with hangovers.” She stammered while whispering her answer to him.

Flare and Prim laid there until the others started to wake up. At first, it was Midnight, who ran to the bathroom to throw up. Rose and Prickly, both got up near the same time, both feeling woozy yet happy that they finally beat their old drinking record. Night was the last one to wake up. With the gracefulness of an elephant with rollerblades, she made her way to the downstairs bathroom, bumping and slipping her way down, trying to get there before her guts went all over the floor.

Prim hadn’t released Flare even when she heard Midnight wake up, she held him tightly. When the group had hangovers started to secede, they all sat around Prin and Flare, not noticing the position the two were in. All of them knew well enough that Flare hadn’t got drunk, so they began asking questions.

“Flare, what did we do last night?” was the first question, asked by Midnight.

“Well, we played Truth or Dare, you gals got drunk and then passed out. I covered you up so you wouldn’t be cold.” Flare responded, his eye glowing a soft red to signal ‘you’re welcome’. Night was the second on to ask a question.

“I know you picked Truth, but can you tell us your responses?” Midnight kneed Night in the chest when she finished.

Flare held his hoof under his chin, replying, ”Well, I bet you know the question and answers up until you all had your fourth to sixth shot, that's when you five started getting loopy. Here’s what I remember, Question 1: Flare, do you love Prim? My response: It depends on what type of love you mean. Question 2: If you could go on a romantic date, where would you go? My response: anywhere my partner wanted to go. Final question: Do you love anypony in this room, romanticly. My response:... Yes, I do.”

The mares looked at each other, finally noticing how Flare and Prim were positioned. Flare was in a snuggle huggle by Prim. Their mouths almost dropped to the floor, did their plan work? Did the two claim to love each other?

Flare, upon seeing the mare's response to him being snuggled by Prim, sighed and rolled his eye.

“You seem oddly interested in my relationship with Prim. What’s going on?” The blue stallion got his answer, albeit encrypted, from Night.

“We’ll let Prim say~.”

Then the females of the group minus Prim, all walked out of the room, down to the living room to resume a movie that the group had not finished last night. They wanted to give the two some space after all.

Prim had gotten used to this at this point, so she didn’t blush... as hard. She simply held Flare to her side, who had gotten much more comfortable, while thinking of what to ask.

“So Prim, mind telling me what Night meant, and why they all got so happy to see me like this?” Flare finally asked, motioning to the way he laid next to her.

Prim didn’t really know how to respond to it, she didn’t want to break the news to him about her love. As it stands, Flare is normally a carefree pony, monster, thing, so he could be doing this because of it. So she responded, but instead of an answer, she would drop a hint, big enough, as to give Flare an idea about how she really felt about him, without needing to tell him directly.

“Flare, does your neck still hurt?” She asked sweetly

“Sorta, why?” Flare responded, wondering why she brought it up.

Prim leaned over and looked at the puncture wound that she caused. She leaned forward and kissed it lightly. Flare’s fur stood up on end from the light touch of Prim’s lips. Prim’s plan might have worked to her advantage, she did get a reaction off of somepony who normally doesn’t react to anything. But, sadly, all good things must come to an end. Flare didn’t even try to look back at Prim, he just simply said,” We should follow the others, make sure they don’t blow up anything.”

Prim giggled at the response, knowing full well what Flare had meant. The two got up from the snuggle and went downstairs to watch the movie with the rest of the gals.

The mares just left the room, every one of them silent. They wanted to give those two some privacy. The group remained silent until they reached the living room, out of hearing range from those two. Night decided to break the awkward silence.

“We did it!” Night almost yelled.

The other mares looked at her, Midnight getting a strange urge to jab her with her hoof. Rose, however, laughed at it. She believes that something was accomplished, even if their plan went the opposite direction in a matter of seconds. Prim tried to tell them something about Flare, but, she and the others didn’t listen, being so far into the plan, she guessed that Prim was trying to say that Flare didn’t drink, however, that didn’t matter now, their somewhat foolproof plan worked.

The group found different areas to sit down, Night popped the movie disk back in, hitting the play button.

The movie was rather interesting, it took place in a faraway land known as the Everglades, It’s storyline was quite odd, it was about a highly magical being who created a powerful relic. The relic was stolen from the beings dying hooves and sold to an evil, self-absorbed, prince. The prince's goals were rather horrid, he wanted to be king, yet, he had 5 other brothers in front of him, all of them older than him. Yersif was the oldest one, he was a unicorn with great magical ability. The next two were, Clifin and Roseta, the two pegasus brother twins who were genius inventors. The rest were earth ponies. Satne was the fourth oldest, his raw strength proved to match that of a dragon, Scytheir was the fifth oldest, his wisdom was far beyond his years, and finally, Te Deum, the one with a selfish goal to rule the land. The other brothers united together to defeat their youngest brother, who had gained the power of an alicorn.

The movie had moved from one part of the Everglades to the next for each fight scene. The brothers got into arguments and some went separate ways. Near the end, they all found a prophecy left behind by the entity, that claimed that five brothers will rise against true evil. Right now the brothers are traveling to the ancient castle where their brother is.

Flare and Prim walked in, two of the mares batted an eye and smiled at them, others stayed focused on the movie.

“I’m gonna go make some popcorn, anyone want any?” Prickly asked, getting up from her seat.

“I do.”

“Dido.”

Flare and Midnight replied as he and Prim found a seat. Prim sat closely to Flare, as Prickly walked into the kitchen.

A fighting scene roared through the speakers as the brothers faced down the evil minions of Te Deum. The oldest brother used an ancient Dragon Skull to keep the minions away from Clifin, who had his wing slashed. This part of the movie made Midnight remember something that Flare had said a while back.

“I have many attacks, but I’m not sure your guards will be able to handle them correctly,” Flare said

“Really? These are trained professionals, including the unicorns! I’m sure they can get it down! Besides, what is your attack called?” Midnight responded as she tried to get Flare to show her guards his special attack.

“No,” was Flare’s only response to that, and that response made Midnight drop the subject altogether.

Midnight looked at Flare, she wanted to see the attack even more now, then back then.

“Oi Flare, that skull thing, isn’t that one of your attacks?” Flare turned his head and looked right into her eyes, an ice cold chill ran through her.

“Kinda, why?”

“I think it is a good time to show me your special attack since there are no guards here.” Midnight fought the urge to look away from Flare’s eye, she hoped that Flare would finally show her his attack. She gave a sly smile as she heard a sigh of defeat from him.

“Since you’re not going to drop it, I might as well,” Flare muttered. Flare concentrated on the attack, but, that was broken by Prickly walking into the room, the smell of burnt popcorn filled the air.

“I’m back~! Oh, Midnight I’m sorry, I burnt your popcorn on accident.” Prickly said, looking at Midnight sadly. Truth be told, Midnight disliked everything about burnt popcorn. So she sighed, yet not wanting to be rude, accepted the popcorn, her face filled full with disguised as she stared down into the burnt popcorn.

“You can have mine,” Flare said, holding his popcorn in the air.

Midnight looked at her bag of popcorn then right back at Flare’s, ”Are you sure?”

“Yeah, I like burnt popcorn, it has more crunch,” Flare replied

“Alright then,” Midnight tossed her popcorn bag to Flare, Flare did the same thing. The two started to eat the popcorn while the eldest brother used a skull to blast a pure form of magic as the others flee.

“Hey, aren't you gonna show us your special attack Flare?” Midnight asked, her mouth full of popcorn. Flare sighed once more at this, but, he knew he couldn’t drop, it just wouldn’t work. Concentrating once more, he felt magic start flow through him, his soul felt like there was something gave it a forceful tug. Finally, with the amount of magic focused into the attack, he summoned it. It wasn’t spectacular, no explosion, no loud noises, just *pop* and there it was. The attack was in the form of an unidentifiable skull that floated in the air.

Flare gently reached out and bapped the large skull on the nose, which caused it to let off a low growl. Prim moved back a bit at the low grow the skull made. The skull itself was rather... interesting. It held a long snout with sharpened teeth, and it had three horns, one that jutted out of the middle of the skull and two other ones that curved out and inward to the middle of the back of the skull. The left eye of the might skull was caved inward and looked to be nothing more than a giant gaping hole. In said hole was a giant blood red eye that stared at the group.

The eye shrunk a bit as it looked at the group of ponies, its jaw hung open slightly at how many souls it saw at once. Prim saw the skull’s rather shocked appearance and looked at Flare, who simply shrugged. He gently placed his hoof on the skull and petted it softly, which broke the skull out of its trance. It looked at Flare, yet its eye went straight back to Prim. When Midnight saw this happen, she got up and walked in front of Prim, her own eyes glared at the skull’s. Yet, what the skull did next surprised the ponies in the room, even Flare. The skull floated over to where Prim sat and ignored Midnight’s glare. As it floated over Midnight, it hovered right next to Prim, who was about to scream. Yet, the skull, once again, did something that surprised everpony, it leaned forward and gently nuzzled the Princess’s chest.

“W-what?” Prim asked as it continued to nuzzle her.

“I... don't... know?” Flare responded,” Well... I have a theory, but I can’t say it here...”

“Uh huh... c-can I pet it?” Prim asked.

“She shouldn’t bite,” Flare responded with a shrug.

“S-she?” Prim replied, but soon just sighed and lightly petted the skull. The skull made a noise that seemed to be a mix of a growl and a purr.

The others joined in and soon started to pet the skull, who seemed overwhelmed by the number of pets it was getting and promptly disappeared.

“What was that?” Rose asked softly. Flare simply chuckled at the question.

“That’s a Paradox Blaster,” Flare replied, all the mare’s nodded, everypony else decided not to ask a question.

The movie hit it’s climax as the brothers started to fight the evil brother. The group, once more, got comfortable in their seats and watched it. The scene took place in an old castle, the sky was a dark crimson red, with dark gray skies. The five brothers had already discovered their real powers, each one calling upon it. Then, there was an explosion, a powerful burst of energy erupted from the five hitting their evil brother in the chest, sending him flying into an unknown void. The story ended like any good hero story, the yall lived together in peace, but the remaining brothers felt guilty, thinking that they could have saved Te Deum, yet, they couldn’t go back now.

As the credits rolled across the screen, Flare, Prim, Night, and Midnight all packed up and left, saying thank as they walked out the door with their disguises on. When Flare gets back to the castle, the sisters are going to have questions they want answers to. Prim’s question, however, will have to wait until the next upcoming event... The Blue Moon Gala.

Author's Notes:

I’m sorry this chapter took so long!