No sooner than Celestia had blinked her eyes to awaken from the spell, than she nearly fell over in surprise upon seeing Flame sitting only a couple of inches from her face with an emotionless expression.

"Oh my goodness!" Celestia spoke out in shock, quickly backing up for a moment, only to see Charles over to her side, laughing softly. "Wait... Did you two plan that?" She began to fume slightly.

"Never!" They spoke in unison, only to get an annoyed sigh from the sun Goddess.

"Mmm Hmm, So I take it you don't want to find out the secret ingredient your grandfather just told me about, that could potentially help to return you to normal.... Well, as normal as you could be anyway." She giggled, seeing their unified annoyance.

"Nah, I think we're good. I mean, it could only make or break us in the end, right?" Charles began.

"Plus I wonder just how long it would be before the girls starting complaining about not being able to snuggle up with their stallion, instead of a human." Flame finished, causing Charles to smirk to him, then both of them toward Celestia, whom was now only puffing her cheeks out while wearing a furrowed brow.

"You two don't make this easy do you?!" She grumped, causing them both to laugh.

"You make it too easy at times love." Charles chuckled as he and Flame stood up, heading toward the door to Celestias room. "But for now, Let's get to the alchemy lab so we can make me whole again."

"I agree, I'd rather not take any longer than possible to become whole again. I've already spent a hundred years in hell. To bring things back into perspective, I'd like to spend the next hundred here, with all of my brides, and foals." Flame smiled softly toward the sun Goddess.

"And get laid?" Charles whispered into his ear.

"That too, you have no idea how hard it is to find a willing party in hell, most of the time it's just rape, rape, rape." He sighed. "I even went mad several times during that time." He looked away, feeling rather shameful, then gave a sharp gasp as he was brought into a hug by Celestia.

"Well.... now you need not worry. Your time in that treacherous place has passed, and now you're with your loved ones. You needn't worry about ever going back there while I still breathe." She smiled warmly to the now, almost in tears, dark Alicorn.

"Thank you." He almost blubbered.

*Ahem*

Charles quickly cleared his throat, bring the attention of the two Alicorns back to him. "Should we get going? Or do you want to remain a puzzle?" He waved toward the door, quickly causing the other two to make their way out of the room and down the hall.

It hadn't taken long for them to arrive at the alchemy lab. Although a bit cramped for several ponies, a human, and several Alicorns. It would suit them just fine in the end.

All around them stood countless bottles of various shapes and sizes, filled with many known, and unknown items, liquids, and materials. Shelves staked twenty feet high, and layered three feet thick, covered the walls on every corner of the room. causing the available space, to be more than a bit small for so many individuals.

"Can one'o ya'll tell me why everypony decided teh come along?" Applejack groaned as she nudge Rarity in the side to get her to move, only to succeed in hitting her ticklish spot and causing her to jump sideways, laughing as she bumped into Twilight, knocking her over and into Charles, whom quickly scooped her up and into his arms.

"Well, to see something like this, finally happen after all this time, I would think that the whole kingdom would want to see it." Luna stated with slight surprise. "However, this does need to remain quiet. Not everypony needs to know that our king was once only half a pony... or would that be a quarter?" She hummed in thought.

"Guh, math ain't mah strong point. Anywho, let's get this show on the road, ah'd like teh get mah..." Applejack paused, clearing her throat as she noticed the glances from her fellow brides. "Uh, our stallion back all quick like. If'n ya don't mind princess." She chuckled nervously.

"I understand your apprehension my dear Applejack, but do not worry yourself." Celestia smiled as she continued mixing up the batch of poison joke cure, with the alternate ingredients added in place of the lethal ones. "However, with so little room, I am finding it hard..." She paused as everypony scrambled out of the room, minus the Dark Alicorn and Charles, whom lay slightly trampled on the floor in front of the door.

The sun Goddess just gave a sigh as she continued mixing up the batch of poison joke cure and let it simmer on the burner for a short time, while turning slightly to pick up the fallen duo.

"The cure should be done soon, so please head into the palace gardens and wait for me there." Celestia smiled softly toward everypony. "We do not know what the effects will be once the cure has been consumed and the two rejoin as one. There could be a multitude of things happen, and I do not want to risk any ponies life within the castle should something dire occur."

The group, giving a knowing nod to one another, all began to file down the hall and toward the palace gardens, Charles, however, staying behind to stand at the white Alicorns side as she watched the flame of the burner continue to heat the liquid within the large vial above it.

"Tia..." Charles began, causing her vision to flicker to him before quickly returning back to the task at hoof.

"Yes?"

"Thank you... for doing this. I honestly have no idea what would have, or will become of me as the outcome of this, but I'm glad you're the one to help lead the way." He smile as he hugged around her neck gently, kissing her cheek and snuggling into her mane. This only causing her to blush slightly as she leaned onto him, her horn lighting up and pulling the vial from the burner and quickly pouring its contents into another vial of liquid as a cork quickly found its way into the opening.

"All done, now then, shall we go?" She asked, seeing the human pull away smiling.

"Sure, but lets walk. Don't want to risk a teleport that might mess with the package." He smirked. "Besides, it'll give us some time to talk." He chuckled as he led the way, Celestia coming up alongside him as they left the Alchemy Lab.

"Oh dear, not another talk." Celestia smirked as she rolled her eyes. "When will you end your obsessive talks with me?" She continued to giggle as the human gave her a gentle poke in the side, causing her to giggle like a school filly and jump away.

"You like the talks we have, no matter if it contains bitching, griping, berating, tom foolery, jokes, dirty jokes." He grinned giving his eyebrows a wiggle and causing Celestia to blush slightly. "Or any other form of speech that would require me to expel air from my lungs."

"You do keep things interesting. More-so than Discord at times." She grinned seeing him cock a brow.

"Oh, so I'm boring now am I?" He acted hurt, placing a hand on his chest as if wounded. "You wound me my dear."

"Meh, it's just your ego, I'm sure it could withstand some further punishment if you weren't such a blowhard." She berated, causing Charles' jaw to nearly hit the floor.

"Such language! Who are you and what have you done with Celestia?" Charles asked, giving her a playful nudge.

"Oh she's around, but only when there are others within earshot. This Celestia has a little twinge of playfulness in her." She smirked giving Charles a playful nudge in return.

"I've noticed." He chuckled as he reached up, rubbing the rim of her ear and causing her to whinny in surprise, flicking her ear and blushing furiously as she turned to him with a look of utter shock plastered across her face. That was, of course, until it turned to a lustful expression as she turned to him.

Charles paused, backing slowly up toward the wall as Celestia pressed a hoof to his chest, gently pinning him to the wall and causing him to give a wicked smile as he spoke.

"I'm guessing I shouldn't have done that." He laughed, only to stop as a set of lips met his. "Then again, last time as a human never hurts." He thought to himself as Celestia quickly began to strip him.

"It's been nearly an hour, what's taking them so long?" Twilight groaned as she looked at a large clock tower in the distance. "I really want to have Charlie back to the way he was before all this happened."

"Well, you won't have long to wait now." Discord chuckled as he pointed toward the archway to the gardens as the human and pony princess walked through it.

"Finally." Rarity sighed. "You do know how to keep a lady waiting darling."

"Well, sometimes he does." Celestia winked toward him, sticking her tongue out playfully. "Other times, however." She just rolled her eyes.

"I feel ya sister." Applejack chuckled.

"Come on you guys, is this berate the human to death day?" Charles groaned out only to make them laugh. "Don't make me pull out the riding crop." He snickered, seeing them all blush, minus Discord, whom was about to die laughing.

"Alright, alright, enough time wasted. Drink up already." Flame groaned out as he looked on pleadingly.

"Fine, fine... Tia, if you please?" Charles asked as his hand opened, reaching out toward the vial of liquid as it was quickly floated into his awaiting grasp.

Charles licked his lips as he pulled the cork from the top of the vial and stared silently at it for a moment, then looking around to everypony before quickly downing the vial. A few seconds passed by as the vial fell to the ground, shattering against the stone walkway as his hand bolted up to his throat. The human falling over and coughing loudly as he tried to regain his breath.

Everyone rushed to him, only to be held back as Celestia began to speak. "Do not worry everypony, he will be fine momentarily. The ingredient that had to be used was one of Equestrias hottest known chili peppers. Although the effects are intense, they will quickly fade." She stated with a soft smile.

The human, though, writhed in pain along the ground, coughing and wheezing in agony as the peppers tore at his throat and insides. His entire being felt as if it were now on fire and only caused him to begin to rub his body to put out the invisible flames that were eating away at him.

"It burns.... oh god Tia. It's burning my whole body!" He groaned out in agony before a small flicker of fire burst forth from his shoulder, causing them all to panic as he began to pat it to put it out, only for it to spread with each pat.

"What's going on?! This isn't supposed to happen!?" Celestia shouted as she quickly levitated the human, screaming and on fire, through the air and dropped him into the fountain. The flames, however, were not going out, and only proceeded to boil the water around the human, causing him to jump out and scream as his body was quickly being engulfed the rest of the way.

"It's not going out! Why isn't it....." Twilight shouted, only to paused as Charles ran screaming by Flame, whom was watching in horror. Her vision stopping as it noticed something, quickly causing her to bolt toward the stallion and grabbing onto the human within her magic, pulling him at break neck speed right toward the dark Alicorn and colliding the two within a fraction of a second.

Once the two hit one another, they both erupted into a shower of bright orange embers that began to swirl around in an unfelt breeze. Twilight and the others quickly going to one anothers sides as they looked on in horror at what the lavender mare had just done.

"TWILIGHT! WHAT DID YA'LL JUST DO?!" Applejack rushed her, shaking her angrily as she looked at the embers dancing about within the air.

"Calm down AJ, it's going to be fine. Midnight will be here in a moment. When I saw Charlie run by Flame, I noticed Flames mane and tail were getting brighter, then fading as Charlie got further away. The only logical explanation would be that the two had to touch in order for them to recombine." She smiled as her vision flickered back to the farmer then back to the dancing embers as they began to get closer and closer together.

As the moments ticked away, the ember would finally reach one another and began to form the Dark Alicorn that the group knew and loved. As it took shape, the bright orange began to slowly dim to a dark red as an ember would once it began to cool and fade into the darkness of its surroundings. Once all of the color had faded though, a fire began to rise slowly from the mane and tail areas of the soot black being that stood before them.

"Midnight?" Rarity came forth pressing a hoof to his chest, only for it to hit something metal, and causing all of the soot to explode outwards in every direction, including Rarity, which it quickly covered.

Once the soot had exploded from the Alicorn, Midnights eyes shot open as a purple mist quickly began to extend from his eyes and upward. As he began to slowly look around, he gave a toothy grin, revealing something quite disturbing for those in his presence.

"A-are those, fangs?" Twilight gulped slightly, backing away.

"Fangs?" Came Midnights voice as he opened his maw and ran his tongue over the sharp teeth. "Nope, too short to be fangs. Must be canines." He smirked before being bowled over by all of his brides whom were now regretting it as they all hit the regalia that covered him.

"Ow... wait, why do you have your regalia on Night?" Celestia asked as she looked him over, seeing the armor once more in its entirety.

"I think I forgot to take it off before I transformed into a human that last time, I'm not sure. I usually just have an invisibility spell on it." He chuckled.

"More importantly darling *Cough* Why do you have those..." Rarity quickly gave a shudder. "Dreadful looking fangs?"

"No clue... Why? Don't want me to nibble on you with them?" He grinned as he gave several quick nibbles in the air, chattering his teeth as he did so. This causing all of the girls to give a shudder.

"Oh come on! Can't you girls handle a little predator, prey, play?" He snickered. "I know AJ does." He grinned, causing her to blush furiously.

*BUCK*

"AH! SON OF A BITCH!" Midnight yelled out in pain as he fell to the ground rubbing his forelegs left shin furiously from the sudden buck that it had just received from an orange earth pony. Said pony now walking away with her nose in the air.

"Serves ya'll right." She huffed.

"NNNNNNnnnnngh That freaking hurt!" The stallion grumbled in pain as he slowly got to his hooves, attempting to shake off the pain as he trotted up to Applejacks side. "I'm sorry love...." He trailed off seeing the tears in her eyes. "Sorry for not being here a hundred percent before. But... I am now, and I'll never leave you girls hanging like that, ever, again." He chuckled as they all quickly moved in, hugging him lovingly.

"Such a beautiful moment." Discord pouted as he burst forth in tears; little pinky cotton candy clouds quickly appearing all around them and raining down chocolate milk onto everything in the vicinity.

"DISCORD!" They ponies quickly began to shout, only to be drowned out by the draconequues' laughter.