The next morning,

Clare, beach front house:

I awoke peacefully and stretched out, ‘Man I haven’t slept this good since… I can’t remember the last time I slept this well’. I rubbed my eyes and let out a morning yawn, since Luna and I didn’t sleep in the same bedroom I was able to relax and sprawl out on the bed.

I rolled over then sat on the edge off the bed and tried to rub the sleepiness out of my eyes. “Ahhh man, this is great” I
said through a yawn, I could get used to this. I stumbled out of bed and grabbed my watch off the nightstand, 6:22am. “Early bird catches the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese” I muttered as I grabbed a pair of blue jeans and a white t-shirt.

I slipped on some white socks then walked out of the bedroom and into the kitchen to make breakfast. I got out two bowls, knowing that Luna would probably just try and take my cereal again, and set up the table. I only poured one bowl of cereal because I didn’t want her cereal to get soggy, “Ech… soggy cereal” I groaned to myself as I flicked on the TV with the remote.

There were some morning cartoons again but this time it was about some sort of dragon tamer who raced dragons but at the same time he was some sort of super hero during the night. I chuckled to myself as I walked over to the living room, setting my cereal bowl on the living room coffee table then sitting down on the couch.

Luna walked into the living room, “Morning” I said casually. She moved my arms from resting on my legs and sat down on my lap. “Good morning, what are you watching?” she asked. I shrugged. “I don’t know, it’s about a dragon racer or something” I replied, she leaned over and grabbed my cereal and began to eat it.

“So I was thinking…” she trailed off, “Yes honey” I replied as I watched the TV show. “Hey you’re not even paying attention to me” she scolded playfully. “Sure I am. Besides you’re not even looking at me either. You’re watching the TV show” I chuckled.

“BELL!” the dragon stallion from the TV show yelled, ‘Bell? Who the hell names a dragon Bell?’ I thought to myself. “Well regardless, do you want to spend the day on the beach?” she asked, “Sure why not” I replied. “Let me guess, after your morning cartoons?” she laughed. I nodded “Eeyup, precisely” I chuckled. Due to the way ponies usually sat and ate I had to hold her up on my lap as she ate the cereal. For whatever reason she accidently spilt the bowl, the cereal and milk splashed onto my clean shirt and pants along with splashing onto her fur. “Ohh, I’m so sorry” she apologized, I shrugged “Eh, don’t worry about it… I needed to take a shower anyway” I said casually.

The TV show soon ended and Luna hopped off my lap, I stood up and brushed off the bits off cereal. “Alright, I’ll go get changed” I told her as I walked back into my room. ‘Figures, I didn’t even get to wear this shirt for an hour and I already have to wash it’ I thought to myself. I slipped off all my clothes but my boxers and walked back into the hallway where Luna stood on her hindlegs, leaning up against the wall in a pose.

“How do I look?” she asked, even though she looked the same as always the way she was leaning gave her a sexy look. ‘Okay self, think up something really romantic’ I thought to myself. “Sweet compassionate… uhm” I trailed off, ‘Smooth one’ I thought to myself. She hopped down onto all fours and walked over to my side, “You might want to do a better job about concealing your gun” she snickered.

I looked over to her and raised an eyebrow, “I’m not wearing my… oh shit” I muttered as I looked down to see that my boner was protruding out of my boxers. I shuffled my crotch around so it didn’t look so bad, but there was still a bulge in my boxers.

Luna stifled a laugh. “Hey, don’t laugh. You’re the one who caused it remember” I laughed and she looked up to me and blushed. “Really?” she asked and I rolled my eyes. “No, the paint on the wall is sexy and it drives me over the edge” I said sarcastically.

We walked out of the house and right onto the beach sand, which was relatively warm. “Feels like summer down here” I said, speaking my thoughts. “Isn’t it beautiful?” Luna asked and she nuzzled her head into my side, I put my arm around her as we walked along the beach.

Cpt. Armor, Canterlot castle medical clinic:

“Well captain, I can schedule you an appointment in… about two weeks” the doctor replied. “Doc, I just want to know if my horn will grow back” I told him and he nodded. “Well of course, but only with the proper procedure” he informed me. I gasped in relief “You guys are able to do that?” I asked and he nodded.

“Well of course, with all the advancements in medical magic we can easily cast a spell that will allow your horn to grow back… there is a side effect though. You may need to learn some of your spells again” the doctor told me, I sighed thinking that he might’ve said ‘You’ll have a risk of long term health problems’.

I got up and shook his hoof, “Thanks doc, I’ll see yah in two weeks” I told him then left the room and headed towards the general’s office. I was technically second in command of the royal guard, just behind Celestia, but the general was the one who always constructed the plans and offensive movements along with promotions and other such things.

I walked through the hallways and finally reached his office door and knocked. “Please come in” his voice said from the office. I opened the door and walked inside, giving a salute then standing in attention. “At ease captain, what can I do for you?” he asked as I relaxed.

“Sir I need a promotion sent through” I told him and he looked up to me with a raised eyebrow. “You realize, that unless you want to become a staff member, you can’t really be promoted any further due to your rank. So I’m presuming it’s for some-pony else” he replied and I nodded.

He took out a document paper and began filling it out. “Alright, current rank?” he asked. “Sergeant” I replied and he scribbled it down, “Promotional rank?” he asked. “First lieutenant” I replied and he looked up to me. “Quite a jump” he chuckled then continued writing. “Yes sir, it is sir. But this soldier has performed above and beyond the call of duty and has shown that he can easily lead a full platoon” I informed him.

“Yes, well I’ll take your word for it. Name?” he asked, “Clare” I replied. He stopped writing and I could tell something was wrong. “Captain… may I ask you if this ‘Clare’ is the platoon sergeant in Luna’s elite shadow guard?” he asked and I nodded. “Yes sir, it is sir” I replied, he folded up the paper then ripped it to pieces.

I gasped at the sudden outburst. “Captain, please tell me this was some kind of joke” the general told me in a serious tone but I shook my head. “No sir it isn’t. It’s just that in the recent mission I had to control the entire company and due to Clare’s absence, Daffodil’s platoon performed terribly” I replied.

“Well perhaps we should strip Daffodil of his role as platoon leader then?” he asked, I nodded my head. “Yes sir, but no reassignment. The men respect Daffodil but he is an inefficient leader, I believe that Clare would be a better combat leader” I told him. “No” he told me bluntly, “No sir?” I asked.

“I will not have an insubordinate platoon leader” he told me, “Insubordinate sir? From what I hear he is an exceptional combat leader” I replied. “Yes, but he doesn’t listen to orders” the general told me, I remembered when Clare punched me and broke my nose. “I will not promote to a platoon leader until he has shown respect for the chain of command” the general told me. “Dismissed” he said as he spun his chair around and lit a cigar.

I gave a quick salute then left the office. I knew that Clare was disobedient but he must’ve pissed the general off in some way that really made him mad.

Clare, beachfront:

Luna squealed with delight as I held her body above mine and splashed both our bodies into the water. I was under the water and kept my eyes shut so that the salt water didn’t sting my eyes. As I surfaced I looked around but couldn’t see Luna, “Uhm Luna?” I asked out loud, it had gotten rather late in the evening and once again ponies had left the beachfront. The sun was setting and the evening had a beautiful orange haze sky.

I heard Luna giggling from above and looked up, she was hovering above me with a sly look on her face. “What’s so funny?” I asked and she pointed over to the ocean. I turned my head and was greeted by the sight of a tremendous title wave, I realized at that point that she had manipulated the waves with her magic and brought about a large wave, not big enough to damage houses or property but big enough to wash ponies up to shore.

I tried to brace myself but the wave was powerful enough to take me me along with it. The wave slammed into my body with great force. It wasn’t fatal unless I drowned and wouldn’t even bruise a muscle but it was kind of sinister in a playful kind of way. My body twirled around as it was taken along with the wave, ‘Time to have a little fun’ I thought to myself as I felt my body get washed up onto shore.

I kept my eyes closed and let my body go limp. I could hear Luna giggling, “Haha, gotcha Clare… Clare?” she asked hesitantly as I didn’t move. I heard her flutter down beside me, “Okay Clare, stop messing around. I know you’re awake” she said and poked my side with her hoof but still I lay limp on the beachfront as water splashed up against me.

“Come on Clare, stop messing around” she chuckled, at this point I was wondering if she actually knew I was faking. “Clare… oh no” she said frantically and rolled my body over, I tried to stay as limp as possible and my face was expressionless. “Oh no please Celestia no… CLARE” she sobbed and placed her face on my chest, I could feel her sobbing. ‘Shit’ I thought to myself. I didn’t want her to cry, just get worried to get her back for slamming me with that wave.

I sat up immediately and wrapped my arms around her. “CLARE!” she screamed, shocked that I was alive. “Why did you do that?” she cried, “Shh, sorry I didn’t mean to get you so frightened. I just wanted to get you back for slamming me with that wave” I told her soothingly. “Please… don’t ever do that again” she said through sniffles, “Okay, I’m sorry. I’ll never do that again” I promised. She looked up to me with teary eyes. “I couldn’t live with myself if I accidently killed you… I love you so much” she whispered.

“I love you too, I was just playing was all” I told her, she leaned up and we began kissing. All too suddenly she broke away from the kiss, “Promise?” she asked and I nodded but then I realized that her horn had flared up again. I looked behind her and saw another tidal wave coming at us. “Ohh you didn’t” I muttered, she gave me a seductive look, “Hold on to me and stay close” she whispered as she wrapped her forelegs around my body and held me tight.

The wave slammed into us and took us with it, somehow it seemed to last forever. Just as she’d told me I held her close to me as we floated around in the water. I held my eyes closed then a voice entered my head. “Open your eyes” it said in a soothing voice, “Why? No forget it, salt water burns” I said back in my head. “Just open them, your eyes will not be harmed by the salt water” the voice told me, sometimes the voice in my head got me into bad things but this voice didn’t sound like my own, it sounded like… Luna’s?

I opened my eyes, though the water somewhat blurred my vision, I could see Luna above me in the water. The setting sun illuminated the water beautifully and made her look like a goddess, which technically she was. ‘A sexy goddess’ I thought to myself, Luna came closer to me and we began to kiss underwater, somehow I wasn’t feeling the burn due to the lack of oxygen. ‘I’ll show you sexy goddess’ said the voice in my head. ‘Luna?’ I thought, almost like I was asking her. ‘No, the sexy goddess’ the voice said back, I smirked during the kiss and Luna took advantage of it then stuck her tongue in my mouth but water gushed in along with her tongue.

I felt the burn for need of oxygen along with the terrible feeling of water entering my lungs. I quickly broke from the kiss and surfaced from the water and began gagging. I was lucky enough to be able to stand as I coughed up water, Luna surfaced beside me and spat out some water. “Sorry… forgot that we were underwater” she apologized.

“You can read my thoughts?” I asked and she nodded. “But only if you are relaxed and calm” she told me as she trotted through the water and gave me a kiss on the check. “Looks like you’re going to have to call me sexy goddess from now on”