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"It's a nice night." ,Night shade said as he trotted down the cobblestone street. His Night guard partner, Mountain Lilly scoffed. The sound of clinking armor echoed as the two patrolled the night. "So, um. How's your night been? "Night shade said with an small smile, trying to make conversation. "Well... I'm spending it with you so... It's going good" Lilly said. Night shade smiled.
After a brief silence, the sound of breaking glass broke the silence. Both Lilly and Night shade drew their swords, and trotted slowly to where the glass had broken. Night shade walks over to the shattered glass. "It looks like it was just a bro-" and before he could finish, he was hit it the face and in the knee. Night shade fell hard on the cobblestone. By the time Lilly could get to him, the attacker was gone. Only leaving a bloody pipe and and some hoof prints. Night shade moaned as he tried to sit up. "Wait... Let me help you up!" Lilly said as she rushed over to help Night shade. "How bad is it?" Night shade asked, rubbing a hoof over over the huge gash on his cheek. Lilly said nothing, which gave night shade a pretty good idea of how bad it was. "I think there is a guard checkpoint up ahead some where." Night shade said through clenched teeth as he tried to stand up. Supported by his partner, the two trot slowly to the checkpoint. "T-there it is!" NIght shade said. Upon getting closer to the checkpoint, Night shade become weaker. "Your really heavy!" Lilly exclaimed. "I can't feel my leg" Night shade said weakly. He was loosing a lot of blood. "Hold on we're almost there" Lilly said, as a tear rolled down her face,and dripped off her fang. As Night shade passed out from blood loss, and Lilly could not hold his weight anymore, and had to set him down. "I'll get some help, I'll be right back!" Lilly said as she rushed over to the checkpoint.
As Night shade woke up, he was greeted with an annoying beep every 2 or so seconds., as he opened his eyes, it took him a second to realize it but he was an in the hospital. One of the doctors told him that he had company. "Hey N, how ya feeling?" Lilly said as she gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. "I've been better" he said, grinning one of his goofy grins that Lilly likes. "How long have I been asleep?" He asked. "Well, for about 2 days. And I've been here all that I can." Lilly said. "I'm just glad that your awake now." She said, giving him another kiss, but a longer one on the lips. Lilly's eyes got watery and a tear rolled down her face and dripped off Her fang and onto the Night shades blanket. " Hey, come here... Don't cry I'm fine." Night shade wriggled over to one side of the little hospital bed. "Here, lay down" as Lilly got up, she laid down next to Night shade resting her head on his chest. Night shade looked out the window, and it was dark out. "Hey N?" "Yeah Lilly?" "I- I think I love you". She laid down and closed her eyes. As she fell asleep, he kissed the top of her head, and fell asleep with his hooves wrapped around her.
Night shade woke up to a knock on the hospital door. It was one of the nurses that came in carrying breakfast, but he waved her off, not wanting Lilly to wake up. Night shade started playing with her black hair which had a dark pink streak in it. His hair was also black, but had a yellow streak in it. Finally Lilly woke up, and she was greeted with a warm smile showing night shades fangs. "Hey sleeping beauty" Night shade said. Lilly giggled and smiled. Night shade kissed her and brushed the hair out of her eyes. "Hey N, I heard your gonna get the purple hoof award for getting injured on duty." Lilly said with a yawn. "Why am I getting it? I got my ass kicked and I'm getting a reward for it? I don't thi-" he was interrupted by a knock on the door. "Come in" Lilly said before Night shade could say something. The nurse opened the door and trotted in with some papers. " what's this" he asked. "Your release forms. Your all clear to leave." The nurse said with a kind grin. "Cool" he said. Lilly got off the bed. Lilly put on her sweater and tossed Night shade his jacket. "Thanks" he said. Lilly helped him off the bed, but his knee was healed and he was able to walk normally.
As the two trotted out of the hospital together, Night shade put his wing over her back. "Hey Lilly I was waiting to tell you later but, um I bought a house, nothing too big, and I was wondering if you wanted to come live with me?" Lilly's eyes brightened when he mentioned moving in together. "Yes yes yes!" She squealed. "Do you really mean it?!" She asked, about to explode with joy. Night shade chuckled. " I really do mean it." He said, poking her nose with his hoof. She squealed again and hugged him tight. "Thank you so so much!" She said, still squeezing Night shade. "I. Can't. Breathe." Night shade said, turning blue. Not realizing how hard she was squeezing him, she let go. "Oh sorry" she said, as Night shade was catching his breath. Night shade chuckled and kissed her nose. Just a Night shade turned around to take off, something shinny fell out of his pocket. "Hey N, what's this?" Lilly said, as she picked the object. "It was supposed to be a surprise" he said with a slight disappointment in his voice. Night shade picked up the object, reveling it was a necklace. He put the golden necklace around Lilly's neck, which had a diamond in the middle of it the color of her hair.
A tear of happiness rolled down Lilly's face as she hugged him tight. "I can't breathe" Night shade said, turning blue. Forgetting her strength, she let go of him. "Let's go pack up your apartment" Night shade said taking off with Lilly behind him. "Race ya!" Lilly said with a giggle as she zipped by Night shade. "Oh no you don't" Night shade said racing after her.
Reaching Lilly's apartment, both out of breath, Lilly opened the apartment. "Ok, you get the closet, and I'll get my room." She said sliding a suitcase over to Night shade. After the two packed all of Lilly's things, and took off for their new home. After arriving in ponyville, Night shade collapsed in front of the house, carrying both heavy suitcases. Lilly opened the door to the house while Night shade dragged the bags inside. "It's perfect" Lilly said yawning, tired from racing Night shade to the house. "I'm going to bed N." Lilly said yawning again as she walked upstairs. As night shade dropped the suit cases in the living room, he followed her upstairs to the bedroom. When he got upstairs Lilly was already in bed and asleep. Night shade plopped down next to her and fell asleep.
Night shade and Lilly were awaken by loud knocks on the door. "Ugh, I'll get it" night shade said groggily. "Just go back to sleep Lilly" "okay" Lilly said with a large yawn. As night shade trotted down the stairs to open the door, he heard someone muttering to themselves outside in a language he hadn't heard since he was a child. When he open the door, he was greeted with a red dragon wearing golden armor. Night shade froze. As the dragon turned around, Night shade's eyes light up. "David?" night shade said, quite surprised. "Blade!, brother its good to see you again!" David said hugging Night shade tight. "You don't look like a dragon anymore" David said, a little disappointed. "Yeah, it happened when I morphed." Night shade said. "Well, can I come in? It's quite cold out here."David said with a shiver. "Oh sure sorry, but just kinda keep quiet, my fiancé is asleep upstairs." night shade said in a hushed tone. As Night shade opened the door, Lilly was standing on stairs. "Ahem" she said, sternly. "Uh-oh" David and Night shade said in unison. "Babe, can I talk to you upstairs?" Lilly said in a harsh tone. "You're in trouble now" David said with a chuckle. Night shade glared at him as he walked upstairs. Lilly closed the bedroom door. "What is it Lilly?" Night shade said in a whispered tone "Why didn't you tell me you used to be a dragon!?" Lilly whispered angrly. "I didn't think it was necessary!" "I-I just don't like dragons" Lilly said. "Why?" "I don't want to talk about it right now" Lilly sighed. "okay no more secrets. Okay?" "Okay" "we will discuss this later" Lilly said. walking down the stairs. Lilly followed him down the stairs. "Sorry about that David" Night shade said apologetically. "don't be, it's perfectly o.k. Blade." "Oh, by the way David, I go by Night shade now." "alright" David said with a nod. Lilly trotted up next to night shade. "David this is Mountain Lilly, she likes to just be called Lilly." Lilly yawned, and looked at David. "It's nice to meet you Lilly, and I am Prince David, I am prince of the dragon kingdom, and older brother of night shade". he said, bowing. "It's nice to meet you too David." Lilly said grinning. "You came a long way, so it must be important, what did you need?" Night shade said. David sighed. "I'm afraid I have some bad news." "Here, sit down David." Night shade gestured to the living room. The three sat down around the coffee table. David cleared his throat. "I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask a favor of you both" David said. "What is it?" Night shade said. "I have been receiving death threats from some of my subjects, and was wondering if I could stay here with you for a while?" David said, saddened. Night shade and Lilly looked at each other, both nodded. "Alright, you can stay" Lilly said, which surprised both David and Night shade. "Thank you both" David said, bowing his head. "but there is one problem, it's a one bedroom house. So that means you're going to have to sleep in the basement." Night shade said. "That's perfectly alright, And thank you again" David said a yawn. "No problem" Lilly said. "Now lets all go to bed. David wait I've got a blanket and an extra mattress for you." "that's ok, but thank you bl- I mean Night shade." As David walks into the basement, Lilly and night shade both trot upstairs. "Ok, Now that's over with, what's your problem with dragons Lilly?" Night shade asked as he shut the door. Lilly sighed. she crawled into bed next to Night shade. They faced each other in the bed, almost nose to nose. " I don't like dragons because." Lilly sighed. "If I start to cry I might stop" Lilly said. "Thats the reason?" Night shade asked. "No!" Lilly said with a slight giggle. Her face went grim again. "I don't like dragons because, when I was a filly, my entire village, including my family was killed." "Only my older brother and I escaped, but when I went out to get food for my brother and I, I came back to find that he had also been killed." Lilly said, starting to cry. "shhh, now don't cry baby." Night shade said, wiping a tear rolling down her face. "Lilly I'm sorry, I didn't know. But I can guarantee that my brother and I are nothing like that." Night shade said hugging her. "You promise?" Lilly said, sniffling and trying not cry again. "I promise" Night shade said. "And if you want we can have a talk to my brother about the incident and see what he knows okay?" "Really? You mean it?" Lilly said, excited "Sure I don't see why not. And hey, I'm on your side no matter what." " I love you Lilly" Night shade said giving her a kiss. " I love you too N" Lilly said, yawning and falling asleep.
As we fast forward 8 years, David has moved in permanently with Night shade and Lilly. In the family, Night shade is known by Blade. Lilly and Blade had a filly, Neon Cloud. She is now 7 years old. Night shade and Lilly have both retired from the royal guard, and now run a body guard service out of Ponyville, where they have now bought a 2 bedroom house so David can now sleep In a room With his girlfriend. And Lilly has gotten over her fear of dragons. David has a Pegasus girlfriend, Sun Storm.
RING RING RING! Blade reached over and turned the alarm clock off. He looked over and saw that Lilly had already gotten up. Blade took a deep breath, and the smell of pancakes and bacon filled his nostrils. He could hear David and Lilly playing with Neon downstairs. He yawned and got out of bed. He trotted to the bathroom and fixed his hair and brushed his teeth. As he trotted down the stairs, he heard Lilly say something to David and he went to another room and grabbed something. "Hey babe, happy birthday!" Lilly said as he kissed her on the cheek. "David's grabbing your gift, he and I decided on it." Lilly said smiling and kissing him back. "happy birthday daddy!" Neon said hugging her dad. "daddy I made this for you!" Neon said showing her dad a drawing she made. It mostly looked like scribbles, but it's was fine, the only things he could make out we're "daddy" and "me". "Aww, thank you princess!" Night shade said kissing Neon and hugging her. David walked into the living room carrying a box that was all wrapped up, and set it on the ground. "Hey birthday bro!" David said, as blade and David did a "wing slap". That's their equivalent of a High five. David hugged blade tight. "happy birthday little bro!" David said pointing to the box. "Oh and Storm got this for you." David said handing blade an envelope. "Where is she?" Blade asked. "Work." David said. Night shade shrugged " Oh well." "Time to eat!" Lilly called from the kitchen. Lilly had the plates already set up. The men of the house sat at the ends of the table. And Neon next to blade and Lilly next to Neon. And sun storm sat across from Lilly and next to David. "Need help getting up princess?" Blade asked Neon. "No thank you daddy, I can get up by myself now! Watch!" Neon said excited. Blade watched as she fluttered up to the seat of her stool. "Good job princess!" Blade said. "I guess my flying lessons helped, right neon?" David asked. "They sure did uncle David, thank you." After the group ate breakfast they Opened the presents and cards. "Thanks you guys." Blade said. "But I think I liked Neon's drawing present the best." Blade said with a wink. "Uncle David will you come outside and play with me?" Lilly asked. David looked at Blade. Blade nodded. "Wait Lilly, get your soccer ball and I'll help you practice!" David said. "Okay I'll go get it!" Neon said running upstairs. "David." David turned around. "Yeah?" "go easy on her" blade said with a chuckle. David nodded and chuckled as well. "all right, I'm going to the ammo depot to grab some .50 ammo, anyone need anything else?" Blade asked. " I don't need anything, what about you David?" "Nope I'm good. Thanks though."David said. "Neon do you want anything from the store?" "Can I have a lollipop from the store daddy?" Neon asked. "Alright I'll pick one up." "Thanks daddy!" Neon said as she hugged him. "Alright I'll be back in a couple of minutes." "Bye babe" Lilly said as she kissed him. Night shade opened the door and took off, but not more than 10 feet in the air he froze. His eyes widened. "Oh crap." he was looking at a large dark wall heading towards him really fast. Blocking out light as it went over cities. He flew down and bolted into the house. "Lilly, get David and Neon in here now!" As Lilly called them in, storm burst into the house. "Oh thank god your ok" blade said. "Did you see the-" "yes I did, we need to get down to the basement" "everyone down in the basement!" Blade yelled. As soon as everyone got into the basement blade locked the doors and shut the basement hatch. "What's going on?" Lilly asked. "Changelings" Storm said. "What?!" David said. "We just have to wait this out I guess" blade said as he opened up the weapon safe and grabbed his M249 and M83A3. "Everyone grab a gun" blade said handing David a LSAT. Lightning light up the sky as the siege had just begun. David peeked out of the blinds. "Were clear, we can move under the cover of the storm." "Everyone ready?" Blade asked grabbing food and ammo and putting it into a saddlepack. "Lilly and I will take point" blade said opening the back door. As blade and Lilly went down the ally, a patrol of changelings went by. One of the changelings landed near where Lilly was and was headed towards her. Blade unsheathed his knife, and dropped a glass bottle to get the changelings attention. It turned around and walked to where blade was hiding. It walked past blade and he popped up behind it and he stabbed it in the back. "All clear" blade said as he picked up his gun again. "Psst" a voice said in the shadows. Blade pointed his gun over to where it came from. A female unicorn stepped out of the shadows carrying a shotgun. "Who are you?" Blade asked, gun still on point. "That's not important, what is important is how many of you there are." She said. "Five" blade said, as David walked up behind him. "alright follow me." the Pegasus said as she ran off down the ally. As she crossed the street another patrol flew by. This time, the group had been spotted. "Incoming!" The Pegasus shouted, as she shot a couple changelings down. "Go Go Go!" Lilly yelled. "I can lead them away!" "Lilly no!" Blade shouted, as the rain came down. "I'm going Blade, end of story!" "Fine take this then" blade said handing her his luck charm "Blade, take care of our daughter" Lilly said as she kissed blade for a long time. Lilly yelled and screamed, trying to make as much noise as possible to distract the changelings . As she ran the opposite way, the changelings followed her down the ally. "come on!" the other unicorn yelled as she ran down the ally. "Take them and go, I'll be right there. Don't worry" Night shade said as he handed David his Gun. As the changelings caught up to Lilly, they picked her up and flew towards the main hive where they kept the prisoners. "Lilly!" Blade shouted taking off after, but before he could get far enough off the ground he was tackled by a changeling. "Get off of me!" blade shouted as he struggled with the changeling, who had him pinned. The changeling hissed and went to bite blades neck. But before he could, a gun shot echoed through the air and the changeling went limp with is teeth softly pressed into Blades neck. Blade looked over and saw Storm holding a smoking .45. Blade pushed the changeling off of him and shot up into the air, looking around for the changelings who had Lilly. David flew up into the sky after Blade, but much slower. "Blade." David said hovering close to panicking bat pony. "Blade." Davis said again as blade darted around looking for Lilly. "Blade." David said again, grabbing blade, and looking him in the eyes. "shes gone brother but we will get her back. I promise." Blade just burst into tears, which surprised David, as he had never seen his brother cry. "I let her go! I failed as a husband!" Blade shouted. David just hugged his brother. As david hugged his brother, he motion for storm to take Neon away, for he did not want her to see her dad cry. "Your not a failure at anything blade." David said, still hugging his brother. "Come on, let's get out of here and we will come back." David said, forcing his brother to land. As the two walked back to the group in silence, the unicorn walked over a man-hole in the street, and lifted it up. "Everyone in." she said, jumping down the hole. "where are we, and who are you again?" Blade asked with a twinge of anger in his voice. The dark purple unicorn sighed. "My name is violet. I'm part of a secret organization that deals with and prepares for changeling attacks." She said, opening a hatch leading down deeper into the tunnel. "We are now heading towards my primary bunker, where I have supplies and ammo." She said, lighting up the Tunnel with her horn. Once inside the bunker, Storm put Neon to sleep while david and Blade talked to Violet. "Do you have a map, or anything of the "hive", or whatever you call it?" Blade asked, eating a mango. "Actually, I do. But it's just of the castle, if you've got the guts to me meet chrysalis herself and ask for you wife back." Violet said, handing Blade the map. Blade unrolled the map, trying figure out a way in. "Dont tell me your ACTUALLY considering this?" David said, grabbing a bottle of water. "Maybe." Blade said, taking another bite of his mango. "Go in un-armed, but have a knife just in case. Maybe Just have a face-to-face with her." Blade said. Violet scoffed. "That's ridiculous, your going to have a "friendly chat" with the changeling queen?!" David said, taking the map from blade. "Wh-hey!" Blade said, trying to grab the map back. "We will talk about this in the morning." Violet said. "You need rest." violet said, nudging blade towards the beds. As blade trotted towards the beds, he saw Neon had curled up next to Storm and the two had fallen asleep. Blade trotted over to his bed and laid down, pretending to fall asleep, and waited for Violet and David to fall asleep. David and Violet had talked for sometime about ways to get out of the city and things along those lines. As soon as he heard the two fall asleep, Blade got up slowly, and tip-hoofed to the door. Grabbing his knife, he opened the door and trotted out quietly, shutting the door behind him and taking off, heading for "The Hive." When blade reached the kingdom, he landed in front of the gates, and knocked. The large gates creaked open and a changeling stuck it's head out from behind the gate. It's eyes widened and it shut the gate, and shouted some in its native language. Blade stood still, waiting for the Changeling to come back out. The large gates opened again, except 3 changelings came out from behind the gate. One of the changelings approached blade. "Why have you come?" The changeling asked, circling blade. Blade cleared his throat. "I would like to speak to your queen." Blade said in a solid tone. The changeling laughed. "You think you can just walk up, and ask to see the queen, huh? You think this Is how it works?" The changeling said in a mocking tone. The changeling stopped in front of him, and got in Blades face, staring him in the eyes. "You will not make it out of this place, stupid bat!" The changeling said, Still looking him in the eyes, and spit at the hooves of Blade. Blade looked down at spit, and looked up at the changeling. "Did this offend you?" The changeling asked in a childish tone. Blade growled and tackled the changeling, holding his knife to its throat. "Won't I make it out?" Blade asked in a harsh tone. The changeling gulped. "Enough!" a voice said that made the changeling cower in fear. Blade looked up, and saw Queen Chrysalis. Blade got off the changeling, stepping on its stomach, which made it grunt in pain. "Oops." Blade said, sheathing his knife. "You, what is your name?" Chrysalis said, looking at blade. "Night shade" he said. "I have heard you wanted to talk to me?" Chrysalis said, walking up to blade, who was shorter than she was. "Yes, I did- I mean do." Blade said stuttering. "ok then, let's talk. Follow me to the castle." Chrysalis said. That struck blade as odd, considering she just let him in like that. As blade turned a corner he was hit it the head and knocked out.
Back at the bunker, David had just woken up. David yawned and looked around for blade. "Ah, shit." David poked Violet with a claw. "Psst, hey." David said as Violet grumbled sleepily. "What do you want, I'm trying to sleep." Violet grumbled angrily. "blade left for the "hive" to get Lilly." David said, gesturing towards the door. "Do me a favor Violet, and watch the others until I get back" David said,heading for the door. "I'm not a babysitter David!" Violet said as David shut the door behind him. Violet sighed as David flew towards the "hive".
Night shade was beginning to wake up, but he found himself in a dark room. He could hear voices outside. Night shade put his ear up to the wall. As he did, the door opened, letting in the blinding sun. Night shade scurried into a corner to hide. Chrysalis walked into the room, accompanied by a human wearing, to night shade, looked like a military commanders uniform. "Well well well! What have we here?" The human said walking towards blade. Blade, backed into a corner showed his teeth and hissed, too scared to move. "You little shit" the human said, grabbing blade by the neck. "Let me go!" Blade shouted, kicking and flapping his wings. The human chuckled, "a lively one! Good test subject!" The human said, with a snarl. Chrysalis laughed, "Yes isn't he? Take the other one too. His wife." Chrysalis said with a devious smile. "Excellent, your reward shall be great!" The human said, tossing blade into a cargo truck next to an unconscious Lilly. "Lilly!" Blade said, trying to get her up. As the truck started to move, there was an explosion, and a portal had opened up in front of the truck. As the truck headed forward, the small window on the back of the cab slid open. "Put these on when we head through the portal" the commander said tossing two sets of orange jump suits through the window. As the truck went through the portal, and Lilly and blade turned into humans. as blade put lily in the clothes, the sliding window opened again. "Hurry up and get dressed." The commander said as the truck came to a stop. As Blade put his jumpsuit on, the back of the truck opened up. "Alright, out." The Human said. "Pick her up and carry her inside" the commander instructed the corporal. "No, I'll do it." Blade said, picking Lilly up. As he hopped down from the truck, Lilly started waking up. Lilly shaded her eyes from the sun. "Where are we?" She asked, looking around. As Lillly was shading her eyes, she noticed she no longer had hooves. "Woah" Lilly said, looking at her hands and feet. As blade walked inside, he was directed into a cell. As he set Lilly down, she stumbled around for a second and blade grabbed her shoulder. blade tore two slits for Lilly's wings in the shirt. as Lilly let her wings unfold, she noticed the had grown in size and her heavier. blade tore two slits in his shirt as well. A soldier knocked on the door. "Welcome to the core" he said, handing blade and Lilly dog tags. "These are so we can keep track of you." he said writing down something on his clipboard. "The director will be with you any moment" the soldier said as he walked away. "well well well, if it isn't blade!", a familiar voice said from the door. Blade turned around from helping Lilly get ger tags on, "You!", blade said with a growl in his voice. "aspen?." Blade said, growling. "im going to enjoy makng you suffer blade." He said with an evil laugh.
As David reached the hive, he was met with drawn armed guards and alarms. "What brings you here dragon?" Chrysalis said, walking closer to David. "where is my brother?" David said leaning closer to chrysalis." I sent him to earth" chrysalis said chuckling. Dabid smiled. " that's easy to get to" he said opening a personal portal. "No!" Chrysalis said chasing after David as he flew into the portal, and closed it as soon as he went through it.