I kept staring at the ceiling of my room for countless minutes. My mind was spinning around that grim laugh Discord gave... I had a really bad feeling about that... But I would have time to worry about that later. Right now I needed to focus on a simpler task: Get out of my bed and walk.

I pushed toe covers to the side and then lift my upper body. First thing I felt was the weight of my new wings. Closing my eyes to focus a little better, I started to move them slowly... Getting a better grasp of their presence... Stretching them fully I could guess that they had something like 1,2M from the base to the tip. Slowly I moved them as if I wanted to fly and felt a little breeze... Yes, they had the strength to lift me from the ground and make me soar through the sky.

I closed them and then moved out of the bed. When I stood up I completely lost my balance but, instead of falling I crouched and used my hands to support my weight too. This position wasn't that bad... although it was a bit weird when I started to walk on all fours just to test. It was possible, but was something that I would want to avoid doing in public.
I took a deep breath and closed my eyes again, feeling the presence of my tail. Longer but easy to control. I laid my tail on the ground and started to stand up in two legs again, using the tail as a support. Once I had my legs full stretched I lift my tail just a bit and tried a few steps. The first ones were the hardest. My legs were a bit shaky but that was due to the growing process, no doubt. I just needed to walk more to regain practice.

I walked to the door and pushed it open, just a crack and peeking outside. No one around... I pushed the door fully open and walked outside. I hadn't an actual destination, so I took my time... step by step until...
"HEY YOU!" I heard a male voice shouting at me. When I looked back I saw a gray royal guard approaching. He had yellow eyes and a dark armor. His wings were somewhat like mines... Reminded the wings of a bat. On his chest he had a moon sign. I never saw any guard like him before. "Can't even go to the damn bathroom..." I heard him mumble while he trotted close to me.
"Hey there..." I said a bit unsure... this royal guard was definitely a lot more intimidating than the regular white one that I saw so many times.

As he got closer I noticed that I was only 30cm taller than him while walking on two legs.

"The Princess of the Night wanted to see you as soon as you woke up. Please follow me." He huffed and started walking.

We walked for a few minutes until we finally reached the throne room. The big room had several torches along the walls to illuminate better the place. Through the big windows I could see a dark sky full of stars and a beautiful moon shining. Sitting on the high throne was Princess Luna. The royal guard walked in front of her and bowed. I did the same and heard a chuckle from Luna.

"I don't think I could get used to this..." She said while walking out of the throne and stopped right in front of me smiling.
"If you allow me, your majesty, sitting on a throne don't really suits you..." I smiled at her.
"Is that so Eravel? You think that the Princess of the Night do not deserve to sit in a high throne like the Princess of the Sun does?" She asked walking around me. From the corner of my eye I saw the dark royal guard widening his eyes in shock.

"Is not a matter of deserving my Princess... I simply think that walking among your subjects suits you a lot more." I said smiling. "And, of course, landing on someone's balcony and almost scaring him to death." I laughed softly and so did her.

"Yes... I remember that you almost jump out of that balcony when we first meet." She said referring to when we first spoke, at the balcony of my three house, when I was still a human.

I could see that the royal guard was still looking at me, but with a frown now. Probably wondering why I was being so relaxed in front of the Princess, but I wasn't going to be bother by him.

"How long did I slept?" I asked to the Princess.
"About two weeks..." She answered. "The whole incubation process took a week and half to complete and then you slept for more four days..." She explained. "By the way... Eravel, do you know a mare called Octavia? She came day after day wanting to know if you had waked up..."

"Oh yes!" I said remembering the letter. "I had to deliver a letter to her... But I think I forgot it on the carriage."
"The guards that brought you here already delivered the letter." The dark royal guard said. I was glad to hear that. First because the letter had been delivered and second, because if Octavia was looking for me that means that she wanted to see Steel Head!
"Thank you." I said smiling to the guard and he simply moved his shoulder a bit... he looked a bit hurt because I was being so informal with the Princess.

"Octavia..." Luna said scratching her chin. "I think 'Tia said something about a mare called Octavia staying in the castle..."
"Can I go see her?" I asked.
"I think she's still awake... I raised the moon barely an hour ago..." Luna said starting to walk. She let out a little sight after talking about raising the moon.

"Is something wrong Princess Luna?" I asked noticing.
"Nothing important Eravel... just... side effects of the Incubation spell falling over my sister..." She said smiling at me.
"What do you mean?" I frowned hearing that.
"Well... the spell needed a bit of vital energy from my sister to work... and she is a little weak now..." Luna started to explain. "Giving your vital energy is something that a mortal should never try... even the small amount of it would make the pony in question loose several years of life..."

"And why did Celestia did that!? I was going to grow on my own in time! She didn't need to give her life energy away!" If I knew that... I would never let her do the spell...
"Calm down Eravel..." Luna chuckled. "Me and my sister, we are immortal, remember? Our vital energy is always being refilled, she just needs to rest more... we don't want to repeat the almost wedding disaster, do we?"
"What disaster? You mean the changeling attack?" I asked with a frown, still not fully convinced.

"Precisely... To give new life to the egg, 'Tia and I had to spend a lot of vital energy... enough to be fatal to any other pony... Most of ponies couldn't notice, but many creatures that can sense the change of energy when I raise the moon and when 'Tia raises the sun, could realize that something was different. And indeed it was… I was the one that gave more energy, since my sister had more duties than I do… You know… Most ponies are awake during the day and she needs to look after them. By the time I had just enough strength to stay awake during the night, and after hiding the moon I needed to enter into a self regenerative trance during the day." She sighed again. "I woke up to discover that Canterlot had almost being taken…"
"But if you knew that someone was threatening Canterlot… why did you both proceed with the spell?" I asked trying to find any sense on that reckless action.
"We didn't know… the warning came one week after we performed the spell… And vital energy is something that takes a bit of a long time to fully regenerate. That's why Celestia is resting as much as possible, so she can be at her top form again… Tonight will be the last one. By the time she needs to raise the sun, my sister will be as strong as ever!" Luna smiled with confidence.

"Yeah… but still… Almost two weeks to be completely recovered is too much isn't?" I asked.
"Not if you think that she just used something equivalent of 25 years of vital energy on you. Dragons take a long time to grow since their life are really long..." Luna said while walking.
If you put that way, it makes some sense… At least some kind of sense. But I still though that it was a little risky. Canterlot almost were taken because both Princesses were too weak to defend it… And all because of me. I could just hope to not make them do such foolish sacrifices or take unnecessary risks again. Ever!
I followed her and the royal guard took the lead, guiding me and Luna to the room where Octavia was staying. It only took us a few minutes of walks through the corridors. We stopped in front of a simple door where she was probably staying.

I lift my arm and hit the door a few times.

"Miss Octavia? Are you awake? It's me, Erin... you wanted to see me?" I said in a soft voice, not wanting to wake her up if she was asleep. After a few seconds I heard movement inside the room...
The door opened a small crack and I saw an eye peeking outside... Probably was Octavia. I smiled at her and waved a little. Suddenly the door opened fully and a pair of gray hooves warped around my neck. She pulled me closer and I felt her lips pressing against mine in a passionate kiss. My eyes widened and my wings shoot open. From the corner of my eye I saw both, Luna and the royal guard with their jaws dropped.
"I...I will give you both some... some privacy" I heard Luna saying and trotting away, followed by her royal guard.

Octavia pulled me inside the room and threw me on the bed with a strength I didn't know she had.
"I received your letter Erin..." She said walking closer to me, in a sensual way. I crawled back a little when she started to climb on the bed.
"L-Look... erm... m-miss Octavia..." I didn't know what to do! If she did receive my letter why the hell was she jumping on me like that!?

"shh... you don't need to say anything..." She whispered to me passing a hoof over my chest. Her mane was all messed and she stared at my eyes with a provocative look. I felt her hoof sliding down my chest... reaching my stomach and going further down... between my legs. I felt a shiver going down my spine. "I'll take good care of my number one fan..." she said and attacked me again with another passionate kiss.

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Rainbow Dash was walking from one side of the library to the other with a frown. Spike was sitting in a corner following the cyan mare with his eyes. Twilight was laid on a bed made of various pillows, reading a book. Rainbow's steps were constant and showed some kind of impatience...
"GOD DAMN IT!" Rainbow Dash suddenly shouted making the baby dragon jump in startle. "I can't take it anymore! When will Celestia send a letter that Eravel wake up!?" She said angrily at Twilight Sparkle that simply lift her eyes from the book.
"When he wake up maybe?" She answered in a simple way.

Rainbow Dash snorted and started to walk again from one side to another.

"Rainbow, have patience... She will tell us when he wakes up and can receive visits..." Twilight said without taking her eyes from the book.
"And can receive visits...?" The cyan pegasus repeated the last part of the phrase and turned to see the purple unicorn "That means that he may be already woke up!" Her wings shoot open
"Ohhhh no!" Twilight said standing up "Even If he woke up he probably is not feeling well... let him rest ok?" The purple unicorn said.
"Don't worry... I will." Rainbow said walking towards the door. "But after I check that he is ok!" With that Rainbow Dash flew to the night sky as fast as she could. Twilight tried to hold her but the pegasus got out of her reach.

The rainbow maned pegasus reached her house and got inside, letting out a sigh of relief after escaping her friend. From now Rainbow Dash would simply sleep a few hours before fly towards Canterlot. She only did that to Twilight to tease her friend...

First thing in the next morning, Rainbow Dash was already on the air flying to Canterlot. It took her just an hour of flight and she was over the capitol already. She flew close to the castle but with so many windows and rooms it would be impossible to find Eravel there. She decided that it would be wiser to land and go to the front door... but when she was going to pass through the main gate two white royal guards stepped in her way, blocking the passage.
"HALT!" One of them said.
"State your identity and reasons to enter the castle!" The other one said.
Rainbow Dash snorted, annoyed by that attitude.

"I'm Rainbow Dash, and I want to see Eravel." She said in a serious tone.
"You do not have permission to enter" one of the two said. "Turn back and leave."
"Why you..." Rainbow Dash clenched her teeth in anger. "Look here! Do YOU know WHO you are talking to!?" Rainbow Dash said flaying a few inches from the ground, pressing her head against one of the royal guards that didn't looked so confident now. "I'm Rainbow Dash, friend of Twilight Sparkle that is the protégé from Princess Celestia AND I'm the Element of Loyalty!" She said in an authoritarian voice making the royal guard step back. "Now, take me to where the dragon Eravel is, or GET THE BUCK OUT OF MY WAY!" She shouted at him. All the courage from the royal guard simply vanished when faced with the wrath of Rainbow Dash.
"Rainbow Dash! Take it easy with him ok?" She heard a familiar male voice. She stared at his direction, ready to shout another guard to death but when she saw that it was Shining Armor approaching her anger eased.

"Shining Armor? What are you doing here?" She asked ignoring the royal guard that she was yelling at. The poor guard sighed in relief and quick got the opportunity to get back to his post, where he was safe.

"I live in the castle with Cadence, did you forget?" He chuckled watching the poor guard still a bit shaky after the confront with Rainbow Dash. "What about you? What are you doing here, attacking one of my guards?"

"I came looking for Eravel. Do you know where he is?" Rainbow explained getting closer to the white unicorn.
"Hmm... Eravel... is that dragon right? Twily told me a little about him... weird is that he's using another name now." Shining explained while walking inside the castle.
"Another name? Why?" Rainbow asked a bit confused.
"I don't know... All I know is that everypony in the castle calls him Erin." The captain shrugged. "Come, I heard that he was in a room at the west wing of the castle."

With that both trotted inside, going to where Eravel was.

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I was still laid in the bed with Octavia hugging me thigh. I almost had no sleep during the entire night. Every time that I tried to leave her bed, she would hug me thigh and hold me down... At the first rays of the morning that came through the window I saw three bottles of hard cider on a table next to the bed. It was a kind of cider that wasn't present at the last festival... this one was really an alcoholic drink, and a strong one... That explained why Octavia simply jumped on me the night before and, thank Odin, passed out before she was able to do anything else. I couldn't refrain the thoughts that if with the 'light' cider I ended up completely drunk and with no memories of the festival, then with this one… I simply shivered at the thought of drinking this 'hard' one.

So, here I am... probably with bags under my eyes and trapped in the same bed with the mare that my best friend loves... I let out a sigh and then shake Octavia lightly to wake her up... It was the fourth time I tried to wake her.
"Hey... wake up..." I said softly.
She squirmed a bit and this time, she rubbed her eyes. She opened then and looked at me. Apparently she took a few seconds to understand what happen and then, the gray mare blushed so hard that I could easily see it through her coat. She jumped out of the bed with a yelp and landed hard on the floor letting out another yelp of pain.
"Octavia! Are you ok!?" moved myself to the edge of the bed to see her.

She was laid on her back with a hard blush on her face and a confused look on her eyes.
"E-erin!? Oh Celestia, It wasn't a dream then! we... did... did we..." She started to gag with her own words.
"No... Don't worry... You were drunk and passed out before anything could happen." I smiled softly to her. She let out a sigh of relief.
"Sorry... Sorry for yesterday..." She said rolling to stand up. Her mane was all messed, more than the previous night.
"I told you not to worry, you were drunk and out of control... but nothing happen" I said again and sat at the edge of the bed.

"Is just... well..." Octavia was trying to explain herself. "I read your letter, and I couldn't stop thinking of your words" She said coming closer to me smiling softly.
"Wait... my words?" I said getting confused.
"Yes, the letter you send me... A royal guard delivered it and said it was from you!" She said smiling widely.
"But that letter..." I started to say but the door of the room almost flew open.
"Eravel!" I heard a very familiar happy female voice behind me. "Take your lazy tail off the bed! We will start..."
As I turned to look at the door I say Rainbow Dash looking at me... her eyes traveled at the empty bottles of cider... the bed... an then Octavia that was blushing hard and was with her mane all massed. I saw her eyes starting to fill with tears... her expression was like she just got struck by a fatal blow right in the heart.
"Rainbow wait..." I said and she took a step back. "Dash, this is not what it looks like... I swear! I just..." Before I could finish my sentence Rainbow Dash started to run away. I stood up and tried to chase her but Octavia made me trip on her fore hoofs and I ended falling hard on the ground.
"Erin, who was her!?" I heard Octavia saying with an almost sobbing voice, filled with anger.
"Octavia listen..." I said starting to stand up.
"NO!" She shouted. "I won't listen! How... HOW DARE YOU!?" She shouted at me, several tears rolling down her face.
"Octavia, please!" I tried to speak again but she interrupted me.
"You send me that letter saying those beautiful things about me... about the pain you felt because you didn't had the pony you loved... but you were just tricking me didn't you? Just like you tricked that other pegasus!" She said still yelling at me. "I hate you! And I hate all the other males in Equestria!" she screamed slammed her head against my chest when she ran out of the room. I fell on my back, losing my breath because of the hard impact.

"Ahrg! Octavia!" I called her but she was already gone.

I stood on the ground looking at the ceiling... How in the world that happen!?

"Looks like somepony got his tail in a real big problem..." I heard a male voice coming from the door. As I looked over the door I saw a white unicorn stallion.
"Oh no... don't you come saying that you are mad with me too... I swear that, whatever love letter you read, or whatever crazy stuff you heard it WASN'T FROM ME! I swear it! I don't even like stallions!" I said standing up slowly.

"What...?" He asked confused, taking a split of a second to realize what I meant. "OH NO! Celestia No! That's not what I meant!" He said making a disgust face.
"So what you want?" I said a little rougher than planned... I wasn't in my best mod at the moment.

"I was escorting Rainbow Dash here and saw the whole thing... You really dig your own grave here... two mares at the same time? And one of them is best friend with Celestia's protégé!" He said entering the room and smiling softly... the bastard was making fun of me.
"Look, if you are only going to mock me then you can help yourself out of the room. I have a lot to think of right now." I said starting to get really annoyed and he started to laugh softly. This unicorn was asking to have his face ripped off...
"Relax Eravel..." he said and the fact that he knew my name was a bit surprising.
"Do we know each other?" I said narrowing my eyes at him.
"I don't think you know me..." He started "But I know you. My sister, Twilight, showed when you were inside the egg and she wrote to me too when you finally hatch... you know? To avoid my men shooting you down if you came flying too close from Canterlot."

"Who are you?" I arched an eyebrow.
"I'm Shining Armor... Twilight's elder brother and captain of the royal guard." He said with proud.
"Shining... Armor... Steel Head... Do you guys change names after joining the guard?" I asked.
"uhhh... no? Why do you ask?" he said a bit confused.
"Never mind that..." I said shaking my head lightly... The chances were low... but it could be some kind of coincidence... "Anyway... you must be thinking that I'm the worst kind of men aren't you? I mean, after seeing what happen..."
"Kind of..." He shrugged. "But I saw you trying to explain yourself, so, I think you deserve a chance... After all, my sister hardly is wrong when it comes to sense the personality of a pony... or dragon, in your case... Also, I need to give you some credit, after all, you ARE a guest from both Princesses."

I simply sighed and sat on the edge of the bed... I told Shining armor everything that had happen and how I actually loved Rainbow Dash and how I couldn't face her in my previous helpless form... a baby dragon form. Told him about the letter that I had to deliver to Octavia and how she ended thinking that I was the author.

"You..." He started to say trying to hold the laugh. "..are definitely out of luck!"
"Don't say..." I rolled my eyes.
"I think you should give them time... when a mare is angry with you, there is not much you can do to ease her anger... I know that, I'm married after all." He chuckled. "But if you love that pegasus as much as you say... and If she loves you back, then there is not much to worry... I mean, you were doing nothing wrong... according to your version."

"Yeah… maybe you are right…" I said letting out a sight… I could only pray for a chance to actually explain the entire miss understanding.

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A/N: This chapter really came out quicker then I thought it would... I just hope it had the same quality as the others, so, comments pretty please (with sugar on top) ^_^