Chapter 6: The Wedding Mash Up

It was mear hours before Dan and Luna were to be wed and Dan was in his old room and Luna in hers. They wanted to respect the old belief of not seeing each other until they walked down the aisle. Dan was pacing back and forth in his room. He was nervous for many reasons. The two main ones were he knew this was the time that the changelings would try things if they were going to. And more on his mind was just like Discord he was going to be making a big step soon. He was excited about that step but it was still enough to make him worry if he was really good enough for Luna.

Dan had stopped pacing and was standing lost in thought when he felt a presence on his balcony then he saw a green flash from the corner of his eye. Dan moved to face his foe. He didn't see some drown like he was expecting. He saw the queen herself, in all of her terrifying beauty. Dan was caught off guard by the sight that met his eyes. He knew what the show made the queen look like but it didn't do her true form justice. She was so much meaner, scarier, and even more… beautiful. Dan couldn't figure out what made him think she was beautiful but he couldn't help it. He was intrigued by her look.

She must have noticed the way Dan was looking at her, because she laughed out loud at the sight. "So even the mighty and loyal Dan can fall to my charms. Though I would have never thought so with my true form. Oh well I guess since you aren't really a pony to begin with you would have different tastes. I mean look at who you chose to marry." That was the wrong thing to say to Dan. He was amused with her until the last part on her statement. Then he was pissed. He might have found her attractive at first, but that only lasted until she spoke. Then Dan took a fighting stance.

"Now you are in for a fight! No one insults my Luna! I might have found you interesting and maybe even attractive at first, but now I am going to end you! And here I was going to keep you as a pet." Dan had just hit a nerve and Chrysalis took a fighting stance of her own. But Dan didn't stop there. "So I see the all mighty queen of the changelings is getting her holed hooves dirty for this one. But I have one question. Since when have you impersonated males? That desperate are you?" the queen snorted in anger. "NO! I would never lower myself to that level. But my husband doesn't mind! Now Virus!" Dan turned to see a male version of the queen attacking him. Dan was to late to do anything about it.

Dan woke up with a migraine an hour later. Then he realized what had happened. He looked at the watch he had chosen to ware in prep for this very moment. Dan used his locator spell to find Luna. He found she wasn't far from him. She was a couple of walls away. There just seemed to be something wrong. She wasn't hurt, but something wasn't right about her. Dan could sense it and it made him worry all the more. He would have just took the tunnels to her if he hadn't sensed what he had. Now he was going to blast his way to her in a hurry. Dan blasted his way through the two walls separating him and Luna. But when he blasted his way through the last wall he felt nothing but fear.

Dan had learned to sense most emotions, and all he felt now was fear. He knew he should have felt determination to get out and a few other things, but none of those feelings were there. When the dust cleared he saw Luna against the opposite wall cowering like a filly. She was looking at him like he was a monster. Dan couldn't stand to see Luna the way she looked. Then he could feel what was wrong, and that spell was strong. Dan could feel it was a memory and fear spell. It was meant to erase all of Luna's memories and make her fear everything she saw. Dan moved slowly closer to Luna with hope it hadn't fully worked. His hopes were crushed.

Luna screamed and shot a bolt of magic at him. Dan tie the floor to doge it. He knew he was now lucky she wasn't as good an aim as he was, and that he knew a way around this spell. He hoped they wouldn't use it but just in case he had to make himself know it. There were two ways around it. One make yourself so scary that you looked normal and then if he kissed her it would bring back the memories. Or treat her as a child and then get her to kiss him to break it. He had promised Luna that he would never take the monstrous form he did the night he lost it ever again so the first was out of the question. It would be the last thing he tried.

Dan crawled toward Luna and used his musical sounding voice to calm her. "It is ok my dear Luna. You have nothing to fear from me. I will not hurt you in any way ever. Just stay calm and let me come over to you. Then I can make sure you are not scared anymore." That was when Luna's own fears added to the mix and made it go downhill from there. Luna's fear of losing Dan or of being hurt by love that had been long gone were forced to the serfus. "NO! Stay away! You will hurt me I know it! Every pony I know has!" She let lose more bolts of magic at him. Dan ad to back away and doge the bolts so he wouldn't be fried by them. 'Ok. That won't work…so I have to do the other way to get around it. Forgive me Luna.'

Dan let his appearance change slowly into the monster he knew he could become. The fear inspiring monster of a pony that Dan had now changed into spoke to Luna with the same musical voice. The only thing that could make anypony think the real Dan was still in him. "Please Luna look at me. Listen to my words. I am the one you love and the only way to get your fears to disappear is to listen and take heart. Let me kiss the one I love, and it will all be better after that. I tell you the truth." Dan was starting to tear up both at the fear of losing Luna to this fear, and to losing her when she realized he broke his promise and turned into the monster that scared her.

Luna looked up and saw the normal Dan standing there looking sad with tears in his eyes. She didn't know who he was or why he was so sad, but if he spoke the truth he could help her. "What did you say you needed to do to help me?" Dan looked at her blank faced. "Just a small kiss is all that is needed. Then your fears will be rid of." Luna Nodded and cautiously walked toward Dan as he came closer to her. They met in the middle and their lips met. Luna thought it was only meant to last a second, but then her memories came back to her, her fears disappeared and she closed her eyes and enjoyed the kiss. Until she opened her eyes when Dan broke the kiss unexpectedly.

Then Luna saw what she had kissed and backed away in fear. But..this monster she had kissed was crying. Then she recognized the monster and knew it was no monster at all. That was when Dan transformed back into his normal self, turned away and started walking away from her, still having tears run down his cheeks. He had never seen Luna fear him like that, to think he was a monster. It was one of the worst feelings he knew. It reminded him of the night he lost it because she said she hated him. Dan was lost in his sad thoughts when he froze at a surprise touch.

It was Luna. She had run up to him and put her wing around him, and nuzzled her face into the side of his neck. Dan just looked down at her not knowing what to say or do for once. So Luna spoke to calm Dan. "I know why you broke your promise to me and turned into him. And I don't blame you for it or hold it against you. You did it only to save me from a horrid spell and so we can save our wedding. So thank you for breaking your promise." Luna was smiling up at Dan and Dan down at her when it hit Dan what she had said. "The wedding! We have to go stop them!" Luna snapped to reality as Dan said this and the two started to run to the closest exit of the caves.

There were a few new tricks that made them slow down a bit but nothing the two could not handle. Even with all the changelings attacking them and other spells that were put in the way Dan and Luna got to the castle long before the fake versions of them could say their I dos. Dan and Luna had made a longer wedding just for this reason. Dan and Luna decided to add insult to injury on their way in. the two walked in in the middle of the ceremony holding each other close and laughing. The couple walked all the way to the alter like this, only stopping short of the imposters.

Then Dan stopped laughing and looked around. "Oh hey everyone. Did we interrupt something?" then he turned to Luna and smiled. "And here I thought we were the ones that were getting married today." Then Dan got a serious and hard look and stared at the fake him and Luna. "Role call!" Celestia started off. "The sexy one." Then Discord. "The tactical one." Then came the real Luna. "The royal one." Last was the real Dan. "The chaotic one. So I guess all the real ones are here and that means that you can show the real you now Chrysalis. Nice try thought." Dan had a smirk on his face as the three alicorns took fighting stances with Discord cracking his knuckles.

Chrysalis and her husband Virus transformed into their normal forms. "Ok so I only have one question before we kill you." Dan interrupted her. "You want to know why we had the opposite as our code names." The queen growled but nodded. "And here I thought you were a great tattision like me, but I guess I was wrong. Oh well. I did that because it would have been easy to know each of ours if we were describing ourselves. But not so much if we used the others in the group. Then you would have to chose what member we chose and in what order. And it seemed to work. Now stop stalling. Virus is mine. Girls get the queen. Discord handle the wedding party if you don't mind. And yes I know you kidnapped all the guests and replaced them with changelings. I felt it when we entered."

Dan smiled wide and faced Virus who had been baring his teeth at him. "GO!" and that was when all hell broke out. Discord went to fighting the changing army in the room. The two princesses went after the queen. And Dan was attacked by Virus. Dan dogged the attacks easily and even wiped out a few of the smaller changelings in the process. Then Dan made a simple mistake and it was all Virus needed to land a strong magic filled punch to Dan's shoulder. It through Dan to the ground. Dan got up and was ready for another attack but instead Virus stood there laughing to himself.

"You got cocky and that will lead to your death." Dan smiled and flexed his shoulder. It had actually been cracked by the hit, but his body heals so fast that Dan barely felt anything now. This surprised Virus. "How? I felt your shoulder crack under my power!" Dan shook off the dirt and readied himself. "My power stays in my body and so I heal really fast and well. So you will have to do better than that. It was a good hit and thanks for teaching me not to get cocky. You may be slow, and your legs may have holes, but you are one strong son of a bitch. Not no more holding back. Let's end this."

Virus smiled evilly and nodded. Then the two went at it for the next five minutes full force. Everyone else in the room had to get out of the way so not to be hit by the two males attacks. By this time Discord had taken out the army, and the two princesses had subdued the queen. But Dan and Virus were still going strong, neither wanting to give up. That was when Chrysalis saw her chance to distract Dan and maybe take down Luna in the process. Chrysalis powered up a strong attack as the others watched the fight. Then she let it lose at Luna. It hit her in the side right behind the shoulder. It broke her shoulder, ribs and did damage to many of her organs. Luna screamed in pain.

Celestia turned and knocked the queen unconscious in one magical blast, almost killing her. To Dan the world had frozen. He saw Luna get hit and felt her pain. Dan had to help her! Then Dan felt a hit in his jaw, his jaw start to snap but his powers took over, his mind no longer in control, but his heart. The punch was stopped in its tracks with a horrified looking Virus behind it. Dan slowly turned to look at him. A look that struck fear in the heart of the changeling king. Without moving Dan sent out a wave of magic that was strong enough to through the king into the wall and knock him unconscious. Then Dan ran to Luna's side where her sister was trying to save her.

"It's not working! Something in this magic is fighting me and won't let me heal her!" Dan knew why. 'A monster did this, and a monster must fix it.' Dan walked over to Chrysalis. Dan put a hoof on her head and chanted a spell that the other two had never heard before. Soon after some of her power flowed into Dan and he started to take on the appearance of a changeling. Then Dan walked over to Luna. "Move. I will heal her now." Celestia moved over to Discord and he held her close. Dan put his hoof on Luna feeling her shake in pain as he did so. Then Dan muttered the same spell and the power from the queen flowed into Luna. Then Dan's magic flowed.

Dan started to change back to his normal state, but not until Luna had woken up and seen him. "What happened to you my love?" Dan just put a hoof to her mouth to silence her. "I just did what I had to, to keep you safe." Dan started to wobble and then fell over. Luna tried to get up but it hurt to much. She was still healing and was told to keep still by a weak Dan. "I will be fine Luna. I just used a lot of magic so I'm just a little weak for now. Once we both get some rest we will both be good as new. Hey Discord you mind getting us off the floor and onto our bed?" Discord smiled at his friend. "it would be my pleasure my friend." Discord teleported the couple to their room.

Luna still wanted to know how Dan had saved her so she asked. "Hey Dan, how did you manage to save me when my sister couldn't?" Dan couldn't help but smile. "and here I thought you had passed out. I should have known better. Basically I stole power from the one who hurt you to fix what she had done. Basically undoing what she did with her own power." Luna had gasped when Dan started. "How do you know how to steal others power? And why?" Dan sighed. "The archives as usual, and I knew it would be the only way to save you when it came to being hurt by changeling magic." Luna was surprised at this. "I had a dream the other night. The nigt you said you thought I had a nightmare and I told you it was nothing. I was given a glimpse of the future and that was it."

Luna was shocked at this. "That's why you seemed so worried about me lately." Dan sighed. "Yes, and I know I was given that vision so that I could be prepared to save you. Now I only fear what happens next. But I can't wait for the wedding to be set up again. So I can finally marry you with no worries." Luna was smiling. "I am glad you got that vision. And that you saved me so that we can still be wed. good night my love I will see you in the morning."