Chapter ten

Oh happiest of days

Author notes: I've decided to make this the finally chapter. I hope it's good. Oh and guess what lyonsaki finally WROTE A CHAPTER! I promised him that I would stop shouting out to him when he wrote a chapter, but I'm still going to do it just to troll him XD.

Lightning woke up to celestia's sun shining through his window and into his face. He rolled over trying to catch some more sleep but found it worthless as the sun made his covers start to heat up making him sweat.

Lightning pushed back the covers and got up, he walked out into the hall and over to the bathroom. He looked in the mirror and chuckled at his bed hair. Using his magic he grabbed a brush and started to comb his hair backward in its flat sort of Mohawk style.

Lightning walked back out into the hallway and walked past rarity room, he heard that she was still asleep by the soft breathing that was coming from the room. He walked down the stairs and into the kitchen.

He then began to scramble some eggs on the stove and make some toast by holding that bread in front of the small fire that was alive in the stove.

Not the smartest way to cook toast but it worked. He pulled some plates out from a cabinet and spooned the eggs onto the plates. As he was setting the toast onto the plates rarity came down her body wrapped in a robe and her eyes still filled with sleep.

"Good morning sunshine" lightning said setting a plate full of eggs and toast in front of her.

"Mourning sweetheart" rarity groaned sitting down at the table.

Lightning put his plate down and sat across from rarity," do you have any plans today" he asked.

" I should really get back to the boutique and get some dresses done" rarity said between bites of toast," other than that I don't really have plans"

Lightning nodded his mouth full of eggs," by the way lightning, how goes the job hunt"

"It's difficult, but I think I'll take celestia up on her offer" lightning said. Only a few days back celestia had offered him a job as head of the royal guards, at first lightning had said no due to the fact that going straight to the head of protecting the princess would be hard to adjust to. So celestia had left the invitation opened just in case he changed his mind.

"I think that would be smart" rarity said finishing her plate," well I should probably get going"

Lightning stood up and took her and his plate into the kitchen. Rarity said goodbye and walked off to her boutique.

Lightning washed the mourning dishes and then grabbed his saddlebags from his room. As he was heading out if his room he looked back at the armor, more specifically he looked at the helmet that hid the ring.

"Why not" he shrugged and removed the ring from beneath the armor and slip it into a small pouch on his saddlebags.

Lightning stepped outside and headed down to twilight's library, he had been talking to rainbow dash in the last few weeks and she had gotten him interested in daring do. So he decided to try and now that he had finished repairing the house he had a chance to go pick up the book. As he walked to twilight's he passed the school where rarity's little sister and her friends went to. He could hear yelling and shouting coming from inside the small schoolhouse.

Normally he would have ignored it, just because fillies tend to get hyper and out of control, but he stopped as he heard a crash from inside.

Lightning quickly trotted inside to see if anypony was hurt. He saw applebloom on the ground wrestling with a light purple unicorn.

He saw cheerilee the school teacher trying to break up the two fillies.

Lightning stepped in further and levitated the two girls up and separated them," what is this about" lightning asked.

Applebloom and the other filly started yelling at the same time," quiet" lightning raised his voice," one at a time"

Lightning lowered the two fillies back to the ground," applebloom why don't you start us off"

"Sure thing lightning, well diamond tiara here was a bad mouthing you, I told her to stop but she wouldn't. So I took matters into my own hooves" applebloom explained. Lightning nodded and looked over at diamond tiara.

"Your turn" he simply put.

"Quite, I was only telling everypony the truth about you" the filly flipped her mane," about how you almost killed celestia and turned Princess Luna into nightmare moon, when applebloom there told me to stop"

Lightning sighed 'children are frustrating' he thought," okay, applebloom you shouldn't take other ponies' matters into your own hooves, you did the right thing to ask her to stop, but don't make it a fight. Now diamond tiara, I would say that I would like to hear where you got this information from, but honestly, I don't care. Don't go telling things that you are not sure are the truth, because the stuff you said was all lies. It was celestia's plan to create a copy of me to kill her, but she was controlling the copy not me. Princess Luna, I was never near her when she lost control" lightning said looking at all of the fillies in the classroom.

"Now, if you want to know more of the story, I have to say, go to twilight because this subject is sensitive to me. Now I think cheerilee would like to finish her lesson" lightning said heading for the door.

"Thank you lightning" cheerilee called after him.

"Anytime" he responded over his shoulder.

Lightning walked out of the schoolyard and into the market place, he waved back to a pony manning a carrot stand and he walked up to a celery stand.

"Ey! If it isn't my favorite customer, lightning runner" a dark light blue unicorn with a green and pink mane said.

" oh for Pete's sake star charmer" lightning said rolling his eyes," I'm pretty sure you that to all of your customers"

"What customers" star asked smiling," you're pretty much the only loyal one I got"

"business not well" lightning asked looking over the celery choices.

"It's not bad, I'm scraping by. You know I hook a straggler here and there looking for celery. But not a lot of them come back like you"

" that's too bad, you got great celery here" lightning said picking up a choice of celery and placing the amount of bits it was worth in front of star," rarity and I really like it"

"That reminds how is it with rarity" star asked picking up the bits.

"if you really must know, I'm planning on proposing to her" lightning said.

"Really? That's great" star said," How are you going to do it"

"I really don't know" lightning admitted.

"Well it's a good thing you know me" star said flipping her mane to the side," all you need to do is wait for the perfect moment. Then you spring out the ring and speak those special words"

"that's what I figured" lightning said," thanks for the celery" he walked off.

"ah no problem" star called after him.

Lightning visited some other booths picking up, some hay fries, eggs, bread, and other cooking materials. When he was done with the market he flew off back to his house. He dropped the food in the kitchen and organized it in the cabinets. He put his saddlebags back on after he was done organizing and he flew off to canterlot.

As he flew down to the gate that lead to castle courtyard he walked up to the gate he noticed that one of the guards standing at the gate was one of the guards that had dragged him off to the jail.

Lightning smiled at the guard, he received a grunt from the armored covered Pegasus. He walked up to the tall castle doors and entered the castle. He saw celestia on top of the stairs talking with some ponies that seemed to be butlers and waitresses. Lightning waited his turn and when she had finished her conversation he walked up to her.

"why hello lightning runner" celestia said as she turned to greet him," what brings you to canterlot"

"I've decided to accept your job invitation" he said.

"I knew you would" celestia said.

"but there is one thing, could I not start until a week from now" lightning asked," I know I shouldn't be asking that since I just got the job"

"it's fine lightning" celestia said," but I would like to know why"

"I...well I'm going to propose to rarity" lightning said.

"Fantastic! Of course you can start a week from now" celestia said," or how about we make it two weeks" celestia said smiling.

"Really? Great" lightning said happily," thank you" he flew down the stairs and out of the castle.

"He sure is an interesting one" celestia said to herself," his personality has changed so much"

Lightning landed in front of rarity's boutique and was now pacing back and forth. 'Okay lightning you can do this. Just go in there and ask her' he thought to himself. He had butterflies in his stomach and his wings were squeezed against his body.

"Lightning" rarity asked walking up from behind him.

Lightning jumped as he prep talk was cut short," rarity! I thought you were inside" he said.

"I was darling, but a pony has to eat" she said," is something wrong" she asked looking over lightning and his nervous form.

"No, no. Everything is fine, I just wanted ask you something" lightning's cheeks were turning a crimson red.

"What is it dear" rarity asked.

As lightning looked at rarity something seemed different about her, she seemed to be more beautiful than anything he had ever seen, to him she sparkled like a diamond.

" rarity, I wanted to ask you this" lightning said levitating the small piece of cloth out from his saddlebag and opened it revealing the ring inside," will you marry me"

Rarity gasped at the sight of the ring, she saw the three diamonds arranged to look like her cutie mark," lightning I...I " she stammered as tears of joy filled her eyes," of course I'll marry you" she wrapped her front legs around lightning's neck and kissed him. Lightning didn't fight the affection but more of leaned into to it.

When they finally separated lightning said," you have no idea how nervous I was"

"and you have no idea how long I waited for you to ask me that" rarity said smiling at lightning.

"I love you rarity, and no pony can ever change that" lightning said as they walked away from the boutique.

"As do I lightning runner, as do I" rarity said and kissed lightning again as they walked down the street back to lightning's house.

Author notes: I'd like to thank the 33 readers that actually read to the end of the story; I'd also like to thank shiningshadow1965 for the continued support and giving me help and ideas, thank you for ponyfanatic126 and Amethyst 0 for also supporting me throughout the story. Now about this story, I'm planning on making another story leading off of this one, but I'm going to do a different one first, one more thing star charmer is my secondary OC so I own the rights to her (lol) but if you wish to use lightning runner or star charmer pm me. Skullcrusher206 signing out