Forbidden Love

Part 5

Forbidden Love

Chapter Five

"This is nice, don't you agree?"

"Yes, it feels wonderful," Luna replied to her companion. "Even though we both have to disguise ourselves, this still feels good. "

Shadowlance gulped down the rest of his coffee and dusted his hands of the sugar left by the sugar donuts that he and the Princess of the Night had eaten. "Donut Joe's stuff is great, it's no wonder his cafe is the most popular one in Canterlot."

Luna nodded and they both stood up, ready to walk back to the Castle.

"I don't really want to go back, but I have to."

The vampire shook his head. "You don't really need to. You have a right to do what you want."

"I know... but as much as I want to run away to a place far away from here, I-I just can't... She'll find me, and it'll happen again... "

"What will?"

"I actually tried to run away once, a few years ago, before you became my personal guard. She was just treating me worse and worse, and I just couldn't take it anymore... So I went as far as I could, and I managed to be free for a few hours... and she still found me. "

"Where did you run to?"

" A town called Appaloosa. The people there were kind and did not judge. They didn't favour the moon over the sun or vice versa. They just said that everything and everyone is here for a reason, and that they weren't going to be like the people in other towns and just do bad things for silly reasons. Sometimes I wish that I could have just been born as a normal person, or even not at all. "

Shadowlance cast a worried look in her direction, but said nothing about that, instead opting to change the topic. "Look, there's a bat!"

He put his arm out and smiled when it landed on him. "I've been training her for quite a while now."

"Isn't it dangerous to touch bats?"

" Not for vampires like myself, it isn't. I drink blood, they drink blood. The only difference is that I'm a human who drinks blood, and they're not. "

"Wow..."

"I know, right?! " Shadowlance grins. "That's like, almost the coolest part of being a vampire. "

"Oh?" Luna cocked an eyebrow in wonder. " Then what is the coolest part?"

The Guard looks around, and then puts a finger upon his lips. "It's a secret," he whispers. At Luna's pout, he winks. "But I suppose I can tell close friends."

" You think of me as a friend? And a close one as well? " Luna tried to keep her tone neutral, but surprise leaked into her voice.

"Luna, Luna, Luna. We've been friends for ages. Ever since I was first assigned as your personal guard, we've been friends. Well, actually it was only a few weeks after my assignment to you that it happened, but it's not like this is a history book or a story where everything has to be narrated one hundred percent accurately." He shrugs and then pets the bat that's sitting on his gloved hand. " Wanna pet Moonbeam? "

"Moonbeam?"

" Yeah, Moonbeam. Her name is amazing, right? I named her myself, so of course it would be an amazing name, " Shadowlance boasts, before facepalming. "Oh, yeah, I forgot. Humans can't touch bats... But wait a second, you're not just a human. You're an incarnation of the moon- wait, you're the avatar of the Moon, so I think it should be safe."