Moonless Night just wants to prove that he isn't evil in spite of the tendency for everyone to be afraid of him. When he is adopted by Twilight Sparkle comes to Ponyville he finds answers he didn't expect through in his new friends, the other Children of the elements of Harmony. And for their parents they always find that there are new lessons to learn about friendship and life.
It is difficult at times being the best friend of a great man. At times it can make one feel that they have no purpose, quietly sitting in their shadow. But for those most noble of friends there is a deeper sense of purpose to it after all. A conversation between Herbert Pocket of Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations" and Henry Clerval of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein".
"Teddy was a boy with some funny colored hair. His best friend Vic for some odd reason called him 'Teddy Bear'" A light little story from the childhood of our favorite Little Lupin and his little Girlfriend- er, I mean "friend" XD