The Stone Ones

As the humans led the ponies through the castle Longstrider noticed that they were all cut up and bleeding, especially Forge, who was leaving a trail of blood behind him. " Um Forgey?" He said, making Forge turn around, an eyebrow raised.

" Ya?" Longstrider pointed the trail of blood out to him. Forge looked himself and his brothers over and chuckled, they were a mess. " Looks like I got the worst of the battle, you pussy’s weren't in the thick of it like I was. Shit, we even got blood on Luna's coat and goddamnit my mails wrecked."

The girls looked over the humans and gasped at how badly hurt they were, Fluttershy strained against the magic that was holding her. " You poor dears, let me help you......I'm sorry for yelling..." The humans waved her off and Forge let the girls go, except Celestia, all them of them falling roughly to the floor.

" We'll fix ourselves when we get- O here we are!" Reaper said as they approached a massive door.

It took 2 of the humans to move the doors, the hinges creaking, showing that these doors hadn't been used in a long time. The ponies looked at each other and followed Luna into the darkness of the room. " Um" Dash began " is somepony going-" Forge sucked in his breath and looked at one of the torches in the walls. The girls watched as he exhaled, shooting a stream of blue flame, lighting the torch which set off a row of torches around the room.

The girls looked around, the room was massive. In the center was a table in the shape of Equestria and the countries that surrounded it. The humans walked over to 3 big metal containers and put their hands on them. Together they said, “We are Thanes, open the fuck up." Luna chuckled at the old joke as the doors opened, revealing in the containers everything that the humans needed, from spare weapons to what they were looking for, their medical kits and some spare cloths.

The humans and mares sat down at the table while the fillies ran around the room to explore. Reaper and Longstrider helped Forge take his chain mail off to reveal cuts all over his body, most of them bleeding heavily. They sat their friend down and got out some needle and thread as Fluttershy flew over to him. " No that medicine is far too old, It'll get him sick.... I'm sorry for yelling again." She said as Forge chuckled.

" Ma'am, those containers are magically altered, everything as fresh as the day we put them in it. Get on with it boys, before I bleed to fucking death." The girls watched as they started to sew his wounds close and put some kind of salve on them, Forge not even flinching. Rainbow walked over to him and looked him over.

" Doesn't that hurt?" She asked, slightly sick seeing all of the blood. Forge looked at her and shrugged, earning him a smack from Reaper for moving.

" Fuck you Reaper, I'll kick your black ass..... I've had a lot worse, you should of seen me when I had to do this in the trenches, I had to use a splinter, THAT hurt.... Alright, that’s enough stitching; we can finish up in a minute. " Forger said, getting up and walking over to Celestia, who looked sad and scared. The other humans surrounded her and looked her down. Even thought Celestia was over 3 feet taller than them, it seemed like they towered over her to her.

" Now Tia, when you stoned us it took about 200 years for us to get a magical connection to talk to each other and boy were we pissed. " Forge said. Tia tried to say something but his magic made her jaw snap up so she couldn't talk. " For a 1000 years we were very angry, all that we had done for you and your da, after Empress and Warlock died for YOU, we get stoned like criminals. Then we discussed why you did it." He said, walking around her.

Then Forge did something that no pony, especially Celestia, thought he would do, he wrapped a shocked Tia into a hug. " Then we figured who gives a shit, Tia's our sister, you can't stay mad at your family, no matter how badly they fuck up." The other humans looked up at her and nodded, smiling.

" Y-your not mad at me?" Tia asked, tears in her eyes. The humans laughed.

" It's hard to stay mad at someone for 2000 years Tia. Anyway, we're pretty sure it was an accident." Longstrider said as Tia broke down, wailing and telling them over and over again who sorry she was.

The other ponies looked on with tears in their eyes as the humans hugged and calmed a crying Celestia for about ten minutes. Afterward She had a small, releaved smile on her face, looking like a heavy weight had been lifted off her shoulders. " But that doesn't mean your not getting a punishment." Reaper said, grinning with the other humans. Tia actually started to sweat, she knew what was coming.

" You know what the thanes do to punish women, assume the position Tia."

Twilight watched as her teacher sighed and got up from her chair. Luna was chuckling when Tia showed her flank to the grinning humans. They started to shake out their wrist and wiggle their fingers. What are they goin- Twilight thought as Forge brought his hand back.

SMACK

Celestia yelped as Forge left a hand print on her flank, quickly followed by the other 2 humans, leaving 3 red hand prints on Celestia's flank. " Now go make me a sandwich WOMAN!" The 3 humans said. Luna fell over laughing and the girls looked at the event with shock. Their princess, the pony responsible for raising the sun, got flanked slapped by 3 humans. Needless to say Twilight almost broke, her eye twitching and her mane becoming disheveled. The 3 humans fell over with Luna, laughing..

Forge got up and sat in his chair, wiping a tear from his face. " Christ, that's awesome every time we do it, I swear to god Tia if you sit down I'll give you a 100 bits." Celestia shook her head no and kept standing, getting more laughs from the humans and Luna. Forge looked at the 6 girls and frowned, getting up and walking over to them. " Tia" He said, looking at Celestia " Why are ponies so much bigger now? Why are you 10 fucking feet tall?"

Rarity huffed, " These humans are ruffians! with their language." she said, looking disapprovingly at Forge, who raised an eyebrow.

" I'm sorry ma'am, you get use to talking to soldiers for so long you forget proper manners, forgive us." he said and then he facepalmed. " I guess we should introduce ourselves eh?" after introductions Forge's stomach growled loudly, making all of the ponies giggle. " Christ I'm hungry" Forge lamented, looking at Celestia. " Tia, ya got any steaks here? I could eat a hydra." The others humans nodded and the six girls backed away.

" You eat meat?" Rainbow said, getting confused looks from the humans.

" Yep, we'll eat hydra, Manticore, stuff like that. Tia wouldn't us eat cows or deer. We'll also eat plants, we're omnivores." Longstrider said, showing them his canines.

Reaper looked at the ponies. " They're scared of us eating meat."

Forge snorted. " No there not, the ponies we knew were fine- shi-fuc- darn they are." forge looked at Celestia. " Tia, why are these ponies acting like they've never seen anything eating meat?"

" Because almost everything except griffons are plant eaters."

" Your shi- pulling my leg. Don't dragons eat meat?"

" Dragons keep to themselves nowadays, but they usually eat gems over meat."

" Fa-shi-da-........."

Forge sighed at not being able to swear and Rarity was touched that he was trying so hard not to swear in front of her.

The humans groaned. " I'm not just eating plants Tia." Longstrider said as Forge looked thoughtful.

"Tia, when was the last war?" Forge asked.

" A 1000 years ago." The 3 humans looked at her dumbfounded.

" Tia, let me see this years damage report." Forge said to Celestia, who sighed at the very old term for a city’s annual statistics report.

Celestia's horn glowed and a paper flashed in front of Forge, who snatched it out of the air and started reading. It was this year’s damage report for the city of Canterlot; it had everything from deaths to the crime rate to damage reports. As he looked over the scroll Forge didn't know wither to be happy or sad. The whole world seemed to of calmed down since they were frozen, he had never seen a crime rate so low, ever, the murder rate either. Knowing that the other 2 really wouldn't want to read the scroll, Forge rolled it open and said, “So you’re saying that ponies now are bigger and less violent?"

“I suppose so." The humans humped and Forge looked a little angry.

“You know, there were about 50 guards outside when I was freed and only one attacked me.” Forge growled." Tia, the ponies now are bigger but they're a hell of a lot softer. Back in our day those 50 guards would have attacked me on sight. I think I need to have a little talk with them." He pulled a chair in front of the girls as the fillies came back from playing. “First its story time girls. Gather around and let me spin you a yarn.... Wait a couple of minutes though; if I don't get the rest of these cuts stitched I'm definitely going to bleed out. Hey Tia, you'd better tell all of the ponies that we aren't going to hurt anypony......"
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