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                  Spell Breaker: The Dawn                  
                        -by Bungus-                        
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                Prologue-B@#$% be trippin'                 
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Prologue-B@#$% be trippin'
A dark-robed figure stalked through the corridors of the Changeling Hive, nearing the war room. He walked quickly knowing that he was late to this meeting and that it would probably cost him his entrails splattered against the wall, but he was more loyal to his queen than fearful.
This made him perfect for her little missions as most guards were the exact opposite, fearing a painful annihilation over serving dutifully. This made him chuckle each and every time he saw her walk through the halls and every guard almost shitting themselves when her gaze would wash over them.
He had run many little missions for her plots to stay in power for almost twelve years, each one seemingly meaningless and redundant. But not his latest mission, which had taken him to Canterlot. The mission was simple: spread a rumor through the castle, secure some documents, and get out before Celestia could raise the sun. Even though he knew that this was a routine mission for many changelings in his position, he couldn't help but feel that this mission in particular was special in some way.
With a few minutes of navigating through the corridors of the Hive, he came to a stop outside the war room. His hands slightly trembled as he hesitated to open the solid oak doors, not wanting to face his fate. Within the next few moments he collected enough courage to twist the handle to the doors of the war room.
He entered to one of the most expensive rooms in the whole Changeling Hive. The whole room was at least a fifty-by-fifty foot room with black marble floor, a one hundred foot tall dome with various paintings depicting great battles and victories of their history, the walls had hundreds if not thousands of maps decorating almost every inch of Equestria, several banners hung of the walls with her insignia blazing on it, and to top it all off, a solid onyx table with gold engravings sat in the middle of the room, which three powerful beings sat around.
His eyes wandered around the room, not wanting to meet the queen's. To his surprise, he found he was not alone with the queen as he had expected. Two of her three generals had joined them today, much to the spy's displeasure. The robed generals remained as statues as he walked in, the only thing visible under their hood were their eyes. Both unnaturally terrifying.
'I wonder if those rumors are true, that if you stare into his eyes you'll be rendered comatose only knowing nightmares until you wake up.' the spy thought as his gaze flicked over the taller one, 'Or if that one actually did slaughter a village, because one pony sneezed in his direction.'  referring to the shorter one.
His footsteps seemed like thunder claps, echoing in the tall room, as he approached them. Within about fifteen feet he kneeled before his queen. A chill ran down his spine as he felt three pairs of cold eyes set upon him. He dared not move, at the fear of disembowelment. His mind raced with just how many ways he could be tortured to death if he made a fool of himself in front of her and her generals.
"Was your mission a success?" she asked, her voice cold and unnerving, sitting on her dark throne at the head of the table, "Was the trap set for the princess?"
"Y-yes, my queen." he answered, he presented the documents to her, not lifting his head. A sickly green magic enveloped them as they were levitated to the powerful mare and her generals. After some time of her and her generals' eyes flicking through the parchment, she flashed a wicked grin. Her horn unexpectedly flashed a sick green and the pieces of parchments burst into green flames, incinerating them in seconds.
He watched in silent anger as his mission objectives, were burned and forgotten. The very documents he had risked his life to secure from Luna's private chambers, were discarded. Hell, he had lost two fingers in a little skirmish outside the castle with a few keen-eyed, bat-pony guards. He had risked his life for twelve years in service to her and he was treated like dirt.
"My queen... " the spy asked from his kneeling position for permission to speak.
"Yes, speak Jaryx." she responded.
"If I may ask... Why did you burn the documents?" Jaryx, the spy, asked.
"No evidence my dear," the queen responded in a flat tone, "And besides, these documents weren't specifically important."
Jaryx tremble now with anger.'I finally see why the guards think she's a bitch. She certa-. Oh fuck me.' He thought in pure terror as he forgot his queen could read minds.
And after each mission she read his thoughts to make sure he wasn't telling falsehoods or secretly cavorting with her enemies. Namely, the humans. Disgusting creatures, recently brought of their stone hiding places to combat an uprising. Now they were given freedom, because they had now saved Equestria twice. But he knew that was just common folly. He knew that if they had suddenly disappeared again, there would be certain questions that ponies in power wouldn't want to answer.
She scowled at his thoughts of her, much to just make him soil himself. She knew that the guards feared her and she could smell the products of that fear each time she walked past them in the halls of the Hive.
"I-I'm sorry my q-queen." the spy spoke in a rushed and terrified way, "I do-d-do not know what caused su-such blasphemous thoughts to c-come fro-om my m-mind. I seek your great and mer-merciful forgiveness." he said quivering in fear.
She placed her hand to her chin in fake consideration and held that pose for a few moments. Moments, that felt like years to the veteran assassin. He could already feel the branding iron burning away his flesh, and the slow and deliberate meat cleaver, hacking cutting through his fingers, slowly moving north to his wrist and elbow. He would die a slow and painful death for this mistake with his usual silver tongue.
The terrifying queen chuckled to herself as she continued to read his mind, taking notes occasionally whenever he came across a torture method she had not thought of. She came to a conclusion on his fate, he would not die in the torture chambers. With his "specific" fate in mind she stood up off her throne and began to walk over to her beloved spy. She made her steps slow and deliberate, savoring the emotions coming off her assassin.
Within two feet of her spy, she stopped. She took a moment to look into his eyes, the eyes she always thought beautiful on the changeling for twelve years. She saw terror, pure fear in his eyes as she stood over him. She reared back her hand, as though to strike him, but instead she brought her hand down slow and rested it on his cheek, softly caressing it. She leaned down to his ear, replacing her hand with her cheek, feeling tears stream down his face. She held there. Just waiting to build up suspense.
"I forgive you." her words breaking the silence in the room.
The sobbing drone could not believe his ears. His brain could not register the joy and relief he was feeling. "Thank you, my great queen." Jaryx said, tears coming not out of fear now, but of joy. He let out his breath he did not know he was holding and sent a silent thank you to any gods that were listening.
She stood back up, turning around on her heel as she did so, and walked back to her dark throne. Although, without the spy's knowing, she discreetly nodded to one of her pawns. This one in particular was known for his extreme loyalty towards his queen and had a reputation of turning ponies inside out for stating anything negative about her. He flashed a toothy grin as his eyes flashed green and leaked a black smoke and started to walk towards the weeping stallion. His approach to the crying changeling completely silent to him.
'Oh thank the gods!' Jaryx thought still thankful for the mercy of his queen, ' I thought for sure I would meet my end a-' his train of though was cut of when he felt one of the queen's generals put a hand on his shoulder and leaned in just like his queen had done earlier
"Doesn't mean I do." he whispered sinisterly. And with those words of his, he plunged his fist into the spy's chest, leaving it in for a few seconds before he retracted it, now with a still pumping lump of flesh in his hand. The changeling spy looked up to general and back down to the hole in his torso.
"Y-yo-y-you bitch." Jaryx said with his last breath, as blood flowed out of the mangled stallion's chest cavity, as he died much to the queen's displeasure.
'Third time this week' she thought to herself nonchalantly.
The green-eyed stallion cackled and walked back to his position near the queen's throne, heart still in hand and blood all over his robes. When he returned to his stoic stance to the right of his queen, she leaned over and asked him in all seriousness:
"Am I really a bitch?"
Author's Note
"Ha! Suck that, Fink"
"Yeah, yeah. Soak it all in. Now you have to publish regularly." *flashing evil grin
"Oh... BUCK. I'm so screwed."
Sooooooooo yeah, that is my first attempt at writing. Be harsh, so I can correct my mistakes. But not the kind of harsh that entails being a huge, 12 year-old, douche bag and sputtering the word "faggot" like a machine gun.

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                   Chapter I: Cheese It!                   
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Chapter I: Cheese It!
"Come on, come on! Wake up!" echoed a sweet but demanding voice through the dark room.
With a slap to the face of the bound man in the cell, he seems to regain some of his vision, and jump in surprise to see a midnight blue alicorn standing over him. Luna. 'Aw shit. What the fuck I do this time.', he thought. And another slap on the face forces all of his vision back, along with a few rattled teeth and bright lights in the corners of his vision.
"Wake up!" she yells rearing back for another blow.
"No!", he says raising my hands in my defense,"I'm up, I'm up!" This rewards him with a relieved sigh from the midnight princess. Looking around his cell, the human sees he is in a dirty cell. And bound to the wall. Yeah this is a problem.
'Strange.' I thought to himself, 'I don't remember how the hell I got here.'
"Name and rank." Deep in thought he barely heard it.
"Leonidas, Second Lieutenant. Uh... why am I here?", the man responds confusedly.
The alicorn didn't answer but was busy trying to undo the shackles around the his wrists with an indigo aura of magic. Her magic flickering several times on her horn and the shackles before she resorted to her hands with an annoyed sigh. Leo's left shackle clicked and unlocked, before he collapsed without the support of the cuff. His wrist was raw and bleeding from several hours of being confined to his bonds. She started to work on the shackles twin, when a violent knock on the door and a masculine voice spoke through the wall.
"Luna, we know your in their!" said the angry voice, "Come out! You have no business with him!"
"Dammit," the lunar princess swore under her breath,"We need more time!" she yelled.
"Princess, wa-why am I here? The last thing I remember wa-", Leo was cut off by a hand pressed to my mouth, quickly silencing him.
"No time for this." she started, "Where is the Spell-Breaker?" she asked urgently. Just as those words escaped her lips shuffling could be heard outside the iron door.
"1... 2... 3..." yelled the guard captain, signaling the battering ram.
BAM
Both the lunar princess and the prisoner jerked their heads to the door which was almost taken off its hinges by the force of the blow, and once again the princess swore.
"Where. Is. The. Spell-Breaker?" she asked forcibly, grabbing his head and forcing to look into her eyes.
"What? The Spell-Breaker? Princess those are just rumors. An old mare's tale to sc-" And once again his words were cut off, but this time by another slap. Another large boom echoed through the room as the ram slammed against the door again.
"That's just it though! They aren't rumors. Theyr'e true!" she exclaimed. " Now where is he? He's in grave danger! He's goin-" was all the princess of the night could get out before a third mighty blow from the battering ram finally took the cell door of its hinges, revealing eight trained guards and a very angry captain by the name of Shining Armor to be on the other side.
"Restrain the princess, and don't harm the human!" ordered the guard captain. With a moment of hesitation three ponies, in golden armor and swords drawn, rushed into the cell. But their charge was stopped in its tracks as a wave of blue magic swept over them, throwing them backwards into their comrades.
"Run you dolt! I will hold them off!" Luna screamed at the Leo as she rushed out of the room, sending bolts of magic at reinforcements and a thoroughly pissed off captain coming down the hall. Leo stood up but was knocked back down, onto his face, knocking the wind out of the escapee.
'How was a regular captain able to cast a tier-four spell!?', he screamed in his mind, before screaming in agony and clutching my ears as searing pain shot up his back and a sever ringing in his ears came to be the only thing in mind. With what seemed like minutes the pain subsided and the ringing was now down to a dull roar. He tried lifting himself off the cold stone floor to a sitting position, but slipped on a warm liquid coming from the ears and noses of several downed guards.'Or a sonic stun spell for that matter?', I thought.
Poor guys. Them being mostly pegasi and earth ponies. Which with the rule with any magic, if you don't have a mana level above the caster you would feel greater effects. Luckily though, many humans had a minor resistance, similar to that of dragons.
'Well, better ge- oh shit.', turning to run down the hallway to the end of the corridor, to see the tip of a sword three inches form the man's face. Looking up from the razor-sharp blade he saw a confident smile from a newly appointed captain of the guard. Shining Armor.
This little shit had to step on his toes at each turn. Whether it be him "accidentally" tripping him while in a sparring match, or making several... noises in the men's dorm with whatever girl that was unfortunate enough to come home with him, before an exam the next day. Whatever the man and the pony were doing together, he made sure to come out on top. 'Hell, he was smart, I'll give him that, but I was clever, and I think that was what was kept me ahead in several areas.'
"Well, well, well.", he said keeping his sword ready, "Look what we have here."
"Hey Shiny.", Leo said with just enough venom, pushing the sword tip away form my face, "You mind telling me what the fuck I'm doing here?"
"What?", he shouted, "You mean you honestly don't know?" The prisoner shook his head. "Damn, you're more stupid than I thought." 'Okay, this little shit is insulting me NOW!?! Out of all the places! Fine, fine. But next time you break your fucking arm in a spar don't come crying to the Restoration Theory major.'
"You little fucker, you stole a grand total of forty thousand bits! And a noble freaking had a heart attack because he saw some human sneak into his shop!", he exclaimed getting furious at my "oh so incompetent ways."
"Okay, let get some things straight.", Leo began smartass-edly, "One, I don't know what the hell you're talking about and two, a stallion's average size is three to four inches. My fucking finger is longer than that, and I think that little Cady of yours wants a real man."
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'OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!' Brain called form his half-insane confines.
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"Oh, you bastard!", he shouted, "When we get back your ass is MINE!", he cried spitting a little, but Leo's jackass-ness held no bounds.
"Yeah? Well I'm Chief Squad. So go suck a dick.", Leo said in retaliation, starting to reach around him to escape. Chief Squad was pretty much a totally independent group of peace-makers, made so that the princesses couldn't have complete control of the guard. Patrolling the lands from Canterlot to the gryphon border. Had the best gear, had some decent pay, and the best part... it didn't have to take orders from shits like Shiny here.
And then the cock-munch stepped in front of me, blocking my path. He was now seething in anger from my comment on his little squeeze. "YOU LITTLE FUCKER!", he screamed in fury, raising his sword to strike and before I could react the razor sharp blade sliced through my hand like tissue paper.
Pain shot through Leo's hand as the steel easily penetrated through his hand. Ever got stung by a bee? Or a fire ant? Well, take that amount of pain and multiply it by one hundred. And then put your hand in a fire pit. To put it in simpler words. It. Fucking. HURT. And the sick bastard twisted the blade so it cut through the bone, a clean cut parallel to the bone the man could fix in a matter of seconds. This would take at least a day just to seal it up.
"Alright, looks like the 'convict' has stopped resisting.", he said panting from his little tantrum with a twisted chuckle, wrenching the blade out of the now blood stained wall with a satisfied grunt, "Well get on your feet y-", he was cut off by a beam of blue magic colliding against his forehead, causing him to lose consciousness. The speed of the blast he couldn't even get one of his magnificent shields he was so proud of in time to stop it. Leo looked down the hall from where the magical bolt came and was met by the most beautiful and horrifying thing he'd ever seen.
Princess Luna. Her 6' 1'', sweaty form sparkling in the low light, running towards me. A now torn dress, a tear at the bottom caused much of her thighs to be visible and one at the top of her dress which had caused a generous amount of cleavage to be visible, and a disheveled mane. Several cuts and bruises now adorned her panting body.
"I told you to run you imbecile. You're no good to me dead." she said with a scowl. She then looked at his injured hand, "Well at least it isn't permanent damage." She began to pump magic into my hand, but it didn't do anything."Fuck," the princess swore,"I must have used more magic than I thought."
"I'm just glad you showed up when you did. Otherwise I would be in worse shape.", he said, and with a moment of hesitation he gestured to the body of little Shiny.
I winced as she tore of some of my dirty shirt and began to wrap my injured hand for a bootleg field dressing. Which stung like a bitch. Testing to see if see if it would stay with a tug, she grunted in content of the field dressing. "Now," she began, "we have to get you out of this dungeon befor- "
"LUNA!", a voice screamed down the corridor. Whipping his head around, the man another terrifying sight. Princess Celestia. In all of her pissed off glory. Positively fuming at Luna and Leo. Her eyes bore daggers at them, glowing at an intensity to where the human had to shield his eyes, though Luna seemed unfazed by the whole light show, only staring back with a face of defiance.
Now, doing the logical and calm thing, the human did what his instincts screamed at him to do:
"CHEESE IT!", he yelled as I took off sprinting down the hall.
And as he ran he heard the sound of two certain princesses face-palming.
Author's Note
There you go. The re-edited version. Sooooooooooooo, yeah. Be excited.
Also If you leave a dislike, please leave a comment.

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                   Chapter 2: Discovery                    
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Chapter 2: Discovery
"CHEESE IT!", the terrified human yelled as he ran down the corridor, which caused both the princesses to face-palm.
The princesses looked back at each other and sighed, "Time to get to business.", Celestia said with a much cooler head but still with a degree of seriousness, "Go retrieve him.", she said turning to one of the gold-armored guards coming from behind her. They only responded in a shallow nod with stoic looks on their faces.
Luna stepped in front of them, effectively blocking their path through the narrow corridors, stopping them. The guards looked back to their solar princess with worried looks now on their usually emotionless faces. She gave them a nod, and the guards began to advance again.
Luna gave a low growl and charged her magic, but was interrupted by Celestia's hand. "No, Luna. There has been enough bloodshed today.", she said with a threatening stare to her younger sister.
She answered with her own stare and replied with venom, "So he can be imprisoned for something that he very well couldn't have done? No sister, I think I--." She was interrupted by Celestia's raised hand.
"Don't worry Luna. We have caught the perpetrator, he thoroughly confessed to the crime but refuses to give anything besides that. He says that only the information can be passed to the young man now wandering the dungeons."
With a moments hesitation, Luna sighed in defeat seeing her side of the argument disintegrated relatively quickly. She stepped to the side to let the guards pass. They walked passed her silently, but anyone could tell their stoic masks were cracking.
"So how do you justify locking an innocent person in the dungeons? And one of Chief Squad if I might add. They aren't even technically bound by Equestrian laws!", Luna said, her anger surfacing again.
"He was framed. Quite expertly, I might add. I had a perfectly good reason to imprison him.", Celestia said to fellow princess.
"What do you mean framed? How?", Luna asked worriedly, her eyes shrinking, "Wait... could this be connected to the disappearing humans?"
"I know not sister, but it might."
Suddenly, the guards came running back to the princess, both almost vomiting up their previous lunch. Both had the look in their eyes that only ponies could get.
Fear
Pure. Unadulterated. Fear. With pupils the size of pinpricks, the guards approached the princesses with their stoic expressions completely shattered, eaten, spit out, then pissed on. Breathing raggedly, they could not tell the princess what they had seen for several seconds.
"Well, what did you find?", Celestia growing impatient. 'All that taxpayer money to get this.'
"W-w-we f-f-found...", one of them spoke up wheezing trying to keep his food down, while the other couldn't stomach it very well and was emptying his stomach in a corner.
"Ugh.", Celestia complained as she stormed passed her guards. What she saw she was not prepared for. this particular cellblock housed the most horrifying creatures in Equestria. Hungry, deadly creatures.
Now every creature of myth and legend that threatened her little ponies were on the loose in her castle. Demons, goblins, and horrors she thought that she would never see again were... eating her subjects. She shot a look at her sister, who now faltered in her gaze and looked guiltily at the floor. She new fully well that her spells had blasted open the doors, her magic signature was all over this place.
Now don't think that her dungeons were not well secured, they were undoubtedly the most secure cells on the continent, but only hers and Luna's magic could open them. And with Luna spraying her magic all over the place, it was almost certain to have opened a few of the cells.
"We shall discuss this later!", she said storming into the room.
Charging her magic, she dispelled most of the creatures with a simple blast, although some of the demons still remained. She charged several sealing spells to make sure only her magic could unlock them from their prisons. With a flash of binding magic, she sealed away all of the demons in sight; the remains falling to ground with a thunk.
Turning to her sister, "Now Luna, for your punis--", she was cut off by a scream cutting through the stale air. 'Just freaking peachy,' she thought, 'witnesses to the demons.' "Stay.", she commanded her sister. Trying to remember the memory wipe spell, she took off down the corridor, leaving her escorts in the dust still trying to regain their control over their gag reflex.
Running down the hall she heard the scream again, closer. She doubled her pace down the hall, using her wings to gain speed. Turning a corner she came into a small circular room lit by the occasional torch. 'The execution chamber', she thought to herself. Scanning the room she spotted the human from earlier trying to defend itself from a particularly hazardous creature, it swinging its huge, scaly fists at the man. And before she could react, Luna came barreling through the archway entrance to the room colliding into Celestia.
Celestia's breath was knocked out of her from the impact with her sister, causing her to stumble and fall to the ground with an ungraceful face-plant. Luna was first to recover and got off her sister, a familiar indigo-hued aura surrounding her hands and horn when she saw the creature and the cornered human.
"Luna! DON'T!", Celestia tried to stop her fellow princess, but to no avail. The creature in her sister's sights was a Flare Goblin. They were a rare occurrence nowadays, due to the attempted purge of the species from the Badlands, and they had a rather nasty habit of reacting quite... explosively to magically charged blasts. And with the magnitude of that blast Luna was preparing, they were looking at enough energy to level a mountain.
As if in slow-motion, Celestia watched as the magical blast was released at the goblin. Her eyes followed the mass of energy as it left her sister's hands and flew right into the goblin's chest. The beast stopped moving all-together and after a few milliseconds it began to glow. 'Any second now.' Celestia thought as she threw up a shield around herself and her sister in vain, knowing the blast would probably, if not kill her, collapse a mountain on her head. With the final moments of her life passing, all she could here was her heartbeat.
Ba-dump
Ba-dump
Ba-dump
Ba-dump
BOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!!!!
A blinding light shone with the intensity of a thousand suns from the explosion. She could feel the shield cracking already from the force and heat of the blast. Although just when her defense was about to fail, she could feel the blast quickly extinguish like a candle in the wind. Opening her eyes she watched in awe as the human, who should have certainly been disintegrated, was funneling the energy into himself. The energy levels weren't just able to see with the eyes, which was around class-D beings, you could actually feel the magical pressures in the room. Overpowering, was the only word that came to mind to describe it.
Magic coursed through his being like the blood in his veins. Archaic lines of runes appeared on his body on his arms, legs, and chest. His clothes burned off from the energy radiating off his body. He opened his eyes to have them glowing a fierce red color. Celestia saw nothing in those eyes, just an emotionless abyss. All this happened in a moment before his face twisted into that of pain. Pain that can't be told of. It can only be.
He let out a piercing scream as the energy in his body exploded outward in a crimson arc. The force of the archaic wave shattered the remnants of Celestia shield like squashing a fly, sending her and her sister into the wall. The blast shook the entire wing of the dungeons. Sliding down the wall, she covered her eyes with her hands to block to light that her shield had filtered out. The pressure was almost unbearable now, as Celestia thought her eardrums would implode. But, just as quickly as the human's magic flared up, it mysteriously just... stopped. Celestia now looked over to the man, who was now on the floor, clutching his head.
"Sister?", Luna asked because she recovered first. "What was that?"
"No... " Celestia muttered worriedly.
"Tia', what is it?"
"No... no, no, no, nononononono!", Celestia yelled.
"CELESTIA!", Luna yelled, shaking her sister by the shoulders.
Celestia was mouthing something over and over again, like if you peeked into an asylum's many cells you'd see an inmate doing the same thing. 'No, not again. Not again. Not now. NOT. Now.', she thought over and over again. She soon began to become angry... no, enraged that he threw this wrench in her plans.'N, NO ! I-I'll-', and her train of thought was knocked off the tracks by a slap to her face.
"CELESTIA, STOP!", Luna screamed, "TELL ME WHAT'S WRONG!"
"H-he-he's the S-s-spell-B-breaker.", Celestia responded to her sister's outburst, now quivering.
"... Then we have to protect him.", the younger sister began after a moment's hesitation, "You know very well the changelings have infiltrated our corps for years now. It's only a matter of time 'til they find him."
Celestia opened her mouth to rebuke, but closed it after seeing her sister's wisdom. Just then, the two escorts from earlier turned the corner into the circular room, panting with spears raised, and saw their princess, a smoking pile of goblin, and a quivering human incapacitated on the floor.
Celestia turned to her sister, "We will discuss your punishment later, you're dismissed."
Celestia turned her attention back to her guards and before they could ask a question, Celestia raised her hand to silence them, "Take the human to the infirmary, and get him a shadow.", Celestia said, now in her usually calm voice.
The guards gulped, "Any suggestions for the shadow, uh your majesty?"
This caused Celestia to smile, "Guards, get me a quill and some parchment. I've got a letter to write."
Author's Note
So, my excuse is that I'm a lazy bum who couldn't get off his butt to get to the computer.
Also, anyone have any OC's? Can't get any good mind in my head(also due to laziness). Qualifications include: Pony(for now), good description of his/her personality, and no OP demon powers of the seventh gate of Hell.
If you want to get the OC's in, PM me or somethin'.
PEACE MY GREAT PEOPLE!

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       Chapter 3: Coming Storms and Drinking Buddies       
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Chapter 3: Coming Storms and Drinking Buddies
Luna was sitting with her head in her hands, bored out her mind, in her own little room in the very dungeon she was destroyed a few moments ago. She tried using her magic to get her a way out, but her dear sister had thought of everything and placed a nullification spell over the room to either drain Luna of her magic or cancel out any of her spells. So with no way out, and nothing to do, she calmly waited in the confines of her cell.
She felt regret for the guards she fought. None of them died, at least by her hand. Man were in the crossfire of hers and the captain's spells. 'That lumbering idiot. I don't know why 'Tia extended his life this long.', she thought with a grumble. Ever since Celestia saw his "exceptional" performance she lengthened his life to four times of an average pony. Although she never saw, or chose not to see, how rowdy he was in his early years of his position. He discriminated heavily against the humans under him, usually subjecting them to grunt labor or lowly acts of public embarrassment.
That treatment left a bad taste in her mouth. She never particularly like the humans, but she had nothing to hate them for. She sighed as she remembered the day when her father summoned them. A peculiar race they were for a time. But nevertheless, they were loyal to the crown (although there being several rogue mercenary companies here and there). She also remembered the day they were sealed in stone shortly after her father's death. She always pondered that in her heart and in her mind if that was 'Tia's decision to make. After all, they had helped in the Battle of Stalliongrad and took back almost half of the continent from the cold clutches of Chrysalis. Whether it was jealousy for their fame in the Great War instead of the sun princess herself or she just didn't like them Luna still thought they were wrongly imprisoned.
Her sister wasn't as perfect as the public meant her out to be and neither was she, but the ponies downright worshipped her. She chuckled a bit as the image of Twilight with a lock of her sister's hair under her pillow.
And so it went on like this for what seemed like hours. Her mind wandered from politics to what brand of bread she ate that morning. She sat in her empty cell looking for something to so but alas, she found nothing... wait a second. She face-palmed in the thought of why she hadn't done this sooner. She couldn't practice magic in this room, but she could make a construct in the dream realm. Where she could escape the world and not worry about anything, while peacefully ruling her own little kingdom in her dream.
The only thing that was required was concentration and sleep. She lied down in the middle of the room, since no bed was provided, and began to breathe deeply. Focusing on her mind, she willed herself to sleep.
And so she destroyed the empty canvas of her dream realm with splotches of color and shapes. Eventually she created what she thought to the perfect world. Land fertile with great fields of flowers, ponies and humans alike living in peace with not one 'PONIES ONLY' signs adorning the shops and restaurants, and general prosperity with her moon over head guiding the children throughout the night.
She summoned to herself a drink and pressed it to her lips to sip the cool drink, basking in the glow of her imagination, but as the first bits of strawberry flavor reached her senses her dream collapsed as a harsh knock was delivered to the door. Getting up off the floor she shook the taste of the sweet nectar from her dreams off her lips. And before she could fully get off the ground she was hurled off her feet and into the hard, unforgiving wall behind her. She shook off the impact and looked up to see her sister in all her radiant glory. Her pissed off glory. Staring deep into her sister's blazing magenta eyes, she felt a shudder travel up her spine.
And this time Luna bore no glare of defiance.
/oOo\
'Ah, shit. What happened last night?', Leo thought as he was laying in bed... one that wasn't his own. 'Well ain't this just peachy. And what in the name of Tartarus is that beeping noise.'
Trying to roll over to investigate, he felt his wrists bound to the bed. 'Great, she was into some kinky stuff.', he thought. Although, when he opened my eyes, expecting to see a cheap hotel room or a girl's bedroom, he was met with a really bright light.
Shaking the spots in his vision away, he regained his vision bit by bit. When his vision returned fully, he saw he was in a hospital gown and an IV drip in his arm. And the annoying beeping noise that assaulted his ears was the steady rhythm of a heartbeat monitor.
'Hot damn, what I...', he thought before the previous events finally caught up to him. The dungeon, the cell, Luna... the explosion. Then... nothing. 'What the hell happened? Why am I still alive?', he thought incredulously. 'I mean, they should be cleaning me off the floor of the dungeon right now. I don't even have a scratch on me. Sooooooo...' Leo threw the covers off himself, disconnected the IV and, swung his legs over the side of the bed. Though his actions were interrupted by the door opening abruptly and some golden-clad guards coming neatly through the door. Followed by Princess Celestia herself.
'I'm fucked.'
"Hello Leonidas, I wish we could meet under different circumstances but current situations have made things complicated." She began. "Now I want to ask you something," she said looking the Leo in the eyes. "do you know what happened right before the explosion?"
"N-no. I remember that monster chasing me through the halls, you coming in, Luna's spell racing towards the creature and... nothing after that." He responded, causing the princess to exhale a breath she didn't know she was holding. "But princess, ho-"
"Good, now that that business is done, I would like to introduce you to the reason you were in that dungeon." she said, cutting off the man. "Let's give a warm welcome to Duncan Uzoston." The guards brought in a tall boy in chains not that much younger than the current patient in the room. He had jet black hair that fell to his shoulders, green eyes, and skinny body that hadn't seen food in weeks.
His eyes wandered around the room frantically, jerking form the princess to Leo laying on the bed. After about a minute of standing there one of the guards got impatient a delivered a blow to the back of the boy's knees, making him collapse on the hospital floor and his shackles jingle.
"This boy, Duncan, was the one to rob the noble. He was found guilty through his own confession in court while you were out. He will be sent to the dungeons if you would like to press charges on him." the princess stated. Each word made the boy cringe, until he started crying. A small sob that was like what a small, afraid and alone puppy would make.
Duncan looked up at me with pleading eyes, words on his lips but not a peep coming out. Though, even though he almost ruined my career in Chief, I couldn't bear to send him to the very place I had gotten out of.
"No." this caused the boy to stop crying and look up at me, with hope in those green eyes.
"No?" the princess asked, her mouth open in a slight gasp. "This boy almost ruined your life. And you want him to run free?"
"I didn't say that." Leo started. "He will be punished, but not in the dungeons. He will serve me in my business in Canterlot, take care of my house while I'm gone, and... how old are 'ya kid?"
"N-nineteen." the boy said for the first time.
"All right kid your final duty is to be a good drinking buddy when I'm on leave." Leo finished.
"Good to know you have a new friend." Celestia said. "All right, Leonidas, you are set to leave." she said, motioning with her hand for her guards to leave. Leo got up out of bed and went for the door but was stopped by Celestia. "Leonidas. Are you sure this is wise?" Celestia asked in a hushed tone.
"Very. When I look at him, I see a kid who was desperate and saw an opportunity to end it. Frankly, I would have done the same thing in his situation." he said moving past her and walking through the door. "Oh," he called, turning on his heel and leaning on the door looking at Celestia. "Call me Leo." He turned to Duncan. "You coming or what?"
Duncan looked over to Celestia, who looked at him and unlocked his cuffs. He quickly got off the floor and scurried over to Leo.
Celestia heard a faint "Thanks" as she heard the two men exit the room. "This wasn't very wise." she said to herself.
For a while she was silent, just standing in the room that the human was previously staying in. This caused anyone walking past to do a double-take at the princess standing in an empty room. But she was expecting someone. She waited a total of a half an hour, until an old lavender-haired friend of hers burst through the door.
"You wanted to see me?" she asked curiously.
"I want you to follow someone." the sun princess said with a smirk.
/oOo\
The two men exited the hospital and walked the streets of Canterlot. For a while the boy was content with following the lieutenant, but after a while his stomach rumbled causing the man to turn.
He had a smile on his face as he asked one of the best things the boy had ever heard.
"Which bar you want to go to?"
Author's Note
BANG BANG BANG
"ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT, I'M PUSHING THE BUTTON AS WE SPEAK! PUT THE FREAKING GUN DOWN!"
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