Guardians of light

Chapter 5

I was in a dark place and suddenly I heard a voice that was too familiar. “Did you really think you could capture the wielder of Harbringer,” the voice asked. Everything suddenly became visible and I was in a throne room. There were black drapes over the windows and the carpet was red. The throne was gold and sitting on it was a pony with an emerald crown and in battle armor, his coat was scarlet red and his mane was black. Beside him was a mare, she had a purple coat and a dark blue mane.

Then I saw the warden. “Well I thought he would be inexperienced in combat, my lord,” he responded. “Seeing that you let the two prisoners from Earth escape and let a spy in the prison…I banish you from Zorthos, begone,” the king said.

“My lord, please reconsider,” the warden pleaded.

“I have made up my mind,” the king said angrily. The warden started to walk away with his head and ears down.

A stallion walked in and said “My liege, they are here.”

“Bring them in,” the king said with a serious tone. A minute later there were five ponies walking in and all wearing cloaks. The colors of their cloaks were dark blue, purple, dark green, crimson, and brown.

“Welcome back to my castle, generals,” the king said while getting up from his thrown.

“As you know there has been a break out at the prison,” he said while facing them and he had one scary look on his face. Worse than Fluttershy’s “stare” which is a great accomplishment? “Do you have any information on the mastermind,” the pony in the purple who was obviously a mare due to her voice.

“No, all we know is that he is Harbringer’s wielder,” the king said. “I’m sure one of our spies will gather info on him soon,” the pony in dark green said and it seemed he was a stallion.

“What are they planning,” I asked myself. And after that the pony in dark blue looked in my direction. I froze in fear. ‘Can they hear me, if they can I am dead’ I thought to myself freaking out a bit. Then the pony in brown looked at the pony in dark blue and looked at my direction.

“What are you looking at,” he asked.

“Nothing I thought I heard something,” she said.

“We will send our top spy to Equestria and she will grow close to him and gather as much information as she can,” the pony in crimson said.

“See that it gets done, this meeting is over,” the king said. Everything started to get fuzzy and it went dark.

I awoke in a soft bed and I started to look around. I saw a doctor and he noticed that I have woken up. “Good you are awake,” he said.

“What happened,” I asked.

“You were stabbed with a throwing knife and you passed out from the pain, you have been passed out for a day,” he responded.

‘Well that would explain the slight pain in my chest’ I thought and I looked down and the wound was not there.

“Excuse me, Doc, what happened to the wound,” I asked tilting my head.

“Strangely enough when we got you on the bed we took out the knife and instantly your body began to heal, quit remarkable,” he said looking at me in wonder.

“Oh, well I don’t think it is healed completely but do you think I can walk,” I asked.

“Try and see I’m sure you can,” the doctor said. I got off the bed and got my hooves to the floor and almost fell until the doctor caught me.

“Slowly, now you don’t have to push yourself, the wound has not healed completely internally,” he explained helping me up. I was able to stand on my own and the doctor said, “I will inform your friend.”

“My friend,” I asked I was a bit confused now I know the others had important things the princess wanted done but who would wait until I was awake.

“Yes the pegasus with the light yellow coat and pink mane,” he responded. I stood there for a minute.

‘Why would Fluttershy wait for me to wake up’ I asked myself. The doctor opened the door and I heard his voice say, “he is awake.” The door swung open and Fluttershy was there with tears in her eyes.

“Hi Fluttershy, why are …whoa!” I exclaimed as Fluttershy tackled me with a hug which kind of hurt seeing that my wound was not healed all the way. She was holding me pretty tight; it is as if she thought I would be asleep forever.

“I was so worried, when I heard that you were put in the hospital I rushed over here as fast as my wings could go,” she said with her voice cracking some.

Hugging her back I said “Fluttershy it is me, you out of everypony should know how tough I am.” She let me go with tears still in her eyes and I wiped them away for her.

“Don’t do that again,” she said.

I knew she wanted me to promise so I said “I promise.” We left the hospital and went to the castle together.

We got to the throne room and everypony was there, everypony except Luna. “Shadow!” my parents exclaimed as they started to trot to me. “Morning,” I said. They hugged me and then Princess Celestia walked up to me and said, “glad that you are OK.”

“By the way where is my sword,” I asked. Then it hit me, I looked at Gold.

She said, “Well you see I kind of used my magic to store it in my body.”

“Uh, well OK that is…strange,” I responded with a freaked out look.

“Are you alright dear, you did pass out from pain,” Rarity asked.

“No need to worry about me, as long as Princess Luna is alright I’m happy,” I said. Fluttershy shot me a look and I whispered “what?”

“Well we need to talk about what is going on,” Shining Armor said.

“I think it is time that all of you know of what the story is behind that sword,” Princess Celestia said. After the Princess told the guards to close the door and immediately they did. “Now where to begin,” she said. “The sword was created from the realm of light, Alderia. The sword’s name is,” she said but I interrupted.

“Let me guess ‘Harbringer’,” I said.

“Yes how did you know,” she asked.

“I had a dream,” I responded scratching the back of my head nervously. Mom and Dad looked at each other.

“It was originally for a king but the king could not unsheathe Harbringer. The king spent years trying to find a wielder for it but those who tried to but failed. Frustrated he sent it to the previous king of Equestria, before the rule of Discord. The king hid it away and my sister and I found it in some ruins when we were fillies. Soon we were informed by a letter that told us everything, this is all I know,” she finished.

“So let me get this strait,” I said, “That sword is from the realm of light, and only I can use it.”

“Yes, I forgot how much you pay attention,” she giggled. I was happy to be praised by the Princess.

"By the way where is Princess Luna anyway, I thought she would be here with us,” I said.

“She is in her room, I tried to get her to come out but she seems distressed that you got hurt from protecting her,” Princess Celestia answered. I felt guilty and wanted to make it up to her.

“OK, I will see all of you later I will be back,” I said. Fluttershy said “Shadow wait.” Then I heard my mom say as I was walking out “that is just like him, when somepony is upset he will try to make them happy.” That made me a bit uncomfortable, enough actually to make me stop and think. Then I was on my way to Luna’s room.

When I got there a guard was standing there and he said “she doesn’t want to be disturbed right now sir.”

“I just want to let her know that I am fine,” I said.

“OK,” the guard responded.

I knocked on the door and said “Luna it is Shadow I’m coming in.” I opened the door and the room was dark, I saw some stars on the ceiling and there was a carpet that was blue with a moon that matched Luna's cutie mark and I saw Luna lying on her bed with her front hooves covering her face. “Why so glum Luna,” I asked.

“You could have died if the knife hit anywhere else other than you chest, I couldn’t bear to see somepony get hurt for my sake,” she said still covering her face. Grabbing her front hooves and uncovering her face it seemed like she just recovered from crying. She looked at were my wound should have been. “Where is the wound,” she asked. “I think my pure awesomeness prevents me from being injured,” I joked. Then she started to laugh. I have to be honest it made me happy to see her smile, Mom has taught me never leave a lady crying.

“Well I’m glad to see you are OK,” she said with a smile.

“Would you like to join us in the throne room,” I asked.

“Yes, I very much would,” she responded. We were on our way to the throne room and then Luna stopped me.

“What is it,” I asked. To my surprise she hugged me and said “thank you.” And we walked into the throne room.

“Sister I am glad you decided to join us,” Princess Celestia said. While the two started to talk Cadence, Rarity, Mom and Fluttershy all came over to me.

“Wow, I didn’t know you were that good,” Mom said. As the princess were talking Luna glanced towards our direction and smiled. They noticed and Fluttershy asked in a tone “what did you say to her, huh?” Cadence and Rarity looked at each other after she said that and they smiled. Brushing it off I said,

“All I did was tell her that I was fine and that my wound was gone because of my pure awesomeness.” Then they all laughed. Apparently everypony heard me say that because they all got a kick out of it. Pinkie was laughing so hard that she was on the ground. Twilight, Shining Armor, Rainbow Dash and Applejack were laughing a bit at it too. Even the Princess where laughing. Gold was just sitting there maybe because she did not get it.

“Wow never thought I can make others laugh so hard,” I said. After a few minutes everypony calmed down I said “OK is there anything else that I need to know?”

“No that is all,” Princes Celestia said. “I want you to have experience in the art of swordsman ship Shadow, so Shining Armor has agreed to teach you,” Princess Celestia said. Shining Armor then stepped by me and said “Your training will start tomorrow…it will take a while for you to learn how to learn everything.” “We will see you in Ponyville Shadow, be careful,” Twilight said. With that the day went to by quickly and ended.