Equestrian Soldiers

“Ugh, I have to stop waking up like this.” I growl as I come to in my hospital bed.

“Well, where would the fun in that be?” Delta asks from the chair he was sitting in. I just groan as I bring my hand up to my head to feel stiches on my right temple.

“How many stiches did it take?” I ask as I move so I was sitting up.

“Ten, so when did he hit you, as far as I could tell he didn’t even scratch you?” Delta asks.

“It was when I was carrying him here. I had him over my shoulder, and he flailed his hooves, and caught me on the side of my head. That is why I tied his ass up.” I reply with a snort of air.

“Well, either way you won and he is in the Canterlot jailhouse.” Delta says with a shrug.

“And the kid?” I ask.

“Here in the medical wing, and is actually in the room next door if you want to visit her.” Delta says with a smile, as he
knows I have a soft spot for kids.

“I would like that.” I say as I slowly get out of the bed. I was slightly unsteady on my feet so I reached out, and held onto the bed frame while I tried to recover my balance.

“Okay, I’m good. I’ll be back in a few.” I say as I slowly made my way to the door. I open it, and look down the hall. I was at the end of the hall, and so I went to the door of the next room, and knock.

After a few second the mother of the child opens the door, and sees me before smiling, and stepping aside to let me in. I do so, and sit in one of the visiting chairs.

I look over the filly in the bed, and see that she has a blue coat like her father, but had a silver mane, and tail. Her eyes were a ruby red. Her wings were bandaged to her sides with medical gauze.

“Who are you mister?” The filly asks.

“I’m the one who arrested your father.” I say with a soft smile. She gives me a big smile, and then looks sad.

“Something wrong little one?” I ask. She couldn’t have been more than five or six years old.

“I’m happy that Daddy can’t hurt me anymore, but sad that I can’t see him. Mommy says I shouldn’t see him because he is a bad pony.” The filly answers. I sigh, and my smile falters.

“I could take you to visit him, but I also think it is a bad idea. He isn’t a bad pony; he just made a bad decision by hurting you.” I reply with a nod. The mother sighs in relief at my words.

“Yeah, but he is still my daddy. I still love him, but I won’t forgive him for hurting me.” The filly counters. I sigh, and give up on the topic.

“So how long are you to be here?” I ask.

“The doctor said I should stay here for a few days before I can go home.” The filly answer.

“Well, that means I can get to know you better.” I say with a smile. She smiles back at me.

“What is your name mister?” The filly asks me.

“My name is Dark Frost.” I tell her, “and what is your name?”

“I’m Silver Rain.” She replies with a big happy smile. I chuckle, and look to the mother.

“You have a cute daughter miss?”

“Sharp Precision.” She tells me. I notice that her cutie mark is that of a forge. I nod to her.

“Well, miss Sharp. You have a bright child.” I tell her

“Thank you, but she would have been worse if it wasn’t for you. Thank you for keeping my daughter safe.” She says with a grateful smile.

“I just did my job as the Princess’s guard.” I say with a nod.

“Mister Frost, can I ask you something?” Silver asks.

“Sure.” I answer.

“What are you?” She asks with a tilt of her head, and I almost died from a cuteness overload.

“I’m a human little one, as are my five friends.” I answer her.

“I’ve never heard of a human before.” Silver says with another tilt of her head. I close my eyes with a smile so I didn’t
have to kill myself from the filly’s cuteness.

“That’s because me and my friends are the only humans in Equestria.” I say as I open my eyes.

“Are you lonely then?” Silver asks. This makes me pause for a moment.

“No, well that depends. I still have my friends to be with, but we all just got here so we don’t know anyone but the Princesses.” I answer. I start to get a slight headache, but I just ignore the pain for it was only minor.

“Would you like to be my friend?” She asks with big puppy dog eyes. I think I felt my heart stop at that moment from her cuteness.

“I would love to be your friend.” I say with a big caring smile. My headache gets slightly worse. I decide it is time to return to my room.

“I think it is time for me to go back to my room, but I’ll see you later okay?” I ask. She smiles, and nods.

“It has been a pleasure talking.” I say as I exit the room, and head back into my own before falling onto the bed as my headache evolves into a migraine.

“Delta, where are the painkillers?” I ask with a groan.

“Here” He says as he hands me an aspirin from my pack. I just swallow it dry, and wait for the effects to take hold.

Sure enough after a few minutes of pain it starts to fade away.

“I think I’m going to sleep for a bit.” I say with a yawn to prove my point.

“Alright, do you want me to wake you when it’s twilight outside?” Delta asks.

“Yeah, I still have to see Princess Luna.” I say as I move my body into a comfortable position.

“Sleep well Frost.” Delta says before I let sleep take me away from reality.

I was woken by a shake on my shoulder. My eyes open, and I see Delta there standing over me.

“Time to get up.” he tells me. I just nod, and sit up. I see that Celestia was there.

“Hello Celestia.” I say with a nod.

“Good evening Dark, I came to check on you since you collapsed in my court room.” She replies with a slightly worried expression. I smile at this.

“I’m much better now that I’m not bleeding from my head.” I say with a chuckle.

“I wasn’t sure you would make it with how much you were bleeding.” She says with a shudder along her body.

“Head wounds bleed a lot because there is so much blood being pumped up there.” I tell her. She nods a few times at this.

“I’m also here to tell you that my student and her friends will be here to see you tomorrow.” She says with a smile.

“Ah your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle I presume.” I say with a smile of my own.

“Yes, how did you know her name?” Celestia asks.

“I saw her a few times in my dreams about this world.” I say with a wave of my hand.

“Right, I forgot about that.” She says with a slight frown, “However, I am getting tired so I’m going to leave you for the night. I will see you in the morning.” Celestia says as she turns to leave.

“Sleep well Celestia.” I say as she exits my room. I wait a few seconds before looking at Delta.

“Okay, so the king and queen don’t want the ponies to know that there world is a cartoon in ours. They said to say we had lucid dreams about this world, and only on important subjects, like knowing what we need to know about this world. We don’t need them to freak out about anything from our world. I would like it if you told this to the others as well so we don’t have any problems.” I tell him.

“Yeah, I can do that before I go to bed, but you know Night Terror is going to stay up as well.” He replies. I just smirk.

“I know. The fool doesn’t know how to sleep when we’re not on a mission.” This earned a chuckle out of us both as we all know Night usually never slept, but somehow always had the energy like he did. He doesn’t really sleep when he does either. He told me he just closes his eyes, and rests. Even he doesn’t know why he doesn’t sleep.

“Alright, I guess I’ll go tell the others, but what are you going to do?” He asks me.

“I’m going to wait here for a few more minutes before I go to see Luna.” I tell him. He just shrugs before leaving. I waited a few seconds before I got out of bed, and went into the bathroom. I took care of my business before I returned to my bed as I sat on it.

It was a few minutes of me just sitting there before I got up, and went to the closet. I take my sword and revolver out of it, and strap their respected sheathes onto my person. My sword was on my left hip, and my revolver was on my right.

After that was done I exit my room, and start to the exit of the medical wing of the castle.

I was almost out of the wing when Princess Luna walks up to me.

“We see thou are awake, and well.” She tells me.

“Yes, though I would like to know what happens with the child from today.” I reply with a bow of my head. She raises an eyebrow at me.

“Does thy species not have royalty?” She asks me. I blink a few times.

“There is only one person left that is royalty in our world, and she is very old for human standards. I wouldn’t be surprised if she died anytime soon, but she is not of my concern anymore. If you’re wondering why I didn’t bow to you is because I think it is wrong to worship someone because of what they are, or what they do. You have my respect; I just will not bow to you or your sister.” I tell her. She smiles at this.

“Thy behavior is a nice change from the nobles of Canterlot. We enjoy it.” She tells me.

“I’m glad you do, now, I believe one of my friends would like to see you as he doesn’t sleep, and I think it would be best to rendezvous with him.” I reply with a smile of my own.

“Lead the way and we shall follow.” She tells me. I nod before turning, and walking to Night’s room. Luna followed by my side, though not as close as Celestia did. This gave me a little notice about Celestia, but I filed it away for later.

It was a few minutes of walking before we came to a stop in front of Night Terror’s door. Luna stops as well before she looks to me.

I smile a little before I open the door for her. She nods before walking into the room. I followed right after her. I sigh in amusement as we stop inside of the dark room.

“Night, smile for the Princess, so we know you’re in here.” I say. I hear Night chuckle before a grin of white teeth appear in the darkness of the room. I roll my eyes as Night turns on a lamp that was next to his bed.

I smirk as Luna gasps when she sees Night for the first time.

“Thou art dark skinned. Does this mean thou are nocturnal like us?” Luna asks Night. Night smiles again.

“No Luna, but I don’t sleep, ever, so I guess I could be in a sense.” Night replies with a chuckle. I chuckle along with him as he stands up from his bed.

“However, I believe it is time to get out of the medical wing as I have been here all day, and all the while you were waking up Dark.” Night tells me as he heads to his closet, and pulls out his pistol, and LMG before putting them on his person. I chuckle as I watch him put his LMG on his back with the strap and holster his usp.45 on his right side. He rolls his eyes at me.

“Shall we go Luna?” Night asks with a light and short bow.

“Thou didn’t use my title.” Luna points out.

“I don’t see a reason why I should as you are a pony like every other pony in your kingdom.” He tells her. This got Luna to blush before she exits the room, and starts walking down the hall with us following her.

“Did I do something wrong?” Night whispers to me.

“No, thou did not do anything wrong, we were just unprepared is all.” Luna replies for me. This got Night to drop his jaw, and I smirk at him.

“Come on you two; let’s get along in a more friendly fashion.” I sarcastically tell them. This got Night to chuckle, and Luna to giggle a little.

It wasn’t long, with Night and Luna sharing small talk, when we entered the throne room. It was redecorated for the night court, and I was looking over it all with mild entertainment before I sat down on the stairs as I did with Celestia on the throne.

“What art thou doing sitting on mine throne stairs?” Luna asks me. I look up to her to read her expression, and saw mild amusement in her eyes while her face said slight anger.

“I am sitting where I sat earlier today, and if you have a problem with it please tell me so I can fix it.” I tell her with a smirk. She smiles back at me before she looks out at the throne room.

“We have no problem with this, we are still learning about thou, and thine friends. So may we ask thee some questions as to get accustomed to thee?” She asks with an innocent smile.

“Ask away, and we’ll answer to the best of our knowledge.” I answer.

“What art thou?” She asks. Night chuckles along with me.

“We’re all humans.” I tell her.

“And what are humans in general?” She asks with a smirk. I look to Night with a raised brow.

“Do you want the scientific answer or normal answer?” I ask her. She tilts her head to the side slightly.

“Both, but normal first.” She replies.

“Well, in general humans are assholes that are power hungry and greedy. The human race is constantly plagued with war, and suffering as none of us can figure out how to live in harmony for longer than a week now. Individually we are a calm peaceful species, but once you get immense numbers of us in one area we tend to have conflict with each other over trivial matters.” I tell her the normal answer.

“Scientifically we are the evolutionary peak of the primate family. Our bodies are made up of mostly two atoms: Carbon and H2O. We have a lifespan of around seventy years, and we are a technologically advanced race as we don’t have magic to use unless you are a special case like Dark here. He has the ability to have control over water and ice. He would have to explain about his ability as I just call it his darkness, and so do the others for it turns water and ice into a black solid or liquid that has many effects including fast healing, intoxication similar to that of alcohol without the negative side effects, and a few others that I can’t think of right now.” Night tells Luna with a studious accent that was slightly funny to me as I silently chuckled at it.

“We are curious to this darkness Night Terror spoke of.” Luna tells me with a calculating gaze.

“I was born in sub-zero temperatures when magic from another human was at play. It is just a strange energy that I have. If you are worried about me turning evil then don’t for it is my own energy with my own control over it.” I inform her of my power.

“May we see a demonstration of your powers?” She asks me. I nod at this.

“Sure, I just need some water to use my ability on.” I tell her.

“Fair servant, please fetch me a decanter of water.” Luna tells a nearby servant. Said servant bows and swiftly, yet silently exits the throne room.

“While we wait for her to return please tell me about yourselves so that we may better our acquaintance.” Luna says as she lies down on the throne in a relaxed manner.

“Well what would the princess of the night like to know?” I ask her. She smirks at my small joke.

“I would like to know about your military training, and what these items do that you carry with you.” She replies with a small smile playing on her lips.

“Well Luna, all six of us were part of the navy for our country that we used to protect. So we have advanced military training, and the items we carry with us are our weapons.” Night tells her. She raises an eyebrow, but is kept from speaking as the servant returns with the water Luna requested.

Luna magics a small table into the room for me to set the decanter on, and I do so with a small smile. I then take my right index finger, and barely touch the water’s surface, and it quickly turns pure black. Luna gasps slightly at the sudden change.

“You weren’t lying when you said darkness were you?” She asks as she stands from her laying position and walks up to the decanter. She pours herself a glass, but I move the water back into the decanter with a slow waving motion of my left hand.

“I wouldn’t drink this while you are doing work.” I warn her. She tilts her head slightly and raises an eyebrow at me.

“This is hardly work, as not a single pony has come to me since I returned from my… absence.” She tells me, “we are often just sitting in here until two in the morning before we go to get some sleep for a couple hours then wake up, lower the moon, eat, then go back to bed.”

Night scowls at these words from Luna.

“Have you attended any public events recently? That would show your subjects that you are kind and caring instead of your other side’s violent, and harmful ways.” Night suggests.

“Nay fair Night, for we have not had a festival or gathering at the night hours for over a thousand years.” Luna replies with a wave of her hoof.

“What about the upcoming event in a week?” I ask her.

“Why would we go to a Nightmare Night festival?” Luna asks in return.

“Well, it is a good opportunity to see your ponies in a friendly environment, and it gives you a chance to rekindle your connection to your country, as well as rebuild a positive renown with your ponies.” Night tells her. Luna brings a hoof up to her chin in thought for a few moments before nodding.

“We see thine point, but would like you both to join us in case our plan doesn’t work as planned.” Luna replies. Night smiles wide, and nods in agreement.

“I don’t see why not, so sure, I’ll tag along.” I tell her before we all broke into idle chatter about topics from both worlds, and about ourselves.

We did this for the rest of the night, and once Luna left to lower the moon I went to a room provided to me by Celestia, and fell asleep to ready myself for the get together with the elements.