Luna's Marine

I woke up in darkness. Manly because my eyes are closed. I mentally laugh at the stupid joke. I feel a sharp pain in my head that felt like a worm crawled in and started to eat at my brain and anything else was in my head. I start to wake up as the feeling in my body came back. The ground felt strange to me it felt like I was laying down but it felt different from the hot sand. The ground felt solid and cool. Also no light shinned though my eye lids. Maybe the insurgents found me. Maybe right now I’m going to be tortured for what I have done to the people of this country. Well my testacies are still were they always have been so I must not be captured.

I open my eyes and it was night. I began to look around to see that I was in a cave. Great some sheep herder probably found me and now I’ll have to work as his slave or something. Why does my mind wonder when I wake up? I look out of the cave to see the moon is out in full tonight. I start to get up and a sharp pain enters my side. I look down to see no blood or ripped clothes so I must have broken something when I jumped off the truck.

I try to get up again but I’m stopped by a voice that in no way can be real. “Please sir, lay back down.” The voice belongs to a woman, it’s mature and rasp. I get up fully and look for the woman. But she is hiding for some reason. I take a few steps and the pain flares back up. I grab my side in pain, it was like being stabbed in the lung. One of my ribs must be fractured.

I look around. “Who are you and why did you save me?” she didn’t answer. It was too quiet and I was getting impatient “Tell me who you are now!”

“I’m sorry but I can’t.” I think I heard a hint of fear in the woman’s voice.

“Why?” I ask. I don’t understand why she doesn’t want to come out? She doesn’t sound Arabian. I can’t tell where she’s from by the ascent but she isn’t American, maybe some European country.

“Because you won’t believe what you see.” I laughed lightly what could she be an alien? This was getting old fast and now I’m starting to get angry. “Come out or I will find you.”

I hear her sigh. Then I hear a horse trotting. I turn to my left and I can’t believe my eyes. A Sapphire blue alicorn was standing right in front of me. She had what look like a cobalt blue mane and black jewelry. She looked to be about five feet tall and her hoof shoes give her another inch.

“My name is Luna. I am a princess from another planet.”

This can be real. Princess Luna co-ruler of Equestria is standing right in front of me. “You can be real.”

“Rest ashore I am real.” She told me.

“That’s it” I threw up my arms. “I’m dead, I’ve died now I’m stuck somewhere and this is all just some weird after life.”

Luna rolls her eyes at me. But come on, this I a pony princess from a cartoon made for twelve year old girls! How can she be real? It’s impossible!

“I am real, soldier.” She says.

“You’re a talking blue horse!” I yell. “You're not- Hung.” She didn’t let me finish my sentence because she hoofed me in the stomach which didn’t help my more than likely cracked ribs.  I bent over and grabbed my stomach. “Fine you’re real.”

She smiles at me. Well if she is real then who else is real? Thor? I Sit back up and look at the magical creature and I smile back. It wasn’t real but I felt like being nice. She posed no real threat and she could help me.

“I need to get back to my branches base.” I say breaking the silence. “Can you help? I’m in no condition to walk a far distance.” In truth I have no idea where the base is but if we can fly and hopefully not get shot down by anti-air guns then we should be fine.

She shook her head. “No. first off if I’m seen like this then I’ll be captured and dissected. Secondly I have no idea who you are so what to say you won’t rape me?” Well she does have a good point. On the first part. First off I don’t clop. And secondly I wouldn’t rape anything.

I hear noises coming from outside. It sounds like voices. I motion for Princess Luna to crouch down. She tilts her and gives me a funny look. I motion again to get down and she still does nothing.

I give up and whisper “get down someone is coming.” She nods. I try to crouch but it send a stabbing pain up my side so I settle for walking slowly. I slowly move my head out of the cave, carful to not expose too much of my body. I look forward to see three men carrying AK-47 assault rifles. I curs under my breath. I look closer to see that they are wearing chest rigs and the magazine pouches are empty. Either they were in a fire fight with another unit or they were the ones attack my unit and captured me.

I look back into the cave. Luna is crouching behind a rock. I have to protect her. I know I don’t know her but she is defenseless. I have to. I jog back to Princess Luna. “There is three men armed just outside.” I look back to the opening. “They look to be low on ammo so that means there must be a weapons cache’ some were.” I turn back and start to look around. “Look for anything that is out of place. A net of tarp more than likely.” She nodded and starts to look around.

I went to the back of the cave and started to look but there was NOTHING! The cache’ must be somewhere else. I look back at the entrance and the three men are inside. The cache’ must be in here but where! I stay in the shadows at the edges of the cave. I just need to wait for the right time to strike.

The men are now right next to me. I wait until the pass. I look down to see a good size rock. I decide against using it because I’m scared to bend down. Now that the two are in clear view I can see that one has a pistol at the side of his chest rig. It’s facing towards me so I can grab it with ease, but I can’t see any spare magazines so it could be out of ammo. He also has some grenades on him. I could take one the get the hell out of this cave and blow them to hell. But I can’t see Luna so there is a chance I could blow her up too.

They are behind me now. I slowly come out of my hiding place. I see the pistol clearly. But his grenades are on his back so I can get that easier. I have to choose. I reach for the pistol but the man turns around, he’s looking straight at me. We stand there for a second before I break the tension by breaking his nose with a right hook. I grab his pistol while he grab his nose. Now that I have a closer look it’s a Beretta m9. They must of took it form a soldier, there’s also a possibility that it could be mine. I take a few steps back and shoot the man with the broken nose. The other try to raise their rifles but I’m too fast and shoot them both twice in the head. They fall to the ground along with the sight adrenalin high that I was on.

I look around the cave to see if there is any more enemy’s, but really I’m looking for Luna. I don’t see her. This is bad. Really bad. What if one of the bullets over penetrated and hit her. What if she’s dead because I didn’t look ahead to see if she was behind me.

“What if she’s dead and it’s my fault.” I say allowed.

“I’m not dead but you might if you don’t get that looked at.” I hear coming from my left. I look over to see Luna running out to me. “Your bleeding Hartman.” she touches my side and comes back up with blood on her hands. I look down and see that I was shot by my kidney. My mind is racing with questions like why can I not feel the pain of be bullet and why am I not getting dizzy from blood loss.

Luna lowered her horn to my wound as it glowed a light blue. “I can hold of the bleeding for a while but you will need a doctor.” Great just what I needed, some quack telling me that I need surgery or something.

“I can take you but I will not go in with you. Not like this.”

I start to feel light headed. Luna’s spell must be wearing off. “Can you turn into a human?” I ask. “It doesn’t matter if I’m just two clicks away I will die if I don’t have help back to make it all the way.”

She looks left and right. “I’ll need some clothing.” She looks to the dead men in front of us, “and one last thing. I’ll need to drop the spell on you to turn into a human.”

Well then this is a problem. I could bleed out as she turn into a human. But if she doesn’t then she’ll be captured and killed. “Do it.” I say looking her in the eye.

She nodded “I will when it is time now help me get the robes off this man.” Luna grabs the dead man with her magic and I start to disrobe him. The top back of the robe is covered in blood. I don’t want Luna to wear the thing but it’s either that or she’s naked. On second thought- What no, stupid, stupid thought. Don’t think that again.

I took the robe and messily folded. “Now what?” I ask, but I should know the answer to that.

“Get on my back and hold on to my neck. If you pull my mane then I’ll drop you.” She must not like getting her mane pulled. She lays down so I don’t have to strain myself. I hop on and she leaps up and wrap my arms around her neck. I’m probably staining her coat with my blood. There was a slow trot to the opening in the cave before she spread her wings.

“What is your name?” she asked. That’s right I never to told her my name. “Jake Hartman.”

“Well then Hartman, keep your mouth shut and do not choke me.” I nod and she takes off into the night sky.

Luna took off into the night sky. I have flew before but not like this. And I have to admit it I didn’t like it. There was to0 many ways I could die. One is I could slip off and fall the next is I could die from blood loss. That and I’m afraid of heights.

Luna looked back at me. “Are you ok, you look like you’re going to fall off?”

“Really? I had no idea.” While Luna was pointing out the obvious I was looking for a base. As I was looking I couldn’t help but feel the night air. It was cool and crisp. It did not feel good the wind was forcing me to squint and to speak clearly I had to talk into Luna’s fur.

I looked to my right and saw lights. I tapped on Luna’s right leg for her to turn. To bad that I don’t have a pair of ruins. Luna looks to down to see the base.

“I’ll start my descent down.” She started to get lower. She landed about a half mile away from the base behind a rock formation. I got off her with ease and sat with my back turned.

“Hurry up and change I’m starting to get dizzy.” In truth I was dizzy ever since we left the cave but I was too proud to admit it.

She sighed, “You humans and your clothes. When I was in the, what was it called again? The UK I was arrested for being naked.”

I swear if she starts parading around naked at the base I just might have to kill a fellow soldier. Wait why am I thinking this? I don’t even know her and I’m acting like she’s my girlfriend.

I could hear her magic in grab the man dress. “This won’t do at all.” There was a bright flash. I turned around to see that the dress was changed into a pair of pants and a shirt. All of it was in black. She also turned her saddle bags into a backpack. It was a dark blue with her cutie mark on the middle pocket.

“Can you please hurry? I’d rather not DIE!” I could feel her roll her eyes.

“As you wish. There was another flash of light. I heard some rustling around until she spoke. “I’m descent by earth standards.” I turn around to see that she is human. She was around six ten with pale skin and green eyes. She still had her cobalt blue hair though.

“I’d change your hair color if I were you.” She huffed, with a click of her fingers, her hair changed into a dark brown.

“Happy?” she asked.

“No I’m still bleeding.” I say in annoyance. I mean come on first she had to change the cloths I gave her. Then she took forever to change into a human and get dressed and now she had to change her hair color because it would raise more questions than I need.

“Relax.” She said come to help me up. “The spell I put on you stops the wound from getting worse. It also slows the flow of blood to be you only lose and once an hour.” Well there’s some good news. Now that I know that I won’t be dying I think we should make it more convincing.

We start to walk towards the base. Luna lets me lean on here. Her body is warm. Warmer than a human body should be. It’s probably because of the spell that turned her human. “Take the spell off me.”

We stop walking and she looks at me like I just told her to shoot me. “What! That will kill you.”

“Look if I go in there with only an ounce of blood lost then there will be questions. And I don’t feel like saying a talking horse saved my life.”

She hit me upside the head. “First off I’m a pony not a horse. Secondly; you will die if I take the spell off.”

She had a point but I have a better one. “A patrol will spot us. They will see my uniform and that it’s bloody and they will come to help. Not take it off.”

She shook her head. “You better be right about this.” Her hand glowed and I started to feel pain again. I could feel the blood starting to come out. This was the last thing I wanted to feel but it had to be done. We continued walking until I felt like I was going to fall over. Luna wanted to stop but we needed to keep going. The more we wait the more blood I lose and I don’t feel like seeing if what I was told was true or not.

I was close to dead weight for the princess but I did the best I could to walk or lip. Why did I say to take the spell off? How much blood have I lost now? I saw lights ahead of us. They looked like headlights but I’m too dazed to think clearly. I think it was a Humvee. The vehicle stopped. I heard a voice boom on a intercom for a few seconds. I mumble something. I don’t know what it was. I saw four blurs coming out of the vehicle. The four were speaking with Luna. I couldn’t make it out. The men grabbed me and put me in the Humvee. The vehicle started move and someone was starting to work on me. Must be a corpsmen. This was a bad idea.