Twilight knocked politely before opening the door and stepping inside, me a few steps behind her hesitating as I reach the open door that leads to a place I haven’t seen in three years. Bracing myself I step through the door to see that the store hasn’t changed apart from the little decorations Rarity’s added after becoming the owner. Rarity walks out “Hello darling, how are….” the rest of her sentence dies on her lips when she sees me “What is he doing in my shop?” her voice cold as ice.

“Well….I..I thought that I would invite him to the picnic we are having today to say sorry for all the harsh things we said to him.” Twilight says weakly. “I’ll just wait outside while you two talk.” the door closed softly behind her

I lean against a wall “Guess Twilight lied about everyone wanting to see me ,I probably wasn’t actually invited to the picnic.” I sink to the floor and decide that I will tell her why I joined the military “I know that me joining the military wasn’t something you wanted and I lost almost all of my friends because of it. I had a few reasons to join, the first was it was a way to protect the people who I cared about even if they do hate me, the second was I got wings something I always wanted, since you were my best friend you would know this.” I continue almost whispering “At first I was joining as a regular soldier but I got offers from Celestia and Luna to join different special forces groups, one being the wonderbolts, the other the Shadow Legion which I joined.” I close my eyes waiting for her to yell, call me a liar, anything.

Nothing, she said nothing, I open my eyes to see her looking at me in shock. She decides to speak “So this group, the Shadow Legion is a group that no ones ever seen only heard of, it’s never been actually confirmed if it’s real or not. Even if you say you’re part of this group you could be actually sitting at the castle doing nothing.” she stops when she sees me taking off my jacket to see blood spots on my shirt since I forgot to bandage my wounds, taking off my shirt hissing in pain as it rubs against the cuts. Once my shirts off my scarred body is on display to the world and all Rarity does is gasp at how my body is covered in scars, some even go across my entire chest or back, my arms aren’t as bad as the rest of my body because they are usually always moving.

“I have had major magic surgery three times, if I hadn’t I either would be dead or unable to move a part of my body,” I said while wrapping my wounds” and I don’t want your sympathy if thats what you think, I couldn’t care less if you feel bad for me. Personally I wouldn’t have ever talked to any of you again but I got a letter from Twilight and Luna thought that I should go and so far it hasn’t been the most enjoyable I got attacked by Twilight and some kid named Spike, thanks to Twilight I will need to get almost a completely new uniform. Now where is the picnic going to be because I haven’t ate since breakfast yesterday.”

Rarity opens and closes her mouth a few times before replying “ We are having the picnic near moon lake, you won’t be able to miss it but wait Finn I want to say I’m sorry, I didn’t know that you went through so much just to protect people who seemed like they hated you. I would never be able to do that.”

“Thank you Rarity for everything you’ve said, I will see you at the picnic.” I say while putting on my jacket not bothering to put the ruined shirt back on instead putting it with the rest of my ruined clothes. I bow slightly towards Rarity then head to the door, nodding to Twilight as I close the door. The awkward silence continuing between us as we head towards where the picnic is “I will meet you there Twilight” I say before flying off towards moon lake before veering off to the outskirts of the everfree forest where I did some of my training, it’s part of the reason why my team and I work so well together. Deciding I have done enough reminiscing, I turn and start my way back towards the lake.

Landing in the forest surrounding the lake I watch as they have fun and chat like only the best of friends can, even my team acts like this sometimes but it’s just to cover up how they really feel after seeing everything that we have. Nothing you hear on the radio or through someone else seems real till you experience it yourself. I hesitate at the edge of the forest not wanting to ruin this perfect moment, before Twilight pushes me into the clearing where all movement had stopped, it was as if time had stopped.”Twilight I’m obviously not welcome here so I think I will leave besides I wasn’t really hungry anyways.”

Just then Rarity walks up “Nonsense dear, you said you haven’t eaten since breakfast yesterday and I’m sure everyone wants to say sorry for what they said.” Her statement was met with angry no’s from Applejack and Rainbow Dash, silence from Fluttershy and Pinkie, and Twilight nodding her head in agreement to what she said.

Suddenly Pinkie points to the path leading through the forest yelling something about monsters but she was talking way too fast to understand her. I just put a hand to my head saying “Guys, what did I say about coming here wearing your hoods. The four of them walk up pulling down their hoods as they go, revealing the smiling faces of my team.

Moonbeam was the first to talk “Cap, heres a letter from the princess and we have tonight and tomorrow night off. We are going to the Gala.”

Rainbow walks up with a smirk on her face “So are you like Finns whore or something because if you are I would find someone else he’s kind of a weakling.” She might have kept going if she wasn’t on the ground with a knife against her throat.

“Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have no wings because if you say anything else about our captain I’m sure Shadow here would like to hear you scream as she cuts them off.” a vicious smile on her face. She turns her head in confusion when I put my hand on her shoulder, shaking my head. She understands and gets off of Rainbow, who gets up and is clearly in shock of how fast she was taken down and subdued.

Applejack walks up looking furious “ How dare ya attack ma friend, I don’t care if ya are the princess herself no one hurts ma friend and get away with it.”

I raise my voice slightly “ I have a message from celestia so everybody better listen.” The arguing stopped as everybody wants to hear what she had to say.

Everyone will be receiving a ticket for the gala which I hope all of you will attend, this year will be a bit different, I won’t be giving away to ruin the surprise.
Princess Celestia

Dear Arawn,
I hope the picnic is going along great even if it isn’t you will be attending the gala me and Luna both are looking forward to seeing you in formal attire ;)
Princess Celestia

For obvious reasons I only read the first part out loud. Walking over to where the food was I picked up a sandwich, Aj walks up and tries to take it back saying “ those are for ma friends, you can’t have one.”

I walk away saying “Thanks for the sandwich Aj they're just as good as I remember. Alright team let’s practice here since there’s no point in flying back to Canterlot to practice. We are going to do something different today, we will be doing it tournament style Echo and Blaze will fight, then moonbeam and Shadow, the winners of those two fights will fight, the winner of that will fight me.

Rainbow suddenly speaks up “Aren’t those swords banned in Equestria, I heard if you have one you go straight to jail no questions asked.”

I nod “That is true but the dragons and us are the exceptions to that law, the dragons because it’s the only sword they use and we are exempt from it because it was the sword we trained with before the ban and we are under the command of a princess.” I notice Echo and Blaze stretching while Moonbeam and Shadow sit on the ground waiting for the match to start. I walk over to them and sit down a few feet away which proves pointless as Shadow sits down right beside me and puts her head on my shoulder.

I met shadow when I was on vacation and visits some of my friends in Canterlot, she was getting beaten up in an alley because she was an orphan, being me I couldn’t just pretend like nothing was happening I ended up rushing to help getting a couple of bruises in the process. Only after did I notice the girl I saved was looking at me with deep purple eyes from behind long black hair, she was wearing worn clothes and seemed pretty hungry. I asked if she wanted to come get something to eat with me, she just nodded. After ordering, she starts to talk in a whisper almost as if I might hit her for speaking “You’re one of those humans right, thanks for saving me. My names Sh..Sh...Shadow.” she takes a deep breath to calm herself.

I smile and introduce myself trying to be as polite as I can so I don’t scare her, I eventually got her to open up more during my stay in Canterlot, Celestia even let her stay a night in the castle when I told her about Shadow, I never saw Shadow smile that much ever. Eventually I had to go back to school but promised that I would meet her the next time I was in Canterlot. When I joined the military so did she, when I got drafted into the Shadow Legion so did she. Even now when theres a thunderstorm, she comes to my room because she's terrified of them.

I see Moonbeam and Echo glaring at us, I can understand why I mean Shadow is pretty hot. I give the signal to begin and as they begin to cross blades, all of the people who shunned me jaws dropped at the sight of light dances of the twirling blades as the swordsmen twist, flip, pushing their bodies to their limit trying to outdo the other.

Echo winning in the end, he was always the better swordsman, Blaze is better at knife work not as good as Shadow but no one can outdo him when it comes to explosives. Like I predicted Moonbeam won the match but not without Shadow getting a few hits in thanks to her extensive knowledge of knife work.

The next fight was way more intense than the first two, the movements faster yet somehow more graceful, it seemed if they had perfect control over their bodies, something that a lot of people only wish they had. Moonbeam won in the end but I could tell that this was a good workout judging by how sweaty everyone was. I stood up patting Shadow’s head before taking my jacket off and handing it to her.

Standing in front of Moon, seeing the determination in her eyes. As soon as she sees the signal her blade becomes a blur, time seems to slow as I block her blade and twirl out of the way before starting to attack just as aggressively as her. Everyone watches in complete fascination as our blades clash. I manage to get inside her guard when she swings at me from the left leaving her legs exposed, swiping her legs out from under her causes her to let go of her sword leaving her defenseless against the sword pressed to her neck.

I stand up before grabbing Moon’s hand and helping her up, I walk over to Shadow to get my jacket back but she had put it on sometime during my fight. Her smile fades when she notices I didn’t put anything back on “Why aren’t you putting your uniform jacket back on?” she says looking at me through her bangs

“I would but it has a giant hole from when I was hit with a ball of magic.” I say while shrugging like it doesn’t matter.

Her eyes get a dangerous glint and she turns to the girls “So which one of you hurt him?” her voice promising pain and suffering. Twilight hesitantly steps forward “So you tell him to come here so you can apologize but attack him instead.” Shaking her head she walks towards me grabs my hand saying that we are going back to the castle to see if the backlash from the magic breaking on my uniform affected me, the rest of my team follow silently behind.

When we got back to the castle, we were sent to the tailor to get measured…..again, it wasn’t very fun especially since the tailor enjoyed molesting me every chance she got. After that we went and sat around a table talking, playing board games, whatever we could think of to pass the time.

I watched the sky being light up at random intervals from lightning followed by the boom of the thunder, Shadow opens my door silent except for the soft noises of her feet hitting the floor. She got under my sheets holding me as tightly as she could, whispering “I don’t want to lose you, you made me want to live again, gave me something to look forward to that no one could take away from me.Arawn te amo.(Finn I love you)”

After that the storm died down leaving a sleeping Shadow in my arms, I laid down and closed my eyes her perfume reminding me of the one I bought for her birthday. With that pleasant thought in my head I drifted off to sleep.

As I got off the airship I noticed…..

Author's Note

Well here's another chapter. I'll try to update as much as possible but with school and everything else I don't have a lot of time to write.
Till next time,
ryde55