A warrior's Lullabye

It had been three days since Fluttershy and Rainbow brought the stallion to the hospital and Fluttershy pretty much forgotten about the stallion for the most part.

Right now, Fluttershy was feeding the squirrels outside in her backyard.

Fluttershy took the bowl inside and washed it, put it away, then went in the living room. She sat down on the couch and picked up her book to begin reading again. She smiled, happy to finally be able to read her book again.

However, no sooner than she sat down and opened her book, did Angel hop onto the couch, kick her leg, and pull out a clock and point at it angrily.

Fluttershy stared at him unsure of what he wanted “what wrong Angel?”

Angel rolled his eyes and pulled out a photo of Rarity and slapped it with his paw.

It took some time for Fluttershy to realize what he wanted her to know, but she did catch on,“Oh my! Your right! My spa day with Rarity is today!” She grabbed Angel in a hug- which he tried resist. Then she sprung up and darted to the door saying, “Bye my little friends I'll be back in a bit!” She even managed to slam the door lightly on her way out.

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Rarity was outside the spa, patiently waiting for Fluttershy to arrive. She couldn't help but wonder where she was, since she was rarely ever late.

Rarity wore a black turtle neck sweater, white dress pants, and a white jacket and black shoes.

She smiled as she saw Fluttershy jogging up the road.

In about a minute Fluttershy was right in front of her panting like a dog.

Rarity gave a sympathetic smile as she waved to her friend, “Darling! So good to see you. Though... you um, seem a bit out of breath. Did you jog all the way here from your cottage?”

Fluttershy nodded as she said through pants, “Y-yes I... I noticed I was almost... almost late... so... I... I -she took in a deep breath- jogged here to try and stop that from.... happening.... I'm so... sorry … if I was.... late....” she then fell over but Rarity caught her.

Rarity smiled in understanding and she brought Fluttershy into a friendly hug. “Oh darling, of course you weren't late.” She looked at her watch and saw that Fluttershy was in fact fifteen minutes late. “Um, well... you tried your best at least darling. Either way what's done is done, lets go inside shall we?”

Fluttershy smiled tiredly at Rarity, starting to catch her breath, “I'd like that... a lot...”

Rarity nodded, “Good, lets go.”

They both headed inside the spa. Lotus and Aloe smiled from the front desk.

Aloe was first to speak, “Oh there you two are, I was beginning to wonder if you'd ever show.”

Rarity gave a knowing smile, “We wouldn't miss this for the world darling.”

Fluttershy smiled tiredly as she nodded in agreement but kept her peace.

Lotus smiled happily at the two , “Well it's good to see you two. I assume you'll both be having the usual?

Rarity nodded in satisfaction, “Yes darling we will.”

Aloe nodded and got out from behind the desk and went into the back motioning for them to follow, “Please, follow me ladies.”

Rarity and Fluttershy eagerly followed Aloe to the dressing rooms.

They stripped themselves of their clothes and replaced them with simple towels. Then they left the dressing room and went to the hot tub. They took the towels off Before they stepped into the bath, they had a private room rented out so they could get their needed privacy.

Rarity then put her arms out over the side of the tub and closed her eye's. “Ah, this is simply divine, don't you think darling?”

Fluttershy nodded silently in agreement as she went under the water to get her mane wet. She came back up and went over to sit across from Rarity.

There was silence for a while after that as they both simply relaxed in the water.

Finally Rarity broke the silence as she asked Fluttershy, “So has anything interesting happened to you lately darling?”

Fluttershy thought about this for a while,She remembered the stallion from the other day, but wasn't sure she should tell about him, finally she decided it couldn't hurt to tell Rarity about the stallion and how he attacked her- “well actually yes.”

Rarity smiled as she looked over to her to give her full attention, "wonderful, so what happened?"

Fluttershy sighed, she didn't know where to start, there were lots of places to start at, she might want to leave a few things out, she wasn't sure. Finally she decided to tell Rarity the truth and the whole truth. “Well, it happened three days ago. I found this stallion out near the forest while I was.....”

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Firesong groaned as he opened his eyes slowly. He saw nothing but light, and quickly closed them again as he tried to figure out what had happened to him, He couldn't seem to remember what had happened.

Suddenly he felt someone grab his wrist and jab something into it. His eyes popped open and he saw a stallion smiling sadistically as he stabbed him.

Firesong quickly sat up grabbing the stallion by the throat with one hand and grabbing the wrist which held his weapon in the other hand, ripping the blade from his flesh- blood and pain flooded from his freshly made wound. He ignored it though. This was a life or death circumstance and a little pain wouldn't stop him from surviving. He sprung from the bed and landed on top of the stallion and wrapped his hands around his throat tightly. The stallion gasped for breath as he tried to get Bidziil's hand from his throat.

Firesong stood up and lifted the stallion off the floor, his fur stood on end aggressively, he gave a snarl as he growled at him with a glare “Who are you?! -He yelled angrily at him as his fur stood on end- and why is everypony trying to kill me?!”

The stallion gasped for breath as he scratched at his hands to try to free himself, but finally gave him an odd look, “I- I don't know what... your.... talking about...”

Firesong growled more as he began to get annoyed, “Liar!”  he slammed him into a wall. He tightened his grip and got into his face as he said, “Where am I?”

The stallion looked at him with fear, and instead of answering he shot a bolt of magic at him, knocking him to the ground, and falling himself to the ground on his back, forcing him to release his grip.

The stallion got up, gasping for breath as he ran to a red button near the door and slammed his hand onto it, and the entire room lit up red and a very loud and annoying scream enveloped the room.

Firesong got to his hooves and lunged at the stallion who now had a look of fear plastered to his face and they both went down to the ground in a heap.

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Nurse Redheart was sitting at the front desk quietly reading a magazine and enjoying the silence of the hospital. Suddenly a loud bang was heard and the room flashed a deep red light enveloped the room. Nurse Redheart screamed as she went to the floor with the chair. She quickly realized that it was the alarm- it was going off!

She scrambled to her hooves and ran to her desk, grabbed a tranquilizer dart gun from her desk drawer, then ran from behind the desk and down the hall.

She ran down the halls with her gun in front of her. So far though, the only thing she saw different about the hospital was the flashing red lights illuminating the halls. She slowed to a walk. “Okay... I don't think this is a real alarm I mean really, Where is the trouble?!”

Suddenly the Doctor was thrown through the a window into the hallway. Glass littered the floor, the Doctor was covered in blood.

Nurse Redheart screamed as she took a step back.

Another pony hopped out the now shattered window. She noticed it was the stallion from a couple days ago.

She saw ten security stallions coming up the hall behind him. The patient saw this too and his fur bristled aggressively. He quickly charged right back as security guards came at him aggressively.

The first thing he did when they reached him was quickly grabbed a guard, flipping him onto his back. The other guards grabbed his arms and tried to hold him down.

The patient slammed his head into the gut of one of the security guards, making him crumple to the ground.

Then he grabbed another guard by the arm, wrenching his arm in a way that it was never meant to go so that the guard was helpless, then slammed his elbow into the guards arm joint, snapping his arm bone in two. The guard screamed like a filly.

Then one of the guards managed to get him into a full nelson, wrapping his arms around his shoulders and pushing down on his head. Immediately, the stallion clasped his hands together, almost making two little sea hooks and pushed them to his forehead to relieve the pressure from the guard’s full nelson. Then he lifted his hoof up and smashed it onto the guards. The guard yelped in pain at having his hoof smashed, the stallion smashed the guards hoof again, then he took the same hoof and kicked straight back into the groin. The guard let out a small high pitched “eep” as a single tear came from his eye. The guards grip was loosened greatly, but the stallion wasn’t done yet wit the guard- he stepped slightly to the side, just beyond the guards hoof, he then took his other hoof and brought it behind the guard and twisted his body to the side. The guard was now off balance and barely able to stand from the groin kick, the guards groin was unprotected again, the stallion struck the guards groin multiple times just because he was in the mood to strike there. The guard let out a weak filly scream before the stallion flung him to the ground.

Two guard tried to grab him, but he quickly flung their hands off his arms, turned around and kicked a guard in the chest that was coming up behind him. A guard came from the side and he shoved his hands away and slammed the palm of his hand into the chest of one on his other side. Then he spun and roundhouse kicked two guards in the face, downing them with ease. Then a guard came at him with a club, he dodged the club and grabbed his forearm in one hand and slammed his other hand into his elbow, snapping the bones connecting his arm together. Then he took his club and hit him over the head.

More guards came at him, some with clubs- however when they saw what he had done they smiled at him nervously, waving, then frantically ran the other way.

Redheart couldn't believe her eyes. This random stallion just beat up ten guards at once! And the other guards got scared! Not that she could blame them of course, "We really need to put these guys through some sort of training instead of just hiring anypony who wants the job..." before she knew it the stallion was in front of her and glaring at her. Redheart smiled at him nervously as she sunk to the ground submissively, "um.... need help finding the door?"

He shook his head and ran off.

She watched him go and sighed in relief, then looked at the Doctor, he was still unconscious. She smiled evilly, "I'm going to raid the safe while he's unconscious!" Then she ran off to the safe.”

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Firesong ran down the halls frantically. He needed to escape this place before they captured him again. He cringed as his side hurt. It was the only part of him that still hurt anymore, his Timber wolf injury.

He pushed all this from his head as he heard the sound of pursuers.

This gave him the will to sprint faster as he made it to the front door.

He smiled as he ran through the doors to the outside world.

Luckily nopony was following him anymore he sighed as he slowed down to rest his side,  He then headed to where he saw various buildings.

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Rarity stared at Fluttershy surprised. She really wasn't sure what to say to this.She needed a moment to take it all in, "Oh my... this... is ...it's... so unexpected... especially since it happened to Fluttershy of all ponies!".“Um... Well darling are you alright? Is Rainbow alright?”

Fluttershy nodded with a small smile, as she said, “Yes, I'm fine, I think Rainbow is alright too, I'm not really exactly sure, now that you mention it though, maybe I should be worried, she has too much pride to admit when she's hurt until it is evident she is badly injured, her injuries aren't that bad, but they could get worse..."

Rarity sighed as she said, “I'm sure she'll be fine darling. Still though if how you described this brute is accurate, then he could have hurt anypony badly- even Rainbow.”

Fluttershy nodded as she said, “exactly... she sighed- I just hope she's okay."

Rarity was silent for a moment. Finally she said, “ I suppose you have the right to be worried, in truth I'm not very worried, but I never really met this stallion, so, I don't know." She saw that Fluttershy didn't look any happier, she frowned and thought of what she could do to cheer her up, "at least you'll never need to look at that horrible brute of a stallion ever again.” It wasn't much, but she was at a loss for what else she could say to her.

Fluttershy nodded as she said, “I'm very glad about that too.”

Rarity smiled as she stretched her body and got out of the tub, “well I'm about done in here darling, I'm going to get my massage now.”

Fluttershy smiled and got out behind her, "I'll join you, I'm done in here too."

Rarity smiled as she put her towel on and walked over to the massage booth, and laid on it, "please to be sure to get all the knots and stress out of my shoulders darling."

The mare nodded silently and began to thoroughly massage her shoulders.

Fluttershy smiled at the mare who would massage her silently then laid on her booth, the mare began massaging her back. Fluttershy moaned in pleasure as the stress left her back.

Fluttershy looked over to Rarity, she seemed to be asleep, she wasn't though, Rarity was always looking as though she were asleep when she was getting a massage. "So has anything happened to you lately Rarity?"

Rarity hummed as the mare massaging her shoulders lifted her stress away, "yes, Fancy Pants has asked me to make some suits for him and some dresses for some friends of his. He has a wonderful reputation so selling my dresses to him will improve my reputation in Canterlot dramatically."

Fluttershy looked at her oddly, "I thought you had a great reputation in Canterlot Rarity?"

Rarity sighed again as she was massaged by the mare as though nothing were being discussed in front of her, "well, I do have a decent reputation, but it's not very strong, most of my reputation is from Fancy Pants, but my reputation isn't from my designs, their from being a good friend of Fancy Pants'. This will get my designs a well known name in Canterlot though."

Fluttershy nodded, "okay, well that's wonderful Rarity."

Rarity giggled as she sat up and laid back down with her head facing Fluttershy with a large smile which went from cheek to cheek, "I know, I'm so excited about this."

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Firesong walked into the town warily, he knew these ponies were after him and so he quickly ran for an alley. However something was off, ponies went right past him, even though they clearly saw him, if they did look at him they gave him a concerned look because of his side. "Um.... why are they not chasing me?" he slowly walked out of the alley, ponies looked at him oddly, but said nothing. Firesong looked around awkwardly, wondering if he was in the same place. finally he got the courage to walk around the town.

Ponies bumped into him as though he weren't there, it was rather annoying, and one pony bumped his injured side, he growled a bit, ready to hit him. But held back, they didn't seem to mean any harm so he let it go and continued walking through the town. he came to a building that look like it was made from some sort of food."I'm guessing this place has food", he looked down at his stomach as it growled at him. He sighed as his stomach pulled him into the building. As soon as he walked in, he found a pink mare staring at him, and right up in his face, it was a struggle not to hit her.

The mare had pink fur and a mane the same color, her eye's were blue and her mane was all messy and curly. She wore blue short shorts, a blue sleeveless shirt with stripes, the stripes were a blue and then a lighter shade of blue, she also wore a yellow baggy shirt which was tied in a knot so it only went just below her breasts, the shirt was so large at the shoulders that one shoulder was exposed. She wore long striped socks, they were pink and white. On her wrists was a bracelet with blue, pink and yellow balls.

The mare smiled widely at him, her eyes were alive and full of life as she stared up at him- he was a head taller than her- he soon noticed she was shivering, "hi! I'm Pinkie Pie I work here at Sugarcube corner you must be new here because I know everypony in Ponyville- she got into his face with a large smile on her face- EVERYPONY. "So you must be new here who are you?"

Firesong took a step back, taken aback at how hyper she was, I've never met somepony so excited to see me, "foals don't even get that excited!" She obviously wasn't a threat, so he remained calm, "um... what?"

The mare giggled at him, "you should listen more silly filly!" she took a deep breath and repeated herself, "hi! I'm Pinkie Pie I work here at Sugarcube corner you must be new here because I know everypony in Ponyville-" she got into his face again with a large smile on her face- "EVERYPONY. So you must be new here who are you?"

Firesong took another step back, "I'm uh... Firesong...", he couldn't believe she repeated herself, word for word.

Pinkie Pie giggled uncontrollably, "that's a silly name, Firesong? What's your cutie mark? Is it  a bonfire with music notes? OH, OH, OH, OH, NO DON'T TELL ME! IT'S A BONEFIRE PLAYING A UKULELE!"

Firesong raised an eyebrow as he turned his head but kept an eye on her, "um.... what's a Cutie... whatever, and what is a um... that other thing you said?"

Pinkie giggled even harder and snorted a bit, she was about to fall over, Firesong wanted to help her but was scared to help her, she was really weird.

She soon fell over laughing hysterically, and Firesong had no idea what she found so funny.  He slowly backed from the mentally insane mare and turned to leave-  he looked back and she was gone, he shrugged it off and walked on.

Suddenly Pinkie Pie appeared in front of him, a big smile on her face, "wait! do you have a your guide to show you around?"

Firesong raised an eyebrow at her, "a what?"

Pinkies smile never left her face as she giggle, "a tour guide silly filly! It's somepony who shows other ponies around a place!"

Firesong forced a smile as he flushed a bit, "oh, that."  "this mare makes me feel like an idiot."

Pinkie smiled wider at him as she got closer to her face, "so do you have a tour guide?"

Firesong sighed with a slump in his back and a stoic look on his face, "no, I have no tour guide."

Pinkie's smile widened even more, "oh I can be your tour guide! She then grabbed his arm before he could refuse and dragged him off to be shown around the town."

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Fluttershy and Rarity were now done at the spa. They were currently getting their clothes back on. Rarity sighed in satisfaction with a contempt smile on her face, "oh I always feel amazing after a day at the spa, don't you darling?"

Fluttershy nodded with a smile as they walked out of the spa, “oh yes, it really relieves all the tension and stress from my body.”

Suddenly both mares saw something unusual, Pinkie Pie was pulling a new pony by the arm around town. Normally she left them be because she would be planning a surprise party for them. Though she could whip up a good party in minutes, she normally took all day with the party's preparations  for new ponies to make sure the party was amazing for the newcomer."

Fluttershy froze with widened eye's full of fear as she realized it was the stallion who had attacked her, "Oh no, not him Why is he not in the hospital, better yet, why is he letting Pinkie Pie drag him around?"

As she pondered this Pinkie soon saw her and smiled widely at them and charged at them full force, dragging the stallion who had a look of surprise and a bit of fear on his face as he struggled to keep up with her.

Pinkie came very close to running into them- so close in fact that Rarity screamed as she shielded herself with a leg and her arms- Pinkie didn't run them over of course, she merely stopped inches in front of them, her smile still on her face, and wider. The stallion was heaving as he tried to catch his breath. His eye's were bulging from their sockets, with a hand on his knee and bent over as he heaved and gasped.

"Hi! Fluttershy! hi Rarity! This is my new friend Firesong! He's new here and I was just showing him around Ponyville but then I saw you two and thought HEY! Why don't I introduce him to you two because he told me he doesn't know anypony in Ponyville yet-" She took one large gasp of air and continued- "so this is Firesong the pony I told you about"- she turned to Firesong with a smile as she said, "Firesong these are two of my six bestest friends in ALL of Equestria!"

Firesong looked at both mares with a small, almost coy smile with his head hunched a bit- then he noticed Fluttershy, his eye's hardened as he straightened to his full height, "this pony is your friend?"

Pinkie turned to him with her smile which almost seemed glued to her face and nodded, "yup! One of my bestest friends too!"

His eye's became slits as he frowned with his fur beginning to stand on end aggressively at Fluttershy, "she foal napped me and then I found myself in a hell like place this morning, I barely got out alive."

Fluttershy frowned at him with furrowed eyebrows, "um, no actually I was-"

Pinkie looked to Fluttershy with widened eye's and gasped, "I always knew she was a foal napper!"

Fluttershy took a step back, eyes wide with fear as she shook her head. "N-no I'm not! I would never-"

Pinkie got in Fluttershy's face and shined a flashlight in her eye's with furrowed eyebrows and an accusing stare, "admit it!"

Fluttershy instantly shrank away and covered her eyes from the light, "a-admit to what?"

Ponies were staring at the scene unfolding now, curious as to what was going on.

Pinkie grabbed her by her shirt and lifted her up as she glared at her, "admit you foal napped Gummy!"

Fluttershy raised an eye brow hesitantly as she began to relax, "um.. I-I don't know what your ta-"

"Admit it! My Gummy has been missing all day and I want to know where he is!" Pinkie yelled, now snout to snout with Fluttershy, brows down as far as they would go and a snarl on her face.

Fluttershy was scared now, she had never seen Pinkie like this before. Her lip quivered as her eyes became watery, "I-I..."

Rarity soon stepped in and pushed Pinkie Pie off her, Rarity frowned at Pinkie with a glare, "that is enough Pinkie Pie! You went too far! You know for a fact that Fluttershy would never foal nap anypony",  especially your pet of all things. Her eye's dulled as her brows went down and her face took on a stoic look, besides, he's in your mane."

Pinkie frowned in confusion as she felt her mane, "huh? Really?" Sure enough Pinkie pulled a small green alligator from her mane. She her smile took up half her face as her eye's shined with joy, "Gummy!" She gave him a hug then put him back into her mane. She looked at Fluttershy with a weak smile and guilty eyes, "I'm sorry Fluttershy, I should have known you wouldn't foal nap Gummy." Her eyes hardened again, you would rather foal nap ponies!

Rarity face palmed and sighed, "no darling, she isn't a foalnapper at all- why are we even discussing this?!  This is by far the most ridiculous thing we've ever debated!"

Pinkie looked at her with a blank face then giggled, "yeah your right, Fluttershy would never do such a thing." She turned to Firesong, her ears went down then she turned to Rarity, "but then what is he talking about?"

Rarity sighed with a roll of her eyes, "he's lying obviously."

Firesong furrowed his eyebrows and frowned, "I don't lie."

Pinkie smiled, looking back and forth at Rarity and Firesong, "maybe we are misunderstanding each other!"

Rarity nodded with a stoic face, most likely. "Fluttershy darling, do you know this pony?"

Fluttershy nodded, she no longer looked sad, but was still nervous with her ears half down with a frown, "kind of, he's the pony I told you about in the spa."

Rarity nodded as she put a finger to her lower lip," he attacked you?"

Fluttershy nodded silently.

Firesong frowned with his brows still furrowed, "no, I was defending myself, she was forcing something down my throat."

Fluttershy sighed giving him a stoic look, "it was water."

Firesong's eyes softened as one ear went halfway down, in an unsure way, "wait, water? Why would you give me water?"

Fluttershy sighed as she kept her stoic look, "because,  I didn't know when you last drank water, so I thought I'd help you."

Firesong's eyes softened as his left ear twitched a bit, "oh...." he was silent after this.

Rarity furrowed her eyebrows, putting her hands on her hips, "well aren't you going to apologize?"

Firesong gave Rarity a stoic look, "why? She should know better than to do something like that to somepony."

Rarity ground her teeth as she gave him a fierce glare, but said nothing in response.

Pinkie butt in between Rarity and Firesong, her large smile still on her face as she pushed the two away from each other, "calm down guys!"

The two ponies gave surprised looks to one another, they didn't realize how close they had been- they had been inches away from each others snout.

Rarity glared at Firesong again, "I don't like this stallion one bit."

Pinkie Pie grabbed Firesong again- his eyes widened in horror at this- "well we have to go see the rest of Ponyville now", she then ran off, dragging him behind her.

Rarity turned to Fluttershy with a frown, her eye's filled with sympathy for her friend as she laid a gentle hand on her shoulder, "Fluttershy darling, are you okay?"

Fluttershy smiled at her sadly, "y-yeah, I'm okay, I think."  Rarity quickly brought her into a hug, which Fluttershy gladly returned.

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Firesong's eyes were wide with fear, he was about to fall to the ground because Pinkie was too fast. "Pinkie, please slow down!"

Suddenly she stopped and released  Firesong from her grip, he flew to the ground nearly face first- he had great reflexes, so he caught himself on his hands with his hooves in the air, inches from hitting his face. He quickly jumped to his hooves and sighed with relief.

Pinkie grabbed his shoulder and spun him around, "look there!" She pointed happily, bouncing up and down excitedly.

Firesong turned and looked to see what she was pointing at and saw a tree with windows and a door, at the top was a balcony. "What is this place?"

Pinkie gave him a big smile and bounced up and down, "it's my best friend Twilights house! Also known as the Ponyville library."

Firesong raised an eyebrow with a frown, "what's a library?"

Pinkie's eyes went wide and her mouth fell open as she bolted back a step, gasping, "you don't know what a library is?!"

Everypony that was around looked to see what was happening.

Firesong gave her his usual stoic look, shaking his head, "libraries aren't very common in the Everfree forest."

Pinkie frowned as she cocked her head to the side, the she smiled, "come on, my friend Twilight will explain a library to you, she then grabbed his arm and pulled him through into the library.

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Twilight was sitting in her chair.

Twilight, though a princess now, still didn't wear a dress, truthfully, she wasn't very found of them, she tolerated them, sometimes even adored them if they were amazing, like her Gala dress, for the most part though, she didn't wear dresses. instead she wore plain everyday clothes. When she was turned into an Alicorn her body grew a little, such as her breast, they grew about two sizes, her hips got a bit wider, but also more defined she also gained about an inch more muscle to her body. because of this, she found her clothes were much too small for her, and since she was growing each day, getting new clothes would leave her bankrupt in a matter of months. So she did the best thing she could think of she enchanted her current clothes to be able to stretch and fit her body as it grew. Right now Twilight wore a white button shirt under a gray vest, the shirt was neatly tucked into her blue jeans.

Her two fingers were on her head as she thought about what Celestia had told her the last time she called Twilight up to see her, which was about a week ago.

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Celestia gave Twilight a serious look as she and Twilight sat in her chairs of the royal study, "Your a  royalty now,as a princess you will be a target for assassination attempts, kidnaps, and other terrorist attacks if ever there is one, especially since your the weakest princess due to your coronation being not very long ago. Because of this you will need to select somepony to be your warder, to protect you."

Twilight stared at her with wide eyes and a tight mouth, "princess- Celestia raised an eye brow as she was called by her title- "um... I mean, Celestia, I've never known about this before I was an Alicorn ..."

Celestia nodded, "true, but did you truly need to know? Was it mandatory for your studies? Besides, you never asked."

Twilight furrowed her brows angrily, then she realized it was Celestia she was dealing with- she quickly softened her eye's and bowed her head submissively, "why would I ask such a thing Celestia?"

Celestia gave an understanding smile, "Twilight, me and the other princesses need a personal body guard, we all have one- Luna has three. As I said before, we all have a warder, all but you Twilight."

Twilight looked away a frown on her face, feeling the pressure now, "who is Cadence's Warder?"

Celestia lifted her chin up a bit, a humorous smile now on her face, "I think you can guess Twilight."

Twilight didn't need to think very long on it as her eyes widened, "Shining Armor?!"

Celestia giggled a bit as she gave a node, "yes, Cadence married her Warder."

Twilight's jaw fell open at this, "has this been done before?"

Celestia ignored this question, "you must find at least one Warder to guard you Twilight."

Twilight closed her eyes and sighed with a frown, "why do I need a Warder? Why can't the guards be enough?"

Celestia frowned as her eyes filled with understanding, "the guards won't always be around you a-"

"Well can't you give me a set of body guards?"

Celestia sighed and was silent a moment, "let me finish Twilight, the Warder is bonded to you with magic, he or she becomes faster, stronger, can survive through situations a normal pony would not, and they have a faster healing ability." "In fact"-  she walked over to a book shelf, took three six inch thick books- one was actually eight inches thick- and then walked back to Twilight and gave her all the books in her arms to carry. "Here, read all these, they'll inform you on Warders, and everything you'll ever need to know about them.

Twilight's eyes widened as the books were put into her arms, they weren't too much to read, just a little heavy. Twilight forced a smile while straining with the books, "th-thank you... Celestia..."

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Twilight sighed as put her head in her hands in frustration, "ugh! This is so sudden!" Celestia never said she needed one anytime soon, especially since Equestria had been at peace for over ten thousand years, that could change in an instant though.

Suddenly the door swung open, banging against the wall, Pinkie waltzed in with a stallion who looked like a bum and didn't look like he wanted to be here at all. "Hey Twilight! This is my new friend Firesong!"

Twilight gave a fake smile to them both, "oh, hey guys." She looked at the stallion, looking him over, "I've never seen you before"- she smile for real this time, putting her hand out to shake.

However he stared just stared at her hand blankly, then stared at her in the eyes with the same stare he had given to her hand.

Twilight's smile faded into a nervous frown, "um... Firesong?"

He blinked at her blankly, "what?"

Twilight slowly reverted her eye's," um.... nothing, nevernind "

Pinkie smiled happily at Twilight, "hey Twilight, Firesong can't read."

Twilight nodded, "a stoic look on her face, okay." She expected this, he looked like a bum, he probably was.

Pinkie frowned, obviously confused, she must have expected her to go crazy- well not today, she was in no mood to worry about such things.

Pinkie smiled again, softer than before, but still a big smile, "he also doesn't know what a library is."

Twilight's stoic expression turned into surprise, "really?"

Pinkie's smile widened at her surprised expression, "yup! I don't even know if he knows what a book is." She looked at him expectantly, " do you know what a book is?"

Firesong stared at her blankly, "I don't know what anything in this land is."

Pinkie looked to Twilight with an even bigger smile, it seemed impossible, but it happened. "See? He doesn't know."

Twilight's mouth fell open, dumbfounded, he obviously was a foreigner, but that didn't explain why he didn't know what a book was, "how do you not know what a book is?! What rock have you been living under your entire life?!?

Pinkie hopped up and down, giggling excitedly, "you should teach him what a book is!"

Twilight nodded with stone cold conviction on her face, "I will, she then flew into the air with a convinced smile on her face, by Celestia, I won't quite until he can write a four page essay on what a book is! She then ran over to him, grabbed his forearm and dragged him to the part of the library which was actually filled with books.

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Pinkie gave a sly smile, "well, now that I have him out of my mane, I can finally start working on his party". She giggled and pranced off to Sugarcube corner, "la, la, la, la, la, la!"

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Twilight led Firesong to a desk and had him sit. She smiled comfortingly to him, he looked nervous, "don't worry Firesong, this won't be too difficult." She walked over to a bookshelf and picked out a book, ''history of the book'', she smiled widely at the title, "perfect!" She brought the book, to the desk for Firesong. She smiled at him again, "I'm first going to teach you what a book is, by reading this entire book to you on the entire history of the book! She proclaimed excitedly"- Firesong's eyes widened in horror.

"Okay let's get started then shall we?"

Firesong quickly shook his head no, a fearful look on his face.

Twilight giggled at him, amused that he thought he really had a choice, "oh don't be such a scaredie pony, I'll be the one to read it to you after all, I'm a fast reader too."

Eight hours later

It was now past midnight, the clock read four twenty eight in the morning,  Twilight yawned as she closed the book, and smiled at Firesong as she tried to keep her eyes open however she frowned when she saw him sound asleep. Really? He couldn't stay up to listen to me read? She yawned, deciding it was time for bed. She decided she decided to leave Firesong where he was- in moments she was laying on the desk, snoring loudly as she slept.