The Soldier And The Princess Of The Night

Chapter: 1

Sentinel is an alicorn Stallion with a black coat, a red main and tail with his mane cut short in a military style and his hooves are dark grey. His cutie mark is a large gray three pointed mid evil style shield, with two swords crisscrossing behind it. One sword has a silver guard and hilt with a blue gemstone at the end of the hilt. The other sword has a gold hilt and guard with a red gemstone at the end of the hilt. Sentinal’s eyes are golden in color with three large jagged scars across his right eye.

As he sat on the balcony overlooking the countryside, he gazed at the stars and moon enjoying the cool night air. The moon was out and full as the stars twinkled in the sky with a few clouds lazily drifting by. Sentinal sat and stared out at the sky as his mind began to drift back to when he was a Pvt. and he lost his Younger brothers.

Flashback:

Operation: fire extinguisher

Sentinel was among the last ones to arrive on the battlefield. When he did, he could see that the battle was practically over. As he was walking he could hear the cries and screams of his fallen comrades around him screaming and crying in pain and fear. He could tell by the sounds of the crying and  pain in their voices that many of them believed they would never see their family again. "Sentinel!" He heard a familiar voice callout in pain. He started looking around trying to find the source of the voice. That's when he saw a hoof reaching out to him. "Sentinel over here!" The voice called out again, filled with even more pain. It was then that Sentinel realized who the voice belonged to. It was his youngest brother. Sentinel galloped up to him as fast as he could. When he got closer he saw that half of his brother's body was burned and the bottom half of him was missing.

"Lightning cloud what happened to you!" Sentinel asked with fear and horror in his eyes as he looked his brother over.

"That." Lightning cloud motioned to the dead body of a dragon. Sentinel looked to see the massive dragon about the size of the largest ships in their navy lying dead with thousands of dead ponies around it.

Sentinel looked back to Lightning cloud "Everything is going to be ok." Sentinel said to his brother to try and reassure him everything would be fine. He looked up from his brother and looked around in a panic. "MEDIC!"He yelled. He felt his brother touch his hoof.

"It's too late for me." Lightning cloud said weakly as he held something out to Sentinel in his hoof. They were two sets of dog tags. One was Lightning Cloud's. Sentinel's whole body went cold once he saw the name on the other dog tag. It was Storm fly's, his other younger brother. Sentinel looked at his brother with shock and horror. "He tried to protect me from that dragon, but it was too powerful" He looked Sentinel in the eyes "Tell Cadence I'm sorry." With that, his brother took his final breath and died in sentinels forhooves.

End Flashback:

Tears began to form in Sentinel’s eyes from that awful memory. He stood there silently as he let his tears fall and cried to himself. Just then he heard hoof steps approaching from behind. He quickly wiped away his tears with his foreleg and turned around to see a mare as beautiful as the night sky. She stood a head shorter than him. Princess Luna made her way over to Sentinal. He bowed as she approached.

"Sentinel how many times do I have to tell you, you do not have to bow to me. We have known each other for almost our entire lives. Friends do not bow down to friends." She said with a smile.

"Sorry." He said with a smile, his eyes still a little watery from his crying.

Luna notice his eyes. She frowned as she walked up to him and place a hoof on his shoulder. "Is everything alright Sentinel" She asked in a gentle soothing tone.

He turned his head away and down, trying to hide the tear that began to fall down his face. "Yeah I'm fine." He lied. He just couldn’t let Luna see him sad. He cared about her too much.

Luna wrapped her forelegs around his neck and her wings around him. "You don't have to lie to me Sentinel" She said sadly.

Sentinel returned the gesture in the same way, wrapping his forelegs and wings around her. Feeling her this close to him made him wish he could tell her how he felt about her, how he would give his life for her. But he couldn’t, for she is a princess that rules over Equestria, and he is not royalty and fears it would ruin their friendship. But what he doesn't know is that Luna feels the same way about him, she's just waiting for him to tell her the same. They release their hug after a moment and looked each other in the eyes. "Sorry I just wish they were here to see this." He said as he broke eye contact and looked down and to the side.

"I know you do." Luna said as she leaned in and gently kissed him on his four head. "You should be inside celebrating your new promotion after all, you are Commanding General of the equestrian army now." She gestured towards the five stars on the shoulder of his officer’s uniform. She then used her foreleg to lift his head to make him look at her. She wore a smile to try and cheer Sentinel up. "Come on, you can introduce me to your special some pony or Ponies." She said nudging him with her elbow, slightly hoping he would say he has no special some Pony.

He shook his head. "Ha.. I don't have a special some pony." He said with a gentle smile.

"Oh I'm relieved to hear you say that." She said under her breath while blushing.

"What did you say?" He asked as he cocked an eyebrow and leaned his head in closer.

Luna opened her eyes wide and blushed, realizing she just said that out loud. Thinking quickly she spoke to try and change the subject. "Come on let's go get some of that cloud cake you like so much." She stated with a smile.

"Yeah okay, I just hope your sister hasn't eaten it all already." He said with a smile. This cost of them both to laugh on their way inside.

Luna sighed internally, feeling relieved her subject change worked.

Sure enough, they found Celestia about to start eating the last cake, so Luna used her magic to levitate it away from her. "Sister don't you think you've had enough of these? They made 10 of these, eat anymore and I don't think you would be able to fit on your throne." Luna said with a Joking smile.

Celestia looked up at them, she could see that Sentinel was having a really hard time trying not to laugh and it wasn't working too well. "I don't know what you're talking about." Celestia said with a pout as she stood up and trotted off.

By the time Luna turned to look at Sentinel, who was beginning to laugh at this point, she just smiled at him. "Come on, let's go find a place to eat this." The two went to find an empty table to eat the cake and enjoy the rest of the night together.