Sempiternal

She had very feminine features with a Lavender coat and Pink and Violet highlights streaming down her clean cut mane. "Hello Fluttershy." She said in a very cheery and warm tone. It caught her attention and she snapped her head back towards the door and said.

"Oh hello Twilight how are you today." Twilight grins happily with sparkling white teeth and replied. "Just fine Fluttershy who's your new friend." She looks at me then back at Twilight before she said. " I don't know his name but he can talk.

They both had their eyes fixed on me awaiting my answer and I finally stated my name. "Koba my name is Lieutenant, Koba Gagarov." Twilight squints hard at me and before she says. "Your a quite interesting character I've never seen anything like you before please come in you two it must be cold out there."

I sling the gun on my back and follow behind Fluttershy into the strange looking house. It looked so small but when I finally worked my body past the doorway I was again in astonishment at how spacious it was on the inside. I am lost in myself as I observed it top to bottom.

From what I could see it looked like a library with volumes of books alphabetically ordered in a neat fashion. I was lost in wonder at the small statues and busts of other ponies that adorned the main room. I completely disregarded the two as they chatted on and continued to wander about.

I was staring at a painting of a regal and beautiful looking pony with the caption below it that read "Princess Celestia ruler of Equestria". She didn't look like the evil dictator or cruel monarch as I had imagined her to be. She looked rather benevolent and merciful even with her blank expression on the painting she had the look and feel of kindness.

I continued to have a staring contest with the canvas when I hear a low and gentle grunt. I look down to see Fluttershy and her friend Twilight only inches away from me. "Beautiful isn't she?" Twilight asked with a sharp glimmer in her Purple eyes. I smile and nod politely when she asked. "Are you thirsty? Please have a seat and I will fetch you something to drink." I nod again and follow them back to the reading room and took a place next to Fluttershy on the cozy chair near the fireplace while Twilight excused herself to the other room.

I sat and twiddled my thumbs for a few seconds before I looked up at Fluttershy and asked. "Your friend do you think she help me?" She smiles and nods. "Don't worry she's the smartest Unicorn in Equestria. I'm sure she will help you if she cant our Princess Celestia can. Your in very good hands.

My mind was set as ease for the time being and I sat back in the chair and set my arms behind my head. I hear a clattering from behind and looked to see Twilight levitating a tray that had some warm liquid steaming from finely crafted China. My jaw nearly hit the floor at the sight. I wasn't as impressed with the Pegasus 's ability to fly as much as her ability to manipulate and levitate objects with the magic streaming like an aura from her horn.

She gently sets it down in the middle of the table and pours us all some of the tea. She just lifted up the cup and set it next to Fluttershy when a loud crash caught all of us by surprise and almost broke my neck to turn my head towards the noise. There was a Orange and blonde Earth pony with a Stetson hat standing at the doorway exhausted and out of breath.

She tried to explain her intrusion in between gasps and slowly made out. "Twilight,Fluttershy thank Celestia your here. Rarity 's sister has fallen into the well you have to help her." They both shot up off the chair and in seconds we were all out of the library and sprinting towards the center of town with me falling behind trying to catch up them.

We reach the community well and had to push our way through the crowd that had amassed around the tiny stone well with a hole only a foot and a half wide. They were all panicking and frantic waiting for Twilight to think of something. I could hear a faint cry for help coming from the hole and looked around desperately for a rope and found one conveniently by an old cart next to the road.

Twilight asked me what I was doing and I asked her to have some of the stallions hold the rope while I jumped in the hole to grab her. She pleads with me that its too dangerous and that it was a foolish idea. In my arrogance and urgency I shouted back at her. "You got a better idea?"

She didn't say a word and just took the rope in her mouth for few of the biggest stallions in town to grab it in their teeth and anchor themselves to the ground. I toss the rope down the hole with Twilight beside me and asked. "Whats her name do you know?" She was shaking in fear and anticipating disaster but she still answered. "Sweetie Belle her name is Sweetie Belle." I nod and position my body halfway in the mouth of the well before she asked. "Are you sure you want to do this?"
I nod and said in confidence "I live for this shit!" Right before I quickly rappelled and descended the dark vertical tunnel. As I went down further the cries were coming in clearer and I could hear frantic splashing below.

I could feel the water leak into my boot and let the rest of my body slide into the pitch black and frigid cold water. It felt like needles stabbing me all over as I treaded the water that was only up to my stomach. I only looked around and called her by name for a few seconds and could clearly see a white figure floating motionless a few meters in front of me. I rushed over and grabbed the tiny figure to see that it was the small filly that was causing such a ruckus earlier not even making a sound now.

I got there just in time as I pressed her hard against my chest and felt her tiny heart pound on my arm. She was shaking and numb and had no strength left not even enough to speak but she was still alive. I waded through the water to the sign of daylight and grabbed the rope with my free hand.

I look up to the sky and saw a few heads looking down at me. I could hear Twilight's voice echo down "You okay Koba?" I shout back "I got her pull us up!" In that instant I felt the rope jerk almost dislocating my shoulder at the speed we were going. In a matter of seconds my head poked out and I pressed my legs against the walls of the well to brace myself and hand Sweetie Belle over to Twilight who quickly wrapped her shivering and wet body in blankets and had her sent off to the hospital in a covered cart with a red cross painted on the side.

I lift myself out of the stone prison and stepped onto solid ground. The crowd was still there and silent as the night and giving me the staredown. In an instant they started cheering wildly and stomping their hooves causing the ground beneath my feet to shake.

My body was drenched and my hands were so numb they were hard to articulate. I started shaking when the cold breeze passed through my clothes and froze my skin even more. Fluttershy gives me a blanket and I wrap it around my head and upper body to keep from going into hypothermic shock.

"That was amazing Koba. I can't believe it you saved her life!!" She said in an excited and unusually loud tone. I just smirk at her as Twilight walks up to me and says. "Sweetie Belle is going to be fine thanks to you Koba. That was very brave of you even though we just met you. We should be getting you back to the library now and get warmed up you must be freezing."

I nod and smile as I shivered"I'm sorry I yelled at you Twilight." She put on a huge grin and said. "Don't be you were incredible. Now hurry before you freeze to death." My clothes and armor were already stiff and crunched as I stood up and followed them back to the tree house while I shook furiously the whole way there.

Once inside I stand by the fireplace and place my hands as close as possible to the bright Orange and Red flame. My hands painfully lost their numbness stinging even worse than ever before I regained feeling in them. Twilight left us to go to the hospital when Fluttershy walks up beside me and asks "You okay?" I nod and clench my now fully functional hands.

"Could you please take off your clothes for me?" She asked. My eyes got as big and wide as they would go and had to make sure I heard that right and cleared my throat before I asked "Excuse me?" She grinned a little bit and explained. "I need to dry your clothes silly take them off please."

I sighed in relief and replied "right right." I said and asked her if there was anything I could wear in the meantime. "Um Twilight might have a dress you could borrow I'm sure she wouldn't mind."

I frowned and told her a blanket would be fine. She gives me a nod and stood there while I went into the laundry room and dropped my heavy soaked clothes. I air dry for a minute in the warm room and wrap myself in a giant comforter before I carried them with outstretched arms back to the reading room to sit down.

Fluttershy was standing by the altar with the light from the fire brightening up her big Teal eyes. She turns her head to me and said. "Here I'll take those you have a seat please." I quietly do as I am told and take a place on a large sofa and sat cross legged on the cushion and regained some of my lost body heat.

She disappears for a few moments before she came back at took a seat next to me on the large couch. There was silence between us for a while before she asked. "Are you still cold?" I shake my head no "No I'm fine thanks." She continues to stare at me with a huge smile that was starting to make me feel slightly uncomfortable.

"That was amazing what you did back there. But tell me did you worry while you was down there that you could have been seriously injured or killed?" The question made me think for awhile before I responded with my head turned away from her.

" I think of it like this Fluttershy. If I can save a life just one single life mine would be worth giving to save them. Death doesnt bother me at all because it would be a calm escape because pain and misery and death is all I have known my entire life."

I look back at Fluttershy who had tears welling up in her eyes with the look of shock on her expression. "Koba you must care about something or somepony don't you. Isn't there anything that makes your life worth living?"

I look at her with a blank stare and said. "At one time I was happy not so long ago until my own people the people I thought I could trust disassembled and destroyed my life. They took the only friend I ever had and killed her so I killed them."

I turn away from her and just stare off into space and could feel the tears stinging the corners of my eyes the more I thought about it. I then feel something press up against me and grab my waist. When I looked down she had latched herself to my side and squeezed me tightly while she sobbed quietly with her face in the blanket covering me. I really didn't have much experience in dealing with emotions of others but still tried to comfort her by wrapping my covered arm around her tiny body.

I tell Fluttershy I'm sorry to have upset her so much and rubbed her side gently trying to comfort her. She looks up at me with those big innocent eyes her tears making them sparkle even more than ever when she sobbed out. "There must be somepony else that cares about you isn't there? Somepony that would miss you dearly if you were to die?"

I shake my head no and she sniffles to catch her breath and said. " They may have destroyed your life and you lost hope for yourself but you have a wonderful and caring soul and no matter how hard they try they cannot take that away from you. You may have come from an evil place and it left it's mark on you but I can see that you are not evil. I know I've only known you two days but I can tell there is a lot of good in you."

I really didn't like talking about my feelings too often. But talking to this little creature made me realize that is what I needed the most. I stroked her side and wrapped both of my arms around her while I thanked her for putting things in perspective for me. It felt like a massive weight was lifted off my chest by this tiny little creature. I continued to hold her in the embrace even as my eyes grew heavy. Right before I slipped off into sleep I heard a small whisper "I'll make it my mission to give a reason to live."