The Immortal Warrior

The royal palace was quite the sight as the sun rose from the horizon, it's morning light reflecting from the white walls and golden towers, standing over the city proudly. The city around it was quite a sight as well, as the rich manors surrounded the palace, those of closest being the oldest noble houses. The city was of circle shape, with richest living near the middle and poorest on outskirts of the city, next to the wall surrounding the proud city.

At this time in the morning, ponies started waking up as the ones who had risen up early started their business, with shops opening their doors, smiths of different kind starting their forge fires and restaurants started readying the kitchen's up. The ponies and few other creatures,who had claimed the capital city of pony country their home, started slowly coming out of their houses as they started their morning routines and tasks of the day.

The guards moved to their positions on the streets, watching for criminals and enemies of the crown as the night guards went to get their rest after long night of watching over the sleeping city. The younger guards lazily rubbed their eyes as they took their positions in street corners and outer wall, still unused to waking up so early. The first thing they heard on duty was not problems of civilians, but rumors of unknown creature taken prisoner after last night's magical anomaly.

As the rumor slowly spread, it also started spreading among the civilian population thanks to few ponies eavesdropping the chat between guards. The rumor changed into different shapes as it spread, some versions telling of evil creature that was there to spy and corrupt them, while some spoke of innocent and confused creature being brutally assaulted by guards and taken to experimentation.

However, as the news of the guards in the hospital spread out from lips of gossiping nurses, the rumors took much darker nature as the slow panic started to creep in ranks of both military and civilian, with talks of creature who in some rumors ate ponies and drank their blood while on other rumors teared apart ponies with insane smile on his face and mad laughter coming from it's none existing mouth for the fun of it.

However, the rumors were being fueled by few of the nobles who wished to expand their reach and motives, some claiming that this creature was escaped experiment of unicorns while some claimed it was summoned by royals to purge those who stood in their way.

King Solvarias let our a sigh as another noble left his throne room, with his wife taking deep breath to calm herself as she rubbed her head with her hoof. She had nearly thrown everything within reach with her magic at the noble when he had questioned the truth of rumors that the creature captured was royal origins. However, after careful reassurance of noble and calming his wife down, he had defused the situation before it had exploded on their hooves.

With quick glance at the clock, he could see that it was almost time for the council meeting. With quick kiss to his wife and promise to see her in the meeting, he rose from the throne and walked out of the throne room, turning right as he started walking down the corridors, heading towards his specific goal.

Turning his head to the his left, he could see the city below as the sun shined on the sky. He could still not believe that barely a year ago, this glorious city he had grown up had become his when his father had finally passed away from old age. The only alicorns now in the city were he and his wife, with rest 5 of them scattered around the country in their own private parts of the world.

He let out a sigh as he turned his attention back to hallway he was walking down, seeing a group of unicorns standing in front of prison doors, with pony guards standing behind them. "Is everything alright, my subjects?" he questioned as one of the guards turned to him, saluting "The prisoners are trying to escape. We're waiting for them to reach the door, so that we can take them on without them ambushing us" he said as he took a quick glance towards the door, with sound of....singing coming out of the dungeons?

Before he could open his mouth to question just what was happening, the door suddenly flung open as the creature 'human' they had captured earlier came through, smile on his lips even though he was still on his metal claw and leg holdings, the chain with metal loop hanging out from the claw casing.

His smile disappeared very quickly as the unicorns threw a spell on him, sending him flying back into dark hallway behind him. The guards rushed in, with unicorns following as they started taking down the prisoners, knocking them unconscious. As they managed to move deeper into prison hallways, he entered through the door and walked to the creature lying on his back, with clear burn mark on his chest as the clothing on it's upper body had circle hole, with edges of it smoking.

He stopped on next to it, tilting his head as he saw the burned flesh suddenly heal in blink of an eye. He looked at the creature's eyes, seeing them with hazy look. With quick spell, the creature fell asleep as Solvarias looked around and frowned. The prisoners were laying left and right on the dungeon floor, some of them having been armed with stolen guard weapons.

As he turned his attention back to the reason he came down to dungeons, he could see that the metal loop on end of creature's chains still held small amount of stone, with bolts still in place. He would have to repair the dungeon and upgrade it into more...modern style if this was what happened when they were left as they were, even with enchantments that were made to preserve them.

With heavy sigh, he looked up from the human as the guards started putting the prisoners back into their cells and taking care of the wounded one. He as he saw one of the unicorns carry a guard with most of his face bloody and head in quite worse shape. He moved himself out of the way along with the human as the unicorn went pass him in fast pace, most likely heading towards the infirmary to save the guard's life.

With quick orders of making sure that the human was watched all times by at least 5 guards and dungeon security increased, he turned around and started walking back towards the hallway, shaking his head as he headed back to the throne room. His wife and the council members would not be happy to hear about the prisoners trying to break out, so this day just got quite harder than he had initially though.

As he continued to walk calmly towards the throne room, he was passed by 2 more unicorns, who took more injured guards to the infirmary. It was a sad sight to see ones of more experience fall down so easily to one creature, but there wasn't anything he could do to it right now. He'll have to deal with it after the council meeting was over....maybe even have guards take extra training just in case something like this happens again.

His line of though was broken as he walked through the throne room doors, taking a look around which of council members had arrived before his return. The minister of science affairs and minister of defense were already sitting on their chairs, talking to each other while his wife was talking to a servant.

"Of course, Queen Galaxias" servant said as she bowed and hurried away, passing Solvarias on the way out of throne room. Gakaxias let out a tired sigh as she rubbed her head again, watching her husband raise a eyebrow as he walked up to the thrones and took his seat. She gave him a warm smile and her word that she was okay when the look of concern passed his features and he had mouth open to question if she was okay.

Satisfied with her answer to question he didn't get to answer, Solvarias turned his attention back to the doors as rest of 5 council members walked in and took their seats, with guards closing the doors as they left the room, already knowing that in council meetings only ones in the room would be the royals and council members.

As the doors closed, King Solvarias stood from his throne and spoke in clear voice "Welcome, dear council members, to the monthly meeting. It's good to see that everyone is healthy and available to join us, so let us begin the meeting" Solvarias finished as he sat back down and motioned his wife to start the first subject, change of laws.

As the hours went by, subject after subject seem to raise by as the council members discussed and argued numerous times about new laws and changing the old ones, taxing, migration, trade agreements, political issues with another countries, the ridiculous proposals of nobles...the list went on and on, so it was no surprise to others when servant came by few times to refill the Queen's glass of wine.

While some would question why would The Queen be drunk on important meeting, one would answer the question along the lines of 'She doesn't get drunk easily thanks to her experience with more heavy drinks' . which meant it was quite normal sight to see her taking a drink now and then in middle of a day. Besides, alicorn biology runs the alcohol through the system and suppresses the effects and shortens their effect time quite a lot.

Queen Galaxias took a deep breath as Solvarias rubbed his head, swearing that he had gained a killer headache simply listening the whole meeting "Alright, Is there anything else we need to discuss or shall we end the meeting for today?" he questioned as he took quick glance at the clock, seeing that it had already been almost 5 hours since the meeting began.

"There is only one remaining issue that hasn't been discussed, your highness. The future of royal family and possible children between you and Queen Galaxias" Minister of politics boldly answered, causing the queen in question to start to choke on her drink. She awkwardly coughed few times as the gathered her breath, swallowing the remaining liquid from her mouth as she yelled a single word

"WHAT?!?!"