We love you for who you are

Chapter two: explanations and a favor.

As Grey catch the sleeping form of the Boy, Zero turn his head to see a pony bat on it’s side, gray fur, yellow cat eyes, and a suit of emoness on the pony. He then turn to the wing unicorn with a scowl on her face.

“I demand to know who you are and why you’re chasing the being all the way out here.” Zero sighs as he glance to see Grey picking up the Boy and cracking his neck.

“Look lady, it’s a bit complicated and hard to understand but-,” His sentence interrupt as he hears Grey speak out.

“Zero, we need to tell them.” Zero turn his head in surprise.

“What?”

Grey holds the Boy with both arms under his leg and back as his hood head look at him and turning back to Zero. “We have to tell them, if we don’t then, we’ll never find a safe place for him.”

Zero looks at him, then breaths in and sighs. “Fine.” He turn his head with a frown on his face.

“Alright, so since you got the important jewelry stuff on you, then that’s mean your-,” The pony raise up her left hoof as she interrupt the teen.

“I am Princess Luna, the co-ruler of Equestria. My sister, Celestia rules the day, while I rule the night. I suspect that the ‘boy’,” she points her hoof at the sleeping form that Grey is holding. “Is important for the both of us?”

The two nods their heads as one from her question.

“Pretty much.” told Grey.

“Very well,” She said, she turn her head to the pony bat. “Please go to my sister room and awaken her, tell her we have some...guest here in the castle and is needed at once.”

Grey speak up. “Do you have a room where I can let the Boy sleep in? And have some privacy to check on him.”

Luna tilt her head in confusion. “From what?” she ask.

Zero answer for Grey.

“From the wounds he’s been inflicting on for the past year.”

***

Celestia move through the halls with a yawn coming out from her muzzle, she looks down to see her breastplate on, her hair a mess as she glance at the wavy hair, and her crown tilt to the left as she gives a small sigh.

She follow the Night Guard as he lead her toward the location her sister and the ‘guests’ are in, she was told that she is need for something important, but for what?

Sister, if this is a prank for making me wake up, in whatever Faust time it is, then I swear by Mother herself that I’m going to send you to the moon with bananas as far as the eye can see around you.

However the moment she enter in the room she became surprise, her sister sitting in a cushion with a coffee table with tea on it speaking to a strange creature sitting in the sofa on the other side of the coffee table.

It’s smooth skin surprise her, she first thought it’s some hairless Diamond Dog, but the way the facial structure has no muzzle, add to the fact cloths on it and the legs in a bowleg position tell her that it is something else.

She can’t see the eyes that are hiding behind the shadow of it’s hat, a cane resting in the left limb that rest by its left side chest, the right rest on the couch top, long black mane curve downward to the chest, with two black long hair down on each side of it’s muzzle less face.

The foreign cloths on the creature are unique, yet she wonder if the creature is some sort of species that came across the seas on an island far from Equestria, or perhaps,

“Ah, sister it is good to see you here.” said Luna.

Celestia give a small smile as a yawn escape from her muzzle. “Greetings sister,” reply Celestia as the nuzzle for a short moment before turning her attention to the creature before her, a cushion is set by her sister as she sits down. “Now then Luna, you woke me up in the middle of the night to meet this,” start Celestia.

“The name’s Zero.” reply the creature, the tone of the voice is male as he went on. “There is a reason for waking you up in the night Sunshine.” Celestia left eyebrow rise as Luna interrupt Zero.

“Her name is Celestia-,”

He wave his right claw back and forth.

“Yeah, yeah, whatever.”

Celestia eyes glance down to her sister to see her face puff up and soon into a scowl, she decide that she will stop the upcoming argument, one she doesn’t have the time, nor patience to handle. “Please stop, the both of you.” They both look at her as she sigh with relief of how easy it went.

She turn her head to Zero as she went on. “Now then, what it is so important that you ask for not only my sister, but for me as well?”

Then a new voice enter in.

“Quite easy, sanctuary.” Celestia turn her head to the right to see a cloak being, the size of this one is about to her chest if she stands up, the voice sound male as of Zero, but more younger, yet older at the the tone of his speech.

His cloak cover his entire body, the black cloth attach on him as if it is part of his entire body, he close the door behind him to walk toward the couch in slow steps as continue talking. “I am Grey, you already met Zero,” Zero nod his head to the two as the one now name Grey walk behind the couch as he went on. “We are here to ask one simple thing, to give sanctuary to the one who we call Boy.” told Grey.

“Boy?” said Celestia, Zero explain with his right arm off the couch and down on the cushion of said couch.

“That’s what we call him, his real name Gabe, we’re his godfathers. Technically we’re his uncles, but in short godfathers are a better term for us all.” Luna pitch in the conversation.

“‘All’? You mean there are more of you?” Grey nod his head.

“Yeah, including the two of us they’re eight of us in total.”

“But you haven’t explain why you want to give him sanctuary.” add Luna, Celestia nod her head.

“My sister is right, that is the heart of the matter, so will you please explain.” Grey sighs as he moves around the couch and sits down, his left claw went out, metal covering the top part of his limb cover his hood face.

“That requires a bit of storying telling. You see about a couple of years ago one of us godfathers found the Boy at a young age, and when he met him and brighten up his day with fun and music. Eventually he left, before he accidently brought the boy with him.”

Luna hold her hoof up. “Wait." Taking a moment to process this...then slowly ask. “You mean to tell me that even though you claim you’re his ‘godfather’, you aren’t related to him at all?” The two look at each other and back to her as they both said in sync.

“He’s adopted.”

The two sisters are taken aback of this comment as Grey continue on. “As I was saying before, one of the godfathers notice the little Boy following him and it was too late to bring him back-,”

Luna interrupt again. “Why?”

Zero lean in, take his claws out and wave them in small waving.

“Magic!”

“Now quite interrupting! It’s quite rude,” told Grey as he clear his throat and speak. “Now then, after we all meet the Boy we decide to take care of him and take him back to his world,” Both of the Princess went up saying the same word at once.

“What?”

Grey just sighs.

“I’m never going to finish at this rate.” Grey mutters to himself. Zero poke Grey with his right elbow.

“Allow me,” told Zero as he got up. “You see we godfathers have a nice ability, to travel through dimensions as such, however we cannot go to realms we haven’t been to, for example this world, we haven’t been here so we can’t travel here. But now we’re here, we can come here and back to where we live any time we want. Anyway it’s a rare thing so don’t worry if you think anyone can just use it.”

“And so after we found him and fancy him as a nice kid we decide to adopt him, take him back to his world and sometime give helpful advice or aid, this last a few years until, of recently.” finish Zero as he sits back down, Grey nod his head as he continue on.

“Yes, you see when one of the godfathers visit the Boy he quickly notice that he, wasn’t there. At first he thought he went to his friends or something, but eventually he found out that he was missing, for about three months. I decide to track him with my enchantments and magical arts to find him, only to find out that whoever took him clear their tracks quite well, that they’re masters at stealing beings.”

Celestia decide to speak before he said more.

“What do you mean ‘track’ him?” ask Celestia. Grey rub something in the cloak hood with his claw as he answer.

“You see about two years back he was missing, and well after a giant goose chase he was merely visiting someone, we weren’t amuse of it. So after letting a good scolding I put high level magic and enchantments on him so I can know where ever he is at all times.”

“You mean spying?” the tone within Luna voice is full of venom and accusement.

“You know nothing.” told Grey in a cold and harsh tone. Both of the Princess expressions change, the eldest is of surprise, the youngest is of shock. Zero gently place his claw on the left shoulder and gently shake his head.

“Grey, remember that they have no idea, the things we saw what they did to him.” reason Zero, Grey breath in a long breath and breath out.

He nod his head to him. “You’re right,” he turn to the two and give a small bow. “Apologies, it just that I’m feeling a bit agitated of what we all witness.” Zero came in.

“I’ll take over Grey.” He turn his attention to the two.

“Let me explain, you see the Boy may not be related by blood, but by Insanity he’s family, and we care deeply for family, so deep that we will inflict harm to anyone who done him wrong. And what we saw...Let just say that we wanted to do more than just hurt them.”

“When Grey put the tracers on him we first thought that we would know where he was at, but these beings that stolen him? They manage not only to make the tracers useless, but to steal him right under our noses, travel through space without a lead on them, make their entire existence a secret, and even manage all this for an entire year before we caught on.”

The shock on the two show how big this whole conversation is.

Zero nod his head.

“Yes, we had no idea that he was gone for an entire year, on his world it was just three months, but where he was at? An entire year, time work strange when it comes to dimensions, for one place it may pass a minute, for another a whole month. It’s a bit tricky to know how long you’re suppose to be there before you get back in time to realize how long you left.”

“So we try to track the crumbles of rumors and dust as much as we can, eventually five months pass until we found the world he was located.”

Zero stop as Grey continue for him.

“You see the world he was in was an all female world, no males to be seen on it. This cause a problem and a solution. The problem was that no male, no way to reproduce, but they quickly came a solution. If no males can be found,” Celestia finish as she realize the solution is.

“Find males elsewhere.”

Grey nod his head. “Yes, so they been at this game of taking males from other worlds and bring them to their own, one may think that’s a good thing, but it isn’t.” He lean forward with his claws holding together in a ‘prayer’ fashion.

“Because here’s the twist, whenever the males are on the world a ‘scent’ will be giving out and cause the females to react to this, at first you can resist the scent if you have enough willpower, but these females? They didn’t want to, infact they were addictive to the stuff.”

“And it cause them to react to the males in a bad way, promoting their ‘love’ in sadistic, violent, painful, and suffering to the males.” He turn to Luna as she looks away.

“You first saw the conditioning he was in.” he said as she slowly nod her head.

“Wearing metal on his neck in a slave collar, on his wrist, and I won’t even mention the scars he has gather, both physical and mental.” Celestia gasp at this as an anger tone rise within Grey voice as he speak more.

“Do you know what he said when we saw him? He asked us to kill him, to end his life from existing. His mind is damage from the things they done to him. Saying us being angry isn’t the right word to say, and words alone won’t give the message so we did something better.”

Celestia decide to take some tea and drink some with her magic holding the cup, Zero jump before Grey with a large toothy smile on his face shouting out. “We burned their world!”

Celestia drop her cup as it breaks with the tea coming out of both it and out of her muzzle as she spits out her drink on Zero face. “HOT!” scream Zero as he runs around the three as Luna stomps her hooves on the coffee table.

”THOU DID WHAT?” scream out Luna in her Royal Canterlot voice.

“Hmm, go ahead and shout some more, I think the Boy didn’t hear you enough,” said Grey in a sarcastic tone. “Thankfully I put him a deep sleep mode, so he’ll be sleeping like a little baby until morning.” Although while he glance to the side to this, Grey went on as his tone went harsh. “It seems you forgot a simple fact, let me remind you it again.” told Grey as he stands up. “If our family gets hurt, we hurt back ten times, and when we saw their treatment on the Boy, well we decide that burning their world is a fair price.”

“Let me tell you something else, they’ve been doing this whole thing for generations each generation gets nastier and cruel as time goes by. Add to the fact that because of damage they done to him he will never be the same, even after all the healing and blocking I done.”

Before Luna shout more Celestia raise her wing up and shakes her head. She turn to Grey as Zero is running in the background. “What do you mean ‘blocking’?” she ask.

Taking a deep breath, Grey told in a flat tone. “Exactly what I mean, because of the damage he has suffer his mind is broken, in his eyes every female is a ‘mistress’ and should be feared. We saw the fear in his eyes when he first saw your sister, and the attempt he tried to make earlier of jumping over the balcony to kill himself should give proof of what I say is true.”

“So in order he doesn’t try it again when he wakes up I block most of his memories for the entire year he’s been on that filthy world, just before he was taken is what he’ll remember.” finish Grey, Luna try to calm down due to the fact that someone is sleeping through all of this.

“You mean you erase all of his memories?”

Zero move by Luna and shakes his head. “He said block, not erase, big difference.” He moves back on the couch, Grey nod his head as he use his claws to make tea and sip in it.

“Oh yes, Zero is right, I have no right to erase memories, merely block them. If I erase such things then I would be no better than some being who thought erasing memories from a kid will be such a grand idea.”

He shakes his head.

“No, even if the memories are terrible or beyond cruel I will never erase them, they’re apart of his life and experience. Memories are important to everyone whether good or bad they’re what makes us alive.”

“How long?” ask Celestia.

“About as long as they need be, unless some idiot try to enter his mind and break the seals I place on him, I want him to remember when he has someone to care and love for him, and that’s what we are asking you right now.” He sip and place the cup down on the table.

“Sanctuary for him and let him live here for the rest of his life.”

The sister’s eyes widen in surprise of what Grey just ask.

Luna became speechless as her words just stutter. “W-W-Wha-a-at? Let, h-him stay, he-ere?” Grey nod his as lean back on the couch.

“Yes, even though we burn their world and kill most of them in bloodlust there are still more out there, with far superior technology and possibly magic. Haven’t exactly figure out which they use, it’s possibly they use both somehow.”

Zero wave his hand in a ‘so-so’ position as he added in. “It could be mostly magic, after all how else did they manage to block your tracers?”

Grey nod his head in agreement with the other human. “True.” turning to the diarachs once more as he added on. “Anyway when we help the Boy escape to a place they will never dare go to we came here first. At first we were surprise, but after meeting the two of you I can see why.” The both look at him and Zero explain.

“He means the fact that you two can raise the bloody sun and moon, have close eye on your population, even making sure that your world is protected somehow. They will never come here if they know they have to face your wrath, not to mention your population, as far as we can see is mostly females than males.”

Luna nod her head. “Yes, sadly the mares outborn more than the stallions.”

“Which means this world will never be on their sight, and he’ll be protected here forever through his life.”

Celestia nod her head of the logic of all of this but she wonders just why not send him back to his own world? Thankfully her sister ask this question. “Buy why not just send him back to his world again? Surely you have a better chance of him being safe among his own kind?”

Zero slap his head on his hat. “Lady, that’s not going to work, we were lucky as hell that we found out him being missing for a year, if we did send him back then the ones who are still kicking will surely be after the kid, sure we can use more magic or sciency stuff to watch out for him,” Grey finish for Zero.

“But’s it not going to work, sooner or later they will get to him, we cannot keep an eye forever on him. They know he’s precious to us, and they will hunt him down, and the moment they’ll do we might never see him again. It’ll probably be decades before we ever find him again if we send him back.”

“In short Luna? Sending him back to his home is a deathtrap.” Grey shakes his head. “No, he’ll have a better chance of surviving, and living here.”

“And you expect us to agree with this?” ask Celestia in an annoy tone.

Grey became silence for a minute before whispering his answer. “No.” This makes them surprise with their eyebrows up. “We don’t expect you to say yes, we don’t expect you to just open your arms and welcome him, in fact we don’t expect anything from you. If you don’t want him here, then I understand. And we’ll take him away and find a better place.”

He got up and move from the couch, his claws are behind his back holding each other. “Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, we were damn lucky to find this place at all, when we escape we just random transport into whatever is on the other side. I know that if I was in your hooves I wouldn’t just want anyone to live on my planet with proof.”

He turn to face them.

“Which is why I am not only asking,” He went down on his knees as his head bow down all the way to the ground as they can hear a sniff from him. “I am begging you to let him stay here, the Boy, *sniff* the Boy deserve more he deserve a place where he can be free from the troubles of the world, free from the pain he has been dealt, the suffering he had to go through. So please, please please. Take him in, let him be welcome not only in your nation,”

His head raise up as tears went down on his hood face.

“But on your world. I will gladly give up my secrets of the magical arts if he is welcome here.”

Zero jumps up from the couch and moves by Grey. “You’re not serious are you? Think of the rep your killing if you,” Grey roars at Zero as he look at him.

”I DON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT MY REPUTATION IF I CAN’T SAVE THE LIFE OF A FAMILY MEMBER! Family is important to me Zero, whether by blood or oath he. Is. Family!” Zero looks at him and sighs.

“Fine, but if you're going to do this,” Zero moves by Grey as he perform the same stance as his friend with bowing as well. “I’m going along with this.” His head raise up with a serious look on his face.

“If you let him live here then I will grant you three-thousands favor personally from me. And with favors you can damn well do anything with them.”

Celestia and Luna look down in not only surprise of how the two are being right now, but shock that they will gladly let go of their pride, their secrets, everything just to allow their ‘godson’ to live in their world.

Celestia turn her head to look at her sister, memories of neglecting the younger, of being force to banish her, and facing the loneliness for a thousands years came back in full force of seeing these two being like this, and if she is correct then her sister must be thinking the same thing.

Of how much they value family that they gladly burn a world and give up their most darkest of secrets just to allow that family member to live.

The two look at each other, without speaking a word they look at each other eyes and both nod their head in agreement. They both turn their heads and speak as one. “We accept.”

The two look at each other, Zero with a smile on his face, the other facial expression hidden, but the two both hug each other and basically became silly for the next five minutes.

Luna clear her throat. “However,” they both stop as they look at her. “I suggest on a condition.”

They look at her with them stop hugging each other and look serious at her, but then look to Celestia as she speaks. “On the off case of they do come here, we would like your aid and advice if they come.”

Zero makes a ‘pfft’ sound. “Is that all? Please, we’ll do that for free!” Grey nod his head in total agreement, as they both would do it for free...

“However, would it be possible for him to have someone to watch out for him? You know, make sure he stay out of trouble?” request Grey in precaution.

Luna nod her head. “I will find somepony. But what about his world? Will those living on it wonder where he went?”

The two look at each other and soon Zero press his front claws together. “Well you see, we sorta dealt with that. We just made the Boy, well dead in his world so no worries there.”

Luna eyes widen in surprise but then went down and nod her head. “Sometime it is necessary to make a lie, in order to help the many.” Zero nod his head.

“Yeppers!”

Grey turn and snap his claws as a portal of gray appears. “We best get going, the others will want to know the news.” Before they even left Luna add one more sentence.

“Visit your nephew time to time, will you?” Zero just laugh out loud as he slaps his knee.

“Girl we’re going to do that no matter what! Not only us though, even the others will visit the lad!”

And with that they said their goodbyes and left, leaving the Sun Princess back to sleep and the Lunar back to the night court to be for the rest of the night.

***

The next day…

“Ugh...What in the name of Insanity happen last night?” said a voice.