Skyfall

Chapter 2: Blocked Path

Celestia’s POV

I was back from taking the filly Twilight Sparkle as my personal student after her magical burst and the earning of her cutie-mark. Other than that excitement it was just another regular boring day in the castle, nobles voicing their petty complaints, the previous one, Blueblood complained about the statue of a strangely armored pony in the castle gardens and how it should be destroyed. I ignored his complaint, knowing statue like most of the others contained an enemy of Equestria and the elements spell petrified them, but made the stone invincible.

But this one was unique, unlike all the others it did not have any kind of magical signature. Instead it possessed strange armor and weapons, Luna and I found out about it fighting with the chaos army during the last part of the chaos war about fifteen hundred years ago. It stood about fourteen hooves tall (7 feet) only two hooves shorter than myself.

It usually attacked in small raids at night that hit vital areas in our ranks, targeting our captains and generals and retreating as soon as their target was dead. This lasted for a week before our final victory leaving some of the troops tired and weary.

We learned what the creature was on the final day of the war, when it introduced itself as a Spartan upon Luna’s demand. During that fight between us Discord decided to explain why the Spartan was on his, it was something about, “Being from another universe.” and “Making a deal with him to go back to his home, once he won the war.” Luna and I ignored Discord chalking the new enemy up to one of his creations.

I was stirred out of my thoughts when the door opened and a familiar figure came through, I lit up my horn and my wings fanned out in an instinctive stance. “How did you get out?!”

Back to Tristan

Unfazed by the sign of aggression from Celestia, I stood still. “Your magic lost it’s hold. Anyway to the matter at hand, we all know Discord told you both about me, and my one goal during our battle.” I started to walk forward sending the princess further on edge.

“So here's the deal, you get me home in my actual body, I will do one task for you despite the difficulty and never bother you or your kingdom again. You don’t, I will find someone else to get me there, and do whatever they want in return.”
I waited for Celestia’s reply to my Ultimatum, when a guard barged in “Princess, a guard was killed by some strange green two legged creature….” I ignored the rest of it catching that the pony mentioned what I did to the pony with the blue mane. All that was on my mind was getting out and figuring out how the guard did not notice me.

I found the best exit was out of a stained glass window, and before Celestia could even give the order to arrest me I was past them and heading for the window and ready to jump out, in the next second I jumped out the window got into a diving position, and locked up the armor focusing my energy shield on to the front of my body where I would land, and a lesser amount to the exposed under armor to keep the stronger spells from cutting into those areas.

I landed thirty seconds earlier and was glad I adjusted my shields when I did or I could have had even more trouble getting up, I was okay, just recovering from the vibrations of the landing. A minute later I got up and looked around and found that I was near a stream and a small hole was made from my impact. I made the decision to move before the first wave of guards found where I landed. I decided to head in a direction and it so happened to be south-east towards the place I would learn later was called ponyville.

Celestia’s POV

I watched as the Spartan burst through the window and plummeted down to what would be death for any other being, but experience reminded me the Spartan has survived many things that would have killed anyone else. “Guard, send a pegasi patrol to find where the creature landed.” The guard bowed and was off.

In the meantime, the day of the return of Nightmare Moon the corrupted form of my sister to return was in only nine years. I only had my single gamble that Twilight was one of the destined wielders of the elements of harmony, and that she would find the other five elements and I could finally see my sister once more for the first time in a thousand years like told to me by the now long past royal diviner five hundred years ago. That’s if the Demon did not mess it all up.I was not pleased with the possibility that this unplanned event occurred, and not only had he escaped he killed a guard of mine.

The only upside was that he decided not to use his ranged weapons. But in the end it did not make too much of a difference, during the chaos war he did plenty of damage with just his melee weapons and hands alone, so it was only a small relief at best. I pronounced the day court over and made my way to my personal quarters to think further on this new development, and how it would affect my plans further on.

Tristan

Hours passed as I walked and jogged to an unknown destination. Eventually I reached a small town but due to the hour it was empty, I made the decision to just go around it using the alleyways to stay in the shadows, unknown to me a certain mint green unicorn saw me and rushed off to her home to write down what she saw.

It was about another hour till I reached the edge of the infamous Everfree Forest, as a statue I heard many spook stories about the forest speaking of how “Unnatural” it was to ponies. I figured this would be the best place to hide. The story’s around the forest discouraging most explorers, and therefor making it less likely for me to be found. The biggest threat was the wildlife, but I could handle most of it. With this in mind I entered the forest and started my explorations for a place to live.