“So ya, that’s how I got to Equestria.” Mistress remained sitting hugging her friends, Celestia and Luna.

“You know that doesn’t explain much of anything really?” Duncan deadpanned.

“Well yeah, there are more chapters to that story.”

“Did you just try and break fourth wall?”

“Yes.”

“Ah, ok.” Duncan rose from his seat on the floor, “As much as it is a great honor to meet the two of you, I would love to actually get a place to stay. Based off what… Mistress and I have read about Displaced we are likely in it for the long haul, and I would greatly like to have a nice place to live and a good job.”

“Of course, well you are a warrior, and if you are even close to what Mistress was at her arrival then you are welcome to join the guard.” Celestia offered.

“Actually Tia, Luna, if its not a problem I would actually like to have Duncan and myself moved to Ponyville. Since it isn’t far from Canterlot we can visit regularly, in addition we still need to keep the Displaced down-played. Having him in Ponyville should help considering the near weekly town wide disasters.” Mistress said also standing up, she began shifting into a light yellow mare, Jeff becoming blond hair for her, she liked this persona and after a thousand years there was little chance of recognition, ”You know, its great to be female again. I missed this feeling.”

Mistress began bouncing around twirling a little bit, Jeff then morphed out a simple sunday dress. It was sky blue with morning glory flowers patterned on it.

Thank you Jeff that is a very cute dress without anyone else present knowing, she morphed and extra set of lips on the back of her head and gave Jeff a quick peck, you're always so thoughtful.

Anything to please you my mistress, the hair gained a slight orange tone for a second, It would seem that you are not reading the minds of Celestia and Luna still, why?

They are my friends.

“If you would then fair Mistr… Morning Glory, he may join the guard and be stationed in Ponyville, I will draft up some documents pertaining to this. He will start the rank of E-1 Guardpony Recruit. After you believe he is ready we can fast track him up the ranks if you two so chose,” Luna offered, “I will also draft paperwork appointing you his official keeper, this should allow both of you freedom to operate.”
“That would be greatly appreciated Luna.” Duncan responded accepting the offer, he figured military here couldn’t be any worse than his stint with bootcamp back home.

“Thanks Tia, Luna, and don’t worry aside from this last stint of a thousand plus years I’ve gotten much better about visiting family,” Mistress winked.

“So Morning Glory,” Duncan snickered, “Remember that phrase ‘I’m not by brother’s keeper’?”

“I will punch you so hard,” She laughed giving him a tap on the shoulder.

A day later after another eventful train ride with the mane six…

“So yeah, now I’m a guard.” Duncan explained to everyone around a table in Twilight’s house.

“Awesome. By the way Duncan, what happened to your sword?” Rainbow Dash asked, Duncan had removed the outer layer of his robes revealing a black shirt underneath. Around his neck was a necklace with a large black ball hanging from it.

“Oh, simple, watch this.” He grabbed the ball clapped his hand over the end and began chanting. Pulling his hand away a blade of light formed. It disappeared leaving a sword in his grasp, “Wha, ha, ya.”

He was swinging the sword around in a mock battle. Twilight, and Rarity deadpanned at the childish behavior, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie cheered him on, leaving AppleJack to reassure a scared Fluttershy.

“That's fascinating Recruit Duncan,” Mistress chimed in adopting her persona, she was rather cheery, “Tell me, did you bring any other devices with you? Displaced often find their props are all turned real.”

In his defense Duncan had been dragged all over the continent over the past three days he hadn’t really had a chance to check. Sheepishly and with a glare at Mistress he sat down and started reaching into his cloak.

“While he looks, would you mind explaining again why you are here? And what happened to Crystal Wall?” Twilght asked, she really wanted to ask him more about the Displaced.

“Crystal Wall chose to return to the Crystal Empire, after realizing what a thousand years has done to change the world, it was decided that it was best for him to return. I am an administrator working directly for the princesses, it is my job to work around the Displaced.” Mistress lied, she had prepared the cover story and collaborated with the princesses to ensure it was covered on all ends, “I’ve studied the Human world extensively, I familiar with many of their legends. I even know a little about the story Duncan is from.”

To bad AJ can see through my lie, she’ll likely will not trust me. Good thing she can’t say anything about it. Mistress mused reading the pony's mind.

Duncan chose this moment to interrupt, ”Well at least the pockets are bigger on the inside.”

"You mean your robes are just passively enchanted with a size spell? The magic casters of your world must have been extremely powerful." Twilight was resisting every urge to take the clothes and study them.

"There is no magic in my home world, this is all new." Duncan's fingers finally wrapped themselves around two well sized objects, pulling them out he sat them on the table. He then threw his outer robes at Twilight, "I want them back."

Twilight ran off with the clothes enveloped in her magic. She was rambling about greatest magical breakthrough of the century, her friends all face-hoofed at the display, except Pinkie who was mysteriously nowhere to be found.

"Ya know it'll be a mite while before you getcha clothes back?" AJ asked looking annoyed at the display. Looking back at the table she pointed a hoof a the strange board sitting on the table, “So what’s this doohickey?”

“That is a rashinban, a device that should let me detect magic as well as perform a few other spells, lets see,” He picks up the board and focuses. In a flash, hundreds of lights come pouring out of the center of the board, the second largest points at the ground in the direction of the basement, the largest at the book on the table.

“Damn, it’ll be a nightmare using this in this world. All of you ponies are packed full of magic.” The lights disappeared as he set it down reaching for the book. Time seemed to slow down as Mistress jumps at the table, ”No don’t…!”

Duncan had thumbed the book open, the seal restraining the cards shattered. A dark force gripped the cards and began flying off in a flurry of shadows phasing through the walls in a rush to escape. On instinct Duncan reached out with a hand capturing one card before they finished their mass exodus from the small library. A bright light in the shape of a small key smacked into Duncan’s sealed sword.

“What the hey was that?” Rainbow Dash flew about the room inspecting the points where the cards had disappeared. Mistress brought her hoof to her face, something that was becoming too much of a habit for her.

“Well you guys are used to disasters right?” Duncan tried to pass it off with a forced smile, ”Cause some of those cards are going to be a problem.”

“Where is Kero…? Oh what’s this?” Mistress lifted a last card out of the book, “Its blank.”

“Good question. But that shouldn’t have happened, something scattered the cards. Last time it happened Sakura accidentally used Windy.” Duncan mused.

“Ok. Somepony tell us what they hay is going on? What were those shadows?” Applejack said voicing the group’s question.

“The book contained something called Sakura Cards, originally they were Clow Cards till Sakura captured them and converted them so that their magic would never deteriorate. Something has scattered them, which is really not good.” Duncan was relatively calm, “Normally when the seal is broken the beast known as Keroberus comes out, however either he isn’t here or something went wrong. In addition that dark force that grabbed them wasn’t something native to the cards, something wanted to scatter them.”

“Well don’t you worry sugar cube, we’ll help you find your cards. Its what we do, so what’s first?” Apple Jack asked smiling, just because Morning Glory was proving to be a liar didn’t make Duncan one.

“Well hopefully its a Displaced thing meaning they will stay dormant till enough ambient magic awakens them. So if you see anything out of the ordinary, thunderstorms with no rain, windstorms from nowhere, or other things that don’t have a proper explanation, let me know.” Duncan smiled, got to remain calm in these situations.

“I’m more concerned about Kero,” Mistress voiced, “Girls could you have Twilight look over this book for magical tampering? Starting with Dark magic.”

“Who would do such a thing?” Fluttershy asked with a squeak, and a look of fright. She tentatively picked up the book and began walking down to Twilight’s basement, everyone silently leaving her to explain it all to Twilight.

“That is a mystery we will have to solve later, for now it is getting late in the afternoon and Duncan and I still need to check in with the local guard station and find our new home,” Mistress said, a green aura emanating from her horn as she grabbed the rashinban. Duncan accepted it before stuffing the board in a pocket, even his pants pockets were larger on the inside, “I love pocket dimension pockets.”

“We will explain this to Twilight as soon as we can get her away from her new science project, darling. Right now Morning Glory is correct, it is getting late and we should all get home. Duncan always a pleasure, and I’m sure such a strong stallion as yourself will be taking responsibility for this mess?” Rarity opened the door for the two about to leave, smiling, despite the new threat these cards likely held, she knew that her friends would be able to handle it.

“Of course, goodnight everyon-er everypony.” Duncan corrected himself. They finished exchanging their farewells everypony going in their own direction. Nopony bothered to acknowledge that Pinkie Pie had disappeared right before the time the cards appeared.

“So Morning Glory. Good gods getting use to you changing names is going to be a pain in the flank,” Duncan whined, “How do you plan on finding the guard station? Ponyville wasn’t established till about eighty years ago with Granny Smith’s family.”

“Easy. With a ‘Monster’ like you walking around town, one of the first things on everypony’s mind is the location of the guards and whether they should run for them.” Mistress mused, it was nice being the ‘Monster’ everyone was thinking about.

Mistress we are not monsters, Jeff reminded her, always ready to lend a hoof and cheer her up.

I know, just gets hard you know, but thank you She flexed some muscles on the back of her neck to ‘hug’ him.

Anything you need Mistress, Mistress was brought out of her internal dialog when Duncan poked her in the side.

“Did you hear me?”

“...Yessss…” she responded with a intentionally obvious lie.

“You still get lost in your own head, good to know. Anyways I was wondering what I should do for my token?” Duncan had a contemplative look on his face, “I mean I don’t want to be too obvious and cliche.”

“Use your blank card,” She responded simply.

“Naw really? Maybe I should use a rock you say?”

“Snarky brat,”

Several minutes later…

“Ok I’ve got it,” Duncan held the blank card in front of him:

I am Duncan Klysh, Sorcerer of the moon, master of the Clow, clutch this card and call, I will come to your aid.

“Yeah fine that works. Just in time too,” A green aura engulfed the card levitating it to her mane, Jeff promptly grabbed it. They had arrived at the the guard station, a large building near the center of town, there were four entrances, one on each cardinal direction. The building was simple in design with a simple sign above each door identifying the building.

Walking in they noticed three guards on duty, they were sitting talking, and enjoying the evening. One rose to meet the two new arrivals as the remaining guards looked with confusion at the tall biped creature that was in their building. The three guards consisted of an unicorn, a pegasus and an earth pony.

“Greetings I am Petty Officer First Class Stone Wall, and you would be?” He nodded to both Duncan and Mistress, he was a strong imposing earth pony stallion. Mistress suppressed a giggle as one of the other guards thought Duncan to be a deformed minotaur.

“I am Morning Glory, This is Duncan, he is a Displaced and has been assigned to the Ponyville guard. He will participate in all normal guard activities, however as his retainer I will be responsible for assigning his job duties and keeping an eye on him.” The first guard had a look of understanding, however it shifted to confusion. He opened his mouth to speak to find no words would come out.

“I don’t like it, no way a deformed minotaur could be of use to the guard, you have to be made of real metal to join.” the same guard that thought the deformed minotaur idea earlier spoke up, his name was Twisted Spear, he was a pegasus.

Duncan looked down at Mistress who nodded with a large smile. She didn’t read the minds of Displaced… most of the time.

“Suiryuu Shourai.” A gout of water sprang forth from his sword as he summoned it. The gout caught the guard by surprise dousing him. His fellow guard had dodged to the side summoning his spear pointing it at Duncan.

“Put it down Spear Head, in accordance with the old laws Duncan has the right to defend himself and his honor as he sees fit, on the condition it isn’t harmful. Now then if we want this to continue we need to set up an official duel.” Stone Wall stepped between the two groups, the unicorn hesitated for a half second before lowering his spear and returning it to its place on the wall..

“I’ll take this freak any day.” Twisted called out trying to shake the water from his coat and feathers.

“Roger that, Recruit Duncan?”

“Sure I’ll give it a go, oh and before I forget here are the papers that Princess Luna issued me. Should be everything I need correct?” Duncan returned his sword to its sealed state. Pulling a small packet of papers from his pocket.

“Looks like it, if anything is amiss we will take care of it tomorrow. Now for your room,” Stone Wall walked over to the counter reaching for some keys, “lets see ground floor, maybe second…”

“Actually due to Duncan’s unique nature housing has been provided by royal decree. This is to ensure that there isn’t any issues due his dietary needs or integration from lack of pony knowledge. Also if you would have this taken care of tonight, it needs to be distributed.” Mistress levitated the Blank Card, to the surprised pony. He looked it over and nodded before taking it in a hoof and tucking it in his armor.

“It shall be taken care of Miss Glory,” He nodded to the mare.

“Thank you Petty Officer Stone Wall, have a great evening.” With that she guided Duncan out the door who left raising a digit at the still wet pony.

“Night Miss Glory,” Stone Wall called after. Turning to his two wards he sighed, “Ok Guardpony Spear Head, good reflexes to an unknown threat, please relax now. Guardpony Twisted Spear, your behavior was unacceptable, expect disciplinary action.”

“Thank you Petty Officer,” Spear Head noded standing at attention, Twisted Spear remained silent, “Although if I may ask, what is a Displaced? And what was that creature if not a minotaur?”

Damnit this is going to be a long night and so began a long night of avoiding answering a question he literally couldn’t answer.

Else where….

Duncan was scribbling his name on the bottom of the card that he managed to catch before they all escaped, ink and quill provided by Jeff, Mistress hadn’t decided to reinvent the ballpoint pen yet.

“So where is the house?” Duncan asked as they kept walking, Mistress had relayed the events as she read them from Stone Wall’s mind, this ended after she left range.

“Jeff says its about three blocks this way,” She pointed a hoof in the direction they had been walking. The sun had set and Luna’s moon had risen. Duncan felt a tingle in the back of his mind, he felt antsy like he should be running, or something to deal with the energy he had.

“Right sentient hair, will not get use to that,” He muttered under his breath, “I just want to get to a home so I can finally relax.”

“He is a mimic and my friend, careful, he may not have eaten human flesh in a long time but that doesn’t mean he won't start again,” Mistress cautioned, her smile a mix of emotions, Duncan wasn’t sure if it was a real threat or not.

“Also “miss I can read everypony’s mind”, where is everypony? We have been walking for almost fifteen minutes now and I haven’t seen anypony,” Duncan waved his arms in the air with a flair.

It was true after the sun had set almost every single pony had suddenly vanished from the streets. It became creepy as the lamps ran off of some substance that glowed providing dim light. Shadows playing across the road.

“Oh they are all safely at home,” Mistress lied, “Most ponies tend to sleep rather early.”

“Ok,“ Duncan seemed to accept that logic, “Hey, I just thought of something. I know we don’t normally question Pinkie, as that leads to insanity, but where did she go? After the cards she was just gone.”

“Your right you shouldn't question it, its Pinkie Pie,” Mistress simply said before stopping in front of a house, “Here we are, after you.”

Author's Note

Chapter 4 Woot.

Duncan/Syaoran is now ready for summoning, please PM me if you want to cross over^-^

Thanks again to Inzauma for editing.

As always let me know if there is an error.