Chapters "Ugh fuck... " the disoriented airman curses to himself as his eye lids opened and closed rapidly to get some sense of his surroundings.
"Fucking base populace... " Harknett swears again as he heard voices talking all hushed and confused. His eyes slowly get focused as he looks to see himself surrounded by a crowd of, ponies? He rubs his eyes and looks around confused, "This lightning bolt probably put me in a coma or some shit... because I am literally tripping out."
The ponies start to talk amongst themselves until suddenly the doors burst open and the royal gaurds pour in, surrounding the military cop and point spears, one of them barks out orders, Harknett can tell this one must be the one in charge.
"Form a defensive circle around the princess! Keep your eyes on the intruder!" the captain barks out as Harknett looks up to see the royal atmosphere of the building, the glass windows, and tapestry made everything seem familiar. His brain is still on a meltdown as he tries to recognize where he was at and what is going on. He looks down to see his duty gear still on, meaning he still had his radio, his asp baton, M9 and M4, he knew these were going to be a problem in trying to be peaceful.
"Excuse me but I am lost, I don't know where I am and whats going on. Honest, I come in peace." he sighs at knowing he said the most cliche well known line that almost any foreign traveler to a new world would say.
"Is that so stranger?" A soft but authoritative voice spoke out as he turns to see who spoke, but when he saw who it was, his eyes grew wide and everything clicked.
"Holy shit... your... your Princess Celestia!" He immediately stood at attention and saluted, even though the gaurds bowed before her when she took single steps down her throne.
"That is I, and what, may I ask... are you?" she asked as she approached him, her head nearly dwarfing his height by nearly an inch. For Chris, the height factor wasn't the issue, what the real issue was that this was a highly intelligent powerful being that could destroy him if need be, and right now, being incinerated with magic wasnt on his to do list.
"I... I am..." He tried to put the words together to make it sound as non ridiculous as possible.'Fuck this, whatever I say is going to be unbelievable anyways. Might as well just say fuck it and tell the truth.'
He takes a deep breath and makes his intro, "My name is Airmen First Class Chris Harknett of the United States Air Force Security Forces. I am Human born from Earth and I know who you are and what this place is because most of you are from a TV show that a very intelligent woman created."
He closed his eyes as Celestia evaluates him closely, 'Eeyup... im fucked.' He thinks to himself as Celestia inches closer to his face, he feels a bead of sweat escape the lining on his beret and slide down the left side of his face, suddenly Celestia backs away and smiles.
"Welcome to Castle of the Two Sisters." She says as Chris remembers the name, his eyes shift to the right away from Celestias gaze as he starts to think to himself,
'Castle of the Two Sisters... oh shit! This must be... a thousand years before Twilight, and... pre dating nightmare moon.'
Celestia notices Chris under duress and lowers her head to look at Chris in the eyes, "Is something the matter Sir Chris?"
He looks to see Celestia staring at him and he shakes his head, "Its fine Princess, just under some though. Tell me... uhhhh where is Luna if I may ask?"
Celestia was confused as to how this strange human knew about her sister, "How do you know... oh yes, you said you know about us already. I need to ask you more questions regarding that subject but come! I'm sure you must be exhausted from your... journey is it?"
The Airmen nods and looks around as the ponies try to get an eyeful of the strange visitor in their lands, the gaurds ease up on their attack stance and form a perimeter around the princess and the human as Celestia dismisses the audience.
"So... if I may ask again. Where is Luna?" Chris asks as Celestia looks at him curiously,
"She is in her room, why do you ask?" She asks him as Chris looks up at the Sun through the glass ceiling, for he knows whats coming, but right now he wanted to keep it low key.
"Just wanting to see the Princess of the Night, I mean its not everyday a loyal follower be sent to Equestria and see his favorite Princess do they?" He smiles, bullshitting to the Princess that probably can figure it out straight up, but Celestia laughs and apparently doesn't see it.
"Of course, but she is up in the watchtower, getting her rest for tonights moon raising duty." Celestia explains as Chris puts on a fake smile and chuckles softly as he lets it slowly die down.
Celestia and her gaurds lead Chris to a spare castle suite, "I think this will be suitable, dont you think?"
Chris looks around, "Much better than the living accomodations I had back in my world. Much larger grandeur if I say so myself. Thank you very much Princess."
She nods and smiles, "If you need anything... Sir Chris, feel free to call to my servants, they will be instructed to take care of you until we can figure out what you are useful for."
Chris nods, "Also just call me Chris with all due respect Princess." He smiles as Celestia returns the gesture, he stands at attention and salutes her.
"If you don't mind me asking, what is it that your doing?" She asks, curious about his salute.
He looks at his right hand and laughs, "Oh i'm sorry Princess, what i'm doing is a salute, its a form of respect shown to people of higher rank and authority, and since your a princess I salute you as a form of respect. I mean I could bow but it would be odd for me."
She nods in understanding, "I see, already you are teaching me new things about yourself that I never could have prepared for. Enjoy your rest... Chris."
He smiles, "Thank you Princess... Good day to you."
Celestia closes the doors, when she is out of earshot he sets down his rifle and gear to pick up his radio and clicks on the whisper mic talk button,
He waits for a response but got nothing, he clicks on the talk button and repeats the same message, "BDOC, Echo 1 radio check?"
Still nothing, he sighs and turns off the radio, "Shit... they will probably list me as dead or missing back at home... my birds going to be taken and i lost all my games and other stuff. Well better make due here..."
He looks around to gain familiarity of his surroundings, taking off his beret and setting it down on a desk, he walks out to the balconey and watches the sun set, "At least Celestia was gracious enough to grant me a beautiful view."
He smiles and watches the sky change colors from a beautiful orange to a shade of violet then a darker blue as he hears the doors open on another location, he looks up to the watch tower to see a dark blue mare enter the balconey and spread her wings. He looks closely to see that it was the mare he was looking for, Princess Luna.
"Oh wow... thats Princess Luna!" he yells out loud, but then covers his mouth as he may have said that a little too loud, as the Princess of the Night caught sight of the unknown intruder and swoops down to him, like an eagle locked target with her prey as she lands in front of him, spreading her wings wide as he was caught by surprise and fell backwards.
"WHO ARE YOU?!" Luna boomed in her royal canterlot voice, he remembers how Luna used the voice during the episode of Luna Eclipse but hearing it close up? Damn it was worse than being under an F16 jet during take off.
"What???" He yells out as he was temporarily deaf, he tries to rub his ears to gain his hearing back but Luna repeats her question making it even harder for him to understand what she was trying to say.
"Stop using your royal voice! I cant hear what you're trying to say!" He yells at her as she scowls at him.
"Fine. Who and what are you? Speak quickly hairless monkey!" She says, interrogating him with a harsh like tone.
He shakes his head, rubbing his ears then finally regaining his composure, "Well I did meet your sister, and I am a human, not a hairless ape. My name is Chris Harknett, I am an airmen first class in the United States Air Force Security Forces."
Luna looks at him not sure whether to believe him or not, "Trust me your sister did the same thing. I got the eye thing too."
The dark princess looks away but regained her sight on the human as she sighs, "I don't know what a 'Security Forces' but if my Sister says you are welcome then I have no say in the matter."
Chris automatically knew from that sarcastic tone in the word sister that the process was already beginning, "Well if it makes you feel better, I would like to see you raise the moon. I think the moon is the most beautiful celestial body to look at besides the sun, I mean the sun can blind you but the moon is so... relaxing..."
Luna looks at him with a hopeful expression, she never could've expected a random stranger, a human, being appreciative and wanting to bask in her light, HER MOONLIGHT. She walks forward to him, with tears forming in her eyes as she suddenly puts her head against Chris' chest, he looks at her and smiles warmly as he embraces her.
"No pony has ever wanted to see the moon being raised, they never acknowledge me... but I see that you are different." Luna says, her voice wavering as emotions were taking hold of her. Chris knew from then on, promising himself and to Princess Luna unknowingly to her, that he will do whatever it takes, to prevent the transformation of Nightmare Moon, prevent the 1000 year banishment and by god, he will get the ponies to give Luna the appreciation and attention she deserves.
"The ponies do enjoy the moon, they always do Luna." He reassures her as Luna looks up to him,
"But how do you know?" She asks him as Chris thinks to himself,
"Call it a gut feeling. A term humans use to explain further knowledge." He quickly explains since he is in a world that would date back to Earth period medieval times.
From afar, Celestia watches the two hold each other in an embrace, she smiles and turns to walk inside her royal chambers to write an entry in her private journal, "I feel this human may benefit us all."
Author's Note
Well then, ever since seeing the animation to the song Lullaby for a princess I had to write a story about it, adding a human to it no doubt. Any who if you haven't seen the video please check it out, its a good video but sad at the same time.
Can the future be reset? Will there be an era without the existence of Nightmare Moon?
From the balcony, Chris watched Luna as she used her magic to raise the moon, her attitude upon returning to him was cheerful and less negative than when he first met her. He was glad of that, it means that he could possibly prevent Nightmare Moon from ever happening. He sighs in relaxation as he stares out into the night sky, enjoying the moon light that encompassed his room. Luna lands gracefully with a big smile upon her face,
"How was it? Did you enjoy it?" She asked with a happy tone, Chris knew better and he responded with honest words but words that Luna wanted to hear as well.
"The moon looks so full and amazing. It is a better sight than when I see it high up in the sky at night back where I come from." He says while he turns to look at her.
Luna blushes, still new to the whole appreciation and recognition of her work. "I am... very pleased to hear. Even though the compliments come from a strange creature, a human such as yourself, it still means a great deal to me. Thank you."
He looks to the moon and props on his elbows as he imagines the shadow of the mares head, something he doesn't want to see tainting the moon, never will it happen.
"No... thank you Luna." He suddenly has a few tears slide down his face as he realizes this and wipes it away, but Luna isn't ignorant, she notices and looks up to him.
"Is something the matter... Chris?" She asks, concerned for her new friend.
He smiles and nods, "I'm fine Luna... Thank you for asking."
They both hear a knock on the door, "Who the hell?" Chris says annoyed as he goes over and opens the door to see a royal guard with a letter in his mouth.
Chris looks at the guard as the pegasus guard stares back, Chris slowly reaches out and grabs the royal scroll as the guard snorts and turns in a 180 degree fashion, a human equivalent of the military facing movement about face and continues his routine patrol.
"Hmmmm odd." He closes the doors as Luna walks in to his room and looks at the scroll, "Well what is it? Open it."
"To the Human Chris Harknett, You will appear before Her Majesty Princess Celestia of Equestria at the morning hours of 7 am for a private breakfast. Your attire for the day will be what you have now. Arrive a quarter to the hour to be seated and ready."
Luna looks over the scroll curiously as he continues to read, "Well? What does it say?"
Luna growled low as she turns away and walks out to the balcony, Chris' eyes went wide as that sent a red flag in his mind,
"Whoa now... what was that?" he asked her, he follows behind her as he maintained his distance, Luna didn't answer as she looks out into the vast distance.
"Luna..." Chris asks again but was shocked and definitely concerned by what came next,
"WHAT?!?! " Luna boomed out angrily as he saw tears in her eyes, her teeth bared, seething and a hostile aura was coming out of her as he went down on one knee.
"Luna... somethings wrong... I sensed it ever since I mentioned your sister, i've been feeling negative energy coming from you. Whats wrong?"
Luna takes deep breathes, seething in anger as she lets the tears stream down her face, "Its always, Celestia this, Celestia that, oh I love how she brings out the sun, I love the day time! Its never, the night is so beautiful, oh such a wonderful moon! NO! Its always Celestia, Celestia, CELESTIA!!!"
She slams her hoofs down on the ground causing a crater to form, making several jagged cracks, he gets knocked down flat on his ass as he looks up at the princess of the night, her form growing dark and malevolent as he gets up and embraces her, pulling her in a deep hug, " Luna stop please! Please don't do this! I know how you feel! I felt this sibling jealousy, I wasn't the best, I was the first born yet always ignored, my youngest sister had it all, she was the perfect child. But my sister loved me still, she would do anything for me."
Lunas eyes shut tightly as she starts to cry, "Luna please i'm begging you, Celestia loves you, I know she does, she cares about you deeply and would do anything for you."
Luna lets out a wail of sorrow as Chris lets out a few tears of his own, Lunas emotions were so powerful his heart broke at her pain as he took the pain of isolation from her and added it to his own. He looks up to see Celestia looking down at them, a worried expression on her face as she had a tear of her own coming down her face.
He mouths the words, "Please... give Luna the love she deserves."
She spoke in his mind, "I will Chris, thank you for your kindness."
-
It was around 0630 in the morning, but really who could tell, at least for Chris his watch was working, but he had to figure out a way to charge his phone. Thank god he had his phone charger in his cargo pocket during his shift, "Looks like not following the SSIs when it comes to unauthorized items does come in handy."
He gets his uniform on, putting on his sand colored t-shirt, his olive green socks, his ABU pants, blackhawk sage green boots, his ABU top and grabs his beret. He looks over to see the form of Luna, sleeping soundly as he walks to her, trying to be silent. Noticing her covers are off, her slowly tucks her in and rubs her mane. Seeing her in this form reminded him of the animation video for the song lullaby for a princess, her young form asleep, he sniffs trying to hold back his tears, unable to he silently cries. He covers his eyes with his free hand as he lets it out, he wipes his tears away and strokes her gently, getting an ear flick from the tired princess in response.
"May all your dreams be sweet tonight Safe upon your bed of moonlight And know not of sadness, pain, or care And when I dream, I'll fly away and meet you there Sleep... "
He remembers the words and sings them softly to Luna, unaware she heard everything, he looks at his watch and saw it is 0645, he gets up and walks out quickly, as the door closes Luna gets up and looks at where Chris' body used to lay and she wonders to herself.
"What was the human dreaming about? Me turning into this creature... this Nightmare Moon? Does he know of the future? Is that why he is being very appreciative and nice to me? And what of the song?" Luna rolled out of bed as she walks to the balcony, seeing the crater she made, remembering her outburst of anger. She spreads her wings and takes flight to enter her own room, many questions filled her mind as she opens her journal and begins to write of last nights events.
In the hallway
The loud clomps of the boots echoed throughout the halls as the young airman ran to find the dining hall, "Shit maybe I should've woken up earlier, this place is fucking massive! Why does the show make this place seem easy to navigate?"
He asks a royal guard that was doing sentry duty if he could point in the direction of the dining hall. The unicorn pointed down a different hallway, Chris thanked the guard as he saw the royal banners and a cook walking through the tall doors, he stops and straightens himself out, takes a few deep breathes and walks in to see Princess Celestia, and a table full of her royal staff.
He looks to find one empty seat, and that is right next to the captain of the guard, "Fuck." he curses silently as he makes his way over to the empty seat, he looks over to the Princess and bows low.
"My apologies Princess, I was lost." he confessed as he takes his seat, he noticed one of the more uptight regal ponies whisper to another pony all the while looking at him and snickering.
"Oh i'm sorry I didn't know whispering and talking shit was a thing here." he says loudly as the gossiping pony clears his throat and looks away.
Chris sighs at his outburst, "I'm sorry Princess, im... rather outspoken. I hold nothing back and i'm honest about everything." he explains as Celestia smiles.
"It is quite alright Chris. Now this breakfast is held to welcome you to this wonderful land. I feel it is more of a... professional way of getting to know you better." She summarizes as Chris somewhat understood the motive behind this.
"Ah... I see..." he nods in understanding, looking at the ponies that all stared at him, he knew he is going to be the talk of the land. Honestly he could give two shits less.
"With that being said, first let us partake in the mornings delights. First I shall raise the sun." Celestia announces as her horn glows, the magic having a positive effect with his mental and physical state as he felt so happy for some unknown reason. The sun starts to rise over the horizon as he turns to look at the brilliant light it gave, the ponies marvel at the sight, with ooohs and aahhs to accompany it.
Celestia sighs and smiles as she looks at her royal subjects and spoke, "Surely there is no pony so lovely and so well beloved as I."
Chris' head made a sharp turn towards her direction, his eyes went wide as he remembers that line.
"I beg your pardon your majesty but I believe Princess Luna shares the same loveliness, in fact both of you are so fair and well loved."
One of the ponies, apparently a well known wealthy subject from his area spoke out, "I beg to differ, but what has that Princess ever done for us? Celestia gives us the sun to enjoy the day, what good is there for a moon and the night?"
Many of the ponies seem to agree but this angers Chris, "The night is a wonderful relaxing time! Not only is it to be used for rest, but also to enjoy the coolness that comes along with it, the Moon to light the way for those with evening duties. All of you should be thankful to Princess Luna, she does this every single night, and none of you never bother to appreciate her or show her love for it!"
The ponies were afraid of the humans outburst, Celestia was unfazed though as she listened to what the human had to say. Chris took a deep breath and smoothed his hair back as he realized a few strands were out of place, he grabs his cup and drinks it down in a rather quick way as he looks away.
The solar princess wasnt prone to anger, and not wanting to have her subjects afraid of anymore she stood up tall, her form making the ponies bow low.
"You are all dismissed." The ponies gasp as they look up, but knew better than to argue as they left, somewhat grumbling and muttering curses towards Chris.
The poor cook though walks in with a cart full of food but looked confused as he saw everyone leaving, but Celestia still called him over to serve only two plates. He bows low and continues his duty as Celestia spreads her left wing and has it cover Chris to bring him in closer.
"Whoa there..." he says nervously as he looks at the regal princess.
"I want you to tell me everything you know. You are hiding something from me Chris, and I don't take too kindly to secrets." Celestia warns as Chris gulps, he didn't want to test her and yet he didn't want to tell the truth in fear of some time paradox or some crap from those time travel movies.
"As much as I want to Princess, I just can't... It wouldn't benefit anyone if I told you. This has to be done step by step and by my own doing no less."
The Princess stares into the humans eyes as she wisdom in his words and accepted them, "I see. Well whatever you are trying to prevent, may it work because if not, you will answer to me personally. Do I make myself clear?"
He stands up and bows, "Understood Your Majesty."
She smiles and returns the gesture, "Good, now let us discuss about your stay."
As they dined on the breakfast Celestia laid out the schedule and what duties he will be fulfilling, as Chris explained his role as a defender, Celestia made him an honorary royal guard, but made as her personal bodyguard and advisor since he seemed to be knowledgeable in many things.
"You really want to challenge me?"
It silenced the pegasus guard for a long time afterword.
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"Wow this outfit is somewhat tight..." he says as one of the servants, a handmare using her unicorn magic tightens the gauntlet on his forearm.
From a certain perspective, to many humans it would be a faithful replication of the Assassins creed outfit, a mix of Edward Kenways and Arno Dorians with his own unique military style as he has fingerless gloves, hardened knuckle protectors, and the wrist blades up to standard. His M9 drop holster retrofitted and remade to be holstered to his chest. He quickly does a once over at the mirror as he sees his outfit was fit for duty.
"Very nice. Tell the tailor her did outstanding work, i'll definitely be seeing him again." He says as the handmare bows low,
"Your compliments are what he desires sire." She says as he looks to her and sighs,
"Just call me Chris please... im a very easy going person. When you're around me be relaxed." He says in a soft tone as the pony nods.
As he steps out of the door, he retracts his hood and takes a deep breath then smiles,
"Alright, let's get started."
Author's Note
I felt that Lunas anger and transformation was a bit rushed so I had Chris go in and pull her back from the brink.
I want this story to be about Luna, all about Luna, but Chris has a vital role to play in making Luna feel loved and be given the recognition she deserves. Please comment and like if you can. I appreciate the followers and all you guys that are giving encouragement. More to come!
"Fall in!"
Chris issues the command as all the Royal Guards for the days shift get into formation, he looks them over and says at ease in a relaxing tone.
He looks at them as one by one they ease up and start to loosen their rigid structures, "Jeez whats wrong with you guys? Have you been doing this whole rigid strict bullshit for years?" he asks them as the Captain stands at attention to speak,
"They have been trained since the academy to be disciplined and professional my lord!"
Chris looks at the pony captain oddly, "Lord? Hey I don't run like that. When i'm around you all can be relaxed, i'm here for you all. My job as commander is to take care of you, my guards. I know it sounds odd but where I come from, the commander takes care of the troops."
The guards all whisper to each other as one of the ponies spoke out, "You don't run at all sir."
Chris rolls his eyes, "Its a figure of speech, jesus I need to teach you guys about phrases and such."
0700 Celestias Bed Chamber doors
Chris straightens out his robes, smoothing it down and making himself inspection ready in case the Princess wanted to check the appearance of her new personal advisor and bodyguard. He never really expected to be put in such a position of high importance and honor, let alone be in command of the Royal Guards. In all fairness, he wishes he can get a good drink right now.
The doors open by magic as Princess Celestia exits her bedroom, Chris bows low, bending to one knee as Celestia acknowledges him,
"Rise Commander Chris, how was your day so far?" she inquires, meaning the guardmount with the newly formed Royal Security Ponies.
"Everything went smoothly princess, I trust your night went well?" he asks, being polite and asking about the Princess rest.
She smiles and chuckles softly, "It went very well thank you, I appreciate you asking about my well being."
He smiles as another door opens, he looks over to see the dark blue mare exiting her room, her head down and somewhat gloomy.
"Princess Luna! Please join us!" Chris calls out to her, trying to keep her occupied and not let the negative emotions plague her.
Luna looks up to see Chris, her eyes settling on a crescent moon necklace.
'He really does care about me...' Luna thinks to herself as her mood brightened greatly,
"Yes! I shall join you and my older sisters company!" She trotted over to them as Chris bows low, showing greater respect to Luna, which Celestia noticed and asked Chris through his thoughts.
'I see you give special attention to my younger sister, do you harbor romantic feelings for her?' she smiles down at Chris as the three of them walked to the dining hall.
He responds to her through his thoughts, 'My feelings for her are as a friend, I don't know what my emotions are towards her but all I know is that she is under appreciated and I want her to know that her skills, her royal duties are greatly valued. My first advice to you, take notice of your sisters behavior, give her some love and attention. For you are lacking those things and as such it will come back to haunt you for the rest of your life.'
Celestia was shocked at his response, what could he mean by this? Surely she has done her role as a sister exceptionally and given her younger sister the love she needs. What if Chris knows more about the oncoming events than she could?
"Oh tell me more about your world Chris." Luna asks as Chris explains the wonders and scientific advances the human race has made throughout its history.
"You will not believe how far we could go Luna! We invented modern medicine, able to cure even the most common sickness, we had the top scientific minds to create rockets, tall metal projectiles that uses great force, shaking the earth and creating tremendous noise that breaks free of Earths gravity and propelling to space. We were able to do missions, landings on the moon itself!"
Luna laughs as she heard such wonderful things, she couldn't believe that the humans in Chris' world is so interested in the sky that they would plan, create and execute the means to land man on the moon. It greatly excited her, and Chris saw it too, when Luna showed signs of happiness he was happy.
"Tell me more Chris! What else about your world? What more of the evening life?" Luna presses on with more questions as Celestia was worried but yet relaxed as Chris told her through his thoughts that he can handle it, he loved to answer Lunas questions.
He explains of the cities, the night life and how people would go out and enjoy the night sky and the moon, most would sleep but many would appreciate the wondrous qualities that the night had to offer. These words encouraged Luna as her eyes beamed with excitement and pride.
"You would love it Princess Luna." He says as they reach the doors to the dining hall,
"Yes, I would... if only the ponies here can share the same feelings like they do my sister." She says sadly as Chris wasn't going to have any of that,
"Oh no, forget about the ponies and your sister, its all about you. I know they appreciate you, they love you just as much as your sister. I promise you that... can you be happy and think about the bright days ahead? Please?" He asks her gently, touching her face and wiping a tear from her eye as the royal cook gasps at seeing such display.
Usually touching a royal princess pony is a crime if it wasn't allowed, but seeing Luna not say anything was even more of a shock itself.
Luna looks up to her older sister and nuzzles in return, "I do big sister, and I love you as well."
The human holds out the seats for both Princesses as he looks to the cook, "Hey lets get the food out, the Royal pony sisters are hungry!"
-
1300 Blacksmith
"So how does this.... 'weapon' operate?" the royal blacksmith asks as Chris raises his M4, racks a round then puts it on semi and aims it at a porcelain vase, a cheap one that was easily ready to be discarded.
"Cover your ears and you will find out." Chris warns as he motions for hearing protection, some of the ponies that gathered around were curious as to whats going on since the two royal sisters were present at the blacksmiths shop.
Chris applies his marksman fundamentals as he takes a deep breath then exhales slowly, allowing the red dot on his M68 to rest on the target, applying pressure slowly through his index finger. The result ended in a loud bang, the porcelain vase exploding into large fragments as most ponies and the blacksmith cry out in surprise along with fear. Celestia and Luna gasp at such power that a metal stick could contain, as Chris puts it on safe and clears out his weapon he sees the blacksmith cowering underneath a table.
"Oh for gods sake man, your in the presence of the Princesses, show some decency." Chris jokingly reprimands the scared iron worker as he pulls him out from under the table.
"Uhhh i mean yes, my apologies... princess, I... I wasn't prepared for this." he apologizes.
"Neither were we blacksmith. Tell me Chris, do all humans possess such weapons?" Celestia asks.
Chris nods to confirm it, "Yes we have these weapons of many different designs, functionality and names. There is one though that is too terrible to mention. It is a great detterant to keeping other people from attacking but it comes with a cost. Humanity has used this weapon only twice."
Luna shakes her head, "How do you all manage to live peacefully?"
Chris shrugs his shoulders, "I honestly don't know, people die from these things every day."
Before both princesses could speak, Chris interrupted them because he knew what they were going to say, "So! Who has questions about these? Or whatever ideas I have in the making?"
Nopony raises their hoof, "No? Alright then, if you don't ask your fault if you get told to do something you aren't capable of doing." Chris warns as he looks to the blacksmith.
"I need you to put together a team of your best iron ponys, I got a project for you all to work on, and I will be there to work with you every step of the way." He orders as the blacksmith bows low.
"As you command Sir Chris." he acknowledges and accepts.
Chris turns to bow to Princess Celestia, "With your permission ma'am, I need a good amount of your magical abilities."
Celestia eyes him suspiciously, "For what purpose might i ask?"
He uses his thoughts to communicate, 'For that night that I never want to see.'
Celestia nods, "I trust you on this human."
Chris holds out a special container as Celestia aims her horn and fires her magical energy beam into the container. The space filling quickly Chris notifies Celestia as she stops, he quickly closes the lid and sets it down on a table within arms reach.
"Thank you Princess, I need some time alone with the blacksmiths as I will be directing them on this project." he requests as Celestia nods.
"You may proceed." She says as Chris gets on one knee and prostrates himself before her.
Celestia and Luna turn to leave as Chris instructs the blacksmith on what he wants as the blacksmith in return orders the iron ponies on what their lord requests of them.
Chris rolls out a blueprint for a special project he created called, 'Project Eclipse '
His left arm is equipped with a shield which can also hold two beam sabers that can be used against powerful magical energy beams, to deflect but not to harm. His primary weapon consists of a large beam buster rifle, the reason why he asked princess celestia of her magic, that way the design and operation of the rifle can be used repeatedly without ever running empty, it will constantly recharge itself.
Chris knew this would be useless if that night ever came to pass, if he had to face Nightmare moon his armor would be useless.
"Get me Star Swirl the bearded and tell him its urgent, if he isn't coming i'm going to drag his lazy ass out myself." Chris demands as the messenger pony nods with fear and quickly gallops to Star Swirls home.
After about 15 minutes, Star Swirl appears before Chris, bowing in respect due to being the Princesses advisor and bodygaurd.
"You summoned me?" Star Swirl asks, Chris sighs as he takes the opportunity to make light of the whole medieval jargon.
"No someone else did, I didn't need you." he says sarcastically, and as expected Star Swirl didn't catch on.
"Well who inquired my assistance?" he wonders as Chris facepalms himself,
"Fucking hell I did, yes I need your help. I need you to put a powerful protection spell on my armor and weapons so that whenever something bad happens I will have the fighting capabilities to defend myself and the princesses." Chris explains as Star Swirl nods.
"I see, I will do what I can." Star Swirl says as he uses his horn to pull out his book and flips through the pages to find the right spells for the protection charms. He stops at a few pages and marks them, he holds the book out to Chris as he looks it over.
"I'll be honest with you, I have no idea what the spells say." Chris says bluntly as Star Swirl sighs.
"If you need me again when the armor is complete I will be back." The bearded unicorn says as he turns and walks back to his house.
Chris turns to the blacksmith and writes down a few more notes, "I expect this to be done by a week. I don't care what ever happens, I want no bullshit excuses just make it happen."
The blacksmith was about to ask a question but was quickly cut off, "Did you hear me? I said no excuses I want this done soon, this is really really important that this gets done. Got it?"
The pony nods as Chris slicks his hair back as it was getting out of place. He turns and walks back to the castle to resume his duties to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna as their personal advisor and guard.
1830 The Royal Throne room
Chris never knew how boring court life can be, here he was standing for hours as ponies from across Equestria came in to have disputes settled, treaties signed or just dumb bullshit that didn't need to be brought up in the first place.
'For fucks sake these ponies are worse than base populace at the gates during a busy day. ' he thinks to himself.
He knew Celestia heard him by the way her eyes looked towards him but he could give zero fucks. This shit is the worse, he would rather be manning an overwatch than do this.
"Thank you for your time." Celestia finishes the last ponies appearance as Chris sighs.
"Is something the matter?" She asks even though she perfectly knew what Chris was thinking.
"I don't understand how you don't flip out at these ponies stupid problems, if I was in your spot half of these would be kicked out and punished for wasting my time with such petty arguments that could easily be solved. How do you do it?" He added the last part sarcastically as Celestia giggles.
"Years and years of practice while doing your royal duty." She explains.
Chris smiles as he shakes his head, "I envy your patience because I don't have any."
He turns his head to look at Luna as she looks at Chris, their eyes meet and he smiles warmly at her as she smiles back. That is all that matters to him right now, the young princess happiness.
"So I have an idea that i'm proposing but..." he looks to luna, "I'm sorry but Luna I need to talk to Celestia alone, its for a good reason would you give us a bit of time alone?" he asks her politely as Luna looks at him and sighs. She sadly walks down the stairs as she exits the throne room, but her curiosity getting the better of her she stays near the door and listens.
"Every day there is a celebration in honor of you... but what of your sister? She never has any events thats made to appreciate her for doing her job?" Chris explains to Celestia as she sits and listens to what her advisor has to say.
"We need to show Luna that the ponies of Equestria love their night princess as well as you. So what i'm suggesting is that we throw Luna a Lunar Festival in her honor." Chris says excitingly as the Sun Princess smiles greatly,
"It sounds marvelous! I accept this idea as I too also care for my younger sister, tomorrow we shall begin the arrangements and planning. You will be in charge of the celebration, I expect this to be the best celebration that my dear Luna has ever taken part of. DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR?" Celestia finishes using her royal canterlot voice, the sound enough didn't scare the young airman as he was so happy and excited that he was going to give Luna the best time of her life.
"Yes Princess!" He says as he takes a knee and bows his head low.
Lunas eyes widened as she watched what happened before her, she was overwhelmed with emotions as she turned and galloped towards her room. She uses her horn to open the doors and quickly close them as she paces back and forth, a million thoughts running through her head,
'An event just for me?' 'No Celestia and her sun, only Luna and the moon 'Ponies actually loving me?' 'The human planning this all for me?'
Luna walks out to the balcony, full pride and energy as she looks to the clock and sees it is eight at night, the sun is setting and so the moon must rise. She holds out her chest and uses her magic as the moon starts to rise from the horizon, as she does so she hears her doors opening to see Chris approaching her,
"I hope im not too late. I don't want to miss my favorite event of the day." He smiles as he stands next to her as she returns the smile,
"No Chris, you are on time and always welcome to share this moment with me." She says as he puts an arm around her and watches her raise the nightly celestial body high into the sky.
Author's Note
Wow, this song is really cranking out the creative juices! Three chapters in three days.
Oh maaaaaaan even though I am writing this, how it is turning out is already getting me excited for the next few chapters.
The sound of the crying grew louder as Chris approached the room, his heart sank as he looks in to see Princess Luna, sobbing onto the floor, covering herself as there were bottles of opened wine around her. He saw Princess Celestia approaching him and he immediately went up to her and put his hands up to stop her.
"Princess I think it would be best if I handle this, right now Luna is probably not in the mood to talk to you." he explains as Celestia looks at him strangely as Lunas sobbing worried her.
"I must tend to my sister and comfort her." She insists as Chris blocks her path.
"Don't you get it? Shes highly unstable. I will go in there and calm her down. Then you can come in." Chris says to her as Celestia moves past Chris and walks to her door.
She was upset by the sight of her younger sister, the opened drinks and her weeping and crying. Chris moves past Celestia as he walks in and slowly gets next to the emotionally fragile princess.
"Hey there... you ok Luna? Please tell me why you're crying." He tries to hug her as suddenly Luna lashes out and points her hoof at Celestia,
"YOU! "
Celestia was shocked at the outburst, "What have I done to wrong you dear sister?"
Luna screams out at her, letting her anger out at last, "ITS ALWAYS ABOUT YOU! THIS NIGHT FESTIVAL WAS FOR ME AND YOU STILL TOOK ALL THE LOVE AND ADMIRATION THAT WAS MEANT FOR ME! "
Celestia shakes her head, "No dear sister, I would never do that you!"
Chris gets in front of the raging princess, "Luna! Stop this please! Calm yourself!"
He holds Luna and caresses her cheek only to be pushed away, "LEAVE ME BE! "
She rears up and slams her hooves down, creating a jagged crater as the force sent Chris flying out, Luna uses her magic to shut out Celestia and lock the doors. As Chris gets up, he sees the doors closed and remembers the scene from the video he's watched many times.
"Oh no... no no no! LUNA! LUNAAA!!" He runs and bangs on the doors getting no response he uses a magic amulet he was given as a gift to enter Lunas mind. What he saw broke his heart as he sees Luna and Nightmare Moon, facing each other, Luna bowing her head low as the evil side of her smiles.
"LUNA!" He runs to her and blocks her from the sight of Nightmare Moon. Luna looked surprised as she had tears streaming down her face,
"Chris?!? What are you doing here?" she asked, her voice full of emotion and quivering as he hugs her tightly.
"Don't do this Luna, you are going down a path that even I can't save you from. Please don't do this to us Luna." he begs her as Nightmare Moon cackles,
"Foolish Human, she already accepted my offer of power as she will soon usher in a new age of darkness!" Nightmare moon declares as Chris growls and looks at her full of rage,
"SHUT UP! SHUT UP!!" He runs and tries to tackle Nightmare moon as the evil being disappeared into a wisp of smoke, appearing next to Luna,
"Join me, and we will make your sister pay for stealing the love that is right fully ours." she whispers as Luna sheds tears and turns to be engulfed in Nightmare Moons dark shadows.
"Soon did that pony take notice that others Did not give her sister her due And neither had she loved her as she deserved She watched as her sister's unhappiness grew
But such is the way of the limelight, it sweetly Takes hold of the mind of its host And that foolish pony did nothing to stop The destruction of one who had needed her most "
The words to the song rang ever so loudly in his thoughts as he screams out to the pony he cared for the most,
"LUNAAAAA!!! NOOOOOO!!!! "
He was shut out from Lunas mind as Nightmare Moon changed her, he was thrown back into his physical form as he hears the scream of Luna in he room. He looks to Celestia as she was breathing heavily, distraught and sad at her sister doing such a thing to her.
"Damn you Celestia... DAMN YOU!" He gets up as he walks to Celestia and pushes her, shocking her even more that a mortal, a human no less would resort to using force.
"I told you I would handle it! I told you this required careful words! BUT YOU DIDN'T FUCKING LISTEN!" He yells with rage and sadness as he tries to raise his hand to slap Celestia but she didn't fight back knowing his words were true. She hadn't listen, she didnt pay attention and heed the signs. She didn't give her sister the love and attention she needed and know something is wrong and she doesn't know what, but Chris knows, and with that he lets go and wipes the tears away from his eyes as he goes to the armory.
"I'm going to take care of this myself." he says to himself as he walks away from a heartbroken Celestia, only hearing the hoofsteps as she turns and walks away.
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"Get my armor ready!" Chris yells out as the Security Pony runs and unlocks the vault that concealed his armor.
"Sir if I may ask, what is the emergency?" The unicorn guard asks as the airman walks to the armor and steps into the boots as the boots start to tighten together, the magic and modern science applied had the armor come together and meld onto the humans body, like a scene from Iron Man as Tony Stark puts on his armor for the first time.
Suddenly the walls shake and dust falls from the ceiling as Chris looks up, "Oh god no..."
Suddenly loud hoofsteps are heard as the Security ponies run to the armory to get weapons, "Princess Celestia is under attack! Everypony arm up and get ready to defend!"
Chris immediately stops them, "Belay that order! Evacuate everypony from the castle and go to a maximum safe distance! I need to handle this."
The final piece was his helmet as the jaw portion reaching up to the back of his head was connected together, then the last piece attached to the adjoining piece was sealed as he looks at the guards ponies and finally the helmet slammed shut with a metallic clink as his T-Visor polarizes to black.
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The darkened sky was brightened by balls of light colliding together, Celestia and Nightmare Moon engaging each other in a deadlock as neither one could outdo the other. Celestia was being pushed back as what was her former sister is gaining ground, as Nightmare gained distance on Celestia, she was broad sided by another opposing force, this one wielding a beam saber as he knocks her away from the Princess.
Celestia looks to see who helped her, the being before her was armored in white and red, his wings though not being real wings yet leaving a trail of real feathers helped him stay aloft as the being had a large shield bearing the lunar symbol and a large metal rifle.
"Princess, you done enough. I will take care of this." Chris orders her as Celestia shakes her head.
"She is my sister! I will do what I can to bring her back!" She yells back.
"YOU HAVE DONE LITTLE TO HELP! YOU ARE PART OF THE REASON WHY SHE IS THIS WAY! BECAUSE OF YOU ALL MY HARD WORK TO SAVE HER HAS BEEN A FUCKING WASTE! GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE NOW BEFORE I FORCE YOU OUT!" He screams at her as suddenly a beam of energy comes between them.
"I WILL DESTROY YOU CELESTIA!" Nightmare Moon screams as she fires another of her energy beams at Celestia but was protected by Chris and his enchanted shield, he flies towards her as he grapples and holds but was quickly thrown off as he was flung down. Quickly he stabilized and looked up as his engines fire up and helps him escape the beam that was coming towards him.
Celestia flies and weaves as Nightmare Moon turns to fire beams at her, using her wings she blocks the attack and uses her own energy to bring down Nightmare Moon. The dark princess holds out her hoof and disperses the blast, but Chris flies in and pulls out his buster beam rifle and sets it to stun only as he cannot bear to harm his dear Princess. He fires the beam as well as Celestia and Nightmare moon as the three beams collide to make a massive ball of energy.
Celestia tried hard to concentrate but was losing focus as tears formed in her eyes, Chris wasn't faring well either, he was emotionally torn as tears poured out like a river from his eyes. Nightmare Moon glared angrily, teeth bared as she put all her energy into one goal, destroying the two individuals who loved her the most.
"DIIIIIIEEEEEE!!!" Nightmare screams as the ball of energy was pushed towards Chris and Celestia.
Chris knew what was going to happen, "CELESTIA!" he knocks her out of the way, bracing himself with his shield as the beam engulfs him and sends him flying in a trail of smoke towards the castle as he knocks down the doors and slams against a a display of the Elements of Harmony. He shakes his head and looks behind him to see the colored crystals and shook his head rapidly as Celestia flies in and rushes to his aid.
"Chris are you hurt?" She asks as the lead stone glows and the last element falls out and lands on the ground.
Celestia looks at the last crystal then at Chris, he looks to her then at the crystal while shaking his head, "You are not going to do it... don't you fucking do it!"
The princess was unsure until suddenly the window crashes and Nightmare Moon screams through, intending to fulfill her dark deed, but Celestia uses her magic to activate the Elements of Harmony as Chris gets up quickly and leaps forward to come between Celestia and Nightmare Moon.
"NOOOOOOO!!!!" he yells but was too late as a ball of colorful light sends him flying back. He looks up to see Nightmare Moon being deflected to the moon, the shadow of a unicorn being formed as expected. He couldn't stop it, no matter how hard he tried, the whole thing was inevitable.
Celestia looks up at the moon, unable to comprehend what happened, her distinguishable colored hair now formed as tears started to form as she stared for a few seconds. Chris walks slowly towards the moonlight, reaching his hand out to the moon as he gets to his knees, his hands shakily taking his helmet off. Both Celestia and Chris had tears running down their face as they both knew what had just happened.
"Lu- lu- lu- lu- lu- LUNA!!!!!" Chris and Celestia wails loudly, emotionally devestated and traumatized as Chris slams his fist on the ground in terrible pain.
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Luna watches from the bedside as she watched her friend toss and turn in his sleep, whimpering and crying into the pillows as she couldn't do much but see her friend be in such emotional distress.
'Should I see what he is dreaming about and wake him? ' Luna wonders as she tries but doesn't.
'I shouldn't intrude but... what if its hurting him? ' she debates to herself, but after much consideration she decides to see what was going on with her friend, using her abilities to dream walk, she enters his mind, it wasn't after a few moments she opens her eyes, gasping for air as she was choking back tears.
"Oh my... Chris, I... I never knew... Oh i'm so sorry." She turns and quickly leaves as Chris wakes up, yelling before he looks around, seeing no one around.
He sits upright and cries into his arms, sobbing loudly not caring if anyone hears him as the dream was his worst nightmare.
0830 Castle Hallways
The Princess of the Sun and her human follower were walking together to do a walk through of the nearby town to raise the hopes of the ponies.
"A very beautiful day if I do say so myself." She smiles as Chris sighs and follows,
"I guess your Majesty..." he says plainly as Celestia frowns.
"Is something the matter Chris?" She asks as Chris sniffs and wipes his eyes, the nightmares still fresh in his mind.
"Nothing Princess, i'm fine." He lies, but Celestia doesn't buy it as she turns and steps in front of Chris.
"I want the truth and the full truth now! Before I go into your mind and find it for you." She threatens, surprising the human since Celestia wasn't known for that kind of behavior.
Chris knows he can't get out of this one so he finally explains to her everything, the events leading to Nightmare Moon, the thousand year banishment, the emotional trauma. All of this makes Celestia weak for the first time, she can't believe what she was hearing, her own sister, her dearest Luna, harboring ill will because she is not loved by her subjects? She can't believe it, she will not believe it. As long as Celestia herself draws breath she vows to herself to make Luna the most well like pony in Equestria, even more liked than her older sister.
Chris wipes his eyes again as Princess Luna makes her appearance, "Hello dear sister, hello Chris." she says with a hint of sadness in her voice.
Chris felt his lips quiver and his eyes start to water as he sees the mare that would cause so much pain and hurt that he turns away quickly,
"Please excuse me!" he says as he runs to the nearest wash room.
He bursts open the doors and bursts into tears as he cries loudly, his body shaking and taking deep breathes as he cries hard. He hears the doors open but doesn't care who enters as suddenly he hears a voice call out to him, "Chris? Its Princess Luna... I know what you dreamed about. I know what I would become if I let my jealousy consume me."
He turns to her, his eyes red and puffy as he looks at his dear princess, her eyes wet with tears as well.
"I am so sorry Princess... Please don't turn into her... I beg you Luna! Spare me and your sister the heartache! I can't bear to see this happen again!" He cries out as he approaches Luna and hugs her deeply.
Luna puts a hoof around her humans neck and nuzzles into him as she cries as well, they felt wings encircle them as they look up to see Celestia embracing them as they all cried together, letting out their emotions and sharing their thoughts for each other.
Author's Note
Well the song Starlight waltz gave me ideas for this chapter and going to be prominent in the next.
Anyways four chapters in four days. This story and theme reaches out to me... like its more emotional than the other stories I have. Wow I seriously almost cried when I typed this because I honestly would cry if I saw something like this happen in my sleep. Just listening to Lullaby for a Princess and watching the animation made my heart ache so much.
I love you Luna. You are my favorite Princess of the Night.
Chris and Princess Luna take the first dance as Starlight Waltz plays again, he walks out to the middle of the garden with his Princess of the Night and bows as she does the same. They both know dancing would be odd but he would make due, as would she, with that they both circle each other and complete a full circle as they switch and turn another circle before they do the classic dancing waltz, without holding each others hands/hooves.
"Enjoying this dance Your Majesty?" Chris asks as Princess Luna blushes.
"Very much so my dear human." She replies softly.
He smiles as he continues dancing, the other ponies and Celestia watch, smiling and happy to see her younger sister so happy. Could she possibly have fallen in love with Chris? The signs seem to be pointing in that direction, it doesn't matter to her. Celestia is just relaxed seeing her sister in a great mood.
After the song finally ends the ponies joined the garden center to dance, mingle, and have fun. Luna looks to Chris and whispers in his ear, his eyes go wide as he smiles and smirks, "Oh such a naughty mare."
Luna gives him the bedroom eyes and walks to the exit, lifting her tail briefly to show Chris the price that awaits him,
"Come dear sir... and give this Princess what she wants." She teases as Chris nods and follows.
Celestia was busy talking with a pony couple until she saw Luna and Chris leave the garden, she eyes them suspiciously and tells the next group to pardon her leave and follows them.
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"AH! AH YES AHHH CHRIS SO GOOD!" Luna moans loudly as her head was braced against the royal bedframe.
The 21 year old airmen grunts as he thrusts himself deep into his princess, her plot raised high and her tail to the side as he slams himself deeper and harder into the mare. Luna moans and grunts as Chris humps and pounds her rough, his hands grabbing a handful of the moon princess plot and makes hard work in pleasuring her. Celestia was watching from a crack in the door, shocked and surprised that her young sister would ever do such a raunchy thing. Even though at some point love would be found, she didn't expect it to be now.
"Oh Princess.... ohhhh fuck this is unexpected..." Chris groans as he holds onto the bedframe and moves his hips to drive his manhood deeper into Luna as she screams in happiness, her eyes expressing total bliss and her mouth hanging open as her tongue lolls out.
He pants as he feels himself nearing his breaking point, "Princess i'm... i'm close!" Luna didn't respond, probably not hearing him or not caring.
"Princess where do you want it?" He asks as he feels his balls tighten,
"INSIDE ME! FILL ME UP!" Luna screams in a very non regalistic way.
Chris obliges and thrusts rapidly as he finally bottoms out in her and shoots what is seemingly an endless supply of fertile cream, filling her womb full and leaking out onto the bed. The two lovers panted as Chris still had himself inside her, plugged up to keep whatever remains inside her as Luna smiles and looks up at her lover.
"I think i'm in love with you...." She confesses as Chris smiles at her.
"I wouldn't be surprised... I think im in love with you too." he confesses as well as the two lean towards each other and share a deep passionate kiss before falling asleep.
0700 Princess Lunas Bedroom
Chris snaps the bands for his wrist blades as he then ties the sash for his waist as Luna looks at her mate with a little bit of sadness but yet feels protected.
"Do you have to go my dear?" She asks as Chris turns to her and walks to the bed then leans in to kiss her.
"Its my job honey... I'll have a few days off after tomorrow." He says as he smiles and walks out. Luna smiles as she closes her eyes and goes to sleep to prepare herself for raising the moon tonight.
Chris approached Princess Celestia as she took her seat on her throne, she looks at him with a small smile as she still remembers the events from last night. As he took his usual spot near the princess right hand side Celestia made a few small moaning noises to see if Chris would react, he didn't flinch nor turn his head. The Sun princess was not to be ignored as she somewhat mutters Lunas moans.
"Oh yes Chris, harder ohhh my." She smiles as Chris coughs then moves his eyes to the left to stare at Celestia.
"So I take it you saw and heard everything?" Chris says as Celestia looks down eyes closed and nods.
"You gave my sister quite the workout. Im sure she will bear wonderful foals." She said as Chris lets out a long sigh.
"If that happens then I will be the happiest father." Chris conveys as Celestia looks outside.
"How about we go to the town and see how is everypony." She suggests as Chris nods.
"My thoughts exactly your Majesty. A town check?" he asks as Celestia affirms with a nod of her head.
"I'll take point Princess." He says as he walks down to get the exit for Celestia,
"Thank you my dear bodyguard." She thanks Chris as he bows.
0815 Canterlot
The ponies of the city bow low as Princess Celestia and Chris walk through the streets with a small detail of guards from the Royal Security Ponies as the citizens offer the Princess the best they had to offer. Chris eased the ponies fear of a human as he patted them gently and complimented them on a fine city along with a job well done.
Chris also looks around to see if there were any threats to be made out since this is an open street. He scans the roof as he sees a few hooded gryphons watching them, he looks to the Princess and motions for the guards ponies to form a diamond formation around her for protection, slowly as to not give away anything. They nod and proceed to do so as he turns and leaves to a nearby alley, Celestia looks and watches as she sees Chris climb up the walls through the outdoor pipes and ledges before going on the roof to deal with the unknown suspects.
He walks behind them as he gets next to them without them knowing, "So.. what are we looking at?"
The gryphons look at the human shocked, "What!?!" They immediately take flight as they expose their sharp talons,
"Get the Princess! We will take care of this small welp!" The lead gryphon orders as two dive towards Celestia, but she doesn't look worried, as soon as they took flight they fell and landed on their backs in front of Celestia, dead with two daggers in their hearts.
"Impossible!" The gryphon screeches as he and the other two look to the hooded human, he looks up and smiles as he reaches out to catch a gryphons feather and examines it before two arrows strike down the two flanking gryphons putting them down, leaving only one left.
"You and your weak princess will pay for what you have done! This is considered war with the Gryphon kingdom!" the lead assassin yells out as Chris wags his finger.
"I believe the Princess declares war with you since you are the aggressors since you struck first." Chris informs him as the gryphon snorts and tries to escape. Chris pulls out a rope dart and throws it quickly and has it wrap around the throat as he yanks it back. He squawks and tries to escape but was subdued by Chris as he shoves his extra knives through the wings, causing the gryphon to screech in pain.
"What... what are you?" the gryphon asks, truly afraid as his face goes into shadow, only blazing red eyes and a smile consisting of sharp teeth as he roars out.
"I'M THE HAND OF GOD! THE DARK MESSIAH! I'M THE VENGEFUL ONE!"
The gryphon passes out from fear as the humans face reverts to normal. "Oh man I love that little trick."
1300 The Royal Sisters council room
"I say we should make peace with the gryphons!"
"Outrageous! After they sent those bird brains after our princess!"
"But this isn't how we should respond!"
Chris listened patiently with Princess Celestia as the ponies from different areas squabble amongst each other in what course of action to take after the recent assassination attempt. Chris was getting really irritated at their disagreement, the only answer is clear but no one is willing to accept it. Even Celestia knows what she must do, but she is just doing this for regal measures.
"Princess what is your course of action?" the lead delegate from Canterlot asks as Chris looks to Princess Celestia.
She gets up and stomps her hoof on the table, "We go to war."
Author's Note
I'm going to change a few things from teen to mature and add romance to this and sex. Probably the only time i'm going to do that but who knows, the story is going pretty smoothly. Anyways i've been busy for the past two days so it interrupted my flow but I got to meet WhiteChapel and mosh out at the Silo in Abilene texas.
Also didn't know this chapter is short... ill make up for it in the next one.
Anyways any Disturbed fans out there, a new song has been released, its called The Vengeful One, yup, I named this chapter after the song. AND IT IS FUCKING AWESOME! Check it out!
"Oh my god... fuck these delegates.." Chris moans, exhausted as he turns and collapses on his back on Lunas bed as she puts her head on his chest.
"I see they aren't much help when it comes to certain issues." Luna says as she kisses her human lover.
"Well its getting dark now... suns setting... I will still have enough energy to see you raise that beautiful moon." Chris smiles as he kisses his beloved mare deeply as their tongues dance around each other.
Luna pulls away with a blush, "Yes I will get to my duties at a quarter till eight."
Chris smiles as he gets up and takes off the top part of his robe and kicks off his boots. He walks to the balcony and enjoys the cool night air as Luna walks behind him and spreads her wings before she takes flight. Chris watches Luna take off and use her magic to slowly raise the moon high into the sky as he props himself up on his elbows, not having to wait too long before Luna finishes the task at hand and returns to him.
"You may now sleep my dear, I know how exhausted you must be." Luna says, nuzzling him as Chris hugs her.
"Thanks, i'm sorry I cant enjoy the night with you as much as i'd like, I have to be with Celestia tomorrow for a negotiation between the emissary from the griffon kingdom and us. Not that i'd be giving them a warm welcome..." He says with sarcasm as he rolls his eyes.
Luna nods as she lays her head on her mates chest, "You want to do a little play before bed?"
Chris looks down at her as she flutters those beautiful eyes at him, "Oh you little tease!" he grins as he leaps on her causing her to shriek in delight as the sounds of a creaking bed echoes through the night.
Chris' Dream
"What the hell?? Where am I? Luna? Honey?" Chris calls out, confused and lost as he was stuck in another plane of reality, what he did not expect was the chilling laugh of a evil mare that he thought he prevented.
"Your beloved Luna is not here right now human." Nightmare moon announces as she steps from the shadows.
Chris springs out his wrist blades, "What do you want Nightmare Moon? You've already been stopped and now Luna won't ever be you!"
She laughs, "You foolish human, I have a fall back plan in case my first plan failed... now that you are in my world. I WILL NOW TAKE YOU!"
The evil that once held onto Luna used her magic to infect Chris with a deep evil, the darkness and shadow seeped into his human soul and grew darker and darker. Nightmare Moon laughed and laughed thinking she had won and will take Chris as hers. What she hadn't expected was that Chris was already born in the shadows, he took the darkness that Nightmare Moon infected him and reformed it, made it his own.
As the white robes turn black, chains draping his torn and tattered cloak, he holds out his hands and curls it into a fist as the leather gloves stretched. The dark shroud enters his body as he looks up, smiling with a row of sharp teeth, his eyes red as fire.
"What... what is this! This is not what the spell I cast!" the evil mare panics as the enlightened shadow moves towards her, he holds out his right hand and pulls off his glove as a beam of blue energy shoots out and hits Nightmare Moon, causing her to scream in pain until she disappears in a wisp of smoke.
"I WILL MAKE YOU MINE MARK MY WORDS!" She screams before disappearing.
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Chris wakes up suddenly, breathing quickly and heavily as he was covered in sweat, he looks over to Luna who has fallen asleep peacefully next to him, he checks the clock to see it was 4 am. He sighs as he rubs his face and gets out of bed to get a drink of water from a nearby pitcher that a servant had placed probably not too long ago.
He takes a cup and pours a drink as he quickly gulps it down, only to pour two more cups and drinks it down.
"Fuck how am I so thirsty?" he asks himself.
He gets back to bed and tries his best to go to sleep. He smiles knowing his princess is next to him and keeping him company as he falls back to sleep till his alarm wakes him up.
"Ahhhh fuck..." he groans as Luna whines and hugs. He smiles as he manages to crawl away from her and gets up.
"i'll try to get off early as I can my love." he kisses her as she snuggles into her covers and flutters her eyes at him.
He smiles at her as he gets himself clothed and ready for the negotiations between the Gryphons and Canterlot. He arrives at the throne room to secure it as the Royal Security Ponies soon enter to take their positions before Princess Celestias arrival.
The trumpets sound as the door burst open, the radiant sunlight fills the room as Princess Celestia walks in, the guards salute her with spears standing tall. Chris kneels as Celestia takes her seat upon her throne and looks to Chris then smiles.
"I trust you had a good nights sleep? With my sister no less." She giggles as Chris smiles and lets out a content sigh.
"Yes princess I did. It was nice." he said casually as the pony announcer calls for the emissary from the gryphon kingdom. The tall fearsome looking half lion, eagle being walks in and spits at one of the guards hooves but the discipline for the guard was strong as he did not react.
"So that is the little insect that killed my men was it?" he demands as he points to Chris.
"I WANT HIS HEAD ON A PLATTER!" He screeches as Chris gets up and looks at the gryphon.
"How about fuck off." the bodyguard responds as the gryphon tilts his head and wonders what he meant,
"I would politely ask that you recompose yourself, you are representing your kingdom and so far you are not doing a good first impression." Celestia warns as the gryphon laughs.
"I wasn't sent here for pleasantries you pony wench! My king sent me here with a course of demands! Surrender your kingdom or watch it burn to the ground!" He threatens, Chris growls and would not stand for this asshole calling Celestia a derogatory term.
"HOW DARE YOU!" He points at the gryphon as the guards surround him with their spears
"I should have your head and sent back to that fatass you call a king! If he wants a war, we will give him a war!" the human responds as the ponies stomp their hooves in a beat.
Chris jumps down as he walks towards the gryphon who couldn't do anything as he was surrounded by spears,
"PONIES WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION?!?!" he yells out, they respond with a loud roar,
"HAAAOOO!! HAOOOO!! HAAOOO!!" they all yell in sync while raising their spears.
He stomps his foot on the ground and slams his left hand against his right arm as he starts the newly formed Equestrian army chant,
"WE ARE READY! YES WE ARE READY! THE PONIES OF EQUESTRIA ARE READY FOR WAR! ENEMIES BEWARE! COME FORWARD AND FACE US WE WILL STRIKE YOU DOWN! "
The gryphon was surprised that such espirit de corps and motivation came from one human as the ponies stomp their hooves in sync and growl, Chris does body gestures based on the New Zealand haka war dance as he slams his chest and holds out his arms and forms an attack stance while slowly forcing the emissary to retreat.
"BE STRONG WARRIORS OF CELESTIA! WE WILL GATHER THE ENERGY OF THE SUN TO STRENGTHEN OUR BODIES TO FIGHT THE ENEMY! RISE UP SOLDIERS OF EQUESTRIA! WE WILL FIGHT TO DESTROY OUR ENEMIES AND SEND THEM TO THE PITS OF TARTARUS! "
The emissary got out as quickly as he could and took off in flight towards his territory as Chris seethes and the Royal Security Ponies hold their stance, snorting in pent up energy as Celestia slams her hoof down.
"THAT WILL BE ENOUGH MY ROYAL GUARDS. " She bellows out as the ponies move to return position and Chris moves to his place next to Celestia.
"I wonder where did that come from if I may ask?" Celestia looks to her human as he smiles
"The New Zealand Haka, a tribal war dance from my world. It is a very motivating movement that is basically used to intimidate the enemy and establish unit cohesion. It worked now didn't it? If the king calls for a war, he will surely get it." He says as Celestia shakes her head.
"But my goal was to prevent it. I do not want any of my little ponies to come to harm." She explains as Chris looks up at her
"Whether you liked it or not Princess, war is coming, and we need to prepare for it." he warns as Celestia sighs.
"I guess you're right Chris, you are my close advisor after all." She says as Chris bows his head low.
"Anything we need to take care of Princess Celestia?" He asks as Celestia recieves a scroll from midair.
The letter was from the gryphon king stating he would rather have peace then war, to which Celestia was happy to settle for. Chris eased up a lot more now that the threat level has been lowered. The small show they put on has done the trick, and he was sure what had transpired would reach Princess Luna when she would awake.
Author's Note
Man i have been pushing these chapters out for a while. Gonna need a break... anyways for those who have never seen a new zealand haka, imagine Celestias royal security ponies doing this, with Chris leading the chants:
sorry if this is lacking...
Author's Note
Sorry for the month delay, I got lazy as well as not knowing what to write because I didn't have any ideas at the time. I'll try to get back to writing frequently as much as I used to but now I might need YOUR help in telling me what direction my story should go. Anyways thanks for bearing with me.
Training and War
It was a training week at the Castle grounds as Chris and the Captain were overseeing the royal security ponies training, keeping in shape and getting them ready to defend the castle at a minutes notice. Ever since a anonymous threat has been made to Celestia and Luna, the airmen has authorized the defense conditions to "Sunrise" meaning that ponies will be searched and entry will be strict unless you have the proper credentials. As inconvenient as that sounds to most ponies Chris knows that security takes precedence over convenience.
"Sir if I may ask, what would happen if the person making the threat decides to attack?" The Captain asks as Chris encourages one pony who was doing well with offensive formations.
"Then this whole place will turn into chaos." He responds as the Captain gulps nervously.
"As long as we show that we can defend the castle and the city, it will deter any threat from carrying out their plan." Chris reassures him as they continue to watch the training taking place.
A few hours later
Celestia and Luna watch from the top of the steps as Chris disrobed his top half and set it on the ground, he takes the beam saber from the nearby pony as he activates it.
"Initiate training phase 1, setting Normal." he commands as Star Swirl uses his magic to create dark creatures with dark energy blades as they surround him. Luna looks anxious as Celestia looked on but secretly excited inside. Chris twirls his saber as the creatures started to attack one by one, he blocks and parries the attacks quickly and with such speed as the ponies stare in awe. He twirls his saber to the left and right as he kicks one square in the chest and slashes one across the neck, decapitating it. Luna gasps but her older sister remains unfazed.
He takes a few steps back as the creatures gain leverage, he blocks the ones attacking from the rear as he rapidly blocks and deflects the attacks. He makes a front flip over a group and strikes one the creatures in the middle, slicing it in half as the next group charge. He runs and slides on his knees, knocking out the front three creatures as he gets up spins his blade to counter the oncoming attacks. He knows his one saber isn't doing much so he is going to even the odds,
"Next saber now!" He orders as the nearby overwatch pony throws the second saber from the tray as Chris leaps in the air to catch it, activating it as he kicks one down and blocks multiple attacks from both sides, his saber cutting down a few before he gains some distance to catch his breath.
"Jeez star swirl i said normal! And Phase 1! What Phase and setting did you put this in?" he asks as Star swirl grins,
"Phase 2 hard difficulty sire." he replies as Celestia giggles, causing luna to gasp,
"Sister! He needs assistance!" She pleads as Celestia shakes her head.
"He seems to be managing the task." She says calmly as Luna watches, worried for her mate.
Chris manages to hold one creature with a block as he knocks it back and stabs one behind him, "Tricky bastard." Chris smiles as he throws his saber in the air to throw out three daggers, all hitting their three targets respectively. He rolls in reverse and grabs his saber as he counts five left.
"Alright... lets get this over with." He says as he takes a deep breath as the royal bodyguard begins his offensive, twirling his sabers as the creatures start to fall back. Chris attacks them, spinning from the right and spins from the left as his blade goes from left side to right side, upper left corner to upper right corner. He does a backspin kick to one and uses the momentum to slash at the other, with four left he throws his saber as it impales one and uses his other saber to counter an attack and twirls to slash at another.
Celestia was very impressed as Chris managed to lower the numbers till it was just one on one. They get into a stalemate fight until the creature gets the upper hand and starts to choke Chris. Luna gasps as she screams for the training to end, but Chris kicks the creature off as he regains his stance, the creature surprisingly does a drop kick knocking him down. Chris gets up and kicks it as it tries to charge, having it on the ground Chris grabs his saber and attempts to execute the enemy but the creature grabbed its blade and blocks the attack.
Chris and the creature battle for a good five minutes after, blocking each others strikes and attacks, their most exotic moves occured when they started to spin their sabers front and back for a good few seconds before engaging in a deadlock. They both push each other off as Chris pulls out his dagger, the creature screeches and charges before Chris throws the dagger, hitting it dead center in the head, causing it to collapse and disappear in dust.
The training finally finished, Chris deactivates his sabers and pants, he looks up to see the two Princesses stare with awe at his unique fighting abilities. He smiles as he looks down at his custom made sabers,
"Thank God for my Star Wars geek side." he whispers to himself as he takes a towel to dry himself off.
"Alright defenders, training day is done you are all free to enjoy the day to yourselves. The rest of you go back to your posts and wait till the mids shift relieves you." He announces as all the ponies acknowledge and went about their business, he wipes himself off and approaches the two sisters as he kneels.
"I trust you are satisfied with the training?" he asks as Celestia and Luna look at each other, the Sun goddess being the first to smile and show her approval but Luna looked at Chris with a death glare.
"Meet me in my chambers at half past three." She orders as she flies off.
Chris gulps as he lets out a long sigh, "Ahhhhh fuck... shes going to kill me."
Celestia pushes him along with her muzzle, "She does this when she is upset, it is very entertaining and I love her for it."
He shrugs his shoulders as he gathers his things and heads into the castle to have a discussion with his mare.
In Lunas bedchambers
"HAST THOU LOST THEIR MIND!?! YOU MADE THY PRINCESS AFRAID FOR HER LOVES SAFETY! WHAT GOOD IS A MATE IF HE DOES NOT CARE FOR HIS BELOVED!?! " Luna bellows out in her royal canterlot voice as Chris covers his ears.
'Luna, love, remember what I said about using the big voice?" He reminds her as Luna gives him another dose of higher decibels.
"NO CHRIS YOU WILL LISTEN AS WE CARE FOR YOUR WELL BEING! " She yells out as Chris rubs his ears.
"Funny way of showing it with the yelling." He says as Luna calms down and walks to him,
"I thought you were going to be hurt. I don't think I can bear the pain of losing someone like you." She says sadly as Chris pulls her into an embrace.
"I know Luna, i'm sorry for doing that, I will make sure its safer next time. I promise." he says while holding her tightly.
Suddenly the door bursts open interrupting their private moment of intimacy as a guards pony stands there breatheless,
"Report! And this better be fucking important." He orders as the pony salutes,
"Princess Celestia is holding an emergency meeting with the Captain and she urgently requires your presence sire." The pony manages to speak in one breath before panting for more.
Chris looks at Luna as she smiles nervously at him, "Dont worry Luna.. i'll be back." Chris assures her as he kisses her and gets up to follow him.
As Chris leaves, Lunas eyes start to twitch as they both turn to slits but quickly disappear as Luna shakes her head to clear the dark thoughts from her mind.
In the war room
Chris walks in through the twin doors, wearing his battle armor as was the Captain and Princess Celestia. The sight of her in armor was a surprise to Chris as he never saw her in that sort of gear besides her royal attire.
"What is the situation Captain?" He asks as the pony points a hoof at the map, showing a small town that had an X marked on it.
"What am I looking at? Describe it." Chris orders as the Captain gulps and tries to speak.
"The town of Unicornia, its.... its... completely destroyed." he utters as Chris looks at the map shocked.
"Destroyed as in... all ponies-"
"Wiped out." Celestia interrupts as Chris stares at her wide eyed.
"What the... what the hell can do that sort of thing?!?" He asks as Celestia sheds a tear but looks up with fiery anger.
"That is why I am sending you, to observe the area and gather what information and if there is any possible chance of survivors." She orders as Chris nods and salutes.
"Yes Your Majesty, i'll need the coordinates and will head out as soon as possible." Chris acknowledges as he looks at the map and records the location in his map.
He turns and exits the room, putting on his helmet as the guards ponies salutes him by standing stiff. He looks up at the exit hole in the ceiling as he spreads his wings and shoots up like a bullet. He stops at a good 500 feet in the air before speeding towards the location of the town. As he was flying at a speed of 200 mph he sees the smoke in the distance get bigger and bigger before slowing himself down to land, what he saw broke his heart yet stirred up a burning rage.
The town was razed to the ground, bodies of torn up ponies littered the streets, limbs and pieces of flesh or gore was everywhere. He looked around in horror as there seemed to be no survivors.
"What the fuck could cause such a massacre." Chris says to himself, his scanners picked up a faint life signal in one of the sheds that was left untouched. He pulls out his pistol as he slowly approached the small wooden shelter, he takes cover on the side as he takes a deep breath, then quickly he rips the door open and aims only to find two small foals, huddled together, terribly frightened and hungry. Chris lowers his weapon as he kneels down but the foals scurry to the corner as they whimper.
"Are you two ok?" Chris asks as he holsters his weapon, the two foals look at him confused as he slowly takes off his helmet to show his face. The foal who looks to be the oldest tilts his head as the younger foal, a filly bury her face into his fur.
"I'm here to come get you, Princess Celestia will take care of you." he reassures them as he reaches into his bag to pull out two apples and sets it down.
"Eat up little ones, you must be hungry." He smiles to comfort them as they move forward and nibbles before eating them quickly.
He reaches out to them as he unslings a basket for them to climb into, "Come here you two... i'll take you to the Castle."
The little filly looks up, "C-Castle?" she asks.
"Yes Princess Celestia and Princess Luna will look after you two. Your mom and dad... they're..." He didn't want to say it but the two foals quiver their lips and cries loudly, he was utterly destroyed emotionally seeing two orphan foals, traumatized by this horrific scene. He suddenly hears growls and looks around before putting his helmet back on.
"Ehhh ehhH! Monsters are here!" The colt cries as Chris sees multiple contacts on his radar.
"Where in the hell?!?" He pulls out his pistol and looks around as he sees a black porous, large blue eyed creature with a jagged horn, bug like wings and sharp teeth drooling, obviously stained with the blood of the ponies that were massacred.
"If this is supposed to be what the changelings are... then this the most disturbing version I have ever seen... Lauren Faust needs to change the changeling appearance if I ever get back. He quickly pulls out his phone and takes a few snapshots of the changelings before turning on his helmet cam to record the encounter.
The group of changelings surrounded the armored human, as one leaps towards him, he turns and fires two shots from his 9mm, bringing it down as it bleeds green. The foals hide in the basket as Chris checks his sides and his rear, not giving the changelings an advantage. The next one growled as it charges towards him, he looks to the charging creature and fired two shots to the head as it drops. The next two fly towards him as he holsters his pistol and activates his beam saber, he maintains his stance as the two black creatures closed distance, he swings his saber in arcs as he slashes one then the other as they both dropped.
Seeing no other changelings he deactivated his saber and notices his hands were shaking, he wondered to himself if he was terrified, well his heart is beating rapidly, the adrenaline pumping through his system and he just recovered from tunnel vision. Yeah he is scared shitless.
"Holy fuck... holy fuck..." he says to himself as he secures the basket tightly, surveying the scene to report it to Celestia as he zooms upward like a rocket, falls for a while then speeds off towards friendly territory.
Luna and Celestia were waiting for Chris to return, Luna in her dark colored battle armor and Celestia in her pure white version. They hear the roar of thrusters as Chris lands gently, his wings flapping as he touches down, wings folding in he unslings a basket to set it down before Celestia and Luna.
"Were there?" Luna asks hopefully as Chris takes off his helmet and looks at them, his eyes tearing up.
"These two were all thats left." He says sadly as the two foals look up from the basket and looks around.
Luna gasps as Celestia closes her eyes tightly, tears brimming. The younger princess swoops down gracefully as the foals were scared, as Luna walks up to them she lowered her head and nuzzled them as they start to cry and hug the princess. Chris walks up to Celestia and showed her the pictures on his phone.
"This is what I encountered and fought against. If this is what I think it is... I think the changeling queen has just made a declaration of war."
Celestia snorts, "That bitch promised not to step into Equestrian territory for centuries. Now I will make sure she pays dearly for the atrocities she has committed."
Luna takes the two orphan foals into a different room as Chris looks at her and she looks back at him.
"When I arrived... I... there was nothing I can do... everything was burned to the ground. No pony was alive... all I saw was... parts of them." He shudders.
The Sun goddess started to hyperventilate as the airman grabs hold of her and the guards notice it too.
"Princess??" Chris speaks to her as Celestia takes short rapid breaths, the news was too much and it was taking a toll on her.
Chris knew that the Princess was going into shock, "GET THE DOCTOR IN HERE! THE PRINCESS IS GOING INTO SHOCK!"
Two guards immediately bolt out the door to find the royal doctor as Chris kneels in front of Celestia then looks her in the eyes,
"Celestia look at me, take deep breathes, breathe in slowly, then breathe out... and again." he tries to calm her down as she tries to do as he instructed her.
This episode scared Chris, never has he seen Celestia like this. He can only wonder, what kind of changeling enemy is Equestria facing?
Chris slowly paces the hall, unnerved by what happened. He rubs his hair and sighs as he thinks long and hard about what happened and what he needs to plan for in the near future.
"Christ almighty this is weird." He says to himself as he runs his hands through his hair to slick it back, he goes to take a seat next to the medical room. He pulls out his phone, not like as if it could work since it has no signal wait a second, he looks at his phone closely and sees it has full bars.
"Holy shit full bars in Equestria? Damn that's legit." He says surprised as he goes through his phone to occupy himself until the princess is available for visits. Chris made sure to have good post rotations so that the Celestia is guarded 24/7.
"Excuse me human but I demand to see the Princess on important ma-!" He was suddenly cut off as Chris grabs the ponys head, leaps and lands on his back as the stallion faceplanted on the ground. The stallion was knocked out cold as Chris quickly gets up and plays a clip from his favorite show
"WHAT?!?! RKO FROM OUTTA NOWHERE! UNBELIEVABLE!" The phone speaker blares out as Chris looks to the ceiling, his body moving in a sideways fashion as he throws his arms down and looks at the pony with a predatory look in his eyes as a song plays through his phone, "I hear voices in my head they council me, they understand, they talk to me."
Chris was taking deep breathes as he summons two guards to take the pony to the medical room.
"Fucking rich pricks." Chris growls as he rubs his head and throws his hands down. He huffs and slams his hands down on the wall, making loud smack sounds. This is complete utter frustration, he needed to get his mind off the matter and soon.
"Should probably get to checking on the new armor for the royal equestrian army." Chris says to himself as he quickly walks down the long hallways in a power walk pace. He turns the corner and runs into his mare, Princess Luna, and she didn't look to happy.
"My Princess? Are you ok? I didn't mean to run into you." He apologizes as Luna sighs and pulls her love into a tight hug with one hoof around his neck, he gets down to her level and returns the hug. Princess Luna sniffles as if she was about to cry, "Chris, i'm worried for my sister. I'm scared."
Chris looks at Luna and kisses her gently, "She will be fine, the physicians are doing their job in taking care of her."
Luna looks to the side, afraid and nervous, "I... I don't know how to run the kingdom while my sister is away. I usually ruled the night but never both."
The human smiles as he strokes the night princess mane, "That's why i'm here, to serve on your behalf."
She nuzzles and smiles as he caresses her, "And we are very glad for your loyalty."
Chris leans in to kiss his love as she moves forward to accept his kiss, they locked lips for a few minutes before Chris pulls away, "If you'll excuse me Your Majesty I have to check on our military. This new threat cannot be underestimated."
She nods as she flutters her wings gently, "Yes we can see the wisdom in your words, go see to it that our stallions are ready."
He bows low as he then turns and walks down the hallway to the lower levels of the castle.
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"Her Majestys sire in the area! Atten-Hut!" The Captain of the Security Ponies announces as all ponies stop what they are doing and form up in attention as Chris walks down the steps to the guards quarters.
"At ease, someone get me the armorers, Captain walk with me, everypony else continue what you were doing before but be ready to fight at a moments notice." Chris says as the ponies acknowledge the order and continue their duties.
"Is there something the matter sir?" The Captain, Rigid Hoof, asks as they walk to the armory.
"Need to check on that armor and see how it is progressing." He answers as they open the door.
"Hey! Where are you Iron Hammer you sack of shit!?!" Chris jokes as a hammer misses his head as a stocky looking grey unicorn trots from the other room,
"Right here two legged ape." The unicorn replies back with a smile as Chris walks over and grabs the unicorns stretched hoof as they embrace in a friendly hug.
"Hey listen I need to know the status of that new armor, we need to field test it soon."
Iron Hammer uses his magic to pull out two of the new helmets, both were plain white with black t-visors with a sharp pointed frown and a fin at the top.
"Thats excellent, now we need Star Swirl to enchant these helmets before they are battlefield tested." Chris says as Iron Hammer bows and trots off to grab the rest.
"SIR! SIR!!!" Chris' head quickly turns to see a Security Pony nearly tumble down the steps.
"The hell is going on?" He asks as the pony tries to catch his breath.
"Outside... strangers... creatures." The pony pants as he tries to be presentable.
Chris looks to the Captain as they both bound up the steps quickly, reaching the outside castle grounds as he sprints to the gates, the Security Ponies point to where the event was taking place. He runs over the bridge and into the downtown area of Canterlot as a large crowd of ponies gather.
"Make way! Her Majesties advisor approaches!" The Captain announces as Chris moves through the crowd as they all part and bow.
What he saw made him stop hard, the very same creatures he saw at the destroyed village was there. He felt the rage boil inside him as the black insect winged creatures cock their heads as they study him.
"Are you the biped ape that killed our scouting party?" The lead changeling asked, seeing that it was dressed in a form of robes that could resemble its rank as an envoy, Chris glares at the lead ambassador.
"Whats it look like to you?" he replies with contempt as the changelings growl.
"We came here on behalf of our Queen... Queen Monobia." The lead changeling announces, "She offers peace for an exchange for tribute. If you decline, we will arrive in force and devour every living thing. Stallion, mare, fillies, all of them. First she wants the biped ape, you will come with us."
"How about fuck you." Chris responds as the changeling bares its fangs, "Kill him!"
Before the changelings could attack, the Security ponies that blended in as regular townsfolk, intercepted them and cut them down, with swords made from pure magic, taught by Star Swirl, introduced by yours truly, they never got a chance. Chris watches as the escort changeling was killed as the lead bug pointed a hoof at him.
"You will pay for this you you hairless biped ape!" Chris grabs the hoof and with a quick snap, dislocated the ankle portion as the changeling yelped.
Chris was shivering, furious as he yells and smacks the changeling hard across the face, making it turn 180 degrees, shocked as it looks at Chris.
"RAAAAH!!" Chris smacks the changeling again, and again and again.
The changeling pants as it touched the corner of its mouth to see green blood leaking, "You think we will give in to your demands? You're out of your damn mind."
The ponies surrounding them all muttered and nodded in agreement with what Chris had to say.
"These ponies here will not be deceived. You tell your Queen she won't get shit." Chris says as he turns to walk away, "Get this piece of shit out of Princess Celestias city."
The ponies bowed and yelled out ," Yes Sir!" as they approached but the changeling laughed as the ponies all talked to each other in surprise.
"I am impressed, Christian Harknett. I thought you would be weaker than this. Now that you weakened me... go ahead... kill me." The changeling suggested as it opened itself for attack.
Chris looks to the changeling and takes a deep breath, "I already had enough for today, the ponies here will take your life."
The ponies all mutter together as the changeling grins, "The ponies can't lay a hoof on me! Do you think that my Queen will let them live if they kill me? Every single one of them will be eaten!"
The bugs blue eyes looks to the left and right, "Listen up ponies! Surrender this human to me, and you will all be spared and live a life of prosper-"
The ponies gasp in horror as they saw the Princess advisor completely lose control, the other unfortunate witness to such anger was Princess Luna herself and her maid, who was watching the events unfold. Chris runs over and kicks the changeling in the face, the Captains jaw drops as everypony pointed and watches as Chris picks up the changeling and punches it in the face and its stomach over and over. He punches again as the bug fell on its hooves, enraged Chris runs over and kicks its legs out from under as it flips onto its back.
Rolling over the changeling coughs and looks up, bloodied and bruised, " I... I don't deserve to die like this!" Chris looks at the pathetic creature and pants, "What?? You miserable bastard.."
He picks up the changeling and shakes it, "Get up! Then what do you deserve???" He lands a few punches, "Huh?! Huh?!"
He head butts the changeling and deals more blows as the Security ponies look on with concern as they couldn't look away. The human punches the bug in the gut twice before landing an uppercut that made it spin onto a nearby wagon.
Spitting up blood and hoof over a bruised body the changeling tried to get up, "I tried to offer peace, for my Queen and to prevent blood shed. I refuse to take the blame for what happened in that village."
Chris yells out in rage, "RRRRAAAAAAHHH!!!" He jumps and kicks the changeling back down as he grabs it by the horns, "Take a good look at the ponies! Look at the grieving families of the ones your wretched scouts has killed! What peace have you offered us?!?"
The ponies all yell in anger and try to hit the changeling as Chris pulls it to the side and throws punches center mass and finally throws it to the ground. It rolled and tumbled as it got on threes with one hoof bent, spitting up blood and somewhat disoriented.
It looks up to Chris as the human balled his hands into fists, "What?!? Does it hurt?! ARE YOU IN PAIN!?!?! RRRRAAAAHHH!!!" Chris runs and does a jump side kick, knocking the changeling back a good several feet before landing on its back, as it moves a sickening crunch is heard as it moves slightly. A hoof on its chest it looks at Chris and points at him, "I will curse you..." it mutters as it struggles to speak and breathe, its hoof shaking as it utters its final words, "I will curse you from Tartarus...." its hoof fell limp as Chris watches it let out its final breath.
"Die you bastard! Die!" The ponies yell out as they all beat the dead body with their hooves, yelling curses and letting out their anger as Princess Luna watches on, her hoof to her muzzle in shock, never knowing her love would ever be capable of such anger and power.
Chris watches the ponies unleash their anger, he then turns away and takes a deep breath as he looks up sighs, thinking about what he had done he closes his eyes and lets out a tear as he felt the emotion of the grieving relatives of the destroyed village pour out onto the unfortunate envoy who dare show its face into Canterlot.
Author's Note
Terribly sorry this took forever. I felt somewhat lazy and plus christmas, new years and all that plus I got a lot of crap going on with my work. This fight scene was inspired by my favorite korean war drama called Dae Joyoung.
Anyways hope you enjoy.
The clanging of swords ring through out the air as Chris oversees the ponies extensive training, the royal security ponies soon turning into the Equestrian Royal Army. Chris watches as the ponies, roll, somersault, dive and do basic acrobatics to dodge the swords being swung at them by their opponents. After the incident at the Canterlot city square with the changeling ambassador, Luna taking over the military operations pointed out the multiple threats that surrounded Equestria. Most noticeably the Gryphons and the Changelings. As of yet the Gryphons have been on a conquering spree, roaming the borders unchecked and attacking at will.
Chris growls at the thought of these bird brained bastards getting their claws on whatever they can find. Their reign of terror will be put to an end no doubt about it. Thankfully Celestia was recuperating and was laying in her bed, sipping on a cup of tea, Chris knocks with a firm fist against the door as a calm voice asked, "Who is it?"
Chris clears his throat and answers, "It is your royal bodyguard, Chris." He stands with his hands behind his back awaiting the Princess' response.
"You may enter." Celestia replies as Chris opens the doors and walks in, he stops a few feet from the bed and gets on one knee then lowers his head to show respect.
She smiles warmly and raised a hoof for her faithful servant to rise, "Any reports on our growing army?"
Chris pulls out a piece of paper and begins to read his findings, "Well we are getting a steady amount of recruits day by day. Most need work but the ones that are already in service are acclamating well to the fighting techniques I have introduced to them. Ever since spying on a gryphon war camp and seeing them train, these ponies are way ahead of their combat capabilities by decades if not more."
Celestia nods as she is greatly impressed with what Chris had to offer. Already his ideas and input has strategically aided the ponies defenses but wasnt sure about offensive movements. Still she left those matters with the human as he was more experienced in that category.
"If you'll excuse me princess I have but one final training lesson for the day I have to show the soldiers." He bows low as Celestia nods her approval.
"You may go my faithful servant." She says as Chris smiles and walks out, the Royal Security Ponies close the door.
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"Alright. Gather round, gather round." He says as the recruits gather around him and a large sheet screen.
"Lets see if I can get this connected." He fiddles around with the device and his phone, trying to connect the wires and such to the port.
The ponies whisper to each other wondering what their commander was trying to do. Suddenly the device activated and showed a black screen with a triangle symbol.
"Alright! Here we go. Listen up, final lesson. Everypony here has been training using advance fighting techniques I brought back from a land that has been around for thousands of years. While I was at said country I learned the forms, the movements and sword fighting that I am teaching you now. This video here will show you the real thing. How it looks and the results. Watch and learn." Chris announces as he presses the play button on his phones screen.
The video shows a man with a decent beard, oriental in nature and a headband, he was silent for a bit before he spoke in a language unknown to the ponies but the subtitles below made it easier to understand, "Clear the way, or all of you will die a treacherous death."
It then switches to another man, a bald one with a beard wearing brown armor obviously looking beaten and worn down, "So be it! You will have to kill us all to get through here!"
The video then shows two opposing forces, one tan and one black and grey in a dense forest. The ponies look on in awe, wondering what will happen. Chris knows the ponies will want answers as to who is what so he decides to pause and speak.
"What is happening here is the Tang Chinese forces are on the run from the Gogureoyo forces. The main general Dae JoYoung has made an ultimatum. We will see how that ends." He plays the video again as the standoff continues.
"I repeat. There will be no mercy for anyone who stands in our way." The general warns, "So clear the way!"
The leading Tang commander bares his teeth, "What are you waiting for? Kill Dae JoYoung!" he yells out as he unsheathes his sword.
The next commander unsheathes his as well and yells out an order, "Fight to the end! Protect General Li Kaigu!"
Dae JoYoung smiles, "Very well. You've chosen death so we will kill you all." He raises his hand to signal his troops, "Attack!'
Dae JoYoungs brother, Gulsabiwu glares at the enemy as he also yells out, "Attack! Wipe them out!"
The ponies then watched a battle they have never seen, the human soldiers fighting in moves they never thought of until Chris showed up. The general and the tang commander continued to fight in close range, Dae JoYoung using his momentum to dodge the attacks and land a few kicks at the chest and back. Gulsabiwu swings his sword and was countered by the other tang commander as they continued to jump, spin and deflect each others swings for a while, evenly matched.
Eventually the two Tang commanders were killed as the ponies cheered, Chris turns off the video as the ponies look at Chris.
"Tomorrow you will be training in new techniques and ever evolving environments. Also, we will be trying out a new weapon i'm sure the likes of which you never seen before."
The ponies all mutter to each other wondering what he was talking about as Princess Luna shows up, the ponies all stand at attention but Chris as he turns and kneels before her, "My Princess."
She smiles and nuzzles her mate, "Rise my faithful guard." He obeys as he stands before her, "You have all trained well, we hast seen it. Thou hast seen fit to grant you all a nights rest and later start." The ponies look to each other with smiles on their faces.
Chris smiles as well, he was feeling a bit generous as the ponies did put alot of effort into this training day.
"9 am on the dot. Go to your quarters and get some well earned sleep. You ponies made me proud today." Chris yells out as the ponies stood at attention and saluted, "YES SIR!" With that final response they all bolted to let their exhausted bodies plop onto their cots.
Luna then turns to Chris as she lets her hoof trail down his chest, sliding down further until she gets to his pants. "You. Me. Tonight. My Quarters." She smirks as Chris grins.
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The bed was banging against the wall loudly but not loud enough to cover the screams of a delighted alicorn princess and the grunts of her human lover as they were in the middle of an extremely passionate love making session.
"Thats it Chris, breed me! Breed me!!" Luna orders as Chris plows her royal plot, occasionally smacking her cutie mark as she yelps and hangs her tongue out from the sensation growing inside her. He looks down to see his throbbing member slide in and out of his mare, taking quick short breathes as he feels the pressure building from his balls, knowing what was to come.
"Luna... baby i'm close." Chris pants as he continues to shove his dick deep into her.
"Do it. Do it. CHRIS FUCKING DO IT!!" Luna screeches as Chris slams into the night princess deep, feeling his cock breach her womb and shoot a massive load into her. He lost count of how many loads he shot in her because he felt himself being drained. Luna was beyond coherent as she was mumbling, her face blushed and her eyes rolled to the back of her head as she giggles, her wings twitching slightly as Chris propped himself over her.
"Luna.... you ok?" He asks worried as Luna coos softly and looks up to kiss him full on the lips as he holds her head to make out with her passionately.
"Shall we sleep now my love?" Luna asks as Chris nods and pulls himself out of her, the cream gushing out and spilling onto the floor, Chris looks over and sees the puddle of cum they left.
"Ahhh hell." He says, he went over to get it cleaned but Luna raised a hoof to stop him, "Leave it be. I'll have my servants clean it." She clops her hooves twice and the door opens to reveal a moon dust colored mare with a black mane with red streaks enter with a very stereotypical french maid outfit, her cutie mark was of a feather duster with a red lipstick kiss mark behind it.
"You called your Highness?" the mare says as she bows low.
Luna points to the cum puddle," Clean the mess, Seductive Innocence." Without a word, Seductive went over and starts lapping at the cum, drinking it down as if she hasnt had it in years. Chris stares in shock as Seductive cleans the mess, to the point that the puddle was never there to begin with.
She finishes the last drop as she still kept her head low, "Any other wish your majesty?" Luna shakes her head no, "You are dismissed." With that Seductive Innocence leaves the room and the door slams shut.
"I dont want to know." Chris says nervously as Luna laughs, "Come my love, let us rest for tomorrow."
Chris shrugs his shoulders as he gets in the bed with his beloved princess, ready for the next day and another day of training.
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"Alright bring out the cannon!" Chris orders as the two blacksmith ponies bring out a large iron tube, rolling it along a wooden box like carriage, the ponies all wondered what it could be and what it could do.
Chris sets up the loading powders and charges along with a cannonball, with that he starts the loading process. He takes a large scoop of blackpowder and throws it in as well as throw in another charging powder, yellow in color, before setting in a block of wood for the wad, he takes out the ram rod and pushes it down quickly, finally picking up the large iron cannonball, he sets it in and pushes it in as well. He quickly goes to the rear of the cannon and lines the sight up with his target, a group of dummy gryphons with fake swords and a very cheesy face drawings that only kids could've done.
Princess Celestia now fully recovered and out of bed as well as he younger sister Luna sat in a multi colored tent, watching several feet away. Eager to see what this contraption would do. Finally finishing his corrections, Chris grabs the torch stick and lights the fuse as he backs away.
"You might as well cover your ears." he warns as the ponies lay their ears flat and cover it with their hooves, as the fuse finally gets burnt away, the ponies did not expect what came next. A loud boom, a sound that dwarves the sound Chris rifle makes came out of the cannon as well as a big flash of fire spitting out of the barrel as the ponies all duck to the ground in fear. Celestia and Luna both squeak and jump from their seats, their guards dropping their weapons and shaking in their armor, definitely afraid as everyone watches the group of fake gryphons explode in a cloud of dirt.
When the dirt settles the fake gryhpon squad was nothing more than bits and pieces, a large crater was where the fake squad was at before as Chris nods and shrugs his shoulders, "Not bad for a first time." He says to himself as he walks down and motions for the ponies to get up.
"Alright... now you now what this is. A cannon. These weapons at this time you are in now, is a very VERY advanced weapon. A weapon that will change the tide of this oncoming war."
The ponies all look to each other, Chris is no stranger to fear and worry.
"Listen, these will be beneficial to us, and us only. With the proper training these weapons will be your friend and your greatest ally. Now who's ready to learn!?" The ponies stand up and cheer, "Huzzah!
Several months later
Chris was talking with a carpenter pony, talking about the design of the new ships that are being built for the Royal Equestrian Navy. Ships that were going to be outfitted with the new cannons and ready seaponies eager to go out and engage in their first battle against the Gryphon War Boats.
"And I want a decent sized compartment to hold alot of ammo and cannons, i've seen first hand what happens when there isn't enough ammo to spare." Chris warns as he looks back to the time he watched a famous korean war movie, where the crew of a famous admirals ship only has one metal dart.
"Understood sire. We will see to it that these ships get the compartments you requested. The estimated time will be several weeks at most."
Chris sighs, "We need to hurry up with the construction, we already got word that the Gryphon pirates are pillaging the coastal ports and savagely killing innocent ponies wherever they find them. I want these bird brains to know that the Equestrian military is going to kick their ass." He threatens as the carpenter pony stares then shakes his head trying to get himself to concentrate.
"We will get it done as soon as possible my lord." Chris looks to the pony when he said lord, he doesn't like that title, he feels he is just Chris and holds no title over them.
"Just call me Chris Table Wood." The human says jokingly as he pats the pony in the back.
Author's Note
This is going to be part one of the chapter leading up to the grand debut of the Equestrian Navy. The ponies will be in for a fight of their lives. Anyways leave a comment, like, a critique anything really. Hope you all enjoy this.
oh and another of my favorite scenes from a korean war drama. The video chris showed the ponies.
It was a few weeks after the plans have been made that the ships are finally set and ready for their first naval engagement. Chris was on the lead flaghship, inspecting the cargo and weaponry before the seaponies were allowed to get on board.
"Looks like everything is in order. Get the stallions on board. We make way now." Chris ordered as his second in command, a stallion by the name of Bow String, his cutie mark a bow and arrow, nodded as he blew on a whistle around his neck.
"All stallions board your ships and prepare to launch!" He issues out the order as mass numbers of ponies run out of their formations to their designated ships. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna watch from a pavilion, Chris then turns and makes eye contact with the Sun Goddess as he bows in respect, holding his newly made Equestrian helmet, made specifically for a human of course. The design was different from all others as he had this custom made. A steel top tested to withstand a arrow and heavy material flaps to protect the sides and back, layered with overlapping metal shingles.
"Is everypony on board?" He turns to the ships captain and his trusted friend, Capt. Blue Star, dressed in a blue thick cloth like material with metal studs placed in a pattern, ever since Chris took control of the nations military he had everything changed to get an edge on the enemies of Equestria.
"Yes Supreme Commander. All ships are ready to launch." He salutes as Chris nods.
"Signal the ponies to depart." He orders as the captain nods and walks out to the middle of the deck.
"ALL SHIPS DEPART! ALL SHIPS DEPART!" Blue Star yells out as the signal flag colored blue is hoisted up high and the rowponies down below start to move the oars, with a big sized pony banging a drum to keep them in a beat.
"This is it! Lets show these gryphons whose boss!" The stallion yells out as the ships start to slowly leave the docks, turning and finally heading out to open sea.
"Do you think they will win their first battle sister?" Luna asks, with a voice filled with worry as Celestia looks out and mentally wishes them good luck.
"With Chris as their commander, I have no doubt in my mind they will succeed. I just hope this is the right response." Celestia says with a bit of anxiety.
At a port of a newly conquered gryphon harbor, the nearby port bar
"I am starting to doubt whether this Celestia whore will send her small army to stop us." A gryphon by the name of Sharp Beak taunts as he takes a long drink from a wine bottle as a trembling mare, positioned near the war gryphon doesn't make eye contact as the biped bird finishes up and sets the bottle down.
"Well not after what happened close to about a year ago... with that new ape... or human as they call it. Killed our assassins and threatened our King." replied another by the name of Light Feather as he sharpens his sword.
Sharp Beak scoffs at the mention of the human, "This human is probably nothing... what can he do?"
Light Feather shrugs his shoulders not caring until suddenly the door to their bar bursts open and a armored gryphon, probably the leading commander steps in, his sharp talons click on the wooden floor as the gryphons in the bar stand up quickly.
"Gryphons! There has been a report from a scout of a massive fleet of Equestrian ships, size unknown, they are heading this way so off your asses and get to your ships!" The war gryhpon orders as they all run out, joining with the rest of the sea gryphons to board their ships quickly to meet the enemy.
"About time! Was starting to get bored of conquering port after port with little to no fighting. Its no fun slaughtering stallions, cooking the little fillies and colts and having fun with the mares before killing them off." Sharp Beak whispers excitedly to his friend as the gryphon nods in agreement.
"I still feel full from the last colt I cooked for myself." Light Feather says with a laugh as they make it to their ship.
Every gryphon grabs a crossbow and readies themselves on their ships, after getting the all clear signal, the lead flagship blows the horn and the gryphon rowers moved the ships out of the beach and heading out to meet their enemy.
At the entrance to an unnamed strait
Chris was waiting patiently for the enemy to make their approach, since they arrived at the evening hours, it was a perfect strategic advantage to hide near the mountains at the entrance so as to not let the enemy see them. With the pegasus cooperation and Luna raising the moon with cloud cover, it gave just enough light for the ponies to see their enemy. Along with strong winds to prevent the gryphons any scouting advantage, the human waited for the moment of truth to arrive.
"Blast this wind!" The lead commander of the gryphon fleet growls as he leaves the canopy and walks down the short steps. Looking around as they approach the end of the strait he can only see darkness and the black sea.
"Where are they?" He asks himself as they continue to sail out towards open sea, but no sight on the Equestrian navy.
The Equestrian ships positioned on both sides of the strait wait with growing anticipation, Chris feels himself start to sweat nervously, as this was his first battle, his first time ever commanding a large force. His hands to his side, his left hand gripping his sword, his rifle and pistol stored in a nearby box in case things went south which he hoped to god nothing of the sort would ever happen.
He took deep breathes to calm his nerve as he sees the first gryphon ship sail out of the strait, the ships were sailing quickly as more followed behind it.
The ponies watch with restlessness, some looking up towards Chris wondering when he will give the order to attack. What seemed like an eternity was only a minute as Chris finally moves his head towards the captain and issues out the fateful command.
"This is it, open fire." The captain unsheathes his sword and yells out the command as loud as he could.
"OPEN FIRE! ALL SHIPS OPEN FIRE!"
The ponies take the hot torch and light the fuses, the seconds seem to tick away, the two gunners hold the cannon for stability as the fuse reaches the end, the cannon fires with a loud boom. The cannon flies through the air, arcing over the waters as it finally found its mark, the mast of a gryphon ship, the gryphons look up in surprise and screech as the mast falls over them and slides into the water.
Commander High Fire who was positioned on the other side of the strait, unsheathes his sword and orders his ponies to fire, "OPEN FIRE! OBLITERATE THEM ALL!"
Every cannon that was facing the enemy boomed, unleashing heavy 15 pound cannonballs towards their unfortunate enemies. The gryphons looked out the side as flashes of fire danced across the waters as the gryphon fleet was getting hit from both sides. The water next to the ships splashes as well as the ships themselves as the incoming fire was tearing them up.
The lead gryphon looks around, shocked by what he is seeing till he realizes he's been ambushed, the thought angers him as he screeches loudly and raises his claws then slams them down on a wooden beam in his canopy. Chris watches from afar, his facial expression was one of pure concentration but anger towards these savage birds.
The gryphons were running around trying to return fire but was getting thrown around by the constant explosions the cannons were giving as the cannonballs struck their ships, sparks and wood were flying everywhere. Since they were so tightly clustered, the casualty rate for the gryphons were rising rapidly.
The gryphon commander, Iron Claw covers his face and slides his paw down as he looks to his lieutenant, "How did we get to this? I want every gryphon up in the skies and returning fire!"
Capt Blue Star was giving orders, motivating the stallions until something caught his eye, he quickly trots up the steps to report to the commander.
"Sir, ships coming in from the open sea." Chris looks out then turns to face the captain, "Have the ponies know that those are our ships and to not engage them." Blue Star salutes as he trots down to relay the word.
Iron Claw surveys the battle as he thinks of what to do next, "Issue the command to head for open sea as quick as possible!"
The lieutenant nods and was about to head out until the gryphon stops and points out, "Commander look!"
Iron Claws eyes widen as he sees another fleet of Equestrian ships approaching, the two stallions leading the charge, two unicorns by the names of Shock and Thunder, brothers by blood. Shock unsheathes his sword and makes his first order, "Prepare the heavy cannons!"
The seaponies load up the cannons with what looks like a non explosive rocket, a metal dart to be precise, they aim it and make sight adjustments before lighting the fuse and fires. The darts launch from the cannons and connect with their targets, hitting the lower decks of the gryphons ships. The water pours in disabling the ship as the gryphons below try to escape, but to no avail as the oncoming water makes them fall over.
"Open fire!" Thunder yells out as the gunners fire the rest of the metal darts at the Gryphon Navy.
Gryphons were tumbling, flying and being thrown all over the place as the cannons and darts hit their marks. Iron Claw couldn't believe what he was seeing, he turns to grab his lieutenant, raising his claw in frustration but not knowing what to do.
"Tell me.. tell me who is the bastard responsible for humiliating me like this!??" He asks with a panic, something he has never done in all his years in service.
"Tell the ships to press forward and fight! We will destroy these ponies once and for all!" He yells out.
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Chris watches the battle from his flag ship, the cannon fire resonating through the wooden boards and his body. He felt that this has gone on long enough, now was the time to make it personal, he wants to see these birds roast.
"Order the fleet to charge forward. I want these bird brains at the bottom of the ocean." Chris growls as Blue Star nods, he trots out to the middle of the deck and yells out the command, "Full speed ahead!"
The commander of the other ship High Fire raises his sword, "Forward! Full speed ahead!"
All Equestrian ships start plowing through the waters, charging forward and closing the distance between them and the gryphon ships.
Shock holds out his sword and orders his seaponies, "We can't let the commander beat us! All ships charge!"
Chaos ensued as ponies braced against the wooden frames of their boats, cannons firing, the cannonballs showing their path as the heat leaves tracer like appearances as the gryphons try to fire their crossbows only to miss by a wide margin, still getting tossed about and flung into the air from the explosions on deck from the cannonballs.
High Fire points to the closest gryphon ship, "Stallions throw the hay! Its time to burn the birds!"
The sea ponies were throwing hay over to the gryphon ship, exposing themselves as the gryphons were able to take aim and fire their crossbows, hitting ponies left right and center. Hay was still being flung over but with more ponies getting hit, Chris knew picked up a bow and arrow, lights the tip on fire as he takes aim and shoots.
"Give covering fire! Fire everything you got! Cover the stallions! Fire the arrows!" Blue Star yells out as he waves his foreleg over to the gryphon ship, the sea ponies take aim with fire arrows and unleashes a barrage of fire, engulfing the gryphons. Gryphon numbers were being shortened as the arrows hit their targets, wooden beams and the hay that was thrown over before.
The birds tried to take aim but a massive flurry of fire arrows rained across from the other ship, some being knocked back, the others falling over into the water. The gryphons were able to make lucky hits, knocking down ponies as stallions raised up metal shields, the arrows being deflected as Chris yells out orders and encouragement.
"Give these fuckers everything you have! Remember the innocents murdered! Attack! Kill them all!"
One pony was struck by an arrow, his fire bolt and bow was dropped, Bow String notices the downed pony and takes up his bow and arrow, finds his target and takes aim before letting loose the arrow, striking a brown feathered gryphon dead center and knocking it down.
Stallions lined up and let loose their arrows as gryphons dropped by the numbers. Fire arrows were flying across the sky, it was a beautiful sight if one were to observe the battle. One gryphon was engulfed in fire, flailing its arms screeching loudly from the pain as its feathers were being burned, it ran to the edge of the ship and flung itself over, along with another fiery gryphon as they both hit the water.
Chris stares out at the wrecked enemy fleet, "Raise the command flag. We are spearheading this attack." He orders Blue Star as he takes out his modern weaponry and charges his weapons, loading a round in the chamber.
Bow String looks at his lord with wide eyes then looks away, sensing something was wrong with this manuever.
"B-but sir? That will make us a target for the enemy." The captain explained but Chris cuts him off.
"That wasn't a suggestion Captain. Do it." The captain was speechless as the command flag was raised.
A sea stallion announced to the fleet, "The command ship is spearheading the attack!"
Everyone cheers except the lead stallions, they immediately rushed to the sides of their boats, shocked.
A comical stallion by the name of Punch Line with a cutie mark of a jesters face grips the railing, "What is he doing? Is he out of his mind? Huh??"
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A gryphon lieutenant slams his claw down on the wooden railing of his ship as Iron Claw walks over, "Sir the command ship has been spotted! It looks like they are spearheading the attack!"
Iron claw stares out to find the ship with the red flag billowing from the mast, "Get us close to that ship. This will be my moment when I, Iron Claw, Admiral of the Gryphon Navy slays the pathetic human and his Equestrian Navy!"
Chris unsheathes his sword and points it at the enemy fleet, "All ships charge the enemy!"
Iron Claw raises his arm and motions it forward, "Get us next to the command ship, this is our chance! FORWARD!"
The gryphon ship was seen turning towards Chris and his ship, the screeches of the gryphons commanding the ship could be heard as gryhpon crossbows were heard firing from across the waters as the fire arrows were seen arcing towards the ship. Chris and Iron Claw were both within sight of each other, glaring and ready to fight to the death.
A pony was loading the cannon when he was struck by a bolt, then two more were hit, the stallion medics grabbed the downed ponies as more grabbed the metal shields and moved in to protect the gunners. Chris watched the gryphons able to take to the skies, he quickly motions for the rounds to change, from cannonball to grapeshot.
The ponies loaded their cannons with dozens of metal ball rounds as they aimed it high to hit the gryphons that were swiftly approaching as well as the ones on the ship. The stallions lit the fuses and waited till it finally went off, the results were devestating, the birds were instantly torn up and fell as well as the gryphons on the ship. Multiple clusters were taken out as more cannons fired, the first wall of gryphons went down, then the second then the third before two black armored gryphon guards moved in to protect their admiral, but he moved them out of the way as he screeches out loud, "Prepare to board!!!"
The command ship was extremely close to the enemy command ship as fire arrows and crossbow bolts were flying across to both sides. Shock was leading his troops and issuing commands, he then saw how vulnerable his Admirals ship was, Chris was still issuing orders. He looks over and grabs the sea pony who guides the rudders, "Take us next to the enemy ship!"
"But that will put us on a collision course with the Admirals ship!" the pony objected but Shock didn't care, "DO IT NOW!"
The battle still raged between Chris and Iron claw, but suddenly an Equestrian Ship appeared and moved in between, Chris was rocked back and looks at the ship in shock, "Who the fuck is that!?!? Tell them to back off!"
Blue Star looks on and tries to assess who is in command of the ship, Iron Claw looks surprised as to who would want to join the battle.
As soon as the stallions were ready to jump, the gryphons attacked with their crossbows, hitting a few stallions but most managed to jump over, one was unfortunate as he hit the side of the ship and fell into the water. Shock leaps across and immediately kills a few gryphons, it was chaos as ponies and gryphons were being killed on both sides, but the gryphons were winning as more appeared from below decks. A few ponies tried to kill Iron Claw but was slashed and killed by his bodyguards as they jumped in to join the fight.
Shock blocks a few strikes as he swings and kills three in a row, he rolls and slashes one gryphons legs and stabs it before blocking another sword attack, only to grab its knife and stab it in the stomach and kicking it away. By then there were only three ponies left but they were immediately killed by gryphon spears.
Chris watches and was about to rush in, he climbs over the boat and attempts to board the enemy ship but was grabbed by the ponies including his bodyguard, "Sir no its too dangerous!"
He tries to shake them off, "Get off me! He needs help!"
He watches as Iron Claw and Shock start to fight, only ending with Shock having his sword broken in two. Iron Claw then strikes, crippling Shocks rear legs. Shock was struggling to stand on his forelegs as he looks up to see Iron Claw ready to execute him, but he wasn't going to die on that bird brains terms.
"GYAAAAAHHH!!" Shock yells out and charges at Iron Claw, which shocked him as he impales the stallion with his sword, Chris watching on as he could do nothing to help his friend.
Shock looks at Iron Claw as he moves forward and holds on tight, "Get off me you filthy horse!" Iron Claw yells as he tries to pull Shock off him, but was quickly pushed to the edge as Shock yells out and has both of them fall overboard.
"Shock! The rope! Somepony save the commander! Now!"
Shock was floating in the water, blood pooling around him as Chris yells for the ponies to pull him onboard.
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Shock was coughing as he looks to Chris, "Sir, you need to leave this place, you're not safe here! Lower the command flag! Retreat!"
Blue Star looks at the pony who was about to carry out the order, "Don't listen to him you fool! Attack!"
Shock looks to Chris and puts his hoof on his chest, "Why sir? W-Why did you take the spearhead??"
Chris shakes his head, "Shock... this is something i have to do myself."
Shock slowly closes his eyes and coughs blood, "Admiral..."
Chris' eyes widen as he grabs hold of the stallion and shakes him awake, "Hang in there Shock don't you die on me!"
Shock opens his eyes and breathes heavily as he looks to his admiral, "Do you know who I fear most sir?"
Chris looks at him as the tears start to build up, "Its you sir."
"Do you know who I admire the most?" Shock asks as Chris tries to hold back his tears, "Thats you as well sir."
"I always wanted to be like you sir..." Shock admits to him as Chris shakes his head with tears streaming down, "Commander Shock!"
Shock coughs and chokes up as tears were pouring from his eyes, "Forgive me sir... for failing to see this battle to the end."
Chris wipes away the tears as he holds up Shock to look him in the eye, "No... Commander of the Aquastria garrison Shock you are an outstanding soldier!"
He cradles shock in his arms as the pony goes into labored breathing, Chris sets him against the mast, taking off his helmet as Bow String looks on, wide eyed wondering what his admiral was doing. Chris sets down his helmet as he unties the front of his armor, taking it off and about to put it on Shock, the crinkling of the shingle pellets has shock looking towards his admiral, his hoof reaches out and grabs Chris by the collar.
"Admiral..." He tried to speak but no words were able to come out as he finally lets out his last breath and goes limp.
Chris looks at his fallen stallion, he covers his face as he takes a deep breath and cries, his shoulders shaking as he grieves. After a few minutes he takes his armor and gently drapes it over Shock, honoring him by a battlefield promotion in death. The twangs of multiple arrows were heard as flaming arrows arced across the night sky, Chris gets up and regains his composure as he turns to walk out to his troops. Bow String moves in front of him to stop him, "Sir..."
Chris doesn't look at his guard but continues to look out to the enemy fleet, "Take care of Commander Shock." He moves out of his way as he stands at the front of the ship, "The enemy is before us! Do not let them retreat! Fucking kill them all!" He raises his sword as his troops yell in motivation.
Chris ship continues to sail through the burning wreckage of enemy ships, cannons blazing and fire arrows still firing across the waters.
"The Admiral is out of his armor! Admiral!" a pony announces as many stallions quickly rush to the side as Thunder gallops from the canopy and moves through his troops.
"Oh no... thats suicide!" He watches as Chris was seen directing his ship towards the enemy, cannons still firing as the war drum was being beaten, letting the others know the battle was still going.
"What the??" A decoy admiral pony named Titanium unsheathes his sword and points to the command ship, "Quickly! Protect the command ship! Bring us close!"
Chris holds his sword as he looks out to the ocean as he sees the sun rise, "What a radiant sun... how bright it is."
Chris picked up the drummers mallet and continued to beat on the war drum, keeping a steady beat as the stallion archers continued to fire their arrows.
"After them! Do not let the enemy retreat! Now! Fire everything! Destroy them all!"
The cannons were firing, arrows being launched, the battle was nearing its end. As Chris' ship approached a nearby enemy ship no one noticed a small gryphon, aiming its crossbow bolt at Chris, who was still beating his war drum. Chris continues to watch the battlefield, not noticing the gryphon till the bird caught his eye, he looks and stops beating the drum as the gryphon lets loose the arrow. Chris moves to the side, barely missing the arrow as it penetrates the canopy beam.
Chris picks up his M9 and fires a few rounds, hitting the gryphon and killing him. Seeing no other targets, Chris holsters his side arm and continues the battle.
Canterlot, after the battle
The officers table was silent, after Chris notified Shocks wife, the light orange mare named Sunny Side about her husbands death in battle, she went out to the beach to have a moment to herself. With Chris standing a few feet behind her, he watches her as she was silent and listens only the crash of the waves in the distance as the sun was setting.
"So this is the sea.... the sea of Aquastria... that my dear husband wanted to protect." Her voice started to falter as she slowly walks to towards the water but couldn't go any farther as she lays on the sand and cries.
Chris bows his head low, the tears streaming down as he remembers the words from a famous admiral he most deeply reveres, "In life there is certain death, and between life and death there is a journey. Hence in truth, nothing is lost in death." - Admiral Yi Soon Shin
The next day
The flag covered coffin of Commander Shock, draped with the flag of the two sisters, was being carried down the steps by six of Shocks sea ponies. Ones who deeply cared for their commander, some were silent as others were crying, not loudly but can be seen. They carefully held on as they made the approach to the end of the steps, leaving the gates of Canterlot as Sunny Side was sitting next to a carriage, being flanked on both sides by Princess Celestia and Princess Luna as they maintained their regal composure, but this was hurting both sisters as they lost a loyal subject.
The Royal Security Ponies crossed spears to honor the passing stallion as the sea ponies slowly trotted to the end of the procession.
Sunny Side turns to face Chris, she looks at him with a heavy heart and bows her head low, as a sign of respect to her husbands commanding admiral. He straightens up and tilts his head down to return the gesture, Chris then turns to Shocks six ponies and nods, with the signal given they lift the coffin and set it gently in the carriage. The mare looks over to the stallion driver and nods, "Lets go.
A pony yells out, "Atten-Hut!" everypony stands at attention as Sunny stops the carriage, "Present arms!" Everypony salutes as she turns around to see everyone give her and Shock the final respect. She bows her head to return the salute, the carriage starts to leave again as Chris takes a deep breath and cries out as he staggers over to the coffin, "Shock! Please don't leave us! Im so sorry, please don't go!"
Sunny slowly looks to the human, his hands gripping the flag as he was crying over her dead husband. The officers softly cry as Princess Celestia and Luna let the tears fall, their hooves covering their mouths as they cry as well. Some of the Security ponies covered their faces as they also grieved, the human admiral, showing his emotions for his fallen officer moved everyone as they all shed tears and grieved.
"I should've been there to save you! Why did it have to be you?? Commander Shock!" Chris wailed loudly he buried his face into the coffin of a fallen friend.
"You gave your life for your country with rare devotion, and though you are gone, you are alive." - Admiral Yi Soon Shin
A few months earlier
"You bumbling idiots!" Shock chides the sea ponies as they fail a cannon loading sequence, kicking one over as they yell out in surprise.
"How are you going to be gunners if you can't even memorize the correct loading sequence??"
Garrison commander of Aquastria Shock. He was a stallion of exceptional valor who knew no retreat on the battlefield. Rendering outstanding services in Canterlot, Aquastria and Equestria, Shock was undoubtedly one of the warriors who spearheaded the fight to win the war. History will never forget his patriotism.
The day Shock died was designated Canterlot Citizen's day, and in the next millenium, the Royal Equestrian Navy named its 1st Celestia class battleship after Shock.
Author's Note
The ending was pretty emotional for me, as I was inspired to do it after watching a few scenes from the drama the Immortal Yi Soon Shin. Chris has a strong connection with his ponies, and Shocks death was very painful for him. So I hope you enjoy this story. I'll be making more soon.
It was a few months after Shocks funeral, Chris was in the castle garden during a formal party, staring at his pony sized glass empty of the sweet wine he had earlier. After the battle of Aquastria more skirmishes between the ponies and the gryphons were popping up near the equestrian-gryphon borders with smaller raids moving inland towards Canterlot. Chris was deployed 20 times during those few months, the battles raging for days as the human was close to the point of exhaustion. His modern tech helped give the ponies an advantage but the numbers game still went for the enemy, casualties for the stallions were kept to a minimum but using everything he had was exhausting.
There were a few ponies up on stage singing for entertainment as everypony else was mingling and trying to get a chance to meet with the princess. After 10 minutes of nopony going up to sing the next song, Chris sets down his glass and says, "Fuck it might as well, been wanting to sing this one for a while now."
He walks up to the main stage and hops over the few steps as reaches down to grab the mic, something he introduced to the ponies which they invested in alot. He releases the musicians from their spots as he uses Celestias magic to create copies of himself, only four as they each grab instruments from special cases, one being an electronic pad he created with help from star swirl.
"Ok everypony, I probably haven't done this in a while so i might be a little rusty. I want to dedicate this song to my very special princess. Someone I hold very close to me, that mare I will die to protect. Luna... this is for you."
The song starts out with soft beats and a melody, then the guitars come in as Chris starts to sing,
"I pack my bags and say goodbye to my wife, for what seems like the millionth time. They said it gets easier but they lied.. "
He goes down and approaches Luna as she stares at him tears in her eyes as he looks at her and caresses her face and mane,
"She looks at me and says 'Really baby, I will be just fine.' But then she looks away so I don't have to see her cry, and that is when I ask myself... "
Luna turns away as she didn't want Chris to see the tears fall from her eyes as she started to cry into his hand.
"How am I supposed to be everything they expect me to be when I feel so alone, cause I left my heart at home. She needs me, but i know they need me too. So God give me the strength to do what you created me to do. "
Chris poured out his emotions into the song, his eyes closed as he held the microphone close as the drums played with energy the entire crowd can see, the energy manifested into a bright colorful aura as it blanketed the garden. Celestia felt strangely at peace with this aura in the air, its energy intensified as Chris continued to sing,
"Really im so thankful for the places i've been, the people i meet and the things i've seen. But when shes not here it doesn't feel like im living my dream. I know they say that no one is perfect but I swear she's perfect for me, and that makes it so much harder to leave. "
He hugs Luna tightly as she nuzzles her love, sharing a moment together helped push back the growing darkness in her mind which is exactly what Chris wanted.
-
4 months later
Chris now sported decently long hair, kept in a slick well maintained manner as he grew a beard, well trimmed. Now toned from continuous training and exercise, he walked down to the training room, where anything from swords, shields and anything used for combat is stored. He walks over and picks up a punching bag, or as the stallions called it, "Bucking" bags. He hooks one up to a chain from a ceiling as he wraps cloth around his hands to give some sort of protection. He starts throwing jabs and hooks into it, lightly at first but then starts to bring in more force and intensity.
The thoughts of the previous battle and losing one of his stallions pushed him to hit harder, his grunts growing louder as his power grew stronger in his punches. The final memory of Shock dying in his arms broke Chris as he yells with rage and punches the bag with such force, the sand spilled as the bag broke free and flew a couple feet and slid before hitting a wall and stopping.
Chris was panting and took deep breathes as he looks down and away from the destroyed punching bag before he walks over to pick up another, hooking it to the ceiling chain and starts to throw punches again.
"We had a feeling you would be here." a soft yet firm voice broke the atmosphere as Chris stopped and holds the bag before looking towards the pony that spoke, his beloved Princess Luna.
"Well... I need something to keep me occupied.. otherwise you'd find me in the bar, getting shit-faced drunk." He responded as he began to throw hooks and jabs into the punching bag. Luna watched Chris as his muscles rippled with the force of his fists meeting a solid heavy object.
"Love... Shock wouldn't want you to dwell on his death like this." She said as her wings wrapped around his body, he sighed as he turns to kneel and hug his princess.
"Its not easy." He says sadly, he then gets up and starts to head out, noticing it is late in the evening, his entry time was 4 pm, it was now 7:45 pm.
He takes a drink of water before heading to the shower room to clean himself and change into his normal work robes, primarily his assassin creed style robs of white and red. He approaches the main entrance as the Royal Security stallions stand at attention for their Supreme Commander.
"Take it easy guys, you're doing fine." He smiles as he pats both of them, they stand tall with pride after receiving approval. He sings a little tune to himself as he enters the castle, not even a few steps in he hears the gallop of a stallion in full sprint heading towards him.
"COMMANDER! COMMANDER!" the Security stallion, Rook, stopped and bowed low, all the while panting as Chris gets on one knee and puts a hand on his mane.
"Hey take it easy Rook, whats going on, and whats the rush?" He asked as the stallion was panting heavily.
"War... room... news... gryphons." He says in between breathes as Chris looks up with a grim expression, and one with growing rage as he breaks into a sprint towards the war room, which was a little ways away. When he finally reached it, he bursts open the door as the Security Ponies looked surprised but quickly got out of his way as he goes over to the map of Equestria and sees a zone in red.
"Show me whats going on." He ordered as the ponies were intimidated by Chris and his sudden entrance.
"GET ME THE MOTHER FUCKING VIEW ON THIS PLACE NOW!" He roars as one pony suddenly used his magic out of fear to show what was happening, a large village of ponies was being attacked, he was watching a large group of twenty ponies, stallions mares and fillies being herded toward the village square as they were then torn to shreds and massacred, limbs, heads and body were eviscerated by the claws and beaks of the gryphons.
Chris hands balled into fists as the rage slowly built inside him, he watched as more were being chained up and being put in wagons as prisoners. Many escaped as he watched a mare give a report on what was happening to the refugees.
"These gryphons are heavily armed and on a mission, a mission proving fatal for anypony that stands in their way. With no means of defense and no international pressure, there is little hope for these refugees. Here a mare begging for news of her husband, as he has been kidnapped by the enemy army, either forced to slavery or death. ."
Chris watches as his knuckles turned white from gripping the table extremely tight as he sees a small foal crying with her older sister, a fillie, no older than 2, on her back.
"These two are left as orphans, only asking 'where are our mother and father'.There is little hope for these refugees, refugees who can only wonder who, if anyone, will help ?"
"RYYYAAAAH!!!!" Chris screams out as he throws his dagger at the table, interrupting the spell as he leaves, grabbing his dagger from the table before exiting the room.
-
He walks to the blacksmiths shop, Iron Hooves, who was asleep as Chris grabs a pail of fresh water and throws it on him, startling him and making him fall over.
"Wake the fuck up! Start the fires and get me some titanium right now!" He ordered as the pony bows and quickly runs to fetch the materials.
Over the course of the next month, Chris was at work at the forge, making a new set of armor inspired by his favorite off world characters. The heat from the hot fires made Chris sweat constantly, making him drink water every so often. His face showed no signs of the heat effects as he keeps slamming the hammer down on the white hot metal. The loud clangs of hammer striking metal can be heard as Celestia and Luna watch from the distance.
He moved from station to station, simmering the metals in water to cool it to repeat the process, using a crude welding torch to cut some metal into different pieces. The refined products were laid out on the table, fully painted while the ones that were being worked on were still kept near the fires. He utilized the unicorns magic to infuse nitinol, or nickel titanium into the armor as another unicorn, Raritys ancestor he can assume was working on his undersuit, enchanted with protective material to cushion him from falls and such if anything of that nature should emerge.
He gathers the alchemist and scientist ponies to create modern electrical wiring to integrate into the armor to support the rockets and repulsors he will be adding. The final part was soon to be completed as he combined magic and science to create a one of kind HUD system as his helmet was solid titanium with padding and two normal sized slits for the eyes, and a normal line where the top part of the helmet would meet the bottom.
It took about a few days to trial test the new armor, after fixing kinks and bugs for the flight and magic portion, everything was finally ready to go.
-
The terrified screams of ponies filled the air as they were galloping away from a huge crowd of gryphons, mares were heard screaming in fear as doors to homes were kicked in and blood was spilled by gryphon blades and claws. A stallion with his mare and two fillies were cornered into an alley, no way out as two gryphons approached them from the outside, the gryphons smiled as another gryphon watched the shadows of the ponies getting torn to pieces, the legs and body ripped from every which way.
Ponies that were trying to run were getting struck by arrows from the gryphons in the sky as they laughed at the massacre. A stallion with his family tries to lead them to a wagon to stay with them, stallions were being lined up against a wall and some sitting as they were awaiting their execution.
"What the hell is this? Get rid of this dog!" He rips the stallion away from his family and kicks him multiple times.
"You are all incompetent!" He screeches as the large gryphon walks away, a gryphon soldier raises his sword as he orders the stallion to bow his head, the colt screams for his father as the gryphon continues to scream the command. Suddenly a loud boom is heard as a metallic winged figure drops from the sky and lands, one knee on the ground and wings outstretched. He gets up and the wings fold back as he stands just as tall as the gryphon.
The gryphon swings his sword but it shatters against the titanium armor from the suit, Chris immediately slammed the gryphon with an uppercut, smashing his beak clean into his skull as the gryphon slammed against a two story house. He quickly turns and raises his hands as it powers up and shoots a beam that blasts one gryphon against a wall. He fires a another beam as it kills another gryphon trying to flee, he then turns to face the rest but sees they took the ponies as hostage. He lowers his hands and moved his fingers to power them down, he targets each of the gryphons about 8 in total, as the gryphons were still yelling at Chris to surrender, his shoulders opened to show two slim boxes and both fired ballistic rounds that killed the hostiles without harming a single pony.
The stallion and his family were reunited, everyone crying and hugging each other as the colt watched Chris walk away over to a house. Sharp Eye turned away from the scene, afraid and not knowing what to do, suddenly a metal hand bursts through the wall and rips him through, he lands in the middle of the ponies as he was disoriented. Chris activates his thrusters and looks down at them seeing his job was done.
"He's all yours." He then flies away as Sharp Eye was surrounded by the stallions before being kicked and stomped on.
He flies in his arc path away from the area, locating more Gryphon Army movements, but before he can target them, a large rod knocked him out of the sky, falling at a rapid speed and hitting the ground kicking up a large dust cloud. His hands slowly coming out of the crater as his face plate and chest armor was scratched with a deep gash, non penetrable but a noticeable gash. He sees a gryphon heavy ballista ready to fire again, he sees them launch it, he side steps and holds out his arm to launch a small rocket at them. It attaches to their base as he turns around and lets the artillery crew get engulfed in a large explosion as he approaches the gryphon encampment, the bird brains firing their crossbows and the infantry charging at him.
He raises his wings and flies into the air, his targeting picks out a large flammable depot as he powers up his repulsors and fires, the beams cause the whole encampment to disappear in a large ball of fire as the gryphons in that radius were killed instantly. He turns to fly away and return home as another gryphon army watched from afar, wondering what new advancements did the human bring to Equestrias ponies.
Back in Equestria, 2300 hours
Chris approaches Canterlot at a high speed, his wings outstretched and making tiny movements to correct the entire armor frame. He banks to the right to make a slow approach as he gently glides down and raises his flaps to brake. He finally makes touchdown, his wings folding onto his back as he walks around the castle grounds. He approaches a nearby guard as the guard stands at attention, "Hey at ease, listen can you signal for the unicorn mages to have themselves meet me in the castle garden to help me with my armor?"
The guard nods and runs off to gather the mages, Chris takes the stallions post and keeps watch as he waits for about ten minutes before the unicorns arrive.
"My lord." They all bow in unison as Chris nods and waves his hands, "You don't need to do that around me, lets get this thing off so we can all go to bed."
They all nod in agreement as they use their spells to disassemble the armor and take it off Chris, the arms, chest, back, forearms, torso, thighs and calves, feet and finally the head. The armor is stowed away in specially marked boxes, which Chris handles them since he can't trust anyone with his special tech.
"Alright get some sleep everypony..." He dismisses everyone as he gets a drink and hands a small glass to the guard stallion who called in the mages.
"You have a good night brother.." Chris says as the guard finishes his drink and returns the gesture, "Good night Chris."
He sluggishly walks down the hallways to find a stairwell, he then walks all the way up till he reaches his room, upon entering his room he sees a form in his bed, he can probably take a guess as to who it is. He takes off all his clothes as he looks at this watch and it says 00:20.
"Mother of fuck its late." He yawns as he finally gets down to this skivvys and gets into bed. He puts an arm around the beautiful dark mare as she moves back to cuddle against her mate as they both sleep till the next day.
Author's Note
Well after watching iron man videos and such i decided to make this an iron man influence chapter.
Some of the videos that got my influence.
Sorry about the wait...
Chris was laying back and enjoying the view, the bed creaking and rocking as his beloved princess was on top, as unusual as it was, he didn't mind. Luna was taking deep breaths as she rode her love, hooves on his chest as she spread her wings while enjoying the feeling of making love. Chris grasped her plot and squeezes roughly as he moves his hips to slam into hers while she drives herself down onto his cock.
"Luna i'm almost there." Chris grunted as he slams upward into his princess, his balls slapping against her tailhole while she moans and squeals softly.
"Give your princess your love. I want all of your seed." She whispers, panting as she felt herself about to release as well. The human continues to move his hips upward until he could no longer take it, he holds her down and growls low as his cock spewed his cream deep into her depths, the warm seed caused Luna to stiffen and shake as her walls tightened around his shaft and released a climax of her own.
She collapsed on top of her human and pants heavily, her wings slowly tucked to her side, Chris hugs her and rubs her back gently as he kisses her in the mane.
"I love you Luna... it seems every day i can not stop thinking about you..." He says with a smile as he strokes her face softly.
Luna cuddles in close and doesn't answer as she kisses Chris in the neck, all she wanted was to enjoy his company and the time of bonding they had together. Chris slowly felt the exhaustion creep in as he closed his eyes to let himself be taken away to Lunas dream realm. When he arrived it wasnt calm and ethereal like the other nights, but it was complete darkness and eerie.
"Luna?" He called out hoping he can find her and find out what was going on, but instead he heard a familiar cackle, the hair on the back of his neck stood up and his hands balled into a fist when he realized who it was.
"WHERE ARE YOU NIGHTMARE MOON YOU BITCH!?!" He roared out as he dreams a sword beside him, unsheathing it and readying it for attack.
The laughter continued as he looks around and tries to pinpoint the voice, his whole body was trembling as he was nervous yet enraged that this entity was still there. He passes by a wall of darkness, but doesn't notice a pair of cat like eyes following him.
"Oh how foolish you are human, to think you can keep your beloved Luna away from her destiny? I will take over, I will destroy Celestia, and I will bring in the night!" The voice of Nightmare Moon echoed through the dream realm and Chris covered his ears.
"SHUT UP! SHUT UP!" He yells out as he slashes at a shadow, but it quickly moves and materializes behind him as Nightmare.
"Missed me." She grins, her sharp teeth flashing as he leaps and turns to bring his sword down onto her, but she disappears in smoke to move again, taking the chance to blast him from behind and knocking him down.
"GAAH!!" He yells in surprise and pain as he slides across the ground, his sword sliding away from him.
"You wont keep her away from me forever Chris. She will be mine." Nightmare taunts as she slowly walks towards him, he quickly pulls out his 9mm he dreamed and unloads a full magazine into her.
"GO TO HELL BITCH!!!" He says enraged but the entity disappeared as the dream realm slowly goes back into its normal state. He pants and looks around before laying down on his back, dropping his M9 and covering his face before crying silently.
Next Morning
Chris tried his hardest not to yawn, but attending these boring royal meetings was not what he would say a very productive day. These ponies and the most bullshit issues he has ever heard, reminds him of the days being stuck at the gate when he was back in his world, dealing with peoples fuckerys on a constant basis. He sneaks a quick glance at Princess Celestia, her eyes while gentle and understanding, told a different story to him.
"At some point these ponies have to realize you give zero fucks about their stupid irrelevant problems." Chris says in his mind knowing Celestia can read thoughts and thats how both of them strike conversations without anyone else even knowing.
"If only Chris.. if only. I do understand how pointless this is to you, alas this is pointless to me as well but I have a duty to perform, you know this." Celestia responds as Chris shrugs his shoulders making it seem like he is adjusting.
Chris doesn't respond and can only stand and watch till it was time for the court to be dismissed. He waits for all the pony delegates to depart before reaching behind the throne and pulling out a bottle of Canterlots finest liquor and taking a big drink.
"Chris right now is hardly the time and place." Celestia tries to chastise him but Chris takes another drink and ignores her.
"I take whatever opportunity I can Tia... you know this." He grins, redirecting Celestias past statement back at her, she sighs but smiles as she twitches her wings slightly.
"I'll get you for that." She whispers to herself as Chris exits the throne room.
-
Chris and his close friend also his body guard Bow String was taking a walk in the streets of canterlot, it was close to the evening as the shops were closing. He was greeted by a few passing ponies as he raised his right hand in a friendly gesture and smiled at them as he returned the greetings. The two stopped at a small shop nearby, it was unlocked and he walks inside, Bow String following close by, Chris didn't see the owner around which is somewhat strange.
"Hello? Anyone there?" He calls out as he sees a candle still flickering near the counter. He picks up a small pen and inspects it before searching behind the counter to find something. His ears pick up movement outside as he looks up and sees shadows moving near the windows as the candle blows out.
"Who's there?" He asks loudly, but he gets no response as he sets the pen down and stands up straight.
"Judging by the silence it must be our unwelcome guests." He says aloud as Bow String gets beside his master. The doors suddenly burst in as does the windows, jumping through them were three large gryphon assassins dressed in black. They ready their swords as they lunge forward to attack, Bow string spins underneath and deflects the sword blows and kicks one away as he gives himself space to unsheathe his sword slowly. The gryphons maintain their position as Bow String stands in front of Chris.
"Break away sir. I'll hold them back." He says softly as Chris looks at the assassins and studies them.
"They will not be held back." Chris says as Bow String looks at him.
"Sir.."
"These are not the same gryphons that attacked at my first day. They are more driven and determined-" Chris was suddenly cut off as the three assassins attacked. Bow managed to block one sword strike as he spins and does a back spin kick to another, he blocks another strike and kicks another in the front before getting pinned by two assassins pushing their sword against his. He manages to push them away as they all run into the back part of the shop and out the door as he gives chase and follows.
Chris started to follow until he was blocked by two gryphon assassins that dropped from the ceiling unnoticed. Their wings twitching with anticipation as they circle Chris, swords ready as he calculates his odds. They suddenly attack and he spins away from a sword slash as he unsheathes his sword to counter. He swings his sword as one jumps away, using his momentum to twirl his sword sheathe and knock away the second assassin. The 1st assassin throws a chain at Chris as it wraps around his right hand carrying his sword, slightly surprised for a second Chris looks at the chain then the gryphon as he ducks to avoid a sword strike from behind. He then grabs the chain and yanks it to throw one gryphon against the other.
He then grabs the gryphon holding the chain and flips him over onto his back, hearing the other ready to attack he turns quickly and blocks the strike, he then uses his sword to push the assassin away before stabbing the other in the head with his hidden blade. The gryphon came back to finish Chris off but both didn't see the sword that came down and killed the gryphon before he could kill Chris. The gryphon arched its back before dropping its sword then falling to its knees before collapsing.
Chris looks up to see the pony, dressed in robes he couldn't distinguish as well as a face covering, the pony was also smart as its cutie mark was covered so he can't tell who it was. The unknown pony readies his sword and runs to the back to fight the others as two more came in, Chris looks up in surprise wondering who were they. They both nod to each other before joining their friend outside as well.
Outside at the back of the shop
A gryphon assassin fell to the ground dead as one of the ponies, a pegasus, galloped over and twirled over a gryphon sword attack as he starts blocking strikes. It was a 8 to 4 numbers game as one pony, a unicorn blocks a few attacks before turning his attention to another gryphon and strikes his sword resulting in a kill. Bow String jumps and swings his sword killing one, before swinging again knocking the sword from the gryphon away before using the opportunity to kill the second and the third. He looks over to see the unknown ponies fight against the assassins as one swings but the assassin jumps away, raising its sword as well as the pony it was fighting. The earth pony then leaps as the assassin looks up and attempts to strike but misses as the pony spins and manages to land a successful strike killing the gryphon.
The pegasus pony blocks an attack following it up with a downward strike to make the gryphon lose its pose, the unicorn makes a sideways strike but misses as the gryphon does a back flip onto the ground and attempts to get up. The unicorn does a front roll and finishes off the gryphon with another sideways strike. The earth pony gallops up underneath an overhang as it pushes itself away from a wall and does a spin kick against two assassins, he recovers and slashes one in an upward strike before making a side strike making the assassins body spin before landing on its back.
The dwindling assassins continue to attack, it was now 3 on 3 as one assassin attempted to flip back but was killed by the pegasus, the unicorn swings his sword, was blocked but the next strike hit as the gryphon fell. The earth unicorn stabs the final assassin and pushes it against a wooden beam as he sees his two comrades making their escape, they both look to him as he nods and pulls away to finish the gryphon off. The pony was about to leave until a sword was aimed at his neck.
Bow string held the sword against the unknown ponies neck as he was panting heavily, "Who are you?"
The earth pony took deep breathes, sweat covering its face and mane as his eyes showed no willingness to comply.
Bow String stepped forward and grabbed the end of the ponies face mask, "Take off your mask now."
The earth pony suddenly knocked the sword away and pushed Bow String away as it galloped away, jumping over a fence and into the bushes. Chris walks over to Bow and checks to see if he is ok. Bow String clutches his side and looks to the bushes and beyond as a Royal Security pony squad trots over to Chris and Bow.
"Are you all right sir? We heard swords in the distance."
Chris nods, "We're fine, give word of this to the two sisters immediately."
The squad leader nods as he leads his ponies and they gallop away to the castle.
At the castle
Bow String had several bandages wrapped around his midsection, a large blood spot was seen as he was sitting on his flank.
"We heard what has happened. What are your plans of action Chris?" Celestia asks as the supreme commander for the entire Equestrian military looks at them with intense hate.
"We track them, find them, kill them."
Author's Note
love the setting for this and pretty much gave me an idea to start the next chapter as shown here. Finally see Chris put in a battle of skills against assassins. Enjoy the read.
It was the first month of november, Chris still tried to keep track of the days even though the ponies count it by seasons, moons and such. Now at the age of 24, three years since his arrival. He always counts himself lucky that Luna was spared another day and night from becoming nightmare moon. Today he had other things to worry about, a large company of griffons with ballistae were positioned on the ridge overlooking a large channel. The two princess' were sailing with a large naval fleet to meet with the King of the griffons. A diplomatic mission no doubt.
He scans the area to strategize where and how he can stop them before they launch an attack on the fleet. His eyes caught sight of buckets of explosive powder used for the explosive tipped arrows the griffons were using. Quickly but silently he goes down the line to meet up with his archers.
"All archers use fire tipped arrows and concentrate fire on the explosive buckets near the ballistae." He orders as the archer ponies light the arrow tips on fire and get ready to take aim, he hears the griffon commander give the order to make ready. The grunts of the griffon military grab the bolts and load them up on the guiding tray. Chris raises his hand as he was about to issue the order. The commander looks at the lead ship, the one decorated with the flag of the two sisters, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, on their thrones side by side. He smirked as he finally issued out the command, "Fire!"
Suddenly, he hears the swish of arrows as the fire tipped bolts landed in the explosive buckets causing massive explosions to burst along the line. His ears twitch as he turns to see a human in black armor, with the lunar crest on his chest running towards the griffons. The ponies yelling out a war charge as they all had swords and spears, galloping rapidly. The griffons were confused and retreated to form a line, finally the ponies and griffons collided as swords clashed and blood spilt.
Chris was on the high ground as he struck from the center gaining a kill, he does a side flip and swings his sword to kill another as he then turns to stab one dead center as he pulls away to kill another before using the momentum to kill one more. One stallion blocks an attack from a bigger griffon, he rolls under and strikes from behind, killing the griffon before jumping back to avoid a strike before striking across to get a kill.
The princess watched from their ship, knowing of the battle and whats taking place as they had a meeting several hours before, a very skilled recon team came back with photos along their route showing griffon movement, of course Chris planned accordingly. Chris intercepted a griffon jumping at him to attack, hitting the midsection as he turns to block an attack, he grabs the griffons claw and slashes downward as he swings at another with his right.
The griffon commander was blocking sword attacks from nearby ponies, striking a few to wound but managing a kill every so often. He gouges out one unlucky stallions eyes, screaming loudly before impaling him with a sword. Chris killed three griffons in quick strokes as was a stallion beside him, turning and bringing his sword down on a griffons back then bucks one over a cliff. The stallion spearsman were knocking down griffons and impaling them with little difficulty.
Luna was watching the battle with great concern for her subjects, but mostly for her mate. Watching him kill the griffons with power and skill put her in a somewhat easier state of mind but she wasn't too comfortable yet. The griffon commander grabbed a nearby stallion uses his two swords to slash him in two places, blocking one sword attack and stabbing another before finishing off the first. Chris grabs a griffon and flips it over as he strikes another at the neck before pulling it down to kill. He turns his sword and stabs an incoming griffon behind him. He pulls it out of the dead warrior to swing it across another as he twirls the sword to bring it down on another enemy grunt.
Chris turns to see the griffon commander shove his sword through one of his stallions, it enraged him as he yells out then charges at the commander, blocking an attack then killing another. The griffon sees the human and quickly pulls out his extra sword as he readies it and gets into a defensive stance. Chris holds his sword high before slowly lowering it down till he is holding it in front of him. The two commanders staring at each other, walking in circles, suddenly the griffon commander screeches and attacks, both swinging swords at each other. Chris swings his at the griffons head but misses as the griffon ducks and moves away.
Chris turns to swing his sword but meets resistance each time before both of them lock swords, the two of them close to each other looking deadset into each others eyes, the griffon looking into the enraged brown eyes of the human in front of him and Chris looking into the golden yellow of the griffon. Chris pushes the commander away and gives himself some distance, the two of them readying their swords, Chris finally engages first with a loud cry, swinging his sword to meet the griffons.
Different stallions across the battlefield were holding their own against the large griffons, using the training Chris has taught them to gain the upper hand. The two princess' were watching from their ships as Luna turns to look at the other side of the cliffs, Celestia turns to look as well as another battle was taking place. Chris' body guard and another Equestrian officer, a stallion by the name of Heavy Hoof was leading the attack.
Bow strings was fighting against four griffons, swinging his sword and swinging it down on one griffon before spinning to attack another. Grass was cut and flying up as Bow was swinging his sword to score multiple kills, he turns and moves his sword to hit a griffon behind him, hitting center mass as he pulls the sword away, the griffon falling onto his back.
Meanwhile Heavy Hoof galloped through the ranks of the griffons, jumping over obstacles as he swings his sword hitting griffons left and right. A heavy set stallion, he was an intimidating pony as he grabs a griffons head with his fore hooves, wrapping his left around the head he raises his sword with his right to bring it down on another as he then pushes the headlocked griffon away before killing him. Heavy Hoof looks around to find another enemy to fight as he gallops, sword ready.
Bow Strings just finished off another griffon before he turns and holds his sword out at two griffons ready to strike. The two ready their swords as they then charge forward with a loud screech. Bow blocks one before turning to swing upwards at another, he catches another barely before twirling his sword to put the last one down. The griffon in charge of that battle was wearing black and red armor, Razor blocked a stallions sword strike and just killed another before seeing Bow Strings. He raises his sword and charges, yelling as the two finally meet.
The two swords clash before the two gain some seperate distance from each other. Bow String and Razor look each other in the eyes, but Bow sees a location that can prove an advantage, a secluded area so he doesn't have to worry about being blindsided by another griffon. He quickly gallops to the area, the griffon giving chase as the two of them can be seen leaping to a different side.
Meanwhile Heavy Hoof was taking on multiple griffons, he just killed one when suddenly two more jumped down on top of him, trying to bring their swords in for the kill, Heavy Hoof blocks the two before grabbing the griffon to the left, holding the sword claw before pushing the two back swinging his sword down to kill the griffon on the right before impaling the one on the left. He then turns to block a third attack and uses the momentum to kill the griffon before galloping off to kill more.
With the battle raging in the background, Bow Strings raises his sword as he was readying himself. he pulls it back and maintains his stance as Razor readies his sword in front of him. Finally the two of the charge at each other, Bow deflects Razors strike to the left before hitting the midsection with a right swing. Razor stopped where he was at, lowering his sword before falling to his knees and collapsing. Bow String turns to hear the stallions cheering as Heavy Hoof smiles and raises his sword in victory.
Luna turns to Celestia with a big smile, "It's a success my sister."
Celestia nods as she looks down at the ships captain, "Increase speed. Pass through the channel. full speed ahead!"
The stallion nods and walks out to the deck as he orders out, "Increase speed! Full speed ahead!"
The stallion oarsmen below yell out together as the drummer keeping the beats issues out the command, "Increase speed! Full speed ahead!"
Chris was still locked in combat with the lead griffon commander, neither one gaining ground, around them the stallions were thinning out the griffons numbers. One stallion jumps and stabs a griffon before ducking underneath and tripping another before plunging its sword into the downed bird.
"GRAAAH!" The griffon yelled out as Chris was on the defensive, blocking strikes and getting pushed back. Chris swung his sword over and under, he jumps and does a back spin kick, hitting the griffon in the chest, making him stagger back for a bit. He rushes in and interlocks swords again as Chris was turned against a rock, he slides his sword away and holds one claw of the commander before trying to push his sword in but hit the griffons armored gauntlet instead.
The griffon had Chris pinned as he couldn't use his sword and had the griffons sword hand in another, breathing heavily and straining with effort, he finally pushes the griffons left arm away, hits him in the chest with an open palm then kicks the commander over the ledge as the griffon rolls down hill rapidly.
Chris walks to the ledge taking a breather as he looks down at his enemy below him, one of the stallion sergeants galloped up to him to look down and see what has happened. A group of surviving griffons rush to aid their commander as they helped him up, the commander looks up at the human with anger and hatred. Chris twirls his sword and readies it at his side, looking down at the griffons with contempt. The commander looks away with humiliation as he orders his troops, "Retreat!"
The griffons in full retreat the stallions cheer as Chris turns to a stallion near him and puts an arm around him in encouragement as the stallion bows his head in respect. Patting his back Chris looks to the retreating griffons as he then readies his built in wings in his armor to report back to his Princess'.
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The griffon commander was hobbling along with the remainder of his troops after the disastrous counter ambush.
"Wait, stop!" He orders his second in command to stop as he turns to look at the line formation of the Equestrian armada heading to the Griffon port.
"Christian Harknett.... Christian Harknett you bastard!" He laughs in a somewhat crazed state as he turns to head back to griffon base.
Chris walks up the steps to the small overhang where the sisters were sitting, their top guards with shields conjured up on all sides as their horns glowed. He takes a knee and bows his head as both sisters nod in approval, "I must say, you are very wise in all manners of military strategy and civil affairs. I sometimes wonder what it would be like if you we never had you around." Celestia compliments him as Luna smiles and nods in agreement.
Chris smiles and looks up to look at the two princess sisters, "Its my honor to serve you both."
Celestia holds out her hoof as she waves it over the incoming port of the Griffon kingdom, "Do what you are tasked to do."
The human nods and bows again as he turns and quickly walks down the steps, "Raise the assault flag! First ship commence offshore bombardment! Stay in line formation this will be a strafing pass!"
The ship captain bangs on the drums rapidly as he issues out the command, "Raise the assault flag!"
A red flag is later hoisted up, the first ship in front of the formation turns to make a wide u turn, the broadside of the ship reveals a row of heavy cannons. Chris finally yells at the top of his lungs, "FIRE!"
The cannons boom with a resounding KAPOW, cannonballs launching in arcs flying over the water to hit the warships docked at the port as well as the soldiers housing, griffons run out confused and in shock as cannon fire continued to rip across the sky to hit their targets on land and sea. Ships being destroyed and griffons being thrown from their barracks in explosive force, it was utter chaos.
The Equestrian armada continued this assault to the last ship, in total there was 400 ships in the equestrian armada, the amount of firepower has completely annihilated the Griffon naval port. There was about 1,000 total griffon warships, and 70,000+ griffon troops were stationed there. Now only 430 warships remain, and 25,000 griffon troops fit for service.
At Canterlot
"If that savage king thinks he can get away with an ambush that has been planned today, I don't want to hear anything else. He has made it clear he wants war with our kingdom and subjects." Celestia says angrily as Luna and Chris were at the royal court alone, Luna knew it was upsetting her sister deeply, Chris wasn't surprised. It was close to dinner and the kitchen staff was busy preparing food for the sisters and their lord. Chris in the meantime was looking through his phone, something he hasn't done for a few years now, scrolling through his photos he sees pictures of his family, his mother, father, sister, little brother and his two dogs.
He starts to tear up and cry softly, he missed his family so much and wished he can see them again, but he knew that he has an obligation to his princess of the night. Luna opened the door to his chambers as she was guessing thats where he would be at, she sees Chris crying as he was holding his device.
"Everything ok my love?" She asks softly as he wipes the tears from his eyes.
"I'm... fine Luna." He says with a fake reassuring tone, Luna knew better though.
"Do you miss your family?" She asks, seeing a picture of her mate with his family on his phone. He nods as he takes a deep breath and tries to stop crying.
"Come down and have dinner, i'll make it up to you later. Does that sound good my love?" She kisses him gently as he smiles and nuzzles her.
"You always know how to make me feel better Luna." He says as Luna smiles back at him.
She turns and leaves the room as Chris sets his phone down, he gets up and walks to the door but stops as he feels a disturbing presence in the room. He looks around then stops at a dark mass, a shadow in a corner where the light doesn't touch. He hears a growl that makes his hair stand up at the back of his neck. He sees a mouth form with white sharp fangs, and eyes with slits like a cat. He knows who they belong too, but before he can say anything the shadow mass cackles and rushes forward blitzing Chris and knocking him over as he hits the open door and injures his right elbow as it hits a table edge.
"AAAAH!!! Fuck fucking shit that hurts!" He hisses in pain, he looks to see the room is back to normal, Nightmare Moon was gone. Still terrified he ran as quickly as he could out of the room and down the hallway to be in the light of Celestia and the warm company of his beloved Princess Luna.
It was a week after the reveal, Luna understood the efforts Chris put forth for her and Celestia became more aware of the potential threat jealousy could bring. The planning and putting together of the festival for Luna went underway, with Chris being the lead coordinator. He was considered a perfectionist and somewhat cold when directing the ponies and admonishing them for their mistakes but was very appreciative and apologized when the ponies did good.
Luna watched from her watch tower as she sighs and looks at Chris, her eyes fluttering as she looks at the human who loves her. She heard the doors open as Celestia walks in,
"How are you feeling my dear little sister?" She asks with a smile as Luna lets out a happy dreamy sigh.
"I feel so... refreshed... I feel I can do anything with Chris on our side. He is such a thoughtful po- I mean person to do such a thing for me. He cares for my well being and always watches me raise the moon." The night princess turns and walks to the balcony and looks down to the castle grounds to see Chris helping an earth pony carry a table to place on a different area of the grounds.
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"Yes I would like the food to go right there, oh and madam I would like those arrangements made into the moon, all the white roses clustered together please? Perfect! Oh that is amazing! I am definitely hiring you for all future events." He says to different ponies as he sees the blacksmith and his iron ponies waiting for him.
"Is it ready?" Chris asks as the blacksmith nods.
"Take me to it." He orders as the ponies escort the human to the forge.
1007 Forge
Chris inspects the armor and sees it is ready for tonights events, he sends out a pony to get Star Swirl for his armor enchantments as he inspects his weaponry. His buster beam rifle measuring about 9 feet in length, weighing at an estimated 80 lbs, with the beam energy Celestia gave to Chris in the chamber, contained and ready to use as he smiles. He also looks at the ornate shield with Lunas symbol, as a devotion of his loyalty to her, he touched the shield and felt the crescent moon at his finger tips as he sighed.
"This is stellar work. Thank you for putting up with my demands, this will benefit you all. I can't thank you enough." He compliments the working ponies as they all bowed and smiled.
"We thank you for helping us hone our skills." The blacksmith says as Star Swirl arrives.
"Ah so I see you finally need my magic. Well lets get this done." He says as he takes the spells and recites them as the armor pieces, shield and rifle glow. As he finishes the whole set darkens and reverts back to normal color.
"Thank you Star Swirl." Chris says as he holds out his hand, Star Swirl figured out the human custom and shakes his hand with his hoof.
"Alright everyone we have a party to create! Star Swirl can I have the fireworks ready by tonight?" He asks as Star Swirl smiles and nods.
"For Her Majestys servant." he bows as he turns and exits.
Chris turns to the blacksmith, "When can the gift be ready?"
The blacksmith looks to the ponies as they quickly rush to their spots and resumes their work, "Expect it within a few hours."
Chris smiles and sets down a decent size bag of gold at the table, "You all earn as much. I'll put in more when you are all finished, then drinks on me tonight ponies!"
The blacksmith and his coworkers cheer in excitement as Chris walks up the stairs to finish his party planning.
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Celestia walks through the grounds as the ponies stop and bow to her, greeting her and complimenting her on her appearance. They also ask her about Princess Luna, by orders of Chris as he "politely" reminded them of doing so or else be put through unpleasant experiences.
At the private room
Loud metal music plays as Chris turns off the song after 30 minutes, "Will you forget?!?!"
The pony stutters out a no as Chris releases the pony, "Get out of my sight."
The pony walks like a drunk, stumbling until finally kicked out the door by the royal guard.
At the grounds
"I want the piano here, the percussion xylophones here, a guitar here... no ill help you create one. Of course I know what i'm doing just... fuck! Just do it!" Chris sighs as he rubs his face, these ponies are fucking terrible sometimes.
He feels himself get covered by two dark blue wings as a voice near his ear whispered, "Guess who?"
Chris smiles and pretends to guess, "Could it be the most beautiful, amazing Princess that can also raise the moon?"
Luna giggles, "How did you know good sir?"
Chris turns and caresses Lunas cheek as she nuzzled into his hand, "I know my favorite Princess voice."
The ponies watch, curious as to what was going on as they saw the party coordinator/bodyguard/advisor smiling and making the princess laugh.
He invites her to a small recital of his own work, leading the night princess to the piano that was settled in near the arrangments he takes a seat and tests out the keys. Seeing that it was good he presses a few keys to start, then he starts to play, the music starts out somber and pleasant, then he puts more energy and emotions into the song as his fingers dance over the keys, his hands orchestrating the notes as if he was conducting a symphony.
Luna watches with amazement as did the ponies working on the party, Celestia wasn't too far off as she sat and listened, the music calming and soothing to the ears. He continues to play the song as he enters a low point in the song but then goes into a crescendo then back down again as he repeats a verse to it as Luna puts a hoof to her mouth to hide her growing happiness.
Chris smiles as his head moves along to the melody, he knows what music can do, and he took all of Lunas pain and her years of loneliness into the music as well as the good and happy times of her life. He changes the tone as he asks Celestia to have her create a duplicate spell of himself, she wonders why and explains his duet part. She nods and uses her magic to create another Chris as both look at each other and smiles as they start.
The Chris on the left starts out with a few sad notes, the real Chris responds as the other copy is playing with responsive sad notes. The copy then stops as the real Chris continues to play, the music sparks an emotional response as she starts to tear up. The two men look at each other and nod as the real Chris starts to play a cheerful note, the copy replys with the same note but with a different ending. They play the same after finishing then go into different parts as the real Chris moves his fingers rapidly on his side to create the background melodies as the copy plays the notes with a powerful sound as they work together in sync.
Luna listens as the ponies smile and clap, the song bringing so much memories had Luna singing as tears flowing down her face as both the real and the copy let their emotions guide their fingers. The trio created an atmosphere of love, pain, happiness, and sadness as the ponies felt the emotions in the song.
Chris stops as the copy stops as well, he looks to Celestia and nods as Celestia reverses the spell and the copy was absorbed back into its original.
Chris looks at Luna as he finished, "Luna... I hope this party will be everything you ever wanted."
Luna smiles and looks down, the tears stopped flowing as she replies, "Thank you... for everything."
Chris hugs her tightly as the ponies resume their work and put more effort into making it the best night for their Princess Luna.
2100 the skys of Equestria
"Sir is this the most prudent idea?" asked the royal guard pegasus as his partner carry the chariot containing Chris in his newly christened armor.
"Are you getting paid?" Chris asks as the guards pony responds positively.
"Fine by me!" He says, smiling behind his helmet as he runs a few steps and leaps off the chariot as he already had his entrance choreographed, the song Shoot to Thrill by AC/DC plays in his head set as he sets it to play at ground level. He knew to let the ponies know that future tech is involved and this is what he meant. He free falls as the fireworks start exploding in the sky at his level around 11,000 feet, he activates his thrusters as his wings were tucked to increase falling speed.
He rolls and dodges the oncoming fireworks set up by Star Swirl as one accidently explodes in front of his face, "WHOA!"
He barrel rolls out of the way and fires off his thrusters as he opens his wings and falls faster in a dive as the song reaches its chorus,
"So don't you fool around I'm gonna pull it pull it Pull the trigger Shoot to thrill play to kill Too many women too many pills, yeah Shoot to thrill play to kill I got my gun at the ready gonna fire at will "
He lands in a ground pound at a pedestal made to withstand his entry as he spreads his wings wide, arms outstretched as the ponies stomp their hooves and cheered. He looks at the crowd as he lowers his arms as two ponies use their magic to disassemble his armor, first his helmet comes off as he shakes his head and smiles, the ponies cheer more as the armor comes off little by little, being stored away to be used for another time. He finally steps off his boots as he was dressed in the most professional looking suit, a black in color jacket with a dark blue shirt, white tie and dark blue best, his black pants matching his black dress shoes as he throws his hands down in a bowing gesture.
He waves to the ponies and points at a few with a smile, he gives a thumbs up to the pony tailors and the cobbler for a job well done. The song finally finishes as he fixes his cuffs, his cufflinks bearing the symbol of Princess Luna as he claps his hands along with the ponies hoof stomping.
"Oh its good to be here tonight fillies and gentlecolts!" He announces as the ponies fall silent.
"I appreciate that each and every one of you here has made it to celebrate our first Lunar festival, in honor and appreciation of a certain Princess that deserves it." He takes a step away from the pedestal as a ball of light suddenly forms and subsides as Princess Luna appears, dressed in her best gown.
"Princess Luna everypony!" He claps as the ponies applaud in their own way as well as Luna extends her wings, taking in the admiration and love of her subjects before her.
"Everypony must've felt uncomfortable with the music though?" he asks as most ponies nodded,
"I'm sorry, its a good song from where I came from, also I wanted to do that intro for a while. Enough about me lets get to celebrating the event by the raising of the moon! Princess when you're ready." He says giving Luna the spotlight as she smiles and uses her magic, the moon slowly raises into the night sky as the sun sets and fades away.
The ponies watch with admiration and awe as the bright moon climbs high into the night sky, since most ponies sleep through it they never see the moon in its full glory. With that in mind they take in the crisp light as they all talk amongst each other about how wonderful the moon looks for the first time. Luna notices this and beams with pride as Chris walks to her and stands by her side.
"How do you feel?" He asks her as she nuzzles him,
"Better than I have ever felt in all my life. Thank you so much Chris." She says.
He smiles and hugs her neck as the ponies swoon at the sight of the two sharing an embrace.
2200 Castle grounds
Chris jokes and laughs with a few of the guards ponies as the ones newly off duty, as Chris introduced the rest system into the royal security ponies schedule, the guards can now rest for a few days and come back refreshed to do their duties as the other shift gets to rest the next few days then relieve the exhausted guards.
Luna was surrounded by lots of her followers as they bask in her moonlight and proclaim at how much they love the night. Her sister still received a fair amount of attention but was always nudging them towards Lunas side. Celestia walks to Chris as the off duty guards gasp and bow to pay their respects as Chris gets up and bows as well.
"No need Chris, you all are having a wonderful time by the looks of it." She says smiling.
"That is very much true princess, I also see that your younger sister is stunned by the amount of admiration she is getting." He smiles as Celestia turns to look at Luna as she looks to Celestia and Chris then mouths the words help me as the two laugh.
Chris gets up and goes to the piano and takes a seat as Celestia watches, "Princess... duplication spell please."
Celestia does so and Chris splits into two different beings, "Now I know some of you know the songs I played for our dear lunar princess today, but now this is a piece I acquired from someone who wrote this in honor of Princess Luna in my world. It is called... Starlight Waltz."
He starts it off with a dream like melody as the copy plays on the percussion xylophone giving the twinkling effect, he makes another copy to take the violin and small guitar as they all come together and start playing. The mood gave happiness and relaxation to all the ponies in the room as Luna cried softly as she listened to her human play. The song reaches a new point as it starts playing the same notes even louder as the copies and the original play with more enthusiasm and energy as they slowly lower the tone and finally end with a few lingering notes.
The audience doesn't say a word as Chris gets up and the copies all fall in behind Chris and disappear into his body as he holds out a hand to the Princess, "Princess Luna, these ponies here, along with your sister and I, are all here for you. You play a crucial role in the ponies day of work, and night of rest. Please don't feel discouraged when the ponies sleep, they must rest for the next day, but there will be some that will play and relax in your moonlight. We all love you Princess Luna."
The ponies bow as he finishes his ending speech, Chris follows suit as well as Celestia, showing love and respect for her sister as Luna was overwhelmed.
"I... I.... I don't know what to say." She says nervously as Chris gets up and walks to the blushing Princess as he whispers in her ear,
"Please don't become Nightmare Moon.
Author's Note
Here is the listing of the music in order:
and finally the song of this chapter, for our most beloved Princess.
Oh man this song brought this chapter into my head and I had to put it into writing.
Goodnight, and enjoy the night.