'Life is mysterious, isn't it? How do we form our bonds of trust with some so easily, yet others will never develop with some. It puzzles me to think that or trust may be genuine in some, but to them, we are disposable, but there are those who you'd never talk to but it turns out they would've been better to trust insteads. Are we on a path destroy ourselves, or save ourselves? I have no room to talk, but just imagine if we knew who to trust and who not to before we ever met someone. Maybe life would've been more exciting if I never trusted the Princesses. Maybe I shouldn't have trusted the Minotaur chieftain when they visited the castle, then Sarah could've lived a bit longer. But that's how life works, always changing and never dull, you just have to live it to the fullest extent you can.

'Still, I can't but think "What if..." What if I never met the Princesses? What if I never got these powers? What if I wasn't there to stop the Minotaurs? Would my life had been different, or is everyone's life already predestined? I'd like to think it isn't.'

I finish writing in my journal and place the quill back in the inkwell, I stand up and walk over to the dresser next to my bed, the old floorboards creaking as I walk. I reach the dresser and open it up, grabbing my hoodie and putting it on over my shirt. I do a once over using the dresser's mirror. I finish looking at myself, since I'm not very impressive to look at anyways, and close the dresser door, the door slamming shut in a fury. I walk back to my desk, and close my journal. Once I've finished my morning routine I get ready for my favorite part, sleep, I walk over to my bed and lay down on top of it. I close my eyes and let sleep embrace me. Only, that doesn't happen since I live with the worlds loudest alarm clock.

"Garrett! Get down here!" Twilight yells. 'Thank god that door muffles most sounds.' I internally celebrate.

"Ugh. Fine, irriti cani." I mutter as I get out of bed. I stand up and walk over to the door and turn the old rusty knob. The hinges creak in defiance as the door requires some force to open. Thankfully, I'm not in the loft, otherwise I'd have fallen down the stairs to the library. I look around the foyer and try to find the annoying thorn in my side.

"There you are. Come here, my friends want to have a word with you." Twilight says darkly.

"Does it have to do with yesterdays conversation?" Twilight nods, "Ugh. Fine, tell them I'll be there soon, just need to grab something first." I say, turning back towards my desk. As I turn, I'm stopped by Twilight's magic.

"No. You're going now, and that's that." Twilight says, teleporting us into the main part of the library. When the lights leave my eyes, I'm greeted to five very pissed off looking mares and one pissed off drake.

"So, You want to betray us?! Huh? Do you?" Rainbow demands, earning nods from all those gathered.

"Look I'm hungry, thirsty, angry, and tired. So can we please not do this, m'kay thanks." I say, only to be met by a rather angry farmer.

"Fine. What do you want to know?" I ask crossing my arms.

"We just want to know if you plan on betraying us, or killing us?" I start to drown out their questions, as I take out a slightly bloodstained note, a locket, and a ring from my hoodie's left pocket. The ring is black with my name engraved on the right side, along with the symbol of the Gladiatorus Lunarum. On it's left side is the year of my marriage, along with a Fleur De Lis engraved on it. And the top of the ring has the word Knights engraved in a metal band dividing the turquoise stone in half, the rings edge has an arched bridge pattern engraved into the metal. I put the ring onto my left ring finger as stated by the note. Then I open the locket to reveal a picture of my face and a beautiful young woman with long black hair, brown eyes, and a quizzical look in her eyes.

"Garrett! We're in the middle of something and we need you to answer for... What are you doing?" Twilight asks.

"Oh, I'm just reminiscing." I respond.

"Ok, but why did you put a ring on, and it's on your left hand, but it's not a wedding ring, does that mean your a coltcuddler?" Twilight asks.

"No, I'm not a coltcuddler, I don't even know what that is, wait... Do you think I'm gay?!" I ask in shock. I look back to the note, only for it to be grabbed by Twilight's magic.

"Give that back, you have no right to read that!" I shout, getting restrained by a blue aura this time. "No! Stop it." I shout, fighting against the aura.

"Sorry Garrett, but I'll do what my teachers have always done and read this out loud. Ahem... Dear Garrett, it's Sarah, if you're reading this then you still care for me. While it pains me that you are almost never around anymore, I regret to inform you that the Intracranial Hemorrhaging has advanced to an incurable state, I have less than four months to live, and I just want you to know that I love you. You always were my light in the dark. I may not be there for you much longer, but as long as you never forget me then I will always be happy.

"It means the world to me that you never forget, that's why I enchanted your ring, while I could've used the money for something more important, like my treatment, I'd rater see you happy than worried. I wish it could've been our wedding rings, but I could only afford to enchant the ring I gave you at our wedding anniversary, the shadowcast one. I know you'll be mad that I used the money for that over getting my condition cured, but it meant so much to me. I only want you happy, and seeing that smile on your face when we're together made me the happiest person in the world, it's a shame that I won't be there to see it much longer. My only request is that you never cry, frown, or get upset. I may not have much time left on this planet, but that doesn't mean that I have to be miserable, nor should you. Please, for me, just remember me as your wife and continue to be my light in the dark." At this point, everyone present was on the verge of tears, and the aura holding me down had faded away, I noticed where Twilight's eyes were, the last message on the page.

"Mortis ut partis." I say, causing the girls to look at me, "It means 'Death to us Part' the last words I ever heard from Sarah." I say, causing everyone gathered to finally crack. I'm embraced by everyone present.

"H-How did she... die?" Asks a teary eyed Twilight, I wipe the tears from her eyes before I start to speak.

"Have you ever heard of the midnight Minotaur raid?" The girls all nod. "So, how did the raid end?" I say, leaving it open for them to answer.

"The most common ending is that a brave soldier used a strange magic and removed the threat from Equestria." Twilight says.

"Well, you're half right, I only know this because I was that soldier." The girls all gasp in shock, "That's how Sarah died, and I learned what it meant to truly be blinded by rage." I say regretfully.

"How did it happen? If you don't mind telling us, that is." Fluttershy asks.

"I can tell you. It was during a full moon on the Midnight Minotaur raid."

Flashback, yay.

"Celestia, Luna! There's too many of them, we can't hold them off much longer!"

"Know your place Grunt. Celestia, what do we do? As much as I hate to admit it, the Grunt's right. The Minotaurs are too powerful, we can't stop them."

"Calm yourself Garrett, I'm sure we can think of something we can do." Celestia said.

"Wait, you're Garrett, I was told to give this to you by your wife." The Grunt said hesitantly. I took the letter he handed me, and proceeded to read it, before I opened it I saw that the bottom corner was covered in blood.

"Why is there a bloodstain on it?" I asked.

"Well... I heard a scream come from the direction of your house, when I arrived the house was in shambles. I rushed in to check for survivors, since that's where ponies had taken shelter inside houses. Long story short, I found your wife, bleeding severely, and I offered to help her, but she insisted I gave this to you, along with this." The Grunt said handing me my shadowcast ring, "She said you had to read it first, I do not know if she has gotten medical attention or if it was too late." I took the note from the Grunt and ran back towards my house, when I arrived, it was in shambles. If anyone as inside of it, they were killed by the collapse of the roof.

"Garrett! I don't know how to tell you, but it's Sarah, she... She didn't make it. The medic said defeated. The next thing I knew, I was angry no, furious, and I wanted Revenge, I saw the Minotaur leader heading towards the castle. All I remember after that was being surrounded in a pitch black aura, my hair turned white and my eyes changed color.

"Ironhide!" I roared, the fear that formed in place of his usually stoic demeanor was priceless.

"Why'd you stop telling the story?" Pinkie asks.

"Because the textbooks can tell you how Ironhide ended up, but for an abridged version; I ripped his arms off impaled them on his horns, pulled his tail off, pulling out a few vertebrae in the process, then I ripped his torso off at the waist, letting him bleed out in unbearable agony. Any Minotaur that stayed behind met the same fate as Ironhide, all this happened because of the downside of Lunarkinesis." I say, trying to suppress the memory of killing hundreds of people single handily.

"What is the downside? You can merge with shadows and create tiny spheres that can knock fully grown alicorns!"

"Well Rainbow, lets say I missed and I was using the Lunar Impact. I'd be hit with a backlash that would break several bones in my body. I can only heal myself and others during a full moon, anger causes a self destructive form of it. By that I mean I'd be killing myself the longer I'm using the hybridized Lunarkinesis." Silencing Rainbow Dash instantly.

"Well, I was going to answer your questions, and my response was going to be this, I'll treat it on a level of trust, the more I trust one of you the better off you'll be, and the opposite for the less I trust you. Sound fair?" I ask, earning nods from everyone, "Good, Now everyone here has a total of zero, except Twilight, You've got a negative score, because you read something of mine you weren't meant to." Twilight nods her head shamefully.

"Now then, lets go home, and try to have a good day tomorrow, s'alright? S'alright." I say standing up and walking back into my room and closing the door. I lean against the door so I can hear what they're saying, as clearly as I can.

"Alright, I'll see you girls tomorrow. And Applejack, you said you needed my help tomorrow?" Twilight says to the girls.

"Yessire! Ah needed yer help with assistin' me win a bet against my brother Big Mac!"

"Bye Twilight, see you tomorrow." The others say as they leave through the library door.

"Alright, Spike take a letter. Dear Princess Celestia, today I learned that sometimes it's best to keep secrets from others, because you probably have a reason for keeping them. The problem arises when you try to press the issue and you learn something you weren't supposed to know. This can lead to turmoil and distrust amongst friends and even destroy friendships, but maybe they can help strengthen the bonds of friendship between you and your friends. Ok, send it. Yes I'm sure. I know it sucks, just send it Spike." I hear Twilight huff as I shake my head and snort at her simplistic view on life, but is it so bad to view life that way? I shake off my thoughts as I push my bed over to the right, revealing a circle on the floor with a meditative symbol drawn into the middle. I sit down in the middle of the circle and close my eyes, clearing my mind of any distractions

"Ok Twilight, lets see why you hide." I say as the circle begins to faintly glow.

Author's Note

This chapter was a bitch, I wanted it to be almost perfect (or damn near) and I restarted once out of frustration, another due to a corrupt hard drive, and a third time because it just sucked.
The term used to describe a black colored ring is shadowcast. I know this is short, and I'm going to get dislikes for it, but I needed to get something done to keep up with my schedule, so please go 'somewhat' easy on the dislikes.

This is just a little fun filler chapter before 'The Ticket Master' I don't know if I should do filler every other chapter, every now and then. You guys decide, or don't.

The "Scores" for everyone
Twilight: -30
Rainbow: 0
Pinkie Pie: 0
Fluttershy: 0
Rarity: 0
Applejack: 0
Spike: 0