An Elite Guardian

It was now a few nights after Celestia had returned to Canterlot, the night after Rainbow had visited me and I voiced my suspicions, in fact, and I was currently in what I could only assume was the dream realm. Why did I come to this conclusion? I was a brony, and the area around me resembles how we see the blank version of the thing in the show. Guess.

Anyway, I had been in there for what seemed like a few minutes to me when it changed to a hall lined with crystals, putting me on alert and making me draw an energy sword, if only because having something with which to defend myself helped me stay somewhat grounded. I scanned the hall, my eyes darting from left to right before I heard a familiar voice.

"You may out your weapon away, warrior. You have my word I will not harm you here," Luna said as she appeared in front of me, her armor polished. Obviously, I didn't believe her, even if I felt that there's more to everything going on. She eyes me as i kept my sword raised. "Wise to not trust your enemy," she muttered.

"What do you want?" I growled.

"I simply wish to talk," the lunar alicorn said. "I know that my sister has most likely told you of what she did to me and my family."

"In that, you would be correct," I replied. "But you should know that simply knowing that does not make me ally with you. She may have erased your memory, but who overreacted and let this war continue?"

"Like you wouldn't have done the same if it happened to you?" Luna said.

"And how do you think Celestia felt?" I retorted, lowering my blade. "She lost her sister-you-twice. There are none left for her that she is close enough to let her fear out."

"And what fear is that?!" Luna yelled, to which I delivered a single reply.

"Losing you a third time," I replied. "I went to her chambers earlier today to express my skepticism as to what exactly happened. Upon arriving there, I heard her sobbing and continue to choke your name out, along with the fact she did not wish to lose you again. You can not tell me, even after all of this, you do not still love her. After all, it was her who gave your daughter to a family she knew would love her, and gave her her horn. Now, instead of having to lose two loved ones, it is only one." i hen tapped my chest. "And maybe not even that, if we're lucky enough."

"What do you mean, "we"? Luna growled.

"That of we can stop this war without further bloodshed, Harmony may owe us a favor, and you could use it to allow your husband to live with you for as long as you wish," I said.

Luna opened her mouth to retort, but, before she could, a wall fell away next to us, revealing the outside. Both of us looked at it, and, though I can not speak for Luna, the sight I saw was one that made me stare, mouth open in shock. The sight I saw was that of the Empire burning in various colored flames. I heard the sound of metal clashing, and looked down at the roads, and saw Umbra, Sombra, and Luna-making me look to my side, only to no longer see the lunar alicorn-fighting a pillar of yellow flames. "What is this?" I whispered, surprised when a voice, a female and one that flowed as if it was the voice of a river, and just as calming, replied.

"A vision of what is to come," the voice said to my left, making me jump and draw my sword, only to see an earth pony mare as tall as Celestia, her coat gray, her mane and tail a rainbow as opposed to Celestia's northern-lights type coloring, standing there. Somehow, I instantly knew who it was.

"Harmony?" I asked.

"Indeed, Ruso," the goddess replied as she turned to face me, revealing simple, green eyes. "I apologize for this, but this is the only moment when all those in this vision are asleep. I did not wish to interrupt your conversation, but it was either now, or not at all."

"Then would you please explain what this is meant to be?" I asked, making her sigh.

"The foretelling of something much worse than what is currently happening," she replied as her gaze, as well as mine, returned to the ground. "I can not tell you everything-cosmic rules and all that nonsense-but I can tell you, Ruso, that you do play an integral part of it."

"What?" I asked.

Harmony chuckled. "I can not tell you," she said. "However, I am able to show you. Look." With that, she gestured back down, making me look, only to see, to my surprise, the three alicorns and the crystal king severely injured and facing the pillar of flame, which was colored every conceivable flame color of fire there is. But in front of the pillar was, to my surprise, was me, dressed in flame red and orange armor, with a red and orange energy sword pointed at the royals.