The guardian: Origins

'Where am I? Who am I?' I thought as my mind was shrouded by darkness. I then opened my eyes. The room was pitch black but I could see the room so clearly as if all the lights were on. In this room I see five changelings in cloaks each with some fear in their eyes, so I spoke to them, "Who am I?"

One of them stood and used a spell to relight the candles in the room.

"My name is Hydrus, and we are the changeling royal mages," said Hydrus as he looks up at me. "You are a shadow pony"

"A shadow pony?" I exclaimed as I looked down at my hoof to see nothing but a cloud of darkness.

"Yes," said Hydrus. "you are a pony made entirely out of dark magic therefor you can take the form of anypony much like us changelings. You can also cast any dark spell if needed with ease."

I then cleared my mind and came up with a form, but instead of using another ponies form I just used a part of the dark magic I was made out of to create a cloak of my own to cover the stallion alicorn form I have created. Then I lowered to the ground where all of the royal mages looked at me somewhat astonished at the body I had created.

"Now that you are settled in this body, we should let you know why you are here," said Hydrus. "Your job is to protect royalty from any danger that may arise in the future even if it costs you your life. You are also to do whatever they say and ask of you as long as it is within reason of course."

"Okay, I understand," I stated as I started to leave the room

"Wait!" Hydrus said as he jumped in front of me. "The only royalty we have left is the princess who was born yesterday so you are to raise her and help her grow up. Not only that we wish that you keep your existence a secret so no-one could ever be prepared to fight someone as powerful as you."

At first I was confused by this request but it made some sense so I nodded and created a portal to the princess's chamber. I left the room into the portal which led to the bed where the princess laid asleep and I watched as she slept confused as to why she is the only one left but I just ignored it and stood guarding her.

During that night I felt something in my cloak so I dug my hooves into it and found a strange book called "Book of SeRaKay". I was confused as to how that book got in there but then I decided to read it. Inside it contained dark magic spells and information about each spell. Not only were there spells in the book, there was something very strange on the first page. There were a set of rules, five rules exactly. I was confused when I saw them at first, but as I looked they seemed as if they were for me.

The rules in the book were:
-Rule 1: You must stay hidden, no-one must know of your existence except for the royal blood.
-Rule 2: You must protect the royal blood from any harm or danger as long, as you have a single breath in you, you must protect them.
-Rule 3: You must do whatever the royal blood asks of you as long as it is within reason and doesn't misuse your power.

-This rule overrides rules 1 and 2
-Rule 4A: If the royal blood makes a mistake they must fix it themselves and cannot make you fix it for them.

-This rule overrides rules 1, 2, and 3
-Rule 4B: If the royal blood becomes corrupt you aren't able to help them return to their former selves even if they request your power is not strong enough to do so.

-This rule overrides rules 1, 2, and 3
-Rule 5: Every year on the day of their birth you must do at least one thing they ask of you even if it isn't within reason or misuses your power.

-This rule overrides rules 1, 2, 3, and 4

Once I finished reading them, I thought that maybe these rules are what is needed in order to protect them and help me do it correctly.

I then spent the entire night reading this mysterious book and checking on her. Then I realized something that made me a bit worried. Tomorrow I am to raise her as if I was her father and I have to make sure that no-one knows that I am doing it.

That worry soon disappeared when I looked down at her sleeping in her crib with a big smile on her face. She looks so calm and peaceful.