How Do I Make It Not Hurt?

The steady heartbeat monitor that was for once not for me was all I herd as I tentatively watched over the frail form of Spitfire, her breathing ever so shallow. My wet clothes were sent to my room in the castle and I was wrapped in my military suit sent from Ponyville my dress shoes were replaced by my wonder bolt boots. The Sombra sword was on my left hip giving off a black fog from the blade and Selene was on my right courteous of a second sheath belt, Selene occasionally gave off a black tendril magic which would be swallowed up by the blade almost as soon as it came. I wasn't stable and everyone knew it, I couldn't even control the dark magic in my body that had to be vented by my swords and eyes. The break through of wind magic was nothing at the moment as my brain tortured me with how everything was my fault. The only thing taken from Spitfire was Solaris, my sword, my responsibility.

I was shook from my sulking by the air current being blocked by someone outside the door I raised my hand not holding spitfires which glowed grey and opened the door with a gentle breeze. The other side revealed a couple of WonderBolts, they locked eyes with me but remained silent. My mouth became extremely dry as I tried to say something.

"I'm... sorry." The blue pegasus Sourin just shook his head trying to hold back the tears, collapsing on the side of the bed he wailed different forms of he should of been there. Another pegasus pushed past me that I didn't recognize while one I did Flee Foot beckoned me out into the hall. The door shut and the wails from inside got louder. My eyes went to the floor from guilt.

"Sun, I can call you that right? Get your weird glowing eye balls off the floor and look me in the eyes." I looked up to see the mare trembling but her voice stood firm. "The first step to finding out who did this is knowing the real story, what happened this morning." I went over every detail from the visions to the armor matching the guys I fought at the club. She nodded her head, "she cared about you a lot you know? Wouldn't shut up about how reckless you were and if something was to happen to her that we should watch out for you. In the Wonderbolts we are family and that extends to you through her."

"Promise me if you find any leads that you will notify me?"

"Of Sun course and I expect the same." She embraced me and a couple tears escaped both of our eyes before she opened the door and went to tend to her family. I crumplued to the floor my head on my knees, I felt a spike of anger come over me and I rose up throwing a fist into the wall, the marble cracking under the force of my fist. Raising my hands to my eyes I temporarily pulled the emitting magic from them to not alarm anyone. I navigated my way to the entrance where a line of journalists and guards had formed. The mass of ponies was going to be a pain, If only I could teleport I could navigate around the horde. The guards acknowledged my presence and let me through, the snapping of cameras and screaming of questions fell on deaf ears as I scanned the blue and black carriage that beckoned my presence. I didn't need to see Luna to know she was there. I headed down the steps of Canterlots general hospital to the large carriage. Luna poked her head out followed by the door being fully open and some new faces being revealed.

A big bat pony looked me up and down as I pulled my swords out to not stab through the seats. "So this is the cowboy?"

"Shut up Crescent we all had a long night especially him." A female bat pony spoke up half asleep. He turned back to look at her.

"Just making sure he's not going to blow the carriage over with another twister." I wasn't in the mood for it.

"We can do the whole new guy bottom of the totem pole song and dance later." Everyone just kind of shut up after that, I turned to Luna. "Where are we headed?" She let out a huff and went to looking out the window.

"The Council building Sun." I just put my face in my hands and tried to get my magic under control before I had to go in there looking like Sombra. I let out a big breathe and licks of black flames danced from between my fingers, a test of civility just what I need today.

The Council Building

The huge white building was supported by columns of limestone that gave me the impression of an open maw with its white staggered tongue reaching out towards the carriage in the form of row after row of white steps. The others piled out of the carriage in an uninspired manner and I was quickly getting the impression everyone present was dreading this as much as me. We were a small set of black uniforms in a sea of white which almost felt like wearing a sign that just flashed misfits. The Bluemoons didn't seem to care groggily joking about previous appearances and I over herd Crescent and a smaller bat pony who's name I learned was Flash Night, how they would sneak out two sinks this time compared to the one on the prior trip. I moved my gaze to the steps under my feet and chuckled at their desire to act like delinquents for the sake of a good laugh. Another pair of boots appeared next to my own and I raised my head to match the gaze of the Bluemoon field commander Blood rain. She had a scar over her dark red eyes that matched her hair and her skin was as close to a fruit bat as one could get in color and even in my poor mood I felt my heart twinge as she looked me deep in the eyes.

"It's nice to finally meet you captain, I'm sorry it was under these circumstances." She gave me a nod and looked forward.

"It's nice to put a face to a name Apollo Sun, I am sorry that your mentor was attacked." I still maintained a half smile while looking back to the stone steps. "We have our intelligence officers working on trying to identify the faction so don't worry about them getting away."

"I hope you guys don't beat me to the punch." She stopped and turned towards me.

"Apollo you maybe the Princesses new project but we are a team and If you can't work with this team there's no room for you here you'll just get in the way, go join the Wonderbolts if that's your mentality. " My teeth ground against one another.

"Did you see what I did to those ponies with just my bare hands, I did that alone and when Luna sent me to Ponyville to fight the Misfits or the Crystal empire I did that alone too. If anything you'll be in my way." Her face remained calm as my temper flared and I could almost feel my eyes turn a shade of red to match her own.

"You lack emotional control a thing required for playing nice with others, lets look at last night as an example everyone was nearly injured by your magic and the bodies were so badly damaged its taking far longer than usual to get an ID on them. You're sloppy and hot headed and until you get over that you wont be able to be brought into the fold. We are switching our operation ready point to Ponyville we'll have a lot of time for you to prove to me you are ready for this responsibility." I was steaming I could feel my hair stand up. She walked into the large red doors as I just starred daggers until the door closed. Crescent stuck his head out from the door.

"I was in favor of you joining officially after you blew that Boss guy up in Ponyville." He was pulled back into the building by Blood Rain. I leaned against a pillar and wiped at my eyes and tried to calm down. My suit felt wrong on me now and I wanted to tear apart. I wanted to be back in the Crystal empire in the prototype suit soaring through the skies helping the crystal army. Those were my comrades not this phony group of slackers, I could feel Luna's magic about to teleport on my position. I bit down on my lip and entered the building to avoid the conversation.

The walls were well furnished and the place had an air of supremacy which must of originated far up the pompous asses of those who called this place their chamber of social service. I found it ironic a human was wandering around the halls of the council of Eqestria the place that had originated so much pain and suffering. A cold shiver ran down my neck and a sultry voice seemed to whisper behind me, "You could always burn this place down right not." I spun around and no one was there and scary enough it sounded like Spitfire. I tried to move my attention to something else as Luna popped out of the grand doors at the end of the hallway and motioned me to hurry up. I hustled down the hall and tried to enter the meeting area but was stopped by Luna. She tapped both of my swords with a glowing finger which flashed and turned them into black gauntlets one having a blue gem in the form of a crescent moon and the other having a red crescent moon.

"What was that for?"

"It's a precaution we don't need the council knowing the son of Crimson Sun also has the power of a dark lord." I just nodded as I passed her and walked into the big room that formed a huge bowl of seats with a talking floor in the center. The room was broken into a bunch of sections based on their interest groups. The Wonderbolts and the royal guards where in attendance. Highest ranks and rulers where in the front like Luna and Blood rain and the lower ranks were in the back of the sections. The moons were by far the smallest out of the groups and shared a section with regular night guards the council was even larger than us which didn't allow me to be veiled by the darkness when the lights were dimmed and changed to stage lights. Everything was started as a white unicorn smacked his stand with his gavel. His voice filled the room effortlessly.

"The Eqestrian council has called the powers of this empire together to discuss the terrorist attack that took place in the capital this morning against one of our highest ranked and decorated officers." We first call upon now acting Wonderbolt captain Fleet foot to speak on Spitfires current mission at the time of attack." The pegasus rose and walked the descending isle to the floor and bowed before speaking to the room.

"Greetings everyone, Spitfire was currently under orders to be mentoring and training Apollo Sun the human of the Bluemoon task force. She was in the capital last night in preparation of his return as she was in possession of a magic artifact that is a possession of Sun's. This was the only thing taken from the home that we know of at this time. The perpetrators have also been seen acting in Canterlot previously during the night club attack documented weeks ago. That is all we know at this time." She gave another bow and returned to her seat as chatter began to rise in the peanut gallery. I sunk a little in my chair. The unicorn with the gavel then turned his attention to Luna and Blood Rain.

" Does Luna or Blood Rain have answers on why the leader of the Wonderbolts was training a night guard or why a human was in possession of a magical artifact of such importance." Luna rose and descended to the floor.

"Apollo Sun is a special case and I felt required a special mentor as many students of hers pegasi or other have gone on to do such great things, it fit in my mind."

He scoffed, "Yes in your mind. What about the magical artifact then?" Celestia surprisingly joined in.

"Sun is currently the wielder of the Holy solar sword Solaris which was taken from Spitfire in the events of last night. This is due to him being the only living being besides me to be able to do so as that sword was forged by Crimson Sun for me over 1000 years ago, its a magical impossibility that anyone else can even activate the sword unless they are biologically related to me or Crimson." The assembly gasped at the mention of Crimson and the possibility of other creatures made by my father out there.

The gavel pony nodded and spoke, " The council would now like to get an Idea of the creature that wields such power, is it in attendance?" I rose to my feet and planted them were no human ever had.

"I am." The room was silent and the pony with the gavel locked eyes with me and I refused to look away. The magic in my eyes made it clear I was a couple bad comments from producing magical smoke.

"The council wishes to know what's your goal with joining the military." I kept my face flat and my voice monotone.

"To serve the common beings who reside in the borders of Eqestria." He grinned.

"We did our research on you and you showed no sign of cooperation in the past and have quite the track record of rebellious sentiments besides what resides in your blood. Honestly just being the son of Crimson Sun and some whore should have you lashed to a cross in the badlands."

"I'm glad we are on the same page." I grinned

"What do you mean by that." His eyes narrowed.

"My father and the women who produced me are a poison coursing through my veins and I'm just confirmed your opinion of me that's all." I turned to see Luna and Celestia a mixture of pissed and confused. "How much do you really know about me though I'm curious?" The pony squinted at me trying to understand what angle I was working at. He then turned and picked up a rather large book.

"At age 8 you clubed an older slave to death with a rock for trying to steal your rations, punishment saw you left in a hotbox for two weeks and you survived. Later that year you were invited into slave pit fighting at site 13 and by the end of that year you earned the title of red death as you would cake the blood of fallen slaves upon yourself. You killed more slaves than anyone in this entire room before you hit the age of 14. Its wrote here that a challenger once tried to poison you before
you fought and in retaliation you beat him to his knees and split his head in two by stomping a shield through his mouth." The room was silent and sadly I had no remorse for the cook that not only tried to poison me but successfully poisoned the kids at site 13. I could remember the rain falling heavy caking my body in mud and sticking in my hair as I raised my foot over and over and the top half of the head fell clean and the crowd roared. I knelled down in the mud and streams of tears fell from my eyes before a roar erupted from my throat and I grabbed the head by the hair and launched it into the crowd.

I blinked a couple seconds to pull myself out of it. "You've only got the boring regular stuff."

"What could a human know that we don't!" I smiled at the flustered pony.

"Maybe what happened to site 13." Most ponies began whispering. "All those humans and ponies disappear and the only thing recovered was me." I won this attempt to politically destroy me and I could feel I was snow balling. "I was the first responder this morning and I slaughtered those ponies without hesitation not out of residual contempt for pony kind but out of loyalty to Spitfire. I will find everyone involved and get my sword back upon which I will enact the curse of banishment to the moon and I highly doubt the individuals in question have a thousand years to spare. I will be ruthless in my pursuit of these ponies and I expect the Wonderbolts feel the same so lets not make this about me and instead we handle this as a military body that just lost one of its most important pieces." I turned and walked to my seat earning cheers from the pegasi and a nod from Sourin. The Bluemoon's all just stared at me and I gave them no acknowledgement. The rest of the meeting was over information I already knew or provided like the artifact recovered after the nightclub and possible goals of the group. Before I knew it the meeting was over and everyone was standing up and leaving I jumped up heading out the door and pulled off my gauntlets and focused my magic returning them to swords and sliding them through the loops on the belts. I could feel many eyes but I paid them no mind as I saw myself out.

The sky was a brilliant orange as dusk was settling over Canterlot. Many bodies passed as I leaned against the great white pillar and looked up endlessly. I was soon grabbed by someone and reflexively my hand shot out and in a new twist sent a blast of wind knocking back who I could now see was Blood Rain. She opened her wings and gained her balance, cool non lethal magic. She marched up to me understanding she startled me.

"Sun I would like to say..." I looked past her and saw Sourin and Fleet foot coming out one of the doors.

"I'm going to cut you off and I understand you're my commanding officer but you're right I'm Luna's project that's where I get my orders and my support not you. When I needed you guys you weren't there but I've got things done, Princess Cadence asked for me to solve the problem there and I've only been doing this for a couple months so before you try to lecture me like Spitfire used to try and understand the situation and if you can't I will join the Wonderbolt's without a moments hesitation." I passed her and made my way to the two flyers. "We will get them I promise, you can tell the rest of the Wonderbolts if they need anything to let me know." Fleet foot nodded and surprisingly Sourin embraced me tears on the verge of coming out.

"Same goes for you Sun." The flyers saluted and began to fly off into the dusk sky towards Cloudsdale. I saluted as they flew off and the gaze of Blood Rain followed me as I spread my wings and headed off to be by Spitfires side.

Night above Canterlot

I had gone to the Hospital just to be turned away and channeling the delinquency I must of picked up from my squad mates I used my wings to sneak into the window of Spitfire and stand above my mentor in her comatose state. I pressed my left hand to the side of her face and focused on my light magic, I could feel the red magic snake its way down my arm from the sun on my left shoulder, the magic became visible as the red magic traveled to my palm and began to glow with contact with her cheek and I did my best to heal her which brought nothing but some tears which dropped onto her unaware form. I left as swiftly as I had came and had spent the last couple hours blasting all the clouds away from Canterlot.

The last cloud in all of the Canterlot sky existed beneath me as I stared up at the crescent moon and the countless stars. "I'm no Bluemoon, maybe I should just ask Fleet foot to join the Wonderbolts." Thinking out loud had been a long time strategy of keeping myself company.

"I think Luna would be quite upset with that." I knew the voice was Blood Rain.

"Luna's like my mom or a really weird aunt at this point she would get over it." I could feel my cloud being invaded by the annoying bat pony.

"It took me awhile to clear all the clouds so I could be alone.

"Yeah I know I watched you take forever, it made me question if Spitfire really was your mentor."

"Cut me some slack my wings are a new addition."

"Maybe to you but Luna told me to prepare for wings the day you signed with us."

"What a sneaky princess."

"She cares about all of us but your just in a spot all your own."

"Am I sensing a hint of jealousy from you captain?"

"Honestly I thought it was skepticism at first but I guess I do believe its grown into jealousy as Luna's previous project it sucks to share the spotlight."

"Sorry I ruined your Luna attention monopoly." She actually chuckled.

"I just want to say everyone wasn't like me and most of the guys are pretty big supporters of you and had to be magically sedated to keep them from going to the crystal empire to help you." My lips curled into a smile.

"Not to be rude but what do you guys even do, you say I'm sloppy but of course you don't make mistakes when you don't do anything." She laughed almost enough to fall off the cloud.

"Our job is to make people think that, we are mostly off the books and leave no trace so of course you don't hear about what we do."

"Which includes?" I quizzically gazed at the mare as she remained looking up.

"We are what goes bump in the night, we remove the problem weather that's ponies, artifacts, magical entities, political threats, and many more."

"Well that's actually cool to bad I don't believe you quite yet."

"I can understand after seeing us today but be ready for a rude awakening when you see us in action we will make you a shadow like the rest of us in time. This is your real start as a Bluemoon if you still want it." I stood up and offered a hand.

"I don't like you, like at all but I'm willing to give you my best effort."

Author's Note

Under cover chapter in Manehattan with Vinyl is coming up!

Getting ready to write more (2022) and honestly this is my favorite chapter other than side bets pt 2 up to this point in this story.