Sentinel of the Sun

Chapter Seven

Celestia bounded from tree to tree, making sure that the one she was searching for could not see her. Once she was sure he had not spotted her, just yet, Celestia bounded straight for the perfect hiding spot, and dove right into the bushes. She then allowed the camera to slowly peak out, while she laid completely down.

How, let alone when, her honor guard found this lake, with sparkling blue waters, she will never know. Though, Celestia figured out that Sun Guard must like his privacy, because it nearly took an hour just to get here. Regardless, she readied herself to take a photo, even though the stallion wasn’t in sight. Celestia knew he was here, because the honor guard’s armor and weapon were placed at the base of a nearby tree.

Just as the Sun Princess was almost in the right set up position, for long period stake outs, an unwanted voice suddenly spoke up behind her. “Tia! What in Equestria are you doing?”

Celestia quickly popped out of the bush, and spun around to find her younger sister, and Nighting Gale, walking up. “L-Luna! W-Well… You see, I was just… U-Uh…” She was at a complete loss, how was the Sun princess supposed to tell her younger sister that she was about to snap a picture of her honor guard, while he was bathing? It sounded wrong in so many ways.

“It is your duty to be at the Castle, in case something happens and requires intervention! Yet, something has caught your attention, so much, that it caused you to want to play safari, like some silly filly!” Luna scolded her older sister, with a serious look in her eyes. “What, pray tell, could be more important, than ding your royal duty to Equestria?”

While Celestia tried to explain her actions, the Moon Princess catching each lie, Nighting Gale scanned their surroundings. Despite not wearing her armor, the mare was still Luna’s personal guard, and she wasn’t going to drop her guard. She nearly paid the price for that before… Though, during the scanning of the area, the bat pony spotted something familiar.

At the base of a nearby tree, were familiar pieces of Sun Guard’s armor and his Guardian Spear leaning against said tree’s trunk, along with a towel on a low hanging branch. Her eyes widened, realizing what drew the eldest princess to this secluded place. “U-Uh, m-my lady?”

Luna halted her questioning and looked back at her High General. “Yes, Gale? Something the matter?” When the mare pointed her hoof at the armor, Luna’s gaze following it and spotting what caught her attention. The Moon Princess instantly turned her attention to Celestia, to scold her sister about how wrong this was… But the lake’s calm waters exploded, before she could! This caused all three mares to look and see who had appeared, wide eyed at the sight.

To the mares, his movements instantly slowed down completely, allowing them to see everything in slow motion, the woodland background being replaced by a golden light. Every bit of his white coat was smooth, as if a great artist had hand painted each hair on to his body. His muscles bulged out with each movement, as if the most expert master sculptor had chiseled his body to resemble a god-like entity, down to the stallion’s neatly trimmed beard! When his head moved side to side, to remove the water from it his mane, their eyes widened further at the silk black strands of heavenly thread.

When he, slowly, opened his eyes, revealing those deep emerald eyes… They shined like the very jewel their color was named after! All three mares had a deep blush, their faces being a cheery red color. The very moment his eyes locked on to them, those enchanting emerald eyes… The three couldn’t hold it back anymore, it was far too much for even the alicorn sisters to handle!

FWOMP! - FWOMP! - FWOMP!

All three mares had their wings open, in an embarrassing display of their wing boners. When Celestia’s camera flashed, catching a picture of the soaked wet god before them… Both Luna and Gale blurted out. “I want one!”

Sun Guard, dripping wet, raised an eyebrow at the three. He had never seen them act like this before. Their faces were bright red, wings open wide, and they were staring right at him with fluttering eyes. When a breeze sent a chill down his spine, the honor guard realized that… He was still soaking wet and didn’t have his armor on!

His horn instantly lit up, and the stallion teleported behind the three where his armor was. While he was a unicorn, in a world where most citizens didn’t wear any clothes, the honor guard still had standards. That annnnnnd… He had an unexpected friend decided to make themselves known, due to the stimulating chills running throughout his body.

He just knew Celestia will not let him live this one down.

The mares started to leave, Celestia getting more than what she wanted, and allowed the stallion his privacy. Though, Nighting Gale was bothered by something from the display just now, hoping the camera didn’t catch what she saw. “Um… Princess Celestia?” The white alicorn mare smiled at her. “D-Did your camera catch a photo of Sun Guard’s flank?”

Celestia thought for a moment, before looking at the picture. “It did.” The bat pony’s eyes went wide. “But, his tail covered up most of it… I can’t even see his cutie mark.” That caused Nighting Gale to give relieved sigh.

“Why do you ask, Gale?” Luna smirked, nudging the other mare in a teasing manner. “Do you have a fetish for flanks?”

Ntghting Gale’s face went really bright red, her eyes wider than dinner plates. “N-No! I-I-I was just curious, is all!” She stuttered, the other two mares giggling at her reaction to their teasing.

-Ponyville, a Couple of Days Later-

“I still don’t see why you girls had me buy a copy of Playmare…” Twilight groaned, as she laid the magazine on to her desk. “I felt so… Wrong buying something so lewd.”

The other five mares giggled at their friend’s embarrassment. “Come on, Twi… Just a bit of fun!” Rainbow Dash said, nudging her lavender friend. “Live a little, egg-head.”

“While I usually don’t do such lewd things openly.” Rarity started, giggling a bit. “I do enjoy examining such grand examples of Equestria’s finest… Making sure Sweetie Belle doesn’t find my collection, of course.”

Twilight rolled her eyes, opening the magazine. While they scanned through the entries, the mares skipping all three of Prince Blueblood’s, they stopped right on the last one. Their eyes went wide, red blushes appearing on their faces.

In bold letters, the article was titled. “The Mysterious Sun Guard Revealed! In All His Godly Glory! Photo sent by Princess Celestia herself!” The picture was the very one that the Sun Princess had taken while he was bathing. There were side comments, but the mares were more focused on the picture itself.

The unicorns suddenly had their horns discharge, the pegasi gained full blown wing boners, while the earth ponies had to put their tails between their legs. Twilight’s jaw dropped, after her horn discharged, and stuttered. “S-S-S-Sunny?”

-Canterlot Castle, Pegasi Wing-

Captain Barricade was so glad she was in her office, when she looked at the newest issue of Playmare. If anypony saw her wing boner, right now, she wouldn’t forgive herself!

“I hope Fluttershy doesn’t see this…” She thought, shaking her head when another one made her feel a bit confused. “Why don’t I feel like a MILF right now? He doesn’t look like he’s past his early thirties!”

-Somewhere in Canterlot-

A strange unicorn mare watched other mares continuously buy multiple copies of Playmare. Curious, she quickly bought herself one, and quickly went somewhere private to hide. “Now, what has gotten all those mares in such a-?” The moment she found Sun Guard’s picture, her jaw dropped.

In seconds, her disguised failed and revealed the Changeling Queen, Chrysalis! Her insect-like wings were open, in her own kind’s form of a wing boner. She gained a star struck gaze, and pressed the picture against her chest. “C-Chrissy waaaaaaaaaants!” The Changeling Queen moaned.

-Canterlot Castle, Cadence’s Chambers-

“Honey! Can I take your measurements, real fast?” The Princess of Love asked, stepping off screen.

“Yeah, sure, dear. But why do-WHOA! Wait, what are you-YIKES!”

“Huh, he’s bigger than Shining Armor…”

“W-Who is?” The copy of Playmare gained a light blue aura, and floated to where they were. Shining Armor screaming, in an unmanly way, quickly followed and then a loud thud.

“Oh no… I better make this up to him, when he wakes up.”

-Cantelrot Castle, Outside of Sun Guard’s Quarters-

Nighting Gale stood outside of her partner’s quarters, shifting on her hooves nervously. She was wearing her new armor now, which made her look like a Lunar Guard of the old days, with more modern designs. She even had a set of talons on her hooves, for hoof-to-hoof combat. But, despite the extra protection, the mare felt like Sun Guard could obliterate her in one go, at the moment.

After all, he was probably furious right now, and no pony has seen him since that photo got out. She felt bad, no protecting her partner from the most embarrassing thing in his life, too. Nighting Gale had to make it up to him, somehow… By Luna, she was willing to burn her copy of the photo in front of him, if the stallion wanted her to.

She carefully raised a hoof up, eyeing the golden door, with red markings around its frame, in front of her. Her confidence began to falter, remembering what this unicorn could do to somepony like her. Nighting Gale drew her hoof back, a nervous look forming on the mare’s face. What should she say? Would he listen to her? Would he forgive her? Is he even home?

The bat pony shook her head, forcing he questions from her mind. “No matter what, I have to make things right!” Her confidence quickly returned, as she prepared to knock on the golden door. “I have to do what is-?”

“Can I help you, miss?” The old Canterlot accented voice scared the devil out of her! Nighting Gale, with an ‘eep’, shot up, nearly out of her armor, and clamped down on to the hanging chandelier. Her eyes wide, and breathing heavily, the voice started to laugh. “Oh, heavens, it seems I startled you, dear!” Nighting Gale looked slowly looked down, her amber eyes noticing a silver coated earth pony with a graying mane. It was obvious he was far older than her, the graying of his mane, and classic handle-bar mustache, along with the wrinkles on his face made it obvious. Though, his butler outfit completed the look. “I am terribly sorry, for that.”

Nighting Gale flew down, and softly landed in front of the old stallion. “I-It’s alright… Most of that was nervousness building up.” She admitted, smiling at the earth pony. “I am Nighting Gale… Uh, High General Nighting Gale.” The mare didn’t know if she needed to be formal or not with this old timer.

“You are Lady Gale?” The butler suddenly brightening up. “My lord speaks very highly of you. If I didn’t know any better, I would say he has such high hopes for you.”

The mare blushed a bit, looking away from him. “I-I am glad your lord speaks so highly, of me.” She said, looking back at the earth pony. “When I meet your lord, I will have to thank him properly.”

The butler gained a confused look. “Lady Gale, you work with my lord… After all, you are his partner.”

That caused Nighting Gale to gain a confused look of her own, and then give him an inquisitive one. “But… I am partners with High General Sun Guard, and he doesn’t speak to anypony, except Princess Celestia.”

The butler gave a hearty laugh. “Ah, yes… Lady Gale, if you know Lord Sun Guard, as I do… Then you would realize that he actually does, just not in the normal sense. He doesn’t use his voice; this is very true. However, you can know exactly what he is thinking, if you pay attention to his body language.”

She kept an inquisitive look on the old stallion. The mare was good, and bat ponies were really good at reading body language, but it was nearly impossible to read Sun Guard. He was often in a single position. “If you don’t mind me asking, but what is your name, sir?”

The butler suddenly went wide eyed, like he had just accidently insulted Nighting Gale, somehow. “Oh dear, how rude of me!” He gave a polite bow. “I am Silver Flash, personal butler to Lord Sun Guard, at your service!” The old stallion’s smile was genuine, like he was a gentlecolt from Equestria’s old days. “And I mean that, Lady Gale.”

“Mean what, Mr. Flash?” She asked, as the butler stood back up, and pulled out a pocket watch from his coat pocket.

“If you need anything, some tea, a quick errand you’re far too busy to do, or somepony to just have a nice conversation with? By all means, give me a yell.” Silver Flash eyed the pocket watch, and suddenly became panicked. “On dear! You best be off, to the training room, or you’ll be late!”

Wait, late for-WHOA!” Before Nighting Gale knew it, the old stallion got behind her, and started to rush the mare forward. “H-Hey!”

“No time, Lady Gale, my lord is waiting for you. There are a few training methods he wishes for the two of you to work on!” He said, the bat pony starting to trot on her own. “Best not be late!”

Nighting Gale nodded, finding it strange, but waved goodbye to the old stallion. “There is something strange about that ‘Silver Flash’…” She thought, turning down a corner and heading towards the training level.

All the while, Silver Flash waved back and reached for his keys. “Ah, Lady Gale is such a sweet, young, thing…The perfect match for my lord.” He chuckled a bit, shaking his head. “Princess Celestia, you choose well.” When he pulled out a key, to unlock Sun Guard’s door, he accidently pulled out the hilt of a golden dagger, the pummel being a Celestial Guard icon. “Oops! Snagged it again, I am such a klutz.” He chuckled, pushing it back into his coat.