The Guardian Angel

Twilight and the rest of the Elements were currently on their way to Canterlot to meet with the princess about a mysterious topic. Not even Twilight herself was told what to expect... so naturally she had one of her freak out moments.

A few hours later, the train pulled into the station and the six mares stepped off onto the platform. The sun shining brilliantly off the polished white marble the city seemed to be carved from.

POV Celestia

The solar diarch paced back and forth in the great hall. If one were to look around they would be told of past heroes and legendary battles through the ages. In each window there was a stained glass window depicting a scene of something that changed the course of history for better or for worse.

In one window there were the two sister going up against a chimera of some kind, and if you were to do a little digging you would know that being is the self proclaimed God of Chaos, Discord.

She had been pacing there all morning, the staff all worry she would put grooves into the floor at the rate she was going. After a few more minutes the doors at the other end of the room open and six mares walk into the room.

At the front of the group is a purple alicorn with a dark purple mane highlighted with a pink stripe that framed a pair of magenta eyes that held an unquenchable thirst for knowledge.

Behind her was a unicorn with a coat not too different from the princess and a deep purple mane curled up accented with a pair of light turquoise eyes.

Following the two unicorns was an orange earth pony with a blond mane tied back in a classic pony tail and tied at the end with a red hair tie which framed a pair of emerald eyes.

The next are to enter the room is a cyan pegasus with a mane made of the entire color spectrum with a set of magenta eyes filled with confidence.

After the flying rainbow there was a pale yellow, almost butter colored, pegasus with a long pink mane and a couple of light blue eyes.

The last mare that entered could only be described as pink, she had a pink mane and a lighter pink coat, with light blue eyes being the only part of her that wasn't pink of some kind.

The group made their way to the princess who had a look of brief relief on her face. Once they reach her she greets them as usual.

"Twilight my faithful student, I trust your journey here was pleasant?"

"Yes princess, may I ask why you asked us to come here?" The purple alicorn responds.

"I'm glad to hear that, and as to why I called you all here... that is something I have to apologize for. I have kept secrets from you all, I see now that I should have trusted you all more. You see, today is a very special day indeed. Today is the day I lost someone very important to me and my sister a long time ago."

"Princess did you just say 'someone' instead of somepony?" The rainbow maned pegasus blurted out before any of them could stop her.

"I did Rainbow Dash, I said someone because he wasn't exactly a pony. But he was important to us anyway not because of what he was but because of what he did for us in our time of need." She continued, not breaking stride as she resumed her pacing completely oblivious to the mares who are now standing before her.

"When discord threatened to turn the planet into his personal playground, we sought out a being who was spoken of only in legends. The being we were looking for was known then as The Guardian. He was called this because he would watch over the planet and keep it safe from harm when it could not fend for itself. Not much was known about him at the time, just a short description that was vague at best."

"Luna and I began our trek to the last place he was rumoured to have been seen. The Badlands... and we searched for a trace of him for what seemed like forever. On the tenth day of our search we had run out of water and we were getting low on food as well. Back then there was very little food because Discord kept changing the time of day making it impossible to grow crops."

POV Celestia(flashback)

'if we don't find some water soon we won't live much longer' the alabaster alicorn thought to herself so as to not scare her baby sister any more than she already was. To be fair she was starting to get frightened too, but not for the same reason as her sister. She was afraid of what would happen to Luna if she were to die... who would protect her from this insane world full of uncertainty?

Another day passed and still no water in sight. Things were starting to become desperate, but there was nothing either of them could do for now. The much was obvious, they just needed to find the Guardian before it was too late. Why he hadn't already stopped Discord was plaguing her mind now more than ever.

It was now the third day without water and she new that if a miracle didn't happen both of them were goners for sure. Fate however likes to wait until the last moment it seems because it was already nearing the end of this days cycle. The two sisters knew it was most likely their last night in the living world and had made peace with each other. That night they fell asleep expecting not to wake up.

Celestia nearly jumped to a landing position from where she was laying just moments before. At first she was confused because the last thing she remembers is the last night of their search in the Badlands. It was then she remembered her sister and started looking frantically around to find her. When she was looking for Luna she took in here surroundings and noticed she was no longer in the Badlands, instead she was in a sparsely decorated room with white floor and walls. Then she noticed she was standing on a bed, which she was previously laying in. On the other side of the room stood another bed that her sister was sleeping soundly in.

Breathing a sigh of relief she calmed down a little and took a closer look at the room they were currently in. There were small windows located high up on the wall, which after taking a closer look turned out to be slightly rounded.

Just then a door on the other end of the room opened and a strange creature stepped into the room. The creature was almost as tall as her and her sister, and he wore what looked like red pajamas, on his feet were black boots with grey detailing on them. But the most interesting feature about this new being was his hair and eyes. Both his hair and eyes were a red color and his eyes seemed to pierce through your very soul when he looked at you.

Who and what are you? I ask almost fearful.

Well I am known as a great many things, but I believe my most notable would be Guardian. As to what I am, I am a Saiyan and that is all you need to know for now. Now I believe it is my turn to ask some questions." The creature said, it took a few extra seconds for the white alicorn to register what it said.

She almost couldn't believe it, they'd done it! they had found the one bring who could truly help them in their time of need. Here standing in front of her was one of the most powerful beings on the planet, perhaps he would go down and defeat Discord right now?

"Please, Guardian! We desperately need your help! A true monster has descended upon us and we don't have the power to stop it..." By now tears had sprung forth of their own accord and streamed down my face.

"I know, I've known about Discord for quite some time in fact." He replied as he sat down at the table on the far side of the room.

I couldn't believe what I'd just heard... he knew! He knew all about what we were going through and yet he did NOTHING! My anger nearly exploded once that thought had made its way into my head.

"You knew!? And yet you did nothing!? WHY!?" I screamed at him. By now Luna was awake and was watching this all take place.

"Why?" He repeated. "Well to keep things as simple as possible, I can't do anything. He's much more powerful than I am, it's just that simple Young one."

I couldn't believe it. Our one last hope, and he says he isn't strong enough to help us. It felt almost light my entire world had shattered around me.

POV Luna

He can't help us? How can that be... I thought he was suppose to be stronger than anything else?

"Is that why you were traversing the wasteland below? Searching for the answer to your problem, Which I admit was noble." He spoke, thought I don't think Tia heard it.

"Wh-what do you mean?" I ask.

"When something is too hard for any single person to overcome, a lot of them would be too stubborn to admit when they can't do something. They would continue to try until ultimately they were destroyed beyond any hope of recovering." He responded as he poured a glass of water from a pitcher that was on the table. Getting up he approached me with the glass and handed it to me. "Here, you need to drink some water."

"Thank you." I say as I take a sip from the glass. "If you cannot defeat Discord then what will we do about him? I don't think anypony can beat him now."

"Right now here is no one who can beat him, that may be true. But soon there will be." He said with an ever widening grin that made me feel uneasy

Now Tia had finished her mental melt down and turned to look at him in a confused daze. "What do you mean?" She inquired.

"Simple, I'm going to train you until you're strong enough to use the Elements of Harmony to seal him away!" He replied still smiling.

POV Twilight

"Wait, you needed training to use the Elements? How come we could use them without that training?" To say I was confused would be an understatement of epic proportions.

Celestia looked at Twilight, "That was because you six each embody one of the elements, where as me and Luna needed to find those parts of ourselves in order to use them." She then looked at the clock on the wall and saw that it read seventeen minutes to ten. "I think we should continue this story in the morning everypony, don't want to be tired tomorrow do you?" And with that we all headed to bed in our guest rooms here in the castle.