Inside safe walls

Chapter 6: At last autumn comes.

Years has passed, and everything is peaceful in Equestria now, especially in Canterlot and Ponyville. After the battle for Canterlot, the remaining humans and all the ponies of Canterlot built a large cemetery outside the city walls for their fallen defenders.

In the middle of the cemetery a large statue of a human and a pony back to back in full armour was raised in memory of those who died defending the city. Shining Armour also wanted to dig a big mass grave for the fallen Holems soldiers, but Milon said that he wanted to give them a traditional soldiers burial. Which was
cremation. They were enemies, but not even Milon would leave a soldier in limbo without letting them get judged by the gods, to get to know if they had earned their place in the heavens.

They piled the dead enemies in a big pile outside of Canterlots walls and then lit them on fire. After a while the dust that remained after the fire had burnt out blew away with the wind.

After that, the rebuilding started. Repairing the homes that had been burnt down and the damaged sections of the walls and so forth. It took close to a half a year, but Canterlot finally looked as good as new again when they were done, and ponies from far away came to move in, starting the city anew.

Before Milon and Applejack got married the two of them, with help from their friends, built a home outside Ponyville. Even Celestia and some guards came to help them along. Soon they had a wonderful looking house and a barn to go with it.

The day they got married were the happiest of their lives. The wedding was held in the Canterlot castle, and they were going to be wed by Princess Celestia herself.

Big Mac was happy beyond belief as he walked his sister down the isle, up towards Celestia and her soon to be husband. The two lovers could barely hold their laughs of joy in as they said "I do!" And all their friends and their friends families applauded them as they kissed.

Then came the day that their child was born, it happened to be on a day when all their friends were over. Luckily Twilight knew a bit about childbirth and Pinkie Pie was willing to help, so when Applejacks water broke, they were ready to help.

But Milon had no clue what to do, so Rarity sat him down, saying. "You men can't handle this, you're too clumsy to deal with such a delicate matter." The statement was blunt but true, he was in no state to help a child into the world, let alone his own. But that might have been what made him so confused, this was his child coming into the world. It was a wonder in itself that something that came from his and his wifes love was now on its way out into the big world.

Milon got more and more frustrated as Applejack started to scream from the pain that the birth brought her. But soon her screams faded and was replaced by another one, the scream of a newborn child. Now he couldn't stay still anymore, so he walked over to his wife. Twilight held the little pony baby in her forelegs.

"It's a boy," she said with a bright smile.

Applejack had given birth to an orange coloured, black haired little colt. They named him Chester, and he was to grow up to become as honest and friendly as his mother and as strong and brave as his father, he was to become a natural leader.

The years came and went and Milon had begun growing grapes at the little farm he and Applejack had, both because it was something he had always wanted to do, and the wine he made from the grapes became quite popular in Ponyville, which in turn earned him a nice little profit on the side, along with what he earned by training the soldiers in Canterlot.

He usually stayed in Canterlot a few weeks at a time during the periods he trained soldiers. Applejack and Chester often came with him so that they could sell apples and apple cider with Granny Smith and Big Mac, they brought their own wine along with them too at these occasions.

Milon usually trained each regiment that got assigned to him for a month. A month filled with the toughest training you could imagine. Jogging laps outside the Canterlot wall for hours after hours as well as training in different fighting styles and other workouts that lasted for just as long.

But there was one regiment that he had seen something special in during their training, and he ended up training them personally for a whole year because of it.

From the start, the unicorns, ponies and pegasi in the regiment had been determined to be the best of the best. Each and every one of them were trained by Milon and the other Myrmidon soldiers that had survived the Canterlot defence, which the battle against the Holems soldiers were later named.

Every Myrmidon were far more advanced in the art of battle but the soldiers gave their trainers a run for their money. They didn't fear their trainers like the others had done. Milon remembered young ponies shuddering in fear as he had shouted at them when they had made an error in training with their blades, almost killing one another. But these ponies, they accepted their punishments and the reprimands, they knew that failing is just a way to learn from your mistakes and improve.

When Milon and his officers were done in training them, they were the most fearless and skilled pony soldiers he had ever seen. So he promoted them to Second regiment in direct command under the Myrmidons.

He and the Myrmidons, who now also had quite a few male and female pony soldiers in their ranks, had held a practice battle against the second regiment, and they found out that fighting against these strong fearless soldiers had felt like fighting an endless wave of enemies that never gave up until they were forced down. That is why Milon named them The Myriad. But in the end, th Myrmidons had come out of the practice battle as the winners, they were still on top.

So now, if the Myrmidons were out on a mission, The Myriad would stay in Canterlot to keep the defences, and if the Myriad were out on a mission the Myrmidons would keep Canterlot safe, and so on.

Of course there hadn't been any more battles with Holems since the Canterlot defence so the missions that Celestia sent them out on were only to check up on the different towns and cities in Equestria, seeing how their residents and local soldiers were doing and so on.

But times were simple now, Chester was twelve years old now and he was both young and stupid as young boys are, but he always fessed up to what he did and wasn't ashamed to admit his faults.

Though he still had some more years of play before he would be a grown up. Of course his father wanted him to become a soldier, and Chester didn't seem to be against that idea, but he still had time to find out what he wanted to do.

Celestia had decided to raise a statue of Milon in the town square of Canterlot. Milon didn't really want her to, but she finally talked him over.

At first she wanted a statue of him in full armour, his sword drawn, but Milon wanted a statue of him on one knee, smiling and hugging two ponies, he did not want to be depicted as a soldier, he wanted to be depicted as a friend to all ponies.

The final result was a statue in the middle of a fountain, of him kneeling down on one knee, holding his arms open and smiling towards two ponies that looked like they were running towards him. It looked much nicer than a soldier in full armour. He felt that this would make them remember him as a friend, rather than a soldier that defended them, but in all honesty, they never forgot that he put his life on the line to protect them.

...

Milon was out in his grape field, tending to the dark purple grapes which were starting to get ripe. "You lovelies will make some fine wine when you're all grown." He said with a smile on his face.

He heard hoof steps behind him and turned around. "Hi Chester. Joining your old dad in checking the grapes?"

This statement was true, he was 37 years old now, and he started to feel the ageing in his bones. It was like a slow tickling feeling inside of him.

"Hi dad." Chester said with a smile. "No, I'm going out to play with Snips and Snails. But mommy wanted to see you, she asked me to tell you that she is in the house."

His father stood up and rustled his hair, "I'll go talk to her, you have fun. But be home before sundown, you hear?"

"I promise dad," Chester smiled and galloped away into Ponyville.

Milon sighed and wiped the sweat off of his forehead and headed into the house.

"Darling?" he asked when he got inside, nobody answering him.

"Applejack my dear?" He walked upstairs, "Applejack? Are you up here?" he asked again.

"In here," he heard her voice coming from their bedroom.

He smiled and headed down the hall and opened the door. What he saw made him stop in his tracks.

On the bed lay his wife, on her stomach with her butt high in the air. She were wearing butt less leather pants and a leather vest, both sitting tight on her body. The look she gave him from under her hat was a sultry, lustful gaze.

"Why, hello general~" she said, barely containing herself from asking him to lay her that exact second. "I need you to fight another battle for me~"

Milon smirked and crawled onto the bed, taking her hat off and putting it on his own head.

"Oh, you want some of this Generals steel?" He leaned forward and kissed her, their tongues dancing intensely.

As the kiss ended, Milon whispered into her ear, "I love you and I'm so lucky that I have you."

Applejack bit her lip as she felt him pressing himself into her, and through the sound of their love making you could hear her voice, calling out to him.

"Oh, Milon I love you!"

-The End-

First I want to thank Munck for editing the story and being supportive of my ideas. And thank you readers, for taking the time to read my story whether you liked it or not. And lastly I'd like to thank my brain for taking much inspiration from movies and books, and for coming up with those dirty bits you all like.

-Felix Karlstrom