Daughter of Moonlight

The first thing I found out when I woke up is that I was in a bed that I didn't know and that I was in said bad for some time since my mouth felt like a desert. I opened my eyes and sat up in the bed to look around where I was. The room was tidy and simple with a window that overlooks a town by the sounds that I was hearing.

I looked over at the bedside and saw a pitcher of water with ice and a glass. I took them and poured myself a glass to drink, it helped with the dryness but now it left me with a bad taste in my mouth.

I got out of the bed and as I stood up I felt my legs wobble a bit and the rest of my body felt very sore. I placed a hand on the wall to steady myself and saw that I was wearing different clothes than before. They were made out of soft orange cloth that reminded me of fall clothing. They felt very comfortable but as I was checking them out I found out something that was a bit annoying, I didn't have a bra on.

I groaned at this and decided that it wasn't something to continue to worry about, it's just a bra and I can get another one… I hope. I looked over and saw my bag at the end of the bed. I went to it and saw that everything was there other than my sling, my throwing knives, and my hunting knife. This concerned me for that knife belonged to my dad and he gave it to me before he died.

As I thought about this I heard the door behind me open and a man stepped into the room. He was tall, has long green spiky hair and eyes that looked reptilian and pointy ears. He wore a white t-shirt and some jeans. He looked up to see me staring at him.

“Oh your awake, Twilight will be overjoyed that you are.” he said as I continue to stare at him. He looked behind him as if someone is there and looked at me confused. “Umm is there something the matter?”

“You didn't knock before you walked in.” I told him. He blinked at me as if I grew a second head.

"Uhh why is that a big deal?” he asked. I placed my hands on my hips and frowned.

"Because it very rude to do that, what if I was changing clothes, or doing something private, or something. Next time when you're entering a room that has the door closed you should knock.” I explained to him. I may have lived in the mountains for most of my life but that's no excuse for having bad manners.

“Uhh… right well sorry but you have been sleeping for three days and I thought you were still sleeping.” he said. I was sleeping for three days? I stared at him as I thought about what he just said. At this moment I saw that he had something with him.

“What’s that?” I asked him.

“Hmm? Oh this, these are some clothes for you since your old clothes were… well destroyed.” He said. Destroyed? How did my clothes get destr- Oh wait now I remember. Giant bug, running like hell, getting impaled by it, a lot of pain.

“Uhh thanks.” I said as I took the clothes.

“I’ll leave you to change, there’s food downstairs if you want some.” he said as he leaves. I took some time to look at the clothes he has given me. They were… fancy. There was a white fancy dress shirt with a ribbon or something and a black skirt and some new underwear. I looked around and saw a dresser and I went to open it to see some more clothes, a bit smaller but not by much. I took out a brown t-shirt and jeans and put them on over the new underwear. I looked myself in a mirror and saw that the pants were snug and the shirt was surprisingly bigger than I thought as it could be made into a dress. I looked at the dress shirt and skirt and folded them, I’m not saying they were bad it just that I don’t do fancy clothes.

I carried them as I went out of the door and headed downstairs. I placed my hand where I was impaled. I felt fine but the memory of it still made me wince a bit. From a blow like that, I should be dead right now. Wait am I dead? I got buried alive and impaled, I’m thinking that I’m really dead and this is my afterlife… great.

I made my way to the bottom of the stairs and saw what looks like a small bookstore. It had bookshelves and some furniture so I guess it’s like a living room sort of deal. I saw Twilight, wearing what I can describe as librarian outfit, a white blouse with a purple tie and a long skirt, she was sitting in one of the chairs reading a book before looking up at me.

“You’re awake!” She said with a smile. She got up from where she was sitting. She stopped a bit away from me. “What… are you wearing?”

“Uhh clothes?” I answered as I looked at them. “Is there anything wrong with them?”

“Well it’s not that it’s just that my friend made them for you and…” I stopped her with putting up my hand.

“I not saying that they are bad or anything it’s just I don’t do fancy clothes, tried once didn’t enjoy them.” I told her. She nodded but didn’t look as happy. I was going to ask her something but I caught a whiff of something that smelled good.

“Food.” Was all I said as I walked into the kitchen area. I saw the man from before placing a plate of waffles down on the table with eggs, toast, orange juice, fruit, and bacon. My mouth started to water at the sight.

“Well I guess you're hungry, go on have some.” the man said. I happily complied as I sat down and started to shovel food onto my plate. Shortly after a minute, I had most of the eggs, bacon and almost all the fruit which are apples, oranges, pineapple, grapes, blueberries, and strawberries. I also had three pieces of toast and a big glass of orange juice. I then happily started to wolf down the food, I may have been out for three days but I felt like I haven't eaten for two weeks.

“Wow I haven't seen anyone eat as fast as you other than Pinkie.” I heard Twilight said as she sat down. I tried to speak but it came out as food covered noises. The man smacks me on the head with a wooden spoon.

“Gulp! Sorry, what I said was I feel like I haven't eaten for two weeks, are you sure I was out for three days?” I asked. I stabbed a group of bacon and eat said group of bacon.

“Well it would make sense with you feeling that way with the spell you cast and the markings on you.” Twilight said as she started to eat the plate full of waffles.  I blinked at her, markings? Does she mean the tattoos on my arms? Wait did she say that I cast a spell, I have magic!

“You mean these?” I asked without a mouthful of food and raised my arm.

“No… well yes but still no, those are the mark of Erde, if you want to be technical the magic part comes from the fact you have the mark of a Magi.” She explained. I was about to eat a forkful of eggs but stopped as I listened. Erde? Magi? I thought they were humans.

“Wait you mean those tattoos that you have?” I asked her. She nodded as she puts more waffles into her mouth and swallowed.

"Yes them, normally someone would have only one of the markings since they indicate which race you are, a Magi, an Erde, or a Caelum. But there are beings called Celestials who have all three markings.” She explained.

“Right and you said that before and right now that they're perfect beings and you're one of them.” I said to her right before I took a drink of my orange juice.

“That's right, Twilight Sparkle is a one of three Celestials that are known.” the man said as he sat down with a plate of bacon, eggs and… rocks?

“Thank you, Spike, I was getting to that.” Twilight said to the man, I guess his name is Spike, before continuing. “Yes I'm one of three Celestials that are known, the other two are Princess Celestia and Princess Mi Amore Cadenza.”

I stared at her for a moment as I did the math. “Isn't there a fourth one?” I asked.

“What do you mean?”

“Well in one of the books I read at the castle it says that there are two rulers, one is Celestia and the other is Luna her sister. So doesn't that make her a Celestial as well.” I told them. They looked at one another then back at me.

“... Kinda, you see Princess Luna isn't really a Celestial, she's some called a Dark Celestial.” she said, I nodded and ate some more food. I didn't want her to go on another tangent on it so I kept quite. I looked at her and Spike as they ate.

“So… are you two a couple?” I asked them. Twilight did a spit take as Spike was choking on his food.

“W-w-w-what! No!” Twilight stuttered as her face was bright red. Spike was still trying to clear his throat. I looked between the two of them.

“Okay then, the ” I said to them as I, finished my plate. Spike stood up and shook his head.

“I… I have some stuff to do so if you would excuse me.” he says as he leaves the room. I heard the door closed as he leaves and a smack as Twilight hits her head on the table.

“Why did you say that…” she groans. I shrugged as I poured some more juice.

“Was just asking,” I said. She looks up at me and gave me the evil eye.

“Well just to let you know that Spike is my little brother.” she said.

“If he’s your little brother then why does he looks older than you.” I replied. She eyed me for a moment.

“Beast-kin age much differently than others.” she told me. I nodded and finished the last of my juice and place my dishes in the sink. My hand brush the side of my leg and felt nothing there. Frowning I turned to Twilight, who was slightly blushing, and crossed my arms.

“My knife please.” this got her attention.

“What?”

“My knife, I would like it back please.” I repeated. She stared at me as I waited.

“I'm sorry, but can't give your knife back.” she replied. I felt my eye twitched, I narrowed my eyes.

“Why not.” I asked. I sounded calm but I felt my anger rise a bit.

“Well there's something about it that’s odd, so I and maybe some others are going to examined it.” Twilight said. Examined. That word rubs me the wrong way. I leaned closer to Twilight which cast a shadow over my eyes.

“No, I want my knife back so can I have it back please.” I asked again.

“Again, I’m sorry but I can’t-” I slammed my hand on the table, cutter her off.

“Where. Is. My. Knife.” I asked slowly. I saw fear in her eyes but I didn't care, I wanted my knife and I'm getting my knife one way or another.

“it's… It's not here, my brother took it when you were knocked out.”

"Then where's is he?” I asked her.

“He… at the edge of town, he and the group of guards are in a building for the last few days.” she said. I pushed off the table and headed for the door.

I heard Twilight yell something out but I didn't listen, I had one thing in mind and it was getting my knife back.

Shining Armor

I let out a sigh as I finished the last paper I had to do. I looked up at the clock and thought back on the last few days.

It been a stressful few weeks with Twilight getting kidnapped and all the searching. Cadence was worried sick for her, I tried to calm her down but she was up there.

Then a few days ago she showed up with someone running from a giant bug.

My thoughts turned to the woman who was with her. I had a feeling about her when I saw her, other than the fact that there's a giant hole in her stomach and close to death, there's something about her but I couldn't tell.

I looked at the knife on the desk. It looked like a normal hunting knife other than the fact it’s black but when I took it off her I could tell that it was made with care, perfectly balance and taken care of. I picked it up to take a closer look at it, I see scratches on it from all the use it been through. I place my finger on the blade to test the sharpness. I winced as I drew blood, I didn't put a lot of pressure on it yet I drew blood.

“She must have taken very good care of it.” I said to myself. I set the knife down in one of the drawers. I don't understand why Twilight wants to study it so much, again it's a normal knife but…

“Hey you're not supposed to be here!” a voice drew me out of my thoughts. I stared at the door as there was more yelling until it swung over and I saw the girl from before, looking very angry.

“You're Twilight's brother?” she asked. I could tell that she was trying to sound calm but her facial and body told me otherwise.

“Yes, I'm Twilight's brother. Names Shining Armor, Captain of the Royal Guard." I mentally slapped the back of my head for that, I wasn't the captain anymore but King of the Crystal Empire. Force of habit I guess.

“Right, names Blake and I want my knife back please.” she asked. I paused at that, she came all the way down here just for her knife. I narrowed my eyes at her.

“How do you know I have it?” I asked.

“Doesn't matter, can I have it or is this going to get hard?” she asked. She walked forward which gave me a better view of her, mostly her hands. They had scratches and cuts on them meaning that she seen a few fights, with what I can't say.

“Why is it important?” I asked her. She stopped in front of my desk, I saw her facial features softened a bit.

“You won't understand, now can I-”

“Maybe I would if you trust me.” I cut her off. She was silent for a bit staring at me.

“It was a birthday present from my dad.” she looked down as she looked sad. “It was the last present he gave me.”

I stared at her for a bit before I opened the draw and pulled out the knit, and a band-aid for my finger. I handed her the knife back at her and saw the look of relief on her as she took it.

"Sorry for taking it if I had known that it was something important I would've given it back.” I said as I put the band-aid on my finger. “Wait, how did Twilight tell you I have it?”

She froze before started to shifted a bit. “I may have threatened it out of her, well more like scared it out, I should apologise to her.”

I frowned at her, “ Normally I would have thrown you in jail for a few days for making a threat but after what happened three days ago,” I saw her shudder a bit, I don't blame her. “I wouldn't do that, though can you answer me why my sister to examine it?”

“I guess maybe what it made out of, it was made out of a meteorite before I was born.” she explained.

“Well that would explain why the colour.” I chuckled. She smiled and  tied the knife to her side, she looked a bit happier with it.

“Well I better leave you, sorry for barging in like this.”

“No worries, I’ll see you around.” I told her. She smiled and walked out of the room, I stared at the door for a few moments before pulling out a tablet and started typing, sending the princesses that she was awake.