Author's Note

Hello everybody, hope your all ready so please gather around ol' papa sentienl because it is story time. please bewarned I have never written an actual serious fight scene so this maybe a bit rough around the edges, other then that enjoy. on a side note I have come to a conclusion that if i had to chose someone to voice Ulfric it would be either Vladimir Kulich who voiced Ulfric Stormcloak, Or Michael Gough who voiced a wide range of characters in skyrim particularly Jarl Balgruuf the greater

How the Moon met a Wolf: Part 1

Canterlot Castle Dining Room

Princess Cadence, Alicorn and princess of love sat eagerly in her seat bouncing in it like a filly who just got told they could have as much ice cream as they wanted, only this ice cream was a story of how Auntie Luna and this human fell in love.

“So Auntie, wanna tell us a story of how you came to be marefriend and coltfriend” Cadance asked with a smirk and a giggle, oh how she was prepared to soak up every tiny detail, that Luna revealed to them, even Twilight had summoned a fresh note book and the inkwell so she also could recorded this story. Luna couldn’t help but giggle a little at her niece.

“Yes dear Cadence, now before I begin this story I must ask if any of you are weak of heart?” Luna asked, receiving many no’s from those in attendance, surprisingly even from Fluttershy who was known amongst her friends as the pony most easily frightened amongst them.

"Then I shall begin, Tia you remember how we and Ulfric met yes?" Luna said with a soft smile.

"How could I ever forget? Our first meeting with could have been under...more ideal circumstances" Celestia with a soft laugh

“Indeed sister, it all began over a thousand years ago exactly one month after I had turn twenty" Luna said beginning her tale.

Equestrian 1003 years prior at the great Redwood Forest

In an ancient forest south of what would become the future capital of Equestria, two sisters and a small force of guards fought for their lives, a Caribou raiding party has been looting and pillaging the nearby villages for days. What information the Equestrian spies had brought back had been false, what was believed to be a raiding party of only a few dozen Caribou, was in fact a force of five hundred raiders, each raider was oddly enough better trained and equipped then the guards of the fledgling Equestrian military, putting the force of 225 guards and the two Alicorn princesses at a severe disadvantage. This disadvantage had already cost them thirty guards within the first opening moments of the skirmish.

"Sister we must retreat, and seek aid or we will be defeated or worse." Luna said dodging the blade of a caribou's axe before thrusting her sword into his gullet, disemboweling him.

"Agreed Luna,, we must fall back to Fort Shatterhoof with haste." Celestia said skewering a Caribou on her halberd, before shooting an orb of magic skyward that exploded a few seconds later signaling the retreat. Those guards that were still alive or well enough that they could run turned and began a fighting retreat towards Fort Shatterhoof.

Meanwhile in another part of the forest not far from the embattled Luna and Celestia, a fissure of energy slowly crackled into existence before exploding into a swirling vortex, and something or rather someone was thrown from it. This being had an appearance similar to that of a pony yet at the same time his appearance was different then that of a pony’s mainly in his facial area.

“Never again will I wander through a forest that no one enters.” he said as he rose to his feet brushing the dirt off of his armor and cape. It was at this moment that whilst he cleaned the dust off himself his hearing enhanced by his Werewolf blood heard something, a sound no a great many sounds that was very familiar to him, the sound of battle, and it was the sound of a desperate battle. Taking off in a sprint towards the sounds of battle he didn’t know who or what it was that was fighting but all he knew is one of the two sides that was locked in combat was in need of assistance, and he would lend his sword and axe to them. Drawing closer to the battle, he could start to feel the presence of war mages, yet something was off about them. He could not tell what kind of magic it was, it was neither human nor High Elvish magic, not even wood or dark elf magic, it was foreign to him perhaps he’d ended up on some unexplored part of Unilarith. Many thoughts raced through his mind as he came to break in the trees catching his first glance of those engaged in combat, what he saw surprised him greatly.

Luna wore a vicious snarl, growling quietly as she held her side trying to stop the bleeding from the wound a lucky caribou hand managed to inflict upon her, even as her natural healing ability slowly stitched the wound closed. But now, she, Celestia and their remaining guards where surrounded, even with the power she and Celestia carried, superior numbers could still overwhelm them, yet they had been locked in combat for nearly five hours straight and even she was beginning to tire. It was then she noticed something strange, the Caribou were surrounding them but making no effort to completely annihilate them.

"What are they planning." Luna muttered painfully standing back to feet. The caribou, who had been shouting slurs and threats not even two minutes ago, now stood silent, before some of them parted allowing a single caribou clad in ornate armor to make his presence known.

“Well, well, well, what do we have here, looks like to me boys we’ve caught Queens Faust’s daughters, looks like we get to have a bit of fun with them before their sold to the highest bidder.” He said with a disturbing smirk.

“Bind them, kill the stallions, bring the mares, but bring the princesses to me unspoiled” he with a smile filled with ill intent. Yet before the first Caribou could even walk half a pace forward a line of sharpened ice spikes struck the ground in front of them, making them visibly jump in shock.

“What the? Who dares.” the Commanding Caribou said, looking for the source of the spikes.

“I dare.” came the reply from a voice to his left, out of the trees came what he could had described as being another pony if it were not for the fact that his armor was too well made to have been forged by a pony blacksmith and the faceplate of his helmet was flattened.

“And who the buck are you?” The commanding Caribou asked angrily.

“Just someone who sees a band of slavers about practice their vile trade on a group of innocents.” the stranger said taking a stance between the ponies and the Caribou.

"Oh, yeah and who are you acting all noble like thinking you can stand between us and a quick score." A Caribou soldier shouted.

For a moment, the stranger turned his gaze to the ponies, then back to the Caribou, before finally answering the question that had been asked of him.

"Ulfric Stormwolf, knight to King Orcrist, soldier and warrior to the kingdom of Ailirwen" Ulfric said drawing Lionsbane and WolfsFang. “And I hate slavers.”

The Caribou commander couldn’t stifle his laughter, here was some fool from a kingdom that not even he had heard of thinking he could stand up to his force of five battle hardened soldiers.

“Oh so you think you you can take us all on all by your lonesome HAHAHA, we’ll certainly let you try. “the Commander said, and with a quick wave of his hand, Ulfric now found himself surrounded, yet beneath his helm it was he who was smirking as these creatures had made one mistake which was their overconfidence and he planned to exploit it. As the first Caribou rushed him, Ulfric quickly partied a sword thrust while burying his axe into the skull of an unfortunate Caribou that had gotten to close to him, eventually, it had fallen into complete Chaos for both the Caribou and Ulfric, as many faced against a single warrior, with neither side showing that they would yield. Steel clashed against steel, flesh and sinew were torn and shredded. Ulfric dodged the blade of a battle axe by mere millimeters before cleaving the arm of the axes owner clean off before driving WolfsFang into the caribou’s gullet, before for spinning around and tossing the Stalhrim axe into the chest of another Caribou.

“COME ON IS THAT THE BEST YOU PATHETIC WELPS CAN DO!!” Ulfric shouted, as his free hand became wreathed in flame unleashing a blast of holy fire against three maul wielding Caribou burning them alive, before quickly freeing another’s Caribous head from his neck spraying blood everywhere. Yet as he battled against odds that were heavily against him, Ulfric had unknowingly gained an audience, this audience were Luna, Celestia and the surviving guards. All of them watched in amazement as this stranger, this warrior fought on his own to in short save them. Yet one pony was not about to let this new ally the opportunity to get himself killed by fighting against a literal army, not waiting for her sister to act, Luna broke out into a full sprint, that culminated into a flash of her magic and an audible pop and she appeared behind Ulfric her sword raised as it met with a furious metallic clang as she stopped the strike of an axe aimed at Ulfric's back.

"We do not know where you have come from, but we sincerely appreciate the assistance noble Knight." Luna said parrying multiple sword swings.

"Less talking more fighting lass." Ulfric said in reply, ducking under the swing of a Warhammer before driving the point of LionsBane up through the bottom of a Caribou's jaw and into the poor sops brain cavity. By now Celestia and even the remaining guards had found their spines and courage and had charged the mass of caribou surrounding the human and Lunar princess, where once the caribou had held confidence in numbers they now began to falter. with in a time span of only an hour the caribou were either dead or in retreat, using a piece of cloth torn from a dead caribou's uniform Ulfric clean the blood from his sword and axe, before sheathing both of them.

"Thank you sir knight, my sister and I feared that we would have surely forced into slavery by the Caribou" Celestia said approaching Ulfric with a small limp.

"I only did what duty, and more moral obligations demanded of me which I am certain you can understand" Ulfric said before he felt something smack him on the back of the legs.

"Show some respect to the princesses" A guard stallion said withdrawing his spear

"Star shine, that is quite enough, we are not his princesses” Luna said with slight irritation. “Sir Knight if it is not to much to ask, would you remove your helmet”

Ever so slowly Ulfric removes the black and gold helm from his head, a collective gasp was heard from the ponies that stood around him, never had they seen such someone that look so strange yet so similar to them before.

“So different, sister I suggest we take sir Ulfric StormWolf was it to mother and Starswirl perhaps they can help us to determine where he comes from.” Luna said whilst trying to hide the small blush she had

“Agreed Luna, ponies we make for EverFree castle, sir Knight would you accompany us” Celestia said as the ponies began the long trek back to the EverFree castle.

“And that is how we met my Ulfric not the best first meeting but a meeting that became a blessing to Equestria” Luna said with a small blush holding Ulfric’s hand in hers.

“That was AWESOME” Rainbow Dash shouted jumping out of her seat and into the air “ he was all clash clang boom soooo cool”

“oh I dear say those Caribou certainly sounded like low life scoundrels I would certainly say Equestria was indeed blessed to have Sir Ulfric come to our aid” Rarity said sipping her tea, while Fluttershy was practically hiding under the table.

“So....much.....violence” she squeaked

“So Auntie where’s the juicy part when did you two admit your love for each other” Cadance asked all starry eyed still full of excitement.

“Yeah and when did you two love ponies have your first buck” Pinkie said with a smile and a giggle.

“PINKIE!!!” The rest of the main six shouted

“What, you know your all thinking it” she said with a smile

“That is a... rather personal question to ask miss Pie to which you have no right to ask” Ulfric said taking a drink from his mead, Luna had to take a moment to collect herself as the question had caught her completely by surprise, though her face betrayed her as she had gone very red in the face.

"Dear Cadence to answer your question, we both declared our love for each five months after Ulfric's arrival upon Equis, he gave me the most wondrous gift" Luna said all starry eyed even shedding a tear of joy.

"Oooooh what was it?" Cadence asking leaning forward.

"A suit of armor, a proper suit of armor fitted to Luna's exacted proportions, and was as light as a feather but as strong as dragon scale and as dark as night" Ulfric said with a smile thinking back to the time and effort he had spent forging this gift.

“It is a tradition of my homeland to present the one you love with a gift upon the declaration of love”

“Aaawww” the girls said collectively, Celestia, Luna and Cadence giggled at their display while Shining Armor just smile and rolled his eyes.

"Though one thing did make me curious about Ulfric" Luna said "He would always disappear when ever I made the moon a full moon, so one day I followed him, what I found shocked and scared me a little, yet it was Ulfric who was even more scared, more so for my safety"

"Oh? whys that Auntie" Cadence asked suddenly very interested

"I am a Lycan, or as it is more commonly known as a Werewolf" Ulfric said as his eyes for the briefest moment went yellow before returning back to their icy blue. The Mane six, Spike and the others in attendance, minus Celestia simple just stared at Ulfric for a few mere moments.

"WHAT?!"