The Dark Sentinel

Celestia's P.O.V First Person

A soft drawn out sigh escapes my lips as I stack the last of the paper work. It's been a long day of nobles asking for things to be changed or either to boost their nobility.

I get off my seat and set off towards the window located to the side of my desk. I open it, a fresh breeze of cool air rushes through my face and mane, making my face tingle from the relaxing breeze.

A smile creeps onto my face at how relaxing the day looks, but sadly the day must come to an end.

I open the window and fly out. I fly towards a balcony and touch down onto it. I spot Luna coming out onto her balcony on the south side.

We lock eyes with each other, nodding our heads to one another. My horn ignites with power, as the golden hue of my magic wraps around the sun, slowly making its descent behind the mountains that sit idly on the earth to the north.

I see my sisters moon rising to the sky, stars shining brightly to complete the night sky. My sister has been creating such beautiful night skies ever since she came back from her imprisonment.

I shouldn't even be thinking about that anymore. That's the past, and whatever was in the past, stays in the past.

I smile towards Luna, but see her focusing on her night sky, as her tongue sticks out in concentration. I giggle into my hoof while I open the doors to my room.

As I prepare to go to bed, I hear the guards shouting.

I quickly run out of the room, and spot guards running down the hall and surrounding a very tall unicorn, dressed in black clothing and armor. I can't see his face as it's covered by a mask.

In his magical grasp is something she's never seen before. He's pointing this long piece of metal to any guard that gets too close to him.

I must defuse this situation before it escalates too quickly. I quickly trot to the guards, making them move out the way so I can get to the masked unicorn.

Reyes's P.O.V First Person

My sights are quickly trained onto what looks to be a very tall mare with a horn and a pair of wings on her back. Her mane flowing in the nonexistent breeze to which confuses the fuck out of me.

She seems to be startled by the sudden movement of my rifle I point at her, but quickly straightens herself out and gives off a warming smile that sends a calming effect over my body, which gets me to relax my stance a bit, making me in return lowering my weapon. Seeing this makes her smile grow a little more. I hear hooves stepping up behind me, so on instinct I take out my side arm with this weird telekinesis, and point it at the guard coming up behind me, making her stop in her tracks.

"Guards! Give him some space, and lower your weapons!"

I hear the tall white pony yell out to the miniature ones. The guards are hesitant to follow the order but comply quickly as she narrows her eyes at them. The guards lower their weapons and move back.

As they do this I stay where I am, and slowly start to lower my weapons. I put my side arm back in its holster where my back leg is, and put my rifle on my back and secure it there.

I see the tall white pegacorn walking up to me, my muscles tensing every step she takes towards me. She seems to notice this. Stopping halfways from me, she looks upon me with her warming motherly smile.

"Relax," she says soothingly, "I'm not going to hurt you. I just want to ask a few questions, if that's alright with you?" She says in a very calming motherly way that calms me.
I nod my head slowly.

"Good. Now first question, how did you get into my castle?"

"I don't know," I answer in a deep gruff voice.

This answer seems to unnerve the guards.

"Answer to the princess truthfully!"

"You think she'd believe that!"

"You ain't getting away with breaking and entering the castle!"

"Silence!" The tall white mare orders out loudly.

The guards quite down an in instant. Celestia homes her eyes on me, narrowing slightly.

"How do I know if you're not lying?" She asks with suspicion.

"I don't know. I don't know what's going on, or how I'm still alive right now. I should be dead not here," I take a moment to look around and being again, "where ever here is?" I said with a hint of nervousness in my voice.

Her eyes scan my mine, almost as if she's debating I'm telling the truth or not.

"What do you mean by all that? If you were dead then why are you standing here......in my castle?"

I sigh, shaking my head in frustration. "I wish I could answer that question, but I just don't know. I don't even know where the hell I am!"

"Calm down. Take a couple seconds to take a breather and relax." She says ever so smoothly.

I take in a couple deep breaths, quickly relaxing from all the nervousness and tension building up.

"Can you take off your mask for me please?" She asks politely.

I nod my head, getting a smile from her as some of the guards relax, knowing they can see my face now.
I remove my helmet, which disables the HUD that displays my ammo count on my weapons and other miscellaneous things I have on me. I hear gasps go around me, scanning the surrounding guards. Spotting some mare guards that have deep red blushes on their faces, has for the pegasus guard mares have deep red blushes, and their wings are standing right up. Hmm, I wonder why? I raise a brow.

I lock eyes with the tall white mare, who seems to be blushing up a storm as well, but she seems to be struggling to hold her wings down, seeing how as they seem to tremble.
How is that even possible with their fur in the way? Why should I be even asking that? I hold my weapons with fucking telekinesis! Seems that anything here that is impossible back on earth is possible here.

"Um..." I look around the hall uncomfortably, spotting all the mare guards giving me strange looks, as for the stallion guards giving me glares or looks of jealousy. "So, uh......any more questions?"

She shakes her head, refocusing herself as the deep red blush she had early turned in to a soft pink color.
"Ahem, well yes I do." Her attitude does whole 360. She's now looking at me with a serious look.

"What are those things you carry on your back and leg? Those look to be like weapons of some sort. You're not going to hurt anypony with those, are you?" She takes a step forward with her wings flaring out trying to make herself look big and intimidating, which I just look on with a plain bored look.

"Yes, these are weapons. They're very dangerous ones that I can only handle, and no I'm not going to hurt anyone with these. I only use my weapons for military purposes. But if I or someone is in trouble or trying to be harmed in any way, I will use my weapons and use lethal force if necessary."

"Military purposes? Are you a soldier of some kind? If you are, what is your rank?"

"Yes I'm a soldier, and my rank is Major."

This gets surprised looks from some of the guards and from the mare in front of me.

"Whoa! Is his rank really Major!"

"I hear Major is higher than the rank of Captain."

"Na he doesn't look like if he's a Major. He looks more like a Private to me."

"Do you have any more questions?" I ask with annoyance from the last comment I heard.

"Lots, but it's getting a little late for that now." She turns her attention to her guards and speaks out with authority, "Solar Guards, go to the barracks and rest up for the night and let the Lunar Guards do their shift of patrolling for the night."

"Yes princess!" The Solar Guards reply in unison.

"Dismissed."

The guards start to pile towards the barracks, ready to go to bed, except for the couple of mares that stayed behind. They seem to be staring me with bedroom eyes.

I lock my eyes with them, their blushing faces deepening further. I feel very uncomfortable at this point.

"Guards, I said you were dismissed. Did you not hear?" The celestial being asks.

"Y-Yes princess, we heard you, but what about.....him~?" One of the mares spoke out, letting out a dreamy sigh.

"I'll deal with him myself. Now be on your way now."

"Yes princess."

They mares walk way, but stop as some either wink or blow kisses towards me. Heat rushed up to my face, quickly looking away from the mares to hide my blushing face. I hear them giggling and whispering as the walk away.

"Hey, I never got your name? You mind telling me it?" I ask.

She looks at me with a dumbfounded look, as her brow is raised. "You don't know who I am?"

I shake my head, "Not a clue."

"You aren't from around here, are you?" She asks curiously.

"Nope," I reply back dully.

"Well, I'm Princess Celestia, celestial being of the sun, and co-ruler of Equestria." She says proudly.

"Nice to meet you, Celestia. I'm Major Reyes or just Reyes." I say with a smile. A smile that I rarely show.

"Reyes? What a strange name you have, no offense by the way." She says rather quickly.

"None taken."

"Now that we have got acquainted with each other, how about I escort you to a room you'll being sleeping at?"

"Wait you're giving me a room?" I ask surprisingly.

"Well yes of course. Why wouldn't I?" Her brow raising.

"I'm a stranger to you and the guards here Celestia. Don't you find me untrust worthy or a bit paranoid of me?"

"To tell you the truth, no I don't." She lets out a motherly smile.

"I can tell you won't hurt anypony, and I can't tell that you're scared and confused."

My eyes widen. "How did you know that? I was hiding my emotions pretty well." I ask with much shock in my voice.

She just smiles and turns around, and starts down the hall. "I just know."
Shaking my head I trot up to her, following her to the room I'm being escorted to.

*sigh* What a day it has been.
After Celestia lead me to my room that I'll be staying at, she told me that in the morning a guard will come around to escort me to the dining hall where we'll be eating breakfast. She also told me she'll be wanting to have more of her questions answered if possible, so me being nice cooperative guys I am, I agreed.
The room looks pretty damn nice. A little too classy for my style by still, it's nice.

Right now I'm preparing to go to bed cause I'm dead tired. I take off my helmet and place it on the floor next to the bed. Then comes of my armor and clothes, which came off rather easily. It always takes me time to take off my armor; with some of the pieces being connected which kinda hard to take off, but with my telekinesis or magic as Celestia calls it, which I call total BS cause magic ain't real. But at the same time, I do believe there's magic cause of all the weird shit that's been happening to me lately. I lay my rifle against the desk that sits beside my bed, putting my sidearm on top of the desk.

Once everything is off, I set everything down on a neat pile by the bed, and walk towards the bathroom to get a quick wash.

I enter the bathroom and switch on the light. The bathroom is pretty nice too, all clean and sparkly white, just how I like my bathrooms. I look around, spotting several things in it, like a big ass bath tub with lots of soaps and conditioners, a toilet which looks like a normal one but it's a bit small, and lastly, there's a big ass mirror with a sink right below it.
I haven't seen myself since I got here, and I really wanna to know how I look. I say to myself mentally.

I walk up to the mirror, spotting my reflection on the mirror, I stare at myself curiously. I have these deep blue colored eyes that mix in with a bit of green in the middle where my pupil is. This isn't even my eye color! My color was a hazel color, but it's all different though I like the eye. Not saying I didn't like my hazel colored eyes.

I immediately take notice of my body, my fur being pitch black, my mane being the same color also. Hmm, I look pretty cool.

My whole body is ripped with thick muscle, but I don't mean as in thick as in 'body builder thick' where those guys that bulge out with muscle.
I spot a mark on my ass which I remember back to the other guards and Celestia that have marks on their asses too. I shift my ass to the mirror, so I can get a better look at it. My mark is my rank of Major and a wolf head howling. I think the wolf represents my lone wolf status.

I've noticed that my mane and tail are pretty long. My tail which drags onto the floor and my mane which hangs over my eyes. I'm going to have to ask Celestia if I can get a haircut or a manecut, what ever they call it here.
I turn to the shower, turning the nobs to adjust the water to a warm temperature which for warm I mean scorching hot water. I always take baths in really hot water.

After the shower, I dry myself off with a towel. Walking out of the bathroom, I quickly trot off to the bed just wanting to get to sleep already. I pull down the covers and jump in.

A relaxing sigh escapes my lips, as I relax on the soft bed that seems to be extremely comfortable. I roll to my right to look out the window and see the moon shining down into the room.

This place seems more relaxing than being home where I'm always on edge. This place has a calming effect that just makes me want to enjoy life and relax all day. This place feels.....happy. I don't know how to describe what I'm feeling, but by only feeling happy.

I find no reason to go back home now that I'm here. I don't even have family back home. I was raised in an orphanage up until I reached the age of 18. I was recruited into the army where I mostly worked alone because I enjoyed it better that way. I had no friends, nor lovers during the time I was in the army. I've always taken my job seriously, never having time to talk with any of the people in the base we were in.

Maybe things will change since I'm here now, but first I gotta adjust before I can do anything too rash.
At this point, I just want to go to sleep. A yawn escaping my mouth, my eye lids feeling heavy as they close slowly.

My mind wandering into the darkness from the awaiting dreams or memories I'll be having.

Not noticing the shadow of a certain night princess watching over me as I sleep.