Guardians of the Elements

Sitting in the throne room I can’t help but feel a little bit uneasy with the two bipedal beings, Humans, standing across from my sister and I. Of course, I wouldn’t voice this until they we were gone. Standing on the left, a man, with piercing yellow eyes, snow white shoulder length hair, wearing an equally as white coat unzipped with a grey shirt underneath, and thick but loose white pants.

To the right,sitting on the steps to the dais turned away from us, a woman with eyes obscured by a black hood, turquoise hair that falls all the way to her thighs, wearing a unique outfit of black white and violet with bands and belts crossing to keep it all together.

After a few minutes of silence the man spoke for the first time since greeting us. “You are sure they will allow us to protect them?” Celestia was the first to speak. “They have all been made aware of the situation they are in, and the need for their protection. While I’m sure some may not like the idea, they will still go along with it.”

He nodded, but his question made me raise a brow. “What difference does it make if they allow it or not? We are the ones who contracted you two to protect them.” He actually smiled at that.

“Human honor.” He turned his head and muttered “For those who still have any.” shaking his head, he continued. “While it is true you are the ones who contracted us through our CO, we are sworn to our charges individually. In order to strengthen our connection with Terra, our Deity, we form oaths with our contracts. Those oaths are what give us our strength, our mana, it’s our way of life. Without the oaths we’d be powerless.”

The girl was staring at her hand, electricity dancing along from finger to finger. “Of course, we can still operate while not under oath, it just makes things more difficult and complicated.” She added on. Her accent placed her with an “english” accent as they called it. “Pmuuto ramm, frah yna drao kuehk du kad rana?” she questioned in a language I couldn’t understand.

The man replied to her, in what I assumed to also be the same language.

“Pa bydeahd Trinity, drao ryt du dyga dra dnyeh vnus Ponyville.”

*Third person*

Before either princess could question what they had said, they could hear six voices approaching the throne door. “...aying Twi, is I don’t trust humans!” a brash voice said loudly, as if it didn’t care it could be heard, with a more refined voice following up with “While normally I’m not one to judge, I must agree with Rainbow Dash on this one.”

Trinity merely scoffed at that. “Hud ajah kejehk ic y lryhla, eh?”

The voices were now right in front of the door, but still have no entered. “Come on now you two, they can’t be all bad, we haven’t even met them yet! Ya gotta at least give’em a chance.”
A southern voice chided. A softer voice which was harder to hear spoke next “I don’t mind either way...they’re here to protect us right? If Celestia and Luna trust them enough to have them protect us, they can’t be as bad as you say.”

The brash one continued as if it didn’t hear the previous voice. “It doesn’t matter what their here to do, humans are known for all kinds of bad stuff! They’ve fought with every other nation at least once! And won!”

A rather high pitched voice chimed in “Come on Dashie, that’s silly! They only fought and won against the griffons and changelings! They made a treaty with the minotaurs after a stalemate, and made another with the dragons when they lost! That’s only four nations, even I know that.”

Another voice rang out from behind the door. “GIRLS! We’ve been over this, the princesses have already contracted them, and when we had the vote, we all agreed to go along with this! End of discussion!”

With that the door burst open and they all trotted in. All of them looked battered up a bit. The blue pegasus, Loyalty, had a cast on her left wing, the yellow one, Kindness, had one on her front right leg. The orange one, Honesty, had gauze wrapped around her barrel and back left leg,while the pink one, Laughter, merely had a bandaid on her forehead but still looked to be roughed up. The white one, Generosity had her horn chipped, and had a nasty bruise on her face, which she tried to cover up with various cosmetics, and the purple one, Magic, had a black eye.

Magic caught sight of the four others already in the room, and her eyes went wide when she realized they were all staring at the door. “Eheheheh...uh, how much of that did you hear?” the man chuckled good naturedly. “We heard enough.” She shrunk back a little at that. “I’m sorry you had to hear all that, we didn’t mean to offend.”
He simply smiled. “I assure you, no offense was taken. Bah, where are my manners, my name is Deka, and this is my partner, Trinity.” he said with a salute, while the girl merely waved her fingers with a nod of her head in greeting, only looking up slightly.

Magic smiled “pleased to meet you Sir Deka and Sir Trinity, my name is Twilight Sparkle, and these are my friends, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie, from your left to right in that order.” They each exchanged their own little greeting of sorts minus Rainbow Dash, who merely glared and held in her contempt, and Rarity, who simply waved.

Satisfied that the exchange of names had gone over well, Celestia spoke up “Well since introductions are out of the way, I’d like to make you all aware of a few things. Firstly, you can not be out from 11 P.M. To 6 A.M. without one of them escorting you. Second, do not leave town individually, if you must, let your guardians know. Third, they are here to protect you with their lives, so don’t ever feel unsafe around them. They will be able to assist you should they deem the assistance necessary, but do not abuse this.”

Some of them groaned at some of the new rules, while the rest groaned at others, but they all nodded in understanding. Trinity stood up and moved to stand next to Deka, and they both looked over all 6 of the ponies in front of them.

Then they knelt, which surprised all of them.

They looked up at them, and nearly in perfect sync they spoke “Elements of Harmony, on our behalf, and in the name of Terra, we pledge ourselves to your protection. Do you accept?”