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During the same time so as to still be valid with 'During the same time as the castle break in', but also shortly after said event, thus making it a slightly different time from which said timestamp takes place, but is still valid...

Sunburst slams his hoof down on the table, causing spike to jump.

"For the love of everything sacred! Just get past your differences and talk with each other! Talk about your favorite foods, Your homeland, how does the tea taste? Anything!"

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Eliza clears her throat whilst raising her tea cup to her lips. "So. I'm Eliza... This is my boyfriend Luke..." She introduces Luke by placing a hand on his right shoulder. Luke gives a nervous smile and shrinks partially in his seat whilst taking a prolonged sip from his cup. "And you all are?" she asks cautiously.

Awkward silence...

Eliza looks into her teacup with a mellow, defeated expression. "Well, About as awkward as sitting down for tea with your races enemy could be..." She quietly mumbles to herself. Celestia's ears perk in Eliza's direction at hearing that.

"Your race considers us they're enemies?" She asks with a disheartened hurt tone. Luke leans cautiously over the table, pausing with a hand half reaching for the biscuit plate when Luna looks to him. He slowly continues he reach for the confectionery, snatching his prize he rapidly retracts his hand and sits back down in his seat, Dipping his biscuit in his tea he takes a bite before swallowing and breaking the short silence after the question with.

"No, Not most of us at least. But don't get me wrong. There are a large majority of those who seek retribution or worse, revenge. Then there are those who want to see the countryside painted in your blood." Skystar begins choking on her beverage at hearing the humans blunt response. The governor of Nova Griffonia Looked shocked at the humans words. He mentally notes 'Despite their stature, and weak, frail appearance. They are still bluntly and honest... Quite the unusual creatures indeed. They show fear but at the same time, they also command the room...'

"Tis as we feared sister, the humans are growing more hostile by the passing day.-"

"Hostility towards your race is understandable isn't it? Your people frolic through the streets and countryside preaching 'Peace and Fwendship-" The Savage and blatant sarcasm that drips off her words makes Sunburst reel back slightly, before he just hangs his head. "- Yet. Your captains appear to be practicing rather...-" Eliza searches for a word for a second before continuing with "- 'Destructive', tendencies." She scoffs "And you wounder why We're seeming hostile... I Dunno, Maby its because, you didn't have your brother cut in half.-" Eliza says calmly and casually. Luna closes her eyes at those words. "Or your best mates friends slain in their sleep..." Eliza was savagely burning all in her company with her words. "But you know, Slicing someones neck until their almost decapitated doesn't make too much mess. You know what? I think Gabriel's still trying to clean her brothers blood of the walls and ceiling of his barracks.-" She was cut off by Celestia.

"I Understand your predicament, But you must also understand that no one ordered the captain and his troops to commit such atrocities to your counterparts. you cant blame our entire race for his-" Eliza slams her cup down onto its saucer. Silencing Celestia. With a loud clink, a piece of her cup's finely painted ceramic is sent skidding across the table.

Everyone realized that Celestia stood in this one... Eliza inhales deeply and exhales with closed eyes and a scowl smeared on her face, in an evident attempt at calming herself. When she finally does speak several seconds later, the irritation and anger in her forced, calm voice could be felt from across the table as she speaks with her eyes closed. "I, Do~, Beg your pardon love. But did you just call the unwarranted slaughter sixty two people, six of which were my best friends and my brother... An 'Predicament?" Twilight and Skystar notice that Eliza's hands are clenched into fists. And her level of anger is no mystery due to her white knuckled fists lightly shaking from her rages force.

Luna opens her eyes and speaks up. "My Apologies for my sisters rather poor wording-" Eliza slams both her fists down into the table, causing everyone to jump, Skystar to squeak in fear and Luna to blink.

"NO!... NO!... WE WILL NOT JUST SKIRT AROUND YOUR CALLOUS BULLSHIT! YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW WE FEEL. YOU HAVE NO COMPREHENSION OF HOW THIS EVENT HAS MADE OUR BLOOD BOIL! HOW COULD YOU!? YOU HAVEN'T EVEN HAD A WAR IN OVER A MILLENNIA!" Luke stands from his seat and places his hands on Eliza's shoulders in an attempt to calm her down, she shrugs him off however. But her next red faced Yelling session is intercepted by Luna.

"We understand that your kind has been through much-" Shes cut off by the Irate Eliza.

"NO MOONBUTT, YOU HAVE NO COMPREHENSION OF THE PAIN AND SUFFERING THAT YOUR KIND HAS CAUSED US! IF THERE WAS AN OPEN PORTAL TO YOUR HELL HOLE OF A WORLD. OUR WORLDS ARMIES WOULD OF MARCHED IN AND PAINTED YOUR TOWNS AND CITIES RED WITH THE BLOOD OF YOUR ARMIES!"

Everyone at this point had shrank into their seats, barring Luna and Celestia who took the verbal assault they knew they would face before even sitting at the table.

Eliza finally began to control her self, clenching her eyes shut she sharply and deeply inhales and exhales. Sitting back down in her seat, she raises her cup to her lips, some of the tea began to dribble from the side of the cup where the missing piecing of ceramic once sat.

"At any rate. Any further attacks on my people would be most unwise indeed. All teams within radio range were messaged. And have been arriving throughout today. In our current F.O.B's location, there are enough tactical bombers to level not only this town, but any settlement or hypocritical hick love boat, farmers shit house. Within two thousand five hundred kilometers of here. We have enough heavy armour to destroy any force you pit against us. And enough vengeful pissed off troops to break as many necks and slit as many throats at necessary." Luke stares at his girlfriend speechless.

"Wasn't killing the Captain and his troops enough revenge for your people?" Luna asked with sorrow in her voice.

"Oh, Trust me, The good captain and his captured troops are alive. heck, some are even receiving medical care." This caught Celestia and Luna off guard.

"When captain Stryder never returned we believed him KIA. What has become of him?"

"Hes currently... Indisposed of at the moment... The moment he figures out how to unlock his 3X3 foot cage from the inside with no key then he should be available. His troops are being treated with the upmost of respect and dignity."

"Are you humans always so cruel?" Celestia asks with concern.

"Only when we're slaughtered in our sleep for no reason after arriving on an alien world." Eliza sneers.

Sunburst clears his throat. "I Apologize for the actions of my fellow ponies. I... Know its hard loosing someone-"

"No, You don't. Not when their death was so brutal. You have no comprehension. Your peoples actions against mine are unforgivable." Eliza chokes on a sob.

Luna drops her facade of neutrality and in a tender caring tone says " I know how it feels to loose someone you hold dear in such a brutal fashion-" Eliza slams her fists down into the glass table, causing a crack to form in its thick top. In a sweeping motion she flings the tea set of the table, the resulting ceramic debris is sent sprawling across the crystal floor of the library.

"Fuck you! What part of not seen a war in millennia do you think i didn't notice when i read through your races history? What happened? Your significant other died after being ran over by a fucking stampede of loving whores? Or smothered by affection?-"

A Midnight blue aura surrounded Eliza before she was pulled over the table, only to stop mere millimeters from Luna's Glare of death.

"You Evidently didn't read Far Enough into the history books you were about to steal!" Everyone at the table was stunned at the Usually stoic Princesses sudden outburst. Eliza would of said something... if her mouth wasn't held shut by magic. so instead she just glared back into Luna's eyes with hatred. "I'M Princess Luna of Equestria, My sister, Celestia and I, Are the Immortal Rulers of this land. And no peace comes without great cost!" Luna yells, Just a few octaves short of the royal Canterlot voice. "My sister and I have seen and Lead more of our Subjects into battle than your Species has in all of its battles, wars and skirmishes Combined!" Luna says with an uncharacteristically feral growl to her voice. Eliza continues her glare of mass destruction into Luna's soul.

"Sister! CEASE THIS AT ONCE!" Celestia orders, But her Commands fall upon her siblings deaf ears.

"A Millennia Ago, I Ignored my sisters advice, 'Thee shan't be attached to thy subjects' she said! 'Their life be too frail, their mortal bodies are but of the finest glass-work our realm has to offer!" Luna yells into Eliza's face. The Princesses throaty growl. Her angry expression exposing her long canines. "One of our pregnant guards began foaling whilst on duty... She should have been left to deal with it herself. But at her constant cries for help, i couldn't take it! I Helped her give birth to a healthy colt! From the moment my gaze met with his pure innocent eyes, i felt a warmth deep inside that i had been denying myself all those years i sat upon the throne with my sister!" Everyone just watched and listened to the princesses history, a history that had never been recorded nor spoken before... "I Ignored my sisters advice for most of Star Glint's life! He grew up from an innocent colt, who'd play chess with me whilst i tutored him, to a strong prideful and caring stallion who eventually became the captain of my guard!" It was at this point that Luna's current budding guards pony, and friend landed silently in the open window to the library, Instead of interrupting her emotional mentor and mother figure, she listens.

"He found himself a special somepony, settled down, began to raise a family! Then the already unstable relations between the griffins and our nation collapsed when their king died of old age and the prince was slain by his jealous uncle!"

Teafeather already knew the battle to which Luna was referring, Only one battle occurred during that war. In two hours of brutal bloody fighting, both armies brawled with each other near savagely until they both whittled each other down to nothing.

"The Army commanded by my sister fell after a bloody massacre, And it was my armies turn to take the line! The formations marched over the hill, and were greeted by the sight of the dead and dying littering the farmland that once fed Canterlot!" Skystar looked as if she was about to cry already. Cadence held her eyes shut, Luna had told her this story once already after having one bottle of Port too many...

"With bravery my troops were lead into the field, marching over the still warm corpses of their friends and family! At the head of the formation? Star Glint and I! I Trudged through the Quagmire of blood and mud! The severed limbs and decapitated bodies! The innards of Equestria's bravest and finest warriors, fighting to protect the ones and land they love so dearly!" Everyone around the table was beginning to look sick, Eliza's expression had softened substantially, Realizing that she was foolish forcing her sorrow and hatred onto another...

"The griffons ambushed our battalion from all sides! From above, the flanks, The rear, They even poured out of craters that they filled with our own dead! They used our dead as camouflage to hide their soldiers from us!" Eliza's guilt was showing itself freely now, she felt tears begin welling up inside herself, This princess went against the advice of her elder sister to be closer to her subjects, even to the extent of joining them on the battlefield, she gave up her sheltered spoon fed ways and put herself in danger for her people... Luna's eyes had glassed over and tears were now begging to run down her cheeks.

"Poor Star Glint, had to watch his comrades be slain in their dozens, I Myself had slain over thirty griffons in a desperate attempt at saving my subjects, My first true friends, friends and family... Eventually the pained screams of agony from the dying faded out to nothing! And it was but I, Whom Stood amongst the slaughtered in a field of red clay and mud! I Looked everywhere for Star Glint, But he was nowhere to be seen! That was until i heard a pained moan... I Found the Pony i'd helped raise since the very moment his spark of life was bought into this world... Lying atop the body of the one who'd Taken him out of the combat... The griffons Warhammer was still resting in Star Glints back..." Luna was by now freely crying and choking on sobs. Her head hung limply from her shoulders and she looked into her hooves, evidently reliving through the painful memory and she was retelling it.

"I Couldn't do anything but sit there in the blood sodden quagmire... Shielding his broken body from the rain whilst his spark of life slowly departed from our world... He was essentially my son... And i was left Powerless to save him... or even lessen his pain..." With a sharp rasping gasp she started openly weeping, And sobbing with the broken heart of a mother whom's child was stolen from her before his time.

"Medical spells or medicinal magic never existed back then... And its not like a Princess needs to know medicine or anything like that? After all, Medicine is for the commoners of the empire!" The princess of the night said with a deep set hatred and disgust towards her once cynical self.

Celestia began holding a stiff upper lip, but tears also streamed down her cheeks, Luna's recollection of the battle had dredged up the memories that she had forgotten...

Luna was a complete emotional wreck, her mane was all over the place, her head continued to hang limply from her shoulders, her tears were constantly hitting the crystalline floor and had began to form a small puddle under her. For several seconds she moved her mouth but instead of her words the only sounds that left her was her pained hollow gasps and raspy sobs.

"His last words were... 'Dont cry lulu...You gave me a better life than i could of ever dreamed of... You gave me a purpose to live... I... I'm going to miss you... where ever i end up...But i'll always- be with you." She makes one particularly harsh instake of air, choking on her tears, as she touches her heart with her hoof. "Love.. You....Lu-lu..." With that she rests her head into her fore hooves, as she continued to cry a thousand years of lonely repressed emotions into the cracked table top. Luna's face was hidden under her tear soaked mane, its ethereal breeze cutting out and her midnight blue hair dulling, and flopping down atop her head.

"I- I Couldn't even face his family after that... In my SPINELESS COWARDICE! I never adressed his mother... his wife... His foals grew up hearing nothing of their fathers sacrifice to keep them safe and give them a safe world to grow up in..."

Everyone at the table had all Silently mourned Luna's loss with the grief stricken Princess.

"I Carried- his... mangled body, back to the palace... I had the best architects the Empire had to offer, Build him a shrine... To this day, He and his comrades... His family... Are at- rest... Beneath the castle courtyard... Twice a Year, in the garden... The door to the tomb is opened by my magic seal... Once on Hearths warming Eve. So that they may see that their sacrifice was not in-vain... and once on Nightmare night... So that they can have fun scaring their fellow subjects..." Luna says into the table.

Luna's Thestral friend. Silver Streak, was wiping tears from her eyes with her wing near constantly before a realization hit her. "P-Princess..." Luna raised her head and looked in the direction of the window to find her friend. "The Guards Hall of Records... That would happen to have been your doing too... would it?" Luna just gives a silent, shallow nod.

Eliza finally regains her composure enough to speak. "I'm, so, so sorry..." She mumbles across the table. "I Was being an inconsiderate, insufferable bitch..." Eliza sobs.

Luna places her back in her chair and wipes her tears using her magic. Before a Midnight blue aura illuminates the floor and the casualty tea set is reassembled back on the table from the many colourful shards and splinters of ceramic.

"You couldn't have known dear..." The emotionally destroyed princess says with a sniffle.

"Its not the point... I Shouldn't have exploded like that... I Guess the rumors from around the team are true... I really am every part the monster everyone makes me out to be..." She mumbles defeated...

"Come now dear... If you forgot, i 'exploded' as well." Luna said with a shaky hollow chuckle.

Luke's muffled voice addressed the tearful group from through his handkerchief. "Like Eliza said earlier. The majority of us don't want to end up fighting with you. But at the rate the relations between us are deteriorating, Either our hand will be forced to keep everyone under control. Or our limited number will be split in half and we'll be destroying each other by the end of the month." Luke blew his nose into his handkerchief and Eliza resumed where he left off.

"The Best course of action is to Swiftly sign an official document, A treaty and apology or something, then keep everyone distracted for long enough that they have to put their plans of revenge on hold. You'll be surprised how effective work takes peoples minds off of plotting revenge." Governor Teafeather then inquires.

"And how do you propose that we keep your people distracted long enough for our races to mingle in such a way that we don't end up with worsened hostility's?"

Skystar joins in with. "Well, according to the reports made by the troops that defected from the Captain. The humans don't have permanent residence. They are currently living in either tents or crude prefabricated structures. We could have your people build themselves a town. And we can have the various races show up sometime into its construction to help... That should improve relations" Eliza clicks her fingers and points to Skystar.

"Theres a good idea!"

The Thestral guard sitting in the window piped in with her own report. "Princesses! I have important information to report!" Turning to Eliza and Luke. "Sorry," she says with a cringe "But i had to spy on your leaders during a meeting i get the feeling a member of the Equine species wasn't invited to, But it was for the greater good..."

Eliza leans back in her chair. "None taken, At this point i'm starting to think we deserve it..."

The Jade eyed Thestral smiles at the lack of hard feelings before turning to the princesses. "The humans are at a crossroads. Several of their leaders are Divided in opinion but the leading or rather only suggestion that was made for their future plans, was that all their 'Teams' should join up into a single faction. However the meetings final verdict was postponed until tomorrow due to the indecision of several leaders. Once They were alone, the 'Hosts' of the meeting were discussing their peoples current status. And the future of their race, and it didn't sound good... They talked about how they were going to keep their people under control, and then had a rather defeated conversation about how their species was 'Fucked' no matter which course of action is pursued by either side. Due to rampant food and resource shortages, and their species susceptibility to diseases and the elements. I'm no Adviser to you Celestia or Luna. But we HAVE to help them! After all we've done to them! They need our help more than ever! But i don't think they'll accept our help even if we gave it to them! And if we do, than it may divide their ranks!"

Eliza shoots bolt upright before leaning over the side of her chair and reaching into her bag, after receiving confused looks from all at the table she pulls out her long range UHF radio, it looks like one of the old Vietnam Era Brick radios.

Twilight's curiosity peaks once Eliza starts turning several knobs and dials, Finally she unties the ribbon holding the antenna down, causing it to whip up towards the ceiling. After a three second long burst of static fills the room a female voice escapes the box. And the princesses realize that this is the humans version of Twilights invention...

"Desert Rat 1 - Your transmission is received. Standby..." Everypony at the table looks to each other in amazement at how clear the transmission is. The same voice returns. "Desert Rat 1 - Whom do you wish to connect with?"

Eliza presses down on a red trigger on the side of the brick radio. "Desert Rat 1- Operator. Connect me to Johnna. Priority."

"Johnnas not in the C.C.B at the moment."

"Then get him please! This is an emergency message!"

Releasing the trigger Eliza waits for a response... After receiving none she presses the trigger yet again. "That means run Twigglets!" She yells into the microphone. After a second the sound of someone on the other end sliding out a wheely chair and boots running out of the room comes through the radio.

"Once Johnna gets on the blower, i'll tell him that the leaders of your people wish to speak with him about an important matter, Don't worry, Johnna is a man of great patience, unless we interrupted his meal, he hates having his meal interrupted..." Glancing at her watch she sees it now reads 6PM. "Shit" she mumbles to herself.

Author's Note

I hope this chapter had the same deep emotional effect on you all as it did me. In an attempt to stop me from crying i was listening to rave.

I must admit... this is the first time i've ever cried listening to rave... sorry about it being a few hours late.