The princesses and the beast

It is on this restful night that you watch at the gate in front of you, like Princess Luna, you are the eyes of Equestria on this night. As you prepared to watch alone until the fateful moment, someone came behind you. You feel it all too well, this person seems peaceful, he is not very threatening, and in any case, you saved him a short while ago.

"Good evening Lance" said the voice, which approaches your position and even ends up landing on the same cloud as you. It is Princess Twilight, who seems determined to talk to you.

"What do you want princess?" Ask yourself, too busy guarding the portal to bow down. This one sits right next to you, head full of questions.

"Thank you for saving me this morning, I'm Princess Twilight, but I have something else to tell you Lance, or rather to ask you," she says, hoping not to bother you during your shift.

"Can't this wait until after the attack?" Ask yourself, not bothering to turn around to face him, scanning for any anomalies through the portal beams.

"It won't take long if you answer all my questions quickly," she said, which then began her interrogation of you. "So to start with, I'd like you to tell me about yourself, everyone asks who you are, but no one dares to ask you," she says.

"If you tell everyone what I tell you, will they let me protect them without asking further questions if I understand correctly?" Ask yourself, a question she confirms, any story will be out by tomorrow morning and you won't have to answer again.

"Well, in that case, I've been living with my father for 20 years in the snowy mountains in that direction" you then point with your hoof in the exact direction of where you were born, but also where you've spent all your life. You continue your story.

"Since I was born, he taught me everything, mainly to prepare me for my destiny, to protect Equestria," you say. Intrigued by your formulation, Princess Twilight asks you what your destiny is.

"He told me that I was a special pony, that I had the perfect body to fulfil this role" you said, and indeed it is hard to prove you wrong, your body is built for battles if you can put it that way. "My father also has a body different from all of you, just like mine. He said that I had to make up for the mistakes he made in the past, but now I don't know what mistakes he's talking about," you tell yourself. You are becoming more and more intrigued by Twilight, as she wants to know more about you, but in the end she has more questions than answers.

"So, you're following your father's destiny and you've been training with him for 20 years in the mountains, right?" she asks. You confirm her summary and she starts again with another question.

"Aren't you... afraid of that destiny?" She asks, to which you don't know what to answer. "Afraid? What is fear?" Ask yourself.

"What do you mean, you don't know fear? The word fear?" She asks intrigued by your answer. "It's part of how we all feel, you must have said it at least once," she said, hoping your answer would make sense to her.

"Feelings?" You wonder, indeed, your father never used his words in his 20 years together.

"What, you don't know... what feelings are?" Says Twilight, shocked to learn that a stud in his prime doesn't know those words existed, much less what they express. "Feelings are all the emotions we express, fear, joy, sadness, happiness... you all know that, don't you?" She asks again.

You decide for the first time to take your eyes off the gate for a few seconds to look at her. She seems to be really worried about you, and she will probably be even more so after you answer "I'm sorry, Princess Twilight, I don't know any of your terms, my father didn't teach me them because they must be useless for the war," you nod, resuming your surveillance of the portal.

Twilight was stunned by your answer, you didn't look at her anymore, but you could feel her gaze almost filled with pity for you. A thought quickly occurred to her. She stood up and came even closer to you, slipping into your field of vision, without hindering you and always letting you scan the portal.

"Lance, my friends and I are what we call the elements of harmony," she began. "We represent the emotions and friendship in Equestria, would you like us to..."

You were half listening to her as the portal began to change, he's wrong about himself, as if he's going to implode. You react with a quarter turn, so you're up in the sky in a flutter.

"They're coming, Princess Twilight, go!" Be warned, the primary mission you have in mind is to protect the princesses first, they rule this world, what would happen to them if something happened to them?

"Wait, I'm not..." she begins, before you unintentionally cut her off, not listening to her anymore.

"SOLDIERS!!!" Say it out loud to wake up the dreamy battalion. Your call is answered by simple plaintive grunts. You don't pay any attention to it. "The portal is entering phase two, a legion of demons are preparing to emerge. Prepare yourself, we must stop them from reaching Ponyville" you warn.

At the command you just gave, the guards remember their primary missions and begin to rise one by one with difficulty. Most of them are still dreaming and can only stand thanks to their spear as a third leg.

Once again, you can manage on your own, you had done it far too many times with your father in the mountains. You look behind you one last time to see the Twilight Princess still standing there, not having moved a feather.

Before they arrive !

"PROTECT THE PRINCESS!!!!" You shouted up into the heavens for the guards, waking them for good this time.

You waited for no reinforcements and rushed at your enemies, who looked like ponies but with horns and holes in their bodies. You brandish your spear and start slicing through the waves of monsters coming out of the portal, none of them escape you. Your speed and strength are just one bite at the entire legion of deformed creatures that come out.

You are so effective that the guards are just watching you defeat the threat while surrounding the Twilight Princess to protect her.

"What are you doing, go help her!" The Princess protested as she saw their futility.

"But Princess, there doesn't seem to be any need for us" commented one of the guards.

"ROYAL ORDER !" She finally screamed as she gave her supreme opinion. The guards didn't wait for another recall to rush in, only a few of them staying close to the princess.

But the guards were right, you were too efficient to let them do their job, you did that all your childhood after all.

As no more monsters came out of the gate, the guards thought it was all over and they would be able to find their cozy cloud again.

But not you !

Suddenly, a monster much bigger than the previous ones came out of the gate, rushing at the first pony within its reach. Which was none other than you.

The creature with long, snake-like hair had two dark daggers with it, corresponding to him. It also had a vile viper's tongue that was out in the open. It tried to stick its weapons into your body but you retaliated by blocking them with your spear, moving only slightly backwards from your position.

The guards in the surrounding area became afraid of the violence of the attack and retreated, brandishing their spears as a sign of defence. You don't pay attention to this.

"What have we got here? A competent pony?" She asked you as her eyes tried to bewitch you.

You immediately understood her play and closed your pupils while answering her.

"How by Celestia can a creature of your kind be gifted with speech?" Did you say, seeing this type of specimen for the first time.

"We're far superior to you ponies, you'll soon find out" she whispered, bringing her mouth closer to your ear, and by extension her long tongue.

Realizing that her gaze was no longer focused on your eyes, she opened yours and immediately regained control of the situation. In a fraction of a second, you moved your spear in front of her abdomen, before driving it inside without any hesitation.

"HHHAAA" she screamed in pain, spanking her daggers to the floor of Ponyville. "How dare you pierce a woman, I dare not!" She would know as she looked at him again, her eyes full of hatred.

"Male or female I don't care, I'll eliminate anything that can harm my people" you replied, forcing her eyes, seeing that she no longer had the strength to try to bewitch you.

You thought you had impaled her, that she must be the queen of her creatures and that it was the end of the dead attacks that you had been fighting for ages. Except she used her magic to get out of your slaying with some difficulty.

"WE WILL MEET AGAIN!" Did she respond by staring at you until she returned to her portal, shutting it down in the process.

It was when you saw the last ounce of the purple portal disappear in the mist that you finally put your spear back in the compartment in your back, realizing that it was over for tonight.

The guards were stunned to see you in action, now understanding better why the Princesses Celestia and Twilight seemed to be taking an interest in you. He also wondered how a pony of your size and strength could exist, but once again you were not interested.

Instead, your first instinct was to go back to the Princess.

"Princess Twilight, are you all right?" Did you ask as you crouched down as you did with Princess Celestia earlier. Except this time, even if you were lying on the floor, you'd still be taller than her, so you only got down on one knee.

"Uh, yeah, I'm fine, but you... you're fine, too?" She asked you.

"It doesn't matter, but since you're asking me, no Princess Twilight, I have no injuries" you nodded.

"Well, thanks again for your intervention, Lance," she said shyly. "Tomorrow, first thing in the morning, we'll both go and see Princess Celestia and talk about how you fit in with the other ponies, okay?" She says next.

"Very well Princess Twilight, for the time being, I advise you to rest" you dared to propose, reprimanding yourself inwardly for this intervention.

"Very good idea, Lance" she nodded, "do the same" she said before leaving for her house on the floor.

"Have a good night, Princess Twilight," you said, your voice reaching through the clouds to her ears.

"You too, Lance, you too," she said as she flew to the tree that housed her bookcase, feeling a slight reddening on her cheeks.