The Sleeping Hero

Twilight watches her friend cry out her feelings and runs over to join the hug, unable to hold back the tears anymore and lets out the tears she has been holding back saying, "We are all here for you Applejack, you don't have to be strong all of the time, its alright to be the one that needs the support once in awhile."

As he holds the two crying ponies, Applejack's tears and sobs eventually begin to subside as he runs a hand down the back of her head to the middle of her back when he hears her softly say in his ear, "Yer a good friend ta know when somepony needs ta let out their feelings like that, thanks. You have warm hugs despite having this armor on, but can ya let me down now please?" He chuckles and gives her a final squeeze and sets her down on the ground and picks up Twilight to hug her back and let her cry it out.

Applejack watches while he holds Twilight in a hug until she asks to be put back down and says, "I shall get back ta extinguishing potential fires so we can begin repairin the damage, can ya go check on the others to see if they need help?"

Bayott wipes a tear from Twilights eye and says, "There there little one, everything will be alright. Can you come with me so we can help them out by helping the injured ponies and putting out the fires, so the reparations can begin to rebuild the buildings that were either damaged or destroyed from the fires? This is going to take awhile."

She slowly stops sobbing and brings out a clipboard with a list on it and says, "I will come with you and help organize everything so it goes by faster and takes less time to get Ponyville back in order."

As Bayott and Twilight go around to organize everyone's efforts to help in returning Ponyville to how it was before the attack, he looks around him and spots a few similarities and says, "This used to be where Helgen once stood."

Twilight looks at him with surprise and says, "This is where the town of Helgen used to be located? I'm sorry if it brings back bad memories for you."

He smiles at her and says, "Don't worry, I got over the events of that day. I no longer have nightmares from that night, but my hatred towards how dragons treat mortals angers me beyond words. Therefore, I take it unto myself to force them to accept change or accept death to keep them all enjoying freedom from unimaginable cruelty from when they used to rule over all Mundus or Equus as you now call it."

They are checking on the progress of the search for remaining injured ponies when Fluttershy and Rarity come by to give their report to Twilight when she says, "How is the progress going on the search for the remaining ponies that have yet to be found?"

Rarity speaks up first saying, "Well we had a minor surprise when Discord already had the ponies that were inside of burning houses and had them just oustide of town, but aside from that all the injured ponies from town have been to the first aid tent until the surgeons can finish treating the wounds. Many of us had our hands full until you were finally out of surgery"

Fluttershy then says to Twilight, "All of the fires that were still burning are now out, a few are still smoldering but are being cooled down by rain so they don't start burning again."

Bayott looks at the two of them and sees the sadness in their eyes and walks up to them, then pulls them both into his arms and says, "Come here you two, a good hug can treat most sour moods. Everything will be alright after this, so just let it out so your day will begin to get happier for you as many ponies you care about are still here. I'm sorry to tell you two this but I met Summer's Day and Colonel Cluster Apple in Sovngarde, I don't know if you knew them but they have died. I have already told Applejack of their passing, now I am informing the rest of Twilight's friends that might possibly have known them." He then pulls them a bit closer and holds them in his arms.

Fluttershy and Rarity both squeak in surprise at being picked up and tightly hugged and snuggle into him as they let the tears fall as they both weep for those who perished in the attack as Fluttershy cries out, "We both knew Summer's Day, she was so kind to everypony. We met Colonel Cluster Apple a couple times at Applejack's family reunions, she was a little rough around the edges but a kind heart at the center of it all. I really feel sorry for Applejack losing a friend and a family member like that."

He holds the two firmly as they snuggle into him, enjoying how warm he is compared to the colder temperature outside and says, "Its late fall if I have to guess, Hearthfire to be specific by how it feels outside, am I right?"

Twilight gawks in amazement at how accurately he guessed the season and the month saying, "Y-Yeah it's Wednesday the 20th, how'd you know it was September from just the weather?!"

Bayott chuckles and says, "We Nords are more sensitive to changes in the weather than most, but I have an advantage over most Nords. My sense of smell is keener with me being a Moon-born Werewolf, it is different from a normal Werewolf as their blood acts as a contagious curse as well as not being able to control when they shift forms. Moon-born don't suffer from such things as our blood is not contagious, nor do we lose control over when we shift forms. With those two tasks done, what is left on the list to check on?"

Her mind is struggling to understand how that is possible and looks at the list and says, "We have to check on the first aid tent to see how they are doing, and then see how the Pegasi are coming with the fires. I am sorry to ask this of you Rarity, but do you think you two can assist the others in cleaning up the debris from the burned down buildings?"

Fluttershy says she will be glad to help as Rarity lowers her head and squints her eyes and growls at hearing her request then suddenly stomps her hoof and says, "Even though I loathe getting myself dirty, I shall do it to aid in the recovery of our hometown."

Twilight's mind doesn't quite register her reply and says, "It's ok Rarity, I don't blame you for despising getting yourself dirty... Wait what!! You will allow yourself to get dirty to help clean up and repair the town?! Who are you and what have you done with the real Rarity!" She then gets in a fighting stance to attack the changeling that she thinks has replaced her friend.

Rarity exclaims in surprise and quickly says, "Hold on Twilight, hold on! It's really me, I will prove it to you now by telling you something that only I would ever know."

She narrows her eyes then stays in her stance and says to it, "Better say it quick or this will be over in the blink of an eye, because my horn is getting itchy."

The fashionista makes a short 'eek' noise and quickly says, "I know the secret you have been wanting to try but haven't found the right subject yet."

Twilight's eyes turn to the size of dinner plates as her face turns a very bright red in embarrassment and races over and puts a hand over her mouth to silence her from saying any more and whispers in her ear, "How in Tartarus did you find out about that, I haven't told anypony about that yet!"

Rarity grins and then leans into her and whispers to her ear, "Because during that one sleepover we had a few months ago during Hearth's Warming Eve, you talk in your sleep and mentioned it. You got really excited over it and I feared you would wake the others so I took it upon myself to quiet you down and help you over the edge so you would go back to sleep. You know you taste like oranges right?"

Her face glows bright red, causing her head to overheat and collapses against her friend as steam comes rolling out of her ears and says, "OK OK OK! You are the real Rarity after all. I never knew that that happened..."

He chuckles at how embarrassed she became and decides to save her from it by saying, "So Twilight, since that is taken care of, shall we go check on the first aid tent to see how they are holding up?"

Twilight smiles weakly at the save and sighs saying, "Alright let's go take care of that real quick before we go check on how the Pegasi are handling the buildings that are still hot and smoking."

As they leave towards the First aid tent and begin making their way there, as they make their way down the path, Bayott swears that every time he gets a short glimpse of her face and eyes checking out his form head to toe very, very closely.

She forces herself to stop looking back and stealing glances from him and leads them to the front of the tent, then spots Pinkie making the patients laugh and forget about their pain for a brief moment with her various antics and tricks. She calls her over saying, "Hey Pinkie how are things faring on your end?"

Pinkie comes to them looking like a circus clown, wearing big clown shoes that make various noises whenever she takes a step. As she takes one final step, a fart noise comes out of the shoes and makes her gigglesnort saying, "Hiya Twilight and Bayott, what brings you here to the tent today? Are you hurt and need somepony to make you forget about your pain with happiness until you get into surgery?"

Twilight chuckles and grabs her friends muzzle, forcing her to stop for a second, smiles and says, "No Pinkie, we were just coming to see how the remaining patients were doing while they wait to get into surgery?"

She smiles and says, "We are goody good good good! The last patient is almost ready to go to surgery, is there anything else you needed? Like maybe a cupcake or a sweetroll or an orange?"

Bayott's mouth waters and he says, "I'm surprised you have those nowadays, I never would have thought that a few recipes survived from back then."

Pinkie pulls a wrapped sweetroll from out of her curly mane and says, "I just followed the recipe that is written in this really old journal I found one day by somepony named Balagog gro-Nolob. Here you go, just remove the plastic before you try to eat it okay?" She then holds it out towards him.

He casts his eyes down to the ground, sighs and takes the sweetroll saying, "Thank you Pinkie Pie, I'm amazed it survived the ages. Where did you find it?"

She grins widely and says, "I'm not really sure where I found it, but I was looking in my hair for a bag of balloons for a party when I found this journal instead and looked through it to find a bunch of recipes so I started to try them and..."

Bayott does the same thing that Twilight did with her muzzle to silence her rambling and looks her in the eye and says, "I'm sorry to tell you this but hearing that the journal is by The Gourmet reminds me of a dark time in my life. Be sure to enjoy the recipes that are in there for an Orc, he was a very talented cook. But let's put my dark past away, because there is something I must tell you. It saddens me to inform you this way, but Summer's Day and Colonel Cluster Apple were killed by Numinex." He then lets go of her muzzle and holds his hands out wide and pulls her into a hug when he sees her eyes grow to the size of saucers and begin to water.

She begins to to wail as her poofy hair and tail falls flat as tears shoot out of her eyes forming a fountain saying, "N-N-No...N-N-Not Summer's Day and Colonel Cluster Apple! Summer's Day had a birthday party coming up soon, but now we h-h-have to make it a remembrance party instea-head!"

He holds her close to him as she continues to wail and reassures her by running a hand down the back of her head to the small of her back and says, "Don't worry you party pony, there are many more friends that are still alive and will need consoling and a good strong hug. Did you know that a good hug has the best magic of all to help others feel better when they are down."

Pinkie Pie slowly begins to calm her wails to loud cries, then eventually down to frequent sobs as she is able to respond coherently, "H-H-Hugs...a-a-are...m-magi-magi-magical?"

Bayott moves his arm to hold her up to behind her knees in a princess carry position and says to her, "Yes they are because they are very warm and after all, you are the element of laughter so you can't let yourself down and give up just because someone close to you has passed to the next life. You can take time to work through the grief you have for their death, but you cannot take too long because you have a duty to help other ponies through their grief as well. Some you will be able to save, others you won't be able to but that is the way life is. Remember that the ones you lost will always be with you in heart and memories you have shared together, enjoy life to it's fullest and you will see them again on the other side of life." He then clears his throat because he was getting too serious for his own liking and then tries to cheer her back up and says, " Did I forget to mention that yours truly will be turning seventy thousand and thirty four on the 19th of Frost Fall or October as you call it?"

Her hair and tail slowly regain their poofiness and she sighs and looks up in thought, she then says, "I will have to consider about planning to throw one for you if I am feeling up for it."

He scrunches his face considering that and decides it isn't good enough and says to her, "Hmmm...sorry, that won't cut it Pinkie Pie. I guess I will have to torture you to get the right answer." Without warning, he then takes her to the ground and begins a merciless assault on her stomach, lifting her shirt up just enough to expose her abdomen and runs his hands up her sides to begin to tickle them as well as blowing incessant raspberries on her stomach.

Everypony gasps at first but then put a hand in front of their mouths to hide their laughter as she is getting 'tortured' with tickles and raspberries on her stomach, turning Pinkie into a jerking, tittering mess.

Pinkie's hair and tail begin to brighten up and return to their full poofy nature as she finally has had enough of the torture after ten non-stop minutes of it and says, "OK OK OK I GIVE I GIVE I GIVE MASTER TORTURER! I will be happy to plan your birthday party, just let me go before I die in a laughing fit!"

Bayott yields his assault and gets up, pulling her to her hooves as she continues to giggle and snort involuntarily from the aftermath of the attack and says to her, "That sounds better, from what I heard from Twilight, you are thee pony to talk to for any sort of event that involves laughter, enjoyment, and snacks."

She beams a huge smile at him and gives him a final hug saying, "Thank you for helping my friends and I through the first part of our grief, I sense there will be many, many parties in the future thanks to you. Though right now is not the right time for a party, but maybe after we get Ponyville back the way it used to be, we can hold a gigantic Welcome back to Mundus Ancient 70,000 year old hero who slept the years away to find it changed dramatically and saved Ponyville, died but came back to save all of Equus party." She then gasps for a breath of air after saying all that and giggles and hops away to help remove the debris from the damaged and destroyed buildings throughout the town.

He raises an eybrow and looks at the other Ponies around him tittering at her antics, looking for an explanation as to what just happened and asks, "What in oblivion just happened there? Is she a demon of some kind or is she related to Sheogorath in some way?"

Twilight then looks to the group and then sighs saying, "It's my turn to give him 'the talk' isn't it...?"

They just look back at her, nod and then say in unison, "Mmhm it sure is." They then snicker as they watch her lower her head in annoyance.

She sighs audibly and then raises her head up and looks at him saying, "Pinkie Pie is a pony that no law can explain, so it is best to just go with it and accept her antics rather than make sense from them. Oh and if her body starts acting a weird way and she warns you about something, don't try to understand how it happens or why. Just accept that she has that ability and leave it at that to save yourself the frustration of trying to make sense of it all like I did and nearly went mad trying to explain it."

Just then out of nowhere Pinkie pops up next to Bayott and then says, "As far as I know, I am not related to Sheogorath. You never know though, because I found a connection in my family tree that I found out I was a relative to Applejack's family. So maybe I am, maybe I am not, we will find that answer some day. I have to get back to moving debris so I will see you later Ysmir." She then hops away to another destroyed building and starts to move the pieces into the ever growing pile of debris.

Bayott tries to catch his breath as Pinkie startled the crap out of him and says, "She always does that?!"

Twilight giggles and says, "Yep she does, and we love her for being Pinkie. Let's go check on Rainbow Dash next to see if they have the buildings all cooled down now."

They make their way through the wreckage of burnt out buildings when they spot Rainbow get rid of the last rain cloud and Twilight calls out to her saying, "Hey Rainbow Dash, do you have a minute to talk?!"

Rainbow hears her name called and looks down to see Twilight standing beside Bayott and flies down to them saying, "Sure I have a minute, we just finished cooling down the last of the hot spots and can now help out with moving the debris so we can start rebuilding Ponyville! By the way Bayott, How are you moving around right now after 24 hours of surgery!?"

Bayott looks at her and chuckles saying, "I used a spell I created many years ago to restore my body when I woke up, but the downside is that it doesn't replace the blood that was lost to the moment the spell was cast." He then nudges Twilight with his elbow, letting her know he wants to tell her something personal.

Twilight feels the nudge and looks to him and then looks back to Rainbow Dash and says, "Hey Rainbow, can you land for a sec, Bayott wants to talk to you."

She then cocks her head in curiosity at Twilight and answers, "Sure thing Twi, what is it that he wants to say to me?" She then lands on the ground and folds her wings behind her back and turns to look at Bayott as he begins to walk towards her.

As he gets within arm's reach he softly says to her, "What I have to tell you is personal, so can I whisper it to your ear?"

Rainbow lightly blushes and then says nervously, "S-Sure, just don't get too close..."

Bayott closes the distance and leans forward and whispers, "I have to tell you that I am sorry for what I'm about to tell you, as well as for what I must do to help you get past the first part."

She then begins to respond, "What do you mean for what you are about to tell me and do..." as he quickly wraps his arms around her back, pinning her wings in place and holding her across the small of her back, holding her against his body tightly. She then begins to try to break free as he places his mouth by her ear and speaks.

He takes a deep breath, holds her tighter and whispers to her, "I am sorry to inform you of the death of Summer's Day and Colonel Cluster Apple, I know they are no longer among us because I met them in the land of the dead, they both thanked me for ending Numinex's reign of terror."

Rainbow freezes for a moment and softly says, "W-W-Wait...Summer and Cluster...are gone? N-No, you are lying to me! Don't you dare lie to me like that you bastard, there is no way that my girlfriend and wingmare could be dead! Where are you holding them you asshole!" Her eyes start to tear up and fights even harder to get away, bashing her head against his and knocking his helmet off and bites his cheek and then tries punching and kicking him, having no effect due to the armor.

Bayott stands firm, tightening his grip as much as he dares without harming her wings and says, "Go on Rainbow, let out your feelings. There is no shame to crying and grieving over the loss of loved ones, I shall be your shoulder to cry on now. So feel free to express yourself however you need to, I will not budge until you are ready for me to let go. I know how you are feeling right now, so let the tears and cries flow. I am here for your support Rainbow Dash, I will be here if you ever need to talk about it or just want to hang out."

Her dam that she constructed from seeing the state of Ponyville and the ponies she knew that were dead in the streets crumbles, letting all of what she was refusing to deal with rushes forth and overwhelms her defenses. She wails out her response, "N-No...no...no no no...NO NO NO NOOOOOO!!!" as she weakly beats at his armor, tears flow in rivers down her face.

Ten minutes has passed when Twilight senses that Rainbow needs a little more support than Bayott, and leaves to go get Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Applejack.

He holds her tight as she stops hitting his armor as her hand is covered in her own blood from cuts. Blood drips from his cheek onto her muzzle and down her chin. He then spots a group coming towards the two of them as he softly says to her in a sing song voice, "Though we are born to die, we live our lives without regret. Though sadness makes our hearts heavy, our fellow brothers and sisters in arms help us through hard times. Though we continue to live our lives and grow old, our tales of adventure and achievements make life worth living. Our tales will continue on through the ages of time and be eventually forgotten, thus life continues on while we have made our mark on it, so time itself will remember us." He blinks away a tear and notices that she sleeps against him in his arms, softly sobbing occasionally.

Rarity and Twilight both light up their horns as Twilight softly says to Bayott, "We shall take her and look after her while she sleeps, can you help the others continue moving the debris into the pile outside of town Bayott?"

Bayott smiles and gently opens his arms to let them take her when she moves her hands to cling onto him and says while still sleeping, "Noo...comfy...warm." He grins and wraps his arms back around her to support her better, letting her adjust her arms and looks to Twilight with a raised eybrow wondering what to do now.

Discord pops up out of a stone and brings out his camera, turns off the flash and snaps a photo whispering to Pinkie, "I am sorry for her loss, I didn't know that she could actually be this cute, adorable...and cuddly. Now I have something to tease her about when this is all over."

Fluttershy is about to scold him when he vanishes into thin air and sighs saying quietly, "When I see him next time, I am so going to give him 'the stare'. Hey Twilight, now that the first aid tent is empty of ponies waiting for surgery, we could go there and rest for the rest of the night before we get back to working on the town."

Twilight looks at Fluttershy, to the sky and then back saying, "That is a wise choice for it is close to midnight, let's go girls." She then leads the way to the tent when she spots Bayott walking towards the edge of town with Rainbow and asks, "Hey where are you going, the tent is this way?"

He turns around slowly and softly says back to her, "I have to go get my battle axe, it is far too dangerous to leave unattended any longer because it has a strong enchantment on it that drains life with each hit."

She shivers at hearing about such a wicked enchantment and says, "Ok well don't take too long, okay Bayott. We still have a lot that we need to do tomorrow, so grab it and come right back to get some sleep."

He then smiles and says back to her, "Don't worry, I'm just going to grab my axe and come right back. I don't plan on raiding another ancient temple, or to go pick a fight with anything. Oh and here is what I promised you Shadowmere." He then prepares his unique healing spell and casts it at Shadowmere, then turns and walks away towards where the skeletal remains of Numinex lay.

Shadowmere collapses to her knees as she is struck by the spell and says, "You are a real jerk you know that corpse, but thank you for fulfilling your promise to me."

Twilight then watches as her wounds are healed and stands up on her own when it completes mending things back together and says, "That was a rather cruel thing to do when you weren't expecting it, are you ok?"

She rotates her arm and flexes her wing and sighs in relief saying, "Yeah I'll be fine, I'm just glad that he did what he said he would do for me before he forgot about it."

Bayott continues to walk towards them as he spots eyes similar to that of a Chaurus Hunter looking back at him in the distance and reacts swiftly by readying an ice spike spell and hurls it at the creature in the darkness, hearing a screech follow after it, he readies another and continues his way towards the skeletal remains where his axe is stuck in the ground in his view. As he gets close enough to his axe, he picks it up and sets it in it's place and begins to walk towards where the creature was, wanting to know it was dead or not.

Cypher cringes in pain while she clutches her shoulder where the spike is lodged and gasps for air, having a hard time to catch her breath. She wonders what the hell that was that hit her when she sees a creature coming towards her direction, standing taller than she is by at least three feet and tries to scamper away on a injured ankle and a slightly burnt wing.

As he closes the distance on the injured creature, he instantly notices it's not a Chaurus Hunter and says, "Shit...Stop there for a moment and I will take you to safety, or I will land a spike of ice through your head."

With nowhere else to go and no other options to choose from, she is forced with one choice and says, "I will not tell you anything you hear! I would rather die than become your prisoner, so go ahead and kill me!"

Bayott feels Rainbow stir in his arm and scolds the loud creature with a finger over his mouth and shushes them and says, "I am not going to kill you, but if you want to fight, tough shit." He then brings up an unconsciousness spell and casts it on them, causing them to hit the ground out cold. He then picks the creature up and discovers it is female when its chest accidentally touches him on the neck and makes his way to the hospital mumbling to himself, "This is going to be a long night."

The hospital comes into view as some guards make their way towards him and pull out a ring of some sort and slip it over the creatures horn and then return to their post as one of them says, "Please take the Changeling to the hospital to see to that nasty wound there, some guards will then take turns guarding her when she gets into surgery. We will notify the Princesses of the capture you have made, please enjoy the rest of your day."

He goes to reception and lets the nurses take her off his shoulder and lay her onto a gurney and rush her away to surgery. As he makes his way out of the hospital, he looks at Rainbow Dash, who amazingly is still asleep after all that noise.

As he passes through the door to the empty first aid tent, he sees a large group of ponies huddled together with a large spot open just between them and carefully sets Rainbow down, ignoring her soft protests of leaving his arm. He then begins to take his armor and padding off, deciding to let his body breath for the night and picks Rainbow back up and works his way in between the large cuddle pile and makes himself comfortable, using his arms as a pillow to rest his head and drifts off to sleep.

Meanwhile, with Princess Celestia

Princess Celestia watches over her sister in the first aid tent away from the pony cuddle pile while she is in the Dream Realm dealing with the nightmares that have been a regular occurrence there ever since they have returned from Ustengrav after being away for two weeks. She worries for her sister and says, "Oh sister, I hope you have an easier time dealing with the nightmares tonight after being away for two weeks and were unable to deal with them until now."

A guardspony approaches Princess Celestia and says, "Princess, I have come to inform you that Bayott managed to somehow capture a Changeling, who looked pretty beat up as if she was here when Ponyville was attacked. She is in surgery at the moment and is unconscious, I don't know when she may wake but a couple guards are standing outside of the surgery room and will stay with her until she is able to answer questions."

Celestia looks to the guard and tells them, "Keep me informed on her condition and come get both Bayott and I so we can ask her why she was here, you may go now guard Light Flight." She then hears an odd noise coming from the fur pile and gets up quietly to go see what it is. As she gets close enough, she notices that it is Rainbow Dash sucking on one of his earlobes, with Fluttershy sucking on the other with the tip of Rarity's tail tickling his nose, causing him to blow raspberries to try to get the annoyance to leave him alone. She softly giggles at the cuteness of it all and goes back to watching over her sister Luna, humming a soft tune to help the others sleep a bit easier.

The guard nods their head in acknowledgement and says, "Very well Princess Celestia, I shall follow your command. I shall return to my post then Your Highness."

Inside the Dream Realm

Luna is dealing with the last few nightmares the ponies are having right now when she feels great sorrow and loneliness coming from farther back in the Dream Realm and chases after it to find the pony it is coming from.

As she gets closer to the source, she spots a familiar black door with a red skull on it where it seems to be coming from. She then shakes her head, not really wanting to go in there after her last experience. Going against her better judgement, she tries to open the door when she hears, "What is the blessing that sustains Life or ends it once lost?"

Luna then ponders the riddle for a few moments before saying, "Blood."

The skull replies back, "Welcome home Nightmare Moon."

Her eyes widen in shock at how the skull knew her secret and says, "How do you know of my secret?"

The skull answers her and says, "I know all, and see all that happens in the shadows where most don't want to know of it. For instance, I know that you know what it is like to take a life because you have murdered an innocent before as Nightmare Moon, but have not killed an innocent as Princess Luna yet." It then swings open to allow them to pass by.

Luna then walks through and the door closes behind her, she then turns her head to find that she is inside of Bayotts dream. She feels relieved that she doesn't have to go through two doors anymore and sees Bayott standing in front of a large group on top of of a mountain path exchanging heated words with some female that is scared of him. She then watches as he shifts forms into a beautiful tall white furred lycan with the same brilliant arctic blue eyes and a black mass of hair atop his head and running down his neck and just past his shoulders in a mane.

She watches on when he suddenly jumps into battle, tearing into the large army and rips out hearts to eat them for some reason and feels sick to her stomach and empties it beside her. She continues to watch the bloodbath go on as he rips one soldier in half out of sheer rage, with the upper half landing by her with an intestine still connected to the other half further up the path. She hears the female shout out her battlecry and fights on as he continues to tear the remaining soldiers to pieces, she watches as he then uses his claws to cut off the females head. She gasps as she watches the head fall and the eyes still glance around and blink once before her head bounces on the ground, then is crushed by his massive paw.

Bayott looks over as he hears a shriek of horror come from someone, he looks around and identifies the source as Luna and says, "I am so sorry you have to see this vicious side of me Princess Luna, what brings you to my memory today?"

Luna stares at him with wide eyes in shock at how the memory pauses and he responds to her presence and says, "W-Wait so th-this is a memory?"

He sighs and softly smiles saying, "It is a memory I am reliving for some reason, but I decided to make it so I can react to others if they make an appearance in my dreams."

She sighs and then says, "Ok, that is interesting to hear. I am here to figure out why you are feeling sorrow and loneliness, and help you slowly get past it." She looks at the wounded well aged Nords and then at the flying dragon who looks weary an battle worn then says, "So did you kill all of these people too including the dragon?"

Bayott sighs sadly and says, "No but I may as well have when they said they would join me in going to war against the Thalmor. They were a group of humans known as the Grey Beards, who strictly kept to themselves and stayed disconnected from what happened in the rest of the world. Amazingly they were able to tell what happened in it, but just when the war ended, they told me they were going on some sort of journey back home. I assumed they were going to High Hrothgar but I never checked up on them because I had to make my way to Ustengrav very soon."

He holds his head in sorrow and starts to miss them even more and says, "I destroyed all their hard work to remain a peaceful, kind group of people and asked them to cast it all aside in my desire for revenge and justice for them killing a young child named Svari that was inside the Temple of Solitude when those Thalmor bastards burned it down and butchered every single soul inside, soldiers and civilians alike."

Bayott then shifts back into his human form and collapses onto his knees and begins to weep as he starts to remember the many friends that perished in the fight against the Aldmeri Dominion and says, "I have lost so many friends in the war I considered like family to me. I watched every companion I know except for Farkas and Vilkas fall before my eyes, those two told me that they were leaving the companions to settle down and start a family with someone once they were both rid of the werewolf curse. Aela was the very last companion to die in battle, I witnessed her being skewered by a bolt fired from a balista and pinned to a tree. After I saw that I lost myself and became like an animal with a lust for blood that would eclipse that of even Alduin. I can't help but wonder where the greybeards have gone, I wish they would have told me more than that." He then puts his hands over his eyes as tears begin to run in streams down his face and through his fingers and begins to sob uncontrollably.

Luna doesn't know how to react at hearing that and starts to walk towards him to hold him to ease his tears and says, "I know I am not your mother, Bayott but I can at least be there to soothe you." As she sits cross-legged, she pulls him over gently to lay him on her lap. When his head lays upon her lap she begins to run her fingers through his hair and softly sings, "Hush little Bayott don't say a word, Luna's gonna find you a mockingbird. And if that Mockingbird don't sing, Luna's gonna find you a diamond ring. And If that diamond ring turns brass, Luna's gonna find you a looking glass. And if that looking glass is broke, Luna's gonna find you a billy goat. And if that billy goat don't pull, Luna's gonna find you a cart and a bull. And if that cart and bull turn over, Luna's gonna find you a dog named Rover. And If that dog named Rover won't bark, Luna's gonna find you a pony and a cart. And if that pony and cart fall down, you'll still be the sweetest little Bayott in town. So hush little Bayott, don't you cry. Your friends love you and so do I." As she finishes the song, she gives him a kiss on the forehead and notices that he is fast asleep.

She then snuggles up beside him and whispers in his ear, "It is ok to miss your friends, Bayott. The friends you make now will help you to move on with your life, so friendship is happiness here." She gives him a kiss on the cheek and then carefully gets up and leaves him there now that he is taken care of, and makes her way to exit when she hears Bayott unconsciously says, "Thank you, I needed that." Luna smiles and then exits the dream and goes back to guarding the other ponies from their nightmares.

Outside the Dream Realm, in the real world

Celestia cleans up the pile of puke off her leg as she hears a guard walking towards the entrance and says, "Oh Luna, I wonder why you have gotten sick this time..."

The same guard from earlier walks into the tent and says, "Your Highness, the prisoner is awake now, do you want me to wake him up?"

She then looks up at him and says, "No I shall do that myself, so that the others aren't disturbed. Return to your post and ensure that she doesn't try to escape Light Flight. I will join you as soon as I gently wake Bayott from his slumber." She then sighs carefully shifting Luna's head off of her lap, then stands up and makes her way over to where he sleeps.

Light Flight salutes Princess Celestia and says, "Have a good night Your Highness, I shall keep an eye on the prisoner until you both arrive." He then turns around and leaves the tent, returning to his post.

Celestia drops down to the floor into a sitting position just above his head, gently running a hand through his hair and then leans in close to his ear that is being nibbled on by Rainbow Dash saying, "I am sorry I must wake you so early my little pony, for the hour to wake is not yet upon us. The world has need of you, so please awaken now and answer my call to you Dragonborn. The creature you took to surgery has been moved to a hospital room, and we must question why it is here."

Bayott slowly stirs from his slumber when he feels someone running fingers through his now very long black hair, he feels someone or something nibbling on one ear and something else sucking on the other. As he gets curious, he opens his eyes and tilts his head down and sees that Fluttershy is on one side and Rainbow is on the other and then tilts his head up, looking for whoever woke him and catches a glance up a medium length skirt of a pony with white legs with golden horseshoes with something fancy going up the front only serving as a decoration. He then turns his attention back to following where the legs went and catches a glimpse of yellowish red lace panties with a sun emblem on the front of the fabric with a highly maintained region, showing that it belongs to someone and then looks for the face of the person it belongs to. His eyes land on the furiously blushing face of Princess Celestia and blushes himself and opens his mouth to apologize when she puts a finger over his mouth to silence him and points to the pile of cuddling ponies, indicating him to stay still.

She forces herself to remain calm after he caught a glimpse of her special region, carefully shifting the ponies around so he can get out from under them all. She freezes when she sees that Princess Cadence's cheek is resting on top of Bayott's groin and forces her attention to removing Fluttershy and Rainbow from his ears carefully so they don't wake. She then softly says in his ear, "If anything happened between you and Cadence, I will send you to Tartarus for eternity as punishment. Work your way out when I nod ok?" She then shifts to the side to give him room and then carefully lifts Cadence's head and upper body, sliding her arms out from under his rear and nods her head for him to start working his way out.

He doesn't question her why she said that and looks down to see where her head was laying and his face turns an even deeper shade of red as he quickly but carefully works his way out of the soft furry cuddle pile. After he is free of the pile, he rolls to his side to start to get up by getting to his knees first and pushing himself up with his legs and then offers her a hand to help pull her to her hooves.

Celestia takes his hand and pulls against him to help herself to her hooves and accidentally coming face to face with his chest and releases his hand, she backs away rubbing her nose and softly says with a slight chuckle, "Oww, my nose is sensitive you know?"

Bayott chuckles as he says to her, "I am terribly sorry about seeing everything that was down there, Undergarments sure have came a long way from using a single, long piece of cloth to cover ourselves. Why do you wake me so early Your Highness? Has there been another dragon sighting?" He then begins to look for where his armor and padding is so he can put it back on if needed.

Her eyes drift down as he says something about underwear, her face going deep red as she sees three inches of the end of his member stick upwards out of the loincloth. She forces herself to look up, struggling not to steal a glance back down to see if she was seeing things and says, "The prisoner you have captured last night is awake and we must question her, how did you manage to find and defeat that changeling?"

He doesn't realize that he is sticking out of the cloth and answers her, "I was going to get my axe from where it was left when I caught a glimpse of eyes that have a slight greenish glow to them similar to a very dangerous creature in my world called a Chaurus Hunter. I responded by instinct and readied a spell I know called Ice Spike, cast it and threw one in the direction of the eyes. I retrieved my axe and went to investigate where I saw the eyes last, to my shock it was a creature I do not recognize. One thing for sure though is that it is similar to any form of Chaurus, I told it that I wasn't going to harm it. When it said it would prefer death over life, I told it tough shit and cast a spell to render it unconscious. I found out it was female when I picked it up and their chest touched my neck, after that I took her to the hospital to get looked at due to the spike hitting her shoulder blade when a guard approached and placed a ring on the horn and sent me on my way again. Amazingly, the ice spike didn't hit her heart or she would be a corpse right now. What is a changeling, are they related to the Chaurus from my world at all?"

Celestia shrugs her shoulders and looks down at his underwear and sees that his member is sticking a little bit further out of it and looks back up. Keeping her face straight, she clears her throat softly and says, "Sadly, we do not know much about the history of the Changelings. Please come with me to question the prisoner Bayott, but first it would be wise if you made yourself a little more decent first."

Bayott then feels stiff in a certain area, then blushes and says, "I guess it is a look for a look then, we even?" He then turns around and heads to the pile of armor and begins to put it on.

She is still blushing from the sight of him getting bigger still and then sighs and then says, "I guess we are even in that case. You don't need to put on the metal armor, we are only heading to the room where she is recovering."

He nods and then ties his leather padding around his waist with his member forced down the inside of one of the legs and puts on his boots and then stands back up, turning around and says to her, "Ok I'm ready Your Highness, let's go interrogate this prisoner."

Celestia gulps as she sees how gifted he is as she sees the size of his member and says, "Follow me to the room please." She then leads the way out of the tent and to the hospital.

Bayott forces himself to look anywhere but at Princess Celestia's nice ass and notices that the females seem to have a shocked look in their eyes when they glance at him walking past them and asks Celestia, "Excuse me Your Highness, but is it just me or are the females all watching me when I walk by them?"

She continues walking towards the hospital and glances around and sees that they notice it too and says to him, "I hate to have to admit this but you are rather, gifted. We are almost there, keep up with me."

He blushes and tries to walk a little different so his size doesn't show so much, but ends up looking weirder and goes back to how he walked before. He sighs in relief when they finally reach the doors to the hospital's entrance and make their way to the reception desk to find where the prisoner is staying.

Celestia walks up to the desk and asks the receptionist, "Excuse me, where is the changeling's room? A guard informed me that she just got out of surgery and is recovering, we have questions to ask."

The receptionist checks the list and tells her, "That patient is in recovery B01 under the care of Dr. Frank Enstein."

She shudders as she hears that and thanks them for the information and heads for the stairs that lead down to the basement saying, "The basement of this hospital gives me the creeps, it was here before the hospital was. Dr. Frank Enstein is in charge of this floor, he was the first doctor that was employed here. He is still striving to becoming a surgeon though, but is having a hard time passing the entrance exam to get into the college of his choice."

Bayott follows after her and gets an uneasy feeling as they go down into the basement to speak to the prisoner and says, "At least you don't have a person that butchers others to bring a loved one back from the dead with dangerous magic called necromancy."

Celestia turns her head around rapidly and stops in her tracks, feeling Bayott run into her as his shaft presses against her skirt between her cheeks and blushes saying, "Certain types of Necromancy has been banned for as long as I can remember, conjuration is fine as long as it isn't used upon the dead. It is considered highly taboo to use it on a corpse and is frowned upon."

He backs away from her with a blush and says, "My apologies Your Highness, I didn't know you were going to stop suddenly. Back in my time, Necromancy was treated like it was just another field of magic to be explored, but it was also taboo to use it in view of the public eye. People back then didn't really trust those who could cast magic, I think they were just really jealous that they didn't have the ability to use it. I know several spells for the Conjuration school of magic such as..." he then readies a spell and casts it at the landing before them, summoning a small transparent bed and says, "A bed for someone if they are too tired to go back home. Do you want to try it out?"

She blushes furiously and stomps down the rest of the stairs saying, "NO! I don't want to try it out, definitely not with you!" She then steps onto the bed and walks over it, finding it remarkably soft and comfortable. She then steps down off the bed, slightly disappointed she has to step off of it, making a blush race across her face as she continues down the hall when she hears a poof from behind her. She looks behind her to see that the bed has disappeared and asks him, "What happened, where did that thing go?"

Bayott chuckles and says, "It was just a temporary object, so it vanishes once it is used. Do you want me to summon another?"

Celestia whips her head around blushing even more saying, "N-No, we have questions to ask a prisoner, we cannot take too long or she will fall back asleep or try to escape." She then continues on around the corner when she hits the landing, and heads towards the first hallway on the left. She then spots the guards standing outside and heads towards them and turns into the room on the right side of the hall as they salute her then return to their previous pose.

He follows her down the winding hall and enters the patient's room and sees the changeling sitting on the bed with a very surprised look on her face as she looks at him and hisses. He then chuckles and says, "I see you remember me, can you tell me if your species is related to the Chaurus?"

Cypher cocks her head, momentarily forgetting her anger at being made a prisoner and says, "If we were, would that mean something to you?"

Bayott places a hand on Celestia's shoulder and lightly squeezes, informing her that he would take over. He approaches her with a sinister smile on his face and readies his Ice Spike spell saying, "If you don't answer every question I have, I am going to turn you into a shish kabob with the spell I used on you earlier."

Her eyes go wide and she nods quickly and says, "Alright, alright we are very distantly related to them. I don't know exactly how though, our leader didn't tell us that."

He then relaxes his spell and smile and says, "That is all the questions I have for you right now, but now I think that Princess Celestia has questions of her own. If you refuse to answer them, I'm going to switch to a stronger version of the spell I used on you called Icy Spear and cast it so it skewers you up the ass and comes out of your mouth. Oh one more thing, it better be the truth or I will heal your corpse and bring it back to life again and again until you tell the truth." He then looks to the princess and says to her, "Well now it is your turn to get answers."

Cypher squeaks audibly and holds onto her tail tightly with two hands, shaking in fear of what he would do to her if she lied to Princess Celestia.

Celestia shivers when she hears what he would do to the prisoner and clears her voice saying, "I'm sorry for his behavior, he just got up from a 70,000 year nap. His manners are severely outdated and needs to be brought up to date with current customs these days, what is your name young one? What were you doing in Ponyville, and what was your purpose there?"

She continues to shake as she looks at him when he readies a spell in his hand and sits up straight and quickly answers her, "My name is Cypher, I was sent to Ponyville to gather love from the Ponies to help increase our numbers because they are beginning to dwindle as it is harder to find love without kidnapping ponies and taking it from them. I was injured in an attack by that dragon from the other day, today I just heard that one of the scouts spotted something near our hive similar to a dragon but far larger than normal with black scales and beady red eyes hovering over a pile of rock casting magic at it with its mouth when a skeleton rose up from the rock as its flesh returned to it with red and black scales. The scout thought they heard it called Naha something."

Bayott then rushes forward a few steps and says, "Cypher, Is your hive nearby where the dragon was resurrected?"

She then squeals when he gets in her face and replies, "Yes, ummm... w-why do you need to know that Mr. uhhh... what is your name?"

He then looks in her eyes and says, "My name is Bayott, that dragon is called Nahagliiv, and he is from my time and has caused much misery and pain in Skyrim, as well as during the rule of dragons over all. Not as much misery that Numinex has caused, but still... this dragon is not one to be taken lightly. If you want to protect your hive, you will tell me its location now or I might not arrive in time to save it! SO ANSWER ME NOW!" He raises his voice and causes the room to rumble from his anger.

She feels the room shake from his voice somehow, causing Cypher to wince and shrink in on herself answering him, "I-It is in the eastern part of the Badlands along the edge of the mountains, follow the main path until you spot a very wide and tall rock with a flat top. That is an illusion to hide the location of the hive from other ponies. Please hurry now and save our queen, all is lost if she dies!" She shakes in place, holding herself and begins to sob.

Celestia glares at him and says, "You didn't have to be that cruel to her! She does have feelings, you know! I will look after her while you go handle that dragon, do you need to take any of my soldiers with you for the fight?" She walks over to Cypher and holds her in her arms and holds her close, letting her feed on her love and says, "Take what love you need from me little one, no pony will harm you so do not worry."

Bayott then sighs sadly and says, "I would like to, but no I can't take guards with me to fight a dragon. They would just end up as cannon fodder during the battle, so I will go fight it alone. Don't worry princess, I will be more careful this time around. I underestimated how strong Numinex was and nearly paid the price for that mistake." With that said, he turns around and hurries out of the room.

She watches as he turns around, his waist-long black hair twirls around in the air as he runs out of the room and hurries to get the rest of his armor on saying, "Be careful and come back in one piece Bayott, for many females will be sad and miss you very much if you should perish and fail to return."

The guards are standing guard outside the room after watching him rush past them and dart down the hallways towards the stairs and one asks, "Your Highness, do you want us to follow him?"

Celestia sighs and says, "No, he says that this dragon has a name as well and the guards would have little to no effect on it. So please just remain here and keep watch over our guest until we can move her to a better location than the basement of the hospital."

Just then Cypher gasps and says, "Wait, I'm in the Ponyville Hospital's basement?!"

She looks curiously at her and asks, "Yes, is there a problem with that Cypher?"

She then continues to feed on Celestia's love and says, "No, not really. I have heard some awful rumors about the basement and Dr. Frank Enstein involving forbidden experiments. I heard that he was expelled from college for his unusual hobbies he did after class. I don't know if there is any evidence to prove that or not."

He makes it out of the hospital and ignores the receptionist as she asks if anything is wrong, in too much of a hurry to get to the hive and try to save it and the Queen changeling. He makes his way towards the tent sprinting across the ground, arriving a few moments later and rushes through the entrance.

Rarity gasps as she is startled at the sudden intrusion and sees that it is Bayott and forgets that her hair and tail are in curlers and says, "Oh it is just you Bayott, where did you go and why are you in such a hurry? Did something happen?" She then watches as he looks at the rest of his armor and sighs as he throws it on grumbling.

Bayott then puts his armor on without waking the others up and answers her, "I went with Princess Celestia to ask the changeling prisoner I caught last night some questions when I was grabbing my axe. I then found out that another dragon from my time was spotted near their hive named Nahagliiv. I must go and put it down to save them for if the queen dies, so do they. Ugh, I will have to pray this armor holds out through the fight, before I go do you think you can quickly cut my long-ass hair down to about shoulder length?"

She can't help but worry for him and smiles saying, "Sure darling, just sit down and I will take care of that for you." She pulls out a pair of scissors as he sits down in front of her, she makes quick work of it as she holds the remainder of what she cut off in her hands and tosses it into a trash can as he then gets up and starts to put the rest of his armor on.

He then reaches for his battle axe when he hears a shuffling of hooves that work their way out of the pile of cuddling ponies. He sets his battle axe in place as he puts his helmet on and turns around, seeing that it is Shadowmere that stands before him with a grin on her face and says, "How did you know I was going somewhere, Shadow?"

Shadowmere crosses her arms with a grin and tells him, "I know the sounds you make when you are about to go into another fight, besides, you know you won't make it there on time if you hope to save them and the hive."

Bayott then hears a voice call out from the bottom of the pile saying, "Oh pah lease, you are very noisy when you get dressed. You try to be silent, but you are not silent enough to fool our keen ears! Where do you think you are going Bayott?"

He then sighs and says, "I have to go fight another named dragon, this one is called Nahagliiv. He is not as strong as Numinex but I still have to be wary around him when I fight, Princess Celestia is watching over the prisoner I caught last night when I was retrieving my axe. The prisoner told me that a large, black dragon with red eyes cast magic at a pile of stones, causing the dragon buried under them to wake and gather his flesh again. I know that he will aid Alduin in re-establishing the dragon's rule over the world, therefore I must answer the call for aid.

Cadence looks out between the tangle of wings, arms and legs to look at Bayott and says, "You better hurry up and come back in one piece, we are missing our fleshy pillow." She then lays back down and returns to sleep

Bayott then looks back to Shadowmere, crosses his arms and says, "Well girl, are you ready for a long ass run into the badlands?"

She chuckles at him and turns around to go outside saying, "Of course, lets get going old man!"