My talk with Celestia held much to be desired. After explaining what had happened with Blueblood before she arrived, she started to pry into things I didn't really want to reveal. I didn't reveal any information on my race or world because I am very powerful. If I were to tell her about humans, she would start to question my motives, because we all know. Humans kill other races along with themselves. You do have some people who are genuinely nice and try to avoid arguments at all costs, but those people either fall into human nature, or become victims of suicide or jealousy. Celestia thought she could order me to, and she said as much, but her and I both knew what would happen if she did, and I guarantee you that it wouldn't be pretty on her end. I swear to god that Celestia has the patience of a lumberjack waiting for his shift to end. After getting nowhere after 3 goddamn hours, she let me off the hook, but asked to avoid any more conflicts from now on. Yeah, that's not happening.

'Now we can go to the training grounds.' I look through a window and saw my destination. It now looked somewhat dark outside, but that was because, and I learned, that Celestia raises and lowers the sun herself. I know that I'm powerful enough to do the same thing, but I'm not even going to try doing that. If I mess up once, Equus, which apparently is the name of this planet, would either burn to death or freeze to death. I don't think I could ever attempt such a thing without my conscience being in overdrive. Killing Equus aside, I used [Noclip] to faze through the window. I've always wanted to do that. Boy does Gmod have me too hooked after all the years. Anyway, I looked around and saw the sparring ring, which was just a brightly lit boxing ring. Ponies with different colored armor were fighting each other, which peaked my curiosity

'What do the separate colors mean?' It can't be people of higher status, because yellow-armored ponies only fought the gray-armored ones. Seemed like disadvantage to me. I made a pose and then jumped as far as I could into the air. Riding the wind like a cannonball, I took a moment to let the breeze guide me. As I started fast-falling, ponies shouted to their comrades to move out of the way, and I landed with a loud-sounding thud. I doubt anyone was asleep yet, so perfect time to do it. I had still landed on my feet, and as I opened my eyes, I saw that I was in a crater at the edge of the training camp gate. Everypony who watched me crashed looked down into the hole. I guess they knew who I was because a few of them wore horrified looks. I looked up and looked around, and saw somepony who I hadn't expected to see. To my left was Luna, giving me a look like I was a criminal that had yet to be arrested. That was only half-right anyway.

"What is the meaning of this?" Celestia did talk about Luna getting better at modern speak. I had expected her to use words like 'thou' or 'thee'. That makes things a little easier.

"Just dropping in." I half-joked. A few of the guards found that funny. I suddenly felt myself be lifted out of the crater, but as I touched land, it felt like gravity was targeting me specifically. I was stuck on the fucking ground. Luna glared at me.

"Who said you could do that!" She yelled.

"No one tells me what to do." I said neutrally. I managed to find the strength to snap my fingers and as I did so, the gravitational pull settled down. Now free, I took a moment to dust myself off and looked at Luna. I guess it caught her off-guard because she looked dazed for a few seconds. Guards went to check on her and one looked to me. His armor was slightly different than the others, being more orange than yellow, so he must be the leader. He pointed a sword in my direction.

"State your intention or leave now!" His voice was so gruff. Big mistake to point a weapon at me as well.

"I came here because I wanted to know something." I clarified. His sword lowered an inch.

"What is it that you're looking for! If you think you can hurt the princess, then your flank is done!" Guards caring for their princess, nothing new here. Before I could speak, however, a certain lunar-colored pony got into my face.

"HOW DARE YOU TRY TO HURT ME?!" Try? Bitch, don't act like you weren't fazed for a few minutes there.

"It was just self defense." I replied. I've been yelled at so much as a kid that it just doesn't affect me. "I actually came here because Snowy Blossom invited me to spar. Do you know where she is?" I asked. The other guards were confused.

"So that's why she is so insistent on being by herself." The orange-armored guard, which I'm going to now confirm as general, said. "She's in ring number 7. I'll walk you there." He walked ahead of me. I turned to Luna, who sat glaring at me.

"How long are you gonna do that?" I asked.

"You are lucky that Celestia told me to let you be." Her voice was cold and lethal, as expected. I turned around to follow the general, the rest of the guard following me, interested in how I fight.

We got to the ring in short order and as I walked in, Snowy ran up to me, clearly excited.

"I'm so glad you could come!" Cheery as ever I see.

"I don't break promises of my own volition." I clarified. Luna looked to us, dumbfounded.

"When did you two meet?" She asked. I let Snowy do the talking.

"I had to escort him to the throne room so he and Celestia could have a talk about something I wasn't informed of, your highness." She said while bowing her head. Luna looked at me.

"What was this talk about?" She asked in a frustrated manner.

"It was just about my fight with Blueblood." This was her first time hearing about it, because she looked a little angered.

"I'd like to hear about it as well." Okay mom, your wish is my command. I explained to her the same things I told Celestia. About how Blueblood challenged me to an honor duel because I brought a timberwolf with me, and also losing horribly. I was actually rather blunt in how I spoke, and it sounded like I tortured the dude. It got my point and explanation across, so I guess it's fine. Luna looked at me in disbelief.

"That's the entire story." I finished.

"You don't even look that tough. I would like to request to spectate your sparring match with Snowy Blossom."

"Fine by me." I stretched my arms. I looked to Snowy.

"I see no problem with it." She said, grabbing a wooden sword. She grabbed one for me as well, but was confused when I turned it down. "I thought you were here to spar." She said.

"I am, it's just I'd like to go barehanded. You can still use a sword if you want to." I replied. Her, Luna, and the guards thought I was getting cocky, and most were on the ground laughing, including Luna.

"Do you really think yourself that powerful?" Luna asked. I made a face that let her know that I was serious.

"I do." I answered triumphantly.

"I have to watch this!" The general said.

"I am now curious as to how you fight now." Luna was tearing up for how hard she was laughing.

"Well lets get to it then, shall we?" I gestured to Snowy. We both entered the arena and watched as the guards went to take a seat on the bleachers. I gestured to the princess to count us off. She went up and waited 3 seconds without saying so.

"Fight!" She yelled. Snowy Blossom charged at me the same way Blueblood did.

'How the hell did he think that was an efficient way to use a sword?' I ducked below a sword before side-stepping a kick. Her dexterity with a sword was actually really good, but her accuracy and enemy movement reading sucked. It was basically fighting Blueblood again.

"Teach him the ways of the guard!" The general yelled. It must've motivated her, because she was slinging faster than before. Luna and the other guards were watching with surprise clear on their face.

"Funny that you say 'teach him the ways'," I started, still dodging each slash, "But this is just fighting Blueblood again." Snowy stopped for a moment, clearly insulted.

"None of us are like him," She said through panted breaths, "I refuse to ever be like him." I must've hit a nerve. I probably should clarify what I'm saying.

"I never said anything about being like him. What I meant was that you are basically using Blueblood's sword style."

"I will defeat you in my own way!" She yelled, going on the attack once more, but to no avail. She must be really competitive, because there was a determined look in her eyes. After a few minutes of dancing about in the arena, I asked her a question.

"Do you want me to actually start trying now?" She stopped again and everyone in the room looked at me.

"I'm pretty sure I could beat your best." She smiled.

"You wouldn't last 5 seconds." I confirmed. She flinched and then went back to her determined look.

"Alright then, lets see how good you are when you try!" She ran at me again. I swear to ever-loving god that these ponies just run in and start slashing. As her first slash came down, I sidestepped it and kicked her straight in her gut. The air flew out of her lungs and she went flying back, putting a crack in the brick walls of the arena. Luna and the guards looked at me in disbelief, and I responded with a sheepish smile.

"I've got to learn to tone it down a bit in friendly combat. This is the second time this has happened." I said, scratching my head. As Luna blinked and came back to reality, she issued the medics to check on Snowy. She herself turned to me, clearly surprised.

"That was impressive, but now I'm curious. How well do you think you could defend against me?" She asked, now showing a smug expression. Now I know that she used to be a warmonger of sorts. That's not what crossed my mind though.

"What do you mean defend?" That was rhetorical, "I could beat you." Luna laughed at my confidence.

"Can you now? Lets see about that." A pony who is up for a little violence and isn't touchy with people? That I could put up with. "I challenge you to a friendly honor duel." She declared. The guards cheered.

'They must be confident in one of their leader's ability to win. I guess it's time to destroy that feeling.'

"Alright. Since it's friendly, that must mean that there is no wager in this battle. Am I correct?" She nodded.

"I will give you time to recover. You're gonna need it." She said, but I stopped her there.

"I don't need any time to. I'm ready to fight now." The guards went wide-eyed.

"Ever so confident, I see. That's good. The first step to being a warrior." I'll make sure to go overkill just because you named my fighting style 'tutorial island'. Before I fight, however.

"Is Snowy okay?" I asked. The general turned to me.

"She's fine, just unconscious from that mighty strong blow you issued to her gut. No major damage, somehow. Despite getting kicked hard enough to crack stone." The general joked. Wasn't that funny. I nodded and looked back to Luna.

"You ready?" I asked. She nodded and pulled out a sword from a portal that was floating in mid-air. The sword looked pristine, the color shining like quartz. Even down to the handle did it look expensive.

'Magic is so bullshit that I love it.' It still makes my heart flutter to live in a world that uses magic. The guards stared at the weapon in Luna's hand with fear, and I gave Luna a puzzled look.

"Do you know what this sword is?" she asked. I nodded my head no. "This sword was the one I used back when I was Nightmare Moon."

"Who is that? When is that?" I questioned.

"Nightmare Moon is my second personality, who was pure evil. It was thanks to the Elements of Harmony that I can come back to this form, but still be able to switch forms at will."

"What are the Elements of Harmony?" Luna stared at me in disbelief. Apparently I do a lot of things that people don't believe would happen ever.

"The Elements of Harmony are six different artifacts that represent a harmonious trait. The six traits are Kindness, Generosity, Laughter, Loyalty, Honesty, and Magic." What the fuck? They have 5 traits that could be seen as the characteristic of a good person and then you have magic. That one is a head-turner for sure. I held up a finger to question it, but didn't. I'll just let this world be this world.

"Lets just fight." I said neutrally. She nodded and a guard started to count us off.

"FIGHT!" It yelled. It didn't take Luna 3 seconds to get from one side of the arena to the other and she was already on the offense. I swear to god, does everypony that knows how to wield a sword just charge in like this? I was still bare-handed, mind you. I took a moment to gauge her skills while weaving past sword strikes. Her moves were much faster and much more accurate than Snowy's. I still dodged them with ease, but it was still impressive. After a few minutes of blow after blow missing its target, I noticed something.

'How is your stamina so damn high?' Its been like 45 minutes and her attacks weren't slowing down.

"Are you that used to war and sword-fighting?" I asked, still weaving between strikes.

"Back in my day, war was my past-time." So she really is a warmonger.

"That is alarming, to say the least." I commented.

"You get used to bloodshed after a while and all of a sudden you'd crave it." Why the hell did she sound like me? I had to stop my thoughts for a moment as her sword strikes got even faster and even more accurate.

"Is there like no end to your stamina in combat?" I had to know the answer to this one.

"During war-time, I could and would go a week or two without rest, just fighting my heart out. It was hard at first, but now it's as simple as a levitation spell." She may have worst blood-lust then I do. "Do your best against me human, there is no need to hold back!" It seems my plan to just tire her into submission isn't going to work. It worked on Snowy, because talking while swinging a sword is very hard to do when you are trying to conserve energy, but this pony's energy is bottomless.

"Let us see if you can survive this!" I said, stopping the sword with a balloon-block on my palm. If you don't know what it does, it knocks back the opponent if they tried to hit it with any physical move. I then snapped my fingers and the same hands that I used on Blueblood tugged at Luna's legs. She looked down at the appendages, surprised, but not spooked in the slightest.

"Well played." She blasted the hands off of her and ran at me again. As she came in for a slash, I used teleportation to get behind her, replacing my original spot with a pressure stun bomb. I love those things so much. Even the slightest pressure of your hand could set it off. She ended up slashing it in two, stopping the electricity from firing from it.

"That sword is on a whole other level, now isn't it?" She turned around and ran at me again. I snapped again and Luna clutched her ears, one of them bleeding. [Sound Slash] is a very good move to use in scenarios like this. It does a certain amount of damage to the ears depending on how well the target could hear, and since ponies had bigger ears, and Luna being a warmonger, her hearing must've been better than most.

"That was a cheap trick." She said, still smiling despite being in pain.

"Do you concede?" I asked. She started laughing, and a blue mist started to form around her. Covering my eyes from the amount of wind, I watched a misty tornado form, and barely dodged a magical blast sent my way. As the blue mist disappeared, it left behind a pony with a even more mystical mane, and a sinister black coat. "So this is your true form." I commented. The guards looked at me as if I was going to do a suicide mission. Still laughing, she came in front of my face, sword in hand, in less than a second. My reaction speed being what it is, I stepped back from the impending sword slash. "Thank you for actually giving me something to test my strength, but I could still beat you in less than a second." I snapped my fingers and Luna, now Nightmare Moon I assume, fell on the ground, screaming like she was on fire. Technically, it was way worse than fire. Whats worst than your pain censors feeling fire? Your pain censors going off at maximum pain detection from lack of water. She tried to scream, but it wouldn't work due to the lack of water around her mouth. I knew it wouldn't kill her, because I learned from Celestia that alicorns are immortal, and can only die from being impaled in the heart. Equivalent to vampires I suppose. After about thirty seconds, she couldn't take it anymore, and she rapidly tapped the ground. I used [Hydration] to give her body back the water she needs. As soon as I did, tears fell down her eyes in rivers, and she returned to her old form.

"The winner is the creature!" The general said. The guards stared at me with completely horrified expressions. I wasn't focused on them, as I went to Luna's side. She was crying up a storm, and she couldn't help but look like she was still in pain, or now having PTSD I suppose. "Hey you, come here." The general called me over. I walked over to his side and we turned around, facing the arena wall. "What did you do?"

"I'll tell you when Celestia gets here." As soon as Luna started crying, I saw a guard rush to get Celestia. She should be here any moment now. In fact, as I finished that sentence, she teleported by Luna's side, hugging her. I went back to the two of them and Celestia gave me a dark glare, that was actually pretty dark for someone who was about benevolence.

"What happened?" She said, tone lethal. I told Celestia about our sparring match, and how Luna used a nice-looking sword instead of an actual sparring one. Her turning into Nightmare Moon and become faster than normal, how I defeated her, all of it. "You could've ended her in any way possible and you chose the most painful one?" She said, obviously angered.

"To be honest, I used the most painful spell so that Luna can at least walk away with pride instead of feeling like she was a little filly who lost with a handicap." I explained. Luna sat up, eyes red and pupils dull-looking.

"So you didn't even try against me," She started, voice quiet. "You snapped your fingers and it was over in an instant. I was no match for you in the slight, was I?"

"Nope." I answered, deciding to be brutally honest. Celestia was fucking livid. Before doing anything, she used a teleportation spell to teleport all 3 of us to Luna's bedroom.

"You should get some rest, Luna. Take some time to get yourself together." She glared at me. "May I have a word with you, please?" She didn't wait for me to answer before heading out the door, in which I followed her. She motioned to the guards to take a break for 10 minutes with a practiced smile. As soon as they turned the corner, her glare became so dark that the color black was scared. "Tell me the real reason you used a spell like that on my sister." She ordered. She figured out that I was lying quite quick.

"There are 3 things that I love to do, Celestia." Her facial expression didn't change. "Protect any new friends I make, Cause or observe bloodshed, or see a cocky pony get mentally broken from my raw strength, magically and physically." Celestia gave me a 'you belong in an asylum' look. She turned around and walked off before stopping.

"You are to leave my castle before the day strikes. If you choose to stay here, then I will issue a full military force to run you out of here myself. Is that understood?" I gave an amused smile.

"I was planning to leave tomorrow anyway." I said. She looked at me, knowing that I have high chances of causing trouble. "I still have one more place I want to visit." Celestia wanted to question it, but didn't, and silently walked off.

'I can't wait for my trip tomorrow. I heard they have a history with certain types of magic you wouldn't find anywhere.

At daybreak, I made it out with Alpha in short order. I made sure we had everything before we left. Leaving anything here was no big deal, however, because it's not like we took anything with us. That aside, we got to watch Celestia raise the sun, and she kept that same negative expression from last night. Guess she was still angry. I summoned [VTabs] and took a look at a map it created using mana.

"It seems we got a long day of traveling ahead of us, Alpha." I said. He wagged his tail. I forgot my partner loved to run, so of course it wouldn't be a bid deal. I looked around the map and found what I was looking for. Sadly, this map connected to my mind, so the place I was going to wasn't marked with the exact name. I could see Canterlot and Ponyville easily, and that is when I realized how zoomed out the map was. Equestria must be one of the bigger countries if it can maintain peace without war. I figured we could take a train to our next location, but I don't think that they would appreciate me bringing a timberwolf on along for the ride, so we will have to travel on foot.

'How smart is Alpha anyway?' Apparently smart enough to read maps, because he glanced at it for one second and headed into the direction I marked. I'm not going to question it, and just boil it down to he is a more intelligent race. Anyways, it's time to start traveling on foot. We're burning daylight out here.

"Alright, Alpha, let's start our journey. If you ever get tired, then give a howl and we will stop to rest, alright?" He fucking barked. I didn't even know wolves could bark. Again, not going to question it. Alpha sat up from his resting position, and with a howl, he ran at speeds no car could reach.

'I hope this location will be fun. All I have done is fight, and I intend to get stronger by any means.'

Author's Note

God the amount of conflict and fighting I have to write.

Have a nice day!