Chapter 16: Skills and Old Wounded Memories

My eyes opened as I felt myself falling through water, yet I wasn't. I was confused about the trade in my state. What felt like eternity, I soon found myself landing on solid ground. I managed to sit up and look around, nothing but darkness everywhere. What was this?

I got up as I was getting a sense of something…something strong. As I took my first step forward, hundreds of black ravens burst out of the floor and were replaced with a glass surface. Okay, now I know where I've seen this. I looked at the glass surface, the glass surface was blue and saw myself resting on one side of it. I was holding a sword, but not my own sword, it was a sword with a golden handle, the blade was white, and the edges had multiple colors, from the bottom of it being light blue, moving it up to light green to light pink.

“What the…?” I breathed what I was seeing. A flash got my attention. On the bottom of the glass surface, were two gems, each a different color and shape. One was gold, in the shape of a Celtic Symbol, while the second one had a red color. The Shape was hard to describe, but I think this is an Adinkra symbol.

I saw Twilight's Cutie Mark, along with her friend’s Cutie marks as well in small circles just next to me. What is all this? Why is this even happening?

"True strength, forms from a drive of heart."

I snapped my head up by the sound of a female voice. It wasn't my mother, neither Celestia, it was too calm, too caring, too motherly, too soft to sound like either of them.

"In the heart is darkness and light. Two sides, two personalities. One cannot live without the other." I was confused by all this. What the hell does it even mean?

"Seven elements and emotions sealed within the heart. Each making up the light and darkness within that heart."

My eyes went wide by that part. What did the voice mean by that? Suddenly, two orbs, one being gold, and one being red floated in front of me.

"Strength…"

The red orb lit up, and my body started glowing red.

"Courage…"

The yellow orb glowed and my body was covered in a yellow aura, mixed with the red aura.

"Find the rest. The meaning will come clearer then."

Suddenly, my feet started sinking in a pool of darkness. I tried to struggle free, but nothing was working. Suddenly, my body wasn't working and I stopped struggling and the darkness started to take me, but not when I heard the voice again.

"Fight to protect what you love. Destiny awaits you."

As I continued sinking, those words ranged in my head, until I was engulfed in darkness once more.

***

My eyes opened once more as I found myself back in the bedroom. I was naked under the sheets with Purple next to me sleeping. I sat up while rubbing my head as I reflected on what I saw in my dream. It was no ordinary dream.

“Strength…Courage…” I whispered to myself before hearing the hum of my wife. I glanced to the side as she awoke. “Morning Purple.” her left eye opened and her hand grabbed my back and pulled me close to her. “Snuggle bunny...need hugs.” she giggled and caressed my back while she had my head nestled in her cleavage. I will admit, they were very soft, squishy and warm, better than any pillow I slept in. She holds me close as she looks down at me and kisses my forehead.

“I love you Daniel.”

“I love you too Purple.” I replied. “So how long do you think we’ll be snuggling for?”

“As long as you want but, I love every second of your adorable hugs.”

“I know you do.” I felt the bed shifting as I got a glance of Seventy-four and Pink moving with soft hums. “Morning you two.” They looked over at me and waved before they got up and got dressed in their undergarments, as they headed to the bathroom. I sighed. “It's crazy how much has changed over the past few months when we got here.”

“Yeah.” She then lay me on her lap as she sat up. “Daniel, can you promise me something?”

“What is it?” she then kissed me on the lips or well my face since her body was so much bigger than me.

“I want you to promise me that we will raise a family.”

My cheeks burned. “Well….that will need some time to think. I honestly don't know anything about raising a child.” she smiled at this.

“That's the fun part sweetie, don’t you want our cubs to say daddy everytime they see you?” she said with a sly smirked and half lidded eyes.

“Are you trying to gush me or seduce me?” I mused.

“Maybe both, well a bit more gush.” she said as she placed a hand on my chest feeling my heartbeat. “Daniel Tatsuo, I Nadie Kuznetsov would be grateful, to be a mother and you my husband to be the father of our great family.”

“Wow, that's a deep vow you made. It's also-” I stopped before realizing. “Wait...Nadie….thats your real name?”

“Yes, why did you ask?” she said with a light blushed a bit embarrassed.

“Its….wow, I wasn’t expecting you to give me your real name...like ever.”

“Well you are my husband, just don’t say it in public.” she said as her tail coiled around my chest.

“Promise.” I smiled.

****

Cuddling for a while longer, we soon got up and bathed as well. We soon left the chamber and went to the dining hall where the others were eating breakfast.

“Ah good morning you four.” Celestia greeted us with a smile. We smiled and waved at them as we took our seats. Maids handed us our food as well.

“So, you three tell me more about this place where you come from?”

“Catic, we are a nation of well ex-slaves, Benson is our leader.” Purple said as she bit into her food.

Twilight swallowed her food. “You mentioned it before about being slaves….you mind if I ask what happened?”

“Which part, and how strong are your guts? It gets a bit..disgusting.”

Celestia sipped her tea. “While fear and gore is something we don't see or hear occasionally, it will be best to hear your tale. We can’t avoid evil all our lives, story or reality.” Wow, spoken like a true leader to face anything. She nodded.

“We were part of a place called Pondbush.” she said as all three shivered at this. “It was a totalitarian government, the top ruled with an iron fist, they controlled the ‘animals’” she said as we all got this.

“So that's why you find that word offensive.” I spoke up. “Cause they see you guys like them.”

“We had Collars, these collars are meant to keep the ‘animals’ in line as they have the chance to shock or exploded the user’s head, shocking will sent every pain reliever into overdrive, now the user can’t die from the pain no matter what, and the shock can last as long as the person wants it to..so you can go years within as you don’t get use to the pain. They also block good emotions and increase negative ones, they even have drugs that can make people go berserk in The Zone, every type of drug was allowed, the collars making sure we never got that ‘high’ but close to it, pornagphoy was also wide spread so the men testosterone was very low.”

“Why in tarnation would they put your partners into that position?” AJ asked this time.

“it wasn’t always like this in fact the ‘Party’ was meat to help the peasant of the country, the name is lost to history against it feudal systems in the Paleolithic age lords, now the lords did treat their peasants good, but the ‘Party’ leaders have such supernatural Charisma that their words went throw the masses, after a long ten-year civil war the Party won in their win they ask their followers to burn everything from history art, religion places, and books.”

“That's horrible.” Luna breathed in shock. “How did this ‘Party’ grow to such power to take control?”

“They promise that everyone was equal in the party eyes, they had such a way with words that it was magical, like a spell to fool dumb people.” I felt Purple tail coil around my leg tightly. I looked at her as she was trembling, but it was in fear and fury.

“Bastards.” Rainbow growled. I can agree with that.

Celestia herself looked angry as well. “I cannot believe there are vile souls that manipulate the minds of innocent ones for their amusement.”

“They did things to us, like me and my sister. If we were still their we would not be as ‘curvy’ as we are, you would see our bones from the little amount of ‘food’” she said the last part in air quotes. This caught on quickly for us as Rarity and Fluttershy turned a shade of green.

“Wait...you mean they planned to…?” I asked mortified.

“Yes, they were great genetic engineering, they made the male birth rate so low, and made them ageless.” that got the Princess ears perked up. “And us females, we were use as sex toys, when the ‘Party’ members got tired of us, they turn us into food for the men.” Now the two lost their stomachs as the others held their own upchucks back. The princesses quickly teleport the heave remains away.

“My God….” I placed a hand on my head. I ever would have believed this kind of evil would exist. I mean, my people had a fair share of evil, but to this level.

“Then came Benson.” Seventy-four said. “He saved us, he’s a twenty-one tail mountain goat, ten meters tall, born from a mortal mother and the Demi-God of justice and hope.” he paused. “He led a revolt against the Party and after a steep battle, that killed hundreds of trillions, a few hundreds where left alive, free at last.”

“What about this ‘Party’? Are they still alive?” Luna asked with a tint of venom in her tone. Seventy-four laugh at this.

“No, Benson made sure to rip them limb from limb, each and every one of them, from old to young.” Well, that's good to know.

However, this still made me wonder. “But, if it's over, then why do you guys still act out of instinct and kill whoever plans of either trying to take advantage of you or make compliments? I know it's from memory but still.”

“Well the Souls that we haven’t saved, the Party had a form of tech that ripped the soul out of us and put it into a new body, the souls that where lost, are in between the Realms no where to go.”

Clestia placed a hand on his shoulder as he looked at her. “I’m so sorry your kind went through so much fear and pain for this long. Had I known about this sooner, I would have assisted in helping your kind.”

“Thank you but that was a little twenty-thousand years ago.”

She nodded before smiling. “Your friend had such courage and strength to stand up and free your people. We would be more than happy to see him and possibly form an alliance with him. We would be happy to welcome more of your kind to Equestria.” he nodded as Twilight asked a question.

“You said ageless?”

“...Yes, every Catic is.” he said as he looked down a bit.

“Is it because you guys are cyborgs?” I asked.

“No, it's just genetic, our cyborg parts help us in other ways. In Catic everyone is taught that they ARE a weapon of war, we make sure we are all there to defend each other.”

Man I never knew it was so hard for them to live out this long and be formed as weapons. “It's not right for you all to be like this.” I spoke. “You all should deserve more than being a weapon, you all need to be who you are, not be forced to be what you aren’t.”

“We do it willingly, our Pride for our nation and for our people are high, we do it to protect our own kind.”

“Even cubs?” Pinkie pie asked.

“Not in combat no, but they are taught to operate Crew-served weapons since it builds teamwork, but cubs and women are not allowed on the front lines, women as medics and repairing stuff but that's about it.”

“Wait, are you saying women are not capable of fighting?” Rainbow asked, feeling offensive.

“No, women like me are more emotional in fight, we have cybernetics that help that but a chain as strong as its weakest link.” Pink said.

“So women like you with cyber technology are capable of fighting?” Luna questioned.

“Yes but we have brains with emotional inhibitors, plus we are in our own part of the army, you see us females will try to protect our male population to a zealot seal, since we so, how is dose it go, oh yes culturally any species that requires another to reproduce would have change in a way that would replenish both species in order to simply ensure future survival. We would also be genetically encoded to be protective and treasure our males, if only for the sake of pure survival, we aren’t allowed to see any males in the military if we aren’t medics otherwise we will give up our lives for them.” she said to Luna.

“No offense.” I spoke up as she turned to me. “But uh….you’re pretty big and such to be equal to a male body.” she blush and pat my head.

“That is why most of our military is METALS. They are faster, stronger and smarter than our males, they were made in the early era of bronze.” Seventy-four said while drinking water.

“It's actually our third gender, Futanari. We have tried to mix the best of the two genders though it does take a few years for it to be done with the surgery. Stronger than females but weaker than men, and can’t has many cubs as the men.'' Pink added.

“Wait, you managed to have your female race...have male reproductive organs?” Twilight asked in shock as the other mares flushed, as did Barb and Spike.

“Yes, we have tried to build up our male population as fast as we can.” Pink nodded.

“I guess it would make sense in a way.” I mentioned. “With the male population smaller than females it is important to raise said numbers so we don't fall behind and let the gender ratio fall further apart.”

“Now, any questions?” Pink asked, taking a bit of her food.

“The Light and Dark ones.” the white alicorn spoke up. “Twilight mentioned about them in her letter recently. Can anypony get them or do they specifically choose their host?”

“Well you did speak with mine, it depends if you can be gifted one by another Light or Dark One, Like Daniel here has his Dark One, His light one should be here soon.”

“My light one is to, but I guess with helping around rebuilding ponyville, I never got the time to.” I scratched my head. The three chuckled at this.

“You're going to die by your Light one cuddling you with a cuteness overload.” Purple giggled as the three waited for another question.

Fluttershy perked up to this. “Are all light ones that affection to their host?”

“What do you mean by that Miss Shy?” Pink asked as she drank some water.

“What Fluttershy means is all these Light ones that are affectionate to their host, as you mentioned before that Daniel's light one cuddles him.” Rarity spoke as the others snickered while I flushed in embarrassment.

“Depends I see mine as sisters i never had, these two?” He said moving his head a little to the hybrids. “See theirs as sisters.”

“So it depends on the variety of the personalities.” Luna hummed.

“Maybe.” I replied. “When I met Cinder, my Dark One, her personality reflected on motherhood and love. I guess it came from the love I desired when my mother died. I believe they will pick up a personality which reflects what you heart desires to what you see in yourself.” I glanced at Twilight. “Like Twilight for example, if you would have a light or dark one, maybe they might pick up the traits of you loving books and take your role as a princess seriously.”

Th demicorn perked up to this. “That would be nice. Shame they can't come out to assist.”

“Why not?” Dash questioned.

“It is like ripping a tornado, mixed with a flood and fire in the middle of town, many will die, others will go insane and kill each other. It depends.” I said.

“Plus they know everything about the past and know every form of magic.” Pink said as she wanted to see if that would cause a reaction to her.

“They can see through time?” The mares asked in surprise.

“Only the past, and somewhat the future, but like I or they said yesterday, you tell the future, it will hit you in the face.” Seventy-four said as he looked at the Princesses.

Celestia nodded. “I would agree. Tampering with the laws of time is a serious crime for the future and past. If changed, time will be altered through many timelines that could cause destruction or harm.”

“Yeah like the Grandfather paradox, if you go back in time to kill your grandfather, that makes it so you don’t get born, so you don’t kill him, so he goes on but then it repeats.” he said, which made sense i only know a few books that did time travel right.

The door nearby soon opened. I was expecting blue balls again, but it wasn't. Three ponies entered. Two looked identical, one stallion and one mare and the other another alicorn, pink in color and were an elegant dress.

Twilight gasped in glee before rushing to the pair and hugged them. “Shining, Gleaming!” I looked over and saw a better voice of who I was looking at.

“Hey little sis.” The stallion smiled as the pai hugged her back.

“How ya doin little sis?” The mare asked sweetly.

“I'm well.” She giggled before she turned to the pink alicorn. “Cadence!”

“Twilight.” The pair approached one another, and they soon did the cutest formal greeting I ever saw.

“Sunshine Sunshine, ladybugs awake. Clap your hands and do a little shake.” They chanted before laughing and hugging.

I chuckled in my hand before I turned to the princesses. “Who are they Celestia?”

“The blue ponies are Twilight's older siblings. The stallion is Shining Armor and her twin Gleaming Shield. The alicorn is Princess Cadence, princess of Love and their to the crystal empire up north in Equestria, and she’s Twilight once foalsitter when she was a filly.” she replied. I nodded taking in this information. Seventy-four smiled at this as he looked at Shining.

“I wanna fight him.” He smiled at a duel.

I chuckled dryly. “Dude come on, let them have a reunion.”

Twilight pulled back from the hug. “What are you three doing here?”

“What? Thought we wouldn’t want to see you and your friends?” Shining mused before Gleaming elbowed him with a small blunt expression. “...okay we came here cause we heard about the attack from ponyville and came to see if you’re alright.”

“I’m alright Shining. Though I wish I can say the same for those who got killed during the attack.” She sighed.

“Blame Trixie for dragging that Vironius to our home.” Dash implied.

“She vanished during the attack.” Applejack mentioned.

“I have a feeling we’ll see her again.” I replied.

The three ponies turned to our attention before Cadence spoke. “I will assume these are who Celestia told us about?”

I blinked before turning to the sun goddess. “You told them?”

“I never keep secrets from them, they are like family to me.” She giggled.

Purple got up and walked over to Cadence before smiling. “Can I hug you?”

The princess of love gave a warm smile. “Of course you can.” Purple picked her up off the ground and hugged her tightly.

“Huggy wuggies!” My face was palmed by the choice of words while flushing.

Cadence giggled. “You’re an affectionate one aren't you ma’am?”

“Call me Purple.” she said as she put her down.

“Yes, we know about you four.” Gleaming replied. “Celestia did tell us everything when you four arrived in ponyville.” ….aw shit.

Shining gave us a small glare. “Hope you four aren't; planning any more trouble after what happened.”

“Shining, stop it.” Twilight slapped his back lightly. “We already work everything out, they're not gonna do anything bad anymore.”

“Just making sure.” He said as Seventy-four eyed him.

“Hmm.” he said to himself as the others ate the rest of their food.

Gleaming finally turned to me. “So you are a human, huh? It's a rare treat to actually met one in the flesh.”

“I get that a lot.” I rubbed the back of my head. I then look at Celestia. “Do you have a training area on this castle of yours?”

“Why yes, our guards use it to keep up with their own training.” She nodded.

“Good to hear, I haven't exercised much for a while. Can't slack.”

“Mind if we do some testing on this training area of yours?” Purple asked.

“By all means.” The Goddess smiled. After the breakfast and the reunion, we head to the training area. The place was very big with some training dummies and targets for those who wish to use bows and arrows as well as mael firearms. The three looked around for anything like a door or a key lock, they found one and put their keys in it, Pink pulled out a sniper, Seventy-four and Smg and Purple a..RPG.

“NO!” I barked. She turned to me curiously. “You wanna blow this place to kingdom come and all of us along with it??”

“But shaped charge warhead.”

“Purple come on….” I grumbled.

“But I wanna blow shit up!” she snapped back.

“Perhaps I can help with this.” Celestia approached before her horn glowed. A gold dome nearby the dummies flashed. “There, stand in the dome and you’ll be safe to cause as much destruction.” Purple smiles grow to a creepy hight, she ran in their and fire it, not giving a fuck to call backblast clear. The rocket flew to the dummies and the HEAT round peneratoed the dummy and jet stream into the other one. She laughed at this, happy she could blow something up. She came back out with an excited expression which she wanted more. “I see you have skills with these weapons. Very well.” Her horn glowed again before in the dome appeared rock like creatures. “These rock creatures are magic based and made of Kitonium, the hardest metal in the Canterlot mines. Try your luck with those.”

“Is that tensile straight or density?” Seventy-four asked.

“They are very dense and can handle many explosives.” Luna answered. He went to the key port and opened it, inside he pulled out a meter wide cylinder.

“Girls mind if you can help your brother out with this.” Seventy-four said as his fur went white and black. He then ran faster then I EVER saw them move, he ran up to one, as it went to go but missed him by millimeters, he then ran under and attached it to the thing back. As he did the thing tried to reach it but coin’t the others trying to grab it but he shot at it face, pissing it off as it charge at him, a second later the chest of the creature started to heat up, as what I think was fire elemeta stream of jet shot out of it chest the jet missing us and hitting the back wall. He grab a knife from inside of his robes and stab the other in the eye, he then fired an brust into the other eye, the final one punch him HARD against the wall

He got up as he spit blood, he smiled at this, d..did he really like being beaten up like this? He charges, firing his smg the creature covers its face, he slips under it and grabs it, his magic running the hardest it can as veins from under ground grab the creature and rip it to pieces.

After that he walked over to us, the mares and stallion were gobsmacked by the amount of destruction he left in his wake. The grass under him dieing a bit, as his body healed.

“Sorry about the damages.”

Celestia was the first to snap from her trance. “It's quite alright. I have no idea you three can cause so much destruction around you.”

“You can Thanks Magic-tech for that. My Edik SMG fires 15.43×46mm rounds at hypersonic speed.”

“I have no idea you Catics are that equipped and skilled despite being called weapons.” Luna mentioned.

“Thanks we also have revived grenades”

“Revive grenades?” twilight questioned curiously.

“They combined necromancer and biomancer magic, while it has taken us a long time to get them to this size, they work by bring the Soul of the user back in their bodies, while it does make it user have their motor function moving at half efficiently for a few hours, to a few days if the body part is blow off.”

Those grenades can control the very laws of life on earth?? Celestia seemed to be not pleased with this. “Tampering with the laws of life and death is something that must be tampered with.”

“We are ageless, besides those who have saved billions of lives through the wars we have, the steam War and the Scale war we had.” Pink shot back.

The sun Goddess sighed while rubbing her temples. “...considering your good behavior, I will let this slide, but I will calmly request that you do not use those grenades while living in my country. I take this very seriously.”

“Oh of course, People will have to be asked by a Necromancer to be brought back, we just can't take it willingly, at least not our type of necromancer.”

“Thank you.” She nodded before turning to me. “Twilight mentioned that you have experience as a soldier, yes?”

“Yes ma’am, I served in the military for a couple years in the higher ranks. I know my way around some weapons, combat and sword fighting.” she nodded as Seventy-four smiled at me.

“So does this mean we can do a sparring match?”

“I suppose so. What kind of match do you have in mind?”

“Hand to hand, and I won't hit you at 343 km/h.” he said as he formed a ring around us in tall grass. Guess there's no reason to not hold back.

“Are you going to remove your shirt?” He asked as he took off his robe, as he was just wearing pants.

“Might as well.” I removed my own as our bare chests and mules were shown to all. The mares were flushing by our scarred bodies. I took a stance as did he before we circled one another.

“Enjoy the show girls, hey Shining what to make this a threeway?”

“Dude, don't make it sound so lewd.” I spoke.

“I wasn’t thinking that way, you dirty minded bro.” he said laughing as he then looked at Shining. He only face palmed while Cadence and his sister snickered. Turning back to me, I took my first move, rushing to him and throwing my fist at him. His E-barrier flared as did mine, my Fire sphere burning his Bio one, he jumped back and smiled.

“Good! Know some rules for not hitting below the belt and if you want to make this extra interesting, you can use your fire to burn me.” I nodded before we charged at one another. We exchanged punches and kicks, while avoiding each other's attacks. I slammed my fist into his palm as I blocked his elbow with my own palm. I would still need to be careful of his tail like a tentacle from him, as I felt it jab me in the chest. I was breathing somewhat hard as he kept that shit eating smirk.

When he jab me hard, I gasped in pain and backed up, clutching my gut. He stood there with his smug look, as if taunting me. I grit my teeth, eyes glaring at him. I felt sugar feeding off my anger before the fire around me burned like a blaze.

“GOOD! Show me what your Elemental fire can do Daniel!” He said as he was calm, that right his Elemetal runs off of calmness. I rushed forward, sugar proving me with more speed. I pulled a fist back to punch, but flanked him with a spin kick to his chest, sending him back a few feet. His chest fur was burning a bit as it didn’t bother him as the grass around his feet was dead, he kept that smirk on his face the whole time. Right right his power runs off of living stuff, I felt the flame run to my feet as a wave of fire burns the grass around us, he smiles widened at this he was testing me, showing me what I can do with Sugar.

‘Sugar, what can I do?’ I asked.

‘You are still new to using my power, but I can grant you access to more of my power, entering a weaker version of a fire form. I call it Ember Form, but you can only access it for two minutes, any longer and your body will start burning.’

‘Two minutes is all I need.’ I felt her nod before I felt her fire flowing in my body. I snapped my eyes open before I cried out. Embers shot out from my body as my body was glowing bright red. Embers are rising around me, my own black hair flowing around by non existing wind.

“Show me what you GOT!” Seventy-four barked as He jump at me. He threw a kick as I casually caught it. He swung his tail but I snagged it in an instant. I yelled before throwing him back before throwing my hand out as the embers shot out at him, striking his body at every section they could hit. his E-barrier flared up at this I can’t take it down over time it was an all or nothing Shield.

Throwing my hands out, they burned brightly as the Embers grew tense around them. The time he landed, I was before him and throwing a barrage of punches into his barrier. It shattered as I grabbed his neck. I jumped before swinging around, tossing him to the ground. I felt the fire around me burn hotter. My time was expiring. I decided to finish this with one more strike.

I cupped my hands as the embers gathered together into one large sphere. “Ember IMPACT!” I yelled and threw the Ember sphere. Upon impact, it released an explosion of embers, leaving a small crater. I landed myself and panted. My ember form faded as I grunted and kneeled, my arms pulsing and sizzling by the intense heat they radiated. I felt my flesh melt around my tips of my fingers, but i can't feel the pain..fuck it going to hit me all at ones isn’t it? I then felt a cooling before looking and saw Pink releasing ice frost around my arms to ease the heat and stop my fingers from melting.

“Thanks…” I breathed as I started to feel a bit of my sensation again...and damn it hurts like a bitch. I looked over at the crater as I saw Seventy-four climb out or what was left of him, his right arm was missing as most of his fur was gone as well as the muscles and subdermal armor, his right year was missing as well as the eye. “Dammit man….guess I overdid it…”

“...THAT WAS BADASS! CAN YOU DO IT AGAIN!” He cheered me on. I blinked in surprise. He is nuts. I did let loose a small chuckle. “Maybe another time…”

“Agreed.” Celestia approached. “You two need to be healed and get some rest.”

“Do you have some biomass that I could just take?” Seventy-four asked dusting off what was left of his pants.

“Yes.” She clapped her hand as a guard came in. “Please bring some Biomass.” He saluted before leaving for a bit.

“Thanks gorgeous.” he said as he stretched his body feeling the well that was left to pull and crack.

The mare blushed a bit and giggled. “Oh you flatter me, but for being over four thousand years old, I don't really seem to be that attractive.”

“I kinda disagree.” I mused. “You are beautiful I agree, you and Luna age like fine wine.”

“He’s right, in Catic you never lie, and all of you.” he said looking over the mares. “Are all beautiful, and you!” He said pointing at Shining. “Is one LUCKY guy to have a wife like her.” he said as he put on his robes

Shining blushed heavily as Cadence smiled and hugged his arm. “Oh his very lucky.~”

“Cadence…” he mutters in embarrassment.

“Oh come on Mister soldier boy, have some cubs with her, they would look REALLY adorable.” Pink said as she gently jabbed him with her tail.

“T-Thats none of your business!” he stuttered.

“Oh really?” Purple smiles. “If you want cubs, my father has thousands of cubs running around, I want to see dozens..no HUNDREDS of little ones running around your castle when we visit” Poor shining was blushing up a storm while Cadence was holding back her laughter. Seventy-four smiled at this as a Guard came back, had almost thrown up seeing the wolf, the wolf, the biomass and healed himself to full health. He then looked at the Princess.

“But really, you two are REALLY good looking, but I do like older women so it might be that side of me.” he said rubbing the back of his head.

“Flatter.” the pair giggled with their blushes.

Purple finished up as she bandaged my arms up. “There, it will take a few days for them to heal.”

“Thanks Purple.” I smiled as she helped me back in my shirt and sword on my back.

“You seem to really prize that sword.” Gleaming mentioned.

“It was a gift from my grandfather before he died.” I replied.

“Mind if I see it?” I nodded before carefully pulling it out to not harm my arms. She took it and examined it. “Remarkable craftsmanship.”

Celestia who saw the blade blinked. “Gleaming, may I see it?” Sh noed before handing it over as the mare examined it. “....it can't be…”

“What is it?” I asked.

“...I only saw this sword only once….this sword belonged to Jon.” My eyes widened as did everyone else.

“Wait, you’re saying he once held that sword?” Twilight asked.

“Yes, it was a gift from my mother when I was a filly...how did you…?”

“I honestly have no clue.” I replied. “I always assumed it was a hand me down in the family, only soon to know it's more than just a sword.”

“And you said that the sword is..how old?” Purple asked.

“I don't know...maybe a hundred? My grandfather never told me how old the sword was, I never asked.” she said nothing and though, I nodded as I looked at Seventy-four and saw Twilight walked up to him a bit embarrassed and a bit angry. Oh boy this might not end well.

“Seventy four, please be more respectful to Princess Celestia and Luna.” She spoke. He looked up at her with a confused look.

“Why?” he asked with a rise brow “They should be treated as anyone else, yes they are Goddess and they might have great power but they are still people.” he chuckled

“At least be more presentable about your words please.” he nodded at this as he look at the Princesses.

“So ladies, tell me, for Goddess like yourselves you two must have been courted by some stallions.”

Both flushed heavily. “Well….we have.” Celestia admitted. “Though they were not what we desired.”

“Hmm maybe, Bensons Sons would like to date you two, they are ageless like him, so if yo-” he cut off my twilight hand over his mouth.

“Seventy-four!” She hissed. “Stop this!” He looked at her and rolled his eyes at her. Pink came up behind the Demicorn, smiling evilly, not making a sound before she got up to Twilight ear and hiss in it.

“You know if you act like this no wonder Shinning doesn't show up.”

“Show up for what?” She asked with a tick mark on her head.

“You need to let loose Twilight, like I offiverd for you to have some fun with me and my sister.” Shining and Canc flushed with gapped mouths.

“I never agreed to that!” The demicorn blurted out, face all red. “Stop making up lies!”

Purple smiled at this. “You know we can, just make your night like the best, but since your quest for knowledge is never done I guess you won’t learn about that Knowledge.” She said holding in a laugh, I look at the other Mares to see their reactions. Aj was hiking her face under hat to hide her blush, Dash was looking away to hide her own. Pinkie blushed heavily, Rarity as well, and poor Fluttrshy looked to almost faint on the spot. Twilight felt the sisters push their bust up against her, her body between the both pairs of their bust.

“What do you say Twilight.~” I look over at the Princesses, both were also flushing red.

“ENOUGH!” Twilight blurted out before storming out of the training room.

“...Sorry about the two, since they are part bunny their Libido is very high compared to other Catics.” Seventy-four said rubbing his temple.

“It's...quite alright.” Celestia spoke as the girls managed to calm themselves.

I approached Purple as she kneeled to me before I pulled on one of her ears. “Owowowowowow!” She yelped.

“You and your sister owe Twi an apology when she calms down.” I started before releasing her. She rubs her ear as she looks at me.

“...okay.” She pouted. Man this woman…. I then heard one of the doors open as I saw..blueblood, his face was covered in bandages, the eye that wasn’t covered saw us and saw me. The others looked very amused to his condition, even Luna was holding back a laugh. Before I knew it he was on me, my E-barrier flared up as his right elbow fur was burnt off, he said nothing before I saw anyone.

Celestia approached. “Blueblood, what was the meaning of that?”

“This beast assaulted me when I was doing business with a maid!” He yelled pointing at me.

“You slapped Blue Shields sister dipshit!” I snapped back. My blood boiled as my E-barrier got hotter, feeling myself sweat. I remembered how bad my fire damaged my arms so I took a breather as the fire around me dimmed.

“You had no right to interfere with my business vile beast! Y-”

*SLAP!* I saw a slap across his face as Purple had that stare that would kill armies.

“LISTEN HERE YOU PIECE OF SHIT, YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A MAN-CUB THAT THINK YOU ARE ABOVE EVERYONE, NOW GO TO THE REALM OF FORUMS AND CRY LIKE THE LITTLE BITCH YOU ARE!” Purpled shouted.

All of us were dumbfounded by her choice of colorful words. Blueblood was shocked above all, but he ran away crying like a toddler. A minute after he left, the mares and Luna collapsed, raring in laughter.

“Holy shit that was AWESOME!” Dash laughed.

Purple breaths calmly as she looks at Celestia. “I’m sorry but a little bitch like that only will react with force.”

Celesta sighed. “I understand. I will have a talk with him.”

“And please, scold him like a mother.” Pink added.

“I will do what I can.” She nodded.

When the others calmed, I spoke up. “Celestia, if I may ask now, I wish to know more about Jon if that's okay.”

The sun goddess and her sister looked at one another before they nodded. “Very well, we will show you all what we know about jon.”

“Show us? How?”

"Me and Luna have a memory spell that allows us to tap into our memories or into others." Celestia explained.

“Oh okay.” I nodded.

“Wait here.” She left for a moment and brought Twilight back. Guess she wants all of us to see this.

“Come close to us, so you all may see.” We did so now shoulder to shoulder as we waited for her to cast the spell. The two ignited their horns before all went white.

(Year 12: 4,588 years ago)

The light faded as we saw Canterlot differently than what it was before. I was more lush, beautiful and filled with life. I then heard the sound of two fillies giggling and we turned around.

In the open part of the garden, two young fillies, one with a little white dress with a colorful mane, along with another filly, who had rich light blue hair, and a light blue dress was being chased by a human.

He had white hair, wore thin gold armor with a hint of white stripes on the sides, had a pair of folded up wings that were covered in gold pieces of armor, and had a mixture of green and purple eyes. The armor also looked like Quincy Adams power armor, two browning automatic rifle A4A6 rifles built into the arms, I then saw two folded railguns over the shoulders.

Hell, we haven’t used that model since the 1950s I thought, I looked closer as the metal it wasn’t Nikosteel it looked like...composed of titanium/tungsten alloy lanced with carbon nanotubes and layered between plates of Boron Carbide.

“You can't run forever little rugrats!” The man allied in a playful manor while chasing the fillies.

“Can't catch us Jon!” The white filly teased while dodging his arms again.

“Is that him?” I asked.

“Yes, that is Jon.” She replied.

“You two look so cute as cubs.” Pink giggled which the pair blushed a bit.

"Gotcha!"

We looked back and saw Jon with both fillies in his arms and was smirking in a playful evil way.

"You two have been naughty little fillies. You know what happens when you behave like this when your mommy and daddy leave me in charge of you two?" He said in a playful way.

Little Celestia and Luna went wide eyed.

"NO! Anything but that!" The two shouted while struggling in his grip.

Jon chuckled. "Sorry. Time to give you two your punishments." He gently placed the two on the ground, making them look up at him. "TICKLE TIME!" He lunged his fingers into the fillies and the two started laughing uncontrollably.

"N-NONONO! AHAHAHAHA! JON, STOP! WE PROMISE WE'LL BE GOOD FILLIES! HAHAHAHA!" Filly Celestia shouted while laughing her heart out.

"JON, STOP! UNCLE! UNCLE! HAHAHAHAHAHA! WE'LL BE GOOD PROMISE! AAAHAHAHAHA!" Filly Luna chuckled while tears went down her eyes.

Jon chuckled and stopped tickling the two fillies, letting them take in fresh air.

The two sat up while giggling a little from their little punishment. After they stopped giggling, they then lunged at Jon and gave him a warm hug.

"We're glad you came to Equestria, Jon." Filly Celestia said, hugging Jon tight.

"You're the best foalsitter ever." Filly Luna said snuggling into Jon's arm.

Jon smiled warmly while rubbing their manes. "I'm glad I came here as well, and I'm happy to have met you two and your parents." I smiled at this as I saw Purple taking notes.

“Uh….what are you doing?” I asked her.

“I wanna tickle these alicorns when we get back.” to that both Princesses looked at one another.

“Oy…” I shook my head.

We saw a guard approach Jon. “Sir, the queen and king wish to see you.”

“Alright, carry on soldier.” Jon spoke as he stood with the fillies in hand. He saluted and walked off.

“Jon a high rank in your force or something?” I questioned.

“Jon was our parents' trusted officer of their army when he was around.” Luna replied.

When the scene changed, Jon came to the throne room and upon the two thrones were two alicorns.

The first Alicorn was a mare. She had a flowing burning gold mane and tail that blended with a hint of purple at the end while sparkling a little like the stares. Her eyes were also burning gold as well. She wore a golden dress with light purple streaks, had sparkling purple shoes, a large golden crown, and had some kind of swirling blazing sun cutie mark with sparkles on it.

The other Alicorn was a stallion. He was completely dark, but sparkled like the night sky with amazing stars. His mane and tail looked pretty messy while it moved like it was on fire, but was deep rich purple, rivalry to Rarity's colored mane. He wore a black suit that had a dark grey armor chestplate, with a purple opal in the center. He wore a dark grey crown completed with small purple opals on each side and the center. His cutie Mark was a large star with a full moon on the side of it.

“Are those your parents?” Seventy-Four asked.

“Yes.” Celesia nodded. “Our mother was Queen Solar.”

“And our father, King Eclipse.” Luna replied. The other ponies and dragons were dumbfounded by the sight of the previous rulers before the sisters.

The queen smiled at the human. "I see you had a good time with my little princesses."

Jon smiled. "I did. They can be a handful at many points."

Eclipse chuckled. "Once you have kids of your own, you’ll see what it's like to handle little balls of energy such as them.”

"Come on Jon, Let's play some more!" Filly Luna cheerfully said, tugging his upper shirt.

"Playtime will have to wait for tomorrow. Jon has his duties to fill, an it's time for you two to take your naps." Solar said to the two young ones.

"AWWWW!" They whined.

"Can we stay up just five more minutes mommy?" Filly Celestia asked giving her mom the puppy eye look.

"Pretty pleeeeeeease?" Filly Luna begged giving them the puppy look as well. Both quee and king looked at one another and chuckled.

"Oh all right. Only five more minutes." Black Knight said.

"YAAAY!" The two fillies cheered while clinging onto Jon tightly.

"Hahaha, what did you two get me into?" He joked, causing all of them to laugh.

All my life, I've never seen such a happy moment before. This warm feeling seeing Celestia and Luna bond with their parents and Jon brings up memories of my mother and grandfather.

I smiled warmly and looked at the two rulers. "You two had such amazing parents."

Celestia smiled warmly at me. "They were, and we loved them from the bottom of our hearts." I felt Cinder in my mind, I then felt chills around my body, my arms and chest like a hug. I grew a smile on my lips. The two formed more magic before the area went white again.

(Year 14: 4,586 years ago)

The light faded as it was night. Jon was looking out from the Balcony to the night sky before hearing footsteps. Turning and saw Solar approaching. “Solar, I thought you were resting.” He spoke.

“I will be soon, but I figured you’d have this.” She held from her hand a sheath that looks similar to my own.

“What's this?” He asked to take it.

“This blade was given to us long ago by an old friend.” She replied. “You have done so much for us, so my husband and I wish for you to have it now.”

He gazed at it before smiling. “Thank you.” He pulled the blade out of the sheath and my eyes widened. I was my sword too. Celestia was right. It did belong to him. “Its beautiful.”

“The blade has special old magic properties. It will serve you well in battle.” Solar smiled.

He turned to her with a smil. “Thank you Solar. I will use this blade well in my battles.”

“I know it will.” She smiled back before I noticed little Luna approaching them. “Luna? Why ae you up?”

“Can’t sleep…” She replied. “Could Jon put me to sleep please?”

A new smile formed before he picked up the little alicorn in his arms. “Of course, little star.” He bid Solar goodnight before leaving as the memory faded.

I snorted a bit. “Little star? That's a very cute nickname.”

Luna flushed heavily. “I-I grew out of it.” the others snickered as she pouted.

Celestia smiled before it faded to a frown. “Now...I will show you all the harshest memories we hold. Light engulfed us again.

(Year 20: 4,580 years ago)

The light faded around us, the night was a shocker. Nothing but fire, destruction all around us. We saw the queen, king, the Princesses and Jon who looked like he's wet through hell and came back. His armor was broken, part of his left wing torn, the mounted weapons of his shoulder were bent, broken and scraped. The B.A.Rs built into the arms, the barrels where a white color, the barrels would have been warped by the heat.

Jon held his arm while looking to the dark sky, clouds swirling. “Damn him…” He grunted as he stood.

“Jon, don’t you’re too injured to fight.” Solar spoke.

“...no, if this keeps up, he’ll destroy everything.” The human replied softly. “I can't let this go on.” He removed what was left of his armor, revealing more scars and injuries of this battle he had. “I have one chance. One...to seal him away.”

“No! You’ll die if you do it!” Teen Celestia spoke as tears welled her eyes.

His eyes turned to them. “I know….and it's a sacrifice worth fighting for.” his hand clenched the blade. “I was nothing before I came to this world. I had nothing...but you all brought me in, gave me a purpose...and became my family. This is why….I will do what I must to protect you all.” A gold aura blew around him.

“No! Jon please!” Teen Luna begged, her father holding her back, her own eyes flowing with tears.

Jon looked at the family. A soft warm smile spreads his lips. Small tears dripping. “....Sayonara….my family.” He blasted to the sky, the gold glow growing ever bigger.

“JOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!” Luna and Celestia screamed for him before the light of within exploded as the darkness was lifted.

All of us were silent as we turned to the pair. “W...what just happened?” I asked.

Celestia trembled while trying not to cry. “...Jon, he gave his life to save our home...from a ruthless and vile god of evil named Paradox.”

“He managed to seal him in the nether realm...but...his own life was taken.” Luna sniffed while cupping her mouth to hide her sobs.

“...you put him in the void?” The three asked the two Princesses.

We found ourselves back in the castle once more. I took a moment to process what I saw. I turned to the mares holding their emotions back before I spoke. “I'm sorry you two went through such a heartbreaking moment. I know what it feels like to lose someone close to you, that's family.”

Celestia took a breath and wiped her eyes. “We appreciate your words, Daniel. It's been hard for us to cope his death.”

“Just remember he’s with you in spirit.” Purple chirp.

“Yes….he will always be.” Luna agreed with a hand over her heart.we came to the throne room as we saw Twilight, I saw the sisters carefully sneak up behind her, how the hell they can move that quietly with that weight was beyond me.

“...BOO!” They tickle her wings.

“GAH!” She yelled with a jump before her wings snapped upwards. Her face flushing red as she fumed at the sisters. “Really!?” they rolled their eyes at this before they both kissed her on each cheek.

“We are sorry about earlier.”

Twilight, flushing still with both a pink and purple lip mark on her cheeks, she turned to me and Seventy-Four. “How in the name of the sun do you two handle these two?” he just points to his crotch as he laughs lightly.

“Bunnies are KNOW for their labido.”

“Oh my Gods…” Her face palmed to hide her sheer embarrassment.

“Just be happy we aren’t the futanari of our sisters.” Purple mused.

“Can we please not talk about this?” The three chuckled as Purple jumped towards me and hugged me.

“Donny, I wanna cuddle.” the others just look at me with a chuckle.

“Not in front of them.” I blushed heavily.

Celestia giggled. “Well, I’d say you all should enjoy the rest of your visit before catching the next train soon.” Purple looks at Celestia and walks up to her before carefully booping her nose with her finger. Sigh, cute, sexy and sweet….but a ton to handle.

Author's Note

I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I re-edit it from the old one and put the two together for a longer one. special thanks with Cosmicsafe74 for being the second author for this story so far. continue to show the love and likes for this awesome story. see you next time. :)