Equestria Black Swordsman

After wishing each other good night, Luna went to her chambers, because it was here that her work as a princess of the night began. Removing her regalia and hooves, she sat comfortably on the bed, lying on her side. Taking a deep breath and slowly exhaling, Luna plunged into the world of dreams. The world of dreams greeted her with a huge, almost endless space of stars and a large number of different doors. Color, shape, decor, and other design solutions were different for everyone. Each door here is unique. And nightmares could be identified by the rust or poor condition of the wood on the door. Luna began her work by walking to a small white door that had lilac-pink lines on it. The door was a bit faded, which meant the nightmare had just begun. Once inside, she found herself in the Everfree Forest, seeing a picture of six dartwolves surrounding a wounded white unicorn filly. The moon wanted to intervene when suddenly her friend Guts jumped out of the bushes, unsheathing a huge sword and chopping off the head of one of the treewolves. After some time, all the woodwolves were defeated, and even the emerging king of woodwolves did not prevent his victory. Luna was pleasantly surprised by Guts' fighting skills. Perhaps his sister's decision to make him the Guardian of Ponyville was not a bad one. But Luna would like him not to kill monsters in front of everyone, thereby injuring them and adding robots to her. It would be a good idea to replace his iron sword with one made of soft but very strong wood. Turning her attention back to Guts and the filly, she saw him bandaging her hind leg, and the filly herself began to smile at him. The moon realized that her services were no longer needed, and opening the door again, she returned to the world of dreams.

A few hours and doors later, Luna saw something that made her very excited. A large, rotten door with rusty frames met her. It was covered in large claw marks, bloodied spikes, and bloodstains. In the center of the door, she saw a strange egg with two closed eyes and a mouth.

"Oh my god, is this the door....Guts?" not believing her eyes, said the night diarch.

She had never seen a nightmare take over a person so strongly. And the condition of the door! It was terrible. Collecting herself, Luna touched the door in an attempt to open it, but she couldn't. She tried to repeat this several times until she noticed a strange egg. After a little thought, she poked the egg with her hoof, expecting something. For a while, nothing happened, but soon the egg began to form a face, and opening its eyes, it began to silently scream, crying bloody tears. The door opened, and an unknown force grabbed Luna, pulling her inside.

Waking up, she opened her eyes and was horrified. Around them were rivers of blood, entrails, and body parts. Many monsters tore apart and devoured creatures similar to Guts. She also noticed Guts himself, near a truly huge limb that reminded her of a minotaur's hand. All in his own blood, without a hand and a pierced claw in his eye, held by monsters from all sides. He screamed with an evil grin, emitting incredible rage and grief. Turning her head, she saw the reason for his despair. Guts' friend was being slowly torn to pieces to the sound of the hideous laughter of the monsters. The only words he spoke were for Guts to save himself at all costs. Moisture gathered before Luna's eyes, rolling down her cheeks and falling to the bloody ground. She couldn't watch Guts suffer.

"What a beautiful sight, isn't it?" said the voice behind Luna.

Turning around sharply, her eyes widened and her pupils narrowed at the creature in front of her. Huge and pitch-black, the wolf appeared before her, gleaming with blood-red eyes and razor-sharp teeth. He was covered in chains that seemed to be holding him down.

"Have you looked? Great, now GET OUT!"

Luna instantly opened her eyes, breathing heavily. Taking a decanter of water from the table with telekinesis, she began to swallow it greedily, quenching her incredible thirst. His heart was beating like crazy, and all his hair was covered with sweat. She stood with trembling legs on the floor, opened the door, and went towards the chambers of her sister.

***

Celestia exhaled tiredly, removing her regalia and hooves. The bed was waiting for her, and she would gladly give herself into the arms of softness, but the sharply flung open door did not think so. Raising her head from the pillow, she saw her sister and her condition.

• Luna! What happened to you? Celestia jumped up from the bed and quickly approached her sister in an excited voice.

"I saw..." Luna said softly.

'What?"

"I saw the Eclipse!" Luna half-screamed.

Celestia's eyes widened, and after standing for a moment, she said

"Can..... can you show me?"

Luna shook her head, after which a ball of light began to appear on her horn. Touching the horn to Celestia's forehead, the ball detached and soaked into her forehead. For a while, Celestia just stood with her eyes closed, but the more time passed, the paler her face became, and tears appeared.

"God...... we need to go to him." opening her eyes and looking at Luna, said diurnal diarch.

Luna agreed, but before leaving, she went to the bath to wash off the sweat. When they finished, they walked together towards the guest rooms. On the way, they met guards. Noticing the princesses, they saluted and continued patrolling. When they reached the guest rooms, the princesses opened the door to Guts's room and froze, listening to see if they had woken him up. A soft sniffle came from the room, indicating that he was still asleep. Looking at the bed Guts slept on, it felt like he was surrounded by darkness. Coming to the bed, the princesses looked at Guts and his face. His forehead and trained body were covered with sweat, and his face was grimacing.

"We need to do something to calm him down. My abilities are useless here." Luna said, glancing at Guts' body. "But magic cannot be used; it can only harm him because of the nightmare."

"I think I know what can be done." Celestia said as she lay down next to Guts.

"Sister! "What are you doing?" Luna said she was blushing.

"Like what? I calmed him down. You lie down too," the alicorn replied with a touch of malice.

Luna fidgeted in place for a while, shifting her legs, after which she slowly climbed onto Guts's bed, lying down on the other side. Celestia, looking at her sister, smiled even wider as Luna moved closer to Guts. Guts' face frowned for a while, but then turned into serenity and calm. Luna and Celestia were pleased with the result and were thinking of going to their quarters when suddenly the prosthetic arm slipped out of the ethereal arm and a soft blue aura lit up the room.

"Oh no…" Celestia groaned, burying herself in Guts's hair and inhaling its scent as she slowly drifted off to sleep.

"Stupid aura…" Luna also groaned, burying herself in the neck of the black swordsman and closing her eyes.

A few minutes later, the room was filled with silence and the quiet sighs of the three beings. Or not three? Discord sat in the shadow of the room, watching the scene with his yellow predatory eyes. He slowly approached Luna and touched her forehead with his finger. A slight glow appeared on Discord's finger, and he touched his forehead. The same picture of the Eclipse, the suffering of Guts, and all kinds of cruelty Discord looked at the figures standing on the huge arm, and the figures looked at HIM. Discord opened his eyes and fell to the floor, breathing heavily. Draconicus's entire body was trembling and filled with cold sweat.

"H-Hand of the Lord..."

He got up from the floor and looked at Guts, or rather, at his ethereal hand.

"Surprisingly, Star Swirl will be weaker." Discord said and held out a lion's paw to his hand.

As they touched, a soft, warm, and pleasant feeling of calm engulfed the dragonicus, spreading to the whole body. The fear vanished along with the feeling of anxiety. He smiled and walked towards the door, thinking that it would be nice to make friends with him. At least a little.

***

Guts woke up with an incredible feeling of cheerfulness. He had never slept so well before. Although he still felt some discomfort, heat, and slight pressure on his chest, Opening his eyes, he immediately closed them back.

"Damn it..."

Opening his eyes, he again realized that this was not a dream. To Guts' left lay Luna, her body pressing against his. Her head was near his neck, and she sometimes shook her muzzle against him. To his right lay Celestia, with her head resting on his hair. And everything would be fine if it were not for two more ponies in maid costumes on his legs and one particularly arrogant pink muzzle on his chest. Pinkie, sprawled on the black swordsman's chest, sniffled with a satisfied face and a smile. Looking at his hand, he realized what the problem was. His prosthetic arm tears from the ethereal arm, releasing a blue aura. Looking closer, he saw his flesh prosthetic on the floor and cursed softly. Guts felt a rustle to his right and turned to see Celestia, who was looking at him with her beautiful eyes with a pink iris. She smiled and leaned her head against his ear.

"Celestia, what are you....Ah!" Guts trembled all over.

Celestia began to playfully nibble on Guts' ear, occasionally licking it. Guts understood that things were bad, but they were only flowers. Feeling movement to the left, he saw the awakened moon. She stared at Guts for a few seconds, a blush appearing on her black fur. Seeing what her sister was doing, she blushed deeply and covered her eyes with a wing. Guts thought it was damn cute, but when Luna brought her muzzle closer to his neck and began to lick it in the same way, he realized that this must be urgently ended before the irreparable happened.

"Look, you need help," came a voice from the corner of the room.

Turning back, he saw the same dragonicus in a dressing gown on a luxurious chair. He read some large papers, sometimes turning the pages.

"You!"

"Calm down, calm down. I'm not going to do anything." Raising his hands above his head, Discord said, "Come on like this: I’ll help you put your arm back on, and you won’t cripple me even more."

Guts didn't want to agree, but when Celestia got to her earlobe and Luna to her Adam's apple, he forced himself to agree.

"Deal"

"Great! This is a good start to a friendship," said the dragonicus, picking up the flesh prosthesis under Guts' gaze.

Walking up to Guts' ethereal hand, Discord began to put him in his place. As soon as the prosthesis was finally dressed and securely attached, the princesses flinched and stopped. Just in case, Discord moved away from the bed, hiding behind a chair and giving a thumbs up.

"Oh, you snake-like bastard!"

Looking at the princesses, Guts saw a bright blush on their faces, but they were in no particular hurry to get off the bed, let alone recoil from him.

"You didn't have to interrupt us, Discord." Celestia said, looking dissatisfied at Discord.

Discord realized that the case smelled of fried food and hurriedly retreated into the corridor, closing the door behind him. Celestia turned back to Guts.

"Good morning, Guts. How did you sleep?"

• "Good. Listen, Celestia, I slept well, of course, but what are you all doing here in my bed?" The black swordsman asked, pointing with his eyes at the pony on the bed. "And I'm still silent about the Ethereal Hand."

"Well, you had a nightmare, and since Luna is the Guardian of Dreams, she tried to help with her abilities and magic, but it didn’t help. So I offered to comfort you by lying next to you. The plan worked, but for some reason, your prosthetic came off. And here we are." Celestia finished her explanation. "The maids were looking for us, but they also fell under the influence of the aura. And Pinky... well, she was already here when the maids came."

"Clear. So are you getting out of bed now?"

"Mmmm, no." Smiling and resting her head on the pillow again, she said the daydream of the day.

"What? Why?" Guts asked again, not understanding.

"Don't want."

Then the doors opened again, and Discord's goat face poked out with words.

"I think they need a little stimulation to get rid of the remnants of their aura." Draconicus said, quickly hiding his face from the beam of magic fired by Luna.

"Stimulation, you say..."

Guts looked at Celestia, who was clinging to him. Freeing his hand and saying goodbye to the world, he swung and slapped his palm on her rump, causing her to gasp and fly out of bed on all fours, sobering her mind. Guts turned to Luna, causing her to rattle off something about him not doing this, but Guts was adamant. And soon there was another slap.

An hour later

Rubbing the small bruise on his hand that was assigned to the eye, Guts, along with the princesses and the six, walked towards the throne room.

"Admit it, you deserve it." Luna said with a slight blush.

"Excuse me, Princess Luna, what happened? Has he offended you in any way?" Twilight was a little worried.

"What? Ah, no, no. It's all right, our sister's student." Luna replied.

"It's just that we're good friends with your friend, Twilight." Celestia smiled mockingly, looking at Luna.

"Then that's good!" Seeing that there was nothing to worry about, Twilight said

When they reached the throne room, the princesses approached their thrones and sat on them, looking at the ponies and the man in front of them.

"Discord," said the sermon of the day.

"Yes, Celestia?" Draconicus replied, peeking out from behind her throne.

"As you can see, Discord is now free but hasn't done anything wrong so far. Therefore, for some time he will be here in Canterlot, under my supervision with Luna. His further fate will depend on his behavior and actions towards the pony. Since the ceremony will not begin until two weeks later, you can walk around the city or visit the castle, and in the evening you will be sent to Ponyville. Celestia finished her short speech. "By the way, Guts, your house has already started to be built. It will be ready in about five days. And don't worry about the money; the crown will pay the expenses. Just tell this to some vendors when you're in town. That's all."

Pony and Guts left the throne room, behind the doors of which a line of aristocrats and ordinary residents had already gathered. The six have already talked about what and where they will do. Guts remained standing at the exit of the castle, inhaling the fresh air with the scent of flowers. He left the sword in his room so as not to frighten civilians again.

"So, I’ll be busy exploring the city alone." Guts said, looking around the city.

"Not really."

"Oh my god…" Guts groaned, slapping his forehead.

Discord was standing in the doorway beside him, smiling at Guts.

"Come on! Let's go, have fun, and eat something delicious. I know one place where you can eat fried fish." Draconicus said, clapping Guts on the shoulder and quickly removing it. "And don’t worry about my disguise; I’ll just shrink and sit on your shoulder."

So he did, while wearing some kind of black glasses. They went out together through the main gate that led to the castle. The city met them with many ponies and other intelligent races, although there were much fewer of them. Many streets with different shops, several parks, and a market much larger than the one that was in Ponyville. The ponies reacted to Guts in different ways. Someone was frightened and tried to get away from him as quickly as possible. Others looked at him with interest. Rarely, but someone even waved a hoof at him, to which Guts reciprocated. There were those who looked at him with disgust. It was easy to guess that they were mostly aristocrats or noble ponies. On Discord's instructions, they reached a small building with a sign for fish and cutlery. Going inside, they saw a small restaurant with a large red carpet and beautiful decorations. Among the visitors were several griffins, two dragons, and one pony. Guts thought this was odd since ponies were mostly herbivores—that was obvious. After thinking for a few more seconds, he still walked over to the table and sat down in the chair. According to Discord, the menu should be brought to him now, and after the meal, the waiter will come to collect the payment. Discord also snapped his fingers, and a small golden dog tag appeared in front of his face with the emblem of the sun on it. According to him, Celestia asked him to give him the token so that he could use it to pay for food and other services in the city. Soon a griffon waiter with a red bow tie around his neck and a strange collar came up.

"What are you ordering, sir?"

"Grilled salmon and salad." Guts ordered.

"This minute." the waiter replied, and he left, as Guts realized, to the kitchen.

After some time, the waiter came with the order on a tray and laid it out on the table. The beautiful smell of salmon filled the black swordsman's nostrils, making his stomach growl. And no wonder; except for rainbow apples the day before yesterday, he ate nothing. Taking his cutlery, he began his meal with salmon. Tender and juicy meat filled Guts' mouth, satisfying his taste buds. Discord tugged at Guts several times, saying he deserved a bite. Guts exhaled and handed him a piece of fish, which quickly disappeared into the belly of the draconicus. After dinner, Guts waited for the waiter to come up. And when he came up, I showed him the token.

"Oh! So you are Princess Celestia's guest!" Bowing slightly, the waiter said. "I hope the food was delicious."

"The food tasted delicious, please pass on my thanks to the chef." Guts replied with a slight smile.

"Definitely, sir."

Saying goodbye to the waiter, well-fed Guts went on to explore the city. They reached the next place that Guts liked—the train station. The black swordsman marveled at the technological progress of Equestria. He saw something intriguing about it. For a few hours, Guts just looked at the local sights and points of interest, such as the school for gifted unicorns. On the way back to the castle, Guts noticed a bewildered reddish gryphon with a map in its paw. Seeing Guts, the griffin approached him, holding out a map.

"Excuse me, do you know how to get to the castle of the princesses? I got a little lost, and now I don’t know where I am." said the griffin with an awkward smile.

Guts and Discord looked at each other, then explained on the map where they were now and where to go. Guts also offered to go with him, as he was also going to the castle. The griffin was very grateful for the help and agreed to go along. The griffin introduced himself as Red Storm, an aristocrat from the Storm family who lives in the country of griffins. He said that he came to Canterlot for an audience with the princess but got lost. They talked for several more hours until it began to get dark outside. Guts and Discord returned to the castle again, but with Red. Walking along the corridor, he met the guards, who, for some reason, saluted him. Red asked Guts if he was a noble person, but Guts replied that he himself did not know why they did this. Upon reaching the throne room, the guards opened the door for him, telling him that Ponyville Guardian Guts had arrived. He froze a little, then turned his gaze to Celestia, who had a barely noticeable, sly smile.

"I think this is your job?"

"That’s right. I should have warned them ahead of time about you," replied the day's Diarh.

"Greetings, Princess Celestia." Red said, bowing.

"Oh, Prince Red Storm, good to see you." Celestia said, tilting her head slightly.

"Prince?" asked Guts, a little in disbelief.

"That's right, Red Storm is the prince of the Griffin Empire."

Guts turned to Red, who looked at him with a smile as he spoke.

"What? You didn't tell me you were a Guardian either."

Guts just sighed wearily and looked around at the ponies in the throne room. Rarity was crammed full of fabrics, gems, and sewing supplies; Twilight had many different books; AppleJack had seeds and gardening tools; Fluttershy had animal feed; Rainbow had posters and cards; and Pinkie Pie had sweets. Celestia told them to pack what they could leave in their rooms and go to the already-prepared carriages. Guts retrieved his sword and sat on the floor of the carriage, waiting for the other ponies to get into it. Once they were all in their seats, the carriage shuddered and headed back to Ponyville.