Twilight's Soul Floats Ever Deeper Into Space

Glacial blue eyes open from the darkness that took them hostage. Their vision slowly came to focus on a portion of the crystal floor, that was covered with flaky dried blood. As the pony's mind came crashing back to them, they gasped deep breaths. Its lungs filled with every gulp of air that they greedily took from the atmosphere.

It immediately moved its hooves around its neck, trying to feel for a deep gash but it could not find one. ‘Am I alive once more?’ It asked softly. ‘You live.’ Confirmed a feminine voice. Shocked, he looked around to find the voice’s source. He could not find the voice that cooed into his ears. ‘Look a bit harder.’ Said the voice again. ‘I still do not see you, where might you emanate?’ He asked. The voice did not sing its presence as he had hoped, but he did start feeling a gentle nudging on his left shoulder. ‘Wake.’ The voice demanded softly. ‘But how?’ He screamed as darkness began to swallow him up in its embrace, yet again.

Blinded by fear of not hearing the voice again, he opened his eyes once more. This time, he saw an indigo hoof gently shake his body awake. ‘That colour. I have seen it before.’ He hoarsely called out. He lifted the foreleg he was resting on and softly touched the indigo fur. ‘Is this real? Does my mind tell truths once again?’ He asked. ‘It does.’ Claimed the sweet feminine voice. The laying pony moved his eyes gaze and followed the hoof up to the rest of its body. What he saw was a radiant purple snout. Its form was perfect to his worn mind, he thought it was chiseled out of the finest lavender opal.

‘Am I in the land of dreams?’ he asked softly. The Snout softly smiled as it made its way closer to his. ‘It is not. This is the truth, your heart desires. You heeded my call, and now we have been reunited once more.’ Said the indigo pony as she helped the weak faded lavender guard up to his hooves. ‘You have done well, my sweet protector.’ Said the indigo pony. The guard's snout slowly bore a content grin. ‘I am your will, Princess. I have only done what was needed of me, and I am ever so glad to have my exertion bear with a bountiful harvest.’ The guard slowly bowed.

Princess Twilight Sparkle looked at her true-hearted protector with the utmost feeling of gratification. She had managed to beat the powerful mage's magic with her attestation in trusting her guard. Having him was to be an oversight from the mage’s wisdom and she used it to her full extent. ‘My dearest protector. You have proven to me that your heart only belongs to me… You showed your true perseverance under the decaying onslaught of time’s embrace. For that, I will bestow a most prideful glee of mine and inscribe it to your body.’ Twilight said as she used a hoof to gently pull her protector up.

His eyes shone with eager anticipation as she raised her other hoof to where a scar formed on his neck. ‘This will concrete your oath I swore upon you that day. May my cutie mark bind your soul to my will as it marks your flesh with itself.’ She decreed. Shortly after, his scar began to fill with a golden ink-like substance that quickly dried into the crevice. It made sure to bind to the guard's flesh, making it look as if he had golden skin hiding under his coat.
His fur was being branded with a small repetition of images. Just like his sword, he too would be marked with golden outlines of Twilight’s cutie mark.

He was in revelation to see this happen to his body, but as his new form was finishing the last of its branding. Twilight held up a reflective crystal to the guard's face, he saw his left eye’s iris form into her cutimark’s star. It still held its arctic blue colour but it was no longer a normal-looking eye. This was the final change to happen to his body. He looked up to her in confused awe.
‘From now on. You will show this world how my power will change it… You are mine and mine alone shall you stay- as you put it, oh so long ago.’ Twilight giggled at remembering his recountings as he inscribed them into the lost journal. ‘You heard my woes, Princess?’ He asked somberly. She nodded in response. ‘I- only’. Her soothing voice cut him off. ‘I do not blame you. After all, we did choose to have that bond did we not?.’ She asked. He nodded cordially.

‘We did, Princess. We ensured never to stray from one another after that fateful day.’ He said as he smiled. ‘Then I forgive you… Do I still have your heart and protection?’ She asked as she whispered into his ear. He nodded ‘My heart and protective hooves will forever be in your service, Princess.’ He bowed deeper. ‘Good! I want this world as our new kingdom’. She commanded firmly.

‘Your wish is my command, Princess.’ He said happily.