"You know that feeling when you're trying to do a job, but you know you aren't getting anywhere. That's what I started to feel when I landed in this place. I knew that this 'Equestria" was big, and I didn't have the time to search the whole place for this guy. So I decided that I'd let him find me, made sense at the time but after awhile it didn't seem like it was working. I figured I'd kill a couple of ponies and there he'd be, standing just waiting to try and shank me or some shit like that. But as the night went on he never showed up, I had to hide the next day so The Darkness would'nt freak out, but the longer I waited, the more I felt like he wasn't going to show up, and The Darkness, well let's just say it liked the hearts I kept feeding it the night before."

"Stay calm, I mean you know harm." A soft voice echoed throughout the dark void, Bo tried to listen to it, tried to find it, but he just couldn't, the echo was too strong as if the void was speaking to him itself.

"Where are you? Why are you keeping me here?!" Bo shouted furiously, he wanted to know where he was, and who was keeping him there.

Slowly a platform materialized beneath Bo's feet, stretching into a path way into the distance. A figure began to emerge from the darkness. "Hey, stay quiet, if Celestia finds out I'm here we're both in deep." It was the princess of the night herself.

"You, Luna right? So, then this is a dream?" Bo was confused, Luna only came to him once to speak, that was his first night in Equestria, but this was different, Bo could feel like something was bugging Luna this time.

"A nightmare to be more exact, and one of the strangest that I've seen. I'm curious as to how your mind can pick up on the slightest disturbances and warn you before hand." She seemed equally perplexed, her azure eyes studied the void around them.

"What are you talking about?" Deep down Bo knew what she meant, he was right, something else had arrived with Serena, the only question was what.

"Something ravages this land, it feeds on the souls of it's victims, it lives in the night and extinguishes the light. My magic can take me into your mind where you see it, but I am powerless to stop it. I was hoping you could help."

Bo thought for a moment, what do you want me to do? You're sister has me locked up in the dungeon, and I have no intention of going against her will and breaking out. Even then I've only heard legends about the monster you described, it's called The Darkness, and it's literally unkillable, unless...no, it's not worth it to try."

Luna's eyes lit up when Bo shot down his own idea. "What is it, we need to save the kingdom at any cost! Don't tell me you're just giving up."

"You don't understand the "if"s "and"s or "but"s involved for this to even chance working. I've had time to study things here, my magic is a lot like that of a changeling's, the more love I feel, the stronger I am. I don't drain those who provide my strength of their life, but it's still just as effective. Without Applejack I won't have the strength to play out my part, not to mention your sister has to let me out of here and help me subdue The Darkness first." Bo stared at the ground for a moment, thinking about another way to put it. "So basically IF Celestia decides she can trust me and let's me out and IF she decides to help me, I still won't be able to cast the proper Latin Glyph to banish The Darkness."

"Well, what if there was someone who loved you? What if someone, or even a group of ponies that loved you stood by your side when you go to cast the Glyph, what about then? Would it be enough?" Luna was certain she could get Bo to try it, no matter how risky it was. She began to open her mouth again before Bo cut her off.

"Maybe, and that's a big maybe. First things first, we have to convince Celestia to let me out." Bo had a look on his face that spoke his concern for the success of their grand plan.

The world seemed to be nothing more than a giant blur, slowly everything moved into focus, the stone bricks making up the cell, the iron bars that held him in place, and even Celestia crying in the corner.

"Ungh," Bo grunted while trying to sit up, his back sore from sleeping on the wooden bed. "Princess, why are you crying?"

"You! You know why I'm crying, you act like you didn't kill those ponies in Trottingham-"

"But I didn't!" Bo stood up quickly, he teetered a bit from the sudden action. "You can ask the guards who watched me all night where I was, ask your sister what I was doing. We came up with a better plan to stop The Darkness in my sleep than you have just sitting here yelling at me!" His statement was firm, it was clear, but it just wasn't effective.

"You say you have a plan," Celestia seemed skeptical of Bo's claim. "Then tell me, what is your grand plan?" A smug smirk spread across her face.

"It's simple, but you have to trust-"

"You want me to trust you!?" Angry now Celestia interjected her statement, cutting Bo's sentence off.

"I know you don't like it, but we want the same thing here, we want the ponies to be safe. You're the goddess of the sun, light is the only thing that can even make this thing flinch, that's why it attacks at night."

Celestia stared at Bo, the smug grin on her face slowly faded, Celestia realized what Bo was getting at. "I see, I'll make you a deal, you tell me why you don't like to fight and kill, and I'll hear out your little plan." Finally Celestia found the perfect moment to ask the one question on her mind.

"Fine, that only seems fair, I guess I'll start early on. I was a soldier on the front lines, I didn't do any spec ops missions or anything, I just went straight against enemy forces, and I was good at that. They said I was just like my brother and that I should be in the Special Forces squad, I was glad, At the time I had always looked forward to the day I would be Special Forces like my older brother. The day finally game for my first mission, I could hardly sleep the night before, I was that excited. We were in the field, we were supposed to find and eliminate future soldiers before they could be trained. It took all day, but we finally found the building with the targets inside. They told me to take point, like an initiation or something. I walked towards the door, my weapon drawn ready to slaughter grown men, I thought it would be better to just disintegrate the whole building alone to show off. I kicked in the door and cast the Rune, but it wasn't grown men inside, they were women and children." Bo broke eye contact with Celestia, his eyes began to fill with tears as the memories surged back. "I still remember everything, it's as if time slowed down so that every sight sound and scent would be burned into my memory to haunt me forever." Bo took the back of his hand and wiped away the tears. He looked back at Celestia, rage towards the humans and Drakes burned in his eyes. "I can never forget the look of horror on the faces of those kids, and I vowed that I would never allow anyone to cause harm to the innocent again, that's why the humans banished me here, because I was a nuisance to them, and until Serena showed up I hadn't killed anyone since that day. You might hate my brother for what he did to you, and I may not have known you before a month ago, but I hate him for what he did to you, I hate him for what he did to all of you, and I won't allow him and his plans to harm anyone else."

Celestia sat there, she finally understood everything about Bo. She knew why he hated unnecessary violence, why he was in Equestria, and most importantly, why she should trust him. "Okay, what do you need me to do?"

"Glad you're on board," A smile stretched across his face as he began to lay out his plan. They only had a few hours to prepare, and the fate of Equestria may be riding on their success.

Author's Note

This is drawing close to the end.