Twilight and the Fair Knight.

-Several days after events of previous chapter-
You awake in your bed, well, Twilight's bed with her cuddled to your side, her horn is pressed on your neck, you wiggle and lean away only for her to cuddle deeper into you. As you push her gently she flutters her eyes and stares at you. "Why'd you wake me?"
"You were gouging me..." you chuckle and sit up and pet her, feeling her wrap a wing around your waist. You chuckle and run a hand over her head, smiling down at her cute little pout.
"Can you stay in bed for a while?" she smiles and lets out a little squeak you feel the ice that never actually existed around your heart melt. You smile and pet her cheek her horn sparkles a small bit as she leans up to kiss you lovingly.
"I suppose so Twilight." you chuckle and scoot back down into bed, relishing the feeling of the satin sheets on your bare body. You slide to hug Twilight to you, pulling her onto your body, running your hands over her coat, you tickle her wings bases and kiss her on the lips quickly, lightly gripping her wings and massaging slowly, her breath catches as she moans into your kiss. Her forelegs wrapping around your neck, her soft coat rubbing on you as she gently grinds her nethers into your hips.
”I love you so much Anon…” she mutters as she nips your cheek with her lips, your hands are now firmly planted on her cutie marks, lining yourself up you grind yourself on her entrance, her soft moan makes you even more determined to tear her up, and as you make your first quick plunge into her depths the door is immediately kicked open by none other than the number one assistant, and what would you know, he’s got a scroll, judging by it, it’s royally signed. You make eye contact with spike and continue your thrusts into twilight, spike stands there slack jawed as you grin at him, hands holding Twilight down as you keep your current course of action spike just stands there, not able to remove his eyes from yours. You find yourself gently biting Twilight, her moans grow in volume and in their beautiful crescendo you wrap your arms tightly around her.
As her core tightens on you, you kiss her neck slowly and hold her still as you finish your own work. Looking back to Spike you lift your blankets off your arms and motion for him to just put the letter down and leave, he can’t move it seems… oh well at least it was hilarious. You slowly pull out of Twilight and let her slide onto her back on the large bed and stand up, showing the dragon your muscled body you move to your new wardrobe to the left a mannequin that was once a ponnequin and was altered by Rarity, standing with your armor strapped to it. “Spike, that’s from the princess, Right?” You look back at him as your slip into your underwear, pulling your protective vest and pants from the wardrobe you turn back to him as you begin to slip the leather pants on. He finally can form a sentence.
“I, uh, Yeah, w-well… YEAH! Yeah it’s from the princess.” He nods quickly as you move to your Armor stand, strapping pieces on, starting with the vambraces and working until you got to your chest piece,
“Well… Read it aloud. I’m getting ready for what she’s going to be having me do.”
“Oh, alright,” he coughs and unrolls the scroll, “Sir Knight Anonymous, We apologize for interrupting your loving moment with Princess Sparkle, but, we have your task. You are to seek out a certain Time Turner of Ponyville. He has an important task for you. Keep your wits about you and you will return alive. Please, for all of the distaste my sister gives you, I would prefer if Princess Sparkles chosen prince stay alive, so please do stay alive. Signed with earnest trust, Princess Luna.” Spike sighs and looks at you as you finally slide your helmet on.
“So, Time Turner, where’s he at?”
You continue to walk with spike as he leads you to Time turner's house and workshop, he worked with clocks and watches, as you walk, you begin to reflect on what you have done and what brought you here. You have killed the queen of the changelings, met with princesses that told you to keep your princess safe. but truly, why are you not as scared as you should be? You should be terrified of what has happened to you. but you can't feel scared. you feel happiness from all that has happened you love it here. the danger makes you feel alive. Rodger, the name of the Knight that taught you what you know in the way of fighting and most of your life skills used to teach you things in a way that made you think he actually believed in magic. Now that you have seen it, can't help but chuckle, his teachings have served you well. His legacy lives on as you use his teachings. You bump into Spike and shake your head as you look to your left towards the forests that feel so evil and dark, no ponies go into the forest for more than a couple hours at a time. usually they come sprinting out. that seems more often now.
Even Fluttershy had seemed put off at the forest when you last visited her to get your week's worth of fresh fish, Twilight had taken it upon herself to see if Human kind could really cast magic like you had said, without a catalyst or horn. You were getting exhausted of the tests and remembered Fish was a brain food and was full of protein, much better than the various vegetarian substitutes you were provided. Peanut butter was good but the amount you needed for all of the protein you needed to train and march with that armor so much was sickening. Even peanuts made you go green now. You were getting off topic with your thoughts. You look down at spike and then finding him okay return your gaze to the forests, seeing an area that seemed stomped and trampled, trees laid crumbled, broken, gnarled, and twisted. you look ahead and see the house you were looking for, large clocks sat on the porch, in the windows and hung from posts it actually looked beautiful. you march to the door and give it three solid knocks, as you look down the door opens and the town's mail mare, Ditzy Doo answers.
"Oh, hey there! you're the knight that stays with Twilight, right?"
"That I am."
"You don't get mail but you're Knighty Sword right?"
"Ah, No, but thank you for the guess, it warms my heart to have a pony give me a name that befits a pony." you look up a bit and see the clock worker standing nearby the Mail worker. "I'm actually here on orders from Princess Luna. May I come in?"
"Ah, yes, Ditzy dear. Let the nice man in," He smiles, he has lightly refined English accent, "Would you care for some tea while I talk to you?"
"I would not mind at all to have some." you step into the house and remove your helmet, the uncleaned armor contrasts deeply with your well groomed body, your stubble still present, ponies had razors and you shaved but you preferred to have a bit of hair on your face, you felt it added to your ruggedness. you move to sit on the raised mantle of the fireplace, and grab a side table, carefully moving it to a bit closer, and you look to see the blonde pegasus mare trot back in with a tray held in her mouth, her face was scrunch cutely.
"You wanted tea?" she seems to have a coffee maker and a teapot on the tray. "I have coffee if you like it more!" she nods and moves to pick the coffee pot up with her hoofs, effectively burning herself, you rush to assist her, and you prevent the coffee from spilling anywhere by grabbing it with your leather glove.you nod as you look over the little blisters that formed quickly as you motion for Turner lead her away and help her. You treat yourself to a cup of the most delicious coffee you've had in years. and that's saying something. You wait for Turner to come back before sitting back down at the fireplace.
"Mister Time Turner, I take it you have a job for me to complete?" you take the final sip from your coffee and set the cup down on its plate, the stallion nods and looks down the hallway where he left Ditzy, you see her float in slowly with large bandages wrapped around her forelegs and a bucket of ice in her mouth she sits down and puts the bucket down and jams her hooves into the bucket.
"Yes.... Well, there is a hydra that had exited the woods recently, it passed by my home and soon then it left the area... thankfully I don't live as close to Ponyville as I used to. so it shouldn't have gone through there... unless it did. I truly hope it did not. " he nods and nervously fidgets as he pours himself some tea and takes a sip.
"It thankfully did not. but Princess Luna has tasked me with taking care of it... so I suppose I should follow the wrecked path?"
"I would believe so," He nods and stands, "I take it you are leaving now?"
"It would make it easier to track it sooner to get out there now."
"I trust you know about hydra's"
"I can kill it I'm sure."
"Alright..." he nods, a light grimace on his face he trots to the door. "be safe Knight. I hope you stay alive. please take care of it."
You stand and move out sliding your helmet back over your head and nodding, "and you stay safe as well Time Turner."
"Please... there are some who call me... Time." he nods. and bows. "hurry now and you may have it before the day is out."
You nod again, this time turning your back to him and begin marching to the broken path, it is easily fifty feet wide. you gape at the size of the beast you are going after. this was definitely going to be a tough kill, you reach into your hip pouch and pull a necklace with a small star burst out, Twilight gave it to you. she said she made it herself for you. a mark to be worn, you place it under your breast plate, hanging it from your neck. you smile as you feel the trinket press against your body. you then look to the sky and give a loud bellow, and begin to slowly jog into the marshy ground of the broken Everfree forest.
Within the broken Everfree you have to jump trees, sometimes sliding under them others you must go around the broken shafts of, thankfully the path is mostly a straight line, you sigh as you wipe muck from your visor once again. as you stop you hear a loud growling and a howl. you ready your weapon and walk in a circle working with limited visibility you turn to the closest movement and see your target, a large brown wolf... it's timberwolves... the smell that wafts to your nose makes it noticed immediately... it's blood soaked wood and rotten meat. You ready yourself as you feel the wolf charge into you, knocking you off your feet and onto your back thankfully your armor prevented the bites of the beast to do anything more than give you a scare. You position yourself so that you can fight back from your knees, taking a lull in the attacks to remove your helmet. You can see what may kill you now.
The timberwolf has to be four feet tall at least and it's stand suggests its going for broke, you ready yourself as the thing jumps at you, landing on your shield, it's claws keep it on, it then leans over your shield to bite and growl at your head. You feel it's teach graze your forehead and then your nose, Warm blood trails over your flesh and pain flashes your body as you jump to your feet and pin the timber wolf under your shield and bring your fist into its head several times, the sad yelping stops and it disintegrates into sharp twigs and leaves, you look at your fist and look down, the last breath of the wolf brought a sadness you couldn't understand as you take your helmet up and place it on a tree branch to get later. Wiping blood away from your eyes with your dirt gloves you set back down the path, each step getting harder as the mud gets deeper and thicker. Soon you're wading through it. You have to leave your shield hanging because it was simply slowing you as you had to drag it through the mud as well, you are without means to guard yourself now. You continue trekking thankfully the path seems to stay this level of mud not getting deeper. You move more about half an hour more and you then hear a loud growl and rumble as the next hundred feet of mud seems to lift up, a crab shape exposes itself. You ready yourself, gripping your sword with both hands as the hydra reveals itself. The thing is large, it's scales are an odd brown. the mud around it is also that color, but it's under belly is yellow and it's eyes focus on you.
It has four heads none of them share a neck thankfully. so you can safely assume that cutting a head will not make it regenerate. While you were marveling it takes a snap at you apparently it's depth perception is off and it missed, barely. You felt the air rush off its body. You bring your sword down with a sickening slurp and thud you reach the bottom of the neck and cut the head off, it pulls it's neck away. Dark black goo shoots from its neck as it roars in pain, the wound closes and two smaller heads replace the one you removed, You growl and bring your sword up as it snaps again, this time impaling the head that snapped, you feel the sudden weight of the beast as its head goes slack, though the head nearest to it begins to chew the neck that went dead off, so that it can regrow. You sigh stare at the beast, the head in the middle rears back and it lets out a mighty belch, it smells like thousand year old eggs. You gag and cover your mouth with a hand as you move to lean on a tree the hydra looks quizzically at you as you stop fighting it to throw up. You begin to recover a minute later the hydra patiently waiting for you to come back. As you do you nod to it and it grins, as it roars again and brings its neck around to slam into you.
You find yourself on your back with your head near a tree. You slowly stand up and cough, your chest plate is cracked and you ready yourself, your breath hurts. Your vision is fuzzy and you can't feel your left arm. As you cut bring your sword down with all of your power left you split the head of the hydra. Both sides go floppy, no regeneration takes place as you watch it fall you smile as you move forward and stab the head that frantically chomps at you. You feet slip as you pull the sword out, your face meeting the soft mud as you fall, you slowly stand and move closer still four heads last. All of them the smaller heads. They look at each other with panic poisoning their vision and begin to toss themselves at you. You know just how to stop them without slicing the heads off as they die the last head looks at you sadly and lies itself down in front of you. You end it quickly and take several teeth from the biggest head. You then begin to limp and wade back the mud as you reach your shield you strap it back on and continue moving through the mud, as you reach your helmet. You feel your body hit the ground and roll onto your back blacking out.

~The next day~
You wake up with your armor stripped off your body and the ceiling of Ponyville General Hospital greeting you. The soft mattress you rest on is actually four beds pressed together, you sit up slowly, your entire chest is bandaged, your left arm is in a cast and your head has a wrapping on it. They shaved your head... You sigh and lie back down as you see the White and pink nurse walk in with a big smile, "Sir Anonymous you gave us quite a scare. Broken bones and a concussion. With hydra teeth in your packs. Quite a kill." she nods and then moves to your bed side staring at you.
"Uh... Thanks, Nurse."
"Redheart, I'm Nurse Redheart," she nods and looks out the window behind you, "looks like there's gonna be a storm. You'll be held for the next couple week. Oh... And there's a letter from Celestia. Would you like to read it now?"
"Yes, please." you nod and hold your right hand out and she steps out and speaks to a Royal guard outside who comes into your room and removes his helmet. He's bright clean white with a mane that is shades of blue. He stares at you and then salutes.
"Captain of the Guard Shining Armor. It's a pleasure to meet a true blooded Knight, even if you are incapacitated." He then looked a little more stern. "And my sisters chosen prince." you swallow a lump in your throat and look at him.
"Word travels fast in this world..."