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// Chapter two. The human. 
// Story: Children of the night. 
// by RoyalUnicornJohn1994 
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Chapter two. The human.

John awoke in Luna's bedroom. The knock of the door startled him. He almost instantly hid behind the bed when the door opened. He was waiting for somepony else to show up. Instead of that, Luna step inside, carrying a small cup of tea.
He got more relaxed by this and showed himself from behind the bed. Luna saw him and walked toward him.
"We are happy to see thou getting better. How is thy arm?" Luna said as she got closer to inspect his arm.
"It still hurts. But only a bit." John said as he tried to lift his injured arm.
Luna saw the look of pain in his face when he tried to do that. He stopped the attempt with a sad look on his face. Luna got closer to inspect better his arm at the same time she levitated the cup to him.
In a close examination, she noted that the wound was a penetrating one. It didn't was caused by an accident, as she initially thought.
"How does thou say this happened?" Luna said after a few minutes.
John tried his best to remember something about him. However, he couldn't. He couldn't remember anything before last night, but his name.
"I'd tell you if I could remember something more than my name."
"Then... how is that thou remember thy name?"
"... I don't know. It was like if... it... came back to me..."
Luna was confused at this point. He couldn't remember anything about him. However, random memories returned to him in matter of seconds.
However, she was taken out of the thoughts by seeing him yawning.
As Luna was a nocturnal being, she could stay awake all night. However, John seemed to be a day being. He soon started to feel sleepy.
"Thou looks like a good sleep is needed." Luna said with a smile on her face.
"Yeah. I'd like to sleep, but i have to be on the lookout in case of any strangers try to get in."
"Thou art correct. However, We have nothing to do. Our people don't come usually at night."
"And with that you're saying...?"
"We are referring to the fact that almost nopony comes to us at night. If something were to happen at night, that would be-"
A sudden knock in the door startled them. John run to hid in a wardrobe.
Luna got surprised by his speed, considering he was injured. Instead of thinking about it, she went to the door.
John tried to hear to the conversation between Luna and the pony of the door. However, all he could hear was a lot of horse-like sounds.

"Your highness! Please, open the door right know!"
Luna went to open the door. Once opened, she saw a night guard.
"Your highness! Are you okay?" The night guard asked to her, seemingly concerned by something.
"Of course we are. What is the reason you are asking this?"
"Well... I am not totally sure, but... Princess Celestia wants to talk with you."
"Our elder sister? Why does she require our presence?"
"As I said before, I didn't was properly informed. She just asked me to escort you to her room."
Luna smiled at him. All the guards would give their life just to protect her.
"... Thou art an excellent guard. However, we do not have the need for a escort. We'll go by ourselves."
The guard stood in there, thinking about Luna's order.
"A-As you say, Milady."
With that, the guard retreated from there. Luna wanted to make sure that John was okay. However, if he was able to run and hide as fast as he made in the last moments, then he would be alright.
Therefore, she focused in the task at hoof: her elder sister had called for her. And she would always answer her.
However, Luna thought, what is so important for her to be up at this time of the night? What was that so important thing that she needed Luna to be with her?

After a few minutes, she got to Celestia's room. She knocked a few times the door.
"Oh, Luna!" Celestia said after she opened her door and saw her little sister. "Are you alright?"
"Yes, we are. However, we need to know. What did have thou so concerned that thou asked forour presence?"
Celestia made her a sign to her to come in. Luna obeyed quietly.
"Luna. as both of us posses the same powers, i trust that you felt something weird a few hours ago."
Something weird? What was she talking about?
"I could feel something... a live creature. However, i couldn't recognize very well the essence, for it isn't something I've seen in a very long time." Celestia told her while trying to look normal.
"What do you think this being can be, dear sister?"
"I don't know. As I said, i haven't felt that essence for a couple millenniums. Last time i could sense it was when Father was alive."
Luna started to feel nervous. Their father has died millenniums ago. In a war that she didn't saw. However, it was well known for almost everypony. It was the war for the pony's race survival... to survive against an enemy that threatened their very existence.
However, as Luna never saw that enemy before, she didn't know what she was talking about.
"... When Father was alive..." Luna repeated to herself. "... and what is this creature thou art talking about? I assume thou art talking about the Intelligence Wars?"
"Yes, Luna. That is the war we are talking about."
The Intelligence Wars were millenniums ago. It was named like that because two races faced each other. These two races were intelligent beings. One race was the Ponies, whose intelligence earned them the right to posses magic, wings, and other gifts.
By the other part, the enemy race were creatures called "Humans". However, the version Luna read didn't described the way those creatures were. It only said they were fierce warriors, whose brains made them slightly more intelligent than the average pony.
Celestia looked at her sister. She merely walked away some steps to open a book in a small table. Luna got closer, and saw something that terrorized her.
It was the same book she saw a few months ago, whose description was about these so-called dangerous "Humans". In the instant she saw the book, she recognized it. However, she also recognized the being whose picture was in the book: it was rather similar to the one she had on her bedroom.
"Luna. Are you okay?" Celestia said while seeing the look on Luna's face.
Luna tried to compose herself. However, she only found one valid thing to say.
"We need to use thy bathroom!"
If she wanted to use them, she could have run in her hooves. However, she instead opened her wings and with a powerful thrust, she was in the bathroom, just a few seconds later.
Celestia stood in there. When she heard the familiar noise of the bathroom being used, she smirked.
"Why. Looks like somepony needs to go more frequently." She thought to herself.

Luna had a valid reason to flee. However, that wasn't the only reason of why she left so suddenly: She was nervous.
She was hosting a Human. The one she thought to be a kind being was the same creature whose race killed her Father.
She tried to compose herself before going out of the bathroom.
"... Don't say a thing." She said calmly to her sister when she got out.
"... What are you going to do, Luna?"
"... We shall go to our bedroom and see if we can sense this 'human'." Luna said while remarking the last word.
"Should I help you?"
"No, dear sister. Thou must rest. Thou hast to rise the sun in the morning."
"Yes. Indeed, you are correct."
"Good night, Sister."
"Good night, Luna."

As Luna opened the door of her bed room, she saw John standing next to the window with a surprise expression in his face.
"Oh, Princess. I thought you were other-" John's talk was interrupted by seeing her coming furiously fast toward him.
"TELL US THAT YOU'RE NOT A HUMAN!" Luna practically shouted to him while her face went to a deeply concerned expression. John looked to his chest, where her hoof was holding him against the wall.
"... why do you ask that, Princess?"
"TELL US!"
"Okay!, okay. I'm a human. And don't ask me why I remember that, 'cause i don't know."
Luna let him go, while seeing deeply scared.
"... Thou art... human..."
"...yeah?"
John seemed like if he didn't care much about being of that race. However, Luna did care about that.
"... Thou shalt come with me."
Luna was starting to walk toward her door when a sudden knock startled them.
"Luna! Are you okay!? I can sense something in there!"
Luna recognized that voice.
It was her sister.