//------------------------------// // Ch 38. Conversing with a night princess. // Story: The Silent Guardian // by Not_available_now //------------------------------// Ch 38. Conversing with the night princess.                     As I walk down the corridor, following Twilight, who is rushing ahead, I think about what I told Twilight. Discord told me that I could tell one pony and I chose that pony to be Twilight. I need to be more careful with telling ponies about myself. Even though I don’t believe Discord will actually kill somepony, I won’t take that chance.                     Now onto different things. I know that my time with Celestia was, as far as I know, something without strings attached. But I think that Twilight was looking for something more and I don’t have a bloody clue why. I have only met her today and that is a bit short to base a relationship on. I think it would be best to talk to her about it or else I might have an alicorn drooling over me. Now that I think about it, a princess for a girlfriend wouldn’t be a bad thing, but I digress. I’m not going to deny her by default, but I would like to get to know her a bit better.                     Luckily for me I have enough brainpower to think and see at the same time, so I see that there is a door in front of me that is slightly ajar. I walk through it and a circle or pillows filled with Twilight and her friends, Celestia and a very tired looking Luna. I see that there is one leftover pillow, in between Rainbow and Pinkie. I notice that Rarity’s hair is looking a bit sticky from here.                     I walk up to the circle and notice that everypony has a teacup in front of them and that a round table is in the middle with a large teapot in the middle and a large variety of food around it. It almost looked like a high tea too me. Why they were having this so soon after dinner was a mystery to me, but I am not complaining.                     I plop down on the empty pillow and look to my sides. Pinkie is sitting next to me, her mouth stuffed with sweet stuff. I can see a circle of something, probably a mix of cream, sugar and other stuff, smeared around her mouth. Rainbow on my other side is having small talk with Applejack. Seeing as Rainbow is a bit preoccupied I turned to Pinkie, waiting for her mouth to be empty.                     “So, Pinkie, have things gone well in my absence?”                     She nods very fast and swallows everything that is in her mouth. “Rainbow and I pulled a prank on Rarity. We emptied a large pot of her own glue on her head. She was a bit mad, but even after a quick shower she still was still upset.” She says too quickly for the good of her own jaw joints. “But after some apologies and few laughs all was good.”                     I smile at the mention of a pot of glue and Rarity combined.                     “So, what were you and Twilight doing?” Pinkie says with a suggestive tone.                     “Well, what do you think we did?”                     A small blush shows through her pink coat. “Well, you did do that,” Her voice goes quiet. “Thing with the princess.”                     I grin. “Nah, we just talked a bit and that isn’t an innuendo.”                     Pinkie nods. “Ah, so what did you talk about?”                     “Things and stuff.” I say, not wanting to tell her that I had been telling Twilight what I actually am.                     Pinkie returns my grin with one of her own. “Sure, things.” She looks around the circle. “Have you met Princess Luna yet?”                     “I don’t think I have.”                     Pinkie hops up. “C’mon, let’s go meet her then.” She grabs her pillow in her mouth starts dragging it along. I follow her example and awkwardly grab my pillow, which tastes strange, and drag it past the round table and follow Pinkie.                     We drop them in front of Luna, who has her eyes closed and seems to be sleeping. We sit down and I look to Celestia. She smiles at me and then looks to Luna. She seems surprised that she is sleeping and taps her on her shoulder. “Luna, there are some guests here for you.”                     Luna slowly opens her eyes and only then it seems that she heard what her sister said to her. Her eyes flutter open and they look at us with surprise.                     “They are?” She quickly asks Celestia. Celestia responds with a nod. Luna looks at us, still the same surprised look on her face.                     I think it might be best to start the conversation otherwise we might be here for a while. “Hello, Princess Luna, I’m honored to meet you. My name is Leo.” I say with a small bow off my head.                     “Hello Leo, it is nice too meet you.” Luna is in a voice that is far from the refined and posh voice that I expected. “I see that you arrived here with the Elements, may I ask why?”                     “I arrived in Ponyville some time ago and a certain pink pony,” I glance at Pinkie, who is giving a toothy grin. “got me hospitalized for a few days. Since I had no money Rainbow paid my bill. I am almost done paying it off and am staying at her house until then, since I have no place to stay.”                     “Where do you come from?” She asks me and that question is the million dollar question.                     I think about what to answer. I honestly can’t remember what I said earlier to the rest of the girls, if I said anything, so let’s hope for the best and think of a human city with a pun.                     “I come from Manehattan,” I think I saw that name somewhere. Now for the excuse for the fact that I’m penniless. “I left on a bad note with my family. So I left without anything else than the saddlebags on my back, that did not contain any money. I kinda forgot that.”                     I am blown away when I feel two legs wrap around me and find my face filled with a flowing starry mane. “Oh you poor little soldier. I acknowledge your pain. You’re too precious for this world.” I hear Luna say as she hugs me even tighter. I look up and see that our horns almost collided. I have to watch out for that with other alicorns.                     After a few second she lets me go. A small blush flushes my face as I look around and see that everypony is staring at us. “Thank you Luna, thank you for,” I look for words for a moment. “Acknowledging my pains.”                     Luna seems awestruck for a moment, even though only thanked her. “Nopony has thanked me sincerely in a long time. Thank you for that.”                     I turn to Luna, still feeling all the eyes pointed at Luna and me. All the chatter around us had fallen silent. “It was my pleasure, Luna.” I say to Luna, seeing that her eyes got moist all of the sudden. The smile on her face grows even larger.                     I look to Celestia and the others and see that they almost mirror Luna’s smile. When I look to my side I see that Pinkie had moved back to her spot in the circle. When I look back to Luna I see that a spot had been created between her and Fluttershy. I push my pillow into the spot and sit down on it.                     When I sit down next to Luna she speaks to me that catches me a bit off guard. “Leo, would you be my friend?”                     I nod and answer without thinking. “Of course Luna. I would love to be your friend.” She hugs me again and I return her hug.                     The rest of the tea thingy is spent having small talk and with eating cakes and drinking tea, a lot of tea. And nopony could hold a candle to Celestia, she downed that stuff by the liter.                     I talked about the stars, modern life and other stuff with Luna and she seemed very happy that she finally somepony to casually talk with. The room was swarmed with servants for a few moments and they left the table in the middle perfectly clean. All the Elements stand up and walk away, chattering along themselves. Celestia, Luna and I stand up and follow the group out of the room. Just before we leave the room Celestia tells me to hold on and that she wants to speak with Luna for a moment. I, as nice as I am, wait outside of the room. Rainbows flies over to me to say that all of us will be staying in guest rooms in the same hallway as the rooms of the princesses. Just after she has flown back Celestia and Luna come out of the room. Luna almost runs towards me and ushers me to move on. We walk down the corridor side by side, Luna sporting a goofy grin and Celestia walking behind us.