Brother To The Crown

by Thunder_Chaser_

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A figure stepped out from the bushes near canterlot, walking into the sunlight his gray mane reflected the sun slightly, he wore a set of combat fatigues which had seen their fair share of war over the years.

He beared 4 stars on the collar of his shirt, his wings were wrapped up in bandages along with his right fore hoof he gazed up to the sun, his hat with a hole in it for his cracked and broken horn provided shade for his eyes. He stared intently at the ball of light...

"Home at last..." he said as his horn began charging with magic

Celestia stepped out onto the marble balcony that overlooked her kingdom, She gazed upon the small towns and cities the lay scattered across the land. She sighed as she took it all in, but she did not gaze at all of it alone, followed by other hoofsteps, another dark blue alicorn mare stepped out onto the balcony. She came to her sisters side.

"Isn't it magnificent sister..." Luna spoke

"While you were banished to the moon, I always used to come out here and gaze, at the stars, at the towns, at the ponies..." celestia replied bowing her head

"You seem troubled dear sister?" the smaller alicorn asked

"I am... I-Its just so much to take in... but at everything we've lost to get here..."

"You are still troubled with mother and fathers deaths?"

"Indeed I am lulu, But that was nearly 500 years ago, I still don't know how they died..."

"Tia, there is somethings in life even we weren't meant to know... maybe one day we will..."

"I guess so... Its just-- " she said as she looked up to her sun, it wasn't in the correct position, it was 5 pm, why was it in the center of the sky? she was about to ask luna about it, when lunas moon rose up into the sky in front of her sun causing an solar eclipse...

"sister... does this mean what I think it means...?" luna asked dumbfounded

"Our brother has returned..." celestia said, staring into the eclipse

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It wasn't usual for a soldier to walk down to streets of canterlot, Mainly because the armed forces was disbanded and replaced with royal guards 1500 years ago.

But what very few ponies know, is that the military wasn't ever disbanded, it was at war with too much public news releases, a cover up with it being disbanded was set and the military was replaced by the royal guard. All the armed forces members including the royal guards had been sworn in to confidentiality to keep it a secret...

As the alicorn walked down the street his wings were concealed by his pack and duffle bag, If ponies knew there was a male alicorn the entire secrets of the military and canterlot could be exploded to dust...

he marched down the street, the pain in his hoof seared, but he had been trained to neglect it and carry on, he came to the castle gates, the two guards stared at him, It had been years since a soldier had walked into the gates, judging by their armour, they had never seen one, he imagined they probably stopped telling them about the other armed forces... he sighed

"4 Stars, General Eclipse, ID 01770 I have business with the princesses..." eclipse ordered

the two white unicorns stared at him and began laughing

"A 4 star oooooOooOooO Yeah right, you're not wearing royal guard uniform, get lost civilian!!" the younger one ored with a motion of his hoof

"I wish to speak to your senior officer... NOW!!!" He shouted in his drill sergeant's voice, Being taught how to use the royal canterlot voice, it helped him to train new recruits..

the two unicorns shook violently and dashed off to get their officer, they returned within minutes with a pegasus in silver armour with 2 stars on his helmet.

"I was asked a civilian wanted to speak with me? if you're screwing around I will have you put into the stockades and hung for this..." the aged pegasus spoke, he gazed upon the stallion in front of him, he blinked his eyes 'could it be, a soldier? they haven't been in canterlot for years...' he thought to himself

"By lunas stars, Gents raise the gate escort the general to the castle doors... thats an order!!!" the pegasus said, the two unicorns moaned as they completed their tasks...

eclipse walked down the street, flanked by the two young soldiers and the 2 star by his side.

"Its been a long time since we've had One of you in here sir" the pegasus excitedly said

"Indeed it has been.. I didn't know they still taught the guards about us..." eclipse said

"Us?" the unicorns questioned in unison

"I'll explain it to you at the barracks...." the pegasus said as they came to the doors of the castle, no longer needing his escort he dismissed the guards

"Wait" eclipse ordered

"yes sir?" they asked

"what is your name major general?" eclipse asked

"Crossed bayonets sir..."

"You're a good soldier bayonet, You might be called up to the big leagues just yet..." eclipse replied

"T-Thank you...." Crossed bayonets said as he saluted and trotted off...

Eclipse turned and entered a long wide corridor with 2 levels and a grand staircase in the middle, which had a red carpet snake along to and through the stairs, "Spit... Tia sure has changed the place up... Course the last time I was in the royal castle for a long time it was still located in the ever free, good thing I was here to assist with the construction... Lets see if I can still find my way around this bloody place..." Eclipse wondered as he headed towards the stair case

Author's Note:

It has come to my attention that there is no male alicorns in mlp, as tradition in the royal family of England most of the men join the military, I wanted that sort of a spin on it for this... Also, since I'll "try" to go into detail with this later, eclipse is a combination of celestia and Luna, he can raise and set both moon and sun, thus his grey coat...