Alabaster Star of the Night Watch guard lost his wife a year ago to Diamond Dogs who broke into their home. But not just any Diamond Dogs. These Diamond Dogs claimed to be acting in the name of Nightmare Moon. His wife gone, and Alabaster fresh out of the academy, he is left alone to take care of their only daughter, Moonblaze.
A year passes, and Luna is back, claiming to be on the side of good once again. Alabaster harbors a strong hatred for the Princess of the Night, still blaming her for the death of his wife.
Alabaster doesn't know what to think when the solitary Night Guard routine he was so used to gets flipped upside down in the strangest way.
Chapters (9)
Awww now im sad
This seems interesting.
I'll be sure to give it a read.
Wait, I have to read a story before favoriting it? FUCK THAT! Will read this when I have the chance, busy working on.....stuff.....yeah, stuff. Zalos, out. (Backflips out window)
I love this story! I can't wage to see what happens next!
Hmm... Lets se where this goes.
Mmm, any OC's from some users here that maybe added later to the story or will that not be the case?
"Marebourne" haha you clever person. And those damned diamond dogs.
Omg I need to go cry now
Loving it so far!
Much feels, need moar feels.
I figured this would make me sad. I was right. Darn it. *goes into corner and cries forever*
Need to make sure and keep those tenses consistent.
you can always bring out the feels in a person
great beginning even if it is sad
you and your god damn cliffhangers
he'll probably have to do it/it's gonna happen either way or this story will have a premature ending
but I say his reaction will be either enraged or calm on the outside (enraged either way on the inside)
after reading so many stories I expect him to try and murder her at one point
in the end if he accepts he gets more money
Now where did I put that- Ah, here it is.
BBC Equestria? Oh fuck.....damn humans making portals to other dimensions.
This is gonna be interesting.
On the one hand, Luna has genuinely changed and wants to show Equestria that. But on the other hand, the poor guard suffered personal loss, so he does have every right to doubt Luna's really reformed. I just hope the Princesses are willing to hear him out than immediately assume that he's just another hater. But, with all Luna has put up with, they might assume he's no different than the others.
4508305 theres also the fact that she still caused the death of his wife. Even if he believes she's reformed she still caused the death of his wife
Poor guy. Here's hoping he doesn't try to assassinate her himself. That would be very bad indeed, for him, Luna, and Moonblaze...
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Maybe the author will disambiguate a bit, but it wasn't clear that NMM actually ordered the diamond dogs to kill anyone or perhaps that she was even in charge at all. Perhaps they were simply hoping to pacify her and/or make her leave them alone?
4559359 well NMM still had something to do with her death so he would be angry at her either way
Dan can you please continue on the return of the 7th element?, Did you stop cos you ran out of songs, well here is a song you might find emotional, PERFECT TO ADD!
the other guard is gonna annoy him like all hell
and im gonna guess he really likes luna
Dream world next?
I find this story very interesting and well written. But one question: Twilight explains to him that it was not Luna's fault and he accepts (sort of). But immediately afterwards it seems as if he's forgotten everything she said?
Love this chapter. Exited to see what happens with the new guard
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The point is, I think, that he can accept it on an intellectual and maybe one-day on a professional level, but the trauma and it's connection to Nightmare Moon and Luna is not going to wash away quickly.
It's gonna be interesting when Luna finds out why her guard acts the way he does.
I do think Twilight was being harsh though. Granted she's apparently had this conversation with the guy numerous times but still, I wish she could've been a little more sympathetic and tried to reason with him more instead of thinking small talk would actually be enough to push aside his fears. Like maybe some more reassurance as well as telling him of Luna's own hardship. While it most likely wouldn't have eliminated his hatred, hopefully it would've convinced him to at least be a little more open-minded.
If you had just put,
You would have had me singing Let It Go!
AWESOME chapter can't wait for more!
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And that I exactly why I DIDN'T put it like that.
Luna deserves it
and Celestia/Twilight should feel bad too
also what is a fortnight
I just realized I have no idea what a fortnight is
Why is he pausing in the middle of all his sentences? I ask as it reads like I'm listening to Jeremy Clarkson.
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2 weeks.
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He's super tired and I was trying to get that across through his dialogue.
I feel bad for both Luna and Alabaster. Twilight should cop most of the blame here, having known exactly what he felt about Luna and still pushing him to accept the job.
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I think you're being too harsh. It's clearly never occurred to him that if Nightmare Moon == Luna then that means that Luna spent a thousand years alone on the moon without any friends or family. Compared to the small slice of tragic misfortune he endured... they don't exactly match up. He's also failing to see beyond the cover of the book. Alabaster is also leaping to assumptions that are ridiculous (I realize he's sleep deprived). The diamond dogs never said they'd been ordered to do anything and it's not clear that there was any special reason to target him.
If I had to guess I'd say that other people experienced similar events and that the diamond dogs had some kind of myth/legend not unlike Nightmare Night except that instead of candy/food their way of pacifying NMM (ostensibly) requires gems. They may have every reason to fear NMM depending on the canon here regarding what happened after/as a result of Luna turning into NMM and may even have been assaulted/terrified/etc in the original incident thoroughly enough to have passed such memories down. Not that I'm ruling out NMM actually showing up to them and demanding gems in exchange for their lives in recent times
For what it's worth he also doesn't seem to get that, unless I am mistaken, dreams are part of Luna's domain. She's not exactly an intruder, although she might in some sense be intruding.
Celestia should exercise more diligence in selecting guards for her sister than simply taking Twilight's/Cadence's advice at face value. Although that's not to say it might not have gone equally wrong.
A fortnight is a period of two weeks or fourteen days (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnight). For humor's sake, check out the wikipedia page on furlongs per fortnight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFF_system).
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I would agree, but I don't have sufficient information to expect Twilight to know the details of what happened. Knowing that diamond dogs killed his wife isn't the same as knowing why. Maybe he is the best one Twilight knows, and he did say that he'd experienced plenty of night shifts. Still, she suggested it so some of the blame is definitely hers. Still, both are in the dark in some respect, although Luna is less so now.
P.S.
Interesting chapter, write some more.
Additionally, why all the tags? Four tags seems a bit excessive for a single story. So far I feel like the tragedy one is unwarranted since the tragic event seems to have occurred before the story, but the sad one make sense. The adventure tag seems a little out there at the moment and I have, as yet, not definitively detected any large deviations from canon (edit: I just noticed the note in chapter one, I may have missed that the first time round. It doesn't seem all that significant as a change though). -- Any comments on when things might occur that would explain those tags?
P.P.S.
Going to be a difficult job apparently. Especially since it's not likely the story is simply going to take an about face and replace him with another character.
Loving it!LOVING IT! LOVING IT! LOVING IT!!!
Now Luna knows the truth. But Alabaster doesn't want to listen to reason.
Bladeheart is already annoying and I'm starting to hate him. Hope you do something to give this guy an attitude adjustment. Namely he makes a really stupid comment about Alabaster's family and winds up getting beat up for his trouble. Don't know what he's like in the Crystal Empire but the jerk needs to be taught a lesson.
I think you meant narrowing his eyes
So Bladeheart got wrecked while Alabaster actually took care of two assassins.
Good.
4911734 Think you had the wrong person there
4911629 Corrected.
Thanks
Maybe this song will do?
WOW!!! This was an AWESOME chapter, I can't wait for the next one!
Ha ha! I get it, assassain Octavia!
Wow! Okay I seriously hope I read that wrong because otherwise the implication is Shining Armor is going to have Octavia kill Alabaster's daughter if he quits. Who's the good guy in all this again?
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Why would you do this to us! You stop a very good trilogy, (which in a way i can see why you stopped it) THEN, you put the absolute BEST character from that series and made him a cameo in this story!(which BTW is pretty bada**) It hurts my brain so much because of all the possibilities for his back story!
I mean first you could have the origi- OUCH!!! Ugh, now i have a headache. Signing off.
(that's my way of saying you are awesome and keep writing this story because it's so good.)