***
"What's going on!?"
"There attacking! They've gotten past the line!"
"Who!?"
"Both of 'em!"
"What! How did they both get here at once!?"
"I think there working together!"
"Are you sure?"
"Aye, I've seen them fighting side by side now! And they're moving fast!"
"Get everyone out..."
"What!?"
***
Ah, memories, how I hate them. My world was all white, I couldn't feel anything or hear anything. I wonder if this is what death was. It seemed fitting enough I suppose, except there was no tunnel, or light for that matter.
I waited a bit longer after that and I began to hear something, it sounded like talking, but it was pretty hard to understand in this state. Then a light appeared in my vision, it was bright, like when you look into a light. Wait. I must be in medical, that would explain it, these were probably doctors trying to fix me up. Or they thought I was dead and put a white blanket over me, that would work too. I tried to open my eyes and get up, but I couldn't even feel anything and had no idea what was truly happening.
The noise, which I can now conform is people talking, grew faster and more urgent. But still impossible to understand. I tried talking to them but my throat felt dry and I couldn't even tell if my mouth was open. A new sound entered my ears, It was a beeping sound, steady and low. I had no idea what a beeping sound could mean, was there an active mine in the room? Doubtful.
Then the voices began to make sense. "OK, we have him stabilized." It wasn't a voice that I recognized, they must have a new doctor working with them. I laughed inwardly, since my outward laugh wasn't working, they let the new girl work on me cause I'm hard to kill.
"Oh thank Celestia! I thought we had lost him a couple times back there." Thank Celestia? I was defiantly at the corner now. We were the only tribe that even knew 'My Little Pony' existed, probably, let alone thanked Celestia.
"I guess he really is as tough as they say." Oh, you make me blush!
"Yeah, these guys are weird." Now I'm offended.
"Is he going to be okay?"
"Well he's alive. But if he comes out of this state or not, that's up to him. We've done all we could." Well I guess it's my turn then. I was just getting used to someone else doing all the work instead too. Oh well.
Time to get up. I tried to move again but was met with the same result as before. I sighed, inwardly of course, and tried to think for a moment. Let's see, I can't move, talk, or see, I can think... That's it, what can I do? I listed my five senses. Sight, nope. Touch, I tried to move and get the feel of anything, nope. Taste? I tried to lick my lips or even move my tongue at all, nope. Hearing?
"So after this you want to get some food together or something?"
"Eww no." Yep, got that going for me. Smell, no, wait, was I even breathing? Was I physically alive right now? That's not good. I started to panic I attempted to breath through my nose. I still couldn't feel my anything, so I had no idea if air was passing through my nose or if my chest was rising or falling.
I didn't notice that the beeping in the background had gotten more rapid and high pitched. I was too focused on the whole getting air thing right now.
"Whoa! What's going on?" I'm trying to get air, now wake me up!
"His heart rate just jumped way up!"
"This is faster than I've ever seen a pony's go, think he'll be all right?" Did he just say pony?
"Well he isn't a pony." I totally heard pony that time
"Oh we need to know something about this thing!" I'm not a thing! I'm a human that needs to breath right now.
I tried pushing my chest up, flailing my arms but nothing was moving! I resorted to trying to yell or get my lungs to obey some command. I pushed my throat as hard as I mentally could over and over, trying to get any response from it. Finally I felt it, it hurt but it was there, I was coughing up a storm and it hurt my dry throat but I finally felt something.
"What's he doing?" The girl asked timidly.
"I- I think he's coughing." I finally finished with a long deep breath of air, my other senses soon followed. The room I was in smelled funny, like a plant but more bitter. The light blinded me so I closed my eyes again for now. I could feel my clothes on me at least. I tried to get up but my hands wouldn't rise. Oh no, I was shot in the back, so was I paralyzed from the neck down or something?
Not likely I decided after wiggling my toes. I moved my fingers too and they obeyed. I calmed down I felt where my fingers could reach. I was on a bed of some kind, that I could deal with. I could not how ever deal with being strapped to the bed by my wrists and ankles. I gave the strap a tug and it stayed in place. Same went for my ankles.
"What's he doing?" The guy asked while I was in mid tug.
"I-I think he's testing the bonds."
One of them audibly gulped. "Do you think they'll hold?"
Her voice was quieter this time, as if she was scared. "I don't know."
I was getting pretty sick of them talking to me like I wasn't here so I decided to open my eyes and find out who my captors were.
I groaned as I opened my eyes and was met with a light in my face again. I turned my head to my left, where I thought I heard the two strangers talking. I only saw a counter with various tools and supplies across it.
"Huh, where did they go?" I thought out loud. I heard more voices outside the door in front of me but I couldn't understand them. Until they got closer.
"-is awake and stable but we him to be knocked out and put in a more secure location before we can talk to him and determine if he's dangerous." I didn't like the sound of that. I looked at my bonds, turns out they're just leather straps and buckles. I started to give it a shake before I heard a soft hum and fell into darkness again.
***
"Look, I'm just saying that he's our son and he needs to get out more and make some friends."
"No, he's my son and I say he stays here and does some hard labor."
"He's just a boy!"
"He won't be a man by making friends, he needs discipline!"
"Hitting him every time he does something you don't like Isn't right!"
"Telling him it's okay won't teach him anything!"
"What's there to learn!? He's just a kid!"
SMACK!
"Don't you question me you bitch! I'm the king! Everyone listens to ME!"
"Mommy?... Daddy?"
"Get out of here kid, go carve a wooden sword or some shit."
"Okay daddy..."
***
Good old dad, just kidding, he was a dick.
I had no clue where I was, although that might have been because there was a bag over my head and my hands were tied behind my back. There was breathing to my right and even further right, they both sounded tired, I'm guessing they got the same treatment I did.
I have no idea how long we were like that but eventually I heard a door open and multiple sounds like foot steps, but different in some way I couldn't place. The sounds carried all around us, forming what I assumed to be a circle until the breathing on my closer right spoke.
"So do you treat all your guests like this or are we just that special?" That earned a snort of laughter from the stranger and me. Yep, that was Vinnie alright.
"Hey Vinnie what's up?" Brian said to my far right, that solves that mystery.
"Oh, just hanging around, I'm going to guess that other guy is here too?"
"Aww, how sweet of you to remember me." I responded mockingly.
"You know we can't forget about you." Brian snickered.
"This is what happens when you just randomly shoot people." Vinnie tested.
"It wasn't random." I protested, "I was aiming for him specifically because he was the one that was annoying me the most."
"You still shot him." Brian argued.
"Well he was the one that shot back, I gave him a fair warning and he could have just taken it like a man. But no, he had to cry about it and make his friends shoot at us."
"And blow us up." Vinnie interrupted.
"That too."
"After all this time you still think like that?" Brian asked.
"You can't change me." I said flatly.
"Enough." A gruff voice behind us said firmly. "We are going to take the bags off your heads. We expect you to behave, but if you do anything suspicious we will immobilize you."
"How suspicious?" Vinnie tested.
"Even the most minor amount." He responded even more firm.
"Fair enough." Vinnie agreed.
"Sounds good." said Brian.
"Whatever." I responded nonchalantly. I just wanted to see who was responsible for this, because I was fairly sure we weren't in the Corner anymore. My bet was on the Alphas, they were the tribe southwest of us. They relied on technology to keep them safe, turrets, mines, and electric fences mostly. Then again there was a rather large gang running around called the Home Wreckers that have been spotted east of us and are said to us drugs to cripple their targets.
I felt a tug on the bag over my head as the mystery man lifted it off. I took advantage of my sight returning, again, and looked around the room. We were in some round chamber with two wooden doors across from each other, it looked to be all made of white marble of some kind. The really interesting part however was the people surrounding us.
They were ponies.
These weren't those mini horses from the farm either. They were full on colorful, adorable, fluffy little ponies from that show before the darkness, My Little Pony, and they were standing in front of us. I instantly began to pick out the ones I remembered, which wasn't hard because they were all guards except for eight of them.
On the far left was Fluttershy cowering in fear of us, I guess she hadn't seen a human before. Next to her was Rainbow Dash trying to look brave but her eyes told me she was nervous of 'those weird humans'. almost in front of me was Twilight Sparkle staring at us in mixed curiousness and wonder, I think she wanted to study us. To her side was Princess Celestia standing tall and as stoic as she could manage, I didn't even need to look into her eyes to tell she was worried about our behavior around her little ponies. But it was like she was told to not be worried about us and was trying to believe that as much as she could. Luna was next, she was just as worried but more cautious to look at us, like we would hurt her. I sure didn't plan on it, and if either of my friends even thought about it, they wouldn't be breathing for long.
Applejack was just standing there looking at us curiously, trying to figure us out. I laughed inwardly, good luck. Rarity was almost mimicking Applejack, except I think she was looking at our clothes. I guess that would make sense for a dress maker. Pinkie pie was on the far right of my field of vision, and she was already thinking of what to call our party.
I looked to Brian and Vinnie who were already looking expectantly back at me. Brian was trying to say would you do the talking? with his eyes. Vinnie was thinking do the talking. I nodded to the both of them.
I turned back to the ponies surrounding us thinking of how to begin the conversation. "Well?" I asked them. I'm a genius.
Celestia took a step forward, but I saw the hesitation. "Are you not surprised to be here?" she asked as gracefully as she could at the time.
I looked around again, pretending to take in the scenery. "Meh, I've been in weirder situations." I said calmly. Celestia seemed almost taken aback at that. She had expecting much worse, possibly screaming. "Although I would like to ask why and how we got here. Oh, and if you could tell us why you're real would be nice too."
She seemed to relax at my apparent friendliness. "Well I can answer your first question for know, we need your help."
"Oh really? What could ever happen to you peaceful and magical little ponies that would require you to ask help from us?"
Celestia's gaze wavered slightly before locking with my eyes once more. "It will be easier to show you." She answered slowly. She knew something, and she wasn't going to let us know.
"Okay." I stood up and gave a quick pull on the ropes behind my back, breaking them instantly and freeing my hands. "Let's go."
The royal guards surrounding me jumped into a circle around me and all pointed spears and swords at me. "Don't move." One of them growled around his weapon.
I wasn't phased in the slightest, I had no plans of harming these guys, but I needed to get away from all the memories they were bringing back. "Aww, you guys are so cute." I mocked. I randomly plucked the spear out the guards teeth. "But you shouldn't play with sharp things, someone could get hurt."
"Yeah, now he acts tough when surrounded." Vinnie whispered to Brian. He didn't wan't me to hear it I'm sure. Unfortunately for him however, I did.
I threw the spear in my hand at Vinnie and it lodged itself in his bicep. "Ah! Shit!" he yelled.
I was not safe to be around right now, to many memories were flooding back at the moment. "Don't push me." I said slowly. "I'm slipping really bad right now." I turned to the shocked sun princess. "I'm going to go find a place to cool down for a while, maybe consider jumping off a cliff. I have no intention of harming anypony and I most likely never will, so if you'll excuse me." Just like that I walked past all the scared ponies staring at me, thinking I was a monster.
I was.
I am.
Celestia stared at the door the human had just walked out of. She had never seen anything like that in all off her incredibly long life. That human had just attacked his friend without being provoked. She had been told that all humans could be aggressive but never had she expected this. What had happened to him that could have caused him to act like that?
She was interrupted from her thoughts by the human that had recently taken a spear to the arm speaking. "What do you mean?"
"I said no, if you push him anymore right now he'll end up killing you or something, and that was a damn stupid move saying that while he could here you!" The other one responded. They were both standing up now, unbound. It looked like they had used that same spear to cut the rope holding them.
"I didn't know he could hear me!"
"But you said it anyways! I know you're still angry, hell, I'm still angry! But you need to tread lightly about that stuff with him, he's still angrier than both of us combined."
That seemed to calm him down. "Alright." he sighed. "One of these days though we have to settle this."
"Oh we will."
Celestia felt it was time to intervene. "Excuse me but, are you okay?" she asked fully concerned.
Both humans turned to look at her, then they looked at each other, then back to her. She suddenly felt very uncomfortable under their gazes. "What this?" the wounded one asked pointing to the gap in his arm. "Yeah, I'm fine, he went easy on me this time. He was probably trying his best to not scare you."
"Well he didn't do a very good job!" a voice shouted. Everyone turned to see Rainbow Dash with Fluttershy cowering behind her. "Just look at what he did to Flutters!"
"Heh, yeah, sorry about that." Brian said apologetically. "He was just trying to get Vinnie to stop talking." He fixed his friend with a glare.
"He could have just asked" Vinnie said defensively.
"Yeah, because talking to you helped out so much last time." Brian stated, anger seeping into his voice.
"Um excuse me but, what are you two talking about?"
The humans looked down and saw a lavender unicorn looking back at them. They exchanged a quick glance before easily settling on a decision. No
"Oh it's nothing." Vinnie said quickly.
"Doesn't sound like nothing." Twilight pushed.
"It is." he said firmly.
"This certainly didn't go the way I thought it would." Celestia admitted as the human and her student began an argument.
Brian's more sympathetic side showed as he walked up to the princess and tried to comfort her. "It's okay, you couldn't have known what would happen. But I promise that neither me, Vinnie, or our friend will ever do any harm to your subjects." That little bit of conformation helped the alicorn feel a little better. "We may be dangerous people." He continued seriously "but that's only towards bad people and each other."
Celestia laughed a little at that. "Yes, you've certainly proven that today."
Brian smiled and nodded, glad to see the princess happy. "Don't worry, that was a rare occasion. I'm just sorry it had to happen in front of you." He stood up. "Vinnie you should get that looked at." he gestured to his friends arm. "I'm going to find our friend." he began to walk out the same door his friend had earlier but stopped just before it. "Actually." he said turning around. "He might not want to talk to me right now, anyone else wanna cheer him up."
"Oh! oh! oh! I do!" Pinkie pie said bouncing in place, literally.
"Um no, I think he needs something... quieter deary." Rarity said gently.
"Oh, well okay!" Pinkie said equally cheery. "Maybe later."
Brian looked around the room, but everypony seemed to be utterly fascinated by the floor at the moment. Brian sighed, when this first happened he himself had tried to calm his friend down. He remembered how well that worked out, he still felt how well that worked out actually. Ever since then they had always sent somebody else to talk him. He was much less hostile that way.
Luna stepped forward, hesitant at first but nopony seemed to notice. "I.. I could do it." She said softly, but still heard.
Celestia immediately felt the need to protect her younger sister. "Luna, I'm not sure I trust you alone with him." She said quickly.
"Sister how are we to learn anything about these creatures if we do not interact with them? Besides this one already said he is safe to be around." Luna gestured to Brian, then turned to him. "Isn't that right?" she asked.
Brian nodded, "absolutely, he only gets aggressive around me and Vinnie, and that's only under certain conditions. I doubt you'll ever see him do anything like that again. Luna will be safer around him then she would be a royal guard actually."
Celestia mulled it over for a minute. That particular human had already proven himself rather dangerous and she didn't want her little sister to get hurt. On the other hoof this human had promised he was safe around ponies and she did need his help. "Okay" she decided. "Go ahead."
Luna did a small skip of joy on her way out.
Celestia sighed and shook her head slightly before addressing everypony in the room. "If you would all be kind enough to go to sleep for now I promise to explain everything in the morning, the hour is late and we had not intended for this... interruption to happen."
***
"What are you still doing here? There's a full out evacuation going on, why are you still here?"
"I can't leave without you!"
"That's nice, that really is, but you have to."
"Why?"
"Because, I have to end this one way or another."
"No, you have too, I love you too much to let you go!"
"I know, but you have to understand that I love you so much I'm letting you go. So you can live."
"I'm not sure if I can..."
"Go, take care of Eddie. Don't worry Scotty will take care of you two."
O-okay... promise?"
***
"Yeah I promise..."
True to my word I was leaning against the stone railing on a random balcony I found after I walked out on every brony's dream. But it wasn't my dream. I was looking at the base of the mountain that Canterlot was perched on, wondering how long it would take to hit the bottom. I was, at least until I heard more of those strange footsteps behind. I figured out they were hoofsteps now.
"Um... hello?" asked a quite but graceful voice. I calmly glanced behind me and saw Princess Luna standing there, nervously pawing at the ground. I guess she was scared of me after my recent performance, she had every right to be after all.
"Are you going to throw me in the dungeons or are you going to send me back where I belong?" I asked without a trace of concern in my voice.
"What? No!" She said taken aback by my assumptions. "I came up her to simply have a conversation with you, nothing more."
"Okay, sorry. I didn't know what to expect after my little show was all." I usually kept myself in check, I'm not sure what happened back there. Too many memories at once I guess.
"If I might ask" she started cautiously, waiting for conformation that she could. I nodded. "What was that all about?"
I had to choose my words very carefully, if I told her the truth she'd do a back flip out of shock. "Well, you see. There was... an incident, and I was... very sad during it, so I don't like to be reminded of it." Smooth.
"Really?" she asked, clearly not believing me.
"It was really really bad."
"May I ask what this incident was?" she asked jokingly.
I took a deep breath as another memory surfaced. Should I? Absolutely not, she probably doesn't even know what pain feels like, no way I could tell her what the Bloodbath was. "I rather not remember it." I said truthfully.
"Oh, you are serious? I apologize, I thought that perhaps you were..."
"It's fine." I interrupted "You didn't know, I won't hold it against you."
She gave a small laugh at that, it was quite adorable really. "Thank you." she moved closer, getting used to the foreign creature in her land I suppose. "So, are you enjoying the night?" she asked sweetly.
"Enjoying a what?"
"The... night?" she said. Confused by my confusion.
"What's that?" I asked curiously, I've heard about a night before, but never a real one. The sky was nothing but pitch black as I remembered.
Luna almost took a step back. "Please tell me that you are kidding." I shook my head. She was startled for a moment but then she smiled like she had a great idea. I looked into her eyes "I've always wondered what it would look like to see the night for the first time." I couldn't help but be nervous at that thought.
She giggled excitedly and sat down to my left facing me. "Okay, now face me." She instructed. I obeyed. She was practically bursting at this point. "This is going to be so cool." she thought. "Now." she spoke slowly, like she was savoring a fruity drink. Still smiling "look up, but close your eyes."
I was still nervous and had no idea what to expect, but I obliged. I slowly brought up my head until I felt I was facing directly upwards. "Now... open your eyes." I could nearly taste her excitement she was so happy. I soon realized how awful that sounded out of context but I opened my eyes anyways.
What I saw almost took my breath away, above me I saw the second most beautiful sight I've ever seen. It was a brilliant shining sea of lights that danced and twinkled across the vast, open sky. Behind it all was a massive glowing white orb that was greater in size but equal in beauty.
The corners of my mouth almost instantly curved in response. It was truly a beautiful sight. In that moment I lost my self in the night's beauty, I had seen pictures, drawings, and movies of the night, but this was nothing compared to what I was witnessing now. For that moment everything was perfect. There was no secrets I had to keep from my new hosts, no inner demon I had to worry about keeping in check, no Bloodbath. It still felt like she was- I looked back down and frowned. She wasn't still here.
She was still gone. I felt tears forming around my eyes, what I wouldn't give to see her again. What haven't I already given? No. I didn't cry then and I won't cry now, she was strong for me and I had to return the favor.
"Are, are you okay?" Luna asked carefully.
"Yeah" I sniffed "I'm fine, it's really beautiful Luna. Believe me when I say, there are few things that can match, let alone surpass the beauty you created with the night."
Luna blushed at the complement and waved a hoof innocently. "Oh, it was no big deal really."
"Oh yeah?" I teased. "It seemed like a pretty big deal a minute ago."
She giggled "yes well, I've always wondered what it was like to see the night for the first time. Lots of ponies tell me it's nice, but I think they were just being polite, I always wondered if they were telling the truth."
"Trust me." I said gently but firm. "They were."
She blushed again. "thanks, I guess I should say sorry for thinking that you were going to eat everypony."
I was a little shocked at first, me eating a pony was a little far fetched. Then again if I saw some strange creature twice me size lying around the corner one day I would probably assume the worst too. "No, I wouldn't dare hurt a pony. I am sorry about the first immersion I gave you though."
The princess of the night shifted awkwardly. "Heh, yeah. That was.... unexpected."
I scratched the back of my head nervously. "That's not something I normally do, there was just too many wrong things happening at the wrong time I guess."
"Are you ever going to explain that?" She asked growing more bold.
I shrugged "you'll probably figure it out if you pay attention long enough."
"You seem like you have a lot of secrets." she pressed.
"I wont deny it." I answered halfheartedly.
She stood up. "Celly said that she could explain everything in the morning."
"Morning?" I asked while standing up myself. Now that Luna was almost right next to me I could tell she was hardly as tall as me. She was nearly eye level with my chest.
Luna sighed heavily. "You honestly have no knowledge of the sun and the moon?"
"Well princess, in case you didn't already know, there is no sun or moon where I live."
Luna's ears folded back and her face flushed. "Oh.. really?" I nodded. "Oh, my. I'm sorry, I always thought it was a cloudy night whenever I looked."
"Looked?" I asked curiously. "Were you spying on me?"
If possible she seemed to flush even more and took a step back. "Well n- no, not exactly... We just had to figure out if you were dangerous or not, and that happened to involve... observing... you?" she tried for an innocent explanation.
I laughed, no matter what ponies are adorable. "It's fine Luna, I'm not mad at you. In fact, I don't think I could be if I tried. Now when does a morning happen?" I asked.
Luna smiled, grateful for the change of subject. "Oh I have much to teach you." she giggled.
Meanwhile Brian, Vinnie, Celestia and a hoofful of royal guards were walking down one of Canterlot's many hallways, towards where the humans would be staying.
"Well here we are." Celestia said as they arrived at a large set of double doors. "This is where you will be staying while here in Equestria."
"In the same room?" Vinnie asked. After the events that had recently transpired he wasn't sure if he wanted to be in a small room with his friend.
"It's a big room do not worry, is that a problem?" Celestia asked.
"No, just wondering."
"Good, I bid you a good nights rest." She turned to walk towards her own room but stopped as a realization hit her. Turning back to her guests she asked "may I ask what your names are? I do believe we have not properly introduced ourselves."
"Well I'm Vinnie."
"And I'm Brian." After that they both stayed silent, hoping that would be enough for the princess.
"I see, nice to meet you Brian and Vinnie, I am Princess Celestia." She extended a hoof which they both shook. "May I ask what is your friends name?"
Brian and Vinnie exchanged a look, even if they did not have the same ability of their friend they could still tell what the other was thinking. Damn.
"Um, we don't know." Brian said awkwardly.
Celestia became confused. How could a friend not know his own friends name? "You... don't know what his name is?" she asked.
"Yep." Vinnie clarified.
"Why not?" Celestia pried.
The humans exchanged another look. This was exact situation they had wished to avoid. "He never told us." Vinnie said quickly.
"Did you ever ask?"
"Well, yes. But he never told us. He always said he didn't have one, but we're pretty sure he does and just doesn't want to tell us for some reason." Brian elaborated.
"Huh." was all the puzzled alicorn could say, she would have to look into this. "Well, sleep well." she said taking on her princess like tone once more.
They all bid each other a good night and retreated to their beds. I'll need Luna's help to look into this. The sun alicorn thought.
Luna was still laughing uncontrollably as she tried to explain the concept of an evening to me.
"So an evening is between a day and a night?" I asked. As beautiful as the sky was, it was really confusing.
"No!" Luna laughed. She had been laughing a lot recently at my expense, but I didn't mind, as long she wasn't under the impression that I was going to gobble her up. She continued to explain. "An evening is a part of the day, in between an afternoon and a sunset."
I thought about that. "So it goes sunrise, morning, noon, afternoon, evening, and then sunset?"
Luna sighed, still smiling "Yes, now you get it."
I grinned "that wasn't so bad was it?"
"No, it wasn't horrible, is there anything else you need to know?" Luna asked innocently, I think she just wanted another laugh.
I rested my chin in my hand, like I was deep in thought. In reality I was thinking of something ridiculous to ask her. "How big is the moon?"
Luna held out her hooves in front of her about four feet apart. "This big."
My jaw fell slack. "No way."
Luna started giggling again, I only smiled. When she caught her breath again she explained. "Heh, no, I was kidding." she giggled again. "you're so easy to fool. The moon is much larger than that it's," she looked up for the moon but it wasn't there. "Where'd it go?" she wondered out loud.
I looked up in the sky, she was right, there wasn't a moon. I looked around for a minute, half expecting it to jump out and yell 'here I am!'. I spotted it on the horizon behind Luna. "There it is." I said pointing to it.
Luna turned around to look at it. "oh, has it been that long already?" she turned to me. "you need go to sleep."
My shoulders slumped "Do I have to?" I mock whined.
Luna tried to hide another giggle. She shook her head "No you have to rest, we actually brought you here in the morning but you all were in such bad condition that it took a lot longer than we thought it would." She stood up "here, I'll show you to your room."
I stood up and followed the dark alicorn. "Thanks for trusting me." I said as we walked.
Luna smiled at me "and thank you for giving me some good company."
"What are you talking about?" I asked "You walked up to me, and can't you just talk to anypony else?"
Luna's head sunk slightly "well, no. You see I was gone for a millennium and had a hard time catching up with the modern Equestria." she turned back to me. "You're the only pon- I mean human, that has an equally low knowledge of Equestrian society." she smiled sweetly.
I grinned "well I'm happy to be stupid." I said.
Luna laughed "no, you're not stupid-"
"I was kidding." I interrupted.
Another giggle. "Of course." Luna stopped in front of a set of double doors guarded by two unicorns in royal armor. "Well, here is your room" she said in a princess-like voice, probably because there were royal guards here.
I nodded "thank you, I'll see in the morning then."
She nodded back "Yes, sweet dreams." then she quickly turned and trotted down the hallway.
I opened the set of doors and stepped inside. It was a big room, at least as big as four of my rooms combined. There was a large window taking up most of the wall in the back with white gold-trimmed curtains. In the center there was a large marble table surrounded by a cushioned chair on each side of it. Along the walls were various pictures of places and ponies I didn't recognize with shelves and desks donned with vases and more picture frames.
I walked over to one of the doors and opened it, luckily it was one with an unoccupied bed in it. Without a second thought I jumped into it and kicked off my shoes but kept my pistols in place, they weren't as expendable as my shoes so I kept an eye on them. I lay my head down on the pillow and quickly fell asleep.
Luna walked into her bedchambers, ready to get ready for bed. "There you are." a familiar worried voice said behind her.
Luna jumped at the sound of Celestia's voice. "Of course I am here sister, these are my chambers are they not?" she said turning to her sister who stood in the doorway.
Celestia sighed. "I apologize sister, I was more than a little worried with you being alone with that human."
Luna waved a dismissive hoof "no need to worry sister, I am perfectly capable of handling myself. And besides." she trotted over to her nightstand and removed her crown, chest piece, and hoof boots. "He was completely harmless, nice in fact."
Celestia shook her head. "I wouldn't say harmless after what he did in the chamber."
Luna ignored that and began brushing her mane. "He was nice to me nonetheless."
Celestia remembered what she had been here for and stepped closer to her sister. "Speaking of the human Luna, did you happen to catch his name?"
Luna paused her brushing for a second and thought. "No, I hadn't thought to ask." She said as she continued her brushing.
"Well his friends said that they don't know his name either." Celestia said.
"Have you considered that they were making a joke?" Luna asked.
"Well, no." Celestia admitted. "But would you consider possibly looking in his dreams?"
Luna almost dropped her brush. "What? Why would I do such a thing?" Luna said defending her new friend. "Besides you said it was impolite to spy on ponies." she said putting down her brush.
"Yes but, he's not a pony and I'm still not sure bringing him here was a good idea." Celestia paused. "I just want to make sure he's safe to be around."
Luna began to put her mane up in a ponytail. "Sister, you know we can't just put him back now, Maple would be devastated and you should get to know him better before you do anything dramatic." she said as she finished her ponytail.
"How well do you know him?" Celestia countered.
"Sister!." Luna exclaimed. "I would have never guessed you would become so suspicious so quickly." Luna moved to her bed. "But if you still think that way tomorrow I will consider looking in his dreams, but for know I am tired and you must raise the sun soon."
Celestia lowered her head. "You are right Luna, I should not jump to conclusions so soon if I do not know anything about him." she raised her head and saw Luna climbing under her covers. "Good night Lulu, I will see you in the morning."
Her sister smiled. "Good night Tia."