Constantine stared at the little colt while the colt starred at Constantine back but in shock as he never seen a human before. John slowly walked to the colt, not wanting to scare him, he then knelt down while putting his left knee up and putting his left arm on his knee, he then raised his right hand out towards the colt.
The colt then began to shake in fear as he buried his face into his hooves thinking that Constantine was gonna hurt him like the demon did to him but more painfully than ever.
He suddenly then felt Constantine’s hand stroking his mane in a gentle way as he also magically made the red marks on the colt go away, which made the colt uncovering his face and looked at Constantine once more. He then smiled at the colt showing him that he wasn’t gonna do anything bad to him.
“You alright, little one?” John asked the colt.
The colt just nodded before saying, “Think so, thanks mr uh....”
Constantine knew he didn’t tell him his name, so before the colt could ask his name, he quickly answered, “John Constantine, but you can call me John or Constantine, I don’t mind which name you choose to call me.”
“Okay,” said the colt, “Thanks for saving me, Constantine.”
Constantine let out a giggle and gently patted the colt on the head before saying, “No need to thank me. Figured it was best to save you than letting that demon hurt you to death, so yeah, totally worth saving you.” He smiled at the colt as he did the same to him.
“So what’s your name, little guy?
The colt’s smile then disappeared as he then had a sad look on his face, he looked down to the ground, closed his eyes and shook his head before saying, “Don’t have a name. Never really had one.”
Constantine went into shock mode after hearing what he just said, why didn’t this colt have a name, and more importantly, why wasn’t he given a name?
“You haven’t got a name?! But why don’t you have one? Didn’t your mother and father ever gave you...”
He suddenly stop as he saw tears coming down the colt’s eyes as he laid down on the ground covering his eyes with his hooves and began to sob once more.
“I d-don’t have a m-mum or dad. I d-didn’t even k-know them.”
Constantine then had a sad look on his face after hearing what the colt said, he couldn’t believe that the colt never got to know his parents nor did his parents gave him a name at all.
“So you’re an orphan then, aren’t you?”
The colt just nodded as he struggled to stop sobbing but still letting his tears run from his eyes.
“Y-you could say that, yeah,” the colt said sadly.
Constantine began to gently stroke the colt’s mane once again as he now felt bad for the little guy, but there was one question he had in mind, why wasn’t he at the orphanage where all the children with no parents or family go to?
“But why weren’t you at the orphanage? I bet the owners there must be worried sick about you right now.”
“I r-ran away from the o-orphanage. I h-hate it there!”
“Why?” Constantine was now even more confuse. “Why did you run away from the orphanage?”
The colt’s tears kept running down his face and he answered, “Because, e-everypony there m-makes me do all t-their work, e-even the owners. T-they would e-even c-call me names s-since I d-don’t have o-one. The o-owners even give me p-punishments if I do the smallest thing w-wrong or d-do t-things I d-didn’t do.”
Constantine was shock on the outside, but angry on the inside, how could the owners do such a thing to the poor colt and let the orphans bully him like that?
“P-please don’t s-send me back, C-Constantine. I d-don’t wanna b-be at that o-orphanage a-again.”
Constant didn’t know what to do, he didn’t wanna take the colt back to the orphanage and let him go through everything he’s been through before running away. He then saw some ink dripping out his horn like he was trying to do a spell or something, Constantine was gonna ask why his horn was dripping ink. But he decided to save that question to the time was right to ask, and there was one more thing he was gonna do, there’s no way he’s gonna take him back to the abusive and bad orphanage.
“Don’t worry, little guy. I’m not gonna send you back to that awful orphanage.”
He then placed his hands on the colt’s shoulders.
“And I promise, whether the owners of the orphanage are looking for you or not, and if there’re more demons running around somewhere. I’ll protect you.”
The colt gave Constantine a smile on his face as tears of joy run down his face and the ink from his horn stopped dripping. But the smile moment didn’t last for long, as both him and Constantine heard hoofs running on the ground. The sound became louder and louder as there was many coming.
As Constantine turned round to see what was making that noise, he and the colt saw what was coming towards them, a group of crystal, purple royal guards with spears were charging like something bad was going on and they were on their way to stop them. Ten of the guards have horns and ten of them had wings.
They stopped about five miles from them as they all pointed their spears towards them, this made the colt shake in fear as they must think that both him and Constantine were a threat and were here to put an end to them.
Constantine stood up and put his hands up in the air while the colt hid behind his legs still shaking in fear.
“Look, I don’t know what’s going on here or why your pointing your spears at us like we're the bad guys you're after,” Constantine said. “But I can assure you, we didn’t do anything wrong.”
“We're not here to arrest you,” replied the light purple Guard with no helmet but just armour and a red short mane and long tail.
“You’re.... you’re not?” The colt asked as he stopped shaking in fear.
“No son,” he answered. “We’re here to take you two to Princess Cadence. She wants to see you two as soon as possible.”
“And how does the princess know about us?” Asked Constantine as he putted his hands down.
“While our Pegasus guards were flying above keeping an eye on the Crystal empire, one of them spotted you fighting a strange looking creature and saving that alicorn colt. So he flew to Cadence, told her all about what he saw and she told us to come find you and take you to her.”
“Okay, one, that strange looking creature is called, a demon. Second, why does she want to us?” Constantine asked in confusion. “I’m not going to meet her till I know why.”
“We’re don't know why she wants to see you two,” he replied. “But we have orders to bring you two in so the princess can see you. Follow us.” With that said the guards all turned and walked back to the Crystal empire.
Constantine and the colt looked at each in confusion as Constantine shrugged his shoulders to him as the two then started to follow them, secretly not knowing what was going.