Blaze flew closer and closer to Canterlot, he never like that city. A city with rich ponies who only cared about making money and that made him sick. He hovered a few meters from the castle, he looked up at it. And it was exactly like he remembered it.
‘This place hasn’t change much, that’s for sure.’ He thought, he flew towards the main door.
He landed in front the castle doors, the guards by the castle door looked at the strange pegasus and his armor, they just gave him a questionable look.
“Can we help you sir?” Asked the guards that was a unicorn.
“Yeah, you can go and tell Celestia that general Blaze Fury is back and I want to talk to her.” Blaze told the guards.
The other guard that was a pegasus snorted. “Yeah right, Blaze Fury died over four hundred years ago. You can’t be him.”
After hearing that Blaze gave them a glare that made them both nervous. “This is an order from your superior officer, go and get princess Celestia now.” He said with some force in his voice.
“Our superior officer is captain Shining Armor not you so take a hike.” Said the unicorn.
Right now, Blaze was pissed off, nopony could talk to him like that. “Either you get the princess or I’m going to use your head like battering ramp.” Those words made both guards laugh and that was big mistake.
Inside the castle the servant was doing their business and guards was standing guard, everything was peacefully. Until the main door open with a bang and one guard flew through it, then a pegasus walk in holding another guard in one of his hand, dragging the guard on the floor. The pegasus was breathing heavily.
“Now, can somepony tell me where princess Celestia is.”
Sometimes Celestia don’t understand why she bother having these meetings, where ponies can come and talk to her about ideas they have. The only ones that comes are the rich one and they are so boring. She had spent the last ten minutes listen to rich snob talking about something, she didn’t know what he was saying anymore because she had stopped listening to him five minutes ago. She just wishes that someone could interrupt this meeting, then the door open and there stood Shining Armor and he was breathing heavily.
“Princess Celestia, I’m apologize for disturbing you and your guest but there’s a problem in the main hall.” She was happy that her wish had come true.
“What’s the meaning of this Shining Armor and why does it look like you have run a mile?” She had to keep her cool, but inside she was happy.
He tried to calm himself down. “I’m sorry to interrupted but like I said there’s a problem in the main hall.”
That caught Celestia’s attention. “What kind of problem?” She asked him.
“There’s stallion that is causing havoc in the main hall, none of our guard can stop him.”
“What does this stallion look like Shining Armor.” She asked.
“I don’t know, one of the guard told me about him and then I ran here to tell you.”
Celestia got up from her chair. “Well, let’s go and talk to this stallion. If you gentlecolts will excuse me.” She left before the rich ponies could say something.
When they arrived at the main hall they could see that the stallion was a pegasus and that he was wearing armour that looked very old, some guard was standing with their swords and spears pointing him, around the stallion lay dozen unconscious guards on the floor and they were unconscious, he was standing so they only could see his back. Shining did not recognize him but Celestia did.
She wasn’t sure if she saw right. “Blaze Fury, is that you?”
That got the attention of Shining and all the guards in the room, Blaze turned around and he didn’t look happy.
“So, you remember my name. I’m touched.” He said with anger in his voice.
“I thought you were dead.”
That made him even more angrier. “Do I look dead to you?” He half shouted.
“No, you don’t. Guards, stand down.” All the guards hesitated, they looked at each other for advice. “I gave you all and order, I said stand down.” She said with more force in her voice, the guards lowered their weapons. “Go back to your post and bring the unconscious guards on the floor to the infirmary.” The guards did as she said.
Celestia looked at Shining. “Captain, cancel all of my appointments for the rest of the day, tell them that I’m with a friend and I will not be disturbed.”
Shining couldn’t believe what he was hearing. “Are you serious your highness?”
Celestia looked into his eyes with a look that made his blood freeze. “Are you disobeying a direct order?” He shook his head. “Good, now do as I say.”
“Yes, princess Celestia.” He saluted.
Blaze who was watching it all was not impressed. “Is this the level of your guards Celestia? It’s pathetic.”
That did Shining not like. “Who are you to judge my guards.”
Before Shining could blink Blaze was standing right in front of him, that made him fall on his ass. “A guard is supposed to obey princess Celestia no matter what and what I just saw was pathetic, your suppose ‘guards’ hesitated when she gave them an order. Maybe you should get some new guards that can actually obey her orders.”
This mad Shining very angry. “Why you…” That is all he could say before Celestia interrupted.
“That’s enough Shining Armor, as much as I hate to admit but general Blaze Fury is right. You did crappy job training these guards, now get up and get back to work.”
Shining mouth fell to the floor when he heard that, he got up. “But princess…”
“Are you questions my words again?” Shining shook his head. “Good, now; GET BACK TO WORK.”
That did it, those guards who wasn’t unconscious help those who was and Shining and the rest went back to work, Celestia sighed and then she looked at Blaze who had big smile on his face.
“What are you smiling at?” She asked him.
“You said that I was right.” He said with some pride in his voice.
She just rolled her eyes of what he said. “You haven’t chance that’s for sure, let’s talk more private in my room.”
They walked away leaving Shining alone. ‘Can he really be Blaze Fury? The legendary guard.’ Shining thought to himself.
When they arrived at Celestia’s room Blaze saw two guards standing guard, both of them were unicorn. Blaze did not like that and Celestia knew that.
“Both of you are dismissed.” Both guards change looks. “I gave both of you an order.” That got their attention, they left in a hurry.
Blaze watched as they left and again he was not impressed, he was about to say something but Celestia gave him a look that told him not do. They enter her room. Well inside Blaze could see that nothing has changed, the usual bed, dress and desk. Then he saw Philomena, they looked eyes and it looked like they stared a staring contest. Then Philomena let out a cry and flew out the window.
Celestia watched as her phoenix flew out the window, she then looked at Blaze. “Every time you enter my room you and Philomena starts a staring contest and then she flies out the window, why’s is that?” She asked Blaze.
Blaze just shrugged his shoulders. “Beat’s me, I don’t think she likes me very much.”
Celestia smiled but when she saw that Blaze was not in a good mod the smile disappeared, she went over to her desk and grabbed a bottle and glass.
“Do you want something to drink Blaze?”
“No, I don’t want a drink what I want to know is why you gave up looking for me.”
She poured some vin in to her glass. “I gave up because I could not find any sign of you, you had just disappeared.”
Blaze was not happy with that answer. “That’s no excuse, you have a horn on your head, you could have used it.”
Celestia took a sip of the wine. “I did, I searched for for a month and I found nothing.” She said in calm voice.
“And yet you declared me dead, you don’t do that unless you see a dead body.” He shouted at her.
Celestia slammed her free hand on the table. “What was I supposed to do? You just disappeared, I tried to ask the zebra king, but he would not say anything.” She said in a stern voice.
Blaze crossed his arms. “Typical zebras, is there a reason you wanted to talk with me?”
“Yes.” Celestia sat down on her chair with a glass of wine in her hand. “I want to know what happened to you four hundred years ago.”
“You want to know what happened? I tell you what happened, I saved your sorry ass from a mad zebra shaman. He hit me some potion and then next thing I know I appeared in a forest near Trottingham, a town I never had heard of.”
“That town was built two hundred years ago.” She then saw that Blaze was not in the mod for history lesson. “Then what?”
“A stallion and his wife help me get better, that took a week and then I flew here. End of story.”
“What was their names?”
“Do you really think I’m going to tell you that?”
“No, but it was worth a try.” She took a sip of her wine. “What are you going to do now? Now that you are you alive and all.”
“I don’t know, you tell me. You are the wise one.”
Celestia but down the glass on her desk. “Tell you what, why don’t we find you a room and then you can think about what you want to do next.” She got up and headed towards the door, but she didn’t get far.
“Don’t bother showing me the way, I know the to the guest rooms.” Blaze walked out from her room faster than she could react.
She just stared where he stood. ‘I have forgotten how fast he is, I think I’ll never get used to that.’ She shocked her head ‘I hope that he will be okay.’ She headed out herself to continue with her duties.
As Blaze walked thought the halls of the castle he got many looks from ponies, many of them were of fear but some of them were out of curiosity. That part came from the pegasus, they were trying to confirm that he was really Blaze Fury. Ever since they were kids they read about how fast he has been and now here he was, walking through the castle. Blaze just ignored the looked he got.
Blaze stopped outside a door he knew was a guestroom, one out of thirty, he didn’t understand why there was so much guestrooms. Just opposite of the door stood an pegasus guard, he had orange and his tail was blue. The guards just keep staring at him with widen eyes.
“What?” Blaze asked the guard.
The guard blinked a couples of time, then he realized that he was staring at his idol. Then the guard tried to look elsewhere then Blaze, but it didn’t work.
“Is there something you want?” Blaze asked the guard.
The guard mustered all the courage he had which right now was very low. “Are you really Blaze Fury.” He managed to get out, somehow.
“Last time I checked.” Blaze isn’t one to have fun but in this chase, he wanted to have some fun with this guard.
“How do I know that you aren’t some fake?” The guard asked with fear in his voice.
Blaze couldn’t help but smile. ‘This pegasus is bold, I give him that.’ He thought. “I don’t know, where is your helmet?”
Now the guard was confused. “My helmet? It’s on my…” He felt for his helmet and notice that it was gone, he stared to panic. “Oh no, I can’t lose my helmet again. The captain is going to have my head if he finds out.”
Blaze just couldn’t believe what he saw, here was a solider that stared to panic over a missing helmet. It was pathetic.
Blaze grabbed the soldier’s shoulders and slammed him against the wall. “Call down and looked at my head.”
The solider did that and he couldn’t believe what he was seeing. “You have my helmet, but how?”
Blaze let go of him. “You wanted proof that I am Blaze Fury.” He removed the helmet from his head and gave it back to the soldiers. “There’s your proof.”
The soldiers took it back with a smile on his face. “You are really Blaze Fury.” The pegasus put the helmet back on his head and then he saluted. “It’s an honour to meet you sir.”
Blaze just rolled his eyes of what the guard did. “Stand down soldier, I don’t think I am a general anymore. To be honest, I don’t think I’m a solider anymore.” He said that last part with some sadness in his voice, he picked up his helmet which was on the floor and put it under his arm.
The solider lowered his hand. “If you say so.”
Blaze pointed at the door. “Is this room taken?” The solider shook his head. “Good, because I’m taking it.” He was about to turned the knob to the door. “What’s your name solider?”
“It’s Flash Sentry sir.”
Blaze smiled. “Nice to meet you Flash.” He went into to room to relax, leaving Flash with a big smile on his face.
When he entered the he first thing he saw was a giant tv, a radio and a small fridge. ‘Technology.’ He just shook his head and went over to chair and removed his armor, he then went over to the tv and took the remote control and pressed the ‘power’ button. Up on the came a unicorn mare that was sitting behind a desk.
“…and that is how you make butter. In other news, next week the king of the zebra kingdom is coming to Equestria to sign a peace treaty after four hundred years. It has been over four hundred years since Equestria and the zebra kingdom was at war, since that day the tension between the two countries has been very fragile. But last week the king said it was time to burry that war ax and bring peace between the two countries, he said that what happened four hundred years ago is in the past and it was time we left it there and looked towards the future.” She shuffles some paper. “And now sports.” Blaze turned off the tv.
He placed the remote control back where he found it. “So, the zebra king is coming to Equestria next week. They may have chance over four hundred years but I don’t trust them.” He then sniffed the air, he smelt a bad odor. ‘What’s that smell?’ He then sniffed himself, he winced back. “That would be me, I better take a shower.” He went to the bathroom to do just that.
After he was finished with the shower he went back to the room and looked at it, right then he felt like he didn’t belong there at all. ‘What am I doing?’ He walked over to the balcony doors and open them and stepped out, as soon as he did that he could feel the wind blow on his fur. After he was finished with the shower he decided to smell his t-shirt and that was a mistake, it smelled very bad, so he just walked out in his pants. “Time to fly a little.” He spread his wings and took to the sky.
After her talk with Blaze, Celestia had to explained to the nobles why she had to leave, they were not happy but Celestia didn’t really care. She was just happy that Blaze showed up and interrupted the meeting, she wasn’t so happy that he had injured her guards. After that she decide to find him and see if he had found a room to sleep in.
She was walking down the castle hall looking for him, she had asked some of the ponies that worked in the castle where Blaze had gone to and now she was walking in that direction. After a while she saw a pegasus guard with a big smile on his face. ‘Sometimes tells me that Blaze have talk with this guard.’ She couldn’t help but smile.
She walked up to the guard. “Excuse me.” When Flash saw who it was he saluted, he did it a little too hard, he hit his head. Celestia couldn’t help but giggle a little of that, she collected herself quickly. “Have you seen Blaze Fury? I don’t know where he went.” She asked the guard.
“He took the guestroom over there your highness.” He said while rubbing his head, he pointed at the closet door to them.
Celestia nodded. “Thank you.” She walked over to the door and knocked on it, no answer. “Blaze, are you in there?” Still no answer, she turned to the guard. “Are you sure he went in this room? She asked him.
“Yes, your highness, I saw it my own eyes.” Flash answered her.
Celestia just nodded, she decided to open the door very carefully. She poked her head in to the room. “Blaze, are you in here?” She looked around and she saw no signed of him. ‘Where is he?’ She walked into the room, she could see his armor lying in a chair. ‘He would never leave without his armor, that I know.’ She couldn’t hear any movement in the bathroom. ‘He’s not in there.’ Then she saw that the balcony door was open, she walked over to it and went out. She looked around the sky and then she noticed an orange tail hanging from a cloud. ‘There you are.’ She spread her wings and flew towards the cloud.
When she arrived at the cloud she could see Blaze just sitting there, what really caught her attention was that he wasn’t wearing a shirt. She could see his firm body, Celestia could feel her cheeks became warm. “Just take a picture already, it would last longer.” That got her back to reality.
She cleared her throat. “May I sit?” She asked him.
Blaze just shrugged his shoulder. “It’s a free country and you are the ruler, do what you want.”
She sat down beside him. “Those things are true.”
They just sat there looking over Canterlot, Celestia looked over to Blaze just wondering how he was holding up. ‘It must not be easy for him, waking up after four hundred years and finding out that Equestria has change so much.’ She couldn’t help but feel bad for him.
“Do you feel outdated Celestia?” Blaze asked her.
That question surprised here. “Where did that come from?”
“When I woke up after I returned I saw all the new things, like a tv and mobile phone I felt like I didn’t belong in this new Equestria. I’m going to ask you again, do you feel outdated?”
“I have to say no, I ‘grew’ up with all the technological wonder that pushed Equestria forward. You could talk to my sister, she had trouble adjusting to all this new stuff.”
“Ah yes, nightmare Moon. Why would I talk to the one who tried to create eternal night in Equestria?”
“My sister has change since that day.” Celestia said with some bride in her voice.
“Whatever you say.” Blaze sighed. “Is there a reason why you came to see me?” He asked her.
“Actually yes.” She went for an envelope in her pants and gave it to Blaze. “Your sister gave me this envelope two weeks after I told her that you disappeared, she told me to hold on to is and give it to you when you returned. I guess she believe that you were alive.”
Blaze took the envelope and read what was write on the front of it. “To my brother when he returns.” He smiled a little of that. “That’s my little sister’s handwriting that’s for sure.” He opened it and stared to read that letter.
“Dear Blaze, if you are reading this letter then it means that you have returned to Equestria, princess Celestia told me that you had died in battle but I didn’t believe here. I asked her if she found your body but she said no and knew that you were alive, so I decide to write this letter to you. When you return I want you to live your life your way and don’t let others to get in your way, I don’t know when you will return but when you do I want you to remember that you have sister that will always love you. Your sister Wind Breeze.”
Blaze couldn’t take it, he broke down in tears. “After all this time, she still makes me cry.”
Celestia smiled. “I only meet you sister when she gave me that letter, she looked like a nice pony.”
“She was always kind to other ponies.”
“Then why were she in a hospital?” Celestia asked him.
Blaze took a deep breath. “She was sick with a disease, I can’t remember what’s it’s call but what I remember that it was no cure and she was dying.” Celestia could see more tears fall from his eyes. “She is the reason I took the job as your personal guard, I needed the money for the hospital bill.”
For the first time in four hundred years Celestia heard the reason, it was for his sister. That made her think about Luna and what she did to her over a thousand years ago, what Blaze did was noble but what she did was selfish.
“That was very kind what you did to your sister.” She told him.
“After our parents died I swore that I would look after her, she was all that I had left.” He lay down on the cloud. “Now it’s only me that’s alive while she is gone, I would say it is irony if not it was so sad.”
Celestia didn’t know what to say, a big brother out lived his little sister like this. That’s not fair. She was about to get up and leave and give him some alone time, but then she happened to look at the letter.
“Blaze, I think there’s more on your letter.”
He lifted up and stared to read the last line. “It seems that my sister created a bank account in my name four hundred year ago, it looked like she wanted me to have money when I came back.” He told her.
“There only one bank in Canterlot so that should be easy, why don’t we two go there tomorrow after breakfast and see how much you have.”
He nodded. “Probably best that you are coming with me, something tells that they won’t believe me that I am me.” He chuckled a little of what he said.
Celestia smiled. “Probably.” She got up. “Well, I’m heading back to the castle. You are coming?”
Blaze shook his head. “Not yet, I’m going to stay her a little longer.”
“Alright, but don’t stay up to late.” She said in a teasing voice.
Blaze just rolled his eyes. “Yes mother.” Celestia jumped of the cloud and flew back to the castle leaving Blaze alone. "What am I going to do?"