Chapter Five: Feelings and Thoughts
Silent Wind, getting impatient began to push the blade even though it had already pierced the Changeling's chest. Ignis still felt pain surge through his body again. Despite of how great and "powerful" he was and having several months of trying to stay within his 'Armor of Shade' state, he began to feel a bit woozy and dizzy. There were still the needs for the power he needed in order to stay within his state he was in right now. He quickly said again to answer him once again.
"I'm not going to repeat myself..!" Silent Wind hissed. Despite of all his attempts, Ignis had no will to tell him anything about anything and in fact, he was willing to die to simply keep his pride for Queen Chrysalis. He shakingly brought up his hoof, putting it on top of the conjured blade's edge, giving a small cut on his hoof but this time, he did not grunt in pain.
"You.. shall get nothing.. from me! For even in the brink of death, I shall not betray my loyalty and trust to Chrysalis.. you may think that you are fighting for righteousness but what is righteousness.. heh..heh.. that is the question, Silentblade. I am quite sure you.. know that.. your kind is dead, those you care for gone. Once you are vanquished, there will be no trace of the Silentblades... You may have defeated me.. but you will fall by the other's hooves, your kind shall no longer be-" Ignis was cut off as he felt the blade go up, cutting up his heart. He gave a small gasp as he felt it. The last thing he heard was Silent Wind's now dark-voice.
"Don't speak anymore of the Silentblades." Silent Wind said flatly with a twisted smiled, with small feeling of evil that even Twilight even felt even though it was just a moment of it's feeling. She quickly felt it as he said his words to Ignis.
"What was that feeling that shifted?! It was so dark and cold!" Twilight thought to herself, shaking a bit. Silent Wind stood up, his wind-conjured blade disappearing in the process. He quickly hopped in front of Twilight as he hear Ignis give a piercing scream, disintegrating to ash on his death. Silent Wind reversed his 'Armor of Shade' mode, turning back to his normal self with his silver-colored coat, his azure-blue eyes, and his now exposed soft, spike hair. After all that, he had forgotten that it was still raining as he looked up into the dark-grey sky. He looked behind him, seeing an injured Twilight standing up.
"Twilight, are you okay?!" Silent Wind asked. She nodded slightly and attempted to make several steps towards Silent Wind, but instead, her legs buckled, threatening to make her fall. Silent Wind quickly noticed and flew towards Twilight, catching her by putting his right foreleg around her neck. Twilight shifted her eyes towards the Silentblade's face.
"Here.. let me help." Silent Wind obliged, looking into Twilight's eyes as he was grabbing Twilight's cracked glasses and putting it on her eyes. She quickly sighed in relief as she saw that she had prevented from falling down. Despite being safe, her hooves were burned and she had no chance of even walking normally back to Ponyville.
"Th-Thank you.. but... I think- I think I can walk- ah!" Twilight yelped as she saw Silent Wind duck under her and carry her, with the Silentblade's two forelegs on carrying her lavender back. Silent Wind usually never took 'no' for an answer and decided to just take her back.
"No, I don't think you can walk. Don't worry, I promise not to tell anypony about... this." Silent Wind promised. Twilight nodded as Silent Wind took flight into the air. As Twilight was looking at Ponyville in the horizon, she nervously looked up in Silent Wind's face, who was also looking at Ponyville. She couldn't help but blush at that moment, she particularly never had anypony hold her like she was some kind of princess or what so ever. At that moment, she could somehow feel that she would have some kind of affectionate feeling towards the Silentblade but Silent Wind was way out from that point and only cared to get back home. He rather wouldn't make any connections towards anypony in the world he was in right now otherwise, they would just get sad after realizing his farewell once he defeats Chrysalis and leaves the Alternate world of Equestria and going back into his universe of Equestria.
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Several minutes later, both of them got to Ponyville. Silent Wind was lucky not to sustain any injuries but unfortunately, Twilight's hooves had not severe, but serious burn wounds and was bound to be kept in bed for a day top. As they got near the library, they had forgot that it had stopped raining, causing the dark skies to simply become grey. Silent Wind landed on the ground, with Twilight on his back and walked slowly towards the library to ensure that he wouldn't give pain to Twilight anymore.
As soon as they got inside, the five of the Mane Six gasped, seeing Twilight with burned hooves, bruised cheek and a trickle of blood coming from her mouth. They all ran towards the two, wondering what had just happened.
"Holy Cowbuckles! What'd 'appen out there?!" Applejack yelled. The others nodded, wanting to also know what had happened too.
"Well, Twilight got attacked by a Changeling. Luckily, I took care of it and I saved her. She's got a few injuries but she'll heal up in no time. I hope.. right now, whatever Twilight wanted us to be here for, I guess that it'll have to be postponed till she recovers. Sorry, everypony." Silent Wind explained. Everypony groaned, annoyed of being told to come left. Spike also left and did not stay, wanting to still be with Rarity. Soon, all there was left was the two of them, Silent Wind and Twilight who was injured. Silent Wind quickly brought her up to her bed. He began to look for any kinds of medical items and saw that Twilight was a prepared mare as he found bandages and ointment. Once he needed what he wanted, he flew back to Twilight, bandaging her hooves and her injured head with his mouth and putting ointment on her bruised cheek. He also made sure to wipe the dried blood off her mouth. As soon as he checked, she was fine for now. Silent Wind sat against her bed, sighing as he survived his first day of a war-ripping universe.
"Whew.. survived. But how long?" Silent Wind wondered. All the sudden, a voice he hadn't been hearing for several hours came up within his mind.
"Long enough to know that you're going to do something important for these ponies." It was Shade's voice. He thought that Shade wasn't active since Silent Wind thought that he was inactive because he was teleported to another universe. He didn't have a actual idea how that made sense but it was a decent claim.
"Hey, have you been active the whole time?" Silent Wind asked a thought. Shade was indeed active through the whole time but Shade usually didn't like talking too much. He only talked to help Silent Wind in battle or help him make rather "difficult" decisions.
"Of course, I just don't like talking to.. ponies that much even though I am depicted as an stallion Alicorn myself." Shade admitted. Silent Wind was glad to see Shade still with him but began to frown a bit with a thought on his mind. Oddly, Shade felt the emotion himself and questioned it right away.
"I feel that you are concerned. What is on your mind, Silent Wind?" Shade asked. Silent Wind was sighed, he was slightly thinking about back home. All he wanted was to go back home and hopefully, be with Twilight. Silent Wind rubbed his head with his left hoof, followed by a chuckle.
"Well, I'm just thinking about home.. I feel a bit sad for Twilight. She probably can't stop crying right now.. I wish she could be a bit stronger, but I can't blame her. But, I just don't really know if I'll even get back home. Will I or will I not? I just.. I just thought about that.." Silent Wind said a thought. A small tear streamed down his right cheek, his emotions getting the better of him.
"I am sure that Twilight still has hope that you'll come back. In this world, there is always hope. She cares and loves you so much that she knows that you will come back. So, stop feeling doubt and replace it with belief that you will come back to her. For you are the most important thing to her." Shade said with caring words. Silent Wind was quite surprised by his words of comfort as he usually not that soft. Shade was not usually the comforting type to say such words.
"Thanks, but since when did you get a bit caring?" Silent Wind wondered.
"When you became my host and master, of course. I will always do something to serve or help. That is my duty to protect for that is what your mother and father would have wanted." Shade explained. Silent Wind smiled as Shade mentioned his parents. His parents were both Silentblade leaders but the real leader was his mother, Umbra Silentblade. He never knew much about his mother but he knew that she must've loved him a lot. His father was a strong stallion who was part of the Silentblade bloodline. He was rather fine until the dark, ancient entity, Deathmoon took him. Silent Wind remembered how he defeated Deathmoon, banishing him to the midnight realm.
"Thank you, Shade." Silent Wind thanked.
"Pleasure." Shade replied.
After the conversation, Silent Wind took a small nap against Twilight's bed. It wasn't comfortable, but at least he had his rest. After all the saving and battling, he decided that it was about time to rest his head till tommorow. During a time of rest, he felt his head being tapped. He slowly opened his eyes and looked up, his head facing toward's Twilight's face who was looking down in concern. Silent Wind slowly rised up his head, shaking it in the process. He slightly turned his eyes towards the window, seeing that it was somewhere around midnight.
"Hm? You're awake.." Silent Wind softly said, followed by a long, drawn out yawn as he putted back his head down onto Twilight's bed.
"Um, well you might want to look behind you." Twilight said, pointing her hoof behind him. Silent Wind's eyes opened wide as he heard that somepony was behind him. He particularly didn't like it when somepony creeped behind him. That was, until he saw a yellow light and had a feeling of a positive presence behind him. He shakingly looked behind him and his eyes went wide as he saw that the figure was nopony else other than Princess Celestia.
"P-Princess Celestia?!" Silent Wind surprisingly said. He wondered what Princess Celestia was doing behind them. But all Silent Wind saw was a blank, serious face. It was as if Princess Celestia knew who Silent Wind was and she knew that he was a Silentblade. A former Silentblade, but still a Silentblade by blood and flesh. As Twilight sat in her bed, He raised himself up by standing, looking at Princess Celestia, wanting to ask why she was here but before Silent Wind could do that, he saw that Princess Celestia was going to say something.
"Hm, I knew I had felt something of concern.." Princess Celestia shifted her eyes towards the injured Twilight. "..I see that she has some kind of protector." She finished. Silent Wind nodded. He did feel like a protector. Even a guardian possibly.
"I guess you can say that, Princess." Silent Wind admitted. Princess Celestia wanted to thank Silent Wind for protecting her protege.
"I thank you for protecting my student but.." Princess Celestia stopped. Silent Wind became a bit confused at what else what she was going to say other than "thank you".
"...I was hoping I could to you in private. If you may, of course."