Chapter Six: Conversation with The Princess
"A talk? With you?" Silent Wind questioned. He usually never was asked for a private conversation with the princess even back home. He strafed his head left and right in wonder. Princess Celestia nodded in reply to the Silentblade's question.
"Yes, it will only be a moment. Then, you can go back to care for my student." Princess Celestia promised. Silent Wind turned his head back towards Twilight who was resting her head on her soft pillow. Twilight nodded at Silent Wind, allowing him to go with Princess Celestia onto her balcony.
"Alright then, lead on." Silent Wind said. Princess Celestia walked slowly in front of him, wanting to pick where they would speak in private. Silent Wind followed. In his mind, he clearly wanted to know what Princess Celestia wanted to say to him. He just hoped that it wouldn't be anything bad or anything but bad. He already was in a somewhat, bad situation and did not want to be caught in another one.
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As they both made up to the balcony, Silent Wind sat against the door that led to the balcony that they were on. Princess Celestia simply stood, looking down on the Silentblade as he looked up at her. Silent Wind sighed as he was getting tired of wait for what Princess Celestia wanted to say.
"So, what? What'd you want to talk about?" Silent Wind asked. Princess Celestia was still thinking about what to say. Even though she was in Canterlot, safe from danger, she knew about the Changeling attack that involved Twilight and especially Silent Wind.
"I wanted to talk about what I had saw with you and.. that Changeling Prince." Princess Celestia said, knowing of the Prince. Silent Wind took interest as he heard two things, about the incident that took place with him killing a changeling and including what he killed, was a Changeling Prince. To him, they sounded powerful.
"You saw that? And what did you say about these prince or whatever..?" Silent Wind questioned. Princess Celestia clearly saw that the stallion in front of him was from somewhere else. Even though she was never told that he was from another universe of Equestria.
"I see that you are alien to this world, let me explain more clearly.." Princess Celestia said, clearing her throat. Silent Wind rolled his eyes by the unnecessary actions done by Princess Celestia. "..as you know, this world is in turmoil. Shining Armor and all forces allied to me are fighting the Changelings. Southern from here in the Badlands, where the Changeling main nest is. Though we do not know where it is."
"Why can't you find it?" Silent Wind asked in intriguement. He was slight interested in such things mostly since it gave him a better understanding of the confused world he was very alien to. Celestia happily answered back.
"It isn't simply out in the open, what we only know is that Changelings are rising from underground. Which simply means, their nest must be under the crust of Equestria. It does not matter how it was made down there, but all we want is to destroy it. Doing so will cause Chrysalis' downfall." Princess Celestia explained. Silent Wind began to understand more as he putted the pieces all together. But, his question was still not answered.
"Thanks, but you haven't answered my question yet, what are these "princes" you're talking about?" Silent Wind reminded.
"Oh, of course.. you may have never heard of these princes before nor has my student or her dearest friends. I have forbidden them from going into the fields of battle. The wielders of the Elements of harmony cannot die, since they are our only hope of winning. These princes I mentioned are what you may say.. undead renowned heroes.. reborned as Changelings. I have no hypothesis on how the wretched queen could do such a thing as I know that it is impossible to reanimate dead bodies with simple nests. The Changeling Prince you had just killed was Fire Heart, he was the one to have all knowledge of fire spells. Even more than Star Swirl the Bearded. Yet, I am surprised that you easily defeated him." Princess Celestia admitted.
"You probably never heard of me, My name is Silent Wind. I'm a Silentblade. Well, a former one but still a Silentblade in blood and flesh, of course. You must've felt how I was back there." Silent Wind explained. Princess Celestia was surprised, hearing that the pony in front of her was a Silentblade. At that point, everything began to make a little more sense for Celestia.
"A Silentblade? I hope that you aren't hostile. I am quite surprised that there are still Silentblades alive after the known attack from the Changelings that wiped them all out from this world. What is your story, Silentblade?" Princess Celestia said. Silent Wind's right eye twitched as he once again, hear the agony of the Silentblades wiped out.
"Yeah, well.. long story now.." Silent Wind began. Silent Wind began to tell Princess Celestia everything about him. His whole life, his time in his world and how he was not from the world he was in now. He even told him how he went to the Ponyville of his world, meeting Twilight Sparkle of his world also and falling in love with her. Also how a conflict happened between his kind and The Princess Celestia of his world. Once he was done with that, he explained how he was sucked into the world he was in now and what he had to do to escape. After he was done, Princess Celestia began to take Silent Wind seriously after hearing that he had to kill Chrysalis to bring him back to his realm.
"I see that you must defeat and slay the one whom we are targeting the most in this war, but after seeing what you have done to protect my student, I now trust you. Silent Wind of the Silentblades, will you be my student's guardian? I know that she will allow it." Princess Celestia asked. Silent Wind could not, he had other things that had to be done with his own hooves by himself.
"I can't do that, you must take me to the badlands. I wish to fight." Silent Wind begged. Princess Celestia shooked her head in reply to his plea.
"Patience is something you must have in order to achieve your goal. Sooner or later, I will tell one of my knights will escort you to the badlands under my orders, of course." Princess Celestia said. Silent Wind sighed as he grudgingly nodded, agreeing to protect the librarian mare who was important to the world.
"Fine.. I'll stay here until I'm told I can go." Silent Wind agreed. Princess Celestia moved towards the door as Silent Wind stood up from sitting against the door so that the Alicorn Princess could exit through. But, before Princess Celestia could leave, there were still wonders and questions to be asked by Silent Wind and some by her too. She stopped at the door and looked back at the Silentblade who was now standing up.
"Before I go, you said that you fell in love with another Twilight Sparkle, is that correct..?" Princess Celestia asked.
"Yeah, so? What about it?" Silent Wind questioned. Princess Celestia was about to say something but decided that it would not be best to say anything about it. She shooked her head at Silent Wind.
"It is nothing.. I just wanted to be reminded.." Princess Celestia said. Silent Wind scratched his black, spiked mane with his silver-furred right hoof as Princess Celestia left. As Princess Celestia left, she looked at her student as she was exposed in the moonlight.
"So, will you fall for him too.. Twilight?" Princess Celestia thought. After having a thought, she teleported back to Canterlot, leaving small, sparkling dust, leaving both the Silentblade and the recuperating librarian mare to themselves. Silent Wind was now sitting back down on the balcony floor. He palmed his forehead with his right hoof, looking at his brown bracers as he saw his dark-grey sleeve slide down, exposing the bracers. He slightly breathed down on his dark-blue cloak before standing up and walking back inside. He remembered that Twilight had a saddlebag with her as he went back inside. He quickly remembered that it was in the everfree forest. Despite of it being dark, it did not matter to him.
"She'll probably want her saddlebag in the morning. I'd best get to it...." Silent Wind whispered. He silently walked out of the house, going into the everfree forest.
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As the sun rised up, Twilight moaned at the annoyance of the sunlight in her sight. She began to open her eyes weakly, still slightly injured from the wounds of yesterday. She was about to get up and try to see if she had any strength. But she couldn't. Not that she was hurt, but she could feel something holding down on her hindlegs. She gasped, looking down. But in relief, it was Silent Wind. But not just him, her saddlebag was held within his right hoof. She realized that Silent Wind had left during the night to get it back since she knew that she did not have her saddlebag when they both came back. She smiled at Silent Wind's kindness to go back into danger and get her saddlebag. But, her hindlegs were numb and were asleep. She quickly nudged Silent Wind to wake him up. Silent Wind winded up waking up, his eyes were half-open as he began to awaken.
"C-Can you get off my hindlegs? They're numb.." Twilight pleaded. Silent Wind's eyes went wide as he saw that his chest was on top of Twilight's hindlegs. He quickly flew up, dropping Twilight's saddlebag and hovered in the air.
"Uh..oh! Sorry." Silent Wind apologized. Twilight giggled at Silent Wind's silliness, making Silent Wind blush slightly. Twilight began to feel warm and slightly bright, seeing Silent Wind so positive in such a dark time. It was a while since she ever felt bright and warm.
"It's okay. I want.. to thank you for getting my saddlebag." Twilight thanked as she kept her smile. Silent Wind laughed warmly as he rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment.
"Well.. it's nothin' huge. Anyways, are you feeling a bit better?" Silent Wind wondered. Twilight nodded in reply but when she touched her head bandage, she twitched as she felt a stinging pain, making her yelp not loudly, but loud enough for Silent Wind to hear. Silent Wind quickly brought up both his forelegs as he twitched in surprise, afraid of Twilight causing too much pain to her.
"Ow.. a little. It didn't hurt as much. But my hooves don't really hurt anymore. I should use a restoration spell.." Twilight suggested. Her purple horn began to sparkle as a yellow wind-like aura began to surround her. As it began to disappear, Twilight took off all of her bandages that were put on her. Silent Wind's raised an eyebrow as he saw that her wounds were gone. He wasn't too surprised since in his world, whenever Twilight or he was hurt, she would just use a restoration spell to heal whatever wounds that inflicted upon them. But he knew it took lots of energy just to simply cast one.
"Hehe.. see..? All good.." Twilight panted, exhausted from the use of a spell she had just recently learned. Silent Wind gasped and flew in as he saw Twilight make an attempt to get out of her bed but was about to fall over into the floor. He quickly grabbed her in his arms and brought her in the air with him. Twilight snapped into her senses as she saw her forelegs around the Silentblade's neck and looked up into Silent Wind who was also looking at her too. Both of them blushed, breaking eye contact.
"S-Sorry..." Silent Wind apologized, putting down Twilight near her saddlebag. Silent Wind wanted to know what exactly she was searching for. He slowly ascended down, no long flapping his wings and walking towards Twilight whom was checking her saddlebag. "...so whats in the saddlebag?"
"Oh, it's nothing really. You wouldn't be interested in it." Twilight said. Silent Wind surely would be interested in it. Afterall, why would Twilight go into a dangerous forest? She certainly knew that.
"I would. C'mon, just tell me. If it's a secret, I won't tell anyone. I promise." Silent Wind promised. Twilight didn't particularly know if it would be right to tell a Silentblade about her plans that only she and her friends knew. But, she did feel right around the stallion and he did feel nice with her. How could it go wrong?
"...Okay.. but don't tell anyone about it. Only me and my friends know what we're doing.." Twilight begged. Silent Wind smiled and nodded. Twilight took her saddlebag by her mouth and dropped it between Silent Wind and her. She slowly opened up the bag, making suspense around Silent Wind.
"Oh man, I wonder what she's got in there.. I hope nothing too big or bad."