The Royal Protector
Chapter 5: An agreement to end the battle
Once again, J found himself looking at Celestia and Luna. He had his sword in hand; it was continuously sparking with energy. Many things could be done with this sword. Since its power equaled that of J's, it was incredibly powerful. He moved it around in his hands and tilted it. It was utterly weightless. It was like holding something as small as a stick but with the power of a god itself.
J tilted the sword again and thought of his battle plan. He calculated every move of his plan and went over them. He did this for several of his ideas until he came up with one that seemed as it was a good one. J looked down at his sword and charged a little more magic into it causing it to glow a little brighter. He then put the sword behind him and slashed it forward. After the swing was complete, the sword left behind a crescent shape wave of magic that traveled forward very fast. It was headed straight for Celestia but she stepped out of the way just in time. It passed her and collided with the wall 20 feet behind her. Instead of dispatching, it went straight through the wall and brought it down.
Celestia looked behind her and then back at J. She had both fear and determination in her eyes. She looked as if see was trying her best not to lose her composure and freak out. J laughed lightly, these emotions gave him great hope that he could win this battle. He carefully went over his plan one more time and then smiled. He swung his sword four times in rapid succession. Four more crescent wave emerged from the sword and headed straight towards both Luna and Celestia. Again they expertly dodged the waves, they even deflected the first one. However, J was planning on this. He made that last wave bigger than the others. As soon as the fourth one left his sword, he made a dash at the princesses using that fourth wave as cover. As soon as Celestia dodged the fourth one, she saw J behind it as he thrusted his sword at her. Celestia jumped to the side quickly to dodge the blow, J was planning this. From where the sword remained from the thrust, J swung it to the side Celestia was on. He heard a satisfying slicing sound as he drug the sword across Celestia's chest. He didn't get to see it because he had done a spin after the slice. If he hit Celestia with this next swing, he would surely kill her.
J finished his spin and brought his sword down. As he returned to his original direction, he was surprised. Instead of Celestia standing there, he saw Luna standing in front of him. He then felt something block his blow. He looked up and saw an ethereal sword. It was a dark blue color and looked to be surrounded by a blue mist. J was a little surprised, this was literally the first time Luna had directly confronted him. She had actually ruined J's plan. However he ignored her for the time being and looked around. He saw Isabel safely tucked into the corner.
'Maybe if I can break this sword and get past Luna, I can grab Isabel and I could escape into the forest.'
His thought was stopped when he saw something else. He saw a blood trail leading away from the battle; it had to be Celestia's. He followed the trail and it lead behind him. He then heard the galloping of hooves.
'Shit, this is going to hurt.'
J then pushed Luna's sword away from him and turned to face Celestia. He had just enough time to get out a pained grunt as Celestia rammed into him. He was knocked backwards by about 10 feet. J had been punched in the chest and stomach before but this takes the cake. He took a good two minutes to regain his breath and footing. He wondered why Celestia and Luna hadn't attacked him while he was trying to recover from Celestia's attack. He looked up and found out. The cut on Celestia's chest was healed, not even the scar was there.
J groaned a bit, this was going to be a long fight if they kept this up. He had to somehow keep them from helping each other, but how? The answer to J's question came to him in the form of a trick. J took his sword and drove it into the stone floor. He then pulled out his two daggers and reared back to throw them. They flew through the air and straight at Luna. Instead of going straight, they curved and stuck into the stone floor on both sides of Luna.
“Ha!” Luna yelled. “Thou can't even hit me while is stand still. I thought a creature of great power, such as yourself, would have better aim.”
What Luna didn't know is that before J threw the daggers, he enchanted them with a simple yet powerful shield spell. Luna, being as unobservant as she is failed to notice the magic in the daggers. As she constantly made comments about J's aim, she didn't notice the yellow barrier form around her.
“You might want to quit your laughing and open your eyes sister.” Said Celestia.
Luna stopped and looked around her and finally noticed the barrier.
“H-how did you do this without me seeing you cast the spell?” Asked Luna
J smiled, “Let's just say that aim wasn't important when I threw those daggers.
J turned to Celestia who was watching her sister trying to break the barrier. She tried to help but was stopped by J who started to dash at her again. J thrusted his sword at her again only for her to dodge it. He kept swing his sword and Celestia kept dodging. Celestia even tried to use her magic to try and throw J into another wall. He wasn't letting that happen. Every time Celestia tried to use her magic, J would stop it by cutting off the source of the magic. After many more failed attempts from Celestia, J decided it was time to end this.
J thrusted his sword again but this time instead of pulling back and swinging the sword. He took his right hand off the handle and punched Celestia right on the side of her face. Celestia backed away stunned from J's attack. She shook her head and returned her attention to J. Blood began to trickle from the corner of her mouth. Celestia spat the blood out of her mouth and snorted. This time instead of using any kind of tactic, Celestia charged in head first. He fatal error, she was letting her anger and rage get the better of her.
As Celestia neared J, he quickly dodged and readied his sword. Celestia turned and charged again. This time, J stopped her charge with a well-placed palm strike. Celestia jumped to side and started to circle J, more blood trickling from her mouth. J made the first move as he moved closer.
'It's time to end this' thought J as he got closer and closer.
As he got up to Celestia, she turned to deliver a powerful buck to his chest. J duck below the buck and brought his feet forward. He kicked both of his feet forward and delivered a powerful kick to Celestia's stomach that sent her flying. Luna was watching in horror as J knocked Celestia half way across the room with a powerful kick. J looked over to Luna and laughed at her horror. He returned his attention to Celestia who was on the ground trying to recover from the blow she had received. This gave J his chance; he quickly ran over to her and stood over her. He had his sword to her throat and was ready to end her life. He pulled the sword back and started to plunge it.
“STOP!” Yelled a voice behind J.
J looked back and saw Isabel standing behind him.
“Isabel, why do you tell me to stop?” Asked J.
“This is all my fault.” began Isabel. “It's my fault that you attacked those ponies by the rock in the first place. I refused to go to meet princess Celestia with them.”
J was stunned a bit. All of this was started because of that? J didn't have time to think because Celestia had used her magic to sling J off of her. J hit the floor behind Isabel and slid on the floor for a couple feet before stopping. He had gotten up in time to see a bolt of magic flying right at him. However, it was stopped right in front of J. A blackish barrier appeared in front of him where the bolt had struck. J looked over to Isabel who had her horn glowing. Isabel gave Celestia a death stare.
“I've had enough of this fighting. You were going to kill each other over me.”
Isabel was furious, J knew better then to go against his honor and kill royalty. This had to end.
“If it will stop this needless fighting, I will accompany you to your castle.”
Celestia looked stunned; she looked down for a moment and finally answered. “Fine, I shall stop, please have J over there release my sister and we shall go to the castle.”
Isabel didn't miss a beat. “J will only release your sister and I will only go with you under two conditions.”
Celestia snorted slightly. “What are your conditions?”
“One, once we get to this castle of yours, you explain to me why I am so important to you ponies.”
Celestia nodded in agreement at her first term and Isabel continued.
“Two, J comes with us.”
“What?!” Yelled both princesses at the same time.
“I will not allow such a dangerous creature to roam freely in my land.”
Isabel stomped her hoof. “You listen here princess, J wouldn't have been hostile in the first place if Shining Armor hadn't tried to take me forcefully. I assure you that as long as you do not threaten me, J will be peaceful. Hell, you could probably employ him into your guard.”
“What do you mean by employing him?” Asked Celestia.
Isabel looked at J as he nodded. “Where we are from, J had two jobs. One was as a teacher and the other was as The Royal Protector for kings, queens, princes, princesses, dukes, duchesses. He has protected all kinds of royalty.
Celestia was surprised at what Isabel had told her. To think that something so powerful would spend it's time protecting royalty is very surprising. One other question then struck Celestia's mind.
“Why is he so protective over you then?”
“Well, I'm on both sides of J's jobs. I'm from royalty because my father is a king but I am also his student as well. That is why he went as far as fighting a princess for my safety.”
Celestia opened her mouth to speak but was silenced when J walked closer and held his hand up.
“Before you ask any more questions about us I have one I would like to ask you.”
J then pointed to the wall with the runes one it.
“Before we started our little fight, I noticed that wall was covered in runes. Do you by any chance know what those runes are?”
Celestia was hesitant at first but eventually gave into J's question. She trotted slowly over to the wall that J had pointed to and examined it.
“These runes are old equestrian runes, specificity used for high power teleportation rituals. Why do you ask?”
J looked at Isabel and back to Celestia.
“It is a long story but first I need to do something.”
J walked away from Isabel and up to Luna. He pulled each dagger out of the ground which caused the barrier containing Luna to crumble away.
“There, I have released your sister; let us make our way to your castle.”
Luna stood there dumbstruck.
“Why would thou trust us when we tried to kill you?”
J stopped and turned back to Luna before giving a small smile.
“Isabel has agreed to go with you so there is no need to take action against you anymore. However, if you do hurt her, I'll cut your head off, set it on a pike, and parade it through your towns.”
Luna shivered slightly, “Point taken.” She said quietly.
J turned back around and walked back to Isabel. Celestia the perked up in a regal form.
“You have released my sister, I accept your conditions but first I would like to know what land you came from and how you got here.”
Isabel then spoke up. “I would like to tell princess but I would really like for Shining Armor and Twilight Sparkle to be present when we discuss the matter.”
J looked at Isabel confused. “Who?” he asked.
“The ponies we meet at that huge rock were two guards, Shining Armor and Twilight Sparkle.”
J's mouth formed a small “o” as he remembered who Isabel was referring to.
Celestia spoke up again. “I was informed that both Shining and Twilight were taken to our castle to be treated; we shall go there at once.
On that note, Celestia and Luna got closer to J and Isabel. Celestia's horn lit up and a bright flash of white appeared around the group of four. Moments later, the group reappeared in a garden of some sort. There were beautiful plants and animals all around. J even spotted a couple statues. Something was off about them through; they seemed to radiate a little magical energy. J shrugged it off and reminded himself to ask about it later.
J saw Celestia turn and speak up
“Welcome to Canterlot, Isabel and J.”