I paused seeing a white alicorn passing through a wall. I shook my head as a weird confusion came over me making me back up.
“Night Jasper, what is it?” I looked at Princess Celestia having not moved at all, having been in my mind.
“What?”
“You must be tried, did you hear anything I spoke?”
“I am sorry, I did not.”
“Maybe you should rest,” Princess Luna said. “Shining Armor is able to fill in as caption of the guard today, it is his sister which is becoming a princess.”
“Perhaps that.” I couldn’t finish my sentence as my body locked.
“Night Jasper?” Princess Luna asked standing up. She walked over to me and waved her hoof in front of me, but I couldn’t even blink. “Sister?” Princess Celestia walked over to me and walked around me.
“Night Jasper, can you move? Make a noise if you can.” I didn’t know how I was getting air, but my lungs weren’t moving even though I could breathe. “Guards!” Two guards ran over to us, take Night Jasper to the hospital wing immediately!” They ran over to me and tired to pick me up but couldn’t.
“It’s stone!” One of them said feeling my fur. “And why is he covered in ash?”
“What?” Princess Luna asked.
“No one touch him,” Princess Celestia ordered and everyone backed away. “Replace the carpet and burn it, you two go wash and leave not a spot untouched.” She teleported them and picked me up with her magic. “Luna I believe you can handle this.”
“Yes sister.” Princess Celestia walked me to her personal chambers.
“No one is to enter.” The guards nodded by the doors to her bed chambers. She walked over to a bookshelf. “Princess Celestia.” She said and it moved to the side. We walked down a long stone tunnel stopping at a small pool of glowing water. “Night Shadow.” She moved me so we were face to face, allowing me to see her. “This is going to be painful, but this water is pure and can cure any affliction.”
She dipped me into the water and tears ran down my face as it felt like acid burning everything down to my very bone. She completely dipped me into it pulling me out and I let out a mixed painful screech scream of pain. She set me down.
“That, burns.” I said shaking.
“Are you alright?” She asked.
“I can breathe.” I said relieved.
“Good.” She smiled. “Now what happen to you was a magic blow back, you stood in the spot where Shadow and the darkness as Luna called him perished. It happen only once before draining most of the left over energy, turning one of my day guards into pure stone.”
“I didn’t hear about it.”
“It was after the fight and you were in mourning , as was my sister. I did not tell you, I thought the energy had dissipated, but I was wrong, it had enough to stop you from moving, but not enough to turn you to stone, so the energy must be very low and will disappear completely soon.”
“Lucky it’s to the left of the throne, or Princess Twilight Sparkle might have a bad day today.” She giggled a little bit.
“Yes I think getting turned to stone is considered a bad day, but please do not speak of this to others for it may make them fear, and Luna sad.”
“I will not speak of this to any pony.”
“Thank you.”
“What is this place?”
“It is the pool of affliction.” I looked at the glowing water. “It will remove any infection, spell of affliction, normally at the cost of someone’s life, but since I have connected it to myself I can use it an unlimited amount of times.”
“You really are immortal?”
“It is often a grim topic, but yes, I am immortal. I am the embodiment of pure light, so long as the sun shines I will not be able to die no matter what I may do, rather this body gets destroyed, I will not die.”
“That’s good, wait then why do you have guard?” She smiled.
“At first it was a group of ponies which wanted to serve and protect me. I did not intend at first for there to be a guard, but after some horrible things, I found doing it all myself was a hard task. So I made the guards to help protect the ponies from harm. As to why I have guards myself, well that’s because I have an image to uphold as leader. It makes ponies feel safe to know I have guards protecting me.”
“That’s nice, I never thought about it, but it does make me feel good knowing you have protection.” She smiled.
“Now then, how do you feel? And did removing your rage help you?”
“Very much, I can say I love her.” She smiled.
“Wonderful, are you tired?”
“No.”
“Then let’s get to perpetrations. I can hardly wait for Twilight Sparkle to walk down that room to finally become a princess.” She paused. “Oh and do not speak of this place to any pony, if this chamber was ever discovered, it’s power could be used to do great evil.”
“I understand, I will never speak of this room ever again.”
“Thank you.” I followed her out of the chamber into her bed chamber. The bookshelf closed behind us.
I spent the rest of the day being pretty much the understudy of Shining Armor learning how to truly be a great caption, making sure everything was perfect. He was more excited than any pony else.
I didn’t bother trying to get into the throne room, or even stay in Canterlot, I sat on top of the mountain watching the skies as crowds cheered down below in Canterlot. It wasn’t so much that I didn’t care, it was that there simply wasn’t enough room to fit one more guard, and some pony had to watch for attacks from the skies.
“Wohoooo!!!” I looked up seeing Princess Twilight Sparkle shout flying around having fun with her new wings.