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//  Departure from the Republic and the Queen...the night is dark and full of Terrors. 
// Story: Joy of hidden Love and the Wrath of Lust. 
// by FoxofRarity 
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Joy of hidden Love and the Wrath of Lust

By. FoxofRarity	 

Chapter. 60

	Disclaimer- Arthur's note at end. My Little Pony Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro and Lauren Faust. 


In the Crystal Palace.
Princess Cadance lies upon her couch studying picture after picture in an album. The photo album is neither her’s nor Shining Armor’s the album actually belongs to Princess Celestia oddly Cadance didn’t ask if she can borrow it instead she just left a note telling Tia she has the album and will be mailing it back soon.  “Tia always has a big smile whenever she receives so much affection from little colt Gold Sky. But what I can’t figure out is that habit he had I mean probably still has right now if I think about it to smell her, he loves to smell Tia’s hair whenever he hugged her? Sure scent is one way to identify somepony but why does he always do it?  He always does it to Octavia, Rarity, Sweetie Belle, Luna, not me, Gilda most likely, and some other…*Ting*, oh yeah. Father, do you know why?” 

“He’s always been afraid of becoming blind and not being able to identify the ones he loves so that’s why he constantly smells the ponies he loves so he can memorize their scents and identify them since everyone has their own unique scent also he does it more often since he experienced complete blindness in the aftermath of his fight with Nightmare Moon.”  Explained Yahshua. 

“Hmm makes sense.” Cadance told herself. “Thank you, Father.” 

“Of course my dearest daughter.”

Shining Armor comes in to see how his wife is doing. “Looking at a photo album I see.”  He came close to nuzzle the Love of his life. 

“Yeah but it’s not mine it’s one of Tia’s albums.” 

The stallion lied down by Cadance while Cadance covers him with a wing. “That’s nice, now give me a kiss!” 

Cadance delivered a big, big kiss on the cheek. “There you go Shiny.” 

The stallion fluttered with warmth flowing out of his heart. “Ooooh I love you so much Cadance!” Shining Armor suddenly grabbed Cadance’s head and began kissing her a bunch of times on her left cheek making the mare flutter with loving warmth from her heart. 

“But I love you more Shining Armor!” 

After minutes of sharing in loving affection a messenger came in to inform the majesties the subjects want them to inspect the growing crop. Both loving monarchs sighed but Shining Armor gave the last word by kissing Cadance on the lips and told her he’ll do the inspecting so she can continue her relaxation. 

Cadance closed the photo album once seeing her husband and the messenger are out of her sight she closed her eyes to telepathically speak to Tia. 
“Tia, you know what I mean when I say, you need to let it out.”

In the Canterlot Palace. 
Princess Celestia clearly heard the telepathic communication, causing a rapid suppression of sudden facial sadness and freezing emotion. Ever since feeling her heart go cold when the spear went through a certain somepony’s heart she hasn’t quite expressed the bottled up emotions, though she did cry a bit with Octavia but that was more of an act to help the gray mare feel the sadness be reflected. “Rainbow Dash and Spike, I thank you for spending time with me and Spike I am pleased to make you happy today.” 

A low chorus hum came out of Spike’s smile he’s giving Princess Celestia. 

“But some duty calls for me in the Crystal Empire so I have to sadly depart.”Celestia extended her wings. “However, before I go give me my hugs.”

Spike and Rainbow Dash gave Princess Celestia the hugs she wants. “Bye my dears.” Celestia thought of the Princess Cadance’s room and teleported. 

Rainbow Dash cleared her throat. “So Spike what do you feel like doing today?” 

“Uhhhh?” Thought Spike. “Can I go flying on your back and then go cloud hopping?” 

“Sure sounds like fun! Hop on!” Rainbow Dash lowered herself to allow Spike on her back. “Here we go!” 

“Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!” Squealed the purple dragon. 

*Poof* Celestia appeared in Cadance’s room. 

“Tia, glad you can join me.” 

“Join you? You had me come.” Celestia took off her crown and crest but kept her golden horseshoes on. “I don’t have the right to wear my crown in a kingdom I don’t rule over.” 

Cadance rose from her couch. “Tia, there’s no need to remove your crown.”

But Celestia dropped to her rump onto the hard and on a side note cold crystal floor. She didn’t bother getting a cushion or even a thin blanket for that matter. “You want me to let it out don’t you?” 

Cadance rapidly nodded to erase any sort of potential doubt. “Well o-o-of course.”

Celestia’s horn glowed. “Then please don’t mind this because this is the first thing I deeply want to get out first.” Golden magic brought a bucket. “Forgive me Cadance.” After the ushering of those words Celestia vomited. 

Cadance gasped with sheer stupefaction to this. “TIA WHAT’S HAPPENING!?” 

Celestia wiped her mouth and pushed the bucket away. In her magenta eyes, tears that have long been due to be free finally run out and slide down her cheek. “My son…” 

Cadance frowned. “My brother.” 

“My own son…WITH MY OWN SON!!” The white mare roared in unleashed fury. “WHO MADE ME ENGAGE IN SUCH AN ACT WITH MY OWN SON!” 

“Oh that illusion spell curse on Tia.” 

“WHAT HAVE I EVER DONE TO DESERVE THAT!” Celestia wrapped her wings around herself and just lightly cried. “I saw Starswirl when I know he’s in the heavenly paradise. My own son died with this mistaken sin on his shoulders!” 

Cadance inched closer to the white mare. “It isn’t a sin when the sin has been has been cursed upon you and him.” 

Celestia felt her niece wipe away some of the tears. “I wish I took his place.” 

“Your motherly love for him is undying Tia but though you wish it death is afraid to even be near us.” Cadance had to remind Tia of their purity. “But keep on releasing your bottled up pain Tia, you need to let it out for good so you can move on when you see your…” Cadance knows Celestia does not like to referred to as an elder. “Son’s son.” 

Celestia went on with her inner cleansing of the pain. “I, a mother, witnessed my son fighting Nightmare Moon with everything he had. He became the Razor to fight fire with fire and losing limbs when Nightmare’s lightning sliced them off. I remember him roaring like a mad creature when he broke through the wall to punch that mare away from me then I see her throw him to the ground and punch him directly on the heart ending his relentless savage onslaught. My son almost died protecting me and yet I couldn’t protect him! What kind of a mother am I to let him die. I also called him a rapist when I truly knew he is not, I should have given him more affection when he began begging for his life.” 

“Oh my Aunt, Luna, and me.” Cadance went inside Tia’s mind and for the first time sees the agony in Gold Sky’s eyes as he begs Tia for mercy. “As a mother you wanted to take away all of his hurt and set him free but as a Princess you reprimanded him when you shouldn’t have.” 

“Yes, I shouldn’t have acted lukewarm towards him.” Celestia began to cry lightly again. “I have nothing…”

“Tia.” Cadance murmured benignly in a mix of a whisper and moan. “Don’t talk like that. You have me, Twilight Sparkle, Luna, and your dear subjects.” 

“I don’t mean it like that Cadance. I mean, I have nothing to love as much as I loved my son.” 

“Oh.” The fog is now wiped away from the picture. “Come here Tia.” 
The Princess of Love took the Princess of the Sun into her arms. “You have a son, you are a mother, and you shall always be a mother.”  In the terms of the words Cadance is speaking they are in the present tense something Celestia failed in noticing.  “He is alive…” 

“In my heart I know Cadance. Gold Sky is alive in my heart so please don’t start with that annoying cliché, it only works on mortals not me.” Celestia angrily injected. “Let me cry all of my pain and find comfort through your loving encouragement.” 

“Very well, very well Tia. I’ll just be quiet so you can finally cry like you should have when his heart stopped beating.” 

“You put me to good shame Cadance, thanks.” Celestia connected to Luna’s mind. 
 “Sister, I’ll be spending the night in the Crystal Empire and I’m happy for you.” 

“For what Celli?”  Luna asked. 

“For finally having your son by your side.” 

“Oh…thank you, Celli.” Luna looked at the sun to see what time it is. “Thank you sister and I’m sorry.” Useless gesture but yet thoughtful to say the least. 

Cadance for no reason began smiling, she knows Tia can’t see her face and hear the thoughts going about in the mind. “Tia, you may think you have nothing right now but just wait until Gold Sky is standing in front of you. Because in his mind he has only one mare who will always love him. You, oh Immortal Mother.”

“Oh Gold Sky, my son I wish…I wish I can just hold you one last time in my arms. Oh Father please give me back my son! I want my son back!! I want my son back!! Father please!” Celestia begged the Great Spirit and continued crying her maternal pain. 

“My Father already did Tia. It’s just a matter of time.” Cadance whispered in her mind while using Love to shield her thoughts from Luna. It will be beyond heart stabbing for Tia to know her son dies a second time. 
***

Twilight Sparkle and Octavia arrived in the palace jolly like a solid black bee finding a freshly bloomed petunia flower bush. Octavia can't help but feel so happy to find a friendship in Twilight Sparkle the wise mare who is the right hoof of Princess Celestia. On the other end of the tarnished coin Twilight sees Octavia as both an asset and a friend who is more than just a classical musician but a mare who has to adjust and adapt to three different fronts of life. The death of a loving father was, death of a loving husband, and the coming introduction of motherhood of which Octavia can’t tell if she’s fully ready for it though she always had high hopes for that joyous period. 
“Hey Twilight do you like my music?” Octavia asked. 

Twilight smiled a true smile to the gray mare. “I don’t like your music Octavia I deeply appreciate your music. You see your music just speaks to me.” 

“Really?” Octavia never figured her music can speak to anyone, she always thought it pacified and enlightened but speak as Twilight claims? 

“Yeah. Think of it like this. Books speak to me when I read them. They speak to me in the vast knowledge that is accumulated inside the countless words your music on the other hand or hoof speaks to me in the wooden melodies by the seamless flow which slowly wraps around my mind joining with the knowledge from the books.” 

“Oh you mean like the musical notes joining together with the words from books and creating a language for you to understand.” Octavia guessed. 

“I guess you can put it that way Octavia but what I mean by saying your music speaks to me is that your music just takes me to the moment I got my cutie mark one of the greatest moments of my life providing me with immeasurable possibilities to continue reading to not only please her majesty Princess Celestia but to push myself past my limit.”

“Well I’m glad my music can do that for you Twilight, I’m honored to know the second wisest mare appreciates my music very much.” Inside, the gray mare feels a tingling in her chest. “Do you want to join me in my room so I can play some of my best music for you?”

The offer is sooo tempting to even consider turning down. Twilight knows Octavia spent years writing a particular piece of music, such time spent to write a piece like that can only preach perfection and when is perfection is preached from the bow sliding across the strings then there is no question of who the best musician is. “Are you going to play that piece of music you spent six years writing?” 

Octavia slowly smiled a loving smile. “You want to hear that one!” 

“Yes.” Twilight responded. 

Octavia urged the Lavender Unicorn to speed up to a canter so they can reach the palace. Upon reaching the palace Octavia asked to Twilight to please make herself comfortable in the bed. While waiting for Octavia to get the cello out of its case Twilight eyes the picture frame holding the ultrasound photo, Twilight disguises a sigh with a sharp exhale. 
“The immortal child with the epsilon code looks so precious and Octavia will be a good mother like mine.” 

Octavia spun the bow in her right hoof. “It’s been a while since I picked up my bow.” She spun it again and popped her neck. “You know Twilight; I hope I don’t do so bad since I’m going to play the piece out of instinct and without practice.” 

“How long has it been since you last practiced anything Octavia?” Twilight asked. 

“A long time I guess.” Octavia gently laid the bow upon the lightly dusted strings. “This is for you Twilight Sparkle.” 

The music plays and Twilight relishes in a moment of posterity. 

***
In a pure moment of probable to improbable chance or just coincidence there is another pony shedding some tears for the dead Alicorn. No it isn’t Octavia she is almost at peace with his death , not Sweetie Belle who perhaps desperately hopes for his safe return, not Big Macintosh who is the only stallion Gold Sky may trust to even be near him, not Derpy who is still in the dark about everything, not Twilight like she will degrade herself to feel bad for that weakling despite a brief return of her good innocent side, and not Princess Luna. The pony who sheds tears just like the Princess of the Sun is Nurse Redheart.

Redheart lost one child already. For long ago after seeing little Gold Sky get adopted by Princess Celestia, she decided to adopt a child of her own. Of course  her body has not gone into the menopausal phase thanks to the age delaying spell bestowed upon her by Celli but like a double edge sword the spell froze her body cycles preventing her from having children. After adopting a filly, Redheart enjoyed the glory of Motherhood just like Celestia however. Redheart’s daughter aged and she did not. Years went on until that day when Redheart had to call the time her daughter’s lungs gave their last breath. A young mother seeing her old daughter die can have quite an effect. Redheart couldn’t work for weeks, couldn’t be consoled by Celestia, and she didn’t want to go through the same pain again if she adopted another child. 

And with Gold Sky’s death, she lost another child. Redheart wipes away her tears and remembers all of the good times they spent together and smiling at him at his wedding when he turned to look at her as Octavia walks down the aisle towards him. 
“May he…AUUUGHHHH!!!!!!” Redheart slammed her hoof on her desk breaking it into two. “IT’S NOT FAIR!!” Redheart breathes deeply through her enlarged nostrils. “WHY DIDN’T HE KILL THOSE ELITE COMMANDO GUARDS AND RUN AWAY!” Redheart pounds the broken desk breaking it more into pieces. “OF ALL THE DAMN PONIES IN EQUESTRIA I HAD TO LOSE SOMEONE I LOVED! A SOMEONE WHO COULD LIVE FOREVER AND ALLOWED ME TO LOVE HIM AS MY SON!!” Redheart raised her hoof once again. *GASP!*
Amidst the broken wood is the picture frame containing the moment she delivered Gold Sky. Redheart came back to her senses; she bent down to move the broken glass away and pick up the photo. 
“I love you my boy.” 
The white mare hugged the photo and got back to work. 

***
Princess Luna rubs her son’s cheek to wish herself good luck in lowering the Sun for Celestia. 

The sun sets and rises somewhere else. 
***
In the Griffon Republic. 
President Ronald Madison in a place unknown to everyone else sits down to enjoy a early breakfast, next to him and tied to a X shaped rack is a captured griffon assassin. He didn’t kill both assassins who came to kill him he only killed one and knocked the other out and being who he is decided to milk information out of the assassin…his way of course. 
“Well you know what they say.” Ronald begins speaking but does not look at the assassin, instead he looks at his long roundish cylinder shaped breakfast. “One way to make a male speak is to take away the anatomy that makes a male a male.” He spreads some dijorn mustard over his food and begins to cut a piece off. 

The assassin looks down at his poorly bandaged pubic area then he looks at Ronald’s plate with wide eyes. 

Ronald feels the gaze of the assassin. “What?” He notices the assassin eyeballing his breakfast allowing a quick connection of the dots. “Nooooo.” Ronald says in a long near sarcastic drag and picks up his plate for the assassin to see his breakfast in a better light. “Pork sausage. You think I’m some sort of heinous savage?” Ronald almost laughs to this near funny thing. 

The assassin drops his head in relief.

Ronald wipes his mouth with a napkin. “In my tenure as a killer I learned secrets can be worth more than the biggest payment. However, I learned those secrets can be obtained if I take a any means to an end method.” Ronald got up from the table and grabbed the assassin by the chin. “Adding to what I said earlier is this. Ahem, a captured griffon has secrets.” He then poked a section of the assassin’s body where skin has been removed revealing the sensitive under tissue. “A flayed griffon has none.” 

The assassin groaned in pain. “Ple-ple-please…” 

Ronald got his ear close to the assassin’s mouth. “What was that?”  

“Ple-please kill me. K-k-kill me and burn my red cloak.” The assassin begged. 

“Kill you?” Ronald suddenly laughed to the request. “I will kill you whenever I feel like killing you and when you tell me everything I want to know.” 

“I-I told you everything.” 

Ronald let go of the assassin’s chin and rubbed his own. “Did you now?” 

“All of the assassins Mao paid are the only ones that were threat to the Republic. N-n-now they’re all dead.” 

“And the leader of the assassins?” Ronald asks. 

“I think he’s dead too.” 

“You think he’s dead!?” Ronald punched the assassin in stomach. “If you think he’s dead then you’re lying to me therefore making me think there’s still a threat to the Republic so I have to resort to this.” 
Ronald reached for an iron mallet and extends one of the assassin’s wings. “Time to break something.” 

The assassin started to struggle in his binds. “No please don’t, no, no, no, no! Please, please, please! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!” The iron mallet shatters the bones in his wings. “AHHHHHHHH!” The breaking of his wing bones combined with the impacts hurts more than the slow flaying of his skin. 

Ronald stops momentarily. “Now is the leader of the assassins truly dead?” 

“Yes!!! Yes!!!” The assassin cried out in pain “I told you everything now please stop! Pleasssssse!! Pleassssssse!!”

Ronald threw the mallet back onto the table holding his razor sharp scalpels and growls at the assassin. “If you say please one more time I will cut the skin off of your finger tips and you and I know how there’s thousands of nerve receptors in the tips.” He shows the assassin a scalpel. 

“Just kill meeeee. I gave you everything you wanted so just kill me.” 

Ronald gently slides the scalpel over the skinned sections of the assassin’s body. “You just don’t get it do you? You are going to die in the slowest way possible, you deserve such a fate given the fact you were stupid enough to be hired by the fascists along with killing fathers, husbands, and sons of the Griffon Republic. Really, I am offended you fought by their side!” With his other hand Ronald pats assassin’s left cheek. “How sad to see my former brethren go so low.” 

“Wha-what?” 

Ronald smiled again. “How dumb of me, hehehe. I used to be an assassin just like you but after having my share of shedding too much innocent blood I faked my death to start anew in this Republic now years later I am its president and as its president I will make sure there is no future threat.” The tip of the scalpel rested just above the assassin’s right eye. 

The assassin just broke down and starting sobbing. “Why!?” 

“You’re the enemy that’s why.” Ronald moved the scalpel away from the eye. “An enemy that I can just flay the skin off just like I do to a freshly killed stag.” 

“JUST KILLLLLLL MEEEEE!!” The assassin roars with tears running down his cheeks. But unfortunately opened up an opportunity to prolong his suffering. 

Ronald shifted the scalpel in his hand holding it in its operational stance. “What’s the magic word?” 

“PLEASE!!” The assassin is so desperate to end his misery. 

Ronald sadistically smiled at the assassin causing the sobbing to cease. “You said please when I clearly said not to.” 

“No, no, no, no, no, noooooo!! NOOOOOOOO! DON’T, DON’T, DON’T. I’M BEGGING YOU DON’T!!” 
Ronald started with the index finger of the right hand, slowly removing the skin with a drawl movment and what’s more amazing is Ronald’s not flinching at all to the blood curling screams of the assassin which can even make a heartless griffon feel a chill run down its spine. “Now give me some skin!” (Old way to say high five) Ronald slammed his palm into the assassin’s skinless palm. 

“AIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!” 

“Hey where’s your skin?” Ronald asked. “Oh here it is.” He threw the skin onto the assassin’s face. “Well let’s start with the other hand and hope we can see if you can use some TurtleDove moisturizer so your skin won’t get dry.” 

*
Ronald comes out of the room holding the captured assassin wiping the blood off of his hands and dropping the all metal scalpel into a small flaming bowl of green fire to sanitize it. Next to the president is one of his secret service agents. 
“Mr. President, did you milk anything out of the assassin?” 

“More than enough also I want you to give him some food and to drink give him some Tiara Loyal whiskey and make sure to spill some on his chest on purpose.” 

“Why?” The agent asked. 

“He has no skin there, just exposed flesh nerve receptors. Maybe I’ll start with the head tomorrow.” 

Nonetheless, the secret service agent is very disturbed by Ronald’s inflicted horror onto the assassin also it’s going to take a long time to get the screaming out of his head. “Mr. President, don’t you think what you’re doing is…” The agent stopped to the motion of the president’s hand rising. 

“Who are you to question what I do? You are nobody to have a say in this and I don’t even need you to protect me when I took out an assassin myself while a bunch of you were killed by just those two. But I understand your heartfelt concern for the assassin however for the Republic I have to make sure no threat will come. Now do what I said and don’t disobey what I asked you to do is that clear.”  

“Yes Mr. President.” 

“Good and once you’re done you can take the day off.” 
Ronald left and sat down in his presidential desk to read the progress reports about the ongoing treatment of the Republic’s sons. 
***
Colonel Oliver well former Colonel. General Oliver dreams a dream that is a side effect of the war but this dream isn’t a torturous dream other griffons experience; Oliver dreams a calm little walk. 
Oliver fully armored and cloaked, honorably walks towards his troops who upon seeing their beloved Colonel part to make way for him in order to show him every ounce of respect. “Colonel.” One of the soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic greets. 
“Sir.” Another soldier salutes him. 
“Colonel, Colonel, sir, Colonel, sir, sir, Colonel.” Soldiers smile at him, they bask their leader with sublime admiration, and they will follow him to the very ends of the earth without question in either his devotion or theirs. 

However, in this dream none of the soldiers are alive…all of these soldiers smiling at Oliver are his fallen brothers. 
Oliver woke up trying his best not to let Valerie know his scars are being proactive, it’s not like he doesn’t want Valerie’s help he just can’t let her in the light because his son is sleeping under his wing in fact so is Valerie too. The griffon picked up both wings and kissed his wife and son good morning. 
He will fight the whole world or every griffon assassin to protect them. 
Once done with the loving affection for his hearts he eyes something hanging in the corner of his room. 

A golden cloak with five stars. 

***
The sun is slightly below the horizon but its light reached Gilda’s closed eyelids instantly opening them and making her golden eyes focus immediately on the sleeping Alicorn. “Oh daddy.” Gilda tenderly whispers. “I Love you very much.” She reaches down to rub Gold Sky’s right cheek and remembers something from her infancy.  

“Hi, my little Gilda.” Gold Sky, in the early days of his Fatherhood talks to her with his face in her reach so she with her cute little hands can touch him. “Feel my face ow just don’t scrape it, ow, ow, ow please don’t scrape your daddy’s face.” Gold Sky, pulls back his face to allow the wounds to heal. “Ok let’s try again and this time my little Gilda please don’t scratch my face with your talons.” He moved his face closer and through his cheeks can feel the palms of her hands. “Oh my little Gilda, you’re so beautiful and so precious, I can’t decide if this is an illusion or reality but your little talons will pull me in or canter me out. Nuzzle, nuzzle.” The young immortal father nuzzled Gilda’s little tummy and for the first time hears her cute laughter making him smile uncontrollably. “Oh Gilda, I Love you too!”  The immortal father kisses his young daughter’s cute cheeks.   

Suddenly the flashback transformed taking away her father and replaced him with blackness dripping with blood. “OH NO!” Gilda knows where this blackness is leading to and she does not want to even be near that threshold. “Please!” Pleading the blackness to go away. “Not now!” 
Gilda began trembling to the scars. 
*Ba-Dum* A heart beat became a floating orb of light in the blackness. 
“Daddy!” Gilda dropped her head over the scar on Gold Sky’s chest. 

“AHH WHAT THE HECK!!” Such a rude awakening. “Oh.” Gold Sky sees Gilda listening to his heartbeat.  

The beating heart of Gold Sky took Gilda out of the threshold of the bleeding darkness, within her mind the orb of light leads her to a pillar of white light and in the pillar of white light is her father. Gilda gasps, she feels ashamed for being near the threshold but her father does not care, he is a father who does not judge nor oppresses his daughter because she has fear in her, he is a father who only knows to Love and guide. So what does Gilda’s father do? Simple, he extends his arms smiling lovingly as he does and waits for Gilda to make her move. “Daddy?” Gilda calls to her father out just to make sure he won’t disappear the moment she starts running. “Daddy!” She begins running towards his arms…she runs to her father…she runs to be embraced by his undying Love…she runs to her father to be protected from the cruelness of fighting the war and being haunted by the guilt of taking lives, even though they’re the enemy’s lives a life is still a life. “Daddy!!!” 
Through the heartbeat she is embraced by her father, his Love comforts her and takes her up into the pillar of light away from threshold and into a world of true paradise. A paradise where her and her father are together…the perfect family. 

Gilda opens her eyes. “Good morning daddy.” She says with soft happiness. 

“Hello sweetheart.” Gold Sky passed his hoof down Gilda’s cheek. “Your scars from the war came to you didn’t they?” Amazing how the father knows what troubles his daughter.

“Yes.” 

Gold Sky pushed Gilda’s head off his beating heart to allow him to get up and sit on his bed. “Come here sweetheart.” 

Gilda went into his arms and hugged him tightly. “Daddy, I’m sorry for watching over you while you slept. You’re stronger than me and I have no right to think you’re weak because you take pills an-and I’m sorry.” 

Gold Sky kissed Gilda’s head and softly stroked the back of her head. “You having nothing to be sorry for Gilda, it’s okay to think I’m weak because I am weak and you know why. I don’t care what others and you say…what I did to you will always be a sin. I will make it up to you I promise but don’t forget my sin is that clear my dearest daughter?” 

Gilda nodded. 

“Thank you, sweetheart. Anyway, I’ll cook you a hearty breakfast. C’mon.” He told Gilda to wait in the dining while he goes to wake up his blood sister. 
“Rarity.” Gold Sky whispers in the cute little right ear. “Rarity it’s time to wake up, yoohoo.” He nuzzled her on the cheek. “Hmmmm, she must be in deep sleep still.” 

The cute little right ear flickered, gliding over Gold Sky’s nearby cheek giving a moment of tickling enjoyment. “I’m not in deep sleep Gold Sky, I was in my pretend sleep waiting for you to fall for the trick.” Rarity leapt off her bed taking her blood brother into an embrace so tight it popped his bones for a change. “Muah, muah, muah…muah, muah!”  Rarity is kissing Gold Sky so many times in the cheek and head knowing he enjoys such affection. “You want some more Gold Sky?” 

“Yes!” 
The big sister continued with the adorable kisses, somehow if one were to see this and let their imagination be loose for a bit they will see a younger Rarity with a much, much younger Gold Sky in her arms being showered with loving kisses. Nothing like the Love of an older sister. 

“I love you Gold Sky. I love you very much!” Rarity brought an end to the affection to just hug and nuzzle him. “Oh Gold Sky, I want you to know I’m glad for you to be the first thing I see when I wake up.” 

“I love you too Rarity.” Gold Sky took a whiff of Rarity’s scent. “Rarity you are reason I ran across the entire universe to save you from Twilight Sparkle, I ran faster than light from the heavenly paradise to you. Rarity, I wish I read your mind earlier then…” Gold Sky, stopped, he’s going back to the pointless past. He’s acting weak in front of his sister when he’s should only be acting weak to his daughter. “Come I’ll make you a yummy breakfast before I start saying goodbye.” 

Rarity pulled herself away with a look of just awakened question. “Goodbye?” 

“We’re leaving the Griffon Republic today but we will not be going directly to Equestria first until tomorrow. When, I was in your mind I saw your inner conflict with extracting vengeance, Twilight is your friend and you two are very close. You want to hurt her while at the same time you want to find rationalization with her. You have to fight it; deep down you have to fight something you love. You hesitated in your first fight allowing Twilight to temporary paralyze you and in your second fight you didn’t use that sudden powerful burst of power in you to its full potential also you gave Twilight too much time to recover.”  Gold Sky knows what can help Rarity along with providing him silver and valyrian steel to make Rarity her own armor along with making his own too. It’s time to let go of his birthfather’s armor. 

Rarity’s lower lip dropped a few centimeters figuring how Gold Sky will help her with the mental inability. “What do you plan to do?” 

“You’ll see sister.” Gold Sky, knows if he tells her his intention right now she will not want trust him in this aspect of his judgment. “You’ll see soon enough.” 

The sister joined Gilda and a just awakened Judith in the dining room. In the kitchen Gold Sky cooks up a storm making Gilda’s second favorite breakfast which is an omelet with a cheese known for having a lot of holes in it plus some poultry cubes for flavor. For Rarity he made her fancy toast stuffed with fluffy cream and on the side a spinach salad. And lastly for Judith he made her the best stag steak he can make for her along with an éclair filled to the brim with milk chocolate. “I remember Pinkie teaching me how to make these.” With his back to the trio waiting, Gold Sky paused to prevent tears to form. He misses Pinkie Pie very much and he also misses Rainbow Dash, Redheart, and Derpy. “I miss my friends.” Gold Sky lowered his head with closed eyes. “I miss them. I want to hear Rainbow’s kind but harsh jokes, I want to feel Redheart’s nursing mother like affection, and Derpy’s fun workme…workponiesship.” *sigh* “I have to wait some more, I have to wait and then I can see my dear friends again and give them all tight hugs!”
Gold Sky’s magic held the four plates in the air and made his way to the dinner table however, in thinking about his dear friends he remembered one more who made a scary chill run down his spine and reminded him to take his Lorazepam. “I miss Big McIntosh too.”  Gold Sky does not trust stallions and males in general; a male hurt him in a vile way and because of that vile act he now only trusts one male or two if Oliver is included. 

“Here you go and I’ll be right back. Jump” *Poof* Gold Sky teleported to get his medication. “Uh oh.” His right hoof is shaking uncontrollably prompting him to hyperventilate. “Must take it!” Now comes the task of opening a bottle designed specifically for griffon hands. 

At the table Gilda shot Rarity and Judith a sharp expression stopping them from digging in. “We’ll eat once daddy gets back okay!”  

“Fine!” Rarity and Judith replied. 

“Dang it can’t open it!” Gold Sky’s shaking hoof is preventing him from opening the bottle. 
He can use his magic to open the bottle but being who is and doing almost every task by hoof the thought of magic has yet to cross his mind. 

Gilda senses her father’s turmoil. “Daddy.” 

Gold Sky felt his daughter’s love allowing some calmness to stop his hoof from shaking. “There got that hectic pill.” *Gulp with no water* “Ugh tastes yucky but should keep it at bay for now.” 

Gold Sky joined the rest at the table and breakfast began. Today, ends will come and departure will occur. The end and beginning for Judith comes today.  Gold Sky will let go of the silver armor passed down from his birthfather. Gilda will now be with her father. Rarity will get over the inability caused by friendship.  
Things can never be so lukewarm. 
***
*One hour later* 

Judith finished her breakfast, today is the day she will admitted into the skilled nursing facility. The end of her memories has began long ago but today will be the beginning for seeing her eldest son day after day, hearing word after word come out of his mouth, and being with him until the last thing she can remember doing or in other words the last thing she will ever do in order to live is breath. Judith reaches out to touch Gold Sky’s hoof and Gilda’s hand, nothing means more to her then to see this parent be with their child. “Gold Sky, the time has come for me to go. Gilda the time has for you to leave this place. You have nothing here anymore because all you have now is your father your true father. Go Gilda, truth has come to you therefore follow your heart.” By following her heart Judith wants Gilda to leave the Republic and be with Gold Sky. 

“Good bye…mom.” Is all what Gilda can muster up to say.

“Come Gold Sky let’s go.” Judith will not hesitate. Hesitation makes things unsubtle.

With Gold Sky and Judith out of the house, Gilda can express more of herself for seeing the end come to a kind griffon. “Aunt Rarity is it alright if I can hug you ri-ri-right now?” 

Like Gold Sky, Rarity understands, these are Gilda’s true colors. “Of course my dearest niece.” For what may seem like the first time even though it bloody hell isn’t Rarity took Gilda into her arms. 

“Well here we are Gold Sky, this is the place I’ll be living in from now on.” Judith picked her head up to read the sign of the facility. “Goshen skilled nursing facility, sounds pretty nice no?” 

“Judith.” Gold Sky nearly growled. “You know this doesn’t have to happen, this path doesn’t need to be walked.” 

Judith patted Gold Sky’s shoulder. “We already had this discussion Gold Sky and again thank you for your undying compassion.” She scratched his chin a few times to relax him. “Let’s go inside.” 

Judith and Gold Sky, went inside the pleasant looking facility outlined with green lawns, rustic feeling interior which is expanded upon by wood flooring, warm paint colors of wood brown and dark yellow, chefs to cook homely foods, and employees to keep the crumbling mind filled with hope through lies. “Well hello there you two, welcome to Goshen skilled nursing facility.” A male nurse greeted both of them and got in between them. “I’ll be more than happy to give you two a nice tour of the place, for free!” The nurse expanded his wings so he can nudge the duo to move forward but before making physical contact with the Alicorn. 

“Don’t touch me.” Gold Sky’s horn is near the verge of glowing. 

“Excuse me?” The nurse started to feel like the pony is irritated. 

“I’m germophobe.”  Quick thinking to erase any building uncertainty. 

“Oh!” The nurse chuckled. “Well sorry about that. Anyway before we start the tour can you please tell me the reason for you two for visiting especially you oh fallen guardian angel of the Griffon Republic?” 

“They just won’t quit calling me that will they.” Gold Sky said to himself. 

“Today is my admission day as for him he’s just accompanying me to make sure everything goes smooth before he leaves.” Said Judith. 

The nurse cleared his throat and led both to the office of the director of nurses named Kara Lorz. “Hello, Ms. Judith and fallen guardian angel of the republic.” 

“Seriously, why do I even bother getting annoyed by this.” 

Discreetly, Kara is very afraid to have the pony sitting just desk length away from her. She has heard how this pony ripped Mao apart, killed a griffon who fought him in the business district, along with getting two hundred lashes to the back and no sign of scars to prove he’s even been flogged. But for Judith, Kara has to maintain her composure in order for everything to be well structured in the care plans. It’s like she making herself be more composed not through her own well but through something else making her.” 

Gold Sky’s telepathy is doing his part to ensure the best care for Judith. 

“Ms. Judith as you can see here in the paperwork it says you do not want any form of medications can you confirm this intention to me please?” 

“I do not want medications; I don’t want to delay the inevitable if you get what I mean.” 

Kara flipped a page in the care plan. “I understand what you mean Ms. Judith. Also just to conform you wish to be code DNR right?” 

“DNR??” Judith asked. 

“Do not resuscitate.” Gold Sky filled in. 

“Oh, yes that is what I want.” 

Kara swallowed her saliva. “Th-thank you, anyway, you will be on a regular diet, private room, nurses at hand to keep a weather eye on you, and other things you asked for. But I’m curious, why is he here with you?” Kara points at Gold Sky. 

“He’s my next in line.” Judith placed her left hand on Gold Sky’s right hoof. 

“In kin?” Kara asked.   

“Yes.” Judith answered. 

“Well.” Kara is almost unnerved to hear this. “How nice but it also says you have nine living children, why haven’t you made them a part of your advanced directives?” 

“They abandoned me.” 

Kara closed the care plan. “So this pony is all she has even though she has not mentioned anywhere to let him visit her nor to expect any future contact from him. Hmmm, odd but the faster I get this over with then the sooner he’ll leave.” Her eyes did a quick pass over the pony to perform a quick superficial assessment. “He has such lovely and loving eyes. A scar over his belly and a scar over his heart. This angel must have had his fair share of battle. Still, how can he have magenta eyes and be totally accepting of them? With such a color near pink I would think he’ll be wearing colored contacts but why would he care? He has ripped Mao apart after all.” 
Kara suddenly got the thought to call in the entire staff that will be taking care of Judith. “Ms. Judith allow me to show you the entire staff involved in your care.” 
The nurse outside rounded up everyone. 

“Perfect, this is for you Judith.” Gold Sky’s telepathy went into every mind to permanently engrave in their psyches to provide Judith the best care from this day to her death. “That should do it.” 

Kara pointed to a little bowl full of candy. “Will you like some candy?” 

“Thank you.” Judith took some chocolate. 

“Pony?” 

“No thank you.” 

Kara had all the staff leave. “Ms. Judith, I’ll be taking you to your room.” 

Judith took a look at Gold Sky, she silently tells him the end is near and a new beginning is near. Gold Sky, extended his wing over Judith to let her feel his Love for as long the remaining minutes last. Because as soon they reach the room the end comes for good. “Até, iyókípi awáŋƴanka  Judith.” Gold Sky asked Yahshua. 

“I will my son.” 

Kara stood by the entrance of Judith’s new room. “Enter at your own pace Ms. Judith.” 

Judith looked again at Gold Sky, the time she had being the griffon she has always been will be numbered the instant she steps into her new home. The stage she is currently in is drawing close to its end. When stage three comes nothing can be done to bring back the Judith she has always been, the stage she is in may be the last of herself. Gold Sky knows this and has to accept it for Judith’s sake, this is something she wants and yes, it is sad in all fronts but free will chooses the sadness so if this is what Judith wants then Gold Sky has no right AT ALL to change fate or cure it. “Judith.” Gold Sky called out to her in a sad voice. “Please.” But he is still in the progress of accepting her fate. 

Judith touched his cheek for the last time. “Thank you, for your compassion Gold Sky. I wish we had the chance to know each other like best friends and parents. If I can think of better words then I’ll tell you them…take care of your daughter, please don’t die again, and always do anything to protect what you Love. Thank you Gold Sky for everything, thank you for everything and.” She glanced over to her room. “Come with me.” The hand on the pony’s cheek moved to the front of him. “Just come with me, that’s all I’m asking.”

“All right.” Gold Sky placed his hoof in Judith’s hand, going in with her sealing the acceptance he has to accept. “Oh Judith your room looks so nice.” 

“Why thank you pony! I personally designed it myself so it’s specially made for griffons with dementia.” Clearly Kara does not wish to attract Gold Sky’s attention by saying his name. 

“It is isn’t it Gold Sky.” Judith spun around in her room like a child will do when accustoming to new surroundings. Suddenly she stopped spinning. Her eyes widened like she’s sees somebody, this is a hallucination of course but what’s more important is who she’s hallucinating. Judith put’s out her hand to someone who’s not so here. “There he is! I see him! I see him!”

“See who?” Gold Sky asks.

“I-I see my son! He’s here with me!” Tears ran out of happy eyes. 

Gold Sky frowned to Judith’s abrupt happiness. “I wish…huh!!!” Now he sees him! He sees Judith’s eldest son. “I…I-I see him too! This can’t be!” 

“Isn’t my son beautiful Gold Sky!” Judith introduced her son to the Alicorn. 

Kara on the other hand or okay just hand takes what Gold Sky is doing the wrong way. “How kind of the fallen angel to go along with Judith’s hallucination.” 

From the invisible heavens Lauren came down to whisper something in Gold Sky’s ear. “Your time to leave has come. Go now before you attempt to change fate.”  

Gold Sky tapped Judith’s shoulder to get her attention. “Judith, I guess this is goodbye. Goodbye Judith.” He hugged her for the last time and left the griffon so she can relish in her son’s presence.
Outside of the room Kara stopped Gold Sky. “Hey uh pony, look it was very kind of you to go along with her hallucination. So thank you.” 

“I was not going along with the hallucination Kara, I saw what Judith sees and before you question my sanity, I will tell you I am a telepath and I did not need to use my ability to see what she’s seeing.” 

Kara stopped a giggle from coming out. “Oooookay weird.” 

“Weird, that you can hear my voice without seeing my lips move?” 

*Gasp!* “Oh my Great Spirit, you are a telepath!” Kara’s fear fully engulfed her bringing about trembling and rapid respirations. 

“Please open your eyes Kara and look inside Judith’s room, what I saw may be an act of divine intervention or something else either way I leave the Republic today also before I leave this place. Please take care of her. Good Bye Kara, we will never see each other again.” He glanced over at Judith who sits on her bed talking with her eldest son. 

Kara shook her head to sound of the pony’s hoofsteps. “Hey wait!”

Gold Sky stops. 

“Are you truly an angel??” 

“I am no angel Kara never was, never well. I am simply Yahshua’s son, the Son of the Great Spirit. Jump.”  *poof* 

“Damn.” Kara sighed and as she turned around to head back,but her attention gets caught by the unreal. “Ooh damn he's right!!” 
Kara sees Judith’s eldest son. 
For the first and last time. 
This day marks the beginning for Judith’s deteriorating end. May it be painless…may it be merciful…may her son be by her side. 
***

*Poof* Gold Sky reappeared in front of Gilda and Rarity. 

“Daddy!” Gilda is happy to see Gold Sky and instantly runs to him. 

“Sweetheart don’t.” Gold Sky kept Gilda away with his arm. “I-I need to take in something.” He fell to his knees, muffling his cries for Judith and shutting his eyes tight. “Why did she choose this fate when I could have changed it for her own good!” Sadly his attempts to muffle his cries failed. “Why! I killed innocent children and innocent baby dragons but yet I live! Twice! Judith has done nothing wrong and she will have a terrible fate. Life is cruel and I know it.” 

Rarity took a step forward to comfort her brother but Gilda shot out a wing stopping the white mare in her tracks. “Gilda, is being a little selfish right now but I can’t blame her for wanting Gold Sky all for herself.” Rarity thinks. “I know Gold Sky will explain later about killing innocent children.”

Gilda gets down and wraps her arms around Gold Sky’s head, hugging it tightly. “Daddy it’s okay, whatever happens to Judith is what she wanted so please don’t be so sad over her choice. We all make choices in life, some good and others not so good…” Interrupted. 

“Please stop with this sweetheart, just stop. Hug me and be quiet.” 
Gilda sealed her mouth shut and hugged her father’s head with great love. Rarity tried to join in the hug but ended up getting pushed away by the griffon. 

“How rude!”  Gilda sure has a bad case of MINE!

After five minutes Gold Sky got up and deeply sighed. “Gilda, you have something you need to do. Come let’s go, Rarity you’re coming too.” His horn glowed to don his cloak. “Oh almost forgot.” His magic slipped on his silver horseshoes while the helmet and body armor float above him. 

“What is Gilda going to do Gold Sky?” Rarity asks. 

Before answering Gilda gave Rarity a soft bump on the side. “I am erasing all ties with the Republic today.” 

“Okay.” Rarity lovingly rubbed Gold Sky’s head before leaving the house. 

***
In the barracks Sherman is talking with General Oliver delivering points like being fair with future female soldiers and by fair the training regiment will not be toned down and will remain the same for both sexes since the future female soldiers will be protecting the Republic and must be kept at peak strength so with that upmost duty nothing can be toned down. Maintain discipline through strength and cunning, a huge checkmark can be given to Oliver in that point. Keep his big heart. Don’t get a battle scar in the neck. Keep love ones close for when the chips fall they are the last ones to keep him out of the darkness. 
“But sir why did you pick me? They were hundreds of potential griffons and Gilda too.” 

Sherman shrugged his shoulders. “You have a big heart Oliver and big heart prevents future wars. Gilda does not have a big heart also Operation Overlord was planned out of revenge not of any strategic importance.” 

“Then why did you approve it!?” 

“Call it luck or just chance but the plan she came up with was suffice.” 

“Suffice?” Oliver asked.

“The operation was carried out in night plus the fascist’s pride is something I knew will make the operation successful.” 

Oliver didn’t say anything to this bit of information. “So you always had me as your first choice to be your heir sir?” 

“Yeah I did. Anyway Oliver, on the desk are the plans for the coming conquest and in case you’re curious enlistment has gone through the roof therefore it allows our current veterans to be treated of course if they feel they want to be a part of the conquest then you should let them because it is their choice.” Sherman from out of nowhere saluted Oliver. “You will be a good general Oliver, just protect the Republic and please stay loyal to the citizens and not to the government.” 

Oliver saluted. “Thank you sir.” 

Sherman smiled and gave Oliver a nod of respect. “I am going to enjoy my much deserved retirement please don’t come to me for advice. I will simply blow you off also I’ll be spending more, more time with my daughters. Bye.”

“Sir wait!” 

“Yes?” 

Oliver scratched the back of his head to the question he’ll be asking. “What is your first name sir?” 

Another happy smile formed on Sherman’s lips. “Marty.” And with that Sherman left. 

Oliver got all of his armor on before making his way to see his troops training; he’s pleased to know that some females have enlisted due on part through Colonel Gilda, though he knows time will weed out the strong females from the weak females just like it weeds out the strong males from the weak males. Overall, he’s very impressed with Deborah Samson and surprisingly with Frances Clalin another female who enlisted too but unlike Deborah she is smaller in size but not in height she is the same height as Oliver, less muscle mass, and has a very cute voice. These two females have the best chance to complete the training as for the rest of the females they all have the potential they just have to show it. “I wish Gilda was here to inspire the female Pvts. Oh.”  He saw one of the male Pvts get bonked on the head by Deborah with a bo staff. A new weapon he has introduced to the military forces because he is masterful with the spear and when the spear loses its spearhead it can still be a weapon therefore Oliver saw an opportunity to teach his soldiers the skill he possesses. “She is pretty good with the bo staff. OH! That’s got to hurt.” A double team consisting of a female and male both got beaten by Deborah. 

The spear instructor who is whistling casually inched behind the crowd. 

“Ha!” Deborah laughs. “Is there anyone who can best me with the Bo staff!” She declares. 

A male Pvt stepped forward but got pulled back by Francis. “I will take you on!” She steps up the challenge. *Four seconds later* “Ooooooh my head oooooow, my head.” Deborah got her pretty good. 

Oliver smiles to himself to this nice show of skill from this griffon, he began thinking about Gilda losing challenge after challenge before finally winning challenge after challenge. “Perhaps she may be a reflection of Colonel Gilda.” 

Deborah, spun the staff around. “This is pathetic! None of you males and females are no match for me, I will be best female soldier in the entire Republic and someday I’ll be greater than Colonel Gilda!!” 

The smile on Oliver’s lips went away. “Oh she did not just insult Gilda like that!!!” Oliver moved his golden cape off of his right shoulder. “Someone has to put that overzealous female in her place!!” 

It will be him. 

General Oliver made his way to the padded mats where the crowd of Pvts watch Deborah spin her staff some more. Little does he know the dream he dreamt is occurring this very instant. 
The Pvts gasped to the very sight of General Oliver, each one moves out of his way to create a path for him. “General.” One says. “Sir.” Another salutes him. “General, general, sir.” Before reaching the padded floor Oliver notices a smiling Pvt prompting him to halt.
“Soldier.” Oliver greets.
“Sir!” The happy Pvt salutes the general. 

Upon reaching the padded floor. “I challenge you!” Oliver stands firm in his stance. 

Deborah raised both eyebrows to be challenged by the General himself, she herself realized how much skill is in her possession maybe Oliver is challenging her because he feels his ego is threatened.  “Sir!” However, Deborah salutes the general her superior.

“You dare to insult Colonel Gilda’s honor and think you can get away with it! Hoho, you will not get away with it.” Oliver took off his helmet and placed it on a nearby pvt. “Say Pvt. Samson, you have a grand future in the grand army of the Republic. Hold this.” He threw his golden cape to Francis. “But pride brings down even the strongest of the strong. History attests to that.” Finally he gave his body armor to the smiling Pvt, making the Pvt’s smile get bigger. “Thank you.” Oliver spun the staff. “Ready?” 

Deborah didn’t express anything. 

*Sigh* “Right now I am not your General, I am simply your equal. So c’mon show me what you got and then with my blessing you have the right to declare to everyone you are the best soldier.” Oliver threw a bone to Deborah. 

“Hmmm?” Deborah is salivating like a rough collie at the bone. 

“That is if you beat me of course.” 

Deborah took the bone in her tight jaws. “We shall see.” 

“I will see your pride be your downfall.” Oliver raised his staff to its defense position; to him to start with an attack is more useful in surprise than in awareness.  
Deborah charged forward starting with low upward swing to get Oliver off balance by hitting his chin. Oliver blocked the attack by stiffing his hold on the low left end, with her attack blocked Deborah tries in vain to overpower Oliver but at the angle her staff is in it doesn’t matter how much power she applies Oliver still has the upper hand. Oliver struck Deborah in the left side of her face with the right end of his staff and from the output of the impact made her lean back ensuring Oliver a opening to hit her in the stomach with the left end of his staff causing Deborah to fall forward and Oliver ended this by striking her on the back making the griffon fall flat on the ground in a submissive position. 
“Looks like you’re not the best Deborah.” Oliver smirked. “Pride does not prevail Deborah, in order to be a good soldier you must know what humbleness is and through humbleness you will find weaknesses in those who have pride because with pride one never patches up the chinks in their armor and within those growing chinks is downfall.” 

Deborah got back up with her staff. “Again!” 

“All right.” Oliver happily obliged by raising his staff above his head, why? He will be carrying out the first attack by suddenly swing his staff at her feet, the appearance of his stance will keep Deborah in the dark about his intention, therefore he has the element of surprise. 

“OOOF!” Deborah fell to her back. “Ah!” She felt the sting of Oliver’s staff on her hand to keep it from grabbing the staff. 

“Your own blindness astounds me. You rush in with a plan of moves thinking you can outmaneuver me.” Oliver backed away from Deborah. “Normally that will work but in your case you know nothing of my fighting style giving me every sort of advantage. Also if I’m not mistaken, you have a pattern that is easily memorized.” 

Deborah popped her neck. “Again!” 

“Very well then, if this is what you want.” Oliver went into his defensive stance to block every one of Deborah’s attacks again before besting her for a third time. 
However.
“Look! It’s Colonel Gilda AND A REALLY, REALLY BEAUTIFUL PONY!!” Screamed one of the Pvts. 

“Huh?” Oliver looked away from his dual with Deborah. 

“Here’s my chance!”  Without honor Deborah moved in for odd defying blow. “What!” 

Oliver without even looking caught Deborah’s strike but what can be considered funny or abstract is the way Oliver will speak his words. “We’ll continue this some other time now be nice and show Colonel Gilda the respect she rightfully deserves.” 

Deborah dropped her staff to obey the order. 

Gold Sky pulled up his hood to conceal his face from the new soldiers of the Republic more importantly though for this reason is the fact there are many males around him other than that at least there’s Rarity to attract ninety-nine percent of their attention allowing a shadow to cover him well only from the males as for the few females he is not afraid of their scorn but afraid of attention they will bring to him. “Please focus on Rarity but don’t be checking her out!”  Normal perhaps. 

Oliver just got his cape on to greet Colonel Gilda. “Wonder how she’ll react to see me, this big hearted fellow as her superior? And hey it’s Gold Sky; maybe I can ask him to pay my son a visit.”  Already Oliver can see his son’s happy smile to see the pony. “Hey who is that white mare? Well she is very beautiful.”  Enough from him in that. 


“My, all of these griffons are looking at me or are they looking at Gold Sky?” Rarity thinks to herself. “Ok that one is drooling; he’s definitely looking at me…and her too. Holy mackerel!”  Well one less female Gold Sky has to worry about. 

Before being met by Oliver Gilda turns to her father to ask for a telepathic connection. “Daddy, after this can we go to the meadows?” 

“Of course but just how will you erase your ties with the Republic military?”

Gilda secretly gripped the silver eagle holding thirteen arrows insignia in her left hand. “Just wait and see.”   

“Gilda! Err, I mean Colonel Gilda, it’s finally nice to see you after all this time.” Oliver without having the need to think salutes Gilda. 

“Ni, woah!” Gilda stands straight in attention. “SIR! I’m sorry for showing sheer disrespect! I-I-I didn’t know you were general! Please forgive me sir!” 

Oliver waved it off. “Don’t worry about it Colonel…” 

“Sir that’s why I’m here and I’m sorry to interrupt.” Gilda is nervous so to ease any tension created by her apology. “Sir, can I please see the female soldiers I inspired.”

“Yes, yes. All female pvts please stand front and center!!” *Cough* “I’m not used to yelling.”  

While all of the female soldiers line up before Oliver and Gilda, Rarity leans over to her hooded brother. “Gold Sky.” 

“Yes Rarity.” 

“She’s looking at me.” 

Gold Sky quietly groans. “Well you are eye catching Rarity and I think she’s admiring you. Like really many mares back home admire you so what’s wrong with a couple of griffons admiring you?”   

Rarity got closer. “She’s drooling.” 

Gold Sky takes a look at the drooling griffon. “Hmmm?” He moves six degrees to the left gaining a small distance from the white mare. “You have nothing to be worried about Rarity. She is not drooling at you annnnnnd…” His telepathy enters the mind of the female griffon. “Ewww.” 

“What is it?” Rarity asks. 

“I read her mind and found she’s drooling at me for the most, uhm, oddest or plain profane reasons.” 

Rarity’s ears perked up. “Oooh, tell me, tell me, tell me!!” Nothing like cute curiosity in Rarity while seriousness is waiting with Gilda. 

“I really shouldn’t but ok.” *Whisper, whisper, whisper*

“Really?” The azure eyes focused on the female griffon who is in attention but her eyes look at Gold Sky. “What!?” That griffon is thinking that. “That’s so disturbing!” Yeah sure sounds like it. “How come you’re not vomiting?” Under normal circumstances Gold Sky will vomit. 

“I’ve been through worse.”

Rarity jerked her head in agreement. “I can’t believe she wants to use your horn to perform acts…” Gold Sky stopped her.

“Rarity please! I seen it in her mind, I don’t want to hear it from you! Please Gilda is here, Oliver is here, and there are many males here too.” 

“Sorry.” Rarity dropped the subject.

“General Oliver and Colonel Gilda sir!” The female soldiers saluted both superiors.

Gilda whispered something to Oliver and got a nod in response. “I am honored to stand before you oh soldiers of the Republic. All of you are here to experience the times of your life where every ounce of your mind will be put to the test. Of course all of you will think that since you’re here all will be a walk through the meadows but it won’t. And to be real, blunt, plus from personal experience, you will be made fun of, thought little of, belittled, beaten to a pulp once in awhile, and lastly you will doubt yourself so many times it will become a normal trait.” Gilda tightened her grip around the silver eagle. “Most of you won’t make it. Sorry, like I said I’ll be real here. However you must, you really must forget everything you were taught by your parents and society…here in the military just because you’re a female it does not mean you’re entitled to anything. Is that clear.” 

“Yes sir!” There is no delay in response from any of them. 

“It’s ma’am.” 

“What!?” Oliver almost squealed in bewilderment. 

“Ma’am as in ham not mo’am as in palm.” Gilda always wanted to say that for no particular reason. 

“Ma’am!” All of the female corrected themselves. 

Gilda finally gained the courage to end everything with the Republic. “General, can I please discuss a private matter with you?” 

“Uhm, yes, yes hey what about Gold Sky and that mare?” 

“You mean my aunt Rarity.” Gilda said. 

Oliver went along. “Rarity and Gold Sky, do you want them to stay here?” 

“Yes.” Gilda and Oliver went into the office leaving Rarity and Gold Sky all alone with the soldiers of the Republic. 

Now ALL of the soldiers focused on the hooded pony, humph, they know who he is and many of them don’t like him and on a side note the drooling female is still drooling. While some of the males look at Rarity with hearts in their eyes, it’s amazing really, the most beautiful pony in the earth can be so mesmerizing to griffons but hey she’s in Love with a purple dragon so it’s understandable.  

“Uhh Gold Sky, with the exception of that drooling griffon all of them look like they want to hurt you.” Rarity realized something. “I mean, ahem, with the exception of the drooling griffon oh, and this nearby griffon with hearts in his eyes and presenting me with flowers they will most likely be your next…” Rarity has to use this brash terminology. “Kills.” 

Gold Sky, placed his armor on the ground. “Don’t be so sure.” He lies down on his belly to simply relax unlike the now alerted Rarity. “Just be all grace by waving your hair in slow motion and use that nice glowing blue light you can magically produce.” 

The instant Rarity did that almost all of the eyes turned into beating hearts while for the females they admire Rarity the way a new model admires the most talented model. 

Gold Sky smirked. “I’ll just relax while Gilda does her thing. Until then I only have to worry about that lady griffon approaching to me. Dang she has a nice smile though, sadly, I am not going to her let get near me!”  He does something. “Ha, I pushed you away from me with my wing. *gasp!* Please don’t touch my helmet aww too late! *sigh* Please keep her occupied, eh, might as well give her the body armor so she can entertain herself and get rid of those profane thoughts.” Gold Sky pushes his silver armor to her. 

Rarity on the other hand or hoof. “Darlings please don’t get your hopes up, I am really flattered for your admiration for me though I’m a pony and all of you griffons, and truly I’m flattered buuuuut I am happily committed to the love of my life.” Wait for it. “Spike, a wonderful purple dragon.” 
*Literal shattering of all the beating hearts in the eyes* 
The flowers the nearby griffon had just withered. 

“Nonetheless, of all you can continue admiring me.” Rarity isn’t the Element of Generosity for nothing. 

The beating hearts came back to the eyes and the flowers supernaturally grew back, must be the power of friendship behind that. 

***
In General Oliver’s office. 
“Yes Gilda I’m general now any who not to waste anymore time. Let’s talk turkey.” 

Gilda’s hand reached out. “I can’t.” 

“You can’t what??” Oliver asks. 

Gilda drops her colonel insignia on his desk. “I can’t be a soldier anymore sir, I just can’t.”

Oliver’s jaw dropped. “B-but I planned to make you my second in command! B-b-but why!! Why are you saying these words?” 

Gilda also placed a document on his desk. “Sir the Gilda you knew in the battlefield isn't the same Gilda standing before you right now. I am not that Gilda, I am a loving Gilda not a soldier. I just want to go home with my father, all the things I did and the blood I spelt cries out to me, I see the faces of not only our fallen brothers but also of the enemy’s plus Mao's. I just want to be with my father, I just want to be with my father so I can live with myself. Oliver, please forgive me but I signed my discharge papers and just need your signature.” 

Oliver sighs. “Gilda…I see the difference. Your eyes show me.” 

Gilda continues by producing her folded up black cape. “I don’t deserve this. I don’t deserve your respect after what I did to you.” The griffon reestablished eye contact. “Please forgive me for ordering you to kill the prisoners. Please forgive me for stabbing your heart, I should have never done that to you and just so you know if the real me was in this war I would have been the first one dead or not even be a Marine. My father taught me if I’m to ever fight in a war then I should only do it to protect the ones I love.” 

Oliver rested his hand on Gilda’s shoulder. “It’s alright, I forgave you a long time ago.” *sigh* “Is this is what you want?” 

“Oliver you are better than me in every aspect of character and morals, so you deserve someone better to be your second of command. Please sign my discharge papers, I am a disgrace and in fear to what can come about in my mind.” 

“But you have your father Gilda…oh my Great Spirit…I pray everything you did in this war won’t be in vain and I pray my decision to sign this paper won’t come back to haunt me.” Oliver dipped his feather quill into black ink. “I hope your father can help you find peace just like he protected you numerous times in the battle.” He signed the discharge papers. “It’s been honor to fight by your side Gilda.” 

“It’s been honor to fight by yours too sir.” Gilda saluted. “Thank you Oliver for understanding. Please don’t let my decision affect your opinion on future female soldiers, some females are meant to be soldiers, I just happen to fall out of that category now that I am my true self.” 

From the words Oliver figured out something. One does not usually have intentions to be discharged unless there’s an ultimate reason behind the intentions. “You’re leaving the Republic with your father and Rarity.” 

Gilda just nodded. 

“I always knew there was more to you Gilda. Damn, I thought you will be happy but you still need to find it. Of course since you’re leaving all of the soldiers will lose their respect for you and will just call you a frakken coward also they might not like the new female soldiers thanks to you. But I guess you don’t give a damn what they will think of you.” 

Gilda shook her head. “I know what I’m doing is going to make things harder for the new female soldiers but if I can do it then so can they that is of course if they can handle it. *sigh* My father is all I have Oliver and I don’t want to be away from him ever again. Thank you sir and good bye.” She extended her hand to him. 

But Oliver did not shake her hand instead he embraces her; at least he will always respect her because it takes enormous will power to make such decision. “Before you go Gilda can you please do me a favor?”

“Anything sir.” 

“Can you please tell your father to come see me and my son? I want to thank him for something he did.” 

“Yes I will tell him.” 

Both griffons got out of the office, providing Gold Sky some relief to finally be away from the drooling griffon. Gilda informed Gold Sky of Oliver’s request to which Gold Sky agreed. Oliver, ordered his subordinates to give the soldiers an extended chow time. Rarity introduced herself to Oliver giving the griffon a taste of her beautiful voice kind plus someone for Valerie to talk with. Arriving at home, Oliver knocked on his door, shoved Gold Sky to be in front of the door, and waited for a little somebody to open the door. 

The little somebody opened the door. “Who is PONY!!! PONY, PONY, PONY!!” Oliver’s son’s yell practically matched Pinkie’s happy, happy yells. 

“Wow!” Gilda and Rarity said at the same time to see the young son tackle Gold Sky with a nice rough hug. 
“You knew this will happen Oliver not that I mind though and I’m glad to see how happy your son is.” Gold Sky rubbed Oliver’s son’s head.  “Aren’t you little one?”

“I’m more than happy Gold Sky! Please come in, come in, come in!” The youngster tugged Gold Sky’s forearm into the house. 

“Oh how adorable!” Rarity doted. 

Everyone went inside the house where Oliver enjoys seeing his son have fun with Gold Sky, Rarity and Gilda talk with Valerie and while all of this is happening the armor that has been passed from Silver Wind to Gold Sky will be passed down to a mortal father. 

***
President Madison and Vice President Martinez hug Rarity good bye, earlier they received a telepathic message from the Alicorn along with that Sherman has also received a telepathic message plus he drank half a drop of sparkling blood. The Alicorn only gave him half a drop only to heal the damaged cervical nerve and not a full drop which otherwise will endow him with the ability of tissue regeneration.  Sherman meanwhile isn’t one good at saying good bye but he wished Gilda a safe departure, told Rarity to come visit Kate and Ronald, lastly he thanked Gold Sky for giving Republic some last minute vital aid and he left. Rarity took the executive branch outside to finish the farewell. 

“Please don’t go Gold Sky!” The youngster gripped Gold Sky left forearm.  “Please stay a little longer! Please stay a little longer Gold Sky!”

Gold Sky got down to low to be eye to eye with the youngster. “Don’t be sad young one, I will very far away.” He sees the sadness in the youngster’s face get bigger. “Still I may be far but I will be close.” This Chero is going to break a supreme law. “If you want to see me again stand still in the wind and say these words.” Yet this Chero does not care to break this supreme law for he’s been through death and death reliefs one of all laws. “Táte K’olá.” 

“Táte K’olá?” Repeated the youngster. “What does that mean?” 

Gold Sky couldn’t help ruffle up the youngster’s hair. “It means Friend of the Wind. I will hear you from where I am and I teleport here so you can see me. Repeat it one more time so you won’t forget.” 

“Táte K’olá.” 

“Good. Now Oliver I know of the planned conquest and I know how much you love your family.” His horn glowed to get the armor. “Knowing you Oliver, you will not command from the rear, you’ll be commanding from the front line giving your troops immeasurable valor along with exposing yourself to danger, any who you’ll be in armor but the standard issued armor here isn’t like my armor. The standard issued armor can be penetrated but my armor cannot.” 

“What is your armor made of?” 

The Alicorn rested the armor in front of Oliver. “It’s made out of valyrian steel which is almost impenetrable, silver, a few drops of Chero blood to make the armor completely impenetrable, and lastly yours.” 

Oliver choked on something. “What! Y-you can’t give me your armor Gold Sky, it has been passed down from your father and what’s valyrian steel I never heard of it.” 

Gold Sky pushed the armor forward. “I’m not asking you if you want it I’m telling you to take it and valyrian steel is a very hard metal, it’s not rare but it is hard to find but once you find it there will be large quantities of it. Adding to its hardness, it is immune to magic attacks and as long as you have the helmet on telepathy won’t affect you that much, though they can still read your mind but they cannot control you. Just put on the helmet.” 

Oliver got the silver helmet on. “It doesn’t fit Gold Sky.”

“Just give it a few seconds Oliver and it will fit.” 

“Oh!” Oliver felt the silver helmet adjust to his head. “Will the body armor adjust to my body too!?” 

“Put it on and find out.” Gold Sky’s magic’s donned the silver armor on Oliver. “The armor magically adjusts to your body so it can be a perfect fit for you.” 

“WOAH! It looks awesome on you daddy!” The youngster touched the armor to feel some on the engraved designs that decorates it. 
“Oliver you should keep the armor. Gold Sky is being very caring about you besides it isn’t the first time.”  Valerie is referring to Gold Sky saving him when he was just a child.

Gilda is just being quiet trying to figure out if the general will take the armor.  

“Why are you giving me your armor?” 

Gold Sky saw he needs to go into tiny detail about the sudden gift. “I have to let go of my birthfather Oliver. He left me this armor, as time went on and with going to the other side I found my birthparents have become nothing to me and I became nothing to them. This armor is now yours except for the horseshoes.” *Ting* “Think about it like this Oliver, I am passing down my armor to you so you don’t ever have to pass it down to your son. Please see this armor as that. I am giving you my armor to stop any wars from ever happening in your son’s lifetime.” 

Oliver quietly looks at his son with calm eyes. “Gold Sky, you know after you saved me from the fascists and letting me sleep under your wing. I saw you as a father figure especially when you will comfort me whenever you spoke softly to me but what I remember the most is you softly nudging me when my adoptive mother and father stood in front of us.” 

Gold Sky remembers that moment too. “Ah yes, I smiled at you.” 

“No you said goodbye too Gold Sky. I looked back at you one last time and saw you wave at me. I wanted to run back and hug you but I didn’t; now I feel ashamed and I never got to thank you. If it weren’t for you Gold Sky I would have been dead a long time ago.” Oliver broke eye contact to emphasize his shame. 

Gold Sky said Oliver’s name to get his attention while smiling the same smile he had that moment years ago. “Oliver you thanked me a long time ago.” 

“How?” Valerie blurted out. “Oh sorry, hehehe…” 

“Anyway ahem. Oliver you thanked me by always listening to the moral voice in your heart.” Gold Sky poked Oliver’s heart. “Then you partook in the most sacred union any male can seal in his lifetime, you married the love of your life.” Gold Sky paused to smile at Valerie then he motioned Oliver’s son to come stand under his wing. “In all of that, you thank me the most by being a loving father to your son.” Gold Sky suddenly frowned. “But what really showed your love to your son and wife is your decision to become a soldier to protect them. I saved you and I almost killed you when I spared Mao’s life. Sort of ironic…but once again in the battle I not only protected my dear Gilda I protected you too.” *Long sigh* “If you want to make up for the hug you didn’t give me then you can make up for it now.” He motioned for Oliver’s son to please move away. 

Oliver came and embraced the Alicorn. Gilda grinned to see this act of affection between the two, she is happy to see her father once again become Oliver’s protector also she is at peace to notice Valerie smiling at this too plus the youngster.  “Oh daddy, who knew you are so special.” 

Once the embrace is done Valerie came up to Gold Sky to say some heartfelt words. “Gold Sky, I am very sorry for being so harsh with you in the beginning so I hope you can forgive me for acting like a complete imbecile not only in front of Oliver and my son but in front of Gilda. I’m sorry for that foul implication I made about you two. Please forgive me Gold Sky and I want to thank you for protecting my husband when he was child and in the last battle. You ensured my future with him basically you gave me my soul mate and my son a perfect father. Thank you Gold Sky, thank you protecting Oliver.” Valerie stayed looking at Gold Sky. “Gilda you are very blessed to have him as your father.” In the end Valerie hugged Gold Sky. 

The time has finally come. “Good bye Oliver, good bye Valerie, and good bye Jonathan, I will miss all of you really I will miss all of you. Take care Oliver and please always keep the armor on in battle.” Gold Sky blinked his eyes dry. “I love you all and please Jonathan don’t forget the words I told you.” 

“Táte K’olá.” Jonathan happily chanted to the Alicorn. 

“Good bye.” Gold Sky and Gilda left. 
“Let’s go to the meadows Gilda. Hey where’s Rarity?” 

On cue Rarity came into the picture. “I’m here little brother and dearest niece.” 
The trio journeyed to the meadows. “Say Gold Sky, are we going to teleport back home?” 

“More or less.” Gold Sky responded. 

“Well I think you should teleport to my house first because I think you should because I think you should!” Rarity in her way is being very urgent not urgent enough to worry Gold Sky but urgent enough to her point across.

“All right.” Gold Sky will teleport all of them to Equestria but that is after he does what he plans to do first, what he plans to do first will be like having a dance with Nightmare Moon. If he pleases Nightmare in the dance then all is well but if he doesn’t please Nightmare then all goes bad. But why will he use Nightmare in this little thought sequence? Truth be told Gold Sky is the only one who thinks Nightmare Moon is a very beautiful mare. 
Gilda looks at the wind swaying the grass of the meadows creating the waves seen in the ocean. She can hear her laughs as a child while seeing through her mental perception Gold Sky toss her into the air and catch her with his wing. This is a place Gilda came to when things became hard for her, she will close her eyes to find herself in the meadows having fun with her father. One can call this a fantasy world she will retreat to, it’s normal for everyone to have a fantasy world but it’s rare to use real past events as a fantasy. Gilda began walking forward and tugging Gold Sky with her tail. Rarity tags a few paces behind, the Unicorn predicts this moment will be the pulling of the lynch pin tying the two them to the Griffon Republic, the lynch pin rests in the meadows so seeing this father and daughter occur then both are free to let go of the past and presents scars. 

Gilda passes her hand through the tall swaying grass taking in the physical feeling each strand gives her. “Daddy.” With that word she stops and sits on the ground. “Daddy, promise me something.” 

“I will.” Gold Sky acknowledged while he sits down next to Gilda. 

“Promise me you will never leave me please promise me that. I went ten years without you and I felt you die. I didn’t want to believe you at first but seeing the scar over your heart confirms it, you’re my daddy and I am your daughter, we are family you and me. And nothing is suppose to separate us! Not Death not the RAZOR!! You’re all I have in this world, you’re all I have. Please don’t ever go, don’t get taken away, and don’t let me get taken away from you. Please daddy promise me we’re always be a family you and me. I love you very much…I can’t fathom to even think of a future without you!” Gilda buried her face on Gold Sky’s chest and started to cry. “I am your flesh and blood and you are my father, my true father. I don’t want to lose you, just like many sons and daughters did in this war.” Gilda softened her cries when feeling Gold Sky wrap his wings around her. “Why did you even die in the first place?” 


Gold Sky looked at Rarity first. Rarity’s face went pale, she thinks Gold Sky will tell Gilda what Twilight did. 

“A simple misunderstanding caused a spear to go through my heart and sent my spirit to the other side. I watched over you Gilda, I came down with Lauren the Archangel to remind myself of the sin I committed against you. She reopened my paternal instinct to come back to seek your forgiveness, I expected you to cast me out of your life, I expected that and I would never blame you for doing that.” Gold Sky kissed Gilda’s head three times. “I promise you Gilda, I will never leave you, I will never let the Razor take me away from you, and I will fight the angel of death to stay with you. I promise you my dearest daughter, I promise you with my spirit, heart, blood, love, honor, soul, and body to never leave you again and I protect you with everything I have. I will protect you.” 

Rarity passed her hoof over her azure eyes in case there’s any tears are running down and she failed to feel them. In her mind she remembers her father having a little picnic with her in the park; it’s their Rarity and Daddy picnic day. A day where just the two of them spend time together having fun and creating memories. “Oh little brother, the promise you made is a promise I have to keep too. Because if I don’t keep my part of the promise then you can’t keep yours. I am my brother’s keeper; I am Rarity the Element of Generosity.”  
The white mare came and hugged her brother and niece, a tender moment for the three of them. 
“OH!” Gilda with her wing pushed Rarity away. 

“How rude!” A really bad case of MINE in Gilda.

***
In Rienne’s house. 

Rienne feels his mother stroking his face while sits in the living room thinking about things relevant, he loves it when his mother is affectionate. It reminds him of his childhood where his mother was always the first to take him in her arms and comfort him with her Love, like when he slammed into the ground because he stalled in flight, of course he started to cry and like angel in disguise his mother comes down, takes him into her arms and comforts him. “Mom.” He says. 

“Yes my son?” The mother asks.

“Does Sayoko still live in the same house and is she single?” Rienne asks.

Rienne’s mother thought for a bit to answer her son’s question. “I don’t know who Sayoko is my son.” 

Just then Rienne’s father comes into the room luckily hearing his son’s question. “Sayoko is a girl Rienne always had a crush on since elementary I think.” He sits down next to Rienne placing an arm on his shoulders.  “Isn’t that right son?” 

“Yeah.” Rienne confessed. 

“Ooooh I didn’t know my dearie always had his eyes on a certain girl.” Oh how mothers are when it comes to Love and sons.  “Isn’t that cute!” 

Rienne nervously laughed. “So dad is Sayoko still single.” 

“Hmmmmm?” The father thinks with a hand under his chin. “I think she’s still single my son, I spoke with her father recently and he said Sayoko is single. So why do you ask son?”  He looks at Rienne and so does the mother. 

Rienne rubs his arm while he feels his cheeks getting warm. “I want to ask her if she wants to join me for a cup of coffee tomorrow.” 

The mother and father remember the words of Dr. Isaiah but more importantly they remember the part Isaiah said they should help Rienne find a wife to help him heal from the scars of the war. The father clears his throat. “Uhhh, that sounds like a good idea isn’t that right honey.” 

The mother too did a quick clearing of her throat. “Why yes that is a good idea my son.” Here comes something motherly. “My son is going to ask this Sayoko out on a date! My son is in love with a special somebody!!” 

The mother and father wrapped their arms around Rienne. They are very happy to see this huge and yet sudden change in Rienne, both think it must have been a spark causing this change in their son. He has been talking more and more with father, crying at night too, and hugging mother a lot too, as for the nocturnal enuresis it has become an occasional episode rather than a regular phenomenon. Therefore, sooner or later the nocturnal enuresis will completely disappear as the scars heal and Rienne becomes a whole healthy male. Mentally plus physically. 
The father chuckled to himself. “My son just do what you want to do.” 

“The day is so young Rienne…you know what my son, get up, groom yourself or let me.” The mother groomed her son the way a felidae will do so with its young and groomed her son the way an eagle will do so with its young. “Okay now that’s over with go and ask Sayoko to a cup of coffee. Come on get out there Rienne!” 

The father gave Rienne a soft push. “You heard your mother! Get a move on you!” 

Rienne touched the shoulders of his parents and headed for the door with the courage equal to the Hellenistic hero Achilles of course in his path and to the side of his field of vision is the bronze shield he carried into battle at passing it he gave it no attention showing his parents he has made progress now it’s up to Love to do the rest. “I’ll be right back mom and dad.” The door softly closed behind. 
“I won’t mess this up.” 

“So what do you think?” Asks the wife. 

“He’s getting better dear soon everything will be to normal just like peace.” The husband takes his wing under his wing. “Peace that has returned to the Republic.” 

***
Hsin sat down with his two nephews and niece, for an odd reason the three children asked him to keep an oath they plan to ask him. He of course is more surprised they used the word oath instead of a much simpler word like promise but oath? It’s a complex word to be used by children but as it is shown in the studying of developing minds it is common for young minds to develop at an accelerated rate when struck by loss especially when the loss is of their father. Hsin brought his nephews and niece under the shade of an old oak tree in the forest where just two klicks from their location are four decomposing bodies in bronze armor and stripped of edible flesh by vultures plus ants. 
“Uncle Hsin.” The niece started. 
“You look and sound just like our daddy but we know you’re our uncle not daddy and we love you very much we don’t to lose you Uncle!” The eldest son stopped. 
“Please don’t leave us Uncle Hsin we don’t know what we will do without you.” A pause came to the middle child in order for him to sniffle. “Make an oath to us!!” 

Hsin lovingly took the three children into his arms. “What is the oath you want me to take?”

Now all three children will be talking in unison. “Please don’t ever leave us…don’t die! We lost our daddy and we don’t want to lose you next Uncle Hsin!” 

The griffon sighed and hugged the children tighter, it’s either heart wrenching or heartwarming to come to the realization he will soon take up the mantle of the paternal figure, a duty his twin brother had. Though Connor had it in a direct line, Hsin will now have it in a non-linear line because he is their Uncle and that is what he’ll always be called. “You three really love me do you?” 

The children slammed their little fists into Hsin’s chest. “WE LOVE YOU UNCLE HSIN!!” 

Hsin makes the choice to end something. “I love you too. I will take the oath you created.” *Sigh* “I will do it for them even it means hanging my golden cape and putting my shield on the wall.”

“Tomorrow how about we this. You three will all come with me to the military base and you will witness me signing my resignation papers.” Such a choice made, when he knows ridicule will be inflicted on him by brothers who might consider him a coward or he’s just over thinking the coming future after his decision is made. 

“What are resignation papers Uncle Hsin?” The niece asks. 

The loving Uncle looks in the three pairs of curious young eyes and kisses three foreheads before answering the question. “Once I sign the papers I will no longer be a soldier, therefore, I will no longer be exposed to danger, therefore I will not die and leave the three of you.” 

The three children hugged their Uncle…the only remaining piece they have of their father and Hsin hugs his nephews and niece…the only remaining pieces of his twin brother. 

Uncle, no longer soldier and paternal figure for three children to insure a good future through Love and guidance.
***
In the meadows. 
“Rarity, you need your own armor plus you need to fight the someone without really fighting her. I know where you can train and where I can find silver and valyrian steel.” Gold Sky is saying  these words wisely to keep Gilda in the dark about everything he and Rarity will soon face. 

Rarity felt something tell her they’re not going back home to Equestria. “Gold Sky, where are we going?” 

Gilda is now puzzled from the question. “Home? We are not, I mean you will be taking me to my new home in Equestria?” 

“Oh we will be going home sweetheart but first there are things I need to do first and Rarity has something she needs to overcome in order to have the unattainable in her grasp.” 

The feeling Rarity felt is getting much bigger by the second. “Gold Sky, where are we going!?” 

Gold Sky sighed, he doesn’t want to go to the place that has everything he needs but it’s the only place he can teleport to. “Just trust me Rarity. You do trust me right Rarity?” 

“Of course I trust you Gold Sky; you are the only one I trust you in the situation I am in.” 

Gold Sky got Gilda and Rarity under his wings as he raises his hood to conceal his face. “Good. We’re going to a place, that your enemy but not mine lives. This enemy has been defeated by Prince Shining Armor and…Princess Cadance.” His heartbeat sped up to ushering of her majesties name. “Don’t worry, I will protect the both of you from this Queen but please follow my lead, don’t do anything stupid, do what I say, and Rarity get over your weakness because I will not use my telepathy to help you. Oh and you will be physically trained.” 

“Where are we going Gold Sky!?”  Rarity asked again.

“Changelings. Jump!” 
*POOF!*
Didn’t even say goodbye to the Griffon Republic. 
***

Arrival. 
Gilda looks around at her new surroundings. “This place looks like a desert? Wait a minute this is where you live daddy?” Hard to believe she was not listening to Gold Sky seconds ago. “Whoa why are your eyes glowing grayish purple right now?" 

“My eyes glow in the darkness sweetheart or I can make them stop glowing or they can start glowing due my emotions. Now let’s go into that palace there so we can meet Queen Chrysalis and I and just I will do the talking. Oh! Just in case.” Gold Sky suddenly buried his nose into Gilda’s hair and took a deep sniff in order to smell her complete scent. “Okay.” Then he did the same with Rarity. 

“Why did you smell us Gold Sky?” Rarity is nervous like heck to be here and to even be under the same roof of the creepy Queen. 
Gilda doesn’t mind at all. 

“Changelings can imitate your voice, appearance, and eye color but they cannot copy your scent. So that’s way I smelled you in case the Changelings double cross us so I can know who’s who.” 

Gold Sky, Rarity, and Gilda walk past many Changelings as they make their way to the Queen’s palace. The Changelings didn’t do anything to them because they can’t really see them, telepathy is instead making them see three little butterflies fluttering about in the air. Gilda gets closer to Gold Sky while Rarity thinks about the coming meeting with the Queen and more importantly how Gold Sky plans to use the Changelings to help her. “That’s how! The Changelings will turn into Twilight, I will fight that Twilight not only physically also mentally so I can get over my inability.” 

However, the behavior of the Changelings drastically changed, they began sniffing the air and looking for something they sense. Gold Sky created a telepathic link so Rarity and Gilda can communicate with him. So Rarity felt the link up and is the first to talk. “Why are the Changelings acting weird?” 

“They sense something Rarity.” Gold Sky said.

Gilda hears everything. “What do they sense daddy? Hey this is how my voice sounds??” Gilda finally and in imperfect timing hears her voice when in telepathic communication. “Hay who hooray hoo, hey hoo, hey hoo, hey hoo. Wow this is cool, hey daddy say something uh funny I want to hear your voice!” 

Gold Sky went along. “They sense me since I am Love and ahem, I want to change the world kaze wo kakenukete nanimo osorezu ni ima yuuki to egao no KAKERA daite. Change my mind jounetsu tayasazu ni takanaru mirai e, te wo nobaseba kagayakeru hazu sa. It’s wonderland.” No Gold Sky is not speaking in his native tongue.

“Hey that sounds nice daddy! Hehehe.” Gilda adorably giggled. 

Rarity on the other hand or hoof remembers that same song Gold Sky sung. “Hey I remember that song! Princess Luna sang that song when I was making her a fine dress when she came to my boutique! Did she sing that to you Gold Sky. Hold that thought now that I pay attention my voice sounds really nice! Oh darlings I love you!  My, it sure does.”

“Luna and I sang that song a lot whenever we spend time together, anyway that’s in the past and there’s no need to cry about spelt blood annnnnd here we are at the palace.” The Alicorn’s horn glowed to open the doors. “Remember what I said earlier.”
The doors open and the three head to the presence of the Queen. There is wager set into play now; question is who will the wager affect the most?
In the throne room of the Queen, there are many Changeling subjects surrounding her chatting about many things and next to her are her guards. Just then a silence came over all of the Changelings; they sense an infinite amount of Love enter the throne room causing all of them plus the Queen to turn their heads to three figures standing at the doorway. “Show yourselves now!” Queen Chrysalis ordered.

“That is one big bug…if she can even be classified as one.” Gilda thought.

Rarity, Gilda, and Gold Sky stepped into the light of the little path leading to the throne. Queen Chrysalis’s eyes widened upon seeing the source of infinite Love is a pony wearing a white cloak, oh great a meal he will be but at the same time she needs to know why the heck will two ponies plus a griffon will show up here. And one pony well the beautiful one is the Element of Generosity while the other has to be a stallion most likely. “State who you are cloaked pony. State everything I want to know.” Though not very pleased, Chrysalis will be cautious given the experience she had with ponies.  

Gold Sky took two steps ahead after giving Gilda an expression of calmness. “My name is Gold Sky.” 

Chrysalis rolled her eyes to this lack of informative action from the still cloaked pony. “Annnnd!” She says while moving her…hoof...leg…or arm…one of the three or somewhere in between. “Be more elaborate Gold Sky! Like who sent you here! Why are you here! How are you so full of Love! And lastly what is SHE doing here!” Now the Queen points at Rarity. 

“She is my sister your grace so please there’s nothing to fear there and yes my name is Gold Sky the last of the Chero and I am the son of Princess Celestia.” 

*Gasp* “The son of Princess Celestia!” The Queen yelled in fear causing her guards to assume she is threatened therefore they rush forward to neutralize the threat. 

Undaunted Gold Sky walks to be before Queen Chrysalis ignoring the guards because Rarity and Gilda charged ahead of him engaging the guards to protect the stallion. “MUST PROTECT DADDY FROM THESE BEETLES!” 
“I WILL NOT LET LITTLE BROTHER GET HARMED BY THESE CHANGELINGS!” 

“Why are you afraid your grace?” Gold Sky asks. “We are not a threat to you, though I could see you as an enemy since you attacked my mother but your defeat made up for that.” 

“Take this!” Rarity kicked one of the guards to the ground and grabbed another in mid-air throwing him or her into another guard. 
“Don’t you dare get near him!!”  Gilda elbows one in the face while catching another from behind with her tail and buried her right fist into his or her chest. 
It’s kind of funny to see them fighting the guards while Gold Sky continues walking towards the Queen like nothing is happening. 

“Your grace, please listen to me I am simply here not to be a threat to you, I am in need uhm ok, I’m here to bargain with you, your grace.”
When the word bargain was said all of the fighting ceased. “Bargain!?” Said a guard who currently has its neck in Gilda’s grip and ended up getting punched anyway. 

The Queen orders her remaining guard that hasn’t been knocked out by Rarity or Gilda to stand down the rest well they’re knocked down and Rarity hasn’t even broken a sweat. “A lady fights so gracefully.” She whispers under her breath. 

“So let me get this clear.” The Queen begins. “The son of Princess Celestia comes here with no ill feeling against me for attacking or should I say humiliating his mommy in front of that beyond pretty Unicorn, put her in a traveling trophy case, you weren’t around to protect her too if I may also add and you’re here standing before me to make a bargain. What’s wrong? Is your mommy still afraid that I can humiliate her again?” 

Gold Sky removes his hood to reveal his eye color to the Queen. “Please don’t insult my mother your grace and my mother does not know I’m here or even of my very existence right now because death took care of that. Any who, I need valyrian steel, silver, a forge I may use, and lastly I need two of your best soldiers or warriors whatever you call them.” 
Gilda and Rarity stand by Gold Sky now. 
“Use your telepathy on me your grace, I am allowing you into my mind with a rather long leash if you pull on the leash I will break you apart with my telepathy. See that I am no threat once and for all.” 

Chrysalis went inside heeding the warning due to noticing the same eye color Princess Celestia has and sees death, genesis, and everything else she needed to see. “So nopony sent you here.” 

“Exactly your grace.” Gold Sky silenced Rarity from saying anything. “I am here for what I listed and once I have everything I’ll be gone.” 

The Queen flaps her wings, getting away from her throne to stand in front of the trio. She sees the griffon inch closer to the cloaked pony and feels Rarity getting tense. “I wonder if you’re Celestia’s son then you should be what I think you should be. Remove the cloak.” A little pause. “Please.” 
In the Queen’s mind. “I feel so much Love inside of him, I want to taste his Love but I must be cautious, though he may not be a threat to me he cares deeply for those other two. Especially the griffon.” 

You know what let me do it for you pony.” Her green magic removed the cloak while at the same time cause a tomahawk and knife to fall to the ground. She of course ignores the weapons out of consideration that the weapons are only for self defense. “Just like your mommy, you’re an Alicorn hmmmm, your Love is more than the love Cadance has inside of her.” 

Rarity’s eyebrows went up, the flawless Unicorn wants Gold Sky to find out through her he’s Princess Cadance’s biological brother but to just blurt out in front of him and the Queen will look very terrible on her part. “Please don’t say anything else.” 

“Of course.” The Queen came back to the items Gold Sky listed. “How do you expect to pay for all of the things you want?” 

Gold Sky sighed. “Like this.” His magic levitated a modified IV catheter with a large test tube attached to it. The magic removed the cover over the needle, tapped a vein on his neck a few times, and placed the needle inside. 

Rarity gasped. “Gold Sky, don’t! Don’t give her your blood, please don’t give her your blood!” 

Gold Sky went on extracting his blood. “Rarity the Queen is immortal so what my blood gives will be of no benefit to her it is also what it has will be of great benefit to her.” He looked down at the test tube seeing it’s finally full of sparkling blood. “Here your grace.” He removed the test tube from the IV catheter and threw it to the Queen. 

The Queen looked at the test tube with a confused yet confound look. “So you intend to pay for everything you want with your blood?? Ok I will give you some points for this figuratively but I sure as hell am not drinking it if that is what you want me to do.” 

“What is daddy doing?” Gilda does not know what is truly going on right now unfortunately she can just be quiet and wait for Gold Sky to let her in on the details later on. 

“So you will reject the blood that comes from the physical manifestation of Love?” Gold Sky, removed the catheter from his neck while he waits for Chrysalis to ask the question he expects. 

“What did you say son of Celestia?” 

“I am the physical embodiment of Love your grace. I am what you and your subjects desire so I think you should really drink my blood.” 

Chrysalis looks back & forth from the sparkling blood, Gold Sky, Rarity, the griffon and her knocked out guards. She sniffs the sparkling blood taking in the floating particles feeling the Love. “Incredible!” She drank the blood without hesitation dropping the test tube when done and shook with convulsing euphoria for she has never tasted anything so sui generis. 

Gold Sky saw his cue. “So, are you going to supply me with what I need?”  

The Queen regained her composure once her constrained pupils dilated to normal width. “YES, YES, YES!” 

“Uh yes to the blood or yes to his request?” Rarity asked.

“Ahem.” Chrysalis motioned some couriers to deliver messages to miners to get the valyrian steel plus silver Gold Sky needs and orders two of her elite warriors to be at Gold Sky’s command. “But I will need more of your blood Gold Sky for as long as you’re here and them, you will give me your blood is that clear.” Queen Chrysalis extended her right hoof. 

Gold Sky bends the knee and kissed her hoof. In the telepathic link he asks Gilda and Rarity to kneel as an act of respect for Chrysalis. Gilda immediately kneels while Rarity does not. 
“Sister.” 
Rarity kneels down. “Brother I pray my trust in you does not fail me.”  

“Then you can go on without me then or you can just take in what’s going on right now because either way in the end I didn’t need your trust in the first place to come here but I asked you anyway just to make this a little more accepting for you. Also remember, I will protect you just like you protected me a few minutes ago.”

Gold Sky got back up to all fours. “Thank you, your grace.” 

The Queen ordered her remaining conscious guard to show the trio to their quarters. 

Meanwhile Chrysalis communicates with an adviser. “Your majesty, do you think it’s a good idea to let that white Unicorn stay here? She is one of the powerful six and if she’s here then the rest can come and destroy us.” 

“I understand your concern. But I think the son of Celestia has restraint over her and she didn’t show me anything to make me or more specifically us suspicious of her, the griffon well she’s another topic but just like the white Unicorn she is not a threat. But the son I do have my concerns because he’s Celestia’s son that why! Though I defeated her once I may not have so much luck if I face her again!” Who knew defeat can change the thinking of a Queen who once consumed pride the same way she consumed Love.

“My Queen, to me he seemed very sincere but I understand. However, if his mother is to ever became a factor of grave apprehension how do you plan to deal with it?” 

Chrysalis thinks for a few seconds to create a contingency plan if necessary. “Like you said he is very sincere and my telepathy shows me your possible assumption on him. Perhaps I should keep an eye on him to look for any weaknesses I can find to use against him.” Chrysalis stops and licks her chops. “His blood though is very, very nice. Ooooh yeah and he looks very uhm what’s that word again?” 

“Pretty?” Suggested the adviser. 

“No not that word.” 

*Ting* “Oh handsome!” 

The Queen smiles. “Yes! He’s very handsome though…of course that’s how!” Idea!

“What!? That’s how what your majesty? What great idea did you come up with.” Asks the adviser. 

“The griffon, she is his weakness.”  

The advisor tilts its head in confusion. It’s hard to tell with the exception of the Queen if any Changeling is a he or a she so they’re just called its. “How is the griffon the weakness of Celestia’s son?” 

The Queen opened her mouth to say the weakness but closed her mouth just as fast she figured out the weakness. “He’s a telepath so I can’t tell you and I have to keep my mind clear. But I will tell you this I will have him give me something more than his blood.” 
Queen Chrysalis laughs gloriously. 

But her laugh cannot be compared to Nightmare Moon’s.  

***

In a rather large chamber with an even larger bed Gold Sky drops himself onto the bed to stretch his muscles and feel the comfyness of the bed. Right now in his mind he’s worried about what the Queen is thinking right now, she can be thinking how he is a danger to her and can be thinking to put Rarity and Gilda in danger. Nevertheless, he’s taking a huge risk and he’ll be quick to make the armor his new armor and one for Rarity too. And lastly have Rarity get over the inability. Gilda, sits by Gold Sky on the bed to stroke his hair and finally talk to him. 
“Daddy, how in the world can you teleport here?” 	

Gold Sky stretched his wings popping everything to make up for the lack of their usage. “In my two hundred year journey I came here by accident and left when I saw the first Changeling.” Gold Sky asked Gilda to fix his bangs when she’s done stroking his hair along with telling her not to stop. “Sweetheart, if you want you can accompany me to the forge to see me make the armor.” 

“What about me Gold Sky?” Rarity asks. 

“OH!” Gold Sky jumped out from the bed. “Rarity do you have measuring tape?” 

“Yes here go.” No need to ask how she has it. 

Gold Sky’s magic took hold of the tape and asked Rarity to stand still. He measures every inch of Rarity body to make sure he has precise measurements in order for the amour to fit snugly on her. “Rarity, just stay out of trouble because I know you won’t last long in the heat of the forge plus I don’t want you mess up your hair. Just stay out of the Queen’s way, she isn’t going to do anything to you.”  Once done with the measurements Gold Sky went back to the bed to imprint the measurement into his memory. “Wait a minute is this the only bed here?” 

Gilda and Rarity shot some glances to each. “I call dibs on the left side!” Gilda yells. 
“I claim the right side!” Rarity exclaims.  
The two of them jump on both sides placing Gold Sky in the middle.  “We love you!” Both kiss Gold Sky on the cheeks. How lovingly cute. 
Moments like these show what Love is in a dark but warm world. 

***
In the forge Gold Sky receives five hundred pounds of pure valyrian steel and silver. Gilda gives him a hammer then suddenly feels a strong breeze come in from out of nowhere to fan the flames to make them hotter. 
“All right sweetheart it’s going to get really warm here, duck.” His magic levitated a stone mold from behind Gilda, a chisel created another mold for the horseshoes. “Please pass me those tongs.” 
“Sure, here daddy.” 

Gold Sky began forging Rarity’s armor, he nearly forgot how it’s a little difficult to melt valyrian steel requiring more wind to fan the flames plus more coal. He poured the liquid valyrian steel into the four stone molds to make the horseshoes then while the horseshoes take shape Gold Sky took two little blades made out of valyrian steel and implanted them into the front horseshoes. “Sweetheart please fan the flames so the silver can melt faster.” Before Gilda notices he pricked himself to drop some of his blood on the horseshoes but what’s more surprising he also added some of Rarity’s blood too. 
“Yeah sure.” Gilda fanned the flames by flapping her wings. 
Once done with the horseshoes Gold Sky got the liquid silver and covered the horseshoes with them. “Perfect thanks sweetheart.” 
“You’re welcome daddy.” 
With a smaller hammer and fine chisel he created Rarity’s cutie mark on each horseshoe while engraving other designs on them. Done. He began with the body armor melting the steel, hammering it to the right size, pouring his blood and Rarity’s blood into it, then he let it cool down a bit before covering it with silver, and chiseled in Rarity’s cutie mark plus some other nice designs. 
After finishing the helmet, Gold Sky held the entire armor in front of Gilda. “So sweetheart what do you think, too much?” 

Gilda studied the armor. “It looks incredible daddy.” 

The Alicorn placed Rarity’s armor on a stand and started with his. 

Outside the forge the Queen smiles from overhearing the words the griffon spoke. “I knew it! Now I can get more than his blood.” With that Chrysalis left. 

***
Rarity sighed in boredom; the mare wished Gold Sky didn’t assume that she will not like being in the forge but at the same time she will not like being in the forge where it’s hot and probably there’s ash flying about in the air which will so mess up her hair. “I could just walk around and try my best to avoid the Queen, err I mean Chrysalis. Still, I feel ashamed for questioning Gold Sky knowing full well Gilda can hear me but at least Gilda didn’t do anything.” Rarity left her room, not giving any sort of attention to changelings around her though some were amazingly nice enough to open some doors for her so for those Changelings she gave them attention by thanking them. “I have to say, the palace has some nice aspects to it like these weird paintings.” One of the paintings shows the Queen standing over the heart of the Earth with beams of energy flowing from the heart and into her. “Such nice detail.”  Any who moving on from the paintings Rarity figured there’s nothing nice to look outside the palace because it’s nothing but desert outside. So taking a right the white mare finds herself in front of Queen Chrysalis. “Your highness.” Rarity forces the words out of her mouth without making it very apparent. 

Queen Chrysalis secretly admires the white mare, truth be told, of all the ponies she has interacted with. Rarity has been the only one that has tickled her fancy. Maybe it can be how the most beautiful pony in the world can be at her call and beckon and make such beautiful dresses but what’s more tickling to the Queen is the heart of the white mare. Full of Love and power. “Rarity. I somehow knew the reason behind your flawless beauty is your mommy Princess Celestia.”

“What?” Rarity says. 

“Who have ever thought the son and daughter of Princess Celestia will show up in my presence. Though I am a bit confused, still none the less you must be thousands of years old just like your brother, say does his heart belong to somepony oh and are you twins?” 

Rarity is just trying to absorb the fact Queen Chrysalis is being so curious, she of all sentient beings changing from a villain to a scary but cautious Queen with a hint of curiosity. “Oh! She must have heard Gold Sky call me sister so that explains the Queen’s question.” 
“I am not the daughter of Princess Celestia your grace and I accepted Gold Sky into my family therefore making him my blood brother.” Rarity didn’t mention taking Gold Sky’s blood. “But your grace why are you interested if Gold Sky’s heart belongs to somepony?” Better to know first than to break down intentions. 

The Queen ends eye contact to cover her thoughts in case the white mare is a telepath like Celestia’s son. “I don’t have to explain myself to you Rarity covertly though he is very handsome wouldn’t you say?” 

“Uhhhh.” 

The Queen giggles. “No need to answer that Rarity, I can thank his mommy for his handsomeness. Of course the bigger question is this. Why are you here with him and the griffon?” 

Rarity will gracefully insult Chrysalis with her own words. “I don’t have to explain myself to you, your grace. What I do is what I do and on Gold Sky’s behalf thank you for your hospitality.”

Queen Chrysalis laughs. “Touché. I like you already Rarity.”

“Really?”   Rarity’s jaw is hanging midway between a full drop and a closed mouth. 

“Oh yes. Hahaha.” Another laugh. “Of all the ponies who fell to my deception as Candance I found you so compelling though you fell for my deception.” The Queen shape shifted into Rarity. “Even as a shape shifter I cannot become your flawlessness.” The Queen turned back into her true form after letting Rarity find the flaws. “Such features given by the divine cannot be imitated. Still I know you will never develop any form of compatibility with me. I am the evil Queen who tried to feed off the love of Equestria and utterly failed however, since you and I are no different here in this moment, I will kid myself with some fantasy.” 

Rarity can think where this is going; she knows what kind of fantasy the Queen will think up and who can blame her. Everyone can be reduced to something whither it be to just a Queen with a desert for a kingdom or be a powerful talented student filled with Lust, in the end they are no different despite appearance. For the Queen or take away that title, Chrysalis is a female who can see a connection with Rarity if it is allowed. For even those who are bad or not, they always admire something.  “I can imagine having a friendship with you Rarity, in a whole different reality though. I will still be a Changeling don’t get me wrong and you will be my friend.” 

Rarity doesn’t need to think about Chrysalis words. Deep down if things were different like in the fantasy Chrysalis is kidding herself with then truly both of them will be friends. “Why?” Still even with realization bliss from ignorance lingers. 

Chrysalis shape shifts into Rarity again. “It’s that heart of yours. You do not let your beauty cloud your head instead you use your beauty to make bonds with everyone around you. Such a ruler you will be if you  were born with power, along with being a friend I will love with all my heart. A friend I can share everything and just love a lot.” Oh how Queen Bee errrr…Queen Chrysalis is in her own words expressing the need for a friend. 

“T-This is too much for me to even think about much with my imagination.” Rarity moans. “But even then your words are true your grace.” But Rarity shakes her head to regain herself. “Me of all ponies your grace and you of all Changelings. If only your fantasy was real we will be good friends but the choices you made will always keep that fantasy a fantasy. I’m just amazed you can think that, truly I’m just amazed you admired me even as a villain. You see who I am inside and wanted a…let’s just say here theoretically speaking if you were to conquer all of Equestria what will you do to me?” 

“I will make you my own personal servant Rarity, so you can always be close to me allowing me to admire you and eventually through time we will become friends but more importantly you will be my heir to the conquered throne.” 

Rarity dropped down to her rump while Chrysalis kindly provided a nice cushion to sit on. “I am so important to you.” 

“Speaking of important, I was also thinking to let somepony you care about be be with you annnnnd if you’ll be so kind please tell me who you will pick to be with you.” Chrysalis is so curious thanks to her rarely liberated fantasy.  

Rarity went up to that time period where Chrysalis attempted her conquering mission, there was a pony not a dragon Rarity cared for a lot. Somepony, who she had her heart for. “If I tell you, will you tell anybody?” 

The Queen turns back into her true form again. “Look at me Rarity. Do you think anybody will believe me?”

“Good point.” Rarity took a deep breath before the saying the name of the pony. “Rainbow Dash…” Rarity however backtracked to another name. “Spike the purple dragon what will you do to him?” 

“Use him as my igniter for the fireplace.” 

Rarity secretly sighed in relief though she didn’t have too when Chrysalis is just going about fantasy. 

Getting back to topic. “Rainbow Dash, humph, true opposites attract one another.” A bad idea came into the Queen. “Like so.” She shape shifted into Rainbow Dash. 

A thin red line blossomed on Rarity’s face. “Your grace, I told you more than enough already please don’t toy with your fantasy like this.” 

“Why Rarity?” Chrysalis as Rainbow Dash circles around the white mare and to raise the stakes she brushes the Element’s chin with a rainbow colored tail. “You cared for me, I mean not me, you cared for Rainbow Dash.”

The love for Rainbow Dash inside Rarity’s heart reminds her of the line that has already been created on that day of the dream date. “We almost kissed. I almost kissed Rainbow Dash when I took her to my little workstation to make her bridesmaid dress more aerodynamic, I suddenly found myself extremely close to her and she found herself extremely close to me. We lost ourselves to the power of our eyes like the world just left us alone so we can see who will make a move. I wanted to make the first move and kiss Rainbow’s warm lips. Kiss her lips to create a relationship where I and her will always be happy together. I knew from her eyes and from a little inch forward she wanted to kiss me and her eyes couldn’t be taken away from my lips I felt her feelings for me and she didn’t act on them. Instead I just tenderly rubbed her head with mine for I don’t know how long but long enough to end with a hug to suppress our feelings.” 

Chrysalis tested her luck and pressed her nose or Rainbow Dash’s nose against Rarity’s nose. “You lost her and she lost you so both of you have somebody else to love.” What makes Chrysalis’s actions so dreaded is the fact she’s speaking in Rainbow’s voice. 

Rarity controls her breathing and keeps reminding herself this is the Queen not Rainbow Dash. “I-I have Sp-Spike and R-Rainbow Dash has Princess Luna.” 

The Queen is sort of satisfied with Rarity’s response. “You love her but yet don’t love her and she loves you but yet don’t love you.” Chrysalis ends the intimate affection with the Element of Generosity. “I’m sorry for doing this to you Rarity I just long to have you as my friend and to know somepony you first must know what they love.” And Chrysalis turned back into her true self. “I wish you were friend Rarity.” 

“Me too.” Rarity got up and embraced the Queen. “I’m sorry for the way things are your grace and you know me so well even though we never met as we are.” 

“She hugs me!”  Even Queen Chrysalis can feel happiness.
The Element of Generosity is really one with a big heart of Diamond.


***
In the forge Gold Sky shows Gilda his own armor made by his own hoofs. “Sweetheart, are you bored?” 

“Bored?” Gilda answers as she gets near Gold Sky. “As long as I’m spending time with you I am never bored!” She got under Gold Sky’s right wing. “Remember when you will read many stories in the meadows after I spent hours looking for books in the library. You carried me on your back taking me shelve to shelve so I can find the perfect book for me. When can we go to a library?” 

“Do you want me to carry you on my back?”

Gilda laughs to her father’s question. “Well maybe you can still carry me right now but that’s okay. No need for that anymore.” 

With both armors floating in the air the father and daughter leave the forge to find Rarity. Outside of the forge is somebody waiting. 
“Ah Gold Sky I see what you did with the valyrian steel and silver. You made armor any who, no need to explain to me for the armor just pay me.” 

Gold Sky extracted his blood with the IV catheter and tossed the blood to the Queen. “Thank you for giving me what I asked.” 

Queen Chrysalis drank the blood relishing in the euphoria once again, it’s purity in Love gave Chrysalis an unspecified amount of power within her. Power that can again humiliate Princess Celestia. “I want more.” She ordered. 

“Why do you want more of his blood your grace? Seriously why do you drink his blood!?” Gilda just blurted her question to see one drop of blood clinging to the Queen’s lower lip. 

Chrysalis tongue licked up the drop of blood. Sure the blood gives her tissue regeneration but it’s the Love inside that gives Chrysalis power and euphoria. “You see my dear.” Chrysalis was about to place a…limb let’s put it like that, under Gilda’s chin hesitantly due to her dark connection to Love she senses Gold Sky’s rising protectiveness and that protectiveness cannot be taken lightly, ever. Chrysalis brought her limb back down. “Gold Sky is the pure essence of Love something I a Changeling feed on.” 

“So you basically feed on love??” 

“Yes and this pony is just infinitely full of it.” Chrysalis blinked twice. “Love that is. Now dear son of Celestia would you kindly give me more of your blood.”   

Gold Sky nodded his head. “Of course your grace.” Just as Gold Sky was about to plant the needle inside of his vein the Queen stopped him. 

“I will extract your blood my way this time.” The Queen began getting close to Gold Sky making the stallion blush to the brightest hue of red and Gilda tilts her head, if this Queen is going to kiss her daddy because if that’s the case then this the second time she sees somebody kiss him. 

“Your grace what are doin ow!” 
Chrysalis slowly buried her fangs into the vein getting physically and maybe intimately close to the stallion. “He’s smells good. Oh my!” Chrysalis’s pupils shrink to dots. “I can feel the full power of his love! The love no, his Love is so ravishing!” Her fangs sink a little deeper. “Great I can feel his fear.”

Gold Sky is doing everything he can to prevent his fear from wrapping its claws around him, really he wants to hyperventilate but from the chemicals he swallowed from the Lorazepam  manages to keep the fear at bay. “Her scent is very peculiar. Ah, it’s starting to hurt a bit, at least my regeneration will suppress any pain that’s to come when she’s done extracting my blood.”  

The Queen finished drinking two liters of his blood, that’s a bit too much for anypony to lose luckily for Gold Sky his bone marrow replenishes the sparkling blood to its homeostasis level in less than three nanoseconds. Again the pupils of Queen Chrysalis dilated back to normal width. The blood of Love not only created a physical dependence in Chrysalis it created the all mighty bad psychological addition. An addition Princess Chrysalis will do anything to keep satisfied, especially if the addition can allow Rarity to be close. Oh what a scheme being born in the bosom of Chrysalis’s mind. 

***

*Big gasp*
Rarity’s magic levitated the silver armor before her, for the first time in her life she has something that is beauty and ferocity. Two traits Rarity never thought will be held by her magic much less be made for her. “Gold Sky, you made me my own armor! It’s so beautiful!” Rarity tapped the armor with her hoof. “Look at the engravings you oh my cutie mark too. Oooh let me put it on!” 
First she slipped on the silver horseshoes. 
“Rarity wait.” Gilda stopped Rarity from putting on the second horseshoe. 

“What why??” 

Gold Sky stepped in. “Rarity let your magic form in your horn but do nothing with it instead just think of your armor. There’s something I want to see and to test out a hypothesis I created along with secretly getting a sample of your blood.” 

Rarity’s eyebrows almost came off when she raised them to the highest point her body can allow otherwise they'll come off therefore creating a funky reason to use false eyebrows. “You took some of my blood without my permission!!!” Her voice had that sharp rough emphasize which Gold Sky enjoys hearing when Rarity gets tense. “Well you gave me a lot of your blood…” Interrupted. 

“But he gave me more!” Gilda shot out. 

For ten seconds there’s nothing but complete silence. “Any who.” Rarity ended the silence. “I guess I returned the favor but without me knowing still I returned the favor now let me do what you told me to do.” Rarity let her magic fill her horn and thought of her armor. 

“I pray it works.” Gold Sky wonders if it’ll work for his new armor too. 

The silver armor stayed still but the more Rarity thought of the armor it began to float up one by one. Starting with the three remaining horseshoes they slipped on her hooves with elegant grace, the body armor fitted itself snuggly, and lastly the helmet slowly covered her head creating a sense of awe for the white mare. “I can summon my armor from anywhere!” Rarity shouted with joy.

“Yes it worked, it worked! I knew it will work, yes!!” Gold Sky jumped into the air smiling like Sweetie Belle when she hugged him. *Gasp* “Sweetie Belle! Little sister, when I left she was crying out of fear that I may die, she thinks I’m dying or I’m dead!” Gold Sky’s telepathy froze Rarity and Gilda both physically & mentally giving him time to connect with little sister’s mind. Sweetie Belle clings to a picture containing big sister, big brother, and her in the middle clinging to both their necks in a loving hug. Several tears run out of her eyes only to be wiped away out of fear of being thought a coward among her closest friends even if she’s alone at the very moment. 
“Gold Sky please be alive because I can’t feel you at all! Gilda perished, he’s gone!”  Gold Sky disconnected from the filly’s mind. 

“I need to get this over with as soon as possible! The sooner this ends the sooner I can take her into my arms and tell her I love her.” Gold Sky freed Rarity and Gilda from his telepathy.

“Wow looks like little cutesy brother is happy.” Rarity couldn’t help but use affectionate baby talk with the stallion seeing how he acted. 

“Rarity, your armor will only come to you and no matter how far you are from it, the armor will come and the harder you think of it the faster it’ll arrive.” Gold Sky did the same thing and produced the same results Rarity experienced. 
“Perfect now comes the second step.” Gold Sky telepathically calls for the two elite Changeling warriors. 

Rarity sees them come in. “Uh what are they doing here?” 

Gold Sky holds up his right forearm to look at his horseshoe. “They’re here to bring an end to your little inability Rarity, you will fight them mentally as Twilight Sparkle.” Both Changelings shape shift into the Twilight Sparkle. 
Rarity gasped to see the mare who not only violated her but caused a great deal of pain to many ponies and almost risked the life of innocent unborn child. Still Rarity is afraid to fight Twilight Sparkle, she can hear her fear moan submission is the only way to escape more pain and the fear is backed by the inability itself. Rarity now sees what Gold Sky intends to do; he is using the Changelings to not only fight her mentally but fight her physically as well. “This explains why he made me don the armor first.”

Both Twilight Sparkles smile lustfully. “What’s wrong Rarity?” Both speak at the same time as if one isn’t enough. “Are you afraid to fight what should be fought?” 

Gold Sky extends the blade in his right horseshoe. “Rarity fight what you love starting now.” 
The two Twilight Sparkles suddenly charge at Rarity forcibly engaging the mare into fierce hoof to hoof combat.

“This is Twilight. I am fighting Twilight and the lust that has infected her.” Rarity is giving roles to the two Twilights in order to fight both fronts that have come against her. 

Rarity blocked one of the hits from the Twilight on the left then swung her right hoof fast to hit away a strike. Rarity bended backwards to avoid a unison strike from the two Twilight Sparkles, at getting back to normal battle stance Rarity stands on her hind legs kicking one of the Twilight’s in the head and grabbing the second picking her up, knee her two times in the stomach, slam her on the ground, and deliver a punch to the stomach. “Uh oh!” Rarity got tackled by the first Twilight and got pinned down. 

“I will free myself from Twilight and defeat her!”  Rarity tells herself. 

“Oh Rarity you are going to lose.” Twilight number one gave Rarity a head butt. “Ow!” The helmet is more of a weapon then a defense as it’s originally made. The first Twilight got kicked off and landed on the second Twilight.

Nearby Gilda is enjoying seeing Aunt Rarity kick butt while Gold Sky is monitoring the traffic inside the mare’s mind, he can observe Rarity wrestling with the inability and the inability is overcoming her at this very moment. “Behind you sister.” Gold Sky says to himself. 

“Ah!” Rarity received a kick from behind. “AUGH!” Twilight number two punched Rarity square in the face with a strong right hook. “OW!” Twilight number one threw Rarity against the wall. Then number two blasts the white mare with a bolt of magic through the same wall. “Oooooooh focus!” Rarity get’s back up only to be punched down by both Twilights. 

“Come on Aunt Rarity kick their butts!!” Gilda cheers on. 
Meanwhile.
“Rarity you are so weak! It’s no wonder you can’t defeat  somepony who is very adorable, you are not a strong pony you are a weakling a weak pathetic excuse for a pony!” Both Twilights resume their offense. 

With all the pain being inflicted upon Rarity it doesn’t hurt her as much as Gold Sky going against his Love to just jump in and mercilessly kill the two warriors by tearing open their bodies, ripping out their hearts, and stab it in front of their dying eyes. “Sister this is your chance to take the pain given to you right now and merge it with the pain Twilight has given you. If it takes pain to get over your inability then use it. Use the wrongs committed against you to gain strength! Twilight is your enemy not your friend, a friend does not hurt you, a friend does not take away your family, and a friend does not come after your heart with Lust in theirs. Use your pain! USE YOUR PAIN! GET OVER YOUR INABILITY! YOU ARE RARITY, YOU ARE RARITY! YOU ARE TWILIGHT’S WORST NIGHTMARE!”  Gold Sky telepathically screams to his big sister. “YOU ARE MY REASON FOR COMING BACK FROM THE OTHER SIDE!!”

“I AM!” Rarity pushed herself to slide across the ground to gain some distance from one of the Twilight forgetting there’s originally two. 

“Got you my pretty!” Twilight number two grabbed Rarity and threw her across the room. Twilight number one joined number two. “You can’t defeat us pretty.” 

On the ground Rarity closed her eyes allowing her mind to be cleared. The entire galaxy of her mind amasses itself in the core gaining a massive amount of mass and turning into Super Red giant, every good memory of Twilight goes into the core and everything bad joins the gravitational pull of the red giant and begins orbiting the red star. “I will defeat you Twilight; I will defeat you because Lauren the Archangel has faith in me!” The Super Red Giant collapsed within itself, leaving nothing but blackness in the mind…suddenly a small light flashes, within seconds a supernova erases all of the bad therefore the bad will no longer cling to the good destroying the inability once and for all. As for the mind the galaxy is restored to an anew form. 
Rarity shakes her head to get back into battle mode and with grace gets back up bringing an end to the action with a magnificent combat stance. “This pretty will not go down so easily!” 

Both Twilights smile maniacally. “You’re ours!” Seriously hearing them talk in unison can be terrifying.  

Rarity with her martial arts fighting style avoids the hits with fluid motion like time is coming to her advantage, with a small intake of air Rarity strikes Twilight two in the chest sending her some distance away. Using this leeway Rarity with great speed lands a number of strikes on the upper right thoracic area shutting down many nerves and preventing use of the right forearm.

Gold Sky softly smirks to this burst of power in big sister. “Big sister has done it!” He hugs Gilda in uncontained joy. 
The griffon of course says. “Oooh, love you too daddy.”  Cute. 

Rarity now with the upper hoof rains down an endless number of punches on the elite warrior Changeling. “I yield!” Shouts the Changeling. “I yield!” The Changeling reverts back to its true form. 

Rarity backs away from the beaten Changeling. “I know Twilight thinks she has the element of surprise right now so I’ll give her or him the benefit of the doubt.”  So she waits while pretending to be oblivious. 

Twilight recovered, it instinctively looks for an opening to take advantage. “Perfect!”  Benefit of the doubt indeed. 
Twilight blindly charges forward ready to deliver some more pain but within inches to having the perfect striking point the white mare turns around and catches her hoof leaving Twilight speechless. 

“It ends now Twilight Sparkle.” Rarity kneed Twilight in the stomach followed by a powerful uppercut.  

“WOW!” Gilda marvels to the sound of the impact. 

Rarity does a leg sweep getting Twilight off her secure footing quickly she aims her elbow to the back of Twilight’s head and body slams the mare. However, a thought of Spike entered the core unleashing the limitless power. “You fall now!” Rarity punches the back of Twilight’s head and through the force of her punch an impact crater is made. With Twilight now in her grip Rarity gets up to slam Twilight into the ground creating shockwaves upon impact then she slams Twilight into the wall creating deep cracks in the concrete and finally throws her through the same wall. 

Twilight raises a hoof. “I-I yield.” And reverts back to its true form. “I yield.”

The Dire Wolf in all its glory is free of weakness. 

Gold Sky comes up and places a hoof on Rarity’s shoulder. “Well done sister, you can now fight without be held back by emotion.” 

Rarity sighed to hear Gold Sky voice approval in her fight with the Twilights. “Gold Sky, this is really wield but thank you for making me fight if it weren’t for that then I don’t think I can ever fight Twilight again.” Rarity took little brother into a tight hug. 

Gilda joined in too. “Ugh!” She got pushed away by Aunt Rarity. 

“Hah! My turn.” Secretly Rarity feels good to return the favor to her niece. 

*sniff sniff* “Why now.” Gold Sky’s sense of smell picked up somebody least expected. 

Queen Chrysalis with some servants come in through the hole in the wall. “Well I can see you got what you paid for Gold Sky, though a bit too excessive in my opinion.” She orders her servants to take the two elite warriors to the infirmary to decide if they’re still of any use to her. “Anyway it’s nice to see the sibling love happen and Rarity I never knew you were so strong, sure gave me some goosebumps  however, I can’t overlook all of the damage. Somepony has to pay for this.” She lays her eyes with a dreadful smile on Gold Sky. 
Gold Sky got away from Rarity. “Sister please do not be disturbed by what you’re going to see.” He got directly in front of the Queen and tilted his head to create more of an easy access to the vein in his neck. 

The Queen first licks the spot where her fangs will soon penetrate the skin; she obviously feels the shiver running through the stallion giving her a dark sense of satisfaction even before having the sparkling blood is on her tongue. “Oh this will be nice.” 

*Gasp!* Rarity can’t believe what she’s witnessing. “Gold Sky seriously can’t be allowing the Queen to do this to him!”  She stepped forward but came to realize there’s something more important to ask. “Gilda, why are you letting this happen!?” She whispered to the griffon.

“Daddy is not being harmed and he warned me only to protect him if he’s in grave danger. Also the Queen feeds on love and daddy’s blood is full of Love.” Gilda whispered back.

Rarity growled under her breath, first little brother is taking a medication to deal with his violation and now he’s letting Queen Chrysalis take his precious blood the same way an Assassin Bug consumes its captured prey. Did he just come back from the other side to just suffer some more for her behalf?  “I hope this is the end of it so we can go home.” 

Rarity’s may have done have something in her self said words.

***
As the day goes on and more sparkling blood being drunk by Queen Chrysalis. Gold Sky finally found a moment for himself, a moment where he can just lie down in a large marble tub and relax in the semi steaming warm water. In all the time since his return from the heavenly paradise he never had time to just relax. “Ooooh yeah this feels good.” His now wet jet black hair floated about in the water and his mind remembers something. “I remember mother massaging my head as she lathers my hair with that nice shampoo she uses.” 
In the core of the galaxy it’s Princess Celestia giving a young Gold Sky a bath two hundred and eleven years ago. 
Gold Sky, cleared his mind of nostalgia to enjoy his relaxation and maybe doze off to a short nap before falling asleep and go back home. 
However, he isn’t the only one having loving flashbacks somebody else comes in and watches the Alicorn relax without a care in the world. This somebody joins him in the large tub disturbing the stillness of the water and sent a few ripples to clash with the Alicorn making him stir but denied the implication he’s not alone so his eyes stayed closed. The somebody makes some more movement this time making physical contact on his shoulder; once again the Alicorn is in denial. Can he just get a break here, where he has nothing to worry about, like facing Twilight with Rarity, living a life without Octavia since mother wiped her slate clean of him, wondering if mother will be here for him when he’s standing in front of her, and probably lastly he needs two hours of total seclusion to wipe his mind clean of that illusion cursed sin otherwise how can he bear to hug his mother and be attacked by shame. 
The somebody with a sly smile got a feather and tickled the inside of the Alicorn’s nose.
*Achoo!* 
“What in the bloody heck!!” Gold Sky opened his eyes. “AH!” When he saw who tickled his nose it made him wrap his wings around his body like he’s afraid of somebody to see him in the bath. “Gilda what are you doing here!!? I-I tssssh I-I mean what are doing in here in the tub when this is my alone time!!!” 

Gilda went to the other side of the tub to give daddy some space especially hearing the distress in his voice. “Sorry daddy I didn’t mean to scare you but I thought it will be nice to join you in the warm water. I mean don’t you remember when you will give me a bath then when you’re taking yours I’ll come and join you giving me a second one.” 

Gold Sky’s distress went away to a smile forming in his face. He remembers giving his little Gilda a bath long ago when she was just a young child, like her cute laughter when she splashes the water around and giggling whenever he wrapped a towel around her and took into his arms showering her with kisses instead of warm water. “Yes I remember that.” Then a quick shake of his head. “I-I mean, still! You are older now and you’re not supposed to be here with me! I have my own bath time and you have your own bath time besides unless this was a Jacuzzi or something like that then we can be in the same tub together to relax but until then get out! You're not supposed to see your father like this!” His magic took Gilda of the tub and stuck his nose into the water to prevent Gilda from seeing his nose bleed. 

Gilda made her pupils big…oh not those puppy eyes. 

“Oh that is so not going to work sweetheart, I’m way too old to be weakened by such acts.” Gold Sky made his face serious and got within inches of Gilda’s face which she’s still doing her puppy eyes. 

Father and Daughter have a little face off. The cuteness of the griffon raised by Love and the seriousness of the pony who been through death go head on. Somebody has to give. 

After a few long seconds the puppy eyes blinked and came to an end. “You win daddy sorry for ruining your bath time.” 

The seriousness went away and got replaced by unending Love. “Oh sweetheart, it’s alright, I understand your intentions. Just come here.” Gold Sky is getting out of the tub but didn’t see the rim of the tub. “Oh no!” He ended up falling down in front of Gilda. “Ow.” 

“You’re okay, right daddy?” Gilda asks. 
The magenta eyes look up to make her know the response is coming. “I’m okay, ow, I’m okay.” 

Gilda came down and wrapped her arms around his head again. “I love you.” 

***
“This is going to work.” Queen Chrysalis assures herself in the confines of her chamber. “Everyone has a point to which they’re break and just become willing to do anything!” Her magic brought a test tube full of sparkling blood to her lips. “Even if Love fills him I know it is his weaknes…” Pause to take a sip. “I want to feel what the mare who his heart feels, I want what she gets, and maybe he can be mine forever.” Drank the rest of the sparkling blood. “I can have Love all to myself, have him all to myself, and for his sake allow his little dear be our heir just to keep him under my iron hoof.” 

The Queen sees if she couldn’t defeat Mother Love Cadance then she will have the victory of having the physical manifestation as her own trophy. After all Mother Love and Physical Manifestation have to be related since Love in itself is very powerful therefore there has to be two who are bound to it, just like the sun and moon along with the six Elements of Harmony. No one of those ponies can be left unchecked. 

The Queen orders her servants to deliver some treats to the three guests.
***

The Moon rises. 

***
“Still can’t believe there’s one bed.”  Gold Sky thinks to himself while behind him Rarity brushes Gilda’s hair. “Sure I don’t mind sharing a bed but to be in the middle with my daughter and older sister. Even I find that kind of weird, but at least I’ll be safe with them. Though why in the middle!? Still better to share a bed with them then to share it with that Queen and Twilight Sparkle.”  Gold Sky passes a hoof through his hair. “I Love my hair and bangs. Thanks Sweetie Belle.” 

The stallion got in the middle of the bed while Rarity is still brushing Gilda’s hair. “I got most of the pillows hehehehehehe…” A few knocks to the chamber doors ceased his thought. “Jump.”
*Poof* The Alicorn teleported to the doors and answered. *Low Groan* “Your grace, how are you in this pleasant night?”

Straight to the point. “Gold Sky, come with me now. Rarity and Gilda you two stay here.” 

“Just stay here please. I’ll be back, later in the night or maybe in the morning. Just stay here all right!”  With the telepathic need voiced, Gold Sky went with the Queen and closed the doors behind him. 

“It’s okay Gilda. Gold Sky can kill her if need be and kill every one these Changelings too.” How nice of Rarity to reassure Gilda like that. Sadly it’s true. 

In the Queen’s chambers. 
“Gold Sky, son of Princess Celestia the mare of the Sun.” Chrysalis lays on her bed in a rather seductive pose knowing that the stallion will not find anything seducing about it because he is in control of his flesh to which a lesser stallion will blush in lustful anticipation.  “I ask you what can break a stallion such as yourself.” 

Gold Sky simply shrugged his shoulders he will not bother attempting to answer a question he does not have the answer to. 

Chrysalis curved the right side of her lips to the right. “Humph, I would have known you will give me an answer like. Could it be Gold Sky, you are already broken without even realizing it.” 

“Your grace with all due respect why did you ask me to come if I will end up wasting your time and more importantly my time.” 

Chrysalis got up from the bed and walked past Gold Sky while gliding her flank on his chin and then brushing it with her tail. “Will you like a drink?” From a crystal bottle she pours three hundred and seventy seven year old whiskey into a cup. 

“I don’t drink alcohol your grace.” Gold Sky pushed away his floating half filled cup. “Though thanks for the offer.” 

Chrysalis drank his whiskey like it’s a smooth experience rather than a rough road others will experience.  “Such a colt scout and a momma’s boy.” 

“First Rainbow Dash and now her to call momma’s boy. How funny.” 

“Say besides your polished decent qualities. How can you resist my touch! No one is capable of resisting my touch.” The Queen places a limb under Gold Sky’s chin pushing it up to straighten eye contact. “How can you resist it! No stallion can resist my touch…plus one mare b-but in my defense she was really beautiful not as beautiful as your sister but I couldn’t control myself.  Anyway, you are going to tell me how you can resist my touch. Even Shining Armor came under my control.” 

Tempting question. “Did you two…uh.” *whistle.* 

“What do you mean, wait! You did not answer my question son of Celestia.” Chrysalis gets her face closer to Gold Sky. “And no we didn’t do anything like that. I wanted to feel what Love is first instead of taking a lustful approach.”

Gold Sky stopped breathing through his nose; he does not want to smell Chrysalis scent anymore not that it’s bad, he doesn’t want to remember the scent of such a mare if Chrysalis can be called a mare. “I do not allow myself to be controlled by feelings of lust.” 

Chrysalis glanced down to his lips feeling something inside of her. “How!?” 

“A real stallion does not look upon a mare with thoughts of immorality. Mother has taught me that and a real stallion seals his heart to a mare through marriage because it is through marriage a stallion not only faces the world but faces himself. His flesh is his own worst enemy.” Gold Sky instinctively pointed to his horn. 

“Why are you pointing to your horn?” The Queen asks with a tilt of her head. 

“I’m pointing at my wedding ban…” Gold Sky’s mouth stayed ajar to suddenly remembering he has no wedding band to symbolically represent his commitment to the gray mare who has his heart in her hooves. He broke eye contact to prevent the Queen from picking up anything from his eyes. “Never mind your grace.” He respectively pushed Chrysalis’s limb away. “I’ll be leaving your presence.” And started to walk away from the Queen. 

Almost enraged, the Queen grabbed Gold Sky getting face to face with him again. “Agh, get your hooves off of me!” 

“You didn’t answer my question! I asked what can break you!” 

“I-I don’t bloody hell know your grace!” Gold Sky squirmed in Chrysalis’s arms. “Please let go of me!” 

Chrysalis eyed Gold Sky’s lips again. “Stop moving.” She moves so close to Gold Sky he stops squirming, she can see what he is starting to feel by looking into his magenta eyes. “Please don’t move Gold Sky. Ever since laying my eyes on you my curiosity has bit my heart to feel you either by your blood or your lips.” Chrysalis closes her eyes. She is going to do what she intends to do.

“Jump…JUMP! JUMMMMP! JUMP, JUMP, JUMP, JUST BLOODY JUMP PLEASE JUMP!!!”  Gold Sky can’t teleport away from the Queen. “Noooo, JUMP, JUMP!!” His pupils shrink to mere dots, his body temperature drops sixteen degrees, fear floods every facial muscle, and he hyperventilates. 

Queen Chrysalis kisses the physical manifestation of Love. 

*
In the guest chamber. A invisible thread shakes to a vibration emitted by a connection created by blood and Love. Rarity feels it but somehow she cannot act upon it.

*
Queen Chrysalis edges back from the Alicorn giving his lips a small lick picking up any leftover love she didn’t pick up during the kiss. Oh this kiss is the tip of the iceberg. Really. Can one long kiss be enough for Queen Chrysalis when she is addicted to his sparkling blood truly this immortal has lived ruling with a iron limb, she tells a subject to do this and they do it, she tells a subject to come and it comes, she controlled Shining Armor to feel what true love is and utterly fails on her own prideful behalf, and through such power nothing has become truly hers. Yet even her diet on Love does her no good to quell her inner needs, like a friend and a stallion to Love and be loved. If she can’t have neither one then she will forcibly get it through her own means of an end.  “You are so beautiful Gold Sky.” 

“NO!” Gold Sky shoves Chrysalis away. “NO! I will not betray the mare who has my heart, the LOVE OF MY LIFE! I WILL NOT BETRAY HER LIKE THIS!” Though the roar is mighty it does nothing to hide the tears forming in those loving magenta eyes. “Stay away from me your grace.” Still formal to the Queen. “I will not let you destroy my marriage!” And yet a fool to forget what he asked mother to do to Octavia’s mind. What a frakken fool. 

Chrysalis undaunted throws Gold Sky onto her bed and holds him with the strength given to her by the love she obtained from him. “Don’t struggle anymore Gold Sky.” 

Gold Sky ignores Chrysalis. “Get off of me! J-just get off of me now!!” With the Razor floating at the edge of the galaxy fear will not enter to cause a panic attack. 

“Gold Sky, what makes you think you are betraying the mare you love so much when you asked your mommy to cleanse her mind of you. How can you still have a marriage when death ends it?” 

Gold Sky ends his struggle. The Razor finds no reason to be around the galaxy free of anger. 

“You have nothing to love as your wife! She is gone, no more, and you are nothing, I mean nothing to her. In fact I bet she is cuddling up with a stallion right now in front of the fire place nuzzling each other like love birds. Tell me Gold Sky, if you love her so much wouldn’t it be the right thing to just let her live without your heart?” 

“I…I…” Gold Sky feels his heart being stabbed with truth. 

Chrysalis starts kissing Gold Sky all over his neck. “Yes go on with whatever you’re thinking Gold Sky it’s pretty pointless.” 

“My heart only belongs to Octavia, it cannot belong to any other mare not even death can take away my love for her. Mother said once I fall in love my heart only belongs to her.”

Queen refrained her tongue from licking Gold Sky’s lips. “Oh you stupid, powerful idiot. Your ahem, wife, is not your weakness. It’s that griffon, Gilda your dearest little girl, your daughter!”  Chrysalis feels the drastic change in the stallion especially in the sudden shift from a blank face to a furious face. “Ahhh I knew it! That’s how I can break you, oh, uh, uh, uh. Don’t try using your telepathy on me Gold Sky when you have everything to lose.” The thing’s horn glows bringing forth a sleeping griffon. 

Now Gold Sky freezes completely just like the Queen wants but with a tiny noticeable smirk. 

“Does he think I don’t know how to kill an immortal.” Her magic takes the shape of a green dagger.  
“I could break her neck then you’ll attack me brutally kill me most likely, kill all of my subjects, and take something from me as a trophy.” 

“If she breaks Gilda’s neck she will heal from it.” Gold Sky is trying to get his anger to be ready along with not wanting to see Gilda get hurt in any way but at least it will get Chrysalis to forget Gilda. 

“But I won’t do that.” Chrysalis brought the magical green dagger into Gold Sky’s vision. 
“She will heal from a broken neck but what she can’t heal from is a dagger through the heart.” Gold Sky’s tiny smirk disappeared. “I stab her heart; she dies before your very eyes.” The tip of the magical dagger touches the skin over the heart. “Ooooh yes! I feel your infinite love rising for your little girl.” Chrysalis spins the dagger. “I know you’re wondering how is she in such deep sleep well that will be explained in the treats I gave the three of you. Two of the treats have dark shade herb, putting Rarity and Gilda into the deepest of sleep also dark shade has the tendency to block telepathy so stop using your telepathy to wake up your little girl.” Chrysalis allowed Gold Sky to get off of the bed and fall to his knees. “Choose your words wisely Gold Sky.” 

“She’s innocent why will you want to harm her.” Gold Sky didn’t make any effort to touch Gilda thinking if he does then Chrysalis will stab her within a second.

Chrysalis cackled. “Through my kiss you know what I want Gold Sky and I will do anything to feel what real love is.” 

Gold Sky trembles, his fear snatches every part of his spirit making him embrace the ideal of being helpless to do anything to protect Gilda. “Please I beg you, don’t harm her.” He turns around to face Chrysalis.

Chrysalis again molds herself into the seductive pose. “And what will you do to ensure her unique life?” 

Gold Sky will rather commit seppuku than to say what he’s going to say sadly he doesn’t have that luxury. Cornered he will have to go against his own heart, against the morals Celestia passed down to him to protect Gilda. Ironically this is very similar to Ruby many years ago expect without having to commit genocide and will have to engage in foulness instead. 
*Long sigh* Gold Sky bends his knee to the Queen. “I will do anything you want your grace.” His heart stops him from saying words he’ll come to regret. “Anything you want your grace as long as you spare my daughter.”  

Chrysalis disgustingly smiles. “How will I know you will keep your word and ignore your heart?”

“You have my daughter’s life hanging by a thread and you know if you kill my daughter then you break me completely.”  

“Good.” Chrysalis did her part by sending Gilda away. “Please join me in bed Gold Sky.” 

Gold Sky joined Chrysalis in bed ignoring his screaming heart telling him what he’s doing is wrong but he is forced to ignore his heart to position himself on top of the Queen and feels her arms wrap around his neck. “Forgive me. If you can hear me please forgive me.” Gold Sky pleads to whoever can hear him.  He lets Chrysalis pull him down to kiss her again. Selfishly Gold Sky imagines the lips he’s kissing are Octavia’s. 

Chrysalis licks his lips and gets near his left ear. “Give me what you give the mare who has your heart.” 

“I-I can’t.” 

Chrysalis looked down to see why he can’t engage in foul physical union. “Humph.” Normally she will resort to cheating but not in this…well cheating is cheating. “Here have a touch of stimulation.” Her glowing horn touches Gold Sky sending volts of dark energy running through his blood stream sending blood where she wants it to be. “Now you can.” 

“This can’t be happening to me.” Gold Sky sighs out with closed eyes. “Huh!!” 

“Don’t you dare close your eyes Gold Sky! You are going to be looking straight into my eyes and if you close them even for one second I will kill your little girl!” 

Gold Sky nodded…he slowly unites with Chrysalis’s body…Chrysalis moans to this physical enjoyment panting while looking deeply into Gold Sky’s eyes stabbing him in the heart every second. Gold Sky fully engages in physical union feeling the Queen’s lips press against his and feels her arms squeeze his neck. Her moans evolve into yells expressing the physical euphoria being given to her by the stallion who is Love. 

“AHH!” Gold Sky screams in pain. In the middle of the euphoria Chrysalis bit his neck with such force it ruptured the vein and left behind a scar…damning him with a mark that unfortunately is universally known with a bad classification. 

The Queen is in too much happiness to notice a pause and a quick severing of the physical union. 

Gold Sky is saddened his flesh is enjoying this.
***

In Chrysalis chamber, the Queen and well with the scar on his neck given by her bite Gold Sky is now her squeeze. The Queen brings Gold Sky closer to her while slowly being overtaken by drowsiness, she places her arm over his stomach to keep him close. “Gold Sky.” The Queen lazily whispers. “You’re mine. My love.” 

Gold Sky lies on his side with his back to Queen, scared for the consequences to come for what he’s done and hearing the Queen of the Changelings confess her sick love for him. 

The Queen goes on with her whispers. “You are my Love Gold Sky from here and here on you shall always be my love.” *Yawn* “Sweet dreams my future spou…” The Queen pressed her arm against his stomach to keep from leaving her in what’s left of the night and fell asleep. 

In this terrible agony Gold Sky escapes to a little spot of his mind. “Whatever will come our way, though fire or pouring rain. We won’t be shaken, no we won’t be shaken. Whatever tomorrow brings, together we’ll rise and sing that we won’t be shaken, w-w-we won’t be shaken.”  The stallion sings a song Celestia sung to him when he will come under her wing seeking her Love. “INA, I need you!!” The sin mixes his tongue. “Mother, i cín pi! Mother!” Gold Sky quietly cries for sinning with the Queen. “I want mother!”  In the little spot Gold Sky runs into Celestia’s arms. “NO!” In mother’s loving arms he feels shame forcing him to push himself away from her and collapse on the ground screaming like an insane stallion. “WHAT CAN I DO!!” Gold Sky is trapped in a circle created by everything he has experienced, he can’t think of his mother without feeling shame. And he can’t think of Octavia when he had to picture her while engaging in this sin. “Mother…” All he can do is just ignore the shame and run back into mother’s arms.

Mother is all he’s got in this night full of terror for mother is the only one who can take away this pain and free him. “Mother, I pray you still love me.” 

The Immortal Son hugs his mother tight for when dawn comes blood will be spelt. The unrelenting wrath of the Immortal Father waits to be unleashed upon the Queen. 

No one will threaten the life of his daughter and get away with it, Mortal, Immortal, and Pure Immortal.  

At dawn the little Fox will do what he does best...
Shed blood either with or without a purpose. 


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Ch. 61- Crimson covered armor and Home. (Nightmare Moon will be writing that chapter.) 

My dearest readers if any of you happen to be avid comic book readers and mostly in the DC spectrum then you will recognize which super-heroine sort of has a cameo here. On a side note she is my number four comic book super hero. 

Also in the chapters Nightmare Moon has written are in her own words, though I think they're un-singular with the chapters I've written I will not alter them because a deal is a deal in that we will not touch each other's chapters.