//------------------------------// // I can fix that. // Story: Hail to the king, Hail to his Horde // by Emo Rainbow //------------------------------// Celestia walked down twist and turning hallways. The meeting with the creatures was something Celestia was thinking about. Though she did expect them to have a lot of questions she could only hope they weren't hostile.She looked down to her left to see her sister contemplating something. "What are you thinking about Luna?" She said. "What? Oh nothing just the creatures." Luna said. "I as well Luna. I hope they will be cooperative." She said. They walked together in silence having nothing more to say. They had brought tea with them so they can make the newcomers feel more welcomed. As they turned the corner they saw the large door with enchantments to make it unbreakable be blasted off its hinges. Said door almost took Luna's head off. They stood in front of the eight foot two creature they took the armor off of. Luna was staring at it agape. It stared at both of us confused that same look she saw on the smaller biped which she tried to speak to. Celestia closed Luna's mouth for her. Luna looked up at Celestia. Then she proceeded to give Luna a look saying be nice to the creature. Clearing her throat Celestia said "I came here to see if we could talk over some tea. Would you care for some?" She said then levitated it in front of him. He looked at her unamused then his expression turned to confusion. When she thought he was going to reply the other one showed up Verus was his name according to his weapons. "What?" He said. Verus had walked out to see the two taller equines from before. Beside that he saw a tray levitating on its own that was enough to warrant confusion. He did notice the darker one he could make out that she had wings along with her horn and a moon on her back leg unlike the other one who had a sun. There was a smaller equine that jumped in front of the taller ones. He said "Princess Celestia Princess Luna I advise you to stay away from these creatures. So their names where Cel-ess-tia and Lou-na and they were of royalty. "Pipe down bright defender. If you crashed into another realm passed out then woke up confined in room would you have acted any differently?" She said in a calm voice with some understanding tone in it. "Well I guess not." He replied. "What?"Verus said still dumbfounded by the flying tray of wonder. "You act like you've never seen magic before. Let us go back into the room and discuss the situation." She said with a chuckle. "Wait give his king an explanation of events or else!" Krogg practically shouted at her. "Me and my sister shall give you an explanation. Now Bright Defender get our guests some chairs." She said. The guard saluted and trotted off. He returned almost immediately he returned with a couple of chairs. Verus kindly accepted and sat down,and Krogg simply chose to stand. "Verus why are you so entranced by simple Magic?" Celestia asked. "How do you know his name? Explain yourself. Also what is this magic you speak of?" Krogg started immediately after. "Krogg stand down! Now How do you know my name? Please explain. Also if you could kindly explain what you mean by magic. That would be nice." He said in a much kinder fashion then took a sip of tea. "You don't have magic were you come from?" She said. "That would explain why we couldn't get a read on his magic I.D." The smaller one stated. "We will talk more about that after proper introductions. I am princess Celestia co ruler of Equestria. This is my younger sister Luna the other co ruler of Equestria." She said introducing them. "Pleasure to finally meet you Verus." Luna said to him. "How do you know my name?" Verus said in reply. "It is quite a funny story when we tried to take off your weapons we saw the name engraved in it. We assumed it was your name. We guessed right." Luna said. Verus was reading the intentions of these ponies. They did not seem to be hostile. He saw Krogg ease up as soon as he came to the realization as well. "Well I do believe it is our turn to ask questions. So Verus you are a king? What is the name of the country you rule?" Celestia asked. He could not tell if she had two separate intentions for this question. He decided to lie a talent he got very good at. "I hail from a small country called...ilima." He responded to the question with the name of a fallen human city which he had tried to save. Celestia could not tell if Verus was lying or not. His helmet covered his eyes the most common method she would use to detect lies had to do with looking into eyes. She thought she felt something In his small hesitation could it possibly be a lie? "Well that sounds like a splendid name. Who named it?" She asked. lets see how quickly he answers she thought to herself. She was suspicious he could tell he quickly thought of a name from one of his general predecessors. "Why yes the country's founder and first king Sallus vhun." He replied. She squinted her eyes and so did he though it could not be seen. Luna and Krogg both looked at them feeling the suspicion rise. Celestia was the first to speak "Well this has been fun but you two must be hungry. Shall we continue this another time?" She asked. "Why yes princess that would be suitable. Celestia turned around to see the broken door. "We should get somepony on that." She said. "We can fix that." Verus said. "Really you would be so kind as to do that? You are a guest." "It would be our pleasure after all you did heal us from the goodness of your heart." Verus insisted. "Very well if you insist." Celestia said as they walked towards the broken door. Luna conjured up some materials to repair the wall. "Finish quickly so we can show you to your rooms and so we can serve you something to eat. We shall speak more thoroughly next we meet." She said. As they walked off Verus turned to Krogg. "Finally now we have a moment to plan out our next move. Talk in our native tongue and get to work." Whispered Verus as the sisters were speaking with one another about the suspicious visitors. "I felt that maybe Verus lied to us. What about you Luna what do you think of them?" Celestia said as they headed to the cafeteria. "I don't know sister I am pretty good at spotting liars and I couldn't get a beat on him." Luna replied. "Perhaps we should wait until we get more information before we accuse him of lying to us." She said to her older sister. "Your right we should wait a bit longer before we choose to accuse them or trust them." Celestia said as they opened the cafeteria doors. What they saw shocked them. Twilight and her freinds were right there in the cafeteria talking amongst each other with the elements of harmony on. "Princess Celestia!" Twilight shouted as she trotted to her. "Twilight why didn't you tell me you were coming?" Celestia asked. "I sent you a letter didn't you get it?" Twilight asked confused. "Well your here now I believe this is something important?" Celestia said to her. "Yes princess Discord has been missing for a month now. And we thought he would be here. We can't even summon him with the elements. Have you seen him?" She asked worriedly. "No Twilight. I haven't." She replied to twilights explanation. Just then an explosion rang out through the castle. There were several smaller rapid explosions afterwards and then some shouting. "We have to get to the medical ward now I felt this would happen." Celestia said as the elements Luna and herself headed to the medical ward.