+_ Celestia _+
As the guards flooded the room, inquiring as to what had happened, I could only stand there. The thoughts I had of Legion were one of longing but I had no idea why. Discord, compared to Legion, was readable but the man’s actions were just… unpredictable. One minute a fight would break out or something along those line, then next he’d comfort, or (in the case of a riot) defend us if need be. I had never felt these emotions, and Luna had always inquired as to why I had feelings for Legion, and my only response was ‘I don’t know’. Always ‘I don’t know’.
“Tia?” I heard a voice come from behind me, and I turned. Luna stood there with her favorite weapon, Mr. Cuddles, hefted on her shoulder. “Sister, what hath happened?”
“It’s Legion, he’s free. He’s free, Luna,” I said, and for the life of me I sounded happy when I should have sounded worried. The prospect of him being back made me feel…something. Others had brought up emotions similar but never strongly.
“Then we need to get ready to hunt him down,” Luna said, controlled anger behind her voice. “We still remember how he wronged us.”
“All he did was steal your sweetrolls, Luna,” I said, smiling at the memory of the first time it had happened.
+_ Equestria, 1671 years 8 months ago _+
A sudden cry rocked the whole castle. The cry was loud enough to knock dust from the rafters above, and to knock down a few precarious stacks of paper.
“WHO HATH PLUNDERED THY SWEETROLLS!” A very distraught Luna shouted, and the tinkling of glass could be heard.
“Lovely,” Celestia muttered, annoyed at her sisters volume. Getting up from her desk, she started to wander in the general direction of the disturbance. After who knows how long, Celestia rounded the corner, and found Luna in her face. The two sisters collided and fell to the ground, holding their muzzles, pain coursing through both of them. Somewhere nearby someone chuckled. ‘Strange, I don- HIM!’
“You two alright?” A voice asked them, no formalities, only slight worry drowned in mirth. Both princess turned their heads to the newcomer, and saw Legion standing there, a sweetroll in his hand, and a questionable pack on his back.
“Oi, you two going to be alright?” Legion repeated, then took a bite out of the sweetroll that currently resided in his hand.
“BEAST WHAT HATH THOU DONE WITH THINE’S SWEETROLLS!” Luna roared at the legionnaire. The noise had apparently no effect on the man at all as he stood there, then look to her, then to the delectable treat in his palm, then back at her, then shrugged the bag.
“I don’t know what a sweetroll is but whatever THIS is,” he waved the treat around, “..is probably the best tasting pas-” Luna lunged at him, and he stepped to the side, watching her fall onto the ground. “Luna, is that the way to treat the guy who is saving you from doing reprehensible to your own body?” The spectacle that unfolded was worrisome, she’d lunge at him, he’d sidestep, taunt, and then she would lunge again. His face was alight with merriment but after a minute or two his smile left, and after Luna’s lunge, he sidestepped, and turned towards both of us, his hand raised.
“I will see you two later, and Luna… Stay off the sweets, or you’re gonna get large,” He said, and his smile returned. He turned and then proceeded to run like all the demons of Tartarus were chasing behind him.
+_ Present day _+
“But think what could happen now. Tia, I beg of you, think of this clearly,” Luna came up to me, and rested her hand on my shoulder. “What would happen if he turned on us completely? We know that would spell the end of what has been laid carefully but you have to think what would happen if you chased him into the hands of our enemies.” Worry laced its way into the words, and I thought back to the various events that had transpired the first time Legion had been causing trouble; it was an enjoyable reprieve from the tediousness that was ruling Equestria.
“I have no real worry that he would do that, Luna,” I said, slightly shuddering at the concept if he did end up with one of the various enemies of Equestria. “Luna, sister, I am going to write to Twilight of this event, and tell her to gather the Elements. I want you to rally the guards and start combing the Everfree.”
“Why the Eve- oh,” Luna nodded her head in acknowledgement, remembering the times we’d see the man run into the woods, chased by guardsmen. “Sister, are thou sure chasing him is going to be best?”
Silence filled the air, and I thought about my answer. ‘Was it really worth it to chase what seemed to be a random man, or was it to get him before somepony else did?’ I thought to myself. I slowly mulled over the various downsides to, and not to, spring to action. In the end though, all I could say was this.
“Yes.”