"STOP!" Luna roared, guards storming the place, nobles and eclipse guards alike trying to flee in panic. Many were quickly captured by the guards as Luna rushed over to me. A light enveloped her as she pushed the tendrils aside. Her body pushing against mine wrapping me in a hug. "It's okay lachlan, you needn't kill these traitors, they will be dealt with... harshly," the mare spat. Her magic encasing mine,forcefully prevented me from tearing the bastards limb from limb.
I gave a small snarl trying to break free. The tightness limiting my movement as I craned my neck to glare at her. Her head resting on top of mine, she whispered soothingly to me, gently stroking my head as the world seemed to dim around me. The tendrils that moments ago had been ready to tear the place apart, shattered. Clenching my teeth I stayed strong not trusting myself to face her I fought to keep the tears back.
"Do not let yourself be lost to your anger, young one. Please, do not do something you will regret." She finished softly her eyes glowing in the low light as she pressed her lips against mine. I gave a growl still angry as the mare hummed in response refusing to let me vent my anger on the scum, her eyes briefly flashed to creatures behind me. "Night Veil, I want you to take these poor souls to canterlot infirmary make sure all injuries are treated and bring miss Fleur De Lee and the young changeling to the throne room." Luna instructed, the night guard nodding as she signalled two others to follow her.
"They deserve to die!" I hissed, furious that they were being shown mercy.
"Maybe, but would you be their executioner? You killed one stallion purposely and assassins accidentally, yet their deaths haunted you for months, even now you suffer the night terrors from your actions. I will not let you destroy yourself on an impulse which you have every right to want to act upon. I know the extent of their cruelty and understand your want. I am stopping you for your sake not theirs." She finished snapping her fingers as I felt my feet leave the ground. The familiar feeling of weightlessness followed by motion sickness left me lying on the familiar tiled room of our bedroom.
I gave an exhausted groan my hands cool against my head as I tried to fight down a headache. lack of food and sleep and using such powerful magic had left me exhausted. Blood lazily seeped from my chest the cuts and bruises on my body throbbed uncomfortably.
With a gentle smile, Luna bundled me up in her arms. The mare heading in the familiar direction of the medical ward. The beautiful blue dress that she wore was matted with blood and grime as I grimaced.
"Sorry about the party, if I hadn't been trying to be funny this wouldn't have happened." I wheezed exhausted as Luna smiled gently rocking me much like one would a child as I felt a smidgen of embarrassment. Placing me down on the bed the mare gave a loving smile as her horn glowed a soft blue.
"Sleep."
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Princess Luna's pov
It had been two days since the horrific incident and Lachlan was recovering at a fast pace. The human had kicked up a fuss about us babying. He seemed to think that he was in fit condition to leave despite having a punctured lung and a nasty scar across his chest.
"Were it up to me I would personally see those fucks crucified and left to rot in the bad lands." Chrysalis snarled as I zoned back in. The changeling mare sat with a tooth pick working the small stick around her serrated teeth.
I found myself agreeing with the mare, despite my hypocritical speech to Lachlan about not giving into anger and murdering ponies. Unlike the young human, I was far older and wiser and I could kill these ponies and not lose a wink of sleep over it.
"I understand that everypony here is upset but we need to stick to the ruling off the court and the rights to a fair trial. They will be tried and punished accordingly." Celestia spoke up my sister trying her best to simmer the rage that her herd mates and I felt. In a way I felt bad for my oldest sister the mare was at the end of the day was just trying to be fair in her judgment. Though why she insisted that ponies should be treated as equals to us continued to baffled me.
They were lower than us they were lower than Lachlan. By attacking our consort, mate and hopefully future husband, they should have been hung by the neck for their crimes. I was not against the ponies dying I was only against young Lachlan killing. We did not mean to baby him but each of us were many millennium's old. I was nearly seven thousand years old and in comparisons was ancient.
I could not help but giggle as I was reminded of his childish as I remembered the time Lachlan tackled me. The human had groped me whilst biting my ear resulting in the two of us play fighting. The smaller and agile nuisance playfully nipping and tickling me as the two of us had ended up rutting for a solid hour. As the two of us had laid their sweaty and naked he had turned and kissed me and said 'I love you Luna'. The very first he time told me he loved me. Now my sister and I up until three months ago never been really close to Lachlan even though we were part of the herd, we had been at most friends with benefits and nothing more. But that day our relationship changed, Lachlan started to take each of us on individual dates spending time with us or in general just chatting. He had quickly wormed his way into Celestia's heart and soon enough mine.
"THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE! Those little snakes will get off Scot free if we allow them to be judged by their fellow nobles many of the prisoners are incredibly important politicians. If we let them have a fair trial then it will be judged by an unfair jury." Razor snarled glaring at Celestia as the mare looked back icily.
"And what would you suggest that we take care of them ourselves?" she replied, freezing as the rest of the herd and I perked up at the idea. "NO, Absolutely not we are not murders and I will not kill these ponies because they have wronged us and our mate." Celestia barked Nightmare Moon grinning as she leaned forward.
"But we are murderers Celestia. We have all killed thousands and been responsible for tens of thousands of deaths over our long life's. You were personally responsible for the beheading of the first royal gryphon family, chicks as well. I was in charge of the Minotaur eviction forcing them from Everfree to the mountains so we could built our city. Luna whom at the time was starting to give in to my corruption, must have killed hundreds that day. What about the war you and I had? The two of us sent thousands to their deaths because of my greed and your negligence. All of us have killed stallions and mares. Not one of us is free of sin so what is some scum bags to the body count? Just more faces who's names will fade from our memories." Moon growled, Celestia recoiling as she looked at the mare with a hurt look.
"We were different ponies back then arrogant and cruel. I do not wish for any of my little ponies to see what I used to be. You, Luna even Chrysalis and Razor Fang have all killed and done horrific things to the same subjects we are meant to protect. We had ponies and changelings alike executed for daring to speak out against us. But we are not those ponies anymore. I want to set a good example for out mate show him that kindness is far greater than cruelty . If he knew what we used to be and what monstrous acts we committed, do you really think he would let us within a hundred meters of our foals or himself. So yes I do think killing them is wrong!" Celestia finished leaving us stunned as Moon reluctantly sat back down Chrysalis nervously twiddling her thumbs as none of us dared meet our sister and herd mates face.
She was of course right. The crimes of our past were to deep to merely be forgotten but this time the want for murder was justified those bastards had beaten and forced our mate to fight like some wild animal feeding him scraps and treating him like scum. With a tired sigh I rubbed my eyes feeling the stress of work. Molestia whom whilst a sexual deviant and naughty at times had also been as bad as the rest of us. Whilst she had never raped anypony she had gotten off on sexually humiliating any who opposed her. . The scary thing was that the only thing that saved us all was Lachlan. Celestia had changed much during my banishment and I had struggled to learn of modern culture.
I had at first been horrified when Celestia had told me that Peasants had rights now. More so when I learned that we were no longer just able to do as we pleased. Also ponies could now openly question us and even lie about us and receive no punishment. Then their was Lachlan his kindness and infinite patience had in my mind reformed many of the herd members.The amount of times we had forgotten our strength and nearly killed him or been to rough during sex was endless yet he never held a grudge and always forgave us. We had on countless occasions when stressed or having a rough day with our work lashed out at him verbally, most of the time due to him being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yet he rarely ever rose to the verbal lashing's.
As the others continued to discuss their plans I gave a small smirk as the door opened. Struggling inside the human limped over to us a nurse angrily berating him from behind. The room went silent as awkward glances were sent towards the human. The Hydra and other beasts had caused Lachlan a lot of damage. His right leg was still healing and the scar across his chest might never be properly healed, Hydra wounds were difficult to heal even with magic given the vile properties in their claws.
"You should be resting Lachlan." Moon stated standing up as she went over to greet the tired human. "You are still sick and injured" she continued gently stroking his face as he shied away from her touch, his face quickly adorning a smile to hide his small slip up.
"Hey you can't keep me down. Also I wanted to see what you were all talking about a herd meeting very secretive. Hell I was getting scared that you were all plotting to get rid of me to inherit my millions." he chuckled winking as I sighed sadly.
Despite his up beat attitude and joking manner the others and I saw though the facade. The arena had emotionally and mentally damaged him. For the first few days we had seen spikes in his aggression then after that we had seen fear. he had refused to sleep with us for days because of the night terrors he had and did not wish to burden us. Despite our protest he had not listened and the only reason he was in hospital at the moment was because one of his stitches had burst and the area had gotten badly infected. This was why the nurse behind him was so upset at him. Given his habit of getting kidnapped and hurt, meant that many of the ponies in the infirmary knew him personally and had grown fond of him.
But it was why many of us wanted to kill those bastards so much, it was because Lachlan was hurting and it was upsetting us to no end, we felt powerless to help him. Moon and I had tried our best to calm his dreams but his body made it incredibly hard for us to even get inside his head never mind actually remove anything.
"Lets leave this for now!" Celestia suggested the others nodding as the human gave a weak smile. Chrysalis yawned as behind her the clock struck 1:am. my heart broke as my mate the human whom I loved dearly felt like he had to sleep alone as to not disturb us and was isolating himself when he needed company most. He felt guilty for nearly massacring those ponies despite their crimes and even Fleur's attempts to help him had failed. He still spent time with the foals but apart from that he tended to either be in hospital or in his room.
He flinched whenever somepony made a sudden movement and it was breaking my heart. To see one so young burdened with so much. Black magic, eight mates, five foals and so much more would leave a fully grown mare exhausted, yet he tried his best to shoulder all of it.
"Oh Lachlan." I sighed.
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