//------------------------------// // chapter 20:Returning to town (WARNING: not yet filtered through editor) // Story: Dark Souls:the descent into friendship // by star dust pony //------------------------------// It pained me greatly to see my fellow brother of the sun laying on the floor the way he did but from what the two princesses were doing I know he is in good hands. "Pardon me m'lady." I approached the large white princesses who had a image of the sun on her rear, ah even as a image the sun is a graceful being. The white sun princess turned to me just as I bowed. "Yes Solaire?" "I just want to ask:Will 'Luna' and my friend be alright? I have deep concern for them." I rose from my bow. The white sun princess gleamed a smile as brilliant as the sun itself. "Of course, Luna has returned to normal and Sparks...well...he shrugged off being impaled, shot at and fighting a hive of changelings so im guessing that this is just a matter of waiting until the pain is dulled." I nodded and smiled but i'm sure no one saw it, regardless I was happy to know both of them were alright. "Princess Celestia." The lavender pony from before who was with Celestia came up to her from behind me. "What did Sparks just do? I swear I saw his sword INSIDE her throat, how did she not die? i'm greatful but...was it a failed assassination attempt?" I wanted to explain to her what happened but the princess beat me to it. "No Twilight, his sword was enchanted with a magic force that reverted Nightmare moon back to Luna." Celestia looked at her sister who was tending to Sparks with magic spells that healed him slowly. "Come sister." Luna rose to her hooves as she levitated sparks unto her back, surprisingly she didn't immediately flop to the ground with all her limbs broken due to the massive amounts of equipment Sparks was carrying. "We need to give sparks a spot to rest." I decided to chime in and agree. "I agree, wounds like that need rest, a mighty knight of the sun may be very strong but they are not invincible." Now everyone was starring at me...did i say something wrong? "Did you just say knight of the sun?" Celestia's eyebrow looked like it was about to hop off her head. "Indeed, we fight for all that is good and righteous." I chuckled lightly. "So their are sun knights in your world?" Princess Luna started seeming a bit...excited. "Ooooohhhhh are their moon knights as well?" Her wings were now outstretched in curiosity...well I can't tell her no, it'd break her little heart. "Hmmm yes, their is and they use magic same as we do." I'm pretty sure if I said no she'd be tearing up about now. She made a rather adorable 'Squee' noise and for some reason as she blushed their was a squeaking noise. "We are most pleased by this information." "Well, we should all get going, Sparks must be in deep pain." Celestia looked at him with concern, with the graceful eyes of one who cares for her people. My little friend Flutter shy walked up next to me and looked at my friend with concern before looking up at me as I nodded in Re-assurance which made her smile. "Its going to be fine, Trust me I have seen sparks go through much worse." "R-really? like what?" Flutter shy's ears perked up a bit, concerned on how bad Sparks actually had it. "Oh well he was:set on fire,eaten,crushed,smashed,slashed at,blown up,rolled over oh and also demons seem to have a fetish where they fly up and slam their butts onto them." The last one turned her concern into a slight giggle. "W-w-well if he went through all t-that then he must be pretty s-strong." Her light voice was very hard to listen to but I didn't mind, she was the first to accept me here so im happy to listen to her no matter how hard it is. "Yes he is a very brave and powerful knight, the only problem is that he rarely has concern for himself which is why I do my best to protect him when I can." I began to fallow Princess Luna and Celestia as we walked through the forest with Flutter shy sitting on my head and these other five ponies behind me, one of which was Twilight. Flutter shy gazed at the sky as we traveled and the moon went down and the glorious sun rose to the sky again as Celestia's and Luna's horns finished glowing. "Look S-Solaire theirs the sun you like so much." She giggled and pointed at the sun as I gazed at the sun. "Ah yes, the sun is like a magnificent father oh if I could only be so grossly incandescent." I kept gazing up at the beautiful rays shinning upon me. "You have nice eyes Solaire." Flutter shy looked into the slits of my helmet and I chuckled. "Thank you flutter shy, I appreciate it." I reached up and poked her nose making her adorable little nose and mouth scrunch a bit as she curled up on my head again. As we began to reach the town their were ponies watching us in concern but they Started cheering when they saw Luna but only for a few short moments before they saw Sparks and started looking grief stricken, but what angered me is that some of them were only sad because they considered him nothing but a guardian, not a friend. "It is fine everypony." Celestia rose her voice to catch everypony's attention. "Knight Sparks has not left us, he was merely exhausted from the battle with Nightmare moon and now we have a second protector, a Knight of the sun and a friend of Knight sparks, He assisted sparks in defeating Nightmare moon, Knight Solaire." I instinctively stepped forward as ponies cheered, some for me being a new guardian, some because Sparks was not dead and many for the well being for the princesses. A rather grumpy looking pony rose his hoof. "Hey how did you do it without the elements of harmony? im calling bull shit, the whole thing was staged just to show off these 'Knights' I bet they can't even fight."...I felt my eye twitch...He can insult me...but saying my friend cannot fight? "Listen here you piece of dragon fecal matter, my friend broke a limb and was impaled trying to protect your-." Okay im pretty sure you don't want to hear the profanity and insults so lets just jump to where i was making my point. "And now he needs to be in the hospital because the spell he used to remove Nightmare moon blew up in his face, so you can shut your weak, honorless mouth and go get Orinstine's spear shoved nicely into the hole of your ass." By now literally the entire town was starring a bit wide eyed as the grumpy pony looked most shocked as he backed away and out of the town entirely. "...Wow...you know how to verbally beat someone down." Luna blinked, a bit amazed someone like me would even use suck unpleasant profanity. I chuckled and scratched the back of my neck. "Sorry about that, when someone insults my friend I snap a bit, my deepest apologize princess." Just before the princess could respond...Sparks groaned, hmmm...looks like hes waking up.