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// Enter Nightmare Moon and near a thousand years later. 
// Story: A Neutral Force 
// by Kamen rider yokai 
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I sighed as I helped celestia do her paperwork. It had been close to three years since I met them and a lot had happened. After a year training with the princesses we found out starswirl was dying from old age. After his funeral the three of us confronted discord and like in the show he nearly gave us a crippling defeat so while I held him off with my skills with the force and my weapons celestia and Luna located the tree of harmony and used the elements of harmony to turn him to stone while I held him with the force. Sith that done we took a year to set up equestria before long some towns were being constructed by the inhabitants of the world.

But this year I felt something was wrong with Luna. She seemed to get more and more resentful as time went on. I was pretty much her only friend as she worked on her night quite well. Frankly I was worried about her. Celestia was as well but she didn't seem to know why. Luna was only a year younger then me while celestia was a full two years older then Luna making her only older then me by a year. Luna still wore her knight like armor as her royal garb while celestia switched her armor for a white royal dress. As for me I became their knight of the kingdom and my soldiers under my command are comprised of those I know to have force sensitivity and trained them in the way of the grey Jedi order but I renamed it the eclipse knights as we were neither Jedi or sith but a neutral party from those two fractions. I taught them about the history of both other fractions and how sacred making a light saber and how each one was designed was. Turned out the local gems were a good substitute for the energy crystals of the light sabers. This gave rise to using gems for spells and wards depending on how their used. 

With that we were soon creating our own history and creed. Along side the day and night guard we were the protectors of the kingdom. I taught one thing to my subordinates that must be taken to heart for generations. That light and dark are two sides of the same coin and that balance is needed to keep them in harmony and if that balance changes it must be equaled out. That as eclipse knights we are the ones to keep the balance as needed and to be a last defence if all else fails. Soon our motto was 'Keep the balance to protect peace' that one was created by my second in command vanguard a griffon that I took in when she stumbled into the kingdom abandoned and abused. She sees me as a farther. And thanks to me we had carbonate tech so if she had to she would be able to survive if something happened to me. She was actually a midnight blue griffon that had silver wings and her head feathers were black. Her eye were amber but her feathers that was on top resembled hair and were naturally red like my cousins geo and senya. I think both of them would have liked her. Unlike the Jedi code or the sith code I just set three rules as or code. Never use the force to kill unless there is no choice, always try and keep violence to a minimum and finally to hold to the responcability we are given. Surprisingly this worked very well for us and the other guards started to follow the code as well. 

It wasn't until a few months later did I realize what was going on with Luna. It was nightmare moon's debut as I was helping celestia plan on a safe place for the elements of harmony when Luna arrived. I should have saw the signs when she started rant in about how no one but me appreciated her night. And soon she transformed into her version of nightmare moon. She actually looked like this:



Honestly I liked Luna's original armor. But then came a deviation from this scene.

"Shadow you have been my best friend since we met but now I want to be more then that" said nightmare and I froze with celestia both of us thinking. 'Did she just confess her love?' I gulped and looked nervous then came something even more bizarre. She started to chase me around the room with hearts floating around. Celestia just stood there watching the odd scene stunned. " about time you told him how you felt but I think this was a bad time to tell him. I better help him out" mumbled celestia as she shook off the shock and flew before her transformed sister who snapped into her original mindset from the show and started to fight celestia. Suddenly nightmare moon nearly killed celestia when I blocked with my fully constructed light saber I was using a spare lightsaber I made for my blade builder set for my side weapon. As we clashed weapons and I quickly remembered that their weapons could withstand a light saber so this led to a spar long enough for celestia to get the elements and I gave her a look and a silent conversation went between us. She looked resigned and used the elements as I backed up and deactivated my weapons before the elements sent Luna to the moon but some of the energy hit me turning me into a statue in my last stance with my deactivated weapons. That day celestia wept before long vanguard went into carbonized state and together we waited out near a thousand years until a surge of magic freed me and I quickly freed vanguard from her carbonite seal. Heading to the source of the magic we found celestia with a nocked out eight year old purple unicorn. She kinda looked like this:

 

Honestly she look the same age as vanguard.

"Celestia! What in the world happened" I asked confused wondering how such a small child had enough magic to free me.

"Shadow your back! Young twilight here had a magic surge and hatched a baby dragon I had to calm her down so she doesn't cause any harm. The surge must have overrode the energy of the elements keeping you in statue form" said celestia.

"You think the elements chose new bearers?" I asked as vanguard yawned and curled up to the out cold twilight making me raise my eye at her.

"Something tells me those two are going to be the best of friends" I said blinking.

"Anyway shadow your eclipse knights are still around alibit the descendants of the ones you trained. The only one you still know is your daughter here. Also seems twilight has the force. Looks like your going to have to train her with me" said celestia.

"Where's the baby dragon we got to make sure it's alright before anything" I said. "Right here" said celestia pointing to the other side of twilight where a infant dragon was looking at me while sucking on the tip of his tail. In fact he looked exactly as in the show.  Guess up to the teenager stage the dragons were already anthro enough to be the same for adult dragons that's something I'm going to need to see. And I knew with just a look that he was force sensitive.

"Looks like I'm helping the dragon as well. And according to my senses he has some of twilight's DNA in his own. Seems her magic got infused with his life force, in a way he's half pony. How that will effect him we will have to see" I said with a sigh felling that the next couple of years was going to be hectic. Been a while since I had a apprentice besides my adoptive daughter.  Vanguard had desided to dress like asoka tano once I told her story to the little griffon. Asoka was her idol of the Jedi fraction. Her favorite of the sith was ventress which was ironic as both were rivals. I once caught her trying to design her uniform to be a mix of both modified to not restrict her wings. Well once she was older and I gave permission to build her own light saber.