"I see... we only remember you a little..." said Celestia.
"The guy that saved you and Luna from that... dragon thing the other day." I said with a wave of my hand at the end.
"Err, you mean Discord? the one we turned to stone... that was... at least a thousand years ago... maybe more!" she said.
"That night... when I dreamt... I dreamt I was in a cryo chamber, it mustn't have been a dream" I realised.
"You can freeze yourself in time?" she asked.
"I was frozen-" I was about to answer but Luna cut in.
"Sister, we've news about the Crys-" she said in a strange, loud voice like Celestia but stopped when she saw me.
"Hello Luna, although I suppose it is truly Princess Luna now." I said with a bow
"it's thou... Grey Fox!" she said and hugged me.
"Yeah, it is." I said awkwardly as I patted her on the back.
She straightened up.
"Ahem, thank thou for saving us." she said.
"It's no problem, I happened to be in the right place at the right time" I said with a shrug.
"And you're here now, what were you going to say sister? maybe Fox can help?" asked Celestia.
"Of course, go ahead Princess Luna" I said.
"The Crystal Empire... it has been corrupted... Princess Amore is... dead..." she said
"Really...? we need time to gather the Elements!" said Celestia.
"We need Star-Swirl The Bearded, can'st you escort him to the front lines?" asked Luna to me.
"Of course Majesty!" I said and saluted.
"I hereby name thou Sir Gray Fox, out personal aide and knight of Equestria" said Celestia.
Then a pony, with a beard and a starry cloak walked in.
"I'm not be escorted by... err this?" he asked.
"'He' is not an 'it' Star!" said Celestia angrily.
"My apologies sir." he said to me.
"That's ok son, I've been called worse." I said.
"'Son?' boy I'm older than you!" he said.
"Really? so you're over 1016 years old?" I asked, truly I lost track of how old I was.
"You look good for 1016, what's your secret? the Princesses won't tell me." he said.
"Maybe later, right now we need to head to this... 'Crystal Empire' place." I said.
He nodded.
"See you there your highnesses." I bowed and we headed to the train station where a locomotive was waiting for us.
"All aboard to the Crystal Empire! soldiers and royal representatives only!" called the conductor.
We got on, thanks to Star-Swirl giving us a pass and sat down.
"So, the immortality..." he said.
"To tell you the truth, I spent time in the Abyss, I assume you have Hell here?" I asked
"Of course, it's said all the really bad ponies go there, although we call it Tartarus." he said.
"Well, my soul has kinda been damned to Hell, I spent time in the Abyss because of it, I was lucky, spending physical time in the Abyss, if you get out, grants you immortality, even then my certain events may have altered my life-span also." I said, something tells me a friend had something to do with putting those thoughts in my head for an explanation...
"I see... I'm working on spells right now, quite a few in fact, but they don't have the fwomph! I want them to, do you do magic?" he asked.
"No unfortunately not, at least not to my knowledge." I said and he nodded as we fell asleep...
Then we arrived at the Empire.
We saw Luna and Celestia waiting for us at the station.
We got off the train with the soldiers and approached them and we both bowed before them.
"There's no need for that." said Celestia as we rose.
"Your majesty, what do you require of us?" asked Star.
"I need you to clear the mist and Grim to stay with us just in case, the sky is filled with corruption, so we can't fly in." she said.
Star cast a spell that cleared a path straight to the Crystal Palace.
"I can only hold it for a minute or two." he strained.
We walked along briskly and I punched any corrupted pony that got too close to the Princesses, they seemed to be discussing something at length.
We approached the courtyard where this King Sombra, Star had told me about was waiting.
Suddenly the mist went back and surrounded the courtyard like an arena.
"Well well well, the Princesses... and a new pet bodyguard? how quaint..." he said.
"Sombra! we will defeat you for threatening the peace in Equestria!" said Celestia.
"And I ain't no pet, bitch." I said to him.
"And I am not anyponies bitch." he said.
"You're gonna be these Princesses bitch when they're done with you." I said.
"Really?" as he said that he shot a beam of dark magic at them and a bunch of corrupted ponies leaped at us, Celestia and Luna were taken completely by
surprise I suddenly started to glow blue and time just... stopped...
Even the implants seemed to stop in my body.
I moved a little and realised this wouldn't last forever.
I moved the two sisters out of the way and shifted the corrupted ponies so they broke their necks when they landed those leaps.
I stood next to the Princesses again and Sombra watched in surprise as his beam hit thin air and his goons were dead.
"Surprised, Sombra?" I asked panting, whatever that was it drained me a little.
"How... how? you were just there... I..." he said, stunned.
The two sisters attacked and blasted Sombra away with magic beams.
"Ahhh!" he said as he fell.
The time stop sort of... clicked in my head, telling me it was ready again.
I released it before he got up and hit him a few times, they would sink in when time unfroze.
I moved the sisters to his unguarded side and gave him a few more kicks.
I stood in the middle of the courtyard and time resumed.
"Haha, nothing- oh, aw, ah!" he called as a lightening fast shadow of me landed a few hits on him, he fell to his side and the sisters charged the Elements, I
gave them a hand again somehow as the energy beams passed to me and his power was drained, absorbed by me somehow...
"You... you win... but I have one last thing..." as he said that I picked him up and dragged him to the tundra, I used the magic I absorbed from him to open
the ice rock beneath us and cast him in.
"The Empire shall vanish forever, only returning once I do!" he called as he fell.
I used everything I had left from him to shut the ground up and seal it, we got back on the train and noticed the Empire seemingly dissolving into nothing.
"Thank you... Fox, you saved us more than once today, we owe you our lives." said Celestia as we an to the station and gave me a sweet smile.
"Yes, we thank thou fair Fox, what was't that magic thine used today?" she asked.
"It was nothing, the magic was both dark magic and... Time magic I suppose..." I said as we got on the the train and sped off.
"What are you anyway?" asked Star.
"I am a human being, a bipedal race of war, peace, conflict and kindness we are mix of all of these, I personally do not know what I am." I said.
"You have saved us more than once, more times than anyone, yet you hardly know us, why?" asked Celestia.
"I can read people, you are both kind hearted and only want what's best, you let power hold no sway over you even though abusing it would be a cakewalk for you, you don't, I respect and admire that, and hope I can convey that same sense of self."
They seemed to think for a while before nodding at each other.
"Fox, we have discussed this at great length, and we would like to make you a Prince, mainly the Prince of Darkness, Dark Magics and Time itself, that way
you can learn that sense of self you mentioned." said Celestia
"We would'st be honored to have thou next to us on the throne." said Luna.
"I... I don't know what to say... thank you, but I can't accept." I said.
"That is why we want you with us, you have no desire for the throne, you already convey that sense of self, learn by taking your power to the next level and learn from it, and you are an ambassador for your race." she said.
"I see there's no arguing with your logic... I guess I have to accept." I said.
"We know you have to go again soon, so we will remember you, we will announce you as royalty so the next time you arrive here, you will have a place on the throne with us" said Celestia.
"I thank you." I said.
"We are trying to think of a Prince name for you..." said Celestia
"None of that, just call me Frank, Frank Jaeger." I said.
I fell asleep again halfway and was in the Abyss...