//------------------------------// // Let's get to know the situation we're in. // Story: The hunt for the kill,the hunt for love and the hunt for the love to kill. // by TripleSNazi //------------------------------// Glass cracking sound* "I am happy to see that you are getting closer on achieving your...dreams"-Cadance said forcefully but still with a smile on her face. Multiple glass cracking sounds* "You lieing, manipulative ,power-hungry,sociopath,son of bitch,motherfucker "-was all Shining Armor could possibly think of Ben when he realized that the Princess knew Ben before hand but it seemed that was not called that way when they used to know each other. "You used to know him princess?"-Shining Armor asked confused. "Oh yes he used to be my patien*glass shattering sound*..."-Princess Cadence never got to finish that sentence. "Pardon me"-was all Ben said before standing up and heading for the door. Ben had shattered the glass of water he was holding just to cause Candence to stop talking and forcefully closing her eyes at the sound. Ben got out of the room and both Shining Armor and Cadence looked at each other awkwardly. "As I was saying....he used to be my patient, as you know as a princess of love I do research it .There are several types of love that we call in a common name but I took my time to specify them. From all kinds of love there is only one kind of love that was believed that only gods and goddesses where able to share with their people, that kind of love is called agape. It's a kind of love that is both unconditional and absolute meaning that you love everybody just as us princesses love everyone of our subjects .Love has vector qualities it is always moving and pointed at the direction of someone or something.I call sense love, know to what it's moving and pointed at even if it's on me or others."-Cadance said while sounding more as a teacher than anything else. "And?"-Shining Armor said rising an eyebrow. *Sign*"And one day I found Ben...a mortal that loved the same way that only me and princess Celestia, not to mention her banished sister.Ever wondered how a pony could transform into an alicorn?"- Cadance asked a rhetorical question. "The presence of this kind of love it's the key...the hardest thing to achieve among all other things. Ben was exiting news because he was a male, don't get me wrong females are extremely rare too as you can tell during the course of thousand of years there where/are only three princesses in total but during all those years no male of that kind of love was never found or theoretically only once because Princess Celestia and her sister should have had a father since they share the same blood so to speak"-Cadence explained while Shining being all ears. "You...you are telling me that Ben...Ben is the first case in thousand of years who has the potential to become a prince...an alicorn prince?"-Shining asked his voice trembling while he spoke. "He's the closest we ever got, yeah"-Cadence explained. "What...what is that supposed to mean?"-Shining Armor a tone of anger in is voice. "He does love the way we do but it's not...pure.It's love it's both conditional and is not absolute...almost thought.The condition he had put on things it's simple: if you progress anyhow no matter how little at a time in any sort of way than you are loved by him but there are things that don't progress but the other way around if you get what I am saying. Except that his love is not absolute cause he appears to have the ability to love everything around him just not his own self, that makes Ben the person he is right now and if you didn't notice that dream of his that i mentioned before is nothing more than the will to die but at least he wants to die for what he loves."- Cadence explained to Shining Armor. "So to help him overcome these problems you did what exactly?How is it possible to love everybody?What is the purpose of him being here now?Can I do anything to help?"-Shining Armor asked curious,questions did not seem as they were about to stop. "Things are much more complicated than that um...staff Sargent"-Cadence realized that she did not know the name of the person she was speaking with but decided to ask later about it and just read his rank. "I am trying to give you the simplest version possible.You can love everybody when you love them for what they are but is not that simple that means that you must love even things and subjects as biology or science you need to love killers,rapers,criminals without condition it can get even more complicated then this so just don't ask every question that comes to your mind"-Cadance spoke with frustration on her voice. "I understand...there are somethings I can't comprehend, I apologize your highness"-Shining Armor said lowering his head. Cadence realized that she was a little bit too hard on that last one and regretted it. "Hey don't be like that you will understand with the passing of time...something I learned is that if mortals compare themselves with immortals is a rather depressing experience but I still need you help?"-Cadance said trying to get the guards mood up. "You do?"-Shining Armor said while his head jumped up in hope. "Cute"-was all Cadence thought for a moment before starting to speak again. "We tried to help him overcome his barriers but we failed miserably"-Cadance said before being sort of interrupted by Shining Armor. "We?Miserably?"-Shining Armor asked curiosity getting the better of him. "Well by me I mean royalty and by miserably I mean that he was such a hard case to brake that during our attempts we tough him to hate , that just became one more problem for us to fix later.With the passing of time it can get worse.This is the plan: firstly the problem with hate as we mentioned, then we will have to make his love unconditionally and then finally the hardest: to make his love absolute."-Cadence said for some reason she also getting her own hopes up a bit. "Sounds like a simple but difficult plan indeed, I can't imagine what you are going to get through and I know that a Prince would be good for us as a country but why exactly?"-Shining asked sheepishly. "Well we do need someone to rule over Manehatten and we as a royalty might be willing to have a sure source of a next generation of alicorns when needed"-Cadance blushed really hard as she said this giving Shining Armor the image that he needed to see to understand what she was implying. Shocked a bit Shining Armored asked: "What can I do to help?" "As stupid as it sounds to ask I need you to make sure that he lives...also I need you as a reason for some actions I am going to do and I will tell you what commands you will give him sometimes."-Cadence said just for a moment later to see Shining Armor nod probably still shocked a little. As personal guards whatever they witness actions or words to them are top secrets and should never be shared so Shining Armor knew that whatever was said in this room stays in this room. Remembered to ask for the name* "By the way..."-Cadence said softly "Yes princess?"-Shining turned to face her. The doors in witch Ben had exited previously opened... There was Ben accompanied by a maid probably to clean up his mess. Silence filled the room as Ben and the maid approached.For the first time Shining saw Ben in a different way and he did not how, so many mixed emotions but he still managed to act out. "Took you long enough?"-Shining Armor acted as he was joking around. "It did actually because almost all of the maids take the lunch brake when the princess does and was hard to find one of those who weren't"-Ben explained the reason why it took longer than it should have had and took a seat while the maid did her job. "How are you today Goldie?"-The princess seemed to be talking to the maid and they somehow started a chit-chat that nor Ben or Shining Armor where focused on listening to. However Shining didn't realize that he was lost in his fantasy and that he was stareing at the princess that was totally oblivious of Shining Armor at that moment. The maid seem to notice and blushed slightly, Cadance didn't notice but Ben did and looked at what was she blushing at...just to see Shining Armor's stare at the princess. He kicked him with his leg under the table so nobody would see,luckily for Shining Armor Ben seems to knows where he hits because his hit landed on a part that was not armored making almost no noise in the process. "Freaking assassin"-Shining thought to himself after coming back to his senses but still being great-full for what Ben did...better that getting caught on that state. The small talk the princess had with the maid seemed to finish as much as the maid's job so she just exited the room and closed the door behind her. "I'm sorry I missed the talk"-Ben said sarcastically before continuing "So to catch up I just got one question to you princess"-Ben said attracting the attention of the princess. "And that is?"-Cadance said with a hint of interest. "What's his name?"-Ben asked pointing his finger at Shining Armor.