//------------------------------// // New Covanent // Story: the element of sanghelios // by Carmine Prophet //------------------------------// Shor looked at the ponies weighing his options but decides he would trust them for now. "Greetings, princess Celestia. I am Shor Vadum it is nice to meet you." he said and then turned to the other elites behind him. "De-activate your weapons they are non-hostile." he ordered He turned to the other ponies present "and who are you?" he asked. The purple pony was the first to speak "I am Twilight Sparkle, faithful student of the princess." Twilight said stepping forward. "I'm Applejack." the orange pony said taking her place next to her friend. "I'm Rainbow Dash, best flier in Equestria." the cyan pony took off and did a loop in the air. Aul tapped his hand on Shor's arm. "Looks like you have some competition." he chuckled. Shor looked at him. "We will see." he said so Shor turned back and found that the pink one was bouncing up to his eye level. "I'm Pinkie Pie, party pony extraordinaire." she sped. Kiro leaned over to Aul and whispered, "I think the pink one has that human disease, what is it called, ADHD." The white unicorn stepped forward and examined Shor's Armor. "Darling, I can make you a suit that looked much better than that drab armor you have on now." Shor shot here a look of anger, "You dare insult the customary Zealot armor?" "It just looks so..." she was silence by Twilight. "Sorry, my friend Rarity here doesn't know here place." She said. “Please do not let it happen again, this armor holds much honor in it" Shor replied. "And what about her over their?" he said pointing a finger and the yellow pony who was cowering behind her friends. "That's Fluttershy; she is very shy around new people." Rainbow Dash said. Shor walked over to her and knelt down. He still towered over her but it help. "You don't have to be scared of us." Shor said. Fluttershy looked up and him but, when she saw the rows of razor sharp teeth she cowered behind her mane. He shrugged even though he felt a small feeling of disappointment in his chest. He steep back out in front of the group. "Nice to meet you all, these are my friends." Shor said to them gesturing to the other three sangheili present. "I am Oda Naax. Ultra and pilot." the White armored ultra said putting his weapons away. "Aul Da'morph. Honor Guard ultra." said the next newcomer. "I am Kiro Madaame. Rank minor." kiro said crossing his needle rifle over his back. "Ok, now with those introductions are out of the way." Shor said "There is still the issue of where we are going to stay." he said turning to everyone present "Why can’t we stay in the ship shipmaster?" asked Kiro confused as to why Shor would say that. "Because I won’t allow it" Princess Celestia spoke up "to night you will stay in the castle in Canterlot" "And Kiro, The ship isn’t really the best place to stay. BLAZE!" Shor said as a hologram of Blaze appeared. "Yes, dovah." Blaze said "Blaze lockdown the ship" Shor said. "Locking down.....Lock down complete." Blaze said Shor turned to the ponies "Princess Celestia, a word" he said gesturing and the two of them walked out of ear shot of the rest of the group. "What is it Shipmaster Shor Vadum?" Celestia asked. Shor looked to his crew who were talking to the ponies. "I want to ask you for residence in Equestria? Of course we will keep our things though and in return we will aid and protect your country." Shor asked. The princess was genuinely surprised by this but did her best to hide it she was not expecting the Shipmaster to make this request. "Why, may I ask, would you want to stay in Equestria?" she asked. "Because we are unable to return to our home planet and I noticed the strange looks the others were giving my weapon so I figured you would know what it is." He said taking out his element. "What you have is an element of harmony an object of immense magical energy. There are only supposed to be six elements though tell me, how did you get yours?" She asked "I do not know I was leading my ship into a battle, I went to the hanger then there was a bright light and it just appeared in a flash of light." He told her. "There were legends of a seventh element of harmony appearing. who would aid Equestria in its time of need. To give hope where I cannot. To fight all who would cause harm to any pony..." She continued. The other ponies and the elites decide to come over to see what they are talking about. "It was said that the seventh element would be key to the battles to come. And blaze its way to victory, secured not from the throne, but from the frontlines. Whose blades will light our way out of the darkness." She said looking at Shor "Honesty, Kindness, Laughter, Generosity, Loyalty, Magic. You are the seventh element of harmony Shor Vadum. You are the element of honor." She finally finished and extended her hoof "I princess Celestia co-ruler of Equestria welcomes Shor Vadum, Oda Naax, Aul Da'morph, and Kiro as residents of Equestria. Do you accept your role as element of Honor? Do you accept this covenant?" She asked. Shor thought this through and turned to his crew and the four of them talked it through. And he turned around and looked Celestia right in the eyes purple met crimson. Shor held his hand, without breaking eye contact with princess Celestia, to his side to Aul, who handed him a ceremonial blade. Shor held up his hand in between both he and Celestia and slit his palm with the blade. Which caused the ponies to flinch at both that action and the purple blood that came from the wound which they thought would be red. Shor took princess Celestia’s hoof in his still bleeding hand and shook it. "I accept the terms of this covenant." he said taking his now healed hand back. "Come everypony let us go back to the castle" she said about to teleport but Shor interrupted. "Why don’t we all travel together?" Shor asked causing princess Celestial to smile. "Ok we will travel together it is for the best anyway I do not know how magic will affect...?" she started "Sangheili, but you can call us elites" Shor said “I do not know how magic will affect elites." she said "No matter, Oda the phantom" he said and Oda left. "Now w'a in tarnation is a phanom?" asked Applejack "Yeah, what is a phantom, how are we supposed to travel in a ghost?" asked twilight. Causing the elites to chuckle at the irony of what twilight just said. When they heard a low moaning sound causing them to look up and see the phantom making its way over to them. As it stopped over them, a cylinder of light covered each of them Shor looked at the ponies. "This is a Phantom" he said as they were taken into the drop ship. The ponies and elites where all in the phantom when the blast doors opened. "Which way to the castle and this Canterlot?" he asked "That way" princess Celestia motioned with her hoof "Right, Oda Plot a course" he ordered "YES SHIPMASTER" Oda said over the intercom As the Phantom started moving toward the castle. When they were almost there Shor stood up and causing the other Sangheili and the ponies to do the same. By now the sun has started going down. Shor looked at them and reached into his slipspace disks that he had on his thighs and took out two regular energy swords in each hand. "I do not expect you ponies to understand" He said to question what he was about to do. "When we join the Covenant, we took an Oath!" he said "According to our station! All without exception!" responded the other elites. "On the blood of our fathers... on the blood of our sons, we swore to uphold the Covenant!" he said. "Even to our dying breath!" "Those who would break this oath are Heretics... Worthy of neither pity, nor mercy!" he said the ponies, who were not expecting this gor a little nervous. "We shall grind them into dust! ...and scrape them as excrement from our boots." Said the other elites "And continue our march to glorious salvation!" He yelled He thrust his arms to his sides activating the energy swords in each hand. Bathing the interior of the hold with a pail blue light and illuminating him. Then de-activated them. This made the ponies nervous and grateful that Shor was going to protect Equestria. As Canterlot came into view Rainbow dash turned to Aul "So what does an Honor guard do anyways, sounds a lot like the royal guard" she asked "My Job is to protect Shipmaster Shor Vadum and his honor At all cost and Serve any request even if it is Suicide." he responded causing the ponies to gasp at the last part. Shor turned to Kiro "Kiro" he said "Yes, shipmaster" he responded "this is overdo. kneal" Shor said so Kiro did and the ponies, and the elites who knew what was going on looked on. "Kiro madaame Decendent of the arbiter who fell on harvest. For acts of valor, and honor both on and off of the field. I Shipmaster Shor vadum here by promote you. take this energy sword and all it entails... Major. and bring honor to the Sangheili." He said handing the energy sword to Kiro causing his armor to have a red secondary on his armor. "Thank you Shipmaster... I will not let you down." He said proudly "Congratulations, well as the humans would say it welcome to the big leads." Aul Said to the Blue and red armored Major. The Ponies clapped for here new friends promotion. Shor turned to princess Celestia "Is there any where we can land?" he asked "Yes, right there" she said pointing to the entrance to the castle. "Oda put her down there" Shor said putting a way point down "Yes Shipmaster." Oda responded Causing the Phantom to begin its decent. "Raise the left blast shield" Shor ordered "Sir" responded Kiro and hit the button to raise the blast door as they hovered over the entrance to the castle. The ponies all looked at the Shipmaster questioningly. "Here we are Canterlot castle. Please stand on the glowing pads." he said to them so they did. "Ok now what is that supposed to do?" asked rainbow dash then all of the ponies where covered in the same blue cylinder as before. and they slowly descended with the gravity lifts, with the princesses going first. causing the Guards on duty to bow on sight of the princess. But then shot up when they saw the Kiro, Oda and Aul jump down from the open side of the drop ship. Then there was a cylinder of translucent purple light from the center of the strange machine. And Shor floated down with the gravity lift when he touched the ground he radioed blaze who was still on board the Ship. "Blaze, move the Phantom to the courtyard." He said "Yes Dovah" blaze responded and activated the remote systems and the phantom flew off behind the castle. He turned around and started to walk to where the other ponies were. Aul seeing this instantly moves do his side being a guard. Oda and Kiro followed. They followed princess Celestia and the other elements to a rather large dining room. They started talking and Pinkie handed Shor a cupcake and turned to talk to her friends. When they turned around they saw kiro, and Aul sitting there eating both the food that was given to them and the food that they brought and Shor and Oda Naax Staring at the cupcake that is now on a plate in front of them. "What is it" asked Oda "Huq ni' thun cha (best not to touch it)" Shor said cautious eyeing the strange pastry "But we have to eat it" Shor added "Shipmaster or not Shor. Vochu ni'! (I'm not eating that!)" Oda said "Ni' fen fuex (stop your whining) Oda" Shor said "Do it coward!" they both said at the same time. And the room grew dead quiet and Aul slowly started moving toward his energy sword. "THEN THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY SO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM ODA NAAX" Shor yelled "YES THERE IS SHOR VADUM" replied Oda, they both raised their hands "No, it is an evil game!” Shouted Kiro "1..." "2..." "3..." "GO." "Ha-ha rock beats scissors Shor I win" Oda said causing Aul and Kiro to question the maturity of their shipmaster for playing such a childish game. Shor took his loss like a man and ate the cupcake and instantly shot up "That is one of the Greatest things I have ever had." half yelled and they all finished their food but then Fluttershy got curious. "Um, Excuse me mister Shor" she asked "Yes Fluttershy what is it you need" he said taking out a MRE to eat consisting of bacon. "Um well I was wandering if it is alright with you. What does your kind eat?" she asked Just as she asked that the MRE was done and hot "We Are omnivores but we need more meat to survive." he said opening the MRE taking out the nectar of the gods themselves, BACON. And he took a piece of bacon in between his mandibles and ate it "MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. Bacon." he said. Just then the dining room door slammed open and a white furred, blond mane, pony walked in and Looked to Shor "Who Are you Vial creature and what are you doing at the Royal dinner table?!" he yelled And princess Celestia explained what happened to Shor to prince Blueblood. "Then you are a failure who cannot lead." he said in a mocking tone looking up at Shor from his knee cap. Then spit on Shor’s Piece of BACON. Aul shot over the dinner table like a great wind and threw Blueblood to the floor and stood over him activating his energy sword he grabbed him by the mane. "Unhand me you brute!" he yelled at Aul The ponies watching what is happening wandering what is going to happen to Blueblood "YOU DARE" Aul Shouted "YOU DARE COMPARE US TO THOSE HONOR LESS JIRALHANAE!" Shor Shouted Blueblood in his stupidity, spit on Aul this time. Then Aul switched his grip to blueblood's horn Causing him to scream "you desecrate your race, weak and undisciplined." Aul said raising him to eye level raising the sword. "My face will be the last thing your pathetic eyes ever see." But right before he could stab him Shor grabbed his arm. "Stop Aul. let the whelp go."-he said still holding his arm and looked at Blueblood. "I think he has learned to treat people better. haven't you?"-He said. Blueblood looked at him "yes i promise i will treat people better sir. I'm sorry. Thank you so much."-Blueblood said and ater that Aul drooped him and he fell right on his flank. And went away to rethink how he has been treating everypony. When he left celestia looked right at Aul "was that necessary even if he did deserve it and needed to be tough a lesson did it have to be that harsh?" She asked. "The honor of the Shipmaster must be maintained, I’m sorry" he said looking at the ponies in the room. "Where to tomorrow?" Oda asked breaking the silence. "ponyville winter wrap up is tomorrow. it is when everypony in town cleans up winter." Twilight said. "OK well then i guess we have a strange day ahead of us i suggest we get our rest." Shor Said to every one there. And they left to get ready for the day ahead. (later that night with Shor) Shor stood up from the bed that was almost to small for him and decided to see what was going on ever scene they stepped in to the castel he notest the princesses where nervious and there was aloughte of tension in the air. And so he walked to the door and slowly opend it revealing a dark hallway. He looked to see if the cost was clear and stepped out into the hall.javascript:Color('chapter_editor',%20document.getElementById(%20'text_colorchapter_editor'%20)); (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSqm5Id6Hw0) Shor engaged his Active camouflage causing the light to air around him to bend and distort eventually he was completely invisible. So he closed the door to his room and proceeded down the hall. He spotted some guards around and avoided them after all this would not look good. But then he heard a sound behind him and froze. he stayed still and looked it was another guard patrol coming up behind him. He had to think fast and looked around and spotted a room that was open he quicly but quietly made his way to it and enterd the room. There he waited until the guards where gone after he turned around to see what was in the room a tebel in the center with some desks around the perimeter. But what caught his eye was on the table was a map then it hit him why this room was so well guarded this was the war room where he wanted to go. He quickly looked around the room and saw some interesting things and decided if the ponies where to survive they where going to need his teems and his help but just for sangheili and even tho one was a freelancer it was not enough he would need help and he knew what to try. so he turned around and went back to bed.