Night Affairs Part 3
The next day I was making eggs and haybacon in my kitchenette since they stocked it while I was out in the city the yesterday. Soon my room was fill with lovely smells and after pouring some chocolate milk she went to the table, poured salt on my scrambled eggs and then began eating. The haybacon tasted different. Still tasty, but different. As I ate there was knock on the door and I heard my aunt's voice. “Cadance, may I come in?”
“Of course Aunt Luna.” The door opened and my aunt came in, looking like she did from season two onward. “Aunty, what happened to you?” I had to keep up the lie that I have never seen her like this.
“With the help of the archives, I have regain my full magic power. The Elements had stripped me of most of it to restore my sanity.”
“Well, you look good.” I commented and…Luna blushed. She then saw me bite into a piece of haybacon.
“Niece what are you eating?” Confused I replied.
"Haybacon."
“Umm, that isn't haybacon but actual bacon.” She said sheepishly. I paused as I processed that. It did taste like bacon, that was the difference I tasted. It was actual meat.
“How?” I asked.
“Thestrals require protein so they have meat in their diet.”
“But it tastes so good. Will I get sick?” I asked.
“Oh no, all ponies can eat meat. It just became common to be vegetarian. I eat meat all the time.” I thought for a bit. I have denied myself meat when I didn't have to. Well no more. I finished the bacon.
“So what is the plan for today?” I asked, eating some eggs.
“Well I plan to have court and I want you there. After that you can do what you want.”
“Sounds good.” I finished my breakfast and washed the dishes and put on my regalia and followed Luna to the throne room. Luna sat on the throne and I took her right side, Silent took the left. Soon court began and I silently observed the process. The thestrals had more sane requests then seen in Canterlot. I looked at Luna and she was smiling. She was having fun in this court. But sadly it was bound to happen. A petitioner requested my removal from the city. Luna frown and got up. And the room suddenly got colder.
“Let me make this clear. She is my beloved niece. I love her dearly and I will never cast her out. You have become the very thing the ponies of the past have done to you. I am ashamed of you. Get out of my sight before I would do something I might regret.” The thestrals scampered away and a minute after they had left I saw Luna release her breath and the coldness faded away. Luna turned around and I saw hurt and anger in her eyes. She walked over to me and hugged me. I joined it.
“It's okay aunty. I don't blame you. Racist are everywhere auntie.” Luna broke the hug and looked at me. I smiled at her. “Your opinion matters to me over some stupid, ignorant thestrals.” She smiled at me and return to the throne.
Another hour and the court ended. And I headed out and passed a barracks and heard music and saw a pair of thestral ponies battling in the air. I looked closer and saw they were using wooden weapons so this was training. I walked over and saw a sound system nearby manned by a blue furred mare with red lens glasses. Several thestrals watched the fight. The fight was more like a dance as they moved to the music. With a twirl the fight ended with one of the thestrals disarmed. The fighters bowed to each other and landed with the others that stomped their hooves in applause.
A tall thestral stallion approached me. I eyed him and minus color he was a thestral version of Big Mac. What did he want? He stopped and bowed to her. “Princess Cadance, would you do me the honor of a duel?” I blinked. He was treating me with respect.
“I am not familiar with this kind of duel.” He stopped bowing.
“It is simple princess. We fight to the music that is played. Music is chosen by the defender and the duel ends with either a disarmed opponent or a pin.”
“Very well, I accept.” I walked over to the racks of training weapons. I found a sword and took it. I then checked their library of music but none spoke to me. Luckily I had one. I summoned a personal record that had a one of her favorite tracks and perfect for this. I walked over to the dj. “Play track three.” The mare nodded and I went into the ring. The stallion had a halberd. This was going to be interesting. The music began and though I couldn't pronounce its proper name but its unofficial name to World of Warships players was Dance of the Torpedoes.
Both of us took to the air. He swung his weapon and I dodged to the beat of the music, twirling in the air and made a charge. He used the staff to block my strike. I flipped and charged again and he tried to block but I was too fast and got a hit in. Then I felt pain as he used the staff of his weapon to strike me in the head. As I try to recover he struck with the axe head and my side hurt. I spun dodge and with more aerial moves I struck again hitting his body several times. He swung his halberd at me but I swatted it with my sword and tackled him and dove to the ground. He tried to get free but my grip was too strong and we hit the ground. I didn't go full speed so he was only slightly hurt. I pinned him to the ground and another thestral did the ten count. I had won. I extended a hoof to him and he took as I help him up. “Good fight.”
“Thanks your highness. Your appearance makes many believe you weak. You are far from weak and what I expected from the Sovereign's niece. It was an honor fighting you.”
“Thanks solider.” Cheers were heard and I bowed to him and left.
Night joined me as I left the barracks. “Wow, lieutenant Dark Wing is among our top fighters and you beat him.”
“He didn't make it easy and I have been training for years.”
“It shows.” Night looked at me lustfully….. I wasn't sure how to take that. Before those thoughts could get further I notice a bunch of thestrals approached them.
“Can I help you?” I asked.
“Yes.” A stallion said. “You can…DIE!” He pulled out a rapier and thrusted it at me. I felt pain in my shoulder as I tried to dodge. Working through the pain I pulled out my dagger Pierced Heart and stabbed him in the head. I pulled out the rapier and threw it at another that was charging at me and went into her mouth. I summoned Love's Pain and ducked as another thestral flew over me. A rolled to the left and lifted Love's Pain and blocked an axe from another thestral. I charged my horn and the thestal used his axe to block it. Only to get impaled by my sword. He fell dead and I felt pain on my side as the thestral I ducked under returned with a scythe. I let lose a bolt from my horn and got her in the face. As she fell over I was ready for the next opponent. But there was none and Night was panting, covered in blood and her armor a mess. I wince as I walked over to her.
“We need to get to the castle.” I nodded and the two of us limped to the castle, weapons ready. Nearby thestrals looked at us in shock. Halfway to the castle armored thestrals arrived and placed us on gurneys and took to the air and got to the castle in a minute and raced us to the infirmary.
I was being bandaged up when Luna burst in. “Are you alright Cadance?” she asked as she looked me over.
“They got a couple of good hits in but I will be fine.” I told her. She nuzzled me before her anger returned. Her fur went black and her eyes dragonic as she turned to the Regent.
"I want to know the families of these thestrals. Search their homes for any information on who else was involved. I will not stand for my niece being nearly murdered because she isn't a thestral!”
“At once Sovereign.” The Regent raced out. Luna took a deep breath and turned back to me. She was still Nightmare colored but her form remain unchanged. She hugged me.
“I am sorry my dear niece. The thought of losing you is too painful.” I joined her hug.
“Not your fault auntie and I am okay. We will be okay.” Luna began crying and I kept telling her I was okay and maintained the hug till I was ordered to rest. I woke in the middle of the night I found Luna sleeping at my side. I smiled and laid my head down and let sleep take me knowing I was in good hooves.
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sweet chapter. loving the story!
Yuro and I will disagree with you.
That's the entirely wrong type of Torpedobeat.
Edit: Also, really happy to see this continue.
Fuck me, that was a pleasant and welcome surprise, nice to see you’re still alive.
So happy to see this back, I absolutely love this story
9600937
Yeah no.
Well, ебаться сраться, is it really this time again? Don't disappear again my dude!
Yay, a update. Only obvious mistake I noticed was this
get7at
yoooooo this totally dropped off my radar now it's back, yussssss
9600952
Yeah yes.
Why are all of you upset with the direction of the story anyways? Even with the inclusion of a new "male" mind that has knowledge of the "future" their inclusion into the story has disrupted the original stories timeline enough to where their knowledge may not even be useful in the near future because of the changes that they have made and caused to the world compared to their counterpart. I also feel that their attraction to males, even if being a straight male themself prior makes perfect sense as with being put into a young female body would expose their brain to many of the chemicals and stimuli that any young individual goes through when in the early stages of puberty and could easily affect that outlook
9600971
Nope.
9600973
Thank you. They don't get the fun of the situation. Just because i plan on tbe Crystal Empire and the wedding are the only fix points. Everything else is up to Dave.
YES! AN UPDATE!
I'm not trying to be mean about it to anyone either, but to me it personally makes more sense to go more aalong the path that you are currently taking it in comparison to the canonical story. But I shall still hold out for an absolutely ridiculous sexual/romantic tension moment between "Cadence" and Queen Chrysalis. Yes I'm shipping things even after your talk of World of Warships. Just got to dodge all them torpedoes
9601013
There is another ship planned . Shining is mortal after all.
9601014
*Cassually puts the HMS Moonbutt on B12*
Is for funny
more
Well, I'm really glad to see this pop up on my thread, for two reasons. I really like this story, and hopefully it means you are recovered from your illness because that is what's really important.
Wow, i didn't know Cadence was a deer.
Also, it lives!
A few mistakes here and there, but overall very nice.
Thanks for the new update.
9601077
Still dealing with it but better
IT LIIIIIVES, right on time for my birthday to :D
9601113
I honestly forgot about you getting sick. I'm so sorry, as well as happy your doing better and hopefully on a continuous road to recovery
Above all else, this needs a proofreader and badly. It almost hurts to read more than half of this, and it shows. That, and all the railroading is *seriously* turning me off, even a year later since the previous chapter. I wish all of this wasn't the case, but it's just how it is
Nice, but please settle on one perspective. The constant shifting between 1st and 3rd person perspective, sometimes in the same paragraph, is annoying.
9601177
Sent it to my editor but mia
9601185
I try to.
greatly enjoyed teh update! I hope you get to feeling better!
Interesting that it would go that far. Also I’ve found when self editing the best option is to slowly read it aloud, tends to help me spot where I forgot a pronoun or drastically misspelled a word.
9601352
Was going to wait fir tbe editor but after sevefal days and started to get impatient
I have waited a year... glad it's not ded.
9601371
It will never die
Are updates regular now?
My My My.
Are we going with a different ship than from canon?
9600973 I've been getting some hate on one of my stories (I Burn) as of late for that very thing. Male mind put into female body. Some time later, starts feeling attraction towards males. Admittedly, the way I went about introducing the romance was rather. . . sudden, but that's life sometimes. And, from what I know, fiction a lot more often.
I have a feeling that, if the genders were flipped around in that whole sequence, there wouldn't be quite as much hate. I also have a feeling that if someone is male, attracted to female, turns female, and is still attracted to female, that would be seen as fine and acceptable. Invert the genders in that formula, and it might be seen as a sign of strength of character.
Still, those are just my thoughts on the matter.
9601554
It's fetish bait, pure and simple.
Luna's absence has made them bold. Their callous disregard for royalty (even visiting ones!) shall not go unpunished! Public shaming to start with, and a political campaign to keep momentum. Their time in isolation is at an end...
Keep going! ;)
This has been rather interesting. I'm general not a fan of this sort of story but its been good.
9601538
Not yet
Wow, that's some pretty abysmal spelling.
I hope your editor wakes up soon, because this is making me wonder why on earth I have this on my tracking list.
Never seen someone write onward as "on word" before.
This is not a comment on the content. I didn't read this chapter beyond the first few lines, hopefully it improves with a re-draft or edit.
9601554
You introduced romance? Oh boy.
I have been meaning to catch up with your story for a while now. It kinda lost me for reasons I put into comments, if you remember me. I know how divisive people can become once romance becomes part of the equation, especially when gender swapping/identity is an issue you are tackling. You really shouldn't be so surprised that you are getting backlash.
Maybe I am different (who am I kidding, I am very different), but as a 100% heterosexual male, who has never been attracted to a man before, if I woke up in a female body, I would almost certainly be willing to get down with dudes. I am attracted to the "scene," if that makes sense, more than anything. It's the whole picture, not just my part in it, I guess. I don't know.
Anyways, there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 billion people who have an opinion. And you are on the internet. People yelling at you is just gonna happen.
Now to the author of this story, I have completely forgotten what this story was about. And to be honest with you, I have not read past the first paragraph of this chapter. It is terrible. I am really sorry, but between the completely blatant disregard for adhering to one tense and the changing perspectives multiple times in a single sentence, I cannot continue.
You may not have an editor, but that doesn't mean you can't go over it yourself before hitting publish. Not having an editor excuses a few minor mistakes here and there that are easy to miss, not dozens of obvious ones in the opening paragraph. If I was asked to edit that, I would say "You need me to rewrite it completely, keeping the general intentions in mind."
Now, in the case that English is not your first language, which I is what I dearly hope is happening here, keep in mind that English is the most BS language. It is obnoxious to learn, and is nothing like any other language on Earth. It is dumb as hell, and not being able to communicate with it properly is fine. I mean no personal disrespect towards you.
(But if English is your first language, there is no hope left anywhere. Period.)
While you continue to make a story that I'm loving, you do switch between first person and third person a lot.
That is so sad but i can see it happening the persecuted eventually becoming the persecutor and the thing they despised.
9601209
Glad to see a good story back! If your editor won't answer I can assist you with this and previous chapters.
It runs a little but its still good i love the plot. Thank you for all the hard work
9601770
Been trying to prevent that.
9601762
Try now
Good to see more of this story. Looking forward to seeing what happens next.
Is it just me or does this feel like a MASSIVE drop in quality from previous chapters? It felt like it tried to cover far to may topics to quickly.
9602100
Still waiting for the editor's cut