Chapter 6
Astraeus sat on his bed with his Nintendo as he cleaned up his shiny Decidueye after they had won a pokemon battle. The lunar princess sat by his side watching over Astaeus’ shoulder; a light blue glow from her horn is what had kept Astraeus’ device functioning long past its battery life. It had become a tradition over the past week to wake up early and play on his Nintendo for a while. But very soon after the sun rose over the horizon and Astraeus had to save his game before closing the console.
Ever since he had found the element of harmony and gave them to the royal duo to defeat Discord, Princess Celestia had allowed Astraeus to live in the castle at the request of her sister. The only catch to that was he wasn’t allowed to be a freeloader. But it had been at least 3 weeks since then, and Astraeus wasn’t one to go back on his promises.
He picked up the bow that princess Luna had gifted to him, and went outside to train with the other archers in the royal military. It was designed specifically for Astraeus, being slightly larger than the pony’s longbows to accommodate for his unique situation. Luna took into consideration Astreo’s supposed age when requesting the specially made bow, because there was a likely chance that he’d end up growing to be much taller than what he was.
After Discord’s attack, many things began to change. Whether the things changing were a direct result of him having escaped, or if it was just time for them to happen is up for debate. Arrow had finally gotten a new bird stand for his now evolved form, Luna had finally taken up night court by herself, and Princess Cadance had finally decided to make public that both she and Shining Armor were getting engaged. Arrow had known this was going to be inevitable for quite some time, especially considering how poorly they kept it hidden.
It had only been a week after he’d officially been adopted as Luna’s pet owl that he accidentally stumbled upon them making out in the royal gardens. If Arrow hadn’t practically been a head with wings at the time, he would have thought that he was going to lose it with how fast Shining Armor’s reflexes were when the captain drew his sword. And ever since then, Arrow has been watching them out of the corner of his eye whenever he could.
Much to Arrow’s surprise, Princess Luna was completely oblivious to this until the couple had made their announcement. Once it had happened though, Luna didn’t necessarily know how exactly to feel about it. Even though she realized that times have changed from when she was banished to the moon, Luna still would’ve never thought that it would’ve been acceptable for ponies of royal blood-line could marry anywhere below a noble by birth.
“‘Luna, you can’t keep yourself riled up like this.’” Arrow told her, “‘Your niece is going to be okay being married to Shining Armor, he is a good pony and wouldn’t let anything happen to her.’”
Luna groaned, as that was almost verbatim of what her sister said, “I know that, it's just I am worried about her reputation. And even though the public seems supportive about it right now, it doesn’t mean they won’t turn on her at the last minute.”
Arrow thought about what Luna had said for a long couple of minutes before responding, “‘Your worry is completely reasonable.If that were to happen then there could be a public outcry. But at the same time, I would assume that the damage would be minimal because he is the captain of the guard. There have been many stories where a princes save a knight and marries him as his reward; so by saying that Cadence has allowed Shining Armor to have her hoof in marriage as a reward for his bravery and valor as the head of the royal guard, there would be even less of a reason for it to cause public distress.’”
Listening to the reasoning Arrow replied with, Luna calmed down some but she was still quite nervous about the whole thing. Now that Arrow and Luna had spent a lot of time together, Luna couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something familiar about him. It was almost nostalgic for some reason, she just wasn’t sure why.
When the sun finally rose, starting a new day, Arrow and Luna made their way over to the royal throne room to greet Princess Cadance and Captain Shining Armor upon their arrival. Arrow sat on Luna’s back as he watched the encounter play out, but there was something that felt off.
“Princess Celestia,” Cadance said, “I am happy to see you.”
“Cadance, it is nice to see you as well, and I do believe that this is the first time you have meet my sister in person.”
Cadance just so happened to be eyeing Luna up and down, making a face that said ‘have I met you before?’
“And I am happy to meet you, princess… Luna..?” Cadance said, wondering if she had remembered her name correctly
“It is a pleasure to meet you.” Luna said rather softly
After a moment of awkward silence, Celestia began ushering the couple to their room. “Come now you two, let's make sure that all the preparations are up to your liking.”
Arrow couldn’t help but watch them walk with Celestia to their room, but in doing so, he couldn’t help but feel a certain prescience watching them from the shadows. There was just something about it that immediately knew they were going to be in danger; but with only a gut feeling as evidence, Arrow would struggle to prove the threat to anypony.
Luna began walking back to her room as well, it was rather early for her. As the princess of the night, it was her duty to guard it and watch over her subjects. And because of that, she didn’t have enough energy to stay awake during the day. Arrow on the other hand, rarely slept all the way through the day, instead opting for power naps in between pilfering through the fruit bowl in the kitchen area. Doing this allowed him to have enough energy to stay awake during the day in case he needed to. But at the same time, when he does this he has to be careful not to mess up his nocturnal sleep cycle.
As Arrow flew through the halls, he remained vigilant in his attempts to find that awful presence. But when he caught up to Cadance and her travel group, the presence was gone. It was like it had found out everything it needed to know. All of his further attempts in locating what had caused that ominously watchful feeling were futile.
After failing to locate what he could only assume was some sort of spy, his mind rushed with anxiety knowing that something was going to happen in the near future. Even if he were to return to Luna’s room, he doubts he could’ve slept with all this worry bogging him down. Arrow began to follow Celestia hoping to communicate the danger to her in some sort of form or fashion.
Celestia lowered the sun as the clocks said that it was getting close to dusk; and as part of her normal routine, she went to the library to enjoy a moment of silence from the day’s hustle and bustle. But like most days, it got interrupted before she got to enjoy it fully, but unlike most days, this time was by a certain owl. Circling overhead, Arrow cawed to get Celestia’s attention before landing in front of her. Celestia was surprised to see such a complex expression as worry on Arrow’s face.
Frantically, Arrow tried to communicate the situation to Celestia but Celestia couldn’t understand anything he said. Perhaps a game of charades could help him explain what is going on. Using his wings to create a shape that vaguely resembles a heart, he then pointed at celestia’s crown, before switching between the two motions.
“Princess Cadence?”
Arrow nodded
Following this, Arrow began to fly around the library rather recklessly. Knocking into things and getting too close to certain display cases containing items on display.
“Reckless?”
Arrow cawed in such a way that it let her know that it was wrong
“Dangerous?”
Arrow landed in front of her and nodded.
“Princess Cadence is in danger?”
Arrow nodded again, making Celestia share the same worry that he had.
“What is she in danger from?”
Arrow began to fly and pull books off their shelf into a rather large enough pile to hide most of himself. He then put on his scary face as he peered over the pile.
“Creep?”
Arrow cawed
“Stalker?”
There was a pause before Arrow cawed again as if he wasn’t sure of his answer. It was almost like he was saying ‘maybe’.
“the paparazzi?”
Frustrated, Arrow flew over to Celestia, shaking his head. He then took one of his quill darts before using it like a pen on some paper. Celestia immediately got it and summoned a piece of paper and an ink well for him to use. Arrow used his dart and tried his best to write words. Despite the sloppy appearance, Arrow managed to portray the right message.
“Bad feeling
Danger near
Ced
Can
PINK!
Spy”
Celestia eyed Arrow curiously, was Luna playing another prank on her? It would make for quite the elaborate prank after all. But the more she thought, the more she realized that this was a likely scenario. There was this feeling she had, but she just brushed it off believing it to be a figment of her imagination. Celestia burned the parchment to cover up anything that the potential spy could find.
“Thank you Arrow.” Celestia said, “I will make sure to take extra precautions to prevent anything from happening.”
With that she walks out of the room in search of Shining Armor and some of the other elite guards. She didn’t want any-creature to know that she might have some sort of lead on them.
In the library, Arrow cleaned up the mess he had made and placed the books on a cart for the librarian to return to their correct places. But as he was cleaning up his mess, he found an interesting book. It was old, like it shouldn’t be in any library, kind of old, dry-rot was starting to set in and the book was going to be replaced or discarded soon. The title was the only thing left intact, because it was made of gold foil, and it read: “The legend of Astraeus, prince of dusk and dawn.”
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oh hey, a pokemon Displaced. Been a long while since I last saw someone try one.
good to see this revive, hopefully it continues.
Glad to see this is back
Intriguing, was he somehow related to em at one point in time then reborn in the human world to again be reborn in Equestria as a Pokémon this time?
Good to see this is back but you might want to go over your chapter for some logic issues like when you said the princess saves the knight so as a reward she gets to merry the knight. Saw a couple such issues that were just jarring
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If you are referring to Arrow’s idea itself, that is kind of the point. Because I wanted to make it sound like he just made it up on the spot.
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just a could of sections where you seem to use an odd gender noun
"he is a good pony and wouldn’t let anything happen to him.’”
when they where talking about cadance beforehand
"There have been many stories where a princesses save a knight and marries him as his reward"
princess saves the knight so now as a reward to the knight for being saved he merries the princess?
there was one more but it is slipping my sreach atm
Glad to see this updated after so long. Cant wait to see him go feral on Changelings.
Welcome back, keep up the good work.
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Thank you for pointing that out, It should be fixed now
Color me intrigued
I like how Arrow's presence already has butterflies, like the Changeling invasion about to be foiled.
I hope we get an update soon.
More good