Kindle & Hooves

ลำดับตอนที่ #2 : Protector of Harmony

Previously on Kindle & Hooves

"Run every pony! Hydra!" Aiden runs to the village to confront the gigantic beast with 3 heads and scales. His eyes have no fear on the beast anymore. Aiden wears his helmet as his left hand starts to burn darker.The dark fireball starts to form itself on his hand. He hits the sword on the metal bar to distract the beast.

Aiden hurls the dark fireball up to the sky making the hydra looks up to it. the dark fireball suddenly explodes making a bright flash. The hydra flinches and collapses on the ground. the beast's heads cover each other eyes from him. Aiden steps closer to the Hydra while it's shaking with fear. He sheaths his sword back on and takes a look around the creature.

"You don't mean to rampage ,do you?" He starts to walk around the frightened beast and found a large burns all over his tail and flank. Aiden also can smells the ash from bonfire. He walks back to the beast and pat it's head before he said

"Well looks like you rampage because you are burnt by the fire. Don't worry now I just fix it up for ya. Oh and these.... Coiled sword... is stuck on your tail." The beast slowly uncover itself to see the coiled sword on Aiden's hand and it’s healed burns. it smiles and wrap up his waist and lift Aiden up before other two heads give him a soft smooch.

"Ahhh I know you are hurt and angry. Now, now go back to your habitat and... try not to rampage in the city again." Aiden says as the beast puts him down on the ground and leaves the village back to where it come.

Every pony starts to come out from their shelters and tries to figure out what's going on. Aiden takes his helmet off and take a deep breath.

"Settle down every pony ,problem's solved ,the hydra is gone." Said by Aiden. Every pony is now cheering with joy ,some pony stomp their hooves ,some throws theirs hat up to the sky but what they do the same is cheering him with joyful voice.

"I'm very impress in you Aiden." the similar voice coming with the appearance of Princess Celestia glide down from the the high sky. Every pony bow down with respect in their highness same as Aiden he kneel down like a proud knight. Princess accept their respect by bow her head down a little.

"Thank you for saving Canterlot while I am out for my another duty." Aiden get up and sheath the coiled sword on his belt.

"Been a pleasure to help you princess." Aiden bows to Princess Celestia. She accept his bow by nod her head one time.

"Now please follow me ,Aiden. I have something to show you." Said by Ceslestia. Aiden follow Princess Celestia until both of them reach the entrance of the Centerlot.

"Wait ,didn’t your castle is in Canterlot." Aiden asks as he look at her.

"No ,Aiden. The castle in Canterlot is just a temporary residence where I and Luna will get in when we have a long duty to do." Celestia says.

"Uh-hun ,Well where we’re heading?" Aiden asks

"The Castle of Two Sisters." Said by Celestia. The royal carriage has arrived in front of her and Aiden. Princess walk up in her seat and look at Aiden.

"Ahh you sure about this?" Aiden asks.

"Oh come Aiden ,you saved Canterlot and you deserve that." Princess says with smile. Aiden bows to her dignifiedly and walk up to the carriage too. The Pegasus ponies saddled with the carriage start moving and fly up to the sky.

Aiden’s standing next to Princess Celestia that’s sitting on his left side while they’re traveling to The Castle of Two Sisters. He looks to his coiled sword on his holster thinking how is this sword come to this land, Equestria. After a long moment of thinking he cut his thought off when the carriage stop at the huge unique caste stands beautifully from distance and if he takes his vision further ,he could see the observatory at the edge of the cliff on the right side of castle.

"Wow... what a gorgeous view, princess. I wonder who built this place." Aiden walk down from the carriage to wait for Celestia.

"You wont believe who built it. It has been built since I’m a little filly with Luna. We love to run around this place since it have a lot of secret passage and also... Our secret passage path." Celestia whispers and softy giggles.

"This would take a lot of workers to finish this. Such a place full of memories of you and Princess Luna. But... Now where is Luna?" Aiden asks as He’s still look around the castle. Princess takes a lead for Aiden to the castle.

"Luna’s taking her sleep in day time for her duty at night." Celestia say as both Her and Aiden keep walk along the stone path that lead to the castle.

"If Luna is Night keeper ,you are day keeper right?" Aiden asks

"Yes ,I have a power to rise and set the sun every day time. When it dawn and night ,Luna will rise the moon and delivered the good dream when every pony’s sleeping." Celestia says.

"Both Sound really important task ,princess. In my land in the past ,long ,long time ago before I was born... Before the Everlasting Dragons, The Immortal dragons who ruled my land ,and before the very gray colored world , Firekeepers say we human lives with peace and harmony. I couldn’t imagine how beautiful it is until now... When I see Equestria. Now I can imagine how beautiful it will be... such a beautiful..." Aiden says and smiles. He never smile big like this since he’s woke up from the cemetery. Celestia looks at him and smiles too after she saw his smile.

Both Aiden and Celestia stop at the castle door. Aiden approach close to the door and use both of his hands push the door opened. He turn to Princess Celestia and dignifiedly bow to princess. Celestia giggles and walk in while Aiden still bow to her.

"Come on in Aiden."Princess say as she giggles more. Aiden stood up from his bow and walk into castle after her.

They’re walking along the big hallway in red carpet wit the symbol of the sun and moon cover almost all the floor in the middle end of hallway, there are two thrones with a banner on top and both have different color. One is blue with the moon and stars on the banner symbolize Princess Luna and The orange one with sun ,hills ,and cloud symbolize Princess Celestia. Between two banners there’s triangle window with the stained glasses.

"Welcome to the castle of Two sister." Princess Luna says while she’s on her throne and takes her sleep.

"Hey sister." Celestia waves to Luna

"Hey..."She Tiredly waves to Celestia and starts snoring softy. Aiden thinks what he’s missing

"I... Think I forget something..." Suddenly the knock sounds coming from the door. Aiden quickly approaches to the door and opens it. There is Sally coming with her saddlebag.

"Aiden! Finally!" She use her magic to tug the mannequin in the blue antique robe with brown legging.

"Oh! Yes! I forget to receive my new robes! "Aiden says. Sally sigh and look at him.

"At least you remember it. Here your new one. I tried to make it similar to your old one and hope you like it." Aiden smiles to her and take the robes out from mannequin.

"Thank you again Sally." Aiden bows.

"Ohhh your welcome Aiden. If you have any problem about clothes ,just let me know and I will help you whatever I can." Sally winks to Aiden before he close the doors. He walk back to Princess Celestia and look at his new robe.

"Really similar like the original of Faraam Knight. How did she manage to remember all the pattern in my old robe?" Aiden says.

"Come ,Aiden. Let’s go."Celestia says and leads Aiden along the path to the library of the castle. Once they arrive ,Celestia pick up the books from the shelf. Aiden takes a seat on the chair for some rest. When he tries to move the chair, it’s stuck by something under it’s legs. he tries to pull it but suddenly he chair’s lifted and he notices the mechanic at the front legs. The mechanic makes two shelves on Aiden’s right side move. There’s the secret room behind these shelves.

"This is my private room that I and Luna usually come and have a short break." Said by Celestia that’s sitting on the other chair.

"So what are you looking for?"Aiden asks.

"Just a magic book. The real thing I want you to see is at the hallway." Celestia walks back to hallway with Aiden. She walk in the middle of the hallway. Her horn glows same time as the floor in front of her. the trapdoor on the hallway’s slowly opened by Celestia’s magic. the strange platform slowly lift up with the 5 floating hexagon gem in different colors. Aiden looks at them as he see them glow in their own colors.

"These are the Elements of Harmony, there are 6 of them in different colors. The blue one is Element of Laughter ,The orange one is Element of Honestly ,The purple one is Element of Generosity ,The pink one i Element of Kindness ,The red one is Element of Loyalty ,and last one is the Element of Magic. Luna and I found these elements deep in the cave of harmony near outside castle. it originally held by Tree of Harmony in the cave. We both lend its’ power to defeat Discord, the spirit of disharmony and without the element’s power we cant reform Equestria from Discord’s chaotic mess." Celestia says as Aiden still wonder where’s the last element since he sees only 5 Element on the platform.

"Where is the last one ,princess?" Aiden asks. Celestia smiles and says

"The last one will shine after the spark of magic." Aiden nods and keep looks at the elements. Princess Celestia uses her magic again to lower the platform making it go back in the trapdoor and close it. The sunset’s telling us that night time’s coming. The orange sky of dawn slowly turn dark blue while the moon’s rising. Celestia sits down on her throne and yawns. Luna looks out at the sky and sighs sadly as she sit down near the window of the hallway and says.

"... Another day.. Another lonely night." Luna sigh sadly. Aiden looks at Princess Luna and walks to her.

"What can I do for you ,Princess Luna?" Aiden asks as he notices her tears.

"I’m fine Aiden just... I want to be alone."Said by Luna. Aiden sigh and says.

"I don’t think so ,princess. I know how it’s feel when you are alone at night." Aiden says and hold her neck and kneel.

"You do?"Luna asks.

"Yes... but maybe mine is worse than yours." Aiden says and sit down next to Princess Luna and take out a bottle of orange glow liquid. He take a sip from it and wipe Luna’s tears. She blinks her eyes once and look at him.

"Well why you don’t go to sleep? I have my duty to do." Luna says and take her leave. Aiden stands up and walks to the castle’s cour yard. He draws the coiled sword and thrust it down on the ground. Aiden opens his tools holster and take out a bottle of ash and some human bone. He first pour all the ash around the coiled sword and decorate around the ash pile with the bones. The coiled sword once lit with fire again. Aiden kneels down and close his eyes taking his rest in bonfire.

He wakes up on the another day with a soft sunlight shine. Aiden yawns and shakes his head to wipe all the sleepiness away after he’s completely wake up. Aiden senses something similar and know that’s it not a good news for him. He stands up from the bonfire and put his helmet on. Aiden see the castle’s doors are opened. He slowly take his step forward inside the castle. Inside there’s no pony but Princess Luna that’s standing in between both of her and Celestia's throne.

"Don’t get any closer ,Aiden." Luna says with her powerful and formidable voice. Aiden looks at her and asks.

"What have you done Princess Luna? My sense of dark magic never lies to me."

"I’m not going to sit idly by while the rest of Equestria basks in Celestia's precious light! There will be only one princess in Equestria! ,and that princess will be me!" she stomp on the floor making cracks. The cracks slowly going up until it stop at the stained glasses before breaking in to small pieces. The moon rise up cover the sun causing the Eclipse. The shadow of eclipse cover all over Princess Luna’s body and the night comes to Equestria in sudden. It’s turning Princess Luna into the appearance of the dark black mare in armor. Aiden can’t do anything but looks at what she has become.

"This is not you Luna! You are princess of night! You bring the peaceful night for every pony! Not the nightmare night!" Aiden shouts as he draws his sword and shield on his hands. Suddenly Princess Celestia appears behind Aiden. She looks at Luna and shout.

"We are sister ,Luna! I don’t want to fight you! You must Lower the moon! It’s your duty! "

"Luna? Sister? I am Nightmare Moon! And I have my new duty now! To destroy everyone who get in my way!" Nightmare Moon yells and charge her power to Aiden and Princess Celestia. Aiden quickly steps in front of Princess Celestia that’s cover herself up with her magic barrier. He stands still as the magic of Nightmare Moon’s coming closer. Suddenly Aiden swipes his shield when the magic hit his shield. the magic deflects and hit the roof instead. Aiden’s eyes glow dark as the darkness quickly covers Nightmare Moon to blind her for a moment. Princess Celestia looks at him and says.

"Aiden you must go! There’s the guard and some citizen in this castle! You have to protect them!"

"B-but Ni-"

"Go!" Celestia cuts short. Aiden step back and run out from the castle. The dark magic has banish returning Nightmare Moon’s vision. Celestia rises her wing and fly up through the big hole on the roof.

"Ha! Where do you think you are going!" Nightmare Moon flies after her

Aiden run out from the castle see many pony run in panic. They run in the different direction. It will be really hard to stop them with magic. Aiden think and see the other building that’s some of the guard and citizen are hiding inside but there are still many pony run on the courtyard. he take his deep breath and shout

"Hey!! Every pony listen to me! There’s the shelter over here! Follow me!" Aiden run o the shelter as many pony on the courtyard notice his shout and run after him too.

After every pony get in the shelter ,Aiden quickly close the door and lock it. He turns his face to see every pony, they are sitting on the ground and shaking with fear in the same time. Aiden can’t do many things but just sits down and says.

"Don’t worry everyon- uh pony I mean. Princess will take care of Nightmare Moon." He tries to cheer them up.

"What if she couldn’t!" One colt shouts out in panic and shivers. Aiden sigh and take his deep breath and says.

"Don't worry... trust me... she can take care of Nightmare Moon. Doesn’t every pony trusst her? " Every pony starts to calm down. Aiden hears crying sounds coming from crowd. He slowly gets up and walks toward to voice. He sees group of fillies and colts are crying. He slowly kneel down and kindly says

"Are you all alright?" they shake their head and turn to see Aiden.

"They’re scared after they saw Luna and Celestia fought against each other. Either mares or stallions or even the guards like us are freak out since we see her gone evil like this." The guard that’s sitting next to the children says. Aiden’s hands light the orange flame giving those ponies a warmth. He kindly smiles and says.

"Don’t worry... no matter what will happen in this eclipse ,I will protect all of you with everything I have." Children stop crying and look at the warm flame hands. He looks at every pony else and says.

"Since we are all in here with cold and scared ,why don’t we have some indoor campfire party to wipe all your fear away?" Every pony talk to each other and look at him. the accept his offer by stomp their hooves on the floor quietly.

"Then we’re all settled." Aiden says and hurls the fireball at middle of the hall ground. the bonfire’s lit ,every pony settles down as Aiden bring out piles vegetables that he kept from the castle’s garden at the night. he start to cut them in pieces to make a skewer. He shares the skewer to every pony. They put the skewer over the fire to grill them. Aiden sits down on the bonfire and look at their smile and laugh. One Filly walk toward to him with her cooked skewer on her hooves.

"Don’t you hungry?" She asks Aiden as he look at her with a smile.

"Don’t worry about me ,I have mine." He replies while his hand’s holding the same bottle of orange glow liquid.

Aiden looks at the cheered up ponies that talking to each other with joyful voice, some laughs. It’s make Aiden fell even warmer when he see every pony laughs and smiles.

"Ahh!" After a happy and warm moment every pony and Aiden hear the painful scream of Princess Celestia. He quickly gets up and run outside the building. He sees Nightmare Moon and Princess celestia standing in opposite side. Celestia’s almost faint since he sees that she cant barely stand by herself.

"I will end you!" Nightmare Moon yells and shoot out a powerful magic stream to Celestia but Aiden quickly run in front of Celestia and stand guard the magic stream that’s shot from Nightmare Moon. It’s directly hit the shield and spread out into the pendants of small magic stream. The pendants hit all over the place randomly until the stream stop. Aiden stands still for a moment then he suddenly kneel but not completely faint yet.

"I... Will.... Protect... Every Pony! No matter what will destroy me!" He yells out with his voice. Suddenly his body glow in the rainbow gradient with his left eye glow black and the other one glow white. Princess Celestia looks at him and stands up strong again. She brings out 6 Hexagon Gems from the floor. Aiden still kneel but Celestia holds him up and smiles to him.

"You’ve done your duty well... Now... We have to finish this."Aiden Nods his head. The gems orbit around Aiden and Princess Celestia. The stream of magic surround them with the powerful light.

"What a nonsense! Begone both of you!!"Nightmare Moon yells and shoot another wave of magic stream to Aiden and Celestia.

"Forgive me Luna."Celestia says with tears as her and Aiden deliver the rainbow gradient magic stream to fight with Nightmare Moon’s power. The Rainbow magic stream destroy Nightmare Moon’s magic and she’s engulfed in a rainbow of light and blasted to the moon, creating the Mare in the Moon's image on the moon's surface. Both Celestia and Aiden kneel down once again but this time Celestia falls her head down on Aiden’s lap. He smiles and brush her mane with his fingers.

"You did it Princess." Aiden says and pick her up on his hands

"Could some guard please bring us the carriage?" Aiden says as two royal guard stoods up and says.

"Certainly!" They both run to take the carriage quickly. Celestia open her eyes and look at Aiden

"We did it..."

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