I stood guard outside of the room the princesses were meeting in. standing on one side of the door while another guard stood on the other. Many other guards patrolling the halls. I remained standing there for an hour until the door finally opened. Out walked all the princesses and the prince. I listened as they said their goodbyes. Soon all but princess Twilight walked off. Followed by the rest of the guards in the hallway. Soon I could no longer hear them as princess Twilight stood in front of me with a smile on her face. "you can relax now Hanzo..." I simply lowered my head towards her.
"are you certain princess Twilight? After what has happened I believe it would be unwise to keep my guard down." she simply nodded as I gave a sigh. I relaxed only slightly as she noticed my armor movement and smiled. She started to walk off as I followed after her.
"may I ask a question princess Twilight?" I asked her.
"certainly Hanzo... and please call me Twilight."
"clan law dictates I must princess Twilight. But I am also merely asking where we are headed?" I asked her. She gave me a sad smile before it turned to one of happiness.
"we are going to go visit my friends. To let them know I am alright." I gave a single nod as I continued to follow her. Soon we were out of the castle and walking through town. I noticed the stares and the points as we soon reached what resembled a Gingerbread house. I held the door open for Princess Twilight as a bell ringer. We were at either a shop or a restaurant if the bell was any indicator. I followed in after her as she walked over to a group of 5. I followed after her shortly as she made her greetings and stood to her right. "oh I almost forgot! Everypony meet Hanzo Lucifer. My new personal guard." I gave a small bow as the 5 gave their own greetings. "Hanzo these are my best friends. Applejack." she motioned to the pony on the very left. "Fluttershy." she motioned to the pony hiding behind Applejack. "Rarity." she motioned to the middle pony. "Rainbow Dash." the second pony on the right. "and finally Pinkie Pie." where she motioned there was no pony... this confused me until there was a large pink blob taking up my entire vision. Then I saw the eyes. "hiyamynameisPinkiePie!" if I heard correctly she said her name was Pinkie Pie before she started to speak at a speed I could barely keep up with. Soon though she was surrounded by a purple aura before she was floated off to me. She kept on rambling on as if she wasn't floating in the air as she was set back down in her seat.
"uh... Twilight?" Lady Rainbow Dash spoke up. "isn't he missing an arm?" the other 4 stopped talking to one another and looked at me. Their eyes widened when they saw my missing arm.
"from what I know he had lost it before he had done his plan to rescue me." princess Twilight said with a sad frown.
"Oh, we heard about what happened!" Lady Rarity yelled out. "the guards wouldn't let us close enough to even see if there was anything we could do to help!"
"it's alright... at least its all over and done with." princess Twilight sighed before raising her head with a smile. I gave a small smile until a peculiar scent entered my nose... I thought nothing of it when I looked around and found no reason as to why the smell was there. Most likely a small accident in the baking room. "something wrong Hanzo?" princess Twilight asked.
"I thought I smelled something familiar to me... but I guess not." she only gave a small nod. Princess Twilight sat down with her friends while I stood behind her. I was offered a seat but I polity declined saying I would react better to an event if I was standing.
Thankfully princess Twilight respected my decision as they talked about daily life. After about 10 minutes of talking the conversation was on me. "so how is he your guard again? He is! Missing an arm you know that right?" Lady Rainbow Dash brought up as I stiffened slightly.
"he still fought against all my ponynappers and was able to rescue me. Even if I dislike him killing them..." note to self... she is just like the emperor and empress of my world so killing is going to be a big no-no. most likely all the other ponies on the continent are the same. "but he helped me and gained grievous wounds for his efforts. He actually surprisingly healed quickly." Did I? I was always known to heal quickly ever since I was given the last name Lucifer... but that's a story for another time.
"still! A one-armed guard?!" Lady Rainbow Dash nearly yelled.
"please excuse myself speaking up. But I am quite sure I am able to protect princess Twilight with my own life Lady Rainbow Dash." I said as they all turned towards me.
"Lady Rainbow Dash?" princess Twilight spoke up in confusion.
"as friends of yours, they hold high ranking just below you. It is my own honor that will want me to protect them should any danger come to town but you will take major priority." she nodded at my understanding but I could see the dislike in her eyes. "is something wrong with my views princess Twilight?" she looked surprised.
"n-no! Just surprised is all," she stated quite quickly.
"then I am sorry for believing I saw dislike in your eyes once I stated why I called her Lady Rainbow Dash," I said with a small bow to show my regret.
"its... alright."
"and don't call me Lady!" Lady Rainbow Dash got into my face as soon as I stood up straight. I merely stayed there standing and didn't move or talk. "oi!"
"Lady Rainbow Dash I may respect you for being a friend of Princess Twilight... but I please ask you get out of my face," I asked polity as my hand clenched.
"or what..." she asked with venom in her tone.
"or you might find you are no longer able to fly again..." her eyes looked shocked before anger filled her eyes. Before she could move both myself and her were put into a purple aura as she was moved away from me.
"Hey!" she yelled out in rage as she looked at princess Twilight. "he insulted me by calling me a lady!" princess Twilight sighed in response.
"if its how he must greet other ponies who are my friends... they might as well let him continue Rainbow. I'm sure he didn't mean it as an insult did you Hanzo." I simply shook my head as she looked slightly shocked. For a reason, I had no idea why. I didn't trust my own voice to speak out to her. "how did you do that?!" she then yelled. "I didn't even lift my paralysis spell on you yet!" I simply tilted my head.
"spell princess?" I then asked as she looked sheepish.
"Oh! I keep forgetting you're not from here. A spell is a byproduct of using magic. Unicorns and alicorns are able to use magic to its fullest potential. Its believed that earth ponies and pegasi are also able to use magic although subconsciously. But back to the point!" she was smiling as she told me the information but then went back to being slightly hysterical. "how can you just shrug off magic?!"
"I have no idea princess Twilight... there are rumors of magic where I am from in other clans." and it was true. While we may have been disconnected from the outside world there were other clans besides ours on the very large island. There were relatively small but they helped where they could... mom and dad said that a clan that had died out could use magic... but only my grandparents could say it was true. But the rest of the clan called them liars and they became outcasts.
Those that were interested were told to fuck off... but they only ever told the stories to me for some unknown reason. "Hanzo!" I jumped at princess Twilight yelling. She was looking at me with concern.
"sorry, princess... I was lost in my own memories trying to remember all I could about the rumors." she gave a nod of acceptance but I could tell she was still worried about me. "well can I ask what you remember?"
"yes princess." I said with a bow. "from what I could remember from rumors and from what my own grandparents saw there was a clan or two capable of using magic. Be it secretly to increase their battle potential or for simple things in life. But my grandparents said only ever one clan used magic."
"what do you know about them?" she asked as her friends listened closely.
"not much... they were apparently wiped out for some unknown reason not long before I was born. About a month or so give or take." I stated with sadness. "from what I know they were extremely close to my clan. So close that both sides would trust the other with being godparents and taking care of kids if anything happened to the parents on either side. Plus the stories I have been told by my grandparents were many but most come from my grandfather and was known to exaggerate a lot so I have no idea what is true and what isn't."
"that's unfortunate.. must be your species biology," she said happily as I gave a simple nod. Princess Twilight then looked at her wrist where I noticed a watch. "oops! I forgot I got some paperwork to finish!"
they quickly said their goodbyes as I remained silent. I followed her as we began the quick walk home.