The walk back to the castle was in silence. I could still remember Princess Twilight's shocked looked when I apparently defied their worlds physics involving magic. "Hanzo. Would you mind if we did a few tests after I finish my paperwork today?" she asked turning towards me.

"may I ask what kind of tests princess?" I asked her.

"just spells to see how far your magic resistance goes. It would make an interesting friendship report to Princess Celestia."

"I have no say in what you wish me to do princess. I will do as you ask." she looked saddened before looking forward once more. Soon we reached the large crystal castle. I once again opened the door for her as she walked in unimpeded and I quickly followed after closing the door.

"Twilight!" I stopped as I put a hand on my blade at the sudden voice.

"wait!" princess Twilight yelled as I stopped my hand from reaching the hilt from my blade. A small purple lizard seemed to be running down the falls but started to skid to a stop as he slammed into my left leg. "he's not going to hurt me Hanzo... Hanzo this is Spike my number one assistant." I removed my hand from its stopped position near my hilt.

"pleasure to meet you, Sir Spike," I said as he stood back up and looked at me with awe.

"uh... Twilight?"

"Oh sorry. Spike this is Hanzo. He's my new personal bodyguard."

"nice to meet you!" Sir Spike yelled with a smile as he held out a claw.

"a pleasure to meet you as well although may I ask a question?"

"sure!" he said closing his eyes.

"are you a lizard by any chance?" instantly he was against the wall with a rain cloud over his head. I heard princess Twilight giggle before she answered for him.

"no Hanzo. He's a dragon. Many ponies who come here tend to ask the question even though he has been with me ever since I moved here before I became a princess." she said.

"my apologies Sir Spike."

"Sir Spike?" he said with the rain cloud over his head popping into smoke.

"you are princes Twilight's assistant correct?" he nodded. "then you are almost on equal stature as her in my eyes." he only gave me a nod and a... claws up? Before he walked over to Twilight.

"Hey Twilight I'm going to go hang out with the Crusaders!" he quickly said before he ran past us and towards the door.

"be back before dark!" princess Twilight yelled with a smile before she turned around and started to make her way through the halls. Soon we reached a room which I could just feel was heavily protected... for some unknown reason. "Hanzo you don't need to watch over me here... the rooms highly protected with many security spells and strengthening spells." now I feel I should tell her.

"Princess I should tell you now that I had a feeling there was something up with the door." she looked intrigued.

"something else to look into after the paperwork!" she said with excitement as I felt like I should have never told her about this. "is there anything you wish to do while I do paperwork?" she then asked me with a smile on her face.

"does there happen to be a place I could train princess? I'm afraid I must completely rework my combat smile." she gave yet another sad smile towards me.

"I believe at least 10 doors down on the right that way." she pointed in the direction we came here. "or somewhere in that area at least. The castle gets confusing to all those who don't live here." I gave her a nod. "stay safe training! Ill come find you once I'm done!" she said with a smile before walking into the room. I felt something happened to the door which I assumed was the magic doing its work as I turned around and began to walk. After a couple minutes, I eventually found a large room with a sparing area in the middle. I looked all around the room and found many useful things that would for certain my return to this room.

Weights, training dummies, a place to sharpen blades. Just about all I needed at the moment. I would have to request an armor stand in here for when I desired to use the weights. Walking over to the training dummies I moved all 5 of them onto the field before walking over to the wall of weapons... checking them I found them all blunt. I looked all over them until I finally found one nearest in the shape of a katana. Picking it up I found it was only half the weight of my own. I sighed as that would be another thing I would ask to be requested. Walking onto the field I began my long training session...

its been an hour since I walked in here and I felt something was off at least a minute ago... cuts started to appear where I struck the dummies for no reason. I was developing new techniques for myself that I could use when I noticed what was happening.

Now every time I attacked the dummy a cut appeared where I struck even though no cut should be there. I am using a blade that is extremely blunted. The thoughts left my head as I heard the door open to reveal princess Twilight. "I'm done with the paperwork!" I simply nodded as I quickly moved things back to where they were, grabbed my katana and put it back into its place on my left side before I followed her out of the room and into another door a few doors down. Walking in I found it was like a small laboratory. "please sit down over there please!" she pointed at a chair in front of what appeared to be a safety mat and I did as asked.

The chair creaked under the weight of my armor and my own as I looked at the princess. "I'm just going to use a few simple spells! Tell me if you feel weird at all!" I nodded as her horn lit up and I instantly felt something in the back of my mind. Soon my arm was covered in her aura. "anything?"

"no princess." I stated as I lifted my arm and moved it around. "may I ask what you just used on me?"

"a small levitation charm," she responded with a smile. "OK next spell!"

her horn lit up again as the feeling returned in the back of my head as I was surrounded by her aura. I simply moved my body like normal as she looked amazed. "may I ask again what you cast?" I asked her.

"a more powerful paralysis spell then what I used earlier today!" she said with awe in her voice. "OK final spell for now! This might hurt!" I only nodded as this time she lowered her horn at me before something launched from it. The same color of her aura as it hit my chest and sent me flying into the mat behind me. I was unharmed except for the collision as the princess quickly rushed over to me in worry.

"I am unharmed princess." I said as she watched me get to my feet. "what was that spell?"

"it was an impact spell. Basically, it would damage an enemies armor or possibly destroy it. Sorry for using it without warning you." I simply looked down at her through my armored face.

"it is alright. You did warn me that it might hurt. Considering my armor was repaired to its previous state it would have easily been repaired... now that I remember I did hear of magic earlier today at the blacksmith working with magic. I am surprised I didn't ask about magic sooner." I told her.

"from what I know the only thing used on your armor was magic to help assist in repairing it. Nothing else from what I am told," she said as she put a hand to her chin with an arm crossed.

"don't forget the sheath for my katana princess if you don't mind me speaking up," I said looking at the very sheath at my side.

"I already took that into account Hanzo. But thank you for attempting to remind me." she said with a smile. "always feel free to speak up if needed." I only gave her a nod. "how about we test tomorrow without your armor as a just in case?" I gave her another nod as she looked at her watch again. "wow its already been an hour!" she said happily. "and already I have more questions then answers..." she said with an exasperated sigh.

Soon after dinner with Princess Twilight and Sir Spike I was following princess Twilight to their room of rest since Sir Spike fell asleep. He was currently being carried by Princess Twilight as we reached a door. She explained to me a few more things over dinner that Sir Spike joined in to help me with. "your room is the left door Hanzo." she said with a smile on her face. Her horn then lit up as she looked to be concentrating for a moment before she smiled. The aura on her horn disappearing "I connected the wards to your body. If anypony except me or spike enter through the doorway or window you will know instantly... although I am partially surprised I was able to connect you, to be honest."

"maybe my body knows what to reject and what not to reject princess."

"Maybe so... the wards will wake you up if you are asleep if they do go off." I nodded as she gave a yawn and walked over to the door. "good night..." another yawn. "Hanzo."

"goodnight princess." she closed the door behind her as I stayed there for a few moments pondering what to do. With my body having a resistance to magic I don't want to trust that it won't wake me up should anything happen...

thank god I know a brew that would give me the energy I would need tonight. The palace guards that were in my clan used it for a week straight but that's as far as they could go. I walked back to the kitchen and quickly made the brew and drank it as a feeling of power washed over me. I smiled as I felt energized before looking for the training room again. Eventually finding it I sat down in the middle of the room and began to try and figure out what the feeling was that I kept feeling every time I used the blunt blade...

I focused on the feeling when it just suddenly popped up in my head as I stared through my armor in surprise. I found my right hand encased in a slightly dark orange aura...

and it looked exactly the same as what the aura around princess Twilight's horn looked like...

I could use magic...