I froze as princess Luna waited for an answer. Princess Twilight and Princess Luna both looked confused. "Sir Hanzo?" princess Luna then said.
"I don't trust my resistance to magic to wake me up should anything enter princess Twilight's room." I then spoke up as princess Twilight looked wide-eyed. "so I stayed awake and kept myself busy in the training room not far down from Princess Twilight's room."
"you stayed awake... for a full week!" princess Twilight yelled in rage.
"we have researched my magic princess Twilight... and I will not fail in my duty again as I have for my lord and lady..." I then said in sadness.
"how are you still awake if I may ask?" Princess Celestia asked as I turned to look at her.
"a brew made by my clan for those who are required to be up for days at a time standing guard in the castle or around the compound. Its recommended to only use it for a week before waiting a while and doing it again... for those experienced in drinking the brew so their body is used to the boost of energy given."
"princess can I show him to a room so he can go to sleep?" princess Twilight asked. I could see the concern she had in her eyes for me.
"I'm alright princess Twilight..."
"no your not! You need sleep Hanzo. Everypony does." she stated. "princess?" she pleaded out towards Princess Celestia.
"certainly Twilight... we will be waiting in the throne room for you Twilight. I and my sister do have a few things to discuss without you." princess Twilight gave her a nod with a smile and said thank you before she pulled me away. I followed as best I could but her strength somehow surpassed my own as we soon made it to a room.
"alright Hanzo... please go to sleep and don't come out until you are well rested," she said in a stern tone as I turned to look at her.
"Princess I am alright." as soon as I said that she ripped the helmet off of my head along with the face mask.
"I can see the bags under your eyes Hanzo!" she then said. "please Hanzo... I'm sure Princess Celestia won't mind having a few of the castle guards watch over me until you sleep well."
"that would go against my clan laws princess. I can only entrust the safety of my charge to someone I deem trustworthy and strong enough to protect them. The guards earlier were utterly pathetic in doing their jobs to subdue one person and I took on a team of them easily." she gave an exasperated sigh before looking at me.
"Hanzo... go to bed... that's an order..." I stiffened as my face turned impassive
"yes princess..." I ripped my helmet and face mask from her and walked calmly into the room before closing the door. The last thing I saw before the door closed was guilt in Princess Twilight's eyes. I walked over to the window and looked out over the city and I looked all around before I sighed. Might as well get this over with.
I took off my armor and hid it under the bed and hid my katana, unlatched, under my pillows before I got under the covers and laid down. The feeling of the bed almost making me fall asleep as I closed my eyes and sighed... before I found myself in the capital city.
I knew it was a dream in an instant when I saw the city was empty which was impossible with the time of day it currently was. That and the fact both the moon and the sun were high in the sky equal with one another. I began to walk around and reminisce about my old memories of walking around the capital whenever my clan was requested to come here. Memories of helping orphans and bringing them into the clan as well as assisting with minor things. I felt the use of magic all around me as I looked around until a flash caught my attention coming from the moon. Looking up I saw a figure flying down and my eyes widened when I realized who it was. "Princess Luna!" I yelled in surprise as she landed near me. "may I ask how you are here?" she raised an eyebrow.
"you believe me to be real?" she asked.
"yes, princess. I've been training my new found ability to sense the use of magic. I felt the magic when you entered my dream." she smiled. "I am surprised to see you also have the ability to enter dreams princess."
"it has always been our duty to watch over our subjects and give them a good nights sleep by vanquishing the nightmares they had. Although for our banishment for a thousand years I had a lot to catch up on," she said as I remembered learning from Twilight that alicorns were immortal or at least believed to be partially immortal. Can be killed by outside means but not natural means.
"understandable princess." she nodded as she looked around the dream city around us.
"your dream is... very empty..." I gave a chuckle.
"if you call the capital city of my lord and lady empty princess then you must be mistaken... most of my dreams are like this... it allows me to remember all of my past memories be them either good or bad. But I always seem to forget what I remembered when I woke up but I do know the guise of whats happening at least." I told her as a copy of me and two of my clan members phased through us and were running down the street. I watched as the three of us tackled a criminal to the stone street before arresting him. "may I ask why you aren't with Princess Celestia and Princess Twilight, Princess Luna?"
"I wished to make sure you actually fell asleep at the request of Twilight Sparkle." I nodded.
"Did she happen to ask about getting guards to watch over her until I have awoken? It will be hard to sleep easy once I know she is safe at least a little."
"you do not trust the royal guard?" she asked narrowing her eyes.
"I trust them as easily as they beat me at the gala... excuse my rudeness princess but its a clan custom to entrust my charge to someone else I can trust... and with the fact I believe they heard me say I was to only follow princess Twilight's orders they still followed the orders of Prince Blueblood."
"they would have been punished had they not." she then said narrowing her eyes.
"then that is why I cannot trust them..." I simply said. "again I ask you forgive my rudeness princess but I have seen castle guards always try to get revenge against my clan when they could. I could see some disdain in their eyes when they were attempting to take me down." I spoke up towards Princess Luna.
"I see your point Sir Hanzo... may I also ask something?"
"I am inclined to always agree, princess." she smiled but her eyes held sadness.
"do you happen to know how you gained your resistance to magic?"
"no princess I do not. The only thing that I can truly believe could have happened is that my body adjusted to the magic in the air giving me my resistance."
"that would still explain how you are still greatly affected by spells of element origin." I nodded as she saw the logic in my words. "but now I wonder how I myself was able to use magic to get in. if your magic resistance proved true then I would have had to put at least some effort into getting into your dream."
"excuse my remark... but I am in a world of magic... there are still a lot of things I don't understand!" I said in a small annoyed tone.
"that is true."
"so how long have I been asleep if I may ask princess?"
"approximately a few hours if my magic has done its work." she then said. Understandable since I am currently in a dream and dreams just seem to change the way your mind thinks about time. I jumped when I saw Princess Luna fading as she looked surprised.
"my sister must need me for something. I shall see you again Sir Hanzo." I nodded as she fulled faded away as I looked back around the dream I was in. memories once again filled my vision as I watched myself appear everywhere with different things happening.
I don't know how long I have been inside of the dream but if I took into account the time I first came into when I asked princess Luna how long I have been asleep... I would have had to of been asleep for at least a full day surprisingly. Well not really surprising knowing the drawbacks of using the brew. I began to cough as I was confused. Why would I be coughing? I coughed once more as the world around me began to break down... and I jolted awake seeing a very dark pink mist coming in through the door.
Why can't at least a few days go by without incident?