I turned my head to the right to see Prince Shining Armor walking over to me with a smile on his face. "greetings Prince Shining Armor." he gave me a nod as he stopped next to me. I quickly realized he was wearing training clothes. " I did not expect to see you here."

"I'm here to watch over the guards train since I'm here. Want to see if they increased the training regime with what I heard happened. I heard from my sister that you traversed the castle through the chemicals." I could tell he was insinuating something as I noticed the last guard walk out of the room.

"where I come from we had to deal with a criminal that used chemicals to kill. So our face masks were upgraded to where it would only take in what we needed to breathe and filtered the tainted air back out to where it came from. It took a few years before this was made so I lost many of my own allies to him before he was put away."

"why not have him killed?" he asked as he followed me over to one of the few empty armor stands that would fit my armor.

"the emperor and empress despised killing and would do all that they could to prevent anyone from being killing. It was one of the things that made them respected, loved... yet also hated by those affected by these choices." I told him as I started to take off my armor knowing that my clothes underneath were suitable for training.

"I can see why they were against killing as death is only reserved for those who cannot be kept on Tartarus." I stopped unfastening and looked at the prince in confusion. "Tartarus is where the worse of the worse are sent should there be no choice." I gave him a slow nod as I began to unfasten the straps on my armor before soon finishing with what I was doing. I know as soon as we returned to Ponyville I would have to do my laundry so I had clean clothes to wear considering I have had the same clothes for the past few days since the gala.

Once I was done putting my armor on the stand the prince proceeded to wave his hand over my armor as it glowed purple. I looked at the prince once more in confusion as he smiled. "there's a spell made to prevent armor being stolen for pranks or it being moved around on accident. Its taught to all the unicorn guards so I figured you would appreciate it."

"I thank you Prince Shining Armor." he nodded as he eyed my missing arm.

"are you sure you will be able to train well without your arm?" he then asked.

"may I remind you Prince Shining Armor that I had protected your sister when I first came to this world with only a single arm." he gave me a small chuckle.

"Touche. I'm glad to hear you speaking your mind more."

"I would not be... if your sister did not basically order me to speak out more." he gave another chuckle as I followed him out into the large yard. "may I ask just why I never walked past any guards on patrol?"

"Princess Celestia has ordered all of the day guards to the training yards. No guard was allowed to continue duties so everypony in the day guard is forced to come." I gave a small sigh as I brought my hand to my face. "I'm guessing you were told that my sis was going to be guarded?"

"I have learned Prince Shining Armor to now never trust the word of Princess Celestia..." his eyes narrowed for the moment I barely noticed as I looked out over the yard to see guards running and flying, lifting weights, and practicing magic. I followed the prince over to the weights as he grabbed a few of them and I grabbed one I was used to and began to use it. I noticed I was watched by a few guards and could see some pity in some of their eyes.

Soon though I noticed out of the corner of my eye the princesses all stood at the top of a balcony that looked over the entire yard. They were looking away from where the prince and I were and I found myself staring. "how about we spar?" he then asked me as I looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "there should be some training armor that fits your size." he then spoke up as he walked over to a row of what appeared to be wooden armor. I put the weight I was using back to where I got it from and followed him over there. He soon found an armor for me and began to put it on me without asking as I gave a small sigh. After the armor was on both of us he brought me over to a wall with more weapons. "each of them is enchanted to weigh the same as the weapons they were made to look like." I looked over all the weapons as he picked up two spears. I continued to look over them until I grabbed the weapon that resembled my katana the most... the simple sword. It was shorter than my katana and weighed heavier but it would have to do.

Following the prince, I walked over into an empty white square as he got on one side. I gave my wooden weapon a few test swings and found my usual fighting style in quick strikes would be worthless to me in this fight. I would have to trust my instincts in this fight. "hope your ready Hanzo! Let's see what makes you my sisters personal guard!" he held both spears at his side as he proceeded to charge me. Quickly bringing my weapon up in a modified one armed Te Ura Gasumi stance used with katana's I waited before I tightened my hold on the hilt and spun to my right doing a full 360 as the momentum from my spin carried into my weapon as he quickly brought both spears up on his right side as both of the weapons collided with one another as he skid a few feet to the right but skid his wooden spear shafts along my weapon as he jumped in front of me and hit me in the chin with his armored knee. Dropping my weapon as he did so I grabbed his shoulder and threw him behind me as I fell backwards.

I did a back roll onto my feet and quickly turned around to find him jumping at me with a hoof pointed at me I grabbed his leg and brought his body over my head as I slammed him into the ground. I quickly grabbed my own weapon before I leaped onto his stunned form and held him down with my feet on his back and brought my weapon to his neck. He stopped moving for a moment before his body twisted to the side surprising me as he caught me off balance.

Falling onto my side he got up and tried to get me like I did him but I rolled out of the way and kicked his legs out from under him. He fell to the ground as I got to my feet and he did as well. He got into a combat stance and quickly charged me as I stomped down on the weapon as it went flipping through the air. Quickly grabbing it by the hilt with my trained reflexes in a reverse stance I leaped to my right as I spun catching him in the stomach with my weapon after he leaped at me. As I landed back on my feet my eyes widened seeing his armor was now covered in red where the weapon hit him. He chuckled as he saw my surprised expression. "the weapons have red paint in them that comes out in a clean hit with the armor. Doesn't come out when it hits the weapons." he said as he looked at what I did to him more closely and gave a small whistle. "well I can see how you were a guard in your world. You got some good reflexes."

I gave him a small nod as the paint disappeared from his armor as he approached me. "I'm glad you are the one protecting my sister."

"I thank you for your praise Prince Shining Armor." he nodded.

"want to go again?" he then asked as I calmly shook my head. "very well. I'm going to go see what Cadance is up to now. I don't see her up there anymore with the princesses... in fact, Twilight just left them as well." I looked up to find he was right. Only Princess Celestia and Princess Luna remained up to their and I could see that Princess Celestia was watching me. I looked away as I watched Prince Shining Armor walk away and back over to the training armor stands. I followed after him after grabbing the weapons and put them away first before I began to take off my armor with the assistance of the prince. Thanking him he smiled and gave me a small nod. " I know that things are tense between you and Princess Celestia... but do try and forgive her... she cares greatly for my sister as if she was her own daughter. Just take my advice and not anger her."

"I will do my best Prince Shining Armor... the only problems we will have is when her choices affect the clan laws I was raised with."

"I have been meaning to ask... why do you stick with your clan laws?" I gave him a look of confusion as he finished putting the armor back onto the stands. "you are in a new world and you are protecting my little sister. So why follow them?"

"because I failed my duty in my world." he looked surprised as I spoke. "my clan's laws weren't made to restrain us at all. They were made to help guide us as we did our civic duty. There are very few clan laws that interfere with our everyday life." I told him as I remembered all the clan laws in my clan.

"can I ask what one is?"

"do not talk about clan laws with those outside of the clan..."

"..."

"..."

"fair enough."