When Luna welcomed Shadowmere all of the mane six bowed to both princesses but Shadowmere refused to bow no matter how many times Twilight motioned for him to bow the only two people he would bow to are both Daedric Princes Sithis and the Night Mother, after a while Celestia said "You may rise."
Luna than addressed Shadowmere "We have heard a lot about you Shadowmere, We are curious as to where you hail from since there's not much violence around here We have heard about your encounter with the griffon Gilda?"

Shadowmere kept his neutral look he wasn't worried about them knowing about him he then voiced a question "And how is it that you two gathered such info on me Luna and Celestia you didn't have someone watching me I would have noticed?"

One of the near guards snapped and said "that's Princess Luna and Princess Celestia to you!"

Shadowmere shifted his gaze to the guard and then said in a some what cold tone "I will call them what they want me to call them if they want me to call them princess they will voice it and you better not talk to me in such an ordering matter again."

Shadowmere than shifted his eyes back on the princesses and asked "I never did ask but why did you summon me here?"

Celestia answered "Me and my sister summoned you here because we got word that you were about to kill a griffon in ponyville had dash not stepped in
Shadowmere responded "She would have deserved death she attacked somepony that wasn't doing anything wrong in my opinion she was nothing more than a bandit that needed death."

"Nobody deserves death no matter the crime." Celestia responded

Shadowmere merely scoffed at this and said "If you don't kill to protect your subjects then how are you of any help at all I mean they could kill another and you would just slap them on the hoof for what they did they deserve death is what I think leaving them alive will let them cause more trouble for others and you just let them run off for Sithis sake!"

All of the mane six were yelling at Shadowmere for raising his voice at the princess most of them asking who he thought he was, even some of the guards Raised there weapons towards Shadowmere then Shadowmere couldn't take it anymore and shouted "Shut up!"

They all went quite and then Luna asked "When you were shouting at us you said for Sithis sake who exactly is this Sithis?"

Shadowmere knew he messed up by mentioning Sithis so he said "Sithis is a Daedric Prince or in your case a god."

"And what exactly is he a god of?" Questioned Celestia also curious

"Death." Responded Shadowmere

Both princesses became a little cautious about Shadowmere and requested the guards to give Shadowmere and the Mane six a room to be able to stay for the night although it wasn't late Celestia and Luna wanted to keep an eye on Shadowmere for the day to see what he does in his spare time the guards lead Shadowmere and the Mane six to there rooms luckily Shadowmere got a room to himself.

Shadowmere decided to explore the castle a little and get his bearings of the castle.
Shadowmere was wondering the castle when he noticed the guard barracks he wondered if they had any training dummies or a sparring ring to test his abilities a little bit he walked right into the barracks and noticed all the guards stopped what they were doing to look at him a few through glares at him since they knew he yelled at the princesses.

Shadowmere ignored the stares he was getting and noticed they indeed had a sparing ring he grinned knowing he would be able to test his abilities on another pony instead of a dummy since it wouldn't fight back Shadowmere walked right into the sparing ring and noticed that some of the ones that were glaring got evil smiles on there faces thinking about sparing him one of the guards decided to spar with him the guard was wearing a darker set of armor than the other guards his coat was a light grey color and his mane was a purplish color he also had a pair of bat wings it kind of reminded Shadowmere of Vampire's from his world only difference being that his eyes were a hazel color and also the fact he didn't have a pair of fangs.(if you want a visual of what the guard looks like just search Luna's night guard on Google images.)

The guard walked up to him and smiled at him it was a friendly smile unlike some of them he put his hoof out for a hoof shake Shadowmere accepted the friendly gesture and shook hooves with him the guard then said "my names Shadow Runner i'm one of the night guard, whats your name?"

"names Shadowmere." Shadowmere replied

"Well its nice to meet you Shadowmere. Are you here to spar?" asked Shadow Runner

"That I am." Shadowmere responded

"Well lets get started." Shadow Runner said

They spared for a couple hours and Shadowmere was the winner most of the times Shadow Runner beat him a couple times but over all Shadowmere won the spar.

"I can't spar any more it's getting late and my shift will be starting soon maybe we can spar again sometime." Shadow Runner said
"Yea maybe." Shadowmere responded

Shadowmere and Shadow Runner became quick friends while sparing and knew that they would probably end up sparing again Shadowmere went ahead back to his room and went to bed not realizing yet that the entire time he was sparing with Shadow Runner that the princesses were having a guard watch them spar and to inform them of all his activities and that he would be visited in his dreams that night.

TO BE CONTINUED