Equestrian Heroes

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Naruto x Rarity x Twilight x Fluttershy x Applejack x Pinkie Pie x Rainbow Dash x Ditzy x Luna x ? x ?

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For Normal Speech

Inner thoughts, Text read, Italics used to represent characters speaking in different language.

Demonic rage, Demonic characters, Kurama Speak

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Story Start

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Despite her attempts to hide her glee Princess Luna's mask of elegance and poise could be seen through if one had a skilled enough eye they could see the excitement she was trying to contain.

Coming to a stop in the main lobby of the medical facility Luna came across a mare with soft snow white fur and mauve color mane in a nurse's uniform waiting for her.

"YOUR PRINCESS-" Luna quickly caught herself, lowering her voice and assuming a more tolerable level. In her anticipation she accidentally slipped into the royal Canterlot voice.

"N-N-Nurse Patches, your Highness," the pony stammered. "I was sent here to escort you." Recovering from the force of the royal's greeting.

Luna nodded. "Very well, lead the way."

The hospital had been one of the first buildings to go through reconstruction being one of the most vital of facility. The once drab and almost lifeless interior had been replaced with new furniture.

Furniture financed and paid for Luna herself there was no need for worry about bits being scrapped off the top to by the administration.

Everything was in pristine condition, freshly washed, waxed, and refilled with the latest in medical equipment.

The two stopped short of the door, the nurse pony looking more than a little nervous. "Are you ready, your Highness?"

Luna's face was impressively impassive as it did not betray the growing fear and concern welling up inside of her. While dealing with ponies had gotten better in time conversing with children was a whole other matter together than adults. They were probably a mix of fearful she would to gobble them up, and the other half sad that she wasn't her sister.

"The children are already waiting."

"So what is the common procedure?" The princess wondered.

"Well the way things go with our usual guest speakers is the following: you speak to the children for a while, get to know them better, then read from a selection of our donated books."

Luna hummed in response but said nothing.

And with that, the pony pushed against both doors, revealing dozens of tiny little eyes, all of them focused on the alicorn. There were ponies from all three races, although, like most things in Canterlot, a majority were unicorns. Standing next to the doors were a collection of reporters from the various newspapers, from the Equestria Daily to the Manehatten Times, and even a reporter from the Hoofington Post.

Nurse Patches cleared her throat before continuing. "My little ponies, we have a very special guest today. Please give a warm round of applause to…Princess Luna!"

The room exploded into a cacophony of half-hearted claps, save for the ponies who couldn't use their arms or were too weak to make any real noise.

This was...this was going to be interesting.

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"Naruto!"

Naruto found himself ambushed and hugged by his ever cheerful mare Ditzy Doo. Her bag of mail to deliver remained dutifully slung on her torso as she fluttered in the air, her uniform clinging nicely to her person

"Someone is in a good mood today." He said as he leaned over and pressed a kiss on the bridge of her nose causing it to wiggle a bit. He held her tightly against his chest, and after a couple of seconds the gray pegasus separated from him , looking up at him with her trademark gaze.

"I'm just excited about tonight." she replied, her wings ruffling just a bit in excitement. "It's been so long since I've traveled to a new place."

"I'm looking forward to it as well." he said as he beamed at her.

Spending time with his ladies was one of the greatest joys Naruto got out of his life.

Talking about the similarities and differences of magic and chakra as well as training. Those were activities he enjoyed doing with Twilight as Twilight was a knowledge sponge who had a sheer joy of learning.

Baking things and party planning with Pinkie. An energetic and light hearted experience that could easily bring a smile to anypony's face.

Sparring with and going fast with Rainbow Dash. Nothing got the blood pumping like athletics.

Spending quite and peaceful evening with Rarity or going out and collecting Gems. There was always a sense of serenity when he was with her.

There was also doing a hard day's work with Applejack. Taking a break and enjoying a nice long glass of lemonade and resting on the farmland.

One of the most pleasant and joyful experiences was interacting with all the critters of the world. One would be hard pressed to find a bigger sweetheart than Fluttershy.

Exchanging their cultural knowledge and making brews with Zecora was a tantalizing experience.

Sharing their burdens as rulers. Looking beyond their pasts. A bond of trust and love that developed into one of his most heartfelt bonds. Those moments with Luna would always be precious. To a similar degree one could make the argument he held a similar bond with Celestia.

Oh and Trixie. Fun and energetic Trixie who was a blast to interact with.

And finally Ditzy Doo. His cherished peace of normalcy that was a dear friend who represented a sense of home and family.

"How's work been treating you. With all the new arrivals I heard its been packed." He noted as Ditzy just grimaced. The two continued their journey around the developing city as soft chatter of conversation went on.

"Work is fine, just busy busy busy. I wonder what everypony would have done if they moved here and there wasn't enough dwelling? " She let out a soft hum as he reached over and gently grazed his fingertips against her wings. "It wouldn't be possible if it wasn't for you. You're always having clones, like hundreds of them everywhere. Its crazy!" She exclaimed with an excited flutter as Naruto fought back the urge to break out in laughter.

"Yeah well, I had been working on the theory of longer lasting solid clones for decades. Its only thanks to my earth pony magic and Twilight's teachings that came up with a way to imbue them so their solid enough to last long periods of time and distances. Unfortunately I can't make anymore then a dozen or so at the most for battle applications."

"I'd think you put our armies out of business if that was the case." She deadpanned.

"Trust me, I am well aware on the repercussions of being careless with such power." He assured her as they continued their walk making the most of their time until Ditzy's break was over.

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In the shadows of a decaying city was that of a massive Capra. This creature, one of the embodiments of evil was that of the Goat Necromancer and sworn enemy of all things good, Grogar. The dark Glacious Blue ruler let out a quiet growl as circled the long, ornately carved table that was laid out with platters of wilting vegetables and mildewed bread. Sitting and watching him pace was his minion Bray. The gangly donkey looked somewhat nervous with his master's restlessness, but was more or less preoccupied with the browned onion he was gnawing on.

Grogar thought about his most recent attack on Equestria five centuries ago, which had been so long ago that it seemed more like a dream. It had been only one of the many events in his life that he considered to be failures. With the news of Luna's disappearance he had thought he had finally had a chance. With accursed battle goddess of the moon out of the way the chances to overthrow Equestria should have been the highest its ever been.

But no. Celestia had proven even alone a force to be reckon with. He had several opportunities to reach his goal, but each time was met with failure as it somehow slipped out of his iron grasp at the last moment.

"Bray? Have all my efforts been for nothing? Times like this I had wish those damned Alicorns destroyed me instead of imprisoning me!"

"Ooh! Master don't say that!"

he thought aloud. Bray, being somewhat of a sycophant, took fear in hearing his only source of praise utter a death wish, though it only a mild fear as Grogar often made these sort of comments.

To prevent his complete banishment all those years ago he used a curse that could not stop but alter the terms of his banishment. The domain of dread they were in, anchoring his city to Equestria so that it would return from the shadow realm at regular intervals. Something one of his spies had picked up from the Crystal Empire. If not for his pride and utter contempt for equines at the time an alliance with Sombra would have proven beneficial as he was a Equine who knew his way around magic.

A lesson he learned too late.

Now he was trapped in an eternal losing war. "It is true! I could not overcome Celestia alone and surely by now she had lead some of her foolish sycophants down the path of ascension to have useful weapons to aim at me in preparation for my latest return."

"Why don't we do something tomorrow to take your mind off of things? We can blast some Troggles from the top of the tower."

"I'm tired of killing Troggles," Grogar grunted, "I've been killing them most of my life." Stealing and enslaving the blasted creatures from Lady Bane had been one of his biggest regrets. Stupid creatures often parroting back what was said to them.

"I never thought I'd see the day where Grogar the Soverign of Death would give up."

The ghostly wisp of a Draconquus appeared before him.

"To think Lord Discord himself would grace me with his presence." The Necromancer mocked the spirit. "Have you come to lend me aid you've neglected to done so for many Millennia? Have you managed to finally free yourself from your own imprisonment?" Learning that his old associate Discord had been sealed while a shock, was not unwelcome to the Goat King. Just one less threat out of his way to conquest. As far as Grogar was concerned the only threats were the Goddess of Earth, Sun, Moon, God of Chaos, and Lord Tirek. Any other opponent he could out power or out think.

"And to think I've come all this way to help you out." Strife of course had to be cautious of his identity. He needed to find a way to get the necromancer on his side before revealing anything akin to a weakness.

Grogar contemplated the offer. "Perhaps the two of us together will be more than enough for one Alicorn."

"I'm afraid my dear Sovereign there is a snag in your thought process. Not only has Princess Luna returned, but a new princess by the name of Cadance has ascended as well as the creation of seven bearers holding the power that has led to my current state of being."

Grogar's blood red eyes flared with content as the makings of a headache could be seen on his expression. "As always there seems to be an annoying wrinkle in the path of my conquest, but then..." the necromancer's eyes trained on the spirit. "You have a plan?"

"Indeed my dear Sovereign. We're going to be uniting against the still existing enemies of Equestria and we shall dispose of them once we have Equestria on its last legs."

"Curious, and who do you plan on recruiting?" Grogar could not help his curiosity. The repeated humiliation of defeat after defeat had left the prideful King more willing to negotiate.

The specter grinned and answered, "All of them!"

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Pre-written books?

Pah.

Such a thing was not for the princess of the night. She was princess of the night. Bed time stories was just one of the many things under her domain.

She knew all the while she was telling the story that the adults were torn between wanting to go into less intense subject matter and fear of execution or imprisonment for interrupting the ruler.

"..and with that the dark specter whispered how it would never be just a memory. That...that was the end of our first confrontation with the Nightmare before I returned."

For many weeks now the two rulers had debated if enough time had passed to finally reveal the full truth of that fateful night of her return. Much of the incident was never fully disclosed for security reasons, but with the Nightmare leaders either fleeing or executed with treason and the Nightmare finally neutralized much of the classified information of that night in regards to the events was finally beginning to leak out.

While not getting into the nitty gritty details Luna wanted to start letting her citizens decide for themselves their stance with her by finally explaining her connection with Nightmare Moon.

No progress could ever be gained if there was no disclosure.

The foals in the room clapped and gave as much applause as they could, while the journalists in the back scribbled down notes with their hands and own magic. It was obvious that those particular journalists were excited beyond all belief.

A full on account of the events from that night from Luna's perspective.

Hell it was practically a career changer for some of them.

Luna shot a glance at the clock. The morning was almost over, she had to get ready for yet another round of appointments all afternoon, not to mention she had to finally start on Midnight's lessons.

She gave a nod to the waiting nurse on the other side of the room, who quickly returned the same gesture.

"I'm sorry, my little ponies," Luna said, "but I'm afraid I have to be going." The room erupted into a groan of disappointment. "I understand, but there is still a lot of royal business I have to take care of. "

"B-But you can come again, right?" asked one of the children.

"Yeah we want to hear more about the E-Elements!"

"Yeah tell us more cool stories sometime!"

"We want to hear more stories next time!"

"Princess you're so cool!"

"I cannot promise the next time I come back, but I will try as soon as possible. I promise on the moon itself my little ponies."

And with that, as well as a few more well wishes and goodbyes, Luna's brief morning adventure came to an end. Unknown to Luna at the time this would be the first step to finally improving her reputation to the masses by large.

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