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

Demonic rage, Demonic characters, Kurama Speak

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It was the first day of guard duty for Umbra Malum. He had just finished advanced training the previous day; the hard and rigorous regiments preparing and hardening his body for whatever duty called for. He was also mentally trained, teaching him the basic tactics and wielding techniques for the various weapons available to the Royal Guard should they be needed. As he was a Griffin, he was also given the aerial combat training regiments to teach him how to counter and combat an aerial assault on the castle.

Umbra pushed the door to the barracks open and stepped inside the stout grey building. After checking in at reception and being told he was late, he proceeded to run to the office of the Captain of the Lunar Guard order to be briefed for his duty, nearly colliding with a pony pushing a mail-cart in his hurry. Pushing the office door open, Umbra stepped into the room and saw sitting behind his desk, looking up at him as a small squeak from the door hinges betrayed his entrance.

"You're late," said Naruto said, causing Umbra to visibly tense up. Naruto then looking back to the paperwork on his desk, clearly interrupted in the middle of a task. He lifted hand which had a quill in it to a bottle of ink, before bringing it back down to the paper and signing it.

Umbra observed as Naruto opened and sorted through a nearby folder, seeing his picture paper-clipped to the front. Naruto started reading off his details;

Name: Umbra Malum

Gender: Male

Species: Griffon

Appearance: Skinny, average height for griffons, white feathers with green tips, right eye blue, left eye brown. Sepia fur.

Build: Average.

Cutie Mark: Not Available

Naruto then looked at the new recruit: he indeed had an average build for a soldier - lean but muscular, with his well-trained muscles slightly visible beneath his fur.

Seeing as he wasn't a equine that meant he came without an easily definable talent.

This was just going to be the first of many applicants he was going to have to review. Time to begin the rather long and time devouring process.

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The following morning, the students were gathered along with the councilors that would be managing their groups.

Cheerilee had just finished giving a brief explanation of what was going on and how the students would be put in groups of the teacher's choosing the groups as part of an exercise to help the students grow beyond their normal safe boundaries and develop new bonds and independence.

Cheerilee started announcing the groups to everypony, and each pony would respond once their name was called out, to ensure that everypony was present.

The crusaders all met up and stuck together through the roll call.

"Scootaloo?"

"Here!"

"Nyx?"

"Here!"

A moment of hesitation overcame Cheerilee as she knew the next few days were going to be a test of patience "… Diamond Tiara?"

When children had stopped talking that drew some concern from the adults, seeing as most of them were clueless to the history between the fillies and wonder why all their children suddenly went quiet. The silence didn't last long, as two loud voices soon burst out from the crowd.

"WHAT?!" Diamond Tiara and Scootaloo shrieked in unison, before turning to look at each other with horrified looks on their faces while Nyx's expression deflated a bit. Out of all the ponies to be stuck with.

"No way!" Scootaloo shouted, turning back to her teacher. "Miss Cheerilee why would you put us in the same group?"

"For once, the bla-riff raff!" Diamond Tiara shouted, earning a glare not just from Scootaloo, but from her father, too. She ignored them, however, choosing instead to glare intensely at Cheerilee. "There has been some kind of mistake!"

The spoiled filly's attitude was not that unpredictable. "The teams were designed this way for a reason and they cannot be changed." Cherilee explained, "...now there will be no more discussion on that matter." she ended firmly bringing an end to the filly's objections before they can continue. "Now the adult overlooking this group will be Twilight Sparkle." Nyx pepped up a bit at that announcement.

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Naruto proceeded to interrogate the next recruit that applied for the guard. "Query W. Hooves says here you're a Demolitionist. I have to say the guard welcomes an Explosion expert." Naruto glanced over at the Unicorn. He was massive for a Theastral. Did he had some Earth Pony ancestry? Either way for a theastral breed he was one of the rare horned variety. He definitely didn't look like a typical Theastral, while he did have Haze Grey Fur he had reddish blonde mane and tail with a scar over his left eye and his full height and weight were six foot, four inches respectively and two-hundred and twenty pounds.

"Indeed I am sir. Eight years in service."

He was a rather decorated guard. Having an usually high number of successful rescue attempts against royalty. Being that said royalty was Blueblood didn't mean that anypony had the rights or the grounds to send explosives. Being an annoying or pompous ass is not justifications to be murdered and anyone who believed so was a real sick individual.

Cutie Mark: A Bundle of Lit Dynamite.

The conversation went on for a while as Naruto picked at Query's mind. Once he was satisfied with his questioning it was time to get him sworn in.

"Raise your right hand and repeat after me: I, Query W. Hooves , do swear on my honor as a Lunar guard to defend Princess Luna against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that I take this oath freely and without reservation."

As instructed, he raised his hoof. "I, Query W. Hooves , do swear on my honor as a Lunar guard to defend Princess Luna against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and that I take this oath freely and without reservation."

He continued, "I further swear that I shall be vigilant against all threats, both internal and external, and confront them for her well being and, if necessary, lay down my life without hesitation so that she may live."

Those words were far more serious than the ones prior. The Royal Guard oath was important, but this was the oath of the Lunar Guard. It meant putting your life and survival second to somepony else's.

He raised his voice slightly to repeat, "I further swear that I shall be vigilant against all threats, both internal and external, and confront them for her well being and, if necessary, lay down my life without hesitation so that she may live."

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Cheerilee proceeded to read off the next list.

"… Silver Spoon?" Cheerilee asked, reading off of her register.

"Here."

"Sweetie Belle?"

"I'm here!"

"Pipsqueak?"Cheerilee continued to mark off each student that confirmed they were there.

"Here!"

"And Archer?" The little filly with the archer cutie mark also gave an answer. "Alright the councilor of your group will be Miss Rarity!"

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At that time Naruto had a copy doing interviews for the house guard. The house guard was a subsection of the Lunar Guard were trained heavily in defense, finding poison, and attending to Luna's domestic means.

Granite Enforcer was a transferee from the Solar Guard, an Earth Pony with dark grey eyes with beige mane and tail with white color. Like most Earth Ponies he was of remarkable high height and probably outweighed even Mcintosh nearing Four Hundred pounds.

He was a high school graduate, but he was a moderate fine fighter and had a good head on his shoulders.

The first lesson that anypony had to learn as a royal guard is that even though you spend most of your career training for the worst possible situation, your average day will be far more mundane. Guarding Princess Luna meant remembering two rules: Do not speak unless spoken to and stand no further than four paces away from the princess at all times.

As a house guard you were to stay with her at all times unless formally dismissed. And there was a difference between formally dismissed and ask to merely leave her presence. By leaving her presence you were to give her a wider berth, but not to strove too far in case you were needed.

The applicants and size of the Lunar Guard was still roughly the fifth of the Solar Guard but with each applicant and recruitment campaign that was slowly being reversed.

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Cheerilie listed off another group of Applebloom, Snips, Noi, and Aurora would be under the counsel of Applejack.

And Dinky like the others found herself in another group with her big sister Amethyst as a councilor as well. The only thing stopping the CMC from full on sulking was that their loved ones were there as councilors so the bullying would be limited.

At the very least this trip meant something else besides boring classwork. Surely nothing would go wrong on a simple camping trip right?

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