Guardian Chap 20

by ~Sunjian54

The Equestrian Guardian

Chap 20

Luna led David into her room where he was instructed to sit on her bed while she climbed into it coughing as she did. David's tears had ceased, but his eyes were still bright red from crying. "It must be something really sad to have made you cry." Luna said laying her head against her pillow. "Yeah… it is pretty sad." He sniffed. "You wanna talk about it?" She said using her magic to hand him a tissue. David wiped his eyes with the tissue and sighed as he moved closer to Luna who had tucked herself into her bed. "Today is the 4 year anniversary of the day my parents died in the car accident. I just realized it as I finished talking to those guards."

Luna got up and slowly drew closer. "I'm so sorry. If you don't want to you don't have too, but could you tell me what happened?" She said as she sat next to him with her blanket over her body so she could keep warm. David dug deep into his heart, struggling to bring the pain back to his mind so he could tell the story. "It was 4 years ago… My dad had just come back from the hospital after getting a new leg." "Your father lost his leg?!" Luna gasped. "Yeah… when he was fighting in the war. He and his platoon were supposed to move ahead of the rest of the unit and scout out this neighborhood. As they got to it… gunfire started coming from every direction. Six of my dad's guys were hit and went down instantly, but my dad moved up and started shooting his pistol into the windows and parts of the houses to give the rest of his men time to get those wounded guys out.

He was just a target at that point… one of the hostiles fired a rocket at him… it took his leg off." David's tears started flowing again, and this time he couldn't make them stop. "They brought him home… the doctor told us that he wouldn't make it… but somehow he pulled through." Luna's eyes began to water but she stopped herself from crying. "After my dad got out of the hospital… we were all gonna go get ice cream to celebrate his recovery. My mom was at the wheel and my dad was in the passenger seat with me in the back of the car. We were almost to the ice cream shop… when this car came out of nowhere… it was coming so fast… my dad saw it and immediately yanked the wheel to turn the car to the right so it would face the other car coming at us from the side. I don't remember much about the crash… all I remember was waking up in the hospital… and the doctor's telling me that I would be okay."

Luna felt like her heart was breaking in two. "I had no idea… I never knew you had endured so much." David shook his head. "After I recovered… I asked the doctor what had happened to my parents… he looked me right in the eye and told me, "You're parents are dead." You're parents are dead… You're parents are dead." He continued saying with the tears cascading down his heartbroken face. "Did it ever occur to that idiot that I was 15? Did it ever occur to him that my parents meant everything to me?" His said as his face began contorting with rage. "Any other doctor would have told me that they tried to save my parents, but NO this guy just said; "There was nothing we could do… You're parents are dead."

Luna could see the anger in David's face, but she could also see the sadness in his heart. "Afterwards I was brought to an adoption agency where I was put up for adoption." He said as his tears stopped falling. "And that's how you ended up with those horrible foster parents right?" Luna added. David nodded as he stood up from the bed and picked up his ocarina from Luna's dresser. "This ocarina… along with my sword, my father's pistol and my mother's necklace are all that's left of them." He slowly lifted the ocarina to his lips and began to play. The music was sad and quiet, not at all like Luna had heard him play before, and as the song continued she felt like she had to do something. Then to her amazement the Guardian armor and blade began glowing and started to bathe her room in bright colors. At first they were colors of blue, purple, and violet, but they soon became bright hues of green and yellow, red and orange, silver and gold. It was then that Luna noticed that David's music style had changed to a more happy melody. The tears were still pouring from his eyes, but they seemed to be tears of happiness.

The colors she realized were reflected by his feelings and emotions. Luna stepped out of her bed and despite not feeling well she began to sing. Her beautiful voice mixed with David's ever changing melody and sent cascades of colors flying through her room. The colors danced and glided throughout her room and mixed to form even more beautiful colors. And as David played he felt a sudden feeling on his shoulder. He turned around as he played and was shocked to see two images that looked exactly like his parents! His father's figure tall and strong even with his prosthetic limb, and his mother's beautiful and slim body next to his father's. Both of the images smiled at him as if to see they were proud of what he was doing, but as he reached out to touch them they vanished, as did the colors when the music stopped. He slowly put the ocarina back on the dresser as Luna approached him.

"Did you see your parents?" She asked quietly. "Yeah… How did you?" He began to ask. "Celestia told me that sometimes if we have dreamed hard enough and what we desire is pure, then that which we seek can sometimes appear when we use magic." She said smiling. David then realized what had happened. He had wanted to see his parents again so much that his magic had escaped through his music and brought them to see him. "Are you feeling better now David?" Luna asked as she once again climbed into her bed. "Yeah… I feel a lot better now." He said as he too sat down on the bed. "That's good, cause you know… I'm feeling a lot better too."

She said as she suddenly began flying through the air in her room. David's heart still ached at the loss of his parents and the sad memories it came with. However as he sat there watching Luna fly in her room and then having her crash land into his lap, made him realize that despite his original family being gone, he still had another family here that would always be there for him. And maybe… he thought. Maybe that's all I need to be happy.

Twilight sat in her room with tears pouring down her eyes. "Why…? Why do I have to leave him?" She said as she looked at a picture of her and David together in the Library. "He's my brother… why are you making me do this Princess?" She cried as she slowly began packing her things and leaving a note on her bed. As she slowly opened the door, she looked back at the room they had just been in the night before. "Goodbye David. I'll miss you." She said to the dark as she shut the door behind her. Next Chapter: Chapter 21 Estimated time remaining: 3 Hours, 15 Minutes