The rest of the day was just a cycle of hugs, sex and talking. Was a pretty great end to the day despite the events that lead up to this. I ate round Dash's and we just stayed in until the evening, only getting out of bed for food and drink. There wasn't much one can really do in Equestria, no TV or video games or whatever so down time was a bit boring. But I was with Rainbow Dash and whenever there was a lull in the conversation we just had sex again, I knew I would be sore in the morning and almost regretted it. But it kept my mind off the Diamond Dog fight so I barely complained.
The night wasn't as bad as I expected. I had one major nightmare about the fight and woke up in a cold sweat and what I presumed was the cliche scream that came with waking up from a nightmare. Dash barely stirred, just snuggled up to me more when I lay back down on the bed, I hugged back and got a face full of hair for my efforts. She smelt pretty bad honestly but I expected I wasn't much better, would be showering first thing in the morning.

Turns out I didn't really have a choice, I woke up to a very strange sensation and opened my eyes slowly to see Dash with her mouth enjoying a hearty breakfast of my dick. I didn't complain, fuck did I not complain.

"Mornin'." I muttered, She pulled off, a thick trail of saliva forming.

"Hey Aron, didn't mean to wake you." Dash muttered smiling.

"Honestly Dashie the way you're going I would've been disappointed had you not woken me up." I muttered, Dash smiled and started crawling up my body under her covers, it was cute.

"You don't ever have to leave you know." Dash muttered and kissed my nose, her breath smelt like penis.

"I really wish I could." I muttered back and leant up, she dropped onto my stomach with a thud, looking at me sadly. "But I got people to talk to today I'm sure and the cloud walking spell would run out eventually. I wouldn't feel all that right if we were fucking and I suddenly dropped out of the sky."

"The bed is solid Aron." Dash said, poking at my top slightly.

"Is your bathroom, or dining room?" I asked. Dash just rolled her eyes.

"Alright smart guy." She muttered and I smiled and started stroking her hair. She closed her eyes and rested on my stomach again. "You wanna talk about your scars?" Dash muttered, I flinched slightly and looked down at her. "Your top rolled up whilst you were sleeping. I didn't mean to look." She added sheepishly.

"Fuck sake." I muttered and shut my eyes, laying back.

"I'm sorry Aron!" Dash screamed in a very panicked tone. "I really didn't mean to, I figured if you kept it on it was for good reason." I wanted to be pissed at her but she legitimately sounded upset.

"Shh Dash, don't worry. I was going to talk to you about it, just didn't want to scare you." She sniffed and looked up.

"Yesterday you came to me covered in blood and hurt, don't think much else could scare me." She said, giggling slightly, that caused me to pause. I didn't even think about that, yeah I showered but I was still covered in blood and walking away from a fight that a lot more people didn't.

"Fuck. I am so sorry Dash. That must've been terrifying." I muttered, she hugged me slightly.

"It's alright." She whispered. Fuck.

"Alright I'll tell you about my past a bit." I muttered after a pause, Dash just kept staring at me as I went through my childhood again, I felt like shit as I did and felt like the previous days sexy events were going to waste. Dash said nothing when I was finished but just crawled up closer to me and snuggled up. We were like that for a good long while.

"Thank you for sharing." Dash muttered after a while. I kissed her forehead.

"No problem." I whispered.

"You won't lose me Aron. I'm here for you." She said, I smiled and hugged her tighter, hoping she was telling the truth.

We lay for about an hour before letting go of the hug. Dash slowly got out of bed and stretched really sexily. As I was watching her I noticed something. I could see her, womanhood. Normally walking around Ponyville I couldn't see anything like that but I could see all of it clear as day. I just blamed the fact that Rainbow was probably still horny or something and shrugged it off.

"I'm going to go shower, once you're done we can go meet the day." Dash muttered, I smiled but said nothing and just lay down, finally noticing how badly my body ached and how sore everything was. I felt like shit, my shoulder was hurting a little bit as well. Dash showered quickly and I took much longer, putting the water on a cold temperature and felt my sins wash away. As well as all the sweat and sex fluid.

"You know you could move in if you wanted." Dash muttered casually as I got dressed, I did it in front of her since she'd already seen my scars. She didn't say all that much as I did but flinched a couple times when she looked at my stomach. I basically put dirty clothes on a clean body but would change as soon as I got back to Twilight's. There was still a lot of blood on the top and jeans. I put my sword around my waist and realised something. I made a mental note to bring it up with Diamond later on.

Leaving Dash's place was much easier than entering and I managed to fuck up my ankle landing, since I supposedly the heaviest thing in the universe for Rainbow Dash, we walked back towards Ponyville together in near on silence. We came across a very angry Twilight pretty quickly.

"Where in Tartarus have you two been!" Twilight demanded.

"Dash's place." I muttered.

"Doing?" Twilight asked. I saw Dash instantly blush. I just put my hands out.

"Now Twi, you know that's a loaded question." I replied. Twilight grabbed me with magic and started storming back towards what I really hoped was the library. Dash just followed without a word.

"I have been worried sick about you, come back yesterday after promising no bloodshed and you go off with Rainbow Dash to have-" Twilight stopped herself, it was bad enough she was storming through Ponyville as is, but carrying a paralyzed human and yelling about all sorts of shit wouldn't have done her much good for her reputation or anything. Instead she just shut up and marched me into the library, Spike was in the middle of the room and actually dove off into a corner like he was jumping away from a grenade. Diamond was sitting at the table and jerked his head off towards Spike. There was also an unknown grey Pegasus wearing Canterlot Guard armour sitting with Diamond. I very quickly spotted a crate near the two guards.

"Hey Diamond, how's it going?" I asked, I was floating a bit and was almost at a forty-five degree angle when I asked that. Rainbow walked in behind me and Twilight slammed the door.

"Hey Aron. This is-" Diamond started.

"You went off with Rainbow Dash to have SEX?" Twilight shouted. Spike immediately started laughing and I saw the two guards share a look but said nothing.

"It was to cheer him up!" Dash pleaded.

"You told me you were going to kiss and hug. Innocent stuff." Twilight barked.

"It started off that way..." Dash muttered.

"Ponies were worried about him, we all gathered in the library to comfort Aron." Twilight said. "And he was off having sex!"

"Alright Twilight enough." I muttered.

"I can't believe you two, acting like a bunch of teenagers!" She yelled.

"Twi." I grunted.

"What will I tell the others? Celestia came Aron."

"Twilight!" I shouted. She jumped back, Spike and Dash both flinched too. "Put me down." I shouted. She released the magic holding me up and I dropped to the ground, awkwardly landing on my feet. "it doesn't matter what we did, yes we had a lot of sex. Fucking deal with it." I barked, Twilight flinched again. "I had to take lives yesterday and the last thing I wanted was comfort from a bunch of ponies I vaguely know. I wanted to spend the day with my girlfriend. Which I did. Yeah would've been nice to talk to Diamond, see how he deals with this shit. But fuck it. I can do that now." I added. Then walked over to Diamond and sat down in front of him.

"Aron." He muttered. "This is Spear Wielder, he was hired to be your trainer." Diamond muttered. I looked over to the unicorn who was just glaring at me. Fuck.

"Hello Spear Wielder, sorry about that, I'm not usually an angry person." I muttered.

"That's quite alright, any civilian being thrown into a battle like the one yesterday can 'mess them up' in many different ways. I suggest saying sorry to your friend whilst the anger is still boiling, otherwise it will hit harder later." The guy said, he had a brilliant accent, though I couldn't pin it down, sounded almost English but not quite. I nodded and stood, then walked over to Twilight who was just sitting on her ass staring into space.

"Twi." I muttered, she flinched. I knelt down and hugged her, slowly. She felt tense but after a second loosened up a lot and returned it. "I'm sorry." I added.

"I. I know, I just wanted to comfort you." She muttered. I hugged her tighter.

"I know, maybe tonight. If you can get everyone together again?" I asked, she sniffed slightly and nodded. "Spike make Twilight some food." I ordered, the named dragon stood from wherever the fuck he had dove and walked into the kitchen. I stood slowly and waved a hand through Twilight's hair then turned to Rainbow Dash. "I fucked up didn't I?" I asked. Dash looked at me with an unsure look.

"That was uncalled for Aron." Dash muttered, I felt my heart drop. "That being said after what you told me today and yesterday, i don't blame you. As long as Twilight forgives you..?" Dash added, I turned to Twilight to see her nod and walk into the kitchen after Spike. "Then we are all good."

"Still it goes without saying I feel horrible about that and am sorry, to both of you." Dash nodded and walked forward, then kissed me. I kissed her back and then pulled back quickly.

"I'll catch you later Aron, I presume this guard has something for you." Dash muttered and walked out. That settled I walked back over to the two guards.

"Now you mentioned training?" I asked.

"Yes Aron, please sit." Spear said, pointing a hoof to where Twilight normally sat, bit weird considering I lived here but I didn't question it and just sat. "I was hired by Princess Celestia to oversee training for you in case another call to arms like yesterday."

"Alright, makes sense. First though, I never wanted to be a warrior. But since fate has taken a shit in my hands I'm up for training."

"Of course, I have been debriefed by both Princess Celestia and Sergeant Diamond here. What weapons do you wish to become proficient in?" Spear asked.

"I have a choice?"

"I have been informed you already own a sword but I have skill in most forms of weaponry."

"Alright cool, no offense though but how do you teach me, a bipedal if you're a unicorn?" I asked.

"That's just it Aron, I'm a unicorn, I can summon magical constructs that will look like and act as any enemy you may face on the field, ponies, Changelings, Dogs, I could construct you if you wish to practice against another hue-mayn."

"Human. That's pretty cool. To answer your original question I guess swords and maybe something ranged like a crossbow would be a good start."

"Alright, so it is. What of those devices you got Toyar to produce? Grenades?"

"Fairly easy to master, just pull a bit of metal out and throw. I don't ever want to throw them too far and accuracy is never an issue since it's AoE. Er, Area of Effect. Plus I don't really want to train with them anywhere near civilisation. Last time I tested them the town leader told me off and I left scorch marks all over the ground."

"These things sound deadly, would love to get my hooves on some."

"Ah talk to Toyar, or I suppose Celestia. I'm meant to be going back to my own world and bringing other technology like grenades forward. I won't go into detail but it'll move the technology levels up by hundreds of years."

"Truly amazing."

"Training?" Diamond asked.

"Ah yes yes. Sorry. I usually suggest to novice recruits to train at least once a day for three hours, I have a room in a local hotel but will need to make trips between here and Canterlot a lot so you and Diamond will have to train when I am not here, so I wish to up you to four, maybe five hours a day whilst I am here, breaks on Saturday and three hours whilst I am away."

"That's a fair deal. I haven't been doing much anyway, but if I am called to do something I may need to do it." Like have kinky sex with Rainbow Dash.

"Understood. You're lucky I am as calm as I am, some trainers are very loud and angry, but I find that doesn't get the point across if the recruits are visibly shaking."

"Did not do me any wrong." Diamond muttered.

"Except you're dead inside and hate everything?" I asked. Diamond said nothing. "When will training begin?" I asked after a pause. The unicorn smiled and his horn started glowing a dark brown colour. I saw two wooden one handed swords float up behind the pony.

"Can begin today if you so wish, where is it you tested the grenades?"

"Fairly big, open area with a couple hills not far from town."

"Perfect. Let's begin."

"The first thing you need to know is that sword training doesn't just cover one handed blades, the same as crossbow training won't just cover hunting crossbows. To become a true master you need to know how to use a variety of tools and types of blade. Once you are a master at all you can choose what blade you want, the weight and balance of the sword and the like. There are three kind of swords, a one-hoof, or one-handed, bastard, half-hand or two-handed swords. The blades can alter the sword as well, such as rapiers, sabers and common swords. The most training you will get will be with common swords. Some suggest to train with shields and the like but unless you wish to train with sword and shield I won't bother since no force in Equus really uses shields. Not to say you won't be facing enemies in my training that use shields. The main thing to think about is stance, how you stand is how you fight. Stances vary from fighter to fighter and will take some time for you to find yours.
I will be taking you through different regimes of training from proper delivery of a sword all the way to weight training. I have been told you are not overly strong and thus struggle with actual melees. Some warriors can make do by being weak, they make that up by being fast and staying out of the line of fire long enough to get quick jabs at the enemy. However I wish to train you in being a real warrior and get you at a stage where you can keep allied rouges safe by drawing aggression of enemies away from them and likewise show you how to deal with rouges that aren't quite as friendly. Once your training is complete I will take you to Canterlot where you will forge a sword. We will start with wooden weapons, then blunts and finally real weapons. Do you understand?" We had gotten to the field pretty quickly and he had just started spurting out all this shit out of nowhere.

"Absolutely, seems fair and makes sense to me."

"Excellent. If you could gather a sword that has a good balance for you and then return here." The guy ordered, i nodded and walked over to a line of swords that Diamond had been getting out. All had different blade lengths and grip shapes. I picked one up on the far left and could barely lift it. I gave up pretty quickly, after a couple more attempts I figured the weight was lowered down the line to the left. I picked up another sword that had a similar blade length to Spiritus, it weighed a bit less that my own sword and I dropped it down and grabbed the one on it's right. The blade was much shorter and the weight seemed to be all in the grip which I liked. I gave it a swing around as a test and felt gravity bring the blade down as it should have and nodded to myself. Then walked back over to the trainer, Diamond was standing idly nearby just staring at me.

"Good choice, not as heavy as I was hoping but I wasn't sure if reports about you were exaggerating or not." Spear muttered.

"I have reports?" I asked.

"Everypony has reports." I shrugged.

"Were they exaggerating about my strength?" I asked. The trainer looked me up and down.

"No." He muttered. Well gee thanks. "Get into your fighting pose." He ordered. I tried to do as he said following video game logic, my legs were slightly spread and I put my sword outstretched following my arm and aiming towards the grass. My off hand was closer to my body ready to grab my sword in case of a block and I turned my body slightly to face my instructor.

"Close. Spread your legs more." I did. "Arch you back a bit." I did. "Too much, little less. Good, relax your head more, scan the environment rather than focus on me. Turn your dominant foot to face your sword. Make sure it follows your sword. Bend your offhand more for a faster reaction." I did all that and looked around slightly. "Good. Very good. Now let's see how you deal against a pony." The unicorn muttered and his horn started glowing, a ghostly dark green pony appeared in front of him. It was missing some major features, like a face for one. Just looked like a Pegasus guard, but an Earth Pony. The thing had some strange gas coming off it like it was actually made of gas or cloud or something. A spear saddle suddenly appeared on the ponies back and it crouched down slightly.

"This is the most generic combat pose most ponies take up, making them smaller targets, balancing weight equally and pushing out their weapon as far as possible." Spear explained. I nodded. "Are you ready Aron?" He asked.

"Yes." I answered, the pony lunged at me with determination to kill. I immediately jumped out of the way onto the ground, the rolled up and stood, getting my pose back as I watched the pony before me.

"Arms bent, legs out." The instructor demanded, I did just that as the pony ran at me again, he made no indents on the ground nor made any noise as he ran at me. The spear jabbed out and I side stepped, pushing my sword to my left and parrying the attack. I expected my sword to go straight through the construct but I was thrown back like it was real. "Always disorientating for first timers. You'll get used to it." I glared at my foe and tried to go in for the attack, the pony tried jumping back and I managed to get a slice into the things side, a load of white smoke started pouring from the wound and I rolled back as his spear came at me. I felt it tap me slightly and stood. The construct didn't disappear or the instructor call me out so I presume it wasn't a killing blow and readied myself for another attack. The pony started inching forward, much more carefully now and the white smoke stopped it's intensity. I spun my sword and instantly regretted it, the pony ran forward as I did and I had to really awkwardly block his attack mid spin. I jumped out of the way and rolled onto the ground and back up, only to block another attack, I immediately had to step back as the spear shot out to it's full length, I grabbed onto what was meant to be the wood and pushed down with all my strength, it was just enough to push the pony down slightly and I jumped up and stabbed down. Straight into the skull of the fake pony. Or what I hoped was the skull.
When I pushed down what I saw as my own strength was the construct just letting me push it down, so jumping up and giving the fucker more strength against me he just shot up and flung me into the air, I went straight over the thing's body, my sword flying off wildly across the ground. I hit the dirt, hard. I didn't even register the pony over me with a spear aimed at my face for a few seconds. The construct disappeared without a sound and I slowly stood up. Rolling my shoulders round and reclaiming my sword that was far out of my reach on the ground.

"Well Aron, the only human in Equus and you're dead." Spear muttered when i walked over to him. I looked down slightly. "Ah it's your first training bout, I don't expect you to be a master just yet, you lasted much longer than most though, and got a hit on the construct." He added, I felt a smile slightly. "That being said there were a lot of issues in that fight. You lost your stance a lot and just went into a generic pose like you were waiting for a train. You spent far too long on the ground and despite telling me you are weak you still tried to use strength to win the fight quicker, which was your ultimate downfall."

"Yeah I figured the last bit as soon as he threw me into the air."

"Please don't get sarcastic with me Aron." I put my hands up.

"No no, that wasn't meant to be snide or anything, I honestly figured that i'd fucked up almost as soon as I did it." The trainer paused but eventually nodded.

"Alright, I'm too used to unreliable trainees. Glad you see some mistakes then." He muttered. "Now you have two choices, physical exercise or another bout?"

"Which do you suggest?" I asked.

"Another bout, I will leave some weights with you so you can train with those outside of training whenever you wish to build up muscle mass. I hope they are to your fitting. I also suggest running a lot whenever you are not training."

"Alright that's fair, another bout it is."

"Excellent. Remember, don't roll and dodge onto the ground as much as you do, keep your stance and don't rely on something you simply don't have. Also don't spin your sword like you do whilst in a fight, yes I suggest doing it, it keeps balance incredibly well. But not whilst fighting, you got out of it last time but you might not be so lucky in future fights." I nodded and stepped back into my original spot and took up my stance again. "Legs out Aron." He grunted, I did. He spawned the construct again and equipped it with a spear again. The thing went into the generic stance again. "Ready?" He asked. I nodded. "I need audible confirmation Aron, it activates on your voice command." I looked at him quickly then back to the construct.

"Yes I'm ready." The pony charged at me again and I side stepped quickly and grabbed my hilt with my left hand. Then turned to face the pony and stood in my stance again. I easily blocked one blow of the spear and managed to get another parry on the second, the first was more of a thrust and I had to step back a little. I tried going in for the attack and got another thrust of the spear, I stepped back again and then side stepped. The spear shot up and back down over my head and I raised my sword up to block it, I got a hoof to the stomach for my efforts and fuck did it feel real. Guess I should've dodged that one instead.
I managed to get to the side of it but wasn't close enough to slice my sword out to hit it. The spear thrust out like it had been and instead of jumping back I dived forward and got a slice, deep into the constructs left foreleg. I sprinted forward behind the construct thinking on going in for a side slice too but kept my sword out and focused on getting out of the way for any hoof based attacks. Turns out getting the fuck out of the way because it kicked out with it's back hooves in an attack I wouldn't taken had I tried attacking the pony. The construct turned and had a thick stream of white smoke pouring from it's wound covering the whole front leg. It cleared up pretty quickly though so I could still see it behind the smoke. The construct actually limped forward and jumped up with it's spear shooting out, I couldn't really block that so dived to the left, ending up on the ground for a split second before I spun round and wildly sliced out with my blade, cutting into the side of the construct as it tried to gather itself. I figured I had this fight in the bag for less than a second, trying not to get ahead of myself. The pony limped up slightly and started to walk towards me stupidly slow. I almost went in for the kill but didn't want to get cocky. I gripped my sword and let my left hand fall slightly from the handle, just holding my sword up with on hand. The pony seemed to get bored to being injured and shot it's spear out at me again, I blocked one, two, three attacks and swung my sword in an overhead attack down onto the pony, it brought it's spear back and tried attacking me again, I pulled back my sword from the killing blow I was in and sliced down onto the spear, the thing shot down with my blow and stabbed into the ground, not disturbing the dirt at all. I stepped to the right side of the pony, closest to the spear and cut across the saddle. I barely cut the thing but it did loosen a bit and the spear looked like it was ready to fall off. I stepped back and let the pony try again to attack, like I had planned the spear shot out but aimed to the left and way off course. I ran forward and got another slice into the saddle and cut through the saddle binding and into flesh. I was rewarded by a face full of smoke. The construct seemed to glitch at that, faded in and out of existence a couple times. The thing was going stupidly slow now and I got another couple nicks onto it before it even launched it's weapon at me for a final attack. The saddle just slide off when the construct aimed towards me and the thing vanished before it even fell off fully. The pony, now naked actually paused it's attack, long enough for me to slice through it's throat and killing it. The construct vanished in a cloud of white and I stood in a strange stance, half crouching, sword in the aid and left hand covered my face slightly. I was panting pretty heavily and wanted to stop already, but it had barely been twenty minutes. I stood naturally after a pause and walked over to the trainer.

"That was brilliant, much better attempt. Not many recruits kill it on their second try, so hats off to you Aron. I did spot a couple problems, but did you see any?" Spear asked.

"It was shooting it's spear at me a lot and instead of using that as an advantage to get closer I was pushed back, in a tight fight that wouldn't have ended well. I did spot it and eventually used it for a free hit but not very quickly." I answered.

"Indeed, very good. Anything else?" He asked.

"I feel like I was too defensive, could have gotten away with a lot more hits than I did get, as well as breaking the saddle like that wouldn't be idle in a prolonged fight, since it'll fuck up the blade since in reality a lot of that spear has pieces of metal in it and if I miss it could damage my blade."

"The second point yes. Too defensive not so much. Being defensive is good, you will survive much longer if you are trying to survive, if you get what I mean?" I nodded. "Good. I'd say you wouldn't damage your sword hitting metal anymore than you would in a prolonged fight aiming for the saddle but it is still not idle to exclusively aim for the saddle to disarm a pony. I'll go into more detail as to why when we finish here. I'm now going to spawn a pony that is exclusively defensive so you can learn to break defenses if you come across somepony more defensive than you are. i'll be talking you through a couple rounds and then let you deal with one yourself. After that we can get on with some other exercises." I nodded and stepped back. Panting slightly. "I'll give you a ten minute break after this one, don't want to over exert yourself but at the same time I'll need to get you in better shape." Spear said. I just nodded again and tested the weight of my sword.

Training was long hard and horrible. I really enjoyed it. Spear spawned in a pony unicorn that used magic to block a lot of my attacks as well as genuinely be defensive, I was taught a few tricks as to how to break through defenses, I had a couple more bouts. Some I won, many i lost but after the three hours I had learnt loads and felt genuinely pleased with myself. Pleased I could take lives more efficiently. The fuck was wrong with me.
Spear stayed behind to clear up and Diamond and I started heading back to Twilight's. It was only midday at the time so had plenty of daylight remaining, I figured i'd try and find Rainbow Dash but wanted to get back to the library, shower and change before I did anything like that.

"You did well today Aron." Diamond muttered.

"Oh shit was that praise?" I asked. He rolled his eyes.

"I will take it back."

"Nah I'm joking, thanks dude. Wish I didn't have to train but I guess it's how life will be now."

"Suppose so, Princess Celestia wishes to talk to you when you are ready."

"Fuck really? I really don't want to see her right now. In fact I'd rather avoid it."

"Of course, which is why you were given the when you are ready on the end of that sentence."

"Alright that's fair enough, any news on Luna?"

"Not that I've heard."

"Alright I don't care anyway."

"I am sure she would be charmed to here that." I looked at him quickly but didn't say anything. "So are you going to do it?" He asked after a pause.

"Do it, can cover multiple events Diamond, you'll have to give me a bit more than that." He grunted some profanities that I barely heard.

"Are you going to move in with Rainbow Dash?" He asked after a second to compose himself more.

"How did you know she'd asked?"

"Lyra and Rainbow have been talking a lot whenever you're at training."

"Well we, you stand there and laugh at me whenever I get my ass kicked."

"I do not laugh at you."

"You do it in your head." He had nothing for that. "Cunt. But anyway I was honestly thinking about it, we're in a honest relationship rather than just sex and Rainbow's house is fucking amazing. That being said I'm a human who can't normally walk on clouds and she has to get either Twilight or Rarity to cast magic on me and carry me into her house, if it was on the ground it would solve the carrying but I'd still walk through the floor like it was actual cloud and get soaked or whatever, and I wouldn't ask her to move into a real house for me, neither of us have the income to really support it. Well Dash might but I don't want to rely on her constantly."

"You have all those bits from the dragon horde. And the place is still untouched besides the couple times you have resupplied, a stallion would be rich with all of it."

"Oh yeah shit, well I still have a couple problems with it, mainly I don't think we've been together long enough to move in together, maybe one day I'll bring it up. But for now leeching off Twi's supplies is nice enough." Diamond shrugged but said nothing. "What about you? Not moving into Lyra's any time soon?"

"No, mainly because I could get sent back to Canterlot at any time. Though I am under threats that Lyra will simply move there if I do."

"Ah if you got a house..."

"I stayed in the barracks with most guards, very few have real homes."

"Ah alright, well just move in with Lyra when she goes to Canterlot. I won't need to be guarded forever so you will get sent back to Canterlot one day."

"That is true enough, you are already proving your trust."

"Killing some dogs doesn't really prove anything besides I'm a killer."

"No but being a friendly creature, making a life here in Ponyville and saving a pony from dogs does."

"Well I hate to say it Diamond, but I'll miss you when you're gone."

"You could just travel to Canterlot to see me, or I could come here whenever I am off duty."

"Nah when you go back to Canterlot you'll be dead to me. That's it, poof. No more Diamond."

"I hate you."

"Yeah well you tried to use logic and sense in a joke so go fuck yourself." He laughed slightly and we made our way back to Twilight's in silence.

The rest of the day I spent inside with Diamond and Twilight, Rainbow Dash turned up around three and we just hung around the library talking about all sorts of shit. Then had a hearty meal between us four. Spike ate dry dog food in the corner or something, but wasn't allowed to add marshmallows.

The next day I found myself on a chariot heading into Canterlot with Sunflower and Grumble. I figured I'd have to deal with Celestia at one point and might as well make that one point today. The two hadn't said much when they landed and I found myself lost in thought, I'd put Spiritus on as well as pocketed a grenade or two just in case. Though I doubt I'd ever need my weapons anywhere around Canterlot. It was only when we got above the clouds and about half way to Canterlot that either guard registered me besides the hello they had given when I first boarded.

"So I hear you're one of us now, a fighter." Sunflower said, on the ground she probably would've muttered that but being in the air you had to shout most things, even at the speed we were going wind could be a bitch.

"Not by choice, got called into action and acted. I'm not proud of it and I will always have that blood on my hands." I replied. The sword at my side felt much heavier suddenly. Probably a metaphor.

"it happens, for what it's worth I'm sorry." Sunflower said.

"Not your fault, I really hoped we could get it done without violence. I really hoped I didn't have to be a hero."

"Being a hero can have it's perks."

"That's true, plus the ruler of Equestria gave me a hug straight after and was there for comfort. But there are plenty of cons as well."

"How have you been dealing with all of this?" Grumble asked. I smiled at that.

"First day I went into Ponyville, found my girlfriend and we had unhealthy amounts of sex all day and into the next."

"Sweet Celestia that is hot." Sunflower muttered, her tail flapped a bit and I noticed I could see her womanhood suddenly too. I still wasn't sure if that meant a pony was horny or (and less likely) I could actually see pony sex anatomy now I'd fucked one. As nice as the view was I had a Rainbow Dash at home so looked away almost immediately (after a few seconds, maybe a minute).

"Yeah, plus was given a trainer by the name of Spear Wielder, been doing all sorts of exercises with him."

"Ah I had Spear as my trainer, he is probably one of the best." Grumble said.

"I had Shining Armor, he is alright but it's obvious he wasn't cut out to be the guard captain, but I don't pretend to understand politics." Sunflower said.

"So Shining Armor was made captain due to politics?" I asked.

"Supposedly." They both said.

"Huh alright, a lot of rumours in Equestria, pretty cool."

"Yeah guess so. From an outsider maybe." Grumble muttered, I rolled my eyes. "How is training going?" He asked after a pause.

"I think pretty well, beat the construct on my second attempt, I kill it more than it kills me now but I still have places to improve."

"Ha! You always will. Second attempt you say? I'd love to see you in action." Sunflower replied and giggled to herself.

"Yeah suppose so. It's pretty hard going and I hate the physical exercise but besides anything it gives me something to do during the day." I said, shrugging.

"Besides travelling to Canterlot and having sex?" Sunflower asked.

"I don't have that much sex with Dash. But now I'm comfortable if I was single I'd probably be a slut. Well maybe." Probably not. Sunflower muttered something that I swear sounded like:

"Shame." But I couldn't be sure. The rest of the trip was in a controlled silence. Celestia was actually at the landing platform when we arrived, I got off and thanked the two Pegasi who just smiled and waved me off. I stood in front of the God-Horse with my arms crossed, my sword was pushed forward a bit covering the front of my leg.

"Hello Aron, good to see you again." Celestia said warmly. I paused for a second and nodded.

"Good to see you too." I replied, actually meaning it somewhat.

"Glad you could make it, no Rainbow Dash this time?"

"Nah she was busy with work." I didn't tell her.

"Ah of course. How are you holding up?" She asked, I looked around and saw at least four guards plus Sunflower and Grumble all standing around.

"I'm alright, training and Dash is keeping my thoughts of what I did."

"That's good. If you ever want to talk..."

"I got you I know, loads of ponies are behind me in this, pretty lucky I got dragged to a world where everyone is so fucking friendly."

"...Indeed. Not everypony is friendly but you are still right with being lucky on that regard at least."

"Suppose so, what did you want to talk to me about?" She smiled.

"A couple things, one was to make sure you were holding up, and some other, more private, issues."

"Issues?"

"Well things to bring up, none too horrible but I suspect you won't like the first."

"Well please, lead on, let's see how fucked I am." She snorted a laugh and walked off, two guards on either side of her. She lead me down a corridor and into what looked like a storage room, a couple bird cages were laying around, as well as some sofas and other random pieces of crap that a hoarder house might have. Very odd room.

"Please take a seat, guards leave us." Celestia said, waving a hoof, the two guards walked out without a word. I sat in a pretty big chair that was made for ponies. Celestia looked at me like an idiot and sat on the stool thing she wanted me to sit on. It looked beyond awkward and fucking hilarious.

"We can swap if you want." I suggested, she rolled her eyes and stuck her tongue out slightly.

"So the first thing I wanted to discuss with you was your reward." She said staring at me. I very nearly got up to leave.

"Don't need a reward for murder." I grunted.

"It wasn't murder Aron, I read Diamond's report. There was very few ways to finish that peacefully."

"A few ways are more than what we attempted." I was getting angry and I wasn't sure why.

"You said you were dealing with this fine."

"I am." I snapped. I paused. "I am, but you're talking about rewarding me for killing. I don't want that." I said, much calmer.

"I know, I expected as much, just there was a bounty on this particular group of dogs."

"Yeah I don't want any kind of reward besides friends being close by, I especially don't want any level of mercenary money." She nodded but didn't say anything for a time.

"The second thing is what are your thoughts on training?"

"I'll say the same to you as everyone else. I don't like the fact I am training to be a solider and never will. But the training itself is fun and gives me something to do during the day."

"Alright, would you be up for a bout in Canterlot? A couple guards have asked after you."

"Celestia I started training yesterday, and am late for training today so I could talk to you."

"Fair enough, I personally would've suggested against it had you agreed."

"Who even wants to fight me? I don't have that big of a reputation already do I?"

"Well I discussed with Spear Wielder that he would be training you in front of some guards and they talk to each other, rumours spread."

"Fuck. Alright maybe one day. What about going back to Earth?"

"Yes that, we may have problems with that."

"...Go on."

"The wild magic inside of you is still very much unstable, I have unicorns testing residue magic to see how it can be controlled but I fear if I were to send you back to Earth the magic could spread and push our worlds into a much larger danger than they already are."

"I thought you said you could control it when I came here? What do you mean a bigger danger?"

"The portal between dimensions is still open, I had to pull some of the Equestrian Army out of Tartarus to deal with rifts opening. I don't know if we are in immediate threat but something is keeping our worlds on a course of collision."

"Shit, anyway to stop it? Find out what is fucking over the worlds? I've made a life here Celestia."

"I know you have, I don't wish for you to give it up, just know we are possibly under threat but I have the best mages of our time looking into it."

"Alright, if I worried about everything that could kill me I'd never rest."

"That's the spirit." She said, voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Well with that bomb shell, was there anything else?"

"No, I didn't expect you to want the reward or training so nothing has been set up, just checking."

"You could've done that via letter Sunbutt." She rolled her eyes.

"Yes but I can't physically make sure you are okay, plus I hear you can't read a lot of Equestrian."

"That's true enough, can't read emotion in writing. But seriously, I'm fine. Much better than I expected, bit of anger and a couple nightmares but nothing major."

"Alright Aron, good seeing you again."

"Yeah you too." I said, we both stood up and Celestia trotted over to me and hugged me, hugs with Dash were great yes, she was fluffy and warm. But Celestia's hugs were godly, she was warmer, more comfy, and it just felt right to hug Celestia. It was me who let go, I didn't want to but felt like I'd be more disappointed if I let her let go. I nodded to her and left in silence. She smiled and watched me leave.

Author's Notes:

really liked the training scene as well
i think i like fight scenes