Perspective: Damian

I slowly came to and found myself laying in a bed with a hospital gown on.... why am I clothed? My vision was blurry at first but came back to me as I turned my head and saw in front of me a yellow flank with a black tail that has a white line going through it, and a cutey mark of what appears to be an archery target. It was hard to tell because her wing was covering a good part of it. She has wings that seemed to better suit a griffin, they stretched out to her flank and seemed to wrap on her back a bit. My eyes were immediately drawn to her flank, following the outline of her well toned curves as she shifts side to side. I admired her flank some more before I fully realized what I was doing and looked away as I started to blush. I turned my head away from her and began making noises as if I had just woken up.

She turned to me as I looked back to her. She had large beautiful green eyes. We stared into each others eyes for what felt like hours until she began to open her mouth. She was about to say something until somepony kicked open the door which made her jump around. It seemed to be some dark brown colt who was in a hurry "CC we got a problem in sector G" She nodded and followed after him. Ok.... so am I in a hospital or something else now? And I wonder if I'll get to see her again, what did he say her name was? Was it CC? I shrugged and got out of the bed to start inspecting the room. It had a bed, a small table next to the bed that had my satchel on it, and a large mirror. What was odd was that the room had no windows so the only light was coming from a small gem on the roof. I took off my hospital gown, put on my satchel, and looked myself over in the mirror, I was fine, not a single cut or bruise, even my leg was better. There was one new thing that put a big smile on my face. I got my cutie mark! I stared at it in the mirror, it had a black and red spiky bag that looked like it was eating some form of spirit. I get the spirit part, but why does the bag look so similar to the big guy that tried to kill me?..... Wait, what happened to that guy? Last I remember was he knocked me out then I woke up here, how long have I been out?

I kept contemplating these thoughts until I heard a lot of noise going on just outside the door. I stared at the door for a bit before I walked up to it and slowly opened it and walked out only to be ran over by some white blur. We roll for awhile but once we stop I get a good look at his face and it's Hammer. "Hammer? What the hell are you doing here? Where are we?"

"Damian? DAMIAN!" He wrapped me up in a hug so tight I wasn't able to breath. "I woke up and had no idea where I was so I freaked out and went looking for you, then some guards found me so I ran, then I hit you and now your here and we can escape cause I'm still being chased!"

"Can't... breath.."

"Oh, my bad" He let go of me, dropping me to the ground. I stood up and took in a few deep breathes before I started to look around us to see where we were. We were on a catwalk that lead to various rooms that I'm assuming are similar to the one I was in. Behind Hammer the building and walkway continued down, that two ponies were on. Behind me was the same except I could see the stairs leading down, just unfortunately for us two more ponies were coming up. To our right was a big open area. There were a few dummies set about, a circle marked in the ground for what I assume some sparring was, and a number of weapon racks containing wooden poles. I picked up Hammer and threw him over the railing "Wait wait, what are you doing? AHHHH!" He screamed as he fell. I jumped over the railing myself and focused my energy into my hooves to soften the landing so it only stung. I turned to see Hammer getting out of an inflatable raft that was being sucked back into his backpack. I looked around to see about twenty ponies had surrounded us. A lot of them looked to be about our age if not a little younger. They all took fighting stances while staring us down.

"Oh, OH? OH HELL NO! You gots yourself a fight now" I grab a wooden staff from a nearby rack and toss it to Hammer. He catches it and takes a goofy looking stance.

"It is on! Imma get all ninja comic book on your flanks" Alright one and a half Vs twenty, I got this.

They all looked to each other in slight confusion then charged at us while screaming. Me and Hammer jumped into the bulk of the group. I dodge slow punches and low kicks countering with blows of my own. With a bit of energy in each hoof I was able to get about a person down per blow. In the middle of the fight I look over to see hammer swinging his stick around hitting a number of ponies in the head. A lot of them just looked like lucky shots, especially since his eyes were closed for the most part. A hoof flew in front of my eyes that made me focus back on my part of the group. I punched that one in the head sending him into the ground then elbow the one behind me. We continue the fight and I come out without being hit while Hammer got punched and kicked at least twice. Once the dust clears I look over to Hammer and smile at him "Hell yeah, they didn't know who they were messing with. You gotta bring a better game if your gonna ponnynap these ponies!" Hammer walked over to me and we bro hoofed.

KLOCK

We hear a loud cough as we look over to see two male ponies both wearing goggles. One was all dark blue, had dark green eyes and a black tail and mane. The other ones body is chartreuse, a puce mane and tail, and maroon eyes. Sadly I only know these colors due to Hammer. The blue one had a cutie mark of a white knife, and the green one had a white sword for his cutie mark. Something tells me these guys will be tougher. They stare us down and snort as they make light blue weapons in their hooves, each one seems to make their cutie mark appear in their hoof. I turn my head to see Hammer getting ready to fight "These guys look easy"

"Riiight, you lead, I got your back buddy"He nods and starts to charge the two swinging his staff wildly. They easily dodge him then both hit him in the back of the head knocking him out. He lasted as long as I kinda expected. Alright, now it's my turn "I'mma take a note from Max and try to be smart." I focus my energy on the ghost I caught and fill the room with a heavy fog. I hide my presence in the fog and focus on the two bright blades in their hooves. I slowly move to the one on the left until I'm behind him. I tackle him to the ground and start to deliver blows to his head. The first few make contact unguarded but he quickly moves his hooves up to block my punches. I continue hammering away at him forgetting about his buddy. His friend creeps up behind me and hits me in the back of the head making my vision turn to black as I fall over.

I wake up in another bed and hospital gown again... seriously why do they keep dressing me? I look around to see Hammer in a bed next to me still asleep. This room is larger, but not by much, and has a dresser along with two tables, one for each bed, and one large mirror in the center of the room. I hear the door open and turn to see the same mare from earlier. She walks up next to me and smiles a bit "Hi, sorry about earlier, I was supposed to greet you when you woke up but I had to take care of a problem."

"That's nice, why are you guys holding me and my friend prisoner?"

"We didn't capture you, we rescued you, our agent was trying to explain that to your friend there but he started to freak out and ran around looking for you, then the two of you practically hospitalized a whole group of our trainees"

"Oh.... sorry about that, Hammer made me think you guys kinda ponynapped us."

"Yeah.. no, we rescued the two of you after that demon attacked Detrot and put Hammer back together after you turned and punched him in the chest, he's lucky he survived that."

"I turned? Turned into what?"

"A demon, Strages to be exact, he was the right hand man of Satan for a few thousand years until he was banished about thirteen years ago."

"Satan is the ruler of hell right?"

"Exactly, as expected of a titulari."

"How do you know that?"

"Well I'm part of the Statera, it's our job to know."

"The what?"

"Statera, we're an old society of people that are able to deal with souls, demons, and angels"

"Ok, that's nice, so what happened to that demon that knocked me out?"

"Well once you turned Strages turned him to ash."

"Wow..." I looked down at the end of my bed trying to process all this new information. So I have a super powerful evil demon inside me, how the hell do I keep it from coming out and killing everypony?

My train of thought was interrupted as Hammer woke up and jumped from his bed and yelled out to her "HOW LONG HAVE WE BEEN ASLEEP?!"

She stared at him with one eye wide in confusion "Two days and three hours"

Hammer fell onto my stomach and sobbed into me "WE MISSED THURSDAY! I WAS GOING TO SHOW YOU SUCH A GOOD TIME!" He continued to put on his best performance of crying into my stomach.

I turn to look at her "He's just j..."

Before I could finish her wings shot up in a wing boner knocking Hammer back into the bed he was in "OH MY GOD YOUR GAY! THAT'S SO AWESOME!"

THE HELL?! I stare at her in disbelief with my mouth hung open. Seriously the first mare I have general interest in thinks I'm gay, I'm going to kill Hammer. I continue staring as Hammer comments from his bed "Woah, your wings are huge, are you part griffin?"

She shook her head "No, I'm not sure who my father is but we know he's not a griffin, and my name is Cecidit Spes, you can just call me CC"

Hammer stood up next to me "Well I'm Hammer and backpack filled me in on the conversation, and he's Damian" He pokes me in the cheek with his hoof.

"Well it was nice to meet you two, you make a cute couple, and I hope you'll let me watch next Thursday"

"Anytime, I'll let you know when we start."

She squealed and hugged the both of us then ran to the door and opened it "Oh and by the way, the guard out here will escort you guys where you need to go." After that she ran out the door.

I continued to stare where she was until Hammer closed my mouth for me "I hate you soooo much"

Hammer smiled and laughed a bit "Hey at least she want's to watch"

"BUT SHE THINKS I'M GAY NOW!"

"Eh, we'll fix that later, grab your bag and let's get going." He started to leave the room as I got out of the bed and took the gown off. I put my bag on then walked out the door and looked around. I'm not sure if we were in the same building but all I could see was a bunch of corridors and doors. I see Hammer standing next to the guard and he nods to me so I begin to follow him down a few corridors. We walk for about ten minutes and the place just feels like a maze of stone hallways. He finally comes to a stop in front of a door and nods for us to go in. We enter the door to find an older pony standing in front of a projection screen. He had a grey buzz cut mane, a scar across his left eye and his body was a dark green.

He stared us down while he marched back and forth in front of the screen. He carried himself in a very militaristic manner. "RECRUITS!" He yelled out at us as we just kinda stared at him confused. He then pointed at the two of us "I SHALL REPHRASE THIS FOR YOU TWO PEA BRAINS! GAY LOVERS! TAKE A SEAT!" We quickly run down and sit in a chair. Holy crap this guy will rip us a new one if we don't listen to him, this sucks. He nods to a pony who turns on the projector that starts up a movie that seems to be made to explain the basics of hell, heaven, and the spiritual plain that exists around all of us. I raise my hoof while sitting up a bit getting the older pony to look down and yell out "YOU GOT A QUESTION FAGGOT?!"

"No sir, it's just that we know all this, my mentor Max explained all this to me and I passed it on to Hammer."

He waved his hoof at the person next to the projector who turned it off as he quickly marched down to us. He put his face right in my as a vein popped out on his neck "Your one of them damn titulari aren't you boy" He spoke softly with an annoyed tone to himself.

I backed my face away from his as far as I could as I nodded slightly "Yes sir."

He started to scream out as he turned away "DAMN CC! ONLY TELLING ME THESE BASTARDS SEXUAL LIKES RATHER THEN THE INFORMATION THAT I NEED!" He storms out of the room cursing to himself as he exits through a door in the back. Me and Hammer look at each other then shrug. The door we entered in opens as the guard from earlier motions for us to follow him again. We followed him through the halls yet again, only this time as we got closer to our destination the more guards we came across. We finally came to a room that had wall to wall guards, I swear some of the guards were standing on other guards. I guess this guy really likes his protection. Two guards standing by the door look at the guard who escorted us here and nod at him. He trots off as we step towards the door. The pony to the right of the door put his horn in a hole while the pony to the left placed his wing on a glass screen. Some lights shined on each part then the door in front of us and a few behind that one opened up. We walked through the hallway of doors into a big room. The room was rather large and had a desk placed in front of a window.

To the left is a couch placed against the wall with a lamp next to it. To the right was a rather large bookshelf filled to the brim. On the desk were various papers and files. The chair behind the desk swung around to reveal a rather tall white earth pony with a blue main, red eyes, and glasses look at us from across the room "How are you gentlemen... HAMMER?! What the hell are you doing here?"

"BONZU!" Hammer yelled excitedly as he ran towards this colt and dived at him. Bonzu ducked which sent hammer flying over him and through the window.

SPROING

Hammer flew back into the room with a big smile on his face. Bonzu looked over his shoulder and out the window "Giant trampoline, nice."

"Yea, backpack loves me."

"I know, she tends to love the youngest."

"You're just jealous."

"What ever, so I take it you guys are the new recruits."

I walk closer to the two of them "I take it we really don't have a choice in this."

Bonzu got a big smile on his face "Nope, so welcome to Statera, you two are now official members and will be tasked with taking care of unruly demons, angels, and spirits. We will of course train you to better use your natural abilities and so you may be able to defend yourselves. Good luck out there."

Author's Note: Hey if you like my story I highly recommend you check out my blog, for I'm starting the brony point system, and for those of you who follow man of war don't worry this is tallest approved. Shout out to Tallestbrony and Squishy for being the first to use the brony point system by picking out the colors for the two ponies that knocked out Damian and Hammer, and like always May the Cheese be with you!