Frozen in Time

1000 years, it has been over 1000 years since I got started in all of this. You may ask yourself how is it possible for anypony to be around for over one thousand years, and that only the two princesses were that old? I by no means am that old. This still not making any sense? Maybe it would be best if I told my story, otherwise you may be confused and think that this pony has gone crazy.

The land where I am from is in the far north of Equestria, it is a place where non unicorns would be insane to go anywhere near. Being a unicorn in those times had its advantages, while now having a specialty now is for your basic professions like cooking or cleaning. Back then it was far different, you had to protect oneself and that is exactly what I did. If you did not, you most likely would have ended up dead somewhere. It snowed almost constantly and if you were not careful you would die, and your body would most likely never be found.

I was what you could call bizarre, most ponies would love the sun and worship it. Not me, I loved the night. It was one of the most peaceful times for me, that is when the weather was at its calmest. I guess my parents felt the same way, after all my name is Lunar Frost, or maybe its because I was born at night. Oh well I'm starting to tell another story, one that you don't want to hear quite yet. You want to hear how I am over a thousand years old and how I ended up with serving the Princess Luna. Then again if their is no one higher then her, she should be a queen, so I guess Queen Luna would be right. There I go getting off subject, sorry about that. The story without any interruptions begins now, cross my heart hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye. I heard that somewhere forgot where though.

Well I'll begin where I should have and that is when I seen enough of this tired old freezing dump of a land. I wanted to leave and protect the one who brought the beauty that is the night to Equestria. You must realize that up to this point I was still a blank flank and had yet to receive my mark, but I told myself even if it was not my true talent I would still work on trying to protect Luna, even if she had no clue who I was I would enter the royal guard and due what it took to protect the princess. From that point on I trained constantly in both the ways of the mage and of the warrior.

Days passed and those days became weeks, and the weeks became months. I worked constantly on perfecting my craft, and I finally did enough to what could be called a battle mage. I then packed my stuff for the long journey ahead, and it was just in time. I did not notice as i was training seeing as I secluded myself away so I could train by myself, but my homeland had become somewhat of a battle zone. What I seen was something nopony should ever have to go through, I seen brothers and sisters kill each other over food. A nasty sight to behold, and something I am glad I got out when I did. Using all of my strength I ran as fast as I could, it was a long and painful journey to get out from there but somehow I did.

My journey led me to where the Everfree Forest currently is, but back then it was nothing like it is today. Back then it was a beautiful sight, but alas that is a story best saved for another time. Though the journey had taken me several weeks, I arrived at my destination. The castle was more beautiful than the one in Canterlot today. I had arrived late one night, and there I seen her for the very first time. Princess Luna, with her royal guard escorting her of course, the guard were not too thrilled when they seen a half exhausted pony show up near the castle. Even though it almost killed me when I gave Princess Luna one of the largest bows ever attempted by any pony. I passed out for a but after that, and was awoken when I was being hauled to the castle to recuperate. When they seen I had awaken they let me down when I insisted that I walk by myself.

That is when I heard it and dashed away, the guards following after me, yelling about how I am showing huge disrespect to the princess and should be banished. Living in seclusion in extremely harsh weather can teach you that even in pain you have to listen and be ready for anything. As I rushed and galloped, I came across a young filly who had ventured too far into a wild beasts territory. Don't ask me what she was out doing venturing into the forest late at night in the first place, maybe she was stargazing, or possibly she wasn't that smart to begin with. But, the next thing I remember I was standing over the body of the beast and the young filly was hiding behind me thanking me for saving her. I guess the princess liked what she saw. because she had promised me to be enrolled into her royal guard, and the next thing I knew I was out again.

This time it really took out of me because when I awoke next it was a few weeks later and I had woken up in the hospital. I was told I was stupid for what I had done. I had been injured pretty badly, the princess could have waited to tell me that about my selfless act I was in the royal guard but she must have knew how badly I was injured and wanted me to fight to survive. What she also should have mentioned was that even though I was told I was in the guard that I still had to go through training to be apart of it. That didn't matter to me though, I went through the training and took every night shift I could. The royal guard didn't have specific divisions for the guard, the royal guard was the royal guard as in the entire royal family. Something my stupid mind didn't think through, but even though I was called an idiot for wanting to work through out the night I didn't care. I always did prefer the night. Even though on my shifts I barely if ever got to see the moon princess, I was happy.

I was shocked when the princess started to change, I didn't see it first hand just what everypony told me. It was quite a shock, I didn't know what to think. The princess always was so kind and loving whenever I saw her, there was no way that it could be true. But before I knew it Princess Celestia had banished her to the moon, and she took up both of the duties of the sun and moon. Life after that became rather boring and mundane. Whenever I looked up at the moon at night and seen the Mare in the Moon, I don't know why but it did not fill me with the same joy it once used to. In fact the moon had filled me with great sadness, it was a few months after Princess Luna had been banished that I took my leave. Princess Luna was the reason I had my cutie mark, if I never had such peace at night with the moon I would have never wanted to enroll in the Royal Guard and I never would have almost died trying to protect the young filly. My cutie mark of an icy shield with an ice sword going through it would never be there.

It was shortly after I left the royal guard that I had began doing some intense research, if Princess Luna would be banished for a 1000 years I wanted to be there when she came back. I wanted to see if there were any spells that could extend a ponies life for an extended period of time. Alas there was nothing that would help, there were some that would at most make a pony live fifty percent longer. Nothing that would help me, but then I came to the conclusion that if extending the life would not work why not halting the age by a magical sleep. The chances seemed small but there was a chance. I found a spell that would cause a pony to fall into a sleep for a predetermined amount of time, granted the longer the sleep the greater chance that friends and loved ones would not be around anymore. I had already thought of that when I was searching for the extending life spells, and I was always solitary so that would not be a problem. I decided that the best place for me to got would be back to my old home in the north.

I was told during my royal guard service days that nothing was around there anymore, and that everyone killed each other. It hurt then that my parents and family were all gone at the time, but when they had gone insane along with everypony there that they died then. When I made it back I went to the make shift grave site I made for them. Princess Celestia had decided to stop the near constant snow and I was able to find the grave sites. Before I cast the spell I went to lay down by the gravestones, when the spell was cast it took immense magical power but it was done, I was pretty much encased in pure ice. The ground also began to surround me and I drifted peacefully to sleep. Only to awaken when Princess Luna came back.

The next thing I remember is awaking in the morning the ground and ice that surrounded me quaked, when I got out my body was weak and I knew it. What surprised me was that it wasn't a cold snowy wasteland, it was a small town and it was green. There were people cheering saying that Princess Luna had returned and Nightmare moon had been vanquished. I knew where I had to go, to see the princess once more and that her glorious night could be seen again. This time no matter how much it pained me I had to set off not galloping at full speed. As I made my way across Equestria, I found out that there had been some changes in those one thousand years. It was not as small as it used to be and my home was far from the northern part of Equestria. The technology had also greatly improved, what technology there was in my time. After many beautiful nights of traveling I made it to a small town bordering the Everfree Forrest known as Ponyville. Everything had changed, the Everfree Forrest was now a dangerous place to be and that the castle was no longer there. The castle had moved to a city called Canterlot, I decided to stay in Ponyville for a while to find out as much as I could about this new world. Keeping to myself nopony even paid attention to me, which in my case was wise. If I told them that I was apart of the royal guard one thousand years in the past, they would lock me away and I would never be able to see the moon princess again. I must be patient if I want anything similar to my old life again.

The time had passed and I was just about ready to try and obtain my old position back, when something terrible happened. It seemed that a war was about to break out between Celestia and Luna. This would be a civil war where many ponies would turn against each other. From what I gathered something bad happened and now Celestia wanted her own sister dead, not banished to the moon again, dead. Not wanting a joyless night like those thousand years ago, I would do whatever it took to protect Luna, it was then that I set out. I do not know how long the journey took me but by some miracle I had spotted Princess Luna. I tried to approach her reminding her of who I am but before I could I was ambushed, not that I fought back or anything. I was taken away by the ponies who were traveling with her. I told them that I meant the Princess... no at this point he was now my queen. That I meant the Queen no harm, and by some miracle they allowed me to speak with her. I had talked to Queen Luna about who I was and that when she left I used some magic to wait until she had come back not as Nightmare Moon but as Luna the kind and gentle princess from my past. None of them had believed me until I told her the story about the young filly and how I was horribly injured and how she told me I was in the Royal Guard to give me something to live for. This had sparked her memory and she asked if I wanted to have my position back, but at her side, I told her that type of position is not right for me and I would rather be in charge of a reserve battalion. Queen Luna agree to let me do this.

Well now you know how I came to serve the Knights for the Republic. Maybe I'll tell you another story some other time.

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