A world with all ponykind being happy and content with their lives with Zeko as a defender of the Equestria. He only used violence when there weren’t alternatives and even started a family a few years ago. This had been the dream Celestia was trapped in until she collided with the floor. “Oof! What happened?! Where’s Twilight?!” The solar princess looked around and only saw that the grand hall was a mess but Shining Armor came to her side once he heard her awaken.

“Princess! Are you ok?” Shining knelt down to help Celestia who was looking around in panic, her white gown torn in some places. “Calm down, everypony who was here got away, Zeko and his pals helped clear out those mercenaries.”

Celestia looked around and saw the rest of her royal guard picking up the mostly unconscious assassins although some weren’t giving off any signs of life but she figured that the ones who did it had a reason. “Then where are they? Did they catch the pony who did this?”

The five shinobi dropped down and landed a distance in front of Celestia and Shining Armor, with Zeko walking forward. “It’s more along the lines that he killed himself trying to kill us and capture you.”

“Why would he want to capture me?”

“He said something about Alicorn magic and I think it was supposed to complete something. He also said he wanted you in particular.”

Celestia was confused at this, considering that Luna was an option as well. “Why did he need me?”

Shiro decided to voice her mind, “Cause ya got big tits. He wanted to have em to himself.” Everypony in the room blushed while the humans looked at Shiro accusingly. “What?”

“These guys aren’t as crude as us, they’re really childish and pretty immature... kind of like Nouka.” The shinobi in question was playing with one of his birds and payed no mind to the hidden insult.

“That aside, was everypony responsible for this attack detained?” Celestia received nods from the five shinobi but came to the realization that there were five of them. “Wait a moment, who are these other two?”

“I’m Jenki!” The Byakugan user moved so quickly to greet Celestia that her nearby guards dropped the unconscious assassins and reflexively put gilded spears to his back. Before Jenki could turn to respond the spears were chopped with a near perfect slice.

“Only one who gets to kill these boys is me ya hear?” Shiro brandished her violet weapon and made the guards step back in fear. “Name’s Oburona Shiro, I’m Kotetsu’s girl.” This was emphasized by Shiro wrapping her arms around Kotetsu and squeezing him to the point where he reached for Zeko to help but his friends only stepped back since they didn’t want to be in between them.

“Well miss Obrona...” Celestia butchered the name as she got up but Shiro didn’t seem to notice, “How were you and Jenki able to get here? I’m asking because I remember Zeko saying his cousin had the only way to transport between worlds.”

Shiro’s response was to let go of Kotetsu then part her hair and reveal the gift Kotetsu gave her while he activated his and made the two eyes spin simultaneously. “She has my other eye, I gave it to her years ago so she could keep up with me.”

“So you can give anypony that eye thing that you have Zeko? If so then I’ll be able to-“

“No! It’s mine to keep until I die.” Zeko broke Shining Armor off Before he could propose an idea and didn’t leave room for further conversation until Celestia spoke up.

“Well then how has your herd been coming along? I’ve seen you walking around with Zecora and that Celona, so how are they doing?” Zeko was purely confused at the questions and stood motionless until he recalled what little information he knew about herds.

“Oh... I’m not making a harem. Yeah I guess Celona’s attractive and Zecora has a charm to her, not forgetting that Mist has an amazing attitude... I lost my train of thought.”

Kotetsu put a hand on Zeko’s shoulder and reminded him what he was talking about, “You were saying how you weren’t gonna fuck any kind of girl, human or otherwise.” In the most crass way possible which lead him to be put in a headlock by his girlfriend.

“That’s kind of the point, since I’m a human it’s pretty weird.” Zeko turned and looked at the mosaic glass, Rinnegan still active.

“Inter species relationships aren’t uncommon and I think you could at least try since I was made aware by Twilight that you lack knowledge in relationships and your cousin implied that you’re... inexperienced.” Shiro’s grip on Kotetsu tightened until he decided to Kamui away.

Shiro clenched a fist in anger and a tick mark appeared on her forehead, “Damn it! That idiot always has to be embarrassin when it ain’t funny!” Jenki and Nouka stepped back as to not incur any more anger from Shiro but when they did so they turned and saw a quickly approaching figure who managed to grab Shiro from behind.

“Ok everypony calm down and she gets to live! I’m not getting caught and put in a prison, I’m gonna walk out of here and if I see any guards she dies!” The panicking stallion started to slowly back away while holding a dagger to Shiro’s neck but was confused when Zeko started to form a rasen-shuriken. “Hey! I told you I’ll kill her!” Shiro quickly elbowed her “captor” in the gut and moved to kamui him right as Zeko threw his attack, when the attacks clashed a rift appeared and swallowed the wind style move and the stallion without a trace.

“Pathetic. Whatever, we’re done here Zeko.” Shiro grabbed Nouka and Jenki and used her kamui to send them back with a waving Nouka being the last thing he saw.

The remaining guards were awestruck but resumed in collecting the unconscious attackers while Zeko formed a platform of sand. “This was a fun night but I gotta go check up on the others.” He went out the window with Shining Armor being the last one to say anything to Celestia before she walked away

“Maybe he could be our fighter for the tournament? He’s got the skill for it.” He rubbed the back of his neck and brushed against his scar from his quarrel with the shinobi in question.

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The Mane six, Spike, and some partygoers were at a doughnut shop enjoying themselves and talking about their respective nights until Spike voiced in. “Well I got to learn something cool from Zeko! Maybe he’ll start to train me! Another one with sprinkles Pony Joe.” Spike waved to the shop owner who went back to make the pastry

“I would not count on that Spike, I’ve never trained anybody and I can’t say you’d get to walk away.” Zeko was greeted and pulled into a group hug with random thanks from the Mane six and some guests from the party for saving them. “Ok thanks but let’s not hug, I’m still not that big on excessive contact.”

“How’d you manage to beat all those guys? And is your arm better from that pois- What happened?” Rainbow Dash pointed the Zeko’s shoulder which was still healing from the axe he’d taken earlier. He chuckled in response to the question and sat down at a table with a doughnut somehow winding up in his hand.

“Well as soon as I got you guys clear...” Zeko went on to tell about the wound he had, the arrival of Shiro and Jenki and the fight against the Harbinger... then its recovery and transformation into a demonic entity. Spike was interested the most while Twilight looked on in awe at the description of the enemy.

“What you had to fight... it sounds like something I read about.” The attention was on Twilight to the point where even Pony Joe was intrigued

“Was it dangerous? In the sense of total extinction or could just bring down countries?” Twilight shook her head, knowing that she’d have to reread multiple books to find out more on the creature. “That’s kind of disappointing but I guess that it’ll come back since they always do.” He finished with a bite of his snack and was surprised at the taste being better than he expected, Pony Joe was displeased at Zeko’s actions since he didn’t pay for the doughnut yet but before he could object a bag of bits was tossed to the counter with an audible clinking. “Keep the change, and Spike follow me.”

“Is it time for me to train?!” The drake asked, brimming with excitement but it was diminished by Zeko’s lack of a response. The pair walked outside with the party guests following to see what was going on.

“We need to keep my cousin’s promise so shoot a fireball into the sky.” Zeko started forming a rasen-shuriken with the aid of a shadow clone but was straining while he did it. “This is a new level of pain.” Zeko thought as the blades of his move formed and a green fireball shot into the sky

“What’s he doing?” Applejack asked right as the wind style move was thrown at a curve and went to intercept the ball of emerald flame until it collided and produced a burst of energy that filled the night sky with green.

While the concert of flame continued to erupt Zeko turned back to the Mane six and Spike and walked back into the doughnut shop. “So you plan on writing this up as your best Gala yet?”

“Wait this was our only Gala.” Spike pointed out which made Zeko enter the building and uttering a simple,

“Exactly, that’s why it’s the best.”

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Author's Notes:

Nothing to say this time, see you next chapter