Mouth 7: Week 2: Day 5

“Wait, what?!” I yelled out in my Captain’s chambers, we were alone, for the information he wanted me to hear, was for my ears only. “How…no…this is impossible! How could Cocoon had escaped?!” I slammed both of my front hooves down on his table, causing it to rattle. “How?!” it had been a few weeks since the GGG, and the Love Princess having found out who Saki really was. At first, I was rather scared, that she was indeed lying, and when we returned home, guards would be waiting, but as I said; it had been weeks.

“Settle down at once!” he ordered as I flinched. I closed my eyes, climbing back on the floor fully as he sighed softly. “I do not fully understand what it between the two of you is,” he answered as he sat in his chair, his eyes closed as he passed me the letter of which I had just read from King Vloor. “The Princesses told me it was a ‘need to know’, they told me I should read it, for I am your captain, and I must read such things when it comes from another ruler; protocols.” I only gave a nod, not really caring much on who read it. Cocoon…she was out… the letter sated how my father would be around Vloor at all times, making sure that the queen didn’t get anywhere near him, but the thing was…all of her Changelings, and the Hive; was gone. This worried me even more, where could they have gone, what would they be planning? Cocoon couldn’t even fly or use magic for that matter, her horn would take a while to grow once more; even longer to channel the magic she once had. “Ether way,” I was brought back to the real world when I heard him speak. “There is also another reason as to why I brought you here.”

This, caught me off guard, what would he want with me, well…I was second in command of the guards here…hrm… “I will be leaving here to return to my home for a few weeks, a month at the most.” He answered sitting up as he then went around the table to stand before me. “While I’m gone, you, shall take the role of Captain.”

“Say wha?” I asked while blinking, I mean, sure, I was second in command, and I knew if he couldn’t work for a while, I would take his place; but when he said it, it caught me off guard. “When do you…?”

“Two days times,” he answered as I nodded. “Tomorrow will be your first day though, after I address the guards of what will be happening, I shall leave to pack my things for the trip.” He seemed to notice my still shock look as he chuckled. “Think of this is training yourself for the job Shining Armor offered you in a few months.” He pointed out. “If you can do this, then that will be easy for, yes?” He did have a point on this, it would give me great skills to learn right now, and not on the fly when I do accept the job fully.

“Alright then,” I answered nodding. “I’ll do it,”

“Very good,” he nodded and then pointed to the door. “Now, it is time for you to resume to your rounds.” I gave him a salute, grabbing my helm from the stand, slipping it on and then making my way back outside.

So tomorrow, I would be Captain of t he Royally Guards, Captain Lighting…I rathered did like the name. Saki would be pride when I tell her, I mean, yes, it is only for a while, but in a few months, when we do move; I would become a full feligded Captain! “Light, Light!” I turned when I heard my name being called, to see that it was Saki, making her way over to me, nearly sprinting until she came to a halt. “Good, I found you! this letter came from that Vloor guy, he said…”

“I know,” I answered her placing a hoof over her mouth. “I was already informed,” she looked at me and nodded as I lowered my hoof as she then asked, as I walked; for I still had to work. “W…what are we going to do?”

‘Cocoon herself is in no sort of form to fight,” I told her simply. “Even if her horn had grown back, it will take her years for her to gain the lost power she once wielded with magic. And her wing, even you told me it takes a while for a Changeling’s wing to grow back; yes?”

“I…guess but still…”

“I understand your worry Saki,” I whispered stopping her. “Listen…no matter what, I will stop her, if she does come. But if I know her well enough from the way she is; she is not an idiot. She is waiting, like an underground spider, waiting…and when she is ready; then we shall see her. Not too soon though, for this I know.” She only gave me a look, I knew she beleieved me, but still, I knew she was worried. We did lock her up, and no doubt she would come after us sooner or later for revenge.

‘Alright Light,” she then leaned up and kissed me quickly on the lips. “By the way, you seemed, happier when I was running up.”

“Well…” I gave her a small chuckle and then explained what I had just learned, and what would be happening starting tomorrow. Her eyes grew wide as she hugged me around the neck as she hovered in the air.

“Congrats Light!” she yelled out as I laughed, I had to hold my helm right as she released me.

“It’s only for a while, but still,” I smiled and fixed my helm once more. “It will be good to learn now, then on the fly.”

“This is true,” she answered and then smirked. “So…im dating the Captain of the Guards…hrm, so sexy,” I rolled my eyes slightly and then asked.

“What, now when I get home, you’re going to be the Princess of Love?” I knew I shouldn’t have said that, for I saw a twinkle in her eye from this. Princess Cadence, she would’t like that if she ever found out, what am I talking about…why would she even think of that; well, she knows Saki is a Changeling now, but….ugh, im over thinking again.

“Maybe,” she answered with a wink. “Just…now right away, see you in a bit!” she called out and turned and started to leave. This leaving me confused, it was not even noon, and I had a good eight hours left until the sun would set. Ether way, I shrugged it off and let to do my work as I did everyday since the first day I was made a full guard.

Not even a hour later, I was approached by another guard, he stood before me and saluted. “Sir!” he spoke in a clear voice. “I was ordered by the captain to tell you that you may retire from duty for the rest of the day!”

“Um…why?” I asked as he looked to me and gave a slight shrug.

“No idea, I am just following what I was told, and also I shall taker your rounds from here!”

“Well…thank you,” I answered as he nodded, me removing my helm as I placed it on my back, and slowly walking home. That was weird…me getting a half day, not really something that happens. Still it didn’t matter much to me, I got to go home early, and also spend some time with Saki.

The house coming up to view, I noticed it was ghastly still, looking around, almost thinking that Fang would pop up to ambush me. But it was silly, he was locked up; and wouldn’t be out at all. As I went for the door, opening it slowly… “Surprised!” I gave out a scream, jerking as I pulled my sword out and pointed it before me, Saki, in her Changeling form, on her hind legs with arms stretched out, gave me a rather bewilder look. In her mouth was one of those party blower things, on which she softly blew on, making the sound that came with it. I blinked, she blinked, I blinked once more. “Dah fuck are you pointing that thing at me for?!”

“You scared the crap out of me!” I answered as she only gave me a small giggle as she went back on all fours. “And why scare me like that anyway…and why do I smell cake?” indeed I did, the air was filled with the smell of that of freshly baked cake, I looked down to Saki, tilting my head to the side, my right eyebrow arching up as she only smiled.

“Well,” she answered raising, and waving a hoof slightly. “It IS your birthday.”

I blinked in utter confusion, until I hit myself in the forehead. I had completely forgot my own birthday! Saki was softly laughing at my now shock look, as she pulled me in and closed the door, she then asked. “How does one forget their own birthday?”

“I have been pretty busy lately,” I answered trygn to defend myself as she nodded. “But really Saki…you don’t have to do this,”

“But I want to,” she whispered pulling my head down so I could look her in the eye. “Light…when you came to me that day, with the cake…and my Granny’s necklace…I planed right then and there that I would do the same for you when your birthday came along!” she then pressed my lips to her own for a moment as I smiled, kissing her back, but, I was taken aback when she did not use tongue. “So, I have two surpises for you!” she then bounded away as I followed. “First, is my gift, and the second…”

“Is me,” my ears perked as I made my way out of the hallway to see who it was.

“Father!”

Sitting on the sofa, was indeed my father, in his true form, of that of a Changeling, he smiled, his face turned to me. His left eye, still always caught me, the one that had the scar on it. his red eyes locked onto mine as I smiled, and he smiled back. “What are you doing here? I mean…I just got the letter and…”

“The letter is a few days old,” he answered. “They forgot to mail it, so by the time you left for your work, I came in, with the letter.”

“That’s when me and him came up with a plan to surprise you!”
I looked back at my Changeling lover as she smiled and spoke. “After seeing Shade here, and knowing you would not be home till late, well…it didn’t seem fair for you to work on your birthday. So after explaining this to the princesses, we came back home so I could make cake!”

“And you didn’t burn the house down?”

“Can’t let that go can you?” she gave me a frown as I smiled.

“You do have to take the wrapper off first…”

“Shut up you plot looking pervert!” my father started to laugh, as I soon followed as well as Saki.

“It is still good to see you son,” my father spoke, coming over and wrapping his arms around me, as I did the same in a tender embrace with my last known blood family. “But before we get to the gifts and cake and such…” he then looked around and then asked. “Now where did he get off to…?”

“He?” I asked as I turned to Saki, who seemed as confused as me, before I blinked. “Oh no…” I whispered. “Please tell me you didn’t…” I was cut short as I heard the sound of a whack on the closest window. All heads jerked to the left, to see the brown zebra unicorn, his left side of his face, pressed up on the window. He then grinned, showing his teeth before saying so loud we could easily hear him inside the house.

“I’m bacccccccccck!” a then wrapped up box floated beside him. “And I come bearing gifts!”

After Doctor Love entered the house, and making his way to the sofa beside me, Saki and my father in the kitchen, seems he wanted to help put the last touches on the cake. Doc was beside me, somehow, sitting fully on his rump, his back pressed on the back of the sofa. I had seen one other pony sit like this…I can’t remember her name; all I knew was that she had a Harp Cutie mark. Ether way, the brown unicorn was now slightly bouncing up and down…while also wiggling his rump on my sofa. “What, in the hell are you doing Doc?” I asked him, as I sat down on the sofa like any other pony would, as I gave him a weird look. He turned to look at me, and then said the following.

“You got no butt mark on your sofa!” he answered as I blinked. “So I’m just gonna wiggle my brown ass on it until you get one!”

“Why do I put up with you?” I asked him as he smiled.

“Because I’m so damn sexy!” I scoffed and looked away for a moment before he then said. “So, I heard that you got offered a Captain’s job over in the Crystal Kingdom yes?”

“Yeah,” I answered him looking back at him. “Had the job offer for a while now, but I just couldn’t leave to go there just yet. But me and Saki are going to move there by the end of the year.”

“Hope there won’t be a huge fight then,” he answered as I looked to him. “Think about it, you were knighted by Vloor of Higher Wing, and yet, you are going to be a Captain in another kingdom, what if the two go to war?!”

“What possible reason would those two go to war?”

“Maybe Shining Armor ate Vloor’s cookie?” I just gave him a blank look. “What? Eat my cookie, and I break your plot…with my dick!” once he said this, both of his hooves pointed downward to where his stallion-hood was as I rolled my eyes.

“You’re an ass,”

“A sexy ass,” he corrected me as hoofed myself in the face slightly.

Before I could say anything else, I heard the soft singing of Saki filled the room, she started to sing the trademark ‘happy birthday’, my father, who couldn’t sing for the life of him, came in after. And Doc…well he did as well, trying to make it funny by singing in a goofy like fashion. I blushed as Saki laid the large circle cake before me on the table. Twenty-one candles, burning brightly on the cake, the ‘Happy Birthday Bright Star,’ on it. What I thought was cute, was that ether my father, or Saki, drew on the cake in icing, a small Changeling on the bottom, holding a heart in its mouth. I gave a small smile as Doctor Lover nudged me with his hoof. “Well make a wish birthday boy!” I smiled and then closed my eyes, about to make a wish…but stopped.

“No…I don’t need to make a wish,”

“Whatever do you mean?” Saki asked. “That’s the rule!”

“Yes…but…” I gave a smile. “I have everything right here that I want, but if it makes you feel better,” I smiled, closing my eyes, making my wish, and then blew out the candles.

Seeing how it was just the four of us here, the ‘party’ wasn’t that big, so as we ate cake, we spoke for a bit, before Saki then called out. “Okay, how about we give the birthday boy his gifts?”

“Oh, oh, me, me, me!” Doc raised his right arm out and started to wave it around. “I wanna give him mine first!”

“Is it something perverted?” I asked with a raised eyebrow. He only grinned and shoved the box to my chest as I groaned, looking at the blue paper wrapped box. Slowly unwrapping it, and then leaving only a white box left…I slowly opened it, thinking the worst. I looked down; a rather large bottle of yellow like water inside of it, on the side was a sticker that had “Sweet Apple Arc Apple Cider” on the side.

“I heard this stuff is wicked!” he called out. “And I have my own bottle, so maybe tonight, you two can try it yourself, have some nice drunk sexy time!”

“Doc!” me and Saki both cried out as he only grinned.

“What?” he asked. “Drunken sex is the best sex!” I just gave him a small glare at this, he, just smiling away as I placed the bottle back in the box and off to the side.

“Ether way,” I muttered. “Thanks for the gift,” he smiled more, as I saw Saki nudge my father slightly, I guess she wanted to give her’s to me, last. Ether way, my father went over to the table, the box he had was long, and also as high as a small box would be.

“As we were cleaning the house back home,” he spoke as he passed me the box. It was not wrapped, and could easily open from the top. “I found these, and well, I know you would love to have them.” I gave him a look and opened the box, my eyes growing wide as I then smiled. Inside, I could see two wooden swords, the swords myself and he used when he was teaching me what he had learned. Along the side, was my name, my birth name, craved that I did when I was bored one day. Along the edges were chips, some pieces of the wood missing. Compared to my newly made sword, these one were rather small, seeing how I was only a colt at the time. I held my old wooden sword up, waving it a bit around.

“Thank you, father,” I answered looking at him and placed the wood back in the box. “Truly, this means more then what you may think,”

“I know,” he answered. “I remembered you always swinging that thing around, as you wore a bucket on your head, and a sheet as a cape, walking around the house; chest puffed out.” I blushed at the memoires that he spoke of as Saki held back laughter.

‘What about you Saki?” I asked as she looked to me and then smiled.

“One moment then,” she answered, I watched as she went upstairs, we waited, and then she came back, a cloth over her hoof as she hovered down, the faint buzzing of her wings easily heard as she landed before me; and removed the cloth.

On her hoof…was the black and blue heart charm her Granny gave her, but it was different. The necklace part was gone; leaving what seemed to look much like the golden neck brace of that of the Elements of Harmony. I was confused slightly, thinking maybe she just bought a copy of the charm, for me to have as my own. “This is indeed the one my Granny gave me,” it was as if she read my mind. She looked at me and pointed to my neck, I only complied by lowering my head, allowing the thing to slide over my head, and fasten behind my neck. It fit rather well, not to tight, nor too loose.

“But…why?” I asked. “I mean…your Granny gave this to you,” she nodded at this, and then started to speak once more.

“Before I met you, and I lost this…I felt like a piece of my heart was taken from me, never to be found again. But then you, you got it for me and I felt like I was whole once more. But then I got to thinking…I didn’t need this necklace to know that my Granny loved me, or that she would be near me if I wore it. I already know that. So…I got it fixed a bit, so that now you know, that my heart, belongs to you.”

I looked down on it, placing my hoof softly on it as it glistened in what little light was coming in as I smiled and looked up at her as she smiled back. I pulled her into a hug, kissing her deeply on the lips as I heard Doc let out a ‘woot, woot’ sound, before my free hoof smashed him in the face, causing him to fall off the sofa. “Uncalled for!” I heard him yell out as my father only let out a small sort of chuckle; after me and Saki broke our kiss.

The rest of the small party was rather, well, small. We ate the cake that Saki and my father made, which was rather good, seeing how Saki couldn’t bake at all that well anyway. It was close to dark, when Father and Doctor Love left our home, they had checked themselves in a Inn, and would be staying here for the next few days, before returning to Higher Wing. As we waved them off, me still wearing the necklace that Saki had given me, I turned to see what she was going to do; to see her gone. I heard a door closed upstairs and went to go see what it was, and when I opened it, I found her laid on her side, smiling softly at me. “So,” she whispered softly. “What would the birthday-colt like today?” I gave a small smile, a blush forming on my cheeks, as I closed the door, with my hind leg.

The next morning came rather quick, as I let out a soft yawn, rubbing the back of my head, I looked down to see Saki laid on top of my chest; as she always did. I smiled, kissing her own the brow as she muttered something about pancakes and rolled off me, laying fully on her back as she smacked her lips and fell back into a deeper slumber. I chuckled and rolled out of bed, softly landing on the hard wood floor as I went to the mirror, to fix up my hair. once done, I don on my armor, as well as my sword as I pushed my way out of the door, toward the castle.

On my way, I remembered that today would be the first day as me taking over as Captain for abit, a job I was…worried about doing. The Captain as of now told me that I mostly just made my rounds around the castle, and that any things that would require my doing; I would be sent for. Mostly what I knew I would be doing, would be doing the training of the guards today, we did two different times, before noon, and a little bit before we traded to the Lunar Guards. Many of the older vet guards did not have to do this, as well as myself; seeing how I had proven myself, not needing to do this. But once in a while, I did a few, as well as some of the older guards, to keep us in shape.

I looked around, wondering if I would see Doc, or even my father (in his unicorn form mind you) around. So far, nothing of the sort, leaving me to guess they were still sleeping. I just hope that Doc didn’t want to pop up at my work, and try to bug me, I mean; if they see that I can’t handle one sex crazed pony, how would I deal with other things? Ether way, I made my way inside the castle, and went toward the Captain room. Once knocking and hearing him calling in for me to enter; I saw him already packing.

“Ah Lighting, good you’re here,” he answered placing a bag on his back. “Well, I’m almost done here, and my train does not leave for the next day as you know. Come, we shall explain to the Guards what will be happening for the next little while yes?” I could only nod at this as I followed after him; it seemed many of the guards were going to one area…great, a announcement.

I followed him to the main training area where the guards would run around fro their speed, and train with whatever sort of weapon they would be using. The announcement was short and too the point, the Captain explaining that he would be gone for a while, and I was to be in charge of the guards. I was surprised when nopony objected to the news of me being in charge. After he left, to return to his packing, I stood before the day guards as I realized they were waiting for me. “Uh…” I stammered for a moment. “Dismissed, return to your daily training, those who are assigned to the beat of the city; may leave to do so.”

“Sir!” they all said, and saluted at once causing me to blink and flinch. Dear Celestia, this would take a while for me to get use to this.