"Hello? Can you hear me?" The alicorn princess asks tenderly to the waking creature.
He groans and says, "Yea."
"Oh good! You can talk! What is your name?"
"Vaan. Vaan Ratsbane."
"Vaan? That's a strange name. Where are you from? What species are you?"
"Stop! Please... my head hurts..."
"Oh! Sorry. Maybe I should heal you."
"That would be nice."
The alicorn princess touches her horn on his wounds. They heal within moments and he hiss as they do. She even takes care of his open wounds. He opens his eyes and smiles as if she was an old friend of his.
"What?" She asks backing up.
"Thanks. I haven't been treated like this by one of your kind in a long time."
"Like how long? Five hundred years?"
The strange creature laughs, "And what put it into your mind that I was that old?"
She holds up his sword, "This. This hasn't been used in over five hundred years."
"My blade. May I have it please?" He asks sitting up and holding out his hand.
"No. Tell me what you are."
"You don't know? Of course you wouldn't... our kinds hasn't been around hardly ever."
"What is your kind?"
The thing is about to speak when somepony knocks on the door. "Moony? Are you in there?"
The human freezes as if that was the voice of the Reaper Pony himself. "Is that...? Celestia?" He asks in a forced whisper.
"Yea, she's my..."
"Hide me!" he says desperately, "She can't know I'm here!"
The door is knocked on again, "Moony?"
"In a minute!" 'Moony' shouts back. "Hide in the bathroom." She whispers pointing to the half-open door. He dashes in and quietly locks it. "Come in autie!"
The door is opened and Princess Celestia strides in her usual semi-stiff way. "Hey Moony, I heard from the guards that you took a dangerous creature in here. Is that correct?"
"Yes autie. I did."
"And where is it now?"
"It- ah..." She blushes and looks down as she pokes the stone floor with her hoof, "It kinda, sorta... got away. It ran off somewhere down the mountain towards Ponyville."
"Are you okay? Moony? Did it attack you?"
"No! It didn't. It was actually scared and it jumped over me."
"Scared? Strange... Well, thanks for helping. And let me know when you see it again. Okay?"
"Yes madam." Celestia smiles as she trots off and closes the door behind her. "It's safe now." She says to the bathroom door. It unlocks and out walks the thing standing tall. Like a king, Moony thinks.
"Thank you for helping me. Right now she is my greatest enemy, but I dare not kill her."
Moony looks at him kinda shocked. He sounds dangerous and yet doesn't at the same time. His appearance is the same way. He has a sort of gentlepony killer air about him. It's scary and yet it's comforting. He seems to look past Moony as if in a trance and sees something. He walks past her and picks up a silver necklace with a green gem attached with a silver border. He stares at it like it's something he lost ages ago and he can't believe it's found. "Where did you get this?" He asks mesmerized.
"It's mine." She says taking it away from Vaan. "And no, you cannot have it."
"Where did you get it?"
"I found it in a bush after the Changeling invasion." His eyes dilate as if he realized something and he has to take action.
"Could you teleport me to Princess Luna?"
"What?"
"Could you please teleport me to Princess Luna? I have to see her."
"Sure." Moony makes her horn glow and he disappears from the room and appears into Luna's.
