I waited for a response. Why, I don't know, but as the village burned around us a scream broke through the silence. I saw from the corner of my eye that a building was on fire and that ponies were trying to douse the flames, but weren't having much luck. It wasn't till Rarity screamed that I knew how serious it was. "Sweetie Belle!! She's still in there with the others!!"

It didn't take me long to figure out who the 'others' were. Applebloom and Scootaloo. I looked back to Nyx and repeated my question, of my own will this time. "What is thy will, Lady Nyx?" I could only figure that my impulses were due to me really being a knight of Nightmare Moon, but with Nyx instead, I take orders from her now. I guessed this because no matter how hard I tried to move, I couldn't. It was as if I HAD to wait for her orders.

She looked at me with fear in her eyes and begged. "PLEASE!! SAVE MY FRIENDS!!"

I rose to my full height and answered. "It will be done." I charged towards the fire, finally in control of my body, and plowed through the ponies that tried to stop me.

I jumped through an open window and rolled to a stop. It was worse than I thought. The place looked ready to come down at any moment. I had to work fast. I grabbed and threw away burning furniture and other debris, ignoring the pain in my hands, while calling out. "Girls?! Where are you?!" A large piece of the roof fell and landed right next to me, urging me to move faster. "WHERE ARE YOU?!?!"

"Somepony there?! We're over here!!" I could hear Scootaloo calling out. I rushed to where the voice came from and was blocked by a blazing door. I ignored the flames and ripped it off it's hinges and bolted in. I looked around and saw the girls in a corner, but something was wrong.

I slid next to them and saw that Sweetie Belle wasn't moving. She was breathing, but it was shallow. "What happened?" I hid my eyes with my mane only opened my mouth just enough to speak, but not enough to show my fangs.

They looked startled by my appearance, but quickly regained their composure. "It's Sweetie!! She got hit in the head when she pushed me out of the way from a piece of the ceiling that fell!!" Scootaloo was in tears, as was Applebloom.

"Can ya help her?! Please!!" Applebloom begged me. I saw that there was no window in the room or even a weak spot that I could charge through.

I looked back at the fillies. "Don't worry, I'll get you out-" I was cut off when I heard the ceiling creak and groan. I snapped my head up and saw that it was coming down on us. I did the only thing I could and shielded the three with my body.

Twilight's POV

I watched as the stallion who just called himself 'Onyx Blade' earlier jumped in through the flames. Judging from his look, he really wanted to save the Cutie Mark Crusaders, but something held him back. That's when his words rang in my head. "What is thy will, Lady Nyx?" The first time he said that, it was monotone, like he had no soul, but the second time it was like he was begging for the right order.

I saw that Rarity was in tears, as was Applejack and Rainbow Dash. "Girls, it's going to be okay. He'll get them-" Before I could finish, the building, that was soon recognized as Rarity's boutique, collapsed inward and crushed anything inside, as well as our hopes. Tears fell from my own eyes, but it wasn't just from losing the CMC, it was from losing the brave stallion that fought for us and risked his life to try to save the fillies. I saw that everypony was feeling just as bad as me, too horrible to even react.

As the fireponies put out the last of the flames, we slowly made our way to what was left. I stared at the smoldering heap of charred wood and debris, feeling like maybe I failed Onyx. I promised him that we would find a new purpose for him to life for, instead he finds it by dying anyway. I collapsed to my knees as I cried, somehow feeling worse than the ones who lost somepony. Even Nyx tries to help, but I feel horrible that I couldn't save him from that darkness in his heart.

Then we heard cracks, like how wood would when Applejack bucks her trees. I snapped back to the pile and heard it again, only this time, I saw something move. A large pile started to lift and our hopes began to soar. When it high enough, I saw Onyx's face of determination and defiance, like he wasn't going to let something like this stop him. With a loud roar, he threw the pile off of him and we could see more. He had held that large amount of debris from crushing the CMC, Applebloom and Scootaloo looking ruffed up, but otherwise fine. But Sweetie Belle was on the ground barely breathing. "SWEETIE BELLE!!" Rarity bolted to her and picked up her head and tried to shake her awake, but it did nothing.

We began to fear the worst before Onyx knelt down and took Sweetie. With a voice filled with compassion and caring, he laid our worries to rest. "She's fine, she just took a blow to the head saving this filly here." He nodded towards Scootaloo. Rarity's look of shock was understandable, none of us thought that Sweetie would put herself on the line like that, but with friends that close it's not surprising.

He stood up and walked over to the princesses, then he knelt to them. "Help this filly, please."

I never thought I would hear him beg to the princesses, but here he was, doing just that. Princess Celestia smiled and just place a hand over Sweetie Belle. "You need not beg, brave Onyx." She healed Sweetie with a glow. In a few moments, she was fine. "Your actions this night have been questionable, but your reasons were obvious from the start. Shall we start over, without the attack this time?" She smiled a little wider at that.

Onyx rose, only to turn around and walk back to us. He handed Sweetie back to Rarity and went back to the princess. "I would be glad to talk more, but there's something I need to do first." This confused us until he went over to the bodies of the Diamond Dogs. I saw one that was still alive and he did too, because he grabbed it by the throat and lifted it up to his eye level. "I'm only going to ask once. What were you all doing attacking this village?" He said with so much venom in his voice it sounded like a different pony.

The dog just smirked and spoke, in a other language!! ~~"You can't understand me and even if you can, I won't talk."~~ He spitted in Onyx's face. I managed to understand what he said since that language was in one of my books in the library.

But then Onyx's eye grew cold and dark, then in a tone that could freeze dragon fire, he spoke back. ~~"I can and you will."~~ His smile could make Sombra and Discord look normal in comparison, but seemed to do the trick as the dog looked terrified. He then spoke so fast that I couldn't understand him, but Onyx looked like he did. After the dog was finished, Onyx placed him on the ground. ~~"And you're sure that's all there is?"~~

~~"YES!!! That's all I know, I swear!!!"~~ Onyx then walked away, seemingly letting the dogs live, but when he was a few steps away from him, the dogs grinned and charged at Onyx with a sword he picked up. Before any of us could warn him however, Onyx spun around and stabbed his claws into his chest, right where the heart was. Onyx looked into the dogs eyes and then, without so much as a bit of remorse, ripped his heart out and crushed it. He did all this right in front of us.

He turned and walked back to the princess. "It seems they were attacking towns to gain a foot hold for when they attacked the nearest Diamond Dog warren. Then they recruit who ever lives through the battle and move on. That's all I was able to find out from the dog." His eyes held nothing, but hatred for the dogs that attacked.

Princess Luna looked a little green. She regained her composure and nodded. "Well, that explains how they were increasing in number, but of all the night's to do it, why on the eve of Nightmare Night?" She slumped sadly, I couldn't blame her. Nightmare Night is her favorite holiday and one of the few times she can walk among ponies and not have them running in fear.

Onyx looked around the village. "Well, it looks like it take a while to clean this up. I'll just help with the clean up and then head back to the castle in the forest." He began walking to start the clean up when Rainbow Dash Stopped him.

"Hold up!! You can't just come in, act all awesome, take out a bunch of Diamond Dogs, and NOT let us say thanks!!" She planted her self in front of him.

"Then say it, so I may begin clean up." Onyx said flatly, like he didn't care for much. It was scary seeing as how he could go from being caring, then to sadistic, and finally to cold in only a few minutes.

It was then that I noticed his hands. "SWEET CELESTIA!!! ONYX, YOUR HANDS!!!" His hands looked like they had been through a blender that got set on fire. They were covered with blisters and bleeding in some spots.

He raised one to his eyes and just shrugged. "I've had worse. It'll heal, but right now I need to clean this up."

This time I stopped him. "Oh no you're not! You're hurt and I won't have you working with those hands!! Come on Nyx, we're going home."

"Okay mom." We then headed for the library, or rather me and Nyx headed there while I dragged Onyx.

Onyx's POV

We had just arrived at the library and it was just as I thought it was. A VERY big tree turned into a house. We went inside and Twilight made me sit on the couch. I looked at my hands and saw that they were pretty bad. It would take days before they were healed enough to not leave scars, but it doesn't matter. Ever since I saw Nyx for the first time, I just wanted her to be safe. Everything else was secondary.

Twilight came back with a first-aid kit and set it on the coffee table. She took one of my hands and flinched at the sight. Couldn't blame her. She looked at me with sad eyes. "I'm going to use some disinfectant, so it's going to sting a little. Okay?"

I just nodded and waited for her to get this over with. She place a bowl under my hand and just poured the liquid on my hand. It burned, but I didn't even twitch. I've felt a blowtourch on my back once, this is nothing. She then switched to my other hand and repeated the process. After that she wrapped my hands in gauze and looked back at me. "You okay?"

"Yea, didn't hurt much." I said honestly. It really didn't hurt, it just felt like an itch. That seemed to calm her down as she sat to my right and let out a breath I didn't know she held.

Nyx soon jumped and sat to my left, a big smile on her face. "Thank you so much for saving my friends." I wanted to give her a hug for being so cute, but that damn impulse held me back and made me answer.

"I was only following your wishes, Lady Nyx." This brought a confused look to Nyx and an uncomfortable one to Twilight.

"Nyx, sweetie, I think it's time for bed." Twilight said, somewhat saving the situation. Nyx complained, but was soon heading for bed, leaving me alone with Twilight.

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NOT GOOD.

Author's Note

FINALLY!!!! Sorry about the wait all, been hooked on Coloholics.com and it is SWEET!!! Trying to focus more on these though so again, bare with me.