Live A Life, or Forge It

I saw that the visitors was Twilight

I bowed to her, and said:

“Greetings. Are you coming here for see Ernico's execution live ? If it is so, take a seat, and watch”

Twilight stepped towards me:

“We are not here to see you kill your brother. We are here for save him”

I was disappointed, and quite surprised.

I said:

“Oh, yes ? Save him from what ?”

My rifle was proptly tore off from my hands.

“From you, Venicio: you are going to kill him, even if he is unarmed, he surrended, and claimed that did what he did to you in pure ignorance”

I said:

“That doesen't mean anything: Enrico could have seen the signs easily at the time.

But, no, he decided to stick with my other two brother's policy”

Twilight said, this time with an harsher tone:

“If you kill him, you will be worse than all of them combined”

I smirked:

“How ? They attacked me for 14 years, and did a contract with an immortal god for kill him. I thought that the winner  had the liberty of pass the defeated to sword's edge.”

“Well, supposedly, yes, but, Venicio, Ernico is one of your brothers”

“And so they were Diana and Franco.

And yet you didn't fussed about them.

That, unless you realized only now that I killed them indirectly”

The purple alicorn affirmed:

“Problem is, they were actually trying to hurt you. It was self-defesne, and I should give credit for that, despite the fact that death wasn't, and isn't, really an option. But Enrico never tried to hurt you directly”

I said, while I was playing with the rifle's foadable stock.

“But he gave to my brothers my positions. Even if he didn't attacked me directly, he still brought me my enemies over me”

At that point, Enrico hugged my leg, and said

“He is right... I have told to my brothers where he was... but I  always told them a lie, until, for accident, I gave them the right position of Venicio...from then on, I thought a way to diplomatically resolve our problems.. I wished thast this didn't ended like that... with two deaths, and two devastated parents”

My brother was trying to change their minds, and try to make me look bad.

I said

“Shut up !”

“Don't talk like that to your brother !”

I said to the purple princess:

“If you are so sure about his innocence, why you don't dig in his memoires, and see what's in there ? I'm certain that you will find MANY thing that will prove that he was actively trying to get me killed”

The purple unicorn sighed, and said:

“Alright, I will do it, after all, I know how to do it”

I clenched my hands, and let Twilight do the spell.

Basically, she just did the same thing that Celestia did to me, when I needed to prove my point, only, the circle was bigger, and purple.

After ten minutes, where Twilight made squeaking sounds similar to the “squee” in the series; Enrico who cried and laughed at the same time, and other weird things of the same nature.

After doing that, I said with a bored tone:

“So, did you found anything ?”

“No, Venicio, nothing that could prove that he was planning to kill you, and failed for either stupidity, or incompetence.”

I was left speechless.

So not everyone that I knew before I went in Equestria, was really an asshole wishing my head, or a person that didn't cared for me.

There was at least somebody that wanted with all his heart my safety, so much, to actively trying to deceive Fate.

It seemed too good to be real.

But it was real, I was really seeing Twilgith Sparkle telling me that Ernico wasn't evil; telling me that not everybody on Earth forgot me, or wished me in a coffin.

Enrico said to me, crying:

“Now do you velieve me ? Or you still want me dead for no reason, other than a past error ?”

I exited from the trance, ran towards him, and hugged him:

“Yes, I forgive you, and accept your desire to redeem, and I will reforge for you your destiny. However...”

Ernico sniffed, and said:

“However ?”

“You can't come with me in Equestria. I know that you wish to, but you can't: with your reforged destiny, our parents mouring over our premature deaths, and everything in between, you have a better place on Earth, rather than here.

Here, a new destiny, the fame, the joy, and the oblivion about what happened between us, awaits.

If you wish something more than your 'toy' fixed, tell me now”

Wiping off his tears, Ernico said:

“I have nothing to ask to you, nor to Twilight. Your forgiveness is fine enought for me.

Now bring me back home, to our parents, so I can tell them that they had forged two great men: one forged in war, and changed in peace; another forged in peace, and changed in war.”

I shed a small tear: my brother was so morally tormented, and fearful of death, that my pardon towards him was enought for him for live happily.

Sighing, I asked to Twilight to help me in  looking for Ernico's statue.

After some minutes of research, Ernico's statue was found: it was just like how the Great Ferryman described it, and transmitted the same sense of defeat and despair that realeased when imagined.

I said to Twilight to turn the fool's gold in pure silver.

Twiligth said:

“Are you sure that it will change something ? After all, Fate might be able of recognize what was made of, before getting turned in silver. Plus, why keep the coarse traits and the spikes ?”

I pointed to Fate, still bleeding and craying, and said:

“the kid you see in front of you is Fate. He is a stupid kid: he doesen't understand anything. Plus, the spieks and coarse traits must be left because, even if I pardoned Ernico, I and him can't cancel the past.

Because, if somebody doesen't learn history, he is condamned to repeat it”

Twilight nodded in understanding, and proceeded to change the statue: slowly, the fake shine of the fool's gold turned into a dull gray typical of pure silver.

Some other minutes, and the silver was totally polished, and every piece of the doll was now made of the precious gray metal.

I took it in my hands, feeling the cold sensation in my hands, and could not help, but smile, thinking about how many blood was shed, for give to Ernico and me a good life.

How many livessaw the end before the time.

How many other people, despite living on, were changed by my fight.

But, especially, when I saw my human statue dissolve, and my pony statue turning in platinum, what I had archived, in my fight: I had humilated Fate; I had changed my destiny,and, maybe, archieved immortality, for what I knew...

When everything was done, I told Ernico to go home; while I returend back to Equestria, ready for reclaim my prizes from Celestia.

What prizes ?

Political power,.

An uterus for the bloodline.

And several historians for keep memory in the future.

And I attained them: Celestia, once she heard what I had done, after “purefying” me with a long journey around her kingdom as fake orphan colt; made me ascend to princehood, and, consequentially, to power.

The uterus was given by Indiva, who I “bought” thanks to a “fidlitatem ut uterum” contract: basically, in exchange of my loyality towards them, I was garanted ot receive Indiva's hoof.

Not that Indiva was reluctant to marry me, anyway.

And so we are at the last point: the hisotrians.

Well, you are one of them, and what you had just wrote, is my whole story.

That's all, from Dux Venicio the Fateless