Guardians of light

Chapter 7

I woke up to the familiar darkness of my room and I got out of bed and put on my cloak. Leaving the room I heard movement downstairs. I got on the first floor and I saw Gold sniffing around. “What are you doing,” I asked. “There is an unfamiliar scent in the house,” She responded while sniffing.

“You think it could have been an intruder,” I asked.

“Seeing that everything is in place and not disturbed, I would say that they weren’t intending to take anything,” she replied.

“We should be on our guard then,” I said.

“Yes we should,” she said while going back to her usual spot. I went to my chair and started a small fire in the fireplace then I watched the flames. I sat there watching the wood burn for a good twenty to thirty minutes. I lost track of time but what got me out of my trance was a knock at the door. I went and opened the door and it was Autumn.

“Good morning Autumn, what brings you by,” I asked.

“I was going for a walk in the park and was wondering if you wanted to come with me,” she answered seeming anxious.

“Sure I don’t mind I need to wake up more anyway, mind if Gold comes with us,” I asked.

“I don’t mind,” she said. We walked out of the house and we were on our way to the park.

“You have my sword right,” I whispered to Gold to make sure.

“Yes, I have it,” she whispered back. Autumn noticed that I was talking to Gold.

“Where you talking to Gold,” she asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Yes,” I said bluntly. She seemed a bit confused and we started to walk to the park.

We got to the park and we walked for about an hour. We rested under a tree and started to talk. “So where are you from anyway,” she asked.

“I’m from Canterlot,” I answered.

“Wow, and you are not snooty, strange,” she said seeming surprised.

“Where are you from,” I asked.

“I’ grew up in Manehatten,” she responded. Suddenly I was hit by something very hard.

”Ow, what was that,” I said as I opened my eyes. It turned out to be Pinkie Pie giving me one of her spine crushing hugs.  By spine crushing, I mean spine crushing. She was literally squeezing the air out of me. “Uhh, Pinkie I am glad to see you too but can you let go of me now I can’t breathe,” I said as my voice got scratchy.

“Oopsie, sorry,” she said while letting me go. She noticed Autumn and she ran right up to her. “Oh, I have never met you before, my name is Pinkie Pie what is yours,” she said obviously excited.

“Autumn Breeze nice to meet you,” she said. We started to have conversations and it was a bit difficult for Autumn to keep up with Pinkie and her randomness.

“Oh, before I forget we are going to have Fluttershy’s birthday on Tuesday, Shadow,” Pinkie said.

“OK, I don’t really have any plans for that day,” I said.

“Really, that is good,” Autumn said in a suspicious tone.

‘I have a bad feeling about her now,’ I thought. After that we all went to doing what we had to do that day and it ended quickly.

The next few days went by fast. I had Fluttershy’s present ready to be given to her, which it was a phoenix egg that I found in the Everfree Forest.

“Are you sure you don’t want me to come with you,” Gold asked.

“Yes I am sure,” I responded.

“OK, just be careful,” she said. I grabbed my vine and I got my sword from Gold and I left for Fluttershy’s house. It was dark, around 7 O’clock to be exact, and there was a full moon. ‘I need to write a letter to Luna when I get home,’ I thought to myself. It was quiet for quite a while then I heard a scream. ‘Uh oh,’ I thought to myself and I headed towards the scream. The scream came from the park and I headed into the park and looked around. I stopped in a field with few trees in the park. “Hello!” I yelled. “I heard a scream and wanted to make sure if everything was alright,” I added. Then I saw Autumn come out from behind a tree. She was dressed differently though. She was wearing spandex and she also had throwing knives on her hind legs, and she also had a weapon in her hooves, it was a scythe. “Autumn, what is with the get up,” I asked putting my hoof on my sword just in case.

“I’m sorry that it has to come to this, Shadow,” she said.

“What do you mean,” I asked but she tried to slash me with the scythe. I dodged it and took out Harbringer. The light of Harbringer made her cover her eyes and I took the opportunity to attack. When I did she blocked it with her scythe.

“Did you really think I could be dumb enough to keep my eyes off you,” she asked. We were trying to overcome each other by using our strength. She tried to kick my feet from under me but I jumped back. “So, you have been trained well,” she said.

“Who do you work for,” I asked.

“Isn’t it obvious, I am a spy for the king of Zorthos,” she responded.

“Well I must admit you are a great actress,” I said admiring her skill.

She blushed a bit and said “Thank you, but flattery will get you nowhere.” ‘It seems I won’t be able to talk my way out of this one’ I thought to myself. We then went into combat and we were relentlessly attacking each other. A few minutes later we were breathing heavily and I was getting tired. ‘This is bad if I don’t end this now then I will most likely die’ I thought.

“You are better than I thought, Shadow,” she said.

“Thanks, you are pretty good too,” I said.

“Let’s end this so I can get paid,” she said and started to come at me. I started to charge and our weapons clashed and I felt something sharp cut my chest and I managed to get away from her and slashed her side and I got it deep. She looked at the wound and fell to the ground.

“It was a good run I guess,” she said while gasping for air.

“Before you die, tell me have you met a mare named Nightfire,” I asked.

“I only know of one pony with that name and that is one of the generals,” she said.

“Which one,” I asked. Before she could answer she started to fade away slowly. “Autumn! Autumn!” I yelled, and then she died, no she wasn’t dead I could hear her heart beat. I tore most of my cloak off and used that to cover the wound. Picking her up with my magic I took her to the hospital. When I got there a nurse came to me and took her.I walked home and I was having trouble walking from the blood loss. I walked in and got to my room, and remembered that I was supposed to go to Fluttershys birthday party. 'I'm going to be in for it tomorrow,' I thought to myself. Taking off my cloak I got on my bed and I noticed that the blood stopped. I went to sleep after a few minutes of lying down.