Showdown

What is life? Why do we fight? Harmony… why must it be tarnished. This war was becoming to much for Seth to handle. There seemed to be no hope anymore. It seemed impossible to win. He saw his own men die. His closest friends having their last glimmers of light fade from their eyes fell before him. Tears rained from the his eyes. What had he gotten himself into. It felt just like yesterday he was streaming through his emails ready to post the next big thing on EQD.

“No. This is not the time to cry.” Seth whispered to himself while wiping his tears with his blood soaked hands. “Faust… please… help me do what‘s right.” Seth took a deep breath after his prayer and took a step forward.

Out of the rubble walked Shining armor shrouded in a pink shield followed by some others. It was one against 10, and the odds were not against him. Despite Seth’s fear, he knew he had his loved ones backing him.

“You. Why don’t you just surrender now?”

Seth ignored the question. He knew that just talking was not going to go anywhere. He still did not have an answer truly for himself anyways. Sure there was some superficial reasons, but none deep in his heart… All he knew was that the fighting had to end.

“This war has been decided, so I’ll ask again, why do you fight.”

“My reasons are not of your concern. I only wish for the fighting to stop.”

“Before this war, you would’ve made a great friend; however, I must not forgive you humans for the loss of my loved ones.”

“Hypocrite.” At that point, Seth knew that their was no getting through to Shining Armor. Picking up the Spear, Seth didn’t think he was getting out of this battle alive. In fact, fighting a horde of soldiers whilst using a spear was very impractical, but it is all he had. The only option was to go straight for the leader and take him out. That was the only sure fire way to end the war.

Seth rushed towards the guards ready to strike, the first wave came to intercept, but Seth sliced the neck of the one open and spear the second between the eyes. Red mist squirted from the to as they fell and the rest came for him. Vastly outnumbered, Seth assessed the situation to figure his best route to get to Shining Armor. As he prepared his counter attack, a rocket came flying by and exploded right on the guards causing them to be thrown back. Unable to tell if they where alive or not, Seth still thanked the heavens for that miracle.

Shining Armor was shocked and outraged. “My men, I demand to know who is responsible for this!”

The pink pony pranced past not really paying mind to the mess made. “Whoops, seems like a stray firework came over this way! My bad! Hey! Its you again! Ooh, you shoulda sooooooooo been at that distraction party! It was a real blast!”

“I… uh… see…” Seth replied still shaken from the explosion.

“Pinkie! What are you doing! First you damage my unit then socialize with that filth!”

“Filth? He’s not that dirty. He does smell though… Hey didya put any deodorant on this morning?”

“I’ll give you one warning. Step aside from the enemy, or I’ll have to consider you a traitor.”

Pinkie turned towards Shining Armor with a question mark on her face. “Enemy? I don’t have any enemies! Everyone’s my friend.”

“I see. You still support him even though he killed…” Shining was cut off as Pinkie interrupted him.

“And you haven’t killed people near and dear to him!? That’s not fair! Maybe you should both apologies and…” Before she could finish, blood spattered every. Shining had picked up many spears with his magic and impaled Pinkies torso. She stood there for a bit still alive for a few seconds. “end this war…” The pink pony fell over still with the spears inside. Her final tears dried on her face as she laid there. Seth was shocked. The one he attributed as an ignorant child had just died in front of him.

“I’m sorry for dragging you into this… I will not let your death be in vain.” Seth had enough. He clearly could see that Shining Armor, despite who he was before, was clearly no more than a tyrant willing to kill even his own friends to win a war. This war was going to end no later than now. Seth readied the spear and prepared to attack Shining. He was not going to die first, the human rose above any fears he previously had. This war was his to win and harmony would be restored. He ran towards Shining Armor and felt a sharp pain through his stomach. At the same time, he felt blood splash against his face from in front of him. The victor was decided.

Author's Note

Who lived? Who died? Tune in to the next chapter for the exciting conclusion!