The Tales of Daisy Claw and Rainbow Thunder

Daisy looked up at Rainbow in shock, "W-What? You're leaving? Why?"

Rainbow sighed and took the letter back. He folded it back up, put it back on the spear, closed the weapon's box and tucked it under his bed.

"Because I want to do something more then be a simple rock farmer Daisy. I have electrical powers for a reason, and that reason is not breaking open rocks for gems. This is my chance to make a name for myself, we're at war with the dragons for crying out loud! And besides even if I don't make a name for myself as a guard I can help make a difference in the war!"

Daisy was pissed, she wanted to slap him, "So you're going to leave your family?! Just like that?! What the hell is wrong with you Rainbow?!"

Rainbow grabbed his sister's shoulders, "Daisy listen to me. I need to do this, I won't spend my life chiseling at rocks on this damned farm in the middle of bucking nowhere!"

Daisy slapped his hooves away and made for his door and said harshly, "Whatever, I don't want to hear it."

Daisy then left his room, slamming the door behind her.

He's leaving us. Why the hell is he leaving us, we're his family for crying out loud!!

And then she was surprised when her father came out, a sword in his mouth and hair disheveled, looking around wildly. Her mother followed close behind.

"What was that banging?"

"Ask my bucking brother," Daisy said storming to her room when the wall in front of her blew inwards. She yelped in surprise and stumbled backwards.

Through the massive hole in the wall came a dozen ponies. There were four batpony mares, three stallions, a unicorn stallion, two unicorn mares, and two massive earth pony stallions. Each of them was armed with one weapon or another except the unicorns.

Shadow went into action immediately grabbing Daisy and Thunder. She yanked them into Rainbow's room as a large fireball shot at them from the horn of the unicorn stallion. Thunder dropped his sword as they were pulled.

Rainbow had his spear drawn and looked in surprise at his parents and sister, "What's going on?"

Shadow flew to the window and opened it, "No time to explain, go! NOW!"

Daisy did as she was told and was followed quickly by their father. Rainbow hesitated a moment before following suit as the door blew open. Shadow was knocked through the wall creating a large hole in it. She recovered before she hit the ground and used the moment of the impact to start her flight.She flew next to her family.

"Keep low to the ground, keep moving, and whatever you do; DO NOT STOP!" Shadow yelled through the wind as they flew.

Rainbow looked to Canterlot, "There, go that way! Towards the castle!"

He turned, the rest of the family following suit. Just then a spear shot through the air impaling Lightning Stryke in the flank.

"Buck I missed!" Yelled a batpony flying up next to them, followed quickly by the rest of the batponys, carrying the others of their group. Lightning hit the ground as blood trailed behind him and A large fireball exploded just in front of the group knocking them all out of the air. Shadow was on her feet in front of her family immediately, her eyes glowing black with her shadow magic. Daisy had several burns across her left side, and had landed awkwardly on her wing. She assumed it broken. Rainbow, who had been a lot closer to the blast, was in much worse condition. The fur on his entire left side was burned off and singed, his back leg was broken, as was one of his wings.

Shadow watched as two of the bat pony mares landed next to Lightning, their spears pointing at him. The unicorns were dropped on either side of her and the Earth ponys next to them. The rest of the batponys surrounded the family as Daisy stood up, helping her brother.

A batpony stallion with an eyepatch over his right eye and a large mace hooked into the loop of his belt stepped forward, "It is good to see you again Shadowbat. I doubt you remember me. I was a member of the group of hunters you killed before you married this trash." He nodded to Lightning who glared daggers at the stallion. "Now," He continued, "If you come quietly I may allow your family to live. if you resist I will have them all killed on the spot. Slowly. I do not want to hurt them..." He said walking to Daisy and Rainbow who immediately backed away in fear, "But I will not hesitate if you attempt to resist. Now, what will it be?"

Daisy looked between them as her mother's eyes darted from pony to pony. She then looked at Daisy pleadingly and shook her head. Daisy understood and gave a microscopic nod back to her. Shadow looked down at the ground and the magic seeped out of her eyes, "Very well, I will surrender, as long as you promise not to hurt my family."

The two Earth pony stallions walked forward, one wielding a broadsword in his mouth, the other a axe strapped to his side. in his mouth were a large pair of shackles. They knocked her over and chained her forehooves together with her back hooves. They then put a chain around her body to hold her wings down. The stallion with the sword then whirled around and gave Shadow a hard buck to the head.

The stallion with the eyepatch looked at Daisy, "My name is Night Stalker. I am a shadowbat hunter for the colony," He leaned in and whispered in her ear, "I know what you are, but I am a stallion of my word. I shall allow you to escape this one time, but I promise you that if We ever cross paths again I shall not be so lenient. Now run shadowbat, run..." He whispered to here smiling maliciously. Daisy nodded quickly and turned to run away, her brother's foreleg draped over her as her father was released. He didn't join them however. He shot a bolt of lightning at Night Stalker.

The stallion sidestepped it and drew his mace with a hoof. In the same fluid motion he turned and threw the mace. It flew like an arrow right into Lightning Styke's chest, caving it in, causing blood to spew out of multiple puncture wounds from the small spikes on the head of the mace. He fell over coughing up blood and the mace hit the ground. Daisy didn't stay to watch what happened next.

With her brother in tow the siblings made their way to Canterlot, an uncertain future ahead of them other than this; they would never return to their little farm with their parents. Never again feel the happiness of their father's pride or the joy of their mother's love. All they had left was each other.