Chapters "Go! Go! Go!" the warrior chanted as he encouraged us to press on with his team skill. Me and Klum were quick to take the alternate route to get to the enemy castle as fast as possible.
"The usual?" Klum asked not slowing his pace.
"The usual!" I exclaimed, being launched into the air by a slingshot. The landing is never that hard, I don't know why it doesn't hurt, you go about 200 feet in the air. I landed feet first and got ready to fight the first unlucky person to come across me and Klum.
"To your left, Stidham!" Klum shouted, charging a 'Sacred Armor' spell to boost my defense. I sidestepped to the right and barely got far enough to avoid being pierced by a spear. I quickly reseted my posture and opened fire, literally. My foe danced around while he was being shot at by huge balls of fire.
"Haha, dance for me!" I taunted, finishing off my opponent by smacking him with my Green Tea Wand. Me and Klum ran to the next slingshot and landed only a few feet away from a potential ladder siege spot on the enemy castle.
"I'll get on that!" Klum, being the cleric, summoned the necessary tools to successfully build a ladder. I set a wind trap at our flank in case someone noticed us. Klum was already smashing and building the ladder parts to magically build one.
"It's done! Lets go" He yelled while climbing up the ladder to smash the protective bars out of the way.
"Gotcha! Here I come" I said, enchanting Klums mace with fire to deal more damage to the bars. We eventually broke the gate, we instantly rushed towards the 'Big Tower'. Me and Klum started destroying it with our hammers.
"Yes!! Victory!" Klum cheered as we started to see an assortment of foes become tied to poles around the big tower.
"Wow, great job on that rush, guys" A mage said.
"Yeah, what will we do without you!" More cheered from the crowd.
"Your the best!" Everyone went wild.
Me and Klum walked down the isle, selecting a seat at the tables. We each had a tray full of an assortment of meats, veggies, and fruits.
"Man, what a day" Klum sighed, stretching out and grabbing his fork.
"What do you mean" I asked.
"Well, our rush, and how Mando finally got the MVP award" Klum stated. I didn't know Mando got that today, he's been working hard to get that award, he's earned it.
"Wow, thats great!" I said, "I oughta thank him after this for doing so well."
"I know, 28 kills and 3 deaths! Thats pretty hard to get as a cleric!" Klum said, clearly amazed at how Mando could possibly pull that off.
"Well, we all have our days, and I hope you get yours soon, our you'll be a total los- I meant an even bigger loser." I said sarcastically.
"Hey! I've already had MY day! Remember that time I got a total assist score of 923!?" Klum countered.
"Yeah....assists" I chuckled.
"Oh, shut up..." Klum said as he bit into his chicken wing. We ate and hit the hay, we had another battle tomorrow.
"You ready?" I asked Klum, tightening the 'Dark Nation' flag on my back. Klum didn't answer, he was already out the door when I asked the question. I heard the sound of a loud cowbell, signaling the start of the battle. I hurried to the battlefield, all armor in check, and Klum waiting for me at the main gate.
"Finally! Where have you been!" Klum asked, with a bit of worry on is face.
"Just a little behind is all, don't worry" I said, preparing for the gate to open and for screaming to flow into my ears.
"YOU ready?" Klum asked, a bit of a smirk on his face. I ignored him, getting in a running stance.
*Dun DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN*
"Woooohooo!" I shouted, running to the nearest tower to help build it up, making it an eligible spawn point. I ran toward the 'Balance Tower', which was the tower that was in the middle of the map, evenly aligned between both castles. It was dangerous to charge there without some backup , but there were some berserkers just a few yards behind me. I spotted a few clerics and mages running my way. I gulped, it was pretty scary not having your best friend next to you in battle, especially if you've never fought without him.
"Hey, don't run off like that!" Klum said, breathing heavily, while running next to me. He used a wall spell to block off the attackers while we built the tower, and then casted a sanctuary to always heal us whenever we needed it as long as we were inside the circle. The wall was destroyed as soon as we finished the warriors on out team had taken the lead in murdering any person in sight. I was using ranged attacks to provide hidden support, and Klum was healing,resurrecting, and helping people out in any way.
"Hey what are they doing!" I yelled to everyone as I saw the other team charging a team skill. I shot some firebolts over there to stop them, but they disintegrated before they could reach them. I turn around to see the reaction of my team, still fighting.
"Hey, Stidham, you might want to- RUN RUN RUN PLEASE RUN!!!" Klum screamed, a little to late.
"Woah, woah, WOAH!! Help meeeee!" I screamed, being sucked up in a tornado, being spun 'round and 'round.
"NO! Stidham!" Klum jumped in the tornado in search of me, he knew he couldn't save me, or himself for that matter, but he always had hope.
"K-Klum is that you!" I yelled, flailing my arms around.
"Hey! If we're in a tornado, that means-" Klum went pale.
"Dang, it's been a good run, Klum" I said, putting my arm around his neck.
"Dude, i'm sorry about this." Klum looked crestfallen.
"For what?" I said, the tornado was picking up speed, and decreasing in size.
"Not using Dash on you, you would've gotten away" Klum, confessed.
"It's ok, besides, we're going out together right?" I smiled at him, a tear being carried away by the high winds.
"Yup" Klum said. The last thing I saw was the wall, and me and Klum about to be smashed through it. Goodbye, cruel, heartless world.
Everything was fuzzy, I could hear chirping, and I was laying in grass. I opened one eye, looking around at the trees, bushes, birds, and even a town up ahead. I slowly rubbed my eyes, and got to my feet, which failed. I fell back on my rump, gasping the moment I realized.... I wasn't dead. I suddenly sprang up on my feet and looked around me again. Picking up my long wand(no innuendo intended, you sick person), and inspected my body for any bruises or cuts, nothing. My robe was torn into shreds, so my whole body was half exposed to all of nature to see, luckily I had undergarments.
"S-s-Stidham?" A voice spoke from behind a tree, it was Klum.
"KLUM!!!" I exclaimed, running toward him and hugging him. I couldn't believe we we're both alive, it was a happy miracle. I helped Klum gather his stuff, his tools and bags were everywhere.
"How did we survive the fall?" Klum said, expecting me to have an answer.
"No idea, but praise Artimus for blessing us with this gift of life!" I chanted, Klum smiled and looked up. Nothing, nothing at all, no sign of a wall, or a floating battlefield, just nothing but clouds.
"This is awesome, we should find an inn in that town though, I need a nap." Klum suggested, walking towards the town.
"Alrighty then" I said, walking with Klum. We approached the town with mixed thoughts, there were a lot of horses. A LOT of them, different colors and shapes, some had wings, some had horns, some had none of that.
"Um, Stidham?" Klum said with uneasiness.
"Um, yeah, I see it too." I said, just as nervous as he was.
"HEY! IT'S MORE OF THOSE CHUMPS!! GET TWILIGHT, I'll deal with these two for now until she gets here!" A rainbow horse charged at us, full speed. I was quick enough to dodge it, I turned around to meet a hoof...to my face.
"OUCH! What the heck! I'll make you pay!" I taunted, raising my wand and charging a wind blast.
"Rawr!!" The rainbow horse charged again, I unleashed a wind blast in its face, it was blown back a good 30 feet. I look over at Klum, who is dealing with horses with pitchforks.
"Thats all you got! Featherbrain?" I taunted some more, sticking my tongue out and waving my wand back and forth.
"Shut up you little runt!" The horse flew at me, it tackled me and pinned me down, it raised it's hoof and hit me in the face again, and again, and another time. All the while I was taking the hits just so it wouldn't notice that I had, ZZZZAP! The horse blacked out and fell to the ground, I used my lighting, lots of volts, maybe to much but whatever. I got up to see Klum standing his ground pretty well, but he was outnumbered.
"Hey thats enough!" Who I presumed was Twilight, screamed and charged something in her horn, aiming directly at Klum.
"Twilight! Where in Equestria are these things coming from!" A purple dragon yelled, it was showing its sharp teeth and held it's claws up. There was one problem though, it was tiny.
"Klum! Watch out" I warned, I started to run toward him, but a rope suddenly was wrapped around my leg and I tripped.
"Gotcha ya' little varmit!" An orange horse taunted, with a rope tied to its tail.
"Let me go! You will never see the sunlight again when i'm done with you!" I yelled, struggling to get the rope off of me. I used my wand to burn it off, then I huffed and glared at the orange pony, who was named Applejack, from what I heard from Twilight. I swear I felt steam coming from my ears, my face was hot, and I was angry. I screamed as loud as a berserker in rage mode. The ponies around me covered their ears and fell to the ground.
"Hey Stidham!" Klum said, running over to me, he had knocked his opponents out. The rainbow one was already being cared for by a yellow one. Klum barely looked exhausted, no scrapes or cuts, he was untouchable.
"How about we-" I was cut short, my whole body was encased in a purple dome. I screamed, no one could hear me, I banged on the dome with my fists, my wand wasn't inside. Twilight had it in a magical grip, beaming with pride. Klum yelled something, I couldn't tell what he said, but I knew that he was furious. He performed a series of arm movements that looked all to familiar. He yelled one last thing before I was out of the dome, it was gone.
"Thats dispell for ya!" Klum screamed and picked me up. Twilights horn looked damaged, it was being cancelled out by Klum's spell, he disabled her magic, only for a while. A large group of ponies suddenly surrounded us, pitchforks, and torches in their mouths.
"Crap!" I yelled, we were completely surrounded, nowhere to run.
"Hey guys look!" A mage said, pointing to a large crowd of ponies with a cleric and a mage in the middle.
"Woah, should we help them?" A warrior asked all of his mates.
"Yeah!" All of the others cheered, they were all attacked by the same ponies, so they wanted revenge.
"Alrighty then!" A berserker screamed, "Are we gonna fight tough! or weak!"
"TOUGH!!!" Everyone chanted.
"Alright lets line up for a group rush!" The berserker said, charging his team skill.
"Your going down chumps!" Rainbow Dash yelled, wanting revenge on me for what I did.
"Yeah, you can't just waltz into Ponyville and attack us!" One screamed from the crowd.
"But you attacked US first!!" I protested, "Rainbow Dash! She just straight up charged me!"
"Did not! Thats it!" Rainbow Dash said, she gave a battle cry and flew at me, the sound of... screaming stopped her. Everyone was silent.
"EEEEEEEYAHAHAYAHAYAHAYH" A large group of mages and warriors came charging at the ponies. They were so fast, the ponies barely had time to react.
SLICE!!!!
The Battle for Ponyville (Part 1)
SLICE
A limb flew across the air, and another. The ponies scrambled in a disorganized mess, some fighting back, some running, and some dying. Me and Klum were to surprised to even move, stunned by the fact the we just got saved by a group rush. 5 certain ponies were fighting, the yellow one crying and hiding. I could only think of how happy the warriors/berserkers must be to kill again.
"FOR THE DARK EMPIRE" many allies screamed, fighting against the ponies.
"Klum! We should help!" I said, my face having a determined look, I looked across the bloodied field. Rainbow Dash, not being attacked by anyone, slowly walked towards me, with anger on her face, I loved how I could make rivals instantly. Rainbow Dash leaped at me, she tackled me and we started throwing punches, smacks, and headbutts. She and I had lots of stamina, we never showed any sign of exhaustion. I kicked her off of me and then she flew in the air, out of my reach. She flew away, I couldn't see her anymore, just a large fight with blood being spilled everywhere. She suddenly kicked me in the back and I lost all of my air, I fell to the ground hard and could barely breath.
"Take THAT!" She screamed in my face, and hit me more, my face showing bruises. I tasted blood in my mouth and I grew angrier, I hit her on the side of the head with my wand. I quickly jumped to my feet and hit her again.
"Heads up!" A berserker yelled as he tossed me his sword, I knew what I could do with Rainbow Dash in a daze. I kicked her in the face and raised the sword, I brought it down fast and I was stopped, my hands were covered in a magical glow. I was pulled away from Rainbow Dash and I was soon in front of Twilight. She smiled and her horn started to glow really bright, I felt my hands burning and I started to sweat. It got even hotter and I realized I was basically being tortured.
"AHHHHHHHHHH S-STOP!!!" I screamed as loud as I could, my hands were just getting hotter and hotter. I float in the air, helpless, I was going to faint. "K-KLUM HELP MEEEE!!!!" I felt like my whole body was being slowly dipped in acid, I just kept screaming until I heard Twilight yelp. I was taken out of the magical grip and I fell to the ground, I looked over to Twilight and chuckled. She had a dagger tossed at her torso, blood dripping to the ground.
"ENOUGH OF THIS" An extremely loud voice spoke up, a large white pony was floating just above the bloodied canvas. All of us, accept the ponies, were encased in a giant golden bubble, floating just above the ground. Warriors and such were bashing at the bubble. It wouldn't budge, only the sound of loud pings were heard. I noticed Klum wasn't inside the bubble, I began to panic and started to scream like I was being tortured again. It was torture, losing Klum in battle to me was like losing the whole war, I couldn't fight without him. I started to cry a bit, if these ponies killed Klum, they won't hear the end of it, they will still hear my voice when they were in hell. "ITS TIME YOU ARE SENT BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM, I WILL NOT ALLOW SUCH A DANGEROUS SPECIES IN MY NATION!!!" even though we were in that bubble, we could still hear her, even the ponies were a bit frightened at the sight.
"Not while I'm here and standing!" Klum protested, stomping his foot into the dirt and huffing. All the ponies gasped, the white pony only grew angrier. "Too bad magic won't help your case" Klum smirked.
"WHAT IS THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN!" She walked closer to Klum. Klum, being brave, stood his ground and just stared at the pony, even though it was pretty much towering him.
"I mean- DISPELL!!!!" Klum shouted, a large blue blast erupted from his feet. Everyone was dropped to the ground and the bubble disappeared. No one made a move to strike, the ponies looked at Klum in awe, he just cancelled out the pony's magic. "I want EVERYONE, to retreat! NOW" Klum ordered, we all obliged and ran towards the forest, the ponies were to stunned to move. Klum looked at all of them, and scoffed, he then enchanted himself with dash and ran way too.
"Hey!*cough cough* W-we c-can't just l-let them*cough cough* leave!" Rainbow Dash said, attempting to get up, it failed.
"Let them, I need to research something" Princess Celestia said, her eyes showed concern. For Twilight and the other injured ponies, and for the creatures that now wander her nation. She counted the dead and injured ponies, 28 dead, 12 wounded or injured. No sign of one of the creatures bodies.
"Man, that was terrible..." I sighed, looking at my reddened and blistered hands.
"What part, the part where I was interrupted from killing another pony or we retreated?" A berserker said, I gave him a 'are you kidding me?' look "What?! Everyones thinking it!"
"I mean THIS" I said, showing everyone my hands, most of them gasped, Klum looked very concerned.
"Are you okay? I can probably heal that for you!" Klum added, using his heal spell on me, my hands didn't burn or ache anymore, but they still looked burned."It didn't work? Let me try-"
"Klum! it's fine, the pain went away" I told him, I gave him a reassuring smile and he nodded. That night, we all made a campfire a little deeper into the forest, and Klum put up a wall so nothing could sneak up on us. We ate some weird scorpion lion thing that tried to attack us, it was tasty. Before we all fell asleep, me and Klum stayed awake along with a few other mages to attempt to build a respawn tower. Klum kept blueprints and a spell that could make it work, but it took all night. We had to try it out somehow, so a mage decided to step up and kill himself, if it didn't work, he new it was for a good cause. He raised his wand and shot himself in the face, I winced when he did it, I have felt the pain of a shot that close up to the face before. He fell to the ground and after a few seconds...........PING. He disappeared and after another few seconds...........WOMP. He was suddenly warped back into the world and he was fine. This could be perfect, we showed that we can easily defeat the ponies and we may not have the numbers, but we have infinite lives, combat skills, and soon.
We WILL have an empire...
The Battle for Ponyville (Part 2)
I awoke with everyone awake already, some were keeping a watch on the town. I slowly got up and stretched out, making sure I was prepared for anything. I noticed a small spec up in the sky, then three more, all of which falling down. I squinted to try to get a better look, I noticed that they were bodies. My eyes widened as they fell, people around me started to notice this to.
"Are they? Falling" Klum said, scratching his head.
"Yes but, from where...Oh my god!!" I said, realizing that they were just smashed through 'The Wall'.
"The Wall! Thats it The Wall!!" A mage exclaimed, we prepared to drag them into the forest to avoid them from 'attacking' the town again. We lined up across the edge of the forest, waiting for their impact to the ground. They were extremely close, most of us winced and closed our eyes when they hit the ground. I looked over to the unconscious bodies, none of them were bloodied or damaged, only their clothes. We all ran over there and grabbed the bodies, and quickly dragged them into the forest.
"Man, I thought they were done for" Klum said.
"But all of us survived the fall didn't we?" I said, everyone nodded. It took a while to wait for the people to wake up, but soon they did.
"I sure do hope Twilight is okay" Pinkie said , her hair drooping and a frown on her face.
"I just don't understand why those things got ta' attack us!" Applejack ranted, showing anger and concern.
"When I find them, i'll beat them to a pulp!" Rainbow shouted, thinking of one certain creature."We have to do something about Ponyville! It is unguarded, and with those things out in the forest, they can attack at any time!"
"I have to agree with Dash, Ponyville is so vulnerable! Maybe we can get Spikey Wikey to send a letter to the Princess about this problem!" Rarity stated, pouting and looking over to Twilight. Twilight was heavily damaged, the dagger pierced through her ribcage and almost extremely damaged organs. She was quickly taken to the hospital after Roseluck noticed that she was stabbed.
The whole group of us 'rebels' stayed in the forest at all times, to avoid further contact with those ponies. Some requested that we just go and kill them all, we could, but many of us refused to do so at the time. A few more people fell from the sky over the two hours that we waited, building little huts and tinkering with our weapons. Soon, we had a full on campsite, we moved further down the forest before making all of this, we didn't wan to be found. We had a little training yard, a main hut and separate huts for sleeping. We elected Klum to be the leader, he was smart, kind, reliable, truthful, outgoing, and generous. It wasn't a hard decision, most of us knew Klum anyways, we was the best cleric out there, or....up there. Our group got larger by at least every other day. We had 12 at the start, now we have 23, we all got along just fine, being from the same faction and all. There was even a river up ahead, so water and baths were covered, this forest had a myriad of animals, enough to feed us for years.
It was a while before all of us noticed golden carriages being flown through the air, it caught everyones eye. They were high enough to see over the trees, and they were being carried, buy ponies. All of our eyes were locked one carriage, after carriage ,after carriage.
"They are bringing in reinforcements!!! We have to attack now!!" A berserker shouted, raising his swords.
"He's right! We need to go before to many come!" I joined him in a motivational weapon raise. Everyone looked at Klum, waiting for his take on this.
"Let's go..." Klum stated, there was a brief moment of silence, then everyone cheered and readied up. We all lined up across the edge of the forest, we were prepared for a procedure like this. I started my team skill....lighting arrows, and so did some other mages. Everyone was ready to fire, we did, the sight of ponies running around was simply amusing to watch. We caused a few fires to the roofs of some homes, and we killed about 6 golden ponies, or guards or whatever. We instantly ran towards the town and prepared to fight, these ponies had decent weapons, armor and everything. Just MAYBE they MIGHT put up a real fight. The sounds of metal weapons connecting at high speeds were heard, I looked around, being cautious of that sneaky rainbow devil. I looked behind me just in time to meet another tackle, it was Rainbow Dash. She had some blue armor on and the helmet made her look like a spartan, she even had holes for her wings too. One thing that I really noticed was the dagger in her mouth, the handle had an engraving on it that said "For Twilight". I pulled a dagger of my own out of my pocket in my robe, it was something I thought about when we were preparing. It never hurt to have a sharp weapon on you, especially if you were a mage, I didn't know why they didn't allow that back at home, it was a clever idea. I pushed her off of me and we charged each other, our daggers clashing together, we were both pushing the daggers as of it was a reversed version of tug of war. She was strong, she did a final push with her wingpower too and I fell to the ground again. I rolled over to evade her stab, her dagger got stuck in the ground.... perfect. I jumped at her and she moved out of the way, she tried to fly away agin but not this time. I quickly jumped onto her, my dagger fell out of my hand, she kept flying though. We were fighting, in the air, she flew over to a cloud and landed on it, she expected me to fall through it. I was standing on a cloud... I was speechless at first but then I remembered what the main goal was, Kill.This.Pony. I didn't jump at her, I knew that she would just move and I would fall to my death. I remembered that we had something the ponies would never understand, infinite lives. We weren't immortal, we just never permanently died. We both dove at each other at the same time, our heads collided in a painful BONK. We both just lay there, trying to recover from the stupid fail. I got up first and jumped on her, I punched her a few times and she jolted up. She couldn't get up because I was on her, she threw her hoof at me and I moved my head back to dodge. I punched her again, blood coming from her nose, I then punched her in the eye. She obviously wasn't blinded and beaten enough to not notice the pegasus guard behind me, she screamed.
"Help!" I turned around to meet a spear to my stomach, I toppled over and groaned, I coughed up blood. "Take that you bastard!!" She then bucked me off the cloud, I fell for a short while, then hit the ground. I conveniently landed on a guard and he was then stabbed. PING,WOMP, I was sprung back to life, I ran over tho the battlefield, and by the looks of it, we were winning. I provided ranged support and burned ponies, also set wind traps in places to blow some back. I saw more carriages being carried through the air, I shot firebolts at them, they crashed to the ground. I didn't see anything crawl out of the wreckage, which was good. The ponies' defenders were being depleted fast, soon we were fighting all the way inside the town.
The Final Battle for Ponyville
"We got this guys!! Keep pushing!" Klum encouraged as we fought inside the town. The ponies' group of guards were being depleted, nothing was going to stop this victory. We tried not to damage the homes to much, we were going to occupy them after this. The opposing force kept moving back, some of them were just yelling to get to a train station or something. Ponies began to retreat, the guards kept fighting, but most of the ponies were running away. I noticed the train station that they were talking about, not to far away from us.
"Hey! They're running to the train! Get em'!" I ordered, we rushed passed the guards and ran towards the fleeing ponies. We managed to catch up while they were boarding the train, we were stopped by a large gust. I saw Twilight, she was still hurt and was being help up by Rainbow Dash. She used some kind of spell to push us back, very far. We couldn't stop the small group of ponies from boarding completely, the guards were all killed. Klum ordered us to stop and watch them retreat, he said it makes him feel powerful, and dang was he right. The last pony I saw boarding the train was Rainbow Dash, she looked over at us and her eyes grew wide. She saw me smiling at her, she growled and I gave her an ugly hand signal. She took offense to it even thought she probably didn't know what it meant. All of the ponies rode off into the distance, leaving the town. There was complete silence while we all watched them flee.
"We absolutely rock..." Klum said, everyone suddenly cheered and threw their weapons in the air.
"We did it!" A mage said.
"Was there EVER any doubt!?" More of them said, I walked over to Klum and fist bumped him. We all got ready to Rebuild. Recruit. Train. We spent the next few hours building new homes and making a wall and watchtowers. Soem more people fell from the sky, which we would take into the...OUR town. The wall was poorly designed, the architectural design of it was like taking a stick and putting it in the ground, weak. None of us knew about building a well-made wall, it was harder because there wasn't that many clerics. Nothing was in order except the training, the buildings were not good, and the wall and watch towers sucked.
"Geez, this is embarrassing!" I said, smacking my palm against my face.
"Tell me about it..." Klum replied, rubbing his temples and sighing. Suddenly, a person fell from the sky again, he didn't look like a warrior,or mage, or even cleric. He was wearing a red striped shirt with black overalls on. He had a wrench and some other utilities and tools for crafting and building. He hit the ground and I approached him cautiously. He stood up and looked around in awe.
"Hey? Um, can I h-help you?" He said.
"Yes, if you don't mind, what class are you?" I asked, not recognizing his setup.
"Well, i'm an engineer!" He said with pride, a smile on his face,"Mah names Scooter by the way!" He shook my hand and twisted his wrench in his hand.
"Wow! Thats awesome! What can you do?" Klum asked with 100% curiosity. Scooter wasn't paying any attention to Klum, instead he was eying everything that was wrong with our base. "Umm, are you okay?" Klum asked.
"Yeah, yeah, don't wor-" Scooter didn't even finish his sentence, he did some spell that made a really big robot appear. He eyed it and nodded, he then summoned another one?! I guess he had some great practice to be able to do that. "I am going to safe you guys by fixing your town." Scooter said, not turning around to look at us.
"Um, sure thats great!" I said, breaking the awkward silence. Everyone around was focused on Scooter and his bots, from time to time, he would jump inside a suit and get to work. We all decided to help in every single way possible, I carried materials back and forth to everyone, Klum helped Scooter do some building and everyone was having fun. The wall was complete with a gate and everything, we had watch towers scattered around and even an alarm system. We made a tower there, we had different sections of the town, and I even did a head count of how many we had by the end of the day. 61 people were standing in front of me when I finished counting. I was definitely impressed with how this was going, we successfully took over a city AND bulked it up to an even better one. There was a south and north gate, the north gate was facing the mountainside castle off in the distance, and the south gate was just facing a small cottage on a hill.
"I can't believe this" Rainbow moaned, slouching in her seat. Everypony on the train was depressed or asleep, either way, life sucked right now.
"I reckon the princesses could help us with this, ah' mean, how hard could it be?" Applejack said, this got the attention of Twilight.
"Well, very, if they can cancel magic that from us then, what would we do? Those creatures proved themselves to be better at fighting that us ponies, as well as their physical abilities are higher. They aren't only endangering us ponies, but griffons, mules, and maybe even dragons to." Twilight admitted, Applejack and Rainbow Dash knew this, but they didn't wan't to give up.
"What if we Ponies, Griffons, and Dragons joined together? Surely that would be enough to stop them right?" Rainbow asked.
"Well, maybe the princesses could convince the griffons that they need to help us to help them, but I don't know about dragons."
Prep Step (Part 1)
It was a nice day, the sun was bright and there were few cirrus clouds in the air. One thing we found out about the ponies is that the pegasus is the only source of controlling weather. That was going to be a problem. Scooter was the greatest help ever, our new and improved town and defenses were more than enough to keep us safe. Klum and Scooter were talking, many people were just relaxing, I was just exploring the town. I was actually impressed with how the ponies could build, there was a barn, a tree library, and a large town hall. The cottage out in the distance was left untouched, in fact, no one had ever approached it yet. I was looking out in the distance towards the mountain castle, there was a huge dome over it. They were obviously getting prepared for another attack. There was another problem on out hands, we had no blacksmith, usually if we needed to upgrade or repair weaponry, we'd go to the blacksmith. We couldn't buy new weapons and armor, nothing. I was considering practicing blacksmithing for the sake of our town.We were good on food, there was a bakery and the biggest farm i've ever seen, along with apples, corn, pumpkins, and many more. I'm guessing Applejack worked there for sure, and maybe Rainbow Dash worked at a bakery? No way, to tough. We had to prepare for expansion, we needed to gear up and go, explore this unknown land more. I decided to call a town meeting.
"Attention!!! Can I please say a word? I have a suggestion!" I said, Klum walked on the stage with me and stood next to me. "I think we should explore this land more! We don't know a lot about this place! We should make a group of people willing to scout out this place! Look for more settlements! Soon we will not have enough space to house everyone! WE need to act now!"
"YEAH! WOO" The riled up crowd cheered in unison.
"Nice thinking, bro" Klum said. Many people volunteered for the scouting, even Scooter obliged to join in. This was going to be a great day, I will be leading the scouting and Scooter will be in his robot, to get up high places and protect us.
"Ah' think thats a swell idea!" Scooter exclaimed. "I will love doing this!"
"Alright thatssss...... 13 people! Just enough!" I said, writing this down on a piece of paper. We all prepared for probably two days worth of walking and climbing. We packed tents and supplies, we needed to scout the surrounding areas of the town. I had a large yellow and black flag on my back, just to stand out more. I did a role call before we left. "Scooter, Marcus, Jinx, Petro, Ryan, Skippy, Ned, Mariah, Langley, Gengo, Blue, Seven, and Felix?"
"Here!" They all said in sync. I was surprised by their enthusiasm, we got going in two minutes. Klum stayed behind to keep the town safe, and he was also our new leader. I had a large blank sheet of paper with a quill, as we went along I recorded the land on a map. There was a large dark forest, which I named the 'DarkWood Forest'. We came across a large valley, which was being treaded on by the train tracks. I didn't come up with a cool name for the valley, I just put 'Valley' in its large space. There was a small woodland area that had tall skinny trees with white and pink leaves, I named that 'SnowFlinx Woods'. There were snowy mountains, I just drew some baseless triangles to symbolize mountains.
"Woah, it's getting late, we should set up camp and continue tomorrow" I said, everyone obliged and unpacked their stuff, I set up a campfire and grabbed some apples for everyone. I even grabbed a pack of marshmallows from that bakery, good stuff.
"And then he just fell off!" Scooter finished, everyone broke out into laughter, we told stories,jokes, and just talked. "Man, those were the days"
"Hey, we should get to sleep guys..." I said, feeling a bit drowsy.
"Mmmhm" The group replied. We all had our own tents, but I bet Felix and Jinx were sharing one. Its was about 30 minutes until I was woken up by some snapping twigs. I silently opened my tent up and grabbed my staff, I put my hood on and snuck out. I had a keen eye for sneaks, being on alert the whole time. I noticed something jump from one cloud to another, I squinted further ahead to see 3 ponies crouching on the ground. I quickly went prone and sighed, I watched them move closer. I felt some wind rush above me, only to have the wind pushed out of me. I felt four hooves on my back, and they were putting extreme pressure on my back. I felt my hands being pulled by magic, NO NOT THIS, NOT AGAIN , I thought to myself. I regained my breath and tried to scream, but I couldn't, I was silenced by some weird spell. I was tied up by a rope and then there was a bright flash. I was then hit in the back of the head and everything went black.
"What was that?!" Scooter yelled, He ran outside to check, nothing was there. Everyone was outside to find out what was wrong. Scooter did a role call. "Marcus, Jinx, Petro, Ryan, Blue, Seven, Skippy, Ned, Mariah, Langley, Felix, Gengo, Wyatt?"
"WYATT IS GONE SCOOTER!!!" Felix yelled, everyone gasped and panicked.
"Ah shoot! What happened to him!!" Scooter exclaimed.
"It's those damned ponies again!!! They outnumbered and ambushed him, he's been captured!!" Ryan said.
"Dang, Klum isn't gonna be happy when he hears the news..." Scooter frowned and looked at the ground." Lets get back to the town! Lets go!" Scooter commanded.
Everyone hurried back to the town, wide awake. They were going to quickly tell Klum, he was not only the leader but my BEST friend. They got back to the town and went to Klums house.
"Klum!Klum!Klum! Open up!" Scooter banged on the door a series of times. Klum opened the door, worried about why I wasn't on the other side of the door.
"W-what is it?" Klum asked.
"WYATTS GONE!!" Scooter screamed. Klums eyes went wide and his eye twitched, he looked over the small crowd of people.
"Alright, ponies, you wanna play like that" Klum said to himself. He looked over to the castle and smiled.
"This.Means.War."
Prep Step(Part 2) : This means War
I could barely see, my eyes wouldn't open all the way. I heard some voices and I felt myself being dragged along a long, cold pathway. I felt like an anvil was dropped on the back of my head, and the fact that I was being dragged on my back with my head on the ground, didn't help. The voices sounded all too familiar, I assumed it was Rainbow Dash, Twilight, and Applejack. I couldn't make out what they were talking about, but I swear that I heard one say "Creature". Obviously I was the 'creature' they mentioned, I tried not to make any noise to show them that I was awake, couldn't risk having loud voices screaming at me the rest of the "walk". My head hit a rugged bump and I grunted, I saw through my blurry vision of what looked like them looking at me. They all slowed their paces to stay next to me, all staring at me with death looks. I opened my eyes fully and got what I expected.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't you again!" Rainbow yelled. She was obviously very angry with how I survived the cloud fall. "How are you even alive! I KILLED you!!" She got in my face, her anger clearly showing.
"Look Rainbow, how about you save the interrogating until we get to the cell?" Twilight budged in, THANK GOD. I took a deep breath and tried to ignore the dirty looks. We finally got to the cell and I was literally tossed inside, I saw that I was being dragged by a royal guard. I hit my back hard and had, once again, the wind knocked out of me. I gasped for air in the dirty, beaten cell. I heard footsteps, well more like hoof steps get closer to me, I was still tied up. I realized that there were four ponies, not three. Rainbow Dash, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and a yellow one who I didn't know of.
"Escuse me girls but, the Princess needs to see you" a royal guard said, they nodded and I let out a breath of relief.
"Why don't you watch him Rainbow?" The yellow one said " That is if you don't mind, just it would be a good idea". NO BAD IDEA.
"Thats a great idea Flutters, you guys go on ahead" Rainbow Dash said with a smirk.
"Ok, just keep a close eye on him, kay?" Applejack said.
"Gotcha, see you guys!" Rainbow said to her leaving friends. She put on a fake smile and waved like mad, not suspicious at all. Once they were in the clear, Rainbow Dash's smile went away faster that you can say "cherry". She turned to me, I gulped and started to sweat, "So, you like to attack countries eh'?" She said, with that, she stood up and clinked he hooves together, and smiled. "I'll teach you to mess with MY country!"
"Screw you!" I managed to get out before she started hitting me in the face. It hurt more than it should had, the back of my head would hit the wall, every time she hit me. After a good beating she stopped, not because she came to her senses, because her friends were back.
"Rainbow Dash stop this at once!" The Princess, said firmly. Rainbow backed away quickly and I hung my head down from exhaustion. "Please explain why you did this."
"Well, I just, well, I you know, umm" Rainbow stuttered.
"She couldn't control her anger." Twilight said to the Princess.
"I understand Rainbow Dash, but please, beating the prisoner is not needed."
"Oh, sorry" Rainbow Dash, moved further away from me to join her group of friends.
"Oh my, he looks hurt!" The butter yellow pegasus said, she walked towards me but she was stopped.
"No, Fluttershy! He's dangerous" Twilight said.
"Oh, i'm sorry" Fluttershy hid behind her mane. It was probably the most adorable thing i've ever seen in my life. Not to mention she actually was concerned for me.
"It's ok Flutters, just don't help the enemy" Twilight said. The Princess walked towards me slowly, I could only hear the hoof steps.
"What is your name, young one" She said to me. I couldn't believe how sacred I was, I was actually scared of colorful ponies. I didn't want to get my ass kicked again, especially in my current condition.
"Umm, m-my name is..." I stuttered, was I really going to give information about myself to these ponies? Nope, definitely not.
"You can tell me, I am not a threat." She said calmly, I looked up to see the softest smile.
"No, no way I will share that kind of information" I got angry "Not after I was rudely treated to a knuckle sandwich at my arrival at this horrid place! Me and my BEST friend Klum just happened to arrive here, we thought if would be safe to see if we could find an inn at your town!" I took a breath " But NOPE, I was suddenly yelled at by the spectrum- maned devil, and then I was attacked! How in the BLUE HELL do YOU expect ME to even SPEAK TO YOU IN ANY FRIENDLY MANOR? NOW IF YOU EVEN TRY TO MAKE A FUCKING PEACE TREATY, YOU MIGHT ASWELL CALL YOURSELF STUPID!!! BECAUSE ONCE YOU START A WAR WITH MY EMPIRE, WE DON'T STOP UNTIL THERE IS ONE LOSER, NO TREATIES, NO SURRENDERS, NO NOTHING!!! SO I WOULD LIKE TO JUST GIVE YOU A HEADS UP RIGHT NOW MISSY, YOU FUCKED UP!!!!!!" I had tears running down my face, that was the first time I had the chance to let that out. I didn't notice that I had self-counciously gotten out of the ropes. I didn't attack them, I was outnumbered and probably outmatched right now. I just sat there and never made eye contact with the tall majestic pony in front of me.
"Alright guys! We need to save Wyatt! We can't let those ponies capture our forces and get away with it can we?!" Klum motivated.
"NO WAY!!!" The crowd cheered.
"Alrighty then! Lets start preparing, for we attack in the morning! WOOT WOOT" Klum chanted.
"Lets do this!"
"Yeah woo!"
"We can do it!"
Scooter walked up to Klum, "Hey, you alright?".
"Yeah, just thinking about Wyatt, we're gonna save him though, I know it" Klum replied.
"We sure are partner! I'm ready for this!" Scooter gave a light punch to Klum's arm. Everyone stayed up for the rest of the night, getting ready for the battle. Klum left just before the sun came up, once the entrance to the town below the castle was visible, they made a tower. The sun was clearly visible, and the battle would begin.
Now.
I sat there, out of breath. The ponies were shocked from my outburst, I was glad they got to listen to what I had to say.
"Oh, and by the way" I said. The ponies slowly looked to me. " Your castle is about to be attacked right about.... NOW!"
"NOW, Attack!!!!!" Klum shouted, everyone roared and charged at the forcefield. Scooters double drills were able to gnaw straight through that golden dome. The ponies inside the city were not expecting an all out attack in the morning. There weren't that many ponies outside their homes this early in the morning, but boy, they were lucky as hell. Klum had already planned out everything, him, Scooter, and Felix would charge the castle, and everyone else would keep guards and attackers away. I hoped they had a 2nd sense about where dungeons were, because this one was probably underground. The ponies inside looked at me in shock from what I said, they heard screaming and a loud frackus coming from outside. They all ran out of the dungeon to see what was going on. I was on the floor laughing, their faces were PRICELESS.
"All right, guys. You remember the plan?" Klum said, still running up large golden steps. Scooter and Felix nodded and Scooter started revving his drills. The gate at the top of the steps was approaching them, once Scooter made contact, he swung at the gate with all off his machines might. It didn't break with the first punch, he kept his left arm drilling at it, and he was using the right arm to rapidly punch it. They saw guards start running up the steps, javelins in their mouths. Felix said he would take care of them, he raised his shield and held is sword out. It was a 4 on 1 battle, Felix was the most experienced warrior everyone knew from the small army we had. Felix bashed the leading guard with his shield, knocking the pony back, he slipped and tumbled down the steps. The other guards stopped in their tracks, realizing the falling pony, they braced for impact and most of them were his along with him. One guard managed to jump out of the way in time, pulling a sword out and charging Felix. Klum noticed a rainbow streak in the sky, he had no idea what it was, but it landed in the town.
"Damn, silly things didn't even close the gate" I said, standing up and walking towards the opened gate. I didn't have ANY weapons on me, and I felt like shit. I stumbled out and went up the steps that the ponies walked up to, when I slowly creeped around I noticed that same butter yellow pegasus.... alone..... no one protecting her. I slowly went around to the nearest room, keeping an eye on the pegasus. I had the best luck ever, conveniently a large closest with a dagger on the floor inside it. I grabbed it and re-thought my plan. "Alright, I take the pegasus as a hostage, and I threaten to kill her if anyone made a move. I say that I would drop her if they let me leave safely. Then when I am out of there, I slit her throat?" I felt my heart sink, would I really kill her even when she showed SOME concern for me? This was a war, and she was part of the enemy team, she was this those evil ponies. I finally made a decision, and crept up closer to the pegasus. I covered her mouth with my hand and put my dagger to her neck. "Now listen, I want you to walk with me, if you resist to cooperate, I swear I wont think twice about killing you, got it?" She barely nodded, sobbing. "Now, where is the exit?" She shakily started walking through the hallway, leading me to the castle.
"Now, Fluttershy, are you go-" Twilight stopped. She froze dead in her tracks.
"What wrong Twilight? Is Flutter-" Applejack froze.
"HEY! You better listen up for the life of your friend here, you will show me the way out of here, and I wont kill your friend" I said, they gulped and tried to stay calm, Fluttershy still quietly sobbing. "Hey" I said below a whisper "I'm so sorry for this, it's nothing personal, I just want to leave..." She didn't respond, just still sniffling a bit. I could see Twilight and Applejack glancing back at me every once in a while. It was a quiet and awkward walk, no one said a word they just kept walking.
"Haha! Gotcha!" Felix said, smiling while he stabbed the dagger through the guards eye, he twisted it a couple of times. The guard was hollering in pain, he was slowly but surely dying. "Stupid horse.." Felix kicked the guard off the steps, tumbling down to land in the pile of the other guards. Scooter was making progress on the gate, but damn, it was durable as hell, it had dents and a large crater in it. Scooter's machine was making beeping sounds and there was a blinking red light on it.
"Uhh, Scooter? Is that normal!" Klum said.
"Just....almost....out....of....energy!" Scooter said between breaths. The whole robot was steaming, it must have been hot in there. Klum saw that rainbow streak again, he noticed that it was almost as if it was coming towards them. His eyes widened when he saw that it was, he didn't know if it was a pony or a missile, but he didn't think twice to motivate Scooter to go faster.
"Hey, come on hurry!!!! Some weird rainbow missile is coming right at us!" Klum said. " It's almost here!"
Alright, I think thats the exit, just a little more , I thought. There was some noises outside the door, but probably just clinking of swords and yelling.
"H-here we are, you said you'd let her go now, sooooo do it" Twilight said, an awkward smile on her face. She probably thought I was stupid that i'd fall for this. We weren't even close to the door, maybe if I ran it, it would take about 10 seconds. I knew what she could do in that 10 seconds, grab me with magic.
"You think i'm fucking stupid? Let me get to the door and THEN i'll let her go!" I shouted.
"But how do we know if ya' ain't just gonna run off with her!!" Applejack protested.
"I swear on my life! I will let her go!" I said, walking towards the door, "and if you have a problem with that" I pushed the dagger up against Fluttershy's neck. The ponies tensed up and shook their heads. "Good". I felt like a badass right now, nothing could stop stop me from gett-. CRASH SMASH ....
"Woah! Ouch!" Rainbow Dash yelped, wait, RAINBOW DASH YELPED. I quickly pushed her off of me, I dove onto her and pinned her down. Time for revenge, I put my hand around her neck and choked her. I used my right hand to raise the blade.
"Wyatt! Erm.... hey ponies!!! and Wyatt!?" Felix said, not knowing which force her should be running to. Klum and Scooter were standing in a defensive stance, ready to hold of the oncoming attack. I was getting ready to kill this stupid pony, she was struggling under my grip. She managed to get something out before she was killed.
"Help!" This got the attention of her friends, Twilight charged up her horn, ready to save her friend. I turned my head to see Twilight, I grabbed the dagger by the blade and flung it at Twilight. Her eyes widened at the unexpected move, she wasn't quick enough to avoid the dagger. It struck her dead in the eye, she screamed in pain and fell to the floor. I then continued to strangle Rainbow Dash, Applejack and Fluttershy were helpless. Felix then warned us.
"Guys! That large white pony is coming!!!!" I heard the helpless duo emit a sigh of relief. Rainbow Dash stopped her movements, I smirked and got off of her. I was then blasted in the back by the hottest felling ever, great, now I will have a burnt back. Scooter and Klum turned to the Princess and readied their weapons. Her eyes were fully white and she never spoke, she then shot something at Klum and Scooter, I quickly got up and grabbed a shield off a nearby wall. I dove into the blast with the shield at my chest, the bolt impacted with the shield and it broke. The princess then revealed a large spiked spear, she was holding it in her magic. The three of us gulped and I stepped back a little. I was weaponless, and she probably wouldn't let me near Twilight to grab that dagger. Then a large, but smaller then the Princess, dark blue pony came out of the blue. (See what I did there?). She was holding a katana, Felix and Klum stood their grounds, I was down right scared. Felix made the first move at the smaller one, their swords clashed together. Klum confronted the Princess, she overpowered him, knocking him to the ground. She stabbed him in the chest, I watched and ran after him. I slid and grabbed his mace, while I was doing a badass slide, I hit the Princess in the chin. She only stumbled back a bit and regained her composure, she saw Klum disappear with a bright light and she gasped. She lifted me up in her magic, and watched the sky, as if she was watching Klums soul go to the tower. Apparently, out team built one in the town, se Klum then appeared in front of the steps. I then felt my body heat up, it was like the hand thing all over again, except all over. I was dropped to the ground and the Princess ran towards Klum. I look over and see Felix and the blue pony still struggling over control. Felix had a shield advantage, but she had a magic advantage. Felix aimed for her head but missed, he did hit something though, her horn. There was a clink sound and I saw a blue horn on the ground. In her stunned state, Felix too this opportunity to bash her in the head with his shield, she fell on the ground unconscious.
The Princess wasn't running towards Klum, but at the tower. She charged up her horn and blasted at it, 3 layers went down. She shot another time, it was gone, completely gone. You see, this was a problem, if she knew that the towers were out source of life.... shit. She then put up another force field around the city, I noticed that our entire army had been outside the city. Scooter dove into the princess, she quickly levitated her spear over and stabbed him. She ran over to me and hit me with the side of her spear, making a large gash on my side. In my blurred vision, I saw Rainbow Dash slowly...awakening?! She was unconscious, not dead, I cursed myself for not tearing her throat out. She was called by her friends, all in a room taking care of Twilight. She stumbled passed me, and went into the room. The Princes was done murdering Klum, Scooter, and Felix. She walked over to me, and dropped the spear, she was probably going to keep me in the dungeon again. Nope, not again.
"See ya!" I yelled. I grabbed her spear and stuck it through my chest, I flipped her off and then I fell on the floor.
DING!
Gryphons, Ponies, and Minotaurs
WOMP
"Ah, our first loss in this hell hole, am I right?" I said, walking back to the town with the others.
"Mmhmm" The group replied, tired and exhausted. I couldn't stop thinking about how the princess probably knew that the towers give us life. Anyway, everyone went home, some people went on a guard tower and protected the wall during the night. I couldn't sleep, I kept getting this weird feeling in my stomach and my back had this stabbing pain in it. I tried to shake it off, but I couldn't, so I decided to take a walk. I slowly got up from my bed and went to the bathroom, I realized when I looked in the mirror, my left eye was a hazel color, rather than my normal brown. I felt two bumps on my back, I assumed it was just from a burn or fall, I waved it off. I stepped out of the bathroom, I put on my robe and walked outside. I didn't have a weapon, so I snuck into Klums home (I knew where he hid his key ). I tip toed upstairs and grabbed his dagger, I put it inside a pocket on my robe and left. I was wide awake now, I stretched a little and decided to finally go inside that cottage, just up the hill.
I walked outside of the gate and put my hood on. I felt my back get that same pain, I reached behind my robe and what I felt was like a small feather? I ran to the small cottage to check a mirror, I opened the door and stopped. There were a variety of dead animals inside, it smelled like shit in there. I saw cobwebs, skeletons and feces, I covered my mouth and nose with my hand and stepped inside. I looked for the bathroom, I saw a little white bunny with a note in its paw. I picked it up and blew off the dust, it wrote. "Fluttershy, WhERe are yoo?" , I gasped and dropped the note.This is Fluttershy's cottage? Her animals are dead?! , I felt sorry for these animals. I continued to walk through the abandoned place, I found the bathroom. It was dirtier than any other place in this home, I had to go through a whole jungle of cobwebs. The sink and bathtub was the worst though, I couldn't even explain what the hell was in there. The mirror was a little rusted, but in the non rusted places, it was a good mirror. I lifted my robe up, and turned around to look at my back, I choked and fell over at what I saw. Through the dim light, there were two little wings coming out of my back.
"We ask that you assist us in defeating this force" Celestia finished her speech, she was currently inside of the Gryphon castle. The Gryphon King, Montbrayus, considered helping Celestia in her struggles.
"What shall the gryphons gain from this?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.
"You shall gain our trust, and you will be safe from these creatures as well, from what I know, they are trying to conquer all of the lands" Celestia said, Montbrayus nodded and got up from his throne. He approached Celestia and shook her hoof with his talon.
"Celestia, you and your ponies shall fight with support of the gryhon kingdom! May victory be with us then, princess." He said.
"Thank you very much, Montbrayus, I appreciate you help" Celestia said. He nodded and left the room, his guards followed and Celestia left as well. Luna followed her sister and got inside of the carriage, the gryphons would fight with them. They would send an army to support, and battle alongside the ponies.
"What... the.... fuck" I said, slowly feeling my back again. I gulped and rubbed my wings a little, I tried to make them move, but I doubted that I could fly, due to them being so tiny. I thought about the good things about this, alright, this could be good, when they grow I would fly and stuff. That would definitely help in battle, and for travel. Not to mention I always wanted to fly. But how the hell is this happening? A disease, random growth, curse? Spell? , my mind didn't know what to think of this. I decided to explore this cottage some more, still wanting to throw up after all of the things I was seeing. I headed upstairs into her room, I slowly walked inside. I saw a big book on her bed, I walked over to it and picked it up, I saw a picture of her and her friends on the first page. This was a picture book, I kept turning pages, many of them were of her and her animals doing fun things together. Even feeding them was supposedly a great experience for her and the critters, I saw small faded spats on each page, as if she was crying the last time she looked at this. She knew she would have to leave her animals behind, and at such a quick and unexpected notice, she would've never had the time to get them out of here. Damn, I feel like such a dick for this shit. It's not my fault though, the least I could do is feel bad for her.
I closed the book and had that pain again, who knew growing wings would be this painful? Probably no one, I stepped outside of the cottage and took off my robe. I bright moonlight was emitting enough light for me to see the wings better. They were a light brown, there was a bit of bruising and blood at the base of them, probably from them just coming straight out of my back. They were sore a little, and when I tried to concentrate on flapping them, it hurt even more. I walked back to the town, slowly went back home and laid down on my stomach on my bed. This was why my back hurt so much earlier, I was laying on my wings. I closed my eyes and went to sleep, leaving my wings to grow as they wanted to.
"So sister, what shall we do now?" Luna asked.
"We request assistance from the minotaurs" Celestia replied.
"Sister, don't you think asking for so much help would portray us as weak?"
"Luna, these creatures are endangering not only us, but all of Equestria, this is everyponies' problem" Celestia put a wing over he sister and reassured her. Luna smiled and looked out of the window of the carriage.
"Sister, do you think the creatures' story was true?" Celestia raised an eyebrow, "When you told me about the creature's outburst, you said that it told you that one of the elements attacked it first, do you think it was telling the truth?" Celestia sighed and thought for a moment.
"Well, it seemed to have been holding that outburst in for a long while, it was crying too. Maybe there was a chance that it could've been lying or telling the truth, but that won't stop this war"
"This whole thing could've been different then..."
"W-att!"
"Wy-"
"Att!"
"WYATT!" I jumped up in panic and fell off of my bed. I scrambled to my feet and raised my fists.
"What! What! Who? Why?" I said, seeing Klum and Scooter giving me a concerned look.
'Wyatt! What the hell are those!?" Klum yelled, pointing at my grown wings. My eyes widened and I looked at my extended wings, they weren't all bloodied, they looked healthy.
"Umm, wings?" I said nervously, Klum gave me a no-shit-sherlock look and crossed his arms.
"I know that, but how the hell did they appear? How long have you had them?" Klum asked.
"Well, they grew last night I guess, but I don't know why" I replied, I looked at them again. Some feathers were messy and out of place, making it look like someone was rubbing them. They didn't hurt much at all, I didn't have the power to flap them yet, still. I probably would have to start wearing nothing on my torso, because my wings stayed out. I hurt to try to force them to fold up against my back. Klum and Scooter were inspecting my wings curiously, they poked and felt them.
"This is really weird partner, ah' say that this is the ponies' fault, maybe they cursed you!" Scooter exclaimed.
"Nah, I don't think getting wings would be a curse, cause' thats a good thing, right?" Klum said. It was a good question, were these good? Are they gonna help me, or slowly turn into scythes and murder me in my sleep? Okay, what the hell, of course not, I just needed to practice with them is all.
"Guys, i'm going to stretch them out a bit, try to flap em' you know?" I said, they nodded and followed me out of the door. I was getting the curiosity of everyone else too, I got looks that I didn't want to get. Felix wouldn't stop playing with them, most people just asked me questions and then I just told them to piss off. It was getting very cloudy, not having the control of weather was shitty, I wish we had....a....pegasus. Damn, if I have wings, does that make me a pegasus? , I thought looking at the soon-to-be rainstorm. Scooter and Klum had left me alone to do whatever I needed to, to inspect these wings. My body was slowly getting used to them, I could flap them once or twice, then i'd run out of energy to do so. I had an idea to explore another place around us, the forest. Sure, we may have camped out there for a while, but we never knew what really lied deep inside. I timidly stepped on the edge of the forest, from a different angle, it was creepy. I borrowed Jinx's staff, I had to remember to thank her for that. I walked deep inside, the town completely out of my vision.
"Well, no turning back now." I gulped and traversed deeper into the forest. I used the staff to emit fire, which gave me light.
Grooowl
"The hell?!"
Grrrrr
"The fuck!?"
Rawr!!!!!
"Shit!" I screamed, blasting a firebolt in a reflex. The sound of a high whine emitted from a pile of burning wood. There were more of the wooden beasts approaching me, I facepalmed at the braveness of the creatures. In case you didn't know, fire + wood = shit is gonna go down. I started blasting at the wolf like creatures, they were hopping and prancing around in panic. This reminded of me when I was back home, and over confident warrior thinking he's better than me, then ends up getting his ass cooked by me. I put the fires out to stop a forest fire, but there was one wolf left that I didn't notice. It jumped at me and chomped at my ankle, I yelled in pain.
"You little fucker!" I was brought to the ground, my body tensed up and I was floating in the air. The wolf below me was snapping and jumping at me, I was confused. I heard a faint flapping noise, I looked behind me and my wings were flapping with ease. I was surprised at the new development, I charge a firebolt and shot the wolf, leaving it burning. I couldn't control my wings, but when I did, I stopped flying. I hit the ground lightly, I got up and looked at my wings again. I could flap them, but getting off the ground was a whole different story, probably due to my size and what these wings were made for, it made sense. "These probably aren't done growing, they have to scale up to my size, theres no way i'm flying with these." I continued to walk in the forest, I needed to be back by sundown. I smelled a weird smell, well it was like, you know what it smells like when rain just stopped? Like that but, like times two more stronger. It was affecting my eyes, they were watering and I began to cough. I didn't know what it was, but it was like poison or something probably. I saw a small hut just passed some trees and shrubs, it was the main source of the smell, I decided to investigate. I approached slowly and I heard some voices, one was unknown, and the other two were....familiar. I heard the Princess and her sister, they were talking with a zebra, I kept peeking through a window. I couldn't quite make out what they were talking about, due to the smell affecting my hearing, but I did hear. "Poison" "Weapons" "Enemies" "Effect" "Kill"
"Mother of god... they are using poison to strike us now?" I said quietly to myself. I felt the urge to sneeze, I didn't cover my mouth shut in time.
Sneeze!!
"What was that? is somepony out there?"
Yup, time to go, quickly....
Weird Abilities
"That....was....close" I said in between breaths. I sprinted out of that forest before the Princess caught sight of me. I had to warn the others about what the ponies were up to. I also had to explain why I had a snapped staff in my hands. I had tripped on an exposed root while I was running, when it broke, a weird jolt of electricity when through my body. I had been getting weird feelings ever since it happened, I just hoped Jinx would snap my neck. I walked back to the town, it was maybe about one o'clock. There was a clock tower, but I didn't look, because it was burned down when we used lightning arrows. I walked straight to Jinx's home and knocked on her door.
"Oh hey Wyatt! Whats up?" Jinx said in a happy tone.
"Oh uh hey, I just have to tell you something" I said.
"What is it? You alright?" She leaned in a little.
"I broke your staff, sorry" I revealed the snapped staff to her, she gasped and took it out of my hands.
"Are you alright!?"
"What? Why are you asking me that?"
"Well, there's no way you could've broken this without getting into some sort of fight or something"
"Well, I saw some ponies and I had to run away in time before they saw me, oh and by the way , they are planning something about poisoning us."
"Really?!" Klum said, he overheard what I had said and walked over to me.
"Yeah, something about poisonous weaponry and stuff, and it will work, I had blurred eyes and a stuffy nose just by smelling it!"
"That's gonna be a problem, well, I suppose I could forgive you for breaking this, as long as you pay me back!" Jinx gave me a playful punch in the shoulder and shut her door.
"Well, anyways, we need to completely cover up this city, if that poison is that strong, we need protection."
"Your right, i'll tell the others!" I said, running from home to home, alerting everyone of this. We had gotten everyone to meet at town hall, Klum explained what we needed to do. Many people set off to a different part of the city, each group of people had an engineer. Scooter and the rest of the engineers would build something called a 'Gatling Gun' and a "Rocket Volley System'. I didn't know what the hell those were, but they sounded awesome. I helped secure the main gate with all sorts of metals and wood. Clerics and mages were slowly building up the wall to make a glass dome, it would be enchanted to be more durable. In the making of the GG's and the RVS's, I watched in awe as I saw them being made. It was like every mans dream, I regretted not being able to blast these things at people back at home, but it would be much better blasting at ponies. The GG shot like, a million times faster than the regular ballista, and the RVS was just too explosive to be turned down. It was amazing at what the engineers could do, they could summon robots, build faster than the speed of light, upgrade fortifications, be awesome, and they had some badass goggles. It didn't look like a completely easy job though, most of them were sweaty, greasy, and scratched up, but they just shook it off like it was nothing.
I was building something myself, in fact I was the only one doing it mainly because I was told to. I was making a new alarm system that was more efficient in detecting movement outside of the town walls. I was fixing the rigging inside and I reached for a wrench, it was in my hand before I grabbed it. I stared at the the table, then my hand, then the table again.
"What the hell, I didn't even grab it...." I shook it off as the heat was just getting to me. The alarm system was relying on the one machine that I was editing, Scooter had given me some easy tips to doing stuff like this. I could fit my whole body in there, but my wings weren't helping the fact that it was pretty tight in there. They were trying to extend out to full length, but the inner walls of the system was stopping them, it just made my job harder. It took a while to finish the damn thing, but I was proud of myself. I looked up to see a large dome around the town, it had a bee hive like texture to it that added to its coolness. I saw everyone eating lunch down by the city hall, I decided to drop by. I flapped my wings a few times, preparing for my first flight session. The wings had definitely grown, the wing span was as wide as the princess' wings. I took a deep breath.
"Here goes nothing!" I then jumped off of the wall and began to flap my wings. I was not getting that much height, so I decided to just glide across the ground. I was going fast, if I were to hit the ground, I would suffer a few scraps and my robe would be ruined. I lowered my hands to try and break the on coming fall, I heard a loud woosh noise, as if someone had shot a super wind blast. I was in the air, except even higher than before.
"Did I do that?! Holy shit, the hell?!" I had a smile across my face, what just happened was pure awesomeness. I had to come down though, my stomach was angry. I looked down at the ground, there were people all around watching me fly. I landed nearby and regained my composure.
"Dude! Did you see what you just did?" Klum said, shaking me.
"Umm, I flew?" I said, taking his hands off of my shoulders.
"No, you shot a wind blast, out of your hands!!!! It was awesome!" Scooter pitched in.
"How did you do that? Did you study that or something?" Jinx asked, probably wondering so she could do it.
"I don't know how it happened, it just happened." I was confused. First the wrench thing, and now this? Something was definitely going on, the wings are also just something weird. I looked at my hands, they looked normal, but I saw that the veins on my arms were a much brighter blue than normal. They were glowing a little, and blinking as if they were cooling down from something massive. I wondered if doing that wind thing used energy from my veins, but thats impossible, they carry blood, I wasn't bleeding.
"But seriously Wyatt, what's up with your eyes? Were they always hazel like that?" Scooter said.
"No, for as long as I've known him, they were a dark brown" Klum said.
"Maybe i'm infected or something" I said, scratching my chin.
"With what, the illness of awesome?" Felix said, noticing my veins, "Woah, look at that...."
"Yeah, I've noticed" I said, rolling my eyes.
WHHHHHEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWW
"SHIT! THE ALARM!"
WOOOOOOOOOOP WOOOOOOOOOP
"What is outside of the walls???!!!!!!" I screamed, I flew up to the top of the wall. My jaw dropped and I shouted.
"WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!!!"
My eyes widened at the large army of not just ponies, but minotaurs, and griffons too. Everyone was preparing for possibly the largest battle of their lives. I figured out how to perfectly use my magic through my hands, concentrating on a certain element triggers the magic. I flew up to the top of the dome, many griffons and pegasi were up in the skies, some were even holding what looked like bombs. Minotaurs were the brawn of the army, holding maces, flails, and large hammers.
"Hey Wyatt!!! A little help!" Felix yelled, he was forming a garrison at the main gate. Clerics and Engineers were in the GG's and RVS's to protect immensely. I flew down there, Felix was good at leading forces into battle, he was in the front of the group.
"Alrighty! Phalanx shield on me!" He ordered, everyone got in a different phalanx, except me. I told him I were to cover the skies as well as the ground, so a shield will slow me down. The army wasn't even a bit intimidating to me, i've dealt with bigger enemies than minotaurs. Once everyone was in phalanx position, the main gates were opened, then the war began.
"GGGRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Many people yelled as they charged outside of the town.
"Lets do this!" I shouted, flying into the swarm of griffons. I grabbed one by the neck and heated my hands up, I wasn't just choking it, but I was severely burning it. I used my other hand to shoot frost at the wings of oncoming enemies, if the wings couldn't move, it couldn't fly. I let go of the dead griffon in my hand, letting it fall to the ground. I swooped down just above the minotaurs and began shocking them. I had to dodge hammers and fists, but I was good. One managed to grab me and pull me down to the ground. It swung it's flail at me, which got stuck in the ground. I jumped on the chest of the minotaur and then climbed on top of its head, I stabbed it between the eyes. Another beast swung a hammer at me, I jumped away and let it hit an ally. I heated up my hands up to a scorching blaze, when the hammer was coming down on me, I burned the blunt end off in an instant. I then grabbed it and threw it at the minotaurs feet, causing it to trip. I jumped on its back and dug the dagger into the base of its spine. I grabbed the bulging appendage and pulled, effectively ripping it's spine out of its body. I went back up to the skies, many bullets were zooming at the air attackers, while missiles were being launched at the ground. I charged up the most wind I could, and launched it at the sky force. Pegasi and griffons were blown away by my extreme winds, but as I expected, some pegasi could handle it. I noticed a very particular enemy flying at the walls, I flew over and tackled Rainbow Dash. She didn't expect me to come flying through the skies, so I took it as an advantage. We were falling and fighting at the same time, I pushed myself away to fly up. She followed me at high speeds, she passed me in ten seconds flat and cut me off. I focused on frost, I was wondering how cold metal was supposed to get before it could easily start to burn. I grabbed her and channeled my magic into her armor, it grew extremely cold and she noticed this.
"W-what the h-hell did you d-do!!" She screamed, she was already shivering from the cold. I ripped her helmet off and punched her in the face, we started falling again. I made sure she was the one to break the fall, she had the wind knocked out of her. I held her down and charged a lighting trap right on us, little streaks of lighting could be seen above us. Just before it completely struck, I flipped over and kicked Dash into the air above us, the entire lighting strike was bolted on her. She fell to the ground without a single grunt or groan. I grabbed my dagger and stabbed her neck, and then blood came spilling and spurting out everywhere. I twisted the dagger and slid it down the circumference of her neck, separating the head from the rest of the body. I smiled at my victory, now I had the head of my rival and a story to tell.
"Rainbow Dash!!!!!!!!!!" Twilight screamed, I looked over at the sound of her voice. Her eyes suddenly were pure orbs of white, her horn was engulfed in a purple light. I charged up some of my own magic, my magic was elemental, hers was based off of magic and energy. She fired a constant beam of bright purple at me, I yelled and fired magic of my own. The heat between us was immense, I was slowly being pushed back by the force of her attack. I couldn't lose to her, not after what she did to me. I closed my eyes and screamed again, I felt a large burst of energy become released from my hands. I opened my eyes and smiled in determination, the beam I was firing wasn't Fire, ice, lighting, or wind, but something much stronger and different. The battle between me and Twilight was almost at a draw, until i noticed how exhausted she looked. I took this chance to go all out in an attempt to triumph over her, my beam was engulfing hers. She let out a scream and was blasted back, her horn was burned into a dark black. I was sweating beyond belief, I fell to my knees and tried to regain my composure. I stood up and looked over to a dark outline of a circle where Twilight once was, she was blasted back about one hundred feet. I felt a rope coil around my leg, and I was tripped. I look over to see an approaching Applejack, she had the rope in her mouth still, I pulled on the rope. She was pulled towards me very fast and I extended my leg out, she ran into my foot, which hit her in the stomach. She fell to the ground in pain, I grabbed the robe and then an idea came to mind.
"You want to play with ropes huh?" I looked down at her, "Well then I have a good game to play"
I grabbed her and flew over to the walls, I tied the rope around her neck. She was struggling against my grip, she obviously knew was I was going to do, because she was trying so desperately hard to run away. I tied the other end of the rope to the edge of the wall.
"Any last, pitiful words?" I said, mocking her saddened expression.
"You will never win..." She stated.
"Thats funny, because YOU just lost" I pushed her off of the edge of the wall, the rope ran out and she was hanging from the wall. I saw a lot of ponies gasp when they saw her lifeless body hanging there.
The opposing army was becoming a small army of hopeless individuals, the Princess, her Sister, and Twilight were standing on a platform. They were about to do something, I watched them closely as they were charging their horns. There was a bright flash all around the area, I looked at them in horror as I saw everyone was on there knees, in front of the princess. They didn't look defeated, just forced to stay low and before the princess. I looked inside the town, the Big Tower was gone, we had no way to respawn, and all of my allies were on their knees in front of the enemy. I coulnd't let them die, not while we are so close!
"Stop this!!!! I challenge you!!!!" I screamed, the princess looked over at me. "If I win! MY army thrives and WE win the war!"
The Princess flew over to me, she looked into my eyes. "And if I win?"
"You kill every last one of us..."
"I will accept your challenge..."
Klum, Scooter, and the others had their mouths agape.
"K-Klum? Did he just?"
"Yes, he did, and he will win, I know it"
I stood there, cracking my knuckles and growling to look intimidating. Nothing, I don't know if it was a condition, but this princess always had the hideous blank face on her. The survivors were watching along with Twilight and The other princesses. I could tell by the look on everyones face that they were nervous, Klum nodded to me as encouragement, but fighting a mystical ruler from a magical land was intimidating. We could both use magic and fly, so there was probably nothing that she knew that I didn't, right? No one could interfere with us, it was no mercy and to the death.
"YOU GOT THIS" Felix shouted, he ignored the looks he got from the ponies. Everyone else got the message.
"YEAH, SHOW EM' WHOS BOSS"
"BEAT HER TO A PULP"
"DO HER LIKE WHAT YOU DID TO RAINBOW FAG!"
I couldn't help but giggle at the last one, the ponies were extremely angry and annoyed. Twilight was steaming, the mentioning of her dead friend was probably irritating. I had a sword in my right hand, she was levitating a spear in her magic. We waited for what seemed like 2 hours, but was only 30 seconds until the signal.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG
I charged at her, she took a defensive stance and waited for me. I took a false swipe and pretended to swing at her to get her to jump back, she did, and I took off into the air. I dropped down on her and she noticed quickly, she moved over and I missed. She swung at me while I was recovering and got my arm, I winced but I couldn't be held vulnerable. I dodged her second attack, but she was striking rapidly. She constantly jabbed in my direction, trying to wear me out. I side stepped and grabbed the spear, instantly freezing it into an ice block. I chopped it in half with a quick strike, now I guess it was time for magic. She leaped back to avoid a possible cut, I ran at her with the boost of a wind blast and punched her in the chin. She stumbled a little bit, but not enough to strike her again with ease. She jabbed her horn at me, I moved over and it went through my robe, ripping the side off. I engulfed my sword in flames and rushed at her, she charged at me with her hon. The collision caused us to bounce back, but we kept at this for a while. I was probably stronger than her physically, but not magically. I finally hit hard enough for her to fly back. I continued to swing, she grabbed my sword with her magic, and lifted me into the air. I bursted out energetic magic into the sword, the magic cause a disruption i her horn for a second. I used this chance to throw my sword at her neck, she dodged and flew up to me. While blasting heavily heated lasers at me, Celestia was flying at me full speed. I had to fly backwards due to this, deflecting her lasers with my own. I decided to make it a little more interesting, I summoned a blizzard. The high winds and sheer cold snow affecting her but not me, I was way too used to this spell, and it was my own, so it barely affected me. I charged at her, her rapid movements making me slice her mane into two. She blasted me with a laser and I flew out of the blizzard storm. I hit the ground with a loud thud! .
"Ohhhhhhh, damn.." I said under my breath. She hit me right in the stomach, there was probably a 3rd degree burn there too. She suddenly shot another blast at me, but this time it was lightning. There were dark clouds slowly scattering around the sky. Okay, if it's a lightning battle she wants' she'll get one. I quickly flew up and charged lighting, I jumped on a cloud. I shot quick bolts at her, and she did the same. There were sparks and explosions from collisions and contact with objects and such. She closed the gap in between us and tackled me off of the cloud. During the fall she brought her horn to my chest and shot. My descend was accelerated by about 9001 times the regular speed. I smashed into the ground, I couldn't move or talk. It was hard to breathe, and I felt like shit. There was probably a 1 and 1 billion percent chance to win this fight, but there was a problem. I couldn't give up, there was no way I were to be defeated here, in this hell hole, not a chance. It would be for Klum, for Scooter, for EVERYONE. I had a chance at this, I will make this princess bow before ME, I knew I could win.
"DON'T GIVE UP WYATT, I KNOW YOU GOT THIS, THINK ABOUT THE KINGDOM!!~!!"
That was the killer right there, it was for my folks at the kingdom too. I got up and stared at the princess, blood coming out of my mouth. I had to draw my anger out to use my magic to my full potential, I was grinding my teeth and clenching my fists. She charged at me with extreme speed and jabbed at me. I side stepped punched her in the eye, I grabbed her horn and froze it into a block of ice. I heated up my fists and punched her again, she tried to retaliate, she stepped away right into my fire traps. I opened my hands and fire blew out from the ground, there was a scream and a yelp. I knew it wasn't over, not by a longshot, this was a princess of a magical pony kingdom, there was no way she was done. A bright yellow sphere of energy erupted from the ground. The silhouette of Celestia inside of it, obviously angry and charging power. I took this chance to concentrate my power, focusing energy all around my body. The bright golden sphere was now a angry white-eyed Celestia with full power, I was done focusing as well, but this was going to be tough. She teleported behind me and started rapidly shooting thick golden beams at me, even getting a good distance away from them didn't stop it from giving you a good burning feeling. I took flight and she followed, we were flying at extreme speeds. The blizzard was still going, in fact, it seemed to have increased it's force ever since I started building up power. As if my body did it by itself, I summoned a frost scythe made of magic. It surprised me, but I went along with it. Swinging it was easy, but for the target it was hard to avoid. It shot out a wave of frost every swing, capable of causing frostbite in a matter of two seconds of continuous contact. She had a weapon to, it was a golden halberd with a sun at the very tip, it was releasing pulsating waves of heat every time it was swung. It was Cold vs Heat in this, and neither of us had a complete upper hand. I bashed her with my shoulder, making her float backwards, I continued to swing until I had her right where I wanted her. She hit a mega blizzardcloud, I channeled frost energy from myself into it, it shot out a laser of pure energy and cold. She took direct contact, it rammed her in the side, she couldn't fight it either. It kept going until she started to fall, I sent a cloud over to catch her, we weren't bringing this to the ground. The clouds kept firing at her at my command, I felt like a king. I moved in for the final blow, I charged and raised my scythe up high, she summoned something in front of her. There were six gems floating in front of Celestia, they started to rapidly circle around her. I need to close the gap between us fast, because whatever that was, it was dangerous. I was about to strike the sun goddess when it happened, those gems formed into a cone. The inside was charging a laser, I flew back to avoid imminent contact. I began charging all of my magic into one attack, clouds and my scythe included. There was a loud 'pew' kind of sound, I released my focused energy to collide with a large rainbow beam. There was large blinding light upon the collision, I pushed more, I felt the opposing force getting closer, a sign of me losing this struggle.
"N-n-no I can't lose now! I WILL WWIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!" I put all of my power into one last push, even the ground was shaking from the amount of power emitting from our combined magic. We were at a stalemate, the collision point at a moment of exploding. Mixed temperatures were felt before everything blew up, the explosion big enough to level an entire city. Everything went black, I could hear, feel, smell, but not see. I was slowly driving into unconsciousness.
Maybe I could see what happened when I awoke...
It Was a Happy War We Waged
" But Daddy! When would I be able to fight!" It was never fair to me when my father would go into battle, and I wasn't aloud to fight too.
"Wyatt, we've been over this, you're too young, and besides, you've only got eight years left." Daddy chuckled, I crossed my arms and huffed. He always teased me about how long I would have to wait.
"That's too long! Eights years is like, half of my life!!! Please Daddy can I go! I will fight really hard too! Mom said that I will grow up to be a strong fighter! Do you not agree with her?" Daddy looked surprised, he gave me a sad look. I covered my mouth, it made Daddy sad when I spoke about Mommy.
"Of course I know you will be a strong fighter, but it's not my fault you have to wait." Daddy sat down next to me," Your Mother was right, you will GROW to be a strong fighter, sometimes,son, you have to wait to achieve what you're born to achieve, and this is the time to do that. In the mean time, always remember,I love you, and your mother did too" Daddy kissed me on the forehead and hugged me, "I want to give you something, Wyatt"
"What is it?" Daddy reached in the back of his robe and pulled out a yellow star.
"It is an Oracle Star, Wyatt" He saw the confused look on my face. "It can assist you at the time of need, Wyatt, soon you will get a robe, and that robe will hold this star. When you need assistance that is crucial, you tear the star off of the robe and hold it in all of the indents. If your robe is damaged or burned, the star will still be usable, it is indestructible, use it only when it is extremely needed. It has a one time use, one day, Wyatt, you will need this star" He placed it into my hands, and it glowed. It poofed away and a large robe appeared in my hands. My eyes widened when this happened.
"D-daddy! Look! I got a robe! I finally got my first mage's robe!!" Daddy chuckled and I hugged him, the star was present on the robe, I looked at it and smiled. I quickly put the robe on and it was large, the sleeves almost dangled past my knees, and the bottom would've tripped me if I began to walk.
"Daddy! IT FITS ME PERFECTLY!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU!"
I shuffled on the hard ground, wiping the dirt off of my face. I began to cough profusely, hacking and holding my chest. I remembered what had happened, there was an explosion, and I fought Celestia in a battle of no mercy. I was lying at the bottom of a large crater, it seemed that everyone else was blown back by the blast. My body was in pain, I felt weak, and helpless, I struggled to stand. I stood on my feet and flapped my wings, I got a little bit off of the ground. I hovered up and out of the crater, it was larger than I expected, probably twice the size of Ponyville. I looked out into the distance, I saw Scooter, and a few others lying on the ground. Gravel and dirt was being blown everywhere, it was like a sandstorm. I saw the silhouette of a limping pony in the distance, but due to the current weather condition, I couldn't make out who it was.
"My god, this is a tragedy" I said, coughing some more and shielding my eyes from dirt. From the state that the area was in, this could be described as a wasteland, empty and lifeless. I walked towards a body, it was Twilight's body. She was dead, from what I could see, her neck was definitely cracked. I moved on, I needed to find Celestia and kill her, I tripped over a body.
"Aw, shit!" I yelled as I hit the ground, hitting the side of my head. I looked over at the body, it was Klum. I crawled over to him, and shook him.
"Klum, wake up… please Klum, wake up dude." No response, I shook him more and waited. He stirred in his unconscious state, I beamed and said his name a couple of times.
"Wha… what happened? Are we in a desert? Did you w-win?"
"No Klum, but w-we have to find Celestia right now, the battle isn't over yet, get up" I help Klum stand up and put his arm over my shoulders. We walked in the direction that the figure went, the hoof prints were fading away, so we had to move fast. I heard a feminine voice coughing madly, and a mumble come from the same direction.
"She's this way, Klum, just a little more"
"Wyatt, i'm proud of you, you didn't give up, good job" Klum said, smiling at me.
"Dont mention it, we have a war to win" We continued to follow the hoof prints, we saw some ruble and debris sticking out of the ground. There was a figure behind the debris, me and Klum slowly walked towards it. Celestia was sitting behind it, she spotted up and quickly stood up.
"You can't win, you are weak, I can easily overpower you" Celestia said, weakness in her voice. It wasn't us that were weak, it was her, she was trying to intimidate us, or break our spirits.
"You know that is not the truth Celestia, take your defeat seriously" She raised a dagger with her magic, it was covered in a green substance that wasn't hard to recognize. Due to the effect of the poison residue, gas finding it's way towards me, my eyes began to water and my breathing turned harsh, I fell to my knees and struggled. Klum did the same, she had that poison on the dagger, and I had nothing to do, we were both rendered useless.
"It may just be the truth, Human, now it is time that your days of living are ended, immediately" I tried to say something witty and smart, but I was weak. She began to slowly move over to Klum, she rose the dagger, I tried to move over to try to block it, but Klum's fate was already decided. I closed my eyes and let my tears fall.
I closed my eyes and let my tears fall while Daddy hugged me.
"Daddy, please, do you have to die now? Please Daddy, please don't go." I cried into his chest as he lay on the hospital bed. He couldn't respond with words, but he just shook his head and hugged me tighter. Turns out, someone had put an illegal substance into his food, effectively poisoning him, the poison flowed through his blood stream, his heart only pumped it through him faster. I reached to the back of my robe and pulled off the star.
"Daddy, c-can I use this on you? To h-heal you? You said t-to u-use it when I really needed to, D-Daddy, and I r-really need you!" He tried his best to put on a smile, but I knew that he was almost dead. I held the star in all of the indents and aimed it at Daddy, nothing happened, I tried again and again. The heart monitor began to speed up, I cried harder as my feeble attempts to heal my father failed.
"No Daddy! PLEASE NO, NOT LIKE MOMMY! NO PLEASE, IT'S NOT FAIR, NOTHING IS FAIR!!!" He put his hands on my shoulders and finally spoke some words. What he said, changed me.
"Wyatt… I love you, very much, I know you want to heal me, and it may seem important to you, but that star will be needed to save your own life one day. I care about you more than I care about me, because Wyatt, I love you… Just stay strong, you'll grow up to be a strong man some day" He closed his eyes and the monitor went flat, there was a constant beep instead of an occasional beep. The doctors ran inside and tried to save him, but his death was inevitable. I held the star in my hands, gripping it tight and looking at it.
"If you say so, Daddy, I love you too" The star glowed and appeared back onto my robe.
As Celestia raised her dagger, I reached to the back of my robe and pulled off the Oracle Star. I looked up and saw my father, standing there, pointing at the star. I gripped it tightly and activated it, Celestia jammed the dagger into Klums stomach. She heard me moving and she looked at me. The star glowed and began to flash, it cleared the weather and the land was clear again. I became enveloped in white lights and I was lifted into the air.
"What… What is this!" Celestia screamed, unable to move. The star floated out of my hands and hovered above me.
"Sorry, Celestia" The pulsating light fired at large laser at the princess, the noise was immense, and Celestia screams were muffled. She was slowly disintegrating into vapor, starting from her hooves. Holes were forming in her body, lights shooting out of them. When the beam was dying down, Celestia was no longer there, just emptiness. Her crown just lay there, unharmed and still in mint condition. A golden light appeared in front of me, it spun around me and lifted me up high, I felt a tingling sensation around my body. It made a large flash and I was dropped to the ground, I felt overloaded with strength and power. I looked around me, the crater was gone, out town was back, nothing was destroyed. My friends were still on the ground, using my newly developed strength, I levitated them up. I couldn't find Luna anywhere in sight, this war wasn't over. Many ponies still live out there, in fact, Fluttershy, The Pink One, and The White One are still in that city. Along with Luna, and probably other princesses out there that needed a good ass whoopin'. Klum, was not injured, the dagger had be vaporized, and the poison was gone.
I walked over to Celestia's crown, picked it up and looked at it. Maybe Celestia could hear me, probably not, I didn't know, but I had some unsaid words.
"Daddy's Orders…"
Hey guys, I wanted to say that I have come up with a sequel to this story.
I just wanted you to know that it's on it's way soon.
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