Chapters Darkness. Some time after the stil bolwing up.
"hello? Any one there? Hello! .... Damn just like hoof camp." That place was unforgiving. You had to push your body to the limit. Including what I was there for. My uncle Stil Moon was a Luner transport for the night princess. He would always tell me storys of his travels, and all of his battles. He was like the father I never had. He was a dark blue pegasus with a black mane, always had on his luner heavie armor. His eyes were a pale white, this was caused from all the night training and battles he did. But I could only imagine what them eyes have saw.
"Banjo. Hey over here son."
"Who is that? Wait did you say son?" This had bad all over it. One My fathers dead.... Shit I am dead...
"Over here. Come join me in some shine my boy!" I slowly worked my way to the voice thats calling it's self my father, but its hard in pitch black. Hell training we at least had the moon shinning some what.
"Who are you and what do you want?"
"Can I not just drink with my son? Hell we are both dead so we don't have to worry about Celestia busting us with this. HAHA Boy its been to long since I saw you. Wait last time you saw me was not the way I wanted you to remember but that was so long ago. How old are ya now Banjo?"
"24 Sir and how do you want me to drink with you if I can't even find you?" At this point I would have liked the black better than being blinded by Celestia's sun. "AH, thats bright."
"Hey you can see now can't ya. So stop you belly aching and get your flank over here." This was the same gray earth stallion as before. His yellow mane was wird for a gray fur contrast. The main thing that cought me was his pale eyes. "What ya staring at? Wait your not a stallion lover are you?"
"Wait. NO I'M NOT! Fuck last time I think I saw you was when you was laying on the ground with 50 plus arrows in you. But this dosen't make you my father though and I think we both know how to prove if you are."
"Ok so you don't think you get you mane from me than? How bout this." He started to remove his black armor and it was covering something only thought of in nightmares. Scares litterd his gray chest, one was so big it could have only been made by a hydra it self. This was only a quick glance because my eyes were staring to his right arm. What I have been waiting for that damn crossbow leanning on that moonshine bottle.
"Dad... I have so many questions to ask but." Tears was already in my light blue eyes. "What happend to... mom?"
He could not even look me in my eyes. As I watched a lone tear drop fall on the white floor I could tell it was not going to be a nice story.
"Banjo, I-I can't tell you about her." This was forsed from him before he fell to his knees crying into his hands.
"Wait what do you mean you can't tell me? What are you hiding?" I grabed him by his shoulders and lifted him to his hoofs so I could look in to his pale eyes. "Tell me please. I'm aready dead what else could go wrong?" Hopfully calming him down some so I can get what ever news I was wanting to hear. Good or bad.
"Banjo thats just the thing. I don't have you for much longer. And I don't want you wasting your life trying to find out the truth about your mother."
"THAN TELL ME!" Now I was past pissed. "AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU AIN'T GOT ME FOR MUCH LONGER?"
"Banjo I love you and don't follow in the foot steps of the Moon's make your own prints in the dirt son. May Luna be watching you. My boy." A tear fell from his face as every thing went back to black.
"NO YOU SON OF A BITCH! TELL ME!"
"FUCK!!" I shot off the ground were I laid in unbearable pain that made me slam my back on to the hard wood.
"Shit last I know back wound. Statis is unknown on it. My luck couldn't get better I can't smell anypony near by. Ok wrong only got bloody camo pants AND can't fly. So much for that luck.
----Five painful minutes later.
I had my dirty pants on with only one place in mind.... Ponyville. I hated that place more than I hate Celestia. So colorful and no problems of any kind. Everypony got along, they even sing to gather its a sickening sight. I can't blame Luna for wanting to make her own colony hell I was going to be sent to the crystal kingdom to talk to the leader of the royal guards. Shinning Armor I think was his name, not a bad guy just surved the wrong leader. Any ways time to get a move on.
The Everefree was pitch black. Hell bat ponys would have a problem finding there way threw here. But I got something they don't, knowedge. This is my home after all, well was. I got ten bits it was the Last resort clan that got me. They search and destroy what they are told to. Thats there job I can't get pissed it was goning to happen sooner or later. Well there are lights up a head. Shit i'm bleeding out I need to hurry.
"HEY! ANY ONE HOME!? PLEASE I NEED HELP!"
I was running full force now using my wings for a extra boost cause i'm going to need it for this. "BAM!" Wood splinters was sent every where. I basically removed her door. The only thing left was the hinges, even though that was cool i'm bleeding out all over her living room floor.
"Fluttershy please.... help.... me." Was all that came out before I went back to the black world I once was at.
--------- Darkness. Still unknown.
"DAD YOU BASTERD SHOW YOUR SELF!"
Author's Note
Ok Mares and gentlecolts I hope I have been improving for ya'lls sake. I know its a downer we don't get to find out very much but its something ya know. Hell I ain't even knowing whats going to happen next.
Like always leave a comment about well anything. Your leaving what you think is right to leave.
"WHY AM I EVEN CALLING YOU DAD? FOR ALL I KNOW YOUR JUST LIKE THAT VOICE I TALK TO!" Screaming into the never ending darkness was only making me madder. For all I know i'm just in a dream. A dream.. A DREAM!
"You has called for thy presence?"
'If that worked I promise i'll never shit talk that gray stallion ever again.'
'I hope not. That stallion was a good soldier of mine and a good father too... Banjo is there something wrong?' Damn forgot she can do that.
'No I just forgot you can read another pony's thoughts. Can we talk face to face my princess?' The darkness was no longer around me. The ground that was beneth my hooves was actually... Holy shit i'm on the moon. Equis is pretty from here. It kinda looks like that planet "Earth" as Lyra talks about all the time.
"As you wish my pony." I didn't even see princess Luna next to me. With out staring for to long she was just drop dead gorgeous. Her mane and tail matching the beautiful night sky. They where free flowing in a breeze that wasn't even there. On her night blue fur arm was the cutie mark of a crescent moon over three white clouds. She had on a night sky colored dress that came to her knees that also hugged all of her gorgeous curves. And her beautiful blue eyes, I think i'm lost in them things. "You know if you keep it up your going to make me blush."
"OH! I so sorry my princess. Please forgive me." She says she might well I beated her to the chase. I hope she can tell. Fuck never mind she is giggling at me.
"So what has one of my former guards need from me?"
"Luna I am dreaming right? Before I begain."
"Indeed you are."
"I was..." 'Shes going to think im crazy.'
'You are not crazy Banjo just say what is on your mind.' Damn it. I need to start working on my poker face so she won't do that.
"I was dead earlyer my princess. And I saw my father. Of me never knowng him I had one chance and I blew it. Could he ever forgive me?"
"I see why not. What would cause him not to love his only son that he rasied on his own?"
"What do you mean my princess?"
"Please you served next to me with top secret battle plans to ad the Crystal kingdom, start calling me Luna dear Banjo."
"Yes princ.. Miss Luna." Can't even talk to a mare with out tripping on my own words.
"Did he not tell you?" All I did was shake my blond mane. "Oh dear I feared this may have happend. What made you.. um die my pony?" Is she uneasy knowing I died?
"Just Banjo Miss Luna and i'm not to sure. All I remember was blocking Applejack and Big Mac from my exploding stil, after that I just died in AJ's arms. So what made me die I am not sure of."
"I see. This is very strange indeed."
"Yes and I fear i'm bleeding out on poor Fluttershy's floor Miss Luna."
"If you say so Banjo. Just a heads up your going to be in great pain my pony. And I shall be in ponyville in a day or two. So clean your self up and be on the look out. And Miss Fluttershy is a ally so don't worry to much."
"As you wish my princess...... What about my mother?"
"I'm sorry Banjo. This I can not tell you. It will be one of your greatest battles. I only wish the best of luck to you, Banjo Moon. Guard of the night." Just like it was in the death realm every thing fadded to the real world.
Real time. morning just a couple hours later.
'Push the pain out of your mind and think of anything else but pain, remember when you get caught find a way out with no kills and no pony knowing' With this in mind I could smell freashly chopped apples with a hint a carrots.
As I eased my eyes open I could see Celestia's sun just looking over the morning mountians. Theres something on me though? Warm, fluffy..... Oh no its that damn rabbit of hers. Even though he is a rabbit I swear that thing looks in your soul. "Easy does it. Please don't wake up." Luck was finally on my side he is a hard sleeper.
I slowly worked my way out of the warm bed I was put in, making sure not to wake that fucker up. As I eased my way threw the room something was off. 'Dresses in the closet. Flowers on the night stand. Angle in the bed.. Oh man I hope I did not make her sleep on her couch. Ok anyways need to find the stairs.' As I went threw the room like a mouse, making my way to the wooden door. Easly opened it with no problem next task at hand, not fall down these steps and flying is out of the question.
Fluttershy was in the kitchen humming a lullaby to her self. As I got to the last step rather quickly she was still humming. From what I could tell she had on a long light pink night gown that matched her tail and mane. Her carmal colored fur was shinning in the suns early rays. But thats all I could get on her be for I found my self stairing at her flank for some reason.
"Oh your up" What somepony say something? Oh... so much for not letting her see me.
"Um yea. Sorry for your door." I could feel a sheepish grin coming on my face.
"Its ok. If I can ask, why did you have such bad wounds on your back?" Man the more worried she gets the more I can actually hear her.
"Oh them.... I'll let AJ tell you about that story. Wait does anypony know i'm here?!" With that said I rushed to were the door was once at looking outside for any thing alarming.
"No, not that I know of anyways."
"Thank Luna."
"Wait you mean Celestia right? Though theres nothing wrong with Luna I kind of prefer her nights." Fuck she don't bend over backwards for the sun goddess but no risks.. I need to go now. Need to find my armor.
"I must take my leave. Thank you for your help and i'll be sure to get that door fixed!" That was all I said before I made a mad dash for the Everfree.
"THATS THE EVERFREE YOU"LL DIE OUT THERE!" Was all I heard from the shy mare before I was neck deep in danger.
Twenty minutes later.
'Last turn before..... Home...' I hit rock bottom at the sight of my once called home. Every thing was burnt to ashes. Nothing was left of anything, all but my secret tunnel fifty paces from my remanning metal of the stil. Here was only big enough to hide my armor made only for me. It was dark purple, perfict for night time attacks. Chest plate, helmet, arm guards, leg guards, sword, recurve bow with six arrows, and neck guard with the crescent moon in th middle.
"Ok. Look over the area one last time and we can go back to the hive boys."
'Fuck that voice sounds like... Wait its not royal guards. Hive? Oh no please don't tell me I forgot about the changglings. I'm so fucked!' Like before more thoughts was fired into what ever I had left of a clear mind. 'Ok theres more than one that I know. But the scouts are poorly trained and almost weaponless. I can take them easly, I hope anyways. FUCK! What to do, what to do.....'
Author's Note
This is your choice. I have never done a fighting scene but it could turn out bad ass or not... Your pick ponys.
As always thanks for reading Mares and Gentlecolts! Leave a comment of any kind or just PM me don't care Ya'lls pick.
PS Luna kept Fluttershy safe.
'Shit what to do! Come on think! Wing it? No to risky. Remove them one by one? May work but i'm better at night. Run for Ponyville? No theres probly guards every were due to princess Twight Light returning. Go talk to there queen? She won't harm me, well not right away I hope.'
"Did any one of you see this hole over here?" Shit the group leader fount the tunnel.
'Training said if they don't see you wait for there move. So lets play cat and mouse, only this mouse fights back.'
"No sir. should we regroup if he's here?" 'That must be his back up. So theres two on count.'
"Yes and have a flair ready at all times. Tell the others the same."
"sir, yes sir." With that said that lower ranking scout must have went to find his buddies.
'Shit, can't kill em now. They would send a flair up at the slightest sound.... Hmm that might just work.' With this in my head I knew what I must do. I got the well made recurve bow that was made of a ancient tree that could only been found before Luna was sent to the moon. This bow was givin to me by my uncle Stil, he said that it was my fathers bow and that he got it from his father and so on since one of the first Moon's made it. To me it was beautiful, the dark purple bow was one of the strongest anypony has saw. They wouldn't even let me serve my duties with this bow on me. But since I was Luna's right hand battle planner she let me slide by.
"What could be taking them idiots so long? Theres only 10 of us."
'10! Man my lucky day! But no stick to the plan. Kill the leader with a shot in the head and high tail it to Sweet Apple Acres.' This was my plan. To get all them ugly bastards in one place and give me more than planty of time to fly..... Well run, my wings are still held by the bandages Fluttershy put on me.
'Please let this be a clean kill!' The six arrows that I had was tipped with steel tri points. 'Oh forgot I had these bad boys.' Now I know my plan will work. As I pulled back on the bow from the tree I was in about 50 feet from the black bug like pony. I drawed the bow back with little struggle. I let the black string slide past the tips of my fingers with little sound and the arrow whistling through the air.
"GAA!" That ws all he got out before the arrow went stright into his left green bug like eye spitting blood all while the green ball of magic was thrown into the air. When he finally fell face first I could see the bloody tri point tip sticking out of the back of his head.
"Shit theres a flair! The boss must have seen him!" Damn buddies saw it.
'Ok mabe a little faster response time than I thought but If I start now and forget that arrow i'll make it.' I wasted no time to get on the ground with a solid "THUMP".
"Tell the queen his still alive!"
'HA good luck Chrysalis on finding me.' Sad thing is we never had any problems. To me she is just misunderstood but she did go at things the wrong way to. 'Hope this dosen't mean she'll want my head.'
10 minutes of running through the Everfree.
I could see the apple trees of the Apple's ochard. But just cause I saw these trees dosen't mean i'm close to AJ's house. All I could do was run between the rows of apple trees . I must have ran at least 2 miles of apple trees by now and still going.
Darkness. Time, just past 11 am.
Unlike the dream or death realm I could feel moisture in the air, and the air smells like wet rock. But darkness was every where. I couldn't even think stright, I think, I think , I lied I can't think still.
'Ok nether the dream or death realm had smells in it. So I am still alive, and well awake. Hmm training, think come on think. I'm not a bat pony so can't click my tungue for sonar. There was always a rummer that if you focuse you can see in the dark, but I know its not true. All I can do is go on smell and hearing, man I should have let them doctors put that sight spell on me.'
"Welcome to my hive, Moonshiner." I knew that voice. It was the one and only queen of the bug ponys I call them.
"How can I help you in this 'lovely' cave?" 'Show sarcasm and it might help.'
"You should show your queen respect, moonshiner." 'HA I forgot she didn't know my name.'
"That is one thing I was, but I must say sorry for you are not my queen." 'Keep it up smartass, I'll hit a nerve here soon.'
"And what makes you say that?" 'She took the bait.'
"I'm not a bug." 'HA nailed it!'
"We are not bugs! Moonshiner if I was you I would start showing some respect!" 'Now she's pissed. Lets try this.'
"Well your not me so.... Yea sorry. Plus I don't show respect to pony-nappers." 'And I think that was like spitting in her face. If I knew where it was.'
"Now your just testing my nerves! How dare you!" 'Did it. Banjo 1, Bug queen zip.'
"What makes you say that." 'I almost died out laughing there for a sec.' "So what do you want with lonly old me?"
"You killed one of my men." 'Ok lets see what could make her mad?'
"Oh I thought that was a big ass bug. HAHAHA sorry couldn't hold it in!" 'BINGO!'
"Thats it! If you won't show me respect i'll make you show me!" And a bright light hit my opened eyes like that arrow to that bug pony. The light from a lone tourch that showed a fair sized stone room with only one large steel door. The room was big enough for six atleast, me and Chrysalis was the only ones in here though. And I didn't even know I was only in my bloody camo pants chained to a wall. By the way these chains feel theres a spell on them too.
Chrysalis was not that ugly for being a bug queen. Her black fur wasn't that dirty for being in a cave. She had on a pair of black skinny jeans with a white muscle shirt that showed the holes in her arms. Her bluish mane tied up in a pony tail, showing her unusual horn with the wird growth of a crown on her black head. Her bluish tail just hung there while her insect like wings stayed close to her back. Those green eyes looking right into my blood stained soul.
"From that armor you was wearing you must be a luner guard, no?"
"HA you wished. After my last battle I fell of the charts. Hell every pony thought I was dead!" This was true. Four years after Luna returned I was in a battle helping some allys, after it was over I just went back to the Everfree without telling no pony and made my stil and a little cabin there.
"Do you remember the training you had to go through?" 'What does she got her sleve?'
"Sadly yes. But you know you cann't get me to talk about the princess. So what is your move?"
"I thought we would play a game." She came up close to me and gently put her hand on my face.
"Should I be scared? Cause if so, i'm not." 'Poker face is working. I think, even though I ain't scared at all.'
"Oh no, there should be no fear at all. I just thought to my self how many more scares I can add to your pretty chest." This is wird now she is just rubbing on my chest.
"Oh... Well than it should only hurt for a little bit." Hopefully anyways.
"Thats were you are wrong. Well anyways heres how the game is going to be played, I ask you a question and if you answer it with a truthful answer i'll show you, hmm lets see.... How about some of me? Hows that sound?"
"Well not your that bad looking but I guess it all depends on the question. But I have a small question though."
"And what may that be Moonshiner?"
"What if I answer wrong?"
"Thats were this comes in." She pulled out a knife only told in tall tells. Its been said if you see this knife run as fast as you can. If it is to cut you it would burn your fresh were it made contact. There was no name for it it was only discribed and it was dead on with the looks. The blade it self had a curse writen in a long forgotten language. the handle was of bright gold unlike the blade of stright steel.
"Where did you get your hands on that?!" 'Luna I may have to say sorry before this even begains.'
"I am a queen you silly Moonshiner. And that brings use to our first question of the game. What is your name?" 'Lets test this magic blade.'
"Star Swirl the bearded."
"Wrong answer." The blade was brung to my chest with a hiss of burning flesh and the screams of me.
"AHH!" she brung the blade back off my chest and looked at me with a try again look. "Its Banjo."
"Ok, Banjo how old are you?"
"24. So is there going to be harder questions?"
"Thats pretty young to already be retired form the luner guards." Out of fun she brung the blade to my left side and just pressed hard enough for it to burn me.
"Bitch. Buck you. Why am I even being nice to you any ways?"
"Now how hard was that being honest is a good trait? But you don't get to win this round though. How about question 3? What is your family name?"
'Shit the blade is real and it just cauterizes the cut so no bleeding.'
"Do you even want to see me naked?" After this was said she brung the buning knife off my face.
"GAAAA! Its.... Its." I hung my head down as saying the answer with a tear rolling off my face. "Moon, Banjo Moon is my name."
"No it can't be. Celestia's royal guards killed the last moon years ago!" Disbelief was in her voice.
"Ha thats what every one thought."
"How did you join the luner guards with out getting cought?" Question 3 I think.
"Luna always has a plan for the Moons. Hell we aint know as Luna's right hand pony anyways. My family has surved the royal family when them two was born." Family sweet family.
"Wait did you say Banjo?" At least I ain't going to get cut this turn.
"Yes I did. Why? You still want to cut me?"
"Yes I do acutually. Your family always been a friend to us changlings. And now since your the last one."
"Hmm more to know I guess." Should have not said that. she drove the hot knife into my chest with so much force I could hear three pops of broken ribs.
"Yes it is." The only way I could respond with was a mouth full of blood. "Don't worry you'll live. Trust me I want to keep you for my own personal toy." She gave me a wink of her green cat like eye before blood ran down my chin. "Thats nasty. Here let me heal you." With this said she touched her black horn to my pale fured head. All I could here was the poping of the ribs she broke and the inflating of my punctured lung. "Is that better?"
"Thanks I guess." That came out very weak compared to my normal voice.
"You guess? Well alright we are getting some respect out of you. so next question." I cringed at the thought of that blade entering my body again but I just can't give up information. "Why did you start business with us?"
"Need bits. Plus I hate ponyville."
"We have something incomen than don't we?"
"No comment." I been had me eyes closed since she healed me, but the blade I was waiting on never came. As I was waiting for the sharpness of the blade when I heard her say something.
"Got to start off small. I just cant go and show you all of me at once now can I?" I opened my right eye due to the left one was still in pan and what I saw I didn't see coming.
"So you are true on you words." When I saw she let her hair down made me relaxe some but was soon over with the blade cutting across my chest. Burnt fur was in the air with a small grunt of pain.
"I said I would show you, but I did not say you can talk about it. Plus the way you handled that you must be getting use to small cuts. So next question, why was you heading to the element of honesty's house?" She rasied her brow with the question.
"First place that came to mind. Plus I trust Big Mac." This was all true, all but me wanting to tell AJ I am still breathing.
"Fair enough." She started to remove her white muscle shirt that was covering a green bra hiding her breast. While the shirt was over her eyes the training kicked in and I analyzed the magic cuffs that was holding me. They weren't the queens magic witch was a downer. This was a darker green, but something was off. The magic wasn't glowing. It was just.... green. That must mean its just there to keep me standing, but I couldn't move. Paralize potion must be the key than. "So what do you think?" I snapped back to her looking her up and down.
"Not bad for a changling queen." Wrong answer, The knife dug into me right thy burning a slightly larger hole than the cut wound into my pants. "SWEET LUNA!" That really hurt.
"I'm sorry did that hurt? all well you don't really need good pants anyways." A large smile crossed her face when she brung the knife out as slowly as she could.
I gritted my teeth not to sceam in pain, but the way she is doing it is going to help me. "NAAA!" Breathing heavily now due to that. "What is.... your next.... qestion?"
"Ah your learning, Hmm do you like it ruff?" A sly grin came to her lips while asking the wird torcher qestion.
"What do you think. I'm not just answering these wrong due to I don't know the answers." This just made her grin bigger.
"Aw well. Its getting late and I do need my sleep at night. But you was a luner guard so I don't think you would know what thats like." She sliped her shirt back on with a happy grin on her face and this worried me. "Hope you have sweet dreams. Oh and before I forget good luck telling Luna were you are and tell her I said hi."
"HA sure bitch might as well dive tht knife in my eye." Don't let me regret them words.
"Hmm thats not a bad idea for tomarrow. Though I don't think a healing spell returns eye sight?" Thoughs was her last words before she walked out the door making sure to sway her hips with her tail to the side for me to see her flank. As the steel door slamed shut the tourch burnt it self out and I was once again left in the dark by my self.
"Luna please fogive me if I give any information away to this damn so called queen."
Author's Note
So here it is. If it took you by suprize than good. I am disappointed though in my skill of grammer.
Well like always thanks Mares and Gentelclots for reading and leave a comment or PM if ya'll just want to talk.
It must have been almost six hours since the dark reclaimed the cave room. I couldn't sleep at all and its not due to the luner guard title eather. During a test of a soldier prisoner, I was tortured for a whole two weeks. Whips, blades, magic, even acid was used in this process. All I could do is count the scars. But all was needed to show that I would not tell top secret plans of any thing.
Flashback. Age 12. Posted at the train station of canterlot.
"So Banjo how did you even get in the guards?" This was my partner speaking.
"A fellow guard fount me at the age of 8 and ever since i've been training. Hell this is only my second week on the guard."
"I heard they was going to resign you dude."
"And where did you hear that Mister Shinning." I always liked bucking with him. He was pretty cool. Like any other royal guard he was a white stallion with golden armor. He was pretty young for him self too. The blue mane that was under his helment was short unlike his tail. I was also in gold armor but it was light compaired to his 150 pounds of armor.
"The capt said that Banjo Everfree was to be transferred to luner guard. But why? You are no were close to a bat pony. But you are a pretty strong flyer though."
'Luner guard is he messing with me?'
"I don't know but thats why we are here. I'm sending you off to Ponyville, you get to find that out your self."
"But Ponyville is a lovey dovey town dude. You know I hate that!"
"Orders are orders Banjo. Sorry we didn't get to spend more time togather."
"Me to... So whens the train coming?"
"Thats the funny part. First part of your training is to fly there, during the night."
"THATS A THREE HOUR LONG TRAIN RIDE!"
"Yep so i'm guessing it will take you at least five hours to get there counting if you need to rest. Oh and if you don't get there with in sun rise, You fail and is kicked from the guard and canterlot. Good luck!"
"GAA! See you Shinning Armor!" I was now in the air with a golden flash. At my age it was rare to see a pegasus to break MOC 1, but theres been rummers that a filly in cloudsdale did a sonic rainboom. Thats like MOC 5 I think.
Three hours into flying non-stop. Still mid night.
I could see the lights of Ponyville only another 30 minutes at this pase and I should be there. My armor was starting to get heavy, the 85 pounds I was carring was the lightest a earth pony could get. Last time I checked pegasus lightest they could get was 35 pounds leather armor. But I was told that if I wanted to go on dutie I must have a crossbow and golden armor. Why I couldn't carry my own bow I don't know but the capt said it would most likely kill. Which was true.
'Come on almost there. To bad I can't break MOC 3, I would probly most likely kill my self doing it though. Aw well... Wait were am I going to be metting my trainer at? Damn it Shinning!'
"HI!" I drew my short sword and spun putting it to the throught of a now scared pink mare. When I saw she was no threat I put the silver sword back on my side.
"I'm sorry ma'am are you ok?" The hard voice I was trained to use did not help at all.
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR! YOU COULD HAVE KILLED ME! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT ANY WAYS!......" This fast paced speach from the pink young mare was driving me nuts, but I had to observe any pony that I encounter. Her once pink poofy mane was now stright and tears came from her soft blue eyes. The yellow skirt she was wearing came to her knees. The Blue sweat shirt had a picture of three party ballons on it. And she still hasn't stoped.
"Ma'am i'm sorry but you got me by suprize and it was a reflex."
"I thought royal guards were nice and not meanes!?"
"We are nice Miss...."
"Pinkie Pie!" Her mane puffed back up and she a large toothy grin on her pink face.
"Miss Pie we are nice. But I am looking for some luner guards here."
"LUNER GUARDS!!" She just... teleported, but how she was a earth pony?
"Banjo Everfree?" This voice had bad written all over it.
"Who wants to know?" Please let it be a friendly.
"Get em." the voice behind me said that with a calmest voice I ever heard, but before I could do anything I was already being held down by two unknown ponys. "Look come with ease or by force. Your pick Mister Moon."
"How do you know......" I felt a blunt object hit the side of my helmentless muzzle making me black out.
Place unknown. Time Unknown.
"WAKE UP!" Cold water raped my face. The headach I had was painful. The room was well lit when I worked my swollen eyes open, I could see three ponys in luner armor. I was chained to a wall with my hoofs not even touching the floor. "Ahh its about time you peace of shit." The only earth mare there punched me in my armorless gut causing me to caugh. "So how are you likeing your stay so far?" This only made another punch hit my ribs.
"You could work on your hospitality." The mare only got red in the face, and it wasn't cause she was embarrassed.
"Oh airn't you the little smartass?" At this point the punchs was better, this time she signaled one of the earth stallions to hand her something. This something was brung to my chest leaving only a bloody trail behind the small dagger.
"NAAA! WHAT DO YOU WANT?!"
"TALK!" Royal training one-o-one never talk. I took a deep breath before saying the stupidest thing ever.
"Hey if you want me to talk you're better off getting one of the other mares to do it." This made me smile when the biggest stallion stepped up to the plate. "Before I turn into your punching bag, may I ask for your name?"
"No you can't." His deep voice only made my thoughts true. The fist this stallion had was the size of my head and it only made the punch he delivered to my gut only hurt more. I couldn't stop gasping for the much need air but was only stoped when the mare walked back up to me.
"So do you want to talk now?" I nodded my weazing face to her still grabbing air.
"Yea... give.... me.... a sec."
"Thats fine with me, just make it quick so we can throw you out for the timber woofs."
"What do you want to know?"
"Tell us about Celestia's plans."
"Fine..... Last time I hear she was going to get some cake. HA do you really think you can make me talk. Even though I know this is a test i'll ride this tain till it stops!" I musterd up the biggest smile I could before she got the knife to my chest.
"This is your last chance before I make you wish you weren't even born."
"HA I don't have any family left. Go for it, and plus I doubt anypony would morn for little old me. Oh and before you start you might want to get a doctor ready cause I know its going to get messy." The smile only got bigger when she drug the blade from my right shoulder to my left hip leaveing blood just to ooze out.
I went on two weeks of looseing more blood every day. They just gave up, I can't really remember alot after that but the scars was only a dally reminder that all that was to surve Luna. It was worth every minute, Luna and I grew close but we nevered showed it.
Hive. Morning.
"I see your awake. So is my little pony going to talk to day or still a no?"
"All depends on the questions."
"Well lets get started. How was your first night here?"
"Could have been better. Why do you even care? All I am is a prisoner of war to you." Is this for her personal gain?
"Thats a shame it wasn't that good, and I do care." Lies.
"Whats your personal gain? You can't feed off of me, so why am I even here?"
"Its just been awhile since I could cut open a fine stallion such as your self."
"Mabe we should trade spots cause you answered wrong. So buck off."
"So much for that respect I got to get yesterday. Shame I have to do this." The steel blade came up to my right side and was drug deeply down to my hip.
"GAA! Your going to have to do better than that bitch."
"Such words from you. Lets go for another question shall we?"
"I don't know can we its not like i'm going any where." The look of disgust filled my face.
"Oh this is how its going to be? Hmm what was your post of the luner guard when you last surved?"
"I didn't have one. I was a scout that took out heavy troops." They were mean griffins and they were ruthless.
"Hmm I don't know if I should give this one to you or not. But I guess you did answer it right so why not." It was still pitch black in the cold stone room. I could only tell it was me and the queen in here. The chains I lied about within the night the magic started to show its self. The potion idea was completely wrong, It was also magic at work.
"So is this all that today is going to be like? Just darkness? That must suck for you. Well thats the next question. Would you like your queen to give you some light in this dark cave?"
"No if it means I get to call you my queen than hell to the no. But if you feel the need for me to see you than go for it. Other than that I can care less." If I was to belive in Celestia I would pray but there is no need to pray to her, now or ever.
"So you don't want to see your queen in the nude?"
"Your not my queen. SO BUCK OFF!" The yelling only echoed through the room.
"Wrong answer." This time it wasn't the hot blade, it was her magic slowly ripping me apart limb by limb. My only struggle was to scream in agony. "Aw does this hurt? Would you perfer me to cut you open slowly instead?"
"YES! JUST STOP!" I could hear my joints popping out of place when she finally stopped the force.
"Are you going to start answering my questions?"
"YES I WILL! Just, stop!" This pain I could not take but I still can't tell her about the plans.
"You know how you killed that one changling?"
"The one that caught my arrow with his face? Yes."
"Well I need one to replace him you know." Does she wants sex?
"I will kill every one of you bugs before I would ever reproduce with your kind!"
"We are changlings not bugs! And you don't have a choice."
"Want to bet on that?" Please take the bet I dare you.
"Yes I do. What do you have in mind?"
"Me VS your best soldier. I don't need weapons eather." Changlings have one weakness. Love. If I show some love they will all go crazy and fight each other just to get some. There all starving with out it. Plus if I can get out of here I will kill all the changlings my self!
"Your on!" I could only tell she had a grin on her face. But if she is smart she will face me and not one of her bugs. "If I win I get to keep you and your my own personal slave."
"If I win I get freedom or at least a 10 minute head start with no magic." The way she said deal was not half bad. I felt her wet lips touch my dry lips. But she wanted more in the lip lock she forced her tounge into my mouth looking in every nook and cranny.
"Hoped you liked that cause that will be the last one with out it being forced." With this the door slamed once more leaving me by my self once again. Just me and my thoughts to think about what just happend.
Author's Note
We got to see some of his training he had to go through and his first partner as a guard! Who would have thought?
As always thanks for reading Mares and Gentlecolts! And if you have any questions or just want to talk comment or PM me.
I think its been 3 days since I had that agreement, sealed with a one sided passionate kiss. The only contact I had was with a changling that brung me only dirty water. From what we talked he was still to young to go fight for his fellow ponys. Of course I didn't tell the young changling about the one I killed, but he was informed about his fallen comrad. In my luck he never liked the dude anyways, he said he always picked on him. So I tought him how to defind him self from my chained postion and he picked up fast. Also this was the only time I was given light was when he came.
The last words I told him was... 'I hope our paths never cross after this only for your safty young changling. Grow strong and fight in what you belive is right, not what you are told is right.' With this it has been 12 hours since I have seen him.
"Wake up my stallion." This voice sounded nothing like Chrysalis but the voice of another.
"Who is that speaking to me?" The light coming from the hall was dim so I could not get a good look on the pony.
"Who else could it be? Your the only pony I have shared thy heart with over a thousand years, but I just never showed it."
"HA very funny, stop bucking with me Chrysalis. Plus i'm sure you showed that I have no place in your heart just your croch whore." I was now trying to focus more but the lighting still sucked. The mane of this pony only free flowed in a breeze that was not there.
"Chrysalis is not here. Only thy self and you." She was slowly making her way to me.
"I know only one pony that speaks thy olden language and she is not you."
"But it is me, Banjo I have missed you so much." I could feel her hot breath on my neck. Her mane and tail was flowing in the air. The light was still horrable but I could tell she had all the looks of Luna.
"Please come closer I must tell you something my princess. Its a secret." I was whispering so she had no choice but to get closer.
"What is it Banjo." Her voice was like heaven to my ears.
"Did you know you have a headach?" The grin on my face was bearly seen.
"And why would thy have one?" The answer she was looking for was soon found out when I rapped my pale wings around the imposter while slamimg my head into theres repetedly. Once the limp body hit the floor I was trying to push off the wall with my hoofs and my wings. The room was quickly filled with dust as the chains was ripped out of the hard stone wall. I could feel the hot blood of the limp pony on my face.
"Told ya you would have a headach. And mabe a couple of missing teeth bitch." I spitted on the body as I forced the cuffs off of my wrist. "Now where is my armor?" I looked in my cell for the purple metal only to be greeted by the young changling.
The changling dropped what I was looking for and ran to the body. "MY QUEEN! WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER!?" Tears was in his green eyes falling onto the sleeping queen.
"Doing what I think is right. Now you may have something to fight for young one. Also tell her thanks for the stay and the show." Now I was fully armed while talking to the young changling. Now I need to find a way out of here. "If your not to pissed can you tell me how to get out?"
"I WILL KILL YOU!" He dropped the body back onto the floor and charged at me, only to be meet with the hard floor.
"Remember, clear your mind before you do hand-to-hand combat, but you will not try it on me for you have to sleep." I punched the changling in his head knocking him out.
Five minutes of running in the hive.
I reached a dark hallway that was filled with echos of changlings. There was a large door that was open letting real sun light into the hall. 'Voices plus sun light equals throne room. Simple math, but buck thats the only way out that I know of.'
"My changlings!" I could tell I did a number on Chrysalis cause her voice was pained. "There is a luner guard on the loose! I do not care how you do it but get him back to me at least some what alive! Now go!" I could hear the buzzing of thousands of bug wings beating. The sound was amost deafining but I had to hide. As the thousands of black bug troops flew above me in the massive hallway they weren't even thinking that I would be right under there muzzels.
There was no more noise from the bugs flying, with this I peaked into the large empty room. It was huge, there was a big grey stone throne at the end of the room with a red carpet coming to the door I was at. The windows were tall and plain. The pillers holding the cave roof up also on the sides of the carpet was also grey. every thing was stone gray besides the weapons that were on the wall with paintings of the bug queen. To my suprise I was the only one in the room.
"Lets look over here." The large wooden door opened showing three changlings and one of them just so happend to be the young one I knocked out. They were looking pissed too.
"You guys looking for little old me?" A smug grin was painted on my face while leaning on one of the windows. "Hey youngen will you sit this one out? You still have so much to live for."
"I will not sit this one out you dick!" He is still pissed from earlyer. I can't blame him though.
"I don't want to have your blood on my soul. Your the only changling that I respect. Please leave it at that and walk away." My voice was starting to become more sad.
"He is old enough to take your life, so let him fight." The shorter changling said trying to sound tough.
"I have killed planty of your kind. I think the tally not counting the young one would put me at 368 changling kills. Sooner or later your queen will be part of that number too. Sadly though ponys and changlings can live side by side. War is the answer, to your kind."
"Stop talking and start fighting!" The young changling is starting to get to eger.
"No, but how about I take your buddie for a trip."
"AHHHHH!" The tallest changling sarted to charge at me blindly. All I could do is laugh as I countered his wight and threw him out of the window I was once leaning on.
"As before tell your queen thanks for the stay and the show." I winked to the young one as I jumped out of the broken window to freedom.
"HE GOT OUT!" I could hear the thousands of bug wings behind me trough the free fall I was in. The sun was bright the wind felt good under my wings. I could care less about the arrows and magic flying past me, cause I was free nothing could get me. "WE'RE LOOSING HIM!" I couldn't care less about the good news, sad thing is I haven't even broke MOC 1. Well until I felt like I need to push my self as hard as I could.
"BYE BUG BIT...." This was cut off when I flew past the speed of MOC 1 and right into MOC 2. 'Lets keep pushing! MOC 4 is were i'll stop if the G force isn't to great!' I easly left MOC 2 with a purple trail right behind me. The cliff I was flying in is epic for this. 'The twists and turns was awsome. All good things have to stop though.' With this in mind I went straght up out of the cliff with the town of ponyville in sight about 3 miles away. 'Lets see.. MOC 1 I should be there in less than a minute.'
The wind flowing past me was like magic. Ponyville was under me when I left MOC 1 to normal slow speeds looking for one place only. " Wheres that damn library at? Oh theres that bucking tree house." Now I was at the front door banging three times on it. I swear every hit I gave the door was going to fall.
"HOLD ON I'M COMING, SWEET CELESTIA!" Yes I was going to talk to the princess of magic. "How can I..." Her purple eyes widen at the sight of me. "YOUR WANTED BY PRINCESS CELESTIA!"
"I know and stop yelling i'll be talking to her in a bit but I need you to do something for me." The rushed words only made the purple unicorn angry.
"Why should I do somethinng for somepony that betraid his princess?" Her hands locked on to her hips that was coverd by a light purple skirt. Her large purple wings was poking threw a white dress shirt. The princess's stright purple mane with a pink strip going through the middle was just like her tail with darker purple stripes following beside the pink one.
"Look just tell Applejack and Big Mac I am alive and heading to canterlot. Also tell Zacora I have not forgot about before but she is going to have to wait a little longer."
"What do you mean wait a little longer and for what?"
"Ask her." Dust replaced my body at the door I was once at, now i'm on my way to that crappy city of canterlot. Wait maybe Mister Shinning will be visting the sun goddess or something. MOC 3 was far behind me making my 5 hour trip from before into a 1 hour trip at this dangerus speed.
"LUNA I'M COMING MY PRINCESS!"
Author's Note
Ok sorry for a late release but I had a hangover from yesterday and didn't start witting till today.
As always thanks for reading Mares and Gentlecolts if ya'll have any questions or comments PM me or just comment!
Known as dead, but better as death
The weather was growing the closer I got to canterlot. By 5 minutes it was down pouring rain sideways. The wind was starting to knock my balence off at the high speeds. My training could not prepare me for weather like this. When I was a colt flying wes excpected of a pegasus. The lightning was getting closer and closer to hitting me.
"Buck off weather team of canterlot! Nothing can stop me! For I am known as Death that soars on pale wings!" No one has ever called me that but the enemys that feared my name. Celestia made this my war name. Griffins were even scared when they saw a lone pegasus in the moons light. Everypony feared me, and I loved it. I never used it for bad though, only in the face of fear was when I truly used it.
"ARE YOU CRAZY?!" This voice was almost missed if it wasn't due to no thunder. The toyish looking train below me showed the train engineer yelling at me. "COME ONTO THE TRAIN DUMB ASS!" I gladly agreed shooting stright at the closed windows of the therd train car.
I smashed through one that no pony was stitting at and rain soon followed me in. Everypony just staired at me with frightend eyes, one mare was even screaming. "Look everypony don't worry. Just luner guard things I have to do." Man I haven't used the royal guard voice for to long.
"Whats a luner guard doing this far from canterlot? Wait is that you Everfree?" The mare was in the back of the car.
"HA you know wearing green doctor scrubs while not at the hospital is not in style Redheart." The white mare just blushed. She had fixed me up one to many times. I was her first patient after my first training round with the luner guards beat me. We were even the same age too. "How have you been?"
"I'm the one that should be asking you that!" I swear she had tears in her eyes. "After you saved Big Mac and Applejack I lost you easly 8 times due to blood loss! Plus removing metal shrapnal from every part of your back killed you 3 times!" Her words was filled with sobbing as she wrapped her soft arms around me not showing any letting go eather.
"They don't call me death for nothing." Trying to make her stop crying whiched some what worked I kneld down to eye level. "Redheart I fear that you may have to save my life once more."
"Why is that Everfree?"
"Its Banjo. Banjo Moon, nerse Redheart."
Her bloodshot eyes went wide just like Twighlight did. "But than that means your wanted for dishonoring princess Luna!" Tears soon took her eyes back over. "Thats means your wanted dead or alive." The crying made that last part hard to hear.
"They are going to get me that way to. Don't worry bout lil old me missy. So dry them tears so you can give me a hug before I go." She just kept crying harder, I knew she had something for me but she wasn't into stallions. It was more of a really close friend thing.
"I'll do you one better Banjo." Her soft hands grabed the side of my cold wet helment and I was soon pulled into a kiss only known in dreams. The passion I never felt before in my 24 years of living. I soon reterned the already deep kiss as my damp hands were on her warm cheeks.
"He's over there!" A stallion hollerd breaking the long kiss. Right behind him was the 'Last Resort'.
"Redheart please be safe." She couldn't respond before I was out the open window I came into. I could see canterlot's lights only 5 minutes away at train speed but I can't go faster eather.
Five minutes of hard cold rain and darkness.
Now i'm flying over canterlot with thunder beating the air and lightning bolts turned a easy flight into dodge ball. The large white castle was right in front of me. "Ok can't go through the front gate the'll see that coming. Lets bring back my favorite way to enter a place!" I took off my chest plate letting the rain fall onto my dirty blood stained fur. I have been flying around the massive building trying to find the. "There's that big ass room." I got close to one of the large stained windows looking in I could see Celestia, Luna, and a hand full of guards of both kinds but staying on there on side of the room. The two sisters were haven small talk that I had no clue on. But I can't wait to see the looks on there face when I come in there.
I was a good three feet from the window just hovering thinking on how to do this. 'The guards will be in shock just like the others but will recover quickly. I was kinda thinking of old times and show up as there so called dead pony. No armor just my bow and sword on me.' This was my plan. I threw all my armor through the large window shadering on contact. I had to wait though let there mind wounder what the hell is there luner armor in hear.
"WHOS THERE?" One of the winged royal guards came close to the open window which I was under. When he poked his head out just far enough I grabbed him by the helment and punching him knocking him out instantly. I threw his limp body back into the window and heard the gasps of every one in the room.
'I think I have played with them long enough.' I flew into the window just to get the welcoming I wanted.
"Death everypony thought you was dead?" Celestia's face was worth only having my torn, bloody, soked, muddy camo pants on with my weapons.
"I was dead. But how does it feel when you see my pale wings Celestia? Does it bring fear into your foolish soul? You can not kill what is already dead. Go ask Chrysalis, the Last Resort, and the whole changling army! They tried and failed! So I ask you again, what do you feel when you see a dead pony in front of you?"
"PRINCESS CELESTIA BANJO MOON IS ALIVE AND........" A flash of purple popped right in front of me. Once the light was gone it left nun other than Miss Sparkle with my pale fur hand over her mouth and my sword on her neck.
"Now do you care only for your self or are you going to convence me why you want me dead." I have not even made eye contact with the one I loved. I could only imagin what was going trough her head.
"You betraid your princess Luna thats why."
"Bullshit tell me the truth or i'll be doing the bug bitch a favor after bashing in her face."
"You hurt my sister dearly thats why. When you left everypony thought you was dead. So I wanted you found, it just so happen you was running a illegal stil."
"But my princess." Looking at Luna for the first time in for ever her beautiful blue eyes wear coverd by her night blue fur hands. "You just visited me in my dreams not to long ago."
"What do you mean?" Her voice was filled with sobbing. "I haven't seen you since you was put out to help the chrystal kingdom!" She was full blown crying now.
"Twighlight do forgive me for wanting to hurt you." I pushed the purple alicorn away from me. I had tears coming into my eyes.
"Banjo it was all a miss understanding but you are going to be put underarrest." The mother like voice from Celestia did every thing but make me happy or calm. Two of her royal guards started to walk towards me.
"Do you two know why your princess calls me death?" The two guards didn't do nothing but get closer. "My princess could you inform these two Bucktards whats going to happen." Celestia was opening her mouth to talk, but I cut her off. "I would never call you my princess, your even lucky I call you Celestia." The two guards just got *that* much more angry over that and kept getting closer.
"Stop at once you two!" I have completly forgot about Twighlight was here. "He is know to his enemys as death on pale wings. The reason for this is because he had nothing to live for. His family was killed off due to moonshinning and being luner guards. So this means he would go past enemy lines and kill every thing that moved, thats why he was trained as a LUNER guard. So I would not recommend touching him." She was still wearing what she had on from earlyer today.
"Thank you. My princess you know I would not want to do anything to hurt you in any way. Prin... No Luna I love you, I don't know if you feel the same but all the time I spent serving next to you was just making me fall for one that I know could not love one who killed many innocent creatures. To listen to my foes scream under my blade was every thing I knew. Until they put me by your side than killing was only a set back for me. Luna please do forgive me for failling at my duties and now as a solid plege I lay down my sword." The steel sword fell to the marble floor with little noise. "But I will never surinder to your sister though. If any thing I want my fellow brothers to restrain me and put me where ever you see is pleasing." I fell to my knees with my head hung low and my wrists in the air.
"Banjo I never thought you felt that way. For thy has too fallen for you. You are right it is hard to care for somepony that kills for nothing, but you killed for me. Your princess, there is no amount of loyalty to be counted. Rainbow Dash is the element of loyalty but you show more."
I stood up rather pissed after hearing this. It all clicked to me. "What was I known as in training Luna?" I was putting on my armor starting from the bottom and working my way up to the helment.
"What?" Celestia was confused as hell. "I thought you said you lay your sword down as a oath?"
I drew a arrow from my qwiver and pulled back the bow pointing right at Luna's head. "You are right Celestia. But this would be 367 not counting your so called guards." I let the black string slide past my fingers as the steel tri point tipped arrow went right through Luna's right green eye. "I told you it was for your safty young changling." Twighlight was crying while Celestia was in shock. But I did not let that slow me down I drew my sword from my hip and shoved it into the closest royal guard. Now all the once royal and luner guards were all black bugs in there gold and purple armor. I threw the bleeding body towards the other changlings and flaired out my wings. "I am, death on pale wings. I server for the New Luner Republic and you all will die in the name of princess Luna." It all sounded like a prayer that I knew by heart for this was true. Even though it was a failed project I still served it with pride.
"NLR is a myth foolish pony. Theres 23 of us to just 1 of you." One in the high ranking royal armor hissed with a smile.
"Thats where you are wrong my foe. I killed 3 of you all ready." Now a sly smile was on my face.
"No its only at 2 you lier!"
"Wrong cause you are all dead before this even begain silly changlings." To the side of the thrown room I could see a solid steel banjo leaning on its stand. "Look i'll even take it easy on ya'll" I threw the sword on the ground and made my way to the metal banjo.
"HA A BANJO!" All of the changlings fell to the ground laughing at my move. "You are truly stupid!"
"Hear just cause i'm in a good mood i'll even take off my armor for ya'll" My country accent was filling the once hard tone. Now only wearing my purple steel helment and my bloody pants I turned showing my cutie mark to them. It was rather a diffrent mark than what is to be thought. It was the banjo on the moonshine bottle but the closer I looked blood coverd the bottom of the country instrament. "Are ya'll ready." Tapping the banjo in my left hand like a bat smilling madly.
"Lets get this over with boys so we can get back to the hive. CHARGE!"
My wings flaired out once more before the smell of blood filled the air.
Author's Note
This was a fun chapter! So whats going to happen next? I have no clue, I write a chapter once a day and release it after a couple times of self reading.
As always thanks for reading Mares and Gentilcolts! If any questions or just wana talk comment or PM me.
It was dark all I can remember is slamming the steel banjo on one of the changlings head and brains going every where. Did I go mad? I was laughing like a crazy man after all. Maybe I was killed, there where alot of them and my stupid ass did take off all of my armor. I just can't belive I didn't know. Wait can I hear voices? Yes! Is it real though?
"He has been out for two weeks and little signs of recovery princess Celestia. I'm sorry but we did every thing we could." The sadness in the stallions voice bothers me. Wait did he say its over for me? What the hell happend?
"Are you sure doctor?" I need to wake up! BUCK! Come on do something you usless body!
"I'm sorry. Is there any loved ones that we can notify."
"My soldiers killed the last Moon. So no there is no family." She diserves heartach, but i'm not dead! DAMN IT!
"Was there any family friends?"
"When he was a colt he always talked about a zebra in the everfree." So much for her heartach.
"We will get on that right away ma'am." The door slammed behind him leaving only Celestia and me. Well that I know of I can't really open my eyes right now. I could feel her head on my chest, what kind of pony am I? I have hurt the mare that I loved and her sister. I should not be known as death, but as dead. Damn it that heart moniter is driving me nuts! HAHA I'M SUCH A BUCKING RETARD! Come on think of something that will raise my heart rate. THINK!
"Banjo I am so very sorry. You were hurt protecting the one you hate and all I did was sit there like nothing was happening. Please, for give me." The beeping stopped.
"I-I for.... give.... you." YES I DID IT! I talked now I have a chance. Just pray that she heard me.
The tears on my chest were warm, her sobbing was to loud for her to here me. 'BUCK! Come on move! Damn it move! Just get your bucking hand on HER!' I slowly begain to move my arm up towards her head that was still on my chest. I slowly begain to work my eyes open to be meet with a colorful mane over my eyes, it smelt of a fresh flower garden which only made it better. The free following colors were memorizing but I had to forget about it and move my hand closer.
"Ce-lesti-a I for gi-ve you. Please sto-p crying." My hand finally touched her soft mane making her jump. "Ju-st stop cry-ing." The tears only came faster when she saw it was me. Her white face had runny black mascara and tears every where. Her eyes were blood shot from crying so much but there was relife in them ovals. "Where i-s Lu-Luna?" Man they really bucked me up.
"Yo-your dead though! How is it possible!?" She looks like she has just seen a ghost. Well I am kinda was meant to be dead.
"Noth-ing can kill whats alre-ady dead Celestia. Just ask Chrysalis. Did I ki-ll all of em?" Worry filled my droopy eyes.
"No you killed all but 6. The royal guard was already there finishing what you started though." She was finally standing stright up cleaning her makeup. She was wearing a white strapless dress that came to her ankles. The trimings going around it was bright gold.
"For somepony I don't like I gota say your looking sexy." I shot her a wink, trying to lighten up the mood but the way I was talking was slow and pained. "Where is Luna at?" The look in Celestia's eyes only made it worse.
"Chrysalis has her Banjo." Her head hung low with makeup filled tears hitting the white floor. All I could do was look for my armor. No vail looking in the small white room. I brung my eyes back to the crying sun princess.
"Its ok, I will not let nothing happen to her. I need my armor and weapons tho." Her crying only picked up more. "Damn it Celestia!" Her eyes shot up to me in suprize to my words. "Celesta where is mah armor? Ya know ya can't stop me so where is it?!" My country tone only truly comes out when i'm pissed.
"I'll get it." The white horn on her head was wrapped in gold dust than 'POOF' my armor was on my lap. "Do you need clothes?"
"I shouldn't." I worked my hooves to the side of the soft bed. When I stood the nersing gown that wasn't tied fell to the floor.
"Oh my." The gasp from the princess made me look down only showing my many scars and pride. I must have lit up like the sun its self cause she couldn't stop looking. "A-are you sure you don't?"
"No thanks!" I rushed on my pair of boxer that just so happened to be next to the bed. "I'm good but could you close your mouth tho." Now I wasn't the only one blushing like crazy any more.
"Banjo you know you can't fly, right." I didn't even think to check on my wings. When I tried to open them I was only meet with pain and feathers hitting the floor. "They broke both of your wings... If it wasn't for the royal guard showing up they were going to make you flightless completly."
"Well that means i'm taking a train to Ponyville, When is the next one?"
"I'll teleport us to the station right now." The golen dust wrapped around Celestia and me soon the screams filled my ears just like before, but Celestia didn't even cring. I wounder if i'm the only one to hear them?
"Last call for Ponyville!" The stallion standing on the side of the train in a blue uniform. "LETS GO!" The train started to move slowly towards the town I hate.
"Got to go and I promise I will return with her, but if I don't you'll know I died trying." I was now in a full out run to catch the train.
"GOOD LUCK!" From the waving white princess before I grabbed the rail of the last train car still with out my chest or neck plate on. As I worked my way over the rail with only one hand I could hear hoof steps coming from inside of the train. The red door on the car opened to reville the same stallion yelling to get on.
"You now theres no free rides." The brown earth stallion just deadpaned looked me. As the smartass I was all I did was show him the neck piece to my armor. "Oh woop ey i'm so proud of you, how hard was it for you to steal that?" This guy was being the smartass now.
"When I got over this here rail ima show ya how hard it is to woop your ass."
"I'll be here waiting tough guy." He started to roll up his sleves which in return I laughed while getting over the rail. "So you ready?"
"Here let me tell you who I am first."
"HA country to formal. Can't make up your mind hu."
"Banjo Moon and your right."
"Last Moon I fought was your uncle. What was his name? Ah Stil Moon I think, well I couldn't tell over me killing him. Hell that makes it your stil that I blew up than. I'm suprized that didn't kill you or your mare."
"Oh you son of a bitch." I charged at him giving a good left hook to his ribs and a kick in the chest. He returned it with a bolt of dark magic into my chest that about threw me over the trains rail.
"Not bad. But I don't want to get my hands dirty." A wicked grin came to his face when is once brown eyes turned into the green eyes I feared. His brown horn turned into a ragged black horn with a crown groth behind it.
"Chyrisalis did you ever get my message?" I was now putting on my chest plate along with the signature neck guard.
"Yes I did but its a shame that I couldn't show you more, plus it wasn't nice to head butt me when I was doing you a favor." The smile I feared came to her face. And yes I do fear somethings.
"Buck you, is that how you got into my dreams? You used Luna? Does she even know i'm alive?"
"She won't need to. Because your stop is coming up." Damn that smile sends chills down my spine.
"Your jackasses broke my wings but that dosen't mean I can't kill you still." I gritted my teeth due to my wings were on fire.
"But I got magic and I know how to stop your flying kind easly." Her horn lit up with the same color green as her eyes. I let a smile fall onto my face with her pitty attempt.
"Luner armor stops all magic and I just so have my wings under it." I punched her square in the muzzle with a chuckle. "So its only hand-to-hand now bug bitch." My smile only got bigger.
"Wrong answer Banjo." Thing two I feared. The golden handled blade that I have been cut with so much by her. "Even though I can't rip you apart I can still throw you out of this train.
Some how we traded spots I had the door to my back and her back was to the rail. She gave a toothy smile before basting me through the door behind me. There was no pony in this car thankfully but I was soon being slashed at by the cursed blade. Doing every thing in my will to dodge it I was soon into a yellow walled car full of screaming ponys. The screams were just like those of a foal watching his parents getting murderd in front of them. Trust me I know this sound way to well. She shot me with her dark magic once again just to be thrown into a near by seat on my back. Just so happen Miss Heartstrings was right behind me. Before I got to say hi I was was keeping the blade from being pushed into my chest with my foe sitting on top of me. She got the blade close to my right arm cutting through the armor like butter into my flesh. I gritted my teeth doing every thing I could to get the blade out of my arm. Some how I got my hooves under Chyrsalis and I sent her bouncing off the roof of the train car. "I must say you ain't to bad with a fist fight but your right my stop is coming up."
"What do you mean Banjo? All I did was cut your arm!" She was dumb founded when I charged her wrapping my arms around her, I ran trough the train cars and threw her and my self over the railling that I first climed over.
The wind was great for today. The sun was shinning bright and birds in the air. The fields were beautiful green. Every thing was perfict. Time was in slow motion once we was in mid-air still going way to fast just to jump off I pushed the blue suited queen under me to brake the fall and to provent me any real hard injuries that I already didn't have. I could her her screaming under me but I could care less. A smile came to my lips as I lend in close to my meat sled. "I'll be seeing you later." We were still going pretty fast but that did not stop me from jumping off of her raveged body. As I hit the soft grass I rolled for a good 100 feet untill I came to a stop. I could still her her sceaming a couple hundred yards away. The adrenaline I had earlier was completely gone, I was feeling every thing too. Ponyville was just in ear shot as I watched the train begain to slow to the station.
3 minutes of limping and pain.
The town was covered in ponys, manly mares though. I was walking through the center of this lovable place and all eyes where on me. There care free eyes burned my soul with every gasp or 'My Celestia'.
"HI THERE!" I spun around putting my bloody hand around the trought of a pink mare.
"Shit! Miss Pie i'm very sorry!" Dropping her, them blue happy eyes meet my killing pupils. "Are you ok? I did not mean to!"
"Its ok my pinkie sences told me that was going to happen, but I didn't know by who! But I guess it was you cause...." I complete lost track of the fast paced speach of the hyper mare. The blue skirt she had on bounced when she did but only came up to her pink knees. The lighter pink T-shirt that only covered her chest making her brest look bigger than what they already where. The three party ballons that were on her right arm was funny, the two out side ones blue and the middle yellow.
"Miss Pie.... Miss Pie." I finally covered her mouth with my sore hand. "Miss Pie could you just point the way to the hospital please."
"SURE!" The large some how fitting her face smile was happiness its self. I followed her finger pointing to a large gray building with a hay roof. "Its right over there Banjo! Oh and i'll let AJ and BM know your here!" Practicly yelling at me.
"How did you know...." She was gone just like that. Not even a hoof print to follow. "I need to keep tabs on her." I limped my way to the gray building with a big red cross over the doors.
Waiting room of the hospital.
I pushed open the large door and limped into the gray room. Chairs lined the wall to my left and right. The reptionst desk on front of me and a wooden door next to it.
"Can I help you?" I didn't even see Red Heart sitting behind the desk reading a news paper.
"Could a fine young mare like ya self help lil old me by any chance?" In the most romantic voice I know just to mess with her. The news paper blocking her light blue eyes shot to the desk with a thud and her mouth gapping. "What you go from nurse to fly trap?" She jumped over the desk rapping me in a tight hug making me cring some.
"I thought you was dead! Canterlot sent back med reports saying that Celestia pulled the plug on you! But how? Your still.." I covered her mouth with my hand stoping a game of 20 questions before it starts.
"I said that you will have to fix me up again didn't I? Well here I am." Removing my chest and neck plates showing wrapping that are completely red and covered in dirt.
"We need to get you cleaned up stat!" With this said she grabbed my hand taking me behind the wooden door to a empty white exsamining room with a metal table and a sink with cabnets over it. "Lets get you cleaned up." I complete removed my armor leaving me only in my boxers making the white mare in blue scrubs blush.
"Lets get the pain over with shall we?" This is going to hurt, ALOT.
Author's Note
Well there was that fighting scene I said was going to happen. Tell me how I did, but personally I could do more.
Like always thanks for reading Mares and Gentlecolts! Any coments or questions just comment or PM me.
Leaving behind those who care
Nurse Redheart left me to go find clean wrapping to cover the freshly opened wounds I have on my back and chest. They were pretty big compared to what I have had before. From the looks of one cut it was by a two handed long sword. 'How am I still here? A weapon like that should have killed me! Unless Celestia tried to some what heal me after the fight, but other than that my only other answer is somepony dosen't want me dead.' A cold breeze hit my bare fur making me shiver. "Redheart ya ok?" All that came to my ears was silence. "Redheart?" I grabbed the closest thing to a weapon and it just so happend to be a scalple. "Redheart if ya are bucking with me your doing a good job." The royal guard voice I never use came into play, deep and scary as hell.
I poked my head into the white hallway lit only by candles. The shadows danced around the small walkway with doors on both sides of it. One door at the end was wide open letting a brighter light out. I kept my silence listening for anything. The closer I got to the door I could see a light pink tail sticking in the door way. "Redheart is there something wrong?" I placed my hand on her shoulder still not in the room yet. "Redheart....." My heart dropped when I saw the dead luner guard on the metal table. "Redheart are you ok?" The look in her eyes were only making me angry. I grabbed her up like we were just married and took her to the waiting room. "Redheart stay here if you see anything move just scream. Do you understand me?" All she gave was a slow wide eyed nod. "I'll be back."
The candles in the long hallway was only messing with me. "Damn it. Why not get some moon light in here." I struggled to get my broken wings open. When they were open more feathers fell to the floor. A sigh escaped my lips at the sight of the pale feathers floating to the marble floor. "One good flap should do it." I gave a weak flap from my wings letting out a whimper of pain while folding them back up. The only light was coming from the room and the moon.
The room was just like the room I was first in. White walls, metal table, and a sink with gray cabnets. The lifless guard on the table was stomach twisting. Blood was running down the gray arm that was hung over the side on to the white floor. The earth stallion was on his back with the cursed blade sticking out of his purple chest plate. There was a note tied to the handle of the blade reading.
'I hope you are reading this Banjo.
"BUCK!" I crumpled the paper and threw it at the body. "Chrysalis you only gave me more of a reason to end your pittiful life you whore!" In my anger I punched a hole into the white wall only to make my fist bleed.
"Banjo are you ok?" Redheart was behind me and I did not want to show her my tear filled eyes.
"I'm fine... Thanks." Sadness replaced the royal guard tone very quickly.
"Your a really bad lier did you know that?" I walked over to the body of a brother I never knew, I didn't even hear Redheart. Below his cutie mark of a singal sword was a bald patch. In magic NLR was marked in purple on his right arm. Just so happens that on my left arm was the same thing.
'I may have not known you, but you are a brother.. For the New Luner Republic.' I closed his brown eyes so he could rest forever in peace. "Redheart I must go. Don't worry about my wounds eather. I have one more friend close by."
"Banjo your in no condition to go any where!" The worried filled blue eyes only made it harder to leave. "Banjo, I care for you."
"I know, and i'm sorry but I need to go." She wrapped me in a tight hug not wanting to let go. "Redheart more ponys will die due to me. I can not let any more die over a dead myth." Hugging her back I for a short time I released only to have her still hugging while crying. "Redheart, please don't make this any harder than it is." Her tears where warm on my bare fur. I leanded close to her face looking right into her eyes, holding her soft white tear soked cheeks. "Redheart I am not going to lie, I don't think i'll be coming back from this. If I do, I don't know but i'm done with the guard. But thats just if I do tho, theres not even a promise that i'll leave the hive in one peice. I need to go save Luna but don't dwell on me, move on and find somepony you know will be there for you." I removed my hands from the crying mare. Her light pink mane and tail where beautiful, but I was not bread for love, only pain, war and moonshinning.
I walked through the dark hallway still able to hear her crying but this was my last mission I had to do. I don't back out on a promise even though it was to Celestia I am a pony of his word. I grabbed my armor from the waiting room and walked out into the light breeze of the night. I closed my pain filled eyes and took a deep breath. "Tonight is a good night to die. But tomarrow hell will come with high waters." I started my long walk back to the sex hungry zebra.
Everfree forest, outside of a small hut. Little past mid-night.
"ZACORA!" I banged on the door three good times, but no lanterns lit. "Well buck me. Only time I need her she ain't here. Well I know where she keeps the healing potions tho, hell she don't need a door. Her falt for always keeping it locked." I lifted my right hoof up and slamed it into the old wooden door, but unlike Fluttershy's it was still in one piece hanging by a hing. "Wow I lost my touch.....By alot!" The moon light that filled the house was bright enough for me to find the bottle of green goop. "Man these taste like rotten meat." Fighting with the griffins gets ya to try new things, and nopony knows about that eather. They would lock me up faster than Pinkie Pie can run!
I tilted my head back and chugged the slop as fast as I could trying not to taste it. "Who's drinking mah brew?" I spun around just to see the face that I know. "Ah Banjo Moon, Its just you." Her gold neck ring things shinned inthe moon light.
"Zacora its been awhile hasn't it?" Looking closer she had on a tan jump suit that hugged her curves well.
"You where dead, but look instead. Changlings have not stoped you yet." She dropped what ever she had in her hand.
"That is right, poem mare. The doctors said I was dead but fate has it out for me. Your potions were the only thing that I knew that could heal me fast." Turning I showed her my pittiful wings, moving them very little. "But the lack of fethers is its own problem. Just means I can't fly." Zacora started to remove the jump suit to show only a silk black bra and a pair of matching panties. "Are you always in heat or something?"
All she could do was giggle. "No mister Moon, just for you." She shot me a wink while walking past me to light a candle.
"Well I have been put on my last mission Stripes. Go to the hive and get Luna." Zacora just froze in the spot she was standing. "There is a good chance I will not return Zacora. Please forgive me." She was like a statue. "I must go to make good time."
"Wait." She didn't even make it sound like a poem. "Banjo Moon, I care for you." Her eyes looked into my soul, the deep nasty part of it to. She grabbed me be the helment and pulled me into a deep kiss. All I could do was put my hands on her hips and return the deep kiss. She pulled my right hand into her panties letting me feel her wet marehood. I pulled back and was meet with pleading eyes.
"Zacora i'm sorry. Mabe in another life time." She turned her back to me and ran to her room crying in her hands. "Zacora its for the best." Talking to nopony I turned and was heading to gastly gorge through the Everfree. No weapons, just my broken wings, purple armor and the ones I left behind. "This is going to be a long ass walk. Maybe i'll make it before the storm comes in. Who the hell am I kidding? The weather team here is probly already waking up to get rid of the clouds in that damn town now." On que loud thunder broke through the thick trees. "Like I said. Why am I talking to my self?"
"This weather really sucks. Why were we put out here anyways? Is she wanting us to get sick?"
"Our shift is almost over, stop bitching." Two changlings were standing out side of a cave opening. Lightning was the only thing showing there black bodys. "Plus we won't have to do another shift like this for a while. I think our next one is tomarrow in the trone room." He was a little to happy saying that.
"Fine i'll shut up, just wished you would not be so happy to see the queen all day." I stayed in the darkest shadows working my way to the two changlings in leather armor. More thunder broke the heavy sound of rain. "Dude I think the storm is greating worse."
"Your right." I grabbed the bug by his chin and snapped his neck.
"YOU!" Was all he said when I plunged his parteners sword into his open mouth, almost removing the upper part of his head. It was a nasty sight, blood spilled out of his mouth while he fell backwards with a thud. Lightning lighted up the dark sky with a boom.
In side of the cave was torches lining the wall making it very easy to see. Water droplets fell from my purple armor onto the muddy path. I could hear nothing but rain and thunder. "That was a little to sloppy, at least nopony was around to hear that." Talking to myself made me keep my head.
"Look we have to go check on the moon bitch, queens orders." These voices were only to the left of the Y in the tunnels, and there shadows were fading into the hall. "Atleast we are not outside you know."
'Well my job just got that much easier if I do say so my self.' I followed the shadows for a good 5 minutes though the muddy tunnels. I lost track of how many turns we made but winging it would not be that hard. Wait I had to fly to get out last time... Shit. The two shadows ahead nevered talked the whole walk but was soon stoped.
"Ok we only have to open the door to see if she is still breathing and than we are done for tonight, ok."
"Damn it do I look like a colt to you?" This bug was pissed. "I can care less about what we have to do I just want to get some sleep!" I heard the door open as I came to peek around the corner. the left side of the hall had five steel doors ten feet apart from each other. Both of the black figurs walked into the room letting me run in behind them slamming the door shut.
"I know you are tird and all but you can't sleep with Luna, including when i'm in hear!"
"You should be scared changling. Your friend is haven all the sleep he can get now and so can you." Before he could scream I slammed his head onto the wall behind him. Slam after slam I could feel the head turn to mush but I could not stop. I could feel pieces of his skull dig into my right palm and his brains and blood ran down my hand. Before I knew it I had tears running down my face. "BUCK YOU!" I released what ever was left of his face and punched the wall as hard as I could. I fell to my knees crying. "Why must I have to do everyponys dirty work? Why can't I be lovey dovey and careless about the wars or bad guys!? WHY!?" I was full out crying into my hands, for no reason at all.
Flashback while smashing the changlings face.
"STOP!!! NO I SORRY! I WAS DOING WHAT I WAS TOLD!!!" Tears was running down the face of a royal guard.
"Told or not told you killed what was dear to me." I shoved a sword stright into his golden chest. Bodies coverd in blood, all but one was not in the royal armor. This single one was in a gilly suit. I ran to the body and lifted the head onto my young lap. "Mom its ok, there gone. Mom? MOM!?" Tears ran down my bloody face. "MOM DON'T LEAVE ME!" I removed the hood revilling a light blue mare with a darker blue mane. Her purple eyes had fear in them along with tears. I slowly closed her eyes letting my tears fall onto her face. "I will never forget you mom." I ran as fast as I could crying hard blurring my sight. Soon every thing went black.
I stood up tears still running down my face. "Now I know why I hate the sun god. Now I know why I can have no peace. She was all I had and it was ripped right from me." I kicked open the thick steel door right of the hinges letting light from the hallway into the dark room. I looked on the far wall only to see a nearly dead Luna chained to the wall. I looked hard woundering why she didn't use magic to ecape. On her horn was a black chrystal, one that the evil king of the chrystal kingdom used. "LUNA!" I ran up to her taking one of the dead bugs swords, smashing the chains that held her off the ground. Her clothes were ripped and dirty. "Luna we are getting out of here." I got no reasponse from the lifeless body. "Please don't die on me. PLEASE!" I held her in my arms running out of the grusum room.
Soon I was were I forgot how to get out. I looked down to be meet with running water tha was only about a inch deep. "Luna I found our way out." I ran the oppisite way of the running water. The farther I ran the louder the rain and thunder got. "How the hell have I not ran into any changlings? They must be running for higher ground." I was soon at the mouth of the cave of were torn apart changlings laid. "At least the timber wolfs ate well."
The rain fell hard onto my armor and broken wings that I have open to keep some rain off of the weak princess. The trees looked like the were alive looking and watching your every move. But this was my home they never really botherd me, well not now anyways. Luna started to move alittle in my arms. "Luna don't worry your safe."
"W-what?" Her blue eyes shot open and I was met with a blue fist. I dropped her and I fell face first into the mud.
"LUNA! Its ok I was sent by Celestia! Its me Banjo!" The rain came to a stop and a little bit of sun came throught the tree tops. "Luna, do you remember me?"
"No I don't! Who are you and what do you want with me?!" My jaw dropped.
"You don't remember me?" She tried to push herself out of the mud but fell back down from being to weak. I could feel a tear come to my eye. "I was your battle planner, right hand guard. But you don't remember me?" I started to walk towards her slowly giving her my hand.
"No I don't! Where am I?! Why are you carrying me?!" I was hurt by her not knowing me. Chrysalis must have put a memory spell on her.
"Uh your in the Everfree forest and I was told by your sister to save you. Do you know why I had to save you?" She grabbed my hand and stood up with a angry look on her face, but still needed me for support.
"NO I DON'T!" My heart dropped from this.
"You was Chyrsalis's captive ma'am. I was the only one seem fit to do the mission." My brain was fried from thinking to much so I did what was natral, talk like a guard.
"W-what?" Her eyes went wide before she fell into my arms. All I did was pick her up as before and made my way to Ponyville.
Mindless walk to Ponyville's hospital.
I kicked open the waiting room doors letting the bright sun flood the white room. "DOCTOR STABLES!!" I yelled at the top of my lungs kicking in the door to the long white hallway filled with more doors. A brown stallion poked his head out of the closest door looking at me with his brown eyes.
"Yes?" His eyes widen when he saw Luna in my arms. "Bring her here now!" I ran into the small room setting her on the metal table. "I'm going to have to ask you to leave sir." I nodded and walked right out of the building with my bloody armor.
Outside in Ponyville.
I was in the center of the town on a binch with all kinds of ponys looking at me with scared eyes. I was looking at my bloody, cut up, brain matter covered hands. I watched a tear fall on to the dirt below. "I do a good deed for once and I get this in return?! Why I never knew about my mother and the one I loved! SHE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO I AM!" Ponys started to stop and stair more and longer. "BUCK!" I stood up and kicked the binch I was sitting on making more ponys stop. I turned around to see tons of ponys stair at me with wide eyes. "WHAT!? I KILL OTHERS FOR A LIVING LOOK!" I threw up my bloody hands showing everypony. Some gagged and threw up, one even fainted. "SEE I DO WHAT YOU CAN'T! YOUR PRINCESS'S MADE ME THIS WAY! LOOK I EVEN DIED MY SELF!" I removed my bloody chest plate, throwing it at the crowed showing my scars. "YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR ALMIGHTY SUN GOD CALLS ME!?" I looked to the crowd tilting my head some. "I'M KNOWN BY HER AS DEATH ON PALE WINGS!" I threw open my broken wings making me laugh at the pain.
"BANJO WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" The crowd parted showing the purple alicorn in a white dress.
"AND LOOK WHO GETS TO BE BRUNG INTO THE RULING OF HATE AND WAR! THE PRINCESS OF MAGIC!" I pointed towards a angry Twighlight laughing maddly. "HOW DOES IT FEEL THAT YOU GET TO TELL A MURDERER LIKE MYSELF WHO TO KILL TO KEEP YOUR SOUL CLEAN FROM THOSE WHO SCREAM UNDER MY HOOF!?"
"What are you talking about? Banjo have you lost it?" She tilted her head at me.
"I don't know have I!? I fell great! I just got done killing some changlings, getting the shit beat out of me by there queen and to top it off! And this is a kicker! Your princess of the moon don't even remember me!" Tears ran down my laughing face. "Oh did I forget that her sister is the reason of my family's end!?"
"Banjo stop this right now!" She put on her poker face.
"OR WHAT?! ARE YA GONA KILL LIL OLD ME?!" I looked her in the eyes. "THATS WHAT I THOUGHT! Now if you don't mind I think i'm gona go get drunk!" I walked right towards the princess and her little ponys. Everypony stepped to the side as I walked to the edge of town.
I stopped in front of a two story white, hay roof house. "DJ-PON3 YOU HOME?!" I hit the door with my fist busting open the earlyer wound from the wall.
"HEY YOU!" I looked behind me to see a rainbow flash hit me right into the house. "I don't know you but what the hay!?" I didn't even open my eyes as I let out a evil laugh.
"What? Are you talking about my speach? That was nothing compared to what I could do. HAHAHA" I grabbed the mare by her shoulders and opening my eyes wide. "LOOK AT ME! I FOUGHT MY LAST FIGHT ONLY TO BE TOLD THAT CELESTIA IS THE REASON I NEVER KNEW ANY OF MY FAMILY!" She let out a scream while being thrown out of the house. "NOW LEAVE ME ALONE!" I stepped out making a B-line to the ginger bread bakery.
A short pissed walk to suger cube corner.
I opened the doors to be meet with a sweet smell of every thing. I stepped to the glass counter and ringed the bell. "Anypony here?"
"Hi i'm Mr Cakes, how can I help you?" The orange stallion popped from behind his newspaper to show me his wide eyes. "Um are you ok?" He motioned to my bleeding head.
"Oh that. Thats nothing HA, but do you got something hard to drink?" I raised a brow to him.
"Sorry, sure don't."
"Buck.... Ok thanks, oh and I would recammend staying indoors today." I walked out of the place with out even looking back. The town was empty of anypony. Stalls wasn't even closed. "HA I scared the poor little ponys. I hope some guards show up." I walked over to a green stall and grabbed a carrot off of it. "Not bad." I shugged and took a bite off of it.
"I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU!" I stepped to the right only to see a rainbow flash past me into a house.
"Yes you are. You just don't know it." I took another bite off of the juciy carrot with a crunch.
"GAA No i'm not!" She stood up holding her fists out in front of her like she was boxing. Her rainbow mane only shot one name into my mind.
"HAHAHA your the mare I never knew her name!" The mare just looked at me funny. "Your Rainbow Dash the first pony to do a sonic rainboom. Nice to meet you." I held out my red stained hand to her.
"Yea I am, but i'm not hear to befriend you!" She hit me with a right hook into my face. "NOW FIGHT ME!" She uppercutted me, making me fall flat on my back.
"I will not hit a mare. Though I have killed planty of mares, I will not hit one." I stood back up finishing my carrot and turned to walk away. "So please don't fight me, you seem nice and I think you have friends you want to visit with out them haven to visit you." I walked away leaving a very pissed mare.
"GAA!" I turned and counterd her attack making her face first in the dirt with me on her back holding her arm behind her. "AHHH!!! GET OFF!"
"I told you not to do it. Now I have to kill you." I raised my hoof above her head. I could hear her wimper in fear. "Don't worry I know how to do it with out you suffering."
"HEY!" I faced the yell only to be meet with a golden lightning bolt. I was trown like a rag doll a good 20 feet. I opened my eyes to see a tall white blurry figure above me before blacking out.
Author's Note
This chapter shows the fucked up side of Banjo. Ain't afraid to speak his mind publicly, and yes he did use fear to his liking in a bad way. Anyways this chapter threw me for a loop. Oh and we will see if Miss Luna remembers poor Banjo.
Well like always, Thanks for reading Mares and Gentlecolts! If any questions or comments don't be scared to shot me a PM or leave a comment!
My left side was on fire. Only thing that I was missing was my chest plate that I threw at the crowd. 'Did I get to kill that mare?'
"Princess I don't know. I was told to hurry to town hall and I could hear Banjo yelling about what you have made him. Celestia what is he talking about?"
"Twighlight he is right." It was dark but I wasn't asleep though I could her a pony sigh. "When Discord was not in stone Banjo was the first one to step up. Discord used Banjo's past against him. Yes his family was killed by the royal guard but only due to there way of living. The guard does not just kill for no reason, but Discord changed his memories to make it look like I made them do it." From what I could tell it was Twighlight, Celestia, and I.
"But why would he face the god of caose head on?" Celestia could only let out another sigh.
"Do you know about the New Luner Republic?"
"Yes princess I do."
"Thats why. Discord was against it. Those who fought for the NLR had great pride. Discord knew that that was one thing he could not truly buck with due to the way they lived. So he was going to stop it. Only a handful of NLR elite guards fought back. Banjo was the only one that was not slottered on sight do to his age."
"I don't understand?"
"Banjo was only a colt when he was brought to me. Crying and coverd in blood, he was less than 7 years old." The sadness that filled her voice was renewing to me. It was diffrent than her mother like tone. "So he was trained as a royal guard and hated every minute of it, so I moved him to the luner guard. After his training in Ponyville I didn't hear from him for many years. I got reports saying that a young pale pegusas showed up on front lines in luner armor." She had a long pause before she continued. "So they let him attack the enemy from behind due to his skills and his agility. They said the next morning there were only fires with the smell of burning changling in the air. Out of the thick smoke walked out the pale colt. From that point on he was the scout and assassin."
I eased my eyes open trying to make it look like I was not awake. From what I saw i'm once again chained up only this time with wing clamps. The two mares in front of me were both wearing white dresses that matched. They had there backs turned to me so I started to look around trying to figure out where I was. I was just a plain white room dimly lit. There was no windows in here eather. The only thing in there was the large wooden geen door. There small talk about my past I toned out. "So how many of your little ponys are scared and won't come out side?" Both spun around looking at me. "Oh did I get to kill whats her name, Rainbow Dash?" Look of horrer filled Twighlights face.
"No she only has a dislocated shoulder." Celestia stepped towards me.
"I warned her not to do it."
"I belive you Banjo."
"I DON'T!!" Twighlight had tears in her eyes.
"Twightlight you need to get use to it." A grin filled my face. "Lossing loved ones is easier than taking one." Twighlight looked at me confused. "You see my hands? The blood and brains on them was of a changling thats memorys lay on my fingers." Her face was slowly turning green. "And you know what I loved bashing that poor buckers face into the wall. The only reason I stopped is cause I ran out of face to smash!" I was laughing maddly making Twighlight running out of the room holding her muzzel closed. "Now she is gone tell me what I want to know." My tone changed turning my head to Celestia.
"Luna has had a memory wipe. She only remembers when she was no longer Night Maremoon." Her head dropped to the floor.
"Do me this one thing Celestia." Her eyes shot up to mine. "Let me go. I would never be seen again by the ponys of Ponyville. I would finsh out my life in the Everfree, and no need to look for my body."
"This I will let you do. Only because you saved Luna." Gold dust rapped around my cuffs letting me fall to the hard floor. The wing clamps fell also. "I'll teleport you to the edge of Ponyville, but don't get your hopes up the guard will be looking for you." I closed my eyes my eyes letting the thousands of screams fill my ears.
Somewhere in Ponyville.
My eyes where still closed. I could feel my body wightless with wind filling my ears. "I KNEW THERE WAS A CATCH!" I was just above the cloud layer falling with broken wings. The night air felt great, the sky was beautiful. Stars placed in perfict spots. "At least I get to see something that I did love at one time." A smile filled my face as I turned my back to the fast oncoming ground. I staired at the sky. Thinking of the ones I have tooken there life over orders. My mother lost her life over simple orders. I started to see lights in the corners of my eyes. My smile faded leaving me at peace for once in my life. The sky was behind me now as I face the center of Ponyville. I closed my eyes, the thousands of feet turned into hundreds than faded into screams. My world was black. I felt nothing, no pain, no fear, no hate.
"Well this is bucked up. Didn't even get to say bye to anypony I left behind. I think i'm in love with those but fate says no to everything." I felt no wind, no heat, no cold, I felt nothing. "This is what being dead for ever feels like than." A smile came to my face in the pitch black. "DAD! I'M HOME!"
"Banjo you are not home." The voice came from all around me.
"So i'm not dead. Than were the buck am I? I know I can't be alive! I'm all over the place in Ponyville!"
"No you are not, last of the Moons. You are only in a magic coma in Ponyville hospital. You will need to wake up though. Chrysalis is wanting pay back."
"I knew I should have killed her when I could."
"She's a god just like Celestia and Luna. They can not be killed, only harmed."
"Trust me I know. Wait can I know whom i'm talking to?"
"Thats the funny part." The darkness left leaving only me looking at...... Me? "Your talking to you."
"So I am crazy." I laughed at me. "I knew it. So I was the one to pull up my own memorys?"
"Yyeepp."
"So i'm locked in my own head. Not dreaming, but not dead eather."
"Your getting it! Well i'm getting it." We both chuckled.
"Man i'm a sight for sore eyes. I look like I was ran through a bryer patch." Looking over the other me the scars stuck out with blood. "Now I know why every pony freaked out." I looked into my eyes and there wern't blue but white. "Are you a older me?" Me only chuckled.
"No i'm you now. White eyes are earned, saving a royal or fighting one gives you them. We did both." All I could do was laugh.
"So all of our family did one or the other! I would be scared of me too."
"Well like I said you need to get up. You have been out for a couple of weeks and doctors refuse to let you wake up with out Luna or Celestia's order. And from what I know your guards are out to lunch. Oh and PS you can fly once more. GOOD LUCK ME!" We waved at each other as my mind kicked into gear.
'BEEP, BEEP, BEEP' The beeps got closer and closer until I heard a alarm go off.
"HE'S WAKING UP!" I shot open my eyes and ripping out IVs in my arms. "GET STABEL'S NOW!"
"Too late i'm up!" I shot out of the bed to be held back by a pair of cuffs. "Ok thats not nice!" I broke the wooden board it was hooked to looking at the window. "I hoped I didn't lie to myself." I charge at the window with nothing but cuffs on my body.
"HE'S OUT THE WINDOW!" I was now falling from 5 floors. Wind rushed around with glass falling next to me. I could see everypony in Ponyville stop and see me falling with nothing on. A couple of screams came from the population below me. My wings popped open stopping me from hitting the ground at the last second.
"To AJ's house for clothes." I spun around on the ground leaving only dust and glass were I was at.
One naked flight later.
"BIG MAC!" I knocked on the door and waited for a moment. I never really went out naked and i'm starting to wounder why. Its awsome! I could feel the sun on my wings and back and every breeze felt like, peace. Three sets of small hoofs ran in the house coming to the door. "Well they would have to see a naked stallion sooner or later. At least i'm not bashful." I chuckled to my self while the hoof steps got closer.
"Howdy?" All three of the fillys jaws dropped with blushes on the faces. It was halarious but laughing would make me look like a crepper.
"Is Big Mac here?" The trio were froozen.
"Apple Bloom Who's at tha door?" The large red stallion came from behind the girls sharing the same face.
"Big Mac you got some clothes or at least something I can throw on?" He reached behind the door and threw me a large brown duster with out removing his gaze. "Ok you can close your mouths now." Chuckling the fillys could not move but Big Mac pushed them into the house closing the door behind him. "Look I didn't mean to scar them for the rest of there lifes, I swear." Big Mac was not looking at me though, I turned to see what he was in a tranze about, but than I saw it.
"Banjo."
"Get everypony in the house Mac this for me. Make sure AJ knew I was alive to come see her." I could here him trot to the house locking the door. In the sky in frount of me was 10 luner guard. Two towing a dark chariot and four on each side. Everyone of them was heavily armed. "Well I can't fight back, but there is no respect to be shown." I straitend up waiting for it to land. First to touch the ground was the 8 guards than the 2 with the chariot. Dust went every were but I stood my ground.
"Princess Luna wishes to speak with you before we take you Canterlot for what you have done." The biggest leading guard spoke.
"I will speak to her but ya'll gona have a hell of a time to get me to go back. Just hope you wished your familys good bye." The dark door opened up and stepping out was the princess of the moon. Her mane and tail flowed freely, her dark blue eyes were beautiful. The dress matched the night sky that came to the ground. I gave a salute.
"Why don't you bow to thy?" Her canterlot voice scared me alittle.
"I was part of the NLR Elite Task Force ma'am." Speaking to her like she was a drill sargent.
"That does not matter to thy! You should still bow!" Her voice was filled with anger now.
"I'm sorry I can not do that ma'am. What do you want with lil old me?" My country tone kicked in and my stance turned to a fighting one. All the guards readied there weapons.
"Do you wish to stike thy?!" The blue eyes sqwinted at me.
"Only if I have to ma'am. Now what do you want." Country to royal guard, smooth.
"BANJO!" I looked behind me to see a crying AppleJack in the front window. "BANJO!"
"Let me tell you something fellow brothers." They all looked at me with lifless faces when I turned to face them. "We once fought for the never ending darkness. Now we surve the solar empire. I have fought a god and two goddess and saved the ones sister." I pointed towards Luna. "New Luner Republic forever." I pulled up the sleve showing the tattoo. "Now i'm done here." I turned towards the house.
"I am not done with you Moon!" Luna was screaming at me. "I do not remember you but I was told I had great feelings for you!" I stopped only to chuckle with my back to her.
"At one point of time we did Luna. But thats the past. And mine hunts me thats why I flipped in Ponyville." I started to walk again to the door.
"Guards get him."
"I do not want to kill any more, Luna please let me go."
"Thall shall not!" Tears worked there way to my eyes.
"I'm still walking." I was at the door knocking on it. The sound of moving armor got closer to me. "Guys I don't recammend this." The sound did not stop. "Fine!" I spun around ripping holes in the overcoat with my large wings. "CATCH ME!" I broke MOC 1 on take off and Broke into MOC 3 at cloud level. I flew straight to the Everfree working my way into MOC 4, the G force was doing a toll on me. A blond/brown streak was following me. The force was crushing my lungs making me stop breathing. Thick trees was below me. "YES!" I dove down not showing any sign of slowing down. I was now dodging trees only a few inchs from the ground.
"WATCH OUT!" Was all I heard before I was eating dirt for a couple hundred yards.
"AHH BUCK!" I was once again naked, the duster I had on was shredded past repair. My right arm was mangled and bloody. "Who did that!" Looking around I saw the Rainbow mare laying knocked out on the ground. I let out a sigh and picked her up with my left arm and putted her on my shoulder. "This is going to be along walk."
Something hours later. Edge of the Everfree.
The mare on my shoulder got heavier with every step. "Fluttershy's place should be close by." The sun was getting low by the time I saw the small cottage. I sighed in relife when I saw it. It was a short walk from the woods to the door. "Fluttershy you home?" I got no responce. " hellow? I need youre help!" I threw my limp arm at the door trying to knock but only making pain go through my body. "Sorry again Fluttershy." I kicked in the door to the small home. No candles were lit. I walked to the couch setting Rainbow Dash on it.
"Uh my head." She raised her hand to her head opening her eyes. I shot off to the side so she didn't see me. "How did I get here?"
'Buck need clothes! Think come on think!' I looked for anything to put on but nothing was close by. "Umm you crashed into me. We was bothing going at high speeds." Hiden by the wall I thought I was safe.
"Who are you? And what do you mean I was going MOC 4 speeds. No pony can go that fast with out feeling the G force!"
"I know but I can! So don't come looking for me. I'm kinda non clothed."
"WHAT!"
"Between the G force and hundreds of yards of dirt, trees, and rocks I was kinda put to nothing." A sheepish grin came to my face.
"But I was out in the middle of the Everfree! Why was you there?"
"Lets say I was being free."
"Ok but your in the kitchen and i'm hungry." I golped. "But I can care less about you being naked, i've seen plenty of stallion hoods in my life time."
"Ok but your not gona like what you see." I could hear her walk towards me.
"Whys tha....." Her jaw dropped when she saw me. Even she blushed a little. "Y-YOU!" Her wide magenta eyes staired at me.
"I only did it to get Celestia's mind bucked up. Plus I told you not to do it." She said nothing but her face was turning from shock to anger. "Can we please start new?"
"I don't know you did try to kill me!" Her tomboy voice was new to my ears.
"I was not going to kill you, Pinkie promise." Her eyes went wide.
"How do you know about that?"
"Pinkie was one of my buyers for moonshine."
"Fine I guess we can." She held her cyan fur hand to me. "I'm Rainbow Dash."
"Banjo Moon." I shoke her hand fermly. I looked at her eyes just to follow her gaze down to my pride. "Umm my eyes are up here Rainbow." Her cheeks turned back to red.
"Umm, yea I know that!"
"Its ok, really. At least you don't want to get sick looking at my scars, most ponys do." I chuckled to the blushing mare. "Do you know where Fluttershy has something I can cover up in? Where is she anyways?"
"Shes in Canterlot for something and won't be back for a couple of days. And there is some blankets on the couch but I don't mind." A sly smile came to her lips while giveing me a wink.
"You may not mind, but to me its wird being naked with a mare that I just met."
"Well you don't have to be the only naked one. Plus your scars are cool." She removed her black leather jacket showing a white muscle shirt, also having on a pair of blue jeans.
"Umm. This I don't know how to respond to." My cheeks was heated.
"I heard you didn't like being naked with a mare you just met. Well what if I was also naked would it make you feel better?" She started to walk towards me backing me into a wall. The white muscle shirt fell to the floor showing a blue sports bra holding her brest in place. "Look i'm not the only one with the same idea." I looked down to see that I was hard.
"Rainbow don't make me do it."
"Do what?" Her pants fell to her ankels revilling a pair of pink pantys. "Buck me?"
"No this!" I grabbed the base of her wings making her go into pure ecstasy. I slid past her and ran to the couch and coverd my self up. "I warned you."
"Banjo you know what you have to do now don't you?" I went wide eye when she flew at me full force making the couch flip backwards. She sat on my chest, I could smell her musk. "You started it now you have to finish it." She grabbed my wing tips and started to rub slowly. "How does this feel?" I closed my eyes, bliss filled my mind.
"Your a crule mare Rainbow. But it feels like this." I grabbed her brest and begain to massage them. She started to moan lightly. My wings where twitching while hers was fully exstended. She leand in and started to pant close to my face, her eyes was starting to droop. The mares hips started to rock on my stomach. "Rainbow." She opened her eyes a little.
"Banjo." She slid her hands down my scar filled chest. The pink pantys were soon placed over my eyes as she stood up. "Don't look." I felt a sharp pain run through my broken arm.
"GAA!" I threw off the pink pantys to she her hoof on my arm and a blade next to my face. "I should have knew better. Maybe you will be the first to kill me." The magenta eyes were filled with tears. "Why are you crying? Just do it." Her sobbing became harder.
"I can't! But they said they would take Scootaloo from me! Thats all I have!" The cyan mare fell to her knees sobbing in her hands.
"Rainbow, I don't know you that well but I will not let them take Scootaloo. I love that filly like she is my own foal." I hugged the crying mare. "Please stop crying. We need to go talk to some others."
The blackness was still every where, but I wasn't in the same place every thing felt..... wird. "Well my story finally has a end. Who would have thought I would be brought down by two arrows." I started to laugh holding my stomach. "Gods didn't stop me, but a bucking arrow did. Bullshit!" I started to punch at nothing kicking at only air. "I was a elite soldier! And poison arrows stopped me!? Chrysalis couldn't kill me! Wait I counted more wounds than what I thought she gave me. BUCK! She put a healing spell on me! But how am I in the death realm?"
"Banjo!" This voice was cheerful to 'see' me.
"Whos there?"
"What you mean whos there? Come on lets drink!"
"Well dad like before I need light."
"No you don't you finally got the Moons eyes stupid! Wait don't tell me you don't know how to use them!? HAHA!"
"Come on! Stop bucking with me, I could really use a drink."
"Fine." Every thing went to white but my hat blocked the white flash. "Nice ged up. We go from luner guard to gun slinger?"
"Whats a gun slinger?" What the hell is he talking about.
"Oh damn it. Your one lucky son of a bitch boy. You get another chance. How the buck do you do it?"
"When I was Chrysalis's bitch, she must have put a advance healling spell on me."
"HA that bitch is still kicking?!"
"After we went off the back of the Ponyville express? I would say she is going to be limping for a while." The gray stallion in luner gear was sitting at a black table with matching wooden chairs. On the table was a brown glass jug with two shot glasses infront of each chair.
"Lets get this drink in before you go again." He started to fill the small clear glasses with moonshine.
"Dad I need to tell you something."
"I already know son." He took the shot and begain to take another.
"So Celestia is the reason for her death and yours." He sighed setting his full glass back on the table.
"No son. We are the reason for our own deaths." Hore filled my face with disbalife.
"But how?!"
"Celestia only did what we asked of her."
"WHAT!? ARE YOUR BUCKING WITH ME!?" I shot up slamming my hands on the table. All my father could do was look at the floor.
"No I'm not. Now sit down so I can explain why." I picked up my chair and sat. "Banjo our family....... We're really bucked up son."
"I wouldn't think of such but what do I know I have only died more times than I can count! So please tell me why I should not try to drop the sun goddess!?" My smart ass tone was alittle to much.
"You are the only Moon that has not turn't blood thirsty."
"What do you mean?" I sqinted at him.
"..." He kept his face to the ground. "Banjo..... Do you know why the Moon name is feared?"
"We are elite soldiers thats why!"
"Wrong. Did you know we were once servents to the dragons?"
"No I didn't but what does that have to do with the topic?"
"Every thing Banjo. After being with the dragons so long we start to get hungry, not for power but for others."
"But why do we die over eatting meat? I have ate it before."
"Its not that. Its who we have ate. Thats how we get our eyes, eat something that rules over others. All of the Moons were forced to eat the flesh of many ponys. By the looks of it so have you."
"W-what?" The white walls begain to fade to black. "Chrysalis dad! It was Chrysalis! She must have feed me part of her!"
"See you later son." He waved before I felt a sharp pain in my gut and back making me black out.
"GAA!" I shot up in a cold sweat looking around me, was in one of Twilights spair rooms. "Buck." I looked down to see white cloth on the spot I was shot. I looked out of the window and showed it was mid day. I sighed, holding my gut I started to get out of bed. Looking around I could see my camo pants repaired along with my clean black hat and the brown duster. I chuckled when I saw a tan muscle shirt with a note on it.
'Hey heres a shirt from us girls.
-Love Every pony.'
"Sweet Luna there in heat." I sighed once more while getting dressed. I walked over to a mirror and just smiled. A tall stallion with a long brown leather coat with pale wings about the size of Luna's and thats rare to see from a commener. The black hat hid a large part of my face but my mid back long mane hung freely in the back, while being held in the front by my hat. With the hat been made by Rarity the hat had ear holes cut into it making it easy for me to hear.
I started my way out of the room until a random thought came to mind. 'Lets jump out the window!' So I walked over to the square window looking over the color filled town of Ponyville. I gagged alittle at the peace that filled my eyes. "This is just down right nasty." I opened the the window letting the summer air hit my face. "Maybe I should go find some dragons?" I scrached my chin before entering the summer air. The flight was nice, my back was still sore but I could fly.
"Banjo?" I looked down to see Scootaloo on her scooter.
"How are you doing today?" I came closer to the ground so I could land next to her.
"GOOD! I'm going to get AB and SB to go get our cutie marks!" She was literly hopping in joy.
"What are ya'll trying today?" I raised the front of my hat to see her better.
"Well we tried cutie mark crusader nurses but it didn't work." She had the look of sadness on her face.
"Whom ya work on?" I cocked my head.
"HEY! Leave that filly alone!" Scootaloo's faced said every thing that I needed to know that was behind me.
"Sweet Luna! So me not killing you made you mad?" I turned to meet the same stallion and his group but this time they had one more. This guy was huge, like pills huge. "There is no way you don't pop pills." The large white stallion had the smallest wings I've ever saw. He only had on a pair of tight jean shorts. Hes cutie mark was of a wight set on his arm.
"YYEEAA!" His eyes went wide while screaming at me.
"Is this stallion messing with you?" The brown leader was talking to Scoots.
"NO! He's like a father I never had! So leave him alone!" I'm glad she stood up for me, it feels like I matterd.
"Scoots don't tell Rainbow bout whats about to happen." I set my hat atop of the magenta mane of the orange pegasus. Never lossing eye contact with the group. They all had some form of a bat in there hands looking right at me with the look of blood.
"What is going on here? And Scootaloo please cover your ears." Scootaloo did what she was told by the purple alicorn. "What the buck Banjo!? Your not well enough to leave bed! Let alone fight!" She had fire in those purple eyes.
"You call this a fight!" I didn't even know the group was bowing to Twilight. "Come on! Its in my nature to kill stupid ponys! Please just this once." I gave the biggest puppy eyes I could while holding my hands togather.
"NO! What makes you think you can just go killing ponys?!"
"Thats the way I was trained! Blame Celestia not me!" I looked back to the large group of stallions. "Plus why am I the only one getting in trouble?"
"What do you mean?" She looked over at the group of poorly armed stallions. "You have got to be kidding me." She deadpaned at the group. "What are you doing picking a fight with a NLR elite guard?" The group just looked at me with questions.
"W-what?" The brown stallion looked at me with wide eyes. "How is a NLR guard watching foals than?" Looking back to Twilight.
"THOSE ARE HIS FOALS!" The group just got lower to the ground. "Are you the ones that shot him in the sky?" There eyes went wide. I started to hand my coat to Scootaloo who uncoverd her ears hearing every thing.
"Come on please let them try." I started to take of the tan muscle shit showing my scared chest.
"NO BANJO!" I swear I saw flames in those things. "ANSWER MY QUESTION!"
"Yes princess." They all had there heads hung in shame.
"Leave now and I will let him spair all of your lifes." They all started to run like roaches in light. "Get your clothes back on, all mares in Ponyville are in heat and I'm even falling for you." Before I could say something she was gone in purple dust.
"Thanks Scoots. Your not old enough to be at that stage yet are you." I asked while finally putting on my hat.
"Um." Her orange cheeks turn't bright red.
"Sweet Luna that means so is Apple Bloom and Sweetie Bell."
"Yea." She started to kick at the ground. "Umm Banjo, can I ask you something?" My heart dropped at that.
"Umm sure." I gulped.
"I never... Umm..." Her blush got brighter and with it being noon I could really tell. She looked at me with her dark purple eyes. "Had my first kiss." It was so quite I barrly heard her. "And I was woundering." Her head shot back to the ground, kicking at what ever dirt was still there.
"Scootaloo I'm sorry but I can't hun." I bent down to her level and gave her a hug. "Ya'll get that first kiss with your special some-pony sooner or later." I let go of the tom-mare. She wore ripped jeans and a gray T-shirt. "We need to have a talk with the CMC Scoots. Can you get them to meet me at the barn."
"YEA!" She jumped on her scooter and zipped off. The sound she made scard me, it sounded like a shit load of changlings flying. With that done I took off to the barn.
"Hell I hope Big Mac still has the blacksmithing shop." I took off heading off to see my 'brother'.
MOC 3 to Big Mac's barn.
"Hey Big Mac ya here?" I didn't know how long I was out so he could be bucking apple trees right now. I started to enter the old red barn. Its was dark with little rays of sun coming from the cracks in the roof. I walked to a big worn anvil smilling. "Time to make me some good weapons." I started to get some wood from a small pile next to the iron fire place. While I stoked the fire I was looking for a piece of metal, anything that would make a good sword. "Now where would ya put your steel Mister Mac?" I was now looking high and low. I finally made my way up in the loft that was not safe but having wings help. Dust flew every where and than I saw it. "Come to papa." I had a huge grin while I picked up the 3 foot iron bar. "I love you Big Mac. No homo."
After working on beating the iron bar into shape I lost track of time. This thing was going to be a two-handed long sword that Big Mac would have some trouble picking up.
"We're here!" I nearly jumped at the squicky voice.
"Sweet Luna girls don't do that." I held my chest as I turned around only for my jaw to drop. Each one of the girls had on there best dresses. I made the mistake of taking a deep breath through my nose, taking in there sint. "By the gods. Why?" The three fillys just looked at me while trying there hardest not to blush. "Girls just cause your hormons are telling ya to bu.. I mean finding every stallion attractive doesn't mean there right." They just looked at me in question. I face palmed. "Look not every stallion is going to tell you no, some will take any chance they can to get in your pants. And by the power in me the royal sisters will fear me if I found out my foals did the nasty. INCLODING if your in heat. So stop looking at me like I'm gona help ya'll. Do I make my self clear?!"
"Yes sir." Three of them said at the same time while walking out.
"Oh I forgot but I get to walk ya'll home." I returned my hat back to my head as I threw the three in a half foot sword over my shoulder holding it by the blade while my duster was on the handle behind me.
It had to be about six and cause we was at the farm Apple Bloom went stright to the house. Scootaloo, Sweetie Bell, and I was in the middle of Ponyville walking to Rarity's place. "So girls how was ya'lls day?"
"Ok" Sweetie Bells voice was kinda funny. I looked at Scootaloo.
"How bout you Scoots?" She only looked at the ground not saying a thing. I sighed but luckly we were at the clothing shop. "See you Sweetie.." I was stopped by hearing a scream come from inside of the white building. "GAA!" I kicked in the door to see a white mare in bath robs fainted in a red sofa thing. "Rarity!" I dropped the sword and ran to her side. "Are you ok?"
"Don't worry she does this all the time." I looked at Sweetie with my head tilted.
"What do you mean?" I was answerd when a plumpy mud coverd cat came into view. "I hate cats." I shot the feline a dirty look making it hiss at me than running up some stairs. "So your sister is going to be ok right?" I looked to the filly that was starting to undo her dress with little care who sees.
"Yea..." Not looking up from the white strap matching her snug dress. For a filly her body was coming in a little to fast.
"Ok before you let ya body show me and Scoots are leaving." I tilted my hat do just in time before I could hear the cloth hit the floor. Closing what ever of the door I could I looked back to Scootaloo. "Is there something wrong? Cause if there is you can tell me." She just kept looking at the ground not looking up once. "Scoots." I grabbed her shoulder making her look at me. Her eyes started to tear up. "Whats wrong?" I sat the sword down while getting to her level. The tears only got bigger.
"Banjo, I have no one to love me, I don't even have a home! I don't know my mom or dad!" She begain to sob. I grabbed her into a tight hug.
"Scootaloo I know how you feel. I lost both of my parents to. But by hell and high water I will always be there for you." Tears begain to fill my eyes. "Where are you staying to night?" I got no answer from the crying filly. "Look if you need to well go to Rainbow Dash's she needed my help anyways." The filly looked at me with water logged eyes and a sight smile.
"Will she mind?"
"She has no choice." I stood up bring Scootaloo on my sholders and holding the sword with both hands. "You ready?"
"YEA!" Her sint was really stong at her location.
'Thank Luna they trained our sinces to ignore mares in heat.' I chuckled while taking off to Rainbow's cloud kingdom in the sky.
It was a slow flight, Scoots fell asleep on my back snoring lightly. I couldn't help but smile, for once I have something to call mine. "So this is what a father feels like." My smile got bigger. "I hope this feeling never leaves." There was no pony I would let take this filly from me. By hell ain't no pony taking me from this filly eather. "Scoots I'll never leave you, but I will give my life for you young'n." Even though she could not hear me it still felt good to tell her.
"I know you would Banjo." I felt a tear enter my eye, but this tear was diffrent from any tear I've ever shed. It wasn't from pain, sadness, or even anger. It was pure happiness.
"Scootaloo have you ever cried becuase your truly happy?" She looked down at me with her pretty purple eyes.
"Yea I have. Has Rainbow Dash ever cried?" I blinked the tear away while chuckling.
"Even the most awsome pony like RD has to cry Scoots."
"Huh." She must have got cold cause she had my large coat on.
"Don't worry we are almost there Scoots." My smile never faded.
The rest of the flight was just looking at the night life of Ponyville. Nothing was really said between us, but we where close to our stop anyways.
"Lets see if Rainbow is home, what do you think." I looked up to see that the filly was asleep. I landed on the cloud porch of the floatting house. I sat the sword down and carried the sleeping filly in my arms trying not to wake her. The livingroom was just white cloud with a cloud couch in the middle. "Night Scoots." I layed her on the couch and kissed her fore head while tucking her in with my coat.
The night sky was beautiful like all of Luna's nights. Sitting on the porch with my legs hanging off the edge looking over my old home. I could hear howls in the dark forest making me sigh. The sword that sat in my lap was sharp and heavy. The brownish sword was beatuiful, I used to help back in the battles with the blacksmith when I wasn't killing. He was good at what he did.
Flash back of some battle.
"BANJO!" A mare in elite luner armor screamed at me before falling with a arrow in her head.
"NO! MIST!" I grabbed the body only to see it was to late. Tears filled my face while hugging the body. I looked at my saroundings, the smell of rotten flesh filled the air mixing with smoke. The smell was sickining. The night sky had black griffins fighting with my fellow brothers, bodys were falling every where. "What the hell is going on?!" I looked around to see on pony that was breathing. I looked down to see that I had my armor back but coverd with blood and holes. The closer I looked I saw a good five arrows in my chest. "W-what?" My heart started to race, my breathing getting heavy. "H-How am I still alive?!" The blood flowing out of my armor got faster.
"CALM DOWN!" I could not see the source of the voice before I blacked out.
"Sweet Luna why does this always happen." I sat the sword down and rubbed my tired eyes. I laided back on the cloud putting my hat over my eyes. "Sleep do what ya gota do." Soon sleep took over.
Dream realm.
I could see nothing, every thing was black. "Now what the hell. Can't even get light in MY dreams!"
"Banjo." The voice came from every where.
"Who wants to know?"
"I know its you."
"See ya slacked on thy olden language." It was like I was standing under a spot light.
"Yes I have." Luna stepped under the light with me.
"So are you the real one?" She turned her right arm to show a cresent moon over some black mist on her dark blue fur. "Still don't know who I am do you." She only shook her head. "Well damn. So how can I help the princess of the moon on this fine night."
"I only wanted to get to know you again Banjo. From what my sister said your family was killed by there request."
"From what my father told me, yes." I held a stern face.
"That is a shame. They served with great pride."
"I know. So did I until I abanded my post." I tilted my hat back so I could see her face more. She wore simple blue jeans and a plain T-shirt.
"What was the reason for that? Reports said you was one of the best out there." I only chuckled at her.
"Cause I was the only one out there. I was at my peak by myself. So thats why I left, plus I was done with my job."
"Banjo I can see why I did care for you. You saw something that others didn't. You was young when you took your first life. But you have the will to change you just don't know it." Her eyes where pleeding to me.
"Luna I have no will to change. Just a reason not to kill right now."
"I know and Scoot-a-loo has a loving pony in her life now and you will do anything for her. Trust me Banjo before I came here I visited her."
"Well good but I must go now Luna if you want to talk I'll be in Ponyville. Just ask for the wird stallion." I chuckled as I ended my dream leaving Luna clueless.
Real world.
I opened my eyes to be meet with darkness. "What the? Oh thats right." I removed the dark hat to be meet with the early sun. "Bet even the Apples arn't even up yet." I streched to hear alot of popping from all my joints.
"Glad to see your up. Thats pretty cool what you are doing for Scoots and me." I layed on my back to look at the Rainbow mare in short hoof ball shorts and a tight shirt that only coverd her chest.
"Well ain't we not scared to show our body off this morning." I was only meet with rolling eyes. "You got anything planed for today?"
"Only doing my job than I'm free for the rest of the day." She took a sip from her coffie mug.
"Can I ask a question."
"Go for it."
"Ya'll ain't still in heat are you?" All she did was walk into the house and flicked her tail to me answering my question. "You just couldn't tell me?!" All she did was laugh in the house. "I'm coming in there t...." She cut me off.
"To buck me?!" She looked around the corner with joy on her face.
"NO! Plus Scootaloo is asleep." Her face went limp.
"Awwww! Please. We can leave the house." She turned her back to me flapping her wings sending her sint right in my face.
"... No Rainbow, now stop it." Her wings drooped while she went into the kitchen. "I don't know how much more I could have took." I stepped back onto the porch looking at the sun raise thinking to my self. 'Celestia you have the right to live for now.'
"Banjo can you take me to school?" I took my gaze off the sun to meet with dark purple eyes. Some how she was in the ripped jeans and shirt as yesterday.
"Sure. Just let me get my coat." I bent down picking the hat up and putting it on my head.
"Here." I turned around to be met with my brown coat to my face.
"Thanks." I slipped it on putting the small filly on my back. "Scoots how come you don't fly to school." Not able to see her, but I could hear her sigh.
"I don't know how." I felt like a dick now.
"Oh... Sorry hun."
"Its ok." I leaped of the cloud spreading out my wings.
"Is Big Mac's mare-friend your teacher?" She giggled.
"Yea. But they say they don't go out."
"Yea they can say what they want but we know the truth." We both laughed and made fun of the apple farmer and the teacher for a while. Soon my sight begain to blur.
Flash back while flying.
I blinked and I was flying with the 656th squad of the NLR over 10,000 feet in the air. There was only 4 of us counting me, all had on high ranking elite luner armor. It just so happend I was the only stallion. From what I saw I was the youngest by alot in the group. "Banjo! Do you know the plan?" I looked with conserned eyes.
"Fill me in real fast I must have blanked out." One of the mares only face palmed.
"Look we are basicly on a suicied mission to aid Celestia's bitches. The griffins are higher trained so they picked us to take care of them. And yes we are doing it in the day so good luck and kill any griffin. YOUNG or OLD! No prisoners."
"YES MA'AM!" Soon I could see griffins coming in sight far below us.
"Alright girls good luck. Banjo be careful." The leader of our group flew next to me. "Please be careful." She kissed me on the lips before diving.
"W-what?" Before I knew it I was fighting griffins on all sides of me. It must have been five minutes before I was finally shot down. The arrow that went into the base of my chest was well aimed with great power behind it. The free fall of about a couple thousand feet was fearful, but never stopped fighting griffins in my free fall of death.
"BANJO!" I looked to my right to see the same mare flying to me.
"NO THERE EVERY WHERE!" A arrow struck me in the center of my chest. "Please don't!" More arrows came towards us yet another got me in the chest.
"ARE YOU OK!?" She caught me in her arms. "BANJO!" I looked in her brown eyes and it sent me waves of happieness.
"I'm fine now." I smiled at her only to see a griffin readying his bow. "NO!" I jumped out of her arms catching yet another arrow in the chest. I was sent falling once more. "Sweet LUNA!" I was stopped from falling from the same mare.
"ARE YOU CRAZY!?" She just screamed at me but all I could do was smile.
"Only for you babe." I leaned in to kiss her before we started falling. "Are you ok?" I looked into her pain filled eyes. "MIST!" I wrapped my arms around her opening my wings from us lossing any more altattued. When we got less than five feet from the ground I flipped on my back letting me take all of the landing. Once we stopped I laid her down ignoring the blood from my chest. "MIST! ARE YOU OK?" She opened her eyes looking at me.
"I'm fine." She smiled at me making me feel better. From my kneld position a arrow hit my chest next to the others. Her brown eyes went wide. "BANJO!" I didn't move but when she got to her knees letting a arrow entered her head.
"NO! MIST!" I grabbed her body tears filling my eyes. Every thing went blurry.
Real time.
"BANJO!" I opened my eyes to see I was on my knees with Scootaloo in my arms knocked out. "Banjo!"
"SCOOTS!" I looked at her crying. "SCOOTS!"
"BANJO!" I looked behind me to see Twilight with tear filled eyes.
"WHAT HAPPEND!?" I was pissed but I didn't mean to yell at her. Twighlight backed up some.
"You killed them."
"W-what?" I looked at what she was pointing at and my heart dropped. "Ch-changlings?" The changlings looked like the group of stallions that always wanted to fight me.
"They tried to take Scootaloo but you just killed them." Rainbow said while running up taking Scootaloo from me.
"I-I need to go." I took off flying stright for my sword.
"EVERY GOD WILL FEAR ME NOW!"
Author's Note
Well here it is, still not knowing when to stop. But when I do I already have another story on reserve.
As always thanks of reading Mares and Gentlecolts. If any ideas, questions, or comments give me a PM or leave your words below!
"Damn it!" The tears in my eyes were making it hard to see.
'Banjo.'
'Whos in my head?'
'Pincess Luna. Where are you?' The tears just came harder.
'Getting ready for my destiny. Now what do you want?'
'I want to talk to you Banjo. We didn't really get to talk last night.'
'Well where do you want to meet at? Oh and I hope it isn't a trap cause I'm not in the mood today Luna.' I was grabbing my sword diving off of the cloud porch.
'At princess Twilights house.'
'I'll be there in a minute.' I tightened my hat down and started to break MOC 3.
Kicking in Twilights door.
"LUNA! WHERE ARE YOU!?" I saw nothing but books and more books. "DAMN IT!" I shoved my sword a foot into the floor. Setting my coat on it and taking a seat in the floor. Closing my eyes only listining to every thing. I could hear birds outside singing happly, the sounds of ponys hoofs on the dirt road. My ears twitched at closer hoofs on wood floor, followed with the sound of armor.
"Banjo." I opened my eyes to see not Luna but Nightmare moon.
"My princess." I stood up stright like a soldier. "I thought the elements stopped you."
"Banjo I am no longer thy evil persona just Luna. But I'm glad to see you trust me once more."
"I only trust the armor you wear Luna for it is the reason I killed so many creatures." I put on my coat and pulled the sword from the floor.
"I see you are ready to lose your life. But what of young Scoot-a-loo?" I lowerd my hat stopping all eye contact.
"She gots Rainbow Dash. That mare loves that filly and right now she would probly be doing the same thing."
"I see." I could tell that Luna nodded at me.
"What are you in heavy armor for?"
"Why are you not in yours?"
"Well played Luna but even though you know only my history I could not take it if I was to lose you." I started out the door.
"Thats why I'm coming with you. I don't want to lose somepony I care for."
"Are you in heat too?"
"Thy does not go in to heat. Well not right now."
"Than leave and tell Scootaloo of my storys. Even tho she ain't mine by blood that is still my little filly." I opened my wings wide. "Please do it, for me." I took off to the caves that held mant of my fears.
Flash back.
It was dark out with heavy rain falling. I was over enemys lines only to remove there long range changlings. There green magic filled the dark sky. While Luna was on the moon Celestia only made the nights half assed if we where fighting. The moon was letting light through the thick smoke clouds. Changlings and luner guards filled the ground and sky. I was going MOC 2 so they didn't even see me pass.
Finally I was at where the green magic was being shot from. Diving down I could take one out at a time. Screams of fear filled the air as there commrads fell from a unknown force.
"Stop screaming you fillys." This was the first time I heard Chysalis. She had on heavy armor, Black with green markings all over it. "Here I'll take him out." I stopped at the worst time just to be hit with the strongest magic I ever felt.
"BUCK!" I fell hitting the ground right in front of the changlings queen. "DO IT! JUST END ME!" My left wing was broke along with my left arm.
"No. Your to young to kill colt. Its a shame that Celestia is resorting to a colt to fight her battles. But I will give you some credit, you killed some of my best soldiers with out trying." She only grinned at me. "What is your name colt?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"I have a filling we will meet later in life."
"Code name Moonshiner." I punched her in the gut standing up drawing my sword with my good arm. "Who next?" I grinned when 3 changlings stepped up. One swung there sword only for my to roll to the left. I shoved my sword into his gut hearing a scream of pain, I lost control and every thing went to a blur.
I was some how in the middle of the changlings throne room with a good fifty dead bugs around me. "What the hell?"
"Look Banjo I will let you keep your life and your fillys if you leave now and stop killing every pony here!" Chrysalis was in her throne screaming at me.
"Leave Ponyville alone and we have a deal." My coat was missing and my hat was pushed back with a couple of deep cuts in my bloody chest and arms. I was breathing heavy, some how I killed others with out knowing it.
"FINE! Now leave and never come back!" I nodded my head before being tackled by a changling out of a plan window.
"W-what?" I tried to open my wings only to be met with nothing. "WHAT!?"
'BANJO! WHY DON'T YOU FLY!?'
'I DON'T KNOW!' I feeled my back to be met with bony nubs. "Sorry Scoots. I love ya." I closed my eyes just feeling the wind fly past me. "Mist I don't know but I am coming."
The wind started to get faster. My hat blew off from the force. I took a deep breath and said my last words.
'I severd with pride for what I thought was right.'
'I took many lifes for no reason at all.'
'Please let Scootaloo live a happy life.'
'I don't want to be remembered as a flesh eatting pony or even a bad ass.'
'I want to be know as a soldier that fought for the New Luner Republic.'
'Luna I'm sorry we had to say our last words with my death but I still care for you.'
'Let Redheart find a pony that will never leave her like I have.'
'AppleJack.....'
I didn't even get to finsh my last words. Every thing was black. Voices of the past where every where.
"Banjo. Welcome home." A blue mare hugged me.
"Thanks mom, its nice to see you again."
"I know hun but Mist has been waiting for you."
"BANJO!" The same mare that I fought with jumped in my arms. "You goten big!" She gave me a wink.
"Have I missed you." I gave the light red mare a deep kiss. "Your eyes still catch me."
"Sorry for the way you had to die son." The gray stallion patted me on my back.
"I don't need wings now anyways." I smiled at him only to have the mare in my arms pull me in another kiss.
"Your home now so who cares."
"I do." Mist gave me a sly smile.
"Its good to be home..."
'With out war, there would be no peace.'
Mahatma Gandhi
Author's Note
Well thats it. I hope ya'll liked the story. I am kinda sad to end our story with a cliff hanger but Banjo can only be a bad ass for so long ya know.
Well I do have another story coming so I'm not truly done. The next story is true besides well I think ya'll will know.
Like always thanks for reading Mares and gentlecolts! If any questions or comments PM me or leave your words below!
The everfree forest inhabts the most dangerous creatures known to pony kind, but to some its a place called home. Well this is home of Banjo Moon. This is the story of me.
"Whats moonshine?" asked a rather large stallion in worn blue jeans and a dirty white T-shirt.
"Its the strongest proof of alcohol known to pony kind and its also illegal, so thats why i'm making it out here Big Mac" responded a rather less than back woods accsent
"N' why are ya makein it than Banjo? N' whats with ta camo face paint?"
"If ya havent seen im not the darkest colored pony on this rock! And whats with the 20 questions anyways?" I responded in a rather angry tone.
"Sorry A' dont geta askn many questions but when A' do A' do thats why."
After a long moment of silence I was feeling a bit of a knot in my stomach and knew if I didnt say sorry Applejack would come asking why her brother ain't happy, and plus he's like a brother to me. "...... oh well im sorry fo yellin at ya"
"Its alrite A' guess. so when A' geta taste your uh moonshine stuff?" He looked like a colt asking his mother for some candy. Plus I can't blame him moonshine is at its best mixed with some of the best apple jucie in all of equestria.
After a long 5 minutes of waiting next to steel oil drum a clear liquid started to slowly drip out a metal spout. The look on Big Mac's face was so child like. It reminded me of the first time i saw snow, it was a magical thing. The white fluffy specks slowly fell to my warm fur as I made my way the this forsaken forest looking for something, but I can't recall what though. Its all been a question for as long as I can remember. Where was my mother? Where was my father? I can't recall any thing about my child hood all but this fucking forest.
"Ya ok there Banjo?" asked a concerned female voice similar voice to Big Mac's.
As I snaped back to now I feel a warm trail run down my face. "Um yea im fine" as in the process of slowly smugging the face paint and turning to properly see oh was the owner of the voice. "Thanks for asking miss Applejack." I always had athing for Applejack and Big Mac never lets me here the end of it. Today she looked..... like always beautiful, she was wearing a pair of loose (but still showed her curves) blue jeans with a carmal butten up work shirt, her cutie mark half coverd by her sleve was three red apples. Her tan fur was coverd in todays work at sweet apple acres also her blond pony tail was let down for some reason blowing in the brease with her tail.
Big Mac well like I said before was wearing worn blue jeans with a well I guess a once white T-shirt, but unlike his sister he had red fur with a orange maine but a little long for a stallion. He always had a peace of hay hanging out of his mouth and I don't remember a single time of knowing him not having one in there. His cutie mark was of a green apple cut in half. "eeeyypp ya alrite there?"
"As good as it can get ya'll, and ain't I saved by the bell from 20 questions the shine is done ya'll, now all we need is some of the good apple jucie ya'll make." I kinda responded a little to happy to see that the moonshine was done. "So who wants first shot of this?" And I was shocked by who answered.
"A' do Big Mack aint that' good wit hard liquir. Aint that' rite Big Mac?" Nothing was heard from the buff stallion all but a sigh of approvel.
"You sure ya can handle this? Cause if ya can't talk tomarrow I don't want Big Mac huntin me down ya hear." I said very conserned, but its not Big Mac im worried about its Granny Smith im scared of.
After watching Big Mac and AJ take there shots I didn't see them drinking I saw a well built gray earth stallion taking the shot of moonshine, but the kicker was the cutie make on his arm was a moonshine bottle just like mine. Only thing was his wasn't a banjo it was a crossbow. I always heard the Moon family was great warriors of the lunar army, this must explane the crossbow. As i'm still looking over the stallion I could hear talking in the distence, one of a hushed voice.
"Heres the stil, even tho he is unarmed he is still a high threat due to his back round. If he try's to attack kill him on site no questions asked, and Luna will not know of this due to the request from Celestia is that clear?" his fleet of 50 plus stallions wearing golden armor just nodded. " Ok surround him and the stil and burn every thing."
Now I was in a small log house. As I looked at my surrondings I could smell the old wood mixed in with damp dirt. I soon relised i'm a few feet shorter than normal. The only way I could think of to answer this was to find a mirror. Than like out of reflex I ran up a small set of stairs and bolted into the bathroom. I saw was me when I was a colt. I looked the same now as I did than, but my body build was a little more and my wings are bigger and subtract the scars I always hid. I looked more and more, I have cream colored fur with a long dirty blond main with a little bit brighter yellow streak that ran throgh it just like my tail.
"SURRENDER OR DIE!" I snaped out of my trance as I ran to window just to see that stallion get shot by 50 royal guards.
"DAD NOOO!".
"BANJO, BANJO SNAP OUT OF IT!" As I opened my eyes I could feel the forearms of Big Mac. 'SMACK' as I turned my head to the pony that just slapped me I was meet with the worried eyes of Applejack. "BANJO! SNAP OUT OF IT!" As she reared her hand up for a nother slap all I could do was let a tear run down my face.
"W-what happend?" But I was to late as the hand of that farm mare came across my face once more. "STOP YOU SLAP HARDER THAN A STALLION!" was all I could get out be for she wrapped me in a hug. I know I did something to scare her cause she don't just hug me for no reason unless she was worried for me or was scared.
"Ya scared me Banjo!" was all Applejack could say before she started to cry.
"Big Mac what happened?" as I was conserned for my self.
"Ya started to shake really bad bafore ya started to swing at ma' sis and thats when A' put ya in that there head lock." In a smart tone.
All of a sudden I hear a twig snap. Still holding the sobbing mare I Turned to face Big Mac "ya'll hear that?"
"Noppe." As a arrow flew past my head I pushed AJ to the ground. Big Mac was looking for the source of the arrow, as I saw where the arrow hit I knew this was bad. Big Mac was still looking for the attacker as I jerked him ontop of Applejack and as I flared my pale wings out... "BOOM!!" Was the next thing to happen.
As I thought the worse was over I started feeling weak with a pain that felt like a timber woof digging into my back. As I looked down at the free flowing warm crimson liquid running down my now bloody tan shirt and camo pants.
"BANJO STAY WITH ME PLEASE! BANJO!" was the last thing I heard before I fell face first and my world turn't black.
Author's Note
Thanks for reading and this is my first story. And I want to thank a friend Trainkrazy.
And for those who don't know moonshine is real. It is illegal in the united states.
So if ya'll could leave me some feed back positive or negative.
Yesterday.
Its was mid after noon and I just got done redoing a copper cooling line for my still. Lets just say diamond dogs can be total assholes if you don't answer there questions with the answer they want. In return they like to pick a fight they think that the odds are on there side. I can't truly blame them six of them to lonly old me I would be thinking the same. Well there fighting skills really suck, heck I had better fights out of apple bloom and her friends than them.
It was just about 2 and I was coming up to a rather small hut, not but a couple miles from my stil. It was dead center of the Everfree forest. Some how sun light seemed to shine on this hut and its yard. "Knock, Knock ya home stripes?" As I was waiting on a answer I couldn't stop looking at this hut. I've been here many times before but it always made me wounder.
'What are you thinking about you tard. What, you feeling uneasy dipshit?' This guy is not a real pony. He was rather a mean voice that I was only able to hear, But he always been there with me when I was alone.
Why was I alone? I could not answer that if my life depended on it. When did I start to live on my own? Since I was five years old. To some thats too young, I don't think so. The only reason for that is because the Moon family has always been close. Something caused us to split. My uncle, the last living Moon besides me has always been by my side ever since he found me. Only problem we had our own belifes and we didn't agree to them but nothing could split us up. Well until there was a raid on our stil and he told me to run and not look back. And now i'm here, last Moon I know of.
"Ah Banjo Moon, can I help you?" This made me lose focuse as I was greeted by the most wisest pony well zebra I know.
"How are we doing on this lovely day Zacora?" Its been to long since I saw her face. She was the first pony I meet when I was first in this forest. She was just about seven I think.
"Ah a lovely day it is, but so much for this." I didn't even relise she was only in a towel. This ain't the first time she has done this. The towel was a little to small to be answering the door in but she knew that. It was a light blue towel just like her eyes, it came to her upper flank showing a large part of her ass. While the upper part of the towel was just covering the upper part of her striped brest. She had the perfect hour glass figure. Her white and blacked striped fur was dripping wet and that must ment she just got out of the shower or was in the middle of one.
"Really. I'm starting to think you do this on purpuse." As I was rasing a eye brow I got the answer I some what saw coming. Ok I lied I did not see this one coming at all.
"It's about time you always see mine, so its show time." Than it hit me like that one rainbow pegasus. Note to self find out that mares name.
"Wait what?"
'I think so dumb ass, so what are you going to do stand there like a fuck up you are or you gona get some?' This guy is a true meanie as Pinkie always say.
'I-I truly don't know and why are you so mean to me?'
'Who was there to help you live filly? Who was it I know you know the answer'
'I'm done talking to you'
"...." All she gave me was a sly smile, but was it was sexy the way she did it.
"Zacora I can't um do what I think you want.... M-mabe a nother time, yea how bout that?" I was sweating like a pig with no mud at high noon at this point.
All she gave me in return was a angry look. "Fine have it your way, jose'" Than right before she slamed the door in my face, she must have had the crule idea to do something mean. Because she droped her towel and saw me blush brighter than the sun as she slamed the door shut.
'HAHAHAHA you was like a school filly talking to her crush! Only diffrence is yours cock blocked you HAHAHAHA!'
'Fuck off you prick.'
'Aw did I hurt some ponys feelings?' He said in a baby voice. He always known how to hit my buttons. I was put on pills do to this guy. Stables said "just take these he'll be gone in no time" So much for that, now when I find my self in town ponys look at me like i'm crazy when I start yelling at nothing in there eyes. Hell mabe I am crazy who knows? I sure don't! Anyways I have to go to that town anyways I got a buyer. A little hyperactive but it pays good and plus she's pretty cool when you can understand her.
Ponyville behind sugercube coner. Just past 5 pm.
"AH where is she?! Last thing I wan't is to get busted with this. Fuck it. It's been past five minutes I need to split I still have one more stop to go." As I worked my way threw the allys of this love town trying to stay out of sight of anypony and everypony. But being sneaky don't always help.
"HALT!!" A stallion demanded of me.
Shit this is what I did not want to do today. As I started to turn slowly I could here the chuckling of non other than. "Big Mac why shouldn't I beat you rite' now?" I said in a pissed tone at the red stallion
"Ya can try." Was all that was said from him.
"What you mean try?"
"Ya know we are bout even. Mah power vs ya skill. Just try"
"Ah got mah bits on Banjo, Big Mac." As the tan mare popped past her larger brother
"Well Big Mac. Hows it feel that Miss Applejack has her bits on me? And plus I got my armor on."
"Why ya call me miss? Ya know I don't like that." she resonded rather angry
"Why shouldn't I? Your beautiful, young, breath taking, hell you can take me out easer than your brother can.With or with out armor." The look on her beautiful face was priceless. Every thing I said was true. I don't think I could ever lie to her and its not due to her element eather.
"Um, Ah... Damn you Banjo ya know Ah don't like blushing and the only reason Ah can beat ya is cause ya wont fight mah back." Her cheeks was redder than the reddest apple on there whole farm, and was it breath taking. Plus she is right, I was taught by my uncle not to hit a mare no matter what.
"Your right. So I must bid good day. I just so happen to be meetting a buyer at her place so I gota go ya'll." Before the siblings could say anything I was already in flight to my next place on the list.
'Man the night is beautiful.'
'Oh says homo.'
'Whats your problem anyways?'
'Nothing, good thing you got luner armor on or Celestia's guards might see you screw up.'
On cue three royal gaurds in there golden armor flew just a couple hundred feet below me. Thats not the thing that botherd me though it was the fact that the was a high ranking search team, and the don't find lost ponys eather. Last that I knew they were called 'Last Resort dumb ass. Sweet Celestia your truly stupid. Why did I have to be stuck with you anyways?'
'Stuck with me!? I'm stuck with you jackass. Oh and thanks for reminding me of there "club" name.'
'HA thats why i'm here ain't it?'
'You know your not half bad when you ain't calling me names, ya know.'
'I'll note that, but if I was you I would stop flying like a filly and pick up some speed before they turn around. Just saying.'
As taking that to heart I did my best to stay a little slow so I didn't break MOC one. Because all I want to do is wake every one up. Wait that rainbow colored mare can break MOC 1 with no problem. Still need to get her name, sad thing is I swear Applejack told me about her. Aw well DJ Pon3 and than its of to the forest.
Edge of Ponyville. half a minute later.
"Man I hope Tavi is home to get Vinyl's shine" As I land in front of the normal two story house with only the sound of dust being kicked up. The house was simple, white walls with a hay roof and clean windows with flowers in flower boxs. It was pretty dark so details are not happening very well.
Right before I knocked on the door all hell broke lose. "Tavi i'm sorry I didn't know you had a concert!" Came a tom-colt voice.
"That's just the thing I even told you I had a ticket for you!" A more classie voice to me fired back.
As the two room mates was going at time I saw it was time to stop it. As I easly twisted the door knob with my cream coverd fur hand I slid into the open door. I used my past training to work my way into the house with out a squeak from the door. The living room had dimmed lighting though I could not miss the brightly lighted kitchen ahead of me. The living room walls was a cloud white with random picters
"TAVI ITS WAS A ACCIDENT! I SWEAR! YOU KNOW I HAVE WORK TOO!" A crazy blue maned unicorn with purple shades pushed up showing her bright red water loged eyes.
"Hey ya'll stop your fighting its pitiful." As this sliped out of my mouth triggerd a reflex and it wasn't a good one from Vinyl. Before I could wipe the smile off my face I was hit with a blue blot of magic dead center of my dark chest plate. There was so much force behind that blue bolt I was sent back to the dim living room on my back begging for air.
"BANJO!" Tavi came running in a long black dress with her pink bow tie around her light gray neck. Her slick black mane was all done up quite nicely. The purple eyes filled with worry locked on my light blue eyes. Unlike Tavi, Vinyl was a little more pissed like hit me in my muzzle pissed. She was wearing little to nothing, Only covering her white fur was a sky blue small T-shirt and a pair of red hoof-ball shorts.
"Sweet Luna and her moon that really hurt. At least I can finally breath." Barely able to get some oxygen.
"WHY WOULD YOU JUST COME RIGHT IN LIKE THAT! I COULD HAVE KILLED YOU!" Them red eyes started to soften the longer she looked at me
"Thats just it you didn't kill me. Besides I have been hurt far worse than that. Armor or not, it takes a little more to kill me."
"Fine what ever what did you want stupid?"
"Nun just wanted to give you what you orderd. Oh and due to kindness in me, Here is one for you Tavi. While i'm at it you look stuning tonight. Vinyl well never mind I like breathing."
"No say what you was going to say Banjo. I dare you" '
She had her hands on her hips slowly turning in a circle making sure you saw every thing. She even fliped her blue tail out of the way so I could see her full ass.
"Fine just cause of that." I was taking my last breath and closeing my eyes. "You l-look um, fine as hell." The last part rushed. As I stand there with my eyes shut body tensed waiting for the worse..... But it never happend. As I slowly eased one eye open I saw something that I did not exspect. I was out side of there normal house looking at the door.
'Look in your hands colt.' Wait did he not insult me? As I looked down I saw a white piece of paper folded in half. As I started to open it the only thing that could send me into shock did. The paper read...
Hey its about time you had the balls to tell me i'm sexy.
As I finished reading this I could hear the armor of something, But i'm not staying to find out. Last stop home.
Author's Note
Ok guys i'm sorry I didn't know how many grammer problems I had last chapter and i'm so sorry ya'll.
Well heres the next chapter. If ya'll have any questions just PM me or leave a comment. And as before sorry for all the grammer problems.
Hopefully we can find out some more of his past, like lets say why he left home....
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"Life is Great!" Who ever said that needs shot.
It has been three days after the thing with Rainbow. I'm back on terms with Twighlight, but she is still scared shitless of me just like the rest of Ponyville. Every time I walk in that town everypony stays away, whispering, running, even had a group of stallions try to fight me. I still haven't found my armor or family bow. Zacora went back to her home country with out even saying goodbye to me. Lets just say the past three days have been really shitty.
"Here you are Banjo."
"Thanks Rarity I need to stay low and this will help." The snow white mare handed me a light brown leather duster with a black cowboy hat. "How much do I owe you?" Her dark purple mane well kept matching her tail. The blue eyes went wide.
"Oh no, I could NOT take bits from you darling."
"Tough luck. How much do I owe you."
"Its on me. I insist."
"Here keep the change." I dropped a small brown bit sack in her hand and walked out the door putting on the hat to cover my eyes.
At the treehouse full of books.
I knocked on the large wooden red door. The morning sun was bright but the black hat blocked the rays from hitting my white eyes. My cargo camo pants could be seen from the bottom of the leather duster that was open in the front showing my bare chest. Before you say, yes I like being shirtless and its not a crime.
"Can I help you." The door opened to a small purple dragon with green spiked spines.
"You must be Spike the dragon." I let a grin fill my face. "I'm the one known as Banjo Moon." I held my hand out to him, but was met with a door being slammed.
"TWIGHLIGHT!" I could hear him running in the house.
'Must have scared him.' I chuckled lightly to myself. 'Twighlight will be down here in a second.' I waited for a minute until I could hear hoof steps on the hard wood floor. 'Right on que.'
"How are you Banjo?" The purple alicron greetted me in blue jeans and a blue T-shirt with a cupcake on it.
"Not bad princess." I bowed because she is the only one I trust when it comes to alicorns.
"No need to bow, but why are you shirtless." Her head tilted abit moving her flat mane more to the side.
"It feels nice. You should try it some time." A chuckle sliped out as I walked into the tree. "Got any sissors or a blade?"
"For what?"
"Rarity forgot I had wings." Turning to show that my wings where missing from view.
"Yea give my a sec." She disappired into the kitchen. I looked around just to be meet with book shelves to the ceilling all filled with books.
"Sweet Luna." My jaw dropped by all of the history that was around me. Books of all size and color was every where.
"Here you go." I did not hear Twighlight behind me, my mind was long gone. "Banjo." She giggled touching my shoulder kicking me out of my transe.
"Oh, umm thanks." I removed the large coat setting it on the table. I easly cutted two slits were my wings are on my back. "Thanks Twighlight." She was lost in thought stairing at my scars.
"Can I ask you a question." Her eyes were still glued on the largest scar, this thing was made by Chrysalis from my right shoulder to my left hip.
"I don't see why ya can't. So take your shot."
"Did you really face Discord?" I sighed , I always hated explaing this.
"Yes I did."
"So every thing Celestia said was true than."
"Every little detail."
"Than you know she didn't kill your family." I gritted my teeth and balled up a fist.
"That mare has been wanting me dead since I was brought to her."
"Do you know why?" I sat down removing my hat.
"Because of my title. She has always feared the Moon name. We knew ever secret the royal family had. But all was lost with the death of my uncle Stil Moon. So why does she want me dead? Do to what me and the moon princess had." Twighlight looked like a filly getting told a bed time story. Her purple eyes locked on to my eyes.
"How did you get white eyes?" I gave a little chuckle.
"Fighting a god more than once. By your self may I add. Plus it only runs in the Moon family as far as I know."
"Oh." Her eyes finally stopped looking me down. So I got up and put on my hat and coat, making sure my wings where on the outside also.
"I must leave princess. Have a nice day." I opened the door to a bright sun. "Celestia its to bright for this shit." I started my mindless walk through Ponyville.
I still had no home, just been sleepless nights and days looking over the three fillys. Someponys called my a petofoal but they don't know the reasons so I just blew off the comments. From what I know Rainbow has not told anypony what happen or why I 'stalk' the CMC. Right now I know there safe, Big Mac is a force to be messed with.
"Look what we got here." A sly stallions voice came from behind me. "We got us a petofoal." I could only chuckle at the comment as I stuffed my hands into the dusters pockets.
'Looks like Redheart is going to have some work to do.' I keep walking not knowing how many where behind me.
"Hey i'm talking to you." His hand landed on my shoulder with some force. I only laughed at him. "Whats funny perv. See some fillys or something?"
"Only your stupidity, partner." I still had my back to them, I brushed the stallions hand off of me and kept walking.
"HEY PONYVILLE HERES THE PETOFOAL!" I could feel eyes looking at me from every way.
"I'm better known as death. So would you save you and your buddies alot of pain and just walk away." He only laughed at me.
"You could only wish, plus theres six of us and only one of you." He ripped me around to make me look at him.
"Thats what Chrysalis and her army thought but there not here now." I raised my hat so he could see who hes talking to.
"Hey your the crazy stallion that flipped out! Nice touch with the bloody luner armor and detailed scars. Who did your makeup?" I took my hat off letting my mane fall out over my eyes. "I asked you a question." He shoved me back making me drop my clean black hat in the dirt.
"That was a clean hat sir. Rarity is going to be pissed." A wicked grin came to my face as I let the light brown duster fall showing my scar filled chest. This only made the brown stallion smile.
"Ah Rarity has a nice plot. She your marefriend? If so i'll make sure she screams my name instead of yours." His smile only got bigger.
"BANJO! Don't do it!" I looked up to see Rainbow Dash above me. I could not see what she had on because of the sun.
"Do what?" I was getting in trouble for something that I haven't even done yet.
"You know damn well what Banjo!" I could tell she was pissed at me for even thinking about fighting these guys.
"Come on its only six of em." I must have sounded like a colt talking to his mom.
"I'm not worried about you dumb ass!! Its them i'm scared for!" I could only laugh.
"I let them get one free punch each! How about that?"
"NO! Don't do it at all!"
"FINE! I didn't even want to fight a bunch of mares anyways!" The brown stallion charged at me only to be met with a face full of dirt. I held his arm high above the back of his head.
"Banjo I swear to Celestia if you hurt them!" I pushed alittle more listening to the stallion begainning to scream, I never stopped looking at the mare above me though. "If I have to come down there Banjo Moon I promise Redheart won't be able to fix you back up!"
"Oh yea?" I pushed alittle more making the screams grow louder, this made me shiver in joy. "I missed the sound of the ones i'm bout to kill scream under my hoof. Its like music to my ears." My grin turned into a toothy smile. "Come on just this one! I'll let the others run!" It was like a foal asking can they keep the animal they found. The stallions buddies took that as there que to turn tail and run. "PLEASE!" I looked at her with pledding eyes. The crowd grew larger with looks of hore on all there faces.
"LET HIM GO NOW!"
"Fine! Ain't gota go all mare in heat on me." I stepped of the stallion only to watch him run holding his arm. "I was *this* close." A sigh slipped out as I put on my duster and hat. "Ok so did you need something?" Looking back to the figure in the sky.
"Yea we need to talk to the girls."
"Which ones?"
"All of them. Be at Twighlights in five minutes and not every pony likes a shirtless stallion, but I think it is a nice look." I only chuckled as I took to the sky flying slow towards the treehouse.
Short flight to Twighlights.
I got to think about things that I hated to think about. The lifes I took haunted me every day of every minute. The wiser I get the worse it gets.
Did they have familys?
"WHY!?" Snapped back to reality I saw the ground coming fast. I opened my wings but nothing happen. "WHAT THE HELL!?" I looked behind me to see a arrow in my back. "How can't I feel this!?" Blood was leaking out making the brown turn red. The ground did not stop coming at me. I could see ponys looking at me. Just so happend ALL of the girls were watching in fear. Rainbow shot off the ground coming right towards me. "NO GET INSIDE NOW!" Pointing to the treehouse Rainbow did not stop coming. "STOP AND LEAVE ME."
"I got you Banjo!" Rainbow grabbed me by my arms letting me dangle. "Are you ok?" I started to swing back and forth getting momentim. "What the hay are you doing!?" Her flying begain to wobble and with one good swing back I threw Rainbow towards the tree putting me back into a free fall.
"TWIGHLIGHT CATCH HER!" I felt a sharp pain in my abs. I looked down to see a wooden arrow in my lodged in my gut. "Buck that hurts." The ground was now rolling past me while I tumble to the group of girls. "Get inside now!" I got up and started to limp after the herd of mares into the libary. I slammed the door behind me looking down I watched the blood run down my ripped camo pants.
"Banjo!" Applejack ran to catch me before falling. "Don't ya go leven me just yet!" My eyes started to feel heavy. "Banjo stay wit me please!" We dropped to the floor, with her putting my head on her lap. "Banjo! I LOVE YA! PLEASE DON"T LEAVE ME! BANJO!" My world turned black.
'Well buck me. That arrow must have been enchanted or coverd in poison.'
'It was.'
'Oh how am I doing today?'
'Besides dieing? Pretty good.'
'Wait we're dieing?!'
'Pretty much. We might not make this one Banjo.'
'This day is just bucking great. Didn't get to kill that stallion, and now we're dieing. Just bucking great! Wait than that means I at least get to drink with dad.'
'Yep and talking about that your heading there now. See you in another life me!'
Author's Note
Well here we are ponys! I haven't made up my mind if I will countinue or stop at my next chapter. Heads up we get to see his father and mabe a little more.
As always thanks for reading Mares and Gentlecolts! If any questions or comments PM me or leave your wise words below! THANKS!