Burning Spirit

It was night in the dragon kingdom, the stars shining brightly along with the moon down on the capitol of this dangerous yet beautiful land. The many shops were closing for the night, citizens were heading to their homes from work or were heading to the bars to drown their sorrows away from personal problems, and children were getting put to bed.

Other citizens from this capitol were locked in the dungeons of the castle for a rebellion. Only a few rebels were caught and were scheduled for a public execution by the king himself tomorrow. The prisoners would have tried to escape but had special collars put on around their necks to prevent them from using any of their magic to get free. Some of the prisoners panicked because they didn't want to die, others remained calm knowing that they will died fighting for a cause they believed in.

One prisoner in particular who was wearing the usual prisoner attire, a thin black and gray striped shit with pants to match. The clothing signifying that this was a dead pony. The cell the prisoner was in had walls of solid stone and bars made of the strongest metal found in the badlands. A small window with bars on it as well allowed light to beam into the cell.

The prisoner was a unicorn mare with turquoise blue fur, a teal mane, and her tail was long with the scales on it barely hidden by the teal hair on it. Her greens eyes were watching the sky full of pity for the path her king was taking. With her working as the king's adviser she should have saw something was changing in him. She just sat by and watched until he declared his desire to not only show other creatures that they are inferior but to have more land to rule over. She tried so hard to advise him that this path was wrong that things were fine the way they were, he just dismissed her advise.

Knowing in her heart that this path was not right, she chose to get others that believed there King had become corrupt with the power of ruling a kingdom. Her rebellion had failed and she was arrested for treason but at least a few of those that followed her had manged to get away. Now here she was in a cold cell waiting for her public execution the next day. She heard hoofsteps coming down the steps that led to the dungeon but just kept her eyes on the stars.

The hoofsteps stopped at her cell and she sighed knowing who it was. She turned around her eyes peering into the dark hallway outside her cell. The pony on the other side of the cell door was a Pegasus stallion. He had sky blue fur with a well groomed royal blue mane and tail. He was wearing golden armor that had ancient dragon language carved into it. His wings instead of being normal Pegasus wings they were dragon wings. His blue eyes staring at the mare.

"Coventina, why did you betray your king?" The armored stallion asked.

"Why?" She let out a soft chuckle, "My king is going to create a path full of death and pain in his wake with this expansion plan of his. You know that I'm right too Night."

The stallion named Night shook his head, "Only you and your rebel buddies believe that. It's a shame I have to lose you tomorrow sister but you brought this upon yourself. Once the execution is done, I will be getting the army ready to march on are first target."

"You know that the two sisters of Equestria will not allow you to take control of their kingdom so easily." Coventina let out a sigh.

"Oh they will follow quite easily thanks to King Blaze's brilliance. They won't even have time to protect themselves." Night retorted, "Now I shall take my leave. May you rest in piece my sister."

Night turned away and walked back down the hall leaving his sister. She sat down crossing her legs still staring at the spot where Night was. She needed to get out of here to warn the Equestrian rulers of the impending doom. The young mare kept trying to come up with ways to escape but known would have worked. She wished she could just use her draconic magic to bust out herself and the other rebel prisoners but with the magic collar around her neck it was impossible to do so.

The other prisoners had fallen asleep. Coventina could feel her eyelids getting heavy, letting out a yawn she laid down on the cold hard floor. She had given up with trying to escape. Her eyes slowly closed as sleep overtook her bringing her to the dream world.

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A few hours had passed by, the young mare still slept until the noise of a door being broken down awoke her. She let out a yawn, her sight slowly clearing up. She could hear a number of hooves running down the stairs and along the hall. The sound of cell doors being broken down and voices telling the prisoners to move.

She stretched, getting to her hooves. She walked over to her cell door, a Pegasus stallion had run in front of her cell. He was wearing a black cloth over his mouth, a dark red shirt covered the top half of his body while black pants covered the bottom half. His mane obsidian black and his fur was maroon red. His dragon wings hidden behind him.

Coventina smiled as she recognized her friend, " I didn't actually think you would come to rescue us Shadow."

The stallion pulled down the black cloth down from his mouth, he gave a laugh, "Yeah sorry it took so long but a few of the dragons that were with us decided to abandon the rebel cause. Anyways were here now so let's get going I'm sure you long to get out of this gloomy looking cell."

She gave nod as Shadow rammed into the cell door with his shoulder, breaking it down. She stepped out into the hall seeing that all the rebels were freed already, Shadow walked in front of gesturing her to follow him. He along with several others who came with him took up the front . They lead the prisoners up the stairs into the guard barracks. Coventina looked down by the door when she stepped through it that led to the outside of the guard barracks were two guards that had their throats slit.

Shadow lead the rebels past several barrack bunkers and over to the wall. A hole had been made in it like someone had forced their way passed it. All of them went through the hole and ran out of the capitol into the woods on the outskirts. Shadow led them to a encampment that he along with those who stuck with the resistance had set up. Covnetina was surprised that they had done all this in one day. Tents were set up around a small enough camp fire. She saw that a good amount of her rebel friends were still with her.

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The group had split up to do their own things within the camp after the announcement of their leader was safe and back with them. The mare Coventina was inside a much larger tent than the ones outside of it. She was sitting opposite of the entrance still in her prisoner outfit.

To her left was unicorn stallion who was wearing a blue robe like armor that went down to his legs. He had a green mane and tail along with dark blue fur. He was a short stallion and had his mane along with tail short as well. To her right was a Earth pony stallion wearing silver knight armor much like Night was wearing. Draconic language was carved into it. His head void of a helmet allowing his orange mane to hang to the sides of his head. His fur was a light greenish with a few spots showing scales. Across from Coventina sat Shadow in might blue armor and sitting next to his right sat a white unicorn mare with a aqua blue mane and tail. She wore lighter armor than the others it's color the same as her mane. Her tail just as long as Coventina's with her scales showing more on it.

Coventina looked at each one of them and let out a sigh, "So the plan my friends is to go to Equestria to not only warn the rulers but to help out as well."

"Will they even let us into the castle to give the warning?" The Earth pony asked.

"I'm sure they will Colbat." Coven answered.

"And if they don't? I mean we're not exactly looking like ponies." The unicorn stallion questioned.

"Then we shall have to use are magic to get through the castle guards to tell them Rayu." Shadow joked.

The one known as Rayu just rolled his eyes. The white mare let out a giggle then looked at Coven, "You think if we keep saying that a threat is on it's way that might make them want to listen as well."

Coven nodded, "Yes I do think that could work as a plan B to get in the castle. So we are all in agreement of this?" She looked at them all as they responded with nods. "Good, this war is inevitable but hopefully we will be prepared by that time. We will move out in 2 hours, it won't be long before they start searching for us."

Shadow and the others got to their hooves giving one last nod then they left the tent to tell the rest of the rebels. Coven sighed getting to her hooves. 'Blaze.....Night...you both must be stopped my brothers for things to return to normal.' she thought to herself as she left her tent to help with getting things packed away.