Hours later guests started to leave and guards started to clean up after any small messes. I made my way to celestia’s bed chambers and hid on the roof of the where celestia would go to enter. Minutes pass and she finally enters the room with her student. I overheard the student’s name as they said their goodbyes. Twilight Sparkle…strange name but it could have been worse. She left and I could see the princess preparing for bed.

I stood there and thought to myself. “Finally time to kill her and return to discord with her head.” I began ready the pounce and jump from above and kill her. She walked below me and I dropped. The time had finally come and my soul would finally rest in peace. Or so I thought…

Time felt like it slowed down and the next thing I know I was blasted out of the air and to the floor. I never realized that twilight sparkle had reentered to ask more questions. She had seen me falling from the air with my blade ready to pierce Celestia. She shot some kind of beam of light which sent me to the ground in a stunning pain.

Celestia looked at me. “GUARDS!” she shouted and they busted through the door and charged. I was backed into a corner between two windows.

One of the guards approached me. “Surrender and you will be allowed to live…assassin!”

I looked at him and then toward the window. “I’ll be back…” I thought as I quickly shined a bright light that blinded the guards. While they were blinded by the bright light I blasted the window next to me and leaped out.

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Falling fast, I could hear the wind whistling in my ears. My eyes stinging from the speed I was falling. I couldn’t keep my eyes open and didn’t realize how fast the ground came. “FUUUUUUCK!!!” I hit the trees which were filled with vines that helped break my fall. I hit the ground with a thud and a crash, only seconds passed before I blacked out.

I woke to the sound of guards calling to each other. It was still night so I thought I had been out for at least an hour. I pulled all the strength I could and stood up only to feel a surge of pain strike through my left hind leg. I would have a hard time running but I could still move. I thought to myself well fucking hell…I was screwed. I made my way to the small town that the train passed through and where that twilight sparkle pony got on. She was going to pay for what she did. I wouldn’t be in this mess if she hadn’t blasted me in the first place. I changed my target for now, first twilight then celestia. I would make her suffer. I made my way toward a farm that I had spotted when reaching an opening in the small forest, and made myself right at home inside the barn.

I tended to my wounded leg and hoof. I was so exhausted and wanted to just lay my head back and fall asleep. I knew that wouldn’t work though, guards were searching high and low for me. I had to keep moving, but what happened was completely by accident…I fell asleep.

The next thing I see is my time spent in discords care. The training was intense and will breaking. He trained me through torture, solitude, and hunger. I trained to where I could go a week without food and stand even the worst kind of pain. Discord put me through torture to show me what would happen if I were ever captured by another villain or celestia. I believed every word he said. He took care of me and treated me like a son even though I wasn’t. I would never let him down and I would repay him for it all.

Not long after I fell asleep I woke up to the smell of apple pie. I opened my eyes and shot up ramming my head into something. I heard a yelp and then a thud. I leaned back up and looked around.

“Hey what was that for mister!” said a squeaky country voice.

I turned to my right but saw nothing.

“Down here…” said the voice.

I looked down to see a tiny yellow filly with a bright red mane rubbing her head and groaning. I moved quickly off the bed ignoring the pain of my leg. I looked at her saying I was sorry and asking her not to scream. She looked up at me with tearful eyes and holding her forehead.

“Here let me help you there…” I said lowering my horn to heal her wounded head.
She looked up at me and allowed my horn to touch her wound. The bruise started to disappear and she started to feel less and less pain. She opened her eyes and smiled at me.

“Well, how kind of ya sir. I thought we were the ones taking care of ya’ll.” Said a familiar country accented voice from behind me.

I looked behind me to see the exact same cowgirl pony I saw on the train. Sporting her cowgirl hat and side baskets filled with apples. She was smiling at me and started to walk in. I didn’t know what to think but she must not know about the assassination attempt on the princess last night. News doesn’t get around very fast here does it?

“The names Applejack and that there is Apple Bloom. Welcome to Sweet Apple Acres. How are you feeling?” she said with a smile.

“I’m feeling fine, still feeling the pain in my leg. My name is….Graymayne. Nice to meet you Applejack…Apple Bloom.” I said standing up and gently setting myself on the bed, trying not to act suspicious.

“When we found ya’ll in the barn, we thought that you were dead. It took us some time to realize that you were alive and your leg was busted. I hope ya slept well.” She said as she helped lift my leg and set it on some pillows.

“I slept fine, but should really be going. I have a long journey ahead of me and must be on my way.” I said trying to stand back up and fail by falling and crashing to the floor.

“Hold your horses mate, ya’ll aren’t even close to healed yet.” She said putting me back on the bed and adjusting the pillows. “Plus ya’ll need to meet the pony who carried you in. I’ll go get him, Apple bloom watch him and make sure he doesn’t go anywhere.”

I looked at her leave and then looked at Apple Bloom. She puffed out her chest and gave a growl. I looked at her and attempted to get up but fell. Acting like she had completed her task she hopped up onto my head. My mane bushed in over my eyes and I exhaled out my nose. As you can tell I was pissed.

“Can you please get off me” I said giving a rough exhale.

“Nope, can’t let you leave until you’ve fully healed” said Apple bloom sitting there with a smile of accomplishment.

“We’re back ya’ll. Mister Graymayne, I would like ya’ll to meet Big-” she stopped as she saw Apple bloom sitting on my head.

“Apple Bloom! Get off the ponies head will ya. Sorry for that Mister Graymayne, Apple bloom will do anything for her cutie mark these days.” Applejack said giving a stern look at Apple bloom. “Anyway I would like to introduce ya’ll to Big Macintosh or Big Mac for short. He’s the one who carried ya’ll up here and laid ya’ll to bed.”

I looked at Big Mac and nodded with a thank you. He smiled back and gave a big eeyup.

Later that day I used my healing spell to force my bones back into place. It hurt like hell for a couple seconds and certainly woke me up. I concealed my yelps of pain using some cloth rags I found in the restroom. I decided it was time to try and walk. I placed my back hooves on the floor and exhaled for if I failed…I would have to stay here for the night and I was certain the news would reach this farm before I could even fall asleep. I leaned forward and put my front hooves forward. I closed my eyes hoping I wouldn’t fall on my face. My front hooves hit the floor and all I felt was a slight sting in my back left leg. Other than that I was feeling great, I believed I was ready to go. I walked down the stairs and was given an astonished look by the three of them.

“How in Celestia’s mane are you already walking mister?” said Applejack eyes widened and jaw dropped.

“Like I said, I have places to be right now…thank you for your hospitality Applejack, Apple Bloom, and of course to you too Big Mac.” I said walking down the stairs and toward the door. “But before I go…” I walked to the table that they were all sitting at and dropped my large bag of bits on it. “There’s roughly about 250 bits in that bag. It’s my thanks to you for helping me through my time of need.” I looked at Applejack and smiled at the dumb founded and astonished look she had on her face.

“W-Well thank you Mister Graymayne. I-I don’t know what to say, but thank you!” said Applejack still jaw dropped and eyes wide.

I looked at her and said “Careful…you’ll catch flies. I guess I’ll see you around then, goodbye.” I turned and trotted toward the door and walked out.

On my way out of the farm I saw her….Twilight Sparkle. She was sprinting this way. I jumped into the bush closest to me knowing that if I decided to fight here someone would notice. I sat in the bush as she galloped by with a dragon on her back. Now I was certain that I didn’t want to screw with her. It was a small dragon, maybe only a baby. Still I couldn’t take my chances; I was in no condition to fight. As soon as I popped out of the bush I saw her knock at Applejack’s door. I thought to myself, well I was correct from the very beginning. Twilight had gone to tell her the news of the princess’s near death and about the assassin…..about me.

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*knock**knock*

“Applejack open the door, it’s an emergency!” yelled twilight as she banged on the door.

“What’s the matter Twi? Your acting like a maniac, calm down and speak words.” Said Applejack with her hoof on twilight’s mouth.

“Ok...ok...ok.” said Twilight trying to catch her breath. She started to talk about the princess and how an assassin tried to kill her. She also said how she walked in at the last minute and saved her. All Applejack could do is stand there and be astonished. “Celestia believes he made his way toward Ponyville. That’s why I came here to see if you had seen any strange ponies last night wandering the area.”

“Hmm…to think about it, yeah. I found a sleeping stallion in the barn last night. He had a dark blue coat of fur, scruffy black mane with light gray stripes in it. He had a strange cutie mark…an upside down letter “u” with branches coming off it.” Said Applejack thinking about Graymayne. “Could he have been the assassin…hmm…no it can’t be. “He was so kind and…” she said realizing the fact that he was in a hurry. “That lying, conniving, little bastard!” she screamed throwing her hat down to the ground.

“It’s ok Applejack; you didn’t know there was even an assassin out there. Anyway, did you by any chance get his name?” Twilight asked trying to calm her down.

“Yes…h-he told me his name was Graymayne.” Said Applejack wiping the tears from her eyes. “And he just left”

“Ok, as long as he is still in the area. All we need is to get back to Ponyville. I already told the others about him and to start looking for suspicious figures.” Said Twilight trying to reassure Applejack. “One other question…was he a unicorn.” Applejack nodded and put her hat back on her head. “Just as I feared, this will be difficult but we can catch him.”

“He also had a broken leg so he is bound to be slow. I didn’t see him using any magic other than a healing spell when he rammed into Apple Bloom.” Said Applejack.

“Ok then, let’s hurry back to Ponyville and catch this Graymayne” Said Twilight as her and Applejack rushed toward Ponyville.

Author's Note

Well now, Graymayne has finally made contact and failed. Now he certainly has a problem. I hope I got applejack and her family close to right...if not...I apologize. Whats going to happen to him now? I would love to know what you guys think is going to happen next. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed! I'll try to update before next Wednesday.