The True Night

The NightBringer and The Deceiver

Chapter. 2 Night and Day

“Hello” Night said softly to the quivering yellow and pink ball in the bush

“is-is the monster gone?” she whispered softly .

Night was amazed that the pony was so timid and quite he thought to himself “I might have to be very careful with this one” while he was thinking she lifted her head very slowly with tears welling up in her eyes.

“Are my friends ok?” she asked looking deep into his dark red eyes.

“Yes they’re all fine you can come out now” he answered kindly.

“D-d-d-do you promise the monster won’t come back?” she asked quietly.

He sighed “I promise”

Night slid his head out of the bushes followed by the yellow Pegasus as she crawled out of the bushes she finally saw how big night was and she turned to the sound of chatter as she saw the colossus in green and darted back into the bush but was halted by her tail being caught underneath night’s hoof.

“You promised that the monsters were gone!” she yelled quietly.

“I'm sorry for deceiving you but we are not monster’s I promise you that” Night said trying to reassure the trembling Pegasus.

“B-b-but….” She said before being cut off by what was a stunned pink blur.

“There’s no need to worry your little head off Fluttershy we don’t even know if they are bad at all” said the pink pony without even stopping for a breath.

At this time the rest of the group walked over to comfort Fluttershy night quickly slipped his mask back on without the others seeing he then walked over to Deceiver to assess the situation.

“This is definitely odd” deceiver said looking over his shoulder.

“Well it’s not the weirdest thing we’ve seen but it’s up there but what do we do know?” Night said looking at Deceiver.
“I think this is the time and place for chivalry” he said turning to Night.

“What?.... chivalry I don’t see what you’re getting at T.D” Night said in confusion.

“*sigh* I mean we should lend our services to them so we can figure how to find a way off this mud ball” Deceiver said rubbing his hoof up and down on the side of his helmet.

“Hold on a minute isn’t chivalry the knights code?” Night said.

“It works both ways night now do you agree or don’t you” Deceiver said staring him in the eye’s.
“Fine” Night said with a sigh.

The 6 young mares were talking about the new comers when a black aura formed around nights hat which was still placed on applejacks head was swapped with her Stetson hat the group turned to see deceiver and night who’s hat softly landed on his head walk up to them night was the first to speak.

“Now that we got to meet each other I think I still have a question to answer” Night said looking towards Twilight.
“I believe you asked who I was before and I think it’s time we give you an answer” he said turning and nodding at Deceiver.
Deceiver took a step forward “my name is The Deceiver I am a space marine of the Dark Angels chapter of the Imperium” Deceiver said with pride.

“And I'm The Nightbringer but you can just call me Night for short” said Night.

When the six heard their names they looked at each other in amazement the Deceiver what could possibly be his special talent his cutie mark just seemed to be crude pair of wings extending from what looked like a sword that most bipeds used like the diamond dogs but as for the Nightbringer they had to investigate further with him.

“Why do they call you the Nightbringer?” Twilight asked.

Deceiver looked at night, Night’s head was facing the ground the 6 mares looked at each other knowing they hit a nerve before night said “I think that’s a story for another time” he said softly before starting to walk down the road.

“Well after our behaviour I think it’s only fair we help you back to the nearest town” Deceiver said with a deep sigh.

“Well ok since your offerin and all you might as well tow that wagon but don’t be surprised if ya cant pull it I only know one pony who can pull that wagon and that’s my big brother” Applejack said with a challenging smirk.

“Speaking of which were is Big Macintosh anyway” said rainbow dash hovering over Applejack.

“Well he said he would meet me back in Ponyville once he went back to the lumber yard I might have forgotten to pay the stallion” A.J. said blushing from embarrassment.

“And I kind of made a bet with Big Mac that I could bring these building supplies back to sweet apple acres by myself and I only realized we over did it with the supplies so big mac would also have had a hard time towing that load” she said pointing to the wagon.
“What was the bet anyway” asked Rarity.
“The loser has to give granny smith a sponge bath for a month” replied A.J. the group except Deceiver who didn’t understand cringed at the thought.

“Well nights starting to move off without us so I think we should be going now” deceiver said slipping into the harness which was 3 sizes too small.

“I don’t think you’re gonna go anywhere without som-…..” A.J. said stopping midsentence when Deceiver walked off with the wagon leaving the 6 pony’s with their jaws to the ground.

“I guess he’s stronger than he looks” said Rainbow dash.

As the group walked on night keeping a firm lead Twilight walked along side deceiver she had to look up at him since he was twice as tall as she was.

“Did I say something wrong when I asked what his name meant?” Twilight asked Deceiver.

“From all the years I’ve known night he hasn’t even told me what his name meant” Deceiver replied.

“But haven’t you ever wondered what his name meant?” said Twilight.

“Asking and wondering are two completely different things Miss Sparkle and it’s none of my business I have my theories but I don’t talk about them because there are some things I keep to myself” said Deceiver.

“Bu-….” Was all Twilight was able to muster before walking into night who had stopped walking.

The group came to a sudden halt Twilight looked at Night whose eyes grew a bright red Deceiver walked alongside him and asked “what do you see?”

“Trouble” said Night.

The group proceeded further so they could see what night was looking at they came across a hill were they could look over Deceiver was the first to know what night had seen then the rest followed except pinkie pie who was told to stay by the wagon (for obvious reasons) night twilight and applejack crawled to the top of hill both A.J. and twilight were having to squint to see the figures but couldn’t make out a detailed description until night “Hoofed” a pair of binoculars to twilight who thought he materialised them from nowhere shaking the thought she peered through the binoculars to see a horrifying event taking place by a humble apple tree.

“Oh no that’s not good” twilight said shaking.

“What! What’s going on I can’t see” said Applejack hovering her hoof over her eye’s to get a better look.

“Diamond Dogs” Night said with a growl.

“When we arrived here we were attacked by two of them they didn’t stand a chance” Night said turning his head see deceiver nodding to him.

“Night we have to help them” Twilight said sliding the binoculars to A.J.

“No not we me you don’t do anything I will handle it but if things go pear shaped I want the mother and her colt out of that area immediately.

“B-b-but you can’t go out there alone you should take Deceiver with you” Twilight said trembling at the sight of his eye’s burning hot beneath his mask.

“No I need him here if something goes wrong and if he’s there it might cause more problems than solving them I need to handle this delicately I would prefer to have no conflict…oh and to limit the chances” Night said undoing the latch to his mask and levitated it to Twilight she looked up at his face and looked away blushing, Night didn’t give it a second look and made his way towards the tree were the diamond dogs were harassing the family his eye’s hidden beneath his tilted hat slowly approached the tree meanwhile twilight, A.J., Rarity and Rainbow dash waited on the hill watching Night make his way to the tree A.J. was the first to break the intense silence.

“He’s cute isn’t he” she said nudging Twilight as she gave her a wink.

“WHAT! No, no, no, I don’t think of him that way h-h-he’s just….” She said bearing herself into her hoofs.
“Do you think he could take on so many of those brutes by himself” Rarity spoke up.

“He’ll be fine I mean he beat me and that’s no easy feat” Rainbow dash said with cockiness radiating off of her while the others just rolled their eyes.

“And besides he wouldn’t leave his number one fan behind” she said poking Twilight in the head who broke out into a deep red.

“Hush! Something’s happening” A.J. said waving them down.

As night approached the tree he could see a sky blue pony with cherry red mane and tail which seemed to him to be an odd colour scheme he then glanced to see a small colt with a white coat and sky blue mane and tail hiding between his mother’s legs the 5 diamond dogs that were harassing them were taller than he was and wearing armour of iron and wielding diamond edged weapons those weapons could do serious damage against his light black armour plates if a conflict broke out but he was more interested in the larger of the 5 one wearing gold armour and wielding an axe which seemed to have been cut from raw diamond as night closed in the colt saw night coming and softly said “mummy look” she turned to see a black stallion that almost rivalled the diamond dogs night tilted his hat to hide his eye’s as the 5 diamond dogs encircled the trapped stallion.

“Well, well what do we have here a pony lost his way” one of the dogs laughed.

“Ha this one’s a tall one he’s bigger than I am” another laughed flicking nights hat causing him to get very annoyed.

The leader then came almost face to face with Night, night looked up at him his eye’s now visible to the pack.

“Hmm nice armour you have there titanium alloy I see” the leader said with fascination in his voice.

“I’ve never seen such craftsmanship in such armour and in such a colour” he said circling Night.

“it’s good but frankly its more of a show piece than a piece of armour” Night said modestly.

“You know your ore I see you not as “dim-witted” as your fellows” he said with a smile.

The rest of the group growled viciously but the leader just laughed and nodded his head.

“Ha you’ve got a pair on you for a pony I like you, I agree there aren’t too many of use that call themselves educated which you saw immediately” the leader said while he burst into laughter.

One of the group’s hairs started to stick up on end and the leader saw this and knew what he had discovered.
“How rude of me my name is grudge” he said proudly.

“Grudge that’s a simple I don’t think I'm going to ask where you acquired such a name” said Night.

While night was stalling for time the diamond dog that alerted grudge to night started to sniff one of nights hind legs night saw this and lifted his right hind leg and brought it down on the dog’s head with an ear piercing cry of pain the rest group (except grudge) lunged towards night at this moment twilight A.J. rarity and rainbow dash held their breath and closely watched the event unfold twilight clutched onto nights mask tightly.

“Ha now this is a fight I’ve been getting bored” Night laughed dodging attack upon attack with ease.

“Stop…… jumping around pony and……. Fight” one of the dogs wielding a spear shouted as Night dodged his attacks.
“Maybe you should stop talking and pay attention to where I am” Night said standing behind the diamond dog readying to buck him.

“H-h-how did you d-….” Diamond dog said before being sent hurtling through the air and landing onto another diamond dog taking them out of the fight.

By this time the two remaining diamond dogs were now having second thoughts and were starting to back away before being dragged back by two black tentacles which materialised out of two dark wells next to night the black tentacles lifted the two frightened dogs into the air before slamming them into each other and dropping them onto the other unconscious diamond dogs.

While Night was preoccupied admiring his handy work Grudge had slipped behind into the shadow of the tree and clobbered night when he wasn’t looking sending night into the ground night had managed to bring himself to see his attacker.

“I like you shadow kin I really do but the fact we can’t use you for our plans makes you useless to use” Grudge said lifting his terrifying axe.

Night blinked and waited what felt like hours before grudge brought down his axe.