The Immortals

Belly of the Beast part 1

Griffin Kingdom

Lightning Strike and his squad commenced their attack and flew in with their slings and spears, destroying anything that could be destroyed, the majority of the targets were market stalls, since buildings couldn't be taken down by his squads weapons, but of course, the stalls were not the only things that they could attack.

"Kill as many as you can!" Lightning shouted as his squad began slaughtering the Griffins, screams of pain and despair were emitted wherever Lightning Strike's squad flew as the massacre would not end.After damaging most of the market district, the pegasi moved onto the middle district, where the heart of the Griffin Kingdom lay, the Griffin Palace towered over the majority of the kingdoms landscape and could be seen even from the border.

The squad swooped over the citizens, throwing their slings at them and the rocks impacting their faces, and in the aftermath of each strike, many beaks were lost. "Target the Palace!" Lightning barked "Leave none alive!", as the squad soared towards the palace, many of them started being shot out the sky by something.

It was at that point Lightning realised that they had been intercepted by the Griffin Air Force and they were throwing spears at them from above, "Scatter!" one of the squad members screamed before a spear went through his chest and his once alive body dived towards the ground.

With seven squad-mates left, Lightning Strike told them to go evasive, and that they would not be able to get to the palace in shreds, many of them listened while a few continued flying onwards, those few had became mere corpses after 10 seconds.

A few minutes later, Lightning Strike landed on the Palace's balcony, and welcomed himself in by bucking the balcony door open, with 3 team mates left, they knew that they would not make this one out alive, after a speech by Lightning Strike, and a few more broken doors, the squad had reached the throne room, only to be fired at by arrows and bolts, 2 of Lightning's team mates died while the remaining one was injured, the injured one, however, rolled his spear to Lightning Strike and pointed at the Griffin King and rasped "Finish it.." before dying from blood loss.

With one chance left, Lightning Strike rushed to a pillar and stood on his hind legs, he took aim and threw, unfortunately, Lightning Strike had ran into the open to take his shot, and after he threw his spear, an arrow impaled itself into his neck and he heard a loud roar of pain, and that roar of pain was not from him, but from the Griffin King himself! the spear had hit its mark and impaled him through the stomach.

In Lightning Strike's final moments, two griffins walked up to him and one exclaimed "He's a royal guard! he must have been on an assassination mission against King Maximus!" "Well looks like he did his job.. the Kings dead." before finally losing himself to the final unknown.

Luckily for Lightning Strike, that unknown was not death, for he woke up once more with a bandage around his neck and chains around his arms,he tried to struggle but it was to no avail. "Don't bother" a voice said "Struggling will only make you weaker".

Lightning tried to talk, but the only noises coming out of his mouth were "Ooo errr yeww" and other forms of nonsense "Who am I?" the voice said, "Why, I am your captor of course!". Lightning moaned some more before he started to struggle again "Oh shut up your moaning is becoming a bother!" and a fisted talon hooked him across the face. Lightning moaned again, and got punched again, "Now, you will tell me who sent you, and since you're a royal guard it won't be hard to figure out".

Two griffins walked in and removed the gag from Lightning's mouth "I'll kill you! I'll kill all of you feather-brained fur-balls!" he screamed.One of the griffins punched him right in the muzzle. "T-That all you g-got?" Lightning taunted, before receiving a fist in the gut and another fist to the face. Lightning spat blood out at the griffins face and gave it a cocky grin "Y-You hit l-like a f-filly!" The griffin looked like he was about to throw another punch but was silenced by a bellowing voice "ENOUGH!" the voice blasted "Now that you have your voice, care to tell us who sent you?" the voice asked "Your mother sent me..." Lightning murmured "What was that? I didn't hear you with that fist in your face" the voice said "What fis- AUGH" another punch thrown at is face.

"Now, care to tell me who sent you?" The voice questioned "C-Celestia and h-her student sent our team on a mission to deal with the griffins after trading went down and there were random assaults on ponies in Equestria..She said that the King was telling them to do it so that they could provoke us.." "She said that once we were provoked he would think we would want to go to war.. and that the griffins would be able to take over Equestria.." "We knew that we hadn't a single chance against the griffins, so she sent a covert team to the border to take out the King..So he would not be able to give orders to the griffins in Equestria.." "Me and my team were selected to go.. and as you can see.. we got the job done.."

"And that is where you're wrong..you see the person you were talking to the entire time,me, was your target, and I survived, but i went into shock after your spear went into me..you have a damn good throw.. too bad that you wont be able to throw again"

"W-Why do you say that?" Lightning asked, and the two griffins from earlier came in with a torch lit on fire "No! NO! please have mercy!" Lightning begged, he knew what was going to happen to him.

"...Mercy is for the weak" The two griffins put the torch to Lightning's coat, and he immediately got set on fire. "NO! PLEASE NO! HELP ME!" the griffins cut his chains around his hooves and let him burn freely

Lightning Strike flailed his limbs like a madman and slowly, Ever so slowly, his body turned black, his mane and tail missing he slumped to the floor and died.

"Lets go pay Celestia a visit.."