The Immortal Warrior

Silence

That was the first thing Rei-Skalen realized when he came back to consciousness. Keeping his breath even as he listened his surroundings and searched the area for any signs of life, he finally realized he was alone. He let out a sigh as he opened his eyes and looked around, seeing that he was in prison cell. The walls, ceiling and floor were made from grey stone, without any windows and only 1 door. Looking around the room, he could see that there wasn't any furniture, just him hanging from the ceiling and facing the door.

As he began to inspect himself, he could see that his armor and weapons had been removed, leaving him in shirt and pants. However, further inspection made it clear that they had been removed at one point, which he was grateful because his captures had apparently cleaned him. 6000 years is long time without a bath you know, so right now to him he smelled sweet, just like everything else in the room.

However, he could see that his legs were encased in solid metal,keeping his legs together below the knees. He could see a line on both sides and small bolts that held it together, so that they could be removed when needed to. As he looked up, he could see his arms in similar situation, the metal casing ending at his elbows. Only difference was that on tip of casing, right between his hands, was a hole where he was being connected to ceiling by thick chains.

Smile came to his lips as he recalled the events of how he managed to get here. The ponies had panicked when they had heard his magically altered voice, which he had used earlier in his life for intimidation, screaming something about him being possessed before attacking. They had been surprisingly fast, but he had managed to wound at least 7 of them, 2 of the pegasus having their wings cut off completely by carefully placed blow from his blade.

It had only been lucky shot from the unicorn that they managed to take him, though he was still unsure where exactly he was. "We are most likely at their dungeons or some special place, since there are no sounds around us" Medusa answered his question as Rei-Skalen changed his attention to the door.

"Well, we wouldn't be here if you two hadn't been wrong about them being weaklings" He answered to her in his mind, hearing Lilith's mental yawn "Well, i wasn't aware that they could do that. I though they were quite similar to ponies of our world, so i wasn't thinking them as a threat. It's not my fault that they didn't follow the rules of our world. And besides, those limbs of theirs moved like there wasn't bones in there, so as far as i know, they don't have any" Lilith said in annoyed tone as Rei-Skalen let out a laugh for the situation and how ridiculous it was.

After he finished laughing, he turned his attention back to his cell as his vision shifted to blue, with orange pulses on the walls of his cell and the door in deep red. He smiles as he realized that these ponies were smarter than he had originally though, turning his attention to his metal casings and seeing them glow red as well. After that, his vision changed few times as he looked around him few times, looking for any weaknesses on his prison.

It was when his vision turned orange that he saw black cracks on the walls and ceiling, which made him smile. These ponies held so much potential with their magic, yet they were naive and simple minded. The room had not aged well, so push one spot with enough strength and it would break.

"So,which one of you wants to start singing?" he asked as he heard both females huff at his question, annoyed that he was suggesting them to sing children's song. With quick check around him, he started to move his body forward and backward, slowly starting to swing between the door and wall behind him. He could hear the small cracking from the ceiling as the stone started to slowly give away, loosening the metal loop on the ceiling as it came closer and closer to falling off.

A smile came to his lips as Rei-Skalen started singing an old song he remembered hearing when he was leading armies of soldiers to battle. The song had originally been a children' song, but when the few soldiers had started singing the abridged version of it on assault of sun goddess Xatel-Ekwa's Citadel, it had spread like wildfire on thick forest

The golden gate is falling down,

Falling down, falling down,

The golden gate is falling down,

My fair lady

Build it up with wood and stone,

Wood and stone, wood and stone,

Build it up with wood and stone,

My fair lady

The wood and stone will burn and break

Burn and break, burn and break,

The wood and stone will burn and break,

My fair lady

Build it up with stone and steel,

Stone and steel, stone and steel,

Build it up with stone and steel,

My fair lady

The stone and steel will break and bend,

Break and bend, break and bend,

The stone and steel will break and bend,

My fair lady

Build it up with steel and gold,

Steel and gold, steel and gold

Build it up with steel and gold,

My fair lady

The steel and gold will melt away,

Melt away, melt away,

The steel and gold will melt away,

My fair lady

Set the soldiers guard all night,

Guard all night, guard all night,

Set the soldiers guard all night,

My fair lady

The soldiers will fight and die,

Fight and die, fight and die,

The soldiers will fight and die,

My fair lady

Today is your turn to burn and die,

Burn and die, burn and die

Today is your turn to burn and die,

My fair lady

Rei-Skalen finished singing just as the stone holding the metal loop on ceiling gave away, launching him feet first towards the door with speed and force. However, his luck ran out as the door opened and one of the guards was opening his mouth to yell at him, only to feel the impact of metal on his face as the metal casing hit the guard on the face, sending him flying as his skull broke.

As Rei-Skalen landed on his back just outside his cell, other guard looked at him with shocked expression. Taking his change, Rei-Skalen quickly whipped the metal loop still connected to his chains towards the guard, which wrapped around his neck as he pulled it towards him, sending the guard quickly to ground before he could react.

With quick motion, Rei-Skalen moved on top of the guard and started choking the guard with his chains, watching as the young earth pony below him tried helplessly to defend himself. The guard's eyes rolled back of his head as he fell unconscious, which Rei-Skalen took as his sign to release him.

Unwrapping the chain from around the guard's neck, Rei-Skalen took quick look around him before starting to move down the corridor before him. His cell was apparently in end of dungeon corridor, with more cells on both sides, left ones with door while on the right simply metal bars. The hallway and rest of the cells were made from same grey stone, with torches on the walls lighting the dark hallway.

As he continued  to hopping down the hallway, he could see the prisoners on his right look at him with shocked expressions. He smiled to himself as ponies, griffins, minotaurs and bug ponies started cheering for him. Apparently this world had more mythological creatures as sentient species than he could have guessed, since he saw humanoid dog creatures and some humanoid wyrm creatures that were almost as tall as he cheering to him as well.

just as he arrived at the corner of the cell block, one of the guards walked around it to check what prisoners were being so cheerful about, only to meet the floor face first as metal casing around Rei-Skalen's arms came down to his head, knocking him unconscious.

Unfortunately for Rei-Skalen however, the guard wasn't alone as unicorn threw a quick spell at him before starting shouting about prisoner escaping. Rei-Skalen moved quickly, dodging the spell and hitting the side of guard's face with his  chains, which knocked him against the iron bars of cell next to him. The minotaur prisoner inside quickly decided to aid as he wrapped his hand around guard's throat and raised him up, watching as the guard started uselessly to fight back.

Rei-Skalen ignored this however as he continued hopping down the hallway, knowing that there would be more guards there soon. He let out a laugh as he took down the guards that came to stop his escape, most of them normal ponies. He decided to start singing once again, the song being picked up by other prisoners as they started singing in rhythm.

The golden gate is falling down,

Falling down, falling down,

The golden gate is falling down,

My fair lady

Build it up with wood and stone,

Wood and stone, wood and stone,

Build it up with wood and stone,

My fair lady

The wood and stone will burn and break

Burn and break, burn and break,

The wood and stone will burn and break,

My fair lady

Build it up with stone and steel,

Stone and steel, stone and steel,

Build it up with stone and steel,

My fair lady

The stone and steel will break and bend,

Break and bend, break and bend,

The stone and steel will break and bend,

My fair lady

Build it up with steel and gold,

Steel and gold, steel and gold

Build it up with steel and gold,

My fair lady

The steel and gold will melt away,

Melt away, melt away,

The steel and gold will melt away,

My fair lady

Set the soldiers guard all night,

Guard all night, guard all night,

Set the soldiers guard all night,

My fair lady

The soldiers will fight and die,

Fight and die, fight and die,

The soldiers will fight and die,

My fair lady

Today is your turn to burn and die,

Burn and die, burn and die

Today is your turn to burn and die,

My fair lady

Rei-Skalen could hear the few prison doors opening behind him, with prisoners opening the cells with keys stolen from guards that had landed close enough to the cells. As Rei-Skalen reached the end of hallway, he threw the door open, smile on his lips as he looked down white marble hallway, sun shining through the windows and reflecting...from...golden armor of lines of unicron waiting as their horns were glowing.

Rei-Skalen didn't have time to even blink as they fired, sending him flying back into dark hallway, hitting the minotaur behind him right on the chest. The minotaur landed on his back with Rei-Skalen lying on top of him, his vision having black spots as burning sensation came from his chest. He barely noticed the minotaur push him from top of him as the creature rose of up and took the blade that he had stolen from one of the guards and charged.

Rei-Skalen's vision blurred as he heard the sound of fighting and saw colorful flashes of light cross above him. He noticed that gold armored ponies pass him as they continued fight the escaped prisoners, unicorns shooting their magic as they calmly walked past him. He continued to lay there as he saw golden horse shaped figure standing over him, tilting it's head before it's horn flashed and his world went into black.