The Dragon War: The Oncoming Battle

The Dragon War: The Oncoming Battle

Chapter 5:

It's hard to leave the ones you care about

It's been almost a few months since the war first began and it was getting rough for the ponies who were fighting in it. Everyday they would be in the trenches and with the Pegasi weather team to scared enough to do their weather duty anyway near where the battles were, and the weather was nothing but endless heavy rain and thunderstorms.

The trenches was like a mud bath as it was up to the ponies knees, most of the ponies were in the medical facility due to having a case of trench hoof, where their hoofs were covered in scabs and they swelled up. Big Mac was feeling homesick thinking about his family he left back in Ponyville, whenever he felt like this he always pulled out his locket with a picture of his two sisters, and his granny who was nearing the time for her death bed, he even thought will he survive through this war to go back home to them he could only prayer for that to happen.

Cathstar never thought she'd be back in Equestria or the Heartland as what the Barrier Lands ponies always used to call it, speaking about Barrier Lands ponies one was always by her side and even if she didn't like Sharpshot in that way, well she did but she didn't want Sharpshot to know. But the problem that was keeping her not to tell him was the fact they were in a war, one of them could die any day and if they were to fall in love and if one of them died the other wouldn't be able to take the distress of the loss.

Flash Sentry a colt born in San Franciscolt; raised by his mother and father, his mother a Pegasus mare and his father was also a Pegasus.

Then there was Flash's little brother who was born an earth pony, who always looked up to him and ever since Flash was assigned to join the war his little brother would always prayer for him every night before he went to bed in hope that his big brother would someday return home.

Though Flash had dreams he wanted to fore fill like being part of the royal guard, ever since he was a colt that's all he ever wanted so he could support and protect his family and make his little brother proud.

And Wolfgang a mare who's not even afraid to stare death in the face, a mare who would sacrifice herself to save the ponies she cared about, after her battle with Fireclaw in her last nightmare, she started to feel like her old self again and not so angry all the time and that she still processes the dragon curse but has learned how to control it and all she had to do was to think about the ponies she cared about, but what bothered her the most was that memory tunnel in her dream, that Fireclaw had summoned and that one vision had her fourteen year old self and a stallion with a dark orange coat with a greyish blue mane and tail with light green streak same colour as his eyes.

Goldenbolt that was his name, he was her coltfriend, the only colt in her school who understood her, that was when Cathstar had left Equestria and Wolfgang felt alone without her only friend who was like a sister to her, and Flash had been sent to the young royal guard academy, which was an even more reason why she felt so alone at high school, and if it wasn't for Goldenbolt who came into her life which gave her some joy in life and made her not so alone.

Meanwhile at the trenches the remaining ponies who were still fighting were mounting machine guns and started producing heavy fire at the dragons and two Pegasi from the flight group, private Moonglider and private Blizzard Storm were heavy weapon troopers and carried rocket launchers and used them to draw the dragons out.

Captain Wolfgang lead the squad firing the machine guns and Sargent Duskstar lead the rest of the infantry squads, and ordered them to retreat back to let the machine gunners on the front, Wolfgang ordered the unicorns who were part of the squad to use their magic as defence against the dragons firepower.

Wolfgang went into deep thought that tomorrow this young Aiden who's from the Barrier Lands is going to join her army fighting in this war, even Wolfgang herself found that kind of harsh, but she knew in her head it had to be done.

The dragons had many casualties but they still fought furiously without taking notice that half of they're battalion had been butchered, the ponies dodged several grenade throws from the dragons but didn't see the mini nuclear bomb catapult and many ponies were either dead or badly injured.

Cathstar got hit in the explosion and her right hind leg was badly injured and she was badly losing a lot of blood, Sharpshot galloped towards her and lifted her on his back with his magic and quickly galloped towards the medical quarters, and the medical staff looked in shock on how much blood that was gushing out they thought private Sharpshot was injured as well but he was all clear. All the medics trotted to the bed where Cathstar lay, as a really worried Sharpshot sat by her bed side holding her right fore hoof

"excuse me private your gonna have to move" one of the medic's said getting to tend to Cathstar's wound, then out of no where Wolfgang, Flash and Big Mac came galloping in, Wolfgang trotted towards Sharpshot and put a hoof on his armoured shoulder

"hey she's a fighter" she spoke reassuringly with a hint of worry, then the chief medic doctor Trotters walked in out of his office, and he wasn't the friendliest of medic's Blademane and Tocolt thought he was Redbrands long lost chosen brother.

"Get these whimpering colts out of the medical quarters Captain Wolfgang!!!" Yelled the grumpy doctor, Wolfgang looked at a unconscious Cathstar and then glared at the doctor

Trotters and turned to the three stallions next to her

"you heard him guys" she gestures with her hoof to the exit of the tent, so they did but Sharpshot never took his eye off the mare he always had feelings for.

Wolfgang walked up to Cathstar's bedside and leaned to her ear

"I know your strong Cathstar stay strong I know you can" she whispered in her ear and she slowly walked out the quarters just hoping that her best friend will pull through.

It was 5:00 next Wednesday morning, Cathstar a woke from her coma and noticed on her hind right leg was bandaged and in a splint

"ah!" She winced, she used her magic to light the candle on her bedside table and as she finished lighting the candle she noticed a dark mustard coloured unicorn stallion sleeping with him sitting next to her bedside with his head on her bed, Cathstar couldn't help but smile but there was a slight blush on her face as she looked at the stallion.

She always had feelings for Sharpshot ever since she first came to the Barrier Lands, she then remembered what captain Nightcanter always said

"better claim him before anypony else does." Cathstar had another thought she couldn't let her heart rule her head because of being in a war, so she thought of going back to sleep for it might ease her mind a bit.

By the time she woke up, she was surrounded by her friends

"hey sleepy head how you feeling" Cathstar recognised that tomboyish deep girlie voice as Wolfgang's

"I'm feeling better wh... what happened" she responded while rubbing her eyes with a hoof

"you gave us a right good scare back there" Flash replied

"I never knew the dragons had that type of firepower... But I'm glad your ok" Wolfgang spoke after Flash.

Cathstar had rested in the medical quarters, her friends would always visit if they could, accept only one who was still traumatised from that day, but he managed to see her but was unable to look her in the eye

"hey" Cathstar responded, Sharpshot didn't say a word he couldn't even look her in the eye, Cathstar was confused why he wouldn't look or speak so she carefully turned to get out of the bed and put fore hooves around Sharpshot and hugged him.

Sharpshot pricked up and noticed Cathstar wasn't in the hospital bed and notice she was hugging him

"thank you for saving me" she said her voice muffled while still hugging the stallion, Sharpshot blushed as he saw the dark green mare hugging him

"who told you I saved you" he responded not returning the gesture yet, Cathstar's ears pricked up to hear the voice

"nurse Redheart said a dark mustard coloured stallion came in with me on his back" she responded, Sharpshot finally returned the gesture, Cathstar winced from the pain and they quickly separated from their embrace and he gently helped her back on the bed, and he slowly walked out but smiled back.

At the Crystal Empire; Princess Cadence was at the Spa getting ready to meet the Equestria games inspector and she also had a visit from Twilight Sparkle who was the foal she foalsitted and her friends who were going to help with the games inspector arriving, and Shining Armour was in the gymnasium training the crystal pony stallions and one of those stallions was the young colt Aiden Frostfire clash.

"COME ON GANG!!! ARE WE GONNA GALLOP OR ARE WE GONNA TROT!!!!" Shining Armour yelled as he walked towards Aiden,

"looking good out there I'm impressed" he said reassuring the young stallion, Aiden smiled

"you think so" "oh yeah if you weren't going to fight in this dragon war I could of signed you up for the royal guard recruitment" Aiden jump in joy in front of Shining Armour

"maybe if I survive this dragon war maybe I will be" he said gleefully.

"You've finished your exercises so why don't go check on how the Empire's looking" Shining spoke while his fore hoof was on Aiden's shoulder,

"ok" Aiden said with enthusiasm.

Aiden started trotting out of the gymnasium looking at the ponies cleaning keeping the Empire looking sparkly clean and tidy, as he trotted on the grounds all the ponies smiled and waved some even bowed since he was living with the Princess and the Prince also he still did his duty as Captain of the guard in Canterlot.

"Good morning young prince" one of the crystal ponies said to him, that was one thing that made him feel uncomfortable since he wasn't exactly Cadence and Shining Armour's son but they did love and care for him as if he was.

As Aiden finished checking how the Empire was looking, he noticed a orange earth pony with a Stetson looking like she was gasping for air, he then walked towards the spa to see what was going on, so he slowly peeped through the window and saw that purple unicorn and 5 other ponies, wait he saw those ponies in Canterlot castle when he went to deliver a message to Princess Celestia and Luna when he first came to Equestria, "they must be here to help with the games inspector arriving" he thought curiously, with his father Vanguard being half wolven-born which means he has good sense of smell and hearing.

Aiden could hear this Twilight Sparkle and her friends panicking and a white unicorn which looks like one of those Canterlot fobs he's seen during his visits with Cadence and mostly Shining Armour, who was scanning a scroll which was the instruction of a royal crystal mane style Cadence once told him about which never interested him, then 5 ponies came out of the spa except the white unicorn who was named Rarity as the other mares exited, Aiden went to go in but bumped into Twilight Sparkle again, he quickly got up and exceeded his hoof out

"I'm so sorry miss Sparkle" Twilight shook her and saw a light grey hoof in front of her, she looked up and gasped

"hey do I know you?" she asked, Aiden just stared in surprise and gently pulled her up and saluted and slowly walked into the building.

A crystal pony mare walked towards the door and bows at Aiden "young Prince" she said Aiden raised an eyebrow at the bow gesture, he then continued to walk towards Cadence "oh hi Aiden how was your morning exercise with Shining Armour... He didn't make you exercise too much" she said Aiden chuckled "ha too much exercise nothing to me... No need to worry I handled it like pro" he said boldly.

Candence giggled and wrapped her fore hooves around him to hug him, Aiden returned the gesture

"is there anything you want me to do" he said then he was interrupted by a very load engine noise, Cadence trotted out of the spa followed by Aiden and saw a helicopter that looked like it was heading towards the palace so they galloped to it.

Wolfgang was glancing down at the Crystal Empire, seeing how it sparkled in the sunlight

"were at the landing possession... Hold on to something" said the pilot, the ponies on board sat on the floor surface of the helicopter, as the pilot gently landed the massive aircraft behind the Crystal Palace.

Wolfgang and her team jumped off and were greeted by Princess Cadence and Shining Armour

"you must be captain Wolfgang" Cadence replied extended her hoof, Wolfgang extended her hoof and the two mares hoof shaked "it's a pleasure to meet you Princess Cadence" Wolfgang turned and saluted at Shining Armour

"it's pleasure to meet you too Shining Armour" she said as she saluted, and then she turned to Aiden

"you must be Aiden Frostfire clash... I've heard a lot about you from some Barrier Lands ponies who are in my army" she said.

Aiden's eyes widened with enthusiasm

"there's still Barrier Lands ponies around" he then paused when noticed Cathstar and Sharpshot

"wait... I know you two" Aiden responded his eyes still widened Cathstar walked towards the grown colt

"well well well look at you... the last I saw was when you tried to lasso with your magic and ended up tieing yourself up" Aiden turned red when Cathstar reminded him from that embarrassing moment.

Big Mac handed the armour to Wolfgang

"here's your armour... We'd better hurry the dragons don't mess around" she replied while levitating Aiden's armour in front of him

"you've got 10 minutes then we've got to go" she continued, Aiden stared at the armour with a hint of wonder and confusion, seeing how hi tech it was, so as he took it he went to his room in the Crystal Palace.

There he was all in his armour looking at himself in the mirror cringing thinking what it'll be like, and then a knock on the door startled him

"uh come in" he said after being distracted from his focus, the door opened and Princess Cadence walked in

"Aiden are you alright" she said walking towards him, Aiden murmured to himself and looked back at the mirror and then turned to Cadence

"I guess I'm just worried... I mean yeah sure I was born in a place where war and fighting is everywhere but knowing I'm actually gonna be fore filling what my parents used to do does frighten me a bit" he said looking concerned with a hint of worry.

Candence put a hoof around his shoulder

"I understand how you must be feeling but just like what you said it was born inside of you" Cadence said reassuringly, Aiden was in deep thought

"your right Cadence..." He then put his helmet on and with him being a recruit he didn't have the usually helmet that covered his face, this helmet was sat on his head with three open spaces for his horn and his ears and an extra accessory was the night vision goggles sitting on top of the helmet.

"How do I look" he said proudly, Cadence smiled

"like a handsome young soldier" she said still smiling and they both walked together back to captain Wolfgang's helicopter.

As Aiden saw captain Wolfgang standing in front of them Aiden saluted to her and she saluted back, as the rest of the team jumped back on the helicopter while Aiden was saying his goodbyes.

Shining Armour walked towards Aiden and hugged him and Aiden returned the gesture

"be brave just remember who you really are" he said while sniffling a bit as a bit of liquid pride began filling up in his eyes, Aiden then turned to Cadence and they both wrapped there fore hooves around each other in a hug

"I'll write every week" he said his voice sounding muffled while still hugging Cadence

"stay safe and if any Barrier Lands ponies are there and say anything in appropriate just think it was for a good thing" Cadence responded who broke there hugging gestures and put her left fore hoof on his cheek

"c.mon recruit Frostfire clash this war isn't going to fight itself!" Wolfgang yelled as loud as she could as the helicopter propeller and engine running, Aiden quickly turned around and jumped on to the helicopter and waved at the two ponies on the ground.

Wolfgang sat behind the group and took out a audio log recorder.

"This audio diary 6 captain Wolfgang Aiden Frostfire clash is part of the equestrian 101 taskforce army right now he's nervous but he's not scared we're on our way back to base and he'll be tested so me, Sargent Duskstar and Commander Skyline can find he's strengths and weaknesses, This audio diary 6 Wolfgang out"