A face you'll never see

        “Ravvy….. Ravvvy!” I open my to see Ady waving her hands in front of me. I groan as I sit up and that’s when I notice how late it is.

        “Ugghh… Ady, what time is it?” I rub my eyes in an attempt to speed up the wake process.

“It 01130.” I shoot up and stare at Ady as I run towards my sniper spot.

“Why didn’t you wake me up earlier?!” I reach my spot and look through the scope to see if the target was in her room. Whew, she’s not there. I still have time. I look back to Ady grinning as I hatch the second part of my plan.

“Ady, is there a phone on the target or in her room?” I look back through my scope to try and spot one, but I find nothing.

“There is one on her person, but it will take some time since she’s so far away.” I nod as I watch Ady blink out of sight. I look to my watch to see the time, 01154. Almost time. I look back through my scope aiming down to street level. Not long after I see the target walk towards the castle with a tear stricken face.

“Ady, how’s that phone coming along.” I continue to follow the target as she leaves my sight and enters the building. I also see 5 other women walk towards the castle. Two of them were the ones I saw yesterday, and right next to them was Skittles. I look to the other two women, but stopped when I hear Ady beep in.

“I am connected to her phone, and I can also hear everything she says too.” I nod and look back through the scope and look into her room just as she enters with the other 5 women behind her.

“Ady call her phone. I want to have a little fun.” I grin like a mad man as I hear the ringing of the phone. I watch as the target pulls out her phone and answers.

“Hello?” I ready into firing position.

“Yes, is this Twilight Sparkle.” I see her clamp her hand on the phone and looks to the other women. I guess she put me on speakerphone because they all crowded around her.

“Yes. Who is this?” I grin as I look at the women.

“My names Raven. Perhaps you’ve heard of me.” I watch as the targets eyes go wide.

“What do you what? Where are you?”

“Oh you know, around. I just wanted to ask some thing princess.” I put a child like tone into the last few words.

“What is that?” I plant my finger on the trigger guard.

“I was wondering if you could ask your friends to move back, and don’t even think about putting up a barrier. You remember what happened last time don’t you?” I watch as the purple hue fades from her hands, and tells the others to back up.

“There, thats better. One last thing before I go. Nothing  is true. Everything is permitted, and you really need to close your windows more often.” I watch as she turns toward the window and widens her eyes. Her hand starts glow a purple hue as the windows take the same hue, but I never gave her the chance to close them. Time seemed to slow down as I pull the trigger watching her chest explode. I watch the life go out in her eyes while she fell to the ground. I could hear the screams from my spot. I watch the others rush towards her as I reach under and press the button to collapse my rifle. I turn around casting one last glance back as I start to run towards the train station.

I sigh as I grab my ticket for the train. I walk towards the train when I feel a hand on my shoulder. I look back to see a blue fist fly my way. Shit, no time to dodge. I feel the fist connect with my lower jaw sending me to the floor. I roll with the momentum heading towards the train, but again my face had an appointment with the ground. I look back to see a lasso around my feet. I activate my hidden blade cutting through the rope as if it was paper. I continue to run when I feel a chill go down my back. I look back to see a butter yellow devil chasing me. I look back running as if the devil himself was chasing me. (A/N I think he is. Heh heh) I see the train star to move down the tracks. I glance back over my shoulder to see the five women chasing me with a passion. Who the hell are these people?! I pump my legs harder as I see the train leave. I weave my way through the last few people as if I was air, but the women were not having such luck. When I was running I swear I felt something rip, but adrenaline really numbs any pain. Soon I near the end of the platform as the women were just getting past the people.

I jump aiming for a ladder but I land on the railing of the caboose. I feel something crack in my chest area but ignore it. I twist over the railing as gracefully as I could as I watch the other women reach the end. I watch as skittles takes a running start as she jumps into the air after me. She is really starting to piss me off! I flick my wrist readying my wristbow. I raise my right arm taking aim at her head, but the train hit a bump and rocked. My shot messed up as shot at skittles, but still landed a blow. She dropped like a stone in water. When she landed on the ground I saw my bolt sticking out of her wing. I smirk as the train starts to pick up speed leaving them behind. I turn back and open the door to see that I was in a storage cart. Well, it’s better than nothing. I climb to the top of a stack of boxes and slowly drift off to sleep while I ask Ady to alarm me if anything happens.

Rainbow’s P.O.V

I start to cry from the pain of the bolt in my wing, and from Twilight’s death. I open my eyes watching that smug bastard enter the train. I’m just lucky that trained rock or I would be dead too. I remember how he aimed the weapon at me so causally. He held his arm straight but relaxed. It felt like time had stopped when he aimed at me. When the train rocked and threw him off I thought that was my chance to get him, but I was so wrong.

I look down to see my blood start to form a small pool. I slowly drift off into unconsciousness knowing Twilight’s killer was still out there.

Raven’s P.O.V

        “Hey Ravvy, it’s time to get up sleepy head.” I open my eyes to see, yet again, Ady’s face looking down at me. I yawn as I sit up into a more comfortable position.

        “How much longer till we enter Stalliongrad?” I rub my eyes as I jump down from my position.

        “From my calculations. We are still 6.2 hours away from the city.” I nod while Ady blinks away again leaving me alone. I reach into an inside pocket of my cloak drawing out my rifle/cube. I activate the cube letting it morph into my rifle. I look over my rifle multiple times just trying to pass the time. I twist my rifle to try and look at a certain spot when a roaring pain comes from my ribs. I pull up my shirt to see a purple line going across my chest.

“Ady! I need you to do a-” I start to cough up a storm. I sit there coughing nonstop as Ady blinks to life.

“Ravvy are you ok?” I pull back my hand to see a red tint on my gloves. My eyes widen at the sight of the blood.

“I need you to scan my ribs to see if theres a puncture.” Ady’s eyes glow for a minute as she checks my ribs.

“Well, one of your ribs are broken, and came very close to puncturing your lung. Other than that you’re good.” I nod as I rest my head back on the crate while I activate the rifle. This is going to be the most boring six hours of my life.

I feel the train start to slow down as I beat Ady in chess with fruit as the pieces. I sigh as I stand using the boxes to help me. I open up the door to be hit with a snow filled air in the face. My face sure likes attention. I turn to look ahead of us, but I couldn’t see a thing.

“Ady, activate the face mask so I can see in this blizzard.” I hear a click as the mask slides on to my face, but instead of the normal hud I was meet with blue, red, and green colors.

“Damit Ady. Why am I seeing this?” I hear another buzzing sound and watched as the colors faded into darkness.

“Hold on give me a second. This is still a prototype you know.” I sigh as I stand there blinded by the stupid A.I. Soon the darkness fades away leaving golden brown hue on everything. I watch as the blizzard slowly fades from existence leaving behind a snow covered train station. I grab the railing and jump off, tucking into a ball and rolling forward on contact with the ground. After the roll my chest burst with a new fire of pain. I grab my chest as I rise and set off towards a good doctor.

With my broken rib walking half a mile feels like walking 10 miles with weights. I walk up to the doctor’s door knocking three times. I wait for a little bit before I hear a lock disengage from inside. I breath a sigh of relief when the doc shows his face. The doc was a middle aged griffon with a missing wing on his left side. He used to be a soldier before he became a doctor during the last war. I think he said it was about 15 years before I came here. It was a bloody war between the ponies and griffons. The ponies had magic and numbers, but the griffons had technology and tactics.

“Hey doc. I was wondering if you could patch me up.” I deactivate the face mask so he could see who I was. When the face mask was removed his face grew into a huge grin.

“Ahhh there is my good drinking buddy. What did you do this time.” His voice reminded me of a russian man from home.

“Broke one of my ribs.” He nod as he waves me inside. We walk through the doorway and were meet with the thick smell of vodka and herbs. I watch as he grabs a claw full of herbs and started to crush them while adding others to the mix.

“You know. Those stupid mages think that magic is the answer to injuries. That is a load of shit I tell you. You need to let the bones mend themselves or they never strengthen. Sure when they use their fancy magic to speed it up, but it just makes the bones weaker.” I only nod as the old soldier gives me a lecture. I remove my cloak and shirt as he finishes the remedy. He looks back to me and cringes.

“Sheesh, I can never get used to those scars of yours. I remember when a man came to me back in old time. He had a broken leg from jumping off a building. I remember laughing in his face as I put the bone back into place. Ahh those were good days.” I wave my hand in front of his eyes to try and catch his attention. His eyes come back into focus on me as he looks the purple mark on my chest. I feel him poke the sensitive skin with his claw in multiple places around the mark.

“Da, you’re lucky as usual. The rib is broken but no punctures. I can fix this with a homemade remedy.” I watch as he disappears into a different room to come out with a vial.

“Here, you drink remedy. It will help with process.” I nod as I pull the vial from his claw. I uncork the bottle to be meet with a minty smell. I pull the vial up and start to drink. At least it taste like it smells.

“Why are you beat up? You look like you took a great slug to the jaw.” I rub the sore spot on my chin.

“The person that hit me was weak, so it only left a mark. She really wasn’t that strong.”

Rainbow’s P.O.V

I feel a twinge go down my spine.

“My ‘somebody-is-testing-my-strength’ sense is tingling.”

Raven’s P.O.V

“Honey I’m home!” I shout out hoping Nyx heard me. I see her walk around the corner with a glare on her features, but soften when she sees me. Oh I’m so about to hate myself.

“Nyx, can I talk to you in the living room?” She nods as she turns around and heads towards the living room. I walk in behind her while she sits on the couch.

“I wanted to talk to you about the kiss before I left. Then after that I’ll tell you about the job.” Her expression turns to a confuse one.

“Look I know you enjoyed the kiss, so did I. I just think that this is going to fast. I still want you here, but I think we should get to know each other before we go that far again.” I watch as her expression dropped. I could also see tears forming in her eyes.

“Here, I have an idea.” She looks up to me hopefully.

“I’ll take you out on that date, but we go as friends. OK?” She nods. I smile as I stand up and head towards my room, but I stop in the hallway looking back into the living room.

“Hey.” I look as she watches me.

“You can take my room. I’ll sleep on the couch.” She looked a little restrained, but soon got and walked into my room. I walk back into the living room and lay on the couch.

“Ady, set the coffee please.” I hear a buzz come from my arm.

“I’m still in your arm stupid.” I groan as I rollover trying to get comfortable.

“Just wake me up then. I’m going to sleep.” I pull my hood father down as I drift off to sleep wondering about the date.