Shadow, Love and Pride

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No Regret, No Mercy

It was midnight. The moon was full, a perfect night to carry out an attack on the devil himself. The werewolf walked at a slow pace as he reached the gate of the slave camp. He felt the beach sand as his boots made deep footprints. Two goblins were on top of the high wood and steel walls.

“What the flying fuck? Is that a werewolf?” One of the guards caught a glimpse of the approaching wolf.

“COME OUT HERE RIGHT NOW!!!” Kido stopped and yelled at the camp.

“HEY JACKASS!!! GET OUT OF HERE!!!” The goblin yelled.

“I IMPLORE YOU TO RECONSIDER!!!”

“FUCK OFF BEFORE WE PUT AN ARROW IN YOUR HEAD!!!” Two more goblins appeared with bows aimed and ready.

“Must you follow the goblin stereotype and have such a foul mouth!?”

“FUCK OFF RIGHT NOW!!!”

“I'm here to release the slaves and to put an end to this operation! But if you wish to stop me, you'll need the entire camp for that!”

“THAT SO!?”

“Indeed!” Kido made a gesture with his hands and a serrated sword came out from both his gloves. “I'M ABOUT TO RIP YOUR FUCKING HEARTS OUT!!!”

ZZZ

A horn was heard from the main entrance of the camp. “That's the signal. We gotta go Spike!” Derpy said to her partner.

“Right!” Spike mounted Derpy and she quickly flew reaching for the port. She kept herself focused on the task she was handed, trying not to worry about her wolfboss. “You really think Kido can take on the whole base by himself?”

“He can only distract them for so long, he's counting on us to hurry with our part. But I know wolfboss, he's the strong, plus there's a full moon.”

“But he's already a werewolf, what effect does the moon have?”

“He told me once, that his strength and healing increases ten fold... but so does his rage.”

“That can't be good...” From the distance the duo heard an all too familiar roar and loud screams of pain and horror. “Glad he's on our side.”

They flew for a minute until they reached the port. One single large wooden ship was there. Derpy lowered her altitude to the point that she almost touched the sea water and flew slowly to be unheard. They watched as several shadows exited the ship, headed to aid the main gate.

“Fly to the back and we can sneak into the captains quarters and get the information Sarge wants.” Spike said. Derpy followed his suggestion, and headed for the rear of the ship. They came upon a large room with a large amount of windows. It had barely any light but they didn't notice any movement inside and they needed to hurry for their boss's sake. Derpy pulled open a window and silently landed inside the large gothic decorated room.

Spike jumped off Derpy's back. “I'll look over on this desk.” Spike headed to a desk with a large number of drawers. “Definitely has to be something here.”

“Uh Spike.” Derpy called out in a nervous voice.

“What?” Spike turned around from his task to encounter a frightful sight. A huge minotaur who had to hunch to even fit in the room had Derpy hostage, a scimitar sword to her neck. “ Seriously? How did he sneak up on you?”

“He came out of nowhere?” Derpy said anxiously.

“How the Fu...!?”

“Shut you fools! I be the Captain of this ship. I'm well aware of the weaknesses that come with my size, so I overcame them by watching reruns of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to be sneaky. Now who do you work for? Tell me or I'll slice this little one down to your size.” Said the minotaur.

Spike remained calm and remembered his training. So he began to weep and cry. “Please don't hurt us mister minotaur sir! We'll do anything! Anything! Please!”

The minotaur began to laugh. “A spy that's a coward, no surprise there. To be honest I felt sending my sailors to help with the attack on the camp a rash decision, but spies aren't soldiers, no threat to me.” He laughed again. He loosened his grip on Derpy and lifted his head laughing, exposing his neck. An opening.

Spike thought fast reaching for his belt and in less than a second threw two knives at the minotaurs neck. Perfect shots. As big and strong as the minotaur was, blood was now barely reaching his brain. Derpy was able to escape and walked to Spikes side. “I'm no Spy. I'm Private Spike of the Royal Guard. I got your Carotid Artery just as my master taught me to do.” The minotaur started choking on his own blood falling to his knees. Spike walked towards him. “Are there any slaves on the ship? And where are the shipping and cargo manifest? Tell me and I won't let you continue to suffer.”

“No slaves...All... At camp... Desk... black... envelop.” The minotaur fought through the pain to speak.

Spike drew another knife from his belt. And climbed the creatures enormous body to be at the his throat. “Find peace in the next life. And know that I'm truly sorry.” Spike then slashed the minotaurs throat, thus ending his pain. Spike jumped off him before the massive body hit the floor. Spike stayed silent looking down at his victim. Derpy approached his blood drenched friend and place a hoof on his back.

“I'm sorry you had to do that Spike.” Derpy said.

“He wouldn't have hesitated to take our lives. I had no choice.” Spike didn't move.

“I know it still wasn't easy for you.”

“Let's just blow this damn place up. I'll pray for my soul later.”

“Got the bombs right here.” Derpy giggled in an attempt to cheer up Spike as she showed him three small boxes from her back pack.

ZZZ

Ten minutes earlier.

A horn was heard from the main entrance of the camp. “Let's do this.” Applejack said to her partner.

“Hang on.” Bellz said as she grabbed Applejack around her chest to fly over the fence.

“Now how are we suppose to find the building with the slaves?”

“The one that looks like a prison to keep them in.” Bellz got more altitude to give a quick look at the entire camp. “Over there, the big one with the steel bars on the windows.”

“Let's do it.”

““WULD NAH KEST!!!”

“What...?” In an instant Applejack found herself in front of a window with steel bars. “Well that was useful?”

“Yep. Can you kick it in or you want me to do it?”

“Turn me around.” Bellz did and with a strong kick with her back legs, two of the metal bars flew inside. “Think that got that their attention?” They heard a loud roar and the screams of goblins and minotaurs panicking in horror.

“I think they got their hands full with a rampaging werewolf on a full moon.” She sniffed the air. “I can smell blood and fear.”

“Kido kept his promise I guess. Let's go.” Bellz pushed Applejack inside, she followed next.

“They're definitely here.”

“Did you know any of the ponies that disappeared?”

“No. But I smell fear coming from further in. The lower levels. Some guards, nothing we can't handle.”

They made their way through the hall. They managed to find stairs. They were now in the first floor of the building. It was dark except for a few torches on the walls. They kept walking at a fast pace.

“You can see in the dark right?” Applejack asked in a whisper.

“That's a misunderstanding. I don't see in the dark with my eyes. I use my ears when I emit a loud sound that bounces back and I interpret the vibrations. But I can't do that now, might alert the guards so I'm just using good ol' sense of direction.” Bellz whispered back.

“Speaking of loud sounds. Why can't you just knock all the guards out using your shouting like back when you attacked Ponyville?”

“Boss didn't want to hurt the slaves.” Bellz stopped. “The stairs to the basement, get ready, guards or worse down here.”

“Worse?”

“Torturers or as they like to call themselves in this situation, Slave Trainers. This isn't just a shipping camp, it's also a Training Facility, a sick one.”

“How do you know so much about this place?”

“I never did it. But the way my previous family made money was by offering protection to places like this.”

“What!?” Applejack tried to keep her voice down.

“No time for that now.” With that, Bellz made her way down the stairs into what could only be described as a cave. “I smell blood. Here grab onto my pack, my nose will lead us.”

They slowly walked through the cave, Bellz sniffing the entire way. When they heard a far away explosion.

“Good job guys. Can't believe those two turned out to be good soldiers.”

“Are you kidding? Boss had us read a book called “The Art of War” almost every day.” Bellz stopped and reached out with her right hand and touched a wooden door. “This is it.”

They both got ready for a fight. But when Bellz pushed open the door they couldn't move, only stare in horror at what they saw inside. Applejack bared her teeth in rage and yelled.

“I'M GONNA MAKE CIDER OUT OF ALL OF YA!!!”