Frontline

It was a dark lonely night as I walked down the ruff moonlit road. The soft breeze ruffled through my loose shaggy mane along with the trees and plants around me, my dagger, sword, arrows and bow jangled loosely with each step I took. As I reached the end of the road my eyes found an old wooden sign stuck in the ground that said Ponyville. With a small smirk I reached in my bags and pulled out a stop watch and started it.

"Time to see how long I can stay here." I said to myself as I put the watch back. After I had everything put up I walked over to a near by tree and lay down. But before I went to sleep I pulled out a picture of a small yellow filly with a pink mane. I gently kissed the photo and held it close against my chest.

"I'm sorry sis"

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I slowly woke as the sun's rays hit my face. Groggily I sat up and popped my back. I looked down at the picture lying beside my makeshift bed. I pick it up and put it in my bag. After picking up my bags and putting on a cloak I had in them to hide my small armory, I set off towards the town.

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As I enter the town I regretted it immediately. First I was almost run over by an orange filly on a scooter, then an anvil falls from the sky and almost killed me, and then if I wasn't fluster enough I was ambushed by a bright pink mare who could talk I swear a mile a second. And she talked a lot! Yet I some how manage to keep walking forward toward the Everfree. I was almost to the border of town when I was suddenly hit a beam of velvet magic that sent me flying to a wall of a building. It also knocked my cloak off revealing my arsenal as I pulled myself from the rapid hoof steps and feminine voice coming toward me.

"Oh I'm sooo sorry I hope I didn't hurt y.o...u..." only to trail off when she saw what I was carrying.

I didn't give her time to recover from the shock of seeing a nonmilitary pony armed before I bolted for the tree line. For once luck was with me that day and I made it in to the forest before anything else happened. As I sprinted deeper in to the forest I began to slow down. When I finale stopped I was in a clearing with a cliff face at one end and a small pool and stream at the other. In the cliff there was a small cave opening.

'Well this my lucky day I guess.' I thought as walked into the caves to look around. In the cave there was three rooms, one in the front where you walk in and two in back that branched out to each side. I sighed and set my things down on the floor of the cave.

"Well Frontline, welcome home," I said as I lay down next my, "for now that is."

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Fluttershy's P.O.V.

[later that evening]

I hummed softly as I walked down the dirt road toward the library. Listening all the while to the evening birds as they sang their pretty songs. This was the perfect evening to sit and relax, yet Twilight needed us for something.

' I wonder why Twilight needs us' I thought as I got closer to the tree house. As walked though the door I saw everyone gathered around a table in the center of the room. Twilight was at head while everyone else was on the sides as soon as she saw me she smiled and started talking.

"Good, now that every one is here can start," I heard her say as I sat down," now to why I asked you to come here." She looked around when she finished her sentence then a serious look grew on her face before continuing  "I fear there is a mercenary in Ponyville."

At those words my heart along with everyone else's dropped into my stomach.