Fallout Equestria: Moon's Blood

The Sun rises … but I would prefer he stays behind the horizon ...

The sun was a good thing, a symbol of a great power oldest than us … but also a sad memory from a ancient time when Equestria was a magnificent land of prosperity and friendship … and a time when some stupids governements decided to fight themselves and brights death and fel magic upon the fertiles lands of the world ..

For ponies who think Equestria is still a lovely land … then stay in your stable, keep your eyes closed, maybe kill yourself or accept the innaceptable, because all you have learn at school or you have read in one of some half-burned books from before the Great War is just what I was able to see under the rising sun's light : A desert of grey dust sometimes raised by the wind, where fel magic radiation, ruins, mutated beasts and groups of psychotic murderers were always present … And when it wasn't these horrors, it was slavers, bounty hunters or just the lack of food supplies.

Disappeared, the sweet grass from the fresh hay, Destroyed, the cute villages and lovely towns … Finished, the happy civilisation of Equestria, Fainted, the pride of yesteryear …

And today, we all suffer of their stupidity … their childish jealousy between them …

Now everypony from the stables calls "Goddesses" for the two who have doom their people, or rather their servants ... "Celestia protects, Luna defends" I learned at the school of my village ... Well ... I guess that disappearing and letting the Zebras shot balefire megaspell on your people, let them kill the survivors, it's well protecting ... And I guess that banish yourself on the moon to survive is well defending too ... But inside me, I was unable to hate or blame the princesses ...

I was walking with two slavers at my side, chains at my hooves, a horrible headache ... The princesses were not the cause of all of this ... I was ..

Be gone from my village was stupid: I was only twenty one year old, without guns, never gone at more than thirty meters from my home, alone and worst of all ... without food ... and cherry on the cake, I was a mare unable to fight ... and attack any beast from the wastelands in close combat was more a suicide than a real confrontation to survive ... So, two slavers with guns ... It was playing with my own life ... and my freedom if they decided to keep me alive ...  and I was thinking I was able to steal them some food ... And now ... I know I was just a retard and they decided to keep me alive ...

At the tip of the little road we were following, I seen a strange building ... a barricade … a pile of old vehicles, steel plates, wooden poles and other stuffs.

When we arrived at the door, a unicorn appear on the wall of scrap metal.

"Halt ! Who's there ?" he said as he pointed us with a machinegun.

The mare named Steel talked at first.

"It's Steel Mane and Bulletproof … We've got something for Wire ..."

The guard looked at me.

"Nice piece ! Alright then !"

The massive doors opened before us in a metal gear sound and the slavers pushed me into the town.

It was some strange place : Slaves were in spacious cages which looked like enclosures with in the center a roof of iron plates on four pillar which were rusty lamp posts. Some slaves were talking and other were lying under the roof. When I passed the door, every slaves in the enclosures looked at me, surprised. the slaves who were out of their jails were working in the town, pushing plows full of supplies: food, water containers, ammunitions, weapons, metal, rocks ...

My kidnappers and I were going at a big building which should be a old mayor's house.

The door opened, many ponies were checking old mosi paper and completing registers. we walked forward before being stopped by a guard.

"Sorry guys, Barbed Wire is pissed off … Stay back for your own security …" he said.

"Yeah yeah … like the one when it was because she didn't have sleep more than two hours in the same night …" sighed Bulletproof by passing the guard.

"But-" The guard was cutted.

"No worries, we've got a present for her …" said Steel Mane with calm as she pulled me to the door of the ancient mayor's office.

The room was large, and in the background was a big bed full of old pillows and between them was lying a earth mare. Her fur was grey as the dust from outdoor, the base of her mane was black, then purple and finally fuschia at the tip of her hair.

Her cutie mark was disturbing: a rusty horseshoes covered with blood and barbed wire twisted around it. The mare was looking pissed off and looked at my ravisher without real consideration.

"I hope you're not here to announce me a bad new ... because I'm a little angry and if nopony have something good to say, I think I'll launch you Windigo just to see how many of you incompetent are gonna die before I feel satisfied …" she said with calm.

At the word of Windigo, the slavers took a step back and gulped. It seen they feared "that".

"Well ... why don't you take time with him ? you know ... like .. everytime ..." asked Bulletproof with dread.

She looked at him with a unsympathetic look.

"Do you remember the raiders ?"

"Yes, Ma'am , why ?"

"Because they're back and they want to test us in a fight between their best fighters against our ... Windigo doesn't have teammate anymore and I don't want to risk any of my slavers, including you two … You know the stuff ... If we win, they shouldn't attack us and let us tranquil ... But if we lose, they're going to destroy the camp and do what they do better ..." She said slowly.

"Yes, I remember this stuff ... and I know what they will do ... Crush, Kill, Destroy, Rape ..." replied Bulletproof with a lazy tone.

"What a surprise, Barbed, We got a gift for ya !" said Steel Mane with a large smile "Look at what we have !"

Barbed Wire descended from her bed and began to turn around me.

"That's a cool piece you got there ... young ... don't looks hungry or sick ... interessant ..."

She stopped her eyes at my pipbuck.

"And you got a S.A.T.S ? ... Do you know how to use a piece of metal pipe, a hammer or something else ?" She asked me.

"Y-Yes, I guess" I answered with fear

She looked at me for a moment in any seams.

"Very well ... Put her in Windigo's room ... and for you two ... you have free time for two days ... bringing me this filly was exactly what I was needing." she said with a smile.

Steel Mane and Bulletproof were leading me to that Windigo ...

They were exchanging smiles, kisses and sweet words ...

Their couple could look cute ... If I wasn't having chain at my hooves.

Then we arrived at a big reinforced door of steel without guards.

Bulletproof opened the door and Steel Mane retrieved the chains, making me free before they close the door after me. I heard Steel Mane's moan at what Bulletproof said about what a beautiful night they were going to pass ...

Inside me, something told me it wasn't the same for me ...

I turned to the room and I see it: It was something like ... two heads taller than me and he was just ... sitting ... It looked like a pony, but the darkness in the room makes me impossible to distingue was kind of pony ... He was looking at the door, waiting for something, his eyes were low glowing with a bluish white light and he was wearing something at his right forehoof, but it wasn't a pipbuck … his fur was pale grey and his mane was white as dead … he got two black things on his back … but impossible to determine what it was ...

"Hum .. so you're Windigo, isn't it ?" I asked.

No physical or linguistic answer ...

He continued to look at the door, his eyes were whites like ... if he was blind.

But how a blind pony could be such feared ?

I looked around me and seen in the darkness a pile of pillows at a corner of the room. I lay myself on this soft thing and looked at him another time ... the fear of a stallions I didn't know was terrific, but this one was special ... I feared him and was interested by this strange pony at the same time.

Finally I was so tired that I began sleep while I was keeping an eye on him since twenty minutes ...

Mornings at home were sweets : Mom has always woke me up at 10 o'clock, then I ate a breakfast with some homemade bread and food from the Stable 13 ... Because my grand mother was from the Stable 13 ... elsewhere, our village was just a part of our town, because we had the Stable, where were born our grandparents and it was like a city underground : water cleaning, supplies creating, electricity production and houses …

Our village was located somewhere near to Hollow Shade's dead forests and empty caves …

Caves were perfect to build a Stable before the Great War …

Yeah .. It was a good village ... and this morning was just here to remember how I was stupid to go in the wastelands ...

The door opened and Barbed Wire entered, followed by two guards in armor of scrap metal.

She looked at me, then at Windigo, walked forward to him and stopped almost in contact with the muscular chest of the big livid stallion and began to pass her hooves around his neck, whispering something at his ears.

He didn't either made any linguistic or physical answer to her.

A guard coughed and she stopped.

"Oh ... yeah ... take her away .. I want to be alone with him ... You can play with her if you want but don't break it ... I need her for the raiders ..."

I looked at the guards who were smiling at me and my fear went to grow inside me.

As the first guard grabbed me, the terror was everywhere in my body.

What were they going to do with me ? I didn't want to believe or think about this !

"STOP ! NO ! LEAVE ME ! HELP !" I screamed, the fear and dread in each part of my voice and my heart.

I didn't realize what happens at this moment:

Windigo moved ... no ... jumped between me and the guards with a speed I've never seen. Sitted, he was tall, standing, he was giant !

The guards were just taller enough to his wither. And he was having wings ... wait ... he wasn't a usual pegasus, pegasi don't have leather made bat-wings with giants claws on it !

He was facing the two guards and roared loudly revealing his trenchant fangs and his eyes were exposing vertical pupils and amber irises...

I heard about Luna's guards, but books said they were just taller a bit than usual ponies, their fang were a little bigger, they were dark or blue colors and their wings were just bat-wings ..not bat-wings armed with claws on a white-grey beast tall as a bear with saber teeth !

"Leave the room !" screamed Barbed Wire at the guards.

"But -"

"Leave this fucking room NOW !!! THAT IS AN ORDER !!!" She shouted louder.

The guards took retreat as fast as their hooves were able to make them leave from the beast's room.

Windigo stayed at his place and seated before looking the door like nothing just happened ... his eyes started to glow again.

Barbed Wire Takes him in her forehooves.

"Sssh ... Everything's quiet ...Now calm down and be a good buck ..." She whispered sensually at his ears.

Ok ... The boss of the slavers was using this half-beast or mutant stallion as a ... I didn't have words for this .. maybe I got it : a sexual punching-ball... or she was really in love for him ... and this was strange because he wasn't reacting to her sensual touch and soft whispers ...

He was inactive like he was in coma ... but he just reacted at me when I screamed out ... He was really strange ...

She approached her lips from his and kissed him before she ... introduces her tongue in his mouth, trying to pass between the sharp teeth of her ... how to describe this relationship ? ... well ... her stallion ... I thought just kissing another pony was  disgusting ... but kissing a male with such carnivorous dentition was just unthinkable ... How was she able  to kiss him without cuts and how can she be in love ? Ok, he was strong, and his fur in the tip of his ears and his chest were a little attractive ... but his wings and his fangs made him a bit too exotic ...

"Wait ? Was I gauge his characteristics which could make him sexy at my eyes ?" I thought and asked to myself.

She was going to bend down when she remembered me, stopping her movement at the middle of the stallion's stomach ... She stood up in confusion, turned to the door and gone out from the room, closing the massive metal room behind her.

Oh, by talking about characteristics, I've forgot to introduce myself ...

My name was Red Sky .... but you already know that ...

I was just an unicorn mare with a yellow fur, brown mane with a bit of red in my neck, green eyes ...

My cutie mark was a gray horn with red lightning at each side. Nothing special ...

I think I've the time to talk about myself ... because I prefer you to know me before slavers send me with my new ... teammate in a pit against two raiders ... And I'm not sure he will fight to protect me this time ...

I knew it's gonna happen, Barbed Wire said it ... Raiders were going to bet on their champions ... and our death ... Twenty-one years old, and I was going to die with a Luna's guard descendant against raiders in a arena full of dust and blood ... And I didn't want to think about what a band of raiders was able to do at a fresh dead corpses of mares: me, slavers and slaves included ...

It was my life or their, and personally, I prefered mine ...

I suddenly heard agitation from outdoor : sadical laughs, screams, it was the raiders band ! Afterwards came shouts from slavers. Raiders became quieter.

The metal door opened and Steel Mane and Bulletproof entered with chains and attached it at Windigo's hooves and mine.

They pulled me first, we walked out from the jail and the building, moved to a strange hole digged in the ground. It was a circle with a roof made of rusty iron fence retained by chains. In the arena, walls of clay were reinforced with wooden plates and some beams of wood or steel. The public made of slavers and raiders was above this pit.

We were placed before a harrow, Windigo was at right, I was at left, no problem for the moment.

"Don't disappoint Wire ... If you loose and we survive to the raiders, you'll regret it ..." whispered Steel Mane at my ears.

She exited, letting my teammate and I alone.

The gate opened, and it was the same at the other side of the arena : two raiders appeared, the first, a unicorn, was levitating a wooden bat with bloody nails on it. And the second was using a notched meat cleaver.

They were looking at us like they were having a crazy hunger of sadistic murder.

They were gauging us ... I was probably the most easy to gauge: I was shaking of dread, and the sentence "It smells fear up here" made sense because my fear was like a cloud almost palpable.

I don't know how they saw Windigo's presence, but the one with knife focused on me.

How I knew it ? Maybe he just launched his cleaver at me !!!

I dodged the lethal object as fast I was able to do.

"Oh Dear Celestia, Why ?" I screamed inside me.

He turn to me, outgoing knives hanged on his armor.

Oh Dear Luna, he was really wanting to kill me and nopony else !

He galloped right on me, knives in his mouth. He tried to hit me with his blade but missed. I jumped, landing at the other side of the arena.

The other raider charged Windigo and hit him at the shoulder.

No reaction ... Only two solutions: Or he was in coma like I was thinking, or he was resilient like hell !

When the raider retrieve his weapon with surprise and misunderstanding, instead of red and hot blood, a black liquid looking like pitch came out from the wound.

I looked at the public: Raider where maniacally laughing and screaming, and slavers where silents or talking between them.

I saw Barbed Wire, sitted in a place just for her. She took something like a vocal recorder and discreetly turn it on, but I heard nothing.

"AAAARRGGGGHHHH !!" Screamed somepony in the arena.

It was Windigo : he was on the ground like writhing in agony, holding his ears under his hooves.

Now I was able to see the thing he was wearing at his right forehoof.

It was hard to see it while dodging the psychopathic who was trying to cut me into pieces of meat.

This thing was a piece of armor, dark, not only on the hoof, but from the elbow to the end of the leg. I was unable to see the details on it, but it looked gothic style.

His reaction surprised his aggressor and all the raider, unless the one who was trying to kill me ... obviously ... Goddesses, Fate loves Irony ...

I jumped, levitated the cleaver to me, then I returned to my enemy.

"It's time to fight, or to die ..." I thought as I waited he was at my range.

When he was close enough, I activated my S.A.T.S, or Sparkle Arcan Target System, and selected the raider.

The cleaver drew a circular movement, touched the target, but only did a little wound at his shoulder.

"RAAAAHHH !" roared the stallion at me.

Dammit ... I was pitiful with these weapons ... I was really better with a varmint rifle or a hoofgun

I heard a muffled scream from behind my enemy... Something was happening in the other fight.

Then the bloody corpse of the unicorn raider landed just next of me and my adversary.

He and I looked at his dead teammate, lying in the dust and blood.

"H-h ... He's right behind you !!" screamed the unicorn at his fellow with fear.

A giant shadow covered us, and the raider turned.

"HOLY MOTHERF-" he yelled before my partner grab him at the throat with his gauntlet.

Wait ... There was something around his neck ... metal claws ?

Celestia lick me ! It was really metal claws from the gauntlet which were catching the raider !

Windido was on his back legs, holding the raider in his metal claws.

I erased what I said about when he was on his four hooves ... Now, he was giant, looking more like a griffon with bat wings than as a pony.

The unicorn use a healing potion to heal himself and stood up in hurry, levitated his bat and took me  as a hostage, pulling is weapon under my neck.

"SURRENDER NOW YOU FREAK ! O-OR I'LL KILL HER !" shouted the unicorn at my teammate.

Windigo turned his head to him. I saw his eyes looking at me.

All my eyes were able to say was "Help me, I implore you !". Tears came at my eyelids.

He raised his right arm, raising the raider by the way, made a little shake to grab his victim at the chest.

He looked at the unicorn, his eyes burning of wrath and hatred. The raider in his metal claws was above him, trying to escape.

Windigo looked the unicorn in the eyes.

His mouth opened, showing his clenched teeth.

Suddenly, he lowered his ears and closed his claws on the ribcage of his prey, still watching the unicorn in the eye. The raider was sectioned in half. Blood splattered all around, and the smile he showed was a bad omen for the raider who was holding me.

The unicorn dropped me, and Windigo charged.

He jumped, opening his giant black leather wings and landed in front of the fleeing raider. The unicorn stopped ant tried to turn, but the bat pony harpooned his new prey with his wing's claws and pressed him against the ground, beginning to shred him with his teeth in a bloodbath.

Like a predator ... and the two raiders were his preys...

"So ? I hope you'll gonna run … because I'll lauch him at you if you're staying here in 30 seconds …" Said Barbed Wire at the rest of the raider gang.

Raiders looked at her.

"30 … 29 ..."

They all runned away and Barbed Wire looked at her guards.

"Ok, I want Windigo in my room and the mare in her jail, no aggression or violence on her ... I've a special reward for my gladiator and I don't want him trying to kill you ..." said Barbed Wire at Steel Mane and Bulletproof.

They came in the arena and put chains around our hooves again, Windigo wasn't in his coma usual condition, he just looked at the chain silently, then looked at me with interrogation in his stare. They pulled us before Barbed Wire's room and Bulletproof put him in without chains. Stellmane and I continued to my jail.

Steel Mane opened our team's jail.

"It was a good fight ... You were maybe too dodging to me ... but it was good. The other slavers have been amused and raiders are now fearing your team ... Take your night, you'll need it ..." She said as she was retrieving my chains slowly.

"And for Windigo ?" I asked.

"Don't worry, he'll take his night ..." She answered with a little smile.

"And for your two days ? Raiders and us just wasted it …"

She laughed a bit

"Don't worry about that too ... I think everypony's gonna take his night ..."

The day was ended ... and it wasn't so horrible ... even I was still a slave. And during all the night, I heard Barbed Wire moans loudly in the room next to mine ...

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Footnote: Level Up.

New Perk: Team gladiator (Lvl 1) – Your first fight in a team increase your teammate's damages and resistance and their presence makes your stats increases by +1 per teammate.