The Assassin's Creed

"Everypony follow me! I may be onto something!" I yelled to my friends, for the clashing of swords makes my words drown out. After shooting the berserk dart at the Brute, he still hasn't seemed to have died yet. Perhaps his vitals are enhanced or my berserk dart is too weak against him. Either way, it still works to my advantage.

I ran back the way I came from and when I reached the castle entrance, three ponies dropped down in front of me. By instinct, I drew my hidden blades and tried to kill one of them but they knew what I was going to do, so they twisted my wrist and threw my back.

I groaned a bit in pain. I flexed my wrists a bit and drew my sword, holding a defensive position. "Who are you? You want my friends? You have to get through me first." I said, challenging them a bit which potentially was a mistake as one of the ponies there launched at me and pinned me to the ground, revealing his hidden blade just inches before my throat.

I didn't let him get me pinned down, I quickly rolled backwards, drew my hidden blade and sliced his leg. Or at least I thought she was a male. She let out a blood-curling scream in pain and I quickly ended her life by a stab in the throat.

Grabbing my sword again, I came in a defensive position again. "Anypony else want a feel of my blade? I may not know who you are, but I will not hesitate in killing you if you come near me or my friends. I'm not letting you get to them again!" I stood my ground, the silence, growing by the minute. "Well Ray... since you asked... we are old, friends should I say." a pony said.

"I know my friends but I don't know you. Real friends would not capture my new friends and let another nearly kill me. I don't know you, and if we ever were friends, I don't think it would have worked out." I stated.

"You've grown too soft Ray, this is not what the brotherhood accepts, friendship, pathetic. You are not one of us, you are nothing like us, we are not your brothers or your friends. But you can redeem yourself, I am giving you a chance, you can leave them and join us again. Or you can stay with them and forever be a deplorable pony to our kind." he said, giving me a choice, leave my friends and rejoin the Creed, or, stay with my friends and be forgotten. The answer was easy.

"Thank you for letting me redeem myself." I said as I walked over to him. I heard gasps behind me as I approached the mysterious pony. My hidden blade entered his chest with ease and I shot the other hidden blade into his friend's skull. The aftermath was bloody, but my previous fights have gotten me used to it.

This was the reason why I left the Creed in the first place, I was becoming a murderer, a killer, and it's happening to me again. Is it my destiny to become what I am now? Or is this what I have to prevent?

Why do these problems always come back to me somehow. It seems I cannot run from it.

I turned to see my friends looking a bit shocked but shook it off with relative ease.

"I would really hate to mess with this guy." I heard Rainbow Dash whisper to somepony. "Well I would not want to mess with anypony." I heard Fluttershy say. "Y'all know that he can hear ya right?" Applejack said out loud.

I could tell the question that was in all their minds was how I know how to fight like this and how I could go through this. They still don't know that I'm an Assassin, I'd prefer the question what I do for my work to be left unsolved. But my fighting techniques are exactly like the Assassins I face, just that I'm more better than them. They'll but two and two together and hopefully, this won't affect too much of our friendship.

I feel like I'm losing my human counterpart everyday as time goes by, I need to find out what happened to me and why this happened. But, this predicament could be easily solved by killing myself.

Do I really want that though? I never had friends back in Boston or New York. It may have been a time of rough days but I think I would have found some sort of friends. But my friends were never friends, they either were just people pretending to be friends to kill me or to get information out of me. I learned not to trust anyone but this issue seems to be diminishing in this place.

"Oh no, what would Princess Celestia and Princess Luna think about this?" Twilight asked to herself.

Princess Celestia and Princess Luna? Who is that? So we have more than one princess? That doesn't make much sense but I guess this isn't my world so things would prove to be different.

"Twilight, if you don't mind me asking you this, who is this, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna? Is it not strange that there are more than one princess? If there are members of royalty here, are there kings and queens here?" I ask.

"Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were, well, still are the main rulers of Equestria. They have their own part, Princess Celestia is in charge of the rising and setting of the sun while Princess Luna is in charge of the rising and setting of the moon. I am just the Princess of Friendship, I spread the Magic of Friendship across Equestria. Now my old foal-sitter, Princess Cadance is in charge of spreading the Magic of Love throughout Equestria. Princess Celestia and Luna pretty much are the rulers of Equestria and Princess Cadance is the ruler of the Crystal Empire, alongside my brother, Shining Armor. I was once her student until I turned into a Princess." Twilight explained her face expressing pride and sadness. It has been a long time since I had a teacher, along with a regular life too.

"Do you know anything that may have triggered this unfortunate event of you being captured? Anything very important about you all? Besides you all being the Princess' friends." I asked.

"Well, we are the Elements of Harmony if you hadn't heard." Twilight said.

"I'm sorry, the Elements of Harmony? I have never heard of them. In my world we never had these Elements of Harmony, we could not depend on anything but ourselves and our allies."

"The Elements of Harmony are six artifacts that were bound to us when we received them. They are powerful artifacts that only we can use but don't know much about. We do know that it can cleanse a pony from evil, due to Nightmare Moon." Twilight stated.

"I think I may have heard enough Twilight, thank you." I said. "Nightmare Moon? Not important right now." I muttered to myself.

I let this process through my mind for a second as I walked across the floor to the door and the last thing I remember? Reaching the castle door and hearing a loud bang along with the door slamming into me, making me slide across the floor. Should have been more vigilant. I remember some shouting from the door and shouting from Twilight or somepony else, before I went unconscious.