The story of the sentinel part one

"Explain all of this? Well we're do I begin." Lightning said.

After the griffon had attack the group went inside the crystal empire for some relaxation. (They were sitting at a round crystal table) And if anyone needed relaxation it was Cadence. Mostly because she was brought back to life! Celestia had a large ice pack on her chest where a lightning bolt had struck her. Then there was Flash, he was the one that took the most damage. He cuts and bruises everywhere, his body was beaten, his left eye swollen, and he was covered in dirt and ruble.

"Ssss, ahh that stings." Flash hissed as Twilight put an ice pack on his wounds.

"Oh be still." Twilight said. "It only stings because it's working."

"Why don't you start at the beginning." Shining told them, now putting all of his attention on Lightning.

"The beginning huh, well it all started somewhere between

ten-thousand or twenty-thousand years ago. A time when there was no princesses, no government, nothing. A time when the griffons ruled the world. It was a awful time, but then a pony known as- well, it's been so long I don't even remember his name. But he created a group known as the sentinel. A highly trained group of soldiers. With the group the sentinels were a combination of ponies and griffons that did not agree with the way things were. Since then the sentinel order kept the globe safe from anything that dared to attack our world. During that time their were 100,000 sentinels. But over time, the sentinel order was on the bring of collapsing. When nightmare moon fist appeared the order collapsed. When it did all sentinels either went into hiding or died. Flash's father was a sentinel, Soarin's mother was a sentinel, and my father was a sentinel. When we were all four years old, our family trained us technics that the sentinel learned." Lightning explained.

"I have heard of such soldiers, but never before have I seen them!" Said Luna

"Okay, so that's the history behind that story, so next question. HOW THE BUCK DID YOU CONTROL LIGHTNING!" Yelled Shining Armor.

"I can control it because it's a technic that we know. It's the entire reason our cutie marks have a lightning bolt." Lightning said showing everyone his cutie mark. "See, my cutie mark is two crossed swords and a lightning bolt down the middle. I got it when Flash, Soarin, and I were battling a hydra.

Flashback.

It was a clear sunny day on a hill near a forest, Soarin, Flash, and Lightning (who are now 10) were playing soccer. They stopped playing when they heard a scream. Flash was the first to react to the scream, but doing so the ball hit him on the head.

"Hey Flash what gives, that pass was right to you." Soarin proclaimed.

Flash got up and looked towards the forest. "Guys I think somepony might be in trouble." He said still looking at the forest. Lightning just rolled his eyes.

"Come on Flash, we both know you were daydreaming, just admit it and let's get back to the game."

Just then another scream was heard, this one louder than before.

"There did you hear that?" Flash said pointing a hoof at the forest.

"Well I definitely heard something, but it could just be-." Lightning was cut off by the sound of an angry beast yelling at the top of its lungs.

"ROARRRR!!"

It's roar echoed through the forest causing birds to take flight up into the air. Flash shot a annoyed look at his two cousins who had a shocked look on their face.

"well I definitely heard that, so maybe we should go check it out." Lightning said still surprised. And with that they all flew towards the sound. When they got to the source they saw a little girl cornered to a rock, and a hungry looking hydra closing in on her.

"Hey leave her alone you." Yelled Soarin as he was about to just fly straight at the hydra and start attacking it. Luckily Lightning was there to hold him back.

"Hold it Soarin let's not go fighting this thing without a plan." Said Lightning.

"And what might you have in mind?" Asked Flash.

"Simple, Soarin and I will distract the hydra, while you rescue the girl."

They all agreed at the plan and put the plan into motion. The plan began when lightning and Soarin bucked the two heads on the edge. The hydra roared in pain, and swatted the two guys out of sky. The hydra then moved his attention to his prey that was no escaping.

"Don't worry, I'm gonna get you out of here." Flash said Calmly to the terrified filly. When Flash heard the hydra roar he looked behind him to see it charging straight at him. But Flash stood his ground, he flared out his wings and was ready to take the charging hydra. But suddenly out of nowhere a yellow lightning bolt struck Flash. He had closed his eyes tightly, when he opened them he saw the hydra rear back in pain. He saw that one of the heads had been burned off. But he had no idea how it happened. When the hydra was done roaring it was now angry, very angry. He started to charge Flash but halted when Soarin began to fly around the hydra. Fast, so fast that a tornado started to form around the hydra. But it didn't halt the hydra for long, soon it started to move towards Flash, slowly.

"No!" Soarin yelled. "You will not hurt my cousin!"

When he finished that sentence a blue lightning bolt came out of nowhere and started bouncing around in the tornado. After a couple of bounces the lightning bolt finally struck another one of the hydra's heads. It lashed out in pain at Soarin. The hydra then smacked Soarin sending him flying towards Flash. The two crashed into each other, hitting the wall of the rock on impact. They lied on each other in daze as they looked at the closing in hydra. It had only one head now since the other two were cut off. Just then as the hydra was about to eat the three ponies in front of him, lightning strike flew in front of the hydra's face and bucked him right in the face. The hydra wasn't hurt by the attack, it was more annoyed by it than harmed. It growled at the Pegasus that just bucked him. He flew in place glaring at the hydra.

"You listen here you over grown lizard. These two here are my family. And their the only family I have left. So I'll be darned if I'm gonna let anything happen to them!" He yelled at the hydra. Lightning was know for his stubbornness. When his family was in danger he would risk his own life for them.

He reared up his ready to punch the hydra, who was now lunging himself at Lightning. As Lightning threw his punch a red lightning bold, struck his hoof as he laid down the punch. A large explosion filled the air. Dust and smoke everywhere. As it started to clear the body of the hydra started to fall backwards. As it hit the ground more dust and ruble was stirred up. The hydra had all of its heads blown off, six trees knocked down, and a terrified filly.

Lightning flew to the ground to help the filly. But she was nowhere to be seen.

"She must have ran off." Soarin proclaimed.

"Then we should go find her." Flash replied.

The three flew off to find the little filly. Little did they know that she had dove into a bush a few feet away. She looked at the dead hydra and smiled. Then she disappeared.

End of Flashback.

"We search all over the forest trying to find the filly but we never found her." Lightning said finishing the story.

"So now we know how you guys control lightning, but how come that griffon could control lightning?" Shinning Armor asked.

"Well, that brings us to the story of the gauntlets." Lightning said.

" you see back then a sentinel wanted to achieve the power that the first sentinel had. But he was not capable of achieving such power, so he created the four gauntlets. Each one had the power of each lightning, Red the lightning of mind, Blue the lightning of speed, yellow the lightning strength, and green the lightning of magic.

(Not to be confused with the element magic from the elements of Harmony, different magic okay.)

He forged four gauntlets, each able to harness each lightning. But when the first sentinel caught wind of this he and five other sentinels went to stop him.

Flashback

As the sole started to clear from the cooled off gauntlets the sentinel picked two of them up and placed the blue one on his right foreleg, placed the red one on his left foreleg, placed the green one on his right backleg, and placed the yellow on his left backleg. As soon as all four were attached to him they started to glow in unison. The sentinel smiled in triumph.

Just then the door to his factory was busted open and five sentinels wearing gold armor that covered their entire body's rushed in, surrounding the sentinel with the gauntlets. Once he was surrounded the leader sentinel walked in.

"What is the meaning of this?!" Demanded the sentinel with gauntlets.

"I have caught word that you have created four gauntlets that have the power to harness all forms of lightning. Is this correct?" Asked the head sentinel.

"Yes I have, headmaster." He said confidently showing off his new gear. "And I must say that with these we might all become as powerful as you."

"Just as I feared. Sentinels seize him!"

The sentinel guards started to close in on the gauntlet welding sentinel. Their spears pointing directly at him.

"What why, I have something that can put us to the maximum limit there is. Why are you attacking me?!" The sentinel demanded.

"Because you can't just rely on one thing to achieve victory." The head sentinel replied.

But the sentinel wouldn't go down without a fight. He leaped into the air and crashed down, causing a shock wave of yellow lighting to activate on the impact. The shock was so large it threw all of the guards at the wall, knocking them out. Even the headmaster was knocked back by the impact, sending him flying outside. But the headmaster was quick to his hooves. He quickly got up and put on his fight stance. As the sentinel ran out of his house, he fired a green lightning bolt at the  headmaster. He returned the attack by firing his own green lightning bolt, his eyes turning green in the process. The two lightning bolts collided and collapsed on each other on impact, causing a small boom to erupt. The headmaster looked at the sentinel, his blue gauntlet started to glow, and suddenly he was gone.

The headmasters eyes started to glow blue. Then suddenly everything just slowed down. Everything except the sentinel who was was flying away. Even though he had no wings. As if gravity had no effect the headmaster took off chasing after the sentinel. It took him some time but he managed to catch up to the sentinel. Once he did he tackled the sentinel causing the both of them to loose their blue glow. As they tumbled on the ground the headmaster quickly got up. The sentinel wasn't fast enough. The headmaster took advantage of this and struck the sentinel in the head.

The sentinel flew through the air and hit a tree on impacted. The headmaster walked up to the sentinel and took off all four of the gauntlets. His eyes glowed blue and he was gone. He then flew to the temple where the meeting area was. On arriving he startled a worker who was dusting the temple.

"Gahhh." Yelled the startled mare, full of startleness.

But her look quickly went from startled to worried.

"Headmaster are you okay?"

The headmaster looked at the mare and smiled. She was a grey Pegasus, with blue hair, and cyan eyes.

"I'm fine duster." The headmaster said, hopefully  reassuring the mare. But she wasn't buying it.

"Your not fine. Your wounds aren't regenerating, you look beaten up, and what are you holding?"

The Headmaster liked duster, she was a very good friend to him, one of his best.

"So whatcha got there?" She asked pointing a hoof at the gauntlets the headmaster held. He then remembered why he came to the temple in the first place.

"Duster, go get my elite guards and tell them to capture a criminal near the woods, then after you've done that, I need you to destroy this gauntlets." He said giving the gauntlets to duster. She nodded in agreement and left. When she was gone, the headmaster walked to a shrine that had nothing but drawings and candles in a circle. He sat down and began to drift asleep.

After some time he was awoken by his friend rushing through the door, panting.

"Duster are you alright?" He asked his friend.

She cleared her throat and spoke,

"The guards went to look for the sentinel you described but he wasn't there. Also I tried to destroy these gauntlets but I couldn't, I'm sorry headmaster I failed you." Her head hung low in shame and sadness. The headmaster laid a hoof on her shoulder and lifted her chin.

"No you didn't fail me, I knew that this sentinel made the gauntlets out if black steel, I just needed to sure. Duster change of plans. I need you to hide these gauntlets somewhere they will not be found."

Duster nodded and trotted off. Thinking of the last place to find the gauntlets.

"Those gauntlets are very powerful, we all saw what he did white just one, he can't get the other three, if he does we won't be able to stop him." Lightning said.

Flash let out some winces as his cuts and bruises suddenly started to disappear.

"I agree with lightning if this griffon wishes to kill us with these gauntlets then we shall take the fight to him." She said.

"Don't worry Luna, with the elements of Harmony we'll defeat this griffon." Twilight proclaimed but Lightning stopped her.

"I'm afraid that the elements will do nothing to this griffon Princess Twilight, you see he is using sentinel magic, which is a completely different magic than yours. I'm sorry but I must ask you to stay away from this griffon."

The main six were a bit sadden by this news.

"So what are we just supposed to just sit here and do nothing?!" Rainbow yelled.

"Yes that's exactly what he's saying. Now then back to business, how do we stop this guy?" Shining asked.

"Well Bloodwing, which is a terrible nickname by the way, needs two  gauntlets if he wants to attack us. So all we need to do is just get one of these gauntlets to foil his plans. With only one gauntlet his energy is limited, and considering how much of it he used earlier, I'd say he's running in fume's." Lightning said.

"My question is why would he come here?" Cadence asked weakly.

"CADENCE! Dear you need to rest, your not well." Shining said.

"I'm fine shining, really, but Lightning can you please answer my question?" She asked

"My biggest guess is one of the gauntlets are hidden here. If so we need to find it before Bloodwing gets his hooves on it, er...claws, technically speaking." Lightning replied.

"Great, by tomorrow we search for this gauntlet." Shining said.

It was late at the time so everyone left to head for bed. As Lightning headed to his room, Shining Armor walked up to him and asked him a question,

"Hey...Lightning right?" Shining Armor asked, lightning nodded a yes. "Okay, anyways...when you healed Cadence-." Lightning covered Shining's mouth with his hoof, and shushed him.

"Shining I know what your about to ask and I'll tell you that they are both fine." Lightning said.

Shining let out a sigh of relief "few, thank goodnes-, did you just say 'THEY'." Shining said his eyes widen.

"Whoops, I've said to much. Oh hey look it's my room, gottago." Lightning said quickly rushing into his room and locking the door. He made a sigh of relief when he heard hoof-steps start to fade away.

"Few, dogged that bullet." Lightning said out-loud. He then collapsed on the bed and immediately fell asleep.