Revenge. That is all that I want. Sweet and delicious revenge served on a silver platter. It's been four years since my clan, my friends, my home and my family was destroyed by an old friend WHO BETRAYED ME!. His betrayal will not be forgotten, will not go unnoticed, WILL NOT GO UNPUNSIHED!!. He will be hunted, he will be found and when I do find him... I will KILL him. Slowly and painfully, just like he did to me and how he laughed at my loss. How he laughed at the loss of my friends, my family, my love one... HE WILL NOT GO UNPUNSIHED!!! Why did it took four years!? The sneaky bugger hidden himself quite well for a coward and kin-slayer. I'll give him some credit by letting him know that he fail that quite well. How did I find him? With 'persuasion' and 'deals' to his kind, it very easy to get information on the traitor you want by saying simple words and doing simple actions. Getting the information from one of his friend was easy:
It was night time, around midnight as the moon was high in the sky. I was merely waking towards my destination for the information I was promised by one Mr Filthy Rich. His name itself is one I don't want to be friend with, sound like the type of guy who would sell you to slavery for a bag of gold. But that is why I am going to him. Like I said before he would sell you to slavery for a bag of gold, so he'll sell out one of his clients for a bag of gold. His letter gave little info on where he'll be:
Meet me at Hotel Gold in Star Village
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But it wasn't impossible to find. This Star Village was smaller them my clan. The only thing that is worth viewing it was Hotel Gold. As the name says, it was made in gold but not a lot. It was built by someone called Gold-Shoe. I wouldn't go into much of him but apparently he built it in memory of his father. Honourable and worthy to give to one family member I'll give him that, but I'm here for information from Filthy Rich about my kin-slayer.
I enter the main enter while my hood covered my face, luckily the local thought that I was a minotaur traveller thanks to size and my body shape. I reached to the register where a small Earth pony mare with a green coat and yellow mane that was tied up in the back of her head. She looked at me. Eyes filled with dread from the very sight of me.
"Wel...Welcome to Ho..Hotel Gold" She whispered in fright "H...How may I help?"
"I'm looking for a Filthy Rich" I answered with no care of her fear towards me, I needed answers and needed it from Filthy Rich's mouth "He said that he'll be at Hotel Gold, which room is he using?" I placed my hand on her desk to show her my ebony gauntlet. I was wearing my ebony light armour under my robes, you can guess what that would looked like to the local to see a creature they have never been seen before, entering the hotel wearing armour. It would of started a panic and I don't what to blow my cover. She then slowly looked towards her papers and started to look through them to see if there is a Filthy Rich in the hotel, she sometime looked at me which I looked at her threw my mask that covered my face, only my soul piercing eyes can be see threw it.
"He...He's in ro...room seven" She whispered again as she pointed with her shaking hoof to the right. I merely looked where she was pointing and walked toward it, not even said thank you to her, I was in no mood to be...nice. There were four doors with different numbers but I was set in my goals. The door on the far left was marked seven. I entered without knocking on the door to tell my 'client' that I am here. Rude arrival?...Nah, there is no such thing when you are on a quest of revenge.
Inside of the room was nothing out of the blue. Small room with two chairs, one table, a bathroom and a double bed. There was a view of the whole village and what looked like food on the table, just fresh. Sitting on the chair on the left was my client; Filthy Rich.
He was a Earth pony like the mare. He has a brownish colour coat and black mane that looked polished. He had light blue eyes and wore a business suit around his neck with a strange symbol on his tie, my clan didn't used what they call 'bits', we didn't needed it for the land we lived on held the food and shelters we need. The last thing that he had was one of those cutie mark that has three money bags the represent his love for money. These creatures and their love for gold begs. The very thing the kin-slayer wanted for the lives of many and destruction of my entire clan!
"Ah welcome" came the voice of Filthy Rich. "You must be the one who is searching the location of one of my clients, please have a chair" His warm welcome was notice but not credited. I know what he wants and I know how to make him talk straight to me. However I played along as I walked to the chair on the right side of the table and sat down, facing towards Filthy Rich. He took a sip of wine from his tall fancy glass, he looked stupid to say the least.
"I'm looking for the one called Crown Wing" I once again asked bluntly but with a hint of anger at name of my prey "Do you know where he is?"
"Crown Wing, Crown Wing" Filthy Rich whispered to himself as he rubbed his chin with his hoof like he was trying to remember my prey's name. Of coursed he knew his name, he only doing this to get me to pay him for the info. "His name is familiar, is his a minotaur like you?" He asked. I was laughing inside, for he too thought that I was a minotaur like the rest and here I thought that he would be smart enough to know the different between my kind and theirs.
"No" I answered "I'm not a minotaur and no, Crown Wing is not one too, he is a Pegasus." I rested my back against the chair and put my right leg over my left leg as if I was getting comforted in my chair. This however was all put of my act.
"Oh forgive me" Filthy Rich bowed his head "I didn't mean to offend you" He then looked at me and made the biggest lie in his entire life. "I am sorry but I do not know this Crown Wing but I do know a Mr Crown Axes if you wish to talk-"
I cut him of with my hand up to tell him to stop his lie right there, these pony scums and their lies. Are these the thing that their built their homes on? Lies? The deaths of many for their gain? This cannot go unchecked. Now I'll make the facts come out of his mouth the old way of 'persuasion' to him.
I got up faster then he can reacted to anything and flipped the table up in the air, all the food and wine fell down ever so slowly as time around us slowed down. I could see Filthy Rich's face turned from a business smile to a face of fright. As the table flew in the air with the items on it, I ran under it, grabbed Filthy Rich by the neck with my right hand and pushed him until his back was against the wall. I held his neck tight and hold him up on wall with his hooves no way near the ground. He tried to get loosed but fail terribly.
"DO YOU TAKE ME FOR A FOOL, MR RICH!?" I yelled at his face, I pulled him back only to bushed him harder against the wall. I was please to see his head made contact with the wall "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM SCUM!?" I used my left hand to removed my mask to let him see my face. One that is both furious and had the desire to end his life. I think that Filthy Rich wanted to screamed at what he was looking at. He was looking at...
"I AM UNOL CRAITH!" I bellowed at him "SON OF GRAIG IECHYD AND LAST KINSMEN OF CLAN LLAFN LW!" Once more I pulled him back to bushed him harder against the wall "AND IF YOU DON'T TELL ME WHERE CROWN WING IS I'LL..." I was interrupted by something that folded out of his business suit pocket and fell to the ground. Time slowed down as I saw that it was a picture. A picture of him and what seem to be his daughter that was riding his back with a little tiara on her head. He didn't know this as he was trying to catch some air to breathe threw. The prefect tool for getting what I wanted. I looked backed at Filthy Rich and let him breathed for a short moment.
"I'll do nothing to you" I whispered to his right ear. His face was all but confused for he thought that I was going to kill him. Not anymore I don't. "But I WILL do something or rather somepony else you hold dear in your useless life" I smiled at this for he face went all pale. "That tiara of hers fits quite well on her, it would been ashamed if something was to happen to-"
"Alright!" Filthy Rich gasped with his last breath. I dropped him as he thudded on the ground, breathing for air as he held his throat.
"Then tell me where he is!" I pushed the conversation hard and didn't gave him anymore choices. His breathing slower and soon he spoke the words I wanted to hear from this pony filth.
Filthy Rich took a deep breath a said; "Crown wing is living in a small town called Ponyville, its where I live as well. It is just three days travel north from here, if you are lucky. He lives in a small home on the ends of the town, south from where the Everfree forest is. If you are lucky he'll be still there, he doesn't leave the house often so he'll still be at his home if not in the local market or park. Now that's all I know, please don't kill my daughter. I beg of you" After his little pled I stood there for a couple of seconds gathering all the knowledge of where the kin-slayer lived. But not for long. I looked down at Filthy Rich looked at me with tears in his eyes.
"You have my word" I spoken in a soft tone. I turned away from him and walked towards the door. Before I opened the door, I stopped with a smile on my face as I put my mask back on. "Oh and if you tell anyone?" I spoke with revenge on my mind again. I lifted my right hand above my shoulders with the picture in my hand. I heard a gasped and on time I threw the picture on the ground "I'll come for her instead"
After that I opened the door and went through it. Now to find my prey.... and kill him.
The scum, Filthy Rich's information and location of Crown Wing was corrected. In three days I travelled from Star Village to the town known as Ponyville and let's just say that this place was not as bad as Star Village. It is however as Filthy Rich said near the Everfree forest, which my clan called it The Forest of Whispers because if you stay very silence as the forest, you can hear the whispers of ours ancestors calling us of our deeds and sacrifice they gave to the clan for hundreds of years. Once the kin-slaying bugger is lying in his own pool of blood, I'll go to the forest and put my clan to rest while I'll walk the lands with a smile on my face.
I'd been searching for his house since I got to this town. But it was more harder to find than a Hotel. There was many houses that was on the edged of the forest and all of them looked the same to me. This would take much precious time and knowledge to know which house holds Crown Wing in and when he'll be asleep, so he would not hear the sound of his demise coming to take his soul screaming into The Void, Where the Hound of Death will greet him with teeth and fangs that will consume his soul APART! He will be hunted, he will be found and when I do find him... I will KILL him. Slowly and painfully. HIS CRIMES WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED!! He will not...
For his home is now found, thanks to a little deliver pony with mails that has his name on it. I moved in the shadows of the forest and combined with the night that had clouds covered the moon, I was in pitch black. The best thing about this was how easy this seemed to be, why didn't I do this before? My prey is asleep and I know where. This day he'll answer his crime with his blood, I smiled at the thought of his death. Perfect.
Soon I was at his house, to my surprised for what he had done it was a small house. The house had four windows and a door in the middle. I looked at the two bottom windows which I saw had a living room and a kitchen. Why did he lived in small house? The relics he stolen would made him a richer pony than Filthy Rich and more. What is he planning? I looked for some way of getting in the house, but how? I looked down at my feet and saw a mat that said 'home, sweet home' on it. For some reason I checked to see what's under it. To surprised at to how stupid their kind is, there was a key.
"Thanks to make this easy, ancestors" I whispered in delighted at how fate sided with me on this day. I picked the key up in my right hand and was about to put it in the lock when I thought about when I open it. Would it make a loud noise? Will it awaken my prey? Or will it be silent as the forest? Only one way to find out. I placed the key into the keyhole and carefully opened the door.
Silence. Sweet silence, fate is surly on my side tonight and in honour of this... I'll kill the kin-slayer tonight.
I entered the building and closed the door slowly, for not to wake my 'host' inside. I looked around to see a hallway that had a grand stairway made of what I can tell must been fine woods cut from the forest. I looked to my left to see the living room and to my right the kitchen. I was about to go up the stairs when I realised that I didn't had a weapon with me to kill Crown Wing. How can I've been a fool? How am I supposed to slay him if I didn't had something to slay him with? Stupid Unol, stupid. I had to find a weapon, fate was still on my side. For where would there be dangerous weapons to used in this hour? Why, our 'host' has already got a lot of them. In the kitchen.
I crept towards the kitchen and enter through the doorway. Inside was your every average day pony filth kitchen. Pots and pans are hanged on the sealing, an oven, fridge and above all else... a draw full with knives and other pointy weapon for cutting and slicing food and... preys. I started to opened draws that was near to me, throughout half way all the draws hold nothing that can kill the kin-slaying, back-stabber bugger. But then, all of a sudden. I had this feeling, I stopped at looking through draws and turned my head ever so slowly. When I turned my whole body around, my heart beaten twice. Not in shock way, not in the feeling of being seen. No, the beating of my heart and feeling was because... of a reunion of an old family heirloom. There, hanged on the wall like a trophy was my grandfather's sword; 'Aer Torrwr'. It was a simple blade that had a handle made of ebony, same as my armour. The blade was straight as it was the symbol of leadership as the blade was made in pure silver. It didn't need to be fancy or grand to be the clan leader's symbol. All it needed was a story behind it craft. I walked to it with awe. I thought I lost it, lost it after my clan was destroyed. But it too was stolen from us, the clan by Crown Wing. I quietly and gracefully lifted the sword of the hold and looked at it was the blade up in the air as in the story. It gave me a vision of the past. The day my clan... was betrayed:
Fire. Fire was everywhere as my home was catching the blaze of flame. I was outside trying to put the fire out. But it was hopeless, so instead I ran to the others in the clan.
Everything was on fire, but that's not the worse part, EVERYONE was died. They were either burned to death from the flames or they were kill by some type of weapon... but what? The only weapons that can do this are the hunter's spears but even then, these were cut marks like if a blade did this. But I alone had a sword, Aer Torrwr. I tired to save as many as I can, but it was nothing but a waste of energy. I called out for anyone that was still alive. None, no one had called back, not even the children. But then a shout was heard that I know from a distance, west from the clan. That was the sound of my beloved. I instantly ran toward the shout in hope to at least save one of my kinsmen.
I ran and ran and ran until I reached where the scream of my beloved wife was. The scene I saw was horrid and beyond evil itself.
There in front of me was my beloved wife with her hand on her chest that was covered in her own blood, her right leg was cut clear off and spilling out blood fast. Next to her was her father and mother, died in a pool of their own blood with their eyes still open. I then saw a Pegasus standing there. He had a golden coat with a purple style mane, His right wing was straight in the sky while the other had a bag of all of the clan's relics. He had a cutie mark that had a crown in the middle and two wings that was folded out toward the sides. This is Crown Wing, are newest member of our clan. We named him 'Ni Gwaed' with mean 'us blood' in our tongue. I rushed out and stood there as Crown Wing turned to face me with a evil smirk on his traitorous face.
"Ah Unol" Crown Wing said as if he hasn't seen be in a while "It's good to see that you had made it to the 'blood' party" He then laughed to himself as I was still trying to griped at what I was looking at. My beloved bleeding out, her parents died and Crown Wing laughing that his sick joke.
My anger and rage caught up to me as I bellowed "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE NI GWAED!?" I couldn't believe at what I was seeing. Crown Wing laughed even harder.
"Isn't it clear to you?" He laughed at me "I burned you whole monstrous clan to the ground, I killed you barbaric parents and it is I who has cut you wife like the pig she is" He the had the biggest smirk on his face as looked straight into my furious eyes "You shouldn't have let me in your clan Unol... but I guess that what you get, you mindless brute!"
"YOU BASRARD!!" I roared at him "I AM GOING TO-" My voice was cut out when I heard a massive crack sound from behind me. I turned to see one of my kinsmen's house coming down towards me at top speed. Everything slow down around me as I lifted my arms to make an cross to cover my face. The building landed on top of me. I heard more laughter coming from the scum that has betrayed me and my whole clan.
"Going to be buried in a burned up house, how very random of you Unol" Crown Wing laughed at the scene he had seen. He then turned away and flew into the sky with our relics with him, for he had thought that I was kill by the impact of the building. How wrong he was. I started to bash through the ruin house and made it out into the open. I didn't even stopped catch my breath as I ran toward my beloved.
I landed on my knees and carefully lifted her up onto my knees with her head rested on my chest. I looked at her and saw that this is more worse. The blood will not stop and her face as many cuts and she had a black eye. I held her tight and cradled her.
"Stay with me, Isla" I whispered while trying to hold the tears the was welling up in my eyes "You've going to make it, I know you will" I tried to lifted her up only to cause her to make a cry in pain, so I put her back down.
"Unol?" My beloved Isla whispered weakly "Is that you?"
"Aye" I replied "It's me" I smiled weakly to tried to lighten the mood. There was nothing to lighten here, the loss of our kins and the destruction of our home. But I did this so at least she can see me as the day I saw her.
"You're really a true Llafn Lw through and through" Isla coughed, looking at my watery eyes "Never showing your pain through those eyes" After she said that, the tears began to flew down on my face. But I didn't cried, only letting my tears flow down. But this made Isla smiled, for I would break what I am just to save her. If it was only true.
"How did he..." I whispered sadly
"He took your grandfather's sword" Isla answered my question before I could finish it, He took Aer Torrwr. "And he did...this" She pointed weakly toward the clan.
I looked to where she was pointing at. The clan's houses burned to the ground, The kinsmen we known and cared for, our way of life we lived in and the relics we kept. All destroyed by Crown Wing. Why would he do this? Why would he betray us for the relics that is rightfully ours?
"Unol?" Isla spoke ever so silently. "Do you think that this was fate? That what we did was wrong?" My eyes widened in shock, my beloved thought that she and the clan did this. She felted... Guilty. On that moment, I didn't cared that I was a kinsmen of clan Llafn Lw and the clan leader. I cried.
"No, you and the clan didn't do this" I sobbed as I held her close to me "It was I who brought him in, it was I who found him and it was I who shown him our relics of our ancestors and it was..." My throat couldn't continue to talk. I now had my head resting on her forehead. This cannot happen to us, it shouldn't happen to anyone, losing they family to an kin-slayer. I cried, but then felted a hand touching my cheeks, looked to see that it belong to my beloved and I held it with my left hand.
"It's okay" She whispered softly to me, she repeated that three time. This isn't right! I was supposed to comforted her not me. I looked at her and she still had that smile on her.
"I didn't want this to happen" I sobbed while I was holding her hand.
"It's okay" Isla repeated "For I'll be with our ancestors, I'll be with all of them and when you're done with Crown Wing... Come to the Forest of Whispers, so I can see you once more" She said that so beautiful that even when I was crying, I smiled throughout her speech and I can only respond with a nod. She smiled back at me, this was the woman that I love and care for in my life and it was painful to see her like this. But then all of a sudden, her eyes began to close slowly down.
"Isla?" I whimpered "ISLA? BELOVED?" I shouted in panic.
"I... will always.. love... you" She said with her last breath as passed away to join the ancestors. I didn't want to believe it, but I did... I'm now the last kinsmen of clan Llafn Lw. I kissed her on the lips for the last time.
I made a burial for her at where she died and stood there for a long time. Still crying, I lifted my head to the now raining sky and roared a painfully cry that echoed throughout the lands. On that day, my quest for revenge began.
A tear escaped my eyes from the vision. The pain of seeing my clan destroyed and my beloved killed by the kin-slaying bugger. I miss them and when the day comes, I will join them with a smile. But tonight, Is the night revenge will be mine.
With my family's heirloom in my hands. I silently exited the kitchen and back into the hallway. Then I began to walk up the stairs to reach my prey. There were some pictures of Crown Wing as I walked to the top of the stairs. Him at the beach with his parents, him with a mare and him at...
Wait a minute, I stopped walking up the stairs and looked at that photo. There in a black suit was Crown Wing and on his right was a Pegasus mare in a bride's dress. The mare had light orange coat with a red mane, she was laughing in the photo, her cutie mark was a golden ring with two blue thunder bolts above the ring. In an instant, I knew what this pony is. This is the scum's wife. I then had a sinister grin. The perfect 'action' tool. I continued up the stairs with a plan of true revenge in my mind. I finally reached to the top of the stairs and saw three doors, two of them were closed. The one that was opened was just the bathroom. I looked at the two closed doors and tried to guess with one contained the kin-slayer and his wife. I chose the door that was closer to me, walking quietly toward it and opened it with silence as my answer. Fate has sided with the last kinsmen of clan Llafn Lw, for inside... was him.
He was asleep on far side of the double bed which is far from the door and his wife was sleeping closest to the door, so she will be first. I crept slowly towards her on all four to not make any noise when reaching her. When I was only a few inches to her I stood up to my full height and looked at her, sleeping ever so peacefully. My mind was all eager to end her life but I know that this pony has done nothing to me. But she has given her love to Crown Wing.... so I'll make it quick and painless. I covered her mouth with my right hand and lifted Aer Torrwr towards her neck. She was in a very deep sleep. I don't know why but only thing I did was smile at what I was about to do. I sliced her neck and before the blood came out I used the sword to cover the firing range toward her husband. Her eyes opened in shock and looked straight at me. I had a quick looked at her and a image of my beloved come in my mind. But it disappeared when the pony died in shock and the loss of her blood. I didn't felted good at what I'd done but it was all for the greater good. The wife of Crown Wing was dead. Suddenly I felted Crown beginning to move, so I slowly climbed over the dead corpse of his wife and watched him.
"Honey?" Crown Wing asked sleepily "What's this water on the back of my-" He stopped his sentence as he saw me with hands that was covered in blood. He was about to scream but I covered his mouth with the same hand that has got the blood of his wife all over.
"Sleeping with the door unlocked?" I asked in delighted at the catching of my prey "How very random you are, Crown Wing" I answered with the same words he used on that day. His face was all pure terror. So you should be.
"You know" I said looking straight into his eyes "I remember an old Ni Gwaed who betrayed me, slaughtered my whole clan and killed my wife" I then looked to were his wife was sleeping until my arrival. "So I thought it's only fair if I did the same to yours"
He then looked at where I was looking and I heard a gasped of shock and disbelieve came from his mouth. Good. He then looked at me with pled in his eyes. But I'll have none of this.
"And I'm not satisfied with this yet" I answered with a deep and sinister voice. I lifted my blade up into the air and slammed into his right eye. Moan of pain and fear come from his covered mouth, oh how it was melody to my ears. I stabbed my blade into his skull again and again while twisting it left and right in his face, blood going everywhere. On my face, the bed, the floor and the walls. It was art to my eyes. I continued like this for five whole minutes, he was dead two minutes ago but I wanted it to continue until I was satisfied with my kill. I stopped my endless stabs in what remains of his face and skull. I breathed heavily from how much energy I used in my sword to killed Crown Wing and how my quest has finally ended, I shall return to the forest and....
I heard tiny snores coming from the other room, my head turned to where I heard the snores. In my mind I was saying to myself;
"There is another, your quest is not done, kill, kill, KILL!" My inner voice in my mind was yelling to me. I nodded in agreement, it must be Crown Wing's parents sleeping in the other room. I silently got off the now blooded bed and headed straight to the door. Before I went threw it, I looked backed at the scene I created and it was beautiful. Then I exited the door and quietly enter the other. Once more I crept on all four to make no noise while reaching my next prey. Soon I was near the bed so I got up to my full height and lifted Aer Torrwr above my head, ready to strike but....
But instead of a clean death. Came the sound of disbelieve and horror... That sound came from MY mouth.
Sleeping peacefully, totally unaware of what happened was a small filly mare with a teddy bear in her hooves and a smile on her mouth. She has the mane of Crown Wing and the coat of his wife, which means... That Crown Wing is her father and his wife, her mother. I couldn't believe at what I was looking at. But what's worse was my voice in my head, it roared in anger but it was my voice.
"What are waiting for? She is a offspring of Crown Wing the traitor" The voice yelled in my head as my sword was still in the air. "Complete your quest of revenge and kill, kill, KILL!!" As it was shouting. My vision was blurring and shaking around. The images of my clan's destruction, my kinsmen' deaths, my beloved murdered and the children that was burned alive in their own homes. They kept on coming and going, coming and going. The sound of the flames, the screams of the innocent kinsmen and their families.... and my Isla passing away. Everything went black and I backed at where I saw my dying wife. But instead of Crown Wing standing there with our relics. There stood me but with red eyes like the flame, blood of my kinsmen on Aer Torrwr and the fangs of the Hound of Death in my mouth with my inner voice laughing throughout the vision. Everything went blacked again and I was back into the room.
I was shaking out of control, I barely could stood on my two legs, I wanted to drop Aer Torrwr but I didn't want to wake the filly up. I looked down at her with tears in my eyes. I should of been on a quest of justice, but I let my inner demon persuade me to go on a quest of revenge. I looked back at what I've done on my quest. The careless beast at Hotel Gold, the ruthless interrogator to Filthy Rich and the threat of killing his daughter. This isn't me, these demonic acts are the very thing that Crown Wing would do. I became the very thing I was hunting.
But I remembered what my beloved Isla said to me.
"It's okay" Her voice whispered in my head. She is right. If I leave this place and Ponyville and never returned. Everything will be okay. I ran towards the window in her room, I didn't cared if I woke her up when running to the window. I opened it and just before I leaped out, I heard something behind me.
"Daddy?" I heard the sleepy filly's voice behind me "There's a monster at my window"
She thought that I was the monster. I hunted a monster to only replace it with another? Maybe. To my clan and beloved Isla, I am not. But to what I have just done.... I am.
I jumped out of the window and landed. I then just ran towards the forest not looking back at the house nor Ponyville. I continued to ran, even when I was in the forest borders. But that is not what broke my soul in two.
The last thing I heard from behind me and the only thing I remembered of Ponyville...
Was the scream and cry of pure terror from the offspring of Crown Wing.
