I serve the lord of...
Chapter eight - off we go
Previous ChapterNext ChapterEver experienced weightlessness? No? It's weird. Add to that the fact that I'm surrounded by complete darkness, and it's very surreal.
I just float here for a while. I know I died, and I remember how, but what happened after? I don't know.
Then a light appeared, a blue light. It's right in front of my face. I flashes and grows in to a flame, growing and spreading on and on, until it fills my entire field of view, turning brighter and brighter then I feel my knees land on nice hard ground.
Me, my guard and aunty Luna stand in front of the fire. Two Pegasus guards just brought it back.
A tear rolls down my cheek, Shining is taken, and Dem died.
I wipe away the tears that are rolling down my face, closing my eyes as i do so.
When I open them again the fire flares up, shouting 25 feet in the air, swirling around in giant orb.
From the orb falls a creature I have never seen before, it is massive. It's horns grow from the side of its head and point forward and backward. It's wings are big enough to shroud all of us in shadow. It's tail is bladed with what looks like an ax.
But it's body is still on fire with the blue flames as it lands on hands and knees with it's head down.
The fire doesn't die down, it grows. And as it burns it shrinks and shrinks, until Dem is sitting there on hands and knees, reborn from the fire that binds him to me.
As the fire dies down, he stands.
"You, giant imbecile! You scared me to death! Dying on me like that!" I yell at him as i walk over and hit him, and hit him, until my hand hurt from bashing my hand against his armor.
"I told you, a Dremora is an eternal soldier, pretty bad eternal soldier I would be if I could die on you, now wouldn't I." Dem says, is he being smug with me? That's new, must be his returned memories or something, but i rather like it.
"What was that giant beast thou where before? It looked pretty impressive." Luna says as she walks over, "I do believe several of the guards wet themselves upon seeing it."
Looking back i can indeed see several quaking knees and wet stained pants.
"Anyway lets get inside, I need to discuss something with you," I say, turning around to head to my room.
After following my lord to her room, she lies on her bed and stares up to the ceiling.
"I need you to go to the Griffon-empire, find out where they are hiding Shining Armor and bring him back. Alive. If you in the mean time come across anyone that tries to stop you or anything, kill them, kill them all. I want them dead! I want the one that took Shining Armor dead! The one that gave the order to invade, to take the one I love! Kill the one that tried to ruin my life DIES!" she screams, it fills me with joy to hear that order, I know killing used to be bad, it used to be something I couldn't even think off, even in game out rite killing someone was hard, now not anymore, now I like it.
My lord whips her head to look at me, "Go, now!"
She didn't notice, I almost didn't notice, her eyes where glowing very softly, a cold blue.
I open my eyes. I’m chained to the floor of a cold cell. There is straw on the ground, but that’s it. I can feel a metal ring around my horn, blocking my magic.
The walls of my cell are covert in moss and mushrooms. There is one other occupant in the cell, but won’t tell me anything. He’s long dead.
Suddenly the door to my cell is thrown open and a big griffon wearing a hood unlocks the chains at from the ground.
“Get up!” he yells in my face.
I look him in the eyes; some of my blue mane gets in my face.
With a glare stand strait and proud, refusing to behave like a mere criminal.
He turns and leads me trough a couple of hallways before shoving me in small metal chamber with only a chair in it.
“Sit,” says a polite voice. The voice belongs to shorter Griffon male, he is grey with the feathers on his head combed back.
I sit on the chair. He walks over and locks the end of my chain to the wall behind me.
“So, captain Armor. I think you can guess why you are here, so I’ll skip the pleasantries,” He places a map of Equestria and Canterlot on the ground and holds a piece of charcoal out to me. “What are Equestria’s defences, how are they positioned and how is Canterlot fortified after an attack?” he askes.
I sit up strait and look at him. I’m not going to say anything. Not a word.
Sigh “We can do this the easy way or the painful way, it’s your choice,” I don’t make a move.
“As you wish,” he stands and walks over to the door.
“Gunther, if you please?” he tells to the big guy on the other side.
The griffon named Gunther walks in and stands in front of me. He pulls out a small knife from his pocket and grabs my hair.
He slowly moves the knife to my forehead underneath my horn and carves a line down my forehead.
It hurts but as much I thought would, but then he pulls out a small bag from his other pocket and takes a snuff of white powder from it.
He moves it to my head and rubs in the cut. Immediately the wound starts burning.
He’s literally rubbing salt in my wound.
I grunt and try to grab him by the throat but the chains hold me back just barely and inch away from him.
The grey one walks bag into view.
“I would like my answer. If not, I will have Gunther here turn you pretty face into an art project. So, tell me about Equestria,” he says as he kneels down by the maps again.
For the first time here I say something.
“Screw you.”
At that moment Gunther walks in front of me again and place the point of the knife of the end of the first cut and moves down.
I refuse to scream as he cuts up my face, I refuse to scream as he rubs more salt in my forehead.
I stand at the border of Equestria, and look over to the land of Griffons.
There is nothing here to indicate that just a couple of paces ahead you enter a different country.
I take of at a brisk pace making my way strait to the capital.
It’ll take me a couple of days to get there and after my defeat in the air I won’t risk flying again.
As a run through the across the land my lords words of good bye repeat in my head: ‘My aunty has asked me to give you a second assignment, after you have rescued Shining, kill their king and high ranking military officials. Just remember Shining first, King killing second.’
I can hardly wait.
Author's Note
Chapter eight
This took a little longer because i was away with family for easter, sorry.
The creature i discribed during the resurection was a Titan from the game.
Should i put Luna in the character tags? She sticks around quite a bit.
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