Greenwatch

~Chapter Ⅱ: Cinders~

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He says we're all treated as equal, that's coming from a squad of shape shifters, at least they aren't changelings, still, he acts like he's the one in charge here, I think I may be underestimating him, we have to set up camp for the night, I hope everything will go smoothly tomorrow.

"Wake up everypony! Time to go!" Lorenzo shouted, which was definitely by itself enough to wake everypony up. I'm certainly going to have to learn to hate him.

"We head to the west, I can see a large building towering up to the heavens, I assume that's where they are being held," Lorenzo said, me and the others just stared in shock,

"Jesus! What was their budget when building this place?" the stocky pony known as Shayne asked,

"I don't know, but it won't matter if we blow it up," Lorenzo said,

"Isn't that a bit overkill?" I asked,

"Sometimes you gotta be overkill to get your point across," Lorenzo answered. Seemed to make sense,

"Alright everyone, Codename Time," Lorenzo announced as we packed up our belongings,

"So my codename is Divine Circus, Shayne's is Scarred Honor, Blues' is Gloomy Oath, Blaze is Cursed Fire, Aiden's is Wishful Hug, Pavle's is Lucky Risk and last, but not least, the Lovely Luna's code name is Starry Virtue," Divine said, this confused me a bit, but I got used to it, and at least I didn't get a bad name,

"Alright, let's move out!"

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"What do you want with me?" I asked, fear sensible in my voice,

"Well Miss Sparkle, you see, you may hold the key to prosperity and maybe even world peace," Zealous Might said plainly,

"How?"

"Simply put, you're an Alicorn, only a select few are blessed with that gift, some receive Alicorn status at birth, and others become one through other challenges, like you Miss Sparkle," Zealous answered,

"But... why me?"

"Well you see... Alicorns are usually protected in a castle of sorts, you may have your own castle, but it is not very heavily guarded, if at all. However, you also made the mistake of coming to PonyVille, out of your safe zone in Canterlot, so we couldn't kidnap Celestia or Luna, as powerful as we are, we tend to remain in the dark,"

"So, w-what are you going to do to me? Where are my f-friends? Are they okay?"

"Your friends are just being held here for their safety so they don't do anything that they would most certainly regret, they are completely alright as long as they do as they're told, and we are going to suck out your life essence,"

"Oh good, wait, what was that last part?"

"With your life essence, we will be able to make our greatest creation: The Alicorn Serum! Don't think of it as a bad thing Twilight, you will be making a lot of ponies very happy," His cold voice made me shudder knowing that I couldn't let this happen,

"You d-don't have to do this..."

"Oh, but Twilight I believe I must, for it is my destiny, your sacrifice will not be in vain, I will be sure to have a statue constructed in your honor when we use the Alicorn Serum to take over Equestria," Zealous finished with a cackle and slammed the door before I could object.

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We were heading through a cave inside of a mountain, it looked a bit unstable, but we should be fine as long as we stay quiet, I muttered a few words that only I could understand under my breath and I shifted back to my human form, the others were un aware of this seeing as it was pitch black in the cave, well, except maybe for Scarred, with my enhanced vision, I searched for the weakest spot in the wall seeing as the cave was a dead end. I located it by the right center and picked up a rock, I muttered a few more words under my breath, my aura shaped the rock and it glowed a bright orange making it into a shining hammer, the others turned towards the light and then I immediately flung the hammer at the wall, Starry understood this gesture and her horn began to glow and a small burst of energy flew out of it and went straight for the hammer, treating it as a marker for the wall, the wall crumbled and the misty night sky began flood the cave with moonlight.

"Where... Are we?" Lucky asked, "I don't remember this area on my way here,"

"That's because I took a shortcut," I responded,

"How do you know were going the right way now?" Lucky asked,

"I can't tell you that,"

"O-oh, Okay..."

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We've been walking for what feels like forever, well, they have been, I have been flying the whole time, but we have been travelling for so long now my wings have gotten tired so I have been walking as well. We have set up camp for the night, Lor-Divine, keeps saying were almost there, but he says we need to go slow to avoid being detected. I hope that Twilight and her friends are alright.

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This has to be a nightmare, it can't be real. One of the fillies apparently spoke out of turn and got a beating, judging by the looks of the three fillies, it looks like it was Scootaloo, the others seemed to have been beaten too for attempting to help her. I feel weaker then ever. Why can I not do anything to help them? Why are they doing this? There has to be something we can do...

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I woke up screaming, a sudden rage had filled me, my eyes blazed red. Everyone looked at me in horror except for Scarred,

"Which one was it? Dream or Vision?" Scarred asked me,

"Vision..." I growled,

"Kids in danger?"

"We leave now," I Replied with a nod,

"But it's the middle of the night..." Starry began, before I could say anything Scarred turned towards her and made a gesture that indicated not to argue, Starry scowled, but got up and began to pack up her supplies.

"Are we bum rushing?" Scarred asked me,

"Hell Yeah, but we will try our best to stay in the shadows," I answered.

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We are right in front of the village, I don't even think most of the inhabitants here are ponies, no griffons, no zebras, nothing I should be familiar with. I saw a large castle up ahead, I pressed my hoof against my head to focus myself, to channel my anger into energy. I sensed all their auras except for one of them, which I assumed was the one known as Twilight Sparkle, due to her being an Alicorn, her aura is different. Me and Scarred were both shape shifted back to being ponies so we didn't draw attention, we had our hoods slung over so we wouldn't draw attention. We headed up towards the castle, I couldn't wait any longer.

"Stop! Step away from the gate!" One of the guards Barked, where were his manners? Starry was about to say something but I cut her off.

"Out of my way or I shall set your village ablaze!" I Ordered, the Guard seemed not so convinced,

"Ha! None of our citizens are capable of sorcery! and unless you smuggled in some match's, I doubt you're capable of such a crime, now since I'm in a good mood I forget about this encounter. Now, get out of my face scum," He spat at me and then the other guards began to laugh, I cursed under my breath at their ignorance and turned around, making them think I was leaving, my eyes began to glow a bright orange, a fireball began to expand in my hoof, once the glow of the fire met the guard's eyes, the laughter ceased, and there was only fear. I hurled the fireball at a nearby building, the fireball exploded into five bright orange streaks which covered the village, shrieks and screams filled the air. The guards slowly backed away, I nodded towards Gloomy who formed two icicles that levitated in his hoof, he threw them at an incredible speed and they impaled two of the three guards, killing them in a matter of seconds. The final guard began to run but Scarred appeared in front of him in a small explosion of shadowy smoke. When the smoke cleared we all had our knives pressed against his throat, except for Starry and Wishful.

"Where is your main prison?" I asked, the blood lust sensible in my voice,

"I-i'll never tell!" He answered, Lucky just shook his head,

"How unfortunate, however it shouldn't be too difficult to find, thank you for your contribution to my KD fund towards charity," I said with a chuckle as I stabbed him in the throat.

"Your KD Fund Towards charity?" Scarred asked me,

"Oh you know, Every kill I get earns me like, five bucks that goes to charity or something, so pretty much the K Fund towards charity I guess," I Answered,

"Seems Legit,"

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Apparently a rumor has arose that the castle has been invaded, Zealous Might has declined to prove any of the rumors true until today, he stepped into my room and pointed some weird object at me which I assumed to be a weapon.

"Your saviors are here apparently, but they I'll make sure they do not get you, my sweet," Zealous said, the insanity practically dripping from his voice, I saw the device in his hand flicker then I felt a large pain rush through me that sent me straight to the ground.

"Bet you thought it was a dud, eh? However your kind have probably never even heard of technology THIS advanced, I assume it was, quite a shocker for you hmm?" He said with a cackle as my vision began to fade, I didn't mind him taking me, I just wanted my friends to be okay...

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I Entered the building and quickly took off my hat and mumbled a few words to it as it flew away, it will know when to find me. I slung My hood over my head and me and my team split up, basically Scarred came with me. Before we all parted ways to save the others, I made sure to tell them to conceal themselves so we do not show our faces. I made a mad dash down the hallway, Scarred was the only one who knew I was actually a 'very rare breed' of Earth Pony who had the blood of a Unicorn. I closed my eyes and tried my best to focus, I sensed several auras that stuck out to me throughout the building's layout. The auras I sensed were in fact the ones I was looking for, I levitated a knife out of its sheath, my eyes glowing their furious orange as I made my way down the corridor. I saw six guards taunting three fillies behind bars, my aura began to glow red with fury as I flung the knife at one of the guards, it went straight through his head killing two of them. The other four stared down the hallway at me in horror, electricity crackled in my hoof as it shot out in an arc frying all four of the guards. I trotted over to the cell door the fillies paralyzed with fear, my smile seemed to light up through the darkness, I raised my hoof and a small ball of air appeared in it, I slashed downwards cutting the door in half as the three fillies just stared at me, speechless.

"Don't be shy, my last intention would be to hurt you girls, I am a friend," I said breaking the silence in a voice that was just barley above a whisper,

"Y-you're g-gonna help us?" The small orange Pegasi managed to stutter out, their wounds were visible as they slowly stepped into the light, the orange one also walked with a limp.

"As best I can, even if it means I die trying," I answered, confidence full in my voice. Smoke filled the air, my smile grew as my eyes sparkled with magic, I had already started the burning process, it should be burnt to a crisp within the next hour.

"We must go quickly, before the fire spreads here and destroys the prison along with us in it!" I exclaimed as I levitated the three fillies onto my back and bashed through the door to the next prison block. A poor mistake on my part, I had put far too much power into that last fireball back there.