Broken Shell

Broken Shell woke up and checked his phone to see it was almost half past ten in the morning. "Ugh I slept in. I guess I should get better alarms." He got out if he'd and turned on the lights before seeing a note on his door. He read it out loud. "Me and Tavia went out. Feel free to raid the fridge." The bottom was signed by Vinyl. He shrugged and walked over to his bag quickly getting dressed before walking out if his room and down the stairs.

Broken Shell walked out the door and started to listen to music as he watched the town start to put the finishing touches on their nightmare night celebration. He sighed and started to walk down the road. "This is going to be a hard night." He looked around and saw a few colts and fillies walking around in their costumes. He turned and walked over to a small stand selling masks and bought a plain white mask. He turned and walked back towards the house he was staying at and walked up to his room.

He pulled a small box decorated with paint and sighed. "Its hard to believe this is all I have left." He opened the box and pulled out a few paints. He grabbed the mask and started to paint on it before setting it down by a window to dry. The painting was a simple dot with several lines coming off and serving around the mask. To most it would look like a small foal made it in a few minutes but to him it meant much more. He laid down and sighed. "I hope that it will just be for decoration tonight." He fell asleep again.

Broken Shell woke up hearing Vinyl and Octavia walk in. He grabbed his phone and sighed looking at the time. "Ugh its almost time to get ready." He got out of bed and pulled a cloak out of his bag pulling it on over his black shorts and tank top slipping his knife onto his back and putting his mask on. He walked out his door and down the stairs. "Hey guys. I am heading out now."

Vinyl looked at him. "There you are I was wondering if you ended up in jail again." She chuckled and gave a small smirk.

Octavia shot her a quick glare. "That's mean I am sure it was just a misunderstanding."

Broken Shell shrugged. "I guess you could call it that." He turned to the door and walked out. I can't let them get close to me. The farther I keep people the farther they are from harm. He thought to himself as he walked down the street. He looked over and saw Pinkie Pie leading a group of foals around the town getting candy.

"This is such a strange tradition. Why give candy out to children for a day one of their princesses went insane?" He shrugged. "This country is weird at times."

Broken She'll sighed and sat down on a bench watching as the town started to come out dressed in costumes. "This is close to the middle of town I should be able to get anywhere in decent time." He started to listen to music in his phone watching the hours go by. At about 8:30 he felt it a strong presence approaching the town. "Hmm it looks like it will not be a peaceful night after all." He reached up and started to take the studs out of his ears one by one before turning towards the way it was approaching from. "Gate one open the gate of striding." He started to walk and as his shadow increases his walk got faster before he knew it he was on the other side of town. "Hmm they are strong." He sat down and started to count. "Five... Four... Three..." He pulled his knife out. "Two... One..." He jumped back just in time for a large needle to bury itself where he was sitting.

Out of the woods a tall stallion dressed in a nice suit with half a face mask on his right side walked out and smiled. "Ah you must be the one I heard about. The one Princess Celestia sent to protect the precious student and her friends."

Broken Shell looked at him and nodded. "Yes I am. I take it if you know that then you must also know who I am."

The stallion nodded and smiled. "Yes you are Broken Shell. The last of the Shadow Dancers also known as the moon's shadow."

Broken Shell nodded. "Yes, now I find myself as the one at a disadvantage. You seem to know a lot about me but I know nothing about you."

The stallion smiled. "My name is Wing Flower. I am sure you have heard my other name though. The Angel of Needles." He moved his wings and suddenly they appeared to shimmer as hundreds of needles dangled from them.

Broken nodded. "Yes I have heard of you. You were once a member of a guild of assassins in the gryphon lands but it is said you left them in search of a way to make a real name for yourself."

Wing looked at him. "Yes that is what they say but enough with the introductions I am sure we both know how this will end so how about we skip to that part?"

Broken nodded and gripped his knife before running at the Pegasus and swinging for his wing.

Wing jumped back and flapped his wing towards Broken sending three needles flying at his face.

Broken dodged and jumped back. "Gate two open gate of the vanishing." He moved into the shadow of a near by tree and vanished appearing behind Wing and swinging again managing to cut some of the needles from the back side if his wing.

Wing swung his fist back and hit Broken in the side. "I see the rumors about your fighting style are true."

Broken jumped across and looked at Wing. "I fight to win. There is no honor in a fight to the death it is just two ponies trying to kill each other." He ran at Wing and swung his elbow aiming for his jaw.

Wing ducked back and kicked at Broken's side trying to hit him in the kidney.

Broken moved fast and swung his knife cutting Wing's leg deep and pushing him away.

Wing took off into the air a few needles shooting out and sticking into Broken's arm before flying towards town his leg dripping a long trail of blood behind him.

Broken grunted and pulled the needles out of his arm before running after Wing towards town.

Wing flew over the town starting to feel the blood loss going to his head. "I need to kill at least one if them to ruin their power." He saw a purple unicorn dressed as an old wizard talking to an older mare next to the stage. "Perfect." He landed between them and raised a wing to shoot a needle into her neck.

Twilight gasped as a tall Pegasus landed in front of her and she froze when she realized he had a needle pointed at her on his wing. Suddenly she felt a warm liquid cover her face and saw the Pegasus's wing fall off then he fell to the ground his head rolling off his body. She looked up at saw Broken standing there holding a pair of bloody knifes before she fainted.

Broken looked down at Twilight not even looking at the growing crowd. "You might want to get her off the ground." He turned and walked away as the crowed opened a path for him.

Broken walked down the street and stopped when his phone started to ring. He pulled it out of his pocket and sighed seeing it was Princess Luna. He his the answer key. "Yes my princess?"

"Broken come to the house you are staying at now." Her voice was soft but had a hint of anger in it.

Broken nodded. "Yes I will be there soon." He hung up and cut across an ally getting to the house where he was renting a room and saw the princess standing by the door talking with Octavia who had a look of shock on her face. He walked over. "You summoned me princess?"

Luna looked at him. "Yes I did. Come with me." She nodded to Octavia. "It has been nice talking to you Miss Harmonic." She turned and started to walk down the path leading to the park. "Why didn't you eliminate the threat before he got into town? Do you know how many ponies could have been hurt?"

Broken looked at her as he walked. "Simple. Tell them about the threat and it puts a ripple in their bubble of surroundings. If you show them the threat then they have to accept it as a truth rather than an inconvenience." He sat down on a bench. "I have no doubt I could have killed him before he even knew I was there but then it would just make the elements think they were safe from anything. If I show them now that I can't protect them 100% then they will take steps to better protect themselves."

The princess sighed. “As much as I hate to say it that makes sense but I doubt my sister will see it like that. Just do me a favor and make sure the next one that comes around take care of him as fast as possible. I don’t want the girls to freak out every time a tree shakes.”

Broken shell nodded. “Of course I will. Plus I doubt the mayor will be happy about a dead body in the middle of town.” He yawned. “I wasn’t ready to use that much power at once.” He looked around. “Well I guess you should go out and pretend to be the Big Bad Nightmare Moon.” He started to walk back throwing a peace sign to the princess as he started to walk back home. Broken Shell walked into Vinyls house and up to his room quickly changing into a pair of shorts and laying down falling into a dreamless sleep fast.