Legacy of Lundaya: Memory of an Empire

Spike and Sigil, wearing a white dress shirt, walked out fixing there collars and talking about nothing important really. Upon seeing the mares waiting patiently Sigil walked to them with his hand extended.

"I'd like to appo-"

"SPIKE!" The girls said in unison rushing over to Spike ignoring not only Sigil's attempted apology, but also his very existence.

Sigil stood there, hand extended to nothing, blinking.

"Oh and I forgive you for wrongly bitch slapping me with a death beam, totally didn't almost kill me or anything." He mattered to himself under his breath, turning around and putting his hands in his pockets.

"Spike are you ok? Are you hurt?" Twilight questioned almost in a panic.

"I'm fine Twi, don't worry, and plus I think you owe someone an apology." Spike said nodding his head to Sigil.

"hmpf, well I for one would have appreciated some sort of warning." Rarity said getting in Sigil's face. Who was stooping there smiling, the left side of his brain doing it just to spite her, the right side, that never stays focus, doing it because she smelled like a huge marshmallow.

"Now hold on Rare," Apple Jack said pulling her back some. "Now it was a bit cryptic, but he did give us some warning when he said Black FIRE."

"Thank you, um..."

"Apple Jack, and the one starring daggers at cha here is Rarity, you ready met Rainbow."

"Yo." Rainbow said hovering above them.

"Those 3 over there with Spike are Fluttershy, Twilight, and-" Apple Jack was interrupted by a blur of Pink grabbing Sigil and hugging him tightly around his neck choking him.

"I'm so so so happy you're not evil I mean when I saw you I was like WHOA he's cute but when you did that fire thingy I thought you killed Spikey which would mean we would have to kill you and I won't want to do that cause like I said YOU'ER HOT and-"

"PINKIE!" Everypony said at once.

"What?" Pinkie said looking at Sigil who's was purple from a mix of blushing and suffocating.

"Oh I'm so so sorry!" Said releasing her death grip on him.

Sigil dropped a knee breathing in as much air as possible. Twilight giggled at the thought of the big bad vampire was almost killed by an over excited pink party pony.

"Oh so this is funny?" Sigil said with a smirk.

"Yes, quiet funny actually." She said smiling back.

Sigil chuckled and got back to his hooves.

"So you're the one who's trying to take my job huh?" Sigil said walking over to her.

"Your job?" Twilight said feeling insulted.

"Master of magic? Yea, that's me." He said crossing his arms.

"I'm the Princess of Friendship." Twilight said with pride.

"Friendship? Seriously?" Sigil said with a laugh.

"It knocked you on your ass." Rainbow said from behind him.

Sigil turned around looking like he was about to make a valid point, but his finger dropped and he closed his mouth when he looked over at his burned hand. This made the whole group including Sigil brake out in laughter.

"Nice to see you all got acquainted." The voice of the Moon goddess said from behind them.

"LUNA!" Sigil said overjoyed.

"Hello Sigillum." She said with a hug.

"My sister has requested your presence." She said with a smile.

"Lead the way." Sigil said with a smile.

Mean while near a forest in central Solstice, a stallion sits with his back against a tree drawing in a small blue journal the white snow rabbit curiously looking at him. The snow and cold barely affected him, he was used to it. His light grey coat and black mane blended nicely with the ice and snow around him.

"Potestus." A armored stallion with the same coat color but a ice blue mane said kneeling down beside him scaring the rabbit off.

The chain mail around Potestus's neck and him clinked as he looked at his brother.

“My dvizhemsya iz , davay.” (We're moving out, come on.)  He said using Potestus's shoulder as leverage to him stand up.

Potestus got up, his Steel armor gleaming in the sun light; he picked up his shield and helmet. Putting his shield on his back and helmet on his head he and his brother walked to a hill nearby.

“Posmotrite na etogo malen'kogo brata, vsey moshch'yu Rytsar' Znakomyy , idya , chtoby vernut' ikh domoy." (Look at that little brother, the full might of the Knight Familiar, marching to retake their home.)

Potestus looked at his older brother Legatus then back to the site before them.

The two Familiar Paladins stood on that hill over look the miles and miles of snow covered plane filled with soldiers, Knights, armored beasts, catapults, siege towers, and black banners bearing a symbol of a silver wolf head, the symbol of the Familiar head pack, the symbol of the Cor-Lupus.

"A rebellion?" Sigil asked sitting up in his chair across from Celestia on the patio overlooking canterlot.

"Yes, with aid from the Familiars in the short 6 years they've already taken most of Griffin controlled Solstice." The Princess said sipping from the tea cup in her magical grip.

"They're not going to stop there, if the Knight Familiar is involved they won't stop till they have all of former Solstice." Luna interjected from the right side of the table.

"The rebirth of the Solstainen Empire." Sigil said not sure how to feel about it.

"I'm sorry what's the Knight Familiar?" Twilight asked from the left side.

Sigil looked at her as if she just insulted his mother. "They are the last remnants of the SSF."

"The what?" Twilight asked even more confused.

"The Solstainen Special Forces Twilight." Celestia said plainly.

"So?"

The sound Sigil's head made when it hit the table was enough to make Twilight jump a bit.

"So, they are the deadliest fighting force in the world." Sigil said with his head on the table.

"Anyway," Luna said trying to change the subject. "It was my understanding that all packs of the Familiar have to agree before the launch an attack of this scale."

"Yes, but if all the pack leaders served one pack," Celestia started.

"The Cor-Lupus." Sigil said bring his head off the table.

"Through conquest and traditional means they've put one of their own at the head of every Familiar pack." Celestia said taking another sip from her tea cup.

"So all the pack leaders are Cor-Lupus?" asked Luna.

"Not just Cor-Lupus, but also siblings. Legatus, Dauthi, Pax, Propheta, Classis, Desertum, Medica, and Rex Cor-Lupus have all fused there packs with the Cor-Lupus Pack lead by their mother and father, Compania and Deus Cor-Lupus." Celestia said reading the report before her.

"I thought Deus had 9 son and daughters of age." Luna said recall when she read the report.

"He does, Potestus Cor-Lupus the youngest of them all, he only 22 but he's racked up more kills them all over them combined, I met him once when I visited there strong hold about 8 years ago. He was a quite colt, very....calm, even when he was training, they would beat him, abuse him, I wanted to stop them but it wasn't my place to question the familiar training method. But he would always keep him cool; when they’d beat him down he would just get back up like nothing happened. He serves his father, but refused when his Deus offered him a pack." Celestia said taking another sip.

"Why?" Twilight asked started to get interested.

"It doesn't say"

"Not a Politician perhaps? Or maybe he's afraid of the responsibility? Or is it possible that he just has no ambition no lust for power?" A devious voice said from nowhere.

"Oh please no..." Sigil said as his pupils shrunk.

With a puff of smoke a throne-like chair appeared in the middle of the round table sitting in it was the god of chaos himself. Discord sat back in the throne with his legs crossed and grinning, his out of date suit was oddly styled, and half of it was black while the other half yellow.

"What's wrong Sigy, I thought we had so much fun the last time we met."

"You turn me into a parrot!"

"A happy parrot," Discord said with a smile.

“Who does that?!”

“I do.”

"......Why is he here?!" Sigil shouted.

"Because I can.”

Twilight could have sworn she saw Sigil’s eye twitch.

“Now don't we have more pressing matters to attend to?"

"Like?" Twilight said with as much distaste as Sigil at that moment.

"Well your majesty, like the fact that the Familiars is less than a day away from marching on the Griffin-Solstainen Capital of New Lundaya."

"What?!" Celestia said dropping her tea cup.

"Yes, the move quiet fast when there met with little resistance, well that and Postestus's Vanguard are moving across the land like a steamroller." Discord said teleporting another cup of tea to Celestia.

"So, what's the move?" Discord asked everyone.

Everypony at the table looked at one another waiting for the other to say something.

"We-we should wait, see what happens and what they do." Said Twilight after weighing the options.

"Prey waits." Sigil said with a blank expression.

Celestia put a hand up silencing Sigil.

"Twilight's right, if we aid the Griffins in any way, the Familiar will view that as an act of war and vice versa. We should wait, there's too much on the line for us to jump the gun." Celestia said setting her cup down.

Sigil sat back in his seat. "Then New Lundaya falls."