Of Fire and Ice

Thunder was walking through the streets of Kayrock, it was said that the city was once a great economical center before the war started but the days of great wealth have past and now the years of crippling poverty have taken hold. As Thunder approached the street he was born on he was overcome by the memories of his father and mother; the few weeks Thunder’s father was allowed to have a home visit were the best weeks of Thunder’s and his mother’s life, however on Thunder’s 16 birthday his Father never came home a few days later, Thunder got a letter informing him of his Father’s death this was too much for his mother who ended her life the next day. As Thunder looked around the happy memories were overpowered by the negative memories: him finding his mother died; when he was forced to leave home to go to the mandatory military training.

As the streets grew darker Thunder knew it wasn’t safe, even for somepony who was getting shipped to the front lines the next day, he decided to head back to the barracks but before that he looked back to his street his home and his life.
“Goodbye friend...” he sighed “The Firelord will cleanse the sins from this world.” Soon Thunder was at the barracks where he spent his life after his mother passed, it was one of the only buildings in the city that was maintained and expanded it looked out of place among the decaying houses and shops. When he entered the barracks he could hear the training session was still going on.

Good he thought. Looks like I slipped out unnoticed. As he looked into the room designated as Training & Evaluation he could see the unicorns in one half practicing magic and the other side was the earth ponies in their heavy plate armor, but no pegasi. Meaning one of two things, one: he didn’t have to spend 2 hours training something he has aced or two: his battalion has been shipped off to the front and he will be classed as a coward and killed on sight.

Brave was in training, after destroying four of the targets it was pretty obvious that his ranged magic was sufficiently strong, when he saw a Pegasus with a electric blue coat and an electric yellow mane styled in to look like a lightning bolt flying into the ground. After a while of waiting for the instructor/ nightmare material to get occupied with a Earth pony dropping his armor Brave went to talk to the mysterious pegasus. “You do know that your training is over.”

“And who the hell do you think you are?” Thunder inquired, not really liking unicorns with that magic of theirs.

“Wanting to know why a Pegasus who is probably too high on whatever it is you fly with to know what time of day it is” Brave retorted.

“Well at least i don’t need to have magic to do stuff for me, I can do shit myself!” Thunder exclaimed “And with that teleportation spell you can do i wonder if you know what it is to walk for a day!”

“Oh come on! I bet you fly everywhere, even fucking a mare I bet your wired wings flap all over!” Brave retaliated.

“At least I don’t fire a magic beam when I cum!” And with that Thunder walked away, not listening to the unicorn with a beige coat and dark maroon mane, everything about that pony was boring. And why did he have to bring up sex? of all the things Thunder was uncomfortable with sex is high in the list.

The day passed with the expected ceremony and final lesson on the Wonders and what will happen to your family if you join with them. Family. The one thing they can’t use against Thunder. As Thunder was walking to the station that would take him to the front he could see why it was sometimes referred to as a pen, claustrophobic rooms full of soldiers and their equipment. Thunder walked around trying to find his commanding officer and then try to find out who is in his squad, if he is going to die tomorrow he would at least like to find out how he is supposed to keep him alive.To Thunder’s surpise he knew the comander but unfortuatly his comander was his late fathers’s.

“Sir, Thunderbird here to sign in” He said with a salute

“Okay soldier just keep out of my way until the train comes.” He grumbled aggressively

“Okay sir and I was --” Thunder was cut off

“And i hope you are not like your coward of a father.” The commander was looking straight into Thunder’s eyes, looking for any source of weakness, but what he found was pride honor and bravery.

“Don’t worry sir, I’ll make sure to fight when my time comes, no matter who I have to kill!” Thunder walked away and found a bench to sit on I suppose he can kill me right now. But no punishment came, only a nod of respect from the rest of the squad who were slowly meeting eachother. Thunder looked around and saw the unicorn from training. Thunder watched him, for reasons he couldn’t explain he felt there was something different about him: not talking to the others; doing everything he could to stay away from the center of the station. well Thunder thought there's a good story behind him.

As Thunder went to talk to him the train came and the commander ordered everypony to collect their arms and armor and board.