Creeping Shadows: A Heart of Nothingness

Everypony in the room stood there staring in shock as the colt stared at them with a smirk. As they stared they took note of the colts appearance for the first time.
The colt stood at around 6'6" about level with a normal pony's shoulders. His hair was ebony black and messy. His hands had five fingers and a thumb instead of three and they were longer and slimmer than normal. His skin was pale as if made of porcelain and had a few scars that could be seen because his outfit had been removed except for his undergarments and the black cloth wrapping his left arm, the most prominent being two straight lines on either side of his mouth tracing his jaw, a jagged ring over his heart, and a long line going from his throat to his crotch.
The colt then stood up and several of the observing ponies yelped in surprise when shadows cocooned his body. As the shadows receded the colt was revealed to be wearing clothes now. On his deformed hooves he had strange grey boots. His legs were covered by faded jeans with a black belt with a silver buckle. He wore a dark grey jacket that reached his mid thigh with a high collar that obscured his lower face that had a zipper running down its length, a black hood was on his head that when combined with his collar and the circular sunglasses with mirror-like silver lenses he now wore completely obscured his face. His hands were covered by black gloves.
While the ponies were taking in his new appearance the colt walked up to the bed one of his companions was lying on, his steps making no sound, and snapped his fingers
Almost instantly the colts eyes snapped open and he jumped up yelling "What's trying to kill us this time?"
This new colt was a few inches shorter than his companion and he was deformed the same way, except he only had five fingers. His skin was more of a bronze color and he had a short brown mane and bright green eyes.
As the colt looked around his eyes fell on the princesses. He then turned to the first colt and said something that left all of the ponies either slack jawed or glaring.

"Who're the horse chicks?"

The taller of the two responded with "Don't know, don't care.". This time he spoke with a single voice. His voice was clear and strong with a strange melodic sound.
As the brown headed colt went to wake the others the first colt walked up to the princesses and began examining them. After a few moments the colt turned to face his now awake and clothed companions and began speaking in a matter of fact tone.

"They appear to be some form of large humanoid mammal, seemingly intelligent and sapient. From their facial structure and backwards jointed legs designed for balance and strength we can identify them as equine in nature."

"What?" Asked a filly standing just at 5'4" with a long mane with dark orange, purple, and hot pink stripes and electric blue eyes, wearing a black leotard with spandex leggings and a dark blue open vest.

"They're giant horse people." The colt said in a flat tone further adding to the insult the ponies felt.
The last foal, a colt standing just under six feet with no mane, brown eyes, and light brown skin, wearing boots and jeans similar to the first colt and a brown long sleeved shirt with a thick vest then spoke.

"Where are we Relnak?" He asked the first colt.

"Unknown." Was the colt apparently called Relnak's response.

"Plan of attack?" Inquired the brown headed colt, now wearing dark grey body armor with a bronze badge on his left shoulder.
The gathered ponies tensed at the word attack but their apprehension was soon alleviated by 'Relnak's' response.

"Leave the area and find a defensible location to regroup."
With those words he turned and walked toward the doorway with his companions following.
This shook the ponies out of their stupor and an orange earth pony, Applejack, and a blue Pegasus with a rainbow mane, Rainbow Dash moved to block them.

"Ya'll can't go running off, it ain't safe for foals to be wandering around alone." Said the Element of Honesty.
The colt in grey stopped and regarded the two mares before shoving them aside sending them back several feet. The group of foals walked out the doors and began moving at a faster pace in the open halls.

Celestia called out "Guards secure those foals but don't harm them!".

As the guardsmares moved to capture the foals the 'Relnak' thrust his arm forward and the two guards were knocked of their hooves. If one looked closely they would have seen a thin transparent wall seemingly made of glass slam into the guards.

As more guards came having been attracted by the commotion, the foals stood in a circle and were suddenly holding weapons. The brown skinned colt held two ten inch daggers, the brown headed one held a dagger with a strange metal piece over his hand, the filly had what appeared to be a large green and blue yoyo, and 'Relnak' held a sword that had a long furved hilt with no crossguard and a blade that flared diagonally away from the hilt before angling upward forming a long straight single edged blade that was held inside a black sheath. All of the foals were tensed in preparation except for their leader, who was relaxed and seemed bored.

"Are these foals really going to try to fight us with knives, a toy, and a covered blade?" One incredulous guard asked aloud.

"Easy there little fellas, let's just relax and see if we can get you to your parents." Another said in a soft voice while making placating gestures.
In response 'Relnak' swung his sword in the direction of two guards. Before the guards could comment on what they believed was a childish and obvious mistake they were knocked off their hooves and landed on their backs , both having a slash mark across their armor.
The grey colt then said one word with their layered voice. "Gencall." At that the other foals sprang at the guards. The filly swung her yoyo at a guard and when it impacted a small explosion went off and the guardsmare went flying she then started leaping and flipping around the guards hitting them from all angles. The colt in armor had flipped his knife and twisted the metal part over his hand around so that it was facing the guards in front of him, he the pulled a trigger similar to a crossbow's multiple times and with a loud series of noises the guards were knocked to the floor with dents in their armor, the colt then changed his weapon back to a knife and began fending of guards. The brown colt jumped onto a mare's back and started banging her head with the butts of his daggers handles when she fell he leapt from her and started incapacitating nearby guards with blows to their joints.
Meanwhile 'Relnak' rushed at a guard and tapped her in the chest with enough force to send her skidding across the floor, then he ducked under another mare and hit her with his sword knocking her out. He then began swiftly swooping and dodging around the guards trying to restrain him while sending any mare he touched flying.
The unicorns tried to catch them with their magic but nothing happened, so they switched to erecting shields to defend from the Brown haired colts weapon and the filly's acrobatic attacks.
As more guards came to try to catch the foals 'Relnak' charged at the lead mare, a unicorn, with a downward slash. The mare was just able to raise a shield to block him by a few inches. As the colt's sword impacted the shield several cracks appeared on its surface and the colt leaned in close to the mares face and delivered a headbutt that sent her crashing into the mares behind her knocking them out cold.
By now the guards had managed to subdue the other two colts and were closing in on the filly. Suddenly 'Relnak' swung around to face them and his shadow seemed to grow. Within in seconds the colt was charging at the guards in a black blur and began knocking them away from the filly before charging at the guards holding the struggling colts.

The Elements and princesses had been watching the entire time and at this occurrence Twilight Sparkle's eyes widened in fear.

"Princess Celestia," She asked "is that dark magic?! How is an earth pony colt doing that?"

"I don't know for sure but it seems like it." The princess said with worry.

End Music

By now the grey colt had taken down all of the guards and was walking down the hall with his companions when a bright yellow Pegasus with a pink mane, Fluttershy, called out to them.

"Please wait! It's to dangerous for you out there."
At this 'Relnak' stopped the others following suit and glanced behind his shoulder at her. With his strange whisper he said "We can easily eliminate any threat we encounter.".
At this Celestia spoke up. "Be that as it may I cannot allow you young foals to wander alone."
'Relnak' turned to face the princess and cocked his head in curiosity.

"How are we young when we and our comrades have have fought in countless wars?" He asked.

Fluttershy then flew up to 'Relnak' and embraced him.
"Oh you poor thing. Being forced to fight in horrible nasty wars." She cried.

The grey colt turned into shadows and moved away from the kind hearted mare.

He then said "We were not forced to fight. We always led the warriors."
The ponies were shocked that these foals had been in charge of so may wars. Princess Celestia stepped forward and made calming gestures when 'Relnak' tensed.

She then softly said "Please stay so that we know you're safe."
The colt seemed to considered her words before nodding his head.

"Very well then, we shall remain here until we decide to leave"

"I will stop you if you leave." The alicorn warned.

"You will try." The colt said nodding. "Now then we believe proper introductions are in order."

"We are Corvalius Dakenistaire."