Heroes of Equinox, The Guards of Truthby The_Masked_FoxChaptersChapter One - The Golden BladeChapter Two - Black and White DragonsChapter Three - The Wolf of the Amber PlainsNoticeChapter One - The Golden BladeChapter one - The Golden Blade I opened my eyes to an unfamiliar environment, in fact… it is rather dark in here, it takes a few moments before my eyes adjusted to the low light so, I began to look around and upon finding nothing I decided to (like the idiot I am) sit up and I was halfway there I felt a sudden pain in my chest that made me yelp in pain, and once I made that sudden yelp I heard footsteps… no… that’s the sound of hooves hitting against wood. “Hey, you need rest. Your body is still recovering from that wound of yours.” When I heard that voice I looked around again and saw a... AN anthro pony mare, her fur is the color of the inside of an apple and her… mane and tail are red, OKAY I’ve got to be dreaming, this is NOT real… then it was that moment I realized she was wearing nothing more than a bra and panties… fuck. I quickly shifted my eyes away from her. But then something hit me hard, not physically, oh no not physically at all, mentally is for sure, but what hit me hard was the fact that she reminded me of a certain character from a show my younger sister and brother liked to watch… what was the name of that show? I believe it was called… My Little Pony… Friendship is Magic? Yea some bullshit thing like that. Then my mind finally registered what she said and I couldn’t help but blurt out, “What? What wound? What are you talking about?” She tilted her head to the side then replied, “Ahm talkin’ about your wound that has made a hole straight through you. You know the one that should have killed you.” With that snip bit of information, my mind started to run in circles, “I… have a… hole through my… chest?” I said the last few words silently and in caution because if there was I should be dead right now. “Yes, you have a hole through your chest, now rest and recover. Sweetie is scavenging old Ponyville for medical supplies to help you.” Then another pony came into the room but wearing more clothing and apparently scrap armor (I say that because the armor looks completely improvised out of scrap metal); in her hand she is holding a crossbow, then I saw her wings, and her fur in orange and she has a pink mane and magenta eyes. The new pony looked at the one who I was talking to and said, “Apple Bloom, get some clothes on. I’ll take over from here, it’s your turn to watch for those Traitors.” At first, Apple Bloom seemed to be reluctant but then walked out of the room and I could hear the light clanking of metal as she put on her armor then the new pony decided to talk, “My name is Scootaloo, what’s your name?” I almost said it but instantly stopped as I realized that I forgot my own name so I pondered this and then I heard a crash nearby and with that sudden sound Scootaloo jumped to her feet and ran to the door only to run into a very large stallion who nodded to me and then went over to me and picked up one side of the cot that I was laid down on then Scootaloo picked up the other. “We better hurry to the other base, they found me and Big Mac while we were scavenging for meds!” This made me sigh, oh great more drama. They have been running for at least and hour when we finally made it to a ruin of a castle and they ran into it and into the basement then pulled up and stone revealing a flight of stairs that they went down. Once we stopped we were in a rather large cavern. “We’ll drop you off in a room.” Both the large stallion and Scootaloo delivered me to my room when I decided to ask them for something, “Hey, Scootaloo?” “Yes?” “Could you bring me my backpack and clothing?” “Sure thing,” and then she left and returned few moments later she returned with my backpack and clothes and she looked a bit shocked, “Your clothing when we found you was blood stained and had a large hole through the chest but now it’s gone.” I smiled at this, “Enchanted to repair its self as well as clean its self.” When I said that my mind did a backflip, I said that subconsciously! But she took it differently, “Wow, your lucky. Most of us have to worry a lot about cleaning our clothing.” We both snickered at that, then she put my backpack next to me and said: “See you later.” I decided to rummage through my backpack and found that I had one of every item but upon looking at them I saw they all were broken in some way and completely unusable. But then I pulled out the Artifacts, and the shocking thing was that when I touched them they felt... how to put this… dead? No, no, no, they felt… empty and impossibly light, I could tell from appearance that they were made of solid rock, metal, and glass yet they weighed nothing... weird. I looked through my bag some more and found that the two pistols I bought were in there as well, same with my rifle, a wakizashi, and... I noticed a handle sticking out of my backpack in an area of it that didn’t exist before and when I pulled it out and saw that it was Thyron’s sword. After waiting quite a while I got up and took off my bandages to see that I got turned into an anthro, with that I shrugged, I always considered myself an anthro not a human so I’m fine with this. Looking around the room I found a mirror and I went over to it and started to examine myself and once I was done this is what I could see on the surface, I’m a unicorn, my fur color is obsidian purple, my eyes are emerald green; on my right hand I have an emblem/tattoo of Thyron’s sword with green flames coming out of its engravings. Once I got all the bandages off I put on my clothes then my coat and hat and armor pieces made of unpolished gold... wait, when did I have unpolished gold armor pieces? Upon expecting them I noticed that they looked like they belonged to Thyron and at this I sigh, I’ve become not only the Bandit and a unicorn but to top it off? I’m also combined with Thyron, shiiit. Finally (after going through a short panic attack) I put on my backpack then I walked out of my room surprising all four of the other people. “H-how are you even standing! You should be laying down!” said a white pony with a light purple and pink mane. So in turn, I replied, “In my backpack I keep have many healing items that help with fixing my wounds.” They frowned and Apple Bloom said, “Why didn’t you tell us earlier?” “I was unconscious and when I woke I was heavily disoriented,” I replied then noted, “I’m a tough nut to break and, either way, I need to go.” And with that, I went up the stairs hoping I could get away from this group of trouble makers. ~Scootaloo’s PoV~ I stared at the place where this strange heal-y guy left through when Sweetie said, “Scoots, bring him back before he gets himself killed…” I looked at Sweetie and nodded then ran to the door after I grabbed my crossbow, its bolts, and my dagger. For the last few minutes, I’ve been tracking him, and he really hasn’t tried to hide his movements… but we kind of forgot to do the same so he is actually reverse following our tracks, then I caught up to him to see him standing in a clearing with… six Traitors… One of them talked first, “A unicorn, and he doesn’t wear the mark of the resistance.” “Come with us unicorn, we think our Queen would like to talk to you,” another Traitor states, “you should join us and liberate this world from the cultists who plague it.” I flinched in anger at that, THEY dare call me and my friends cultists! THEY’RE WORSE! I almost got up and charged at them when the strange super heal-y guy decided to talk, “Cultists? A ghoul calling a living being a cultist is like having a virgin say the first dick she sees is the biggest in the whole world; It is simply unbelievable.” The Traitors… or “Ghouls” as he called them, flinched and looked completely startled by his sudden statement, in fact, I’m even startled by it. Then suddenly he leapt forwards and drew out a sword I didn’t even knew he had and cut one of their heads off then turned on another before they could react and stabbed it all the way to the hilt through the head, then he turned around and punched one in the face so hard I could hear the bones be crushed then he pulled up his strange staff and aimed it at the face of one of the still alive ghouls and then did something and the head blew up then he did the same thing with another and it happened again but I realized by then what he did, he casted a magic bolt quickly. One of the two surviving “ghouls” recovered and pulled out its’ sword and charged at the strange heal-y guy only for him to grab the arm holding the sword and breaks it then takes the sword and stabs it through the chest of the ghoul then pulled it out and whipped around and threw the sword into the head of the still recovering ghoul effectively killing it very quickly. “Come on out Scootaloo, I know you’re there,” when he said that I jumped, then he stated, “it seems I miss judged you and the others.” He bent over and pulled his sword out of the head of the ghoul he stabbed in the face then sheathed it into his… backpack. Then he turned on his heel and began to walk back to The Cutiemark Crusaders’ hideout, and I followed. ~Sweetie Belle’s PoV~ Me, Big Mac and Applebloom waited for quite a while and when we saw Scootaloo enter with the strange person we saved I saw Scoots was… well shocked and there are only a few things that are able to shock her due to how much of a fan she is of Rainbowdash. “Scoots, what’s wrong? What happened?” said Applebloom and Scootaloo just pointed at the strange guy who can heal very quickly then Scootaloo said, “He had a run in with a patrol...” the three of us flinched knowing how hard it was to take down the traitor’s patrols but then Scootaloo then continued what she was saying, “...and he killed all of them by himself and he did it very quickly!” At that, I saw Big Mac was staring at the guy next to Scootaloo with his eyes wide open, me and Applebloom looked as if we were told that an army of traitors had decided to join us. He then bowed to us and said, “I never told you my name, it’s Imperial Gold." Author's Note These- | -are used to show transitions between areas and time. V This character, Imperial Gold is a displaced character that is both Thyron, Sword of Truth and the Bandit. Basic editing I did with Grammarly. Chapter Two - Black and White DragonsChapter two - Black and White Dragons ~Helios’ PoV~ I walk down a path I always walk down every night, it’s beautiful as always, nothing here but me and nature its self, I look at the night sky to see two comets, one purple and one blue, fall out of the heavens... wait... those are coming closer! I watch them as they crashed a few miles ahead of me, I run towards the two meteors but once I get there I see two armored dragons, one wearing black armor and the other wearing white armor, I pause and think, “what? Two dragons fell out of the heavens? I must be going insane...” I look at them and rethink what I just thought, “...their armor looks like it was designed to allow them to survive in harsh conditions...” I shrug this off knowing that if I left them here they would be found and probably executed by the guards so I pick them up, and surprisingly the two of them are pretty light. As I made it to my house neither of them stirred from their sleep, they just are completely unconscious, unaware of their surroundings, almost like sleeping angels... I shake the last thought out of my head vigorously, even if they were angels why would they come down to this hell? I then heard the bell, my shift is on well of to the mines... again, by the Emperor’s claws I wish we had a savior from this so called “king” who is destroying our Empire. I sigh at that and look back at the two strange dragons then thought, “If only that were true... then we would be able to live in peace.” I turn around and leave my house to go and do my “job” that is completely “enjoyable”... ugh, off to the mines I go... again... like I have for the last ten years. ~Wither’s PoV~ I open my eyes and slowly push myself up and look around and I see my sister to whom I smile at then start looking around and I notice that it is being lit by a purple glow, strange... the purple glow seems to be originating from me...I glow...? I could help but ponder why I was glowing purple when a wave of memories crash into me, my name is Wither, I am a cyber dragon same with my sister, we were flying around when a meteor hit us and we were knocked down to this world... and then we hit the ground... my memory is gone from there. I push myself up and will my armor to stop glowing and the glow vanishes, I look around and see a window, I waited for a second then deciding to go over to the window I do so and I push the curtains to the side a little bit and I see a mining town full of dragons, there are guards who seem rather well equipped and- I froze when I saw one of the miners fall over, now looking at him I can easily tell he is very exhausted. I smiled a small bit when a guard walks over to him and helps him up but then my smile turned into a face of complete disbelief, after lifting the miner up the guard started to punch and kick the miner until the miner started to cough up blood then the guard walked away. The only thing that I could feel was pure unbridled anger, but I calmed myself down, if I am to free these... slaves, I would need my sister, the two of us are stronger together than we are alone. “Sister, will your armor’s light off.” She looked at me in confusion then realized and her glow vanished, then she asked me, “Brother, why are you so angry?” I tend to forget we both have been so close that we can’t keep secrets and even our emotions are not hidden from each other. “We are in a town of dragons and... well, one of the guards beat up a civilian for no reason other than he fell over from exhaustion...” I started to tremble with anger again. She looked at me then said, “The one who brought us here should tell us why the guard did so.” I nod in agreement and felt a lot calmer, my sister is one of the very few people who can calm me down when I am mad. I smile and reply, “Alright, I can wait.” We sat there for hours, this time, I knew it was so because the sunlight had vanished more and more until it was nearly dark when the owner of this house came back; when he saw us he seemed very startled at the fact that we are awake, I was about to ask him a question that has been pulling my brain apart when he suddenly shouted silently, "Oh thank Cobalt's glorious spines, both of you are alive!" this outburst caught me off guard. I was about to attempt to ask my question again when my sister interrupted me, "Thank you, we are fine; We've been in worse situations, but me and my brother have a question for you," the dragon seemed relieved and then nodded at her, "you see... my brother saw a dragon being hurt by a guard, do you know why?" What neither of us expected was the surprise that spread across his face then he asked us, "Do you not know of what has been happening since twenty years go?" we both looked at each other then back at him and shook our heads, at this he did the same but out of disbelief then he started to talk again, "It started in Equestria when a powerful necromancer named Cryptic Spell had decided to raise an army of undead, she did so and within a month she captured Equestria's capital, Canterlot, and made the Alicorns of the sun and the moon her slaves," he walked over to the window of his house and leaned on it, "the Elements of Harmony tried to retaliate but they too were no match for 'Queen' Cryptic Spell, her reign over Equestria changed it, she assimilated thousands of Equestians into her army and those that joined her became harder to kill..." he sighed then looked at the ground, "...after two years of building her army she invaded the Crystal Empire and captured it; she resurrected King Sombra then made him the ruler of the Crystal Empire but only for it to be a vassal state to the 'new' Equestria... but her hunger for power wasn't sated by controlling Equestria and the Crystal Empire so she waged war against the rest of Equinox," his claws clutched the windowsill, "the Draconian Empire was the first to fall; then the Gryphon Nation fell, only the Diamond Dog Empire, the Yak Republic, and the Thestral Kingdom remain, there are the outlying states such as the Minotaurs, the Rams, and so on but the major nations of Equinox are half gone," he looked at us then sighed again, "the Draconian Empire's newest leader is 'King' Meteor who was appointed as such by our conqueror, he has enslaved our people, but only the Nobles and those loyal to him are not worked to death in the mines and fields." Upon hearing this my rage flared and in turn, my armor sprung alive, I looked over at my sister and saw her armor did the same thing then she looked over at me and we both silently agreed on one thing, kill the tyrant queen and those loyal to her. We both stood up at the same time and walked for the exit, once we got outside we drew our weapons and then plasma started to arc on the ends of my sister's tail and wing, and fire sprung alive on the ends of my tail and wing then using the flame at the ends of my tail and wings I launch myself into the sky with me sister following me. Once we reached a considerable height I drew my katanas and my sister took her double sided naginata off her back, the two of us readied our weapons and took a sudden dive to the ground. The wind whistling and wiping away at our armor I saw the ground quickly approaching, with a howl of outrage and anger I quickly changed the direction of my dive onto a guard and the impact crushes his body in a sickening and wet crunch. ~Helios’ PoV~ When they went outside I ran after them fearing what they would do but when they made a quick vertical accent with fire and plasma wrapping around the ends of their wings and tails I stopped in amazement but when they did a sudden dive downwards my fear returned, then the one in black armor did one thing I never expected, he changed the direction of its fall and landed on a soldiers and effectively killed him. The other soldiers turned on him but then he used the flames on his wings and tail to suddenly do a spin and then sliced them in half with his strange sword. I turned around to see where the strange white dragon landed and I saw her standing in the middle of a circle of soldiers with their weapons drawn and circling her. She appeared calm and waiting for the guards to make their first move, one of the soldiers lunged forwards with his spear aiming at her but she used her strange spear to redirect his spear then spun her spear so the other blade on her spear chopped through his helmet and into his head, another soldier attacked her from behind only for her to flash like lightning next to him then she spun her spear and chopped off his head and then did a quick spin and attacked another soldier but, this time, she impaled his through the chest. She kept doing a pattern, wait for her enemy to strike first then block or dodge then attack and by doing this pattern she killed all the soldiers efficiently. Together the strange dragons killed all the soldiers as if they were not killing draconian soldiers but instead it seemed like they were foxes hunting chickens. I stared at them in both disbelief and shock, I looked around to see the other slaves doing the same when the black dragon spoke: "We have heard your ire for the false king of your empire and the tyrant queen of the 'new' Equestria, me and my sister are not from this world; no we are from up there-" he points up to the sky, "-we don't fear these tyrants and instead we will fight for those who have been enslaved by them! Stand by me and my sister to fight against these fools who think they can take your world from you!" I blinked a few times then smiled with happiness I never thought I would never feel again, I look around to see if any of my fellow slaves would stand tall with me and these strange dragons... then realization struck me, these are celestial dragons or the draconian version of angels! I turn to them and ask them one question, "Who are you two?" The white celestial dragon walks next to her brother then answers with, "I am Star and this is my brother Wither." Author's Note Star and Wither are organic or living cyberdragons (more like normal dragons) from XenoRaptor. If you see the little pun I put in good for you. Chapter Three - The Wolf of the Amber PlainsChapter three - The Wolf of the Amber Plains ~Diamo's PoV~ I shuddered, not because I am cold. No, because right now I am in the capital of the Diamond Dog Empire, The Aetherium Halls... which currently is under siege by the new Equestria, thankfully due to that we only have to protect from the sky and from the front of the city due to it being built into a crescent-shaped mountain range. Walking around I see another guard who nods to me and I reply in kind and continue to walk forwards only straying from my path when a piece of building is in my path, glancing around I see what I am looking for, The Monastery, we diamond dogs don’t have gods... well so to speak, practically every diamond dog worships an ancient diamond dog from an era before Equestria came into being, the Great Warrior, apparently he was the last of a species of diamond dogs known as the Wolves of the Amber Plains, which is where the Diamond Dog Empire resides. Sighing I walk over to The Monastery, and thinking to myself, ‘The Monastery is the only building furthest from the walls, in fact, the palace is quite a ways in front of it,’ shaking my head as I near the doors, ‘in there is the armor of the Great Warrior.’ Upon reaching the doors I push one of them open and walk inside then I turn around and hold the door so I could softly close it so as not to make any sound, I then turn around and walk to the pedestal on which the armor of the Great Warrior kneels as if it were kneeling down before a king. Sighing to myself I look around to see many other diamond dogs praying to the Great Warrior to grant us victory, at this I shake my head, I never believed in the Great Warrior as an immortal being but instead I see him as an unrivaled warrior during his time, and now for the first time I am going to do something I swore myself away from, I am going to pray to the Great Warrior for victory. Getting down onto my knees in front of the pedestal I put my paws together and begin to pray, ‘Please, if you are immortal just please, give us your strength so we can defeat our enemy... I am only asking for help because our empire is about to fall... please, just... please help us.’ I could feel tears run down my face, we need the Wolves of the Amber Plains to win but they just keep going... we need the strength of the Great Warrior. Suddenly a shadow rose over me which caused me to look up at the armor of the Great Warrior, but instead of kneeling like it has been for a long time it is standing, a blue glow seeps out from certain chinks in the armor and once in a while what appears to be a blue flame comes out from the gap between the helmet and chest plate. My eyes go wide as I realize one thing, the Great Warrior has returned. He looks down at me then walks around me and walks out The Monastery leaving those of us stupefied and staring at the door which he had left through. Quickly I jump to my feet releasing myself from the daze I was in I run out of the Monastery to see the enemy launched a volley of ballista bolts at us, looking around trying to find anyone who was foolish enough to say out on the streets I spotted the Great Warrior standing there, then blue flames suddenly sprung to life around his arms which he raised toward the sky then he said, “Three golden knights to defend them, the two jewels of the Dragon to channel our sight, the heaven’s shield to protect us, nine wards of aetherium to stop the blow, twenty unrelenting crows to reveal them, twelve emerald stars to guide us, five unbending Heroes under the moon stained with blood, defend our people golden knights, use the heaven’s shield and put the nine wards of aetherium on it, use the jewels of the Dragon and the crows to see where to stop the blows, and the Heroes channel the wrath of the moon to form the walls behind them. Oath of wards, Suk’dro, number fifteen.” When he finished chanting a barrier formed around the city and stopped the barrage of ballista bolts, but it didn’t stop there, the barrier re-launched all of the ballista bolts back at the enemy army along with hundreds of bolts of magic. Staring in shock I fell to my knees, all the legends of the Great Warrior were never over exaggerated... no, they were under exaggerated. The legends say the Great Warrior could use magic and they he held the strength of a thousand diamond dogs, but magical wise they never said he could do anything like this! Legends that are passed down orally at some point they start to become more exaggerated and less believable... the legend either became under exaggerated over time or somehow the Great Warrior became even more powerful. Then the Great Warrior started walking again and I followed, when we arrived at the wall I looked at him to see him turn around towards a crowd and looked over them then a deep but humble and yet strangely loud voice came from him that said, “I have heard your pains about what has been happening, if I could have awoken earlier I would have struck at them before they were able to swing a blow at us. But we will make a new path, many may think our empire will fall but I shall make this day a moment that will show the world that our empire can not be toppled as easily as those Draconian Empire, Equestria, and Gryphon Nation, our home is within the mountains and the deep. The dragons, griffins, and pegasi can have their skies, the earth ponies, unicorns, and yaks can have the crest of the world, the dragons can have their volcanoes, the thestrals can have their moon and caves, the other races can have the overworld but if they think they can take the world beneath the crest of the world they are wrong, we are born under the crest of the world, we were raised as the keepers of the deep, where earth and stone lays is where we are most at home. But we try to avoid war not because we are weak, but that we prefer the peace we earned after eras of war. I would have preferred to awaken to join you in a time of peace but once again we must fight against those who wish to destroy us, come brothers and sisters! Join me with your weapons raised above your head, and with your armor donned.” Blinking I felt happiness and joy, along with a burning fire of revenge, smiling I raised my bow over my head and gave my best battle howl, after mine I heard hundreds of howls join mine, and the great warrior joined our symphony, for the first time for the last two months me and the other guards have been emotionally recharged, our morale is at its peak. ~General Shatter Wall PoV~ I stared at the city that has a blue shield surrounding it like a foal, multiple questions raced through my mind, but one question remained dominant in my mind, I turned towards Captain Kumo, and then I said, “I thought you said diamond dogs can not use magic.” He looked at me with the same stupor I currently felt reflecting on his face, “We can’t, except for one species of my kind that has been dead for eras long before the rise of Celestia... they were known as The Wolves of the Amber Plains or as they referred to themselves as, the Broken Wolves, they were able to harvest Aetherium easily and then utilize it for casting spells, the last one alive was known as The Great Warrior.” Shaking my head I then reply, “They must have gone into seclusion and simply hide until now.” “No,” looking back at Kumo I saw on his face that he was completely positive, “while they were immortal they never hid, they kept track of every Broken Wolf that existed, and a new Broken Wolf only appears when another Broken Wolf is around.” Then from the city we heard the diamond dogs howling, but it sent shivers straight through me, those sounded like howls of anger and they were not howls of those with a broken resolve, no, those howls sound closer to a war cry, I looked back at the city and I saw the gates open and the magical barrier open, and from the gates came an army of diamond dogs that is being spearheaded by a large diamond dog wearing armor that looked like a diamond dog made a statue of a tall and quite beefy then made armor and put it on the statue then cast a spell to make it come to life. I turned to look at Kumo and his reaction to seeing this strange diamond dog was worse than mine, he looked like he was just told he had to fight a dragon with nothing but a knife, he then states, “No, that’s impossible, he can’t be alive... he died so long ago... how... how is he here?” “What is impossible? Who can’t be alive? What?” I felt my confusion coursing through me as well as curiosity, was it, someone, Kumo thought he killed long ago? Kumo never took his eyes away from the heavily armored diamond dog as he replied, “That diamond dog wearing that heavy armor... that one is the reason why the barrier appeared, I saw him long ago but he was asleep then... I thought he was dead...” he sighed, “it appears as if the Great Warrior did simply go to sleep... he is the last of the Broken Wolves, and in all of the diamond dog’s recorded history, he is the greatest and most powerful Broken Wolf to ever exist... and he is thought to be undefeatable.” I felt a sense of overwhelming dread wash over me as I turned my head back towards the diamond dog that is known as the Great Warrior, then I shouted, “To battle positions! Prepare to stop the enemy force. Ballista, aim for the diamond dog in the heavy armor, whoever kills him will get a promotion and a Lieutenant’s pay.” When I heard shouts of understanding and I saw the soldiers put under my command rush into positions I went to mine and readied my crossbow. ~Three days later~ ~Discord’s PoV~ Looking around me I clutch onto my son, smirking to myself at how easily I can fool these Griffins into thinking I am one of them. Sighing I look down at my baby child, he looks like a griffon just like I do, I would have used a disguise were it not that his mother, my wife Celestia begged me to flee with our child. Mirage, I wish I could save our world so you don't have to remember the hardships that are before us, each rebellion fighting against the Tyrant Queen Cryptic Spell has been destroyed, if only Chrome was still alive. Shaking my head I walk to the newsstand and pay the merchant two feathers, or in Equine terms of cash twenty copper bits. I walk back to my house with Mirage on my back, once I get home I read the title grimly only for my jaw to fall. Siege on Aetherium Halls Failed General Shatter Wall's record of successful sieges has been put to an end when he besieged Aetherium Halls, the capital of the Diamond Dog Empire. The scouts of his army say that they had destroyed the Dog's moral when they suddenly a barrier of magic formed around Aetherium Halls which deflected all one hundred and sixty-nine ballista bolts back towards the army which destroyed a large portion of the army, then soon afterwards the Dogs let out bestial howls and opened the gates and rushed at our army, leading this army a Dog wearing heavy armor that no being should be able to wear. The Dogs that joined our cause were shaken upon seeing this warrior and kept calling him, "The Great Warrior" said to be the last of the Broken Wolves. Once The Great Warrior was the one who killed General Shatter Wall in combat- I can no longer focus on the newspaper, Chrome, my friend from ten thousand years ago... is still alive, not only that he is as strong as he was when I last saw him, but... how? Is it really him? or is it a dog who is pretending to be Chrome? Laughing and shaking my head I realized one thing if the Diamond Dogs are able to fend off the best General of New Equestria and his army of elites then that is the safest place for a rebel like me. Picking up my daughter I pull at the cords of chaos magic and suddenly an amazingly beautiful symphony springs to life around me. Grinning to myself I always enjoy the sound of the music made by chaos, one could never describe the wondrous flow of sounds come out of that symphony, every day it is different and unique making it hard to control it. Luckily enough for me I practiced in the art of controlling chaos magic for thousands of years, I pull the cords and I begin to feel the reality around me warp to my will then pulling on the final cord I no longer find me and my daughter in the guise of griffins but what we truly are. Looking around I see that I’m in front of the Halls of Valor, the resting place for all the Broken Wolves who died fighting for the weak and innocent, those who showed great honor, virtue, and justice. Those who gave assistance to the weak fought foe what was just, and hunted down evil even when it was hiding. Sighing to myself, ‘These are times when the Broken Wolves are most needed, but since they died out we should look at them and use their beliefs as our inspiration.’ I turn around and walk to the gates of this city, halfway there I see and hear a sight I thought I’d never see, Chrome is alive! Surrounding him pups play and dance while he plays the violin. I could feel the air around me strumming with magic, it was playing a song which I never heard before, he even is dancing to his own music. I stare at him dumbstruck when my child awakens in my arms. I let her go so she could play with the pups, then I sit down listening in amazement as he plays the song as if he had spent years playing it. Once the song ended he gives the violin to a dog who it appears the violin belongs to, after he did that he crouches and looks at my daughter then says, "You look like a friend of mine, although you have more of an Equine appearance," my daughter ran back to me and his gave followed her, then he saw me then laughed- something in the past he rarely did then he says, "and then she shows me that beyond all odds the last Draconequus is still alive and has a child!" Then one thing I never thought he would do happened, he walked over to me and hugged me then said, "It is good to see you again." I couldn't help but break into tears, the impossible has happened and my friend from twenty-thousand years ago is here doing two things that I never knew he would do. Author's Note Chrome is displaced as the Miner from Risk of Rain combined with a Stalwart from the Broken Lords (faction) from Endless Legend and he is a Diamond-Dog spirit bound to armor. All magic Chrome is able to do requires Aetherium, or for the Endless Legend fans 'Dust', he requires Dust to live, he requires Dust to repair his "body" and he requires Dust to even see. The Amber Plains (where this chapter takes place) is rich in Aetherium or Dust and Chrome is uniquely adept at gathering Dust, so in plains and areas where Dust is easier to find he always holds the upper hand. But if he were in a frozen tundra he'd be stressed about his Dust usage. Here is a link so you understand where I'm basing this on. Do note that Imperial Gold was able to defeat the squad of Ghouls because he had the upper hand and they angered him. Imperial Gold's physical and magical power actually doubles when he is put into his bloodlust, but since they angered him his power was at around 45% maximum power. It takes a lot to put him into his bloodlust so don't worry about him being too op for now. Wither and Star actually held the element of surprise and once that vanished it was a matter of who has better combat experience and who hold the most soldiers, in this case, it was 20 soldiers is decent training versus 2 soldiers who have the experience of when they fought against large armies together. Simply put it is like sending 20 warriors in leather armor and with stone weaponry against two ancient wyrms, it was highly unfair. Not to mention the wyrms have armor that is much stronger than any known steel in this world, yea just unfair. Notice Author's Note Until Further notice this book is cancelled, maybe I'll restart it during the summer.
Chapter One - The Golden BladeChapter one - The Golden Blade I opened my eyes to an unfamiliar environment, in fact… it is rather dark in here, it takes a few moments before my eyes adjusted to the low light so, I began to look around and upon finding nothing I decided to (like the idiot I am) sit up and I was halfway there I felt a sudden pain in my chest that made me yelp in pain, and once I made that sudden yelp I heard footsteps… no… that’s the sound of hooves hitting against wood. “Hey, you need rest. Your body is still recovering from that wound of yours.” When I heard that voice I looked around again and saw a... AN anthro pony mare, her fur is the color of the inside of an apple and her… mane and tail are red, OKAY I’ve got to be dreaming, this is NOT real… then it was that moment I realized she was wearing nothing more than a bra and panties… fuck. I quickly shifted my eyes away from her. But then something hit me hard, not physically, oh no not physically at all, mentally is for sure, but what hit me hard was the fact that she reminded me of a certain character from a show my younger sister and brother liked to watch… what was the name of that show? I believe it was called… My Little Pony… Friendship is Magic? Yea some bullshit thing like that. Then my mind finally registered what she said and I couldn’t help but blurt out, “What? What wound? What are you talking about?” She tilted her head to the side then replied, “Ahm talkin’ about your wound that has made a hole straight through you. You know the one that should have killed you.” With that snip bit of information, my mind started to run in circles, “I… have a… hole through my… chest?” I said the last few words silently and in caution because if there was I should be dead right now. “Yes, you have a hole through your chest, now rest and recover. Sweetie is scavenging old Ponyville for medical supplies to help you.” Then another pony came into the room but wearing more clothing and apparently scrap armor (I say that because the armor looks completely improvised out of scrap metal); in her hand she is holding a crossbow, then I saw her wings, and her fur in orange and she has a pink mane and magenta eyes. The new pony looked at the one who I was talking to and said, “Apple Bloom, get some clothes on. I’ll take over from here, it’s your turn to watch for those Traitors.” At first, Apple Bloom seemed to be reluctant but then walked out of the room and I could hear the light clanking of metal as she put on her armor then the new pony decided to talk, “My name is Scootaloo, what’s your name?” I almost said it but instantly stopped as I realized that I forgot my own name so I pondered this and then I heard a crash nearby and with that sudden sound Scootaloo jumped to her feet and ran to the door only to run into a very large stallion who nodded to me and then went over to me and picked up one side of the cot that I was laid down on then Scootaloo picked up the other. “We better hurry to the other base, they found me and Big Mac while we were scavenging for meds!” This made me sigh, oh great more drama. They have been running for at least and hour when we finally made it to a ruin of a castle and they ran into it and into the basement then pulled up and stone revealing a flight of stairs that they went down. Once we stopped we were in a rather large cavern. “We’ll drop you off in a room.” Both the large stallion and Scootaloo delivered me to my room when I decided to ask them for something, “Hey, Scootaloo?” “Yes?” “Could you bring me my backpack and clothing?” “Sure thing,” and then she left and returned few moments later she returned with my backpack and clothes and she looked a bit shocked, “Your clothing when we found you was blood stained and had a large hole through the chest but now it’s gone.” I smiled at this, “Enchanted to repair its self as well as clean its self.” When I said that my mind did a backflip, I said that subconsciously! But she took it differently, “Wow, your lucky. Most of us have to worry a lot about cleaning our clothing.” We both snickered at that, then she put my backpack next to me and said: “See you later.” I decided to rummage through my backpack and found that I had one of every item but upon looking at them I saw they all were broken in some way and completely unusable. But then I pulled out the Artifacts, and the shocking thing was that when I touched them they felt... how to put this… dead? No, no, no, they felt… empty and impossibly light, I could tell from appearance that they were made of solid rock, metal, and glass yet they weighed nothing... weird. I looked through my bag some more and found that the two pistols I bought were in there as well, same with my rifle, a wakizashi, and... I noticed a handle sticking out of my backpack in an area of it that didn’t exist before and when I pulled it out and saw that it was Thyron’s sword. After waiting quite a while I got up and took off my bandages to see that I got turned into an anthro, with that I shrugged, I always considered myself an anthro not a human so I’m fine with this. Looking around the room I found a mirror and I went over to it and started to examine myself and once I was done this is what I could see on the surface, I’m a unicorn, my fur color is obsidian purple, my eyes are emerald green; on my right hand I have an emblem/tattoo of Thyron’s sword with green flames coming out of its engravings. Once I got all the bandages off I put on my clothes then my coat and hat and armor pieces made of unpolished gold... wait, when did I have unpolished gold armor pieces? Upon expecting them I noticed that they looked like they belonged to Thyron and at this I sigh, I’ve become not only the Bandit and a unicorn but to top it off? I’m also combined with Thyron, shiiit. Finally (after going through a short panic attack) I put on my backpack then I walked out of my room surprising all four of the other people. “H-how are you even standing! You should be laying down!” said a white pony with a light purple and pink mane. So in turn, I replied, “In my backpack I keep have many healing items that help with fixing my wounds.” They frowned and Apple Bloom said, “Why didn’t you tell us earlier?” “I was unconscious and when I woke I was heavily disoriented,” I replied then noted, “I’m a tough nut to break and, either way, I need to go.” And with that, I went up the stairs hoping I could get away from this group of trouble makers. ~Scootaloo’s PoV~ I stared at the place where this strange heal-y guy left through when Sweetie said, “Scoots, bring him back before he gets himself killed…” I looked at Sweetie and nodded then ran to the door after I grabbed my crossbow, its bolts, and my dagger. For the last few minutes, I’ve been tracking him, and he really hasn’t tried to hide his movements… but we kind of forgot to do the same so he is actually reverse following our tracks, then I caught up to him to see him standing in a clearing with… six Traitors… One of them talked first, “A unicorn, and he doesn’t wear the mark of the resistance.” “Come with us unicorn, we think our Queen would like to talk to you,” another Traitor states, “you should join us and liberate this world from the cultists who plague it.” I flinched in anger at that, THEY dare call me and my friends cultists! THEY’RE WORSE! I almost got up and charged at them when the strange super heal-y guy decided to talk, “Cultists? A ghoul calling a living being a cultist is like having a virgin say the first dick she sees is the biggest in the whole world; It is simply unbelievable.” The Traitors… or “Ghouls” as he called them, flinched and looked completely startled by his sudden statement, in fact, I’m even startled by it. Then suddenly he leapt forwards and drew out a sword I didn’t even knew he had and cut one of their heads off then turned on another before they could react and stabbed it all the way to the hilt through the head, then he turned around and punched one in the face so hard I could hear the bones be crushed then he pulled up his strange staff and aimed it at the face of one of the still alive ghouls and then did something and the head blew up then he did the same thing with another and it happened again but I realized by then what he did, he casted a magic bolt quickly. One of the two surviving “ghouls” recovered and pulled out its’ sword and charged at the strange heal-y guy only for him to grab the arm holding the sword and breaks it then takes the sword and stabs it through the chest of the ghoul then pulled it out and whipped around and threw the sword into the head of the still recovering ghoul effectively killing it very quickly. “Come on out Scootaloo, I know you’re there,” when he said that I jumped, then he stated, “it seems I miss judged you and the others.” He bent over and pulled his sword out of the head of the ghoul he stabbed in the face then sheathed it into his… backpack. Then he turned on his heel and began to walk back to The Cutiemark Crusaders’ hideout, and I followed. ~Sweetie Belle’s PoV~ Me, Big Mac and Applebloom waited for quite a while and when we saw Scootaloo enter with the strange person we saved I saw Scoots was… well shocked and there are only a few things that are able to shock her due to how much of a fan she is of Rainbowdash. “Scoots, what’s wrong? What happened?” said Applebloom and Scootaloo just pointed at the strange guy who can heal very quickly then Scootaloo said, “He had a run in with a patrol...” the three of us flinched knowing how hard it was to take down the traitor’s patrols but then Scootaloo then continued what she was saying, “...and he killed all of them by himself and he did it very quickly!” At that, I saw Big Mac was staring at the guy next to Scootaloo with his eyes wide open, me and Applebloom looked as if we were told that an army of traitors had decided to join us. He then bowed to us and said, “I never told you my name, it’s Imperial Gold." Author's Note These- | -are used to show transitions between areas and time. V This character, Imperial Gold is a displaced character that is both Thyron, Sword of Truth and the Bandit. Basic editing I did with Grammarly.
Chapter Two - Black and White DragonsChapter two - Black and White Dragons ~Helios’ PoV~ I walk down a path I always walk down every night, it’s beautiful as always, nothing here but me and nature its self, I look at the night sky to see two comets, one purple and one blue, fall out of the heavens... wait... those are coming closer! I watch them as they crashed a few miles ahead of me, I run towards the two meteors but once I get there I see two armored dragons, one wearing black armor and the other wearing white armor, I pause and think, “what? Two dragons fell out of the heavens? I must be going insane...” I look at them and rethink what I just thought, “...their armor looks like it was designed to allow them to survive in harsh conditions...” I shrug this off knowing that if I left them here they would be found and probably executed by the guards so I pick them up, and surprisingly the two of them are pretty light. As I made it to my house neither of them stirred from their sleep, they just are completely unconscious, unaware of their surroundings, almost like sleeping angels... I shake the last thought out of my head vigorously, even if they were angels why would they come down to this hell? I then heard the bell, my shift is on well of to the mines... again, by the Emperor’s claws I wish we had a savior from this so called “king” who is destroying our Empire. I sigh at that and look back at the two strange dragons then thought, “If only that were true... then we would be able to live in peace.” I turn around and leave my house to go and do my “job” that is completely “enjoyable”... ugh, off to the mines I go... again... like I have for the last ten years. ~Wither’s PoV~ I open my eyes and slowly push myself up and look around and I see my sister to whom I smile at then start looking around and I notice that it is being lit by a purple glow, strange... the purple glow seems to be originating from me...I glow...? I could help but ponder why I was glowing purple when a wave of memories crash into me, my name is Wither, I am a cyber dragon same with my sister, we were flying around when a meteor hit us and we were knocked down to this world... and then we hit the ground... my memory is gone from there. I push myself up and will my armor to stop glowing and the glow vanishes, I look around and see a window, I waited for a second then deciding to go over to the window I do so and I push the curtains to the side a little bit and I see a mining town full of dragons, there are guards who seem rather well equipped and- I froze when I saw one of the miners fall over, now looking at him I can easily tell he is very exhausted. I smiled a small bit when a guard walks over to him and helps him up but then my smile turned into a face of complete disbelief, after lifting the miner up the guard started to punch and kick the miner until the miner started to cough up blood then the guard walked away. The only thing that I could feel was pure unbridled anger, but I calmed myself down, if I am to free these... slaves, I would need my sister, the two of us are stronger together than we are alone. “Sister, will your armor’s light off.” She looked at me in confusion then realized and her glow vanished, then she asked me, “Brother, why are you so angry?” I tend to forget we both have been so close that we can’t keep secrets and even our emotions are not hidden from each other. “We are in a town of dragons and... well, one of the guards beat up a civilian for no reason other than he fell over from exhaustion...” I started to tremble with anger again. She looked at me then said, “The one who brought us here should tell us why the guard did so.” I nod in agreement and felt a lot calmer, my sister is one of the very few people who can calm me down when I am mad. I smile and reply, “Alright, I can wait.” We sat there for hours, this time, I knew it was so because the sunlight had vanished more and more until it was nearly dark when the owner of this house came back; when he saw us he seemed very startled at the fact that we are awake, I was about to ask him a question that has been pulling my brain apart when he suddenly shouted silently, "Oh thank Cobalt's glorious spines, both of you are alive!" this outburst caught me off guard. I was about to attempt to ask my question again when my sister interrupted me, "Thank you, we are fine; We've been in worse situations, but me and my brother have a question for you," the dragon seemed relieved and then nodded at her, "you see... my brother saw a dragon being hurt by a guard, do you know why?" What neither of us expected was the surprise that spread across his face then he asked us, "Do you not know of what has been happening since twenty years go?" we both looked at each other then back at him and shook our heads, at this he did the same but out of disbelief then he started to talk again, "It started in Equestria when a powerful necromancer named Cryptic Spell had decided to raise an army of undead, she did so and within a month she captured Equestria's capital, Canterlot, and made the Alicorns of the sun and the moon her slaves," he walked over to the window of his house and leaned on it, "the Elements of Harmony tried to retaliate but they too were no match for 'Queen' Cryptic Spell, her reign over Equestria changed it, she assimilated thousands of Equestians into her army and those that joined her became harder to kill..." he sighed then looked at the ground, "...after two years of building her army she invaded the Crystal Empire and captured it; she resurrected King Sombra then made him the ruler of the Crystal Empire but only for it to be a vassal state to the 'new' Equestria... but her hunger for power wasn't sated by controlling Equestria and the Crystal Empire so she waged war against the rest of Equinox," his claws clutched the windowsill, "the Draconian Empire was the first to fall; then the Gryphon Nation fell, only the Diamond Dog Empire, the Yak Republic, and the Thestral Kingdom remain, there are the outlying states such as the Minotaurs, the Rams, and so on but the major nations of Equinox are half gone," he looked at us then sighed again, "the Draconian Empire's newest leader is 'King' Meteor who was appointed as such by our conqueror, he has enslaved our people, but only the Nobles and those loyal to him are not worked to death in the mines and fields." Upon hearing this my rage flared and in turn, my armor sprung alive, I looked over at my sister and saw her armor did the same thing then she looked over at me and we both silently agreed on one thing, kill the tyrant queen and those loyal to her. We both stood up at the same time and walked for the exit, once we got outside we drew our weapons and then plasma started to arc on the ends of my sister's tail and wing, and fire sprung alive on the ends of my tail and wing then using the flame at the ends of my tail and wings I launch myself into the sky with me sister following me. Once we reached a considerable height I drew my katanas and my sister took her double sided naginata off her back, the two of us readied our weapons and took a sudden dive to the ground. The wind whistling and wiping away at our armor I saw the ground quickly approaching, with a howl of outrage and anger I quickly changed the direction of my dive onto a guard and the impact crushes his body in a sickening and wet crunch. ~Helios’ PoV~ When they went outside I ran after them fearing what they would do but when they made a quick vertical accent with fire and plasma wrapping around the ends of their wings and tails I stopped in amazement but when they did a sudden dive downwards my fear returned, then the one in black armor did one thing I never expected, he changed the direction of its fall and landed on a soldiers and effectively killed him. The other soldiers turned on him but then he used the flames on his wings and tail to suddenly do a spin and then sliced them in half with his strange sword. I turned around to see where the strange white dragon landed and I saw her standing in the middle of a circle of soldiers with their weapons drawn and circling her. She appeared calm and waiting for the guards to make their first move, one of the soldiers lunged forwards with his spear aiming at her but she used her strange spear to redirect his spear then spun her spear so the other blade on her spear chopped through his helmet and into his head, another soldier attacked her from behind only for her to flash like lightning next to him then she spun her spear and chopped off his head and then did a quick spin and attacked another soldier but, this time, she impaled his through the chest. She kept doing a pattern, wait for her enemy to strike first then block or dodge then attack and by doing this pattern she killed all the soldiers efficiently. Together the strange dragons killed all the soldiers as if they were not killing draconian soldiers but instead it seemed like they were foxes hunting chickens. I stared at them in both disbelief and shock, I looked around to see the other slaves doing the same when the black dragon spoke: "We have heard your ire for the false king of your empire and the tyrant queen of the 'new' Equestria, me and my sister are not from this world; no we are from up there-" he points up to the sky, "-we don't fear these tyrants and instead we will fight for those who have been enslaved by them! Stand by me and my sister to fight against these fools who think they can take your world from you!" I blinked a few times then smiled with happiness I never thought I would never feel again, I look around to see if any of my fellow slaves would stand tall with me and these strange dragons... then realization struck me, these are celestial dragons or the draconian version of angels! I turn to them and ask them one question, "Who are you two?" The white celestial dragon walks next to her brother then answers with, "I am Star and this is my brother Wither." Author's Note Star and Wither are organic or living cyberdragons (more like normal dragons) from XenoRaptor. If you see the little pun I put in good for you.
Chapter Three - The Wolf of the Amber PlainsChapter three - The Wolf of the Amber Plains ~Diamo's PoV~ I shuddered, not because I am cold. No, because right now I am in the capital of the Diamond Dog Empire, The Aetherium Halls... which currently is under siege by the new Equestria, thankfully due to that we only have to protect from the sky and from the front of the city due to it being built into a crescent-shaped mountain range. Walking around I see another guard who nods to me and I reply in kind and continue to walk forwards only straying from my path when a piece of building is in my path, glancing around I see what I am looking for, The Monastery, we diamond dogs don’t have gods... well so to speak, practically every diamond dog worships an ancient diamond dog from an era before Equestria came into being, the Great Warrior, apparently he was the last of a species of diamond dogs known as the Wolves of the Amber Plains, which is where the Diamond Dog Empire resides. Sighing I walk over to The Monastery, and thinking to myself, ‘The Monastery is the only building furthest from the walls, in fact, the palace is quite a ways in front of it,’ shaking my head as I near the doors, ‘in there is the armor of the Great Warrior.’ Upon reaching the doors I push one of them open and walk inside then I turn around and hold the door so I could softly close it so as not to make any sound, I then turn around and walk to the pedestal on which the armor of the Great Warrior kneels as if it were kneeling down before a king. Sighing to myself I look around to see many other diamond dogs praying to the Great Warrior to grant us victory, at this I shake my head, I never believed in the Great Warrior as an immortal being but instead I see him as an unrivaled warrior during his time, and now for the first time I am going to do something I swore myself away from, I am going to pray to the Great Warrior for victory. Getting down onto my knees in front of the pedestal I put my paws together and begin to pray, ‘Please, if you are immortal just please, give us your strength so we can defeat our enemy... I am only asking for help because our empire is about to fall... please, just... please help us.’ I could feel tears run down my face, we need the Wolves of the Amber Plains to win but they just keep going... we need the strength of the Great Warrior. Suddenly a shadow rose over me which caused me to look up at the armor of the Great Warrior, but instead of kneeling like it has been for a long time it is standing, a blue glow seeps out from certain chinks in the armor and once in a while what appears to be a blue flame comes out from the gap between the helmet and chest plate. My eyes go wide as I realize one thing, the Great Warrior has returned. He looks down at me then walks around me and walks out The Monastery leaving those of us stupefied and staring at the door which he had left through. Quickly I jump to my feet releasing myself from the daze I was in I run out of the Monastery to see the enemy launched a volley of ballista bolts at us, looking around trying to find anyone who was foolish enough to say out on the streets I spotted the Great Warrior standing there, then blue flames suddenly sprung to life around his arms which he raised toward the sky then he said, “Three golden knights to defend them, the two jewels of the Dragon to channel our sight, the heaven’s shield to protect us, nine wards of aetherium to stop the blow, twenty unrelenting crows to reveal them, twelve emerald stars to guide us, five unbending Heroes under the moon stained with blood, defend our people golden knights, use the heaven’s shield and put the nine wards of aetherium on it, use the jewels of the Dragon and the crows to see where to stop the blows, and the Heroes channel the wrath of the moon to form the walls behind them. Oath of wards, Suk’dro, number fifteen.” When he finished chanting a barrier formed around the city and stopped the barrage of ballista bolts, but it didn’t stop there, the barrier re-launched all of the ballista bolts back at the enemy army along with hundreds of bolts of magic. Staring in shock I fell to my knees, all the legends of the Great Warrior were never over exaggerated... no, they were under exaggerated. The legends say the Great Warrior could use magic and they he held the strength of a thousand diamond dogs, but magical wise they never said he could do anything like this! Legends that are passed down orally at some point they start to become more exaggerated and less believable... the legend either became under exaggerated over time or somehow the Great Warrior became even more powerful. Then the Great Warrior started walking again and I followed, when we arrived at the wall I looked at him to see him turn around towards a crowd and looked over them then a deep but humble and yet strangely loud voice came from him that said, “I have heard your pains about what has been happening, if I could have awoken earlier I would have struck at them before they were able to swing a blow at us. But we will make a new path, many may think our empire will fall but I shall make this day a moment that will show the world that our empire can not be toppled as easily as those Draconian Empire, Equestria, and Gryphon Nation, our home is within the mountains and the deep. The dragons, griffins, and pegasi can have their skies, the earth ponies, unicorns, and yaks can have the crest of the world, the dragons can have their volcanoes, the thestrals can have their moon and caves, the other races can have the overworld but if they think they can take the world beneath the crest of the world they are wrong, we are born under the crest of the world, we were raised as the keepers of the deep, where earth and stone lays is where we are most at home. But we try to avoid war not because we are weak, but that we prefer the peace we earned after eras of war. I would have preferred to awaken to join you in a time of peace but once again we must fight against those who wish to destroy us, come brothers and sisters! Join me with your weapons raised above your head, and with your armor donned.” Blinking I felt happiness and joy, along with a burning fire of revenge, smiling I raised my bow over my head and gave my best battle howl, after mine I heard hundreds of howls join mine, and the great warrior joined our symphony, for the first time for the last two months me and the other guards have been emotionally recharged, our morale is at its peak. ~General Shatter Wall PoV~ I stared at the city that has a blue shield surrounding it like a foal, multiple questions raced through my mind, but one question remained dominant in my mind, I turned towards Captain Kumo, and then I said, “I thought you said diamond dogs can not use magic.” He looked at me with the same stupor I currently felt reflecting on his face, “We can’t, except for one species of my kind that has been dead for eras long before the rise of Celestia... they were known as The Wolves of the Amber Plains or as they referred to themselves as, the Broken Wolves, they were able to harvest Aetherium easily and then utilize it for casting spells, the last one alive was known as The Great Warrior.” Shaking my head I then reply, “They must have gone into seclusion and simply hide until now.” “No,” looking back at Kumo I saw on his face that he was completely positive, “while they were immortal they never hid, they kept track of every Broken Wolf that existed, and a new Broken Wolf only appears when another Broken Wolf is around.” Then from the city we heard the diamond dogs howling, but it sent shivers straight through me, those sounded like howls of anger and they were not howls of those with a broken resolve, no, those howls sound closer to a war cry, I looked back at the city and I saw the gates open and the magical barrier open, and from the gates came an army of diamond dogs that is being spearheaded by a large diamond dog wearing armor that looked like a diamond dog made a statue of a tall and quite beefy then made armor and put it on the statue then cast a spell to make it come to life. I turned to look at Kumo and his reaction to seeing this strange diamond dog was worse than mine, he looked like he was just told he had to fight a dragon with nothing but a knife, he then states, “No, that’s impossible, he can’t be alive... he died so long ago... how... how is he here?” “What is impossible? Who can’t be alive? What?” I felt my confusion coursing through me as well as curiosity, was it, someone, Kumo thought he killed long ago? Kumo never took his eyes away from the heavily armored diamond dog as he replied, “That diamond dog wearing that heavy armor... that one is the reason why the barrier appeared, I saw him long ago but he was asleep then... I thought he was dead...” he sighed, “it appears as if the Great Warrior did simply go to sleep... he is the last of the Broken Wolves, and in all of the diamond dog’s recorded history, he is the greatest and most powerful Broken Wolf to ever exist... and he is thought to be undefeatable.” I felt a sense of overwhelming dread wash over me as I turned my head back towards the diamond dog that is known as the Great Warrior, then I shouted, “To battle positions! Prepare to stop the enemy force. Ballista, aim for the diamond dog in the heavy armor, whoever kills him will get a promotion and a Lieutenant’s pay.” When I heard shouts of understanding and I saw the soldiers put under my command rush into positions I went to mine and readied my crossbow. ~Three days later~ ~Discord’s PoV~ Looking around me I clutch onto my son, smirking to myself at how easily I can fool these Griffins into thinking I am one of them. Sighing I look down at my baby child, he looks like a griffon just like I do, I would have used a disguise were it not that his mother, my wife Celestia begged me to flee with our child. Mirage, I wish I could save our world so you don't have to remember the hardships that are before us, each rebellion fighting against the Tyrant Queen Cryptic Spell has been destroyed, if only Chrome was still alive. Shaking my head I walk to the newsstand and pay the merchant two feathers, or in Equine terms of cash twenty copper bits. I walk back to my house with Mirage on my back, once I get home I read the title grimly only for my jaw to fall. Siege on Aetherium Halls Failed General Shatter Wall's record of successful sieges has been put to an end when he besieged Aetherium Halls, the capital of the Diamond Dog Empire. The scouts of his army say that they had destroyed the Dog's moral when they suddenly a barrier of magic formed around Aetherium Halls which deflected all one hundred and sixty-nine ballista bolts back towards the army which destroyed a large portion of the army, then soon afterwards the Dogs let out bestial howls and opened the gates and rushed at our army, leading this army a Dog wearing heavy armor that no being should be able to wear. The Dogs that joined our cause were shaken upon seeing this warrior and kept calling him, "The Great Warrior" said to be the last of the Broken Wolves. Once The Great Warrior was the one who killed General Shatter Wall in combat- I can no longer focus on the newspaper, Chrome, my friend from ten thousand years ago... is still alive, not only that he is as strong as he was when I last saw him, but... how? Is it really him? or is it a dog who is pretending to be Chrome? Laughing and shaking my head I realized one thing if the Diamond Dogs are able to fend off the best General of New Equestria and his army of elites then that is the safest place for a rebel like me. Picking up my daughter I pull at the cords of chaos magic and suddenly an amazingly beautiful symphony springs to life around me. Grinning to myself I always enjoy the sound of the music made by chaos, one could never describe the wondrous flow of sounds come out of that symphony, every day it is different and unique making it hard to control it. Luckily enough for me I practiced in the art of controlling chaos magic for thousands of years, I pull the cords and I begin to feel the reality around me warp to my will then pulling on the final cord I no longer find me and my daughter in the guise of griffins but what we truly are. Looking around I see that I’m in front of the Halls of Valor, the resting place for all the Broken Wolves who died fighting for the weak and innocent, those who showed great honor, virtue, and justice. Those who gave assistance to the weak fought foe what was just, and hunted down evil even when it was hiding. Sighing to myself, ‘These are times when the Broken Wolves are most needed, but since they died out we should look at them and use their beliefs as our inspiration.’ I turn around and walk to the gates of this city, halfway there I see and hear a sight I thought I’d never see, Chrome is alive! Surrounding him pups play and dance while he plays the violin. I could feel the air around me strumming with magic, it was playing a song which I never heard before, he even is dancing to his own music. I stare at him dumbstruck when my child awakens in my arms. I let her go so she could play with the pups, then I sit down listening in amazement as he plays the song as if he had spent years playing it. Once the song ended he gives the violin to a dog who it appears the violin belongs to, after he did that he crouches and looks at my daughter then says, "You look like a friend of mine, although you have more of an Equine appearance," my daughter ran back to me and his gave followed her, then he saw me then laughed- something in the past he rarely did then he says, "and then she shows me that beyond all odds the last Draconequus is still alive and has a child!" Then one thing I never thought he would do happened, he walked over to me and hugged me then said, "It is good to see you again." I couldn't help but break into tears, the impossible has happened and my friend from twenty-thousand years ago is here doing two things that I never knew he would do. Author's Note Chrome is displaced as the Miner from Risk of Rain combined with a Stalwart from the Broken Lords (faction) from Endless Legend and he is a Diamond-Dog spirit bound to armor. All magic Chrome is able to do requires Aetherium, or for the Endless Legend fans 'Dust', he requires Dust to live, he requires Dust to repair his "body" and he requires Dust to even see. The Amber Plains (where this chapter takes place) is rich in Aetherium or Dust and Chrome is uniquely adept at gathering Dust, so in plains and areas where Dust is easier to find he always holds the upper hand. But if he were in a frozen tundra he'd be stressed about his Dust usage. Here is a link so you understand where I'm basing this on. Do note that Imperial Gold was able to defeat the squad of Ghouls because he had the upper hand and they angered him. Imperial Gold's physical and magical power actually doubles when he is put into his bloodlust, but since they angered him his power was at around 45% maximum power. It takes a lot to put him into his bloodlust so don't worry about him being too op for now. Wither and Star actually held the element of surprise and once that vanished it was a matter of who has better combat experience and who hold the most soldiers, in this case, it was 20 soldiers is decent training versus 2 soldiers who have the experience of when they fought against large armies together. Simply put it is like sending 20 warriors in leather armor and with stone weaponry against two ancient wyrms, it was highly unfair. Not to mention the wyrms have armor that is much stronger than any known steel in this world, yea just unfair.
Notice Author's Note Until Further notice this book is cancelled, maybe I'll restart it during the summer.
