Joining The Lunar Republic

General Shortsnout was a nightmare!!!!! He sent us on weekly raids and had us working our flanks off for nothing! We hadn't been to battle for a long time and the midnight raids left us tired and grumpy. The lack of battles diminished our spirit and left me and Bolt bored and irritable. We played cards with soldiers from other regiments, swam in the river, and grew crops. The older soldiers used the sickle and hoe to clear and till the fields, some volunteered to dig trenches and fill them with water, some fertilized, and some planted and harvested, like me and Bolt!

"I wish Earth Tiller was here," I told Bolt, thinking of my little brother, "He was amazing in the fields, his cutie mark was a hoe and he was an earth pony, known for tending the land."

"I bet he misses you too Lightning," Bolt replied.

"My older brother, Blueberry Pie, he was with us," I said hollowly.

"But that's good isn't it?" Bolt asked.

I sighed, "He was captured,"

Bolt gasped, but decided not to pursue the subject, he got up and trotted away.

Soon after, I got up and before I was halfway to the field, General Shortsnout appeared in front of me.

"LIGHTNING, YU IS LAZY!!!!" he screamed, "I BEEN LOOKING FOR YU FOR 'OURS!"

I gulped as I looked up into his face. He scared me with his piercing yellow eyes. He screamed some more as I ran back to the field.

These 5 months were going to be long ones.