Those who took the sword

A/N: Fate ( the main character of this little fic) is a telepath. Any time it goes into italics, he's either communicating telepathically or thinking. It will specify which is happening afterwards. Just figured I'd remind you guys so you don't forget

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I crept through the moonlit forest careful to avoid placing my paws on twigs and thick piles of leaves and squeeze through the narrow spaces created by trees only twice as  tall as myself.  Who knew “The rangers apprentice”  could be so useful? I asked myself as I practically glided through the shadows towards the flustered, and apparently dangerous, unicorn I was about to attempt to scare.

 She was a dark green with dark blue mane and tail with a scroll with an inkblot on it. Hmmm  Doesn’t look very threatening, but Luna did say... I thought to myself. As I slunk ever closer.

“Ugh, stupid princess always disappearing and getting me in trouble,” She mumbled to herself. “Princess, please come out! We have so much to get done!” She called out.

I got just to the edge of the road and hid in a convenient bush. Alright. One, two, three! I jumped out and roared as loud as I could right in her face then looked at her. She didn’t even flinch, just stood there with an annoyed expression on her face. Oh, buck me I thought I was expecting all kinds of hell after that. But I did not expect what happened.

*AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH*

She screeched a horrifying warcry that nearly burst my eardrums.

*RRRRAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH*

I yelled back, covering my ears in pain and screwing my eyes shut. I felt my face smack the cobblestone as I waited for the inevitable blast of whatever painful magick she was planning to strike me down with. After a while of nothing I cracked my eye open, and saw... Nothing? I opened my eyes the rest of the way. There was a moonlit cobblestone road surrounded by trees and tall grass. But no angry unicorn waiting to hand me my rear.

I pulled my paws off my ears.

“AAHAAHAHAHAAHAAAA, Oh that was rich!” Luna’s voice came from behind me. I got up and turned to see her rolling on the ground nearly asphyxiated from laughter. “Thou should have seen it! Our steward wet herself!” she managed before sinking into more bouts of laughter.

I sniffed the air, and sure enough there was a faint smell of urine being blown away by the breeze. ugh, that’s just nasty I thought to myself as I wrinkled my nose and moved towards Luna. Alright, you’ve had your fun. Now teach me how to fly I thought at her.

“Oh, very well. We did promise after all.” She said rolling to her hooves and pushing up. She walked over to me her hooves clip-clopping over the cobblestone. When she was only a few feet away she stopped. “The first and simplest thing you must know about flying is how to move your wings.”

She spread her right wing, and motioned to it. “Watch, and do what we do with both of your wings.” She said. With that she slowly brought her wing straight down “Only bring your wings straight down on the first flap to get you in the air.”

I spread both my wings and brought them both straight down

*whomp*

The leathery membrane of my wings snapped taught pushing down air and I let out a strangled “aack” as the ground suddenly got a lot smaller. That was all well and good, but after that it was getting bigger a lot faster than I would have liked. I panicked and started wildly flapping my wings and motoring my legs

*whompwhompwhompwhompwho-thud*

 Luna giggled, then tsked. “Do not put so much power into your downstrokes just yet” she chastised.

 I pulled my face from the silver-grey road and shook it to drive away the little birds taunting me with their perfect flight formation, which happened to be centered around my head. When they finally went away I looked back at Luna and nodded and spread my wings again waiting for her to continue.

“Alright my little manticore, the next thing is to move your wings forward and up,” she said moving her wings as she did. I started my wings up high and slowly brought them down, then pushed forward and up. “Good,” she murmured.

“The next thing is you must decide whether you wish to hover in place or move forward. If you wish to hover then continue bringing your wings straight down. But if you wish to move forward bring them down and back,” she said demonstrating each motion as she said it. I moved my wings exactly as she did and we repeated both “forward” and “hover” cycles a few times each. After a while of this she nodded, satisfied.

“Alright, now remember what we said and try to hover,” she said.

I nodded, then moved my wings up and pulled them down as hard as I could. As I flew up into the air I started to feel that panic rising up again, but I clamped down on it and started trying to “swim” in the air, the moment my wings pushed down and back I shot forward.  I’m doing it! I’m really flyi..-

*thu-crack*

Aaagh, why? I thought to myself as I held my nose and shook my head. After the pain subsided a bit I cracked my eyes open to see just how badly my nose was broken. The bad news? My face had an unscheduled boxing match with a tree. The good news? My face won.

My nose was scraped, but fortunately not broken. The tree was a small thing, covered in grayish bark. But the most interesting thing about it? It was snapped in half. Huh... Guess being hard headed doeshave it’s advantages I chuckled as I pushed myself up to my paws. When I was sure I wouldn’t be falling over I turned around to try and find Luna.

She was trotting towards me, her face scrunched up in concern.

“Are you well?” She asked when she had gotten close enough to see the scratches left by the bark.

Just fine I replied.

Her features relaxed and changed to something more playful. “We are glad to hear it. Though next time you feel the need to chop wood, perhaps an ax would better serve the purpose,” she said with a wry chuckle.

But my face does it so much faster I said, as I stopped prodding the scratches on my muzzle. Anyways, I’ve got to try something. Might need some patching up afterwards if you don’t mind?

“You haven’t even learned to fly properly, and you’re already going to try stunt flying? Perhaps you hit your head harder than we had thought.” she mumbled doubtfully, moving too check my head.

You don’t learn to run without trying. Besides, this will definitely come in handy. I told her preparing to take flight again.

“At least try to fly in a direction that doesn’t take you through every tree in the forest.” She said as I lined up with the nearest tree.

And what fun would that be? I asked before taking off. The tree got closer and closer at an alarming rate, but this time I was prepared for it. I tensed up, and jerked sideways throwing my paws forward to catch the trunk. My front claws sunk into the rough bark and I pulled myself to the side of it and jumping off,  tensing up once again in preparation for the next “roll” as I kept my eyes straight ahead.

It was hard to focus with all the branches I was having to smash my way through, but I was actually doing it. “flying” through the forest by jumping from tree to tree.

One, two, three *THUD*

“Well that was... Interesting” Luna said, trotting up beside me. “But we can’t see you trying out for the Wonder Bolts, so why in Equiis would you want to know how to do this?”

I’ve got to be honest. At this point I have no idea what I would ever need this for. But as my mama always said “Little girls are the devil!”

“Erm... We do not wish to offend you, but what do little girls, or this “devil” have to do with you using you using your face to attack trees?”

Elementary my dear Watson. Fluttershy helped the chicken cross the road, therefore Pinkie Pie needed to find He-man so he could save the universe by the power of Greyskull. I said, doing my best to keep a straight face. After all, when would I ever get the chance to troll a goddess again?

When I finished she had the most lost expression I had ever seen.  “But... We... What?”

I couldn’t help myself. Stabbed and killed, then brought to a completely new world in a completely new body, then spending the last couple of hours in the presence of a creature that shouldn’t even exist. All of that in one da-... Night. And I still couldn’t keep myself from being a troll. So, I did the only sensible thing. I laughed like a mad-man...ticore...

Moving on.

When I finally managed to stop I looked up at Luna. She was gone.Huh? Hey it wasn’t thatbad, was it? I asked the empty night. All I got back was the chirping of crickets.