The Nine to Free Them All

Our wannabe heroes in the Canterlot hallways

P.O.V Draugr

C'mon! C'mon! Faster! We were going top speed down the hallways, swords drawn. I didnt care if were spotted by guards anymore, we got people-*cough*- pony's to save! There was more screaming coming from down the halls from us. We followed it back to the ornate wooden doors. This time we shoulder charged through the doors, knocking a fake guard over the banister. How do I know its a fake? Because they all had looks of glee, some even where maniacly laughing. And so the battle BEGAN!

Princess Celestia-5 minutes pre-battle

I stared at MY OWN guards that where holding us hostage. I was livid. I have been betrayed so that my sister can unwillingly rule all of equestria with an iron fist? This was sickening. The elements are sitting right next to me, bound and gagged like I am. The leader was up on the banaster watching us as we struggled and the guards hitting the nobles. He was wearing a sadistic grin, that was, until several robed bipedals bashed him and he fell over the rail. I was curious about who these bipeds were. They aren't Diamond Dogs, no. Too tall to be Diamond Dogs. Perhaps they are a distant relative? Never the less, these creatures must be the ones that attacked Lun-Nightmare, these creatures are exactly like the ones I saw in Twilights memories. And so with the death of the leader, the fighting began.

In Princess Luna's chambers The place where the magic happens

P.O.V Jasper

We kicked in the door and saw a black pony with a gray mane holding a knife to Luna's throat. I raised my sword so that it was eye level and began to encircle my prey. I could faintly hear Johnny fighting the goons through my rage.

"G-get b-back i-im w-w-warning you!" The captor said while holding the knife closer to Luna's throat. He looked terrified, as did Luna. I did not relent because I knew he wouldn't dare. I continued forward in long, slow, strides. He was shaking so much he didnt even notice the humongus shadow of Johnny behind him. Johnny slowly and carefully raised his sword in a downward stab above the captors head.

"You should have never come here, rebel. These ponys are under the care of the Nazgül whether they accept it or not. You are already facing extreme punishments, but you can still redeem yourself by stopping and turning yourself in." He just laughed at my proposal and pushed the knife closer to the midnight blue alicorns throat.

"You'll all be dead before you leave here!" He looked completly insane at this point. He knew he was dead, and yet still fought. A pity I couldnt save him. And with that, Johnny took his cue and plunged the sword through the captors head.

"Too bad im already dead." I said coldly. As Johnny pulled his sword out of the rebels brain, I took to taking care of, the now fainted, Luna. She looked as beautiful as ever with her pristine midnight blue coat and her starry night mane. I gently picked her up and set her down on the bed next to us. Me and Johnny exchanged glances and nodded. Were done here. The both of us walked out of the chambers with a new purpose, to protect Luna and everyone else from harm.

As we walked out of Lunas' chambers and down the hallways, we heard screaming and fighting from the ballroom.Oh shit! We broke into a full sprint towards the ballroom.

Meanwhile in the ballroom...

P.O.V Draugr

We charged into battle, starting with me grabbing a fake guard and impaling him on my sword. Everyone else was fighting like rabid badgers. A guard surprisingly stabbed Ragr, but his moment of triumph was over when Ragr thrust his sword into his face. Crocker just finished off a guard and was removing his corpse from the end of his blade. Cryo and Crisis just decapitated a guard and started a double duel of whirling blades with two more guards. Lemur and Drak were fighting a massive earth pony and were swiping at his legs, trying to gain an advantage. I was dueling a unicorn stallion who was good, but I was better. I dispatched him with a quick slice at his neck, cutting it open and him dead. I was about to engage in another duel when I saw them, the hostages. The Elements of Harmony and Princess Celestia along with several other ponies, were bound and crying for help, at least the ones that could talk. I quickly ran over to the far wall where they were, on the way killing a couple of guards. When I finally reached them, they were trying to back away in fear of what I was going to do to them. I went over to Celestia first and cut away her bonds, but as soon as I was done with that, she removed the silver ring from her horn and threw me against the wall with her magic. As I struggled to move my head towards her, I made eye contact with her and saw so much anger in those beautiful pools of magenta.

"Why are you here!? Why are you killing my little ponies?! Talk!" She started squeezing my body in her magic.

"All will be explained soon, but if you care about these ponies lives-" I pointed at the hostages."-then you must do as we say. Yes?"

"Why. Are. You. Here!?" She yelled at me. As much as I dont want to lie to her, I wasnt gonna give her shit until Darings' book came out.

"A tip-off that there would be a coup during the gala. We came to help. End of story." I said with all the finality. She looked even more furious at my answer than before.

"Why did you hurt Luna!?"

"We didnt. We hurt Nightmare Moon." She looked a little less angry with my answer. She opened her maw for another question, but was stopped when a Nazgül sword was at her neck.

"Drop. Him." Jasper commanded. Celestia complied and set me down. "Now if we are all going to leave here alive, we are gonna need your cooperation." Celestia nodded slowly. "Good. Now lets get these ponies out of the way." Me, Celestia, Jasper, and Johnny started cutting all of them free and directing them out of the castle. As soon as that was done, we went back to the battle. The only problem was that the battle was over and bodies upon bodies of fake or traitor guards littered the ground. The other Nazgül were checking for survivors, like sifting through rubble after a bomb explosion. I looked back and saw Celestia was crying her eyes out, probably from all the death that was around. I dont know what hit me then, but I went over and started petting her head and when she looked up at me, she latched onto my torso and started crying into my chest. At first I was hesitant, but she needed my comfort and so I began petting her head again. Eventually she cried herself to sleep. I didn't want her to wake up around so much death, so I carried her over to her throne and placed her down. The others were giving Celestia sympathetic looks.

After 10 more minutes of looking for survivors we stopped and disaperated back to Minas Morgul, the snaps waking Celestia up.

Outside in the anarchy

P.O.V Twilight

"Oh! I hope Princess Celestia is alright." I whimpered. We were all forced to watch the battle unfold. Those creatures we saw before were ripping the traitors apart, leaving none to survive.

"Dont worry Twi. If those stupid creatures so much as scratch the Princess, they'll have wished they never came here!" Rainbow Dash yelled with some bravery. She was shaking like no tomorrow when the creatures came up to Princess Celestia.

"Dash is right, dont worry Twi. The Princess knows how to defend herself." Applejack reassured with a sympathetic smile.

"I know, but she is with creatures that are more skilled than Nightmare! They could turn around and eat her soul for all we know." I cried in distress.

There was silence and silent prayers that the Princesses were alright.

TO BE CONTINUED....