A life stolen for a war unclaimed

by Corsair49

Initiation Night | Its always Darkest...

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Virulent having been dropped onto the ground had his stomach stomped on knocking out any air left in his lungs as he begun gasping for air.

"Peoples elbow!" Damocles Declared before dropping with his full weight onto his elbow impacting the humanized Threstral in his chest. Virulent's eyes had begun to roll into the back in his eyes before air was forcibly being pushed into his lungs forcing him to cough.

"You... kept.. me...from... Fainting?"Virulent ask panted heavily while asking his question as he stared Incredulously at Damocles.

"I'm not finished with you yet." Damocles said with a dark smile as he pushed himself off of Virulent. Veil had been looking for something to give her an edge some how found a fold-able metal chair.

"Use The Chair!" Some random person shouted as Veil Slammed it against Damocles's back a Clang of Metal was heard as the Chair broke on his back while Damocles stumbled forward obviously shook from the hit. This got a Hard Cheer out of the crowd. Damocles simply held up one of his hands towards the crowd and someone threw him a Broom. Twisting it around Slamming its handle into Veils Head knocking her down, Damocles Shifted and Struck Virulent in the Family jewels. For a moment even in the Track Skipped as silence ensued. All the men in the crowd Taking a collective breath through Gritted Teeth.

Virulent for his part held it together better than most men which Resulted in Giving a War-Cry of rage and pain as he grabbed the Broom turned Bo-staff and wrenching it out of Damocles's Hands. This drew a collective Supportive battle Cry from all the men in the area. And proceeded to swing the improvised weapon striking Damocles multiple times actually forcing him to go on the defensive as Damocles proved unable to fully dodge the hits. The Adrenaline rushing through Virulent spurred him on moving faster and faster as he got used to the muscle movements falling into an erratic rhythm. His new found strength coming forward he couldn't help but laugh. Blow after Blow his laugh becoming more and more Deranged until Damocles began to laugh with him.

"THATS IT!" Damocles yelled a crazed look in his eyes. "THATS WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR! SHOW ME MORE OF THAT SEED, ONLY NOW IS YOUR WORTH AS A GUARD REALLY COMING THROUGH!" Damocles challenged Virulent as he struck the strained and weakened broom with his open palm breaking the wood. Virulent became stunned as time seemed to slow down when the wood broke the world was moving in slow motion and him with it as after the broken wood was sent flying, spiraling in the air, With a leg that seemed to cut through the air as it struck him in the temple sending him to the ground off to the left where he slid next to the broom piece. "That's one confirmed... Now for the other 3..." Damocles smiled greatly blinking as his eyes flickered for a moment from their normal red and yellow to black then back to normal. Veil confused at what she saw couldn't react fast enough as Damocles made a run for the door to try and find the book.

"Shit Virulent!" She yelled as she rushed to her partner helping him and steadying him as he lost his balance. "Can you keep going?"

"Yeah, Bucker hits hard." He said as he started to limp towards the exit the crowd cheering him and giving him an opening. Man fought with his strength and got an edge, got abused and kept fighting. He earned many peoples respect that night. The Crowd was Chanting his name. At the door a girl with Orange Poofy hair was waiting with some pills and a drink. Her name Tag read Adagio 'Phantom' Dazzle.

"Courtesy of the Silver fox. as a thank you for your performance Some heavy duty Pain killers and Adrenaline inducers so you can keep going. On the House ofcourse. My sister should be waiting for you in her car to take you to your next location to meet up with your friends, Just don't mention our names to Sunset please?" She said Handing the stuff to Virulent who took the pills and Downed what looked like water in one gulp. This proved to be a mistake as He began to cough an his eyes watered. "The Strongest in the house. The Silver Ghost. Is not meant to be downed in one go... let him rest for a few minutes in the car." Adagio said as she walked away. Bulk who was watching the fight from his phone outside muttered to himself Veil barely hearing it.

"So that's why he gave Vi the night off..." Waiting at the Street was the same Purple Car that had dropped them off at the beach getting in they saw Aria who simply smiled.

"Where are we going?" Aria asked without question. At that moment Sunset Shimmers car drove by.

"Follow that Car!" She said as Virulent laid his head back. Aria Drove a distance behind Sunset's car turning off her lights so as not be seen.

"Must be heading to Applejack's orchard." Aria said as she lifted up the opening in her arm rest taking out a rolled up piece of paper. "Here take this. Its a map so you don't get lost. You know Just incase Oh and leave it by the statue in the morning you're only borrowing it got it?" Aria said harshly as Veil took it.

"Why are you and your sister helping us? Why is Silver Fox helping us?" Veil asked confused.

"For one, we're not helping you we're helping ourselves and that's all I'm going to say. Two because you lot obviously need it, and Three and this is important. Because it'll piss of Sunset if/when she finds out about our involvement." Aria laughed to herself. "In fact it will piss of the Rainbooms in general stopping a distance away from sunset as her phone got a buzz looking at who it was she got a scowl. "Get going this is where I'm dropping you off. The entrance is further down and Good luck, not that it matters." Aria said while replying to the text as the two got out.

"How do you feel Vi?" Veil asked cautiously.

"Still like shit but not like i got the shit beat out of me... what ever was in those pills is fucking amazing. And when Did i say you could call me Vi?" He asked angrily.

"Sorry.."

"Come on we don't have time to waste."

****Meanwhile with Sunset, Satin and Tender. ****

"So Pinkie says they will be showing up in just a little bit... " Sunset said checking her phone.

"How does Pinkie know that? Is she bringing them?" Satin asked.

"No but someone she trusts is.... Given that it's Pinkie its better to just nod your head and agree." Sunset shrugged "So Applejack is in her orchard somewhere where kids meet?"

"That's what I understood from the riddle Pinkie Gave us." Tender Confirmed.

"So how are we going to find this place?" Sunset asked. She knew where it was as they all said their locations before but could not say where as it was part of their test.

"We can't spread out because of the book, if Damocles has some Idea where Applejack is-" Satin began

"Which He probably does considering he was with Pinkie." Sunset reminded.

"Then if we try to spread out he would just pick us off one by one while searching through the orchard for the book." Satin finished.

"But if we go as a group we are still at risk of wasting too much time." Tender argued.

"Then i Guess we better go straight there don't we." Virulent called out. This startled Tender as she saw Veil and Virulent walking towards them The former watching the latter carefully as they walked.

"What happened?" Tender immediately went to Virulent and began to look over his battered and bruised body.

"Damocles is a bucking monster... You would swear he came from the pits of Tartarus. I got some heavy duty painkillers and some Adrenaline pills to help me out for a while." Virulent explained.

"You have some seriously bad bruising I'm gonna wanna see if you have any damage to your bones when we get back to HQ." Tender informed Virulent getting reluctant nod from Virulent.

"How are we going to go directly to the location?" Satin asked eyes darting around the trees scanning for their opposition.

"We have a general Idea of where it is. We saw something like a map of it back in the Club." Veil said, Hearing this Made Sunset Glare angrily in the distant. "its over this way." she said leading the group.

"Ok while we are walking I gotta ask what exactly did Silver Fox do to piss you off like this?" Virulent asked as he watched the trees his walk having a limp as he walked with his legs a little bit more spread than normal.

"It's not imporant."

"It obviously is if you're getting upset at just the mentioning of his name." Satin said.

"Fine, Fine I'll spill the beans." Sunset sighed reluctantly. "So first off let me explain Silver Fox and his Girlfriend Jade Heart, are something of teen movie stars/producers."

"Ok movies, the moving picture shows and such right?" Tender asked.

"Yeah. Well over here they are a big deal. And those two, were some of the biggest ones as they created The Gold Bond Spy Movies. But the two are like some kind of Teenage Prodigies as they seem to know whats going to be a big deal or not in terms of entertainment. About 5 months ago they released to the world. that they were going retire from movies and continue their basic education 'back in there hometown of Canterlot.'" Sunset took a breath. "Well when he did come back he became enrolled in CHS. This is where things start to go crazy. About 8 months ago give or take a few weeks there was an event at the school called the Battle of the Bands. When this happened a group of girls known as the 'Dazzlings' showed up and started turning everyone on each other. Turned out they were Sirens." She said annoyed this then made Veil laugh at the notion.

"Sirens as in the ones like Starswirl the bearded banished? That with the power of their singing nearly brought ruin to all of Ponykind?" She asked mockingly. Sunset scowled at her.

"The very same ones actually.."

"O-oh. Sorry... Continue please." Veil said with a blush.

"Well we had to have Princess Twilight come and help bust us out of trouble. We eventually beat them and shattered their Crystals, which turned out to be the source of their power and singing capabilities. Then when we find out Silver Fox and Jade Heart are attending they Introduce themselves with an original song with, Guess who, The sirens singing with them who have new Crystals and are singing again." Sunset grumbled. "Then we have the Friendship games 2 months ago. Where Apparently our Twilight knows Silver from childhood. Well as it turns out Me and the other girls all have latent equestrian magic that we can activate. Our Twilight somehow built a device that stole it from the 6 of us and then went to use it because she was egged on by the rest of her classmates and headmistress. She went a little power crazy and the love crazy for Silver which made her get increasingly angry at Jade. So we had to save them. He almost made it a point to thank everyone but me. So in that moment of my anger I called him out on the sirens." She sighed when Applejack came into sight.

"You tellin em about Silver?" Applejack huffed as she approached.

"They asked."

"Right... well I'll finish up from what ya gone and said. Sunset, pointed out to everyone that he was basically hanging around three evil songstresses. To which he replied back sayin. 'So what only those you seen fit can be redeemed? I saw potential I knew who they were they put their trust in me so I return it.' Essentially he called her out since sunset used to be evil too." Applejack said easily. "Now they are better, ain't quite good and model of citizenship but better. Silver though... Only man my brother would trust to get work done on the farm... He and Jade both go back to my childhood. He did what he could to help when... well tragedy struck for mah family. Big Mac is always willin to go and spend time with him if'n he ever asks him. Part of the reason why they are on Football team for CHS, Him, Snowflake, and Flash are somethin of a last resistance." Applejack explained.

"Still don't you think its weird they can sing again? And those Crystals!" Sunset was about to start her rant when Applejack put her hand on sunset's shoulder. "I know he's not what he seems I mean... he even made a club for them to live in who does that?"

"Well Pinkie's friend Vinyl Scratch does." Applejack said. "Listen Sunset I know you 'ave your suspicions, and that's fine. But Silver and Jade are good people. Animosities aside he seems like he only wants to enjoy his life. Heck he made that club to help the Night students out and give them a direction and what not. Now lets put this conversation down for now. If'n i recall you lot are here for some kind o' test right?" Applejack asked of the 4 others.

"Yes can you sign this and give us the next riddle please?" Satin said as she gave her book to Applejack.

"Sure can do." She signed off on it quickly before smiling. "Now i'll apologize if'n I don't say this right." She cleared her throat and began to talk with a High Society Accent. "In Glades of blue is where i'm true, with the light of the night is when i'm insight. to light the way to me is let the dark be." She spoke before returning to her country accent. "Now since I known none of ya know where anything is Near the Library is park. Y'all might wanna check there."


Author's Note

Silver Fox, Jade heart, and sirens? What do they have to gain? Is there a reason for why I do the things I do? In the long run yes... I just hope this story makes it that far. If you like what you have read so far please leave a like and Comment on somethings you think I can improve on. Also yes "My names is Bond... Gold Bond."

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