Equestrian Viking
Chapter 17
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*In General POV*
Ever since the massacre of Baltimare, all of Equestria was told that the Alpha who was responible was a genocidal warmongerer and shall be brought to justice. What they didn't know is that that Alpha, Alexander Hall, already regret not giving those dead mares the chance to be better and sworn to never let his own personal feelings take over him like how Surtur orchestrated it. With Surtur dead, Alexander told his pack that for now on they shall never execute prisoners again and make sure that no civilian shall be harmed. Free every slave they can find and bring them to him.
Alexander told his dog mates about his problem and battle in the dream realm, and also told them how he is going to be better. They were all sad when he told them about the massacre but forgave him when they heard about Surtur and how he was playing with Alex like a string puppet.
When the Diamond Dogs went to Ponyville during midnight to Fluttershy's destroyed cottage they carried those five large chests with the hundreds of thousands bits with a letter that says 'Forgive me A.H.' and in that letter envelope there are pappers that Alexander wrote to tell Fluttershy about him from his escape from Canterlot to him becoming the Alpha of many Diamond Dog packs.
Those champions that Olik brougth, were taught by Alexander about leading warriors to battle and to be merciful, though Alexander didn't display mercy at Baltimare he said that he did wrong and told them that all must learn from their errors, their mistakes. They all learned what Alex said and they all seems inspired about him admitting his wrongs; they all promised to be merciful and honorable in battle.
And speaking of battle. Alexander's Viking pack has won great battles so far. With Queen Chrysalis sending her shapeshifting scouts to give locations of weak pony towns and villages, the viking dogs raided the places and taken anything that'll help them in war. Olik with his warriors has destroyed two forts with little trouble, the ponies and their defensives fell quickly and with ease.
Learned their painful lesson from Baltimare, they released all the soldiers that surrendered in battles, only questioning them before letting them go. So far, Alexander's Vikings has done nothing that Celestia has said or the propaganda that were spread across Canterlot. About they being ruthless killers, since Baltimare.
The tunnels the dogs have are extremely useful, Alexander has ordered his pack to use them as trading posts for the changeling hives, his family from the Cat Kingdom and themselves. Each battle won only inspired more and more diamond dog packs to join in willingly, they'll be used as scouts and to raid merchants that are close to them. And like Alexander's warriors, the newly joined dog packs allowed the ponies to retreat from battles, released prisoners of war without their weapons and when towns and villages were captured, they haven't forced anyone to stay if they don't want to. As more and more packs joined, Alexander were given the new title, the 'Great Alpha', since he is practically alpha of alphas. Alexander has become more of a unifier than a random leader of all canine kind.
Only a few large cities left before Canterlot's turn and go for Celestia's head. She and her sister shall answer for their crimes and from their death. All things that Equestria has embraced; rape, sexism, racism, vile acts and views that humanity looks at with deepest of loathing will be absolutely illegal and depending on the damage done, their sentence will be either jail, banishment, or... death.
The only places that Alexander and his pack left untouched was Ponyville, Appleloosa, a town that lies north-west of Manehattans and two other towns due to they give their males equal treatment and didn't practice slavery.
Once Equestria is freed from the alicorn's tyranny, Alexander will turn his pack into a police force to enforce freedom and rights, and strengthening the equal rights to all.
The Diamond Dog Vikings brougth the freed slaves to Alexander as requested. Guess what, every slave were males. Alexander gave all of them their enhanced strength and agility before he said "The liberation of Equestria has begun. If you want to go free, do so now. But if any of you wants Equestria to be a place of freedom and equality, then fight with me against the alicorn tyrants". There has always been a few who decided to go, like 4 to 6 but other then that they all decided to join Alex's pack and the diamond dogs train them to be warriors but also teach them of their 10 virtues. Very quickly Alexander's pack of vikings became numerous and multiracial, not only did he turned male slaves into warriors but groups of foreign volunteers came to the forest and joined Alexander so that their nations will not be dictated by Equestria again. One day Alexander's pack members found a pool called the Mirror Pool that has the power to multiply anyone. Alex decided to use it to multiply his warbeasts. Alex's tamed monsters has been very, VERY effective fighting machine that gives them more advantages in battle.
Alexander himself sended a telepathic message to his mates from the Cat Kingdom and changeling hives as a way to invite them to his fortress. When they all came and get to meet Alexander again, and also meet his new dog mates gives them the opportunity to know the family members better. It started with Chrysalis and Nightmare tackled Alexander with huggs and nuzzling him since they haven't seen him outside the dream realm for months. Everyone of Alexander's mates have their bellies round and it reveals that they are all pregnant, a few of them will give birth to three kids, but all of them will have sons. Alexander was terrified at the number of kids he would have to father but all of them promised him to help take care of them and even their parents would like to live with them to ensure that their children recieve a perfect life as they teach Alex how to raise children. Alexander decided to stop impregnant very female he come across and decided to make his sperm so weak that once they enter the female's belly they will die, so Alex makes himself absolutely infertile and this time his family respect that now.
The freed male slaves were no longer wearing rags and were no longer in chains. If anything, they are free and now fight the very mares who caused them pain much of their lives. They have been given proper clothes, food and better treatment by Alex's pack and after a while they were either comforting one another or trying to get some form of sleep. Some of the freed slaves were crying tears of joy, relived that they were saved. They were shocked by the number of female warriors in Alex's pack and each seemed to be more than a match for their male counterparts, but those females surprised them with kind and gentle behaviour unlike the mares who enslaved them. But still, some were reluctant to let the female warriors help and preferred the help of the male members of the pack. But in the end of each day, the free slaves started to warm up the females of Alex's pack since they are fighting for their freedom and rights. Alexander's gift to them made them happy and feel more safer now that they have something to fight back with. But Alexander told them that there is a catch, if they would use their enhanced strength and agility for ill reason, giving anyone the same treatment like the mares gave them, it will reverse and they would grow weaker if they do any acts of aggression without provocation.
Alexander hasn't forgotten that there are cloud cities like Cloudsdale and Los Pegasus. He remember his time with Twilight Sparkle when she tried a few of her spell books to test his knowledge absorption, one of them was the cloud-walking spell. Alexander used that spell on his Vikings so that they can walk on clouds in combat. All they need was airborne transport. So Alexander had his pack build airborne viking ships with manticores pulling and hot-air balloons to act as sails. But the manticores were replaced thanks to two stallions; the Flim Flam brothers. They seems to have skills and brains enough to build machines so they help out by constructing mechanical propellers to the viking ships, that way the manticores would only be the escort for the airborne Viking ships with their hot-air balloons and propeller engines.
*Raid of Vanhoover*
The city of Vanhoover. A huge city of businesses and trade, a place where many merchants comes to do business. It's were a rich family of Pear farmers expanded their business to make a living, producing all kinds of pear food for sale. Everypony had a fine life and no trouble at all. What could possible go wrong?
"VALHALLAAAAAAA!!!"
Oh right, that.
After a, somewhat, earthquake below the city. The ground exploded in a shower of dirt and stone. The once clean pavement was now destroyed by something else. Dust filled the air, blinding everypony in the city. Once the dust settled, howls and barkings was heard as a swarm of Diamond Dog Vikings came from those holes.
Shouting 'Valhalla' the Viking Dogs began storming the city in a wave of fury and bloodlust. The city's defenders and royal guards were too lazy to stand properly let alone fight but that did not stop them from shrieking in terror as they were struck by the axes and swords of their enemies. The only ones that the dogs didn't raised their weapons against are the civilians, but they didn't stop the dogs to loot and plunder the city of any value and food there is. What's worst is that the Diamond Dogs were accompanied by creatures of the everfree forest like; Timberwolves, Cockatrices and Manticores fighting next to the dogs.
"We gotta get out of here!" A guard mare shouted as she made a break for the exit from the city.
"NO! we have to defend the city with our lives, it's our duty!" yelled a mare captain at her while both she and other mare guards ran with her.
"BUCK THIS CITY, I WAS PAID TO GUARD NOT TO FIGHT!!!!" another mare guard yelled in panic as she ran to.
"Cowards" the officers said to herself as she and only the brave mare-soldiers held their position.
In side the city, during the raid, a stallion with twin axes charged at a group of royal guards as he butcher them with his axes that seemed to dance in the air with each of his swings. Once they are all dead, that stallion found himself in a daze as she stood amongst the corpses of guards... no, of mares. He felt no guilt or pity; only hate. Hate for what they did to him, hate for being treated like a whore and none of those mares showed any pity for him. He had been raped, whipped and tortured by these animals and had desired nothing more than to see them dead by his own hands, the only thing he regrets is that he killed them too quickly and not tortured them to death.
In a desperate attempt to repel the raiders, the city's troops formed a shield wall as the army came flooding through the gates shouting and screaming like wild animals. The shield wall had been easily broken after a single charge and the guards were trampled to death by the vikings and everfree warbeasts who began slaughtering the last of the defenders and looting what treasures they could find.
“Kill all those who fight against us, spare the civilians, but I want all of them herded to a specified area after the battle, free every slave you can find and bring them to the tunnels!" A Diamond Dog shouted. That Diamond Dog is one of the champions that Olik and Alexander trained, leading the raid. He's a st.bernard breed and he was very bulky, wielding a huge long axe as weapon. He then charged at the city defenders with his fellow warriors wo followed him, shouting and barking war cries of their own. Together, they rushed through anything that stood in their way.
The royal guards held their ground.
The Diamond Dog champion swung his mighty axe, cleaving three mare soldiers in two with one swing. He turned and sliced the head of another soldier off and slammed his armored fist into another. His warriors fought furiously, using their axes, swords and shields to cut, slash, bash, and stab as the everfree warbeasts tear the royal guards to pieces. In a few moments, the pear farm was the only thing that was left of the city.
The st.bernard dog and his company run through the streets, cutting down anypony that dared to fight the Viking pack. As the streets began to build up in the gore and blood of mare-soldiers, the mare captain and a group of soldiers began to make a stand. The champion quickly spilled the guts of another royal guard with a down comming strike and cut the soldier in half, literally. He and his viking kins continued to cut their way through, in no time at all, the champion and his company of soldiers were nearing the pear farm. But stopped by when they saw another wall of royal guards, and he smiles in malice when he had something in mind.
"Bring the vengeful ones." He ordered as his warriors made way for five certain stallions.
The mare captain was in front of her most elite group of soldiers. Her eyes burned with anger as she watch these savages destroying her city, it's citizens. She was going to spill their blood, and stop their invasion in its tracks.
Then five rather intimidating, horrific looking stallions appeared. They had shields on their left arms, and two of them have flails in their other hand while the two of them have swords and the last one have a simple axe. They were the 'Vengeful Ones' a group of male warriors who castrated themselves as a sign of oath that after all the pain they have been through they would never allow themselves to be raped again, and they swore terrible revenge on the mares for their tyranny. They carried blood red armors with skulls around them: skulls on their breast plate, a skull on their helmet, skulls on their shields and strings of skulls as their capes. Their horrific looks and barbaric behaviour is their expression of hatred for how the mares treated them and all other males. Once they were slaves for work and sex; now they are the mad viking juggernauts. They cried out their war cry with monstrous shouts before they charged at their enemies, the mare-soldiers.
The mare captain of the city stood in their way and swung her sword, which was blocked by their shields. One of the stallions shield bashed her, and then smacked her with his flail on her left leg, breaking it. The same Vengeful One then shield bashed her in the face, sending her flying. She landed, and nearly blacked out. She was hearing things that was ringing and her field of vision was blurry. When she regained her senses, she looked in horror as she saw the Vengeful Ones slashing, bashing and smashing the skulls and limbs of her now panicking soldiers to mush with their skull-like weapons.
She tried to get up, only to cry out in pain. She looked back, and saw her left leg twisted in the wrong way. She could do nothing but watch as the Vengeful Ones massacre all of her elite soldiers with sickly roars and movements like they were mentaly insane.
While the Vengeful Ones killed off the elite guards they and the vikings made their way towards the pear farm. But the mare captain saw that st.bernard dog comming towards her with his axe ready to strike.
"You had you're chance to oppose tyranny." the champion dog said in coldblood. "But now, you shall face the consequences of your cruelty." he said with a hateful voice before he brought his axe down to her head and end her life.
*Raid of Los Pegasus*
In the city of clouds the sun cast it beautiful rays upon Los Pegasus as the dawn appeared. Once the rays of sunlight came, many pegasii of the city are waking up from their blissful slumber.
It only took one hour for the cloud city to go from silent to bustling with activity. In the market, many merchants sold their wares, and ripped-off a few new customers, and the streets were alive with many ponies going about their business, and catching up with old friends.
What they do not know is that from the mountains of Applewood, five warships with carved dragon heads were emerging from the sky fog, it's sails are replaced with hot-air balloons and oars with mechanical propellers. They are surrounded by manticores, changelings, griffons, pegasii and also six teenage dragons. All in viking arms and armor.
The one who leads them is also one of Alexander's champion and it's a female setter diamond dog who has two spears in her hands while she also have a round shield in her left arm. Don't forget she got a sword in her waist.
As her warships are comming closer and closer to the city, she yelled a fierce war cry, pointing her spear towards the town, and all her warriors cried out with her. Then the ships crashed into the city and the screaming bloodthirsty warriors charged towards Los Pegasus. While the vikings runs inside the city and plunder every thing of value and eatable, the female champion noticed the city guards comming towards them. She saw a officer there giving them orders, so she threw one of her spears in the air and hit that officer in the head. Grabbing the spear from her other hand she first bashed the head of a mare-pegasus guard with her shield before she sliced her throat. She then turned to the next pegasus guard and all she did was blocking the guard's spear and impale her own into that mare's belly before continue forward.
While it all happened, a line of royal pegasus guards were attacked by three dual-wielding axe warriors with minimal armour. But that look…, that savage look in their eyes... They charged ahead of the main body of warriors, screaming something about a place called Valhalla.
One of them ran into the group mare-soldiers, and the blood began to run. The savage axe-wielder sunk one of his axes into the skull of a guard, and swiftly pulled it out, causing bits of mashed brain and blood to flop out of the gaping gash. The Berserker spun and smashed another axe into another guard’s abdomen, and viciously ripped out intestines. The Berserker was unnaturally fast, swinging his axes with such wild abandon, screaming bloodlust and eyes filled with fury.
The female diamond dog champion ordered her vikings to push forward as she thrust her spear on another pegasus guard and from there she turned to her sword. She came across three mare-soldiers but she killed them quickly as it appears she is very agile.
Not for long she came across a cloud temple which she believes to the the center of the city's authority.
After she killed the guards that protected the cloud temple she saw all the defenders of the city and civilians starting to flee for their lives. She ordered her warriors to let them go.
"Free any slaves there are... in this cloud city and bring them to the ships. And while you're at it, take every treasures you can find!" She ordered her warriors as they howling and cheering in victory and approval/agreement as they did as she told them to do.
*Raid of Manehattan*
Manehattan, a metropolitan city that stands on a island with a huge bridge that connects it to Equestria. It is connected to the Equestrian mainland by a long railroad bridge, it is also famous for it's Mare Statue as it's main tourist attractions. It was midnight and almost everypony was sleeping during that night.
Because of the darkness that the midnight provide, it covers the quietly, charging horde of Viking dogs. There must have been thousands of them. The diamond dogs aren't the only vikings of the horde. There was a mixture of stallions in there as well, also there where minotaurs and cats who happens to be the foreign volunteers who joined Alexander's war quest.
They all were quiet in order to enter the city and take them by surprise. It worked, cause they manage to run through the bridge and entered the city, but as soon as the night guard notice them the screaming, howling, barking and roaring of the warcry Valhalla was heard across the city.
Half of the city was already on fire in less than five minutes. The military barracks and police stations were destroyed and those who worked there were being massacred. The only ones that remains unharmed was the panic-running civilians, the vikings let them live while they loot all of the city's riches and it have PLENTY of it. But since the city was large it gave the city's defenders a chance to form a defensive line. But that line was soon easily crushed as the viking warriors chaged it, smashing it apart with their axes and swords.
Among those viking warriors, was their leader. An middle-aged german shepherd diamond dog who happens to be another of Alexander's champion. He carried a simple sword and shield.
For an middle-aged dog, he was very agile and strong; wielding his sword and shield against the mare-soldiers that tried to kill him.
"Don't hurt the civilians! Let them go! Bring the slaves to the tunnels on the other side of the bridge! Take everything in the city!!!" He yelled out orders to his warriors as they kept charging in.
The midnight gave the Viking horde the advantage to quickly sack the city without any trouble. After a minute or two, the city was sacked, the slaves were freed and Manehattan is but a shadow of what it once was.
*Raid of Fillydelphia*
Fillydelphia, another metropolitan city in Equestria. The only difference is that it's populated by both ponies and dragons. The good new is that the dragons and ponies hate eachother, so there are no shortage of viking supporters among the dragons because the ponies only treats them like monsters just because they are who they are.
The dragon leaders of the city, meet Alexander from the Everfree Forest and joined his war quest by helping a pack of diamond dog vikings inside the city.
As the vikings who were guided by the dragons of the city walk towards the gate that leads them to the pony side of the city as they encountered a group of mare-gurads at the gate but they kept going forward. Once the mares notice the vikings with the dragons comming towards them. The mare officer tries to stop them to find out who they are. The ones who lead them are two of Alexander's champions. Two Doberman Pinschers wasted no time, as one of them plunged his sword within the mouth of the closest mare when she was about to gloat. The other leader, with his large battle-axe, sliced through an unfortunate mare-soldier in two. A griffon warrior knocked a royal guard's head clean off with her mace, the head rolled on the floor. The other guards sprained into action, only to die quickly by the Vikings.
While their warriors charge the city, the two champions stood and watched as their fellow vikings winning in matter of seconds.
"Can you smell that?" One of them asked the other jokingly before he grin with malice.
"Yeah, hehehe, the alpha's pride when he knows of our success." The other said with a greedy voice before the both of them joined in.
*Raid(surrender) of Cloudsdale*
The cloud city of clouds dale was surrounded by ten viking airships, waiting for the signal to attack only to be stopped by a ground of pegasii mares (as one of them holding a white flag high) came to the sky a little closer to the fleet.
When they stopped one of the viking ship came to them as they are confronted by a champion of Alexander, a male Berner breed with a purple dragoness with orange scales next to him.
"Speak, whoever is in charge here!" the dog champion demanded. Then one of the pegasus mare flew towards him abit closer to speak up.
"We don't want any killing in our home. We don't have any defences against you, and we begs to spare us. We will listen to your every demand and follow through it. Just, please spare all of our lives." She pleaded with her head looking down. The dog leader looked at her for a moment before he felt a hand on his shoulder, as he looked he saw the female dragoness looking at him with a pleading look. Knowing that both want's him to be merciful and his alpha told him to be it, and honorable is included to be kind and noble even towards enemies. He smiled as he looked at her.
"There won't be any slaughtering, no punishments, and absolutely no one will get hurt. We only wants to free Equestria and make it a better place. Free every slave you have, guide them to our ships, our alpha want's to ensure them that they are no longer outcasts. As for you and all you mares, if you truly shows that you can change and be better. All will be forgiven and you will live with us as our equals." He said with a huge kindness in his voice. The dragoness was smiling at his mercy. But the mares were surprised and the kind and nice behavior of the viking dog who would simply forgive them and offer them a second chance only in return for all the males they have. The mare was getting tears of joy for such kind mercy, and surprised the dog by hugging him.
"Thank you sir... thank you very much." she said softly to him before he smiled and returned the hugg.
The pegasus mares gave them their stallions as they have been ensured that they will return not as slaves but as their equals. The vikings didn't show any aggression at all.
*Celestia's POV in Canterlot*
Tears slipped from Celestia’s eyes as she watched the flame and smoke of many places and cities all across the horizon.
Multiple attacks. Multiple forces have slaughtered so many Equestrians in a matter of hours. When she heard about the Diamond Dogs plunder and looting small villages and towns around Equestria, Celestia mobilized her battalions of royal guards to protect them from the raiders. But, before she could even spread her wings, all her major cities was set ablaze, and a fleet of airships surrounded Cloudsdale who no doubts surrendered due to they don't have guards to defend it.
All their defences had been completely wiped off the face of Equis, and all the riches and resources are taken away as the dogs simply disappear in their tunnels. Celestia sent a relief battalion to search for any survivors an hour ago. But they have not reported anything back.
Celestia turned away from the carnage and slowly made her way to her throne. She kept thinking about what would've happened if she responded quicker, a way to prevent all of the carnage and death. She looked at her throne, and instantly felt self-loathing. She should have been stronger for her subjects, should have been there to rain down her fury on the dogs that dared to attack her kingdom. Instead, she sat in her castle and watched her world burn, hoping for peace. She dared not sit on the throne of her mother.
“For many years, we never had violence like this. why? Why now? Why couldn’t peace just reign forever?” she asked herself. Before she could move a muscle she remembered the stallion who is in her dungeon. He still hasn't told her about their 'Alpha' or his plans. But she does remembered the white stone that was given to her. When she tried the water bowl trick and the water itself glowed. All that it provided was a music with a song.
The White-Stone song lyrics
(Equestrian Viking's version of Sabaton – Man of War)
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