Fall of Equestria: Offshores

Brikoius' POV...

Blood and gore. That's the thirtyfifth wave of Caribou warriors defeated this week. My legion and the Royal Guard fought off four days nonstop. At this point, we all just wanted the war to end. All of us do. We heard a faint rhythm in the distance like another attack is about to begin.

One of my legionaries run up to me giving the proper solute in my presence. "My Centurion, We have spot another wave of Caribou coming out towards the North. The army includes six mages leading them. We also got word that King Dainn himself is in the fray of the Caribou."

"How many Caribou warriors?" I asked.

"Over eight thousand, sir." he replied.

My heart wanted to stop at the sheer numbers and odds against us. We only at most two thousand able bodies left after that last wave combining both and Royal Guards and my legionaries, yet my fists tighten at the potential of slaughtering the idiot king himself. "Don't be afraid, soldier. I need you to tell everypony and zebra of your report. We are holding our ground here." I said.

He soluted one last time before he hurried off. I stared at the horizon as I see a faint black line coming up on toward the defense lines.

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It didn't take long for the legion to assemble in one again and for the Royal Guard to prepare their defenses as well. The rhythm of the Caribou army grows louder with every passing second.

"Legion, in formation!" I yelled.

In unison, the legionaries form a barricaded line with their shields along side mine awaiting my mark. All of a sudden, the army stops as the Caribou before making a path down the middle for the Caribou mages.

The last one to be revealed from the pathway was the bastard king himself: King Dainn.

Now, that I see him up close and personal, he doesn't seem like a big threat to anything. He wears ancient bronze armor excluding the helmet, most likely because it would get in the way of the antlers he possesses exposing little of his almond brown fur as possible. His cold blue eyes showed little interest toward us as he stride up to our defenses.

He snorts in disapointment. "Another defence... Destroy it mages." He said.

All six of the mages start up their wands. But, I knew the signs of a devastating spell when I see one. "Brace!" I yelled out.

The legionaries prepared themselves along in the outside of the stone enterance. Once the combine spells finished they released it upon us. As soon as the magical force hit the shields a blue glow of runes appeared on the shields. This caused a stalemate between the magical force and my legionaries.

"Forward!" The legionaries marched forward shoving the magical energy back at the Caribou army causing a huge explosion of its energy upon the enemy. The shocked expressions on the Caribou mages was priceless to say the least, but it was not over.

The Royal Guard fired a row of cannons below the enemy Caribou erupting more explosions upon them. The legions cheered for a bit only to fall silent when they catch a royal purplish glow among the fire and smoke.

"LEAVE NO ENEMY ALIVE MY BROTHERS!" King Dainn roared out.

The Caribou army cheered out in a loud roar too as they swarmed upon the stone defense line. The legion and I were stuck pinned into the only entrance of the stone defense line. We fought with unrelenting force holding back the seemingly sea waves of Caribou from spilling pass us. Then, the same glow of purple energy appeared in our sights again as the force head straight for us. I could not call the order in time resulting the force to strike us head on. My legionaries fly backwards from its force including me as the Caribou army flooded in. Fortunately, I recovered quickly slaughtering the few Caribous I could find near me.

"Damn you!" I shouted at them as I skillfully slice open more Caribou warriors in my sights with ease.

King Dainn laughs as he draws out his warhammer into view. The power radiating from it let me know just how strong magically this guy was.

With little time, I raised my shield just in time before his warhammer collided with it. A minature shock wave erupted from the impact sending a few soldiers on both sides flying. I pushed forward getting in any combo I could while avoiding his warhammer at all costs. I knew my shield could not take another hit like that.

I let out a war cry as my gladius glowed a faint orange fires licking at its blade. When they finally met with Dainn's warhammer they shatter on impact. My eyes widen in surprise as he swung the full mass of the warhammer toward my torso. Fortunately, I was able to block the brunt force of the attack with the shield. The recoil however sent me painfully into the stone wall. He grins in delight at his accomplishment. He thrusted his warhammer one more time into my shield. The force was enough to shatter its fragile state altogether into splinters.

"I'll give you props for surviving this long soldier boy, but now it's over." King Dainn declared.

He lets loose a war cry as his whole body this time grows purple. Suddenly, a glimpse of a shadow passes in front me. It draws a long sword clashing with Dainn's warhammer.

The whole earth shook at the power that stalemate possessed causing both sides to give pause at the massive shock wave. The shadowy figure's cloak falls off of the pony to reveal his true self. He was a normal black coated unicorn. However, the only thing that seemed strange about his whole appearance was how his red eyes were still dilated slightly even in the light. He wore crimson-golden armor that seem to enhance his mysterious aura he had to him.

"What? How dare you intervene!" King Daimn roared, yet the black unicorn didn't budge from his position in the earth.

"Such arrogance. It's a wonder how you are still alive." the unicorn taunted.

This only enraged the Caribou king even more as they parted their blades stepping away from me having their own fight. This gave me the time to recover from the number that was done to me earlier.

"Great and I don't have anymore weapons."

One of my legionaries tossed me a spare gladius as I grinned nodding my thanks to my legionarie before charging straight at King Dainn. He was too busy fighting the beast of a swordstallion to notice my charge at him until it was too late. I punctured his gut causing a cry of agony to rip from his lips.

I quickly retreated to avoid the blows of purple energy thrown my way like magical daggers in the air. If Dainn was calm before then this must be what he is like in his angry state.

"YOU BASTARD!" he roared in anger.

He didn't have time before the unicorn blocked the vicious, blind blows Dainn reigned on him.

Just as he completely engulfs himself in the purple aura a burst of heat and light pierced through the sky before striking the bastard king in his left shoulder. He cries out in more agony dropping his warhammer from the painful burns he suffered from. I turned around to see two distinctive royals approaching. The first is Princess Celestia. The second is the Emperor Deathsane himself. I quickly did the royal solute toward my Emperor as he raised his hand.

"No need great Centurion for you did well facing the terrible threat. I'll treat you well for your efforts." The Emperor said evenly.

"I'm honored, my imperial." I replied.

However, the unicorn just sighed lowering his great black sword slightly down at their presence.

"Well, I'm glad to see that at least Celestia is fine," the unicorn said. Celestia seemed puzzled by the unicorn's words though.

"I'm sorry, but we have never met before." she said.

He looked slightly irritated at her reply. "Figures, but I don't have time to explain."

The Emperor walks up drawing his ancient sword just in time to intercept a strike from King Dainn's warhammer. The Caribou king bellows out in another war cry that shook the earth slightly in his mighty voice. Princess Celestia wasted no more time in summoning her strange sliver halberd.

The Emperor, Princess Celestia and the unicorn then charge at King Dainn, his eyes glowing purple in power and strength.

Celestia swings down her halberd only to be met with King Dainn's warhammer in a stalemate. The unicorn went around using teleportation to get behind him to deliver a fatal slash.

Suddenly, King Dainn shifts his body to avoid the strike punching the stallion straight in the muzzle sending him flying into a pile of dirt. The Caribou king grinned as the Emperor came in from his left flank.

King Dainn caught his movement using enough force to allow Celestia's posture to falter. He took the time to block the Emperor's sword first strike. His fist glowed in a purple aura moving lightning speeds to make contact with his flesh and armor, yet nothing seem to happen.

The Caribou king paused in shock as he could see the Emperor had glowing runes embedded into his very skin itself. The runes formed into symbols Dainn could not recognize. However, it was too late for the king because the Emperor's sword glowed runes of bright green. He spoke in ancient Zebrinican tounge as he slashed him square in the chest. The slash exploded on contact sending Dainn painfully into the corner of a building. The impact caused the building to collapse on impact.

Celestia's horn magic lit up as the sun in the distance let down a pillar of fire on to the building that was recently destroyed. Screaming of the Caribou king drowned out the fighting among the Caribou army and Royal Guards.

There was a long pause, but it was not long before a purple bursted of energy caused a disruption to the pillar of fire before it harmlessly disappeared. King Dainn gets up from the rumble covered in burns and cuts. His armor battered and weak, his knees shook and his body at the verge of incredible agony, but still somehow moving.

"Good, you're still alive. I was hoping you didn't get killed by Celestia." the unicorn said causing everyone to turn in his general direction. He leaked out an eerie black fog from behind himself grinning ear to ear at Dainn.

In a split second, he was on Dainn cutting any visible part of flesh he could see. Dainn manage to fall to his knees letting out a pain filled grunt before the Emperor walked up to the bastard king.

"For your treason of invading other nations to enslave them and strip their basic rights as ponies, zebra, and any other species you got your hands on. I here by, with the support of the diarchy of Equestria, sentence you to death." He said sternly. The Emperor wind back his sword before swiftly taking off Dainn's head.

The head falls off the body with Dainn's body shortly falling limp to the cold ground itself quickly with it. The Caribou army was devastated by the outcome as the Royal Guard and the thirteenth legion roars in victory.

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It wasn't long before the Caribou army ran away with their tails between their legs. We manage to capture most unfortunate Caribou warriors that we could find. As for the unicorn, he swiftly left the battle after the execution of King Dainn. He only addressed Celestia with his name: Shadow Face. Shocker and his crew headed back to Prance, but not before they had a big celebration with all of the allies present.

The alliance itself was still a very thin balance of mutual respect between the nations, so the alliance ended up turning into a 'friendly' truce. Emperor Deathsane, Katina, the rest of the Legionaries and I ended up going back to Zebrinica. And of course, the victory over the Caribous will be a piece of Equis history to be studied for all of eternity.

I sometimes recall the brave warriors during that major event in history still even after ten years of serving my great Empire. The Empire will ever fall to no one, nor nopony....... For the glory of Roam.