the kitsune's empire/ being rewritten/

Twilight stared ahead of her at the massive expanse of snow and ice hundreds of thoughts running through her head as she walked towards the expansive wasteland in front of her. Behind her she could here the chatter of her friends and the guards that were accompanying them to there destination. Of course it was there destination that was worrying her in the first place. They were headed to the crystal empire so they could use the elements on the beast that had hurt Cadance. Traveling with the group of six were twelve guards. The guards were there to help against the ponies that the beast had brain washed into helping it, at least she assumed that they were brainwashed, after all no self respecting pony would submit themselves under a non pony.

Ponies were the ruling race it was they who controlled the weather they who controlled the seasons and it was there goddesses that controlled the sun and the moon. About a hundred years after the banishment of princess Luna was when in became apparent that the ponies had taken over as the supreme race. They were everywhere they had ponies in major political position among every race except the dragons and changelings. Those that had tried to put up a fight were quelled under threats of being burned by the might of the sun.

The hoofed races such as deer, zebra, caribou, and sheep were generally better off than most of the races due to there close resemblance of the ponies themselves. Races such as Minotaurs, changelings, and threstrals were often looked down upon as lesser beings if they were lucky, monsters if they weren't. That being said they were still better off than the races that ate meat.

The meat eating races such as griffons, diamond dogs, and dragons got it worse than the others due to the ponies strict laws when it came to meat, while the consumption of meat wasn't illegal it was still looked down on by most of the non meat eating races such as the deer or sheep. This gave most of the races a even worse reputation among ponies making it a rare sight to find anything non equine in a position of power, Twilight almost laughed at the thought of this fox, A meat eater actually being in control of the crystal empire without some form of mind control. Of course in all of her thoughts it never donned on her that the crystal empire was banished before the banishment of Luna.

With a midnight alicorn

Luna stared out over the city of Canterlot with a frown, it had not taken long after her return from the moon to realize that the ponies that she ruled over had become complacent and bigoted. What Luna had not expected however was that her sister had become incompetent as well. She had first had her doubts when she sent the six mares that had wielded the elements to face a dragon without guard escort and then sent them into even more dangerous situations after that, but the last nail in the coffin was the fact that she had sent them and a dozen guards against a being that had brutalized an alicorn. Luna was not stupid she knew full well that her niece was a bigot, just as she knew that Cadance most likely started the alteration between the fox and her, however she also knew that if the fox was ruling the crystal empire with the blessing of his subjects, Celestia had basically declared war and from the looks of Cadance she had done so on a nation that didn't fear her sun. So Luna did something she had gotten quite good at since she had returned, damage control.
"guard"

A guard walked into the room wearing the dark purple armor of the lunar guards. Turning to him Luna handed him a scroll and told him to bring it to the lunar guard captain. The stallion nodded his head and took off running down the hall. Luna sighed as she turned back to the desk and began to write.

fox of doom

Jinx ducked and with a grimace blocked the sword swing that was aimed at his head, leaping back to dodge a spear he whipped his tail forward knocking one of his attackers down before bringing up his spear to block another sword swing, slashing out with a paw he caught his attacker across the chest sending him backwards. Bell ringing Jinx relaxed and picked up the guards he had been sparing with.

Jinx had taken to sparing with the guards in order to improve both his combat skills and the guards so far it seemed to be going well the guards that he had been sparing with improved significantly. The castle staff had also taken to training with the guards, hell even maids had taken to carrying small daggers that could hold a single spell charge. The guard Barracks also had to be expanded due to the influx of recruits.

The influx of guards was just on time to as the wall had finally been finished it was about five feet thick and around twenty feet tall it surrounded the entirety of the empire and had two gates each guarded by four punt guns all of witch used spell-shot instead of regular ammunition making them less of a reloading weapon and more of a charging weapon. The spell-shot weapons were those that had enchantments running up and down the barrels, the enchantments could be used to charge up a shot of condensed elemental magic or a bullet made of magic conducting material if the shot needed or punch or penetration. This did not mean however that they could not fire regular musket ammunition.

The rest of the wall had a five person musket team and a single spell-shot punt gun every fifty meters there were ammunition caches at every two teams, this allowed for a quick ammo run while having covering fire. The wall itself had a back railing to keep wounded guard from falling off the back of the wall. The stone was reinforced with enchantments to stop it from taking serious damage though a powerful enough spell or face would still break it.

With the armament of the wall came another improvement the buildings near the wall had to be reinforced with anti-fire enchantments they also had an excess food cellar in order to get food to the guards on the wall faster. Food wise the empire had began to prosper especially with the introduction of rice. Jinx had actually been ecstatic when a bag of rice had appeared in a flash of white.

Jinx was shaken out of his thoughts when he heard yelling coming from down the hall walking faster he moved towards the yelling. Walking into the room witch he soon realized was one of the many storage rooms that dotted the castle, he took in the sight that was laid before him. There was a hole around five feet wide in the corner of the room. In the other corner there was a 6 foot tall bipedal dog that he quickly identified as a diamond dog, pointing at said dogs male bits was an ornate dagger glowing with intense energy being held by his personal maid.

"Moonglow why is there a diamond dog in the storage room and why are you threatening to castrate him." both of them looked up in shock as they finally noticed my presence, though Moonglow did move the dagger up to the dogs stomach with an embarrassed chuckle.

"Well Jinx i was getting more of the snowleaf tea that you like so much but when i opened the door and stepped in he popped out the ground and tried to grab me. He managed to corner me before i grabbed my knife and charged it while yelling, then you popped in." she rubbed the back of her head with an errant hoof before stepping back to towards the middle of the room dagger still pointed towards the dog.

"Well moon i'll take care of the dog i want you to go and get captain Farsight. Tell him that there is an emergency and that if he isn't here in five minutes i'll turn him into a rabbit and throw him in the middle of the school courtyard." as Jinx waited for the captain he turned toward the dog he held with his magic. The diamond dog was a light gray slouched being that looked like a pittbull had sex with a goblin and then some how conceived a child. From what he remembered of the book he read on them, diamond dogs varied greatly in looks some tribes stood tall and resembled bipedal wolves while others looked like forms of domesticated dogs. There were even some that looked like weird slouched back abominations that reminded jinx of goblins much like the one he was currently holding .

The wolf like tribe did not generally practice slavery and were a warrior class. These tribes generally took mercenary jobs protecting caravans or clearing out dangerous wildlife. They varied in size depending on the breed, color was also dependent on the breed. They are normally accepting of other races but are wary when it comes to ponies.

The diamond dogs that resembled domesticated dogs were more of nomads then anything else, a pack would keep together while doing odd jobs in towns that they came across, or when towns were not available would simply forage and trade with other tribes. They are often hired as short term labor workers when passing through civilized territory.

Then there was the reason that jinx was worried, the goblin like dogs like the one he was currently holding were known slavers, they rarely came above the surface and when they did it was only for two reasons, raiding, or taking slaves. The dogs themselves did a large amount of digging. Despite the fact that most were quite stupid and very rarely had a complicated thought, they still somehow had a form of leadership. They also had an almost fanatical hate for anything that wasn't one of them, they generally took the other races as slaves even there own kind.

Jinx pulled the dog closer to get a better grip on it, levitating the dagger to its throat he channeled magic to his eyes and the hair on his tail tips causing them to light up with a unearthly blue glow and foxfire respectively. "Why are you here, are you here to raid or to enslave my subjects."

The dog just stared at me keeping it's mouth shut, it looked like it wanted to rip Jinx's throat out. Jinx snarled before slamming the dog into the wall with a tail before rapping one around its chest and squeezing before a loud crack was heard. Jinx threw the diamond dog to the ground.

" I can due this all day and there are plenty of bones for me to break, or maybe i should follow through with my maids threat, and turn you into a bitch you are without the use of magic." the diamond dog's eyes widened in fear as jinx picked up one of the carving knives from the many barrels in the room before coating it in foxfire.

With a yelp the dog threw his paws over his crotch. " No, i talk swear, i scout for slaves. Need slave to dig, looking for easy target." the dog widened as Jinx's eyes narrowed and his tails began to twitch.

Jinx snarled as he slammed the dog into the far wall with his fangs bared. "How many have been taken from my city and how many dogs are guarding your den."

The diamond dog yelped in pain before answering. " Thirty ponies, fifty dogs guard den, more find better spot for den and raid" the dogs breath hitched in its throat as the massive fox in front of him began to produce smoke, its fur literally smoldering. Jinx turned to look at Farsight who had been watching the last bit of the interrogation with wide eyes before telling him to gather the guard.

Turning his attention back to the dog jinx looked it in the eyes before turning his head away. " Sorry mutt but you broke one of the cardinal rules of my empire by committing slavery." the carving knife that had been forgotten in the excitement swung through the air before impaling the diamond dog through the jugular. Jinx turned to looked at the tunnel that the dog had dug into the store room, giving the door of the storeroom one last glance he dove down the hole.

"Geronimo"