The Strife of Survival and Honor

by Torulf21

Chapter 3

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*Turok's Path*

Inside the tunnels there were the Diamond Dogs enslaving ponies, a few zebras and avian creatures. The slaves were used for digging or pleasure. Among those slaves, specifically the griffons was none other than the legendary crew of Captain Celaeno. The heroric pirates that helped liberate Equestria from the Storm King reign of terror. Now they are captured by these Diamond Dogs and are forced to do gem digging.

They have been slaves for two days and now all the crew members are in a cell while a Diamond Dog took Captain Celaeno towards a table right infront of them. Forced her into the table as her crew watched helplessly, as does the other slaves around while the dogs keep whipping them to work.

"Now you little birdy bitch! You shall know your place!" The Dog said in malice as he tied Celaeno's arms and legs on the table with her belly down as her crew cried out for her and threaten the dog with death to save her.

"May you rot in Tartarus, beast!" She spat and then received a slap on the face.

"Now you've done it!" The Dog said as he rip off her pants, revealing her ass out. The dog began to grab her ass cheeks and gave it a few slaps while he hardens his cock. Celaeno clenched her eyes as she prepare for the worst to happen.

Sklash

Out of nowhere a spear flew towards the rapist dog wannabe and killed him through his heart. The Diamond Dogs saw all that and rally around his corpse. It didn't take long before the dogs and the slaves heard the...

"Oorah!!!"

The warcry was heard when a black humanoid bear came down jumping on the dogs. Stomped down two of them with his feets and them with the swing of his claymore sword he slashed four diamond dog heads off. It is revealed that the black bear creature was none other than Turok, Chieftain of the Dread-Claw clan of the Ezoti warrior culture.

As he raised his claymore sword in the air and roared outloud, the rest of the Dread-Claw Brard warriors came charging on the Diamond Dogs. The Brards skills in combat was without equals so each swing of their weapon always cuts down any canine slaver in their way, even if a slaver was able to block a sword or an axe the brute strength of the Brard sends the Diamond Dog off the ground.

During the slaughter the Brards use their transmutation abilities to free the slaves from their chains and their cages. Turok used his to turn the table and the cage door into air, and freed Captain Celaeno and her crew. As the crew ran towards their captain and embraced her with a hug, Turok took a huge boulder with his hands, lifted it over his head and tossed it towards a group of Diamond Dogs that was about to jump on the crew. Captain Celaeno noticed that and realized that he saved her and her crew again. What astonished her about these bear creatures was their great physical strength.

After Turok showed his strength he redraw his claymore sword and charge forward to fight along side his own warriors. Turok swinged his sword down on a Diamond Dog and cleaved him in half, then he plunged it within the mouth of the closest dog on his way, after snatching his claymore sword from the dog he swinged it in a half-circle and severed five slavers heads off.

When that was done, Turok saw a group of ten dogs with crude weapons charging him. Turok was about to attack but was surprised the charging avian creatures that he rescued. The female one plunged her sword at one of the Diamond Dogs and the rest of her crew used their own crude weapons to fight them. Turok was impressed with their fighting skills and their courage but he also wonder how they have been captured in the first place.

It took only ten minutes for the Brard warriors of the Dread-Claw clan to wipe out the slavers and now they start freeing the slaves as well as arming them with the dog's crude weapons.

"Did we lost any member of our clan?" Turok asked one of his warriors.

"No chieftain, these canine filths are weaker than out own cubs."

"Rally our warriors and search for any surviving canine before we move out! This fight was barely close to a fine battle." Turok said in both boredom and disappointment for the Diamond Dog's weak strength and lack fighting skills. "Are you kidding me?" Turok heard a feminine voice from behind and turned around.

"THAT WAS AWSOME!!! You bears just came out of nowhere and wipe the floor out of these Diamond Dogs like they were nothing!" It was none other than Captain Celaeno herself and her four crew members (three males and one female/hag).

"You all fought valiantly, it's a wonder mutts bested you." Turok said, causing Celaeno to blush furiously.

"They didn't!! They ambushed us when we were suppose to track something down." Captain Celaeno explained, a little embarrassed.

"You still have our thanks for comming, we so wanna make these mutts pay for their atrocities." Said the one who is missing a hand.

"We wanna help take out the Diamond Dogs and rescue our friends who are still captured." Captain Celaeno said with determination in her eyes.

"Those slavers keept us all in chains for two day, but you gave us a second chance for payback. Now we are ready to shred them to pieces!" The other with one eye said, causing the rest of the crew and the freed/armed slaves to cheer in agreement.

"If it is blood you all seek, you are welcome to join." Turok said, impressed by their newly built courage. They all smiled to him for allowing them to seek revenge.

"Kill every slaver you can find, on the double!" Turok told them before he turned his attention towards his clan.

"Move forward warriors! kill every slaver and free every slave you can find!" Turok ordered his warriors as he moves forward in quick pace, Captain Celaeno ran toward Turok to come next to him.

"May I ask for your name? I am Celaeno, captain of the Lightcloud!" She said to him as the Brards, her crew and the freed/armed slaves charging forward to kill more of the Diamond Dogs.

"Turok, Chieftain of the Dread-Claw clan." Turok said to her as they began to pick up the pace to battle.

*Sitka's Path*

Sitka moved on along with the Blue Storm clan warriors. He used his transmutation power to increase the temperature of the canine slaver's weapons and armors to make the fight more simple. The slavers died in mere seconds and the Brards freed pony after pony, Sitka himself came across something amazing to his eyes. He saw a group of humanoid bovines chained up against the wall. Sitka used transmutation to turn the chains into billions of oxygen atoms, causing the bovines to be freed from their bonds. Sitka approached one of them who happens to be scarred and older than the rest of them, assuming he is the leader. Sitka offers his hand to help him up.

"Thank you very much brave one. We are in your debt.” The scarred one said as he took Sitka hand to rise up while the other bovine members gather their weapons and help the Brards free the slaves.

"May I ask who you are warrior?" Sitka asked politely.

"I am Rush Horn, commander of my company of warriors. Who might you be?" Rush Horn asked.

"I am Sitka, cheiftain of the Blue Storm clan, Warchief of the Horde and leader of my race called Brard." Sitka said with his fist in his heart-chest. Rush Horn's ears perked up at this as he looked at Sitka with interest.

“I have never seen or heard of a race called Brard before in my whole life. But I must say warchief you and your warriors fight incredibly well and I am impressed with your magic ability." Rush Horn said in respect as he and his warriors looked amazed by the Brard's fighting skills.

“You have our thanks for freeing us from these accursed diamond dogs. They have been capturing slaves for months without a trace." The Bovine commander said.

"For what reason would these dogs have to practice honorless slavery?" Sitka asked, disgusted by the Diamond Dogs slavery.

"They take slaves because they need workers to harvest the gems of these mines. They often enslave as many males and females they could get, they even take calfs as slaves. But most of the time they rape the females just for fun.” Rush Horn spat in disgusted as Sitka's face turned into a demonic form of rage.

"I was tasked by my king do find these scums and dispose of them. They ambushed us when we made camp and used some kind of sleeping smoke to capture us." He finished.

"Tell me commander, do you and your warriors thirst for their blood?" Sitka asked.

"We do." He answered knowing where this would lead, with a smirk.

"Have your warriors tell the slaves to follow the slashing marks my clan left behind, it will lead them out side the cave. While your at it-" Sitka picked up a rock and then turned it into a fitting battle axe to wield. "- fight with the Blue Storm clan so that you may have justice in blood. Let's fight together!" Sitka finished with handing the axe to Rush Horn who took it without a second thought.

"It will be an honor, warchief!" Rush Horn said full of pride and joined up with his warriors giving them orders and then follows Sitka towards battle. Sitka and Rush Horn along with their warriors side-by-side marched off into the darkness where more filths awaits to be slaughtered. It was Diamond Dogs vs Brards & Minotaurs.

It has been fifteen minutes since Sitka and Rush Horn meet, Brads and Minotaurs fought together against more Diamond Dogs that stood in their way and freed every slave they came across. Rush Horn told Sitka that their race are called Minotaurs as Sitka informed him about Turok and his clan on the other side comming in hope to meet them on the other side.

They broken though the defence line and was heading straight towards the center of the tunnels. Brards and the Minotaurs are slaughtering the Diamond Dogs with fury and without mercy. Sitka and Rush Horn fought together as a duo team and completely devastated the morale of the slavers. Even though the Diamond Dogs outnumber them 15 to 1 the Brards and the Minotaurs superior strength and amazing fighting skills are slaughtering them all with ease. The Blue Storm clan with their allies passed the lines of defences and terrified the slavers who are now running for their lives, leaving their slaves to be freed.

As the warriors eradicate the slavers, Sitka spend his time going from cage to cage and use his transmutaion to turn steel gate into smoke and free all slaves. Everytime he walks into a cage, the slaves would back away from him in fear of death, he keept freeing them even thought they were afraid of him. When he came to the last cage, he noticed that the slaves there had armor on them, 'they must be soldiers' Sitka thought. He walks towards it and they back away from him as all did.... except one.

This one who didn't back away got the Warchief's attention. The fearless one was a purple mare with a red mohawk, scar on her right eye and a broken horn. Instead of fear she looked at him with interest and curiosity. Once Sitka got close to the cage, the mare didn't move an bit, he used his transmutation on the iron cage and turned it into smoke. She didn't changed her astonished looking face. Sitka looked down on her face to face and said something that she would never forget.

"You all appear to be soldiers yet these weaklings defeated you without a fight? How sad." Sitka said and that cause the purple/scarred mare to blush furiously and he starts to walk away, intercepted by her.

"W-what, it... It's not our fault! T-they got the jump on us!” She shouted in embarrassment as she came towards his face.

"How? The sun was in your eyes? I don't think so." Sitka teased her causing her to blush more furiously as he turned his attention to Rush Horn who held a Diamond Dog with his left arm, bashed him into the wall before he slamed him down on the ground and then brought his axe down on the dogs belly and killed him. Sitka walked to him.

"You seems to be enjoying yourself, commander Rush Horn." Sitka complemented him.

"You have no idea, these scums had it comming for a long time." He smiled at the cheiftain as he saw the purple mare comming to them. With her soldiers following behind.

"F-Forgive me early outburst s-sir... I-I’m Tempest Shadow, commander of this squad of royal guards. W-Who are you?” The mare named Tempest Shadow asked as she tried to put on a brave face. She has always been a very brave mare but now this towering, two-legged bear creature begin to send her the chills.

"This is commander Rush Horn who is in charge over the minotaurs here. I am Sitka, cheiftain of the Blue Storm clan and Warchief of the Horde." Sitka said as he starts to walk forward, followed by Rush Horn and Tempest.

"I-I have never s-seen a species as you before. And what is this 'Horde' that you are warchief of?" Tempest asked.

"My race is called Brard and the reason that you have seen my kind before... is because... we are not of this world." Sitka said as he keeps walking, but Tempest and Rush Horn slowed down abit because of their shock.

"Not of this World?" They asked in union.

"Later, once the scums are eradicated we'll talk." Sitka suggested to them. They so wanted to have answers from him about his race but they must admitt that he is right. Freeing the slaves from the Diamond Dogs is more important so they nobbed in agreement and followed the young Warchieftain.


Author's Note

The reason why Grubber isn't with Tempest Shadow will be clear soon, just give it time.

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