A New Journey For A New Prince

Bane began to fly but the gusts of wind from the storm was making this task very difficult for him to maintain his course.

Bane panted some and another wave of powerful wind slams him into the cliffs, causing him to gasp in pain as he began to fall. Bane gritted his teeth hard, and forced himself to regain his position and try again.

Tender ran fast, weaving between the trees as the Timberwolves nipped at her from behind. She was lucky to be so agile, but it appeared the Timberwolves were just as agile as her, and kept up with her.

Tender looked back, and bucked one of them in the jaw, only to have the timberwolf catch her leg after impact, and rips into her flesh. This caused Tender to scream out again, but the rain and distance made the location of her scream extremely difficult to pinpoint.

Bane finally made it to the top of the cliff where he fell, and flew higher into the sky, trying to see if he could maybe spot her from above. This proved to be fruitless as the trees and rain limited his sight. He began to attempt to follow her sounds, but after a short while, the screams stopped.

This made Bane worry greatly, causing him to call out for her now. "TENDER, WHERE ARE YOU!? I'M COMING FOR YOU BUT I CAN'T FIND YOU UNLESS YOU MAKE SOME NOISE!"

He called out through the rain and thunder, but to no reply.

Tender managed to barely get away after another kick to the Timberwolves head, making it fall apart, and hid in a nearby hollowed out tree, shivering and bleeding. She hadn't been able to hear Bane's attempt to call out to her as the storm raged on.

(A few hours later.)

Bane had long since passed her over, and the storm calmed. He was now miles away from her and still searching for her. He had hoped his tenacity would pay off, but so far it has only served to backfire on him.

Tender had fallen asleep in the hollowed out tree, and awoke to the storms disappearance. She then began to limp out and began to search for materials to make a tourniquet with.

She finds a few herbs, one large leaf, and about two yards of strong vines. She then began to tie the herbs and leaf to her injured leg, and went to carry on, crying quietly as she couldn't get the scene of Bane falling to his assumed death out of her mind. It was eating her alive on the inside, and she felt guilty.

Tender wiped her tears away, doing her best to survive now, and limped on.

Bane flew frantically, trying desperately to find Tender Step, but to no avail. Bane began to lose hope that she was still alive, tears welling up in his eyes which obscured his vision. He sniffles and kept telling himself that he will find her if he just doesn't give up.

Tender fell against a tree, unable to continue on anymore, her leg was too badly wounded. She cried out, telling herself Bane will come for her repeatedly, and refused to believe otherwise.

Bane began to circle a bit, feeling exhausted now as he looked for a safe place to land and rest. Just as he found a decent looking spot, a pink coated and dark blue moaned pegasus mare flew towards him at high speed.

"Hey, are you alright?" The mare asked, hovering near him as Bane blinks.

Before Bane could reply, his energy burnt up and he reverted to his normal state, and began to plummet. The mare dove after him, catching him inches above the treeline.

"Whoa there, what happened to you?!" The mare asked, setting him down as he panted hard.

"I reverted to my normal state. Have you seen a mare Earth Pony anywhere?!" He asked the pegasus, who shook her head.

"My name's Razor Feather, what's your's?"

"Bane Blade, I got separated from the mare I mentioned. I can't find her.."

Razor blinked and nods, thinking. "Come with me to my village, maybe we can help find her before it's too late!" She said with a soft smile.

Bane nodded and followed Razors lead, watching where he was going.

Razor Feather leads Bane to the village, and gathered the residents of tge small village with ease. "Our guest got separated from a mare Earth Pony in the woods, it's urgent we find her before the timberwolves do!"

Bane spoke up next. "Her name is Tender Step, we stumbled upon a den of Timberwolves when we got separated, she may be hurt."

The pegasi that made up the village gasped and nod to one another. Razor Feather now spoke up aswell. "Then let's do this, we have no time to lose!! Nopony lands unless you spot her! If you spot her, fly up high and holler out to get somepony to notice you. Let's fly!"

With Razor Feather's pep talk over, the pegasi took to the sky. Babe may have been exhausted, but ge was no quitter. He darted into the woods too, panting hard as he pushed himself hard.

Tender Step panted too, struggling to remain conscious due to the blood loss. She hadn't been able to see it, but tge Timberwolves had found and surrounded her.

Tender Step was in no condition to fight or flee anymore.

Razor Feather was the fastest flyer in her village, and flew the furthest. Razor Feather found Tender Step first, but there was nopony else around.

Razor Feather noticed Tender Step was surrounded and swooped down to intercept the Timberwolves, kicking tge closest two only to get tackled to the mud by a third. Razor Feather grunted in pain as she kicked it off of her, only to find a fourth Timberwolf biting into her left wing, and get pulled around. She screamed out just as Tender Step blacked out, and Razor Feather kicked and headbutted her way free. She began to circle Tender Step, no longer able to fly away now. She was in a very bad spot now.

Razor Feather began to scream out for help, but nopony had caught up to her yet, nopony except Bane.

Bane heard Razor Feather's cry for help and ran faster, hovering his daggers in front of him.

Just as Bane arrived, a Timberwolf had grabbed Razor by the throat and gave her a few vicious thrashes. "NOOOO!!!"

Bane screamed in rage, rushing forward as he stabbed that Timberwolf in the eye and chest to make it jump back. Bane stood over Razor Feather as she bled out and snarled defensively.

(To be continued)