Vengeance is a Torch

Arton Ravenheart - POV

Look at me. JUST LOOK AT ME! Encased in stone and put in a hedge maze for over a thousand years in a bloody garden just for the view and entertainment value! The statue of me looks like this while holding a Warhammer in my right hand.

The only thing that kept me from falling into insanity was the statue next to me, who happens to be Discord. I know he's a weirdo but talking to him was better than to die of boredom. He used some of his remaining power to create a link that we could communicate through and we starts talking about random things to keep our minds away from our statue situations.

Another thing that we find it very entertaining is how we can still see and hear the world around us and we saw some interesting things in that garden. They ranged from arguments between couples, to hearing the myths about Discord and I that would change every few years, not that I cared or anything.

But more importantly, let me give you all my story before me being a statue.

After the bloody incident in the village, which is called 'Ponyville', I ran back to the place called the Everfree Forest. I walked around in that cursed forest trying to get out of there again. I stumble upon a castle in the middle of it but I manage to stay way from it and finally got out of the forest and the kingdom itself.

Spending my times around many kingdoms as a travelling mercenary I have been raiding slaver camps and bandit hideouts, setting every slave free while took whatever food and money these parasites had and put them all to good use. I visit many towns and citites around the Griffon Kingdom, Minotaur Highlands, Dragon Holdings and Changeling Nests for more than two or six years, served as a soldier for hire, gladiator fighter, bounty hunter and more importantly 'slaver slayer'. There were alot of things to do that time. Battles to fight, bounties to hunt, treasures to salvage and even females to make love with.

I had a hard time to believe it, but in this fantasy world I'm in is a reverse gender role of males and females. Females outnumber males ten to one. Due to the lack of males, females have to protect the males. Females have always been the dominant gender in this world and it is the females who have always been the protectors, the providers, and the leaders due to the small population of males. The very thought about that makes me wanna faint. But on the other hand it wasn't totally bad, because of the lack of males all the females are horny as hell and many females I came across wants to get laid just for the heck of it. Since I'm a guy how the hell could I say no to that. After all, to deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.

But during my years of my mercenary days, the fucking Queen Faust has been putting a huge prize on my head and send assassin after assassin to kill me. Calling me murderer, monster, demon, she even called me slayer of INNOCENTS! NOW THAT IS A FUCKING LIE!!!

Sorry, sorry, it's just... WOW, is this one bad! I mean, you have no idea. It took alot of assassination attempts on me to realize, I can't let this slide, I just can't let her continue to cause me trouble and misery forever. I had no choice but to go to WAR!

I journeyed through the badlands to form an army of my own to fight Faust and put an end to her madness. I was ambushed by bandits, but I defeated easily them and becomes their leader. Then we went to an encampment and killed their general, after which I commands them to become his army.

During my time gathering an army I carried a new armor with another Warhammer.

Spending a great time in the badlands, my army has several successful raids, offering the defeated the option of joining such army or die. When my army is big enough, I saw the time of invading equestria and kill Faust has come.

My first conquest began with the takeovers of Appleloosa and Dodge City. One of my commanders took Dodge City while I fought on Appleloosa by killing the mayor of the town. When that was successfully done, I ordered a portion of my army to go futher inside Equestria to committ many raids and plunderings while I took a good amount of soldiers of many species towards the everfree forest to capture the castle that was located there. On the way my force came across several Everfree Forest creatures, luckly my armor has all wraith powers and abilities from the game Shadow of War, so I used my Domination powers to recruit those creatures into my army and it worked. I used these beasts for siege against the castle's walls and gates and my army manage to storm in, I must say it was a real fight in there, the soldiers who fought to defend it did put up a good fight but in the end my army won.

After my army took the castle in the forest, my scouts came to me and informed that Queen Faust has send a few armies towards the forest and other places to wipe out both my forces and the raiders I send to harash her kingdom. The next battle started at Rambling Rock Ridge where I encountered her forces and fought three battles, all of it in a single day! Imagine that, I attacked the first army then came their reinforcement too late and then I ambushed another army that was trying to pass through. I destroyed three armies in ONE bloody day! no doubt I made a strong name for myself that time.

But I lost many good soldiers and if I don't face Faust sooner I may not win the war at all. When I got words that Faust has send another army towards me, I ordered my scouts to find my other portion of the army to meet me again and regroup. While they were at it, I and what remains of my forces took refuge at a place called Ponyville, the very same village I meet Ebony Sparkle and where my hostility with Faust began. I was just lucky that the villagers remembers me and acknowledged me as a good guy. When Faust's army arrived at the town and began searching the houses, the residents actively aided me and kept me hidden from the soldiers. Before they could find me the rest of my army that was raiding and looting the kingdom arrived in full force, I chose to wear a different kind of armor and a new warhammer before I came out of hiding and fought with all my might. My new armor gave me all Force powers from the game Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. I must say, that was a very amazing battle. And it is now known as the Battle of the Everfree since my reinforcments arrived from the forest.

It was only after that battle that Faust finally emerged from hiding in a mountain city known as Canterlot. She assamble her own personal army to fight me face-to-face, finally she arrived. Because I think she was done pissing herself.

A cloud city known as Cloudsdale was floating in the sky, yes. But underneath it there is a whole field of hills and that's were my army would face the forces of Queen Faust, that's where the final battle would take place. Faust's army was over 25 000 soldiers while I only had 18 000 strong. But the huge differences is, Faust's soldiers were unbloodied and less experienced but all my soldiers were battle-hardened fighters with lust for blood and had justice on our side.

My strategy was simple, I just replicated the Battle of Marathon, I allowed my center to contain mostly 4 000 soldiers while my remaining 14 000 will be divided to take care of the flanks. Using the same tactics the greeks did I let the Equestrian think that they can win with a frontal assault and they all fell right into my trap. It was during that battle were I finally meet Queen Faust, that white alicorn with red hair who started the damned mess. As we fought every soldiers from both our armies watched.

With my enchanted armor and mastery of warhammer combat, I fought her with the rage of thousand beasts brining blow after blow upon the bitch of a Queen until I finally managed to swing my warhammer through her stomach. I swinged so hard I literally ripped open her belly and caused her organs to fall down and all her blood leaked out from her body to the ground, for that reason the hill we fought at became known as the Red Hill now.

When that fucking bitch, Faust, was finally dead and her army was routed I was told by one of my commanders that she had two daughters and I understood that as long as they live this war was far from over. I and my army made our way into Canterlot in the mountain, I changed myself into my armored thor to destroy the gate and ordered my soldiers to raze the city. As I went inside the royal palace I looked through door to door searching for Faust's daughters, I quickly realized that they escaped and it was bad.

I know they were innocent and they did me no wrong. But I killed their mother, they had more reason to hate me than Faust did. If I didn't end them as soon as possible, more and more lives will perish. So even though they were innocent little girls, I must find them and destroy them for the good of everyone.

For nine years I failed to find them, for nine years I spended my time suppressing slavery and hunting bandits who would harm innocents. Then, after nine years, the two daughters of Faust finally approached me. They names were Celestia and Luna, one was a white alicorn with rainbow mane and the other was another alicorn all blue. When I took a fighting stance, I noticed that instead of fighting me with weapons they brought six weird gemns floating around them. They called them the 'Elements of Harmony', that sound stupid. But in the end it's what defeated me and turned me into a stone statue.

After a few decades came Discord, he brought chaos to the realm and mess around. He's not a villain if you ask me, he's just a crazy prankster. But that was all it took for the daughters of Faust to stone him. They brought him to me and we began to have countless conversations to keep us selves entertained. Thanks to Discord, we could hear and see what was going on around us, in the place called Canterlot (strange, I'm certain I razed that city). Anyway we both heard what kind of myths and stories they say about us, especially me. They call me the 'Godslayer' or the 'Conqueror of Equestria', nice I suppose. What surprised me is that in Equestria I am a villain and a monster, but outside Equestria all other races reguards me as a hero. I don't know why but if by some miracle I could get out of this prison I will immidiately make a run for another kindom from Equestria.

We heard about Luna being banished to the moon after her transformation into a new mare she called Nightmare Moon. Created by her own jealousy, classy if you ask me. But that's not all, without Luna the Elements of Harmony won't work for Princess Celestia. If she can't use them, then who? I guess I have to find of later when the chance is given.

Speaking of which, one night me and discord saw a pony comming towards me. That pony was another alicorn who look very much like Luna. She was completely black and her many looks like blue mist with stars. Discord comfirmed to me that this new alicorn is Nightmare Moon, the new version of Princess Luna. She came towards my statue and looked at me.

"Ah, here you are. The mighty Arton Ravenheart, who fought and killed the great Faust. I know you can hear me from there and I will let you know this." She said as she came closer, she flew a little until she is close to my face.

"I will release you from this prison. I want you to help me overthrow Princess Celestia and take rule of Equestria for myself. In return I will offer you a full pardon and I will offer you wealth for service or freedom to walk your own way. It's of course up to you." She said in whispering tone as she step back and starts pumping her magic into my stone prison and soon I start to hear a lot of cracks.

At long last, I'm free!