Everfree Forest

Castle of the Two Sisters

A few days after i had arrived reconstruction of the castle had begun. I had trained 49 more Gors and set them to start moving debris out of the castle. I had also trained 50 Ungors and Ungor Raiders. The Ungors helped move the debris while the Ungor Raiders were standing watch over the castle. Those that weren’t were out hunting or scouting. All of them reported to Stronghoof. Stronghoof was the name of the Gor that i had first trained. He had introduced himself shortly after i had trained him. When some of the hunters had come back with four dead manticores. I wondered why they hadn’t run out of arrows ,since it takes a lot to kill a manticore, and asked for one of their quivers where over a few hours i kept pulling arrows out it. I eventually stopped after the five hundred mark.

While i was sitting on my throne thinking over the implication that my troops had unlimited ammo Stronghoof burst into the room. “Sir. Some of the scouts have reported finding a town a bit away from the edge of the forest.” He said in his deep voice. I immediately thought that it was Ponyville so i got off my throne and walked over to him. “Tell them to meet me at the front of the main gate immediately.” He nodded and went to get them. I walked through the castle to the main gate which only took me a few minutes when you know where to go in this labyrinth of a castle.

When i reached the main gate five Ungor Raiders already stood there presumably waiting for me to arrive. “So you are the ones that discovered the town?” One them nodded. “Yes sir. We’ll take you to it.” I nodded and followed them to Ponyville. We had no problem going since for some reason every animal stayed away from me. That timberwolf alpha must have spread the word about me to the other animals.

When we arrived i could see Ponyville only under a mile away from the edge of the forest. They must have been morons to have built the town so close to an extremely dangerous forest. My thoughts about how dumb the town builders were, were quickly dashed when i saw several species on leashes. Dragons, diamond dogs, griffons, hippogrifs, minotaurs, changelings etc. Every species that wasn’t a pony were on leashes. They were forced to walk on all fours to make them feel beneath the ponies. Heck even the kids had slaves. There was even a store that sold slaves like it was perfectly normal. Infront of the town hall i spotted some wooden poles with dried blood on them. I instantly knew what they were used for. But what mostly pissed me off was when a grown stallion was beating a young griffon girl. The girl called for help but nobody helped her. They just didn’t care.

I could feel my blood boil at what i was seeing. “Sir?” One of the Ungor Raiders said in concern. I took a deep breath to force back my anger since they would be getting what’s coming to them. “Let’s go back to the castle.” I turned around and walked back to the castle while thinking about how to kill every single one of them.

Castle of the Two Sisters

When we had arrived back at the castle i had immediately gone to the throne room to think. I wanted to kill every single pony in Ponyville but with the troops that i had at the moment it would be impossible. Not because of their defense but because i didn’t have enough troops to be able to hold the town from Celestia’s army. Just attacking without knowing anything about their army’s capabilities would be suicide. Just then Stronghoof entered the throne room. “Sir. While you were away some of the scouts found a trail leading to the town.” I saw that there was more he wanted to say so i gestured for him to continue. “They also spotted a caravan sir. A slave caravan.” My eyes instantly hardened when i heard that. I got off the throne my blood boiling with the heat of a volcano. “Assemble the troops. We attack that caravan immediately. This will make a blow in their slave market.” Stronghoof nodded and walked out of the throne room.

I waited a few minutes until i started to walk towards the courtyard. When i arrived all of my troops had been assembled. “Listen up! Some of our scouts have just recently found a trail where at this moment a slave caravan is using it to go towards the town not far from here. I have assembled all of you to attack that caravan.” My troops cheered since they had been waiting for a battle and now they were getting one. “Kill every pony you see! Spill their blood for those that they have killed!” My troops cheered even louder.

Everfree Trail

Me and my troops were lying in wait for the caravan. My troops had been split in two so that they could attack the caravan from both sides of the trail. I had ordered the Ungor Raiders to fire on my command. The Ungors and Gors i had ordered to attack as soon as the first volley had been released. After a few minutes of lying in wait i could hear marching. It didn’t take long for the caravan to get into view. I could see twenty wagons, ten of them were filled with metal cages with slaves in them and the other ten were filled with what i could guess were exotic foods. Minotaurs were pulling the wagons occasionally getting striked by a whip on the back. All of the slaves looked extremely malnourished like they hadn’t been fed in days.

From what i could see they were only fifty earth ponies guarding the caravan. The guards were wearing gold armor and were armed with swords and shields. They must have thought that nothing would attack them since there were no pegasi or unicorns with them. I raised my arm up with my hand open. As i did that the Ungor Raiders on both sides of the trail got ready to fire. I clenched my fist which was the signal to fire. Fifty arrows were fired at the earth ponies. Some missed their targets but that wouldn’t matter since the Ungors and Gors had charged and quickly taken out the survivors of the volley. They never knew what hit them.

“Get those people out of the cages!. Take what you can carry and burn the rest!” The Gors and Ungors quickly got the slaves out of the cages and took as much food they could carry. The Ungor Raiders then light the tips of their arrows on fired and fired them into the wagons. As the wagons burned my troops and the slaves returned to the castle. Historians would make this small ambush the official start of the Liberation War.

Author's Note

Gors: 50
Ungors: 50
Ungor Raiders: 50
Total: 150

I'm so sorry it took me this long to update!
Both my life and writers block got in the way
Hope you guys enjoy the chapter