The New Zebrican Empire

by Warhorse

Chapter 13 - Word gets out/ aiding the enemy's rebels

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Chris' POV

It had been over a week since the battle of bold brass, I was recovering just fine, with the help of mango and glider. I was still in bed with glider, and soon after word mango just showed up in my tent seeing me with glider. At first she was ready to squash me, but I explained to her that of what glider has told me about griffon culture, and it seem to calm mango down as she gave me a herd much stronger than what glider gave me before. Everyone was busy collecting the fallen braves from the battle still, I ordered for the warbeast's carcasses to be saved so we could study them to find their weakness in the near future. The minotaurs were helping out with burying the dead including some of the enemy's corpses, and the rest were burned to prevent disease from spreading across the kingdom.

I was looking on my iPhone to see if there was a map range of any kind on it, and to my surprise there is one. It was scanning the area around me, and it showed me the entire map of equestria itself. I looked to see where the caribou's capital would be, it was not only up north, but passed the forbidden mountains in the icy territory. I got a good look at their capital, it was armed with cannons on all sides, there were caribou patrols around literally every corner, and worse of all, there number of warriors keep swell than what they lost. My guess is they are going to try to attack again, but this time in full force.

"Hello king chris." Said a small voice, I turned to see puzzle standing behind me with her long neck downwards looking at my iPhone.

"What do you want puzzle?" I asked her as she sat down in front of me while smiling.

"I was curious about that thing in your hands, what is it? She asked looking straight at it.

"Well puzzle, it is an iPhone?"

"An iPhone?" she asked with her head tilted slightly.

"Basically it is a device which I can communicate with, but it does more than that, since I arrived in this world, it gave me ideas, and now it is literally showing me king dainn's kingdom look." I said showing her, and she gave a shocking look on her face as she turned back to me.

"This is incredible my king!" Puzzle said in amazement. "It could change the world, and make life so much easier!"

"I know, but don't forget you can't rely on it too much, and it sometimes can mislead you if your not careful." I said giving her a warning of caution.

"Of course my king, your words are as wise as my mother's wisdom, and I have a gift for you on behalf of my mother."

"What is this gift?" I asked as she gave it to me, and I open to see a sharp looking spear point made of a diamond tip, with a steel ore attached to it, and a long hardwood shaft made from the finest wood in zebraic bearing her mother's symbol carved on the steel part.

"From me to you your highness, on behalf of my mother, and her mother, I puzzle solver devote my life and loyalty to you." She said bowing before me as she got back up she gave me a hug which I gotta say she is very soft, and squishy.

She than left me as I got to checking up on glider, and her soldiers. Most of her warriors were wounded, but with the medical attention they should be fine, but with the winter winds blowing some won't survive with their open wounds. Cause in winters even a single open scratch of wound is like a death sentence for most living creatures even humans like myself, and it was sure getting cold out with snow falling too.

"Hello there birdy, whats the word?" I asked making her turn towards me with a 'what face' look in confusion.

"What word?" She asked

"Well your a bird right? So it means that the bird is the word." I said making her raise an eyebrow.

"Is this one of your things where I have to answer a question, or are you screwing with me?" She asked unamused.

"Its a joke actually, its a song 'bird is the word' sang by some people my dad once knew back years ago, so I thought it would be funny to say that birds are the word, get it?" I asked again seeing if glider got it this time. She just looked at me until after a minute, she got it, and was laughing at it.

"Ha! Ha! Ha! Oh my ancestors! That is the most hilarious thing I heard in my life my father would love to hear that one!" She said still chuckling after what I just said.

"Ok well I'm going to check on flora and her father now see ya." I said leaving, while waving to her.

3 hours later

It was great, my troops moral is raising up even more than before. Plus with mango, honey, ashy, zashy, puzzle, and the others. Things might be going our way from here onwards, just than a minotaur guard up on the tower yelled out. "Alert some caribous are at our gates!" With that everyone was alerted, and readied their weapons in hand. I ran up the walls to see not only caribou, but most of them were children, females, and fewer males looking like they been through a lot.

"Who are you, and how did you find this place?" I asked them as they were shocked to see me, and one young male step out with his weapons on the ground.

"My name is Bark Wood, leader of this group, and we heard of your battle with horn crush, so we followed the trail of his troops here." He said to me, and what got me thinking is why these caribou are so far away with uncollared mares with kids by them.

"What is it that you want?" I asked him.

"We need your help king chris." He said in a begging tone. "We wish to escape dainn's iron grip on our empire, and I know your recovering after your encounter with dainn's forces. But we wish to help you in your war against him by telling you information personally, and we wish to join and aid your empire for the good of everyone here."

I looked towards glider, iron hoof, my harem mates, and captain rally call with a concern look as they were thinking out loud.

"Well we could use this information, and give them refuge from their king's wrath." Said mango give us a peaceful option.

"No way!" Glider snapped with anger. "Those buckers raped innocent females for the sake of their sick desires! And I bet this is a trap, and I say kill them all, even the children."

"ENOUGH GLIDER!" I yelled at her making everyone face me. "I get it glider! I get it! But even so these are hopeless victims in this fight that they didn't even want to begin with. I see clearly they ran away, and to their people they are deserters and will kill them with no quarter. But as for the children, they may be caribou, but it does not mean they will grow up like their fathers, we can guide them the right way in life, and after all the young are pure and innocent as the hearts of good of their mothers share with the ones they love. And I don't want to hear another word of killing children, especially the caribou's children, do you understand glider?"

Now glider folded her wings back in looking sad with regret. "I'm sorry my king." She apologized while facing down words cause of my words. So I walked up to her picking up her chin, and petted her soft feathers making her blush a bit.

"Its okay, just next time, think before you speak, and never give in to you emotions or it will consume you."

"Ok" She said calming down a lot. I turned to iron hoof with a nod in agreement, and so did the others.

"Alright you can come in, but no tricks!" I said to him.

"Of course not, after all we know better than to fool a king that knows how to rule with great leadership!" He replied back. After that the gates opened to let them in, and soon afterwards, the children were running around, and the adults were talking with us.

"Oh thank you so much my king!" Spoke a female caribou as she bowed before me as did the others too.

"Of course." I replied.

King Dainn's POV At his capital

I was wandering around my throne room waiting for that report on the battle of bold brass capital of the minotaur nation. I swear this invasion plan of my is taking too long, even with arming my warriors, it is a real bitch just thinking about it, and those celestial sluts will be my toys. Just then a dozen of my guards came back to my surprise is, they were badly wounded, and some were scorched by burn marks on their bodies too. But what surprised me the most was seeing my general horn crush's right eye was gouged out with cut wounds all over, even lost his left antler was damaged.

"What in tartarus happened to you?" I asked him with high concern.

"Its about bold brass your kingship." He said quiet like as he looked at me. "Its about there defenses that got most of us. We had 30,000 against a few hundred, but then some others joined the defense as well."

"Who, who else dared to interfere with my plans? Speak!" I commanded him with anger in my voice, horn crush then said.

"Believe it or not sire, but there were griffons, ponies, elephants, giraffes, and zebras, including their king."

My eyed widen, and my rage ignited. "AAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!" I screamed making the castle shake violently scaring my subjects. "That damn creature decided to declare war on me, and stop our destiny?!"

"We tried to take it sire!" One of the wounded guards spoke causing me to turn to him still angry. "The zebra king brought a devastating weapon, one that can shoot out fire worse than what a dragon can do. Even when we used the blimp on the city, the zebra king had the griffons carry him, and his troops up on our blimp. And he blew it up single handed ending our battle sir, please forgive us." After he said that, I decapitated him in front of my subjects as I sat on my throne looking at them again.

"I want you all to make this a priority number one." I said with my face now stuck with anger. "Make this an official for all those who seek finer females for pleasure. I want the head of the zebra king on a pike, I don't care how, but I want him stopped along with his allies. Hire bounty hunters if you have to, even mercenaries, and build up enough forces to keep that creature on his hind legs. The one who can kill this zebra king will have my personal slaves to themselves, now spread the word through out the kingdom!" With that the caribou soldiers and horn crush left to patch up their wounds, and the rest of the caribous went out to hang poster signs within the kingdom. I will have my revenge for what that hairless ape did.

3rd person on the outskirts of the capital

A young caribou male was walking around the stone building block, when he saw a note on the wall.

"What is this?" He said as he began reading it, and there was a reward on the poster with the picture of chris on it.

To those the care to see

There is a award for the death of the zebra king named king chris the first. He is starting to threaten our way of life, and must be stopped at all cost. Bounty hunters and mercenaries are acceptation for hire, and will breed with my personal slaves as their own as your reward.

Sign King dainn stonehoof

After he read it, he ran with it into a tree stump outside of the capital, and he slipped right in like a worm through a hole. As he went down, he landed on a soft hay stack underneath him. The place he landed in was an underground cavern with water flowing from a nearby waterfall, and he wasn't the only one in this place. Around him were dozens of female caribou with leather armor on, and few males wearing rags for clothes. The young male ran with the poster up to the top of the area, and there sat a large female caribou looking fat with heavy leather armor on with a left eyepatch.

"Well? What did you bring us this time kid?" She asked with tough like nasty voice, while sharpening her axe with a rock in her hand.

"Well...I-" He said as he was interrupted by her.

"Oh, give me that!" She yelled snatching it out of his hands looking at the poster, and her right eye raised with interest. "Well now, seems dainn's death will be quicker than we thought." She got up from her seat to look on her large body sized map for bold brass on it.

"What do you want me to do boss?" The young male asked.

"I want you to go to bold brass to convince this 'zebra king' to help us, understood?" She said as the young male saluted her, and ran out leaving her with her thoughts. "This king sounds like my kind of guy, wonder how muscular he is." She finished while thinking about the zebra king, and what he looks like.

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