Just a Man

by RedtheDestroyer

Bare Conscience

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The moon glimmered an eerie sliver light in the darkness of miles of forest all around. A few twigs snap signalling something coming, or rather, two beings blazing a trail through the thicket of the woods. The pair pant heavily making their hot breath noticeable in the cold night air. Both beings looked to be middle aged horse-women, no older than their mid twenties. They looked exhausted, especially the white, slightly taller one leaning against the other blue horse-woman.

They were too terrified to even slow down their current pace. Every instinct told them desperately to give up the chase. To succumb to their chaser's will. That urge only made them double their efforts. "Come on, sister. I can feel we are about to lose them." The blue horse woman coaxed the white one.

The white horse-woman nervously stared at her younger sister not sure if her gut was entirely accurate. "Maybe... Maybe the Elite Masters will take mercy on us if we give ourselv-"

The blue one glared down at her elder sister's irrational train of thought. "No. Do you know what their guards do to runaways? They break them, sister. We have no choice but to run."

A gathered russle of noise soon began to crescendo into a small roar of orders from the guards. The women both gasped moving at a faster pace. The white one's movement slowed down as a desperate moan escaped her lips. The blue one's eyes bulge out in fear. It was getting too much for her sister to handle. Their evil masters did.... something unspeakably horrible to her. Even though the younger sister couldn't figure out what exactly it was yet.

Her muzzle grew into a red blush; her hind legs twitching with every step. The blue one desperately searched for somewhere to hide, but she couldn't find much of anything in the middle of the giant forest. That was until a sole light flickered to her left.

Without much thought, she made a break for the source of light with her sister in tow. The loud trudging sound, unfortunately, alert the guards of their presence.

"Catch the slaves quickly, men!" The 'leader' shouted. Several spell casters shot bolts of low voltage lightning. Most barely missed their bodies. The blue one nearly tripped over twice.

Their attempt at escape failed when a bulky guard tackled the horse-women to the ground causing the blue woman to reel in a daze. The moonlight revealed the guard to be a human. An unnatural human at that. His eye color was a deep amber seeming to swirl with raw power and dominance. He grinned turning the two downed horse-women on their backs to the ground with a hand each.

The blue one struggled in his grip while the white one moaned louder and only squirmed slightly. "I caught the two troublemakers, boss. What should we do with these filthy slaves now?" He inquired.

The leader of the group smirked, but pretend to think for a moment. "Hmm, let me think... What do you think, doofus! Fuck the alicorn bitches!"

The giant human went 'oh' seeming to be dumbfound of that answer. He then starts tearing their pathetic excuse of clothing rags like a wild beast with unbridled bloodthirst. The blue one screamed which seem to have a mix effect on the watching guards. Suddenly, a weird sensation crawled up everyone's spine. This even causes the big brute of a human to pause from the raw presence it was spilling out to the environment around them. Something wasn't right at all. The leader human could feel it. Something was watching them. "Show yourself monster!" He proclaimed.

Nobody dared move until something black stepped out of the shadows of the forest depths. It appeared to have a horn and to be pony shape strangely enough. The figure then fully stood in the moonlight revealing a black unicorn stallion in public view. The stallion seem to have jeans and a torn shirt, but it did ease the humans present. Just a lowly slave.

"Oh good. Just a slave. I'm sure he is probably just confused about what is going on. You two pleas-" The leader turned his head to address the two guards but stopped seeming to feel excruciating pain in his chest. He slowly lowered his gaze to see a blood red soaked hand with a beating heart in the palm. The hand crushed the organ spraying blood on the grass. The leader's body shortly fell limp afterwards.

The guards, even the horse-women, didn't seem to believe what just happened. One minute the stallion was twenty feet away, then the next he zoned in and took out a heart through the metal and bone protecting it! The black unicorn pulled the blood drenched hand out of the corpse before letting his magic clean the hand almost instantly.

"I have nothing against humans, but what you all are doing is crossing a line that I prefer to stay away from myself. If you want to continue to still breathe, I suggest you stop planning on raping these mares and leave this forest." He threatened in a even tone.

Some of the humans broke out of the shock before instantly start charging their magical power. The black stallion grinned looking more like a psycho's than a friendly one. Two of the human guards end up restraining the horse-women before the giant, heavily armored, human stomped his way toward me.

Even with the limited amount of brain cells, he realized the actions of what the stallion wrought. "Good stallions wait patiently until they are told to perform. For your disobedience and killing a fellow master, you will be put to death." The brute said evenly as well.

The stallion chuckled at him. "So the 'warrior' class human believes he can take me down? Funny. I don't think you know what power level you are facing. Hey, you idle mages, scan my level power." The stallion said half interested in the humans' reactions.

The brute growled impatient. "Enough chatter! You die today!" The man shouts. Suddenly, all of the idle mages began to scream in different degrees of fear. This had the 'warrior class' human's attention almost immediately. "WHAT is it now?"

"His level power.... It's off the charts. And..... it's growing stronger every minute!" One of the mage humans replied back. The warrior human's eyes immediately widen in unexpected terror.

The stallion laughed hard making a horse women confused of his actions. "There's the face I have been looking for: unrestrained terror! What a sight!"

The charging mages stopped their quiet chanting before a huge beam of pure blue magic rained down on the black unicorn. The stallion's fur burned under the assault causing the male to scream in pain. Pleasant smiles spread across the group of mages. The horse-women, however, looked greatly mortified by the display of power.

"It's a good thing the Ultra Gods made several fatal flaws in your race's genes. No matter how much your race reproduces, it can not with stand electricity at this high of a voltage. No matter how godlike in strength the slave races have, this weakness will always cripple you. Die in agony, slave." One of the mages comments laced with malice. The stallion fell on one knee barely able to stand.

The warrior human slowly walked over to the black stallion seeming to get over his initial fear of the unicorn. Many horrifying thoughts crossed the sisters' mind knowing this would surely be an end to a rare noble soul amongst the ponies. The warrior raised his hands together before bashing them against the stallion's back over and over. The sisters couldn't watch the sheer brutality of the act the guards were committing.

The stallion's grunts of pain strangely turned to short pained chuckles. Almost like he was loopy on marijuana, one of those drugs the Masters gave regularly to their 'toys'. The stallion slowly stood up from his kneeling position. The warrior, in the meantime, trying desperately to snap the stallion's spine in half. The humans and two ponies watched in both horror, and slight fascination, at the rapidly healing black stallion.

He grabbed the warrior's mighty fists before twisting them violently the opposite direction tearing his forearms completely off his elbows. The brute screamed in pain greatly disturbed by the fact of how easily the monster stallion broke his arms. Blood spread everywhere all over the ground. He then kicked the brute on his chestplate causing the giant to fall with a great 'thud'.

The mages fired up their spell casting again, however, the stallion was ready for it this time. He charged up his magic in the tip of his pointer finger before aiming at the group of helpless mages. He actively made a 'piew' sound shooting each wizard effortlessly through their hearts; making it look like a magic finger-pistol machine gun. The remaining guards standby passively too scared to actually make a move against the monster.

A muffled grunt of pain caught the stallion's attention as the two previous human guards held the two alicorn slaves in front of them. Both armed with a knife to their throats. "Stand down, slave, and lay down your life. Or else these pretty faces will spray their life all over the grass."

The guards smirked inwardly at remembering how to cow a strong willed stallion. All it took was a bit of persuasion. The stallion seem to blink out of existence appearing behind the threatening humans using their hostage weapons. He then plunge their own blades into the back of their skulls, killing them instantly. The two humans fell like rocks, both women immediately free themselves from them and fall to their knees to catch their shaky breath.

That display seem to shred the last bit of confidence out of the group of guards. They scattered like rodents back into the thicket of the forest around them. The stallion sighed in great relief before wincing in pain at the half healed burnt marks and bruises on his body. He would need to attend to his wounds, but he ignored the pain temporarily checking on the alicorns. They appeared to be unharmed, only their previous clothes rags suffered any real damage. Any finer details of their condition were still unknown, yet since it was dead middle of the night, it made it hard to tell if they were really fine physically. What mattered right now was that they were safe. Still, it was quite a pain to not be able to check them out more thoroughly at a time like this. What a pain this night as become....

The alicorns glanced at their savior with wonder and concern for the stallion's beatings in the clash. He smiled confidently putting the alicorns at ease slightly. "Don't worry. I'm fine, but we need to move quickly to my cabin." Shadow urged.

He left them heading to the source of light while the blue horse-woman picked the white one up. The stallion finally limped over to the entrance walking inside the cabin


The sisters followed suit in the log cabin. The adrenaline seem to fade faster than I previously thought, making the pain in my shoulders spike. I hissed leaning aginst a nearby wall. What have I gotten myself into now? The world's problems seem to never leave me alone these days. I inwardly sighed.

"U-Um, sorry to bother you, but why did you save us?" The blue one said easing the entrance to the cabin closed.

I searched through my house for proper medical supplies to fix my current wounds. "Anybody with any kind of moral compass would have stepped in that situation. I just so happened to be nearby." I replied.

"Yeah..... Of course." I looked back at her, pondering her response.

"I'm guessing not many folks around here would lend you a hand without wanting something in return, is that right?" The blue one meekly nods placing the elder sister on a couch nearby. He approached the blue alicorn with a warm smile. "It's what I do in my free time, so I don't ask for anything in return. It's for free. People, err, in your case, ponies call me Shadow Faze."

The blue horse-woman seem to relax a little bit more now that I introduced myself, but she still remain rather silent.

"Do you have a name, child?" Shadow asked breaking the silence.

"Well, Master always referred to me specifically as 'Blue Bitch'." She replied.

Shadow winced, heavily, and not because of his wounds either. "That's not a name. That's an insult; a degrading phrase."

She seem to get a face of realization from my speculation. 'Oh' was all she said. I didn't have to think too hard to come up with a better solution. I noticed that she looked almost exactly like a certain blue alicorn.

"Since you don't have a name. I can suggest a name for you, if you want that." She nodded her head slowly not really sure if I could come up with a better name. "How about Luna Galactica."

She blinked a few times rolling the name in her mind. A small smile curved up her lips. "That.... 'name' has a nice ring to it. Alright, for now on, I'll be known as Luna Galactica." A strange pulse of blue light flashed in the mana filled air before it quickly disappeared. More questions formed from this new development. But before I could voice my confusion, the white horse-woman began to stir.


Author's Note

And the first chapter is out. I haven't quit on this series just because of a few bumps in my previous story.

So Shadow is in a new predicament due to his actions once more. Don't worry, all will be explained more in due time! Also, I'm curious, how many of you have actually read the entire story Universal Acceptance? If you haven't then you should read it first. It's a really good read. It maybe focused a little more around the sexual aspect of things, but it's got some very good backstory and main character implications of his actions. Not spoiling the book though.

Anyway, enough chit chat, as a wise pink mare once said: time is candy! (Or Alex Side if you were there when his channel was popular.)

Until next chapter.....

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