Derisk 24th 145 VE

Canterlot Equestria

It was a cool morning in the land of Equestria, the rising sun lit the sky up with a beautiful orange glow that filled the castle in Canterlot with light. As the night guard is replaced with the morning guard, their golden armor glistening in the sun. Queen Twilight walked into her throne room wearing a violet gown with her long violet hair tied behind her head. She sat on her exquisitely decorated throne.

“Good morning everyone,” said Twilight

Her guards bowed their heads to her acknowledging her greeting, upon doing so one of the guards came up and said

“It is time for you to greet the citizens of Canterlot, you must get prepared,”

“Oh my, I almost forgot” as she said this she got up from her throne and began to the door to the left of her throne

But before she could, a man burst into the throne room, wearing a red cloak, and black metal helmet. He kneeled before her and held out the parchment, as she took the parchment from his hand he turned and ran out of the room. When she opened it up and read it, her eyes flared with fury as she ripped it up throwing the small pieces onto the floor, them drifting slowly downward. She continued to her private chamber and muttered to herself:

“If he wants war then he’s getting it”

It was a day later when a red carriage entered Canterlot and stopped at the foot of the large exquisitely beautiful white castle. Out stepped three people, a woman with long straight pink hair that draped past her shoulder, she wore a long bright green and white dress that was just above her green shoes. She was followed by a smiling woman with curly pink hair wearing a bright pink dress that drug behind her. And she was followed by a blonde-haired soldier, clad in bronze plate armor with a short-bladed sword in a leather scabbard at her left hip, a large round bronze shield in her right, and a long bronze-tipped spear in her left.

They all climbed the long stone staircase to the castle and entered through the massive doors. They walked behind the throne room and into a large room with a round table that was built as a raised map that showed all the surrounding lands. in the room was Queen Twilight, her wife Rarity, a young woman with dark blue hair in a long light blue dress. Guarding them both was Rainbow Dash, a soldier with long rainbow-colored hair and wearing bronze plate armor, carrying a large round bronze shield in her left hand that was held next to her short sword, and a long bronze-tipped spear in her right hand.

After they all sat down Twilight began “Now as you all know, we’ve had multiple issues with Niln and due to our recent skirmish or as their calling it ‘attack’ they decided to declare war on us”

The woman with long pink hair whose name was Fluttershy’s face turned to one of worry and she said “B-but what if they’re far more powerful, I mean we’ve never fought a war with them before”

“But we do know that Niln is sparsely populated, while there are over 100 villages and 12 cities from what we’ve observed there would still be very little in the ways of the population to form a giant army,” said Rarity

“Commander Applejack, you will lead our infantry and Commander Rainbow Dash, you will lead our cavalry, and both of you shall train them”

Both Rainbow Dash and Applejack, the woman with blonde hair saluted her before leaving the chamber.

Twilight looked over to Fluttershy and said “You will train people to treat the wounds of soldiers”

“Y-yes ma’am” responded Fluttershy before walking out of the room

“Now Pinkie,” said Twilight to the girl with curly pink hair who had sat quietly “You’re gonna entertain injured soldiers, you know make them laugh”

“Yes ma’am” exclaimed Pinkie gleefully as she hopped from her chair and left the chamber

Miles away, just across the border of Niln, a large army of soldiers stands before a man in black and gold robes holding up a large stone figure of a long-haired man with a curved greatsword on his back and a spear in his right hand. This figure was being held in the right hand of the priest, and in his left hand was a deer skull painted decoratively in red and yellow placed on top of a spear.

The priest looked up to the sky and spoke in an aged hoarse voice "Oh great Morrinok, God of War and Honor, please grant these warriors your blessing as they march into battle, let their blades be sharp and their battle cries fierce,"

As he said this the soldiers began marching forward and the sound of deep horns filled the air as the Grand March on Canterlot. It wasn't long before Rainbow Dash spotted the army of men in blue armor marching in a line that appeared to be fifteen men across, it appeared almost all were carrying spears and shields.

"MEN" yelled Rainbow Dash "GET READY"

As she yelled the soldiers locked their round shields together and pointed their spears forward. The men stopped about thirty feet away from the Equin Soldiers, and Rainbow Dash stepped out from the line of soldiers and walked to the center of the field between the soldiers. As she did so, a large Northerner stepped from the line of Nilinish Soldiers, his hair was long and black, he had a short black beard, his face was worn and he had a large scar going from his forehead, crossing his left eye, and going down to his cheek.

He wore the same armor as the Nilnish Soldiers but had a long cape draped behind him and a gold serpent emblem on his helmet, instead of a blue kite shield, he carried a kite shield that was half black and half dark green and didn't have a spear, only a long sword. He put his shield on his back, removed his helmet, and kneeled leaning on his helmet.

Before Rainbow Dash could do anything he spoke in a rough voice "Oh great military general, I wish to grant you my respect before we do battle"

With this, he rose and placed his helmet back on his head before rejoining the ranks of soldiers behind him. Rainbow Dash joined the ranks of her men and a loud war cry was let out by the many Nilnish Soldiers as they began to charge forward their spears and swords drawn. She locked her shield with the rest and held out her spear, the sound it made when the Nilnish Soldiers collided with the Equin Phalanx could be heard for miles around.

The sound of swords and spears striking the shields, spears being reached over the shields and stabbing the Equin soldiers, and the spears being broken off. The Nilnish Soldiers also suffered losses, the long spears of the Equin Soldiers being forced through their armor and into the chests, blood gushing through the wounds of all soldiers stained the ground a crimson red.

The Nilnish soldiers backed off and form a phalanx with their spears and it was at this moment that Rainbow Dash realized that not only were very few of the soldiers actually in the charge but they weren't all carrying spears, but many were carrying guns. They were long-barreled wheellock muskets with dark oak stocks and black steel barrels that extended past the soldiers' heads, they wore the same armor as the infantry only it was a dark green rather than blue.

"CHAAAAARRRRGGGEEEE" screamed Rainbow Dash as the Phalanx broke and the soldiers ran.

Before they could make it to the phalanx of Northerners, a series of loud cracks went over the yelling Equins as several collapsed to the ground with holes having appeared in their bodies and smoke filled the air, the soldiers had fired their guns. Yet even as the first barrage lowered their guns to reload and the second barrage was readied she still charged forward, even as the loud crack of guns rang out again she still ran.

Until she felt a searing hot pain and her leg seemingly collapsed under her weight and she fell forward onto the ground. Not long after she did the Phalanx broke into a charge and the bloodbath of a battle got even worse as she saw Equin soldiers get slashed, stabbed, and dismembered. She clasped her shattered leg as tears streamed down her dirty face, as she did she heard a scream from behind her and turned to see a Nilnish Soldier charging at her wielding a blood-stained sword and a scratched up shield.

The sword plunged through her chest and into her heart, the last thing she saw before her vision went dark was the menacing grin on the face of the Nilnish Commander that had been carrying the green and black shield. She fell backward on the ground dead, blood still gushing from the wound in her chest.

And this marked a victory for Niln and barely any of their soldiers were lost, it wasn't a large battle by any means it didn't even use a quarter of Niln's forces in the march but it was still a major victory for them.

Author's Note

And with that, we conclude our second chapter, it's possible that they may make peace in the third chapter but I doubt it seriously