A different war to fight

As the group headed back up to the castle Wolf had a reoccurring thought, what was shooting those arrows. The more the man thought on it the more it made less sense, in the end he decided to focus on the task at hand and inform the princesses what has happened. As they entered the castle the two sisters were already arguing over who could have caused such a quick barrage of arrows. They greeted the group and asked their thoughts on the situation, they turned to Wolf and he informed them that there was no tracks but the leaves on the ground were not disturbed. The princesses mustered extra forces, including some of their personal guard to help watch the walls.

As night rapidly approached Wolf took watch over the kingdom as Luna had not slept since the royal wedding, this was Wolf's offering so that see could finally get some rest. Wolf headed up to the balcony with his sniper rifle in one hand and a guitar in the other. Wolf had found the guitar In his room when he was setting up a makeshift workshop and saw that it was prime time he got some practice. The night was calm, calm enough for Wolf to finally gather his thoughts and gave him some time to relax. He spent this time strumming the guitar without a care in the world, often singing or humming along to the melody. As he was humming along to a melody Fluttershy came out onto the balcony

"Um, excuse me?" she asked

This took Wolf by surprise as he fell back on the chair he was sitting on, he got back up to his feet and asked "what are you doing out here, its late"

She replied with tears filling her eye as she talked "I had a nightmare, usually princess Luna deals with nightmares as they happen, I was going to stay with one of the other mares but I didnt want to wake them up, that's when I heard your singing, I hate to ask this but, could I stay up here with you, I just dont feel safe in that room on my own"

Wolf contemplated it In his head and saw no risk in having the timid mare stay there with him so he replied "you can stay up here with me, but let's get your bedsheets, it's going to be a cold night"

The two quickly ran back to Fluttershy's room and grabbed her bedsheets, Wolf ran back to his room to collect his bedsheets so that the mare wouldn't have to sleep on the cold hard stone of the balcony. The mare lied down and started to fall asleep, Wolf picked up his guitar and started playing a calming melody so that she would feel at ease. Within minutes Fluttershy was fast asleep. The rest of the night was uneventful other than when it started to rain.

Wolf didnt mind the cold rain but he knew it would awaken the sleeping pony from her slumber so he lifted one of his wings above where she was sleeping. The cold rain ran down Wolf's wing and off of the balcony. For once in his life Wolf thought he had done the right thing, letting the mare sleep near him, everything in his life up to that point had felt wrong or it was something he was ordered to do, but for once he had thought he had done the right thing from his own initiative.

At dawn princess Celestia took over watch for a while, until the ponies would awaken and she would return to her usual duties. Wolf was intent on keeping watch but Celestia knew she would be able to keep the peace for a few hours

She stated "Wolf, I appreciate that you took watch for the night so that my sister could sleep, but you should sleep also, it is a big day tomorrow"

Wolf knew better than to argue with the princess so he left the balcony, but not before picking up the mare who was still asleep on the floor. He carried Fluttershy back to her room and left most of his bedsheets with her so that he wouldn't wake her. Once he returned to his bunk he attempted to remove his kevlar vest only to find that because of his wings the vest was stuck

The kevlar vest was only front and back protection so he decided to cut the thin pieces of fabric at the sides of his waist. He then lifted the front side of the vest over his head and slowly started to bend the plate on his back inward in the hopes that the holes his wings came out of would match up and he would be able to lift it off of him. To his surprise the plan actually worked but know Wolf was with out frontal protection. Either way he decided to get some sleep.

Wolf was woken up by Twilight who frantically said "you need to get up, something's attacking the town and has made their way inside"

Hearing this Wolf shot up out of bed and grabbed his shirt and rifle and ran out the door. He put his shirt on whilst moving down the corridor, he wanted to get into the town and stop the attack quickly. Once they were outside they saw over fifty Griffons inside the town, upon seeing this Wolf ran towards the Armoury and told Twilight to gather everypony and keep them safe

She refused and said "and what exactly are you going to do, get slaughtered by a massive amount of Griffons"

Wolf turned around and said "Raptor can barely walk straight let alone shoot, the guard ponies need help, and unless anyone else can fight i'll gunit alone"

Twilight just remained silent as they reached the Armoury. Wolf looked around the room and grabbed an M4A1 assault rifle and lots of ammo to accompany it and walked back out. Twilight decided to listen to Wolf's words and grab everypony she could and hide. As Wolf stepped back outside and walked down the street he only saw carnage, even he was disgusted at what he saw. There were half eaten ponies littering the streets, this angered Wolf more and more, so much that when he saw the first Griffon he unloaded an entire mag into it.

After he got a closer look at the Griffon he heard a commotion in the next street across, it sounded like a large group of ponies screaming in fear. Wolf ran as fast as he could around the corner, as he turned he saw a Griffon go to pounce onto a royal guard, Wolf had a flashback to when Raptor lost his arm and fired instantly, hitting the large bird.

The guard pony thankes Wolf before telling him to send any survivors to Canterlot hospital as some of the guard gathered their to stop the griffons scavenging the flesh from those who were already wounded.

Wolf heard a squawk from above and looked up to see more Griffons closing in so he started to fire his assault rifle upward hitting a good number of them to fall to the ground with a sickening thud.

From their Wolf went street to street mercilessly gunnung down any Griffon he saw and directing any surviving ponies to the hospital telling them that it should be safe

Once he had cleared a good chunk of the town Wolf headed towards the front gate, assuming that the Griffons were sending more heavily armed foot soldiers through the gate. Once there he crouched behind a makeshift barricade the guards had made. Things weren't too bad at the front gate, twelve of the guard ponies including three of Celestia's solar guard and two of Luna's bat ponies. The four unicorns of the group were atop of the gates ramparts using bows and makeshift arrows, whereas the ponies on the ground level were using spears attached to their armor or swords in their mouths.

The gate still stood thankfully, but that wouldn't last for too long as a large Griffon force was approaching with a battering ram, and a large group of archers all of which were ready to fire upon anything that moved. Wolf cautioned the guard on the ramparts to hide until he gave them a signal, as he and the rest of the ponies took the gates locking bar off, as this would allow them to suprise the griffons on the other side.

As the ram slammed into the door causing it to fly open Wolf opened fire, giving the rampart archers the signal to open fire. This caught the Griffons off guard, but not for long. The guard around Wolf began to charge towards the oncoming attackers before a barrage of arrows came through the gate

Wolf instinctively turned around and lifted his wings to protect himself. When he turned back around he saw that almost all of the once courageous ponies dead, littered with arrows, leaving the others scrambling for cover. Wolf climbed over the makeshift barriers the ponies had made and dropped his rifle. Wolf had to give them a distaction and he knew one good way to get their attention....