Legacy of Death Belle: The Cursed Crusader

“Yo Sweets!” a loud, smart ass tone from Scootaloo yelled as the white filly ignored her, not knowing where it was she was supposed to go….she did not know what would happen if she got turned away from Master Dash and her school, she had been warned but did not expect for it to truly happen.

As she walked on through the snow, ignoring the flakes that clung to her coat, she accidently hit the shoulder of one of the four ponies that were coming towards the school itself, all four were adults; two were green coated earth ponies with red manes and tails and gold eyes, one male and one female while the other two were Pegasus and both brown furred with white manes and tails with blue eyes, also one male and female.

The one she had ran into for not looking ahead of her was an earth pony and was male, with a sword strapped to his back as the female had a spear with both having grey sheath’s to cover their weapons, the Pegasus on the other hoof had two knives attached to their hips, green sheaths covering the weapons as the stallion Sweetie Belle had ran into snorted.

“Watch where you’re going, unicorn trash!” he snapped and slapped her hard in the face with his tail as the other ponies laughed and continued walking before the female earth pony spotted a red glow from the small unicorn filly.

“Hey, hold up…..she’s got a nice piece of jewelry around her neck.” She sneered darkly making the other three turn to look at the filly still slowly trotting away.

“Hey, WHORE!” the green furred mare Pegasus shouted to the unicorn who in her depression to be rejected did not hear her.

“Yo, Sweets….I’m thinking those ugly bastards behind you want to have a little chat, why don’t you go….give them a warm greeting.” Scootaloo whispered to the right of her with a smirk as Sweetie Belle looked at the orange filly confused before turning around and seeing the four ponies behind her walking to the building, giving all four a good long look of the red jewel she wore.

“W….what? Hey, she….she’s got the number two jewel around her neck.”  The red furred stallion whispered to his allies as their mouths were open in shock, for even they while on vacation had heard of the legendary Diamond Slayer being killed and the mare known as Magic Blades to take her place around the moral ponies as a goddess…at least, in their minds, but now they had just noticed that the number two jewel was being carried around by a filly, a unicorn at that.

“The, BUCK! Hey, if we get that damn jewel, we won’t have to be around Rainbow’s dumb ass, we can have an all expense pay trip to the big time once we kill Magic Blades.” The green coated mare spoke to her friends who nodded without hesitation, not knowing that only one of them was able to challenge Magic Blades at a time.

“Hey, bitch…..give us that pretty stone around your neck….we don’t want to hurt you.” The same mare screamed to Sweetie Belle who narrowed her eyes at the earth pony’s words.

“Much.” The other mare whispered under her breath as her long white tail reached slowly for the small knife on her right hip, her head moving ever slowly for her left while her other two companions did the small, save for the green coated stallion who had his tail go towards his sword on his back, hoping to end this filly’s life quickly, she had no need for the jewel if she was not even going to last five minutes with four full grown ponies.

As an unfair battle was about to be placed on the snowy ground, Dinky Doo who had been ordered to fetch a wooden pole to light another lantern that was blown out by the wind, looked around before her and saw four members of Talent of Hearts school facing a very hard to see white filly with purple and pink locks in her mane and tail but could not see her expression from such distance.

Without a word Dinky dropped her stick and ran to get help from Master Dash or her sister….whichever came first.

Sweetie Belle wanted to curl into a ball and cry for such an unfair battle, she only had her scythe and even if she could reach it with her teeth which she doubted due to the weight, four full grown ponies were right in front of her….she knew the odds were not in her favor.

Was she really hated by the goddesses this much? Was this her punishment for her sin of killing Scootaloo, her best friend? Was death at the hooves of these ponies truly an option?

“No.” she muttered under her breath, she had come too far, she had not come here to be killed by four selfish ponies…that was not to say she knew how to fight well, her inexperience seriously put her at a disadvantage but that did not mean she was not going to try, damn it!

With no other choice, Sweetie Belle made her tail grab the wooden part of her weapon as her tail stretched to remove it from its own sheath as it was released and brought towards the ground, the wooden stick in the air as the blade was pointing to the ground…and turned away from her.

Dinky had come just in time with Derpy, Master Dash and a whole crowd of unicorn servants to see the battle about to take place.

Derpy unfurled her wings to go down and help the filly but was stopped from a hoof by Master Dash as she turned around to look in surprise at her master.

“I have to help her, Master Dash, this battle is no place for a filly and she is heavily outnumbered…she has no way of surviving a fight from four full grown ponies who are armed to the teeth.” Derpy spoke calmly to the Pegasus who merely smirked and replied.

“In order to prove that she has a place in our school, we have to see what she’s capable of….and besides, with that jewel around her neck she going to be attacked constantly, a fight to the death that cannot be ignored….so better for her to get trained under a master then to be killed not knowing what to do…and if she really is the sister of Diamond Slayer, she’s has got to learn a thing or two, eh?” Rainbow Dash spoke slowly.

“Why does she hold her weapon backwards?” Dinky asked confused, wincing for she expected to be slapped by Master Dash for not being given permission first, but no attack came as she sighed in relief.

“Hmmm…..I would assume it is because holding a bladed weapon away from you allows for a much more greater defense as well as an open swing of attack, but at the same time she is more prone to be sliced or stabbed at…it would be almost impossible for her to stab unless it was an upward thrust and much harder for her to swing while the blunt end of the scythe is facing her opponents unless she flips it over with her tail…let’s hope she knows what she is doing with that fighting style.” Derpy answered as Master Dash only nodded looking closely at the filly.

“Your right, Derpy, never knew you had studied different styles of holding a weapon,” she said with a grin as Derpy only smiled and bowed her head for her praise “But…..the thing is I myself have never even seen anypony have this sort of style with a weapon…..hmmm….not even Rarity held her blade like that, did she Derpy?” Master Dash questioned as Derpy answered right away.

“No, Master Dash….she has never held her weapon like that…” her voice trailed off as Master Dash glanced at her from the corner of her left eye.

“I forgot you used to know Rarity, Derp…..why did you not go with her when she left, I heard she asked you to follow her, or was my information false?” the rainbow colored Pegasus asked slowly causing the grey colored mare to grit her teeth and her hooves to press harder against the floor board as she answered.

“S…she did, Master…..but….I have chosen that my sister is more important to me then a quest for the goddesses……and she is dead because of her faith.” Derpy replied coldly causing Rainbow Dash to laugh loud and hard as she wiped a tear from her right eye.

“Ah….could not say it better myself, Derps….forgot you were never one for faith anyway…..hmmm….one of you unicorns, get me a mug of hard cider and a chair, this is going to be a long fight…I can feel it.” she snapped as four servants saluted and went to do as ordered without pause while all eyes kept looking on…to the filly whose fate was forever sealed by bloodshed.