Divided Skies

“Did you see how those ponies ran like little fillies after I picked off four of his buddies, ha so much for Celestia’s “Royal Guard” my mum would have picked a better fight then them.” The brown unicorn joked, causing a ripple of laughter to spread across the small group of ponies walking around her. Kingsley looked back toward her.

“That reminds Arrowhead, what’s the big idea stealing my kill back there, you knew I could of handled that unicorn by myself.” He asked.

She and Kingsley have been on many missions together throughout their years in the republic, from ambushes like this one to assaults on enemy bases, and have always argued about who was the better fighter, so they made up a game to find out. The rules were simple, who ever had the highest body-count won.

At first they treated the game as if they were competing to become the greatest warrior in Equestria, but as the war between Celestia and Luna dragged on it became difficult to keep track of who had the most wins (it also didn’t help that a majority of the time the two would tie creating a big “who killed who” debate between the shadow guards) so the compation turned into a game that gave the winner bragging rights until the next mission.

Technically speaking there was no rule about stealing a kill from the other pony but it was seen as dishonest by the other shadow guards, making it hard to brag if one won a round by taking a kill from his or her opponent. Which is why the two rivals never stole from each other (or if they did they would deny it) so it was no wonder that when Kingsley accused her of cheating Arrowhead pretended to look confused.

“Oh I didn’t even know you were near him.” She explained. “To me he was just standing in the open wondering what in Equestria was going on.”

“So you really didn’t see me at all” Kingsley asked raising an eyebrow, although with his hood up nopony could notice. Arrowhead made a cross on her chest with her hoof.

“I swear to you I did not see you at all. I had a clear shot when I fired that arrow.

“You had a clear shot alright, right at my shoulder. If I hadn’t moved at the last minute you would have to explain to my brother why I didn’t come back from a simple ambush.” Arrowhead glared at him.

“Ah come off it mate you know more than anypony else that I’m the best shot out of everypony in the republic, there was no way in the pits of Tartarus that I could have miss that shot and you know it.” She exclaimed.

Kingsley just gave her a small grin.

“So you confess that you stole my kill?” Arrowhead’s expression suddenly changed from one of anger to one of nervousness.

“Umm, no, I mean yes, I mean, DAMIT.” There was a roar of laughter from everypony in the group, not including Arrowhead who hung her head in defeat.

“So as it stands I have two kills and you have four kills,” Kingsley stated, Arrowhead just gritted her teeth, she hated to lose. “But since you stole a kill from me that means that we both have three kills.” As he said this, the remaining chuckles from the surrounding guards turned into one drawn out groan.

“Great another tie. How many is that now, anypony still keeping track.” A blue pony asked to nopony in particular.

“Dude last time I checked they tied forty six times and that was a few months back.” A pony with a red coat answered.

“It doesn’t matter how many times we tied as long as I have the most wins.” Kingsley proudly stated.

“Horse apples everypony knows that I’ve been kicking your flank since we started this thing.” Arrowhead protested after recovering from her setback earlier. Kingsley opened his mouth to speak when a familiar voice cut him off.

“By the stars I can’t let you two do anything together without me having to foal sit you both?”

Kingsley actually recoiled as he found himself looking into the light blue eyes of a grey/green unicorn pony with a short cut mane and tail that matched her eyes. Kingsley swallowed nervously with Arrowhead next to him as the rest of the group scattered into the medium sized camp which lay in the middle of a clearing that Kingsley had failed to notice while he was arguing with Arrowhead.

“Weepingbell, hay sis, I umm, didn’t notice you there,” Kingsley flipped back his hood revealing a short, black, shaggy mane and two bright green eyes. “How is things go-”

“Of course you didn’t notice me, by Luna’s mane Kingsley you didn’t even notice when you walked out of the forest, you could have walked into Canterlot for bucks sake and you still wouldn’t notice a thing because you two are too busy playing ‘Who’s Better’ to look at what’s in front of you.” She yelled.

Arrowhead couldn’t help a short bark of laughter from escaping her lips, which she quickly tried to pass as a cough to avoid receiving the same fate as Kingsley to no success, two lightning blue eyes shifted from Kingsley to her.

“Oh trust me, you won’t be laughing when I’m done with you, you are just as blind and stupid as he is.” She continued on her rant. Arrowhead’s eyes started to flare with rage.

“Hay take it easy, I was fully aware of where we were until your brother here got all saddle-sore because I killed more sun lovers then him during the ambush.”

“Well you decided to argue with him instead of just ignoring him so what does that say about you?” Weepingbell shot back. Kingsley knew this was heading south way too fast and decided to intervene.

“Whoa, ladies there’s no need to start fighting each other over something as stupid as”

“STAY OUT OF THIS!!!” Both unicorns shouted. Kingsley’s eyes widened in a mixture of surprise and fear, but as the two unicorns started fighting again the expression quickly turned into one of annoyance.

“Fine if you two want to kill each other go ahead see if I care.” He turned and headed toward the camp. “Jeez a colt can’t do anything without pissing off a mare.” He grumbled to himself.

When he was out of earshot the unicorns instantly stopped their arguing and started to giggle.

“I can’t believe he fell for that.” Arrowhead snorted.

“I told you he would believe it.” Weepingbell replied between short bursts of laughter. “Maybe now he will learn to never tell a mare she’s wrong.”

“Too right bell, too right.”

After a few minutes the mares were able to control themselves enough to walk back to the camp but they still couldn’t help but smile at each other when they remembered the little lesson they taught Kingsley. The two unicorns were like sisters and they never could pass up an opportunity to trick the colts in the camp in order to get their way, even if it was their brother Kingsley, especially if it was their brother Kingsley.