Violent Thoughts

He jumped into a room and gently shut the door. He sucked in a deep breath and let it go. He did this repeatedly for a short time before opening the door once more. He almost got caught but he knew that they were too slow for him to catch with all their armor on them.

He closed the door when he heard hoofsteps come close to him. They stopped in front of the door and conversed with each other for a bit before splitting off in opposite directions. That was a close call. He popped out his head again to survey his surroundings. When it was clear, he snuck out of the room and turned a corner.

He had no idea where he was going but he had a goal in mind and he was going to do it. He just had to climb higher and evade the guardsponies along the way. The yellow pony crept up to a large hall with a staircase that reached the next floor. He would have been smiling with glee if not for the stationed guards blocking the way. Two earth ponies and two pegasi. The earth ponies are no problem, the pegasi must be taken out first.

The unicorn looked around him for objects that he could throw towards the guards and found a table with a vase on top of it. It was a beautiful vase he had to admit but he had to use the furniture whether he would like it or not. He lifted the two objects behind him and held the door handle with his telekinesis.

He opened the door and chucked it at the stationed pegasi at the base of the stairs. A loud crash resonated throughout the hall and upstairs. The pegasus was knocked out and so the yellow unicorn only had to deal with three ponies. The earth pony guard rushed up to him and leaped to tackle him down but was swatted away. The unicorn swung the table like a bat and readied himself for the next poor victim to near him.

However, he wasn't expected somepony to come up behind him. A pegasus guard grabbed him by the barrel and tried to wrestle the unicorn down. The yellow pony shoved him away with a blast of his magic and used the table to whack him. The remaining earth pony guard was coming down the stairs to join in the fight. The guard ducked behind the railings when a table was thrown at him and finally descended to his level.

Unarmed, the unicorn rammed into the guard with all the force he could muster. It barely stumbled him but he was up close and personal now. The unicorn blasted the guard right on his chest with a knockback spell. The guard flew a couple hooves off the ground before smacking into the wall. When his head came in contact with the concrete, he was knocked out cold.

The unicorn breathed in heavily as the fight left him tired. His moment's rest was interrupted when a door beside him burst open and a squad of ponies rushed at him. Trying to conserve his mana, he rushed up the stairs as fast as he could and brought the broken table with him. He could hear the clanking of armor just behind him as he reached the next floor.

When he burst through another set of big hall doors, his eyes were assaulted by a bright light at the end of the corridor. His face lit up. He was close to his goal. This gave him a greater resolve and made him gallop faster despite being close to exhaustion.

Just then, a blast of magic flew past him and hit a wall. It seemed as though the guards were firing on him now to stop his advances. The unicorn threw the broken table behind him in the hopes that it would hit the offending unicorn. But the magic bolts kept flying. The fleeing unicorn was getting desperate. He grabbed all nearby furniture to throw behind him. Unfortunately for him, he could feel a mana exhaustion coming up.

He began to gallop near the furniture so he could manually throw them on the floor. On the off-chance that he could slow them down. It somehow seemed to work better than throwing them as the magic bolts flying past him slowed down to a stop. He thought he was in the clear for a moment before he saw the magic shield wall in front of him.

A squad of unicorn guards had their horns lit up and created a reinforced magic shield in between the unicorn and the light. This damaged the fleeing pony's resolve so much that he slowed down.

"But I'm so close. I can't give in" He thought to himself.

He ramped up speed and lit his horn for the last time. He thought about the spell that he was about to cast and the inevitable splitting headache he would feel after casting it. He closed his eyes and used the last of his mana to the teleportation spell. Average unicorns already have a hard time casting this spell and they always get a bad case of headache when they do so. What about a tired unicorn with very little mana reserves?

In a flash, the unicorn was displaced and appeared closer to the light than he anticipated but after doing so, he let out a chilling scream before his body crumpled to the floor. The guards cringed from the loud noise while many others stood still from shock. Blood began to trickle from his forehead and his vision was starting to lose focus but he kept his eyes on the prize. He weakly pushed aside the balcony door and crawled outside. He put one foreleg around the railings and looked below him.

It was a breathtaking view from up here. He bet he could see Ponyville if his situation was better. But he couldn't stay here and think about the view. He wrapped another foreleg around the railings and using his last strength, picked himself up. The guards behind him must have snapped out of their shocked state because he heard the thunderous hoofsteps behind him.

He let out a heavy sigh before balancing his hind legs on top of the railings and leaped forward. The wind brushed past him and the ground below him got closer and closer until he heard a sickening crunch and he knew nothing else.