"P. O. W"

Whirlwind Gust and her sister Firestorm had their squad captured and the majority of their six pegasi squad had been killed off. One stallion, Frostbite by name had tried to rush is gryphon guards and he managed to stun two and third had pierced him with her sword. The latter felt guilt for killing him; her allied comrades, the diamond dogs would have laughed and mutilated his body and desecrated it. Two pegasa mares tried to escape and got shot out of the sky. A second stallion had died from infection of his wounds. Firestorm was the commanding officer of the scoutuing mission and failed to calculate the risk of what she had assumed to be another scout force of the enemy was actually the entire force.

In an officer's meeting with the princesses, they told her they were relocating to Appaloosa to regroup their forces. Whirlwind had accidentally overheard and told her sister. The gryphons had departed to head off a dragon cohort to the south; the other half went to head off the young six and their forces to the south west. The diamond dogs began to use outlawed methods of interrogation. Firestorm was hauled to the far side of the dungeon and was tortured, first by starvation. Then she got beat with everything imaginable. The diamond dogs took it to the level of being just brutes and not worthy to bear the emblems of their lords. Whirlwind wanted to tell them what they wanted to know to save her sister. But however, Firestorm told her that she would rather that Whirlwind went home telling their parents she let her die to save the lives of thousands rather sacrificing thousands jusr to have their family together.

Whirlwind felt sick as she watched the diamond dogs violate her sister for several weeks straight. One night the diamond dogs began to rip Firestorm's feathers from her wings, and using a surgical blade performed very small cuts and poured lemon juice and salt into the wounds. Whirlwind closed her eyes and tried to block out the sound of Firestorm being beaten to the point bones were broken. After a couple of months, Firestorm was put through three weeks of getting gang raped and brutal sex acts getting performed. Every morning she would see her sister thrown into their shared cell; Firestorm though very broken kept her sister at a foreleg's distance. The fateful day came when she saw her sister perish, word came suddenly that the gryphons were returning. Whirlwind saw her sister's body thrown into the furnace. The diamond dogs had still a week to send her through hell.

They did grant her the request of keeping her sister's insignia and pendant with Firestorm's name and rank. Whirlwind wept, she knew her parents will be heartbroken and she hated herself because she swore to protect her sister. Now here she was, a survivor with no fellow soldiers and alone and surrounded by sex crazed diamond dogs who would hang around her cell and joke crassly about what they'd do to her. One dog joked, "Hey if you're a good mate I might give ya some fresh eggs." She may have been very young, but not so naiive to get his joke. Occasionally, they'd bring a pony mare prisoner from a cell a over hers and drag them down to her section and make her watch them violate them to death.

Deep down, Whirlwind Gust was emotionally shutting down. The gryphons lords had by this time executed by burning the diamond dogs in charge of her sister's death. They had no clue that the worst was about to happen.