Author's Note

Story Is subject to change in genre also subject to criticism cant fix what i don't see ya know :D
Lastly this will be updated slowly don't expect quick updates.

14:59 8/10/21
Minor punctuation and flow fixes

Chapter 0 Prologue

Prologue

Five years since Princess Luna’s banishment

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The war was over, but the cost and price paid were not worth it. An Alicorn wearing full gold armor wielding a lance of golden light stood above the battlefield. She looked at the sheer amount of dead bodies piled on top of even more bodies. Her ponies were struggling to move through the dead let alone stay above it. The dead that lay were of all species buffalo, pony, griffon, changeling, lamia, Abyssinian cats, dog warriors, Centaurs, all races covered the two hundred mile battlefield. The dragons wisely stayed out of this war. The tunnels were collapsed before they could be captured and everything that all the species came to claim was lost. Weapons degraded and rusted, their flying contraptions and armored carriages lay either in smoldering ruin, or along with the weapons degrading. Precious metals were all but buried thanks to the collapse of the mountain fortresses whole complex of tunnels taking yet even more to forever be entombed by the mountain itself.

“How many?” The white alicorn spoke.

“Too many to count your majesty. The true count… may never be known.” The alicorn nodded. To her Pegasus aid one of the few of her personal guard that made it through this hell.

“Princess we have a reason to celebrate… our victory… is complete.” The solider said trying but failing to be optimistic.

“Victory?!” The alicorn said under her breath.

“Nay this was no victory honorable guard what general Jacob said during the last conference came to pass. We won nothing achieved nothing and lost so much that I cannot justify the sacrifices made to defeat humankind. No lord can, regardless the griffons have much to answer for.” The alicorn lowered her head.

A commotion made both look up.

Three humans were pulled and dragged up a slope where the ground although visible was stained in blood. The several survivors of different species gathered to the commotion.

In a flash celestia stood in front of the humans as everyone instinctively backed up.

One was a female dressed in the armor that was handed to every civilian. It was stained red; She had a satchel which was carried on her back several pockets on an outer cloak and underneath a plain shirt. She wore thick pants again with many pockets and her boots were falling off at the sole indicating heavy use. Her weapons were degrading like the rest of this rotten battlefield. Above all that there would usually be a thick vest that would protect against magic and another layer of pants as well but those were nowhere in sight.

The next human was male and definitely a solider. However his right arm was hanging loosely it was likely dislodged and not in its proper place. His armor was in worse shape than the women’s armor it had dents where magic blasts had impacted, and arrow heads shined a crimson red against the noon sun. His helmet had dents all over it and the green glass that usually accompanied each soldiers helmet was shattered. Underneath the armor I could not tell as it covered his whole body. Dents in the plates and shiny red arrowheads stuck in between the outer and inner armor shined brightly. His boots were practically nonexistent as a weird wrap covered his feet keeping the sole in place. His face was black with dirt mud and grime and pain was visible on his face.

The alicorn was unnerved by the humans eyes as they had a look of resignation and… emptiness. an emptiness that could swallow the world whole.

The last was a child he also was dressed in civilian armor without any of the weapons except a knife which was in decent condition all things considering. He could not be more than eight in human years a foal who should not have to witness the horrors that lay around us. He had a thousand yard stare that in any other circumstance would make me want to hold the foal in my protective embrace. The battlefield permitted her no such kindness.

“What are thou doing!” The alicorns voice boomed across the valley. The griffon spoke first.

“Getting penance for my family they deserve to be…” The griffon faltered under the withering gaze of the princess.

“Has there not been enough death? Are thou not satisfied!?”

“Princess c-c-Celestia.”

“SILENCE!” her voice boomed as the growing crowd was now gathered around the humans.

The griffon cowered at her presence as the ground beneath her feat was starting to turn black from the heat being produced as everyone around the two back away.

“Your race and the warrior dogs and cats dragged my people into your war on false pretense lying to me about everything.” The princess said coldly her voice low but even though it was low everyone in the valley in the shadow of the fortress heard it.

“Your races used my sisters banishment to give thine an enemy and I wrongfully took thy vengeance out on an innocent race for that I cast a curse on thee!” The crowd gasped.

“For your greed, your race will from thy next generation and beyond shall be cursed to be in a state of civil war and seek nothing but riches. Your race will forever be envious and covetous of each other’s wealth. However, I give thee a way thou might seek redemption from this curse. Thou must learn the value of friendship, respect and cherish other races then thine own and if this be met my curse upon thee will be lifted.”

The griffons felt a weight suddenly crush them into the ground and pain seared every griffon on the planet as the alicorn let her anger be known.

The alicorn turned her eyes on the cat and dog peoples as they cowered.

“For thine act of using my sister and deceiving both me and princess Mi Amore Cadenza thou shalt forever be homeless, landless, and never be allowed to settle you will be nomads. Thou own races and peoples will forever be distrusted by all until thou learns the values of honesty and kindness. Until then thou will never be allowed rest, nor peace. You may create settlements, but thou will not be able to grow into a strong empire that thou hoped to gain from this venture!”

“Be gone from thine sight your dead shall not be laid to rest for thine lack of honesty.” The cats and dogs quickly departed the battlefield.

Before anyone could react, a griffon attacked the group of humans. The man gave a battle cry tackling the griffon preventing the death of the foal that the griffin tried to strike. The man was quickly dispatched. With a sword through his unguarded face.

“RUN Fidelis run north and don’t stop!” The women yelled as she unsheathed her ruined dagger. A sword to my ponies by its size. The child ran across the battlefield. As the women made a desperate stand against two more griffons who quickly overpowered and killed her.

“ENOUGH! GUARDS DISPATCH THESE GRIFFONS THEY SHALL RECEIVE NO TRIAL FOR WHAT THEY JUST COMMITED!” Celestia’s soldiers attacked with magic destroying the griffons before they could react.

Celestia looked to the child but blinked when she saw a mare in dark black armor watching over the child. Invisible to those around her as she moved with the child. She was almost as large as me making her impossible for the remaining combatants to not be able to see her.

“Sister thine lunar myrmidons watch over the child of man. Make sure he reaches safety.” The myrmidon looked back and nodded as if hearing her request and marched side by side with the human.

The human however would be attacked by another griffon and before any could help the child breathed in and shouted.

“FUS RO DAH!” the shout knocked the griffon out of the air and into a pile of bodies. The child unsheathed the dagger on his belt and ran faster but none hindered his progress further. The myrmidon in a blink went and killed the griffon with ease and finesse and went back to marching alongside the human.

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The alicorn looked up to the sky and switched the sun to the moon as the sun had been raised for five days now. Her constant battle with the dragonborn had made her unable to fulfill her duty. As the moon rose, she felt sorrowful that she let such a deed come to pass. She would rebuild equestria and bring it back on the path to glory that she and her sister dreamed for their ponies.

End prologue

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