Chapter 18 these ponies are pushovers at combat

-------------------------*Frank and talion pov*--------------

Shortly after arriving back at the dark cave room the green torches still burning with changling magic that started it. As Frank and the two drones assigned to get him back stepped aside as one spoke.

"threw there dark one then step on the glowing circle." Its voice was feminine sounding so frank assumed it was a she as he asked "that's all?" As the changeling simply nodded as this took him by surprise not trusting it in the slightest as he approached with caution.

Finally, after entering the darkroom the circle that she had described was indeed there frank stepped onto it as talion spoke up 'you still think they are trying to do something frank?' The wraith asked as frank was about to respond before a sudden blast sends them both back to the ever-free forest.

"What in the holy cow was that?!" frank yelled rubbing his ears and eyes as it felt like a bomb had gone off right next to him the bright white light stunned him as talion simply answered 'we teleported frank' which stunned frank slightly "you mean to tell me that that train horn of an explosion was a teleport?!"

Before talion could answer the pair would be able to hear voices in the distance shouts at first but after a few seconds, they could hear them perfectly. " buck that! Nopony said that that thing can blow things up!".

Said a pony while more spoke up "I don't get enough bits for this!" Said one "Yeah I have a garden and cat!" The ponies were sounding very disorganized which even made talion sigh 'these ponies couldn't even stand up to a newly born orc.' As frank could hear the face rubbing from talion almost.

"Wow, that's bad huh? talion now what?" As frank, while the small lance of ponies was panicking over a sound before their Sergent finally who was in charge of them decided their little filly and foal game were over. "Soldiers! Your royal guards of her highness Princess Celestia! And protectors of Equestrian!"

As the mare gave her comrades a speech every pony stopped to listen as one spoke up "Serge no disrespect but most of us are volunteers" said a young stallion while she shook her head "still your bringing shame to the crown and her kingdom for running around like a headless hydra did they teach you nothing in basic training? Or do they give royal guard armor to any pony these days?"

As the NCO of her lance drilled into her troops frank and talion stalked them all with 'wraith sight' "how many do you think there are?" Asked frank as talion answered.

'I believe around six if we include the Sergeant there I think out of that whole group she would give us trouble' as frank drew his eyes to her as she did seem way more experienced than the other five "should we fight?" As frank as talion simply answered.

'if your planning to fight with a blade they won't survive compared to us they don't stand a chance' frank grabbed the handle of the blade as the dark magic softly flowed around his grip while also tipping the two unicorns off in the group.

"No killing talion remember that," Frank said as he released the blade talion scoffed 'don't forget that choosing this path I hope you know what you're doing ' answered talion as the group erupted into activity.

As the Sergeant yelled out "I want you two with stunning spells ready!" Talking to the unicorns of the group while turning her head to the two Pegasi "you both I want you to flank around and hit this thing hard!" She ordered as they shot off the ground slow at first because of the plants and trees but once above the leaves they shot off to their positions.

"Everypony else was going in to tackle this demon head-on!" She roared trying to inspire her lance of ponies but thanks to Frank's enhanced abilities he heard their plan first thinking it was a good idea to counter their flanking plan by slowly entering a big enough bush before not moving it wasn't going to be easy a large dark armored human.

Hiding in a bush as talion spoke up 'this is never gonna work if you're laying down just crouch' after rolling his eyes he did and luckily the first two ponies were close they didn't see frank's crappy attempts to be stealthy but instead landed and decided to split up to cover more ground.

'Big mistake...' Frank thought before waiting as one of them got closer to his position as frank jumped out grabbing the stallion while also covering his muzzle as he began to strangle the poor royal guard.

'easy you'll snap his neck just make it so he can't breath don't crush it' while the royal struggled about grunting and kicking trying to make frank release him as frank did as talion instructed. The stallion soon fell unconscious as frank rolled him to the side of the bush panting lightly.

"Strep wing? Where did you go?" Asked his fellow pegasus as the other pony started making his way towards where he last saw his friend.

'Frank the pony's helmet grab it now' he said as Frank did just that reaching over and pulling it off with ease no straps apparently as the pony got closer and closer frank gripped the golden helmet until...*CLANG* he had managed to hit the pony on the head with his buddies helmet effectively knocking him out and also alerting the others to where they where.

"I need help talion! "He whispered 'it would be easier if you killed them' he said as that's how he mostly took down orcs and ologs they weren't known for being merciful as talion sighs 'very well grab a branch a thick one should do'

As Frank climbed a tree the slightly smaller group was making their way towards where they heard the loud clang as he grips onto a branch waiting. Not before long, they arrived in range as frank used the ring unknowingly to rip off the branch as he jumped off the tree as threw it at the group effectively causing them to.

Panic but the sergeant and her two pegasi were gone and now her unicorns were out of action whatever this thing was it was smart and she should have known sooner but it was picking them off one by one from weakest to strongest before long the mare looked back to her last soldier as the smaller stallion looked like he was about to faint.

"Private we need to stic-" her sentence was cut off as something large jumped onto her back pinning her on the ground and pushing the air out of her lungs causing her to cough and gasp.

"Buck this!" Said the private as he ran off leaving her stuck under this thing.

'Talion I have that sergeant I think how do we check?' He asked as his ally answered 'by making her talk' he said and talking again 'grab her tail and tug' he said Frank didn't think much of it as he grabbed the blue ponytail causing her to jump slightly and gasp feeling something pulling on her shorten tail.

'It's her now how do we make her talk?' Frank asked pinning her down as talion simply said 'dominate her' which caused him to blush 'I'm not doing a pony buddy-' Before talion cuts him off 'not that kind of dominating you, simple-minded boy!'.

As they argued in franks mind the mare took this moment to launch them off as a sword rested at her side she didn't seem to have a horn or wings 'this should be easy' Frank thought before she launched herself at the human stunning him and talion at just how fast and flexible this mare was.

After taking a few slashes talion spoke up 'do you want your sword now?' He asked as frank rolled his eyes reaching back and grabbing hold and pulling it out of its sheath as the two went into live combat as swords clashed together and frank tanking hits as he still didn't want to kill her even though he could have done so many of times.

'Ah to hell with this slice her sword 'he said as talion made his blade turn black as she grinned
"Your magic can't save you demon!" She yelled as frank sliced her sword in half the force knocking her down.

"What the hay?!" She yelled on her side as she looked at her broken blade her heart nearly stopped "what have you done?! " she yelled, "that was given to me by the commander of the princess!" The sergeant said as frank sheathed his sword and walked up to her slowly not speaking to her.

The silence scared her "stay back demon! I'm warning you!" She said trying to fill the emptiness

While frank was informed how to dominate the mind of a creature he was currently going to see how it worked himself the mare took it apon herself to launch herself at the armored human using her armored hooves on him as they made impact frank stumbled and fell down with her ontop still beating away at him "I shall never fall! I am a royal guard! I shall fight till the end! " as she reared back her hoof to punch him with her earth pony strength frank was finally able to catch her hoof.

Frank finally spoke "you will fall today but not in the way your thinking." He said as be connected his left hand to her face not as a punch but to connect to her mind. Soon after she screamed and grunted, as it sounded like her flesh, was being burned as talion spoke. "We have much to learn and you inform us to the best of your ability that if you fail in this task your face is going to feel like you are being burned".

He said while the dark green magic glowed darker
As talion fished around in her mind for her knowledge a mixture of fear and pain filled the royal guard Sergeant's green eyes as tears fell on her face " what ever you are please I'm the name of Celestia spare M-me!" She begged while also putting up a decent amount of resistance.

they dug into her mind as talions voice could be heard "YOU WILL OBEY!" talions voice sounded more ghost-like than what frank normally heard as his left hand glowed the sounds of flesh burning became more audible as she was forced to submission.

Author's Note

Another chapter is done and posted! And where at chapter 18? Already? Wow, time moves by fast doesn't it? And sorry about the ending of this chapter I didn't know if that was a bit much or not and true I've seen worse than that but I didn't want to be known for going into so gory stuff like that .