Blink of an Eye.

Chapters

Arrival.
Trust.
Helplessness.
Treason.
Princess Twilight Sparkle.
Stalright Glimmer.
Beginning.
Forfeit.
War

Arrival.

A sharp white light from which there is no escape, so sharp that it slowly penetrates through my hand, which is covering my face. Pain, PAIN!
Clenched teeth, whole body as if on fire, white shining pain that penetrates to the deepest part of the body, while the ears are full of cotton wool, unable to hear anything.
Dark?
After a few minutes of suffering, a wave of relief washed over my body where I found myself kneeling in complete darkness.
After the bright light, I still have flashes before my eyes and it's hard to get used to the sudden darkness, but it's still better than the previous bright light.

I get to my feet and start looking around, but it's no use, I can't even see the tip of my nose when I hear a "click".
A yellow cone cut through the thick darkness and landed directly on me, I'm like on a shooting range, right in the middle of the target, I don't move, I wait in a defensive position to see what happens next.
Clap, clap, clap, clap, the sound is slowly getting closer to me and I feel the nervousness and adrenaline building, my heart pounding and pumping oxygenated
blood into tense muscles that groan with the urge to move, ears searching for any sound, clenched fists through which wide brown eyes stare into soft light, the whole body ready on command to take off and eliminate anyone who appears in the light.

When I start to lose my nerve from the slow clatter, a head appears in the light, a small purple head.
.....................A purple head?!
So it freaks me out that I lost my balance for a moment, I watch how other parts of body appear.
..........Eeeeeee, a pony? Why?
He's looking right at me, a little purple pony with a horn on his head and a white cloak over his back and legs.
He opens her mouth and makes some noises, almost like she's talking, but I don't understand anything, my brain is racing, I'm trying to understand what's going on, where am I and why does the animal look like it's trying to explain something to me?
It takes me a while to realize that it's quiet again, now the little pony is just staring at me with a questioning look.

suddenly rustling sounds started coming from the darkness around me, without a single movement in the face or body, I look into the darkness and look for the source of the sound, when suddenly everything goes silent, the purple animal stands motionless before me with a fixed expression on me.
............................................We look into each other's eyes in complete silence, her sudden smile with the twinkling of violet eyes startled me a little, she takes a step towards me, I instinctively took a step back and placed myself in a defensive stance with my side facing him, my left hand balled into a fist and slightly extended directly towards the Pony.
I feel like a complete idiot getting ready to fight Pony, I thought but quickly lost the thought as I they realized they were no longer standing but literally flying straight at me, wings spread wide and a rude look on their faces.

I don't wait for anything, in a second I'm crouched and with a strong kick to the ribs I knock the Purple Beast far into the darkness with its billowing cloak, he didn't make a single sound, I don't waste a moment hesitating over roaring and pounding around, I turn and jump into the thick darkness from the raised platform that is the target of the light beam.
The room lights up and the white wood floor cracks under the weight of my impact, I'm not looking for the door, my target is right in front of me, with a quick swing my right fist slams into the wall, going through it like a knife through butter, with the sound of falling rock and a cloud of red dust illuminating the soft iridescent light emanating from my right arm.

I flew down the corridor, no one anywhere but my red dusty footprints and the piercing sound of an alarm, accompanied by a purple white flashing light in every corridor.
I don't know where I'm running through long corridors made of red stone tiles, through stairs where I didn't see a single signpost, a single something that would tell me where I am or where I am going, I am driven by a single thought, every building has a roof from which I can find out where I am.

I feel like I'm running in circles, accompanied by the light and noise of sirens through the empty low corridors, when suddenly.
MARK! I almost screamed, I stopped so fast that my heavy black shoes skidded across the smooth gray stone floor, I had no idea what was on the tag written, but the Image of a small fleeing animal sufficiently convinced me that in this direction there is freedom from these corridors, that in that direction is the answer to all my questions.

The deafening roar of the sirens with each step increases as if an enraged eagle flies after me, the fleeting violet-white glow, as the only source of light, a shadow theater plays with me in a long empty corridor full of side doors.
It wasn't long before I saw living shadows, I slowed down and at the first opportunity I quickly ran around the first corner of the left-hand corridor perpendicular to mine, watching the movement in front of me.
I looked around the corner and saw ponies in plate armor and Spears.
I couldn't believe my eyes, those animals really wore Armor, they act like guards, everything here, everything I've seen so far only indicates that they are intelligent, but how much?
Intelligent or not, that won't stop them from killing me, after all they somehow got me to this place and it's only a matter of time before they find me again and imprison me.

I shook my head to clear the thoughts, I feel like an animal that escaped its cage, I thought.
Lost in thought I noticed that I hadn't seen any guards in a while, So I decided to walk up to the intersection of corridors that cross perpendicularly and try to find out if anyone is still moving around somewhere.
I crept slowly down the corridor with bated breath, crouching down along the Red Wall as if I were a part of it, until I slowly got to the end of the intersection, I didn't see anyone in any of the corridors, I just had to look back in the last corridor which was in my blind spot.
I was ready to peek around the corner when I heard a clinking and snorting coming closer.

I didn't even have time to mentally prepare for what was waiting for me around the corner and I heard a quick clap coming from the corridor behind me that I came from.
Without hesitation, without fear, I jumped around the corner and startled the 2 oncoming guards, just one scream from one of the ponies in full armor was all that they managed when a green flash appeared between us, where now stood a light purple pony but without cloak and wings.

He slowly walked towards me while making the same noises as the purple pony before.
I didn't know what it meant and I didn't like how he was approaching me, so I repeated the defensive stance with a raised fist to indicate that I was willing to defend myself.
He stopped and looked at me in shock at the moment when I silently mumbled.
I don't understand you!
No matter how he took it, Apparently it wasn't good, he fixed his big blue eyes on me and the horn on her head started to shine, from which a beam of dazzling green light flew out.
I don't even know how I avoided it, luck or good reflexes, it doesn't matter, the only thing that matters is not giving her a chance to fire another shot.

Heavy breathing, beams, roars, and the occasional sound of pavement smashing against the stone floor echoed far and wide as I wrestled with the four-legged demon, who, thanks to his teleportation, is very agile and difficult to intercept.
Driven to the wall, she snapped the guards out of shock from my ambush and he swung at me with his Spear, it wasn't hard to dodge, but I lost the advantage over Violet, which began to tactically move into a better position.
As soon as I yanked it out of his magical grip by the spear point, I quickly crouched down and in a quick turn, still holding the spear by the point tripped the feet of the purple pony moving behind the mimes back and shattered into splinters by the guard's armored hooves.
Undeterred by my theft, splinters in his foreleg, the guard pony quickly turned his back on me and ducked his hind hooves at my face.
It didn't take much effort to dodge as he is slow due to his heavy armor, I quickly rolled sideways from my crouch to his side and a strong kick from lying down to his front hooves which are currently the only ones on ground, knocking him on his side.
I was about to give him one last goodnight, but I quickly sidestepped as I could already hear the sharp clatter of hooves behind me.
I watched as I slid across the floor as the purple pony ran between me and the guards and loudly sent them away.
Apparently they weren't well trained, as 1 of them still hadn't recovered from the initial shock and the other refused to leave.

The little pony and I stare into each other's eyes, I see how tense he is, how he has swollen veins on his body that are pumping strongly, and furiously swings his purple tail with a shiny mane dyed green, from charged horn glowing with shades of green, when I notice that in the place where the guards came from there is a gate, apparently leading away.
That moment of inattention was enough for him to send another green shot at me, in sudden panic I swung my right hand against the beam, which suddenly reflected like light from a mirror.

I stared in disbelief for a moment at my right hand bathed in dancing rainbow colors on a shiny hex field, now I had a Trump and the pony was well aware of it the look he threw at me.
I decided to risk it and instead of wasting time fighting I ran to the gate, but I wasn't allowed to because the little animal was already standing there.
She's fast, I thought, so I have to go through you, I ran without stopping to meet Violet, who was preparing for the upcoming encounter.

I dodged every beam that flew at me, i knocked some off with the sound of falling pavement,
When I was so close I could count how many teeth he had, a glow like a green flame emanated from his eyes, and from the visible exertion and sweat that dripped to the ground and from his horn shot out a strong concentrated beam so deep green that it absorbed all the red color around.

It would have taken a little and the beam would have consumed me, If it wasn't for my Right hand blocking the beam in progress.
I saw the Beam shatter around my fingers, I feel some of the beams it burns my legs and thighs until it burns through the pants made of dark heavy fabric.
I slowly made my way towards the source of the beam, even though he was pushing me back and it was only with great effort that I didn't give in, the green glow pushed me with such force that in places I created ruts, the moment the beam pushed me back a bit.
While feeling the growing pain in my legs from exhaustion and injury, a thick white smoke billows from my right hand blocking the energy directed towards me, I almost touched her horn when the Beam in it intensified and with a powerful scream of an animal, it hit the entire intersection of corridors with an explosion that shook the building, tore the walls, in places the ceiling and threw me against the wall from which I slid onto my ass, with the deafening crash of rubble around us.

In mild gloom, with my head hanging on my chest and unable to move, I watched my clothes torn to shreds, the skin burned to the flesh on my stomach, legs and thighs.
White smoke from my right hand, I can feel the wetness on the back of my neck, where the blood runs between my short dark hair and down my neck to my back, under my torn brown leather-reinforced T-shirt. After a moment of pain I felt energy spreading through my body from my right arm, after a short silent hiss, the wounds on my body slowly began to close.

I sit in silence and gloom, watching a thick cloud of dust roll around, with a feeling of relief from the pain, waiting for the moment when I could move.

The dust cloud hadn't settled down a bit and I could already see the glowing horn, I quietly got up with a great effort and crept towards it in an arc, which was impossible due to the omnipresent debris just simple.
When I was close enough and the flying horn didn't notice me, I decided to jump on it, It was a perfect ambush unexpected but bad timing, because the moment I took the first step, the purple pony decided to blow away all the dust in the vicinity, now I stand with my hands above my head like a bear standing over its prey.

As soon as the frightened pony saw that I standing so close, she panicked, stood on her back, eyes closed, head thrown back and hooves folded on her chest, she began to build tremendous energy on the horn with the sound of crackling and sparking.
I can't let this happen, I said to myself and I reacted like a cat, jumping on her, I grabbed him by the neck and slammed him against the wall, at my eye level.
Now we were equal, face to face I watched the animal gasp for air.
For a small animal like him it is not very good, as he is not standing on the ground, but is by the neck of my hand, ready to end this fight, I extended my hand to strike and then slowly bent it down.

I had no idea what was happening, a tearful animal with a bloody mouth whimpering in my hand, from which I felt something I have never felt, it is hard to describe it is a cluster of feeling, emotions, shaped by his energy flowing from him, no matter how I looked, I didn't see hatred, aggression, or resentment anywhere, the only thing there was fear, not for him, but for those who I might encounter next, if he didn't stop me.

A blinding pain shot through me, in confusion I stepped back and released the small defenseless animal, which fell to the ground with a loud thud, but it didn't get up, no, it just lay there coughing, panting and clutching its chest with its hooves from the blood it had wiped off from the mouth.

I stood petrified over him and without blinking I watched as he lay on the ground writhing.
It wasn't my pain, nor my emotions, I really felt what the animal felt?
Stunned I looked at the fingers on my right hand covered in blood.

I didn't know exactly what to think about it all, surely the animal lying in pain in front of me wasn't trying to kill me, just to stop me before I hurt anyone.
Even though I was kidnapped, it's true that the first thing he did was not fight, he just walked towards me and apparently It was trying to communicate, I just acted like a Neanderthal.
Feeling guilty, I knelt down to him with a determined expression and put my right hand on the injured spot, since she had no injuries, I assumed it would be where she was holding on.
She looked up at me horrified with overflowing blue lakes in place of her eyes, gently feel her bushy belly to hit the center of the pain, through the soft fur caked with blood and full of dust that I can't feel because I have no feeling in my entire right hand, ever.
I hit an extra sensitive spot, I'm stopped by the helpless look to death of a frightened and desperate animal that has fear but no strength to defend itself.

The colors on my right arm begin to dance as I release a bit of energy into the pony's body as the energy circulates between us to find all the injuries he has, the rainbow glow turns into the spilling of oil paints on a hexagonal field that she watched in fascination with the slowly fading.

No wonder you are in this condition, you have broken ribs and internal bleeding, I thought, she jerked hard, screamed and contorted her face in pain, her hoof started kicking my chest and face as I started to move the rib back to its original place, she doesn't have much strength anymore, that's why her blows are not felt.
I understand that it hurts, I whispered, but there is no other way.

When she was literally wailing in tears, I stopped, looked her straight in the eyes, placed the palm of my left hand on her bushy red-purple face, bent down as close as I could to her and with the most honest look into their eyes I whispered
Everything will be alright, I promise.
It was clear to me that she didn't understand me, but that was not my point, she must have understood my intention, she folded her hooves to her body and closed her eyes, from which rivulets were still flowing, which dried in the dirty fur.

The dancing colors pressed down on the wound again, being sensitive is impossible, the injury is too serious and I only risking her life by prolonging it.
She is shaking with suppressed pain and I can see how she is trying not to fight back.

It didn't take long And my efforts paid off, the bones returned to their place and the wounds closed.
Exhausted, I stood up, took a step, and collapsed onto my back.
So I overdid it again, I smiled watching the devastated surroundings.
I would be very nervous lying exhausted like that in the middle of God knows what, but it doesn't matter now, two corridors have collapsed anyway and another one is covered in rubble, if someone comes i will have enough time to run away.

After lying for a while with my eyes closed on the cold floor, freezing in places where my clothes are torn.
I realized that I couldn't hear any whining anymore, I just didn't have the strength to open my eyes or rather the desire, the exhaustion doesn't go away and even if death came for the Violet, I wouldn't even have the strength to say bye to her.
Whatever happens now, it doesn't bother me anymore, I will leave with a clear conscience that I did what I could.

Clap clap clap, the slow clap is approaching me, disliking what is happening I opened my eyes with great effort, I saw my patient upside down, she stopped the moment I looked at her.
The pony took another step and another and another until she was almost at arm's length, her horn glinting slightly until it lit up like you light a match, She slowly backed away as she stretched out her head and I turned my head away.
She looked at me for a moment with her horn off and then she repeated it again, she didn't come close to me for the third time, using her magic she pulled my right arm to her face which she gently caressed with her eyes closed, I didn't feel any danger from her.
When I calmly withdrew my hand and put it back along my body, I closed my eyes and waited for what she would do, but she sat down and looked at me, her head tilted cutely to the side.
I sighed and stroked her head lightly, apparently that was enough as an explanation, she smiled and slowly bent down to me with a glowing horn until she touched my forehead with hers.

"Thank you" came quietly.

"........" I froze

"Are you okay? She asked and slowly walks around me until she sits by my side, While I'm still speechless and just staring.

“gigle…..did you hurt your mouth? she flicks her tail

"I guess you don't understand what's going on, I imprinted our language on your memory, that's what I've been trying to do since the beginning when we met.

"By the way I'm starlight,.......And you?

Still a bit in shock and not believing what's happening, I try to stutter out a few words.

"How are you talking? What kind of language? Her question break us out of the awkward silence.

“Are you feeling okay?” she asks, tilting her little bloody head towards me.

"Yeah, Sorry........ I'm just a little shocked, You can call me Tropy" I reply

"Nice to meet you and thank you once again for saving my life, I wouldn't expect that from someone who is trying to take it away from me.

"You have nothing to thank me for" I turn my head away in momentary shame.

"Are you going to tell me where the hell I am?

"For this misunderstanding, I must apologize to you on behalf of our entire empire, you were summoned" she smiled sweetly.

"Empire? Summoned? I don't know if I want you to continue talking" I close my eyes.

"to get this right, you were summoned to our realm using a magical pentagram that........" When starlight doesn't see any reaction she asks.

"Doesn't it surprise you that someone will tear you from your home and transfer you to a completely foreign world?

"I'm surprised yes, But to tell you the truth, it's not the first time, I admit that I haven't seen talking ponies and I'm a little uneasy about it"

Starlight laughs and settles down next to me.

"Really? How many times have you been summoned? And where have you been?

"second time now" still with my eyes closed and ignoring the animal lying near me.

"The first time it changed my life beyond recognition and I would never expect to find myself in a similar situation again, if you are interested in this then no there are no talking ponies"

"I wasn't really interested in that, I was more interested in the reason why you were called there and now what happened" cheerfully waving her frayed tail and smiling waiting for an answer.

"It doesn't matter, it's been a long time"

"You don't have to be afraid to speak, no one is judging you here, after all, we summoned you, your past won't change anything"

"Then why do you need to know" I grunted feeling the warmth and gentle flow of energy from Starlight's body.

"The past makes the present and the future, I'd like to know what you've been through" When she sees that I don't even respond to a nudge with her hoof, she thinks.

"believe that we all have something from the past that we regret, including me, I was quite bad in the past..." She lowers her eyes with visible sadness. She sits up, straightens her disheveled mane with a hoof, and says in a broken voice

"I ummm........kind of enslaved a pony village, I'm not proud of it but I'm thankful that it happened because I was able to be saved by Twilight who became my teacher and role model"

That woke me up, I look up at her and I stare at her in disbelief for a while until she starts to feel uncomfortable, her blue eyes tremble with tears on the edge, which she does not dare to raise and meet my gaze, in fear of what is to come.

"I admit that it's quite an achievement" I smile and pat her on the side.

"You and I are alike, I didn't enslave the village, but I totally understand how you feel.

"really? I was afraid for a moment that I was overdoing it" She lights up like the morning sunrise at those words

"yeah, I also lost my way and in my grief I did things that I regret to this day and certainly not easily forgivable"

"then ask what you're interested in, I won't be able to do anything but talk for a while anyway" I smile and relax on the stone floor.

An excited Starlight And a calmed but exhausted Tropy talk about their past, for that one moment all time stopped, all the problems, suffering and destruction that happens behind the walls of the building seem to cease to exist, like this moment is only for them, for two soul mates.

Trust.

I walk through the corridor accompanied by the sounds of hooves, the tiled walls have been replaced by a uniform wooden pattern so smooth that I feel the desire to touch the white beauty.
The change in environment made the very annoying echo that was part of the previous area disappear, if only I didn't feel the ceiling rubbing against my hair with almost every step, even though I'm leaning forward slightly.

Just relax, after our doctor examines you, you will be able to go out. Starlight slowly says to me as she carries my hand on top of her head like a tick for me to keep my balance.

I don't say anything, we've already had this debate, I know she's not taking me to the doctor because she's worried about my health.
It never ceases to amaze me how empty all the corridors are, no decorations, no windows, just doors and not a single creature anywhere.
Even the lighting looks like it's going to disappear at any moment.
When my support notices me looking around every hallway and open door, she speaks quietly, almost in a whisper.

"Everyone was evacuated, only a few of them remained here and I hope we don't run into them, I think ponies so stressed from what's happening outside because of the war, probably wouldn't survive the sight of an almost two-meter creature that looks like it captured me and led me down the corridor in their safe sanctuary"

" Wouldn't it be better to summon me in some isolated place where no one is? I look questioningly at starlight

"That seems stupid to me" Starlight snorts and continues.

"Why would we waste a room with reinforced walls and a platform made of rare materials that is supposed to be almost indestructible because we don't know what will appear on it" She says ironically with one raised eyebrow looking directly at me.

I understood the hint but it didn't work for me.

"So why did you build it right next to a residential area?

Which almost seemed impossible, starlight raised her eyebrows even higher and I feel the slap of her tail on my back.

" Well, because we absolutely knew that the first instinct of a creature that appeared on the platform would be to break through a wall that was not prepared for such a case at all and it was certainly not the strongest wall in the room, prepared to protect civilians" Her wide eyes flash and the mouth trembles with laughter.

"Well sure, who would do such a thing" My sudden ironic smirk is replaced by a deep laugh, similar to starting an ancient diesel atmospheric engine.

My laughter didn't even last two seconds and I was already knocked over by a purple flood of mane with a blue beam in it that covered my mouth with a hoof.

"I said don't raise your voice" She whispers with her mouth a centimeter from my ear.

Starlight?
It came from the end of the corridor, not far from us.

"I admit, this wooden floor is much more pleasant than the cold Stone floor" I say as I take off the small animal and look in the direction of the questioner at the end of the corridor.

Startled by the ease with which I picked her up, Starlight stares for a moment in the direction I placed her, Like a soft toy.

Starlight! It came from the already running pony directly towards us.

My sudden rise to my feet is noticed by starlight, who stares at me for a moment when she notices a pony running directly towards us, white cloak and glowing pink horn ready to attack.

One look was enough for me to recognize an old acquaintance.

"Hello Twilight, I'm Tropy, nice to meet you" I humbly say out loud for her to hear me with a slight smile on my face.

"Everything is fine" Starlight joins me.

Stunned princess transitions from a sprint to a trot, still with a look of disbelief on her face.

"Everything is fine" She repeats when she sees that her teacher hesitates.

"My name is Twilight Sparkle, I am the princess and the head of Equestria, welcome to our land" She says unnecessarily loudly with a fake smile, while showing off her beautiful feathered wings.

"Now follow me" Tight and formal Twilight leaves in the direction she came.

After a long walk through the maze of corridors and staircases, our trio arrive at a white steel door, with two yellow vertical stripes, deeply embedded in the white wall.

"Go in" The white coat turns to me, after opening the massive steel door.

“Right now! She's staring at me with Purple sparkles, her expression stern.

"Twilight, We have to g......" Princess interrupts Starlight.

"You have your work to do, you need to stand in for me while I'm gone" She pointed her hoof at the still dirty and bloody pony with an impatient expression.

Stunned by the angry princess, I watch my surroundings and prepare for the upcoming fight.
Starlight notices this and walks up to me and pulls the remains of my T-shirt with her mouth to kneel down to meet her sweet gaze.

"You don't have to worry, Twilight is a bit harsh but not malicious" She says with an overly cute smile to convince me.

I cross my arms while kneeling and think silently with a disbelieving expression, staring deep into the blue pools, which blink a few times and after a short silence, sincerity appears on her face.

"Everything will be fine, I promise" Starlight says my words a little contritely, but you can see that she means it completely sincerely.

I place a faintly glowing hand on Starlight's head and speak.

"If anyone else said that" I pet her until she presses against my hand like a kitten in pleasure, closes her eyes and smiles.

Stunned by what she just saw, Twilight doesn't even flinch as I stoop and walk through a low door into a mysterious, dimly lit room.

"What are you waiting for, go and do your duty, now!" The princess shouts to her apprentice, who leaves indecisively.

"Take your clothes off and sit on the bench" The cloak commands as it turns on the room's lights.

"Is a T-shirt enough? I ask in the meantime as I tear the shreds of the ruined T-shirt off of me.

"I don't know what it is, take it all off" Twilight says without looking at me as she examines the device built into the wall with the front covered in large and small displays and a bunch of cables sticking out of the stern.

"Is it necessary? I say, unwilling to expose myself like a test animal to an intelligent creature.

"You're wasting my time! Where's the problem?" A pink glow flares up, tearing off the remnants of my clothing and shattering large leather military boots as she approaches me with brightly colored cables.

“I'm not saying it'll kill me, but my race isn't comfortable being naked,” I say sitting up as Twilight attaches cables with sticky ends to me.

"That's interesting, tell me more about your race, what's the name of your race? where do you live? What do you eat? What are your hobbies? How advanced is your Military? She talks while wrapping cables around me without looking me in the eyes.

I frown at that last question and a lot of images of ponies walking through magical portals and occupying our planet start running through my head.

"My race is human, the plural is people, we build stone houses, entertainment is a very broad term, but I would say that most people enjoy watching the suffering of others" I calmly answer, while the pink magic controls the machine I'm connected to and emits values to the monitors with beeps and buzzes.

"Continue" Twilight says studying the screens.

"Humans are omnivores, we eat anything that moves or grows out of the ground, but meat is mostly the basis of our diet, actually I should say what not........" I stop my monologue when I notice a stiff twilight staring at me like a dangerous animal.

"If you're afraid I might eat you, you're right." I laugh at my joke and watch the pony's reaction before me.

I was about to speak again when Twilight turns and goes back to the screens.
Without a word, the machine turns off and the pink glow, like little hands, removed all the different colored cables from me at once.

“Why was I attached to that machine?

"Just a test to see if you don't carry dangerous or unknown diseases, the machine didn't detect anything wrong" She replies and walks away.

"Like I said, I'm not comfortable being naked, can I get something to wear? I'll talk while I put at least a piece of cloth over my crotch.

"That can be arranged later, we have more important things to do now, come on" She sits down, next to a low stone that looks like a halved boiled egg and the edge with a 20cm thick bar all around.. in all matte white a room made of such smooth material that it seems unreal to me.

I get up with a rag between my legs and crouched down, I walk under the low ceiling, past various devices and equipment full of tables, like in a laboratory for the production of living creatures.
I sit down on a small round cushion in white, at a relatively large table in relation to the room, which reaches exactly above my thighs, and I wonder why the board is so thick, what is the table for? And how did they even get here?

"Alright, I'll explain where you are and what's going on" The concentrated pony speaks as she magically transfers a pile of books and scrolls to the table, unable to pay attention to me.

"Starlight already told me" I say watching the stunned princess. "Aaaah..ha..ha..ha...that's nice of her..." Twilight utters heavily as she tries to suppress her anger.

"Is something wrong? I'll ask.

"No! It can't last and she screams, then slams her hooves into the table with all her might, but it doesn't budge as if it's been welded.

"It doesn't matter now," The red-faced Purple Pony calms down.

"So now that you know everything, let's skip all of this and get to the point, are you able and willing to help us with our cause?" Twilight says resignedly, once again cleaning up all the documents except for one small stack of documents.

“Are you able and willing to bring me back from where you took me? I deliberately ask, ignoring her question with a serious expression.

“Able, yes,.......but willing.....? With a shrug and a smile on her face.

Her response disgusted me so much that a deep, long sigh escaped my throat and filled the room, leaving me speechless with my head in my hands, my elbows resting on the cold table.
I swear that if this debate continues like this, I will not hold back and will walk through the building through every wall.
I think in VERY slowly fading anger.

After a moment of silence, I calm down a bit, but the atmosphere is still too tense, I feel like yelling at her about what's wrong with her, but I can't afford to do that to her.
she's not my princess, but she's still the highest ranking authority that demands respect.
Plus, she currently rules the entire empire, so it wouldn't be wise to argue with her over something stupid.
I'm just sorry that Twilight is not at all like Starlight described her to me, you could say that it's almost the opposite and if she's a bitch just for me, to gain my respect, then it's going to end badly.

"Back on topic" The pony sitting across from me interrupts my thoughts and I raise my head from my hands.

"I am willing to make a deal with you, I have seen a clear demonstration of your power, I believe you will be useful to us and for your help I will return you home" With hooves under her chin, Twilight tries to recruit me.

I ignore the urge to ask how she knows my abilities and join the debate with an already minor twinkle in my eye.

"That would be fair if I were here of my own free will! I'm almost shouting and trying to lower the volume of my speech, with crossed arms and a stern, scowling expression, while on my right hand glowing colors are furiously spilling across the hexagon field, from from my fingertips to my collarbone and shoulder blade as I lose control of my emotions again from the absurdity of the deal and the accumulated stress.

"I understand if it seems unfair to you, but you have no other choice, you won't come back without my help" The princess responds calmly and sits straight on her leather pillow, hoping that I will give up.

As I slowly lose my self-control with the urge to break the table in half, jump on the pony in front of me and do the same with her body, Twilight continues her speech.

“Well then, tell me what you want in return for fighting for me?” The pony says calmly, aware of the danger without showing it.

But I can't hear anymore, I'm consumed with rage and I'm fighting furiously for control of my body, my field of vision is slowly turning red, the rainbow on my hand is flying like water constantly crashing against a cliff at tremendous speed, my heart is pounding in a fit of rage, without the only chance to calm down.

I've had enough, to hell with princesses, to hell with war, to hell with all of you, you call me here with such pain that one even thinks about suicide, there is no way back.
Thoughts rush through my head aggressively, with ever-increasing rage I grab onto the table to keep from falling with wide bloodshot eyes.
They kidnap me and then blackmail me to help them, no..NO..NO!!! IT ENDS HERE, I'LL END IT.....................?

I'm jolted out of my thoughts by a deafening blast, so loud that Twilight jumps away with her wings taut like springs from the table and covers her ears.
I watch her for a while, with the anger disappearing and the ringing in my ears, I notice that I'm holding a piece of stone table in my hands, which I'm staring at absently.
As soon as the Pincess hesitantly sits back down at the table, my sanity and self-awareness return, I see that I have indeed broken the stone half-circle off the table that I had until now in my hands.
It seemed massive enough to withstand the impact of a fully loaded truck.

Twilight just stares in shock at the massive shard I placed on top of the rest of the broken table.

"Sorry, I got a little lost in my thoughts" I say meekly towards the literally staring pony.

"It's not possible" Twilight blurts out after a while

"that table was made of stone that even the most experienced craftsman could not work, no one has ever made a scratch on it" says the still stunned princess.

When I look at the table now, it's really just a gray oval stone with protrusions, dimples, and the top is beautifully straight and smooth, like when a geode is cut open.
I didn't notice it before, but it has a beautiful design, like a light gray island washed by dark waves in the middle of a lake bordered by white cliffs, now only 3/4 of the way
now see the brilliant white broken bottom of the gray lake.

"It's a beautiful stone" I say, running my hand over the perfectly smooth surface of the stormy lake as I put the rest of the table aside.

"Indeed" Twilight agreed.

"I'll fight for you when we declare our allegiance to each other and you send word to my friends that I'm fine" Now completely calm and fully sane, I caress with a pleasantly cold stone.

"What do you mean?" asks the princess.

"It's simple, you'll swear on your life that you'll try to do whatever I ask of you and I'll do the same, that'll be a trust and an unbreakable contract between us that binds us as long as the war lasts or one of us dies" I briefly explain my idea

Twilight thinks.
I can't do that, regardless of the fact that he's a complete stranger, so the princess can't promise her life..........although, but the price for Equestria is low and I would lay down my life for it.
What if he can't win the war?
I swear my life to someone who becomes just a private soldier and then what?
I will be the laughing stock of the whole country, and myself.
What if he orders me to do something that will annoy me and humiliate me?

"You probably didn't understand me" I address the panicking pony.

"I'm listening" Twilight replies and sits still with effort.

"I said you would swear your allegiance to me and I to you, neither you nor I have superior power over the other, it's about creating a balance" Seeing Twilight watching me with growing calm I continue.

"It's not a trick to control you, I'll give you an example: best friends who always help each other even if it doesn't always pay off, but they do it because they feel it's their duty,
even with the part that if they're in danger, they're willing to put their own lives on the line for protection.” I watch the understanding grow on her face as I explain the idea of an oath to her.

"I understand, it's not about domination, but about achieving the trust of two individuals who don't know each other and don't trust each other" She looks at me with a knowing expression.

"I'm still against it because of my position, but it's the fastest way to solve our situation, I'll go with your suggestion, show me how it's done" The outspoken leader of her empire and even with hints of resistance, she is willing to sacrifice herself for the good of her subjects.

Helplessness.

As soon as I get to the crystal castle, I see that a carriage with an armed guard is standing in front of it, so it means that Twilight has finally arrived from Canterlot from the meeting.
I hope she is not busy, I would like to finally talk to her. I think to myself as I walk past sharp looking guards in gold armor, they out of familiarity, greeted me with a nod.

The inside seems empty, nobody is here, I continue to the main room, where armed guards are standing in front of the door again, this time even tougher, with stronger armor and huge heavy spears.
I can't stop thinking how funny it is that even their soldiers reach up to my chest, I feel like in kindergarten.
Without a hint of what I'm thinking right now with the corners of my mouth twitching, I greet familiar faces who without a doubt lead me to a large hall with a big round stone table without chairs.
A room of purple and blue crystals that holds a table so large in the middle that if a wedding party were placed on it, it would look like an ordinary breakfast.
As soon as I looked for Twilight in the underwater crystal cave, I noticed that she was talking to someone behind such a thick pillar that I could only see her butt and tail, which did not even move.
I stood at a discreet distance so I wouldn't accidentally hear something I shouldn't have and I waited for the princess to notice me.

Okay, I'll take note, Twilight says, then steps out from behind the pillar where no one else is coming out.

“What do you need? No interest in her face.

"You said that when you're in Ponyville, you're going to involve me in war and and other important things" I say while I try to be calm and not notice how unpleasant Twilight is.

"I don't have time for that right now, if you don't need anything else, you can go" A winged pony in a read leather decorated coat replies with a hoof pointed at the door without looking at me.

"Have you figured out how to contact my friends yet? I watch her ignore me without saying a word, and when she doesn't answer for a while and doesn't raise her head from the table, I turn and leave the spiky castle.

On my life I swear, I hear those words again.
Exhaling a held breath from my beardless jaw, I close my eyes and tilt my head back so that the afternoon sun warms my lightly tanned face.
I remember that day as if it were today, until now I feel anger, confusion and helplessness........I rub my eyes......it's true that before debating with Twilight I was planning to join the war, after what Starlight told me about it and that it's the reason why I'm here but damn, that doesn't mean I'm going to be humiliated and blackmailed.
The loyalty oath is the best outcome I could have hoped for, but it's totally useless if she continues to ignore me, I just hope Twilight doesn't try to twist it somehow because she is definitely not as nice, friendly and understanding as Starlight claimed.

Confused still in my head, I feel the grass on my bare feet, I look behind me and watch the village full of busy ponies illuminated by the rays of the sun through holes in a few fluffy white clouds across the sky.
I walk slowly to the accompaniment of birdsong and other sounds enjoying the sunny day.
As I tread the grass from the receding village, I think.
I can't survive on apples and sweets for very long, what am I going to do?
The only thing left for me is to start hunting and looking for spices in the woods.
I smirk at the disgusting work that hunting and preparing animals entails.
I don't have anything to hunt them with, I don't know the survival course in the wild, so trap production falls and I can't track either.
I slap my forehead and stop for a moment with my eyes closed, looking directly into the sun, while the muscles on my body draw shadows, in the middle of a raised meadow where the grass dances in the pleasant breeze.

Poke.......poke....poke, poke.

“Sight…why are you poking me? I ask, just waking up in the grass.

“Why are you here?” Starlight asks with one hoof on my chest.

“Does it matter? I answer sleepily and fall asleep again.

"Is something wrong?" She says as she sits next to me under the rays of the orange sun that is about to set.

When I don't answer for a while, Starlight repeatedly pokes me and repeats the question.
When I still don't answer, not because I haven't woken up, but because I don't feel like talking, Starlight decides that the best way to get my attention is to jump right on my stomach until I spit the air out of my lungs, under the weight of the animal, and now I'm looking up at the sky.

"Are you going to talk to me now?" Says the heavy animal lying on top of me.

"Don't you want to get off me? I'm not an attraction" I say, without a single movement and close my eyes again.

"Come on, tell me what happened this time" She rolls off of me onto the grass next to me on her back.

"I don't like it anymore" I start talking.

"She didn't have time for me again, she doesn't want to tell me anything about the war, she doesn't want to tell me anything about the enemy, she almost never tells me anything when I talk to her" I describe my thoughts disappointedly and continue.

" I don't understand what's going on, you call me here for help and then I'm sitting here and I'm bored, what's the point? so why am I here? What's Twilight's problem?! I shout angrily

"That doesn't sound like Twilight at all, aren't you exaggerating again?"

"Don't say I'm exaggerating, she's always like that when I talk to her" I say and put my hands behind my head.

"It's true that she is often angry, but this really doesn't sound like her" The pony rolls onto its side.

"I think it's since I mentioned that you told me about the war"

"It's possible, I got a loooong lecture about it, I'm not supposed to share internal information, she was so angry that she ignored it when I told her that I didn't discuss anything important with you" The pony remembers with a look to the sky.

“Why did you actually tell her that you know everything? Starlight wonders.

"Mainly because I was uncomfortable being naked, Plus Twilight was obnoxious, so I wanted to speed up the conversation as much as possible," I answer.

"Do you want to help with this?" Starlight asks lying corpse-like on her side.

" You look exhausted, did you work late into the night again? I ask, but she passes it by in silence, motioning for me to continue with tired eyes.

"I'm still thinking about it.............it's hard to help when I don't know how.....................or where............ Starlight? I turn to see her slowly falling asleep.

"I thought of something, but I'll need your help," I turn on my side and pet the animal so that it wakes up a bit from fatigue.

"I remembered the problem you have with researching the enemy, if I could capture one of them and bring them back alive or dead it probably doesn't matter, I could help with the research and improve my relationship with Twilight"

"That probably won't be so good, you know that neither you nor I can go against Twilight and this requires a lot of planning and soldiers that she shouldn't know about, it's considered treason" She says slowly with her eyes closed.

"That's the best thing about that plan, I'll go alone" I smile at the brilliant idea.

" Are you out of your mind?! With a flash of green she disappeared and appeared with her front hooves on my chest with her head down without signs of fatigue.

"Think about it, It's perfect, if I go alone I won't be risking any lives but my own, which Twilight doesn't really care about anyway, all I'll need from you is that you told me where the nearest enemy base is, Twilight still thinks you told me everything, so...............even you won't go against the princess with that" I gradually smile more and more as I come up with more and more things to say immediately.

" I know you're strong and I don't want to underestimate you but this is madness, even Princess Luna couldn't handle the onslaught of their troops and until now she is unconscious and she was lucky and she was considered the strongest of us." She looks at me with fear and doubt.

"I didn't expect it to be easy, but you're probably right" Thoughtfully, my gaze goes to the red sun in its setting that illuminates the pony standing over me.

Starlight breathes a sigh of relief, she sat down next to me and also watches the sun as she says quietly.

I'm glad I let you talk me into lying down here on the grass" She reminisces.

"Yeah, I still remember how you stared blankly at what I was doing and how I could just rest in the time of war" I smile with a red glow on my face.

"It was a beautiful day, I still can't believe how exhausted I was that I immediately fell asleep." With a sweet smile she looks dreamily into the past.

"It's funny how we were looking for the way home after dark because I didn't want to wake you up because you were sleeping like a baby." I laugh and suddenly realize something, while Starlight blushes in embarrassment.

"That's a good idea" I sit down with my chin in my hand,

"I'll go there at night, I'll ambush one of them and drag them back to us, thus avoiding a fight" I say to Starlight's face.

"I don't know" She looks directly into my smiling eyes.

"what if something happens to you?" Starlight said ahead of me.

We sit in silence, staring into each other as the last rays of the red giant play with the colors of the mane and coat of the pony in front of me.
Me stunned by her concern for me and her by my willingness to risk my life, we listen to the rustling of the leafy trees from the forest, which stretches along the meadow where we sit and wait for whoever will be the first to break the gentle and cold silence, because of the disappearing sun that no longer wants to give us warmth and only illuminates the tips of the trees.

When the silence is already Too long and the gloom thickens, I sit right up to her and put my hands on her shoulders.

"Please" I say quietly, staring into her disbelieving face.

"Even if you could do it, how....what will you do if .......How will you drag him to......" Starlight's head is running one thought after another, so loud that even I can hear them.

I still hold the purple fear until she calms down and looks at me again.
I wait, I won't tell her anything until I'm sure she perceives me.

"You don't have to worry, I'll be back" I put my hand on her head from the grass that I sweep to the ground.

" So you won't change your mind, you want to do it no matter what I say.............................fine............................... I'll help you" She looks at the ground for a moment and then back at me.

"But answer me one question, do you REALLY want to take that risk just to please the princess or help with the research?" She points out and looks at me without blinking.

"No" I smile.

"Since I've been here I've been shaking with excitement until I get to fight again" My smile widens so that I look like a snarling animal.

Disappointed, I stand with my eyes closed in the village after a failed hunt, I hoped that I would be able to get at least a piece of roast meat before the demanding event.
While as the villagers walk around me resembling colorful ants, I hear those words again.
On my life I swear. I keep hearing it over and over the last words of the oath.
Until the war ends or one of us dies. I laugh out loud.
Our agreement won't last very long if I die of hunger, it will be funny without meat and vegetables.
I say with a slight fit of laughter.

“You're training for the local lunatic Tropy? the voice chuckled.

"Starlight" I smile as I turn around and open my eyes.

"I didn't keep you waiting too long, did I? Didn't you go crazy in the meantime? Violet giggles right in front of me.

"I don't know for sure, it depends on what news you bring" I smile and follow Starlight who invited me with a nod.

"Of course good, I told you I was only going to find her, not to convince her, Rarity is a good friend of mine, she wouldn't reject me" chirped pony walking next to me.

After a short walk to a small round building, shaped like a circus tent, Starlight stops in front of the door and chats.

"Rarity is very sensitive, try to be considerate and above all don't ask her about
nothing about her life and especially the past, you'd better not ask anything at all" She fixed me with a longing look that I take everything she said dead serious.

"Your hypnosis doesn't work on me" I laugh and open the door for her who walks in first into the carefully colored decorated bar covered in dirt and dust.

After entering the dusty round room in the convoy behind the Violet who leads me past a lot of sewing racks covered in gray fabric like the windows.
Because of the poor lighting, everything around seems dirty and colorless, as if someone cleaned everything up many years ago and moved away.
As soon as we pass the first room, we find ourselves at the top of the stairs in a corridor that leads to a couple of side doors.
After passing through the only open door, we notice that on the opposite side, under the only window in the room, which is also covered with a gray cloth, a white pony is sitting at the table with its back to us.

"Rarity?" Starlight said quietly with some concern in her voice.

"I can't believe I'm here" Says the white pony peeking out of the window through the hole in the cloth.

"Why did you want to meet right here?" Says the desperate Rarity, still with her back to us, with undisguised sadness in her voice and subsequent calming down.

"I wouldn't have looked for you and disturbed you if it wasn't urgent," Starlight replies quietly.

"But Why here? The purple mane meows quietly into the silence, while Starlight slowly approaches her.

"Don't be angry, but I coul........." Interrupted starlight stops speaking.

"Of all places, why this?! Rarity exclaims in a sneer of sadness.

"I promised myself that I would be strong when you asked me for help, but when I'm here....I.............." Because of the incoming crying, she can no longer speak, she turns and looks with her tearful eyes directly into the blue ones who stand opposite her.

I stand quietly in oblivion and watch as one pony comforts another in an embrace.
The two ponies sit across from each other and embrace, Starlight stroking the mane at the back of Rarity's neck as the soft sunlight illuminates her purple mane, through the holes in the gray fabric of the window, in the dark room.
I see Rarity crying with her snout buried in Starlight's mane, in a tight desperate hug.

"I'm sorry" Starlight whispers to the shaking pony in her arms.

"I didn't know you'd have such a problem coming back here after so many years," Continues starlight.

"Me too, I thought it was over, that I was over it, that's why I agreed to it when you asked me" She wipes her tears.

"But when I came, my memories started coming back and I saw her everywhere" She cries again and hugs Starlight harder, with a long flowing cry.

It was stupid of me to watch them and do nothing, but what could I do?
I don't know what it's about, I'm not allowed to ask about it, so I just stood there the whole time until the situation calmed down.

As the two ponies separate, they smile at each other as Starlight wipes Rarity's tears from her eyes while her own are wet.

Starlight apologizes to Rarity once more as she helps her up and was about to explain why she called her when Rarity thanked Starlight.
This was so unexpected to Starlight that she stands in silence looking at the pony in front of her.

" I... I've needed it for a long time........ whine....... I tried to run away from it,
but when I thought it was good it always came back to me, sooner or later I would have to do it anyway, face the past"

" I like to hear that? Starlight stands stunned.

"I'll be fine........................tell me what's so urgent." Rarity says with a small smile and still moist eyes.

It's unbelievable how strong the self-confidence of a pony who just a moment ago was sitting in tears in a hug and comforting from Starlight.
Without hesitation, she listened to Starlight's plea and introduced me.
One would think that it is perhaps impossible to throw her off balance, but still I was careful about what I said and followed what starlight asked me to do.

After some time I explained to Rarity what the clothes I need should look like, she walked around me with a meter and her horn circled around me like a hungry shark who wants to bite my belly.
We discussed measurements, material and cutting methods.
Unfortunately, I couldn't show her the old clothes because Twilight destroyed them.

While Rarity was busy working on my suit with the help of Starlight, I went over the plans of the nearest enemy camp and its surroundings.
I don't have much information about the blacks, among the documents I found a parchment that captures the knowledge they have about them, but as I said, it's just one parchment with a few warning labels.

-Black Demon-

A two-legged creature one meter tall.
Agile, acrobatic and often clumsy.
Skinny without a tail.
high morale.
They don't run away from a fight.
Always supported by his mates.
Attacks only with upper limbs.

They wear black armor that covers their entire body.
Batches are separated by colored stripes on the helmet.
A private soldier does not have stripes.

Race- unknown.
Place of birth - unknown.
Language - unknown.
Food - unknown.
Mating - unknown.
Cubs - unknown.
Skin color - unknown.
Blood color - green.
Race character - unknown.
Jump height - one and a half meters.

Armor material - unknown.
Weapons Material - Unknown.
Weapons - unknown (one handed without shield)

Attention!
Extremely dangerous!
Extremely fast!
Extremely strong!
Unpredictable!
They never walk alone!
As soon as you come across a black man alone, run away.

That's pretty depressing, Are you telling me this is all the information they have for five years of war?
How is that even possible?
Starlight told me that they never managed to get an enemy body because the blacks take all their corpses away, but this is almost absurd.
It looks like it will end up being a suicide mission.
I stop thinking about it and continue to focus on the map of the enemy area.

After some time studying documentaries, Violet walked into my room.

I went to another room to have some peace and be able to concentrate.

As soon as I saw her, I greeted her and together we sit in front of the papers and discuss the plan of action for a while, how is the suit and then we take a break for a while and I ask about Rarity.

" How is she?

"Thanks to work, she doesn't think about anything else, I'm happy to see her smile" Starlight replies and continues when she sees that I want to ask something else.

"If you want to ask about what happened to Rarity, please leave it for another time" She stops me.

"I'm not saying I'm not interested in what happened to her, but I'd rather ask about the food, I can't hunt and it's just........" In a moment I'm silenced by a green light covering my mouth.

"Quiet..." She looks out the door into the corridor and closes it quietly behind her.

"Never mention killing animals, anywhere" Says the enchantress, she lets go of my mouth and continues.

"1. You will not hunt, never"
"2. We don't kill animals, hunting is considered murder in our country"
"3. If Rarity found out, I don't know what she would do and I don't even want to know" The Violet whispers in my ear.

"Okay, well, I'll stop with that, but what should I do? The princess doesn't care what happens to me and I'm running out of time...............I guess I'll have to eat her" I laugh.

"That's what Twilight mentioned to me, she looked scared when she told me you eat meat and when you told her you'd eat her too" She looks at me reproachfully as I laugh harder.

"Doesn't she have a sense of humor?" I ask, wiping away tears.

"I think it was a bad time for such a joke, but I admit that her scared expression when telling the story was funny" Starlight laughs.

"Now you think it's funny, but it hasn't been that long since you cried in my claws out of fear, were you afraid I'd eat you?
I smile at her with the look of a crazy clown.

"It's not true, it was a misunderstanding, I didn't cry because of fear of you, but because of the pain in my nose when you breathed on me" She reflects my joke against me and we laugh together.

"So what do you think I should do? I'll ask calmly.

"Haven't you forgotten what to do when you need something?" She smiles at me and blinks in an exaggerated comical way as if she's flirting.

After eating a dangerous amount of cakes, pies and apples without getting diabetes, we returned to our duties.

Darkness, made even darker by the deep forest through which the sky cannot be seen.

A deep night, so deep that it swallowed all the colors of this world and so I make my way through this black and gray lifeless region where not a single animal makes a sound.
I don't know if all the animals are dead or just ran away, but the silence around me without a single little sound scares me so much that it gives me chills, because animals only make sounds when they feel safe.

Only thanks to the great invention that I managed to take away from Twilight's laboratory, I can at least see the outlines of the surroundings.
It's not much, but it's better than the complete darkness in which even a lit match would drown.
I quietly make my way through the thicket of the slowly thinning forest, in which the sky is still not visible.
According to the plan, I studied carefully, I should be there by now, the territory between allies and enemies is only one kilometer.
According to Starlight, the enemy's base is an old forest settlement with a stone tower that served as a food warehouse from which the ponies were driven out by the war.

When I catch sight of the first lights marking enemy territory, I'm crouched down so I'm almost lying down, slowly creeping out of sight of the lights of their built wall.
I don't see a single enemy anywhere, I hope they are not sleeping, I will not drag them out of bed like this for the evening.
I laughed in my head at the thought.

As soon as I got into an advantageous position from where I had a good view on a nearby hill, I looked out for my prey.

I am watching a village with five houses in a circle and in its center a huge tower that rises high into the sky and everything is surrounded by a temporary wall.
There is not much lighting, it is strange how little light they have there, how could they see in the dark?

It wasn't long before I saw some guards walking through the gate from the forest, which scared me a little.
I just hope that none of them saw me while I walked past them like a complete idiot without noticing them.

After some more waiting and no alarm, I calmed down and again began to look for the victim, which appeared unexpectedly quickly.
I watched one of the soldiers slowly made his way around the wall, to a part where there wasn't much lighting or anything that someone could hide behind.

That's ideal, as soon as he gets to the darkest part, I'll wait for him, as he gets closer I'll grab him and run away, the worse thing is how to silence him.
Then I'll have to get him across the fifty meters of bare, treeless area that surrounds the entire base.
I slapped my face and set out with determination.

Unfortunately, I didn't choose a very good spot for observation, not in terms of watching the enemy but moving towards him, I was on a rather steep hill and a few times it was enough for me to slip on a stone or slippery moss, just thanks to the occasional tree sticking out of the rock which I could catch.

As soon as I said to myself a thousand times that I promised to come back when I said goodbye, I really got to the bottom of the hill on which there was already a solid base of grass, not just stone and moss, although there were still a few trees around me, but it was already threatening the risk of someone finding me out.
Nobody knows if they can see in the dark, I can't take any chances.

Since it was clear to me that I was very late coming down the hill, I have to move fast to make the date.
I was crawling like a snake in water crawling for life.

I breathed a sigh of relief as I hit the wall.
I watch the plain I crawled to illuminated by the moonlight, with lots of stumps and plants left after the quick felling of trees.
Be a well-made disguise, or the magic that is in the uniform, that no one noticed me, I did not hesitate.

Climbing the wall is no problem, as it is just logs piled on top of each other, something like a beaver dam.
Damn, I think when I climb the logs sticking out in different directions and realize I'm going too late, my catch is gone.

Damn it, I'll repeat myself and I'm about to leave because I'm too visible here.
As I turn to go down, I notice that from the direction my previous victim went, another black comes back, at least I think it's different.

Crouched and hidden among the logs, I wait for the victim who approaches me along the wall.
Only the first rays of the carried light source bounce off the green topaz covering my right eye, one broken neck and a black one is served in front of me, ready to go.
Because they are small, they have weak necks and big heads, he didn't even have a chance to scream, it was just a moment like opening a bottle cap.

In no time I have him tied up on my shoulder in thickly stitched fabric and I'm climbing to freedom.
Not that I don't want to be an optimist, but it seems too simple for them to be so dangerous, and I think of the moment I jump from the wall into an area full of trampled grass and stumps.
I make sure I'm approaching in the right direction, still facing the high rocky hill I've almost fallen off several times, but this time I'll take a safer route around it.

That body is much heavier than I expected, with sweat running down my greasy green masking paste on my face, that isn't supposed to reflect light.
I hear the gate of the fortress has opened, from which lights are coming out towards me, I see them with a brief glance behind me
I don't even have time to utter a curse word and there are two blacks standing in front of me, right next to the hill among the trees.

This is quite a stupid situation, black behind me and in front of me, all that's left is........that I am
straining at all......COME ON!!
I scream and run as the enemy approaches me from all sides.

The two blacks in front of me are not in a hurry as I run towards them, they draw short swords of shiny black armor that makes them well visible in the dark thanks to the moonlight.

I'm not going to talk to them or stop for a coffee, I don't stop as soon as I'm near them, I grab my rider's leg and use him as a club.
Thanks to the great weight of the corpse, I manage to repel both attackers far enough that I can unfortunately climb the hill while the army of blacks chases after me.

As soon as I cross several dangerous and slippery places with a black sack on my back, I wish it was a sack of potatoes and I run to the top of the hill and rush through the forest towards home.
Unfortunately, it didn't last long, the lights like Fireflies in the forest fly around me.
Well, there is not much to think about, the only free direction is the upward direction.
If I pass them, I can then leave in peace.

But I don't care anymore, I think when a branch from the tree above falls in front of my feet, from where the crack of wood and falling goblins are now coming.

I'm running, zigzagging through the little scum that keeps crossing my path and trying to stop me, with an ever-increasing weight on my back that seems heavier and heavier with each step.
As much as it amazes me how fast they are for how small their legs are, there is absolutely no chance of me running away from them.
One after the other like an endless line of people interested in the attraction, They jump after me and try to hit me, avoiding their fast and insidious attacks becomes almost unthinkable.

Sweaty and sore from the body still hitting my back, I find myself surrounded, there is no way I can go on or back, no, I am now trapped by a black wall with sharp spikes ready to fend off anyone who wants to pass through it.
With a spit, I throw the heavy corpse to the ground, with the memory of the sword from my dimension on my mind, I draw my dagger towards an iron-like material that is quite heavy for its size.

Drenched in sweat and dirty from the ubiquitous wet dirt that I fell on several times after a few attacks by the enemy, I wait to see if the wall will move or if I will have to go to it first, and in the end I will change my mind, I won't wait even a moment.
In a quick movement, I throw one of the corpses in front of me so as to defeat one of the skittles, I rush between them and, two blacks tried to stop me, after one I threw a dagger as I ran, which bounced off the helmet with sparks, did not hurt him, but stunned him for a moment long enough for me to catch the second black in a jump by the attacking arm with a small sword and threw him like a doll, while I catch a rather nasty blow from the goblin behind me who cut me across the shoulder blades with his sword.

I roll sideways and find myself surrounded again.
I can feel the wound on my back hissing softly as it closes under the cut camouflage fabric made of the dark colors of nature.

I didn't expect the cloth to deflects anything, after all it's just cloth no matter how strong and how heavily stitched this one is, but I really didn't expect the enemy's weapon to pass through them so easily and inflict such damage, even though the cloth is enchanted with protective and defensive spells.
My thoughts race as I watch the Enemies move around me.
This is really not good if..........
Before I could even finish my thought, I was already dodging a back attack with a quick swipe at my neck, I tried to grab him, while the Second Black's Sword that attacked me from the side.

I'm not thinking about anything anymore, I'm concentrating on avoiding the nimble bastards, who are now circling around me like a swarm of hungry mosquitoes.
My reflexes sharpen with each dodge, my attack more crushing, surrounded by a circle of constantly attacking enemies, my body is as focused as ever.
With my body covered in blood, I smile in the euphoria of a long-suppressed desire to fight.
Like a cat I parry and avoid one attack that is followed by another without the first one ending at such a speed that the trees melt into one.

Blood flows all over my body because the injuries I receive come much faster than I can heal, because I can't dodge anymore, the black ones rush at me like a pack of jackals, they attack quickly and effectively.
They are like a machine, a coordinated machine that works incredibly well, one body, one being, look to the left, an attack will come from the right, a moment of inattention behind my back and I see the tip of the blade from my stomach.

In a fit of aggression and frustration, I punch the ground with such force that the ground shakes enough to make most of my enemies lose their balance.
One long exhalation in a forward bend with my eyes eager for blood, a trembling body full of adrenaline shoots like a slingshot at the first enemy I see, does not have time to make a single sound and my right hand crushes the helmet with the skull on the ground.
I grabbed the corpse and threw it at the approaching enemy on my back, who knocked him down in flight, like a hungry wolf I jumped at him and before he hit the ground I held him with my right hand the larynx, the only place where he did not have armor so resistant.
Only a short squeal broke the silence before a high-pitched howl from the blacks around me.

With renewed strength and determination, they surrounded me like a wild animal and attacked one after another until the beast fell.

Where is he? Says Starlight in an unlit wooden house.
We should have been back a long time ago, what will I do if someone comes looking for me? What shall I say?
But I can't just leave, I promised to wait for him here, but he is already very late, the moon is already setting, if he doesn't come soon...........
Starlight is snapped out of her thoughts by a loud roar that echoes through the forest.
It sounded like..........
Starlight doesn't finish again as the ground shakes with the wooden floor beneath her feet and then...... grave silence.

KRRRRAAACHHH!!!
Something breaks through the ceiling of the house with splinters and wood landing on the plank floor, which withstands the impact of the body with a groaning crack.
The frightened pony screams, As soon as she realizes it's Tropy, she jumps on him like a frog and disappears with a green flash.

Meanwhile, Tropy is lying on the ground without a single sign of life, Starlight is literally tearing off shreds of shredded clothing which is far from resembling clothing.

Frightened pony looks for any serious injury on the lying body, his hair is full of dried blood, but he doesn't see any fresh or any wounds.
She presses her ear to his chest After finding nothing to indicate Tropy's death, except a body full of gashes.

Heart pounding, starlight takes a breath and calms down a bit, so why aren't all his wounds closing?
She asks herself as she watches dozens of thin cuts slowly ooze blood.
Starlight was preparing for a similar situation, that it might not turn out well if he came back seriously injured, so under the village of Ponyville where the staff complex is located, she prepared one room as a temporary infirmary and accommodation.

No sooner had she washed him of the ubiquitous blood, bandaged his wounds, placed him in the double bed, and she notices something strange on the floor in a pile of rags from his clothes, a green light picks up the pouch in dark brown leather and brings it right under the pony's snout, who smiles after looking inside it.
Covers the patient and she disappears in a flash of green leaving the room dark and silent.

Treason.

The soft white light slowly turns yellow-orange to an absorbing red-orange that rises high from all the roofs, windows and doors of the houses in the area.
Tall creatures flee and leaping over the corpses of their fellows where no one is safe from the flames consume the streets like a hungry creature, with a heat so strong it has no escape that consumes the last living creatures within reach, in the presence of the sharp glow of the flame.
Small wooden houses falling apart not only from the effects of the flames, but also from causing significant damage before they burst into flames.
Countless charred, dismembered, corpses decorate the streets like pebbles in a fireplace, while a single pony at a sufficient distance from the fire watches everything.

After a moment of shock from what she is witnessing, she begins to approach the burning village, walking along charred bodies, through the remains of stone streets burned white, lined with the ruins of buildings, without a single life, until she comes to a tall building with a bell tower, which is also burning but does not tend to crash.
Through the wide open double-winged gate, it is clear that the building is completely empty.
Without stopping, she continues and discovers that the deeper she goes, the worse the surroundings are.

With nothing more than ruins and building foundations covering the area, the pony sees a low black flame in the center of it all.
When she approaches it, she discovers that it is a burning figure holding a smaller person.

She sits down next to them and looks at the smoldering wreckage behind which the remains of the buildings are still burning.

She looks around for a moment until her gaze stops at the creature in the arms of the figure, she realizes that it is not two figures , but a flame in the shape of a figure holding an apparently dead figure.

"Who is that?" The pony asks, looking at the figure in the arms of the flame.

"What are you doing here?" The flame replies, disinterested in her.

"I was worried about you" The animal looks up at the flame.

"Why?" The flame answers confusedly, looking at the animal.

"What happened here? She indicates everything around, but the flame turns its head and looks ahead again without interest.

"Where are we, I don't recognize it here? When the pony doesn't see any reaction, she calmly continues.

" Did you know the people of this village? Still no response, but she doesn't give up.

" Why are you burning? She tries again.

"You're just as curious and talkative as I remember you, you'll tell me why you're really here"

"As I said before, I was worried about you and so......."

"I've heard that already" the flame pony interrupts his speech.

"And what do you want me to say?" Ask the pony little desperately.

"You don't even know what's going on, there's panic, fear everywhere and you're accused of treason, that you joined the side of the enemies that you're now leading against us, I don't know how much longer I can stand it" She has a downcast head, her first tears slowly begin to appear.

As soon as the first tear falls to the ground, a glow of flame surrounds her, and she lies with her head resting on his lap.
The girl with closed eyes and the pony lie with their heads in the lap of flames caressing their heads.
The stressed pony relaxed and all the sadness fell from her.

After they've been there for a while while time hasn't moved, the pony then asks.

" Where are we?

"This is, or rather was, the village of Almar, a beautiful village full of various lovely beings" The flame answers very slowly.

"What happened here" The pony purrs like a kitten as she is scratched on a sensitive spot on her neck.

"You can see for yourself what happened" The flame replies calmly.

" Is this the reason for your daily nightmares? After the pony says those words he stops with his hand still on her head.

"How do you know this?" He asks cautiously.

The pony sigh sand steps up to face the flames and says.

"I've known about your nightmares since the first day, every time you fall asleep and I see that you're having that terrible dream again, I go after you and every time I try to ask you what happened.............. .” She looks desperately at the flame who doesn't know what to think first.

"You mean to tell me that every time I saw you, you weren't just a figment of my imagination? But how could you be?" Replies the flame in disbelief.

"It doesn't matter now, tell me what happened here and I'll tell you what's going on in the real world" She sits down.

After a moment of silence, when it looks like the pony wants to make him talk again, the flame interrupts her speech.

Don't worry Glimi, you don't have to convince me to talk.

This is the memory of when I was first summoned, I wanted to tell you when we met,
because you confided what you regret the most, but I couldn't.....I'm so sorry.

He looks sadly at Glimi and continues.

All this around was caused by my desire for power, before I was very self-centered and eternally angry, I would do anything to achieve what I desire.
Once I was at the bottom after they kidnapped my friend named Noria, whom I met in this world, she was a member of my group of five that I formed to defeat the demon that was terrorizing the whole empire and at the same time after defeating him, the way home. He runs his hand through the girl's golden hair and looks at her sadly for a moment and continues.

But I underestimated his strength, without proper preparation and planning we faced him.
He killed two of my party, leaving only me and Alleyne, who was Nora's sister.
I swore to her that I would do everything to save her sister and together we set out for revenge.

And just at that moment when I ran into him again, he almost killed me, but he let me live, left me lying badly wounded, and it was only a matter of time before I died.
With my will, aggression, and hatred towards him, I summoned something that not only saved my life, but offered me a trade.

If I give him what he wants, he will give me what I desire most, But I was still blinded by the rage of hatred and revenge, I did not hesitate and immediately made a deal with him.

As soon as the flame said this, his right hand stopped burning with black flame, revealing pure smooth skin with a serenely flowing iridescent color on a deep hexagon field that looked like it was varnished and polished from the fingers to the shoulder.

This was the deal, he took my arm and gave me this, with the incredible power in it, I was able to destroy anything that came my way. The flame once again consumed the right arm.

Silence reigned again, Glimi, who is still in shock from what she just heard, stares in disbelief and doesn't know what to say.
The flame lowers its head and looks sadly at the girl in its lap again.

What happened here, what I did with these villages is what changed my whole life, the moment I realized I couldn't live like before, I became dangerous for everyone around me and I swore on my life to learn the power to control, which proved impossible.

It took me decades and I was still able to control only a part of that power, so I still have to be careful and control myself a lot so that the power doesn't control me and the next town or village doesn't end up like this one.

Now that you know the truth, I understand if you want to leave and keep a safe distance from me.

"How could you spend decades learning to control that power when you look so young? The pony asks

"Another effect of that power" The flame shows that he doesn't want to talk about it anymore.

......

"But that doesn't make sense, when you have so much power and you're afraid you'll lose control, so why do you fight? Glimi doesn't want to stop talking.

"Because I'm a soldier, I love fighting, when I have abilities with which I can change the outcome of the battle, I won't hide somewhere closed" Answered the flame quietly.

"I'm glad you told me" She smiles and puts her hoof on his leg for a moment before sitting down.

"Thank you for the story, but now I'll tell you.
Right now, you're lying unconscious in the room I locked you in so no one could find you, Twilight is completely insane, she's accusing you of betrayal and she wants your head, and it's all about me because we spent a lot of time together, plus attacks on our territory from the base you were in" Blurts out the pony and waits for an answer.

"Unconsciousness? What happened?" Flame says in surprise.

" Well, I don't know, you literally flew back from your mission, broke through the ceiling of the house where you were supposed to be waiting, and have been unconscious ever since. You told me a lot about your abilities, but nothing about what to do when you in unconsciousness" She trembles with impatience for an answer.

The flame stands and kneels before the Glim and utters.

"How long have I been in this state?

"Day 3" Startled by his serious voice.

"Now listen to me carefully, if I am out for this long, it can have serious consequences, it means that my body is too weak to regenerate and be able to defend itself against the power that surfaced, You have to wake me up at all costs" He holds Glimi behind her cheeks and stares sternly into her eyes.

"But how? I've already tried almost everything, treated and bandaged your bleeding wounds, I've tried healing magic, but nothing works" She whimpered.

"Well, listen, if my wounds don't heal, no one will, it means that I have some object in my body that is either poisoned or is in such a bad place that my body is not able to deal with it. Now the most important thing, I'll wake up incredibly weak and have terrible trouble controlling myself, NOBODY can come near me! Got it?'' He shakes the pony to emphasize his words.

"Now hurry, the sooner you solve this the better"

Without saying goodbye, the frightened pony slowly evaporates away, leaving only his empty hands of black flame.
She stands up and, looking at her surroundings, begins to slowly extinguish his flame at the moment when a golden-haired Tall Woman in leather armor comes to him with a beautiful smile with thick tears running down it.

I'm glad you finally opened up to someone Tropy.

As soon as starlight wakes up lying next to Tropy in the same bed, she quickly begins to throw off the bandages and look for wounds on his body while praying that he is not poisoned.

YES! She screams the moment she sees that a tiny black piece of something from his body is sticking out of one wound on his back, very close to the spine.
Carefully, using magic, she flips Tropy onto his stomach and begins to precisely remove a piece from his body.
She slowly pulls out the broken shrapnel of the Short Black Sword piece by piece, when suddenly a signal is heard from all the devices indicating that Twilight's representative should immediately come after her.

But starlight couldn't leave, if she left him like that he wouldn't heal and the risk would be even higher.
She continues to ignore the report and inch by inch she pulls out more and more pieces of the sword that already seems almost Infinite.
Luckily her magic was skilled enough to carefully pull it out without injuring him, pulling the 15 cm fragment from his back, she noticed that his wound is healing.
She happily turns him around, covers and disappears.

When she appears at the great stone table, where an upset Twilight is standing, she doesn't even have time to apologize for being late and is already being yelled at.

"Where have you been for so long?!"

"Sorry I had to..." She tries to speak but can't because of Twilight screaming.

"I bet I just distracted you from planning an attack on Equestria with your new best friend! Twilight is furious.

"No it's not like that, I..." Again she is interrupted.

"So where is he? As soon as he disappears, they start attacking us, it's not a coincidence and you know what happened"

"Let me explain" Desperate Starlight struggles to speak.

"I've heard enough of your excuses"

"Give me answers before I have you locked up for treason"

" Me?! For what? For working like a horse to arrange everything? For doing everything I can to arrange everything you need, regardless of how long I have to stay up and if I even go to sleep? That I represent you whenever you need and I'm doing everything to make sure you have as little weight on your shoulders as possible? Irritated starlight didn't let herself be interrupted

"It was, as soon as the person came, then you changed and started spending a lot of time with him and...."

" At your COMMAND!!! Starlight screamed over the princess.

" You wanted me to watch over him! You wanted me to fight him when he showed up while you watched me almost die! You wanted me to keep my eyes on him! To befriend him and know his every thought and step what will he do!! Aggrieved, Starlight stops checking herself in a fit of rage.

"but that..."

" QUIET!!!!! Mad Starlight yelled at the princess.

"Whenever you go to a meeting in Canterlot, I took care of all your duties, I arranged the needs for the running of our country all night so that I could then watch over the so-called person during the day, whom YOU ignored and did not care at all about what he needed and what's bothering him, you didn't make a single effort to keep your promise and contact his friends, whenever he came you threw him out like some stranger!

"Calm down" says the princess sternly.

"Don't interrupt me!! Yes I got close to him, maybe more than necessary and what did you do? You just ignore and get mad at him because of the misunderstanding that happened when we first met, but
I was the one who gained his trust!
I take care of him!
I'm the one listening to him!
I was the one who helped him prepare for mission!
I'm the one sleeping with him chasing away his nightmares!

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH HIM?!!! the shocked princess jumps into Starlight's sentence, when she realizes that she heard something else.

"J..." Starlight doesn't have a chance to say a single word when she jumps in again and this time aggressively.

"What mission were you talking about?! The princess begins to foam.

"Well talk, I'm listening" Enraged Twilight with her wings spread and a vein throbbing on her head with her hooves on the table and her face red.

Terrified Starlight stands like a Pillar, With a head full of remorse for what she just revealed, as she musters up the courage to stand up straight.

"SPEAK!! Twilight roared with a glowing horn.

"Alright!! You want the truth You have it, because you kept rejecting him he went on a suicide mission to prove his loyalty and get this while he is lying in the infirmary with serious injuries" A bag appears in a flash of green, which is then thrown on the table in front of the princess.

Without bothering to open the bag, the princess called the guards.

"I knew it..................................arrest her and find the human" waving at the guards.

With a scared expression of what is happening, Starlight tries to say something else to the princess but she can't anymore, with a gag in her mouth and a cover on her horn so that she can't use magic, she is forcibly dragged out of the room without the help of screams and kicking around her.

Oh my God!! I say after waking up in a body that can't possibly be mine, every centimeter of my body is covered with freshly closed wounds that burn like hell, my body in spasms and on fire.
I feel something coming to the surface, something I haven't felt in a very long time, something I must not allow.

After lying in complete darkness for a while, I manage to concentrate and while ignoring the pain, I manage to keep myself under control, when I hear the opening and slamming of the door in the corridor and loud voices.
I don't want to believe that it has anything to do with me, but the opposite is true, immediately the door bursts open, my mouth is gagged, my hands and feet are tied and I'm dragged like an wild animal through a white corridor.

With incredible pain with every impact with every movement of my body, and hypersensitive After many injuries, I feel faint.
I'm trying at all costs to stay sane and not allow my nightmare to repeat itself in this world.

Pain, sharp pain passes through me when I am thrown like an wild animal into a small room and then chained to a device to which ponies are chained so that they cannot move.
I now have all my limbs on the ground on all fours like a dog in a sharp forward bend and in incredible pain with still unhealed wounds on my back that don't stop bleeding due to the wrong position.
I feel blood running down my naked body, around my shoulder blades over my neck, around my ears through my hair to my nose and then on the ground, I see puddles forming in front of me.

That position is so painful that I managed to crush the gag in my mouth from the accumulated rage and screamed at the guards who were standing in front of the door to untie me and let me lie on the ground.

When the door opened, all I got was a quick hoof in the face and an order to shut up.

I can't handle this, I think When I see that my field of vision is narrowing.
Full of despair and fear of what will happen, I gathered the last strength I could sacrifice to break the wooden hooves in which my hands and feet are.

I fall to the ground exhausted to death, with a small relief that did not last long, as soon as the guards opened the door and saw that I was freed from the shackles, They began to beat me...............