Author's Note

I fixed this chapter becuase it wasn't getting a lot of positive feedback. I saw why when I looked at the ending, and realized how lazy and unorganized it was. So the whole ending Is rewritten and I fixed some spelling and grammer errors. I hope it gets a more positive review this time

Prologue - Blood on the Docks

The sky was filled with gray clouds and thick mist caused by the chilling air of the evening night. The moon shone brightly, banishing the darkness in the equestrian docks. It was a simple dock made between the border of equestria in order to deliver cargo and resources to other neighboring nations.

At the edge of the dock was a massive cargo ship with several ponies by it, most of them mares and foals,they all had bruises and cuts on them. Their eyes were terrified and full of hopelessness, as they were being pushed and forced onto the cargo ship by a gang of burly and nasty looking stallions.

They consisted of all 3 tribes, Unicorns, Pegasus, and Earth ponies. Most of them carried weapons like knives, machetes, and clubs. A small group of them watched as one of them was dragging a mare to them against her will.

"NO! LET ME GO!!" She screamed as she was tossed onto the ground. She was a unicorn mare with an inhibitor ring on her horn to block off her magic.

Her mane had a lemon color, She had cuts and bruises all over her pink colored body as the group of stallions laughed in a cruel and sadistic tone.

The prisoners watched in terror, as the cruel Stallions abused and had their way with her. As she looked up with her eyes filled with tears, A tall beefy stallion, an earth pony with tan coat with a brown mohawk and goatee walked up to her, he peered his head down to look at her with a cruel smile

"You might wanna save that fight in you when you're shipped into and bought into slavery, you're quite the beauty so no doubt you'll be sold fast, you're gonna need all the fight you can get. '' Fearing for her life and his words of what will happen to her she bucked at him with her hind hooves knocking him on the ground as he let out a painful groan, seeing her chance she attempted to run, but in that instant she was pinned to the ground by a Pegasus stallion who held her in place.

The earth pony got up, holding his face where she bucked him with his eyes showing off a furious glare.

"You little bitch!!" He yells as he started to trot over to them.

"You've got more fight than I thought and its pissing me off!".

He yells as he pulls out a curved knife from his strap on his hind leg, "Maybe I should carve it out of you and save my clients the trouble!!!". She panicked and struggled to get out the pegasus stallion's grip, as he slowly poked the end of his knife on the spot where her mark rests.

"How about I start with your mark, after all you won't be needing it anymore." He said with sadistic glee

"NO PLEASE!!" she begs and screamed as the stallions around them laughed and encouraged him to do it.

She closed her eyes and embraced herself for the pain that's about to come but after a few moments she felt his knife stop touching her flank, confused she opened her eyes and saw him place his knife back in his strap.

"As much as I want to flay you, you're no good to me with any scars on you, it will drop your value down." As the Pegasus lets her go he forces her up and shoves her with the other slaves.

"I'll let your buyer handle the flaying."

As He orders his men to escort the prisoners onto the boat, a young colt prisoner helps the mare up as she starts to sob heavily.

As they load the prisoners onto the boat the leader rubs the spot on his cheek where the mare bucked him "Stupid whorse. I'll make sure she's sold first."

"Uh boss" He looked to see his right hoof next to him. "We're all ready to set sail but we've got a bit of a problem."

"What kind of problem?" He says in an irritated tone.

"Well the fuel tank to the ship is empty and without it we can get out of the harbor." The leader sighed and rubbed his temples, obviously annoyed with the situation "do we have extra fuel?"

"Uuh we think so, it might still be in the harbor."

"Then if you're not too busy, GO GET IT!!!" He screams at his henchmen who instantly run away in panic to gather stallions to head back out to the harbor.

Several Stallion henchmen, a good mix of three unicorns, three Pegasus, and four earth ponies were back on the harbor looking for the gallons of fuel. "Who was the idiot who didn't fill the boat in the first place?" one of the pegasi said, obviously mad that he had to go back into the harbor.

"I'd blame the guy on engineers, isn't it their job to make sure the boat is ready?!" One of the earth ponies said also irritated at the situation.

The leading Unicorn said "We'll split into two teams, go with whoever you want. I don't care, the faster we find that fuel, the faster we can get the hay out of here." Agreeing with that statement they all split up and went to search for the fuel.

The first group, which consisted of two Pegasi and one earth pony, trotted through the many giant wooden crates filling the harbor, seeing no sight of the fuel tank yet, one of the pegasi sighs with annoyance that they haven't found it yet. "I need to take a leak" He says as he finds a private place to pee, the other ponies are annoyed but decide to wait.

He finds a spot between two crates where it was dark, as he props up to pee. He screamed for a split moment as He was pulled into the shadows without a trace.

The other two thugs immediately turned their heads in the direction where their partner was a moment ago, except he wasn't there, he was gone. Looking concerned, the last pegasus slowly and cautiously walked to the spot,

"Swiftwing?" He called out hoping this was some stupid prank he was trying to pull. As he looked through the dark spot between the two crates not finding any signs that Swiftwing was there he started to feel afraid and uneasy, at that moment he knew something was wrong.

'Bronco I think we need to leav-" He starts to say but he notices that Bronco is slowly backing away from him, his head looking upwards with a face of pure terror, he feels his blood turn icy cold as he looks up in his partner's direction.

He saw that there was a figure hanging on the crane directly above him, it looked like a pony, a pegasus to be precise, noticing the wings coming out of the dark cloak it was shrouded in.

These were the only features he could make out before the cloaked figure dropped from the crane directly onto him as he let out a terrified scream, darkness being the last thing he saw.

Bronco immediately was running as fast as his hooves could carry him as heard his partners scream of terror, his eyes wide with fear, the sound of his heart beating rapidly in his ears.

"WHAT THE HAY WAS THAT?!?" was the only thing he could process at the moment, he only wanted to focus on finding the others and alerting the boss. As he turned to the right between the labyrinth of giant crates he stopped dead in his hooves as he saw a sight that made his skin go pale and his stomach lurch.

In front of him was the rest of the group, their bodies were sprawled all-over the place, blood splattered all over the floor and he saw slashes and impalement wounds all over the bodies of his dead comrades, their lifeless eyes were widened, terror being all they felt in their final moments.

At the end of the carnage he saw the cloaked figure again, standing on their hind legs, with their back turned against him. This one looked different, he had wings sure but Bronco also noticed the lion tail sprouting out his flank, he also took note that he had talons instead of hoofs, it was a griffin.

He saw that the figure had one his unicorn companions held up at the neck he was struggling and gasping for air the unicorn saw him and with half-choked voice

"B-Bronco r-ru-"

*CRACK*

With that loud crack sound he stopped struggling and went completely limp and the life faded from his eyes. The cloaked griffin dropped the lifeless body and slowly turned his head to see the terrified earth pony behind them. As he turned and started to approach him, Bronco started to back away.

"NO STAY AWAY FROM ME YOU MONSTER!!" He screamed as the griffin continued to walk towards him slowly, he took notice of his talons that were dripping with blood, he noticed that they were longer sharper but what horrified him, they were metal, like sharp blades coming out his hands, Bronco fell backwards and started crawl away keeping his face forwards as the griffin continued to walk towards him.

But in that moment the griffin stopped his advance and just stood there not moving a muscle, Bronco being confused slowly got up, as he did he started to feel pure dread as he realized why the griffin stopped, as he felt forearms grapple around his barrel from behind. He didn't have a moment to think before whatever had him launched into the air, his screams fading away as he disappeared into the night sky.

The leader paced across the deck of the boat impatiently waiting for those idiots to get back with that fuel. At that moment he heard several screams echo from out into the harbor, he looked in the direction he heard the screams taking note of some of his men who heard them as well, who shared his look of concern.

'Boss, what was that?" His second asked in slightly scared tone

The leader took a minute to think before he looked at his second in command. "Have the men we sent out there come back with the fuel yet?" He asked In a nervous tone.

"No, in fact they should've returned twenty minutes ago, I've been trying to reach to them with a telepathy spell and haven't got nothing"

That was all the leader needed to hear in order to tell him to investigate the source of those screams. His second and a few ponies left the boat, disappearing out into the docks.

He had a sudden chill in his spine. He felt like he and his men were being watched, like everywhere he looked, there were eyes on them lurking in the darkness, he didn't know what it was, but he knew this.

"Something is hunting us" He thought to himself. At that moment he heard a squelching and choking sound from behind him.

He and his other men turned around to find one the pegasi holding his neck as blood spurted out of it like a hose, many of his men backed away all showing fear and some of them screaming as he slowly trotted toward them his left hoof on his neck giving them what looked like a cry for help as he fell the ground. As he laid on the ground bleeding out, the leader took notice of the figure standing behind him.

He was a pony draped in a dark cloak with a hood shrouded around his head, he couldn't see his face but he saw a horn sticking out his hood glowing a sapphire aura, he noticed that this supposed unicorn had two cutlass swords orbiting around him covered the same sapphire aura as his horn, the blades smothered with the blood of the dead pony that laid before them.

Enraged over having an intruder on his boat, the leader pointed at the mysterious attacker, "UNICORNS BLAST HIM!!!"

Having been snapped out of their shock every unicorn on boat charged a blast from their horns, several multi-colored lasers fired at the cloaked figure, causing an explosion that created a large amount of smoke.

The leader and his men waited for the smoke to clear showing no signs of the figure only a charred crater in where the explosion hit,

"Hah! that'll tea-ACHHK" in that split moment the unicorn that was bragging was impaled through his neck from behind, the leader and his men looked to see the cloaked figure behind the unicorn who was stabbed. As he pulled the sword out his neck, the unicorn started to choke on his own blood as he dropped on the ground.

The leader and his men prepared themselves as the figure slowly walked towards them, the two swords floating around him started to spin, their speed increasing until it looked like two giant buzzsaws were floating on either side of the figure. As he continued to walk towards them he put his spinning swords onto the metal flooring creating a shower of sparks as they trailed across.

Two of the ponies screamed a war cry as they charged at the figure, in that split second the swords instantly stopped spinning, pointed at the oncoming ponies, he hurled the swords at them like spears, driving the blades through the henchmen's heads killing them in an instant.

The figure yanked his blades out of the heads with his telekinetic hold, causing blood to splatter in multiple directions.

The cloaked figure quickly moved his head to the side dodging a laser shot at them from behind, he swiftly turned his head back seeing a unicorn behind him preparing for another shot, in that moment the figure vanished into thin air and reappeared right in front of the unicorn. He slashes his swords in a horizontal scissor cut, slicing the unicorn's head off his body, blood spurting out of his neck.

The leader watched in horror seeing him disappear and reappear in an instant like that, that was when he realized what he was doing.

"MEN DON'T BE FOOLED!! HE'S JUST TELEPORTING, ATTACK HIM ALL AT ONCE, DON'T GIVE HIM CHANCE TO CAST IT!!!!"

With that order the men felt a burst of confidence in the fact that they found his weakness, they all screamed and charged at him in an attempt to overwhelm him. As they closed in on him the cloaked figure prepped his swords into an offensive stance like he was about to charge.

His horn radiated brightly, before he started teleporting in front of several henchmen at blinding speed, slashing and killing each one he teleported by. He impaled his sword through the chest of a pony as he threw his other one at the head of another, he teleported in front of them and pulled his sword out of the skull with his telekinetic hold, preparing himself as more charged at him.

As he watched the carnage continue, The leader was shocked and horrified at what he was witnessing, it didn't look like he was teleporting, it looked like he was moving at the speed of sound.

"I don't understand what's happening?! I know that a unicorn needs a moment or two before he can cast a teleportation spell again, but this guy is casting it again and again at a rapid pace! What kind of freak is he!?".

That was when noticed that the numbers of his men had dwindled into the single digits and were decreasing fast, realizing the inevitable death he would face if he stayed, he immediately dashed off the boat and ran with everything he had.

Down to the last three ponies, the figure sweeped the legs of one them and plunged his sword down into their back, he then blocked the swing of a machete that came from the earth pony next to him. He bucked them a few feet away from him, and stabbed him the abdomen, he immediately teleported away from the thrust of a knife that was behind him, reappeared behind the unicorn who attempted to backstab him and did the same, driving both his swords through their chest and hurled their body from his blades.

Seeing the field of bodies around him, he sliced his swords through the air flinging off any blood on his blades. That was when he noticed that the leader had disappeared.

"Merda!" He muttered to himself.

The leader ran across the harbor as fast as he could. He was filled with terror at what he just saw, he didn't know who or what that was, all he knew was he needed to get out of there right now. He started to feel exhaustion that he ignored, his terror and adrenaline keeping him going, he saw the exit and headed straight for it.

He skidded to a halt as he saw a horrible sight between him and the exit. His second in command and the other ponies he sent were all lying on the ground dead, some them had slashes across their necks and barrels, some stabs wounds, others had blades sticking out of their bodies that looked like what he could only describe as metal feathers, standing in the center of them all was another cloaked figure.

Getting a good look at him he saw it wasn't the same one from earlier, he saw it was a pegasus on the account of those wings sprouting from his cloak. With his wings unfurled he got a decent look of his body revealed from the cloak.

He was a male, he could tell because of the well toned body he had, and his coat was a scarlet red color. With his wings unfurled he saw a row of blades sticking out across their span, each blade looked like a row of metal feathers, like the ones sticking out his men's bodies.

Knowing he'd have to get past him he pulled out his curved knife from his hind leg and screamed at the figure in a frightened but challenging tone

"THIS ISN'T OVER YOU HEAR ME!!! MY WHEN I TELL MY SUPERIORS WHAT'S HAPPENED HERE TONIGHT, YOU'RE DEAD YOU HEAR ME!!! DEEEEEAAA-"

*WOOSH*

*SLASH*

He didn't finish his sentence as the figure dashed past him at a speed that would make the wonderbolts look like foals. He turned around and saw the cloaked pegasus looking at him as he saw fresh blood on the blades in his wings.

He started to feel a liquid pouring down his neck and chest, he looked down and saw a bright red liquid dripping on the floor below him. That moment he realized it was his blood, pouring from a long slice across his neck. He started feeling dizzy, weak and disoriented as he fell to his side, the color of his eyes fading as he bled out.

The imprisoned ponies were trapped in a dark cellar below the deck, the pink mare holding the young colt in her arms trying to comfort him as they heard the screaming, squelching, splattering sounds from above.

She felt the colt grip her tighter, she looked and saw he was looking up at her, his eyes filled with tears and fright.

"Miss, I'm scared" He said In a whimpered tone. She felt the same way she didn't know what was going on up there, she didn't even know if they would die on this boat tonight. She tried not to think those thoughts as she held him tighter, making shushing sounds trying to comfort him, assuring him they'd be fine when she didn't even know if they would actually be, when the screams and carnage stopped.

Her and many others looked confused as they listened to the sudden silence coming from above, a few minutes went by, the pink mare becoming filled with fright as she heard a trotting sound from directly above them. She pulled the colt into a tight embrace as the trapdoor above them was suddenly slashed into three long pieces, ponies screaming at the sudden moment that just happened, the now broken pieces of the door fell off its hinges onto the floor, she had her eyes closed tight waiting for her final and agonizing moments to come.

Moment passed, she felt nothing, she started to hear sounds of confusion amongst her fellow ponies. Wondering what was happening she opened her eyes, and saw a bright beam of light, shining into the dark cellar. She saw many ponies looking up at the door with confused looks on their faces, the colt was looking as well, his eyes no longer frightened in fact she saw curiosity and awe. As she looked up to the door frame she felt just as confused as the others.

Standing outside of the frame was a tall and burly looking figure wrapped in a dark looking cloak. The moon was up above behind him giving her a bright view and a good detailed look at him. His cloak was a midnight blue color, small 4-point star patterns covered it making it look like the night sky. It was a griffin, she could tell by the lion tail, and hawk-like beak sticking out of the shadow of his hood. The thing she took note of was the gloves he was wearing, they had sharp metal talons at the end, making them look like dagger tipped claws.

The cloaked griffin stood there not moving or making a sound, making her and many others feel uneasy. Finally he brought the ladder to the door down allowing them to climb up.

"C'mon you're safe now." He spoke in a deep but somewhat young voice. He sounded sincere, but she didn't know if she could trust him. What did he mean they were safe? Where were the traffickers that locked them up? Why did she hear screaming up there? What did he do to them?

Several questions were flooding her head. She then noticed that while a lot felt cautious like she did, others immediately started to trot to the latter and start climbing up, as they climbed up the cloaked griffin moved to side of the door allowing then to pass.

Seeing that he wasn't going to kill them, she managed to gain enough courage to trot to the latter. She went before the colt due to still having suspicion on the griffins intentions. She climbed out of the door with the griffin standing right next to her, with how close she was to him she got a glimpse of his eyes in the shadow of his hood. They were a dark blue color like sapphire gems, and they had a blood red shade of feathers surrounding them. They showed no malicious intent, nor did he himself show any sign of doing so.

Knowing he wouldn't harm her, she stuck her hoof back into the door so the colt could reach for it. When she pulled him out of the cellar, she saw several ponies out on the deck, many were crying tears of joy, some of them hugging each other. She didn't see any of the traffickers, they had completely vanished, that same question she was thinking was lingering in her head again,

Where ar-

She didn't get to finish that thought as she felt something hug her hoof she looked down and saw the little colt giving her a tight hug, he had a joyful look on his face one full hope. She could only think of one thing at that moment, they were free, they could go home back to their lives. In that moment all the emotions she had buried started to pour out, as she returned the hug to the colt, tears streaming out her eyes.

When she finished her joyful hug she wiped her tears and let the colt go play with the other foals. She looked where the griffin was, and saw he had completely vanished. As she looked around for him, she noticed a stray cloth blowing from behind the bridge of the boat.

"Did you dispose of the bodies?" The cloaked pegasus asked.

"No one will ever see or hear from those figli di puttana again unless they dive into the bottom of the ocean." The cloaked unicorn responded.

They stood in front of the bridge of the boat, hidden from view of the civilians on the other side. The cloaked griffin appeared into the bridge and walked to the other two.

"Civilians are all safe and accounted for, some a little beaten but are able to get out on their own." He stated to them as the pegasus nodded in response.

"Then we should get outta here, we've done our part, We'll let the authorities handle the re-"

"You killed them did you?"

All three cloaked figures immediately turned their heads to see a pink unicorn mare with a yellow mane and tail that stood a few hooves away from them. She had a look of fear and sadness on her face.

"Those ponies who had kidnapped us are all dead, aren't they?" She asked in a bit of a terrified but sad tone, because the screaming and splattering sounds she heard earlier were all she needed to already know the answer, and while she was happy to be free, she wished that it wouldn't have had to come to that.

The pegasus slowly trotted over to her not saying a single word, she backed away feeling afraid, not knowing what he was gonna do to her, his unfurled wing out of his cloak. It had small blades, like a row of metal feathers sticking out of it, the real feathers however were a bright red color like scarlet. She backed away feeling terrified, when she saw him raise his wing over to strike her down. She closed in terror, believing he was about to kill her.

*SLASH!*

Opened her eyes in confusion, seeing the cloaked pegasus conceal his wing back in his cape, then she felt something drop from her head. She looked down and saw the inhibitor ring that was on her horn blocking her magic, was now on the floor sliced in two.

She looked up and saw the pegasus right in front of her, his eyes in full view, they were a blue color like the griffins but a much brighter sky blue. They looked at her with sincerity, and she felt comfort from them. He put his hoof on her shoulder and spoke to her in a soft and young male voice.

"Look, how ever we dealt with them doesn't matter, just know that they will never harm you or anyone else ever again.", she couldn't help but feel comfort by the kindness in his voice, it was like he was a mother putting their foal to sleep.

"Listen we've informed what's happening here to the equestrian royal guard, they're on their way right now. When that happens you can return home and go on with your life. Forget this night ever happened. Ok?"

How could he say that, despite how hard she'll try, she'll remember this night for as long as she lives, but despite that fact she nodded yes in answer to his question. He turned away from her and walked to the other 2.

"Phantom prep up the spell, we gotta go." He said to the unicorn.

"Yessir" He responded in a sarcastic tone. He spoke in an accent that she couldn't make out, she saw his horn start to glow a dark blue color, they both touched him as he prepped for what she realized was a teleportation spell. Feeling the need to say something she called out to them.

"Wait! I never got to say thank you!" The pegasus looked at her and she saw a small grin appear from the shadow of his hood.

"And you'll never need to." Was the last thing she heard him say before they teleported away vanishing, as Celestia's sun began to shine the horizon.