After about 5 minutes Silver was able to get his brain working enough to go after Fluttershy and try to protect her. He ran as fast as he could breathing heavily as the fight had taken its toll. He was coming upon the clearing and rushed through to get to her aide and saw an image that stayed with him to this day. She was bandaging Hotshot even as he threatened her life and nodded when she thought it appropriate trying to make him seem scary. They both looked at Silver and Hotshot took in a huge breath of air from fear and began to bleed once more from re-opened wounds on his chest.

Fluttershy looks over to him and Stares saying “Leave. Your scaring him” and quickly goes back to trying to stop the bleeding from Hotshot's chest as Silver turns around and hightails it out of there from the terror of the Stare. He has reached the cottage and stays there knowing that he will be berated if he goes back. He waits there and as night falls she is carrying Hotshot over her back and looks at Silver and huffs at him and goes into her cottage as Hotshot moans from the pain.

Silver just sits there thinking what any other person in his position would think “Why did she help him. He was going to kill her... He's in there now!” Starts to panic as he imagines what could be happening but a memory cuts through it like an ax through wood. He had hit him in spots that made him near paralyzed from pain. He calms down as he realizes this and sits there once again. Silver knows he can't go in there because Fluttershy will kick him out again and has a thought that stops him cold. Hotshot had friends in the area... He gets up hoping he can find them before they start to search for their missing friend and hurting anyone in their way. As Silver runs down the path back to town back in the cottage Hotshot has fallen asleep.

Fluttershy looks at Hotshot and sees not a killer but an injured pony in need and Silver as a monster who hurt him. But she also knows that he did it to protect her. She is conflicted as to what she should do but forgets it as Hotshot moans in pain and asks for some water. Fluttershy goes to get him some as Angel decides to hop into the room and looks at Hotshot. After a few seconds of looking at Hotshot he glares over at Fluttershy as if to say “Why did you let this guy in the cottage”? He goes and puts on a small army-like helmet and grabs a carrot and stands watch at the foot of Hotshot's cot. As he does this Fluttershy starts to truly realize what she has brought into her abode but regrets nothing as he needs her help. In a mere moment of thought she wonders what Silver is doing.

Silver ,as his twisted version of luck would have it, was trying to follow the two running away from him but the cut in his side was finally starting to get the better of him. He was slowing down as the two jeered at him. He was about to collapse when he thought of what they might do to this peaceful town if they got away. With that simple vision he put on a burst of speed that would make Rainbow Dash proud and caught up jumping and hitting them both in their ribs trying to make it harder for them to run. They both take the hit hard and slow down and come to a stop angry at what they think is a wuss who can't fight. One turns to the other and gets a nod saying through body language “You can have this one”

The colt who got the nod of approval steps forward as if to challenge him and merely asks “Are you stupid or something? I mean you can't win this fight. Even If I go down like a boss” snorting at the thought” my partner will just finish you like a fly to a newspaper.”

Silver smiles as he hears the brash talk of youth and replies with a calm anger “So this is the best they sent? I have been afraid of you people for so long and this team is the one the send after me? I have no words to describe the anger I feel from knowing you people were the ones who killed my friends”.

Silver simply pulls out one sword looking at the dark blue coated colt and says simply “This is all I will need”.

The colt laughs as he pulls two daggers and runs at Silver thinking this is an easy win but stops as he realizes Silver is gone from in front of him.

From behind him he hears Silver say “Guidance of the Wind” as he hears a chink of the sword being sheathed and feels an indescribable pain from his chest and drops his daggers clutching himself trying to stop the pain, not able to speak.

Silver walks closer to the mare hidden by the darkness of her coat and says to her “So are you wise enough to leave and never return”?

The mare chuckles as she looks at him and his cut bleeding once more and purrs in assured tone “I am wise enough to see a person weakened and know to hit hard.”

As Silver is just finding out her meaning she strikes. Using her hooves she hits him in the side with the cut opening it further and then spins, almost pirouetting it seems, and whips her other hoof to the opposite side breaking some ribs as Silver stumbles from the sudden onslaught. She continues to pummel cackling like a witch as her eyes are alight with glee. Silver ins kneeling on the ground trying to withstand the blows and finally lashes out with his hoof getting a lucky shot in as she back ups getting hit in the same spot.

She watches him warily thinking he is like a cornered animal with the pain and confusion he is going through. Silver finally gets up and lets the pain ride free but concentrates and pulls 2 swords out as she gets into a lithe-looking stance and waves him over taunting him. Trying to make him angry and have him slip up. However the pain has the opposite effect, making him think clearer and smarter. He looks at her with nary a shred of mercy in his eyes and simply walks towards her with his hooves at his side holding his swords down.

She stays where she is wondering what he can do with his swords at his side and as he gets into range throws a punch heading for his face. Silver dodges to the left and swings both sword low while quietly saying in a voice soaked with pain “Felling of the tree” and walks on past her as she falls to the ground crying out in pain as both of her legs have severed tendons. He walks back to her and wipes his swords clean of blood on her cloak and says “ If I ever see either of you again. I will not hold back next time. Now leave this town. With that he walks away making it to Fluttershy's cottage before he collapses from pain and blood loss.

Author's Note

Hope you all enjoy this chapter. Thanks for reading