The Element of War

Sargent Fluttershy, reporting for duty. Alls clear on the eastern front. Western? Check. The sky starts to glow red like blood soaked rubies, meaning their strike will happen at any moment. I check behind me and count off my numbers. I count off a striking 1,004 ponies when I first start to feel the rumbling that is off in the far distance. Leading the astounding pack, is none other than Princess Celestia herself. At the beginning Princess Luna left her sisters side, risking herself to help the Elements. So now Celestia is forced to lead every attack.

I look over at the silver clad cyan pony who started this war. Her rainbow hair was grown out, swirling gracefully at her leg joints, and her bangs plunged down over her eyes. She is directing a young grey pegasus mare, who has the job of sporting the freedom flag. The new flag has 3 standing white ponies, each of a different race. They have no faces, and no cutie marks. The background is black with sparkling silver stars, and silver stitched moon rising above the three united ponies.

I now see the Equestrian flag rising above the horizon. Dashie calls out to Luna, who commands the pegasi to lead on the attack. We all make quick eye contact before the pegasi army charges forward. Next is the unicorns, who can help the more defenseless earth ponies. I don't want to be here of course. The bloody battle that is about to ensue. Seeing all the helpless ponies who are fighting for me and for Rainbow Dash. Oh, I can't bear to see it. But I have to help lead the army. And now I am standing up for myself and the rest of Equestria. It's what my friends would have wanted.

Its been almost four years since this bloody war has started for Equestrian freedom. The war broke out on March 14th. The Clash of the Pegasi happened in Cloudsdale. Celestia sent bombers to destroy the city, and to kill innocent ponies. She knew neither I nor Dash would be there, due to her wing removal plan she conducted only months before. Many died in the battle, including several alicorns. One of which was the generous Princess Cadence. Nopony truly knows what became of her. They saw her one second, and the next she was gone.

I then start hearing the first battle cries. They are coming from both sides of the field. I resist the urge to flap my wings by remembering that they are gone, and head out into the battle alongside the army. All of these mares and colts are my age and older. They have families at home, little foals and husbands and wives that are anxious to see their loved one again. Most of them won't be heading home this time around.

Cries of agony start to surround me. Decapitated ponies lay strewn about the half frozen ground. Their warm blood already finding its way into the already moist ground. I am merely there for support. I could never kill anypony, even if they hate me so much, that they try to kill me first. I dive under a beam of light that shoots my way. I notice a pony that is still alive. She has had her front hoof badly damaged, and a gash has brought her eye out of the socket. It is still hanging by a strong nerve. Blood oozes down her face, and over the first layer of blood lays a thick coating of dirt. Her pale purple fur is soaked through with blood and sweat. I place the broken pony on my back and run through the crowd. She needs help. She can survive this if she gets help now.

“Nurse Red-Heart! Q-quick! This pony needs urgent care!” I cry out as soon as I reach the already bursting tent. She looks at me quickly and points to the old water spout. Right, I have to clean her off. She is in shock the whole time I am cleaning her, not one word is uttered. The blood stopped running from her eye, but the damage on the hoof may not stop anytime soon. I clean off the hanging eye carefully, as to not scratch it at all. I push her back onto my back, and rush back into the room. Nurse Red-Heart takes the broken mare into the tent. I walk quickly to the water spout and steal a drink before going back into the ravenous battle.

I’m running towards a colt who has just fallen. His horn has been broken by a club, and it rendered him unconscious. I place the frail thing on my back hoping to get him to the tent lest a spell hits him too. I grabbed the bleeding horn fragment for extra measures, sometimes it can be placed back onto the body. But not always. I get halfway to the tent when something hits me and the colt.

“Where do you think you are going Fluttershy? We have some unfinished business to attend to from our last meeting,” The voice froze me in place. I quickly turn and duck, as she shoots a spell at me. Her horn was saved somehow from the time I kicked it off of her. Princess Celestia took a half step towards me, I glare at her threateningly. This causes her to burst into laughter.

“You think I am joking Celestia?” I snap at her, “Because I am not. This colt needs help, and nopony, I mean NOPONY is going to stop me!” I place him back on my shoulders and sprint across the battlefield, attempting to escape the furor that was the Princess of Equestria. I frantically look back every now and then only to see her slashing away at helpless ponies on the battlefield. This colt is not going to even survive the rest of this day because of my doing.

I get to the tent without the Princess directly behind me and place the poor thing on a cot before Red-Heart snaps at me for taking care of a pony without her knowing. I run out of the tent and back into the battle to find more injured ponies.

“Fluttershy! Stop helping the injured! You need to fight this time!” Yelled out Dashies voice behind me. She had gotten into the habit of covering her abdomin, lest somepony see her wingless sides. “This can’t.. go.. ON!!” she yelled out as she fought off a rather large brown coated colt.

“Oh but Rainbow...” I start saying

“NO!” she spits out, “I don’t want to hear it! Go.. Fight!” and she beat down the large pony. She wipes the sweat off her brow and glares at me, “Now Fluttershy,” and runs back off into the battle.