Bright Haze: The Sky Dwellers

The group looked on at the flying city and stood still. Everypony was silent and Spectra looked on in hatred. I was scared, this was it, the fate of Equestria lay in our hooves.

"This is it." I muttered, everypony nodded.

"Should we go now or wait til morning?" Heart Breaker said, I noticed that Heart Breaker and Spectra had the same accent so I wasn't confused at how either sounded anymore. I thought for a moment. Then had the answer.

"We are all tired so I will go into the city now and see if there is an inn or something, if I'm not back in an hour, come look for me." I said.

"No, we are all coming." Nick argued, Aeb and Spectra nodded. Heart Breaker looked happy enough to just sleep here.

"Fine. Lets do this, probably easier to bring Heart Breaker in during night so it doesn't look so odd." I said. Heart Breaker put a hoof up to where his horn would be.

"Ha. Not that I could ever use it but I miss the thing." He laughed, I rolled my eyes and flow above him, Aeb and Spectra did as well.

"Ready, on three." I said, holding Heart Breaker, Nick jumped on his back and held on to one of the straps in his armour.

"I am that heavy am I?" The Alicorn asked. I smiled.

"Fuck off." I joked. We all lifted him and began to fly toward the city, Heart Breaker, despite being a much bigger build than myself, or any of us was incredibly light. We flow up and forward looking for an entrance and landed just outside the open gates. We trotted in and saw the sight of the city. Torches were everywhere, lighting the whole place up, buildings sat everywhere, made of wood or cloud. There was a castle to the far side of the city and was sitting on its own cloud just above the city. We walked in a line slowly through the city, armed ponies stood guard nearly everywhere we went, we had no idea where an inn was so i decided to ask.

"Excuse me, soldier, we have returned from Equestria and would like to stay at the inn, where is it?" I asked, in a deeper voice than normal, this was such a bad idea. The Dweller did some weird hoof movement that I presumed was a salute.

"General Fly Storm sir!" The Sky Dweller said, shit, i was in a generals armour apparently, they all looked the same though.

"The inn is three blocks that way. sir." The Dweller said, pointing a hoof.

"Thank you. Also I shall be seeing the king tomorrow, be sure to tell him I will come by." I replied and we walked off.

"How do you suppose we pay for this inn Haze?" Aeb asked me. Shit. I gave a fake smile like I had everything planned.

We walked to the point the soldier had said about and saw a big wooden building lit up with torches and glow bugs. We all trotted in. Everypony inside was, just a normal Pegasus group, everyone of them were Pegasi in normal clothes, or none at all. They all stopped and stared at us. I smiled and walked to the bar.

"We need four rooms. Now." I ordered. The innmeeper looked shocked.

"Twenty bits." Ah, so they do use Equestrian money. Everypony was still looking at us. This was going to be fun. I handed over a coin bag and saw Heart Breaker facehoof himself.

"Funny, we don't use Equestrian money here." The innkeeper said, slowly, fuck they knew.

"Well then, better not be caught with that or we will be telling the king about that tomorrow. So, again, we need four rooms. Where are they?" Aeb said, saving us all. He aimed his spear down and everypony was silent. I readied myself for a fight.

"I only have one room left, with four beds though." The innkeeper said slowly. I nodded and let him show us the way.

Once inside we took of our armour and weapons.

"Thank Celestia for that, Aeb you saved us all." I said. Heart Breaker gave me a dirty look.

"Okay, I admit, I had no plan." I said, everypony was quiet and then after a moment we all laughed.

"So who is on guard duty first?" Heart Breaker said after a time. Yes, we may have escaped the inn downstairs but I was convinced they knew we weren't real Sky Dwellers. I raised my hand.

"I'll go. You lot rest." I said, Aeb shook his head.

"No, you need the most rest Haze. You are the one fighting the bastard." Aeb said. I nodded my thanks.

"Fine, wake me up next though." I said, and we all went off to sleep, except Aeb.

The next morning I woke up, everypony was awake and putting armour on. I was pissed.

"You didn't wake me." I said.

"You need rest Bright Haze, you aren't fighting a soldier today, this is the king." Aeb replied, I will admit, I had a good sleep. Spectra was on the other side of the room and hadn't said a word since we got here. Nick had been pretty quiet to, but I suppose he had too be.

"Fine. Let's just end this fucking war already." I said, everypony nodded and we set out.

The castle was huge, attached to the rest of the city by a single bridge. We trotted toward it and the guards stopped us with spears.

"I have an audience with the king." I said. They nodded and let us pass through. The king was in real gold armour and had a spear made of light wood and silvery metal. He looked old, but I still knew it would be a brutal fight. I trotted toward him, counting the guards, eight.

"Ah, general." The king said, his voice was deep and cold. I nodded.

"Do you not bow before your king?" He asked, I pulled off the helmet and aimed my spear at him, I heard everypony else ready themselves for battle.

"I only bow to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, and in some cases, Derpy!" I shouted. "I request and one on one duel!" I added, the king was shocked, then laughed.

"I accept." He said. "What are the terms?" He asked.

"If I win, peace. If you win.-" I gulped. "Execution to all those present." I muttered, the king laughed.

"To the death then." He said and stood up, beckoning the guards away, I did as well to my friends.

"One more thing." I said. He tilted his head at me.

"What?" He grumbled.

"Sign the peace treaty now." I replied, he nodded.

"Fine. You. Bring me a parchment." He ordered a soldier, he ran off and came back moments later with pen and paper.

"I, King Savorous, declare that the Sky Dwellers be at peace with all the realms of Equestria, and from this day onwards, the war is over." He said, the soldier wrote it all down.

"Good, now we can begin." I muttered, he prepared himself, as did I.

"However, you keep any title you kill." He added and charged at me. Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck Fuck! I side stepped the first attack and blocked his spear attack with my own. He growled at me and stabbed out, I jumped up out of reach, he flapped his armoured wings and he began to fly, I did the same and kept blocking a dodging the attacks.

"Fight me!" He growled, I was thankful he was a violent fighter, meaning all I had to do was wear him out.

"I am." I replied, laughing. He stabbed out again like a torpedo, straight at me, I dodged again but the spear caught me on my side and I cried out in pain as I was hit. Blood began to drip down onto the floor. I spun around blocking attack after attack, I managed to get one hit on the king but it just gave him more rage and he flow violently around, he stabbed at me and I cried out again, blood was falling all around me and my whole body ached, below everypony was silent. I thought of Derpy as I took another hit.

Okay, wearing him out wasn't working, but I had another idea. He charged me once more and I blocked the spear away, then spun, stabbing out with my own. I heard a groan and opened my eyes.

The king had a spear tip through his head and I had won. Peace.