The Great Equestrian War

"Lightning Cloud", "Lightning Cloud", I started to faintly open my eyes and then reshut them to go back to sleep. "Lightning Cloud"! I fell off my bed and looked around to see Tasha at the foot of my bed. "H-h-how did you get in my house"? She looked nervous to say how but she finally said, "you left a window open and wern't exactly answering the door...". "Great now I know who to call when i need to break into some other ponies house". She looked at me with an angered face, "that's not what I was-". She changed the subject, "never mind if we don't hurry those recruits aren't going to have much training". I looked at my clock and seen what time it was, "we better get going" i said. "Any time now would be nice", Tasha was messing with me. "Ok Ms. Knight" I replied back to here, she started to mutter. "What was that"? I asked, She looked back at me "oh nothing". I'd heard what she said and it sounded like he's lucky he's cute.

We had just arrived in time because every pony was about to start taking armor off and to surprise find that Red Cross was going to help us out with the training mostly in the earth ponies. So we got right to the chase described a few things and went to work. To practice we all used wooden swords for protective reasons because I'm sure no pony wanted to be missing and limbs. The unicorns learned their fight drills in a matter of 4 hours, mostly because they didn't have to do much. The earth ponies were going to take longer then the unicorns so the unicorns were told to practice on each other for now.

It had been a couple of days and the earth ponies learned alot, I taught the earth ponies how to dodge the wound a griffons wing so they could fight them on the ground. Red Cross taught some things like better ways to defend themselves and if needed to save another pony.

Then words started being thrown around, and it almost started a little war between the unicorns and the earth ponies, because the unicorns said that they don't have limitations. Red Cross had had enough of this, " you cut the bull hocky, just because you have magic doesn't make you any better so how about one of you fight-". I cut in "let's have a practice fight, me and Red Cross vs you four", i was now pointing at the unicorns picking the fight," and I promise you I won't use magic". Red showed a little smirk, "those would be unfair odds" he said, "they would have their flanks handed to them in seconds". The four now looking angered to the extreme accepted the challenge in a heart beat. I seen Tasha zoom towards the pegasi training grounds no one was going to want to miss this fight.

Whe ended up going to this arena were some events and other events happened but nothing had happened here for months so no pony would have minded if we used it. I looked around and sure enough the word spread about this fight pretty fast, and the arena was almost filled of ponies in armor and there were some pegisi just watching from clouds. I scanned the clouds and sure enough found Shadow Moon, Rainbow Dash, and Tasha Knight were all sitting on a cloud watching from above. I was glad Shadow and Rainbow Dash were talking again, but that's not what I cared about the most, I cared about Tasha. She looked so beautiful and sweet on that cloud.

We were each given a wooden sword, me and Red Cross gripped ours in our mouths while the unicorns were surrounded by magic veils. An earth pony walked into the middle and kept glancing at both sides and prononced "gentlemen the fight will be until one of both parties is knocked out, are you all ready"? Red Cross nodded for both of us and the unicorns followed. The Earth pony slowly backed through a door and a cage gate followed him, then he used a megaphone and yelled "Fight"!

I droped my sword and Red nodded, we both wanted to find out how many he could take on. In a matter of seconds he managed to knock two of them off their feet, he glanced at me and smiled. Then one of the unicorns kicked him in the side and it sent him sliding across the floor. I expected Red to get up but he staggered and cried in pain, I ran up to him and seen 3 marks in his side that were pretty deep, I seen the blood and got angered. Before I could move one of them tried to attack, I side stepped and hit him with my right hind leg, sending him back the way he came. I turned to look at the unicorns, but they were no longer any pony.

Every pony was shocked, then one of the griffons that was disguised as a pony before, laughed and spoke "we finally me for real this time Lightning Cloud, but now you have to die". I didn't know what he meant, had we seen each other before? It didn't matter he was about to kill me so I have a choice but to fight. Shadow, Rainbow Dash and Tasha landed next to me, Shadow then threw me my sword and I caught it with my mouth mid air. "Tasha" I said, "go help Red with his wound until medics arrive". She nodded and rushed to Red Cross.

"Alright let's take one prisoner", Rainbow Dash said "that big one with the scar on his eye". I looked at the one she said, I knew it was there leader, but I looked closer and remembered his face. I staggered as my ears started ringing loudly and whinced in pain. My memories flooded through my head untill I remembered the attack as a child, it was the griffon who almost killed me but he grew and had a scar over his right eye. I got back up as one raced towards Rainbow Dash, she immediately dodges and rear kicked it. She didn't see the one coming right for her and I thought she was finished. But at the last second Shadow Moon tackled her to the ground away from the griffon. Shadow looked up "Tasha"! I looked where he was looking and seen what he was worried about, and I zoomed to Tasha.

The griffon with the scar was about to hit her, I jumped at him and decked him in the face. But he started his swing to, he was knocked out sure of it but his arm was still coming. His attack went full force into my side, and it sent me flying through the arena wall. I hit the ground and I rolled loosely over aand over until I stoped. My body screamed in agony, my head felt like it had a 10 weight trown on it. The last thing I seen was Tasha and some medics sprinting my way, then I blacked out.