A Day after the attack of Canterlot

We’d been flying for eight hours straight we need to take a break or one of us could literally die of exhaustion. The Special Griffon unit designated for our extraction was beginning to rest and recon the area. “Jason” Zeke called, “I’m sorry about what happened inside, I-”. “Zeke! You are lucky I do not kill you know, Jason had Lightning Cloud, he could of ended him there”! I noticed the anger in Zeke’s eyes, “He could have ended up like Dirk, is that what you want to see another one of your friends die”! Zachery turned and started to walk away, “he knew what he signed up for”. I looked at Zeke, “come one man, let’s go for a walk”.

We walked a little ways away from the camp the others had set up for a rest; I turned to Zeke and tried to say something but nothing would have helped. “Jason?” he said, “why is he so heartless, can’t he even see what’s happening? His friends dying and he doesn’t even care”. I couldn’t answer; I couldn’t even hide the fact he was turning into a monster. “When Zachary became king, how did it really happen”? I was supposed to keep it a secret but if I did I would be no better than Zachary. “Sit down Zeke this is going to take us awhile”.

Two weeks before letter from Princess Celestia was sent to Griffon Empire

As we ran into the throne room the doors hit the wall with a loud crack, everyone now knew Zachary and I were now here. “Father, Reports of hostility against our soldiers has happened last night, one of them appears to have a hoof mark on them, we need to strike at the ponies now”! King Listo looked at Zachary and grinned “Son you are too eager for fight, you must calm yourself, you are not sure if it was even an equestrian army”. King Listo then looked to me, “and Jason, my how you have grown, I miss your company”. He treated me like a son, then again he always treated Zeke the same way too. “It’s nice to see you again too, Sir”. I got a smile back from the king, and as Zeke came through the door he was also greeted. “Father” Zachary argued, “You’re not getting the point, this is an attack against our people”! “Enough”! He exclaimed, “There is no need for war when things can be solved diplomatically, you are dismissed”! Zachary gave a look of disgust, “Yes sir”, and then we followed him out of the room.

Zachary muttered to himself out of anger, while Zeke and I stood behind. I tried for a diplomatic approach, “Zachary your fathers right, it can be solved that way”. “You don’t understand, but Jason your coming with me with a guard force tonight”. I gave him a discouraged look, “your father isn’t gonna like this”.

We met up with the squad in the forest and we continued their normal route. The soldiers talked amongst themselves while Zachary and I followed the captain at the lead of the formation. “Hold” the captain said, “Something’s not right, every one circle formation”. He pointed to a tree for Zachary and I to hide behind, I was scarred so I hid. The guards faced some bushes that shook, then observed the tree tops as leaves moved then fell to the ground. “Okay that is enough of this I-”, a splatter of blood painted a nearby tree next to us, the captain fell to the ground and twitched then gave his last breath. The other guards began shouting, I couldn’t comprehend what I had just seen, I couldn’t see an enemy or projectile, what the hell killed him. Two more guards fell within seconds leaving five more guards, they turned to see their enemy and I saw what it was. A brown pegasus with red eyes, and a burgundy mane, she had syringe holsters on her vest, they had symbols of Equestria on them. She quickly slaughtered two more guards but then toppled over herself, her eyes turned from red to green and her speed went down twice then what she was just going. She quickly injected herself with another syringe and her eyes reverted from green back to red. The three guards stood no chance, one was thrown against the tree we were behind, the other killed instantly. “What are you” the soldier said as coughed up some blood, “Y-you’re a monst-”. A knife found his chest, then the pony dashed off. Zachary emerged from his spot, I stood still, shocked in fear. “What do we do Zachary!? Whatever that was killed all of them, What do we do”!? “Shut up and grab their tags Jason, We have to report this”!

Present day

“Jason what happened to Listo”? I looked to the starry sky then back to Zeke, “you know the first part about the uprising, when Zachary wanted to attack but his father turned away. All hell broke loose and Zachary deemed him a traitor, he reported him executed, but he’s actually been put in the worst of the worst prison”. Zeke gave me a puzzled look, “I’m going to guess he was put in the one room that’s got all those guards we seen last time we went through there”. I looked at him “yeah all those guys there must hate their job, having to stand in one place all day”. A smile came to Zeke’s face “yeah I know what you mean”.

A soldier came and told us the others had started heading to the castle, Zeke wasn’t ready to go yet so I told the soldier to stay with him for the time being. The soldier gave to argue and stood guard while I flew off.

I woke up in my room inside the castle and was immediately called to Zachary. I poured myself a cup of coffee from the kettle on we were using. “Jason they broke him out last night, Listo”. I coughed as I swallowed wrong. “They took him out the back way which triggered the explosive trap, he’s most likely dead”. I sighed in relief which was a mask for my grief, I never wanted this war to happen but at the same time there was really no choice. “I thought I should bring this to your attention, Jason” Zachary said, “The rebels are getting smarter and this war isn’t helping, so were going to move to the Crystal Empire, now that it’s ours, we have the castle and base prepared. We can’t have our castle demolished”. I looked into my coffee, wondering if any of this was going to change.

Author's Note

I know it's not much, but this is what I could make up to start it. I thought it was good but tell me what you guys think, Thanks. ^-^