The Angel with Black Wings

<> Black asked why 3, and the stallion kept talking <<I was at the left, wearing a grey uniform... At the right there was another stallion named “Cinder”, but you probably know him as “Philip”...In the middle, a white pony with a blue mane, and green eyes, wearing a black armor. Saint, the chieftain. Ah, we knew each other since we were colts. Never argued. We were ALWAYS together. We knew each other in a hot, boring summer. Hah, I still remember how your father used to laugh at my every single sentence. He was the little one, and Cinder wasn't really big, either. I was the "old" one... Three best friends, duelling a whole army. The battle was fast... You could hear metal sounds from kilometres. The fact is that we didn’t want to battle, especially Saint... It was worthless. Back to back, us three were trying to resist.

Saint was the best of us, he was an unicorn, so he could help a lot. But the fighting was about to end, already. After realizing that his whole company was smited, Saint dropped his weapon. I don’t know what kind of divine enchantment that was, but I saw a bright light from him, and then everypony did the same thing. Everypony stopped fighting. And don’t ask me how, but everypony was standing still again. Peace was restored, however, Saint paid with his own life. The two countries stopped fighting in that moment. We counted the fallen after the battle. Just one. Your father.>> Black was amazed from that tale. <<You probably never heard about this. You want to know something even weirder? The only ones who remembered about that battle, are me, Cinder, and the princesses. No one else.

That spell was so powerful that it required a life tribute to be used. We decided not to tell anypony about this. Except Sunbeam (Your mother), we used an excuse. You were born, and she left us right after. A wasted couple, if you ask me...How I miss them, you can’t even imagine. Anyway, how about you try out his stuff? I mean, you’re the same, except the colour. You were assigned to Andershoof, a young couple that didn't suspect anything. They were going to rise you until you were big enough to live by yourself, and that's what they did. I couldn't take you, it would have been too dangerous for you.>> Ironwind pointed at a black armor on the wall. A black and lucid armor, made by leggins, a diadem, and a chestplate with a red jewel on the front. In a corner there were wing protections too. He tried them on, and discovered that those things fitted him really well.

Then, Ironwind opened the jewelcase, taking out a long black and white sword. The hilt was decorated with an opaque white stone, the form was a “T”, shaped like wings, made by the black leathered handle and a decoration on the center of the loose silvered hilt, with two guarding arms shaped as wings going at the sides. The blade was long and shiny, even though a little heavy. A pretty heavy  alloy, but really strong and sharpened. He sheathed the sword in its scabbard, after putting it on his left flank. <> Black could fairly understand how much he missed his father. <> Black laughed a little <> Ironwind made him exit the room <>. The pony gave him a black, long cloak with red internal. It wasn’t really a cloak. It looked much more like a tall and long scarf from the neck: If he lowered his head, it would cover it up to half of his eyes, it was a cloak from the back though, he didn’t want to cover his tail, so he made it go down from his flank.

They went straight back to the tower, but now there were more guards and officials. The armor he had on himself made a pleasant noise at every step. The general took command, giving orders at everypony, except a very few of them. When there were only 5 ponies in the room, he started talking again. <> They stood there until the next day. Black had to sleep in a castle room because of a princess’ order.  It was rainy. He went straight to the tower right after waking up at 11:00, as he went to bed really late. Almost kicking the door, he surprised everypony inside.

The princess was there too. He was angry. <> Ironwind explained immediately. <> Black’s eyes lighted up.<> The princess got interrupted by Black. Never interrupt her in moments like this, but he couldn’t hold it anymore. <>. But he knew perfectly what was going on: they were just testing him. Everything was too strange, too obvious. He threw himself from the tower, flying to the place signed with the last red cross on the map he took with him. The princess was trying to stop him, but he didn’t care. The only thing he wanted to do was to save Stardust, and fight his consequences. He could risk exile, but he preferred this instead. And if it really was a test, it meant "I know what you're up to, let's get this over with"

The rain was disturbing his flight to the mountain, but the anger made him ignore being wet or the wind. He flew for a nice while, and the mountain got closer and closer. He landed heavily on the side, beginning the hike. He saw the entrance of a cave while flying around it. He was marching despite the splashing puddles or the soft verges. He was getting tired though. A small opening on the rock was inviting him for a quick rest. As he got him, his attention was catched by a puddle reflecting his face. He wasn’t a colt anymore. He didn’t even understand how a mare like Stardust would like a depressed pony like him. After a deep minute thinking about his life and his errors, he got out. The last tract of rock before the cave.

He drawn his weapon. It’s the crucial moment. He saw the dragon standing still, at the opened space in front of the entrance. The hostages were inside, he could hear their voices. He jerked to the beast with his sword held in his mouth. But the thing avoided him. They were one in front of the other. The dragon spitted some fire toward him, but Black avoided it by jumping in the sky. He knew the dragon wasn't really aggressive as he should be. He also saw somepony in the cave. He aimed for the dragon’s only weakness: his eyes. He peaked to his face, with raindrops cutting his face. As the blade touched his eyelid, everything around him was covered in a black veil.

He was back in the Obsidian Chamber again.