Blood Of The Righteous

Chapter One

Sitting across from one another in complete darkness, Dark Shift could not make out even the pony beside him. At least, he assumed there was a pony sitting beside him, for he had never once actually met the other Quartermasters. Same was to be said for everypony else in the room. Here they sat, for almost an hour, before somepony to Dark’s right asked, “How many are here?” The room was silent until a guard to Dark’s left said in a commanding voice, “Five sir. No more, no less.” “Good so that means we are all here. I am Night Storm,” said the pony to Dark’s right we now know as Night Storm. Upon hearing Night’s voice, Dark started trying to picture what Night might look like. A loud, booming voice then sounded from across the room, snapping Dark out his trance, demanding that the lights be turned on. Upon receiving permission from Night, a guard somewhere behind Dark turned around and flipped the light switch. Everypony in the room started rubbing their eyes due to their prolonged time in the darkness, except Night. Upon being able to open his eyes, Dark realized he was sitting at a rectangular table with a pony who undoubtedly had to be Night. But instead of the large pony Dark expected, he saw at the end of the table a medium size pegasi with a short black mane, and a slightly tan coat. Dark then took to scanning the rest of the table, noting that at the on the other end of the table there was another medium sized pegasi, with a red coat, and yellow mane that had blue streaks running through it. But, not the nice red. Not the red that makes you want to get close to it like Rainbow Dash red. No, this was dark red, an evil red. This red took the color of blood and mixed it with darkness. While Dark was pondering what this pony’s name might be, another voice spoke from right across from Dark stating, “Well, if we are doing introductions I am Eternal Sunset.” This unicorn had an orange mixed with red mane and dark blue coat. Then there was Eve Rain, an earthpony, with a green coat and a blue mane. Then finally, there was Electric Blood, the pegasi we described earlier, who sat on the left end of the table.

Each one sat in silence, not knowing who should talk first, and not wanting to know who should talk first. Eventually, Night said, “Well, I assume you all remember our purpose and why we are here.” Now Dark was truly confused. He knew what each goal of everypony here was, but he still did not understand why they had to meet in person to discuss these matters. Dark then began to ponder what might happen if he asked and upon deciding his question might annoy Night, Dark just forgot it. While Dark sat and listened to Night speak about how their goal was always the same. Their goal was and always will be to rid Equestria of any who opposed them, and to take control of Equestria itself. With this explanation finished Night simply looked over them all, stood up, and said, “This is enough for tonight, everyone return home we will meet again tomorrow.” With that Night stood up, walked towards the door, and looked back, and upon noting that nopony was standing he said with a slight amount of annoyance, “Well are we going to go or not?” Following his command everypony got up, walked out the door, and started their trek back to their respective houses. Starting his fly home, Dark thought to himself “Why did Night say we need to meet again tomorrow? And why couldn’t we just keep communicating through phones?” Pondering this thought, Dark continued to fly forward. He was suddenly knocked out of his thoughts when a grey coated, blonde maned mare suddenly started to fly right towards him. Upon realizing it was too late he ran into the mare. But it doesn’t seem to delay the mare and she simply says she is sorry and starts flying again leaving the now curious but annoyed Dark to ponder what just happened.