A/N: this is the beginning of the climax! Hope you like the action and suspense! I don’t want to keep you waiting, on with the chapter!

I flew through the air and landed in Ponyville Square. Sure enough the griffons were all there waiting for me to show up. I hate you pigeons with all of my homo. You are trying to hurt my family….and I don’t like that kind of thing. I saw Rainbow Dash and Stratus standing on a small stage. “I’m here, now let them go”

Gilda stepped forward “Aww, look Dashie, he shown up just like I said to help you!” She turned to me and smiled “I will let them go, but you have to come up here so we can begin.”

“No, we meet halfway then. I come up there and let them go and then we can get this over with. How does that sound?” I said in a melancholy tone. HATRED FILLS MY VEINS!!!

“Come on up then!” Gilda said smiling.

I walked over and climbed the stairs that led up to her and my family. I walked over and without a word unhooked the bracelets that were around their legs. They both hugged me and I had to fight to keep a hold of myself. I feel so loved, damn you karma for having a good thing happen right in the middle of a horrible one!

Rainbow Dash was openly crying into my shoulder “W-why did you *hic* come out here!?”

Stratus was talking it better than her “Dad?”

I nodded at him “Strat, you have to take care of mom for a little while ok? Everything will be ok though, I promise” I said to him with a smile. He has to be the man for a little while.....god that sounds to cliche!

“Ok dad” was all my son responded.

I pulled away from them and Dash took off with Stratus away from the stand. I am a monster; I drove them away to protect them! What have I become! I stood up and looked at her with a stone hard expression “Ok, let’s get this over with”

“Ah ah ah, that is not what a PUBLIC execution is. Ring the bell to call the town together” Gilda said to a griffon. The griffon flew over to the bell tower and hit the bell with his claw.

I watched as the town gathered around the stand slowly and I held firm. Geez, I feel like one of the witches from Salem! After about five minutes of waiting everypony was gathered around the stand looing with wide eyes at what was happening.

“Citizens of Ponyville, we do not mean to intrude into your province, but we had to come and put this THING back in its place. He has been placed as a major threat by the Grydon high order and we have come to finish what they wanted done in Grydon. He is sentenced to immediate death and you all have to watch as your so called defender gets put in his place” Gilda said as she held my arm with one of her claws ad shook me.

“Fuck you Gilda, neither you nor your precious high order know what you are talking about!” I said to her through clenched teeth. All of my hatred belong to you!

“I am a little disappointed in you all though; surely there was not one of you that wanted to get rid of such an abomination from your town? Pity that the 3000 bits have to go to waste now” Gilda said as she held up a large bag full of bits.

"Hold on, I want those bits. I for one hate that freak and I want to end his life myself right here!” Twilight’s voice rang out from the silent crowd.

Way to lay it on thick Twilight. I just might shed a man tear, that hurt a little. I saw Twilight walk up to the stage despite the disgusted looks from the other ponies and glare at me. She plays a good mean pony that wants to kill me, I feel like she really wants to!

“What? You are saying that you want to do the public execution? Why should I let you do it?” Gilda said to Twilight.

“Because I hate him! I want nothing more than to shoot him with the most powerful spell I know. And I was going to go get him for you, but you had to go and kidnap to do that, I knew where he lived! Let me kill that thing and then you can go home and tell your high order that you did your job” Twilight said sternly.

My god, she sounds serious! I commend her for making it look so believable, but at the same time I am trying not to shed not so manly tears. “Go ahead and shoot me, shoot me with all you’ve got!” I said to her with a wink.

“Fine, I will give you the privilege of ending this abominations life. And after you do it I will even give you the bits for the bounty before we leave, come on up here” Gilda said as she motioned for Twilight to come onto the stage.

Twilight walked up to where Gilda was and looked at me. “I hope you are ready to die” she said before she began to charge up her horn. I can’t believe I am doing this! Everypony must hate me now because I am killing a close friend to everypony, not to mention the defender! She finished charging the spell and looked at me once more, a single tear rolled down her cheek.

Rainbow Dash was holding Stratus at the back of the crowd and she was watching everything happen. She saw Twilight shoot the bolt of magic right at him. She started to cry again as the bolt connected with him and he screamed and fell to the ground. He will be ok; he said he was going to be ok!

Stratus hugged his mom and she nuzzled into him while she cried. “Dad will be ok, I know he will. Twilight will help him, you know that” he said as she wept into him.

“I know, but what is going to happen to him? The spell wasn’t used properly; something is going to go wrong I know it!” Rainbow Dash said before choking up again.

“Don’t worry, Dad will be ok” Stratus said trying to comfort her.

Twilight was looking at Kyle’s body on the ground unmoving. She watched as Gilda walked over and checked to see if he was still breathing. She smiled and took out the bag and placed it next to her. “There, he is dead, can you go home now?” Twilight said to Gilda curtly.

“Yes, you did a good thing, the others in this town may not know that, but you did the right thing” Gilda said before she motioned for the other griffons to leave. They all took off and left the town and Twilight to go over what has just been done.
Twilight turned to face the crowd “Citizens of Ponyville, I never killed Kyle, he is still alive, it was all a plan to get rid of the griffons for good. He will wake up hopefully in 15 minutes. You may all go and resume your daily activities.”

All of the ponies left except for Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Stratus, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy. Twilight looked down at Kyle’s unmoving body once more and the others soon were around her. “I hated myself when I did this, now he is going to have something happen to him, and he might not wake up.”

“You did what you had to do darling, we all know that if something does happen you will find out a way to fix it” Rarity said as she patted Twilight on the back.

“Come on, let’s go back to the library where we can wait in peace” Twilight said before she teleported all of them to the library to wait for their friend to hopefully wake up.

A/N: I hope you liked the chapter! This was just the first part of the climax; the next chapter will be the second part of the climax. I am done updating for the day and I will update again tomorrow. See you soon!

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