The Tale of Silent Chargeby Setlef a.k.a Silent Charger
Chapters
Prologue
This is just a prolog to introduce the world that the story with take place in and a few of the main characters as well as the writing style. Basically, i just want to see if i were to write a full fic, if people would really like it that much.
and with that
we begin...
The day was nearly over, the sun was setting, it had been a good day, It had been a quiet day, and everything had gone smoothly
One could almost forget that there was a war raging.
“It couldn’t really be happening now could It?” thought Watchful Sky.
“Of course it could, you have seen the destruction that they have caused first hand.”
And he had, he saw with his own two eyes as his home in the clouds was slowly melted by the heat of the griffins fires. He had seen the pure havoc that they were capable of.
“wait… what am I doing, I need to report back to the watchtower. Crap, General Charge will have my flank mounted a wall this time for sure.”
With that Watchful Skys bolted back to his least favorite place in the world… his job.
As he came into the clearing however, something seemed out of place, something was missing. But what?
The mountain was there, the ground was there, his favorite resting tree was still where it was this morning. The only thing
missing was…
“Oh… Oh dear God… the Watchtower. Where is it. What could have happened, I was only gone for a few hours.”
Where outpost #5, also known as the watchtower, had stood for nearly 300 years, where it stood, perfectly intact that very
morning, there was nothing but smoldering wooden beams, and crumpled stone walls.
“Wha… What happened here…”
“Where… is everyone…”
“Rocker... Champ…r..Runner?”
“WHERE IS EVERYPONY”
Suddenly, there was a flicker of movement in the corner of his eye, something big.
“Who’s There… SHOW YOURSELF!!”
“I’m WARNING YOU” yelled Watchful Skys, who was on the verge of tears out of sheer terror as he drew his sword.
He had seen the griffins do horrible, impossible things. He had seen their speed and experienced their capacity for evil first hand.
As the number of shadows grew in numbers, he realized he was in for a fight. When the griffins began to step out of the shadows, he realized that he was in for the fight of his life. When he recognized the royal crests on their bloodstained armor, he understood that this would be the last fight of his life.
“No… this can’t… how did you…”
Shaking, Watchful Skys began to go into shock from the several realities that hit him in one moment, the magnificent Equestrian fortress that was the Watchtower was destroyed, it had fell in a matter of hours, most of his friends were probably… no … definitely dead, the griffins never took prisoners, he was probably the only living pony for miles, and the reason for all of this was bearing down on him.
The griffin who appeared to be the leader of the group, a massive griffin clad in solid gold armor, stained scarlet from the blood of, presumably, any of those who were foolish enough to challenge him, stepped forward.
Watchful Skys, broke, he dropped his sword, he was curled up in a shaking ball, sobs began to escape him as he hid his head from the griffin approaching him.
The griffin then spoke in a voice so toxic it could have wilted flowers form the very sound of it.
“if… it is any consolation,” he paused revealing an evil smile “you are one of the smarter ponies I have met, you accept your fate as opposed to uselessly fighting it.”
With that he raised his claw, a claw that glistened bright red in the sunlight.
Watchful Skys, accepting his fate as the griffin said, waited in silence for the finishing blow…
A blow that never came…
Instead of feeling the cold embrace of death, he felt a hard *thump* as if a small mountain had just fallen from the skies. Instead of hearing the *swoosh* of the leaders claw through the air, he heard a series of crunching and poundings, followed by grunts and moans, and finally he heard a sickening *crack*.
Confused, and terrified Watchful Skys lifted his head to see a monster of a bat-winged pegasus, holding the griffin leader in one hand. He had clearly broken the leaders arm as it was twisted and stuck out at an odd angle, and was holding him about a foot off the ground staring him directly into the eyes with a malic that rivaled no other.
After a few moments the mystery pegasus tossed the leader aside as if he was a ragdoll, who Watchful Skys was now sure was dead, and began to approach slowly.
Watchful Skys then began to take in his surroundings, the once imposing group of griffins now laid dead around him, they had been royal legionaries of the army, every last one of them. And the pegasus who approached him had batwings and was of a scale that Queen Faust herself would have marveled at. There was only one stallion in all of equestrian that fit that description.
“Is… is that General Charger… sir?”
“My my… who do we have here?” The stallion said in a voice that was not evil as his appearance would suggest, buy deep
and wise if not a bit gruff.
“Watchful Skys sir… That is.. 2nd Lt Watchful Skys Sir” said Watchful as he brought his hoof up at attention.
“At ease soldier… let’s get you home, you look like shit….oh and we have been through, a lot today, you can call me by my name… call me Darkened.”
“Yes Sir… I mean yes Darkened… sir”
“close enough, now lets go before more of flopsy here’s friends get here.” General Charger said as he nudged the Griffin leader.
As they flew home, Darkened, thought of what had just happened, and how this war was about to come a lot closer to home than he had ever expected. The griffins were never supposed to get that close to the center of the kingdom.
His thoughts then drifted to his family and what this meant for them.
He would do everything and anything in his power, and then some to keep his son out of this war.
About Three hours later Darkened Charger landed softly in front of his house only to be tackled to the ground by the only person he knew could accomplish such a thing… His son
“Hey Silent… have I got a story for you…”
Loony
“Whoa dad that’s AWSOME” said the young Silent Charger as his father finished telling him what had transpired earlier that day.
He was a large colt, larger than any colt probably should be, he was just out of flight school and he was already taller than most fully grown stallions. He had a large build much like his father, he was tall muscular and had a wingspan to rival that of an Alicorn. But unlike his father, who like his name suggested was jet black, Silent was spotted with white, a gift from his mother, Pure Striker, the most noticeable discoloration was of his bat like wings, which were white as snow.
He was jumping up and down, so exited from his father’s tale of battle and victory he nearly couldn’t contain himself.
“So what did Queen Faust say about it… was she… angry?” said Silent when he realized that the base being destroyed was a major loss to the equestrian army.
“Actually,” said Darkened with a growing smile, “I had hoped you would come with me to tell her, plus while you’re there you could visit-“
“LOONY!!” Interrupted silent as he jumped into the air grinning like mad at the prospect of seeing his oldest and greatest friend.
“Yes yes, you can see Luna as well.” Darkened chuckled, he had always loved the fact that his son and princess Luna had become such good friends.
Because of Silent Charges huge stature and his somewhat fearful appearance, he had never been able to make many friends. And because of Princess Luna’s place in society, as one of the possible heirs to the throne she had never been even given the chance to make friends as she spent much of her young life in the confines of the castle.
But One day, when they were both around six years old, Darkened was on a trip to the castle to meet with Queen Fost, silent suddenly was nowhere to be found, around the same time he noticed that his own son was not at his side Princess Celestia burst into the room saying that she had looked away for one moment and the next thing she knew her sister was gone!
After several hours of frantic searching, and for some reason an impromptu musical number (you never really know when one of those is going to happen), The three found them in the royal garden trying to catch butterflies. Darkened and Queen
Faust had always wondered how their unlikely friendship had started…
About six years ago…
Silent Charger was board. Very, VERY, board. He had been forced to come along with his Dad for some sort of business thing.
He didn’t quite understand why he needed to come, his Dad said that it was because his mother was away and he couldn’t stay at the house. But he didn’t think that was very fair, he was responsible, he was a whole eight years old for Fausts sake!
Well, he would be in a few weeks anyway.
But still, his Dad could have just hired a babysitter to spare him the torture of being “acquainted with the royal family” or whatever that meant.
He had already met the Queen, who was just as tall as his Dad, which Silent though was cool. But he didn’t think it was very fair that she got to have wings AND a horn. But after that excitement had lost its touch, he was now hopelessly, amazingly, stupendously, BOARD.
So he did what any seven year old pony would do, he went exploring.
He wandered all over the castle, it was so COOL.
Especially the story windows, he like those the most. There were so many of them each with stories about great ponies and their service to the kingdom. But he especially liked the ones about the old battles for Equestria. He was amazed by the detail of the stain glass windows; you could make out every individual pony, griffin and even the giant dragon that had once tried to eat the castle he was standing in that very moment!
But his very favorite one was of a story he already knew very well. In it was a massive dark pony standing on the top of a mountain with Princess Celestia on his back, his foes, and all those that had stood between him and the young Celestia laid broken around him, His bat like wings stretched out for all to see.
It was his own father, and he could not be more proud.
“That’s… my Dad” Silent said to no one in particular bursting with pride, “That awesome pony is MY DAD… SO AWSOME!!”
“And that’s my sister!” said a small voice behind him.
“AAAAAAHHHH…” Silent jumped into the air in surprise letting loose a squeal that was quite unbecoming of a colt.
“AAAAAAHHHH…” said the little blue filly jumping into the air copying Silent.
Silent, who was now no longer shocked by the blue filly and her sudden appearance then did the one thing that seven year olds excel at, he said the first thing that popped into his head.
“Hi my name is Silent Charger, what’s yours!?!”
“I’m Luna, did you say that that Pony there is your Dad?”
“Yup, he sure is!” said Silent brimming with pride.
“That is sooooooooo cool, my sister has told me about when she was kidnapped once when she was tucking me in. Is it true that he fought off three hundred wolves all by himself?” Asked Luna
“I think he said it was more like four hundred” replied Silent
“Whoaaaa”
“I know right”
They then both sat down and looked at the window for a few minutes.
“So… do you want to see something really cool?” Asked Luna
“Not really, I like looking at the windows.” Silent responded
“Too bad!” giggled Luna as a faint blue aura enveloped both her horn and Silent.
The next five minutes consisted of Silent franticly flapping his wings while Luna ran through the halls with the panicked pony being dragged along behind her. But after a while Silent realized how much fun this whole experience was! So instead of yelling for her to let him go he said
“Hey Luna Can you stop for a second?”
“YUP!” chimed the young princess stopping on a dime and releasing Silent from her magic grasp… whose momentum then carried him directly into a pile of books left outside the library they had stopped by.
“Silent!” Luna said as she ran over to the pile of books, “are you alright?”
With that, Silent exploded form the mound of books and swooped underneath the princess saying “Point the way Princess LOONY”
The laughing princess then pointed down the hall and yelled with her best impersonation of a war cry “Onward Sir Charge”
After about a half an hour, the two furiously laughing ponies found themselves in the royal garden surrounded by all manner of creatures.
“Look” Luna said in awe as a giant butterfly rose from a nearby bush and began to fly away.
“Wow…” said an amazed Silent as he stared at the giant insect.
“Lets Catch it!” they both yelled in unison.
After about an hour of trying to catch the butterfly with no avail, three ponies burst into the garden, it was Darkened, Princess Celestia and Queen Faust, and they did not look very happy.
While the two ponies sat in the middle of the garden being chastised for running off without telling anyone where they were going Silent leaned over to Luna and softly whispered, “psssst, Loony”
“What?” responded the princess in a hushed voice
“Do you want to best friends?” asked Silent.
Luna then gave him a very confused look before cheerfully responding, “I thought we already were!”
The two foals then broke a fit of laughter that was so infectious that even the Queen and Darkened had to join in.
Scandal part 1
Ok so this is the first chapter that isn’t released at like 1 in the morning, hopefully we will have a bit more luck with it this time around….
Silent was so excited he was about to burst. He hadn’t seen Luna in nearly a year!
Ever since the war had started neither Silent nor Luna were allowed to leave their homes much, after all these were dangerous times for any pony. But being either the son of one of the most decorated heros/generals in all of equestrian history or one of the possible heirs to the throne meant that you had to be especially careful.
It used to be so easy to see one and other, even though magic school took precedence for an Alicorn she did still have to go
to flight school, and when she did they got to sit next to each other in class!
He wondered how she was handling all of the stress from the war, in the past, the king would always be at the front lines, and the power of an Alicorn was unstoppable in battle. Silent sometimes wondered if even his own father could have stood up to a power akin to that of the Alicorn kings of old.
“But surely Loony would not be put on the front lines, she is so gentle and nice.” Thought Silent
“Oh no, Silent you don’t have to worry about your girlfriend being sent off to battle.” Teased Darkened
“DAAAAD, I thought I told you to stop reading my mind, I don’t care if “it’s the pride and power of the Leather wing tribe” it still
creeps me out… and she is not my girlfriend!!!” yelled Silent.
Darkened then proceeded to fly backwards and upside down in front of Silent singing mockingly “Silent and Luna siting in in a tree K-I-S”—
*WHAM*
Silent burst forward and tackled his dad through a set of iron bound doors, the father and son then wrestled together to and fro, down the hall, across the room, and into a much larger room.
“Ha, you’ve got a long time coming until you will ever beat your old man!” said Darkened triumphantly as he finally managed to pin his son to the floor.
“Ehem..” said a voice that sounded as though it was trying to keep a straight face.
“Yeeesss….” said Darkened nonchalantly without fully realizing where he was.
Which was the royal throne room, in Canterlot, in the company of the Queen and both of the princesses, well that was awkward.
Darkened immediately stood at attention while Silent bowed as low as his stature would allow without falling over and looking like a fool.
“At ease Darkened, and you too may rise young Silen”— Queen Faust was cut off by a very high pitched almost fan-girl-ish yell coming from her left side.
“Chaaaaaaaaaarger!! *wham*” Luna tried to glomp Silent as her usual greeting but was met with a much bigger pony than she was used to.
“Oh Loony, sometimes you can be so… well loony!” Silent laughed as the dazed princess tried to right herself after hitting what felt like a talking brick wall.
Then for the first time in a while, Silent got a good look at her. She was… a totally different pony than she was the last time he had seen her. Sure, Silent had known that she was going to change a bit over the time that they hadn’t seen each other, after all he himself had gotten nearly a foot taller and gained about sixty pounds of muscle, but he wasn’t ready for this kind of change.
She was beautiful; her coat was a darker, deeper shade of blue. She had also grown, though not as much as Silent had, but she was certainly looking a lot more dignified than the silly little pony that Silent was used to. This was probably to be expected though, after all she was an Alicorn
“Chaaaaarge, you know how much it annoys me when you call me that.” Said Luna who was still a little bit unsteady
“I know, but you can be a bit crazy sometimes.” Said Silent with a grin
“oh shut u—… whoa…Charger” gasped Luna moving back a few steps.
“What happened, are you ok?” Silent asked, a little concerned by the shocked look on her face.
“Charge… you got so BIG.” Said Luna as her shocked expression turned into a sly grin
Silent knew that grin, he didn’t like that grin, bad things always happened to him because of that grin. That was the grin that had gotten him injured or in trouble more than any other thing he had ever encountered. That grin was Luna’s “idea” face.
Suddenly without any warning Luna had jumped on his back with an audible *thump* and pretended to ride him, just as she had ridden him in their first encounter. This caused Silent to Turn a shade of scarlet that he couldn’t ever remember being.
“Onward, To the Clubhouse!” yelled Luna laughing
Before Silent took off with Luna on his back, he could just barely see his father wink at him out of the corner of his eye.
“Shut the BUCK UP Dad” Thought Silent perfectly aware that both his Dad and the Queen were reading his mind.
Back in the throne room…
“Aren’t they just adorable with each other?” said Queen Faust.
“Yes, they sure are,” replied Darkened “but don’t let Silent hear you say that, he is still in that awkward phase where he gets embarrassed about likening fillies.”
“Luna, I think, was also in doubt about her feelings towards colts, but I think after seeing Silent today, she won’t be for too much longer.”
“So I take it Watchful Skies safely delivered the report about the watchtower?” asked Darkened.
“Yes, he did, it is a sorrowful loss to Equestria, and I am sorry about the letters you will have to send to the families that lost loved ones, I know that it is hard for you.” Replied Queen Faust
“Yes, it is a sad day in Equestria when the number of casualties no longer allows you to visit the families personally.” Said Darkened with a look of sorrow.
*Ehem* said a voice coming from behind the two of them.
“When you two are done chatting, are we going to get moving on the real reason you came here Mr. Darkened?”
They both turned around to see Celestia standing behind them with a pile of night vision goggles, voice amplifiers, zip lines, and all other kinds of assorted spy equipment levitating behind her.
“Well…are we going to see what those two are up to or what?” said the princess with a wicked smile on her face.
“Indeed” Said Queen Faust
“AWWWWWWWW YEAAAAA” yelled Darkened.
“All ashore who’s going ashore,” said Silent as he touched down next to their club house in the clouds.
It was so strange to Silent to come back here after so long, everything seemed a lot, smaller. Of course that wasn’t the case,
Silent had simply grown a lot since the last time he had been here but still…
“Awwwww, do I have to, I was just getting comfortable,” whined Luna as she laid down between Silent’s wings, resting her head on top of his.
“YUP!” said a nervous Silent.
He meant to slowly push her off of his back but when he felt her lay down on him, his wings kind of spread out on their own.
The end result of this being Luna flying headfirst into a nearby wall. Luckily because the clubhouse was made out of clouds Luna wasn’t hurt, but she was sufficiently embarrassed with having her flank sticking out of the wall.
“You didn’t have to throw me Charge… what are you doing?” Luna asked as she came into the room only to see Silent lying on his back staring at The doorway.
“Nothing… just lying on my back.” Said Silent who was desperately trying to keep his wings under control. When they finally settled down, He stood up looking red in the face trying to conceal what had just happened.
“Well… that was odd” said Luna with a confused and slightly bemused look on her face.
“Look who’s talking, LOONY.” Taunted Silent, knowing full and well how much his nickname for her ticked her off.
Once things settled down, the two friends began to catch up a little bit, they talked for hours even though it passed like minuets, they caught up on how things were at home and at the castle. Luna talked about Celestia’s new found love of pranks that occasionally caused a bit of craziness in the castle, but Luna was sure it was just a phase that would subside soon enough. Silent talked about how his parents were constantly making him go to the library even though he wanted to go out an fight with his father and be a part of the stories for once, and not just hear them from his dad whenever he came home after a battle.
But after a while, it seemed there was nothing more to talk about.
“So, what do you want to do now?” asked Silent, who was personally hoping he could finally beat her in “weather pony wars” [the battleship style game from the Daring Doo episode].
“Oh!,” yelled Luna jumping into the air, “I almost forgot, I have something for you!”
‘oh crap, I didn’t even think of getting Luna a present’ thought a distraught Silent, “Oh you really shouldn’t have Luna.” He replied
“I know I didn’t have to but I wanted to, and hey I’m a princess, I do what I want” Chimed Luna.
“Now close your eyes”
“Really, this whole thing”
“Yes, this , now shut them, and no peaking” yelled Luna as Silent could hear her rummaging about in a chest for whatever it was he was going to receive.
“Ugh, fiiiine,” Silent moaned.
Now he knew what was going on. Luna always used to do this, she would say she got him something, he would feel guilty, she would tell him to close his eyes, she would look for something heavy in that seemingly bottomless chest oh hers, and then he would get hit in the face with whatever that thing was. He had been struck by all sorts of things in the past, a statue, a fish, the chest itself, and Lunas personal favorite, a giant and somehow evil looking book. [epic foreshadowing]
Silent was ready to be hit by something hard, heavy, and most likely outlandishly big, he braced himself.
What he was not ready for was something, warm, soft and… wet?
Silent’s eyes shot open allowing him to see that the princess, his oldest childhood friend was, KISSING HIM.
Up in the rafters hidden from view…
‘SCORE, attaboy son’ thought Darkened, pumping his hoof into the air in triumph.
He then looked at the Queen and Celestian and thought ‘well, hand it over, I told you that she would be the first one to make a move.’
‘ugh… fine’ thought both Queen Faust and Princess Celestia and they handed Darkened a hundred bits, each.
‘Oh yea… it’s good to be me right now’ though Darkened and he graciously accepted his winnings.
Back down in the club house…
“L-Lunaaa” said Silent as he was finally released from the princesses… grasp.
“What, I know you liked it.” Replied Luna motioning towards his now outstretched wings.
“What are you talking abo— ooh… woops,” Said Silent, “well I guess since the cats out of the bag…” Silent then grabbed
Luna pulling her in for another round when…
*Bang* *Bang**Bang* Three loud knocks came from the door.
“I’m coming in you two…” Said the last voice in the world Silent wanted to hear right now. His Moms.
Annnnnnnnd cliff hanger, I should be able to finish this part later today but for now I leave you with that little story to wrap your head around.
See Ya.
Scandal the conclution
*Bang* *Bang* *Bang* “I’m coming in” said Silent’s mother.
‘’oh crap, oh crap, oh crap” thought Silent as he stood there with Luna still hanging, slightly out of breath, in his arms.
Ok, time out, little bit of backstory time…
Silent’s mother, named Pure Striker, was a large white Pegasus, like completely white, if it were not for her silver mane, one
could mistake her for Princess Celestia.
Silent’s mother was nice, she had always been a great mom, in every aspect except for two. First, she was very over protective, even though Silent was now a few inches taller than she was she still saw him (and probably always would she him) and her little Silent, or as she called him her little “hush”. Because of this, she had never quite liked the idea of Silent playing with the zany and silly filly that was Princess Luna, whether it was one of her “presents” or that wicked “idea face” Silent always seemed to have bruises coming back from one of their adventures. Second was girls. Silent was never the most popular in school because of his…stature. Quite frankly he was a scary pony if you didn’t get to know him, after all by the time he graduated flight school he was taller than every instructor in the academy. But of all the groups the poked fun at him, a group of three girls was the worst. These three tormentors made his second year of flight school one of the worst years of Silent’s life. They would call him names, spread rumors about him, and even went so far as to fill his locker with live fish! (still don’t know how they managed to accomplish that one) anyway, in the end, silent managed to ignore them long enough for them to lose interest, but not before Silent’s mother found out about it. Ever since she has had a really hard time trusting girls around her little Silent. So, needless to say, her walking in to find Silent and Luna kissing… wasn’t really an
option.
Oh, and one last thing, she carried a large broad sword, and tendency to have violent, almost bipolar temper changes.
So, after that, very, lengthy explanation you may have a little more incite as to why Silent is currently on the verge of shitting himself.
BACK TO THE STORY!!!
Silent’s mother then entered the room to see silent and Luna sitting in the middle of the room, doing absolutely nothing.
“So… what are you two doing?” She asked, and began to enter
“Um… well we were about to star—” Silent began to say before
“NOTHING” *WHAM* Luna then preceded to yell, whist promptly slamming the door in Pure’s face.
Up in the rafters…
All three of the large ponies hiding from view turned to one and other trying to comprehend what had happened.
“Darn,” said Celestia, “I actually really liked having a little sister… oh well, Hey mom when Mrs. Charge kills Luna can I have her stuff?.”
“ugh…”sighed the Queen, “fiiine, but only if she actually dies, none of that ‘but she’s in a coma!’ crap”
“Well, this was nice…but I know better than to be within a mile of my wife when she is in a… killing… mood, so… ITHINKI’LLJUSTBELEAVINGNOWKTHNXBAI!!!” yelled Darkened as he left all semblance of stealth behind him and burst
through the roof of the building.
Back in the clubhouse…
“LUNA… THOW DOST NOT KNOW WHAT THOW HAST DONE!!!” Screamed Silent
“I am soooooo sorry, I was nervous and I kind of just panicked, plus how bad could it really be?”
“VERY BAD”
“Really?”
“REALLY”
“really?”
“really”
“Really?”
“REALLY”, Screamed Pure as she chopped the door in half with her FLAMEING BROADSWORD!
“HEEEEERE’S MOMMY”
“Well then in that case I’ll just be going now.” Luna said just before she popped out of existence, teleporting to somewhere else, it doesn’t really matter where, all that mattered was where ever she was wasn’t having its door being chopped down by
one of the most feared mares in Equestria.
So now, silent was alone, with his mother, and her giant…flaming…broadsword.
“well…buck” said Silent
“Silent you know how I don’t like that kind of language,” replied his mother who was now suddenly and inexplicably calm
again [VERY unpredictable mood swings], “now would you care to explain why I just got door-slammed by a princess?”
“Not really,” said Silent just before the sword in his mother’s hoof relit,
“OK… ok… Jees, it’s just I was just catching up with Luna and she still for some reason still thought that the clubhouse was secret, so when she heard you knock, she kind of freaked out,” Silent explained, “ you know how loony she can be.”
“Ok!, I understand.” Said the now happy Pure, “I just wanted to stop by over here before I went home, see you later Silent, love you.”
She pulled Silent into a hug and trotted out the door, or at least what was left of it.
Silent sat there, trying to take it everything that had just happened.
Suddenly, Luna was back in the room, laughing her flank off.
“OH, Man! I thought she was going to EAT YOU” She said rolling on the floor.
“Yea yea, real funny, about as funny as…book?” *WHAM*
Luna then slammed him in the face with her favorite evil looking book.
The two of them laughed together, thinking about their past adventures and Silent even finally got to play Luna in that game
of “Weather pony wars”.
Back at the Charger Household…
“Darkened, I’m home,” said Pure, “Honey?”
“Y-Yes, H-Honey, I’m over here” Whimpered Darkened
“Dark, is everything O.K.?” asked a now concerned Pure, finally finding her husband hiding in the food pantry.
“Oh, you’re not pissed, Yea everything is fine, how are you?” Said a relieved Darkened
“I’m good… wait why would I be pissed?” asked a now intrigued Pure
“Well, I thought you might have reacted differently to Silent finally getting a girlfriend.” replied Darkened as he turned away and began to walk towards the living room.
“Wait… What?” asked Pure as her left eye beginning to twitch.
“Yea, you know, him and Luna, they finally hooked up.” said Darkened still not seeing his wife’s reaction, “Honestly I though heads would roll the day that Silent got his first kiss, haha shows how much I know, right honey… honey?” Darkened asked as he began to turn around, only to see a distinctly Pure-shaped hole in the wall, pointing directly in the direction of the
clubhouse.
“WELP, I’m going to begin digging that grave now, crap, its going to have to be big, why does my son have to be so tall?”
Back at the club house…
Silent and Luna were playing their third game of “Weather pony wars”, Silent had won the first one but he had lost the second one, but he knew he could win this time, he was so close…
“hey son, um we have a bit of a problem…” Silent herd his Dad say in his head.
This could not be good, Silent knew his dad, and this wasn’t normal. First off Darkened was only ever serious when the time for battle, which was never a good thing outside of the warzone. Second, he never sent Silent these little “mind messages” unless he knew that he wouldn’t be there in time to tell Silent in person.
“Oh buck…what is it?” Silent asked, knowing that whatever it was, he probably would ne a lot of band aids after it was over.
“Well… now don’t get mad at me but… I kind of… and I REALLY stress the whole you not getting mad part here—“
“Just TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED!!” Thought Silent.
“Long story short you mom now knows about what happened between you and Luna.”
“… How did she find out?” asked Silent, knowing the answer before it came.
“that would be a ‘my bad’ moment from your dad” said Darkened
“and how did you find out?”
“bitch I can read your mind, I know everything”
“AAAAAUG, GET OUT-A MY HEAD CHARLES!!!” Silent yelled, out loud this time.
“ummm is everything all right?” asked Luna, who currently had no idea what was happening besides the fact that she was winning.
“No everything is not all right, we have to run, hide, and basicly— hi mom” said Silent
“Hi son” said Pure with a smile.
“anyway, basically we have to get out of here before my mom gets here!” yelled Silent without fully processing everything
that was going on.
He simply saw Luna facehoof before teleporting out of the room and leaving Silent alone… with his pissed off mom… again.
“oh no you don’t” Yelled Pure as she reached into the area that Luna had just been standing in and proceeded to pull Luna
back through the wormhole she had made and into the clubhouse.
“Wait… WHAT!?!” Silent and Luna both said simultaneously.
“That doesn’t matter right now, but what does matter is that you two are going to tell me what is going on, and don’t think that
I won’t know if you are lying.” said Pure who was a lot calmer than Silent had thought she would be.
“Your dad may be able to read your mind, but I am a MOTHER, it is my job to be able to stare into the depths of your very
SOUL.” Pure ended.
“Ok ok, I’m sorry you didn’t deserve to be lied to and I am sorry, I just thought you might… you know… overreact.” Explained Silent
“What do you mean overreact, I don’t overreact.” Objected Pure with a hurt look on her face.
“Um… mom” Silent then motioned in the direction of the door, which still laid in two pieces in the doorway.
“Ok, ok so maybe I over reacted the first time but I haven’t destroyed anything since I got in here.”
As she finished her sentence, as if on cue, the upper level of the house slid down and fell off of the rest of the building,
almost as if it had been cut in half with a sword.. a broadsword, a FLAMING broadsword.
“OUR CLUBHOUSE” Luna yelled, who was distraught over the demolition of so many childhood memories.
“MOOOOOOOOM I thought you said you didn’t destroy anything” said a horrified Silent.
“No I said I didn’t destroy anything since I got IN here, technically I cut the house in half when I was still outside.” Explained Pure with a face that clearly said that she was not going to apologies for what she did.
“Fine I’ll tell you what happened, but on one condition,” Silent said, “you can’t get mad.”
“… I won’t stab you” replied Pure
“that’s oddly specific.” Said Luna
“Ok… we’ll tell you.” Silent said, finally caving in to the inevitable.
“Good.” Was the only thing that Pure had to say before she sat down and waited for a story she was sure to hate.
And with that, Silent and Luna proceeded to explain to Pure everything that had happened. It went relatively well and outside
of a few mild death threats, everything when better than expected. Sure Luna had to suspend Pure in the air a few feet away from her sword in order to stop anything especially bad from happening, but neither of them actually expected that to work.
“ugh, I suppose this is to be expected.” Pure said, suddenly shifting into a more calm and understanding mood.
“Its just that I don’t like the idea of my little boy growing up…” Suddenly the mood had shifted into a much more emotional one.
“Mom…don’t get all upset… please… I’m still only fourteen, I’m not going anywhere” Silent said while walking over to his
mom and giving her a big hug.
“Yes, you are, you’re coming home right now, your father wants to talk to you.” Pure said abruptly.
Silent said with a half-smile “Ok, sorry Luna, I’ll see you soon…”, and began to fly with his mother back home.
As the mother and her son left, Luna who was sitting in her, now half-destroyed, house saw Mrs. Charger turn around and stick her tongue out at her.
Luna then mouthed the words “come at me sis” and proceeded to fall down laughing.
Somewhere in the Rubble of what used to be the rafters...
Two very confused Ailcorns woke up in a pile of rubble not really knowing how they got there, one moment everything was funny and the next everything was dark.
Back at the Charger residence...
“I think it’s time for you and our son to have… The Talk.” said Pure to her husband who had just spent an hour and a half digging for apparently no reason.
“So… I’m going to go in there” Darkened motioned towards Silent’s bedroom, “and emotionally scar our son, probably for life, and you are… encouraging me?”
Pure put her hoof to her face and said, “Just teach him how to buck without being selfish or unsafe.”
“Teach him how to have safe sex, gotcha.” Dark said
“And not to be selfish when it comes to his women!” Pure said as her husband closed the door.
‘Yea, like that’s going to happen’ Dark thought before literally throwing his son out of bed.
As his still half asleep son looked up at him, darkened saw a ting of fear in the colts eye, “Oh yes, this is going to be hilarious…”
Next Chapter… The Talk
Alright, so i wrote most of this at school today during free period, well... gym... but i digress, so it may not be as, how should i say this, oh yea! "Well Written" as it probably should be but i still think this is better than releasing it at like 1 in the morning. Also the next chapter may take a while so please try to be patient, and hey now would be a great time to tell your friends about this fic because of the pause because they can stay caught up with the story *wink* *wink *nudge* *nudge*
The Talk
Ok, so i have a little bit of apologizing to do. I am sorry that this chapter took a bit longer than the other ones did, but I think you will find it worth the wait.
What I said a little bit of apologizing, and I am a man of my word.
Oh and from time to time I (meaning the narrator) might add a bit of my own thoughts to this. When I do, I will use brackets and bold text [like this]
[The dreaded talk.
The pure embodiment of the awkward stage of a young colts life. Every question answered in one brutally honest and disturbing talk with your own father. The single most scarring discussion that can be had between two ponies within the same family, the most irreversibly life changing exchange of words that does not end in either “it’s a boy/girl” or “you may now kiss the bride”.
“What are you talking about?” you say
“You’re being to dramatic?” you say
“What’s wrong with you?” you say
Well I can see why you would say that, after all you did not have Darkened give you “The Talk”
His methods can be a bit…unorthodox… What you don’t believe me?
O.K. Let’s watch.]
In Silent’s Bedroom…
“So son, you are going through a… different time of your life.” Darkened said in a most serious tone as he paced back and forth across the room.
“You will be beginning to notice mares a little bit more, they may begin to make you feel… strange. And that is ok. There is nothing wrong with you, do not fear everypony go through this stage of life. I went through it when I was your age as well. And it is not just young stallions that go through this process either, mares are even more affected by it that we stallions are.”
“Dad…. You really don’t have to—” Silent began
The room seemed to get progressively darker as Silent,s father, who was still pacing back and forth, spoke.
“Shut up son… anyway, where was I? Oh yes, the mares. As I was saying mares are even more of a mess then we are. They become evil, sadistic, manipulative things. They are pure masses of volatile hormonal instincts that cannot be understood, even they do not truly know what they want, yet for some strange reason they seem to believe that men do know what it is they want and will always expect us to give it to them...” Darkened then, quite suddenly, grabbed Silent and forced him to look into his fathers eyes which had grown dark and not only a little crazy, “It is maddening son, MADDENING!!!!!.”
*bang* *bang* *bang*
At the sound of someone knocking on the door Darkened snapped his head towards the door, his words quickened and
became almost a whisper so that Silent could only hear a snippet of it.
All he could discern was something along the lines of…
“suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.”
Pure then burst open the door and proceeded to drag a now flailing Darkened out of the room, slamming the door behind the two as she left.
“Well that was odd” said a now very confused Silent.
Out in the hall...
“What do you think you are doing?” pure asked in a hushed tone so that their son could not hear them.
“I am telling him the same thing that my father told me when I was young.” Darkened replied
Pure facehoofed saying “Darkened…”
“Yeesss” Darkened replied with a joking grin
“Your father… well quite frankly, he was a psychopath.” Pure said trying to say serious
“YOU CAN’T PROVE THAT! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE DOCTORS, ALL SIX HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE OF THEM, HAD IT OUT FOR MY DAD AND YOU ARE JUST JEALOUS!!” Darkened yelled
“… what… what are you talking about, your father was crazy.” Pure said with a somewhat shocked expression.
“Yea I know, I just like to mess with you” Darkened said with a sneer.
“Ugh, whatever, just don’t confuse him that much, how about this I will talk to him about girls, you talk to him about sex… ok. I
already talked to him about the changes” Pure said.
“Ok, so we both just stick to what we are good at and stay away from what we don’t understand. Right?” Darkened said opening the door.
“Precisely… hey wait a second!” Pure began, but Darkened had already closed the door.
Back in Silent’s room…
“Anyway as I was saying,” said Darkened as he closed the door behind him, “….MADDENING”
“DAAAAAAAAAARRRRRK!!!” Pure could be heard yelling through the door.
“I’m KIDDING honey, shesh” Darkened replied with a snicker.
“So your mother wants to talk to you about girls, like how you are supposed to treat them and all that junk. I, on the other hoof, am here to inform you on the more… basic dealings with mares.” Darkened said with a positively evil grin as he slowly withdrew two small dolls from behind his back.
Both of the dolls were pegasi, but Silent notice something odd about them. The first one, was pure white, her proportions put her at around the same stature as princes Celestia. The second one was quite a bit bigger than the white one, it was jet black and had large bat-like… [Holy buck they are his parents!]
“Dad, please tell me that those aren’t who I think they are?” A very concerned Silent said.
“They probably are”
“why do you even have those?”
“Think for a second… do you REALLY want to know the answer to that question?”
“…no”
“I though not.”
“Can’t you get some other dolls?”
“You have no idea how many times I have asked your mom that question?”
“So no?”
“As far as you are concerned there are no other dolls”
“So do we really have to use the dolls?”
“Oh… would you rather the live performance?”
“NO”
“Then yes, we have to use the dolls.”
“No, I mean why can’t you just tell me and not show me at all?”
“Well what would be the fun of that?” asked Darkened, who was very pleased about how he was going tear his own son’s child hood apart. [like I said, unorthodox]
[ok, so because of the privet nature of this next part we have been informed that we are not allowed to show or tell you what is happening, so please enjoy this nice picture of a kitten instead]
[alright we have been informed that the talk and…”demonstration” has ended]
[now back to the story!!!!!]
“BAM BAM BAM” Darkened yelled as he violently slammed the two dolls into each other.
“OH YES” he yelled holding up the White doll so Silent could know exactly who was saying what.
“BAM BAM BA—
[Oh crap, we are very sorry you had to see that, we misread the message, and we sincerely apologies for that]
[ holy cow that took a long time, poor kid... but we have been absolutely assured that the “demonstration has ended]
Back in Silent’s bedroom…
“And that is how you sex a mares brains out” concluded Darkened as he left the room, but not before tucking in his now shaking son.
In the hall outside of the room…
Pure sat at the end of the hall, her jaw hit the floor as Darkened walked past her.
“I… I don’t scream that loud” she said defensively
“Yea you do.” Darkened said with a grin.
“Prove it.” Pure said returning the devilish grin
“With pleasure milady” Darkened said sweeping his wife off her feet and into the bedroom.
Later that night in Silent’s room....
*thump* *thump* *thump*
Silent could hear the noise through the wall and he hid farther under his covers.
“They’re just jumping on the bed, they’re just jumping on the bed, they’re just jumping on the bed…” he began to say under his breath.
In Mr. and Ms. Charger’s room…
“No we're not!!!” Shouted Darkened at the wall.
“Honey, what are you doing? Stop jumping on the bed and stop yelling at the wall. Go to sleep.” Pure said with a satisfied
expression on her face.
“Yea Yea, just like five more minuets.”
[there you have it, hope it was worth the wait]
[next chapter, we have the aftermath]
The day of war begins
[ok, so this is when the story begins to get more serious, we have met everyone and had a lot of laughs… but the story must go on, don’t worry, it won’t always be serious, still lots of fun, but it will get a bit darker past this point]
The first part is read from the view of a modern pony (I will let you guess who) reading about ancient equestrian history
Here we go…
In the book of harmony pg 643…
Then came the day that none forget.
‘Twas a day of fire,
a day of regret.
Their armies marching
cross the land,
the time for battle
was now at hoof.
The fire scorched the fields of grain
The day of death, the day of pain.
The griffens came through the walls like nails through board
‘Twas to be Equestria, that faced the hoard
The griffens came like waves of fire
For ponies blood was their one desire
And when night came,
The darkness reigned,
For then was released, the shadowed mane
When out from the darkness came a cry,
Of a demon monster, who was ready to die.
‘Tis day we mourn, for our sorrowfully lost
The day was won,
But at what cost?
In Silent’s bedroom…
Silent woke up, climbed out of bed, went to the bathroom, came back into his room and froze.
Something wasn’t right, something was missing, he thought of his normal morning routine
Wake up:√
Get out of bed: √
Go to the bathroom: √
Get smacked/punched/thrown through the wall by dad:…X
Silent looked at the wall the, distinctly…him-shaped, hole was still there, pure had stopped trying to repair it a while ago, but it was not fresh so he knew that his dad didn’t hit him through it today
[I know what you are thinking, “how could you not know if you had been hit through a wall” but keep in mind, Darkened is strong, and it would not be the first time he had unintentionally given his son minor brain damage]
This could not be good, well Silent was fine with it because walls are hard and generally being flung through them is not within the intended purpose.
But it was not something that his Dad simply forgot to do like feeding his son while he was a new born or baby proofing the house; this was a ritual for him.
Something wasn’t right.
So Silent, feeling that things were not as they were supposed to be, quietly kept low to the ground, and snuck his way into the kitchen, keeping out of view from the windows, after all, if his parents didn’t tell him were they were then generally that meant people weren’t supposed to know where they were, which meant people probably shouldn’t know where he was either
.
“Empty…well shit.” Silent said under his breath, his parents weren’t there either, and there was a note on the fridge.
Silent slowly crept over to the fridge, when out of the corner of his eyes he saw a flicker of movement through the window.
He took another step forward and saw that the note had what looked like two acronyms
B.R.T.F
G.T.L.H
A second before he could think of what this could mean
three shadows burst through the window he had moments before seen the shadows in.
As he saw their claws and their black banded uniforms, the meaning of the first collection of letters came to him.
And so did they
His brain went into overdrive, all of those years in combat training and wrestling with his Dad, all of the lessons he had
learned so far, led up to this moment.
He started his stopwatch
His mother’s message was simple
Be Ready To Fight
And so he was.
The first of the three assailants charged him, lunging forward with his claws outstretched greedily towards what he thought would be an easy kill.
Silent on the other hoof had other plans, he stomped the ground forcing up a floorboards so it would intercept the razor sharp claw before it met his flesh.
It stuck, the wood took hold of the griffin’s horribly serrated claw and refused to let go. Silent, seizing this moment of opportunity grabbed the griffin by the shoulder and forced him into the floor while his claw was made to stay up because of the vertical orientation of the floor board, and with a bone chilling pop his arm was dislocated.
Silent wasn’t quite done yet though, he grabbed the griffens other claw and slammed it into the uprooted floorboard as well. He then pounded the griffen down with his back leg and ripped the board from the floor.
After a moment he flipped the griffen over it so that the board was laying against his back, effectively breaking both his wrists in doing so.
At this the girffen let out a bloodcurdling scream of pain. Silent… silenced [hehe] him with a curb stomp to the beak.
He clicked the stopwatch
“One down” Silent sneered at the remaining two attackers, “And in only…24 seconds” he mocked as he menacingly drew out his bat like wings.
The second griffen only snickered and said “Frederick was a fool, don’t think we shall be so easily defeated”
“Tell that to your buddy” Joked Silent motioning to the griffen who was now flying away from the house as quickly as his wings could carry him.
“And he was a coward, his absence will make no difference.” Said the griffen, his face still not showing an inkling of emotion.
“Well you know what they say,” said Silent, who what with all of the adrenalin couldn’t contain himself, “If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.”
At that the now agitated griffen said “Enough with your jokes, it is time for you to meet the ferry man” as he calmly drew his
crooked single edged sword [that is a sword with only one sharp side] from his scabbard.
“OOOO, are we using blades now?” Asked Silent as he hit the drawer next to him revealing several large knifes.
He took one in each hoof and stood on his hind legs, gently flapping his wings for support.
“Round TWO baby WOOOOOOOOOOO” Silent Yelled as he burst forward, closing the distance in a matter of a second
and managing to catch the griffen completely off guard.
He jabbed forward with the knife in his left hoof while keeping his right close to his body.
The griffen fell for it, just as his father had told him he would, and took the bait, swinging his sword in a sweeping motion from right to left across Silent’s body.
Silent than stopped the blade with his right knife, letting go of it once the sword was fully stopped and grabbed the blunt side with his now free right hoof.
Once this first step was done he dragged his left hoof knife down the side of the blade into the hilt, swiftly slicing off the claws that held the sword.
He then let go of the knife in his left hoof, using the forward momentum to plunge it into the griffins chest and then grabbed the hilt with the same hoof.
Now holding the sword, Silent spun to the left, bringing the sword around his body and guiding it expertly into the head of the now horrified griffin.
[you can stop the music now]
He clicked his stop watch.
“hmmmm 39 seconds, minus the chit chat, 18 seconds, I thought you said you would last longer?... why am I taking to a corps?” Silent asked himself as he began to calm down.
He always hated how cocky he got when his adrenalin started to pump, he always sounded like his Father.
“Now, what was that other part of the message?” He asked himself turning back towards the fridge…
[That is all for now, but i will be working on this a lot within the next week because i have off from school]
Dancing in the fires of combat
[so this may be a bit confusing, this chapter takes place in a few different time lines, I will try to label them well enough, but if you are confused feel free to leave a comment or message me]
The thunder rolled in the distance, Darkened stood atop a high mountain peak with his young son sitting next to him
“Every thing the light touches is the land of Equestria, it is a good place, it has stood the test of time, it has been saved from evil by Queen Faust and the Equestrian army will always keep it that way.” He said to his son.
“But what about those two dark spots over there?” Silent asked looking up at his father.
“The closer one is the Everfree wasteland, it is a land of evil, a prison, for all those who have defied the Queen and have been deemed to dangerous to coexist with our peaceful lifestyle.”
“and what about that oth-“
“I’ll get to it son. That other splotch is the land of the griffins, they have refused to live under the Queens rule, they are a savage people they respect no life cause expect the ruthless and carnal, they seek only power and the misery of their enemies.” Darkened explained.
“But if they were cast out, how come they weren't sent to the Everfree wastes?” Silent asked
“They were not cast out, do not ask me why for I shall never understand it but, they themselves chose that sad existence, they are always welcome to come back as long as they respect our ways and do not stray into evil, and it does happen from time to time. But no, they chose their fate, and so most of them live it out.”
“Oh… can we go home now dad, I don’t like being up so high?” Silent asked
“Of course we can son, but first… FLYING LESSONS”
“NO NO NO DAD NO”
And with that, Darkened proceeded to shove Silent off of the cliff
The same Mountain in the present
Thunder rolled in the distance, the small splotches of darkness that Silent had pointed out to Darkened that time so long ago
had grown much larger.
Darkened noticed that the Everfree had grown from a barren wasteland to a massive fortress of leaves and vines, the darkness had spread very near to Equestria… too close.
Suddenly dozens of shadows appeared behind Darkened.
“So… this is how it begins?” Darkened asked without turning around.
“No… this is how it ends” a voice emerged form the shadows
“No treaties, no talk of compromise or alliance?” Asked the Darkened as he began to turn around
“We fight, we kill, we take what we will.” Said the shadow, “do not take it personnaly.”
“Very well, if that is your custom…" Darkened spoke as he finally faced the group directly “prepare to die”
There was a silence for about a minute before Darkened silently drew four swords, each the size of one of the fully grown griffins who had now formed a circle around him.
He held one in each of his front hoofs and drew another with each of his leathery wings.
With that , he grinned his evil grin and vanished from sight.
He appeared behind a small group that had stayed back outside of the circle, they were all staring at the center of the circle where he had been only moments before.
He tapped one of them on the shoulder and asked “pst, buddy, what cha look’en at?”
“The big pony just vanished” the griffin said slowly turning around “Didn’t you see it?”
Suddenly he saw the massive pony standing behind him, with four swords drawn. He franticly reached for his sword, but when he looked up the pony was no longer there. He suddenly felt a tickle of pain near his midsection and looked down to see that his chest was covered in blood, his own blood. He fell, without a sound.
“YAAAAAAAAAA” Darkened yelled a battle cry high above the griffins who were now drawing their swords.
He charged into the crowd of assailants spinning like a madpony, swinging his swords in wide arcs around his body. He was
flying so he had to sheath the swords he was holding with his wings but that did not matter much to him. The four swords thing was less practical anyway and it really only served to scare his opponent shitless [and boy did it do its job well]
He landed on one of them so forcefully that a small shockwave blew the griffins closest to him onto their backs. He lunged forward with his left sword while throwing his right sword into the air catching it with his wing. He stabbed one griffin in the chest and grabbed ahold of another with his free hoof, running him through with the sword now held in his wing.
He threw the corps into the crowd knocking over several of them in the process. He then jumped forward, unsheathing all four swords and flipping forward at the same time, his enormous weight came down upon the pile of griffins knocked over by the comrade Darkened had thrown at them, crushing them instantly.
He then stabbed out in four different directions thrusting each blade into a separate griffin before spinning violently, effectively bifurcating each of them. He then put away both swords he had led in his hoofs and dashed at the remaining groups with malice on his face.
“I am getting too old for this sort of bull shit” he said as he ran headlong into the mass of yelling griffins.
They had formed a sort of phalanx, their swords and shields pointing out in all directions so that the giant pony would have no way of getting to them without getting stabbed. Darkened had seen this before and knew exactly how to deal with it.
“That is a very clever way to protect yourself, it shields you well from all manner of outside attack, but it has one fatal flaw, it leaves you completely exposed from an…” said Darkened as he closed his eyes and concentrated.
“inside attack,” said a griffin inside the shield dome in Darkeneds voice
The griffin hacked and slashed about inside the dome, as Darkened had said the rest of them were extremely exposed and had no way to defend themselves.
Finally the last remaining griffin slashed the traitor across the chest, cutting him down.
“How did you get a traitor within our ranks! HOW!” The last remaining griffin shouted between gasps of fear.
With that Darkened out his hoof to his for head
The griffin heard a voice inside his head say
“I didn’t”
And the griffin slit his own throat.
[End music]
“Now then,” Darkened said to no one in particular, “I wonder what my wife is up too”
In a large field just outside town
“Hey, hows the watch going?” Pure asked one of the guards, “see anything yet?”
“No mam, but I don’t think this is a good idea, being out here, I feel so exposed.” The guard responded
“Don’t worry about it, there is no way they would be stu-” Pure stopped mid sentence and flew into the air.
The guard was right, something was up, and she knew it, the wheat was too tall for this type of watchtower, there was no
telling what could be there.
As she thought this she saw a faint movement in the wheat, then a lot of movement, there was plenty of wind, but this was wrong, the movement was too erratic, it was too…
“AAAAAAUUUGGGG” one of the patrolling guards screamed and collapsed into the wheat and out of sight.
Suddenly the movement in the wheat began to branch off, towards each of the guards individually, and pure knew exactly what was going on.
“Fire in the whole! Everypony move the BUCK out a the way!” Pure shouted as she rocketed towards the ground unsheathing and igniting her sword aiming it at the ground as she flew.
As she hit the ground, the guards hit the deck knowing full and well what was about to happen. A large flaming shockwave spread out around her, flattening and burning the wheat but passing over the guards without harming them. [ha ha friendly fire]
When the dust settled a large group of griffins was revealed, all garbed in black cloth and sporting knives as posed to swords.
When they were exposed they suddenly burst forward with blinding speed, laying waste to the guards and surrounding Pure.
“Normally I don’t actually like fighting” Pure said with closed eyes
The band of griffins began to laugh and jeer at her
“But,” She said as she relit her sword and swung it in a large arc causing a crescent of fire to materialize in front of her, “you seem to have given me no other choice.”
She opened her eyes, which were burning with a brilliant blue flame
With that the griffins charged her from all sides
She turned around and pointe her sword straight ahead, then brining it straight backwards she slammed the back of her sword into the still burning crescent propelling it into the crowd of griffins that was now behind her, igniting them with a brilliant red flame. [not as friendly fire]
She then thrust her blade forward with a powerful jab towards one of the larger griffins. He raised his shield but the still flaming sword melted straight threw it, and plowed straight into his chest, his screams were silenced when Pure then brought her sword straight up through his skull.
She then brought her sword down diagonally threw the bodies of three other attackers.
Suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her side, and looked to see that one of them had taken advantage of her exposed left side and plunged his dagger into her side, it had not hit anything important but it did hurt like crap, and that pissed her off.
So she grabbed the one who had stabbed her and burst into the air, flying faster than any pony should have been able to. A cone of steam was beginning to form around them and Pure braced herself for the sound. Moments later the cone burst around her do show a brilliant white ring behind her. At this the still grounded griffins all realized who the white pony was.
She was the fastes pony in equestrian history, hell she was the fastest thing in equestrian history period.
She carried a flaming broadsword that could melt through metal and magic alike.
She known to have a fury that matched no other.
She was
Pure speed.
*BOOM* the now super sonic mare stopped on a dime letting go of the poor griffin, sending him flying at unbelievable speeds into the now significantly smaller group of terrified griffins. The lucky ones thrown several feet, those who bore the actual impact were mangled beyond recognition, the one who was thrown by Pure was even worse for wear, his bones powder and his body destroyed.
The air born ones luck quickly ran out as pure, still traveling at blinding speeds sliced them to pieces midair, her sword bursting with fire at every impact. It was like a firework show, each explosion boomed with fire and sparks, there were screams and cracks of thunder as pure slowed down to strike and broke the sound barrier again and again traveling from each target to the next, and like any show, there had to be a finale.
End music
She rose high above the field now littered with the bodies of dozens of griffins, and whispered to her sword
“I am Pure, but thow art the ultimate cleanser, let thyn fury pour out and wash the evil from this land”
With that the swords flames became enormous and she let the sword drop, point first into the ground
[Ban-ki]
Back with Darkened
Suddenly there was a huge explosion about a mile behind him and his wife appeared beside him without warning.
“Hey baby, I was just thinking about you” Darkened said to his worried looking wife
“Darkened no time for that we have a major problem, the griffins, they are atta—”
Darkened put his hoof to her lips, silencing her and turned her head towards the large pile of corpses behind the two of them.
“Oh… well I see you’re all caught up,” Pure started, “Oh Faust your bleeding honey!”
“No no, this happens from time to time, some of their blood gets all splattered on me… you on the other hoof, have been stabbed.” Darkened said looking at the gash on Pures side.
“No time for that, we need to go get our son.” Pure said with a suddenly worried look about her.
“No, look at us, if we both went to the house now we would attract so much attention that we would have the whole griffin
army bearing down on us, and that would only put Silent in more danger than he needs to be in.” Darkened explained.
“Then how do we warn him!?!” Yelled Pure
“Shh, Shh don’t worry I have an idea” Darkened consoled his wife.
At the castle
“so what you want me to do is teleport this note into the kitchen of your house?” Luna asked Pure
“Yes” Responded Pure
“Wait why can’t I just teleport there and teleport back with him?” asked the princess who was now very concerned.
“Because Luna,” Darkened interjected, “If they were there already you would be captured, it is too dangerous.”
“ok” Luna sighed
And with that the note popped out of existence, teleported miles away onto the fridge of the Charger house kitchen
“Don’t worry sis,” Said Celestia, placing her hoof on Lunas shoulder, “Silent is a tough kid, he knows how to take care of himself, he will be fine.”
In the Charger house
G.T.L.H
What could it mean!!!
He had thought of every single combination of words he could come up with. He had even written them all down so he did not retry any of them
He sat down on a stool and sighed, “Why did this have to happen now, things were going so well, I even got with…” Silent paused, a look of disbelief on his face appeared, “Luna”
He scribbled something down on the paper and burst out of the room
The piece of paper fell to the floor
It read
“Go To Luna’s House”
[I am not going to lie, I felt like a badass writing this, hope you felt just as awesome reading it.]
Getting there
The area around Silent was like nothing he could ever remember. This was no longer the town that he had grown up in, it was a war zone.
The playground was a mess of twisted metal save for the swings, the swings were intact, they were swinging back and forth eerily, a smallish pony was siting on them, it was a wood colored pony, it looked like a mare but silent could not tell from so far away. Silent wondered if the pony was heart so he decided that it would be a good idea to see if she needed any help. As he got closer he noticed two things; first, he was right in his guess that the mystery pony was a mare. Second, he saw that she was holding something.
“Hello there, are you ok? Do you need any help?” Silent called out being carful enough to make sure he wasn’t too loud, after all he didn’t need to draw more attention then was absolutely necessary.
At this the mare, who Silent could see looked to be around his age, yelped and ran off, dropping the thing she had been cradling.
“Hey! Don’t run away, it is dangerous around here, YOU DROPPED YOUR FLOWER!” Silent yelled after the mare. He didn’t know why but he went over to the swings and picked up the flower, it had five petals was bright yellow and red and was around the size of his hoof, it was a very pretty flower, but Silent wasn’t really a flower type of guy so he just ate it.
“Hmmm, that’s odd, why would a flower taste like coffee?” Silent said to no one in particular.
Suddenly he heard a twig snap right behind him, he didn’t have enough time to turn around before he felt a sharp blow to his
head and everything went black.
At the castle
“Where is he?” thought Pure, “He is a smart boy, he should have easily had enough time to decode the message and get here by now”
“Give him some time, he can make it on his own, I trust him to do that much” said Darkened trying to console his wife.
“Honey… stop reading my mind” Pure said to her husband with a disapproving glare
“Yea sure what ever” replied Darkened
Back at the playground
“Wha, where am I” Silent awoke, not quite remembering where he was.
He looked around and remembered the incident with the unknown attacker hitting him over the head and then falling asleep.
“What the heck is going on?”
Then he saw a griffin, presumably the one that had hit is head earlier, completely wrapped in what looked to be vines.
On top of the now sleeping griffin was a note and a bright red and yellow flower.
The note read
Because I like coffee, that’s why
“What?, oh never mind I need to get to the castle, if I know mom as well as I think I do she is probably pacing about trying to figure out what is taking me so long.” Silent said out loud once again.
“I should probably get out of the habit to talking to myself out loud… dam this is going to be harder than I thought…..DAMIT”
Silent yelled, once again to himself
With that he spring into the air, taking flight in the direction of the large castle that was looming in the distance.
In the woods behind the playground
“Hmm, what a strange energy that one has, he may be interesting to watch… Darn it now has got me talking to myself as well” spoke the mysterious brown mare before slowly fading back into the forest.
Silent flying towards the castle
Something seemed off as Silent reached the castle. Everything was charged with a sort of tension that was likely to drive a pony mad. It seemed as though it was fully possible that the entire castle could topple to the ground any instant despite the obviously powerful and stable structure of the building. Another thing that had struck silent as odd was the strange movements of everything within the castle walls as he looked at it from up above. Everything was moving faster than usual. Not faster as in the usual hustle and bustle of the big city that the castle contained, faster as in it was hard to tell what was what and who was who. Everything was moving at a breakneck pace, blurs of blue and white and yellow were the only thing
that distinguished ponies from one and other.
He decided that it was something worth checking out, so he flew to the streets below, close enough to the main gate that he could get there quickly, but far away enough that he could have a look at the super speedy ponies that apparently now occupied Canterlot. But as he neared the streets he felt as though he was dividing into a pool of water, and all of the super ponies slowed down to the normal speed. He turned around to look at the sky, confused and bewildered by what had happened just now when he saw a bird frozen in place a few hundred feet above him. This was all too weird for him, so he decided it was high time to visit Luna per his parent’s request.
As he entered the gate he heard a loud BOOM in front of him and he was tackled by what seemed to be a white train.
“Now you listen here mister, don’t you ever do that to me again, you had me and your father so worried would not even believe it!!” Pure yelled at her son
Silent heard a loud high pitched whirring noise and saw his mom doing what he guessed was her little speech about how I should never keep her waiting away
“BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzt… UNDERSTAND ME!!!” Silent heard his mom say.
“Completely” Silent said with a grin.
“Hey look, he’s got blood on him but no cuts!” Darkened chimed in “You popped your murder cherry!, This calls for a celebration!”
“YAY PARTY” Yelled a Pink pony who pulled out a small cannon shooting confetti and cake batter everywhere.
The pink pony then suddenly exploded in a bright light leaving the group with cake and confused faces.
Celestia then walked into the room with a horrified face yelling “HAS ANYONE SEEN A PINK FUTURE PONEY WITH A CANNON”
Everyone raised a hoof
Then Luna ran in with a large pile of nets, tripping over them and getting herself trapped in them. Silent laughed and walked
over to her helping her out of the mess and saying, “Loony, why do you do these things?”
“I keep telling you that I don’t like it when you call me that…” Her face grew into a smile as she realized who she was talking to, “SILENT!!!”
She tackled him to the ground kissing him and drawing him into a big hug. Suddenly they were lifted up and pulled apart and turned to face Silent’s mom who said “not while I’m hear you don’t”
“MOOOOOM” Silent groaned
Out of the corner of his eye Silent saw his dad rolling on the floor clutching his sides in laughter.
Queen Faust walked in through a large door and said, “Oh good you’re here, now we can get down to business.”
[Sorry about the sort of abrupt ending here but I figured it was the best point to stop today and I can’t write anymore today or my fingers will fall off, damn you school.
The mystery pony is not a creation of mine, it is that of a friend and to that friend I say “do not worry, I will give you credit when I introduce your character formally, but for the sake of not ruining anything I won’t be saying any names for now.” ]
Explanations and let downs
[sorry about the gap in time, but quite honestly I don’t even know how I found the time to make this one, they will be a bit scattered for a while with no discernible pattern of updating… sorry]
“Business, what kind of business,?” Silent asked, suddenly remembering that he had known idea what was going on.
“What’s going on, how did the griffins get into the city, why was everything super-fast in here and really slow outside the castle?...” The torrent of questions continued.
“Slow down young one, I shall brief you on everything you need to need to know.” Said Queen Faust who was seeking to ebb the flow of questions that came coming from the large but young Stallion before her.
“First off, the griffins have begun their assault on the kingdom, that much I am sure you already know, as to how they got past our walls remains a mystery even to me, which is why I have instructed my star pupil Shining Dusk to monitor everything… in and outside the kingdom.” The queen than paused to think about how she could phrase the next sentence, after a few moments she finally said, “as for the last question, we used our greatest advantage over the griffins in order to protect our people, magic.”
“Oh…” Silent said, “so you used magics to speed up everything inside the castle?”
“No no dear,” The queen explained “ You see, that would be impossible, we cannot make things happen before they are meant to, which is what would occur if we… how did you say it, sped everything up.”
“Wait, then what did you do?” Silent asked earnestly
“I simply slowed everything else on the planet down of course.” Celestia butted in with a grin.
Silent’s jaw hit the floor, “What! That’s impossible, no really, that is BUCKING impossible, you couldn’t have slowed down everything! Why would that even be necessary!” Silent shouted, finding it impossible to wrap his head around what he had just heard.
“Ummm, it isn’t that hard,” Luna said from behind a shocked Silent, “after all, I can control the moon from here in Equestria and sis can even control the sun, time influent is a pretty simple spell when you compare it to that.
“Oh, well when you put it like that, I guess it isn’t that crazy.” A still slightly shocked Silent responded.
“Anyway, now that the questions are out of the way, the business I spoke of earlier can commence.” Queen Faust spoke out before silent could open his mouth again.
“My Little ponies—"
“ehem…” Darkened said walking over to the queen and putting his hand on top of her head, then on top of his, showing that he was at least her size.
“Ugh, My ponies, we are at war, a war that I full and well plan on winning. In this room are the six most powerful ponies in all of Equestria, with all of your help, I am sure that victory shall be achieved. It will not be easy, and you may not come out unscathed, but I trust you all to act for the good of ponies everywhere,” she looked at Darkened,” big or small.”
At the training grounds…
Darkened stood in front of his stallions, they were new, they were scrawny, and they were not soldiers. Not yet. But they had potential, maybe not all of them would be great swords ponies, or a marksponies, but they all had one thing going for them, they wanted it. They wanted to get back at the griffins for all the harm and turmoil they had brought to their doorsteps. They had a fire in their eyes, each and every one of them, a fire that could not be extinguished save for the satisfaction of knowing that you had done everything in your power and beyond to fufill your duty as a soldier to your people. The griffons had taken the lives of many a pony, and these stallions before Darkened were just itching to pay them back, plus interest.
Darkened took a deep breath, he was ready to address his new recruits, he was ready to bring them into war.
“Stallions, ATTENTION!” The assorted ponies then formed up immediately, a perfect square, not a pony out of place.
‘Good, if this keeps up, maybe they might just make it though the war alive.’ Darkened thought to himself, genuinely impressed at what he saw.
But then he saw something that was not ok, not ok in the least, he saw a pair of white leathery wings.
He saw his son
‘Son…’ Darkened spoke to his son telepathically
‘Yes Dad?’ Silent responded
‘What are you doing here, why aren’t you at the castle with the others?’
‘Because I’m going to fight, I don’t see what the big deal is, you and mom are both fighting, iv killed griffons before, I can do it again, plus you have been training be for this for years. I really don’t see what the big deal is.’
‘The big deal is that this is not sparring, hell this isn’t even combat, this is hundreds vs. hundreds, this is nothing like the one on one you are used to, one stray arrow, one swipe from behind while you’re concentrating on the man in front of you, one missed strike, and you are dead. No, this is no place for you, maybe when you are older.
‘Dad that isn’t fair, it was my home that they came into too, you know, its my friends that they… that they killed. Don’t think that you can stop me from this.’
‘Don’t think that I can’t. My friends were killed as well Silent, they are gone forever, don’t think for one dammed second, that I will let that happen to my family too.'
“Umm… sir?”, one of the ponies that Darkened was supposed to be addressing spoke up, the rest of the stallions were worried as well, he had just been standing there for a minuet with his eyes closed breathing heavily.
No one even noticed the young black and white bat winged Pegasus fly away.
“Yes, I am sorry, it is just that…” Darkened Paused once more, “ It saddens me that no matter how hard I train you, inevitably some of you will die, it… is the tragedy of war.”
[Sorry for the sudden and not very .... good ending, writers block+ lack o time does not equal perfect writing]