The Tale of Silent Charge
Chapter 7: Dancing in the fires of combat
Previous Chapter Next Chapter[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.]