Just before I left the throne room, I heard Chrysalis shout at me, "Hey! The amulet! You'll get slaughtered without this, you imbecile!"

  Oh yeah, the amulet, right. I turned around just in the nick of time to catch the amulet as it was thrown at me. I staggered a bit, but I regained my composure shortly, and resumed my dash to the exit.

  "Sir!" A changeling stammered as I bolted out from the throne room, startling him in the process. Fortunately, I managed to avoid bumping into him, albeit barely.

   "I, uh, was ordered to find you and bring you to the battlefield. Uh, sir, if you may please come with me?" The changeling stuttered.

   I smirked coldly, "I know the way to the exit," I stated, "Although, where is the battle gonna occur?" I inquired.

   "Um, just go directly left after you exit the castle, you should be able to meet up with a changeling squad, sir." The changeling responded, "This place has a very elaborate structure, are you certain you don't need me to guide you?" The changeling added, to which I replied with a simple "Nah."

  "You've helped me more than enough, mate. Thanks!" I exclaimed as I ran through the dark rooms of the cave network.

  I made my way around the tunnel network with slight difficulty, I managed to remember where the entrance is at, so I really didn't require a guide to point out which direction I was suppose to go.

  As I ran, I began to think, why am I assisting the changelings? Well, most likely because of the Alicorn amulet, who knows what a human with magic could wreak. Perhaps, I simply want revenge, and with the aid of the changelings, revenge will be even more easy to obtain.

  Speaking of which, I still have the amulet grasped in my hand, hm, I'm getting curious. Well, it is mine now. I halted my running and proceeded to wear it.

  Power, immense power. I could feel it, I don't know how, but I could just sense its presence within me.

  "Holy hell, that felt great!" I shouted at nothing in particular.

   I shook my head. Oh, right, right. I gotta make haste to the battlefield.

  But before I began to even take a step, I stopped, "Hm, why walk, when you can teleport?" I said to myself with a malicious grin. But that thought was short-lived, I am not familiar with magic, considering I'm from a race that's not suppose to even wield it in the first place.

  "Hm, come on, think. How does one teleport?" I asked myself.

  "Hm, perhaps you just need to visualize the location in your mind?"

  So I closed my eyes and pictured just outside the abandoned castle and then, I concentrated. And lo and behold, I disappeared in a flash of light from my original location to my intended destination, however, I now feel very nauseous.

   After regaining my composure from my staggered state, I quickly ran towards the Everfree forest, only to run to the opposite direction after realizing that the direction I was going to was the right, not the left.

  Making my way around the murky forest, I heard a faint whisper, "Wilson! Over here!" I turned around to pinpoint the source of the voice, it was Andrei perching on top of a tree.

  "Andrei!-" I couldn't finish my sentence as he cut me off, "Sh! The Royal guards are heading this way, scouts might hear you." Andrei whispered just loud enough to be barely audible.

  "Right, so, what's the plan?" I whispered back.

  "Well, we're planning on ambushing them. But you're the one in charge, right?" He replied.

   Oh yeah, I'm supposed to be their tactician and all that. Welp, this is where all of my experience in strategy games payoff, "I suppose that's correct. So, how much time is left until they get here, and how large is their squad exactly?"

  "They'll most likely arrive in about five minutes," Andrei replied, "As for the amount of opposition, I'd say somewhere from thirty to forty, we're outnumbered by ten or possibly more."

   Dammit, that doesn't exactly reassure me, and only an estimated five minutes until they get here? Also, we're outnumbered? Ugh, screw it.

  "Alright, I'll distract them for a while, and when I give the signal, I'll need you guys to overpower them." I said, yeah, what bloody brilliant plan, what could possibly go worse?

  "I suppose we could do that, but, one question, what exactly is the 'signal?'" Andrei inquired.

  Then I paused, I didn't even think of a good way to signal them, "Er, just- when I fire my weapon, yeah. That's the signal." I replied.

  "Well, okay." Andrei replied as he concealed himself in the tree.

   And now, we play the waiting game I suppose.

   Time passed agonizingly slow, however, that did not persuade me to lower my guard. Then there it was, the squad of Royal guards, damn, that was a lot of them. Pegasi hovering just above them, earth ponies armed with swords marching with them, and unicorns preparing their magic as they saw me.

  Then I saw that one particular bastard of a pony, the captain from the wall. The one that gave the order to exterminate me and my friend.

  Luckily, he only succeeded in killing one of us off.

  They closed in even nearer to me, soon, they were only mere a few steps away from me. The captain approached me with a smug smirk.

  "It appears we've finally manage to find you, beast." He finally spoke.

  "Yes, it appears so, mongrel." I spat.

   "You've slaughtered several my soldiers, monster. What do you say about that?"

   "I say that you attacked me and my friend, whom you killed, for no reason!" I countered.

   "We were given orders to keep monsters away from Ponyville, and to the rest of us, you look exactly like one." He spoke, "If you didn't murder my troops, I would've let you escape." He coldly added.

   "Now, I found you. I will avenge my comrades and I will have your head." He claimed before lunging at me with a blade. I managed to dodge him by quickly strafing to the left, giving me an opportunity to do a counter-attack.

   I focused, and I released a large shock wave from the palm of my hand, sending the captain flying straight to a tree, I heard a large cracking noise as he collided with said tree. Hmph, he's going to hold a grudge.

  "That thing killed the captain!" One of the ponies shouted in fear, well that's an exaggeration, I'm quite certain that's he's unconscious, but not dead, riddled with injuries, but alive, nonetheless.

  "That thing can use magic! Get him before he slaughters us all!" One of the unicorns added in horror.

   And incomes the familiar volley of arrows and rays of light. I quickly teleported behind a tree for cover, to avoid being murdered, to which gave me an opportunity to shoot them down my revolver as they were in a state of confusion prior to my teleportation.

   But then I remembered, I can't use the revolver, no, now's not the time to give my changelings the signal. So I thought, what I could do at this point, then I remembered, I could use offensive magic, duh.

   So I managed to conjure a form of magic attack, then I pointed my arm which was channeling magic to the sky. One by one, several pitch black swords materialized from the sky above my four-legged adversaries.

   Only a small portion of the Royal guards noticed the blades hovering above them, not even the pegasi, it was hovering just above them, and those that did notice the blades were either too awestruck, or too horrified to move.

   After seeing that the amount of swords blotting the sky was favorable, I lowered my hand; I sent the swords raining down on my foes. It was morbid, to say the least.

   I could hear their screams of agony and terror, I could see the swords impaling them, I could see the looks of horrors on those that were lucky to survive. I could even see some of them struggling and flailing as a sword pinned them down to the dirt, but they suddenly stopped their thrashing and remained still, as their blood tainted the grounds that they were on.

   Yet, I did not feel anything, instead, I felt like they got what they deserved. Why? I know I wanted vengeance, but this is way too grim dark. Maybe the amulet is influencing me already?

   As the squall of swords ended, I commanded my magic to withdraw my magic from the arcane swords, causing the swords to disperse in the process, as expected. However, the screams did not cease, I could still hear screams of agony and what sounds like sobbing.

   I emerged from my cover and saw something that would've most likely force me to vomit. I saw dead corpses, some had faces of horror and astonishment plastered on them. And some weren't even dead, they were barely alive, they were crawling towards their allies in desperation, they were slowly bleeding out.

   I even witnessed a few of them sobbing and lying on the ground visibly shaking, they were probably traumatized for all of their lives.

   Still, I didn't feel anything, instead, I walked towards them without remorse or a single feeling of guilt. Those that were lucky enough to not be maimed or traumatized drew their weapons on me, albeit, they were nervous and scared as all hell.

   "So, are all of you prepared to give up? Or do I have to knock you all out? I want at least ten prisoners from this encounter." I claimed in a very icy tone.

    Damn, that was awfully dark, was that actually me or the amulet?

   Hm, no response, they still held their weapons at me shakily, and their legs were still shaking as well. Some were even failing to hold their tears back, for obvious reasons.

   "What's wrong? You know, it's rude to stare." I slyly stated.

   Still nothing, oh well. Focusing speed enhancing magic on myself, I grabbed one of the guards by the throat in the blink of an eye, causing some of the guards to close in on me, and some to gasp.

   "Give up now, or I'll rip this one in two." I stated coldly. One by one, they reluctantly lowered their arms however, the pony that I had in my grasp spoke, "D-don't surrender to this thing. Kill him, you must usher retribution to our comrades." He coughed.

   "Hm, you're a brave one, I'll give you that. But still, I highly doubt all of you could take me down." I said causing them to lower their arms once again.

   "Good, now throw them away." I added, and they complied by discarding their weapons.

   With them unarmed, I drew my revolver, aimed at the sky, and pulled the trigger. The crackling noise that the revolver created was enough to make them cringe.

   Soon, changelings began to emerge from the trees, "Take them all to the hive!" I ordered them, and so they did, they began to escort the captured ponies.

   "Wow, you didn't even need our help," I heard Andrei said as he trotted next to me, "How did you learn to use magic at a ridiculous rate?" Andrei questioned, his tone filled with a complex mixture of astonishment, horror, and curiosity.

   "I guess I'm just a natural." I simply replied.

   "So, should we, leave now?" Andrei suggested.

   I shook my head, there was one last thing I have to do. I looked around my surroundings and spotted what I was looking for; the unconscious captain, "I still have a little something I have to do before we leave." I said, my voice sounded neutral, but, one could tell that it contained hatred.

   Andrei looked concerned for me as I approached the captain's unconscious body.

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