Chain of Hearts: Hyperion

Jail was hell. POW from the griffin war was in the section I was in…yeah, I remember fighting some of them and they remember me. They heard what I did from the guards and somehow pay them off, as the guards brought me to the shower area and left me there…there with twenty griffins. I thought for sure, I was going to die there. Thanks to my military training in CQC (close quarter combat), I was able to hold some of them off but in the end, I was over powered. I still remember laying there on the blood covered floor. My right hind leg was broken, had open cuts around my body and shoulder was broken as well.

“Bring his flank up!”…those words echo in my mind as my flank was pulled up and laughter could be heard as the leader of the group walk behind me and stroke my flank with his…I was powerless to stop him as I laid there, coughing up blood.

Their laughter soon turned to screams as a group of earth ponies came crashing in and started to fight with the POW griffins. The earth ponies that crashed the beat down were from the gang known as “Hype”. They took me away as they held off the griffins.

They took me back to their leader cell and tried to stop the bleeding. I remember seeing him for the first time. He was the great hero from the griffin war before being imprison for a war crime. His fur was black and his mane was blood red…his name is Hyperion. “Need some protecting, comrade?” he said to me as I black out from blood lost.

The prison guards soon stop the fight that went down in the shower area and bought those who was involved, to the dark cells…included me after prison doctors patch me up. The dark cells are just cells but in complete darkness. There no windows and nopony are feed for four weeks too. I mostly slept while my time there but I did hear the others…I heard crying, begging for food, laughter, praying and even scratching on the steel doors…sometimes, I heard nothing.

The only reason I survived was because very small portion of food was teleported into my cell. This was very odd, since unicorn prisoners magic are sealed away and I knew food was never given to the others…somepony pay off the unicorn guards it seems.

Within the darkness, I saw things. I saw figures as they surround me and whispered at me. I think I was going insane or something…but then I saw it, a huge door. The door had princess Celestia and Luna on it, with weird symbols around them. I crawled my way to it as it opened…standing there was Hyperion.

My time in the dark cell was up, as four weeks had pass. I soon learned from Hyperion, he was the one who pay off the unicorn guards. He knew my war record and wanted me to join his gang. With no reason, I joined him. By joining them, I was safe from the remaining POWs but not from the rival gangs. It seems Hyperion gang was dead lock with two other gangs. He just wanted me because of my military skills. Mind you, there were very few Equestria soldiers in the prison I was in. Hyperion needed me for an upcoming prison riot, which he was planning. During this chaos, him and I will track down the two gang leaders and kill them. I told him, I’ll help him track the gang leaders down but I’ll not help kill them.

A few nights later, the riot started and just like I said, I didn’t help him. I just heard their dying screams as I stood outside of the storage room. After the screams finally ended, Hyperion came out, covered in blood and smiled at me. “Let’s pay the warden a visit!” he told me as he took off. I quickly took off after him and when I arrived to the warden office, Hyperion was ready to kill him…I stop Hyperion by flipping him over but his training kick in and he recovered and push me into the hallway and we started to fight. We fought with CQC and soon, I was on top of him and holding a broken window shard near his neck. “DO IT!” he yelled at me. “DO IT BOY! YOU’RE A KILLER LIKE ME! I SEE IT IN YOUR EYE!” he screamed at me as a grin formed on his face. I told him I wasn’t as I stood up from him. “STOP FOOLING YOURSELF!” he yelled as he slowly stood up. That’s when I saw it. I was like Hyperion so many years ago…I just wanted to kill. Hoping shedding blood will ease my pain…but Hyperion eyes…they had nothing. If I ever walk that path again, I’ll just end up like Hyperion again…but as a mad colt who just wants to kill and nothing more…a monster…

The riot soon got into control and everything return to normal…until the warden came to my cell and order me to follow him. He brought me to the mess hall and there, I was met with a white unicorn, which had a pink, green and blue stripe mane and tail. She…well, I think it was a mare…she look female but had a boyish voice, anyway, she came to me and handed me my release papers…from the princess from herself. I was surprised but something even more shocking happens next…
“You’re going to be the bodyguard of one of the princess students.” She said. I ask who and she just pointed to herself. “Howdy. The name is Pastel!” she smiled as she smacks my back.