"An eye that sees what the other senses detect. But what does that have to do with you mistaking me for Ensin?"

"You see, when I was looking for Ensin, I knew he came to Gridfeather often because he wore clothes from here, different from the other diamond dogs. I looked for scent colors similar to that of Ensin's, you happen to have almost the same scent color. When I saw you through my 'bad' eye, You looked just like him, although, since diamond dogs are colorblind, might have not been the best idea." He looked back down at the stream, "Then I reopened my left eye to aim the bow and arrow." He held up an imaginary bow to demonstrate.

"So what was the difference between me and Ensin?"

"I look at you know and see you have brighter, more pure scent colors. But scent colors can be affected by things like pheromones or sweat." It made sense, now for the last question.

"Why did you take those steps forward in the battle." He put his paw over his left eye.

"Whenever I'm moving, sometimes my vision separates and so I have to get closer in order for both my eyes to get back in sync. It doesn't make sense unless you think of two translucent pictures overlapping each other, the picture moves too much and the image splits somewhat and you have to adjust it again." He lies down on the grass.

"So now what do we do?"

"Heh... First, we get some sleep. Then, training begins..." We set up camp and take shifts between sleeping and watching guard to make sure no one ambushes us. I look at the sky, realizing how little I knew about the world. I was in uncharted territory. Thoughts started swimming through my mind.

'What to do... I needed to think of a plan. Eol and I can train on the go, but where would we go? This world was vast in it's own part, traveling in it wasn't going to be easy, especially on foot. What are we going to do...'

'Know your enemy as well as know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster,' the quote of Sun Tzu's words fresh in my mind. I decided to build up from the beginning.

'Who am I?'

'I am Aoi Myoujin, known to others as the Lunar Legend.'

'Who is my enemy?'

'My enemy is the oppression and cruelty that reigns across these lands...'

That established, what do I need to defeat my enemy? Support for our cause, Awareness of our cause, and for any war, well trained troops and ample supply. I am here, this is now my purpose. First off would be to gain support and awareness to our cause, therefore I needed to get in touch with world leaders. Keith mentioned that the Leaders of Equestria were Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, so they're my best bet for support in the cause. I could talk to them at the Grand Galloping Gala, making that my first destination. I pulled out the paper and looked at the date, then woke up Eol when it was his shift to ask him.

"Hey Eol, when is the Grand Galloping Gala?" I had no idea how dates worked in this world, I handed him the paper.

"It says here that the Grand Galloping Gala is in a few days," This gave me cause for alarm, I looked at the map to see the Equestrian border near out position. We had to move quickly, but how? I thought it over for a second. Until we found a mode of transportation, we would have to run the entire way to make up for time.

"Well then we better get moving, I have to get an audience with the Princess soon. How long can you run for at top speed?"

"Diamond dogs have stable bodies, but running at top speed, at most an hour before we have to slow down."

"Well now," I gathered all of our things together, "I guess training begins with Endurance." Eol chuckled. After we had our bearings we started to make a beeline for the nearest town. I explained to Eol why we were running,

"One of the first steps is that we have to make known our cause and gather some support from someone influential, the most influential being Princess Celestia, and the event she's hosting, the Grand Galloping Gala. We can make it in time if we get to a town with a train station to take us to Canterlot. But for now, we can train along the way."

"How so?" I slice of two branches with a dashing cut, then catch one, Eol catches the other and smiles.

"Lesson number one, climbing." His smile turns into one of nervous excitement.

"Try and run up the next tree in front of you, we have enough momentum," He decided to trust me and managed to run up it his first try. Not bad. I do the same. We both end up on the tops of trees.

"Next, use your sense of hearing to detect where the next tree branch is, then jump, keeping the momentum all the way through. If you can keep your legs steady when you land, most of the time you'll ace the landing." He picked up on my advice quickly and soon was fluidly jumping and keeping up with me.

"Now, last one to reach town has to buy the weapons..."

"Wait weapons?"

"Of course, forging could take weeks and you have a broken sword, you'll need something to defend yourself."

"Good point." What he didn't know was what we were going to use them for. We hit the Equestrian border in a few minutes. I had a gigantic smile on my face.

"Quiz, are you ready to jump the wall? Failure means you'll have to take the long way around.

"How in Celestia's name are we going to jump that?"

"On the second to last tree that you see near the wall, land putting as much weight as you can on the end of the branch, turning it into a spring."

"Makes sense," He nodded his head to the side, like he was struggling to understand the concept. We cleared the wall and caught a glance at the bewildered guards' faces.

"See ya!" He laughed at his accomplishment.

"Aoi, I can honestly say I have NEVER done that before."

"There are a lot of things you haven't done yet. If that's how you react to every new thing, I better get myself some earplugs."

We reached the next town, Brismane, in a few hours. I let him get ahead of me since he didn't really have money.

"Haha! I win..." He had the widest grin on his face, but he was clearly out of breath.

"Alright then, I'll buy the weapons, and some drinks on me," we stopped at a nearby drink stand and got two drinks, Eol grimaced at the taste of lemonade, I smiled at his reaction.

"Now, lesson number 2," we walked into an armory and I glanced at something that would be a good weapon for Eol, brass knuckles, "A brass knuckle, a short sword, and some iron gauntlets," the shopkeeper immediately stacked the weapons on the counter, we paid our bits and left. I tossed him the brass knuckled and gauntlets. He slipped them on with a quizzical look. I drew Kokuryu and shaved the edges off of the blade, making it dull, then re sheathed Kokuryu, "You are caught in a fight surrounded by hundreds of civilians that you don't want to see hurt, options now!" I swing my sword, Eol Blocking the swing with his gauntlets, understanding why I bought them. Immediately he scrambled over some barrels onto the roof of the store. I jumped and landed lightly on the roof, going for a low sweep of his legs.

"Good, not many civilians walk on the roofs of houses. Now you're thinking." I swing my sword a couple of more times, he deflects the first, then slides the knuckle under the swing, batting it away. He was adjusting well now that he had a flexible shield to deflect swords. I kept going on the offensive, pushing him towards the ledge of the roof until his feet were on the edge.

"You're now cornered, and now you have limited options, what are those options?" He tried punching me, I parried with a swing of my sword. He then jumped to the next roof, I followed swinging at him, he turned around in midair and parried. We landed and I lowered my sword to my side.

"Excellent, you just learned that not all fights are grounded, you must use unexpected opportunities to turn the tide of battle, but remember, don't attack at every possible opportunity. Now then, let's give these people a good show, shall we?" I winked. He looked around him and saw many ponies were gazing at the rooftops, wondering what the hell a diamond dog and a wolf were doing fighting in the middle of town. He turned his attention back to me and gave a sly grin. He started the offense this time, going for a low punch, I dodged with a sidestep to the left and batted his arm away, punching him upside the head, he stumbled and teetered on the edge of the roof, regaining his balance he turned around trying to get me with a backhand, I guarded and turned with the impact, gaining momentum for a leg sweep. The crowd gasped as he jumped and turned, hitting me in the head with a roundhouse kick, I staggered backwards. He was learning to read me. Time to take this up a notch, I started to run away, him chasing after me, then stopped abruptly and turned to hit him in the side of the head with a backhanded slash, he immediately recoiled with the attack, a long mark showing where I hit him. I continued my attack by starting with a slash downwards he crossed his arms to parry but I jerked the sword to the right and turned to hit him in the neck, he coughed and grasped his neck due to the pain of the impact.

The crowd gasped in excitement and horror, never had they seen a brutish fight such as this in their life. Then he charged, skidding his foot in a slide, kicking up dust that had accumulated on the roof, I heard the whistle of the gauntlet and immediately guarded, but the force of the impact knocked me off the roof. I landed on the ground hopping backwards and jumping onto the next roof over. Fortunately he was teaching me as well as I was teaching him. I never saw any style of hand to hand combat like Eol's before, I was excited. He ran and jumped over the gap between the roofs, his arm pulled back to deliver a punch. I side stepped and turned, hitting him in the back of the head with the flat of the blade, knocking him onto the ground. He's too over dramatic in his attacks that he leaves himself open to dodging attacks. I made a mental list of flaws in his combat skills, we'd practice those skills later. He used the momentum to flip himself over back into standing position. He turned around to reveal dust all over his face and a now messy new mo hawk, I jerked forward snickered, trying so hard to hold back a laugh from his ruffled look. He growled, smoothing back his fur and started to charge again, guess he didn't take it well. I blocked the punch with the flat of the blade and shifted it, making him skew off tangent to me, open for a drop kick that left him lying on the roof, dazed.

"Sleeping in class? We still have a lot of work to do," I realized, this was the first time I was actually taunting my opponent. I was actually enjoying the fight. I picked him up by the scruff and booted him off the roof, causing him to land on his ass on the street below. He winced as he landed and got back up. I jumped down and landed in front of him. I lowered the short sword to my side.

"So, what have we learned," The crowd was surprised at my announcement. Eol rubbed his sore backside.

"One, attacks can come from anywhere, so you got to be aware of what or who's attacking you at every given moment, and two, you are one sadistic teacher, Aoi." I looked at him with a surprised face, then laughed out loud. Then a mare started to trot up to me, then pointed a hoof at me.

"Wait I know you... you're the one from Stalliongrad! I recognize you from the paper!" She looked at me with wide eyes. The crowd started to close in on us, then a swarm of stallions and colts with camera's started taking pictures of me and asking a swarm of Questions, I looked at Eol and nodded. I jumped back onto the roof, he did the same, and we jumped from rooftop to roof top the crowd following us at the edge of the city walls. Then turned around.

"Mares and Gentle-colts I do believe me and my brother are pressed for time, so if you don't mind we'll be on our way." I grabbed Eol by the scruff and we jumped over the wall into the forests below. Eol and I both hearing a shout on the other side of the wall,

"AFTER HIM!" We started running again. About a half a mile away from Brismane, we heard the city gate open and a swarm of reporters galloping towards us, determined to get the scoop on me. After 2 months of experience being chased by the paparazzi, you learn to be able to avoid them easily. We stayed camouflaged in the shadows of the trees, running silently on the ground, keeping a close eye on the road for any stray ponies. I pulled out the map and marked our next destination, there was a town just a few miles north from where we were. Hopefully they had some sort of transportation to take us to Canterlot. I looked back at Eol, he was kind of sore from Our fight, so I slowed down to a fast walk.

"Let's slow down for a bit, I wanted to talk to you about something..."

"What is it?"

"Where you learned how to fight, did someone teach you?"

"I taught myself, no one wanted to teach a diamond dog how to fight in Gridfeather..." His mood turned to ashamed.

"Why?"

"Gridfeather was mostly griffin based, there's distrust between them and the residing diamond dogs because of the notion that ALL diamond dogs kidnap other species for slaves. So the griffins wouldn't allow the sale of weapons to diamond dogs. I got my sword from a connection inside the city. The rest of the time, I taught myself hand to hand combat by brawling in pubs and other rowdy places. I've been given the bum's rush on more than one occasion... what about you?"

"The best that I could find to teach me..." A slight glare in Eol's direction signaled him to drop the topic.

"Oh yeah, I'm not one for using these, so here, do you know how to use them?" I handed him the belt of vials and blow gun, along with 7 to 8 darts. He looked at the gear and then at me, then nodded. He put the belt around his waist, and loaded the blow gun and slipped that into a sleeve on the belt. I slipped Kokuryu in my obi and we continued for a few more steps. Simultaneously, I drew Kokuryu and Eol readied his boxer stance and turned to our right.

"Who's there." Suddenly three diamond dogs came out from behind the trees, both with a similar appearance to Eol, more sleek and stood upright. Definitely higher classed.

Talking with Eol, I found out differences between the diamond dogs. They had a caste hierarchy based on their resemblance to wolves. Omegas were heavy lifters who walked slouched, their arms extending even below their kneecaps. They were considered rather insignificant. Then there were the Gatas, ones who stood upright but were rather rounded in the abdominal area, they usually detected gem veins. Then the Betas, who were rather skinny and stood upright, with very flexible bodies and smoothed out fur, they mined and were guards, and held above average intelligence, able to speak fluently. Also, as later described by Eol, squad leaders of capture groups. Then the Alphas, who have shiny fur, and stood taller than the rest, they led the pack due to the belief that they share a close bloodline with wolves, as well as their intellect.

The dogs looked very much like Betas, all with bows and arrows, they weren't here to capture us. Surprisingly they slowly walked up to us and knelt.

"We proudly pledge our allegiance to the Lunar Legend," I was surprised, Eol wasn't.

"I told you what we did would make waves." The tallest of the Beta's stood and greeted me.

"I am Koal, my companions are Elt and Ubi. We've left our clan in hopes of joining your clan." He glanced down at Eol.

"What's the meaning of this? A young one so brazenly stands at your side?" I punch Koal in the face, sending him into the tree behind him.

"Why are you doing this?" Elt gets up.

"No one insults by brother," I return my fist to my side, "You'll do well to respect him. I wonder if you are even worthy of joining my clan." Koal stands up dazed. I wink at Eol.

"So, those who wish to join my clan must pass one test, you must fight Eol in unarmed combat." Eol grinned and cracked his knuckles.

"We are from clans of high regard, why won't you accept us?" Elt asked confused, Ubi stayed quiet.

"Rank and name mean nothing to me, you have to prove yourselves if you wish to stand by me," My tone turned harsh. All three of them became nervous. They dropped their swords and took up stances, except for Ubi who took a skewed stance with arms at his side. Koal rushed Eol, but was quickly downed by a sidestep and an elbow to the back of the head. Elt tried now and tried to kick, Eol grabbed his leg with both paws and twisted it, causeing a pop sound to emanate from Elt's knee. He looked a me and shrugged,

"Too much?" Then he looked back at Ubi, still silent. Eol waited for him to make the first move. Ubi slowly walked toward him, his eyes not blinking. Something was different about this guy.

"Eol, duck!" He reacted and ducked to avoid a roundhouse kick, but then got nailed as Ubi reeled backwards and slammed his fist on Eol's head. He stumbled backwards. Ubi started to have a cold look in his eyes, One I knew before.

"Eol, get behind me." Eol reluctantly did. I started to match Ubi's gaze. He started to walk towards me slowly, I slowed time down to catch his movements. I jumped over a low sweep, then countered a punch he thrust while I was still in mid air, back flipping and kicking the fist away, then landing backwards. Time reverted back to normal. I knew for a fact what Ubi's fighting style was, It was one of deception, one almost similar to that of some Chinese martial styles. For 20 seconds I matched each of Ubi's attacks blow for blow, his gaze still kept on me and mine on him. Until I slowed time down to nail a heavy punch to the chest, causing him to fall backwards onto the ground. He was hiding strength, heavy strength. He slowly got up for round two.

"This test is over. Ubi..." I smiled, "I, Aoi Myoujin, officially except you into our clan." Koal and Elt's jaws dropped while Ubi's expression turned into one of surprised, completely contrasting the look he had while we were fighting.

"Koal, Elt, you come here thinking your names and your clans will earn you respect, but what you lack is humility and skill, when you've acquired both, you may join our clan." They had their tail between their legs, and left, utterly disgraced. Ubi stayed, deadpanning.

"Ubi, are you okay?" He nodded, "Can you talk?"

"Yes..." he was blunt, and his face turned calm. He was taller than Eol but a foot shorter than me.

"How old are you?"

"26..." He was older than me.

"So how do you feel, being apart of the clan?" I tried to make him feel comfortable. He had an expression of subtle joy on his face, then looked at me.

"Happy..."

"Alright then, we need to double time it if we're going to make it to Canterlot in time, Ubi can you run for long?"

"Yes..."

"Great, In that case we can head out," Eol came out from behind me, him and Ubi looked at each other, Ubi rubbing his the back of his head.

"Don't worry about it, I've been hit harder by Aoi here many times, some even recently," he glared at me with a coy smile.

"Alright you two, let's get going, next stop..." I put up the map.

"...Ponyville."