Ash's P.O.V

It has been two days since Moon came down with her sickness and after those two days she was cured. Both Blackthorn and Hoplite were great company during that time and both Moon and Luna suggested they should be guarding our bedroom doors more often. We all even watched Game of Thrones along with every Hobbit movie then The Lord of The Rings trilage and all of them were enthralled. Now I was sitting at a table in a random room in the castle with Tempest sitting opposite me and right before us was a chess set. Tempest was the white pieces and I played black.

"Whoa this is intense," Grubber said as he sat on the side with Flash Magnus.

"Indeed, a true battle of wits. Chess is a game where every piece is necessary to sacrifice," Flash said.

"Shh," I hissed.

"In case you haven't noticed we're concentrating," Tempest growled.

"Sorry," Grubber and Magnus whispered.

"Hmm," Tempest hummed before her eyes widened. "Ah-ha bishop takes queen, let's see you get out of this one."

"Good move Tempest," I said.

"So you give up?" Tempest asked smugly

"Tell me Tempest, just how many pawns are there in chess?" I asked.

"Eight," Tempest said.

"Right and how many have you taken?" I asked.

"Seven but what's your point?" Tempest asked.

"Well it seems that my lone pawn is in quite a favourable position now that you've moved your bishop," I said as I moved my pawn forward diagonally from the king. "Checkmate," I said as I gestured to my rooks, knight and bishop all poised to take the king.

"Aw come on!" Tempest shouted as she sat back in her chair with a huff.

"That's twenty eight for me how about we go twenty nine out of thirty or do you want that rematch Flash?" I asked.

"What and suffer more humiliation, no thanks," Flash said with a dismissive wave.

"Yeah you haven't even lost one match yet Your Powerfulness," Grubber said.

"Grubber I told you before, you don't need to treat me like The Storm King just because I have a crown," I said as I used my magic to reset the pieces.

"Sorry...Y'know, you weren't what I was expecting when I first heard about you," Grubber said.

"Oh and what did you hear?" I asked with a fatherly smile as I turned to face the hedgehog.

"I don't know, from the stories of your achievements I took you as a terrifying warrior along with the fact that I haven't known any kings besides The Storm King. So I just assumed you were...kinda like him, not well...this," Grubber said.

"And does this upset you?" I asked.

"No, no, no your a total upgrade," Grubber said quickly while I just chuckled.

"Relax Grubber I was only having fun...but one thing you need to know about kings; it's not the crown that makes them, a king is supposed to be able to protect, serve, lead and support his subjects and if they can't do that then they can't call themselves a king. The Storm King is no different. He ruled all through fear and lies, the way of a tyrant. Gods know how many of those I've seen cause I've lost count," I said.

Suddenly the door opens and Rainbow flies in.

"Hey Rainbow Dash quick question, how do you beat this guy?" Tempest asked while she pointed at me.

"Uh you were trying to beat Ash in a game of chess?" Rainbow asked.

"What's the problem?" Tempest asked.

"Tempest, you saw how he smoked us back when we played Domination. Every time someone challenges him to a game of chess we always lose," Rainbow said.

"Every time?" Flash asked.

"Every single damn time," Rainbow said while she glared at me.

"Hey not my fault your brain ain't built for strategy," I chuckled and before Rainbow could offer a retort Tempest spoke up.

"So Rainbow wanna tell us what it is your doing here?" Tempest asked.

"Oh yeah Ash the girls and me were wondering if we could ask you a favor," Rainbow said.

"Shoot," I said.

"Uh you mind following me, we all kinda wanted to ask you this," Rainbow said.

"Alright then," I said as I got up and followed Rainbow to the gardens before linking up with the mane six.

"Oh good you found him Rainbow," Rarity said.

"Yeah, guy just chalked up another win in chess against Tempest," Rainbow groaned.

"Twenty eight against Tempest, fifteen against Flash Magnus actually," I said smugly.

"I swear this Ash, one day I shall be victorious against you," Rarity promised.

"Looking forward to it," I said.

"Ahem," Twilight said drawing our attention. "Now Ash I'm glad your here because we want to ask you for a favor regarding our war against the caribou," Twilight said.

"I'm listening," I said.

"Well you already know about The Storm King incident somehow but that can wait till later. My, or rather our, favor is that we borrow The Pale Horse and some troops before we head south to Klugetown where we then head to The Cloud Sea and then Mount Aris so we can rescue some friends of ours, " Twilight said causing me to look at the group.

"No-," I startedd.

"WHAT!" The mares shouted.

"Bu-," Twilight began but I raised a hand to stop her.

"If you'll let me finish please...Now the reason I said no is because of three things: One, you six are still in combat training so it would be irresponsible of me to let you do such a thing. Two, last I checked none of you know how to pilot my ship so that's out. Three, you plan to go into caribou occupied territory with a couple of guardians to protect you...Your coltfriends would have a field day with me if I let that happen. Besides I want to meet these friends just as much as you want to save them so I see only one method that benefits us both; me and the Harbingers joining you," I said with a smile.

"Huh?" the girls asked.

12:50pm Over Bone Dry Dessert

The sky was clear as the heat bore down on us from Celestia's sun. The clouds had long since left us as we sailed over the harsh dessert. I looked at the girls and Spike and saw they were trying to avoid looking at the sand below. Tempest, Grubber and Gilda were also coming along for the ride as well.

"Something the matter?" I asked.

"Ugh it's just looking at the dessert below is making us feel exhausted," Spike said.

"Oh that's right, you guys had to walk across the sands last time you were here," I said as I looked back over the railing.

"Hey, how did you know about that?" Spike asked.

"Speaking of, how did you know both Grubber's and my names?" Tempest asked.

"And about the Pillars of Equestria?" Rage asked as he, Elisa and Evan came up from below deck.

"Same way the departed look over the living," I said

"And how's that done?" Rage asked.

"You know that spell Faust used when she was trapped within Limbo?" I asked.

"You mean the Phantom Presence Spell?" Rage asked causing me to nod.

"Yep there's a gate up there that uses that spell. All one has to do is walk through it but it can only be used by one person at a time however. For three days a year anyone can go at any time and gods can get around freely," I said.

"What day is that?" Applejack asked.

"Isn't that obvious, October thirty-first to November second, when the veils between the living and the dead are thinnest," I said.

"So you did this all the time?" Rage asked.

"When I wasn't busy and believe me I was busy a lot," I said.

"Wish you could have been there then, you could have given us some help," Spike said.

"What're you talking about, I helped out plenty of times," I said.

"Yeah!" Pinkie said angrily at Spike.

"When?" Rainbow asked. So I held out my hand and three different orbs appeared in it, each one of a different memory.

The first showed us in the house of an anthro orange cat named Capper. He had purple hair atop his head and light orange tuft of floof on his chest. He was wearing a maroon and wine red coat with two gold buttons on the chest and a dark purple patch on the right sleeve and finally he had a dark bandage on his tail.

In the memory it showed the girls and Spike backing away from Tempest and her Storm Beasts while Capper stood off to the side. However there was one thing different about this situation from the groups memories. Standing behind the girls and Spike was me, only I was see through like a ghost in a picture.

"Did I really look that menacing back then?" Tempest asked.

"Uhhh," the girls said collectively.

"Yeah same here did I look that terrifying?" Grubber asked.

"Kay moving on, let me show you what happened," I said before I tapped the sphere causing it to ripple before it played.

Ho ho my goodness," said an anthro mole named Vergo who stood before Tempest. He wore a suit and top hat along with a pair of glasses to protect his eyes from the daylight. He then grabbed Tempest by the face and started turning her head in different directions and she didn't seem all too pleased about it either. "Well look at you with your scary broken horn and scowly eyes. What tricks do you know my little pony wony?"

While that was going on I looked around for an escape route and saw the window behind us just as the fin of a windmill went past. I then tapped Pinkie on the shoulder which caused her to look at me.

"Pinks I've got a plan, get everyone out of here and onto the windmill, hurry," I said causing her to nod before doing as I said.

"What, you mean to tell me that Pinkie knew you were there the whole time and didn't say anything!" Twilight shouted causing me and Pinkie to look at one another before looking to Twilight.

"Yep pretty much," we said causing Twilight to almost blow a gasket.

"Twilight let it go, you know what we all discussed," Rarity said causing Twilight to let out a massive sigh.

So the girls jumped out the window and onto one of the windmill blades, except for Rainbow who flew out of the window, while Tempest was still busy with Vergo and as if answering his question from before Tempest zapped him.

"Not bad," he said before he passed out showing Twilight just about to escape.

"Go, go!" Twilight shouted before she flew out the window.

"Get her now!" Tempest shouted causing the two Storm Beasts to rush after them.

"Your gonna be scared now ponies," Grubber said.

Outside, the girls and Spike were on the windmill blade or were flying beside it while I hovered before it, just watching for now and thinking of how to get them out of there. Suddenly one of the Storm Beasts grabbed hold of another one of the windmill blades, stopping the giant fan all together and trapping the group. Rainbow and Twilight tried pushing it to get it going again and despite the windmill's looks it was seriously damn strong. So drawing a phantom version of Whispering Wind from my back I cut the windmill blade the Storm Beast was grabbing causing it to break. With the force holding the windmill in place now gone, the windmill began to spin around rapidly thanks to Twilight and Rainbow. I then saw this as a way of getting them out of here so I flew to the stem that was holding the giant fan in place before looking at the others.

"I'd say it's time we get out of here you guys," I said before I swung my blade and cut through the metal brace connecting the fan and the stem. This caused the bolts to fall off before the fan detached itself from the rest of the building while I grabbed on. "Yeeee Haaaa hahaha!"

"Ah'm, Gonna, Be, Sick!" Applejack shouted each word every time we made a rotation.

Suddenly we were all thrown off and as luck would have it we landed on a scaffold. However the windmill fan was still rolling after us demolishing the scaffold behind us. We all continued to run and just made it into a passageway before the last of the scaffolding fell.

"We have to get there, to the docks!" Twilight shouted as she pointed at a docked airship.

I then pointed at a sign for Pinkie that showed the way to the docks was up a set of stairs, so Pinkie pushed the rest of the group up the stairs and told them about the signs while doing so. I kept on showing the signs and Pinkie continued to lead the group till we got to the dock. After a tightrope walk and Pinkie nearly going splat on the rocks below, only to be saved by Twilight and dropped onto the deck of the ship causing Pinkie to emit the same sound a squeaky toy makes when squeezed.

"Best Escape Plan EVER!" Pinkie shouted.

"Thanks Pinks," I said as I lay on the deck with them.

"WHAT!" Twilight shouted just as the memory orb disappeared.

"Heh only you could come up with a plan on the spot that involves a windmill fan like that," Rage said.

"Aw stop, ya gonna make me blush. Now the next situation I helped you all in...Oh and Twi before I begin I gotta say...Were you out of your mind!" I shouted causing everyone to step back from my outburst.

"What?" Twilight asked as her ears flattened against her skull.

"I'm talking about how you almost stole the Pearl of Transformation," I said.

"I was desperate and after all we- OUCH!" Twilight shouted after I flicked her on the tip of her horn which knocked her onto her butt.

"Being desperate or not Twilight you just don't go and steal something like that ever. Another thing, what you said to Pinkie, that was so not cool like at all," I said as I kneeled beside her.

"I know and despite their forgiveness I still feel terrible about what I said," Twilight said.

"Good," I said causing the others behind me to gasp and before they could speak I raised a hand. "Remember that feeling Twilight, keep it there that way you'll think ahead the next time you make a choice like that, so you won't feel that pain again," I said causing Twilight to start crying before I placed an arm around her and brought her in for a hug. "Remember Twi, you are the princess of friendship and it's that friendship that makes you strong, always remember that."

"I understand," Twilight said as she wiped away her tears and stepped out of the hug.

"You have some of the most awesome friends Twilight, don't forget that," I said causing the mares in question to puff their chests out with pride

I then went back over to the orbs and enlarged the second one before I began to play it for them. It showed five of the main six, Spike and myself standing on the beach looking up at Capper who was standing on a large rock.

"Now don't get excited ya'll, he's just talking about us," Applejack said causing the mares and dragon to let out dejected groans.

"They even escaped certain doom at the hands of Commander Tempest," Capper said as he slid down the rock before leaping off it and landing on his feet before our group.

"Yeah...that was really great," Rainbow said.

"Are you kidding me?"

Looking up we spotted a group of five all dressed as pirates and all of them were anthro parrots. The first one in the center wore the hat of the captain and wore garbs of gold and brown. She had a large emerald like a peg leg as a right leg and a bracer on her left foot. She had white feathers and blue eyes and she carried a cutlass on her left hip. I knew the captain's name as Captain Celaeno but I wasn't sure of her comrade's names.

"Figured you could use a claw," a buff male parrot with a mechanical right claw said most likely the muscle of the crew.

"We're on board to help you fight The Storm King, just not on board our actual ship," Celaeno said.

"That crazy unicorn sunk it but you got back our aaarrrrhh and we're ready to kick some booty," another male pirate said who wore an eye patch over his right eye causing his crew members to cheer.

Suddenly the sea began to bubble and glow drawing all eyes towards that spot when suddenly the light rose out of the sea and began to change till, with a burst of light, the figure was revealed as a pony wearing old tattered cloth along with sea shells and nets decorating her clothes. She also wore a string of sea shells around her neck and on the left side of her mane was a pinkish red flower. She looked like a pony but the shape of her wings showed more eagle along with her beak instead of a muzzle, talons for hands and feathers on her arms and legs informed everyone that she was actually a hippogriff. She had cream colored fur and feathers and a light blue mane and tail made of feathers. I also knew this mare as Princess Skystar.

"Is that what I think it is?" Capper asked while we all stared in awe at what transpired, as the hippogriff landed on the ground before us.

"Helloooo me again. I'm gonna get so grounded but I talked things over with Shelly and Sheldon (her clam friends) and they pointed out that you were just trying to help your friends so I wanna help too," Skystar said before she flew over to Pinkie. "Because you know one small thing can make a really big difference," Skystar said whispering the last words to Pinkie.

"That's it right, we didn't make friends with anypony else?" Spike asked.

"Geeze dude, don't sound grateful for what ya got," I said as I facepalmed.

"All right y'all I think our course is clear...Ya'll ready to do this thing?" Capper asked.

"We're coming Twilight!" Pinkie shouted causing everyone to cheer. "As soon as we bake up a plan."

"Uh I hate to be a downer here but how are we gonna get back? It's gonna take days to get there by foot," Spike said.

"Spike's got a point, we're gonna need a miracle to get there in time," Rainbow said.

"Oh is that all. Well one miracle coming up," I said as I outstretched an arm towards the sky.

Suddenly the clouds above began to part and suddenly a large airship flew out of the clouds and came to a stop right before us. It was the exact same one that Tempest sunk much to everyone's shock except Pinkie.

"Oooo you've been busy," Pinkie said while I raised a finger to my lips and smirked.

"It's our ship," one of the pirates said in shock.

"But I thought you said it was sunk," Rarity said.

"It was, we saw it go down ourselves," Celaeno said.

"How's this possible?" Capper asked.

"Guess we have somebody watching over us," Pinkie said before she bounced towards the ship with a smile as the memory orb disappeared.

"Ah knew it, ah knew you knew what was going on!" Applejack shouted as she pointed at Pinkie while the pink mare only giggled.

"Okay what was the last incident?" Rainbow asked.

I enlarged the next orb and pressed play on it. It showed a massive beast aiming a long black staff with a crystal at the tip that was sparking with power at both Tempest and Twilight. I knew this creature only as The Storm King.

"See ya," The Storm King said as he was about to unleash a blast of power.

Suddenly through the tornado like winds came a massive ball of fire that slammed into The Storm King, knocking him inside. The ball of fire turned out to be Spike, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy and finally Rage himself. It was at that moment I decided to pause the show.

"Hey Rage, I've been wondering but where were you when all this went down to begin with?" I asked.

"Showing Eris the sights of Earth while Discord was touring Equestria while Faust, Dream Catcher and Chrysalis were at a diplomatic meeting in Griffonstone. It was when I got back did I realise Equestria was in trouble again. So after tearing shit up in Ponyville, I was about to go to Canterlot when I saw Celaeno's ship flying over. I went to show them my sword play however upon seeing five of the girls and Spike I stopped and they told me of the major problem before we came up with a plan to storm Canterlot, and it was awesome. Hey Pinks remember that present I was hiding in before jumping out with a M134 Minigun shouting double surprise?" Rage asked.

"Sure did and boy were they surprised but I was even more surprised when the bullet's just knocked them out," Pinkie said.

"Really?" I asked.

"Yeah, they were hellfire rounds and since ponies were only captured and not killed surprisingly, they were only knocked out.

"I talked The Storm King into only capturing ponies instead of killing them so I guess that's why," Tempest said.

"So they did bad things but not bad enough to be killed by Rage...guess that's fair," Rainbow said

This just caused me to shake my head with a smile before I resumed the memory.

"Bullseye," Pinkie said.

"Ugh well said Pinkie," Rage said before he stood up and shook his head.

"Pinkie! You all came back. I'm so sorry I was wrong to...," Twilight started but trailed off when Pinkie rushed up to her and wrapped her in a hug.

"I'm sorry too," Pinkie said. "It's like Ash once said Friends mess up sometimes but we should never-."

"Uh make up later, this isn't over!" Rainbow shouted as she pointed to the staff stuck in the window above the thrones.

"She's right, that thing's going haywire," Rage shouted.

Suddenly arcs of power shot out of the staff tearing the roof apart and allowing the violent winds to enter the throne room. Suddenly Rage activated a shield around him and the three princesses that were turned to obsidian from earlier in this adventure and the arcs of power were shooting at Rage's shield as well.

"Go get the staff I can hold out against those blasts," Rage shouted.

"I've got to get control of it!" Twilight shouted.

"Go, you've got this Twilight!" Pinkie shouted.

"No, we got this...Together," Twilight said with determination before the mane six and Spike made a chain of their bodies and began to fly in the wind when suddenly the Storm King pushed himself out of the rubble and began to crawl towards the staff.

"The staff, belongs, to me," The Storm King growled.

"Twi hurry up, he's coming!" Rage shouted.

I could do nothing but watch as both Twilight and The Storm King made a grasp for the staff till Twilight lunged for it along with The Storm King. Fortunately twilight grabbed it first and pulled it away and The Storm King went through the window causing the winds to sweep up Twilight and drag her into the storm.

"Twilight NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Pinkie cried as she tried to reach out for the alicorn.

Suddenly I flew into the wind showing everyone the inside of the storm. I flew about searching for Twilight and managed to spot her clinging to the staff with all her might while keeping her eyes shut. So working quickly I flew around Twilight and used my power to create a wind barrier around her and knocking away any debris. Then with a burst of power I turned the wind barrier into a burst of wind that scattered the storm allowing the light of the sun to shine down on us. When Twilight opened her eyes she let out a sigh before she flew back down towards the castle just as the memory ended.

"And as they say, the rest is history," I said.

"Huh y'know now a whole lot makes sense," Rarity said.

"Your Majesty!"

"I looked at the voice and saw a crew pony running over to me before he dropped into a bow.

"Yes?" I asked.

"We have sighted the city of Klugetown, however...," the pony trailed off.

"Go on," I said trying to encourage the pony to speak.

"It appears the city is under attack and the attackers are bearing The Storm King's mark and there are caribou ships among them," the crew pony said earning gasps of shock from the mane six, Spike, Tempest and Grubber. "Sir, what are our orders?"

"Tempest?" I asked.

"I don't know what is going on here but if that banner is flying again I want to find out why, especially why they sided with the caribou," Tempest said.

"You heard her boys, we're going in," I said.

"Hey look, it's Celaeno's ship!" Rainbow shouted as she pointed to the sky.

Looking up I spotted the ship Rainbow was talking about surrounded by several air ships.

"Alright everyone tie down anything loose and brace for a steep climb and for impact. Get both the port, starboard and bow guns ready to fire on my command. Rage, get on the fore-deck," I said as I began to make my way to the wheel.

"Gonna ram 'em?" Rage asked.

"That's the plan why, that a problem?" I asked.

"Never," Rage said with a grin before he headed to the fore deck.

Once I was at the wheel I pulled a lever and our ship began to steadily tilt upwards before we started to gain altitude. I then stepped on a peddle and our ship lunged forward in a burst of speed which increased as we rose. Suddenly large flames produced by Rage burst forward from the bow of the ship covering the ramming spikes and bow of the ship in hellfire. I aimed our ship right below one of the caribou's frigates intending to smash through the ship.

"Brace yourselves!" I shouted just before we collided.

The impact wasn't as strong as I thought. In fact we cleaved through the caribou's ship with ease, tearing it in two. But still we rose upward before I straightened out my ship and headed towards another ship.

"Bow Cannons!" I shouted.

Suddenly a pair of gunports on the bow of the ship and a pair of cannons with three barrels on each one rolled forward and started firing upon the ships before us. I then noticed a ship was coming up on our left and getting ready to line up for a shot.

"Incoming!" I shouted causing everyone to get down just as the ship fired. Once they finished their volley, I got up. "Counter fire!"

And just like that our own guns fired tearing the ship to splinters. We then went around Celaeno's ship obliterating each ship we came across till the sky's were clear. Once we lost sight of each ship I ordered the gunports to close and I saw Celaeno's ship approaching us. Once our ship's met and a plank was lowered, the mane six and Spike rushed over while Rage walked over behind them and both Elisa, Evan and myself bringing up the rear. As I got on the plank to go over I heard Rage introducing Elisa and Evan.

"...and finally we have our leader, Ash Blade himself," Rage said as he gestured to me.

All noise ceased as I walked onto Celaeno's ship in fact the only sound were my boots thumping against wood before I stepped onto the deck.

"Captain Celaeno," I said as I approached the captain calmly while she seemed to tense up before stopping before her and letting out a smile. "I wish to thank you for aiding my friends in your journey."

"Oh...I-it was nothing, besides they helped us get our mojo back," Celaeno said.

"So I saw, by the way RD great song," I said causing the pegasus to smirk smugly before I walked over to the railing and brushed my hand against it. "I take it the ship is exactly as you left it?"

"Huh?" the pirates asked.

"Oh you birds ain't gonna believe this but Ash here is the one that fixed it for you," Rainbow said shocking the pirates.

"Consider it a thank you gift," I said.

"So it's true ye are a god," the parrot with the eye patch said.

"Please don't you start getting on your hands and knees before me," I pleaded.

"Uh I thought that's what everyone was supposed to do when meeting a god," the muscular parrot said.

"Not this god, I'm no better then anyone here. I've made just as many mistakes as anyone here so believe me I'm nothing special Mr...," I started.

"Allow me to introduce everyone, this here is my first mate Mullet," Celaeno said as she gestured to the eye patch parrot. "This here is Boyle," Celaeno said as she gestured to the burly parrot, "This is our chef Lix Spittle," Celaeno said as she gestured to the only other female in the crew. She was a large parrot with pale greyish rose colored feathers and light sap green feathers as hair. "And finally this is Squabble," Celaeno said as she gestured to the last member of the crew. He had greyish malachite green feathers on his body and dark crimson feathers on his head for hair and his eyes were looking in odd angles kinda reminding me of Derpy Hooves.

"A pleasure to meet you all, I'm Ash Blade as you all are aware," I said.

"Your dead!"

Looking at the source of the voice I saw a caribou, who had somehow survived our attack, charging at us with sword in hand. Before we could do anything Rainbow had sped forward and halted the caribou dead in his tracks with her pistol swords in hand, using one blade to block the attack.

"Fat chance," Rainbow said before she pushed the caribou's weapon away then plunging her second sword into his chest before pulling the trigger, killing him.

"Whoa nice swords Rainbow," Celaeno said.

"Ya like, these belonged to Ash back when he was a pirate himself," Rainbow said shocking the pirates into looking at me.

"A story I'll tell at a later date. For now though that caribou has just reminded me of a problem we have down below," I said as I looked down.

"So we gonna kick some ass?" Rage asked.

"Duh what else were we gonna do?" Elisa asked.

"Captain!"

I then turned to face the voice and was greeted by a shocking sight.

"Captain we found her in your quarters sir. She said she wanted to see the ship and got distracted reading a book. She didn't realise the ship had taken off till we began our attack," the crew pony said as he gestured to Songbird Serenade who was looking quite ashamed of herself.

"Miss Serenade, are you okay?" I asked.

"I'm fine Your Majesty but I am so sorry about being here, I meant no harm honestly," Songbird said.

"I'm not worried about that, I'm shocked your here yes but I'm more relieved your safe. Can only imagine quite the shock of figuring out your on a battlefield," I said.

"Your Majesty while I am here I wish to be of aid in any way if you would please, any small thing," Songbird said.

I was about to respond when Rage walked forward and whispered something int Songbird's ear who nodded with a smile before Rage said something to the crew pony before they both left.

"Okay what was that all about?" I asked.

"Trust me this is gonna be good," Rage said before he got up onto the railing and summoned his armor and weapons. "Well, you three coming?"

With a sigh I summoned my Harbinger armor and weapons before I too got onto the railing with Rage along with Elisa and Evan.

"Hey hang on, what are you lot doing?" Mullet asked.

"Don't worry, this is kid stuff," Rage said before he spun around to face the pirate before he leaned backwards and fell from the ship while Elisa, Evan and I just jumped off.

I plummeted to the ground, aimed for a street and made a superhero landing when I impacted the ground before I looked around and saw both Storm Beasts and caribou attacking civilians before they all looked at me. It was then I stood up and drew both Whispering Wind and Hingure and rolled my shoulders. I was about to attack when suddenly music started playing from The Pale Horse and then I remembered Songbird Serenade causing me to look at Rage. I could feel him grin at me before I shook my head.

I started tapping my foot and nodded my head as the music played and Songbird began to sing. When we hit the chorus the caribou and the storm beasts snapped out of the music's trance and charged at me. I ran forward and leapt over a storm beast performing a helm splitter, killing him before thrusting Hingure into a caribou while blocking a pronged spear from a storm beast with Whispering Wind. I then withdrew Hingure before slashing at the storm beast's legs then slashing the chest and letting the beast fall. Looking at the two storm beasts that had fallen before me and comparing it to Rage's story I scanned the two for their sins and discovered they had wrought a lot of harm and even raped a couple of females causing me to shake my head before I turned to face down the rest.

Dodging another strike I decapitated my foe before I plunged Whispering Wind into a caribou before I twisted him around and kicked him off. Suddenly two caribou were charging at me trying to slash me across the waist so I sheathed my swords and drew Damnation and salvation. Just as the two began to strike I jumped onto my side in mid-air while doing a barrel roll, allowing my body to slide through the gap between the swords before I planted a foot on the ground behind the two. I then aimed Damnation at the caribou on the left and shot him before I used Salvation on the other one before I turned around and continued on down the streets.

As I walked I saw Rage had slammed Blood Ruin into the ground and lodged it there before he leapt into the air while holding onto the blade, pulling it out of the ground and front flipping in the air before landing on a storm beast and plunging the flaming blade into his chest. Next Evan appeared with his shotguns once more and I noticed a pair of scales baskets hanging on each handle and he was tearing into enemies. He even summoned a swarm of insects that surrounded some caribou and when they dispersed all that was left were starved husks. As the music played on, the bodies piled up as we made our way through the streets.

During our assault I saw even the civilians were stepping up to save their home from the invaders. I was dealing with a pair of storm beasts when suddenly I hear a loud thunk sound behind me and as soon as I deal with the two storm beasts I turn around and saw a caribou laying on the ground and standing over him with a wooden bat was Capper. Before we could say anything I pushed Capper to the side and used my left fore arm to shove a caribou up against a wall. I then pulled out my dagger and stabbed the buck a total of four times before I let the body fall. I cleaned the blood off the blade with my wrist armor before I sheathed the dagger and turned to the anthro cat.

"Right well, I'll be on my way now, uh happy...killing," Capper said as he looked at me nervously before he began to walk away.

"Capper," I said causing the cat to halt before he turned to look at me. "You don't know me but I know you. I also know you helped my friends when The Storm King ruled over this place."

"Who are you?" Capper asked causing me to reach for my helm and open the jaws.

"Just someone whose trying to overthrow Diann and see justice brought back to the world," I said while Capper's jaw dropped in shock as he pointed at me.

Suddenly a fan flies past me and hit's a caribou dead center in the chest before a blue aura surrounds it and hovers over to Rarity.

"R-Rarity!" Capper shouts.

"Oh hello darling, I'm afraid I have little time to talk because as you can see we still have a fight on our hands," Rarity said before she left.

"I...huh...what?" Capper asked.

"I'll explain later right now let's get through this mess," I said before I closed my visor.

Two Hours Later Over The Sea of Clouds

"Whoa so you were there all that time?" Mullet asked.

"Most of it yes there was a lot of things going on for me up there," I said.

"Wow uh listen I don't know if I made the...best first impression," Capper said.

"Save it pal, I know what your about to say and all I'm gonna say is that you redeemed yourself for your mistake just like Tempest here. So there's no need for any worshipping or pleading or whatever kay?" I said.

"Uh yeah cool," Capper said.

"I'm just blown away that you managed to get our ship back," Lix Spittle said.

"The way I see it I owed you guys for saving my friends and family. So consider us even on all debts," I said.

"Not quite you saved our feathers back there," Celaeno said.

"Mount Aris right ahead sir and we've got trouble just like at Klugetown!" one of the crew shouted.

Walking over to the front of the ship, I looked and saw dozens of ships of both the caribou empire and The Storm King surrounding the mountain while the city of the Hippogriffs appeared to be on fire.

"Oh gods, what are they doing?" Rarity cried.

"It looks like they're invading...Which means the Hippogriffs hadn't been conquered by the caribou yet," Rainbow said.

"Well it looks like that's all about to change," Gilda said.

"Uh Ash wasn't The Storm King, I don't know, smashed to pieces when he was turned into a rock?" Rage asked as he looked through a telescope.

"He was," I said before Rage handed me the telescope and pointed to a large airship bigger then the rest bearing The Storm King's mark parked on the mountain.

I then looked through the telescope and aimed it at the ship and scanned it over. When I looked at the head of the ship I saw The Storm King himself walking down a gangplank with a chain in hand and on the end of that chain was Princess Skystar herself with a black collar around her neck.

"Well he doesn't look as smashed up now," Rage said.

Suddenly the telescope was yanked from my grip and when I looked I saw Tempest had grabbed it and was looking through it.

"So he's alive," Tempest said as she passed the telescope off to the girls.

"Appears the caribou enjoy picking at corpses ," Rage spat.

"I'd say it's time we get rid of this scum," Elisa said.

"Yeah but don't we seem kinda...outnumbered here?" Capper asked

"Agreed," I said as I looked up at the sky and smiled. "And I know just how we're gonna even the odds."

Closing my eyes I reached into the power taught to me by Zeus himself. I could feel the power of the lightning beneath and across my skin reaching all the way into my core before I opened my eyes and looked up to see the sky become dark with clouds. I could feel the lightning in my eyes as well. Stretching out my hand before I pointed at a few ships in the air and snapped my fingers causing several lightning bolts to strike the ships causing them to explode.

"Whoa, you can control...lightning!" Rainbow shouted as she squished her cheeks together.

"Oh there's a whole lot I can do but that's for a later date. For now we got a fight to join. Rage, Elisa, Evan and Gilda your with me up top. Girls, Spike I need you underwater, take care of any caribou or Storm Beasts that are down there," I said.

"What about us cause there's no way we're missing this fight," Tempest said with determination causing me to nod.

"Tempest, your up top with us. Grubber, I'm sending you to assist the team underwater. That gonna be a problem?" I said.

"No sir," Grubber said with a salute.

"And what of us?" Celaeno asked as she gestured to her crew and Capper.

"You're ship isn't designed for battle Celaeno so I'm giving you temporary command of my ship," I said.

"Seriously?" Celaeno asked.

"You have any questions on her fire power feel free to ask the crew," I said before I turned to my team. "Let's go kick some ass."

I then teleported us onto the mountain right at the city gates where we were immediately spotted by a pair of caribou trying to overpower a pair of Hippogriffs. I quickly pulled a pair of knives out of my thigh armor and tossed it at the two bucks, killing them before I selected a song on my IPod.

Drawing Whispering Wind I ran forward, with the winds of the storm I summoned rushing past me causing the enemy to stumble and try and block the wind. This allowed Rage, Elisa, Evan, Gilda, Tempest and myself to effortlessly cut them down while continuing to run, even the Hippogriffs battled with us. When the winds died down the enemy charged but it didn't make a difference for us. A caribou ahead of me then made a trust with a spear he was holding but I leapt onto my side while doing a barrel roll before I plunged Whispering Wind into the buck's face causing him to collapse onto his back, while I rolled forward and slashed at the legs of another buck who was coming to aid his ally causing him to collapse onto his knees. I then stabbed Whispering Wind upwards through the buck's head.

Pushing the body off my blade, I continued to move forward. I then tilted my upper body to the side to dodge an axe wielded by a storm beast going for an overhead strike before I slammed the edge of Whispering Wind into his waist. I then grabbed him and tossed him to the side before I deflected another attack from a buck before punching him in the face and slashing at his chest. I then spun around avoiding a buck who was charging at me before I stabbed the caribou through the back and with the buck still on my blade, I turned around and held him out before me just as a volley of spells were fired at me but instead hit the impaled buck. I then tossed the freshly made corpse away from me before sending a powerful blast of wind from Whispering Wind straight at the bucks who fired at me before I walked forwards and entered the castle courtyard.

I grasped Hingure and drew her before I twirled both blades around before I jumped into cutting down my opponents. I plunged both blades into a buck's neck in an X shape before I leaned backwards, causing me to fall to the floor while pulling the buck over me before I pulled the blades in separate directions, severing the head from the bucks shoulders and tossing the body behind me. I then leapt back onto my feet and slammed Whispering Wind into a buck's neck and pulled off a spinning decapitation before I used both swords to slash at a storm beat's chest. It was then I ran forward and leapt over a storm beast and slashed at his head with Hingure before I brought Whispering Wind down upon a buck, cutting him right down the middle before I slashed at another buck who blocked my attack.

I then kept striking at the buck till I pulled off a guard breaker and grabbed the buck by the front of his armor and used Whispering Wind's cross guard and smashed it into the buck's face before using the hilt. Then I slammed the blade deep into the caribou's waist before kicking him off before I used Whispering to sweep a caribou up at his legs before I gripped Whispering Wind in reverse and stabbed him through the buck's chest. I spun around and locked my blades like a set of scissors at a buck's neck and with a pull, I decapitated the buck before I leapt at a storm beast and planted my feet on him, knocking him onto his back just as I embedded my blades deep into his chest just as the song came to an end. I twirled my blades around before sheathing them when suddenly a new song began to play on my IPod reminding me that I left the device on shuffle and continue the last time I used it.

I would have turned the song off but when I looked at the rest of of my enemies and saw all eyes were on me, both friendly and foe, the latter just appeared to be more scared and none would dare approach me so I decided to leave it since it fitted the scenario before I walked forward and everyone split making a path for me to walk through all the way to the entrance of the castle. The doors even opened for me and my team by the caribou alowing us to enter the lobby of the castle. All of the caribou and storm beasts even dropped their weapons as we walked past allowing the Hippogriffs to grab them and take them into custody but I wasn't even worried about it as I walked on. Suddenly a caribou captain got in my path with a sword drawn but I could see he was trembling so I continued to walk towards him till I stood before him, the blade barely touching my chest and for awhile all was silent.

"Where are your commanders?" I asked emotionlessly.

"T-the throne room...in the highest point of the castle," the captain said.

I then went to move forward but the buck held the blade right against my armor causing the tip of the blade to tap my armor and causing the air to go still before I looked at the buck.

"Move," I said and just like that the blade clattered to the ground and the caribou dropped onto his ass to the side, clearing the path for us.

I went deeper into the lobby with the others following behind me before we entered an open elevator that took us to the top. The shaft itself was incredibly wide to allow the Hippogriffs and other flying visitors to fly about with no problems and once we began to head up, the song ended and I hit pause on the device when suddenly my team let out a gasp of air.

"What's with you lot?" I asked.

"Dude That...Was...So...Cool. Rainbow is gonna be green with envy when I tell her what she missed!" Gilda shouted.

"Yeah and when that happened I felt like I was struggling to breath back there," Elisa said.

"No kidding, just what the hell did you do?" Rage asked.

"I guess I unknowingly released some of my aura," I said.

"Aura?" Tempest asked.

"Every god or goddess has an aura about them Tempest. One that commands the attention and obedience of all within it's presence. The only reason you lot weren't totally affected was because my focus wasn't on any of you," I said.

"Damn that's...kinda terrifying when you think about it," Evan said.

With a nod I then summoned my other helmet before I looked at it.

"What are you planning on doing with that?" Rage asked.

"I plan to show these punks just who the fuck they decided to mess with," I said.

Hippogriff Castle Throne Room Third Person P.O.V.

The throne room of the Hippogriff castle was a sight to behold. It's circular walls were made up of stone arches with window's within them going all the way around the room with a set of doors that led to the elevator and inside the room was Queen Novo, a female Hippogriff with white fur and feathers covering most of her body and purple feathers acting as both a mane and tail. However she was being held down by a pair of caribou while a few others stood watch around the room but Novo's eyes were fixed on the throne or rather the one sitting on it. A caribou general wearing gilded armor and standing on either side of the the throne was The Storm King and also a figure in a black leather jacket and jeans with a hood pulled over his head, shrouding his face in darkness and an aura of death surrounded the figure bringing a subtle chill to the room. At the foot of the throne was Princess Skystar and finally on the right of the throne was a pedestal with a bright glowing pearl sitting on it.

"So this is the famous pearl you used to turn your entire species into Seaponies to avoid our hairy friend here *chuckles* quite fascinating," the general said as he stroked Skystar's mane like she were a pet while looking at the pearl, The Storm King grunted at the general.

"You'd better prey I don't get loose you bastard otherwise I'm gonna claw your eyes out when I do," Novo growled.

"Now now, that's no way to speak to your king and master whore," the general tsked.

"Your no king and I'd sooner die then call you master," Novo spat.

"That can be arranged although it would be a shame to ruin such a beautiful body such as yours, but I suppose I can make do with the young princess here," the caribou said as he went to stroke Skystar's cheek.

Skystar moved herself as far away from the approaching hand as she could. She then decided to open her beak and bit down on the hand causing the caribou to retract his hand in pain before he looked at where he was bit.

"That hurt," the caribou said calmly before he sat back on the throne.

Suddenly he kicked Skystar in the ribs sending her skidding across the floor before the throne.

"Skystar!" Novo shouted as she struggled to get loose from the caribou pinning her. "Are you alright baby?"

"I'm fine mom," Skystar said as she smiled weakly when suddenly the caribou general grabbed her by the main and pushed her into the ground.

"Hm you know, I always wondered what it would be like to fuck a girl in front of her own mother...what's say we find out," the general said with a leeches grin.

"NO!" Nova cried while Skystar closed her eyes in terror for what was to come.

Suddenly the sound of tearing flesh came from one of the caribou holding Novo followed by the sound of liquid splattering across the ground and when everyone looked, one of the guards had a new hole in the center of his chest and right in front of his chest was an invisible object made visible by the blood covering it. Suddenly the object is pulled back through the body and the second guard is decapitated before both bodies hit the ground. Suddenly Skystar appears beside her mother and the general is sent flying towards the throne by an unseen force.

Suddenly the dark figure throws a pair of blades at an empty space before the throne and instead of hitting the wall the two blades are knocked out of the air. The air where the blades stopped became disoriented and change when suddenly golden brown and ash grey armor plates with dark grey under armor appeared out of thin air. A pair of wolves was on the waist armor plates while the chest had a mark that was widely well known in Equestria etched upon it. But what had everyone's attention was the cape on the armor that seemed to blow in a non-existent wind. The only way to describe it was like looking through a window into a galaxy of stars and nebula's and as an added touch every now and again a shooting star whizzed past. To say the sight was breathtaking would be like calling the cape disgusting. Armed in the figure's hand were a pair of blood stained swords informing everyone the armored figure was responsible for the two caribou's deaths. When Novo and Skystar tried to see the identity of the figure they could only see a helmet with a pair of horizontal slit visors on the faceplate and for some reason they felt comfort in the fact this figure was here.

"Well, well, well The Hand of The Reaper finally shows himself or do you go by Conquest now?" the hooded figure asks causing all the remaining guards to tense up and aim their weapons at the figure.

"Rapid," the armored being growled, his voice clearly male but fierce and dangerous unlike his pressence

Ash's P.O.V.

My gaze was locked on the three figures around the throne before I spied the pearl sitting on the pedestal. I planted Whispering Wind into the ground before I held out my right hand towards the pearl causing the caribou to tense up, with a little levitation I made the pearl hit the hooded figure named Rapid in the head as it flew towards me before I floated it over to Queen Novo and Princess Skystar.

"Go," I said without taking my eyes off the three at the throne causing the two Hippogriffs to get up and make a run for the door.

"Well stop them," the general said.

Suddenly one of the guards made a dash at the Hippogriffs but with quick reflexes I picked up Whispering Wind and impaled the caribou through the neck before I tossed the body at the foot of the throne.

"You boys should finish your business with me before you go chasing after pretty girls," I said as I shouldered Whispering Wind causing the caribou to growl at my words. I looked and saw both Novo and Skystar who were just staring at me. "You both still here?"

Snapping them out of their trance they then ran out of the room before I focused on the remaining occupants.

"I take it your the shit stain that's running this show?" I asked as I glared at the general.

"Indeed and you are the Harbinger Conquest himself...you know I wasn't expecting you to come here dressed like the description, in the Book of Providence was a figure in white armor.

"True but I decided to go with something different, I mean seriously do you know how hard it is to remove caribou and traitor's blood from white armor," I said causing a couple of caribou to growl at my words but I ignored it as I focused on the hooded figure. "So Rapid, wanna tell me how you'd like to die?"

"What no, hello after all this time no question on why?" Rapid asked.

"Honestly I just can't be bothered to care. You have stolen the souls of those who weren't meant to die yet and for that I will see to too it that you are punished accordingly," I said as I pointed Whispering Wind at him.

"Enough of this," the general said as he got up and drew a sword while the caribou guards just surrounded me. "This rebellion ends here."

"No...this war has just gotten started," I said.

One of the caribou guards charged at me so I used Whispering Wind to block the strike and spun around while slicing at the caribou's neck with Hingure right as a second caribou charged at me with a sword in hand. I twirled and spun my blades around blocking each strike he made till I pushed him away and it was then I looked and saw the last four guards had once again surrounded me. So I twirled my blades around before I held my blades in opposite directions creating a space for myself. As I watched my opponents moves two guards, both armed with swords and one with a shield, attacked. So I deflected both blades before I spun around, got onto one knee and embedded the tip of Hingure into the ground and raised Whispering Wind above my head to block the attacks of the other two before I stood up and struck at another guard but he blocked it with a shield.

As I fought against the guards I kept on blocking and deflecting their attacks with ease like a ballet of death and both of my blades were like my dance partners. As they twirled and moved around me to my will, I then made my first kill. After I used the soul of my foot to kick one of the guards back, I twirled by blades down upon one of the shield wearing guards, severing off both his arms before I spun around and used both blades to slash at his throat. The deadly dance continued till I used Whispering Wind to shatter the other guards shield before he went with an overhead strike but I caught the blade with both of mine before pushing them towards the guards neck in an X shape. I then pulled the blades back slitting the buck's throat before I turned to the last two and blocked another strike before I plunged Whispering Wind into his chest all the way to the cross guard. I then pulled Whispering Wind out and let the body fall before I turned to face the last guard. Suddenly I felt something hard and with great force hit me in the back of my head. This me to stumble forward and knock my helmet off and into the last guard causing him to collapse from the weight of the helmet, crushing his leg causing him to scream bloody murder.

"Ow," I said as I straightened up before looking back at who stuck me and saw the general and his horns were aglow with magic.

I then looked towards The Storm King and saw he was speechless upon seeing my identity before looking at Rapid who seemed like he couldn't care anymore then he can throw me I then looked at the buck behind me and saw he had stopped screaming only to stare at me in absolute shock before I looked back at the general.

"Well...This is most certainly unexpected," the general said.

"Was that all you had?" I asked.

"Oh I've got a lot more tricks to show you," the general said when suddenly wings extended from behind him but not just any wings, those wings looked exactly like mine.

"Where...in creation...did you get those!" I growled with fury and venom dripping from my voice.

"Like them, when you and the other Harbingers showed up and took back Equestria our king ordered our best scientists to work day and night to merge your blood with ours and now almost every general and our top soldiers now have almost every ability you have. Our god king and his sons have the full power we are just second to them," the general said.

"Actually," I said as I planted Whispering Wind into the ground before I raised my right arm before me and turned the palm of my hand towards me. "The blood you have is outdated."

I then clenched my hand and suddenly lightning came down like rain, striking at The Storm King and general's airships, completely destroying them and burning all their soldiers to a crisp. The three before me just stared at the destruction I wrought while I just rolled my neck getting ready for a fight.

"Such power...With that I can truly become the storm king!" The Storm King shouted as he turned towards me with the staff ready to blast me.

But with a snap of my fingers a lightning bolt shot into the room, breaking a window and slammed against The Storm King, sending him flying into a wall before the lightning turned into restraints and pinned The Storm King there. I then turned to the general and the wraith before I picked up Whispering Wind and aimed him at the two.

"So whose first?" I asked.

The general looked petrified of me before he spun around and spread his wings to take flight out of the broken window but he just exposed himself. I teleported beside him and used Whispering Wind to cleave through his wings causing him to scream before I grabbed him by the throat and threw him back into the room. I then turned to Rapid who had six new arms extend form his back all armed with swords.

"If you think I'm going out to face judgement from him, then your dead wrong Hand!" Rapid shouted as I sheathed Whispering Wind.

I took several deep breaths and took a stance as I twirled Hingure about before I sheathed her and placed my right hand on Hingure's sheath.

"Secret sword technique Sword Draw Slash...Dragon," I said. A blue spectral Chinese dragon then encircled me before I ran forward at blinding speed. I stopped behind Rapid with Hingure partly unsheathed before I sheathed her with a click. "Blazing claws."

Suddenly each and every sword Rapid was holding shattered and the wound I left across his chest ignited with a spectral blue flame before it engulfed his entire body and with a final scream he became naught but ash before his blackened soul arose from said ashes. I grasped it and put it away for later. Suddenly I heard a grunt before I looked and saw the general was crawling away from me, leaving a trail of blood in his wake. So I walked over to him and kicked him onto his back before I glared at him.

"Wait, hold on...why do you side with those sluts and simple minded fools, your a god. In our country you can have anything you wish; money, worship, all the sluts you can wish for at your beck and call. With those so called rulers you won't have that, your power would be taken fo-," the general said but I stopped him by placing my boot on his chest knocking the wind out of him.

"Correct me if I'm wrong but you were gonna say the ponies of Equestria were gonna take my power granted or use it for themselves correct. Now if I'm not mistaking, wasn't it your kind that desecrated my tomb? Wasn't it your kind that defiled my body? Wasn't it your kind that drained every drop of blood from my body and used it to make those twisted pieces of flesh and metal you call God Hands, and wasn't it your kind who also inserted my blood into their veins, taking power that should never have been for yourselves? Do Not take me for a fool you snivelling grub!" I shouted the last part as I pushed down on him harder.

"We did it to do what was right," the general wheezed before I lessened the pressure on him because I wanted to hear what he had to say. "It was decreed by our gods and even you, that we should take your power and become strong enough to conquer the world and put females in their place."

"You disgust me," I growled before I summoned a swarm of rats.

The rodents scrambled towards us but ignored me before they went to work on devouring the general till all that was left was a puddle of blood before they vanished. I then walked over to the doors and saw both The Storm King and the lone guard were staring at me in horror. I used my magic and brought my helmet to my hand before I healed the caribou and walked over to the entrance doors. I then opened the doors and was greeted by my fellow Harbinger's, Gilda and Tempest.

"As you requested he's all yours," I said as I looked at the unicorn and gestured to The Storm King before looking at Gilda. "Make sure that caribou gets put with the others."

With nods, the two went and did what they had to do while Elisa, Evan, Rage and myself left for the elevator.

"Damn dude if I didn't know any better I'd say you were Sir Arthur Dayne himself, what when you were dealing with those guards and what the fuck was up with that last attack?" Rage asked.

"I've had intensive sword training while I was dead," I said.

"Okay I think we all need to hear about just what exactly you were doing while you were away," Elisa said.

"I suppose that's fair and boy do I have much to say but that can wait for tomorrow, today was exhausting," I said before we made it to the ground floor

Let it be announced on this the 1st of April I have turned 21 years of age and may I write many more chapters for my beloved readers