I ran to the house and locked up the weapons before running full speed for what I left of the cabin. I jumped into the clearing and saw part of the cabin still burning. I walked over to it and held my hand up wanting to try something. I closed my fist, and the flames flew from the cabin and wrapped around my fist. Then I opened my hand, and the fire made a sphere in my hand. I crushed it, and my body regained some of the energy I used. A flash of light came from behind me, and I turned ready to fight, but it was only Nightmare and Daybreaker. “How’d you find me?”

“We were in the air and saw the light from a fire than when it disappeared we figured you were here.”

I nodded then nodded my head as I walked over to the out. “Ok, well give me a hand since your here now.” Nightmare followed me in, and Daybreaker put her hands behind her head and walked into what was left of the house while she and Daybreaker started to stake a few books that were still readable or not burned.

“What are we looking for?”

I lifted and threw part of a broken wall as I answered her. “They side they had a way to send me home.” They both stopped as I threw a half-burned log out of the way and found a trap door near the center of the room. “Jackpot.” I tore the door off and jumped into the hole.

Nightmare pov

I watched as Troy jumped down a hole and I could only think of him leaving.

“Do you think it’s true?”

I looked at my sister, and she was looking at the trapdoor.

“I hate to say this, but we just saw what he’s able to do if he wanted to do something. If he wants to, he could destroy us all, but I doubt that he would harm our counterparts or the other mares. But, I don’t think we're on the list of safe ponies every if you are part of his family.”

I narrowed my eyes as I looked at her. “What makes you say that?” She crossed her arms as she looked at me.

“What was the first thing you did to him? You attacked him and tried to kill him.”

I flinched as I looked at her then looked down at the ground. She had a point about what I tried to do but before I could say something mares screamed came from the trapdoor. We looked at them, and a blood-covered hand grabbed the side of the door. Troy pulled himself up and had a long knife with a brown rope tied around the handle that had a point at the end in his teeth.

He pulled a mare out of the hole her throat cut clean open but what shocked me was she was a thestral mare with a long scar running down her face. He then spat the knife out and burned the blood off his skin and reached into his pocket. He pulled out an orb and looked down at it. A gem was in the sphere with some metal wrapped around it with a pearl around the low part. In the center as a gem may act as a force point.

“Is that it?”

He looked at us and looked down at it then smiled.

“I believe so, now all I have to do is figure out where it hide this thing. As long as I have this thing I’ll know if any more humans show up and I’ll know where to attack.”

“What about going back to your home?”

Troy looked at me and laughed as he looked at me.

“I’ve got no reason to go back to a place where thousands of people try to kill me every chance they got. That's one reason I lived in self-imposed isolation where the deadly monsters live in the frozen north. I would sell the furs of the beast I killed to make a living. I did like the songs the winds played on the trees most of all.”

I could see the sadness in his voice, but he nodded his head as he started to walk out of the house.

“Come on let’s go home.”

He jumped off into the tree line, and we opened our wings then took off to try to keep up with him. I could see him through the gasp of the tree, and he had a look on his face I’ve never seen before. It was a stoic look that made it impossible for me to tell what he was thinking or what he was maybe planning. He seemed empty the life that was in his eyes before was gone in his eyes now was something that seemed only to want to fight. ‘Is this who Troy is or is this what happens when he had to fight another of his kind?’ I started to fly lower but stopped when he stopped in the middle of a path. He jumped into the tree line I landed and saw him standing over something, and there was a horrible smell in the air. The trees and rocks had holes in them; this was a part of the forest. Troy never came near it. I walked over to him then stopped when I saw a rooting body with a head lying near a rock. “A human?”

“Ya, one I killed sometime again. Haha, you know I do hate this life.”

I looked at him as he tossed the orb up and down a few times.

“No matter where I go, no matter what I do or try not to do I never could get away from being Thanatos.”

‘That name again and what the other human said.’ I walk up behind him and gently wrapped my arms around him trying to convert him. “Troy what does that name mean please tell me.’ He was quiet and didn't speak for a long time than in a low voice he spoke.

Troy dark pov

“It the name of an old God from long ago back when the empire was new. That name, it's given to one who rules the battlefield. The one who can kill everything in his path. They are the ones call Thanatos the God of death and darkness. Haha, it’s funny I try so hard to bring light into my life, to try and move to pass my past, but I always get dragged back into the darkness of that past.” I turned and faced them a frown on my face.

“Why did you keep a name like that!?”

I put the portal back into my pocket then started to walk away from them. “You’d get two would never understand why I keep the name or what it meant to the revolution.” I started to run again, and I heard their wings opened then I got tackled. I fell face first and hit my chin on a rock. I grabbed Nightmares arms and started to make her let go.“GET OFF ME!” I pulled her arms off and threw her back. I stood up back up then looked down at an upset Nightmare and worried Daybreaker.

“T-troy?”

I huffed and turned my back on them. “Go home; I’ll be back later; I have to burn off some frustration.” I jumped off leaving them behind then slammed back down in darker part of the forest. I looked around and saw a group of dog people around a with a chained female being forced onto her knees. Her fur was black and white, and she had on a long sleeve shirt with a pair of blue panties which one male was trying to get off her while she kicked her legs.

I smiled as I had a way to let out my anger and frustration. I started to walk over to them as I can a set of claws from ice. As I did electricity began to spark around the Ice shaping it. ‘This must be what I got from Cadence.’ I stepped on a stick and snapped it, but I kept walking as they looked up at me. I must have looked like a monster because some tried to run from me. I stopped them by making a wall of ice around and under them as the way they had to get away was by getting passed me. Two of the larger dogs seeing this picked up clubs then charged me. I smiled when the first one was close enough. I straighten my hand then ran my hand clean through his chest. I could feel his heart beating in my hand. I pulled my arm out, and he dropped to the ground dead. With blood coming to the slightly beating heart.
The other big one stopped after seeing this and tried to backtrack his charge, but I didn't have it. I lunged forward scaring him. I grabbed his race then forced my arm forward breaking his neck and ripping it from his body. I threw the head away as I looked at the remains, three males. They had balled up in the fetal position, and I frowned. Then looked at the cowering female. I walked over to her, and she tried to get away, but her chains stopped her from getting far. I grabbed her shoulder, and she froze in fear as she looked at me.

“I-I don’t want to die.”

She was like a whimpering dog who was in trouble. I swung my claws, and the chains froze then broke. She was free, and I destroyed my claws then picked her up then put her on her paws. She looked up at me like a puppy who was waiting for a treat. “Get out of here before they get their nuts back and try to catch you again.” She nodded then sniffed me a few times before running off into the forest. I, on the other hand, looked down at the other dogs. I shot a fireball into the ice and a hole formed on the other side. They looked at the hole, and I nodded my head. “Get out of here before I kill you.” They quickly scrambled to their feet then ran away from me.

I cracked my neck then melted the ice on my hand and walked away from the area. I felt better after fighting some more and killing a few more people who scared me a little. As I walked through the forest, I heard whimpering coming from ahead of me. I walked a little farther and saw a baby manticore without a tail lying in the middle of the path. I walked up the to it, and it had a deep cut on its back leg. I kneeled as the manticore growled at me showing fangs. I held a hand out but it slashed my arm with its claws but my fire formed on the wound healing it a second later. I touched the young beast head and softly rubbed the manticores head. A few seconds passed before the manticore stopped growling before looking at me with curiosity as I petted it. I looked down and saw it's a she who was letting me pet her.

'Master, the female dog, is behind us.'

I stopped rubbing her head as I spoke. "What do you want?" I looked at the female dog who looked scared beyond belief.

"I-I don't know what happened to my guards. Can you please help me get back to the Diamond Dog city of Rough rubies?"

I picked the Manticore up then turned to face her. "Why, I've already helped you enough." She looked at me worried then I noticed something above her in the tree. "Don't make me shot you out of that tree." Nightmare dropped down, and Daybreaker fell out on her head. I laughed a little and nodded my as I looked at them while I petted the manticore. She had started to purr a little as I rubbed her head. "What are you two doing following me around like little puppies?" Nightmare blushed, and Daybreaker pulled her horn free from the ground before looking at me a hint of red on her face.

"We just wanted to make sure you were ok. You seem off right now Troy, were just worried about you."

I sighed as the Manticore started kneading my arm. I nodded my head then looked at the dog girl again. "I don't know where that city I don't know where to find it. This forest is dangerous when the sun goes down. Night time is coming; I'm not walking around out here at night without my swords." She looked at me with fear written on her face.

"Please, I won't survive out here by myself."

I sighed then looked at Nightmare as I started to walk away. "Nightmare get her some pants and please for the love of all things holy send Luna a letter that we have a guest coming home with us."

"Ok, but she sleeps on the couch and stays away from Ameerah, or I'll kill her!" The dog girl nodded her head before taking a step away from Nightmare. We started to walk away as we did. The female dog was given a pair of pants then run up behind me with Nightmare close behind her.

"Don't touch my stallion dog!"

I felt my eye twitch as I walked down the path while the beast in my arms purred. Daybreaker walked up beside and tried to pet her, but she hissed at her. She pulled her hand back as he growled at her then rested her head back on my chest. I laughed as Daybreaker looked at the beast an annoyed look on her face. I patted the beast head making her purr again. "Guess we know who she likes and who she doesn't." Daybreaker huffed then walked in front of me us when we walked out of the forest. We walked up to the house, but I saw Luna and Applebloom standing on the porch. Applebloom had pumpkin and Luna had her swords. I looked at them for a moment then took off the other way, and they yelled I was sleeping outside tonight. I ran to a cottage I knew a mare lived in that helped animals. I ran up to her door and looked back to see if they chased me. I knocked on the door with my foot, and a few seconds later the door opened. I looked at a butter yellow mare with a pink mane. She had on a white sun at with a white flower resting under her left ear. She had on a half dress with a black skirt.

"C-can I help you?"

She was a little timid and slightly hid behind her door as she looked at me. I held the little manticore up, and she gasped as she looked at her then threw the door opened.

"What happened to her?!"

She took the manticore from my arms then looked over the wound. I smiled and rubbed the manticores head before turning around and wave as I walked away. "I heard you'd help, so I'm out." I didn't get ten steps before I heard the manticore started whining.

"Stop! you'll hurt yourself more!"

I turned around and saw the little manticore trying to get free. I sighed then walked back over as the manticore was about to jump from her arms. I pinched the back of her neck. She seized up and then went limp bug was still breathing. "There, she's going to be out for a few hours so treating her should be easy now."

"Thank you, Mr?"

I smiled as I looked down at her. "Just call me Troy." She smiled as she nodded her head and walked back into the cottage. I smiled and walked away as the night started to overtake the day. I walked into town and saw a mare trying to cover a hole in sugar cube corner wall. I remembered putting the hole in the wall and I felt guilty seeing the mare struggle. I sighed then put my hands in my pockets as I walked up behind her and called out. "Let me help you." She stopped trying to cover the hole with a tarp I think and looked back at me.

"O-oh! Sir Troy what can I do for you?"

I walked up beside the mare and put a hand on the wall. "I'm here to help fix a problem I made." I turned my hand on the wall and ice quickly filled in the hole. Once fixed I looked at the mare again. "Come by the large house outside of town tomorrow sometime and I'll give you the bits to repair the wall." She smiled and bowed her head before she turned then rushed but into the building. I laughed a little then nodded my head and pulled the orb out of my pocket as I walked to the center of town. I looked it over trying to see what if I could use it somehow.

"Master?'

'I don't want to leave I just want to know how it works so I can better handle whatever may come.'

'Master the three princesses are behind us. I think we should pay them some attention.'

'No, I have a different idea.'

Luna pov

All of us but the diamond dog had gone out looking for Troy after Nightmare told us he had a way to leave this world now. We all spread out around town with mare guards to try and trace him down. Me, cadence and Celestia were looking around main street.

"There he is!"

Cadence pointed to a bench where Troy was sitting and saw looked down at something. We walked over behind him but I heard him talking.

"I wonder what your all doing now? Akame did you ever find your sister. Najenda did you ever find the home you were looking for? I wonder if Mine burned my mountain cabin down yet out of anger. Haha, hell if you were here now mine you'd probably punch me in the face about now."

He sighed then leaned back on the bench a frown on his face.

"You know mine I can't help but wonder why I'm not dead, why am I still alive after everything?"

We got as close as we could hoping he would hear us as he talked.

"I wonder what your all doing right now? Haha, I guess you were right Najenda when I went my own way after my last visited you said it may be the last time any of you would see me alive."

He sighed then held an orb over his head and looked up at it.

"I hope to see you all again someday, but that time is a long ways away. I finally have a family on the way and I'm not giving up or letting it go for anything."

I smiled hearing that then as he stood from the bench I walked you behind him. Then I wrapped my arms around him in a warm embrace.

"Um, how long have you been here Luna?"

I smiled as I rubbed my head on his back his heartbeat was like a lullaby to me. It was so calming to me and he laughed then placed a hand on mine. "Let head home I'm tired." I smiled and sent a looked at my sister and she nodded. The guards left and we left for home. 'I'm happy to hear he doesn't want to leave for now at least.'