CH.4 One Last Act Of Defiance

Nightwalker let the day pass away. He couldn’t stop what was to come even if he tried. The day had turned into dusk. It won’t be long now Nightwalker said to himself. Just then he heard a knock on the door. “Ok, let’s get this over with” Nightwalker said as he walked to the front door. He opened the door and saw Brightwing, Swiftbeat, and Darkwind standing there. “Hey, how are ya, you liking the new digs” Brightwing said to Nightwalker. “Wow, you don’t look so good, are you ok?” Swiftbeat said next. “I’m fine, you have to get out of here, it’s not safe here anymore” Nightwalker said to the group. “What? Why?” Darkwind said quizzically. Nightwalker looked over Brightwing’s shoulder and saw a group of three pony’s in black and red uniforms rounding a corner up the street. “You have to get out of here NOW!” Nightwalker said, trying frantically to get them out of here before they show up; but it was too late. “Oh good, he actually got a group together, this should be a little more interesting; my name is Silent Step” the middle pony said. “This here is White Lightning and Manestream” Silent Step said pointing to the two other ponies behind him. “Nightwalker, what is going on? Who are these ponies?” Swiftbeat asked him, a hint of fear in his voice. “We are the Midnight Crusaders, and we have come to kill your little friend, because he killed one of our members” Silent Step said smoothly. “Is this true, did you kill him?” Brightwing asked, shocked. “Yes I killed him, he broke into my house, what was I to do let him rob me blind?” Nightwalker said back. “I’ll fight you three, but I want my friends left out of this, they don’t deserve this” Nightwalker said looking over to his friends. “We won’t leave you, that’s not what friends do” Darkwind said stepping up next to Nightwalker. “No, get out of here, I don’t want anyone else I care about getting hurt” Nightwalker said. “And who’s going to make us leave, hmm?” Darkwind said with a smile. “Well, I say we go to the alleyway behind your house, don’t you think?” Silent Step started to say as he walked towards a hill that led to the alleyway. “Oh no” Nightwalker said to himself as he started to remember the dream again. They walked down to the alleyway and took their respective sides. “This has nothing to do with you three, but now that you’re here you cannot leave, your fate is sealed along with your friend’s” Silent Step said. “Well, I think we waited long enough, let’s begin shall we?”

Nightwalker and his friends got ready. The Midnight Crusaders closing in on them. Nightwalker lunged out and connected with Silent Step’s cheek with his right hoof, then followed with a left hook to his chest. Silent Step backed up a little “your good, but not great” “get those three boy’s” he said to Manestream and White Lightning. The other two crusaders spread out and started to go after his friends. Silent Step saw an opening and landed a blow straight on Nightwalker’s jaw, sending him reeling backwards. Nightwalker watched as his friends were being torn apart by the superior fighters. This is a lost cause, now we are all going to die; their blood is on my hands now Nightwalker thought. Nightwalker ran over and regrouped with his friends. The Midnight Crusaders doing the same. The four of them were breathing heavy from fighting. Nightwalker had a bloody lip, Brightwing a black eye and sprained wing, Swiftbeat was uninjured, but very shaky, and Darkwind had a sprained hoof. The group backed up as the crusaders grew closer. Oh no, this isn’t happening Nightwalker thought, as another part of his dream had come true. Nightwalker saw the crusader start to move “Darkwind look out!” But it was too late, the crusader on the far right lunged ahead and grabbed Darkwind’s head in his hooves, then snapping his neck and tossing the body away from him. He smiled darkly and moved back in the group of the other two crusaders. “See Nightwalker, you and your friends are no match for us” Silent Step said in a joyful tone. Silent Step then proceeded to jump out of the group and walked slowly toward Nightwalker. He smiled “I told you, you shouldn’t have messed with Moonbeam, now you’re going to die.” He jumped high in the air and kicked Nightwalker straight in the forehead with his massive hoof. Nightwalker reeled backward and fell on the ground, unmoving. “NO, LEAVE HIM ALONE!” Brightwing said to the pony looming over him. “Run, while you still can, leave me, my time is up anyways……………GO!!!” Nightwalker said with the last amounts of strength he had. “NO, we won’t leave you here” Brightwing said as he ran towards the large pony standing over Nightwalker. Brightwing was almost to the pony when Silent Step sidestepped out of the way. The pony swung his hoof up at Brightwing and caught him in the chin, sending him into the air. The crusader then jumped just as Brightwing hit the ground and he landed right on his chest, shattering Brightwing’s ribs, shards piercing his lungs and heart. Brightwing died instantly, his heart hemorrhaging from the force of the blow. Nightwalker struggled to his feet “Swiftbeat….RUN!!!” Swiftbeat did as he was told, fleeing the fight that he knew he wasn’t going to win. “Manestream, go get our little friend and bring him back here for me will you” Silent Step said. The third crusader then followed after the small pony. “You know, I was expecting more of a fight out of you, it’s a disappointment really” Silent Step said in a mocking tone. Nightwalker just happened to look up on the side of the hill and saw Manestream toss Swiftbeat off the hill towards them. Swiftbeat fell and hit the ground with a thud; the cracking of bones being heard as he hit. Swiftbeat lay motionless on the ground. Tears started to pour out of Nightwalker, this is it, this is where it ends, I have lost everything now; my friends, Pinky Pie, everything gone nightwalker thought to himself. “White Lightning, hold him down for me” White Lightning did as he was told and went over and held Nightwalker in place. “This is where it ends for you boy, you really thought you could beat us, we are the elite” “you’re just some stupid kid” Silent Step said as he walked up to Nightwalker, producing a small knife as he walked. He came up to the front of Nightwalker, who was looking down, still crying. Nightwalker looked up and stared at Silent Step, waiting for the inevitable. Silent Step lunged the blade out and stabbed Nightwalker in the stomach, then took the blade out and stabbed him in the heart. Nightwalker showed no pain when he got stabbed, he just continued to stare into Silent Step’s eyes. White Lightning let go of Nightwalker and he continued to stand there. Blood was gushing out of the two wounds in his abdomen. Nightwalker started to sing softly “Hush Now, Quiet Now, It’s Time To Lay Your Sleepy Head, Hush Now, Quiet Now, For Soon You Will Be Dead.” At the last word Nightwalker lunged out at Silent Step with the last amounts of strength he had in him. He grabbed His head in his hooves and forcefully Snapped Silent Step’s neck. Nightwalker then fell on the ground, the blood loss making him weaker. Nightwalker smiled and looked up to the stars in the sky “I’m coming home.” Nightwalker closed his eyes and let his breathing fade. Nightwalker died smiling, knowing that he would be with Pinky and his friends again soon. White Lightning and Manestream took their leaders body with them and left the corpses of the other ponies behind.

END OF CH.4

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