Punky Print's Log: Day 9
I don't know how to begin to explain the past day and a half, but I think it would help to start by writing that the ponies at my door were not there because they changed their mind about hiring me. In fact, they had never had a job for me in the first place.
The ponies at my door were guards from the wall, and there were four of them. Before I had time to question why they were there, my front hooves were chained together and I was dragged out into the street. I screamed, scared and surprised. Why were they doing this? I didn't know.
Inky heard me scream and ran out onto the porch, where four more guards ambushed her. Only one of her hooves was manacled before she began fighting back with a startled cry. A pegasus who had flown down from our roof was fought off first, Inky knocked him back when he tried to hold her down. Above the roof of even the large farmhouse, Rainy was grappling with her own attackers, two pegasai having flown up to her only to chain together her hooves and cling to them, letting their wings droop and turning themselves to dead weight as she struggled to stay in flight. Candy ran out into the street, panting as she watched the guards chasing her approach. When she looked up and saw Rainy, she cried out.
"No, Rainy!" Rainy looked down at her friend just as she was over taken and tackled by a guard. The guard kicked Candy, his armored horse shoes knocking her out. I screamed and kicked out blindly behind me, and the three of us still conscious struggled to reach our fallen friend. Rainy's wings faltered and she rocketed back towards the earth, the extra weight making her fall dangerously fast. When she landed, she fell on top of one guard, but the other landed on her. Inky and I screamed and begged for someone to help her.
"Look at her wings," I cried, "she's hurt! Please, why won't somebody help her, she's hurt!" The guards never spoke, and never looked at anything but their prey. Inky bit deep into the leg of one guard, only to have another put a muzzle on her. In the chaos I heard somepony swear, when I turned to see who it was I saw Coco trying to teleport away from the guards who had captured her. When she saw us she gave up attempting magic she didn't know and buried her horn into a guard's eye. I flinched as the guard cried out in pain and another kicked Coco in the head. Inky cried out savagely behind her muzzle and broke away from her guards, her earth pony strength too much for the pegasai and unicorns guarding her. She ran out to try to help get my guards away from me.
"No! Inky, you have to run!" By then I was crying, and the guards that had captured me were pulling me closer to the wall, which was slowly being opened behind me. "Get Lemon Grass and run! Please!" Inky refused to listen, instead barreling through the guards who tried to intercept her. Almost in response to what I'd said, an earth pony guard walked calmly down the street from the direction of the farm house with Lemon Grass draped over his back, his hooves manacled together. "No..."
Inky was gaining on the guards dragging me away, when one of them - a unicorn - threw a rock the size of my hoof squarely at her head. She went down, drops of blood in her mane and racing down her face. A guard manacled her other front hoof and began dragging her towards the wall as well. I didn't know why we were being taken out, but it didn't matter. Around me my friends and family were being dragged through the dirt, unconscious.
"No..." Rainy's wings were bent at odd angles, and a part of Coco's horn had broken off inside the eye of the pony she had attacked. Candy's eyes opened lazily, one opening at a time. As she raised her head to take in her surroundings, the unicorn who felled my sister raised a rock above her head. A rush of energy coursed through my veins. It moved through my blood and bones until it burst into the world around me. "Get away from them!"
Green magic knocked back the guards, even the ones carrying my friends on their backs were blown away. My friends landed softly on the ground, and the blood sliding down their faces evaporated. Rainy's crooked wings realigned themselves with a series of sickening crack! noises. The windows of the houses around us shattered and when I looked down, I was floating above the ground.
There was a sharp pain in the side of my head, and I fell to the ground. Warm liquid trickled down my face as my vision blurred. The green magic was gone, and I could hear some guards getting back up in the distance. As darkness crept into my vision, the last thing I saw was a blurry gray pegasus guard, smirking triumphantly down at me.
AN: Oh my gosh, I'm so evil! (Muahahaha!) This cliffhanger though. It was either making this chapter very long, or splitting it into shorter parts. :3 What's gonna happen now?! Tell me what you think of my horrendous cliffy, please!
