Chapter 10 A Warrior's Oath

After hearing Slender swords story I decided to got tell the queen about how blaze is going to help us against the ponies, I slowly approach the throne room when I heard yelling so I stopped at a column in the room to hear what they were saying "I told you to stay in the hive and not go following Shadow, what if he didn't make it and the dragon went after you, I can't loss you, you are my daughter and no matter what I will love you but please from now on can you listen to me"

I saw the queen was talking to Night she lightly nodded and gave her a hug "oh before you go what are your feelings about Shadow" Night stopped and had a blush from what I could see all over her face "uhh what do you mean mother" the queen had a big grin on her face "oh it's just you seem to be watching him a lot since he got here but now your following him where ever he goes" "umm it's just I wanted to make sure he wasn't going to hurt the hive" "alright you can go but be careful you are radiating a lot of love" Night just sprinted out of the room

The queen just sighed "you can come out now, from behind the column" 'how did she' my thought was interrupted by me being suspended in the air 'god I hate magic right now' I was sat down in front of the queen "I wanted to talk to you so where were you when you got back" "I went over to Sharpened Edge's Forge and heard what happened to him and Slender" the queen had a motherly smile on her face "ahh yes Slender is a precious little thing she has grown a lot since she got here she's practically part of the hive, but that alright but there have been some strange sightings by my scouts that some creatures are inhabiting a cave about an hour's flight from here"

"I want you and your squad to head there and find out what is there and kill it if its hostile or try and get it to help us" "do you know anything about what is living there" the queen just shakes her head "no every time the scout get a look at it, it just disappears, there is only one occasion that the scout reported seeing glowing green eyes" 'ok so strange creature that disappears when seen and has glowing green eyes, sounds easy to find' "alright we will leave immediately and also Night saved my life when we were fighting the dragon so don't be too hard on her" the queen just got a evil grin on her face "alright I'll tell her you care" "WHAT I didn't say that" She just started laughing and that was my queue to leave

I got to the central chamber where I found Ice over near our tent helping a changeling with a wound, Flare and Joker were down in the pit practicing with other changeling, I started to walk over Ice "alright there you go should heal in a day or two" Ice said as he was putting the finishing touches on a stomach wound "hey Ice what are you doing" "Oh hey Shadow just fixing up a scout because he decided to try and fight a manticore" "that fur ball got lucky is all" I knelt down "and what is you name" "I'm Bullet Chaser one of the fastest changelings in the hive" 'also one of the most arrogant' "alright Chaser I am going to borrow Ice here" he nodded and walked away "alright Ice we are moving out in five so grab your equipment and be prepared to move out" "alright and Shadow it's good to be back" "it's good to have you back"

I walked over to the edge of the pit "hey Flare, Joker were moving out in five so get your asses in gear" "They looked up at me Joker gave me a salute while Flare gave me the bird "*sigh* same old Flare" I muttered to myself as I was walking away, five minutes later the team was together at the entrance ready to depart

That is when we heard shuffling behind us I turned to see Night and Cameron behind us, "what do you two want" Cameron was the first to speak "the queen asked me to accompany you to the cave and provide support if necessary" "ok that explains you" I turned to address Night when I felt something warm press up against my lips, then it moved to my ear and I could hear a whisper "be careful" and then Night flew down the tunnel back to the hive,

I just stood there dumb founded on what just happened 'Mental Shutdown please wait for reboot…. Mental reboot activated WTF just happened, ok ok I turned to face Night when I… OMG she kissed me' I just turned and started walking and jumped about five feet in the air with a fist pump, it was then I noticed that my squad and Cameron was just as dumb founded as I was

We walked for about 5 minutes till we got back to the clearing "hey Blaze you here" I heard wings flapping and Blaze landed, I jumped to Flare and grabbed her gun before she turned Blaze into Swiss cheese "Flare this is our ride he was the dragon I was supposed to kill but spared him and now he serves me, isn't that right Blaze" "That is correct" Flare calmed down a little bit and we climbed on except for Cameron "I'll myself" I nodded and on sat down and got ready

Blaze took off and started flapping towards the cave I think 'wait which way did the queen say to go… FUCK' "hey Cameron do you know where the cave is" "yeah it's just over that direction so follow me" Blaze started following Cameron, 15 minutes passed with no incident I decided to take a nap I woke up to hearing "I'm king of the world" I looked and saw Joker Standing on Blazes head "*sigh* you better hope it doesn't end up the same way" (if you haven't seen Titanic then you won't get the reference) Blaze soon shook and sent Joker over board, Cameron saw him "I got him" Cameron went into a hawk dive and caught Joker on his back, he flew back to Blaze and dropped off Joker who cling to Blazes back for the next 30 minutes

"hey Shadow" I looked over at Cameron "the cave is coming up we are going to have to land" I nodded "hey Blaze we need to land" "alright" we touched down next to the cave on hopped off, I looked over to everyone "alright everyone we don't know what is in there but whatever it is we need to find out if its hostile or a potential ally, stick together no matter what watch your back" They all nodded "ok Flare I want you on point with your M-60 machine gun, Joker I want you on rear with your Mossberg 590 shotgun everyone else follow in the middle, let's move out"

We entered the cave but it was just a normal cave tunnel so far, all we heard was a water dripping from the ceiling, We finally came to a large cavern we slowly entered and soon we started to hear a whispering throughout the entire cave, after we entered there was hum coming from behind us, I turned to see the cave we entered from get blocked of by this dark purple, green mix "what the hell is going on" Flare said and started firing into the void or whatever it is, the bullets just disappeared into it "guess were not getting out that way"

After some convincing we got Flare to follow us as we proceeded further into the cavern "hey what do you think that is" I turned to see Ice poking a weird black vein in the wall, "I don't know but stop messing with it before something happens" but to late the pencil was sucked into the vein but Ice let go before it tried to get him "I told you something would happen"

After the near wall incident we kept forward and saw more of the veins in the wall and floor, but we saw where all the veins were leading to a huge blob of the black ooze from earlier, then we started to hear a voice that was coming from nowhere but everywhere "finally Leon Anderson has arrived with his squad" We looked around, I started to shout "who are you and how do you know my name" then we heard a maniacal laughter fused with a deep voice "hahaha oh how little you understand I am the one who brought you to this world because you are the kind of people I need to help take down Princess Celestia and the elements of harmony"

I looked around till I saw the blob in was glowing with each word that was said "you see it is in your nature to be with the group with the most power, or those who are shunned from the world, that is why you are helping the changelings and that is why you are going to help me take down Celestia" what does he mean he hasn't even told us anything "What will happen to the changelings if we help you" "I will let them rule with me and take what is rightfully theirs" I'm still not so trusting of a talking blob of it "what can you offer us" it waited a minute before speaking "I can offer you and the others power, money, land and a place to rule by my side"

I looked over to the others who nodded "alright what do we have to do" "just step closer and put a drop of blood in the orb" I walked over to the orb but then thought "wait what will happen to Cameron" "the Pegasus will be spared and will not have to go through the warriors oath" that is all I needed to hear I pulled out my combat knife and cut my hand and watch as the blood dripped from it, all that was left was to touch the blob of whatever it is "ok here goes nothing" I jabbed my hand into the blob on watch as the darkness is spreading across my arm and slowly consumed my body, as it slowly consumed my face one thought went through my mind 'this better not be a trick'

Can you guess who is in the blob and has Shadow made a mistake find out next time on Code Black

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