Well… here's chapter two. Enjoy!

Also, I don't own MLP. That happy privilege lies with Hasbro. I just own this story line.

I glanced down at the necklace I wore. It was a simple thing, with a circular locket on the chain, and in that locket was a note, the last thing Luna had ever given me. A simple note, with only one word: Fight.

But seriously! I'd been on recovery missions before, but this was ridiculous. I was going after a piece of paper, but what the mission had failed to mention was that the mission would lead me into a camp of Shades. I'd been in sticky situations, but none were as deadly as this. I was in a cave with no chance of flight. Not something I could take, not with a couple hundred Shades watching me.

My knives were in my hands in a flash, even as I was turning to run. My ears were flattened in fear, because even though I four years a fighter, and had killed more Shades than stars in the sky, their brutal language terrified me.

They took the Elements. They beat Luna. How can you stop every Shade there is? You barely beat grunts…

I shook my head, driving out the voice. "Damn him…" I muttered as I ran. "He couldn't just die, couldn't he? You damned monster, Amoril!"

I burst from the cave, spreading my wings and flying nearly straight up into the sky. I heard leathery wings behind me, growing faint as I rose faster into the sky. Then I stopped, my wings flapping long enough to keep me aloft. I waited, then turned as an energy bolt singed my cheek. I threw a hand out, a bolt of black lightning leaving the tip of my knife and piercing it through the skull, an explosion of matter and energy coming from the back of it's head.

I looked down, electricity arcing off me in great bolts, my wings swathed in black lightning.

Do it… Amoril whispered. You stole my power… do it.

I growled. "Shut up…"

You're crazy, y'know? He giggled. Mad… mental. And you know it! Maybe you don't, cause, after all, you talk to me.

"Shut up…" I said, my teeth gritting my teeth, the lightning coming off me becoming jagged streaks.

Kill them… End the ones that stole your princess… like you did me, the one who stole your precious parents. Or rather, killed, your precious parents.

"SHUT UP!" I screamed, my wings snapping shut, and I fell headfirst towards the ground. I pressed my arms to my sides, the blades of my knives pointing back to my feet. As I fell, the lightning sparking of my knives and my armor becoming one giant bolt, and my path downward became as jagged as the bolt of lighting I'd become.

I landed in a crouch, in the middle of the group of Shades, the initial impact either frying or crushing the Shades within twenty meters of me. Then the concussion wave hit, causing everything within a quarter of a kilometer to implode, sending Shades up in mini explosions of blood, bone, and flesh, soaking the earth and me in the red, warm liquid. I laughed, a bit insanely, as I looked at the moon, then up at the sky as blood kept raining down. My laughter turned to sobs, the tears streaming down my face, and mingling with the blood and gore on my cheeks.

"Why?" I screamed at the sky, clenching my fists. I sank to my knees and looked around at the bodies, or what was left of them. "Why..?"

Because it is what you were born to do, Thunder… Avenge the fallen. Heheh, but what you're crying about… isn't the fact that you kill, is it? No, it's the fact that you…

I shook my head, driving him away, then stood up. I made my way back to the cave, walking slowly. My power was great, but… it came with a horrible price. The attack I had used to kill the Shades pushed my body to its limits and burned an insane amount of energy. I entered the cave and found myself at the camp, now deserted, in what seemed like no time at all. I found the central tent easily (it was the only one there) and entered, picking the map up off of the table, then rolled it up and stuck it in the waist pouch, one of the few mandatory pieces of equipment my entire team had.

Once I had what I came for, I looked around, then left, taking to the sky and heading east.

Well, that's chapter two. Hope you enjoyed it.

Laterz, and ah… brohoof…

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