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The Last Legion

Chapter 2: History

"We are going to take your kingdom and make it our own." Commander Maelstrom said with a smirk.

Princess Celestia's calm air finally broke and her body glowed fiercely bathing the room in light while her eyes became a molten gold "Explain why I shouldn't purge your troops off of the face of Equestria right now!" her voice booming across the chamber amplified even more by the strong magic currently emanating from her. The attendants in the room were visibly shaking and even Princess Luna feared her sister's rage.

However the commander stood his ground not even batting an eye, he chuckled "Simple, because the force outside is merely a fraction of the soldiers I have beyond your borders and throughout the kingdom itself. If I die they will swarm your pitiful nation and even if you manage to stop them by the time you do countless ponies could lose their lives. However I do have a few other trump cards so that is far from the extent of my power." he said confidently. The princess continued to glare at the commander but the molten gold of her eyes disappeared leaving only a dull fire in her eyes. The commander gave her a smile not paying attention to the obvious displeasure directed towards him "I'll give you three days and by then if you don't have a flag of surrender flying in every one of your cities my army will burn them all to the ground." he said without remorse making the statement all the more chilling.

Princess Celestia continued to stare down the commander who still remained unfazed "We will fight for our home." she said with determination.

The commander looked at her with amusement "So be it but it is protocol to give you three days and that last shred conscience is telling me to follow at least one rule since I'm going to be breaking quite a few on this campaign anyway." he said with a sigh. Before the princess could figure out what he meant the commander turned around his cape flapping behind him and the other five that had walked in with him followed close behind. As soon as they had arrived the army left flying off into the distance the massive amount of wings flapping could be heard across the city.

Once the army had left the many unicorns in the room had begun firing off orders telepathically to the royal guard calling them back to the castle for further briefing. As all of this went on Luna looked at her sister a bit of nervousness betrayed in her voice "Will we be able to stop them all?" she asked quietly.

Celestia sighed "We don't have much of a choice." she said grimly.

Ponyville Hospital

Cyclone slowly opened his eyes before looking around him, the hospital room was a stark white almost a match to his own coat's color. As he sat up he gritted his teeth due to the intense pain shooting through his shoulder. "Ah I see your awake." a voice chimed in from Cyclone's right, he turned to see Nurse Redheart standing in the door way wearing a smile.

Cyclone regarded Nurse Redheart coolly "I'm going to guess you're the one who patched me up." he said looking down at his bandaged body.

Nurse Redheart nodded "Yes after the guards subdued you I insisted you be taken care of." she said quietly, Cyclone said nothing in return and for a moment there was only silence. Once again Nurse Redheart broke the silence "You've sustained quite a few cuts and bruises but the only serious problem is that one of your wings is dislocated and I'll have to rese-" she was interrupted when Cyclone reached over his shoulder and with a sickening pop he had reset his own wing. Cyclone hissed through his teeth resisting the urge to cry out before once again regaining his composure, Nurse Redheart just stared at him in shock.

Cyclone once again turned his hard blue eyes on Nurse Redheart "You treated me and I'll thank you for that but I'm leaving." he said before motioning to get up.

Nurse Redheart looked at him sternly "You're not going anywhere not to mention you have visitors." she said before moving to the side letting in both Twilight and Rainbow Dash step into the room while she went off to attend to more patients.

Twilight set Cyclone's helmet on the nightstand beside the bed "Who are you?" she asked with a mixture of curiosity and suspicion "This time tell us everything."

Cyclone regarded her with detachment before turning to look at Rainbow Dash "Why are you here and why did you bring her." he said with a hiss when looking at Twilight.

Rainbow Dash fumed "Ugh! What do you have against Twilight, just answer the question!" she shouted already starting to lose her patience.

Cyclone stepped off of the bed and glared at Rainbow Dash "I won't answer a damn thing! If you were truly a pegasus you would know why I don't trust her or any of them!" he shouted in return giving her a glare.

Rainbow Dash groaned "How could I know if you won't tell me anything?" she said quietly and for a moment there was a shred of sadness in her eyes but that was once again replaced by her usual defiance.

Cyclone shook his head "You really don't know?" he said with a bit of disbelief before sitting down on the bed. He stayed silent for a moment before finally speaking up "Fine, I'll tell you about our past. But nothing else!" he said begrudgingly. Cyclone sighed before telling them the tale of his home "Long ago a great blizzard consumed our ancestral home; it was up to the rulers of the three races to find a new place to call home. We fought and tried to tear each other apart but in the end we would all die if we didn't leave and so the search began. While the unicorns and earth ponies were unorganized only sending a single exploration party at a time the pegasi sent many different exploration teams and each was called a legion. The legion that traveled to the current site of our home was known as the Legion of Hermes which we have named ourselves after. The legion had more than soldiers, settlers came along with them and as such the troops were protection means. However the land was untamed and suddenly most settlers were abducted by something that lived underground. We call them the canis adamas but you refer to them as diamond dogs, these were far more feral then yours and posed much more of a threat. My people can hold a grudge and refused to leave until we had defeated the diamond dogs and reclaimed our own. The war took months maybe even years but we managed it and soon we sent messengers back to our homeland to send word of what had happened. However once the messengers arrived there was nothing the land was blanketed in snow and there was not a sign of life. Some thought the ponies died in that infernal blizzard others supposed our colleagues thought we perished and had left to find new lands but that was the least of our concerns. The land was filled with perils basilisks, manticores, griffons, even the occasional dragon needless to say our ancestors had their work cut out for them. In that long period of war records were lost and our past became legend but only a couple of decades back a cache of records were recovered and we went on to translate the material. Soon we had relearned our past but one question kept persisting in our minds if the unicorns had indeed died out then what kept the sun and moon rising? Since we were in a relative time of peace we went to work and using a mineral, a variant of what my armor is made of we were able to track down a massive amount of magic to the far east and soon we found this place." he said finally finishing his tale.

Rainbow Dash and Twilight just stood there shock registering on their faces, Twilight spoke up "That's amazing a lost exploration party formed a nation!" she said her brain already formulating so many more questions. "So did you have to learn farming methods or do you gather your food?" Twilight asked her eyes full of curiosity.

Cyclone said nothing but Rainbow Dash glared at him and he sighed before once again speaking "We enslaved the diamond dogs centuries ago they're our work force."

The sparkle in Twilight's eyes died "That's terrible." she said appalled at the notion of slavery.

Cyclone glowered "What do you call having pegasi control the weather for you while the unicorns stay as the nobility?" he said his eyes locked with Twilight's.

Twilight was at a loss for words but Rainbow Dash stepped forward "You guys can't just decide that for us!" she shouted with determination in her eyes. Cyclone stayed silent while Rainbow Dash kept yelling "You plan on attacking innocent ponies for something only you believe in!" as soon as Rainbow Dash said that Cyclone lost his temper.

"Would you put your own kind at this level! We're not animals we don't attack innocents!" Cyclone seethed as he stepped forward defiantly.

Suddenly a voice chimed in "This is a hospital and as long as your here I'm in charge." said the stern voice of Nurse Redheart. The two pegasi stopped fighting and turned to look at Nurse Redheart before backing off neither making eye contact with one another. Nurse Redheart smiled "There that's better." she said happily. Soon she turned her attention on Rainbow Dash "Dear would you mind keeping Cyclone at your house he's obviously not keen on staying here and in his condition he wouldn't be able to make it that far out of town."

Rainbow Dash was shocked before scoffing "Why should I take him in he's stubborn and no matter what I say he won't listen!" she raised her voice once again glaring at Cyclone.

Twilight rolled her eyes "Sounds a lot like somepony." she said with a sigh.

Rainbow Dash looked at Twilight incredulously "Now your taking his side!" she asked angrily.

"Rainbow Dash I'm not taking anypony's side." Twilight said matter-of-factly.

Rainbow Dash was going to continue but before she could say anything Cyclone spoke up "I'm not staying here." he said with distaste.

Nurse Redheart gave him a smile "Oh do you have somewhere to go?" she asked cheerily. Cyclone didn't know why but a chill ran up his spine at the sight of her smile.

Cyclone chuckled nervously "On second thought I'd love to." he said quickly.

Nurse Redheart continued to smile "That's good, how about you Rainbow Dash are you alright with these arrangements?" she asked turning her attention on the rainbow haired pegasus. Rainbow Dash nodded vigorously in an attempt to please the nurse "Good now the two of you better run off." she said pointing to the door. The two pegasi ran out of the hospital quickly as they could letting out sighs of relief.

The sun had set long ago and the moon had risen high into the sky casting its pale light over Ponyville the two ponies walked in relative silence Rainbow Dash looked towards the sky "Alright we'll have to fly from here." she said before giving cyclone a sideways glance. "Um... is your wing okay?" she asked hesitantly.

Cyclone gave Rainbow Dash a surprised look "Yeah just a little sore." he said wincing as he flexed his wing a little. Soon the two took off silence once again reclaiming the night air as they flew. After a couple of minutes they made it to Rainbow Dash's home nestled in the clouds and went inside. Cyclone sighed and took a seat against a wall folding his aching wing.

Rainbow Dash faltered "Um I have a spare bed if you want to sleep there." she said quietly.

Cyclone looked up at her and shook his head "No it's alright I can sleep here fine."

Rainbow Dash nodded slowly "Oh alright I'm just gonna head to bed alright?" she asked walking towards her room. Cyclone said nothing his eyes were already closed and his rhythmic breathing slowed. Rainbow Dash sighed before picking up a blanket that was draped over a chair before setting it on top of Cyclone she took one last look at him feeling a kind of pity before she went to her room for a well deserved rest.

Twilight's House

Twilight rushed inside her house searching fervently, Spike walked in only to see Twilight running from room to room. "Oh hey Twilight i didn't see you come in." he said happily but before he could say anything else Twilight grabbed at him.

"Spike I've been looking all over for you I need you to take a letter to the princess." she said seriously. Spike looked at her for a moment seeing the urgency in her eyes, he nodded before getting a quill and paper and starting to write as Twilight began speaking.

There's chapter 2 for you hope you all liked it. Time to address a couple of things canis adamas is Latin for diamond dog I know I use a lot of Latin but now that you know their origins the armor always seemed roman to me. Yeah I know I'm slow on the action but I like build up a lot so give it time thank you for reading and I hope you review and now I must be off Psychodrome awayyyyyyyyyyy

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