Shatter of a Reflection Chapter 3: The means to protect
A quick notice for those that I sort of rushed the whole encounter with Cadance and Twilight. Well for that I apologize but Jake isn't very social. And he has a hard time trusting people since he never had friends. Anyone would be. But any who, on with the story! -
Walking down the cobblestone road was awkward. I was a good foot and a half taller than most of the ponies around me. And they were staring at me.
"How much longer till we get to wherever it is your taking me?" I asked Cadance who was still walking in front of me with a sleeping Twilight.
She just lifted a hoof to her face and shushed me, "It's not that far from here. And don't worry about the looks you're getting." She said as I looked back to her.
I was getting both annoyed and paranoid. If the Royal Guard or whatever they were called found me I was done.
"Just a little further now, just round that Corner." She said as we can to a long road which turned into a large street.
My mind was screaming to runaway but somewhere inside me I wanted to believe her.
I noticed she stopped a few feet away from me. Why did she stop?
I walked up and turned the corner only to be tackled by a black shadow.
I fell back something crashed against the hard ground knocking the wind out of me.
"Ow…" I said trying to get up but my vision was blurry and I wasn't able to move as something grabbed my body and held me down, "What the hell!" I shouted as my vision cleared enough to see I saw a group of flying ponies and some with horns along with a few which had nothing they were normal ponies.
"What the hell do you think your-!" They gagged me with a muzzle that clearly didn't fit my head and they blindfolded me so I wasn't able to see anything, but I could still hear them.
"What are you doing!?" Cadance shouted coming closer from the sound of it, "Let him go! He didn't." She paused as another voice spoke up.
"I should thank you Princess. For not of hint to one of my soldiers we would of never of found this thing. But with your help we were able to trap it!" He said which sent me into a rage.
'She tricked me. She wanted them to find me!' I struggled in their hold breaking free after hitting one of them in the face and kicking the other off me. I was able to stand up once they were off and I felt that some feeling around me once more.
It was as if my body was weighed down but I was able to move. I felt energy flowing into me for some reason. I felt power. I broke out of the hold over me and ripped the muzzle off me and then the blindfold only to see the faces of confusion of the ponies around me.
"What are you?" The nearest one said but I just ignored him and looked at Cadance. She betrayed my trust. She played me for a fool. She led me right into a trap.
So why was she crying.
The look of anguish and pain displayed on her face but I just took a few steps back and broke into a full sprint away.
I needed to escape this place.
But as soon as I turned around I was stopped once more by a glowing light around my body, and once more I broke it allowing me to move but I nearly tripped doing so. But it gave them enough time to tackle me once more.
I was thrown face first into the ground scraping my face against it.
I was mad now. I just wanted to leave without hurting them but now… now I wasn't going to take it anymore.
"Argh!" I pushed off the ground and flipped my body over with the Pegasus on me still as I grabbed its head which he wore a helmet on and slammed his face into my knee making a sickening crunch sound as I let him go and he fell to the ground not moving.
I knew it wasn't dead since the helmet protected it, but they didn't. The rest were pissed now. And they should be. They wanted a fight and I was going to give them one.
"Get it!" One shouted as they charged towards me.
I still had height over them but they had numbers over me. I jumped back as the first one tried to hit me with its back legs but while they were still in the air I quickly grabbed then and swung its body around and tossed it into a few which were heading towards me.
The Pegasus's ones flew at me from above, I dodged them since they were fast, I was able to dodge one and slammed my palm into its side sending it crashing into the ground which made a crack when it landed.
The others flew back up as my body was frozen once more. I was able to peer to my side to see two unicorns with glowing light around their horns which was over my body. I strained my body to move and it did. Little by little I turned and began to walk over to them with their power holding me. I reached out with both my hands and grabbed then by their necks which stopped the flow of energy and I felt more power entering my body.
I noticed they were growing weaker and when I let them go they fell to the ground like rocks and on my hands there glowed this strange light before it disappeared, 'What the hell is this feeling?' I thought as I leaned back and dodged another Pegasus that flew past me.
I jumped back and saw a regular looking heading towards me, so I ran forward to meet it head on. I got up to it and slid down and did a sweeping kick knocking it off its feet and head first into the floor where I throw my body around and kicked it in its side sending it flying towards one of the Unicorns.
I got back up and noticed it was only me and two others left. Both looked to be stronger than the ones I just finished off. They were heavy looking armor and had spears with them both. One was a Unicorn and the other was a regular pony.
"You must really have a death wish beast. Very well, in the name of her Highness we shall end your pitiful life here and now." The Unicorn said taking out its spear with its power as it spun in the air before landing next to him. The other just grabbed it in its mouth, should take that one out first since the other doesn't need to hold it to use it.
I rushed in wanting to finish this off, but when I broke to the right towards the pony with the spear in its mouth it only swung the spear sideways in order to cut me in half had I not ducked under in time.
'Shit that was faster than I thought it would be! Had I hesitated for a second I wouldn't be her-' I was taken from my thoughts as the same pony lunged with the spear its head tilted sideways as it jabbed at me over and over again until I jumped back to give us some space. Sadly I had forgotten about the other one and I was struck by the blunt side of the spear across my back as I cried out in pain.
I was thrown against a wall hard to have the wind knocked out of me once more. Pain gave new meaning to me as I looked up to see the two ponies walking towards me ready to strike out at me.
'I'm not going to die here.' I thought as I felt something inside me breaking free. "Leave me alone!" I shouted out as I throw my arms forward as this pulse went out and flew at the two ponies it threw the regular looking one off its feet and back against a lamppost but the other summoned this shield of some kind that protected him.
"That was magic. How are you able to wield magic!" he shouted at me.
"Magic?" What does he mean I used magic? I had no idea. But there was only one left and I wasn't going down with finishing this.
"Wait!" A new voice came into the picture. Cadance rushed in front of me and stopped. I was still mad at her for what she did but why was she protecting me? "Stop this Commander! He didn't do anything wrong this is all one big misunderstanding!" She shouted at the Unicorn.
I looked ahead only to see the Unicorn glance over to the side as Cadance was engulfed in a green light and pulled away. And I saw a light ahead of me which was heading right for me. I moved to the side as one of the spears was embedded into the wall next to me.
I was safe… or so I thought. I looked at where it was only to see red covering my shoulder and the embedded part of the spear in my shoulder.
I didn't say anything I just moved slightly forward and pain engulfed my entire body. But I needed to get this out of me. I grabbed the other end of the spear and snapped it in half before I felt the worst pain ever as I slowly moved forward and the broken end slid out of my body before I was free.
"Shit that hurts a lot..." I said grasping my shoulder as I looked back towards the Unicorn to see it preparing the other spear by wrapping it in its magic it that was what it was.
'Is this it for me?' I thought. My body was in shock from being impaled.
I saw him throw it at me as things seemed to lose down; I closed my eyes and waited for my end to come.
"No!" I heard Cadance shout out as I opened my eyes to see her jump in front of me.
I watched as the spear neared her and my body just reacted before I know what I did. My body rushed forward on its own just before the spear hit her and my hand pushed her out of the way but in doing so she was saved but I was impaled by the spear in my stomach.
I was thrown back against the wall and stuck there once more. Everything went black after I was hit.
"No!" I heard Cadance shout as two hoofs touched me my eyes fluttered open to see Cadance crying over me. She was trying to move me but it was no use.
I saw two pairs of hoofs pull her away as she struggled to come back to me. Why? Wasn't she trying to get be captured? Why was she in such pain?
I coughed up blood. I even without seeing it, I knew this feeling. This feeling of death coming once more to comfort me as it has so many times before. Only this time it wasn't alone.
I opened my eyes to see a dark field around me. And there standing in front of me was myself. Only he was a grey hint. And his eyes, they were blood red.
But the strangest thing was he was smiling at me. As if my pain was amusing to him. Then everything changed and I was impaled to the wall once again. My body was starting to feel cold.
I took shallow breathes as I forced my eyes open to see the unicorn that impaled me standing there with a look of satisfaction on his face.
I hated that look he gave me. It was just like everyone else. Always under minding me as if I was less than they were.
I slowly lifted my hands up to the spear that was holding me.
"NOOO!" I heard Cadance scream out as I began to pull on the spear as my body slowly moved up it until I was able to pry myself free of it. I was panting as I fell to my knees holding the wound as the wet feeling covered my hands. I glanced up to see the Unicorn standing there before me.
"You don't know when to just give up and die." He said as I lost control.
My right hand shot up grabbing his neck as I used my left to punch in square in the eye. If I was going to die then I was going to at least kick his ass. I punched him again and again until I saw blood was coming from his eye and he was screaming out in pain.
I let go of him as he fell down holding his eye and backed away. I stood there huffing out. My body was slowly falling. I heard Cadance shouting something but my hearing was muffled as the world seemed to shift.
As if time slowed down, I slowly saw the night sky, the stars shining brightly above while the moon with a strange symbol of a pony's head shone there. And the thought came to mind, why did I save her? I didn't know her at all and she lied to me. I would of thought more about it but then something was moving in the sky. I saw this white light glowing as it came closer and closer.
I could make out a horn on its head, and two large wings at its side before my eyes closed for what I thought was the last time.
-Yeah Chapter three done! Sorry if the battle scene is off I'm not used to writing them so bear with me but anyway, next time on "Shatters of a Reflection: Jake was floating in a void of darkness. The only company he had was his old memories of his so called family. But through it all, a new figure appears in a ball of light. But is that all this light is, or is it something more?"