Chapter 24 - The amulets of war
2 Days later..
Tarin and I were at sugarcube corner
We had our amulets on the table examining them
"Tarin do you have any idea what they are?" I asked
"Somewhat." He said
One amulet was very bright, the one I had been wearing, and the other, was very dark, almost darkness itself, the one Tarin had been wearing
"Lets ask the Princess's" I said getting up
"Okay" He said
We flew to Canterlot
The castle was surrounded by both Celestia and luna's guards
The guards looked dumbfounded to see us wearing the amulets
They didn't even have to say anything to us
"Celestia, Luna, your visitors are here" the guards said
Tarin and I walked into the castle
"Hello?" I asked
"you're here!" Celestia said
"What?" I asked
"Tarin you unfused the amulets?" Luna asked
"Yes" Tarin said
Celestia looked at us in shock
"What?" I asked
"The prophecy" Celestia said
"The prophecy" Luna repeated
"The prophecy?" I asked
"The prophecy" Tarin said
"Yes" Celestia said
"What?" I asked
"We received a few threats from the griffon kingdom, and there has been a prophecy for this, the prophecy is that two ponies, one of light, one of dark, will lead a battle, one will flee, the other will be lost, and one thing from this prophecy will not come true" Luna said
"Um what?" I asked
"You two are going to war" Celestia said
"What?!" I asked
"What?!" Tarin repeated
"Yep" Celestia said
"Two ponies knew this before you" Luna said
From another room both Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie came in
"You two knew about this?" Tarin asked
"Yeah silly! did you wonder why I gave you the week off?" Pinkie said
"Oh right" Tarin said
"Well these two have worked very hard, to make you two something for the war" Celestia said
"Ooh! Ooh! Can I give Tarin his now?" Pinkie asked
"Okay, you can now" Luna said
"Yay! Here you go sweetie!" Pinkie said handing Tarin a dark blade
"I thought ponies didn't prefer to use blades" Tarin said
"Well silly, I asked Twilight what humans used, She told me to make you a sword" Pinkie said bouncing around happily
"Thank you" Tarin said
The sword's hilt was made of obsidian, and the blade itself was made of pure shadows
"Tristan, here" Fluttershy said quietly
She handed me a bow, The wood was made of a white teak base of wood, and the string was entirely made of Lightning itself, She also handed me a quiver, inside the quiver were unique arrows, White and green feathers (to match my looks) a teak frame (to match the bow) and the tips were made from Lightning as well
I held the bow and slung the quiver over my back
"Thank you" I said
"Thats not all either- we have created armors based on your unique talents and abilities" Celestia said
Luna handed Tarin a set of heavy metal armor, It was made of what I believed to be, a mix of Darkness, Obsidian, and Pure magic.
"This stuff is heavy" He said as he slipped it on
"Meh" I said yawning
Celestia handed me a set of Lighter armor
The armor was made from scales of a dragon, bound with Lightning to link them together, almost in a chainmail sort of was
"The dragon was already dead. I wanted to have a funeral for him, but Princess Celestia asked if she could use some scales" Fluttershy said
"Thank you" I said
"Alright, Today, you two must train, tomorrow, you two will fight" Luna said
"Alright" I said
We followed the Princess's down a long corridor
"Shining armor" Princess Celestia said
"Yes your majesty?" He asked bowing down
"Can you take these two to training, they are going to lead the war tomorrow against the griffins" She asked
"Yes your majesty" He said
We walked down following him, across the castle through many corridors
"Alright, what are your names?" Shining armor asked
"Tristan" I said
"Tarin" Tarin said
"Okay" He said
He wrote a few things down on a piece of paper
"Okay follow me" He said
We walked even deeper underground until finally we entered a large room with many weapons and targets.
"Alright show me what you already know" He said
Tarin and I sat down our armor and weapons
I walked over to a couple of bows and took an arrow off of the rack
I took an arrow and aimed it directly at the griffin dummy
I shot the arrow and it directly penetrated the skull of the dummy
"Bulls eye mate" I said setting the bow down
"Impressive. Tarin, show me what you've got" Shining armor said
Tarin picked up one of the wooden training swords
He ran at one of the dummys, and did a clean thrust through its heart
"You two aren't too bad on the offense, but what about the defense?" Shining armor asked
"Try me" I said
He nodded and grabbed a bow off of the shelf
"Wear your armor, these will not hurt because these are wooden" He said
I ran over to the wall
He started shooting arrows, I backflipped, and began flying to dodge them
"Nice work." He said taking a breather
"Thank you" I said
"Tarin, you're up next" He said
Tarin walked over
He started flinging arrows at Tarin
Tarin switched into the shadow realm, moved over to behind shining armor, Came out, and whacked him with the wooden sword
"Checkmate" Tarin said
"Okay, okay, okay, you got me" He said
"Thank you" Tarin said
Shining armor handed us each a small badge, with the symbol on his uniform
"Please, wear this into the war, for canterlot pride" He said
Tarin and I put them on and saluted him
"Okay, your training is done, you can go home for today, tomorrow be prepared to fight" He said
Tarin and I flew out of Canterlot back to ponyville
The others were all gathered at sugarcube corner
"Surprise!" Pinkie yelled as Tarin and I walked into sugarcube corner
All of the mane 6, Aidan, and azure were at sugarcube corner
"Hello guys!" I said
They saw our insane armor, other the Fluttershy and Pinkie pie, They were shocked with all of our stuff
The party was fun, but as usual, LONG
We all went back to our homes after the party
"I don't want you to get hurt in the war" Fluttershy said
"I should be fine" I said
"I know, but I love you, and I don't want anything to happen to you" She said
I hugged her tightly
"I love you too, and I'm going to be alright" I said
She was softly crying
"I can't stop thinking about what would happen if something did happen to you" She said softly crying on my shoulder
I kissed her
"Its going to be alright" I said hugging again
We went upstairs and got into bed
She snuggled me tightly close to her
"I never want to lose you" She said
"I love you" I said
"I love you too" She said
Neither of us could sleep so we softly lay there crying and telling each other how much we love each other
after a while I fell asleep
The next morning
I woke up, but Fluttershy was asleep, and looked quite particularly happy
I got up and threw on my armor, badge, and quiver, and held my bow
I walked over to Fluttershy and kissed her on the cheek
I walked downstairs and as I opened the door I felt a tap on the shoulder
Fluttershy was right behind me
"So... its already here" She said with tears in her eyes
"I will be fine" I said hugging her
I felt a tear roll down her cheek, and onto my hoof
I kissed her
"I love you" I said
"I love you, good luck" She said
"Thank you.. Goodbye" I said
"Goodbye" She said
I walked outside, I looked back to the window, She was watching me with tears in her eyes
I was holding them back myself, but I kept myself together as I walked away
I flew off to canterlot
When I got to canterlot, Tarin was already there, waiting for me to get there, as well as Shining armor
"There you are. Finally" Tarin said
"Yeah, sorry for being slightly late" I said
"Alright you two, follow me" Shining armor said
Tarin and I followed him down a path through the everfree forest
"The battle is in here?" I asked
"Yes, but thats good for you, you need to be stealthy and quick" He said
"Mkay, I just mean I have BAD memories in here" I said
"Me too" Tarin agreed
When we got to the camp we got strange looks from many of the others
One rude stallion said, "Shining armor. is this a joke, the small ponies are leading this?"
"They are not small, you are all big, and these two are special, and can do things even you can't" He said
"Oh yeah, like what?" The stallion said
"Tristan, shoot at that dummy over there" shining armor said
I set down my special bow, picked up a practice bow, and nailed the dummy right between the eyes
"Beginners luck" The stallion said
I was angry, I grabbed another arrow, and managed to nail the second arrow, and split the first arrow in three pieces
The other stallions eyes grew a bit
"Perhaps. but what can this one do?" He asked pointing to Tarin
"Fight me" Tarin said taking a wooden sword
"Tarin not a good idea" Shining armor whispered
"Why not?" Tarin asked
"This is the strongest stallion I know, you will be wounded and unable to fight" Shining armor replied
"Well wimp, what's it going to be?" The stallion asked
"Fight me" Tarin said
"Alright then tough guy" The other stallion said grabbing a wooden spear
The two of them went at it like hell
It ended in a stalemate
"Well I can see now why you selected them" The stallion said
"Okay then, thanks for your opinion" Shining armor said rolling his eyes
"When does-" I began to say, but I was interrupted by a loud explosion
I was nearly knocked backwards off of my feet when the griffons came in such a rush
Before I knew it, the place was swarmed with griffons, I grabbed my bow and arrows, and flew to the trees
Tarin was down there fighting with his sword, he was slashing them into pieces
I pulled an arrow out of the quiver and aimed it at a griffon, I shot and it vaporized it instantly
I started laughing like a madman, and starting going rapid fire on the arrows
I took down almost 30 of them, which was nothing compared to all the work Tarin was doing
Before I knew it, I heard a loud boom, and a cannon shot out at me, and hit my wing, knocking me out of the tree
I could not get up or fly away, but was forced to watch the horrific events that happened next
I watched as Gilda ran at Tarin, and knocked the helmet off of him
"Its too bad i'm going to have to kill such a valiant fighter" She said
She pinned him down and pulled out an axe
She raised the axe into the air
Tarin just lie there, waiting for the final blow
I gathered up enough courage to get up
The bow had snapped when the cannon hit it
I flew at gilda and knocked her off of her feet, right as she was about to kill Tarin
"I just shot you with a cannon! how did you get up!?" Gilda asked
"Run Tarin!" I said
Tarin flew off at top speeds and got away
"You will pay!" Gilda said
I couldn't do very much because of my current state
I hit gilda with all of my might, and she snorted and charged at me again
She nailed me and I went flying back into a tree
"You are not worthy of this" Gilda said
She Grabbed the amulet off of me, draining much of my energy
She then grabbed my neck, and began to choke me,
I struggled to beat it, until I passed out
Third person P.O.V from Ponyville
The griffons stormed into ponyville in a mad fashion
The griffons began to attack and raid every last home
The griffons gathered everypony from their homes and took them to town square
Gilda was thrilled with overrunning everypony else
Even Tarin was forced into town square
"Surrender or die" Gilda said
"I.. I.. I surrender" Tarin said looking down in shame
"Excellent, now you can be my very own slave" She said
"Ugh" Tarin said
"What did you do to Tristan!" Fluttershy asked running up
"Well.. if.. thats okay to tell me" Fluttershy said blushing and backing down
"Well if you must know, this is the last remaining piece of him you will all see" Gilda said pulling out the Lightning amulet
"T-T-T-Tristan..." Fluttershy said with tears in her eyes
"Well, I killed him personally" Gilda said
"You wouldn't" The mane 6, and Tarin said almost simultaneously
"Oh yes I would!" Gilda Replied
"Poor Tristan..." Fluttershy said crying
"We shall have a funeral for him, but then all of you must begin working for me!" Gilda said
Tristans P.O.V
I crawled up from laying at the base of a tree
I was in terrible condition, I made my way back to the remains of our camp
It was raided, and burned
I saw the rubble of the medic tent
I crawled over there and I dug around in the rubble hoping for some miracle
I found a small dose of painkillers, a small box of bandages, and a small insertion knife
I took the painkillers, and bandaged up my wing
I finally was able to stand, not well, but able to
I slowly began to walk back to ponyville
I was lost in the everfree forest
I heard a noise come out from nowhere
I began to move quicker, until I found the source of the noise
out of the bushes, Angel jumped out
He looked in disbelief that I was alive
"Sup?" I asked
He started pointing to what I was hoping was ponyville, and I assumed he was attempting to talk
I picked up my pace, got onto my feet and quickly darted toward ponyville
I saw a large building, everything else, was deserted all around town
I opened the door, and slipped in before anypony could notice
Aidan was preaching
I was confused what for
"Today... is the day.. that was mourn the loss of a kind gentle pony, Tristan" He began to say
I emerged from the rows
"Hate to interrupt, but heh heh, I'm right here" I said
Everypony looked in disbelief
Fluttershy ran over and hugged me tightly
"Do you want us to kill him?" One of the guards asking looking to Gilda
"No. This is my fight" I said shoving them aside
I walked down the rows to gilda
I pounded my hoofs together and grabbed my amulet
"I believe that this is mine" I said putting it on
"Well. if you wish to die twice in one day, thats your call" Gilda said running at me
I jumped out of the way and began to charge at her
I knocked her off of her balance, and then punched her at a wall
She ran back at me, Grabbed my neck and slammed me against the wall
"Well if u want to die the same way twice go ahead!" She said laughing evilly
I saw my life flash before my eyes,
Everything before ponyville..
But then I remembered the most important reason to win,
Fluttershy
I snapped out of my little daydream
And bucked gilda off of me
"Tristan, Catch!" Tarin yelled
He threw a bow and arrow to me
Gilda was running at me in what felt like slow motion saying, "NOOOOO!"
I grabbed the bow, arrow, and shot the arrow as soon as it touched base with the bow
"You're going to be cleaning Gilda off of that wall for weeks!" I said as the blood splattered everywhere
"You see what happened to her, now GO, SCRAM" I said to all of the guards/random griffons
They all flew off and left
All of the others ran over to me
"What managed to give you that final burst of energy?" Tarin asked me
"ughhh" I said getting dizzy
"Fluttershy" I said rubbing my head
"What?" Tarin asked confused
"That was what gave me the energy to keep fighting" I said
Fluttershy walked over to me
I hugged her tightly to me
"I love you" I said as tears rolled down my neck from how close to death I was
"I love you too" She said
When we got back to Fluttershy's cottage, the painkillers wore off, and I couldn't even stand anymore
I laid down in the bed
"Tristan, you look awfully beaten up" She said examining all of the wounds over my body
"Yeah" I said rubbing my head
She got out some bandages, and replaced the ones on my wing, to avoid infection
Then, she cleaned out a couple of flesh wounds I had from being hit
Afterwards she yawned
"Alright, its getting pretty late" I said
"Yeah" She said
She got into bed and hugged me tighter to me than ever before
"I never want to lose you" She said
"I love you, and me either" I said
"I love you too" She said
And thus. we fell asleep
(A/n Jesus! That was a long chapter! Review. or not. took me a while to write all this, thinking the story may end soon, but we will write a sequel. or at least I will, Tarin gave up)