Joy of hidden Love and the Wrath of Lust
By. FoxofRarity
Chapter. 72
Disclaimer- My Little Pony Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro and Lauren Faust.
“If there is someone I can seek for comfort from sadness inside of me from fighting, I know I can always come to Gold Sky who I know will never judge me if I start crying when I start telling him how I feel. Oh he’s like a father to ones who seek shelter from the harsh trails of life.” Oliver feels warm to embrace Gold Sky like he already knows of the comfort that’s waiting to come upon him.
“It’s wonderful to see you Oliver and you too Valerie.” Gold Sky does not mind if Oliver takes his time in the embrace.
Valerie meanwhile just looks on to Oliver find his point of serenity. It doesn’t bother her that in certain things she can’t no matter how much she tries to comfort Oliver all she can do is just let him know she’s here to provide what any wife can do in this situation which is simply give him the love he needs through affection, words, and grooming. “Gold Sky will comfort Oliver in ways that a father figure can because sometimes a soldier can only turn to an another solider to seek consolation, hence, why brotherhood is so important among male soldiers.”
Oliver lets go of the stallion to discuss his feelings with Gold Sky. “Valerie you haven’t had the chance to spend time with your friends ever since the war, I think you should go and spend time with your friends while I and Gold Sky will watch the kids.”
Valerie smiles to see Oliver getting the treatment he needs from Gold Sky plus she trusts Gold Sky a lot along with little Rarity playing with Jonathan. “Thank you for thinking about me Oliver.” She comes up and kisses her dear husband before departing.
Gold Sky on the other hoof feels a cold sadness wrap around his heart when he witnesses this affection shared between this husband & wife.
After Valerie departs both fathers sit under the shade of a pomegranate tree watching the children have fun.
“Uagh!” Rarity throws a lawn dart right in the center of the hoop on the ground.
“Wow! Nice shot Rarity! My turn.” Jonathan takes his and gets his dart right on the bull’s-eye. “Yes!”
“Tell me what is on your mind Oliver because without using my telepathy I can sense pain in you.” Gold Sky softly asks.
Oliver sighs for he has again dreamt that dream where he’s walking among his troops all of which smile at him but none of them are alive rather they are all his fallen brothers and sisters in arms and he in the cover of the loud shower water cried once again for losing his dear troops. “Gold Sky, does being father mean feeling so attached to my troops because I’m their leader?”
It’s very rare Gold Sky will provide counsel to a fellow stallion and he does not consider himself wise to be asked for counsel in the first place though it isn’t through his intelligence that he gives counsel. It’s through his paternal instinct for by paternal instinct that one can provide wisdom for in experience wisdom is gained. “I see why you will see being a leader as the same as a father. You tell your troops to come and they come, you tell Jonathan to come and he comes. You train them with things that’ll help them in life just like you teach Jonathan in things that’ll help him in life. You lead them, you guide them, and you care for them, because their lives are in your hands feeling solely responsible for whatever happens to them. However, there will be a time where you will watch Jonathan go his way in this way in this world it will mark the time of that moment you will let go of him. As for troops you will have to let go of them when they fall on the battlefield, I know it’s hard to let go of the ones who look up to you, but you can’t always protect them no matter how hard you try. Sadly as a leader you are not their keeper as a father you are Jonathan’s keeper. I know it is by your paternal instinct you love your troops very much Oliver and if I was in your position I too will love them but being their leader you cannot love you can only lead and command while as a father you will love and lead but more importantly you will guide.” Gold Sky stops to allow Oliver have the chance to speak.
“I told myself that at first Gold Sky, I tried to get myself to separate what it means being a leader and father but I couldn’t get myself to do that when I thought about the other troops that died in the war before the conquest I mean, I led them yet many died. I had no other choice to let my paternal instinct take over in order to continue leading them.” Oliver with no delay speaks his feelings.
“I understand and I will never judge you for doing that. You led them yes, they died yes, and through victory their deaths have been avenged. Oliver please, please lead your troops as their sole leader not father…oh my son.” Gold Sky sniffles. “My son.”
Hearing those words come from Gold Sky’s lips just makes Oliver’s eyes become pink with tears waiting to run down his cheeks. “You counsel me as your son don’t you.”
Gold Sky nods. “Yes Oliver, I love you as the son I cannot have and continuing where I left off, you are who you are Oliver, don’t feel responsible for what isn’t yours feel responsible for what is yours. Every soldier under your command have their fates in their hands not your hands. It is through fate that everyone live their lives to their own accord and if they die in the battlefield it is not your fault, it’s simply their journey has come to an end thankfully yours hasn’t my son. Your journey through life still needs to be traversed and I’m overjoyed to see how far you’ve come my son.”
Oliver wipes his eyes dry. “Gold Sky something happened and for reasons I cannot explain, well let me indulge you with the details first. A only child became a Marine and her father despite being past his prime reenlisted to protect her in battle, sadly both got captured and the Ruler of the nation I fought against was executing every captured Republic soldier so the father seeing his daughter was going to be killed asked to take her place instead maybe out of the hope that he will buy her enough time to for the rest of the Republic forces to save her. I saw him get down on his knees as I flew at my maximum speed to save him and the rest of my troops but I was too late, the blade came down on him and he fell flat frak down…he fell flat frak down while his daughter cried on his body. Now comes the part that I can’t explain Gold Sky.”
“Then try your best my son.” Gold Sky always wondered about the aspects of the father and son relationship and so the stallion takes this moment with Oliver as a glimpse of that relationship.
Oliver does. “After I barely managed to save the daughter and the rest of my captured troops, I looked upon the mourning daughter and I saw Gilda crying over your body. I really saw you dead and Gilda mourning for you.”
Gold Sky does not take this view with any form of concern given how Gold Sky knows Oliver thinks of him as Gilda’s loving, loving father and of course the universal father figure. “Strange you will see that my son but at least I know you think of me as Gilda’s loving protective father.”
Oliver weakly smiles at Gold Sky when he figures that the stallion is correct in the assessment. “I guess the best leaders are the ones who are fathers.”
“No Oliver, guess isn’t the right word to use when you should have said know. The greatest guardians of knowledge, futures, civilizations, life itself, and children are Fathers. We protect our children not by choice but by instinct because our children are the future we have created to better the world we have built for them and they shall perfect the world before they have children of their own who too will perfect their world. We will give our lives for our children no matter what and even if they don’t want that to happen it will still happen to ensure their life. Our children is our life source Oliver, and believe me, if I lost Gilda then why do I need to live if my life source is gone. Remember your biological father.”
The final straw came upon Oliver making him just cry his pain and Gold Sky to keep Jonathan from being concerned uses telepathy to make Oliver’s crying invisible to the young son. “He gave up his life to protect me, and he died with uncertainty whither if I lived or died. H-h-he kissed me and passed his hand through my hair for the last time before he charged forward to protect me. I am his son, I am a father, I am my son’s protector, and you protected me like I was…I am your son.”
Gold Sky extends his left wing so Oliver can use it to wipe away his tears. “Thank you for saying that my son, at least you took your biological father’s, your adoptive father, and my love to build yourself into the Griffon you are today. A strong Father. A pillar of Civilization.” Gold Sky hugs Oliver to completely seal Oliver’s comfort. “I love you my son.”
Now Oliver strongly smiles to feel the love provided by a father who loves him as a son. “Thank you for helping me father.” He says that word he’s been holding in for a long time.
Just then Jonathan and Rarity come by to sit under their father’s wings when they both got tied scores in their fun game of lawn darts. “Son, Husband, and Father. All roles a stallion will be through his life but the greatest virtue is being Father. You are a better Father than me Oliver and I say this for it’s true Oliver and I am honored to love you as the son I can never have.”
Rarity takes the first opportunity she can seize to speak. “Daddy me and Jonathan tied so we decided to call it a game and did you talk about your hair yet and who’s he?” Two questions but in the wrong order nevertheless, understandable to say the least very least.
Oliver gets a quick nudge from Gold Sky. “What…? Oh, oh, yes, yes of course ahem! Rarity my name is Oliver the father of Jonathan here and no Gold Sky hasn’t talked about his hair yet which I wonder why it’s purple?” He decides not to ask anything about the jet black ends though noticing how mirthful Rarity’s voice was when she mentioned the hair so to point that out might sadden her.
Jonathan chimes in the wonder too.
Rarity once again seizes the opportunity. “I colored his purple so it can like mine and he looks beautiful uhhh I-I-I mean handsome like me err I mean beautiful like me uhhh daddy with purple hair looks handsome therefore making me beautiful.” She pauses to think about her words in case she got confused about handsome being for stallions and beautiful being for mares. “Yes! His hair looks great like mine except it won’t curl like mine.”
“I don’t look good with my hair being curly sweetheart it’s a look more suited for you.” Gold Sky so prefers his hair to stay straight.
Oliver and Jonathan shrug in agreement. *ting!* There was a main reason why Oliver had Jonathan call out to Gold Sky. “Gold Sky, I got something for you and it’s from the President.” From the feather tuff on his chest Oliver gets a letter out and hands it to the stallion.
“A wedding invitation?” He thought the president of the Griffon Republic already had a wife. “Why will the President invite me to his wedding?”
“Well you’re the Vanguard after all.” Oliver points out.
“Huh, didn’t think about that.” Gold Sky starts stroking Rarity’s cheek to see her smile at him. “Rarity what do you say about seeing two Griffons getting married?”
“Are you going?” She asks.
Gold Sky, Oliver, and Jonathan all tilt their heads to fully comprehend Rarity’s little question. “Uhhh well of course I’ll be going sweetheart, I will never let you go anywhere alone.” Out of a sudden surge of fear he pulls Rarity closer to him with his wing.
“Perfect!” Rarity automatically jumps on his back.
“By the way General Sherman will like to see you again mostly of a his youngest daughter’s eagerness to see you Gold Sky, I think she took a great liking in you plus she said something about saying San after saying your name.” Oliver rubs his chin about the last part.
Gold Sky softly laughs about be sought by Megumi maybe because she enjoyed petting him not that he didn’t mind but a nice tasty apple better be in the mix if she wants to pet him again. “When will the wedding begin?”
Oliver looks at his pocket watch. “In about four hours so we got plenty of time to make you look presentable.”
Say what? “Presentable!? Why do I need to look presentable if I’m just a guest.”
“Because you’re the guest of honor duuuuh!” Jonathan blurts out. “The Vanguard is you Gold Sky and everybody respects you and will not dare to be mean to you.”
“Hmm must be your kill count.” Mentions Oliver.
A cold shiver slithers Gold Sky’s spine when he remembers the thousands he has slain. “Yeah please don’t talk that especially when my dear Rarity is here and you already how I feel about that.”
“Oh sorry about that.” Oliver Apologizes.
“Don’t worry daddy, I’ll make you look presentable so you can leave it to me.” Rarity already has something in mind just not sure if she will execute it in a precise manner.
Gold Sky just goes with it while Oliver and Jonathan giggle to see how this will go.
***
In the clouds Princess Cadance just couldn’t help herself but just feel obligated to help Gilda in a way only she can considering how Flying Havoc is after all the best of the best in the Elite Commando guard and that title only belongs to two Commandos the first being Silver Wind the first ever Elite Commando and the second being Flying Havoc. Gilda being a Marine is skilled in hand to hand combat which Cadance knows but it will not be enough to withstand the overwhelming offense Flying Havoc delivers in a twinkle of an eye. However, what is not known not ever to the other two Pure Immortals is being Immortal can lead to the upmost boredom like obviously and in that boredom Cadance decided to something that’ll keep her fit plus healthy along with deadly if she needs to be; so what exactly did she do? Well she decided to create a fighting style called Wing Chun a style that completely is both offence & defense at the same time along with being very, very dedicated in close quarter combat of which Gilda likes. Now the bigger question is how did Cadance develop such a style? Well everyone can thank Discord for that and Cadance being extremely powerful just wanted to beat up Discord with grace, precision, speed, and harmony instead of using the Elements of Harmony to imprison him. Now before Discord came about Cadance studied how the bronze shield yes the bronze shield is protection and a weapon in the right hands otherwise it’s nothing but a piece of metal, she marveled how offense is always emphasized over defense while those who practiced more defense came out on top. So with the help of calm solitude she meditated for twenty eight years piecing together the creation of the mixture of offense & defense combined when done she put it into practice with the help of a Muk Yan Jong and mastered what she created mentally.
“Let me find her again.” Telepathy scans Ponyville to find the Griffon. “Ahh there she is ahem, Gilda it’s me your dear Aunt Cadance once again.”
Gilda not used to telepathy jumps up screaming like a scared cat to just hear Aunt Cadance’s voice but she isn’t around in the first place. “Aunt Cadance is that you!??”
Cadance cringes how Gilda reacted. “Yes my Gilda it’s me and sorry about freaking you out but cutting to the chase, you will need another ounce of my help when you confront Flying Havoc for his skills in combat surpasses your without a single doubt so I will telepathy endow you with a fighting style that myself created and personally teach my Crystal Guards just like Luna teaches her Commandos. The fighting style will help you greatly and will provide you with victory though that is if you can adapt rapidly and have proper application.”
Gilda’s mouth goes dry to hear how true Cadance’s words are when she talked about Flying Havoc. “What is the fighting style called Aunt Cadance?”
“Wing Chun. Now clear your mind and prepare to be endowed with it for I shall give it to you in the mind and it will be up to you to physically apply it in combat.” Cadance commences the process.
“Oh boy!” Gilda’s eyes start going about random directions while the core of galaxy is receiving Cadance’s help.
“There my dear niece you have a fighting style that is seventy percent fist and thirty percent leg use it well to avenge my brother your father.”
“Thank you, Aunt Cadance.” Gilda shakes her head to clear up everything from the telepathic implication.
“Now with that out of the way, perhaps I can pay Twilight a visit to check on her after what happened but first I should check on Discord and I just can’t understand how Twilight can have any trust in that sneaky snake.” So Cadance banks to the left to head over towards the kind Pegasus’s cottage.
“Do you see Prince anywhere Discord?” Fluttershy asks while she continues her desperate search for her lost stag.
“Uhhhh.” Discord wearing a detective hat, a monocle, and blowing smoke rings out of a corn cob pipe peers down at the ground. “I too don’t find a trace of Prince my dear Fluttershy.” He gently gets down to pass a hand through the saddened Fluttershy’s hair. “Please don’t be said Fluttershy, perhaps Prince went to look for something in the Everfree forest and might be back soon.” Discord suggests.
“Time for a soft landing.” Princess Cadance lands before the investigating duo ready to talk to the soft spoken Pegasus. “Hello Fluttershy how are you today and hello to you too Discord.” She has to be nice and greet Discord as well.
“Princess Cadance!!” Fluttershy erases all the apparent sadness in her voice to greet the Princess of Love. “I-I-I’m glad you can come t-today.” Clearly Fluttershy isn’t known to hide her emotions from anybody.
Discord greets the Princess too. “Charmed.” Just a simple greet then.
Of course Cadance detects the poorly hidden sadness in Fluttershy’s voice. “What’s wrong Fluttershy?”
Discord strokes Fluttershy’s hair to provide encouragement in order to make the Pegasus speak comfortably to the cerise mare. “Tell her what’s wrong Fluttershy. Please.”
*sigh* Fluttershy just gives in. “Oh Princess Cadance I am extremely sad because a stag that I raised since he was a fawn is missing and I can’t find him anywhere! Even with Discord helping me we can’t find him at all!” Fluttershy feels like crying. “I found him when he was just a fawn outside of the Everfree Forest and I named him Prince when he grew magnificent antlers! He always came to me when I called him, loved being stroked behind the ears, and he saw me as his mother. Now he’s missing, where is he!!?”
Discord pipes in his plea for help. “Cadance oh Princess Cadance will you please be a dear Lassie and help us.”
“Ughh!” Cadance rolls her eyes at Discord. “Lassie. Seriously do I look like a Rough Collie to you?”
A smoke ring puffs out of Discord’s pipe. “Well no Princess Cadance the lovely Princess of Love, my friend.”
On one thing Princess Cadance has is the endless integrity not to just blow off Discord while the option of beating him down with Wing Chun is still enticing she has no justifiable reason to do so plus Discord can also be called Cheeky Bastard if Cadance had the stomach to call him that which needless to say she does but won’t. “Exactly! Now please before you start thinking of something ridicules have you two looked in every spot possible for Prince? Because I see a trail of blood leading out of the …err.” Cadance suddenly realizes where the trail of blood leads to and it leads to Ponyville.
Discord’s right eye bulges out of the magnifying glass to the trail of blood. “Hey I didn’t notice this at all!” Reason why, is being solely concerned with Fluttershy’s feelings.
Fluttershy gasps the finally seeing the trail. “Thank you! C’mon Discord maybe Prince got injured and is still alive out there!” So both follow the trail of blood with high hopes to find the dear stag only to see that the trail of blood ends on the stone bridge. “No! The trail ends here ooooh…” Fluttershy just breaks down and starts crying. “I will never find Prince.”
“Fluttershy my dear Fluttershy please don’t lose hope.” Discord takes the Pegasus into his arms. “Please hope and we will find him and Princess Cadance, thank you for your help it was the least you can do.”
With Discord’s words Cadance sees it’s time for her to go and visit dear Twilight Sparkle. “I think she’s still upset about what happened so I know she won’t mind that I’ll come to check on her. Sunshine, sunshine.” Cadance stops herself.
*knock, knock*
“Hello- Princess Cadance holy mackerel it’s you!” Spike nearly pees on himself to see her majesty of Love standing on the library’s doorstep. “Did you send us a letter?”
Cadance extends a hoof to gently quiet the young dragon. “There, there Spike please don’t get so alarmed at my unexpected visit. I’m here to see Twilight Sparkle if you don’t mind.” It’s nice of Cadance to smile at the young dragon.
“Oh yes of course, of course your majesty uhh why are you looking at me like that?” Asks the young dragon.
“Spike you know you can call me by my name so please don’t be so formal around me after all we’re family no?”
Spike laughs in agreement. “Yes we are hahaha almost forgot!” He lets her in the library and points her way to Twilight Sparkle who currently is lying on bed with a book over her cute little belly and a book over her face.
Upon standing a yard from Twilight’s bed Cadance couldn’t help but perk her lips in a soft smile to her bookish sister in law blanketed in books and studying as well. “Twilight.”
*BOING* Twilight just jumps out of the bed when her cute ears picks up Cadance’s voice.
As expected to instantly to show their deep bond. “Sunshine, sunshine, Ladybugs awake! Clap your hooves and do a little shake!” Both laugh to the nostalgia from the little tune takes them to the times where Twilight was in an age of innocence.
“Oh Twilight I’m glad we can be together at this very moment.” Cadance says softly to the lavender Unicorn.
“You know my thoughts well Cadance, you don’t know how happy I am right now after you know.” Twilight blows her hair for Cadance to understand her reference.
Cadance’s ears drop. “Yes that Twilight, look I had nothing to do with that and I wish I had something to do to well do something about that but Twilight did you really do what Big McIntosh said you did?”
Twilight does not express any emotion to Cadance while she thinks about being asked this by someone she can’t lie to and will not even try to lie to too. “Yes Cadance, I used telepathy to have sex with Applejack.” Now she won’t deny using telepathy to have sex with Applejack but she will not say anything about the details that led to that decision.
Cadance sighs in disappointment and frowns. “Why?” Cadance just sounds like a saddened mother when she said that word making Twilight’s body temperature drop three degrees.
Twilight puts on her guilty voice to keep telepathy at bay. “I was curious and I felt a great urge inside of me after I read Pride & Prejudice for the sixteenth time and wanted to experience what Elizabeth will go through in her Honeymoon with Mr. Darcy. I want to have the intimacy that only married couples will have but given how I’m not married I decided to cheat by using telepathy on Applejack and for the first time I had sex!” Good thing Twilight placed a noise cancelling bubble around them allowing Spike to read Power Girl issue number twenty one in peace. “I had sex for the first time with someone who had the power to uhhh satisfy my curiosity! Of course, in my blindness I didn’t take Applejack’s choice into account.”
Cadance sighs again. “So in the end you were only curious about the physical pleasure and that’s all you wanted completely ignoring the love that comes first like the one shared between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, you have become infected with the Lust the world has and you despite your intelligence fell prey to it. I can’t believe you will do this even after I showed you the very meaning of Love when I was taking care of you. Twilight do you want to do that again, do you plan to indulge in something that doesn’t belong to you and force your will on someone innocent like Applejack?”
Though Twilight respects every word Cadance speaks she will ignore these words for they will get in the way of her quest for Rarity’s heart and truly Twilight wants to Love Rarity and wants Rarity to love her. “I don’t know Cadance, I mean I was curious and it was satisfied luckily it didn’t kill me hehehehe, still I had sex and it was nice. Yeah nice like the ending of Pride & Prejudice…” *GASP!* Twilight comes to realize something. “Did Shining Armor tell Princess Celestia what I did!!?”
“No he didn’t and neither did I for we believe that maybe you will see the gravity of your action and come to your senses. But maybe I see that may take longer than I thought or maybe may never come at all but I will repeat the words my dear husband said. Your wrongs will come back to bite you in the flank Twilight. You are old enough to know that already although I can see that perhaps your superior intellect has caused a superiority complex develop in your mind causing to go for what you think is yours when it isn’t without the consideration of consequences to come.” Cadance falls to her rump. “Where is the Twilight Sparkle I thought you will become? Where is the Twilight that’ll spend hours studying to save Equestria and be innocent in nature? Tell me where is she? Sadly she may be far & away, still Twilight I love you very much and will never forsake you but please if you won’t listen to Shining Armor then listen to me. Lust is infecting you Twilight and like Pride, it will lead to ultimate downfall but more importantly it will leave empty. And emptiness is like a hunger you can never fill no matter how much you eat or in your case no matter how many times you have sex you will be empty turning into a torture brought upon you by your choices. I am the Princess of Love, Twilight, and Love is something I want you to have…” A sudden stop. “Twilight let me tell you a simple Revelation. One who seeks what doesn’t to them will belong to something they never wanted to be a part of. Now let’s drop this and how about you, me, and Spike go out for a movie or perhaps a nice picnic. Whatever you want we shall do.”
Twilight smiles to spend time with Cadance and with Spike too. “Hey Spike drop what you’re doing.”
“Yeah if I drop what I’m doing I’ll get dirt on my Power Girl comic.” Nevertheless, Spike puts the comic book in its plastic case.
Twilight continues like she didn’t hear that. “We’ll going to have fun with Cadance and perhaps she’ll get you a Gojira comic.”
“I’ll get you two Gojira comics Spike.” Cadance is always more than happy to buy Spike comic books. “I promise!”
The young dragon’s eyes light up to the promise. “Thank you, thank you, thank you, Cadance!”
So all three head out to the glory of spending time together and Cadance is counting the hours until the sun goes down and her gamble with Gilda’s life starts its play. “One thing I know is my Wing Chun will be no match to my brother’s fury if my gamble costs Gilda’s life.”
Cadance has never been one to gamble.
Much less with the daughter of Love itself.
***
Words of a Father.
“Convection is what separates the strong from the weak. It’s what makes who you are when everyone turns against you and their lives empty of Honor seems so fulfilling you will feel tempted to take their dishonorable customs but you will not for life without honor is a life that’ll only lead to misery.”
Gilda spins Father’s knife in her left hand while she replays the values her father has passed down to her. “Forgiveness is the hardest thing to do and it will be the bad choice when revenge is desired even if a higher power says it’s okay to hold anger against somebody but Father has always said…” Gilda suddenly drops the knife. “To forgive is almost hurting as it is freeing, for your flesh will want to keep anger. Your spirit will want to be free of it. It’s the right thing to forgive and it is the most difficult right choice to do.”
The Griffon takes hold of the black cape with her right hand while her left hand picks the knife back up. “Father I know you will be very displeased no, not displeased, you will be heartbroken if you find out what I’m doing. For you gave me everything to make be a moral, strong, and upright Griffon but now I’m using something you never passed down to me so I can avenge your death even though you will tell me not to do it…what am I doing!” The knife and black cloak fall to the follow then they are joined by tears. “I am an Honorable Griffon like my Father! I am Honorable, moral, and forgiving like him, h-h-he taught me what’s right & wrong I know revenge will leave me empty and I know that feeling.” She means Operation Neptune to get back at the Fascists for killing Jun-Park. “One part of me wants to hold Flying Havoc accountable while the other part wants to forgive him.” Gilda continues shedding tears to see she’ll be rebelling against everything Father has given her in order to fulfill her desire for Revenge and to help Aunt Cadance punish Princess Luna. “When you’re put in front of a crossroads where one path is the one my taught me to pick while the other is the one that I want to pick, it’s best to go down the wrong path so I won’t walk that path ever again.” Gilda takes a deep breath to ease herself up and to wipe away her tears. “The things I do out of Love are things my Father will only do if harm ever came to me, I’ve seen what he’s capable of doing and I don’t want to see what he’ll really do much less think about what he can do to protect me. The horror is too much for me to witness again. So I must not fail in my campaign or the horrors I’m afraid of what will be unleashed on everyone living here.” She imagines fire, destruction, misery, death, pain, hundreds no thousands dying all from his wrath. “The world cannot become a victim of his wrath so I must I succeed and I will. Thanks to Father’s Love giving me my strength, my Military training giving me my steady mind, Aunt Cadance for the Wing Chun fighting style, and Redheart for hope even though Father has taught me that hope is mostly a lie but Redheart has given me reason to have hope.” Indeed Redheart has given Gilda hope to believe in and now thanks her own dismay about any notion about be adopted. “Can’t believe Rarity adopted Father into her family instead of being his biological sister like Cadance and Father loves her more than he Loves Aunt Cadance! My true Aunt and his true sister, humph! Still nevertheless, I will not say anything while Aunt…I mean Rarity is still a child.” Good idea.
“Now I must wait until night comes, so perhaps I’ll take a nice long bath then eat to get my strength up.”
Alas, Gilda turns on the warm water and gets into the tub to enjoy herself a bit.
***
In the Palace.
Princess Luna, Delta Scorch, and Rainbow Dash sit down in Luna’s room to enjoy dinner together. “It’s nice all of us can enjoy this time together.” Says Luna before giving Delta’s chin a quick stroke. “Wouldn’t you say Rainbow Dash?”
“Yeah mm-mhm.” Rainbow replies with a mouth full of food. “Very good.”
Luna just groans to this terrible show of table manners. “Well what do you say my son?”
Delta wipes his mouth clean. “It’s wonderful mother that you’ll invite your dear friend Rainbow Dash to join us for dinner and I’m happy to have dinner with you as well.” Still amidst perceived happiness Delta studies the visual communication between mother and Rainbow Dash.
“I wonder what is it between the two?” He wonders.
Princess Luna on the other hand or hoof knows Delta is trying to figure out something but she doesn’t take the hint to think that it has to do with the relationship with Rainbow Dash. “Though I am saddened that I didn’t think about inviting Cloud Kicker to join us my son but you are not upset, uh are you?”
Delta shakes his head.
Luna sighs in relive to see this.
Rainbow isn’t convinced because to her it will be like Princess Celestia inviting Gold Sky over to dinner plus and not inviting Octavia for Gold Sky will never do anything without his dearest wife. “Yeah I don’t buy it.”
“Rainbow Dash!” Luna almost snarls. “You shouldn’t say things like that especially when they question the honor of my son, Rainbow Dash!”
Delta is amazed to see how quick mother came to defend his honor from Rainbow’s remark. “Well don’t worry Rainbow, Cloud Kicker said that she’s very tired and just wanted to hit the hay quite early today and I of course will like it if she got her much needed rest given her profession wouldn’t you agree Rainbow Dash?”
Well when it comes to rest Rainbow Dash won’t argue with that one bit. “Oh well that makes total sense Delta Scorch.”
A silence of words while a concert of chewing fills the room, Delta’s continues shifting his eyes to Mother and Rainbow Dash while inside he feels warm in a nervous way to ask mother the question he carefully crafted in his head. “Mother I wonder about something and see if you can answer the lingering question.”
Luna smiles to have the silence broken by Delta with a question. “Ask me whatever lingers in your mind my son.”
“Mother I have been wondering about the relationship shared between you and Rainbow Dash, judging from the interaction done between both of you. Rainbow Dash does not show you any kind of reverence like any other pony will, for even Twilight Sparkle who is one your most faithful subjects bows before you while Rainbow Dash not. Rainbow Dash speaks without giving thought to her words and you do not hold her the least bit accountable if she’s out of line while Rarity does take the time to think her words before speaking them. Rainbow Dash does brash actions around that not even Pinkie Pie will do. And what I find the most perplexing is Rainbow Dash acting so comfortable to the point she’ll as a friend of whom she can be herself with even though being herself isn’t the best for everypony.” Delta just has a point about Rainbow Dash in the last sentence.
Rainbow Dash’s jaw drops to Delta Scorch laying down so many criminalizing traits about her. “Dang if you put it that way then dang you have good observation skills dude perhaps near Rarity’s level but at the same time maybe not too close still Delta have you always be so observing of me?”
Delta puts down his spoon to keep Rainbow’s complete attention. “No but I am my mother’s personal guard and I can only watch things that I see for most of the time.”
So with everything being Rainbow sees no other recourse than to just lay it the relationship bare before the stallion for he has the suspension but not the confirmation. “Delta is time for you to know something between me and your…I mean between me and Princess Luna.”
Luna spits out her apple cider upon realizing Rainbow Dash is going to spill the beans. “Rainbow wait! I should be the one to tell him not you because you’re bad at these sorts of things…!” Sadly too little, too late.
Here it goes. “Luna and I are in a relationship.”
*scoff* Luna just shakes her head in disappointment. “Oh bloody hell, somebody please slap some sense into Rainbow Dash.”
Delta however, does not understand what Rainbow wanted him to understand. “Well of course you two are in a relationship are you both not friends?”
*ting* Luna’s disappointment flushes away thanks to Delta still being in the unknown. “Delta, my son, let me put it this way…” Once again Rainbow will beat her with a punch instead with a nice stroke.
“Me and Luna are going out! Both of us are marefriends!!” Rainbow couldn’t have been ever more modest.
“What!!?” Delta is totally confused like Dorothy in the land of Oz. “Wait so mother you are saying you and Rainbow are uhhhhhh?” He gently moves his hooves together to symbolize their relationship in his basic way.
Luna still rather jolted for Rainbow being well Rainbow musters up her composure to explain everything in a slow necessary manner to Delta Scorch. “My son, to put it gently for your sake me and Rainbow Dash are going out and we love each other a lot now I planned in revealing everything to you in a time most well suited for you until now my son. Nevertheless, my son I know you are just speechless right now so please take all the time you need to comprehend everything.”
Delta is slowly trying to comprehend how mother can love a mare or more specifically how can a Princess love someone of non-royalty while yes Rainbow Dash is the Element of Loyalty but that’s not even close to Royalty. “Mother, Rainbow Dash is uhhh Rainbow Dash…”
“A mare?” Luna tries to guess Delta’s words.
Delta shakes his head. “No, Rainbow Dash is not Royalty I-I-I mean shouldn’t a Princess be with somebody else who is Royalty?”
“Humph!” Rainbow Dash tips her nose up at Delta’s question.
Luna is clarified thanks to Delta’s question. “Well my son I’ll just say this, can you please tell me if there’s any eligible Royal Stallions or eligible Royal Mares.”
Delta understands mother’s reasoning which can explain why Luna will love Rainbow. “I-I still don’t know why it will be a mare…unless, you fell in love with someone before.”
“Hey I didn’t think about that!” Rainbow shifts over to sit next to Delta just so she can look at Luna to encourage the Alicorn to open up if she has anything a past love.
“Well there was a stallion three thousand years ago and we fell in Love. I mean yeah we both fell in love, we well I made plans to give up my place as Princess just so I can marry him and we can happily live together with a home, a family, a child, our Love, and our forever together but sadly he had Huntington's disease which is a neurodegenerative genetic disorder making my dear Love force me to forget the notion of marriage knowing that his life is about to start it’s slow descent of himself deteriorating until only in his spirt he can remember everything he Loved. So I decided to spare him of his coming emotional, spiritual, and physical pain.”
“How?” Both Delta and Rainbow Dash asked at the same time, making both of them look at each other in this lapse of synchronized thinking.
It isn’t the causal tone of voice that Luna will use that’ll be disturbing it will be her lack of emotion behind those words that will be disturbing. “Once his cognitive abilities completely degenerated making him just become a body no and longer the stallion I once knew as my true Love, I opened his mouth and placed in a cyanide pill. Before I closed his jaw, I took one last look into his eyes just see the past we once had for the last time and I closed his jaw cracking the capsule open giving him the mercy of death.” Luna stops to scoff. “I granted him a great mercy then I burned his body in a funeral pyre so I can never be reminded of what a great future that’s been taken away from me.”
Delta quickly groans under his breath to see how emotionlessly straightforward mother was and how quick without any detail she was to tell them everything about her former ill-fated Love. Rainbow is right now afraid of Luna, because now she can understand how Luna can kill Gold Sky with ease. For Luna killed her first Love with ease in the act or cover of Mercy now if Luna can do that to the first Love and Gold Sky then Rainbow Dash thinks okay not thinks dreadfully knows Luna will the same for her but maybe this time as mercy. Now Rainbow is speechless for real this time plus wants to get away from Luna but if she tries to do so right now then Luna will ask her why she’s leaving then add Delta Scorch into the mix and Luna isn’t one to let Rainbow go so easily as well so Rainbow will have to pull off a Rainbow Dash by doing what she does best. Say things without thought.
“Well here goes nothing.” Rainbow tells herself. “Ahem. Well anyway guess what Delta!!” Say the Pegasus in high spirits.
“What?” Delta guesses.
“Wait this is just too sudden, Rainbow Dash what are you going to say!?” Luna suspects something not so good will pipe out of Rainbow’s mouth.
So here it comes. “You are going to have two mommies!” Truthfully Rainbow will just love to punch herself in the face for saying that but it was necessary to get out of Luna’s presence. “Why the heck did I say that?”
*thud* Delta just falls off his chair.
Luna however, is just…well to put it nicely, is pissed off! “Rainbow look at my face!!” Then Luna raises her right hoof. “Now look at my right hoof!! If you don’t leave right now my right hoof is going to say hello to your face!”
“Got it!” Rainbow zooms out of the room. “Phew, I’m out oh thank goodness.”
Luna groans in dismay for Rainbow’s outburst. “You’re okay my son?”
Delta comes back around thanks to his mother’s voice. “Was Rainbow serious?”
“How about we about we talk about that later my son.”
Delta nods. “I like that idea mother. Wait what was the name of the Stallion you once loved?”
“Romeo.” Luna replies.
The Irony.
Rainbow Dash has another reason to be afraid of Luna and it has to be with Luna’s Mercy.
***
“Heh, you don’t look so bad Gold Sky though I can’t see why you have eye shadow.” Oliver points out.
“What!” Gold Sky looks in the mirror noticing the bronze colored eye shadow. “Ahh! Rarity why will you put eye shadow on me!” He grabs a moist towel to clean off the eye shadow.
Rarity seeing how father reacted to the eye shadow throws the eye liner from her magical grasp while laughing like she’s done with making the stallion presentable. “I-I thought you would look nice with eye shadow daddy besides the bronze color went well with your chocolate brown spots.”
“Patches well that’s what I call them but sweetheart eye shadow, eye liner, and whatever other cosmetic you wanted to put on me it is only for mares, I repeat cosmetics are for mares not me! Now are you done shining my coat, brushing my hair, wiping my hooves, straightening my eyelashes for a weird turn of events, and uhhh, well putting my hair in a ponytail and placing it over my shoulder.” Gold Sky tilts his head. “Hey isn’t the ponytail over the shoulder a feminine style that only mares use??”
“I think not daddy.” Rarity has no clue that the ponytail over the shoulder is a mare style but who can blame her for not knowing plus Griffons don’t know either so all’s good.
“Well?” Gold Sky turns to Oliver and Jonathan.
“Hey don’t look at us but it does look good on Gold Sky though I think your jet black hair will look better in opinion though.” Oliver gives his words followed by a pat on the stallion’s shoulder. “Well let’s go.”
*Knocking*
“Valerie is back perfect! C’mon let’s go so we can get the best seats plus I want you to see the President’s bride who will also be the First Lady!”
“Sounds nice.” First however, Gold Sky gets on his knees so Rarity can hop on his back. “Get on sweetheart you don’t want to be late to a nice wedding do you now?”
Rarity shakes her head before hopping on.
So in the air Gold Sky, Rarity, Oliver, Valerie and Jonathan head to an old cathedral of gothic architecture but in the flight Gold Sky senses something inside of him while he flies over the eternal resting places of the Republic Soldiers. “Hmmmm, I feel something but I don’t know what it is.” Then the five fly over Lucy who is kneeling before her father’s headstone making a hot electricity run down his spine forcing him to look down and see Lucy. “Wait a minute!! This must be the Griffon who lost her father I must speak to her!”
“Oliver can we please go down?”
“Why?” Oliver asks.
“I want to speak to that Griffon so can we please go down.”
“Heh it’s Lucy.” Oliver whispers under his breath. “Alright we still have time let’s go down.”
All five bank down and carefully land a few yards from Lucy.
Gold Sky kneels down to have Rarity slide down his back. “Rarity sweetheart I need you to stay here for a little bit.” A kiss on her forehead quiets all questions on her tongue. “Oliver please watch her for me.”
“I will.”
Gold Sky stops to look at Oliver. “Watch her please.” After a few more steps he turns around again. “Seriously watch my dear Rarity, Oliver.”
Oliver nods. “Don’t worry Gold Sky don’t worry I’ll watch over just like you watched over me.”
Hearing this Gold Sky sort of has the trust in Oliver to watch over dear Rarity allowing him to fully turn his attention to Lucy and approach her but has to use his telepathy to find out the name of the mourning griffon. “Lucy.” Gold Sky softly mewed.
“Not now mother.” Lucy so deep in her sadness can’t even tell male’s voice from a female ‘s voice and she knows mother blames her for Jorah’s death along with having a high probability in the presumption that hate is in there too.
“Lucy I am not your mother but someone who can help if you desire it.” Gold Sky kindly mews to the Griffon.
Hearing these words and finally figuring out it isn’t something her mother will say she turns around to lay her eyes on a pony standing behind her but instead of being lukewarm to see a pony she’s gasps to finally be before the legendary Vanguard! “The VANGUARD!!” She falls down on her back almost cowering in fear.
“How did you know never mind.” Gold Sky sits down to ease her fear.
“Whoa didn’t see that coming.” Oliver tells the little filly.
Gold Sky extends his right hoof to help Lucy up from the ground. “Lucy, I am the Vanguard but I am also a Father and please look over there you will see what I hold most dear in my life.”
So Lucy looks to the direction Gold Sky is pointing at and sees little Rarity and Gilda, thankfully Gold Sky uses his telepathy so Lucy can see Gilda.
Lucy almost becomes limp to see the Vanguard is Colonel Gilda’s father. “You, you are Gilda’s father! You!!”
Gold Sky almost groans to Lucy saying nothing about Rarity. “Yes but now Lucy, I heard of your agonizing loss and from me you have my dearest condolences.”
Lucy thanks him.
Gold Sky however, is not only to here to give his sympathies to the griffon he’s here because he is angered that a daughter is without her father while the perpetrator is still alive. “Lucy there comes a time where mourning has its due and a decision has to be made. You can live on with your father’s values by forgiving the Griffon who him away from but in my personal experience Lucy the right choice isn’t always the one to be picked when a much more enticing choice is growing inside of you but yet can you gather the strength to pick that choice out of will instead of self-pity.”
Confused by the goodness in her heart Lucy does not understand what the Vanguard is telling her. “What do you mean Vanguard?”
“You know what I mean Lucy but then again I say these words through my mortal instincts while the Love in my heart I tell you to forgive and move on, it is what strong honorable Griffon will do. But you as a mortal can only think of one thing to get near any kind of closure and trust me I understand for as a mortal your time is ever so precious so the need to get back at a wrong is always the thing to come to mind first but yet even the mortals are blessed with Immortal values thanks to the Great Spirt and those values collide with the mortal values by having you think to forgive.” Gold Sky points to Jorah’s headstone. “Now Lucy do you understand what’s going on inside of you?”
Now Lucy understand what the Vanguard is telling her, he wants her see the paths being laid down before her making Lucy have to pick the path she can walk down thanks to her Father’s Love or go down the path of Vengeance where two graves need to be dug. For who it doesn’t matter it is just necessary for two graves to be dug because one isn’t for her, it’s for the end of the Griffon her Father has taught Lucy to be when she’s sets her feet on the threshold of adulthood. “I don’t know what to do Vanguard but I feel so much anger inside of me because that murderer is weak making him ripe for the taking.”
“Only the weak desire vengeance Lucy, while the strong carry it out still.” His telepathy takes the both of them to her memories showing every moment she has spent with her father every memory in thousands of screens revolve around them. “Oh Lucy I cannot tell you what to do it is only up to you, I just want you to find peace and move on for I two lost my parents except I was so much younger than you yet before you start think that he remembers…” Perhaps it’s best for Gold Sky to keep quiet about the clean slate of the heavenly paradise. “I as a Father, Lucy wish for you to find peace and that is what I want for you. Nothing more, nothing less, please see the power of Forgiveness Lucy.” Within the revolving screens a bright flash of white light emits from Gold Sky’s horn. “It has the power to end wars, to end sadness, to end violence, to end hate, to end the pain inside.”
Lucy takes hold of the light and tunes her ears to the sound of Father’s voice giving her his wisdom. “You say the very things my father will tell me Vanguard, yet with this light in my hands you show me the very manifestation of Forgiveness. I want nothing more than peace Vanguard truly, I want to be free of my pain and the very thought of my own mother hating me.” Now Lucy wraps her arms around the sphere of white light as to hug it like… she’s… hugging her Father. “I lost my Father now I lose my own mother thanks to her own choice to hate me, the things in life that perhaps not even forgiveness can give back.”
Sadly the mortal values now seal the digging of the two graves and the white light that she’s embracing simmers out like candle burning the last of its wax. “Thanks to you Vanguard I will avenge my Father’s death if it is the last thing I do.”
Gold Sky lifts up his hooves stopping the screens of the memories and disappear leaving them in the blackness of Lucy’s galaxy. “Lucy, there’s a saying that goes like this. The Daughter becomes the Father and the Father the Daughter, sadly those words cannot reflect you and will never reflect you. Your Father laid down his life so you can live on and I wished you picked peace given by forgiveness but I cannot tell you anything that’ll influence you from what you want to do. Everything your Father did for you will be in vain for your mortality has you in its grip.” Gold Sky ends his use of telepathy bring him and Lucy back to reality. “You do know once you begin your little mission to satisfy your unquenchable thirst you can never come back here to see him.” He points at Jorah’s headstone.
Lucy understands why the Vanguard speaks to her with a touch of regrettable direness. He as a father will want her to live with peace and move on but Lucy has a prey that’s utterly easy for the taking literally Musashi is without arms just making him easy as crushing an ant. “I lost my Father…I having nothing, no home, no love, nothing for me to look forward to when I leave this place but the blood that needs to be shed. I will not return to the Republic probably it will make my mother happy to see I’m gone.” Lucy touches Jorah’s headstone.
There is no purpose to continue, Lucy is another Griffon desiring Vengeance like she’s special from others who lost their loved ones in the battle.
Gold Sky softly exhales a plume of magical steam. “If you wish to have a new home then Equestria will welcome you just make you ask for me so I can find you a house. Well Lucy at least now you can move on in your own way and farewell my dear, may you be free or may you be empty.” With a nod Gold Sky gets up to leave.
“Wait!” Lucy stops him. “I now know whom Colonel Gilda got her valor from and thank you for talking to me oh Vanguard of the Republic.” She comes and hugs the stallion. “I wish my Father could have spoken to you.”
All said & done Gold Sky rejoins little Rarity and the rest to head back to the wedding. “C’mon on Rarity get on my back sweetheart.”
“So what did you and Lucy discuss?” Oliver asks.
Gold Sky sighs with the motions of shaking his head. “Her father died in vain Oliver and I tried to help her see the way Jorah Mount wanted her to see but now she is a lost cause say did she sign her discharge papers??”
Oliver nods. “She’s already been psychologically analyzed and found well suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, survivor’s guilt, and well just what war can to a female when she enters the male’s arena thinking she can come out unscathed.”
Gold Sky can only agree with Oliver in that. “War is inevitable, for in every generation it can never be fought by anyone with a will to fight if they don’t have the will to handle the cost.”
Any who, at the wedding Gold Sky and Rarity are amazed by the beauty of the bride while Rarity just shakes her to the simplistic disaster called the wedding dress. “I can make a better dress than that!!” Even at her age little Rarity is still a prodigy is fashion design.
Nevertheless, Gold Sky is just happy to see the joy in the President’s eyes when he places the ring on the bride’s finger oh he can picture the same moment he had with Octavia at this very moment and feel even more happy for Ronald Madison. “May you be forever happy and may your dear wife too be forever happy.”
Meanwhile, the other Griffons are calm in this little presidential plus a bit royal wedding not to the semi-useful stress semi-useful Secret Service Agents standing everywhere but rather calm thanks to the Vanguard being here. Also the little pony he has with him is very cute to the point the griffon near the Vanguard and little pony can’t stop looking at her.
“Gold Sky-sama!” Megumi whispers behind him. “I’m so glad to see you!”
Gold Sky chuckles. “I prefer San over Sama, Megumi-Chan still I’m glad to see you too. Hey do you have any of these tasty apples.”
The young Griffon hands him two of those tasty apples. “Here you go.”
After taking a quick sniff of the apple Gold Sky is satisfied. “Hmmm this is a tasty apple, thank you Megumi-Chan.”
“You’re welcome, now can I pet you Gold Sky-San!?”
“Not yet but soon Megumi-Chan, soon.” He quiets the young Griffon and returns his attention just in time to the I do part.
“Oh this is so beautiful!!” Rarity squeals in delight when the Bride & Groom kiss.
Oh this wedding is nice and Rarity just loves it.
***
There is a moment before everything is set into motion where the one waiting for the gears to spin is struck with a rapid heart rate upon realizing she isn’t fully prepared. “At least Grandmother Redheart forgot a syringe with a needle.” So with a glass panel Gilda carefully gets a perfect drop of Father’s blood and with a razor blade separates it into two halves. “Good now I will get the half.” The syringe sucks up the half.
Meanwhile.
Princess Celestia is counting down the seconds before she lowers the sun.
Gilda with the syringe safely tucked in the feather down of her chest reaches out to grab Father’s white cloak so she can look like him when he shielded her from the incendiary rounds. “No…I-I can’t use white. That color belongs to father for he came to me like an angel to protect me and well since I am doing something Father will be saddened if he finds out so for the good of things it will be best that I use his black cloak instead, heh, it’s like I’m wearing my Marine cape again.” Gilda dons the black cloak while strapping on a belt with a sheath for the knife and a leather loop for the tomahawk. “There now I’m ready for the fight of all fights. Hey this cloak smells funny eh who cares I smelled worse before. ”
Princess Celestia puts down her pocket watch once the hour and minute hand hit the setting sun.
“Perfect, time for another flawless sun set.”
The sun sets and the sky now provides the cover of night. *Long awaited sigh* ‘The time has come.”
Gilda flies out of the boutique going high into the night sky blending her perfectly with the natural darkness and making it easy for her to find the hospital where her Father’s killer is in. “Okay it’s the night shift and most the employs can care less for whatever little noises they hear if I happen to make any little noises.” Gilda gracefully flies in through an open in the second story while moving quietly so not to wake a sleeping patient. “Take a peek.” Peering through the crack of a door she sees a nurse sipping a cup of coffee while writing down a care plan for a diabetic plus weak renal function patient, next to her is the security guard placing some batteries in his flashlight, and lastly a cna just sits down to relax a bit seeing she’s done with the third round. “Okay I just need for the cna to spin, the guard to leave, and the nurse to leave and grab something. Bingo!” As if a string of fate was pulled the cna drifts off to sleep. “One down.” The guard with the batteries in his flashlight he tells the nurse to have a good night and leaves to make his routine check on the other floors. “Second one down, now that just leaves the nurse.” Gilda knows with every passing second something can fall out of her favor such as the cna waking up. “I don’t have time for this! AHH forgive me Redheart.” Gilda quickly sneaks out thanks to having the nurse’s turned to her and quickly goes for the sleeping cna. “Sorry.” Gilda seizes the sleeping mare by the head then slams her face into the counter of the nurse’s station.
Hearing the impact the nurse turns around only to see Gilda coming at her. “Hey OOOF!” The nurse’s face says hello to the counter top.
“Move.” Gilda runs down the hallways and slides across the floor when coming across a nurse’s station. “Ahh yes of course!! The reason I can’t find that killer is…he is a valuable patient so he wouldn’t be with the other patients! He’ll be in the top floor uh oh!” Gilda conceals herself in the shadows to remain undetected by the security guard. Going up the stairs instead of the elevator the griffon finally is in the third floor seeing that the first room has the number one one three two. “He’s here I can feel it in my spirit.” First after twitching her ears to & fro to pick any noise. “1138 hmm the room number reminds me of Protocol 1138.” *Ting* “This is will be called Act 1138.”
In the cover of pretending to be sound asleep, Princess Cadance senses her wager being put into play. “Gilda is in. Please Father watch over Gilda and just give her the thought to call out to Gold Sky so he can and save for I know where ever he is he will hear her.” Cadance syncs her mind to Gilda’s in order to see everything through the Griffon’s eyes.
Inside the room Gilda looks at the killer. “Father’s wife did some work on the killer but she was too weak to avenge him by killing this murderer.” Just more fuel to keep the Electra Complex alive in her core. First Gilda notices something that even as angry that she is right now she will be merciful to remove it the right way. Gilda grabs a nearby ten CC syringe to remove the sterile water from the balloon anchor of the Foley catheter and sucks out the water. “The moment I start pulling this thing he’ll wake up…” A nearby locker catches Gilda’s eye. “His armor is in there.” She rips up a spare blanket to tie the armor so Gilda can this fight ever so fair even though she will not be wearing any armor of her own. After having the silver armor in easy reach Gilda again takes hold of the Foley catheter. “He’s lying in the prone position with his wing being held by slings while the dagger pining the both his wings is still there well nothing my talons can cut through.” Gilda takes a quick breath and pulls out the catheter.
*gasp* “What!!” Flying Havoc is awakened by the quick friction burning sensation in his urethra. “Who are you!!” The stallion shouts to the black figure flaring its talons at him like it’s going to kill him on the spot.
Knowing that someone heard the stallion’s yell, Gilda cuts off the slings holding Flying Havoc’s wings causing him to scream in pain, seizes him, and with the armor flies out of the window in the direction of the Everfree Forest.
Hearing the screams the security guard, doctor, and a nurse rush into Flying Havoc’s gasping in horror to see their very, very, very valuable patient is gone. “OH NO!! Her majesty will probably imprison us! What do we do, what do we do!!” The nurse starts going into a panic attack, the security guard just cusses, and the doctor can only imagine his precious medical license being ripped before his very eyes.
In the sky Flying Havoc begs for his life. “Please don’t kill me, I’m defenseless, weak, and not worth it! Please I’m begging you don’t kill me!”
“I am not going to kill you so be quiet!” Gilda increases her speed to make it to the Everfree Forest. “Get ready for a hard landing!” She throws the Elite Commando guard into the center of a large clearing.
The Commando rolls about on the ground unleashed blood curling screams and just sobs just praying all of this will end soon. “AAHAAHHAAA PLEASE! PLEASE, I’M BEGGING YOU!!”
Gilda approaches the stallion without saying word but for some odd reason Flying Havoc feels this black cloaked fiend isn’t paying attention to him per se, the fiend is paying attention to the kukri dagger in his wings. “NO WAIT!!”
Too late though. “Let me get rid of this.” Her hands wraps around the dagger’s handle. “I know this is going to hurt you but don’t worry the pain won’t last for long.”
“No, no, no AAAAAAAH!” The handle is pulled out ripping apart the nerve cluster tangled around the dagger causing the nervous system to go in neural chaos seeing how the neurons can’t go anywhere and just rattle about in place creating a pain that’s unimaginable.
“Yeah be quiet.” Gilda gets the syringe hold the half drop of blood and stabs the neck, injecting the sparkling blood. “The pain now goes away.”
The stallion suddenly goes quiet when as told by the fiend his pain goes away not in subsiding levels but in an instant. “What did you do to me?”
Gilda throws the syringe while building up her determination for the coming fight after clarity is provided to the commando. “Flap your wings.”
Flying Havoc gets to all fours while carefully taking steps to test physical senses. “On my Great Spirit I can walk! I-I can walk!! Ho-ho, I-I can move, I can jump finally I can jump!!” Flying Havoc shouts for joy to walk again after being completely bed bound for a long time.
Gilda untouched by the stallion’s joy makes her demand again. “I said flap your bloody wings!”
“Oh…” Flying Havoc takes a moment to look back at his wings. “Can I?” With his eyes closed indicating he’s hoping for the best. “Now!” He wings flap upon command lifting him up from the ground. “I CAN FLY!!! I CAN FLY! HAHAHA, I CAN FLY AGAIN, OH MY GREAT SPIRIT THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS TO ME!!” He flies straight to the black cloaked figure and embraces it.
“This isn’t what I expected!” Gilda shoves the stallion away. “I didn’t do this so you can fly you murderer I did this so I can avenge my Father whom you killed!”
Flying Havoc’s happiness goes away when in his full senses can properly identify the cloaked figure is a female. “Killed, your father wha-what are you talking about!?” He never murdered any one.
“You murdered my Father by stabbing him in the heart with a spear from behind, doing a thing so dishonorable only a coward will do it!”
Everything now comes back to Flying Havoc. He only thought the prime objective only had a wife no one else now he realizes why it should always be verified if their children because the children will desire vengeance like nothing else. “You are the Alicorn’s daughter this can’t be happening! Her majesty said he only had a wife and no children.”
Gilda puffs up her chest. “Oh yes I am his daughter, his flesh & blood and whose Father you took away now you will face the wrath you deserve for you are fortunate my Father didn’t end you and lucky that weak mare he calls his wife didn’t kill you.” She drags forth the silver armor. “This belongs to you not that it might do you any good but you will fight Gilda, the Daughter of Gold Sky the immortal. Know my name Flying Havoc know the name of living vengeance coming to return the favor your spear gave so put on your armor Flying Havoc and we shall nevertheless have an honorable fight.” Gilda throws the silver armor to the stallion. “I am my Father’s daughter Flying Havoc and I will fight with honor.”
Flying Havoc is almost frightened to realize he was only healed to fight the daughter of the Prime Objective now he has nowhere to turn but to fight the daughter however, his near coming fear disappears to his rising confidence he has for as Captain of the Elite Commando guard he is extremely bold. “My armor.” Piece by piece the stallion dons his armor. “I am an Elite Commando guard, not a coward, and not dishonorable as you claim! But it is your turn to know I am the best of the Elite Commando guard and yes I am fortunate your father didn’t kill me while are lucky to experience my full skill in combat.”
Gilda and Flying Havoc take a moment to look at each other while on their eyes…there is fear. Yes, both inside their cores are afraid this will be their final moment in this world if either one of them has a window to deliver a life ending blow. Even a Commando and a Marine are afraid to fight but they will fight thanks to their training which may balance the scales.
*Both sigh* Flying Havoc pops his neck and Gilda pops her knuckles.
“Hiya! Flying Havoc, Ninjutsu!” He brings both hooves together and bows his head.
Hiya! Gilda, Marine Corps Martial Arts!” She goes in battle pose and gives him a nod of respect.
*
“Oh dear, she’s using what she knows best!” Whimpers the Princess of Love.
*
“The heck is Marine Corps Martial Arts??” Wonders the hovering stallion.
“What in the bloody world is Ninjutsu??” Gilda asks herself before flapping her wings to hover.
Any who, just Cadance warned Gilda, Flying Havoc charges forward with little time for Gilda to even anticipate his first attack. “AH!” Gilda using both arms blocks his fast kick but Flying Havoc leans forward at steep angle delivering rapid punches. Gilda feeling the pain lowers her defense creating an opening for Flying Havoc to kick Gilda’s face with his left hind leg and spins to the left to kick her again with his right hind leg but thanks to the Griffon’s training she manages to catch the right hind leg and pulls him forward giving Flying Havoc a right uppercut then with her left hand she seizes him by the neck punching him four times in the face then front kicks him in the chest to gain distance.
“Impressive.” Flying Havoc spits out blood. “Your Marine Corps Martial Arts took you out of a bind.”
Gilda conceals her groans for in the sides where she was punched the pain lingers on like the constant prinks of a needle. “I-it’s that all you got!”
“I must be careful for he can devastate me in close quarter combat my supreme FORTE!! So I must maintain distance with my wings while also using my reach to my advantage as well.”
Both charge forward once again. “Wings!” Gilda extends her wings to their full span and spins to in attempt to get the air out of him.
“OH NO!” Flying Havoc gives himself an aerial boost to front flip over Gilda’s attack not realizing the fiend connected the dots. “Huzzah! I can attack from behind” Until. “AGAA!”
Gilda’s tail wraps around his neck. “What the! Is that a tail!”
“Ughh!” Gilda gives him a powerful right hook. “Got him!” She brings him closer kneeing him real well in the stomach and head butts him two times then punches him again. “You have pretty face Flying Havoc.” Her talons shine brightly in the moon light after she reveals them.
*Gasp!* “She’s a Griffon and I got to distract her with this eww!”
“AH OWWWW MY TAIL!!” Gilda unwraps her tail from his neck. “OOF!!” A kick in the chest sends her flying through the air.
“Pleh, pleh, pleh, ugh can’t believe I had to bite your tail!” The stallion spits out some fur and dashes forward to keep up with the leverage he gained with the kick to Gilda’s chest. He intercepts Gilda from behind kicking her again changing her trajectory to the direction where she once was so with another amazing dash of speed he intercepts her again this time giving her the fury of fast hooves making Gilda faze in & out of consciousness.
But her thoughts are running in untouched consciousness. “Aunt Cadance warned me of his speed nevertheless, he does have the slightest clue of my durability!” Durability thanks to Father’s blood running through her veins.
*
Cadance in telepathic link senses a chemical secretion of certain hormones leading to the cluster of stars in Gilda’s galaxy Cadance has telepathically given her.
“My Wing Chun is dawning on her.”
*
Gilda jerks up her left arm while her right arm jerks down while the fist points to the left forearm becoming near perpendicular with one another while displaying one of the signature poses of Wing Chun. She then turns to her side to avoid Flying Havoc’s right hoof while with her right arm with her palm facing down arches up to deflect the left hoof and launches the right hand to deflect his right hoof. “Opportunity to gain distance!” Gilda put both arms parallel to one another blocking Flying Havoc’s offense and push him away.
Flying Havoc is suddenly impressed to Gilda’s out of the blue stone wall defense.
A surge of calmness sinks itself into Gilda thanks to her core bring the telepathic induced cluster closer to it allowing Gilda to pose in her fighting stance again and pop her knuckles. “Hiya! Gilda, Wing Chun!”
“Oh not good.” Flying Havoc has heard of the near invincibility of Wing Chun still even with this terrifying discovery Flying Havoc will remain bold as ever. “Well you’re full of surprises daughter of the Prime Objective! I wish you were there when I stabbed his heart so you could have heard his groan when I twisted my spear before taking it out.”
Gilda’s eyes widen in a flash of sadness. “Daddy! You felt no remorse for killing my innocent Father who never did you any wrong!”
The stallion just picks up his chin in a show defiance or ignorance. “He wronged her majesty and I do as I’m ordered to.”
Gilda clears her mind to continue tapping in the telepathic induced star cluster. “You will pay for that with your life!”
“Humph, as if!” Flying Havoc engages Gilda with his fierce offensive of punches and kicks.
“I feel my mind telling me every move to perform to keep myself from being hit by Flying Havoc! Awesome!!” Gilda’s right arm flicks down then her right elbow angles up deflected Flying Havoc’s left fist. With lightning speed strives left then her right hind leg kicks down Flying Havoc’s left leg before it had the chance to build up energy to go into full swing. “Huah!” Both arms rise up to stop both of the Commando’s arms opening up the exposed chest for Gilda to swing out her arms to get the Commando’s arms from her and land a rapid sequence of hits on Flying Havoc’s chest. “Shoot, I can’t believe Aunt Cadance created this!!” The Griffon’s left arm after giving a hit to the sides above the kidneys the left elbow strikes Flying Havoc’s face. “The chest again!” The left elbow strikes the chest but before following up with a hit from her right hand Gilda take in a large breath and just as she launches forward her right palm Gilda releases the breath increasing the power of her strike into Flying Havoc’s sternum.
Flying Havoc spits out some blood while still feeling shockwaves of pain travel from the site of impact on his chest. “I have to improvise with my blades!” Thus the right blade shines brightly in the moon light.
*
Cadance’s ears perk up when she sees the horseshoe blade, why? Well Cadance’s Wing Chun is only seventy percent fist and thirty percent leg while nowhere in there is anything regarding the use of weapons. “Oh no! Gilda will revert back to her Marine Corps Martial Arts for with that style she can use brother’s knife to its full potential!”
Victory was just in Gilda’s grasp.
Now the gamble is falling out of Cadance’s favor and more into brother’s beyond measure wrath.
*
*CLANG!*
Both the horseshoe blade and knife clash creating sparks to fly about in the eyes of both fighters.
“Must not relent!” Gilda pushes to keep this standstill going.
“If I can redirect the angle then I can gain the advantage.” Flying Havoc pushes the blade two degrees to the right.
But Gilda follows suit recreating the standstill between the two, so the stallion moves down and Gilda uses this to push forward but her knife is angled down a bit almost making an opening straight to her windpipe and Flying Havoc will take this opening then to not take it at all.
*
“Please avoid it!” Cadance begs almost to the point she wanted to shout which will otherwise alert Twilight that she’s not really asleep.
*
“Disarming him will disarm me as well but it’s a risk I have to take!” Gilda using the fact her knife is under the horseshoe blade pushes upward making a circular path to be instigated between the two fighters and in the motions Gilda manages to disarm the stallion of his right horseshoe blade while she loses her knife.
“Frak!” Flying Havoc hates the fact he’s be disarmed by someone who fights better than him. “Frak this!” Flying Havoc just unleashes a unexpected offense by hitting Gilda’s side nerves stinging her with the pain of fatal stabs. Luckily Gilda block his right forcing Flying Havoc to hit Gilda’s upper body with a double hoof strike and Gilda retaliates with a head butt that can so identical to the mighty head butts of her Father, along with adding to the fact Flying Havoc is wearing his helmet which did not help much in protecting him.
“Ow my head.” Complains Flying Havoc.
Meanwhile Gilda tightly grasps her struck sides almost groan in agony to the pain rippling even though her tissue regeneration has healed the damage but the thing about Flying Havoc is he likes Ninjutsu because like a scorpion he can strike with lightning speed but what makes the strike lethal is the venom left behind creating crippling pain to the recipient. “I think he aims for my nerves and damn it, it hurts.”
Suddenly both look down to their fallen weapons and just dash down to get them. “Got Father’s knife in my left hand which is the correct position for it.” With the blade pointed down of course.
Once with his right horseshoe back on Flying Havoc releases the left blade prompting Gilda to grab her tomahawk. Using her skill with weapons plus close quarter combat Gilda just nicks the side of Flying Havoc’s neck with a quick swipe of the knife.
“Her skill with these weapons is parallel to Iron Cloud with his tomahawk yet that tomahawk looks very similar to his. AHH!” He receives another nick on his left arm which is a rather deep slash once he took the quick time to look at it.
“Have to evade her attacks fast!” Shifting his total focus from combat to speed evading each stroke of the knife and hack from the tomahawk. “The perfect moment to strike will present itself to me soon, I just know it!” Keeping a squinty weather eye out for the perfect opening Flying Havoc decides to get the perfect moment at his own might and with Gilda launching both arms down he will have the perfect moment served right to him. “Got you wretch!” His left blade catches the crossed knife and tomahawk leaving his right blade to…
“AAAAHH!” The right blade deeply slashes Gilda’s front. *plissssssh* Opening the floodgates of blood to sprinkle all over Flying Havoc. The Griffon drops her weapons and falls to the ground while tightly clenching her skin so the tissue generation can heal her faster however, even with the immense amount of Father’s blood coursing through her veins the speed of regeneration can altered by her emotional state. “No, I had him…I-I had him…UGH!” A sudden hit to the back of her head has her face flat on the ground. “Why…”
“You never had me…whoa you are literally in a pool of your own blood err, you see in the end I am the victor while you are the fool who thought you can defeat me the best of the best in the Elite Commando Guard.” He places his hoof on Gilda’s head just as she is getting herself up from the ground. “Please stay down.” He slams Gilda to ground along with smearing her face all over the dirt. “Anyway enough talk, I see just like your Father you can heal and I find all the more the better to the endless pain I am going to inflict upon you.” Not quite done. “You stupid cat.”
*
Cadance can only watch and regret.
*
“AOHA!” Gilda receives punch straight into her gut. “I AM NOT A STUPID CAT!” Even with blood gushing out of her mouth Gilda still roars her anger.
“Shut it!” Flying Havoc unleashes his unstoppable offense onto the Griffon sinking in more of his venom into Gilda. “Oh but you are Gilda daughter of the Prime Objective, unlike him who is probably the only one who can kill me you are no match for me.”
Gilda’s anger still rages inside of her even when she’s being beaten to death by Flying Havoc. “I am the daughter of GOLD SKY not Prime Objective!”
Flying Havoc kindly stops his hoof from hitting the battered yet healing Gilda. “Oh I’m sorry is the one about to be killed demands that I refer to the Prime Objective by his name.”
Gilda tries to hit the stallion but her fist is caught. “YOU MURDERED HIM! OOF!”
Flying Havoc breaks her captured arm then slams his hoof in her mouth to keep her from screaming. “Murdered him no but killed him yes. There’s a difference between the two now for you I won’t murder you I’ll simply do to you what I did to him except with my blades instead of a spear.”
Gilda shoots out her wings managing to hit Flying Havoc and grab the tomahawk with her left hand for her right arm is still healing. “You murdered my Father!” She in total sloppiness just swings the tomahawk around trying to kill the stallion giving Flying Havoc some unexpected practice in his speed of dodging attacks. “How can he be avoiding every one of my attacks.” In this Gilda does not see why Flying Havoc is causally avoiding her attacks.
“Gotcha!” To seize another perfect opportunity to bring her close so she can have her chin on his shoulder in order for him to feel her facial expressions once he begins to bring about her end in his own eyes. “Now to deeply sink the end.” The right blade repeatedly stabs Gilda’s belly taking the fight out of the Griffon, taking the desire of vengeance out of her galaxy, and the birth of a pending fear inside Princess Cadance.
Gilda just deeply gasps to every stab in her belly while her left hand drops the tomahawk. “Please…” Her strength leaves causing her body to go limp on the stallion. “Please I beg you stop…”
Without saying a word Flying Havoc spins her around to have her back facing him. “Humph! Just like most mares or whatever you lady Griffons are called you roar your so called scorn for the whole world to hear but the minute die Scheiße gets real you start cowering to run away from the actions that got you here in the first place seeing how your roar is all you got.” Flying Havoc sinks the blade two inches above Gilda’s pelvis and treks the blade slowly up, slicing her back open then throws her to the ground. “Now understand daughter of the Prime Objective the reason I’m being so well abusive is your quick healing like right now your freshly sliced open back is healing before my very eyes but you the you inside of well you cannot rise up to finish what you started.” The stallion picks her up to punch her with all his strength. “I will kill you not for the sake of killing but for the sake you had in trying to kill me to avenge your father. Heh! Oh Gilda dear Gilda why is it that mares like you seek vengeance not knowing how the outcome will come forth but just blindly dive in.” He punches her again following but a combination of kicks and slashes all over her body.
*
“Gilda!!”
Cadance moans.
*
“Ooooooh...” On her knees after receiving a powerful hit Gilda crawls without having a general sense of where to go but just crawl to where ever she can go. “You mur-murdered my Father.” Defiant even with the end looming over her.
After more powerful hits which end with a knee to the stomach ends Flying Havoc venomous sting he holds his right blade over Gilda’s windpipe. “Oh you and your Father, Gilda, you love him so much that you’re willing to die just to avenge him but damn on a side note I never knew a stallion like him will frak a Griffon hot damn I mean a stallion fraking a Griffon like really having sex with a mare of another species though you do look nice for half breed heck now I’m curious.” A quick bout of laughter mocks Gilda. “Let me just slit your throat and watch you heal.”
Gilda grasps her throat while trying not to choke on her own blood but ends up doing so leaving her on her knees and just breathing slowly once her healing is done. She is in the same position her Father once was when he was fighting against Nightmare Moon and he was on the verge of defeat. Like now Gilda’s vision is blurred, her pain is unimaginable, her body does not want to move anywhere fearing for more pain to infect it, black cloak sliced to shreds, her blood on the ground brings forth blooming daffodils which sadly goes unnoticed by Flying Havoc, and her mind is playing flashbacks like she is really going to die the same way her father died.
“So Gilda.” Flying Havoc stands behind her ready to give the death blow. “Any last words you wish to say besides the ones about me murdering your father.”
Gilda’s loud shallows breaths cease. “It doesn’t matter how much or how hard I hit somebody all that matters is how hard I can get hit…”
“Well that’s a pretty phrase you got there and good bye Gilda daughter of Gold Sky.” He can at least give Gilda a taste of his niceness. “I ended your father now I end you erasing his seed from this Earth.”
The right blade shoots straight down to Gilda’s beating heart.
*
“WHAT!”
Cadance falls off the bed.
*
“WHAT!!!” Flying Havoc’s right blade is nowhere close to Gilda’s heart. Why?? Gilda’s left hand caught the blade and even though it penetrated her hand she still holds it back.
“And still keep FIGHTING!” Gilda rises to all fours facing the stallion right in the eye and does something no mortal thought can do.
*TIRAH!*
Golden eyes now glow Red.
*
“IMPOSSIBLE!! She’s turning Love into power!”
*
“My strength may wear out, my body may bleed out, and my pain may be unbearable, BUT MY WILL IS UNBREAKABLE!!!” Gilda with only her left arm lifts the stallion above her head and throws him into the ground causing him to slide twenty two feet away. “YOU MAY HAVE TAKEN MY FATHER FROM ME BUT YOU CAN NOT TAKE WHAT I AM GOING TO DO TO YOU!!” Gilda deeply inhales and roars her glorious might along with distorting the clarity to really display her roar.
Gilda charges forward and hammers down the stallion with just one swift stroke of her fist, so with that same speed she takes hold of him applying her Wing Chin to his abdominal area, chest, sides, neck, and face. “My strength comes from the Love my Father has given me and from the Love I have for him!” Just then the telepathically induced star cluster is shifted away from the outer band of the galaxy it was in combining it with star cluster that has everything of the Marine Corp Martial Arts. “Now feel the power of LOVE!” From the Wing Chun Gilda throws him up striking him with tremendous power from her spinning wing attack.
“AOOAH!” Despite his hearing being occupied by the sounds of rolling about the ground he knows he heard the cracking of every rib in his body. “Impossible I was about to wipe his very seed from this Earth.”
Before anything else. “Do you have any children Flying Havoc!”
The stallion being on his back while Gilda has the moon shining down on her back sees just her terrifying glowing red eyes staring down at him. “No.”
Gilda grabs him by the neck picking him up as she rises up to her hind legs to continue her little question she asked the stallion. “And you intended to end my Father’s bloodline by killing me however; you have failed now I will rid the Earth of more dishonorable killers like you. You will feel a pain that signals the great weeping of your predecessors knowing their precious bloodline ends with you and I cannot help but feel mercy for you…” She lifts him up higher. “That is. After I do what I’m going to do.”
Gilda knees Flying Havoc completely crushing his jewels and erasing all possibilities of his bloodline being expanded. “No…” *Thud* Flying Havoc is trying not to touch himself down there for while his stem is still intact his roots are severed. “Frak me.”
“Frak you no Flying Havoc, but frak the very life you’re living yes.” Gilda strips him of the silver armor. “Nothing can stop me now.” She picks him up again buries her fist in his face breaking his nose, lowers him down to slam his right arm on her knee shattering it completely, sinks her talons into his left bicep to use pain to immobilize the left arm, and slashes his chest leaving five bloody vertical tallies. “Now Flying Havoc do you see why you shouldn’t have killed my Father.”
“Please, don’t kill me I begging you please.” Flying Havoc allows the tears he was painfully holding back.
Gilda with her left hand over pressing him down she tenderly strokes Flying Havoc’s right wing to just create a thought in his mind. “How can you live knowing your family jewels are crushed to a complete utter pulp and before anything else, I want you to know that my Father isn’t one to beg for mercy for he is one who never be defeated in combat unless one takes the dishonorable route like you did. Nonetheless and seriously, do you really think I will let you live? My Father being a loving, honorable stallion, taught me to always love my enemies, turn the other cheek, follow the golden rule, and to always Forgive. With all those teachings how could he have someone kill him if he lived by those principles? Meaning you murdered him out of cold blood before that mare he called wife who didn’t have the BLOODY GUTS TO AVENGE HIM BY KILLING YOU BUT I DO!” Gilda snaps the right wing with a mere flick of her wrist.
“Not my wings, not again.” Flying Havoc just accepts this time he’s going to die by the talons of Gold Sky’s daughter.
Gilda holding the tomahawk in hand she turns the stallion over so he can look deep into her red glowing eyes to make last moments become so sufferable. “I am Gilda, a Griffon, Marine, and most important the Daughter of Gold Sky now prepare to die Flying Havoc.” The Tomahawk is raised to ensure the most input in penetration.
*
Cadance nonetheless.
“Gilda wait! You are your Father’s daughter!”
*
Flying Havoc breathing rapidly awaits for those glowing red eyes to kill him but Gilda is taking her sweet time.
Gilda isn’t taking her sweet time to kill Flying Havoc and if it weren’t Cadance reminding Gilda of the most important thing then the Griffon. “Forgiveness…” Ahh yes, the very thing Gold Sky has taught her with every minute he had with her. “Forgiveness is what the strong do.”
“Why is she taking so long!” Flying Havoc is practically crying thanks to the suspense.
“Forgive…no!” Yeah saying her thoughts out loud is being interpreted as a sadistic thing by Flying Havoc. “Father will forgive him if he took me away no, no, no, I must kill Flying Havoc I will kill him!” Yet she can’t muster the will to swing down the tomahawk. “I am…strong…I will avenge my Father…yet why do I feel the need to forgive?” With more and more of this internal battle being waged inside the Core of the Galaxy her eyes stop glowing foretelling her decision is about to be made. “AAAAAAAAAH!” Gilda swings down the tomahawk with all her strength.
A few seconds pass and Flying Havoc opens his eyes realizing he’s still alive! “What…?” Right next to his head the tomahawk is sunk deep into the ground.
“I am my daddy’s daughter and I forgive you Flying Havoc for now I see the right yet Honorable thing to do is to Forgive.”
Flying Havoc though is speechless.
*
“This is almost too good to be true.” Cadance tells herself.
It is.
*
“But that does not mean you will not pay for killing my Father!” Gilda seizes him. “Let me mark you with another scar so you will be forever reminded of my forgiveness!” Her talons slowly lacerates the face of Flying Havoc leaving him with fresh wounds that’ll become scars. “Yes SCREAM! SCREAM! SCREAM! And now I spare your life so you can tell everyone that I the Daughter of the Immortal Father avenged him and will kill anyone who plans to harm him! Let’s go.” Gilda flies up taking him straight to the palace. “Aunt Cadance, I know you can hear me so tell which window leads to this Princess Luna!”
“Look for the window that has a moon over it.”
Gilda ignoring her pain left over by the venom scans the palace to find that window with a moon over it.
Finally with the guts to speak. “What are you going to do to me?” Flying Havoc asks.
Gilda looks down at him. “I am giving you back to your master!” *Ting* The moon over the window is spotted.
***
Delta Scorch takes another sip of tea. “I don’t think Rainbow Dash will be coming anytime tonight mother.”
Luna snorts her breath out of her nostrils. “Hmmm she’s probably seeking comfort from Octavia of which I won’t be surprised.” Just then. “Look my son, I know what you’re thinking and to answer that question you want to ask is perhaps now with Rainbow hearing about Romeo then she’s considering whiter or not to think about marriage. But you will only have one mother and that will be me no one else as for Rainbow she’ll be your sister nothing more nothing less. If that’s alright with you.”
The mortal son nods his head. “Sister sounds better much, much, much, much better mother. Thank you for doing that for me.”
Both son and mother were about to hug.
*CRASH* Luna’s window shatters.
“What the blood moon!” Luna shielded Delta from the flying glass while quietly cursing herself for getting scared from this jump scare moment.
Delta looks over mother’s wing to look upon the shattered window to witness a silhouette hovering in front of the full moon but when he blinks the silhouette is gone allowing him to focus on something shining on the floor. “CAPTAIN FLYING HAVOC!!”
“What!?” Luna follows Delta’s hoof. “Flying Havoc what happened! Delta carefully remove his helmet and his horseshoes but not the body armor.” With magic Luna’s picks Flying Havoc up from the floor and with telepathically calls for a stretcher. “Tell me what happened Flying Havoc.” Inside Luna is saddened for her severely wounded Elite Commando guard to in a much worse state. “Who did this to you!?”
“And your face! Who!? Please tell us who did this to do you Captain!?” Delta Scorch also with his magic picks up Flying Havoc’s head.
Flying Havoc’s eyes shift all over the place hoping to the Great Spirit himself that Gilda isn’t here to finish him off before the Princess and dear friend. “T-th-the daughter of the Immortal Father will have her revenge against those who murdered her Father and that’s why she spared me so I can warn all of you. She’s coming and will avenge her Immortal Father, her Father, she’s Powerful!” Unfortunately Flying Havoc couldn’t provide the name of the Daughter thanks to the immeasurable fear of those glowing red eyes causing him to forget the name and species of the Daughter.
Luna goes completely pale. “There’s only one dead Immortal but I never knew he had children…OH MY GREAT SPIRIT!! GOLD SKY IS A FATHER NOW HIS OFFSPRING IS COMING FOR ME, FOR YOU DELTA, FOR IRON CLOUD, FOR HELO FOX, FOR ANYONE CLOSE TO ME!!” Luna quickly but carefully places the wounded stallion on the stretcher and orders him back to the hospital. “Delta my son you are going to stay near me and get Cloud Kicker here too so I can protect you two. Also have five Commandos posted at Octavia’s room given I’m more than sure Rainbow is with her, also have Iron Cloud and Helo Fox move to the room next door can’t risk to lose more of the original Lakota squad.” Upon her words being spoken Luna’s wing brings Delta close to him. “You’re staying by me for the whole night Delta and there is nothing you can do about it!”
Delta is surprised for mother having fear in her voice while in the mix of everything is feeling afraid too. “Mother am I really going to sleep under your wing tonight?”
“Yes my son you are and in the morning I will talk to Celli but please don’t leave my wing I don’t want this Daughter to kill you.” Luna kisses his forehead to emphasize her heart trembling words.
However, Delta will unthoughtfully say something true.
“But isn’t this all your fault for killing Gold Sky?”
Luna closes her eyes to be told bluntly of her grave mistake along with kissing the stallion’s forehead again. “I guess…no it is my fault my son and I am now going to face the consequences. You’re right. I killed family now his family is coming for me to reap what I sowed, it’s all my fault Delta Scorch, I-I never thought Gold Sky will have a daughter I, Octavia, and Celli never knew about and to be a daughter who is so strong like him. Forgive me my son for I have shed innocent blood.” Luna lays down her head staring at Delta Scorch asking herself if she can protect him since the Daughter took Flying Havoc from under the hospital staff’s care and nearly killed him.
“I know it isn’t that Griffon from that picture. Gold Sky will never breed with a Griffon he will only breed with his own kind much less take one as his own Daughter.”
***
Gilda being wrapped by the pain of the lingering venom inside crash lands back in the Everfree forest groaning to the pain rippling inside. “My body can only heal but I don’t think it can take away the pain.” Gilda collapses but suddenly picks herself up and just vomits. “I forgave him yes I-I…I did what Father never wanted me to do, I went against his wishes, I spat on his values he pass down to me, and I almost died.” Gilda vomits again though this time out of the guilt for nearly killing Flying Havoc. “Forgive me Father.” She crawls away from her vomit to have herself collapse on clean ground. Father…dad…daddy, please I-I need you. I need you.”
Gilda calls out to her Father without caring if he can hear her or not.
***
At the wedding feast.
“I say oh Vanguard of the Republic your daughter is absolutely beautiful and ever so precious.” Complements the newly married First Lady. “And I enjoyed how she tugged you onto the dancing floor plus if I may add I couldn’t help but laugh when General Sherman’s youngest daughter also pulled you to the dance floor. But I heard your hair is black as the blackest night yet here right now is purple like your dearest daughter.”
Before anything else Gold Sky respectfully kisses First Lady Emilie’s right hand. “Why thank you for the kind words First Lady Emilie but Rarity isn’t my dearest daughter she is my big sister who by mistake turned herself into a child when she tried to use her magic to accelerate the process of carbon becoming a diamond. Still thank you for knowing of how dear my sister is to me. As for my hair yes it is jet black as you can see in the ends but I let Rarity color it purple so we can be closer.”
The First Lady is quite taken aback by the Vanguard’s humble nature. “Oh really she’s your older sister?” Her telepathy is eager to see if this is true.
“Hmm I see you’re a telepath like me.” Gold Sky will not blame the First Lady for her curiosity.
Emilie retracts her telepathy. “I-I-I didn’t know you are a telepath and such a powerful one as well. Uhhh I believe you about Rarity being your big sister.”
Gold Sky looking down at Rarity who came to stand by him chuckles before looking back at the First Lady. “Thank you…” Gold Sky’s heart senses a warmness followed by the faintest of faintest voices in his ears. “Gilda!! Rarity on my back now!”
As soon as the words left his mouth Rarity is on his back clinging tightly to his back. “Jump!”
*Poof!*
“Gilda??” The First Lady says to herself who then notices her husband standing next to her. “Who’s Gilda my love?”
“Gilda is his daughter my dear wife she his is true daughter and I think she is in trouble for I know no matter where he is the Vanguard will hear her.”
***
Gilda rolls to her side in an attempt to escape from the pain pricking her right side, she calls out to Father again praying he’ll come for her just praying he will come down from the sky and take her into his arms taking the pain away with his Love.
“Gilda.” The voice she’s been asking for is here. “Gilda my dearest Daughter I’m here.” Gold Sky holding Rarity tightly under his wing in order to have his back clear for Gilda. “Never fear I’m here now please sweetheart get on my back and we can go home.” Getting down on his knees Gold Sky gently leans over for Gilda to get a hold on his mane to help herself get on. Though Gold Sky wants to know what happened to Gilda he has to wait until she’s gets better while in the back of his mind he thinks Gilda may have brought this upon herself but not in the way others will think. “Get on my back sweetheart.”
“Daddy you came.” How oh Gilda wants to unleash tears of joy for Father coming to save her from the pain. “I-I kn-knew you’ll come for me.” Painfully but with sheer determination Gilda gets onto Father’s back.
“Jump.”
*
“Oh my dear brother thank goodness you’re here.”
Cadance’s little gamble paid off. “Gilda got her vengeance and my brother is avenged, thank you my dear niece, thank you Gilda.”
“You’re welcome Aunt Cadance and thank you for giving me Wing Chun and please don’t tell Father.”
It’s understandable for Gilda to forget about Father fearing Cadance. “I won’t Gilda now please rest and heal.”
*
*Poof*
Immediately Gold Sky carefully levitates Gilda unleashing the floodgates in the veins in his nose the moment his magic goes beyond his thin lined limit. Little Rarity backing away from the sparkling blood jumps onto the bed to hide under the pillows all without saying anything out of fear that daddy will get upset at her.
Gold Sky wipes the blood from his nose “She has no bodily damage yet she feels pain, oh no! She must have fought somepony who is proficient in Ninjutsu. Don’t think about it now Gilda needs me.”
Gold Sky laying belly down covers Gilda with his wing. “I must figure out something to take her mind off of the pain.” The stallion thinks until the obvious hits him.
“Somewhere beyond the sea, somewhere waiting for me. My lover stands on golden stands and watches the ships that go sailing. Somewhere, beyond the sea, she’s there watching for me. If I could like birds on high then straight into her arms I’d go sailing…”
While the Immortal Father sings little Rarity couldn’t help but peek out from the pillows she’s hidden in to listen at the stallion’s singing getting amazed and carefully crawls under the stallion’s right wing, snuggles against his side then falls asleep.
Gilda picks up her hand without any inclination begins touching his face causing Gold Sky to stop singing. “Father I knew you will take away the pain, your Love will always take me to the light that your Love creates but Father please forgive me.”
Gold Sky surprised to be getting the answers from Gilda rather than getting the answers himself tilts his head to being asked for forgiveness. “Forgive you for what Gilda??”
“For getting my Revenge on the stallion that murdered you.”
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Chapter. 73- Will be written by Nightmare Moon and it will be over Rainbow Dash talking with Octavia and Twilight Sparkle sealing her might over Applejack.
My dearest readers you can contribute the long wait to doing extensive research on Wing Chun, Marine Corp Martial Arts, and Ninjutsu in order to create a authentic fight with the three fighting styles.
I will be taking a respite to write chapter 13 for Octavia and the Alicorn's peace.