With Blood and Swords

by FALG


Forging a rescue - Part 3

I have to ask myself, if I actually died, how am I writing this? Did I go into the future and see all this happen? Or did I get a premonition, or a revelation, or something else?

Truth be told, neither of the above mentioned are true. In fact, not even my death is true.

"Speak sense" you must all be saying as of now, very well.

The blade didn't actually even reach me. But I felt like it did.
Have you ever felt those times where you feel something very hurtful coming, and you become hurt, but it never happened? This was the case.

Back to reality, I felt the blade coming through my throat, but when I opened my eyes, I saw that the blade wasn't even moving.
The other pony then tried to slash me a few times, but somehow the attacks were getting blocked, and I wasn't even moving!

I looked back, and the other ponies holding me weren't weren't even near me.
I looked around and saw that Twilight's horn was glowing, she was free too.

Right then, I noticed that there was a shield formed right around us and Fluttershy.
"Let's go! I can't handle this shield for too long!" she told me.
"Call Rainbow! We need to get out as quickly as possible!"

At the sound of that, the window was crashed, confusing the Guardians and making a rampage of the place, followed by a rainbow trail.
"I already did that." she said with a smile.
"C'mon! Let's go!" Rainbow yelled.
Twilight vanished the shield making it explode, making the place even more messy.

"Get the assassin!" Francis yelled.

Twilight grabbed Rainbow's hoof, and lent me the other to grab it. I put Fluttershy on my back, and then we dashed off.

Just then, a rain of bolts was fired upon us, and one of them scratched one of Rainbow's wings. Making us lose altitude while she yelped.
"I'm okay, it's just a scratch!" she said.
"Drop us Rainbow! You won't be able to carry us until I finish to charge the spell!" Twilight said.
"Are you insane?! We'll splat to the ground!" I said.
"I'll teleport us to the ground before we gain enough momentum for that to happen." she told me "We'll meet you at the city's entrance!" she directed to Rainbow.
The latter nodded, and dropped us. Quickly Twilight used her spell and we weren't in the air anymore.

I felt like a hook grappled me from below my tummy and quickly slammed me to the ground. I raised up and followed Twilight through the city's streets.

Many Guardians appeared in our way, we tried to avoid them, and some others were confronted for a split second.
We ran and ran, I was running out of breath, and that wasn't good. Besides, many Guardians were on our tail now. I ran faster to be next to Twilight:
"Twilight! They won't stop! You take Fluttershy, I'll distract them!" I said.
"Are you nuts? They'll kill you!" she protested.
"We don't have time to dicuss! Take her! I'll be okay!" I assured.
Then she levitated Fluttershy from my back, and put her on hers.
"Don't you die on us!" she yelled while I went through another way.

As I expected, the Guardians were only following me, only a few kept following Twilight, but they turned and followed their allies.
Desperately I looked on a place to start the freerunning. And when I found one I didn't think twice.
I jumped up again and again, until I was on the roof. The Guardians bursted inside the building and were coming up from inside.

I jumped to another roof, and kept like that for a while, they almost lost track of me. Now that I had some more time, I disposed myself from the clothes I had, and kept running.
I jumped down and when I saw a little stand selling clothes, I snatched a beige cloak. It hurt me to steal, but I couldn't stop to think of that.

Seeing that none of my pursuers was in sight, I quickly put on the cloak and sat peacefully on a nearby bench. I made sure to put the hood over me.
After some minutes, a little group appeared, they were only trotting now.
"They lost track of me. Great!" I whispered to myself.
I sat up and quickly (but with caution) trotted to the city's entrance.

Once there, I saw Rainbow patting the ground impatient. I made myself notice to her.
"Why is she taking so long? I hope nothing happened." she said.
Right then, Twilight appeared running towards us. With a bunch of Guardians following her.
"Close the gates!" one of the officers in the group shouted.
"Quick! Cross the gate! I'll be fine!" Twilight yelled.

Rainbow and I crossed, but Twilight was too far.
"She won't make it!" I said.
"C'mon Twilight!" Rainbow encouraged.
Twilight then pressed her pace.

Right when her haunches passed the gate, it closed. And with that, a crack was heard. The group had slammed to the gate.
"Let's move quick! Before the archers are deployed!" I said.
We ran to the opposite direction of the city, while Twilight charged the spell.

Right when the archers appeared, she cast it and we were off to Ponyville again.