//------------------------------// // Good and Evil // Story: Assassin's Tears II // by MisterGTFO //------------------------------// Chapter Seven: Good and Evil As the Silentblade Ringleaders got seemingly closer to them, they got in their positions but they soon were suprised when Blood Roar stopped a moment. They were all quite suprised when he halted, they all took him as the crazy type who would attack them on sight. "Before I kill you all, why the buck are you here?" Blood Roar said angrily. Golden Shot moved forward Blood Roar and the others and Shining Armor and Princess Cadance noticed, they knew she was going to say something. Golden Shot never liked being told unless it was Silent Wind. She wanted to punch that red-coated stallion in his face. "Y'should be careful with that tongue, mate. I wouldn't want to cut-" Golden Shot was interrupted when Shining Armor put a hoof on her mouth and he shook his head. "We should first answer them." Shining Armor told Golden Shot. Golden Shot gave Shining Armor a small "Hmph." and walked back slightly and then Princess Cadance flew to Shining Armor and began to confront the Silentblade Ringleaders. Blood Roar raised an eyebrow and the other two also moved closer to him just in case if Princess Cadance attacked. "We're just here for your master, and only your master. Move aside." Princess Cadance said. "I don't think we can do that, We can't let ponies like you to our master." Brute said. "I'm bloody done with these muppets, move. Now. Or I'll go on ahead." Golden Shot threatened. And with that, Blood Roar began to howl with laughter, the others also chuckled along with him. Seeing how futile it was to fight with them. Even if they were going against a Rebel Captain, an Alicorn and The Captain of The Royal Guard, they weren't scared. "You ponies and your threats, so pathetic." Blood Roar took his claws out. Lance Pike began to materialize a steel pike on his left hoofarm and Brute readied his large gauntlets which were already on his hooves. "I see that we will have to battle.." Shining Armor said. "It looks like it, mate." Golden Shot said. "I wish we could come to an understanding, but somepony stubborn like you must not exist here." Princess Cadance's Horn began to glow. "Look's like we'll have to kill you." Lance Pike said. "Okay then, you can go first!" Golden Shot pointed her hoofgun at Blood Roar and didn't hesitate to shoot. She shot a scatter shot and all of the projectiles went forward at Blood Roar. But, Lance Pike came in front of Blood Roar and was able to repel it with a simple Force field spell. Blood Roar smirked and glared at Golden Shot. She then saw at the corner of her eye, seeing Brute on her left side about swing his left gauntlet at Golden Shot. "You're dead." Brute then swung but then instead, he hitted a blue force field. He looked to his right and saw Shining Armor conjuring it. He then left Golden Shot and went after him instead. But he was propelled back when he was pushed by a force push. He saw that it was Princess Cadance who did it. Blood Roar walked toward Brute. "You go too fast, Brute. Take the war-mare, I'll take the Alicorn. Lance, take the white stallion." Blood Roar drew his claws and flew up and charged at Cadance. "Cadance!" Shining Armor raised his hoof at Cadance but then he saw a pike at his eyes and he looked to his right. Lance Pike pointed his steel lance that conjured on his arm. "Don't forget me, that'd be rude." Lance Pike mocked. Shining Armor glared at him. He wanted to support Cadance but he was stopped by Lance Pike, who was ordered to kill him. He hopped back and then Shining Armor's Horn glowed. "Even I don't have tolerance for you." Shining Armor then charged at Lance Pike. Golden Shot saw that she was left with the Brute. He was quite big but that meant he could throw quite a punch. Even though she knew she was quick, she was careful not to get hit, otherwise it'd be fatal. "You're quite small for a Mare." Brute said. Golden Shot simple shot a look and him and chuckled at his stupidity. "You're pretty dumb for a big Stallion." Golden Shot smirked at him and surprisingly, Brute laughed at her humor. But only for a moment. "You're funny, I like that. But you're getting annoying, time to die." Brute then charged at Golden Shot. Golden Shot pointed her hoofgun at Brute and clicked it and shot at the ground. She then shot a smoke shell and it blew up into the air. Causing confusion in Brute. All the sudden, he soon gets constantly hit in every part of his body, his chest, his face, and his lower waist. He soon gets annoyed and smashes the ground causing a large shake also making the smoke disperse and Golden Shot slightly dazed. "Yee-oww...!" Golden Shot rubbed her head and soon snaps back into reality but gets hit by Brute and gets propelled back against the mountain boulders near the castle. Once the smoke was gone, she saw that she was battered with small scrapes along her body. She soon looks at Brute seeing that he's charging at her and then he lunges at her. She was quick enough to react to it and dodge it. She was now in the air and saw that Brute was looking at her. She was lucky she survived an a destructive force. "What a bloody big wanker.. comon you can do this. Silent Wind depends on ya!" She thought and then she looked down and flew down, going toward Brute. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Even though Princess Cadance was a Alicorn, she was extremely tired fighting with Blood Roar. Exhausting her powers and having small cuts over her. Blood Roar was exhausted also even though he was very energetic on his enemies. Princess Cadance looked at Blood Roar and glared at him. Blood Roar was so confused why these ponies wanted to protect Silent Wind badly. He did indeed know Silent Wind had something special in him that his father wanted. But did not understand. He suddenly was off guard and was caught inside a large sphere made by Princess Cadance. There was no way of getting out for him now. He then gritted his teeth at anger. Princess Cadance brought him down to the ground and she too went down also, she then confronted him. Blood Roar then said a few things to her. "Why.." Blood Roar began. Princess Cadance raised a eyebrow at him, wondering of what could he be saying to her. "..Why protect somepony that has something evil inside him.. he's killed ponies, betrayed his own.. why not just hand him over..!!?" Blood Roar yelled. Princess Cadance smiled and closed her eyes, she was getting memories of him and Twilight. Seeing that Silent Wind was happy where he was. She then opened her eyes, about to give Blood Roar an answer. "Because we cannot give him to you, He is happy where he is, he spreads hope to everypony, he's made somepony happy. And for somepony like that, we will all protect him with our lives. He carries the fate of Equestria afterall, and for that, I will support him!" Princess Cadance exclaimed. "For he is.." Princess Cadance began. Blood Roar was silent for a moment since he wanted to hear Cadance's opinion even though it was stupid to him. "..the one who will surpass all Silentblades and Alicorns alike..!" Princess Cadance smiled even through this dark time of war. Blood Roar smiled and laughed hysterically. He was so surprised by the speech of Princess Cadance that it was very ridiculous to him. He then stopped laughing but was chuckling and looked at her with Insane eyes. "You're complete horseshit.. even if I do die here, Silent Wind's destiny is simple, he's going to die no matter what he does. That there is his destiny.." Blood Roar sneered. "Even you do not know what hope is, Silent Wind holds onto it because he has a reason to live... and he may have a destiny, you say. But, even a Silentblade can defy his own fate." With that Princess Cadance walked back and then her horn began to spark constantly and all the sudden, the sphere that held Blood Roar had blown up. Leaving nothing but a small tattered cloth part of the black-red Silentblade Cloak. Princess Cadance looked back and sighed. She felt horrid that she had taken somepony's life but it was for the greater good. "Even though you were denying everything, I am sure you understood what I meant. Even if you are indeed insane.." Princess Cadance thought. She then walked away, going back to the others. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lance Pike was pushing Shining Armor but so was Shining Armor. After at least thirty minutes, they were sweating with exhaustion. Both of them could not screw up. For it could be the stalemate of this fight. Shining Armor thought of what to do but he was out of ideas. Lance Pike charged at Shining Armor with a pike and thrusted at him with his pike. But, Shining Armor had enough strength to dodge it. He then took one final leap and shot an Aura Sphere at Lance Pike. Lance Pike did not notice it fast enough to dodge it and was hit in the back with left him a large burn on the back. Shining Armor went near him and looked at him. He saw that he was barely alive, the Aura Sphere that he casted was a very dense one. He would've died on impact if the Aura Sphere that Shining Armor casted was explosive. He then saw that Lance Pike was coughing up blood. All Shining Armor did was look at him. "Heh... should've learned more damn better from Magicius.. to mess with you..." Lance Pike coughed up some more blood. "I don't like to see what I have done to you but you are nothing but a criminal so what I have done to you is right." Shining Armor panted, still tired from his battle and was trying to get back his willpower. Lance Pike smiled and looked at him. He felt that it was strange to protect one person. "Funny.... fighting just for.. one person.." Lance Pike hacked. "Even one person can be important to somepony and even all of Equestria. I don't think somepony like you would understand." Shining Armor walked away, not turning back to look at the dying Silentblade. Lance Pike lowered his head down and looked up into the sky. He thought of his last moments before he would die. "Not even.. Silent Wind.. can stop the old.. man.." And with that Lance Pike's head sunk down and died. "I must get back to the others..." Shining Armor then ran back in direction of the castle. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Golden Shot was getting propelled back by Brute's swings and began to see a small trickle of blood dripping down her mouth. She then realized that she'd have to wrap it up immediately. She then looked at her belt and saw a small shell she kept. She took it with her mouth and threw it in the air and inserting it into her hoofgun. "Let's see what this big boy can do!" She then clicked her gun. Brute noticed. "It's no damn use! Give the hell up already!" Brute then raised his right hoof and lunged. Golden Shot aimed at the ground and shot a yellow smoke to the ground. Brute didn't know what it was nor did he care what it was. He went into the smoke and charged his right hoof at Golden Shot. Bam! With that sound, Golden Shot propelled out of the smoke and fell onto the ground and Brute also got out of the smoke also and saw he hitted her right in the chest. Causing her to knock out. "I knew you'd lose, never underestimate a Silent-Ugh!!" He then saw that there was a knife dived within his chest. He also saw Golden Shot, her mouth on the knife's handle. She then took her teeth off the handle. "Don't underestimate a Mare, mate." Golden Shot said. Brute was sure she was knocked out. Then he remembered the smoke, he could've sworn there was nothing wrong with the smoke. It was completely odorless. "How.. did you..-" "Remember that yellow gas over there? That's right, mate. It's Yellowfang gas, causes illusions on ya. I wasn't on the ground.. y'simply missed there. And you must've seen an illusion. Anyways, at least you know that you died by a Mare named Golden Shot." Brute began to laugh, once he heard the name he knew who she was. Golden Shot wasn't suprised. Even She had ties with the Silentblades and they weren't good. "You're... that mare.. who help those brothers huh..?!" Brute questioned. "You're bloody right, I helped 'em go against their pops the first time. I'll be sure ta kill 'im f'sure this time." Golden Shot said. "Hahahah.. still angry over your mother's death I see.." Brute said. Golden Shot's eyes flickered in rage. She didn't like anyone talking about her deceased mother nor about her death caused by a Silentblade Assassination. "Want to keep talking?" Golden Shot glared. Brute smiled and began to talk to Golden Shot. "You may have killed me.. but.. you won't last against Void Silentblade... nor will you last against the advisors.. you'll all go to hell for-" Brute was interrupted when Golden Shot took the knife out of his chest and then dived it into his head, causing him to instantly die. "Time for you to shut the bloody buck up, wanker." Golden Shot then smiled and walk to the entrance of the Castle and hear hoofsteps and look behind her: It was Shining Armor and then they both looked up and saw Princess Cadance, Princess Cadance flew down and reunited with the others. "So, It seems we've all won." Princess Cadance said. Shining Armor smiled and hugged his wife. Glad that she is fine. Princess Cadance hugged back. Golden Shot rolled her eyes, She wasn't the type to like romance. "Alrighty, lets get goin ya two lovebirds." Golden Shot was soon stopped when she heard a transmition from her radio earset. She tapped it and then a message came out. "Capt'n, we are losing for now. We have not gained ground, nor have our enemies have also! We all hope that you can all wrap it up soon!" Then the message ended. "Seems that our boys are holding them as good as they can, we should hurry." Golden Shot ran into the castle. Princess Cadance and Shining Armor nodded at eachother and went inside the Silentblade Castle also along with Golden Shot. They quickly wanted to end this very soon. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After walking for hours inside the Changeling Castle, they were all getting annoyed and cranky. But, Pinkie Pie was the crankiest of them all. "When can we stop! WHEN!?!" Pinkie Pie yelled. Twilight sighed and was afraid that they may get spotted by the enemy. Fluttershy then walked up to Pinkie Pie. She went up to her and then they all saw that they were in a long hall which was also large in width also. "Um... Pinkie Pie.. we should be.. quiet." Fluttershy quietly said. "Why be quiet?! I'm so tired!" "Oh dear.." Rarity said. "Ah'm so mighty sorry fer this, Silent Wind" Applejack apologized to Silent Wind. "It's okay, I just hope that we can just get to the throne room." Silent Wind said. Silent Wind then remembered something that he was going to tell Twilight all the sudden. "Twilight, do you know a spell named Clairvoyance?" Silent Wind asked. Twilight's eyes went wide as she did know a spell called that. They all halted and Twilight looked at Silent Wind. "Actually, I do. Why?" She asked. Silent Wind looked around for a moment and then locked his sight back onto Twilight again. "Can you use it and try to see whats happening inside the throne room?" Silent Wind said. Twilight nodded and then she was about to use her Clairvoyance until Silent Wind saw something move at the corner of his eye and pushed Twilight out. The figure propelled itself at Twilight but did not hit anything. Everypony was confused of what just happened. "What the hay just happened?!" Rainbow Dash said. "I.. I don't know!" Silent Wind had Twilight in his arms and Twilight did not know what also hit them. Silent Wind released Twilight and got up. In the smoke, he saw somepony that made him freeze. He saw that it had a brown smooth mane, a White-coat and also had Pitch-black eyes also. Even though Silent Wind had a Silver-coat, Spiky hair and Azure-blue eyes. The discription had no mistake, It was his brother, Silent Whisper. He was shocked and looked at Twilight. "Twilight..." He began. Twilight looked at Silent Wind with an uneasement of concern for him. "Take your friends and go on ahead. I'll catch up.." Silent Wind said. Twilight was very surprised at what she heard and got up to yell at him and try to explain. "What...?! Why!?" Twilight said. "Just.. go." Silent Wind said. Twilight was confused at Silent Wind. "Only I can take this one. None of you can die here. So go and don't worry.. I'll be by your side later. Just get to Discord!" Silent Wind yelled. Twilight nodded and whistled at her friends. They all rallied and went on ahead. Silent Whisper did nothing to stop them he simply stood there. Then he finally talked. "It's real nice to see you again, Silent Wind." Silent Wind saw his left arm, having a special armband on his upper foreleg. And his right arm having a hidden blade also. And he also saw the blade behind his back as Silent Whisper still wore the black robes of the Silentblades. Inside his mind, he knew that fighting his own brother.. ..would be difficult than anything else he thought of.