The way to the East side of Ponyville was crowded with Guardians, I tried to stand little fight with them, but making sure I did enough damage for my group to take care of them easily.
"One sword won't cut it." I thought, so when I killed another Red, I stole his sword and wielded it in the other side of my mouth.
Now I could simply run between a couple of Reds and just pass next to them, killing them in the process.
Of course, I had to put a fight a few times. It was very hard to wield two swords, and I barely practised it, but it was very effective nonetheless.
I swung around, spun a little, I had little care at first because there were more enemies than friends, though I corrected that just before arriving at the East of the village.
It was like all hell broke loose. There were ponies fighting here and there. To my right, to my left, they were everywhere! We were really outnumbered, and some of our soldiers were down, both dead and badly injured.
There was that feeling again, I was starting to figure out what it was.
"These Guardians, are responsible for many crimes and corruptions." I remembered the speech that Shining Armor gave us before the fight. "Now that they eradicated their sworn enemy, it's up to us to stop them from conquering and corrupting the rest of Equestria!"
A Guardian in front of me suddenly rushed at me, aiming for an impale. I blocked downwards making him stuck his sword to the ground. I punched him in the face and he let go of his weapon. I hit him with an uppercut and made him stand on two legs, which I took to my advantage and stabbed his torso with my two hidden blades. But I didn't settle for just two stabs, I kept stabbing him several more times until his legs gave up and fell dead to the ground.
There was that strange feeling again. I was starting to like it. Everytime I killed a Guardian, it made me feel more powerful, more... alive.
So I grinned, and kept on with my killing.
I helped other soldiers that were being outnumbered, and made sure to look cool while doing so (yes, feeling powerful can make you do such things, I wasn't feeling like myself back then).
I leapt at one Red, pinned and stabbed him with one of my hidden blades. Another one came towards me, to which I killed by simply stabbing him with my sword. Another one came from the other side and killed him with the sword I stole.
I spun around again, making a killing streak, at least five of them Reds fell dead in each second. Another came to me with a downwards slash, I blocked with one sword and swiped back with the other, doing him a huge cut through his torso.
I killed another with an uppercut to the chin while unfolding my hidden blade, piercing his skull.
At one point, my killing streak was made obvious, and one high ranking soldier came to stop me. A big stallion, carrying a war hammer between his teeth.
He swung one way, I jumped. He swung back, I ducked. He swung diagonally upwards, and I rolled to a side, and tried to stab him with my hidden blades, but his armor was very thick, so he took this mistake for his advantage and shoved me away with one of his big arms.
He came back with his hammer, straight downwards, I was still stunned a little so I could barely dodge the smash. I punched him at the face, but I forgot he also had a helm protecting him; though it seemed to make him some damage anyway.
So with my gauntlets I kept hitting him in the head, he started to back up until he fell on his side. He tried to stand up again but couldn't, due to the huge weight of the armor. I seized the opportunity to kill him sliding my sword right below the helm.
Two more Reds stepped in my way, one of them attacked and I killed him with my stolen sword, I grabbed the now fallen soldier's one and threw it at the other Red.
I kept killing with such a fury, that it made me lose my ability to recognize friend from foe, I hoped that I didn't kill any ally.
But then I saw him.
My father, clashing with another Guardian, he modishly calculated every move the other would do, and he quickly acted as he thought best. After finishing his enemy, he turned and looked at me.
As I looked him, somehow my rage started to vanish, despite the way he was looking me, surprised at my sight, I assumed I had my whole body covered in enemies' blood.
I approached him, slowly, and he seemed to calm down. I threw away the stolen sword I had.
And suddenly, his face wasn't normal anymore, he had a horrified expression. His pupils shrinked and his mouth went agape, dropping his weapon.
I looked at his side and saw that a familiar unicorn was controlling a sword with magic, which stabbed my dad on his left side.
The Red then lifted his sword, with my dad still stabbed in it. A big cry of terror escaped from my mouth, making me drop my sword.
And then my dad was tossed away.
Steel Calmness has fallen in battle, it had to happen one day. But I hoped that I didn't actually witness his defeat.
The unicorn came to me, moving his sword from side to side playfully.
"C'mon, unless you're afraid." he taunted.
I lost my cool and attacked him without thinking. I grabbed my sword, but I couldn't reach him, he controlled his sword far from him, so he could defend without any risk from his front.
He attacked back, I avoided his attacks but it was hard, he could take full advantage of the sword's usage if it is controlled with magic.
He took a chance were I was left open, and he made me a cut in my left arm, near the shoulder.
"Oh my, looks like I already made you an injury. I thought that it would take me more time to do so." he mocked.
"Keep mocking dude, you won't be joking anymore once I'm done with you." I replied.
"How will you even get done with me, if you can't even touch me?"
"If I managed to kill that big pile of armor back there, I can defeat you too."
"Oh, you mean the Brute?" he said and laughed "Some of them are just stupid."
"And yet you send them on a battle."
"True, but they are just meat shields. If they manage to kill somepony, well good! Better for us."
"They won't stand a chance against all of us."
"Maybe, but you are all being defeated, we got you all outnumbered."
"Numbers don't win battles." I challenged.
"Why don't you look around a bit more?"
I don't know why, but I did so, dropping my sword again.
He was right, many of our soldiers have fallen down, my dad was killed or mortally wounded, and Shining was nowhere to be seen.
It was a lost battle, I just realized that.
I fell down to my haunches at the sight of this battle.
"It's all my fault, I tried to rescue Fluttershy instead of dealing with her freedom, I sneaked in the Headquarters, and for getting out alive all of these soldiers serving Canterlot have suffered death." I remembered.
"For such crimes, you have to be killed." he said behind me.
Suddenly I heard a collision of steel behind me, and I turned back.
The unicorn tried to kill me, I didn't move because I truly believed that if I died, all of this would have ended. Rainbow Dash blocked the coming slash, saving me.
She shoved the guy away and looked at me.
"What in the hay were you thinking?! Do you seriously believe this guy?!" she shouted at me.
"But--"
"Don't you care about my friend anymore?!"
"What?"
"How do you think she'll feel when she knows you're dead huh?! TELL ME!"
"Fluttershy..." I whispered to myself.
"No way, you're the assassin!" the unicorn pointed at Rainbow.
"No, you doofus! One pegasus I really cared about was one. And I'll kill everypony of your guild in his name!" Rainbow yelled and charged flying to the other pony.
Whenever Rainbow attacked, she got blocked. She bounced everytime to charge from other angle quickly.
"Stop blocking!" she said.
"Oh yeah, like I'll do that." the unicorn joked.
I finally spotted a weak point in the unicorn's defense. He can't block from his back if he puts all his concentration in the sword in front of him.
I grabbed my sword from the floor, and when Rainbow changed her angle as to make him face his back to me, I charged him.
He suddenly looked back at me, but it was too late. I have impaled him from his left side. He looked at me, filled with horror, and looked at his wound.
I raised him from the ground, making sure that I impaled him, just like he did to my father.
"Rainbow! Finish him off!" I yelled.
As the cyan pegasus flew towards this Red, I threw him in the air (helping me with my front hooves) just as Rainbow catched him and stabbed his neck with her own hidden blade as soon as they reached the ground.
She took off her blade from his neck, and came back to me.
"Is he dead?" I asked.
"Yeah." she replied.
"Good, now that he died, the morale of their troops will go down, and will be killed easier."
Right at that moment, an arrow bolt got nailed in my right forearm.
Crossbow Guardians were arriving at the battlefield. And they shot a wave, injuring and killing both enemies and allies alike.
"Take down those crossbow colts! We will make too much damage if they're not stopped!" I ordered Rainbow.
"Got it!" she said and flew up "When you see me fall down, take cover!" she yelled from above.
Meanwhile, I grabbed my sword from the dead unicorn, and retreated to the battlefield, to help the other soldiers.
Another wave was shot, I ran up to a Red, and covered myself from the upcoming shots. He was about to put up a fight but stopped right when the arrow bolts fell down on him.
"Everypony scatter! Crossbow colts have arrived!" I shouted to my allies.
Then they retreated to the city for cover, leaving behind the Reds.
Another wave was shot, and one bolt plunged in my right ankle.
"What are you doing Rainbow?!" I whispered with clenched teeth "I told you to take care of them, where the flank are you?!"
Then I heard a roar in the sky. And a rainbow trail was seen coming from above.
"Oh sh--"
Just then, the rainbow crashed to the floor and a huge explosion occured, sending a wave of wind so hard that it sent me flying up to a wall of a house, I fell at the next moment.
I got up, and I saw that the Reds were retreating, they were leaving from the sides, I guess they were too horrified to walk right were the explosion happened.
I walked dizzy, at the place where the explosion occured, but I wasn't heading there.
I was going to see my dad.
With every step, I weakened more and more, I lost too much blood already, with just two bolts and a cut near my shoulder. I saw my dad a few steps away from me, but I fell to the ground before reaching him. I crawled to him, as hard as I could.
I lost conciousness before grabbing his hoof one last time.