Sunlight spewed from the tent flaps as someone entered, making the tired blue pegasus groan in annoyance. "C-Commander Dash sir?" A small gray stallion stammered as he glanced around with nervous eyes, he didn't like being in the commanders tent, it was filled with old armor and weapons, relics of battles past, it was all part of her history, bloody and violent as it was, but strangely enough, a turtle shell was among the Armory.
"He was a pet of mine, given to me by an old friend.." The private flinched when he heard his commander's voice and whipped around, shooting out apologies at lightning speeds, but as his eyes found her body, he flinched again and turned away and blushed. So far only a few people have seen the paladin Dash without her raiment's of war. As if not noticing the privates actions, Rainbow Dash slowly dressed herself, all the while the Private kept his eyes turned.
Finally, she sighed and turned the private's muzzle toward her and stared intently in his eyes. "report private" She commanded in a tired grumble. "Y-yes-well, sectors 1-8 are clear, as well as 10-12. But..." He paused for a moment and continued in an uncertain voice. "Sector 9 was stationing a Moony squadron of earth ponies,not much of a threat, they were all injured and waving a white flag, and there intentions were clear..." He stopped there, his voice giving out to fear, or sadness. "Continue" Dash said in a commanding voice. "W-well, General Scootaloo got there first... and there were no survivors ." He mumbled the last part, as if it happened before. A sudden slam on the coffee table they were crowded around made the Private jump. "Damn that Girl! Damn her arrogance!" Dash yelled, obviously seething.
After a while she calmed down and stared at the Private with hate in her eyes. "Gather a Advance party and meet me at the edge of camp to the north. Will have to march quickly, to make sure she doesn't run." She paused a moment and the Private ran to place the orders.
"It's time to meet our 'Hero'" Commander Dash grumbled through grinding teeth
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The trip wasn't a long one, just a few hours. " I should have brought pegisai, then i would have saved an hour or two. Dash morbidly thought to herself as she trudged along with her elite guardsmen. But she knew she was just making excuses up to ignore the real problem, Scootaloo.
Dash remembered their love/hate relationship that close friends possessed, at one point Scoot was called a sister, and loved as one as well. But something changed, she just got to zealous, to drawn to blood. Rainbow Dash sighed and stopped marching to stare at her hoof. She wont change...It's to late for her.
"Commander!" A scout approached her and saluted "Just over this hill sir. But..." He cut off there, grimacing with his head down, he stepped out of the commanders way. Dash sighed once more and started to walk up the hill that hid the inevitable massacre. But no matter how hard she braced herself for it, the mear fact she was seeing it made it all 20% worse. Red. Thats all she saw at first, all over the grass, in the ground, dried and fresh both, there was no end to it. Bodies were the second thing to see, but you could hardly call them corpses. Limbless, each leg taken off and thrown across the area, Heads on top of pikes in front of burnt tents. The sight was horrifying. Unbearable, Who could saw off the legs of Ponies?! Rainbow looked at the bloody stumps that remained, Jagged. Which meant they were alive and strong enough to try and struggle while it happened. Her guards caught up with her, and quickly turned away or emptied there stomachs. She didn't blame them, she would have done the same if she hadn't seen this before.
Sacraligist. Blasphemer. Abomination. Titles given to the infamous Scootaloo. But the one that stuck, Was Scootaloo, Vampire of the sun empire.
Justice, Law, Virtue. Does it even mean anything in the end?
The Deep voice boomed through her head painfully. Wh-what was that!? And what did it mean?... She waited a while for the voice to return, but it didnt resurface, it crawled back to whatever crawlspace it came from. "Are you alright sir?" A guard named 'Barbrin' said looking concerned. Dash realized her face betrayed fear, and she quickly replaced it with her usual grimace. "I'm fine Barbrin, let us desend and talk to sco-...The vampire." Relieved her voice didn't break. Barbrin's concerned expression didn't change, but he backed off. "If you say so Captain." He said as he motioned for the group to desend into the death field. Dash looked at his Shiny Brown coat of fur and his strong looking muscles. Wouldn't i love a partner like that. her imagination taking hold.
Don't bother, he'll die before long, It's the fate of a warrior like him, to caring, to weak.
Dash Frowned as the voice shook her head, giving her a headache that wasn't wanted. She sighed again. todays going to be a bad day.
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Pinkie woke up on a pile of corpses. This has been happening more and more frequently, and it was beginning to make her back stiff. She looked at the bodies, each of the corpses were stabbed multiple times, with what looks to be a wide variety of sharp things. "Carving knife, Butter knife, Saftey pins" Pinkie giggled as she thought of a few. She looked at the floor boards and studied their new crimson paint job it was only just starting to dry. Pinkie pie sighed, then slowly stood up and stretched.
The small voice that's been annoying her pipped in once again "You did it again, what would twilight think if she found out?" The effect was not what the voice intended. Pinkie Widened her eyes in surprise and started to jump up and down giddily, smiling as wide as she could. "Oh Twilight! Yes! I almost forgot! She would love to play this game!" She stopped jumping and pondered with a thought she just had. " Or maybe... She's already playing the game!" She shouted aloud and started to giggle, "But first we have to finish this game of hide and seek!"
she clapped her hoofs excitedly and suddenly cut short as she her a whimper from the corner of the room.The world was silent for what seemed like eternity. Then, ever so slowly, Pinkie turned towards the sound, with a knife she some how obtained in hand, whispered soft words with a demonic smile on her face. "Looks like i found you!"
Oh yes, What a fun game this is.
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