2. Can't Heal Scars
The agonizing pain came like small spikes, the pain shot up from her legs and rippled through the rest of her body, although the stallion was assisting her. She limped, only making there progress slower. All was silent between the two ponies, as though talking was forbidden. They walked through ally ways to hopefully avoid the demons that might still be lurking around Manehatten. However Shadow wished she hadn't asked, the ally ways were harder to walk on, considered they were cluttered with stuff.
The stallion just looked at her briefly, quickly seeing the difficulty she was having moving, and the safe place wasn't much further, but he knew her cuts might be getting worst.
"Do you need a break?" He asked, cocking his head as though he was completely clueless.
Shadow wanted to say no, but she even knew he just needed a few seconds to regain her lost energy, limping having consumed most of it and the slow movement.
"Yeah, I think so." Shadow said, knowing she hadn't talked much.
The stallion stopped and let Shadow rest, while he did a little bit of scouting, until he returned back to her. He had another confused face, and she could tell he was looking at her flank. Her eyes followed to where his looked. That was when she saw it, the pretty three flowers were gone and instead a black skull was there with a knife in the top, and a few cracks where the knife contacted.
She had heard legends of this extraordinary occurrence, it was very rare. Sometimes a pony couldn't fore fill there talent, so they were given the next best, until they were able to. All this long her destiny was to maybe be a slayer of these demons? Shadow didn't think it was a good thing, more like a dangerous need.
Soon the stallion looked back to her face, seeing she was still looking at her cutie mark. He didn't know why she was, but just shrugged it off.
"What is your name anyways?" He asked, "Mine is Broken Earth."
Shadow soon snapped back into her focus, wishing she hadn't lost it, for she didn't here what he said, other then his name. She decided just to follow suit.
"My name, is Shadow." She answered.
Broken just nodded and continued to keep a look out for any demons that had come to ruin there day further. His ears pricked and he knelt back behind the broken building. He looked at Shadow, who already knew, there were demons. She soon walked backwards underneath some boxes, trying to hide herself. She could just hear the hooves of Broken who came closer, he nudged her shoulder to get up.
She knew what he meant, he wanted her to get up so they could try and get around the monstrous beast. She slowly got out from under the boxes and leaned on Broken and they moved slowly. There was a noise until she had stepped on a stick. She gasped and they both look back to see the large black head of the demon swing to see them, its red eyes at them, as though it could kill them from here.
It turned its large body and roared loudly at them, as though to cause fear.
"Shadow come on, you get in front of me, I don't want you to get hurt further!" He cried, pushing her ahead with his right hoof.
She tried to run, but was partly tripping, yet Broken kept her ahead. Soon he pushed her to the side, and she was soon going to say something until she saw him get slammed by the beast and he fell to the ground. Shadow could hear his groan of pain and she watched in terror as the beast lumbered closer to him. She got up, wobbling closer to the large demon.
"Leave... him alone!" She yelled at the beast the best she could, trying to stand tall.
The best turned, letting out a snicker, as it came closer. Shadow could tell that Broken was also weak now. The beast swung its arm, swinging claws out. Shadow was just able to jump out of the way of the long claws. Shadow could hear her heart beat with fear, but if this was her talent now, she had to fore fill it. She turned slamming the beast's stomach with her back hooves, but its arm came down and threw her towards a building. She crashed into it and there was a cracking sound, she knew now some of her ribs were broken. It hurt severally and she could help, but to cry out in pain and let hot tears fall from her face.
"No!" She heard a voice.
She looked at the beast and saw Broken on its back, slamming a piece of glass into its thick body, hover the monster cried and bucked him off and he slammed to the ground, getting up wearily. That was when she noticed something, a sticker, that was his cutie mark. She looked up to see two swords, and he to seem to notice his cover was blown. He smiled and then she could see his real skill. He used no magic and was battering the beast, even as it swung, making contact with the stallion's left shoulder he pushed on.
Then she saw the last move, he levitated two shards of glass, finally using his magic and stabbed its eyes. The creature cried in pain as blood came from its eyes, until it fell is a loud thud, finally dead. Shadow was astonished, she didn't know Broken well, but he was a fighter. He walked over to her, and looked at her, shaking his head, knowing she was too badly injured to walk. She was still silent and watched as he walked over to the building.
He searched around the rubble of the building, finally finding an old blanket. Broken assisted her onto it, taking the two ends in his mouth and dragging her with it. Although the ride was bumpy, it was the only way. She curled up on it and waited for them to get to Broken's home, when they arrived, he further assisted her. He lead her to a room, showing her a bed where she could lay.
"Do you feel okay, need anything?" Broken asked, being nice.
"I am fine, but I think I am badly injured, do you maybe have an ice pack or something." Shadow asked.
"Sorry, but no, I don't have much. Just rest for a few days, you should be fine. I can protect you until your heal, don't think I am calling you weak, your quite tough." Broken said, giving her a warm smile.
"May I ask, but why didn't you defend yourself when we first met?" Shadow asked, curiously, somewhat giving him a glare.
She had to go through the pain when he could have done it himself, it was just weird.
He looked down briefly, until back to her. "Sorry, I just don't like ponies knowing I am a fighter, that makes them want to use me."
She nodded, understanding. With that he left and she was unsure of what would happen. She didn't know why he was like that, the way he explained himself, seemed strange. Shadow sighed and laid in the dimly lit room.