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// Iron Justice 
// Story: Ebony and Ivory 
// by malfarious 
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	Something about that encounter, I just can’t forget. All I have are these memories that cripple me and make me weak. The weak die while the strong survive. This hateful world made to seem so perfect. They all hide behind their masks of lies, lying and deceiving everyone around them. I’ll crush them all, all the lies, because Justice must be given and the unjust must be punished. This is my crusade of justice handing out the strong arm of fair and equality to all. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth that is what they say at least. This is a story of how I came from nothing and came to be the brave iron Minotaur you all see me as today. Let us go back to a time where darkness crept through the rough patches of dirt seeping into the cold biting wind of the night. 


A small town known as Minador where all the strongest of Minotaur’s grow stronger and only the best of them survive. There was a boy who was flabby and feeble were everyone was strong and buff. The boy was always made fun of due to his small size and weak body. He was constantly bullied and made the punching bag of all the bigger Minotaur’s. He was a disappointment even to his own family who made the poor boy run and lift but no matter what the boy couldn’t run as long or lift as much as the others no matter how hard he tried. He often sat in his room crying out to Celestia for help and growth. His prayers were always unnoticed and unheard. For years the boy prayed and pleaded with the unicorn of passion but he wasn’t important enough to be given the time of the day. Then the boy had had enough he would suffer the jokes no longer.

On a starry night in the midsummer heat the boy sat atop the house looking at the sky. He said these words “ Upon all the is just I demand that justice be given to those who deserve it and if I will sacrifice all I have to see that justice be given to all who must be punished no matter what the cost, I will pay it!” With that final shout a booming voice descended from what appeared to be the heavens themselves “ I have heard your plea child and I know that you are the one to carry out justice among the selfish and greedy so I grant myself and together we shall carry out equality so that justice be met.” The voice scared the boy but he knew that this was his destiny and that there was no turning back after that. He trembled in excitement and fear but he looked at the being in front of him. He was a huge Minotaur with a giant war hammer slung across his back wearing red shorts and a dark red battle harness. Scars aligned his face making him appear as if he were a veteran look about him. His face almost seemed charred from flames and his enormous bulky arms looked like they could take on an Ursula Major with ease. A certain air about just sent a feeling of impending doom. His eyes seemed to scream with red certainty of what it was he did and he wore shorts proudly displaying his great condition of his rippling lower body. His hooves even seemed to have shine with a redressing look. The boy stood as tall as he could and straightened his posture as best as his body would enable him too and looked a the image before him that was almost ethereal, he was there but not there at the same time. I shall be an instrument of Justice I will be proud to work with you. Then came a blinding light as the boy joined body and soul with the spirit of Justice. The boy’s body grew leaner, taller, stronger, and bulkier and grew as big and as strong as the spirit appeared to be. As he boy stood tall his body adjusting to the swift changes he looked into the wind the breeze blowing through him. With blood red eyes he stared forward looking into a vision none but him seemed to see. “Iron Justice is our name now appealing to the justness of our own way of life. None shall oppose a great power like ours!” As the boy said the words aloud he could feel the reassurance in the words and knew without a doubt that this was his path and none could ever take this from him. A smile crept upon his face as he thought of an appropriate punishment for the bullies who ruined his entire life. Partially out of revenge and partially out of justice he was ready to show Minador that he had changed and he would make sure that the treatment he received would never be given to any person no matter ways unless they deserved it and justice had said it so. This was the beginning of something new that he would never forget. This would make him into a whole new person. That was the day i thought that wishes could actually come true. I felt in my heart that for once i was heard that for once my prayers were answered and now i will have the chance to get them all back. Revenge would be mine and not only that but i will be the harbinger of Justice itself. For once in the boy's life he was smiling because he was  truly happy and not because he strained it or pretended to be ok. This time happiness felt strangely familiar and good inside. The boy liked this strange new feeling  and wanted to enjoy it more often somehow he would find a way to feel this way. For now though he would enjoy this feeling for as long as it would last for him.