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// The preparation of an army. 
// Story: War of Origins. 
// by MegaMonsterPony 
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I woke, the pain in my back now mostly gone, only a dull burning sensation remained. I slowly stood, lightheaded and dizzy, the world was spinning around me very fast.
"You lasted alot longer than anybody else, congratulations." Gary spoke to me lightly putting his hand on my shoulder. My dizziness began to subside as I drank from my canteen of water. 
"You've done this before?" I managed to sputter out, my voice raspy and horse.
"Kind of, the last person passed out after a minute of the pain and didn't wake up again" Firefall spoke calmly as if what he had just said wasn't out of the ordinary. 
"How long did I last?" I asked after drinking down more of the water. 
"About twenty minutes, you passed out just before we finished the transformation" Gary spoke again almost sounding partially in awe, although I didn't think he truly was in awe. I was proud of myself for lasting as long I had, although I still didn't know what had happened completely.  
"I modified your armor while you were out so that it would actually fit the new you" fire fall said holding out my dark red iron armor. There were now two holes in the back , cleanly cut and smoothed out so the metal wouldn't be sharp.
"Wouldn't the holes make the armor more vulnerable? " I asked stupidly, still oblivious to the situation at hand.
"You mean you still haven't noticed ?" Firefall asked lowering the chest plate, a sad look in his eyes, his mouth slightly turned down.
"You do have an impressive wingspan, about nine feet long."Gary said, this seemed to slap me across the face, what did he mean wings? I don't know how I hadn't noticed them before. I felt stupid that I hadn't noticed,  it felt like two portions of my back had been elongated. They felt natural though as if they had always been there, in fact I can't remember them not being there. Without even having to think about doing it the muscles in my back began to move, my wings began to flap and I began to lift off the ground. 
"This is so cool!" I shouted as I hovered, a big smile on my face.
"In order to take back our thrones we are going to have to fight for them, the princesses will not give them back willingly. " Gary spoke solemnly,  almost as if he was sad that they had to fight off the princesses army.
"So you need me to go and gather an army? What will a bunch of citizens be able to do?" I ask, noticing the remains of my shirt strewn across the floor. I guess the only thing left was my jacket. 
"Well obviously we would carry the war effort, they would be there to support us, and possibly help keep the guards at bay." Firefall said stepping closer to me.
" I'll do it, give me twenty four hours." I say before collecting my jacket and stalking up out of the cave, shrugging it on as I walked out into the cool night air. The wind blew a unknown smell across my face, almost beastly and primal. As I walked along the desolate barren dirt road, the bushes along the edge began to shimmer and shake violently.  A small black creature riddled with holes, and greenish tinged wings. The small monster flew straight towards my face, with a violent force I smacked it to the ground. I slammed my foot down on top of its head a blood splattered out, more of those creatures dispersed out into the night sky, fleeing.
"You that's right you had better run!" I shouted at them as they flew into the darkness, only their black silhouette visible along the moon, i chuckled to myself leaving the bloodied corpse behind me. 
"Kain you're out late" rainbowdash called from somewhere up above.
"Rainbow meet me at my house! I have something to show you." I tried to say not creepily, although I realize that in the middle of the night this does sound incredibly creepy. Luckily she didn't call me out on it, she just followed me to my house. I opened the door and let her through, entering behind her then closing the door and locking it. At the sound of the click rainbow spun around and looked me in the eyes. 
"What are you doing?" She asked taking a step back, not fully retreat in but putting some distance between us.
"You have to listen to me, although it will sound very strange" I said tugging on the opening of my jacket, but staying where I stood.
" I really like you too" she exclaimed before jumping onto me, wrapping her legs around me, and planting a kiss onto my lips. I tried to push her off, but she held tightly to me, trying to undo my jacket. With a sudden surge of strength I pushed her off.
"RAINBOW! Stop!" I shouted extremely loud, as if all the power was being used in my voice. She stood where she had landed, a look of confusion sat on her face, a tinge of sadness in her eyes.
"That's not why I called you here!" I shouted before slowly beginning to take off my jacket, my wings still tightly curled behind my back. Her look of confusion in her eyes intensified,  she stood there looking at me before opening her mouth as if to speak, I held up my hand to keep her quiet.  I slowly allowed my wings to unfurl, barely fitting in the small space. Her face went from one of confusion to one of awe, her mouth hanging wide open. She slowly moved towards me and reached out to touch them.  She smiled widely at the thought of having a new flying partner. I quickly explained about finding the origins and how they did this to me, how they need an army.  To my surprise rainbow broke her loyalty to the princesses and happily agreed to fight to the death for them, she even agreed to lead any pegasi that joined into the fight. I said a quick thank you and we both left my house, rainbow went to recruit some of her friends. With my jacket in hand I jumped into the sky and I flew towards sweet apple acres, faster than rainbow could, Although I doubt she would ever admit to it. I gently landed on the roof, right next to applejacks window. I tapped on the window just loud enough so that she would wake up, the light switched on and opened the window. 
"Hey darling what are you doing here so late?" Applejack asked leaning out the window. 
"I have something to tell you and it's important" I say, her face instantly contorting to one of worry, then her face changed to one of anger.
"What the hell is this?" She wiped something off my lips, I Instantly recognized the rainbow colored lipstick, which meant Applejack recognized it too. She gave me a hard slap across the face and pushed me off the roof, she slammed the window shut but the light remained on. I watched as the light in their gun room came on, which made me very worried.  She kicked the front door open, granny smith closely on her tail, Applejack had a shotgun pointed at my head. 
"Please don't" granny pleaded with her clutching to her right arm, the trigger arm.
"Babe I can explain!" I say throwing up my hands, covering my face, my wings wrapped around me, also shielding me from her. I heard two sharp gasps, on from my marefriend and one from her grandmother,  I didn't know her grandmother very well, but she did know I didn't have wings . 
"W-when did you get those?" Applejack stammered, I heard the sound of her shotgun clattering to the ground, I then felt the gentle feeling of Applejack touching my wings to see if they were real. I relayed the story of Gary and firefall, as they listened, wide eyed. They both said they would get there guns and spread the word, it felt like I didn't have to do any bit of work, the story seemed to be spreading itself. I kissed Applejack and then launched off into the air, wind whistling across my wings,  blowing my hair out of place, I sped right into town center, the sun was just beginning to rise, shopkeeps were opening up their booth. I shouted to all of them to be ready, that a war as taking place and they could participate or hide, I told them why this battle would take place and told them to get the word out quickly.  Then I spun around and flew as fast a I possibly could back to the caves to report to Gary and firefall.