Sisters Of Light And Dark

by KommandoStalker


Chapter 3: Return of the Changelings

Twilight walked down the lonely cobblestone road as she and Spike were going out for a small stroll through the forest. Just hearing Celestia's story had made her weep tears and when Celestia said she couldn't continue on, she didn't object to it. Spike had to lead her from the library and to her room and there she had stayed silent, staring into the mirror before she had headed for bed.

But now, as she walked along the road, she felt a little better now that she was somewhere peaceful. As she looked around, she had a sudden feeling of being watched. But she dismissed it as she continued on the road when Spike said, “Twilight... Do you think...? Do you think, maybe, Celestia stopped because it was too hard for her to remember such memories?"

Twilight looked at him, not sure how to answer the sudden question." I'm not sure..."

They continued on the road and Twilight felt a slight breeze coming in, rustling the leaves of the forest trees.

All of a sudden, several figures came rushing from both sides of the roads and Twilight screamed as she saw what they were.
The Changelings surrounded them as they all created a small circle around them and her gut twisted as she saw what was in the hands of the Changelings. They all held what Celestia had called "weapons". Two had Crossbows, while the rest had swords and spears. Twilight was now thankful she had asked Celestia to tell her what ponies could have for weapons this morning as she watched in pure fear as the Changelings began to close in on her.

Splutch!

She didn't even see the object come twirling from the tree's until she heard that noise as it sliced through a Changelings head, blood splashing out in a wide arc of green blood. The other Changelings stopped where they stood as all of them stared at the dead Changeling, its brain leaking out of its head in a rapidly expanding pool of blood, the bladed object sticking out, handle up.

That's when four cloaked figures came crashing from the forests, armed with weapons of their own. Twilight began to run away with Spike as the Changelings ran at the figures cloaked in green. She heard the sound of metal-on-metal as she and Spike ran away from the conflict and as she managed a glance over her shoulder, she saw that the four figures were slaughtering the Changelings. One held a sword and shield, the swords blade longer that the Changelings swords. Another held a hammer, block of iron or steel on the end as big as her head while the shaft of it was long but he figure swung it like it was no more than a sword. The third figure seemed to use a mixture of a sword, a machete, another sword that was leaner and not at broad, and finally a scythe.

The last figure threw out more of the sickles as he used what looked like a farming scythe. But as he twirled the weapon around, it was meant for war as she watched it cleave apart two Changelings in one blow.

But then, she was back to running forward and she knew she would have to tell Celestia about this.