Octavia and the Alicorn's Peace
By. FoxofRarity
Chapter. 15
Disclaimer- My Little Pony Friendship is Magic belongs to Hasbro and Lauren Faust. And the link is simply a sound effect to go with the story.
“I’ve always liked how Chopin Nocturne 20 allows me to narrow the ultra-wide spectrum of my hearing whenever I have music on my stand and outside is market day creating such a commotion.” Octavia’s ultra-sharp hearing is so formidable she can hear a heartbeat two hundred yards away but of course with such an ability she can hear everything around her so one will think that will drive her mad. But luckily thanks to her father who discovered Octavia’s amazing gift when she was still a baby, so being keen by seeing how his wife’s singing will aggravate her Allegro Note decided to ease his daughter by placing her over his beating heart.
So in infancy Octavia’s sharp hearing didn’t drive her mad for her hearing focused entirely on father’s heartbeat however, as she grew her mind became more attuned with her hearing then as if growth made her hearing more intrusive the pain of seeing her mother betray her father plus the pain of seeing her Father suffer forced Octavia to focus on Father’s cries or she will be driven mad. Her growing yet adaptive mind saved her thus Allegro Note once more taught Octavia to focus not on is heart beat but on his voice instead.
“Live not as you think you can live but live on what you know for living on what know allows you to seek more so you can live more.” Something her father has told her while he was teaching her how to play the cello. “Octavia my dearest Octavia be what you are or what you are to me. For to me you are a diamond radiating with magnificent beauty for diamonds shine forever and you have the potential to shine into Immortality.” The voice of her loving father narrows her hearing to only listen to the notes flying out of her vibrating strings as she passes her bow over them.
“Well truth be told Chopin Nocturne 20 sounds nice and I like it but to narrow my hearing only father’s voice and…” Octavia stops playing father’s voice in her mind but continues practicing a piece by Bach. “Gold Sky’s heartbeat sounds nice, hmmm it’s calm, strong, and different from all the other heartbeats I hear when I walk down the street but yet while different is nice I just can’t stop playing it in my mind hmmmm. Uh oh!” While speaking her thoughts Octavia nearly plays the wrong note in her practice. “Still he’s a nice stallion though it’s quite strange that father will like him oh boy who am I kidding!” Octavia stops practicing.
In her temporary pause her sharp hearing is unleashed prompting her to hear everything around her in its complete distortion. “Oh no!” Quickly Octavia plays Gold Sky’s heartbeat in her mind. “Well look at this I play his heartbeat instead of father’s voice as my first resort…he is warming up to me that’s for sure.” Seeing her mind is being steered away from her music the gray mare places her cello back in its case to signify she’s calling it a day. Well perhaps “I’ve always focused on my music career day and night making myself better and getting to where I am now. But I never quite took the time to make some new friends though I got Rarity and Pinkie Pie but new ones like him quite took me by surprise when those who are the most I guess different impress me.”
Suddenly she remembers father looking at the photo with that wretched mare on it. “I can’t blame father for looking at the photo, he is pretty nostalgic about wanting things going back to how they were then or maybe he still loves that wretch. Too bad my conductor couldn’t woo him over it would have been nice seeing her with father.” Octavia sniffles. “I wish father moved on so he smile that smile when he was nuzzled behind the ear by that wretched mare but nothing can be done, I guess he wants me to live the life he once had. H-he wants me to smile the way he did when got nuzzled behind the ear by…well I guess to make it neutral for me I’ll use spouse. He wants to be happy by finding true love so does he want me to explore that with that kind stallion?” Wiping away the forming tears Octavia gets real. “What benefit do I gain by falling in love?”
Seeing an experience has transfixed Octavia about seeing what love has done to her while realizing without love she will have no existence but on her accord she will keep any form of love away from. “What do I gain by falling in love when the love father had for her did nothing to her fidelity. Love has brought pain to father to me yet I use love for music to make me the best in the world thus am I being hypocrite? Perhaps I am, but yet what do I gain by having a spouse.”
“Nothing.”
So Octavia resumes practicing but her mind is still restless.
“Maybe he’s different just maybe I can consider giving him a chance though what I’m thinking about him is he thinking about me?” One final question from the batch.
“Perhaps.”
***
“This way!!” The cloaked stallion pushing Roseluck out of his way runs down the direction the runes tell him. “The half breed is this way!!” But what he does not know is that a stallion wearing silver armor has jet black hair and jet black hair is a genetic trait all Chero or full blooded Chero have.
“Iron Cloud come please.” Princess Luna orders her Elite Commando guard.
“Yes your majesty.” The Pegasus looking away from the sprinting stallion that pushed Roseluck out of his way heads back to Princess Luna. “I felt a cold shiver slither down my spine as that cloaked stallion ran by.”
***
In the isolated area.
“So what now Gold Sky? What are you going to do about Gilda and what if she comes here again??” Rainbow Dash asks.
The stallion passing his hoof down his dark brown hair sighs like this might happen anytime soon. “I will be watching her from a distance but I will not make any attempt to make any form of contact unless she initializes it.”
“So if she does talk to you will she recognize you?”
Gold Sky shakes his head. “She won’t recognize me Rainbow Dash, but at least I can live with that if it ensures her life. Though I miss getting groomed by her and more importantly I miss her scent. The scent of my daughter who now I don’t smell anymore…” Gold Sky, sighs once more to signify now is the time to change the subject of which Rainbow catches the cue. “What did you mean by saying you can be more than a friend to me?”
Rainbow starts rubbing the back of her head. “Well we’re friends yes but you know we can uhmmm do things together like uhhh go the movies together, have dinner, scratch your back and you scratch mine, and other, other that we might think of.” Well in all of this Rainbow Dash does want to kept her intentions sort of secret though she does not know why it only seems like the best way for her to do so. “Can we go on a date!?” But yet her intentions have a way to leak out earlier than they should.
Luckily truth be told, Gold Sky thinks a date means going out for a bite and not an event to build up an relationship. “Sure why not it sounds like fun.”
“EEEEEIEEE!!” Rainbow Dash squeals in delight. “Alright!! Wait a minute you spend forty eight years being a daddy so do you even know what a date is?”
“A daddy!! Frak this half-breed has bred!!!” Nearby the Philistine eavesdrops on the duo before making his move.
“It means having dinner right?”
Fair enough it sounds good for Rainbow Dash. “Okay you get it so can we go on one now?”
“Sure…” His nose picks up a scent. *sniff, sniff* “We’re not alone Rainbow Dash.”
“He detects me!” Quickly before anything else the stallion removes his cloak to grant him more mobility and gets every one of his gadgets ready.
Rainbow Dash being happy does not fully catch ear of what Gold Sky said. “Well of course we’ll be alone it will be you and me!”
“Huh what!? No not that Rainbow Dash I mean right here where we are we are not alone.”
“What? We’re not alone?” Rainbow Dash shakes her head to focus on her environment. “Only I know of this place well you too now.”
“That’s my cue.” The Philistine makes his presence known to the duo .
“Hey who’s that?” Rainbow Dash points out.
“Oh no I don’t have my cloak on!” Gold Sky steps behind Rainbow Dash to conceal his true form from the stranger who appeared from out of nowhere.
“Hmmm I better take this slowly or should I anger him so I can make this a good fight like the previous Chero…I’ll anger him.” So behold the Philistine reaches for his trophy necklace.
“Greetings stranger.”
“Me??” Rainbow Dash points at herself.
“No not you, I’m greeting the Immortal half-breed Chero standing behind you blue mare.” The Philistine points at the immortal stallion.
*gasp!* Gold Sky does not know how this stranger knows of his race but more surprisingly is the fact this stranger knows he’s a half-breed and immortal. “How do you know I’m Chero!!?” Instead of asking who this stranger is he asks the straight question of how the stranger knows his race.
“Oh you little half-breed don’t you know who I am?” After a few seconds of getting no response from the Chero, the Philistine continues talking. “Well let me put it bluntly, WHAT THE FRAK!! NO WONDER YOU’RE A FRAKKEN IMMORTAL!!” The Philistine finally sees how this Chero is Immortal. “YOU’RE A FRAKKEN ALICORN…! YOU ARE THE SUPREME PINNICLE OF YOUR RACE YET YOU’RE A HALF-BREED!!” The Philistine rips off his trophy necklace and throws it. Landing in front of Rainbow Dash. “You are worth more than all the other Chero I’ve collected!”
“Oh my Great Spirit are those ears on that necklace!?” Rainbow Dash backs away in disgust.
Gold Sky on the other hoof, steps closer to the trophy necklace while his mind comprehends what the stranger meant by saying he’s worth more than all the other Chero he’s collected. “NO! NO! No, no, no, no, no, no this can’t be what I think they are! No this can’t be what I think it is!”
“Ahh at last he realizes where my trophies come from.” The Philistine says in his mind.
Being taken by the sadness in Gold Sky’s voice Rainbow asks him if he knows where the ears come from. “Th-the ears are from the ponies of my race the Chero, he has murdered many of my brothers & sisters for no reason. Noooo my brothers & sisters…” Gold Sky falling to his knees takes hold of the necklace and embraces it for this is the first time he sees or sees something that comes from his father’s race. “Children!? You’ve killed children! WHY!! Why will do this to my race when my father has told me the Chero are peaceful!”
The Philistine being unhappy at how his Ultimate trophy is in no shape to fight him. “Well before telling you a long story I will tell you who I am first. My name is Lilith of the Philistine tribe uh do you what the Philistine tribe is half-breed?”
Departing from his sadness but remaining on his knees Gold Sky shakes his head. “Isn’t Lilith a feminine name?”
*TNG* Lilith’s mane & tail shoot up in embarrassment. “That’s beside the point half-breed and is that mare your wife if I may so ask.” Lilith points at Rainbow Dash. “I must say she is quite lovely.”
“Oh he thinks I’m Gold Sky’s wife.” Funny when right now nothing should be funny she likes this while at the same time is embarrassed by this.
Immediately as if he’s been taken over by rage Gold Sky jumps to all fours and stands in front of Rainbow Dash ready to protect her with his life if it needs be. “Stay away from her you murderer for whatever you want is between you and me not her!”
“Aw so protective of his dearest wife any who continuing where I left off, I’m sure you want to know why my Tribe began wiping out your tribe ahem, you see your tribe was just a force to be reckoned with thanks to the incredible abilities each one of you had plus being fireproof which amazed everypony in my tribe. So as a way to establish a fellowship with your tribe we offered our finest mares for marriage while my tribe hoped we can marry some your tribe’s mares for the Chero had the most beautiful mares upon the Earth. But your tribe rejected our offer and said no Chero shall ever marry an outsider of course we persisted but your tribe stood firm by their choice, therefore denied us the chance to marry to most beautiful mares of the earth so if we couldn’t marry them then no one can marry them.”
“So your tribe began murdering my tribe just because you couldn’t marry the Chero mares! ALL THIS STARTED OVER MARES!!” Sad to see how not getting something desired led to his tribe being on the verge of extinction.
“More or less yes half-breed and to be rejected drove the stake through our hearts so first things first we sent infiltrators with their hair dyed jet black and killed every one of the Chero scribes and burned down the archives erasing every form of your history for the greatest pain that can be delivered isn’t death per se but erasing every trace of your tribe’s existence but one or two of your elders got away but I’m sure they died from heartbreak. Anyway, after doing that we started killing the Chero one by one until your tribe finally figured out what was happening so all-out war broke out.”
But Gold Sky shakes his head in denial to hear about his peaceful tribe going to war. “That’s impossible! My father told me the Chero only believed in peace and did everything to avoid war.”
“Say where’s your father by the way?” Lilith asks.
“He’s dead.” The Alicorn replies as a coldness runs down his spine.
Lilith unhappy about not having another opportunity to gain a trophy pounds the ground. “Damn it so much for other trophy any who well your father lied to you half-breed but I guess the Chero survivors of the Great War between the Chero and Philistines can only tell their diminishing descendants what they know or think of since your history was erased by us.”
“You’re going to let him keep calling you half-breed?” Rainbow asks from behind.
“It doesn’t matter.” Gold Sky quickly hisses back. “So that’s way my tribe scattered but I can deduce we were able to kill more of you then you of us.”
Lilith nods in reluctance. “Yes you did even though the Chero only consisted of Earth Ponies and Pegasi we Philistines mostly consisted of Unicorns and Pegasi but your Chero were superior fighters plus your ability of air manipulation countered my tribe’s powerful magic therefore we had to resort in using disease against you but even then your tribe nearly wiped out mine though the cost being great that’s when your tribe decided to scatter all over the earth. However, my tribe would never go down without a fight and we continued hunting you Chero despite time taking away many of you from us.”
Gold Sky looking down at the trophy necklace deduces something about Lilith. “Of your predecessors you are the only one to kill the most of brothers & sister for you had something to help you find them instead of just using their jet black hair as a hint.”
Lilith being nearly impressed by the half-breed's deduction tosses up his runes into the air. “You’re pretty smart half –breed and your hair is dark brown hmm any who my predecessors never had much success while I being smart figured out that the runes which were carved out from the bone of a dying Chero can be used to track them. For if you extract bone from a Chero while it's still alive the bone won't turn into silver dust because if you remove something from a Chero before it dies it won’t turn into silver dust once the Chero dies. So by combining magic to the runes my ancestors carved out of the bone I was finally able to track down the remaining Chero and kill them.” Lilith pauses to laugh. “Don’t you get it half-breed I will bring victory to my Tribe by wiping the last two Chero on this earth and the history books shall declare that the Philistines prevailed over the Chero for I shall write your tribe's history because let’s be real your tribe has no history so as I said, I will write it.” With those words said the stallion pops his joints to prepare him for the coming fight. “You have magic and the wind on your side half-breed a first for your race so that means I really have to step up my game and I hope you can fight with the same ferocity your ancestors had and not like the weak trophies I’ve gained in my campaign.”
Gold Sky looks back at Rainbow Dash with a serious expression but yet in his eyes they are full of fear but not for him but for his dear friend Rainbow Dash who might be a target for Lilith. “Rainbow please stay save and out of sight, please whatever you do either hide or fly far away this is going to be hectic.” However before turning back to look straight at Lilith, Gold Sky takes hold of Rainbow Dash’s head and tenderly kisses her forehead. “I need something to fight for in order to avenge my murdered brothers & sisters and right now it’s you.”
“Oh…” Rainbow Dash at a loss of words is touched while thinking the Immortal stallion is falling for her.
Lilith seeing this just grunts. “Ah yes kiss your dear wife Chero for if she is with child my knife will bring an end to it and her life as well but if she isn’t then I’ll have a new trophy but an alive one at least.”
“You will not lay a hoof on her and I will kill you Lilith for what you have done to my innocent brothers & sisters.”
Now both stallions face each other to fight a fight that’s already been determined who the winner will be but until the end there comes Lilith uses one of his gadgets that is a flying stake which lands in front of Rainbow Dash.
“Tick, tick…” Lilith chides with a smile on his face.
“NO, JUMP!” *poof* Gold Sky appearing in front of Rainbow Dash and with his entire body shields her from the coming agony.
“Boom!” The flying stake explodes sending both Rainbow and Gold Sky flying but Gold Sky being himself grabs Rainbow and spins around so he will be the one to hit the tree that’ll bring them to a complete stop.
“AHHH!” The power of the impact shatters Gold Sky’s spine but his regeneration kills the pain as it heals
Of course though Gold Sky shielded her from the fire and most of the shockwave from the explosion it still renders her unconscious. “Rainbow!” Upon getting up he shakes the cyan Pegasus but getting no response he still suppresses his rage to keep the Razor from coming forth.
“I thought you’ll give me a fight.” Lilith taunts.
“Fight!? “ Gold Sky growls. “I HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO FIGHT!!”
So charging forward Lilith engages the Alicorn by going with close quarter combat but his strikes from the right arm are deflected by the Alicorn’s left so to remake a quick strategy Lilith on his quick burst on his hind legs shoots his right knee up but just like the strikes from his right the attack from the right knee is struck down by the Alicorn’s left. “What! He’s able to block my hits and that’s only with one arm his left arm.” Time to use his legs in a new offensive.
“Ah he’s a martial artist.” Gold Sky notes in his mind as he simply jerks his head back to avoid a fast sweep from Lilith. “Well time to shut him down.” After ducking another kick. Gold Sky delivers a mighty front kick in the center of Lilith’s chest.
“OHAUH!!” Lilith goes flying into a tree and gasps wildly for air like he was held under water for a long time. “H-h-how!” Now on his knees Lilith continues gasping for air.
Approaching the vile stallion Gold Sky seizes Lilith by the neck and slams him flat on the ground. “Well I have no equal in combat Lilith and you will pay for shedding the blood of my brothers & sisters.” Gold Sky launches his right hoof down only to be stopped by a force field but yet the force field which stopped his hoof was only a split second ahead stopping full contact.
“Phew…” Lilith whispers before using the field to push away the half-breed which even then does him no good for before he knew it the Alicorn buried its right hoof in his stomach taking the air out of him once again.
Now having his turn to deliver his punishment Gold Sky grabs Lilith, knees in him in the stomach three times, head butts him, then with the left elbow strikes Lilith, and lastly gifts Lilith with another mighty front kick. “You pathetic piece of filth, do you think you can take me down just like you killed many of my brothers & sisters. Well you can’t for in this world I am the fighter who has no equal.” Gold Sky picks up Lilith ready break the vile stallion’s neck.
Seeing death coming Lilith reach for one of his gadgets. “This better work.” Lilith’s magic launches many needles connected to copper wire which conducts his magic into the needles electrifying the Alicorn half-breed.
“Ohohohohohohohohohoh!!” Gold Sky falls down on the ground convulsing to being shocked by one of Lilith’s gadgets. “Jump!” The Alicorn teleports before he can get hit by three of Lilith’s bolts of magic.
“Damn it! Where did he go!?” Lilith creates a sonar like spell to find the half-breed but the only thing his spell detects is the motionless Rainbow Dash. “He has to be around here somewhere!” Lilith twitches his ears around to detect the half-breed the old fashioned way. “He has stealth on his side.”
“I do.” Gold Sky replies from behind Lilith as he magically takes hold of the vile stallion and attempts to disarm him of the many useful gadgets but Lilith being too resourceful fires two mirrors which he use by firing two bolts of magic which ricochet off the mirrors and explode upon making contact with Gold Sky.
“Ah!” Though in pain from the magical bolts is enough to make other relent, Gold Sky continues fighting by changing course in delivering punches to Lilith’s stomach and throws him back to the ground. “Stop this!” Much faster than before Gold Sky brings down his right hoof and buries itself in the center of Lilith’s chest. “OH!” Being aware Gold Sky jerks to the side to avoid Lilith’s electrifying needles. “I don’t fall for the same thing twice Lilith.”
“Frak! WELL TAKE THIS!!” Lilith’s tongue dislodges a fake tooth in his mouth, chews it up like its bubble gum, and spits it onto the half-breed’s right arm. “Tick, tick, BOOM MOTHERFRAKER!!!”
“Wha UGAHH!” The chewed gum explodes destroying Gold Sky’s right arm rendering him with three limbs.
Taking advantage of the provided opportunity Lilith stabs Gold Sky in the stomach with two daggers then fires an explosive bolt at Gold Sky making the half-breed go rolling about on the ground and leaving a trail of sparking blood which for some odd reason daffodils grow from every spilt drop.
“Whoa didn’t see that coming.” Lilith tells himself.
Meanwhile inside Gold Sky’s mind. “My regeneration will take a while to grow back my arm but one less arm is no obstacle to me.” Indeed, for he has fought battles with one or two sometimes three limbs missing. “Got to take these things out first. Uh oh!”
Flying objects resembling five pronged stars latch onto him and deliver five hundred thousand volts of electricity which may be seen as a way to immobilize him but his body while fully receptive to the massive pain is very resilient to everything that’ll otherwise immobilize it.
“He’s very resistant to my stun gadgets maybe I’ll switch to the exploding ones.” So he throws away his electrifying gadgets to prevent himself from grabbing one by mistake. “Here half-breed have some more explosive ideals.”
“Not this time!” Standing on his three limbs Gold Sky fires his own bolts of magic destroying the gadgets and dashes forward with a weird sprint dodging more exploding stars while his arm is now fully regenerated bone the tissue needs to completely form until he can be back to four limbs. “Murderer!” Doing a side flip Gold Sky shoots down his right wing to show to Lilith that even his wings can be used for offensive purposes. “Your gadgets are useless against me!” Landing behind Lilith he teleports to be in front of his enemy and quickly stands to his hind legs. “Killer!” He spins hitting Lilith multiple times with his wings then goes low performing a wing sweep which gets Lilith off his feet prompting Gold Sky to follow up with a strong left hook, right knee to the chin, lastly another strike from his wing disorients Lilith giving Gold Sky a chance to take away Lilith’s gadgets. “You won’t be needing any of these.” A magic bolt destroys all the weapons.
“Oooooh…” On the ground Lilith begins to crawl towards one exploding star he dropped by accident and luckily the half-breed failed to notice. “This isn’t possible.” He finishes his sentence by spitting blood mixed with saliva.
“Get up Lilith, get up! I will not kill the murderer of my race while he’s crawling on the ground. There is no honor in that. GET UP YOU MURDERER, GET UP!!”
Rainbow Dash nonetheless in the moment Lilith is crawling to his most useful gadget recovers from her unconsciousness to see the last stage of Gold Sky’s regeneration heal his new fresh right arm. “Oh my Great Spirit did he really lose and arm in this fight and if Lilith is on the ground why isn’t Gold Sky taking the opportunity to finish him?” Rainbow wonders before realizing that finishing Lilith off means killing the vile stallion “But thank goodness Gold Sky is alright at least.”
“If I use the gadget on him it will be a waste so I must use it on her ah yes she’s awake and it will break him to see his wife before his eyes.” His magic takes hold of the explosive star.
“You think that’ll save you Lilith?” Gold Sky scoffs.
“No but can you save her?” He throws the explosive star towards Rainbow Dash.
*GASP!!* Rainbow cowers to the ticking star planted on the ground.
“NO!!” Gold Sky sprints with all the strength he has in his body to protect his dear friend he loves ever so dearly. “Don’t fear.” The Alicorn assures as he covers the explosive star with his body.
“Gold Sky.” Rainbows moans to the muffled sound of the explosive sending the stallion a few inches off the ground.
Lying still on the ground Gold Sky slowly shifts his eyes to look at Rainbow Dash, he slowly blinks which saddens the shocked and while he closes his eyes to project an end countless daffodils grow around him.
*Sigh* “Finally, he’s dead, the frakken half-breed is finally dead yes, yes, YES!!” Lilith smiles in utter deserved joy. “Oh wait.” Lilith first vomits some blood but figures while he vomits blood now he’ll still heal up and live another day to find the last Chero. “Time to collect my trophy before his body turns into silver dust.” Thus with haughty pompousness he makes his way to the motionless body.
“Get up huh.” By Gold Sky’s side Rainbow with a delayed sense notices Lilith approaching Gold Sky’s body with a knife in magical tow knowing he’s coming to collect his trophy. “YOU MURDERER!” Rainbow charges forward to attack Lilith to avenge her friend.
“Out of my way wretch.” Lilith with a simple slap subdues Rainbow Dash and continues his way to the dead half-breed Chero. “Hahaha.” And just as the edge of his knife is about to make contact with Gold Sky’s ear. “WHAT!!”
From out of nowhere Gold Sky stops the knife. “Oh I’m not dead…I’M JUST MAD!” With speed almost faster than light Gold Sky leaps up in the air showing both Lilith and Rainbow Dash he is completely healed from the explosive gadget taking Lilith completely by surprise which dramatically slows down the Philistine's senses. Giving Gold Sky the opening to punch Lilith between the eyes followed by spinning quickly delivering powerful strikes with his wings but yet while Gold Sky is very proficient in hand to hand err hoof to hoof combat he now moves on to the most powerful stage of his fighting strength . “TÁTE!” A mighty gale of wind slams into the Philistine reminding him that the Chero have nature as a weapon of theirs. “YOU DARE TO STRIKE MY DEAREST RAINBOW DASH! TÁTE!!” A second powerful gale of wind crashes into Lilith despite the act of the vile stallion creating a magical shield to protect himself from the wind.
Nearby Rainbow nearly gasps in disbelief to hear Gold Sky call her his dearest so she takes this as a confirmation Gold Sky has deep feelings for her though everything has a double meaning which she throws out the window.
“Come here!” Gold Sky drags the wounded Philistine to his hooves. “You see I want to tell you something that’ll change your world Lilith.”
In response Lilith spits at Gold Sky’s face. “Nothing can change my world you son of a frakken wretch.”
“Humph.” Gold Sky releases Lilith from his magic. “In the beginning of this I wanted to kill you to avenge every one of my brothers & sisters you murdered but instead of killing you by slowly flaying you alive I will instead Forgive you and let you live the rest of your life with the possibility of us having a clean slate.”
Forgiven? Given life? A chance for Peace between the last two plus half (Gold Sky) stallions of the Chero and Philistine tribes. Being spared and abandoning the Ideals of his ancestors? Well in the end of all things it is self-preservation that brings forth the good in most which often leads to happiness and this Good dawns in Lilith. “You will forgive me, Gold Sky. One of the last sons of the Chero tribe?”
“I already have.” Gold Sky replies as he lays a hoof on Lilith’s left shoulder then gets closer as if he’s going to whisper his next words. “But you are still going to die today for you attempted to spill innocent blood by trying to kill my dearest Rainbow Dash.”
“WHAT!!! OOF!” A punch sends him rolling about in the ground until he comes to a complete stop at the edge of a deep lake. “Frak me huh! TAKE THIS!” Still on his side Lilith fires magical bolts at the half-breed Chero.
“Humph.” And with the simple motion of swatting a fly Gold Sky deflects both bolts and continues marching forward. “I wanted to spare you Lilith, I wanted a break from shedding blood, I wanted to be the honorable stallion that forgives his enemies and his enemies turn away from the malice they once had.” Once more he deflects more bolts of magic. “I forgive everything you have done but justice has to be delivered for you damned yourself by attempted to kill my dearest Rainbow Dash.” More deflection of the magical bolts. “Nevertheless, this isn’t the first time I bring about extinction.”
*GASP!* Now the Half-Breed stands inches from Lilith and boy does Lilith finally realize the half-breed is taller than him. “Impossible!!”
“No. It is possible like this.” With lightning fast speed Gold Sky slices off Lilith’s horn to prevent more means of Lilith delaying the inevitable.
“AAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” Lilith falls to his knees screaming in pain while magical fluid runs down his cheeks stinging his wounds when the fluid seeps into the scrapes.
“Come here.” Seizing hold of Lilith, Gold Sky breaks every one of his limbs immobilizing Lilith like a wounded bird on the ground. “Now I can drop your head into the lake and you’ll drown but that seems quite anti-climactic to me what do you think?” He asks Lilith. “No wait belay that. What do you think Rainbow Dash?”
Rainbow Dash breaks eye contact signifying she does not want to dirty her hooves with Lilith’s fate.
Interpreting Rainbow’s response Gold Sky turns back to Lilith. “I’ve always been one to see death come in ways that are so preventable. Good bye Lilith, may you join your ancestors in eternal damnation for the Chero have won the war.” And with that Gold Sky buries his right hoof into Lilith’s stomach, making the vile stallion vomit but since he is lying on his back he will choke on his own vomit. Thus like music to Gold Sky’s ears Lilith gargles on his vomit entering his lungs preventing oxygen from entering. “Look into my eyes Lilith, look into my eyes for I will be the last thing you shall see as life slowly slips away from your grasp.”
Rainbow Dash having clear ear of the unpleasant gargling stays back until Gold sky is done with whatever he’s doing to Lilith. “I’m still his dearest at least.”
“Ple-plea-please!” Lilith sputters out.
But Gold Sky shakes his head as he continues standing there watching Lilith choke to death. “You have one minute and seventeen seconds left until you die Lilith and I know how much time one has before they perish for when it comes to bringing death to anyone I am a virtuoso. Now look at me Lilith, for I have brought your race to extinction. May the Chero live forever.” Repetition to drive the point across.
The one minute and seventeen seconds trek like their being forced to crawl through the spectrum of time and the last second crawls past the line Lilith’s brain ceases neuro lapses, the heart ‘s natural pace maker stops, the acidity level in the blood sky rockets, and the Angel of Death takes the last Philistine to the other side. “I should have flayed you instead but with Rainbow Dash being here I don’t want her to see me shed blood.” *poof* The stallion teleports to Rainbow Dash. “Rainbow are you hurt?”
Seeing the loving, caring stallion being concerned for her well-being, Rainbow just dashes forward embracing the stallion before breaking down and sob on his shoulder. “You being here with me is all that matters to me!” Cries the Pegasus.
Touched by the tears flowing down his shoulder Gold Sky wraps his arms around the mare which allows her to feel the massive thumbing of his heart and he can’t help but lay his chin on Rainbow’s head for she is dear to him very dear. Along with feeling solely responsible if she is hurt but has not revealed her damage to him. “Rainbow, are you hurt?” He asks again.
“No I’m okay.” Rainbow replies through her cries. “But, but, but are you o-okay?? You just killed the one who killed many of your race an-and you covered an explosive to protect me s-s-so, so, sssssssssso it should be me asking you i-if you are okay?”
Lightly giggling to Rainbow’s worry he reassures her he is alright by reminding her of his rapid tissue regeneration as for his race. “It doesn’t matter.” And to justify his words he fires a bolt of magic that turns the trophy necklace into ash. “May they rest in peace.” Gold Sky whispers. “Come Rainbow Dash let’s go back to the palace.”
“No!” Still with her head over his shoulder Rainbow tells him she wants him to her home to feel safe and of course have extra security add by having the intention to ask him to stay.
“Very well. Jump.” *poof* “We’re here Rainbow…look Rainbow, it’s alright I’m alive, you’re alive, we’re both alive. Please let go of the fear your clinging on to so you can look into my eyes and know I’m here with you.” Digging into his paternal instinct Gold Sky passes a hoof through her hair which though his experience it will calm down Gilda so it should calm down Rainbow Dash. “Rainbow.” Also let’s add him using his fatherly voice.
“Oooooh don’t stop.” The near euphoric sensation of Gold Sky passing his hoof through her hair makes Rainbow become very warm with comfort. “I hear you Gold Sky.” However, being like she’s being forced to let go of him Rainbow still lets go of him with the speed Tank will have when he’s sprinting. “I need to sleep Gold Sky…how are you such a great fighter?” With her question said, Rainbow pats her bed so the stallion can sit next to her.
After sitting next to Rainbow Dash, Gold Sky sighs when he feels how comfy Rainbow’s bed is. “Wow this bed is so much comfortable than the bed I sleep on in the palace! HAHA this bed is so nice, uhhh you don’t mind if I lay down do you??”
“No, make yourself comfortable Gold Sky.” Rainbow shifts to laying down on her side.
However. “Uh can you please scoot a little bit to your side please, you’re too close for my comfort Rainbow Dash.” He doesn’t feel right for Rainbow to be too close to him for such closeness is solely reserved for those who are married. Though Gilda is the sole exception for never is there moment where Gold Sky wants his daughter away from him.
“Oh, okay.” Rainbow scoots a few inches back. “Didn’t know he had a personal space thing. Well I better do that for his sake.”
“I’m a great fighter because for some odd reason my mind is able to process any stimuli two hundred times faster than the average mortal but of course my muscles may not always be on par with my neurological system hence why there are tiny lapses allowing tiny windows in combat but then again mortals can’t take advantage of the lapses so it makes me one who has no equal in combat. However, being honorable I ignored my wellbeing, ignored the great pain, and ignored my enemy to shield you in a moment I could have never foreseen. Sometimes having no equal leaves me unprepared for surprises.”
“Wow…think fast!” Rainbow tosses a rubber ball at him. “Whoa! Nice catch, ahem well going back a bit do you still think of Gilda? Do you miss you know being with her…do you miss her scent?”
Before answering Gold Sky grabs one of Rainbow Dash and begins hugging it showing her he’s becoming cold with guilt. “There is never a moment in which I don’t think of her and there isn’t a moment where I look under my wing and pray she’s there sleeping peacefully. I miss my daughter oh my heart that’s beating out there in this world that I raised her to be ready for oh please I wish I can go back in time and stop myself from saving Ruby.”
Rainbow tilts her head in disbelief. “Wait, are you telling me you let the Griffon you loved as a sister die?”
“Yes.” A plain and simple response. “If I knew that by protecting Ruby will lead me to spill innocent blood which will then cause me to be racked with unforgiveable guilt then why not let Ruby die. I-I love my dear Gilda above all things and I must protect her no matter what…nothing is above my Gilda nothing is above her…any means to an end to ensure her safety is something I will not hesitate to carry out.” In pause he turns to look at Rainbow Dash. “It’s my fault Rainbow Dash. I’m sorry that you and Gilda are no longer friends please forgive me my dear Rainbow Dash.” With that said he frowns.
With a frown comes a chance to take to make physical contact. “Hey don’t so hard on yourself Gold Sky.” Says the mare with a hoof under his chin. “Uhhhh just don’t, uhmm at least she’s alive an-and you can live with that.”
*ting* Something hits Gold Sky. “Oh my, it’s evening already and mother must be worried sick about me!” Quick as he was to lay down on Rainbow’s bed Gold Sky jumps to all fours to back to the palace.
*gasp* Oh the prospect of the Alicorn leaving makes her when she has him so close drives her to make a plea that’ll make him stay. “Gold Sky wait! I…I…” The great thing about the pause is thinking what will Rarity will say when she talks about this. “Please stay. I’m still shaken up from the moment you protected me from explosive and I want you to please stay with me until morning. Please, please stay Gold Sky.”
“Those wide eyes of her remind me of my dearest Gilda when she turned thirty seven years old and asked me if she can sleep with her ear over my heart.” Gold Sky pleases his cloak back on the chair it was resting on. “Is this what you wish Rainbow Dash then I’ll stay.” So he plops down on his rump.
Here goes nothing. “No, no here please.” Rainbow pats her bed.
“Very well.” Quite eager to lie back down on the bed but then pushes away his eagerness to remind himself he’s staying to provide Rainbow with the security and there is nothing wrong with that. “Your bed is just so comfortable Rainbow Dash.”
*Yawn* Secure, Rainbow finally relaxes enough to drift into sleep. “Gold Sky.”
“Yes? Oh.” Rainbow gets super close to him but again he’s only here to supply her with security so he fights his discomfort to provide her with comfort.
“When you told Lilith that I am your dearest did you mean that Gold Sky?” Rainbow wants to know before making the last move into the intimate threshold of closeness.
“I did.”
With that testified Rainbow makes her complete move by resting her head against his chest and falls completely asleep.
”Uhhhhhhh….” His body temperature skyrockets which unintentionally keeps Rainbow toasty warm anyway in the galaxy of his mind it stops spinning to try and gain a complete understanding of what the bloody hell is the meaning of Rainbow Dash resting her head on his chest or more specifically over his thumping heart. “Alright what is going on, I-I-I don’t understand wh-why is she doing is what does it mean. This isn’t right it’s weird I need to get out of this dire predicament but Rainbow needs to be here for her oh boy why is doing this. Why do I feel such a breach in my personal space…” As weird as it may be the stallion looks down at the sleeping mare to only see how comfortable she looks sleeping over his heart. "She looks so lovely...she looks so happy use me as a pillow. Does feeling save give her the ability to sleep after experiencing what she experienced today? Hmmm for others they won't be able to sleep at all but her heh me being is her comfort. Perhaps freaking out is just me overreacting. Maybe there is nothing wrong with her being this close to me this is like Gilda sleeping over my heart when she felt uncertainty about if I'm afraid to teach her how to fight. Oh Rainbow maybe you are somepony that can be this close to me and I won't be uncomfortable." Gold Sky being very careful lovingly kisses Rainbow's head. "Rainbow." He speaks in the quietest of whispers.
"You are my dearest, dearest Friend."
Dawn will sincerely shatter Rainbow's day.
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My dearest Readers I thank you for your infinite patience and what can be seen as good or mostly lukewarm news, due to current circumstances I may be writing more chapters for this story more often for I will be writing shorter chapters for my other fan fic. Then again I will be extremely busy in these coming months so once again I thank you my dearest Readers for having the patience of an Immortal.