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// Here Comes the Calvary 
// Story: A Filly and Her Wolf 
// by Teotle 
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Twilight and the others had found the wolves fortress and had begun their assault on the walls. The defenses were relentless, but the princesses and the guards had mannaged to clear a path for Twilight and her friends to fly into the fortress walls. When they made it to the center, they saw Teotle, standing in the middle of the arena under a metal cage.

"Oh no, we're too late." Nyx said.

"Not yet." Twilight ensured. "He's hasn't transformed yet. We still have a chance to stop him."

"But Twilight, Look." Applejack said, pointing at Teoltle siblings who lay dead on the ground.

"It's ok," Twilight said. "I think I know what he's planing." Twilight swooped down into the arena with her friends right behind her. She broke through the cage and landed next to Teotle.

Surprised to see them, Teotle asked, "Guys, how did you get here?"

"We used a spell to track you down." Said Pinkiepie.

"Teotle?" Nyx asked. "Are you still you?"

Just then, Fracture stood up from  the ground. Everyone in the cowed gasped. How could that happen? Teotle supposedly stabbed her in the heart.

"That's a good question." Fracture said. "And yes, we both are alive."

"Impossible!" Smoke screamed. "You should be dead." She then looked at Teotle. "You!" She said accusingly. "What did you do?"

Teotle chuckled and answered, "When I told Brimstone that I won, that didn't mean that I won the right to be Shadowflame's vessel. I simply won my right to be me."

"What does that mean?" Smoke asked with a twitchy eye. "When did that happen?"

"It happened the last time I went back to ponyville." Teotle said, looking back at Twilight. "When I healed you in the hospital, I gave you the part of me that gave me father's power. I submitted to you."

"Submitted?" Twilight asked.

"Yes." Teotle replied. "I knew that if the battle ended while I still had my fathers power, he would come back. So, I discarded that power and placed it inside you."

"You can do that?" Asked Spike.

"Uh huh," Teotle said with a smile "Since I don't have all of Shadowflame's power, I am not worthy of being his vessel."

"That's brilliant." Rarity said

"Treachery, herecy!" Smoke called out. "You betrayed us all."

Be silent!" Celestia said, as she and Luna flew down in front of Teotle. "You can't betray someone your enslaved to." She gave Teotle an approving smile.

"Let him speak!" Ironeye called out from the crowed. The crowed soon joined in with him and chanted for Teotle to continue.

"Tell them how I'm still here." Fracture insisted, giving Teotle a nudge on the shoulder.

"Well." Teotle said. "I asked Fracture if she would submit to me before she died, and she said yes. But I didn't really kill  her. When a little bit of her magic went inside me, I healed her injures and cast a spell that allowed the sword to pass through her body, instead of cut into it. Meaning, we faked everybody out."

"How dare..." Smoke tried to say, only to have her mouth covered by Frost and Deathkiss.

"Listen everyone, Shadowflame is not the key to your salvation." Teotle announced. "Before the princesses got rid of him, he drove our land into ruin and starvation. Don't give any of your hope to him. Give it only to yourselves and each other."

"How can we do that?" Asked a wolf in the crowed.

Teotle looked at Twilght, Spike, Nyx, and everypony else who had come to save him. He then said, "Just make friends. Get to know each other and your fellow kingdoms. If we can learn to live in harmony, we can live happily."

The wolves in the crowed were silent. What would happen if they did try to make friends? Would that work? How would it work? They all spoke among themslves until Smoke shouted, "Lies! He is a traitor!"

She then jumped into the cage and ran toward Teotle. She took out a dagger and lunged at him with it, but before she could hit Teotle, his mother had jumped in front of him and took the blow.

"Mother!" Teotle called out.

Smoke pulled out the knife, pushed Frost out of the way and tried again to stab Teotle, but the other Sisters of the Shadow had grabbed and restrained her before she had the chance.

"What are you all doing!" Smoke shouted. "let me go! You are all traitors!"

"The only ones we've betrayed are our ourselves and our children." Eveningstar remarked.

Teotle got on his knees, next to his mother, and held her paw. He held his paws up and got ready to heal her, but she only  pushed his paws away.

"Mother." He pleaded. "let me heal you."

"No, Teotle." She replied. "Its better this way."

"But you my mother!" Teotle cried. "Please, don't go!"

"Teotle, please understand." She pleaded. "I've waited for years to see my husband."

"Shadowflame?" Teotle asked. "He's evil."

"No." Frost corrected. "Not Shadowflame, my real husband."

Teotle looked at her with teary eyes. "What?" He asked.

He sat there waiting for an answer, but none came. All she could say was, "I love you." With those final words, she was gone.