The Creed of the Knife 01
I could feel the wind on my face, a chilling breeze that invigorated me as I jumped from rooftop to rooftop and for the first time in days I truly felt at home in the city build at the side of a mountain; a city that I had left behind so long ago it seemed, a city with its secrets, its darkness, its lives that had been pushed aside by the corruption and pettiness of the so called nobles. Not even once since I studied here I could stand their sights, and it didn’t help that Celestia wanted me to make friends with them, well, guess who got the last laugh?
I did not move through the streets, my real road was found in here; in the rooftops that nopony ever put attention to, a place where I was invisible and could do whatever I wanted.
If only others could see what I see now, the sun peeking through the mountains as the light moved through the land like a blanket, embracing everypony equally; it had took me so long to realize that, but it was too late, I wasn’t a denizen of the light as all the ponies celebrating already on the streets, I couldn’t take that risk because I could see them, dark specs hidden in the mountain ready to fall upon the streets and prey upon every pony… if I had to be shadow that would prevent that disaster so be it.
Jumping upon a tower of Canterlot Castle I quickly landed inside it, the vibrant red carpet in the hall muting my landing while I used the wall as platform to reach a chandelier. I had to remain immobile as a pair of guards did their rounds upon the hall, neither of them looking up.
I know I shouldn’t laugh at their total ineptitude so the only thing I did was smirk and continue my way. Right now neither Celestia nor I knew the exact amount of bugs that had infiltrated the city so I had to be extremely careful of not letting myself be seen by anyone and by the look of the security leading to the wedding hall nothing had changed upon Canterlot Castle.
For a moment I missed my own Canterlot, the city where I had turned into what I am today, the city that had shaped me and prepared me for a life Celestia never thought possible. Getting lost in remembrance was too dangerous; I had to remain focused while I moved through corridors in preparation for what I had to do.
Quickly finding another window I jumped through it and took hold of the window still before shimming to another hoof hold and beginning my ascension to the tallest part of this tower, it could be quite the look for somepony in the streets or a pegasus flying to find a unicorn dressed from hoof to haunches in white.
Finally the tallest window was on my reach and I quickly jumped inside with one final goal, reach the wedding hall in time. For what I had seen Twilight and Cadence would get free and reach the hall in a couple of minutes so I had to get ready for the climax of this beautiful wedding.
This time I did laugh quietly, after all, I was getting myself ready to crash Cadence’s wedding, or at least a doppelganger, scratch one thing from my bucket list.
So moving stealthily across the attic I had reached through the window I began to get closer to the insides of the hall where Celestia was already officiating the wedding; I’ve gotta say, the hall looked perfect with flowers everywhere, sadly the dress was being wasted in such a bug, but lo and behold, just as I had reached the perfect watching spot among the rafters the doors of the hall were opened and there came the guests of honor.
I’ll be completely honest, crying did not belong in Cadence’s face and I had to contain myself watching that creature be a complete drama queen, and I DO know drama queens; but the look in the bug’s face was priceless when Cadence got into the hall, I swear, this was better than Rainbow’s soap operas… and yes, Rainbow watched soap operas, she blamed Rarity for getting her addicted but now it was quite the bonding experience between them.
I could hear the buzzing starting, I could sense the hundreds of soldiers gathering the skies of Canterlot at the other side of the shield, an army made of nightmares that would crush this city without even blinking and I knew in that moment that I couldn’t fail; I swore to myself that while the fake Cadence began to change, becoming something truly alien and any doubts I had for what I was about to do disappeared watching the giant bug laugh and taunt those present.
Apparently Celestia was ready to get into action, what a miracle, and she got ready to throw spells everywhere to get rid of the bug, I would have suggested a giant fly swat but then she smartly decided on a good ol’ war-o-beam with predictable results, Celestia flying through the air and crashing upon the marble flooring.
The bug laughed, she laughed loud and hard, I swear I could feel my muscles tensing just hearing that annoying sound, as if she had already won just by sending Celestia to the floor, but I knew this was practically scripted, Celestia had put her pride on the line for the perfect moment, always the chess master.
I barely had to move to get into position, after all, I only had one chance to make this work, this was what I had come here, this one chance, this one second where everything stopped and the adrenaline began, where the world became a slow motion film and I finally let go of the ground, the moment where my hooves left the rafters and my body sailed through the air as I extended my hooves to the side, the leap of faith they called it, it had never been so fitting.
You know, I wonder what went through the mind of those that had seen someone or somepony like me and knew that it was the last second of their lives; did they cursed? Did they ask forgiveness to whatever deity they had or maybe it was only fear? I hope it is the last, because I wanted this bug’s last second to be filled with terror so that the image she would have in Tartarus as she was tortured for all eternity was of me falling through the air with clothes of white as my blade impaled her on the head.
I’ll never know.