The ponies of Equestria always thought the Royal Guard has always been their to watch their Princesses back. Oh only did they know who really watched their back.
The ponies of Equestria always thought the Royal Guard has always been their to watch their Princesses back. Oh only did they know who really watched their back. Their was somepony, someone, or something else had their back, long before they were even titled Princesses. This is the story of a being that, by their mother wishes, asked of him to watch over her children and her children's children.
In a battle fortress that had been erected not far, only a few days hike from Equestria's border stood a packed to the brim courtyard of Ponies, all three tribes are here, but these ponies were not ordinary ponies, for each and every one of them was clad in armor and weapon alike. Their had to be at least a nine hundred to a thousand soldiers there.
On a raised platform stood a towering form of earth pony in red demonic armor, he had a massive red claymore next to him as he stared at the gathered soldiers, His name as most would call him Walhart. "You all know that we have been wanting to invade and take Equestria as our own but due to their two Princesses, we were in able to, we my brothers at arms, today is the day for they have lost one of their Princesses and the other one if in mourning, now is the time to strike and claim their land ours!!!!" He yelled while lifting his claymore into the air without any effort to signal his men.
The massive army he had just did the same while letting their cheers out before they along with there leader began their march for Equestria's borders, none of them seeing a single eagle fly away from them at a surprising speed, if they had looked they would have seen that same eagle burst into flames and now almost streaking away from the fortress.
In a earth pony town called Maretania, about a few miles from the border and even more from the fortress.
Ponies all walked to and from in this town as they went about their normal day routines like nothing bad happened besides the somewhat longer then normal night, word of what happened to their princess had yet reached them yet, and at one of the cafes where some more ponies sat and ether had something to drink or a late lunch, most were civilians but their was also the border patrol that was placed their to watch the border. Everypony had causal wear on, as normal besides those that are on dates, but one stood out to them all and that was a completely black robed figure enjoying some tea.
They find out why it had padding as the eagle took off before landing right on the padding, after he made sure the eagle was perfectly seated, he left and the other patrons went about their business.
Once he got a good distance from them he looked at his eagle before letting out a sigh. "They decided to try on attacking did they?" He asked the eagle, who nodded it's head before they got to a lone mobile home style carriage as they went inside. "Very well, it would be for the best then, although I know they won't give up and leave so that means their will be bloodshed, as well a slaughter. I always try to avoid those but it seems their is no way that will happen this time." He said before letting his eagle jump to a perch before removing his padding and begin on a letter, once it was done he got a special harness and helped his eagle into it before rolling the letter up and placing it inside container on the harness back. "Like always, make sure the letter gets to Tia at all costs, even using your phoenix power to help you get their." He said before removing his robe.
With the robe off it showed a being covered in what seemed to be unique type of armor that was mostly gold, with a keen eye it would see as just gold paint, along with where the helmet was had a gold tinted visor, on the beings left hip was a place for a sword, which he reached over by the bed and picked up his sword before sliding it in place and securing it before turning back to the door. "Well lets get started." He said before opening the door and stepping out, just as the being closed the door he vanished from view of the town like he was nothing but a ghost.
Few miles outside the border of the town.
A single being suddenly appeared without any kind of popping noise of a teleportation spell before looking around as he reached for his left hip and undid the flap where his sword was before draw the blade out...
....only to slam part of the blade into the ground and walk a few feet infront of it." Alright Vegetite, Time to show why they should never try and attack Equestria." The being now called Vegetite said before lifting his left arm up and placing his hand sideways on his face before pulling it across it, the result was instantaneous as a swirling vortex of darkness engulfed him in a wide but very tall pillar.
It stayed like that till a single pitch black clawed hand shot out of the dark vortex with its palm facing the sky before doing a coming motion...
....which caused the placed sword in the ground to violently erupt out of the ground and into the held out hand, by time the dark vortex was gone. No longer stood the armored being but now something else stood their, the arm that wielded the sword moved the blade down while it began it's wait on the now doomed army.
Any passerby that would have walked by would just say it was a statue, if not for a slowly swaying pitch black tail and ruffling of bat-like wings, and any animal near or even close went silent like something far more dangerous then the grim reaper itself was standing near them.
Three days and one hour later, field outside of Equestria's border.
The field was always a sight to see for anyone, until now though as cleaved in half corpse after cleaved in half corpse laid all around the blooded field, all of the corpses are soldiers.
But there was still more soldiers left, all of them crowded around a single spot in a box formation, with a occasional soldier flying out of the ring of soldiers, among the soldiers was their leader, Walhart who was staring at the surrounding dead and blooded battlefield along with brief glance at the fresh corpse to show, it to was cleaved in two like the rest. All he had to do to find the culprit of this slaughter of troops was inside the ring of remaining soldiers he had left.
Standing to at least nine feet tall with the horns on it head was a being with pitch black armor like skin with matching bat-like wings and tail, held in it right clawed like hand was a simple blade, or as simple as one gets since it is one handed due to where the back of the fingers face is nothing but four sharp spikes as well one on the very end of the handle, at the hilt where the blade starts was a hook that he at first didn't know why it had that till he seen this monstrous demon stop a incoming blade with said hook before breaking the caught blade as well in a flurry of slices, turned the poor soldier to nothing but a spray of blood.
He and his soldiers had only got here and been here for a hour and already this monstrous demon has killed a good portion of his troops like instructors being challenged by first day recruits. But he knew that it will get tried and fail to exhaustion, everything does and they will fail, He should join them but he wanted to save his strength for taking down Equestria's now only Princess.
When he and the troops got there, he seen the statue like being and choose to send a single weak soldier out to try and pass it, if he did and was unharmed then they would pass and begin their attack on Equestira, sadly the moment the soldier, a young earth pony, got right next to him, his and the other soldier's only warning was a slight movement from the being as well a slash wave of blood before the kid upper body slowly slid off its lower to the ground, the lower crumpled to the ground shortly after with its intestines following the flow of blood.
Walhart was drawn from his thought as he seen this monstrous demon actually for once stare at him, he was about to call out the command to strike him down before it turned away to place it back to him.
Vegetite knew they would have been careful, besides he thought it was time to show them he was only warming up. "This was a fun warm up, but now your just boring me." He spoke in a echoing rumble like voice that literally sent the rest of the soldiers shivering from the sound alone. They didn't have to wait long ether for what he had in mind as he took a single step back and leaned his head forward to the group of soldiers farthest from Walhart.
Soon a ball of dark energy about the size of a pebble appeared between his horns as well grew till it was half the size of a apple....
.....the soldiers only warning was the slowly backing away unicorns before a very wide but rather quick black beam engulfed them all in less then a second, it quickly ended as soon as it started. The only thing left of those soldiers was a shallow blacken trench that stretched thirty yards long and ten yards wide, Vegetite turned back around to see the stunned, shocked and horrified faces of the rest of the soldiers.
A single soldier, a young unicorn pony took careful steps back before turning and taking off as fast his hooves can take him, he didn't get far before he felt a faint pressure of pain before seeing the end of a familiar blade tip coming though here his chest was, following this blade all the way back, and though some more soldiers, the location ofthis said blade was from a out stretched arm with that was held in a clawed hand, a normal observer would say he was pointing with his sword, but to them it was different.
The blade had extended a great deal out of his reach before quickly retreating back to the owner of the sword before the blade was placed in a way like he was going to slash at the air....
....if not for the fact that the moment he did slashed, it took the heads off of the rest of the soldiers while leaving Walhart unharmed, albert now covered in blood from the blood spraying headless soldiers.
Walhart soon looked at this demon, or at least tried to when it disappeared before reappearing before him, causing to try and quickly backpedal and swing his massive claymore at the demon, who leaned his head to the left like he wanted to be hit in the right side of his next, when the blade came just inches from its neck, Walhart grinned in victory......
......only to have that grin to be replaced with the look of pure horror as his claymore shattered upon impact with its neck, all the way to the hilt, he now knew that none of their weapons would have even hurt this demon, he tried to backpedal even more but tripped on a corpse of a soldier.
Walhart tried to get up and run but he soon almost felt all the air driven from his lungs as the clawed foot from this demon was roughly placed on his chest while it stared down at him. "W-W-What are you, and why are you guarding Equestria?" Walhart asked the demon.
Vegetite stared down at Walhart before leaning even more so his horns were pointed right at him, soon a all to familiar dark ball of energy appeared between his horns again, but this time it was different, it had six dark lines swirling out of it as the area around his begin to look like it was raining, he even felt a twig like last time, only a lot stronger and he now knew that this was this demons power. "Because, I was promised to protect Tia and Lulu from all outside forces that aren't linked to a time placed event. And your not a time placed event, besides Tia would have burned you all the moment you tried to attack her ponies." He said in the same voice before him and a big area around them was suddenly engulfed in a massive pillar of dark energy, reaching about three miles in the air while it gained forty-five yards in round area.
In the town called Maretania
The town was all in mourning as they just now got word about what happened to their princess, so the Pegasus ponies set up a gloomy weather overcast, all seemed fine till a faint but felt wind begin to blow by, they all though it was part of the weather till it grew in strength till the ponies of the town had to actually hold onto things like sheets of paper and began asking why the Pegasus's ponies had this set up.
Before the Pegasus ponies can say that they didn't do this, their was a loud shriek from a female earth pony who was pointing to a massive dark pillar of energy towards the border of the town, the border guard soon took control of this and told everyone to remain calm while they also sent a Pegasus messenger to the Princess.
New castle in Canterlot, a couple of days later.
Princess Celestia sighed sadly as another noble wanting to throw a festival for the defect of Nightmare Moon, she did get a few ponies that gave her their sadness at losing her sister, but those were rare, she was about to allow the next noble in, if not for a Pegasus messemger come running inside the new throne room, it had only been a couple of years since the banishment of Nightmare Moon or her sister Luna.
"Princess Celestia, there is a urgent message from the border guard in Maretania!" The messenger said before giving the princess the message from the town, just as she read and got done reading the message, a familiar eagle flew inside the throne room from one of the still incomplete windows before setting up parch on the throne's arm rest as the eagle leaned forward to show it had a messenger harness on.
The Guards stared at the eagle as well the Princess, before she undid the message holder on the harness before pulling a rolled up letter that she always got from this eagle, she know it's name but don't know who it belonged to besides a shadow sentinel that watched over her and her sister from the very shadows, but she knew when he or she was their and they weren't this time, but once she read the letter she got up from her throne before looking over all the Guards and the new noble who just came inside the throne room. "Court has been canceled due to a sudden urgent problem on the border of Maretania." She called out to all that was present, before going to get her armor and weapon, just in cast this turns out bad.
In the battlefield, a few days later.
When Princess Celestia got to the sight of where the ponies of Maretania seen the dark pillar of energy, she really wanted to have her guard stay back at the town because the sight she just seen made most of them vomit, the smell of now decaying flesh was thick in the air as she seen the dried up blooded ground and decaying corpses of bodies, from the looks of the weapons and armor they were soldiers, but the most notable was the two most worst spots.
That was the shallow but long blacked trench and the blacken crater in the ground near the trench, it may have been a few days but even she can still sense the lingering power of a being that could do this and she knew one thing. What ever did this had to be ether powerful or almost as strong as Discord himself because it was like she was trying to walk into a room filled to the brim of thick cake batter.
She had seen battles before but to her, this was no battle, it was nothing more then a simple Slaughter. One of her Guards went up to her while using one hand to cover his nose while the other had a red helmet that looked like demon horns. "Princess, we found this near the crater and have found out from a used to be alive soldier from this Slaughter that it belonged to their leader, Walhart." He said.
Princess Celestia face darkened a bit as she knew the name, he was a obsessed emperor/conqueror that wanted to do nothing more then raze and take Equestria as his own, with Luna and her, he never tried to do a single thing for fear of have two very enraged Alicorns coming down on his, but with one out of the picture and the other in mourning, he could just steam rolled his way to her as the rest of the country was in mourning as well.
She looked out to the battlefield before giving a sigh, her shadow sentinel had good intentions, albert very violent ones but he might have known Walhart would not let a chance like this slip by. "Guards, lets go back and give the town reassuring that what happened here was a failed invasion on Equestria, and we had a secret hero to thank for it." She said before her and her guard's began leaving, much to their delight of getting away from the decaying corpses.
The capital city of Equestria, here is where Princess Celestia ruled the country for a thousand years, but now she had her sister, Princess Luna, back thanks to six mares who ether by fate or it was a simple event, unknowingly gained their cutie marks at the same time, two unicorns, pegasi, and earth ponies. These six ponies have defeated Nightmare Moon/ purged her from Luna, not long after that they defeated Discord, the Lord of Chaos and resealed him in stone.
A block or two down from the Castle Canterlot gates.
A single cloaked being stood out in the crowd of other ponies as it walked towards the Castle gates, it was on its way to meet with a old friend and it also knew information on a event coming in three months time, he had to tell her that and he can NOT intervene, he had always warned her of these events ahead of time when ever he can sense them, usually at least three months though a year.
Of course none of these ponies knew who he was, well all but Princess Celestia who seen him in the past. The cloaked figure was Vegetite.
He soon got to the gate and allowed pass after checking his person for weapons and under his hood by the guards, who from their view only saw a white coated earth pony in yellow shirt and pants, he had jet black mane and tail, once they allowed him through he made his way to the receptionist to put a name down and went to wait in line for a audience with Celestia.
Inside the Throne room, a hour later.
Princess Celestia sat upon her throne, listening to another pony, a noble who she was sure just wanting to have a statue of himself built or a new mansion made for him, once again she denied him while sighing. 'Sometimes I wished a few good ponies would come to see me, but the nobles have to be somewhat stuck-up as always. Once the noble left she looked to her left to her unicorn adviser. "Ok who's the next petitioner?" Princess Celestia said.
The unicorn looked down to her list of names before seeing the next name. "A Mister Shadow Dawn. He seems to be a no-pony so we wi-" That was all she could say before she was interrupted by Princess Celestia.
Celestia quickly stood up while spreading her wings at their most height. "NO!!!!" She Yelled before looking to her adviser then one of the royal guards lining the walls. "Lead Shadow Dawn to my private chambers now." She said before looking to the rest of ponies in the room. "Court is cancelled for today, please come back tomorrow." She added before turning and making her way to one of the side doors near the throne while a single thought went though her head. 'What's is happening now?'
In Celestia's private chambers, few minutes later.
Vegetite stood In the center of the room as he waited for Tia, he had been told by a royal guard that he had to be lead here, much to the confusion of said guard, he even stayed to make sure he didn't take or do anything. He didn't have much waiting left as the door to the chambers were soon alit with a familiar to him gold aura as Celestia stepped through and glanced at the guard and Vegetite. "Guard, please leave us and let no one but my sister if she comes inside." She said before allowing the guard the time to leave before slamming the door shut. "Vegetite, what's going to happen because you and I both know you don't use that name unless its urgent." She said.
Vegetite sighed before reaching up to his cloaks hood to pull it back to reveal his light pale face and jet black hair with blue eyes before moving his arms back down so he can cross them over his chest.. "Sadly Tia it's true, from what I can tell, there will be a event that I can only semi-intervene with in three months time, if I am correct the same time as yours and your captain of the guards wedding, it would be best to put a shield up around the city three or four days before the wedding, also make sure the Element bearers are invited." He said.
Vegetite soon looked towards the tower where Lulu was before glancing back to Tia. "Also Tia, did you ever got around to tell her about what happened a little more then five hundred years ago? About the Great Slaughter?" He said while behind his own eyes it played out like it only happened yesterday.
Celestia froze when he mentioned that, it was by all rights between both the ponies and griffons bloodiest and brutal battles, the death toll was so being so high and how they both know about how bad it was, a shiver went up her spine just barely remembering about it. 'By my mother, Lulu is not going to like that, I-It actually looked like it was raining blood when me and a few hundred royal guards were not even in the fight and it was just pouring blood.' she thought. "N-no I-I have not." Tia said.
He turned his head back to Tia before sighing. "It would be best you tell her before she uncovers it herself and thinks the Shadow sentinel that has been both watching her and you was some murderous demon that kills all in its path. Besides Emperor Darkclaw was a fool to try and attack Equestria, but he lead a suicide attack/invasion would have worked." He said while turning his head down, soon before Tia can call him out again, he was lost in thought and memories of that fateful day, all those years ago.