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Rare kindness
HarpoonTheKelpie submitted: Another attempt, another failure. This one time I will be kind.
((MOD: I wanted to give you a piece of art work for many years of kindness you have always shown me. This is just a small thank you for all the amazing things you have done for my blog. And I hope to give more <3 ))
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Welp, have two!
Note, the two pics are separate universes, so the second sketch foal wasn’t the one who got ate.
Just quick sketching, I’m not too satisfied with these designs, but oh well. Just quick space fillers for my sketch pages.
im more shocked both didnt get eaten by Harpoon, in his mind he could just make more and start again
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Ah-huhu, I hunger for blood! Ah-huhu.
Harpoon: You taste rather bitter, anon.~
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Hunter’s Moon
**This story is NSFW**
Hunter’s Moon: Part 1
Hunter’s Moon: Part 2
Hunter’s Moon: Part 3
Hunter’s Moon: Part 4
Hunter’s Moon: Part 5
Hunter’s Moon: Part 6
Hunter’s Moon: Part 7
Hunter’s Moon: Part 8 (Final Part)
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Hunter’s Moon: Part 8 (Final Part)
Luna attempted to charge at Harpoon with her horn. Harpoon might have been slowed by the blow to his heart; but Luna was slowed too. “Come now Princess! The rules will be simple; the first of us to be knocked off our hooves loses. If I lose you get this mare back. If you lose, you take her place. Now if you refuse to play I’ll keep her. She’ll live for a while; but every moment will be agonizing for her. Maybe I’ll start by amputating her hooves, skin and carve up her legs. I think her meat would make lovely jerky, don’t you? Of course next I’d-“
The mare stabbed him quickly through his chest and cantered into the crowd frantically screaming. “Please don’t kill me!”
Harpoon took a couple steps back and stared at the blade in a mild shock, dumbfounded that the mare had actually stabbed him. He furrowed his brows. The first stab through the heart was somewhat expected, but the second one? Who would’ve thought anypony would have the courage?
“I guess I do talk a bit too much.” He grumbled under his breath as he looked down at the sword in his chest. Again the fireflies disappeared in alarming numbers. Harpoon struggled to push the blade out of his chest. The glow of his eyes became extremely dim. He looked a bit panicked the more he messed with the blade. He flopped onto his back and tried to use his back legs to push it out. The ground had helped push the blade out a little. Harpoon had to do the rest. He struggled and pushed against the crossguard with his mildly shaky back hooves. His struggle seemed endless as Luna and the crowd watched, nopony wanted to help him, it seemed they were frozen in their staring. Minutes passed and the blade came out little by little, panic and frustration grew on Harpoon’s face. His hooves would slip off the crossguard every once in a while and he’d let out agitated grunts. When the blade finally fell to the ground it looked like Harpoon was having minor difficulties keeping upright; but it was enough for Luna to know that he wouldn’t be a problem anymore. Harpoon gave a nervous laugh and sauntered with a slight unbalanced sway down the path, away from Canterlot and deeper into the swamp. “Until we meet again, Princess.”
Luna watched after Harpoon until he had been out of sight for a few seconds. She wasn’t sure if Harpoon was really gone or if this was a trick; but she sincerely hoped that they would never cross paths again. Her eyes lit up as her guards came to and stood on shaky legs. It seemed that they were still experiencing some pain, as was she; but her pain was outweighed by her nausea. Harpoon must not have healed them completely. As soon as Captain Phalanx was standing she walked over to him. “Captain, can you and the other guards please load Cavalier’s body and the remains of that elderly mare in one of the empty supply carts?”
Captain Phalanx looked around Luna to Cavalier’s body and nodded solemnly. “Of course, Princess. They deserve a proper burial far from this place.”
Luna looked over the crowd, their expressions were relieved, but haunted. Luna would be haunted too, the loss of precious lives, guard or not, would be a serious torment to her sleep. Already the faces of the dead and injured were floating around her mind. Harpoon’s face stood out clear, he would be the fuel for her nightmares for years to come. It was jarring to think that a monster as terrible as him was alive in the world.
“Just get away from me!” Ruby was distraught, crying still, and pushing her husband away. She stood with difficulty. She had horrible pain in her abdomen; but no pain was worse than the panic and sadness she felt over her child.
“I had to do it Ruby! We all would’ve died!”
“There could’ve been another way! Didn’t I go through enough today without having to lose my baby?! Our baby?!” She hit him as hard as she could in the face. “How could you do this to me?!”
He shied away from her then and hung his head. “I’m sorry, Ruby. I just wanted us to live. I would’ve rather had another child than for you and I to have died.”
Ruby growled at him. Why would he think she’d even want to touch him again let alone have another baby with him? “Do you really think I want to have another foal with you now?!”
Her husband looked hurt and shied away from her. What Ruby needed was space.
She sat on the ground quietly and gently rubbed her sore belly. She hoped that her foal wasn’t really dead. She hoped she’d feel a gentle kick against her hoof. She hoped that the heartbeat pounding in her ears wasn’t hers but her foal’s. Maybe if she waited long enough something would happen; anything would happen.
Ruby started to sniffle. She felt nothing from her gentle prodding, she knew the heartbeat she heard was hers alone, and she knew she was no longer with child. She might have hoped it wasn’t true, that her husband really didn’t do it; but it was and there was no getting around it.
Luna walked toward the mare. She stopped a few feet away, unsure of how to go about addressing Ruby. How does anyone approach a mother that just lost her foal? Luna shook her head at herself and closed the gap between her and Ruby. “What has happened?”
Ruby pointed to her bruised belly, face angry and littered with tears. “My baby is dead, and my husband is the cause.”
Luna looked on the mare sadly. “We are very sorry for what has happened to you today. No mother should ever have to lose her foal and we wish there would have been another way. Without your sacrifice we would not be standing here now. It is understandable for you to be angry with your husband. We are so sorry that it came to that.”
Ruby didn’t say anything to Princess Luna, her words weren’t comforting. She stood and walked away from Luna. She was too upset to continue to listen to Luna attempt to justify the death of her foal.
Luna was sad for her, and she knew trying to say anything else would only make Ruby more upset. She walked back through the crowd and to Captain Phalanx. “Are we ready to head out, Captain?”
He nodded. “We have the bodies loaded into the carts and all of the guards are awake and alert.”
“Good, it’s time to finally go home.”
On the slow walk out of the swamp Luna noticed that the frogs were croaking again and that the trees returned to their gentle swaying. The swamp was alive again, like no monster inhabited it, like it was untouched by the evil that had transpired. The leaves were still beautiful, but she couldn’t help notice that the red leaves dancing on the branches strikingly resembled blood. Eventually they physically moved on from the swamp; but none of them would ever be the same.
Writer and artist: Alte Seele
Hunter’s Moon: Part 7
“Whatever you’re thinking, Monster,I won’t do it.”
“Listen to me before you say no. If you take this elderly mare and push her or toss her off of the path I’ll let you and your wife walk away, same as the mare’s son did with his marefriend.”
Ruby’s husband shook his head. “I won’t do it.”
A random, older unicorn walked up to the old mare and shoved her hard enough with his magic for her to fly off the path; he hoped her death would be quick. Her legs exploded one by one. Her screams were loud and shrill, followed by heart breaking sobbing. She wasn’t able to do anything but lie off the path and cry. The unicorn walked over to Harpoon. “Can I please leave now?”
Harpoon shook his head. “The offer wasn’t available to you. You’re welcome to go if you want to be blown to bits.”
The unicorn’s brows furrowed. “But that isn’t fair.”
“No, it’s perfectly fair. You weren’t given the offer. It’s very simple. It wasn’t your task to do. If you want to try your luck you can make a fight of it. If you win you, the rest of the ponies and your dear Princess can leave.”
The unicorn walked away from Harpoon, disappointed, and stood among the other ponies. The mare’s cries could still be heard. Most of the ponies’ faces had gone pale, they were feeling sicker as the smell of her blood permeated the air and as her cries became more desperate. Harpoon looked at the unicorn. “How does it feel to be a monster?”
The unicorn averted his eyes from Harpoon’s, it was clear he felt sorry for the still quietly crying mare. She didn’t have long left before she would bleed to death. “Now, one more time I’ll ask, is anypony willing to fight for their survival and for the Princess?”
Everypony in the crowd shifted uncomfortably, looked around, or hung their heads in attempt to avoid Harpoon’s gaze. It sounded like Harpoon might go into a fit of laughter. “No? No pony?”
Harpoon marched over to Luna and sunk down to be level with her face. “Are you more disappointed that the game isn’t over or that none of your citizens are willing to fight for you? They’ve given up! How sad is that? You can’t even motivate those that look up to you to-“
Luna took the opportunity to, yet again, use Harpoon’s mouth against him and, using one of her good forelegs punched him as hard as she could in the jaw. The punch was hard enough to cause a loud “pop” sound, send a tooth flying, and disorient Harpoon for a second. It looked like his jaw was dislocated again and it took him a short moment to reset it. It was sickening to think he had such a high pain tolerance that he could reset his jaw twice in one day.
“What a shame your mouth couldn’t stay broken!” All Luna could do now was talk. The worsening nausea and pain in her hind legs kept her down.
Harpoon began dragging his hoof in a circle around Luna. He drew symbols inside and around it that were familiar to her; but there were some she didn’t recognize. All she knew for sure was that she was in deep trouble. Her magic was going to be gone and the crowd would be dead if she didn’t think of something quick.
Suddenly Cavalier and the earth pony mare that everypony thought had been killed off the path appeared next to Harpoon. Luna was enraged. “What is the meaning of this?! What sick trick is this?!”
Harpoon shook his head. “No trick, Princess. The only trick was what you saw earlier. I told you anypony that went off the path forfeited their life. I never said they were going to die that instant.”
Cavalier’s face was that of pure shock. “P-princess I tried so hard to warn you; but you couldn’t hear me and-“
He was cut off when Harpoon violently ripping out his larynx with his teeth. Luna and the crowd gave a collective gasp as he spit Cavalier’s bloody larynx out at Luna’s hooves. Cavalier’s wings began to spasm as he fought the blood pooling in his throat to get a breath. All that sounded were several wet gargles. Finally he fell to his knees and then his side as blood flowed out of the gaping hole in his neck.
Luna ground her teeth as she watched her guard’s legs twitch before he completely stopped moving. Luna shouted at Harpoon. “Why?! Why was that necessary?!”
“Well I needed blood for the circle, didn’t I? If you wouldn’t have knocked him so carelessly of the path I wouldn’t have used him, so thank you Princess.”
The mare that stood next to him was shaking. She didn’t want to move away from Harpoon for fear of being killed; but she was also terrified at what Harpoon might do to her if she remained standing there.
Ruby’s husband watched the dismal situation progress in front of him. He looked at his wife who was now lying sadly on the ground and moved close to her. He nuzzled her cheek. “You know I’ll do all I can to protect you, right?”
Ruby seemed unaffected by his sudden affection. “But you didn’t protect me.”
His ears went flat. “I know, I did what I thought was best in the moment. I’m so very sorry, Ruby.”
She looked up at him bleakly. “I think it’s a little late for-“
He kicked her hard in the abdomen over and over until bruises sprouted and she began to bleed heavily from her most intimate area. His lip began to quiver a little as Ruby curled up and screamed from pain. “I’m sorry about that, so sorry.”
Time slowed to a crawl as Harpoon took his gaze off of Luna and looked at the crowd. He sent some fireflies over to Ruby, but it seemed like they were traveling at a snail’s pace. He tried to hurry to the bleeding mare; but his hooves couldn’t carry him fast enough. He watched the faces of the ponies around her. They were shocked that Ruby’s own husband would kill his flesh and blood.
Luna wasn’t sure why Harpoon was distracted or why the crowd was grouped around in a circle; but she took the chance and used the strength in her front legs and wings she had left to propel herself like a javelin at Harpoon, horn first. A Cheshire grin spread across her face as she neared Harpoon’s back. Her horn sank into his flesh and cracked a couple of his ribs before it finally moved through his heart, cracked more ribs on the way out of his chest, and broke through his skin like a dolphin breaching the surface of the ocean. He looked like a chunk of skewered meat prepared for grilling. A massive amount of fireflies faded, including the ones that were going to heal Ruby. Unfortunately, the foal was already gone.
Luna smirked. “Well, Monster, it looks like we’ve won.”
“Yes, it looks like you have. Now, if you wouldn’t mind, could you kindly remove your horn from my body?”
Luna was surprised that Harpoon was still alive, there was no pony or any other species she knew of that could survive a blow to the heart. She propped herself up on her front hooves and slammed Harpoon down onto the ground, wiping him off of her horn like he was a bug squished underneath her hoof. She tried to use her horn like a rapier and ram Harpoon through again. “Why won’t you die, Monster?!”
Harpoon was still able to dodge her attack, despite being stabbed through the heart. “You see, Princess, piercing my heart won’t kill me. Obviously.”
Even though his firefly supply was dwindled, one or two settled into each of Luna’s guards and Luna herself. She looked at him, puzzled. “You gave me quite the entertaining game, Princess. It wouldn’t be fair for me to make you crawl back to Canterlot with your two good legs, would it? I don’t partake in poor sportsmanship.”
Luna nodded. “It might be best for you to clear out of here before we can stand and ram you through the heart again.”
Harpoon walked over to the mare, it was as if Harpoon had glued her to where she stood. Harpoon was looking over her as if she was a snack waiting to be devoured. “Of course I’ll go; but I can’t leave this mare behind.”
The mare’s eyes went wide as she stared at the Princess, pleading for her to do something. Luna looked from the mare to Harpoon. “We won, she belongs with us.”
Harpoon shook his head and grinned. “No, Princess. I said at the beginning of our game that any pony that travels off the path would forfeit their lives, so her life has been forfeited to me. Of course if you’d like to play another game, we could arrange something.”
Luna rose shakily to her hooves; she didn’t think she would survive another game. Not only was she still in pain but her nausea was growing more intense, it would’ve crippled any normal pony. “No more games Monster, give me my citizen!”
“No, Princess. Technically she is mine to do with what I please, and if you do not wish to play you will be leaving without her.”
Writer and artist: Alte Seele
Hunter’s Moon: Part 6
Soon her rock supply was dwindled down to the small rocks, so she started hurling them like bullets at Harpoon. Quite a few of them hit, but most of them whizzed past him and traveled into the crowd. Luna thought nothing of it until she heard a cry from an elderly pony that caused her to pause.
Luna pulled her magic back a bit and dropped the rocks after locking eyes with some of the ponies in the crowd and observing their terrified expressions. She feared that she might hit one of them hard enough to send them careening off of the path. She wasn’t going to make that mistake again. Harpoon brought her mind back to the present when he bucked her injured leg. “What? Daydreaming about a coltfriend maybe? You seem quite distracted.”
Luna hissed from the pain. He was going to win if she didn’t keep her mind in the present. Luna picked up a hefty branch and whipped it at Harpoon, but he dodged it. In a panic she reached for it again with her magic and stopped it just short of knocking some ponies in the crowd back. She breathed a sigh of relief. That would have been messy.
Harpoon bucked her hard enough in the side to knock her off balance. “Goodness, Princess, you’d think I was fighting an incompetent filly by the way you’re tossing your magic around. Maybe if you’d actually put your full effort into a blast or a… toss, you’d get somewhere in this fight. Why have such concern for these common citizens when you could win and save mo-“
Luna had regained her grip on the branch while Harpoon was busy running his mouth and used it as an incredibly large bat to send him flying several yards away. Harpoon’s face made a satisfying crunch sound when the branch connected with his nose, leaving blood and flesh behind. Luna dropped the branch and smiled, it felt good to get a solid hit on him.
Ruby couldn’t contain the intense rate of her heart at the sight of Harpoon flying through the air. For a second, just a second, there was hope. Soon questions were buzzing among the other ponies in the crowd. Was this going to be it? Was this going to slow Harpoon down enough for Luna to win? Was this just false hope?
He looked like a real nightmare when he came back into view. Flesh was torn from his face, exposing his menacing fangs at their full length, from gum to tip. His jaw was hanging slack, like it was about to fly off as he walked. His shoulder was dislocated, the joint protruded as he let it dangle. Before he started fighting again he reset his jaw and shoulder. The awful sound of joints popping back into place made everypony cringe, including Luna. Harpoon was on Luna every second after that. There were hooves flying in every direction, Luna taking most of the damage. Harpoon was angry. “Don’t you know it’s rude to interrupt?!”
The crowd looked on the fight with more and more horror. Luna was losing. It seemed hitting Harpoon only benefited him. Luna would get a hit in here and there; but it was Harpoon doing the real damage and exploiting Luna’s injured leg. He was constantly trying to sweep it, and finally he succeeded, causing the Princess to fall hard on her side.
Harpoon’s expression was devoid of any mercy; his face was anger and sharp teeth. “Have a bit of a spill, Princess? Sad you can’t stay on your hooves.”
Luna saw that his foreleg wasn’t far from her. She took a healthy bite out of it. She tried to charge up her horn to push one of them away, whether it pushed her or Harpoon wasn’t her concern. She just wanted to get away. The only thing that came of it was nausea. Her magic wouldn’t gather at all. Harpoon kicked her hard in the nose. “What a nice attempt.”
While Luna was desperately trying to think of a way to get her magic working again, Harpoon took the opportunity to wrap his teeth carefully around the hock of her left hind leg, and with a sudden, violent jerk, he dislocated it.
Luna bit down hard on her bottom lip to stifle a scream, and vomit. She didn’t know what was worse, the terrible pain in her hind legs or the horrible nausea. She was feeling dizzy and weak. She couldn’t put any pressure on her back legs without intense pain. She fell back onto her rear every time she tried to get up.
“Oh my, isn’t that just pitiful? Maybe one of your guards can assist you up? Oh wait! They’re out of commission, much like you are.” Harpoon laughed.
Luna mumbled a string of obscenities not befitting a Princess under her breath.
Harpoon got nose to nose with her. There was still mangled flesh where his mouth should’ve ended, making his smiles twice as menacing and incredibly grotesque. Luna could smell his blood, it was repulsive to her. “Care to repeat that, Princess?”
Luna took the chance and spat Harpoon’s blood into his face. Knowing that Luna wasn’t going anywhere, Harpoon sauntered over to the crowd. He picked out Ruby’s husband, a muscular looking earth pony, and took him to the ground easily. Ruby let out a little whimper as she saw her husband in such close proximity to Harpoon. Standing on the pony’s ribs Harpoon used his mane like a napkin. He didn’t dare move for fear that Harpoon would do something horrible to himself or Ruby. Harpoon looked back at Princess Luna. “That was rude, you know. Spitting in the face of a generous host is quite unbecoming for a Princess.”
When Harpoon finally hopped off of the pony, Ruby hugged him close to her with her wing, tears brimming in her eyes. She didn’t like being so scared that she was useless to her husband.
Harpoon paced, head held high and confident, back and forth in front of the crowd. “Before I end this most entertaining game, anypony want to stand up for their Princess and their survival? Anypony want to go hoof to hoof with me? How about you?”
Harpoon was addressing Ruby’s husband, who Ruby pulled closer to her. She was terrified. Ruby’s husband shook his head. “No, Sir, I will not fight you. No pony here will fight you. I know these types of ponies; they’re all too good-natured to put themselves and their loved ones in danger by fighting you. They are nobler than you are.”
Harpoon moved closer to him. “Oh? So you wish to survive to take care of this thing?” Harpoon motioned to Ruby’s pregnant belly.
Ruby’s husband moved in front of her a little. “I will not fight you.”
Harpoon smiled and pulled Ruby away. “Oh, so if I removed the problem would you reconsider?”
Ruby’s eyes were wide, frightened. She was shaking hard and felt sick. “W-wha-“
Harpoon had her on the ground in a second. She squirmed a little, not wanting harm to come to her unborn foal. Harpoon stomped on her stomach and ribs, his eyes never leaving Ruby’s husband’s. Her husband’s ears bent back as he looked away in anger. If he did anything Harpoon might kill Ruby, of course he wasn’t thinking of the rules, but that they could always have another baby.
Luna watched in shock. “Do you want to lose so badly, Monster?”
Harpoon stopped and looked back at Luna. “Excuse me, Princess?”
She smirked. “Did you forget the rules already? You aren’t allowed to kill, not even the unborn.”
Harpoon let out a “humph” as fireflies settled over Ruby, fixing a few of her broken ribs and healing the foal inside of her. The wing he broke during his stomping was left, it was unnecessary to fix.
Luna cursed herself under her breath. That foal dying would have been a way out; but it made her more nauseous than she already was to think of an innocent life being snuffed out before it had the chance to see the world. She was wrong for thinking that would be a good way to end the game. That child didn’t deserve to be lost and its mother shouldn’t have to go through more trauma than she already had.
Harpoon moved away from her and moved on to a skittish looking stallion that practically cowered in front of him. Harpoon smiled at him. “You, how about I offer you something worthwhile?”
The stallion barely made eye contact. “L-like what, Sir?”
“A way out of this game, free from harm. Do you have any family with you?”
The stallion looked sheepishly to his right. “My mother and my marefriend.”
“And you want them to survive this, don’t you?”
The stallion nodded, a few tears came to his eyes. “I do, Sir.”
Harpoon gave him a predatory grin. “You see that pregnant pegasus on the ground over there? Would you violate her to save your family?”
The stallion shook his head. “I can’t do that to her, i-it isn’t right.”
“But you wouldn’t do it to save your family? To keep me from slaughtering them and yourself along with them?”
His ears were flat. “W-well…”
Harpoon gave a devious smile. “I thought so. Do this and those of your family that help you will live and they’ll get to leave with you.”
The stallion looked around confused. Was this a serious offer? Was he really going to be able to save his family? Was he really going to hurt this poor mare in order to survive? He was. He motioned for his mother and marefriend to follow him. His mother refused. “I don’t care if I don’t get to leave. This is wrong, you know it’s wrong.”
The stallion pleaded with his mother. “You know it’s the only guaranteed way out! What else am I supposed to do?”
“Stand here with me because it’s the right thing to do!”
“I’m sorry, Mom; but I want to live.” His marefriend held down Ruby’s forelegs. The stallion’s marefriend looked away as he attempted to mount Ruby, it seemed he was having some erectile difficulty. It took the stallion a little while to get his dysfunction under control, all the while Ruby was trying to pull her foreleg’s from his marefriend’s grasp. She practically had to sit on Ruby to keep her in place. The stallion apologized profusely before he properly mounted her.
Harpoon stood in front of Ruby’s husband, staring him dead in the eyes as Ruby pleaded and cried for the stallion to stop. Ruby’s husband shifted uncomfortably in front of Harpoon and ground his teeth hard as her cries got louder. Harpoon smirked. “Still believe these are good, noble ponies?”
Ruby’s husband said nothing and just stared at Harpoon, grinding his teeth harder and harder. He was getting angrier and angrier until he felt like he couldn’t contain it anymore. In a fatal lapse of judgment Ruby’s husband sucker punched Harpoon in the jaw, it left a little cut from his hoof and a light bruise that would grow darker as time went on.
Harpoon had him on the ground, held down by his neck. “That was brave of you. Foolish, seeing as how I’ve disabled your Princess and her guards; but brave. You there! Get off of this stallion’s wife. You and your marefriend are free to leave.”
The stallion looked relieved as he pulled out of Ruby and apologized to her again. He was deeply ashamed for what he had done.
Before the stallion and his marefriend walked away, Harpoon called to him. “I hope you can sleep at night knowing the horrific act you committed today.”
The stallion and his marefriend walked down the path toward Canterlot, his head hung so low his marefriend was afraid he might step on it. “You did what you had to do.” Was all his marefriend said before they disappeared out of sight.
Ruby’s husband scrambled past Harpoon to help her up. She stood a little ways away from him once she got to her hooves. Her eyes were tired, sad, and distant. How could her husband just allow her to be beaten and violated like that, and with their precious foal at stake?
The stallion’s mother stood close to Ruby. “I’m so sorry Dear, for all you’ve gone through today.”
Ruby nodded, her voice was cold. “Thank you.”
“I know it’s difficult, and terrible; but once it’s over you’ll have your beautiful foal and you’ll be able to move on from all this.”
Ruby nodded, she didn’t look anywhere but the ground. “I hope a day like this can be tucked away somewhere and never found again.”
Harpoon cocked his head a little at their exchange. He looked at Ruby’s husband, who instantly tensed up. “Would you like to take your wife out of this place?”
Writer and artist: Alte Seele
Hunter’s Moon: Part 5
Luna watched sadly as Armor Edge ran around in circles, tripping over his hooves just to get up and run in more circles. “Snap out of it Armor Edge! Snap out of it! He is tricking you!”
Armor Edge kept running, though he seemed to get more confused, as if he was a drunkard. “Princess? Princess?! I can’t see you! All I can see is-“
He tripped over his hooves and landed face first on the ground. All that could be seen of movement was his breathing. He was out cold and the only guard left between Luna and Harpoon. There were no more distractions for Harpoon.
Luna was already preparing herself, hooves planted firm, horn glowing. Harpoon shook his head and walked casually toward Luna. “Do we not learn from our mistakes, Princess?”
Luna smiled; it was the sort of smile Harpoon would expect to see in a mirror. It left him intrigued. What could make her smile like that? It was as if she knew something the rest of the world didn’t and was prepared to burn it all down.
Harpoon scoffed. “Somepony seems quite pleased with herself.” Harpoon scanned over the path quickly to see if any of the guards were close to death. The only guard that looked like he wasn’t breathing was Captain Phalanx. Harpoon jogged casually over to him and prodded his rib cage. “There is no point in playing opossum Captain, I know you’re still alive.”
Captain Phalanx’s eyes popped open suddenly. He had moved his sword closer when Harpoon was busy watching Armor Edge. Captain Phalanx took his sword and rammed Harpoon through the chest as hard as he could. “No one’s playing anymore Monster.”
Harpoon laughed and pushed Captain Phalanx’s head to the ground hard enough to draw a little blood and send him dancing on the edge of consciousness. “Apparently you forgot where the heart is located Captain!”
The pregnant mare’s husband stood suddenly and stomped a hoof. “Dammit! I thought this might finally be finished!”
The pregnant mare winced and looked up at her husband, startled at his sudden outburst. “D-darling?”
He glared down at his wife. “This is torture Ruby! I just want us to be in Canterlot, safe where we can rest and get treatment!”
Ruby’s eyes filled with tears. She looked away from her husband and down at her crossed hooves. This game was stressful on her, and she was terrified. She just wanted to be in a warm bed, asleep, and dreaming of pleasant things. She sniffled a little as she attempted to hold back tears; but a few trailed down her cheeks against her will. When would this nightmare be over? When would she know whether she would live or die?
Luna let out a disappointed sigh. She had seen Captain Phalanx pull his sword closer to him during Armor Edge’s… display. She couldn’t contain her smile from Harpoon when she knew what would happen, though if she would’ve known the Captain would miss she would have just handled Harpoon herself. She reached her magic out to gather up all the guard’s swords as Harpoon pulled the Captain’s sword from the right side of his chest. She was surprised when her magic wouldn’t gather around the Captain’s sword. Luna looked at Harpoon with a puzzled expression.
Harpoon tossed the sword down and shrugged. “It was a good effort, I’ll give him that. Too bad he has trouble with anatomy, huh Princess? All this fun could have been ended.”
Luna ground her teeth together. Fun? This was hell. All but the Captain’s sword floated around Luna, the calming blue hue of her magic was reflected in the metal of the swords. She wanted to keep her mouth and hooves free for any hoof to hoof combat that might be required of her.
Harpoon moved like lightning, it was hard for the crowd to keep up with where he was. It was even difficult for Luna to keep her eyes on him. He would run at Luna, and when she would see a shadow fall on one of the blades she would dart a few paces away and slash in that direction with whatever sword she had seen the shadow on.
It took barely any time for Harpoon to switch up his strategy. He made shadow-like copies of himself that would run at Luna from different directions. She was unsure of where to run when there was a shadow reflected on nearly every blade. There was one blade that looked clear, so Luna took a few swift hops backward, right in front of the real Harpoon.
The hair on the back of Luna’s neck stood on end. Harpoon bit down hard on her hock, hard enough for the crowd to hear a loud crunch. They winced as Luna let out an aggravated cry of pain before slashing Harpoon deep in the cheek. The swords fell to the ground as Harpoon jumped away from Luna.
Luna grunted from the pain as she tried to put weight on her right hind leg. A sharp pain shot up and down her leg that radiated from her mangled joint. She would just have to endure the pain, if she didn’t she would die. Her ears twitched in different directions as she tried to pick up on any sound that might give away Harpoon’s position. Her heart was pounding hard and fast in her chest, her muscles tensed as the wind direction shifted at her left side. She sprang sideways away from whatever moved next to her. There was a slight pain. Harpoon had gotten some scrapes on her with his teeth. He gave her a huge smile, blood clinging to his teeth. “You’re going to need to be faster if you want to last, Princess.”
Luna growled and lunged toward him, teeth bared. Harpoon side stepped and avoided her. She whipped around and came barreling back at him. She seemed to pick up speed the angrier she became. Her wings flared in frustration, which gave her an idea. She used the powerful down stroke of her wings to give herself additional speed when running at Harpoon.
Using her wings gave her the speed she needed to nearly match Harpoon’s. She was fast enough to get a few hard bucks in, each taking a toll on her right hind leg. She gave a buck to Harpoon’s foreleg, his side, and his left hind leg. She was able to dart away swiftly each time; but the pain slowed her down a little, and speed was important. He was in her face again by the time she took a breath. He mimicked her bucks; a hard buck to her chest followed by one to the ribs knocked the wind out of her.
She faltered on her hooves and skidded a ways, causing her to fall gracelessly. Harpoon was by her side with a shark-toothed grin plastered on his face. “Need a hoof, Princess?”
“I need no such help from you Monster!”
She got to her hooves. Her expression resembled something like an angered rabid dog, probably because she embarrassed herself by falling in front of the enemy. She reared up her magic, forgetting what had transpired earlier, and sent a blast to knock Harpoon away. The result was the opposite; the recoil caused her to slide away from him.
Luna used her magic to pick up a couple of good sized rocks. They were smaller than boulders but had plenty of weight to them. They hovered over her face like a boxer would hold their gloves. She was determined. She sent the rocks after Harpoon in a way that resembled punches. She got a few hits in, some were strong enough to blacken Harpoon’s eye. As soon as Harpoon would crush a rock she’d have two in its place, she kept a ring of rocks around her so she wouldn’t run out too quickly. It looked like the fight was swaying in her favor for now.
Writer and artist: Alte Seele
Hunter’s Moon: Part 4
Harpoon was advancing toward Luna. It looked like a funeral procession of one the way hope was sucked out of the atmosphere,until Captain Phalanx stepped in. Running at top speed, the Captain wrapped his hooves around Harpoon and tackled him into the ground. “You will not win! Not while I’m alive!”
“And what could you possibly do, Captain, you don’t seem to do much but stand and watch. Can you even fight at all?” Harpoon laughed in the Captain’s face and used his back hooves to send him flying. A deep dent in the Captain’s breastplate would leave a nasty bruise on his chest.
The Captain took his sword between his teeth. He looked at his guards; they were clearly bothered by Cavalier’s death and seemed to have no will to keep fighting. The Captain would have to tear into them later. He charged at Harpoon, who was impressively still for a pony that was about to be hacked to pieces. The Captain struck Harpoon hard in the neck, but a loud clank sounded. When he backed away there was a boulder in Harpoon’s place. “Where are you, you tricky bastard?!”
Luna heard a low chuckle near the group of shell shocked guards. She watched the guards and the ground; it gave where a pony was walking. The hoof prints were near Broad Sword, who seemed to be the most afflicted with shock. “Captain! The guards!”
Captain Phalanx watched the ground give around Broad Sword, it could easily be another trick but there was no time for second guesses. The Captain charged at the hoof prints, just before he struck he felt wind whip past him and stopped in his tracks, inches in front of Broad Sword.
A voice came from thin air. “Very clever, Princess. It seems that you do know how to play an interesting game after all. But how long can your little pawns keep it up?”
Captain Phalanx dropped his sword. The guards seemed less shaken now that Harpoon had left them. “Listen! I need you to focus on the task before us, I cannot defeat this… thing alone and your Princess needs protecting. So stallion up, grab your blades, and let’s finish this! Any more runners will not be tolerated. If you run you might as well head off the path because I will do much worse to you when we’re out of this damned swamp!”
The guards all nodded and grabbed their blades. The Captain was surprised that Armor Edge and Broad Sword were able to muster up the strength to stand. “We are with you Captain.”
“Oh, look who finally decided to grow a pair.” Harpoon chuckled and appeared between Luna and the guards.
Now that Cavalier was dead there were only nine guards, including Captain Phalanx, and Armor Edge and Broad Sword were injured. Captain Phalanx headed the attack with Armor Edge flanking his right and Broad Sword flanking his left, far behind but it was amazing that he was making the effort in the first place. Along with Armor Edge and Broad Sword there were three additional guards on each of the Captain’s flanks. Captain Phalanx and Armor Edge, with the other six guards slashed at Harpoon over and over, getting a slice the equivalent of a paper cut here and there. It looked like a dance the way Harpoon was dodging the attacks and the guards kept coming, after a while it became rhythmic. Then Broad Sword stepped in.
Broad Sword threw his sword to the ground and tackled Harpoon onto his back and had his legs pinned as well as he could, Harpoon was surprised, Armor edge with the six guards circled around to create a barrier, should Harpoon somehow escape Broad Sword’s grip and try to run. Captain Phalanx held his sword firm over Harpoon’s throat. He began to sink his blade into Harpoon’s flesh and was surprised at how tough his larynx was. The Captain’s wicked grin as he pushed harder on the blade said that he was enjoying Harpoon’s situation far too much. “How about we shut you up for good, huh Monster?”
Captain Phalanx had just severed Harpoon’s vocal cords when he broke Broad Sword’s hold on his forelegs and grabbed the blade with his hooves. Harpoon was somehow able to talk without moving his mouth, and despite the blood flowing slowly out of his throat. “Takes a monster to kill a monster, eh Captain?”
Captain Phalanx growled and tried to push the blade down again, with no luck. “Get out of my head you nasty fucker.”
Harpoon smirked and tossed the blade aside like a used toothpick. He slipped his hind legs under Broad Sword’s stomach and bucked him down the path. Harpoon was up on his hooves in seconds and had the Captain flying through the air with a hard buck to the chest, turning that bruise to a cracked sternum. It was painful to watch the Captain fly backward through the air, legs flared out. The whole scene was like a graceless slow motion decent into hell. The guards and crowd watched in horror as the Captain landed off the path. Everypony took in a breath and waited for the bloodbath. They quietly mourned the Captain before anything happened to him. It would be a shame to lose such a hard fighter and dedicated guard.
Resigned to his fate, the Captain took a slow, pained, deep breath and closed his eyes. He silently apologized for letting Luna down and hoped that his guards would be able to finish the monster that pushed him to die. The only blessing with this death, the Captain thought, is that it would be quick. Harpoon was visibly disappointed, but disappointment turned to a devious smirk as he took the opportunity to try and play with the crowd. “Come now Captain! You know that you won’t die off the path like your guard!”
Sure enough the Captain didn’t explode or get shredded to bits, the crowd started to mumble inquisitively amongst themselves. The pregnant mare looked at her husband in bewilderment. “He isn’t dead? How could he survive off the path?”
Her husband didn’t take his eyes off of Captain Phalanx, he was confused and angry. What did that monster mean “you know that you won’t die off the path?” Was Captain Phalanx in cahoots with him? “I’m not sure Sweetheart, but there has to be a reason he didn’t die like the others.”
Harpoon decked the stunned guards that blocked his path hard enough in the head to incapacitate them for a moment and stood before the crowd of injured ponies. He began pacing back and forth in front of them. “You see, the population has become high, too high in fact, so your Princess came to me for help. Why do you think only one of her guards has died? He was the only one that wouldn’t comply with me killing you all!”
There was an air of doubt settling over the crowd. The pregnant mare’s lip began to quiver. “Would she really do this to us? Even if the population was high, would she really do this? Give us to this… thing?”
Her husband’s expression was unreadable. He settled down next to her on the path. “I hope not. They have been fighting hard. It’s difficult to believe it was the Princess’ intention to give us to him if she and her guards are fighting so hard to win.”
His wife nodded. She failed to control the watering of her eyes and watched her tears fall to the ground. “I hope that you’re right. Your faith seems much stronger than mine at the moment.”
Her husband listened to the doubts of the crowd. “I always knew she was evil. She doesn’t love us like Celestia does, she never has. I bet she’s enjoying this just as much as that monster is!” He sighed. “It seems that your faith isn’t the only one that’s wavering.”
Harpoon decided to play on the wishy-washy energy buzzing from the crowd. “So come on Captain, tell these ponies about how you-“
A sharp rock hit Harpoon hard in the temple and drew a small trickle of blood. The little unicorn whose left hind leg was no more than a bandaged stump shouted at Harpoon. “Shut up! Our Princess and her royal guards are doing the best they can! They care for us and would never betray us like that! You’re just trying to get us to run; but we won’t! Even if they lose I’m not running!”
One of the older ponies nudged the kid. “Maybe you should join the guard when you’re old enough, eh?”
Harpoon smiled, his vocal cords were mostly healed, but his voice rang out hoarse and raspy. “I’m sure they’d take him, why not take a cripple as well as incompetence?”
The Captain had gotten onto the path and up close to Harpoon. Without looking at the Captain, Harpoon stomped onto his foreleg with enough force to shatter it. The Captain let out an incredible cry of pain. Harpoon laughed. “What, Captain? That hurt?” Harpoon took the Captain’s throat between his teeth and threw him like a frisbee far down the path, the bite left deep gashes in the Captain’s throat and made it hard for him to breathe or swallow.
Broad Sword was incapacitated, he had slammed into a tree when he finally landed, and there was no way to guess when he’d be conscious again. The Captain was seriously hurt; it’d be a good few minutes before he would be able to get back into the fray. Armor Edge and the rest of the guards closed in around Harpoon and tried to hack away at him, with little positive result.
Harpoon, on the other hoof, was a well oiled attack machine, tearing flesh here, breaking bones there, throwing guards to the ground and stomping on them. He reveled in the sensation of skin and muscle pulling away from the body, the spray of blood from a fresh wound, and he loved the sound of bones crunching under his hooves. What he loved the most, though, were the agonized screams. He laughed as they fell one by one, until only Armor Edge stood, he was frightened but unyielding.
Armor Edge had a deep bite mark on his shoulder, a sprained knee, a bloodshot eye that would eventually turn into a black eye, and quite a few bruised ribs. His jaw was locked around his sword and his breath came out in hard huffs, this fight was taking a toll on him; but there was no way he was giving in, unless his legs failed him. He lunged at Harpoon, sword pointed at Harpoon’s throat, and missed. He jerked his head to the side as quickly as he could to get a slash at Harpoon, another miss. Armor Edge growled against his blade, he was exhausted and his neck was now in pain from the sudden jerk, he knew his chances of beating Harpoon were slim to none. Luna looked on Armor Edge with forlorn eyes. She would intervene if she weren’t afraid of knocking Armor Edge to his demise.
“Tired little guard? Don’t worry. You’ll be nodding off into eternal sleep after I take your Princess’ magic; it shouldn’t be long now by the way you’re going.” Harpoon smirked.
Armor Edge said nothing, but was glaring hard at Harpoon. This monster had to die. Even though it was obvious that Harpoon was much smaller than Armor Edge, Armor Edge felt like an ant in Harpoon’s presence. Nothing Armor Edge did touched Harpoon, all the effort, all the energy felt wasted. There were barely any scratches on him, while Armor Edge looked like a worn out punching bag. Still. Even if things looked dismal, and they did, Armor Edge had to keep going.
“Cat got your tongue? You do know how to speak don’t you?”
Armor Edge growled and flared his wings. He was irritated. He threw his sword down onto the ground. “Alright monster, hoof to hoof.”
Harpoon raised an eyebrow. “Oh? You think you can keep up?”
Armor Edge spit a bit of blood onto the ground, he didn’t realize he had been putting so much tension on his teeth. “I know I can.” An obvious lie.
Armor Edges’ surroundings went black. Soon blue orbs glowed around him, popping up in pairs. He was circling around himself, trying to figure out which pair was Harpoon’s eyes, trying to sort up from down, left from right, head from hind quarters, ground from sky. He wasn’t sure of anything anymore. Everything was black and blinding blue, it was disorienting.
Writer and artist: Alte Seele
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Hunter’s Moon
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Hunter’s Moon: Part 1
Hunter’s Moon: Part 2
Hunter’s Moon: Part 3
Hunter’s Moon: Part 4
Hunter’s Moon: Part 5
Hunter’s Moon: Part 6
Hunter’s Moon: Part 7
Hunter’s Moon: Part 8 (Final Part)
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Hunter’s Moon: Part 3
Oncethe area was clear of injured ponies, the guards gathered in point formation around Luna. A rather small looking pegasus began to panic, his thoughts were racing crazily to death. They weren’t going to survive this monster. He had to run! He had to get away! “We, we’re going to die aren’t we?! She even said it! She said we would die! I can’t stand here and die with all you idiots! I gotta get out of here!” He tore the bandage off of his injured wing and took off shakily for the sky. The other injured ponies watched with hope as he climbed higher, until he got to the tree tops. A shrill shriek could be heard as his body, wings, and legs were all torn to bloody shreds that rained down onto the ponies below. Everypony screamed as their coats were dyed red. Luna and her guards looked disheartened and sick.
The pregnant mare’s stomach went sour. She would’ve thrown up if she could. “How horrifying!”
Her husband grimaced and rubbed her back. “Very.”
The pony’s head rolled to Harpoon. He shrugged and picked it up. “Well, he was warned.” Harpoon hurled the head like a baseball at one of the guards.
The head struck the guard in the snout and fell to his hooves. He locked eyes with its cold glassy and turned pale. He hurriedly rubbed at the blood on his nose and began to tremble, if Harpoon could tear a pony to bits in an instant the guard could only imagine what would happen to him. The horrors that came to his mind must have been overwhelming because his shaking legs carried him down the path in a few seconds.
Harpoon shook his head. “I can’t believe you’d pick a pony with such nonexistent resolve to guard your life, Princess.”
Luna sighed. “I can’t expect them all to stay in the face of such a nightmare.”
Harpoon chuckled. “Weren’t you once a nightmare yourself? Honestly, how could they stand by you knowing what you’re capable of?”
“Enough!” Captain Phalanx stomped his hoof. “Our Princess is noble and fair, past be damned! She has grown out of the nightmare and into the dream she is today, not so much can be said for you!”
Harpoon clutched his chest as if he had been stabbed through the heart. “Oh! You’ve pierced my heart with your harsh words! Go now, you’ve clearly won!”
“Why you-“
Luna held a hoof up to silence the Captain. “Please, don’t play in to his mind games. We have a more serious game to win.”
The Captain nodded and begrudgingly settled back into place. “Yes, Princess.”
Captain Phalanx ordered the guards to draw their swords. They stood and waited for Harpoon’s attack. After a few minutes of unbroken staring Luna whispered to the closest guard. “Though a defensive strategy might be best, it seems that we will need to make the first move.”
Harpoon cocked his head to the side. “Well this isn’t a very interesting fight, is it?”
The guard swallowed hard and nodded at Luna. “Yes, Princess, it would seem that you are right.”
“I know that you are afraid, you are not alone in that; but if we do not play his game more innocents will die. We are so sorry that you must be involved in this, but your Princess cannot take care of this without help.”
The guard looked back at Luna. She nodded with tears in her eyes, and whispered “go.”
All but Captain Phalanx charged toward Harpoon. He was the most qualified to guard Luna, and would be the last resort before she had to take matters into her own hooves. Luna’s heart was pounding harder and faster in her chest with every beat. Everything seemed to slow in front of her. Harpoon just stood, Luna was surprised when she suddenly lost sight of him.
The guards charged in full force, strength resonated in every inch of them, but there was no way that would be enough. Harpoon took the biggest guard first, Broad Sword, and bucked the hock of his hind right leg. The joint went sideways with a loud pop. Harpoon had kicked so hard that Broad Sword’s cannon bone broke skin. The sight of exposed bone and fresh blood made Luna sick. Broad Sword fell with a cry of pain and shock; but took his sword up again between his teeth as soon as he regained his wits. He pitifully steadied himself on his three good legs.
Harpoon turned his attention to two more guards, Cavalier and Armor Edge. Armor Edge had his sword poised perfectly to strike Harpoon through his chest and into his heart while Cavalier attempted to hold him still. Harpoon’s eyes flashed a bright blue before he wiggled out of position and was rammed through the stomach. “Oops,” Harpoon smiled, “looks like you missed.”
Armor Edge growled and swung at Harpoon, effectively missing and slashing Cavalier’s foreleg open causing him to lose his grip on Harpoon. Harpoon stood between the guards, free from hold. “Come on now, I’m right here. How hard could it be?”
Broad Sword and the rest of the guards joined Cavalier and Armor Edge and circled around Harpoon. Armor Edge grabbed Harpoon tightly, the rest of the guard stabbed Harpoon in a frenzy. Seeing the damage they had done to him, and considering his lack of movement, Cavalier thought it would be the perfect time to strike Harpoon in the heart. As he was moving his sword to strike, a low chuckle sounded from Harpoon, blood stained from head to hooves, and he was laughing. His eyes were glowing when they should have been glassy and dead, or at least crying for some mercy. Cavalier was fear-stricken, as were the other guards, how was Harpoon still so chipper?
Luna and the crowd looked on the incident with confusion. Captain Phalanx was trying hard to avoid watching the embarrassment before him. Luna looked at the guards, gathered in a circle, they had obviously attacked something, but it wasn’t Harpoon. Luna looked between the group of guards and Harpoon, who was standing not far from them, grinning from ear to ear, and eyes ablaze. “Guards! What in Equestria are you doing?!” Luna shouted.
The guards looked to Luna, then Harpoon standing a few yards off. “What sort of trick is this?!” Broad Sword’s voice was shrill, angry, and confused. They had been fighting so hard, and the first sign of victory turns out to be a trick. If it wasn’t Harpoon they were attacking, were they just stabbing air?
Armor Edge gave a gargled scream and cough. How did they not hear his cries when they were cutting and stabbing him? How could they do this to him? He fell to the wet ground in a crumpled heap. He was still alive, but his breathing was shallow and moving was rendered impossible. The last word to leave his lips, in a tone almost too faint to hear, before he passed out was “why?”
A pale earth pony with her hooves cracked started to fidget. The guards were cracking and the fight had barely started, she felt in her heart that they were done for. She didn’t want to die slowly and be tormented by this swamp creature’s games. No! She was going to take her life into her own hooves! “How can the guards keep us alive when they’re barely holding together themselves? I can’t stay here! Whatever happens off the path can’t be this bad!” She darted off the path and only ran a few feet when she burst into a pile of blood, bone, and skin. What was once a live pony had been reduced to nothing but a stain on the swamp soil.
The pregnant mare began to tremble. “H-how could he kill those ponies when he’s so far from them?! Are we next?!”
Her husband nuzzled her forehead in attempt to calm her down. “As long as we stay on the path, I think we’ll be fine.”
She nodded and cuddled up close to her husband, she secretly hoped this was just some nightmare, that soon she would open her eyes and wake up in a warm bed.
Harpoon clicked his tongue against his teeth in a disapproving manner. “Your citizens aren’t much for listening, are they?”
Harpoon walked over to Armor Edge, the guards were shocked by what they saw. Fireflies settled in to Armor Edge’s more fatal wounds and glowed to match the intense glow of Harpoon’s eyes. Discomfort took over Harpoon’s features for an instant. When the glow stopped, so did Armor Edge’s bleeding.
Luna watched in bewilderment. “Why, Sir, would you stop his bleeding?”
Harpoon gave a toothy grin. “I may be a nightmare, Princess; but I wouldn’t want to break the rules, would I?”
Luna’s hope was crushed. Harpoon didn’t heal her guard out of some hidden goodness. He only wanted to keep his little game going. Luna turned her head sharply when she heard a loud cry from a young unicorn, he was on the ground, his left hind leg missing from the patella down and what was left of the exposed joint was bleeding profusely. Apparently the poor thing had lost his balance and his hind leg slipped off the path, as a result it was blown to nothing. There were blood and bone fragments just off the path.
The pregnant mare cried out in horror. “A-a child! He took a child’s leg! He has no mercy if he’ll harm children!”
Her husband pulled her closer to him. There were no words he could think of to calm her down with because she was right.
Luna couldn’t stand to see her subjects and guards get beaten and killed right in front of her. She had to protect them, it was clear that they couldn’t do it themselves. She shoved Captain Phalanx away with her magic. He would only get in the way.
The Captain looked at her dumbfounded. “Princess?”
Luna pleaded with him. “I have to do something, Captain.”
Luna planted her rear hooves firmly in the mushy ground and reared up to charged her horn until it felt like it might explode. When she slammed her fore-hooves back down to meet the wet earth she let out the biggest, brightest, and hardest blast of magic straight at Harpoon.
Harpoon didn’t move or flinch. He just watched the bolt come toward him. The injured ponies, the guards, even Luna watched with pounding hearts and high hopes. The blast was a direct hit, and when the glare cleared, everypony was disappointed. Harpoon stood in the same spot, not phased in the least. He yawned. “Come now, I’m sure you can do better than that! Where’s that power I’ve heard so much about?”
Luna’s anger was rising. She let out a frustrated growl and several more blasts, none as powerful as the first, but each was more than enough to knock a normal pony off their hooves. They all had the same result, no effect. Harpoon started walking through the blasts toward Luna. “Is that really the best you can do?”
Luna let out a frustrated shriek and grabbed a boulder with her magic; she hurled it at Harpoon as hard as she could with a whip of her head. He moved just out of the boulder’s path, and instead of it hitting Harpoon, it hit Cavalier and sent him flying off the path. He couldn’t move much, all he could do was stare at Luna with sad laden eyes until he literally burst. His bloody helmet landed at Luna’s hooves.
The crowd let out a collective gasp. The pregnant mare looked to her husband, eyes wide as saucers. “H-how could she do that? Kill her guard like that?”
Her husband shook his head. “That wasn’t her intent. Look at her face. She’s just as shocked as you are. She looks like she’s fit to break down. This wasn’t on purpose.”
Harpoon smiled and looked over at Captain Phalanx. “My, my, my, Captain, are you sure she’s grown into a dream? Seems to me that only a nightmare would cause her own guard to be blown to pieces.”
Luna stared at the helmet, her face full of shock. “What have I done?”
Writer and artist: Alte Seele
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