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Every pony was on edge that night, they knew what was waiting for them once they left the safety of the trees. But even through all of this, they all managed to get some sleep, all that is except one.

Tom walked through the camp slowly and almost like a ghost. Any guard whom spotted him would bow and that would be the end of it. He walked through the thick trees of the forest, feeling a certain peace wash over him as the light of the moon shone through the branches and leaves. It took him a little while before he emerged and looked out over the horizon. There sitting on the side of the mountain, covered in fire light was Grypus, the gryphon's capital city. His eyes trailed down the mountain and there before him were hundreds of camp fires. "So, tomorrow it begins. Good, I hate long waits."

He watched closely as sentries walked the outside of their camp. All he wanted to do was go down there and slaughter the lot of them but were he to do so then the gryphons would know that they were there, if they did not know already. "Star?"

Tom drew his sword and spun around fast, the tip of his sword pointed right at a startled Twilight. "Twilight? Stars light you should not sneak up on me like that." He quickly sheaths his sword and turned back around looking down to the gryphon's camp. Twilight still a little startled from having a blade pointed at her slowly walked up beside him.

"There are so many of them, do you think we can win this?" She looked up to the human.

"We have to Twilight, there is no other way to save Celestia and free Equestria from this threat. If we fail here then not only Equestria will fall."

The lavender mare looked up to her human friend before looking back out over the land. "Star I have something to say. I want to say it now before I don't have this chance anymore."

Tom looked to his friend, he could tell that there was something that she had to get off her chest and whatever it was must have been there for sometime. "Speak Twilight."

"Well... I..." The unicorn mare took a deep breath before continuing again. "Ever since I had found you in the Everfree Forest, I was curious about how you came to be there. So I looked through the many books that I could get my hooves on on humans. But... after a while I really wasn't interested in your kind as a whole, I was more interested in you personally. I don't really know how to explain it but the more time I spent around you the more I felt myself being drawn to you... what I mean is... Oh... I'm no good at these things. What I mean to say is that... I... I... I love you."

"Twilight...."

"I know, I know I shouldn't be feeling these type of emotions. Even after we found out who you were and that you and the Princess used to be and still are and item. But I just couldn't stop myself, I still can't in fact. I don't care who you were, I care about who you are. I...I'm sorry I should just go back to my tent." She turned to leave before feeling a hand upon her shoulder which stopped her.

"Twilight please..." He knelt down and looked into her indigo eyes as she turned to face him. "Your feelings for me are your's and your's alone, no one can change them nor be mad at you for how you feel so you should not feel you need to apologize for it. You have been a great friend to me Twilight and that is something that can never be forgotten. I understand your feelings for me and I would be lying to myself if I said I didn't feel the same, but I love Celestia more. We may not ever be as close as Celestia and I but surely we can be as siblings."

Though it was not what she had expected, Twilight nodded her head before embracing her friend in a warm hug. Tom held the unicorn close to himself. It was true, he did care deeply for her. But no matter how much they cared for each other, his love for the sun princess was something that could not be explained. As they both let go, Tom looked over his shoulder to the encampment in the valley below. "Tomorrow there will be great sorrow, tomorrow the ground will be stained red with the blood of the fallen. I wish it were different but it can not be avoided."

The two friends walked back through the trees to their camp, bidding each other good night, Tom returned to Luna's tent and looked upon the sleeping princess. Blood or not, they were indeed brother and sister, both ponies of the moon and stars. He walked over and sat into the chair that was brought for him. He could not help but think about what lay beyond tomorrow. Were they to win then he would finally be reunited with the love of his life.

The soft breeze of summer wisped through the human's long flowing silver hair. His indigo eyes looking out across the land. The safety of the trees behind them, the Equestrian army stood ready to act. Two gryphons flying a white flag walked into the space between the two armies. Tom looked to Luna and Twilight. "Looks like they want to talk first." The two of them nodded and soon follow the human down the hillside and into the valley below. It did not take them long to reach where the two gryphons stood.

"Princess Luna, we have been sent by our lord's wishes to seek terms."

"And just what terms are these? Why couldn't your king come himself." The one gryphon glared at Tom as he spoke.

"We have no reason to talk to you scum. This is between the king and Princess Luna." Luna shook her head upon the gryphon's reply.

"Nay it t'is not just us that you have to talk with. This is Lunar Star, Celestia's betrothed and our champion. He has just as much right to speak as we do."

Looking upon the human once more, this time with more of a nervous look upon him. "King Greaves will pardon you and your champion for act against us if you leave this field of battle now. He will spare your sister if you pledge to submit to his rule and come whenever he calls."

Tom's anger rose as a silence dropped over the group. Before the princess of the night had time to react, Tom drew his sword and in a flash, swung it over the gryphon's neck, nearly severing his head. The other looked on in horror as blood spurts from the gapping wound and all over the human. The beast clutches his neck in an attempt to stop the blood but he falls to the ground and sufficates. Looking to the other gryphon that came with him, the human points to the one upon the ground. "That is Equestria's answer to your kings demands. Equestria will never submit to an outside ruler, not now not ever."

Twilight was shaking in fear of what had just happened. She had never seen her friend this enraged, none of them had. He just slit that gryphon's throat as if it were nothing to him. The other gryphon already gone and the human looked down to the dead beast. "That could have gone better."

Tom shook his head. "No it couldn't. Greaves will kill us all without a second thought. All he wants is control, nothing else. We stop this here or die trying." A fire burned in the young human's heart. After all the weeks of fighting, all the blood that he had endured. This would all end today and he wanted it to be so.

A roar echos across the valley, making everypony look out to the horizon. "Well it looks like Greaves got thy message. Seems time is short. If we are to act it must be now."

Tom nodded. and stood before their army with Luna and Twilight by his side. "My friends Today we fight an enemy bent on our surrender. But just moments ago we had sent him a message that we will never submit to those who oppress others. So now he sends the full weight of his army against us in hopes that we will flee back to our homes. Well I say to them, let them come for I would rather die fighting for those I care for then running like a coward. You all saw the devastation of Dappleshore. That is the fate that awaits us if we fail today. For it is we, not they that shall win this day. For freedom, For Equestria!"

The crowd roars to life and before the opposing forces could get any closer, The army of Equestria came rushing down the hill to meet them. A line of Unicorns stayed behind upon the hill with Twilight. "Horns up, magic ready!" All did as were instructed,each horn glowing with a magic orb upon its end. "Fire into their ranks and release!" Bolts of pure magic were fired from their horns, arching into the air before coming down upon the gryphon army like cannon balls.

The blobs of magic impact the ground around the gryphon forces, sending many of them into the air or slamming into others. It was not long till the two armies collided in a fury of crashing armor. Luna had remaind up on the hill to survey the field. It was choice not of her own but of Tom's. He did not want to risk losing her the way he did her sister and insisted that she remain behind to instruct their fire teams along with Twilight.

Rarity had remained behind also with Fluttershy to care for any of the wounded that the battle was sure to give. She was not partial to getting dirty but given the situation she had placed her own thoughts in the back of her mind.

Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash had been right alongside their human friend as the bulk of their forces ran smack into the wall of gryphons before them. However they soon lost sight of their friend and began to look for him amidst the carnage. "Ah don't see'em?"

"Me either."

"Oo ooh I see him. He's over there fighting a big gryphon." The pink pony had pointed out while bouncing on the heads of a few gryphons with a pogo stick.

Indeed he was. Tom had come face to face with one of the armies field generals.

"So your the human that has been giving my lord such a tough time."

The human was nicked up but it was one a small thing. His hand gripped his sword tight as he stared down the larger gryphon. "You lord has started a war that never should have taken place. This world was peaceful, a paradise to me. Your king will pay for his crimes with his life. I will see to that personally."

"Bold words spoken from one who's own sp..." The gryphon didn't even have time to react before the human was upon him. A fire burned in his eyes as well as his heart. With a swift swing of his sword he cut the gryphon's head clean off only to land behind him as the body fell to the ground. Blood gushed forth, coating the once green grass in a sicking red.

Looking up to the crags before him he saw standing there, Greaves. His blood began to boil at the meer sight of the one whom brought all this death upon them. But something made his heart stop. Greaves knew he was looking at him and just to spur the human on, he held up a white limp form. The features of his captive were unmistakeable. "Celestia. Celestia!!"

All at once something sparked within the humans body. His sword dropped from his hand and soon he was set upon by dozens of gryphons. "Sir Lunar!?" Shining Armor had fought his way to the human in order to watch his back but now he could not see him among the clawing and biting pile.

Light erupts from the cracks in the pile of bodies before they we all sent into the air with a blinding flash. A magic barrier surrounds the human as he slowly rose to his feet. His eyes glowed with an unworldly white. His long silvery hair flowed behind him as if caught in a gentle breeze. Upon his body he now wore a silvery looking armor, trimmed in gold and deep blue. On the chest plate and cape that it was attached too, bore the mark of a crescent moon and a single star. His gloved hand flexed and his sword immediately flew into it. Ponies and gryphons alike stood in awe at the amount of power that the human was giving off.

Elsewhere both Luna and Twilight had seen the flash from their vantage point. "Princess what is that and why do I feel a massive amount of magic?"

Luna's eyes were glued to the human's distant figure. "That Twilight Sparkle is sir Lunar's true power. Unlike thy sister and ourself, Lunar was never so reserved with his magic. Many a times Tia and I asked that he be so but t'was like speaking to a wall. He is a force not to be contained it would seem."

Tom slowly walked through the fighting all around him. One gryphon not really caring about whom it was that he was fighting swung his sword in a vertical motion. The human stepped to the side as the blade narrowly misses him. Tom then thrusts his sword forward into the gryphon's chest before vaulting him over his side and off his blade.

Two more gryphons come at the human, hoping that outnumbering him would work to their favor, but they had not idea the power that stood before them. Both attack with swords swinging at a fast pace. Tom dodged every swing with ease, though they were forcing him back with each swing the human was just waiting for an opening and he found it when one of the two brought his sword up to swing down. The human gripped the gryphon's talon stopping his swing before headbutting him, the gryphon recoiled but did not realize that his sword was take from him till it was thrust into his chest. The other drops his sword and takes to the air thinking he would have the advantage since the human couldn't fly.

He was wrong. Tom withdrew the sword from the dead gryphon's chest and threw it after the one whom took flight. The sword connects and the gryphon drops out of the sky, the sword sticking out of its back. The human then turns and continues his approach towards Greave upon the craggy outcrop.

Many other gryphons came to attack the human in hopes of stopping him from reaching their king. All fell before his blade until there was nothing but a trail of death in his wake. It did not take him long however before he was only several yards away from where the King stood.

"You can go no further human." A large gryphon swooped down and landed before him. "Lord Greaves wants me test your skills before your fight."

"Remove yourself from my path or I will remove you."

The gryphon chuckled and shook his head. "Sorry but I can't do that. However I will give you a deal. If you can land a single hit..." The last thing the gryphon saw was a fist connect with his beaked face. The beast recoiled and nearly fell over holding his face and groans in pain.

"Now will you remove yourself from my path?" Tom looked down to the gryphon with eyes of white.

The gryphon rose to his feet and shook off the daze. "So you think your some kind of smart pony eh? Well I think we can..." Again a fist connects with the gryphon's face sending him reeling. Tom just walked past the now bloody gryphon as if he wasn't there. He ascended the craggy bluff till he stood on the plateau that over looked the battlefield.

"So you're Lunar, we finally meet." The gryphon turns only to reveal the lifeless body of the sun princess behind him.

Tom looked to Celestia then to the gryphon who was toying with a ring on his talon. "The ring of Neria. Such a tiny thing, oh forgive me you were looking at her. Such power she had, such fire. I guess now though that they are distant memories aren't they?" Again looking back to the gryphon he raised his sword and pointed it to the gryphon. "Oh so you mean to slay me do you? Well I suppose you have the right to do so after all I AM the one responsible for all this. So come at me human."

The two titans stared each other down as the fighting continued below them. They stood like statues before Greave made a slight move of his back paw, Tom caught it and rushed forward towards him. A grin donned the king's face as Tom thrusts his sword forward ready to plunge it within his chest but the gryphon dodged it and came around to stand behind him only to kick him in the back, sending the human sliding across the ground.

Tom slowly rose to his feet and turned to face the gryphon king. "Oh perhaps I should have mentioned. With this ring, I have all of the princess's powers as well as her immortality So any advantage you thought you had over me, lets just say that it's not there anymore. Tom again charged towards the gryphon king only to have him narrowly miss. "Give it up human, you have lost. Your pathetic attempts to save Equestria have been for nothing. My army will end everything here and Equestria will be mine for the taking."

"No, even if I fall here as long as Luna lives, we will always resist you." Greaves began to laugh at the humans words.

"You truly think you can win this? Well then I guess it's time to stop fooling around now isn't it?" Holding out his claw, a sword appears within it. The human watched Greaves closely before the beast charged him, sword held behind him. Tom brought his sword up before him, blocking the strike that would have ended him. Tom grit his teeth at the sheer force the gryphon was using. "You have lost boy. Give it up and I may let you live."

"Never." Tom pushed forward, pushing the king back before throwing his fist into the gryphon's face. Greaves staggered back holding his face and groans.

"So you still have some fight in you do you? Very well let's see how you handle this?" Sheathing his sword into the ground he stood up on his hind legs and his talons began to glow in a pale yellow. The ground began to rumble and shake. Rocks roll off the mountainside from being jarred loose, connecting to any who were in there path. Once Greaves raised his claws, two massive boulders errupt from the ground and float on either side of him. Grinning evilly he throws the two boulders at the human.

Tom had to move fast before he was crushed. He sheathed his sword and launched himself into the air and floated there, his transparent wings lightly flapping. But he did not have time to breath before Greaves was upon him. Tom quickly drew his sword and blocked a particularly devastating strike which sent him flipping through the air. Once he righted himself Greaves was again before him, ready to swing again before the human reacted faster. He flipped over the gryphon's swing and landed upon his back and grabbed both his wings.

"You say you are immortal well let's just test that shall we?" By grabbing the gryphon's wings it stopped him from staying aloft and plummeted to the ground. Tom groans deeply as he pulled the gryphon's wings to which greaves roars in pain when his bones dislocate and break before hitting the ground with force enough to leave a shallow crater. Tom flipped off his back and stood on the rim of the crater before turning to the body of Celestia. He began to make his way towards her as Greaves groans and rose to his feet. "So you have some tricks. But I'm not done with you yet. Hey! are you listening to me?!"

Tom ignored the gryphon's call and continued to walk towards the body of his beloved. Greaves then then drew a dagger from his side as Luna landed just yards from them. She was not sure what was going on and came to help Tom out if he needed it. "You will listen to me when I am speaking to you HUMAN!" Greaves jumped from the crater and lunged for the human.

"LUNAR!"