My forces were gathering outside the city as I grabbed Frostmourne and my morgul blade before walking outside the gate to find both the captain of my royal with the force I ordered to gather. "How many do we have?" I asked the captain of my royal guard.
"Ten thousand you highness." He said I ordered for us to march to the griffin kingdom and as we were marching we marched near ponyville and the mayor came up to us and walked with us.
"What's going on?" She asked.
"There is something going on in the griffin kingdom." I said handing her the letter and she read through it and her eyes widened. "I need to head over there and help." I told her as she nodded and we continued to the griffin kingdom.
5 days later
We finally marched to the border that connects to the griffin empire and a battalion of griffin soldier were waiting for us.
"We have been expecting you. You need to follow us." One of the armored griffin said as we marched on towards the capital of the griffin kingdom but the Queen met us halfway. Phaenna was wearing battle armor that looked like it was made of steel and gold line the rims of her armor and she was with a group of griffins that looked like royal guard.
"I am happy you came." Phaenna said as she landed and she stretched a bit from her long flight. "We need to hurry to the sea the pirates and raider are pushing my forces back and they have taken a few small towns along the way." Phaenna said as we marched toward the small towns they captured.
"I think the best tactic is to divide and conquer if we only attack one at a time they will know we are coming and warn the others and the survivors will join the other captured town making it that much harder to retake them and we will have the element of surprise." I proposed when we were planning our attack.
"I agree." My captain said as Phaenna was deep in thought.
"Something wrong?" I asked and she looked at me with surprise.
"Were you talking to me?" She asked and I nodded. "Sorry I was distracted what were you saying?" Phenna asked and we repeated what we said and she agreed with the plan. So we divide our forces, there were only 4 towns so we would attack three at once. Then join up at the fourth then we would provide to advance towards the sea and drive them away.
One would attack the closest town and she took some of my guards with her and she gave some of hers to us so we would have aerial support and I gave her a crystal so we could talk not only that I outfitted my guards with crystal as well in their helmet so they could be better coordinated during battle.
I waited for a hour before a response came. "We're ready to begin the operation." They said as we began the assault. I had the griffins fire bows and crossbow from above while we advanced and when we would reach the town they would join us in the fight. When we executed the plan it went well the archers managed to keep the raiders from preparing a defense and keep them from moving around while we advance and they stopped firing as we neared the town and began to fly over as we engaged the enemy.
They were skilled I will admit that and because there was so little room around us we could not fight to our full extent but we still pushed them back as some guard left the battle and went around to cut off routes of escape for them as we began to get more breathing room and we fought better I was decapitating and cutting off limbs as I went forward as I saw a griffin was shot down and I rushed to there side and a few guards followed me.
I looked over the griffin soldier and saw the wounds they were deep but not life threatening and I noticed it was a female griffin but I did not pay attention to detail. "It's deep but you'll live." I said as a few guard stayed with her as I continued to fight off the raiders in the town.
I drew Frostmourne and swung the blade as raiders charge me only to be frozen solid as waves of ice and frost came from my sword and the battle was won but we did not have time to celebrate we had to keep moving and reach the fourth town.
I saw the griffin that was injured try to join us as we marched forward and I stopped her. "You should head back your injured." I said
"But I want to help fight." She said as she tried to follow her friends.
"You won't be any help to anyone if your dead and on the ground." I said as she admitted defeat and went back to camp and I walked to the fourth village to find it already being retaken and we joined in to find the caption of my royal guard was already here. "Sorry we did not make it time for the start of this." I said as he looked at me and I saw he had several dents and some of his armor broken in some places. "You ok?" I asked worried.
"Yes I just had a little trouble there was no one in the other town so we marched here to find them here to fight us, and we lost a few griffins during the fight, we almost have them routed though and we cut off their escape." He said as he cut down a raider that seemed to be a minotaur and a zebra took his place as he got a good hit on my captain but he got cut down as well after that.
After that we heard a horn in the distance and looked to the west to see Phaenna charging forward into the raiders and cutting them down.
Once the town was taken back we recorded casualties which came to be around one hundred and fifty griffin having died and three hundred of mine were badly damaged and couldn't fight on so they were told to go back to camp with any injured griffins.
When we marched to the coast when saw the boats and there were hundred and they were out of range of my archers "What should we do now do you have any boats?" I asked.
"Yes they should rendezvou with us shortly but we can't take all of your guards." Paenna said as I saw boats in the distance and they were coming towards us.
"Well there is something I can do but I should only use it as a last resort in case we are being beaten." I said as we and all the guards that could fit entered the boat and started sailing towards the pirates and raiders.
"While we have the chance we should plan what we should do." I said as we were sailing slowly towards our enemy.
"I don't think their is anything to plan the only thing we can do is stay together." Phaenna said as we got close to the target and as soon we made contact we charged on there boats and they were ready for us as more were pouring in as we fought.
We were being pushed back and I decided to do it as I poured a massive amount of energy into frostmourne and it began to glow brightly and I swund it toward the shore and it froze the ocean separating us and the shoar and I felt exhausted but I could still fight as the half of my upper body turned ghostly green and I lifted frostmourne in the air as a pillar of frost and ice shoot towards the sky and I yelled.
"Charge" and I could see all of the guards on the beach beginning to charge towards us as the pirates and raiders got their balance back after the ice foze the ocean and rocked the boat a bit, and we renewed the battle and when my archers were in range they started to shower the boats we weren't on with arrows cutting off their reinforcements and the battle took to the ice as many of the raiders tried to run but ran into my soldiers as they tried to flee.
"It looks like the tide is turning in our favor." Queen Phaenna said as some of her griffins took to the skies as they fired arrows on those who tried to escape.
"It seems so but we can't slow down now we have to finish this." I said as we pushed forward.
After forty five minutes later we had dealt with all the pirates and raiders and we walked towards the shore and stood in front of the ice and focused my magic into a giant ball of fire and melted the ice. I would have collapsed if one of my guards had not caught me and Phaenna came to my aid.
"Are you alright?" She asked worried for me.
"I'm alright this is what I was worried about, I am not used to using this much magic at once so it exhaust me. If I do this often with a little work I will be able to do this easily." I said as I sat down and my captain came over he was badly damaged and he was missing an arm and one of his legs were barely hanging together and I got up and put his arm around my neck and helped him down, "Don't worry we'll get you fixed up and on your feet." I said as he looked at me.
"Sir I feel strange I feel like fighting on but there is no fight." He said as his voice sounded distorted and metallic as he was shaking and I couldn't believe he was displaying the will to live and he is showing emotions.
"That my friend is the will to live." I said as he looked at me.
"Will." he said as he stopped shaking a little.
"Yes will I don't believe it but you're becoming independent as such you are expressing our own thoughts and feelings." I said as a few guards were carrying a stretcher.
"I am afraid." He said as they put him on the stretcher.
"That is why we must fight to face our fear." I said as I looked to the horizon. "Imagine how scared the people of Dainn's kingdom are and they can't fight back like us that is why we fight, we fight for them so they don't have to be afraid anymore." I said as he looked the same direction I was and went into deep thought and he nodded as he was carried away and i walked back over to Phaenna who was looking at the ocean in deep thought. "We should head back." I said and that snapped her out of it and we flew to camp.
Location change camp
We made it to camp and my golems were at work repairing my guards that were badly damaged and about three golems were working on the captain and the griffin were passing out food to amongst themself and started to eat their fill. "We should probably get some sleep." I said as I entered my tent and went to sleep
Next morning
When I woke up I heard a lot of noise and I walked outside to see a few griffins arguing what about I don't know but since I was up I should check on the repairs of my guards and I began to walk over to the repair area, and found that most of them were fixed but the captain of my royal guard was still in rough shape and still missing an arm but he could travel and they were packing everything, and getting ready to go and the golems were doing the heavy lifting carrying crates that had extra weapons we had brought along with us in case we needed them and we began to leave when Phaenna came to say goodbye.
"So your leaving?" She said as she looked at my guards packing and the golems having crates be tied to their backs.
"Yes we need to leave i have a wedding to get ready for." I said and she smiled.
"Well I thank you for the help and a happy wedding."She said as she flew away and got ready to leave and we began to head home and I saw a group of guards running towards me they are mine but they did not come with to the battle they were supposed to be at minas morgul.
"Sir there is trouble at minas morgul." They said as they continued. "Mercenaries attacked the city they we dealt with but the people are panicking that there will be another attack." They said as we rushed home and began to run instead of walked and I jumped in the air and flew towards Minas Morgul at top speed.
1 day later
I finally made it to Minas Morgul and I saw corpse littered the bridge and the wall, and the gate was damaged as I landed on the ramparts of the wall, the captain of the guard came to greet me with a few guards accompanying him.
"It's that good your back sir the people are in a panic and are at your tower awaiting a announcement." He said as he pointed towards the tower and I could hear the distant yelling. I flew towards the tower and landed in front of the crowd. I could barely hear any of their questions."QUIET." I yelled and everyone stopped talking and someone raised their hand.
"Yes you." I said pointing at the one with their hand up.
"Who attacked us?" He asked.
"From what I have been told they were mercenaries." I said as I heard many of the people whispering and someone else raised their hands.
"You next." I said as she spoke up.
"Who sent them?" She asked and I could only think of one person.
"Dainn." I simply said as many of them shiver and began to whisper again. "And this attack will not go unanswered we will fight him." I said as many of the people gasped. "As of this moment we are at war." I said as I walked away and entered the tower.