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((He'll be back soon. He could always drop in mid fight as the others are getting steam rolled.)) Silent looked up at the darkening sky and smiled evilly. "Yes." Blood looked in the distance at the eye of the storm. Ash felt a chill down her spine as she got close to Steel. "What's going on?" Deep beneath a cavern at the bottom of the sea, Kane slowly awoke to a mass of tentacles in a dark cave. In the middle was a large eyeball. "King Kane....the Chosen One....I have preserved you." Kane didn't know what to say to the strange creature. "Who are you?" The creature made a gurgling noise as the massive eye looked back to him. "I have no name. I am nothing and everything. I have always been and always will be. Your fate was set in stone, but I have revised your fate."

Silent glared at Oakly. "He's dead, but the war is lost. It was all for nothing. Unless...." He trailed off. It seemed he didn't have a choice anymore. "Come." He said to his men as they left. He had a long journey to make to get back to Rose's lair. The remaining Horde ships that had retreated were all destroyed. Blood landed back on an Equestrian ship and looked around at the carnage. "That's it. Silent has nothing left. It's over...." He looked into the the water sadly. "But at such a terrible cost."

Silent dropped everything and immediately was at Hazel's side, embracing her tightly. "Hazel...you're alright." He said quietly as he held her and his eyes teared up slightly. Most of the Horde ships were already long gone, but a large number still remained. Blood flew into a ship and butched its entire crew. Ash annihilated another ship with her fire, reducing to a floating like of ashes.

((Kane didn't really fake his death, he's just going to be saved.)) Silent glared in the distance as they scoured the now silent ocean for Hazel. His memories slowly returning to him, he hadn't felt pain like this since long ago. ((Flashback)) Amaranthe coughed violently in a hospital bed, her whole body pale. The doctors couldn't figure out what disease had suddenly come over her. Even Princess Sparkle was dumbfounded. Out on the balcony of the castle, Silent was pacing around, his mind a maelstrom of emotion from the crippling sickness coming over his love. A doctor finally came out to him and cautiously approached. "Prince Silent, she is stable. The disease has halted, but it is not healing." Silent nodded as the doctor left. "Why.....why must this happen? I can't live without her...." He said to himself. "You can save her.....you can have the power......to stop death.....I can show you....." Silent suddenly looked up as he heard a voice in his head. ((End Flashback)) Blood looked in the distance to see if he could locate Silent or any other Horde ship. "He couldn't have gone far." He said as Ash angrily began lighting fire spells, anticipating another fight.

Silent grit his teeth and glared at the navigator of the ship he was on. "I'm not leaving her here. Find her!" Once the Horde had retreated, Ash returned to her normal state and landed on the ship with the others. She put her hooves on her face and quietly sobbed. Blood sighed as he dropped Kane's tattered cloak on the ground. "I guess we should return back....someone will have to tell the Queen." "Congratulations Rose, you killed my son. Are you happy now? Are you entertained? Are you having fun still?" Soul asked with a death glare, his body still shaking in rage and pain. ((Nobody is supposed to know Kane lived yet.))

Ash kept burning through the Horde ships as Blood leaped from one ship to another wiping out entire crews in seconds. Silent made it back to an unharmed ship and grit his teeth in anger. "Fall back....we sail for Maveris to regroup." The defeated Horde navy began to flee the battle in shambles. Silent then frantically began teleporting between ships. "Where is Hazel? Where is my daughter?" A cry of pain and anger rang out in Rose's lair as Soul watched what he believed was Kane's death in battle on one of the screens. He punched the ground creating a crater and shook violently as he mourned his son. Deep beneath the ocean, where the light no longer reached, Kane's body slowly sank further and further. A red mist surrounded him from his wounds bleeding and burns were covering his body. Suddenly two giant tentacles came from no where and grabbed his unconscious body. "It's not your time, wise King...." A deep bellowing voice said.

Ash grit her teeth as she burned through the horde ships, sending hundreds to the bottom of the see in a charred mass. The troops surrounding them were infuriated by their king's demise and rammed the horde ships harder and slaughtered the barbarians. Blood climbed onto the ship with the other bat ponies and threw down Kane's cloak. "That's it....he really is gone." Silent looked at where the ship had sank with Kane on it. He couldn't process that his brother was actually dead. He looked back to Ally with a glare and blasted her with shadow magic before teleporting away.

Silent vanished and reappeared behind Ally, blasting her with shadow magic into another burning ship. He then looked to the burning remains of the ship Kane was on. He had done it. He had killed Kane. But for some reason, he didn't feel the joy he thought he would feel. He turned back and glared at Ally. "All is lost. Kane is dead. Surrender now." He said coldly. Blood dived into the water and frantically began to look for Kane. He couldn't find him anywhere in sight. He finally had to come up for air, and once above the water, he saw the bloody and tattered cloak Kane wore floating by. "No.....he's really gone."

Kane and Silent parried with each other after a long and brutal duel. Both were covered in scars and wounds and blood covered the broken ship they fought on. "It's over, Silent. I'll give you one chance to surrender, or you will all be sent to the bottom of the sea. Silent saw a juggernaut fire at them out of the corner of his eye and smirked. "You first, brother." He said as he leaped off the ship and safely onto another one. Kane didn't have time to react as he saw the fire come towards him. The ship exploded in a massive firey cloud as the ship was annihilated. "KANE!" Blood shouted as Ash stood in shock and awe that Kane was no more. ((Assume Kane is dead. Just go with it.))

Kane walked up to the head of the ship as it darted towards Silent's. Silent turned to see it coming towards him quickly and drew his blades. Kane leaped in the air as his ship slammed it's battering ram into Silent's ship, shattering it into pieces. Silent quickly threw a block up as Kane parried with him and the brothers began to furiously strike each other. Suddenly another wave of Horde ships and juggernauts came in from the side and tore into Equestria's ships. Ash jumped off the ship she was on and turned to her dragon for. Blood leaped onto her back as she flew over the approaching horde reinforcements. He jumped off onto the nearest juggernaut and tore through horde sailors as Ash began burning the others.

Suddenly Equestrian ships began to blow up in first explosions as Horde Juggernaut ships began to fire massive balls of fire at them. Ash grit her teeth and blew towards a Juggernaut, igniting it and setting fire to it's fuel, causing it to explode. Blood flew off his ship and to another Juggernaut where he punch a hole through the hull and shot a flaming arrow inside, hitting the fuel and blowing it up as well. He jumped safely to another Equestrian ship easily. Kane could see Silent's ship in the distance and ordered his ship to charge it full speed.

Kane's ship destroyed another ship with its battering ram and he leaped off onto the enemy ship slashing through horde sailors. Ash turned to her half dragon form a lit a nearby ship on fire and annihilated its crew.

Silent growled as the heavy rains began to pick up. "The elementals are making a storm....it won't matter, they are doomed to die no matter what." The first two line of Horde ships began to press forward. The sky darkened more and they began to lose the ability to see clearly. A flash of lightning briefly illuminated something quickly coming towards the horde ships. "Knock knock." Kane said with a sly smirk as the horde sailors panicked. Kane's warship and the other Equestrian ships smashed into the Horde ships with their massive battering rams fixed to the front of the boats, tearing them apart and sending them sinking into the sea. Kane shouted loudly as his soldiers joined in the battle cry and the Equestria ships charged for the rest of the Horde navy, leaving behind a dozen horde boats sinking in ruins.

Kane glared out over the horizon as the hundreds of ships began to set sail. He looked up in the sky and saw that it was slightly darker than before, and he felt a warm wind blow through his mane. "Hope you brought your raincoats, friends." Silent stood at the bow of a large warship adored with dark armor. He glared at the horizon where he knew Kane would come from. "Every one of them drowns today. The sea will turn crimson with their blood."

Kane took a deep breath and looked over his army. All of these ponies were here, about to fight and die for him and for Equestria, all while leaving behind their own families. Most of them would not return, but they still carried on happily, just happy to be serving their king. "Ponies of Equestria, my brothers and sisters, you've followed me from the day this war began. Some of you have followed me since I was crowned. Now I ask you to follow me one last time, as we stare into the face of annihilation. I ask you to join me in defending our home and our families from evil once again. Your sacrifices are not in vain, and you are not alone. All who have died in this war and any war prior watch over you, and the Sisters will guide you from the afterlife. Today we become a thorn in the side of tyranny. Today, we are Equestria!" The crowd cheered from Kane's speech as they were finally ready to depart. A soldier pushed off their ship from the shore as he floated out into the water.

Ash blushed but smiled at Steel. "I don't plan on it." She said, swishing her tail in Steel's face as she got into a ship. Blood looked at Maple in the eyes deeply. "If anything happens, know that I love you more than anything in this world, Maple." Kane looked back towards the direction of where they came, wishing he could see her again before the battle. "I'll return to you....I promise."

Kane climbed into the main ship in the Equestrian Navy. It was decorated with golden armor rather than the steel armor of a normal ship. A very ornate battering ram was affixed to the bow, and the sails were blood red and showed a mixture of a pony and a Phoenix. He waited for his friends to enter the ship before setting sail.

The final ship was prepared and set halfway in the water. The Equestrian Navy was stout, but it would still be a bloodbath to engage the Horde's powerful battleships. Kane set a hoof on the ladder and sighed. "Ready guys?"

Ash smiled at Steel and giggled softly, lifting him back to his feet. "You sure are intimidating Ally. I guess I'm glad we have you on our side." Blood saw Maple blushing and nuzzled her neck playfully. "You haven't seen anything, Ash. You should have seen her back in the day."

"He'll do it too. Believe me. When we were younger I was once legally dead for an hour before I got revived, and then Shadow beat the hell out of me for it." Blood commented as more Canterlot ships became seaworthy and went into the water.

Silent rolled his eyes before walking away. The armies reached the coast and began to prepare the ships to meet the Horde on the sea. Kane sighed. "This may be the fight of our lives. Some of us may not make it."

Silent facehoofed himself and sighed. "Well, if you destroy my brother's forces, I won't stop you. Just....be careful." He said, not sure if Hazel could understand his fatherly instincts right now.

Silent looked at Hazel for a long moment, concerned for what Rose did to her. "Hazel, this isn't an ordinary battle. Maybe you should go somewhere safe and wait it out." Kane smirked but turned to leave again. "Alright children, you had your fun, let's go." He said as he began to march away with the Canterlot troops. Ash followed close behind with the Order. Blood kissed Maple's cheek before following.