Tiberius Octavius Saturnus (Zebra - Complete)

Life in Ceasar's Legion, with the tribes of zebra joined together to continue the war against the pony races. One of the average foot-soldiers of the legion for a long time, Tiberius never advanced far up the ranks.

Before his time as a legion, Tiberius was a simple fighter for his tribe, protecting the females and foals of the tribe as much as he physically could with the help of other warriors of his tribe. Before then, he wasn't even called Tiberius, he had a much simpler name.

But When the legion arrived, absorbing the tribe into it's ranks through negotiations, Tiberius adopted a new name, more befitting of the legion he was with. He had no problem with the discipline and training that the legion gave and followed them loyally for a time. Even when there were some of the others who bothered him for needless, menial things such as material needs and intimacy.

There were several in the legion that Tiberius felt he was able to bear the presence of after long enough, aside from the members of his own tribe of course. One of which was a lazy remedey-mixing zebra known as Kakena, despite how cheery and life-loving she was, he could tolerate her due to the fact that she never actively tried to annoy him with all her happiness.

One evening, during a stealth operation to take out a public icon who had recently attacked a legion camp. This stallion was a self-proclaimed hero of Hoofington, despite how little he was actually known by the populace of the Hoof.

Tiberius's team, consisting of himself and three others, was caught off-guard by the problem causing pony, two of them being decapitated with one slash each. The stallion was a skilled fighter, but that was about it. This was by the time Tiberius was a Prime Legionaire, having a high-field ranking granted him a team to take out this enemy.

Both Tiberius and the last remaining member of his team took substantial damage from the stallion, both of them adorned with cuts and bruises as the fight came down to it's final moments. Tiberius was bucked in the stomach as he'd attempted to rear up and slam his hooves down on the hero's spine, and was stunned for a moment as his subordinate was brought to the ground by the stallion, the mare wouldn't stand a chance on the ground as she used guns more than unarmed combat.

Tiberius was stuck, his body found it hard to move, let alone try and save his subordinate from her demise. So, like any desperate creature of the land, he used all his might to look up to the sky, silently begging for some sort of help. Anything would've been accepted right now, any sort of aid to stop this pony.

Then he saw a tiny split in the clouds, revealing the wink of a star far, far up in the sky that invigorated him just enough to be able to push himself up to his hooves. Feeling like he was empowered by what he'd seen, despite dreading what it now entailed Tiberius hauled the pony off of his subordinate and slammed his torso into the ground, smashing his hoof into the stallion's face as hard as he could as many times as he could, turning that pony's face into a fine paste that mixed in with the dirt.

Exhausted, but needing to finish the job, Tiberius managed to drag his subordinate onto his back and carry her back to the camp, using what little medical knowledge he had to treat her wounds before resting himself so they could get back to report the mission success to the centurion who'd given them the mission.

Tiberius' rest did not help him in the slightest, it was not peaceful at all as his fear of the stars invaded his dreams, turning them into nightmares. Waking sooner than he'd wanted to, Tiberius found that his subordinate was still asleep, so staying awake until they were ready to move, Tiberius could only think about how doomed he might be because of that one moment.

Returning to the main camp Tiberius didn't speak of what he dreaded, but it lingered in his thoughts. He felt that whatever the stars were to curse him with would be bad enough for the whole legion to be effected, so he decided that he would have to leave to spare them all. He'd intended to leave alone, but that annoying, lazy zebra, Kakena, wanted to leave as well. Maybe he had a moment of kindness, or he wanted to drag somepony else down with him, but he agreed to help in her escape also.

So, during the night-duty, whilst guarding the main gate with another, Tiberius knocked the other zebra out with a harsh punch in the temple with a hoof, Kakena waiting nearby as he did this. Then he opened the gate and let her get through before shutting it behind them and sneaking off and leaving the Hoof altogether.