An Unpleasant Surprise

=Diamond=

I broke the water’s surface, sputtering out the liquid as I used my arms to lug Silas to the surface. We had been under for roughly a minute. You could only imagine my dismay when I thought SIlas was going to just swim us to shore, but when he stopped moving my heart plummeted into the oddly cold depths of my bowels.

He was surprisingly light as I lugged him above the surface, his unconscious head resting on my shoulder when I pulled him close to my left side. I was breathing heavily, coughing out some water as I dragged a paw over my eyes to wipe them. My throat was becoming sore as we drifted in the body of water, casually going downstream at a leisurely pace.

Silas’s mouth was open as it leaned against my cheek, making me blush as his tongue came forward and licked it a bit. That was a kiss!

“Calm down, girl! You need to get him out...of...” My eyes widened as the sound of rushing water interrupted the rebuttal I was giving myself. The speed at which we were traveling also went up drastically, making my legs drift out further than my chest. I nearly screamed as we quickly swung around an embankment, coming face to face with multiple grey rocks jutting up from the depths.

I grabbed on to one of the rocks with my free right arm, swinging Silas through the water and into my bosom with the left. The water crashed against my face so I had to hold it up at an angle to stop the annoying spritz. Resting as the rushing water held us against the rock, I proceeded to nudge Silas with my face roughly.

“Get up! Get up!” I ordered him as the crown of my head was practically crammed down his throat. I got a soft snore as a response, making me frown. By the Stone, Silas; wake up!

“Blood Limits?” Silas asked in a grumble, letting me know that he’s not in a coma. I breathed a sigh of relief as I tried nudging him again. He didn’t respond.

“Please wake up, I can’t hold us on this rock much longer!” The constant pulling of the water was beginning to make my strength ebb away, which was only worsened due to the fact that I had to hold this hunk of sexy....

“Get your head out of your ass, girl! You need to think!” I shook all perverse thoughts from my head at that moment and took to looking at our surroundings for a way out!

Water.

Hold on...rushing water.

I think I’m gonna cry...or drown. Drowning seems more likely since I can’t swim and all. So, yeah, probably gonna sink like a rock when-

My eyes widened as some of my arm loosened its hold around the rock. Grunts poured from my mouth as I fought the current and my fatigue off, hoping to find a way out of this do-or-die predicament!

“Lyzan.” Silas mumbled again, making me roll my eyes.

“If you’re going to mumble than mumble something useFULLLLLLLLLLLLLLL-” I nearly lost my lunch as we were propulsed from the water with incredible force, the loudest sound of waves crashing filling my ears. I flattened them against my head and stopped screaming, seeing that we were now above the treeline and out of the water.

Normally, that would be good; but seeing as how my only option of flight was seeing stars right now...Yeah.

Not good at all.

Following our diagonal skyrocketing was a very scary plummet of fifty or more feet from the air. Not fun at all. I screamed again as the river came to meet us, but something was a little off. No, not just a little off; a lot off!

As we crashed the vast expanse of water again and surfaced (somehow but I’m not complaining), I could see only one thing. This one thing never filled me with more fear than anything else in my life. Now think that over, because I had to sit and watch my pups be slaughtered and eaten before my eyes.

Trees were flanking the wide expanse of water on the respective banks, but in front of me wasn’t more water. Well, it was, it’s just that the water seemed to...for lack of a better word, disappear. In its wake, however, were clouds that seemed to mock me with their freedom from this liquid tartarus of mine.

Now, a reasonable question to ask myself at this point in time would have to be this: ‘Why is the water gone?’

Not gonna lie, when the sound of a roaring waterfall entered my aural cavities I pissed myself a little. What, at least I’m honest! Oh, and I started crying a little too.

You’d do the same when you’re faced with a situation like this one. You’d cry and you'll see your life flash before your eyes. Like me.

Not much to say about my old life. I was the runt of my mother’s litter and could barely walk. Here’s a fun fact for you guys; diamond dogs are able to walk during their second month of being alive. Of course, with me being the runt and all, I learned super slow. I started walking around seven months if I recall correctly.

I was born into a clan called Everwinter. Our bunch was but a small little outcropping compared to many of the other clans. Make no mistake though, for our clan was one of the eldest and therefore, stuck to tradition like always.

Which included capturing slaves from neighboring lands and cities.

I became very vocal about that when I ended up befriending an old pony by the name of Glitterdust. He was a unicorn with chestnut-brown fur and auburn mane, who also sported more than his fair share of grey hairs. So maybe a more accurate description would be a ‘grey and auburn mane?’

Yeah, that seems right.

You could see the minute bags under his eyes and the wrinkles on his face, accented by his dead eyes. He was a broken stallion, who was taken away from his family by my raiding party. We had snatched him up from a dusty town on the outskirts of Las Pegasus; a town called Dreaming Willow. I was only seven when we raided the town, but i had succeeded in capturing my very first slave.

I was all smiles back then, even as I watched countless ponies try and fight back against our raids. They were always slaughtered, and there was never an eye to linger on them for long. They were a hindrance to the prosperity of our clan, so we had no choice but to snuff them.

As I’ve said, my youth was filled with only one train of thought, and that was pleasing my parents and clan members without fail.

During the last days of my parent’s lives, they entrusted me with clan leadership before they passed. Of course, I had to fight my dad to the death for the right to be called the new Alpha. This also meant that anyone who claimed themselves to be better than my father had met their end by my blade as well. On my seventeenth birthday, the day my parents died and I slew half of my clan, I was crowned the Alpha Dog.

My time in Everwinter did not stop there. Upon ascending to power, I hastily decreed that all slaves were to be let go. Many argued, many died. By the time all the usurpers were dealt with, the once proud population of five-thousand-one was dwindled down to a mere fifteen-hundred. I’m not good with percentages, so I don’t know how many dogs I had killed or how much of my clan I slaughtered, but I do know that it was no small amount by a long shot.

During the days in which I was called the Heartless Diamond (those were dark days indeed), a lone diamond dog strolled into Everwinter territory. I had been serving as Alpha for five years now, so I had become accustomed to the many practices and traditions that had to remain with the title.

The Ronin, which is the name given to all clanless diamond dogs, was quite ferocious indeed. His eyes were glazed over, like he had something controlling him. It intrigued me that he needed fifty of our strongest males to hold him down, my Betas included. But this dog didn’t seem like a Beta or an Alpha; in fact, he was Gamma-like in appearance. But his countenance was likened to a Diamond Lord’s, which had me on the edge of my seat as he violently thrashed around in my personal cave/throne room.

I had remember asking him question while he struggled against my dogs, but what surprised me was that he was actually starting to wing the engagement with all fifty of them. He made for good company, even when he tossed my guards aside with such ease as he rose from the ground with a knowing smirk on his face. He began cracking his neck to and fro.

Then, the most...peculiar...thing happened. His fur began to darken, an-

“Lyzan Opus!” Silas yelled, making me shake my head as we again went flying into the air, but this time backwards. I looked down as we ascended, noticing how the unconscious ramblings of an alien just saved us from being skewered on sharp rocks at the bottom of the waterfall!

That didn’t stop me from screaming as loud as I could.

We continued to skyrocket, breaking tree limbs and other forms of vegetation as the canopy became our mass’s fodder. Branches cracked and vines snapped. Destruction everlasting followed our skyward forms as we finally reached the canopy’s top, only to plummet back towards the ground from a different position.

“SayitagainSayitagainSayitagainSayitagain-” I yelled at Silas who was remaining unconscious during three, life or death situations. How the fuck is that even possible!? Our ball of protection was barreling back towards Equis at speeds I rather not think about; actually, it began getting a little toasty. And no, that’s not because of the Rainforest’s climate either. I think we’re reaching speeds that’ll actually put us on fire!

“Sewutip Myala.” We stopped at Silas’s next phrase, curled up in our little protective ball right above the trees. Did I mention that some of the largest trees reach seventy feet in the air? We’re above every. Single. One.

I was literally bugging out now, going into a fit of shakes and everything! I whimpered to myself as I snuggled in close to Silas’s chest, fully realizing the helpless position I was put in. At any moment we could complete our fall and die a horrible death, which scared a little more pee out of me.

I don’t want to die~!

“Ingyup Mraka.” I felt Silas stir beneath me, making me snuggle closer as he began to move. I clamped my eyes shut, adding pressure to them to make sure they don’t open for anything! After some minor movements were felt, I opened my eyes and craned my head up to look at Silas.

My jaw dropped to the ground.

His pupils were not the slits I had come to know. Instead, the outline of a single water drop made itself apparent as tendrils of light-blue energy filled in where the whites of his eyes were supposed to be. It gave him a wise and mystical beauty that demanded all attention, regardless of your academic background. His glowing eyes focused on my own, sending a chill down my spine as I looked up at him from my cowering position on his chest.

“Tyl’nara quinti? Astara nak terum grenozik kam?” Silas’s voice came in two tones. One was creepy deep and the other one a soothing platonic, making another shiver go down my spine. I had no idea what he was saying to me, so I did the most appropriate thing at the time.

I nodded.

He smiled.

I nearly lost the rest of my bladder as he began WALKING DOWN THE SKY LIKE IT WAS MADE OF STEPS!!!

“HOLY SHIT!!!” I yelled as I turned my head to view the ground that was coming to meet us like it had nothing better to do. How in the fuck was he doing this!? No seriously, the ground was like ‘Oh Hai!’ or some shit!

“Heh. Novra mak’taba innendra calfesti. Suvis nocgra miatta telvania.” His tone became a condescending one, making me glare and slap him lightly across his chest with a paw. That made him raise an eyebrow at me with a smile.

“Getting frisky?” He asked in a voice that was not like the Silas I knew! I gulped as he gave me a cocksure grin, making yet another shiver go down my spine.

“W-who a-are you!? W-what have you d-done with Silas!?” I asked strongly, even though I felt some fear go into those words. I got the fear from the fact that Sila- Not Silas is currently walking down the sky as if he owns it! I may not know much about physics, but I can say for sure that this...is not how it works!

“Prava? Segim Sylvan Awrenos! Tevlan nok estada wrelk!” The words flew from his mouth so fast that it was a wonder I managed to pick up on them. I did hear one thing, though, and that’s ‘Sylvan Awrenos’, which didn’t sound like any of that funky alien gibberish he was talking. It sounded out of place, which makes me believe that it’s his name.

“Sylvan?” Not-Silas nodded his confirmation. Now this, is interesting! My moment of reverie ended, however, when a chilling thought entered my mind. Silas was the one I had come to adore, but what if he was just a phase for Sylvan? What if Silas never existed, and that this was the real Silas Epista!? I just don’t know what to think anymore!

“Where’s Silas!?” I asked with a little more backbone, throwing a growl in there for good measure. He quirked his eyebrows in surprise, maybe from how ferocious I appeared. I allowed myself a victorious smile on this inside from that.

Not-Silas kept his eyebrows raised as he kept stepping down the sky like he was enjoying a sunny day or something, before stopping and falling out; as in cracking up. You could stand to be a little more respectful about it!

“Heh! Silas. Heh! Tell me something, girl. Do you want him?” Not-Silas asked with an air of danger to his already frightening voice, making me gulp loudly at the several meanings behind that phrase.

“...What do you mean?” I asked him in a scared tone. As I’ve said, my answer could be me giving my consent to having Silas killed...or worse.

“Do you want him to come back?” Not-Silas...no...Sylvan asked with an air of annoyance.

“What did you-” I trailed off as we dropped through the trees, taking the breath from me. We landed quickly, although I expected us to make a crater or something from how far up we were. “do with him!?” I finished lamely as I kicked away from his chest with my back legs, separating us expertly.

“He’s taking a nap, Trevala! So for right now, I’m in charge of the body. But rest assured, I have no intention of harming you.” Sylvan explained with haughtiness dripping from his oral cavity.

“Just what the tartarus is going on here!?” I yelled at him, completely at the end of my rope on trying to figure this shit out. “Who the fuck are you!?”

He chuckled darkly before dropping the evilest glower my way, making me lose control of my bladder for good.

“Omus Draconem.”