My Little Carmines

Chapter twelve: Ponyville's Omega

The residents of Ponyville were joyous and energetic for their cyclical cycle in Ponyville, but the nature that surrounded it contrasted greatly. While the birds cried and the trees' leaves hissed, the wind blew the grass and the flowers and the small and fragile winged insects into their opposite direction which caused them to seek for the closest shelter possible. Ash white clouds filled the dying blue sky and disposed of Celestia's bright sun, and the sight of deadly lightning bolts zapped through the black and white clouds which were followed by the loud stomp of thunder. As expected with the warning of nature, rain, heavy and raw, fell like tears and spat horribly down on the ponies and buildings in Ponyville. The rain grabbed everything in its wake and forced any creature to retreat to their habitats or their families in shelter from the rain. The wind turned from loud moaning into devastating howls as it crashed into anything that stood in its path, but it did not gain the strength required for the possibility of a tornado. Nevertheless, the Pegasi would have warned about the possibility of a tornado before it would have even tried to attempt to fossil its existence. Nature itself was almost trying to force everything away from Ponyville, as if were in some danger that it was very rudely trying to protect.

Twilight Sparkle stared miserably out at Nature's wet intruders. Despite the rain giving her time to write to the princess to see how Benjamin was fairing with the new habitat of Canterlot and if he was coping with the snobbish residents within Canterlot, Twilight was still perturbed with the fact that she was supposed to do a small amount of shopping with Spike. Some of her most basic needs, such as new ink and new jewels for Spike, and food for their dinner, were what she needed just so that she could enjoy her supper, but not much was left after Spike's last raid of the fridge which left her mostly out of good choices for a good supper. A student of Princess Celestia, especially one that has been labelled most faithful by the princess of the sun herself, couldn't work to Princess Celestia's requirements on an empty stomach, could they? The young unicorn, ignoring the demands of her stomach, also felt disheartened for the Royal Guards who were patrolling the streets and were emotionless in Nature's tears. Pegasi guards continued to fly strongly against Nature's wind and rain while the unicorn guards marched individually around every street. Twilight understood their duty in looking out for the strange creatures that monstrously murdered two of Princess Celestia's Royal Guards, but she still questioned if, at any point, that they would rest shortly and dry themselves from the weather so that they wouldn't catch a cold. Despite her worry, at least she had her five other friends to keep her company…

"I haven't seen any weather as bad as this," Twilight said to herself as she turned around to retreat to the comfort of her friends. Each of her friends had claimed a cushion for themselves and was waiting for Twilight to claim hers. She slummed herself on the cushion and an awkward silence suddenly sparked between the six. Spike was sleeping upstairs and was clearly not bothered by the storm outside as he was known to be a heavy sleeper.

"Every pony in Cloudsdale said that there was a storm coming, but they didn't say that there was a whole typhoon heading our way!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed as she aimlessly hovered around the library to tame her boredom.

"I'm sure it's just a terrible storm and nothing more. Oh, but I do hope it ends soon! My poor Opalescence needs her evening bath and grooming. I would go now but…I've just manicured my hooves, and they're exceptionally sparkly today! I would hate to have them ruined!" Rarity's melodramatic drama was quickly ignored, but her words on the fact that it was just a storm were quickly tossed aside as being true. As for her conundrum with Opalescence, it was not even acknowledged to the slightest.

"Fluttershy, Sugarcube, you sure you're doin' okay?" Applejack's concern was high for the timid little Pegasus. She was the only one to be succumbed to the corner of the main room of the tree house with a blanket covering her entire body. There was no response from the timid pony, but the sudden crash of thunder escalated the pony's fear and granted her the satisfaction of letting out a tremendous scream, and forced her to shrink further into her isolation of the blanket cocoon. The rest looked on in worry at their friend but they knew that nothing could be done to cure her plague of fear; it was what made her the very pony that the rest had got to know and love.

"I know what we can do to take our minds away from this awful, nasty storm," Pinkie Pie started with the burning passion of a phoenix," we can play games! We can play: Pin the tail on the mule, heads down hooves up, hide and seek, dancing, hit the piñata, oh and even tag!" Before the enthusiastic and ebullient party pony could utter another word, Rainbow Dash quickly intervened.

"And just how are we supposed to play tag in Twilight's library?" She questioned.

"Look Pinkie Pie, now is not the time for fun and games, and I don't think any of us are in the mood for games right now-" The sound of tiny thumps on the door scratched its way to Twilight's ears through the thundering rain and the crying winds. She brooded over the fact that some pony had summoned the courage, other than the very well trained guards outside, to have decided to trench their way through the thickening storms just to come to the library. The curiosity as to who was behind the door itched Twilight's curiosity as to who it might be. For the most part, she knew that whoever was behind the door was a friend of theirs, but one small dot inside her gut told her that there was something very wrong with the visitor. She couldn't understand why but she had suddenly become concerned with the fact that her home could have been completely torn apart from its roots.

Twilight approached the door and slowly opened it to reveal a small bunny…Angel.

"Angel?" Twilight stated in almost disbelief. However, the stubborn bunny immediately stormed past Twilight and scanned the room for Fluttershy. Upon hearing her pet bunny's name, Fluttershy shot from her blanket quicker than any pony could have acknowledged. Her actions were quick as she approached her bunny that was quickly shaking off the leeching rain water.

"Oh Angel, are you okay? You're soaking wet! Oh dear, you could catch a cold! Here quick, wrap up in this blanket and get nice and cosy," Fluttershy had tried to forcefully, but gently, cover her Angel in the blanket that she was using to shield herself from the storm. However, the bunny quickly fought free from Fluttershy's angelic clutch and tried to communicate with the rest of the group of the incoming danger.

His first action was him trying to paint out the very home that he and Fluttershy lived in. The group caught onto that immediately. Next, Angel tried to portray the large monster that had destroyed their home and killed the animals that perched around it. He used his amateur acting skills to symbolise the giant monster stomping and punching the house and animals and jumping all around the place. He then used his picture of the house and showed it crashing down. What the group caught on to was the fact that Fluttershy's home was completely destroyed. Fluttershy almost shook hooves with a heart attack as she realised that her precious home and creatures were destroyed. She had made three attempts of trying to leave the house: once through the door, which Angel and Applejack stopped immediately, a second time through a window which Rainbow Dash quickly intercepted, and a third time through the balcony at the top of the stairs, but Twilight's magic pulled her back down and back to Angel.

It had taken a minute or two before she calmed down…

"Okay, Angel, so you're saying that something has destroyed Fluttershy's home and hurt her animals. What exactly was the thing?" Twilight demanded as she trespassed Angel's comfort zone and darting a look in her eye.

Before Angel could take one moment to express what exactly the monster looked like, there was a loud, apoplectic roar that darted through the echoing thunder and rain. The sounds themselves conflated to make the alien sound even more terrifying that what it was supposed to be. The roar, so loud and ear pinching, forced all the creatures in Twilight's library to shield their ears from the horrible sound. Spike was awoken with a fright to the sound and quickly covered his hearing source and threw a blanket over his body in order to shield out the sound, but it did not help protect his ears, or his heart from furiously attacking his chest from the sudden cry. Spike, after realising that the shriek had stopped after a few seconds, quickly scurried downstairs to see every pony quickly hurrying to the door to see what the commotion was about with the cry. He was soon to follow. From what he could tell, Angel was desperately trying to urge Fluttershy and the whole gang to not venture out into the storm, but they were determined to confront the very monster that had the nerve to destroy the home of Fluttershy…which was the biggest mistake of their lives!

Already, every single guard that had been assigned to guard Ponyville was on high alert of the sound and had gathered towards the entrance of Ponyville that led off towards the Everfree forest and Twilight's house. The unicorn guards' horns were already illuminating magic at its peak so that they would be prepared for whatever creature that would storm into Ponyville. The Pegasi guards were hovering just above the unicorn guards and were equipped with special bows that were designed especially for the Pegasi guards. Their weapon that they would be firing was special bolts that were not designed to kill, but instead were enveloped in a shell of paralysing magic that would paralyse the creature and put it to sleep.

But nothing prepared them for the giant Berserker that suddenly leaped from the storm's penumbra and crushed into the sea of unicorn guards!