My Little Carmines

Chapter 2: Meeting a monster?

In the midnight sky, the starts shined beautifully among the breath taking moon that reflected magnificently off the guards armour. The night bedded the whole of Equestria in its dark blanket, almost telling them to get cosy for the long, peaceful night. Many of the creatures had flushed themselves into their private quarters for a well earned rest while many of the night animals emerged into the world of night to advance in their nightly routine. The stars flamed the shadow skies with luxurious twinkles of white light that dazzled anything to sleep in its beauty .Yes Luna did outdo herself tonight.

However, a group of ponies and a young dragon were deifying the nights rest as they had earlier been summoned by Twilights mentor and ruler of Equestria; princess Celestia. Twilight explained to the rest of her friends about the mysterious 'creature' found within the unnatural Everfree forest. The fact that it was found from the Everfree gave them immediate interpretations of what the beast may look, they imagined it as something being big, gross, evil and horrible but the fact that it was immune to magic, gave them all a cold shiver down their spine with a spice of curiosity.

"Ha, I'm not afraid of this monster, when he sees my moves, he's gonna go running home to his mummy" a tomboyish Pegasus mocked, imitating boxing movements with her hooves. This Pegasus had a pale cyan coat but her mane and tail where a variety of different colours that stood her out from the rest of the group. Her mane and tail consisted of: brilliant red, brilliant orange, light yellow, moderate green, strong cyan and a moderate violet.

"Calm yourself Dash, besides we can't just say that because this thing came from the Everfree forest that it is bad" Twilight objected the energetic Pegasus.

"Oooooooh, what if it's friendly and wants to be friends, we can be the best of friends, HUH wait then I would have to throw a part, oh this is so exciting!" Pinkamena screamed excitedly, jumping up and down in the carriage. Pinkamena or Pinkie Pie as her friends call her was the most energetic and random of the group and the funniest to be around, her cutie mark was three balloons, two being blue and the top one being yellow. Her coat was a lovely pink and her mane was a nice rose-magenta, her eyes contained a bluish cyan colour as they twisted frantically between the Ponies.

"Best y'all wain n see what this thing is then" Apple jack pointed out, looking down towards Canterlot, they had nearly arrived at their destination. Apple jack was an orange pony with three red apples as her cutie mark; her mane was light amber yellow.

"Oh I can't wait any longer, how long is it, I wanna see the weird thingy in the castle, and can't they go any faster?" Pinkie Pie exaggerated desperately, sounding like a little filly who wants to go to the sweet shop.

I-I hope what ever the animal is, it is friendly" a nervous Pegasus said randomly amongst the group. Her name was Fluttershy and she was the most quietest and shyest of the group; hence the name Fluttershy. She consisted of a pale amber yellow coat and her mane was a simple pink colour, her eyes possessed a strong cyan colour within them; her cutie mark was three realistic pink butterflies.

"Not to worry, we are here now" Twilight said happily, nodding her head towards Canterlot castle. Pinkie Pie jumped in mental, hyper reaction.

"Yipeeeeeee" She screamed, dashing off first as soon as the two royal guard Pegasus Ponies landed.

"Oh Pinkie Pie do please wait" Rarity yelled at the crazy Pony, who was halted by guards at the entrance to Canterlot castle.

The two guards that had flown the group of ponies and the baby dragon led them towards the entrance of the golden gates. There, they granted access for them and the group nodded at them as a sign of thank you.

As the group stepped into the majestic building of beauty, they were greeted by another guard who kindly lead them to the Princess's throne room where the mysterious creature would be greeted to them all. The silence bounced of the walls of the hall as the tension and excitement began to build within the Ponies as they now desperately wanted to greet this 'special' creature from the Everfree forest.

The guard paused in front of the shiny, rose red door that walled their further path to the creature that they desperately wanted to see.

"The princesses are inside, you are clear to enter" the guard addressed the group who gave him thanking nods before they entered into the chamber.

They all gasped!

OXOXOXOXOXOXO

Carmine was slow to reply…

He was interrupted by a loud creaking sound that occurred behind him. He cranked his head over his shoulder and noticed that there was a group of six Ponies, including a dragon who glared at him in awe; mouths agape.

Carmine felt uncomfortable with all the unwanted attention that he was receiving.

"Ah Twilight, I am happy that you have arrived; just in time too" Celestia smiled happily at her faithful student who immediately placed herself between her mentor and Luna. Her friends placed out in a line, all staring at Carmine, who was glaring straight back at them all.

The group began to whisper their thoughts upon seeing the creature; barraged in chains.

"What do you think it is?" Rainbow Dash asked Applejack.

"I ain't got a darn clue" Applejack honestly replied.

Twilight whispered in between the two Princesses…

"Do you know what this creature is?"

"No Twilight Sparkle but soon we will" Celestia replied. Twilight gave a nervous look towards the two legged beast.

"Don't worry Twilight, it can't hurt you" Luna replied, smiling and comforting Twilight. But even she was unsure if this creature would dare to harm them. The just had to find out.

"What the…HECK is going on?" Carmine screamed in his mind, he could have sworn he was going completely insane! Talking Ponies, Pegasus's and Unicorns along with winged ones too! Carmine noticed the pink Pony jumping up and down in his face which snapped him back to reality…

"HI I'm Pinkie Pie; who are you?" She asked energetically, continuously jumping up and down; Carmine's head looked up and down; following her pattern.

"Uh-uh-C-Carmine…" The Ponies gasped when he spoke their tongue. Celestia sighed in relief that he wasn't hostile.

Carmine…The name spun around each and every one of their heads of the foreign name.

"Carmine; that's a silly name" Pinkie Pie laughed.

"W-well so is Pinkie Pie" Carmine shot back. He had no idea what he was doing but he came to one conclusion; he had gone insane.

"Oh you're good" Pinkie Pie complemented, squinting her eyes at him.

By now the group had worked up the courage to step closer to Carmine but were still edgy unlike Pinkie Pie who had actually started a conversation with Carmine.

Carmine looked down at the chains that constricted him tightly.

"So uh… what's… with the… chains?" Carmine asked shakily. He felt uncomfortable that he wasn't able to defend himself. He looked up as the large white winged unicorn stepped forward.

"It was just for necessary actions, I did not know whether you were friendly or dangerous, but first you must answer a few questions for us" Carmine's face literally dropped from beneath his mask.

"Oh god this isn't a test is it?" Carmine moaned; Celestia gave a rather annoyed look at his rudeness.

"No…It's to learn about your species" Luna replied for her older sister.

"Okay, firstly you can tell us all what kind of creature you are" Celestia began. Twilight used her magic to poof up a feather, some ink and paper.

"Well, we are called the human race" Carmine began. He couldn't believe what he was doing; his mind was engulfing him with the thought that he had lost complete sanity.

"The human race!" Twilight exclaimed.

"Um, do all you humans look like that?" Luna questioned.

"Oh what you mean this?" Carmine questioned back, pointing at his COG armour. Luna nodded slightly. "Oh no this is armour; we wear it now because we have to protect ourselves from the goddamn Locust bastards. Not having armour on is basically a death whish man."

The Ponied gasped at the small amount of information, they all even wined when he swore because never had such foul language had been spoken in Equestria.

"Excuse me?" Celestia questioned angrily. However, before Carmine could reply, he was smothered with other questions from the Ponies out of there own curiosity.

"What's a Locust?" Twilight asked.

"I still don't understand why you wear 'armour'" Luna questioned.

"What kind of fashion is that?" Rarity probed, eyeing the uniform up and down.

"DO YOU LIKE PARTIES?" Pinkie Pie screamed, starting to leap up and down again.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa; one at a time" Carmine literally roared in order to silence the bunch of intrigued creatures.

They all fell silent. Carmine let out a long sigh.

"I'll answer your questions but first, you have to release me" Celestia gave a stern look towards Carmine, displeased with his attitude so far.

"How can we trust you?" She eyed him seriously trying to spread fear into the two legged beast but he didn't even flinch or show any sign of fear on what she believed to be his face (his helmet).

"Well we seem to be getting along so what's to doubt?" Carmine asked, glaring back at the Princess.

Celestia remained quiet, all eyes turned towards her as she made her decision on what to do with Carmine.

She glared at her two guards before she nodded her head. The chains unbuckled their grasp from Carmine's wrists. There was a sharp pain from where the chains had wrapped themselves tightly, leaving behind an immense burning sensation on his skin; despite the armour protecting it.

"Wow, that stings…thanks by the way" Carmine said happily while his inner conscience was freaking out.

"Now then, I believe you have some questions to answer" Luna stated, reminding Carmine of what he had to tell them.

"Right. I'll start with you" Carmine pointed to Twilight. "The Locust is the enemy that I and the rest of my race are fighting. They are freaks, they came from underground out of nowhere, and this was called E day or Emergency day" The Ponied all stared wide eyed.

"I've hated the Locust all my life, not only because they destroyed our world…but they killed my brother; Anthony" Carmine sighed heavily, lowering his head of his brother's loss.

"Oh, I'm so sorry" Twilight apologized, giving a sympathetic look.

"Don't be" He quickly replied before continuing the story of the Locust

"So yeah, we finally thought back with something called the hammer of dawn which destroyed those freaks nicely…but it did kill many of our own people too which kinda led to a sort of hatred to the COG."
"COG?" Celestia asked confusingly.

"Yep, that's what we are, COG. Or I think it's called the Coalition of Ordered Governments. But anyway we are the soldiers who fought back against these freak shows to show em that we won't go down without a fight, this war has been going on for years now."

The group just stared at the information they were receiving, surprised and confused at the same time.

Carmine then pointed towards to Rarity and Luna.

"This is not fashion. This is what all of us wear to protect us when we go into battles. Well some don't have helmets and others don't have gear sleeves but I like to keep it safe. It can do pretty well against bullets I guess but for mortars and grenades; different story."

"I-I still don't understand" Luna complained, giving a sad look.

"Knew you properly wouldn't. But yeah if there is a time when you see me battle something then I guess you might understand."

Carmine finally pointed to Pinkie Pie.

"I actually love parties, when ever we get good news that we destroyed a Locust main base or something like that, we all party to celebrate; things do get a little crazy though." Carmine let out a little laugh, rubbing the back of his head.

Pinkie Pie let out a large gasp.

"We need to have a welcome party for you because I know everybody in Ponyville but since I don't know you, that must mean that you are new and if your new that means that you have no friends which makes me sad, so a welcome party can help you make friends and then you wont feel lonely anymore and everypony will be invited-"Pinkie trained on about her whole story of having a party and how she knew everybody in PonyVille.

Carmine just stared, wide eyed under his helmet.

"Um yes Pinkie Pie usually hosts parties for anypony who is new to PonyVille" Twilight pointed out, waiting for Carmine to reply.

"Wait, wait, wait…PonyVille?" Carmine asked curiously.

"Yes silly, that's were you are" Pinkie giggled.

"Where do you come from?" Luna asked.

"I come from Sera, it's where I live and I was actually in the Llima sinkhole where this giant worm thing was responsible for destroying and sinking cities and killing people, we didn't know how we were going to stop it" The Ponies gave a look of astonishment at this new but terrifying world that they were learning about.

"Do you have any idea of how you got here?" Spike asked; Carmine glared at the mythical creature.

"Uh, n-no, all I can remember is me falling into the things mouth before I woke up in a cage. But wow you're a dragon!" Carmine exclaimed, examining the baby dragon.

"I know thank you…uh what's your name was again?" Spike blushed at the compliment but had totally forgotten his name.

"Carmine. Benjamin Carmine."