Prolog-Enter the Everfree
Enter the Everfree
Lost foals and living Nightmares!
A young filly with out her cutie mark trotted through the dark and scary forest. Her soft blue coat was covered in dirt and her green name was a knotted mess. On her face was a clear trail of tears from a recent and long stint of crying. Her name was Gemcutter, an earth-pony from one of the major cities near the forest. The forest in question, being the infamous Everfree Forest, the largest and most dangerous in Equestria. She was teased for being a blank flank to the point that she gave up everything in her life and ran as far and as long as she could, crying her little heart out. Now she was good and lost in a place that she had no business being in, if she valued her life.
Gemcutter walked forward with sad blank eyes, not paying any mind to which way she walked. She was already good and lost in what she knew was a place that just going near would have gotten her so grounded that she would never leave her room again. That was not important. She was so far lost and had run so long that she could not see Celestia’s sun or Luna’s night sky. In fact, she was not sure how long she had been there. She ran away at launch and did not stop until she collapsed and passed out from exhaustion. Now she just trotted forward. Lost, broken heart and spirit, just wishing that some monster of this cursed wood would just gobble her up and end her suffering. The problem is that you should be very careful what you wish for and doubly so in the Everfree…
The snapping of a branch and rustling of a bush was all the warning she got before a massive manticore burst out in front of her, missing a poorly aimed pounce, over shooting the foal by a few yards. It turned and looked at her maw dripping with drool and its eyes full of hunger. Now two things happened in the span of seconds. First, the filly screamed her lungs, regretting ever making that stupid wish. Second, and most importantly she took off running as fast as her little hooves could. After another second, the manticore blinked once, twice, then thrice before roaring and giving chase. The filly ran as hard as she could jumping tree roots, ducking and sliding under bushes and bounding off trees for any speed boost she could get. Right on, her tail, the manticore, was plowing through the trees and shrubs like an angry bulldozer with an attitude problem and worst of all it was gaining on her. She ran as fast as she could then she saw it; LIGHT, not to far away. She raced towards it giving a sharp left turn, right for it and by a miracle, dogging a ponce from the manticore causing it to slam heard first into a tree.
Her heart soared as she neared the light. She did not care if she had somehow managed to cross the whole of Everfree Forest or had simply been turned around and wound up back home. All that mattered was she was out! She burst into the warm sun light of Celestia’s dawn, but the sight that met her was not an open field, but a raised plateau over looking a cliff and an endless sea of trees. The filly trotted to the edge and looked out at the distance, and her heart fell into her stomach like a lead weight. “It can’t be…how…how can this place be that big?” She asked to the forest before her. Her answer was a soft guttural growl from behind her. Turning at least five shades paler as she slowly turned to see the manticore towering over her licking massive chops as it slowly advanced. She closed her eyes and prayed to the princesses, Celestia and Luna for a miracle. She waited for the end to come as its foul breath filled her nostrils.
Then a voice cut through the silence “Stop right there ugly”, causing the manticore to back off and look around, growling in rage. “You know it never fails. Right as my bucking shift ends, I have to find some dumb foal, stupid enough to get this deep into the Everfree, about to be manitcore chow. Oh well, it’s been a boring night anyways” said the voice. Opening her eyes, Gemcutter saw a red coated Pegasus with silver mane and tail floating above her in black and crimson amour with silver trimming. By the sound of his voice, she guessed he was from the city of Nighpan. The manticore glared at the winged warrior between it and its meal. The Pegasus spoke again. “Hey kid, what ever happens don’t move, if you do, it well get you, got it?”
“O-OK” was all she could say. For some reason that acted as the signal for the manticore to attach. It lunged forward at the two ponies. Then there was a flash of lightning, the crack of thunder and the smell of ozone and burnt flesh in the air. She had blinked and it was over. It had lasted only a second for the whole fight. The manticores remains lay halfway off the cliff soaking the brunt ground on each side of them in its pooling blood. The guard before her turned in the air sheathing his sword, which was cracking with electricity as it slid into its sheath. He landed before her, pulled down the fount of his mask, and lifted up the goggles onto his helmet showing his gold eyes to the filly.
“Ne-how little filly, I’m Redwing Crimson Moon Captain in her highness Luna’s Night Guard and leader of the Crimson Guard unit of the Everfree watch. So, you ready to leave this forest and head home?” His voice was much softer now but still held her as if it was her own father talking to her.
“I can’t go back home… I don’t want to…but I… don’t want to stay here…” The filly started to cry. Redwing picked her up with his fore hooves and took flight.
He patted her as he flew and said “Shhh…shh…it’s ok. You can stay with my family for now until you are ready to come home or your family comes for you. OK?” The filly just shifted and nodded into his chest plate. He then started to sing.
“Lay your head little one
Rest and go to bed
The sun is rising in the sky
In addition, it is time for those Luna’s blessed
To lay down to rest.”
Before he finished the fifth verse, the filly was out like a candle. Redwing chuckled to himself “Never fails, every morning, always at the end of my shift something happens if the night was quiet. Thank you Luna for letting me be here when she needed me.”
CH1 family, friends and pains in the flank (unfinished)
Redwing sored above the everfree in the early morning sun. Craidled in his fore legs slept the small filly he just saved. Ahead floating softly in the sky was the pride of the nightguard Luna's flag ship and persole air ship if she need it, curtly asigned to the crimson guard unit as there mobile comand and deployment center. Its name was the Moonblade one of only 3 iron side steamer air ships. biult by the canterlot royle ship braking yards. The Moonblade was grately modified from how she was when lunched. Luna's state room was un touched but the crue numbe was ehalfed for 2 gundecks bosting the cuting edge in rifled ship cannons and a larg part of the hold was converted in to a bomb bay and lanching room for asult elavters(asult elevaters are armored harpon boxes that insert and withdra ponys form dangerus areas in safty with minamle to no risk to the crew.), the heavy custmistions have cut the Moonblades time on station and over all range in halw when compaired to her lighter armed and armored sister the Sunrise and Lovesong. Witch also are faster then the Moonblade. Redwing had little care if the day and now cristle guards flag ship could out run his cause he new that the even if the Moonblade is late to the party his ship would always stay till its over.
He circled once befor landing on the the deck with only 3 hooves was some thing Redwing had gotten vary good at and doing it with out waking a foal was something he prided him self on. He carefuly carryed the filly down to the foals room, it was once a crew corters but was converted with som wall papper a few foal size bunk beds and a chest of some old but still good toys gathered by the unit. Redwing troted in the room and getly tucked the filly in and wispered. "Sweet dreams little moon flower my Luna make them pure and happy." he gave her a soft nuzzle and left the room quitely closing the door. Having just done the best part of his job saving young foals he now troted soberly to his office/cabin to do the worst part.... Papperwork, the gratest evile let lose from tarturs. He has always belived that it was the demon Tirik that crated papperwork long agoe in the days of dream vally befor the rainbow of light and the rainbow brige vanished. If its true then at lest the Flank head got what he disvered.
Warning in forth coming sections there are a lot of faring wards, weapons clothing and other sach things you may have to look up. Just like i did to spell them.
Everfree farest Castle of the siteres - 15 minuts befor dawn.
"So it looks captian Red was right about the nightmares forces still being out here! Right sis? Asked a unicorn in white Haori and red hakama overlaided by a black ashigaru chest plate. Acrose her back was a bow in a hoster quiver withsevral airows, and her front hoves she heald a Naginata its Jade blade glowed and the 3 gold rings in its back clanked on the weapons dull side after each swing. as the tan coated mare with blue mane fended off attacking shadow bolts.
"Yes sister it seams that he was right on the bits again!" Said the frist mares identicle twin sister, wielding a long sword (chinese toaist long sword)dressed in in a A red robe wis strange markings under a black chest plate wit a yinyang set in it. As she swings her sword with her hooves her horn glowed controling a Undead earth pony mare with a blue fur and black mane and tail. Dressed in red and blue robes, and was jumping about on her hind hooves spining and twiring a pair of giaten like blades over her hooves.
The two unicrons are the twin sisters Talisman and Sutra. Almost perfectly identicle in every way exspet ther cutiemarks Talismans is a yelow talisman red writing as aposed to her sisters wthie stra with black writing. Talimans Maigic talent is baised on a tipe of taoist necromacy, witch she uses to capture spirets and crate undead pupits with witch she uses to fight. Her sister Sutra Is a deving caster using her bow and polearm to bainsh evil spirets in cunjution with her Sutras.
"Hay sis I was woundering when did you get a third Jiangshi?" asked Sutra as she cleaved a phantome shadowbolt in two causeing it to vanish.
Talisman giggled as she piuweted cuting down two more of the shades and answred. " Last tuseday that mare carger foun that was killed by a spider-bat bite. She had no faimly so i paied the fea to claime her goges body for my heram of lover mares." Talismans vice was chiper and bright throught her whole responce.
"What! You mean you truned a nother unclaimed victome of this farest in to one of you bucking pleasure toys/wapens?" Shouted Sutra clearly ireat with her morbily distrubed twin.
"Sister dear is Now realy the best time discuse my persole life?" Asked Talisman.
Sutra cut down a nother a shadowbolt and replied. " OK! Ponit made, we will contiue our talk on your lesbian necrofilla latter. I mean it sister."
Talisman cut down three more with her pupet and said "Ofcourse dear sister."
