From the ashes

It was an hour from morning, ‘a little chilly’ the hydra thought as it slowly descended into the roiling depths of the swamp on its marry way to its favorite ambushing pond where it usually caught 1 0r 2 meals. One of the heads was watching the sky with bemusement when it noticed something appear as if sliding through water midair. The head gave a brief squawk until its stomach rumbled ‘food’, it was time to hunt.

Waking up while falling the creature found itself mere meters from the ground and did the only thing it could think of, it spread its dark grey black wings for a hard break. Even with its light build the creature landed with a crash, lifting itself to its feet it felt a pain along the main shaft of the wing ‘Apparently I won’t be flying anytime soon’ the creature thought bitterly as it gauged the situation looking around at the forested cliff side it landed on it thought quickly ‘ok I’m in the middle of the woods and I’ve drained myself too far AGAIN, oh well at least no… ’ it stopped the internal monologue, noticing the small distinct vibrations on the ground of something huge coming ‘maybe one of the locals? ’ it wondered idly.

Thump.

Thump.

CRASH.

The scaled creature strangely chuckled as the giant three headed hydra towered over him completely dashing the last idea the creature had to bits like the tree crushed under the monstrosity’s foot.

The hydra hungrily tore the ground rushing at the small creature in front of it not even wondering why the creature wasn’t running away instead all it could thing about was the insufferable growl of its stomach. Then as if on cue the air in front of the hydra caught fire but instead of worrying about it, it pushed through the illusory flames still pressing on to feed on its declared target which was already started raising its arm as if in defense.

Before the hydra could even reach the grimacing creature a blinding light flashed from its hand. When the light cleared and vision returned to normal the creature did a double take on the remains of the hydra and the still burning trunks of at least three hundred trees behind it then whispered a soft “woops” while thinking ‘ok so at least for now I’ll just have to assume I didn’t lose control of my power for a second and that this new world just multiplies the power of the magic you use hmmm this’ll be interesting, I guess I’ll just have to figure out just  what the laws of this world are and if and what nations already exist I already felt magic other than mine before I cast that flare three. but befor i do any of that shelter first!’ it carefully scratched the irritating area underneath its chin while observing the area for any notable dangers, it walked past the charred and unrecognizable remains of the foolish hydra that attacked, and into the forest to hide from any inconsequential observers, off into the area scouting for a safe place to spend the next night considering what had just happened.

The creature had seen a few buildings of what could be a town, and even a griffon or two passing overhead with some direction to their path while walking through the jungle eventually reaching the other side of the valley the sun already having cleared the tips of the mountain tops and almost well over head the creature decides to take a quick break and drink some water, and clean the wounds on its broken wing befor using a basic cell re-growth spell and resetting the broken bone in its wing to make sure it could fly the next day after the quick ministrations it decided to continue on in search of shelter.

At noon daytime by the phase of the bright sun-like orb over head the creature had managed to sequester itself into a safe well hidden cave in a cliff face at least 20 miles from its ‘point of origin’ it thought with a smirk, ‘well, could be worse what with all the powerful forces I’ve detected, it’ll be a good Idea-’ the creature summoned up some magical string and used it to tie some planks of wood together making a small temporary barricade at the entrance to the cave which was thrice checked to be empty and echoed to make sure there was only one entrance ‘to keep a low profile until the local ‘gods'' it thought with a chuckle  ‘are proven to be nonhostile-’ seeing it had time to rest it decided to reminisce over the reasons why being so careful was a must ‘learned that the hard way from the kreegans that invaded Erathia, the so called Gods just called a giant cataclysm just because the planet was infested with the demonic parasites even after they were wiped out the heroes that were trained by falagar in the year 1507 after the initiation of the ancients war’ the creature thought angrily. The thought of anything that would be termed a god after the depredations the creature saw from such forces really kindled its ire. It imagined the last so called god it faced, something called ‘sin’ weak as it was it still managed to keep an entire populace under its control. one fundamental thing about all these worlds it thought was that they were all destroyed by unforeseen consequences, I need to stop moping and pay attention, ok-’ placing its hand on its chin thoughtfully while laying its head back upon a soft piece of sandstone ‘first I have shelter, second after resting figure out what the locals are like I thought I noticed a town on the east side of the mountain, and third keep a low profile, forth make some allies or at the very least friends’ and with that thought the creature decided to get some rest to recuperate from the magic used in the healing earlier, by curling around and making a small nest in the semi wet clay sediment of the cave floor it settled its head in-between its arms on the sand-stone pillow replacement, and promptly began bubbling out peaceful breaths of comforting sleep

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Earlier just as the sun was peaking over the horizon, within a cliff home a pair of griffons was having an argument. “What no thou shall not command me this way I may beist thin daughter but, you must realize patriarch Talon that thin child is no longer a chick but a well grown adult.” The child ruffled and puffed-out her feathers in annoyance at the elders skepticism “your continued worry is an irksome matter I wish that thou would’st realize this. I need not be monitored like some foolish and weak pony” She then threw a piercing glare of defiance her father’s way. “I know well how to handle mine own self in dangerous situations.”

“hmm do you now young Mieldar?” answered the gravelly voice of her father. “ist thou sure that thou can handle thyself in such situations as say the hydra of boggy bottom swamp? Hmm?” the older griffon gave her a knowing smirk.

mieldar bristled with annoyance at the affront “thou doubtest mine own skills I wouldst have thou remember that to slay a hydra even a young one requirest a small band of well trained warriors but yes I have faced a hydra and escaped.” She lifted her paw as if to hold something up to her eye that was within her grasp. “doest this explanation answer thin question?” she returned her paw to the floor than did an about face towards the entrance to the small cliff-side cavern. “now excuse me before I do something I'll regret later!”

Her father called to her as she was padding out the exit.

“Then be careful Mieldar for thou knowest that thou art the only living offspring of my clutch …”

she didn’t listen to the rest of his spiel having heard it time and again she was tired of it, right now only wishing to put as much distance between her and that loud mouth as possible. She decided to do a few tricks flying over the forest valley to clear her thoughts, but as she was flying over head for at least an hour she noticed something strange in the distance a thin black smoky mist was rising over a part of the forest near the swamp quarter, after an internal argument over whether it was safe or not curiosity got the best of her and drove her to check it out.

When she landed the first thing she noticed was how unnatural the forest fire was instead of raging and flowing like an unstoppable mass of flame and death like what happened in black forest deep in the northern ranges of griffonia instead it was as if a focused beam of power had blasted the branches from all of the trees in its wake ending at the scorched cliff face not 100 meters away. Realizing she didn’t know anyone or anything that could possibly cause this kind of damage and after arriving at the realization that whatever caused this had probably moved on leaving the remnants of its actions for all to see, after this realization she decided  it would be safe to check and see if she could find the epicenter of where this thing was caused she leaped back into the air then, with a decided goal in mind she began heading to where the sides of the blasted ground met, what she found made her shudder, at the epicenter located just in front of the blast was a huge blackened husk obviously the body of a huge creature. ‘what was this thing, what was it fighting, and what nightmarish creature could hold so much power’ she looked back at the ashen swath behind her fidgeting her wings nervously she came to a decision that she would remain quiet about this apparently no one else had noticed so she was in the clear. ‘alright I’m heading back to get some rest hopefully I can get this out of my head tomorrow I have watch on mesa three, hopefully watching those boring pony’s will clear this crap out of my head’ and with that thought she started flying back to the crag which made up her home, and also returning to that boring old father of hers.

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“luna … lunaaa. Waketh up sleepy head” with both the prodding and the bright light shining in her face she couldn’t help but groan “tia wouldst thou allow a few more minutes please!” the poking paused as if in acquiescence of the request then she felt herself lifting into the air she squealed “celestia what ist thou doing! Put me down this instant!”

Celestia put on a serious face as her smaller sister turned to glare at her “now, now lulu we both know its morning and I needest thin help in lowering the moon so I can raiseth my sun. Of course afterward we can go into town and playest with our other friends yes or thou can tend to thin rest however thou seest fit while I play.” She grinned ear to ear while her sisters grimace warmed under the suggestions rays.

“Ok celly I hopest that thou wouldest not be so wude” she finished just as her sister set her back down on the soft grass on the field. Looking up at the starlit sky she spoke “ok tia weddy when you awe!” and with that both alicorns  stood at the ready, lifted their horn’s, and closed their eyes as they guided there celestial namesakes through the sky’s to start another day.

Once they had finished celestia turned to luna with a half moon grin on her face “thou havest a good rest lulu I shall return later to check up on you lest thou comest later on to join in the fun at hayville. See ya!” and with that she took off like a rocket through the forest like the beams of sunlight that was just now cresting over the mountains on the horizon.

“I’ll be coming later celly I just need some rest.” She spoke softly while she laid down and went to sleep on the soft grass.

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Celestia loved hayville the small town had a lot of very nice pony’s and even better lots of other foals and filly’s to play alongside. “YAY!” she squeed as she shot through the entrance to the town. She looked both ways along the streets seeing so many brightly colored pony’s then she gasped with joy as she saw her quarry a middle aged brown coated mare with a cutie mark resembling a sewing needle and a ball of yarn.“Hello miss tailor how art thou today may thy colt known as sillystrings come out and play?” she stepped in front of the mare who’d been working over her latest sewing project and gave the poor lady the most innocent smile she could.

The mare looked at the small filly in front of her and gave a long sigh finally speaking up “oi E may come out an play but ‘member don’ make any problems! O ‘nd one more ting you’ll find de rest o tem friends o yors in ol mare oats. AN WATCH Y’SELVS Y’HEAR!” she yelled the last as the two small filly’s one pearlescent white the other a shade darker than copper with a white blaze around his mouth went scurrying down the street on there way to meet up with the others and play. Then she turned back to her work and continued on the corn silk fabric jerken.

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Luna joined in with celestia and the others later on but however as with all things the day came to an end and celestia was grateful if tired to finally be able to set the sun and go to bed after seeing luna’s beautiful stars and commenting on them then smiling just befor sleep over took her.

Elsewhere a pair of tawny griffons looked at each other across the table from each other the smaller looking cross while the older more grizzled one smirked on his jagged beak at the smaller one who then decided it would be a better idea to sleep than listen to another one of the elders rants.

In a dank dark cavern rested the creature, its breath bubbling underneath the sound of water dripping from the many ceiling stalagmites, its slender form slowly rising and falling underneath the dim glow of the moonlight trickling in from the entrance to the cavern.

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The next day the sun shinned brightly, there were few clouds in the sky and it was time to actually scout the new world that the creature was in. only now the creature was already outside the cavern and ready to take off the only reason it wasn’t flying already was because it was taking its time to fully cook 2 twig-snared squirrels and a rabbit the squirrels were wrapped in leaves for later and the rabbit was downed quickly in one bite then followed instantly with a few hastily picked berries from the surrounding woods the day before. After being sated it finally felt ready to test the mended wing to make sure it was ready for flight after having been mangled so bad the day before finding the first sweep more than satisfactory the creature took to the sky’s.

Still not wanting to be seen by any of the locals it decided to stay close to the tree tops so as to not be noticed along with using a simple illusion spell to dawn a disguise of one of the many birds it had seen above its head but like the first spell for some reason it went wild when the creature launched itself mid air and made the creature look like a blazing phoenix so it had to touch down and make a firmer adjustment to the spell making sure he wouldn’t break and go wild again then took off to scout the area and take note of any locations of interest.

After a few hours and 4 rounds of the valley the creature landed at the mouth of its layer and was ready to plan but ‘first lunch’ it thought as it slowly walked into the cavern and summoning a small orb of magefire ‘stew? Maybe hmmm no just berry’s it seems that the common locals I saw in that town on the sunny top side of the valley near those peculiar planes are vegetarian so I’ll have to stick with a simple diet of foraged foods rather than the kind that bled! ’it thought with a smile until it looked inside its pack then smirked “after I eat these.” Referring to the still unfinished squirrels in its pack, after drowning the remaining bits in its throat with some water gathered from the damp surroundings of the cave. It came to the quick conclusion that the most dominant species here was the pony’s and that if he was to gain any ally’s it’d have to disguise and scout the town from below before making the next move. And so with the quickly strung plans in head the creature removed any sign of its presence in the cavern within and without, and with that the creature took off towards the sunny town on the eastern side of the valley.

Arriving at the town just at noon the creature landed in a shaded position just outside of town deciding it was as good a position to spy the actions going on watching the town as any settled in for a long session of studying. Occasionally using his disguise to either fly to a new position so as to look less suspicious or to follow pony’s of interest on pair amongst a large group of what the creature would consider children grabbed its attention the most a midnight blue filly with the strange mixture of both horn and wings and a near Identical companion of pearlescent white of the same features larger only by inches the ‘reason it’s so strange-’ the creature thought ‘is because there are no others of the same make-up as them. hmmm, ah this is where scan comes into play!. Now to just get close enough.’ The creature ruffled its illusory plumage in thought then decided ‘ok I won’t be able to get up close in a disguise so I’ll just have to take my chances with a transformation spell’ and with that the creature took wing to a secluded spot where it swiftly transformed into a rabbit the creature sighed in disgust‘I guess this’ll have to do till I finish scanning the pony’s.’

As the creature was returning to the field where the pony’s were playing the creature reminded himself ironically‘Well I guess this is kind of my fault for not making contact with anything else but plants and those three morsels’ at that the creature sighed out of its rabbit teeth as it made its way onto field where the children were playing. Surprisingly as it started crossing the field the creature felt itself being watched and took a quick glance at the pony’s and noticed a few of them blatantly staring at it, then without warning they suddenly started charging its position and in a flurry and rush they quickly overtook the creature and started by picking it up and snuggling in between their forearms and faces ‘ANCESTORS DAMN IT’ it thought miserably ‘The transformation spell apparently works well…Too well.*’ It sighed in annoyance as it was picked up and hugged yet again due to its accidental cuteness ‘so much for subtlety, at least I can finish my scan and figure out how these creatures work. Now to just figure out an escape or just wait for them to get bored of this silly little game of crush the bunny!*’at that last thought it rolled it eyes in annoyance as it once again got sucked into another hug this time with the midnight blue equine, it had already scanned the others and found they all had some form of magic or other that could be manipulated on its own and that it was a decent amount too surprisingly.

The creature originally thought that the two abnormal equines like most mixes would be weak instead when the creature came in contact with the midnight blue … ‘Alicorn’

the word immediately came into its thoughts as it was assaulted by A thousand years of memory’s the creature sensed even farther into the pony and found an immense ocean sized pool of energy within the creature '… by the ashes!, I knew this world was young but I didn’t expect it to be this young not to mention how young these two creators are. Hmmm I’m thoroughly impressed but now that I’ve scanned every ‘pony’ should be some simple terminology to learn other than that it doesn’t seem really hard to fit in best of all I don’t really have to worry about danger so I’ll finally get some rest, but first I need to I need to find a way to introduce myself to these pony’s so I’m convincing and can fit in easily which means’ it thought with a groan maning more bordome and ‘more scouting’

it was safely thirty minutes of cuteness before the creature found its escape through a small briar bush it was able to jump into, that it was connected directly to the forest of course it waved a quick mocking good bye before taking off into the comfortingly safe camouflage of the forest, to plan its next move.