Scarlet Sword woke to the sound of screams and a stone cracking roar. Her eyes burst open and she leaped from her bed. When all four hooves hit the floor she immediately ran over to grab her armor and telekinetically reached for her sword. She looked in the mirror to make sure her armor was in place, her black mane falling into her emerald eyes. She double checked all the plates that rested over her scarlet fur as her sword came to her. Upon strapping all her gear in place she ran out of her small house and into the town. She was immediately greeted with an intense heat as a wall of flames flew by, igniting the houses in front of her.

“What the hell is going on here?” She shouted over the roaring flames and screams, seeking information.

“A beast, a beast has come. Midnight is gone. What can we do?” A passing guard screeched as he turned and ran about in the fray.

Scarlet was shaken by his words but quickly regained her level head. There was no time for panicking she needed a plan to get as many ponies out alive as possible.

“Everyone, head for the tunnels. Any and all unicorns should travel with an earth pony or Pegasus. Use a shield spell for the flames. Guards, cast a spell over the town to try and stop the beast. Protect these civilians.” Immediately people fell in line, seeing a chance of order to the chaos around them. The unicorns cast their spells and began moving quickly to the tunnels. The beast let out a roar and circled around preparing to attack the ponies. “Guards, get that spell up now.” Immediately the guards all cast the spell and a bubble formed over the city, to keep the beast at bay.

The beast stopped in it’s tracks seeing this resistance the ponies put up. Many guards let out a small cheer seeing the sudden stop. chants of “this will work” and “we did it” started to come from them. The beast turned and flew high in the sky, as if leaving. Cheers began to rise from the guards, but something bode ill for Scarlet.

“Don’t let the shield down,” she yelled “something doesn't seem right here.” Immediately the beast turned and dive bombed to the town. “Watch out!” Scarlet screamed. The beast hit the shield and shattered it easily. The magical feedback made all the guards, Scarlet included, collapse to their knees. The beast turned it’s attention to the civilians as it soared to them. “no,” Scarlet’s voice was barely a whisper as the beast let out a breath of fire that engulfed the civilians.

The beast landed, seeing that it had killed the civilians. It folded its wings in, looking like bloody streaks down it’s side. It walked on it’s two sturdy legs, standing as taller then any dragon Scarlet had ever seen, and observed the destruction. Within seconds it had reached the first guard. He tried to run, to get away and live, but the the beast took one bite and severed the guard in half. After the gruesome display the monster began to systematically kill all the guards who lay on the ground. Most were devoured whole, but the ones that tried to run were all torn to bloody bits. Finally the monster came up to Scarlet.

Seeing the beast up close was terrifying. It was similar to a dragon but so much worse in so many ways. It’s putrid breath rank of burning flesh, and the thing seemed to radiate heat, far worse than any natural fire. It’s gaze was enough to turn a cockatrice to stone. And just as it’s massive maw with dagger like teeth came to meet Scarlet, she regained a level head.

Quickly she unsheathed her sword and rolled to the side. If she was going to die she would die fighting. She lunged for it’s face, sword magically in tow, and made a slash under it’s burning eye. As soon as the sword met the scales it broke in half, the tip flying away behind her. The beast locked it’s gaze on her, holding eye contact for a brief second before flicking it’s head and sending her flying twenty feet away. Scarlet hit the ground with a rough crack and felt he leg snap under the pressure. the beast walked up to her again this time with a strange look to it. Scarlet finally realized what this behemoth was. The wyvern she had heard about in foal's tale.

“Joor, mortal,” the wyvern spoke with a resounding voice that vibrated Scarlet’s bones. “the others ran. Yet you choose to fight. You have a fire in you. might you be the Kriid? Time will tell. Drall, pray, find me when you grow strong.” the wyvern let out a plume of blue fire. Yet instead of burning Scarlet it just surrounded her. A mild sting was felt and when she looked her leg was fine. The fire stopped all at once “If you have a true fire then you shall find me. Fail, as all weak do, and this world shall perish.” It took to the sky and flew away leaving Scarlett where she lay, the sole survivor of the town.

She felt herself begin to slip into unconsciousness as something seemed to fall from the sky. Scarlet, with the last of her strength, stretched her head to see what it was. Instantly a sword landed and stabbed into the ground beside her. She turned her head to see it and was amazed. The Sword was Exquisitely crafted with a solid red blade, and black hilt. The guard was in the shape of the wyvern that had just took of, and the blade seemed etched with a scaly tail wrapping around it. Black filled the corners of Scarlet’s vision as she stared at the blade. A voice, sounding just like the monster, spoke in her head. Take up arms, Kriid. Take up arms and find me. Scarlet slipped into unconsciousness.

A passing messenger had seen the town below. Burned to a crisp with bodies littered everywhere. The heat coming from the town was immense, and the messenger had to fly up to avoid it. Suddenly there was a roar and the messenger whipped his head up to see a great creature flying away. Immediately he flew to Canterlot.

The messenger burst through the door to the throne room, two guards following.

“Princess Luna! Princess Celestia! Help!” The messenger screamed. “A town has been burned, a town has been burned.” Immediately Princess Luna turned her attention from the night court and Princess Celestia appeared from the hall.

“What is this? A town you say?” Princess Luna requested the information, irritated to be interrupted.

“Moon's shadow your highness. It is burned to the ground. I saw it myself.”

“Sister, is that not wear Midnight Wing is?” Celestia asked, worry etching her face.

“‘Yes dear sister. Pray tell, were there survivors?” Luna asked no longer concerned for the night court.

“None that I could see your highness.”

“Did you see who did it?” Celestia asked.

“Not sure your highness, but I saw… something. It looked like a dragon, but not quite. The thing was terrifying, even from my distance. I've never flown so fast in my life.”

“You say it was terrifying, but did you see it for yourself? Might your mind have made it in your panic?” Luna questioned, needing every detail.

“It was real, I know that. I didn't get a good look, but it was black as a moonless night, and something about it gave of a feeling of fear and death.”

The sisters locked eyes, all their worries, changing to fear.

“The Wyvern has come,” They both said in unison “May the gods help us all.”

Author's Note

This is set in an alternate universe though I will be trying to keep it close to the true one. Luna will be different in her speech patterns because I am not that skilled with older speech. Sorry. I hope you enjoy. leave a like and comment if you do.