Chapter One: Welcome to the New Age

Western Plains of Lemuria (formerly Equestria). Year 15 of The Xenozoic Era.

Luna had been living here for a long time.

It had been 15 years since chaos begun, when the Earth went haywire. When everything her sister did came back to bite her in the ass hard. Luna could still remember the day when Celestia's world came crashing down on her, when Equestria died in the final battle at Canterlot.

Luna walked on the ground, which was ironically safer then flying in skies full of killer Pterosaurs and giant birds of prey. Luna her self found safety in the form of a mixed herd of Ultrasauros and Mesohippus. Luna felt more at ease with the primitive horses then she did with the giant sauropods. It was almost unnerving how much the dinosaurs reminded her of the Dragons back in her home-world. It had been over 20 years since Celestia, claiming that the world was going to end, moved Equestria to another planet, only to start planning conquest. Luna had been fooled into believing that it was right, that the humans needed to be converted. But as the years went by, She thought twice about the whole thing. Soon she decided to confront Celestia about one part of the Conversion; The so-called 'new-foals' former humans that were in fact, mindless, retarded, unnatural freaks. Luna had found out about the Tampering of the Conversion Potion and decided enough was enough.

Luna still remembered that day, it was the same day all hell broke lose when a human wizard hijacked the Barrier and awakened the lay-lines of the planet. The disaster that happened changed the planet. Earthquakes shook the land, tsunamis smashed into coastal areas worldwide while the weather started going nuts. The polar ice caps melted and flooded many places while volcanoes sent out clouds of ash and sulfur to cover other places. Even the plants went wild! Earth it self rebelled against Celestia and the Unicorns had the worse part of it. The Magi-Apocalypse as it was called caused many unicorns to lose their magic or died. Then came the reports of the strange animals.

The Resurrection of the Prehistoric monsters was what ended Pony Civilization on Earth. The Prehistoric mammals, the Mammal-like Reptiles and the other animals were deadly, but the Theropods were the nightmare. The carnivorous dinosaurs hunted all ponies as prey, killing many. The New-foals were easy targets for them. The worse of the lot were the Raptors. Those reptilian monsters with minds like humans and ponies had become the new ruling sentient race on the planet, thanks to the magic that Igor Lynch used. The Raptors started their own empires and hunted down the ponies.

Then they came here. Luna thought. The Black Claw clan, which had been nomadic, invaded Equestria, bringing their war-beasts and weapons and dark magic. Nothing could stop them. Twilight and her friends were powerless, Fluttershy was missing, along with Discord, Applejack fell in battle, Rarity was killed, Pinkie Pie also died at their claws. Rainbow dash was in one of the Colonies in North America when the Invasion happened. Twilight Sparkle survived the invasion and disappeared, just after Jezebel attacked Canterlot.

Luna shivered thinking of her, Empress Jezebel of the Black Claw, a witch with feathers and a evil gleam in her eyes. That monster was the one who brought the final blow to Equestria, she was the one who murdered Celestia. Luna knew that she was now being hunted by the Raptor Empress, who had renamed the land Lemuria and was expanding her empire across the Pacific rim.

The Herd had stopped near a grove of trees, which gave Luna a much earned rest. Luna went to a near by brook and took a drink, still thinking about what to do. I might be the only pony left. She thought, I have seen no other pony, not even a new-foal. Perhaps the Raptors killed them all. Luna continued thinking about was was now the new normal in her homeland, when she heard the animals starting to get nervous. It was the sign of a predator stalking the herd. Luna looked around and saw something on a near by hill. In fact, it was three somethings, three large bipedal beasts, by the way they looked, they were Allosaurus but she saw something else, something was on the backs of the beasts. Luna had to act fast, using her powers, she shape-shifted into a Mesohippus, which was painful as she had to change her feet from having one toe, to having three. Luna kept a eye on the three dinosaurs, which were now racing down the hill. Had she been spotted?

Luna could now see that there were things riding on the Allosaurus. Two of the riders were ape-like creatures, smaller then the long gone humans. The ape-things wore leather armor and were armed with spears. The leader was a Deinonychus, one of the ruling races of the Raptors, the feathered dinosaur wore the same armor as the ape-things. The three looked at the herd from their mounts, searching for something. Luna guessed what it was they were looking for. “No sign of that winged black bitch.” The Raptor said, “She must have spotted us and hid. Head for the next herd!” The two Ape-things nodded and rode away, while the leader looked back at the herd. He was staring at Luna. Luna almost thought that he had found out that she was in the herd, but he turned his mount and rode after the other two.

Luna knew that they were looking for her. Jezebel wanted to kill all the Princesses, Celestia was dead, Cadence was missing along with Twilight Sparkle, for all Luna knew, they were dead. Luna sighed, it seemed that she was indeed the last Alicorn in the Universe. Checking to see that the Black Claw riders were not coming back, she turned back to her true form and leap into the air and landed on an Adult Ultrasauros. From there, she saw that the riders weer heading off away from the herd. She smiled a bit, she would not be found today.

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Raptorpolis, Capital of Lemuria

the large airship floated in the sky, the propellers that carried it in the air whirled like the wings of a dragonfly. Unlike the old airships of the Equestrians, the Black Claw ships did not need balloons to hold then in the air. The large engines kept the metal ship flying. Eight to hold it in the air and four to propel it forward. The Dark Sun was heading for the Imperial capital, coming back from Patagonia and the war with that kingdom, it also carried one passenger hat had been summoned by her Imperial Majesty her self, Jezebel Darkfeather her self.

The creature watched as the airship started coming towards the Obsidian Palace it self. It, like the rest of the capital was colored black, surrounded by clouds of smoke from the factories that were all round the city. The Palace's main tower it self was never built by Raptors, but was built by another race, known as the 'hue-mon'.

Distant cousins to Grand General Thor'rak.

Thor'rak was not a Raptor, but a Ardipithecus, a species of hominid ape that was an ancestor of the 'hue-mons', he wore brown leather armor decorated with gold braids, a symbol of his rank as Grand General of the Black Claw Empire, one of seven such officers with that rank. His fur was dark brown, his eyes gray as steel. It always seem that he had a scowl on his face, as such was common for a general.

The Dark Sun was docking at the airship dock, ropes shooting out and connecting to the platform. As the airship docked, Thor'rak turned to look out the window of the ship, beyond the walls of Raptorpolis was the dreaded Everfree Forest, a place that many in the Black Claw feared, it was unnatural, things in that forest were deadlier then even the oceans of the planet. Thor'rak had heard about patrols that went into the forest to hunt down the Resistance, only to never come back.

The ship soon docked and Thor'rak soon got off the ship and headed off to the palace throne room. Thor'rak walked through the dark halls. He soon walked to a set of large mahogany doors, guarded by two Deinonychus in black armor. The two were males, as one could tell by the mane of red and black feathers that their ancestors once used to attract females of their species. The two had their halberds crossed, blocking the door. “I am here to see her Majesty.” Thor'rak said to them. The two on crossed their weapons and opened the door.

The throne room was lit up with a red light from the large torches. The windows were made of red and purple stained glass, in the far end of the room was a throne, a throne made out of the horns and bones of unicorns. In front of it was a odd looking throw rug, it was while colored and looked liked a equine, two holes in the back was were it once had wings. The head, shaved of it's mane looked out with empty eyes. The rug had once been a royal ruler of the Ponies, a mix of the long extinct unicorns and the pegasi. Sitting on the throne was the one Thor'rak was to see. A Female Deinonychus with feathers black as the night. Her eyes glowed red with the powers she welded. A Powerful witch among all, she was the most powerful Raptor ever.

Empress Jezebel Darkfeather, ruler of the Black Claw Empire.

“Welcome, Grand General.” she said, her voice as smooth as Silk from Cathy, yet it was as hard as iron. “I have herd your report of the campaign against the Patagonians, I say that you have done well against that nation of sloth-herders.” Thor'rak bowed. “They could not stand up to the might of your soldiers, great one.” he said. Jezebel got up off her throne and walked over to him. “Yes,” she cooed, walking over to the side of the throne, to a fin-backed lizard like animal, a Dimetrodon that she kept as a pet, “The army of the Black Claw is powerful.” she then turned to Thor'rak “Unfortunately, not all commanders are like you. They have not yet captured the Pony Princess.” Thor'rak looked up, “We did capture one of them.” he said, “The Princess Cadence was found in Patagonia, trying to head north into Cascadea and the Rainbow Rebellion.” Jezebel turned to him “Ah, that leaves only one left.” she said.

Rumors were that the fourth princess, Twilight Sparkle was dead, but yet some still said she was still alive, hiding from all the world. But Jezebel never believed in rumors. She walked over to one of the windows and looked down. In the city, four hundred slaves, Crystal Ponies. The Crystal Ponies flesh was made of crystal and could not be eaten, so they were made into beasts of burden, slaves for the Empire. “Now these slaves will never have the hope of being saved by their 'goddess'” then she turned, with a scowl on her face. “Unless that Night Princess decides to lead the resistance!” Thor'rak nodded, “We have scouts searching all over Lemuria, she can not escape the continent.” Jezebel turned towards, glaring, “But she could still contact the Ever-free Rebels!” she growled, “I want you to lead the hunt, post a reward of four hundred thousand shells for her capture! Send all your best hunters after her! I want her head.”

“and what of our prisoner?” Thor'rak asked.

Jezebel smiled. “Leave her to me, I have plans for that pink furred mammal.”

Author's Note

Now we will not getting the story off the ground and it will only get more exciting once I continue with it.

As for the thing about the shells, Shells is the currency used by all Raptor clans around the world. Made of Gold, Silver, Copper, Platinum, Titanium or Iron, they are made to look like seashells.