High above the Everfree Forest sat a castle of cloud. A true work of pegasus ingenuity. It was a massive structure. A system of several thunderheads stretched and wrapped around one another, making an entire city that rivaled Canterlot in size, and unlike the pegasus home of Cloudsdale, it had just as diverse a population as the capitol, if a bit less densely populated. It could support a host of ponies of all kinds, earth, unicorn, obviously pegasi, ponies from the crystal empire, even the odd alicorn made their home here. The clouds were solid to anypony, bound with a touch of unicorn magic, and wrought from midsummer thunderstorms, they were hard as stone, and could withstand anything short of the wrath of a dragon's magefire. It sat securely guarded from interlopers by a combination of the jet stream, and a shield of bent air currents, forcing the winds to whip wickedly around the complex, making approach from any side incredibly difficult for an unwanted guest.

Upon one of the many lazily outstretched arms of the cloud system sat The Tyrant Spire: an enormous tower from which a pony could see the entire world. It sat ominously, the seat of power for the entire castle and any other place its owners exerted their presumed authority upon, which was a considerably sized region indeed, following the fracture of Equestria.

The tower had the appearance of a single column, with fluting running up the entire length, and volutes flourishing the top where it met with the base of the throne room; a massive circular room open to the air on all sides. The room was little more than a ceiling and a floor, held apart by heavily stylized columns, and decorated with massively intricate murals on floor and ceiling, depicting the day and the night respectively. The whole of the throne room stood fifty feet tall and over two hundred feet across.

Imagine if you will the peaceful view of this terribly austere place. A light breeze allowed through the air shield. The harsh sun on the stark white of the castle. It was like this on the day our story began.

Then suddenly everything grew quiet, like the hush between a lightning bolt and the crescendo as the thunderclap hits. Reality gave a sharp inhale as magic tore into existence, and then an explosive exhale, and the tower's wall expanded outwards in a cloud of deep, unnaturally purple, smoke. Sailing through the air, visible from the lower parts of the cloud, trailing smoke behind it, was a small pale purple dot. If a pony squinted her eyes hard enough she could almost make out the shape of a winged stallion falling to the earth.

He broke through the air shield, and the air whipped his body around like a ragdoll. His wings caught air again once he was out of the shield's effect, and he slowed. He was clearly unconscious; his body returned limply into a dive pose. Smoke continued to pour out of his coat, feathers, mane, and tail, marking his path through the air. A storm rumbled over the untamed forest. It swirled around him, the eye of the storm allowing him to pass through. The vortex pushed up on him, but not enough to keep him aloft. Windswept clouds twisted and lashed around him as he plummeted.

He broke through the clouds, and was visible to the entire forest and its inhabitants. He continued to drop through the air. The storm seemed to hold its breath for a moment as he fell. Then he hit ground, sending up a massive cloud of smoke that mingled coyly with the trees.

The storm's breathy gusting resumed, sucking the smoke up into the sky. The forest resumed its irreverent din, and life continued on much as it had before.

Author's Note

this is an adaptation of a comic i made for tumblr. i'm probably going to get rid of some of the more gimmicky things, like "Tumblrtron X-Thousand" my parody of Tumblrbot (unless of course someone thinks i should leave him in).
pretty much a first draft, typing as fast as i can think of words to put down, so any suggestions on clarity or flow are probably needed. i'm doing kind of a narrative style which is very different from my usual, so i'm hoping it worked out all right.