The Prince of darkness.

Ballad of a ship master.

Its morning. I could tell by the warmth from the sun beating its rays down on the hut. It wasn't too uncomfortable, just a little warm. Turning my head I could see the sleeping zebra 'Moonlight'. Recalling the events that took place before hand, I had made it rather clear to her that I wasn't a demon, and not to kill me. This led to telling me her name. She went back into the hut by herself disgusted at how she acted. I entered behind her, where I found a passed out zebra too tired from her manic over-protective episode. I curled up next to her hoping when she wakes up, that she wont be at a loss.

I laid my head back down on the soft fur blanket hoping to get some more sleep. I felt Moonlight stir in her spot beside me, followed by a yawn, then a gasp. Using my sensitive wings, I could feel the wind coming from her swivelling head. She didn't know what to do. I couldn't help but smile a bit. When she stopped acting like a radar dish I looked up at her. She just stared unsure on what to say, or do. Moon didn't moved. I could tell she was looking for answers on why I was here with her, and not on my ship. I was looking for that one myself. The silence didn't last though as I had to use the bath room. I got up and left to relieve myself.

When I came back from the little boys room. Moonlight was looking depressed. Her head was laid down, her grey eyes looked lifeless, and her tail was curled around her side towards her head. She was miserable. If I was going to get back on track with my real life, I should start here. She was at a loss from the night before, and when I left to the call of nature, she thought I was leaving her to my ship off the island. She thinks I was angry at her. I was a little bit for trying to kill me out of her 'love.' I need to make her feel that I wasn't going to leave her on the island. I wouldn't any way. I could use a potion master, and company.

"Moonlight?" I asked softly. she looked up not believing at what she is seeing.

"Are you all-right? I know we got of an a bad note, but I'd like to ask you to join me on my boat?" I rhymed. Moonlight's eyes told me she wasn't sure at what I had said, but when it set in for a bit, her eyes went wide.

"You must be joking, if so then I'm imploding," she said surprised.

"I am not please come with, I am not saying some random myth," I smiled.

Noticing that I wasn't playing around she got up and gave me a hug in both relief and joy.

It took her awhile to collect all her things. While I waited for the overzealous zebra, I went to my ship. Walking through the jungle, feeling the nice breeze flow over my fur, having the soft earth cushion my pads like I was on the most wonderful shad carpet. It is strange to think, that humans wore shoes yet are feet were made for bare. When I wasn't covering my feet, I found it most comfortable to walk on the ball of my foot. It gave me more spring in my step and it made me look taller. I don't think I could be a pony. I would miss the feeling of the cool soil on my paws. "Do ponies feel what they stand on? If not it must suck."

Breaking out of the trees to the clearing, I gaped at how my ship turned out. The bulky grey hull was a reflective black, the scales were merged together into a single body. The turbines looked like something out of a science fiction movie. I bolted up to the bow to see my canon. The jawline of the golden wolf had a crack down to where the muzzle ended. Smiling I rushed as fast as my wings could carry to the bridge. Opening up the emergency hatch that I left unlocked, I bounced to the centre console. There it was, the button of mass destruction. It had a gold wolf head for a button and the eyes were rubies. "Thank you Deus!" I yelled to the wind.

"I am going to give this a test," I said with excitement. Thinking of a spell and starting up the ship I came to the thought of Zelda. I shall make the spell of storms. Clearing my throat with spell in mind. I pushed the button down, hearing the hatch open up like two over sized rusty doors, I focused my magic into the head. I seen a light flick green telling me it was ready to fire.

"Musica ex magica," i said with glee thinking the song of storms adding my own lyrics.

"Vortex verio tonitrui murmur pluvia a torrent ex fulger facere autem ventus acendent altus autem caelum Facere id pluvia apud aqua dolor hoc tempestas numen erit potens autem ventus numen ascendent." I sang with the song and after every rotation I released the spell letting a flash of light leave my ship. Ounce the song was done I checked out my handy work.

I made a hurricane just four miles away. I could see the rim growing. The black clouds launched lightning towards the sea sending loud booms of thunder shaking the island. It was misty under the cloud layer, a heavy downpour made a mass of wetness that would soak you to the bone. The storm I created was growing into a category eight hurricane and was coming this way. I hit the button causing the weapon to close up its hatch. Then left to find Moonlight to get her in the ship before the island disappears in the storm grounding the ship.

I found the zebra chanting a prayer. She was on her ass with her hooves clasped together. Her stuff was in a very big bag neatly tied up. Did she put the entire hut in there? I booped her nose to get her attention. That didn't work, I tried yelling and pulling on her tail, but she wouldn't budge. I grabbed her bag in my claws to get it to the ship. It was ridiculously heavy. Grunting at my failed attempts to move her out of the trance. I flew back to the ship.

Getting on the controls again, I moved the ship over the mare. Flying through the behemoth to the cargo bay, I opened the loading gate to lower the shipping crate platform down to her. With a bang, I was out side again, though now it was to windy to fly. I landed loading box right beside her. She stopped chanting and just gawked with her jaw opened at the sight of my ship. I motioned for her to get on which she did with haste. Moonlight somehow pulled that bag of hers like a sac of cotton onto the platform. I pushed another button pulling us up into the bowels of my ship.

The gate closed, and a shocked zebra, for the life of her cant comprehend how this ship was flying, she just looked around the cargo hold like a mysterious cave of wonder. Rolling my eyes, I rushed back to the bridge to pull this sucker away from the storm. Ill find her again later.

At the helm for the third time, I took the wheel and put the the ship into full throttle. The Winters Aria didn't like pushing through the storm, so like a genius, I guided her to move with the wind. This made her less cranky. The two hundred mile plus winds combined with the ships four hundred kilometre a hour speed, made it a quick ride. We left the island at such a high speed, I couldn't tell if it was an island in the first place.

Flying with the storm was hard. The storms heavy vortex, kept pulling on the ship to the centre of the hurricane. I had to wait for the right time to break out of its grip. The rain was an endless stream. Lightning hit the ship sending a ripple of electricity over the hull. The gale and thunder tried to snuff out all sounds from the outside. Keeping the wheel turned forty degrees to the left, to help her slowly clime away from the storm that I made with my magic. The spell at the time was a good idea, but being caught in it made me say otherwise. Moonlight somehow made it to the bridge without problem. Her gaze was filled with wonder, and curiosity. I would be to in her position. Sitting down beside me looking over the wheel to see the long weaponized deck being pelted by rain and lightning, then to me.

"Where did you acquire this vessel my son, it doesn't look very simple or fun?" she said.

"I stole it," I said while keeping track of my speed. This made her frown in disappointment.

"You stole this ship little pip," she said.

"Yep," I nodded.

"Will you return it, very quick?" she asked.

"Nope, why would I give a ship that could level mountains to someone who would abuse it," I said lowering the speed by twenty km/h.

This statement made Moonlight contemplate at what I said. I wouldn't tell her that I made the storm with the ship. She forgave me for my theft. It was quiet for a minute till the ship lurched violently to the left. I fell out of position causing the wheel to spin several rotations to the right pushing the ship deeper into the hurricane. I got back up just in time to correct the course, and to see a leviathan sized dragon fly by trying to burn the ship through the storm. The darkness made it difficult to get a clear view of the beast, but the flashes of lightning made it clear enough that this beast, could drag my ship into the sea without a problem. It looked like a dragon with its body shape, but its five individual heads, told me it was a sea hydra. The worst kind of hydra. This beast from legend made the kraken look weak as a bunny. It was easily twice the size of the ship. Time to start an epic sea battle.

I pushed the auto aim button for all canons, this made all of them point at the hydra now on the nose of my ship locking on target. The trigger lit up telling me it was read to fire. Moonlight looked in horror at the beast and was urging me to abandon ship. I just shoved her off. This was the first thing I get to kill with my ship, I wasn't going to waste this opportunity. I needed a song to make this complete. Thinking of the one song I knew that would fit. I opened the canon that made the storm and connected my magic through the wolf head button. The muzzle opened up getting ready to fire. This was my storm to ride. Thinking the song called 'Never surrender' I let it play while I kicked this bitch of my ship. "Musica ex magica".

The music playing loudly through the storm I fired on the beast in a barrage of iron. This made him mad fall off. I pushed my ship back to full speed. The hydra flew above sending green fireballs at my ship, but the dragon scale hull deflected all the flame. I spun the wheel a hard right causing the ship to turn ninety degrees toward the eye of the storm. The hydra came back down in time to be impaled by one of the wings in the chest, bringing him for a ride. It wailed in pain trying to break free from the makeshift spear. The ship did a full three sixty, that's when I corrected the course back to normal. The hydra pulled its self off of the wing and back onto the deck. The guns re-aimed themselves back to the hydra. I smiled hitting the trigger sending the shells into the hole of his stomach, making him explode from the inside out. Just in time for the song to end.

I closed up the "Cadence canon" with the switch closing up the muzzle on the bow shut. The now dead hydra was cleaned off my ship from the hurricane. The now more befuddled zebra, watched the over sized hydra slip off of my ship in two, before fainting. I rolled my eyes giggling happily, at the sight, turning off the auto aim.

I took another hour before we left the storm, back to sunshine and calm weather. I lowered the speed to a cruise of one hundred km/h. Letting go of the wheel, I glided down to the navigation station to figure out where we are. We were far away from Equestria. We were located far from the one day journey to the east coast. We were about a month away. Out of the zebracan island cluster, I can assume we are not going back anytime soon. If we are anywhere we would be at an unknown location with a new continent half a day away from the ships mapping radar. Having enough fun for the day, I set a course for this new land to take a breather.

Celestia POVION

"I felt a strong magical surge off the east coast, Admiral," I said while walking through my castle. Guards giving respectful salutes as we go along to the war room. A room I have not used since the war with Nightmare moon.

"I do not understand princess?" the admiral said. Going into the dusty old room. A round table with an old map of the land at the centre. Closing the door we took a seat for our private discussion.

"I felt something very powerful near the general location where Winter is said to be," I said certain of my hypothesis.

"What would have caused something like that?" she asked.

"I don't know, but I am certain that it was Winter's doing," I proclaimed.

"How could a baby griffin create a disturbance that strong? The only way I could think of was that the ship was destroyed in an explosion," she said.

I thought about her theory, it could be possible. If so than Winter is dead and all information of the ship is lost. Looking at the table, looking to where he could have bin hiding. Then I noticed something. Their is a small island a day away from the mainland, off the east coast. 'Could he have fled there?' I asked myself. I wished my sister was here. She was much better with the seas. The tide was controlled by her moon, and Navel combat was stronger than mine. I lost almost all ship battles to her over a thousand years ago. I could sure use them now.

"Do you think he's dead princess?" the admiral asked pulling me out of my deep thought. It was more than likely that he was dead, as for the ship I cant have another of its kind be taken again.

"Yes he is more than dead," I replied.

"What about this ship?" she asked.

"I do not wish for another of its kind to be in the sky's," I said.

"I understand princess, but what of the search that is is still going on? she asked.

"Let it go on, I don't like having such a problem so close to the capital, 'he' will chase him forever," I said.

Storm wing POVSION

Walking around the deck of the flying ship, I could see that we just entered the coast line to where my brother is hiding. I was jumping with joy, we were finally out to sea! Smelling the clean ocean air, I couldn't be happier. The captain of the ship came out to talk to me. He was a green on green irish talking pony with an anchor over a four leaf clover. He had a beard and an eye patch.

"So, ya griffin tell me where my brother killer is," he said with spite.

"He is two months due east," I said while pointing in the general direction.

"Two months? I though he was a day," he asked.

"He was, but he moved and rather fast too," I said smiling.

"Bugger all, good thing we brought food for the trip. Lead the way Storm." He said while going to the steering wheel.

This ship was a magically reinforced barge, but without the weight from the usual cargo it was going fast. I knew we would catch up to him. I wonder what he looks like? Is he bigger than me? Is he shorter? I cant wait to find him. I cant wait to cut off his skin and ware it like a suit, so we could be togetherforever. I couldn't help but laugh.