Chapters Ponyville Police Department
--Chapter 3--
Meeting
“Laaaaaaaauuugh!”
All girls burst into laughter after Pinkie’s song. She was known for making things like that all around Ponyville, but Twilight didn’t know her before and that just made her reaction to pink pony’s antic even more powerful than for other girls.
She was never a pony to make friends, being Princess’s personal student comes with a lot of responsibility and expectations, she just could not fail her teacher by not taking her studies serious enough. Friends would take time she could spend on studying new spells. And what would her parents thought? They put so much effort in making sure she’ll get to Princess’s school. There is simply no way in the world for her to make friends.
And yet, somehow around those 5 girls she felt deferent. She couldn’t put a hoof on it, but she had that feeling she felt only when Spike and her brother were around. The feeling that she’s not alone. That there’s somepony who cared…
It took them a while to gather themselves and tame their laughs. They were just about to move on and continue their mission, when they heard someone calling from behind the tree. “Um, hello?”
Everypony turned their heads to source of the sound. “Who’s there?” Said Rainbow Dash.
Who can be here? Doesn’t he know how dangerous that place is? Twilight thought and casted a simple scanning spell. All she found was some bugs though. What?! Impossible! Somepony has to be there, but why can’t I sense him? This spell should have point out any magical being in range of 20 meters. To hide from it you had to hide the very essence of your magic. Something commonly considered to be impossible.
After a moment of hesitation Revan answered. “Em, let’s say I’m someone who got terribly lost and is looking for a way back home.”
“Ok sugarcube, we can give you directions to the closest town, but care to explain why are ya hiding behind a tree?” Revan heard one of girls behind the tree saying with a country accent.
“Well… ok, this may sound a bit weird but, are you ponies?” He asked to make sure book he found wasn’t just some kind of joke or something like that. And besides who said that those ponies are the only sapient beings around?
“Of course darling, what else could we be? Only village around is Ponyville, and I don’t recall any non-pony residents.” Said rather classy voice.
“You see, when I said that I got lost, I didn’t really meant that I got lost In a woods… ok, that too, but what I meant by that, was getting lost in completely different dimension or planet.”
All girls stood there for a moment with puzzled looks printed on their muzzles (except for Pinkie, she’s beyond that).
“And furthermore, I’m also not a Pony and I don’t know how you will react on seeing me since I don’t know does my kind exist here, so I’m hiding because I don’t want to scare away my possibly only chance to get some help” He finished.
“Is that some kind of poor joke?” Asked tomboyish voice. “If it is then than you’re really bad at that kind of stuff. Now come on, get out of there or I’ll get you out myself.”
Revan sighed. “Very well, but before I’ll do that, I want to assure all of you that I’m no threat and will not try to harm any of you.”
“Heh, you couldn’t harm me no matter how hard you’d tr-WOAH!” Rainbow’s statement was cut off by the huge biped coming out from behind the tree.
This time all ponies (again, except for Pinkie; she was thinking of all new kinds of parties she can throw now) stood there with their mouths hanging wide open. Fluttershy hid behind Rainbow and curled up into a ball.
Ravan couldn’t say he expected those ponies to be so… well, colorful. Another point for you Warren. He knew the basic build of their bodies from the book he found in the castle, but there was simply no word about what colors their coats can take. Maybe that’s just some kind of fashion here, or something like that.
While Revan didn’t have all that much to take; thanks to the anatomy book he found, girls had much more to cope with. First of all, he was huge, two times their size at least. Next ware his eyes, they were incredibly small; almost as small as a newborn foal’s. There was practically no hair on his body, except the top of his head and there was also a bit of it on his arms, he also wore some kind of dark clothing. He was completely wet too.
Rest of girls didn’t pick that up, but Rarity’s expert eyes quickly noticed that it wasn’t either casual, nor formal clothing. More like a uniform.
Creature’s body was built very similar to the minotaur. But not nearly as bulky and with the flat face instead of a long muzzle. Anything else was quite hard to spot, since cloth he wore covered most of his body.
They just stood there and stared at themselves for some time. And probably still would, if not for Mischief who stepped out from behind the tree.
Fluttershy peeked from behind her long mane. “AH! A DOG!” She screamed and rushed straight to Mischief startling everyone in the process. Rainbow Dash, who happened to at the wrong place at the wrong time got pressed into the ground.
“Oh, aren’t you just the cutest oversized dog I’ve ever seen?” Yellow pony said while petting Mischief’s head. The dog didn’t seem to care at all.
All eyes were set on Fluttershy, and she just realized she is right next to the mysterious, high and scary creature she had never seen before.
She slowly looked up and lowered herself. “P-please don’t hurt me!!!”
“Eee… I won’t…”
“Please don’t eat me!!!”
“I won’t do that either.”
“Please Mr. Big Monster, I don’t want to die!!!” Fluttershy cried out. Mischief was looking at her completely unmoved by the whole situation and simply sat on his hunches.
“My name is not ‘Big Monster’, it’s Revan, and I assure you that I don’t have any bad intentions towards any of you. I just need some help, that’s all.”
“S-so… you’re not going to harm me?”
“No.”
“Oh, I’m sorry for being afraid of you Mr. Revan, I thought you were some kind of a monster, there’s a lot of them in that forest.”
“Don’t worry, If I’d see some unknown creature twice larger than me in the dark forest, I’d probably by scared too.”
“So…” Began Twilight. “You’re saying you’re from different dimension? How did you get here then? It was multiple times proven impossible to travel between dimensions!”
He shrug .“Beats me, all I know Is that I fell into some kind of portal, because certain dog couldn’t sit in place.” He said giving Mischief angry look. “And the next thing I know I’m waking up in some ruined castle in the middle of that forest.”
“You mean ‘Castle of Two Sisters’?” Asked Twilight.
“Unless there is some other ruined castle around, yes. That’d probably be it.”
“Could you please lead us there? We’re currently dealing with a great crisis and our only hope of dealing with it is most likely hidden somewhere in those ruins. After that we’ll help you get back home.” Twilight began to grin like she had never grinned before. “Obviously you’ll also be answering my questions along the and let me examine you! I’m not giving away that opportunity!”
“Fair enough I guess, But I think I’ll have some questions to you too. First of all, can I get your names?”
“OH! But you are absolutely right darling! I must apologies for our lack of manners, we were simply…stunned, by your sudden appearance. My name is Rarity, I’m the finest fashion designer in Ponyville.” Said marshmallow colored pony. Her mane was deep purple and very stylized. He could also see a lot of make-up on her face… or muzzle.
She surely pays a lot of attention to her look. Revan thought. “Pleasure to meet” He said with a slight bow.
“My, Such a manners!” Replayed Rarity.
“Am Applejack. Proud owner of ‘Sweet Apple Acers’, The biggest apple orchard in all of Equestria.” Proudly said orange country-pony with yellow mane combined in a ponytail.
“Nice to meet you… O fuck… ” Revan facepalmed. “Even in another dimension…”
“What do ya mean?” asked confused Applejack.
“Your hat… “
“What about it?”
He let out a sigh. “Nothing, just wherever I go I see those kind of hats. In school, bus, job, on street… and apparently in another dimension too… heh, that’s kinda funny actually.”
Revan still remembered first time he encountered stetson hat. It happened during his first day in kindergarten. One of kids there wore that hat and was arguing with the teacher who was trying to make him to take that hat off. Eventually kid got pissed and slapped the teacher with an open hand. As a result, he got expelled. Those things are hunting me, I’m sure of it…
“Anyway, let’s continue introductions, ok?” He said and turned his attention to the lavender unicorn.
“My name is Twilight Sparkle, I’m studying under aid of princess Celestia”
“Your names are really strange… anyways, It’s a pleasure to meet.”
“What did you mean by that?” Twilight asked curiously.
“It’s just that your names sound more like nicknames by my standards. But then again I really doubt that my standards are anywhere near yours.” Revan explained and turned to Yellow Pegasus with long pink mane who broke the awkward silence before. She was currently examining Mischief. “And you are?” He tapped her at her back.
“AH!” She screamed (if one can call that a scream) surprised and hid behind the dog. Mischief in response got up and walked to Revan’s other side.
“Sorry, didn’t mean to startle you.” He apologized.
“It’s ok, I always was easily freighted… anyways, I’m Fluttershy, I’m animal caretaker in Ponyville.” She looked at Mischief and asked. “What’s his name?”
“Mischief, and don’t worry if he’ll be ignoring you. He’ll worm up on you with time. Just try not to act like a kid around him.”
“Okay… but why?” She asked, a bit surprised, since all of her animal friends absolutely loved playing with little foals (even Angel though he will never admit it).
“He doesn’t like them. Most of kids he met ware… let’s say quite annoying.” Revan didn’t like most of kids either; especially those in ages 3-7. Most of them ware horribly irritating and that was before they met Mischief. When they encounter the dog, and are refused to pet him or climb on him, they tend to scream/cry/go to their parents or all at once.
There was even time when Mischief started quite aggressively barking at one kid who started tugging him by the tail in the middle of park, even despite Revan telling him to stop and go away; he was following them for a few minutes, tugging Mischief from time to time.
After that kid’s parents came and started arguing with Revan about how aggressive his dog is and that he should ‘put him to sleep’.
He wasn’t angry at Mischief for that incident; opposite actually, he was close to screaming at the kid himself.
Now he turned to the pink pony with curly hair that kinda looked like cotton candy. “Ok now your turn, What’s your name?”
“Hmm… I could answer that, but there’s far more important question.” Pink pony said looking at him suspiciously. “Are you a party-pooper?”
Revan blinked. “Um… I don’t think I am. I mean, I’m not even sure what it is…”
“Prove it.” Demanded pink pony.
“How?”
“Hmm… let’s think…oh, that’s it! Tell us a joke!”
“Eeee… ok, but what kind of joke?” Revan was really confused.
“Duh… a funny one.”
“Eh, ok here it goes.” He cleared his throat and begun.
“In school kids were ordered to bring items related to medicine.
Mia brought syringe, Adam bandage and Emma stethoscope.
‘And what did you bring?’ Teacher asks John
‘Breathing Apparatus’
‘And how did you get it?’
‘From Grandpa’
‘And what did he say about it?’
*Choking noise* ”
Pink pony burst into laughter. She was laughing so hard it made Revan wonder about amount of air ponies can hold in their lungs. Rest of her friends also gave their fair bit of laugh. Fluttershy and Rarity gave only a small chuckle, Twilight, Applejack and rainbow-maned, blue Pegasus who’s name Revan didn’t know yet gave laugh that almost equaled that of pink pony’s (of course within limits of their lungs).
“Hehehehe… Ok you’ve passed. My name’s Pinkie Pie, number one party planner in all of equestrian! And you just proved to be worth of getting your own ‘Welcome to Ponyville party!’ ” She said with enthusiasm that could be equaled only to someone who… actually, no, it couldn’t be equaled by anyone. ”But wait! You-ware-not-in-Ponyville-and-you-must-go-there-so-it-could-be-a-welcome-to-Ponyville-party!-Maybe-it-will-be-welcome-to-Equestraia-party?-Oh-I-know-you-will get-to-Ponyville-and-then-I-will-throw-welcome-to-Ponyville-and-Equestria-party-and-that-will-be-so-cool-because…” She kept talking after that for a fair bit longer.
“Eeee… just ignore her. She tends to do that from time to time.” Said blue Pegasus. “Anyways, I’m Rainbow Dash, fastest flyer Equestria had ever seen and a future Wonderbolt!”
“Glad to meet. I’m guessing those ‘Wonderbolts’ are some kind of air acrobatic team, right?”
“…and-than-we-would-make-a-giant-cake- with-chocolate-pieces-inside…
“They sure are! They’re the best of bests among flyers! And soon I’m going to join them!” Rainbow said with confidence. This was the moment when Revan took an interest in her hair… or mane rather. It had all colors of rainbow. Guess the name’s fitting. Nonetheless, it doesn’t look natural at all. But again that’s only by my standards. Can be perfectly normal for them
“Could you answer one question for me?”
“Shoot”
“…on-second-thought-walking-on-hot-coal-doesn’t sound-all-that-fun…”
“Is your hair natural or is it painted?”
“It’s natural. That’s pretty funny story actually. Before my dad was born, and my granny was pregnant some ‘brilliant’ doctor gave her a liquid rainbow instead of a vaccine. That made his hair get all rainbow and I just got that from him.” She explained.
“Hehe, sound’s like story of my life…”
“What do you mean by that?” Asked Twilight. Sweet Celestia, questioning him is going to be so interesting!
“…and-I-will-learn-you-and-everypony-how to-open-locks-in-doors-cause-I-know…”
“If it would be brighter here, you’d-“ He was cut off by Twilight’s horn starting to glow with purple light. He got startled a bit but quickly shook it off with a single though – Magic.
Before Revan could continue, Mischief started to take interest in Unicorn’s glowing horn. He got up and run straight to Twilight. His leash was unlatched because holding it in hand made it harder for Revan to swim. She took few steps back but Mischief got closer and started sniffing her horn.
“Mischief, get back here!” Ordered Revan.
The dog turn to Revan and before going back to him gave Twilight a lick in the face. She tried to get her face away but dog hit his target anyways.
“…after-that-she-will-get-mad-and-throw-you-out-of-her-house…”
“Well, it seems that for some reason he likes you.” Revan said with a smile on his face, while Twilight was trying to get her face cleaned up. “Anyway, like I was saying. My right eye-“ he was again interrupted. This time it was Fluttershy’s doing.
*Gasp* “Oh my! Your eye!” She flew to him and caught his face in her hooves. “It’s whole red. Does it hurt? Do you need help? Is that infectious?” Revan couldn’t not notice how soft her hooves ware. They were still harder than a hand but much more soft than hooves of ponies he’s used to.
“I was getting to that. Some doctor swaped syringes and gave my mom blood sample of some guy with albinism when she was pregnant. That made my eye to turn red and hair white.” He explained.
“…with-the-sound-of-newest-summer-hits…”
“Oh, so you’re not hurt or anything?” He nodded. “Ok, I’m sorry”
When Fluttershy got out of a view rest of ponies could see Revan’s eye.
“I must say it looks pretty cool” Said Rainbow.
“Well it does look quite nice. I think I might have few ideas for cloths based on that concept.” Added Rarity.
“Ok, so I guess we have introductions out of the way, now let’s get to that castle, ok? They all nodded.
All except one.
“Wait! You haven’t introduced yourself yet! Well, you kinda did told your name, but that doesn’t count!” Said Pinkie Pie who despite talking all the time since she introduced herself (not wasting time on such unimportant things like breathing) knew exactly what was happening around.
“Very well then. My name is Revan Spicer, I’m a human and work as a police dog handler.”
“What’s that ‘police’?” Asked Applejack.
“Yes, I’ve never heard of it” Added Twilight.
“Listen, we’ve got half an hour of walking before we get to the castle. How about we’ll answer each other’s questions on our way there?” Suggested Revan.
“Sounds reasonable. Ok, lead the way then.” Replayed Twilight.
Revan nodded and turned back to where he came from and began walking. He turned his head back to make sure ponies follow; which they did (Rainbow flew, and Pinki was jumping around). He sighed and focused back on walking. What have I gotten myself into?
Meanwhile, Nightmare Moon watched them from the cover of shadows. She hoped to use tales about unnatural creatures living in Everfree forest to her advantage and scare those ponies off. Unfortunately that didn’t work. “Now when I think of it, that wasn’t all that great idea at all.”
But the fact that those ponies didn’t run away wasn’t what bothered her at the moment. It was the creatures she found at the castle. They somehow escaped from her magic prison.
That shouldn’t be possible, the spell she casted supposed to hold them in stasis. Yet somehow they got away. That could mean only one thing – That Revan must be extremely powerful mage (Like she assumed before, that dog was his pet). Not many could resist stasis spell, powerful unicorns like Starswill the Bearded certainly could do so, magic cumulated in their bodies would protect them. But she could not feel any magic from him.
To get out of stasis field combined with magic shield was one thing. But to hide ones magical presence? That was on completely different level. She and her ‘sister’ ware the only ones who could accomplish that. And still that was hard feat for both of them.
Yet this human doesn’t even seem to give any effort to accomplish that. She didn’t knew how powerful he was, but she knew one thing. He was a threat to her plans, and thus had to be eliminated.
She turned into dark smoke cloud and flew ahead of the group. She needed some time to prepare her trap so she began to look for something that would stop them for long enough.
And there it was. In the nearby river, dragon-serpent was stylizing his mustache. She could clearly see hair spray in his hair (a LOT of it). Nightmare was thousands of years old, and despite 1000 years spent on the moon, she still knew how to read other creatures. And this one’s obsession in terms of his look she could feel from miles away (he used strong perfumes).
She flew in front of him and cut of half of his mustache. Like she suspected, serpent began to mourn about his lost facial hair while Nightmare flew deeper into the forest, preparing the trap for those who dared to stand in her way.
Ponyville Police Department
4. Encounter In The Forest
--Chapter 4--
Encounter In The Forest
Princess Celestia, kind and wise ruler, protector of Equestria, guardian of harmony, bringer of day and night, those and many other names were given to her by ponies of Equestria through all the years she had ruled the pony kind. Yet she couldn’t call herself by any of them.
She knew that without her sister she was nothing more than an empty shell that could only go on, waiting for better days to come. And so she waited for years upon years, awaiting her sister’s return. The return that she had planned. The return that would let her to be truly happy once again. The return that came too soon…
In the day she had banished Luna, using the Elements of Harmony against her, she wasn’t able to fully use their power. To heal her sister from corruption of such depth would require combined force of all elements. The power she couldn’t hold on her own; she’d need Luna to do that.
With all force she could muster by herself, she had sealed her sister on the moon, so the dark magic that corrupted her mind, could slowly drift away, letting Luna to regain control over herself once again. But the banishment wasn’t supposed to last one thousand. It suppose to be ten thousand. All of which she would have to spend watching her sister’s face embalmed on moon’s surface.
And yet, Nightmare Moon had found a way to escape, just like the prophecy said.
The prophecy she ignored… Just like she ignored Twilight’s attempts to warn her… As well as her other students…
And now she waited… closed in dungeons of her old castle… weak and hopeless…
“So, darling, why are your cloths so wet?” Asked Rarity, preventing Twilight from asking a question herself.
“Ahead of us, is a river. When I heard you screaming I had to swim through it. What happened there anyway?” Said human while pushing the branch away from his face. “It sounded like you got cornered by the pack of wolves.”
“Uh, hehe… ya see, that’s pretty funny story actually…”
“You bet it was funny Applejack! The looks on your faces were just priceless! Especially when you realized out that it was just a bunch of trees! Shame I didn’t brought a camera!” Screamed Pinkie, because talking quietly in the forest filled with deadly creatures that wanted to kill them all is too boring.
Trees? Seriously? They screamed like they were about to be ripped apart by some monsters!
Twilight already wanted to begin asking her questions but didn’t manage to do so, because they reached the river. A very rough river. They all began to looking around for the way to cross it.
“Da fuck happened here!? The River was calm when I’ve swum through it!”
“Is there any other way?” Asked Twilight, unfortunately it was not what she wanted to ask in the first place.
“ None that I know about, we’ll hav-“ Revan was interrupted by a loud crying coming from the river.
Before any of them could say anything, a large, purple serpent with orange hair and mustache, emerged from the underwater. “What a world, what a world! What will I do now!?” The serpent cried out.
Revan, Mischief and all girls just stared at the large creature rolling in the water, crying like a baby and creating the massive currents. “What the fuck…” Muttered Revan.
Their stares ware broken by Twilight who asked the serpent. “Excuse me sir, why are you crying?”
She was the only one in the group who actually knew what she was looking at. She had read about Dragon Serpents while studying rare creatures living in Equestria. Mostly to find out more about Minotaurs; she got interested in the subject when she attended to some ‘Assertiveness Seminar’ organized by a Minotaur. His name was Irony Wallet, or something like that.
“Well, I don't know. I was just sitting here, minding my own business, when this tacky little cloud of purple smoke just whisked past me and tore half of my beloved mustache clean off! And now I look simply horrid!” Serpent replied.
Seriously? That’s why he’s crying? By the way why doesn’t it bother me anymore that I’m watching the giant serpent with Johny-Bravo-like hairstyle and mustache acting like six year old girl who just broke her doll? Revan wanted to say something but was stopped by the serpent throwing himself into the water, creating a big splash. Water fell directly at him and rest of the group.
Now the whole group was wet and irritated “Oh, give me a break…” Rainbow commented.
“You’re fucking kidding me, right?” Revan said while sending serpent annoyed look.
“That's what all the fuss is about?” Added Applejack.
Suddenly Rarity stepped between Rainbow and Applejack. “Why, of course it is. How can you be so insensitive? Oh, just look at him. Such lovely luminescent scales.” She went closer to the serpent and started caressing his beard (Which for some reason was purple instead of orange).
*SNIFF* “I know.“ He agreed.
“And your expertly coiffed mane.“
“Oh, I know, I know.“
“Your fabulous manicure.“
*GASP* “It's so true!“
Am I really hearing this? Revan commented in thought.
“All ruined without your beautiful mustache.“
“It's true, I'm hideous!”
“I simply cannot let such a crime against fabulosity go uncorrected.” She caught one of Serpent’s scales in her mouth and yanked it out, causing scale’s owner to yelp.
“What did you do that for?” He didn’t receive an answer, Rarity only lifted his scale above herself.
“Rarity, what are you-„Twilight didn’t finish asking, she was interrupted by Rarity using the scale she took earlier to cut off her tail. Seeing that serpent’s mind apparently got overloaded and he simply collapsed on the ground in a dramatic way.
Revan, along with other ponies, watched in awe as Rarity used her magic to attach her cut off tail to serpent’s mustache. Revan was also looking curiously at the magic display. It was second time he saw magic in use, and first time he saw it used to lift object. That must be helpful. He thought.
“Oh-hohohoho! My mustache. How wonderful!” Screamed the overjoyed serpent.
“You look smashing.” Commented Rarity.
“Oh, Rarity, your beautiful tail...” Spoke up Twilight with concerned look on her face.
“Oh. It's fine, my dear. Short tails are in this season. Besides, it'll grow back.”
Now Twilight’s expression turned to happy, again got the same feeling she felt when Pinkie sung her song. She got a little startled when suddenly Rainbow approached from her left site and said. “So would the mustache .”
“Ok, maybe now since Mr. Weeper stopped making currents we could go?”Revan said, pointing at river which was now just as calm as it was before.
“Oh, right! Let’s go.”Twilight said and stepped into the water, rest of the girls followed her. Revan wanted to step in too, but stopped when he noticed something.
“Wait a sec. Why is the water level so low? When I was here before I couldn’t feel the ground beneath. And I’m much taller then you.” At his comment all ponies stared at the water surface. Applejack and Pinkie Pie, being Earth Ponies had much more sensitive hooves then rest of the group, so they could feel that it wasn’t the ground they were standing on.
Before any of them could speak up, the serpent they all knew and loved emerged from the water, startling all of them. “KURWA!!!” (SHIT!!!) Screamed Revan, reaching for his gun. Only to find out that it was whole wet. Just fucking great. Now I must wait for this shit to dry.
“Allow me.” Serpent said and gave a slight bow after which he hid his head back underwater. Now everyone around could see that he created a bridge for them to pass through.
Revan was rather skeptical about walking on that serpent’s back but he did it anyway. Although he kept his hand close to the knife, which for the time being was his only weapon.
They all passed to the other side. Mischief had some problems with jumping on the serpent but after that he quickly passed through. Pinkie Pie got Revan’s attention by bouncing like that one Looney Tunes character that spoke with French accent; he didn’t remember the name.
When everyone was standing on the ground, the serpent poked his hand out of the water and waved his hand before despairing underwater again.
“All right, now since we’ve gotten through that river, let’s go.” Said Applejack. In response Revan nodded and began walking in the direction of the castle.
“Now, could you please tell me-“
“Actually, can I ask something first ?” And yet again Twilight couldn’t ask her question. She was getting a bit annoyed by this.
“Eh, sure, ask away.”
“Before that whole ‘serpent in the river’ thing, you said that you’re dealing with some kind of crisis and that you need something from that castle of two sins-“
“Sisters” She corrected.
“Care to explain what I’m helping you with?” He realized that he should have asked about it before he even agreed. But then again, he was rather focused on leaving that forest, and agreeing to help them seemed to be his best option (it still is).
“Oh, right. I probably should have explain something before.” She cleared her throat and began her lecture. “One thousand years ago, there were two sisters who ruled over the land of Equestria, the first one was bringing day and the second one, night. Over the years, sister of the night began to notice that her nights were left unnoticed by ponies and in her grief –quite possibly with some help of dark magic- she transformed into ‘Nightmare Moon’ and attempted to bring an eternal night. However, her sister was able to defeat her and trap on the moon for eternity. There was a prophecy that Nightmare Moon will return after a thousand years of banishment, and that prophecy turned out to be right. We’re heading to the castle because that’s where the artifacts that were used to defeat Nightmare Moon for the first time –The Elements of Harmony- are probably hidden.”
Twilight finished her explanation and looked up at Revan. He had a thoughtful expression on his face.
Then suddenly he facepalmed. “So it’s that kind of universe? The one with ancient evils, magical artifacts, heroes who always have to save the day and are ten times better then army without any training whatsoever? Jaja se ze mnie robicie?”
“What?” All ponies asked in union.
“Are you kidding me?” He responded, realizing he had switched languages. That was something that kept happening to him from time to time, but he didn’t fight with it. Knowing a language that almost no one knows and sometimes using it in conversations seemed funny to him.
That and he likes Polish curse words. There’s much more of them then in English and they sound more powerful in his opinion.
“No, that’s what I read in my books.”
“Wait a second. If that whole Nightmare Moon wants her nights to be appreciated, then why is she trying to kill every living being on this planet?” While saying ’her’ he made quoting gesture with his hands. He thought it was just some old believes. Also, by ‘eternal night’ he understood ‘destroying the sun with magic’, because that sounds like something that could be put into the RPG game (at least to him).
“Whatever do you mean, darling?” Asked confused Rarity.
“Yeah, she didn’t seemed temped to kill anypony.” Added Rainbow Dash.
“Seriously? Just answer me this. What will happen if plants won’t have an access to the sun light?”
Twilight was first to answer. “Well, they wouldn’t be able to perform photosynthesis which would lead to…” Her eyes winded with realization. Oh, sweet Celestia how could I not notice that?
“… to death of all plant life, followed by herbivores who would be left without a food source and eventually predators would die for the same reason. And that’s not even counting other things, like global temperature drop.” He finished Twilight’s sentence.
Now eyes of all ponies winded. Even Pinkie’s smile dropped. They all knew that this mission was important, but they never realized just how much. They were dealing with a worldwide threat that could wipe out pony kind from existence.
“Darn, Ah didn’t realize just how important that escapade was…” Said silently Applejack.
“Ok, enough with sad subjects, Twilight was trying to ask some questions for quite a while now and though I still have some myself I’ll leave that for later. Now ask away.” He said and smiled.
That brought a wide smile on Twilight’s muzzle, one that could be compared to Pinkie Pie’s while she’s eating a lemon. “Great! First, I’d like you to tell me-“ she suddenly stopped. “Um, you wouldn’t happened to have a notebook and something else to write?”
Revan began checking pockets in his uniform but he found nothing. “Sorry, I’ve probably left it in the car” When he was checking pockets in his pants he noticed that Fluttershy was staring at his knife with fearful expression.
“Damn, guess I’ll have to remember it all and-“
“Here you go!” Suddenly a pink hoof appeared out of nowhere; holding the notebook and the pencil.
Twilight looked at her left and saw Pinkie Pie and her (almost) ever present smile. “Where did get that from? None of us brought saddlebags or anything like that.”
“During that party at the library I found this shelf with was half opened so I decided to check it and then your little assistant bumped into me and when I was falling my head landed in that shelf and I guess that notebook and pencil just got stuck in my mane” She explained almost as fast like before; ending with her trademark smile.
“I’m not even going to bother asking about this.” Said Revan. “Anyway, your question Twilight.”
“Hey, why is she asking first? I have some question’s too you know.” Argued Rainbow while hovering in front of Revan.
“Me too! Me too!” Screamed the pink mare we all know and love.
“Eh, so how about this Twilight asks her question, then Rainbow, Pinkie, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity and then I will ask something.” Said Revan. “How does that sound to you?”
All girls agreed with him.
Except Rainbow… “And why Twilight asks first?”
“Because I said so.” Answered Revan. She wasn’t really happy about not being first, but didn’t have any arguments, so she remained silent.
Hearing no objections, Revan continued. “So what did you wanted to as-“
*GROWL*
All eyes turned to Mischief, who was growling at the line of trees on their left. “Eh, what do you wa-“ Before he finished, in the corner of his eye he saw another one of those wooden wolf he encountered earlier running out of the nearby bushes.
Revan noticed that the wolf was running straight at Twilight, who was still turned to Mischief and didn’t notice the incoming danger. Without further thinking, he jumped foreword, pushing Twilight away from the wolf.
He himself had less luck, as the wolf’s fangs bit into his leg. Revan screamed in pain as wolf’s wooden fangs cut deep into his flesh.
The first ones to react were Mischief and Rainbow Dash. The dog learning from his first struggle with those wooden creatures, instead of trying to bite it, charged at it to push it off of Revan. The wolf who didn’t expect that attack and lost his balance, felling on the ground.
When he did that, Rainbow Dash dropped hard on it’s head from the air. The Head didn’t get smashed though; the wolf just got stunned for a moment.
A moment that was enough for Revan to reach for his knife and hit the base of its neck.
When Twilight got back on her hooves, she instantly ran towards Revan, as did Fluttershy. Neither of them managed to get to him, as more wolves engaged from behind the trees and from bushes. All of which began circling around them.
Despite the pain in his leg, Revan stood up. Then he noticed a few differences in those wolves appearance. While they were clearly made out of wood like those he met before. The wood seemed to be darker and shining slightly.
The other thing he noticed where their eyes. Instead of light green, those shone with dark-blue light.
Both Rarity and Twilight began shooting magic bolts from their horns. Rarity’s much weaker bolts were deflected and shot off into other parts of the forest. Twilight’s attack, though much more powerful, still weren’t enough to cause damage bigger then slight burns; despite being made out of wood, the wolves that got hit shrugged of the damage like it was nothing.
Few wolves that didn’t got hit by the unicorns and manage to get closer, got pushed back by Applejack and Rainbow Dash. While cyan pegasus was using her flight avenge to strike from above, Applejack had a help from Mischief, who was holding approaching wolves in place, so the farm pony could place a precise strike with her powerful hind hooves.
Normally Applejack’s kick would turn a Timber Wolf into splinters. She fought with those wolves before to protect animals that lived on her farm and she along with her brother, Big Macintosh, destroyed them with almost no issue. But those wolves were different. No matter how hard she’d kick, none of the wolves appeared to suffer any major damage.
While the other ponies were fighting, Fluttershy was hiding in the middle of the group, curled up in the terrified ball of fur. Pinkie Pie was trying to calm her down a bit (occasionally throwing a rock at the wolves). With a little success.
Revan was struggling stay on his feet. His leg was still burning in pain, but he tried to ignore it. When he finally managed to find the balance, he was instantly greeted with the wolf jumping on him.
Before it could have reach the target though, Rainbow Dash dived into it. The wolf hit on the ground but instantly began to stand up.
Again, Revan used his knife to finish the wolf before it could start another attack. While ponies were struggling to keep the wolves away, he reached to his holster and pull out his gun. Luckily for him, it already dried enough to use it without risking damaging it.
Without waiting, he aimed at the closest wolf and pulled the trigger.
*BANG*
He hit the wolf in the chest.
All eyes turned to Revan; both ponies and wolves looked at him. Only Mischief wasn’t looking at Revan, since he was used to hearing gunshots.
Ignoring the stares, Revan choose another target and fired another bullet. This time he hit the wolfs head; breaking off the half of it.
Wolves decided to resume their attack and few of them charged straight at Revan. Seeing that, ponies created the defensive circle around the human; letting him safely shot down another wolves. This time Pinkie Pie gave up with cheering up Fluttershy (She was still standing right next to her, it was seaming to calm her down a bit) and was throwing cupcakes at the attackers. How did she got them is a mystery.
It didn’t take Revan long to reduce the number of wolves from 12 to only 3. He was a good shooter, and managed to hit the target each time. Only one wolf didn’t die from the bullet. This one was hit in its leg when it tried to attack Pinkie (who was preparing another box of cupcakes), and was finished off by the human’s knife.
The reminding wolves decided to escape. While the first two managed to despair behind the trees, the last one wasn’t so lucky as Revan fired last bullet from the magazine; hitting the wolf in the back of its neck.
When it was all over, all ponies (except Fluttershy) were panting. Revan kneeled and unveiled wand on his leg. It was rather deep, and was still bleeding. Soon the adrenaline left his body and the pain began to spread through his body. Oh, fuck! That hurts! . He growled in pain and fell on his back.
Fluttershy and Twilight quickly turned around and examined his injury. “Oh, it doesn’t look good, and we don’t have anything to treat it. Pinkie, please tell me you have bandage somewhere in your hair.” Said concerned Fluttershy.
“Sorry, I used it on Derpy yesterday.” Pink pony responded.
That automatically turned on Fluttershy’s panic mode. “Oh n-no what are we going to do!? He’s going to die and we can’t do anything about it! Oh I’m so, so sorry Rev-“ She was stopped by a hand closing her mouth.
“Calm down, panicking won’t help us now!” Revan said. “ I’m sure there’s something else nearby that can be used as a bandage.”
“Ok, Rainbow, Fluttershy, you two will look for something in the area around us, the rest of us will stay here and see if we can find something useful here, now go!”Twilight ordered and the two pegasi took off after nodding. She turned back to Revan and said. “You just lie here and don’t move. We’ll figure out something.” He nodded in response.
Once the girls began walking around, looking for a way to stop the bleeding from his leg, Mischief came closer to Revan and laid beside him; resting his head on the human’s chest. Revan moved his hand to pet his companion.
They both watched the ponies running around, checking every bush, rock and tree they could, to find something that would help him. When he was beginning to feel a bit dizzy, he heard Twilight screaming. “Applejack, come here! I think I‘ve got an idea!”
Applejack turned away from the small bush she was checking and quickly walked toward Twilight. “What is it? Did ya find anything?”
“Yes, I’ve just remembered reading that Timberwolves have a specific resin in their bodies. In ancient times it was used to ease the pain, as well as to disinfect the wound.” The unicorn explained.
“So what’s stopping ya? Just get the thing out and we’re one step closer to patching him up.”
“What’s stopping me is the fact that I just can’t get it open, it seems like that wolves were enchanted in some way. My magic is near to useless.” She demonstrated by trying to tear the nearby wolf open with telekinetic grip. “See?”
“So what do ya need me to do?”
“Well, I can’t open it up with my magic, but if you’d be able to damage it enough, I will be able to get the resin out through the cranks.”
“So basically, Ah have ta smash that thing as hard as Ah can?” Twilight nodded. “Well, Ah recon Ah could do that.” Farm pony said with a smirk. She was more than happy to crash some timberwolf under her hooves. Those things were incredibly annoying; both to her and many other farmers.
Her smirk quickly turned into the surprised look. She had smashed into the wolf’s chest using both of her front hooves with all power she could muster three times over, but the dead creature still laid there with only a hole Revan made with that strange thing of his, in its head.
Wha- impossible! That could have break a tree trunk, and there’s not even a small crack here! She smashed into the wolf in a same manner a few more times, but again with no effects.
Seeing that, Revan decided to help them a bit. “Hey Applejack!” He took a knife in his hand and throw it. “Catch!”
The blade hit the ground near her. She looked at him and said “Thanks.”
Taking the handle in her mouth, the farm pony picked up the knife. To her surprise it was much heavier then it looked to be. How does he walk around with that thing? He’s stronger then he looks.
She used the blade to cut the wolf’s chest open, and was quickly met with the dense liquid pouring out from the hole. Unlike the normal resin, that of timberwolves had a light green color.
Not wasting the time, Twilight used her magic to collect the liquid and began putting it on Revan’s wound. Almost immediately the human felt his pain slowly fading away.
“How did you know about that? It doesn’t really seem like a common knowledge to me.” Revan said.
“I tend to read a lot.” She answered. “Some say that I read too much, as if that was even possible.”
So, we have a book-nerd here. Didn’t see that coming. Soon after Twilight had finished putting the resin on Revan’s wound, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash came back.
“Did you two find anything?” Asked Twilight.
Fluttershy was the one to answer. “Yes, we have met that nice family of spiders, and they agreed to make a bandage out of their web.” She pointed at Rainbow who was holding two sticks with about 25cm of web between them. One site of the ‘bandage’ was also covered with leaves.
That adds few more questions to my list. Thought Revan.
Twilight took the sticks with her magic and like with the resin, she had put it on the wound. The improvised bandage was large enough to cover the whole wound.
When she was done, Revan started to get up, but before he could do so, Twilight pulled him into a hug. “Thank you, if It wasn’t for you we would have died here.”
“Eee… you’re welcome.” He said while starting to blushing.
Soon rest of the girls joined the hug. Even Rainbow whom Revan thought would be ‘too cool for that’.
They stayed like that for some time. Revan’s blush getting worse with each second. “Ummm… could we move on? And Twilight, can you please step out of my crotch?”
Nightmare Moon growl in anger as she watched that creature annihilating the wolves she had enchanted. The spell she used to shield the wolves from any kind of danger was fueled by the magic she absorbed from Celestia when she attacked her and were extremely powerful. Not only did it deflected magic but also absorbed kinetic energy from the physical strikes.
It was near impossible to get through that. Only the most powerful mages could pierce through.
But here she was, watching as one of the most powerful shields ever developed was brought down to the level of paper armor. Whatever the creature was doing, this magic was causing the wolves chests and heads to explode.
And again she didn’t detect any kind of magic. She never heard about somepony even TRYING to hide magic trail after casting the spell.
She looked at the remaining wolves running away from the creature and ponies surrounding it, and for the first time in over a thousand years, she was truly afraid.
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5. Back Where The Journey Started
--Chapter 5--
Back Where the Journey Started
After letting Revan regain his strength, the group of ponies, human and dog continued their journey. They all agreed that this forest is not the place for asking questions, so the most of the walk was spend I silence.
The resin Twilight had put on his leg was working great. After about 10 minutes he barely could feel anything. It felt strange for him to know that the bandage he wore was made by spiders though. Maybe spiders in this world are sapient too? I mean, I already saw talking ponies and that giant serpent thing, so that seems logical… kinda…
After about half an hour -thankfully without any incidents- they reached the cliff that laid before the castle. The corpses of the wolf he took down earlier still laid near the edge of the forest.
When the human looked at the cliff, he began to wonder what happened to the bridge, but soon he remembered that the second wolf that attacked him and Mischief fell down along with the bridge. That might be a bit of a problem.
Before he could speak up, Twilight noticed the castle and said. “There it is, the ruin that holds The Elements of Harmony. We made it!” With that said happily and rushed straight in the direction of the castle, not noticing the cliff in front of her.
“Twilight, wait!” Screams Revan in attempt to stop her. Twilight didn’t hear that or didn’t care. In both cases, it wasn’t about to end well.
Both Revan and Rainbow Dash rush towards the careless unicorn. “We're almost there- Whoa!” Twilight fell from the cliff.
Luckily for her, Revan was already there to catch her rear hoof, though he only barely managed to do this in time. “What is it with me having to save you from death today?” He says, before pulling the scared mare up. Rainbow Dash helped by pulling Twilight’s tail. Doesn’t that hurt?
While they were pulling Twilight up, Revan noticed something he didn’t pay any attention before. And that something was Twilight’s ‘female attributes’. His face immediately turned deep red and then he realizes something that made him blush even more. Oh fuck… they are all naked! For over half an hour I’ve been walking with 6 naked girls around the forest! ...I wonder how many guys can say they did that…
After that thought he looked away and bit his lip. As soon as Twilight was put back on the ground she noticed Revan’s red face. “Why is your face so red?” Perhaps he’s ill? That wound he got might got infected before I’ve put that resin on his leg... “Please tell me you didn’t get sick?” She asked worriedly.
“N-no, it’s just that… eee… Y-you know what, I’ll tell you later.” He answered. “Anyway, Rainbow could you, fix that bridge so we can pass?”
On the other hoof, he may just be embarrassed. But what could possibly embarrassed him? She decided to leave that question for latter, now they had other things to worry about.
Rainbow didn’t bother to speak up, she just saluted and flew foreword to get the bridge working again. Soon she was standing on the other side of the cliff with two ropes in her mouth, now she just had to tied them up to the nearby poles and she‘ll be done.
From the other side of the bridge, rest of the group observed Rainbow fixing the bridge for them. When she was about to finish with the second pole, the group of three ponies in dark flight suits made their way to her. “Rainbow, behind you!” Revan screamed.
Immediately Pegasus turned around to meet the mysterious ponies. They could see their rainbow haired companion talking with the ponies but neither couldn’t hear them and the fog was slowly getting thicker.
Twilight tried to use her magic to overhear the conversation, but her spell got blocked by another. And she immediately recognized it as black magic. And even worse, that 3 ponies were the center of it.
She gasped in realization. “Rainbow! Don’t listen to them!”
As soon as she said that, one of the dark ponies looked at her with an angry look and thickened the fog with magic. Now they could nether hear, nor see anything.
“Do you know who that was?” Asked Rarity.
“No, but I suspect it was Nightmare Moon trying to stop us from getting to the castle. Those ponies are made of black magic.”
“So basically she’s there along with an overpowered psychopath?” Revan asked rhetorically. “Just great. Fluttershy do you think you can get there and help her?” He didn’t receive the answer.
“Fluttershy?” He looked at her and saw that she was staring at the cliff, shaking like she had just spend an hour in the freezer.
As soon as he saw it, Revan made his way to her. “Hey! Earth to Fluttershy, wake up!” he shook her, but she kept staring blindly at the cliff. Seeing that this won’t work, he rose his hand and slapped her back into the reality.
“Wha- what was that for?” She asked with slightly raised voice (No one heard the difference).
“For staring at the cliff like at the corpse. Now tell me, can you go there and help Rainbow?” He answers.
“O-oh, y-you see…I’m kinda… afraid of heights …”
“You’re afraid of heights?” She weakly nods in response. “Przecież jesteś pegazem, potrafisz-((But you’re the pegasus, you can-))” Their little talk was interrupted by Rainbow flying out of the fog with the wide smile on her face. All eyes instantly turned to her (she didn’t mind at all).
Before pegasus could say anything Twilight run to her. “Rainbow! Are you alright? What happened in there?”
“Eh, nothing much. I just never leave my friends hanging.” Rainbow replied.
The moment Rainbow called her ’friend’, Twilight felt the same thing she felt before. First when she decided to trust Applejack (even though the farm pony could just tell her she’d be caught), than when Fluttershy teamed the manticore, when Pinkie Pie sang her song, when Rarity calmed that serpent and when Revan saved them from the timberwolves.
She wasn’t sure what that feeling was, but it was strangely comforting. I-is this what friendship feels like? If it is than…I-I want more of it… But should I? Well princess Celestia did tell me to find some friends, so maybe I could… NO! I can’t think like that. It is just a test. Princess wants to check if I take my studies seriously. It can’t be anything else… Right?
Not wasting any time all ponies walked on the other side. Revan wanted to insist that they walk one by one, but after seeing that bridge had no problems holding 5 ponies (Rainbow flew above them) at the same time, he decided to not wait and went along with them.
Soon they were standing in front of the entrance. “Well, we’re here. Anyone knows how those elements look?” Asked Revan.
“They should be on something that looks like a big stone fountain, but considering the size of this castle it might take a while to find it. I suggest we split in groups to cover more ground. If one group finds anything-“
“Actually, that fountain is right behind that gate.”
“Really?” He nods. “Well, that makes it much easier. Let’s go.” She used her magic to open the door and they all walked in. “Wooah.” Twilight commented the architectural structure and relatively good state the castle was in; after not being visited by anypony for almost one thousand years she expected to see a complete ruin.
“Come on, Twilight. Isn't this what ya've been waitin’ for?” Said Applejack.
“Hm, I’ve been wondering that that thing is. Can’t say I’ve expected it to be some magical artifacts.” Commented Revan.
Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash brought down each of 5 stone orbs down and place it on the ground. “Careful, careful!” Said Twilight, nervous about accidently damaging the Elements.
“One, two, three, four... There's only five!” Screamed Pinkie.
“Where's the sixth?” Said Rainbow.
*SIGH* ”So I guess we’re going to search that castle anyways. I’ll go with Mischief and-”
“I don’t think it’s hidden in that castle, Revan. The book said ‘when the five are present, a spark will cause the sixth Element to be revealed.’”
“What in the hay is that supposed to mean?” Asked Applejack.
“I'm not sure, but I have an idea. Stand back. I don't know what will happen.”
“Come on now, y'all. She needs to concentrate.” All ponies went back to the entrance.
“Actually Applejack, I’d rather to stay here. That Nightmare Moon might want to try something again, and I’d rather be here to help.” Said Revan.
“All right, we’ll be waiting outside.”
Without wasting any time, Twilight channeled magic through her horn, at first she bonded all elements together and then released wave of raw magical energy. She had hoped that ‘spark’ mentioned in the book was just some sort of magic and she just had to figure out what kind of magic it was. With her first attempt filed, she decided to try using some diagnostic spells.
Like most of unicorns, Twilight had a specific branch of magic she was extremely good at. In her case it were diagnostic and scanning spells. Of course she was proficient with nearly all types of magic -she studied under the princess after all- but even as a filly she could perform diagnostic spells that would put to shame most of adult ponies.
And after years of studying with the princess she was capable of breaking the armored window by pinpointing the weakest spots and than putting a pressure on them with magic.
There was one time when she was ordered to make a quality check of all armored windows in the castle. It ended with every single window in the castle being replaced and half of castle’s cleaning crew with cuts on their hooves due to collecting parts of thousands of broken windows.
Celestia was laughing her ass off.
While Twilight was trying to figure out how to make sixth element appear, Revan was watching her like he was at the magic show. In fact being able to watch her perform some magic was another reason why he decided to stay. For those ponies it might have been something they see every day, but for him it was nothing short of amazing.
Mischief also seemed to be just as interested in magic like Revan was, if not even more. At some point he decided that it would be a good idea to smell her horn and then lick it. The unicorn immediately lost concentration and jumped away.
“Mischief! What is it with you today? Zazwyczaj się tak nie zachowujesz ((You normally don’t act like this)).” Revan attached the leash he took off before he jumped to the river when they heard the screams of ponies. He then looked at Twilight who was staring at them; her face was red as tomato. “Are you okay? And why are you blushing?”
“Y-Y-Yes, I’m o-okay. And…uh… I’ll t-tell you later.”Revan had a pretty good idea as to what had Mischief did, and if he was right than it would be better to not press the issue any further. He decided to just keep watching Twilight… and keep Mischief away from her, because the moment she resumed working on the elements he tried to get to her again.
After a minute of struggling with a dog Revan had enough and tied up the leash to one of pillars in the chamber. “Have you figured something out?” He asked.
“I think I have an idea, wait a second.” She began channeling magic again and concentrated on the elements. This time her plan was to use elements as lenses and push the raw magic through them. She hoped that connecting the concentrated magic will reveal the sixth element.
Suddenly the cloud of dark-blue smoke appeared around the elements and began to levitate them. Immediately Mischief began barking like he had gone insane. At first Revan thought it was part of whatever Twilight was doing, but after seeing her terrified expression he quickly corrected his thoughts.
“The Elements!” Twilight screamed and jumped straight into the cloud of smoke.
“Twilight, wait!” Revan attempted to stop her by catching her tail, but Twilight’s momentum pushed him into the cloud as well.
Once he fell inside the cloud Revan didn’t feel the ground where it supposed to be, in fact he felt as if he was falling underground. Soon, he felt as if gravity around him was being revised, followed by landing on something hard.
For a few seconds his head felt dizzy, and he had problems with standing up. Once he was somewhat alright he noticed Twilight coughing out some dust. When she had managed to clear her throat she looked ahead and gasped in fear.
Revan turned his glaze and looked ahead along with her. What he saw both surprised and scared him. He saw a pitch black pony about his size, laughing maniacally. Based on how her laugh sounded he deduced it was a female. Her mane looked like a night sky transformed into a mist. Her head and chest were covered in an armor, though it didn’t seamed that it gave her much protection. And was likely only meant as a ceremonial thing.
The human also noticed the elements of harmony floating around her.
He quickly realized that this was this Nightmare Moon, Twilight had been talking about. When both him and Twilight got over their shock, they took a fighting stance.
“You're kidding. You're kidding, right?” Nightmare Moon said and took a fighting stance herself. She was trying to sound confidant, but on the inside she was more than nervous. After all she was facing the creature that took down a large pack of magically enhanced timberwolves, and a unicorn who had enough power to break through Azular Shield with her magic, even if she wasn’t able to severely damage any of the wolves, braking through that shield was impressive feat on its own.
For the moment they eyed each other. “I’ll keep her busy, you go for those elements.” Revan whispered to Twilight. She would want to argue –he was injured after all- but at the moment that was the best thing they could do.
With that said they both charged at Nightmare.
Applejack closed the gate behind her, leaving Twilight and Revan alone. “So what do ya all think about this Revan fella?” She said as she turned to her friends.
Not surprisingly, Pinkie Pie was the first one to answer. “Oh, I think his fun. I mean do you remember that joke he told us? That one about this kid bringing his grandpa’s breathing apparatus to school and he couldn’t object because he couldn’t breathe without that thing? That was hilarious!”
“Yes Pinkie, it was funny the first time we heard that, please don’t repeat that over and over again each time you’ll have an occasion” Said Rainbow Dash, making Pinkie release a sad ‘ooooh…’”And as to what I think about him, hmmm… I’m not really sure. I mean, he doesn’t look all that strong and I’m not sure how fast he is, but on the other hoof, the way he handled those timberwolves was totally awesome!”
“Ah think he’s stronger than he looks. When I lifted that knife of his I felt like I was lifting a bucket half-filled with apples.” Applejack came closer to the group and stood beside Rainbow. “And he’s carrying that thing all the time with no problem whatsoever. I’ve even saw him joggling with it at some point.”
“A strong gentlecolt with decent fashion sense. Heh, maybe I’ll ask him out some day.”
“Eh, don’t tell me ya’re ok with that interspecies stuff Rares…” Applejack said while facehoofing. “There is so many things wrong with that stuff that I don’t even want to begin. And what do ya mean he has a ‘decent fashion sense’? He didn’t said anything about fashion as far as I remember.”
“Why, of course I’m okay with interspecies relationships Applejack. Who do you take me for?” Huffed Rarity. “Besides, if it would happened –which I certainly don’t wish for- that we won’t be able to find a way to bring him back to his world and he would be forced to stay here, I don’t honestly see any other form of relationship that would be available for him.”
“Unless he’s asexual, which is rather unlikely considering how much he was staring at Twilight’s when we were passing the bridge” Bluntly said Pinkie Pie. Suddenly she was surrounded with swarm of confused ponies (It was relatively small swarm). “What? You mean you didn’t noticed that? Here, I’ve made a picture.”
She pulled a photo out of her mane and showed it to the other mares. On the picture all ponies could see Revan staring at Twilight’s butt, with wide eyes. He was more red than tomato.
Normal pony would ask how in the Tartarus did she get the camera to make the picture, or more importantly, how did she managed to even make that photo. If the angle the photo was taken is anything to go by, Pinkie had to levitate above the canyon.
But since Pinkie came into town, ‘normal’ is no longer word that describes ponies from Ponyville, so instead they all laughed (except Fluttershy who choose to blush).
Rarity left out a lady like laugh, while Applejack And Rainbow Dash started to roll on the ground, unable to control themselves. Seeing their reaction, Pinkie laughed as well.
“Oh boy, this is going to be such a great blackmail material! Pinkie, hide that and save for later.” Said Rainbow after managing to somewhat get herself under control.
“Anyway,” Applejack left out a small chuckle. ”Fluttershy, what do ya think of him? You haven’t said the word.”
“Um, w-well, I think he’s alright. I mean those small eyes of his are just SO cute. And if it wasn’t for him those timberwolves would tear us apart.”
“I actually thought you’d be mad at him for killing those wolves, with you loving animals so much.” Said Rarity.
“Even I know that there are animals that can’t be helped.” She said while shamefully looking at the ground. Unlike most ponies thought, Fluttershy had put down more than a few animals. Whether would it be a bird injured too much to heal him, or aggressive dog.
“And besides, timberwolves aren’t really animals. I’ve read that-“
*Pff* ”Reading is for eggheads” Guess who said that.
“-that they are actually souls that can’t make it to the other side; sometimes because something is holding them here and other times because of being exposed to the dark magic. Furthermore when the timberwolf kills somepony, that pony becomes the timberwolf as well.
By killing them, Revan actually helped them to join their loved ones. And considering the size of that pack, some of those wolves could have been way over a thousand years old. Timberwolves are rather rare creatures, and when one wolf meets some group, it just joins.
It also happens that when a particularly evil soul becomes the timberwolf, after dying it can use bodies of nearby timberwolves to create a bigger version of itself. In times shortly after the Great Migration of Tribes, there was a special branch of guard force that was trained for the purpose of hunting and killing timberwolves, but as far as I know, it doesn’t exist anymore.”
There was a moment of silence. “Wow, didn’t know you were such an expert on timberwolves.” Applejack commented the yellow pegasus’s knowledge.
She blushed at the complement. “W-well I just… I mean… t-thank you…”
Before any of them could speak again, their conversation was cut off by the loud barking coming from the castle. “What the hay is going on there.” Applejack approached the doors; rest of ponies following behind her.
Suddenly, they heard Twilight scream. “The Elements!”. Applejack rushed to the doors and pushed them. Before she managed to open them she heard Revan’s voice. “Twilight, wait!”. When the door were opened all that they could see was Revan falling into the cloud of smoke.
They all gasped. Mischief was tied up to the column and was trying to bite off the leash.
After a moment of panic –typical for ponies- Rarity noticed lights coming from the other side of the castle. “Look!”
“Come on! We need to get to them!” Applejack rushed to the hallway.
And stopped immediately. “Um… Ah don’t know how to navigate around here…”
“Maybe Mischief can help us.” Fluttershy pointed at the dog who was still desperately trying to get the leash off.
Rest of the group nodded in agreement.
The shy Pegasus approached the dog. Mischief was still trying to break the leash with his teeth, giving Fluttershy a perfect view of them. Compared to those of the dogs she saw, Mischief’s were much larger and sharper. There also was much more of them. Overall the only animal in her cottage who could compete with Mischief in terms of teeth, was Harry the Bear.
When the dog noticed her, he stopped in his efforts and tried to get her to release him. She tried to untie the leash from the column, but it was clearly not made for hooves. After a bit of struggling she managed to get it open and Mischief immediately rushed to the point where he last saw Revan.
The ponies observed as Mischief circled around the middle of the chamber with his head down. It didn’t take him long to sense something and he quickly run towards the hallway. Ponies had run after him.
Nightmare Moon charged at the unicorn and human with her horn pointed at them. Twilight was running in front of Revan; her horn also pointed at her opponent but charged with magic. Right before they made a contact, Twilight teleported herself behind Nightmare Moon and continued to look for a way to summon the 6th element.
The sudden flash of light blinded, Nightmare forcing her to slow down and close her eyes. Right after Twilight teleported, Revan jumped and kicked the alicorn with both legs straight in the head. His heavy boots made the impact even more powerful.
Nightmare was pushed back, but remained on her hooves. Alicorns possessed magic of all types of ponies, which includes unicorns’ mana manipulation, pegasis’ mass lowering abilities, earth ponies’ strength, and other perks and skills that all types of ponies have. One of which is Earth ponies’ ability to redirect force of an impact into the ground. The ability that Nightmare was using now.
That didn’t made her face hurt less, but allowed her to somewhat prepare herself to counterattack. When Revan got up, Nightmare was already sending a strike in his direction. He barely caught her hoof in hand and sent a headbutt to his opponent.
A mistake on his part, as his head met a diamond hard skull of an alicorn; hurting himself more than her.
Nightmare Moon immediately took use of the advantage and using her other hoof she hit Revan in the chest. The power of strike was enough to send him off of his feet.
Not stopping there the alicorn landed on top of Revan and bombarded him with the rain of powerful hits. He was desperately trying to block her attacks, but they were simply too fast for him catch. He managed to find an opening and pushed his hand between Nightmare ribs, stopping her attack for long enough to let him reach for his knife and stab her leg.
Nightmare screamed in pain and teleported away. She used her magic to ease the pain, full healing would take too much time, and right now she didn’t have any.
The time it took her to get back to fight was enough for Revan to stand up. He spited some blood and took a fighting stance once again; knife held by his right hand in reversed grip.
The odds of this fight weren’t on his side. While Revan spent almost half of his life training martial-arts and was strong for a human, he was facing an opponent with thousands of years of fighting experience, with at least twice more strength than him, diamond hard bones, magic and ability to fly.
The only advantage he had was his knife and his gun(which he forgot to reload after encounter with the wolves in the forest).
Upon another charge, Nightmare aimed for Revan’s head. He dogged the attack only to be forced to block another hoof. The strength of the strike almost made him drop his knife.
After barely blocking few more attacks he realized that his usual defensive tactic will be next to useless in this fight, so he decided to play more offensively. He thrown few strikes, all of which Nightmare blocked with minimal difficulty.
Finally Revan managed to hit her in the chest, quickly adding one in the side of her head. He tried to hit her again but this time was blocked by her hoof while the other hit him in the stomach.
The fight kept up like that for a few minutes. Each time Nightmare would gain the advantage over Revan, he’d manage to save himself with his knife. After all this time he was barely standing, but standing nonetheless.
He wasn’t the only one who was having problems standing. Even though the human didn’t managed to cause much damage to her compared to how much punishment he took, Nightmare was starting to feel exhausted. Even with endurance that would put many unicorns to shame, Revan could easily outlast her.
She knew that she had to find a way to finish this fight fast or he’d be able to finally take advantage of her exhaustion.
They both circled around each other for a bit before returning to the fight. For a brief moment Nightmare’s tiredness had shown itself. Revan instantly took notice of that and used all strength he had to throw a series of hits on his opponent.
Nightmare was forced to teleport away after she felt another stab, this time in her armpit. With another pain reducing spell put on herself, she eyed her enemy.
And then she decided to put everything on one card.
Her plan was risky, if she would made only one mistake or miscalculation she would be left completely exhausted and unable to keep fighting. It was necessary though, she knew that she was more than capable of defeating him the normal way, but it would take her too much time and she had to stop that unicorn from summoning the 6th element.
She closed her eyes and began to channel magic into her horn. Revan decided to attack her and run in her direction. Right before he hit her, she teleported behind him and with both of her rear hooves kicked him I the back.
In the blink of an eye she teleported again, this time above him and smashed her hooves in the back of his head.
She teleported, and hit again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
When she was done she stood few meters away from her enemy. He stood there for a few seconds before falling on his knees.
She charged at him with her horn lowered, just like at the beginning of the fight. She used one of pegasi’s abilities to lower her mass, and Earth ponies’ magic to increase strength of her legs, increasing her speed.
When she run into him, her horn impaled him through the shoulder and send him flying few meters away. Before he could made contact with the ground, she teleported again and kicked him with her rear hooves, sending him flying straight into the nearby pillar; leaving a bloody mark on it.
Nightmare looked at the body of her defeated opponent with satisfaction. His white hair were dyed red by blood and his face was covered in bruises and bleeding from few places. The wound on his shoulder bled profusely and his arm was broken. His uniform was torn in many places and soaked with blood.
She smiled and turned around. She saw the lavender unicorn staring at her fallen companion’s body with a fearful expression on her face.
Not waiting any second more she teleported behind the unicorn and thrown her away from the elements -sending her right next to Revan- and then smashed them into pieces.
This was it. The moment she was waiting for so long.
Celestia laid defeated and hopeless below the castle in the dungeon. The only power capable of defeating her destroyed. The ‘defenders’ of the land were powerless to stop her. She-
*GRRRRRRR*
-heard a loud growl of a certain very pissed of dog…
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6. Through The Eyes Of A Dog
--Chapter 6--
Through The Eyes Of A Dog
Mischief sat on the back seat of the police car. He was currently enjoying the wind flowing through the opened window; his tongue was sticking out.
He looked at the front seats and saw Revan talking with Walter. He’d never really liked the old man. He was yelling way too much for his taste and always was mean to Revan; not to mention that he stank.
It surprised him that the two seemed to be getting along rather well through the entire ride. It didn’t take them long to get to their destination, which was good for the dog; even though he could sit in the car without any problems, he never really liked it; the sound of engine was really annoying to him.
When Revan opened the door for him, Mischief immediately got out and stretched his body. After he was done, he looked around the area they were in. They stopped at the edge of a road between the corn and rye fields. The air was filled with the smell of farm life that Mischief simply loved. It was very similar to the way Revan’s mother smelled.
He came to Revan’s site and sat there for a few minutes until Revan stopped a car by lifting a stick-with-a-circle-at-the-top up. After a short conversation-
“Dzień dobry, czy wie pan czemu pana zatrzymałem?”
„Eeeeeeeee…”
-Mischief searched the car. The front seats were clear; all he’d sensed was smell of old cigarette. The back seats were completely different story though. What he sensed there, was sperm...
Of a horse…
…
That was certainly going to be an interesting day.
Other cars he checked weren’t as ‘interesting’ as the first one, but that doesn’t mean there was nothing interesting. For example a car filled with magazines that had few magazines similar to the ones Revan hides under his bed and occasionally reads while doing strange motions with his hand, under the back seat.
Now was time for a lunch break and Revan placed a small bowl on the ground and then filled it with dog food and few pieces of dried meat. As the dog ate, he suddenly felt a strange smell. It was unlike anything he had ever felt before and he felt a need to check it.
He gave Revan a signal that he found something and they both went to check it.
As they were getting closer, the smell Mischief felt was getting more clear. When he found a source of the scent, the dog could recognize the other, faint smell in the background. Something that he would compare to the rotting corpses, not exactly like that, he simply didn’t know anything else to compare the smell to. He also noticed that it was slowly getting stronger.
He stopped right in front of the source of the smell and waited for whatever was to come.
After a few moments of waiting, Revan clearly had enough, he attached the leash and began to walk back to the car. Mischief protested, he knew that something was about to come, and it was close.
Right before Revan managed to force him to go back, the portal opened before them. Instantly Mischief’s nose was hit with the same smell of corpses he was sensing all the time, only this time it was the main smell he felt.
Without even thinking, he fallowed the scent.
After the ride through the portal, the dog was feeling dizzy, he couldn’t open his eyes, but he could clearly sense the scent that he had fallowed.
And then he heard the voice, a female voice to be precise. It was coming from the same direction as the odor, so he tried to move but to no effect. His body felt weak, and soon he fell unconscious.
He was woken up when he suddenly felt a poke at his side fallowed by Revan talking to him.
Mischief slowly began to rise his head up, his vision was still blurry, but he could recognize Revan’s face, and as soon as he could see clearly again he could also recognize the angry look the human was giving him.
Immediately his ears fell down. He understood that he shouldn’t run after the scent like he did, but that smell he felt was practically screaming to him.
When Revan stopped murdering the dog with his eyes, Mischief looked around. All around he saw a strange blue wall. What was strange about it, was its smell. Again, something he was unable to recognize, but there was also one more smell. The one that brought them wherever they were.
It was coming from behind of the wall and partly from the wall itself, but this time instead of running foreword without any warning, he decided to give Revan a signal.
Mischief turned back, but the human was not there. He looked around, but Revan was nowhere to be found. His panic was rising. Revan almost never leaves him alone. The last time he did that was then he went to the shop where they didn’t allowed dogs in.
That was months ago and after that visit he was allowed to enter the shop (he didn’t know that, but the shopkeeper was so annoyed by his barking that he just made an exception for him). He could feel his smell but there was no way for him to get to him.
And then he got the idea. He would do what he always does in situations like that.
He will bark.
Barking always solved his problems.
Revan was not in the training ground and he felt alone? He started barking and soon he was living with Revan.
Shopkeeper didn’t allowed dogs inside the shop? Barking quickly changed his mind.
The man in blue came back? After a daily dose of barking he was running faster than the eye could see.
Someone broke into Revan’s house? Barking probably would work too, but the preferable action was making them think twice before breaking somewhere again; especially when a dog was around.
Barking solved nearly all of his problems and it was about to help him with that one.
And so, he barked, as loud as he could. Revan would hear, he had to hear.
Soon he saw the human he so much wanted to see coming through the blue wall. He would think about that for a second, but as for now he had other things in his mind. Like for example muzzling Revan’s leg.
During the walk around the castle, Mischief couldn’t stop himself from sniffing everything he saw. Wherever he was, the smells of everything around had something different in them. Even the air seemed to have a smell, even though faint.
There was one thing he noticed however. Everything he smelled so far had something similar. A calming smell that was present in everything around. There were two exceptions however. The stench that led him here and the blue wall. Those were making him feel sick. When he came closer to the blue wall and took a sniff he almost puked.
The polar opposite of that was the fountain in the large room they entered before going out of the castle. He really wanted to get the better sniff of it, but Revan was heading towards the doors at the end of the room and didn’t let him do that.
As soon as they left the castle, Mischief’s nose was bombarded with thousands of different smells. Most of them were really good, but some of them were similar to the ones that were making him feel sick, only not so intense.
Anyway, he focused much more on those good smells. They were really pleasant, and he wondered what they actually were.
He kept walking at Revan’s site until they reached the wooden bridge. The human ordered him to stay, and so he did. He was a bit nervous about Revan walking away, but as long as he would be able to see him it was alright.
When Revan called him, he didn’t waste any second and rushed back to his human. Once they reached the edge of the forest he began to feel the whole new set of smells. Every tree, bird and bug was practically oozing with it.
The amount of different scents he felt almost made him not notice that there was also other smell present, and it was getting closer.
That smell was interesting one, It was coming from two sources very close to each other and it seemed to be a mix of the bad smell coming from the blue wall and good smells in nearly everything else, but after taking a deeper sniff he could tell that it was more like, the bad smell masking the good one.
When the sources got closer he began to feel endangered by them. He growled and barked, to signal whatever was hiding in the bushes to go away.
But it didn’t seemed to listen and kept walking in their direction.
Soon two large dogs made out of wood emerged from the bushes. For a few seconds of eying Mischief and Revan later, the wooden dogs charged at them, one at Revan and the other at Mischief.
The dog that charged at him tried to bite Mischief’s paws, but he dogged the attack and immediately began his counterattack. He jumped at the aggressor’s back and bit his neck. That didn’t caused the damage Mischief expected it to, and soon he was thrown away by his opponent.
If it wasn’t for Revan’s intervention he would probably be done for, as the wooden dog was already prepared to jump on him.
With that little struggle out of the way, Mischief decided that it would be good to remember that smell. There could be more of them in the forest.
For some time the two kept walking around the forest, and Mischief couldn’t be happier. The amount of new smells was nearly overwhelming and most of the time he kept his muzzle pined to the ground. The wind was blowing in their backs.
Eventually they reached the river and after eating one of apples Revan found before, they began to walk along the river. The moment they started walking though, they heard the loud screams coming from the other side of the river. There was no way for him to sense any smells from that direction because of the wind, so he decided to simply fallow the human’s lead.
He jumped into the water along with Revan and swam to the other side. Now when they were closer he could sense that there was something behind the bushes. He shook the water off of himself and then fallowed Revan.
When the human hid behind the tree, Mischief took position behind him and started to analyze the smells.
There was six of them. Like with nearly anything he smelled before, there was something similar in all of them, but at the same time each was completely different.
The first one was a strong sent of apples mixed with a smell of dirt, it probably belonged to some kind of farmer. Or someone who is simply addicted to apples, that’s an option too.
The second one was actually a mix of many animals: rabbit, dog, cat, snake, sheep… you can name it, it was there. Most likely it was a vet. A cursed being that came straight from deepest pits of hell to bring pain to dogs like him.
The third one was somewhat hard to describe, it smelled much like the air around here did, a clear, neutral scent. It also smelled kinda like a bird. It was hard to tell who could it belong to, most likely someone who owns a bird.
The fourth one was actually a near torture to him. The amount of perfumes that this person had used was simply outstanding. Not as much as some of females that sometimes were performing the mating dance around Revan, but still a lot.
The fifth one smelled like books, but it wasn’t what caught his attention. It also smelled similar to the blue wall from the castle. It was similar, but with one major difference – it didn’t stank like the rotten meat. The smell was somewhat driving the dog to it, but he managed to get himself under control.
The last one was a smell of pies and treats along with a LOT of sugar. But there also was something else. Something that was causing his head to hurt whenever he tried to think about it. It was like an unanswered mystery that was screaming for him to be answered, but at the same time was making everything to make him ignore it. Every attempt to analyze the smell in more detail ended up with his head hurting, so he decided to ignore it.
When he noticed that Revan had left his hiding spot, he also stepped forward to see whoever they met in that forest. He expected that he would meet 6 humans but what he saw was 6 small horses.
The one that had a smelled of a vet approached him. At first he felt pity for the creature. With how intense the smell on it was, it had to spend hours with that sadist. But his pity quickly turned into annoyance when the creature began to pet him and started to talk in a way that small humans often did.
He had no problems with Revan petting him, but he didn’t like it when strangers were petting him. Allowance to pet him was something that had to be earned (preferably with a piece of meat or two).
Even though it was annoying, he didn’t bother to move; usually when small humans would start petting him they would either be stopped by Revan or quickly get bored.
This time was no different. The horse stopped petting him and looked at Revan with the look of pure fear.
After they talked for a bit (Mischief was rather surprised that something that is not a human was able to communicate in the same way) the dog was sure that she would step away from him but the horse continued to touch him.
No he was seriously getting annoyed. The horse didn’t just stank like a vet. It also acted like one.
He managed to stay still, but after about a minute and a half he was close to getting angry. Luckily, he was saved by Revan, who tapped the vet-horse. Using the opportunity, he walked away and sat at Revan’s other side.
Thankfully, the horse gave up and walked back to other horses. Revan talked with them for a bit and nothing really interesting happened, until the book smelling one did something that caused the large amount of the scent that was driving him to come closer the entire time to be released.
Without even thinking he rushed closer. The book-horse tried to step back, but that didn’t stop the dog.
When he got close enough, he took a sniff. What he felt nearly blew his mind away. He could not only feel the power oozing from horse’s horn, but also what it felt. And at the moment it was fear and anxiety.
There was more thinks he could feel, but before he got the chance to check them, Revan called for him.
The dog realized that he just made his situation worse and decided to come back to Revan’s site. Before he did that though, he gave a horse a lick in the muzzle, he’d hoped it would help it calm down.
After Revan was done talking with horses, they went back in direction they came from, which surprised the dog, he thought it would be better idea to keep walking in one direction.
But then again, he was not the brain of the team.
They were walking through the bridge that the flying horse had fixed. The way back to the castle was sure interesting, not only did they faced that big snake-thing, but also encountered more of the wooden dogs.
Those ones were tougher then the two that Revan killed when they have left the castle. Not that Mischief could have hurt them in the first place. His teeth are not really made for cutting through the wood.
When they re-entered the castle the group gathered near the fountain Mischief wanted to check before. When two flying horses brought down the orbs from the fountain he didn’t wasted any second, and began his examination.
The first smell he felt was the one that could be smelled in every living being he examined so far. On their way through the forest he realized that everything that lives in this place has a bit of that smell. Even the wooden dogs had it, though in that case it seemed to be trapped under large amount of the stench that he could also feel in the blue wall and few places in the forest.
The fact that five stones smelled like they were alive was surprising but there was something else that surprised him more.
During the walk back to the castle he examined smells that horses had. Especially the book smelling one (he didn’t even bother to check the one that made his head hurt and the one that seems to be addicted to the perfumes, there was simply no point). Mischief was surprised that each of them had their own version of that smell.
Different, but still similar (vet-horse and sky-horse had almost the same smell, the main deference was that sky-horse’s was simply more intense).
What surprised him, was that the smells coming from horses were also coming from the stones.
What did that mean though?
Were those horses connected with the stones?
If yes, then why?
And how?
For those questions he had no answer, but he was keen on finding out.
He didn’t notice when five of six horses left, leaving him, Revan and book-horse alone in the chamber. Revan pulled him back to his side.
The horse was again doing something that made her horn glow and release that overwhelming smell from before.
For some time he tried to stay in place but it was beginning to get harder and harder with time. He didn’t want to piss Revan off more than he already did, but that smell was simply making him go mad.
In the end, he couldn’t resist it any more. He run forward and started to sniff at horse’s horn. It smelled just like it did before and Mischief started to wonder how does the horn has any taste. It smells nice and so does bacon, so why wouldn’t it also taste nice.
He licked the horn with his tongue.
And was disappointed.
It tasted kinda like Revan’s skin. Only it didn’t have that salty taste human had.
Before he could get back to analyzing horn, Revan attached leash to dog’s collar and pulled him away from the horse. For a second he could feel a faint smell, similar to the one that he felt in Revan’s room the day after he brought home some human bitch (both of them drunk).
Mischief still wanted to go back to examining the horn but Revan held him close to his site and later tied up the leash to one of columns in the chamber. He tried to free himself, but to no avail. After a minute of struggling he gave up and just laid down on the ground.
And then, out of nowhere the large cloud of smoke appeared between five stones. Immediately he felt the smell of rotten corpses that so far only brought trouble. And what’s worse, Revan seemed completely oblivious to that.
He barked as loud as he could, trying to warn Revan, but the human just ignored him.
Luckily, book-horse seemed to understand… the problem was that instead letting Mischief go, and let him deal with it -like he had wanted to- it jumped straight into the smoke cloud.
And then Revan fallowed…
And he was alone…
Mischief was running like mad. After vet-horse had released him and he caught a trail of Revan-knows-what he started to fallow it, hoping it would lead him to his human.
Horses were also fallowing, the perfume addicted one was having troubles with catching on, yet-horse too, but when it started to fly that stopped being the issue.
As they run, the dog could recognize some of the hallways from when he was here with Revan.
Eventually they reached the doorway that lead to the stairs. Once apple-horse opened the door, Mischief rushed forward, not bothering to wait for horses. When he was right before the first step, he felt that the plate he’d put his paw on got pushed into the ground, he didn’t care about that. Just like he didn’t care about metal gate closing behind him, fallowed be scream of air-horse.
“YOU’VE GOTTA BE BUCKING KIDDING ME!!!”
Once he reached the top of the stairs, he entered the large room. He could have look around to get a better view, but there was something else that caught his attention.
It was Revan.
And he was fighting with the horse that was twice larger than the rest.
And was stinking like it had just came out of the grave. Somehow he knew that it was the source of all the bad things that had recently happened.
Revan being mad at him.
Blue wall.
Crying and annoying snake.
Wooden dogs.
Broken bridge.
And cloud of smoke.
He was about to step in, and help Revan, but then the horse started to quickly disappear and reappear out of nowhere. Each time it would do this, Revan would get hit.
Eventually horse, had stopped and Mischief was preparing to attack. And then he saw Revan flying straight onto one of pillars in the room. After dealing with initial shock, he run to his site and began muzzling his face, hoping he would wake up.
The human weakly opened his eyes for a second but said nothing.
And then Mischief looked at the horse. It was laughing; the voice sounded like the voice of female he had heard in a brief moment on consciousness he had after he jumped into the portal. Book-horse lied near him, rubbing its head.
The he looked at Revan.
And then back at her.
She’d caused problems to them.
He will become her problem.
She’d hurt Revan.
He will hurt her.
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--Chapter 1--
Travel
It was an early, quiet Sunday morning. A young man named Revan, a new policeman in K-9, was just awakning. Like usually he woke up early, at 6:30 and started preparing for a new day, starting with the morning bath and getting some clothes to wear. Revan doesn’t really care about what he wear until he it doesn’t make him feel like an idiot , so he just grabbed first better T-shirt, pants, underwear and put them on.
Revan is a 23 years old, 1.91m tall man. His hair are white due to a certain doctor's mistake. Before he was born his mother had gone to take a vaccine and said ‘medical genius’ switched syringes of his mum and a blood sample of some guy with albinism. That caused his hair to turn white and his right eye to turn red, while left one was blue. (How he did not notice syringe being red? No idea)
Like every mother in the world would be, his mom was furious, and even though Revan's look was always considered ‘cool and awesome’, she never stopped thinking that this doctor ‘ruined her son's life’.
With isn’t truth at all, since along with his high posture and superior physical strength, that made his look quite intimidating, which helped him get a job in Police. But in her defense, Revan's red eye works about 20% worse than his normal one. And speaking of Police, tomorrow is his first day on road patrol.
Revan walked into the kitchen and was greeted by his dog partner named ‘Mischief’. The dog was German Shepherd with saddle patterns , he was 0,72m tall, which is pretty tall for his race. Mischief despite his name is a very calm dog; that is, calm until Revan is around. When he isn’t, the dog enters into full panic mode and starts barking like insane, bites whatever is around. That problem was so big that after half of training ahead, instructors had enough of dog keeping half of academy awake and asked Revan to take him home; and they didn’t take 'no' for an answer.
Since then bond between these two become stronger, and now they are like a family.
“Hey buddy, wanna eat?” said Revan
*Bark*
“Very well then”
Revan went to the Mischief’s box for food and filled his bowl with dog food and few pieces of dried meat his companion adored so much. Even though Mischief was living with Revan he still was maintained by police so there was no need to buy food from the shop.
With the dog happily eating his food Revan began preparing his own breakfast. Today he decided to make scrambled eggs. He added 4 eggs on the pan and turned the gas on. While eggs were scrambling Revan began preparing mint tea.
Tea was always kind of drink he liked. And he drank it a lot. And when I say ‘a lot’ I mean 'using a mug for beer as a glass' kind of lot. Screw coffee, tea rules!
After eating breakfast Revan went back to his room and turned on his computer. He is starting work tomorrow and he didn’t need to do anything else today, so he could just relax and play something. While 'Windows' was loading with insane speed, Revan turned to his shelf with games and began looking for a game to play. Hmmm… which one shall I chose? Maybe ‘Crysis’? No, I’m not in mood for FPS. Some RPG would be good at the moment.’ Skyrim’ perhaps? Nah, this one will be installing for way too long. Oh, I know! He gripped the box with his favorite game ever – Star Wars : Knights of the Old Republic II : The Sith Lord. Hell yeah! Why didn’t I think about it sooner. Revan installed tthe game on the computer's disk and began his 6th game.
Few hours later on Equestrian moon Nightmare Moon was waiting for a chance to escape from her lunar prison.
“One day... only one more day and I shall be free again” began Nightmare. “One day and I will destroy you Celestia, you are going to fall as well as your sun. With your death a new era shall began, ‘The Age of the Night’ will came and now ponies will appreciate my night. You cannot defeat me this time, you lost control over the elements, they’re as useless, as you are my sister.” Mare on the Moon often talked to herself like that; it’s not like anypony is going to hear anyway.
In just a few hours, stars will allow her to open the portal to Noxus - center of all dimension, and escape. When free, she will be floating free in endless sea of dimensions and spell casted by elements of harmony will vanquish. From there she will be sucked back and will reaper where she was vanquished. Her old castle in the Everfree forest. From there she's going to track down and finally destroy Celestia, then bring eternal night to the land of Equestria.
It took her exactly 273 years, 2 months, 9 days, 16 hours, 21 minutes and 49 seconds to collect enough magic to do this. And she counted every second of it. Every. Single. One. And with each second her hate for Celestia grew, and grew until she couldn’t hate her more.
“One day Celestia. Use it as well as you can because it shall be your last!!!” Nightmare said while reaching to her sisters mind; she was currently sleeping. She may not be in control over dreamscape of ponies below, but she and certain alicorn Princess who banished her to the moon remained bonded. She made sure that those words will rang in Celestia’s mind. She wanted her to feel her hatred, her anger and she wanted her to knew that she cannot do anything to stop her. With that said Nightmare Moon began her final countdown.
Next day Revan woke up a bit earlier than usual, he repeated his morning routine and started preparation for his first day on the road patrol. He made some sandwiches, filled thermos with tea and took snacks for Mischief. He also took his old knife, bowl and phone.
After 1,5 hour he was in a police car with his formal instructor; 54 years old, black haired man, Warren Hanusko. Those two weren’t getting along all that well during the training. Warren always thought that Revan was allowing Mischief for too way much and few times Reven have thought that he tried to make him leave training with dogs and just be a normal police officer.
“How’s he doing?” Asked Warren, breaking the silence
“Hm? You mean Mischief?” Warren nodded. “Well, he’s been really happy since he started living with me. There's still a problem of leaving him alone but he doesn’t try to eat my boots anymore, so I guess we have some progress in that regard.”
“Haha, I bet that was a funny thing to see.”
“No… not so much… a bit… ok, it was…” Revan admitted. As much as angry he was first time when that happened after some time he started considering the image of big dog trying to stick his nose in his boot while laying on another one (one he already finished with) kinda funny.
“How are you feeling about your first patrol?”
“I guess I’m little nervous, but it should pass away with time.”
“It will” assured Warren. “I remember my first patrol, and let me tell you that you're taking it a lot better than I did. My partner thought that I would pass out at some point. But after the first checked car I calmed down. Just let the dog do his job and keep him safe, that’s all.”
Warren is not acting like he did during the course. I though he will start talking about how incompetent I am and that I should stay in the car while he’ll do all work or don’t talk at all. Not to mention the fact that he was just sharing his life stories and that’s something I’ve never expected him to do. Heck, I don’t think anyone from course would expect that from him. Though Revan.
After few moments of silence Warren spoke. “Eh, you know, I’m sorry, kid.”
“Huh? For what?”
“For how I was treating you during the course. It was hard time in my life and I got it out on you, and probably on the others as well. Sorry for that.” Revan was really surprised. That’s something he never expected him to do. Nonetheless Revan is not kind of person to hold grudge against someone for long; like his father told him once ‘True man doesn’t hold grudge for longer than one day, womans do’.
“Well, I don’t see any reason to hold grudge against you. What happened, can’t be changed…Sooo… I guess I forgive you."
“Thanks, kid”
“How long are we going to stay there by the way?"
Warren checked his watch. “We should arrive at 12 AM and we will head back around 4 or 5PM”
The rest of a ride went filled with talks about whatever those two came up with : games, Mischief, why sky is blue, what’s the meaning of life, how big is possibility of aliens being colorful ponies, the fact that Revan looks like anime character and so on. They arrived at the place and started observing cars. Until 2PM they’ve stopped 5 drivers; four of them got a fine, and checked one track. Mischief was acting calm all the time and did his job well. Like Warren said earlier, once they started Revan started to calm down.
Few minutes after letting the track go they decided it’s about time to get something to eat. Revan prepared a little bowl he took and gave some food to Mischief, then took his sandwiches and began eating while drinking tea from his thermos. Warren had few potatoes and salad. During the ride Warren told Revan that he’s a vegetarian.
“So, why exactly are you a vegetarian, Warren?” Asked Revan and took bite of his sandwich.
"Long time ago, in the galaxy far away, when I was a young kid, I had a really weird nightmare. I was laying on some table and family of cows was eating me. My hands and legs were tied to the table and despite my screams, cows didn’t seem to hear, or simply ignored me. Next day I told my mum that from now on I’m a vegetarian.” Explained Warren and started eating his salad.
“And what? She just allowed you for that?”
“Yeah, why are you surprised?”
“If I had told my mum that I want to be a vegetarian she would probably have call the exorcist. She’s from Poland and polish traditional cooking involves a lot of meat. I never really got much liking to most of it but pretty much every dish I remember had some kind of meat in it.”
“Your Mother is from Poland?
“Yes, It’s that country in the middle of Europe.”
“I know where it is. My great grantfather's dad was from Poland. Can you speak Polish?”
“Pewnie, że tak ty stary dziadzie” Answered Revan with small smug on his face
“And that means?”
“Of course I do you old duffer”
“Ha-ha, very funny. Keep making fun from an old policeman who doesn’t know many languages” Warren said dryly, thou with a little smile on his face
While 2 Police Officers were talking Mischief finished his meal and sensed something. The dog started sniffing and giving Revan signals that he found something.
“Looks like he has something, you finish eating and keep watching the road, I’ll go check it.”
“This is it!” Stars were in the right position. Finally after one thousand years of waiting she could escape. Nightmare began channeling magic collected over the years. Mare began slowly, not wanting excess of energy to vaporize her; which would happen if she chaneled too much magic energy before preparing her body for it. First she had to make sure that opening hole in space will not cause any damage to her surroundings, opening the portal like that could create powerful magic radiations that ware deadly for normal ponies; not for alicorns thou. She created the magic barrier that would reduce radiations around selected spot and began second part.
Nightmare began forming a small rip in space; not bigger than the atom. That took far more magic then the barrier. Once that was done, she came to the hardest part - making the hole bigger. That part took most of her magic reserves, even thou spell she used wasn't complicated; she had to simply push edges of the hole in all directions.It was hard, but worth of the effort. Soon the portal was big enough for her to pass through it. She still had to put much effort into sustaining the hole open. If she did not, it would simply collapsed and closed.
Not wasting any time Nightmare Moon jumped straight into the portal. Once she stopped channeling her magic portal closed within split of a second. Now she was free. Last part of her plan didn’t even require magic so she could save what was left of it. She simply waited until her dimension will pull her back.
That didn’t take long. Before she could even notice she was laying on the floor of her castle. Like she expected it was in ruin. Most of the walls ware covered in ivy, the roof was practically non existing and few columns were collapsed. “Surely, Celestia couldn’t bare living in the place where she lost her ‘dear sister’” Nightmare began laughing manically and began tracking down Celestia. She found her in the small town at north from the palace.
She wanted to teleport there in the instant but something caught her eye. Right next to her laid 2 strange creatures. First one looked like some kind of dog, but was way too big and she couldn't recall any dog with colors like that. Second creature was wearing some kind of dark-blue clothing that covered most of its body and where it wasn’t, there was bare skin with little hair. Both of them appeared to be asleep or unconscious.
Nightmare thought for a little. “Hm, it can’t be some wild animals, clothing the bland one wares proves that at least this one is sapient. I will have some questions for it later. But for now I shall make sure I won’t be disturbed.” Nightmare put the magic barrier around two creatures and teleported herself to town she spotted before. She saw Celestia in front of her, it looked like she was preparing herself for some speech.
“Hello sister…”
Ravan and Mischief walked through the corn field. Plants were almost fully grown and soon will be ready to collect. The dog led Revan between plants for few minutes until they walked into the clearing created the passing by tractor. Mischief stopped in the middle, looked up at Revan and began barking, signaling they’re in place.
Revan looked around him surprised a little; nothing was there. Why did he lead me here? There’s no way he just took me here for no reason. Something has to be here. Revan began the searching area. He thought there were drugs hidden somewhere, or maybe someone’s blood. Mischief was circling around the small area like he awaited something.
After a minute of that pointless game of hide and seek Revan had enough. “ Ok, no thing’s here. We’re coming back.”
He took his leash and plugged it into dog’s collar. Revan started to walk away but Mischief didn’t allow him to. He started barking and pulled the surprised human back into the clearing.
Before Revan could have begun to yell at him, the portal opened before him. "Da fuck?!". The portal appeared in the exact place Mischief had stopped when they got here. It was also slowly growing bigger.
Revan was looking like dumb at the portal, his mind had problems processing what was happening. That feeling didn’t last long through, as Mischief ran straight into the portal. Revan who still held dog's leash in his hand lose his balance and ended up falling inside the portal.
His vision got blurred by all possible colors passing from all possible directions. Everything was incredibly bright. Revan closed his eyes but that didn’t stop colors from coming. He also started hearing a certain very annoying sound . he could feel an incradible cold around him, but at the same time felt like being melted in the pool of lava. His body began to hurt like more then it ever did. Soon it proved to be too much for him and he passed out.
Once he woke up his eyes still hurt and vision was out of focus. He started getting up and felt a cold stone under his fingers. Revan's eyes slowly began to get back in the proper shape and he noticed something. He was inside of some strange blue bobble. He said the only thing he had currently in his mind.
“What in the holly fuck just happened?!”
Ponyville Police Department
--Chapter 2--
The New World
“What in the holly fuck just happened?!”
Revan couldn’t believe what was happening that day. First I went on patrol, then went to check what the dog had found, then fell into some kind of hole in reality… or whatever that thing was, and now I’m inside of some kind of bobble that looks like… I dunno, let’s call it energy field.
The human got up on his knees and looked at still asleep Mischief. “Wake up.” He poked the dog at his side. Mischief slowly raised his head and looked at Revan, who at the moment was almost shooting daggers from eyes at him. The dog understood that human didn’t like what he had done before and in the answer, he dropped his ears and lowered head a little bit. “I’m going to draw the consequences from that, but for now let’s focus on our current problem.”
Revan set his gaze at the field surrounding him. He had no idea what that thing could be and there wasn’t many things he could do in his current position. The floor under him was made out of stone and covered in dust. That gave him an idea.
That field was probably placed here. There must be something behind it. I wonder what will happen when I touch it…
Revan slowly raised his hand and moved it closer to the blue field. However, he stopped right before he made contact and backed away. On the second thought, maybe I shouldn’t do that. It may be some sort of electricity field or something like that. On the other hand what better chose do I have? Besides, if that would be electricity it would strike me already… I guess.
After that thought he continued to move his hand closer. He closed his eyes and prepared himself for potential electric shock and pain.
However, he felt nothing. As soon as he opened his eyes he saw his right hand outside of the bobble. What’s the point of that thing if I apparently can just get pass through it? From what it feels I can certainly say that its purpose isn’t keeping any extreme heat, cold or acid away from me. Revan started slowly getting up on his legs and came out of the field. When he stood at his full high his head and half of his torso was peeking out of the field.
When Revan looked around he saw where he was. Around he saw ruins of sorts. The walls were heavily damaged and covered in the ivy. The roof had a big hole in it, showing him the moon shining in the night sky. Something isn't right, the craters don't look right, and it seems too big... nah, I must be seeing things On the floor laid a damaged, red carpet. In the place he stood, it was completely ripped off. He also saw few burn marks at the edges.
When he turned right he saw two thrones, with two gobelins above them. The first one was dark blue, and the second was yellow. The thrones were also in that set of colors.
He went out of the field. Looks like I’m in some castle, but it seems like it wasn’t used for quite some time. Nonetheless, that means this place used to be inha-
*BARK*
His thoughts were stopped by loud bark coming from the bobble
*BARK*BARK*BARK*BARK*BARK*
Oh right… Gotta get Mischief out of there…
*BARK*BARK*BARK*
Revan stepped back into the field and the moment Mischief saw him, he calmed down, yet couldn’t stop himself from muzzling Revan’s leg. Revan knew that Mischief wouldn’t want to came out on his own. Dogs see in yellow and blue, and the bobble is blue, so for him it looks like a wall.
The human took the dog in his arms and stepped out of the bobble. He set Mischief down on the ground and continued his thought. So like I was thinking before - this place used to be inhabited. Which means I can probably find someone who can help me to get home somewhere nearby. Revan had 3 ideas about what was going on. Either he got teleported to some other place on Earth, was all the dream or he was in other dimension. He really hoped it was NOT the option number three, though he still couldn't get that moon out of his head.
Hey, wasn't full moon supposed to be visible in a few days? Revan scratched his beard in thought. Something is very wrong here, I just know it.
Revan started to look for the exit. This place was abounded and for sure it wasn’t an attraction for tourists. He walked out of the throne room, into the embranchment with 3 ways to choose. He realized that he has no idea about how to navigate around this place. It was like a maze to him.
And he knew only one way to get out of the maze – choose one wall and hold on to it. He started to walk right and after about a minutes of walking through the empty hallways, he found himself in some sort of library.
Wow, those bookshelves are really huge. I wonder if I can read any of those books? Probably not but it doesn't hurt to check He came over to the shelf, took a random book and examined it. The book he chosed had a hard cover, thou Revan couldn’t recognize what it was made out of, It didn’t feel like leather but it still looked like it. In the book’s front he could read words ‘Equs – Geographic Atlas’ Heh, so it looks like I can read this after all. Good for me, I guess. He opened the book and saw few hand-made maps.
Like the title said, this book was about geography of 'Equs', where he presumably was. He didn’t recognize any of maps in the book, none of them even looked similar to what he knows. That brought him to th realization. Eather this is some stupid joke or I’m not on Earth… And it sure as hell doesn't look like a joke to me... Fuck…
Revan closed the book and began to look through the others. He wanted to find some information about whoever lives here, since there is high possibility that they aren’t humans. Most of the books he found were clearly a fiction. He saw titles like ‘Adventures of Joe Bingo’, ‘The Witchmare’, ‘Call of Honor’, ’Colt in Black’, ‘Four Guards and a Dog’, ‘Colt Wars – Guards of the Old Empire’, 'Magic Unleashed' and many more that looked like the bad reference jokes.
Other books he checked included manuals about chemistry, physic, dictionaries and magic. That last one left him confused for a few seconds, until he reminded himself that this place can be ruled by completely other forces then what he is used to.
Finally after what felt like hours (in reality it was few minutes) he found what he needed - ‘Anatomy Guide for Dummies’. Revan opened a book and began to read. He expected creatures that inhabit that place not to be humans but he certainly did not expected them to be 'ponies'. At least that's how the book called them. Ok, I’ll give you that Warren, Aliens really are ponies. Point for you.
Revan studied the book more and found out that said 'ponies' were divided on 3 races. Pegasus who had wings and were apparently lowest of all three; the average hight was about 0,80m. Thank God they don’t use other measuring system. Though it is VERY strange that not only they write in English but also use the same measuring system. Slightly bigger were unicorns who had a ability to channel magic through their horns, those reached high of 0,85m (not counting horns). And last ones were Earth Ponies , with high of 0,90m, but nether horn nor wings.
There wasn’t much in the book. Just a few drawings of the skeleton structure and descriptions of few body parts that looked like the writer had some problems with the grammar (just like this fic), but let’s be honest here, this book is called ‘Anatomy Guide for Dummies’, what else did you expect? Revan closed the book, satisfied with a little information he got. Knowledge about who lives here will be very helpful while trying to make the first contact.
He put the book on its place and continued to look for the exit out of the castle. All the way he couldn’t stop have thinking about where he ended up. He might have never been able to come back as far as he knew. Revan was fresh after the training and he had wanted to get the job in police since he was a kid. Not to mention his family and friends. Even though his father was dead, he still had a mother. She may have gone back to Poland after his dad’s accident but that doesn’t mean they don’t meet each other. Maybe this magic of theirs can somehow help me get back home. Gotta think positive, depression won't help me now
After some time he finally found the way out. The part of the castle he and Mischief currently stood in was absolutely devastated. Walls were crumbled and roof didn't exist. In the middle of the chamber stood something that looked like a fountain. He pushed the massive wooden doors at the end of the room, open and looked outside.All around the castle he saw large and dark forest. So I’m in a middle of a fucking forest… Just. Fucking. Great.
Revan started to walk a path in front of him. He had to choose some direction and all paths led somewhere. Soon he saw a bridge hanging over the cliff. He looked down but he couldn’t see the bottom since the view was blocked by the thick fog. The bridge doesn’t look safe at all, but as far as I can see, there aren't any other ways to get on the other side. Well like they say in Poland : Raz kotu śmierć (Polish #YOLO)
The human came closer to the bridge and took a deep breath to calm himself. He looked at Mischief and ordered. “Stay.” In answer the dog sat on the ground. Revan decided that they should walk separately to prevent bridge from falling apart.
He took the first step forward. Wood didn’t break under his weight. Good . With cautious and slow steps he eventually made it through the bridge. *Sigh*”Ok, Mischief, come over here”
At his command, the dog run straight to him ingnoring the falling apart bridge. There was no further path, it was probably devoured by the forest long ago, but he thought that if he keep walking the same direction, he will finally end up finding something… or will get killed by some wild animals… or starve to death…
When Revan was about to start walking in chosen the direction, Mischief sensed something from the nearby bush. He began to bark and growl aggressively. Soon Revan could have seen two pairs of light-green eyes that belonged to two unknown to him creatures.
They looked like they were wolves, although made out of wood. Both of them stood slightly taller than Mischief. Their eyes ware shining with week greed light. Despite being made out of wood their jaws were somehow filled with saliva, fangs didn't look all that impressive though. There waren't many of them and they didn't look all that impressive.
The way they looked at the human and his dog could mean only one thing, ‘dinner’. Without wasting time, two creatures lunched themselves at their prays. One attacked Mischief and the second one Revan.
The wolf jumped straight at the human who was tryingto pull out his gun from the holster at his site but reacted to slow and got pushed to the ground, landing on his back; his gun landed away from his reach. The predator -who had landed on the human- tried to bite Revan but human gripped its jaw, keeping him away. Wolf started to jerk around, trying to brakfree from grip and kill his victim.
The beast used it's claws to strike the human, only to get blocked by another hand.
Normally Mischief would have helped Revan but currently he had other thing to worry about. The large wooden creature charged at him and tried to bite the dog’s front paw. He jumped back and before the wolf could recover from his failed attack, Mischief jumped on its back -causing the beast to fall on it's back- and bite the wolf’s neck.
Revan managed to keep the attacker away from his throat -which was wolf’s target- and moved his leg to creature’s barrel. He pushed it off of him and threw behind.
He immediately got back up and saw that the wolf he had threw landed on the bridge. The force of the impact made the old ropes tore up and the old structure fell apart. The wolf that landed on the bridge fell down and probably got broken into bits.
When Revan was done struggling with his opponent he looked at Mischief, who was currently biting the wolf’s neck. That didn’t seem to do him much of the damage though, and soon Mischief was thrown away by his enemy. Revan took the advantage of the the wolf not paying any attention to him and before said wolf could began his counterattack on Mischief, Revan pulled out the knife from his belt, run closer and impaled predator’s head.
The blade cut through the wood witout much problem. The knife use to belong to his father, but after he died, Revan took it. The blade's length was 15cm, the handle was made out of wood and wrapped in black leather. It was currently sharpened and carryed clear singns of usage.
The wolf died almost instantly and Revan put his knife back into the belt. He looked at Mischief and kneeled down, checking if they had any wounds. Mischief was perfectly fine, while the human had only a few scratches from the paws on his hand.“Great, looks like we’re all right.” He said while patting dog’s head.
Revan walked over to the gun he had dropped and put it back into his holster. It was ‘Desert Eagle’ the large-framed semi-automatic pistol. It uses .44 Magnum ammunition and carries 9 rounds in a magazine. This gun weights 1,8Kg and makes much more noise the most handguns when fired. The fire power of this gun is enormous, well placed shot from short range could possibly rip of human’s arm.
It wasn’t the traditional weapon for the police, but Revan liked having bigger gun then the others… no pun intended.
Revan glazed at the dead wolf once again and walked away along with Mischief. The forest was very dark and if it wasn’t for the particularly bright moon, he wouldn’t have seen anything. Both the human and his dog were watching the forest carefully, in case some other wolves were about to attack them.
To his surprise, the fauna of the forest was very similar to what he was used to. He even saw a few wild apple trees along the way. He took few of them and decided to clean them when he'd have had a chance to do so. And after about the half an hour of peaceful walking through the dark forest, and being pissed of by mosquitoes, he found a river.
He cleaned the apples and ate one of them while letting Mischief have some too. Out of all of the dogs Revan had pleasure to meet, Mischief was the only one that not only ate apples but also liked them. They both were a bit thirsty, so they began to drink from the slowly flowing river.
I think I should fallow the river, it probably runs through some village or town. When the two finished drinking, they began walking along the river.
After making few steps they were interrupted the by loud screams from the opposite side of the river. It sounded like group of girls, or in that case it would have probably be mares.
Someone’s there, and if screaming means the same here what it does back home -which I assume does- then whoever is there is in trouble. Without further thinking, Revan dropped remaining apples and jumped into the cold water; Mischief right behind him. He held his the gun above level of water to prevent it from damaging; he might have needed it. The river was deep, he couldn't feel the ground beneath. Current wasn’t strong and he had no problems with it.
They both were a decent swimmers and made it to the shore in no time. Mischief shook water out of him while Revan began to walk closer to the area he heard screaming from; gun held ready in his hands.
Suddenly he heard something he could not have be prepared for – singing. He got closer to the source of the sounds and when he was close enough, he hid behind the tree and listened to the singing.
“…so, giggle at the ghostly
Guffaw at the grossly
Crack up at the creepy
Whoop it up with the weepy
Chortle at the kooky
Snortle at the spooky
And tell that big dumb scary face to take a hike and leave you alone and if he thinks he can scare you then he's got another thing coming and the very idea of such a thing just makes you wanna... hahahaha...heh...
Laaaaaaaauuugh!”
After that he heared bursts of laughter. Revan was a bit shocked that there appeared to be no danger, but was even more shocked that one of ponies there was singing. Who even does that? He had to admit though, she has a pretty nice singing voice.
Revan quickly came back to normal. Ok, time to introduce myself.
“Um, hello?”
