The Hand Of Despair

Daring's PoV

''Ahuizotl!!'' I cried after remember what happen immediately I tried to stand on my hooves but only to feel that sharp pain again and for sound of rattling bones to met my ears reminding of my possible fate if I was trapped here but I did manage to get on my two hooves '' GO to Ponyville and get help!! I think my wings are wounded!!''

'' Okay Daring! stay where you are! I'll get Princess Twilight to send her ponies!!''  shouts Ahuizotl down into the gloom.

I sigh heavily as I tried to keep my footing in the pile of bones but it was little use without being able to see I had no idea where I should put my hooves to keep me from falling onto my ready hurt wings reaching into my poach I quickly found a flashlight. With a good natured smile I snap it on..... only for my breath to be stole away by with it's light revealed.

''A city? there's bucking city down here?!?!'' I gasp at seeing entire streets covered with thousands of thousands of bones and barely standing buildings that heavily borne the signs of the time and aging for a time I just stood there marveling at my find but what's it doing here? According to the earliest historical records there's not a single mention of an civilization even being in the Everfree....this place shouldn't exist. I felt a mad grin write itself across my face at the mere implications that this place brings an long lost civilization that maybe even older than recorded history a single artifact from here could rewrite the history books alone! and I discovered it! I finally got one over those crackpots at Canterlot natural history museum now they would come begging to me for a chance study the city! my name will go down into the history books! Slowing walking from the pile of bones that broke my fall, I flinch at the sound of my hooves hit dust cover stone. My years of treasure hunting had taught me that the slight sound or step could set off hundreds of deathly and sometimes overly complicated traps. I took slow and careful steps closely watching for the traps that I was sure this place held. As I looked I could but help to feel that I just entered a forbidden place, an aura of pure sorrow and anguish.

"What....happen...here...'' i asked myself, horror laden my voice as I enter deeper into the gloom of the very dead city. I had my share of ancient tombs of long dead ponies and other things in my years of adventuring  but I seen  such a tomb as dark or as vast as this. Something very bad must of happened here.

As I walked I tried to distract myself from the feeling of dread by imaging what the city would of looked like back when it was alive but that only made it worse out of the corner of my eyes the shadows moved as if something lived within them and whispers sweetly or darkly teased me. They said Azwraith.... Azwraith.

I felt my heart sunk at the word and felt the countless eyes of the skulls stare into my back grab as if telling me to leave and never turn. I tried to keep on moving but with each step the whispers grew louder and loud. When I couldn't take it anymore and I went to turn back with the hope that Ahuizotl was back with help once I was turned around..... I screamed.

There where the gloom of the tomb was the darkest something stood with it eyes bearing down at me, flashing my light it's direction and gave a sigh of relief it was only a statute. wait a statute? Shining the light of the flashlight on it again I couldn't recognized what the statute of was and a breathless lunge I enclosed on the statute with burning curiosity.

It was a statute of creature of some kind, it was a large bipedal creature made of blacken almost burnt looking marble, in its right arm was a very wicked looking saber that appeared to made from the same material that seem to make up the rest of the body while in its left arm was an large Draconian claw sporting five long talons, the statue itself worn a cloak made from the same burnt marble covering its head along with most of its body what really stood out was its face only had eyes nothing else no ears an mouth as if it's artist never finished it. The statue appeared to have been cutting down an enemy and by the looks of it.....it must have been leading an charge. The statue towered over me a easily twelve feet, twice as tall as Celestia herself my neck hurt looking up at it but the longer I stood in it's presence I felt the sense of power following from it and strangely the whispering had stop.

"What are you.'' I whisper in small voice looking at the large statue in awe, what is it.... is this depicting one of the beings that once lived here? I didn't know what is was, even though I had traveled all over Equestria and beyond its borders to neighboring nations in search of relics and treasure never before had I seeing a creature such as this before, I wanted to know...

This colossal creature was something that was wrongly forgotten and I plan on righting that wrong but as my eyes linger on the eyes of stoned titan I feel an aura of nobility being added to the power I felt early slowly dripping from it's form beating back the sense of sorrow and anguish the tomb emanated  ''I-..I think you might be a depiction of an deity that ponies that once live here worship, is it that right? you're some kind of god that was once looked to by ponies for protection?'' I said speaking aloud in order to fill the air with a sound other than silence... pure silence could cause madness if you were trap in such of place after days of a starving belly then scanning the stone that made the creature, trying to get an rookie geologist guess about its age, condition, and most importantly fantasizing about it being placed in a museum or even the Canterlot Royal Gardens. The Canterlot Royal Gardens the place at many dream of their findings being placed. Judging by all the bones an must of great battle taken place or sickness if it's sickness then we must take nothing until the medical ponies said that it was clear of any possible plagues.

''There's just something about this statue.......I can feel it '' my hand slowly reached out to touch the stone as soon my hands touches the stone an presence whispered into my mind. A powerful and terrible voice

'' I am Azwraith and you are MINE''

Then blackness