Legends and Lore

Equestria, Ponyville

Twilight gritted her teeth as her magic flared, straining as she held the barrier against the beast which had come to attack Ponyville. Luckily for her, it had waited a moment before going to strike, allowing her to get part of the barrier in time before it could strike.

However, the barrier had not been able to complete before several smaller versions of the creature managed to break off, slipping under the barrier before it could be completed, who were now being repelled by her friends.

She of course knew they would not be enough, for these creatures were like nothing she had ever seen, and even with the power granted to them by the tree of harmony, they were only managing to push the creatures back from the populace.

She was forced to look away from her friends when another roar sounded from the Everfree Forest, looking up to see one of the largest dragons ever seen in Equestria, its purple eyes glowing bright as it flew toward the town.

Much to Twilight’s surprise, instead of greeting the dragon as a friend, the creature turned and emitted a roar of challenge, moving forward and colliding with it as the great black dragon spewed golden flames upon it.

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Equestria, Ponyville Outskirts

Artix and the others reached the outskirts of the town, just as Kira and Exodus met on the field of battle, though what was drawing there attention the most was what was happening in the town itself. Fighting against Exodus’s spawn were five ponies, all glowing with light as they used a form of magic none of them had ever seen before to repel the creatures.

“There magic is not hurting them,” said Gravelyn seriously, “they will not be able to hold them off for long.”

“Then we best get down there,” said Artix, before turning to Warlic and speaking to him. “Do you think you can get us past that barrier, it looks pretty solid?”

“I don’t think we’ll need to,” said Warlic, and when he noticed the confused looks his friends gave him, he continued. “That barrier only seems to be keeping hostile creatures out, so I think if we go near it, it will let us in.”

Artix wanted to question his old friend, but when one of the Exodus spawn punched a hole through one of the buildings, he began moving, the rest following as they made it to the barrier. When they reached it, a whole opened up in it, allowing them to pass inside, and when they were all through they split up and began attacking the Exodus Spawn.

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Equestria, Ponyville Proper

Applejack kicked another creature in the face, causing it to real back as her harmonic magic surged through it. She was about to deliver another kick to the critter when an arrow lodged itself into the side of its head, causing it to vanish in a burst of black flames as several ponies ran past her and started to cut down the more of the creatures.

“What the hay!” she yelled.

“Sorry mam we’ll explain later,” yelled a stallion, who leapt over her head before landing and blasting one of the creatures with pure golden light, causing it to burst into flames as well.

“Ok now I am really confused,” said Applejack, but she decided to chase after the new ponies, praying they would be able to get to the bottom of who these ponies were.

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Equestria, Ponyville Outskirts

Kira let out another bellowing roar as Exodus made to swipe her, dodging easily before delivering a swipe of her own and taking most of its face, causing it to howl in pain.

In all honesty, Exodus was not the hardest enemy Kira had ever faced, especially seeing as how it was one of the weakest of the titans. But she had a personal hatred of this monster, for it was the first one who had introduced her to how painful the pain of being exposed to her opposite element. The pain visited upon her that day would burn into her a hatred that still infuriated her to this day, and now she could visit that same pain on Exodus…again.

With that thought in mind, she opened her maw wide, a glowing circle of runes forming in front of her maw as she unleashed her breath weapon, the circle turning it into a concentrated beam of holy flame.

Meanwhile, Regwald was doing his best to keep Exodus’s spawn from overwhelming Kira, his sword and his spells sending one after another down to the field below, watching them explode.

Suddenly, he heard the crackling of fire, and looked to see Exodus collapsing in a pile of bones and ashen limbs, fading away as his spawn fell apart as well, not able to live without their master.

When he was sure they were all gone, he looked around, seeing his friends gathering in the center of the town, being joined by several other ponies who looked like they held some standing within the town.

“Kira, take me over there, it looks like were about to meet the ones who rule this place.”

Kira nodded, and then flew off toward the center of town, hoping that they would be able to smooth things over with the locals before things got too out of hand.