Guardian Wings

Chapter 6: Doomsday Impending

Frostlight and Solar Ray decided it best to split up and warn the town in halves. Frostlight would warn the east, and Solar Ray the west side of town. Frostlight galloped over to the residential part of town. “Hey every pony! I need every pony to evacuate the town, there is an imminent threat that is coming to this town!” Frostlight shouted. Every pony stood there and stared. “I’m serious! This is either do or die!” Frostlight said with regret in his voice. Everything happened at once, first the ground shook, and then every pony panicked and ran, several taking up shelter inside and others running for the hills and most likely the next town. Cracks started to spread from the forest and halted at the town’s edge. The Miasma Beast had already arrived.

Frostlight began to look around for the most secure place he could find. He spotted a nearby Bit Bank and started to shout, “Come on every pony! Follow me!” And he guided several bystanders and civilians to the Bank hoping that the reinforced doors and security would help defend against the Miasma Beast. Every pony including Frostlight gathered inside the bank. “What IS that thing?!” Some pony shouted. “What’s going to happen to us?!” Another shouted. Everypony was shouting their questions at Frostlight since he seemed to be the only one knowing what was going on. “Quiet every pony!!!” Frostlight shouted at the top of his lungs. Every pony quieted, “Don’t worry, as long as we can secure this building and wait, help WILL come, I’ve already sent two Alicorns from the Guard to Canterlot to request help, so please help me secure this bank!” Frostlight shouted. Every pony quickly scrambled around the rooms with great haste, trying to use any object to barricade the doors. “Does any pony know how to get in the back of the bank?” Frostlight shouted amidst the crowd of scrambled ponies. No answer, it seemed no one here worked here. The walls started to shudder and every pony went quiet. The movement had almost instantly stopped and the room was dead silent. The walls continued to shudder, and the doors started to creak. BANG! The doors started to get beaten upon. The Miasma Beast had started to try to break the door along with its barricade down! BANG!

The noise was deafening, the ponies had done a good job at barricading the doors, but the noise said that the creature had immense strength. It would be only five minutes before they broke into the place. What could he do? The barricade wasn’t the sturdiest things ever and he had nothing to defend myself or the others. The door began to splinter and crack with a deafening noise. They were almost inside! Frostlight began to think, what would Nightwind do? He was trapped and doomed to die, but then he saw something glint in the corner of the room…Yes! It was his bracelet, but it was behind the front desk sitting on top of the reception desk. It was divided by a glass wall that had slots to make deposits and receive withdraws.

“Some pony! I need a strong pony to help me break down the glass!” Frostlight shouted. The doors started to splinter. “I’ll help!” Some pony shouted. “Me too!” said another. Frostlight and two other ponies stood with their flanks at the glass wall. “Okay, together now!” Frostlight shouted. And in unison, they all bucked at the glass. The glass cracked slightly, about 3 centimeters. “Again!” Frostlight shouted. They continued to buck over and over, and the door only got weaker. The two other ponies were exhausted, but Frostlight kept kicking because of his high endurance. His hooves started to throb with pain, but he didn’t care, it was either break this down to get the bracelet, or die along with the rest of the towns ponies. Frostlight wasn’t about to let that happen. He bucked over and over until finally, the glass shattered. “What did this accomplish?” Some pony asked Frostlight. “You’ll see soon enough.” Frostlight said tiredly. He walked toward the bracelet and slipped it onto his wing. “You only wanted a stupid bracelet!? In our moments of death you just couldn’t stop yourself!?” Some pony shouted from the crowds. “Shut up! Now’s not the time, every pony stand at the back wall opposite of the doors.” Frostlight shouted. Every pony did exactly so without hesitation. Frostlight positioned himself a couple meters away from the door. The door cracked open, and the beast’s tentacles poured through…

Frostlight didn’t hesitate, since he knew now what he was up against. He flicked his left wing, and his blade unsheathed itself. He had his flight, and his blade, and he was going to protect the town and its residents even if it cost him his life. The tentacles of the Miasma Beast began to tear on the door trying to open it fully. Frostlight leaped over and hammered down on the tentacles of the beast with all his might. The tentacle did the expected, and shattered upon impact. The creature roared from the outside of the bank, and put more tentacles into the door, releasing its doppelganger like creature inside. Frostlight saw the creatures form into Alicorns this time, and one into a Manta core. The first Alicorns charged at Frostlight, but he quickly dodge rolled to the right and upon recovery unsheathed his blade and swung it at their sides, instantly vanquishing his foes of darkness. Only four Doppel-Alicorns remained at the door, seemingly guarding it, and the Manta core started to charge at him. “Every pony finds somewhere to hide!” Frostlight shouted as he faced down his opponent. No pony hesitated and ran in search of cover or a hiding place. The Manta core neared Frostlight and he charged too, veering to the right. The Manta core saw this and swung his claws to the right. Frostlight suddenly stopped before he ran into the range of the claws, and sprinted down under the Manta Core. He raised his left wing vertically and the blade started to slice at the creature’s underbelly.

It roared in pain, which was very similar to a roar of a normal Manta core, but it seemed distorted somehow. The underbelly froze solid, but didn’t shatter. The beast remained still, it could move its limbs, but if it moved its belly it would shatter, and be a means of death. Frostlight took advantage of this and bucked at its underbelly with full force, shattering the belly of the Manta Core, and it dissipated into the air, but some of the fog remained, and seeped toward the door. Frostlight ran toward the fog and swung down on it. The fog became a floating ice crystal, and dropped to the floor, shattering upon impact. Frostlight turned back to the door to only see six more Doppel-Alicorns had developed. Three of them started to run at Frostlight again. Frostlight flew up to the ceiling and the Doppel-Alicorns followed. Frostlight swept down from the air before they collided and did a perfect barrel roll while under them, killing each one subsequently in a rapid succession. Frostlight landed and began running forward using his momentum to carry him faster. He quickly approached the other three creatures and as he saw about to swing, a stray tentacle whipped up and swung at him, knocking him clears across the floor. The ponies in the back gasped in horror. Frostlight got back to his hooves, seeing that the creatures had multiplied once more, but there was ten now. Frostlight got himself ready, he realized that he wouldn’t be able to kill the Miasma Beast unless he was in a more open environment because the creature only had to protect the door to protect itself from him.

Frostlight sighed silently to himself in defeat, he wouldn’t be able to kill the creature, but he was going to keep fighting until the end, all he needed was the Guard to show up. It was night outside too, so even if he found a way out, he would need light if he ever wanted to see the creature which he fought. The doppel-alicorns closed in once again, and Frostlight fought them, tearing through each one with his blade, but only to have four more to fight later on. Frostlight was fighting a losing battle; it wasn’t a battle of prowess, but one of endurance. A series of battles past, Frostlight was exhausted, how big was this Miasma Beast? It could only make doppelgangers from parts of itself, so it had to be smaller by now since Frostlight had been destroying each of its minions. The crowd in the back was more worried than ever, not only were they unarmed, their only protector was getting tired despite his efforts. Frostlight wasn’t about to give up, but his body could only go on for so long. Several more doppel-alicorns surrounded Frostlight. Frostlight looked around, he was encircled, just like the Guard had planned for the Miasma Beast, it felt ironic to him. “Not…today…” Frostlight gasped out. And with all he had, he did a full circle swing with his blade and vanquished all of the six creatures around him. Frostlight collapsed onto the ground, out of breath, but still conscious. More of the dreaded creatures formed at the door, and started to pace over to Frostlight. He tried to get to his hooves but it was no use. He’d been fighting for a long time now and couldn’t budge another inch. Where was the rescue he had been waiting for? Where was help when he needed it most? It felt so defeating to Frostlight, he bit his lip in frustration. Frostlight closed his eyes, accepting this fate, but silently hoping that some sort of help would come. And it did.

As the creatures pounced at Frostlight so he could receive a death blow, the doors burst open, not with the Miasma Beast, but with the brightness of the sun. The creature screamed in the air and dissipated like steam into the air. Columns of light flooded the room and every pony shielded their eyes in shock and because of the brightness of the light. A figure appeared in the door, and two others ran over to Frostlight to help him up. It was his unit, Quickscorch and Cherry Slash, and not to mention Solar Ray who came at the last second. Frostlight chuckled at himself; it seemed so story-like. Like the hero had been saved at the last moment of climax. “Let’s go every pony! We’re evacuating the last of you guys!” Cherry Slash said hastily. “Follow me!” Solar Ray shouted. “Come on; let’s get out of here Frost.” Quickscorch said quietly to Frostlight. Frostlight with the aid of Quickscorch, limped out of the building and toward the Relief Camp nearby the town. The Miasma Beast was roaring in the background as the Guard fought it. It was the biggest one ever seen, that was tall as a ten story house. Morning dawned on the town, and the sunrise intensified the light magic being used on the Miasma Beast. “What…where are the people from the bank?” Frostlight said tiredly. “They’re fine Frost, you just get some rest, and you’ve done more than your part here today.” Quickscorch said, and left the tent in which Frostlight rested in.

Frostlight passed out and awoke hours later, he had been up all night and had protected the towns ponies from the beast. He looked around and saw a Royal Guard member at the flap in the front of the tent. “Hey your Majesty, he’s awake!” He shouted outside the tent. Princess Celestia walked in several moments later. “It seems you stayed true to the ponies in the town Frostlight, I can’t say I’m not impressed.” Celestia said. “I said I’d help, and I promised I’d protect them not only to them, but to myself…” Frostlight said groggily. “And I’m proud of you for that. You weaken that Miasma Beast quite considerably, and we destroyed it about an hour ago. I’ve sent out recon teams to find other infected forests, but it seems that was the mother of all the Beasts, we can only guess how many ponies’ life forces it had absorbed…” Celestia said. “Does that mean the other creatures will die with it?” Frostlight asked. “As it seems, no reports of abnormalities so far, so I think they had a hive mind, and you helping destroy its main hub.” Celestia said happily. “Good…” Frostlight said relieved, and laid back down in his bed. “By the way, you have some visitors…” Celestia said. Frostlight’s thee friends, Nightwind, Static Sound, and Cross Sticks appeared in the flap. Static jumped on top of Frostlight, “I’m so glad you’re safe! We thought you might have died!” Static Sound said holding back tears. The other two trotted over to his bedside. “Thanks for everything Frost…” Nightwind said happily “Just doing my job my friend…” Frostlight said. “Also, what WAS the back-up plan?” Frostlight asked Celestia. “Oh, you’ll know in due time Frostlight, all in due time…

Epilogue

Princess Celestia’s scouts ended up finding more Miasma Beasts in several forests, though they seemed disoriented and confused, and were easily slain. Frostlight on the hand proceeded to get several medals for his valor and devotion and passed through the ranks of the Guard considerably fast. He became not only an inspiration to Pegasi, but to Earth Ponies and Unicorns as well, encouraging them to try to pass Royal Guard initiation. Frostlight eventually joined the trainers at the initiation camp and helped train the new recruit and came through. He eventually found out what Celestia’s backup plan was. It was a last resort plan called “Blazing”, which involved Princess Celestia using her magic to focus the sun’s rays to burn down all the forests, to prevent the spreading of the Miasma Beasts. Frostlight continued to live in Sky Wind and had a statue made for him, and continued to have a good friendship with his three best friends. His other three squad mates also progressed through the ranks and spread the stories of Frostlight’s valor, spirit, and pure devotion to get rid of the Miasma Beasts. New bracelet prototypes were made to assist to new recruits in combat and other skills to further achieve new levels of enchantments, and technology. Nightwind, Static Sound, and Cross Sticks finally had succeeded in the music business, and were eventually only rivaled by the musical talent of DJ-Pon3, and Octavia. They also eventually found a singer for the band by the name “Silent Eclipse.” Princess Luna also went into the study of the Miasma Beasts, to find out where exactly they came from, and if it had corrupted her in the past.

Written and plotted by: Dominik ******* (AKA: RemedyofRevenge)