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Chapter III:Draconequus Hunter

“Halt Foul demon, Thou has nowhere to flee!” This proclamation was preceded by a rain of magical blast peppering the forest from above the Everfree tree line. “Thou shall face retribution.” While most failed to meet their target many still struck true, simply bouncing off a crystalline exoskeleton. “Thou has accosted thine person twice and unjustly imprisoned mine friends.” A volley of magical missiles impacted the area before their target. The armored being made a sharp left turn before being hit with a concussive blast of energy cracking her armour. “Cease this foolishness at once and face thine wrath.” The cracks from the concussive blast immediately started to repair themselves. Upon confirmation that her attacks were working, the lunar princess redoubled her efforts. “YOU WILL RELEASE THEM.” proclaimed Luna as her eyes shone white with barely restrained fury, horn crackling dangerously with arcane energy. At the brief sight of her armored quarry fleeing through the underbrush, she took aim and released a meters wide beam of energy into the trees. The resulting explosion tore a gaping chasm through the landscape ripping a deep gash through tree and rock alike, and sending debris flying in all directions, forever marring the Everfree forest with the fury of the night princess for the second time in a millenia.

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POV:

Hidden in a tower of The Castle of The Two Sisters a female draconequus watches as Luna chase after her clone, tearing the forest apart in the process. After watching the waste of magic Luna uses as a ‘final attack’ she releases the spell she cast to restrain her attackers in crystal after her nut shot on Discord. ‘Fucking Pervert,’ she thinks to herself, as she moves to the other side of the decrepit tower just in time to watch the rest of the ponies scamper over to the prone Draconequus clutching his crotch. She watches as after checking on discord, Celestia flies off to meet up with her sister. After observing the sisters brief reunion she turns back to the cluster of ponies to see discord staring at her. 'Fucking creepy, god damn it, not even a day and the locals are after me. Anarchy you better be here.' She curses silently.

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The Storm Front Islands

POV: Anarchy

Achoo,* sniff*

"Are you sick?" Questioned a deceptively emaciated looking creature clutching a PS3 controller in her misty magic. quadrupedal with cloven hooves she has chocolate brown fur marred by patches of green algae and random lighter brown spots on her back, and on her head are two similarly algae ladened deer like horns that partly surround an orb half covered in algae that constantly emits a dim golden glow as it floats above her half lidded golden eyes. Her long mane with random braids scattered throughout begins in a deep green that pails as it stretches to her fetlocks. The area beneath her eyes resembles running mascara despite a lack of dampness and irregardless of her mood. Her tail sticks out behind her with hair seemingly draped over it and small patch of mushrooms that have taken up residence on her flank. Her overall appearance would make for a pitiful sight to anyone who doesn’t know her.

"No Salina I’m fine, it’s just someone looking for me… On a completely unrelated note, don't you think it’s time the islands expand their tourism sector?”

Sigh* “Anarchy you have that look again. I don’t suppose you would be willing to just once decide to come clean with me from the outset.”

“Which look?”

“You’re ‘teach the Sheep shadow magic look’™. Granted I trust your discussions regardless of whether or not you decide to tell me,” Salina paused for a moment, “Nun the less, It would be nice to have a heads up when you engage in your Shenanigans of a certain scale. What are you up too?”

“Nothing, I’ve got no clue what you’re talking about.” The word Victory appeared on Salina’s portion of the screen signifying her twelfth straight win.

Sigh* Salina turned to look at her host, “I’ll let everyone know you’re up to something again. And I suggest you get more practice, beating you in COD is too easy.”

Anarchy looked around the game room they occupied considering how much privacy the conversation he was about to start should be given. The room is rather large, and filled with couches, coffee tables, TVs, and consoles of all types as well as several pool tables. The floor is covered with a fluffy royal blue carpet and there are several fully stocked snack bars interspersed throughout the room. The room was sparsely populated with several people. There is a group of five young Thestrals playing some sort of racing game, there are also several Sheep, Ponies, and Zebras scattered throughout the room mining their own business as well as… a Siren? ‘When did Acapella get here,’ thought Anarchy. Returning to his current conversation he turned back to Salina who was looking at him patiently. “Well considering the implications of what I intend to do I suppose it’s only right I let you know what’s happening.” Salina Gave anarchy a patient look. “Well as it turns out someone with a similar energy signature to someone I know has found their way to this dimension carrying something I gave to a good friend.” Salina remained silent. “And they seemed to have appeared in” Anarchy paused to focus on his senses, “Equestria, And judging by the magical fluxuations I’m sensing in their general area they seem to have run afoul of the ‘moon princess.’”

Salina remained silent expecting anarchy to continue when he failed to do so she spoke. “I understand the situation, but you failed to mention what it is you intend to do about it.”

“Kunai and I are going to find her-”

“And bring her back here” Salina Finished.

“That’s about it, yes.”

“While your plan is simple I have no doubt that once news of a second draconequus spreads, so will tension from fear of another 'Discord'. The appearance of a third may start conspiracies of an invasion or something equally ludicrous. I suggest you consider sending members of the Enclave to retrieve her.”

“I generally don’t care what conspiracies the equestrians want to cook up, have you read any of the newspapers from that country? The rumour mill has to be government funded for them to believe the shit they print? I’m honestly surprised none of the companies have gone bankrupt from the amount of lawsuits they should be getting. I doubt one more will cause anything they won’t forget in a week.”

“Be that as it may, your first question implies that you expect your appearance in Equestria to bring attention to The Storm Front Islands TM. If that is the case do you think it is the best idea to have the country debut in such a manner?”

Anarchy considered her words, he certainly was not going to leave this person to the equestrians, but going there himself would cause problems, granted it wouldn’t be anything he couldn’t handle and in all honesty Storm Front wouldn’t be negatively affected in any substantial way, however it would also spark an interest in the islands and a negative first image wouldn’t do any good, but by that logic neither would sending a group of the country’s most highly trained military group into foreign territory to retrieve someone that is most likely a fugitive. ‘The political ramifications of running afoul of one of the most powerful and most prosperous countries in the world aren’t pretty, if we were expecting it and prepared then it wouldn’t be a problem, and while anyone who would want to complain will first need to navigate several hundred kilometres of pirate infested waters (Perfectly possible) And then navigate their way through a Magically feed and maintained hurricane that spans several hundred kilometres and never gets any weaker than category three, and that’s not to mention the creatures that inhabit the region or the fact that thanks to my intervention to say The Storm Front Islands are more advanced both magically and technologically that rest of the world would be like saying Tartarus Is a bad neighborhood, but. Sigh* let's compromise.’

“I'm not sure about sending the Enclave, not alone at least.” Anarchy finally replied,

Salina considered what he said. “Hmm I suppose sending only the enclave would give the wrong impression. Let’s send a few enclave agents as well as a diplomatic party.”

“I at least want Kunai to go too, things will go much smoother with her there. But this will take more time than I’m willing to wait.”

Salina Stood from her seat, “I will get things started on the political end, you can organise the transportation and select the ones you will be sending, PM me when you’re done and I will turn things over to you from wherever I leave off.”

“You know that we can do all that from here right?” Anarchy asked.

“Yes we could, but us showing up in person and overseeing the matter even though we will only be standing and waiting for them to do there jobs will impress upon the people you are dealing with the urgency of the matter at hand. An email is seen as an official but often not necessarily time sensitive method of communication, and while I am aware that you are a master of building Skyscrapers from your couch it is always good to be seen.”

“… I suppose, I see your point,” Anarchy stood and turned to leave with Salina at his side, “sorting out the political aspects of this endeavour is sure to take the most time anyway, Sigh* let's go to Night Phoenix City then, I’ll begin the process of selecting possible candidates for our diplomatic party on the way, Just let me Call Kunai.” Anarchy mentally called out to his agent through the link they shared explaining the situation and asking her to accompany the diplomatic party to Equestria. Whit his mental conversation complete in a fraction of a second Anarchy and Salina traversed their way toward the Elevator to the warp gate on the ground floor, Passing residence and the occasional staff all the way. Along the way, Anarchy noticed his seneschal and long-time friend Lesa. “Salina, go ahead, I’ll be right behind you.” Before she could respond Anarchy seemed to meld into the surroundings. With a grin on his invisible face anarchy silently walked up behind Lesa and-

“Good evening Lord Anarchy,” Was detected before anything else.

Anarchy chuckled, “Good evening Lesa. So how did you notice me this time?”

Lesa turned to Anarchy, “Your Magical signature suddenly disappeared so I waited a few seconds and hoped for the best.” Lesa is a sheep coated in white fur with the exception of her face and the lower half of her legs which are black. She is often seen wearing a yellow bow around her neck. Her green eyes are highlighted by her pink eyeshadow and her horns curve around her ears.

Anarchy chuckled “You know that won’t work twice, but it’s good to see you’re doing better, how do you feel by the way?”

“Oh I feel perfectly fine, it was just a bruise after all.”

Anarchy looked at her for moment before shaking his head, “When I grow up I hope I’m as strong as you to call two sprained ankles, a broken leg, two dislocated shoulders, three broken ribs, and a punctured lung ‘just a bruise’, and I still think you should have taken more time off work. Come to think of it i still haven’t heard how it happened.” Anarchy knew exactly what happened.

Lesa sheepishly (no pun intended) rubbed the neck of her neck "Oh it’s a bit embarrassing actually; I may have slipped on the stairs in the early morning.” No she didn’t.

“Well I'm just glad you’re ok, I assume any issues were dealt with?”

“But of course, I don’t think any more problems will arise from that little incident.”

“Good to here, Speaking of problems, I will be in the capital for a few days, a week or two at most so the place is all yours, When I return I’ll be bringing a guest, it seems a friend is… around.”

“Oh, well sure thing, I will make the necessary accommodations.”

“Thanks Lesa, you know how to contact me if anything pops up.” With a wave Anarchy left to meet Salina and Kunai.

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Ten Days later

North Luna Ocean, Equestria

POV:~~Unoriginal black and red Alicorn OC~~ ~~Random... Pony? No~~ Griffon. That’s right a Griffin, Wanna fight about it!?

{Insert Griffin sounding name here} was making her third flight out to her cloud marker. She didn't make the cut for the Olympics equestrian games last season but this season. this season was going to be hers. 'I'm not going to lose out to that... that... that freak of a looser that calls himself an excuse for a griffin.' She began to pump her wings harder in her rage, soaring over the sea to her marker she started to forgo pacing for speed.

'Don't worry you overgrown shit stane-' Her train of thought was cut off when she felt an immense force gathering around her causing her to falter and go into a tumble catching herself soon after. "What the buck!?" She vocalised in time to notice the clouds swirling around her. The ambient magic of the clouds completely changed in seconds, going from the equestrian standard of 'sit here' and 'don't move' to wild and powerful yet immensely patient and controlled. Sensing the danger, i.e the not so subtle cloud reformation centered around her, she made what she thought to be a suicidal effort to dive for the clouds. Well that's what she intended to do anyway. instead she hovered there mouth agape staring into the golden light that started to stream from the opening in the sky created by now black clouds.

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On the shores of Vanhoover

Ponies watched as the heavens seemed to open with the purpose of judgment, to either admit a lone Griffin beyond the Pearly Gates of Heaven, or to deliver onto her the appropriate punishment for a life of sin and cast her into the depths of Tartarus. The sudden change in magic and weather out at sea caught the attention of every Unicorn and Pegasus near the shore which intern drew more and more attention to the lone Griffin chosen for divine judgment. Eventually the entire district was watching with bated breath, waiting for the verdict that would decide the faith of one foolish Griffin unlucky enough to be caught in the machinations of the divine. A few minutes into her judgment the entire city was aware of the miracle happening off their very own shores as reporters of all makes and models flock to the beach. The Hearts of every being in the city skipped a beat as the verdict was made visible. An angel came down from the heavens, clad in silvery armor the divine being descended in a circle to deliver the verdict of the Eternal Heard, the tips of its armor clad wings each leaving behind a white trail of some sort.

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POV: Back with our unnamed Griffin

She had been staring into the sky for a few minutes now, the magic she felt made her want to flee and come closer, to hide from its might and revel in its power, Tears streamed down her eyes as she awaited her faith in this torrent of magic that made her feel truly free, it was as though she had just discovered the true freedom of flight, as though she had lived her entire life thinking a gilded cage was all that existed. That ignorance was stripped away and a glimpse of what lie beyond the bars of her prison was made clear to her. For the first time in her life she knew. She knew what it truly meant to be a griffin. Freedom, true freedom, she could feel it; she could feel it streaming from the heavens. However her revelry was cut short when an equine being clad head to hoof in silvery armour circled down to meet her. As the being hovered before her she took in the details of its armour, it seemed to be comprised of metal bent and stretched like form fitting fabric on its wearer, further examination revealed a Golden vizier of the same hexagonal pattern covering the being's eyes, Even its ears and individual feathers were armoured. Catching movement she Looked towards the beings flank and noticed ‘A scorpion tail!?’ completing her examination in seconds she noticed the being was talking to her in the voice of a young stallion in his early to mid-twenties.

“Mam are you hurt? Can you understand me.”

“Yyyy” she paused for a moment to collect herself, clearing her suddenly very dry throat in the process. “Yea I'm ok, I’m fine.”

“Are you sure? You’re crying.”

She lifted her talons to her face, and surely enough she had obviously been streaming tears, wiping them away she spoke again. “It’s ok just… I just realised something is all.” She couldn’t get a read on his emotions through the vizier but he nodded regardless.

“Ok then, in that case, I don’t mean to be rude but would you mind moving from under the vortex? The light to be more specific.”

“Um, Sure ok.” She sniffed and wiped her eyes again before flying off to the side. It was at that point she realised the extent of her fatigue as she staggered in the air, she was surprised to find herself being supported by a steady and unyielding hoof. When she turned she found her armoured acquaintance helping her to the side. Had this been any other situation with any other creature, the legendary pride of griffons would have demanded she wrench herself away from this being and chew him out, but in this instance, she was humbled by the power she could feel from the contact alone, while there was no magic she could feel, she could feel the strength and power expertly controlled by this creature, her instincts were torn between telling her to flee and to be at ease, but her mind was too frazzled to make heads or tails of it all she just allowed him to help her to the side.

“Are you sure that you are ok?”

“Actually I might need some help getting back to the beach.” ‘and my apartment and my be-‘ She cut of those thoughts, it wasn’t the time for that.

Before she could properly berate herself, they passed the threshold and she could feel the magic around her reach a peak. Looking behind her she could see bars of light shoot down to the ocean below to form a pure white ship. “We’re heading to the docs, so you can land on the yacht if you feel comfortable and we will be on our waY in a few minutes.” ‘that’s a yacht!? It's the size of a trade ship.’ she thought.

"Um y-yeah that sounds good” she stammered out. They immediately floated down to the yacht. Upon touching down on the uppermost deck of the yacht she was confronted by four other beings two of which were in the same armour as her acquaintance. Turning to him she just noticed that he was about a half head taller than her and seemingly just looking at the rest of them. Turning back to the rest she appraised their differences. One was an earth pony mare almost as tall as the pony standing beside her. The pony's coat was a pure white, and her straight mane and tail were both a shiny black with a bright red ribbon tied into a bow at the base of each. A red bowtie adorned her neck, and her cutie mark depicts a red heart with filigree extending from both sides. All in all… she was beautiful despite her basic colour scheme, but the most captivating thing about her were her intense eyes, they were a bright red with slitted pupils. Beside her was a sheep with limp white fur across her body, the exception being her legs and her face which are black, she has two yellow horns that curve around her ears and gentle blue green eyes.

Turning to the other two armour clad beings, one was obviously a unicorn by the armour encased horn on her head, she knew it was a female from the body shape and the angles her face and muzzle took, the last one stood devoid of wings and horn indicating an earth pony, female by the looks of it. Her looking around seemed to snap them out of whatever trance they were in and she was greeted by the sheep who introduced herself as Leccy Penumbra. ‘I’ll just call her Leccy, I’m not even going to try and pronounce her last name.’ she thought. The white earth pony introduced herself as Michelle Crescent, ‘She seems nice I guess.’ Suddenly all three of the armoured ponies stand at attention before saluting in the direction of the entrance leading into the yacht, expecting the captain she turned in the direction they were saluting. Her train of thought encountered a bit of a hiccup when a strange little creature no taller than her chest came strolling out of the ship like it owned the place before nodding at the armoured ponies who walked off to different parts of the ship. It was bipedal with a white body. It had thin arms and legs that widen toward the end and there was a wispy extension trailing off the back of its feet, giving the impression of a nightgown or oversized dress. Most of its face was covered by blue hair that resembles a bowl cut, hiding a pair of orange-red eyes. There are two flat, orange horns on top of its head, a larger one toward the front and a smaller one toward the back. It was wearing an orange-red choker with yellow a Celtic design, a shiny red gem in the center, and all sorts of weird markings that seemed to be constantly changing and moving. Then it smiled and waved at her. She just stared. Leccy introduced it-her as Lady Kunai and invited her inside to get a drink.

Trying not to stare at the creature that was apparently in charge of the yacht or at least its guards she took them up on their offer. When she entered the ship's helm she took notice of the captain. He was your typical zebra stallion, black and white stripes with some particularly wavy looking stripes on his flanks. She could feel the vessel lurch into movement. When she entered the ship she expected to be met with luxury what she saw was what her vocabulary could only describe as opulence. There were no piles of treasure, expensive looking paintings or anything she would associate with riches when she reached the lounge, the place was actually quite minimalistic, but that seemed to only highlight the opulence of the sitting room. There were two large glass windows on each side of the room and several built-in tables and padded benches on both sides of the room. After being invited to sit and being given a glass of water she sat there in awkward silence switching her gaze between the Earth Pony, Sheep and… 'whatever that is' “Um I just realised I didn’t tell you my name” Thinking back on the matter she realised that after they had been introduced she just stood there and stared at them. ‘They must think there’s something wrong with me.’ She thought in embarrassment while doing a relatively good job of hiding it. “My name is Fabia it’s nice to meet you all.” She received several responses including a frankly adorable yet potentially annoying “Ralts” from the little creature that seemed to call the shots. ‘Oooooookkkkkkkkk.’ And with that the silence descended again.

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On the beaches of Vanhoover

“THE ANGELS HAVE DESCENDED TO CLEANSE THE WORLD OF SINNERS AND ALL EVIL!!!” Shouted a random mare on a soapbox, “REPENT!!! REPENT!!! SO THAT YOUR SOUL MAY BE SPARED FROM THE DEPTHS OF TARTARUS!!!”

The docks, beach, skies, and shores of Vanhover were congested with its residents as those who hadn’t fled for the safety of their homes gathered to see for themselves what kind of creatures had allegedly descended from the sky. Police tried to maintain order while the meager dozen or so royal guards stationed in the city more for formality than anything else hurriedly made their way to the edge of the docks spears at the ready and swords at their sides to address the cause of the city wide disturbance with the chief of police and mayor hot on their heels. They could easily see the white vessel that was easily the size of a schooner and twice as tall.

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POV?

Aboard the luxury yacht
As the captain brought the white vessel closer to the docks he noticed several Pegasi clad in golden armour take to the sky in the direction of the vessel, in response he reached for the intercom and checked the time before speaking in a deep smooth voice. “Good morning passengers, we seem to have a few royal guards flying our way, let’s make a good impression shall we.”

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Kunai was observing the Griffon sitting across from her. ‘She looks like the athletic type,’ Her coat and talons are a light blue grey while the tip of her tail and her plumage sported a darker shade of the same color. Her golden eyes are constantly moving about the room bot they keep making their way back to the same place. Kunai didn’t need to be empathic to tell how anxious she happened to be. But what her senses did tell her spoke volumes, ‘So much wonder and amazement tempered with wariness, tension, and a touch of fear and topped off with a sprinkle of… lust? Fabia jumped and franticly looked around when she heard the captain’s voice over the intercom. ‘Well this should be fun.’ Kunai established a mental link with the Enclave soldiers aboard the vessel. “I want one of you on each deck, if the ones approaching land on your assigned deck tell them that this is a diplomatic envoy to Equestria and we will be with them momentarily. The rest of you are on standby to accompany us to the capital, Torrid will be in charge of that group. The group remaining with the vessel are deferring to whoever has the highest ranking however remember that this is the captain's ship. As for interaction with the locals you are to be friendly to any that approach but do not allow anyone aboard without the captain’s permission. If anything major comes up or you just want to chat you can contact me though.” After receiving affirmative responses to her orders Kunai turned her attention to Leccy “Well, we should probably go greet our other guests.”

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Sargent Sharp Eyes woke up this morning expecting it to be another standard morning in another standard precinct in another standard city of Equestria. He had just been transferred from the Manehattan precinct because the cunt he was forced to call a police chief had it out for him because he arrested her daughter for indecent conduct and disturbing the peace. That combined with the fact that he was born a Pegasus, that racist bitch had it out for him ever since he became a Sergeant. Now he’s been demoted and forced to move away from his home and work his way up from the bottom of the ranks again. just when he thought his life couldn’t get any worse reports of a strange ship falling from the sky to land offshore start coming in, on his first week, now him and a few other Pegasi were flying out to the vessel with the Pegasi of what passes for a royal guard regiment in this city.

On approach to the vessel Sharp eyes noticed several figures in full body armour emerge from the vessel and take up position on each deck. “Alright ponies we only get one chance to do this right, there are seven of them that we can see, I want at least two of us in the air for each of them on that ship i'm going to land and try to find out what they want. If they attack we take them down quickly and efficiently understood.”

“Yes sir.” Chorus the other royal guards.

'This isn't good,' thought Sharp Eyes, 'The Royal Guards are taking too aggressive of an approach.'

Salina

Anarchy

Leccy Penumbra

Lesa

Michelle Crescent

Fabia

Kunai
Use your imagination

Author's Note

I woke up in the middle of the night, ran my tongue over my teeth to find them minty fresh and smooth and was instantly inspired to write this chapter. Don’t… don’t ask. Yes i know it’s weird.

Many thanks to my proofreader Hunter Steel for the editing help as well as enthusiasm and feedback on my ideas.

I'm always open to feedback and ideas, wood for the fire and all that fun stuff, though I can’t actually guarantee that I will use any of it in the story but you will most likely inspire me to nonetheless. I also welcome constructive criticism.

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