Appearance of the Rider (Un-edited)
Author's Note
Before anything starts, i must say i really need an editor for this story, cuz i know my grammar sucks. So, i would be grateful if somepony would volunteer for it. Oh and sorry for the short chapter.
Appearance of the Rider (Un-edited)
Land: Equestria
Daytime: Night
Year: 1000 years before Nightmare Moon
Current leaders: King Black Knight and Queen Sun Burn
"We must hurry!" King Black Knight shouted at his wife. They were running away from griffin assassins carrying their newborn foals. After some time, Sun Burn stated to feel tired.
"I can't run anymore!" she shouted back at him. They came into a clearing.
"You must or...AGHH!" he didn't finish as arrow was shot in his leg. He fell down groaning in pain. Sun Burn looked in direction the arrow was shot from. Her eyes widen in shock as griffins flew down from the sky. They all had bow, arrows and daggers. One griffin stepped foward at wounded King. He took him by his mane and put dagger on his throat.
"No!" Sun Burn yelled with tears in her eyes. Griffin just grinned at her.
"You gave us a lot of trouble, bitch. i will kill your husband slowly, so he can watch as we kill your pathetic foals and as we have our... fun with you." griffin said with perverted grin on his face. Sun Burn and Black Knight's eyes were wide. Black Knight tried to move, but griffin slammed his face in dirt. Sun Burn could only watch in shock as griffins were slowly closing. Her foals were already crying. Just as griffins were about to start touching her, they all heard wierd sounds. They looked around to see from where were sounds coming from. Suddenly, they saw something on fire slaming down on the ground. They closed their eyes from the sudden light, but when their eyes were adjusted to light, they were shocked at what they were seeing.
It was charcoal skeleton on fire. Skeleton was very tall, about 7 ft. It was wearing all black: black leather jacket, black leather gloves, black leather pants and black shoes. Jugding by appearance, creature looked like pony, but it didn't have muzzle and they could see sharp teeth in its jaw, it didn't have hooves, it had feet instead, jugding by the shape of shoes. In its right hand was a chain and behind was strange machine with two wheels on fire.
Creature just stood there, motionless. Only sound which was coming from it was cracking of fire and only movement was fire moving and smoke coming out of its head.
Skeleton suddenly snapped its head to left and then to right. It put its right hand at its chest and right arm high in the air, chain connecting them.
Seeing that nopony reacts, griffin who was holding the dagger at Black Knight's throat yelled at the closest griffin.
"Kill it!" griffin obeyed and shot five arrows at once at skeleton on fire. Brow Feather (name of the griffin whose dagger is on Black Knight's throat) smirked victorious smirk as all five arrows hit skeleton in the chest. His smirk was soon replaced by fear as all arrows caught of fire and burnt to ashes, but they felt true fear when skeleton moved. It quickly turned around and looked at the griffin who shot the arrows. Poor griffin immediately regreted his action, but it was to late.
Fire Demon swung its chain at the griffin. As soon as chain wrapped around him, skeleton pulled it, burning griffin into a crisp. Another terrified griffin saw this and screaming started running away, but skeleton shifted its attention towards him. It threw its chain in the air and brought it down at running griffin. It sliced him in two and burn down. Skeleton's attention was shifted now towards Brow Feather. It quickly walked towards him. One griffin was so moronic that he tried to attack it, but demon just pushed him aside and he burned into an ash. Brow Feather was now terrified, but didn't show it.
"One more step and i'll slice his throat!" he shouted at flame demon as he brought the dagger closer to Black Knight's throat. Demon didn't listen, instead, it extended its arm toward Brow Feather and shot fire ball from its hand. Fire ball hit him, sending him few feet backwards. Brow Feather could hear demon's footsteps coming closer. He looked to his left and saw his dagger. He managed to grab it seconds before skeleton lifted him with its one hand. He wasted no time and stabbed the demon in its shoulder. He grinned maniacally, thinging he hurt damned flaming skeleton, but his grin faded away when he saw demon slowly turning its head at the wound and looking at it. Brow Feather pulled out the dagger, but it melted. Demon again shifted its attention towards him.
"Look into my eyes," , it said in demonic voice, "your soul is stained by the blood of innocents. Feel their pain." Brow Feather screamed as he saw every single bad he ever done and felt all pain of the innocents he hurt. His eyes turned into a hot coal and his head turned limp, along with his limbs. He then burned into an ash. Skeleton slowly turned its head towards Sun Burn, because Black Knight already passed out from the blood loss. Sun Burn also passed right after skeleton looked at her, unable to contain so much shock.
(music stops)
Only thing that was heard in the dawn was fire cracking and foal crying because they needed changing.
After few hours
King and Queen of Equestria woke up in the same time. First they noticed was small bed they were lying in. Second was that they were in some strange place, not in their castle. Sun Burn suddenly remembered yesterday event and jerked up shouting: "FOALS!" but she calmed down when she saw her two little beauties peacefully sleeping in improvised blanket which looked like somepony's leather jacket.
"Are you okay?" asked her worrying husband. She turned at him and smiled.
"Yes, i am, thank you for asking. How's your leg?" she asked. He removed blanket they were covered in. Their eyes widen at the sight of bandages wrapped around his tight.
"It looks like somepony bandaged me, but who?" Black Knight muttered to himself, but his wife heard it.
"Could it be that demon from last night?" she asked him. Before he could answer they heard
humming coming ouy of room on the other side of their room. Door opened and unfamiliar creature walked in. It was a stallion, jugding by appearance. He was wearing white t-shirt which was showing his muscles and black leather pants. He had short blond fur on top of his head, blue eyes and wide smile across his face. He was also furless. He was carrying big plate with salad and two forks and knives. He gently put it down and turned towards King and Queen.
"Good morning, how did you sleep?" creature asked cheerfully. Sun Burn, not wanting to be rude, answered.
"Fine, thank you. But could you please tell us where are we and who are you?" she asked politely. Creature smiled.
"Of course, sit down, eat your breakfast and then i'll explain everything." he said, smiling. Sun Burn smiled warmly.
"Thank you, kind sir."
"Your welcome." Stranger answered with smile.
Introduction and escorting (Un-edited remake)
Alexa’s P.O.V.
“So, have you had a nice lunch?” I asked King and Queen of Equestria. Thank God I was nearby, or Sun Burn would have been raped and killed, foals taken and Black Knight tortured and also killed.
Sun Burn smiled.
“Yes, it was quite nice, mr...” she trailed of, hinting on me to give my name.
“Alexa Marković, Your Majesty, but call me just Alec.”
“Well, mr Alec thank you for generously taking us in. Also, if that's no problem, could you maybe tell us what you are, please? I don't remeber ever seeing or hearing about someponies like you.” she asked curiously.
“Well, Your High-”
“Please, call me Sun Burn.” she cut in.
“Okay, Sun Burn. I am a human. I come from a planet called Earth.” i said and watched as Sun Burn and Black Knight’s features changed from curious to surprised one.
“You come from another world?!” they exclaimed shockingly. I nodded.
“Can you tell us something about it, please?” Sun Burn asked again and put on “puppy dog” face. It looked cute on her face, but I have faced countless of succubi and built an immunity against those things. I could carelessly walk through a hall of beautiful naked women who want to have kinky sex and i wouldn’t give a single reaction.
“Fine.” i said to her and she grinned from ear to ear.
After an hour
“Sun actually stands still while your whole planet rotates around it?!” after an hour of explaining Earth’s characteristic, Sun Burn and Black Knight were astonished. I chuckled.
“Yes, it does.” i said it just in time when the foals started waking up. I quickly stood up and pulled them out of my jacket and gave them to Sun Burn who started rocking them left and right.
I put on my jacket and gloves, dressing in from neck to toe in black leather, my clothes of choice and usual outfit of a Ghost Rider. I watched a cute scene of Sun Burn rocking her foals and being hugged by Black Knight.
Suddenly, the foals started crying. Sun Burn inspected them and when she saw that their diapers were clean, she turned to me.
“It looks like they are hungry. Could you please…” she trailed of. I understood what she was going to do.
“Oh, of course.” i said and turned around to leave. I noticed Black Knight staring at me with narrowed eyes. I quickly left the room afterwards.
”He’s started to suspect. Great.” I thought as i leaned on the wall of my “house”. He saw that my clothes were very identical to those of the Rider, probably because these are his clothes.
My current place of living is more like a workshop built on the top of a hill with a bed, not having sink, toilet, water, fridge, food or anything that normal “house” should have. Only bed and roof, but considering where i have slept earlier, this was quite luxurious place for living. And for the supplies, i buy them at the local village.
I straightened up and walked to a big mirror placed on the wall. Why was it there, i don’t know. I found it there when i first came here and decided not to bother with it.
I slowly raised my head from looking at my reflected feet to my head.
Only it wasn’t mine, it was Ghost Rider’s.
”You know Black Knight suspects you as the Ghost Rider. You will have to tell them sooner or later if you want them to keep believing you and give you us a proper home to live in.” Zarathos spoke up after a moment of silence.
I furrowed my eyebrows.
“You have never complained about this place before, why sudden change?” i asked. Zarathos lifted his head up, but i could still feel his look at me.
”*sigh* If you tell them about your powers and prove them you are not a threat to them and their subjects, they will believe you and make you their escort and bodyguard back to their castle. When you get to the castle and present your powers to mages and soldiers, they will give you the most dangerous missions to fulfill, which means...
“More guilty souls to punish on much higher level.” i finished for him. Even though Zarathos doesn’t have face, i can always tell what his expression is and right now, he was grinning evilly.
Suddenly, his “grin” disappeared.
”Look behind you.” he said. I turned around and saw 4 griffins flying my way.
Not wasting any time, i ran back inside. Sun Burn and Black Knight looked at me in surprise for my sudden bashing inside. Now, i noticed, i could see the foals’ names. The alabaster one was named Celestia and dark blue one was named Luna. They stood up, seeing my expression.
“You have to hide, quickly! I saw griffins heading our way!” i shouted. Their eyes filled with fear and Sun Burn hugged Celestia and Luna tightly.
I felt griffins were now only few meters away.
“Quickly, go hide under that table.” i whispered, pointing at the large table with thick piece of pathos covering it. They obligated and ran under just in time when a griffin started banging at my door.
“In the name of His Majesty, Metalbeak, open up!” female voice shouted while still banging at my door. I obligated.
I saw a female griffin adorned in armor along with other male three. She looked at me with a raised brow, obviously she was expecting someone else.
“Need something?” i asked, shaking her out of her spacing out.
“We got an information that the King Black Knight and Queen Sun Burn were seen around here. Do you know something about it?” she asked with obvious “I suspect you” tone. I just shrugged.
“No, I haven’t seen them anywhere.” she narrowed her eyes at me.
“Then you won’t mind us searching your home.” she said. I moved from the door.
“Come in then.” i said, gesturing them to come inside.
The female griffin turned to her three “companions”.
“Search the every corner in the house.” she ordered, pointing her index claw talon into the house.
The griffins obeyed and immediately started searching. I then turned to the female griffin.
“Excuse me, miss, could i please talk with you behind the closed door?” i asked her and she raised an eyebrow.
“How do i know if you’re up to something?” i could feel her companions almost drawing their blades.
“You are an elite soldier. I’m pretty sure you could kick my ass anytime you want.” i gave her an example and grinned. She nodded to her companions and i closed the door behind us.
“So what did you want to talk about?” she asked. I grinned evilly and my eyes flashed red.
“You’ll see.” i said as my skin started to burn of, revealing charcoal black skull on fire.
Her eyes widen and she immediately pulled out her blade and thrusted it through my chest.
I stood still for a second, then looked at the blade and back at her. She pulled the blade out and widen her eyes as it melted. She tried to scream, but i quickly put my left hand over her beak, preventing her to do so. I then towered over her and made her look in my eyes.
You see, i have an ability to control the Penance Stare. If just keep looking at sinner’s eyes, it will be like a welding stick is pulled all over their bodies, making them feel agonising pain. If that’s the case, the sinner can go unconscious, insane or explode.
Now, if i say the phrase “Look into my eyes. Your soul is stained by the blood of innocents. Feel their pain.” you are going to feel like you were thrown in a volcano. You will feel the burning pain in every part of your body like never before, but it lasts for only few seconds and then your soul is on the first class to Hell.
Right now, i decided to use the latter. I had to get rid of her as soon as possible.
”Look into my eyes. Your soul is stained by the blood of innocents. Feel their pain.” i said in my demonic voice. She screamed in my hand as she experienced all the pain she inflicted to others. Soon, her eyes turned into hot coal.
Another thing, i could also burn the dead body or keep it like this.
I burnt this one.
After that, i turned back into my human form and opened the door, entering back into the house.
The griffins were still searching for Black Knight and Sun Burn. When i entered, they looked at me and noticed i was alone.
“Where is our commander.” one of them asked. I grinned.
“She is in Tartarus now.” before either of them managed to do something, i launched my chain at one of them like Scorpion and it wrapped around his neck. With a swift tug, the hook on the end of the chain ripped the griffin’s throat of. The other griffin unsheathed his sword, but i impaled the hook in his claw and tug it hardly. He screamed in pain and fell in his knees, holding his claw in pain. I wasted no time and thrusted his own sword through his chest, killing him instantly. I then removed the pathos, revealing terrified King and Queen. Celestia and Luna were surprisingly calm. They were even more terrified after they saw the corpses. However, i gave them no time to panic and helped them on their hooves.
“We must move. They found out this location. There is no doubt more griffins will appear when the king notices these haven’t returned.” i told them and we exited the house.
Black Knight noticed the dust that was once was the griffin commander.
“Why is that dust there?” he asked.
“Oh, that was once their commander. I promise i will explain everything later, now let’s move.” i answered back.
