Steel Burner

Chapter 1; Where it all begins

Both of them walked in silence for what must have been hours. Vigil stopped in his tracks, quickly followed by the human.

"What?" asked the human in a questioning tone.

"Nothing. I just wondering what I should call you."

"I don't care, lets just get moving. The quicker we get to town, the quicker I can figure out exactly what the hell happened."

"How about Orby?" Vigil suggested.

"Orby?...." The human asked curiously.

"Yeah cause, you know, you appeared out of an orb." Vigil responded.

"How about no."

"Okay, how about.. hmm..." The unicorn pondered for a moment. "Oooh! How about, Steel?"

"How about shut up." The human responded bitterly.

They both fell silent as they continued nearing the town. Now that they were closer to town, they started passing by ponies whom seemed to drop their jaws and stare wide eyed at both Vigil and the human as they passed by.

The ponies tried to go unnoticed as best as possible. They scurried away quickly, trying to do whatever they were going to do without crossing the sight of the strange creature clad in metal.

Eventually they made it to town and everything seemed to freeze right then and there. Ponies stood there staring at the human, and the human stared back. The only indication that time had not frozen was a subtle breeze passing across carrying a tumbleweed in its wake. The tumbleweed passing across the street seemed to cause a chain reaction as suddenly everypony panicked and ran off in different directions screaming bloody murder.

Vigil just chuckled a little and responded "By Celestia, you would think Discord was free a second time."

"By who?"

"Never mind... I'll tell you later."

The human shrugged in answer as both began casually walking across the now deserted street. Within a short time, they made their way to the town center where the markets were set up.

Everything was busy and bustling, at least it was until a yellow earth pony with orange hair noticed them both and screamed at the top of her lungs.

Both Steel and Vigil sighed as they watched the citizens fleeing in different directions. It was quite a spectacle to behold, ponies running every which way. They ran into walls, stands, each other, as well as slipping on fallen fruits like banana's that fell during the panic.

Once the market was clear and devoid of life, a loud "stop!" Was heard from behind them. To both their shock, what stood behind them was a small group of local town militia, shaking in fear of what the human might do.

Each of the unicorn guards used their magic to hold steel spears towards both the human and Vigil. The Earth Ponies in the ranks looked ready to charge head first at them, and the pegasi guards were hovering just enough off the ground to hold spears in their hooves.

"Woah, whats the problem here?" Vigil said in a slightly anxious tone.

One of the guards, an Earth Pony, spoke up "Monsters aren't welcome in this town, Vigil. Get back from that thing!"

The unicorn took a look around and decided to humor the guard

"What monster, Charger?".

The Earth Pony was visibly annoyed by this and pointed a hoof towards the human at the still confused Steel.

"Him? He isn't a monster, dude. He's just different looking."

This didn't satisfy the guards and none of them looked to lower their guard. One of the more younger and cockier of the guards decided to charge at the samurai while screaming, weapon trained on him. The human quickly disposed of the weapon breaking it in two and tripping the guard backwards.

All the guards looked at him slack jawed and then made more hostile expressions towards him. Looking down at the half of the weapon that he had broken off, he saw it start melting in his hand.

This distracted him long enough for the guards to completely surround the two. The samurai decided against using his weapons and instead decided to try and disarm the guards as they charged.

Charger went in on their front while two pegasi attempted to flank the human from behind. The human decided to drop low, narrowly avoiding a spear from Charger by a hair. The human made a quick twisting motion and tripped Charger, grabbing his spear and breaking the tip he threw it towards the incoming pegasi landing a blow on one of their wings. The other charged at him, spear raised towards the samurai's chest.

The samurai sidestepped and avoided most of the blow, gaining a small slash on his right arm. Then in one swift motion, he grabbed the spear, broke it in half, and used the blunt side to knock out the pegasi.

The samurai couldn't help but notice each of the metal weapons he grabbed were melting as if they had been placed in a forge. The samurai didn't have enough time to react as he was, once again, under attack by two more guards, both of them earth ponies.

They both charged head on and the samurai jumped to avoid them, only to be hit faster then a blink of an eye by some strange blue blur. The samurai started to lose consciousness as black spots filled his vision. As everything got hazy, he heard lots of noise that started to faze out. "Wait.....don't know.......crazy!"

That was all the samurai heard before he fell into a dark sweet bliss.