Jinx stared down at the object he held in one of his tails with disdain. With a frown he began to work on the contraption once again, its myriad of colors mesmerizing to the watchful eye of all in attendance of the scene. With a blur the colors of said object began to twist and change in his grasp until it began to slow revealing that all the colors were, still mixed.

“fuck”, with a yell Jinx chucked the rubix cube across the room and watched it shatter against the wall of the throne room. Sighing he lifted his head and glanced around to make sure that no one had seen his eyes locked with the guard that was guarding the door. “Tell anyone what you just saw, and I’ll turn you into a rabbit.” the guard nervously nodded and turned back to the door.

The new armor that had been made for the guards was a success it could withstand the force of his strikes with only mild scratches and due to enchantments, it was also resistant to magical and elemental attacks. It wouldn’t take a sustained hit from dragon fire, but it could take brief hits before it melted. You could be standing in the middle of a blizzard and only feel a small chill. The magic from the blows was fed directly into a shield enchantment that could block about ten consecutive shots from a musket before it overloaded.

Speaking of muskets, they had been integrated into the military in unique ways. There were some that had integrated them into the designs of swords and spears via enchantments others used the traditional design but reinforced with steel and bayonets. Among these designs came different forms of ammunition. It was discovered that when enchanted crystal musket balls could hold an elemental charge. They could also hold spells such as paralysis. Then someone figured out that the barrels themselves could be enchanted. Allowing for spells that were nonlethal to be fired out of the barrels.

Jinx looked around the throne room with a lazy eye he had been here for over an hour and so far, not a single being had come into the throne room else then the occasional guard and a mare that had been charged with arson. Glancing at the door as it opened he grabbed the swath of papers that were chucked at him by his adviser as he dashed past them.

Looking up he signaled one of the maids to get him some lunch, preferably something with some meat such as a sandwich or an omelet. Jinx began reading through the papers. It was mostly request and such. Hmm let’s see a request to open a new schooling program that allows for more diverse classes, accepted. What else, a request to… he was shaken out of his reading by the maid that had brought him his lunch. It was a chicken sandwich with a cup of tea. Thanking her with a smile on his muzzle he began to take a bite out of his sandwich when the window shattered inwards.

A few moments before with a certain pink alicorn

It had been a shock when Cadance had found out that the barrier around the crystal empire had been activated. Looking from her vantage point she spotted a window leading into the throne room. Then she noticed a pair of guards leading a mare out of the castle in chains, damn the king sending such a young mare away to have Celestia knows what done to her. I must stop him. Diving for the window she prepared a spell to stun Sombra her horn glowing.

As her hooves hit the glass she noticed that the figure sitting in the throne was not Sombra in fact it wasn’t even a pony. Not that it mattered, that mare combined with the fact that it was eating meat must mean he was evil. That guard is obviously scared to be in its presence.

Firing her spell, she hit the giant fox in the abdomen and sent it flying back through the throne a shimmer appearing where her spell had hit, the wall behind the throne collapsed upon the fox burying him under the rubble of both the wall and the throne. Looking around at her surroundings she saw the guards were looking at her in shock.

“Fear not my ponies I have come to rescue you from this beast and take the throne as the rightful heir of the crystal empire appointed to me by the celestial si-.” She was cut off from her speech by a long fluffy tail smacking her across the room with a resounding smack. The fox that she had hit pulling himself from the rubble with a snarl he reeled back another tail.

“That was for my sandwich you bitch.” With another resounding smack the fox hit her again this time sending her through the same window she had come through in the first place,” and that was for the throne.”

Cadance managed to catch herself before she smashed into the street. She threw herself to the side just before a spear hit directly where her head would have been. Leaping back to avoid the spear slicing for her chest she fired a bolt of magic only for the fox to knock it to the side with his spear sending it careening into a wall.

Cadance began firing volleys of small magical bolts at the fox, but everyone was sent careening in different directions even back at herself by his spear. She managed to dodge the second swipe from the spear but stumbled over a patch of rubble as she dodged a claw strike. Feeling a stinging pain across her cheek she lifted a hoof up to it and came back with blood.

Back with a very handsome fox

Jinx watched as the pink alicorn brought a hoof up to her face in shock realizing that his prey was stunned he moved in to try and impale her with his spear. She managed to get out of the way with only a nick in her regalia. She quickly flared her horn, but he smacked her with one of his tails before she managed to discharge her spell. He had been avoiding using his own magic so that he could use it as a trump card, but he had found that he didn’t need it.

Bringing down his spear point first at her head he was surprised that his spear had hit marble instead of flesh. Looking up he realized what had happened. She teleported out of the way and was charging for a spell. He prepared to bring up his shield spell but was interrupted by a loud explosion, cadance looked shocked as a large hole appeared in one of her legs before she disappeared in a flash of pink light. Turning to look he saw the captain with his sword leveled where the pink menace had been, the barrel in the center of the blade smoking slightly.

“Thanks”

Jinx looked at the destroyed throne with annoyance he had just had the dammed thing made to fit his form. Beside that several of his subjects had been hurt by the errant spells that the pink alicorn had fired at him. They ended up with severe magic burns and several broken bones. The one guard that had been hit had been sent flying but managed to escape with only bruises. Really it had been the buildings themselves that had taken the most damages craters and scorch marks covered almost every building in the square. He was slightly thankful that the temple had been in front of the school instead of behind it.

Looking up at the window of the throne room Jinx decided that he was going to remove all the windows in the throne room. Having big glass windows was not secure when the things trying to kill you could fly. At the very least he wanted the damn things reinforced with enchantments and seals.

It had taken a couple of hours, but he managed to calm down the guard and civilians, though there were some good thing about the fight. Apparently, a good number of civilians saw the fight between him and a type of pony that many of them had once worshiped as gods.

The fight had only cemented the worship of Inari even more than it already was. Apparently if he the champion of a god could defeat one of the beings they saw as a goddess then that must mean that his god was stronger and better than the alicorns.

Jinx took one last longing glance at his destroyed throne before leaving to visit he stone mason with a request for a new throne. Maybe he should also visit the blacksmith to have the thing reinforced with steel just in case. But for now, he’ll just have to use the pillows again.

Behind the fox in the throne room were two guards that were throwing startled glances at the wall where a alicorn sized indent was implanted into the marble. Slowly one of the guards a Pegasus mare looked to her partner. “Remind me to never get between the emperor and his lunch.

In a land not so far away.

Celestia walked towards the throne room with a worried expression adorning her muzzle cadance should have reached the crystal empire by now. The plan was for cadance to get there and use a shield of positive energy to harm Sombra enough for capture. That plan was twenty hours ago and should have been done.

So why hadn’t she received a letter from Cadance yet. Entering the throne room, she looked at Luna who was sitting upon her throne. She had been there dealing with the nobles for most of the night, they had probably been bothering her sister in order to get around the request that she had denied. Seeing her sister had settled her worry a little but not by much. On a normal occasion she would not have been nearly as worried, but Cadance was almost always on time and while she was an alicorn and as such extremely tough. She was still able to be hurt with enough force or magical power

Turning to talk with her sister she was interrupted by a flash of pink. Turning to greet her niece her eyes widened when she took in her form. There was bruising across her back, slash marks along the right side of her face and there was a gaping hole in her leg that looked like it had been affected by frostbite.

“Not Sombra - something else giant fox- powerful- no magic though.” That was all she managed to rasp out before she fell unconscious with blood dripping out of her mouth. Celestia quickly grabbed the unconscious alicorn and stormed towards the infirmary.

Three hours later Celestia was approached by a young unicorn. “Your majesty, princess Cadance is going to be fine. However, she’s going to be bedridden for a while due to the internal bleeding and the leg. The slashes along her face will leave scars as will the leg, but they should not cause any permanent disability.”

Nodding Celestia left the infirmary and went to the throne room when she got there she called for the commander to gather his best guards and bring them to the throne room. When they all got there Celestia finally began the meeting. They could tell that something was wrong as Celestia looked both extremely worried and angry.

“Thank you, commander, stallions you must be wandering why you’ve been called here. So I shall get to the point exactly two hours ago princess Cadance was hospitalized while preforming a mission, her mission was to liberate the crystal empire. The crystal empire was banished from time about one thousand years ago by the tyrant king Sombra. While she did not say much before she collapsed she did say that it was not the king that had fought her. Instead it was some sort of fox. Your mission is to escort the elements of harmony and defend them while they defeat this fox.”

As the guards left Celestia looked over to the horizon warily before she summoned a sheet of parchment and some ink. Dipping the quill down into the ink before moving it over to the parchment, all the while princess Luna looked over at the guard detail with a worried expression. This fox must surely be a powerful foe to have defeated Sombra and Cadance

In the crystal empire a fox was about to finish the last piece of a house of cards before he sneezed knocking the whole thing down.

“fuck!”

Author's Note

a couple of examples
also in third person so you guys decide 1or3 person from now on