Equestrian Blades: Broken Harmony

I, Twilight Sparkle, with my faithful companion, Spike, soared through the air inside a hot air balloon. It was decidedly much easier to travel by air then to just walk on foot. The Twinkling Balloon is an elegant little balloon, purple in color with swirls and stars across the balloon. It was made by my own design. And within its basket, we plan on flying through the air currents and flying our way towards the Elements of Harmo-

"So how do we know when we're close to those Elements anyway?"

Spike's question had caught Twilight off guard, causing her to stop writing in her book as it and her pen 'poofed' away in a cloud of purple. "Huh?"

"I mean, do we even know where they are?" The Dragonboy scratched at his head as he said, "it just feels like we're floating around without really knowing where we're going."

Twilight stared at Spike as realization swam over her. Twilight gave a blood-curdling scream as she clutched her hair, "Celestia Damnit! I didn't think about asking for directions or for any ideas as to where the Elements could be or anything! How could you just let me walk out the door without saying anything?!"

"Wait, what?!" Spike bared his fangs as he said, "how's this my fault?! You're the one who was given the quest! You should've asked!"

"I was overwhelmed with the armor and the sword and...and...oh fuck." Twilight slumped down into the basket as she pulled her knees up to her chest. "I don't know which way to go or even the slightest idea of what I'm doing. We could be right over one of the Elements and I wouldn't even know it."

Spike felt his heartstrings pulled as he crouched down besides the older woman. "Well, how about we just split the blame." Twlight glanced over at Spike as he said, "we both should've asked Celestia something and there's no going back now. So we're just gonna have to tough it out and hope for the best."

Twilight gave a sigh as she said, "I guess there's no use in crying over it now." She stood onto her feet, a small smile on her face. "At least with you with me, things will be a lot easier."

"You bet!" Spike grinned, "it's just smooth sailings from here!"

And then, something just tackled into their basket, nearly causing Spike to fall out before Twilight grabbed at his arm. The two of them watched as Night Soldiers soared through the sky, two of them holding swords while one of them was clad in heavier armor, with bigger bat wings to compensate.

"Nightmare Moon's minions!" Spike snarled, green fire starting to engulf him.

"Spike, no! Don't transform!" Twilight grabbed and shook Spike, breaking his concentration. "Your Dragon Form is too big for this basket!"

"O-oh..." Spike and Twilight watched as the heavily-armored Night Soldier flew at them. Spike conjured more green fire, spewing it out of his mouth in a stream of flames as it engulfed the enemy, causing him to fall out of the sky like a burning rock. "Ha! Got him!"

"And I got these two!" Twilight's horn began to glow as she chanted, "Ignis-Pilla!" She conjured balls of fire into her hands before she took them and threw them at the remaining Night Soldiers, hitting them directly as they fell from the sky.

"Nice throw, Twilight!" Spike congratulated as he gave a victorious hop in the basket. "It looks like we've got 'em all!"

Twilight gave a sigh, "glad that's over." She turned around to lean over the basket, but her eyes then grew like dinner plates. Just up ahead, they were sailing their balloon right into a swarm of Night Soldiers. "Oh damn."

"What?" Spike asked as he turned around. "What's wro...oh crap." The Night Soldiers flew right towards them and their balloon as Spike yelped, "this is bad! What do we do, Twilight?!" He watched Twilight summon her sword as it began to glow with her horn. He watched in awe as the clouds around them turned black. She raised her sword to the heavens as she began to chant.

"Procellae Tonitruales!" Lightning began to engulf the swarm of Night Soldiers, bright flashes of blue and white struck the armored enemies. In a flash, the swarm began to fall out of the sky like a collection of flies in a bug zapper.

"Wh-whoa! Twilight, that was amazing!" Spike gasped as he said, "I never saw you do a spell like that before!"

"Well, I could never do spells like that without just totally burning myself out." Twilight grinned as she swung her sword around triumphantly. "But now, I feel so powerful! Like, like I can do anything with this sword. Cause normally, I would be flat on the ground and-why are we falling?"

Twilight and Spike noticed they were descending and fast, Twilight looking and noticing the hot air mechanism wasn't blowing flame to heat the air that was suppose to be keeping them afloat. Twilight pulled the cord to get it to light. When nothing happened, she pulled the cord frantically as she and Spike looked more and more panicked.

"Heh...heh heh." She laughed nervously as her sword poofed away. "I think I let the power go to my head..."

"YOU THINK?!"

Twilight quickly grabbed Spike and pulled him close. She shut her eyes, trying to concentrate on the wings on her back. She tried to get them to work, but no matter how hard she tried, the two of them kept falling from the sky and the ground was getting awfully close.

"CAN'T YOU FLY WITH THOSE WINGS?!"

"I'M WORKING ON IT!"

With the ground getting closer still, Spike had tightened his grip onto Twilight before he broke out into green fire. The fire didn't burn Twilight to the touch, thankfully, as Spike began to transform, erupting into his Dragon Form as the basket they were falling in broke. His scale-covered, massive body slammed through the trees below them and kept falling onto the forest floor. He landed on his back with Twilight on his chest as he protected her from the impact and debris with hi massive arms. Despite his efforts, she was still dazed from the shock of the fall, but she was mostly okay.

"Ugh...that had to hurt." Twilight rubbed her head as she teleported off of Spike and landed next to his head-which, while in his Dragon Form, was massive. She gently stroked his face as she asked, "are you okay, Spike?"

He gave a low growl from the back of his throat. His voice was much deeper in this voice. "I'll...feel that in the morning." He gave a chuckle before he cringed, fire enveloping him before he returned to normal. He groaned as he lied on his back, panting as he pulled himself onto his feet. "Who needs a spine anyway?"

"P-please don't joke like that!" Twilight whined as she said, "I am so, SO sorry for you having to do that!"

"H-hey, it's cool." Spike gave a tired smile, "it happens."

Twilight picked Spike up as she helped him onto her back. "Well, let's try and get out of these woods and head to the nearest town. Hopefully we can find someone who can help your back." As she turned to get walking, she heard something in a bush behind her. Spike and her looked back and from the bushes were a group of Wolf-like creatures. They snarled at the two of them, their bodies covered in green fur. Vines seemed to grow from their bodies, with sharp thorns jutting out.

"Oh wow! Timberwolves!" Twilight gasped as she said, "I had read about these back home, but I never thought I'd actually see one!"

"Uh, Twilight," Spike spoke up, as more Timberwolves began to come from the bushes. "Did those books say anything about them being friendly?"

"No, I believe they're...highly aggressive and...t-territorial..." Twilight slowly began to realize the position that she was in. She began mumbling to herself, "okay Twilight, just stand your ground. If you show them that you're afraid, they'll think your prey and attack you."

She then took a step back.

The Timberwolves lept for Twilight as she gave a scream, narrowly avoiding a bite from the wolf. "They sensed my fear!"

Two more attacked Twilight as she shouted, "Scutum!" A barrier blocked the two of them as she then shouted, "Lux Lembus!" Beams of light shot from her horn, striking one of the wolves before she spun around, slicing an incoming wolf in half with expert precision.

"I-I got this!" Spike tiredly tried to breath fire, but only a puff of smoke came from his maw.

"E-even if you could, I really don't think spewing fire in a forest would be a good idea!" She cut down another Timberwolf, but this time, she noticed the remains sink into the ground, a bush of flowers and grass taking its place before a new Timberwolf sprouted from the ground. "Amazing! They're capable of regenerating after being killed!" The wolf then charged at her again, forcing Twilight to cut him down again.

"Right. Be amazed after the fight!" This time, she took the time to tear apart the patch it had become after it's death. Twilight turned to face another wolf, but it had cut into her armor, rending it with its claws.

"Tw-Twilight! Are you okay?!"

"Y-yeah, b-barely!" Twilight stumbled back as her chest piece fell, exposing how her dress underneath was also cut into as her violet bra was exposed to the forest air. She didn't have time to be embarrassed, however, as she stumbled back and had her back forced up against a tree. "Okay, this is bad." The wolves began to surround her as Twilight began wracking her brain. She needed a hand to hold her sword in order to use a more powerful spell to deal with these wolves, but she had to hold onto Spike to keep him out of danger. She was stuck in thought as the wolves pounced at her.

Then, the wolves were swatted away by a large Brown Bear's claw.

Twilight stood there stunned, seeing the bear clad in green armor and helmet, with a grey trim and butterfly sigil on its chest. He began to rampage, slaughtering the wolves in quick blows with his armored claws. As the Timberwolves turned into patches of plants, a group-no, more like an army of rabbits scurried over. They were in smaller sets of armor then the Bear was and began eating the grass the Timberwolves left behind, keeping them from growing back.

"Wh-wha...?"

"You there!"

Twilight turned and coming towards her was a fair-skinned maiden in a green chest-plate that barely managed to hold in her massive breasts that were practically pouring out. She also had a pair of armored wings, just like she did, as she descended from the tree tops above. She had a green head piece that came around her long pink locks. Strapped to her armor piece were suspenders that held up a belt that secured her white loin cloth. The woman had the butterfly sigil, like the bear and rabbits. She wore green armored boots and black thigh-highs, both with gold trims.

"Are you two okay?! Are you injured?!"

Twilight was taken back by just how concern she was. But she sighed as she said, "don't worry, I'm okay. But my friend here is seriously hurt and we could really use help getting out of here." She gestured to the exhausted-looking Spike as she looked over him with sympathetic eyes.

The woman nodded as she said, "you poor things, coming to this forest." The woman knocked on the tree, a rope ladder falling down for them. "Quickly, up this way." She headed up the ladder, "it's not safe on the forest floor."

"Right." Twilight nodded as she began to follow up. It was then that Twilight realized from her position, she was looking directly up the woman's skirt, seeing her green panties that tightly hugged at her massive, round ass. She blushed, then looked over at Spike, who was not only looking, but his nose was starting to bleed. "...Seriously?" She scolded him in a hushed tone, "you nearly died, ya know?"

"You were looking too." Spike huffed as Twilight went silent and climbed up. When they reached the top, and Spike wiped his blood away, the two of them were astonished by the series of houses and bridges that lined the trees. It was like another village was just built atop the trees.

"Welcome to the Everfree Forest." The woman gave the two a smile, "my name is Fluttershy. I am...sort of its guardian. Kind of. Sometimes."

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Twilight smiled as she introduced herself, "my name is Twilight Sparkle. And he's Spike."

"Hi."

Fluttershy began leading the two of them across a bridge as she asked, "so, what brought you two here? The Everfree Forest isn't exactly a place people come in visit on a leisure trip."

"Well...it's a bit of a long story..."

A woman gasped as she sat inside of one of the many straw houses built atop the trees. From under her hood, she stood up, one hand on her head as she walked through the room and over to a chest. She opened it up, and in her hand a magenta colored stone in the shape of a star. It gave a soft glow, but the light quickly began to die down within her hands.

"It seems that now my duty is done. For not it seems the time has come."

Then, the woman spun on her heels, throwing a glass bottle from inside of her cloak. The bottle broke against someone's chest, an ugly hissing sound filling the room as a man fell onto the ground, shouting and flailing as acid ate through his armor. He wasn't alone, however, as more men in similar armor began to come from the shadows.

Nightmare Moon's Night Soldiers.

"It seems that I have some guests." She grabbed a small piece of wood as it fully extended into a staff. "Although unwanted, you're more like pests."

"Oh my. A quest from the Queen herself."

Fluttershy had taken Twilight and Spike to her own hut. Spike lied on his stomach as Fluttershy rubbed and massaged the young Dragon's back. Fluttershy had taken her chest plate off, her massive mounds occasionally rubbing against Spike's back as he moaned softly. He could feel the tension in his back give way. He couldn't tell if Fluttershy's healing was working or not, but he didn't care either way.

"Yes, it, ahem, is a pretty stressful situation we're in." Twilight tried to avert her stare from Fluttershy's big boobs as she used her magic to mend the damage in her armor. Twilight tried not to look at her own chest underneath her sewn-up dress, knowing very well she couldn't compete with Fluttershy's bust.

"But, I'm still confused." Fluttershy gave some pressure on Spike's back, the Dragon cringing before a popping noise echoed inside the hut, getting Spike to sigh in content. "If you're all the way from Canterlot, then how did you get into the middle of the forest?"

Spike spoke nonchalantly, "oh, we fell."

"...Huh?"

Twilight lightly tugged at the collar of her dress as she elaborated. "See, we were flying in a hot air balloon and we...ran into trouble, so I had to use magic to fight them off. I...accidentally knocked us out of the sky and Spike hurt his back breaking my fall." Twilight finished mending her armor as she saw Fluttershy give her a hard glare, suddenly taking her hands off of Spike.

"Twilight! That's heavily irresponsible!" Fluttershy's suddenly scolding tone got both Twilight and Spike to cringe. "You shouldn't be so careless when you and the lives of others are hanging in the balance!"

Her scolding got Twilight to flinch as she tried to defend herself. "I-I am careful when doing magic. Th-there were...different circumstances that had-AAH!" Twilight was suddenly pulled along by Fluttershy, being taken across the room to a couch. Fluttershy had sat down and pulled the Mage across her lap, her face down into the couch cushions and her ass up and in the air. "W-wait a second! WAIT A SECOND! What are you doing?!"

"I'm simply doing what I think needs to be done." Fluttershy pulled up Twilight's dress, exposing her purple panties to the air. Fluttershy then raised her palm into the air and gave Twilight a firm smack across her butt, getting Twilight to give a yelp that echoed through Fluttershy' home.

Spike had been watching with a small grin on his face. A low laugh came from his throat as he mumbled, "it's like we never left."

"W-wait a second! Fluttershy!" Twilight kicked her legs about, but Fluttershy paid her no mind as her hand continued to land a series of firm smacks across Twilight's upturned ass. Each smack made Twilight's butt bounce as Fluttershy's hand smacked across her ass, hopping from left cheek to right as Twilight squirmed about. "OW-OW! Fluttershy, please! It was an accident!" Twilight couldn't help but feel stinging tears threaten to shed from the corner of her eyes.

"I understand that." Fluttershy's palm, however, continued to smack Twilight's bottom as it started to turn a hot shade of pink. "But this will just be a reminder to be more careful when using your magic around allies." She gave another smack onto Twilight's ass as she loosened her grip and stopped striking her rear. "There, that should be enough."

Twilight immediately sprang up once she was let go, rubbing the sting away from her sore and hot ass, more concerned with that then Spike's snickering. "Ow...that really hurt."

Fluttershy had suddenly got up, grabbing Twilight and pulling her in for a hug. Twilight's face was buried into her breasts, being painfully familiar, comforting, and just embarrassing. "I know it hurt, but I did this for your own good. I wouldn't want you to slip up and hurt your friends with your magic." She gently stroked her fingers through Twilight's hair. "I spanked you only cause I want you to do your best."

Twilight felt somewhat uncomfortable with how this woman who couldn't have been too much older then her, if at all, was talking to her like a mother. Yet, at the same time, her maternal tone did help her calm down and stop the water works from flowing.

Twilight mentally prepared herself to not let her voice crack or accidentally call her something embarrassing as she said, "I'll try to be more careful, Fluttershy."

It was at that moment when a loud 'boom'-noise hit their ears. Spike got off of the floor as he and the two women looked outside of the hut. Outside, the village in the trees were covered in a blanket of armored warriors with crescent moons covering their armor.

"Oh no..."