Getting out of Hellby Draco Rex SolisChaptersNew World, New ProblemsFull Moon on the looseThe final battle: Part 1New World, New ProblemsAuthor's Note So, here it's! The first of many ( I hope ). Like I said on my blog post, I was remaking - and still am ( prologue ) this story ( not even published it and already am remaking it, talk about efficiency ), that's why it took a lil bit longer than what I promised there, but like I learned while writing this thing, being fast isn't always good, and I took a bit longer to re-read it and edit it. This chapter, before the editing it, was more or less a thousand words smaller. And by the way, this is the first chapter that will appear here, but it isn't the first chapter of the story, I'm still writing the prologue, I'm thinking of splitting it in two parts, but I will write the story a bit more before continuing the prologue ( mainly because I'm a bit without Ideas for it and writing the story will help clear my head a bit ). Personalities ( these aren't hard-coded and may change a bit ): Ravager: As a Baron, he is the warrior and the reluctant leader of the group, he knows that he wasn't made to be a leader, but the prophecy that Arachne made before her death and indoctrination keeps him going strong, until the forces of Chaos be destroyed and his species freed, he will be the torch that guides whoever manages to wriggle out of the claws of the 4 dark lords, and the executor to the ones who stand on his way. Jinx: Always energetic and carefree, Jinx is the Rainbow Dash of the group, but she is also the Fluttershy, even on her corrupted and indoctrinated form, her instincts to save the others always put her on the line of fire. She is the sister of Orion. Orion: The Twilight of the group, but without all the craziness. He is always searching for knowledge, and his indoctrinated form, this meant capturing and torturing enemies, to know where and how to hit then to make then suffer more, this will haunt him for the rest of his days. Like Twilight, Orion isn't the strongest of the group when it comes to CQC, but his knowledge and power in how to use the Argent for his and his friends needs is his biggest strength New World, New Problems NEW WORLD, NEW PROBLEMS Narrator – Everfree Forest –3 months before the show events It was a normal day for the creatures of the Everfree, manticores, timberwolves and cockatrices hunting deers and every now and then the occasional pony that wandered a little too deep. It wasn’t hard to know why no sapient being wanted to enter this one forest, but to every rule there is an exception, and this time, it’s Fluttershy, she was entering the forest because Angel had another one of his trademark tantrums when he doesn't want to eat and jumped out of an open window, running to the tree line. At least, that was what she would be doing, if a foul smell hadn’t reached her, and if a pack of timberwolves wasn’t hunting her right now. She was running for only 5 minutes, but for somepony who doesn’t exercises too much, she was already exhausted, but she knew that she would die if she stopped, and with adrenaline filling her she ran nonstop, until she saw the wooden bridge of the supposedly haunted Castle of Everfree 10 ( 32.80 feet ) meters away, everypony was told to not go near it, because it was there that the Pony of Shadows lived, even the creatures of the forest dreaded it, but right now she hadn’t any other choice, she entered the small clearing, but before she could reach the bridge, one timberwolf smashed onto her side, sending her tumbling onto a rock, Fluttershy silently whimpered as she saw the 6 wood wolves slowly making their way to her, as she tried to stand up, an overwhelming pain on her ribs and left hind leg made her collapse, before she lost conscience, she saw 3, tall, pony like silhouettes jumping over the rock she crashed into, standing between her and the wolves. Ravager POV – 30 minutes earlier I started to stir awake, commanding my eyes to open, but they wouldn’t obey my command, my entire body screamed pain from the berserker rage that the Slayer was on. Remembering the fight, I sighed internally. ‘That was a good sword… It will be difficult to make one equal’. While I was still trying to remember a few thing that Orion and Jinx were trying to say to me before I was punched into the portal, I heard something whispering on my ear. “Wake up, Hell’s champion…” the voice said, so soft and motherly, it seemed like it was Arachne’s. "Arachne..." I murmured "No. I'm not her, once the time comes, you will know who and what I am, and what I need you for. For now... WAKE UP!" I jumped to my legs, adrenaline and fighting instincts at maximum, and looked around frantically, trying to find whoever was talking to me. Seeing that there was no one here, I looked around our destination. It seemed to be the inside of an old castle, with old tapestries, both then and the cobblestones with burns and what seemed to be holes that were created by some kind of energy. ‘A battle happened here, years ago it seems’. As I calmed myself, I looked behind me, seeing the last signs of the heptagram, its runes slowly going away, their energy spent. With its dim light, I could see the forms of what I assumed to be Jinx and Orion, but they seemed different. I tried to walk to then to see better, but as I tried to walk, I fell flat on my face. “Ouch.” Ok, this was humiliating. I tried to stand up, but as I moved my hand to push me up, I saw, red fur? Taking a better look at my body, I quickly took notice that fur was the least of my problems, WHY MY BODY IS THAT OF AN EQUINE?! “W-What?” I tried to flex my limbs, scared by this sudden transformation, and everything felt so natural, looking more closely, I noticed that I wasn’t a full horse, I had patches of scales here and there, and even my skin was tougher than that of a Horse, claws on the places of hooves, six on hind hoofs, 5 on the fore hoofs, sharp teeth and my four horns, the exceptions was that the top ones where now curved forwards, like my jaw horns, my fur color was red with black on my shoulders, chest and belly, my tail was dragon like in appearance, with fur going from the base of it to the tip, it connected with my mane, and its color was red at the base that slowly turned into golden at the ends. I heard grunting sounds, and looked to the others, they were starting to wake up, I noticed that they too were turned into dragon-like horses, but their main colors were different, Jinx fur was a deep purple with black, here mane and tail started with purple which turned into an ocean blue at the ends, and Orion was Orange/Black (fur) and Orange/brown (mane and tail). “Is everyone ok?” Jinx grunted as she stood up, I noticed that she stood up to all four legs. Orion did the same. “Yes,” I said, urging my limbs to move, but failing once again. “But I think that something went wrong with the runes.” “And why do you think that?” She asked, finally looking at me before stretching like a cat, giggling as she saw me trying to discover which limb does what. Noticing that both of then weren’t startled by this like me, I turned my head to Orion. “Am I missing something here?” I asked as I finally discovered how to stand on all fours legs, still wobbling a bit. He then answered. “I was going to tell you this, but then the rage filled Slayer appeared,” Orion began. “Each pair of runes had a different set commands to the heptagram. The majority had to do with creating and stabilizing the portal, but the last 2 had the command to hide our true forms, making then as close as possible to the planet’s apex species.” He told me. “So…” I began, trying to tell myself that this wasn't an hallucination from Nurgle. “What are you is that the apex species of this planet are dragon-like horse beings?” “No. What I am saying is that this is as close as the portal could hide our true Identity. Now, let’s…” He began saying, but stopped as we all sensed 2 things that we were very familiar with, blood-lust and fear, 6 beings chasing another one smaller, coming towards this place. Ravager POV - Present time We all jumped over the rock as soon as the small winged horse smashed onto it, standing between her and the wood wolves, they jumped back a little as we touched the ground, but restrained themselves and started to walk to us, head low, growling, as they did that, each one of us selected a group of 2 and charged, Orion and Jinx took the ones on the left and right, respectively, and I jumped on the middle. As soon as I punched the ground, my Argent covered claws released a fiery wave of Argent that went on the direction of the two that I had chosen, they managed to dodge around it, albeit with burns on their hind legs. Focusing the Argent on my horns and extending then, I gave a charged head but on one of then, my horns perforating his side as he tried to dodge again, I then launched my head back, sending it howling in pain down the ravine as the Argent fire finished the job. Seeing that I was distracted, the other managed to jump on my back and started to bite on my neck, but my hardened skin and scales gave him tooth-ache, I bucked like a mad bull and launched him against a nearby tree, shattering it completely. Looking to the others, Orion killed his last by smashing it with his fore claws and Jinx ripped one apart by biting it on its neck, severing it from the body. Just as the adrenaline from the short fight was leaving our bodies, we noticed one thing, the remains from the wolves that weren’t burned to ashes were glowing on a green energy. “Is that… Corrupted Argent?” Just as Jinx finished her question, the sticks and leaves that made their bodies started to converge on a point, we all watched flabbergasted as a much bigger wolf like creature came to life on our eyes. “Jinx, Orion, go protect the little horse, I deal with this one.” I said to then before looking back to the new enemy. It snarled and barked, thinking that his size would be enough to frighten me. It wasn’t working. Taking on a hunched over biped stance - which we discovered that this dragon-horse hybrid form could do - making myself twice as taller on the process, I Channeled Argent on my fore claws, making then longer and sharper. “Do you want a piece of her?!” I challenged, grinding my claws against each other, to which massive wolf growled. “Then you will have to make it past me.” We charged at each other, it tried to use itself as a battering ram, but I dodged it, cutting one of his hind legs clean off, I launched him against a tree away from the others, a burning stump where his leg used to be. He smashed against the tree, but ignoring the burning, it quickly managed to get back on its feet, letting out a frightening howl, he charged again, maw open. “You don’t know when to stop, don’t you?” Tired of this shit and with a life to save, I moved my head back, I started to concentrate Argent on my throat, a glowing orange light could be seen from the outside, contrasting against the black fur and scales. Just as the wolf crossed the 6 meters ( 19.68 feet ) mental line I fired, a bright, fiery red and orange hellfire beam exited my mouth, the wolf noticed it too late, he got hit full on as it tried to dodge it. The wolf rolled on the ground, trying to stop the hellish fire from consuming it, but only hellish beings can survive against hellfire. Dropping back to all fours, I trotted back to the others… Who were now talking to a rabbit? “…your friend, little one?” I heard Jinx asking to the small rabbit, who was crying next to the horse, which had 3 nasty cuts on its side from the wooden wolf attack, whom I now could take a better look at. In addition to the wings, it was yellow in color, had a pink mane and tail and 3 butterflies on its flank. It was here that I noticed how different we looked, even if we were similar to then, clearly looked like predators, if this one looked like this, the others wouldn’t be so much different. “There is a village nearby, we can ge…” Jinx started after hearing the squeaking and thumping with its foot on the ground. “We can’t do it.” I simply stated, the 3 of then looked at me like they had seen a Lost Soul. “What do you mean by that, Ravager?” Orion said, confused “Take a look at the hor…” Jinx interrupted me. “Fluttershy. She is a pony mare and her name is Fluttershy.” “Right, Fluttershy.” I cleared my throat. "Take a look at her, then at yourselves, and tell me what do you see." It took then a few seconds to realize what I meant. “Predators,” Orion finally said after a few more seconds. “We look like predators.” “Exactly.” I stated. “If we appeared on this village with her on our backs, they would see our claws and her cuts and they would think that we did it and are bringing her there as a warning." “But we can’t leave her here to die! If we do that, we will be no better than the Daemons!” Jinx cried, looking at me with puppy eyes. Pinching the bridge of my nose with a claw, I sighed. “Alright.” I sighed again. “If we do this, no one can see us, we will need to be fast, put her on a place where she can be seen and get the fuck out there.” A few minutes later We galloped as fast as we could through the forest, Argent making us faster than any creature could normally achieve, for outsiders, the 3 of us would look like a blur of red, purple and orange. On my back, the mare and the rabbit were firmly hold in place by my red Argent, Orion had used his Argent to slow down the bleeding so we had more time. We didn’t stop for nothing, trees, rocks and even small critters that didn’t move away were smashed by our claws as we ran across the forest, here and there we would see some strange creatures, but they wouldn’t even try to get close to us. While we were galloping, I thought that I had seen a mist following us on my peripheral vision, but whenever I would look at it, it disappeared. “I think that we are getting near the edge of the forest! The vegetation is getting thinner here.” Orion's voice brought me out of my thoughts. We had arrived. The forest ended up on a hill, the sun already high on the sky, a few dozen meters to our right, there was a road, following it, down a hill, far away from the forest the village could be seen, already brimming with activity. Making a head gesture to a nearby bush, we hid behind it. “Satandammit, we were too slow.” I grunted “There is something strange about that forest, it almost felt like it was trying to hold us inside it.” Orion noted, and in fact, I too noticed it, we were going fast enough to cover 10 kilometers ( 6.21 Miles ) in a few minutes, but it felt like hours passed and we almost hadn’t moved, I believe I saw the same smashed tree 4 times. I was just about to say something, when I heard a female, authoritative but sweet voice. “Alright class, stick together with your partner and don’t move very far from the main group! We are going to a safe part of the Everfree near Fluttershy's cottage to examine the different types of vegetation that exists there compared to the samples that I brought.” We turned our heads to the voice, on bottom of the hill near the road there was what seemed to be a school group, one teacher and a class of fillies. An Idea came to me. “Alright, I know what do to, Jinx.” I said. “See that rock over there?” I pointed to a rock near the road, she nodded, already knowing what I intended. I passed the mare and the bunny to her. She crouched, trying to make herself as small as possible, she made her way quickly to the rock, stopping a few times to hear if they are coming up. Finally reaching the rock, she gently put her down, trying to make her look like she just collapsed. She turned her head to the bunny and whispered something to him, he nodded and jumped down to stay near his friend, and like she went, she came back. Just in time. “Miss Cherilee, isn’t that Fluttershy near that rock?” One orange winged filly said, pointing at the mare on the rock. Looking at where the filly pointed, the purplish mare gave the biggest shriek I ever heard 'ouch, my poor ears'. At this point, a blue winged pony jumped from a nearby cloud? “WHAT; WHO; WHEN; WHERE?!” She cried “RAINBOW DASH!” The teacher mare yelled. "Go get a nurse! It’s Fluttershy!” “We are done here for now, let’s go back to that castle.” I whispered to the others as the blue mare looked down at the yellow one, her eyes turning into needles as her skin paled, becoming almost white as snow, then, on another display of what seemed to be Argent, she flew faster than any normal being into the town, a rainbow trace behind her. Narrator As the trio of Demon turned kirins made their way back into the tree-line, they failed to notice two things. The first was the orange filly ear’s flick at their direction, making her turn her head just in time to see a red dragon like tail disappear into the Everfree; the second was that the mist had returned and was again trailing them, this time, though, it was from afar, more carefuller. Full Moon on the looseNarrator 1000 years ago, Celestia used the Elements of Harmony tobanish her little sister, Luna, to the Moon because her jealousy transformed her on a monster called Nightmare Moon. For a thousand years, she suffered with solitude despite being surrounded by thousands of ponies who idolized her as the goddess of the Sun and, after a few generations, the Moon. For a thousand years she wept on the darkest part of her castle, so that nopony could see her on her weakest. Celestia went as far as label their old castle as a dangerous and haunted place, made by a mad pony whose spirit still lives in the castle, “The Everfree Castle” was the named that she gave to it. But of course there were some who knew what was this castle true name, the followers of Nightmare Moon, the ones who followed her on the 10 years of war that occurred after her transformation, the Thestrals. After her banishment, they too were banished from Equestria, or at least from the area near Mount Canterhorn, but, a few days per year, they went there to mourn the loss of the night queen, and pray for her return, a practice that was passed from generation to generation. Little did they know that she never went. Narrator – Nightmare 3rd POV While the Elements worked and banished her, her body entered a stasis state and was sent to the moon, while her spirit remained on Equus. After the Elements rainbow hit her, she thought that they failed and tried to attack Celestia, only to phase through her, but she tried again and again, but she always passed through her, only then she noticed that the Elements worked, and how they worked, and once she noticed this, she wept. For a thousand years, she saw what Celestia did, the banishment of the Thestrals, abandonment of their old castle because the forest became too much dangerous, and its subsequent renaming, she saw the construction of Canterlord, and she saw how her followers mourned her banishment. She saw so many things that many she forgot, but the one who stuck with her the most, was when she noticed that the ponies, encouraged by Celestia ( AKA changing books and notes ) forgot about her, idolizing Celestia as the princess of the sun and the moon, and for a thousand years she wept in solitude, much like her sister. But while one of them wept for her lost sister, the other, fueled by her own jealousy, wept for revenge, for the lost chance to defeat her sister. Both mourned in solitude, but for very different motives. For a thousand years, Nightmare waited for her magic to regenerate enough so that she could bring her body and spirit together once again, and while she waited, she schemed. 10 years ago, she gathered enough magic to be able to manifest herself as a mist, and through this mist, she talked to her followers, saying that her return was near, but also said that this time she would engage her sister on her own, she knew how much Celestia mourned what she did, and she knew that she would not be able to attack her own sister. But still there was one hole in her plans, the Elements were deactivated because they lost their tune with them, but like last time, they didn’t took the Elements, the Elements chose them as their bearers, this wouldn’t be bad, she would simply use her mist to move then, but she noticed that, despite her using all her strength and magic, the Elements wouldn't budge, she would need something more physical to move them, and Celestia had already banned the thestrals from entering the castle, fearing that they would grab the Elements. But everything would change exactly 3 months before she could gather enough power to return her body, when an event that would give most scientists a headache happened. An event that was prophesied by Queen Faust over a thousand years ago. Nightmare Moon POV – Castle of the Two Sisters For the past decades we have been stalking the area near our old castle, especially Canterlord and that Ponyville, for any being that didn't flee when they saw us, but to little gain. Celestia, with her oh so bright brain, had transformed us into a monster on a children's tale, one who would devour them if they didn't respected us, she didn't hid our existence, she only changed how the events that had led to our banishment happened. Little did we knew, that destiny itself was helping us. We were once again pacing back and forth in front of the stone tree that held the Elements breaking our minds trying to discover how to move the Elements on our own, when a bright red light covered the entire castle, blinding us. We closed our spiritual eyes as hard as we could while we waited for the light show to end, we could see the light dimming through my eyelids. When it reduced to an acceptable brightness, we opened them and saw that they came from the hallway. While we were making my way over there, we felt something that we didn’t recognize, something old but powerful, probably on the same power level of an alicorn or stronger, but despite that it seemed to be suppressed, because if Celestia felt something that had this power she would be here in a matter of seconds, that only made us more eager to see what could make a light so bright that it encompassed the entire castle. We noticed that the light was emanating from somewhere inside the throne room, phasing through the wall, we saw something that could only be described as aberrations. Lying there on the ground were 3 pony like beings that were as tall as alicorns, but that’s where the similarities ended, because what was lying in front of me, had scales, sharp teeth, dragon like tails and claws, they looked like Kirins of the legends, but the legends never mentioned that they had claws, and they certainly didn't mention that they were this big. Moving closer to them we could see them clearer, there was a big red one which looked to be a male, that was one to two heads taller than me, and the other, which seemed to be female and male, respectively, were purple and orange, and were slight bigger than us when we were Luna. All three of them were similar, same 4 front facing horns, same amount of claws on each hoof and even their manes, which connected to their tail fur, looked like fire. Looking to the wall that emanated the light and the energy that we felt, we saw a fading heptagram, 7 used runes on each point,. We was moving closer to inspect the strange language that felt familiar for some reason, when the big red jumped to his feet faster than a scared cat, startling me so much that we nearly jumped through the roof. Floating down, we could see that he was scared of something, heavy breathing, looking around for foes, muscles tensed… Big, strong muscles… “COMPOSE YOURSELF!!!" My inner voice yelled at me. Shaking our head, we tried to clear my mind of that strange thought, we were so distracted with it, that we only saw that the red one fell when the purple one snickered, we heard them say something, but we couldn’t make head or tails of what they were saying, the smaller ones were quick to make to their hoofs, but the big one had some trouble before he managed to stand, wobbling a bit. “Strange, it looks like he never stood up before, even though he clearly looks like an adult.” While the orange one was talking, the 3 suddenly tensed and looked to the door, we was expecting Celestia to appear there, but we didn’t felt her signature, instead, they ran out of the room. A few minutes later To say that we were impressed would be an understatement, the 3 Kirins defended that little yellow pegasus from a pack of timberwolves without even breaking a sweat, of course, there are far more dangerous beings here on the Everfree, but we’ve never seen magic used like that, it was more brutal and raw than most unicorns used, they even used it on their horns and claws to extend them! And like a unicorn, each one had a different aura, the big red kirin was a fiery red with a bit of golden on the edges, the purple kirin had a bright purple aura and the orange kirin had an bright orange aura. And despite being so similar in body and even in brutality, each had a different style, the big kirin was the more brutish of the trio, preferring fighting with his claws and horns, throwing one on ravine with his horns and bucking the other against a tree the purple kirin somehow condensed her magic into dual spiked whips, which she used to traverse the distance between her and the timberwolves, crushing one with her hind claws and dismembering the other with her jaws, and the orange kirin was a mix between a fighter and a mage, using his magic to attack the timberwolves from affair, burning one to ashes and grabbing the other one, pulling it to him and ripping it in half with his fore claws. To our surprise, they didn’t even got scared when the timberwolves ( the ones who didn’t burned to ashes ) merged into a king timberwolf, only a little startled and I could see a bit of curiosity on their eyes. The big one moved forwards, stopping a few meters from the king timberwolf … and went biped. Our eyes became as wide as dinner plates as he became 2 to 3 times taller than his quadruped size, I could even hear his bones popping as they readjusted themselves, the other 2 weren’t even phased by this sudden transformation. Did we missed anything? We are pretty sure that we were with them the whole time. Then they charged. This was one of the quickest battles, if not THE quickest battle, with a king timberwolf that I had ever seen, first, the red kirin dodged the charge of the king timberwolf, sinking his claws deep on the wooden flesh of the beast, throwing it against a tree with a nasty, burning cut on his side. Unfazed, the king timberwolf got to its feet and got ready to charge again, but the red kirin moved his head back and am orange glow appeared on his throat. The king timberwolf finished its wind up and charged, but got reduced to ashes together with a 20 meters area behind it, as the fire breath from the red kirin blasted him, if our jaw could get any lower it would unhinge itself. After the quick battle, the red kirin got back to his quadruped form and went back to the others who were tending to the yellow pegasus and the purple one talking to a rabbit, they discussed something, the purple one looked distressed and the red one was audibly sighing. After a few minutes he nodded, picked both the pegasus and the rabbit, put both of them on his back, and together with the purple and the orange kirins, started running on the direction of Ponyville faster than anything that we had ever seen, and we were left to our thoughts. “They could help us,” We started to talk to ourselves. "If we manage to find a way to talk to them, they could help us not only hide, but if they use that strange magic, they could possibly destroy the Elements!" After this little brainstorm, we floated back to the Elements room to think about this little hindrance in our plans, the damned day of our sister slowly making itself know on the horizon. Narrator While these events were happening at the Everfree forest, a sealed tomb underneath a lava lake started to crack, on the outside, dragons flied and swan on the lava, playing with each other ( wrestling, fighting, etc ), unaware of the danger that was awakening below the surface… Author's Note “HELLO READERS!!!” GAHH!!! PINKIE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE ON THE AUTHOR’S NOTE AREA?! HOW DID YOU EVEN GET IN HERE? *INHALE* Wait, don’t tell me, I’d rather not have a headache so soon into this fanfic. * EXHALE * “Oki doki! But answering your other question, I’m here to talk to the readers about the genres, I mean, most stories here on fimfiction put their main MLP characters on the first or the second chapter, and the second chapter will be about him.” Well, I want to introduce the Slayer first, because even though he was trapped a tomb inside a temple for 200 years, that doesn’t compare to being trapped in a tomb underneath lava, I mean, I know that he is a near immortal and a demigod and Hell is hot, but I think that that doesn't compare to being submerged in lava for 10 years. (shit, was not supposed to spoil that) *INHALE*“Okbutwhataboutme?Myfriends?Theprincesses?AndwhydidyouputbigmeanieMoonasanextracharactereventhoughsheonlyappearsafewtimesonourshow?” Ok, ok, let’s slow a bit, shall we? *ahem* First of, I’m planning to put you and your friends on the third chapter onward if nothing changes on my mind, second, I plan to do something big with Nightmare Moon, which has something to do with the new “sex” tag up there ( there Isn’t any clop on my plans, subject to changes ) and something to do with a Chaos invasion on the future and maybe a bit dimension traveling. Other than that, I will not share anything else as to avoid bigger spoilers. *Finishes writing everything on a notepad* “Oki Doki! Goodbye for now and thanks for answering these few questions Mr.Narrator. And thanks for everyone who’s reading this story, I hope you like it!” *Opens a time and space rift and jumps through* *phew* That Pinkie… But yeah, she basically made me say everything that I wanted to say. Anyways, hope you like this story so far, and please, if you disliked it, tell me on the comments what you didn’t liked so that I can avoid those mistakes on the future. The final battle: Part 1Narrator It was just another normal day at the Dragon Lands, dragons diving in lava lakes, fighting each other for dominance or just for fun and dragons who are simply guarding their hoards. On one of lava lakes, one which was in a small crater with a few stone spike and walls, Garble and his gang had took over one of the best spots for resting, where the lava is hotter and more pleasant. Now they were discussing what to do after Garble becomes the Dragon Lord on the Gauntlet of Fire, which would be happening next year. Lava lake 3º PoV “So you’re really considering attacking Equestria and its neighboring countries Garble?” Asked a white dragon with a pinkish scale Mohawk. “Of course! Those places have the best gems that you could find, and the ponies are so squeamish that they would flee the moment they see us coming down from the skies.” Answered Garble in his prideful voice. “What about that princess of their? I’ve heard that she control both the Sun and the Moon.” “Yeah, and I’ve heard that they have mind altering spells! What if they make us fight each other?” “And what about…” “And there is that thing…” “They can…” “ENOUGH!” yelled Garble, tired of the chatter. “What are you guys even afraid of?! We are dragons! Our scales are nigh impenetrable, we can swim on lava and breathe fire! Heck, we can slice iron bars in half as if they were paper and you are scared of little ponies?” A few dozen meters away from them, resting against a dark obsidian rock outside of the lava was the Dragon Lord’s daughter Ember, or at least that was her intention, if the loud voices of Garble and his gang were not making that impossible. ‘Seriously Garble? War with the entire world? As if dragons hadn’t a bad enough reputation with being greed and malicious, now he wants to make us look like dictators?’ She thought. “…then we will make those stupid dogs mine gems for us, and then…” Garble continued ‘Please, can something happen to make him shut up? I just came here to relax, not to listen to empty words of a megalomaniac.’ Then, as if the universe itself had listen to her prays, a huge, rectangular block of rock shot out of the lava, attracting the attention of the nearby dragons, whom watched as it arched its way to where Garble stood, hitting him right in the face, making him fall on his back, holding his hurting muzzle. “ALRIGHT! WHO DID THAT?!” Garble yelled, looking around, but he noticed that the nearby dragons were looking at the middle of the lake, which had huge riptides and was bubbling quicker than normal. The bubbles started to move towards the edge of the lake, in the direction where Garble and his friends were, and slowly, something appeared. The nearby dragons stopped what they were doing and stared, intrigued, as a massive pair of recurved horns, followed by an equally massive bipedal being, walked from within the lake, dripping lava from its body. As the lava slowly retreated from the creature’s body, its features could made clearer. Its furless skin was a pale white, giving it an undead feel. Its eyes glowed in an ominous red light, it possessed no muzzle and, in the place where a nose would be, there was a hole, which, together with its jaw armor, which remembered an open maw, gave the being’s head a demonic skull like appearance. It also had two smaller horns, which extended from the back of his skull all the way to its face. The being’s upper chest and arms were half-covered in a pale dark green armor, with the left chest armor possessing a circle that glowed red like its eyes, purple veins originating from it could be seen on its skin. Its right arm possessed visibly less armor than its left, and on its right paw (?), it wielded a long metal staff, featuring a horned metal skull at its tip. Its left arm, despite the strange rune on its shoulder and being completely covered in the same pale dark green armor as opposed to its right one, had no distinctive features. On its waist, it possessed a belt that featured the same rune as its shoulder, and on its hips, he carried an assortment of skulls of different sizes. Its strangely bended legs were also covered with the same armor, with heavy light brown boots. As the strange creature as it walked from the lake onto its shore, its strange aura, as well as his heavy footsteps, attracted the attention of more and more dragons, which despite being huger than it, felt a wave of fear which almost completely paralyzed the majority of them, only the most stubborn didn’t felt it. One of them was Garble. “Hey dickhead!” He yelled, as he made his way to the smaller bipedal being. “Who do you think you are to appear on our lake? You don’t seem to be from around here, do you?” The being didn’t gave him an ear as he calmly walked pass Garble on the direction of the block of rock, Garble grabbed its left shoulder, making it and slowly turn its head to look at him, its eyes burning with fiery. “G-g-arble, I-I d-don’t t-think t-that’s a g-good idea.” One of his friends tried to say, stuttering with fear. " You!” Garble said while looking at said dragon. “Don’t tell me what not to do, and you!” He said, looking back at the creature. “Do not ignore me when I’m talking wit...” *GURGLE!* In the blink of an eye, the creature broke the hold that Garble had on it, and with its left paw, grabbed Garble’s throat, pulling his face down so that it could stare into his eyes, cutting his supply of air. Then, in a demonic voice, it calmly spoke. “For a dragonoid so weak and small, you talk too much.” It mocked. “Don’t get in my way ever again, or you will suffer a slow and painful dead.” “Hey! No one threatens a dragon if not for another dra..!” Yelled one of the nearby dragon that weren’t affected by his fear wave, before being shut up by a red energy wave, which came from the being’s newly formed energy double-axe, whom narrowly missed and exploded a rock behind him. “Talk again, and the next one will not miss, lizard.” The being spoke, before effortlessly throwing Garble onto a nearby rock, resuming his walk towards the stone block. *BOOM!* A massive explosion resounded on the area, creating huge riptides on the lake and awakening the few dragons that still were asleep. *BOOM!* Another explosion occurred, this time with an energy shockwave that appeared to have came out of everywhere and nowhere at the same time, somehow breaking the induced state of fear of the dragons, some decided to stay and see what was going to happen, others flew away, then, the being spoke again. “This place has a huge resemblance to the one I was before getting knocked out, just with a more... natural looking.” He said as he got down to one knee near the block of rock, easily cracking it in half with his fist and grabbing with his a strange metal contraption with two tubes that were as long as his forearms. *BOOM!* A third explosion occurred, this time in a more localized position, on the obsidian rock were Ember was resting, a spider-web pattern was started to appear on it, red and orange flames emanating from it, as if a seal had just been broken, their warm energy finally broke Ember fear state, whom promptly scuttled away from it. “On the fortress where we battled, there were only a few beings that had power to make explosion this loud, and I don’t feel Their presence here, and as He wasn’t there, so it leaves only...” *BOOM!* ... *CRACK!* ... “Him.” ... *RAAARRRGH!* Author's Note Phew, this one was harder than the other two chapters, specially when I had to describe the Marauder. Anyway, sorry for the delay everyone, it was entirely my fault, after this chapter, I will finish the introductory chapters for two new stories that I'm making and release them next saturday ( if everything goes ok ). Now, I wanted to ask a thing, I wanted to use the "Satanic Text Generator" on the Marauder speech lines, but I thought that the way that the STG "translates" the speech would make them harder to read, what do you guys think? Should I let them this way, or should I update them with the STG? Edit: I rearranged the words near the end to make it less rushed.
New World, New ProblemsAuthor's Note So, here it's! The first of many ( I hope ). Like I said on my blog post, I was remaking - and still am ( prologue ) this story ( not even published it and already am remaking it, talk about efficiency ), that's why it took a lil bit longer than what I promised there, but like I learned while writing this thing, being fast isn't always good, and I took a bit longer to re-read it and edit it. This chapter, before the editing it, was more or less a thousand words smaller. And by the way, this is the first chapter that will appear here, but it isn't the first chapter of the story, I'm still writing the prologue, I'm thinking of splitting it in two parts, but I will write the story a bit more before continuing the prologue ( mainly because I'm a bit without Ideas for it and writing the story will help clear my head a bit ). Personalities ( these aren't hard-coded and may change a bit ): Ravager: As a Baron, he is the warrior and the reluctant leader of the group, he knows that he wasn't made to be a leader, but the prophecy that Arachne made before her death and indoctrination keeps him going strong, until the forces of Chaos be destroyed and his species freed, he will be the torch that guides whoever manages to wriggle out of the claws of the 4 dark lords, and the executor to the ones who stand on his way. Jinx: Always energetic and carefree, Jinx is the Rainbow Dash of the group, but she is also the Fluttershy, even on her corrupted and indoctrinated form, her instincts to save the others always put her on the line of fire. She is the sister of Orion. Orion: The Twilight of the group, but without all the craziness. He is always searching for knowledge, and his indoctrinated form, this meant capturing and torturing enemies, to know where and how to hit then to make then suffer more, this will haunt him for the rest of his days. Like Twilight, Orion isn't the strongest of the group when it comes to CQC, but his knowledge and power in how to use the Argent for his and his friends needs is his biggest strength New World, New Problems NEW WORLD, NEW PROBLEMS Narrator – Everfree Forest –3 months before the show events It was a normal day for the creatures of the Everfree, manticores, timberwolves and cockatrices hunting deers and every now and then the occasional pony that wandered a little too deep. It wasn’t hard to know why no sapient being wanted to enter this one forest, but to every rule there is an exception, and this time, it’s Fluttershy, she was entering the forest because Angel had another one of his trademark tantrums when he doesn't want to eat and jumped out of an open window, running to the tree line. At least, that was what she would be doing, if a foul smell hadn’t reached her, and if a pack of timberwolves wasn’t hunting her right now. She was running for only 5 minutes, but for somepony who doesn’t exercises too much, she was already exhausted, but she knew that she would die if she stopped, and with adrenaline filling her she ran nonstop, until she saw the wooden bridge of the supposedly haunted Castle of Everfree 10 ( 32.80 feet ) meters away, everypony was told to not go near it, because it was there that the Pony of Shadows lived, even the creatures of the forest dreaded it, but right now she hadn’t any other choice, she entered the small clearing, but before she could reach the bridge, one timberwolf smashed onto her side, sending her tumbling onto a rock, Fluttershy silently whimpered as she saw the 6 wood wolves slowly making their way to her, as she tried to stand up, an overwhelming pain on her ribs and left hind leg made her collapse, before she lost conscience, she saw 3, tall, pony like silhouettes jumping over the rock she crashed into, standing between her and the wolves. Ravager POV – 30 minutes earlier I started to stir awake, commanding my eyes to open, but they wouldn’t obey my command, my entire body screamed pain from the berserker rage that the Slayer was on. Remembering the fight, I sighed internally. ‘That was a good sword… It will be difficult to make one equal’. While I was still trying to remember a few thing that Orion and Jinx were trying to say to me before I was punched into the portal, I heard something whispering on my ear. “Wake up, Hell’s champion…” the voice said, so soft and motherly, it seemed like it was Arachne’s. "Arachne..." I murmured "No. I'm not her, once the time comes, you will know who and what I am, and what I need you for. For now... WAKE UP!" I jumped to my legs, adrenaline and fighting instincts at maximum, and looked around frantically, trying to find whoever was talking to me. Seeing that there was no one here, I looked around our destination. It seemed to be the inside of an old castle, with old tapestries, both then and the cobblestones with burns and what seemed to be holes that were created by some kind of energy. ‘A battle happened here, years ago it seems’. As I calmed myself, I looked behind me, seeing the last signs of the heptagram, its runes slowly going away, their energy spent. With its dim light, I could see the forms of what I assumed to be Jinx and Orion, but they seemed different. I tried to walk to then to see better, but as I tried to walk, I fell flat on my face. “Ouch.” Ok, this was humiliating. I tried to stand up, but as I moved my hand to push me up, I saw, red fur? Taking a better look at my body, I quickly took notice that fur was the least of my problems, WHY MY BODY IS THAT OF AN EQUINE?! “W-What?” I tried to flex my limbs, scared by this sudden transformation, and everything felt so natural, looking more closely, I noticed that I wasn’t a full horse, I had patches of scales here and there, and even my skin was tougher than that of a Horse, claws on the places of hooves, six on hind hoofs, 5 on the fore hoofs, sharp teeth and my four horns, the exceptions was that the top ones where now curved forwards, like my jaw horns, my fur color was red with black on my shoulders, chest and belly, my tail was dragon like in appearance, with fur going from the base of it to the tip, it connected with my mane, and its color was red at the base that slowly turned into golden at the ends. I heard grunting sounds, and looked to the others, they were starting to wake up, I noticed that they too were turned into dragon-like horses, but their main colors were different, Jinx fur was a deep purple with black, here mane and tail started with purple which turned into an ocean blue at the ends, and Orion was Orange/Black (fur) and Orange/brown (mane and tail). “Is everyone ok?” Jinx grunted as she stood up, I noticed that she stood up to all four legs. Orion did the same. “Yes,” I said, urging my limbs to move, but failing once again. “But I think that something went wrong with the runes.” “And why do you think that?” She asked, finally looking at me before stretching like a cat, giggling as she saw me trying to discover which limb does what. Noticing that both of then weren’t startled by this like me, I turned my head to Orion. “Am I missing something here?” I asked as I finally discovered how to stand on all fours legs, still wobbling a bit. He then answered. “I was going to tell you this, but then the rage filled Slayer appeared,” Orion began. “Each pair of runes had a different set commands to the heptagram. The majority had to do with creating and stabilizing the portal, but the last 2 had the command to hide our true forms, making then as close as possible to the planet’s apex species.” He told me. “So…” I began, trying to tell myself that this wasn't an hallucination from Nurgle. “What are you is that the apex species of this planet are dragon-like horse beings?” “No. What I am saying is that this is as close as the portal could hide our true Identity. Now, let’s…” He began saying, but stopped as we all sensed 2 things that we were very familiar with, blood-lust and fear, 6 beings chasing another one smaller, coming towards this place. Ravager POV - Present time We all jumped over the rock as soon as the small winged horse smashed onto it, standing between her and the wood wolves, they jumped back a little as we touched the ground, but restrained themselves and started to walk to us, head low, growling, as they did that, each one of us selected a group of 2 and charged, Orion and Jinx took the ones on the left and right, respectively, and I jumped on the middle. As soon as I punched the ground, my Argent covered claws released a fiery wave of Argent that went on the direction of the two that I had chosen, they managed to dodge around it, albeit with burns on their hind legs. Focusing the Argent on my horns and extending then, I gave a charged head but on one of then, my horns perforating his side as he tried to dodge again, I then launched my head back, sending it howling in pain down the ravine as the Argent fire finished the job. Seeing that I was distracted, the other managed to jump on my back and started to bite on my neck, but my hardened skin and scales gave him tooth-ache, I bucked like a mad bull and launched him against a nearby tree, shattering it completely. Looking to the others, Orion killed his last by smashing it with his fore claws and Jinx ripped one apart by biting it on its neck, severing it from the body. Just as the adrenaline from the short fight was leaving our bodies, we noticed one thing, the remains from the wolves that weren’t burned to ashes were glowing on a green energy. “Is that… Corrupted Argent?” Just as Jinx finished her question, the sticks and leaves that made their bodies started to converge on a point, we all watched flabbergasted as a much bigger wolf like creature came to life on our eyes. “Jinx, Orion, go protect the little horse, I deal with this one.” I said to then before looking back to the new enemy. It snarled and barked, thinking that his size would be enough to frighten me. It wasn’t working. Taking on a hunched over biped stance - which we discovered that this dragon-horse hybrid form could do - making myself twice as taller on the process, I Channeled Argent on my fore claws, making then longer and sharper. “Do you want a piece of her?!” I challenged, grinding my claws against each other, to which massive wolf growled. “Then you will have to make it past me.” We charged at each other, it tried to use itself as a battering ram, but I dodged it, cutting one of his hind legs clean off, I launched him against a tree away from the others, a burning stump where his leg used to be. He smashed against the tree, but ignoring the burning, it quickly managed to get back on its feet, letting out a frightening howl, he charged again, maw open. “You don’t know when to stop, don’t you?” Tired of this shit and with a life to save, I moved my head back, I started to concentrate Argent on my throat, a glowing orange light could be seen from the outside, contrasting against the black fur and scales. Just as the wolf crossed the 6 meters ( 19.68 feet ) mental line I fired, a bright, fiery red and orange hellfire beam exited my mouth, the wolf noticed it too late, he got hit full on as it tried to dodge it. The wolf rolled on the ground, trying to stop the hellish fire from consuming it, but only hellish beings can survive against hellfire. Dropping back to all fours, I trotted back to the others… Who were now talking to a rabbit? “…your friend, little one?” I heard Jinx asking to the small rabbit, who was crying next to the horse, which had 3 nasty cuts on its side from the wooden wolf attack, whom I now could take a better look at. In addition to the wings, it was yellow in color, had a pink mane and tail and 3 butterflies on its flank. It was here that I noticed how different we looked, even if we were similar to then, clearly looked like predators, if this one looked like this, the others wouldn’t be so much different. “There is a village nearby, we can ge…” Jinx started after hearing the squeaking and thumping with its foot on the ground. “We can’t do it.” I simply stated, the 3 of then looked at me like they had seen a Lost Soul. “What do you mean by that, Ravager?” Orion said, confused “Take a look at the hor…” Jinx interrupted me. “Fluttershy. She is a pony mare and her name is Fluttershy.” “Right, Fluttershy.” I cleared my throat. "Take a look at her, then at yourselves, and tell me what do you see." It took then a few seconds to realize what I meant. “Predators,” Orion finally said after a few more seconds. “We look like predators.” “Exactly.” I stated. “If we appeared on this village with her on our backs, they would see our claws and her cuts and they would think that we did it and are bringing her there as a warning." “But we can’t leave her here to die! If we do that, we will be no better than the Daemons!” Jinx cried, looking at me with puppy eyes. Pinching the bridge of my nose with a claw, I sighed. “Alright.” I sighed again. “If we do this, no one can see us, we will need to be fast, put her on a place where she can be seen and get the fuck out there.” A few minutes later We galloped as fast as we could through the forest, Argent making us faster than any creature could normally achieve, for outsiders, the 3 of us would look like a blur of red, purple and orange. On my back, the mare and the rabbit were firmly hold in place by my red Argent, Orion had used his Argent to slow down the bleeding so we had more time. We didn’t stop for nothing, trees, rocks and even small critters that didn’t move away were smashed by our claws as we ran across the forest, here and there we would see some strange creatures, but they wouldn’t even try to get close to us. While we were galloping, I thought that I had seen a mist following us on my peripheral vision, but whenever I would look at it, it disappeared. “I think that we are getting near the edge of the forest! The vegetation is getting thinner here.” Orion's voice brought me out of my thoughts. We had arrived. The forest ended up on a hill, the sun already high on the sky, a few dozen meters to our right, there was a road, following it, down a hill, far away from the forest the village could be seen, already brimming with activity. Making a head gesture to a nearby bush, we hid behind it. “Satandammit, we were too slow.” I grunted “There is something strange about that forest, it almost felt like it was trying to hold us inside it.” Orion noted, and in fact, I too noticed it, we were going fast enough to cover 10 kilometers ( 6.21 Miles ) in a few minutes, but it felt like hours passed and we almost hadn’t moved, I believe I saw the same smashed tree 4 times. I was just about to say something, when I heard a female, authoritative but sweet voice. “Alright class, stick together with your partner and don’t move very far from the main group! We are going to a safe part of the Everfree near Fluttershy's cottage to examine the different types of vegetation that exists there compared to the samples that I brought.” We turned our heads to the voice, on bottom of the hill near the road there was what seemed to be a school group, one teacher and a class of fillies. An Idea came to me. “Alright, I know what do to, Jinx.” I said. “See that rock over there?” I pointed to a rock near the road, she nodded, already knowing what I intended. I passed the mare and the bunny to her. She crouched, trying to make herself as small as possible, she made her way quickly to the rock, stopping a few times to hear if they are coming up. Finally reaching the rock, she gently put her down, trying to make her look like she just collapsed. She turned her head to the bunny and whispered something to him, he nodded and jumped down to stay near his friend, and like she went, she came back. Just in time. “Miss Cherilee, isn’t that Fluttershy near that rock?” One orange winged filly said, pointing at the mare on the rock. Looking at where the filly pointed, the purplish mare gave the biggest shriek I ever heard 'ouch, my poor ears'. At this point, a blue winged pony jumped from a nearby cloud? “WHAT; WHO; WHEN; WHERE?!” She cried “RAINBOW DASH!” The teacher mare yelled. "Go get a nurse! It’s Fluttershy!” “We are done here for now, let’s go back to that castle.” I whispered to the others as the blue mare looked down at the yellow one, her eyes turning into needles as her skin paled, becoming almost white as snow, then, on another display of what seemed to be Argent, she flew faster than any normal being into the town, a rainbow trace behind her. Narrator As the trio of Demon turned kirins made their way back into the tree-line, they failed to notice two things. The first was the orange filly ear’s flick at their direction, making her turn her head just in time to see a red dragon like tail disappear into the Everfree; the second was that the mist had returned and was again trailing them, this time, though, it was from afar, more carefuller.
Full Moon on the looseNarrator 1000 years ago, Celestia used the Elements of Harmony tobanish her little sister, Luna, to the Moon because her jealousy transformed her on a monster called Nightmare Moon. For a thousand years, she suffered with solitude despite being surrounded by thousands of ponies who idolized her as the goddess of the Sun and, after a few generations, the Moon. For a thousand years she wept on the darkest part of her castle, so that nopony could see her on her weakest. Celestia went as far as label their old castle as a dangerous and haunted place, made by a mad pony whose spirit still lives in the castle, “The Everfree Castle” was the named that she gave to it. But of course there were some who knew what was this castle true name, the followers of Nightmare Moon, the ones who followed her on the 10 years of war that occurred after her transformation, the Thestrals. After her banishment, they too were banished from Equestria, or at least from the area near Mount Canterhorn, but, a few days per year, they went there to mourn the loss of the night queen, and pray for her return, a practice that was passed from generation to generation. Little did they know that she never went. Narrator – Nightmare 3rd POV While the Elements worked and banished her, her body entered a stasis state and was sent to the moon, while her spirit remained on Equus. After the Elements rainbow hit her, she thought that they failed and tried to attack Celestia, only to phase through her, but she tried again and again, but she always passed through her, only then she noticed that the Elements worked, and how they worked, and once she noticed this, she wept. For a thousand years, she saw what Celestia did, the banishment of the Thestrals, abandonment of their old castle because the forest became too much dangerous, and its subsequent renaming, she saw the construction of Canterlord, and she saw how her followers mourned her banishment. She saw so many things that many she forgot, but the one who stuck with her the most, was when she noticed that the ponies, encouraged by Celestia ( AKA changing books and notes ) forgot about her, idolizing Celestia as the princess of the sun and the moon, and for a thousand years she wept in solitude, much like her sister. But while one of them wept for her lost sister, the other, fueled by her own jealousy, wept for revenge, for the lost chance to defeat her sister. Both mourned in solitude, but for very different motives. For a thousand years, Nightmare waited for her magic to regenerate enough so that she could bring her body and spirit together once again, and while she waited, she schemed. 10 years ago, she gathered enough magic to be able to manifest herself as a mist, and through this mist, she talked to her followers, saying that her return was near, but also said that this time she would engage her sister on her own, she knew how much Celestia mourned what she did, and she knew that she would not be able to attack her own sister. But still there was one hole in her plans, the Elements were deactivated because they lost their tune with them, but like last time, they didn’t took the Elements, the Elements chose them as their bearers, this wouldn’t be bad, she would simply use her mist to move then, but she noticed that, despite her using all her strength and magic, the Elements wouldn't budge, she would need something more physical to move them, and Celestia had already banned the thestrals from entering the castle, fearing that they would grab the Elements. But everything would change exactly 3 months before she could gather enough power to return her body, when an event that would give most scientists a headache happened. An event that was prophesied by Queen Faust over a thousand years ago. Nightmare Moon POV – Castle of the Two Sisters For the past decades we have been stalking the area near our old castle, especially Canterlord and that Ponyville, for any being that didn't flee when they saw us, but to little gain. Celestia, with her oh so bright brain, had transformed us into a monster on a children's tale, one who would devour them if they didn't respected us, she didn't hid our existence, she only changed how the events that had led to our banishment happened. Little did we knew, that destiny itself was helping us. We were once again pacing back and forth in front of the stone tree that held the Elements breaking our minds trying to discover how to move the Elements on our own, when a bright red light covered the entire castle, blinding us. We closed our spiritual eyes as hard as we could while we waited for the light show to end, we could see the light dimming through my eyelids. When it reduced to an acceptable brightness, we opened them and saw that they came from the hallway. While we were making my way over there, we felt something that we didn’t recognize, something old but powerful, probably on the same power level of an alicorn or stronger, but despite that it seemed to be suppressed, because if Celestia felt something that had this power she would be here in a matter of seconds, that only made us more eager to see what could make a light so bright that it encompassed the entire castle. We noticed that the light was emanating from somewhere inside the throne room, phasing through the wall, we saw something that could only be described as aberrations. Lying there on the ground were 3 pony like beings that were as tall as alicorns, but that’s where the similarities ended, because what was lying in front of me, had scales, sharp teeth, dragon like tails and claws, they looked like Kirins of the legends, but the legends never mentioned that they had claws, and they certainly didn't mention that they were this big. Moving closer to them we could see them clearer, there was a big red one which looked to be a male, that was one to two heads taller than me, and the other, which seemed to be female and male, respectively, were purple and orange, and were slight bigger than us when we were Luna. All three of them were similar, same 4 front facing horns, same amount of claws on each hoof and even their manes, which connected to their tail fur, looked like fire. Looking to the wall that emanated the light and the energy that we felt, we saw a fading heptagram, 7 used runes on each point,. We was moving closer to inspect the strange language that felt familiar for some reason, when the big red jumped to his feet faster than a scared cat, startling me so much that we nearly jumped through the roof. Floating down, we could see that he was scared of something, heavy breathing, looking around for foes, muscles tensed… Big, strong muscles… “COMPOSE YOURSELF!!!" My inner voice yelled at me. Shaking our head, we tried to clear my mind of that strange thought, we were so distracted with it, that we only saw that the red one fell when the purple one snickered, we heard them say something, but we couldn’t make head or tails of what they were saying, the smaller ones were quick to make to their hoofs, but the big one had some trouble before he managed to stand, wobbling a bit. “Strange, it looks like he never stood up before, even though he clearly looks like an adult.” While the orange one was talking, the 3 suddenly tensed and looked to the door, we was expecting Celestia to appear there, but we didn’t felt her signature, instead, they ran out of the room. A few minutes later To say that we were impressed would be an understatement, the 3 Kirins defended that little yellow pegasus from a pack of timberwolves without even breaking a sweat, of course, there are far more dangerous beings here on the Everfree, but we’ve never seen magic used like that, it was more brutal and raw than most unicorns used, they even used it on their horns and claws to extend them! And like a unicorn, each one had a different aura, the big red kirin was a fiery red with a bit of golden on the edges, the purple kirin had a bright purple aura and the orange kirin had an bright orange aura. And despite being so similar in body and even in brutality, each had a different style, the big kirin was the more brutish of the trio, preferring fighting with his claws and horns, throwing one on ravine with his horns and bucking the other against a tree the purple kirin somehow condensed her magic into dual spiked whips, which she used to traverse the distance between her and the timberwolves, crushing one with her hind claws and dismembering the other with her jaws, and the orange kirin was a mix between a fighter and a mage, using his magic to attack the timberwolves from affair, burning one to ashes and grabbing the other one, pulling it to him and ripping it in half with his fore claws. To our surprise, they didn’t even got scared when the timberwolves ( the ones who didn’t burned to ashes ) merged into a king timberwolf, only a little startled and I could see a bit of curiosity on their eyes. The big one moved forwards, stopping a few meters from the king timberwolf … and went biped. Our eyes became as wide as dinner plates as he became 2 to 3 times taller than his quadruped size, I could even hear his bones popping as they readjusted themselves, the other 2 weren’t even phased by this sudden transformation. Did we missed anything? We are pretty sure that we were with them the whole time. Then they charged. This was one of the quickest battles, if not THE quickest battle, with a king timberwolf that I had ever seen, first, the red kirin dodged the charge of the king timberwolf, sinking his claws deep on the wooden flesh of the beast, throwing it against a tree with a nasty, burning cut on his side. Unfazed, the king timberwolf got to its feet and got ready to charge again, but the red kirin moved his head back and am orange glow appeared on his throat. The king timberwolf finished its wind up and charged, but got reduced to ashes together with a 20 meters area behind it, as the fire breath from the red kirin blasted him, if our jaw could get any lower it would unhinge itself. After the quick battle, the red kirin got back to his quadruped form and went back to the others who were tending to the yellow pegasus and the purple one talking to a rabbit, they discussed something, the purple one looked distressed and the red one was audibly sighing. After a few minutes he nodded, picked both the pegasus and the rabbit, put both of them on his back, and together with the purple and the orange kirins, started running on the direction of Ponyville faster than anything that we had ever seen, and we were left to our thoughts. “They could help us,” We started to talk to ourselves. "If we manage to find a way to talk to them, they could help us not only hide, but if they use that strange magic, they could possibly destroy the Elements!" After this little brainstorm, we floated back to the Elements room to think about this little hindrance in our plans, the damned day of our sister slowly making itself know on the horizon. Narrator While these events were happening at the Everfree forest, a sealed tomb underneath a lava lake started to crack, on the outside, dragons flied and swan on the lava, playing with each other ( wrestling, fighting, etc ), unaware of the danger that was awakening below the surface… Author's Note “HELLO READERS!!!” GAHH!!! PINKIE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE ON THE AUTHOR’S NOTE AREA?! HOW DID YOU EVEN GET IN HERE? *INHALE* Wait, don’t tell me, I’d rather not have a headache so soon into this fanfic. * EXHALE * “Oki doki! But answering your other question, I’m here to talk to the readers about the genres, I mean, most stories here on fimfiction put their main MLP characters on the first or the second chapter, and the second chapter will be about him.” Well, I want to introduce the Slayer first, because even though he was trapped a tomb inside a temple for 200 years, that doesn’t compare to being trapped in a tomb underneath lava, I mean, I know that he is a near immortal and a demigod and Hell is hot, but I think that that doesn't compare to being submerged in lava for 10 years. (shit, was not supposed to spoil that) *INHALE*“Okbutwhataboutme?Myfriends?Theprincesses?AndwhydidyouputbigmeanieMoonasanextracharactereventhoughsheonlyappearsafewtimesonourshow?” Ok, ok, let’s slow a bit, shall we? *ahem* First of, I’m planning to put you and your friends on the third chapter onward if nothing changes on my mind, second, I plan to do something big with Nightmare Moon, which has something to do with the new “sex” tag up there ( there Isn’t any clop on my plans, subject to changes ) and something to do with a Chaos invasion on the future and maybe a bit dimension traveling. Other than that, I will not share anything else as to avoid bigger spoilers. *Finishes writing everything on a notepad* “Oki Doki! Goodbye for now and thanks for answering these few questions Mr.Narrator. And thanks for everyone who’s reading this story, I hope you like it!” *Opens a time and space rift and jumps through* *phew* That Pinkie… But yeah, she basically made me say everything that I wanted to say. Anyways, hope you like this story so far, and please, if you disliked it, tell me on the comments what you didn’t liked so that I can avoid those mistakes on the future.
The final battle: Part 1Narrator It was just another normal day at the Dragon Lands, dragons diving in lava lakes, fighting each other for dominance or just for fun and dragons who are simply guarding their hoards. On one of lava lakes, one which was in a small crater with a few stone spike and walls, Garble and his gang had took over one of the best spots for resting, where the lava is hotter and more pleasant. Now they were discussing what to do after Garble becomes the Dragon Lord on the Gauntlet of Fire, which would be happening next year. Lava lake 3º PoV “So you’re really considering attacking Equestria and its neighboring countries Garble?” Asked a white dragon with a pinkish scale Mohawk. “Of course! Those places have the best gems that you could find, and the ponies are so squeamish that they would flee the moment they see us coming down from the skies.” Answered Garble in his prideful voice. “What about that princess of their? I’ve heard that she control both the Sun and the Moon.” “Yeah, and I’ve heard that they have mind altering spells! What if they make us fight each other?” “And what about…” “And there is that thing…” “They can…” “ENOUGH!” yelled Garble, tired of the chatter. “What are you guys even afraid of?! We are dragons! Our scales are nigh impenetrable, we can swim on lava and breathe fire! Heck, we can slice iron bars in half as if they were paper and you are scared of little ponies?” A few dozen meters away from them, resting against a dark obsidian rock outside of the lava was the Dragon Lord’s daughter Ember, or at least that was her intention, if the loud voices of Garble and his gang were not making that impossible. ‘Seriously Garble? War with the entire world? As if dragons hadn’t a bad enough reputation with being greed and malicious, now he wants to make us look like dictators?’ She thought. “…then we will make those stupid dogs mine gems for us, and then…” Garble continued ‘Please, can something happen to make him shut up? I just came here to relax, not to listen to empty words of a megalomaniac.’ Then, as if the universe itself had listen to her prays, a huge, rectangular block of rock shot out of the lava, attracting the attention of the nearby dragons, whom watched as it arched its way to where Garble stood, hitting him right in the face, making him fall on his back, holding his hurting muzzle. “ALRIGHT! WHO DID THAT?!” Garble yelled, looking around, but he noticed that the nearby dragons were looking at the middle of the lake, which had huge riptides and was bubbling quicker than normal. The bubbles started to move towards the edge of the lake, in the direction where Garble and his friends were, and slowly, something appeared. The nearby dragons stopped what they were doing and stared, intrigued, as a massive pair of recurved horns, followed by an equally massive bipedal being, walked from within the lake, dripping lava from its body. As the lava slowly retreated from the creature’s body, its features could made clearer. Its furless skin was a pale white, giving it an undead feel. Its eyes glowed in an ominous red light, it possessed no muzzle and, in the place where a nose would be, there was a hole, which, together with its jaw armor, which remembered an open maw, gave the being’s head a demonic skull like appearance. It also had two smaller horns, which extended from the back of his skull all the way to its face. The being’s upper chest and arms were half-covered in a pale dark green armor, with the left chest armor possessing a circle that glowed red like its eyes, purple veins originating from it could be seen on its skin. Its right arm possessed visibly less armor than its left, and on its right paw (?), it wielded a long metal staff, featuring a horned metal skull at its tip. Its left arm, despite the strange rune on its shoulder and being completely covered in the same pale dark green armor as opposed to its right one, had no distinctive features. On its waist, it possessed a belt that featured the same rune as its shoulder, and on its hips, he carried an assortment of skulls of different sizes. Its strangely bended legs were also covered with the same armor, with heavy light brown boots. As the strange creature as it walked from the lake onto its shore, its strange aura, as well as his heavy footsteps, attracted the attention of more and more dragons, which despite being huger than it, felt a wave of fear which almost completely paralyzed the majority of them, only the most stubborn didn’t felt it. One of them was Garble. “Hey dickhead!” He yelled, as he made his way to the smaller bipedal being. “Who do you think you are to appear on our lake? You don’t seem to be from around here, do you?” The being didn’t gave him an ear as he calmly walked pass Garble on the direction of the block of rock, Garble grabbed its left shoulder, making it and slowly turn its head to look at him, its eyes burning with fiery. “G-g-arble, I-I d-don’t t-think t-that’s a g-good idea.” One of his friends tried to say, stuttering with fear. " You!” Garble said while looking at said dragon. “Don’t tell me what not to do, and you!” He said, looking back at the creature. “Do not ignore me when I’m talking wit...” *GURGLE!* In the blink of an eye, the creature broke the hold that Garble had on it, and with its left paw, grabbed Garble’s throat, pulling his face down so that it could stare into his eyes, cutting his supply of air. Then, in a demonic voice, it calmly spoke. “For a dragonoid so weak and small, you talk too much.” It mocked. “Don’t get in my way ever again, or you will suffer a slow and painful dead.” “Hey! No one threatens a dragon if not for another dra..!” Yelled one of the nearby dragon that weren’t affected by his fear wave, before being shut up by a red energy wave, which came from the being’s newly formed energy double-axe, whom narrowly missed and exploded a rock behind him. “Talk again, and the next one will not miss, lizard.” The being spoke, before effortlessly throwing Garble onto a nearby rock, resuming his walk towards the stone block. *BOOM!* A massive explosion resounded on the area, creating huge riptides on the lake and awakening the few dragons that still were asleep. *BOOM!* Another explosion occurred, this time with an energy shockwave that appeared to have came out of everywhere and nowhere at the same time, somehow breaking the induced state of fear of the dragons, some decided to stay and see what was going to happen, others flew away, then, the being spoke again. “This place has a huge resemblance to the one I was before getting knocked out, just with a more... natural looking.” He said as he got down to one knee near the block of rock, easily cracking it in half with his fist and grabbing with his a strange metal contraption with two tubes that were as long as his forearms. *BOOM!* A third explosion occurred, this time in a more localized position, on the obsidian rock were Ember was resting, a spider-web pattern was started to appear on it, red and orange flames emanating from it, as if a seal had just been broken, their warm energy finally broke Ember fear state, whom promptly scuttled away from it. “On the fortress where we battled, there were only a few beings that had power to make explosion this loud, and I don’t feel Their presence here, and as He wasn’t there, so it leaves only...” *BOOM!* ... *CRACK!* ... “Him.” ... *RAAARRRGH!* Author's Note Phew, this one was harder than the other two chapters, specially when I had to describe the Marauder. Anyway, sorry for the delay everyone, it was entirely my fault, after this chapter, I will finish the introductory chapters for two new stories that I'm making and release them next saturday ( if everything goes ok ). Now, I wanted to ask a thing, I wanted to use the "Satanic Text Generator" on the Marauder speech lines, but I thought that the way that the STG "translates" the speech would make them harder to read, what do you guys think? Should I let them this way, or should I update them with the STG? Edit: I rearranged the words near the end to make it less rushed.
