Oroshi

On a normal day, Twilight Sparkle always looks forward to getting a letter from Celestia. Whenever she receives a letter from her mentor the alicorn always expects either, a letter asking how the princess of friendship is doing, a new subject of study or even some new magical researcher that the sun princess thought Twilight would like to study. Or on the very rare occasion, an invite to a little get together for tea.

Today however, the message that Twilight received from her mentor was less than, appealing to say the very least. The letter described the events that took place not but a few hours ago, in where the dragons and their leader came to Equestria and accused some pony not only killing a fully grown adult dragon, but a hoofull of teenage dragons. But what really made the accusation send a chill down the violet alicorn’s spine, was that the adult dragon was killed by massive spikes, made completely out of ice! Already Twilight has a terrible feeling on who could be the culprit of these murders. And when she flew to Canterlot to talk to Celestia directly about the matter, the solar princess confirmed that the events were indeed real, and that she shared in Twilight’s hunch on who is the culprit.

“I can’t believe this is happening!” Twilight muttered in a panic state as she trots about in a small circle as many horrible scenarios play out in her mind. “I mean, harming ponies with no regards of the consequences is one thing. but actual murder! I can’t believe that this stallion would actually go to such extremes!”

“Indeed.” Luna said as she watches the smaller alicorn continue to pace around Celestia’s private chambers. “Never has any pony in Equestria’s history ever taken a life with no reason.”

“And what’s worst is that if we don’t find this stallion soon, the dragons will take matters into their own claws to find the culprit responsible.” Celestia said in a worried tone has her horn glows with magic, while a Map of Equestria floats in front of her, with a little ball of light hover over it and moving slowly around it.

“Hopefully I’ll be able to find where he currently is with this divining spell.”

“But even if we do find him, what are we going to do with him?” Twilight said as she finally stopped her pacing around, and trots over to her mentor with Luna following her.

“He’s a powerful elemental sorcerer princess, even if we capture him he could just break himself out of prison.”

“Which is why we are having a special cell being built specifically for him in the dungeons.” Celestia said as the ball of light on the map ceased its movement across the map, and turns into a ring before laying against the map and burning a ring mark around set of mountains in a desert like area.

“It seems your divination spell has found him sister.” Luna said as she looked down at the map. “Now the question is how do we go about an capturing him.”

The three alicorns started to deliberate on how they should go about in capturing this ice wielding unicorn. a battalion of guards accompanied by Shining Armor would’ve been a good choice, but the princesses doubted that even the entire castle guard would be able to take the stallion down long enough to arrest him. Not only that, but the princesses felt that during the struggle the guard’s would have mass casualties in subduing the stallion, as he is more than willing to inflict mortal injury, or even killing. Which seemed more apparent as the majority of the royal guard may be trained, but have no combat experience that would aide them in trying to survive the encounter.

Twilight did offer to go and search for the stallion, and with her friends in tow they might be more able to capture the stallion. Yet Luna questions if her friends would be capable of dealing such a violent adversary, especially with her less than physically able friends such as Rarity and Fluttershy. The night princess also questioned if any of friends could really stand against such a powerful opponent. Unfortunately Twilight is unsure about this prospect herself with this bit of insight now facing her. The princesses continued to discuss about on what they should in order to handle this situation, without having any pony being gravely injured, or even killed in the process.

~~Elsewhere~~

Oroshi had just finished telling the small creature named Autumn Blaze, several accounts of his encounters with the beings known as hunters and how most of them ended up in fights of survival. As Oroshi told Autumn of his encounters with the hunters, and a little of what the places he visited like when the small creature asked, the elder dragon took a break from his reminiscing of older times to eat some fruit that Autumn brought at some point. But while he tried to eat in peace, the little creature that laid beside him was just a non-stop mulling chatterbox, always asking more questions, or going off on some small mumbling about what Oroshi had just told her. In all honesty, the elder dragon was starting to grow tired of the small creature.

“Gotta say it sounds like wherever it is you came from, was a bad place to live.” The little creature said as she took a bite out of her tenth fruit.

“It can.” The Oroshi simply said as he looks out to the expansive lands beyond the rocky ridge, as the frost around him really started turn the ridge he, and Autumn were laying into a nice patch of frozen rock. Although Autumn seems unaffected as she still lays on a non-frozen patch of rocky surface.

“But these lands are also not pleasant to live in. ever since I got here I’ve been harassed by the other creatures, especially whenever I decide to eat. Always coming around to bother me, and just annoy me to no end.”

“That does sound a little rude of them to do especially if your trying to enjoy a nice quite moment to yourself.” The little creature said as she finishes her fruit.

“I wish that I could find one place that I can live in peace and quiet.” Oroshi said as he gets up to his hooves and trots over to the edge of the ridge.

“Well if you want you can stay here, it’s pretty quiet and peaceful.” Autumn said as she to gets up and follows Oroshi to the ridges edge, but the elder dragon just snorted out a puff of frigid air.

“No. If I am going to live anywhere, it will be a place where nothing other than myself lives.”

With that said Oroshi leapt off the ridges ledge, and scaled down its rocky cliff face until he reached the ground floor, where he started to gallop off into the distance. Bounding and prancing over great distances as he crosses the desert landscape. But in the midst of his galivanting across the land, the elder dragon was stopped in his tracks when a golden light surrounds him. confused as to what the light was the elder dragon tried to leave the light, but when he approached the light he was stopped when he couldn’t pass through the light. Now even more confused the Oroshi unleashed a flurry of ice at the light, causing its golden surface to freeze over but nothing else, so the elder dragon started creating a large icicle to fire at the golden light that has him trapped.

“Disburse your spell!” a voice called out which caused the monster to look up where the voice came from, and found the same white winged equine monster he encountered in that monster village. The one that tried to challenge him.

“You are being placed under arrest for not only the crime of assaulting your nations royalty, but also for the killing three young dragons, and one adult dragon.” the midnight blue monster looked to the left of the flying creature, and found another winged equine of similar color to his own talk down to him. “We do not wish to harm you, but we will if you force us to by resisting us.”

The Oroshi isn’t quiet sure what this new monster is babbling on about, but one thing is for sure it as well as the white one are the reason for his entrapment. So the monster continued to building up his icy energy, until he fired the icicle at the frozen wall of golden light, and shattering it on one hit freeing him from his imprisonment. The elder dragon the looked up to the two flying monsters, which both appeared to be startled and frighten, then swung his head around which caused several smaller yet still powerful icicle spike to fly towards the airborne duo. They managed to dodge the attack, but the Oroshi did not ceased his attack and started to send out powerful blasts of freezing winds, all which the flying equines were just managing to dodge in time. But bits of their bodies actually started to frost over when they could not fully dodge some of the attacks.

The winged equines tried countering the Oroshu by sending out glowing energy attacks, but unlike them the Oroshi was able to evade more of their attacks, with only a few scrapping his scaly hide and not doing a lot of damage. This back and forth exchange of attacks continued on for a few more minutes, with the area growing colder and more tundra like as the Oroshi continued to use his ice powers, with snow, ice, and frost covering what used to be rocky landscape with bristled and harsh foliage. The fight was brought to a stop when the elder dragon was surrounded by vines of light blue energy, which struck out at it and coiled around its body, tethering it to the ground.

“There!” the blue winged equine said as the Oroshi watched her and the other creature land, the snow and ice crunching under their hooves.

“He certainly did not make it easy.”

“Becareful Luna this stallion is not—”

Before the white one could finish speaking, the Oroshi neighed so loudly that the snow around him was actually blown back, before jagged spikes of ice erupted from the ground from him and outwards. The spikes nearly skewered the flying equines because they landed so close to him, but were able to take off in time to only have the lower parts of the legs get cuts and scrapes. The glowing vines that entangled the elder dragon were still trying to hold him down, but the monster’s own chilling presence was causing them to freeze over and start to crack. But the vines snagged as the midnight monster used its own raw strength to snap the vines, while he rears up on his hind legs and lets loose a powerful battle cry, followed up by what looked like a giant blizzard that shot into the air. Catching both the winged creatures, causing them to cry out before being engulfed in the blinding white avalanche of snow and icy wind!

Going back down to all fours the elder dragon huffed out a large cloud of cold air, as his eyes glared at the falling bodies of the creatures which were mostly covered in ice and frost, while the cold icy winds around the area continue to just whip across the land. Tue Oroshi then reared up again onto his back legs, his glowing purple horn having icy energy swirl around it as the frigged wind and snow around the monster follows suit, creating a giant pillar of spiral ice that reaches high into the air.

“Now DIE!”

The Oroshi shouted out in both anger and frustration, as well as vengeance as he remembered the promise of killed the white winged equine if it bothered him again, while he swings his head downward. Bringing the massive pillar of icy energy careening down towards the pair. But the elder dragon noticed that as his attack was halfway through its fall, a brilliant violet flash of light appeared where the two fallen creatures were, before it appeared again before the pillar crashed down causing the ground to shake, and massive waves of ice splashed out and freeze solid a second later. After the attack had landed the Oroshi made his way to where the creatures were, and found no trace of their bodies buried under the ice and continuously growing layer of snow and frost. Even their scents were no longer present.

“Why won’t these creatures just leave me be.” The Oroshi said as he leapt down from the mound of ice, and started to leave the now frozen area that he had created.

~~Canterlot~~

A flash of violet light suddenly appeared in the throne room of Canterlot Castle, where the doors to the room opened up and a pair of guards came trotting in and looked on with terror at what they saw. laying on the floor, shivering and covered in ice and what appeared to be red snow, were princess Celestia and Luna. Teeth chattering, wings twitching, and bodies in a constant state of shaking. Between the two princess was Twilight Sparkle, who for herself was only covered in a light coating of snow, but held a panicked expression on her face as she stares at them.

“Bring a medical team here now, and hot water! Lots of hot water, towels, anything that can warm them up!” the youngest princess said in a frantic tone.

“Right away your majesty!”

The two guards did as they were told and galloped out of the throne room, leaving the violet alicorn alone with the two nearly frozen older alicorns. While the guards went to do as she instructed, Twilight tried using magic to melt the ice off the princesses and trying to warm their bodies up. even just by standing next to them, the small alicorn could just feel just how cold they are. Soon the guards returned with what Twilight asked them to bring, plus several maid and butlers to help, and they all immediately went to work on treating the princesses. Carefully using magic to blanket them in hot water, and having the medical staff check the injuries they received. As they worked Twilight stood off to the side and just slouched down as hopped that the sisters will be alright.