Oroshi

Within the boundaries of the Everfree Forest, trotting about with no direction set, the elder dragon known as the Oroshi Kirin made its way through the trees and the dense underbrush. Sniffing in the unique smells and scents that filled the forest air, all the while each step it took frozen small patches of grass and wild flowers, while low hanging mists follow the draconic equine creature. Chilling the air as it passes by. Amongst its aimless wondering the Oroshi would occasionally stop to take a nibble of either grass, flowers or leaves from low hanging branches.

As it was traversing through the dense and somewhat darken forest, the elder dragon noted that there were various other creature scents mingling in the air, but from its senses alone none seemed to be a threat to it. Though that didn’t seem to stop a few creatures from trying.

The first encounter the Oroshi had with another creature in the forest, was a large male manticore who was a bit bigger than the draconic equine, and thought that it would make an easy meal. But as the large feline monster leapt at the Oroshi, a pillar of ice erupted from a patch of freezing mist, slamming into the manticores underside, bones breaking as the winged beast was launched high into the air before being vaulted a dozen or so feet away. Crashing into a few trees upon its descent, wings being ripped as they get snagged in the branches. As the beast tumbles down to the ground, the Oroshi simply snorted in triumph and just trotted off. not even fazed at what tried to attack it.

Another encounter that the elder dragon had was when it was taking a quick drink at a large pond, which thankfully didn’t freeze over from the sheer cold that accompanied the Oroshi. During its short break, a cragadile came bursting out of the water, accomplishing to startle the elder dragon, but ending up getting frozen solid by a rush of freezing cold air. However its hefty stone body managed to dampen the freezing effects of the elder dragons surprised and startled attack, and continued to try and snap at the Oroshi with its large jaws. But the Oroshi was no easy kill, for anything, for as it dodged the eleventh bite from the cragadile, the equine quickly rose up and swiftly surrounding its horn with ice and frigid wind, swung down and slammed its icy attack on the rocky reptile. Raising its head the Oroshi looked upon its handiwork, seeing the cragadile being frozen in place with spears of ice actually puncturing its stone hide, freezing any blood that spurted out…and any trees that were within a dozen or so feet on both sides and twenty or so feet behind the reptile.

“Annoying.” The Oroshi said after killing the cragadile, then finishing its drink before trotting off again.

During its little wandering through the woods, the Oroshi’s nose again picked up a different scent, but this wasn’t like any woodland or natural scent. The elder dragon smelled the scent of smoke, fire, and strange unknown smells it does not recognize. Again, its curiosity was peaked, and so the monster followed its nose to the source of the strange smells, and after a short trot through the woods it came upon a truly unusual sight. Standing before the Oroshi was a tree, but this tree was not an ordinary one. From its branches hung shiny bottles, some looking like the ones hunters would use when they fought the elder dragon, there were also strange wooden, faces, littered about the area.

Approaching the tree with caution the Oroshi peaked through one of the small holes in the trees trunk, and found that the inside had more bottles, and wooden faces, along with other things that the elder dragon has never seen. But what caught its attention was the small light grey creature that looked like a very small, and hornless kirin, but with black stripes along its body, and what looks like golden rings around its neck and hanging from its ears. As the Oroshi looked at the small creature, some of the chilling mist that emanated from the monster seeped through the hole, and slowly filled the room. which actually caused the small creature to shiver before speaking.

“OH! My goodness, what an usual coldness.”

The creatures voice reminded the Oroshi of the noises that some of the hunters made during the fights it had with them. then again, the Oroshi already knew the creature was female from its scent alone. Pulling its face away from the tree, the elder dragon continued to trot about the forest, still aimlessly wandering around. But that didn’t bother the monster that much.

As the afternoon hours of the day rolled by, the Oroshi eventually stopped its wanderings and decided to take a small nap and rest up from the rather eventful morning it had. it did after all fought four hunters nearly for half an hour, before it managed to make its escape. Once it had slept roughly for about an hour and a half, the Oroshi was back on its aimless trotting through the forest, but during its wandering the elder dragon unknowingly followed a somewhat worn out path on the forest floor, and traveled down it till it reached a break in the trees, coming to a bright sunny evening sky. and a large stretch of less than densely packed trees. Leaving the forest behind it the monster made its way into the land of less packed trees, and as it trotted through them, the Oroshi took noticed of the red fruit that the trees bared.

Stepping up to one of the trees, the Oroshi leaned up on its hind legs, and used its horn to knock around some of the branches to make them drop the fruit. Once it had knocked down a few, the monster went back to standing on all fours, and took a small bite from one of the fruits as if tasting it first before delving fully into them. and with each chew, a small burst of juices with a tangy flavor coated the inside of its mouth.

“Mhhh. Tasty.” The monster said after swallowing the bite in its mouth, before it started to eat the fruit it knocked from the trees.

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“Alrighty Big Mac, break times over. Time to finish up todays harvest.” The head of the Apple Family, Applejack, said to her older brother as she places her plate in the kitchen sink.

The elder sibling silently nodded as he finished his apple cobbler and salad. Exiting the household, Applejack reared up on her hindlegs and stretched out her back and forelegs, before going back down on all fours where she stretched her back legs out. Once her stretching was wrapped up, the mare made her way into the orchard, but just as she passed the first few set of trees, the farmer noticed that something was, off. Applejack noticed that each breath she took a puff of hot air could be seen exiting either her mouth, or nose, which showed that it was definitely colder than it was before. Not only that but the mare noticed that there was a low setting fog slowly wafting about the ground, and that the smallest amount of frost was covering the baskets, wagons, and other equipment within the mare’s field of vision.

“What is going on here?

Applejack said to herself as she trotted deeper into the orchard, following the fog, and the increase in cold that was coming from it. but as she continued to head deeper and deeper into the orchard, the mare’s body started to shiver and shake as it got only colder and colder.

“Applejack!” the farmer turned to look behind her to see her brother, wearing a scarf and a thick hat, galloping towards her. “Here.” The brother said as he reached up to his back, and hoofed over a scarf and coat over to his sister.

“Thanks.” Applejack said as she started to quickly cover herself up.

“No prob. But what in land sakes is going on? Why is it so cold?” Big Mac asked through chittering teeth.

“No clue, but whatever is causing this, it seems to be coming from that direction.”

Applejack pointed to her right, where a cold breeze and the fog seemed to be coming from. Now knowing where to go to find some answers, the pair made their way eastward, towards the section of the orchard that boarders close to the Everfree. Trotting further into the east orchard the siblings noticed that more, and more of their trees, even the ground itself was starting to freeze over with large amounts of frost, which soon became patches of ice scattered about. A few more minutes and the siblings found something amongst the frozen trees, and what they were looking at was a rather odd sight.

Standing just ten feet from their position behind a tree, Applejack and Big Mac found an incredibly large midnight blue unicorn, with a thick semi glowing pinkish purple horn. Its body was virtually hairless, and looked so smooth and shiny, but there were patches of fur sticking out from its shoulders and the ridge of its tail, the mane and tail were also rather matted, but it was thicker and had more volume than the other bits of fur on its body. While the pair watched the tall unicorn, who appeared to be as tall as princess Celestia, the siblings noticed something. There were a dozen of eaten apple cores that were frost over that were scattered around the unicorns hooves. And the moment they saw the apple cores, the two siblings instantly forgot the cold, and emerged from their hiding place.

“Hey!” Applejack said with a righteous indignation tone in her voice. But the unicorn just seemed to ignore her, and continued to eat another apple.

“I’m talking to you fella! This here is private property, and those apples yer munching on belong to the Apple Family!” the unicorn turned to look at the apple farmer, its red eye just giving her a curious glance before going back to eating.

“Are you even listening to me?!” Applejack practically shouted as she stomps her way over to the unicorn. But as she got closer to the large pony, it turned to look her way, having both eyes again only glancing at her way, before looking up to the tree tops which luckily weren’t frozen over.

“Don’t just ignore me and try to eat more of our apples ya darn—”

The moment that Applejack tried to touch the unicorn, its left eye quickly stared down at her—before a wave of frigid wind blasted into the mare’s face. as she was blasted with the frigid cold air, the mare was knocked off her hooves, but as she recovered with the help of Big Mac the ponies looked towards the unicorn, only to see a large pile of icicle spike jutted out of the ground. the two siblings looked from the spikes of ice, up to the unicorn with frighten faces, while the unicorn just glared down at them before snorting and knocking down a few more apples.

“AJ we should leave.”

“I’m not going to be scared off just because this fella blasted some ice at me.” the mare countered as she rose to her hooves.

“Sorry AJ, but this guy doesn’t seem like the kind we can handle on our own.” Big Mac said as he pulled his sister back.

“In that case I’ll get my friends to teach this lout a lesson.” With that Applejack galloped off with her brother following behind her, leaving the large unicorn alone to continue to eat their apples.

Exiting the orchard Applejack made a mad dash for the families front gate, and made her way down the path that leads to Ponyville. after galloping non-stop the earth pony ran through the crowed of the town, getting a few odd glances mostly because of the mare running past them or because of her winter attire, but the mare didn’t pay them mind as she was focused on reaching one of her friends that might be able to help her. and upon reaching her destination, which was the Golden Oaks library, the earth pony bolted in through the door.

“Twilight, are you here?”

“I’m upstairs.” Applejack then trotted up the steps and found her friend lounging on the couch. “Hey AJ, what’s up?”

“I need your help Twilight.”

“With what?” the alicorn asked as she closed her book.

“There’s a unicorn at the farm whose eating our apples, and he’s using some kind of ice magic.” the alicorn looked genuinely surprised to hear this.

“Ice magic?”

“That’s right. and he’s freezing everything around him, even the ground is covered in frost and ice!”

“Then whoever this pony is must be a high lever magic caster. Only they can use element type magic.” Twilight then got off the couch, fluffing her wings as she did so. “Let’s have a look at this unicorn, and see if we can reason with them.”

And with that Twilight used her own magic to teleport them to the Apple families farm, hopefully whoever this rude pony is Twilight and Applejack might be able to reason with them. at least, that’s the plan. But when the pair arrived at the farm, both of them were surprised to see a part of the orchard iced over, and seeing a great deal of mist wafting through the orchard trees.

“We better find this unicorn before his magic gets out of control and ruins your orchard!” Twilight said as she galloped into the orchard, with Applejack following close behind the alicorn as they pretty much dove into the ice box, feeling the immense cold seeping through their bodies, even Applejack with her winter attire on.

‘This might be worse than I initially thought.’