Oroshi

Pushing through the sheer drop in temperature of the Apple Families Orchard, and feeling the intense cold penetrating down into their bodies, Twilight and Applejack slowly make their way through the thick freezing mist filling the orchard, searching for the supposed unicorn that is the cause of this intense cold. As the pair spent what was like hours of walking in the freezing cold, which was actually only five minutes, the two mares were now covered in a rather thick layer of frost which only weighed them down and was hampering their movements even more. Even Twilight was being crippled by the cold, as her wings and feathers were iced over, practically gluing them closed and to the alicorn’s body.

“T-Twilight…I d-don’t know if I can…g-go on.” Applejack stuttered through chittering teeth, as her whole body couldn’t stop shaking.

“Hold o-on Applejack.” Twilight’s horn sparked with magic, before a dome of transparent violet energy surrounded the pair, and was starting to steadily warm up the interior, melting the frost on the ground and on the ponies bodies.

“Are you feeling better now AJ?”

“Yeah.” The farmer said as she shook the now melting frost off her body. “I can’t believe how cold it got so fast.”

“Are you sure the pony you saw was a normal unicorn?” Twilight asked as she flapped her wings, tossing the melting frost and ice patches off her feathered appendages. “Because this is no ordinary ice-based magic, this is practically Wendigo levels of cold and ice.”

“I’m sure Twilight! He’s a tall unicorn probably as tall as princess Celestia, with a midnight blue body and fur patches.” Applejack said as she starts to describe the unicorn. “And his horn is long to, and it looked like it was glowing a pinkish purple color.”

“Strange. What about his cutie mark?”

“I didn’t see it. then again, I was more focused on the fella eating our apples to check out his entire body, I only noticed how tall he was and what his coloring was.” Applejack said as she was finally warmed back up. “Anyway, we’re close to where Big Mac and I left this fella.”

“Then we better move. Because I think if this continues your whole orchard might just turn into a frozen wasteland.”

The farmer wholeheartedly agreed, and proceeded to trot off to the section of the orchard she last saw the unicorn, while Twilight stuck close by to keep the farmer within her barriers range. As they marched through the ice, and snow that was starting to form, the two ponies continued to search for this mysterious pony, but the mist that filled the orchard was making it hard for the two mares to even see more than a few feet in front of them. but eventually the pair made it to where Applejack left the unicorn, however the pony in question wasn’t around, or at least they couldn’t see him. just as the two were about to go check a different section of the orchard, Twilight saw something off in the distance, it was a dimly glowing purple object.

“I think I found him.” Twilight said as she started trotting towards the glowing object. Applejack followed her friend as they trudged through the snow, the barrier pushing the white mass aside as they did so. And after wading through a dozen or so feet of snow and ice, the ponies found their quarry.

“That’s him!” Applejack said as she pointed to the unicorn, who was leaning against a tree, seemingly taking a nap, despite the freezing temperatures surrounding them all.

Trotting up to the sleeping unicorn, Twilight was able to get a good look at him thanks to the dim light emitting from the barrier. The unicorn was definitely as tall as Applejack said he was, and as the two got closer the alicorn noticed that the large ponies body was actually covered in, scales! The mare was just buzzing with questions on how, or even why this pony was covered in scales, as her eyes scan over his entire form, studying every inch of this unique looking pony. It was only when Twilight was brought out of her examination of the pony when she was tapped on the shoulder, where Applejack silently gestured to the sleeping pony and remembered why she was brought here in the first place. The alicorn then turned back to face the unknown pony, and then very loudly cleared her throat to try and get the unicorns attention in case he was only taking a light nap.

But since the pony didn’t respond to it, the alicorn reached out a hoof to try and shake the pony awake, but the moment her hoof left the barrier, and was about to touch pony the mare felt an intense gaze fall upon her.

Slowly looking up to the unicorn’s head, Twilight flinched back as she was met with a shimmering red eye, staring down at her with an intense look. Just looking into the eye was enough to instinctively tell the alicorn, that this unicorn, is dangerous. Even Applejack, who wasn’t being directly looked at by the unicorn, was feeling the same sense of danger emitting from it. even the glare that Applejack got earlier was nothing more than an annoyed stink eye. But this time, this glaring eye was far more menacing, and caused the farmer to shutter.

The unicorn then slowly rose up to his full height, showing that he easily dwarfed both Twilight and Applejack, as he was twice their size.

“Um…hello.” Twilight says as she looks up to the unicorn who just kept looking down his nose at the two smaller ponies without saying anything, making the situation a little awkward.

“Well, um…My name is Twilight Sparkle, and my friend here, Applejack, has asked me to persuade you to leave her property—”

“And pay for the apples you already ate!” Applejack added.

“Right, and pay for the apples, while also try to dispel or try to control the ice magic you are giving off.” Twilight continued before giving the unicorn a worried look. “Because if you don’t stop this frost, my friend is going to lose her orchard!”

The three equines continued to stand in the orchard in silence for a few moments, both female ponies waiting for some kind of reply from the tall equine. And after another minute of silence the two ponies got a response from the tall unicorn…a loud snort!

Both Applejack and Twilight were taken back by the rather rude gesture, and their shocked expressions grew when the unicorn just trotted off to a different tree and plopped himself down, and went back to taking a nap, all the while the mist that was filling the orchard got thicker. So much so that the mares couldn’t even see past a few centimeters in front of the barrier. Now slightly annoyed by the rude gesture, Twilight marched through the snow and mist to where the unicorn trotted off to, and was ready to be more, firm, with this stubborn and now genuinely rude pony. But after the alicorn made it halfway to where the tall equine was, the barrier was pushed back by a sudden strong gust of wind that battered against it.

“Twilight, what’s going on?” Applejack asked as she stood behind her friend, keeping her steady so she wouldn’t lose her footing after the wind crashed into her barrier.

“I think his ice-magic is getting worse!” Twilight said as she flared her horn with magic. “And if he’s not going to stop this, then I’ll do it.”

Twilight’s horn glowed with an intense glow of magic before it pulsed out, hitting the barrier, and causing it to rapidly expand outward. The entire section of the orchard that the three equines were in was then covered in a massive dome of violet magic, melting all the ice, frost and snow covering the area, and steadily warming everything up. but just after Twilight casted the enhanced version of the barrier spell, the alicorn saw that the midnight blue unicorn was now standing back up, and now was looking incredibly annoyed.

“I’m sorry for disturbing you, but you can’t—”

Twilight was cut off when the unicorn nickered loudly, tossing his head about as a swirling mist and frigid air rushes towards the mares, causing a chill to run down their spines despite the barrier’s warming effects. But then that sudden flash of cold air, quickly turned into a burst of bone chilling cold…followed by Twilight being quickly engulfed in frost! The alicorn screamed in pain as she felt jagged spikes of ice pierce various parts of her body, while a sudden force knocked her backwards a few feet! Causing her tumbling on the ground, and causing a few ice spikes to be pushed deeper into her body!

“Twilight!” Applejack shouted as she rushed to her friends side, seeing the small little icicle spikes embedded into her body, with blood drippling from the wounds.

“Twilight! Speak to me, are you all right?!” the alicorn managed to roll onto her stomach, groaning painfully as she does so, before responding to her friends question.

“It h-hurts, and I f-feel the cold s-seep into m-my body.” Twilight said as she feels the ice freezing her muscles from the inside, and that the tips of the spikes were just barely touching the bone.

“Hold on Twi, I’ll see if I can pull them out.” Applejack said before she gently bit down on the spike that was sticking out of her friends shoulder, but just even biting down on it caused the alicorn to cry and cringe in pain, as the spiked slightly wiggled from the contact.

“Shoot! You need to see a doctor, wait here!”

“Hey!” a new voice called from out of the blue as Applejack was about to leave her friend. The two mares looked around for a bit before looking up, when they heard something coming towards them from the sky, and that flying object was their flying speedster friend, Rainbow Dash.

“Twilight! What happened to you?!” the pegasus asked as she landed next to her friends, seeing her alicorn friend shivering in pain as small icicles stick out of her, and a bit of frost was covering the wounds.

“I saw one of your barriers just pop out of nowhere when I was practicing, and then I heard screaming!”

“That crazy unicorn over there used his ice magic on Twilight after trying to help me get him off my farm.” Rainbow looked over to where Applejack was pointing with a hoof, where the unicorn was trotting off, as if nothing was happening around him. “Eh?! Hey get back here!” Applejack shouted, causing the pegasus to spring into action.

“Hey, my friend is talking to you!” Rainbow shouted as she was now getting a little angered, knowing that whoever this pony was is responsible for hurting one of her friends.

However the unicorn didn’t bother in turning around to pay the ponies any mind. Seeing as the unicorn wasn’t going to abide by the pegasus’s words, Rainbow leapt into the air and flew over to land in front of the unicorn. But just as the mare landed in front of the large pony, the unicorn was surrounded by a dense shroud of swirling mist. The pegasus spread her wings and gritted her teeth, ready for whatever the unicorn will throw her way, however just as the pegasus was ready for a fight the mist dissipated…and the unicorn vanished.

“Wha—where’d he go?!” Rainbow said in confusion as she looks around herself, in case if the unicorn was going to spring out from behind her.

“Forget him for now Rainbow, I need you to head over to the hospital and bring a doctor!” Applejack said as she looked back to Twilight, who wasn’t cringing in pain anymore, instead she just looked greatly uncomfortable.

“Alright. I’ll be back in a flash.” Rainbow then rocketed high into the sky, and flew in the direction of the general hospital.

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Not too far from where the two smaller equines, on top of a small hill that overlooks the grove of trees, the Oroshi walked out from behind the lone tree of the hill eyes looking to where he was a moment ago. While looking down at the grove the elder dragon saw sawing that looked like a prismatic blur fly into the sky, before zooming off into the distance.

The Oroshi watched as the prismatic thing flew for a few more moments, before turning to look back down at the grove for a moment, thinking back to that weird winged purple smaller equine creature. It looked so much like a very small and young kirin offspring, but its overall presence wasn’t like any other monsters that he’s come across with before. The Oroshi was also intrigued by the winged monsters power to make the area warm up almost instantly, but then the monster remembered just how pestering it and the other small monster was in disturbing its rest.

“Annoying.”

The elder dragon grumbled as its ears twitched, and another snort escaped its nostrils, before trotting off into a different section of the grove. As the horned equine trotted about the grove of trees, its feet again frosting over the ground with each step, and air around it slowly started to drop in temperature as mists forms around it. but after trotting for a good few more minutes the Oroshi comes upon a much more, densely packed area, with more vegetation scattered about, however the vegetation and trees gave way for another clearing…but what the monster found in this clearing was, interesting.

In a large tree nearly in the center of the clearing, was a structure, something that reminds the Oroshi of small little round caves that hunters lived in, when it came across them in the highland mountains.

“Strange.” Oroshi muttered as his red eyes scanned the thing from afar.

Venturing closer for a better look the horned creature’s nose started to pick up various smells, some were that of monsters and other animals, however the other smells that filled the air were unknown to the elder dragon. Reaching the tree cave, or the wooden upheave that leads to it the Oroshi’s ears perked up, as he heard noises coming from the small wooden cave-thing up in the tree.

“Alright crusaders, let’s go get those Spa Helpers cutie marks!”