Author's Note

Good day, afternoon, or night to all my readers. So it's finally here, the latest chapter to my Orashi fic......which took me this long to finally post! and for that I am sorry to my readers, lots of other projects and commitments, and life in general, as well as re-writes held things up. but now that I have a more, manageable schedule, things should be running smoothly.

hopefully.

in any case, hopefully you enjoy the continuation of the Orashi Kirin's story.

Chapter 4

It’s been a few days since the incident with the strange unicorn nearly freezing Sweet Apple Acers, and heavily injuring Twilight Sparkle. Since that day ponies of the town have started to become skittish, and a little afraid to even leave the boundaries of their town. As they were afraid to run into this mysterious unicorn stallion, who nearly froze Applejack’s property but also attacked an alicorn for no apparent reason, other than he just could.

But while most of the ponies were frighten, Rainbow Dash however was not. The cyan mare has been flying all around Ponyville and the surrounding fields in search of this unicorn, just so she could get some payback for hurting one of her friends after she learned what he did. But unfortunately for her, and lucky for her circle of friends, the pegasus has been unable to find the stallion. She thought she did find some clue to where she might find him down by the lake, but aside from some melted snow and frost there wasn’t anything else. No tracks, or anything useful to tell Rainbow where the unicorn went.

Celestia wasn’t much better. After reading the letter Twilight sent her, she teleported to the hospital and started fussing over the bandaged alicorn like a worried mother hen, causing quite a scene for the hospital staff in the room to witness.

But once the princess had calmed down she started to ask Twilight and Applejack details about this strange unicorn, and when the pair started to further explain what they know of the stallion, the solar princess started to become curious about this stallion. And his use of powerful ice magic. Once the white alicorn was told of everything that Twilight and Applejack could tell her about the unicorn, the princess was starting to get curious about him, but at the moment the princess was more concern about bringing in this clearly hostile equine into custody. So in the following days Celestia had sent out a special group of investigators were sent to Ponyville, and start to investigate Sweet Apple Acers to see if they can find any clues into where this mysterious unicorn went, sadly however the investigation team hasn’t found a single thing aside from very faint & unusual hoofprints.

When the team reported to princess Celestia of their failed investigation in finding clues, Celestia instructed them to remain in Ponyville and continue on searching for anything that could lead to the stallion, and this time expand their investigation to not only Ponyville but the fields and plains around the town.

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At present time Twilight is still at the hospital recovering from her injuries, and is currently resting on her bed and reading a book about the various types of magic that unicorns can perform. Particularly elemental magic. Being able to change magical energy into the form of an elemental force, or use it to manipulate the elemental sources in the world is a rare talent, even seasoned magic casters like her have difficulties in using elemental magic. And Twilight is an alicorn now and still has some level of challenge to create elemental forces. So whoever this unicorn was, is clearly an exceptional user of magic since he seems to be effortlessly change magic into water, and then change that into ice magic! Twilight was brought out of her reading when a series of knocks rattled her hospital room door, but before the alicorn could even respond to it the door swung open, and bounding into the room was none other than…

“GOOD MORNING TWILIGHT!” Pinkie Pie all but blurted in her usual high energy tone which always brought a smile to the alicorns face, as well as a small giggle.

“Good morning—”

“Pinkie Pie!” another voice cut the alicorn’s greeting off as she saw Rarity soon came into view. “You are in a hospital; you need to lower your voice darling.”

“Opps! My bad.” Twilight shook her head at her friend’s antics as Rarity trotted up to the bed.

“Good morning Twilight. How are you feeling today darling?” the white unicorn asked her banged friend in a worried tone while looking the alicorn over.

“Morning Rarity, and I’m feeling much better. I’m not exactly a hundred percent yet, but at least I’m not in a great deal of pain anymore.” Twilight said to her friend who instantly looked a lot more relieved than she did when she came into the room.

“So Twilight how much longer are you stuck in the hospital for?” Pinkie Pie asked as she seamlessly slid across the room and to Twilight’s other bedside all within one step.

“The doctor said another day, or so, mostly to just to make sure I don’t have any side-effects that they just didn’t find.” The lavender mare explained to her bubbly friend who perked up at that little bit of news, becoming even more energic than she was a moment ago.

“Speaking of not finding anything, those investigators still can’t seem to find where this barbaric stallion disappeared to! I swear if that brute of a stallion ever show’s his face around here, so help me Celestia, I will make him pay for hurting one of my best friends, and nearly destroying my other friends lively hood!”

Rarity spoke with such an aggressive tone that both Twilight and Pinkie were utterly shocked to hear their friend, one of the most refined and well-mannered of any pony they knew, speak in such a way. Especially with the amount of venom that seemed to lace her words, even Rarity seemed surprised at how vengeful she sound. Coughing into her hoof Rarity tried to regain some of her composure, while Twilight and Pinkie gave each other a startled look, and simultaneously wondered just what Rarity would do to the stallion. But all that line of thinking ended up is causing the alicorn and earth pony to shutter.

“Sorry. I didn’t mean to lose my composure like that.”

“It’s alright Rarity.” Twilight comforted her friend as she gives the white unicorn a pat on the shoulder, as well as a soft smile to show that she appreciated Rarity’s friendship to her. but as she pulled her hoof back a questioning look crossed her face as she started to think.

“But I am surprised that the investigation team hasn’t found anything.”

“Really? I mean he’s a unicorn, he could’ve just teleported to someplace else right?” Pinkie guessed as she rubbed her a hoof through her mane.

“If he did then the investigation team would’ve picked up the residue all magic leaves behind. If he teleported, then they could’ve simply followed the trail.” Twilight tried to explain to her lesser magically learnt friends as to why one reason why the investigation team couldn’t find the stranger.

While the three friends continued with the conversation Twilight’s doctor and nurse soon came into the room, and asked that Rarity and Pinkie to step aside as they do their scheduled check-up on Twilight’s vitals and injuries. The duo obliged the medical staff’s advice, and casually strolled off to the side, letting them perform their tasks. While Twilight was getting her physical examination, she casted a glance over to her book that she placed on the nearby counter, her mind started to wonder back to her initial questions about the stranger. And how he is able to use such powerful ice elemental magic, as well as where he learned to acquire the skills to do so.

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The Oroshi was looking out into the vast wide open regions of the land that it finds itself in, while standing on a ledge on the side of a large mountain that it has been scaling for about an hour or so, and has only made it halfway up the towering earthen protrusion. As the elder dragon remained standing on the ledge looking out into the distance, its mind started to wander as it took in things from the past few days. Like the fields and surrounding plains that it traveled up and down for a few days, where it found them all familiar like the fields and plains it traversed back in the lands it was at before. And yet these lands were still unknown to it as while it may appear familiar, the scents and presence of the lands its traveled for a few days were greatly different. Especially since it has yet encountered or spied other large or even small monsters it knows.

But what caught the elder dragon’s attention most of which, was the strange winged equine creature that it encountered in the grove of fruit baring trees. The elder dragon was intrigued an how it looked a little like itself, but smaller and less imposing, yet holding some indication of power almost similar to its own. Or other elder dragons that it has come across in its worldly travels.

But what has the Oroshi Kirin’s attention about that winged equine creature most of all, was its way of communicating. The creature strange way of communicating reminded the elder dragon of the Hunters that occasionally pressure it. In fact, when the Oroshi thought about it, its own voice no longer was its traditional speech. It too started to sound like the hunters, and the strange, winged equine, and some of the other creatures that it has come across as of late. Just where in the world did the Oroshi appeared in? Nothing that it has seen, smelled, nor interacted was the least bit familiar to the elder dragon. The uni-horned monster then turned its gaze to the general direction in where it was a few days ago, where the small settlement was, and the forest that was just a stone throws away from it. The same forest that it appeared in after the burst of light surrounded it, and somehow brought it to this strange land.

The elder dragon snorted out a burst of cold air as it ceased its idling, and thinking of the strange creatures it has encountered thus far, and turned its attention back to its climb up the mountain leaping and bounding from one ledge to another. Even using the small little rocky stumps sticking out of the mountain as a foothold, to launch itself further up the massive land formation. While the midnight beast makes its ascent up the mountain it could start to see something come into view. It was like the towering pillar that it was resting, and confronting the pack of hunters that chose to fight it. But unlike the pillar, whatever the Oroshi was heading towards seemed different, yet the elder dragon was still curious as to what it was and continued to climb.

After another tireless hour of climbing the Oroshi finally made it to the strange structure, however the elder dragon was not alone. When the midnight monster reached the summit of its climb, it found itself face to face with more of the strange equine creatures, however these ones were all covered in shiny yellow armor.

“Hold!” one of the small, armored creatures said as it trotted in front of the Oroshi, who just looked down at the smaller equine creature.

“Who are you and where did you come from?” the elder dragon simply nodded its head towards where he just came from.

“Down there.” it simply stated. The smaller creatures all looked at one another with what appeared to be confusion, but then the first smaller creature looked back up to the Oroshi.

“You still didn’t answer my…my…” the creature ceased its chattering as its mouth started to open and close like a fish, before sneezing loudly. The other creatures also started to sneeze around the elder dragon, and even started to shake in their armor.

“Why is it g-getting so cold a-all of the sudden?” the creature asked as started to rub one of its forelegs with another.

Not bothering to be held by the small creatures any longer, the Oroshi just trotted past them and headed towards the archway just a little bit ahead of it, where on the other side it saw another settlement. But this one bigger, much bigger than the one by the forest. With its curiosity peaked again the elder dragon entered into the settlement.

“W-wait a min—AGH!”

The Oroshi heard stumbling and then clattering as the small creature spoke up. When the midnight monster looked over it withers it saw that the creatures were all laying on the ground, with their hooves frozen to the ground. Turning back away from the small creatures the Oroshi continued to make its way into the settlement, but as it did so it found more and more of the small equine creatures all over the place, and they all were vastly different to one another in color, and species. From those with horns, those with wings, and those who had neither. All in all the Oroshi was now virtually blown away by the amount of small creatures there were in this large settlement.

“Interesting.”