Oroshi

Canterlot was currently in a state of panic, ponies were shut up in their houses, any building they could refuge in. and through the windows all of them looked towards Canterlot Castle, where they all saw a dozen large dragons hanging along the walls, scaled on the towers, or perched on the roofs. With smaller dragons soaring around in the air, keeping an eye on everything in and around the castle grounds. At the castle Celestia and her sister are standing on balcony, where they stand face to face with the lord of dragons and were in a heated debate.

The princess appear to be trying to calm the massive dragon, but Torch’s anger is not so easily subsided. And his booming voice and fearful flames are a testament to his rising anger as he, and the princesses continue to talk with one another.

“--WE WANT ANSWERS NOW PRINCESS!” Dragon Lord Torch shouted as fire puffed from his mouth as he stares down at the two alicorns in front of him, who throughout the talk have been remain calm and composed. Not wavering from the blusterous dragon’s shouting.

“Why was one of your kind in our territory, and killing dragons!”

“Lord Torch as we have said we know nothing about this transgression towards you, or your people. But I assure you no pony would be capable of these atrocities.”

“Oh really?! Then how do you explain me, and my kind finding one of our own, held up by spikes of ice puncturing through his body, and one of our young ones…in the arid molten hot dragon lands?!” Torch roared as he flared his wings as the dragon lords temper continues to rise, but the dragon seemed to have missed the slight display of shock that Celestia portrayed, which she quickly replaced with her stoic expression.

“I promise you Lord Torch we will get to the bottom of this, and bring whoever this criminal is to justice—”

“NO!” Torch bellowed as fire erupted from his mouth, scorching the balcony and part of the interior of the hallway leading from the balcony. Luckily the princesses were able to put up a shield to protect themselves from the flames.

“Once this killer has been found, you will give them to us. And WE will pass judgment onto them!” With that Torch and the other dragons started to flap their wings taking off into the air.

As the dragons take off and start flying towards the distance the princesses both released sighs of relief, although this period of respite would not last long as a great sense of dread is building up in Celestia, especially with the elder princess already knowing who is responsible for the killing. And the look of great concern on her face portrays her fears to her sister, who is now quickly looking just as concerned, if not worried.

“…it’s that unicorn that can control ice, isn’t it sister?” Luna asked, sounding like she already has a rough idea on who the culprit is.

“I fear so.” Celestia said as she headed back into the castle, both her and Luna’s gilded shoes clopping against the scorched floor.

“I can’t believe that a pony would ever go so far and actually, kill with their magic!”

“I also find it hard to believe that a pony would use their magic in such brutal manner.” Luna said as she follows her sister through the hallway. “But what are we going to do Celestia? Even you said this pony is a dangerous threat, any pony we send after him will end up like Twilight, or that those dragons he killed.”

“…I’m not sure. But I will think of something.” Celestia said as confidently as she could, but in the back of her mind the solar princess wasn’t quite sure how she is going to confront this dangerous pony, if there is a way to do so peacefully without any pony getting hurt.

~~Elsewhere~~

The sun was high in the sky as the Oroshi Kirin continues to travel the vast open plains, occasionally crossing through a few forests and gorges but other than that, the Elder Dragon has been able to have a pleasant trot. Along his wandering the monster has been on the watch for anything that could cause him problems, as of recently that has been growing since he came to this forging land. As the Elder Dragon continues to travel across the land he eventually came upon what appears to be a desolate rocky landscape, with only a sparce of trees, bushes, and other types of vegetations scattered about.

But during his aimless meandering the Oroshi Kirin’s nose picked something up. Raising his head up a little the monster started to sniff the air, and as it does so it picks something up that seems familiar, the scent of monsters that smell like kirin. Intrigued by the discovery of the scent, the Oroshi Kirin started to follow his nose, bounding across the landscape, and making his way to a large land rise. Reaching the land rise the Elder Dragon started scale its rocky surface, bounding and leaping between the smallest of ledges and bumps, leaving traces of frost and snowflakes behind as he continues to climb. With one final leap the monster reaches the top of the land rise, where it finds a pocket jungle like location within a cavity in the middle of the rocky formation.

“This is where the scent is coming from.” the Oroshi said to its self as it trotted the ledge of the cavity, and then leapt so high into the air, and over a vast distance from where he jumped from. and in a moment the monster landed in a sizable clearing, where his hooves clapped against the ground as frost starts to form.

Once the monster has landed and stood up he continued to follow his nose, tracking down the source of the familiar scent. But as the monster does so, something about the scent started to make itself known in that while it is familiar, something about it was slightly different from regular Kirin and other Oroshi Kirin scents. But the Elder Dragon couldn’t exactly place what that the difference was, the oddity was just so, strange, and unfamiliar to other monster scents. Soon enough the Oroshi Kirin reaches the source of the scent, however his discover causes him to pause for a moment. Past the line of trees that the monster was using as cover stood a small town, however unlike the ones its accustomed to, or the one from that tall mountain with the small herbivores in it, this town was smaller, and its occupants looked slightly different.

The inhabitants looked like the small herbivores that the Oroshi unfortunately have already stumbled across, however these ones are more furrier with thick bushy collars and manes, with long tails with only a tuff of fur at the end. The horns on these monsters are also different, being more wavy or curved, with an additional branch or two growing from them.

“Interesting.” Oroshi muttered to himself as he watches the little ones trot about, talking and interacting with one another.

“They look like young kirin, but they seem different. Also…there’s something about them that I can’t quite pin down.”

After watching the little monsters go about their business the Oroshi decided to just not interact with them. but as the Elder Dragon was about to trot off and leave these little ones to themselves, he stumbles into one of said little ones. The little thing gave an alerted cry as the Oroshi nearly stepped on it, but the Elder Dragon was able to effortlessly move around the small monster by vaulting over it, and gracefully landing a few feet from it. Once the midnight colored monster has landed he casted a glance towards the small monster, and saw it just sitting on its flanks and looking at him with both surprise, and a hint of wander.

“Wow! That was so cool, the way you flipped over me and landed like a dancer, just—wow! You got some really nice moves.” The little monster said in a very excitable manner as she hopped up onto her cloven hooves, and trotted her way towards Oroshi.

“So who are ya big guy? You a new comer around these parts? Oh! What am I talking about, of course your new, cause I’ve would’ve remembered seen a tall, dark, and handsome bloke like you around here.” The little monster kept on yammering away as she circled around the Oroshi, her golden amber eyes scanning him all over.

“You’re really noisy.” The Oroshi said very blatantly before making one large jump from a standing position, and soared over the tree line landing on the rocky ridge on the other side.

“WOW! Did you all see that!” the distant voice of the small female monster shouted which the Oroshi could visibly see scampering around, excitedly trotting about talking to the other small monsters.

“Strange little one.”

The Oroshi then started to trot about the rocky ridge of outlining this town and forest in the creator, eyes wandering over everything from the little ones going about their lives, and seeing that noisy one going to every other small monster and quite loudly speaking about him. Although the other small ones don’t seem to be listening to her all that much. as the Oroshi continues to trot about the rocky ridge enclosing the little pocket forest, the Elder Dragon finds a nice little spot just a few paces away from a rocky ledge, there were even a few trees that have plump orange and yellow fruit growing from them. Licking his lips the monster trotted his way over to the trees, and started to knock them down one by one before biting into them, and tasting the sweet yet tart flavors of the fruit.

“Hey there big guy!” the familiar voice of the excitable female creature broke the peaceful silence of the Elder Dragon’s feast. And when he turned to look behind him low and behold, the excitable female creature was trotting up from behind him.

“So this is where we went.” The female creature continued to trot towards Oroshi, but stopped when she was a few feet from him, where frost has started to form on the ground.

“Wow you can create ice, that’s so cool! How do you do that?” the female creature asked as she continues to tort up towards Oroshi till she was standing by his side.

“So buddy you got a name?”

“Name?” the Oroshi asked through a mouthful of fruit. “What’s a name?”

“You…you don’t know what a name is?” the female creature asked as she looked up to the Elder Dragon with a baffled look. “A ‘Name’ is you, the thing that defines you. you know?” the monster continued to look down at the small creature with an unsure look, before something came to mind as he seemed to understand the creatures question.

“I’m called Oroshi.”

“Oroshi? Interesting name, mine’s Autumn Blaze.” The little creature says as her horn glows with a shimmering orange light, which also surrounded one of the fruit and starts to fly up to Autumn. Where she just start eating it. Now Oroshi was curious on how the small creature was able to levitate the fruit to herself, but quickly dismissed it as he continued to eat his own fruit, not minding the company. As this one isn’t trying to get in the way of his feasting.

“So Oroshi where did you come from? And how long will you be staying? We don’t get many visitors around here.” Autumn said as she chews on her fruit noisily. Oroshi finishes his second fruit before speaking to the small creature.

“I came from the west. Before that I know not, I am unfamiliar with these lands.” Oroshi said as he turns to face the outer plains from ridge. “I don’t know where I am, but it matters not. These new lands are plentiful, and rid of annoying hunters.”

“Hunters?” Autumn asked Oroshi as the smaller creature looked up to him.

“What hunters?” Oroshi decided to indulge the little creatures question, and laid down next to her continuing to eat fruit, while telling Autumn about these hunters, all the while the small horned creature laid down as well not minding the frost that is steadily growing around the pair. Looking enthralled as Oroshi begins telling the small monster about the hunters that pester him, and anything else that Autumn asked him to explain about the place he came from.