The winds howled and screamed, the sky, filled with an seemingly unending storm.
The clouds, dark and grey, and past that, a deep red sky, with the moon, hanging in front of the sun, making a Eclipse.
If it was a Lunar eclipse, or a Solar Eclipse did not matter to Steel Rain, as he sat in his chair, made of old, rotted wood, stone, and rusted steel.
To be honest, it was the most comfortable spot in this damned place.
He let out a sigh, past his cracked mask, and stretched his legs a bit, letting out a groan, as his bones cracked, and proceeded to stand up.
Its been plenty a while, since he checked the world. Perhaps 60 years?
The dark artifact he held in his gloved hand pulsed, as he grabbed his corroded great sword, and placed it on his back.
He may be an earth pony, but that does not mean he has no trick up his cursed sleeves.
As he glanced back out, into the vast expanse that should have been his tomb, he properly attached his Great sword to its sheath on his back, and stared into the Eye of the dark artifact In his hand, and let out some of his magic.
The Red Eye Orb is a cursed thing, turning whoever uses it into a spirit like entity, solid, but very unnatural.
These dark afflicted creatures who use them, are usually evil and cruel already, and kill whomever they come across, and have been occasionally hunted down for the fact that they can just keep coming, unless the original user has been slain.
The Black Eye Orb is similar, but usually allows one to hunt for a specific individual it is tied to. Those individuals have murdered whoever the Spirit got the orb from, usually.
These are quite rare, however, and only 15 deaths by spirits in all of recorded history, have been from black eye Orbs, or connected to them.
They usually stop working, and break, after the individual being hunted, is slain.
However, one did not break, and that was due to it being in the hands of the Warden of Tartarus, a Stallion of ancient history, named Steel rain.
By all rights, it should have broken, for the individual, one of the Terrible Ram's Generals was slain, it should have faded away.
Instead, the Orb bound itself to the Earth pony, since he himself had to use dark magic to fight against the demons.
He was quite strong willed, and decided to test it with several spells, and help from a few fellow hunters.
Back in those days, Earth Ponies and Pegasus had their own brand of magic.
The earth ponies had Geomancy, and were quite connected to the earth, as you can imagine.
Unicorns had Mystokinesis, and could cast spells, which they usually called Sorcery.
Pegasi had their magic, Sonomancy.
Nowadays, its passively used, such as standing on clouds, or simply flying at extreme speeds, along with an even more increased resistance to normal and most magical lightning.
Steel rain, was a Grandmaster, In Geomancy, and could shake the earth, make the land listen.
He used a Massive hammer, and a large great sword, to incredible effect, as he could tear through targets like no pony's business.
He could cause tremors in the ground, and had immense strength, having thrown Boulder's the size of houses like they were only large bags, tossing them like through the air with a small bit of effort.
He also used his immense strength for another purpose, such as the greatbow he had within his bag of holding.
A large bow was one thing, but that thing was big enough to fire arrows, Metal, even enchanted arrows, straight through walls, and hardened armour.
These arrows were also, the size of normal ponies, and were made specifically for his bow, since it was so massive.
Other greatbows had arrows that were thinner, not as big and chunky, but still dangerous, since they were maybe half of a pony's height, tip to the feather end.
Though, he does admit, its been literal millennia since he had ever used it, so he probably needs to dust his skills and knowledge off that one.
Probably.
The orb that had bound itself to him, had been warped, and disfigured from the dark energies, and earth pony magic within him, along with the other tests that had been run on it, before his sealing.
As the Warped Void orb sat in his hand, wrapping him in an unnatural, almost evil aura, he thought to himself.
'we art thou quite curious, as to what has happened to our world in our absence. Perhaps something exciting?' and yet thou doth not explore the ruins that inhabit our realm.
And with that, Steel rain, Sealer and supposed-to-be warden of tartarus, not having truly aged a day, vanished, and left his prison, ironically enough.
Even if it was temporary, and he would be afflicted with the aura and appearance of a foul dark sprit, he would experience a once-in-a-lifetime event.
Merely 30 minutes into his climb towards, what he did not know was Canterlot, home of the princesses, would the Sonic rainboom explode outwards from cloudsdale.
And would old Nostalgia, about a rainbow afflict the Warden, as he had to stop, and stare in awe.
He was already quite close, to the gates of canteelot, and could just hear the commotion inside.
His presence would not help, since well....dark spirit.
Weighing his decisions, he decided that, messing with the city in its current state would not be wise, since he did not want to especially hurt somepony, or some creature at the very least.
And as he started to return to his plane of banishment, his prison, a wave of intense magic hit him head on, and seemed to latch onto him, right before he faded away into thin air.
As he sat in his chair, he witnessed...something start to happen to the ground maybe 2 meters in front of him.
It was like there was a small rift, with a purple hue.
It was quite hazy, and odd to look at, but he had at least something to do, when surrounded by all of this wasteland. odd, it pierces into our realm, perhaps if thou did not consume all but our mind, we would be able to smite this interloper.
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Twilight, could only see the glowing light that encompassed her entire being.
Shea could hear crashing, and the sounds of her magic going on the fritz, so much power that the voices of ponies shouting, were drowned out by the sound, of howling wind.
She looked up, body caught withing notes of purple light, magic crawling over her like electricity arcs through the air, and with it, the wind seemed to get stronger, as if she had teleported somewhere else entirely.
When she opened her eyes, still filled with magic power, she attempted to stand with minor success, only calling over, and scraping her knees through her pants.
Looking up, her vision blurred, she saw....something.
It was tall, and looked like it could have been a decrepit statue, if not for the fact that it was moving.
It was perhaps a Pony, or maybe a griffon, or something else, from its bipedal stature, bit her eyes were having a hard time locking onto it.
All she could tell, was that it was big, and, past her confusion, she could feel, innately, that something was very, very wrong with this place
Her vision blurred even more, as the magic that surrounded her started to fade, and she could feel it...warping?
It was odd, to describe, that she could feel her magic taking a solid form, however, before she could properly regain her mental faculties, everything, her sight, her mind, went black.
Then, she heard...something, voices maybe, she just felt rather tired.
She felt like someone was...holding her?
She felt like she stood up too fast, but more intense, if that could be applicable to her loss of hearing, and extremely blurred vision.
"Is my baby girl ok!? Please tell me she's alright!"
"Do not worry, I believe she should be fine, just follow me"
Without warning, her whole body jolted, making her feel rather....woozy, in a sense.
With that nauseating feeling accompanying everything else, she tries her best to focus her vision, and move a small bit.
'I...don't like....this....oooh I feel sick' Twilight mentally notes to herself, before opening her bleary eyes properly, and groaning out a very simple question.
"uugghh...what happened?"
And without warning, her still swimming vision is filled to the brim with a face he recognizes clearly, since well, why would she not recognize her own mom?
"Oh twilight, its ok, you'll be alright, you just had an magical accident." Twilight velvet soothes, before turning her head, and calling out "Nightlight, she's awake! Get over here"
She could her slightly muted footsteps, as her Dad came into view as well, at least, somewhat. She also noted that she was still moving, but well, parents.
"Hey twilight, I need you to not freak out right now, ok?" Nightlight asked, as he partially came into view, grabbing his wife's hand.
With another bleary groan, twilight shifts and slowly her vision returns to normal, along with her slightly muted hearing. She can swear that those tiles in the ceiling do not, at all, belong to the School. Not were they anything she was familiar with
"Why?" She asks, gathering the strength in her limbs to get up a small bit, in an attempt to look around.
"You're in the hospital sweety" Velvet said quietly, stroking a hand across twilight's own, as twilight, in turn, started to freak out.
"Ohmygosh, what happened, all I remember is trying to hatch the egg and- Oh no, did I pass! Did I fail the exam, i-" which is very quickly interrupted by nightlight bopping her nose with a finger.
"Calm done there twilight, as far as I can tell, you passed the exam, you certainly did hatch the Dragon egg, we are just getting you to see a doctor, just in case." He stated, before looking up, at someone just out of view.
"Are we almost there miss?" He asks questioningly, as Twilight tries to get into a more comfortable laying-down position.
"We are, oh, and also, Twlight- right?" Someone said, out of view, as Nightlight and Velvet nodded "we will most likely measure your Thumaturgical levels, and see if there was any stress on your horn and body, since that was an Intense magical field produced by your body, and you were unconscious."
With an 'Oh', twilight looks at her mom, who is smiling. "Don't worry, they will take good care of you honey, oh, and we also have good news."
Her ears perked up, twilight looked towards her mom, giving her a questioning gaze.
With a sheepish green, Twilight Velvet responded "Well, when we were getting you here from the school, we noticed you finally got your cutie mark!"
Now, a cutie mark is essentially a sign of what someone's good at. Their special talent. One may be Good at being fast, one may be good at pyrotechnics, an other may be good at just being who they are.
These marks appear on a pony's sides, being an image of some sort.
When twilight suddenly blue-screened for a few moments, then comprehended the situation, all she did was lift up her shirt, and, seeing on her soft purple fur, a Pink star, surrounded by 5 white ones.
Twilight, squealed
Author's Note
So, did I do a good?
Tbh I need to make these longer.
