Wild Child Reborn

(gothic horror ambience, or any spooky music of your choice)

Twilight was currently pacing back and forth within the ground floor of her library with a worried look on her face, as this was happening, her friends tried to comfort a certain shivering zebra shaman. At first the whole town of Ponyville thought they would finally have a morning where there wouldn't be anything strange happening, especially so when the previous day the chaos serpent, Discord, was finally put in stone once more by the local heroines.

However that seemed not to be, as soon as the whole town awakened to the hope of a peaceful morning, was when it was first spotted.

Clouds colored pitch black, roiling like a turbulent sea, were hanging over the Everfree for the majority of the morning and well into the afternoon. Ponies as ponies are, stuck their snout into it and tried to get the local weather team into trying to coerce the weather that floated closer to Ponyville, to be by their definition of 'normal'. This however backfired spectacularly, because they thought it was just some normal weird weather of the Everfree, they never thought anything of it when they tried to manipulate it when it got into pony territory.

As the weather pony tried to bust the clearly volatile cloud, instead of dispersing like a cloud they were used to, their hooves got caught on something within the cloud. Before they were able to react, something violently sucked them inside, and following a couple seconds of tense silence, they fell out of it, glassy eyed and non-responsive to the world around them.

The rest of the weather crew caught their comrade and rushed them to Ponyville general for treatment, while at the same time sent somepony to the weather station to report to Cloudsdale about the situation.

As the situation went on, hordes of animals would come running into the town causing a panic each time it happened, luckily the only animals to go through the town were land based prey animals, along side that, a large amounts of different colorful birds flew over the town in sun blocking flocks.

These events in tandem have caused Ponyville to be very worried about what might come next, and five more cloud incidents similar to first have occurred, this has caused every pegasus in the town to ground themselves and seek shelter along side their ground bound friends in fear of the clouds coming in mass to their kind little town.

"Oh this isn't good what are we going to do, Princess Celestia should have responded by now,"

"Now Twilight darling, I know your worried about the dreadful weather above the Everfree but right now we could use your help with poor Zecora here,"

Taking a deep breath and counting to ten before exhaling, the purple unicorn turned to the fashionista in the room.

"Your right Rarity, I'm sorry for freaking out on you girls....again," she said with a nervous chuckle.

"Ah believe I speak fer all of us when I say that's it's okay sugercube, we all have our own issues nowadays,"

Before any of the other mares in the room could speak up, a striped hand was placed on the cowpony's shoulder. Looking into the zebra's eyes showed a glazed green glow, making her look posseted by something otherworldly. When everyone in the room looked at her, that is when she started speaking with a voice of what sounded like thousands of ponies speaking at once.

"The Everfree has awakened once more, It's ancient rage will not bore. The hood of it's titanic might will once more be worn. The birthright of the descendent has been claimed from it's old plight. With one final roar the Everfree king will be brought forth once more,"

With the final line said the Shamans eyes returned to normal alongside her voice, the grip on the cowpony slacked and fell just before Zecora fell with it. Fortunately, Applejack noticed she was passing out and falling over and caught the zebra before her head hit the floor.

"Ooookay, I wasn't the only one creeped out by that right," nervously asked the currently grounded speedster.

"No," the word was seemingly squeaked out of a shy pegasus, who was currently hiding between Rarity and the couch's armrest, peeking out over the white mare's shoulder at the zebra shaman, shaking like a leaf in the wind.

Shaking her head, Twilight turned towards her number one assistant and opened her mouth to speak.

"Don't worry Twi, I have it all written down, here,"

"Oh! thank you spike, that's why your my number one assistant,"

"Ahh, it's nothing" he said while waving his claw...hand....thing, towards twilight.

With a burst of dragon fire, the letter was sent off to the solar diarch.

"Well I think I speak for all of us, that what just happened isn't related to discord, this just doesn't seem like his style," Turning to the rainbow maned pony "What about that storm, Rainbow, do you have an idea what it could mean, I've read that certain storms meant something beyond the reality in ancient pegasai mythos,"

"I'm sorry Twi, but something about that storm doesn't feel right, even from here I feel as if it's calling to me angrily, and given what happened to the others, I don't even want to know what it could mean,"

"Wait, what happened to the other pegasai?" asked the orange apple farmer

At the question the shy mare poked out behind the fashionista gathering the attention of the room as she squeaked out the answer.

"T-they lost they're magic and went comatose, I saw it h-happen to Derpy when she came to deliver some special medicine for angel bunny, she suddenly stopped and stared at the clouds with both of her eyes focused on it. After that I t-thought I heard her mutter something about her mother before she flew as fast as she could directly into the storm. I don't remember much when I saw her fall out of the clouds, but one moment she was falling, the next I was running towards Ponyville general with her in my arms,"

looking up she realized everypony was looking at her with surprised looks. Before she could apologize a pink ~~menace~~ party pony gave her a hug and started ~~shouting~~ encouraging at the poor mare.

'*Sigh* pink, stop it.'

'Only if you do, heheheh.'

'fine.'

"That's great Fluttershy! don't worry though I'm sure Derpy will be fine, and when she and the other pegasai wake up we can give them a party to cheer them up!" The pink mare said while bouncing in place with what seems to be glitter flying out of her mane.

"Pinkie's right Fluttershy, what you did was very brave, I just hope this disaster storm isn't hurting anypony else,"

As the lavender mare supported her friends words she turned to look out the window just in time to see what looked like the trees of the Everfree rapidly growing taller and wilder with each passing second.

Meanwhile in Canterlot Castle

Deep within Canterlot Castle's halls, laid a study covered wall to wall with bookshelves filled with unknown and ancient lore. The study has carpeted floors and gilded pillars holding up a ceiling completely covered in a fresco representing the sun and moon in a circling dance. Alongside that was a large desk which several letters of different makes laid.

Sitting at the desk were two beings of immense power both magical, physical, and political. When one looked up as magic smoke coalesced right in front of them.

FWOOOSH

Catching the dragon fire message with her golden magic, Celestia opened and read over the letter from her most faithful student.

"It appears that the storm is almost through bringing Her back, Luna."

"I know sister, I told you as much after Dragon Lord Torch's 'letter' fell on you a week ago,"

Remembering the incident of which the giant dragons letter arrived during the middle of day court right on top of her led to a slight wince in embarrassment. However calling it a letter is a heavy handed understatement, in truth it was a ginormous epitaph of solid iron about the size of the castle's front gates closed. To be more approximate it was 45ft tall and 25ft wide, with a thickness of about 5ft.

"You are right Luna I should have known this day would come, especially after discord managed to break free thanks to the large amount of chaos caused by these atrocious storms,"

"Indeed sister, however we should probably start to work on explaining what's going on to the other kingdoms, given you haven't even touched any of the cake in the royal kitchens yet, you have yet to finish corralling those children you call nobles,"

"Come now Luna, there's no need to be so mean to them, but again you are right, we should start sending explanative letters to them, Now which one should we start with first"

"I would suggest either the griffon or minotaur kingdoms first since they were the most affected by the effects of the storms,"

"Great idea Lulu, I'll get started with informing them, but perhaps you should handle the dragon, yak, and elk kingdoms, After all the dragon and elk kingdoms still fondly remember you, and the yaks are something you better at communicating with then me,"

Remembering the last time she spoke to them they still don't want to come out of their self isolation.

"Well either way, after we finish these correspondences, we shall go to our room and rest some more for the day, after all our magic is still...*yawn*returning to us,"

"Lulu, your slipping again,"

"ah, apologies sister, it appears still being stuck like this leaves me more tired than not,"

"That's alright sister, do you wish to go get a snack and drink before we start,"

"indeed, sister, I wish to try some more of that new beverage. What was it called again, co-fee-fee"

"*giggle*It's called coffee, Luna"

"Ah,"

As the two sisters of day and night walked out of the room and towards the royal kitchens, unbeknownst to them another set of mismatched eyes watched from within a particular statue.

3rd person POV
The Everfree

(info lore dump what is happening in the Everfree then move on to next chapter)

The flora and fauna of the Everfree are going through a tremendous change.

Once the forest was truly untamed and flourishing, however it was withered down into the form that most creatures know it as, black shriveled trees with muddy ground covered in a blanket of moss and a multitude of plants that could not be identified as a single species. The most you would see is magical herbs used extensively in both chemistry and alchemy.

As the storm continued it rumblings, massive changes occurred throughout not only the Everfree but also through a specific biome area in each foreign country.

However those stories shall be uncovered at a later time, right now it is the Everfree we are talking about. The once shriveled and withered Everfree started to rise, grow, expand, hydrate, and procreate. Identifiable trees started to form alongside some of the animals that are unique to the Everfree started to look less and less like monsters, and started to look like genuine creatures that lived and adapted to the environment.

The rumbling continued throughout the entire night and only started to fade come daybreak. As the sun continued it's trek into the sky, one last rumbling cloud blasted one last lighting bolt into a meadow within the Everfree.

After striking the meadow, the grass was blasted away in a circular fashion, leaving behind a featherless biped. He appeared to not have a shirt on with the remains scattered on the ground nearby, with a slight start, the boy started to awaken from his stint into the dream realm.

Sitting up, he spoke.

"Were in the flying fu-"