Eversteppes

Rainbow was going stir crazy on the boat. “Shouldn’t diplomats be doing this? Why do we have to go to saddle Arabia?” She said flying backwards as twilight read through she could find about the ever steppe.

“Because the Eversteppes are a dangerous land made of endless grasslands that are said to devour all who enter.” Twilight explain. Fluttershy was shacking and attempted to make getaway only for her tail to get caught by Twilight’s magic. “It’s also a Land made up of five tribes who are United by a single khan of khans.” Twilight started to panic, The rest of the girls waited for more information until they noticed that there was nothing else.

“Sugar cube is there anything else?” Applejack asked worried.

Twilight went through the pages but each attempt to read the other pages lead to the letters disappearing. “I don’t understand the other pages, the letters are just disappearing!” Went through the pages only to find them keep being erased, rarity took the book and found it was the same for her.

She fell to the fetal position “This is my worst nightmare.” She spoke having flash backs of Changelings library. Pinky pie gently rubbed twilights back. “I thought I could read it during the journey but I might be cursed!” She breathed heavily, before getting a paper bag.

After getting a from nice couple on best places to visit during your golden years, twilight calmed down. “Ok! Luckily I got these!” She showed them necklaces and ear rings.

“Um I’m not the type for ear rings twilight.” Rainbow dash said this, Rarity had snatched them and put them on.

“Darling you’re finally developing a taste?” Twilight laughed a little before clearing her throat.

“Those are enchanted to translate any language you hear. The necklace translate what you say. So we don’t have any incident’s…” The five looked perplexed.

Spike sighed “She tried saying hello in rock Dog and got banished for life.” Twilight blushed, covering her ears. “Twilight we all make mistakes.” Fluttershy reassured him.

The were welcome very favorably, with crowds cheering for them as they were escorted to the palace. The sultan stood at the height of Celestia, his mane and fur the color of wet sand and his eyes a piercing dark brown. His queen on the other hoof had the color of ocean blue, wearing see through dress, wearing golden bridle as her husband. “We welcome you to our great nation! You should rest but when the moon rises a feast!” Once twilight got her room she looked at the notes on what she could find about the Barbaric steppe before leaving the girls.

The girls however we’re going outside enjoying the Market and the sounds the culture. In the shadows two ponies watched the main six. Applejack looked and noticed two stallions watching them and following them. “Darling this would be perfect on you!” Rarity pulled applejack into the changing room, she was wearing a Orange bridle made of silk and a saddle encrusted with amber gems. “I need to check on something.” She stepped out to see the two stallions having disappeared.

She returned to find Fluttershy wearing a bridle and a saddle with a butterfly. “It’s just marvelous Darling!” Dash looking herself in the mirror wearing gold plate armors covering only essentials.

The feast began as the sun set, bands played behind them while they ate. Twilight sat near the royal couple, she then decided to ask the sultan. “Taquez, Your highness what do know about the Eversteppes?”

He rubbed his beard if trying to jump start his memory. “In my youth my father would hire mercenaries from those lands, to my memory there are five great tribe there. Yet all records from travelers there disappear.” Twilights eyes widened as the queen join in on the conversation.

“The texts about the Eversteppe, their letters all melt or turn to dust. My grandfather made his way to the Eversteppe to reach Mǎ nation for trade agreements. There he saw a tournament of the five tribes, The yaks dueling with their horns, the ice pegasi launching their arrows at targets, the wind horses racing on the clouds, The Bactrians and Reindeer racing in heat and Ice to show their endurance and the Shaman unicorns sing in tones that should be impossible.” He hit his hoof on the table. “Watching all of this an Alicorn with two horns and wings of fire. The moment he raised his hoof the grass grew and everything bore fruit.”

Not only twilight but all of the attendants listening to queen. “The Eversteppe is a land of unending chaos. The yaks drink mare’s milk, the grass is sweet as apples, herbs that cure all and poisons that kill the mightiest stallions. A land of endurance that only few could travel alone, predators roam freely, beasts under the sand devours entire camps of horses. The Eversteppes where the enemies are not the creatures alone but the land it self, creatures born and raised there are different, they’re marked by nature itself and do not follow the rules that we do. The pegasi walk on the earth, while wingless wind ponies run on air. The mages horn do not glow as their voice alone can mold the sky and even speak to the dead. But their eyes, they all cover them as one look from them can curse you, others say that seeing into their eyes will take your soul and merge with the Eversteppes and the Khan told my grandfather to peer into eyes of Shaman during their practice will show you choas, order and never ending change.”

As that wind swept through the room all light sources were blown out or covered the only light was moon light silhouetted by the moon light two Ponies one a wind horse with a grey coat and a ice pegasus with wings glittering in the moon light, a coat like roses and mane crimson as blood.. The wind pony spoke his voice booming. “Khan EnkhTuvan has passed and Khan Amerbold has Taken the throne.”

The mare spoke, aggressively with threatening undertone. “Surrender, pay tribute, offer your soldiers, and you will be rewarded with peace. If you don't, the yaks will collapse your walls, the wind ponies will slice your soldiers and turn their bodies to stone, the reindeer will make it snow, and ice pegasi will make it rain blades of frozen water. And finally, you will be cursed by our unicorns."

The wind pony added, his eyes glowing faintly, "Come to the coronation of our khan, and you will be offered greater liberty than his other subjects." With that, they both disappeared - one flying off, the other seeming to walk on the very air itself.

The sultan and queens did their best from the nobles from panicking. The girls looked at eachother worried at what they had gotten themselves in it.

Amerbold sat in his newly constructed castle, playing a horse head fiddle. The haunting melody echoed through the stone halls. A unicorn mare with a tan coat and dark brown mane approached cautiously, her hooves clicking on the polished floor.

"Sire?" she asked, her voice tinged with reverence and a hint of fear. Amerbold looked up, his face an emotionless mask. He nodded, silently urging her to continue. "We have conquered Heihe. It has fallen to Swift Mind," the mare reported, her chest swelling with pride. A flicker of satisfaction crossed Amerbold's face. He nodded, pleased with his general's success. The mare hesitated before continuing, "Guizhou was invaded, but General Light Step's yaks attacked early. They were forced to retreat."

Suddenly, the mare sensed a change in the air. The Khan seemed to shimmer and fade before her eyes.

On the battlefield, the yaks were fleeing in disarray. Without warning, Amerbold appeared in front them, his wings spread wide. He raised them toward the retreating forces, and a soft light emanated from his body. All those touched by his rays were healed, their wounds closing and strength returning.

Behind them, ice pegasi arrived, their crystalline wings glittering in the sun. Amerbold's voice boomed across the field, "Destroy that fort and return as heroes!"

Reinvigorated, the yaks turned and rushed toward the fort. The ice pegasi arrived and launched an aerial assault, their their frozen wings hitting the archers atop the walls, freezing them on the spot. Under the combined assault, the walls began to crumble.

Amerbold strode through the chaos, his horn glowing with power. Enemy soldiers found themselves inexplicably floating above the ground, then being chocked before consciousness then dropped unceremoniously. They gasped for breath as the Khan entered the palace.

Guards attempted to stop him, but with a single stomp of his hoof, they were flung against the walls. The emperor's horn glowed, and the weaponry in the room began to float, launching toward the Khan. Amerbold teleported around the throne room, easily avoiding the barrage.

In a flash, he appeared before the emperor and slammed his hoof into the ruler's face. The emperor's nose began to bleed as he struggled to stand. Amerbold pushed the emperor's head back, towering over him. "You barbarian!" the emperor spat, blood trickling down his chin. "Mǎ will defeat you!"

Amerbold chuckled, a cold sound devoid of humor. "Maybe," he replied, his voice low and menacing, "but you won't be there to see it."

His horn glowed once more, and the emperor's body began to change. Flesh turned to stone, and in moments, a jade statue stood where the living ruler had been. With a final, contemptuous stomp, Amerbold shattered him.

As he turned toward the door, the sounds of his soldiers raiding the palace filled the air. The conquest of Mǎ had begun, and Amerbold, Khan of the Eversteppe, stood triumphant.