Chapter 1: The storm of Ponyville
Ponyville was bustling with ponies once again, it’s that time of the year again, the festival of lightning, a time where ponies from across the land gather together to watch the once every year spectacle, the Dancing Bolts Storm. A terrifying yet beautiful experience in which a storm is formed, no pony knows how or why this storm appears but all they know is that it’s a time of celebrating one of nature’s beautiful creations.
A stallion wearing a hat walks out of his shack on top of a hill just between the storm and Ponyville sitting down his blue coloured eyes and striped tail glowing as he looks at the lights from Ponyville and getting ready to behold the beauty of what is to come.
“I have been waiting for this all year, a time where I can embrace its full power.”
The stallion sighs and looks up to the nearly fully formed storm.
“Only a few minutes now and the skies will be lit up with lightning bolts”
At this point the storm is now letting off a few bolts now and then but nothing too intense. A small pause in the smaller bolts and a small spark appears. The stallion sitting down got up onto two back legs and opened up his front two as if he is about to hug someone.
“It’s time, maybe I can become stronger this time, who knows, maybe I can acquire some new tricks.”
The stallion closed his eyes and waited for the show to begin… The skies suddenly light up with lightning, bolts dancing everywhere flying freely, not a care in the world. The residence of Ponyville roars with cheers and excitement towards the storm, marvelling such beauty. The stallion opens his eyes and grins.
“Alright storm, give me all you got! Don’t hold back!”
A giant bolt of lightning suddenly comes down and hits the stallion like a channelled spell continuously striking. Ponyville roars much louder towards the giant bolt, its seemingly endless flow of electricity, and with a loud bang the bolt cuts out. Sparks jump off the stallion’s body as smoke steams off his skin. After a few seconds the stallion roars so fiercely an electrical storm practically emits from his body for a whole straight minute before stopping thus ending the storm.
The stallion falls to his knees panting and gasping for air, after a few minutes he regains his breath and stands up again and heads into his shack.
“Well…. By the looks of what happened it seems my electricity production only increased marginally, I still don’t understand my powers, I always thought that unicorns could produce magic and other elements, but… why can I only produce electricity?”
The stallion takes off his hat to reveal a horn; he walks into the light of his shack and looks around to see all the generators that supply the power to Ponyville. The stallion walks over to his bed and yawns loudly. As he turns off the light he looks out the window next to his bed to see Ponyville and the bustling of ponies.
“Maybe I’ll go down there and by some food, the mayor owes me this month’s pay anyway.”
The unicorn pulls over the bed sheets and drifts off to sleep thinking about the following day.
The unicorn wakes up and stretches as cracks pop from his back. He looks over to the generators and checks the energy levels, nearly all are fully drained. His eyes go wide then he moans.
“Stupid generators can’t even go one night and still have some power left in them. Oh well I’ll just give them a juice up then go see the mayor and go buy some food”
The unicorn points his horn towards a generator and releases a bolt of electricity charging up the generator, he then repeats the process until all generators are full. He breathes in deeply and turns around to go fetch his saddle bags. His saddle bags where laying on the shelf beside his bed, their beige colours with a storm symbol on it. He picks them up ties it around his back.
The unicorn steps outside his shack and winces from the sudden bright sunshine hitting his eyes, his eyes finally adjust to the light and can now see properly. It’s a beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky, the birds are chirping the wind is blowing, seems much different from the storm last night. He walks down the hill and whistles a little, as he gets closer and closer into Ponyville the sound of ponies talking and walking gets louder and louder.
As the unicorn walks into town he notices the mayors building and heads towards it.
“Finally here, I wonder what the mayor has been up to, probably cutie mark high in paper work, especially if it’s that Derpy girl involved.”
The unicorn walks into the building only to be greeted by a dozen staring eyes; he walks by and knocks on the door to the mayor’s office, the door opens and a grey maned smiling mare stands before him.
“Why hello there mister… um…”
“StormLance, miss, it’s StormLance”
StormLance smiles a little and puts out a hoof, the grey maned mare shakes his hoof and lets him inside her office. She points to a chair to let him sit down
“Aren’t you the chap that supplies the power to Ponyville?”
StormLance grins and sits down.
“That is correct miss, and I have come for my months’ pay.”
“Oh yes that’s right luckily my assistant got your money ready for me, its sitting on the desk feel free to take it.”
StormLance turns to look at the bag full of bits, he accepts the money and shoves it into one of his saddle bags. StormLance stands up and walks to leave the office before turning to the mayor and thanking her, she smiles as he leaves the room and continues with what she was doing afterwards. StormLance’s stomach rumbles as he leaves the building.
“I think it would be a good time to get something to eat, man I am starving!”
As he walks he notices sugar cube corner and licks his lips thinking of all the delicious cake he could eat. He grins and trots over to the restraint but then notices a panic heading straight towards him.
“I wonder what’s going on, has something happened?”
Storm lances forgets about the cake and heads through the herd of ponies nearly trampling him as he runs through, dodging weaving trying not to get hit by somepony. As he leaves the stampede he then notices why everyone was running and gulps, it was a giant two headed beast that had found its way to Ponyville and started to tear up everything. The giant beast notices StormLance and roars nearly blowing Storm off his hooves. Storm regains his balance and gets starts to surge with electricity.
“Alright you two headed mutt, you want to a fight, you will have one!”
The beast suddenly leaps towards Storm but missed as the unicorn quickly evades his attack, Storm turns around and firs a bolt of lightning making the beats flinch, it then swiped its claws and hits Storm sending him flying and crashing into a house full of scared earth ponies, he gets up and rushed out of the house to once more fight with the beast, but as soon as he gets outside he notices a young filly scared and about to be hit by the beast’s giant claws. Storm starts surging even more gritting his teeth with rage. He fires a bolt to get the beast’s attention and yells out.
“Hey! Stay away from her, or was it me you wanted?”
The beast roars and runs towards StormLance, mouth foaming.
“Wrong move…”
As the beast gets halfway between Storm and the filly, Storm reaches for the skies with his two front legs and brings them down hitting the ground with a loud thud. A few seconds after a massive bolt of lightning comes down on the beast, StormLance’s body surges with even more electricity as the bolt continuously comes down upon the beast. The lightning finally cuts out and the beast falls down with a loud crash as it smashes the earth beneath it. StormLance sighs then falls over unconscious only to see a blurry vision of ponies come towards him as his eyes close.
End of chapter 1.
