14 years after the birth of the prince.

Today, It was a summer afternoon, or at least that's what it would be if it weren't for the corrupted creatures.

These creatures, both posessed ponies or not, as if it were a form of mockery aquired an used as if it was their very nature, used the opposite power of those who once stood up to them the most, that being the power opposite of energy (heat), or to be more precise "cold".

If life is energy and warmth, THEY were its absence. The power of "cold". Among them was present in many forms, one of those ponies were the one seen today, by the puppets of flesh, that once were ponies and other races, subject to the corrupted will, still tought as for torture with a tinge of conscience. These puppets, were nicknamed respectively as witches and warlocks. On this afternoon of what was once summer, a heavy hailstorm was falling progressively near a main city near the capital. The hail, caused by these puppets, differed slightly from the natural one, as the latter was under their control unlike the former. Witches used their pegasus or unicorn magic to cause an increase in the temperatures of the near-surface wind gusts around them, which caused an increase in the upward gusts, in this case hot upward gust.

On the other hand, the Pegasi mainly ensured that the top of the cumulonimbus, which was also created by them, was kept at an exact cold temperature. To be more specific, 0 degrees Celsius. In a dance that could be described in a different situation as nature doing its work; the hot upward winds forming water vapor, forming liquid water, generating more heat collide with a parallel wind, in this case the cold descending currents of high temperatures. This currents being offered by corrupt pegasi allowing the freezing of this previously evaporated water to form thin layers of frost balls of about a fifth of a millimeter per cycle, that would precipitate a little before rising again thanks to the increasingly strong and fast-moving waves of hot air.

Causing these piles of frost or ice to cover themselves over, and over again in a cycle without falling to the ground. after enought cycles of frost layering, eventually Forming what we know as hail. After sufficient wrapping cycles, the balls would be large and heavy enough to completely fall without rising agin, but although in natural disasters it would be at most cases balls of a diameter of 0.5 cm wich were bad as it is, this magical entities could efficiently create massive hail of 20 to 30 cm's each.

Each one of this balls, weighing more than 1kg and falling at fast speeds powered by gravity and their weight, becoming potentially lethal weapons, falling from the sky by the thousands if not many thousands within a radius of 800 square kilometres. Enough to say the level of devastation they brought was abnormal.for example only the crops of the city relatively close to the capital suffered losses of up to 800 square kilometers of livestock and crops. Not to mention, of course, those casualties of the citizens that even in multiple cases under buildings, they fell and brought with them the death of the citizens, wich those survivors faced the puppets and creatures themselves, that for reasons YET unknown (you will know later) were not affected by this.

Yes, we are talking that these entities at the very least in enough numbers could make natural disasters at will.

Meanwhile in lancelot after a particularly hard trainning session with fortress Crown was in the royal nursing rooms. Being tended to by serene herself. Now, after 14 years of practice and herslef being a young adult at 21 was patching up poor young prince at the moment.

"Thanks Whis" the young drake thanked the mare with his own pet name for her, making her pout.

"You know, while i love talking and spending time with you its not exactly fun if most of that time you are covered in bruises to say the least" Serene answered

"hahahahah!" the young drake laughed

"What is so funny?, i get my new voice box its not perfect yet but-"

"oh, its perfect alright!,just like you!" the young drake blushed unintentionally at his own impulsive comment

"thank you" serene whispered

"Am i ever so glad, Dawn made you that magical voice for ya, after the year of trial!, if this is pretty much your real voice (according to dawn that is) its....great. No!, i mean its amazing!... i mean-!" the boy was a blushing mess, wasnt he?.

All he earned was a giggle from serene, who looked at him blushing. Despite him being only 14 at the time, all that traininning was showing, you would not bet his body was that of an average 14 year old, if his Moderate musculature was not obvius. Him being himself with all his qualities, carisma, will, and beauty, at least according to her, helped a lot.

His lavander and green scales, his green mane esque scales that naturally were stylish, and that shine that his scales seemed to get thanks to his sweat, his deep emerald eyes that looked at her with a passion, his green training undershirt and his lavander jacket that was tailored as a gift by abundance herself. His green tactical pants and that sweet voice that seemed to get deeper with age but remained sweet at its core. A voice that made her feel-

"Whis?" asked the blushing boy as the mare lost in thought, without realizing it got her face closer and closer to him, momentarily stopping after realizing what she was doing

"OH MY!, im sorry Crown i- i just- you eyes- i-i" she was deeply embarassed if voice stutters, her hand movements and urgent tone did not tell so enough. It did not help he was a minor still, she needed to control herself!, and besides its not like she knew if he liked her ba-

"its fine!, really dont worry about it!, your eyes are pretty atractive too!, i mean... distractive!, hehe." the boy gave a nervous laugh.

"Crown" Serene tought sweetly, before being interrupted by the sound of the door of the nursing rooms open wide with force and a bang.

"Prince,! head doctor!, the farming city of hoofington close to the pegasus district has been compromised!, we need to move you to a nearby protecting bunker until it all has been stabilized, we cant risk playing around if the pegasus district is compromised!" entered with an urgent and commanding tone of voice the current head Guard and personal aide of none other than the prince: Constellar blizzard herself.

Author's Note

this is a little chapter that while also continuing the plot, will give you all a sneek peak at to what kind and size of actual danger the fight is against. To give you an idea that will show you what kind of devastation a hail can cause, in this case one remotely similar in scale to this one, see the real world incident of Guiyan's capital guizhou , in 2001.

YES, i have been reading to make this story good. Hope you guys and girls appreciate it.