Two humans, one wearing a blue robe with a yellow tassel and holding a staff with a red orb on top while the other wore silver coated armor wielding a blade of the same color walked in silence toward a grand tower. The silence was broken by the silver armored one as he asked "So Graros, are we near that dreadful tower yet?"
The blue robed one with the name of Graros pulled his head out of the map he was reading showing his long, gray beard as he spoke "Why yes Master Adoian! We should be reaching it momentarily!"
After walking quite awhile the two companions stopped dead in their tracks as they looked up seeing a tower of colossal size.
"So this is it." Said Adoian looking quite astonished.
"I'm afraid it is." Said Graros showing dread on his face.
"The Tower of the Damned." They spoke in unison.
"Are you sure this is the place?" Adoian questioned Graros.
"I'm certain of it." answered Graros "The king would never lie to us. He himself gave us this map, and especially if he wants to rule this kingdom again he would have to trust one of his own knights and an old fart of a court magician."
"Works for me! So, old man, think you can race me up to Lord Drakes throne room and help me stop him once and for all?"
"I joined you on this quest so I could stop Lord Drake you dolt! I also think I could beat you in this race and still have enough strength to stick my staff down his throat and make it back to the king in good time." Graros then turned to Adoian and asked him "Are you ready to lose?"
Adoian yelled "Like hell I am!"
"Ready?"
"Set."
"Go!"
With that word from Graros, Adoian pushed open the doors from the Tower of the Damned and made his way up the spiral staircase. Graros than began to run after Adoian, both ready to lay waste to the Dark Lord.
"Commander Sharpfang, get in here at once!" A black cloaked figure demanded while sitting on a throne made of red leather.
A onyx armored soldier ran into the throne room and bowed before saying "You called Lord Drake?"
"Yes I did." Drake said before continuing "One of my Inferno Bats reported that there are intruders in my tower."
"Maybe there here to praise you." Sharpfang replied.
"Perhaps. Or maybe there here to execute me so my tyranny will finally end!" Drake screamed while slamming a skeletal hand on his throne. He then yelled "Get the Goblin Brigade in here! Tell them to defend their King!"
Sharpfang bowed saying "As you wish my lord." With that he vanished into a thick smoke.
Within seconds the Commander reappeared with five Goblins and their chief. Drake simply explained "Two fools are coming to end me! I need you six along with the Commander to protect me!"
The Goblins bowed saying "Yes master!"
The Dark Lord smiled and spoke "Good. Now Commander I need you to-" but was cut short as the throne room door swung open showing a knight in silver reflective armor. A wizard soon followed speaking "I was this close Adoian!"
Adoian replied "Yes, but you weren't close enough!" He than turned to the cloaked figure asking "Are you the Dark Lord Drake?"
Drake replied saying "Why of course I am! And you are?"
Adoian turned to Graros and spoke "You were right old man this is the right tower."
Graros smiled before saying "The king never lies!" He than noticed Drake and his cohorts were staring at them. Graros coughed before explaining "I am the wizard Graros and this is the warrior Adoian Swordhand. We are here to finish you so that the king may rule this fair land once again."
Drake asked "So you two are the intruders?"
"Why yes we are!" Adoian couldn't help but facepalm. Graros looked at him and said "What? He asked."
Drake than clapped his hands together before saying "Wonderful! Now attack my soldiers!" The Goblins charged at the two intruders clubs in hand. Graros raised his staff and Adoian unsheathed his sword assuming an attack stance.
The first slash was made by Adoian as his silver sword was now stained with blood as one of the Goblins fell to the ground. Another one tried to attack Adoian, but met a much similar fate being impaled with Adoian's shining, silver sword. One of the Goblins tried to attack Graros, but was hit by a lightning spell and turned to ash. The two Goblins noticed that they were horribly screwed and began to run. Graros shot a fire spell from his staff and it connected with one of the Goblins. It caught fire as it rushed to the other one one begging for help, but caused the other one to catch fire as well. The two Goblins than hit the floor being nothing more than charred corpses.
Drake than snapped his fingers causing a flock of Inferno Bats to appear. The bats were ignited with a dark blue flame, and having fangs that could impale any knight even if he had powerful armor. Graros yelled at Adoian saying "I'll take care of these take care of the Goblin Chief and Commander Sharpfang!" Adoian nodded as he sprinted towards the Chief. The Chief raised it's own sword and charged towards Adoian. Adoian stuck first causing a gash to appear on the Chief's arm. The Chief swung his sword completely missing. Adoian than made a final blow causing the Chief's head to fly next to Commander Sharpfang's feet.
Graros summoned a lightning vortex that blew the Inferno Bats to bits. He than regained his composer as he raced to Lord Drake.
Adoian and the dreadful Commander were locked in a power struggle with their sword's making sure that one of them will fall. Adoian was able to strike Sharpfang as his sword slashed his shoulder. Sharpfang winced in pain as he tried to attack Adoian, but was having as much luck as the Goblin Chief had.
While those two were in a battle of strength, Lord Drake and Graros were in a battle of magic. Graros was using a powerful flare spell while Drake used a frostbite spell. They were both even in terms of power, but after a while Graros broke the fight of their spells and yelled "This will be sure to finish you off!" than a flash of blue, red, and yellow light appeared in front of him as he yelled "Tri-Blast!!!!!"
Lord Drake conjured up a spell of pure evil and yelled "Dark Abyss!""
The two powers struggled for what seemed hours, but with a bang the spells vanished creating a portal in it's wake. Command Sharpfang and Adoian stopped their fight and yelled to Graros "What the hell just happened?"
Graros explained "With the powers of light and dark both evenly matched we might have created a portal to hell."
Drake was puzzled and asked "So what so we do now? I don't think we can kill each other with this hell portal in the middle!"
Graros answered with "We still can. We just need to be mindful of the things existence."
"Makes sense to me!"
Before they could continue, the portal let out a powerful growl and sucked the two groups of two inside it's powerful hole of evil.
A portal opened in a blue sky as Graros and Adoian fell to the ground with a muffled thump. Graros got up and dusted him self off and said "Well, Adoian we have to start looking for Drake and his servant once more." He turned to Adoian and said "Adoian?"
Adoian was knocked unconscious from the fall. Graros felt a horrible pain in his leg as he too fell to the ground. He gritted his teeth and said "Damn it! The fall must've broken my leg!" Darkness was circling his eyes as a equine creature approached him. His head finally hit the grass and saw no more as the equine creature yelled "Spike! Come over here and help me carry these two creatures inside!"
As consciousness came back to him Graros looked around seeing that he and Adoian were in beds and that they were in a house holding a lot of books and the walls looking of bark. Graros tried to get up, but he felt a deep pain from his leg and didn't move. he equine figure he saw when he was on the grass approached him. She had a purple coat with a light purple mane with streaks of pink in it. She spoke with a sweet voice asking "Are you two alright?"
Graros screamed and picked up Adoian's sword and put it to the creatures neck and spoke "What kind of sorcery are you? Did Lord Drake send you to kill us?"
She shock her head and said "First, I'm a unicorn. Secondly, I don't even know this Lord Drake pony you're talking about."
Graros slowly put down the sword and asked "That doesn't answer my first question. How could you speak? Do you know some sort of spell to do so?"
"I was born with the ability to speak. All ponies can talk."
"So, Hell has talking ponies. Not the ideal torture device, but it could be much worse."
"This isn't Hell, it's Equestria!"
"Equestria?"
"Yes, this is a magical land where earth ponies, pegasi, and unicorns live in harmony."
Graros looked at her and asked "May I ask you for your name?"
The unicorn giggled saying "How rude of me! My name is Twilight Sparkle, and your name is?"
"Graros the wizard and I'm a human and this is my companion Adoian Swordhand" He pointed at the unconscious man asleep next to him on the other bed. Graros than continued "He also a human, but instead of a wizard he is a warrior. We come from the planet known as Earth."
"Wow! How did you two even get here?"
"Well...." Graros told her everything that she needed to know and when he finished Adoian awoke.
"Glad you could be awake Master Adoian this is Miss Twilight Sparkle. It seems that we are not in Hell, but in a land known as Equestria!"
Adoian laughed "Did the fall knock out your brain old man! There is no way we are in a place known as Equestria! What does this land have, forest nymphs?"
"No. It has talking ponies in three different groups. The earth ponies, the pagasi, and the unicorns."
Again with the laughter from Adoian "How could this place have ta-" but was cut short when he saw Twilight Sparkle smile and say "Glad to see you're finally up! You two had quite the fall."
He than let lose a blood curdling scream of pure terror as it cut through the home like hot knives through butter.
Twilight's horn flared as she pressed it on Graros's leg, insistently making the pain numb away. Graros thanked her and then asked pointing at Adoian's motionless body "How long do you think he will be knocked out for?"
She answered with "With the amount of shock he got when he saw me I'm guessing a few hours. Now try to walk on your mended leg." He got out of the bed and did so the leg working like a charm.
He turned to Twilight and asked "How did you learn this spell I must know!"
"Well I can teach it to you if you want me to."
"Yes please!"
"Okay! First, you..." she began to teach Graros on how to learn healing magic, and after awhile she told him that she would show him to her friends so he could become more familiar with this world and it's inhabitants. He agreed saying that he would love to meet them if they were as kind as her, but when they made it down stairs they heard screaming. They rushed up and saw Adoian holding his sword to a purple and green dragon's chest. He said "Time to die dragon!" as he pulled it closer to it.
The dragon than yelled "Twilight! Help me!"
Then a violet aurora snatched the sword away as it came to Twilight face. She proceeded to throw it down stairs as she yelled "Why would you do that to Spike?"
Adoian pointed a finger at Spike and yelled "He startled me!"
"That still doesn't give you an excuse to try to murder him!"
Graros yelled to Twilight "You have a pet dragon!"
She replied with "He's not my pet, he's my assistant!"
"How the hell did you get him for an assistant?" questioned Adoian as he was clearly mad at the fact that he wanted to slice a hole through the dragons chest and now couldn't do that.
"Well" Twilight began "It all started when I was a filly...."
"This will have to do for our makeshift castle." Drake said looking at the ruins of a castle that they found at the edge of a deep, dark forest which the portal brought him and Commander Sharpfang to.
"Sir if I may be so bold to ask, what are we going to do now?" questioned Commander Sharpfang.
"Simple," Drake replied "We are going to take over Hell and make the Devil my bitch!" With that he made a malicious laugh followed by a laugh from Commander Sharpfang as lightning thundered over them.
Authors Note: Hey everypony! Hope you enjoyed that! I'm also looking for pre-readers for this story!
