Dark visitors

When you think that nothing coul surprise you, is when is likely to something surprise you.

Confuse truth with assumption is simply another form of self deception.

On this world exist the truth and what we want to believe is the truth.

Chapter 3

Lonesoul

"You should go." Said a cold and calm male voice whose origin could not be specified, but that combined well with the cold and soulless eyes of that creature, so it was not difficult to assume that was his. "The weak creatures like you will not last long in this environment."

"Excuse me?" Rainbow Dash pushes Twilight off the way and stood in front of the creature.

"For exist? No."

"Excuse me?" This time Rainbow Dash sound furious, like if she was about to pounce on the creature.

"You already said that." That was it, Rainbow Dash jump ready to pounce on whoever had offended her, but over levitating in the air surrounded by a magical aura, one she knew. "Twilight! Let me go! I’m going to teach a lesson to this fool!" Twilight stepped aside to Rainbow Dash and stood again in front of the black mist creature.

"I apologize for that." Twilight said. "Rainbow Dash is a bit..."

"Arrogant." The creature over the sentence for her in that very cold and soulless tone, which starting to sound a little creepy. "I saw the fight in the city."

"I see ... umm ... " This was a unique opportunity to learn more about those weird ponies, if that creature knew something she should know. "Do you know something about those ponies that attacked Ponyville?"

"Yes." Immediately the creature responded he turned to other side and start to walk.

"Wait! Where are you going?!"

"To complete my mission, I had lost too much time."

"What mission?"

"Disable the black generator."

"Black generator? That is what did this to Everfree forest?"

"Yes."

"Now that's a surprise." Rainbow Dash interrupted. "I would bet that you were the one who caused all this."

"Rainbow Dash!" Twilight rushed to scold his friend and whisper in his ear. "How you think of talk like that to whom saved us! Especially knowing that the creatures we had to flee ran in terror when they saw him! We need him on our side and you are not helping."

"I heard that." Said the creature stopping and turning to the ponies. "My ear is much more sensitive than yours, taking into account that you expected I didn’t hear. And I'm only on one side, my side." The cold voice of the creature made blood run cold, was like he blow ice on them when he spoke, it was creepy. "Also, I was the one who activate the generator."

"I knew it!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed excited.

"But if you activated it ... Why you want to turn it off?" No sense for Twilight, Why disables something that had activated that same morning?

"I active the black generator to make my stay here more comfortable, but it had an unexpected effect."

"We know, it turns the Everfree forest creatures into monsters." Aha, that explains it. He just wanted to be comfortable and didn’t know that what he was doing would cause all these problems, he was not bad after all, was only an accident. It was a relief to know.

"No. The effect on native creatures was expected."

"What?!" He was bad after all. But if these monsters were not the problem meant that the real problem was even worse. "What was the unexpected effect then?!"

"The creatures that followed you are not native creatures affected by the black generator power. Those were native predators of my birthplace. A joker brought them here, and even worse creatures."

"A joker" Pinkie jump from the mist scare killing all her friends, but the black mist creature still stand with cold eyes as usual. "I love jokers, they are fun and always make everypony laugh, are like my. You think I could be a joker? That would be co..."

The mist creature closes the mouth of the overexcited pony with what appeared to be his leg, covered in mist too, and stared her. "This is a joker that won’t make you laugh. Except if, like them, you think the death is funny. The jokers are dangerous. I recommend you, again, to retread, my presence has scared creatures for now. But is almost dusk and stronger creatures, the ones won’t flee until they witness my power for themselves, will go hunting. And I'm not going to stop and save you. As soon they get out of my way, they’ll be your problem. They’ll devour you as they did at your allies."

Fluttershy was shaking with fear, but only a bit more than the rest, except Rainbow Dash. The s pegasus stood stunningly without showing any fear.

"Now listen to me. I don’t know who you think you are or where you came from, but we've saved all Equestria many times, we can with whatever be here." The creature looked at the friends of the pegasus, so she did the same, only then she realized that her friends were shaking ... all of them.

"Sure, you can." Although his voice was as cold as usual, sarcasm could be felt in it. "As for who I am, you can call me Lonesoul, and I'm a Phantom. As from where I come from... from a place much darker than this."

"What the hell is a Phantom?"

"We are very feared and dangerous warriors. Only our name is feared by those who know who we are. And if you think that you and your friends are so strong, take care of the next enemy."

"Of course!" If Rainbow Dash had turned back would have seen the looks of horror on her friends and Fluttershy faint. If Lonesoul were a regular pony would probably be laughing, but as he wasn’t he stood there with the same cold stare. "As soon appears a monster we’ll take care of it."

"As soon appears? How do you expect to defeat him if you don’t even see it come?"

"What?" As Rainbow Dash asked, she and her friends felt a blow on the side that shot into the trees.

"Hailer. They are stronger on full moon nights like this."

The ponies got up dazed and saw the creature that had attacked. A hideous bipedal creature of two floors tall with black skin was stood before them completely ignoring Lonesoul who watched with his cold eyes the situation.

The Hailer was a really nasty being; their limbs were outrageously long and thin, almost skeletal, with fingers ending in sharp black claws that get lost in the black of his body.

His face was not far behind; her mouth had no lips, so they could see his needle-sharp teeth from its black gums to the tip. His reptile eyes were glowing in bloody red such as Lonesoul's eyes, but they didn’t have a cold stare, instead his eyes were full of anger and bloodlust. And to complete the glare, the part of the eye that was usually white in this creature was black.

The monster screamed a cross between a ferocious growl and a cry of pain. As trailed off his scream shining marks in dark blue appeared all over her body while it began to move towards the ponies.

"The moon shows up." They hear said that cold voice that was characteristic of Lonesoul.

Twilight froze terrified by the look of that creature, couldn’t move, couldn’t think ... this would be her last... again ... again?! Twilight thought for a moment, in just two days she had already faced death three times counting that. In the previous two a miracle had saved them. It sounded crazy, but there was no reason to think that this time would be different, besides Lonesoul was there watching, he told he won’t help, but he really didn’t think let them die, right? ... Right?