Chapters The first day in Equestria
‘I can’t believe it I’m not even 5 minutes in Equestria yet and I already have to fight for my life’ I thought to myself as I saw the four timberwolves start to size me up ‘its almost as they can tell that something is wrong with me’.
‘Well Storm Chaser you better use that sword I gave you or else those wolves are going to tear you limb from limb and probably eat you while you’re still alive’ said Discord with a hurried tone. ‘Luckily I have played many videogames and kind off had the basics of sword fighting down’ as I thought this I unsheathed Eclipse Slicer grabbing the handle with my right hoof extending it forward.
I stood up on my hind legs putting them apart in a stance, which I had seen so many times before in the anime I had seen in my life. I started to sweat from the anticipation and the normal amount of fear I was feeling. “Fuck I feel a little scared right now” I said with my voice cracking a little.
‘The correct term is buck and you better hope you don’t get more scared’ said Discord with a little anticipation in his voice.
The timberwolf lunged at me at a surprising speed, so I positioned my right foreleg so I could swing my sword once it got close enough. “Come on, come on” I said while the timberwolf was running toward me baring its fangs at me that would no doubt dig into me if I didn’t get it with the first strike.
The beast was now 6 feet away from me my heart was beating uncontrollably fast in my chest, the adrenaline making me focus. I held my breath hoping it wouldn’t be my last one and swung faster than I had expected down at the head of the drooling timberwolf.
Eclipse Slicer barely went through its head as the wooden wolf fell with a thud onto the floor. “Holy crap” I said breathing heavily “thank you Monster Hunter”, I then lifted the sword again and stabbed the timberwolf again, but this the sword passed easier through its wooden neck.
Feeling a new source of confidence I looked up to the other three timberwolves and yelled “bring it on you ugly buckers I’m still right here!” The biggest timberwolf which was probably the leader of the pack growled loudly at me, the other two immediately rushed at me going from the left and the right.
‘Crap they’re trying to get me from both sides at the same time’ I thought to myself while trying to choose my next move. The timberwolf on the right got to me before the one on the left; it jumped trying to scratch at my face so I quickly got down on four legs, as I lifted my sword where my head was.
The attacking timberwolf jumped right into my sword as it was cut with little resistance in half from head to tail. ‘Nice now the other one’ “Agh crap!” I yelled in pain as the other timberwolf bit down on my left hind leg pinning me down and making standing up on my hind legs again impossible.
‘Watch out the big one is closing in!’ said Discord with a stressed voice. “Oh crap, Oh crap” I repeated to myself while tried to slice the head of the timberwolf that was pinning me down, but it kept its head very low to the ground so I couldn’t do so.
“ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOARRR!!!” shouted an unknown being making the very loud and menacing sound reverberate in my head and rustle the trees nearby.
“Oh damn, that was close….” I said after sighing a breath of relief, but instantly grimacing now that the adrenaline was going down and I could feel the pain of the bite as the blood was flowing out of it.
I was paralyzed in fear ‘Oh shit there is no way I can fight a dragon with this busted leg and I can’t even run away either’.
‘Would you calm down already? I doubt she is going to eat you’. ‘Yeah?’ I thought while again grimacing because of another pang of pain from my hind leg ‘what makes you say that?’ ‘Simple, if she wanted to eat you she would have already’ I gulped nervously yet again at Discord’s comment.
The dragon then took another step forward and inhaled deeply through her nose, sniffing at the air, while finally showing her royal blue face bearing fangs and light green eyes that where looking upon me no longer with an aggressive manner, but with a curious one instead I could tell by the way her head was relatively slim and by her slightly feminine eyes that she was in fact as Discord had said female.
The dragoness walked into the light of the clearing and completely revealing her powerful wings that where unlike the other dragons’, they were not separate from her arms, but instead were a part of the female drake’s arms with the wing tips being one of her claws elongated to the length of 11 to 12 feet, oddly enough looking like the wing of a Tigrex, her wing membranes were of an icy white much like the scales on her lower neck and belly, the powerful tail was spiked with sharp spikes that looked as sharp as Eclipse Slicer itself, all in all her body 20 foot body was now looming over me.
The dragoness lowered her head so that her eyes were at the same level that mine were again she sniffed around me once more and said with a surprisingly soothing voice “Why do you smell like my kin?”.
I slightly bowed my head and said “thank you so much for scaring those timberwolves away”. The dragoness gave a small smile and accepted my gratitude with a small nod “it is the code to protect a hatchling from danger, but all I see is a pony with the scent of a dragon”. “I don’t know why I would smell like that” I replied to her “would you please help me get out of this clearing I can’t walk right now” looking to my still wounded hind leg “Oh and can I please know your name?”
The female drake looked slightly insulted by what I had just said ‘oh crap I hope she doesn’t just leave me here’ I thought. She raised her head a little so she could look down on me “one does not ask a dragoness’s name” she said with a harsh tone “but I guess recently nodrake has been living by the code in these dark times. My name is Palewing of the Wyvrex kind and I will assist you”
I smiled and said “thank you, Palewing my name is Zegr I mean Storm Chaser” as she slowly picked me up from the small pool of blood I was in ‘hmm very odd a normal dragoness would have instantly killed you from just asking her name, and the Wyvrex is known for its loyalty to the dragon code, very odd indeed’ said Discord. ‘Who knows maybe my luck is starting to change for the better’.
Palewing picked me up and put me on her back careful to not impale me with one of her sharp spikes and she walked quickly and surprisingly quietly for someone that size, into the dense forest of Legerdemane.
“No need, I choose to help, by the way how did you end up in the middle of Legerdemane forest?”
“I don’t really know why myself, I just woke up here” I said trying to convince her. “Hmm very odd where you flying over this forest?” she asked. “I don’t remember how to fly right now, I must have hit my head on something” I said trying to sound positive about that.
“Well you won’t survive long in this forest without at least being able to fly” Palewing said. “Yeah I think if I get the basics down again I can start flying again. Oh and Palewing can I ask you something?” “What is it you would like to ask of me Storm Chaser of the Pegasi?”
“Why are you in this forest anyway?” as I asked this I felt her tense up a bit, she relaxed again and said “I came here to this forest because it’s one of the only places that those traitorous bastards the King dragons couldn’t find me in”. I stood up on my four legs and asked “Who are the King dragons and why would you have to hide from them?”
“The King dragons according to them are the perfect dragon kind, and by order of the High King they hunt down other dragons that they deem inferior to themselves to either kill them, make them join their ranks or to enslave them” she said with hatred in her voice.
“Well we are here at my den” she said snapping out of the dark thoughts in her head. Her den was a tree bigger and thicker than Palewing that was hollowed out and a very big rock under the tree which she had hollowed out to live in. “Wow this is a really cool place you have here” I said as she lowered me off her back.
*grumble* “Hey sorry but do you have anything to eat here?” I said for I haven’t eaten anything in the few hours I had in Equestria so far. “Sure, would you be satisfied with some apples? I got them from the tree so they are still fresh I think I don’t really eat those things” she said as she got out from the tree and grabbed some apples and then put them in front of me “Of course they’ll be enough thank you very much” I said while I chewed some of the red fruit.
“Well we should go to sleep Storm Chaser this forest has things that are more dangerous than the timberwolves, and by the way how did you get your hooves on that sword?” At the mention of sleep I started to feel drowsy so I yawned and said “I got it from a friend”
“That friend of yours must be very important, I haven’t seen a sword that well made in a very long time even in these crazy days, and no one has a sword that beautifully made.” “Well he does like to think he is” I said while I laughed to myself.
'Well not bad for my first day' i thought to myself as i drifted into sleep.
The next day
‘You won’t get away from me that easily Storm Chaser’ said Discord ‘now get four flank up already, you need to learn how to fly your body already knows how to do so, now you have to get your mind to get used to flying’.
“Good morning Storm Chaser, are you ready to fly now?” said the white dragoness while sticking her head out of the hollowed out tree and heading into the Legerdemane forest.
“Yeah sure” I said with a little nervousness “how are we going to start?” while I started to walk towards her ‘Wait a minute, I can walk on four legs now?’ I thought mainly to myself.
‘Of course you can, like I told you already your body knows how to do things a normal pegasus would do, you just have to get your mind used to it’. ‘And why didn’t you tell me this until now?’
‘Are you kidding me? How could I have told you while you were freaking out just because some timer wolves attacked you? ‘Well, fair enough’ I thought while making a slightly annoyed face.
While I was having my conversation with Discord, Palewing saw my facial expressions that made me look like I was talking and discussing something with somepony that wasn’t there needless to say she was weirded out by this behavior.
“Nothing just trying to remember what exactly I was doing flying over this forest” I said as I lied to her so she would think my actions were normal somehow.
“Okay then, let’s go to the river you can try flying there without the danger of falling and breaking something”
“Wait a minute what do you mean you don’t know where it’s at right now?”
She sighed “well you see the forest of Legerdemane has something that makes it different from any other forest in this land, the trees” she said as she pointed to one “they have the inner ability to release small amounts of magic from gem deposit that are underground close to their roots that has the purpose of confusing any sentient being that enters it”.
“Well it disorients you to the point that you get lost in these woods and what you thought was in front of my home could be entirely on the other side of the forest the next day”
“So how can one get out of this forest?” I asked her as we kept walking.
“Well flying is the easiest way out, but allies of the High King usually fly over this forest so that is out of the question the only other way would be walking out and hoping you find the edge of the forest”
“Have you ever tried to leave this forest?”
“Ok then that’s a smart move I guess”. We kept walking for what felt to me like another ten minutes until I started to hear what I though was fast moving water rushing somewhere close to us. Palewing kept looking around for some reason squinting like if she was trying to see if someone was out there.
Finally she relaxed and she lowered her head into the river and started to gulp the clean water.
“What should I do first?” I asked her as I started thinking if this was a good idea.
‘Crap, well I guess I’m on my own for this’ I thought while I tried thinking of how to fly without hurting myself. ‘hahaha oh Storm Chaser you are never alone, just try it already’
“Well, I guess I should start by flexing my wing muscles” I started to lift my wings and straightening them out to my sides “now to move them slowly” I started to flap them slowly up and down trying to get used to moving these new body parts.
I look to Palewing and again she is lightly squinting looking all around us, but then relaxing again after a few seconds.
“I use my arms to launch myself in the air, and then I start to flap my wings or I just throw myself of a high place. We wyvrex are better known for our running than for our flying.
“Are you sure you’re not species isn’t related to the ancestors of dragons? You know before they’re wings evolved to be separate from their arms” She listened to this and pondered to herself “It certainly makes sense, now are you going to fly or not?”
“Ok, ok let me just get ready” I said as I closed my eyes and again positioned my wings to be straight out.
“Okay, then its time” I said as I slowly opened my eyes I looked to my left and saw Palewing laying down looking expectantly at me.
I breathed in slowly and started to flap my wings harder this time and started to run towards the edge of the stump and right before getting there I jumped and closed my eyes because of the nervousness and slight fear of falling straight into the river or the ground.
I opened them again surprised that I was not falling but steadily flying over a smiling dragoness that was looking up at me. “Hahaha holy crap I’m flying, I’m actually flying!” I yelled at no one in particular.
I started to relax a little and started to feel the wind going past my mane and my feathers as I was flying at a slow pace towards a tree.
It felt right to be flying ‘I wonder if this how all beings with wings feel when they fly?’
‘They sure do Storm Chaser now stop flying like a grandma and start to really fly’ I smirked at what he said and stretched out my fore legs to my front and my hind legs straight backwards.
I started to slowly speed up as I flew upwards on to the tree line and right before getting there I folded my wings, making my body make a somersault in midair and fall and after falling for a couple feet I opened them again.
I flew down to the river and touched the water with my hoof across the river, I then flew up and did a barrel roll while I gained altitude, and all the while I had the dumbest grin on my face.
I stabilized my flying while I dodged trees and started to slow down again a little bit taking in what I was doing ‘thank you again Discord I can’t even describe how good it feels to be flying’. ‘I told you already don’t think it will always be like this here’
I shook my head again smiling ‘yeah, yeah but thanks anyways’ after flying for a couple more minutes and doing slight stunts, I started to descend towards the base of the tree stump I took off from.
“So what do you think Palewing best flier you ever did see, am I right?” I boasted to Palewing while I landed. She rolled her eyes smiling “please I have seen way better fliers than that in fact I am sure I can fly faster than you do”
“Oh?” I said smirking “well let’s see you try flying faster than I do”. Palewing just smiled at me “I can’t in here I barely have enough room to spread my wings fully, and besides I don’t want to bring attention to us”
“Okay, then if you say so” I said teasing her, she ignored me as she for a third time squinted her eyes and started to look around, I tried to look around for whatever it was she had been looking for but I neither heard or saw anything out of the ordinary.
“What have you been looking for Palewing?” as I asked her she snapped out of it and said “There is another dragon that flies over this forest often and I think he knows I’m here, he just hasn’t seen us yet.
“Come on Storm Chaser I think we should go back to the tree” she then started to walk back very silently as if she didn’t want to make a sound. “Sure anything that makes you that afraid sure scares the hell out of me too” I said as I started to fly.
I gulped in slight fear and said “Ok, ok sorry let’s just go to the tree and maybe he will leave” we walked all the way back to the tree and stayed there for a while just resting Palewing then got up and said “I am going to get myself something to eat, wait here”
Palewing quickly ran into the deeper part of the forest in search of her prey getting out of my line of sight fairly quickly. “I hope she makes a fire and cooks what she brings back, I haven’t had meat in a long time” I said to myself.
‘There are two problems with that Storm Chaser’ “Oh yeah? What would those be?” ‘Well for starters she doesn’t breathe fire since she is a Wyvrex’ “That’s weird I thought she did”
‘And secondly you can’t eat red meat, you’re a pegasus now’ I froze up at what Discord had just told me “Nooooooooo! Damn it I love meat I can’t live without it” I almost started to cry at what should have been obvious information.
“Oh well I guess I will have to live without meat then” I said sadly “well I could at least make a fire to cook whatever Palewing brings back” ‘And how are you going to do that I wonder?’
“Easy I just have to find some rocks to make a spark” after a few minutes of looking around I found a small rock that looked like a quartz and a bigger black shiny rock, I then grabbed a lot of branches from the trees, and a small amount of dry grass.
“How did you do that?” asked Palewing slightly surprised with fresh blood on her claws and on her mouth, making her look fiercer than she already did. “Oh, it was nothing really just a thing I learned”
Palewing then dropped the half eaten manticore on the floor next to me; she then looked to the fire and said “Well since it’s not making much smoke it won’t really alert anydrake of our presence”
“Do you want me to cook it for you?” She looked at me puzzled and said “sure, but how would you know how to cook meat?” I thought of an answer and said “it shouldn’t be that hard”
“Just get a thick branch to put the meat over the fire first” she reached up and grabbed one and stabbed the branch through the manticore meat “now stick the base on the ground so that the meat hangs over the fire”
With a nod she did what I told her “now we wait for it to get cooked” I said as I looked at the meat sizzling lightly over the fire.
Her eyes widened and she said “this is the best thing I have ever eaten in my life, now I know for sure this isn’t your first time cooking” she then started to greedily eat all of the meat chewing a bit loudly.
“Thank you very much Storm Chaser” she said very gratefully. “No problem I like it when others like my cooking, I just wish I could have some” whispering to myself the last part.
After eating Palewing turned off the fire because it was getting dark and we didn’t want anything to see the fire especially not another dragon. We both went inside after I flied again for a few minutes since it was getting dark.
“Well goodnight Palewing” I said as I got comfortable on top of some leaves from the tree. “Goodnight Storm Chaser”
‘I will tell her about the plan and I hope she will join me’ I thought to myself as I fell asleep.
I wake up to see that outside of the giant tree that was my temporary home, and saw that the woods were a little foggy the wind was cold but not enough to make me shiver.
I got up from the spot I had been sleeping on and I stretched my wings and started to fly around looking for Palewing so that I could tell her about Discord’s plan to kill the High King, and for some apples to satisfy my hungry stomach.
“Hello Storm Chaser” said Palewing I jumped because I didn’t see her at all “a little skittish are we?” “Nope just a little surprised is all” I said as I looked around for her, noticing that the fog was a little too dense to be normal.
“This forest also creates fog on occasion but it clears right up after a while” Palewing said as she revealed her face to me by taking a step toward me looking at me with what I thought was a worried look.
‘Hey, Discord how should I tell her about the plan? I don’t know if I should really tell her that you are inside of my head, and that I am a human that you turned into a pegasus, hell I seriously doubt she would believe me anyways’ I thought as I bit into another apple.
‘Well just tell her about me and that I gave you Eclipse Slicer so that you can fight the King dragons, hopefully she will understand if not touch her head with your hoof when I tell you to’.
“Hey, Palewing I was thinking would you kill or at least try to kill the High King dragon if you had the chance?” She also started to think and said “Yes even if I were to die I would give my life to kill that traitor to the code”
“Okay then, can you tell me what the dragon code is?” she looked at me in the eye and said “I really shouldn’t tell a pony, but something tells me you are different than they are”
She took pride in what she was saying “the dragon code is the group of rules that where set by the first dragons of Equestria to ensure that each dragon would live the life of a proud dragon”
“The code consists of five guidelines that every dragon should go by: If saved by another, protect them to the end, choose the difficult right instead of the easy wrong, watch over hatchlings as if they were your own, Fight for pride not greed and Judge not others by race but by their actions”
I was surprised about this code because if they were followed dragons would be very respected not just feared ‘I wonder if Spike knows about this code?’
“Wow dragon culture is very interesting but I’m guessing that no one really enforced the code did they?”
“Well Palewing will you help me kill the High King and restore Equestria to how it once was? I said with a determined tone as I looked at her.
“I am Palewing” I answered she then gave me a small smile and said “Then I Palewing of the wyvrex clan will aid you in your mission, but I must know why you want to do this”
“Well you’re going to think I’m crazy but”
“Ha ha really funny” I said with a sarcastic tone “well you see Discord chose me as his warrior and told me to kill the High King dragon that took over this land”
I sighed “I knew you wouldn’t believe me” ‘Discord what should I do?’
“Sure I guess just don’t do anything weird”
‘Okay I explained everything to her, you can move now’ said Discord
“Sorry but it was the only way to get you to believe me” the fog was now clearing up showing us a clear view to the woods. Palewing started to relax again and said as she looked up “we should start finding a way out of this forest, we can’t really kill the High King from here”
We then started walking into the woods to find the edge of them and to get out, I was flying slowly over the branches of the trees being careful of not going to high and being spotted by another dragon.
“You should practice using that sword, it will be useful later you seem to know the basic of fighting with swords, but you will have to learn to wield expertly especially while flying” said Palewing as she looked up at me.
“Okay good idea” I said as I slowly unsheathed Eclipse Slicer while I flew I then started to speed up and started to slice off some branches rather easily, I then started to make spins while I flew and cut deep into some of the trees.
“Hey calm down up there Storm Chaser we still don’t want that dragon to find us” said Palewing while walking faster to catch up with me.
“Okay then” I said as I landed next to her after sheathing my sword again “Palewing why are you helping me? I mean besides the fact that you hate the High King; I don’t want you coming just because Discord told you to”
I smiled “Thank you Palewing you are also my friend” she smiled back as we kept walking.
-20 minutes later-
“Storm Chaser I think we are halfway there we should hurry the sooner we are out of this forest the better”
Palewing started to look around like she had done the day before this and we quickened our pace trying not to make more noise.
I gulped “do you know who it could be?” she then sniffed the air “I’m not really sure, but if he does decide to attack and he is a King dragon I will kill him” she said with anger.
“They killed all of the other dragons of my kind” she said with sadness “I managed to escape and then I came here so I could wait for them to stop looking for me”
“I’m very sorry for your loss I shouldn’t have asked” I told her feeling sorry for her “No don’t be sorry it wasn’t your fault it was those damn traitors that did it”
We kept walking until we came up to a clearing different from the one I had landed in when I came to Equestria it was slightly bigger and had a large boulder in the middle of it.
“Something doesn’t feel right about this place Palewing, almost like its too normal I mean how can it be that we haven’t seen at least one manticore or a timberwolf?” I ask her as we stop right before stepping into the clearing.
“I did notice that but there is no turning back now, besides” she smirked “if you are that scared I will protect you” she then walked up to the clearing but then opened her eyes wide in shock and looked up at the top of a big tree.
“Well well look at who I found after looking for months” said a black scaled dragon with a deep voice.
Palewing bared her fangs at him yelling with hatred in every word “YOU, IT WAS YOU WHO KILLED MY CLAN!!!”
I froze up still outside of the clearing; I didn’t know what I could do because that dragon looked like Palewing couldn’t do a thing to him.
Palewing roared with anger and slashed the King dragon with a force that could break boulders easily, but he was barely hurt by this and he again pushed her with a force that drove her off her talons.
“What’s the matter Palewing I thought the wyvrex clan was a strong one? Oh yeah right they’re not that is why I volunteered to kill them all” he said as he started to punch her in her face over and over again drawing blood with each one.
‘Fuck, fuck, fuck I don’t know what to do why can’t I do something she could die right in front of me if I don’t do something’ I thought as I was panicking
‘Snap out of it Storm Chaser use Eclipse Slicer and kill that blasted dragon’ said Discord sternly
I flew over to dragon while I unsheathed my sword without thinking only wanting to protect Palewing from anymore harm “Stoooooop!!!” I yelled as I swung my sword at the arm that was holding on to Palewing’s neck but as the sword was coming down the dragon looked straight at me with a glare that froze me in fear.
My sword just bounced of the King dragon’s arm like if I had hit him with a stick “No” I said “YES” he yelled as he stabbed Palewing through her chest with his claws.
Palewing yelled in agony as the dragon kept stabbing her over and over while he laughed evilly every time more blood would paint Palewing’s beaten royal blue body, after she stopped screaming in pain he said “Well that was incredibly fun, it was well worth the wait”.
He then ripped her arms off her body with a sickening ripping sound as the wing membrane separated from her body which he then started to eat in front of me.
“Nooooooooooooooooooooooo” I yelled with anger and pure hatred as a black shroud of energy came off of my body.Storm Chaser '
“Hmm that’s interesting” said the dragon looking at what seemed to be an explosion of black energy come out of me and Eclipse Slicer. My sword then turned into the energy and seemingly disappeared.
“What’s happening to me!!!?” I yelled as claws grew out of my hooves, my teeth sharpened, my body became shrouded with the black energy, my wings turned into dragon wings the transformation hurt but at the same time felt like I took a weight off of my body and I could feel pure power that rivaled the hatred that I felt toward the dragon that had just killed my friend.
‘Sick em Storm Chaser’ said Discord I smiled took a deep breath and answered with “ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAR!!!!”
I charged straight to the dragon leaving a small crater where I was at as I ran at full speed towards him I then jumped and kicked right on the face with a force that was impossible for a body my size to wield.
The dragon was swept of his talons and fell hard with a smack he got up and tried to slash me with his claws that I held in mine, I smiled and broke them as he yelled in agony.
“Buck you, you freak” he yelled in fear while holding his broken hand he then used his fire breath on me, but the flames just brushed of me like if it was a gentle breeze.
I laughed at him and this time flew faster than anything that dragon had ever seen in his waste of a life. I then flew straight down with my claws pointed forward and again hit the dragon full force on the wing this time ripping it clean off.
The dragon screamed in pain and I yelled “what’s the matter? I thought you like pain” I then balled my claws up to be fists and started punching him in the face over and over again each with bone breaking force.
He then tried to bite me but I just moved downwards next to the huge boulder were Palewing’s dead body was so he moved there and swung his tail right at me, and I flew straight at it and I cut it right off making him give another wail of pain.
I slowly walked up to him and said “I am sure you will never kill again goodbye you fucking worthless piece of shit” I then flew up until he couldn’t see me. “Thank you I swear I wi” I flew down and landed on his head with a sickening crunch sound before he could lie to me again.
“That was for Palewing asshole” I said as I got off of what used to be his head. The energy that cloaked my body then came off and turned into Eclipse Slicer turning me back into a pegasus.
I looked around to see the destruction I had caused the clearing was scorched, and the trees around it were all smashed and broken.
I then walked up to Palewing “I’m so sorry that I couldn’t save you I was too weak” I said as I started to sob “I swear to you that I will save Equestria and kill the High King I’m not just doing it because I have to anymore but to keep your memory alive.
I cried next to Palewing for a few more minutes feeling useless I mean how could I save Equestria if i cant even save a friend its just so unfair she didnt have to die "I cant believe i couldnt do a damn thing to help her! I mean what the hell is wrong with me?" ‘Storm Chaser we need to go, I think the forest ends around here’
As I slowly got up from being next to Palewing I wiped the tears from my eyes and started to turn to what I thought was the exit of this damned place. I look back at her and say the only thing I could say “I’m so sorry Palewing”
Emptiness, more than sadness is what I felt for just losing my first and only friend here and I couldn’t do anything to stop that dragon from killing her; I mean she saved me from those timberwolves even though she didn’t have anything to gain from doing so.
And in a way she helped me to learn how to fly, but I never did anything good for her I basically only cooked for her once, how can that compare to her saving me?
But no I just had to chicken out at the last moment like a coward that couldn’t even protect myself let alone someone else I am worse than scum I should have given my life to protect her.
I felt a heavy guilt inside of me not for killing that bastard mercilessly but for not being able to do so just a minute sooner by cutting the arm that was holding her.
Every time I closed my eyes I would see Palewing’s face as the claw pierced into her chest I started to shake and shiver as I walked slowly out of the forest when I stopped.
“I don’t think I can do this anymore Discord, I know I can’t do this alone but I just don’t want people dying over me just because I’m to bucking weak and scared to save them”
‘I know you have experienced the death of loved ones in your life before Storm Chaser but that was before I brought you here, before you could do next to nothing to protect them from harm. Things are different now’
“Nothing is different can’t you see?” I said raising my tone “I’m still that coward weakling that watched his father die in front of his eyes!”
Tears started to well up in my eyes as my anger and frustration once again started to affect me.
‘Yes you do have weaknesses; your greatest weaknesses are low self-confidence and the fear to lose someone close to you’
“Gee, thanks Discord I feel so much better know that you also think I’m weak”
‘SHUT UP!!! And let me finish, your greatest weakness can sure hinder you at times but it can also become your greatest strength’
“Yeah right and how would I be able to do that?”
‘Your fear to losing your friends will help you, now listen to me and listen well because I am not a pep talker. When you want to cut somebody you cut them thinking “I will kill you so you won’t hurt my friends!” when you want to block somebodies attack you do it thinking “you wont hit me so that I can protect my friends!” and if you do these things you won’t lose anyone ever again’
Discord’s words where inspiring and were similar to something I had heard long ago.
‘Now get off your flank, and let’s go and remember I am not going to be treating you like a foal anymore this world is tough so get tougher than it’
His words made me forget slightly about the guilt and sadness enough to stop feeling sorry for myself so I got up again and starts to walk faster towards the edge of the forest.
“Thanks Discord. Oh and what the buck happened to me back there and how can I control when I turn into that?”
‘Don’t you remember? You got the pegasus and the dragon on the wheel of species so I gave you your pegasus body with some dragon parts in as well just to add a little chaotic style I call it the dragon pony, oh and Eclipse Slicer is needed for the transformation so don’t go losing it’
I took in this new information and asked once more “And how exactly do I control when I turn into a dragon pony?”
I was annoyed by this but I shrugged it off and I started to fly at a fast pace to see if I could improve my flying while getting out of Legerdemane faster so that I wouldn’t spend another night in there.
I finally got to the edge of the forest after what I thought was an hour of flying at a slow steady pace so that I wouldn’t get tired out quickly while I practiced with Eclipse Slicer cutting off a lot of the branches from the trees.
I landed and started to walk out of the forest to see there was a prairie with no trees some tall grass, small flowers growing almost everywhere and a small stream flowing across it.
‘Finally you’re out of that forest, I don’t really know my way around these parts but I do know that after this prairie is a very big desert that may have a small town inside it’
“Ok so I should probably look for something to eat, maybe something to carry water in and hopefully I will find that town so I can get me a map”
I then started to look around for edible things that weren’t grass at least just because I’m a herbivore doesn’t men I’ll eat what everyone steps on.
Unfortunately I couldn’t find anything to eat that wasn’t dry grass so I swallowed my pride and two mouthfuls of the most tasteless thing I ever ate.
“I can’t believe I really just ate grass” I said as I spat out some of it onto the dry grass I was standing on.
“Yeah I can see why they haven’t it tastes terrible” I said as my stomach still grumbled “Damn I don’t see anything else that I can.. wait I know”
I then walked up to some of the flowers I had seen “Well I doubt it can taste worse than that dry grass” I lowered my head and ate one of the small yellow flowers as I chewed I noticed a small hint of a sugary flavor.
“Well they’re not half bad, but I still prefer fruit over these” after I ate some more I walked up to the small stream and drank from it the water was cool against my face.
While I drank the water I noticed something shimmering downstream so I walked up to it and picked it up.
I looked around and got the thickest strand of tall grass I could find and I tied the canteen to my right side so that it wouldn’t get in the way when I try to get my sword out.
After I washed the canteen making sure I wouldn’t get sick from drinking from it, I noticed a strange smell.
“Damn I hope that isn’t what I think it is” I moved toward the smell that seemed to be coming from a patch of tall grass, I moved the tall grass so that I could see what was inside.
The sight sickened me a little it was a unicorn a mare I think there was blood all around her, she was missing all four of her legs, and her side was slashed open by some unknown weapon, her coat was of a light yellow color and her mane some of the parts that weren’t covered in her blood was light blue.
I instantly backed away surprised at the gruesome scene in what was seemingly a peaceful place.
‘Don’t be fooled by appearances Storm Chaser every single place has one or more deadly threats under its seemingly normal exterior’
“Yeah I’ll try not to lower my guard again” I then looked up to the sky to see the Sun already getting close to the horizon.
‘Well I don’t really know the specifics myself but it’s probably because the princesses are still alive and they still have magic so they probably instinctively use it to raise the moon and sun’
“Well that makes sense I guess, I think I’m going to camp out for the night up on that last tree because I don’t think I will be able to see that town at night”
I flew up to the last big tree of the Legerdemane forest and found a thick branch that could hold my weight and was thick enough so that I wouldn’t fall out at night.
Somewhere else in Equestria
A shadowy figure starts talking to a big dragon
“You may speak freely Shadow Scale, what is this news?” said the dragon
“You see General I just came back from Legerdemane forest where the new drake was stationed to look for the last Wyvrex”
“Yes well you see General the mission was a success the dragoness was eliminated, but the drake sent to do the mission was also killed”
“Ah, that fool must have let his guard down that dragoness was easy on the eyes” he smirked remembering past days.
This intrigued the General “Who could have done this? Did you see any other drake in the vicinity that could be responsible?”
“I didn’t see any other dragon around but I did see a pegasus pony with a sword walking away from the bodies”
“Yes my general I saw that pegasus with my own two eyes, but stranger still I could swear I could smell a third dragon around but I couldn’t see anydrake out there”
“Well if you are right he is headed toward the desert, so give a description to the wanted list and tell them to bring him to me alive maybe the bounty hunters will see if something makes that pony special”
“Yes general shall I report to the High King as well?”
The General thought about this for a moment “No I don’t think we should bother him with such things, it could still be a coincidence”
“Very well General I shall give the description to the wanted list, shall I do anything else?”
“Yes follow him and stick to the shadows if by some crazy chance he managed to kill that dragon, he might be able to land a hit on you as well”
The shadowy figure smirked “General please I am the shadows he won’t ever see me”
Shadow Scale then disappeared into the shadows off to do what his General had commanded him to.
“Could this really be? I can only hope that it is true that Wyvrex incident was the last straw I will have to do something about this, but when?”
Back at the tree: The next day
I yawned as I woke up stretching my wings and legs and cracking my neck “Well I better start going to the desert I guess”
After walking for some 10 minutes the territory slowly changed into a desert with less and less grass and more sand then I came upon an old wooden signpost that said Mohoove desert.
“You’re kidding me” I said as I started laughing a little
“Oh nothing let’s just go already before the temperature goes up too much”
I started walking again when I noticed there was a very big drop-off that separated where the prairie ended and the real desert began.
“Wow it’s pretty big it’s going to take more than a day to pass through that I bet”
“Yes it does but you will never touch that sand alive that is”
I instantly unsheathed Eclipse Slicer and looked back to see a diamond dog with a large knife in his hand and a menacing look on his face.
I started to fly just above the ground and readied my sword waiting for him to make the first move.
“Come and get some then” I said as I flew directly at him, the diamond dog then balled his hand into a fist and punched me with it, but I then swung my sword at his hand and cut it clean off.
He then started screaming in pain as he held his left arm right above of where I had cut, the diamond dog then looked at me again and swung his knife at me as fast as he could.
So I swung my sword and hit his knife cutting right through it and his chest killing him instantly.
‘You did very well Storm Chaser, the Mohoove desert is riddled with diamond dog packs so you better watch out’
“Ok now that that sick buck is dead I can I start moving into the desert, I really need to find that town because I doubt my water will last more than a couple of hours, but first”
I turned around and looked down to the body of the diamond dog that I had just killed moments ago and much like the diamond dogs I had seen on the show he had a small jacket with pockets
“Let’s see what you have here” I then started to put my hooves inside his pockets ‘Wow glad to see you toughen up Storm Chaser’
“Yeah, yeah I just hope this guy has some diamonds or something on him” I then found a hoof full of diamonds, emeralds and other gemstones. “Perfect now I have something of value I can sell for a map”
I then noticed that the diamond dog had a saddlebag on tied onto his jacket “Probably from that other pony well I’ll take that if you don’t mind” I put on the saddlebag and put the gemstones and the canteen inside.
After I tied the saddlebag I walked towards the edge of the drop off and started to see the desert more carefully looking at its features the Mohoove was vast, its white sand was accumulated in large dunes, and there were large rocks, a lot of cacti and other desert flora that I couldn’t name at the moment.
I flew down to the sand finally entering the desert; I then started to walk slowly on the sand choosing to go straight towards a very large rock off in the distance.
“Damn I wouldn’t be surprised if I saw Blondie or Tuco around here” I kept walking squinting to keep sand out of my eyes as I went by a tumbleweed I could’ve swore that I felt the ground beneath me shake a little.
I kept walking until I reached the rock it was at least 10 feet tall so I flew to the top of it to see if I could find the small town that I was looking for and I thought I saw a mound of sand slowly lift up only to go back down quickly after.
‘Storm Chaser some dia’
“Yes I know its three of them I think, I don’t know why they haven’t attacked yet, but I’m sure as hell not going to be killed by them I do have the advantage of flying.
I flew above the spot where the sand moved and I unsheathed Eclipse Slicer ready to strike at any moment, the instant my hoof touched the sand a black diamond dog jumped out of the sand trying to grab me but I managed to move just in time.
“Good you finally decided to attack, now where are your other two friends?”
The diamond dog smiled, tipped his black cowboy hat and said “Come on out boys he already saw you”
As soon as he said it another two grey diamond dogs holding large butcher knives in their hands.
“What do you want?” I asked the black diamond dog that looked and acted like the leader of the small group while still squinting to show that I didn’t fear him as much as he wanted me too and to keep the sand out of my eyes.
“Don’t be stupid pony you know damn well what we want, or did you already forget who you killed before coming here?”
The other two diamond dogs started to growl at me with anger, I couldn’t help but feel a little nervous at the situation.
The tension could be felt in the air as all four of us just stood like if we were waiting for something that could make us start our battle, as we were staring down at each other.
“Hey, have you ever come across somepony you don’t want to buck with?” the leader diamond dog then gave me a puzzled look for an answer
I smiled and said “well I’m that kind of pony” I immediately flapped my wings as hard as I could lifting up some sand with the wind I made, making it so that the diamond dogs couldn’t see me.
The diamond dogs closed their eyes and started to cough the leader knew what I planned so he dug underground, but his companions were not as lucky.
“Two down!!” I said as I cut through the bodies of the grey diamond dogs and from underground the leader uppercut me making me spin in midair from the impact of the punch.
I recovered from the punch and quickly flew up so that he couldn’t grab me, he then threw one of the knives of one of his dead companions which I quickly dodged as I flew towards him.
“Die you damn dog!!” I yelled as he yelled “Die pony!!” and he swung his large knife while I flew next to him while Eclipse Slicer cut through him, slicing him in two killing him instantly.
“Damn I swear these fights are getting tougher I’m lucky I haven’t been cut yet because I didn’t get any of those herbs back in Legerdemane” I said as I was panting a little from the exertion and I sheathed my sword after flicking the blood off.
I then wiped the sweat off my brow and looked down at the now dead black diamond dog on the sand painting it a crimson red with the blood of all three of my dead enemies.
I walked up to the black diamond dog and took his black stetson from his head, I dusted it off, then put it on and I flew up to see if I could spot the town I had been looking for I started slowly spinning until I saw it off in the distance.
I landed again and then opened my saddlebag and took out my canteen and drank a little bit from it afterwards I screwed the top back on and put it away being careful to not drop it.
As I walked up to the town I could see the waves of heat in the distance that only made me more thirsty “Hey, Discord what do you think about that fight just now? I was pretty bad ass right?”
‘Now, now Storm Chaser don’t be getting overconfident, besides those diamond dogs aren’t even in a pack that how you know they are weak because they’re not strong enough to be allowed into one of the packs.
I walked to the town for another hour before I could plainly see another signpost that read “Black Gem”
“Black Gem huh, well it will have to do I guess” I said as I walked inside of the small town that looked a lot like Appleloosa with all the old looking buildings except that they were barely any ponies around only griffons, diamond dogs and the occasional minotaur here and there all going about their business.
“Most of everyone here looks like outlaws and thieves” I said whispering to myself as a big brown griffon with an eye patch and scars on his face with two swords at his sides stared me down as I walked past him, but he apparently remembered something he had to do and left.
‘You’re right Storm Chaser so for now try to not get into any fights at least before you buy what you need especially a map’
I looked up at the signs of the old buildings that made up the town, I saw what I thought was a weapon symbol on one, but seeing as I already had Eclipse Slicer I was good and I passed it.
After passing another two buildings that didn’t have signs I came upon one of them that had a sign at the top that read “General Store” the sign was rusted and barely readable and it was almost falling off.
‘I hope this store even has supplies by the way it looks I doubt it’ I pushed the door open making the small bell at the top of the door ring slightly as I did alerting the sleeping shop keep of my presence.
The shop keep got up and scratched his head with his claws he was a dragon but not a really big or scary one for that matter he kind of looked like a bigger and longer Spike but this dragon was light green in color and his spikes were of a light blue coloring like his eyes.
The shop keep smiled and said “What would you be interested in buying my pony friend?”
“Well I would like to trade some gemstones for bits or supplies” I said as I took the gemstones out of my saddlebag and put them on the counter in front of the dragon.
As he started to examine them to estimate their value I looked around to see that the store had many things that could be useful, but most of it just looked that junk that somebody sold just to get the extra bits.
“So how much is it all worth?” I asked the shop keep that looked up from the gemstones to answer my questions so that we could get down to business.
“Well you do have a couple of good emeralds and one very good sapphire a little small but the quality of it makes that unimportant, the rest isn’t that good, but still worth some bits”
“I’ll give you 25 bits just because I like that sapphire so much, but nothing more than that” he said waiting for my answer.
‘Well I never really had use for money, but you should take the bits I doubt he will give any more for those gemstones’
“You got yourself a deal” the scaly shop keep smiled and gave me a small bag full with the 25 bits he had said.
“Now what would I have to give you for that sword pony?”
I put my wing over Eclipse Slicer to hide it a little bit from the view of the shop keep “Sorry this sword is not for sale”
The shop keeps smile faded a little disappointed that he couldn’t get his claws on the sword he wanted “Yeah, I figured as such one does not give away a sword of that quality that easily”
‘Yeah besides I would take a lot of bits to match the quality of Eclipse Slicer so don’t do anything stupid Storm Chaser’
“Sure what would you need?” he asked already turning his back toward me so that he could grab whatever I wanted to buy from him.
“Well I need a map, something that could be used to heal injuries and some armor for my face and wings if you have it”
The shop keep grabbed a map and two small metal tins “I’m sorry but I have no armor that would fit a pegasus pony, but I do have a map and two tins of healing herb that were ground and made into a cream to apply easily over wounds”
“Oh well it will have to do, but thanks how much will it be?”
“For you my friend 5 bits for all of it, but don’t tell anyone I gave it to you at this price many around here don’t like ponies and would get mad at me if I didn’t rip you off” he said whispering the last part.
I paid him the 5 bits grabbed the things I had just bought and put them inside my saddlebag I smiled a little and tipped my hat to him as I said “I’m glad to see that there are still dragons that go by the code”
“And how would you know about the code, friend?”
I stopped in front of the door to the shop and with my back still toward him “A dragoness friend of mine told me about it”
I looked back and nodded at him, and then walked out of the store and walked out to the street to look for a place to eat drink and hopefully sleep on a bed instead of on a tree.
I walked down the street again passing a couple of buildings and a lot of diamond dogs and griffons that most of them looked like they could kill at the drop of a hat so I stayed clear from them, trying to not attract too much attention to myself.
Until I came upon the classical double hinge doors that saloons back on Earth had too, so I came up to them and pushed them aside and got inside.
Inside I saw what one would expect to see when entering a western style bar, some tables where diamond dogs where betting, playing cards and getting drunk of their asses and in the back was the counter with 5 small stools to sit on.
As I walked in some of the not so drunk diamond dogs turned to look at me, while a lone minotaur just lifted his hat a little to see me and then smirked only to put the hat down again covering his eyes.
I sat on a stool much like I had seen Lyra sit on benches when an older looking griffin with a scarred face with grayish white feathers on his head and light brown fur on the rest of his body he walked up to me from behind the counter.
And in a raspy voice he said “What’s your poison pegasus?” while he was scrubbing an already clean glass with an old rag.
“What do you have?” I asked while I put my hat down on the counter, he then answered “Hard cider and Cactus Juice two bits for glass each”
“Well I’ll have a Cactus Juice, oh and Sharp Fang sent me” the old griffon lifted his brow a little bit but then he served me the drink “Well then this one is on the house”
“Nice” I said as I grabbed the glass and drank from it, it almost made me faint because it was so strong it was like tequila but stronger still after I drank I grimaced a little because of the flavor.
“Too strong for you pony? Don’t worry Cactus Juice can knock the lights out of a minotaur at times too, here have some cider it tastes way better than the Cactus Juice”
He served me another glass which I gulped down immediately the sweetness of the cider overtook the bitterness of my other drink “Thank you I needed that”
After an hour or so of sitting there small talking with the old griffin that had told me his name was Gryphe, I heard what I thought was a female voice having a confrontation with what I thought was a diamond dog.
“Damn diamond dogs bothering a pretty little mare like that” said Gryphe as I turned to look exactly what was happening.
A brown diamond dog that appeared to be alone had a thick book in his hand lifting it away from her reach he was laughing at her and he said “Pretty pony suck me off if she want book back”
The mare was on the verge of tears for she didn’t know what to do that book meant everything to her.
I came up to the table that they were next to and I dropped five bits on it “Take the money and leave her alone you mutt”
I unsheathed Eclipse Slicer and swung it at the diamond dogs neck stopping it mere inches away from his neck “Now what is it going to be, the bits or the sword?” I said as I started to press the blade on his skin.
The diamond dog gulped in fear “Okay bits then” he said as he dropped the book and the mare caught it and she put it in her saddlebag.
The diamond dog turned away “This not over” he said as he grabbed the bits and left the saloon.
“Thank you so much, I don’t know what would have happened if you hadn’t helped me” she almost started to cry at the thought
“No problem umm what is your name?” I asked her as she started to calm down and everyone in the saloon started to do what they were doing before the confrontation.
She smiled as she wiped away her tears “My name is Night Shade and you are?”
“I don’t have any place to stay, I don’t have any bits and no I don’t live here” she answered a little sad about her own situation.
“Well I’m going to rent a room for the two of us then, after all what sort of stallion would I be if I didn’t help a mare in need?”
“Hey Gryphe how much does a room cost here?” I asked him as I went up to my spot on the counter
“What I couldn’t be for free?” I asked Gryphe teasing him a little for his generosity obviously given to me because he saw what I did to save Night Shade.
Gryphe laughed a little bit at my teasing “What did you expect? This is a business not a damn charity; consider yourselves lucky that I even let you in, you damn herbivores!” he said yelling the last part.
I smiled and put the bits for my drink and for the room “Come on lets go its getting late anyway”
“Okay then Storm Chaser, hey why do you think that griffin said those hateful things to us if we didn’t even do anything bad to him?” she asked as we started going upstairs.
I smirked “This town as you already know is filled with pony haters so old Gryphe had to look like one too so that all the others down there didn’t think he didn’t hate us”
The room was small to say the least it only had a bed and a small dresser that had never been used or opened.
We both laid down on the bed after I hid all our belongings under the mattress so that no one could steal them easily.
Night Shade looked at me in the eyes “Thank you so much for saving me, I don’t know how to repay you”
“I told you, you don’t need to thank me or repay me it was just something I wanted to do”
“Good night” I then closed my eyes as sleep started to set in I thought ‘I won’t let her die.
As I was finally starting to go to sleep I felt something that made me gulp in fear the object was cold and sharp I opened my eyes only to see what I already suspected was against my neck, a dagger with a cyan colored aura around it and a snow white handle.
All of these things together summed up to a really shitty result that pretty innocent unicorn mare wasn’t as innocent as I thought she was.
“Why did you interfere when that diamond dog took my things?” said the voice of the mare that I was regretting of apparently saving just a couple minutes before.
“I wanted to help you, I thought he was going to hurt and maybe rape you or something” I asked trying to move away from the dagger that threatened my life.
“Night Shade if that is your real name could you tell me why the fuck you are doing this to me?” I asked looking around for the mare in the dark room of the inn.
“I ask the questions here stallion” Night Shade said as she walked out of the shadows, looking at me with her emerald colored eyes that looked like they had seen their fair share of violence.
“Now tell me where in Tartarus did you get this sword” she threw Eclipse Slicer at me from the foot of the bed “and remember if you lie to me I will end your life right here”
‘She’s feisty…..I like her’ said Discord showing little interest in what was happening to me.
I gulped hard again felling the dagger being pushed just a little bit harder on my neck “I got it from Discord, he gave it to me so that I could do him a favor”
Night Shade looked at me straight in the eye after I told her like if she could find out if I was lying or not “Hmmm let me confirm that”
Night Shade then grabbed a thick old looking book that was lying on the floor next to the bed; she then used her magic to flip through the pages
“Yes, yes that’s the name of my sword now can you get this damn dagger way from me!?”
She looked back at me with a small smile “Sorry I just didn’t know why you wanted to help me, but that doesn’t matter anymore, you were given the sword of the God of Chaos!” she said a little too loudly after she moved the dagger.
I moved off the bed rubbing my neck in the spot where the dagger had been “yeah, yeah now tell me why you even pretended like you needed help with that diamond dog down there?”
Night Shade calmed down “That damn dog did take my book and I was about to kill him, but I didn’t want to start an all-out brawl and bring too much attention to myself so when you looked back I played the mare in distress card and you pretty much handled the problem like I wanted it to go”
‘That’s good old unicorn intelligence for you, hey Storm Chaser I think she’s a keeper’
“Well” she said as she frowned a little “I’m here because I heard there was an Equestrian book here, but when I got here it was already burned” she sighed “it’s a real shame I heard it was a book that was about agricultural methods”
I gave her a questioning look “Why would you come to the Mohoove desert for a book? And why would they burn it?”
She looked at me like I was stupid and said “Don’t you know that when that damn dragon took over he ordered for all the books written by ponies be burned, so that we couldn’t learn of ways to fight back against him so when I heard about a book being here I had to come”
That High King is smart, that’s probably why she wanted to get her book back down there.
“Well you’re going to think it’s crazy but Discord wants me to kill the High King so that Equestria can return to the way it once was” I said with little enthusiasm waiting for her to laugh at me and call me a fool.
But instead she gave me another small smile “Very good it seems that we have the same destination then”
“I am going to Canterlot because I need to find the last pieces of Equestrian literature to save them from being lost forever” she said with passion unlike me.
“Very well Storm Chaser I look forward to traveling with you to fulfill our goals” she then stretched her leg and put her hoof toward me.
I then gave her a hoof bump to agree to the proposal.
I sat Lyra style on the edge of the bed and I grabbed Eclipse Slicer looking at the sheath “Yes it is real but it isn’t that good of an ability for a sword”
I looked down remembering how I failed Palewing by not being able to cut that damn dragon’s arm.
Night Shade looked slightly offended by what I had said and her horn lit up with the cyan colored aura as she levitated three daggers above her head “How do you think I stayed alive all this time? Don’t think just because I’m a mare that I can’t defend myself”
Noticing my mistake of insulting her I cleared my throat nervously and said “Sorry, it’s just that I don’t want you dying because I couldn’t protect you from harm”.
Night Shade understood what I said and stopped being insulted by my concern for her safety and nodded like she knew what it was like to lose someone and she put away her three daggers in her saddlebag.
“Yes I’m sorry I had to wake you up like that it’s just that I really didn’t know if you were going to do something to me while I slept” she said a little ashamed.
“Yeah well don’t expect the worst of peo.. I mean ponies before you at least know them a little, but I guess in these times you can’t really trust nopony” I got in the bed again “I hope you don’t do that again”
“Don’t worry now that we are partners I have no reason to do that anymore, besides I think Discord chose you for a reason, and I would like to find out just what makes him think that you can take on that damn dragon”
We both lay down on the bed and finally I got the rest that I deserved.
The next day
“Night Shade I really hope you have those daggers put away because I will get pissed off if you have them on my neck again” I said a little grumpily as I woke up still a little tired.
“Would you relax already? I told you from now on we are partners and we don’t ever have to draw our weapons at each other” said Night Shade as she got out of the bed with a really messy unkempt mane.
She walked up to where she had left her saddlebag and she started to brush her mane using her magic while she did I looked at her cutie mark which appeared to be a shooting star.
‘Do you like what you see Storm Chaser? You could just ask her, she might even say yes you know by pegasus standards you’re a little handsome’
“Shut up Discord” I whispered making sure Night Shade didn’t hear so that she didn’t think I was talking to myself like a crazy pony.
I then got off the bed and gathered all my things from where I had left them last night.
We then both left the room and went down the stairs where old Gryphe was sitting behind the counter of the saloon, he was sleeping lightly snoring ever so often as we walked down the stairs he heard us and woke up.
He rubbed his eyes to wake up completely and looked at me with his tired eyes “So did you have any fun tonight?” he asked with a sly grin on his beak “It was awfully quiet last night”
“I did have a little fun” said Night Shade giving old Gryphe a wink that made the old gryphon think that we really did do it “Whoa Storm Chaser I didn’t think you would let her take the lead”.
“Yeah well she is very persuasive if you catch my drift” I answered as we slowly continued on towards the exit and I put my left wing over Night Shade’s back continuing the little joke we were playing on Gryphe humoring him.
Gryphe laughed like an old man who had seen many things in life and was humored for a small bit.
We got out of the saloon not seeing a wanted poster on the other side of the door, and I moved my wing off of her back
As I looked at it more closely I saw that it was a royal guard pony helmet complete with the blue Trojan style helmet crest it was in good shape, its gold color still there in spite of the time that it had been used.
We walked out of Black Gem a little quicker than I had expected I then started to stretch my wings thinking it was about time I used them again so I flapped hard and flew a couple of feet above her.
We both continued on deeper into the desert to get to the other side, but as I flew I noticed for the first time how much my vision had improved I flew a little bit higher “Damn I could see an ant from here if I wanted”
As I looked down I saw Night Shade just keep on walking seemingly not caring that she couldn’t see me so I dived down by folding my wings and as I reached her I opened them wide to stop.
“You fly pretty fast Storm Chaser, but remember we shouldn’t separate unless we do it as a part of a plan to defeat an enemy and I don’t think you should fly too high because on occasion dragons fly through this part of the desert”
I was starting to see that Night Shade was calculating and smart obviously the reason why she has been surviving all this time with apparently no one else with herself.
“Okay, sure thing Night Shade. Hey do you have any other means of fighting, like can you use spells or teleport or anything like that?”
She sighed a little disappointed “No sadly I don’t know any spells or how to teleport if I could read how to do it I could maybe do one of those, but those cursed dragons burned almost all of the books on Equestria” she said the last part angrily.
“But I do have this book of weapons and in the last page there is a summoning spell that I could use to summon an array of weapons from a hidden place in Canterlot that the royal guards would use as an armory”
“Why don’t you use the spell every time you fight?”
“Maybe I could look at it and see if I can make sense of it”
I shrugged at the statement “I don’t know sometimes all you need is a different point of view to try to understand something that you can’t alone”
Before she could answer five diamond dogs came out from under the sand all with menacing looks on their faces greeting us with growls and barks not unlike the dogs back on Earth.
I grabbed Eclipse Slicer and unsheathed it, while Night Shade levitated her three daggers above her head, both of us ready to strike at any moment.
A familiar looking diamond dog stood out from the others and I recognized him as the one I had threatened the day before to ‘save’ Night Shade.
“I told you this not over ponies” he said in his low voice almost growling as he did “Kill male, leave the female pony she mine”
Before the diamond dog from the saloon could say even another word two daggers stabbed him on both sides of his neck making him gargle from his own blood and die on the sand.
“Damn” was all I could say before Night Shade made her third dagger fly at a short black furred diamond dog from the group hitting him straight between the eyes also killing him instantly.
The last three diamond dogs where frightened by the resistance that a couple of ponies had given them, but they didn’t run away instead they did the rather stupid move of trying to attack me.
“Be careful Storm Chaser their jaws are strong enough to break diamonds” said Night Shade as she moved away from me so that she could safely attack from a distance.
I flew towards two of the diamond dogs one skinny and tall and the other one fat and short both armed with spears when I reached them I spun to the right very fast swinging my sword at the same time decapitating the shorter diamond dog and cutting the other one deep in his chest.
As they both fell I looked around to see where the last diamond dog was, but he was nowhere to be seen so I assumed he ran away and I sheathed Eclipse Slicer again after I flicked the blood off of its blade.
As soon as I was about to land the last diamond dog jumped at me from beneath the sand with its gaping maw aiming right at my right hind leg an injury that would kill me from blood loss in seconds.
Unable to attack it without being bit by his powerful jaws I prepared for the worst and time felt like it slowed down as the diamond dog’s jaws came ever closer waiting to bite into my flesh and bone.
‘Fuck I didn’t think a damn diamond dog would be what would kill me, I always thought a shark would do it oh well’
“Be careful Storm Chaser, you should never let your guard down like that not many ponies can live after a diamond dog bite especially not in these times” said Night Shade as she removed her daggers from the dead body.
‘She’s right Storm Chaser you were really fucking lucky right now don’t make that same mistake again, remember you’re the one who is supposed to protect not the other way around’
I calmed down and started to breathe normally “Thank you Night Shade I really appreciate it, I’m really glad you’re on my side I really wouldn’t know how to defend myself against three daggers coming at me from all sides”
“Well we ponies have to stick together especially during these dark times Storm Chaser, and besides I’m sure you would do the same for me too” she said as she wiped her daggers clean on the jacket of one of the diamond dogs.
“Yes, we do now do you wouldn’t have anything to eat right?” I said feeling hungry and a little thirsty from being in the heat of the desert for a couple of hours now.
Night Shade shook her head, I took out my canteen and gave it to her she uncapped it and took several gulps from it and levitated it back to me.
“We should keep moving, we don’t want the real diamond dog packs to catch us out here”
We reached another big rock and we set up camp at the foot of it to shield us from the cold winds of the desert night and by set up camp I mean we just put all of our things on the floor.
I found another two small rocks and ignited a small fire to keep us warm for the night as we sat near the fire Night Shade took her helmet off letting her cyan colored hair down.
“So how did you get a hold off that helmet Night Shade?” I asked her as we both looked at the small fire.
“And how do you know that there are still books in Canterlot?” I asked trying to change the topic of our conversation.
“Why don’t you tell me something about yourself Storm Chaser?”
“Well Discord talks to me in my mind, if you could believe it” again I waited for laughter that never came.
“And what does he tell you anyway?” she said looking straight at me with her feminine eyes.
She didn't say anything she just smiled again
“Can I take a look at that book, I can help you figure summoning out”
A chill went down my spine as I remembered the rush that my dragon form gave me “I do but I can’t really control it”
We both laid down face up to the starry sky as I once again hoped I could be strong enough to protect her from harm.
Black Gem saloon several hours after Storm Chaser and Night Shade left
The saloon was full again bustling with noise coming from the drunk patrons playing cards, telling both true and bullshit stories of fights that each had and of raunchy nights with the fairer sex.
All in all it was business as usual for the small saloon of the desert town of Black Gem, old Gryphe was cleaning the already clean glass wearing a black Stetson hat that was in the room that Storm Chaser had rented for the night along with the pretty mare he had helped out, at first he thought that he had forgotten his hat in his room but upon seeing it had 2 bits inside he took it as a gift from the strange pegasus.
“Hey Gryphe give me some more of that Cactus Juice I already ran out” said the blue minotaur that was also wearing a hat sitting on a stool.
Gryphe quickly got the hollowed out barrel cactus that was used as a container for the strong alcoholic drink, he then poured it in the minotaur’s glass. As soon as the old griffin filled the glass the minotaur drank it in one go.
He was going to tell him that he had enough mainly because he knew that this particular customer would start a fight if he got more drunk but before he could the minotaur asked him.
Gryphe dreaded that question because if any of his regulars found out that he didn’t rip that pegasus off, he would be called a pony lover and he would lose all of his customers if they didn’t decide to kill him first.
“Haha that’s good ol Gryphe for ya” said the minotaur believing the old griffin’s lie before turning around on the stool to talk to another diamond dog that was more drunk than he was.
A couple minutes passed and Gryphe was ready to have a drink himself, when all off the sudden the swinging doors at the entrance of the saloon were slammed open by a tall and fit copper colored diamond dog wearing a tan colored trench coat and a red bandana hiding his face came walking in calmly.
Most of the patrons didn’t really care about the arrival of the newcomer so they all quickly went back to minding their own business, all except the diamond dogs which all started to look away nervously some even started heading toward the farther sides of the saloon.
Gryphe didn’t think twice about the new potential customer even if he was wearing a bandana to hide his face over the years many diamond dogs, minotaurs and griffins would come here to the town of Black Gem trying to run away from gambling debts.
The silent diamond dog then turned to his left toward the wall that had all the wanted posters that the dragons made Gryphe put up in the saloon, he looked at one specifically that had no drawing of what the dragons considered criminals.
“I doubt it usually when someone cashes in a bounty the dragons in charge come by and take the poster off the wall” said Gryphe trying to read who the poor bastard was going to be hunted by this surprisingly mild mannered diamond dog.
“Well let me see the description” the griffin then read the poster that said: Wanted Alive for presumably assaulting a dragon under command of the High King presumed dangerous.
Species: Male pegasus pony, Has grey colored fur and a blue mane.
“Well, have you seen him around here griffin?” Gryphe couldn’t decide whether to lie to the bounty hunter or not but before he could answer the previously unnoticed Angus read the description quickly out loud in a somewhat slurred voice.
The diamond dog quickly turned toward the saloon regular “Are you sure it was him? Did he have the blue sword?”
The stranger’s eyes were full of rage, but instead of punching the drunk right in the face the bounty hunter grabbed his shoulder and started leading the burly but dizzy minotaur out of the saloon.
“Desert Terror? That’s a stupid name” said Angus right before the bounty hunter pushed him outside of the saloon through the swinging doors.
As the doors were swinging back towards the inside of the saloon a couple times, a bloodcurdling scream came from outside only to be stopped suddenly.
One of the diamond dogs pointed out that they were broken off because of the splinters on the stumps were they used to be, and each was lodged into the eyes of the mutilated minotaur.
Next to the bloody mess that used to be a regular at the saloon was a hole where a slightly maniacal laugh could be heard coming from inside it.
Mohoove desert back to Storm Chaser and Night Shade
I grabbed the old looking book that read The Compendium of Equestrian Weapons, and I slowly opened it flipping over the yellowed pages that described hundreds of different weapons all with very detailed drawings of each one.
“Yes it is Storm Chaser, it also contains weapons used in ancient times before the three pony species stopped fighting against each other” said Night Shade sitting close to the small campfire that I lit while looking at the sky.
–Take heed all those unicorns who wish to call forth weapons in time of need, the words ‘Summon: Weapon’ and the name of the weapon or weapons you wish to call forth to battle with.-
“The problem isn’t with the spell” she said a little annoyed “just keep reading the page”.
“So now you see why I haven’t been able to summon a weapon after years of trying” said Night Shade with a slightly frustrated tone.
I grabbed the book and flipped the torn page to find another blank page that looked relatively new compared to the yellow tint of all the other pages in the compendium.
“You really shouldn’t grab these old books with your hooves like that you could damage the pages” she said ignoring the fact that I was the one that was damaged.
Night Shade then put it away in her saddle bag “So Storm Chaser” she said lying down on the sand looking straight up at the starry sky “what do you think I can do to complete the summoning spell?”
“Have you tried saying the spell while holding the book?” I asked her basically guessing at what was missing for the summoning to happen.
“Summon: Weap…, Storm Chaser! You left blood on the inside of the back cover!” she said annoyed she then suddenly gasped in surprise “Wait a minute Storm Chaser look at this!” she said slightly shocked.
I got up and looked at the book and saw my blood slowly move on the page spelling out the words: -Pegasus blood is incompatible and cannot perform the summoning spell- “Wait, what the hell?” I turned to look at Night Shade whose jaw fell slightly open in awe.
That’s when I noticed what really cut me, a small metal spike at the inner hinge of the book “That’s it you have to cut yourself on that spike, but why?”
By this time the letters made out of my blood had faded away. Night Shade grabbed the book with her hooves and cut herself on the spike, her blood slowly formed into a new message.
–I hereby grant thee the ability to summon any weapon from the Royal Guard Armory-
“Summon: Weapon, Sword!” she said the words loudly and with confidence trying to hide her excitement. A blue circle then started to glow on the sand in front of us and with a quick flash of blue light a completely ordinary sword came out floating from the ground in front of us.
The sword looked crappy compared to mine but to Night Shade it could have been made of solid gold for all she cared “I can’t believe it, after all these years the answer to the summoning spell was in front of me this whole time, I must look like an idiot” she said lowering her gaze to the floor in embarrassment obviously feeling stupid.
‘You said it, I mean come on she’s had that book for years and she never even bothered to flip the last page?’ said Discord disappointed.
I also thought that it was kind of dumb of her to not think of that, but seeing as she was still embarrassed at her mistake I tried to cheer her up “Don’t feel too bad about it I mean lots of ponies wouldn’t have figured it out, besides it doesn’t matter now that you can summon weapons you can surprise anyone that we fight out here”
Night Shade looked up at me again with a small smile that showed that she wasn’t feeling bad about herself anymore “Thank you Storm Chaser I needed that”
“Wait a minute, how do you return the weapons you summoned after you use them?” I asked her while sitting back down on the sand and inching toward the campfire.
A blue circle suddenly appeared under the sword, and the floating weapon dropped into the circle back to the armory from which it came from.
Night Shade lay down on the other side of the campfire while looking up again at the night sky. “Thank you for helping me Storm Chaser, I really was starting to think I would never figure how to complete the summon spell”
“Well I don’t know about that Night Shade, I don’t think I should use that certain fighting skill without a really good reason” I said nervously trying to forget the images I saw when I turned into a monster.
“Okay that sounds good” I said after yawning and closing my eyes, finally ready to sleep.
‘But Discord, how am I going to be able to tell what the difference is between a friend and an enemy? I mean when I turn into that thing I don’t think I’m myself anymore’ I asked the disembodied voice that interrupted my sleep.
‘Yeah, yeah whatever Discord I’ll try to figure it out one of these days now if you don’t mind I’m trying to sleep’ I then dozed off hoping that tomorrow I wouldn’t have to fight for my life, but then again who am I kidding? This desert is literally filled with diamond dogs ready to kill us at the drop of a hat.
I awoke to the sound of Night Shade practicing her newly found ability to summon a seemingly endless amount of weapons of different shape and size. She appeared to be slashing at the air in front of her with two swords, at a decent speed considering she wasn’t really moving them by touching them.
‘I wonder how fast she can swing those things around, while running at the same time?’ I thought to myself while I was still half asleep.
After swinging the swords a couple of more times she gave the command that would reverse the summoning of the weapons. I started to slowly get up to my feet, noticing that the fire we lit the previous night with some dry bushes and branches from the few trees that were around our simple campsite.
I yawned a little bit which made Night Shade turn around and look at me.
“That’s good” I said as I picked up my saddlebag shaking off all of the sand that had gotten on it during the night “We are going to have to fight fast against those damn dogs, especially when they get the jump on us” I then put the saddle bag on my back with my sword on my left side.
Night Shade also grabbed her saddlebag levitating it and placing it on her back, and tying the slightly rusted helmet to her saddlebag with some twine while saying “I have concluded that the most efficient way of dealing with the diamond dogs is either attacking them from above or using a coordinated attack.”
“I agree Night Shade” I said as I noticed that the Sun was already heating the desert up. “We should start going if we want to get out of this desert anytime soon”.
We both started moving, following the directions that Night Shade had given me after looking at my map the day before. Apparently we were to head north until we reached a body of water which appeared to be either a large lake or maybe even a bay. According to the unicorn mare we still had at least another two nights before we got there.
After a while I started thinking of how we chose a very open place to sleep at, and I realized that anything from a small group of diamond dogs to a lone dragon could have killed us easily in the cover of night.
The turquoise mare didn’t seem to think about my comment too much because she answered almost immediately “Not many diamond dogs roam around in the desert at night. I heard from a griffin at another town that they usually head back into their dens at night to haul back all the things they steal or kill.”
She appeared to give my comment another thought, while squinting a little bit to show that she was deep in thought “Although we should prepare for the occasional sandstorm or the rare pack of diamond dogs, we should keep an eye out for a cave of some sort”.
I was beginning to notice just how analytical Night Shade really was, like if she was always thinking of the different situations that we could run into in this increasingly hot desert that would alternate between the loose sand that would accumulate into dunes that had little to no vegetation, to the more compact soil that had more vegetation like cacti, short trees, and shrubs.
“You really like to think two steps ahead don’t you Night Shade” I asked her while stretching my wings out to work the muscles a little bit, considering that I still had not flown today.
I felt that even though it was a dark statement, I had seen enough in my few days in Equestria that the statement was very true.
‘Yeah I know but I want to show her that she helps and that we can both make the decisions instead of having the pressure on just one of us at the same time.’ I told him while trying to not say it out loud, but instead thinking about it.
We stopped by some of the cacti that had the yellow edible fruits that tasted a little tart and lemony and again put away more for later in our saddlebags. I started noticing that our supplies were dwindling especially the water in our canteens, and unfortunately the Sun was still high above us nowhere near to setting.
I noticed that Night Shade’s canteen was as empty as mine was so I stopped walking and said “We should start looking for water, I’m already starting to feel a little light headed” She agreed silently and I could tell the lack of water and the heat were getting to her.
“I’ll fly up to see if I can’t spot an oasis or something” I said while stretching my wings open again, almost yearning the chance to fly again.
Night Shade looked a bit reluctant at first as if thinking it over, to see if the risk of getting separated was worth the water that we needed, she obviously understood that it was the smartest thing to do.
After a couple of minutes I found what I was looking a medium sized patch of green shrubs and trees near a large rock, so I flew in closer and saw the shimmer of a small pond of clear looking water. As soon as I got closer I circled the small oasis slowly in order to see if anyone else be it diamond dog, dragon, or minotaur was already there drinking water.
However it seemed the coast was clear so I landed and I quickly dropped my saddlebag onto the floor while I lowered my head to drink from the water, while still keeping my ears pointed to my sides in order to hear anyone approaching. The water was surprisingly cold so I decided to dip my head in order to keep my head cool before I filled the canteens up and fly back to Night Shade, so that I can bring her the water that she needed and maybe even bring her back here so she can drink more water than what her canteen would hold.
“Well hello there” said a voice from nearby the oasis, which made me to immediately stand up and look around to try and find whoever snuck up on me.
“Over here little pony” the voice said this time a little farther away. I still hadn’t picked Eclipse Slicer up mainly because I didn’t want to look down for even a second until I found whoever was talking.
I heard the small bushes on the outside of the oasis shake rapidly, so I grabbed my sword and unsheathed it as fast as I could while I got into my fighting stance.
So I decided to quickly fly out of the oasis to the open desert so that I could at least see who the hell has been following me.
I noticed quickly that there were four large rocks in a circular area that were all approximately twelve feet apart from each other and ten feet tall each.
“Where the fuck is this guy?” I said to myself debating whether I should just fly away and avoid all of this, but I remembered that I left my saddlebag and the two canteens and I realized that if I left I would lose our supplies.
Then on one of the rocks I noticed him.
He also had a red bandana that covered his face, which like the rest of his body had copper colored fur. As we stared down each other I started to slowly walk on my hind legs while holding my sword, ready for a counter attack.
“So what the fuck do you want from me?” I said trying to sound intimidating. He stood up from the rock he was laying his back on.
“Oh yeah? What is it for?” I asked trying to keep it cool. He then read what the wanted poster had written on it “For presumably assaulting a dragon”.
I gulped nervously knowing that this guy meant business. ‘I think those are dragon scale swords Storm Chaser’ said Discord. He suddenly charged at me with surprising speed closing the gap between us in seconds.
I flapped my wings as hard as I could and managed to dodge the potentially fatal injury. “Oh shit” I said knowing that this diamond dog was on a whole other level than the rest of the diamond dogs I had fought before him.
As I was flying backwards I ran into one of the rocks that were around us, I flinched looking back for a second and I heard a very aggressive growl coming from the attacker, again charging full speed towards me swinging both swords in a downward motion. So I pushed off from the rock with my hind legs in order to fly towards him before he could land the attack, I hit him with my left hoof straight in the stomach while he hit the rock cutting in half like if it were paper.
After the attack he was only stunned for a second which he then elbowed me in the face, he looked back at me and he had a glare that showed just how aggressive he really was despite his voice.
I slowly got up again trying to stand my ground against this strong enemy. “I was going to just knock you out and hand you in for the bounty money” He started smiling a malicious grin while getting closer to me “But you are so weak, I will just kill you instead, cutting off each one of your legs one by one.”
Before he could finish gloating I flew at him in order to at least get one good hit in, before he managed to land a hit on me. I yelled while preparing to slice him at the chest, while he slashed at me with his dragon scale swords in a parallel motion, so I swung to my side spinning as fast as my wings would take me effectively dodging the attack and cutting upwards up his right leg.
As we turned around to see each other again instead of the painful howl that I was expecting, he started to laugh. “HAHAHAHA” he laughed with a wicked grin coming from under the bandana “Finally you are fighting back” That’s when I realized he wouldn’t stop until either him or I was hit by a fatal wound.
“You are fast pony but you are still weak, I will kill you sooner or later” He said again charging at me. This time I flew far over him in order to get behind him, but he ran straight at one of the rocks and jumped from there to meet me in the air.
He swung both swords at me while I was still dumbfounded at the site of a diamond dog so high in the air. The force behind the strike would have knocked me all the way to the ground, but the air was my strong point so I quickly flew around behind him and kicked him right in the middle on his back while I yelled “You dumb ass dog, you can’t beat me in air!”
He crashed down hard lifting up dust and sand clouding my vision, then in a sudden explosion of movement he charged faster than he had done before, with his maw wide open and his swords ready to strike me down.
I had no time to block or dodge the attack he had successfully caught me off guard. While he yelled sadistically “DIE, YOU WEAK RUNT!!” I couldn’t even utter a fuck you back at the dog but out of nowhere a cyan colored mace hit the diamond dog right in his side no doubt breaking a rib.
The sudden attack broke his concentration so I flew to the side to avoid the diamond dog’s bite. I landed on the soft sand trying to catch my breath while the attacker fell to the ground.
The now wounded alpha diamond dog held his side in pain and then looked at Night Shade holding the mace and a shield with her magic. He then stood up and looked at me while growling in anger. He then jumped at me, I was somehow glad that he decided to attack me instead of Night Shade so I stood there flying above the ground waiting for the attack.
But he dove into the sand before he got to me, so I immediately flew higher to avoid being attacked from below. From up there I could see Night Shade hiding behind another one of the rocks. That’s when I saw something terrible…he was headed towards her.
I immediately dove down to try and move her or warn her about the diamond dog but I lost of them as I got closer “Shit, shit, shit” I said nervously getting closer to them. Then I heard a loud thud as I went around the rock to the side they were on, I stopped suddenly knowing what the sound was.
Then I saw Night Shade on the floor, with that damned diamond dog looming over here. “You fucking bitch, I’ll shred you to pieces!!” he said in a more raspy voice.
I felt the rage building up inside of me and I couldn’t decide whether it was toward him harming Night Shade or me not being able to protect but either way it didn’t matter anymore.
He looked back at me and saw my face full of rage and sadness; he then smiled and started laughing at me. “HAHAHAHA, I knew you were too weak to beat me the Desert Terror” he then picked her up with his hands while chuckling sadistically and yelled “NOW I’LL EAT HER IN FRONT OF YOU”
Something in me snapped when I saw blood coming out from under her helmet, and the rage within me grew tenfold while I yelled “DON’T FUCKING TOUCH HER!!!” my sword once again consumed in black flames.
Humble beginnings
“Whoa what happened?” I woke up in a strange place it was a mish mash of things some things looked like a single guys room like sofa, television, couches the works but there were also throne chairs each looking very expensive yet they looked like they were put there as a joke of some kind, there was also a grand piano
‘Wait a minute is that piano playing itself??? what the hell I think I hit myself or something’ I listened to the song it played it had some order but it was more like someone just sat down and started playing without thinking what kind of song would play.
I keep looking around and I see what looks like a brown liquid floating in midair ‘What the hell is wrong with this place? I think I’ll look out the window and see if I can find a way out or at least kind off know where I’m at’ I thought to myself.
“What the…… I swear if I see the Outsider I’m really going to freak out” I thought out loud.
I stood there without reacting at the sight before me when Discord said “Wow I thought a simple minded human like you would react a little different after seeing me” in a slightly amused tone. I still stood there without saying anything or moving just staring “What’s the matter cat get your tongue?”
After my brain finished breaking I just fainted and as my feet grew heavy I fell face first on the wooden floor of the ‘house’. “Oh boy looks like this is going a lot harder than I thought” he said while looking upon my body sprawled on the floor. Discord then snapped his claws and made a bucket of ice cold water and as he dunked it on my face he yelled “WIPEOUT!!!!!!!!!” as he laughed to himself.
I immediately woke up again coughing out water that had just been poured on my face “Where am I, and why are you here? Holy crap I’m probably either drugged out of my mind, drugged or as crazy as you are” I said in quick sucession.
“Hahaha well it might just be all three together” said Discord with a jokingly tone “Well I don’t know if you’re drugged or crazy, but I do know that you are still very much alive. Now lay down so I can tell you why I summoned you here” he said as he made two hammocks that weren’t tied to anything appear out of thin air.
“Okay” I said as I lay down on the hammock still trying to convince myself that I wasn’t crazy ‘Wow this hammock is really comfortable’ “so where exactly am I?” Discord already lying on his hammock looked to me and said “we are in my home, but also in my prison” ‘what is that supposed to mean’ “wait a minute did you get turned to stone again?” “well it looks like you’re not as simple minded as I thought, but yes I was again turned into a statue and that is part of the reason of why I brought you here”.
‘Holy crap look at me lying down on a hammock next to Discord himself, the bronies back home aren’t going to believe this one. Oh my God I’m going to see the Mane 6! I can’t wait to see Fluttershy and give her a big….’ “Ahem are you not listening I’m trying to tell you why you are here so stop daydreaming and listen to me” he said with an annoyed look.
“Ok sorry it’s just that I didn’t wake up this morning saying ‘I’m going to see Discord today’”
“ok you are here because you will become the savior of Equestria”
“wait what? I’m just a regular guy how could I save anything?”
“Who did it King Sombra?” “please” said Discord as he smirked “that unicorn wouldn’t be able to do it even if he wanted to”
Eight years ago he successfully made Celestia, Twilight and Cadence turn against me when all of the sudden all the non-ponies in this world turned very aggressive creating chaos without style. I still can’t believe that they thought I would do such a thing” he said with a more pissed off tone.
“So Princess Luna didn’t think you did it?” “No she knows me better than all the other princesses so she sided with me.”
“What happened to all the ponies?” I said hoping that the mares and colts I had watched on T.V where still all right “Most of them were put under a protection spell by the four princesses and put into a ‘sleeping state’ and are all currently inside the mountain that Canterlot is on safe from harm” he said a matter of factly.
“And what happened to the princesses?” “Well they are all in the same state that I am, because right after they put the spell on the ponies they turned against me and Luna thinking we turned evil again blah blah blah so we all turned each other into stone”
I snickered at the joke ‘I wonder what Cadence was doing I mean she isn’t exactly the strongest of the princesses’ “and that’s where you come in umm.. what’s your name?” “are you sure you wanted to pick me or did you choose at random?”
“And how come you brought me here eight years after this all happened?” I asked the draconequus. “Well when you are turned into a statue your magic reserves instantly drop and I have been gathering magic all this time.
“Yeah I guess I was about to call you crazy but then I remembered who I was talking to so I’m not really sure I’ll be able to do it.” ‘I hope he doesn’t get to choose what turn into’. “Okay then in spite of your lack of confidence I’ll take that whine as a yes” said Discord as he got off the hammock and walked to an object that had a sheet covering it.
I also got off my hammock and went to his side and he said “Well Zegram its time to spin the wheel of species” with a playful tone as he pulled the sheet of revealing the big spinning wheel that had a number of small symbols on it each on one of the ten wedges. “The wheel of what?” I asked him not sure if I had heard right.
“The wheel of species my boy the game that decides what kind of being you will be on your quest”. ‘Damn I hate these kind off games I always lose’ “cant I choose what I can be?” I said trying to get out of that bad situation. “Where is the fun in that?” asked Discord.
“Damn all right just give me another chocolate milk” he gave me one and I chugged it down to the last drop. The prize wheel then light up with light bulbs that would flicker on and off I grabbed the side and pulled it down making it spin rapidly ‘I hope I don’t get a mule or a bison or something like that’.
“Let’s see what you get shall we? You better hope it’s something strong because I can’t do the spell twice you know” I gulped in anxiety hoping for the best or at least not the worst thing.
‘Most of them are pretty cool but I don’t know how some could fare against a dragon especially the new self-proclaimed king of Equestria. “Come on, come on something good don’t wanna die the first few days out there” I said almost pleading to the wheel.
“Will you get the strong and burly yet slow minotaur? The jack of all trades changeling? The mighty dragon? Or the swift pegasus perhaps? said Discord with the tone of a salesman.
“Should I spin it again?” I said. “Nope” he responded. “Then what am I turning into a dragon or a pegasus?”. “You’ll see, oh yes that seems like an interesting body indeed hmm…” he thought to himself while putting his claw to his chin in the thinker pose and starting to talk to himself “yes a body like that should reflect how powerful I am, indeed it might have some side effects, but ahh I will just see them if they appear they might give me a good laugh or two”
“Hellooo? Still here Discord” I said to the scheming Discord. “Ah yes well first you have to be unconscious so I can do it easier”. ‘Why would I have to be unconscious? And how would I look afterwards man flying is going to be tou’ WHAAAACK!!!!! My unconscious body again fell to the ground after Discord hit me in the side of the head with a now recently broken bat that had the word ANESTHETIC written on it.
“Oops sorry” said Discord putting an innocent look on his face which he then proceeded to laugh loudly. “Well let’s begin with the operation” Discord then gathered a big ball of magic and started molding a body for his new warrior.
-15 minutes later-
“Aaaand done” I heard the voice of Discord after waking up for the third time at the same day in Discord’s statue dimension or whatever it was. “Ohhh man what happened, and why am I shorter?” I said while looking around me “hey Discord did you open a window or something? It feels a little cold in here” I said while trying to shake the dizziness away.
“Well hello sleepyhead I administered some anesthetic” he said while holding back some laughter. ‘every time Discord laughs is when I get hurt hmm might just be a coincidence’ I thought trying to convince myself that he hadn’t done anything weird to me. “And I changed your body already” he said with a slightly tired look on his face.
“Oh wow I didn’t even realize it until now” I said excitedly. “Here take a look” he said as he created a large mirror in front of me “Wow so I did get a pegasus body” I could see I had a light grey coat and a darkish cobalt mane replacing my brown hair ‘not too short not too long pretty good I guess’, cyan colored irises and my wings ‘I don't know what it was about them, but they just felt right’ I thought to myself while I looked in the mirror.
“Thank you Discord” Discord was noticeably a little shocked by this. “For what exactly?” he asked trying to understand.
I sighed “I know it won’t be easy but I have to fix Equestria I mean, how could I stand by seeing how that great land is ruined by tyranny? But” I said looking at my hooves “Could you give me a weapon of some kind?”
“What is will sharpness?” I asked never having heard the term before. “It’s the ability that makes the sword sharper or duller depending on the will power you put into the slash” he said while remembering past days. “That’s badass” I said. “It should be I made it after all” he said while he smirked.
The sheath was a beautiful midnight blue color and had an amazing looking dragon made of a pure ivory white, he then unsheathed it so I could see the blade ‘this sword looks really badass the name is a little iffy but it still looks awesome’ I thought while I admired Eclipse Slicer, it was slightly curved like it should be and the handle was made with a leathery material that should make it easier to grip.
“Thank you for the sword” I said as he gave it to me and strapped it on my side under my left wing.
“From now on your name will be Storm Chaser a fitting name for a pegasus if I do say so myself” he said answering my question “ and simple to see you I will get in your head” ‘what? Damn with him in there I’ll definitely go crazy well, maybe that’s the only way I’ll survive’ I sighed and said “All right just don’t do any creepy things while you’re in there.
‘Well lets go’ I heard inside my head ‘whoa that was creepy’ I thought ‘not too creepy if you ask me’ I heard again “What you can hear my thoughts too?” I said with a stressed tone ‘Well duh I am in your head now let’s go’.
I awoke in the middle of a clearing of what looked to me like a big forest "Where am I this time, I swear if im knocked put one more time i am quitting or something because this is just getting ridiculous" I said looking around to see if i could see anyone that could help.
'Would you stop with the whining?' said Discord mentally 'we are in the forest of Legerdemane'.
'Well Storm Chaser welcome to Equestria'
Author's Note
Hello guys this is my first fanfic so give me some tips on what to improve but not too harsh please