//------------------------------// // The castle and royal demands. // Story: A cheesy leader. // by Black Owl //------------------------------// A lone figure walked trough Canterlot's vast sewers, a place abandoned by the civilized ponies after the rats came. 'They think that we are just stupid animals! Fools! We are the ones who are spread around the entire world, not them!' Kicking a rock into the water, Rico continued his walk towards his 'throne room'. The room was the only one that had any light in, the reason being the giant gold coin mountain that Rico used as a throne, along with multiple cheese pieces of course. A few torches burned brightly and made the treasure look even more glamorous, the grinning rat king standing upon them spoke with a raspy voice. "RATS!" His voice brought in the room what could be millions of rats, many more waiting outside of the said room. "Today, the time has come! Some of you may already know if this, but our plan is almost complete! Today will be the day, that our new nation has been built!" The rats all cheered, squeals filling the entire room. "I want as many of you to go to the newly build underground stronghold! It is located in the smokey mountains! A home which was taken away from the dragon that covered the whole place in smoke, but with our power we managed to beat the vile beast and take the mountains as our!" More cheering came from the rats. "But remember there is a limitation to the ones we can house for now, that is until more rooms are made. But as a bonus, our mages have found a formula for turning rocks into any type of cheese! So the ones who stay there can eat as much as they want!" His last words made the rats cheer so loudly the entire Canterlot mountain shook as they cheered and rushed towards the mountain, all wanting to be there as fast as possible. "All according to plan, hehe... I should also work with getting some nations to recognize our nation, but first! CHEESE BREAK!" With that the whole 'royal' court chosen by Rico pulled out a chuck of cheese and started eating. The castle was more the only structure in the now hollowed out mountain, others being simply tunnels. The main construction of the castle was made using the bones of the dragon that used to live here, it's meat was put in storage and with it's teeth and scales they made armor and weapons. Rico's throne being made out of the skull of the dragon, inside of the skeletal mouth stood the most expensive mattress they could steal make. Rico was currently staying on said throne eating cheese with crackers. The construction went on smoothly, any living distraction being killed and eaten. Quite disturbing by pony standards, but those dogs did taste better than random things found in the sewers. Rico spent the rest of his time naming and giving some of the rats positions of power, giving them magic or enchantments and transforming some of them into mages that he spread across the world so he could call upon as many rats as he could in case of a conflict. "With this much power, I will never be considered 'just a dumb rat'! With this I will finally have power! And I have to remember to destroy the cat kingdom, those guys keep killing my people." Rico started talking with himself quite often, not many of his rats actually being smart enough to have a good conversation with, most only knowing how to follow orders. "Ok I should really get someone to talk to, this is getting really boring." Mumbling, Rico scratched his right ear. Then, out of nowhere, an idea hit him. "I KNOW! YOU ARE A GENIUS ME!" I said excitedly as i started running towards the throne. Once I was next to it, I lifted the cushion after casting a fast key spell revealing an old chest. Inside the chest there was a small ancient dragon skull, every single centimeter on it's bony structure was covered in long forgotten runes. Now, with the ancient spell I stole found from that crypt I invaded looking for ancient recipes for cheese, I was transformed from my normal gorgeous self into a skinny looking unicorn stallion with a pale green coat and mint green mane and yellow eyes. Luckily, my clothes got transformed to fit my new form, so I wasn't naked like most of those soap-lovers. Going towards a hidden tunnel, I made my journey towards the city of Canterlot to do some espionage! 'The city of Canterlot was disgusting, it all smelled like flowers and everything was so clean you can see yourself in the ground like it's a bloody mirror! I almost puked the second I entered that clean place. There where some of those unicorns walking around with their nose so high in the sky that most of them tripped, they where also wearing some stupid looking clothes, unlike my extremely awesome clothes! Anyway, I have to concentrate and find some good information!' But suddenly, because of me not paying attention to the road because I was occupied by looking at a gorgeous display of cheese, I bumped into a group of ponies. The bundle of ponies, which now contained me, groaned simultaneously. And after around fifteen minutes we managed to untangle from the bundles of limbs, manes and tails. "Watch where you're going dude!" A scratchy voice came from a rainbow maned pegasi as she glared at me. Of course, I glared back. "You should watch where I'm going!" I barked with my extremely raspy voice. Which somehow made her look confused. "I don't think that's how it works..." A lavender pega-corn thingy said. "Ye it does, cuz I said so. But what in the shit is that smell?" At my second statement, they seemed a little confused. "What do you mean, it smells like flowers." A white unicorn with purple mane said. 'That's the smell ya soap lovers!' "Go take a bath in the sewers, ya'll smell horrible!" The all started looking confused and smelled eachother. I decided to leave in their foolish confusion. 'I am a genius!' I finally managed to enter the castle, all it took is to breathe in their face and they would faint! Weaklings! Anyway, with this strategy I've managed to get myself right towards the throne room. After kicking the door open, I saw inside the eye hurting princess Celestia along with four guards which started moving to surround me. "Oh no, you've surrounded me! What can I possibly do?" I grabbed the rune skull and used it's power, and with a flash a flight I was back in my rat form, just way bigger. The action kinda made them stop of confusion fear. "I DEMAND TO TALK WITH YOU EYE HURTING PRINCESS!" The princess looked at me with extreme confusion fear and shock. "Um, ok?" The princess said as she tilted her head. "I need you to recognize the new country of rats along with a trade route of cheese for us in the smokey mountains!" My great demands made her stop for a second. "Um, sure?" After she accepted I laughed and teleported away, I AM STUPID A GENIUS.