Chapter 1
The children screamed. The whole town panicked. The town was on fire. No one knew the cause and no matter how hard they tried no one was capable of putting out the fire. The Draconeques with the title of Protector could do nothing to stem the flames as they leapt from one building to the next.
There was a scream from one of the burning buildings. The Protector rushed into the building and emerged with two small children and a young woman leaning on him for support. Stumbling out of the building the Protector slowly lowered the two children to the grass and turned back towards the woman.she thanked him for saving her along with her brothers children. At that moment a flying creature swooped by and tackled the Protector to the ground. As the protector struggled the creature pulled a sharp implement from its waist and slashed at the Protectors body. After about five or so slashing motions the Protector suddenly stopped struggling. None of us knew what the creature had done to him. We hadn’t known that the sharp tool was called a hunting knife. The creature stood up from the now still corpse of the Protector.
This was the first time that we got a good look at the creature. It had the same type of face as us. Though it stood on all four limbs and had hoofs at the end of each of them. It also had brilliant golden Armour along its back and head. No one knew what this creature was…except me. I had been watching the world for some time and knew that this creature was called a Pegasus. I also knew that the Armour symbolized its position in the royal guard of the pony kingdom. This want an accident…this was an attack.
A horn sounded in the distance. Suddenly a large group of these Pegasus swooped in from the sky and began attacking the innocent bystanders. Not knowing what to do I tried to assist the woman and two children though I knew I would be incapable of protecting them.as I rushed to the side of the woman the flames flared up and turned a vivid emerald green.
Magic. That was the first thought that went my mine as the flames changed their color and shape to suit the one in control of it.
The fire began to twist its form and started to redirect itself towards the largest group of people in the vicinity. The woman beside me screamed and burst into tears at the sight of her friends being consumed by the violent flames. Not knowing what to do I told her to leave the town with the children and that I would send others her way. She sadly agreed to leave the town and ran with the children to the east while I used my historical abilities to erase any evidence that she even went that way. Turning my attention back towards the town I noticed that a strange new type of pony I had never seen before was standing on the top of a burning building, somehow unscathed by the flames that seemed to be bathing its entire body. I couldn’t make it out entirely but I do know that it suddenly flared up a pair of large wings from its back and a bright light engulfed its face as the fire sudden vanished.
Under the smoke that was rising from the buildings I couldn’t quite make out what it was but it was clear to me now that it had both wings and a horn. I had never seen one of these creatures before but I knew who it was right off the bat. This was one of the leaders of the pony diarchy. The light flared up once more and the ground began to quake as the town slowly tore itself apart. Buildings fell and the earth broke open as the leader of the invading army began to insert veins of magic straight into the ground and all throughout the village.not knowing what was happening but still not keen to find out I fled the village after the woman.as I ran it occurred to me that the best option open to me was to flee in the same direction as the woman I had directed away.
I ran and ran until I had left the town and made my way to the barren land just beyond our borders. I perched myself on a rock and looked back one last time to recorded the events that had unfolded that night and then,with a flash,the town...was gone.