//------------------------------// // Frozen Army // Story: The Princesses of Seasons // by Rising Phoenix //------------------------------// Infinity was pacing around the Throne Room in their palace. She was extremely worried, and so was Cronos: Winter should have started the day before, but it never arrived. "This can't be good, Cronos. Blizzard has no intent of bringing Winter back, I feel it". "I guess so. Autumn probably couldn't convince her. She was mad at the three other princesses. It was a mistake sending one of them." "That's right- Infinity headed to the portal.-and that's why we must go by ourselves to talk with her". The queen lighted her horn, trying to activate the portal to go to the Winter Palace. But it didn't react. "Odd..." "What is it?" Cronos asked "I can't open the portal. The connection with the Winter Palace is broken." "You think she did it on purpose?". "Surely she did. We must leave right now. What if she tries to do something crazy?". "Try to connect with the Fall Palace. We can go flying from there." "Mom? Dad? Why are you leaving again?" a blue alicorn filly said entering the room. "Luna! I told you not to interrupt mom and dad!" said a teenager one with white fur and pink mane, following the filly. "But Tia...!" the filly argued. "it's okay, Lulu- Infinity said to her youngest daughter -We have something important to do in the Four Quarter Forest, but we will be back very soon, you'll see." "To the Forest again? Is there anything wrong there?" Celestia asked. "We are not sure.- Cronos said- But we need to make sure. I'm counting on you to take care of your sister until we are back." The young girl nodded.-"Yes, father." "Please, be careful!"- Luna added, hugging her parents. "We will, sweetie, nothing is gonna happen, you'll see." Infinity told her, kissing her forehead, then she turned to her husband." The portal is ready, we should get going now." "Fine. We will be back in no time, girls. Be good to each other."- Cronos winked to his daughters. "We will daddy!" Luna said with a smile. Celestia only nodded, looking at her parents until they dissapeared trough the portal. Then she kept staring at the place for a while. "...Tia? Tia, are you listening? Tia!!!" The little filly adressed her sister, poking her with a hoof. "W...what? Oh, sorry sister, I was just... thinking. Come on, lets practice on your magic for a while." "Cool! Soon I'll be able to rise the moon all by myself, and I'll get my cutie mark!" Luna said excited, leaving the room. "Sure you will" her sister followed her with a smile, trying to focus on her sister's happiness. But she couldn't get rid of the bad feeling inside of her. Meanwhile, in the Winter Forest... (I highly recommend you to listen to this while reading the next part) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzMAwJ6OhI4 The devilish white alicorn with the bloody eyes, who now called herself Frozen Nightmare, walked through her domains, making her horn glow, and casting a powerful summoning spell over the forest. Come to me, my loyal subjects, come to me, children of Ice. Follow me, the Queen of Winter and let your darkest instincts rise. All over the forest, the creatures of winter, like wolves, polar bears, snow leopards... who lived in the Winter domains raised their heads at the same time, and started walking towards the same direction, answering their Queen's call, heading towards the frontier between the Winter and the Spring, were she was waiting for them. It was a disturbing spectacle, all those different animals walking from all the forest to the same point, with their gaze unfocused, like they really didn't know where they were going. Slowly, all of them surrounded the evil alicorn, thousands of fearsome animals silently looking at her, waiting for her orders. Frozen Nightmare looked at them satisfied. Those were her soldiers, they belonged to her, and she was going to give them a good use, unlike Blizzard. "Finally, my children, our time has come to take what rightfully belong to us. Those two bitches think they are better than us, uh? That Winter is not as important as Spring or Summer, right? Fine, we will make them see the truth. If they don't wanna love Winter... then they will FEAR IT! When the moon rises, I will send you to the Spring and Summer forests, and you will make sure they remember why cold and darkness walk together! Are you ready for your mission, my Frozen Army?" Her words were greeted by a chorus of growls, roars and howls, and then all the creatures bowed to their queen, their eyes glowing red because of the spell. She gave a sinister smile. Her horn glowed intensely one more time, and four ghostly creatures appeared in front of her. Windigos, the Ice demons. She was specially proud of them, since they weren't just her subjects, but her creations. After murdering Autumn, she used all the bad feelings and thoughts inside of her to make those creatures, who could use the bad feelings inside the ponies against them. They were the perfect weapon, and she was really excited to see them in action. Oh, how was she going to enjoy hearing those ponies crying and begging for their lives... simply sublime. "Ah, my windigos, my favourite children. Tomorrow you will have a lot of fun with those cruel ponies, don't you? You will feed of their cruelty and selfishness, and make their bodies as cold are their souls. Go now, and don't let your mommy down." The four monsters licked their lips in anticipation and bowed to her to, before fading. "My children can have all the fun they want with the ponies living here" she said to herself with a grin "but the princesses are all mine." She added looking to the horizon, were the sun had started to set. From were she was, the Spring palace was perfecty visible. Soon it would be bathed by moonlight. And then she was going to bathe it in blood.