//------------------------------// // Through Fire and Ice // Story: The Great Alicorn War // by 21latenighter //------------------------------// He sat upon his dark crystal throne in the Empire of Chaos. The normally blue crystal was a perverted black and had a reddish tint, his throne glowing at the center, as the center of the Empire's power. His royal guards stood at either side of him, both ready to fight to the death for a reason they believed in, or were made to believe in. Kaorn's soldiers had all been brainwashed and their minds erased so that he could mold them into perfect soldiers, and perfect soldiers obey..... no matter what. An army sat ready at his command just outside of his castle, all ready to die for their master. His greatest foes, The great Alicorns, taken from the world by his own hoof now adorned his courtyard as nothing but statues. He had gained all the power he needed to tear this world apart, but in the great forest to the south, a power still remained that could defeat him. The lone alicorn that walked the forest, the very same alicorn that he and the others had helped defend this world from the old gods that had terrorized this world. He had all the power he could ever need, but if she was to join the fray, it would be all lost. He had watched her first hoof do the impossible and drag the old gods into a different dimension. Her power was great, and so he had sent his greatest general into the forest to flush her out, but her power had driven him insane. He had been forced to lock him away, and now Discord stood among his enemies as a statue, the only way to keep him from destroying the castle. He felt a massive shockwave as a guard was hurled inside the castle from an outside force into the throne room. The wave itself felt magical in nature, and one unlike any he had felt before. "Master!" the fallen guard managed to speak. "Get on with it!" came the deep malefic voice of Kaorn. "Six alicorns, they stormed the west..... west gate," the guard choked out. "Have jewel weapons..." he managed to get out before collapsing. "Get this filth out of my sight!" Kaorn snapped as he cast the guard mercilessly from him with his dark magic. "Yes your majesty," the two guards said monotone as carried out their master's orders. "It's time I teach those children a new lesson," Kaorn said as he called upon his dark magic. Dull grey, nearly black body armor began to materialize upon his body. He then brought forth a metal mask upon his head. The mask was black with two vertical slits that opened for his eyes, and a small square hole that opened for his mouth and nose. Kaorn took a deep breath, inhaling the thick dark air before calling upon his magic and teleporting. He opened his eyes to see the west gate. The gate had been reduced to scrap metal, bent and creased into a ball. He then looked to the six responsible for the destruction. "Here to avenge your parents I see," Kaorn said as he began to circle his enemies. "You will meet the same end as your parents, take my advice and leave this place, this isn't your war," Kaorn said as he prepared his magic. something was different about them, a power that was familiar, but unknown to him. "YOU MADE IT OUR WAR!!" Hurricane Yelled as she charged the dark god. Kaorn's magic sprang to life as his spell to take their magic began. The spell left his horn, but before it hit it's target, a shield of magic sprang up to stop it. His magic struck the shield and bounced off the barrier. "Impossible, no magic can stand next to mine!" Kaorn yelled as he brought another spell to mind. Fire erupted from his horn and blasted towards the other alicorns. The jewels that the guard had spoke of lifted from small satchels on their saddles and their eyes began to turn white as they produced a light from their horns and met Kaorn's magic. He increased his fire, but to no avail. Their magic increased as they pushed Kaorn's magic back. "NOOOOO!!!!!!" Kaorn screamed as his fire began to creep back to him. He cut off his fire and teleported away. "You six may have won this fight," he said breathing in heavily, "But I will win the WAR!" He yelled as he teleported away, back to his castle. "Come on, we got him on the run!" Hurricane yelled as she began to take flight. "NO!" Fury yelled as he caught her with his magic. "That's what he wants us to do, to follow him into the castle, so he can overwhelm us with his chaos soldiers, like he did our parents!" "Or is it you just lack courage and don't want to see this through!" Hurricane yelled as she broke Fury's spell. "Shall I show you what true strength is!" she yelled again as she brought forth a blue sphere with her magic. She sent the magic forth, towards Fury who brought up a shield to protect himself. The other four stepped back from this, not wanting to get involved in the matter. The magic struck Fury's shield and began to deflect towards the empire. "Look at what you are doing Huri! your going to give away our position!" he yelled, but Hurricane simply purged more magic into her spell. Fury was running out of options, he was going to have to let his shield down sooner or later, but he didn't want to have to hurt Huri. Fury tried one more time to reason with her, to stop the madness before she got them discovered by the chaos soldiers. "Huri, think of your mother, would she want you to charge mindlessly into battle, and die the same way she did when there are other ways?!" he yelled. This seemed to get her attention, but her magic faltered for only a second before increasing in it's power. "MY MOTHER WOULD BE PROUD THAT I STOOD UP FOR WHAT I BELIEVED IN, JUST LIKE SHE DID! BUT WHAT ABOUT YOUR PARENTS FURY FLIGHT!? WOULD THEY BE PROUD THAT YOU DIDN'T TAKE THE CHANCE AND DESTROY KAORN WHEN YOU HAD THE CHANCE!!!" Hurricane screamed as she pushed all of her magic at Fury, whose shield was beginning to crack. "You bring this upon yourself Huri," Fury said softly as he redirected his magic and teleported. He appeared behind Hurricane, who didn't see him move, blinded by rage. Fury called upon his magic and hit her with a concussion spell, knocking her out. Her body began to fall to the ground, but Fury caught her and brought her gently to the ground. "Come on guy's," Fury said softly with sadness and pain in his voice, "Let's go home and regroup." He placed Hurricane upon his back with his magic and began to envision the castle back in the forest. His magic began to crackle as he closed his eyes and teleported all of him but a single tear. Kaorn stormed back into the castle, his anger seething through his mask. They had defeated him, HIM, He was unstoppable, how could they beat him?! Their power had matched his own, it wasn't possible, even they couldn't reach powers that high unless, unless they had found her. Those jewels were magical in design and they seemed to draw power from them. The lone alicorn's magic was based upon Harmony, could the jewels be based on the same. He knew one way he could test it, a project he had been working on for a while, a back up plan so to speak. He had started the project to break the spirit of his enemies if things had gone badly for him. He walked down the long hallway of the corrupted palace, every step he took upon the crystal floor sounding like thunder. He reached a stairwell at the end of the hallway that went up, to the top of the tower. He walked up the stairs to a small room a couple hundred stairs up or so, the room was lit by a single torch, but the torch lit the entire room. Inside the room was a single shelf upon one wall, where a few leather bound books sat, waiting for someone to take them down and read their foul text. In the center of the room was a large cauldron, fuming with a light blue smoke. Kaorn smiled as he entered the room, even letting out a cackle. "Hahahaha, now my enemies will tear themselves apart," he said as he stopped in front of the cauldron and took a deep inhale of the fumes. "Ahhh, they are fully mature...." "Born from fire and ice, come forth to me thrice," he spoke. The cauldron began to boil as the blue smoke began to overflow and run to the ground. Three shadowy figures began to rise from the cauldron, their white eyes piercing the darkness, the smoke beginning to form the bodies of half horse, half magical cloud. "Feed from the hatred and greed of the world, and bring forth a winter that will never come to an end!!" he yelled as the three creatures began to take flight and circle the room. "Go now! and feed my creatures!" he called out as the three beings circle the room one more time before fading through the walls into the open world. "Now let us see if your magic can hold up, great Faustica, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!" Kaorn laughed as began to let himself turn into shadow. "From the coldest of winters a fire would be kindled and the flame of friendship and hope would burn bright against the night......"