//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: Arrival // Story: Equestria: Rise of Grimm // by Reaper of souls //------------------------------// I'm not sure if your interested or not, by now I don't care much for anything anymore. To tell you the truth I simply feel that I must retell my past actions here, all the way from the beginning...... I arrived a few days after 'Applebuck Season', although my entrance wasn't very subtle. I gasped for air. The taste of iron was in my mouth. I started coughing as I realized I was in a pond of blood. I crawled out when I reached the edge and made it unto land. I looked around, I was in a crater not too deep but wide. I estimated that the crate looked like how the sand would look right after you drop a huge heavy ball or sphere in it. My sight suddenly flashed and I saw the entire crater, every last detail, the length, the height, the radius, the degree, the gallons of blood in the crater, ounces, countless factors that are relevant to the crater that I was in. My survival instincts suddenly kicked in. I was bleary, disoriented, exhausted, light-headed, and weak. The climb out of the crater was rather difficult. This must be how Neo felt when he first woke up outside the Matrix. I was breathing heavily as looked off to the side, there was fauna there, trees, grass, flowers you name it. I instantly started stumbling towards that direction. As I continued stumbling I help but feel my movements were unnatural and weird. I didn't bother with it. The main problem was were I was, but right now called for the necessities; sustenance and rest. Yes I was extremely tired but there was an even stronger need fueling my movements. One that is always required for any living thing. It was the most basic of needs. The need to feed. I kept on stumbling. I fed on plants, bark from trees, worms, bugs, leaves, berries, insects. None of that had what I was craving. For fuck's sake I felt like I was being fed the wrong things and--. "Shit! Shit! Shit!," I cursed quietly as the sun fell. It was already turning night and I haven't found what I was looking for! I growled in anger. I growled angrily at the camp fire that was in front of me. I had spent possibly two or three hours trying to make a fire, constantly screaming in rage or yelling 'fuck!' the whole time. "So let's recap," I said to no one in particular, "I spent the entire day waking up in a pond of blood inside a crater, stumbling around covered in blood, eating random SHIT, including crap I didn't LIKE, and now I'm sitting in front of a fire that shouldn't even be considered a fire!!" I yelled again, sore in the throat from all the yelling and screaming. To be honest I felt cold and that camp fire was not helping, it barely produced any heat. I sighed. 'My blanket would've been better than you shitty little excuse of heat!' I internally belittled the fire. My blanket was a Bambi blanket: it had Thumper, Bambi, two butterflies, a little grass, and a few flowers; the only thing that stood out from it was that the rest of it was a standard blue. It was probably the first ever blanket I ever had and when I got too big to use it I would use it as a pillow rather than throw it away. I finally noticed it, "That's funny I should be feeling--," I immediately stopped. My left ear had twitched suddenly when I sensed a change in the environment around me. "Quiet. Too quiet," I said as I stood up and began looking into the darkness past the fire's light. If there was one thing I learned it was the fact that when out in the wild if it would all of a sudden grows eerily quiet it could mean one thing. (ROAR!!!) A predator, a huge one, on the upper part of the food chain. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Day 2 I quickly opened my eyes. I awoke to a world of blue and grey with no moon or sun in the sky; an hour or two before sunup. 'What the hell happened last night?' I thought as I surveyed the scene in front of me, the animal unrecognizable. Blood, lots of it, was splattered all over the grass, bits and pieces of flesh, skin and tissue were all scattered in a strange, yet familiar, pattern, bone was exposed, fractured or completely broken off, some limbs were torn off, the jaw was missing a few teeth and, judging by the awkward angle it was in, it seemed dislocated in a brutal fashion, one of the eye sockets was impaled by a bone or something, and worst of all it's insides were torn open. Upon closer examination I noticed......bite marks??? It hit me. I started smacking my lips. There it was......the taste of iron. I instinctively jumped into the stream. I gasped for air as I resurfaced, my eyes closed still. When I decided took a breather and opened my eyes I finally saw it. I stared at my reflection eyes wide for who knows how long. Staring back was a pony with the colors my human body would have. "I'm.........in equestria," I simply stated, taking in the image of the pony in the reflection staring back at me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Night 2 Tonight things weren't a good night's sleep......let's just say...that this was the kick-start to my Transcendence, if you wanna call it that though. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dream 1 Ponies' Point Of View "Twilight! You gotta come quick!" Rainbow dash yelled, bursting through the door to the library. "What is it?" the mare in questioned asked. "I don't know, but whatever it is it's not good, come on!" the Pegasus yelled, flying off towards rarity's place of residence, Carousel Boutique. "What's caused you to be so panicked? You never show fear; even when your scared on the inside," twilight stated, knowing her brash and prideful friend would never admit to being afraid, especially after she gets scared. "Pinkie pie's pinkie sense is going nuts, its like its going into overload and overdrive at the same time!" she yelled. "Overload and overdrive mean the same thing, Rainbow," she explained to her friend. "You know what I mean!" she turned her head back and yelled to her friend. Rainbow dash flew into the building, twilight skidded to a halt. The building was shaking, she could hear crashing and shattering as glass items and other objects fell to the ground. 'How is it even possible for a building to shake!?' Twilight took a deep breath, steeling herself for what she was going to see. "Whoa nelly!!! Simmer down, pinkie pie!" applejack yelled, trying to hold her friend down with her lasso. "IIIIIIIIII. Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnn'ttt!!" pinkie pie yelled, shakily. "Girls what is going on and why is pinkie pie......vibrating???" she questioned her friend's bizarre behavior, "Also, what's this pinkie sense rainbow told me about?" "Pinkie sense is a strange ability that allows pinkie pie to predict certain things," rarity explained. "Whenever pinkie pie's entire body starts shaking it means a DOOZY!" rainbow exclaimed. "This has got to be the mother of all doozies!" the farm pony yelled, "Huh?" Pinkie pie had stopped shaking. "Is it over?" fluttershy whispered in absolute fear. (Gasp) Pinkie pie zoomed outside and stared at the skies. "Um, pinkie is everything all right?" twilight asked, worried about what was going to happen. "It's coming," she whispered. Before anyone of them could ask the entire sky turned pure black, not like the dark blue skies of the night. There were no stars or even a moon, just pure inky black. Like a shadowy being, it all collected together over an area in the Everfree Forest. It exploded in colorful rings similar to ripples in the water right after you drop a pebble or a rock in it. The rings turned white and joined together, forming a cone with a sphere on top. The cone separated itself, simultaneously creating four barbed spears heading past the giant orb. As if an infection was spreading through a person's veins, red started appearing on the white orb. It shot a thin beam, creating a portal. The spears' half ends went into the portal and started spinning clock-wise. Clouds started forming and followed the spears' rotation. Suddenly whipping sounds were heard. Dark-blue lightning struck the ground. The denizens of Ponyville started running around in fear, hoping, praying to not get hit. Two lightning bolts hit the clock tower, having an X flash over it before three, accurately cut pieces fell off of it. (Whip) A house was cut in half. (Whip) A hole appeared in the school. (Whip) A cart exploded into splinters. (Whip) The hospital had a layer of its wall burned off. (Gasp) Rarity saw the flash near her house. (Whip) A cone structure with four pillars fell off. "Better to lose that than the entire house," she stated relieved her house was mostly okay. "Rarity look out!" applejack cried. (Whip) Rarity was knocked back by the explosion. She barely had time to look up and saw a flash appear on a vending cart full of watermelons. "You've got to be k--," (Whip) The cart and the watermelons exploded, covering her in what was left of the fruit. Pinkie pie and rainbow dash had witnessed it and looked as if they couldn't hold in their laughter. "Don't even think about it!" she said in anger. "Hey, it stopped," twilight said. They stared at the orb and its spears, twilight was taking in the entire thing, memorizing the details, trying to conclude what this thing was, what it was doing, and where it came from. The orb and its spears stayed still now, the six mares watching in anticipation, waiting for it to do something. In a flash the spears shot together and reformed the cone, shooting a beam into the ground. The shock-wave from the blast was looming towards the town. "Brace yourselves!!!" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I shot upwards. "They're coming,"