shimmering hope.

by dragenfire68


Rise of an Eldrazi

((Innistrad))

The skeletal horses were making good time, apparently, these horse skeletons were an excellent breed while alive, because death did nothing to stunt their vigor, however, trouble would soon be coming from all directions, as the Sun dipped below the horizon, Sunset started looking pale and frantic like something was coming from all sides, next was the road ahead as Lillianna swore she saw a platoon of lights coming her way.

"We'll stop here, I think I saw soldiers coming and you don't look so well," Lillianna said as she got off her skeletal horse, and fearing that they were seen, returned her horse to dust, before turning to her student, who had gone even paler and was shaking.

Lilianna had to act quickly and if those bobbing lights were human soldiers, then she would need to protect both her self and her now sick apprentice, so she pulled Sunset off her horse before laying her down on the ground and putting a light sleeping spell on Sunset, before turning to the road, she had been right it was a platoon of holy soldiers, so she put the sleeping sunset off a little ways from the path as they had seen them.

"HALT, WHAT'S YOUR NAME AND PROVINCE," the captain roared while his small platoon stood at attention behind him.

"I'm just a traveler, there is no need to waste your time with little old me," Lilliana smiled, while she could just kill them and be on her way, it would catch the attention of the angels, and that's the last thing she needs.

"Captain, there is a girl over here, and by the looks of it, a traveling companion," a younger soldier called out, apparently they had been encircling her the entire time, and the captain had pulled out a pair of magic sealing handcuffs.

Things were getting out of hand and quickly, but as Lillianna considered a long-range teleport, a curtain of darkness closed in on them, with the only moonlight being the circle of soldiers, but the most light came from Sunset whose skin had started glowing silver and gold before her skin turned an ashen grey.

"Uh, Sunset what are you doing?"

Sunset said nothing instead her brow furrowed before relaxing, before her eyes snapped open with solid black eyes, she sat up looking around, before standing up and letting loose an awful scream of pain while tentacles burst from her back.

'WHAT THE FUCK, ME-," the captain shouted before Sunset was on top of him, she ripped his head off his shoulders in a rain of blood and gore, before jumping to the next victim, in a matter of seconds the entire platoon was dead, before turning to Lillianna, causing her to gasp, her teeth were now needled with a lashing serpentine tongue.

"Sunset, what happened to you," Lillianna whisper, backing away from the monstrous form of Sunset.

"Whispers at first, then something tried to change me, but my Element resisted the change long enough to keep my mind and soul together, but this body doesn't listen, Rip and tear is all it wants to do." Sunset said telepathically.

"Well, we can't go anywhere with the way you are now, besides you might eat me."

I'm gonna regret this, but I know where we can go to fix this."

"Oh do tell, where could something like you not get skewered on sight."

"Home"

"You mean where you were betrayed, how can those pathetic traitors help you?"

"no, my true home."

Lillianna knew she had been hiding something, but right now an interrogation would not help, instead, she was gonna ask where exactly her home plane, until she saw Sunset raise her hand covered in magic and slash downward, tearing a hole in reality, though when she walked through the screams that followed promised that she was about to walk into trouble.


Celestia was unbearably bored, and poor Luna was no better, today the damned nobles had pulled both of them into a ridiculous court, who and what it included Celestia honestly couldn't care less, with Twilight's ascension to Alicorn status, most of the new proposals were how Marrying off her former student would benefit the hierarchy of Equestria.

Who did they think Celestia was, certainly not her mother plus Celestia was sure that none of Twilights friends would let her go through with an arranged marriage with these nobles anyways, not that they would get the chance, Night Light and Twilight Velvet would have her head, after all, Twilight Velvet was the most accomplished battle mage Celestia had seen.

thankfully Celestia's bored musing was cut short as the sound of tearing fabric was echoed through the hall which caused the noble in front of her to turn and when he saw what was on the other side, screamed and ran for the door, because a being unlike she had ever seen come through the portal.

Before Celestia could ask this being her name, the court hall completely lost its cool, shrieks and wails echoed throughout the hall, though with a single look, her guards stayed to the sides, lest they intervene and make it worst, Luna however looked on with fascination, before long the court was empty.

"Well, Well Sunset what have you gotten yourself into," an unfamiliar voice said from beyond the portal, though Celestia could not believe her ears, this creature in front of her could not be her student, Luna sensed her sister's dismay.

Suddenly the voice had a face and it was human, or at least looked human, the glowing lines and eyes made it hard to figure out what kind of race this creature actually was.

"Not the way I wanted to come back, but here I am, and hello Luna and Celestia long time no see." Sunsets voice telepathically echoed in her mind.

"Sunset what happened to you and who is this woman," Celestia asked, guessing that this creature was a human woman.

"A lot has happened, I can't tell you right now though, and this woman is my teacher, her name is Lillianna."

"When did you find this woman to be your teacher, and what has she been teaching you causing you to end up like this?"

"She is training me as a planeswalker, apparently, there is a vast multiverse beyond just the portal, I'll have to wait till you write Twilight to tell you how I discovered I was a planeswalker, much happened and I don't want to have to repeat the story.

"But how did you end up like this?"

"It's not my teacher's fault, there is something big going down on Innistrad, I met this creature in the between as we call it, it called me there with its whispers, and I made the mistake of going to it, and it saw me as a powerful minion, but the element protected me and dragged me from the between.

"What was the creatures name, things from that place are often exceptionally powerful and evil being, not to mention destructive should they actually enter a plane," Lillianna interjected.

"Its name, was Emrakul."