//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: Accidents Happen // Story: Kitsune: The Legend of the Fallen // by Frostbreath //------------------------------// “Come on, Sunset! I know you can do it!” Twilight encouraged, her wings bristling with excitement. For months, the Alicorn has been teaching her friend/student Sunset Shimmer a dimensional portal spell, due to Sunset starting college soon in her dimension. Through many failures, however, this time, there seemed to be success in this attempt. “A-Are you sure, Twilight?” Sunset questioned, breathing heavily as she swiped a strand of her red-gold mane out of her face. “I have a bad feeling about this.” “Don’t worry, it’s supposed to feel weird the first time. Now, what you want to do is to channel that power towards a certain location, and - FIRE!” Focusing, Sunset launched a beam of power at the wall against Twilight’s lab room. Slowly, but surely, a golden portal began to form, its edge swirling softly as it continued to grow. “You’re doing it, Sunset! You’re doing it!” Twilight cheered. In response, the unicorn smiled, but then groaned as her head exploded with pain, causing the portal to waver slightly, then steadily grow more chaotic. “Uh, Sunset?” Twilight questioned nervously as she began to back up. “What’s going on?” “I-I don’t know!” Sunset answered as she began to buckle. “Something’s wrong, it won’t stop!” She cried again as she collapse onto the ground, her body shaking slightly from the pain. “What? How - “ Twilight began to ask a question, but suddenly the portal turned a violet shade, causing the Alicorn to pale. “RUN!!!!” She cried, Sunset quickly following as the portal blasted out of the crystal castle and towards the edge of the Everfree Forest. Directly at a giant apple farm. “Come on, Sunset!” Twilight called, rising her friend to her hooves. “We have to go warn Applejack and her family!” Applejack grunted as she bucked another tree, the apples falling into the baskets below. Smiling, she lifted the apples into the cart. “That’s the last one, Mac!” She called as she wiped her forehead. “Eeyup,” her brother called back as he began to walk back to the barn, but stopped as he looked to the sky. “Uh, Applejack? Can ya see what’s in the sky over there?” “Huh? What’re ya talkin’ - “ she said as she looked up as well, but noticed what he was seeing. At first, she saw a purple speck, and thought it was Twilight on an errand rush. As it approached, however, she noticed there were five specks, not one. And they had a much different physique than Twilight. “Mac! Get in the barn!” She cried as she ran into the barn, gripping onto her hat as she did. The moment that Mac went in the barn and they closed the doors, They saw a blast of pink energy and saw Twilight and an exhausted Sunset. “Guys! Are you okay?” Twilight questioned, looking over them carefully. “There’s - “ “What in tarnation were you two doin’ to cause those things to appear?” Applejack questioned, looking panicked. What even are those things?” “‘Things?’ There was only one blast! How - “ Before Twilight could finish, there was a loud explosion outside, rocking the entire farm as it slowly subsided. When the Alicorn looked up, however, she chuckled nervously when she saw the infuriated expressions the Apple siblings wore. “Ah swear, Twilight, yer payin’ for all the damage that caused out there,” Applejack growled as she turned to open the door. “Eeyup,” Big Mac agreed as he went to help his sister to open the door. Seeing the disaster, however, left them all speechless. “How in the name of...” Applejack muttered in astonishment, looking around the orchard as she gasped onward. The orchard itself was perfectly fine - no damage created. Instead, however, the farm was now split into five sections - one being more productive, one containing Zap Apples, one now containing a river, one with crystals growing out of the trees, and the last one being surrounded in a thick fog. “Twilight... what did ya do to our farm?” She muttered as she walked towards the foggy section - and yelled as a creature launched at her, it’s teeth glaring in the sunlight as it prepared to bite. It resembled a wolf, with the same body physique, but it also had scales along its back and legs. It’s ears and tail were also longer, and it had a golden black strand floating from his head, containing a glowing golden gem within the spaces of the strand. “What did you do to us?!” It spoke, determining it to be a male and shocking everypony. “How did you get us here?! ANSWER ME!!!” It opened its maw, ready to bite, but was quickly hit with a blast of magic. Instead of being flown back, however, it turned to snarl at Twilight, who only paled. “B-But How?” She stammered. “T-that spell should’ve knocked you unconscious!” “I am not in the mood for your stupid excuses!” He snarled. As he growled, the ponies quickly noticed four sets of eyes behind the creature, signaling it was not alone. “Now, I will ask you again. How. Did. We. Get. Here?” “W-Well...” Twilight stammered, but noticed one of the creatures - a cyan color - went up to the black creature and nudged him slightly. “Here, let me try,” the cyan creature responded with a feminine tone, turning towards the ponies. She shared the same body physique with the black creature, but slimmer in body, and instead of an orb, her neck was surrounded by a pearl necklace, strung together with literal strands of water. “Would you care to explain how we ended up into your location? We need to get back to our home, and we’re not exactly sure where we are.” Twilight could only stare, flabbergasted, so Sunset went to explain her attempt to use a spell. As she continued to explain, the black creature calmed down, along with the others coming into the light - a black and pink feminine with a flower aroma floating around a hair strand from her head, a grey and blue male with a lightning bolt scar across both eyes, and a white feminine with rainbow colored scales and a rainbow-colored braid, along with an orb for every color on the rainbow floating around a stray strand of hair. The ponies also noticed that while the the grey and cyan creatures did not have horns, the other ones did, the white creature’s horn being larger than the others. They also noticed that the white creature and the black creature had massive tails, the black one resembling gas, and the black and pink one having two tails, though the others had smaller, singular tails. “So what you’re saying is that we were whisked to your world by a freak accident on your side, and now said accident has left us with no way of returning to our home planet,” the black creature summarized, none of the ponies noticing his eyes seething with rage. “Sounds about right,” Sunset stated. “Is that a - “ “Guys! We saw a massive explosion, what happ - whoa,” Rainbow Dash stated, coming to a halt with Rarity, Pinkie Pie, And Fluttershy close behind. “What happened here?” “I thought it was a massive party that I wasn’t invited to,” Pinkie notes before noticing the new creatures, which caused her jaw to hit the ground - literally. “Guess now we have a reason to throw one, eh?” It was then that the others noticed the wolf-like creatures standing across their friend. While Fluttershy’s eyes grew in astonishment and Rainbow began to sneer, Rarity in turn gasped in wonder as she approached the creatures to look at them closely. “I’ve never seen such beautiful fur before! The shine on all of your fur is astounding!” She stated, circling around them. And those gems you carry - amazing! You don’t happen to have any extra, do you?” She precariously reached for the cyan creature’s necklace, but pulled back immediately when the black male snapped his maw at her. “Leave my mate alone,” he growled, causing Rarity to pale and the other ponies to gasp in horror at his actions. “Hey! You don’t need to act like that towards our friend!” Rainbow stated, getting up in the black creature’s face. “Who do you think you are, huh?” “Be careful of what you say next, speedster,” the black creature growled. “You have no idea what we are capable of.” “Oh yeah? Come at me, then, you smelly son of a - “ “Blackout.” The moment those words left his mouth, Rainbow’s eyes rolled back as she went unconscious, falling ungraciously to the ground. “What did ya do to her?” Applejack cried in horror. “Relax, she’s only unconscious,” the black creature sighed. “Now, I believe we have somewhere to be, with certain creatures to get us there.” “B-But you admitted it was an accident!” Twilight stated, strands of her mane beginning to pop out of place. “How do we get you home when we don’t even know how we got you here?” “You took us out of our home, without our submission, and left the citizens we protect defenseless.” The black creature turned around. “You figure it out.” He began to walk away, but stopped when a familiar creature popped into existence. “Well, what do we have here?” Discord mused, looking at the Apple farm. “Looks like some pony else knows a bit of - “ “Havoc?”