Ch2: Capture
Twilight opened her eyes slowly, but shut them fast. Something about the lighting in the room made her head feel like someone hit it with a hammer, that and even with her eyes closed her head felt like it was hit with a bat twice. She opened her eyes even slower, and allowed them and her mind to adjust to the light. Volkig was right, this is a nasty hangover, but how much did she drink? Twilight couldn’t remember anything after her second glass.
She looked at her surroundings, which gave her a shock. “How in Equestria did I get up here!” she yelled, and abruptly covered her ears from the noise. She was on top of the canopy that covered the city made of trees, and the sun was beating down on her relentlessly. Above her, a cloud stirred, and a cyan creature with rainbow hair fell onto the same tree top as Twilight. “Hi Rainbow Dash.” Twilight said, “wait, Rainbow, when did you wake up?”
Her friend pulled her head from the leaves, “Well, right now of course, weren’t you paying attention?”
“I mean before this, you were unconscious last time I checked.” Twilight retorted while still shielding her eyes from the sun.
“Oh, well, I woke up first, then Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie is still asleep, I think. I’m only up here because you wanted to see what the top of the city looked like.”
‘What?’ twilight thought, “When did I say that?”
“Don’t you remember, oh wait, you were completely hammered last night. You know Twilight; you’re a lot more fun when you drink.”
“What is that supposed to mean?” Twilight glared at Rainbow, who shied away a bit.
“Why don’t we go back to the room and see if Pinkie is awake yet.”
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Volkig sat at his usual day post in the city. He was at the front gate watching the road that led west into the human lands, only things he saw today were humans and elves coming and going, and the odd bog creature from the fetid swamps. The swamps took up the land to the left of the road, and mountains on the right, strange, but since this was the border between countries, strange things were common. A stranger walked down the road, and upon closer inspection, was wearing the armor of a dark paladin, dark grey steel armor and everything.
Volkig turned to the elf next to him, who was wearing the same gilded lime green armor he was, “go to the bell tower and watch the scene here, if he makes a move to attack, sound the warning.” The young recruit nodded, and scurried off the bell tower on the left, and got ready. “Halt, who goes there!” he yelled. The paladin paused, took out a spear, and kept on walking. “Stop right there an identify yourself!” the paladin took a spear from behind his back, and threw it, striking Volkig in the chest.
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One moment, Twilight and her friends were enjoying some time together trying to put together the events from the night before, the next some kind of alarm is going off and all hell breaks loose. They ran outside (probably a bad idea), and saw elves and humans trying to fight off what looked like half dog half lizard things and what looked like walking corpses that resembled the ones she saw when she first woke up in this world. Mutilated bodies and gore littered the streets where the mutant dogs made their kills. A figure in the middle with dark grey armor and a black hood and cape was throwing fire at buildings with one hand and striking down humans and elves with a mace in the other.
“Everypony run!!!” she shouted, and they made a break for it.
While running down the street, things only seemed to get worse, dead bodies piled the streets, and a couple of the weird lizard dog things that were previously feasting on the corpses started chasing them, barking like rabid animals. They were corralled into a dead end, and to their surprise, a dragon showed up and burned the things to a crisp, albeit a small dragon, but one none the less. On its back, was a human in armor made of interlocking steel plates with some kind of symbol on the front depicting a sword with wings on a yellow background. He held a shield with the same symbol, and a spiked mace, he jumped down and ran over to them. He seemed familiar, the dragon rose into the sky and flew around, burning more of the dog things and walking shriveled corpses.
“The hell you doing standing here, we have to move now!” he yelled, and ran off. They followed him.
Twilight was getting tired of the running, but was thankful to have someone to protect her and her friends; she wished it wasn’t so bloody though. Applejack had to carry Fluttershy when she passed out from watching the dog things burn and Rainbow had to carry Rarity when she fainted from all the violence and burning buildings. Without warning, a tree building collapsed right on top of her, she tried to call out to her friends, but could not make a sound, and they kept on running as if she was still with them. The last thing she saw before her eyes closed from having half a building drop on her was a hand covered in steel.
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Rainbow, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, and pinkie all made it to a tunnel with their friend from the night before. They panted from all the running as the human collapsed the tunnel behind them. They quickly recovered, except for Rarity and Fluttershy, who were still passed out.
“Heh, that was a close one, right Twilight?” Rainbow asked jokingly, “Twilight?” she looked around, soon, everypony was looking for the purple unicorn.
Pinkie’s mane deflated, “oh no, she must have gotten crushed by that tree-house, I should have paid more attention.” Her mouth quivered and she started to cry.
“Quit the water works, it won’t take them long to dig the opening back up, we have to move now.” The human commanded.
“Oh no we don’t, we need to go back out and get twilight!” Rainbow yelled when she got up into the humans face.
“And get killed in the process, is that what you think she would want, for you to die trying to see if she still lives.” He retorted.
“He has a point Rainbow, we just have ta make sure we get outa here and hope to Celestia Twilight is alright.” Applejack said, which calmed the Pegasus a bit. They turned and made their way down the escape tunnel, hearts heavy from losing their friend back there.
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The king sat upon his throne with a crystal ball in his right hand, and the other on his sword, which had a silver hilt and a blade blacker than night. A ghost of a smile crept on his face, pearly white fangs showing from the veil of shadow that covered his face. He watched the attack from his throne, and watched as his target was dragged from the cities ruins by his knight. Everything was going according to plan, the only thing left to do was break the creature, and then use its power to take over this world, and then proceed to the next one, the realm it came from.