Fate of The Lostbelt Kingdoms
Chapter Seven
One Problem After Another
There’s a lot of things that the altered servant has seen before coming to this new land. She's seen titans fight against each other that could be considered to be gods, mythical beasts of legends, and Horrid atrocities beyond the realm of reality...what she never expected to see was a cream colored pegasus taming a wild demonic boar like it was nothing. Especially given the size of the damn thing and how much trouble it was causing for her and her pack.
“Aw you poor thing. You must’ve been in so much pain for having that arrow stuck in your foot like that?” Fluttershy said as she was patting the demonic boar’s head to comfort it as Applejack and Rainbow Dash finished patching the boar’s foot up.
“...Boss...Am I the only one who’s seeing this?” asked a male yaga as Atalanta shook her head.
“Y-You’re not the only one who’s seeing this...I didn’t think these...creatures were capable of doing something like this.”
“You think it’s some kind of magic or something that these creatures have?” asked a female yaga.
“Hard to say. I can sense that they have magic, but I don’t think it’s the same kind of magic that I can use. But now it’s not the time for questioning. The beast is taken care of...albeit that we couldn’t kill it for the meat.”
“And what’s stopping us from killing them along with the horses?” asked a male Yaga as he recoiled back from seeing Atalanta glaring at him.
“That would be me and my bow. Talk like that again and you’ll see what happens.” She said before noticing Twilight and the others walking over to her and the pack. “I take you’re with the ponies that came here to Russia?” The servant asked which took Twilight by surprise.
“You met Celestia, Luna, and Cadence?” The alicorn asking as Atalanta shook her head.
“I only saw them leaving the area with a pack of Yagas.” She said before noticing Twilight looking at her up and down. “Is something the matter?”
“Forgive me for asking...but are you a human?”
“Have you heard of humans before?”
“I’ve met some in the mirror world...but I’ve never seen a human that looks like...well...do humans wear cat ears and tails from where you’re from?” Twilight asked as Atalanta blinked at the mare upon hearing this.
“I’m not a human.” Atalanta said bluntly as she walked over to Fluttershy. “You, pegasus. Is the boar able to walk?”
“Um, yes. At least I think he should be able to seeing how the arrow didn’t hit anything vital or threatening.”
“Good, then use the boar to travel to the town off the north. Keep going until you see a town that’s in repair.” Atalanta said as she and her pack began to make their leave. Twilight took notice of this as she quickly flew in front of her as a means to stop her.
“Wait! Surely you wouldn’t let ambassadors from another country wander into unfamiliar lands would you?”
“Not my problem. I gave you directions to where you need to go. You want questions that need answers, you go ask the Tsar of Russia.” Atalanta said before pushing past Twilight along with the Yagas what was with her. “If you are able to tame that demonic boar, then you’re strong enough to survive the harshness of Russia.”
“Wait, there are still questions that I need-” Before Twilight could even finish, the servant and her pack quickly ran off towards the mountain from where they were scouting originally. The purple Alicorn blinked for a moment before her bland expression turned into disgruntled frown.
“Hey, where are they going?” Pinkie Pie asked as Twilight turned her attention onto her and the others. “I wanted to ask if they were interested in coming to a party I was going to throw seeing how they’re the first ponies to interact with in this frosty wonderland.”
“Perhaps they’re not the party type given how they were fighting this poor creature.” Rarity said as the demonic boar snorted.
“He said he didn’t mean to attack them or the ponies that were here. It was just the pain was unbearable and he was trying to get somepony to get the arrow out of his foot.” Fluttershy said as Twilight looked over at Fluttershy and the demonic boar.
“Fluttershy, can you ask...um...the boar as to where we are?” She asked as Fluttershy nodded and began to have a conversion with the boar. “Hard to believe that this is a boar.”
“You’re joking right? There’s no way this thing can be a pig.” Rainbow Dash said as she soon felt herself being buried in snow. The other girls looked over to their right to see that the demonic boar was the one that did as they soon heard Fluttershy speak up.
“Um, he prefers not to be called a pig. He prefers to be called Mr. Boar.” The cream colored pegasus said as Rainbow Dash popped her head from out of the snow and glared at the boar.
“Alright, good to know.” Twilight said as she placed a hoof to her chin. “Something doesn’t add up. The woman said this place is called Russia, but from what I was able to read up in the human world, Russia doesn’t have p-” The alicorn paused after hearing the boar snorted. “B-Boars! I was going to say Boars.” She said which caused the demonic boar to snort again before going back to chatting with Fluttershy. “Russia doesn’t have boars that look like this, nor the size of a house. Not to mention it doesn’t have humans with cat-like features or humanoid like wolves.”
“I bet Discord has something to do with this. I mean this screams chaotic and weird.” Rainbow Dash said as Applejack shook her head.
“Discord may be the god of discord and disharmony, but I doubt he can snap a finger and make something like this.”
“Applejack is right. Not to mention if our magic is being affected by that flower-like plant thing, then so is his magic.” Twilight said before looking over at the fantasy tree. “If what the guard told us about what happened and from the direction that the human gave me, Celestia and the others are interacting with the citizens of this land. We should head over to where they are and see if they have any information on this land.” She said before looking over at Fluttershy. “Fluttershy, can Mr. Boar takes us to the village?”
“He can, it’s the least he can do seeing how we saved him from being hurt.” She said before flying above him before landing on top of his back. “Hop on please.” The girls looked at each other for a moment before hesitantly getting onto the demonic boar’s back. Once they were on his back, the boar let out a loud snort before charging into the direction of where the Yaga village was located.
“Were you able to ask him about this place called Russia?” Rarity asked as a troubled expression appeared on the cream pegasus’s face.
“Not so much. All he knows is that this place is covered in snow and that there are more creatures like him, but different.”
“How so?” Twilight asked as it caused Fluttershy to think.
“Well, there are more boars like he is, though they range from large to small. Snakes with multiple heads on their body like a hydra, and for legged monsters with scorpion tails.” The mare said as it caused Twilight and the other to stare at her in surprise. “That’s pretty much all he could give. Mainly because he’s been focusing more on hunting for food in this land.”
“....You sure Discord doesn’t have anything to do with this place?” Rainbow Dash asked as Twilight shook her head.
“Like Applejack said. Discord may be powerful, but even he’s not that powerful to make a place like this...At least I hope he didn’t.”
“He’s also reformed. Don’t forget about that?” Pinkie Pie added before Rainbow Dash spoke.
“Yeah, but do keep in mind the other things he’s done that almost brought about the end of Equestria. Like how he was aiding Cozy Glow, Tirek, and Chrysalis? Or the time where he turned on us and went with Tirek.”
“And he was very sorry for what he did.”
“Sorry doesn’t excuse the fact that he might have caused this problem. For all we know, he might just be doing the same thing again, only with the person behind the magic issue.”
“We can say that Discord is the reason behind this without proof. Once we meet up with Celestia and the others, then we’ll possibly get our questions answered. I just hope that we don’t run into any other problems in this land.”
Elsewhere in the permafrost land of Russia, the sounds of gunfire and blades slicing through a combination of flesh, stone, and wood echoed throughout the area that the sound was coming from. In a matter of seconds, a loud road erupted as a young male yaga was sent flying out of a large fortress made out of stone and wood. The male yaga staggered to his feet with a missing arm as he glared at the beast that destroyed the bandit’s hideout in less than a matter of seconds.
“Damn monster! Do you know who we are!? We’re the new yagas of Russia!” he yelled before picking up a magic induced rifle and began to fire at the monster attacking their hideout. “We’re going to rule this land and any other lands outside of this. We’re going to be-” Before he could finish, he was soon sliced in two by a giant halberd-like weapon as the force by the weapon caused his body parts to splatter around the area. The beast let out a triumphant roar from killing off the bandits within the hideout and was about to eat the remains of what was left, only to pause as something caught his attention in the air. He began to sniff the air for a moment as he quickly rushed over to a nearby mountain cliff from where the bandit’s hideout was located. He sniffed the air once again as looked down and focused his gaze onto Twilight and her friends riding a demonic boar as they were heading towards the village where Celestia and the others were.
A hungry grin appeared on his face as he licked his lips. A demonic boar of that size would feed him for days. And having small snacks to play with in his labyrinth. The monster soon lets out a loud primal roar as he jumps off of the mountain he was on and begins to chase after Twilight and the others.
