Enforcing Change Side Story 2

by Scootaboom1


Ch 2 Mares of Diomedes

Sweetie Drops

Here it is.

A joint mission.

We had gained Intel on a set of four incredibly dangerous creatures.

The AMS was after the Mares of Diomedes who were to be locked in Tartarus.

I had never heard of them before but when I asked no one was to sure about where they came from.

So I asked Nightlight if he knew anything about them.

Only a few seemed to know that Nightlight spied on our meetings every now and again.


When Nightlight seemingly appeared out of nowhere he started to explain the origins of the Mares of Diomedes.

Diomedes was a practitioner of dark magic who lived six hundred and forty seven years ago.

He made his base on a small island off the coast of Equestria.

He mostly kept to himself but he over the course of a few days he abducted four fillies and experimented on them with dark magic to be his brides.

As a result of the experiments the mares became highly carnivorous and cannibalistic.

The night after the experiments on the fillies were completed they ended eating him in his sleep.

As they tried to find a way off the island a ship of warriors came ashore to prepare an ambush on the dark magic user.

When they arrived the fillies convinced them to take them back to the mainland.

They explained that Diomedes was not there at the time but should return in two days and they would have a much easier time if they were not in a position to be used as hostages.

But by the time the ship made it to shore the crew had been devoured.

All this was learned through journals left on both the ship and island.

The fillies though were never found.

The names given to the fillies by Diomedes were Podargos, Lampon, Xanthos, and Deinos.

Podargos was a sky blue pegasus with a cloud colored mane who was quite fast while in the open air.

Lampon was a grey unicorn with a mint green mane who blinded foes with a flash of magic before ripping their throats out.

Xanthos was an earth pony who was yellow all over add was believed to be the one who treats the injures of the others.

Deinos was a dark grey earth pony with a black mane who led the other four.

When they were originally abducted by Diomedes she was the oldest and likely felt responsible for taking care of to others.

Regardless of how we chose to fight them we take care to avoid their bites which could easily rend through metal.

After that Nightlight left and we began to make a plan for how to deal with them.

Deinos

The girls and I were resting in a cave for the night.

As I looked out of the cave and into the rain.

I felt empty as I did so before looking to the others.

The three whom I had considered a family for years no centuries at this point.

The three were sleeping peacefully.

I couldn't imagine my life without them anymore.

I had to make sure that they would stay safe.

I was the one who they looked to for when they needed it from Diomedes.

As the morning sun rised I shook the others awake. After that we continued on our way.

In the distance we saw a small town that would likely be perfect for our needs.

Keeping to the edge of the woods and town we were greeted by a light brown unicorn mare and a muscular orange earth pony stallion.

The mare was named Pretzel Stick and the stallion was named Heavy Lifting.

They were move into a house just a little into the woods and two of their friends would be helping them move in. In addition to a potluck.

When the pair learned that we were not from the area and I told them that we were considering moving here as well they invited us to join them this evening.

This was perfect, a decent meal for each of us and they would all be isolated in one place.

The ones who would be joining us would also be bringing the food for the potluck which as far as we cared was a bonus.

If we were lucky we could even blame it on a monster that supposably lived in the woods.

I had felt the gaze of some kind of beast for the past two days at this point.

If it even chooses to attack us we could eat it ourselves too. Or at the very least use it as a scapegoat.

As we waited for the time to come we decided to kill time in the town.

When we saw some fillies playing and talking about the future I saw a slight and strained smile on my sisters.

When was the last time I saw them all do that?

The last time I saw Lampon smile was about a month ago.

Xanthos was about a year ago and Podargos was around the same time.

When it finally came to go help Pretzel Stick and Heavy Lifting with moving we made our way into the woods.

When Heavy Lifting let us in I saw how small the interior of the house was.

We were lead to a small living room where we were introduced to an earth pony mare named Sweetie Drops and a unicorn mare named Sweet Lemonade.

When introducing ourselves Sweet Lemonade offered us some of her own home made lemonade.

Sweetie Drops

I had spent the last two days watching these monsters and now as they approached Sweet Lemonade it was almost time to put an end to their murderous ways.

When they were close enough Sweet Lemonade squirted they in the eyes with her super sour lemonade before Pretzel Stick throw her pointed pretzel sticks into their eyes to prevent them from clearing their vision.

Once that was done Heavy Lifting and I went in to incapacitated them.

Once we put restraints on them we moved to lock them up in Tartarus.

Apparently they planned to try and find a cure for their condition.

Foolishness.