//------------------------------// // Season 1 Episode 4 - New cyclone // Story: Cyclonestorm // by Sweetlilkitten //------------------------------// Twinklesprite is making a dress. It is a long and thin one, that is rather straight than puffy and simpler than a whole royal dress. But it is just pretty. When finishing it, she wipes sweat drops from her forehead. "Phew. That is one thing done." She says. After a few hours passed, waving at ponies and deers that walks by, she yet can't find someone to sell the dress to. "I guess people aren't at tertiary goods for now yet.." She says. Having stuffed everything in a suitcase she walks around, and find a party, nearby. "Welcome to my birthday party!" A pink coated and blue maned licorn shouts. Everyone have fun, and Twinkie seeks for something to do. She enjoys the drinks and such, just as it looks like many people are walking by just because the party is freely open, so they can watch what happens. Then she spots a lonely young fawn that is as small as a foal but still looks not that young. "Hey, look at that, the little filly is right back at it again." Some older ponies from Equifrancia origins, walks by, and their seemingly leader, a gray coated and black maned great and strong earth stallion, laughs at the tiny deer. The difference between Equifrancian and Equestrian ponies is that the locals of here are smaller. Even if they may knew eachother from before, the relations between deers and Equestrian ponies is a bit trembling. Even if Equestrian ponies and deers are same size, their difference is that deers are mainly more thin and agile than ponies that are slightly stronger and more resistant, and the Equifrancian ponies happen to be even more naturally powerfuller than that due to their adaptation to constant threats over decades. These three semantics groups have, roughly, whatsoever differences usually and it is it, meaning that mostly anyone don't care, but sometimes some frictions can occurs. Or actually it is pressing an already ongoing pressure. Twinklesprite decides to walk forward and approach the event. She glances that it looks like the deer have a plushy of a green or yellow bunny with green eyes, a purple tied knot and a hat. "Why are you here? Isn't it clear? We don't want fools at our party." One pony says. "I'm at Rosy Glow's party, I don't owe you anything." The tiny deer replies, shyly. "Yes you do, you're a freak that isn't supposed to be here!" A stronger deer says. "Hey!" A nerdy pegasi grab the leader's attention and whisper something to them. "Huh yeah, good idea!" The earth pony, leader of the group, smirks in an mean plan. Rosy Glow, the pink coated and blue maned licorn, is on kind of a scene that have been set up for her, making the place kind of a showcase or concert place. "And don't forget to stay for my song after the cake!" She says happily. Suddenly a deer land on the scene in a crash. The kind of light music ambiance stops and it becomes quiet in the nearbies. "Um. I'm sorry, why are you on here?" She asks, surprised, and a bit annoyed. "Do you have something to do with my song or something?" When the deer tries to stand up, it glances at the unicorn and becomes petrified somehow. At that moment, some red pupils and yellow eyes appears in a nearby reflecting surface of a plate where some food rests. Or actually, did was resting, before some eat it all. The being giggles in evil for a bit. It escapes the plate and is now formed of black smoke, before it gets itself stuffed in the deer's bear plushy. "Boooo!" The great stallion mocks him. "How ridiculous!" someone else in the crowd says. "William, stop that." She tries to calm him. "Why are you doing this?” "Hehe, I'm just helping him, he's trying to tell you something!" He giggles stupidly. The mare unicorn does a 'urgh' sound, annoyed by him, as she seems to know he is a troublemaker. She walks to the young deer and tries to help him. She seize the plush with her magic and get it back on the deer's back. "Aww." She smiles to him warmly. "I'm sorry they are like this with you. Try to not stay close to them, that would be better." The deer blushes immensely. "Boooo! The little filly needs his stuffie because he's such a crying baby!!" William laughs. "Look, he is in love!! How ridiculouss!!!!!" Someone in the crowd laughs. The deer is still red, but now, the pink coated licorn becomes red too. She is more embarrassed and annoyed than romantically emotional at the moment, so her color of blushing is more red than pink, unlike the deer's. "What? No!" She shout. "I'm never going to hang out with that guy!!" She says in panic when the crowd does mocking sounds. The deer receives a piece of cake on its head as a few objects are thrown to him. He runs off and stumble on few stuff on his path until he disappear in the bushes of a forest in the background. "Heh. See? I knew it, you are just a freak, admit it!" The brute laughs while he runs away. Twinklesprite have a pinch in the heart. She feel touched by such an awful situation. She runs in his direction, trying to find him. "Princess Twilight!" A guard enters the throne room. "Suspicious activities at our west border have twiced!" "I see." She says. "I will take care of that operation more upclose from now." She says as she make a backpack appears with her magic, and fills it with goods. Some hooves place a plushy on a rock. The quiet deer lays on ground and starts crying. It is small, subtle little cries, kind of in a point like of total distraught. "Why I exist, Bunny?" He mumbles in his cries. "Why!" While he lose a bit of their cries, probably of running out of tears as after all some riverbed are sat substantially under his eyes, a noise of branch can be heard. A surprised gasp escape his mouth and he grab the plushy, hoping it will protect him from any threat. "Hey, don't worry, I'm not willing to hurt you." Twinklesprite says, coming out of the bushes. "What do you want from me!?" He replies, angry. "Calm down cutie, don't fear me, I'm only here for your good." Twinkie says in her naturally motherly voice of a calm and prosperous beauty and fashion mare. She comes by and wave at the little one for him to hug her. After a time she waves again. "Come-on, don't you want a hug?" She asks. "No!!! You're going to mock me because I'm not stalliongraded enough!!" He shout, angry. "What? What does that even mean?" She asks. "It's them! They always say that if it was a class subject, I'd be under a bug graded!" He says. "Stalliongrading? I don't understand..." She says. "But I'm sure you are fine to hug me if you wanted. So bad I'm leaving then..." She stands up and mimic a false walking away march while almost not getting away factually. "That's it! Go away!!" He shout. "Wait what?" She doesn't understand. "You were supposed to run for me and hug me, cutie." "Cutie? Why do you call me like that?" He gets angry. "Is it a downgrading nickname again?!?" "What? N-no I-I" She stumbles mentally when she tries to understand and process everything. "I'm sorry. I thought I could help you. Sorry to have bothered you." She turn back and walks away. The deer that have turned their head around and ignore the mare find themselves now all alone in this forest. The evening is getting by, the sun makes the sky more and more red as sunset approaches. He go back into watching his stuffie while whining and crying slightly. At a moment, the eyes of the plush becomes bright and shines of its green color. The bunny stuffie becomes animated and it moves. When it gets up and the deer sees, he get afraid and let out a gasp. "What's happening? Am I dreaming?" The innocent deer asks. "Don't be afraid, my children. You aren't in a dream." The disturbed voice replies, kind of if it was a broken music box or an odd voice. "Why do my plushy is living then? Is it a joke of these-" He tries to say but the plushy have a sewing thread that extends to his mouth and closes it gently. "Don't mention their names anymore. They don't matter." The voice replies. "What matters is you, my dear. What would you ask. What would you do, if a god, could make you become anything you wanna." A sound of disturbance and oddness is produced somehow when the odd voice says that. "Why would you do anything for me?" The deer retorts. "How can I trust you?" "Because you deserve it. You deserve someone that care about you and protect you. If you accept to unify with my world, I will give you a part of my powers." The plushy proposes. "But if you refuse, I will let you all alone and at mercy of anyone to play with you. So... What do you choose my dear?" The show is done, some people gathering the devices and uneaten food for replacing them in spots they will be used soon enough, most of the crowd is gone but some still are here. At a moment, the small deer walks in again. "Hey, look at this, the filly is back at it again!" The bullies laughs. Until a thunder noise is heard, seeming to be coming from a circle of clouds that follows the deer. "That is right, I am a filly. And for your endless attacks, I shall punish you for perpetual pain!" The octaved feminine voice of the deer reverberate through the plains. The harassed deer have now a horn (they was smooth woodless before) and wings of a magenta or red powder, and they seem powerful and fierce. "You know its not just some simple artifices that will scare me right?" William says. "Oh. You think it is a show?" The cyclone have a mask of a grey face with a deer wood and a goat horn, that they throw at them and slap someone random on the way as it falls on the ground. A lightning strike hit one of his similar that were laughing, and they vanish into powder. They exactly and literally dislocate into ashes, under the leader's shock. He touch the grains and yet, it is still hot and burning slightly. He look at his mane that have a tiny part that have been burned, and then he realize what situation he is in right now. "How- I- Help!!" He shout and runs away. "That's it." The tiny deer grows in a sort of tall deer or such bovine creature. "You will suffer from everything you did to me!" The cyclone of clouds that were following the doe forms it's center into an eye. "Do I have to follow him, master?" The deer asks. "No, let's not care about him. Let's do something more interesting. What if I'd showed you my home?" The cyclone says. "I'd like to see it, master." The deer says. "Must be as magnificent and thoughtful as you.” "Abyss!" Esperanza shout. The next instant, everyone is here. Guards, Valentia, Ethan, some ponies and others. They stand firmly in line, ready to attack. "I think you have something I have to retrieve." Esperanza says. "Balderdash!" The cyclone replies in a earth trembling reply that makes most of the guards fall down. "I fought for your magic, and I won! Therefore I earned your cube!" "Not only I will take back my Crystal for my people, but also my alicorn magic!" She announce. "Oh, because you have any credible weapon to fight us!" The deer says. Esperanza looks at Valentia, and Valentia tells her only by her looks that she is barely as tall as Ethan, her magic not even actually returned for now. "Us?" Ethan says, aside of Twinklesprite that surely talked with him about them. "No! Cynrellus! You don't have to join the bad side to exist or find your way as a deer, please! Fight the evil in you!" "Shut it! Don't ever mention that name! This person doesn't exist anymore! It is too late!" The deer shout, under the evident smile and satisfaction of Abyss to have raised the innocent deer into his own smaller self. "I, under the advice of my Master, renamed myself Eris!! And I identify as a Peryton, a creature made of pure revenge seeking and bald hate energy, and that is going to rain vengeance over all of you!!!" As the great creature shouts, a laserbeam strikes the group of smaller creatures on the ground. But after a cloud of smoke that slowly disappear, it is revealed that all unicorns could unite their magic to grab everyone else energy, into making a shield, as the whole unified nation is here. Ponies, deers, even some Equestrian creatures. The crowd could form a shield as they muffled in eachothers. But they are all, now, exhausted, and some even collapse on the ground, so tired about that protection making. "Princess, look!" Valentia cries of emotions. "Our people! They are united! We won!" "We are united." Ethan agrees, as his remaining Unity Crystal energy as well as the deers have been used like other to form the shield. "We are one." "It is untoward in the end, that your unity is what will cause you your end." Says the cyclone. The horrific deer-like monster charges a spell once more as their horn shines. The nation close their eyes, ready for their destiny. But when the blast reach them, something else protect them again. "Urgh! What is it now?!" The cyclone gets annoyed. "Me!" Luster Dawn shout. At surprise of everyone, Aurora Sunshine, Suncream, Flowercorn, Strawberry Jam, Twinklesprite and Luster Dawn have came together and could make a second shield with the strength of their friendship. "And me." Says Twinkie. "And me." each of them adds, until they are all stated they came back for saving the nation under the threat. "We are here to stop you, and we warn you that magic of friendship is stronger than everything!!" They all shout together. "Princess, it's time to escape!" Says Valentia.