//------------------------------// // The Dark Age: [i]Flurry Hearth [/i] // Story: A new faction // by Rub3r0n //------------------------------// Previously... on... this thing I'm writing... 1-Equus creatures went to space 2-Battle against tyranids 3-CONGRATULATIONS!🥳 You have discovered a new system! 4-War with Orks 5-OH MY GOD! THEY KILLED SPACESTAR! YOU BASTARDS! After the long battle to take back the equusian base, all the creatures were exhausted, many needing medical assistance, others couldn't be saved. Not long after, the reinforcements from Equus finally came, with a lot of technomagic and more resources to repair all the damages, equipment to cure the injured ones, devices to know more about the planet and the enemies, a huge quantity of personnel for different situations and some weapons. Apart from that, every creature present on the base was stunned when they saw 3 members of the Council of Creatures came across the portal to lead their forces and defend their subjects. These were Flurry Hearth, first representative of ponies, Flamellus, the changeling q Queen, and TD-007 AKA Todarius Bond, sub-representative of AIs. Everyone thought that with their minds combined, the representatives would lead them to victory and defeat the alien forces. Howeveeer, the three began to discuss. Flurry Hearth thought that peace was still an option, dialogue could save the situation, but Flamellus said that the orks didn't want peace, they wanted WAR, and they had to defend their subjects. Todarius by his side, tried to calm down the other two, who seemed like they were going to fight at any moment, although he agreed more with the changeling. After a long discussion of 5 minutes, Flurry prevailed and the equusians would try again diplomacy. The creatures that had been on that planet since the beginning and fought the orks weren't any happy. The faces of some of them were like this: 😐(What?). The faces of the most of them were like this: 😡(WHAT?!) Anywaaayyyy, Flurry wasn't stupid, she wouldn't send others in a suicide diplomatic mission, instead, she sent spies. This was... surprisingly good for them, the spies were never detected and they discovered a lot of things of orkish culture. This could be extremely useful for future operations. But they discovered other things too,... look, the equusians already knew that something wasn't right with ork technology and buildings, but they never could discover exactly WHAT. The spies did, now they knew about the power of belief and thought it was the form of orks to use magic. This information terrified even MORE the equusians and the wish to just kill them all augmented. Even so, the alicorn still said that war wasn't necessary, although some of the "veteran" members didn't always follow this order. But why? Why does she reject so intensive this war, when it's obviously the only option to survive? Well, to know that, we must first hear the whole story of the alicorn... -----------♡FLURRYHEARTH♡----------- As you will already know, Princess Flurry Hearth was born as the daughter of Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, the alicorn of Love, and Prince Shining Armor. This meant she was too the heir to the throne of the Crystal Empire and, if that wasn't enough, she was the first born alicorn, since in the ancient Skyros having babies was forbidden for alicorns because an old, but trustworthy, prophecy said that born alicorns would spread destruction, death and misery (this will be important later). Flurry was raised during the reign of her aunt, the Princess Twilight Sparkle, which was the most prosperous era seen in the world so far. The life of the new princess was good, but she didn't feel worth it. You see, an alicorn usually becomes one after realizing a great feat, but Flurry was born as one. This made her feel like if she had to prove herself and demonstrate that she was worthy of being an alicorn. This launched her to do several feats and achievements, mostly of military nature because she grew in with strategy games and was taught how to defend herself very well. Then Opaline came. The WAR whipped Equestria and guess what, it was Flurry Hearth who practically carried all of Equestria's military operations. The war got a lot worse, forcing Flurry to order AND make with her own hooves real atrocities, breaking her once respectable ethic and moral code, spreading destruction, death and misery (wink, wink). She won almost every battle she fought in, her combat skills were unmatched, her strategies unbeatable and her power something to fear. Because of all this, she began to be nicknamed as "Alicorn of War", name she rejected and despised due to her growing hate against the war. When the war ended, Flurry saw in a state of shock, as it had not only devastated the entire world and taken away her best friends and family, Luna, Celestia, her mother, all dead, but it had also destroyed the feeling of being worthy of her own nature, for which she had worked so hard, making her do all those awful things. She felt more like a villain after all this and so she exiled herself from Equestria for more than 100 years, staying in the ruins of what sometime was her home,... the Crystal Empire, now destroyed and buried in the frozen North. This continued until Sunny Starscout and her friends found and helped her into reintegrate in the society, but Flurry developed some sort of obsession with peace. When the final battle against Opaline happened, she was an essential part to defeat her, besides it was HER who taught the newest alicorn how to control her powers and fight. So may you understand now the behaviour of the alicorn, although it was true that other representatives, including Sunny, could recognize better when it was necessary to fight. The pacifistal acts of Flurry saved a lot of lives in the past and stopped possible conflicts, what made her someone people trusted in. For almost another month, they tried to speak peacefully meanwhile the spies worked. Everyone had to admit that... the conflicts with orks decreased, but not because they wanted any sort of pff... peace, but thanks to the powerful shields they had, strategies to distract them and more other tricks, plus, the orks were getting bored. Their boredom was such, that after another attempt at diplomacy, they went out of their improvised base! They began to shoot to EVERYTHING without any control and with some speakers they built with rocks, scotch tape, the head of one boy and a speaker...THEY SHOUTED! INCREDIBLY STRONG! "WAAAAGHH IZ DA BES'! PEAZ' ZUCKS'! FIIIIIIGHT!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!!!!!!!" Before this statement Flurry had to think what to do. She left Flamellus and Todarius in charge, meanwhile, she would go to a mountain not very near and not very away to reflect about the situation and come to the best possible conclusion. She sat on the top of the mountain, the feeling of the sand of the dirt was impossible due to her space suit, necessary even for her to survive out of the base. Observing the dust in the air, which impeded the view to the base, although Flurry knew exactly where it was located, the alicorn meditated. This was something very useful learned from her therapist when she reintegrated into the society, it never failed her before, it helped a lot on focusing and thinking. However, she was not alone, as she intended. When she left the base, a gretchin saw it from the distance and told his superiors. Apparently, from nowhere, various orks appeared, shouting strongly and throwing themselves on Flurry. A good quantity of spells could be heard. When a team went for her by orders of the two present representatives, they found nothing except orks corpses. A deeper analysis was carried out and no blood or restos of the alicorn were found either.