//------------------------------// // I Got Jumped By an Overweight... Whatever that Thing Is // Story: Bond // by Kirin_Qiling //------------------------------// "Wake up... Wake up... Chosen one..." "Ugh... Shut it will ya..." A pair of silver-colored eyes unwillingly opened, followed by an irritated groan, the owner of the voice slowly got up, and with a loud yawn he extended his wings, revealing their messiness, "Seriously? Again? I need a goddam therapy..." Rubbing his eyes, Azure woke to a normal Monday morning at the School of Friendship. From the vocabulary that's clearly not something that'd come out of a local habitat, it's clear that this hippogriff isn't any ordinary griff around; a former homo-sapien, to be specific. He doesn't remember his past too clearly, yet the habits of being a human still bugged him. As one lucky bastard, Azure was reincarnated into a middle-class hippogriff family; his father, Riptide served as the Seaquestrian Submarine fleet commander, while his mother Current Tide... well, just a regular mare. Due to his extraordinary learning skills, Azure was selected as a representative student along with Silverstream, Queen Novo's niece, to attend Princess Twilight Sparkle's School of Friendship. If only Azure remembered his past life, he'd be laughing internally at the fact that being placed along with the Student Six might set off some Young Six fans back home. Azure's first impression of the six creatures was; the Overly Sarcastic Dude, The Tide Breaker/Pacifist, Silverstreak (Silverstream didn't mind too much, why would she anyway...), The Blue Beatle (Literally), Yona (Azure doesn't want to make her sad, what a good guy), and Ryujin (He liked her flared character). The gang, especially Gallus, found Azure somegriff to hang out with, "By my standard," Gallus, "that's my dude." Azure wasn't really the elite student type of guy, despite his reputation of straight A throughout the semester, his altitude, however... Let's just say Professor Dash wasn't too happy with beating her in the hoofball game 10 rounds in a row... Without a proper introduction of the rules of the game. But that didn't stop him from receiving a Principal Honor Roll at the end of the year. Azure's train of memory was disturbed when he heard a knock on his bed, without turning he knew who that was, "Morning Ryujin..." "Hey, I'm good with the nickname and all... But you gotta know when you should be saying that." Smolder rolled her eyes with a playful smile, "Anyway, you're going to the bathroom or what? We got the Geometry test this morning, can't be late to class." "Yeah, yeah, screw the test..." Azure groaned as he got out of his blanket, his mind still fuzzy with the mysterious yet irritating voice in his head that woke him from his dream utopia... As he walked out of the bathroom towards the hallway after a quick splash on his face, Azure came across his dude, "Yoo, ready for the test?" Asked Gallus. "You know the answer." Azure stretched as he grabbed the griffon by his shoulders, "You didn't study huh?" His eyes widened in fear, "Aw buck, I'm-" "Dead." Azure finished. "Uh... A little help?" Gallus chuckled nervously. "Sorry bro, I don't wanna get lectured by Professor AJ for two periods on honesty and cheating." Azure shrugged, amused by Gallus's dead expression. "What are you two still doing here?" Asked a timid yet firm voice, "Class is starting in ten minutes." Ocellus came along with a stack of textbooks wrapped in her light pinkish aura. "Damn bud, if I don't get a 60 it's on you!" Gallus said as he scrambled off to class. "Eh?! How is it my problem?!" Azure facepalmed, he then trotted on with Ocellus and Smolder who just got out. "Uh, what did I miss?" "Nothing, Ryujin." "Oh, com' on!" Azure yawned again as he dropped his pencil. Everything was too easy for him, he placed his forelegs underneath the back of his head as he peered out the windows, towards the distant valley. Next to him was Gallus, who was the exact opposite of Azure, he groaned quietly as he pulled the three feathers on his head (AKA me in my goddam AP test.) Ocellus was done as well, however, she buried her head into the textbooks she brought earlier. Silverstream looked like she was about to pull out a cupcake from her bag, Sandbar looked serious, like how he always looked in class, Yona bit her bottom lip, frowning heavily, and Smolder looked irritated as she scratched her spine. Professor Applejack was looking down at the students, well, at Gallus to be specific; twice has he been caught reading an answered post-it note, and Gallus knew better than to not attempt to piss her off since then. The tic-tok of the clock became louder, or... So Azure thought. For some reason, he had this weird feeling since morning, especially after the voice he'd heard. Azure frowned as he heard a strange... humming noise. He looked around, seeing no sources of the humming noise, he then shrugged. However, the corner of his eyes caught a strange glimpse of light coming from his bag at the leg of his table. "I don't remember putting my flashlight in there..." He murmured, suddenly, he felt the entire building starting to shake. "Whoa! Earthquake?" Gallus was the first to respond, anything to get him out of this torture was his savior of the day... Let's just say he regretted what he thought after this day. "Everycreature stay calm! We've practiced the drill!" Applejack said as she commanded, "Get under the table, hold tight to the legs, and-" Her words were cut short as a bright flash of light engulfed the windows. Then, an ear-piercing shriek was heard from the outside. The windows shattered, sending shrapnel flying everywhere, then an explosion followed by a shockwave. Azure was the closest to the window, and the shockwave sent him flying across the room, he landed on his back with the back of his head banged against the floor. He was knocked out. "Azure!" Smolder and Gallus called out as they reached for their friend, however, another explosion sent them to the floor as well. "What in' tarnation?!" Applejack tried to pull her students from the rubble, however, when her eyes were set on the outside, she was frozen in fear. It was a creature, about the height of five Ursa Majors standing on its hind legs, however, it was unlike anything Applejack had seen in the past; it had those disgusting flesh-colored scales all over its body, two giant yellow eyes with menacing glow, scythe-like front claws, and two pairs of boney spines stretching from its back. "Twi, Twilight?" Applejack looked to her right, where a purple Alicorn appeared in a flash of violet aura, however, compared to her friend's shocked expression, she had a serious look, "Applejack, evacuate the students, this creature is beyond the Elements of Harmony's power to stop." She said firmly. "Al, alright Twi." The Earth Pony then dragged another pony out as they sprinted out of the classroom, Twilight's expression turned into one of concern as she looked towards the Canterlot Mountains, "Celestia... The Prophecy..." "It's alive." "Ugh, goddam..." Azuere rubbed his temples as he slowly got up from the rubble, his vision still blurred from the knock on his head, he looked up and soon, a scaly face filled his sight, "S-Smolder?" he murmured, but as his sight came back, his eyes widened, "HOLY MOTHER PIECE OF-" Smolder was no-where to be seen, instead it was the eyes of the menacing creature, it shrieked in his face. "ARGH! SONNUVA!" Azure covered his ears in pain from the intense soundwave that nearly punctured his eardrums. When he looked up again, the beast was gone, however, he heard an incoming rapid scream of something descending fast... And it was directly on top of him. Through the broken ceiling, Azure saw that... thing... Rained down on him like a fucking pig. "AH SHI-" Suddenly, the light that was glowing earlier from his bag glowed again, brighter this time, and then it teleported right in front of him; the time seemed to be slowed down intensely as the glow fainted; therefore revealing a slender, white, diamond-shaped object with a pair of blue crystals aligned on the sides, green crystal mounted on the center, with a red V-shaped pattern at the bottom of the green crystal. Then, Azure found himself unable to control his foreleg as he reached out for the white object. "Ugh! What the-" Then he was engulfed by a blinding light.