//------------------------------// // Chapter 1: the serpent and the stone. // Story: the curse of stone and sight // by dragenfire68 //------------------------------// It’s deep in the everfree forest that we can find ourselves looking down upon a rather interesting scene; it beheld a long, black, huge serpent facing off an attack by what seemed to be an army of aggressive forest animals. 14 timber wolf packs, 5 manticores, 6 giant scorpions, 4 hydras and finally 7 dragons, There they stood face to face, but while the serpent was coiled around an intimidating statue, he was ready to fight with all the ferocity that would require him to leave the battle alive. “What do you all want?” asked the serpent A dragon stepped forward and in a booming voice he cried “we want you and your companion’s blood, and we want to rid this forest of the nasty presence of your kind; THE BASILISK and the GARGOYLE.” “You shall never taste our flesh, nor did we invite you into this battle.” The basilisk said with as much courage as he could muster, “no one will mourn you, no one will find you, for tonight you shall feel the wrath of the basilisk’s greatest weapon.” He cried widening his eyes as far as they would go. All the elder creatures looked away from his deadly stare, but a few of the younger more brash ones dared meet his gaze, they didn't have long to see, for as they looked into his eyes; they fell dead to the forest floor. “Grrr…. CHARGE YOU MORONS, KILL HIM BEFORE HIS GAZE FALLS THE REST OF US”, bellowed one of the larger dragons, however as the front lines charged the basilisk, he spat venom into their face and on the ground beneath them. = change POV to the basilisk= I can’t keep them back forever, the dragons can snap my spine in halve before I could puncture their skin or use my deadly gaze.He thought as he shift high above a courageous manticore and struck it full in the face, puncturing its eyes and pumping deadly venom into its brain, hmm manticore taste different that the usual food that has graced me and my companions stomachs in a long while, I’ll save some for him. He thought as the let go of the manticore’s head. = change POV to dragoness= We can’t fight him forever, his companion will rise when the sun sets and then we will all be doomed, but if we don’t get rid of these two here they will surly find the rest of us and kill us off. The dragoness turns from her muted thinking to survey the damaged wrought by their battle, and what she saw was endless territory destruction that will cost the dragons a lot of gems before the battle is over, so she decided enough was enough. “ENOUGH, WE ARE DONE HERE.” Shouted the dragoness in a voice that could beat back Luna’s canterlot voice in a heartbeat. “but Vistrow, we are so close to over whelming him, we could-“ he said before being interrupted by vistrow ,”CAN YOU NOT SEE THAT THE EARTH IS SCORCHED FROM THE BASILISKS VENOM, IF THIS IS WHAT THE SURFACE HOLDS; WHAT DO YOU THINK HAS HAPPENED TO THE PRECIOUS METALS AND GEMS BELOW?” The dragon that Vistrow had dragon-voiced at look around them at the dead land and the even worst animals that lay upon the floor, some lay wounded and dying from the venom, but they won’t last long; some had unintentionally met the fierce creature’s deadly gaze, at least their pain was swift; the survivors looked terrified at the prospect of being the creatures that has angered two of the most deadly beasts alive, he then took a look at the ground using dragon sight, and it revealed that the venom of the basilisk has destroyed many of the precious metal and gems in a 4500 mile radius. = change POV to basilisk = Enough blood has been shed here today, I have no need to spill some more just because the others followed a stupid notion, he thought before he spoke in and this that cause all the living creatures to jump in fright, “I leave in piece now, I have no need to kill the rest of you in needless violence; however if you ever attack me again while I’m on my way I will not hesitate to end all of you with one swift gaze.” “FINE BUT YOU MUST PROMISE TO LEAVE OUR MOUNTAIN HOME ALONE AND THE FAMILIES OF THOSE THAT FOUGHT WITH US HERE TODAY.” Vistrow replied. “I promise, and for one thing; I never intended to go after any of you, it was all of you that went after me now go before my companion rises and changes my mind.” “FINE” And with that the creatures left in quick haste because as they left the dead and desolate battlefield, the sun had just set below the tree line and within moments my companion will wake and he will be hungry. = change POV to gargoyle statue = Cold, dark, silent; these are all the things that I look forward to during the day, however when I am free I can serve the one who has earned my respect not only as a fellow creature, but also as someone who I can trust to keep me alive and intact; wait I can feel the magic weakening its almost time. The basilisk watched the gargoyle statue as it trembled at first; then, in a rain of stone, an 8’ 9’ winged beast burst from the statue and since being a statue for 12 hours is hard he set to stretching his wings and popping his joints. “AHHH feels good to be outside my prison,” he said while look around at the carnage,” aww damn, some stupid ass beasts decided it was a good time to rumble with a basilisk that has an anger issue the size of a mountain” “bullshit all you want Vatry, but I’m the one that has to haul your fat ass statue all round this land; and I haven’t even come close to finding the mythical sun princess and moon princess, I don’t even think that civilization is around for the next few months.” Replied the basilisk in a mocking tone “Wait Fang, I hear something.” “I know I can smell them, they seem to be searching for something around here.” “Should we drive them away?” “No, because I smell,” Fang closes his eyes and then snaps them wide open and says in a long hiss, “sun and moon princess on them” “How can we introduce our selves without fighting, I can already hear one of them plotting with another to beat us to a pulp” “You forget that we are two of the least known myths to these ponies, they will have to hear us out, and if they try to look me in the face, force their head downward” “Agreed, lets find me a cure” = change point of view to Twilight Sparkle= “Alright it’s not every day that we see a pack of dragons fly away from an area as fast as they can” twilight stated “w-w-well they look very, very afraid.” Fluttershy stuttered “Ah gotta agree with Fluttershy on this one, if something can scare away dragons, then what chance do we have?” Applejack questioned “It probably left by now to search for somewhere else, there’s- OH MY, what manner of horrid creature could have done this” Twilight exclaimed loudly as she look at the wrecked and bloody battle field They soon all got a good look at the field, all the trees were downed and rotted, bare patches of deadened grass lay surrounded by scorched earth, but it wasn't that , that made them sick, it was the bodies of the Timber wolves, some were half melted, some just lay dead with open eyes; the manticores were even worst, some had their entire heads torn off, some were like the wolves, dead but with their eyes open, some had small puncture wounds that were now gaping holes of decayed flesh. “Oh-oh my, what kind of nasty creature could have done this to these poor, poor animals.” Fluttershy stammered while she tried not to cry. “This wasn't a battle, it was a slaughter.” Twilight stated while being equally disgusted by the carnage “Not my fault they tried to attack me and my friend while we were peacefully passing through.” came a hiss from all around them They all jumped and started looking around, looking for the hissing voice that seemed to come from all around them, of course Rainbow Dash the brash one yelled, “ SHOW YOUR SELF WE AREN'T AFRAID TO TAKE YOU ON.” “AHHAHAHHAHAHAH, funny coming from the bite sized meal that walked willingly into my temporary territory, and what of you little purple one, you haven’t said a thing.” “UH-WHAT, how did you know that I was here?” ask Twilight a little startled “I can smell the ancient magic on the six of you, I also can smell; the sun and the moon princess on you” Ancient magic; we don’t have ancient magic, unless…..WAIT, Twilight suddenly knew what the voice was talking about, so she called out to the voice, “what do you know of the Elements of Harmony and what do you mean you can “smell” the princess’s on me?” “I may be another animal to you, but I have long since had the ability to smell more than just organic scents, I can smell magic and I can see right through any disguise, and the princess’s need only touch you once to leave a magic scent on you, but enough hiding on my part; it’s time to show you who you have been talking to.” With a huge groan the six look around as the darkness that had long since surrounded them swirled and came closer until they saw not just darkness but glinting, black, armored scales, and above them a head that was of snake shape but had the look of a dragon; Twilight continued along its neck until she saw its nose and she was going to look into its eyes, when suddenly something knocked her over and said in a firm, yet concerned voice “don’t you dare look into the eyes of my companion, you almost just cost yourself your life.” “Why not uh-uh-uh-uh does he have bad eye sight or something, I’m going to do an eye checkup” Pinkie said and rapid fire speak, and before anypony or creature could stop her she looked right into Fang’s eyes.