//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: serpent's magic circle. // Story: the curse of stone and sight // by dragenfire68 //------------------------------// anaconda, king cobra, garden snake, they all bow before the basilisk. the sun was just rising when Fang took his statue friend and coiled inside a cave just a few feat away from the entrance to the once tree filled field and went to sleep. we have been waiting a long time for you. "huh what?," fang says as he raises his head to look around and sees hes is surrounded by another basilisk, a dragon, a storm giant, and wind elemental, and naiad. i am tetronoa, the earth former the basilisk telepathically said to fang the names ignusia, the eternal flame the dragon telepathically introduced herself my name is aquios, the life giving water aquios wrote in the air using water "MY NAME IS SURGIAS, THE STORMS JUDGMENT" surgias said by using claps of thunder my name is silent breath, the whisper of the wind the air element said by throwing it on a whisper on the wind "i take it your the manifestations of the five base elements." fang said to them "yes" all five said, some telepathically. "why do you need me?," fang asks ," if your the five base elements, what problems can you not handle?" death, necrosis, decay, sickness, and a force twisting our elements into dark versions and its threatening to destabilize the world silent breath breezed "cant the elements of harmony stop it?" fang asks if the base elements fall, the elements of harmony shall be rendered useless, and our circle is incomplete ignusia states matter of factually "how long is it until this happens, and how is your circle incomplete?" fang asks "WE LOST OUR LIGHT BRINGER AND SHADOW MISTRESS DURING THE REIGN OF DISCORD" surgias rumbled we have 6 years before the problem shows it self tetronoa said "then why contact me now?," fang asks," if you have that much time, why don't you wait?" "because you already have a quest and you will need time to find our last two elements, also you need time to train the powers we shall be giving you." aquios said, while her companions gave her looks of surprise "what powers?" fang asks curiously "these" they all say and shoot five different colored beams at him, and his world goes black. change POV to twilight sparkle twilight had just gotten home and was surrounded by her friends, and started writing a letter. which said; dear princess celestia, we and my friends have just come across a basilisk and a gargoyle, and we talked to them. they want to find you and Luna ,so they can free his stone friend from his imprisonment, but i do not trust them. can you and Luna come with at least a legion of armed guards, so that we have our safety assured. also, this basilisk can smell magic scents. your faithful student, twilight sparkle = POV change to celestia = celestia was busy reading a book when a letter appears and drops onto the chapter she is reading "hmmm," she said as she reads the letter," it seems a basilisk and a gargoyle have taken up temporary residents in the everfree forest, and they want to find me and Luna so we can break his friends curse," and then she goes off to find Luna. hmmm, something out there doesn't seem to fit, i must remember to ask the stars what they see out there. Luna mused as celestia landed behind and started saying "Luna, we must go meet twilight sparkle and her friends and meet this-." "basilisk", Luna finished for her. "yes, the basilisk and his gargoyle friend are asking for our assistance of breaking the stone by day and flesh by night curse laid down." "we could 3500 years ago, but after our battle with discord we were weakened, but i cant remember why." "you're right we are still weakened but i cant remember why either" "hmmm, we will scry and uncover our past before discord." "now lets arm our men and go over to twilight's for this audience with this basilisk" so celestia walks over to the night stand, and starts writing: dear twilight, we are on our way, please wait outside the library so that we can be swift, and we are bringing a full legion of armed gaurds with incase this goes sour. sincerely, celestia back in the clearing "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGG" fang shrieked as the feelings of burning and electrocution faded hello? can you hear me? a voice said in his head. who are you? fang thought back this is silent breeze telepathically speaking, the others will speak to you when they feel the need, im just making sure that the powers bestowed upon you are working, because the first 4 must be able to speak to you before me. how do i use them? you will learn your powers as you test your known powers, but for now you need to focus on whats happening at the presence. with that fang felt a presence leave his mind that he had not known was there before, and then that's when he senses two incredible powers pass over his cave, and not to far off to the north he felt the familiar magic. "WE KNOW YOU ARE HERE, SHOW YOUR SELF" a voice boomed outside fang's cave of course in alarm at the booming voice, fang coiled tighter and slid deeper into his cave, until he heard a soft voice say, "doing that will only scare him," the voice then called softly, "can you come out, if that's alright with you?" sensing no danger in the voice, he slowly uncoiled and slithered slowly out into the mid day sunlight, but he saw no one and looked around until a regale voice called out, "excuse me, we are up here". hearing the voice behind them, he closed his eyes and turned to where he smelled the eight magic scents mingled with at least 60-80 normal scents behind them, fang then said "you must be celestia and Luna, but i smell you brought the element bearers with you," fang said and continued," hmmm, i smell at least 80 soldiers in the back round." "twilight wasn't kidding when she said you can smell magic scents, but that's not the point," celestia remarked, she then continued " you said that you need us to break the stone curse on your gargoyle friend." "yes, we should commenc- WAIT!!!," fang suddenly whipped around," EVERYONE INTO THE CAVE!!!" "why, what do you smell?" celestia asked worried "it seems as though a dragon tribe around here made a deal with the gorgon stonelands in the south and now they are coming to kill me." "me and Luna can help, we can help you beat them" "no this is my war, protect ventry should i fail, im sorry", and with that fang sucks in a huge breath and blows celestia, Luna, and the element bearers into the cave, but not before celestia told her soldiers to return to canterlot, then he uses his tail to smash the entrance into the cave shut in the cave "is everyone alright?" celestia asked as a huge rumble far in the front of the cave sounded "what was that?" twilight asked "that twilight, was fang sealing us into the cave." Luna deadpanned "but why?," she asked,"why wont he allow us to help him?" "because he believes that because he brought them to us, he must be the one to face them alone" celestia answered walking toward ventry, "he asked us to protect this statue, we must honor his request" she continued as she started laying down wards around the statue the battlefield just as fang predicted at least 225 - 300 gorgons crashed into the clearing, followed by 40 shades, 10 wyvrens were circling the clearing, and the sound of 400 - 800 werewolf's were heard, then came 20 dragons, and the leading one said "you're a blight upon this land. and your kind need to stay below the earth where you belong, you will never beat our army, you should just give up and allow us to kill you quickly and destroy the statue you hold so dear." "you're mistaken if you think i'll just roll over and die to let you touch my friend, you just like those before shall fall, but i wont let any of you leave here to follow me, for THIS ENDS NOW!!" fang roared with a ferocity not used in may decades. driven by the tune on the breeze, fang lost himself to the animalistic ferocity he saves just for battles like this, but unlike the other times, he had more attacks than just bite, smash, venom, death-gaze, for he had in his fury, earth spike field devastator, wind Scythe, liquid flame, dry drowning, thunder field, and with a roar that shook the ground fang charges the ranks.