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// corruption 
// Story: Guardians of the world 
// by The Walker 
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(Location: Trench in Ocean)
Lugia’s eyes snapped opened as he looked around. Something was wrong, but he wasn’t sure what it was. Lugia Reviewed what he currently knew at the moment, hoping to discover what was wrong as he started to swim upwards toward the surface. Last he recalled was agreeing to be put into a deep slumber to wait the day that their enemy would eventually break free from his prison. He and the rest of the Guardians knew that the prison wouldn’t be able to hold the enemy forever. Lugia halted his swimming as he noticed something out of his eye. He turned to face the glowing aura lines that signified Kyogre.

“Kyogre” Lugia called out telepathically. “Why have you not started heading towards the prison to defend the ocean if the enemy tries to escape to it?” The black shadow with Kyogre’s aura lines didn’t answer. “Kyogre, answer me?” Lugia moved in closer. Lugia backwards as the shadow darted towards him and entered the light. “That is not right.”

Kyogre’s body was covered in black veins that seemed to pulse. Lugia stared as the veins seemed to spread farther onto Kyogre. “That cannot be good.” Suddenly Kyogre charged at Lugia. Lugia launched himself upwards and swam for the surface as fast as he could. He heard Kyogre following him. He had to warn someone about Kyogre becoming corrupted.

Just as Lugia was about to burst out of the surface, he felt razor sharp teeth enclose around his leg. As Lugia looked down and saw Kyogre tearing into his leg he only had two words for him. “Get off.” Lugia opened his mouth and release an Aeroblast straight into Kyogre’s face. Lugia brought his wings down and burst from the sea trailing blood from his leg. He started flying towards land and a place to rest his leg and heal. After that he would warn the other Guardians about Kyogre’s corruption.



(Location: Prison)
The being thrashed against the physical bonds that held it. It had broken the bindings that held it in slumber and was now attempting to shatter the bindings that held its body back. The being stopped thrashing for a moment as it felt something touch his mind. It felt the corruption of Kyogre that had occurred while he had been sleeping and remembered how he had wounded the great sea beast with one of its poisoned claws.  The being knew that Kyogre was unable to free him from his land prison, but that he had wounded Lugia.

The being listened to Kyogre’s mind and then cast out his awareness across the land and listened to the beings that lived there now. They were not the ones called humans that had assisted the Guardians long ago, but they were still sentient beings that he could bend to his will with time. The thing shuffled as the chains that bond its body could not bind his mind. So for the first time in many eons, the beings body slumped and his mind left the prison. The being had no power over the physical world while like this, but he was free to influence the minds of these ponies. The enemy turned north as he felt the presence of something dark there. Someone who could be his ally in the fight.



(Location: Ponyville)
The cutie mark crusaders were wondering in the Everfree forest. They were on their way back from back from Zecoras after trying to get her to assist them in a quest for a ghost catching cutie mark. She had turned them down, telling them there were no ghosts in the Everfree.  They were currently arguing about the existence of ghosts in the Everfree.

“I’m telling you Scootaloo there isn’t any ghosts in the Everfree.”

“And I’m telling you Sweetie belle that there are.”

“Yeah Sweetie belle, if there aren’t any ghosts in here then why is everyone saying it’s haunted.”

“I would think it’s because it’s a dark and scary forest no one likes.”

“See he agrees with me…….” Sweetie belle’s voice trailed off as she slowly turned her head to see you had spoken. Her eyes widened and she took off screaming. The other two crusaders turned to look and likewise took off screaming down the path to Ponyville.




Madame Mare was enjoying the peace and quiet of the day when it was suddenly shattered by the screaming of the cutie mark crusaders as they ran through the town center. They came to a stop in front of her and started gasping for air.

“Girls, why are you screaming like that?”

The crusaders started to all talk at once and Madame Mare only caught bits of it like Everfree and monster and ghosts. She scowled as she waved her hoof at them and they quieted down.

“Girls, you should know better than to go into the Everfree forest. I thought you would have been taught that there are no such things as ghosts.”

“Then why do you have stories about ghosts if they are not real.”

Madame Mare turned to answer the question giver and froze at the sight. Floating in front of her was a being that was mostly black with what looked like the bottom of a red jaw surrounding its head. It had white hair that floated in the air and was looking at her curiously.

“Hello, I am Darkrai.” Madame Mare promptly collapsed as Darkrai looked on in confusion at her actions. He turned to the crusaders who turned white at his gaze. “Was it something I said?” The crusaders also promptly fainted as Darkrai scratched his head in confusion. He didn’t think he had been that scary. He hadn’t even put them in a Nightmare yet. He turned his head in the direction of the prison and blinked.

“That can’t be good.” Upon the mountain where the prison’s door was sealed shut sat a city built out of white marble. Darkrai sunk into the shadows and moved towards the city that he would start investigating immediately to learn why it was built on top of the prison.