Cross-Realm Raiding
Chapter Six
Korin once again stood infront of the strange machine, only this time with the goblin mage Wuzzle. Turns out the risk was worth proving gnomish engineering inferior to goblin ingenuity. Wuzzle began tearing the machine out bit by bit and reconnecting wires. The more he worked, the more hope gleamed in Korins eyes. At last he would be the one to save his brother. Wuzzle began pulling on an abnormally tight wire connected to a strange gnome gadget.
"Trans... dimensional... gah forget it. gnome crap, might as well yank it out of there."
At this the machine burst into an explosion, and for a moment Korin thought Wuzzle was gone. It was until a giant ice black came crashing down with Wuzzle frozen inside that Korin was worried, now he was dis trout. His only way back to his brother, destroyed. Wuzzle said farewell, eager to be done with the machine, and teleported away. Korin was left by the machine wreckage, or so he thought.
The smoke finally dies down enough to reveal a portal floating just about the wreckage. The portal shown with bright colors and rainbows. Korin could almost hear... singing... He lept into the magic hole to find his brother.
"No! I will not! You already made me deal with one dragon, I am not going after another!" Fluttershy meekly stated in a stern quiet tone.
"But Fluttershy, we need you. This is a threat to all of Equestria, and I thought you were over your fear of dragons." Twilight pleaded. Twilight showed up shortly after Applejack, Fayt, and Bishibosh arrived at the dragon corpse.
"No...." Fluttershy moaned.
The ponies tried to plead with Fluttershy but didn't seem to be making much progress. Bishibosh hatched an Idea.
"Flutter, If I may call you that. We havn't been introduced. My name is Bishibosh, but you may call me Bishi for short." Bishibosh said in a friendly voice. Fluttershy looked up at the new pony and backed away, cowering her head into the ground.
"It's ok, I am a friend of Twilights and Applejacks. You can trust me."
"Fluttershy, this here cowpony (Author snicker here) just took down that big dragon the other day. He saved my orchard, and all the little animals who lived there." Applejack said.
At this Fluttershy raised her head, eyes wide. Slowly trotting up to Bishi, she looked him eye to eye. This made Bishi a little shy himself.
"Applejack is the most honest pony in Ponyville, if she trusts you, then I trust you." Fluttershy finally managed to speak to Bishi.
"Good, now I'm going to help you with your fear of dragons. ok?" Bishi asked.
"H- how?"
"Like this..."
The sand beneath Bishibosh began to mold up his four legs. Sand coming from almost nowhere just climbed on him and formed a shell of sand and stone. Golden gems erupted from the shell, suprising enough to make all three present ponies jump. Twilight was the most intrigued. The shell was finally formed, and only seconds after forming it cracked from the top down. Two golden wings burst from the shell and a gemmed claw rose from the bottom. Slaming down on the ground, the shell was shattered, and in the midst of the sand and dust Bishibosh stood. Wings out regally, the new dragon form then folded its wings and stood before the three ponies.
All three ponies stood in absolute awe. Twilight had researched transformation spells but never anything of this scale. The magical prowess of this earth pony was amazing to behold. Applejack just stood before the dragon, jaw dropped to the floor. Fluttershy however stared at Bishibosh, and began to walk towards him. Fearful but knowing she was safe, after all, Applejack trusts him. Just as Fluttershy was close enough to touch the hard rocky scales, something exploded behind them. The sound was familiar to the three ponies but foreign to Bishi and Fayt.
"A sonic rainboom..." Said the three ponies in unison.
"But that's not Rainbows... It's gold... and... white?" Twilight observed.
The trail behind the shockwave went straight into the ground, and the trail above just ended abruptly. As if dropped from nothing. At this Bishi bolted into the air, unaware of his first class passenger.
Korin was shot towards the ground at lightning speed. The shock of changing realms almost knocked him senseless but he recovered. Focusing his magic he began to form his holy wings to slow his decent, but the speed was too much. They formed but were left behind him. He felt the air beating harder on his face and his body curved downward, and his body had a sensation it never felt before. He began to flex these new muscles on his back trying to relax them but doing so only sped up his decent. He closed his eyes and focused one more burst of the light from his body.
The fall was only getting faster and Korin felt a pressure building on his face, it was as if the sky itself was giving resistance. At this point it was either keep falling and be crushed by this force or chance the divine shield for a landing, but first he had to break this invisible barrier crushing him. Conserving enough energy for the shield, Korin focused what was left into a judgement on the barrier. The golden blade of light thrust from his body and peirced the barrier cruching him, following after the sword shattered and the barrier exploded behind Korin, launching him into the ground. not even seconds to cast the spell he released all the energy he could. He saw trees, and then black...
Fluttershy held on as tight as she could as Bishibosh raced to the crash site. Completely unaware of her presence Bishibosh nosedived into the woods. He landed and folded his wings, and the sandstone began to chip and crumble off of his coat, along with a certain blond coat, pink mane, shier than all get out pony.
"Flutter! I'm so sorry I didn't even feel you on me back! Oh god... I just made you even more terrified of dragons... Dammit!" Bishi ranted but Fluttershy clumsily walked over to him and fell forward onto Bishi immediately turning both ponies fifty shades of red.
"I'm so sorry! that was an accident! but... I'm not scared of... I mean..." Flutter began to trail off.
"It's fine Flutter, lets go find out what that crash was..."
The two ponies made it to the crater, and it looked just as expected. Smoking, burnt tree's, and looks like half a pack of Timber Wolves. From the smoke came a dark figure, mostly clouded by the smoke. But Bishi recognized him even in a pony form. There was no mistaking the judgement armor of his only brother. Korin Creststrider.