Cross-Realm Raiding

by Bishibosh the Shaman


Peace and Legends

Cross-Realm Raiding
Chapter Eight

The party was over, everypony went on home to sleep and prepare for the trek to discover the dragon roost. With an estimated day's worth of preparation time, everyone was eager to get done so they could enjoy the last day in Ponyville for a while. Twilight went back to her library and pulled out every book she could find on dragons and twilight magic but found none on the latter. Bishi followed to help with her research, Fayt stayed at the farm, no doubt scaring the fillies who hung around. And Korin went with rainbow dash to learn how to fly.

Bishi and Twilight arrived at the library. The morning light had just barely peeked out from the horizon and Twilight had a gleam in her eye. As soon as the door opened she rushed inside and started pulling books off the shelf and skimming them for anything worth reading. Bishi grabbed a few himself and started reading as well, at least until the books were pulled from his hoofs to Twilight for her to read. He finally just sat down and watched, until He noticed a book on the desk. 'Magic and the Elements' By Unknown. Not quite unknown though.

"Twilight, where did you get this book?" Bishi asked.
"Oh, it just showed up one day. I've read through it but..." Twilight began to remember what was in the book, and it was ripped through the air into her eyesite as she burned through the pages. "Ah HAH! Twilight magic! Used by a cult of twisted zealots called The Twilight's Hammer, ushers of the appocalypse? I've never heard of such, surely Celestia would have picked up on such a threat."
"Unless they have somehow cloaked themselves from her site. The Twilight's Hammer is a cult from Azeroth. My world. And that book is also from my world, written by one of the, if not THE, most powerful shaman to exist. Go'el, or more known as... Thrall" Bishibosh stated with a cold silence. "They have almost destroyed Azeroth three times now, with the aid of an old god..."

At this Twilight was silent, Bishibosh sounded like he was telling a horror story but he spoke with the utmost certainty. She then began writing a letter to Celestia informing her of what they have discovered.


Fayt was taking a stealthy walk through the orchard, trying to avoid Applejack and her work habits. Fayt had no business bucking tree's so she put him to work in other ways, like rotten apple disposal... Fayt took a turn through a thicket and discovered a small tree house. He ran inside. There he waited for all of ten minutes before he heard clopping going up the wooden ramp. He was cornered, He knew he didn't have the physical strength to fight off Applejack and her perception and speed were to match with his. He laid down and pretended to take a nap thinking maybe she would be easy on him if she thought he was still tired from the party, but when the door opened it wasn't one big pony, but three smaller ponies.

"Hey! who are you and what are you doing in our tree house!" said the short red pegasas.
"Yeah! This is priva... privabt... uhhh" said the little white one.
"Private property Sweetie Bell, and yeah! what they said!" said the little yellow one.
"Shush! or else she will find and KILL me!" Fayt pleaded.
"Who? is someone trying to hurt you!? We will protect you!" Said the yellow one again.
"Uh Apple, I don't think that's a good idea." Said the red one.
"Scootaloo, what if this is how we get our cutie marks!? cant you imagine? The saving a strangers life mark!" Said the one named Apple.
"I think it's a great Idea! who are we protecting him from?" Sweetie Bell Asked.
"Uhm, her." Fayt pointed out the window to a large shadowed pony.

Lighting struck from nowhere and lit up the terrifying face of a pissed off mare. There was nothing on the face of Azeroth that scared Fayt, but in Equestria there was at least one. All three of the fillies all backed up next to Fayt with the same terror, when Apple Bloom got an idea.

"Sis, wait don't hurt him. He was up here helping us! We drug him up here because we thought he could help us get our cutie marks! I'm sorry we stole your help..." Apple Bloom said in her most pathetic sounding voice. Both the other fillies chimed in and Fayt just started nodding and smiling.

"Well... I guess it's ok, THIS time, You got lucky Fayt. Next time you sneak out on work I'll tan your hide myself." Applejack glared at Fayt and walked away.

All three of the fillies then immediately started staring at their flanks.

"Do you see anything?"
"Nope, not yet. how about you two?"
"No..."
"Nuh uh..."

The three sighed and sat back down with a dejected look on their faces.

"Ok, whats the matter with you three?" Fayt asked with his dry grumbly voice.
"We were hoping to get our cutie marks, We have been at it for a looooong time..." Apple Bloom responded.
"Uh... cutie mark?"
"Oh you know, it the mark we get on our flanks showing we found our unique talent!"
"Unique talent... so this just appears on your ass when you find out what you're good at eh?"
"Hey watch your mouth! We can't have that kind of laung... longu..." Sweetie Pie Began.
"Language Sweetie, and yeah! but yeah, it shows up when we find out what we are good at, which is why we saved you!" Scootaloo said.
"Huh... so... your talents and traits are based on this... mark?"

All three fillies nodded and smiled.

"And... you follow it blindly?"

Again all three smiled and nodded.

"Sounds like a load of shi... crap... to me"
"But mister Fayt, it happened to every pony! It's like... fate!" Apple Bloom then began laughing.
"I don't believe in any fate but one." Fate stated "Everybody er... pony... has but one thing in life they are fated to do, and as long as you three live, you do everything you can to stay away from that fate. Otherwise you may end up like me..."
"Wow... Mister Fayt, that was... so corny!" Scootaloo cracked and All three of the fillies fell down on the ground and laughed.
"Wait, Mister Fayt, YOU don't have a cutie mark!" Sweetie Bell pointed out.
"Hey you're right Sweetie! He doesn't!" Apple Bloom agreed.
"You know what this means?" Scootaloo asked.
"Oh boy... what could you three miscreant urchins have in store for me..." Fayt asked sarcastically.
"You should join the CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!!!!!" All three fillies screamed in unison.

Fayt stared at the three fillies in obvious un-amusement, but then he cracked a smile.
"Ok, I'll be a crusader. Why the hell not..."


"Come on slow poke! What happened to all that speed before!? I want to see that gap closed in ten seconds! Flat!" Rainbow Dash screamed as Korin was trying to follow behind. Rainbow dash agreed to be his personal trainer seeing as how he is a grown stallion and thus not quite fit for the academy. He wasn't doing too bad, but he still had a lot of air to cover, and Rainbow was not about to make it easy on him.

"Hey my pet turtle can flay faster than you! Pick. Up. The. Pace!"

Korin was flying as fast as he could, even though he volunteered to wear his plate mail in the air he had wish he didn't. The sheer weight of the armor on his now weaker pony body was almost unbearable, but he remembers his sunwalker training. He presses on. Rainbow flew back and slowed down to his pace and started faking weaknesses then flew off laughing. Even though he recognized her superiority in the air, he was not amused by her prodding.

"Come on Dash, think. This guy made a sonic rainboom not five seconds coming here. What can I do to goad him into doing it again. I got it!" Rainbow said to herself. She flew onward for a ways and darted down to the ground only to loop back up. Unbeknownst to Korin she had grabbed a few rocks to chuck at him from behind. She threw them and hit dead on the bottom of his wings, temporarily causing him to fall. He couldnt get his wings back to flying, so he just fell. and fell. and fell and fell. until at the very last moment...

A flash of light just before hitting the ground, he had protected himself with the divine shield once again. Rainbow flew down angrily.

"What was that!? Why didn't you do the sonic rainboom!?" Rainbow complained.
"The what? I thought you were teaching me to fly, not do tricks!" Korin protested.

This went on for hours until finally Bishi and Twilight caught up.


"Rainbow! Hurry!" Twilight yelled.
"Twilight?" Rainbow asked as she turned around. Seeing her friend running she bolted towards her. Korin followed but at a slow trot on the ground.
"What did you need Twi"
"Rainbow! we need your help!"
"With?"

At this Bishi stepped forward.

"We need you to fly around the general area of ponyville and watch for signs of dragons."
"Uhhh ok, why me?"
"Because, no other pegasi could out fly and out maneuver a dragon."

Rainbow glowed with pride.

"I'm your girl..."