//------------------------------// // The Twin Horned Tyrant // Story: Monsters Out Of Place // by funky108108 //------------------------------// Chapter two: The Twin Horned Tyrant Diablos was one of the most powerful monster in the desert, I say ‘one’ of the most powerful, her only rival was the Deviljho that stalked the sandy plains, at the present moment, the two massive beasts where fighting, Diablos had the upper hand. She dug up from the ground and badly scarred the deviljho, which in turn bit one of her horns, the Deviljho’s vice grip tugging on her horn. Before she knew it, the Diablos was being flung into the air, a terrible cracking sound echoing throughout the sandy plains, audible even by the veggie elder, one of Diablos’ signature horns had been torn of her head, leaving a large patch of her scalp unprotected, revealing the flesh. If Deviljho could grin, well, lets just say that it would look, very creepy, seeing the flesh on her scalp. Deviljho lunged forwards at the retreating Diablos, just managing to clamp his jaws on her tail, pulling its form out of the ground, and making it land on its back, just like before, deviljho lunged forwards, this time to bite her scalp, but he ended up doing more than just that The beast tore through the Diablos’ scalp, reaching all the way through to her brain, being torn out, leaving the Diablos flailing about, before going limp, the Deviljho let out a triumphant roar. Another meal to quench its unending hunger. Ponyville; sugar cube corner The loud clattering and banging of pans could be heard from inside the kitchen of the sugar cube, Pinkie Pie, being the alert pony that she is, literally jumped into the kitchen, as far as she knew Gummy wasn’t let out of his space-time continuum loop, so who could it be? As she landed softly on the tiled floor, Pinkie heard another clattering of pans before an audible gasp escaped through the wooden door, she slammed open the door to find a large earth pony mare, rivalling even Big Macintosh in size, she was a light, sandy brown colour, her mane was a darker shade of brown, done up in bangs, her fringe was cut clean apart from the two parts of her hair that were draped over her face, that were cut into the shape of horns. Pinkie gasped as she realised that a large part of her scalp was missing, being the pony that she was, she did the only thing that she did better than throw parties, panicked. Little did she know, that she had awoken the sleeping mare. “Where… am I?” the pony looked around, then something caught her eye, something pink. She looked at her claws…claws, where were her claws?! She looked around franticly, why? What had she done to deserve this! The Diablos sighed before calming herself “I’m not completely hopeless, I can try and walk with these… stumps” she shakily got to her new found appendages, she would debate what they are later that day, she started to walk, as she did though, she noticed a distinct ’clop’ sound from every step. She kept on walking… and falling… and walking, until a laugh came from the pink object that she was walking (or trotting) towards, and then a cheery voice. “Do ya’ need a hoof with that?” the being questioned oh… how was she going to communicate? How was she understanding any of this anyway? She mustered all of her knowledge and came up with the most valiant effort she could give “Yes.. Please” How was she doing this?! How are they speaking the same language! Anyway, She remembered what her mother had taught her, always be polite “can I ask your name please?” Diablos said meekly. “My name’s Pinkie Pie!, I also go by; Pinkie, pie, Pinkie Pinkie, Pie Pie and, my least favourite of the bunch, Pinkamena Dian pie!” she smiled, Diablos couldn’t help smiling either from her bubbly nature. “I think I’ll just stick with Pinkie” she grabbed Pinkies limb and shakily got up to her legs “My names Diablos by the way” she had been very wary of the pink… thing as soon as she was awake, but seeing as she was being very hospitable, she guessed that she would have to return the favour eventually Pinkie frowned at Diablos’ large cut “we’re going to have top go to doctors to sort that out, oh! I know! On the way there I can ask you how you got in my kitchen!” Pinkie Pie opened the door to the bakery, or at least Diablos assumed it was a bakery, from all the cakes and biscuits, her mother taught her about human culture after all, after Diablos had gotten to her feet, they walked out of the door to go to the doctor, then she began talking again “So, how did you end up in the kitchen?” Diablos just shrugged her shoulders. “You know about as much as I do on that basis” she said “The only thing I can remember are my name, my mother, and how to talk, luckily, walking seems almost beyond me at the moment” at this statement Pinkie frowned. “We really need to get you to the hospital I think you might have amnesia or something, perhaps they might be able to help you remember some things about your home” As they walked through the winding paths of the town in the dimming sunlight they talked about each others past, however the citizens observed Diablos’ scalp, they were visibly worried of her condition. As they approached the hospital the dim red light of the cross atop the roof illuminated the front of the doorway. Pinkie opened the door for Diablos. As they entered the white building a pony bearing a white hat with a red cross on the front of it walked up to them “Hello my name nurse redhear- oh my!” she covered her mouth with her hoof, at least that’s what pinkie called it “We have to get you to a medical bed immediately!” she rushed the larger mare over to a medical bed where two more ponies were waiting, as soon as Diablos lied down on the medical bed, they started the surgery on her scalp nurse Redheart frowned. “I’m really sorry about this, we don’t have any sedatives, so you’ll just have to endure it, I’m really sorry” they started to sow the scalp back together, managing to spill minimum blood, before tying a bandage around her head, covering her scalp, Diablos merely grimaced throughout the ordeal. After they had finished the final checkups, nurse Redheart came up to the two ponies with a piece of paper, she frowned once again and began to speak “I… hate to inform you miss…?” Diablos nodded “Diablos Hammer” nurse Redheart nodded meekly and continued her speech “Well miss Diablos, I hate to inform you, but I fear that you may have a case of serious brain damage” Diablos frowned at the statement furrowed her brow “It never seemed to stop me before, so why should it stop me now?” the nurse sighed. “That’s the thing, none of the doctors know how, but you seem to be missing half of your brain, there’s no incision on the scalp, so how half of your brain is missing completely eludes us, never mind how you’re still talking” Diablos gasped when she realised what she was talking about, that deviljho! It tore out her brain! Now she remembered! The nurse looked at her questionably “Do you remember how it happened?” The former beast decided to leave the details of the Deviljho, but instead kept the fighting part of the story. “I got into a fight with anther pony, he brought a sledgehammer, that’s how I got the scar, I was born with half of my brain missing, my other half is just as good as two halves” as much as Diablos hated lying, she decided that it would be better than giving them the gory details “My thought process has always been the same as anypony else’s” she remembered back to when pinkie was referring to ‘everyone’ as ‘anypony’ on the way to the hospital. The nurse sighed again before continuing "If what you said is true, then we have every right to let you go, but do tell how you got into the fight in the first place” Diablos let a bead of sweat drop down her neck before continuing herself “I was walking down an alley, when a large green pony stepped out of a corner with a sledgehammer, he started to attack me by swinging for my head, I got a good few hits on his chest as well, that is before he managed to hit me around the scalp with his hammer” just then, a stinging pain coursed through her forehead, she put up a hoof to help ease the pain, but only ended up losing her balance and toppling over, Pinkie let out a small giggle and helped Diablos up to her hooves again, the large mare thanked pinkie, the nurse smiled and nodded before carrying on. “Very well then, I’ll take your word for it, but if I find out that you’ve been in any more unnecessary fights, I’ll have to report you to the council” she looked at the bandage over the mares head “That bandage should last for a fair few weeks, in that time though, there will be a lot of pain in that area, just try not to think too hard, or fall down any stairs and you’ll be fine” Diablos and Pinkie nodded in unison “now then, does this pony have anywhere to stay, pinkie?” The pink pony shook her head before talking again “Nope! Not that I know of anyhow, right Blos?” The brown mare shook her head “hmm… oh! I know! Maybe we can have a super-duper-mega slumber party, for until you get yourself a job and a house!” The mare smiled at the pink party pony and replied “Thank you so much pinkie! I hadn’t really considered where I was going to sleep the night, kind of a one track mind” she frowned again “Though I am definitely going to make it up to you somehow” The pink mare laughed and then sighed “you’re already starting to make it up to me! A smile means something more than just a smile to me, its like sending me feelings, and I just file them away so I can give them back to someone else, ‘I give a smile, I get a smile’ probably the best motto I’ve ever heard!” The two ponies smiled at each other before returning there gaze to the nurse “Nurse Redheart, thank you so much! You need a party! That’ll take too much planning at the moment, so please accept this hug as a gift” Pinkie literally jumped onto the nurse and began the crush all the air out of her lungs. “Pinkie… can’t… breath” the nurse just managed to choke out, the over exited mare released her grasp and got up