//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 a new arrival // Story: fenrisulfr // by Trollmannen //------------------------------// Chapter one: a new arrival „Ponyville…haven’t bin here in years.“ A smooth deep voice said. The Voice belonged to a wolf-like creature who stood on a hill, from which he could overlook the little town. „So this is the town told me about?“ asked a creature, that looked almost like a small copy of the first speaker. „indeed little brother… if those ponies will let us stay that is.“ The taller one replied. He turned around and walked over to a large carriage , which probably contained their furniture and other belongings. It didn't look different than any other carriage except for the wheels, who seemed to be made out of stone instead of wood and steel. „wait here“ he said „i'm going to town to ask the mayor for her permission. He said and walked towards Ponyville. Upon entering the town a few ponies gasped and looked at him with interest. Fenrir approached them and cleared his throat. “Hey uhm can somepony please tell me where to find the mayors office?” He asked with a friendly smile, revealing his pointy teeth. “Monster!” a pink pony with a yellow mane screamed and galloped away screaming Monster over and over. Fenrir facepalmed, shook his head and walked further in to the now empty town Twilight sat at her desk about to finish a friendship-report for the princess while drinking her morning coffee. When she suddenly was interrupted by her friends who stormed in to the library slamming the door behind them. “Quick hide us” Pinkie Pie said and hid under a table Fluttershy followed her lead and hid in a closet. “From what” Twilight asked a bit annoyed that she was disturbed in her work. “There’s a strange creature lurking around outside.” Rainbow Dash said frightful “And what is the creature doing?” Twilight asked with an sigh. “we don’t know bud he looks mighty scary Twi and he caries a weapon with him” applejack said. “Girls this is Zecora all over again, just because something looks scary or evil doesn't mean that it is. I thought you girls have learned from the last time” Twilight said. There was a knocking on the door and the six mares froze. Twilight walked towards the door. “Don't do it twilight maybe its him.” Pinkie said. Twilight rolled her eyes and opened. “Excuse me miss is this town hall.” The wolf-like creature, who stood in front of the library, said. Twilight looked at the creature she had never seen anything like it. he looked kinda like a diamond dog but he stood more upright than one. He was taller than the average pony maybe a few inches taller than princess Luna and had a muscular grey coated body. The greatest difference between him and a diamond dog was the fact that he possessed a mane and his eyes although a lot smaller looked more like the one of a pony, and his paws, while still looking like paws, it's fingers seemed to be more developed than one of a diamond dog was. His mane was black, came and reached to his chest and was braided to what Twilight recognized as dreadlocks like the zebra tribes-colts wore. In addition to the mane the fur on the end of his lower jaw was longer than the rest of his coat and braided in to two slim braids with three beads holding each one in shape. He wore a black hooded sweater, along with some bracers a belt with a dagger and a silver necklace with a ornate star-symbol as a tag. “Eh no” twilight said not knowing how she had to react. “Well could somepony show me?” he asked rubbing the back of his head “i’m kinda lost.” “...Sure...” Twilight answered “...wait a second i’l be right back.” The creature smiled and nodded. “what did he want?” Rainbow Dash asked. “He just asked if somepony could show him where town-hall is and i'm happy to do so” Twilight replied annoyed of her cyan friends xenophobia “Darling you can’t be serious about showing that dreadful creature around town.” “Girls! This is ridiculous you don’t know anything about him stop judging him Gah!” Twilight said angry and left the library slamming the door behind her and huffed. “trouble’” the wolf asked. “no but my friends are rather xenophobic and it annoys me bucking much.” Twilight clasped her hooves over her mouth and apologized for cursing the Wolf shrugged “Well evereypony has his flaws.” He said ignoring her cursing as they began to walk through the town receiving some fearful and suspicious looks through the windows.“my name by the way is Twilight Sparkle” Twilight said trying to start a conversation “what’s your name” “my name is Fenrir” Fenrir replied “that’s an odd name does it mean something” “well it’s the name of a mystical creature.” Fenrir said a prideful undertone in his voice. “Sounds interesting...so where are you from?” She then asked “I've traveled around for a long time but i originally come from the taiga...but that was...long ago” he said a sad expression appeared on his face. “What happened back then” twilight asked “i prefer not to talk about it.” “oh” Twilight replied a bit disappointed “can i ask you an other question?” “ask away.” Fenrir said. “What are you?” “I am a Nephillim we where also called the old ones by you ponies.” “hmmm sounds familiar i'm sure i have read that term somewhere but really never heard of them before.” Twilight said thoughtfully. “that’s because there are almost none of us around anymore.” Fenrir replied with again a sad expression. “oh look there is the towns hall.” Twilight said and pointed with her hoof to the building. “Thank you very much have nice day.” he said and walked towards the building. “wait” Twilight said “i'm coming with you” “whatever” he said “some company is always good” he continued and smiled. When they reached town-hall Fenrir knocked on the door. “nopony here” a frighted voice called out “its me Twilight” “oh in that case” the mayor said and opened the door but when she saw Fenrir she tried to slam the the door shut but Fenrir stopped her simply by holding his hand against the door. The mayor pushed with all the strength she had but was no match for the Nephillim who had an amused smirk on his face. “You don’t have to worry miss mayor he won’t harm you he just wants to ask you something.” Twilight said “what do you want to ask her anyway?” “Well i wanted to ask if my brother and i could buy some property around here.” Twilight looked at him a bit surprised “there...is no house free at the moment” the mayor began hesitantly “...but...there is a old barn that’s not occupied at the border of the everfree forest but it’s in a very bad state.” “Sounds good enough i’l buy it.” Fenrir replied. “is this enough?” he pulled out a small bag full of bits out of the pocket of his sweater. “Well...yes...that will do” the mayor replied. After Fenrir had signed every document that was required he said “i have to go to get my stuff and my little brother so i can bring them to my new property.” “I'm happy to show you the way.” Twilight said. They both exited townhall and went on their way to Fenrirs brother, who still waited at the carriage for his brother’s return. “What took you so long?” The young Nephillim asked “I eh had some trouble finding the major but this fine young mare helped me out.” Fenrir replied giving Twilight a friendly pat on her shoulder. After Twilight introduced her self Fenrir’s brother punched his right fist into his left paw and presented his throat to her “nice to meet you miss sparkle my name is Tyr.” Tyr looked almost the same as his brother but he was a lot smaller not much taller than the regular school fillies. He wore also a black hooded sweater, with the same symbol on it as on his brother’s necklace. His eyes where as blue and clear as a Lake while his brother’s where a dull leaf-green also he didn't have the same haircollor as Fenrir. The hair on his head where a very light blond and reached to his shoulders. Instead of the dreadlocks he wore his hair open and uncombed. He also lacked the longer fur on his chin. “How will you be able to bring all your stuff to your property?” Twilight asked after inspecting the large carriage “you will see.” Tyr said as he hopped on the wagon and sat down with his legs crossed. His brother stood in front of it and took the bracket in to his paws. Tyr closed his eyes as soon as he did, an aura of green light appeared around the wheels, who began to rotate almost instantly. Twilight was amazed by that due to the fact, that she couldn't detect any magic.“how do you do that?” Twilight asked Tyr didn't answer because he was to concentrated, to notice the question. “I will tel you later but for now let it rest.” Fenrir said pulling them into the direction Twilight had told him to go. After a while they reached an old barn who was located at the edge of the everfree forest not far from Fluttershy’s home and it looked like it was going to collapse soon. “That... looks bad.” Tyr stated after he broke his concentration. Fenrir nodded and said “step back you two” he stepped in front of the barn, took a deep breath, pulled his arms back and thrusted them forwards. Twilights jaw fell, as she saw how the Barn was blasted into peaces who flew a good 32 feet away from it's previous location by a strong shock wave. Fenrir then stomped on the ground and rose his Arms. Out of the ground, where the old house stood, four plates of stone came out of the earth, and formed the frame of a house. Fenrir then made a few movements with his hands, and a hole as big as a regular door appeared, and after a few more movements some more holes probably for windows appeared. After a few more moves a few more plates appeared inside, forming walls for the rooms. Twilight coulden’t believe what she had seen “pretty impressive don’t you think.” Tyr said as he saw the baffled expression on her face. “How did you...” she said and scanned around searching for traces of magic but didn't find any. “You know what Twilight.” Fenrir said panting a bit as if he had ran the running of the leaves. “Stay for dinner and i will explain it to you.” Half an hour later dinner was ready. “what is this?” twilight asked looking at the strange corn on her plate. “You never had rice before?” Tyr asked. Twilight shook her head. “Ok...well dig in it’s delicious.” He said with a smile. After they finished their meals Twilight said “that was nice.” “It was not much but without a good kitchen, no fancy meal ey. When the house is finished i'l make you something better.” Fenrir said and smiled. After he brought Tyr to bed, he stepped out of the carriage with a bottle in his right paw, which contained a clear yellow liquid ,along with two cups. He then threw some wood into the campfire he made earlier and sad next to twilight. “What’s that?” she asked pointing at the bottle. “It’s called mead It’s Wine made out of honey instead of grape juice. It was a traditional drink of my people.” He filled two cups and gave one Twilight who grabbed it with her telekinesis. She took a small sip, licked her lips and then emptied the cup in one gulp. “mmmh that’s delicious can i have some more please.” She then asked. “Sure but don’t drink it to fast, you will regret that tomorrow.” Fenrir replied while filling up her cup. “so you want to know about what i did earlier.” Fenrir began and took a sip from his cup. “Well i wouldn't have bin that amazed by it if it was magic... but i scanned the area looking for traces of magic but i couldn't find anything.” “That’s because it wasn't magic.” Fenrir replied. “It’s something, only members of my kind can perform. It’s called manipulating, steering and some called it bending. For example i manipulated the earth in the area round the Barn, to form walls.” He took another sip before continuing. “We haven’t completely figured out how exactly it works, but you ponyfolk haven’t found out how magic exactly works either. For some reason we just can do it.” Twilight nodded slowly trying to understand. “Normally a Nephillim is able to control only one of the five elements but...” “Hold on” Twilight interrupted “What do you mean by five elements you know there are only four elements right?” Fenrir chuckled “The fifth element is energy i don’t know why ponies don’t count it as one anymore but who cares. Anyway as i said a Nephillim is normally able to control only one element however some of us like me and my brother are able to control all five we were called "stark blod" which means strong blood in my language. My brother already mastered water and earth and is now training to control fire. He then stood up and walked a few steps back. “Watch this.” He said. He first made a few fluent moves concentrating on the creek, that ran near his home and water floated towards him forming a ball between his paws. He let the water-ball fly into a nearby tree and stomped on the ground, causing a rock to jump up which he kicked away, then a fire ignited from his paws, after the fire extinguished he thrusted his paws forwards and a gush of air hit twilight causing her to fall over. Fenrir laughed and apologized. Then twilight saw sparks jump around his arms and as fenrir thrusted his hands forwards once more a lightning-beam appeared from his paws. “That was amazing.” Twilight said “That was nothing” Fenrir said and shrugged. “Just some basic moves.” He then sad back down next to Twilight and emptied his cup of Mead. He then refilled both of their cups. They sat around the fire talking. After the whole bottle was empty Fenrir got up and said “I think i'm going to hit the hay i really enjoyed talking to you.” “Yea i think i...i will head back home and get some sleep my...my self.” She said and stood up. “You sure your alright. I think you had a little to much.” Fenrir said raising a eyebrow when he saw twilight stagger a bit. “No no i'm fine the fresh air will clear my head.” Twilight said and began walking back to Ponyville. “Well in that case good night twilight.” He said and went into the carriage. When Twilight got back home she instantly wrote a letter to the Princess. Dear Princess Celestia, Today it was proven once more, that you shouldn't judge a book by it’s cover and that even though the new pony you meet seems scary or weird first. He or she can turn very out to be very nice. The reason i write you this, is that i met two new ponies today well technically their not ponies they belong to a race called Nephillim which i never heard of till today. His name is Fenrir and his brother is called Tyr. They have moved to Ponyville after years of travelling around. And they posses some strange power you maybe have heard of it’s called Manipulating or steering. With that ability they are capable to control the elements. I would love you to meet them the next time you come to Ponyville. Your faithfull student Twilight Sparkle.