The Terrarians

by Space Wizard Novablast


Chapter 2: the prophecy

What the hay is this place? That was the question circulating through twilight mind as she looked around in the alien worlds

She had no idea, it looked like Equestria, it felt like Equestria. Hay, it even smelled like Equestria. But still, certain things were off.

For a start there were what looked like blobs of jelly bouncing around, both of a blue, green and purple variant. Still, they didn't look too threatening.

But, she had to find the others. For some reason they weren't in the same place. If only she had gone through at the same time as them. But still, no time to waste. She could vaguely see some treetops in the distance, she supposed this was as good a place to start as any.

But she could hear, something.

She could hear whispers, sounded like arguing, and it could only be her friends. She ran up to greet them, happy to have some familiar comfort in an alien world, unlike last time.

Although, this should prove much too similar to last time.

The three creatures who obviously weren't her friends had similar build to humans, but a little bit smaller. Although that wasn't the weird -or scary- part.

All three of them was wearing different colors of armor, one of them was a dark blue with small white specs, he carried what was obviously a gun on his back, and his helmet had a threeway binocular. There was another one wearing armor that made him look like a turtle, and on closer inspection. It was made of turtle shells, he had a huge green axe on his back. The third was wearing armor that looked incredibly light but still sturdy. It was a clear icy color, and his weapon of choice seemed to be a huge green and purple sword.

Whatever they were, they weren't her friends. So she had no choice but to just leave, she went to turn.....

....and stood face to face with one of the green blobs from before.

She stood frozen for a while looking into the shifting form of this..... thing.

Suddenly the humans she had seen before sprung into action, apparently having better reactions than her. The blue one drew the gun from his back and pointed it straight at twilight, the green one swung the axe at the slime, cleaving it clean. The icy one had his sword at her throat, calling forth some deja vu about earlier.

The first one to speak was the dark blue, and to twilights surprise, she could understand what he said. No guttural speech, no weird words.

"Who, and what, are you? Ive never seen your like in all of Terraria."

Well, twilight thought, so much for no new words.

"Im twilight sparkle, a unicorn." The three of them visibly tensed at her words, seemingly afraid of the newcomer.

"You lie, unicorns from the hallow are white and taller than you!" The turtle warrior almost shouted.

Twilight frowned a little as she continued. "No, im a unicorn from Equestria. She said as she flapped her wings angrily.

All of them had lowered their weapons at her words, looking at each other with wide eyes. Finally they all sheathed their respective weapons and bowed. Seemingly out of nowhere.

"We excuse our unrighteous behavior mighty one." They said in unison. "We must escort you to canterlot immediately."

Twilight was happy and surprised to hear the name of her capital. But she was even more surprised at their sudden reaction. No one had knelt before her since her first initiation as an alicorn, so she was not quite used to it.

"O-of course, lead the way."

The three humans nodded and gathered in a circle around her, it seemed a bit claustrophobic for her, but she could handle it.

She looked at each of the humans, deciding that if they were to be her guardians then she might as well get to know them better. The turtle guy seemed the least intimidating, so he was first in this friendly interrogation.

"Excuse me." She said towards the turtle guy who promptly looked at her.

"Yes my lady."

"What is your name?"

He seemed a bit taken aback at the question, he bit his lip slightly before continuing

"Well, my name is Omnir my lady."

"Omnir huh? Well, what do you do? As in profession."

"Well, im a warrior."

Twilight had assumed as much, he was more muscular than the rest, judging by his size and his weapon of choice.

"Well what about you?" She asked the one in the icy armor.

He smiled cockily before speaking. "Well, my name is Doom, and im a fencer, although im a bit more....... Brutish than others in my profession."

She thought he was totally right. All the fencer ponies twilight had ever seen used incredibly nimble sword, nothing like the behemoth of a blade she had seen, or rather felt earlier.

"Well what about you." She said to the blue guy.

He clicked something on the side of his helmet, revealing his mouth that had been covered by a plate of blue metal seconds before, he turned the binoculars slightly and prepared to answer.

"My name is Yrimir, im a gunslinger."

He sure looked the part, twilight thought. The binoculars must be for aiming. He didn't seem reluctant to answer, quite the contrary. But it seemed as if he wanted to talk with her as little as possible.

"Look, we've arrived." Omnir said, a smile reaching from ear to ear. "My lady twilight, welcome to the wonderful castle of Canterlot."

This place looks even more regal than my canterlot, Twilight thought. And it seemed likely. The bricks of the houses seemed to glimmer with the colors of rare metals. And on closer inspection, some of the bricks were made of silver, copper, or even gold in a few houses. It made the entire city shine with happiness. Something twilight had not seen since the crystal empire.

But nothing in the town itself could have matched up to the keep the now entered.

Made of light blue bricks with an almost magical hue, huge regal doors of pricy mahogany created the entrance to a huge hall. Trophies of all kind lined the walls, paintings of all kind, one of a huge pool of fire, or intricate cave systems.

And a throne where their supposed king sat.

He was wearing regal golden armor with a golden crown atop his head, in his right hand he had a grass green claymore, seemingly absorbing the light around him, and making the plants grow stronger in its presence. By his left hand sat a small purple dragon. Seemingly completely fine. And quite happy.

"Spike!"She yelled as she charged forward for her small dragon friend.

"Twilight?" The small dragon boy said, looking for the source of the words and smiling as his eyes caught onto his friend and mentor. "Twilight!" He yelled once he saw her, he jumped down from the throne and ran ahead to hug his big sister.

She embraced him and nuzzled him carefully. "I was so afraid something might've happened."

"Nah, I'm fine, these guys stitched me back together, not... Literally, of course."

"Guardsmen, might i ask what this most peculiar creature is? She bears some resemblance to a unicorn, yet she is far too tiny to be on of those."

Twilight looked up from her dragon assistant. Finding the relentless glare of their king to be quite uncomfortable. And when she looked up at him she wasn't uncomfortable any longer.

She was downright terrified.

The kings previous golden armor had been replaced with armor that looked to be made of darkened oak wood. The same color as the possessed everfree trees. His eyes were a torrent of green that scorched your eyes as if you had looked into the sun itself. The sword in his hand was no longer green and calming. But rather a twisting red mess dripping with blood. The handle looked to be made of spinal columns. And gone was his crown, instead, a glowing pumpkin with weird yellow eyes loomed above him, pulling his strings.

Twilight snapped out of it when she heard Omnir talk again.

"My king, we found her on our scouting route. She claims to be a unicorn from Equestria."

The kings eyes widened, he moved forward, resting his arms on his knees.

"You don't mean to tell me......."

"Yes my lord." This time doom answered, seeming a lot more professional than when twilight had first spoken with him. "We believe she is the one."

The king first sat back in his chair, he brought a hand up and rubbed his eyes, concentrating. Twilight couldn't believe the others ignorance, could they not see what she saw. The king radiated pure evil.

"Unfortunately, it is not for me to decide whether to trust the newcomer. You will have to take him to my brother, you know where to find him."

"Yes my lord." This time Yrimir replied. "We will escort her to Diablo immediately."

Omnir gestured for twilight to follow, he smiled carefully at her and she got up. She levitated spike onto her back and then they were off.

"Omnir, can i ask you a question?"

He turned his head, still smiling. "Youve already asked me a question once today, and i agreed to answer, it shall be no different this time. What troubles you my lady?"

"No.... Wait, first of i have a request. I want you all to call me twilight instead of my lady or other such titles. Just twillight, ok?"

All three of them nodded, taken aback a bit by the odd request, but nevertheless they complied.

"Now, the question. What is the kings name?"

"The kings name is moonshadow, twilight." Once again doom answered. Did these three guys alternate between answering? Twilight thought. She nodded carefully and dreaded the next question she was about to ask.

"Does he have a brother?"

"He doesn't. Diablo is only his step brother." Yrimir said. Okay, so they do alternate between answering, nice to know. Twilight calmly sighed, careful not to show her friends her fear of their king.

"He has a sister."

At that moment twilight wanted to go underground and never come out. She had no interest in fighting another power mad royalty gone berserk villain. Especially not without her friends help.

"Although, his sister is less influential. She doesn't really do.... Well, anything. I've seen her once back when we first became the royal hunting party, but never after that." Yrimir said, having seen the look of horror on twilights face. "So i dont think shell rebel or anything."

Twilight didn't feel comforted at all, the fact that she might have to fight another villain that she knew next to nothing about wasn't exactly calming. A princess, or in this case the sister of a king, rebelling was the least of her problems.

"Well, were done with the smalltalk guys. We've arrived."

To everyone else this door would have seemed no different than all the others in the castle. Big, made of mahogany, had those awful doorknobs. But twilight could sense immense arcane power practically radiating from beyond that door. Whomever was in there, he knew what he was doing.

"I am sorry twilight and my lord spike, but we are not allowed to step into Diablos chambers. Hell, he would incinerate us if we did."

Twilight swallowed a lump in her throat, if three warriors directly under the kings orders weren't allowed to enter, then why would a complete stranger be allowed to.

"Dont worry twilight." Spike cooed from her back. "Ive already met him, he's not so bad. A little..... Eccentric, but not so bad."

All this didnt really convince twilight all that much, but as she brought her hoof up to the doorknob she asked spike another thing that had been plaguing her mind in about 45 seconds.

"What the hay, is hell?"

"No idea twilight."