//------------------------------// // A spider, in a stone. // Story: The Spider's game. // by TwoPie //------------------------------// "So... that Fool Two Pie, is gathering the children of harmony. that mutant shall find, that what children he finds, are dead bodies. Arocknock! sarumaln! go Kill the other children! and while your at it, try and kill the zebra too. the zebra will lead to an uprising if we don't get to it quick enough..." Then the queen, Aracna started making rapid clicking noises, with a few words every which way, and with in a sudden second, the two spiders next to the half spider, half pony tyrant were gone. they teleported with two dark red flashes. the color of the hour glasses on their backs... or butts. what ever they are called. Then, the two guards, were in sweet apple orchards, ready to go for the apple family. They were quick, with their crawling, from tree top to tree top, not being seen by the workers, that applejack had hired, for more efficiency around the barn. they reached the barn, with a few jumps, and they were now inside crawling around, startling the cows, and chickens around the new barn that had been built... One of the spiders, snuck up behind the target that they were assigned to kill, and a blood curdling scream, then the dropping of a yellow pony, with red hair. sadly, it was not applejack's son, lil' red, but it was a mistaken for, applebloom. "applebloom!" an old, applejack yelled, after running over, to see what happened. Tears were shed. Rapid clicking started to sound off, then a final cry for help, after the spiders made sure that no pony had seen what happened. it was over. the apple family, was dead. all except for big mac, who moved to manehatten, to become a packing pony, to help those who were moving in/out. granny smith died a long time ago, at the age 102, and lil' red was stuck, locked up in his room, after the first scream of help. "HEEEELP! SOMEONE! GET ME OUT OF HERE- yes! finally! whats your guys' names?" lil' red yelled, quite ironically, being a big, strong stallion. "Two Pie!" the enraged stallion yelled out, knowing that there wasn't a changeling for mile. " Im Aurora!" the alicorn yelled out, trying to pick the lock to lil red's room from where she was galloping at. " I be Zeru! who are you?" the Zebra called out, with a shocked face, finding out that there was a survivor from an attack. period. " im lil' red!" the door to red's room unlocked, then he ran out of the house, and galloped to the other 16 year old ponies. Red was in shock, after noticing Two Pie, not because he was blind but because of another reason. "y- your a- your a dra-" "yes, im blind, dont mention it!" Two Pie moaned, while fixing the collar of his denim jacket he had thrown on, to look cool just for the hell of it. "we need your help red!" Aurora said, braking a silence that was awkward indeed. "your mom is applejack, right? "yes. WAS applejack" he said, after looking at the bodies in the open barn "i know how you feel red" Two Pie said there, trying to comfort his cousin. "my mom was mutilated by changelings, but your mom... and aunt look... poisoned." the whole of the group was in shock, as the bodies quickly decayed, into a silvery black dust. Two Pie, and Zeru had to struggle, to stop the son of the strongest bucking pony in ponyville. a giggle was let out by... the so called queen of equestria, Aracna. "don'y they know that they cant beat me? 4 billion years, of being royalty. enslavement on the elements of harmony, and now, execution... lets see if those children of mine, can get back without being squashed under a hoof." Aracna was Beautiful all over. she might have been a giant spider from the waist down, but her hair was pitch black, she had pinkish-purple fur, on the pony part, and her spider-parts were sleek, black, and more than 1,000 times the size of the biggest spider you could find in ponyville. she wasn't massive though, her flank, er, abdomen and cephalothorax, or what you would call her stomach area, were about as big as two or three of the stalls in the market of ponyville. but in general, she was a beautiful creature in general. To those who saw her, they were saddened that she was so ugly on the insides, yet she was somewhat luring when it came to mind control. it was only when she absolutely didn't need or want you, that she would kill you on sight, so no one knew what she looked like, other than being a giant spider. The room she was in, was at first, the tower, that Luna and Celestia would stay watch at, during the night and day. it was converted to a room full of webs, and gems in the snow white strings hanging from ceiling, to floor, to wall. there was a pedestal in the middle of the room, made of three webs, all going down at an angle perfectly, to hold an orb, that was quite literally, full of spiders venom, but for other's pain. she used it, to see everything outside of the tower, so she could make sure that there wasn't an uprising. "i hope he knows that this is his last year ever... thank Myself, that His mother, lied about his age to him. that 12 year old and his 7th grade friends shall die at 12." * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * It was only two days, since they meet Red, and they were planning on going for a visit to the chrystal empire. a place where there was no hiding from Aracna. "i just cant wait to meet Ruby Shine!" said Aurora excitedly, knowing that there might just be a bit of femininity, instead of constant testosterone... It was a day and a half ride to the crystal empire, dew to constant stops, by roaming goats. "shouldn't fluttershy be taking care of these goats?" Said Two Pie. Red then replied, with a sarcastic cough "idiot! all of our parents are gone! get it? fluttershy isn't around anymore!" "oh shut up, you big red sarcastic muscle pony!" Two Pie, came back with a statement that was just plain bullying. he hand't known that it was though. he hadn't ever felt friendship like this, and he had a lot to learn. saddly, Twilight's journal, was burnt in the library, along with the elements of harmony, melting away, into pools of gold. The ticket master of the train then stopped them before getting off asking "tickets?" Two Pie looked around himself, and into his bags on each side, then finding one in his left bag "here it is!" he said, while levitating it to the ticket master to snip something into it. "uh..." Red wasn't sure what to say. he didn't think he had his ticket with him. he had no bags on to hold them. "here red, i have your ticket in my other bag" said Two Pie, sarcastically at this stallion who wasn't smart enough to bring his own bags. Aurora and zeru were holding their tickets with their magic the whole time, but when zeru handed his ticket to the ticket master, "sorry kid, but this is a fake! looks like im going to have to confront you, and only you to the changelings. I hate doing this." Zeru was devastated, but wouldn't fight back. he was sold a fake, and that's what he would tell the changeling train-managers. it was of course, a mistake that Zeru would regret, going home, intending to get Fluttershy and Lily, the animal family of ponyville. for it would be his last... of his current body, until... the spiders would get to him, later that day. "ok, so its just two blocks forwards, one left, then one right, and that corner is apparently Diamond's house-" Two Pie put down the map, looking at where they were. a blizzard wasteland, miles away from the crystal empire. it was see-able, but it was hard to see at all in this... strangely grey-ish looking snow. they all started galloping in sync, knowing that they had the same goal to get to, before another two pesky vermin of equestria got to them first. it was two minutes later, the crystal empire gates were getting close, when they started getting sleepier, but, they woke up after a few seconds. "this snow must be fake snow! sleeping powder, put in the clouds by some pegasi, hopefully, for a sick joke, and not from the queen!" said Two Pie, forcing against the blizzard, seeing that Red and Aurora were having trouble. five minutes later, and they were at the gates of the crystal empire, all standing there, thinking of a way over. there were changelings, all across the walls, and at the floors. the only one with wings there, was Aurora, but she wasn't strong enough to carry them, and if they tried taking on the changelings, they would never get there, to Diamond's house in time! "theirs only one option... we gotta dig underground." said red, readying up his hoofs, behind a giant hill, out of sight of the changelings. "i can start the hole, but you guys gotta provide me light." Aurora, then nodded, silently, with her horn glowing a dim purple-ish green. Red then started digging, and digging wasn't just that, grunting whenever he ran into a problem, then just throwing it out of his way, he was working the hardest he had ever worked in his life. it was almost amazing, to Two Pie, how fast one pony could dig a 5 foot deep, by 3 feet long and wide, hole. it was a moment, that anypony would be awestruck! then, Two Pie acted as a gentle pony, and allowed Aurora to go first, giving the light for Red. it was 3 more minutes, Red was digging the whole, when he hit something.... a pipe. "we must be beyond the wall. no pony would put a pipe outside of their kingdom's land!" he said, being honest and truthful, just as his mother was once. he then, rapidly, started digging his hoofs, into the ground, in-front of him, making a ladder like wall up to the surface, just behind a trash can, next to the first house to the right of the doors, in the crystal empire. it was a pretty kingdom indeed, but it wasn't as.... "shiny" as the expected it to be. something that they were all confused about. "ok. like i said-" but Red was gone, following the instructions from earlier, and getting to the house, when before any pony could hear their own thoughts, a scream, high pitched, from a pony, that was very... feminine sounding. "damn it all! the spiders got to rarity!" yelled Red, still galloping, now being followed by Two Pie, and Aurora. they skid to the left, then to the right, and there was a group of changelings, carrying away the body of a dead mare. not a filly, a mare. a full grown, yet young looking mare. not with the hair of rarity, but it was sweetiebell they head scream. she was now dead. a sobbing was heard from the house, and when they all went in, there was a white filly, with pink- and violet hair, with mascara running down her face, just sitting there. crying. she was mumbling about something like "spiders" and "dead" and "why!" Red then tried to comfort her, by putting his massive hoof around her back, then saying "its ok. just, please, calm down." "how can i calm down, when my MOTHER, was KILLED, but a BUNCH of SPIDERS!" Diamond yelled, then putting a hoof over her mouth, after that outburst, "i am so sorry for yelling, that instance was none of what i am like, in the every day life!" she was a very formal sounding pony, a pony, that Aurora would be friends with, on the spot. "you two, are here for a reason?" Two Pie then got tried, and so did Red, then suddenly, they were sleepy, yet waking up. like they were sleep walking. Aurora was now gone, and Red was just looking at Two Pie in shock, and at the door way, where a once silent image of Aurora was standing at. "shes still in the field a sleep! that wasn't just sleeping dust, that was sleep walking dust, they must have gotten Aurora in the field! no wonder the plan was done so flawlessly, you'd expect that there might have been more problems!" like Aurora dissapearing... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * It was two days since they last saw Aurora, and they had now gotten Lily, who had followed them on the train secretly, knowing that she would be needed. "im so sorry, for spying on you guys. i just dont know-" "its ok Lily. we dont blame you. i'd sneak around and so some spy work, when it came to something as big as this." "thank you." she said, brushing her hair out of her eyes. " lets get back to the train, and get to cloudsdale, to get meenus and pucy now. the son and daughter of rainbowdash..." _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ "those silly ponies are going to fail, you hear me, my princess?" said the queen, to an alicorn in a web of hers. "you'll never get away with this!" said a voice, not of Twilight's or Cadence's, but Aurora. Aracna then crawled up to her, her body almost peeling off slowly, showing the body of a pony, "you see. all i need, is to take the last element of harmony, Rainbowdash, then i will be my full form!" no. she wasn't peeling away, she was.... gaining onto her all ready massive size, feeding more and more, getting fatter and more powerful, for the moment. it was her pony side that was the same as normal, but her spider side, was as big as four or five ponyville market stalls! "i got rarity, a long time ago. in fact ,she was the first, and easiest. i think, you'll be the first one i test me. 'final capabilities' on. for it might jsut be glorious. its been 4 billion years, and all i need to do, is get impregnated with a half dragon, half pony cross breed, and then ill start getting my full abilities. first, and army of hatch-lings, straight from the eggs i will lay, in this very nesting room, then soon, the changelings will be replace, by half-pony, half-spider mini-cross breeds... its sad, knowing that i cant resort to discord for a second time, after 4 billion years of this. he of course, with Celestia, and Luna, were sent to that good little universe, as fillies and a colt, its all just a part of everything. and you know what? your friend Two Pie, has yet to find out about his seventh sense, and i know hot to unlock that for him, only when he turns 18, then shall it be at full capability, and shall i be able to get this, into the works! six more years up here though, and six more years, i can have fun with you. i can starve you, or i can force feed you. your choice! one of the two, or i could find something else, resorting in death. it'll be sad though, because then ill have to kill the pony, that i get me 'final capabilities' from first! She then, turned to her crystal ball, in the three-web strand made-podium, watching the not knowing-12 year old Two Pie, and his seventh grade friends, as they get meenus and pucy, from a fallen cloudsdale. "Cloudsdale literally fell from the sky! it literally just fell!" said meenus, crawling from the rubble, trying to look for her brother, and mother. "PUCY!" she then yelled, seeing his back hoofs and tail under three walls of the house, with a small bit of blood splatter, on the rubble, next to him, a front and back hoof of rainbowdash, looking like she was going to protect him, by jumping over him, but failing at the last second. loyalty, failed at protecting her son, but without choice. and for a second time that day, Two Pie watched a filly, sit and cry, for her dead family, knowing that they would never see them again. "please, we must go to ponyville. its urgent. we-" then a sudden crash, and a taxi caravan that was being driven, had flown through the only standing wall, with the taxi-driver, pegasus asking "are you the ponies who know Zeru? the zebra?" Two Pie, and Red gave off a Yes, while the others just listened. "come on, then! you've got a zebra to talk to...."