Chapter 4: The Raging Thunder.
Abyssal Lagiacrus… the Raging Thunder, god of the ocean, only one beast could hope to face her, Goldbeard Ceadeus, more commonly known by his full title of the shining giant of the depths
It was unfortunate that both of these two monsters were to appear in the same area of the underwater ruins.
Lagiacrus being the fastest, attacked first, with a massive jolt of black electricity, which skidded across the hood of the massive giant, tearing off some scales, and drawing blood.
The massive golden beast reared back from the impact, before breathing in literal tons of water, and dispelling it at the Lagiacrus, blowing the beast backwards into the wall of the ruins, forcing some pillars to collapse. The black and blue beast roared and started a head on charge at the golden ocean king, unfortunately, the massive beast reared its head up in time to rip into the lagiacrus’ face, making the thunder beast rear back, before launching another bolt of black thunder at the Ceadeus, tearing off another load of scales off the hood.
The massive golden beast flinched, before rearing backwards, and roaring, causing ripples to echo around the area, and all the surrounding blue lights a deep red, to give the area a dark red tint. All this before it began to suck in a whirlpool of water, before blasting it out again at full velocity, sending the Lagiacrus into a wall. The Goldbeard Ceadeus then started rearing its entire body backwards whilst the room began to get a deeper and deeper red. The massive beast shot forwards at an unbelievable speed for such a large monster, and whilst spinning, was a deadly combination towards the already injured Lagiacrus.
The thunder god was sent spinning downwards into the red abyss, with the Ceadeus letting out a triumphant cry behind it.
The Lagiacrus could barely keep its eyes open, as it was falling, what looked like tears started to leak from the openings around the eyes… not sadness, something else. For over 200 years, the great god of the ocean had been undefeated, it had no equal, and for once, it had. It was actually happy, someone had finally taken over its throne, now the god could retire from his royalties.
The gas like tears carried on streaming along the limp form of the Lagiacrus, until it all began floating upwards, towards the light.
Somewhere Near Ponyville, The Crash Site.
What? Why? Surely she should have died… that blast would be enough to kill anything… what happened? Lagiacrus shook her head, and surveyed her surroundings… dirt, and smoke. No water? This is different then… being pretty much only aquatic, she was not used to being on land, in fact, the only reason she had legs was to propel herself in the water. Then she realised, her legs… what had happened to her legs? She moved her body slightly turned over to inspect her condition, four appendages… not the short, stubby legs that she’s used to, but extended legs, no claws, they just ended in a dark blue looking stub. The rest of her body was covered in a black coat of fur, apart from her… tail? Or at least what she assumed to be a tail, and some hair on top of her head, which was covering a horn. Both her mane and her tail were dark blue, and both jagged. This was all too alien…
The ponies who were previously gazing at the shooting stars looked over the edge of the crater , their faces are being buffeted by the massive clouds of smoke. A pair of shining blue eyes shone out through the obscuring cloud, the ponies gasped “How could anyone survive that fall?!” exclaimed “That would surely kill anypony” this was getting strange, three ponies appearing within the two days? Sure, Ponyville is a popular sightseeing area, but having these three somehow appear out of now where, and the third falling from the sky, she had to ask them soon. But she had to focus on the matter at hand, the mysterious pony in the crater. As the fog cleared, the figure became clear, a black pony, with blue hooves, and hair on her tail and mane, of which was jagged, seemingly pointing out in all directions, a slight amount of static bounced out of the crater, before the glowing eyes glared at the group , the owner of them didn’t know how to communicate. Diablos decided to talk.
“Listen, we don’t want to hurt you, we won’t attack someone who we know won’t hurt us” the sandy pony peaked an eyebrow.
Lagiacrus scowled, she could understand them alright, but having pretty much no communication in her past, made it difficult to even mutter a word, but with all of her strength, she mustered up her first words on this planet “My name… is Lagiacrus” twilight inwardly gasped, why were their names so… not pony, Agnaktor and Uroktor? Diablos? And now Lagiacrus, she looked at her friends, who looked back, obviously noticing a pattern here.
“Well then” Agnaktor held down a hoof to help the pony up, but Lagiacrus scrambled up to the top of the crater and scowled, before small jolts of electricity arced of her mane.
“I’m fine” she then walked over to Twilight before enquiring “Where am I?” Twilight stuttered a bit, the sheer power and ridiculousness of the situation rendering her unable to speak “tell me now!” electricity arced between the two unicorns, she huffed and walked off towards Ponyville.
Eventually twilight regained her composure “…umm, right, you five go after her, when you do, find a way to bring her back to the library, try bribery, it doesn’t really look like she’ll be co-operating with us, so if you can’t get her, I won’t be mad, I’ll know you tried” the five ponies turned around and chased after Lagiacrus “we need to talk, follow me” the group walked down the hill, into the quiet streets of Ponyville, and into the library. Twilight gestured for the three to take a seat, before sitting down herself.
“look, I don’t want to be suspicious… but something tells me that you don’t really com from here at all… I mean, three ponies coming from no where, and then a fourth coming from… well, space is the only thing I can think of at the moment. I don’t really know how to say this, but… who are you, I mean who actually are you, I know your names, but not where you come from” Agnaktor, Uroktor and Diablos exchanged glances between on another.
“well… the truth is… um, I’m not sure how to say this, but we’re not actually ponies, or at least, we weren’t, we were massive beasts, more commonly referred to as ‘monsters’, that roamed the land, and for some reason, we hunted, all the time” Diablos paused for a few questions.
“Umm, I have a question, how many of you are there?” Twilight enquired.
“Well, to be truthful, I have no idea, hundreds, maybe even thousands of us, but here, in this world, I don’t really know” Diablos put her hoof on her chin in a gesture of puzzlement.
“Well, can you at least tell me a little bit about yourselves, before you were turned into ponies?”
Diablos nodded “I was a tall bipedal like wyvern, with a kind of enlarged collar bone, with two large horns attached, I also had wings that were too heavy to use. Due to the fact that was a top predator, I was actually one of the most feared monsters in the desert, despite being a herbivore” Twilight nodded slightly, she was taking notes down with a quill and parchment.
“And you Agnaktor, Uroktor?” Twilight looked up from her parchment.
“ Well, we were a kind of leviathan monster, except for the fact that we swam in magma instead of water. I had an extremely tough beak, and a hide made of pure magma, and accompanied by my ability to create a contagious combustion, I was one of the most feared monsters in the volcano. Uroktor, as you can probably guess, was a juvenile form of an Agnaktor, slightly darker colouring, less firepower, and a softer beak”
Twilight was having difficulty taking this all in, she has two extremely feared monsters turned ponies in her house… perhaps they weren’t that deadly?, after all, they hadn’t done anything bad yet, Diablos was even helping Pinkie pie! But this Lagiacrus pony… just doesn’t bode well.
“well… if I am to believe you, which I still need concrete proof of, I need to find a way to get you home…”
Just then, a loud thud emanated from the door “we got her twilight!” shouted Applejack from the other side of the door.
“Come in!” twilight replied, before the door swung open
“Its amazing what a bit of persuasion can do isn’t it?” interjected Pinkie Pie as she hopped towards the other ponies.
“They said that you could tell me about my predicament… they better be right” the pony scowled at twilight.
The lavender mare gulped “Well, I might” she looked at the other three ‘ponies’, she wasn’t sure what to call them after the truth was out “from what I’ve gathered you… well, in all honesty, I think you don’t really belong here in Equestria. there are no Agnaktors, there are no Diablos, or lagiacrus! They just flat out don’t exist, so all I can come up to is… well… you might not be from this planet… maybe not even this plane of existence! and the only two ponies I know who have a contact with the celestial bodies… are… oh…Spike! Take a letter!”
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Canterlot Palace.
Main Hall.
“You say that there’s a fake sky chariot business?” Celestia sounded uneasy, it wasn’t every day that a fake business just popped out of no-where! Especially under the rule of her and her sister…
“Yes, and we have someone who has fallen victim to the sham, Jagged Crown, and his son, silver tongue, I think he said their names were” replied the guard.
“Very well, direct me to the hospital which is being treated in” she strode down the steps, the hall was practically empty bar Celestia and the palace guard, so the steps she took echoed throughout the hall.
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In a matter of minutes, the princess and the guard made it to the castle medical bay, where jagged crown and his son were resting. “alright, you can wait outside now” the guard bowed, and walked outside the door, before closing it behind him.
“Jagged Crown” the pony woke up from his sleep “I am Celestia, one of two princesses ruling this land, and I am highly worried about this fake sky chariot scam, can you tell me more about it so I can hopefully end the sham before anyone else succumbs to it?” she asked.
Jagged Crown sighed I might as well be honest with her he thought to himself “look, Celestia, I’m… well, I lied about the chariot business…” Celestia gasped “but I said it to cover up for something that I’m afraid no-one will believe” he said.
After the initial shock of some-pony lying to cover up something so big that he believed no-one would even believe him, she forgave him “it’s ok, you can speak freely” she replied in a calming tone.
“well, you see… I’m not really from here, not like, different country, more on the lines of, well, different world, maybe even galaxy. Not just that, but I was also in a much different form. Look, I know its hard to believe, but you just have to trust me on this one” this is going now where fast… wait… they have magic, don’t they? Perhaps… “look, I’ll let you perform some sort of reveal spell on me, maybe then you’ll understand?”
The princess looked unsure now, maybe he’s telling the truth, maybe not, but she had to say something… “alright” she had a look of suspicion on her face “follow me” she looked at the form of the sleeping colt “he can come with us too” Crown walked over to the smaller pony, and put him over his shoulder. The group of three walked out of the door, Celestia looked over at the guard “go back to your post” the stallion nodded and walked the opposite way to the small group.
Eventually, the three got to a small stone slab of a door “This is the only place where none of the guards can come in uninvited” she cast a spell on the door, and it opened with little effort, the inside of the room was rather luxurious, despite the less than flattering door, with cushy bean bags, and a large sofa
to the side, with well glossed wooden floorboards and walls. Celestia pointed to a spot in the middle of the floor stay there whilst I execute the spell” Celestia’s horn glowed a shimmering gold colour. Jagged crown put silver tongue onto the sofa, and walked into the middle. As he did so, Celestia released the spell, and a blinding light filled the room. After a while, the light faded, and in its place, stood a large dinosaur-like reptile, with a pale purple, white and orange colour scheme. The most noticeable feature was the frill around its neck, sharing the same colour scheme. Celestia gasped… he was telling the truth… he was in a different form. She released the spell from the stallion, which shortly collapsed onto the floor from the magical exhaustion. Just then, a letter from twilight arrived, deciding to stay in the room a bit longer whilst jagged crown recuperated. Celestia sat down and started reading the letter.
Dear princess Celestia.
Four strange ponies have recently appeared in Ponyville, their intentions, home town, and past are mostly unknown.
Not just that, but I fear that they might not even be from this plane of existence, if you could reply to me as soon as possible.
Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle.
Celestia dropped the letter in disbelief. How could this happen? Why? Where? And most importantly, who?
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It hungers for the flames of humanity, it hungers for the collection of the souls from the burnt, it hungers for the apocalypse of humans, and survival of the monsters.