//------------------------------// // Episode 2 - The Dragon Descend From The Heaven of Ponyville // Story: My Little Pony : Sangokuden- Legends of The Three Kingdoms // by GundamBrony //------------------------------// Previously on My Little Pony : Sangokuden- Legends of The Three Kingdoms : Ryubi, governor of The Dragon Clan, Shou, left Mirshtia in a search of a home for his people until they found one here in another land called Equestria. While that, Koumei and Ryubi discusses of the new villagers and hoping to ask their rulers for the sanctuary for their people by tomorrow. Just then, a hydra came out of nowhere and attacked the innocent of three young fillies as Ryubi and his sworn brothers, Chouchi and Kan-u protected them from harm. With the dusk now falls into night time, the three sworn bothers take them to their village to keep them safe and safely return them home. Shou As the dusk now fall into the slumber of the night, the stars twinkle like every shimmer diamonds as Ponyville start to close down stores and their business for the next day to come. A snow white unicorn mare with a curly purple mane was done grabbing some supplies for an inspiration of a new dress by tomorrow. As she headed to a building of what to appear to look like a carousel house, she open the door and turn on the lights. Inside is full of dresses that you can name of what kind that she did, as she laid the supplies down and close the door. "Sweetie Belle, I'm home!" she said in a formal and trans-Atlantic dialect but instead she heard nothing; just eerie silence in the house. Confused by that her sister never been so quiet, she then headed to her room as in the pitch darkness, she turn on the lights. "Sweetie Belle?" she look around for any sign of her, but so far no of her sister. In the state of panic, she then gallop out of the house and headed to an apple farm, but before she can get there, without paying any attention to somepony also in a rushed, both of them collide each other. "Ow! My head....." she moaned, rubbing her head a bit before a familiar southern drawn accent was heard. "Rarity, y'all right?" she concern for her, as both ponies got back up. This orange mare has a yellow mane tied in a 'ponytail' including her tail. Another thing she had a cowboy hat and a cutie mark with three apples. "I'm fine, thanks, Applejack, but you got to help me!" she said dusty away some dirt from her snow white coat not too long before they both said in unison. "Applebloom/Sweetie Belle aren't back home from their Crusader adventures!" This surprise them both of them. Both sister haven't come back home from their Crusader adventures?! "You too?! I thought they'll be back in the treehouse too!" Rarity looked at her, incredulous. "I thought that too, but once I'm done with the chores, I went to check on to them, but so far they aren't here." Applejack explained to her. " I've check ever place here but so far, no sign of them!" "Oh no, you do think that they......" She paused, fearing that they even might went somewhere that's dangerous. Applejack got her eyes wide at realization of what she meant. "THE EVERFREE FOREST!!!!" both of them said in unison. "Oh no, oh no, oh no!" Applejack starting to pace around and panicking at the same time. "We got to tell Twilight about this!" Rarity nodded as both of them galloping to the Friendship Kingdom to report of their missing sisters. If there one thing that Twilight might do, she report it to the Princess to find their sisters and order the Royal Guards to find them. Meanwhile at the edge west of southwest of the Everfree forest, the Youzhou warriors walking out of the forest along with protecting the fillies or The Cutie Mark Crusaders as they reach out and kept walking for like hour (even they had to let the fillies ride on their back because they're tired of walking) until they reach their destination. "Here we are, girls." Ryubi said, holding Applebloom on his back, sleeping a bit before stir her eyes a bit and saw something that's well........beautiful. The village is surrounding in a small home that made of the woods, surrounding by the peaceful trees that sleep in the darkness. The roof is somewhat made of leaf but also mixed with the tree barks that they somehow able to made in without the strain of the weight of it. There was also a farm that harvest some type of food that never seen in Equestria : small grain like plant were harvest and turn into a meal that looks like a grain ball and black yet greenish thing on the bottom of it. There also lake that was sparkle and shine beautiful as Applebloom get a biggest glimpse of the villagers : yet all of them were earth ponies, no sign of unicorn and pegsai here. However that doesn't stop them here as each of the villagers were wearing clothes all of time, something that most ponies doesn't normally wear clothes all of time except some riches ponies at Canterlot. With that, she got down from his back along with her friends as the villagers' fillies saw them as they rushed to them with pure happiness. "Brother Ryubi is back!" One of the said, happily. "And Brother Chouchi and Kan-u too!" Every fillies began to gather to them, happily hugging them and talking about their time and so on. The Crusaders were surprised by the villagers' fillies called them 'brothers' even though they guess that they aren't related to them. Scootaloo also felt something about them; their love for them and the joy of being together with them remind of her idol that took her under her wing and like her big sister, the only sister like pony that she ever want, Rainbow Dash. She then hold a soft smile for the three warriors, who also told them on something important. "Brother Ryubi, who are the new fillies?" one of them asked him, pointed at the Crusaders. The others fillies turned to the direction of them. "Well, they're from a village far away. They got lost in the forest and we decide to let them stay here until tomorrow so we can return them home." Ryubi explained to them in which they found it surprise to meet them. "Brother Chouchi, two of them have different thing on their bodies. One of them had little wings the other had a horn on the head." another said, pointed Scootaloo's wings and Sweetie Belle's unicorn horn. "Huh?" Scootaloo was confused by them along with Sweetie Belle too. They never seen a pegsai or a unicorn before? their thoughts said in unison. "Well we're staying here in our new new home land so their bound to be different people here than Mirshtia." Chouchi reassure to them as the Crusaders were confuse that Scootaloo had a little headache. Mirshtia? These ponies come from another homeland that we haven't heard of? their minds began to question of that. "Until then, they'll be our guest here, so why not introduce yourself to them." Kan-u asked them as the fillies all said 'yes', they now gather them to them, greet them with pure smiles and innocents to them. Each of them introduce to them while the Crusaders also did the same as they began to ask of their homes, daily life, and such. While that, Ryubi and his sworn brothers watched them with happiness that the Crusaders able to get along with their people. I wonder if their village will able to get along like the Crusaders? Ryubi look up to the dark sky and thought about it. "Milord," a voice was heard as Ryubi and his brothers turned and saw their rare saint tactician, Koumei, coming to them while still gripping his feather fan. "I see that you and your brothers made out safely and dealt with a disturbance from the other side." Ryubi nodded to him and explain to him. "There was a three headed demon dragon that attacked the three fillies while there're lost at a forest." "Three fillies?" Koumei asked as he turned to the crowed fillies, playing with their new friends. "They're from the village that you speak of and we offer them to stay here for the night, then we can return them tomorrow. Hopeful that we can at least asked them to speak with the governor so we can at least make peace with us." Ryubi said with a calm tone. "Hmmm.....I see, but to make sure we're not a threat, I'll accompany you along with bringing Chouhou on their return to their village." he asked in which Ryubi nodded. "You're right." After the Crusaders began to play with the villagers' fillies (even some want to join their Crusader), Ryubi called them. "All right, dinner is ready!" With the fillies now headed to their respective homes, the Crusaders follow Ryubi and his brothers to their homes where some of the villagers are setting the table in the kitchen. Then they placed something that the Crusader never seen before or found it unusually : white balls and fishes that are fried and covered in spices. Then there was strange sticks that are smooth and a ceramic cup with either water or tea that is different from the one that ponies usually drank with a herb leaves sticking out. Before the Crusaders can take their seat, they saw Ryubi and the others were praying by placing their hoofs in a strange holding fist. "Oh heaven of the Mirshtia, we're thankful for giving us a new place to live from our homeland and to let our people living in happiness and harmony. We also thankful for the food that we prepared and hope that in the future, our homeland can nourish once more so one day both this land and ours can live hoof in hoof." After that, they now sat down to their seats as with Crusaders got confused by this, shrugged off and sat down too. The Crusaders then give a nervous look to their meals. The meals is very.......well.....whatever they tried to say but don't want to be rude to them, they examine of how they eating. Somehow, Ryubi and the others use these sticks to grab the food and they use their hoof to eat the strange white ball. "Why aren't you eating, Applebloom?" Ryubi asked. "You and your friends must be starving." "I know, it's just......we never seen ponies made this food. Where we came from, we usually eat hay, apples, eggs, and other stuff but never this stuff." Applebloom replied. "I see, so your village have different rations. Well where we came from, we usually eat rice balls which is the white ball and the fish that we cooked is with our spice and seaweed. We usually farmed those foods so we can make them. " Kan-u explained, pointed to each of the food. The Crusaders understand this as they tried to use these sticks to grab the food, but even they made a mistake and having a hard time to use it property, the fillies that they joined for dinner, decide to teach them. After that, the Crusaders taste the food with slow chewed a bit, getting the feeling of being disgusting, but after a savory of the taste, they have a widened eye. "Whoa! Never before I taste this delicious food!" Sweetie Belle exclaimed with a pure happiness. "You said it! Wow, this is awesome!" Scootaloo agreeing with her, starting to chomp down more of it. "This is good, Ryubi! The way you and your village farmed for food, reminds me of m'ah family's work." Applebloom said, enjoying the food. "You had a family that works on the farm?" Chouchi asked in a curious tone. "Yeah, m'ah family work on Sweet Apple Acres. It's a apple orchard that we put our hardworking and our soul into making this for our Apple family. Beside growing apples and making apple cider, we have corn, grapes, carrots, and a magical apple called Zap Apples that grows in the Everfree Forest, the one that me and my friends met you and your brothers." Applebloom explained. "Interesting, in that case maybe once we made peace to your government, we can share our seeds so we can grow new foods that we can grow together." Ryubi said. With that, the Crusaders and the Shou villages now enjoying the meal as with chatting too on stuff, as with all of the villagers now headed to their rooms. Chouchi then decide to clean the dishes as with Kan-u and Ryubi take them to their guest beds. The guest beds is very different from both the cloud beds that pegasus used along with a normal bed. It has three comfortables and a blanket on the floor along with a design wall of a what appeared to be a paper scroll with design of a village and strange languages on top left corner. "This is where we sleeping?! On the floor?!" Scootaloo exclaimed. Applebloom and Sweetie Belle glared at her, which that shut her up. "Scootaloo?! Be respectful!" Applebloom scolded at her. "Ryubi and his villagers offer us to stay for the night!" "It's okay." Ryubi doesn't seem insulted from Scootaloo's commented. "It's not much, but you and your friends get used to it." The Crusaders then got their beds in which Sweetie Belle take the left, Applebloom take the middle, and Scootaloo take the right. At first they hesitate a bit but as soon they laid their backs down they felt the comfort of the beds. It's like the clouds of the pegasi ponies slept in Cloudsdale but combining with the laid nature of the grass that some ponies sleep on the park of Ponyville. Kan-u nodded at Ryubi as he left him, Ryubi then make sure that the Crusaders are comfortable. With that, Ryubi knee down to Applebloom and run his hoof to her mane slowly. Applebloom felt her cheeks burning with a pink flush. "T- Thank you, Ryubi. For letting us stay in your village. It remind me a lot of home." "Your welcome, Applebloom. I promise that me and my brothers will return you and your friends to your village." Ryubi said, with a gentle smile. "I seen that you and your villagers have a rough time, leaving your homeland. Why you left your homeland and come here?" Applebloom asked. Ryubi was surprised but he sighed with a hint of saddness. "It's because our homeland is dying due to a war that me and my village have to face other evil adversary that threaten the peaceful life of people in Mirshtia. Our crops began to wither so we can't harvest our food and our pure fresh clean water that we gather from a clean lake start to cover in dirt as our people began to get sick. Some manage to survive but others......" He felt a little tears, knowing that he's starting to cry a bit as he tried to wipe some of the tears a bit. "......they didn't make it. So when we heard from Koumei that there's a homeland similar to ours, we decide to leave our homeland and come here so we can find a new home to live." Applebloom was also in a verge of tears too. Ryubi and his villager have been in a war against other evil adversary that threaten his kingdom as well as because of this, some of his people gotten sick and died from it. With that, she stood up and much to his surprise, she hug him tightly. Ryubi, then continue to run his hoof to her mane, with a hint of a small smile. "Ryubi, I'm so sorry about asking you about it." Applebloom said, choking a little tears. "But don't worry, you and your villagers have a home now. When you need us, we'll be there." "Thank you, Applebloom." Ryubi said as he then laid her down to her bed as she starting to drift into a deep sleep. Before leaving, his mind now echoed before heading to his bed, "Thank you, my little sisters." The next morning, the sound of a birds chirping peacefully as when the sunlight reflect to the scroll wall, it shine the light onto the Crusaders, waking up from their drifted sleep. Each of them yawn a bit, as they heard of fillies starting to laugh and chat a bit along with villagers began to talk or work. As they got up and fixing the bed, they headed to the kitchen as they saw a mare with a apron making something. She turn around to see them and gave them a warm smile. For some reason, this mare reminded to them of Ms. Cheerliee. "Good morning, young fillies." "Good morning." they said in unison as they sat down to the table as she prepare a breakfast meal, a steel pot with rice and some spices, steamed a bit as the lid open. The Crusaders smell the meal with a delighted feeling. "Here, tried some of my homemade fried rice. Ryubi said once your done eating, I'll escort you three to him so he and his sworn brothers can take you three back to your home." she said, setting down the food to them. "Thank you very much, miss....." Sweetie Belle said. "Call me Jasmine, dear." she said as she turn back continue to work on the dishes. With Crusaders now enjoying the meal, Jasmine then take them to where Ryubi is. Turns out they found him along with his brothers and another deep blue armor clad pony at the front gate but what surprise them is that......they're riding horses on top on their back along with a ropes to hold on to them. That confuse them the most. Did these ponies riding horses as transportation and if so why those horse are more animal than intelligent? "Ah, Crusaders. Glad you're awake and enjoying your meals." Koumei said strapping his fan on his back as he got to his horse cover in deep blue armor identical to the one he's wearing. "Now we can get ready to go to your village." "Ah yeah but why you riding horses? Is that strange for ponies to ride horses?" Scootaloo asked. "I understand you confusion of this, but also in our homeland, they helped us get to other villagers." Ryubi explained to them riding on a armored clad horse with the same armor as him. Don't want to waste time questioning them, they got on to each of them. Scootaloo riding on Chouchi, Sweetie Belle on Kan-u, and Applebloom riding on Ryubi. With that, they now galloping to their village as fast of the wind, as within hours until like evening, they now stop on the hill as with that, they now saw the view of Ponyville. " *whistle* So this is the village that's a little close by to ours, huh?" Chouchi said looking the view of it. "Yep, that's Ponyville." Scootaloo replied. "Awesome huh?" "Heh, very nice indeed. So colorful and peaceful." Chouchi said, not taking off of this view. Then by squinting his eyes a bit, he saw what to be a crystalize tree roots castle. "Hey, what's with the crystal tree?" he asked. The Crusaders then saw the crystal tree as Applebloom explain to him, "That's the Rainbow Friendship Kingdom. It's a new kingdom that one of our friend, Princess Twilight Sparkle now ruled here in Ponyville." "So this Princess Twilight Sparkle, is she the government of this place making it the capital of this homeland?" Kan-u asked. "Well not really, the true rulers of Equestria is Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. They live in Canterlot which you can see in the mountain side." Sweetie Belle said, pointing to the castle that's in the mountain. "I see, then maybe we can meet those Princesses and ask for a negotiation to keep our village." Koumei thought a bit. Then he saw something marching down a bit as he squinting his eyes, he saw six ponies, each of them in different type and in different colors. "Milord, it's seem that we got company." he said as Ryubi saw six ponies coming this way. "Looks like these six villagers are looking for you." he replied as once Applebloom got a better look at those six ponies. "It's m'ah sister and the others! They must come here to search for us!" she exclaimed in happiness. "Ok, then. Hang tight, all of you!" he ordered them as they hold on tight to them, they now crack the whip as they now headed to the six ponies. "Well girls, are you set?" the purple Alicorn, known as Princess Twilight Sparkle, asked as all of them nodded. "Ok, we better hurry! I can't stand for m'ah sister to be missing! I even tried to make a dummy of her so Granny Smith and Big Mac will not worry!" Applejack said with a hint of worries. "She's right! I even had to make excuses of my parents that my sister's sleeping with me!" said Rarity also having the same expression of her. "I hope the girls are ok. I couldn't let anything happen to them." said a light yellow pegasus, Fluttershy. "Well what we waiting for?!" the rainbow mane, cyan pegasus known as Rainbow Dash with tone of impatience. "Let's just get them back before something happen to them!" "Ooh, ooh! My Pinkie Sense is acting up!" The pink pony known as Pinkie Pie, found her mane to twitch then stop. "Something is charging through us girls!" As the others was about to ask her, Rainbow Dash pointed her hoof at the direction that they're going, now saw 4 ponies that're riding on top of horses and coming this way?! "What in the name of Sam Hill?!" Applejack exclaimed as once these horse rider ponies cross the bridge, they now control their pace as once they stop near to them, the girls able to get the look at these strange ponies. These ponies are heavy clad with strange armors with different color yet having gold trims along with gold horns sticking out along with the horse too that not native to Equestria, nor even Griffons able to forge such those. One of them, a pony, mostly a colt, clad with a blue armor and with a golden v horns sticking out with a shape of a dragon head with a emerald jewel, got off of the armor clad horse with the same colors at him and to their surprises, he help Applebloom get down as 2 others armor clad ponies coming off of their horse and helped both Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle down too. "Applebloom!" Applejack cried in joyful tears as she embrace her sister in a tight hug. "I'm so glad that you're ok! You had me worry sick!" "I'm so sorry about worried you, Applejack!" Applebloom said, hugging her back, shedding some tears dripping to her coat. Both Rainbow and Rarity then also embrace their sisters, expressing in different manners. Though their punishment is like being grounded from Crusader for 2 months that their sisters said, at least Ryubi and his brothers help them returning them home. The other girls then sighed in relieves of their sisters now back as Twilight then glance to those armor clad ponies as she walked to them. "Thank you for bringing the Crusaders back home. We were worried that when they spotted on the Everfree Forest, we have to find them immediately as we tried to search them last night, we couldn't find them. We're about to find them again today, but you four able to return them home." Twilight said, being thankful to them. "It's no problem. It's our justice to defend and protect the people." Ryubi replied with nodded then a grin at her. "My name is Twilight Sparkle and these are my friends." she pointed to the rest of the girls who they take glance at them. "Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie!" "The one and only Rainbow Dash!" "Rarity, it's a pleasure." "Name's Applejack" "And I'm.....Fluttershy "I'm sorry, we didn't get that." Ryubi said. "It's Fluttershy" she answered with a little voice. "It's nice to meet all of you." he said, placing his hoofs in a strange grip and a bow at the same time. "My name is Ryubi and these are my sworn brothers." "The name's Chouchi." "I'm Kan-u, nice to meet you." "And I'm Koumei." "What strange names that you and your 'brothers' have." Rainbow Dash commented in which Twilight glare at her a bit. "Still I'm thankful for returning back Scoot. Although we're not related, we like the best sisters." "Same thing, Ryubi. Thanks for returning my sister." Applejack joined too. "You're welcome. All of you. But we must get going." Ryubi said. "Right, you're going to see both Princess Celestia and Princess Luna so you can make peace with us to keep your village." Applebloom replied in which he nodded. "Huh? Village?" Rarity asked with a hint of confusion. "You see, Ryubi and his brothers are from another homeland and they traveled here, settling a village near to the Ghastly Gorge." Sweetie Belle explained to the girls. "What?! Ghastly Gorge?!" Applejack exclaimed with wide eyes. "That place is dangerous with quarry eels and a gorge that Rainbow once hold contest to see which of the pets will be hers! How can they settle a village near there?!" Rainbow then shrugged at that one event that she did. "Don't worry, there's a forest that near to a lake that we settle." Ryubi said, climbing back to his horse. " And if any demon creature threaten our home, we'll fight back." "That's right! We fought not only thousands, no hundreds thousands, millions, or even zillion demons and evil adversary!" Chouchi boasted a bit, only to receive a smack to his helmet. "Enough, boasting Chouchi!" Kan-u scolded at him which he rub his head. "All right, brothers that's enough. We must headed to that castle at that mountain." Ryubi pointed to Canterlot. "Then we can meet the government of this village to make peace with us." "Government?" Applejack asked tilted her head a bit in a confuse manner. "Government is a system by which a state or a community is governed." Twilight explained to her. "He meant to meet with the rulers of Equestria, the princesses." Then she turned to Ryubi and his brothers. "Well how about you let us joined with you and your brothers to meet Princess Celestia and Princess Luna?" she asked them. "You need us to meet with the Princesses." Koumei stepped up to Ryubi. "I believe that she's right about it. My guess is that these six are the government's subjects and if we want to meet up with the government, then we need to let them join with us." Ryubi nodded at this then turn to them. " We are grateful for your offer to join with us, Twilight Sparkle. Come, let's go meet up with the government." As the Crusaders ask their sisters to let them ride on the Youzhou warriors, they hesitated at first, consider that these strange armor clad ponies are riding horses, but they gave in and let them ride on to them. As with that, the Mane 6 and the Youzhou warriors now headed to Canterlot. With returning the Crusaders to the Mane 6 and offer them to join with them on their journey, Ryubi and his brothers with the Mane 6 now headed to Canterlot to meet with the Princesses. Meanwhile at the faraway place to the Unicorn Range, a red flag with the symbol of a phoenix was waving as red clad soliders ponies were now marching towards Canterlot along with some other armored clad ponies too. On top of that, a dark blue with a golden trim along with a golden helmet and a chest resemble of a phoenix along with a emerald jewel on the middle of its mouth and a black cape was riding on top of a dark blue and red horse. "How far we reach our destination, Shiba - i?" he asked as a deep crimson armored pony with a deep crimson fan, was holding a scroll was also riding his horse too. "Not that far, Milord." he pointed to Ponyville. "According to the PON scroll, the Tree of Harmony is in the deepest part of this 'Everfree Forest.' " "Good." He then turn to the troopers. "Now we come this far, my brothers! The sacred Tree of Harmony is now at the peak of the reach! Once we take the tree, we'll bring the Gyokuji to it and then, my fathers' idea will be realize to all of Mirshtia and to this homeland! We will bring back our old homeland to it's former glory and to my fathers' idea to all nations!" With the speech held to them, he raised a deep blue and a green jewels sword up high. "For the Giga nation! For our unification! For Lord SouSou's idea of peace!" All of the soliders roared at this raised their weapons high as the skies of Equestria now face the first war........