Zerureusu, one of the most majestic monsters sighted by human eyes, with ash white scales, and a seemingly ethereal blue glow. And the only monster able to harness the pure essence of light. The wyvern normally resides in the tower, but after at least ten years of rest, the monster will fly away from the tower in search of food, normally nothing will come close to harming it, but on this fateful day, something dark was brewing around the island in which Zerureusu feeds.
A shadow looms over the small forest, the figure that the shadow belonged to is the unknown flying wyvern, or more commonly referred to as shadow rathian, the most mysterious monster seen by human eyes, it is a shadowy black colour, with a crimson coloured tint to all spikes along its body. Much like Zerureusu, it can last many years without feeding, and must go to the same deserted island to feed, and this is where the two monsters of light and dark will meet in their fateful encounter.
A herd of Aptanoth were running away from an overhead shadow, the owner of which was glowing a bright blue as he went into a prime hunting stance, enabling it to make a sharp three hundred and sixty degree turn, and land on its prey. Once Zerureusu had fully overtaken the stampede, with a flap of its wings and a shift of weight, the large wyvern turned on itself, and landed on the large carcass of one of the larger Aptanoth, and due to its skill in hunting, managed to kill it almost instantly by snapping its neck with a sharp clicking sound, the monster could finally start eating.
Little did it know that this hunt was being watched by cold, hungry eyes. The unknown dragon was intently staring at the feasting wyvern, without warning the hungry rathian stormed out of the undergrowth, and came face to face with the Zerureusu, the blue wyvern by this point was facing the unknown dragon, with bright lightning streaming out of its mouth. Both of the wyverns roared at each other, and made the first moves, the black rathian did a backwards summersault, poison gas leaking out of the tail, and hitting Zerureusu squarely in the jaw, staggering it. The light wyvern flew backwards into the air, and immediately flew forwards into the rathian, a burst of air around it, knocking the dragon back.
The two monsters were now in the air, and each with injuries sustained from the first two blows. Zerureusu let out a mighty roar and flew up into the sky, closely tailed by the shadow beast, who sent a blue and red fireball in the general direction, it was narrowly avoided, however.
As the two streaks in the sky increased their speed, Zerureusu closed its wings for a short second, allowing it to fall just behind the shadow rathian, it then shot a jolt of light at the opposing dragon, which hit the tail, but got nothing more than a mere flinch from the beast.
When the two finally reached their limit, they dispersed, seeing that the only way to settle this would be through melee combat.
They got some distance between themselves, before turning around, and charging at each other at full speed, Zerureusu had light coming out of his mouth, the unknown wyvern had trails of blue flame coming out of the sides of her mother.
As the two collided, there was a prolonged explosion of both white and black, before, silence, two of the most feared monsters in the world were now plummeting to earth. A respective coloured gas leaking out of the gaps between the scales of the two bodies, before the two monsters blacked out.
Somewhere above Ponyville.
The forms of two pegasi plummeted from the sky along with the rain, one was pitch black, all the way through, apart from the tips of her messy hair and wings, her hooves and around her eyes, which were all a blood crimson.
The other Pegasi was as white as clouds, with blue streaks running down his rather well kept, but still rather messy hair. The tips of the feathers on his wings were also streaked with an electric blue colour.
The two went through a similar thought process; smell… nothing, hearing… rushing air, feel… wind… lots of wind. At this point, their instinct kicked in, extended their wing muscles against the heavy resistance, and... Boom! Two massive rings of dark and light pervaded the night sky, before the two figures flew up into the distance, each one with a trail of a respective colour.
Zerureusu looked at his surroundings, and then at himself, this form… he felt the wind through his newly formed hair and feathers, how he changed, he does not know, but he will have to deal with it, as he has done with many things before. He saw a lake below him, and decided to have a better look at himself.
Rathian looked at her hooves, and then at her hair blowing in her face, her body was covered in some sort of fur, she saw a village down below, perhaps it would be best to land there, preferably silently so that she did not attract the attention of the local people, or whatever lived in this small village, although it seemed too late.
Ponyville, golden oaks library.
Twilight had just explained to Lagiacrus what she think had happened, this was taking a long time to settle for the former monsters in the room, but before it did, A loud explosion erupted from the skies, however, they thought it was just thunder, after all, a storm was scheduled for the night.
Uroktor spoke up first.
“So, what you’re trying to say… is that we… we aren’t even from this world?” The small unicorn tilted her head slightly.
“I… suppose not, I’m not entirely sure really. After all, there are a lot of unexplored areas in on this planet, but from what everyone is saying, I can’t see such an expansive amount of land being able to fit in the space that we haven’t explored” In a burst of green flame and a burp from spike, a scroll of paper appeared out of nowhere “Oh! She’s written back! Well, let’s see what it says” she grabbed the scroll with her Magic “Dear twilight sparkle. I wish for you and the four ponies to come to the castle, I do not know the urgency of the situation at the moment, so if you could come over at your earliest convenience, it would be appreciated. Yours truly, Celestia”
There was a long silence before twilight finally spoke up “well. If the princess wants us to go, I guess we better get going!” she got up from her seat, and turned to the four monster-turned-ponies “you four won’t know who Celestia is will you?” her question was answered with blank faces “well, I can’t give you the full story, but she’s very important, so, you know, just mind your manners and such. The last train for Canterlot will be leaving in a couple of hours, so we still have some time left” she turned back to her friends “so you girls better go and pack whatever you need, we probably won’t be staying for very long, meet us at the train station.” the five mares nodded and walked out “you four, come with me to the train station, Lagiacrus, make sure to stay by me, I trust lots of ponies, but you’re not one of them right now” The black and blue pony glared twilight as she stood next to her “well, let’s go then, come on spike.” She used her magic to turn out the lights, walked out of the door as spike jumped on her back. Lagiacrus was still angry about the situation, Agnaktor put Uroktor on his back, and walked after them, and Diablos walked out of the door and closed it.
The streets of Ponyville were deathly quiet at this time, and a certain pony was taking advantage of this. A black and red pony had landed on the stone pavement as rain poured down her body.
However, she was not alone, in front of her were five other ponies of her stature approaching her, she took a defensive stance, and flared her wings at the others.
The group stepped back before Twilight turned to the ponies behind her “do you think that she’s one of you guys?” Agnaktor looked over Twilights shoulder.
“Probably. Well, what are we going to do? She doesn’t look ready to listen to reason”
Lagiacrus stepped forwards “simple, we make her listen to reason” Twilight was about to stop her, but she knew that Lagiacrus was not about to listen to her, especially seeing as she was already fighting.
Lagiacrus charged up a bolt in her horn, and then released it at the pony. Lightning fast reactions made the Pegasus immediately fly upwards, until it reached a peak, at which point, she started to descend.
Lagiacrus started to fire bolts left and right at the pony, which was quickly picking up pace, and narrowly avoiding each and every shot with precise execution, before eventually landing a direct hit on Lagiacrus. The black and blue pony was sent back a few steps, before raising her head again, and roaring, creating an electrical field, which stopped twilight, who was about to try and stop Lagiacrus again.
The pony used the field of electricity to launch even more powerful beams of electricity, this time, the bolts curved and arced around to face the red and black pony who was finding it difficult to avoid the bolts, but was finally struck by one of the bolts, sending her flying backwards, and smacked into a building, but quickly regained composure.
Twilight gasped, a lighting spell of that calibre must have taken years to refine to that standard, and the speed at which the Pegasus evaded the bolts is staggering, almost giving Rainbow Dash a run for her money. As the battle unfolded, the rain almost seemed to intensify, the Pegasus was rapidly increasing her attacking speed, and Lagiacrus was firing more and more bolts in all directions, in fact, the other ponies needed to take cover from the bolts.
But finally, the Pegasus managed to go through the electric barrier at a tremendous speed, and hit Lagiacrus just below the horn sending Lagiacrus sliding across the ground, and the electric field dissipated into the body of the Pegasus, sending a jolt of electricity through her body. The Pegasus got up to her hooves, sparks of electricity making her body jerk uncontrollably.
But that was not enough to stop the Pegasus.
Lagiacrus shakily got to her legs, before being thrown down again by rathian, whom was about to do the finishing blow, before a streak of white and blue struck her directly in the chest, startling everyone around.
At this point, twilight had recuperated from the fight, and decided to take control. A purple field appeared around the two brawling Pegasi, who abruptly stopped fighting and turned to face twilight.
She levitated them off the ground, and slightly closer towards them.
Now, are you going to come quietly, or am I going to have to set Lagiacrus on you again?” she was getting very angry, it seems that the world was throwing everything it could at her, and she wasn’t standing for it any longer.
The Pegasi didn’t bat an eyelid at the fact that they could understand everything she said, all they cared about is that she stopped a fight between them, and they weren’t going to take that lightly. But being shocked by whatever kind of death machine had shocked Rathian wasn’t on the top of their to-do list, so they complied.
Her voice was not unlike rainbow dash’s, albeit deeper, and slightly more malicious “fine! I’ll do what you say for now, but there’s nothing keeping me from pummelling you down to ground once you let me go!” the black and red Pegasus scowled at Twilight.
“Who says I’m letting you go? The other one seems alright, but you seem a bit too… aggressive” she let go of Zerureusu, who promptly landed on all hooves, before walking over to twilight, and nodded in appreciation.
“How can you trust him?! For all you know, he could just be another liar! Waiting to stab you in the back when you least expect it!” Rathian was furious now, it was all that stupid unicorns fault for attacking her! She was going to pay one way or another.
Twilight walked over to Zerureusu “As much as I trust you for saving Lagiacrus, I’m going to have to keep an eye on you, hope you don’t mind, especially considering the company you came with” she turned to face Rathian, who was still trying to get out of twilights magic.
The white Pegasus turned to Twilight “I take orders from no one” his voice seemed very distant, almost as if he was daydreaming.
He then flew off into the distance, heading towards Canterlot.
The acceleration was too fast for twilight to concentrate a levitation spell.
“Well, you seem to have lost a member, what a shame. I was beginning to like him too. Now the quicker you can get to your destination, the quicker you can release me. So get to it sunshine!” Rathian glared at twilight. She had only just learnt to communicate, and she was already getting the hang of insults.
This was going to be a long night.
Everfree forest.
A blue unicorn was making her way through the forest, until a massive hulking form of a pony rose up in front of her. Rain poured over the body, as glowing red eyes pierced the rain and fog.
An overwhelming sense of dread covered the unicorn “H-hello?” the form moved in closer to her, then a booming voice echoed and shook throughout the forest, as the figure stomped its foot.
“Pathetic” it moved its head back “if you have any last words, say them now”
Wait! I can help you get out of the forest!” the unicorn held up her hooves.
“Humph. Maybe you can help me. For now at least”