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// Titan Of The Land. 
// Story: Monsters Out Of Place 
// by funky108108 
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The four hunters looked onwards towards the canyon.
“Are any of you having any regrets?” a bowgunner asks as he loads some dragon ammo into a seven stars bowgun.
A dual sword user smirked underneath his mask “none at all, at this rate, my dragon slayer greatsword will be on its way to completion” shortly after, he drunk a glowing yellow drink.
Someone wearing a full set of bulky Basarios armour walked up to the group “The dragonator is ready, and the scout has said that the Lung is headed this way” she promptly drank a red liquid from a glass flask.
The final member of the group was wearing full rathalos armour “Well, there’s no backing up now” Just as they said their final ‘good lucks’ and so on, the ground below them started to shake, and the battle begun.
The massive form of the Lao Shan lung lurched forward between the canyon, and the hunters charged forwards recklessly, the first to make a move was the dual sword wielder who latched onto the beasts’ legs using the two swords, but was quickly thrown back down to the ground with a tremendous step from the Lao Shan lung.
The rathalos armoured greatsword user ducked under the leg as it trudged onwards, and quickly executed a jumping upswing, scraping the chest of the dragon, releasing blood onto ground.
The bowgun user shot several dragon shots at the monsters eye, causing it to rear back, and finally the monster retaliates. The Lao Shan lung rose onto its hind legs, raising its head up high, and letting out an earth shaking roar, before falling back down to all fours, sending the hunters that were around its legs flying backwards into the canyon wall.
The Basarios armour wearing long sword user jumped as high as her armour would allow, before releasing a powerful upswing that left a large cut under the dragon’s mouth, releasing more blood onto the ground. The Lao Shan Lung glared at the hunter before lunging at her with the top of its head, crushing her against the wall of the canyon and the monster itself. As the pressure from the giant increased the hunter lost more and more air, before the bowgunner shot a round or cluster strait into the monsters eye, blinding it in that eye, and making it reel back in pain, making it release the longsword user.
“I would have been a goner if it weren’t for you, thanks Lee!” the gunner nodded and smiled.
“Anytime for a friend. Focus on trying to bring it down; when we do, we can let Leaf to do his work on the Laos head”
“Gotcha! I’ll try to get its right leg down” she then ran to beasts’ right leg, before executing a soul combo on it. The greatsword user managed to get a third stage charge on the Laos left leg, bringing the front part of the beast down.
“Leaf! Get up on the head!” The hunter in Rathalos armour shouted, the dual sword user nodded and scaled up the Lao Shan Lungs body with relative ease, and managed to get up onto the monsters head, before he started to manically thrust the swords directly into where the brain would be found in a Lao Shan Lung. Upon the sudden realisation the he was being stabbed in the head, the monster went berserk, slamming his head into the walls of the canyon, however, the hunter skilfully dodged the attacks, by using his swords to cling onto the side of the beasts’ head, before regaining composure and continue to stab at the head.
The beast reared up its head for one last stand, it stood up on its hind legs for a brief period, before plummeting back down. The hunters below looked up in horror and awe as they saw their death approaching. The massive weight of the monster crushed the three hunters, and threw off Leaf.
Blood was gushing out of the top of its head, before long the entire ground surrounding the head was stained a crimson red, and leaf was resting on the side of canyon, after a sharp rock that was jutting out pierced his lung.
And as he watched his kill, he saw a spectacle not meant to be seen by human eyes…
A red mist began to seep out from underneath the scales, clouds of red flew up into the sky, pervading it, and bleaching the entire sky a dark red, before dissipating just as quickly as it started.
And then… silence, everything but the constantly blowing wind stopped, as Lao Shan Lung, the great titan of the land, died.

Canterlot Castle, Guest room 1A.

“So, Jagged Crown and Silver tongue, this is where you will be staying until we find some way of supplying you with a job or house. It’s not much, but it will be your temporary abode.” Celestia was showing the two earth ponies to their room. A while after Jagged Crown recuperated, they collected silver tongue from the hospital and brought them where they are now.
“Honestly, it’s better than we could have hoped for” The small figure of silver tongue was currently lying on the bed “in fact, this is probably going to be the best sleep we’ve had in… well, ever”
Celestia smiled “Glad to hear that. Oh! And before I forget, my student is coming over today with some ponies that I feel you may want to see, but for now, I want you to relax, I will call you out when they arrive”
Jagged crow nodded in confirmation “I’ll be trying to get used to my new body in the meantime” 
Celestia nodded, and closed the door behind her. 
“Well” Jagged crown chuckled “that was certainly an unexpected turn of events, but I think it might work out for the better” he sat down next to his son
Silver tongue looked up at his father “Why do ‘ya say that?”  
“It means that there will be no hunters or other monsters that want to kill us, to put it bluntly”
“I suppose that’s true. I wonder what happened to the other Jaggi.” Silver tongue then continued to look out of the window.

Ponyville train station.

“Well, we’re finally here!” Twilight sighed “now we just need to wait for the others…”
“More waiting?! I didn’t think I could last the way here!” Rathian squirmed under the magical grasp of Twilight, who was running out of magical energy to keep her contained.
A couple of minutes later (or what seemed like hours to twilight) and the rest of the group had arrived.
The train headed towards Canterlot pulled into the station, filling it with the loud screeching of brakes.
Twilight turned to the rest of the group “Right then, are we all ready to board the train?” With a few nods and a couple of angry scowls, the ponies boarded the train.
The six friends continued to converse during the trip, Uroktor was sat comfortably next to Agnaktor, who was talking to Diablos. Whereas Lagiacrus was scowling at the group, and Rathian was inwardly burning them all.
However, breaking the moment of peace, a bright flash came out of the window, startling everyone but Uroktor, who at this point was peacefully sleeping, curled up on the chair. Nearly all of the ponies present were awed when they looked out of the window, and saw a bright light flying past, leaving a golden trail behind it , they watched as it easily out sped the train they were riding and carried along the tracks towards Canterlot.
“What… was that?! It couldn’t possibly be…? No, surely not…” Twilight was considering that it was perhaps yet another monster.
“Ah think it might be Twi’” Applejack shook her head in disbelief.
“More ponies?! I gotta’ organise more parties!” Pinkie Pie was practically brimming with energy at the thought of how many parties and after-parties that she would have to throw. Eliciting a small chuckle from Diablos.
Twilight sighed “we’ll have to look into that after we talk to Celestia, but for now, we just have to wait for the train to arrive at Canterlot”

Canterlot Castle, main hall.

Celestia was sitting in her throne, waiting for Twilight and the rest to arrive, when a bright light flashed to her left, as she turned, she saw what seemed to be a streak of golden light smashing through her window, she shielded herself as the golden light crashed into the shield. Expecting some kind of powerful magic blast, she was surprised to find the form of a pony lying unconscious on the floor in front of her. The guards immediately rushed beside her to observe what had happened.
Upon closer inspection, what seemed to be a normal pony turned out to be a pony of massive proportions, at least a good two to three feet taller than herself, and he seemed to emanate an aura of strength.
The coat of fur seemed to be a dark crimson colour, with a black stripe running down the middle, the hooves, and tail were all an incredibly dark blue, which could possibly be mistaken as black.
The most curious (and most worrying) feature about him, was that from the neck all the way to his snout, the top of his head was completely covered in scales.
A loud rumble emanated from the form, as it started to stand on all fours and the guards all took a few steps back. Opening its eyes, Celestia could see that his eyes resembled that of a reptilian. 
Needless to say, Celestia was slightly agitated to talk to a being that let out an aura of such massive power.
“H-hello?” she had never been uncertain of herself up to this point, but now… now she had found a being that let out such a powerful aura, that it left her almost speechless. The massive form looked her dead in the eye. 
His voice was booming, but at the same time, had a sort of soothing tone to it “greetings” Lao Shan Lung had no idea how he could speak their language, but he was unfazed “I am Lao Shan Lung, or as some prefer to call me, The Great Mountain Dragon. I can assure you, I mean you no harm, unless you seek to harm me” despite the word of the pony, the guards were still apprehensive around him. 
“V-very well Lao Shan Lung” she breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that she wasn’t going to get on the bad side of him “I would like to formally introduce myself as Princess Celestia, co-ruler of Equestria”
Just then, the main door burst open “Princess! We came as fast as we could!” twilight was more than slightly shocked to see her conversing with… well whoever it was that she was talking to.
Lao Shan Lung turned towards the other ponies, eyes flicking between each one of them.
Celestia was the first to speak up, although shakily “Umm, everyone, I’d like you to meet Lao Shan Lung”
At that point, Rathian started to laugh, but it quickly diminished “you…you’re not kidding are you?” 
All the former monsters took a step back, including Lagiacrus.
Twilight was incredibly anxious “W-why are you all so scared of him?” why on Equestria would former monsters be so scared?
Agnaktor was the first to speak up “Lao Shan lung is one of few monsters known as an elder dragon, some of the most ferocious monsters known to anything, and Lao Shan Lung is one of the more dangerous ones, being the size of a mountain whilst on its hind legs” 
Lao Shan Lung nodded his head “this is true, however, I am not naturally aggressive”
“But you are renowned as one of the most destructive monsters ever, surely some of that comes from aggression?” Lagiacrus asked.
Lao Shan Lung strode over to the window, and looked out at the sky “that destructiveness was spawned from fear rather than aggression, fear from the ancestors” 
A few monsters looked at each other in disbelief.
“The Fatalis trio, they were the ones that sent us here” after a gasp had escaped all of the ex-monsters’ mouths “it’s a little known fact that the Fatalis trio are actually the very embodiment of the three stages of a star, white Fatalis represents the birth and adulthood of a star; crimson Fatalis represents the supernova, and black Fatalis represents the remains of the star, each one was born from the same star when it was going through each stage. The eggs were then launched at earth. The Fatalis trio inherited some of the stars powers, white Fatalis due inheriting the power of a live star, has been able to properly harness that power and has started to launch monsters in random directions in space, however, another force is directing them all here, and turning us into the forms that we are in now”
Twilight was amazed at what had been said, a being with as much power as Celestia herself “how do you know so much?” Lao Shan Lung sighed.
“Let’s just say that I and white Fatalis share a grudge, and when I was sent here, he made sure that I knew his plans, because he thought that I wouldn’t be able to survive on a desolate planet, and he wasn’t expecting for me to be sent here” he then looked at the others in the room “however, I think that together, we might be able to get our revenge” 
Celestia was still in shock at how quickly Lao Shan Lung had just got up off the floor and was already thinking of a plan to get revenge… if only her guards were that good “So, do you have a plan to get you and the rest of the monsters back?” 
Twilight, whom had finally come to her senses again, spoke up “actually, that’s where the letter I sent you comes in, seeing as you and Luna can oversee the cosmos, I was actually wondering if you could perform a long range teleportation to their home planet?”
“Well… theoretically, I could do that, but it would without a doubt kill me, and that’s after only teleporting somepony like silver tongue, but teleporting somepony like Lao Shan Lung? And then having to turn them back into their original forms? Even with mine and Luna’s powers combined, we couldn’t do that” she sighed “however, if we knew the coordinates, we could possibly relay a message”
At that point, Rathian chuckled to herself “I know just the mon- uh, pony for the job” 

Streets of Canterlot.

A white Pegasus was stalking the streets, however, unbeknownst to him, he was being watched.
Twilight rubbed her forehead “so we let the three most irresponsible members of our ‘team’ handle this job on their own?” personally, twilight had no idea why she had agreed to let Lagiacrus, Rathian and Rainbow Dash handle this.
Lagiacrus just nodded her head “yup” she turned to the other ponies, “now, when Rathian charges at him, he’ll try to fly upwards, when he does, Rathian and rainbow dash, you two try to herd him towards me, and I’ll try to subdue him with thunder, and if he dies, then I blame twilight” 
Twilight face hooved before continuing “under no circumstances are you going to purposefully kill him, we need him alive”
Lagiacrus started to climb to the top of a building before saying to Rathian and Rainbow Dash “alright, you two can go chase him , go have fun” the two pegasi practically launched themselves off the cobbled streets, and split up, Rathian flew down the street that Zerureusu was walking down. Zerureusu looked around, and saw the form of rathian charging towards him and, promptly flew upwards. Part one of the plan was coming together.
Rainbow dash was position so that when Zerureusu flew upwards, she could start moving him in the direction of Lagiacrus, when he finally flew up, she was more than prepared, she started to fly head on towards him, and he flew of in the other direction; the direction of Lagiacrus. 
Lagiacrus was charging up a large electric bolt, which she released with extreme force at the approaching white shape heading towards her. The bolt barely missed, in fact, it even burnt of some of the Pegasus’ hair, which made him aware of his opposition’s plans, and as such, ducked back down into the streets Lagiacrus scuffed her hoof on the roof in disappointment. 
Rathian quickly intercepted him, and Rainbow dash was coming at him from the opposite side, meaning that the only choice was to go back up. As soon as he reached the top again, Lagiacrus charged up another shot of electrical energy, and launched it at him, the air around the bolt seem to be electrified. The bolt arced over to the Zerureusu, and clipped his wing, sending him back down to the ground, where the other ponies were waiting. 
Twilight walked over to Zerureusu and picked him up in a magical field “let’s just hope that you won’t struggle as much as Rathian…” 
Lagiacrus climbed down the ladder and the two Pegasi flew down to regroup “so what now? Does princess sunbutt read his mind and we can send a message to the tower?” Twilight glared at Lagiacrus “what? You expect me to remember her name?”
The lavender unicorn sighed “yes, that is the basic idea, Celestia reads his mind, and then we can relay a message to this Fatalis monster you talked about”
“And then we can go home, right?” Uroktor asked, who had come out from hiding behind one of the stalls in the market.
“What are you doing here?! You could have gotten hurt!” Agnaktor shouted.
“I was perfectly safe! I was worried about you!” Uroktor dashed up to Agnaktor and hugged him.
“I don’t know about going home though” he put Uroktor on his back “as long as you’re safe, I’m happy”
Rathian walked up to Agnaktor and Uroktor “hate to break up such touching moment, but I want to send Fatalis apiece of my mind which means that we have to get to the castle as soon as possible, so move it” she walked right past the rest of the group and headed towards the castle, where Celestia was waiting to get the coordinates for the tower.

Outskirts of Ponyville.

The figure that was shrouded in shadow the previous night had finally come out of hiding, and the turquoise unicorn that was with him could finally be identified as Trixie Lullamoon. The pony mentioned before was an incredibly light green colour, maybe even turquoise his mane was white and swept back, barely reaching eye level, his tail wasn’t much different. His body was covered with large glowing bugs, a small swarm of them seemed to be flying around him at all times. His smile as he saw the small village was the scariest of all, fangs adorned the inside of his mouth, instead of the usual herbivore teeth that most ponies had. “Ah! It’s been a while since I’ve seen civilisation, why not pay them a visit?” with fangs bared, he headed towards the village, his reign of terror following him (as well as a very terrified looking unicorn).