//------------------------------// // The Appearance of the 'monster' // Story: The Appearance of The New // by Castok the Shadow //------------------------------// Twilight POV: It was a peaceful day in Ponyville today. The sun was shining ever so bright and everypony was enjoying themselves. I just left my castle to see my friends and even Princess Luna as we thought that as this was a perfect day, we must hang out and catch up with each other. This day couldn't get any better. I arrived at the sugar cube coner where all of my friends are gathered. We sat at the biggest table that Pinkie Pie could find and where we all discussed about what we did last week. Rainbow dash was going on about one of her stunts when I noticed Fluttershy was not taking part of conversation and got me all curious. "Fluttershy?" I asked in concerned for my friend. "What's wrong? you're awfully quiet." Everypony then looked at her with the same concerning faces. "Oh I'm fine." Fluttershy said ever so quietly. "Really I am, it's just well... Do any of you regret what we did to that poor thing five years ago.?" This got everypony remembering that day when that thing came to Ponyville. It's tall thin body, pale white skin, greasy hair and carnivorous teeth in the front row of its mouth. "Oh Fluttershy." came the voice of Rarity as she placed a hoof on Fluttershy's back. "We all know that you care for animals deeply, but we had to get rid of that hideous creature out of town. Don't you remember everypony was screaming from it?" "Yes." Fluttershy replied silently. "But it-" "And don't you remember when it tried to grab a small filly with it wried arms?" Intruded Applejack as she finished her chocolate milkshake. "Yes." Fluttershy anwered a bit louder. "But it said it was-" "And didn't you see it's monstrous teeth when it was smiling at what could of been it's lunch?" Rainbow said angrily that it just walked in and tried to eat one of us. "Okay that enough!" Fluttershy angrily yelled at us with one of her hoof hitting the table, spilling some of the drinks along the table. We all looked at her with surprised faces. "We didn't know that at the beginning. For all we know it could of been lost and was trying to find its family by coming here and wanting to know where they could be." She calmed down from her little outburst and had a little bit of tears in her eyes. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to be so rude." "Nonsense Fluttershy." Luna said with a smile on her mouth. "I understand why you feel that way. But what you have told me about its attack on Ponyville, I'd went inside of it's dreams and asked why it did that." Luna then leaned towards the table, as did we. "Let me tell all this, when I asked why it went all anger and saying that it you all that did the wrong". "As if!" Rainbow chuckled "That's what a monster would always say if you asked it." "Yeah!" Pinkie Pie enter the conversation with a high squeak from her voice. "I bet it would say that with a roar like..." Pinkie open her mouth and made a perfect deep and booming roar that made everything inside the building shaken for a few seconds. When it died out we burst out laughing. Pinkie's face was just plain shock. I guessed she didn't know she can make a really good impression of a monster. "Oh Pinkie." I spoke while trying to catch my breath. "I never thought you had that in you" "Girls." Pinkie replied with a shaking voice. "That wasn't me that made that roar." We then all stopped laughing and all looked at her. What did she mean with she didn't do that? "Then if it wasn't you?" I broken the silence "Then who... or what did?" After I said that. A huge bright light like fire flew out side of the building and landed somewhere with a large bang by hitting something. All of us left the table in a hurry and rushed outside. Outside was Chaos. Everypony was running around in fright as all building was catching on fire by large fireball coming from the sky with a terrible storm that made the fire fly onto other building. The ground was shaking which made items fall from shelves and made some ponies fell to the ground. Everything was in complete chaos and our faces was all shocked by this scene. "What the hay is going on?!" I yelled in disbelief. Before anypony could answer. Barks, growls and more roars were heard in the distance. We turned our heads to where the sounds were coming from. Dozens upon dozens of timber wolves and manticores were charging down from Everfree forest towards Ponyville with hatred in their eyes. "We need to everypony to the Twilight's castle!" Luna commanded. "It holds many halls to contain everypony in Ponyville inside of it!" "We can write a letter to princess Celestia to get reinforcements when we get in there." I shouted to the other. They all nodded their heads in agreement to the plan "Okay first of all we need to stop the timber wolves and the manticores from getting into the town so I'll create a barrier over the entire town while the rest of you get everypony to my castle." Once I'd gave my plan to the other. I then cast one of Shining Armour's barrier dome and placed it around the town and in just the right time. The dome stop the rampaging creatures from entering the town and stopped right in the tracks, scratching the dome with their claws. Even better is that the fireball and the stormy air stopped as well. I thought it was over for the magic... But I was terribly wrong. Soon even more fireballs began to fall from the sky like rain and the stormy air bashed onto the dome like a hammer. The barrier wouldn't last long. So I went to help the other get into my castle while the dome can hold for a little longer. Soon everypony was either in the castle or heading towards it as me, my friends and princess Luna guided them towards sanctuary. Spike was counting everypony to see if everypony was there. I looked at the dome. It was still holding but not any longer. There was many cracks around it thanks to the fireballs and the air bashing onto the dome. I then went to Spike. "Have you sent a letter to Princess Celestia yet?" I asked him. "It's already sent and she'll be here soon." Spike answered as he was still counting down everypony down ."Uh oh, we're missing three more ponies." "Who isn't here?" I question to the other while I was rubbing my chin as I was thinking. The other were thinking as well. Then Applejack's face downed. "Applebloom and her friends!" Applejack shouted with surprise and horror. "She and her friends were playing in the treehouse before all of this started, they must been still there." Before any of us could acted. A massive crashed came from the dome. The dome couldn't hold on anymore and broke into thousands of tiny pieces. Soon howls and roars of delight came from the timber wolves and manticores as they charged again into the town as fast as they can. "We're too late." Fluttershy whispered in fear as the animals were heading right towards them with the same hatred in their eyes. "We have to go inside, now!" Luna shouted as the creatures were getting closers. Growls and barks fill the air as a giant fireball, bigger then the others was coming down from the sky like a meteor. "But what about Applebloom and her friends?" Applejack said with worry for her their safety. "We can't do any if we don't get into the castle." I sadly said to her as I tried to get her into the castle. The creatures were nearly upon us if we don't get in the castle now. "LOOK OUT!" Spike yelled as he pointed his claw up at the incoming fireball. Before we could look at it, it past above our heads and landed with a blast of heat and flame at the entrance of my castle. The blast knocked us back a few feet from the castle and we landed with a huge crash. We then got back up on our hooves to see all of the timber wolves and manticores were right behind us, but instead of charging they were walking towards us, ever so slowly. We wanted to run back to the castle but only to find something else blocking our path. Inside the flame was tall, thin biped creature wearing greyish robes that cover it's entire body, it had rocklike shoulder plates and gauntlets on it's arms that looked like it had water covering any cracks on it, it was hovering above the fire with the air surrounding the bottom of the legs and feet. It was hood look like it was made with nothing but water with spikes on the back of the hood that was made of stones. It then turned his head to reviled a mask made of molten rock covering it face and lave covering where its eyes and mouth would be. It then just stared at us and we were getting chills in our backs not by animals behind us. But the way this thing was staring at us. Lifeless and soulless as if it hasn't slept in years. It began to hover towards us and out of the fire. It then landed down and it mask began to move and shape to reviled it's face. We all gasped in shock to realise what was standing in from of us. The monster that appeared five years ago, The one that we chased away. "Didn't you miss me?" It's growly and deep voice boomed by the power within it. Completely different the other voice it had those years ago. "if I could dream without having nightmares every night, this would be the one I would dream every night for the last five years." *** Human POV: Finally. After long years of suffering by my nightmares and long training with my mentors they were in front of me. Surrounded by the forest friends and I blocking there path to the castle, they were in front of me and they had no way to run. They were all in a circle that watched my friends with fright. But two was looking at me as was I. Those were the ones with a horn and wings. The one that tried to zap me and other that gave me those nightmares. I looked up at the stormy sky that I created and chuckled to myself. "So..." I broke the silence that covered us all "...Nice weather we got here eh?" My forest friends somehow chuckled with me at the joke. The ponies was not so sure about it. "What are you doing here?" The purple one said as if she was in charge. She still doesn't know who she talking to now. "The bigger question." I boomed my voice to let her know her place. "Is why are you not apologising and begging for forgiveness?" "Hey!" Came the voice of the rainbow one. Sounds like I hit a nerve system. "That no way to talk to my friend, you beast!" She then flew towards me at top speed. But with the power of the air, everything slowed down. I simply lifted my right arm above my head and soon a large stone came out of the ground. She couldn't stop and in doing so made contacted with it, face first. Then with the same arm. I made a fist in my rock gauntlet that made my hand changed into a stone-like mace and punched through the stone which hit the little rainbow pony, making her flew back to her friends and landed hard on the ground. I held my position as everything went back to normal speed. "RAINBOW!" The orange pony shouted it disbelief at to what she just seen in normal time. They rushed to see their rainbow friend they rushed to see their rainbow friend. She was alive but unconscious, this filled my lust of revenge to their race. The dark blue pony of nightmares face was all in anger from one of friends being hurt by her narrow way of thinking. "You'll pay for what you have done to her." She said with hatred and fury drowning her voice at what I've done. The way she said it was somewhat funny for I laughed when she give me her angry face. "That rich." I laughed out loud from all this as they think that they are the victims of all of this. So I'll make this more interesting. I lifted my left arm as my hand began to fill up with a ball of air. I then strikes her by lifted her from the ground as I used the hand that hold the ball of air to lifted her up. Gasps came from the rest as they tried to help their friend, but with my spare hand I used it to click my fingers and soon my most trusted friend, WoodFang came out of the shadow along with three timber wolves to stopped them in their tracks. The dark blue pony was now near my face as she tried to break my hold on her but fail greatly. "This coming from the one that kept me from sleeping in peace, from having nightmare that made me cry in the night wishing for a better world to live in. The one that did not listen to truth and reason but lies and false words" "What are you?" She asked with a creep of fear in her voice. I leaded towards her as we were now face to face with each other. "I am the judged" I spoke with a soulless tone "I'm the being that wasn't given time to talk, I am friend and master to the forest where I and my forest friends live in and I am champion of the elemental. I am Dynol The Damned." After making my new name known to them. I began to crushed the dark blue pony with the air around her. Squeezing her as she groan in pain from the pressure of the air. The other ponies tried to help but WoodFang and his pack blocked them from getting through. This was going so well until one of the manticores called me and pointed up at the sky with one of his paw. I looked up to see hundred if not thousands of Pegasus flying down as fast as they could. Dammit, this was going so well. I looked backed a suffocating pony in my grip. "To be continued." I growled at her in fasciation on the incoming army. "I'll leave you with this as a warning." Instead of ending her here and now, I focused all of the air around her left wing and snapped it. She scream in pain from her wing being broken by the air as I threw her on her broken wing to the ground, causing more pain on her wing. Then I used the power of water to created a portal to the ruin castle and told my friends to go through it as I hopped on WoodFang's back. We all charged straight through the portal with haste. Once everyone of my forest friends were through the portal, I then closed the watery portal making it fell to ground freely. What a great appearance and massage to my enemies that they have messed with the wrong 'monster' five years ago.