//------------------------------// // "Now will you talk?" // Story: The Appearance of The New // by Castok the Shadow //------------------------------// Dynol POV: These nightmares have gotten more worse by the months. The pony whore will pay greatly for what she has done to my mind, and minds of other unfortunate minds before me. I was walking through the castle with my right hand on my forehead because having one of those nightmare gives me a headache and not the weak ones. It's the one of those headaches that makes you wish it to go away but it just wouldn't leave you alone and keeps on coming back five times more worse then the last. Geez... I need just one dreamless sleep, let me dream of nothing so I can have a moment of REST! I reached Varlock's door and knocked on it. Let's get this over with and-ARRH! Blasted head. Curse you nightmare, curse your kind and CURSE YOU PONY WITCH!! The door opened to reviled Varlock still in his armour. Does he sleep while wearing his armour?... Badass. "Morning Dynol" Varlock yawned while he scratched his left tusk. "Had a good night rest?" "You could say that, Varlock" I groaned from his words, I'll tell him later for now... "I need you to come with me right now" Varlock looked at me for a second and closed the door behind him. "Where to?" He asked. I started to walked down the hall and Varlock followed behind me. "I have another guest for you to... meet and know for we have some questions and she has most of them she can answer" *** Celestia POV: "Has the messages been sent, private?" I asked my messenger. "They have your highness" My messenger answered as he bowed respectfully to me, Luna and Twilight. "We have sent the messages to the Griffin Empire of Griffinstone and their allies of the plain lands of the Minotaur Clans. We've also sent the message to the Dragon holds and finally we've sent your personal message to the Crystal Empire. They'll arrive to them all soon" I nodded and let the messenger go. Hopefully with all of those messages sent, we can gain more support against Dynol and his 'forest friends'. Let's hope that Dynol doesn't gain any allies and forge an alliance against us. I want to end this crisis without slipping any more innocent's blood to Dynol's power and rage. I looked down at the map again and draw out our old castle off the map as 'second option' to our main cause. 'Where's Dynol's base of terror?'. "Are you should getting the Crystal Empire and the Griffin Empire's focus here, leaving a small attention to the Changeling Hive Kingdom?" Luna put to the question of sending the messages to them. The war against the Changelings has been hard and with the support of the Crystal Empire and the Griffin Empire, we've managed to push them back to their boarders and hold the lines to the Badlands. Although the Changelings were weak from the siege of Cantorlot and some of the Changelings has separated into small groups like the rival groups of Crimson Wings and Blitzschlag. So the Changelings were not at their best, even with the return of Queen Chrysalis that made the Crystal Empire join the fight against them thanks to Cadence's wise words. "Ever since we pushed them back to the Badlands Luna" I told her in a friendly tone. "The Changelings haven't been seen in months nor their queen. We have to look at the newest threat to Equestria and look to our defensive against the Everfree itself. We'll leave a garrison force to watch the borders and to know what the Changelings are up too" "Speaking of knowing who's are up too" Twilight entered our conversation. "Princess Luna, did by chance find a way to enter Dynol's mind to know what we're up against?" "I'm afraid not" Luna sighed in defeat. "I tried to enter Dynol's mind in the dream realm where I left his mind along. But his mind had some kind of dark void I had never seen before and yet, it looked and felt like I had seen it before. I tried to enter but the void kept me out of his mind while it was seeping out foul magic into the realm." "What do you mean 'seeping out foul magic'?" "Some kind of dark magic I've never seen before. It didn't effected the other minds, it just fell out every time I tried to enter Dynol's mind and see what he is planning to do next" "But the voids?" I looked up to face Luna. "Are they still there?" "Yes" Luna answered "The voids are still there but the foul magic has stopped when I stopped trying to get into Dynol's mind. It must be some magic that Dynol learned years ago, who knows what other powers he could have and what he is planning on doing with it" I thought for a moment about what Luna told us about Dynol's mind and the voids surrounding it. What kind of dark magic is protecting Dynol's mind? I can understand the other powers he use, but I never thought that he has dark magic, powerful enough to stop Luna from getting into his mind. I looked back down on the map again and ponder on what to do. If we can get support from the other kingdoms. Then we'll have a larger army to search the Everfree forest and out number Dynol's forces so we can catch him and bring him to court for his crimes against the innocents. "Lets hope that they'll sign up for this" *** Dynol POV: "What do you think about our defensive?" I asked Varlock as we were near our destination. "Castle Rhyfel's defensive are made very well" Varlock answered "It looks like it was made to protected a king. Which means that their must be hidden passages throughout the castle, very useful to make good ambushes" "You should of seen my Teutoburg ambush. It was good." Finally we've arrived to where our 'guest' was being held. I could still hear the sound of a drop of water hitting the guest's head while hearing groans of desperation to be free from her 'torture'. Varlock must of heard these sounds because he looked at the door that contain the room where my guest is in, having a good 'watery' time. "I take it that this is what you brought me here for, isn't it?" Varlock questioned with his arms crossed. "Quite" I said with a voice that contains sarcasm and boredom. I then began to open the door to meet our guest again. She was where I left her, holden down by stones on her hooves and the water bubble above her head, hitting her with one drops of water. I can tell that she was breaking because she was grinding her teeth and was moving her head to escape the drops of water. So she think is wasn't painful ah? Well one point for me. "Meet my guest, Varlock" I introduced Varlock to my guest. Varlock looked at the pony who's trying her best to make her head doesn't make contact to another drop of water. "Who is she?" Varlock questioned while he was walking around my guest, analysing every bit of my guest. "She wearing the same armour as the royal guards wear" He sniffed for a second "She was raised in the capital, Cantorlot and she's been in the army for eleven years" I stared at him in awe "How did you know all of that by just looking at her?" "Orges knows these things if they are train in the art of combat" Varlock informed me. "I can know almost anything from a creature if they are train to fight in the army and before you asked no, we don't know anything else part from the information I just said to you" "So nobody else apart from soldiers and warriors?" "Correct" I nodded to this useful information. "That ability may come in handy to know what we're up against" After my little chat with Varlock. I turned my focus to my pony guest. "So, shall we try this again. If you promise to answer all of our questions, I'll stop the dripping hitting your head okay?" "Never" She growled though her teeth. "I'll tell you nothing, you monster" She breaking, is only a matter of time and... persuasion. "Are you sure?" My tone was slowly turning more angry then persuasive. "Because I've got a lot of things to do and if you'll answer our questions, we'll leave you in peace with no dripping on the side of you answers" She then spat at my feet to my offer "Go to Tartarus where you belong!" She shouted with sure language from a lady. Well she asked for it. I walked to her and looked down at the helpless mare in front of me. I then put my right foot on her chest while Varlock watched in interest. The mare put on her angry face on as I touch the bubble of water that made the drops double it speed. This made the mare growled a little more from my action. But I haven't even started. With my right foot. I made it gain heat which made the mare's face turned from angry to surprise. Good. As the heat gain more and more. I pushed my foot down slowly on her chest. Soon the heat on my foot was almost as hot as a summer day. The mare closed her eyes hard and began to make painful groans and screams. Varlock lifted an eyebrow from my method in either in shock from my brutal action or just curious on how this will turn out. "Now will you talk?" I asked in a annoyed and irritated voice as I pushed harder on her chest. "I will!" She finally broken in submission. "I'll tell you what you want to know, just stop this torture!" I did as she wished and clicked my fingers that stopped the drips of water while cooling down my foot and moved it off her chest. I walked back a steps and leaned on a wall near the door. "Then. Talk" *** Mean while in the Griffin Empire "Your highness, we received a message from Equestria" "Show me" The griffin handed the message to their empress. "Guard, ready my chariot" In the Crystal Empire "Your highness, we received a message from Equestria" "Show me" The crystal guard handed the message to princess Cadence "Ready our chariot" In the Plain lands "High Chief Rock-Axes, We received a message from Equestria" "Bring it to your great Chief" The minotaur handed the message to High Chief Rock-Axes "We move at dawn" In the Dragon Holds "Elder ones, we received a message from Equestria" "Show us" The dragon gave the message to one of the elder dragon. "Well, what do we do?" "find and send a message to this 'Dynol The Dammed' once you find him... He seem like the creature we want."