//------------------------------// // He's BAAAAAAAAACK // Story: The Burning Traveler // by Dramize the Salamander //------------------------------// Meanwhile back at Canterlot Celestia and Luna were sitting down on their thrones with crestfallen looks. After talking about everything that happened and the out come of Luna investigation they just couldn't muster the will to put on a calm collective face for the subjects they loved so much as they thought how many died and those they couldn't protect. Celestia was deep in thought trying to think of what they could do to prepare their ponies for what could be a threat. "Sister are we weak?" Luna asked snapping Celestia out of her thoughts. "What?" Celestia answered out of surprise. "Sorry wasn't listening what did you ask?" "Are we weak? I mean look at us we are revered by our subjects as goddesses we hold sun and moon in our collative power and yet we couldn't protect those below us so I ask again are we weak? "Luna I-." "I'M BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK DID YOU MISS ME!" Discord said with a joking tone as he appeared from a puff of pink smoke but his eyes said other wise. "DISCORD WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!!" Celestia Yelled. "I had something I needed to check on. So why the long faces did a town get wiped out or something." Discord said jokingly but then looked at saddened sisters. "Really? Wow ummm sorry." "What do you want Discord? We are not in the mood for you pity." Luna said with a little bit anger in her voice. "Don't you dare think I hold any form of pity for you or your sister. because I unlike your subjects know that you're not gods. your mother is a god, I am a god, even the fool Bahamut is a god. You two are immortals given power through your mother who let her tether to this world be destroyed and a matter of fact it is respect for your mother that saved you two every time we fought before your found my sisters sanctuary and she gave you the one thing that could stop me. So me even asking to do anything in your realm is a kindness but right now I am not very happy and would prefer if you remembered your place shade spawn." Celestia was shocked at the serious look Discord gave her sister while Luna just looked down away from discords eyes before he created a chair and sat down. "But to level with you I do have something to ask you." "And what would that be?" Celestia asked eyebrow raised. "That would be - "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Blueblood screamed as he ran into the throne room slamming the door locking it behind him. "Auntie their are more of those freaks." "What?" Said Celestia as she got up and walked pass Blueblood to open the door he just locked until she heard a banging and some voices on the other side mixed with clashing metal "BREAK DOWN THAT DOOR FELLS AND GET THE LITTLE ONES IN SIDE I'LL TAKE CARE OF THE ARMY HEADING AT US!" Said a mysterious voice. "OK ONE DOOR GOING DOWN!" Said another voice. Celestia backed away from the door while reinforcing it with her magic then a crash was heard and the whole door shook but it held. "They reinforced the door.... good." After a few seconds the strikes on the door started up again going faster and faster until their was no time between strikes after a good minute the strike stopped again Celestia was panting she had use a lot of magic to soften the all the hits on the door so she let her spell drop but as soon as she did the doors shattered much to everyone except Discords surprise. "Well hello." Said the cream colored kirin with brown scales, mane and pony tail was wearing a torn robe and red gauntlets that walk through door way followed by a rush of young kirin who were holding large eggs and ponies all in tattered and torn clothes they were running toward Discord who kneeled with his arms out as the adult kirin and ponies entered all with weapons drawn creating a circle around the children and Discord with a look of fear and uncertainty on their faces. Luna was about to move up horn a light when Celestia stopped her. "Wait a second Luna." Celestia walked past Luna and stared at the group in front of her noting the looks on their faces. "I am Celestia Solaris co-ruler of Equestria and I mean you all no harm." She said with a soft and calm tone. " Mean us no harm that's a laugh the way these solders are you couldn't harm us their more like roached that need to be squashed but considering that why should we trust you? The weak all ways try to destroy the strong." Said a male silver scaled kirin with orange fur and an x shaped scar over his left eye, wearing baggy torn jeans which allowed his bandaged tail to move freely and a jester cap which his grays horn poked through. He walked through the doorway and around the group dragging a bloody guard like a ragdoll before throwing the guard at Celestia's hoofs causing the kirin and ponies behind him to relax while Celestia's face hardened and Luna looked ready to rush the him which brought a smile to the kirin's face. "Well don't you look pissed your guards looked the same way when they attacked so I broke all their bones as punishment." Luna materialized sickle sword and charged at the kirin who just raised his hand in response. "Get crushed." The kirin dropped his hand and Luna hit the floor so hard that the marble cracked, Luna cried out in pain as she could feel every bone in her body ether crack or completely break. "LUNA." Celestia screamed as she rushed to her sisters aid but before she could get close a ring of smoke surrounded her before quickly becoming a dome." "You know it's impolite to barge in on another's battle." Said a new voice. Celestia looked around the dome until she found yellow glowing eyes. Materializing a long sword Celestia shot a beam of solar energy at the eyes only for them to disappear and reappear on the other side of the dome. "That wasn't nice you know you could have hurt somekirin or pony." "If you don't want to get hurt then get out of my way." "But i'm not in your way, all you have to do is walk out the dome. I was just saying it would be rude to interrupt." Celestia was questioning whether it was a good idea to just run out the dome but Luna cried out again. "HOLD ON LUNA." Celesta ran into the smoke wall with a shield raised but when she saw the smoke clear she was back in the dome. "How the-." "It seems you lost your way." "LET ME GO!" "But I'm not keeping you all I did was setup the dome it's not my fault you can't find your way out." "ENOUGH!! FELL BEAST, SIREN LET THEM GO!" Said the new kirin that just walked into the room in a full suit of weird armor covered in runes that glowed seven different pale colors his wings were bound by the armor and chains and his tail was fully covered in armor but you could see glowing red eyes through the eye holes. "Yes king Absolute." The kirin said quickly. Luna felt her body lighten and the dome around Celestia vanished letting her see her captor was a short female kirin with a light green coat, emerald green scales and large wings her horns looked like pipes and she was wearing a short revealing dress that showed off her tail was pony like and sky blue like her short mane she was holding a long brass smoking pipe in the shape of a oriental dragon that had a thin smoke coming out of it. "Dulahan get out here and heal her." "Yes my king." Said a kirin female with a dark violet coat and horns, black mane and shovel like dragon tail that appeared out of Absolute's shadow. long thin spikes extended from her elbows and smaller spikes lined the sides of her tail she wore a soft gold dress with red crosses on it. She walked toward luna and tapped the alicorn's back causing her to whimper. "Ah broken skeleton easy fix. Essence of shadow bring forth unholy regeneration." Luna fell a dark force creep over her but the force turned warn and inviting numbing her body as it worked setting and repairing all of her bones. "Do you have you say that every time?" Said the kirin that broke the door earlier. "Does it annoy you?" "YES!" "Then yes I do." "I hate you." "I know and I love it." "Enough you two." Said Absolute with a clearly irritated tone. "Yes sir." Said the two arguing kirin at the same time. "You ok?" Said Absolute holding out his hand to help "Yes thank you." Replied Luna taking his hand letting him help her up. "I do believe we ponies and kirin got off on the wrong hoof because of these dumbasses." Absolute said point at the group behind him earning a collective "HEY!" but not caring. "All me to introduce myself my name is Absolute Abyss I am the kirin king and we are looking for a new home."