The Appearance of The New

by Castok the Shadow


Next step, reassemble and new alliances

Dynol POV:

This was the time of victory. All of the Ogres were dancing around a huge fire in the middle of the now destroyed pony town with some woods, stones and the dead enemies as fuel for the fire. Their music had been playing for what seemed to be hours, I even joined their little dance around the fire before making a large statue to honour those who had fallen in battle.

It was a fifteen foot statue that held me, riding on WoodFang with a replica of the vortex storm in my hand that was in the air. On the right was a statue of Llofrudd holding the flag of the Horde up in the air in victory. On the left was a statue of Varlock, whom was holding a unicorn by its throat and had his sword ready in the other hand to stab the pony. My favour part of the statue was the carvings underneath the statues. It held all the fights that lead to the battle of Ponyville. It showed the fight with the minotaurs, who were all being massacred by the shield wall of the Ogres and slaughtered by the forest friends's teeth and claws. The next carving was the battle for the town. It showed the six demons and that nightmare whore with their army charging straight towards me, Varlock, Llofrudd, WoodFang and the Horde of The Forest's army. And the final carving was us reigning victorious over the defeated pony, griffin and minotaur armies with the Horde's flag being place down by my council. Underneath all the carvings were some symbols of the Ogres's shamans and enchanters with some of my mentors's own symbols. Which reminded me to tell my mentors about our victory, I know Fire will be very happy to hear the great news and hopefully Earth will be there as well. I placed the statue next to the tree-castle as a symbol of our might and to be known throughout this judgement kingdom of our wrath.

I, along with Varlock, Llofrudd and WoodFang stood in front of the newly captured castle of ours. It was surely built for that purple witch that much for sure. The colour and the way it was made. Plus it had her mark on top of the castle.

"Lets go in, shall we?" I said with a wide grin on my face. They all either nodded or hummed in agreement and we all headed inside. As I opened the large two doors. I heard a scatter of small feet running deeper in the castle. I frowned to this. Someone hasn't left the town it seemed. I turned to my council. "We're not alone. Varlock you search west and Llofrudd you search east while me and WoodFang will go ahead" We then spilled and searched around the castle.

WoodFand had his snort down and was sniffing around to see if he could pick up on where the person was. As he was doing that, I headed towards the main hall of the castle to see if the person was in there. I opened the doors to find a round table with seven chairs around it. I moved toward it and saw a map of Equestria on the table, magically hovering above it. I looked up to see what looked like the root of a large tree with some gems on it. Why would they put a root of a tree in the castle? That's weird. I then looked at the chairs. They all apart from the small chair had the marks of all the ponies who have done me wrong. So, this was not only the purple one's home but where they all meet in time of great important. Well... It's mine now.

Suddenly. I heard rumblings from the eastern side of the castle where Llofrudd was. Then came the sound of smashes and things being broken. Me and WoodFang rushed towards where the sounds were coming from. We saw Varlock running past us and so we followed him. We reached to where the sounds were coming from and found the source of the noise.

In what looked like a bedroom, stood Llofrudd with a purple green reptile in his right hand. Llofrudd held the lizard by its tail. The lizard was swinging his arms around, trying to get Llofrudd's hand to release its tail. Llofrudd had his arm away from him so that the reptile wouldn't try and scratch him. I, along with Varlock and WoodFang looked at the reptile, then ourselves and back to the reptile.

"Let go of me!" The reptile shouted at Llofrudd as he once again tried to grab Llofrudd's hand around his tail.

"Look what I got, Dynol. A lizard" Llofrudd said with pride as being the one who found the being. Varlock put a hand on his face from his son pointing out the obvious. I would do the same if not for my mask still on.

"You don't say, master bad aim" I sighed as I walked up to our 'host' while Llofrudd widens his eyebrows from just realising what he had said out loud. I kneed down to get eye to eye with the reptile. "I know you, you're the one that helped the ponies enter this castle when I attacked for the first time"

"Yeah!" The reptile answered. "I'm also the one that'll say you will not get away from this!"

"Lets agree to disagree, alright?" I replied.

"Never!"

"Just like the one back home, eh Varlock?" I got up and looked at Varlock.

"Yeah but with less fur and much more smaller" Varlock said while he placed his hand back down to his side. WoodFang barked me a question saying what to do with him.

"Put him in house arrest" I simple said. Llofrudd downed the reptile and we left the room. As we exited the room, I shut the doors that was leading into the reptile's room and casted molten lava over the lock, making it impossible to open. Shortly we heard the sound of the reptile's fist bashing on the doors.

"let me out!" The reptile shouted.

"First off!" I shouted back. "What's your name?"

"Sp...Spike!"

"Spike!"

"What!?"

"With that attitude, no!" I stated to walk away from the doors with my council while Spike protected. We headed to where I found the round table, so we can discuss on where to go now. "Word is going to spread throughout half of this world about our capture of this town."

"So what do we do now?" Varlock asked as he looked around the room.

"First, we'll need to rebuild castle Rhyfel. That place is where we make our battle plans and we can't have it as a ruin. We'll take all the supplies in the town to rebuild it as well as building some walls covering all Ponyville."

"How are we going to build some walls if we're rebuilding Rhyfel?" Llofrudd questioned me.

"Leave that to me and my powers" I answered as I looked at the map on the table. "Here's the plan: Varlock, you're in charge of castle Rhyfel as it's rebuilding while also training more of your Ogres to replace those who had fallen"

"Alright" Varlock agreed on his part.

"Llofrudd. Once the walls I'll create is built, you're in charge of town's new garrison. No doubt the ponies and their allies will try and reclaim this town. We'll need to be ready when that comes"

"Understood" Llofrudd replied. "But what about that lizard?"

"We'll deal with him later, for now" I said as I walked up to WoodFang and said. "WoodFang. Your job is more different, once I've done with the walls, I'll be making some letters to possible new allies and you'll be in charge of getting them to the ravens and then making them go out to find them" WoodFang barked happily, he's always happy when he gets important orders.

"What will you be doing, Dynol?" Varlock said as he headed towards the table as well.

"Like I said, I'll be making walls to surround this town and write some letters. Once I'm done with that, I'll be looking in this castle's library. There maybe more powers to be discovered and maybe some more info of Equestria. When that's done, I'll talking to my mentors, so no one come to me unless it's important" I then headed back to the table and looked at the map where Ponyville is. I toughed the map with my index finger and the town changed colour and held the symbol of the Horde above it.


Twilight POV:

Everyone's homes has been taken. The refugees from Ponyville and what remains of the pony, griffin and minotaur armies were flooding the streets of Cantorlot, luckily many of the refugees have families in Cantorlot and those who doesn't got help from the local. The Princesses was already in the castle while I was with my friends as we were just heading to the castle as well.

"This is just awful" Rarity said as we were just walking up the stairs to the castle.

"I hear that" Applejack joined in. "Our homes, all stolen by Dynol and those blue creatures"

"What were those freaks anyway?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Orges" I simply answered. "They are a warrior race that have great combat training and discipline, but they never sided with anyone till now" I was about to continue but I looked to my right side to see where Spike should be....Only he was not. "Girls, where's Spike?" I began to panic as I looked around me.

"Where did you last saw him?" Fluttershy said with worry in her voice.

"He was right behind me as we were heading towards the train station just before Dynol casted that vortex spell" I said panicking. Then I realised. "When the vortex was casted, the rain charged into fireballs, which could mean that Spike could of been stopped by fireballs and got separated from me." I looked at my friends. "We need to talk the princesses about this"

We then began to run inside the castle and asked where they went. The guard told us that they were at Celestia's tower to see Ponyville from her telescope. We rushed up the tower and found Celestia looking though her telescope with Luna and Cadence. "Spike is still at Ponyville!" I shouted with tears in my eyes.

"What?!" All the princesses said out loud in disbelief as they faced toward me.

"We must of got separated when the vortex was casted by Dynol" I said as I walked up to them. "Please, we must get him out of there!"

"Sis" Luna turned to Celestia. "We cannot abandon him to the Horde" Before Celestia could say a word. There was a sudden earthquake that lasted only a few seconds then stopped. Before anyone could acted, I rushed towards the telescope and focused it on Ponyville. What I saw was Dynol on one of his knees with both of his arms incrusted by the earth which reached up to his shoulders. Some of the Ogres and the Everfree animals was watching in awe and wondering what he was doing. Next thing, Dynol lifted his head and made a roar that sounded like he was about to flip the whole of Equestria. Then Dynol lifted his arms in the air that made something come out from the ground. I looked out from the telescope and on the horizon. What was coming out of the ground was huge walls, around 40 or 50ft tall that covered around the whole town. It looked like the walls was the same as Cantorlot's. But with more watchtowers and more trebuchets, catapults and ballistas made of rock, stone and earth. There was a large gate made from molten rocks. Dynol now not only captured our hometown but made it into a fortress?!

I turned to face Celestia for answers or anything. Which Celestia turned to Luna and made a nod to her which made Luna nod back.

"Guard!" Luna called out. A guard came out and saluted in ready for his order.

"Reassemble the Lunatics!"


Third POV:

The lines has been drawn. Even though Dynol created the massive walls, it drain almost all of his power and made him pass out. Luckily some of the Ogres managed to caught him before he hit the ground and brought him back to the captured castle. Outside the walls, watching from behind some trees in the Whitetail Woods was two Diamond Dogs with eyes widen from what they just saw.

"Did you see that, Gut?" One of the Dog said to his comrade.

"Eh-huh" Gut replied while shaking in fright.

"Come on, we must tell great alpha"

The two dogs then began to dig their way down and headed deeper underground Whitetail.