//------------------------------// // Strange New World...No Seriously(Intro). // Story: Lizard King: Tyrant // by Mick0339 //------------------------------// It was peaceful day on Applejack's farm. Beautiful sunshine, and serene scenes. The orange coated, yellow maned mare looked around at her immense apple orchard. Luckily, she didn't need to do any harvesting today. as there was still a week to harvesting season. For now, she could enjoy the fresh air without having to work on bucking the apples out of the trees. It was the fated day of the return of Nightmare Moon, but still she found it peaceful during the day. She couldn't help but smile until she heard a crash on her Apple orchard, and she rushed forward as she saw some of her trees collapse in the distance. Tyler was drowsy, tired, and now in pain as he looked in front of him. He figured he had landed on a platform as he seemed to be quite a few feet from the ground, however it also seemed strange on how he couldn't feel anything but ground under him. His but also felt quite strange, like something was sticking off of it. "Did someone put a small damned donkey tail on me?" He asked himself, until he found out he was suddenly mute. He tried to say something only to hear a low growl. What? Another thing: his legs felt a little out of place, and his arms were tiny? He tried to jolt up, only to find that his legs were scraping the ground, quite a few feet behind him. "Oh no? What is happening?" Another round of growls came out. His eyes were also quite spaced apart, and his perception was more memory induced instead of actual sight. On top of that, he could smell something approaching...that wasn't good. ___ She was racing, hoping that nothing bad happened to somepony. She felt her heart sink. What she saw put fear into her, and probably any other pony to see it. "What the buck is this thing?" she asked herself while overlooking a titan of a creature. Huge tail, large teeth, actually scratch that: monstrous teeth. Huge frame, and immense head and acute eyes and nostrils. The scales were a light tinge of green, with it's small eyes, now observing her a darker red. Suddenly the monster jolted as it finally rested its eyes on Applejack. It tried to clamor on it's feet, and with a slow steady rise got onto the huge clawed and three-pronged imprinted feet. Applejack tried to slowly walk away, making sure to hide her hooves noises. Her teeth were instinctively chattering in fear, and still the beast was struggling to properly stand and simply eyed her curiously. The monster inched forward towards her, until she simply collapsed. "I think I might've broke her," Tyler growled to himself. It was so cute though, with a little cowboy hat, and such diverse colors. Although, with him at the height he was, and with the added appendage and body changes, Tyler needed to find out what exactly he was. And not wanting to make her more faint he miserably tried to walk towards a nearby forest, hearing his footsteps echo in the distance. He was definitely something big. And he also knew he was definitely not in the desert anymore. Of course if that was a good thing, he had no idea. ___ Emergence of Nightmare Moon occurs, from which the Elements are gathered. Tyler, meanwhile is simply trying to find a nice snack. ___ Luckily, after finally learning how to balance, Tyler managed to get into the forest, out of the locals sights. He had a feeling a huge hulking predator was not something everyone appreciated. After finding a river in said forest, which was rather deadly to just be called a forest, he found himself in quite the predicament. He was indeed a hulking carnivorous dinosaur, which looked even more scary than the King. Tyranno would shit his pants at the sight of what Tyler was. His teeth were a third larger, with his body being larger, and more muscular than a pre-nuance discovery of the Spino. Not the recent, but the older one, which in Tyler's opinion was much more fearsome. A decrepit seadweller, who functioned like a croc was not scary, but either way, Tyler was huge. Night was falling quickly however, and he imagined he would need to be on guard for any other predators in the forest. He supposed he did get his wish, but in a rather unorthodox way. ___ The gang were chasing after Nightmare Moon, the previously known princess Luna. However, the everfree was always a winding and dangerous path to trek, and the castle was more deep in it than anyone would like to go. Twilight, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie, Fluttershy, and of course the recently scared Applejack were the recently titled Elements of Harmony. They were on a mission to stop Nightmare Moon and hopefully return her to her previous state. However on the path, they had encountered perhaps the worst foe. A huge lion, with a scorpion's tail and bat wings emerged from the bruh, however everyone was completely blind to the hulking sight behind him, as unluckily for the manticore it was fairly well camouflaged. ___ Again Tyler had met the ponies, and the other one he had apparently made faint earlier, but it appeared none of them knew he was there. His red eyes scanned the scene in front of him. "A--A manticore," A white-coated, purple maned, high class unicorn said. "Not good..." A lavender unicorn responded. "Guys, don't worry, I can take him. The amazing Rainbow Dash has got this." A rather arrogant and yet surprisingly brave cyan colored, and rainbow maned pegasus said. Tyler was now getting quite confused. Three mythological creatures so far. The other ponies stared at the recently spoken one, deadpanned and irritated. "No, we should probably run," the pegasus said. Tyler had just realized that all of them were female, which was rather strange, but either way, what happened next would put him into action. ___ The manticore bared it's teeth and swiped it's tail as it slowly encroached on them. Twilight and Rarity seemingly both used magic to try and subdue the beast, but it simply shrugged off a combined blast, to which the rest of the group continued to cower further back. Even the animal loving Fluttershy was scared out of her pants. The timid pegasus was cowering behind everyone else, as her nature seemingly caused it to be that way. "Ok, I think we might be screwed..." All of the mares nodded at Twilight's words, "only if I had read up on the manticore's weaknesses." Again, the egghead received deadpanned looks, even from Fluttershy, from which Twilight lightly chuckled. " We were so close too. I'm sorry Princess, I have failed you," Twilight said to the sky. The manticore got into a lunging position, when the brush behind it rustled, from which it turned around, only to cower in fear. The ponies were confused until they saw it, and Applejack pointed her hoof at it, "It's...It wasn't a nightmare...it's real..." It was huge, bigger than most dragons, and looked more fearsome too. Of course, the elders and adults still had the beast beat, but with a fearsome size like that, only the older dragons would intimidate it, if at all. Its body blended into the brush, but it's red, piercing eyes bore down on the 7 of them. It loomed over them all, with the apex predator vibe coming off of it big time. Perhaps the most fearsome creature Twilight had ever read up on, and it was before all of them, including the scared Manticore. It was dwarfed, utterly and completely dwarfed, and it knew it. It was no longer concerned with the ponies, but its own life. The hulking dragon made a low growl as it descended its massive head, baring it's teeth, as it looked at the manticore. Before the ponies could pee, it snatched up the manticore, and with a snap, the manticore was dead in its mouth. Fluttershy seemed to cry at that, and everyone seemingly shit themselves, until it seemingly turned around and retreated back into the brush, with it's tail wagging in all of its monstrous glory. Finally after another few seconds, it was gone, and the ponies were safe, but only physically; their minds were scarred with fear. ___ Within a few days, Ponyville was back to normal, and Princess Luna returned from the husk of Nightmare Moon. Princess Celestia had her sister back, the Elements of Harmony were formed, Twilight found friendship, and the Everfree received a monster.