//------------------------------// // The Chancellor... // Story: A Timeless Hell // by EternalShadow54 //------------------------------// A Timeless Hell... Chapter 3- The chancellor... "Have you ever felt so alone and nothing makes sense? Well that’s how I feel right now…I feel like I’m facing everything myself, with nothing but tears and a fake smile…" -Anonymous The wind flowed through the stands of his mane, the field around covered in the whitest of snow as he stepped towards the city below, giving a slight shiver while he tred the dirt path. Davy kept his head angled, kept his lush green eyes from the contact of others while he walked through the town, only earth ponies as far as his vision would allow to see. Everypony seemed to give the unicorn a harsh glare, a stern look of distaste and disapproval as the armoured stallion passed them by, his eyes never contacting that of another pony. Downpour knew the time period he was in, the age of the tribe seperation being a dangerous time indeed. The unicorn was stepping through forbidden territory, the air around him growing ever colder as the ponies within the village all started to take notice of his arrival. It wasn't long before he had a small following shortly behind, watching his every move with hopes to find a single reason to confront him. Davy entered the center of town, his body shaking as the air grew even colder than before. He knew the legend, the story of why the temperatures continued to drop during this age. He could literally feel their hatred for him, his coat frozen by their cold hearts. Davy felt a hoof on his shoulder, his body tensed for he knew not what awaited upon his turning. He circled around to confront the pony who had touched him, tapped upon his ligament with unknown intentions. A mare, eyes blue as the sky and her body a dark pink with the mane and tail to match, stood before Davy, a pudding hat upon her head with an outfit to sync in color. The mare furrowed her brow as she peered deep into his eyes, her efforts to pierce his soul in vain as he simply returned the look, only that with him, it gained results. She spoke, her voice a brutish tone while she let the words flow from her lips to his ears. "Sir, your kind is not welcome here. I would suggest that you leave." The mare was backed by a miniture mob behind her, the whole city seemingly against him as he continued to gaze deeply into her eyes. Davy opened his mouth, his words an unpleasant tone as he spoke. "And what if I decide not to..." Davy remarked, the group letting out a gasp as the words were said, the pony looking back at him taking back a step as his green eyes flared, a sense of anger around the stallion who stood firm and undetered. The mare turned to the crowd, another official looking pony coming from the side and whispering something within her ear. She stood and listened carefully to the orange mare who softly spoke to her, taking in every bit of information with very delicate consideration. After a while, the oddly dressed pony came forward and addressed the stallion in a much more formal manner. "I am only going to ask you once, this time with the authority of chancellor. Leave, before I call my guards to arrest you." The wind howled as the temperature continued to drop to dangerous levels, his blood flowing stiff from the weather around him. The ponies had seemed to have grown accustomed to such conditions, but he hadn't. With unchanging emotion within his expression, but a strange tone of sympathy within his voice, he asked her a simple question. "May I at least shelter myself from the weather... I'm not from around these parts..." The chancellor turned head, only giving it a half thought before answering with the disheartining, yet obvious answer of no. Davy didn't want trouble, but he had full comprehension of the living conditions outside and had no intentions of staying within the ice capped forrest for the night. The wind raged a bit louder as the snow pelted him, the earth pony group unrelenting in their leader's statement. He figured it no problem to ask the chancellor her name, to know who to give the pleasure of sending him into the frozen tundra known in this time as Equestria. She didn't take to kindly to the joke as she answered, slightly annoied with the stallion's manner. "My name's Puddinghead. Chancellor Puddinghead to you." The mare firmly placed her hooves in the snow, a bit of a snooty attitude showing through while she turned her nose up at the chilled unicorn in front of her. Davy bit his lip, feeling within his body now faint and numb as he thought very hard upon that name, it familiarity bugging him from the very back of his mind. He knew the mare who stood before him, knew her backstory from somewhere when it suddenly hit him. He drew out his questions like he always did as he spoke to the pink official. "You're Chancellor Puddinghead... the leader of the entire earth pony tribe...? I've heard a great deal about you... your argumentive meeting with the other tribes unsuccessful... and your later fellowship with them that saved your pathetic race..." The mare before him drew anger from out of nowhere as she inexplicably exploded with fury at the unicorn, yelling that his words were just lies and conspiracies as she called for her guards to come and take him away. Davy didn't even struggle as two of her guards took him by the hooves, Puddinghead chuckling as she lowered her head to eye level, an insane, unnerving grin becoming plastered upon her face. "Send him to the dungeon. He wants a place to stay for the night, how about we give him a home for life?" Davy just smiled as he gazed back into her icey blue eyes, her attempt at humor void of its feeling when he responded. "Much appreciated..." The guards jerked him for his smart remark to their leader as she shooed them away, dragging the white stallion through the snow and back towards the very place he had come from earlier. He landed with a loud thud as the ponies within the cell drew back into their corner like last time, still afraid of what sorcery this stallion before them could preform. Downpour looked up from the ground to the familiar set, the tone of his voice switching to that of a normal pony. "I suppose... nopony is going to welcome me back, huh...?" He gave a snicker as he laid his head to the ground. "I'm tired of this place anyway... see you guys later... or maybe even before... but regardless... I'm sure we will see each other again... somewhere in time..." Davy shut the lids of his eyes, the world around going black as it did when he prepared for a dream. Whatever he had coming to him, he was ready... as always. Silence... complete and utter silence. Davy's vision became useless as he peered into the always recurring darkness around him. The evil and horrible creations that would be brought forth to him this dream could only be concived within the mind of his own, the thought still making him cringe, even after all this time. The silence lay unbroken as a small kindle burned as his side, suddenly a full flame before he could even flinch. The flame spread around, concealing all routes of escape while the temperature withing the trap grew, the stallion sweating within mere seconds of opening his eyes. It was all happening so fast, the heat growing more intense with every passing tick of time. Then, just as fast as it had happened, the flames diminished, vanished before him without trace, but still leaving behind its heat. A bloodroar cried from behind Davy as he turned, eyes stretched to the limit where before him stood a creature with the likeness of Cerberus, a mythological monster with the appearence of a giant canine beast with three heads. Anguish pulsated through his body as the monstrosity lunged head towards the stallion, who was able to dodge one head, but not the other. Davy looked to his severed limb, the pain tearing at him while he drew hoove to where his right foreleg used to be. The beast attacked once more, all three heads directly aimed for the pained unicorn. He dashed to his side, only just missing another horrible injury as he recited the only incantation he could remember, knowing and seeing no other way to defeat the creature. It quickly gained a rebound as it charged once more at him, the unicorn just finishing his recitation as it jumped forward. The scars around Downpour's body glowed a bright crimson, his body slowly levitating into the air as a dark force took hold of him, consumed his sense of control while his body was engulfed by black. The monster had no chance against the outpour ofravenous beast and bastardizations that nopony could lay eyes upon with instant death of terror. After the monster was swallowed by the power of his words, the stallionslowly floated back to the ground, energy spent as he prepared himself to once more face the last trial of every haunting nightmare as his severed ligament attached itself back. There was a flash of white as the world came back into view around Davy, the walls of his house becoming crystal as he once more observed the blood stained upon them, and heard those damned screams...