It´s Awake
Celestia and Shining Armor were walking towards the deepest part of the Canterlot dungeons, talking all the while about this new animal discovered in the freezer of the Canterlot Castle bakery.
“And you´re absolutely sure it´s contained?” Celestia asked with a bit of dread in her voice
“Yes. It´s strapped to the wall with the strongest magical chains the Archmage was able to forge. And just in case it somehow breaks out of that we have two earth pony guards ordered to not take their eyes of it, two of the fastest pegasi in the royal guard ready to pounce on it and unicorns on the balcony overlooking the room.” Shining returned.
Celestia seemed to visibly relax at that. “Well, I guess that´s something. I just want to make sure it doesn’t escape before the Archmage can finish her examination of it. How is that going by the way?”
“She ran off halfway through, said something about needing a clean sample and then something about magic contamination and something else I didn´t quite catch.” Shining looked on the verge of remembering something else but he let it go and returned to more important thoughts, like what the cafeteria was serving while he waited for Celestia.
Celestia looked almost sad when she heard the Archmage would be away. “That is a shame. I was hoping she would be able to tell me what she has learned of this animal. Has it by any chance woken up yet?”
“It hadn´t woken up when I left but it´s been over two hours so it could very well be awake by now.”
“Yes, I do apologize for that. The nobles can be a problem when I´m not allowed to send them to jail like everyone else. Noooo, because they´re apparently too valuable to the community and functionality of Canterlot to be sent to jail. But they can take a six month vacation on a yacht without anything bad happening. You know why nothing bad happens when they take a vacation? Because they don´t do anything anyway! They just take the credit for what me and Luna do and blame us when they do something wrong! I could put every last one of them in jail and nothing would change except all that expensive wine and moldy cheese would stop stinking up everything these rats breathe on!” Celestia was fuming and Shining was getting a little scared. Every one of these words had been spoken while looking at him and she was almost touching noses with him right now, still fuming.
“Umm…” Was all shining could say to that.
Celestia came to her senses before any permanent harm could be done to Shining. She took her regal pose again and cleared her throat. “I do apologize for that. I´m just so tired of these not even century old children thinking they know better than me, an immortal goddess whose rule has caused nothing but happiness and harmony since she started this gig. I even came up with the idea of having nobles. But they were supposed to be honored heroes of fortitude and chivalry, not snots with their mouths stuffed with expensive food and pockets full of money that they didn´t earn and don´t need. They just make me so angry.”
“Are you all right princess? You´re acting out of character.” Shining said, a bit scared for the princess´s (mental) health
“Am I?” A simple sentence, only two words, yet it had the potential to start wars if only spoken the right way.
“Y-y-ye-yes, yo-you are. A bit.”
“I apologize again, the nobles have been an even bigger pain in my flank since Luna´s return. They say she isn´t fit to rule because she´s monster. She is not a monster. Not anymore. She is an immortal artist, forced to create a new piece of art every night, only to have the little ponies she makes it for, shun and ignore it.” Celestia´s muzzle was almost touching the ground at this point and she barely held back a sob.
“I understand princess.”
Celestia was probably capable of killing with the glare she gave Shining. “Do you really? Do you understand what it´s like to hear the ponies whisper monster when they think you can´t hear? To see the ponies cower in your presence? Watch them run away from you in fear? To have your own subjects attack you, regardless of guards there to protect you? Even the guards attack her sometimes, she can´t trust any of them. Worst of all though by far is when somepony tries to make her that monster again. She told me she wants to go back to the moon…” This time her muzzle was touching the ground but she still held back that sob.
Shining was silent for a while. He had meant that he understood she was angry with the nobles not that he understood what it was like to be seen as a monster but Celestia obviously had to get that of her chest.
“No. I guess I don´t understand.”
They were silent the rest of the way until they came to the doors leading to the newly discovered species containment cell.
“Well, here we are.” Shining said. “You think the Archmage is back yet?”
“Let´s find out shall we?” Celestia replied. She lifted her hoof off the ground and touched it to the door. The door flashed once before opening, a ward that only gave way to certain ponies used to secure the room as a means of mandatory final resort used for all dangerous criminals or unknown animals.
The door opened and revealed another door, this one transparent and the containment cell was just through that door, the creature visible just across from them. The creature still stood shackled to the wall. It´s legs were fixed together and it´s arms were held out to its side. Glowing red half circles held it up against the wall and prevented it from moving most of its body.
“As you can see it´s still contained and will be so until the Archmage gives us the green light to let it go.” Shining explained to Celestia.
“I guess that´s good news.” She replied
Celestia and Shining just stared into the room at the creature, watching it´s chest move with every breath it took.
Shining took hold of a small stone covered in runes and spoke into it, “Eagle Eyes, has the creature shown any signs of consciousness?”
Through the door, Celestia could see a white pegasus stallion in the traditional royal guard uniform jump into the air before grabbing a stone similar to the one Shining was holding. A voice could be heard coming from Shining´s stone. “No sir, none. The Archmage hasn´t returned either, since I know that´s what you were going to ask me next.”
“Thank you Eagle Eyes.” Shining returned.
“What do you think of it captain? Could it be a threat?”
“No, I don´t think it would be a threat.” Shining half laughed the sentence out, shaking his head to top it of.
“But it killed a pony. That may not be such a hard task,” Shining snorted at that, “but it still killed a pony.”
“That was just luck.” Shining retorted. “It´s a dumb animal, it can´t know where to hit us where it counts.”
Celestia raised one eyebrow and said: “Maybe it´s from the Everfree forest. Maybe it´s been hunting ponies there for millennias but so few ponies go in there these days that it was forced to go out of its natural habitat to find food. Maybe ponies have come in contact with it before but never made it away alive.”
“That…is something to think about.” Shining said to himself more than anyone else. “But wait. Why do think that´s the case?”
“I don´t, it was just something I made up.” Celestia stuck her tongue out at her Captain of the Royal Guard in a very un-princess like manner, her previous episodes forgotten.
“Please don´t make things like that up your Highness, it´s distracting.” Shining seemed to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Celestia looked at him with concerned eyes and said, “What´s wrong Captain?”
Shining considered holding his tongue but ultimately decided it best to spill the beans. “It´s just… Ever since Princess Luna returned there has been a decrease in guards.”Celestia stared at him but didn´t say anything so Shining continued. “First there were just a few guards who refused to guard Princess Luna and they had to quit the guard, nothing serious, just a handful of soldiers. But since then the guards have had to protect Princess Luna on numerous occasions and have gotten injured in the progress. Third and as you mentioned earlier are the guards that attack her. Over all the Royal Guard has been reduced to only half of what it used to be. If the griffons or the dragons decide to attack we won´t stand a chance”
Celestia said nothing, but instead focused her gaze on the creature stuck on the wall. Without taking her eyes of off the creature she said: “She blames herself for everything that´s gone wrong since her return. She blames herself for every cult, for every murder attempt gone wrong that ends in a dead or injured guard and/or citizen and she blames herself for the distrust these rats, called nobles, have placed in me. She wants to make friends. Talk to somepony. But most of all, she wants to be loved. She doesn´t care whether ponies love her because of her or because she´s a princess. She just wants to feel good for a change…”
Shining would have said something, but Eagle Eyes voice rang out from the rune stone: “Sir! The creature! It moved!”
Shining looked with passive interest in the creature´s direction.
The creature was indeed moving but that movement was superficial, eyes blinking, fingers twitching, that sort of thing. But the most noticeable was without a doubt the red half circles securing him to the wall blinking and flashing until they just disappeared and the creature dropped to its feet, before falling on its hands and knees.
The creature looked up at the door, through the door, directly at Celestia, and growled.
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Awesome.
shit will hit the fan in 3...2.....1....
And that, my friends, is why I love this story.
"It´s a dumb animal" get ready to eat those words shining when is systematicaly starts to break bones
and...
MORTAL KOMBAT
There is not a fan in the entire world to describe the shit it's about to hit.
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I need more of this asap!!!!
Still good. Let's continue.
and the plot fucking thickens.....
i hope to use "FINISH HIM" at some point in this fic
Hey Celestia...
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Human used No Holds Barred Curb Stomp Beatdown!
It's super effective!
Shining Armor and Celestia fainted!
FINISH THEM!!!
And here, we, go.
She didn't just called a human an animal. Didn't she.
update tomorrow....
This rewrite is good, very good, i hope to see a better kick-butt action scene whit a Celestia and Shining on the ground.
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And half dead if not dead.
-XxRUSxX
The amount of shit about to hit the fan will probably knock it over and I'll be there to watch every second of it.
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Why wouldn't she? It's not like she knew what the hell a human was, or is. They haven't even called THE human A human yet; they still think of him as an "IT". An unknown.
Going by simple observation, a human wouldn't be perceived as a threat; no fur patterns or scales or skin tones that identify them as a dangerous creature, no claws, no large, easily noticeable sharp teeth, nothing that belies the sheer awesome power that some of the human race have shown in the past. Naked, and to one that doesn't know any better(and clearly these ponies don't) there isn't much to distinguish us from any other ape, aside from the lack of fur of course.
From the original content, before the reset of chapters, this guy was an asskicking machine, and magic barely did anything to him. Why was he able to outright destroy the guards, Luna and Celestia? They underestimated him. The human race has been doing that to itself since the dawn; it's easy to see that these ponies are more than capable of making the same mistakes we are.
All the stuff above aside, this guy is going to open a Texas-Sized Can O' Whoop Ass on these poor ponies.
And I can't wait to read it!
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Just half dead? I bet they can survive whit a little less life on them.
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I was just trying to say a meme. But I can't find a photo for it.
Shit hitting the fan is too weak for what's about to happen it should be: "Diarrhoea's about to hit the helicopter".
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FIGHT! *bones broken*
FINISH HIM! *Epic kick to the chest, collapsing lungs*
FATALITY!
That makes me want to write something about ponies trying to survive on Earth. They'd die, of course. Earth is a Death World. On Earth, if it doesn't kill you slowly and painfully with disease/illness, then it will kill you somewhat quickly with poison or venom. If that doesn't work, it'll just rip your guts out and watch you die, writhing in agony.
Keep in mind that WE are the most terrifying and lethal thing on Earth.
Predators have instincts that tell them what to do to ensure a quick kill. Humans have pretty good instincts regarding that, too. It makes me wonder if brawls and fistfights are so...pathetic and harmless because our instincts do not regard each other as prey and are holding us back from seriously injuring/killing each other. After all, if brawls were lethal or fought with any degree of real skill, then it'd be bad for the "pack"'s chances of survival.
The dialogue in this chapter bugs me. There's a lot of OOC plot-dump that needs to be laid down with a bit more finesse for it to work for the story. Celestia doesn't seem the kind of character to act the way she does here. I mean, I can see her perhaps confiding in Shining Armor about her feelings on the matter, but in a less uncontrolled manner and with some back-and-forth between to establish that they have a longstanding rapport.
Also, I'm not sure I get the deal with the human, yet. Most people don't just ransack a kitchen like that, taking bites out of everything that looks edible. Even a savage wild child would be more liable to snatch-n-run, grabbing something edible and taking it somewhere safe to eat. It just strikes me as a bit odd. But then, I haven't read any previous incarnations of this story, and it's basically just started. I'll see where it goes from here.
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Hey you shut the hell up. Do you want to antagonize the hotheaded members? We kill each other enough the last thing we need is a challenge to step up to.
Joking aside I agree with you. Observing other pack creatures there is always a chain of command dictated through combat. From birth for who gets to suckle milk. As they grow they play fight to establish experience with motor skills and familiarity with battle. Soon it becomes a test to establish the pecking order.
Yet it is never allowed to go to a point where it can affect the pack. Else the top rankers step in and reaffirm peace even if it means killing the instigator.
Yet when faced with prey, the packs friend or foe sensor kicks in and they lock on their victim. Becoming enraged with bloodlust they strike the sensitive parts that they learned of from playing with each other and being taught by their seniors.
Mankind is a pack hunter with perhaps the greatest will to survive in the world. We are small slow weak and fragile creatures. And we are constantly aware of our own mortality. We live as the rats backed into a corner. So we get creative. Nothing is true, everything is permitted. And our sense of cruelty knows no bounds.
And it wasn't enough. We took predator instincts for efficient hunts, turned them into slaughter and then evolved to the point where life and death is but a game. We have made killing an art form. We are the masters of annihilation on this planet.
We are the virus. Unyielding, ever adapting, unstoppable force of destruction.
Hard to believe that from the river styxx we fill every moment, something like My Little Pony can be born.