• Published 12th Nov 2013
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DiE: Glarin Ungard the Berserker - InsaneJustin



Dwarf in Equestria, When deep miners discover a strange portal that they assume to be dwarven made, they activate it, thinking there are riches to be had. Only thing is, it does not turn out so well for one dwarf in particular.

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Sometimes Evil is all a matter of perspective

Rocky and Shifty both looked at each other, unsure of what to make of the voice that came from the darkness.

“Well, we didn’t go through all of that training to run at the first sign of danger...”

“Besides, he sounds like a small dog. Maybe it’s a small tribe of diamond dogs?”

“True, Glarin also said to dig this way to find ‘wealth’. Perhaps some Diamond dogs have taken up residence here after so many years?”

“Mmm, by the sound of it, small diamond dogs.”

Rocky and Shifty both looked at each other before nodding their heads and lowering the face guard on their helmets.

Then they stepped into the darkness.

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Ace found Glarin in front of Sugar cube corner. Apparently he had been wrestling with Pinkie and Rainbow Dash for the last hour.

“Sir...” Ace watched as Glarin continued to keep Pinkies hooves away from his mouth with Rainbow Dash just looking to be in on the action. She would switch between trying to hold Pinkie back, then go try to hold Glarin back so Pinkie could get at him.

“A little busy Ace!” Glarin fell to his back as Pinkie tripped him. Rainbow Dash flew up into the air and wiped some sweat off her brow. After a deep breath she landed next to Ace and watched as Pinkie continued wrestling with Glarin.

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Rocky proceeded in the front with Shifty close behind him. The cave was in fact dimly lit. They had broken in through a smaller hidden part of the cave. The hole they created was behind a wall of stalactites and stalagmites, that came together like sharp fangs.

Once they got out from behind them, they could see that the cave was actually lit up by patches of some kind of lichen. Allowing sight quite easily once time allowed their eyes to refocus to the dim light. After studying the lichen around the room they noticed that it seemed to only grow around small odd shaped oval rocks, and only around those rocks.

As they slowly continued forward Rocky drew his shield and kept a steady pace forward. Ready for anything, Rocky kept the shield at the proper position he had hammered into his skull the past several months.

Quite literally. Glarin hammered him in the skull every time he let the shield fall out of position. And it took months for most of them to learn it because Glarin was giving them consistent light concussions with his ‘light’ hammer hits.

They both heard what sounded like a rock hitting the floor to their left, and turned to face it.

“Ya heard that too right?”

“Yeah, sounded like someone or something, kicked a rock...” They turned to look at each other and nodded before moving toward the source of the sound.

After getting halfway across the cave they heard the same padded running sound again with several others coming from behind them. Expecting an attack Rocky spun around on a dime slamming the shield down into the ground, causing it to extend outward providing more cover.

But nothing came. The only reaction he got from the footsteps was the sound of some panicked yipping.

Rocky lifted the shield up off the ground causing it to revert back to its smaller state. Once the shield was no longer blocking most of their frontal view, they could see the creatures that made the yipping sound.

It was some scaled creature with horns and a tail. Behind it were several smaller versions of the same creature, The tallest one couldn’t of been half of Rocky’s height. It had to be around 2 feet tall with the others much smaller.

They looked kind of like Spike, except they were extremely thin in the places where Spike was chubby when he was at their height. Were these small subterranean dragons? Some kind of lizard? They did after all dig under the Everfree forest.

They watched as the taller creature hissed at the smaller ones grabbing their attention. The creature glanced in their direction briefly before gasping. It then hurried the little ones out, yipping the whole way.

“Wha-what was that!?” Shifty glanced around the room again before getting closer to one of the lichen piles and looking at the rocks.

“Rocky... I think this is some kind of nursery. These rocks, aren’t rocks...” Rocky put 2 and 2 together and figured out what Shifty was implying.

They were eggs. The eggs of some kind of lizard mini dragon thing. Surely this would not end well for them.

“Well what are we gonna do?” Rocky thought about it for a minute before shrugging.

“They’re evil right? I mean, they live under the Everfree, they look like tiny dragons, and I’m sure I saw that they all had sharp teeth. They can’t be good like us. Those ones only ran because they were little. Probably couldn’t even fight yet. So they ran so they could grow up and kill us later!”

“I guess that makes sense... but, Do we really wanna kill a bunch of babies and other young ones?” Rocky slumped his shoulders as he looked at the eggs near him.

“Well, no. When you put it that way... it makes us sound like the evil ones... doesn’t it?” They both perked up their ears at the sound of yipping getting louder and louder. A bunch of them were coming down the hall.

“Yeah, this is defiantly the nursery or something we broke into. Sounds like moms coming back with an army behind her...” Rocky turned to face the tunnel and drew his weapon. Neither of them had any qualms about defending themselves from an attack.

With a quick glance and a nod at each other, they were determined to hold out as long as possible until Ace could return with Glarin.

He would know what the right thing to do would be, right?

They had to be some kind of mini dragons. A bunch of the slightly taller ones came rushing into the room followed by the biggest one they had seen so far.

Although not much bigger than the rest of them, this one had to be an adult, it had wings and was wearing armor.

The armor looked out of place though. It looked like the armor Glarin made for them, same color and the design was similar, except it looked old.

Very old.

The first thing it did was run up to them and viciously hiss in their direction. Shortly after, they watched all of the smaller ones run around the room gathering the eggs.

All except for the clutch they stood directly in front of.

“I-I think we should move...” Rocky nodded at Shifty and began to strafe over to the side, shield still in front of him. The larger one with wings watched them intently, studying them. After a moment its eyes went wide and it shouted.

“Clàbar nàmhaid bàsaich!” The creature got into a low stance and clenched its hands into fists. At which point blades sprung from the gauntlets.

“What did you do?! You made her mad!” Shifty looked up past the creature and saw that every single one of them was watching them now. It started low, but it soon gained in volume, they were chanting something, but it was in a language they couldn’t understand. But they could hear it clearly.

Daidein

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Glarin had finally pinned Pinkie down against the ground.

“Enough Pinkie! I don’t have time for this!” Pinkie continued to struggle for a bit before giving up.

“Alright, I give up. I’ll just have to make more of those cupcakes, and Rainbow Dash will help me!” Rainbow Dash flared out her wings.

“What? Why do I have to help you make em!? Glarins the one who ate all of it!”

“Yeah, true, but he has things to do and this all started because of you anyway Rainbow.” Rainbow Dash growled to herself before slowly walking over to Pinkie as Glarin let her back up. Glarin dusted himself off as he walked over to Ace.

“Now, what was it you wanted to tell me again lad?” Glarin continued to dust himself off and look himself over.

“I just came to inform you that we broke into what seems to be a natural cave. It would appear that Berronar was correct in telling...” Ace was cut off by Glarin

“Of course Berronar was right! Only a fool would think otherwise. Now lets hurry back and behold the “wealth” contained within.” Ace nodded his head and ran back with Glarin.

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Rocky and Shifty felt something they never expected to feel from something smaller than them.

Fear

But it wasn’t just any fear, it was a fear brought on by an overpowering aura of rage. Rage that was being directed at them, and they didn’t know why.

It reminded them of Glarin.

The creature leaped at Rocky, landed on his shield and started climbing it. Rocky brought his weapon forth and hit the creature on its chest and sent it flying toward the wall.

Instead of impacting the wall it repositioned itself midair and used the momentum to crouch against the wall ,defying gravity, and propel itself back at Rocky.

Rocky swung the shield around hitting the creature and sent it flying back into another wall behind them. This time it didn’t rebound off the wall, it simply hit the wall and rolled off behind one of the many stalagmites.

After a moment it came out from behind the stalagmites with its wings covering the front of its body. Its arms and chest were being hidden by its wings.

“Shifty, I think its hiding something... Whatever its hiding can’t be good, right?” Shifty nodded his head looking at the untouched clutch of eggs behind them. Then using his natural Luna given abilities, blended into the shadows. Leaving Rocky alone to face the creature.

The creature however was calmer than before. It kept looking at the exit... That Rocky was unknowingly blocking.

With a hiss it charged in his direction with its wings still covering the front of its body. As it tried to get behind Rocky, He spun around and slammed his shield into the creature knocking it down.

It landed on its back a few feet away with Shifty appearing from nowhere above the creature.

As Shifty brought down both of his claw weapons the winged lizard threw its wings open and used its gauntlets to keep Shifty’s claws from hitting it in the chest. When its wings were pulled away they could see what it was hiding.

Three of the smaller creatures were clutching onto its chest armor. Shifty’s eyes went wide as he withdrew his claws and jumped back. Rocky saw them just as well as Shifty did.

“W-wait!” Shifty yelled as he flew up into the air, trying to get out of its way. He really did feel like a bad guy now.

They were just defending their nest, weren’t they? He had never seen or heard of these creature before. Did they remain hidden underground in the Everfree their whole lives?

For some reason the moment Shifty took to the air, the littler ones began to panic and started yipping uncontrollably. Their panicked yipping caused the winged one to take them off and point in the direction of the exit where the other lizards were watching.

“RUN MUIRICHINN!” The little ones just watched as the bigger one got back up and release the blades once again.

Rocky and Shifty both looked at each other before looking back to the mini dragon lizards.

“That sounded like, Equestrian...”

“Are we... Are we the monsters here?” Shifty nodded his head at Rocky.

“We should leave. Before this starts getting out of hand... more than it already has.” The winged creature leaped at Shifty and grabbed on to his leg. The added weight brought Shifty down to the ground and with a shout the winged lizard jabbed its gauntlet blades into Shifty’s armor.

Shiftys armor however, was new, unlike the mini dragon lizards. The blades broke upon contact with his armor causing the lizard to look at them in shock for a moment, before throwing a clawed punch at Shifty’s helmet and jumping away.

“MO ASUING!” It continued to look at its broken gauntlet before turning to face the little ones again, they hadn’t left. “GO DACHAIDH!” The little ones looked shocked but they stood their ground and started yipping at Shifty and Rocky.

The young ones were soon joined by several others, until there was at least 60 of them all yipping, hissing and growling simultaneously at Shifty and Rocky.

“We really need to leave...ack!” Rocky looked at the ground at what hit him, it was a rock. Several more followed it and several were being thrown at Shifty as well.

The winged lizard looked back at the large group that had gathered and turned to face them once again. One of the smaller lizards was dragging what looked like a mace behind it as it ran as fast as possible toward what Shifty had deemed their champion.

And probably their only one.

“Bàsaich, jiarg-noid, GEDDYN BAASE!”The winged lizard spun around and took the mace with its right hand before charging in their direction with a roar.

It was deep and throaty sounding, making it sound ten times bigger. It sent chills down their spines.

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Glarin and Ace had entered the lower area of the home and stood in front of the mines entrance when they could hear sounds of fighting along with what sounded like Rocky screaming.

Like a little filly.

“Are they fighting something?” said Ace as he looked over to Glarin. Glarin clenched his fist and reached for his axe.

“Why did he scream like a little girl!? I thought we fixed that!” Yelled Glarin with a chuckle as he too charged down the mine shaft toward the sounds of metal clashing with yelling.

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Rocky immediately placed his shield up between the winged lizard and himself. What happened next, Rocky was unprepared for.

The moment the mace came into contact with the shield a loud crunching with a distinct crack was heard as Rocky’s shield crumbled under the creatures attack.

As Rocky’s shield broke apart the winged lizard used his free hand to shove it out of the way and grabbed him by his front left hoof.

Rocky was at the mercy of the little dragon lizard. Even though he stood a good three feet taller than it, Rocky was still lifted up off the ground and flung into a wall.

As soon as Rocky impacted against the wall Shifty flew at the winged creature tackling it into the one of the nearby stalagmites.

Before Shifty could back off he felt something grab him by the withers and lift him off the ground. Shifty looked and saw the winged lizard snarl at him before slamming him into the next nearest stalagmite.

“Gah!” Shifty felt the jarring impact as he broke through the earth forged stone.

“Hang on buddy!” Yelled Rocky as he began to charge. He had discarded the destroyed shield, and was running toward them with his weapon sheathed.

The creature kept its attention focused on Shifty and was beating upon his armor, trying to tear it off so as to reach the soft pony within. It didn’t even notice Rocky until it was shoved aside with another tackle.

Rocky picked up Shifty as the creature stood back up and snarled at them again. They stepped back in caution. With the creature staring them down.

“Dude, we need to...” said Rocky before another one of the creatures spoke.

“Shassoo cooidjagh mo teaghlach! For Daidein!” Soon the others jumped in as well and began throwing rocks at Shifty and Rocky.

“This would be a good time to pull back...” Shifty was interrupted when a red shield appeared blocking all of the rocks.

“I came as quick as I could guys! Glarins... well he was right behind me!” The lizards began to panic again at the sight of the shield. Causing the one they called Daidein to snarl at Ace.

“Ace, we need to...” The Lizard snarled again and grabbed one of the larger rocks lifting it over its head.

“W-what is that?” Stuttered Ace, he didn’t realize the fear he had been feeling was coming from a single creature, he thought the fear was coming from the excitement of an actual fight.

“It’s part of the reason we need to pull back so lets...!” The large rock the creature had been holding was thrown at the shield causing it to make a solid thumping echo and interrupt him.

“I think the three of... wheres your shield Rocky?” Rocky put his face up to Aces

“Its part of the reason why we need to pull back! Theres...” Rocky looked back at what sounded like a roar. Daidein had gone back for the mace at some point and was charging at the shield.

“Oh gods its got the mace again!” Daidein used the mace to obliterate Ace’s magical shield and charge past Rocky and Shifty, going straight for Ace.

Glarin had learned a long time ago that when a unicorns shield breaks, they lose focus and sometimes even lose consciousness . After months of practice, every single one of the unicorn guards lost that weakness.

After Aces shield broke he was able to immediately launch a bolt of magical energy at Daidein.

With a quick side jump the magical bolt was evaded and before Ace knew it, Daidein was directly in front of him with the mace coming toward his head.

There was nothing Ace could do besides move in the same direction as the blow in hopes of lessening the overall damage. At the same time Ace released his left hoof weapon and slammed it into the creatures left leg.

With a crunch Aces helmet broke apart, But so did the creatures leg. With a cry it jumped back and fell down.

Ace began to charge up his horn again as he removed his helmet.

The winged lizard’s left leg was bent and twisted. They watched as it tried to stand, only to fall and break into a coughing fit.

At the sight of their champion falling, all of the lizards started yelling and yipping. It wasn’t until one of the smaller ones ran from the group to stand in front of the winged one did Ace stop charging up his horn.

“Daidein!” yelled several of the smaller ones as they ran to the winged one. Shifty and Rocky watched as all of the lizards began to move and stand between them and their injured Daidein.

“Muirichinn!” The winged one coughed as several of the others began to tend to his leg.

“S'treih lhiam Daidein...” The little one that was the first to stand between them picked up a rock and threw it at Ace. Before Ace could charge his horn again, Glarin came around the corner huffing.

“OYE! When did the mine get so big?! And What’s all the yelling in here? Sounds like a, a...” Glarin stopped speaking when he saw the creatures, and what one of them was wearing.

The smaller creatures stopped panicking when they saw Glarin. They began to whisper amongst themselves for a moment before the winged one stood upon its only good leg. It blinked several times before looking at the armored ponies and snarling in their direction.

“Maith, My bailliu, mór bearded one.” Glarin sheathed his axe and looked over at Rocky and Shifty.

“By the Gods. Do you have any idea what hes speaking? Or what he’s wearing?” Rocky shook his head along with Shifty

“Looted armor and tiny dragon language with equestrian mixed in?” Said Ace with a guess as Glarin approached the lizards, they didn’t seem to be afraid of him. They looked happy.

“They were speaking Dwarven, an older dialect. But it was dwarven mixed with common, or uh equestrian.” Glarin just shook his head and snapped his fingers back at Ace.

“Ace get over here, Slowly, and heal this Dragonwrought Kobold the three of you injured.” Glarin kneeled down to be level with the winged creature he called a Dragonwrought Kobold.

In the light they could see that they all had scaly green skin with what looked like scales of all various colors speckled into their hides.

“S'treih lhiam, for mo deóradh cumraagys caggee. They are Friends, or uh caarjyn.” Said Glarin as he scratched his head.

“I don’t have very much experience with this older dialect, hopefully I said most...” The dragonwrought Kobold began to chuckle a bit.

“I see, has the language of the mór ones fallen so? Tell us mór bearded one, Why do you disgrace your race by speaking the same language as... as the doit four legs.” Glarin looked back at the ponies then smelled himself.

“Glad to know you speak more common, but I’m sure that foul smell is because we don’t have much time to bathe these days. And common is more common than you think among dwarves these days. Makes trading easy if there’s not much of a language barrier...” The Dragonwrought Kobold hissed at Ace when he came closer and ignited his horn.

“Why is the language of SLAVERS COMMON?! What happened to you on the surface mór one?!” Glarins face went solemn at those words. He saw the looks on the faces of the Kobolds, and knew these were no regular Kobolds. They looked more... dwarven to him than kobold.

The Dragonwrought Kobold had a layer of what looked like skin that was purposely left instead of shed away like the rest of it.

It looked like a BEARD! A beard made of old un-shed scales that was trimmed and worked to look more like a beard instead of several unsightly layers of un-shed skin.

“Ace, Heal him. And then the three of you need to leave.” The Kobolds began to hiss when Ace lit his horn again causing Glarin to snap at them. “Jeigh dty ghob! Let him use his magic to heal your Daidein!” Glarin motioned for Ace to use his magic again. This time they didn’t hiss and let Ace do his magic.

“W-what did you say?” Asked Ace as he began to mend the bones back together and heal the broken flesh.

“I told em to shut up and let you heal their honored father...”

“O-oh...” As soon as Ace finished he slowly backed up as he kept his head low.

The three of them looked back at Glarin. Rocky and Shifty both spoke up.

“We didn’t know...” Glarin waved them away and nodded his head as they turned the corner and left.

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After the Ponies left Glarin began to speak with the Kobolds. He spent hours with them learning everything. Why they were using Dwarven armor small enough for them, why they spoke dwarven, why they didn’t act like the Kobolds he knew of.

He learned their history. What they were, and what they became.

About his dwarven ancestors.

If there was one thing Dwarves did well, it was record keeping. And carving everything in a solid stone wall made sure it would last forever.

Glarin read about how they first arrived on this world and their dealing with the other races. Shortly after their arrival they met with hostile forces from all corners of the planet, with Dragon’s being a big problem with their first arrival. They had relations with the ponies, and the horn wing combo seemed to be far more abundant in the past.

Glarin soon learned why the horn wing combo was so scarce now.

They made enemies out of the dwarves and some magical chaotic creature after a treaty with the dragons. In exchange for peace between the two races, The dragons offered them the Kobold race as a token of peace.

The Kobolds were an unwanted offspring of some Green dragon named Kragel with all sorts of different gems adorning his hide. The dragons stated that the Kobold race would work for the pony race for as long as they lived until the end of time.

The Kobolds were slaves.

This caused a severe rift to open between them and the dwarves. As all dwarves abhorred the mere idea of any type of slave or serf.

The Dwarven race was enslaved by the giantkin long ago, before they fought tooth and nail for their freedom. As such it was natural for them to hold a deeply rooted hate for all giants and all forms of slavery. Even the idea of indentured servants made a dwarf seethe.

The meeting between the ponies and dragons was in secret as the dwarves who traveled to this realm were reluctant on “meeting” with any dragon. As far as they were concerned, the only good dragon was a dead dragon, and the only dragon ally they needed was one made into armor and weapons.

This caused the first few years of the kobolds enslavement to go unnoticed by the secluded dwarves until a trading caravan showed up on their holds front doorstep attempting to sell them Kobold slaves.

The Dwarves were unable to sit and watch an entire race be subjected to slavery. Let alone by those they thought were allies. This caused an uproar among all the dwarves and they demanded they let the Kobolds free. Because no creature, good or evil, deserved to live the life of a slave.

When the pony merchants refused to free them, the dwarves slaughtered the merchants, setting them free. The Kobolds being a weak and timid race didn’t know what to do with their freedom. They were slaves of the dragons until they were given to the ponies. All they knew was how to serve so they wouldn’t be mistreated or go hungry for a few days. So they followed the dwarves, in secret at first.

Due to the Kobolds fast breeding rate, their enslavement quickly became widespread across what was now called Equestria. As the dwarves traveled across the continent freeing every Kobold they could. The Kobolds were learning dwarven culture and learning what it meant to be free, to be a dwarf.

When many of the ponies refused to release their Kobolds from slavery, the dwarves became violent and liberated them by killing the ponies. The ponies with the horn wing combo were reluctant to give them up while the other pony types would generally comply when faced with a dwarven army, known for killing dragons by the hundreds. After several years the dwarven race was dwindling as they were fighting a losing war on two fronts.

Apparently they had the same problem with the portal he did.

It broke, and by the time they were able to fix it again. They set out one last time to ensure that the Kobolds would not be bothered again. The dwarven history on the giant stone wall was left blank after that. Glarin concluded that they never came back from what ever quest they had set upon.

Since that day the Kobolds have been using what they were taught to live in hiding. Apparently they all knew common and dwarven, with dwarven being the main dialect. Common was used when the dwarven equivalent was unknown or to make a heavy insult.

Apparently if a Kobold wanted to let another know how they truly felt about the situation, they would say it in common. Glarin realized Daidein was untrusting of him at first, but when Glarin explained the situation topside it caused them to go quiet for a time.

They had been underground for a long time, believing that one day their saviors would come back for them, and lead them to glory on the surface like they had been promised so long ago.

The Kobolds had held onto their part of the deal. Keeping quiet and learning everything they could from “the wall of knowledge” as they called it. So now it was the dwarves turn. But being the only dwarf in Equestria, meant it fell upon him.

“My life keeps getting more complicated... when I die, I’ll need them to write I was a simple dwarf that died of complications.” The Kobolds had all been gathering around Glarin as he read the wall of knowledge until the entire village was waiting for him to finish.

The Kobolds were also informed of what had happened on the surface and resorted to using common, even if it left a ‘bad taste’ in their mouths. When Glarin turned to face them all, he realized there had to be at least 200+ Kobolds waiting on him.

Glarin groaned inwardly as he thought about what he would need to do so they could possibly integrate into pony society. They wanted Glory, but there were a few different ways to achieve Glory. The killing of innocents that had no connection to the past, was anything but glorious.

But he had some questions for three certain ponies.

One of the smaller Kobolds quickly ran up to him, and moved the helmet out of its eyes before speaking to Glarin.

“So Bearded One, When do we leave to take over the surface from the filthy four legs?” Glarin sighed again, keeping a promise made by his ancestors would take a lot of work.

Author's Note:

Let me know of any mistakes or inconsistencies you find. I'll do my best to fix it. Even if it involves a complete overhaul. I'm adding non-cannon history here and will probably mess up some if not a lot of canon history. I don't keep up with the comics, just the show. Kinda leave me with a lot of play room I suppose. Also the dwarves entered the world long before Celestia and Luna were around, remember 3,000 years, as far as I know equestrian history only goes back 1,000 years. My guess is the years start when equestria started.

Kobolds

Dragonwrought Kobold

I forgot to add a link to a website that took me some time to find. Dwarven to Common dictonary