Distorted Fate

by Silvak

Interlude III: Intruder

Thud.

It was the middle of the night in the Everfree forest, as a pack of timberwolves awoke to the sound of something crashing down nearby. As they searched for the source of the noise, they heard unusually loud rustling in a nearby thicket. One of the timberwolves growled at the thicket, walking inside to investigate the noise. Moments later, the rest of the pack saw the timberwolf sent flying out of the thicket, crashing into a tree as it shattered into bits. This caused the pack to growl at the thicket until something darted out of the bush, grabbing two of the timberwolves before pulling them back into the thicket as the rest of the pack jumped back in surprise. Instantly, whimpering was heard from the thicket, just before the sound of the two timberwolves being smashed into pieces.

This sent the rest of the pack fleeing as they scattered away from the thicket, from which something rather large emerged. It lumbered past where the timberwolves were, pushing aside any trees in its way. The creature made no actions to hide its presence, as its footsteps echoed throughout the forest. To a mere beast, the creature seemed to be bumbling through the forest, but to a keen mind, it appeared that the beast was making its way towards some unknown destination.

---

"Sister, sister, thou must wake up," somepony said, as Celestia felt something nudging against her side.

"What... Luna?" Celestia said as she opened her eyes, seeing Luna before her as she spotted one of her hooves on her side. "Why have you woken me up so early?"

"Dear sister, while we regret waking thou up at such an hour, we hath splendid news," Luna said. Her face was less haggard than it had been the past few days, as Celestia could see a hint of hope in her eyes.

"What news do you have?" Celestia asked before she let out a yawn.

"During our nightly duties safeguarding our subject's dreams, we found a pony that not only was able to inform us of what is causing the nightmares, but could help provide us the means to put a stop to them."

Upon hearing that news, Celestia was fully brought into the waking world as she said, "Truly? This is wonderful news. Who is this pony?"

Blinking into a moment, Luna coughed into her hoof as she said, "The pony was a filly named Aether Aura, who is being raised by the Element of Laughter." This only caused Celestia to stare at her with doubt, compelling her to continue, "We know how this sounds, dear sister, but the foal showed us visions of a city that no mere pony could imagine, filled with so many wonders and creatures we hath never beheld with our eyes before. Furthermore, the filly is not an ordinary pony, for she claims to be a creature from another world."

Still skeptical, Celestia asked, "So did this filly tell you what could be causing the nightmares?"

This caused an expression of concern to appear on Luna's face as she said, "The filly... told us that the nightmarish creatures actually exist. She called them Venanites, and believed that the dreams art but a mere warning of a possible invasion."

"An invasion? Sorry, Luna, but these claims are just... well, they are too much like the figments of a foal's imagination."

"Sister... as doubtful as this situation may seem to thee... we assureth thou that we hath not been fooled. The child... knew of the dangers of one traversing between dimensions, and hath claimed to have met Discord. She hath even attributed the explosions, that has troubled the land, to some kind of probes. that only have come to our world due to damage of this world's natural barriers. She hath suspicions that something happened that caused harm to our barriers; and... since the 'incident'... all the claims the filly has made only seemed to point to her being correct."

Suddenly an expression of guilt overcame Celestia's face as she pondered what Luna has told her. "Have you told the filly..."

"No sister, for we hath believe that it would be best that thou were the one that told her."

Turning her head away from her sister, Celestia looked through a window to see the starry night sky. "It seems my actions still have repercussions that none of us could have foreseen."

"Do not fret sister, for we hath made plans to meet this filly at the break of dawn. Perhaps she will hath insight in what further unknowns that may come to our world."

"I hope you are right Luna..." Celestia replied, as she pondered on the consequences of what she had unknowingly unleashed onto her world.

---

As the moon began its descent to make way for the sun, the Everfree forest settled into an eerie silence. Its wildlife had gone into hiding, fearful of the unnatural beast that was making its way through the forest. Many of the forest's predators had attempted to engage the beast, only to be crushed and tossed aside like mere insects. It didn't take long for all life in the forest to realize this was a beast that none of them could confront.

The beast broke through the forest edge just as the moon disappeared into the horizon, the sun rising up in its stead. Before the beast, laid a town where its residents were just starting to stir. Pausing for a moment, the beast looked upon the town with its six crystalline eyes, before it began to make its way towards it.

Not too far from the beast, a yellow pegasus shivered with fear in her cottage from the sight of the creature. However, upon seeing the path the beast was taking, she quickly steeled whatever resolve she had as she opened a window. She flew out as fast as she could, far above the beast as she made her way to the town to warn the residents.

Comments

[Booster Spice]

First race to survive seeing a Venanite?

I want to see what reasons are given for its existance and capabilities.

[candyman20XX]

That is one heck of a set-up for the next chapter! It seems Aether's morning meeting is going to get a little busy.

[ForestPony]

6089783 Yeah we know that but who says Twilight knows that? And as you've said it's most likely in the context of the fact that they think she'll only be around for a day or two until her parents come to get her.

[zooba]

6091941
It hasn't been implied that no race has survived Venanite invasions. The only mention was the one dream where the infection was so far along they had to wipe the planet clean.

[StarzGecko]

Great set up for the next chapter!

[Accalia Lupa]

This was a great set up for the next chapter. I will admit that I would have waited until tonight or tomorrow to read this but I saw the word intruder and was hoping that Aether was gonna find one and protect the bakery , a bit sad that didn't happen but I like where this is going even more, can't wait.

[ForestPony]

Holy crap O_O it just got real. I'm not sure if this is a venanite heading towards ponyville or some other creature from another world but dangggg.

[AetherToast]

Wow that got really bad there. Kinda afraid of that crystal like thing and how it is gonna act. It could very well be a friend so let us not jump to conclusions. Still gonna scare the shit our of everyeveryone in Ponyville (people keep forgetting that there are none pony residents so everyone applies when talking about the town).

[nekomyah]

heh the title is close to a name of one of my online characters and it was Disprovenfate

[Pinklestia]

Well, maybe the proves should have been destroyed.

[axl bishop]

this got real

stayclassy

[Rockstar_Raccoon]

Uh oh, too late Luna...

[Rockstar_Raccoon]

6091941
It doesn't sound like they necessarily wipe out everything they come into contact with, only that they are extremely dangerous and hard to get rid of once they have a foothold.

[nekomyah]

in this fic I hope aether doesn't have to deal with twi having knowledge of him/her being an alien cause I always hate the craziness that follows

[dude5999]

Really short chapter, but it leads up to something exiting!

[Dustchu]

Short but leading up to something no doubt epic saucy~

Nice job!
Can't wait for more.

[Shadow Bolt]

Maybe it's because I just saw the movie, but I got a Jurassic World vibe from this chapter.

[the-herobrine]

i'm still trying to get a grip on what species he originally was. from what i could get, he was a: anthropomorphic, probably carnivorous, reptilian like creature, but things may change. hope to see more of this

[dracone]

I went back to some of the earlier chapters, there are some littler errors like Redheart being called "Readheard" once in the chapter where Aether was taken to the hospital by force. It's always a good idea to go back to what you already have posted every couple of weeks and read through what you have posted to see where you goofed.

[Buckshot2825]

However, upon seeing the path the beast was taking, she quickly steeled whatever resolve she had as she opened a window. She flew out as fast as she could, far above the beast as she made her way to the town to warn the residents.

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[The oracle]

Celestia, what did you do?

[CommodoreGalland]

6689813 What didn't she do?

[crossed]

I NEED to see a picture of a venanite now!

[Midknight Defender]

I thought for sure the "event" was gonna be the Friendship Games, but now...

Sunbutt...what did you do?

[DracoLazarus]

...
Are the Venanites somehow related to the Chimera of the Resistance series ?

[ksuiata]

8583288
I bet it was the dream thing that was trying to escape into reality

[DrCygnus]

6091952
I want to eat that keyboard