A Real Wendigo

by Tjtbomb

Chapter 1

Nine-Hundred and Ninety-Eight Years Ago…

Year Two of the Post Nightmare Era

Celestia gritted her teeth and flexed her magic as the pure force of chaotic nature tore at the shield she held around the castle. Her subjects and soldiers alike could do nothing against the deadly gale of razor sharp snow that focused itself towards the gates, intent on destroying everything held within.

She did not know what she had done to anger the vast forest around her small kingdom, and at this point she did not care. The onslaught had suddenly begun about five days ago, on the night of the full moon in the midst of winter, and only halted upon daybreak, when she was at her strongest.

Despite this bizarre turn of events, Celestia smiled, because she had made up her mind to finally confront this force face-to-face.

With her horn still shining brightly, she spread her wings and glided down to just outside of the gates, where her shield ended. She landed gracefully with all the majesty and power a God can present in such an action. She opened her mouth, and with the full power of the Royal Voice called into the storm as loud as she could.

“CEASE THIS AT ONCE!”

To her pleasant surprise, the storm actually froze before falling gracefully downward in thick flurries. Her ears twitched as the slow, deliberate crunching of steps in the snow approached her from beyond the shield.

Finally, in the fog of the blizzard a form materialized as it walked forward until it stood just a few feet away from her.

Celestia gulped as she took in the beast’s form; thick and coarse grey fur, a thick and muscular tail, and four disproportionately long legs, with long claws protruding from each, though it raised itself onto the back two, increasing it’s already massive height to about twice her own. The most off-putting thing about it was its face, or lack thereof. Instead of the wolf head she expected, given the rest of its body, a bare and bloody wolf skull sat in its place. There was only darkness in its eye sockets, blood on its teeth, and a pair of wickedly sharp antlers, like a deer’s, sprouted from the skull naturally.

Unlike its undead appearance, however, Celestia was glad to see the fog of warm breath periodically leave its mouth, proving the creature was indeed alive.

“Speak.”

Celestia blinked in surprise but retained her composure.

“Why do you attack our kingdom and our subjects? We have kept the damage to the forest to a minimum even despite its dangerous wildlife.”

The being chuckled, an eerie, echoing sound in the snow, and began stalking back and forth as it spoke.

“A minimum? I have tolerated your entire existence in this place for a long time. The magic here, which you call chaos, is natural to me. You are the trespasser here, bending magic to do your bidding with the force of your own “harmony” is an affront to the natural way of things. I let you live before because you kept to yourselves, but now you must perish, for the cycle of life and death is not to be trifled with. Especially not in this Everfree forest.”

Celestia screwed up her face in confusion.

“But isn’t there supposed to be a balance? Of Harmony and Chaos? And what cycle? I did not realize we had tampered with it.”

“It is unwise to lie to a Wendigo.”

“A Wendigo? What’s a Wendigo?” Celestia thought to herself.

“I have seen your Pegasi tamper with the seasons, and your Unicorns protect trees from the elements, and the Earth ones causing trees to bloom too soon just on selfish whims. The cycle of life, death and rebirth must continue, Celestia.”

“How do you know- no. That is not important. What if we leave? Travel to a land far from here? From your forest?”

“Too little, too late. You have enraged the forest. If I do not eliminate you here, the forest will do everything it can to restore the balance. For it is nature itself, and nature must cause, and heal entropy to survive. It will spread beyond its borders in its rage, and the cycle will truly be out of balance. I must save as many lives outside of the forest as I can.”

Celestia sighed and closed her eyes for a moment.

“So there is naught we can do?”

The Wendigo said nothing.

“Then you leave us no choice.”

In a flash of light, six glowing gems appeared floating about her. The Wendigo dropped to all fours and snarled.

“We will protect our ponies, and their short lives, with our own, for as long as we live. We will have to live with our consequences, no matter how severe, and we will take full responsibility for what happens after.”

“Why? What have you done?! What is this!?”

Celestia’s eyes turned a glowing, brilliant white like the sun itself, and the gems circled her with glittering sparks and harmonic energy growing by the moment.

The Wendigo turned and bolted into the night, but his flight was useless.

In a brilliant beam of color that split the night, the Wendigo was stuck in place, it’s legs already turning to stone. He turned his head back and snarled his last words to her.

“FLEE! FLEE YOU FOOLISH PONY! SAVE YOUR KIND-IF YOU CAN! THE FOREST WILL NOT BE SO MERCIF-“

And thus, the Wendigo was stone.

Celestia settled her hooves back to the ground and breathed a sigh of relief. Her respite was short lived as she dropped the shield and flew back into the Castle, bellowing as she went.

“GENERAL, PREPARE THE PONYFOLK! WE MUST LEAVE AT ONCE!”

And in the descending fog, wreathed in the light of the moon, the Wendigo stood, mid stride, one massive, clawed paw outstretched in the air, it’s head turned back in a silent snarl of warning that would last for a millennia, and the trees quivering and groaning around it, grieving for their messenger.

Comments

[Orrm]

....... A demigod tries to fight a force of the World itself?

There's a reason Discord is invulnerable, he is chaos incarnate. And his imprisonment is only due to his "physical" form. Imagine, a force like discord only completely invulnerable.

Imagine an enemy that assualts you from the very ground you tread on, the air you breathe the animals that lie, one you cannot see nor harm nor even touch for doing so would destroy the very things your civilization uses to live.

Bad touch Celestia. Bad touch.

[Tjtbomb]

9453249
holy crap. bruh. das legit right dere

[Grahf]

Wow DC universe Lorax is really dark

[TheOnlySaneDraconequus]

"There's a mysterious force confronting me, that's more powerful than me, that I know nothing about. I know! I'll turn it to stone, the way I solve all my problems!! That couldn't possibly upset the natural balance of the world or spectacularly backfire!" Nice job "fixing" it, Celestia.

Great story, Windegos are some of my favorite cryptids! Looking forward to more.

[Stormin5532]

Good job breaking it hero. This isn't gonna end well for them, i can see it now.

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9453249
Damn. That's deep.

[3-tap]

Wendigo: i follow my masters orders, to make this place perfectly balaned or else the world gonna end

Celestia: no you WONT balance this place, in fact i choose to make this a problem for my future self so i dont have to deal with it right now.

Celestia (thoughts): outstanding move made by me
:D

Little did she know...

Nature: *charging up natural disasters such as tornadoes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions* kame..... hame ...... HAAAAA *releases all natural disasters upon pony kind*

[Vigriff]

Celestia, you don't fight for Harmony you fight for Order.

[ARC-5216]

My name is the Lorax I speak for the trees, you killed our messenger now we will break your knees

[Status L]

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Celestia is probably not even going to do anything except for waiting until the main six deal with her problem or fail.