Chapter 42
I stood with my eyes half closed, listening, feeling with my magic as there was a faint sound of wind as my chakram orbited around my body, faster and faster as I kept shifting the orbits.
Two days since Twilight had left for the border on the train with Rainbow Dash and several regiments of soldiers. Two days of nothing from the Storm-King. I had went by his dreams each night to check. Things were still there.
Every time he falls asleep, the dreams were there, waiting for him.
Was it too much? Not enough?
I didn’t know. Luna didn’t know.
I took a deep breath and sent the spinning metal flying through the air towards the targets. It cut through three wooden bars stuck into the ground before returning in my grip, going back to orbiting.
This was a good way to clear my head a little. It took a lot of focus to do, didn’t really let you think of anything else.
I sent it flying again.
“Lord Page.”
I opened my eyes and turned to look at the pony that spoke up, a pegasus mare, an attendant in the castle, “Yes?” I asked as I swept the chakram around and back to hang by the hook on my side without bothering to look at it.
“Princess Celestia wishes to see you in the throne room. A messenger from the Storm King has arrived via airship.”
“Thank you, I’ll be there as soon as I can.”
“Want me to come with?” Sunset asked, looking up from the book she had been reading while lounging in the soft grass beneath one of the trees at the edge of the training grounds.
I shook my head, “No, it’s fine.”
She hesitated and closed her book before getting up and moving up to me. She touched her horn gently against mine as she looked into my eyes, “You got this, Page.”
I smiled slightly, “I don’t, but that doesn't matter if I do because Celestia and Luna does,” and then gave her a small nuzzle before I pulled away and turned, heading to the throneroom.
The walk seemed both long and take just a couple of moments. The bright sunshine and the signing birds were a sharp contrast to my general mood.
Thunder, wind and rain would have felt more fitting right now.
Entering through a side door, I found Luna and Celestia already there on the thrones. Other than them, the only other ponies in the room was guards.
I moved over to stand next to Lunas throne, “I’m early?” I asked her, scraping my hoof against the carpet covered marble floor.
Luna nodded slightly, “She’ll be here any moment, they are escorting her from her ship.”
She?
Luna had barely time to finish speaking before the doors to the throneroom opened to reveal another being of the Storm Kings species, a woman this time.The yeti had a haughty look on her face, wearing a set of armour with a cloak across her shoulders.
She crossed the carpet towards the thrones, “I am Agnelia of the Red Rose. I speak as the emissary of the Powerful Storm King.”
You could hear the capitalizations in her speech. That’s kind of impressive actually. Not many could manage that to be honest. It was harder than some people thought.
Celestia spoke up, giving her a nod, “Welcome to Canterlot, Agnelia of the Red Rose. We understand you had a message for us?”
She reached into her cloak and pulled out a scroll, unrolling it.
“Ponies of Equestria,” she said, “You have one week to surrender and to seize this assault upon my person or the Empire of the Storm will declare war upon you. We will strike down your soldiers and burn your villages. You wil-”
“Rue the day when you blah, blah, blah,” I said and shifted my wings, “Really? You came all the way here for that?” I asked, “Man, that guy got to pay well for anyone to work for him.”
Agnelia looked ready to go apocalyptic at that.
Luna frowned at me, “Page.”
“No, really,” I said and shook my head, ignoring Luna for the first time. I was pissed now, “I know you don’t like the big stick, but I have pretty much had it with this.”
I looked to Celestia. She kept her face carefully blank before she nodded.
I made my way down from the dias towards Agnelia, “Look, here’s the deal. There are two options. One is that you guys stand the fuck down and maybe, maybe I’ll let your King sleep again without driving him insane. Two is that you attack and we burn your pathetic little province to the ground as a warning to anyone that would date attack Equestria and her interests again and I crush your Kings tiny little mind like a walnut.”
“Y-you dare to-”
“Yes, I fucking dare,” I said as I looked up at her, “Equestria has seven alicorns. The Alicorn of the Sun, The Alicorn of the Moon, the Alicorns of Magic, The Alicorn of Love, The Alicorn of...not quite sure yet and the Alicorn of Dreams. I am the weakest. Luna and I put everypony in your pathetic little invasion to sleep with a single spell. If you think there is going to be an actual War involved in putting you down, you are strongly mistaken. You and your Empire exist because Equestria allows it, and if you move forward with this, you will end when we demand it.”
I moved closer and went onto my rear hooves, putting my hoof on her shoulder for support so I could reach to whisper into her ear so the others wouldn’t hear, “You spoke of burning villages? I would burn your minds. Every. Single. One of you.”
I dropped back down to look at her.
She had gone pale. An impressive feat considering she was mostly covered in thick white fur.
Celestia was the next to speak up, “We expect your surrender in six days, Agnelia of the Red Rose,” before she smiled, “And please, do wish your master a good day from us. We’re looking forward to seeing him person at the negotiations for the peace treaty.”
Agnelia did a small shaky nod, “I…” she cleared her throat, “I’ll relay your message, your highness.”
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Awesome chapter.
Get fucked. I love seeing some page showing people thier place. Now haunt the storm Kings mind with the xenomorphs and see how quickly he gives in to them.
Somepony is just flat out done with King Arganon's horseapples...
Speak softly and carry a big stick
Edit: Though that last part about letting the opponent save face and be ignored.
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Nah, the flood, maybe necromorph would do
This chapter was Really great, also loved page in this chapter, also Storm King is a dumbass, and I hope page gets to fuck his shit up
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Oh the flood is nice. But they don't bring fear like a single xenomorph can. The flood you need hundreds. But these slick black mosnters of death you need only one. Then have it lay eggs. And the face huggers make yeti-morphs. That is come real scary shit. The storm king having to see his people be face fucked and chest bursted by a white xenomorph then they all come after his ass.
well... damn....
Ah, little predator. This is why Chrysalis likes him.
DAYUM Page is laying down the law here, and I love it. It needs a pass for typos, but outstanding work here.
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Yeah, I have to agree with you that give anyone PTSD
this is how you do it.
I wonder if Page has created a pony substitute for flipping people off yet, or does he have to stick to words, like, for example, the 'big stick'.
(I binge read the entire series last weekend. I can't believe I've gone this long without it now.)
go page
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Ladies, ladies, I will just say 2 words: Darla Dimple.
Yes, Page should do something with that
He is biologically and magically limited at the moment but like humans, he should overcome this externally. For example, imbedded gems in armor or necklace that absorbs external,ambient magic in the air to boost his own
Also, I have and Idea how to scare Storm King more
What if Page created a super realistic dream about one week of war where Storm King declares war and his Kingdom being seriously beaten.
Page could also add things like burning villages and other things by him so he could be scared of him the most (he must compensate for him being the weakest alicorn) and abuse the fear tactic using things from our history and what we created (fictional and real)
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Okay now I know how Cozy Glow got her look
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Agreed, but let's see what Mr dumbass does in next chapter, shall we comrade?
That was a very satisfying chapter, make one wonder how it all ends.
Probably should be cease instead of seize. Other than that, good chapter. I prefer the "we'll wreck you to hell and back if you mess with us but if you don't we're cool" versus "oh boy, X is gonna do bad things and we've got all these ineffective alicorns that do big things here" kinda stories. Celestia could be the child with a magnifying glass if she wanted to, Luna could drop meteors, Candy could... well... pull a Discord/Twilight and make em fight over a rock or national love in. Can understand why they don't but don't be a door mat.
Friend of mine has just one thing to say about Pages answer https://youtu.be/_J6-3l3hCm0
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O.O............. after such badassness, l can only say one thing....*Ahem*..... ALL HAIL EMPEROR BLANK PAGE, ALICORN OF "DON'T FUCKING FUCK WITH US, FOR YOU WILL BE THE ONE WHO IS FUCKED"
Storm King: "Let's invade!"
Agnelia: "Let's not and say we did."
Page is Officially done with all this shit.
WOW that was awesome I wonder how he would possibly burn their minds or if that was a bluff
Maybe not as easily as Page says it but certainly they will destroy minds if they can;t rest. Also even Page admits he didn't push the Storm King's dreams as hard as he could've
Agnelia of the Red Rose, soon to be Agnelia of the Yellow River
"You and your Empire exist because Equestria allows it, and if you move forward with this, you will end when we demand it." - excellent Mass Effect reference. Page should add visions of Reaper invasion to King's sleep, with that deep blaring and all.
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There are a few that he could still do. Something like the Bras d'honneur or the one where you kind of sweep your hand from under your chin towards someone. Whether they have any meaning in Equestria or not, I don't know. However, given how much time he has, Page could definitely make them mean something eventually.
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I’m wondering how that would be done
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Would he be the Equestrian version of Commander Shepard then too?
Excellent.
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it could be taken that his "Dream" control translates itself to skill with ALL the mind arts...and a pissed of Mind walker is a terrible thing.
also...he didn't even bring up Chrysalis and the Hive...
Page's gambit is "we, the cute ponies of Equestria, can out-tyrant your empire?" Seriously?
The Alicorn of Mind-Flaying was a bit too long for the business cards, plus is sent everypony running.
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not it's..."there is a REASON we have had 1k years of relative peace" when the alicorns in this story are almost GODS.
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He could also do it as group dream of all or most of Storm Kings kingdom so maybe they will think it's a vision of future or something
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That's not what Page said to the emissary of the Storm King. Page went full Reaper on them and said "You and your Empire exist because Equestria allows it, and if you move forward with this, you will end when we demand it.” He might as well have done Sovereign's whole bit.
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This might work?
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Yeah, that be cool, and that would work
Why give ol' Stormy a chance to change his mind. He's made another threat. Put him into a permanent sleep so he dies of dehydration and be done with it.
That's an interesting attack strategy. Maybe the changelings should consider that if they go back to being evil.
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That typo gives me an idea for an "Eight simple rules for dating my teenaged alicorn" with shiny and a changing suitor.
Someone get on it! (Or post a link if it's been done already)
Does Page know that he almost word for world quoted Sovereign? I’m all for a little showboating, he’s already spoke softly while swinging his magical big stick around. But Reapers are not exactly good reference material when trying to represent the ‘good guys’. Easy boi, maybe Revan’s ‘before me you are nothing’ woulda been slightly less chaotic evil.
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I was literally just thinking something to the effect of "unironically quoting Sovereign's bit from Mass Effect probably means you are not a good guy."
“We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.”
Welp I count 2 strikes to the storm king, a 3th and he is out... And all the poor subordinates and citizens... If page went genecide. XP
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Really more of a "we have individual beings more powerful than your entire fiefdom" with the proof being fairly self-evident.
Three nights later, in the Storm King's dream...
Page: You want to see what will happen if you are actually stupid enough to attack Equestria? *shows scene of Storm King and his entire land being burned to ash in an instant* And if not that *shows scene of Chrysalis and Cadence blasting the Storm King to atoms* And if not that *shows scene of ponies, changelings, gryphons, hippogryphs, yaks, buffalo, zebras, and dragons crushing his land into dust and the Storm King into paste.* And if not that *many more scenes of Storm King and his lands being destroyed*.
The next morning...
Page to Luna: That guy either has extreme willpower, or is actually too stupid to realize he should be dead.
it is about time page gets pissed and starts playing with the big boys.
Fucken, that's our boy right there! May somehow bite them in the but in some small way but hell, finally he steps up.