Twilight Gets a Puppy
Season 4
By TDR
Equestia Groupers
[Crystal Empire.]
Twilight stared at the games official before her.
“Are you bucking serious?” The purple alicorn stated after a uncomfortable minute of staring at the pony.
“Yes ma'am, unicorns will no longer be permitted into the arena without a disabling spell.” the guard pony stated.
Twilight raised an eyebrow and fanned out her wings.
“That includes pegi-corns miss.”
Twilight blinked and looked to Rahs who simply shrugged.
“Is that all unicorns including the Guard and medical staff here?”
“It is to prevent cheating miss.”
“Wouldn't a aura net shield over the arena be both cheaper and require less energy than individual spell blocking, who's even powering this thing?” Twilight growled.
“I couldn't tell you about the why miss, but the machine is tapped into the ley line grid of the empire. It can be used on at least ten thousand individual casters before a mage light on the outskirts even dims a little.
“Really .. well that should be quite enough then shouldn't it?” Twilight snorted folding her ears back to her head as she stomped towards the machine.
“Ten bits says she breaks it.” Applejack offered.
“Sucker bet, the real bet is what color will the explosion be.” Rarity added.
There was a loud buzzing as Twilight walked through the machine.
[ Main Arena, a little bit later]
A official looking pony moved out to the center of the arena coughing lightly, his horn glowing as he amplified his voice.
“May I have your attention please. The games will be delayed temporarily until we are able to determine the cause of the massive ley line disruption affecting the Crystal Empire.”
"You must have cheated some how with your new doggy senses." Rarity huffed paying Applejack the bits for the color of the explosion.
"Says the mare who's host to a living nightmare." Applejack smirked
With the outage addressed and Twilight and her friends seated, Twilight had a moment to relax.
Far too much had happened this year leading up to the equestrian games and it was finally here. Cadence, and Celestia were in the Royal Box with Prince Blueblood.
Luna opted to stay at the palace, not feeling very comfortable around any of the crystal ponies. Celestia had managed to get her into the city, but thus far that was it.
Sombra had simply stayed in Ponyville.
It had taken a good bit of time and effort but the Crystal Empire was rebuilt fully from the conflict with the last remnants of Solomon and the attack by the dragon god.
Chrysalis was no where to be seen either, though she and Shining were both on security detail along with a large amount of changelings. There were no competing changelings for fear of them simply being able to change into anything to gain an advantage in muscle mass or the like.
Chrysalis said it didn't work like that, but there was not enough information on Changelings for any of the event doctors to clear them to compete, though they were already working on clearing them for the next games.
Twilight, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Big Mac, and Rahs were all in the lower seating of the royal box with some other foreign leaders from Saddle Arabia, Thunderbolt from the Griffon Empire, a delegation from the hippogryphs who were currently conversing about the stadium stairs, Maohk from the buffalo, surprisingly without Iinii, and next to her was a smallish Blue scaled dragon that had been identified as Ember, and had been sent by Dragon Lord Torch to watch the games in his stead.
Thus far she had refrained from eating any of the crystal seating.
Another who was present was Jynx representing the diamond dogs that worked the mines for the Crystal Ponies and the few dogs in the games themselves.
Currently Applejack was leaning against Rahs' side and Sunset was sitting in the seat just above and behind him with her chin resting on his head with Jynx on the other side of the moon dog, Saturnia sat in the chair in front of him and was leaning back against his legs.
All four of them were glaring at one another as Rahs tried to ignore them and eat his popcorn.
There was a small betting pool going on who would start the fight.
In truth none of them had changed much. Rahs was still the somewhat lanky swimmers build with his long coat and pants, in his currently favored light gray coat in fact.
Saturnia was still a rather pink changeling, here because her mother and Celestia couldn't be trusted to get along long enough for Chrysalis to represent the race.
Sunset was still the slightly annoying pyro she had been when Twilight first met her, though she seemed to have a fascination with the 'leather' jackets some of the griffons were wearing. Or maybe it was the griffons themselves.
Jynx was still a massive wall of diamond dog, with huge tracts of land, and a perchent to show them off as much as she could without showing anything. Something Rarity likely taught her.
Applejack was still in her pony form , though she too tended to wear clothing now, though it wasn't more than a large vest and a pair of what seemed like short pants while a pony, that vest became much smaller and the pants became shorts when she changed. That particular modesty either came from Sunset or Rarity as Applejack didn't seem to care about any clothing other than her stetson. With the diamond dogs in Ponyville becoming a bit more common it was usually good to follow their modesty practices at least a little. Still like this the mare was rather shaggy in the fur with her mane and tail seeming wild no matter what she did with them.
Twilight's attention was drawn to the start of the procession and three little fillies in particular, though they were fast becoming non little.
Sweetiebelle was still the youngest, only hitting thirteen this year, with Scootaloo at fourteen and Applebloom at fifteen going on sixteen before the end of the year. Scootaloo didn't seem to have grown much at all save a bit of muscle mass, while Sweetiebelle was entering a more lanky stage of her life. Applebloom was clearly starting to take after Applejack in her size and build.
Farm work would do that to you.
Her attention was brought to Spike as he was announced to the massive cheering of the crowd. Despite the other Sparkles having a part in freeing them, the little dragon that took out a massive Juggernaut in front of a crowd of a large crystal ponies gained a bigger following than any of the others.
Not to say Shining Armor and Rahs didn't have their own fan clubs, but Cadence and Chrysalis kept the numbers interested in Shining Armor smaller, and many still were afraid of Rahs.
Spike had managed to launch several gaming conventions and keep a number of obscure game companies alive just because word got out he liked a certain game or another.
Hopefully Applebloom never found out about some of the fan clubs he had, the Empire didn't need that kind of property damage again.
Her brother had grown a good bit as well, he was no longer the pudgy little dragon he had been for years. He still had a bit of his baby fat on him, but his legs, arms and body were a little longer and his spines were starting to loose the roundness and develop points, particularly the one he had regrown in his last molt that had come in blue at the base of his neck. His snout had stretched a little too, he looked all the world like a smaller, more even, version of the dragon he had become in that greed growth stage, Twilight was still taller than he was, but she didn't discount she had grown a as well when she got her wings.
The purple drake climbed the stairs towards the torch,stopping at the top, his eyes darting over the crowd before he inhaled deeply and let out a long breath of fire igniting the monument to begin the games.
Rahs had coached him on the stage fright he had been feeling, and since the old adage of imagine them naked hardly worked with non Canterlot ponies, Rahs had convinced Spike to focus on just them in the royal box or just on Applebloom where she stood in the arena. And given he seemed to have no trouble lighting the torch, it clearly worked.
“Well looks like the games are underway.” Twilight smiled. ”This should be an enjoyable few hours.”
“I'm sure.”
Twilight blinked looking over at her brother who had two mares, a changeling, a diamond dog clinging to him possessively, and a dead pan expression on his face.
She couldn't help laugh.
The main area of the Crystal Festival was awash with activity. The towering rebuilt structure of the Crystal palace soaring high over the gathered carnival like atmosphere. Gods, nobles, and commoners walked among the booths and the statue of the heroes of the Empire and the floating center piece of the whole event, the Crystal Heart.
Luna allowed herself a small smile as she stood on the balcony over looking the large statue of the Sparkles as she listened to a pony sized Bleu speak of the events of the dragon lands and the antics of her son, it seemed Torch was thinking of retiring soon and was planning for some sort of tourney to decide who would take his place. It would be a while yet before anything was ready, but it was nice to know such a change in leadership was coming.
Most of the crowd was at the stadium, though far more could not get tickets and were browsing the festival set up outside that was going to empower the Crystal Heart later in the day.
An odd feeling came over the Moon Princess as Bleu trailed off, the dragons gaze turning to the crowd below them, Luna glanced down from the balcony as well to see what she was looking at.
Time seemed to slow as Luna looked at the crowd, reality seeming to gray out save for a few other figures.
Bleu Scale stood fast at Luna's side. Her vibrant cobalt scales glimmering in the sunlight, her eyes locked on the crowd, her form moving in what seemed like slow motion, much as Luna's was, the pairs gaze met briefly before their eyes turned to the others who had not grayed out in this odd vision.
Across from them, with a gaggle of other ambassadors was a tall, well built red crystal stallion in the long robes of an ambassador. His well kept black mane and tail were as still as everything else around them, though his eyes were moving. The green hued orbs met Luna's before Rhede Pelt's gaze shifted to the others still in color.
In a group surrounded by foals, a small light gray furred pegasus mare with a purple mane streaked with darker gray floated. Slowed, her wing beats were barely noticeable. Starfall Silvertail's lavender eyes met Luna's briefly, before shifting to meet the gaze of the others.
Next to her on the other side of a black furred unicorn mare was a larger gray furred unicorn stallion. His mass of amber mane and tail were a mess that looked like they had been hacked short with a sword, his two tone eyes met Luna's and lingered a moment longer than the others, though Jer'rahd Kaisur's gaze eventually darted and moved to one of the others.
The final one was approaching from under the balcony where Bleu and Luna stood. A zebra mare in a well worn traveling cloak, with large saddle bags covered with the medical symbols of many races. Red stripes covered her form rather than the traditional black, and a red crystal horn grew from her fore head. Velkorn sighed softly.
The looks the six shared seemed to last an eternity, yet at the same time not even a heart beat.
“What once was, will not be again. Not in the same way, at least.” The zebra seemed to speak though the words were felt, rather than heard.
An eternity in a second soon ended and the world resumed it's movements, the six never meeting eyes again as they went about their day.
Luna hardly recalled the moment, but she was left feeling melancholy for the rest of the day, a feeling shared by five others, that in another life, had been far closer.
[Tartarus]
Forthe snarled.
This had taken far too long. Time was not something he often cared about as he had plenty of that.
Or he did.
Witch Wolves still existed, even if they were in another form, they still existed and now there was another one among the living, a female. Thus far she had refused the advances of several males that had come for her. She had beaten down the ones that wouldn't listen, and those were only the ones that managed to sneak past that damn bitch claiming to be alpha.
If they were not destroyed soon all it would take would be a generation more of crossbreeding and he would be no more. Damn Luna and that summoner and those accursed witch wolves.
It had taken him a year to navigate this place, for all it's reputation as a prison, this place was a maze more than anything else. The walls of reality were weak here and things that should not be prowled this place.
Cerberus was little more than a pet dog compared to some of the things he had avoided on his way here. He doubted his spectral form would be any detriment to some of those things getting a hold of him if they had noticed him.
Still, he found what he was after after what felt like a year searching.
On a massive towering stalactite there rested a cage, well two cages at the moment for some reason, but Forthe didn't care about the dragon, his focus was on the other cage.
“Tirek.” Forthe growled.
“Well, well, this is new, and what do you want ghost?” The centaur growled back slowly rising to his hooves.
“Please. You know what I want, I want Luna dead, I want her ponies to suffer and I want her taint to my race removed.” Forthe snarled. “At least two of those you can help with.”
“While I do admit I have some issue with the moon princess for stopping my last escape attempt. I have no reason to do your bidding.”Tirek muttered. “Not as if I can do anything any way in here.”
“I can easily free you Centaur, all you need to do is destroy the ponies to make Luna suffer, and kill the moon dog, the witch wolf, as well as the summoner Twilight Sparkle.” Forthe snapped.
“A summoner? It has been a while since I have had one of those, both they and their pets tend to hold a great deal of power.” Tirek considered. “Fine ghost. I accept those terms.”
“Good.” Forthe offered, snatching the key from the stone wall , where it sat far out of reach, to taunt those imprisoned. Even had the captives found a way to get the key, the cages would not open for those within them, an outside force needed to open the door. Something that Forthe did.”You should find all three in a place called Ponyville at the base of the pony capitol. You will need to make your own way out of this place however.”
“Oh, I can do that easily if I manage to get a bit of power.” Tirek offered before stepping out of the cage stretching and wincing lightly. He rather hated his drained form, it made him look like a wizened crone.
“Fine, go to.... Waaak!” Forthe gasped his form jerking back as the shadowy mass that made up his body was grabbed by the centaur. “What?!”
“I cannot say I've ever had a ghost before.” Tirek grinned. “I wonder how much power a half god has?”
Tirek opened his mouth, and the god of diamond dogs screamed.
[ Crystal Empire.]
Jynx, Witch-Jack, Rahs and every other Diamond Dog in the arena surged to their feet with looks of panic and worry on their faces.
One of them, competing in the ice lance throw, jerked suddenly sending the lance into low hanging cloud cover, the ice starting to swallow the cloud and bring it down, though the unicorns on the ground crew easily dispersed it before it became a threat.
All of them were looking around in a panic, nearly all of them were actively weeping for some reason that they couldn't explain.
“What's wrong?” Twilight asked looking up at the three, ignoring Sunset and Saturnia who had been flung to the floor the moment Rahs surged to his feet.
“That was weird.... felt like some one just stomped on mai grave.” Witch-Jack offered wiping her eyes.
[ Tartarus]
“Tirek...” Forgescale snapped, scales scraping against the metal bars of the cage as the great dragon rose to his feet.” Help me out of here. I have vengeance to enact.”
Tirek raised an eyebrow at the dragon before walking over to his cage the centaur towering over the cage, the diamond dog gods power far more than expected.
“Of course I shall help..... Myself.” Tirek grinned, opening his maw and drawing the power of a second god into his being as Forge Scale screamed and collapsed muttering vague threats of pain as the centaur chuckled and strode away from the cages.
It was time to make the world suffer and take all the power for himself.
So, I can’t help but wonder, is Forthe dead for good now? That seemed permanent, and you making Jinx a good wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
WELP! Looks liek Forthe is dead. Hopefully once Tirek is beaten that Diamond Dog Portfolio goes to someone not so fucking worthless. Maybe Jynx
These chapters make my day anew
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Wouldn't surprise me considering she is practically worshiped by Diamond Dogs for her courting of Rahs.
Dumbass.
Either Applejack or jynx becomes the new God
I cannot hlep but feel that that was as well thought-out as the rest of Forthe's plans.
So, do the Diamond Dogs no longer have a god? Who gets promoted now?
Oh boy... I remember Tirek in SiS. That was really unpleasant. Hopefully, the parallels end there?
1. You can make luna suffer and maybe kill Applejack. but you cant kill Rahs (he's a god) unless you destroy his portfolio (that they don't know what's inside it). and you cant kill twilight (same reason to Rahs) Sombra already tried.
2. With Forthe dead I think Applejack might get the god of wich wolf's (and as a secondary apples), and Jinx might get the god of diamond dogs (and as a secondary... I don't have a clue. maybe fighting?).
3. great chapter
Well...I think it's safe to assume that the damage done by the canon fight between Twilight and Tirek is gonna pale in comparison to the damage caused this time. After all while one could view Twilight, Celestia, Luna and Cadance as 'gods' in the canon they actually aren't. In this they ARE gods and Tirek just took the magic from two of them(other gods) before even getting out of Tartarus. This can only end more DBZ styled than the canon fight went.
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Rahs currently has Witch Wolves in his profile, along with Moon Dogs.
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In all likelyhood Jynx.
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Not that easy, if anything Rhas is more likely to get it.
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really? I knew he had Moon dogs... I guess I forgot about it. Well if Applejack becomes a god, Rahs can share Witch Wolves with her.
As I have not read it yet, I assume these six are the main cast of the "Stories in Stone" series?
Oh no, what a shock, who could have possibly seen that coming
Well, guess we won't have to worry about Forth anymore
Oh no, what a shock, who could have possibly seen that coming
I will admit to having a bit of morbid curiosity that wants to find out if that is even possible
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How? He's a Moon dog that already hates being worshiped.
Jinx on the other hand doesn't care if she's being worshiped, is a diamond dog, and other diamond dogs already bow down to her.
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Probably Jynx, but it most likely won't happen until after Tirek's defeat.
10604152
Rahs is already the God of Witch Wolves, he became that when he defeated the Tantabus a while back.
These next few chapters are going to be fun!
Could applejack be the next diamond dog God? Her second thing could be family. Being the God of something doesn't mean you have to be the same species/thing. Also could apple bloom be the God of assassins and to a lesser extent spies? Final thing when is spike going to become a God?
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That's it, that's all she is, a well-liked leader of a den. Becoming a god in this story doesn't seem to be nearly that easy.
Why do I really wanna do a non canon crossover just to mess with the sparkles and Horn tierk rn lol
Oh dear.
Two Gods Tirek verses Gods Of Existance Sparkles is bad enough, but he has Kaisurs crew to deal with also?
Just how far down Pinkies Portfolio is God Of Cupcakes, anyway?
Wait, how comes it affected Applejack too? I believe Forthe was not a God of Witch-wolves.
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No, but he was the god of the Bunyip, from which the Moon Dogs (and consequently Witch Wolves as well) were descended.
All tirek needs is a whafeur theen meent
Is Forgescale still alive?
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Yes. He ded.
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Nope.
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Keep in mind with SiS, he was the last of the canon bad guys i saw before the series ended, so i needed to make him a big bad. I've got 5 more seasons to go with puppy.
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Rahs already picked up the god of Witchwolves in his portfolio after the tantabus episode. And aside from Luna, Celestia, Chryssy, Discord and Cadence, no other god knows Rahs is a god.
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I sense.... sarcasm.....
10604669
Forthe was a Diamond Dog god primarily, but because Luna used a subset of Diamond Dogs to make the Moon Dogs and then the Witch Wolves, Forthe had part of them as well, he simply refused to accepted a shared portfolio with the 'bastardazation of a true Diamond Dog' as he called it and when all the diamond dogs were no longer pure, all he had was this half connection, hence why he was a ghost.
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Yes, but he's drained of magic... and trapped in Tartarus... which is kinda a two for whammy.
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While hunting during Magical Mystery Cure, actually. He ascended at the same time as Twi, which is why it took Twi and Luna a while to figure it out. He just showed it off during the Tantabus fight.
*flicks a series of switches to the on setting a hum raise in pitch* " u
Uh White I know for a fact the others stated I was never to start up my toy. Yes I know why you are having me do so buuuut I rather NOT get skinned alive again so you better have a very very good excuse to tell the others. No just telling them when magic is eaten tech is the best way is NOT good enough. Ugh fine fine yes it will be at full power by then and yes I will be in position to fire." *Pushes of the charging panel and floats to the navigation panel and enters the numbers given*
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No at that point he became god of Moon Dogs. He gained the Witch Wolves in his portfolio as well after that during the Tantabus episode. It brought up the question of if there were more Witchwolves out there , as Applejack being one was not enough to be a god of.
10605095
During Magical Mystery Cure he became the God of Moon Dogs, Theater and Fridays.
He didn't become the God of Witch Wolves until later.
The time freeze with Luna was too confusing
Also sending stuff to Tartarus and expecting them to die? Yeah, okay
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Tartarus is a prison. A near perfect one. All prisoners are in conscious stasis. they do not feel tired, they do not need food or water, they just are, in a perpetual boredom state of nothing, until the rules of their release are met [or a plot point is needed] in Tirek and Forgescales case they were to be left in there until they gave up their godhood and died of old age or the heat death of the universe wiped out their portfolios. Which ever came first.
The Elk say it would be easier just to nail the offending gods to a tree and let the pain drive them mad enough to surrender to death, but the council of gods isn't really that cruel.
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...yeah still nope. Those 2 are too stupid, and obviously escape is possible
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Though if you want an alternative to madness enducing, there is one writer who had the idea of enchanting a crystal to play "Lollypops" on repeat
10605346
the time freeze was a reference to the other stories, stories in stone, where those six were lifelong friends, it was a feeling of another life.
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Had to look up what you were talking about. Weird
There's something hilarious about how Forthe, who has spent a good four books trying to be a major antagonist, goes out like Professor Milo in JLU.
Of course that would make Tirek Doomsday, in which case all of Equestria is in VERY deep trouble
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Nope you just go away with that Idea lol rainbow power vs doomday nope
How they even expect to kill Twilight? She has a surprisingly robust portfolio. Destroy ALL magic, all friendships, burn all books, erase Tuesdays?.
Or just make her to give up her godhood in exchange to her friends life?
so.... if Forthe is dead dead.... and good riddance, that means his portfolio is up for grabs... doesn't it? Still, he died like lived... being a short sighted idiot fucked over by his own incompetence. Now..... we have us some big trouble....
Nice bit with trying to constrain the Goddess of Magics magic..... what are the betting odds on Tirak trying to drain her and just exploding?
The Changeling thing makes sense, gotta get good data on a new race before they enter the games. And why not let Tia and Chryssi share a box... it would be good between events entertainment, can even have judges rating the skill and ingenuity of the kills.
Ueah, this Spike would not have the same insecurity issues.... also, set up for the future God of Games?
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XD. But honestly they'd probably do better as prize-fighters.
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im guessing either the god of dimond dogs is trapped in tirek or when tirek is defeted the portfolios he has taken will be (or have already been with the dimond dog gods death?) relesed and possibly go to whoever suits them or accend someone new (one of ravs girls might get godhood)
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'E's not '! 'E's passed on! This dog is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-diamond dog!!
Well Forthe makes his return to the story only to immediately get what was coming to him. That's what you get for being a bitter moron for centuries. So gonna bet that after Tirek gets popped Jynx gets the godhood.
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He ain't dead, he's jus sleepin!
(Couldn't resist!)
Cerberus unless Cerabus is his name.
Even had the
I see someone hasn’t read the Evil Overlords List. Glad to see that one gone, plus that jerk of a dragon. Now we get to see them stomp Tirek and hopefully takeaway most of his power.