> Monsters Out Of Place > by funky108108 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Frilled Commander > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter one: the frilled commander Moga village… probably the most peaceful village in the whole world! Abundant commodities, a small, but efficient farm, and most importantly, a thriving community. The only thing that lets this small fishing village down are the monsters…oh the monsters, ranging from the humble aptanoth, to the bottomless beast that is the deviljho, but wherever you go, there will always be some sort of monster around you. Despite all this, Moga village has coped fairly well in the past few years, that is until the earthquakes started to appear, at first they were just the occasional rumble in the earth, but now… they have become so frequent that they have given up all hope on even rebuilding the camps or any of the buildings! That is until they hired a hunter from the guild, although unprepared, he was certainly strong willed, his name was Hugh. He stepped of the boat, slightly uneasy on his feet after being on the boat for a fair few hours (didn't really help, considering that the village was, in fact, built on water) he approached the small gathering of villagers crowded around the chief. “Calm down everyone!” he said raising on hand up as a gesture of attention “He’s here!” the hunter shook the chief’s hand “Now listen up kid, I know you probably want to go and mess up that lagiacrus’ face real bad, but at your current state… and that armour, your not going to get very far without being flung up in the air and being turned into a well done stake before you could say ’buffalo butter’” he took a breath and sucked on his pipe “yeah, I’m not even jokin’ with ya’ kid that would probably, no, definitely happen to ya’, the lagiacrus isn’t called the ‘king of the sea’ for no reason” at the prospect of being turned into monster food, the hunter tried to cast the image out of his head. The village chief sighed and went on to explain what his first task would be “Normally we would ask you to pick mushrooms or something like that, but from what the guild ‘as said about ya’ with the whole blagonga attack, we know that your higher that, so, in that case your first task is to fight the great jaggi" Great Jaggi Class: bird wyvern Weakness: fire Bio: This bipedal bird wyvern uses its advance vocal chords to call upon other Jaggi and Jaggia, a great jaggi is an alpha male of the pack, upon maturity they leave, they then return to compete with other jaggi, if it wins then it earns the title of GREAT jaggi. Danger: 3/10 Hugh remembered all this from his briefing in pokke village, he spoke up for the first time before wiping his, overly long, blonde hair out of his eyes “So you want me to take out a great jaggi then? Ha! hope you haven’t lost hope in me already!” The village chief chuckled “don’t come crying to me if you get roasted on the spot” he sucked on his pipe again. “but anyway, the scouts have spotted a lagiacrus… no, the lagiacrus roaming around, so try to avoid beaches if at all possible, it’s primarily aquatic, but it will venture out onto land if needs be, so you best avoid it all costs, your weapon will act as a lighting rod, but even if it didn't, it’s thunder bolts are as hot as the sun, so it would hurt like hell regardless” As the hunter was about to step out into the hunting grounds, he heard a voice call out to him. “Hey!, wait up!” a tall man, not far off Hugh's age, with dark brown hair walked up to the hunter “Heyo hunter! I’m junio-I mean the chiefs son!” he held out his hand and the hunter shook it, “so you’re the hunter that everyone’s been talking about! Sorry for not being able to be formally introduced earlier, just a bit busy” he laughed a bit before handing him a bunch of sticks and some flint “ that’s a fold down barbecue spit, just a little ‘welcoming’ present”. the blonde haired man accepted it, thanked him and moved on towards the proclaimed ‘jaggi nest’, but then he looked up with great curiosity, the sky was turning a dark grey colour, was it going to rain? That was… well, in all of Moga's existence, it had never rained in summer, in fact, this was the first time in over twelve thousand years that it had rained in summer. The hunter groaned in anticipation, leather armour was a complete pain to dry of. He carried on walking through the areas that were split up on the map, until he saw where he was supposed to be headed, when he was at the entrance of the area, he heard many complex barks and howls. probably the great jaggi… he knows what’s comin’ for him As he rounded the next corner, he pulled out his iron katana and tested its weight before charging into battle. The great Jaggi was quite small (compared to the likes of rathalos, anyway) but he makes up for that by being able to call upon his loyal subjects, Hugh charged forward and executed a horizontal slash down his face, it retaliated by slamming its jagged tail across the hunters unprotected face, that left a cut across his forehead, then followed on by using its extremely large talons, the hunter just managed to evade the swipe by fade slashing (1) to the right leaving another cut across its face, along with breaking the monsters frill. the large raptor like monster rose its head and let out a long barking like noise, which was responded with many other, smaller, barks, followed by footsteps…pawsteps? Anyway, the Great Jaggi’s minions crawled out of there dens to assist there leader (who now had steam blowing out of his mouth, an easy indicator of being in rage mode) they assaulted him by tail swipes from the smaller Jaggi, followed by hip checks from the much larger Jaggia, Hugh executed a soul slash and quickly dealt with the majority of the group. before returning to fight the large raptor, it lunged at Hugh with a hip check that made him fly into a wall and made a large tear in his hand, Hugh was losing for once, he thrusted his long sword into the great Jaggi’s chest, barely puncturing its skin, He the pulled of another spirit combo, making the long sword glow a heavenly gold colour, the Great Jaggi tail whipped again, this time, across his chest, it tore through the weak material and through to the skin, making a large scar across his torso, using the last of his energy, Hugh used the hilt of his long sword as a pole vault, and jumped a few feet into the air before falling with the long sword pointing down, and piercing all the way through the Great Jaggi’s chest, and heart, thus ending its life… relatively quickly. But then, the unspeakable happened, thunder struck the dead body, making some sort of gas leak out of it, the gas then evaporated into the clouds above… Hugh, being naïve hunter that he is thought nothing of it, all he wanted was the Great Jaggi’s parts so he could make a new long word… or armour to replace his broken equipment. Equestria, royal Canterlot gardens. It was a rather stressful day for Celestia, strange weather patterns that were not planned by the pegasi, complaints about the ‘mysterious’ disappearances of the cakes that the cooks had baked… which was pretty much the only normal thing about today, but, seemingly out of nowhere, two ponies fell out of the sky, they where both earth pony colts, however one was much larger that the other, the larger one was a pale purple colour, his mane was the same pale purple with a dark orange around it, both of these colours where outlined by a pale white, the same applied to its tale, his eyes where a bright orange colour, however, the most noticeable feature about the pony would have to be his hat, a Stetson, pale purple on the base, around that is the orange and, again outlining it is a bright white trim, the brim of the hat was raised quite a bit higher than normal Stetsons, another noticeable feature would be the diamond shaped ruby embedded into the front of the large hat. The other one was a much lighter purple, his mane was just a plain white with a few orange streaks near the tip, he wore an orange cap, which matched his dark orange eyes, the cap to had a ruby, albeit a smaller one, but even so. After taking in the details of the two earth ponies she called for her guards, in a matter of seconds, some white coated ponies clad in gilded armour stood at attention in front of the collapsed bodies “Captain Starwing at your service” they saluted before Celestia replied “Captain Starwing, I want these ponies carried back to the castle medical area” Captain Starwing nodded and took notice of the hat on the ponies head “And the hat?” Celestia looked at the hat and back to Starwing “Let the pony keep the hat, you know wha-” Starwing butted in “but it’s my favourite type of hat!” Celestia just stared at Starwing “but-” Celestia just stared more intensely “ Oh fine!” Starwing and a few other ponies carried away the unconscious bodies to the medical bay inside the castle. When they had deposited the bodies in the medical bay they left the rest to the doctors and nurses, after about ten minuets great Jaggi’s eyes flashed open, he looked around to survey his area… nothing like the deserted isle… in fact, nothing like anything he had ever seen before in his life! He looked at his claws to inspect there condition, claws… where had his claws gone?! Why were they gone! He looked the rest of his body… in place of his frill was a hat of some sort… a very good looking hat mind you, he realised that instead of scales he had ,what felt to be, fur covering his whole body, he couldn’t see it, but he felt a whole clump of hair above his head, running down his neck, and it also replaced his tail as well… what creature had he been turned into and why? Was this Jaggi hell? Where was the massive Rathalos?! Whatever this place was it wasn't nice, he would've moved then and there, but in his current state, he could barely even move his limbs, never mind get out of this place! Just then, another creature walked in through the door, had he met the same fate the beast had? He than started to talk to him “Hello, my name is doctor red cross, what’s your name, if you don’t mind me asking?” Darn he thought to himself I’m going to have to make up a name… from what I can tell the names here are mainly two separate words put together… well in that case… “Jagged Crown, at your service” phew, quick thinking saves the day… again he thought. The ’doctor’ spoke up again “Good, do you remember how you fell from the sky, after all, an earth pony must find it pretty hard to fly” The newly named ’Jagged Crown’ looked out of the window and saw some strange… ponies, they were pegasi, at least, as much as he could remember from the conversation after he fell from the sky… and Celestia, was that a name? Anyway there were some pegasi attached to chariots, sky chariots? Yeah, lets go with that “ I fell out of a sky chariot, it was a cheap fare, so I’m guessing it was a fake one, they pushed me” -he looked around and saw… another jaggi?! he could tell from the colour scheme- “and my son out of it, they stole my wallet, everything but my hat, for some reason” at this the doctor frowned “Hmm, fake sky chariot busyness? I’ll have to alert princess Celestia after I've talked to you a bit more" ah, so Celestia was a name! I’ll have to talk to her, him? About my…our, predicament she sounds fairly powerful. “Anyway” red cross waved a hoof dismissively “What is your sons name?” Jagged Crown looked over at his ‘son’, and noticed a strange mark on his flank, a snake’s head, with a silver tongue “His name’s Silver Tongue” The doctor nodded once more “ Very well then, I’ll let you two rest, then you will both be dismissed. for some reason, you didn't suffer any damage to your bones” Well this was going better than expected Jagged Crown thought to himself. > The Twin Horned Tyrant > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter two: The Twin Horned Tyrant Diablos was one of the most powerful monster in the desert, I say ‘one’ of the most powerful, her only rival was the Deviljho that stalked the sandy plains, at the present moment, the two massive beasts where fighting, Diablos had the upper hand. She dug up from the ground and badly scarred the deviljho, which in turn bit one of her horns, the Deviljho’s vice grip tugging on her horn. Before she knew it, the Diablos was being flung into the air, a terrible cracking sound echoing throughout the sandy plains, audible even by the veggie elder, one of Diablos’ signature horns had been torn of her head, leaving a large patch of her scalp unprotected, revealing the flesh. If Deviljho could grin, well, lets just say that it would look, very creepy, seeing the flesh on her scalp. Deviljho lunged forwards at the retreating Diablos, just managing to clamp his jaws on her tail, pulling its form out of the ground, and making it land on its back, just like before, deviljho lunged forwards, this time to bite her scalp, but he ended up doing more than just that The beast tore through the Diablos’ scalp, reaching all the way through to her brain, being torn out, leaving the Diablos flailing about, before going limp, the Deviljho let out a triumphant roar. Another meal to quench its unending hunger. Ponyville; sugar cube corner The loud clattering and banging of pans could be heard from inside the kitchen of the sugar cube, Pinkie Pie, being the alert pony that she is, literally jumped into the kitchen, as far as she knew Gummy wasn’t let out of his space-time continuum loop, so who could it be? As she landed softly on the tiled floor, Pinkie heard another clattering of pans before an audible gasp escaped through the wooden door, she slammed open the door to find a large earth pony mare, rivalling even Big Macintosh in size, she was a light, sandy brown colour, her mane was a darker shade of brown, done up in bangs, her fringe was cut clean apart from the two parts of her hair that were draped over her face, that were cut into the shape of horns. Pinkie gasped as she realised that a large part of her scalp was missing, being the pony that she was, she did the only thing that she did better than throw parties, panicked. Little did she know, that she had awoken the sleeping mare. “Where… am I?” the pony looked around, then something caught her eye, something pink. She looked at her claws…claws, where were her claws?! She looked around franticly, why? What had she done to deserve this! The Diablos sighed before calming herself “I’m not completely hopeless, I can try and walk with these… stumps” she shakily got to her new found appendages, she would debate what they are later that day, she started to walk, as she did though, she noticed a distinct ’clop’ sound from every step. She kept on walking… and falling… and walking, until a laugh came from the pink object that she was walking (or trotting) towards, and then a cheery voice. “Do ya’ need a hoof with that?” the being questioned oh… how was she going to communicate? How was she understanding any of this anyway? She mustered all of her knowledge and came up with the most valiant effort she could give “Yes.. Please” How was she doing this?! How are they speaking the same language! Anyway, She remembered what her mother had taught her, always be polite “can I ask your name please?” Diablos said meekly. “My name’s Pinkie Pie!, I also go by; Pinkie, pie, Pinkie Pinkie, Pie Pie and, my least favourite of the bunch, Pinkamena Dian pie!” she smiled, Diablos couldn’t help smiling either from her bubbly nature. “I think I’ll just stick with Pinkie” she grabbed Pinkies limb and shakily got up to her legs “My names Diablos by the way” she had been very wary of the pink… thing as soon as she was awake, but seeing as she was being very hospitable, she guessed that she would have to return the favour eventually Pinkie frowned at Diablos’ large cut “we’re going to have top go to doctors to sort that out, oh! I know! On the way there I can ask you how you got in my kitchen!” Pinkie Pie opened the door to the bakery, or at least Diablos assumed it was a bakery, from all the cakes and biscuits, her mother taught her about human culture after all, after Diablos had gotten to her feet, they walked out of the door to go to the doctor, then she began talking again “So, how did you end up in the kitchen?” Diablos just shrugged her shoulders. “You know about as much as I do on that basis” she said “The only thing I can remember are my name, my mother, and how to talk, luckily, walking seems almost beyond me at the moment” at this statement Pinkie frowned. “We really need to get you to the hospital I think you might have amnesia or something, perhaps they might be able to help you remember some things about your home” As they walked through the winding paths of the town in the dimming sunlight they talked about each others past, however the citizens observed Diablos’ scalp, they were visibly worried of her condition. As they approached the hospital the dim red light of the cross atop the roof illuminated the front of the doorway. Pinkie opened the door for Diablos. As they entered the white building a pony bearing a white hat with a red cross on the front of it walked up to them “Hello my name nurse redhear- oh my!” she covered her mouth with her hoof, at least that’s what pinkie called it “We have to get you to a medical bed immediately!” she rushed the larger mare over to a medical bed where two more ponies were waiting, as soon as Diablos lied down on the medical bed, they started the surgery on her scalp nurse Redheart frowned. “I’m really sorry about this, we don’t have any sedatives, so you’ll just have to endure it, I’m really sorry” they started to sow the scalp back together, managing to spill minimum blood, before tying a bandage around her head, covering her scalp, Diablos merely grimaced throughout the ordeal. After they had finished the final checkups, nurse Redheart came up to the two ponies with a piece of paper, she frowned once again and began to speak “I… hate to inform you miss…?” Diablos nodded “Diablos Hammer” nurse Redheart nodded meekly and continued her speech “Well miss Diablos, I hate to inform you, but I fear that you may have a case of serious brain damage” Diablos frowned at the statement furrowed her brow “It never seemed to stop me before, so why should it stop me now?” the nurse sighed. “That’s the thing, none of the doctors know how, but you seem to be missing half of your brain, there’s no incision on the scalp, so how half of your brain is missing completely eludes us, never mind how you’re still talking” Diablos gasped when she realised what she was talking about, that deviljho! It tore out her brain! Now she remembered! The nurse looked at her questionably “Do you remember how it happened?” The former beast decided to leave the details of the Deviljho, but instead kept the fighting part of the story. “I got into a fight with anther pony, he brought a sledgehammer, that’s how I got the scar, I was born with half of my brain missing, my other half is just as good as two halves” as much as Diablos hated lying, she decided that it would be better than giving them the gory details “My thought process has always been the same as anypony else’s” she remembered back to when pinkie was referring to ‘everyone’ as ‘anypony’ on the way to the hospital. The nurse sighed again before continuing "If what you said is true, then we have every right to let you go, but do tell how you got into the fight in the first place” Diablos let a bead of sweat drop down her neck before continuing herself “I was walking down an alley, when a large green pony stepped out of a corner with a sledgehammer, he started to attack me by swinging for my head, I got a good few hits on his chest as well, that is before he managed to hit me around the scalp with his hammer” just then, a stinging pain coursed through her forehead, she put up a hoof to help ease the pain, but only ended up losing her balance and toppling over, Pinkie let out a small giggle and helped Diablos up to her hooves again, the large mare thanked pinkie, the nurse smiled and nodded before carrying on. “Very well then, I’ll take your word for it, but if I find out that you’ve been in any more unnecessary fights, I’ll have to report you to the council” she looked at the bandage over the mares head “That bandage should last for a fair few weeks, in that time though, there will be a lot of pain in that area, just try not to think too hard, or fall down any stairs and you’ll be fine” Diablos and Pinkie nodded in unison “now then, does this pony have anywhere to stay, pinkie?” The pink pony shook her head before talking again “Nope! Not that I know of anyhow, right Blos?” The brown mare shook her head “hmm… oh! I know! Maybe we can have a super-duper-mega slumber party, for until you get yourself a job and a house!” The mare smiled at the pink party pony and replied “Thank you so much pinkie! I hadn’t really considered where I was going to sleep the night, kind of a one track mind” she frowned again “Though I am definitely going to make it up to you somehow” The pink mare laughed and then sighed “you’re already starting to make it up to me! A smile means something more than just a smile to me, its like sending me feelings, and I just file them away so I can give them back to someone else, ‘I give a smile, I get a smile’ probably the best motto I’ve ever heard!” The two ponies smiled at each other before returning there gaze to the nurse “Nurse Redheart, thank you so much! You need a party! That’ll take too much planning at the moment, so please accept this hug as a gift” Pinkie literally jumped onto the nurse and began the crush all the air out of her lungs. “Pinkie… can’t… breath” the nurse just managed to choke out, the over exited mare released her grasp and got up > The Drill And The Jackhammer > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monsters Out Of Place: Chapter Four: The Drill And The Jackhammer. An Agnaktor was looking over his young, after that glowing beast had mercilessly punched his mate to death he had nothing but his young to call his own. they had recently spotted that glowing monster out in the Uragaans nest, driving it out, so now they had two monsters about who would be more than likely to kill them given the chance, but the Agnaktor wasn’t about to let that happen, not when he had an uroktor to look after. The Uroktor was learning the ropes on how to hunt independently, it had just managed to kill a melynx before a loud explosion came from the Uragaans nest, it had tried to reclaim its nest, but by the sound of it, to no avail, there was a triumphant cry of victory from the area, the Agnaktor called back its young and follow it underground, but the uroktor was too distracted by eating the newly killed melynx, it called louder, and louder but then, out of the blue, the glowing beast leapt onto the Uroktor, its ebony skin reflecting the lava around it, the most notable feature would be its horn and fists, after all, most brute wyverns had short, stubby arms, it then continued to punch the young Agnaktors beak, parts of it flying everywhere, the adult Agnaktor let out a cry of rage, it had spent so long with that Uroktor, its only family. It leapt into the ground, tunnelled underneath the glowing monster, and shot out again, drilling its beak into the monsters underside, revealing its muscle tissue, the beast glowed a bight yellow and roared in anguish, before punching the hardened skin of the Agnaktor at first the beast thought nothing of it, and continued to dig under the ground, reveal its top half and fire a heat beam from its mouth, but just as it did so, the slime that was left on Agnaktor after the punch exploded, making the laser fly everywhere, even damaging its own tail, It eventually stopped firing, giving the glowing ‘thing’ enough time to stick its horn in the ground and let off explosions surrounding it, Making the Agnaktor fling itself out of the ground, and giving an opportunity for the glowing monster to leap on the Agnaktor, and start pummelling it in the chest, making it jerk violently in place, before the glowing one reared back, pulled its fist with it, and finished it with one last punch, shattering its beak into thousands of pieces, blood came running after them. The glowing monster lifted its head up in the air and let out a guttural roar, shaking the earth it stood on, unbeknownst the it, a red mist escaped the neck of the Agnaktor and rose up into the air. Ponyville, Golden oaks Library, lobby. On a sofa in the at the side of the room, two sets of eyes quickly opened, one pair belonging to a large, dark orange unicorn, his mane was a mix of orange and red, almost resembling a live flame, his eyes were a bright red, to match his mane. The other set of eyes belonged to a smaller unicorn filly, her coat was a dark red, brown colour, the mane was a brighter red, not quite as bright as her counterpart, but still pretty red, her eyes were a very bright orange, almost verging on a dark white colour. The larger one sat up from his position, and observed his surroundings in the morning sunlight that was creeping in through gaps in the walls, and transparent walls?, it looked to be the inside of a hollowed out tree, they were scarce in the volcano, but whenever Agnaktor went outside the boiling spot, he saw what his mother called ‘trees’, but more to the point, there were tons of pieces of paper bound together by a thick substance. The smaller unicorn shot up with a gasp, this was not right, where was her beak? Why did she have fur? Had her claws been cut of? But the most important question lingered in her mind, where was she, and where was her father? She looked around the room and she locked eye with a larger being of the same shape, was this her father? There was only one way to find out, she would have to communicate, but how? She opened her mouth, instead of the usual clicks there came another, unusual sound “h-hello?” how did she do that! How did she understand that, more to the point, the larger one made another sound, one that she recognised… as her name? “U-Uroktor? Is that you?!” the large pony stuttered, he then stumbled over to her and embraced her in a hug “it’s me! Agnaktor! I thought you were dead…” he got up from the hug “how are we even talking to each other? It seems odd, but weirdly familiar” he then looked around again “I don’t know where we are, but it seems… nice, calm compared to the volcano” Just then, there came a voice from beside them “ah! Hello, your finally awake, I wondered when you’d wake up. It seems like forever” the mare was a light violet colour, her ‘mane’ (at least that’s what he Agnaktor assumed it was, from his limited knowledge in equines) was done up in bangs, with a dark violet streak going down it “my name is Twilight Sparkle, I found you passed out near the town square in the rain, can I just ask you two for your names and where you live?” she looked at the two ponies inquisitively. Agnaktor reared back from the sudden appearance of 'twilight', but she seemed to pose no threat to him or his child “well, my name is Agnaktor, and this is my daughter; uroktor” he pointed a hoof at the smaller mare “and, well… we’re a long way from home, that’s for sure” Twilight looked at the two sympathetically “well, you’re always welcome to stay here until you earn some money and rent a flat or something” she looked out of the window “but for now we need to introduce to the ponies around Ponyville, and saying that, the first thing we need to do is introduce you to my friends, and seeing as I need to check up on some stuff at sweet apple acres, you can come with me so I can show you to Applejack” the large colt struggled to get up to his hooves, but being used to having four legs helped him with walking, eventually they started to head towards the orchard “ooh! Whilst we’re going there, I could pick up some supplies from Pinkie!” the three ponies walked down road that led to the proclaimed ‘sugar cube corner’. As they arrived, Twilight opened the door to the bakery, the sweet scent of cupcakes, pastries and… burning? Slid through the door and into their noses, Twilight chuckled before calling for pinkie “Pinkie? What did you burn this time?” a voice came from the kitchen. “I’ll be one sec Blos, my friend needs to talk to me, just clean that up, I’ll be back before you can say HI TWILIGHT!” Twilight was greeted by a face full of pink mane, which could only belong to Pinkie “sorry ‘bout that, just training up a new baker, showing her the rope ’n’ stuff, would you believe me if I said that she had amnesia? Well she does! Her name’s Diablos Hammer! Also, I found her in my kitchen, crazy right? But then we took her to the hospital, and then we got her head stitched up, and then we-” pinkies mouth was covered by Twilights hoof “yes Pinkie, we get it, anyhow, have you thrown a party yet?” pinkie shook her head “well, you need to get on that then!” at this point, Agnaktor interjected. “umm did you say Diablos? Would it be all right if I saw her?” Agnaktor did sometimes go outside the volcano, however, only to the nearby desert, whilst he was visiting, he met a horned monster, one of few monsters that could communicate with each other, they talked for awhile, shared life experiences, apart from his mate and child, she was his only friend. Pinkie nodded and showed him to the bakery, where a sandy brown pony was cleaning up some sort of burned cake of the floor, god knows how it got there. “hello? Diablos?” the pony jumped, being shocked by the sudden presence “umm, I don’t suppose you ever met anyone called Agnaktor did you?” the attempt was futile, but it was worth trying to find someone that could remind him of home. “Agnaktor?! How do you-” she gasped at the sudden realisation “Agnaktor! How did you get here!?” Agnaktor grinned “I knew it was you! It was a hunch, but a good one at that! I wonder if anyone else got transported here with us?” Agnaktor just sighed “I’m not sure though, if we could find someone who does know however, maybe we could also find a way back home?” just at that moment the two ponies stepped in through the doors, pinkie spoke up first. “well, you two do know each other! I’ll have to throw a double welcome to Ponyville party! There’ll be cake, streamers, party poppers, cake… did I say cake already?” pinkie calmed down slightly after her outburst “well, how about it? Tomorrow night, at applejacks barn?” Just then a small, red unicorn walked through the door Pinkie gasped “you had a kid?! Why didn’t you tell me! We can have a triple welcome to Ponyville party!” she then struck a pose in front of the bewildered guests “bake all the cakes!” she then got to baking so fast that no one could keep up with her. “um, Pinkie? We came here to buy cakes for the meteor shower tonight, remember?” pinkie stopped baking and ran up to Twilight “uh-huh! Pick a cake, any cake!” Twilight considered carefully before she realised that there were going to be lots of ponies there, including the three newcomers “umm, I think that one of each should be enough” Pinkie grabbed a box, and put roughly twenty cupcakes in “that should be enough for tonight, oh! Nah, I don’t want your money, after all, the amount of times that you’ve saved us is more than enough to pay” she smiled warmly to Twilight who took up the offer, and the cupcakes “thanks pinkie, we’ll see you up at the hill tonight, ok?” pinkie nodded at the group “oh! And would it be all right if Diablos came with us? So that she and Agnaktor can catch up with each other?” Pinkie laughed gleefully “of course! By the sound of it, they haven’t seen each other for a while, I’d be more than happy to let them socialise!” at this point, Diablos shakily picked herself up from the floor and joined the other three ponies. “thanks pinkie, I really appreciate it” she smiled at pinkie who returned the gesture, the band of four walked out into the busy streets of Ponyville, Uroktor, balanced precariously on the back of Agnaktor. “so, we’re going up to see my other friend, Applejack, so we can arrange drinks for the stargazing” she smiled before looking at the others questioning faces “oh? You’ve never been stargazing have you? Well it’s just observing the constellations in the stars, but tonight, a meteor shower is predicted, so us and a few friends are going to go and, well, gaze, really” the others nodded in unison before the small red unicorn spoke up. “so, we’re going to go and see meteors? Is there any chance that any of them could hit us?” she hid behind her fathers mane, Twilight chuckled “of course not, there too far away!” then Agnaktor spoke “although Twilight, we used to live in a hostile environment near an active volcano, which constantly spewed out meteors all the time, sometimes hitting our village, so she has to get adapted to the fact that not all places can kill” the small red pony got up from her fathers back and trotted along side them “so no, there wont be anything able to hurt us” she smiled, hearing the assertiveness in his fathers voice. The band of ponies walked and talked until they reached the barn that belonged to Twilights friend, who was, at the present, hitting a tree with her back hooves “Howdy Twi!” she nodded at the group “and who’ve ya’ brought with ya’?” Twilight took this as her time to talk. “well, this is Diablos” she pointed a hoof at the sandy coloured pony, who in turn, nodded “this is Agnaktor and his daughter Uroktor” she pointed a hoof at the two, standing side by side “they are going to be watching the meteor shower with us, and I was wondering if you could supply the drinks for tonight’s shower?” The Stetson wearing pony nodded “sure! She noticed that none of the new ponies had cutie marks “so tell me, I can understand why ya’ fill ain’t got a cutie mark yet, but why haven’t you?” from the time that they spent talking, Diablos had learnt that a pony earns his or her cutie mark by achieving your destiny, a sign of maturity, if you will, so she had the perfect excuse. “well, where we’re from, ponies don’t earn there cutie marks, it’s very hard to at least, the only one who did, was our village chief who had his in protecting the village from a monster attack” the Stetson wearing pony seemed to be happy with this answer. “ah, that explains a lot then thank ya’ kindly” she then turned back to Twilight “anyway, about the drinks, I can get us some alcoholic cider, some apple juice, and ah might even be able to bring some apple fritters, sound okay to you?” Twilight smiled at her friends “I should think so, see you up at the hill okay?” they said there goodbyes, and headed up to Twilights house to pick up someone, or something, called ‘Spike’, Diablos and Agnaktor talked endlessly, Uroktor would join the conversation occasionally, but fell asleep shortly after . “so, how did you get here in the first place? I got into a nasty fight with a ‘Jho, tore my horn off, half of my head with it, and then I just, well I don’t really know, appeared? Yeah, that’s just about all I know so far, you?” Agnaktor looked at the small figure on his back. “well, I was teaching Uroktor the ropes of hunting for herself, that was before this glowing thing leapt out of nowhere! Absolutely uncalled for, I tried to protect her but the beast was just too powerful, I managed to scar it, but then it just hit me in the beak, the strange thing is, its fists had some sort of sticky substance on it, which exploded in about fifteen seconds upon impact, making it so my heat beam went everywhere! I even managed to hit myself, it then continued to punch me to death, so we both somehow appeared here, no rhyme or reason to it , just did” the group finally arrived at the massive tree that was home to the golden oaks library. Twilight trotted in through the door and looked around “Spike! We’re back! Are you ready for the shower?” a small purple dragon like creature tumbled down the stairway and landed on his head, it righted itself and sighed. “Yeah, I’ve baked all the cookies, and packed all the stuff” “even my tele-” Spike laughed a little “ yes, even your telescope” he looked over at the other three ponies “well hey! You finally woke up!” spike chirped “yeah” she pointed at Diablos “this is Diablos Hammer” she pointed her other hoof at the other two ponies next her “and this is Agnaktor and Uroktor” the three ponies nodded in turn of there names. “well, I guess it’s time to go, come on spike” the four figures made their way out of the library and started to walk up to the hill where they would watch the shower. Eventually, after a while, the group reached the top of the hill, they were greeted by a group of other ponies, three of which the newcomers had never seen before, Twilight spoke up first “Hello girls! I suppose most of you have already met the three newcomers, but for those that haven’t I would like to introduce to Diablos hammer, Agnaktor and Uroktor” she pointed at them in turn, A white unicorn with a violet coloured mane spoke up first. “well, hello darlings, it’s a pleasure to meet you all” she smiled at the three sincerely. “’sup, welcome to Ponyville” a cyan pony with feathered wings waved her hoof absently. “um” a cream coloured pony fidgeted in place “uhh” the three newcomers looked at the pony quizzically “hi…” Twilight laughed nervously. “uh yeah, she’s Fluttershy, she can be a bit on the timid side” she then pointed her hoof towards the other two ponies “and that’s Rarity and Rainbow Dash” she looked over the ponies around her “ are we all ready for the meteor shower? It should be starting any moment now” every pony in the area looked up at the deep black abyss that was the night sky, that was then illuminated by the flare like stars that were shooting across the sky, this achieved many a gasp, but t hen, one of them seemed… off course, it was smaller than the others, but as it was going across the sky, it seemed to get closer and closer every second, the ponies all seemed to notice that it was dead set on landing on the spot they were stargazing on, every pony jumped out of the way of the impact of the meteorite. After the impact a large cloud of dust escaped from the crater the meteor left, inside which, a ponies figure lay, motionless on the rough ground, every pony gasped, the three newcomers looked at each other. Maybe they could get some answers? > The Raging Thunder > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 4: The Raging Thunder. Abyssal Lagiacrus… the Raging Thunder, god of the ocean, only one beast could hope to face her, Goldbeard Ceadeus, more commonly known by his full title of the shining giant of the depths It was unfortunate that both of these two monsters were to appear in the same area of the underwater ruins. Lagiacrus being the fastest, attacked first, with a massive jolt of black electricity, which skidded across the hood of the massive giant, tearing off some scales, and drawing blood. The massive golden beast reared back from the impact, before breathing in literal tons of water, and dispelling it at the Lagiacrus, blowing the beast backwards into the wall of the ruins, forcing some pillars to collapse. The black and blue beast roared and started a head on charge at the golden ocean king, unfortunately, the massive beast reared its head up in time to rip into the lagiacrus’ face, making the thunder beast rear back, before launching another bolt of black thunder at the Ceadeus, tearing off another load of scales off the hood. The massive golden beast flinched, before rearing backwards, and roaring, causing ripples to echo around the area, and all the surrounding blue lights a deep red, to give the area a dark red tint. All this before it began to suck in a whirlpool of water, before blasting it out again at full velocity, sending the Lagiacrus into a wall. The Goldbeard Ceadeus then started rearing its entire body backwards whilst the room began to get a deeper and deeper red. The massive beast shot forwards at an unbelievable speed for such a large monster, and whilst spinning, was a deadly combination towards the already injured Lagiacrus. The thunder god was sent spinning downwards into the red abyss, with the Ceadeus letting out a triumphant cry behind it. The Lagiacrus could barely keep its eyes open, as it was falling, what looked like tears started to leak from the openings around the eyes… not sadness, something else. For over 200 years, the great god of the ocean had been undefeated, it had no equal, and for once, it had. It was actually happy, someone had finally taken over its throne, now the god could retire from his royalties. The gas like tears carried on streaming along the limp form of the Lagiacrus, until it all began floating upwards, towards the light. Somewhere Near Ponyville, The Crash Site. What? Why? Surely she should have died… that blast would be enough to kill anything… what happened? Lagiacrus shook her head, and surveyed her surroundings… dirt, and smoke. No water? This is different then… being pretty much only aquatic, she was not used to being on land, in fact, the only reason she had legs was to propel herself in the water. Then she realised, her legs… what had happened to her legs? She moved her body slightly turned over to inspect her condition, four appendages… not the short, stubby legs that she’s used to, but extended legs, no claws, they just ended in a dark blue looking stub. The rest of her body was covered in a black coat of fur, apart from her… tail? Or at least what she assumed to be a tail, and some hair on top of her head, which was covering a horn. Both her mane and her tail were dark blue, and both jagged. This was all too alien… The ponies who were previously gazing at the shooting stars looked over the edge of the crater , their faces are being buffeted by the massive clouds of smoke. A pair of shining blue eyes shone out through the obscuring cloud, the ponies gasped “How could anyone survive that fall?!” exclaimed “That would surely kill anypony” this was getting strange, three ponies appearing within the two days? Sure, Ponyville is a popular sightseeing area, but having these three somehow appear out of now where, and the third falling from the sky, she had to ask them soon. But she had to focus on the matter at hand, the mysterious pony in the crater. As the fog cleared, the figure became clear, a black pony, with blue hooves, and hair on her tail and mane, of which was jagged, seemingly pointing out in all directions, a slight amount of static bounced out of the crater, before the glowing eyes glared at the group , the owner of them didn’t know how to communicate. Diablos decided to talk. “Listen, we don’t want to hurt you, we won’t attack someone who we know won’t hurt us” the sandy pony peaked an eyebrow. Lagiacrus scowled, she could understand them alright, but having pretty much no communication in her past, made it difficult to even mutter a word, but with all of her strength, she mustered up her first words on this planet “My name… is Lagiacrus” twilight inwardly gasped, why were their names so… not pony, Agnaktor and Uroktor? Diablos? And now Lagiacrus, she looked at her friends, who looked back, obviously noticing a pattern here. “Well then” Agnaktor held down a hoof to help the pony up, but Lagiacrus scrambled up to the top of the crater and scowled, before small jolts of electricity arced of her mane. “I’m fine” she then walked over to Twilight before enquiring “Where am I?” Twilight stuttered a bit, the sheer power and ridiculousness of the situation rendering her unable to speak “tell me now!” electricity arced between the two unicorns, she huffed and walked off towards Ponyville. Eventually twilight regained her composure “…umm, right, you five go after her, when you do, find a way to bring her back to the library, try bribery, it doesn’t really look like she’ll be co-operating with us, so if you can’t get her, I won’t be mad, I’ll know you tried” the five ponies turned around and chased after Lagiacrus “we need to talk, follow me” the group walked down the hill, into the quiet streets of Ponyville, and into the library. Twilight gestured for the three to take a seat, before sitting down herself. “look, I don’t want to be suspicious… but something tells me that you don’t really com from here at all… I mean, three ponies coming from no where, and then a fourth coming from… well, space is the only thing I can think of at the moment. I don’t really know how to say this, but… who are you, I mean who actually are you, I know your names, but not where you come from” Agnaktor, Uroktor and Diablos exchanged glances between on another. “well… the truth is… um, I’m not sure how to say this, but we’re not actually ponies, or at least, we weren’t, we were massive beasts, more commonly referred to as ‘monsters’, that roamed the land, and for some reason, we hunted, all the time” Diablos paused for a few questions. “Umm, I have a question, how many of you are there?” Twilight enquired. “Well, to be truthful, I have no idea, hundreds, maybe even thousands of us, but here, in this world, I don’t really know” Diablos put her hoof on her chin in a gesture of puzzlement. “Well, can you at least tell me a little bit about yourselves, before you were turned into ponies?” Diablos nodded “I was a tall bipedal like wyvern, with a kind of enlarged collar bone, with two large horns attached, I also had wings that were too heavy to use. Due to the fact that was a top predator, I was actually one of the most feared monsters in the desert, despite being a herbivore” Twilight nodded slightly, she was taking notes down with a quill and parchment. “And you Agnaktor, Uroktor?” Twilight looked up from her parchment. “ Well, we were a kind of leviathan monster, except for the fact that we swam in magma instead of water. I had an extremely tough beak, and a hide made of pure magma, and accompanied by my ability to create a contagious combustion, I was one of the most feared monsters in the volcano. Uroktor, as you can probably guess, was a juvenile form of an Agnaktor, slightly darker colouring, less firepower, and a softer beak” Twilight was having difficulty taking this all in, she has two extremely feared monsters turned ponies in her house… perhaps they weren’t that deadly?, after all, they hadn’t done anything bad yet, Diablos was even helping Pinkie pie! But this Lagiacrus pony… just doesn’t bode well. “well… if I am to believe you, which I still need concrete proof of, I need to find a way to get you home…” Just then, a loud thud emanated from the door “we got her twilight!” shouted Applejack from the other side of the door. “Come in!” twilight replied, before the door swung open “Its amazing what a bit of persuasion can do isn’t it?” interjected Pinkie Pie as she hopped towards the other ponies. “They said that you could tell me about my predicament… they better be right” the pony scowled at twilight. The lavender mare gulped “Well, I might” she looked at the other three ‘ponies’, she wasn’t sure what to call them after the truth was out “from what I’ve gathered you… well, in all honesty, I think you don’t really belong here in Equestria. there are no Agnaktors, there are no Diablos, or lagiacrus! They just flat out don’t exist, so all I can come up to is… well… you might not be from this planet… maybe not even this plane of existence! and the only two ponies I know who have a contact with the celestial bodies… are… oh…Spike! Take a letter!” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Canterlot Palace. Main Hall. “You say that there’s a fake sky chariot business?” Celestia sounded uneasy, it wasn’t every day that a fake business just popped out of no-where! Especially under the rule of her and her sister… “Yes, and we have someone who has fallen victim to the sham, Jagged Crown, and his son, silver tongue, I think he said their names were” replied the guard. “Very well, direct me to the hospital which is being treated in” she strode down the steps, the hall was practically empty bar Celestia and the palace guard, so the steps she took echoed throughout the hall. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In a matter of minutes, the princess and the guard made it to the castle medical bay, where jagged crown and his son were resting. “alright, you can wait outside now” the guard bowed, and walked outside the door, before closing it behind him. “Jagged Crown” the pony woke up from his sleep “I am Celestia, one of two princesses ruling this land, and I am highly worried about this fake sky chariot scam, can you tell me more about it so I can hopefully end the sham before anyone else succumbs to it?” she asked. Jagged Crown sighed I might as well be honest with her he thought to himself “look, Celestia, I’m… well, I lied about the chariot business…” Celestia gasped “but I said it to cover up for something that I’m afraid no-one will believe” he said. After the initial shock of some-pony lying to cover up something so big that he believed no-one would even believe him, she forgave him “it’s ok, you can speak freely” she replied in a calming tone. “well, you see… I’m not really from here, not like, different country, more on the lines of, well, different world, maybe even galaxy. Not just that, but I was also in a much different form. Look, I know its hard to believe, but you just have to trust me on this one” this is going now where fast… wait… they have magic, don’t they? Perhaps… “look, I’ll let you perform some sort of reveal spell on me, maybe then you’ll understand?” The princess looked unsure now, maybe he’s telling the truth, maybe not, but she had to say something… “alright” she had a look of suspicion on her face “follow me” she looked at the form of the sleeping colt “he can come with us too” Crown walked over to the smaller pony, and put him over his shoulder. The group of three walked out of the door, Celestia looked over at the guard “go back to your post” the stallion nodded and walked the opposite way to the small group. Eventually, the three got to a small stone slab of a door “This is the only place where none of the guards can come in uninvited” she cast a spell on the door, and it opened with little effort, the inside of the room was rather luxurious, despite the less than flattering door, with cushy bean bags, and a large sofa to the side, with well glossed wooden floorboards and walls. Celestia pointed to a spot in the middle of the floor stay there whilst I execute the spell” Celestia’s horn glowed a shimmering gold colour. Jagged crown put silver tongue onto the sofa, and walked into the middle. As he did so, Celestia released the spell, and a blinding light filled the room. After a while, the light faded, and in its place, stood a large dinosaur-like reptile, with a pale purple, white and orange colour scheme. The most noticeable feature was the frill around its neck, sharing the same colour scheme. Celestia gasped… he was telling the truth… he was in a different form. She released the spell from the stallion, which shortly collapsed onto the floor from the magical exhaustion. Just then, a letter from twilight arrived, deciding to stay in the room a bit longer whilst jagged crown recuperated. Celestia sat down and started reading the letter. Dear princess Celestia. Four strange ponies have recently appeared in Ponyville, their intentions, home town, and past are mostly unknown. Not just that, but I fear that they might not even be from this plane of existence, if you could reply to me as soon as possible. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle. Celestia dropped the letter in disbelief. How could this happen? Why? Where? And most importantly, who? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It hungers for the flames of humanity, it hungers for the collection of the souls from the burnt, it hungers for the apocalypse of humans, and survival of the monsters. > white light and dark flames. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zerureusu, one of the most majestic monsters sighted by human eyes, with ash white scales, and a seemingly ethereal blue glow. And the only monster able to harness the pure essence of light. The wyvern normally resides in the tower, but after at least ten years of rest, the monster will fly away from the tower in search of food, normally nothing will come close to harming it, but on this fateful day, something dark was brewing around the island in which Zerureusu feeds. A shadow looms over the small forest, the figure that the shadow belonged to is the unknown flying wyvern, or more commonly referred to as shadow rathian, the most mysterious monster seen by human eyes, it is a shadowy black colour, with a crimson coloured tint to all spikes along its body. Much like Zerureusu, it can last many years without feeding, and must go to the same deserted island to feed, and this is where the two monsters of light and dark will meet in their fateful encounter. A herd of Aptanoth were running away from an overhead shadow, the owner of which was glowing a bright blue as he went into a prime hunting stance, enabling it to make a sharp three hundred and sixty degree turn, and land on its prey. Once Zerureusu had fully overtaken the stampede, with a flap of its wings and a shift of weight, the large wyvern turned on itself, and landed on the large carcass of one of the larger Aptanoth, and due to its skill in hunting, managed to kill it almost instantly by snapping its neck with a sharp clicking sound, the monster could finally start eating. Little did it know that this hunt was being watched by cold, hungry eyes. The unknown dragon was intently staring at the feasting wyvern, without warning the hungry rathian stormed out of the undergrowth, and came face to face with the Zerureusu, the blue wyvern by this point was facing the unknown dragon, with bright lightning streaming out of its mouth. Both of the wyverns roared at each other, and made the first moves, the black rathian did a backwards summersault, poison gas leaking out of the tail, and hitting Zerureusu squarely in the jaw, staggering it. The light wyvern flew backwards into the air, and immediately flew forwards into the rathian, a burst of air around it, knocking the dragon back. The two monsters were now in the air, and each with injuries sustained from the first two blows. Zerureusu let out a mighty roar and flew up into the sky, closely tailed by the shadow beast, who sent a blue and red fireball in the general direction, it was narrowly avoided, however. As the two streaks in the sky increased their speed, Zerureusu closed its wings for a short second, allowing it to fall just behind the shadow rathian, it then shot a jolt of light at the opposing dragon, which hit the tail, but got nothing more than a mere flinch from the beast. When the two finally reached their limit, they dispersed, seeing that the only way to settle this would be through melee combat. They got some distance between themselves, before turning around, and charging at each other at full speed, Zerureusu had light coming out of his mouth, the unknown wyvern had trails of blue flame coming out of the sides of her mother. As the two collided, there was a prolonged explosion of both white and black, before, silence, two of the most feared monsters in the world were now plummeting to earth. A respective coloured gas leaking out of the gaps between the scales of the two bodies, before the two monsters blacked out. Somewhere above Ponyville. The forms of two pegasi plummeted from the sky along with the rain, one was pitch black, all the way through, apart from the tips of her messy hair and wings, her hooves and around her eyes, which were all a blood crimson. The other Pegasi was as white as clouds, with blue streaks running down his rather well kept, but still rather messy hair. The tips of the feathers on his wings were also streaked with an electric blue colour. The two went through a similar thought process; smell… nothing, hearing… rushing air, feel… wind… lots of wind. At this point, their instinct kicked in, extended their wing muscles against the heavy resistance, and... Boom! Two massive rings of dark and light pervaded the night sky, before the two figures flew up into the distance, each one with a trail of a respective colour. Zerureusu looked at his surroundings, and then at himself, this form… he felt the wind through his newly formed hair and feathers, how he changed, he does not know, but he will have to deal with it, as he has done with many things before. He saw a lake below him, and decided to have a better look at himself. Rathian looked at her hooves, and then at her hair blowing in her face, her body was covered in some sort of fur, she saw a village down below, perhaps it would be best to land there, preferably silently so that she did not attract the attention of the local people, or whatever lived in this small village, although it seemed too late. Ponyville, golden oaks library. Twilight had just explained to Lagiacrus what she think had happened, this was taking a long time to settle for the former monsters in the room, but before it did, A loud explosion erupted from the skies, however, they thought it was just thunder, after all, a storm was scheduled for the night. Uroktor spoke up first. “So, what you’re trying to say… is that we… we aren’t even from this world?” The small unicorn tilted her head slightly. “I… suppose not, I’m not entirely sure really. After all, there are a lot of unexplored areas in on this planet, but from what everyone is saying, I can’t see such an expansive amount of land being able to fit in the space that we haven’t explored” In a burst of green flame and a burp from spike, a scroll of paper appeared out of nowhere “Oh! She’s written back! Well, let’s see what it says” she grabbed the scroll with her Magic “Dear twilight sparkle. I wish for you and the four ponies to come to the castle, I do not know the urgency of the situation at the moment, so if you could come over at your earliest convenience, it would be appreciated. Yours truly, Celestia” There was a long silence before twilight finally spoke up “well. If the princess wants us to go, I guess we better get going!” she got up from her seat, and turned to the four monster-turned-ponies “you four won’t know who Celestia is will you?” her question was answered with blank faces “well, I can’t give you the full story, but she’s very important, so, you know, just mind your manners and such. The last train for Canterlot will be leaving in a couple of hours, so we still have some time left” she turned back to her friends “so you girls better go and pack whatever you need, we probably won’t be staying for very long, meet us at the train station.” the five mares nodded and walked out “you four, come with me to the train station, Lagiacrus, make sure to stay by me, I trust lots of ponies, but you’re not one of them right now” The black and blue pony glared twilight as she stood next to her “well, let’s go then, come on spike.” She used her magic to turn out the lights, walked out of the door as spike jumped on her back. Lagiacrus was still angry about the situation, Agnaktor put Uroktor on his back, and walked after them, and Diablos walked out of the door and closed it. The streets of Ponyville were deathly quiet at this time, and a certain pony was taking advantage of this. A black and red pony had landed on the stone pavement as rain poured down her body. However, she was not alone, in front of her were five other ponies of her stature approaching her, she took a defensive stance, and flared her wings at the others. The group stepped back before Twilight turned to the ponies behind her “do you think that she’s one of you guys?” Agnaktor looked over Twilights shoulder. “Probably. Well, what are we going to do? She doesn’t look ready to listen to reason” Lagiacrus stepped forwards “simple, we make her listen to reason” Twilight was about to stop her, but she knew that Lagiacrus was not about to listen to her, especially seeing as she was already fighting. Lagiacrus charged up a bolt in her horn, and then released it at the pony. Lightning fast reactions made the Pegasus immediately fly upwards, until it reached a peak, at which point, she started to descend. Lagiacrus started to fire bolts left and right at the pony, which was quickly picking up pace, and narrowly avoiding each and every shot with precise execution, before eventually landing a direct hit on Lagiacrus. The black and blue pony was sent back a few steps, before raising her head again, and roaring, creating an electrical field, which stopped twilight, who was about to try and stop Lagiacrus again. The pony used the field of electricity to launch even more powerful beams of electricity, this time, the bolts curved and arced around to face the red and black pony who was finding it difficult to avoid the bolts, but was finally struck by one of the bolts, sending her flying backwards, and smacked into a building, but quickly regained composure. Twilight gasped, a lighting spell of that calibre must have taken years to refine to that standard, and the speed at which the Pegasus evaded the bolts is staggering, almost giving Rainbow Dash a run for her money. As the battle unfolded, the rain almost seemed to intensify, the Pegasus was rapidly increasing her attacking speed, and Lagiacrus was firing more and more bolts in all directions, in fact, the other ponies needed to take cover from the bolts. But finally, the Pegasus managed to go through the electric barrier at a tremendous speed, and hit Lagiacrus just below the horn sending Lagiacrus sliding across the ground, and the electric field dissipated into the body of the Pegasus, sending a jolt of electricity through her body. The Pegasus got up to her hooves, sparks of electricity making her body jerk uncontrollably. But that was not enough to stop the Pegasus. Lagiacrus shakily got to her legs, before being thrown down again by rathian, whom was about to do the finishing blow, before a streak of white and blue struck her directly in the chest, startling everyone around. At this point, twilight had recuperated from the fight, and decided to take control. A purple field appeared around the two brawling Pegasi, who abruptly stopped fighting and turned to face twilight. She levitated them off the ground, and slightly closer towards them. Now, are you going to come quietly, or am I going to have to set Lagiacrus on you again?” she was getting very angry, it seems that the world was throwing everything it could at her, and she wasn’t standing for it any longer. The Pegasi didn’t bat an eyelid at the fact that they could understand everything she said, all they cared about is that she stopped a fight between them, and they weren’t going to take that lightly. But being shocked by whatever kind of death machine had shocked Rathian wasn’t on the top of their to-do list, so they complied. Her voice was not unlike rainbow dash’s, albeit deeper, and slightly more malicious “fine! I’ll do what you say for now, but there’s nothing keeping me from pummelling you down to ground once you let me go!” the black and red Pegasus scowled at Twilight. “Who says I’m letting you go? The other one seems alright, but you seem a bit too… aggressive” she let go of Zerureusu, who promptly landed on all hooves, before walking over to twilight, and nodded in appreciation. “How can you trust him?! For all you know, he could just be another liar! Waiting to stab you in the back when you least expect it!” Rathian was furious now, it was all that stupid unicorns fault for attacking her! She was going to pay one way or another. Twilight walked over to Zerureusu “As much as I trust you for saving Lagiacrus, I’m going to have to keep an eye on you, hope you don’t mind, especially considering the company you came with” she turned to face Rathian, who was still trying to get out of twilights magic. The white Pegasus turned to Twilight “I take orders from no one” his voice seemed very distant, almost as if he was daydreaming. He then flew off into the distance, heading towards Canterlot. The acceleration was too fast for twilight to concentrate a levitation spell. “Well, you seem to have lost a member, what a shame. I was beginning to like him too. Now the quicker you can get to your destination, the quicker you can release me. So get to it sunshine!” Rathian glared at twilight. She had only just learnt to communicate, and she was already getting the hang of insults. This was going to be a long night. Everfree forest. A blue unicorn was making her way through the forest, until a massive hulking form of a pony rose up in front of her. Rain poured over the body, as glowing red eyes pierced the rain and fog. An overwhelming sense of dread covered the unicorn “H-hello?” the form moved in closer to her, then a booming voice echoed and shook throughout the forest, as the figure stomped its foot. “Pathetic” it moved its head back “if you have any last words, say them now” Wait! I can help you get out of the forest!” the unicorn held up her hooves. “Humph. Maybe you can help me. For now at least” > Titan Of The Land. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The four hunters looked onwards towards the canyon. “Are any of you having any regrets?” a bowgunner asks as he loads some dragon ammo into a seven stars bowgun. A dual sword user smirked underneath his mask “none at all, at this rate, my dragon slayer greatsword will be on its way to completion” shortly after, he drunk a glowing yellow drink. Someone wearing a full set of bulky Basarios armour walked up to the group “The dragonator is ready, and the scout has said that the Lung is headed this way” she promptly drank a red liquid from a glass flask. The final member of the group was wearing full rathalos armour “Well, there’s no backing up now” Just as they said their final ‘good lucks’ and so on, the ground below them started to shake, and the battle begun. The massive form of the Lao Shan lung lurched forward between the canyon, and the hunters charged forwards recklessly, the first to make a move was the dual sword wielder who latched onto the beasts’ legs using the two swords, but was quickly thrown back down to the ground with a tremendous step from the Lao Shan lung. The rathalos armoured greatsword user ducked under the leg as it trudged onwards, and quickly executed a jumping upswing, scraping the chest of the dragon, releasing blood onto ground. The bowgun user shot several dragon shots at the monsters eye, causing it to rear back, and finally the monster retaliates. The Lao Shan lung rose onto its hind legs, raising its head up high, and letting out an earth shaking roar, before falling back down to all fours, sending the hunters that were around its legs flying backwards into the canyon wall. The Basarios armour wearing long sword user jumped as high as her armour would allow, before releasing a powerful upswing that left a large cut under the dragon’s mouth, releasing more blood onto the ground. The Lao Shan Lung glared at the hunter before lunging at her with the top of its head, crushing her against the wall of the canyon and the monster itself. As the pressure from the giant increased the hunter lost more and more air, before the bowgunner shot a round or cluster strait into the monsters eye, blinding it in that eye, and making it reel back in pain, making it release the longsword user. “I would have been a goner if it weren’t for you, thanks Lee!” the gunner nodded and smiled. “Anytime for a friend. Focus on trying to bring it down; when we do, we can let Leaf to do his work on the Laos head” “Gotcha! I’ll try to get its right leg down” she then ran to beasts’ right leg, before executing a soul combo on it. The greatsword user managed to get a third stage charge on the Laos left leg, bringing the front part of the beast down. “Leaf! Get up on the head!” The hunter in Rathalos armour shouted, the dual sword user nodded and scaled up the Lao Shan Lungs body with relative ease, and managed to get up onto the monsters head, before he started to manically thrust the swords directly into where the brain would be found in a Lao Shan Lung. Upon the sudden realisation the he was being stabbed in the head, the monster went berserk, slamming his head into the walls of the canyon, however, the hunter skilfully dodged the attacks, by using his swords to cling onto the side of the beasts’ head, before regaining composure and continue to stab at the head. The beast reared up its head for one last stand, it stood up on its hind legs for a brief period, before plummeting back down. The hunters below looked up in horror and awe as they saw their death approaching. The massive weight of the monster crushed the three hunters, and threw off Leaf. Blood was gushing out of the top of its head, before long the entire ground surrounding the head was stained a crimson red, and leaf was resting on the side of canyon, after a sharp rock that was jutting out pierced his lung. And as he watched his kill, he saw a spectacle not meant to be seen by human eyes… A red mist began to seep out from underneath the scales, clouds of red flew up into the sky, pervading it, and bleaching the entire sky a dark red, before dissipating just as quickly as it started. And then… silence, everything but the constantly blowing wind stopped, as Lao Shan Lung, the great titan of the land, died. Canterlot Castle, Guest room 1A. “So, Jagged Crown and Silver tongue, this is where you will be staying until we find some way of supplying you with a job or house. It’s not much, but it will be your temporary abode.” Celestia was showing the two earth ponies to their room. A while after Jagged Crown recuperated, they collected silver tongue from the hospital and brought them where they are now. “Honestly, it’s better than we could have hoped for” The small figure of silver tongue was currently lying on the bed “in fact, this is probably going to be the best sleep we’ve had in… well, ever” Celestia smiled “Glad to hear that. Oh! And before I forget, my student is coming over today with some ponies that I feel you may want to see, but for now, I want you to relax, I will call you out when they arrive” Jagged crow nodded in confirmation “I’ll be trying to get used to my new body in the meantime” Celestia nodded, and closed the door behind her. “Well” Jagged crown chuckled “that was certainly an unexpected turn of events, but I think it might work out for the better” he sat down next to his son Silver tongue looked up at his father “Why do ‘ya say that?” “It means that there will be no hunters or other monsters that want to kill us, to put it bluntly” “I suppose that’s true. I wonder what happened to the other Jaggi.” Silver tongue then continued to look out of the window. Ponyville train station. “Well, we’re finally here!” Twilight sighed “now we just need to wait for the others…” “More waiting?! I didn’t think I could last the way here!” Rathian squirmed under the magical grasp of Twilight, who was running out of magical energy to keep her contained. A couple of minutes later (or what seemed like hours to twilight) and the rest of the group had arrived. The train headed towards Canterlot pulled into the station, filling it with the loud screeching of brakes. Twilight turned to the rest of the group “Right then, are we all ready to board the train?” With a few nods and a couple of angry scowls, the ponies boarded the train. The six friends continued to converse during the trip, Uroktor was sat comfortably next to Agnaktor, who was talking to Diablos. Whereas Lagiacrus was scowling at the group, and Rathian was inwardly burning them all. However, breaking the moment of peace, a bright flash came out of the window, startling everyone but Uroktor, who at this point was peacefully sleeping, curled up on the chair. Nearly all of the ponies present were awed when they looked out of the window, and saw a bright light flying past, leaving a golden trail behind it , they watched as it easily out sped the train they were riding and carried along the tracks towards Canterlot. “What… was that?! It couldn’t possibly be…? No, surely not…” Twilight was considering that it was perhaps yet another monster. “Ah think it might be Twi’” Applejack shook her head in disbelief. “More ponies?! I gotta’ organise more parties!” Pinkie Pie was practically brimming with energy at the thought of how many parties and after-parties that she would have to throw. Eliciting a small chuckle from Diablos. Twilight sighed “we’ll have to look into that after we talk to Celestia, but for now, we just have to wait for the train to arrive at Canterlot” Canterlot Castle, main hall. Celestia was sitting in her throne, waiting for Twilight and the rest to arrive, when a bright light flashed to her left, as she turned, she saw what seemed to be a streak of golden light smashing through her window, she shielded herself as the golden light crashed into the shield. Expecting some kind of powerful magic blast, she was surprised to find the form of a pony lying unconscious on the floor in front of her. The guards immediately rushed beside her to observe what had happened. Upon closer inspection, what seemed to be a normal pony turned out to be a pony of massive proportions, at least a good two to three feet taller than herself, and he seemed to emanate an aura of strength. The coat of fur seemed to be a dark crimson colour, with a black stripe running down the middle, the hooves, and tail were all an incredibly dark blue, which could possibly be mistaken as black. The most curious (and most worrying) feature about him, was that from the neck all the way to his snout, the top of his head was completely covered in scales. A loud rumble emanated from the form, as it started to stand on all fours and the guards all took a few steps back. Opening its eyes, Celestia could see that his eyes resembled that of a reptilian. Needless to say, Celestia was slightly agitated to talk to a being that let out an aura of such massive power. “H-hello?” she had never been uncertain of herself up to this point, but now… now she had found a being that let out such a powerful aura, that it left her almost speechless. The massive form looked her dead in the eye. His voice was booming, but at the same time, had a sort of soothing tone to it “greetings” Lao Shan Lung had no idea how he could speak their language, but he was unfazed “I am Lao Shan Lung, or as some prefer to call me, The Great Mountain Dragon. I can assure you, I mean you no harm, unless you seek to harm me” despite the word of the pony, the guards were still apprehensive around him. “V-very well Lao Shan Lung” she breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that she wasn’t going to get on the bad side of him “I would like to formally introduce myself as Princess Celestia, co-ruler of Equestria” Just then, the main door burst open “Princess! We came as fast as we could!” twilight was more than slightly shocked to see her conversing with… well whoever it was that she was talking to. Lao Shan Lung turned towards the other ponies, eyes flicking between each one of them. Celestia was the first to speak up, although shakily “Umm, everyone, I’d like you to meet Lao Shan Lung” At that point, Rathian started to laugh, but it quickly diminished “you…you’re not kidding are you?” All the former monsters took a step back, including Lagiacrus. Twilight was incredibly anxious “W-why are you all so scared of him?” why on Equestria would former monsters be so scared? Agnaktor was the first to speak up “Lao Shan lung is one of few monsters known as an elder dragon, some of the most ferocious monsters known to anything, and Lao Shan Lung is one of the more dangerous ones, being the size of a mountain whilst on its hind legs” Lao Shan Lung nodded his head “this is true, however, I am not naturally aggressive” “But you are renowned as one of the most destructive monsters ever, surely some of that comes from aggression?” Lagiacrus asked. Lao Shan Lung strode over to the window, and looked out at the sky “that destructiveness was spawned from fear rather than aggression, fear from the ancestors” A few monsters looked at each other in disbelief. “The Fatalis trio, they were the ones that sent us here” after a gasp had escaped all of the ex-monsters’ mouths “it’s a little known fact that the Fatalis trio are actually the very embodiment of the three stages of a star, white Fatalis represents the birth and adulthood of a star; crimson Fatalis represents the supernova, and black Fatalis represents the remains of the star, each one was born from the same star when it was going through each stage. The eggs were then launched at earth. The Fatalis trio inherited some of the stars powers, white Fatalis due inheriting the power of a live star, has been able to properly harness that power and has started to launch monsters in random directions in space, however, another force is directing them all here, and turning us into the forms that we are in now” Twilight was amazed at what had been said, a being with as much power as Celestia herself “how do you know so much?” Lao Shan Lung sighed. “Let’s just say that I and white Fatalis share a grudge, and when I was sent here, he made sure that I knew his plans, because he thought that I wouldn’t be able to survive on a desolate planet, and he wasn’t expecting for me to be sent here” he then looked at the others in the room “however, I think that together, we might be able to get our revenge” Celestia was still in shock at how quickly Lao Shan Lung had just got up off the floor and was already thinking of a plan to get revenge… if only her guards were that good “So, do you have a plan to get you and the rest of the monsters back?” Twilight, whom had finally come to her senses again, spoke up “actually, that’s where the letter I sent you comes in, seeing as you and Luna can oversee the cosmos, I was actually wondering if you could perform a long range teleportation to their home planet?” “Well… theoretically, I could do that, but it would without a doubt kill me, and that’s after only teleporting somepony like silver tongue, but teleporting somepony like Lao Shan Lung? And then having to turn them back into their original forms? Even with mine and Luna’s powers combined, we couldn’t do that” she sighed “however, if we knew the coordinates, we could possibly relay a message” At that point, Rathian chuckled to herself “I know just the mon- uh, pony for the job” Streets of Canterlot. A white Pegasus was stalking the streets, however, unbeknownst to him, he was being watched. Twilight rubbed her forehead “so we let the three most irresponsible members of our ‘team’ handle this job on their own?” personally, twilight had no idea why she had agreed to let Lagiacrus, Rathian and Rainbow Dash handle this. Lagiacrus just nodded her head “yup” she turned to the other ponies, “now, when Rathian charges at him, he’ll try to fly upwards, when he does, Rathian and rainbow dash, you two try to herd him towards me, and I’ll try to subdue him with thunder, and if he dies, then I blame twilight” Twilight face hooved before continuing “under no circumstances are you going to purposefully kill him, we need him alive” Lagiacrus started to climb to the top of a building before saying to Rathian and Rainbow Dash “alright, you two can go chase him , go have fun” the two pegasi practically launched themselves off the cobbled streets, and split up, Rathian flew down the street that Zerureusu was walking down. Zerureusu looked around, and saw the form of rathian charging towards him and, promptly flew upwards. Part one of the plan was coming together. Rainbow dash was position so that when Zerureusu flew upwards, she could start moving him in the direction of Lagiacrus, when he finally flew up, she was more than prepared, she started to fly head on towards him, and he flew of in the other direction; the direction of Lagiacrus. Lagiacrus was charging up a large electric bolt, which she released with extreme force at the approaching white shape heading towards her. The bolt barely missed, in fact, it even burnt of some of the Pegasus’ hair, which made him aware of his opposition’s plans, and as such, ducked back down into the streets Lagiacrus scuffed her hoof on the roof in disappointment. Rathian quickly intercepted him, and Rainbow dash was coming at him from the opposite side, meaning that the only choice was to go back up. As soon as he reached the top again, Lagiacrus charged up another shot of electrical energy, and launched it at him, the air around the bolt seem to be electrified. The bolt arced over to the Zerureusu, and clipped his wing, sending him back down to the ground, where the other ponies were waiting. Twilight walked over to Zerureusu and picked him up in a magical field “let’s just hope that you won’t struggle as much as Rathian…” Lagiacrus climbed down the ladder and the two Pegasi flew down to regroup “so what now? Does princess sunbutt read his mind and we can send a message to the tower?” Twilight glared at Lagiacrus “what? You expect me to remember her name?” The lavender unicorn sighed “yes, that is the basic idea, Celestia reads his mind, and then we can relay a message to this Fatalis monster you talked about” “And then we can go home, right?” Uroktor asked, who had come out from hiding behind one of the stalls in the market. “What are you doing here?! You could have gotten hurt!” Agnaktor shouted. “I was perfectly safe! I was worried about you!” Uroktor dashed up to Agnaktor and hugged him. “I don’t know about going home though” he put Uroktor on his back “as long as you’re safe, I’m happy” Rathian walked up to Agnaktor and Uroktor “hate to break up such touching moment, but I want to send Fatalis apiece of my mind which means that we have to get to the castle as soon as possible, so move it” she walked right past the rest of the group and headed towards the castle, where Celestia was waiting to get the coordinates for the tower. Outskirts of Ponyville. The figure that was shrouded in shadow the previous night had finally come out of hiding, and the turquoise unicorn that was with him could finally be identified as Trixie Lullamoon. The pony mentioned before was an incredibly light green colour, maybe even turquoise his mane was white and swept back, barely reaching eye level, his tail wasn’t much different. His body was covered with large glowing bugs, a small swarm of them seemed to be flying around him at all times. His smile as he saw the small village was the scariest of all, fangs adorned the inside of his mouth, instead of the usual herbivore teeth that most ponies had. “Ah! It’s been a while since I’ve seen civilisation, why not pay them a visit?” with fangs bared, he headed towards the village, his reign of terror following him (as well as a very terrified looking unicorn).