> The House On The Hill Chronicles - Tome of Equestria
>  by StormyStrife
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> The Scent of Death Itself
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It was a nice summer day and all the cheery pink pony wanted to do was bounce in the sunlight, she enjoyed going along this one path, so much it seemed her hoof prints were permanent in the ground, 1 cm deep equally. 
But when she was almost at Ponyville, she heard a scream, a cry for help. the words were faint, too much to pick out specific words, as they sounded more like gibberish, not any kind that Pinkiepie could understand, it made her curious, but she went along the path instead of investigating "I'll just check that out later" and she continued along the path. 


The sun setting, the ponies of Ponyville going home to sleep after a long day, The alicorn of the night. Princess Luna, went to a balcony that oversaw PonyVille and a large amount of the area, which included the everfree forest and plain-like areas. The wind carried with it an unholy stench, it made her stomach flip and she rushed to the railing, and threw herself onto it, her stomach launching it's contents up her esophagus, and out her mouth, her eyes closed during this. After a couple of hacks and periods of barfing, the alicorn of the day, Princess Celestia came from behind her sister and placed a hoof on Luna's back "Are you okay my sister?" Luna raised her head and looked at Celestia, she smiled, inhaled and barfed again. Afterwards, she kept her head down "The air has something horrible on it... Sister... It smells like death" she replied with a slight tremble. 
Celestia took a very small breath through her nose, and recoiled "Ugh! that's horrible!" she said, slightly coughing. "Your Majesties, is all well?" A royal guard called from the balcony's doorway, Celestia looked at his slightly concerned face "Yes all is well, thank you" Although Luna barfed just one more time and sat down on the balcony deck, Celestia sat down next to her sister and extended her right wing over her, and let her sister lean against her "If you want we can go for a walk as soon as the day comes up, and try to find where that smell came from" Luna leaned against her sister taking the comfort and nodded, quietly saying "Alright"


Storm Chaser was enjoying a nice night time flight, the sky was clear and he could see all the stars out at night, but he enjoyed the cool night air and he was high above ponyville, more closer to canterlot, but he's about equal in height to the Palace. He coasted along in the winds, eyes closed and his wings folded out, this is where he felt most comfortable. but suddenly he was caught in a powerful current of wind, so powerful infact it dazed him upon entering in it, the current went straight towards the Royal Palace, and it was going with great speed, so fast that he predicted that if it hit the palace, the glass would atleast shatter utterly.
He thought quickly, thinking of the wind current. Thinking about it for even a second he knew it felt somewhat like a tornado!

Doing his best, he took a deep breath in, but it smelt like all the awful things in the world combined, but he took the breath anyways, tears forming at the corners at the edges of his eyes, it even slightly stung them.
He extended his wings to the side and painstakingly flapped them to the left, whoosh, whoosh.
His small wings altered the course of the current but by very little, he saw that it would simply graze past the palace, cracking some of the glass in the process.
The current, as it neared the palace sped up even more, which caused Storm Chaser to hear a light buzzing noise, the air current even became more violent, moving in random directions inside the current itself somehow, tossing him around like a ragdoll.

The wind current now within shouting distance, he did his best to even stop himself from being thrown about, but to no avail, so he tried to go with the direction he was thrown, gradually getting to the edges of the current, until the current began to buzz louder, and it got faster and more violent. With three more efforts to break free he did so, but he was thrown out of the current, towards the horizon at a ridiculous speed "AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!"


Both Celestia and Luna saw a flash of red and blue pass from under the balcony to the distant horizon and blazing speed, Luna said to her sister "Go Tia, i know you want to, I'll be fine" Celestia stood up and leaped off the balcony, which seemed to tear right off from under her and Luna, who momentarily screamed in surprise. Tia looked at her sister with an amused expression before taking off to the pegasus-gone-projectile.

Celestia came across Rainbow Dash, almost hitting her "Oh Hello there Rainbow Dash, could you help me with something?" Rainbow Dash smiled and replied "Sure thing princess, what do you need me to do?" Celestia gestured towards Storm Chaser and said "Try to slow him down" Rainbow Dash did a salute "You got it Princess!" she said excitedly before speeding after Storm Chaser, matching his speed in mere seconds "Wow Storm Chaser you're going faster than you ever have been before!" Storm Chaser shakily replied, starting to turn a bit green in the face after many spins in the air "I KNOOoow! I can't Stop, please help me Dash!" Ranbow Dash smiled and giggled before grabbing storm's wing and speeding off faster than he was going and then slowing down.
Storm, now stationary, held his stomach "uugh..." a sick expression on his face, Rainbow helped him fly towards the Princess.
Celestia, a relieved smile on her face "Are you alright Storm Chaser?" who replied dazed and slightly fuzzy "I.. I'm okay.. thanks you two" He gave a weak smile but then barfed a tiny bit, Celestia smiled and took him home, Dash went to another cloud and slept the whole night.

Storm sat down on top of a massive tree "Thanks princess" She smiled "Now be careful and make sure you tell someone before you go being a hero" and flew off to the Royal Palace.


*During That Time*


With the Balcony now being carried by the wind current, Luna flew, slightly queasy but more or less surprised. She followed the wind current, getting a strange feeling from it, a cold warmth.
It vaguely reminded her of her time as Nightmare Moon.
She eventually found a Large house, easily the size of the Royal Palace and more of the stench that seemed to rise off the place, all from following the Wind current and the randomly stolen balcony, which laid next to the house , but on the other side of it.
How was that possible? it came at the house from the east, but somehow the balcony laid next to it on the ground, towards the west, and yet the house was untouched, not to say it wasn't perfectly fine as it looked like it's been untouched for years, not a single bit of paint or sign of maintenance existed on the medium amount of light that Luna had at the moment.

She turned around and went back to the Palace, a couple questions buzzing around in her head.
Why doesn't she remember that house? she knew every basic detail of the general area, she's gone over this part a few times and not once seen such a massive building, Was it even a house?
And Where did that Current come from?.

Questions she would have to ask her sister, Tia would know more about it.