1000 years ago..... A draconequus by the name Discord, caused havoc amongst the ponies of early Equestria and plunged it into darkness. During that time their were seven knights under direct command to protect the country at all costs. The knights are branded with the seal of beasts, each beast representing the knights over powering virtue that guides them. The Raven: Virtue of Temperance, the Dog: Virtue of Kindness, the Eagle: Virtue of Chastity, the Bear: Virtue of Diligence, the Cow: Virtue of Charity, the Mouse: Virtue of Humility, and finally their captain, Crocodile: the Virtue of Patience.
This band of knights labeled The Seven Virtues by the princesses went out to fight against the tranny of Discord. They met him upon the mountain top where Canterlot will be built in the future. Once there, a fierce battle broke out. The holy powers of the Virtues were an exact equal to the chaotic magic of Discord. The exchange flattened the top of the mountain, turning it into more of a plateau. After four days of non-stop fighting, Discord in a act of cowardice used an ancient spell to scatter the Virtues one by one all across the globe. As he lastly approached the feared Crocodile. The unmatched captain said this unto Discord and all of Equestria.
"Ha!!! Damn me to the gates of Hell! But I will still return. In 1000 years time the Virtues shall meet in the town spawned by Sweet Apples and threatened once again by your chaos. But hear me draconequus! You've lost. And it's Hilario-
Then the captain was gone. As were the Virtues. Soon the princesses found the Elements of Harmony and sealed Discord in stone. Though they still wept over the loss of their friends..... Or at least they did. Till 1000 years later......
Twilight Sparkle and friends walk back towards the now chaos infested Ponyville, Twilight urging them to move on as she wishes to get to the library to continue the search for the Elements of Harmony. The main six 84 percent greyed out at the moment. Unfortunately their progression is continually slowed by Pinkie and Fluttershy's fighting and Applejack and Rarity's feuding. Though as they head back towards the now manic town, a cloaked figure has already arrived and is following after a certain greyed chromatic mare.
~ 7 ~
Rainbow Dash came to a halt and landed on a rather small cloud, just barely big enough to hold her. She gave a great sigh of relief.
"Ah!" She exclaimed. "Cloudsdale, you're safe now that I'm here." A voice below her then spoke up.
"That's not Cloudsdale, you stupid gay pride symbol"
Rainbow was stunned in disbelief, no, rage. She couldn't believe what she just heard. She was off the cloud in a millisecond, and in the cloaked figure's face.
"Wanna say that to my face?!" She challenged.
"Nah." Replied the figure casually. "Probably smells like your whore's plot. What was her name? Applejack? Or was it Fluttershy?" Rainbow was behind herself with anger.
"Look here you slimy piece of trash. You can say whatever you want about me.... But don't you EVER say anything about my friends! You got me?" The figure chuckled.
"I'm sorry. Your what?" He asked innocently.
"My frie-" Rainbow cut herself off. She remembered her friends, and how much she cared for them. How much she'd do and be there for them. Her coat went from dulled out to it's original vibrance. The figure smirked and dropped his cloak. Rainbow had never seen anything like him.
He was tall. He wore maroon overall shorts with a black shirt and pants underneath them, he wore a striped coat of multiple colors, he had black gloves, dull purple shoes, a yellow scarf, and a red officer cap. Rainbow looked at his face, under his hat was black curly hair as dark as a crow's feathers. He had piercing green eyes, like those of a dragon. His smile was full of teeth, though some resembled fangs. But the one thing that immediately attracted Rainbow's attention was the tattoo on his neck. A almost glowing, red, crocodile.
He chuckled again as she examined him. "Let's go find your friends Rainbow. They should be ready by the time we walk back."
~ 7 ~
Twilight was crying. She had retrieved the Elements and attempted to use them.... be they failed. She had given up and went to the library with Spike. Where they both packed their bags. They were gonna leave Ponyville and never return. They almost made it out the door, until two figures stopped them at the opening of they're door.
The first, was a unicorn stallion, his coat a dark blue while is mane and tail were black with a midnight blue streak in them. He had calm, clear blue eyes, which strangely made Twilight feel safe. His cutie mark was a sideways crescent moon with a ten pointed star on the inside with five four pointed stars around it.
The other figure was a dragon, a teenager at that, he was thin and tall, his body white while his belly was turquoise in a way. The spines atop his head was loose like hair and the same color as his belly. He wore a tan jacket with a gold scorpion on the front, where a breast pocket would reside.
Each one of them had a red tattoo. The pony had a Bear on his right foreleg. While the dragon had a Mouse on his left leg.
"Ms. Sparkle. Please come with us. Your friends require you." The unicorn stated.
Twilight frowned. "What friends..... They obviously don't need anypony but themselves....."
The dragon and unicorn look at each other. Then the dragon pulled something from his jacket, a scroll. He opened it and read out several different messages.
"That day I learned to always have faith in my friends even when they seem a little foalish. Today I learned to never judge a book by it's cover, because it's the inside that matters. Today I learned that you should never turn away a friend if their adamantly willing to help."
Twilight looked at the dragon. "Th-Those are...."
The unicorn smiled. "Come. Your friends need you."
~ 7 ~
Applejack stood and watched her family act like fools. She cared a lot. Even though she says she doesn't. She lies and lies openly right now. Saying she tried to defeat Discord and almost succeeded, then saying her so called friends just lazed around and did nothing. She lied and lied.
Then a griffon of all things walked up. She had normal brown feathers and tan fur on her body and wings, but the feathers on her head and neck were a blazing orange and red, while the fluff at the end of her tail is similar to a small fire ball. On her shoulder was a red tattoo of a cow. Either way she walked up to Applejack. Very calmly and collected.
Then slapped her.
She slapped Applejack nice and hard. Applejack didn't even know what to think, let alone say. The color simply returned to her after that. The griffon smilied at her work.
"Ah... Don't......" Applejack was dumbstruck.
The griffoness giggled. "Let get you to your friends. Yes?"
Aj was stunned. "Kay...."
~ 7 ~
Okay to put it lightly.....
"What do you think your looking at? Furball!"
Fluttershy has become a major bitch.
Fluttershy had just thrown a water balloon at a ferret that was sleeping peacefully in a small basket bed, which is now soaked. She glares at the other animals who run out of her cottage in fear. She laughs cruelly, then swears she hears Pinkie yelling at her from far away to stop laughing. She rolls her aqua eyes. Then looks to the door as she hears a knock.
She frowned, then grabbed a frying pan from the kitchen before heading to the door. She opened it ready to swing when suddenly her frying pan fell from her grasp, and into the hoof of her visitor. A mare. She had a deep blue coat and a black mane, her cutie mark was a wheel with four sections, each section had one of the four seasons in it. She also had a tattoo, a red eagle on her left foreleg. She smiled before gently placing the pan back into Fluttershy's hoof.
The mare smiled softly. "You won't hit me. It's not your nature."
Fluttershy nodded. Her grey pigment died out returning her to her normal butter yellow. "Sorry.....
The mare nodded. "It's alright. Let's go see your friends."
~ 7 ~
Rairty has Tom atop a small pedestal. The boulder stood proud in the middle of the boutique. Rarity took her time to admire the massive "gem". Not noticing the pegasus stallion entering the shop.
The stallion's coat was grey, his mane and tail half black and half grey. His eyes a nice teal. His cutie mark a NES controller. A blue scarf rested round his neck, and just underneath it, on his chest. A red tattoo, of a raven.
The stallion walked up to Rarity, and simply waited for her to acknowledged him. She didn't. So he spoke up.
"Excuse me? I need something made for my marefriends birthday. Could you perhaps help me?"
Rarity spun on a dime a smile on her face. "Oh of course darling. What do you have in mind?"
The stallion sighed. "I'm not sure..... You see she's not very picky. But that only makes it harder to choose. She does need a new coat for winter though....."
"Ah! Say no more! I'll get right on i-" Rarity stopped. Then turned to Tom. Then back to the stallion. Then back to Tom. The color returned to her.
"Are you back Ms Rarity?" He asked simply. Rarity stood there in silence.
"Please tell nopony about this....."
He smiled. "As you wish."
~ 7 ~
Pinkie Pie is a pissed, peeved, poorly tempered pony. Alteration.
"Shut up!!!!" Pinkie yelled at the writer. Then writer then thumped her upon the head. She cursed like a sailor. Then told the ponies in Sugarcube Corner to stop laughing at her. They responded by quacking like a duck. All in all the situation was stupid as hell.
"That's not very nice big brudder..." A oddity entered the resturant. A soft pink changeling, with a silky red mane and tail. Unlike most changelings, her eyes were like that of Chrysalis, with spring green iris and pupils. Her wings, tail and main had no holes whatsoever though her legs had a few shaped like hearts. Upon her pink chitin on her right hind leg is a red tattoo of a dog.
Pinkie looked at the changeling. Then stopped over to her and yelled. "Stop breaking the fourth wall! That's my job! You poser!!!!"
The changeling then recoiled at the yell, and started to bawl her little eyes out. Pinkie immeadiately responded by recoiling herself, not expecting the changeling to instantly start crying. Pinkie's color returned and she quickly worked to calm the weeping ling.
Pinkie did three things. Pop a large balloon(prefilled with cake batter), put bananas and whoopee cushions on the floor, then tripped. Needless to say, the little changeling stopped crying and started laughing in no time.
The changeling smiled at the pink mare. "Hey! My big brudder said there was a place I should take you. Your friends will be there."
Discord sat upon his throne, marveling at the chaos around him. He laughed as a few pegasi got swept up into a cotton candy thunder storm. He watched his mayhem run wild. Then frowned at something. Nothing really significant but still. He frowned at the strange array of bubbles that surrounded him. Now being him he would normally suspect their from the soap roads. But these were different.... They were.... much, much different..... He just couldn't place his paw or claw on it....
"Discord~ I'm howling at the moon"
Discord froze at the lyric.
"And sleeping in the middle of a summer afternoon."
His heart started to skip beats in fear.
"Discord~ Whatever did we do...to make you take our world away?"
He felt paralyzed. As if he was already stone again.
"Oh Discord~ Are we your prey alone?"
"Or are we just a stepping stone to taking back the throne?"
Discord feared this day.... Feared they'd come back.... After one thousand years.
"Discord. We won't take it anymore.
He blinked, a fist was inches from his face.
"So take your tyranny away."
Discord was sent flying.
~ 7 ~
Discord recovered midair. He then saw a brief blur of maroon before being punched in the gut.
The draconequus recoiled before swatting away at whatever hit him. He felt it grab his paw and hold it. He finally looked and felt his heart stop. He looked dead in the eyes of the Virtue of Patience: Jay the Crocodile.
"W-What.... No! I thought you were dead!"
The human chuckled. His right pupil slowing making and "x". Discord pulls and tugged but could not get free. He was trapped.
"Unhand me! Release me! I'll.... I'll kill you!" Discord flailed around and slashed with his talon. Trying with all his might to escape the hand gripping his paw. Jay simply smiled.
"I told you I'd be back Discord. I really did. I even trained for 1,000 years. Just so I can hear you beg. But I've had my fun, now you shall return to stone."
Discord seized up in fear. He didn't want to return to his cold, stone prison. He didn't want the pigeons to roost and crap on him. He didn't want to be some statue in a garden. He wasn't going back. He looked and saw the Elements of Harmony charging up. He saw a chance with all his chaotic power he charged a attack of pure chaos. Even he didn't know what would happen if he used it. But he wasn't going back.....
"No..... Never.... NEVER!!!!!!" Discord hurled the chaotic attack. Only for Jay to grab it in his bare hand.
"Discord...... Taste the Rainbow." Jay hurled Discord at the Element. As he did the Elements fired their friendship cannon.
Discord was defeated. And the chaotic attack blew up in Jays hands.
Ponyville and Equestria was back to normal.
Save the crater with a unconscious human in it.
There is No Lesson Zero: Patience takes over his least favorite episode.
The hospital is relatively quite and pleasently vacant. Only a few occupants take up the rooms and time of Ponyville General and her staff. The doctors and nurses work their usually routines. Nothing out of the ordina-
"We need a Doctor!!!! This guy exploded!!!!"
Rainbow Dash bursts into the hospital door with the unconscious and burnt Jay on her back. A ways behind her, the rest of the main six and the seven virtues follow after her. The nurse at the counter nods and two nurses and a doctor rush Jay onto a gurney and wheel him off down the hallway. Just as he vanishes past the doors, the others all arrive.
"Someone needs to contact Princess Celestia." Said Midnight, Virtue of Diligence. "She needs to know we've returned."
Twilight nodded and conjured up some paper and a quill, levitating it to Spike so he can write, then clears her throat.
"Dear Princess Celestia..." She starts, only to be cut off by the teenage drake, Frostbite, Virtue of Humility, take the paper away scribble something and return it to Spike.
"Send it. Now." Commanded the older dragon to the baby. Spike obliged immeadiately.
After a moment, Twilight spoke back up.
"What did you write?" She asked curiously. Frostbite chuckled. "I'll never tell."
Twilight frowned at how cryptic the drake was being but decided to simply wait for Celestia's arrival and Jay's recovery.
~ 7 ~
Meanwhile in the operating room. Jay laid unconscious, wrapped head to toe in bandages on the examination table. Doctor Stable and Nurse Redheart are getting ready to move him into a room for rest when they hear something strange.... Music.... Not really seeming to come from anywhere. Then they hear the patient mutter something.
"And I woke up in the morning..... And stepped outside...... And took a deep breath.... And got up real high..... And screamed at the top of my lungs......"
The nurse approach Jay slowly, before he sat up instantly with a demented smile on his face. "WHAT'S GOING ON!?!?!." The nurse screamed at the doctor recoiled. Jay chuckled before leaping and breaking through the window of his room on the fourth story. He then positioned himself up right and proceeded to sky walk away.
"Dammit Guys.... You know I don't do hospitals." Jay said as he proceed to step off the very air and sky. He headed towards the Carousel Boutique, hoping he could get some decent clothing to wear.
~ 7 ~
After breaking and entering, Jay proceeded to "borrow" Rarity's equipment to fashion himself a new outfit. Twenty minutes later and he has himself a nice black and purple suit vest, black pants and some nice black socks. Now all he needed......
A roar is heard coming from outside. Ponies running around and screaming "Manticore!" whist the monster rampages outside. Jay smiled at his luck.
"Ah.... Plot convenience.... Manticore leather shoes it is...."
The human gently stepped of the air and onto the ground, watching as ponies ran past him from the rampaging monster.
"God......" Jay mumbled. "When did the ponies become such pansies....." He remembers back to a time when the ponies were tough as nails. When a small gang of 4 stallions was fierce enough to take down an army. To when mares were rough and tough but still were beautiful and great in bed..... What? Don't judge! You try being the only human in a land of ponies, zebras, dragons, and shit.
Anyway. Jay walked towards the vicious Manticore, simply thinking of the best way to remove it's hide. As he thinks, the beast corners some familar fillies for those back home. One yellow, one white, and one orange. With cute little capes fluttering on their backs. They had their backs to the wall and had their eyes closed ready to face the end. The Manticore brought it's claws back. Swung. And killed them.......
Naw, just fuckin' with ya.
"Dang kids today..... And their friggin' rock and roll music."
Jay stood over the Cutie Mark Crusaders and blocked the clawed paw with his bare hand. He then grabbed the leg of the menacing manticore.
"Spin you dumb animal...." He quickly grabs the other foreleg and jumps with the creature, spinning in the air. "Spin until you are DEAD!!!!!"
Spectators stop running and watch as the spinning ball of fur goes up into the air then down towards the ground. Just before it impacts, Jay moves both his hands outward. And removes all the skin and fur from the manicore. In one hand is the entire pelt of the beast...... In the other..... A large mass of muscle, fat, organs, and bone that used to be the manticore.
Jay chuckled. "This is what they mean by 'more than one way to skin a cat'." With all his might he chucked the meat pile towards the Everfree Forest, then went on his merry way to tan and dry out the hide.
"You had 1,000 years....." Said a soft voice behind him. "And you still resort to violence first? For shame Captain."
"Bite me Celly."
"You'd like that Crocodile." The princess of the sun replied coyly.