Spike sparkle solaris, the adopted son of princess celestia and Twilight Sparkle is like usual helping his friends in a battle against evil, however an unknown magic makes a paralell version of his friends appear! , and why can they fuse with him?!
Spike sparkle solaris, the adopted son of princess celestia and Twilight Sparkle is like usual helping his friends in a battle against evil, however an unknown magic makes a paralell version of his friends appear! , and why can they fuse with him?!.
This story is a "what if" story if you may in wich themes of the record of ragnarok manga, Highschool DXD and the such mix in a story featured in the my little pony Universe in wich Spike is the main protagonist for once. Follow Spike, his friends and his parallel friends in an epic adventure of love, angst, Drama and battle agains an evil force previously unknown.
In the massive hole of a now burned land that used to be poniville, lays the dispersed knocked out bodies of 12 mares with heavy damage in their extremities and torso, with only 2 figures standing. On the side of the fallen mares, giving the apperance of blocking the path to them, is a figure of a male dragon with an anthro looking body with a shinning armour covering him toe to head, said armour having the appearance of a mix between the "red emperor dragon armor" and that of the "albion armour" of the Highschool dxd series.
On the other side lays a Blurry shadow figure that progressively advances toward him and the mares. Shortening the gap between the 2 entities by a quarter of the distance every blink the dragon in armour makes.
*1st Blink
"How did-" The dragon thinks as his right foot falls behind his left one.
*2ond blink
"it End-" the Dragon Prepares his right arm for an attack as his claws form a fist.
*3rd Blink
" Up Like-" a screech of the shadow figure vibrates in the air as it throws itself at the warrior.
*4th Blink "This!" the dragon feels his fist connecting with the entity as the armour of his right fist dents as the same time that said claw bones crack and a sound wave is send to the near radio near the clash.
Spike sparkle and his friends, were currently fighting Their final battle: the battle against Tyrek, Cozy Glow and Chrysally's happening just like in the show, except the secong the harmony beam was about to hit the villains the grogar´s cowbell flashed black and white as the rainbow light swallowed the villains. Then time seemed to slow down as for a second the harmony beam flashed black and white for a brief moment in wich 7 individual beams deviated from the current black and white harmony beam, and said beams hitting the mane 6 and Spike the dragon, said force threw their anthropomorfic bodies back several meters, then the harmony beam became normal again and turned the villains to stone while everypony looked back in confusion and shock at the instantaneus backlash the 7 heroes got then looked back in satisfaction but confution at the now petrified bodies of their enemies.
"Girls!, spike!" yelled Princess celestia and Luna as they flied down to look out for their friends well being while the rest of the massive crew just looked in tense breath.
Their adult, antropomorphic bodies seemed to glow in monochromatic black and white for a second before they fell down and hit the ground, as a simultaneous "oof!" of 7 beings was heard
As the princesess finally got in land and near their friends they noticed that they now had started shining in rainbow patterns each of them in the predominant colour of their furr. Blue for dash, pink for pinkie, Lavander for Twilight, White for Rarity, Yellow for fluttershy, Orange for applejack and for spike a perfect aurora borealis could be seen. Then the shinning got erratic and stopped not before Rainbow dash got a clone in a scene that could only be described as similar to that of a bacteria duplicating itself except it was a pony, an anthro one at that and it was Rainbow bucking dash!. This "clone" however had some key distinctions one being one of its wings was fenix orange, and she now had a flaming shield cutie mark in her neck! (in this anthro universe the cutie marks are in the neck for vissibility).
"WHAT!" yelled the celestial sisters and the multi race crew now watching the scene, with the petrified villains now on second plane.
"augh" the main 6 and spike complained as they held their heads In pain as all the others present gasped in unison
"what is the big deal?, keep it down!, my head hurts!" claimmed Rainbow dash
Before any of the other mane 6 or spike could also complain of the pain of being thrown back and hitting the dirt hard or before Celestia and luna could even reply a new voice with a similar tone answered"
"Yeah, tell me that!" said the Rainbow dash clone. This made all of the mane 6 and spike sober Up, as they recognized the voice but couldnt understand why Rainbow would answer herself except.
"What!? 2 rainbows?!" Screamed all of them.
"huh?! who are you?! and why do you look and sound like me!?" screamed rainbow dash "I should be the one asking that!, also who are you guys and why are you almost identical to my friends!?". An intense silence followed for a couple seconds as everyone was shocked until...
"..... wait... CROWN!? You... you are..you are alive!?" screamed with clear joy and surprise the clone of dash as she threw herself with tears falling from her eyes at spike Pinning him down to the dirt.
"HUH? WHO IS CRO-"
But spike could not finish the sentence as the Clone kissed him intensely shutting him up.
"hmmm mnga hmm!!??" spike made surprised noises as she kissed him toungue to toungue.
" "WHAT IS HAPPENING!?, HOW IS THIS MY FIRST KISS!?" spike screamed in his mind.
"GET OFF HIM!" he heard the girls shout, with rainbow dash tackling her clone away from him, since she was the fastest.
She was wearing a White tank top with rainbow stripes around her C cup breast and white bra, as well as black leggings and black converse esque footwear, while her clone weared a black shirt with rainbow stripes and a white legging and shoes.
Clone rainbow kicked her duplicate back and got up with a quick play of her legs using her arms as support. As they now both looked at each other now Both standing up.
"I dont know who any of you ponies are, how i got here, or what is happening right now!; but i know one thing! You are holding Crown away from me! and I am as sure as buck i wont let anyone hurt my friends! as sure as i am my name is Constellar blizzard, the element of devotion!. Proclamed Constellar (who we will call Stella from now on.)
Then quickly after she opened her wings and with a strong flap she threw herself at spike screamming "Crown!" before pinning him to the floor again.
"Hey, Stop that alre-"! twilight was about to berate the mare until she and the girls got slackjawed at the scene
The mare Kissed spike again holding his face close to her own with both of her hands, breaking the kiss a second later screaming "VOLUND!" as a bright blue light flashed , making everyone cover their eyes for a second as the sound of high pressure water grasped their ears.
Only for them to be shocked at what they could see after.
As they now could see from the vapor dispersing, Spike had transformed, His eyes now magenta, his usual green jacket with holes for his wings, purple shirt and purple pants had now been replaced with a black leather jacket with holes for his green Fire wings, paired with crimson leather leggings and his claw-hands now sporting motor bike gloves with Constellar blizzards wings colors on them, said gloves gave the appearance of that of "katekyo hitman reborn's" but instead of an x they had her cutie mark on them. Both gloves burning in green flame.
"WHAT! they exclaimed.
The new looking form of spike then got in a strange position with one arm extended to his back, the other extended to his front. His legs in the same position, one in front and one in the back as he inhaled the flame of his hands flashed on and off, then after exhaling he screamed with a voice mixing that of his own and Constellar Blizzards the legendary words:
The Spike in "volund" state with Stella, that was currently in a pose for a perfect "x-burner" (See katekyo hitman reborn for reference) was pointing his attack and hence his left hand wich was in front of him while his right claw was making a green fire "counter fire" backwards mantaining balance and allowing his attack to concentrate toward the group of mane 6 and royal sisters who barely reacted, with luna, rarity, celestia and Twilight making a multilayered shield of magic in a quick response to protect themselves.
The collision made a sound tht could best be described as that of meat roasting as second by second the shield got Slimmer.
"This heat is ridiculous!, i cant hold on for much longer!" screamed luna towards his sister "Even i am having some trouble here lulu!, what the heck is this!?" celestia replied. "Ok, this isnt working we need to regroup!, Twilight exclaimed as she stopped supporting the shield and instantly inhaled and with labour used her magic to teleport all of them to the hill where everyone else was gathered and watching currently from. Then suddently she collapsed to the floor momentarily.
" all civillians go look for cover!, we will handle this and inform you later!, but we need to not have you all as a handicap!" "Ponies, Jacks, gryphons, hypogriffs, everypony: Get out, now!
The civillians didnt need to be told twice, as they ran hard to cover themselves in the city of poniville and near cover points.
As twilight got up with more strength again, being her the one who basically mare handled most of the energy of the shield she looked ahead of the hill along with her friends only to look at the face of a somewhat confused Spike who looked to them and next his gloves.
"Its considerably weaker..., and this form is... not Zenith either! what is going on?" the voice of stella whispered in his head, while the consiousness of spike was still not adapted to this state of being and could not organize his thoughts yet.
"girls, look!" Pinkie pie broke everypony's train of thought as she pointed her pinky finger (no pun intended, lmao) at the petrified statue of the villains wich was now shinning black and white. The shadow this casted over Spike made Stella look back and got in a defensive stance and down her tone of voice a peg or two in the dire situation.
"Hey!, forget the impromtu fight just now!, we are all confused but this is actual danger!, get cover while we handle this!" the syncrhonic voice of Spike-Stella resonated in the valley.
"Hey we are not fin-" rainbow as about to retort when the pulsating black and white light of the petrified villans suddenly became a viscous black blob with a grey shadow. Sound of breaking bones, Mucus, and overall disarray of organic matter were currently converging before their eyes, while they too got in a defensive stance.
"dammit!, we may be weakened but this will have to do!" screamed the fused warrior as he/she... it? used both its clawed gloves as green fire propulsors putting back of the claw to his back and angling himself to use his wings creating a sound boom with fire sparks and just before getting in close to a meter of the blob the warrior used his same claws but in a reverse position but with less kinetik energy acting as vector absorbing his accumulated energy diminishing the speed but not completely stopping him.
Immediately after almost by instinct getting in "X-burner position" knowing by sheer muscle memory that, that way using both the backwards pushing force, the kinetik energy going forward and the closer distance, they could fire a considerably stronger point blank X-burner wich Spike proceded to shot.
"BLITZKRIEG!, AAAHHHHHH!!!" shouted the duo but the creature was not so easy to be taken down even by an enhanced attack.
"GUGAGHAAAAAA!" The black bob screamed with the simultaneous voices of the villains extending a continusly forming 2 hand looking tentacles one penetrating the earth in root patters and holding on to it and the other increasing in density shielding it partially from the flame while slowly advancing through it to Spike.
"Crown! come on! give me a hand here!" stella asked spike
"Crown?, who is that... who... am i?"
another series of smaller tentacles formed pointing at the mane six and princesses as a small orb was being formed from them while simultaneously the hand towards them was getting closer
"Crown!
"?? "
"Crown! come on, wake up!
"SPIKE!" He heard his friends screaming waking him up. In front of him, the previously described situation was unfolding, making him hyperventilate.
"SPIKE, RUN!" His now heterochromatic eyes were Dilating as all was being taken in and both consiousness had now the control of the fusion. The mare's spirit realizing the dragon just now responded to "Spike!" but he is crown! " while simultaneously flashes of images and sounds passed his eyes.
A massive green portal of fire appeared , with centifugal void inside. Destroyed cities, ponies and other races hurting each other, apathy, distrust,war, famine, death, black blobs, black shadows in many of these scenes. one large grotesque, twisted shadow, with dark tentacles writhing and gliding through the air. An Amorphous mass of shadows with negative energy sporting multiple bright eyes that flash with malice and a mouth full of sharp teeth that emit mocking laughter and discordant squeals. Him?... and his friends?... fighting this things? planning courses of action, with moderate success, slowly diverting to ruin and equestria shrinking. Celestia, with a big gash with a disgusting tentacle Through her stomach looking at him with teary eyes ... "Crown...run, im sorry" as alternate luna took his younger self and flied away to protect him"
"AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!" The pent up emotions including sadness and anger of the scene, made him involved in the moment, increasing the green fire in intensity for a brief moment as the fire got so intense the blob incinerated to ash with a gut wrenching screech as the backlash of uncordinated fire intensity on both claws threw him back against a clif while flying before hitting the cliff a blue light blinked and they crashed to the cliff now both Spike and stella incrusted in the dent.
After the dust of the battle settled. The mane 6 and the royal Sisters went as fast as they could to retrieve Spike and Stella with an air of uncertainty and fear after what happened. Why did spike and that rainbow replicate merged?, why did she kiss him?, what was that creature?, where did that duplicate come from?.
Full of questions, but out of answers Twilight decided to get them herself. "Regardless of the rainbow clone right here, and the fact spike momentarily attacked us fused with her, what is more important right now is the origin of that entity. It was definately hostile. It was clearly powerful, enough in fact to not be quickly vaporized by that attack spike did, attack that mind you it almost broke our combined shield in seconds. While its true the element of surprise played a key it should NOT be ignored. We dont know where it came from, why , when or if more are incoming." Twilight explained in a quick analisis of the situation.
"For now, Celestia and luna i need you to make up an aliby as to what transpired here, specially considering the citizens did NOT see the creature. We shall avoid talking about that for now to avoid civil unrest and deal with the whole thing of spike kinda attacking us for a second there, the whole fusion thing and rainbow's clone".
"Will do, twilight. Specially for spike." Lets go lulu, we have stories to create and ponies to tell them.
"Fine, we shall dear sister." replied luna as both of them flied in direction of poniville.
"what about us twilight?, and what about... them?" asked pinkie pie.
"well, for now lets take them to the palace of friendship. from there we shall separe this two in diferent champers for observation and information gathering. however in the case of rainbow's duplicate... i think her name was-"
"Stella!, yeah its such a cool name!" pinkie exclaimed all riled up.
"Yes.... anyway. Stella here, clearly isnt rainbow dash, so we need to find out who and what she is exactly. So considering that AND what happened with her acting on spike and the whole fusion thing we will need to restrain her". twilight finished.
"But... dear we do know what she is. She is clearly a pegasus!" Rarity exclaimed
"No, she COULD be changeling. Still not explaining the whole thing BUT at least the appearance would make sense" twilight argued.
"uhhhh.. egghead?. You dont mean the "we lost the ability to morph since we dont need to do it to gain love to feed anymore" kind of changelings right?, those changelings?." Rainbow being sarcastic.
"oh... right. We had a meeting with thorax via proxy with spike about that... well buck, kinda forgot about that, its still fresh in my mind afterall. Still though we need answers so less talking and more action!." no more arguing was done as the girls took the now unconscious bodies to the castle of friendship.
Entering the amathyst door, and the quartz floor they gathered them in separate rooms near the round table of friendship. Spike was just restrained with in a locked see through room sit on a amathyst seat with fluffy coffins without further meassures since mostly they wanted to know why he attacked them out of the blue and the relation with the current events.
On the oposite side of the castle, approximaty 7 rooms opposite was Stella, restrained in magical handcuffs to a ruby chair with soft pillows on it, while her wings were tied with rope to the ground so she could not fly away or try any funny stuff. She too was in a see through room with microphones on it.
"she is not waking uuuuuppppp yet" pinkie started her usual tirade after a couple of minutes of waiting.
"fer once i agree, i a aint waiting no more" appleack declared and pushed a button so she could speak.
"WAKEY, WAKEY MISSY!" she screamed to the microphone as hard as she could.
"OW!" the rest of the mane 6 covered their ears. Applejack knew NO self control sometimes
"HUH!, WHU- WHAT?!" the previously sleeping beauty waked up in a startle as she was scared out of her dreams and slowly adjusting to seeing light again. The first thing she saw was a zaphire blue ceilling along with marble carved walls to the sides and in front of her a big see through window, with 6 terorrizingly similarly looking ponies to her best friends. As she inhaled and exhaled in order to speak after stabilizing.
Twilight looked with a tired face as she answered. "We are the mane 6, our names we will tell you later. Besides as you CAN tell WE are the ones doing the asking. If the handcuffs and rope was not any indication".
There was a pregnant pause as Stella took it all in and calmed her breath and mind, but then:
"the mane 6?... pftt, hahaha!!" Stella laughed, well... thats a way to break the ice.
"What is so funny, miss copy & paste?!" Rainbow was irked
"Chill out, "bulldagger". Its in an inside joke" Stella casually answered irked SHE was called a copy
"Bullda-... bucking what now?! whats your problem?! Rainbow did NOT like her clone at all right now.
"listen, its not my fault you have a grass mowing ass looking hair cut. You and abundance would be great friends, haha!." she said as she giggled (The "original universe rainbow unlike stella has short hair"
the mane 6 except rainbow giggled too. "hey!, come on!, its not funny guys!, i am not even-" rainbow looked at her friends
"chillax rainbow, we are not laughing at that. Its the fact that little old stella here is trying to roast your flank!, its hillarious because not only does she look and sound like you but she has your attitude and humor!, its like seeing you being insulted by yourself, ever heard of the "stop hitting yourself" joke?, basically this is it. Still its true it was wrong of us, sorry." Pinkie was being the voice of reason for once.
"but why would she even joke about that?" Rainbow was clearly bummed still, if her pout was any indiication.
"Oh i dont know... being tied by the hands and wings to a chair by strangers in a both way mirror interrogation room its not exactly a field trip. She is clearly angry at us" twilight explained
"Of course i am!!. First i was trying to seek out for my friend, Crown!. Then i pop out of nowhere in some random field with a lot of ponies and races gathered all around me and see HIM being held hostage away from me by basically some stunt double fakes of me and my friends!. What exactly did you think was gonna happen?!. Me inviting you a cup of tea?!" Stella barked them out.
"A cup of tea would have been nice..." fluttershy whispered while everypony just looked at her with a "you serious?" face.
"sorry." she whispered.
Stella and everyone in the room exhaled. "Anyway, where is he?. From what i can tell you guys are not hostile. You would not be asking me questions right now and i would have been dead otherwise" She asked.
"Where is who?" The mane 6 asked.
"Crown?" stella answered as if she was asking what colour was the sky, something implicitly obvious.
...."who?" they doubled down.
"The drake you guys kinda kidnap?. Although i admit, it makes no sense him from all ponies getting kidnapped. He pretty must IS tough incarnate." Stella was divagating.
"drake?...the only drake near us at the time was... You mean spike?" Twilight asked.
"Spike? who is tha-" .she was going to retort until she remembered something. During the battle against the soul fragmenter (see previous chapters: its the tentacle monster they fighted against") Crown during his time of Conscientiousness adaptation to the volund (wich was weird since crown he has done this hundreds of times) reacted to the name "Spike" and not "Crown".
There was a deafening silence until she continued.
"Yes. "Spike", where is he". Stella was deadset on getting close to Spike, wich the girls did not like.
"why do you say it like that?, and why do you want to get near him, you dont even know him." twilight being moma hen once again.
"Because that is. not. his. name!. If you have a minimum knowledge of recent history, wich you clearly dont!, you would now why i want to get near him!. And finally of course i know him!. he is my husband!". Stella was starting to lose her patience.
"What nonsense are you speaking?!, husband?!, history?! IT IS, his name!. I gave it to him! for all i know you are a random pony, probably a changeling that mimicked rainbow , kissed spike, did some weird magic i dont know to fuse with him and attacked us!, and finally: stop being condesending to me!". Twilight had enough.
"uhhh Twilight?" Applejack interrumped
"Not now, applejack! are you hearing this nonsense?!" Twilight was furious.
"Twilight, list-"
"No!" She turned back to stella. "Now, explain to me wha-"
"TWILIGHT!" the voice of applejack thundered the room.
"ow!" the ears of the mane 6 except aj had a rough time.
"buck applejack! what is it?" twilight toned down, her ears clearly hurting. Sucks being a pony with increased sense of hearing i guess.
"She.... is not lying". she simple stated
Everyone in the room did a double take.
"Come again, dear?" rarity asked.
"augh" aj exhaled "look i dont what is happening here, just like you guys. But i AM the element of honesty and at the very least i can tell you she is NOT lying. At least she does not believe so, whatever that means for us."
Everyone in the room digested it differently but kept quiet. She did have a point, thanks to AJ's power she could tell lie from truth and if whatever that copy of RD was spouting she believed it was true... then either spike had a double live as a changeling husband or something was happening here.
Twilight turned back to the cristal looking back at stella.
After inhaling and exhaling in moral defeat she asked "Ok fine Stella you win, we are completely in the dark here.... Please and i mean PLEASE tell us all you know about what is happening".
"Well.. what exactly do you want me to tell you?" Stella asked.
"For starters, whats your name?" Twilight retorted
"you already know it, no?" Stella was confused.
"I have to make sure." Twillight insisted
"Fine, my name is Constellar blizzard, the element of devotion from the 6 Crowns. " Stella declared
"What do you mean 6 crowns and... element of devotion?" Twilight inquired
"Are you guys not from New equestre or something? how come you would not know of the elements of unity or the 6 crowns?, its makes no sense." she exclaimed
"We are totally in the dark here, illuminate us. " Twilight pleaded
taking a deep breath and exhaling her frustration away Stella prepared to tell the ponies of new equestre, the elements of unity and the 6 crowns.
"As i told you before, i come from the kindgom of new equestre. Land of Oportunity, magic, unity and prosperity, or at least at some point it was that way. As you may imagine "new" is an adittion. My country was founded by until some decades ago ruled by the 2 Celestial princesses: Princess Sol and Princess moon. The land as you may imagine is inhabited mainly by ponies. Just like you guys, three main classes of ponies coexisted long ago: The pegasus, the Land ponies and the Unicorns with the exceptions of the alicorns being mainly the princesses."
"Long ago, these three tribes did not get along with each other, what with all their natural differences, and that of culture. The first of this differences is that of land ponies. Ponies gifted with a deep magic connected to life, they had the blessing of body strength and crop growing and harvesting, the gift of good. However they lacked the ability to fly or migration, therefore limiting their ability to travel long distances to search new lands to exploit when the dirt was not good anymore and their walking of course being to slow and taking too much time was a hindrance since time was crutial for agriculture of seasonal crops they could affort to lose even more so when weather was irregular and not traceable as you can imagine it can when locked in a small area. This led to their lands for agriculture being limited and yielding lower quantity and quality of crops year after year".
"The second tribe, the pegasus. Blessed with the body and magical ability to fly, floating on clous, floating on water and controling the weather .However this having a price. For once their magic to control weather while highly useful if it was done well for the benefit of crops and quality of life, is sadly highly volatile in nature and without the proper training or overall experience could led to young, ill willed or overall imprident pegasus causing weather incidents from benign to bordering catastrophe than ofter caused damage to the other 2 tribes; this added to the fact that their daily calorie consumption just to be alive was high, due to their wings and the magic consumed in controlling the weather, while also having higher average height compared to the other 2 tribes required the most food to sustain themselves. being the realm of agriculture or self suficient, led to a high starvation rate wich led to a common occurance of them stealing from the land ponies even more so since they could hardly be catched due to their swiftness and advantage of altittude".
"Finally the last of the three, the unicorns. Blessed with the magic of abstraction. The magic to...theoretically do anything. However this, of course not free of charge. For once their magic depending on the task to be made, result desired or overall complexity required knowledge, trial and error, spells, practice and overall mana (the source of all magic, basically the escence of all life and things related to it in this universe), wich unlike the other two tribes was consumed way easier and quicker as the more complicated the intented use of the magic was. This along with them posessing the weakest bodies of the three was a considerable disadvantage. However unlike the pegasus, their starvation was considerably milder mainly due to them using their magic and knowledge to ocasionally trade with the land ponies. Atough they lived in an egocentric society wich often tended to think of less of the other tribes and more so of other races."
"Their constant difficulties with coexistence and refusing to help each other, led to a lot of problem: death, starvation, suffering and overall disharmony or if you prefer disorder. As you may imagine This magic as much as a blessing was a curse. You see, magic as you may know is energy. Energy cannot be destroyed, merely transformed. For example: land ponies mana can be transformed into food, pegasus's into weather and flight while Unicorn's into spells, constantly being recicled by all living and in ocasion non living things. This energy in nature obviously is good, however due to this increasing amount of disharmony the manifestation of corrupted mana (basically the "windigos" of this unvierse if you want to see it like that") started to gather creating unconciouss entities that like all mana (life) seeked to replicate themselves, even it had no Conscientiousness and what way did it "knew" to replicate?. If mana is life, Order and unity then Corrupted mana is disorder, caos, death, suffering, and so on."
"Seeing this, the princesses with the help of a small group of representatives of the other races: Dragon, griffon, hypogriff, Jack, minotaur, Land pony (LP), Pegasus and Unicorn deviced a plan to both to avoid ultimate disaster and use their differences as synergy instead of causes of conflict. The name of the plan?: the country Equestre".
"For quite some centuries , the plan was fruitful, due to the relative world populi numbers at the time of the "C-Day (corrupted day)" being low contributing little to the corrupted mana pool and thanks to the results of the efforts of all ponies and races involved in the countrie's slow yet constant growth, prosperity and retaliation against the creatures, we eventually extinguished them... or so they/we thought. Then? the C-day Happened again some decades ago but without enough breaks holding it back ...and with a way bigger populi to coordinate ...it was a way different story. That is when it all started, when the Soul fragmenter and implacable disharmony came back and that, my gal pals is when the gears of my story, the 6 crowns and CROWN of course started".
Clearing the picture part 4- the Dragonic genocide and the birth of crown
Taking the pause to breathe and let it all sink in that stella gave to the mane 6 twilight's comprehension of the bigger picture broadened.
"Ok... so that explains: Your name, Where you come from, What that creature was and how its made." twilight summarized.
"Yes, im not finished though." Stella was ready to continue.
"Oh!, sure. Do go on. Stuff is interesting." Rainbow was eating some popcorn enjoying the story time with pinkie on another chair also eating popcorn.
Stella raised a brow at the scene and continued. "Now, returning to the Last C-day decades ago, the princesses and citizens of equestre of course were not going to just let it go to shit, mattering not what may have been the cause of this be it natural or not. So they of course took action, one of wich was to increase the borders security , wich sadly left some ponies outside wich of course increased midly the corrupted mana pool due to the suffering it caused but it was necesary otherwise risking the citizens. However something we had neverexpected happened. The dark mana got a modicum of Conscientiousness".
The girls gasped.
"yeah, of course it was bad. You see, one thing is trying to keep brainless monsters in control while dealing with the problems of society be it integrated or not but when you add intelligence to the picture AND relative posession of ponies and other races to the mix... if you have enough imagination you can understand or imagine the reasons why The situation goes tits up."
"Now, during the apparently losing battle of the races against both this entities and the inner battles and problems with themselves something happened. Races started to isolate and leave the union some voluntarily like the griphs, jacks and hipogriffs and some not by choice..." Stella told the last part with a heavy heart displaying in her face expression.
"Those, said being mainly the dragons. They according to what i learned in the royal guard during my youth mostly kept to themselves and were a relatively small porcentage of the world populi. When they joined the first union to create equestre, they offered their ability of fire bending and in some cases their sheer size and strength for metalurgi and the start of industry wich was highly beneficial for all parties involved however...
"however?" fluttershy whispered
taking a big breath of courage she continued "however not all was perfect of course. All races had their problems, their lets say... differences however the thing is dragons have of course a natural greed instinct and while the numbers of going rouge dragons was small even more so by their slow base numbers the fact this greed made THOSE dragons big, strong, greed driven dragons it caused a collective fear, panic of the "what if". "What if only for now the numbers of rouge dragons is small?" "what if the increase of rouge dragons goes big enough we cant control it!, we are also fighting the C-MANA!", "What if... what if... what if. And so, a selfish and genocidal collective Decision was made, they had to go while they stll could. Of course this racism and overall paranoia was unfounded for the most part but it was to late. "
"Even if they princesses and a part of the populi fiercelly opposed. The bast of the populi of the races acted in fear of the potential for destruction they had, buckint specially in this time of extreme crisis against the C-mana and so, they began a preventive collective genocide of the dragonic race. With only one male survivor. That being the egg of late diplomats and late friends of the princesses: Sir Zephyr blaze and madam Ruby spark wich were the last dragons standing at the time".
" Of Course divine punishment came, the collective suffering of the genocided race feeded the Dark mana pool to incredible levels, something the races did not expect since their populi was very small, compromising 1% of the general population of the world and the fact that up until then the "logarithmic" or relative strength and power this creatures gained was somewhat proportional to the percived chaos and disharmony average of THE WORLD POPULI. This,then released the gates of gehena on equestre".
"After coming out of hiding desperation, seeing that not only had their people being erradicated the destruction seemed inminent they pleaded the princesses to protect their egg no matter what in exchange for giving only them 2 their forgiveness and more importantly giving equestre a small chance to fight back,deal they took gratefully in deep shame."
" Turns out the thing that gave all equestre and its people a chance to fight back and exist despite the constant losing battle and what seemed like divine judgment was sadly ironically dragons abilty to grow thanks to greed "treasure". And what is there more of a treasure to any (morally decent) being than their child? even more so when the rest of your kind is gone"
The mane 6 were so speechless, you would almost bet no one was even there
"And so in the biggest act of bravery and love in equestre history they grew to protect their child and all remaining people, grewing big enough to each of them guarding basically 1 side of equestre each. Then they fought for 5 days without stopping intentionally until they died making sure they could not be possed since the creatures cannot posses the dead. And so the numbers and strength of the creatures was manageble enough that with the re-union of all races and people together they marginally could hold their ground and slowly pushed forward. The orphan of the late hero's was none other than the drake that would almost 2 decades after would form the 6 crowns,become my husband and pretty much became equestre's main hope: Crown." Stella laid her head down in emotional exhaustion.
The girls gasped in shock and terror at what they just heard.
Only a pregnant silence could be percieved in the air for the next couple of minutes
"As you may imagine. After this series of tragic yet heroic events the "new" kingdom of equestre was born. Not long after a year had passed and the egg has yet to eclose, something wich gravely freaked out Moon and sol as they searched earth and sky for all and any of the information they could found on dragon eggs and making them eclose"
"Eventually all the clue they got was that if the egg did not hatch in 3 years the "yolk" would go bad and the fetus would die and rott. Wich as soon as it was made public raised the alarms of the royal sisters and most of the new-equestre populi (yes racism and paranoia was still there but it was a now small % of the people, say 15% or so) as the triangular pilar of morale of the kingdom was at risk"
"The royal sisters , for once completely in unknown waters decided to basically fish for miracles as they made a royal announcement: Anypony/anyone who could hatch the egg safely and deliver this baby was to be given status of a royal protegee and all the benefits that came with it. This if course brought horde after horde of candidates that had been given the stern warning that if they failed fine, next please but... shall anything happen to the egg or baby in it, their destiny was sealed."
"Lots came and went without success. Then on the start of the third year a 5 year old filly from the "slums" passed the entrance gate. Apparently being able to replicate any magic she could see and read in a book after seeing it or reading it once. Ability that allowed her family to get a better quality of life after reading a magic book that her father used to learn how to make magic candles to sell something his daughter learned to do and astoundished the near community wich drew the attention of the sisters . This filly was none other than blank neck than little dusk light a reference to the (name given to her by her parents in reference of the light of hope shown at the dark of dusk)being taken to the castle by her parents."
"There she was given all the texts collected and traduced so far depicting dragon eggs, wich she then after digesting the information tried her best to use without much luck"
With a sad face she looked back at the sisters who looked baci in sympathy
"Im sorry for losing your time" she stated the best she could for a little girl. Then the girl remembered something apparently the baby in the egg could feel the magic of the exterior in a way so she did her best and hugged the egg with her arms and magic to make the baby feel better. "Im sorry for you too" she said as she hugged the baby close to her chest.
Then... it happened the green and purple egg started glowing in rainbow magic and threw a rainbow laser beam that broke the ceilling and made a big rainbow explosion of colour wich pulsated in lavander, the same colour as the skin of Dusk light as the egg levitated some meters and craked revealing a small baby inside with a smile on its face as the neck of Dusk light got a flower of life cuttie mark."
The alternate's reality rainboom-part 1- Constellar blizzard.
After that Dusk light, became Sol and moon's protegeé and would anything happen to them, would help take care of Crown. Name given to the drake by non other than the little antrho filly as a reference to him being the "heir of the crown", that and the spikes on his head kind of reminded her of one at the time.
As for the rest of her family: Her brother Impenetrable fortress got the privilage to become a a traineé under the royal guard while his fiance Miss Belle Amoúr became the "honorary princess of empathy" in other words a diplomat representing the alicorns in politic affairs while her parents just got a house and stable job in Lancelot the main capital of equestre.
The event of the royal birth of Crown was later known through all new equestre, not only due to its importance overall but because the magic beam the egg released to the sky at the moment of birth was seen by pretty much all equestre due to the high altittude it reached but also th sheer size the beam exhibited at the time.
An event that marked lots of lifes in the currently war struggling new created country. Country that while somewhat stable now Because of the he sacrifice of the dragon diplomats it did not eliminate the problem either. The country was still and would continue to be at constant defence against the creatures while on a thin balance that allowed a decent level of civilty for the most part. Of course this, was not something guaranteed and could at a moment notice get out of control.
In this scenario, the colorful beam at his birth was watched by other 5 fillys that would eventually meet the drake and change the course of history.
-------------New equestre, 18 of august, year 3 PDH (Post dragon heroes)-------------------------------------------
Besides Dusk light, the first filly to coincide was none other than constellar blizzard wich was currently flying at top speed for her age, stealing a bar of bread from a local bakery for her friends an family but sadly got blindsided by the aurora borealis beam of Crowns birth making her crash near the castle of the 2 sisters, plumetting to the ground.
"Ow!, mhgaa!, my wings!" she had fell on her wings and was in high pain and distress.
"Freeze, thief!. Guards, grab her!" Screamed the local baker mare.
"buck!, gotta ru-" due to the strain bordering on ligament damage on her wings she could not fly. Trying to out run the guards while somewhat denurished, de-orientated and hurt was not going to work of course.
"gotcha!" the guard exclaimed
"NO!!" her scream could be heard close to the castle. Wich made the twi sisters and Dusk light exist to see what was happening.
"LET GO OF ME!" she struggled as a little filly could
"NO. GIVE THE LADY THERE, HER BREAD BACK!" the guard not backing down
"BUT I CANT!" She kept struggling in desperation.
"ENOUGH!" the royal sister's bellow was heard behind them, making them turn back
"Princesses!"the baker and guard kneeled, the last one forcing the pegasus filly to the ground.
Looking at the filly, the princesses questioned. "What is happening here?"
"we are deeply sorry for disturbing, Princesess. I Just catched this little thief and was going to return the stolen goods. Perhaps interrogate her and keep her retained for a day for stealing."
"we see..." The princesses of course annoyed by this petty display and against a filly for a bar of bread none the less. However they knew the country WAS indeed in dire situations and the food was not an exception.
"Then we will be going..."
Twilight wanted to say something, specially since she experienced first hand the necesity. However SHE HAD JUST GOTTEN A CHANCE FOR A BETTER LIFE FOR HER FAMILY!. She could not test the waters just yet. Even if it deeply saddened her.
Stella was not going to give up easily, looking at the princesses she noted they had a baby surrounded by a blanket. Seeing her chance, petty as it was she threw the guard back a bit and runned for the price taking the baby dragon away from princess Sol, the latter getting shocked at the event.
"Ok, here is the deal. I hate doing this but a mare will do what it has to, lets trade. This baby over here for that bar of bread no following me, no tricks, no nothing. Deal?" she knew she was pushing her luck to incredible levels but she hoped the fear of hurting the baby would make them accept her requests and let her go with the bread.
"YOU INSOLENT LITTLE FILLY, release prince Crown, NOW!" aunt Moon was furious while momma Sol trembled in silent anger. Something that deeply scared Dusk light.
"PRINCE!?" all but the celestial sisters and Dusk light exclaimed in shock.
Stella, by sheer curiosity lifted the blanket to reveal... "A LIZARD!?" She screamed in shock letting basically throwing Crown to the sky something Dusk light saw and Did her best to catch him with his magic.
After a deep silence of a couple seconds Realizing she just threw away her bargain card she looked back at the princesses. "Oh pony feathers..." she was afraid as Moon had a clear face of disgust and disdain at the unintentional derogatory slang at her adopted son while Sol just walked slowly to the filly, the guard and baker keeping quiet seeing her killer intent aura.
"So... you not only take my son away from me, use him as ransom for something as trivial as food, then throw him to the air risking hurting him but you also insult him calling him a different race?" she asked with a sweet smile and soft voice being her piercing eyes the ones displaying the message clear and sound.
Constellar's pupil "wha- no, no no NO! But... why would a... Reptile be the Prince!? it just shocked me, sorry!" she screamed as she backed away in a corner.
"again with the slangs!, enough!. You will return the bread, will personally be punished by me you need to learn manners little filly!"
Even when her blood boiled celestia still would not go overboard with a child, afterall.
This got a reaction from the filly
"Look, im sorry for all this ok!?, but i will be taking that bread one way or another! You can do what you choose with me but that bread comes with me! , I refuse to let my friends Starve!" the filly got strength from the deep of her soul as she trembled but made her best to stand agains the now flabberghasted Ponies. Then, as if breaking the tension Crown started to cry.
This made The sisters look at crown, Dusk light then at Stella and they sighed. "Ok, you win" Sol, simply stated. "What?!" everypony except princess sol got an error 404.
"Sister, wha-
"Moon, listen. This FILLY was stealing FOOD for her STARVING friends and was willing to go to pretty much go to any lenghts for them. I can give her a better use than just punishment for the sake of it and the local baker's satisfaction."
"What is your name kid?."
"...St... Stella your highness..."
"well, Stella. From now on you will be trained under the royal guard, be given food enough for your friends, family and yourself of course under 1 condition"
"yes?" Like hell would stella pass this up.
"You will become the personal guard of Crown there when you and him grow older. I need someone i can trust under all and any cirmustance with his life " she pointed to her adopted son. "And if you can go this lenghts for your friends, then i think i found the candidate... no, WE found the candidate." She then took Crown in her arms. "What do you think hon?, you like?" the baby dragon looked at the filly who was just looking back at him in with a akward smile.
"hehehhe" the baby giggled.
"uhum. Its decided then" the princess concluded while the rest of the ponies present just took all in.
"If i protect this little fella... i can help my friends?... thats AWSOME!, no... 100% MORE AWSOME !" she screamed in joy and elation as a blue light shone from her neck and made a Fire shield cutie mark appear."
The alternate's reality rainboom- part 2 soft pillows
------ Coffee Plantation grounds, east of New equestre, august 18th, year 3 PDH (Post dragon heroes)----
Meanwhile on the east side of equestre on a family owned plantation of coffee was a pink skinned, pink maned and blue eyed earth pony filly helping her family carry heavy bags of coffee beans fruit of the same farm. This beans being sold to all equestre, mainly however to the royal guard since it was a staple drink in the kingdom since besides it flavor the add on of having a good state of alert was key in detecting danger.
"Ma, pa i am so tired!, and this bag is so heavy!" even at her 7 years she was forced to work by her family, just like her sisters. Afterall in a world in war, Children exploitation laws were less severe and besides its not like her parents did not work. In fact they carried most of the heavy work but if their childreen 6 or older wanted to eat, they had to earn their bread like anyone else in the family.
"Pillows...come on, its only a couple more of this." Her older sister Blanket egged her on in her usual monotone voice. "Stop pampering her, Blanket you are not helping her!" complained her not quite as old sister morning mane. "Morning, please understand her narcolepsi.." her other sister whispered. "I know!, but we need to make her user her will to somewhat gain control of it!,otherwise letting her sleep all the time is not going to help her either!" the sisters briefly discussed before letting all the bags in the old carriage and getting in the house.
"We will make dinner, take a break Pillow" her mother said as everypony but her entered the barn-house.
after a sad sigh she looked at the sky "this damn ill-ness, i love sleeping but ... what is the point if i never have enough of it to live my life?" Soft pillows, sadly whispered. The little filly, suffered mild yet functional narcolepsi. Due to her working in a coffee bean farm and basically coming from a family of bred coffee bean farmers the accumulated effect of the constant exposure and consumption to the caffeine of coffee, the genes regulating sleep in her family had gone altered, obviously due to the constat effect of the stimulant in their blood stream.However for most of her family while it had always been a little odd sleep,it was really nothing affecting life quality significantly.However in her case, she could sleep for 14 hours straight and Have energy for perhaps 10 at best if she did not over stressed her body, taking away a big part of the day and leaving little for her to enjoy, not to mention other inconveniences of ocassionaly getting so tired she can get to sleep in random situations. She had non cataplexia Narcolepsi.
However that would change oh so very soon.
giving a yawn as the dawn was clear she started getting sleepy looking at the dawn. " oh, well Gotta go back to Sle-" she let another yawn "eep" but before she could turn back to the house barn this universe's version of the rainboom happened. making her witness an epic beam of aurora borealisin the sky pulsating waves of lavander trough the kingdom messing her mane.
"...that...thats!... SO COOL!" due to the narcolepsi,being young and constantly helping in the farm, she did not had many chances to see or do funny things, let alone see something like this!.
The wave of emotion she got, was like none other in her whole life, over stimulating her brain in just the right ways, wich would a doctor later explain was a miracle. Then, she noticed something...
"HUH!?, im not the sleepy anymore? why!" she was confused and yet exctatic.
"MOM!, DAD!" She ran to her parents and sisters with a big smile on her face and eyes full of life while her parents and sisters just looked back at her mouth so open, flies could enter. They had NEVER ever seen her so full of energy and life, not even after the times she slept like
"I was going to come back to sleep, but then...but then the rainbow, and then and then.. im not sleepy anymore!" she spoke so fast she mouth may as well be classified as a bullet train.
Without delay, the ponies took their now ball of joy they called daugher to the local doctor, fearing something was wrong since she NEVER was like this even if she wanted too, and they had fear her narcolepsi had gotten something wrong.
"Oh, this is... GREAT!, i had heard of it in papers but i truly never really believed it since i have never seen physical evidence or good amount of test subjects being used in the studies but to see a real life case is amazing!" the doctor examined the filly like a child getting a new toy.
"uhhh Doctor? care to explain?" her mother was getting impatient.
"Oh, right!. Sorry" Dr. Stable recomposed himself.
"Well, you see. Since narcolepsy is not curable depending on the severity of the case, treatment of this disorder is symptomatic. Now, this means that while there is "treatment" like Scheduling one, two, or three 10-30 minute naps wich alleviates hypersleepiness and improves academic and work performance...its as you may have experienced with your daughter here, not enough. HOWEVER there have been some very few documented cases of significant improvement in recent papers of Minotaurs of south equestre wich have noted that in most of this cases the correlation seemed to be the stimuli related with happiness and joy wich reduced hypnagogic hallucinations and sleep paralysis!"
"wich means?" asked her sister morning mane
"That, usually in some patients after getting enough joy induced stimuli during that day, that same day they can have a higher tolerance to sleepiness and higher decree of alert, getting a better quality of life! but in this filly's case is EVEN better from what you told me since apparently since she has been like this since... 5 days ago?"
"yes, we live far away from here." blanket shortly answered.
"Correct. So whatever stimuli she had was so great that the record duration of the effect of positive stimuly of the paper was overcome!, no other patient had an event so joyful that increased their sleep quality and lowered the need to sleep for more than 2 days!"
everyone gasped.
"so... this means..." their parents were getting teary eyed
"I cant assure you 100% but... the event may have given such a level of joy hormones that perhaps her brain circuits have rearanged in a way and she could... key emphasis in could... be somewhat cured or at the very least could have a better quality of life from now on."
Soft pillows face was so bright, the sun paled in comparison as she jumped all over the place. "I have never felt joy like this before!,it feels so good!!, it makes me want to keep feeling like this forever and i want everyone to keep smiling Forever and i want everyone i know to do so too!!!!"
"oh but ranbow beams dont come that ofteri wonder how else can i create smiles an joy..." she wondered to herself as she returned home with good news for the family.
Once they arrived home that same night, Pillows got an IDEA!, And after their parents and sisters came back from the near town commerce a half day away what awaited them was a barn house full of tainted coffee bean rest made decorations, music playing from the main hall and recently made food with their daugher reciving them with a smile and open arms as her family entered the house.
"You guys like it? its called a slumber party!" she exclaimed with joy and a laugh at the irony. For some seconds there was silence and the lips of her loved ones were trembling and she assumed they did not like what they saw and found coming back but before she could get sad their trembling lips turned into smiles and gave her a hug "ohyou like it?! , im So happy!!!" she was happy as a fiddle as 3 multicoloured pillows with party logos on them appeared on her neck.
------ Industrial park of lancelot. New equestre. Agust 18th, PDH (post dragon heroes)------
In the more humble houses near the primitive industrial park of lancelot. Lived a humble family of 3 unicorns in a humble monochromatic white and lavander house. Like most around.
The mother Cookie oven: a pastel pink unicorn with lavander mane, blue eyes an oven cutie mark on her neck with a stereotypical housewife cloth set on
The father, stitched pants: a white unicorn with brown mane in a bow cut, almond eyes, a patched cloth cutie mark in his neck and a stereotypical taylor clothing set on.
And her only daughter alive: Abundance. Named after her parents desire for her to have a prosperous future.
Abundance: a 8 year old female unicorn at this time with white furr, silver and zaphire striped mane, and zaphire blue eyes. With her mane having a tomboy haircut and her neck being in blank. Wearing a modest grey shirt and blue jeans.
Said unicorn filly was observing in sadness and melancholly a picture of her late passed sister: Charming siren. A white furred unicorn filly with emerald eyes, a cherry coloured mane with a ponytail using a lollita black costume smiling along with her family back at her. As she stared at that 1 year old painting done before her death.
"If only the country had more medicine at that time.." she whispered in frustrstion and sadness.
Her mother seeing this, came to her with a small salad and lemonade and placed them behind her in the table.
"Dear, believe ME. ME and your DAD know how you feel. But we cannot do anything about it anymore. All we can do at least is make sure you dont suffer the same fate and that you live a prosperus life. So please come eat breakfast with me" her mother pleaded.
"Its... just not fair mom!!, her illness was not even that complicated!! This was all caused because the country was more focused in war tactics rather than ensuring resources for medicines and foo-" she could not finish her tirade before her father slapped her.
"Be quiet abundance!." This made her and her mother stare in shock.
" OF COURSE ITS NOT FAIR!, BUT DO NOT INSULT FOR A SECOND THE COUNTRY THAT GAVE US SHELTER AT THE COST OF HUNDREDS OF LIFES, EVEN AFTER EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED!.
This made the both women look down. They remembered of course. They recalled how they, along a lot of ponies and members of other races, that either had previously left the union (equestre), participated in the dragonic genocide or just had not gotten to the countries border before. Were suddenly in what seemed like a miracle thanks to a sudden change of heart of the country's rulers (due to the sacrifce of the dragon diplomats ) did their upmost effort to let in every pony they could, regardless of past bad blood, or place of origin at the cost of hundreds of brave soldiers that died in the process ensuring the safe migration of the outside ponies in exchange of their lifes, ultimatelly giving them a new place to stay.
This of course came with further problems since having more mouths to feed and people to protect witn only so much food, resources and soldiers to dispose... well you get the idea.
"you act all high and mighty despite being one of the ones pushing for the war on dragons at the time..." Abundance whispered in anger believing she was not heard.
At this fact her mother gasped, and her father simply stared at her with a progresively fading scowl that soon turned into a look of regret looking down.
Giving a long sigh " i know i Was wrong, just like all those ponies have realized by now. I just... tried to protect you three whatever the cost was, no matter what i had to do. So when the anti dragon troops planted the posssibility of adding an even higher danger to our plate/ situation i just..." he sighed again
"Then again its no excuse of course. At the end of the day what we did not only made things worse and was a deep sin, but also we have been humilliatingly been proven wrong. What we feared most and what caused us to become feardul animals is the only reason we are still alive. I carry that burden along with your sister's death everyday.". He tried to explain.
"Would that days never happened, would the country be better off now?, would that stronger and more abundant country have the medicines your sister needed?, would all those premises be right she would be alive now?". He continued
"Of course i know the answers to all of those are yes." He concluded.
"So, i know its not fair abundance" he kneeled down and reached for her daughters shoulder with a face that did not betray his anguish "but we still have you. And i will do everything i can and do it right this time so you live the best life we can give you"
Abundance gave her dad and mom an undesrtanding look and joined the breakfast before her dad left for his job as the royal tailor and armour designer. After his familt being taken back the princesses wanted him. On a leash making sure he did not contribute any more to anti-dragon or anti-species acts even if they knew he had realized his sins. And the better way they thought was making him the royal tailor so they could keep an eye on him while also using his talent.
After her father left and her mother went to clean the clothes she dejectedly went to the kingdoms public royal school wich was no more than a basic education school that also teached practicak skills needed in this developing nation in crisis.
Looking at the grey cement floor and equal houses devoid of originality she sighed taking her way to the school near the castle of the princesses appreciating how like usual, in her eyes the world seemed very dull,a world with lack of colors, lack of resources, lack of medicines, lack of fun, lack of food, lack of good dresses!. just...lack in general.
Oh, how she wished for a world where everything was ABUNDANT, a world in wich there was enough medicine so her sister would be alive, a world in where there was houses of different colours so she would enjoy her walk and not get lost in the sea of copy and paste houses, a world in wich there was mlre than enough food and water for everyone...an abundant world
But how could it even be achieved? Universal abundance? What could she even do to help?. With a sigh she continued walking until....
Suddenly there was a massive rainbow blast to the skies of lancelot coming from the near castle of the royal sisters wich pulsated waves of lavander wind making her hair and clothes along all the non heavy objects wave in its glory. As she watched in awe at the glorious display as the beam's rainbow shadow tainted the surroundings, in a way that made it look like all the houses and clothes in its blast range were full of different colours and life. And for a first in her life there was an there in front of her, a all you can see display of colour. All her eyes could see was the abundance of something: Colour and beauty!.
Abundance was in a momentaneous shock her body was overwhelming with emotion, emotion that before she could think about it led her legs to run towards the source of the beam before it dispersed. Way that slowly led her to the castle of the two sisters before the beam died down. Castle that as of now had closed door but a hole in their ceilling.
"The castle of the two sisters?" she wondered to herself.
"Wow, did you see that?" a random stallion asked to his friends
"Yeah, totally rad dude" another answered.
Abundance, hearing their conversation thought she could get some information about the beam's source from them.
"Hey, gentlecolts. Did you perhaps see that beam too?"
"Sure we did, what about it?"
"Well... Perhaps you saw what or who caused it?" she questioned, she wanted to see that sea of color again, perhaps... Learn how to use that magic!
"Uhhhh no, sorry?" the gentle colts lamely answered
With a sigh, she turned around and walked to the castle not before waving a hand and thanking them anyway.
"Well... Thank you though"
"Sure, whatever" the youngest stallion answered.
As she walked to the castle, step by step her adrenaline levels lowered by the second. Plummeting right before the gates of the marble castle.
"What am i doing?...to bother the princesses with something like this...!" she whispered to herself in mild panic. She knew the princesses were nice mares but...she did not what would be of her if she bothered them with what could be percieved to be an irrelevant question. They had more important things to do than to find the source of a rainbow beam, even if was inside the castle. Castle her father worked for and....
"Wait!, thats it!" she got an... IDEEEAAAAA!
Without delay she knocked the door getting a guard mare opening it looking down at the filly with a raised brow.
"What is it you need with the princesses filly?" she questioned.
"Hello, uhmm i come to see if my dad is ok. He is the royal tailor and i saw that magic beam breaking the castles ceilling recently and wanted to make sure he was fine" she half told the truth and half lied. She did not come to see if her dad was fine, she just wanted to find the source of that beam.
"oh. Uhmm let me fact check with some guards and then ill come to get you then. Name?" the guard mare asked.
"Abundance. Abundance siren" She simply stated.
"ok, give me a couple of minutes." then the guardsmare closed the gates and went inside. While abundance used this time to reflect.
"i came here without thinking... but then... that beam, it just... came out the blue and that sea of colours i.... i just want to replicate that. The world is usually so lacking of color so... i cant help myself. That being said... what exactly will i find here anyway?, i just hope im not disapointed" with a sigh she waited when suddenly the door was opened by the previous mare with a couple more guards mares by her side.
"follow us"
with a nod she followed the guards, entering the marble castle, that once in she could notice the candle illumination and the red carpet all over the floor. With the celillings having candelabrums made of amethyst filled with candles turned on this being now magic ones. Thanks to Dusk lights help. that way never running out of fire or candle so that light when needed required but a grain of magic.
"woah" she was astonished
"come, we dont have all day" the older guard mare was clearly impatient.
As she nooded, she then followed the guards crossing room after room until she was in the main hall before the main door leading to the "office" of the princesses.
"go in" the guards mares steped aside and watched her.
With a gulp of fear and nervoussness she opened the gates to find a room with 2 royal seats in the front next to each other. A red velvet carpet leading to them. In front of the seats a massive table with documents and maps on it, the ceilling with night and day pattern art but with now a big hole on it. Finally the walls in the west and east having mutliple banners depicting the princesses, the heroic dragon diplomats and overall new equestre's history. (Keep in mind this design is highly similar to the castle of the 2 princesses of the main universe just with respective history banners).
Sitting on their chairs, laid both royals a filly and an adult stallion, with the last 2 standing up. There in all their royal splendor laid Moon and sol, with the latter holding something in a cloth near her chest while she talked with Abundance's dad before looking at the other filly and then her.
Princess sol displayed skin white as snow, white wings and horn with her mane tied in a bun/pony tail and possesing rainbow color, her eyes being magenta and in her neck near her massive F cup rack having a sun tattoo.
On the other throne, Princess moon looked intently at the cloth in celestias arms, with her dark cyan eyes, dark cyan horn and wigs, with her skin being night blue with black spots, her mane being dark cyan and in her neck having a Half moon tattoo with her tattoo being near her moderate rack of E cup breasts. Said princess turning around as soon as the door was opened to find a unicorn filly in the other side.
"What is it you need filly? and how did you got in?" Sol asked without malice in her voice.
"Well... i-" before she could answer her dad vouched for her.
"OH!, sorry princesses, the guards that came a moment ago, informed my daughter came looking for me. Apparently she was worrried because of some rainbow beam destroying the ceilling. Guess that explains that hole. Then again, im deeply sorry." he answered with a bow of his head.
After a couple of seconds, then looking at each other the royal sisters exclaimed "ohhhh, that makes sense." then they started a giggling fit.
"I dont get it" Abundance said in confussion.
"Its just... oh little filly. You may be interested in what caused that beam no? it displays all over your face." Sol said with a knowing smile while moon did the same.
"Uhh no?... i mean...no!, I came for dad!" her hands and face displayed deep nervoussness and embarassment while she thought to herself in sarcasm. "Great...dad doesnt know what or who made that beam, fantastic".
"Would you like to know though?" Princess sol teasee while she put the clothed object in between her teats.
"YES!!!!". Then, A silent pause... " i mean... yes, please?" damn she exposed herself no use in lying anymore.
"Sure, come her miss?.."
"Abundance, princess." Her dad answered.
"Thank you, come here miss abundance" sol instructed.
As abundance got nearer to the sisters sol left the cloth object near her teats down so Abundance could see
"You see this handsome little fella?" Sol asked while raising the cloth wo the baby inside could be seen "well he did it, my little baby" the princess cooed at the baby crown raising a claw to reach for him.
As abundance lookes in she noticed the baby inside the cloth but more importantly...
After a while of no noise being uttered from the ponies and dragon gathered there princesses sol and moon just looked at Abundance and hef father in silence.
"...yes. what of it?" Moon said raising a brow
"Oh!. I, uhhhh..." Abundance didnt know what to say. She overeacted because From what her father told her, all dragons had been basically killed of.
"No way, they actually hatched the egg?..." her father said in deep surprise, so low you could basically call it a whisper.
Sad for him he was heard by everyone.
"Something to tell me about this dad?" She asked in sarcasm. Making the princesses look at him too.
"Well... i didnt really lie to you if that is what you are thinking. The chances for the literal last dragon in existence in this case an egg to hatch were...slim to none. " he defended himself raising his hands.
After a moment of reflection she guessed it didnt matter now. Even her usual practical clases at the royal public school ( for basic metalurgy among other habilities and knowledge to make and do things) were now lost due to the time (she was late today due to coming here) .
"So... this dragon did the rainbow beam?" She was thankful she could get some answers.
"Its a he" moon simply stated.
"Ok... HE did it?" She was getting impatient.
"Yes, amazing isnt it?" Sol smiled proud of her little baby.
"Yes!, what was that anyway?. I mean... Is that a spell i can learn?. I dont care if just asthetical and destructive with no practical use buuuut can i learn it?." She asked giving puppy eyes.
"Not really, no. I mean, if replicating the colors with/in magic is the thing that you want you could always learn chromatic magic and mix it with a light spell but doing exactly... whatever that was, then no." Moon said in a somewhat desinterested tone.
"Oh mumu, dont be like that...(yes in even in this universe they can get pet names) its just a fascinated filly" Sol chastised slightly
"What do you propose then?, need i remind you we know little to no dragon knowledge? Let alone magic. If it was not four our now late friends or current protegeé, then prince Spike's egg could have risked rotting away." She surmized
"I mean yes but...
Before sol could continue Dusk light interrupted.
"Actually princess, among the books and scrolls you both gave me before i hatched Crown's egg. I think i recall somewhat decoding some books and scrolls mentioning something akin to dragon magic or in this case "rainbow magic" being related with something called "technologies" "though i tried to replicate it i havent done it succesfully"
The princesses faces blanched at that, while Abundance and her father looked intriged.
"Holy shhhh...-" moon couldnt even end her sentence from the mix of fear and euphoria. "We got jackpot.." sol looked absolutely extatic.
"? " "?" "?" Sol being the ever patient mare decided to explain "Oh... right, you guys dont know. Well... you all remember the dragonic genocide some bad ponies... (she took a nasty look at abundance's father) pushed for and caused, right?"
The stallion merely gulped looking away while the rest of the ponies noded.
"Well there is lots and i mean LOTS of dragonic lore and history almost no pony knows. You see the thing is, they were VERY intelligent and VERY skilled beings. While we never disclosed to the public, most of our current vapor based technologies are all thanks to them and their... lets call dragonic arts. Those being metalurgy and alchemy.
This picked the unicorns interest.
"Before the whole genocide idea was pushed to the public, they were helping us create some designs to one up the Corrupted mana monsters, and with the help of a select few chosen people (or at least we thought so at the time) we had various places for researching and DESIGNING tools, equipment, you name it with 5 key focuses: increasing prime matter gathering, decreasing prime matter time for processing it, Increasing food production, Increasing medicine production and... weaponry."
Abundance's curiosity and will to know more was peaked!, so dragons were inventors and designers?! that was absolutely breath taking. Also from what she was hearing they were doing all she ever wanting to do, to make the world a better place... well, except for the weapon part.
"However, the weapon department apparently were onto something big because regardless of the cause for the leak of information being spies or just freaked out insiders... whatever they got caused panic among the races, so much that they feared the potentials of this weapons and how they could change the power dinamic among the kingdom races, since ponies were the dominant race at the time and apparently the weapons were somewhat easy to produce, so they made sure to do anything to prevent them from coming to light..."
"WHAT!?" Abundance's father was livid.
"THATS BULLSHIT!, YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THE WHOLE BUCKING THING THAT HAPPENED YEARS AGO WAS BECAUSE SOME PRICKS PREFERED BEING "ON TOP" OF THE FOOD CHAIN AND FEARED LOSING THEIR PRIVILEGE TO OTHER RACES BECAUSE OF A POSIBLE WEAPON REVOLUTION!?" if this was true then not only all he was told for the "Anti-Dragon resistance" at the time was a lie but it was even worse because not only they were obviously wrong in their "beliefs and philosophy" but they did not even do it with the main objective of protecting ponykind in mind!, it was just so they could remain in control!!"
"Oh, mind proving us wrong would you now?" moon was out of patience if her icy tone did not convey her murderous intent enough
Realizing his pathetic outburst Sitched pants look at the ground ashamed "im Deeply sorry princesses, its just... i already know what we did was a sin but... to think that it was even more of a lie than i thought? and to top it all off it all started NOT because ponies were afraid of a posible "dragonic insurrection" but because they feared the weapons they created FOR US? Just because some pricks could lose privileges?.... buck me, why didnt you tell me this before?
Sol sighed "Because we did not want to or didnt need to do so. In anycase, that is the reason why Mumu and i Are very excited. Perhaps not only the documents from the investigations survived apparently but we may even finish them and achive the fruits of the labor we before thought was lost.
This whole story resonated with Abundance. Whatever those dragons were doing, resonated with her ideals and desires, and she wanted to know more.
There was a deep silence while all the ponies in the room thought to themselves. Silence, that was broken after Abundance's train of thought came to a conclusion.
"Princesses?" she asked with conviction.
looking at her they waited for her to speak up "I may only have basic knowledge in metallurgy thanks to my classes at the royal school... BUT Please, let me keep learning more about those dragonic arts along the school metallurgy so that way maybe i can aid you to give this old projects life!" She exclaimed with the most convinced face and tone she ever had in her short life for anything, as an intense silver and blue beam shined from her neck as a 3 iron bars cutie mark appeared.
Now she could help Design her ideal world. She was, a designer by nature afterall.
--------------New equestre, 11th of august, year 2 PDH (Post dragon heroes) but 1 years before the rainboom event.------------------------------------------
The next blank neck filly was a particularly sad case. Currently residing in the north west of new equestre, next to the neverhope forest and relatively close to the capital "lancelot" was the "pegaus district" a set of clouds big as a city. The filly was in complexion tall for her age (7 at the time), for her hair a long free styled violet mane with pink rays on its ends took its place, for her furr a yellow as warming as the sun yand and for her eyes 2 blue orbs as clear as the sky, that transmited empathy and curiosity. This mare, from a middle to low class family, resided in the cloud houses complex that was near lancelot. Her name? Serene whisper to be precise. For a family : 2 pegasus parents and a slightly younger pesasus brother with green furr, black mane and violet eyes, his name siwft relief (him being younger than her for 1 year).
However, remember they did live in war times so its of course not just a "happy family" story . Turns out this filly was just like the original fluttershy at least in some aspects at the beginning,however in her while still reserved, she however was nowhear near a scaredy cat as fluttershy though a cat did got her toungue. She as you may be deducting, at least at the time had troubles to speak. For whatever the reason was, a filly her age of 6 should be able to speak but she could not. She could at best make different toned complaints, for example: "MMMMMH!" she had hunger, AAAHHM!" she was angry "wooanmmm!?" she was scared. An so on.
Her "weakness" only showed more when that summer "flight camp" came. Wich in this universe of course is not as innocent as in the original universe. Since this event, was financed by the dual crowned sisters to train and strengthen the populi to escape faster, last longer and overall fish for posible royal guard material (after they grew of course).
Her daugher not being able to talk and being more reserved was bad enough but once the training started they noticed how despite them giving her the best nourishment they could and regular mild exercise her body was apparently still weak. Her wings, despite being a pegasus did not let her fly that quickly and she had trouble staying in air. Even more so, all the colts and fillies there among the gryphs just laughed at her or at least the most part did, except a particular rainbow maned filly.
This camp beside the reasons before explained also had another motive to exist. Like previously said they looked for potential yes, but why would a filly or colt, or their family for that matter would want to be selected to train and once older to become a guard anyway?, the answer is simple. Food and resources.
Getting into the millitary branch was in lots of families cases a life saver literally, since food was expensive in most cases save for basics and having a steed source of food, medicine, etc to your whole family for literal years to decades depending on the service and time you did that service was highly important.
Needless to say, she did not get in. Neither did the rainbow maned filly altough she was pretty close. If anything was prevented her to do so was the fact she was malnourished at the time, so her performance was not optimal for obvious reasons.
However in this trying times, having a what in their ignorant eyes was a special needs daugther that only took resources, was weak could not speak and was weaker than even her younger brother,they took the choice too instead of risking both of their futures to well... focus on their little brother. After all in war times, boys did have a higher survival rate among other things, they being stronger and what not. You get the deal.
So one night, they took with heavy heart the decision to while she sleeped (she was a heavy sleeper )take her swiftly but with ninja tier silence to the nearest forest that despite its name was not THAT bad but it was not good either. However it did have decent amount of water in the form of rivers, and food, if only your diet consisted of berries and mushrooms and whatnot. So then, after a momen of pause and shame, they left and hoped for the better for her.
After abandoning their daughter with tears in their eyes, they left to their house to tell the younger brother and explain the situation (without telling him where they left her, not that it mattered because neither brother never entered the forest and did not know how to either traverse it or get out) wich the later of the 2 brothers , would eventually learn of their sin and resent their fathers, just like her brother did.
And in case you are wondering, no im not giving them names. A parent that abandons their child, even if to save the other does not deserved its name to be remembered. So what way to make them lost in time forever than to not have any name at all?. Buck them.
After waking up, the filly looked around. Noticing the tall and black wood trees with leaves that looked like blade patterns. Her first instinct was to look for her family and even though failing to voice out any coherent sentence due to her "disability" she tried, failling however to call out to them. However she sooner than later realized she was alone.
The sky reflected the star filled night, that altough seemed very bright to this filly could not be more somber.
For some hours she tried different paths to either get out of the forest or hopefully find her family. She didnt do either. By the time she realized she could no longer run, her was stamina was low, her mouth thristy and her stomach aching. She could only cry in silence near a natural cave that was near a big grey rock found in one of the paths she tried to follow to get out.
Apparently either the forest was to big or she was to bad at tracking her steps. Either way she didnt have the physical strength or mental either to think that about that now.
"Mommy..... daddy..... brother....where are y-you?" she internally thought as she sobbed. Despite being unable to speak her mind was definately not silent.
She was scared but also hungry, sad, angry, thirsty, golly she was a mess!.
Then after hearing the movements of something or someone in a near bushel she hided in the cave structure in fear of what was out there. Except was came out was a small rabbit, not bigger than her arm. That slowly trotted near a bunch of macroscopic fungi and started to eat them, while it moaned in satisfaction. Seeing another animal eat, made her own belly roar, noise that made the bunny turn to her and look at her for a while but then deciding she was not a predator it continued its feast.
"Those must be edible..." the filly thought venturing out of her cave to another bunch of equally looking fungi and tried to eat them. She was hungry for many reasons afterall. They did not taste bad actulally. For her luck she was eating Laetipurus fungi, or in other words "chicken of the woods" fungi, a chicken tasting fungi naturally found in forest. To her who rarely if ever ate meat due to the current lack of food dilema of the kingdom this tasted like heaven.
With ocasional satisfied moans she ate the shroom, once satisfied she looked towards where the rabbit was before.... it was still there? how odd, she though.
As if answering her question the rabbit turned to look at her, and then south and then started hopping, something in Serene thought the rabbit was telling her to follow it, and considering she just found out something to eat in the near future, there was little to lose, so she followed it.
After 15 minutes or so of following the creature. She heard the sound of water moving. IT WAS A RIVER!. So in her thirst she followed the sound, and after a minute or so of running there in front of her was a river cascading from a small cliff near the water trail it made was near a big group of flowers, fungi, even fruit trees and whatnot. The water was so clean she could see her reflection, in fact she could also see the reflection of the bunny that led her here that was kind of smirking at her as a brother would after teaching a sibling how to do something.
So then, they both drank until their strength was replenished and their body hydrated.
Serene did not know where she was, but she knew something. In the time between her parents finding her or if she managing to get out , she would learn all she could from this or any creature here to survive.
Too bad they never came, and she did not go out. 7 months had passed. She was... adapting well you could say. She found out many types of food all around the forest. She found out (due to experience of course) wich things WERE edible and wich WERE NOT, needles to say, she even tripped balls on one ocasion with her eating a hallucigen fungus by accident (Amanita muscaria) confusing it with its "sibling" Amanita caesarea,wich is indeed edible. How did she confuse them? well, try to see details and color in the dark and i mean DARK and tell me if you never mess up.
She while still holding the abilty to understand words, write and overall all get civility she started to understand deeply all the implications of animal interactions, ecosystems, etc.
She now understanded concepts like "alfa", what was a "pack" among other concepts that at the time she did not knew wich words to use but she understood what they meant. And you would do too if you spent almost a full year since childhood in a forest full of life and animals by yourself, trust me.
So anyway her figure was now more "full" she still was lean for her age but she was definatly not as skinny as before. The forest was kind on her in that matter. altough her presence was clearly havnig an impact as less and less fruit fungi was found month after month. So, as you may imagine not everything was roses and pink. Remember she is living in a forest FULL of animals. LOTS of them. So eventually one day as she was searching for resources with the help of self made make shift tools with her bunny friend that she now called "Angel" she got ambushed by a "grey wolf" however the wolf be it due to ignorance or overall instinct did NOT focuse on her, her animal friend however got int its jaws and barely managed to escape with a cost, its right front paw as well its left ear was bitten off and it would have been eaten whole if Serene did not frighten the wolf throwing stones at it. Eventually the wolf got tired and decided to leave it at that, at least it got a small snack.
While the bunny bleeded she was freaking out.
"No, no, no, no, NO!" she did not know what to do but she refused to stay still, and altough she was still having lots of trouble to spek she could still scream one word: "NO!", a scream that was loud enough to be hear outside the forest. Meanwhile the only thing it occured to her was grab a pair of vines and did a very rustic tourniquette as she wrapped the stumps with fragments of her old clothes now tainted red.
All of this while a Blue furr and rainbow maned filly that was overflying the forest heard her scream.
The Rainbow maned filly ( that we now know is Stella ) followed the scream slowly yet firmly saving up speed becasue she was malnourished and running or flying at fast speed was high energy consuming.
Once arriving to the scene where many noises where being made by the yellow pegasus filly´tending the best she could to the bunny , Stella's eyes widened.
"Isnt she that girl that totally crashed in the pegasus camps?" Stella thought,not noticing she broke a small stick of wood. This gave Serene pause, and made her stand protectively over her bunny friend staring and holding a rock in her hand ready to throw it at whatever made the sound except it was... another filly!?
"huh?" Serene thought in shock, however still not letting her guard down holding the rock tight with a frown on her face"
"HEY, CHILL! Im not gonna hurt you!, i just heard a scream as i passed nearby and came to see if i could help!" stella explained while defending herself with her hands.
Serene relaxed at that somewhat and lowever the stone, altough not completely trusting this intruded. She simply pointed to her friend in need, at wich Stella got suprised
"Is that your pet or something? ouch!, ok i see why you screamed!". Stella said while getting closer.
At wich Serene snarled.
"Hey!, i cannot help if i dont get closer!"
Serene seemed to get was she was saying and relaxed somewhat still tending the best it could to her bunny.
Sadly,despite all the knowledge aquired to observation and experience in this almost 8 months , she did not knew what to do here! While the animals had many natural tools such as armours to protect themselves like the insects, used different strategies to avoid predators like camaleon and their camoflage or even used plants to treat illness or infected/open wounds (for example she tried Medicinal ointments to tend t her own occasional skin cut infections after noticing animals macerate certain plants with their mouths and then ointed them in their wound with their claws or paws) or even even internal infections as she immitated to eat certain flowers when she experienced diarrea but this.... the best she knew at this time was to do a tourniquette and to try to block the stumps to promote coagulation! (she got injured a lot as a filly so she knew this much at least after her parents gave her first aid in those instances).
"This looks bad, you clearly gave it first aid but its not enough. The cuts are deep and the loss of extremities is always equals to loss of high amount of blood. Perhaps if we take it to the outskirt of the forest with my mom..." The blue pegasus mumbled to herself.
Serene barely understood what she said. "Bad, first aid, out of forest, mom"... what she could get out of here?
"MPHHMM!, MMMMM!" Serene made noise to gain her attention as she waved her head in an obvious "yes" while also making gesticulations that indicated that YES, if Stella could help her friend and help her get out of here please do so.
"what do you mean?, Cant you speak or something!?" stella was not on the mood for playing guessing.
Serene merely responded with a "no" head gesticulation
"OH!, ok... well at least you understand what im saying so you know language....why are you even here anyway ?"
Stella simply wrote in the earth with her fingers the word "Lost"
"ok, Follow me!" Stella took to the north as Serene took the bunny in her arms and trotted along side her, eventually after some minuted of running they got to a clearing that had some tents and a small camp mounted near.
Once there, Stella took one of Serene's hands and made her follow her while she explained
"Ma and I mounted a small campsite here while we travel to Lancelot, we are migrating to the capital to try luck and while i was sight seeing over the trees to see if i found some goods or food while i did not find any of those did found you!" and after a few gasps of tiredness she continued "ma used to be civilian medic, while a bunny its not the same as treating a pony or gryph or whatever but she might help!"
Seeming to somewhat get the general idea, Serene hurried up and enteted the medium sized grey tent on the middle of camp along with stella, the latter screaming for her mom. Once inside, there laid on a small bean bag chair laid a Grown mare pegasus with similar color patterns as her daugher but with grey eyes.
"Stella!? wha-" but she stopped herself as she looked at the 2 new beings that were near her daughter
"A filly?, a bunny and is that blood!?" she was confused and shocked if anything.
"Sorry mom!, ill explain later, but this filly's pet here got almost eaten of it seems, can we help her?" she summarized
taking a breath to calm herself and think Her mom began with a stern tone.
"Look Stella, you know or situation!, i dont mind helping but we barely have any food, medicinal plants or Medical Consumables at all for ourselves for that matter less reasons to waste them on random animals!, besides while helping others is wounderful even if i save the bunny , it, as well as its master there WILL be a mouth to feed and we cannot afford it, even more so in this forest!.
"I mean yeah, but-" stella negotiated.
"NO buts missy!, the best i can do is to help this lost filly get with her parents or friends or whatever once we get to the capital and even then she will have to fend for her own food." moma stella concluded looking at Serene with a look that said "im truly sorry but its what i can do for you now"
But serene getting the hangs of the problem did her best to speak up.
"-ood... med...i... Ca... Get" she blurted out in barely understandable tone. she was putting big effort in her bowals, specially after not using them pretty much most of the time in the forest.
"what did she say?"
"Sorry ma, she has trouble to speak.... but I think she meant she... can get the food and...meds? stella looked expectantly at serene, wich in response the latter justs nodded her head with fervor.
"Doubt it... but if you know where they are... i guess i could try, bring me some and then we will talk" said the mama stella.
Saying no more(pun intended) Serene flew as fast as she could to her cave and brought her "bag" of things in it where some medical flowers, plants and edible Shrooms and berries
Eyes widen with shock the mother of Stella took a breath and relaxed taking a choice.
"Ok, i dont know how a young filly has any knowledge of botanical medicine let alone where you found this. But clearly you know this forests innards more that we do... so lets make a deal. I will help you treat to what my abilities allow your pet there and if you so wish i will help you with Stella here, to get out of this wretched forest as we go to lancelot IN EXCHANGE of you helping us find more food and plants for that help us last through our journey. Deal?
"mpph!" she squeacked as she nodded her head again.
"Alright sweety, deal is done. My name is Blue quartz and that is my daugher Stella, what is your name?......--------
Alternate's rainboom- Serene whisper part 4 what to do in amputation cases (First aid)
After accepting the deal with Serene, blue quartz started her work as serene watched close everything she did, making sure she learned all she could.
First she saw the older woman Pressing the amputated stumps directly with help of clean gauze keeping the extremities raised. As the gauze got stained with blood she just put a new one and kept pressing and once that gauze wa full of blood she put a new one on, this while she kept looking at the bunny in several parts of his body and eyes, looking for what Serene now knows were signs of shock due to blood loss. She also noticed the bunnys head was positioned low compared to the the rest of the body wich was slightly raised with the help of cloth. Blue quartz would explain later to her, that when and if a living being goes into shock due to hemorrhage, the body in response to keep itself alive sends the avilable blood to the imporant organs mainly brain And by rising the body slightly like this the blood flow to the brain is easier decreasing chance for brain damage due to not enough oxigenated blood flowing through the head.
Less than a minute in, she indicated to both fillys to keep the pressure as she as fast as she could while checked the stump were the bunnies paw used to be and quckly made a torniquete on it (fyi if a body part is amputated you need to do a tourniquete to help block the blood flow out AND complement with gauze, however in haemorrhage were the body part is complete save the cuts or laceration mainly gauze and pressure is recommended because unlike with the amputated limp here cutting the blood flow has a big side effect wich is causing the rest of the extremity to expirience hipoxia), then quickly gave the paw situation a once over and sighed in relief "its a Comminuted fracture amputation, and it was only to the perone, not the tibia!. this animal could make it!" so she then took hold of both legs of the bunny indicating it not to move until told, as she lined up its legs, placing a flat, plank-like piece of wood between them, followed by encasing both legs together, with the plank in the middle with the help of a cloth in tight knot, that was however not near the stump so as to not affect the wound.
Then with a comanding voice she stated: "Ok, so i dont have a way to transfuse blood right now!, nor do i have a blood bag compatibile with bunnies,...specially not his blood type, whatever it is!. So if he is lucky and has good coagulation factors along a high amount of platelets, as soon as a decent blood clot is formed on the stumps, mainly the paw wich is the one with relevant amputation, due to the broken bone and blood loss risk then i will do a quick suture to help the process" she then looked at the bunny "you are going to hate me for this" the bunny merely fainted.
As soon as the flow of blood seemed to almost turn into a thin leakage, she did a marvelous work at suture wich left both fillies in awe as after some laborious minutes the stup was sutured, with new gauze that also was tight and placed in a special pattern to give form to the future stomp so a protesis could be made for the bunny. Once done she sighed as sweat fell from her face.
"Ok, so so far we stabilized him, the blood loss is at a minimum and his gauze and sutures are holding well, i will give him some iv serum and nutrients, and with luck if no brain damage was done due to blood loss he will eventually wake up... "fine" altough YOU will have to tend to his stumps almost daily and make sure to act up in any sign of infection!"
The filly was about to thank the mare but also retort because... how could she tend to his injuries if she did not kno-
"Dont worry, i will teach you!, be prepared because you are now on nurse intensive training now!" The older mare stated, like reading her mind
Oh, that is how.
2 days later, the bunny woke up and as soon as that happened, no blood coming from his somewhat closed wound stump, as the necesary precautions were made to monitor for any signs of infection to control them, while also making sure to make a impromptu wheel chair once he was better, though he was constantly getting check ups by Bkue quartz ans Serene who learned by her side.
The weeks passed, wich turned a couple of months as Serene helped get food, water and medicinal plants for all of them as Blue quartz trained her and tended to Angel. Once the bunny was able to trott with his impromptu prosthetic made of wood, and also enough food and medicinal resources was gathered for the journy in the barren lands in between the forest and the capital of lancelot, the 4 of them went further and further off the forest to their destination.
Their trip took 2 weeks, weeks in wich all the food, water and a part of the meds they accumulated in the last couple months was all used.
As the pretty much sterlie land before reaching the "abundant" lancelot was pretry much desolate with little to no water and basically no food, save for insects and other habitants of the pseudo dessert.
------------New equestre, 18 of august, year 3 PDH (Post dragon heroes)------------------------------------------
Finally arriving in Lancelot, they divided in "groups" to optimize time. Stella would try to buy food or trade for it in the nearby bakery with the med goods recently aquired thanks to Serene, while Blue quartz and Serene would look for a place to lay in, hoping a mix of medicinal goods freshly extracted from the forest, some money and the prospect of an ex physician at your service could get them a nice place to stay.
And that was the idea except when Stella landed on the bakery of the capital (since we all know bread is the less expensive filling food since history dawn) she looked at the prices and did a backflip. "10 bits a bucking loaf of bread!!!?? (In equestria for reference 1 bit is equal ro 10 dollars, and fractions of bits are called coins wich are basically the equivalent of a dollar)
After trying ( and failling) to negotiate the 5 bits she had, including the medicinal plants to the deal, the clerk denied the offer and tried to pry her off but Stella in determination left the 5 bits, the medicinal goods and the bread loaf and booked off! Promising in a scream she would bring the other 5 bits later once her mon selled the other goods they collected (except food and water, they had none now) ans that the female clerk could keep the medicinal plants as interest.
The clerk however did not took this kindly, wich while following the filly that ran away, while both got blind sighted for some moments because of a colorful magic beam, causing the whole events related to Stella on The alternate's reality rainboom-part 1- Constellar blizzard.
Once those events passed, Stella's friend Serene was in shock as from her perspective with quartz the beam made all the stands and clothes nearby wave in its glory as its colorful shine, reflected on Angels smiling face and still fresh metal suture points giving a his recovering and tretaed wounds a royal glow akin to an aurera borealis, making her gasp in awe as she cried as if she got a signal or eureka.
This was what she wanted to do her whole life, help others get their health and happiness back! As a stiched rainbow colored butterfly cutie mark appeared on her neck.
Some day later, due to the deal with sol and moon along Blue quartz old credentials, was given a loan free tuition in the royal medical school wich she took in elation.
------- August 18th, 3 years post dragon heroes.----
In new equestre the food industry once big and diverse, was now small and selective. Now highly focused on efficency and having enough supply for the public. Therefore state aid in the form of subsidies for any non vital or efficient farms were cut off. Making only the farms of high yield or public interest being able to survive by sheer demand.
In the contrast farms that however focused on highly important goods, or had a high yield or both, were supported by the state with subsidies , for obvious reasons.
This caused a select group of farmer families to rise to the top of the food chain as it may.
Specifically,4 hours away from lancelot, specifically in the south west, laid a farmming field of 65,000 hectare dedicated for farming apples. This being because Apples have a relative easy farming process, are low cost, therefore available for the public and highly nutritious and tasty.
The sole heir of this "empire" currently was none other than ambrosia apple or amber as she liked to be refered as. Sole daughter of the red delicious apple family branch. Her late brother and sister, Red chief and royal gala just like her inherited the farm business and its responsability to the ponies, even since their parents died 3 year ago during the dragonic genocide event, event wich triggered a masive increase in corrupted mana and in consecuence corrupted mana creatures. one night after encountering corrupted mana monsters. Their parents lost their life protecting them.
Ever since that Amber and her sibling have beeing by the wing of her uncles from the Cider family branch, wich helped saw the chance for a perfect business transaction as they took them by their wing and at the same tim took a part of the holdings of the business as they were now their legal protector, altough its true they cared for them to an extent, specially since their uncle Strong bow and their aunt pilot cider were not able to have kids due to their aunt being sterlie.This apparent act of duable good will however came not without a cost, in this case forcing them to adapt to the expected peformance they now required for directs heir of the business of their parents and high class they now were. She just like her brothers was on a strict regime of social manner classes, as well as being instructed on a pletora of all kinds of things such as how to do business, how to negotiate, finance, how to make a deal, how to...blackmail. any think you can think off the inheritors of a gobal enterprise have to go through basically.
However this stress, responsabilities and expectations were too much for her little sister: Royal gala wich was ovewhelmed being only 6 years old, unlike her older sister being 8 and her older brother being 9 in this envioronment. To the point one day she got sick however the medicine being scarce and her little body being overworked She died of high fever. Something neither she nor her brother ever got over, more so of red chief wich while he always was a man of few words, after this only ever responded in "yes" or "no" in most ocassions. Mostly to keep to himself but also to revel against the the injustice of the situation and his, in his opinion tyranic uncles. While her younger sister heartbroken too, found solace in her education and training, like a workaholic would like a cope mechanism. And it would have been so eternally if her brother didnt do what He did.
Little did she know, her brother never fully accepted his new "destiny" so he tried finding life outside of family business walls , never to tend to the fields again like they likd to, so he decided to do community service in a shelter nearby taking food and his time to help the ponies and ocassional other species there, since as you can imagine there was litrle help due to the current situation world wide. So any help was welcome , there he met sweet noice, a purple unicorn filly that just like him lost her parents and was residing there. A Mare he quickly got in love with. However said love would not last , for one 18t of august after his lessons, he returned with a smile to the local shelter, but all he found was a flattened building with blood in the near grounds tainting it.
"The monsters.... how dare they!" He knew what happened. He was not an idiot. A couple of corrupted mana "monsters" most have passed the border walls by chance and started their rampage, taking down the Shelter among other buildings and lifes in the process.
He tried to look for Sweet noice in denial of his situation but his efforts were but rewarded by a stab in the lower abdomen by a black tendril behind his back, and due to his low size because of his age the tendril basically pierced more than half of his abdomen completely.
Soon after , as he tried to escape in insufferable pain, as if mocking him arrived the guards and mages to stop the creatures, allowing him to barely ecape to his nearby home: The small castle of a-ppleasure (pun intended), were he merely droped to the ground in the front gates
There he was found by amber.
"RED CHIEF!, WHY?!, WHAT HAPPENED?!, WHAT DO I DO!?" She screamed In fear and desperation s she found her older brother with blood pouring from his wound.
Red chief looking at the wound and considering the blood he lost, decided he would not make it. So while a servant went to get help, he decided to give his goodbyes to his sister.
"Corrupted's happened." He summarized as he coughed blood "but no matter, look amber i dont have much time, so lister clo-"
"You will not die!, i... i... i will...."
"Shut up amber, and let me talk while i still can!." He coughed more blood.
His sister was shocked at the outburst but complied.what could she do but wait for the family doctor to run here anyway?.
"Look, i met a filly not that long ago. She, reminded me of you way back then before all of this. Before Our parents, before Royal gala. Her name was Sweet noice. She, Despite everything she was through... she tried to be happy and i came to love her" he was whezeeing now.
"She died, just like i will" he simply stated looking at her.
"So promise me, you will not keep immersing yourself in the work and expectations they impose on us, on YOU and will not waste your life!. You could die at anymoment, just like she did!, like i will!, so please be happy!, do what you have to do, to be so!" He was now holding his stomach as he coughed blood klot after blood klot.
"I... i... i will..." she said in a whisper as she looked to the side.
"DONT LIE TO ME!, i know that tone! That face! Our uncles made you "prudent" to act according a situation...and to lie convincingly if necesary! But it wont work in me, promise it for real, amber, please!". His brother was convulsing, he was in shock due to blood loss.
With trembling hands, now in the form of a punch she screamed in defeat " FINE YOU BIG DUMBASS!, I PROMISE BUT DONT YOU DARE DI-"
But before she could finish her outburst her brother body relaxed and stopped moving as his brother took one last inhale and in relaxation a small smile was plastered on his face
"Thank god..." he whispered as he closed his eyes
Before she could even process what happened the family doctor came running and pushed her aside to check for his vitals and treat him but..
"We were to late..." he whispered. As ambers kneels reached the floor and her world came crumbling down.
"Red chief... not you too!, i... i cant... please.... how will i ever be happy if-
but before she could continue with her desperation a big ray of rainbow colors that came from lancelot could be seen even from were she was, as it tainted the nearby sky in lavander color as lavander waves of wind vibrated to all near vicinity.
Her eyes were now wide. What was she seeing? is... this what those "aureoraborealis" she read in her family books looked like?, if so why did it came from a rainbow beam?...Hold that thought.
"WHAT THE BUCK?!" Amber exclaimed, the shock of what she was witnessing making the impact of losing her brother whey less on her mind.
"LANGUAGE!, but *sigh* indeed..." Exclaimed her uncle Strongbow who as well her aunt came running with the family physicial only to witness their nephew die. However just like amber they were completely flabberghasted at the fact not only did their lose their "adoptive son" but at the same time a raimbow beam coming from lancelot appeared out of nowhere?.
"What is happening? i dont get this?!" her aunt, Pilot was equally affected by all of this, even more so because altought they were not her blood heir, they still were mostly raised by her and Strongbow and were partially blood family so basically in her eyes, of a mare that could not concieve children, they WERE her children.
In a cloud of thoughts and emotions caused by the sudden mesh of all this things all Amber could do for a couple of seconds was look to her late brother's carcass, and then at the beam coming from the castle, then her brother, then the beam, again and again in a loop until her late brother's words before death resonated in her mind " please be happy!, do what you have to do, to be so!" then as if hitten by a hammer in the head she flinched as a thought came to her head.
"Is something THERE? for me... for us, Red chief?, was this your doing?, is this some kind of divine signal?, Coincidences don't exist, have enough evidence for that..." she despite her massive despar went deep in thought.
As their uncle and aut looked at her, their train of thought was somewhat related.
"the beam...Its coming from Lancelot near the castle of the 2 sisters, whatever this is... what ever happened... it definitely is important. Perhaps even more so for people of our standing and responsabilities, whatever it is it could affect civilians " her aunt said looking at her with a sympathetic look as tears dropped from her eyes. "So while i am, definately a mess right now, just like you and your uncle dear we have responsabily to tend to. We... we will... " she gave a pause as she inhaled and tried her best to end her statement "mourn our child and your brother later, we need to go investigate."
Despite being extremely heartbroken, for once she agreed with her aunt, this was definately unheard of. And if her hunch was right, her brother might have wanted her to go there too.
So she got dressed with a pink formal dress and took off the farm along with her adoptive parents,mean while the doctors and servants took care of red chiefs body and prepared him for the posterior funeral process.
After a 30 minute walk they arrived to the nearest coal train- station near the center of the farm (wich was installed due to the high traffic of workers and ponies that came to the farmlands) to go to Lancelot as she and her parents, took a seat in one of the mini cabins (train cart) for passenger or their families and stood in silence. Pilot and strongbow holding their daughters hand on each side to bring her some sort of comfort in this trying times. While strongbow just looked upside the train cart without saying anything, with nothing but a moderate scowl of frustration and sadness coated his face, his son... had died.
almost 5 hours later, Once arriving in the lancelot station the first they noticed was... that it was empty. Besides the current train custumers coming out of their carts there was not a soul in the station. Why?, they wondered.
So, not losing time they rushed to the center of the capital city, in order to have an audience with the princesses as the apple holdings "CEO's" to be informed of what had happened and if it had any ramifications. But once again they were met with a wall... in this case made of hundreds of citizens in a massive circle near the castle gates were guards were keeping the civilians away
"leave the castle door's if you do not have direct business with princesses!, tomorrow the celestial sisters will give the public a disclosure of todays events!" a female mare guard was holding off some stalions with each of her arms
"but we want to know what happened!, this is highly rare, i mean a rainbow beam destroying the Castle's roof partially? and coming from inside it?!" a random gryphon screamed in confusion
"Like my partner said, TOMORROW you will have an offical disclosure now buck off!" a more crude pegasus stallion guard answered back as he held 2 pegasus mares that tried to get in from the hole in the ceilling.
"Ladies, gentlemen and Dear Royal guards, we are the Apple Ciders representatives, i Solicit a brief audience with the Princesses if its posible!" Strongbow screamed, gaining the attention of the guards and the citizens neir him and his family as the Citizens made a small but wide enough tunel between each other so they could pass through the many layers of ponies and gryphs and what not as they all aknowledge the apple family, thanks to them and key farmer families they even had affordable fruit at all, so they knew they had a reason to at least talk to the princesses unlike them.
"I Will ask the Princesses permission, please wait here" the earth mare guard simply stated as she quickly went in and out of the castle after some mintues nodding her head to the other guards that then allowed the Apple's in, as the high doors made a deep crunch sound as they opened inwards.
As soon as they entered the castle and walked less than minute, they noticed something they didnt before with the screaming croud outside. The palace "personale" looking in wonder and curiosity to the center of the halls, wich the apple chieftains new was where the royal thrones were as they heard the faint sound resonating in the castle' apparently echo causing walls, of a baby giggling.
There, in front of her. She saw a baby, giggling in princess Sol's bossom as Moon and Dusk light merely smiled at it.
From what she could tell, the baby was reptilian?, it was such a strange sensation. It reminded her of her parents, it felt like she was watching herself as a child. Without a care in the world. Her parents still with her, her big bro alive and her sister on the way to delivery. It made some tears go down from her face.
Her adoptive fathers while not as moved by this, were curious. Who was this child?, who it was?, what kind of reptile it was?. Did it had something. To do with the rainbow beam?.
"Hello, dear ponies. What could we do for you?" said sol, in a voice almost matternal to her subjects.
"We are sorry for intruding princess, we just were concerned with the whole situation regarding the magic beam and the partial destruction of the palace". Summarized her aunt, pilot.
"Hmmm. I can see why something happening to us, or putting us at risk would worry you, specially considerint your position as of now." , Then sol asked in with ignorance and innocence looking at the 3 of them "oh. I dont see Red chief, is he resting in your abode?"
This made all good mood turn sour, as a look of utter sadness overcame the 3 ponies in front of her, as silence filled the room for some heavy seconds., that felt like minutes.
However before any of the Apples could answer, as soon as she deduced what had hapoend, she broke the thin veil of silence with an apologetic tone.
"Oh. I see... im deeply sorry my little ponies, i... knew not of your loss. What a shame, specially in such a marvelous day as today". Sol mourned in empathy fot them.
"What exactly of today is marvelous, your highness??" Amber asked in a mix lf genuine confusion and sarcasm caused hy despair.
"Amber!" Her parents amdonished.
"No, its fine." Sol calmed the ambient. As she looked to the filly she commanded softly "come here for one moment".
The filly merely did what she was told to and was arms length to he ruler.
Unwrapping the towel covering most of the baby's body and face, that only showed a tail before, now gave a unique view to amber. Looking back at her were 2 pools of deep emerald eyes, that glowed dimly in the dark of the royal hall. A small green spikes in the shape resembling a crown on its head, green scales in the stomach and finns, adorning his face was a smile with barely any teeth, bright as the sun the ruler represented. Only looking at her, while his claws small and soft like most of his body with a warm lavander scale pattern reached for her.
Leaving the shock of both her and her aunts felt at the moment at bay, after seeing what they now knew was a dragon baby, a creature that in their knowledge by all means was supposed to be extinct safe for the unhatched salvaged egg of the late diplomats that was close to rotting and had caused heir rulers to make a contest to find someone who could hatch their (unoficial) adoptive son/nephew. Something they knew since almost 2 years ago when the royal call was made, as they being a crutial part of the uppercrust of modern society needed to be aware of.
Amber knew it was a dragon however because books with images of history property of her family were forced on her to learn history, it also helped that her adoptive parents were live whitnesses of the draconic genocide 3 years ago. Amber however didnt focus on that.
What she did see however was that here in front of her, laid a baby that from an egg that by all chances of fate was likely to rot, being feisty and full of life gigglying in the rulers arms and smiling at her. It was almost like something or someone WANTED him to live.
Looking at this child, that just like her had lost her parents, any posible siblings and was thrown into a wild new world unrelated to it, and yet... smiling...she could feel a strange feeling go over her body and soul...it was as if for one moment all the pain and frustration go away, as an innocent child showered wuth a look lf pure curiosity and affection.
It had been so long since someone looked at her like that. A look she clearly remembers from both of her parents and siblings before-
"Want to hold him?" Sol asked in a whisper.
Did she want to?, should she?, why would she?, would her "parents" get angry?. Soon multiple questions flowed in her head.
Its funny, its almost like... she didnt know what she wanted to do anymore. She knew she didnt want her sister to die, nor her brother. She didnt want to study most of the days almost everyday, just to direct a company she barely understood its importance for the world or what good it brought others (remember she is a filly), she didnt want her biological parents to be killed. She didnt want to see her aunt mourn her sister and her brother too. She didnt want to admit how despite his cold exterior to them, and high standars for everything, his uncle did care for his kids. She didnt want to remember how she discovered her aunt crying in her husbands arms in silence in a hallway of the castle the day after her sister died while her aunt trembled holding her as she could swear he drank more of that crystal bottles everyday of wich later she would know was sider. Or how he became even more silent afterwards.
She didnt like or want much things. But for that matter what did she INDEED wanted?. She forgot the last time she thought of that.
*stomach growl* *baby giggle*
The hungry growl of the baby briught her mind back to earth for a moment.
"Oh, are you hungry little fella? Do you WANT to eat something?"
Alternate rainboom - amber part 4- To choose a friend.
/True friends are family, wich you can select-Audry hepburn/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Oh, dont mind that" Princess moon simply stated, as she took the baby from the arms of amber. "I will go feed him something while you continue with the audience dear sister"
as the baby was taken from her, amber left out a disaproving moan.
"Oh, right. You WERE holding him. You know, you could keep me company while i do this. IF that is ok with your parents...."
"Go ahead" Said her aunt encouraging her.
"...yes, its fine.This audience is more our job than yours yet anyway." after some seconds of pause her uncle concluded looking at her with a shadow of a smile.
huh, that was new.
Without taking another moment, as if in a trance amber followed the moon diarch along with the royal Protegé, passing halls of walls with white marble and red stone as floor, while the ceilling was more aking to light reflecting topaz.
"So...ahh not to be a mood killer or anything but... were did this little fella came from, from what i have learned i thought-" amber was however interrupted
"That they were extinct?, yes. They WERE. Past tense, as of were did he come from? why dont you ask the little by my side?" answered moon with a smirk.
Amber looked at the filly on the right side of moon, slightly shorter than her, with a look that said "well, im waiting".
"Well, assuming you are of an important family you must be aware of the hatching contest of the last draconian egg right?"
"yes?.... but what-"
"I hatched it" Dusk light cut her off.
Amber's eyes were wide, almost like an old comedic cartoon.
"What in tarna-"
"oh, yeah and his name is crown Just so you know" it seemed Dusk had a habit of interrupting people without meaning to. Kind of normal in functional autistic ponies and people in general.
After calming down a notch after giver her a bombastic side eye amber pulled forward.
"You cannot ... just.... dump that kind of bombshell on me and end it just like that i need to know more!" its funny Dusk's attitude reminded her of her little sister.
"well, what do you want to know Mr Ambrosia?" Dusk gave her a confused puppy look
"Ugh, muh heart"
With an exasperated sigh amber asked her : "Well for starters, how did you even do that? im pretty sure all famous mages and skilled ponies...hell all races experts that tried have not pulled it of so far, how come you did it?"
"Well, im not sure but... i did all the magic or tactics overall that i understood was related to egg hatching from the old draconic documents the princess allowed me to decifer, like "magic fire incubation", or "magical imprinting"....Besides that, i just kinda hugged his body inside the egg with my magic" Dusk simplified giving Crown a soft smile.
"really?, a magical hug was the thing that did the trick huh?, " Amber found her self struggling to not laugh (not in a mean way mind you), letting through soft giggles
"dont tease me..." Dusk got red as an apple, amber could tell.
"I guess friendship saved the day huh" Amber smirked at dusk wich let a precious little whine.
"ohhh, p-please i have my theories of why it happened, no need to be so corny" but despite her best efforts her fake pout slowly melted into a smile and then the two of them turned into a laughing fit, that amused even the princess.
"Ah... mi sides... oh mare" Amber was losing air.
"Yeah, tell ME that, i guess based on that you could say im the... princess of friendship now, HA!" Dusk light counter joked.
"Nah" amber got her wind back for a second "you would be a terrific friend though, dont know if princess tier however".
Dusk gave her a genuine smile "you really think so?"
"I know so, hell you even remind me of my late sister. She would have loved ya" she meant that too.
"Thank you, i never have had friend though" she admited in embarassment, looking away.
"well, neither do i being honest." after some silence she continued "actually, i think i would like to-" What was this feeling?, she could feel her self wanting something again, it was almost like she was talking with her sister again, but in a different body, in a different life. Friendship was... nice. She wanted this. She was sure this time, this is what she wanted.
"be friends?" Dusk finished for her as she looked back at with a hopeful smile
"Yes!" she answered a little to quickly
"what do you think Crow-Crow (Dusk lights pet name for Crown), mama is getting a friend or what?"
the baby just did a raspberry , every mare laughed.
"I think that is a yes. While im on it, i didnt present myself before i think. I am Dusk light, currently Princess Sol's protegé but id rather like to be called Dawns light or just Dawn. Dad kind of always wanted another kid so i got the would be stallion name" Dawn streched her hand.
"pfft. now that is a way to intruduce yourself to someone girl. Well, im Ambrosia apple, rather would be called Amber though. Im the current only surviving heir of the Apple and Apple cider branches from the apple farm corporations. Nice to meet ya formally". She squeezed her hand back in a hand shake.
A small smile formed on Moons face while they continued to walk toward the royal kitchen and dinning area were some fillies would be waiting for them. As well as an assortment of posible foods arranged. The baby was going to eat for the first time afterall.
"We have arrived" said the Diarch, making both filly's to look forward. In front of them were 2 massive doors of color red with golden handles. As she opened said handles, a big cubic room was the sight. Said room like the castle itself had marble walls and topaz ceilling, the floor was unlike most of the castle made of polished stone. to the right was a large cubic table filled with plates and utensils. In the middle of the trays laid a pletora of foods. From lettuce to meat, from candies to cakes, however to the very bottom of the table was a bow mutliple gems, something that called the attention of the filly's.
To the left was a massive counter resembling that of a bar, holding both chairs and multiple bottles of various liquid, also it was noticed that behind the "bar counter" was a door that led to the royal kitchen were some sounds could still be heard. Finally 2 doors marked with female and male signs were in the north west corner, being the bathrooms.
3 of the chairs were occupied, they noticed. On one chair laid a blue pegasus filly, with rainbow mane. On the other one, laid a yellow pegasusfilly with violet mane, with pink color tips. On the chair adjacent to her laid a white unicorn filly with a silver and zaphire striped mane. Said filly's looking back at them at the sound of the door opening.
"woah, nilly" amber whispered
"it never ceases to please my sight, the dinner room" said Dawn while she shaked her arms a little like an usual fan of anything royal.
"Hello filly's, care to meet the newcomer?" Princess moon, asked.
"oh, sure i guess. Hold on a moment" said the blue filly as she did a whistle. "Oy!, Pillows, come on out!" as soon as her name was called, the pink filly came out of the kitchen with a humble cooking outfit
"Did you call me?" asked the energetic pink earth pony filly
"No, i just screamed your name really hard..." sarcasm was in this filly's repertory.
"oh...haha... sorry" the pink filly apologized.
"ignore her dear, we got company" the white unicorn indicated, as she stood from the table and with a movemen of the head indicated the others to follow her.Once they arrived to the side of the 3 newcoming mares they presented themslves to amber, since Dawn meet the other fillys somewhile ago before Amber arrived.
"Hello there, im Abundance. Currently founding member of the quite literally freshly formed team of mares you see here, for the "Phoenix project. Jus like you here i met the other ladies today as well, nice to make your acquaintance"
"Yo!, im Constellar blizzard, freshly hired guard of the little bundle of joy in the diarch's arms!. I will be in trainning from today forward to do so!, much like most of the filly' here indirectly will actually. For example..." she then put an arm around the yellow pegasus filly by her side.
"This cutie here, is my friend. Name's Serene Whisper, she... doesnt talk much. More like she cant, but she is awesome!, Constellar guaranteed quality. Actually, she has been a doctor in training by my own mama for some time till we arrived here and thanks to the princess there, she has a royal loan for the royal school of medicine as long as she will become the future personal doctor of that baby boy!" concluded the blue pegasus, while the Yellow one rised a hand in a soft wave with a small blush her face.
"sup!, names soft pillows! or just pillows. Just like the rest of the crazy girls here i arrived today to the castle. Altough all of us for different reasons. In my case... (she briefly explains her situation of her pseudo cured narcolepsi and coffee family situation) so... i wanted more positive emotion to keep my " preventive treatment" up and reminded myself that i had a delivery of our finest coffee grounds for the castle and some of the locals of Lancelot, wich was great since i wanted to come anyway to see what that amazing colorful light was. Funny enough, it led me to find a bunch of filly's next to the princesses and that cutie pie over there!" she said pointing to crown.
"You must imagine my reaction when i found out this little angel was my cure!, he created the beam and from what the other told me about themselves... it all led them here one way or another. So i did the only reasonable thing i could think of and..."
oh yeah here it comes....
The filly explained the next part talking fast as fuck: "I took an almost impercetible part of my cargo destined for the locals and after asking for water from the royal guards i brew the perfect coffee my family is known to do, giving the princesses and some personel of the castle a "free trial" hooking them up on it!. So basically, i got them hooked on my coffee brew so i could stay here!"
Oh boy
"Was the castle even hiring staff?" amber asked dawn
"No, but her coffee is addi- i mean top notch." The filly quickly corrected with a nervous smile "Could almost bet is some kind of unironical drug. Probably the reason her family is almost immune to caffeine, Must have been they drunk it dry for generations". dawn explained
"Yeah... im not proud to admit i gave her a place on the castle on a whim but her coffee...." the princess made a face.
"And that just leaves me, the princess and crown,but all mares here already know us so... that concludes the presentations" dawn indicated.
"Well i am..." amber presented herself explaining just like the others why was she here or what lead her here.
After all mares knew eachh other and understood their reasons and origins however. Amber asked:
"What is the Phoenix project tough?" asked amber in interest.
all the filly's looked at the princess looking for aproval or in contrarty would not speak about it.
Moon gave a nod. She was in the high members of society she was reliable.
"Well, as you know. The future of dragon kind is in the diarch'w arms. That is to say also all races future really. This project is actually 3 projects meshed in one based in the following points. 1)raise,feed, and protect Crown there, currently the only descendant of dragon heritage and adoptive son of the princesses. 2)re-ignite the otherwise belived lost multidisciplinary research of the dragon kind for the betterment of the present and future of new equestre 3) To secure. Contain or destroy Corrupted mana. And proyect phoenix: 4) Use all the above to raise this country and its citizen from the ashes like a phoenix while also securint the heir to the throne for a more prosperous tomorrow."
"...buck" amber felt she was going to throw up from the build up of info.
"So..." amber took a deep breath "if im getting thibgs correctly... you 3" she pointed to Serene, Constellar and Soft pillows. "Basilcally are that related to the security, health and food of the royal family right?"
"Yuppers!"
"Yup"
"..." the pink filly gave a nod.
"So you two..." pointed to Dawn and Abundance
Abundance grinned "yes.?" she teased
"Yes, amber. Abundance and me are the the research department, focused on the research of the other wise lost progress injey discoveries for weapons, transportation, medicines, food, you name it."
"Yes, she descifers, i design and create, we innovate, on a loop, among other strategies for workflow or so is the idea altough neither of us now that much in the food department though or accountability for our needed materials and means, let alone to administrate everything...". Abudnance concluded
There was a deep silence for some seconds as the information was digested by her. Until she realized something.
"Was THIS why you wanted me to come Red chief?, its almost like im the last piece of the puzzle... what they lack is literally what i was raised to do ever since birth basically..."
Then a face of epiphany overcame her as a slight grin formed on her face that turned bigger and bigger as seconds went by.
"Friends"
"Have Fun"
"Help others"
"I can choose"
Were words that flooded her mind at the moment
"Hey... gals?, I dont bielieve in coincidences nor fate but... luck be damned !, ican help you with that.! Under..some conditions"
She now had the attention.
Moon eyes widen in realization, sure the filly kind of was born for this and it also served her purpose of beig the apple inc heir in a way but the though did not came to her mind before. Never mind all the "industrial power" of the apple family that could help in the process of research.
"Wich would be?" Moon asked
Amber looked at the rest of the filly's and asked "well for starters... wanna be friends?" Then a bright orange light covered her neck making a cutie mark displaying an ambrosia apple appear with a hand of ranbow fire holding it in the base.
"Friends?, really that's it?" The diarch was amused.
"Yes, really. I mean im heir to a corporate close enough to the royal sisters, it not like i need anything that can be bought." answered amber.
"Fine by me" said Stella shrugging her shoulders.
"...sure, welcome to the club!" Pillows added.
an "Uhu" came out from Serene with a bow of her head indicating a yes.
"We are already friends" grinned dawn light
"Well... i dont see why not. We will have enough time to know each other anyway. Welcome aboard" Abundance raised her hand to her for a shake.
"Eyup" Amber took her hand and shook her hand.
Then a stomach grumble coming from the dragon baby silence the room, making the mares giggle.
"So, leaving that aside. As you may know, we came to see what this little fella will eat. I think his stomach is telling us to speed it up." said amber
"oh!, yeah, right. Follow me please." with a small bow of her head in reverency Pillows then proceedeed to guide them through the various dishes.
You may be wondering, why feed "normal" food to a literal newborn. Well, you see the old scrolls, papers and overall leftover of dragon kind, mainly those written by them, had glimpses of their biology, including their newborns, not their eggs however. Now, Specifically thanks to Dawn they learned some key points of that newborn biology. First Unlike ponies, dragons did not need to necesarily eat breast milk at early stages post birth, however it was encouraged, it could not be provided since since neither sol, moon or their maids were currently expecting a baby as of now. Second, their learned that theoretically, they COULD eat normal complex food even as baby's just in very small meassure wich was fine since baby's dont usually eat that much, and about gems they of course could eath them as adults or perhaps even kids, but in their baby state they could basically use them as lollipops or perhaps a pacifiers, if given the right precious gem.
So, as expected giving small doses of multiple types of food, the baby ate the small treats or well more like engulfed since he barely had any teeth as of now. No food being unable to be digested so far, except onion and melon, wich the baby would just throw up. In the case of the gems, there was a particularly shaped diamond the baby liked wich resembled the Diamond cutie mark of "Normal reality" Rarity, this one however was lavander. After some tentative licks, the baby would moan in approbal and start sucking on it like a pacifier.
"awww" the diarch and the fillys awwed at the scene.
"a-a-achu!"the baby snorted green flames sneezing, and for a moment the mares in the room got shocked but then relaxed knowing this was normal, however what they did not expect was that at the same time the lavander pacifier diamond that was in his mouth, for a second got covered in these green flames and instantly appeared in Abundance's mane, who felt the weight of the object sticking to it.
"huh?!" abundance after looking at it was both just a little disgusted because of the salive a but mostly surprised.
"what in the-" Stella's mouth was hanging open
"did THAT just happen?" amber Asked with a pointing finger
*thud* Serene's bottocks touched the ground, as she fell to the ground from sheer amazement
"Oh-my-G.O.D!, what?!" Pillows was Ecstatic
"b-b-bu-but-h-how?" Dawn was flabberghasted, she knew all living beings had "some type of magic", since magic, from what she learned was thanks to the princesses and dragonic papers was literally energy, and living beings were well...energy with will and mass basically, but she never heard or knew of a dragon that expressed magic in a way not related to flames, flight or body manipulation (see the fact that uncontrolled "greed" and "accumulation" can make thier bodies massive) but... was this she just witnessed teleportation? one of the hardest magics to date and also draining spells? even the diarchs felt drainned from each one, and had some seconds of time they had to wait to do it again, usually they being able to perhaps teloport 10 times before they felt highly tired, and gasping for breath, alotugh yes, distance and size affected the "backlash" or drain, Yet, this literal NEWBORN teleported a diamond pacifier to her friends head like it was NOTHING?!, and it did not even seemed tired!, he was smiling at her!.
Dawn wasted no time in hugging the baby close to her currently flat bossom and covered his head in kisses "aww, my little genious!, just like his mom, heheh!"
*giggles* "fire based teleportation magic?, pftt. If this does not prove he is Sol's baby nothing will" Princess moon laughed to herself. "Though i did not take you to be a doting mother young filly, remember he is my niece ♪" , Moon teased as Dawn got flustered and the filly's all giggled at her expense.
Ever since then progress would be made in all their respective "jobs" through the years, as they came to know one another, deepening their mutual bonds , an in a sense a mirroring lot of situations to those of the "normal/original" reality however fitting in this worlds logic and reality that is. One of the changes however was that the situation of the kingdom got worse. The Creatures and the corrupted mana itself became stronger and stronger, year by year. slowly but steadily the kindgdom shrank, both in size and in morale, a mixture of the effects of having less food, water, "Habitable" land and the death and despair of both citizens and soldiers. The reason for this was that these entities or the "posssed" individuals,continued to assimilate, kill or overall push the people more and more to a corner, obviously this having the implications of ever shrinking "safe" areas of the kingdom, this including farm land wich resulted and of course the limited food and water.
However, light shines not in the shadow of the sun, but in the dark of night. All the efforts, that progress of the filly's and eventually dragon made during the last 13 years was paying off.
In the case of abundance she became fascinated with the knowledge in metalurgy, Chemistry and Physics aquired from the half finished blue prints and mountains of text left behind after they where decyphered by Dawn.
Applying said knowledge and being Inspired by the biology of dragons, she made multiple discoveries and prototypes focusing on the mechanic of "fire" or "heat" over the years. One breakthrough in particular was the "revolver". A hand held weapon born by her inspiration in the biology of dragons, specifically their head, being able to shoot fire, and the strength of the fire shot, one day she wondered if shee could "replicate that" however she had forgotten a small piece of metal was loose on the prototype tool "cilinder cannon" and it flew off in a incredible speed, creating a crater on the wall. This lucky mistake, allowed her to create the very first ever GUN. From there on out, she would continue her endeavour in weaponry. This being a heaven send, in matters of both military and civilian defense.
In the case of Dawn she focused more on the equally large data collected from the pony investigators that worked alongside dragons and found how they had made theories of "thermodynamics and thermomagical dynamics" , hell even practical small scale experiments related to fire, fire magic or more especifically heat energy and how it related to magic. One sentence repeated however in most of the texts. "In our observations magic and the "source" of the energy wich allows it, t cannot be destroyed or created, just transformed" , after assimilating what she learned, it helped to discover magic spells and war strategies.
In the case of Stella she slowly but surely got more muscle and fat in her body. As her diet got better. The trainning from the royal guards was infernal but slolwly and surely she got a hang of it. So much in fact that she started adding elemental magic to the mix. Something highly difficult and dangerous to control for most pegasi (see first chapters) however serene always took care of her wounds so, unlike many she could continue to try not risking long lasting damage to her body.she swowly but surely developed her skills. Wich became good enough to , if she wanted be in the elite hybrid troops (air and land) also known as the Thunder bolts. Named after the high speed and strength of thunder. Just like their members. However being a devote to her word, princesses and friends, she never did.
In the case of Amber altough her job was to make everything stay running and metaphorically speaking "oiling the machine" including administrative work...She still was an apple. Any and all knowledge, blue prints and prototypes related to agriculture and food, she took them in. In facf the discarded blueprints or research paper that neither Dawn or Abundance overall finished or dedicated time to since "their priority" was focused on defense and offence of the kingdom and its citizens.
In one particular day, she found in the thousands of discarded folders of said documents of what looked like a machine that was filled with tubes and tanks that ended in a big cilindric tank to collect something. This picked her curiosity since the blue print tank had a "earth" symbol in the tank.After asking abundance, she disvovered that this machine was to theoretically able produce amonia but since Abundance didnt found a use for it at the time she carelessly put in the "backburner". This however of course infuriated her for not consulting with her, if it not been for her looking up discarded documents, this could have been lost to time!, on the other hand she was highly excited, because if she remembered right from her home teachers for the mandatory business in agriculture classes, amonia was needed to make fertilizers and the effect the war was having on its disponibility was big, as in there is none. Therefore the yield and amount of crops that could be farmed was in an all time low, but now she could change that
Holy buck, it seems those forced classes are now actually useful?.. she thought.
So she came up with an idea, she would try to replicate with the help of the metalurgists of the apple family this machine and if it worked right she would focus all money she could massively produce, this in order to help with the production of fertilizers that was urgently needed. After the success of this machine, Amber would make a new flow pattern into the mix for everyone.
First, If any info was "not useful" for abundance or Dawn (formerly Dusk), it would be passed to her, if her however could do nothing out of it , THEN it would be given to serene, wich if didnt use it EITHER it would be passed to Pillows and so on and so forth, until EVERY SINGLE BIT OF DATA could be used for something. The rest of the documents, would be for the review of either the princesses or the growing prince, crown.
In the case of Serene, of course she continued with her studies. However in her free time, she did a subspeciality , after a reading a particular paper, she got enamoured with a branch of medicine on its early stages, Microbiology. ever since some decades ago it was of public knowlege that sickness for the most part was a cause of external agents to the body, or malfunctions of it for say, trauma or mal nourishment. However in the external agens part, she was hooked, be it either macroscopic like ticks , or microscopic organisms like bacteria, and fungi. This all started since the creation of the microscope, one of, the last gifts to pony kind by other civilizations, in this case however by water hypogriffs. However in the papers left, she read one that had a catching theme "how to make a bacterial culture, low budget" since then, she did lots of crazy tests, one in particular changed everything. She with the help of Pillows who got her the materials, had a culture of some bacteria, That she left to cultivate at room temperature (Microbiological ovens did NOT exist at the time) and let it sit for some days, however when she returned, the plate was also contaminated by some aire borne spore fungi, she didnt know. She was going to throw it away (responsibly) but Pillows being the ever crazy mare she was, appeared behind her and just said "you know, its weird how one of those things seems to repell the other right?" Serene did not understand what she was talking about, making a sound and face that indicated it.
"what do i mean?, look that halo, isnt it werd that the dish there is filled with both of those things both in the case of the mold, for some reason it has like a halo in wich the other thing does not reach!, its weird right?". Pillows was very keen to observation, despire what others may think.
"AAAAH!?" this made Serene realized it was true, what was this?!. After further investigation with the help of pillows, who apparently had more of a Science brain than one would give her credit for, led to the first ever mare made antibiotic!
In the case of pillows, she did her best, she took care of all the needs of both her friends and royal family, also by chance she became a part time Investigator!, after serene begged her to learn science and be her aid so she could focus on surgery instead!, it seemed she was just that perspicacious so serene entrusted those things to her. So she did, and besides being the royal head cook, she was one of the mothers of modern Microbiology!, she did lots of crazy stuff i assure you. I mean, we are talking about PILLOWS! (Alternate pinkie).
As for Crown, as to be expected. He was raised and trained to be the heir of the throne. Not only because the royal Sisters truly adopted him in a spiritual way but because for reasons yet unknown they were sterile, as in could not bear children. Not that they did not try of course, mainly moon, who like her sister, unbeknownst to the public fancied a dragon before the tragedy. It was state secret that in fact dragons as well as some other races could mate with most if not all races. In fact, it was rumored alicorns were born as byproduct of unicorn and dragon mating. This fact or myth however was not completely know by the princesses since they never met their parents, and were raised by a small town of unicorns at the time. The object of their interest, was suprisingly for Sol the brother of Crown's late father/diplomat. His uncle, Lance. Unlike her sister who fancied his dad, wich in both cases said love could never be. This because dragons albeit able be polygamus like ponies, usually settled with one mate for life. And both were already hooked. It was only latter discovered by other mediums that they were in fact sterile or so it seemed. And getting to Raise this child, was in a way a heaven sent to them.
Ever since he was born in this world in decadence, he was told how to talk, how to read, how to fight, how to behave, how to be a proper diplomat, ever since he was born he was always told by others HOW, but more importantly WHO to be.. He was under a very rigorus scrutiny even since he gained the ability to reason not only because of him being the heir of the throne despite a growing part of the population that while incredibly thankful for the Dragonic heroe's sacrifice, did not want to accept a Dragon as their king but also because the situation went from bad to worse as time went on, and they did not believe at all a growing child, soon to be adolescent, and eventually young adult could divert the country from ruin unlike their princesses that had hundreds of years of experience, however valid that statement was.
---7 years since The birth of the Prince----
In the department of his physical trainning he was instructed directly by Dawn's brother impenetrable fortress from the young age of 7, starting with muscle trainning and reaction time. For wich he gave him a diet of all muscle groups divided by all days of the weak in wich each important muscle group would be allowed to "relax" 2 days in between to stimulate strength and muscle hypertrophia without decreasing muscle mass or destroying the muscles.
In matters of combat and self defense he was taught Swordmanship and basic martial arts, similar to what we could call boxing and muay thay. This leassons while theorical, were practical too, and to say that he got a literal full body beating as a child, is obvious. However his scales tough as armour helped to lighten the blow a ton, the black bruises in his body were still there. Impenetrable, believed in respecting his oponent with all his might, no matter their age, and even more so, for the trainning of the future heir of a kingdom in war. He, despite hurting him inside to hurt his adoptive brother, could not go soft on him. However must be of note, that Impenetrable, just like everyone else aware got quite interested in the fact this Child had an apparent afinity with "fire magic" and the fact that he could "teleport" stuff even if small stuff as of now, him being a child. This make him decide to include magical arts training as well, tough in this case it Decided was handled by him too, the regime and days to practice was diferent.
As of now, the first experiments went "well" the fruits and bread while they appeared somewhat randomly, appeared close enough to the planned distance so he was getting progress. As time went on, they decided to try living objects. In this case cockroaches, for obvious reasons. Think about it, if say a pony was teleported by accident to a dangerous place, a high altittude fall or what have you due to the inexperience of the child, there would very likely be casualities. The first attempts were... not optimal. The color painted cockroaches wich were also magically marked (so they could be identified) appeared randomly at first. The idea was to place them on the hand of Fortress wich was 10 meters away, however the first one landed in the suburbs of lancelot near 2 kilometers away, the 10th in a nearby lake 1 kilometer away, the #20 in the mainstreet leading to the castle 500mts away , the #40 in the top of the castle 250 mts way and the #50 near the main door of the trainning arena 100 mts away. It was not only after his 60th attempt he got it in fortresses body... except it was on his head. Something that earned the child a mock anger bonk in the head. Thankfully on his 62th attempt he finally put it in his adoptive brother and self proclaimed hellish trainer's hand.
"fiu. These were some long 4 weeks huh little guy?" Exclaimed fortress to the 5year old laying on the floor, gasping for breath
"N-ne...never a-again" the boy was gasping, and of course he would. Even if he was hell of a gifted individual, he was a CHILD, doing nearly 70 teleports, in the matter of a week or 2, with focus on precision and of living being for that matter. For comparison, its like making a 6 year old (in this case just genetically gifted with good muscle density) get accostumed to doing 3 series 8 reps of a 20 kg dumbell leg, , bicep curl and abdominals every day, for 4 weeks. While for a fit adult (magically trained and adept adult) it would be relatively easy, as of now this number of teleports, with said requisits were taxing.
"no, cant do. Besides, stop complaining you already got the hang of it!, you can teleport living things with relative precision of 10mts, give or take 5mts, it will only get better from here as long as you dont slack , keep practicing, time passes and your magic pool (mana pool) gets bigger too"
"I h..h-ate you" he was gasping softer now.
"I love you too, give me 10 more teleports, this time to my left hand"
"UGHHH!"
"HAHAHAHAAH!" Fortress was having a blast. "No, seriously though".
"UUUGGHHHH!" exclaimed in frustration the young drake as the 6 fillies watched from the castle windows
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the matters of his knowledge and ettiquete, his teacher was his own mother, Princess sol wich gave him a regime consisting in attending her hearings of war tactics, negotiation, attentive hearing and such for 2 hours everyday, with daily 30 minutes of practice in wich he sat on his mother's lap as she assesed her duties and attended politics and the administration of the kingdom. That is, until he was older. In wich he could then start to participate in the matters of the crown.
For the matters of mental fortitude and values, his teacher was his dear aunt Moon. To wich he developed a innocent infatuation from little age due to her ways of strengthening his mental fortitude. Being the princess of the "night" one of her domains was the mind, more specifically dreams. As such, there was the idea of a regime in his sleep, for both using all his time without taking sleep time. So, it was decided he would get 5 days of nightmares based or not on reality, memories or imaginary scenarios and 2 days of happy dreams per week this to make his mind slowly more callous to despair among other things while leaving 2 days for rest and recovery, a similar principle as muscle training but with the mind. This had a catch however, she needed or rather wanted decided to sleep in his same bed. This because the distance to the subject of the dream played a key factor to the level of control moon had on the dreamers mind and decreased the risks of "problems". Or so moon said.
As for the matter of values, lots of expectations and "mantras" were this childs to be obliged by. A matter of "noblesse oblege" but moon did remark some key points, all the time.
"Do you know what makes a king? what makes a princess? a queen? a prince?. What makes them appart from ordinary nobles or any other people?" Moon asked.
"...."the young drake stay silent in thought.
"A king/Queen never hesitates,Never feels sorry forthemselves, Never betrays, never gives in, never gives up, never overtrusts, and always leads, FOR THE WELL OF THEIR PEOPLE"
"Do you understand what i am saying Crown?. While its a monumental task, and while not always you will be mentally, emotionally or phisically able to be faithful to these, as long you can, you shall follow these commandments." Moon asked.
After some moment of silence and thought he answered
"I think... yes"
"You think?" she insisted
"...I KNOW, yes." he answered with a trembling voice that showed his effort to be firm and push away doubt.
"Yes, what?" Moon concluded.
"Yes, princess!" answered Crown with a shacky yet firm voice with a salute of respect.
A sweet smile was drawn on the face of the princess.
14 years after the birth of the prince. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Today, It was a summer afternoon, or at least that's what it would be if it weren't for the corrupted creatures.
These creatures, both posessed ponies or not, as if it were a form of mockery aquired an used as if it was their very nature, used the opposite power of those who once stood up to them the most, that being the power opposite of energy (heat), or to be more precise "cold".
If life is energy and warmth, THEY were its absence. The power of "cold". Among them was present in many forms, one of those ponies were the one seen today, by the puppets of flesh, that once were ponies and other races, subject to the corrupted will, still tought as for torture with a tinge of conscience. These puppets, were nicknamed respectively as witches and warlocks. On this afternoon of what was once summer, a heavy hailstorm was falling progressively near a main city near the capital. The hail, caused by these puppets, differed slightly from the natural one, as the latter was under their control unlike the former. Witches used their pegasus or unicorn magic to cause an increase in the temperatures of the near-surface wind gusts around them, which caused an increase in the upward gusts, in this case hot upward gust.
On the other hand, the Pegasi mainly ensured that the top of the cumulonimbus, which was also created by them, was kept at an exact cold temperature. To be more specific, 0 degrees Celsius. In a dance that could be described in a different situation as nature doing its work; the hot upward winds forming water vapor, forming liquid water, generating more heat collide with a parallel wind, in this case the cold descending currents of high temperatures. This currents being offered by corrupt pegasi allowing the freezing of this previously evaporated water to form thin layers of frost balls of about a fifth of a millimeter per cycle, that would precipitate a little before rising again thanks to the increasingly strong and fast-moving waves of hot air.
Causing these piles of frost or ice to cover themselves over, and over again in a cycle without falling to the ground. after enought cycles of frost layering, eventually Forming what we know as hail. After sufficient wrapping cycles, the balls would be large and heavy enough to completely fall without rising agin, but although in natural disasters it would be at most cases balls of a diameter of 0.5 cm wich were bad as it is, this magical entities could efficiently create massive hail of 20 to 30 cm's each.
Each one of this balls, weighing more than 1kg and falling at fast speeds powered by gravity and their weight, becoming potentially lethal weapons, falling from the sky by the thousands if not many thousands within a radius of 800 square kilometres. Enough to say the level of devastation they brought was abnormal.for example only the crops of the city relatively close to the capital suffered losses of up to 800 square kilometers of livestock and crops. Not to mention, of course, those casualties of the citizens that even in multiple cases under buildings, they fell and brought with them the death of the citizens, wich those survivors faced the puppets and creatures themselves, that for reasons YET unknown (you will know later) were not affected by this.
Yes, we are talking that these entities at the very least in enough numbers could make natural disasters at will. ------------------------------------------------------------------
Meanwhile in lancelot after a particularly hard trainning session with fortress Crown was in the royal nursing rooms. Being tended to by serene herself. Now, after 14 years of practice and herslef being a young adult at 21 was patching up poor young prince at the moment.
"Thanks Whis" the young drake thanked the mare with his own pet name for her, making her pout.
"You know, while i love talking and spending time with you its not exactly fun if most of that time you are covered in bruises to say the least" Serene answered
"hahahahah!" the young drake laughed
"What is so funny?, i get my new voice box its not perfect yet but-"
"oh, its perfect alright!,just like you!" the young drake blushed unintentionally at his own impulsive comment
"thank you" serene whispered
"Am i ever so glad, Dawn made you that magical voice for ya, after the year of trial!, if this is pretty much your real voice (according to dawn that is) its....great. No!, i mean its amazing!... i mean-!" the boy was a blushing mess, wasnt he?.
All he earned was a giggle from serene, who looked at him blushing. Despite him being only 14 at the time, all that traininning was showing, you would not bet his body was that of an average 14 year old, if his Moderate musculature was not obvius. Him being himself with all his qualities, carisma, will, and beauty, at least according to her, helped a lot.
His lavander and green scales, his green mane esque scales that naturally were stylish, and that shine that his scales seemed to get thanks to his sweat, his deep emerald eyes that looked at her with a passion, his green training undershirt and his lavander jacket that was tailored as a gift by abundance herself. His green tactical pants and that sweet voice that seemed to get deeper with age but remained sweet at its core. A voice that made her feel-
"Whis?" asked the blushing boy as the mare lost in thought, without realizing it got her face closer and closer to him, momentarily stopping after realizing what she was doing
"OH MY!, im sorry Crown i- i just- you eyes- i-i" she was deeply embarassed if voice stutters, her hand movements and urgent tone did not tell so enough. It did not help he was a minor still, she needed to control herself!, and besides its not like she knew if he liked her ba-
"its fine!, really dont worry about it!, your eyes are pretty atractive too!, i mean... distractive!, hehe." the boy gave a nervous laugh.
"Crown" Serene tought sweetly, before being interrupted by the sound of the door of the nursing rooms open wide with force and a bang.
"Prince,! head doctor!, the farming city of hoofington close to the pegasus district has been compromised!, we need to move you to a nearby protecting bunker until it all has been stabilized, we cant risk playing around if the pegasus district is compromised!" entered with an urgent and commanding tone of voice the current head Guard and personal aide of none other than the prince: Constellar blizzard herself.
Rising immediately, the young prince took the hand of his doctor and close friend Serene, lifting her from her seat and dragging her with him towards the entrance of the door of the royal infirmary,currently open where his bodyguard and confidant, Stella, was currently located.
Not a moment later, the ever-quickening footsteps of both ponies and the dragon could be heard echoing through the currently empty halls of the palace. However, this silence was not long-lasting, for not before leaving the corridor leading to the "bunker" in the center of this castle, the rumble of multiple footsteps of the staff and other residents of the compound began to make a rumbling echo.
Turning right in a seemingly closed of section, there was a false floor with a hidden trap door esque structure, wich to be opened had a mechanism that mixed a number combination digital pad, surrounded by a magical aura that detected pre-learned magical patterns. This aura if and when detecting a nearby unoathorized passenger touching the key pad, would immediately send a lethal magical voltage to the intruder. This magical and technological safekeep, Courtesy of none others than Dawn and Abundance.
Putting her hand in the pad, the metalical device did a initial magical pulse, that acted like a sonar. Not detecting a strange magical aura, it deactivated, leaving Stella to place the secret code, only the princesses, crown and the 6 new. The birthdate of crown.
1-8-0-8-0-3 (18 of august, yeard 3 post dragon heroes)
With a groan the metalical gate under the royal floor opened , rays of electical light inside being reflected to the outside once the door was opened, and allowing them entry.
Instantly giving a sign of " go ahead" Stella took a temporary guard, as Crown as for protocol went in first. Followed for Serene who much like him was confused but alert. Then soon after noticing no one was in the near vicinity, Stella went down the bunker's metalical stairs with a depth of 12 meters , until the lid was automatically closed and the false floor was put on top again by hidden gears.
Touching the floor with a "plop" crown around, appreciating in his view a large space similar to that of a massive room of about 50 by 50 meters, walls made of a shiny metal that clearly was stainless steel and with 2 sets of doors at each cardinal point. in the north the kitchen, in the south the bathrooms, in the east the bedrooms and in the west the pharmacy.
At the same time, he noticed 4 figures coming in his direction. This being the rest of the 6, Dawn, Abundance, Amber, and Pillows, who were all wearing a particularly good looking military vest that had camuflage patterns on all of them. the Main colours of the clothes being green and grey.
With a sigh, he relaxed if only barely "Thank god, you guys were already here. I was starting to wonder why You weren't with stella, if you were not here-"
"What if they weren't?" Stella replied with a serious expression that clearly screamed "go ahead, say it. I dare you"
"I would have gone and retrieved them, you now that to be a fact" Crown replied with no stutter or hestitation as he turned around to look at his guard/friend.
"Bold of you to assume i would have allowed you to, you are top priority. End of the conversation." her tone became dark and serious.
"You may be my personal Guard, Stella. But make no mistake, im not a pushover, i can bring you down!, i do not train like a mad drake just for nothing, and regardless of your personal mission, be it even by direct order of my mothers or not, i will NOT hestitate to knock you out, if need be to save all of you."
After a moment of silence, in the room Stellas frown turned upside down, revealing a barely noticeable soft smile.
"To almost anypony else i would say, yeah haha good luck with that. But i know you can back it up. Its both highly comforting and distressing to me, that you are that loyal of a friend yet that stuborn of a prince. That being said, i would not have it any other way" she said. Her face becoming slightly flushed and her eyes and mouth giving a barely contained look of adoration.
"ahem" exclaimed a slighly annoyed abundance
Breaking the moment, Stella, Serene and Crown look at the source of the noise.
"Well, good too see all of you here too dear. Now, im assuming Stella there Didn't tell you all that much of what is happening, correct?" Abundance asked, sitting on a metalical chair infront of them, wich was near a round metalical table wich had a primitive esque hologram display, created by an engineering device that mixes traditional engineering with magic.
This area of the bunker being the Conferency room.
"No, as a matter of fact, no. By all means go ahead" They all took a seat in their respective seats engraved with their cutie mark and in case of crown royal seal encrusted in the metal.
Soon a holographic map of new equestre was shown in a blue technological hue, with a highly primitive and mechanical soundig AI that tried to replicate Abundance's late sister narrating as the hologram shifted to different forms and structures to give immersive detail.
"New equestre, Hoofington farming grounds, had begun experiencing catastrophic levels of an unprecedented size and speed hailstorm ,at aproximately 14:00 hours of the present day. The hail, currently destroying the farming fields, the city slowly and causing high numbers of casualities, seems to be advacing north to the pegasus district at speed of aproximately 40 kilometers per hour"
"By reports of a royal exploration team, that mapped the nearby zone, this seems to be caused by a medium sized horde of aproximately 200 units of a mix of medium magic leveled witches and warlocks. However no UCE's (Unidentified Corrupted Entity's) were witnessed yet. It is belived their arrival to hoffington is likely due to the perimeter wall in the extremes of New equestre being compromised , and this modicate horde managed to break through our forces. Yet, no confirmation of this has come to data bases.
Its is highly suspected however, 2 highly posible outcomes are to follow.In the First, the Hordes objective besides causing death and destruction as per usual, COULD be looking to compromise and possibly posses all if, not a signicant portion of the pegasi populi on their district, wich as you may know and imagine could increase their destructive prowess significantly, with a high chance of not being able to control the situation back without massive losses.
The second posibilty, of this being a trap. Of course the first posibility would be highly catastrophic, and to some extent is more likely,however that is if not taking into consideration our troups, that while true they are not optimal, they could likely subdue the incident themselves." summarized the AI
"Whats the But?" Said crown
"The "but" is, that if that is the case the true objective of their "military" operation is unwknown, let me say it again. unwknown. in other words if the perimeter has truly been breached, this "horde" likely is merely a distraction, with an attempt to divide our forces, leaving the capital or whatever their objective is open for a concentrated attack." the AI finished as the blue light went out and the information was processed by all the present.
"So, as you may see, we have to make a decision and fast, Either way the danger to the "stability" we had created now is real, this could go grim, and in any of the 2 likely scenarios losses will be had " continued dawn. Pushing her elbows over the table in a thinking position.
"So, what do you all think?" she concluded with a question
"So, what do you guys think?" summarized Dawn's question in the room Causing a momentary silence.
"Hmm, sounds like a crossroads. Whatever we choose seems like something could go wrong. is there really a difference?" Pillows asked
"of course there is" said amber rolling her eyes wryly "In the first case the risk is moderate but the time for it to happen is less, in the opposite case the risk is greater but the time to maneuver is more."
"Uhm, could you summarize it in a more understandable way?" asked Whis.
"Well" replied the pony in question with a sigh "In other words. If we support the pegasus district we have less time to act and the risk is worse in the long term, but if we prioritize preventing a surprise attack we have more time to prepare against a higher risk in the short term." summarized amber
"Yes, I think so too. the way I see it is basically a choice between cutting the weeds or pulling them out by the roots, each with pros and cons. Although personally I prefer to eliminate the problems in the long term (root) so I would suggest containing the problem in hoofington first" abundance replied.
"I support abby on this (abby is the pet name Crown gave abundance) likewise in medicine it is better to prevent the underlying cause than to treat the disease directly in many cases , plus the pegasus district is where-" whis began only to be interrupted by Stella.
"Don't.say.it."
"But Ste-"
"DON'T SAY IT!" Stella didn't want something to be said, which made the other members raise their eyebrows.
Frowning, Whis said it anyway "There is Our mother, stella!" exclaimed the yellow pegasus in concern for Stella's mother, and her adoptive mother par excellence.
"tch, that doesn't matter right now!" exclaimed the blue pegasus in frustration and clearly suppressed emotion.
"Of course it does!" Whis/Serene/Serena rose from her seat whipping her hands against the metal table.
"NO!!!, we can't afford to be emotional!!!, new equestre is at risk!!!"
"But-!!!"
"But nothing, and sit down!!" she said in a shaky but firm voice as both sisters of different birth mother sat back down keeping silent.
"Sorry about that" they said in unison, which earned sympathetic faces from those present.
"Where are my mothers?" asked Crown after a moment of silence.
"They are near lancelot, currently preparing a containment plan in case option 2, i.e. the surprise attack materializes" said dawn with a sly smile.
"pftt, hahahaha!", crown laughed out loud confusing the rest of the girls, with the exception of Dawn.
"I don't understand, crown. what's so funny?" amber asked.
"Ask dawn, she clearly planned this," causing them all to look at their friend and direct boss.
Dawn simply turned to Serene and said in a slightly humorous tone and a smile "Whis, do you really think that hard head next to you, would have risked your mother or his direct minions to safeguard his hide?"
"No, I suppose not but what's that got to do with-"
"Did you forget the last thing I said, the princesses are already focusing on the containment plan, and if at least in the short term the biggest threat by default is hoofington, in that scenario there are 3 options: A)we help reinforce the containment plan (which might be unnecessary), b) we intervene in hoofington, orC) we don't and leave our troop to their own devices."
"In that sense what do you THINK this spoiled child is going to choose, even more so knowing that her dear friend's foster mother is at risk?" said Dawn with a mixture of pride and frustration.
Inhaling air in shock, both "sisters" stood up from their seats, as well as the rest of the girls and looked at the young prince.
"You plan to go to the battle field?!!"
"Yes, i wont let you all go to war, while i merely hide while Serene tends to me and Stella acts as a meat shield!, and besides Mom has it all covered here apparently, so the best i can do at the moment is cut their feed short and help the populi." Crown turned to look at Stella and Whis with a cocky grin "Your mother included"
"Crown!, you-" Serene was both happy he cared that much but also worried for his safety. However before she could say anything else...
"-Absolute idiot!" screamed Stella with a slap to his face making a strong whipping noice. With her blue hands vibrating with lightning produced by biomagnetism magic. One of the abilities she trained as a pegasus elite guard, channeling her magic, turning it into voltage and focusing it on her palms, increasing the damage one fist could do, as dragon scales were HARD, you see. This, no doubt stunned the present mares
"you think you are some kind of hero?!, i didnt train for near this long, just so you could throw away your life!" Stella was now on top of a non resisting Crown who only looked at her with a mix of empathy and annoyance rubbing his slightly bruised face with claw.
"You have become strong?, sure!. I know you will become stronger, smarter, better!, for bucks sake you are not an adult yet!m but i will beat you up if i have too!, You!, you!, you!, you... y-you-" said stella in an ever progresively cracking as she repeatedly hit his face with her electrical fists as, each hit and each word she utter became softer and quieter and tears started to drop from her face.
"-...you...you make me...so, so happy!, but i know i should stop you! , yet i cant!, i dont want mom to die! and i also know that even if i try to stop you, you eventually will teleport out even if i knock you out, all it takes is one moment of distraction once you are awake!".
"For all my strength, and speed there is just so much i can do to protect you. Im a failure as a guard" Stella was trembling with emotion
Soon, Crown's hands took her own, startling her. "You are not a failure at all, neither as a guard nor a friend. If your job is to protect me, then why not do it while i tend to my responsabilities helping my people?, helping-" Crown looked at the shocked in place mares, looking to Serene a while longer than the others "my friends. If you are to be my shield you should be it too at all times,not just in hiding, but in open battle, dont you think?" ended Crown with a slightly forced smile as his cheeks were bruised and a little blood poured from his lower lip.
"..." the silence in the room was palpable for the next minute, as Stella visibly relaxed and closed her eyes in thought as the tears came slower, and her frowned turned into a smile.
"Fine, but i have demands. If i am to bend my obligations as a guard to meet your demands, surely you can do the same for me, no?"," her smile showed teeth.
"...speak" Crown smirked
"Dont need too, hot stuff" she said, as she instantaneously kissed him, with a passion pushing both of their bodies towards a the floor mind blowing him and the other mares as her tounge and his twisted for dominance, for a moment and as he tried to resist a little, she pushed him back to the ground keeping him in place.
Then after quickening the speed of the tounge twister, before gasping for air, she took his tounge with her teeth bitting it slowly, as she then using her lips created a small void sucking it with all her might before finally gasping for air, looking at the illuminated ceilling of metal with a look that mixed satisfaction and pleasure.
"Alright, what's the plan?" she smirked in dominance at her friends.
After her question, a stony silence ensued, as her friends' faces changed their grimaces ominously.
In Dawn's case, her mouth went from gaping open like a fish to simply smirking with a frown of frustration.
On amber's part, her mouth was closed in a straight line, her eyes held open like saucers while her right eye twitched and she clenched her hands tightly.
In the case of pillows, for some reason she never reacted with shock, rather her face showed pure ecstasy like a child who had just been given a bag of candy.
In the case of Abby (abundace) she went from showing a face of shock with her mouth open, to slowly smiling mischievously, while her brow furrowed in obvious annoyance.
Whis, on the other hand, went from being surprised to having a face that to people who did not know her would look calm and peaceful, with a slight smile, loose shoulders, hands behind her back and a relaxed face, or so it would be if her jaw was not tense and her eyelids were not slightly half closed. However, for those who knew her, seeing her expression without much hesitation broke their own reactions to slowly move out of the way of the pegasus, who slowly approached her adopted sister with a face that hid her true intentions, which erased her sister's smug smile and made her nervous.
"uhhh, Whis, is-is everything okay?"
"Sureooo, why wouldn't it be?"
"ehmmm, well-
"I mean, you just hit Crown on an emotional impulse, made him bleed, stole his first kiss without warning, and-"
"Wait, how do you know it was my first-
"NOT NOW CROWN!" shouted Whis in pent-up fury, immediately returning to her "peaceful" state.
"...like I was saying, it's not that big of a deal, I mean it's not like in addition to all of the above you knew that I liked HIM right?. Why would I be mad?" She concluded sarcastically as she put a hand on her shoulder and squeezed hard, penetrating her skin with her nails until she drew blood, causing Stella to wince.
At the same time Crown blushed like a cherry as he discovered that his little Crush with his friend and personal doctor was reciprocated.
"Okay, okay, I get it, sorry!" Stella put her hands up defensively.
"Oh, don't worry dear sister, very fortunately for YOU, we have something more urgent to deal with, besides I know perfectly well that you're not the "only one" besides me." said Whis looking at her friends with a mischievous smile, causing a chill to run down their spine.
"I always knew that sooner or later I would have to consider sharing." she said with a tone of frustration and resignation.
Fuck, they thought. Did she know?!
"Oh and Crown?" asked Whis, removing any negative aura from a moment ago, slowly approaching him further confusing crown who was still on the ground, but now without Stella's weight on top of him.
"Y-yes?"
Taking his face in her delicate hands, she brought his face close to hers, brushing his dragon ears with her lips and whispered, "I have terms too: When you are older, I want to be the first to Know your anatomy... in depth" she said with a seductive smile, to later lick his ear in a sensual way and then do the same with his neck to then bite it, making the dragon let out a stifled moan of satisfaction.
Now with a triumphant smile she declared, "Ok, NOW, we can continue, go ahead dawn."
"..." the mares and dragon were speechless
"Did I hesitate?" Whis challenged someone to challenge her on this.
"Ahem," "anyway, about the war strategy..." Abundance decided to let the topic die for now.
"OH, yeah right. UHHmmm well..." Dawn was still processing everything
"Dawn..."
"I'm coming whis, give me a moment, geez." After calming her nerves after a few moments, while the others present did the same she continued:
"Let's see, thanks to the intel abby got us, we know that: A)They have an air unit with mainly pegasus and B)a ground unit mainly with unicorns."
"We can also assume thanks to the same intel that their air unit is highly limited, since if indeed their target is really the pegasus district, this clearly indicates that their bottleneck to be able to increase their level of destruction are their number of pegasus, why else would they seek to attack or possess an area abundant in civilian pegasus?"
"That makes sense to me," Pillows said.
"Ok, so if we assume those 2 points to be true our main focus should be their ground forces, However being unicorns they can use their magic to cause targeted damage and not area damage as is commonly the case with pegasus"
"that makes sense to me" pillows said.
"So the best strategy would be to make a plan in which we can attack the ground unit quickly and swiftly, so that before they can even get organized to counterattack their numbers drop enough so that they are no longer a problem."
"This also has the added benefit that it will create chaos in that the pegasus will be far enough away and confused enough from the battlefield that we can attack them at range with-"
"Assault rifles?" asked Abby mischievously.
"Yep, it's the safest and most efficient way I can think of. Targeted magic isn't very accurate at long distances and besides it's slow and flashy in comparison, which would..." explained dawn.
"Yes, yes. It could lead them to find the source of the attack and coordinate a counterattack in that direction more quickly," replied Abby.
"Right, well at what distance are your latest prototypes still effective and accurate?" asked Dawn.
"hmm let's see, the Dragu-nova C&A (This universe/fic's version of the Dragunov SVDM) can fire with relative certainty at about 800 meters or so if you use the necessary accessories, and it has a caliber of about 54 millimeters."
"Hmm, yes, that will work. Now, on the subject of ground forces..."
"Actually, I can think of something there," said crown interrupting the mares.
"oh?, Please dear, tell us." Abby encouraged
"Well, remember those vision burst grenades that were prototypical, what did you call them again, light grenades?"
"Flash grenades, dear."
"Yes, flash grenades. Well why don't we just use those grenades at key points surrounding the most unicorns, then in that moment of confusion and lack of vision we eliminate them with normal grenades and once that's done we can focus on the remnants of the ground forces while the rest us, use the Dragunova to eliminate the air forces?"
"..."
"That... is a very good plan but you forget one small detail: exactly how would we achieve to place both the multiple flash grenades needed as well as the multiple normal ones at the sites without being detected, with enough accuracy from long distance or with enough speed to have the element of surprise?"
"Does teleport ring a bell?" Crown smirked
"Dear as much as i can commend your teleporting abilities from long distance...That would need not only incredible accuracy, to teleport a HIGH numer of grenades in 2 consecutive rounds (round 1 flash and the other normal grenades) to mulitiple places of a place you have never seen or been to!"
"Who said i was going to do it long distance?" crowns smirked
Now, 1 kilometer away from the ever aproching apocaliptic hailstorm advancing, Crown was using his binoculars to see what was happening.
It seems they did right, for the troop of 100 soldiers was mostly gone, with a small bundle of 10 of them trying to run away their bodies mangled and their energy depleted.
"Ok, seems we did the right call." Crown passed the binoculars to dawn who now surveyed the area of cold destruction around the once green fields of hoofington
"Anyway i think i have seen enough of the area and key position of the horde from here, now all of you should get into position" he commanded as he put on a protective vest over his body and protective mask covering his eyes, ears and mouth. Being his "weak points" since as much as his scales could take bullet like hail coming from the sky and stand proud with only bruises. His eyes like you would expect were not made of scales...and his vision was key in what was about to unravel.
"i have my doubts of this plan of yours, but its the best we have now, and while i trust you i really hope you know what you are doing, you better get out of this whole , you hear me Mr!!" Dawn chided him
"We are about to find out. Ok, gals operation "Flash and blast" begins!"
"Ready, here!" Said Abundance as she handed the prince a series of small cards with a magical symbol drawn on each one on top of them which he kept in his pockets normally used for normal weapon storage in his tactical pants.
Underneath the cards could be seen images of grenades and white grenades, among other weaponry and utilities. These cards, thanks to trial and error as well as the magical and alchemical skills of Crown, Abby and Dawn, saw the light of day some months back for the first time. Each of these cards possessed a specific magical seal, which when activated would transport to a selected the place where they were left or "activated" a certain amount of objects linked in this case grenades and flash grenades
The way this worked was by taking advantage of Crown's teleportation abilities, dawn's magic manipulation ability, and the weapons created by Abundance as follows:
1) You have a load or quantity of stuff, in this scenario grenades prepared and/or stored at a location up to 100 kilometers away (Crown's current accuracy limit).
2) Crown activates its teleportation magic.
3) by Dawn it is "compacted" and "partially inactivated" at the same moment into a series of inactive/passive seals binding them to the desired objects (charge)
3) the "other half of the seal" that would activate the original teleportation is linked to a portable and practical object (trigger) in this case small cards.
3.5)Now you have "Charge" cards for any immediate need for later use and easy carry.
4) in case of needing the above mentioned weapons, applying magic normally cast on a teleportation spell and applying it on these instead, will activate at the same time both spells above previously locked: The first one activating the teleportation of the objects and the other one selecting a physical destination to transport them to. This way you will have an armory at your disposal without the need to carry weaponry.
"Ok, you know what to do girls, here I go!" Crown declared as she took a deep breath and recalled a brief memory of his training days with fortress.
"Hey, I've noticed that sometimes when you activate your teleport spell on the cockroaches, even if it's the same distance traveled sometimes the time it takes for the cockroaches appear in my hand changes for a few seconds, is that intentional?"
"uhhh, no...I think?"
"you think?"
"yes, uhmmm. It's just that sometimes I get a little too tired and put a little less of my magic into the spells so... maybe that's it?"
"huh?!" thought Fortress "You can cast the same spell, at the same time, but with less magic, at the same object , from the same distance and to same destination, but with a difference in travel speed depending on the amount of magic... that wouldnt exactly be teleportation, that would be..." "oh! "Fortress' face lit up like a beacon with a mischievous grin.
"You little brat, you never cease to amaze me. All right, I'll teach you to control your fire magic SPACE CONTROL" spells in TIME. Of course, this means..." he made a magical drumming sound with his fingers before exclaiming: "more cockroach training!"
"In the end, if it was useful, huh? fortress..." whispered the dragon exhaling. At the same instant he disappeared from the girls' vision with a spark of emerald green fire.
The first spark that lasted only 1 or 2 seconds between appearing and disappearing was in front of the soldiers who were trying to escape from the horde running at their heels.
In that moment the dragon took one of the cards that had only a magic symbol of teleportation drawn on it, imbuing it with his magic and throwing it in the middle of the soldiers who in an emerald spark were transported 1 kilometer away to the mini rustic base set up by the mares, who upon receiving them in an obvious state of shock gave them instructions of what was going on and what they should do now.
In that same instant, confusing the advanced part of the horde, a fast series of green sparks appeared and disappeared in moments barely detectable to the now confused possessed individuals.This sparks appearing in and out in different key points of the remains of the agricultural city, leaving 2 cards on the floor or key area per flash.
These key points being places where there was a greater concentration of possessed, for a greater impact on their forces or otherwise in places in wich the possessed were encircling or seeking to corner the citizens, like a cat would try to corner a mouse, on the few buildings currently locked and that barely remained resisting the frozen apocalypse weakly protecting the civilians.
"The school"
"The church"
"The capitol"
"The food stores"
"The hospital"
They were some of these sites.
In under 2 minutes all points were covered as the girls and now free of shock soldiers instructions watched the flashes in what they wold describe as small, fleeting lights moving around the area at high speed.
As soon as the multiple dozens of charges were left, the dragon teleported back to the base. The girls noticing his "armor" shattered and his exposed areas bruised , however otherwise on a pony would be broken bones or otherwise encrusted with ice piercings in the skin and tissues that could cut if without protection and some time on the open would take off extremities off clean.
"Ready?!" exclaimed the dragon.
"Yes, my lord!" exclaimed the troops consisting of 3 pegasus, 4 unicorns and 3 earth ponies with varying degrees of damage to their bodies despite their own armor and the fact that the squadron of originally 100 ponies were mostly unicorns, in order to create protective shields for the troops to advance with the least amount of damage. This apparently was not enough.
Without saying more, the dragon took the last cards out of his right pocket that had a rifle symbol with the initials "D-C&A" drawn on it, activating them and throwing them in the middle of everyone present. Making a total of 17 Dragunov C&A rifles appear with a couple of magazines of ammunition each. All of this while , without the others present noticing a stream of blood ran from the prince's noses. However, this was not caused by the hail damage to the rest of his body...nor did he want to worry anyone unnecessarily...
"Ok" Inhaling sharply Crown counted in reverse , exhaling and pushing his hands together with green flames coliding he said "3" The first round of magic cards were activated with a planned delay causing a dozens of blinding lights to appear at all placed points covering a wide distance between them all, making the terrain appear like a sea of white light/mist.
"2" The other delay cards were activated, in this case with the normal grenades, taking advantage of the enemy's lack of vision and confusion thanks to the flash grenades lowering their defences, in a flash of fire and metal flying in all directions covered by a white cloud of light, making those in side it, and the pesus flying over it unable to grasp what happened. Destroying dozens of dozens of their troops in a moment.
..1!" The dragon exclaimed as all present took position with their respective dragunova C&A rifles aiming at the pegasus in the sky, as he quickly took a deep breath to fire before in that deafening silence following the surprise attack the loud but highly muffled (thanks to the silencers) first cannon fire of the battle was heard breaking the silence, followed by a barrage of roaring shots of the 6 mares and remains of the rescued troops.
