Cover Art credited to ZettaiDullahan
This is the first book of The Trials of the Ancients series.
After an encounter in the Everfree nearly turns deadly, Fluttershy is saved by a strange creature. When the creature collapses from its injuries she decides to take it in and nurse it back to health. There might be a lot more to this creature than the meets the eye and can she handle the consequences and reactions of everyone else?
Gore tag is for blood
Dark tag added for themes
As the tag shows this is an Alternate Universe and I wanted to say what the biggest changes are (without spoiling anything).
- Twilight did not become the ruler of Equestria, she is still simply the Princess of Friendship
- The Main 6 were able to defeat Discord without turning him to stone and he reformed earlier.
- Discord didn't betray Equestria to Tirek, meaning the Golden Oaks was never destroyed and the Castle of Friendship didn't get created. Though a castle was built for Twilight eventually.
- With no Cutie Map they never found Starlight Glimmer.
- The magic Twilight used to hatch Spike caused him to actually age up to around her age, so he is older than canon.
- Aside from Spike's age all characters are as they are in canon.
There are other changes but they're spoilers so you'll just have to wait to find out on those.
This is my first attempt at a fanfic (or writing in general) so all constructive criticism is welcome!
