Alright. Yeah, I know it doesn't really work like this, but here's something else to wait for while I'm in exams. This is a MY LITTLE PONY fanfic I wanted to do for awhile. So here you go: The Eastern Wind: Elemental Refuge.
Chapter 1: The Royal Arch
It was a cold day in Canterlot. Snow falling was an obivious sign that Winter was here. In one of the alleys in the streets was a pony standing against one of the walls. She was a unicorn with a white coat, red mane with yellow highlights. Her Cutie Mark was a prism with a flaming arch pointing Northeast. She called herself Rubyshine. She had quite a past here, even though she grew up in Fillydelphia. She suddenly put up her hood as two guards walked past. Canterlot has fallen under the control of King Ironmane, a very powerful unicorn who won the recent war and the same one who took her parents. Going into hiding, she had to work under the name Arch Flame. Something was strange about her though. She had the unusual ability to control and manipulate the very essence of fire down to the atoms. This was discovered through a very long period of meditation after she witnessed the lost of her parents. "Hey, you!" She heard. She turned around and saw two guards walking slowly towards her. "Hay…" she whispered and started to run the opposite direction. "Stop!" she heard as the guards started running after her. The chase ensued through outside Canterlot as the clouds started to drum together…
Somewhere over the skies of Manehattan…
"I don't see her anywhere" Winterhope said, obvious disappointment in her voice. Winterhope was a cerulean pegasus mare with a white mane and long tale with navy highlights. Her cutie mark was a wave of snow with a few snowflakes. "She should be here." Stardream said. "The map pointed us here. We should try Canterlot next" Stardream was a pegasus stallion with a violet coat purple and yellow mane and tail. His cutie mark was a thundercloud with a yellow star inside. They both landed on the ground and approached two ponies sitting on a bench. One was an Earth pony stallion with a green coat and a black mane and tail with a sword and a four-leaf clover cutie mark, and the other was a unicorn stallion with a purple coat, orange mane and tail with gray highlights, and a book with a strange symbol for a cutie mark. Stardream approached the two ponies and pulled out a paper. "have you seen anypony looking like this?" The 'pony' was an image of Rubyshine with her alternate name "Arch Flame" printed above the image. The two ponies just shook their heads and left. Stardream and Winterhope let out an irritated sigh. "I give up!" Stardream said in frustration. "Come on Stardream, you know without her, we can't stand up to Ironmane." Winterhope replied. "I know." Stardream said, "But it's like she's never been here. She grew up here, for Celestia's sake!" Suddenly Stardream realised that everypony was staring at him and Winterhope. "We should get outta here." Winterhope whispered. Stardream nodded, and they took off Southwest to Canterlot's direction.
Back outside of Canterlot…
Rubyshine was getting tired running from these guards, who increased from two to about five in numbers. Rubyshine was too focused on getting away that she didn't realise that she's right about outside the border of Ponyville. She stopped right outside of the gates, and collapsed of exhaustion. She looked up to see the guards moving in. How do they keep this up? Has my luck run out this time? I guess it's time to see the King. Suddenly, a bolt of lightnig seared through the air, hitting two of the guards. A wave of ice took care of the other, knocking them off their hooves. Rubyshine got up slowly. Now that these guards aren't chasing her, she could get a better look at them. They're different from before Ironmane took over. Instead of the generic white-coat, blue-maned, golden armor guards that were on-duty when Celestia and Luna ruled, these guards had gray coats, black manes and Obsidian armor. After Rubyshine analysed the guards, she looked around to find whoever saved her. She could'nt see anything until she heard a voice behind her that made her jump from fright. "Hi." Rubyshine turned around to see two pegasi standing behind her. The purple one held out his hoof and introduced himself: "I'm Stardream, and this is Winterhope." Stardream motions over to the blue pegasus, indicating that she must be Winterhope. Rubyshine hesitated but shook Stardream's hoof and said "I'm Rubyshine, and I should probably thank you for saving me back there" Stardream nodded and said "No problem, but we have to talk" Rubyshined was confused. "We?" Stardream nodded with a serious face. "And what place better than Ponyville?" Stardream motioned towards Ponyville, which was a few meter away from the trio. Rubyshine didn't say anything, but she could think a many other places.
Well, Tell me what you think through review, or PM's. NOTE: A Saint Deserves A Greater Challenge is NOT Discontinued. I'll try to finish it, but no promises.