None escape the coming storm, Twilight Sparkle thought to herself as she gazed at what used to be the grand capital city of Canterlot, which now lay in ruin with a black flag atop the mighty Canterlot castle. How could this of happened, Twilight tried to choke back her tears, it used to be so peaceful. She thought back to that fateful day when it all began, the day the humans began their relentless invasion of the once peaceful land of Equestria. Plunging the once beautiful land into a dark and terrible war, nopony could understand what had driven this unknown enemy to perform these terrible acts of cruelty, nopony, except princess Celestia and her protégé Twilight sparkle. Twilight could still remember the day that Princess Celestia gave her the book on ancient prophecies. It was that book which had forewarned Twilight of Nightmare Moon's return. But that book had also told of the day when war would return to Equestria and with it the Harbingers of death would once more plunge the world into chaos. The small section gave reference to the creatures mentioned in the prophecy "Humans", Twilight repeated the words over and over again "I have must find out more about these humans" said Twilight.
Twilight's curiosity drove her to further research humans and their origins, but she could find no books that contained information on humans. It was then that Twilight had made the decision to approach her mentor Celestia and ask her if she knew anything about these humans. So Twilight decided to ask the princess the next time she was in Canterlot, which was convenient because Twilight had to go to Canterlot quills and spells, to purchase some quills and parchment for her studies.
Twilight was just about to board the train, when she felt a strange wind blowing from the Everfree forest. Twilight shivered as the wind was icy cold and she gagged when the smell hit her, the wind carried with it the smell of death and decay, a smell that Twilight wasn't familiar. Twilight's train of thought was shattered by the conductor whistling and shouting "all aboard whose coming aboard ", Twilight hurried onto the train and quickly sat down next to an all too familiar blue mare, "Rainbow! What are you doing on the train" Twilight asked in a rather demanding voice, "oh hey Twilight, I'm just going to pick up a few things in Canterlot for the contest" replied Rainbow. "What contest?" Twilight asked straight away, "well ..." Rainbow began.
About an hour later, "... and the winners will go through to the finals and compete for the grand prize..." Rainbow paused to take a deep breath "... of admission into the WONDERBOLTS" Rainbow squealed like a fangirl, "can you image it Twi, me apart of the Wonderbolts, I've been trying to get into that group for like... EVER" Rainbow's eyes had glazed over. The two mares sat in silence for the rest of the trip. At one point Twilight had fallen asleep.
Twilight was standing in the middle of the Canterlot royal throne room addressing the princess and giving her latest report of the magic of friendship, when suddenly a loud noise interrupted her. Both Twilight and Celestia walked out on to the balcony, both curious as to what caused the sound. Every pony in the streets had stopped to look around, as well, but as far as anypony could see what ever had made the noise had long gone. Just as Twilight turned around and started to walk back inside a surprised gasp arose from one of the pony's in the street, "look, Everypony, up there just behind that cloud" pointed the pony, Everypony turned their heads, straining to see what the pony was pointing at, when suddenly a large black object sped past the top of the castle. There was a chorus of "ohs" and '"ahs "as the strange object circled the city. Now Twilight couldn't quite make out exactly what she was looking at, but it roughly resembled a bird. Everypony stood and watched the strange bird-like object continually circle the city, all the while asking each other what it might be. After about ten minutes the object broke off and started to speed away, and everypony started to continue what they had previously doing before the bird-like object had appeared. But no less than what must have been about three minutes the bird creature returned, but there were three more with it. Everypony stared in amazement as they reduced their speed and decreased their altitude so that they could be seen clearly. Twilight saw that the bird creature was in fact made out of metal, this surprised Twilight, but no sooner than it had slowed down it disappeared. Then one pony is the street yelled out "Look they're dropping things" everypony started at the metal-birds wondering what it is they're dropping. Twilight found herself also wondering what it is they were dropping when suddenly a violent shockwave threw both Twilight and princess Celestia of their hooves and into a wall, after which Twilight fell unconscious to the floor.
Twilight awoke with a splitting headache, she rubbed her forehead with her hoof, but stopped when she felt something warm and wet, she looked at her hoof which was now covered it a deep scarlet liquid. Dizziness took hold of Twilight as she tried to get up unsuccessfully, after struggling to her feet Twilight and stared out in disbelief at the scene before her. Canterlot was on fire, ruined buildings and debris now lay scattered across the city. Bodies lay in the streets as the blood ran in torrents down the gutters, the smell of death hung strongly in the air; a feeling of nausea overtook Twilight as she vomited violently. Twilight looked around wildly as she tried to make sense of the situation, a footstep behind her made Twilight spin around swiftly. There in front of her stood a creature twice her size dressed in an olive green shirt and pants with a pair of black boots, it wore a metal hat and carried a long cylindrical piece of metal which it then levelled at Twilight. Twilight yelled at the creature to explain what was going on, the creature just looked at her for a while then it spoke "Be prepared for we have returned". Then there was a long bang and pain shot through Twilight's body, she fell to the floor and once more slipped into darkness.
Twilight awoke in a cold sweat, she looked around frantically and sighed a sigh of relief when everything was clear, it was all a dream thought Twilight as the train pulled into the station, but she would make a note of telling Celestia when she saw her. Twilight and Rainbow got off the train and went their separate ways as did all of the ponies, none of them aware of the bloody struggle that lay ahead.
-END Chapter 1-
Author note: sorry about the grammar and spelling mistakes, the ideas came out of my head so fast I had to put them down fast or I'd forget them. Anyway I hate to leave you in suspense but I need to think of some more stuff for chapter two, the next chapter will be out in a week or maybe more I don't know. Thanks for taking the time to read my fanfic and rem
