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Chaotic Harmony

Chapter 1: A Storm A Coming

Twilight Sparkle, a violet coated alicorn mare with a mane and tail of violet shades that had a stripe of magenta, a cutie mark of a starburst surrounded by five white stars, and violet eyes, was walking up to Fluttershy's cottage due to the absurdly chaotic weather over the Everfree forest. Now normally, chaotic weather there is to be expected but the sheer volume and magnitude had the weather pegasus in charged of monitoring the forest worried. Everything from blizzards to tornadoes, from hurricanes to clear skies, and all at the same times in localized places within the forest. Rainbow Dash had asked Twilight to look in on Fluttershy who lives on the edge of the forest after she heard speculation that some of the animals in the Everfree forest might be driven out by this strange and changing weather. Rainbow Dash couldn't do it herself because all weather pegusi that were able were keeping the new weather system contained as much as possible with a request already sent to Canterlot for more assistance.

Twilight wondered idle if it had anything to do with that meteorite that crashed during that "solar… eclipse, that's what Celestia called it. And then, Discord appears and asks for help," Twilight nearly snorted at that. "Apparently his powers were being strained by something. Crazy weather, overpowering Celestia, Luna, and Discord, and causing a meteorite, I really, really hope it is all coincidence," Twilight thought worriedly.

As Twilight approached the cottage something was off. She noticed a lion's paw off to the side and hanging over the roof was one, two, three scorpion tails. Fearing for her friends life with the obvious signs of not one, but a pack of manticores, creatures with the body of a lion, tail of a scorpion, and webbed dragon wings. As she rounded the cottage there they were six, six, manticores had Fluttershy, a tan coated pegaus mare with a pink mane and tail, a cutie mark of three pink butterflies, and teal blue eyes, surrounded with two posed to pounce.

"Fluttershy!" Twilight shouts as she jumps between Fluttershy and the manticores prepared to erect a barrier upon the first two's pounce. A pounce that never came.

"Twilight, what are you doing?" Fluttershy asked innocently.

"Protecting you," Twilight answered.

"But, they weren't attacking they were asking for help," Fluttershy responded.

Twilight was flabbergasted as she took another look at the predators before her and noticed that although they were slightly guarded from her intrusion they were all in varying states of injury. The two that were 'pouncing' actually had the forepaws in casts and were just laying on their stomachs to stay off them.

"What happened?" Twilight asked in shock. "What every could have done that to six manticores without killing them must be really powerful."

"Something crashed at the border of three of their territories that two of the others had invade to hunt and were about to fight thinking that the other was one of the alphas. When it crashed they went to investigate along with the three alphas and one of their mates." At this the least injured one nodded its' head slightly. "These two were there first," she point to the two in casts, "and when the others arrived they almost attacked them until they saw something thrashing them. With a female present they tried to impress her but even she had to get involved in order to save her mate and the others. That's when they decided to come see me for help," Fluttershy finished.

After some hesitation and Twilight finally agreeing to help, she found herself in the awkward situation of being led to the emergency by four manticores while the two seriously wounded took up the back to help if they can but mostly just to find out what was going on. Curiosity killed the cat and all that.

As they neared their destination Twilight noticed the damage to the forest. The ground was depressed for at least a few hundred yards from the impact point which was a ways away. The trees and other plants were pushed over and slightly singed, but mostly intact. Almost like something had protected them during the impact.

Twilight was getting worried what could survive this and still take on not one but six manticores.

All of a sudden the two in the back, fell back a little more while three of the others took defensive positions with two flanking Fluttershy and one flanking Twilight just in front of them. The last one was taking the lead for the last 50 yards or so. Then they were there.

In the center of the disturbed trees under some moved brush and covered in shadows, staring back at them were the most piercing crystal blue eyes.

"Please help her!" said a voice from behind them causing all of them to jump.