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Summary: Word of demonic creatures attacking farms and villages have spread across Equestria, and the mane six go to Canterlot. Not long after arriving Fluttershy is kidnapped by a mysterious Alicorn and taken deep into the Everfree forest. In a castle made of trees, she gets to meet strange new friends and discovers secrets kept from Princess Celestia for over a thousand years.

Elements of Harmony and War #1 the Forest Princess

Prologue

As the sun set slowly on the horizon, the silhouettes of nine ponies stood strongly against the reddening sky on top of a steep hill. In the middle was a unicorn mare, her haunting, aqua eyes glowing from her silhouette with cat like pupils. To her right, was another unicorn mare and to her left a Pegasus stallion, small enough to be a foal. Beside him was a zebra stallion with a horn, and next to him a Pegasus mare. Next to her was an earth pony mare. To the right of the second unicorn mare was an adult Pegasus stallion, and next to him another earth pony mare. Beside the earth pony mare was a unicorn stallion.

They stood in silence as the last rays of the sun went down; the wind gently blew their manes and tails. Then, as though one, they began to move forward, they began in walk that became a trot. As they began to break into a run, they began to transform, starting with the second unicorn mare. Her eyes flashed blood red and she grew to twice her height, her mane and tail flared up like black and dark red flames, black wings of energy grew from her shoulder blades and thick, demonic, horns grew from the side of her head, jutting forward. Her unicorn horn became longer and sharper and smoke blew from her nostrils.

The earth pony mare on the left fallowed suit as she stood on her hind legs that grew longer. Her body stretched longer and her fore legs became arms, her fore-hooves lengthened and thinned out into blade-like appendages. Her eyes were like two fire pits had replaced her eyes in their sockets and her tail became thin and lizard like with small spikes on it. A light veil of smoke billowed from her slightly ajar mouth, and a fire red light could be seen from behind her sharp looking teeth.

The horned zebra and the older Pegasus colt transformed nearly at the same time.

The zebra's mane became spikes and he grew nearly as tall as Celestia. His eyes burned a blazing gold, and his whip like tail lashed behind him. His horn became longer and sharper and fangs like a saber-toothed tiger poked from his upper jaw. He leaped over a large boulder with a lion-like roar. The Pegasus became taller as he took to the air and his wings became larger, his eyes now flaring eerie, neon green. His chest caved inwards and it looked as though a tunnel had opened up inside of him, and a ball of electricity formed in the opening, sparks and bolts flickering around the walls of the opening. Electricity sparked around his hooves and through his mane and tail.

The Pegasus mare took flight as the colt did, her mane and tail flared up in bright orange and yellow flames. Most of the flesh on her body burned away as she was consumed by flames, leaving her ribcage and skull revealed as they were charred.

The younger Pegasus colt took to the air as well, eyes flashing bright blue. Ram's horns curled themselves by his ears and his wings became membranous instead of feathery. The unicorn colt grew in height as well, his horn becoming longer, sharper and slightly curved, eyes burning gold. The last one the other earth pony, had red eyes, and as she ran her hooves left behind marks as though they were wet with something, though it was hard to see in the darkness.

They ran and they flew, tearing down the steep hillside, where just beyond a quiet town called Apploosa lay. They ran through the apple orchard and the blazing Pegasus mare was not far above, lighting trees on fire as she past, as did the electrical colt. Shouts in the distance could be heard as nearby residents noticed the fire and smoke, fallowed by screams as the demons tore out from the cover of the trees.

The bipedal demon leaped out from the darkness of a tall, unlit tree, landing hard on the back of a mare with a green mane and tail. She screamed as the sudden weight knocked her to the ground, another scream coming from nearby as a tiger striped demon with a mane of spikes came into the light of a blazing orchard. The bipedal demon leaped off of the mare as she collided with the ground, and the colt that had screamed narrowly avoided being run over by the striped former zebra as many more screams began to fill the air. The flaming mare rocketed into the nearest house of the town, plowing through it and lighting it aflame. Screams erupted from the house as three foals came face to face with the fiery being. The two younger ones, a filly and a colt, hid behind their older brother with a hoe cutie mark. The father charged in with a pitchfork, immediately jabbing it at the fire mare, but she dodged and took it in her mouth, crushing it with her powerful jaws. The father's mouth dropped open and he dropped his pitchfork, backing into the wall as he expected his end to come. Instead the mare turned back towards the foals and took to the air, zooming through the wall as the eldest sibling pushed the younger out of the way in the nick of time.

Down below, the smallest winged demon had a four, well built colts cowering in a corner as the young demon looked each of them over in a defensive position with his head and ears down threateningly. Not far from them the former unicorn colt busted down the door of a two story house with ease and many horrified screams erupted from within. All around the town was more and more screaming as the monsters broke down doors and walls and windows, tearing through the homes of the innocent civilians.

Much of the town was in flame and chaos, ponies running in panic and some trying to defend themselves from the one with tiger stripes or the electrical, grey-back Pegasus. Nopony seemed to notice that one in particular stood out from the other demons.

She walked calmly through town, her coat glowing in a bright white, her flowing, almost fire like mane and tail were the slightest eerie blue glow and she had huge white wings of energy. Her horn longer and sharper, she was nearly was tall as Celestia, and taller than Luna. Her haunting aqua eyes carefully scanned through the town as she watched the chaos, as though she were searching for something.

Suddenly she reared up and whinnied. The other demons immediately stopped what they were doing and ran towards the white one. As her hooves touched the ground once more she broke out into a run, the other eight fallowing. It didn't take them long to run out of ruins of what had been Apploosa.

One resident pony stood and watched as they disappeared in the darkness beyond the flames, save for three glowing dots. One white, one green, one orange, two of which were in the air.

"Braeburn!" the Sheriff called as he watched the lights disappear. "Braeburn, get your plot over here!"

The green eyed colt bounded over, a bucket of water in his jaws. He set it down to speak.

"y-yes mister sheriff?" he stammered.

"Send a letter to the princess." He ordered, "Tell her everything that's happened here."

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