Hello everyone! A.M back with another chapter of the Rage of Ember! Nothing much to really say, just sit back and get ready for the episode!
The moon slowly rose from the opposite direction of the descending sun. The people of New Oakville were continuing their nightly builds, such as the new church that was being made in order to honor Princess Celestia. The constructors were slowly but steadily building their houses along with the church. Everybody knew everybody in the town. The children would gallop off somewhere into the fields to play a game of catch or who could climb up the tallest tree they found. The maids would clean up the houses and prepare a family for their dinner when they were on break. Life was normal in this town, not a single terror for miles.
Until an enraged stallion stood a mile away from the town.
Ember's rage was at its limit, nothing was going to stop him now. It was time for the townsponies to realize that their town would be reduced to nothing within the next hour.
"There is no sun today, only darkness. That darkness will be converted into nightfire. I will destroy you all." Ember pledged as his zoomed vision returned to normal. The stallion galloped from his position towards the village. Ember felt his adrenaline pump like it had never before. The town was getting closer and closer, and what seemed to be a mile away came to be at least half of that in a few seconds. Ember's speed was getting faster than it ever was before. He felt like the son of the devil, speeding towards the city like a lightning bolt.
Within half of a minute, Ember reached the village. His mane wasn't even sweating, all the he could smell was the burnt ashes in his hair and the scent of blooding within the streaks pulsing through his own very skin. What Ember saw in front of him was a large magical fence that had an aura surrounding it. Ember's sword suddenly shook, and the aura of the fence seemed to blast it away in a matter of milliseconds. For some reason, the pulses within Ember's mind seemed to comprehend what this was. It was a Pulse-fence, which is what Princess Celestia used on her castle to block Discord's magic from destroying it. This was the exact time when Celestia had gone to the Mane 6 to destroy Princess Luna.
Ember's mind snapped for a moment. "Apple...jack..." Ember whispered to himself, remembering his past with his marefriend. His rage was gone for the quick second that he thought for a moment as his eyes turned back to normal. At the end of that realization, Ember shook his head and the realization was gone, giving Ember his crimson eyes again. "All Ah need to do is burn this place ta the ground." Ember remembered his rage's main goal.
Ember suddenly burst through the fence without consent. His T.A.H claws suddenly burst into flames, the metal disagreeing with the fact of melting. Walking up to the house, Ember stuck out the claws index finger. All he did was tap the house...
...Because that's all he needed to do.
The house suddenly burst into flames, the fire swallowing the entirety of the living quarters. Within two seconds, Ember could already see the inside of the house, which was also in flames. Sounds of ponies screaming flowed into his eardrums, but the enraged stallion did not care. He continued to walk into the house, an ash trail leading behind him. No matter the size of the fire, Ember absorbed its energy. He continued to walk through the house until he got to the door, which was incinerated before he could even touch it.
Within the inner part of the town, stallions and mares were screaming and galloping in different directions, all trying to get away from the house that was being consumed by fire. Ember looked in different directions to see his next victim. The stallion picked out a library about five houses down from his current position. Ember held up his hand to make the motion of it looking like a gun, with only his thumb and his index finger out. With one flick of his hand, a small burst of fire shot out of his index finger. The burst went directly for the library, and when it came into contact, the library exploded into flames, similar to gasoline when even the little bit of it touches fire. The library was incinerated in a matter of seconds. Screams still erupted throughout the town as ponies were seen jumping out of the windows that were close to melting.
Ember's mind blazed red hot fire, and in a matter of seconds, one of the constructors houses spontaneously exploded into flames. It was as if the thought of wood made anger pulse through his brain.
With one rise of his right hand, Ember created a small crater beneath Equestria to explode with hot magma, which surrounded the village with a wall made out of magma.
Nothing was reaching the village to stop him now. Nothing.
Twilight creaked open the door to her treehouse. The smell of oak ran into the nostrils of the Mane 6. Former ideas of how to find Ember were already questioned, answered, and acted upon. The rest of the gang waited outside while Twilight went to go call for Spike.
The purple alicorn cleared her throat. "S-Spike? Are you here?" Twilight asked into the illuminated room.
A door leading to her kitchen opened. "Twilight! Quick, I have something from the Princess!" Spike ran up towards her, awkwardly grasping a scroll in his left hand as he waved it up and down for Twilight to notice its presence. Twilight grabbed the scroll the moment Spike was within arms distance with her hooves. The scroll opened itself in magical ability. The magical aura and the smell of coconut surrounded the floating scroll. Twilight read it with carefulness.
"A unicorn has used their alarming spell. He stated that while he was taking a stroll through Watercreek Forest, he noticed that the town of Oakville is under attack. 'Fire is engulfing the village' is what he explained. I need you, Spike, to contact the Mane 6 and tell them to go to the Berrywind Plains to find out what is going on and to possibly stop it." The scroll rolled up the moment Twilight was done reading.
The remaining five of the Mane 6 that were left outside walked into the treehouse. "Twilight, what's going on? Is everything alright?" Fluttershy asked in a polite voice. Alex, Fluttershy's boyfriend, had appeared behind the group, listening to the conversation.
Twilight looked up at the group, specifically Applejack. "Celestia just explained to me that Oakville is under attack by a mysterious presence. 'Fire is engulfing it's the village' is what the unicorn that contacted Celestia said." Twilight explained.
Applejack gasped in response to Twilight's explanation. "Do ya think it's...E...Ember?" Applejack stuttered at her own comment.
"That's the only logical explanation. Blaze is currently with Big Mac and Applebloom's friends, spending the night at a camp area off in the woods. No other fire elemental could've done it." Twilight explained again. "The question is, why? Why would Ember do this?"
Pinkie Pie's eyes lit up at the explanation. "The monsters!" She yelled in excited horror and started to jump. "The Bully Beasts!"
"What do you mean Pinkie?" Rainbow Dash asked the jumping pony.
Pinkie stopped jumping for a moment. "This morning, I sent Ember to go slay a Bully Beast. The Bully Beast must've infected him with its slippery-sloppery stuff!" Pinkie explained with a licorice smile. "He has to be in trouble!"
Twilight thought for a moment until coming up with a conclusion. "Alex, I need you to stay here with Applejack to keep her company. I don't want her to experience what we're going to have to do to stop Ember." Twilight pointed one hoof at Alex and then to Applejack whilst stating this. "The rest of us will go to Oakville to try to stop Ember. Spike, I need you to contact Celestia on our way there to come with us, along with a few of her knights. It will be dangerous, but surely Ember would not hurt us." Twilight thought to herself quickly for a moment. I hope he doesn't...I've studied what a Bully Beast could do to somepony.
With Twilight's remark, herself, Spike (along with his quill), Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity hurried out the door while Alex motioned Applejack to sit on the couch.
Once they were all out the door, Alex questioned Applejack, "Do you want me get you anything?"
Applejack shook her head, which was still entitled with disbelief. "Ah want ya to git me mah Ember." Applejack replied, staring at the door.
"They will be back with Ember, I hope he will be okay as well. He'll be alright." Alex explained to the farm girl. "I'll go make you some food to get him off your mind for the next few hours." Alex hurried to the same doorway that Spike had rushed out of when they arrived there to go prepare food for Applejack.
Applejack was still thinking of her stallion that she had loved. "Please, Ember..." She started to say. "Please dun hurt anypony that ain't evil."
"That ain't the Ember that I love. Please come back."