CHAPTER SEVEN!
AN: sorry there wasn't much Flutterdark in the last chapter but don't worry, she's coming up soon, and when she does, it'll be full on no holds bar! I love evil Fluttershy, she's a sith lord who's just biding her time, waiting for the perfect moment...
Okies! answer to random quize question numbah 1. the word druid is most comonly seen in the dungeons and dragons role playing game, it is one of the magical classes, a Druid is a practitioner of nature magic, and also has 'beast taming' abilities, they comonly live in forested areas like hermits, and are standardly surrounded by animals, they can also summon wild and even magical beasts to aid them in battle,
one push is all it takes...
Druids commonly have the ability to tame and control any animal or beast according to level differentiation, and some are even capable of overiding the willpower of werewolves, dragons, and other magical beasts with a hypnotizing stare and a simple command.
ok on with the story.
Applejack was bucking some of her apple trees until she spotted some empty ones "DAGNABIT! those cotten pickin' thieves!" she sprinted throughout the orchard, maybe if she was quick she'd catch the thief in the act "HEY!" the orange pony screemed as she charged at the thief... THIEVES! she saw them, two ponies... with... some wierd thinggs coming out the sides of their bodies... and they had no mane on thier green bodies.
"wha...? HEY STOP!" Applejack charged after the apple thieves, they had side saddles strapped on with apples stuffed and practically over flowing from them.
"OH YOU PONIES ARE GONNA GET IT!" she sprinted towards them full speed as the nightmares charged off towards the Everfree Forest.
Applejack was exploding with fury, oh when she got her hooves on those ponies!
Applejack chased the nightmares into the Everfree Forest but after some time she had lost sight of them.
"APPLESEEDS!" She exclaimed while stomping a hoof to the ground.
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Pinkie Pie was bouncing through the street saying high to everypony when she noticed a strange looking green... thing? walking on two legs as it climbed on roof tops.
"HEYA!" the nightmare fighter jumped up in suprise and turned to see a pink pony right infront of her face "WHATCHA DOOOOIN!?" the party pony asked.
The nightmare blinked before charging off and leaping from roof top to roof top, parquering through the town at high speeds, when she thought she was far enough away from the pony, the nightmare turned with a 'phew...' only to come face to face with Pinkie yet again "GAH!" the nightmare exclaimed,
she quickly whiped her head back and forth, wondering how this was physically possible.
Finally the nightmare growled before shoving the pink maned pony off the roof, causing her to shriek as she fell.
The nightmare turned and bolted off the roof top and headed for the Everfree Boarder, only to have the pink pony once again by her side "HEY! THAT WAS MEAN! what's your name? whatcha doin' here? I'm Pinkie Pie nice to meet ya!" she poured out in a quick stream.
The nightmare had a horrified expression, was this what all these ponies were like? teleportation and uber speed?
the nightmare tried to lose the pink pony yet again, but this time she only ended up with Pinkie Pie infornt of her
"HEEEEEEEY! I'M TALKING TO YOU!" Pinkie shouted right in front of the nightmare's face "and what's with that sack?" she gestured towards the shoulder strap caried by th bipedal nightmare;
she didn't answer the pink pony and instead charged fright towards her, lowered, then foot ball tackled her up into the air before Pinkie slammed upside down in the grass "oof! awaughaa... those are my wafles... X_X"
When Pinkie Pie finally came to, she noticed a few slips of paper infront of her, they must've been dropped by the strange green pony on two legs.
Pinkie picked them up "oh! she was just drawing! well don't I feel like a silly filly!?" she giggled out before bouncing back into town.
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Twilight was preparing to head on back to Canterlot for yet another disasterous meeting of the minds, at first she was ecstatic about teaching magic, but her students were horrible! every time she walked in, she nearly got incinerated by a fire ball, and other times, she had to stop one of the magi from killing the other in a stupid experiment.
"ugh!" she exclaimed while hoof facing herself, how the hay was she supposed to turn that idiotic bunch into a standing magi army?
Twilight sighed exhasperatedly before slouching towards the door with her head down, even her 'personal time' with Spike wasn't helping, if only there was something, some common interest that could bring the attention of all those unicorns together, then maybe...
Twilight opened the door and pranced on out until she noticed Pinkie Pie bouncing along with a scrunche of papers in her maw "oh hey Pinkie Pie! what'cha got there?" the mage inquired.
"oh this?" pinkie began as she spit out the papers an pointed at them with her hoof; "oh some strange green pony was drawing pictures of ponyville! and I think I scared her out into the forest too..." she finished with a 'frowny face'
Twilight was about to roll her eyes until they shot open as she connected the words "wait... waaas this pony very pale green by chance? with no mane and wierd wiggly things coming out the sides?" Twilight indicated her legs wrething in the air to accentuate her meaning.
"uuuummm.. nope! but she was walkin on her back legs like this!" Pinkie attempted to immitate the nightmare "that must've been uncomfy! hee hee!" Pinkie finished.
Twilight's stomach formed a knot "um... could I... take a look at those pictures?" she asked.
"sure!" Pinkie responded before handing them over by sliding them with her hoof over to the purple mare "hmm... oh no..." Twilight whipped through the papers, she knew what this was.
"Pinkie! do you know what this means?!" Twilight exclaimed, her voice full of worry.
"uhhhmmmmm that a drawing competition is coming up soon?" she asked with a big smile, "OOOH OOH OOH! I GOTTA GET PRACCTICING, I CAN'T WAIT YAAAAY!"
Twilight rolled her eyes "no... um... these are a layout of ponyville, the nightmares are trying to find the best tactical entrance! they're..! they're planning a raide!" she exclaimed, now full of unease
"I! I have to tell the Princes! there needs to be troops guarding the boarder!"
Twilight sprinted off towards the train station, leaving a very confused Pinkie Pie in her dust.
"so... no drawing competition?"
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Rarity was tending to a dress when she heard somepony rush in through the door of her boutique "oh I'll be with you in a moment~" she sang out as she finished the stitching, but when she turned, she saw a strange green pony with no mane and... tenticles? no tendrils! tendrils coming out of it's sides as it levitated some of Rarity's gems into a saddle pack.
"HEY! STOP THIEF!" Rarity shouted as the nightmare turned to see she had been caught, then the psion thrust a telekinetic shockwave knocking Rarity into a wall with a painful CRUNCH!
before charging out the door.
"uggghh" Rarity's eys spun in different directions as she shook her head.
"NO. PONY. STEALS. MY. GEEEEEMMMMSSSS!" she shouted out at the top of her lungs before sprinting out the door with demonic rage on her face.
Applejack was trotting through town when she heard a familiar roar of anger from a certain somepony.
"oh naly... Sweetiebell probalby ruined another' of Ririty's dresses..." the orange pony let out before galloping towards the shop, only to find Rarity sprinting full speed ahead after somepony... FAMILIAR!
"OH HAY NAW!" Applejack charged up next to her marefriend as the two pursued the thief, chasing the nightmare all the way to the end of the street before Applejack's high speed had her tackling the psion to the ground, immediately, the earth pony decided to give the thief a piece of her mind.
Applejack got ontop of the nightmare and started raining down blow after blow with her forehooves, knocking out teeth and blackening eyes, but she wasn't done yet, she got off, chomped on one of the tendrils causing the nightmare to yelp, then swung her around, slamming her body into the wall of a nearby house, breaking bones.
Finally Rarity caught up and used a telekinetic field to lift the nightmare's mutilated head up and slam it repeatedly into the wall, finally Applejack turned around and bucked the nightmare in the chest, smashing through her ribcage.
FATALITY!
the psion slid down the wall, gurlging up blood and twitching as her body spasmed before finally going limp.
The two ponies panted in fury as Applejack blew steam out her nostrils "that's what happens when you buck with ponyville!"
Rarity 'hmphed' before the two realised that the psion wasn't moving... at all... un uneasy fear started to creep throughout their stomachs, Applejack poked the nightmare, "..." no response.
Rarity shook a bit as she backed up, falling down on her rump before turning to vomit,
Applejack's jaw shoook as her breath sped up... they just...
"we.. w-what... wh-what have we..." Rarity let out as she began sobbing hysterically, just staring at the green pony with tendrils, and a very remarkable long scare going diagonaly down the front of her face from a past battle.
Applejack quickly pushed the corpse behind the house as somepony walked over, seeing the hysterical Rarity.
"um... everything ok?" a grey pegasus with light yellow mane and crossed eyes asked.
"ya! we're fine we're fine! uh... j-just... um, one of Rarity's dresses was ruined, heh!" Applejack felt a huge uncomfortable pang in her chest at lying, as if sompony had stabbed her right through the heart.
"oh.. ok!" the mare flew off.
Applejack collapsed, but she looked over to see her sobbing lover and quickly rushed to her aid, embracing her with her forehooves, trying to reasure her that everything would be allright, holding that beautiful and crying mare in her legs,
Applejack felt herself faling apart, alls she could do was coddle her little Rarity "don't worry hon.. I'll... I'll figure somethin out..."
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Applebloom and Hilda were chatting idly as Hilda shot off another practice arrow at a target and landing a bullseye "YA!" the nightmare fighter jumped up and down, her black mane flowing in the air.
The two had decided not to talk about the 'I love you' incident and jsut pretedned like it never happened (much to Hilda's dismay) but their friendship had only continued to grow.
Applebloom clopped her hooves together in cheer "way tah go!" she shouted making Hilda blush.
"awww..." she used one of her hooves to play with the dirt in her humility.
"oh hey... um... Applebloom?" the fighter asked.
"ya?" the yellow filly responded.
"um... c-can... you... can you please be here in ten days time?... like... early?... and um... be here all day?" Hilda asked nervously while nibbling her lip.
"uh... I guess I can, that's a sunday so ah won't have any school... but uh... why?" Applebloom asked curiously.
"just... because... something... bad's gonna happen and... I don't want you to be in the middle of it..." Hilda trailed off mumbling to herself.
Applebloom furrowed her eyebrows in confusement "uh... ok..." she let out a bit unsuredly.
"so! how's your family been?" Hilda changed the subjec as she knocked another arrow.
"oh fine I guess, same ol' same ol'" the filly shrugged, "what 'bout you?" she inquired.
"well... one of my moms went out to get some trading supplies for the village but... she was supposed to be back an hour ago... I'm sure she's just taking her time though..."
Applebloom tilted ehr head "what's she like?".
Hilda 'hmmed' for a minute "well... she's a four legger like you, she's really nice and kind... well to me anyway, she kinda get's into fights a lot, she even has this big long scar along the front of her face" Hilda finished as she used her finger to indicate the diagonal line.
"huh... I still think it's wierd tah have two moms..." Applebloom replied, shaking her head.
Hilda laughed "well I never heard of a 'dad' before"
the two laughed good heartedly as Hilda went on with her archery practice in the woods.
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Rainbow Dash was soraing through air towards Canterlot, with her marefriend at her side, holy cow was she glad that she had remeberd an important detail about the air force, they needed staff as much as they needed soldiers, organizers, cleaners, and cooks, not to mention medics.
Flutterhsy would easily be able to make herself useful in the sung guardian boot camp, even if she wasn't a soldier.
Fluttershy flew incredibly close her marefriend, ecstatic that she wouldn't have to be without her for months.
When the two finally arrived, they pranced along the military camp, it was up in a coud district, far above the canterlot palace, fillied with tracks for sprinting and flying, their were entire blocks of pegasi training, everywhere the two looked they saw something interesting.
To one side they saw hoof to hoof combat training, to another they saw sword combat, to another they saw pegasi training to use balista and catapults, and still to another they saw a basic exercise ground, there were also a baracks for the soldiers in training to sleep, and ofcourse the kitchens.
The pegasi headed towards the main desk to report in.
"hm?" a pegasus looked up to see a blue and yellow mare "soldiers sign here, staff support sign here." the lazy red pegasus indicated towards the two sheets in the window.
Rainbow signed up under soldier, and Fluttershy signed up under staff suport in both, cook, and medic.
soon Fluttershy was whisked away to the staff area and got briefed on her duties, three days out of the week she'd be cooking for the soldiers, while the other four she'd be recieving medical training.
Rainbow Dash was inside of the line up of new soldiers, they stood in a line out in an open area of the cloud military camp next to the edge.
"SO! YOU THINK YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE SUN GUARDIANS?" a tall strong pegasus mare walked in, she had black skin with a silverish mane and tail and powerful orange eyes with dozens of scars covering her face, and a sword impailing a pegasus as her cutie mark.
Her mane was cut short and scruffy, her body rippling with muscles
"HERE YOU SNIVLING LITTLE FILYS WILL BE TURNED INTO SOLDIERS! HERE WILL WILL DROWN IN SWEAT AND PUKE OUT YOUR GUTS! AND YOU'LL BUCKING LOVE IT! IS THAT CLEAR!?"
she shouted out in a drill sergant's voice.
"SIR YES SIR!" the pegasi all replied.
Soon the pegasi were instructed to pair up with someone and begin some basic warm up excercises such as sit ups, or spotting eachother at the bench wing press.
Rainbow Dash looked around for somepony who wasn't already paired up when she turned and bumped into something hard, when she backed up and looked at who she'd ran into so she could degrate them with 'watch where you're going!' she froze...
"S-S-SP-SPA-SP-SPIT FIRE!" Rainbow practically screeched while she felt her legs ready to buckle beneath her.
"oh hey Rainbow." the Wonderbolt replied with a nonchalaunt expression.
Rainbow felt like she was going to wet herself, the wonderbolt leader stood thier out of uniform, her flaming red hair lying relaxedly on the side of her creamy light yellow skin.
Rainbow squeeled like a school Filly "OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH OH MY GOSH!" she spasmed with her forehooves against her face as her voice cracked.
"uh... you ok Rainbow Dash?" Spitfire asked a bit worriedly.
"ok? OK?! I'M BETTER THAN OK!" Rainbow exclaimed with her eyes widening.
"uh heh.. ok.." Spitfire replied with a chuckle, "so uh... you have anypony partnered with yet?" she asked.
Rainbow felt her heart stop 'this... is this really happening? it is! if this is a dream I'll kill whoever wakes me up'
"NO I DON'!" she exclaimed hopping up and down.
Spitfire chuckled again "ok well you wanna train toge-" she was cut off as Rainbow rushed right up to her face "YEEEESSS!" she screeemed right into Spitfire's face.
"yikes! um.. ok.. cool..." Spitfire replied taking a step back.
Rainbow Dash felt like her world was spinning around, she was going to train with Spitfire, SPITFIRE! *can officially die happy* Rainbow bounced happilly like Pinkie over to the training grounds attracting strange stares from the other pegasi.
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Sky haven and Juniper trotted into the war magi training room inside the canterlot palace to find Twilight standing on the teaching stage banging her head repeatedly into the stand.
"uh... Twi?" Skyhaven asked before turning ot see all the unicorns in comple chaos, shooting random spells throughout the room, and somepony summoned a demon which was swiping at the unicorns sending them flying throughout the room
"don't worry I got it!" one of the mages said before launching a fireball at the demon which then exploded and thought it destroyed the conduit for the demon, the 60 foot radius of the firey explosion sent everypony flying into the surrounding walls with burn marks all over their bodies.
"IDIOT!" one of other magi shouted before clobering the fireball caster on the head.
"UGGGHHH!" Twilight shouted before charging out of the room "I CAN'T TAKE THIS!" the purple mare galloped down the hallways.
"HEY TWILIGHT WAIT!" Skyhaven shouted after her, but her words fell on deaf ears "aw appleseeds..." the mare turned to the class room and sighed as she headed in with Juniper to try and attempt to organize the chaos.
Twilight Sparkle sprinted into the magical archives with tears streaming down her face, she felt like a complete failure to her own teacher Celstia. "what kind of a mage am I?" she chastised herself as she bonked her forehoof into her head.
"ugh!... huh?" as she leaned into one of the bookshelves, the case pushed into the wall a bit as the center statue moved to the side revealing a stair case.
"huh? I didn't know there was another room in here..." the curious unicorn stepped down the stairs to find a door; as soon as she touched it, a magical barrier repelled her "ouch!" she fanned ehr forehoof in the air to relieve the pain.
Twilight stared curiously at the door "well..." barriers were a speciality of hers so she concentrated on inscribing the rune on her inner psyche, transfered the arcane energies, then unleashed them out to the door in a dispelling blast, at first it didn't work, so Twilight upped the power level and tried again... another fail.
Twilight's eyes widened in shock, who could raise such a strong barrier, "ok.. you asked for it" she focussed all her power into her horn and unleased the strongest dispell she could muster, the barrier exploded sending the purple back into the staircase "AAAAAGH!" she shouted as she landed upside down on the back of her neck.
Twilight rolled forward onto her rump and shook her dizzy head "ow... who the hay made such a.." she fell silent and her eyes widened in realization... Celestia... she was the only pony other than herself who could raise such an immensly strong barrier.
Now Twilight felt like she was in trouble, if Celesita herself didn't want anypony getting in here...
But Twilight's curiosity won, there might be powerful magicks inside...
Twilight headed towards the door and opened it, as soon as she did, her eyes met with pitch blackness, so she let out a constant illumination spell and cast it on her horn, she looked around the room and saw a few dozen book and scrolls.
"this is it?" Twilight asked to the empty room, it was pretty small, she was expecting some chained up arch lich or something...
Twilight stepped through until she picked out one of the books, it was a spell tome, Twilight's body filled with excitement "ooooh! forbidden magick!"
she knew it was bad but... just think of the knowledge! she opened up the first page of the tome to see the author... Rastlin the Red...
Twilight's jaw dropped. "R-R-RASTLIN THE RED! AS IN STAR SWIRL THE BEARDED'S APPRENTICE!"
Twilight's body shook, she thought Rastlin was just a myth, a character invented by bards for stories... Rastlin the Red... a unicorn so powerful, his magic even surpassed starswirls...
the legends told of him inventing unrealistically over powered spells that sounded like they would be used by gods.
As the legend went, Rastlin was born with an unnaturally large affliction towards magic... just like Twilight... and soon took the interest of a powerful mage Star Swirl the Bearded... just like Celestia took an interest in Twilight...
Rastlin had spent many years burried in books, gainind aeons of knowledge and magical power within just a few decades, until soon his power surpased his teachers, and eventually, his power grew so large... that it went straight to his head,
according to the stories, Rastlin eventually founded spells that could wipe out entire cities in mere seconds, even found spells for ressurection and immortality, then one day, Rastlin challenged Celestia to a duel to the death,
apparently he had found a special ritual that could transcend himself into a god, but in order to finish it, he needed the power of an immortal divine, he needed to kill the sun goddess.
The battl raged on for days, laying waste to hundreds of miles of land, making them completely uninhabitable, but in the end, Rastlin fell to Celestia's might, and so the legend ends.
Twilight swallowed hard, not believing that Rastlin the Red was actually a real pony!
"oh my gosh!" she continued reading through the spell tomes, each time her jaw dropping further at each immensely powerful spell, through the scrolls she saw a picture of Rastlin,
red skined with a flowling brown mane and golden eyes glaring at nothing in particular, he also had the stranest cutie mark she'd ever seen, it was... a yellowish mushroom cloud with a ploom of smoke expanding form the bottom.
the scrolls contained ancient rituals as well as new ones that Rastlin had invented, she found tomes on war magic, chaos magick, blood magick, healing magick, even necromancy...
Rastlin branched out into every school of magic there was, not fearing the inate evil or good of a prticular spell, Twlight had to admit, it was a bit admirable, opening one's mind to so many didfferent types of magic and taming them all.
Twlight began to smile as she headed back out of the room and grabbed one of the many saddle sacks in the arcane library before heading back down to levitate multiple books and scrolls into them.
Twilight returned to the class room after closing the secret library entrance, relieved beyond explanation that Skyhaven and Juniper had managed to organize the magi "oh thank the stars..." Twilight groaned before joining the teaching of the class, now maybe she could actually get some knowledge accross.
Finally the class finished up and the three teachers all said toodles to eachother before heading to thier respective homes.
Twilight had reached her library tree house in Ponyville sometime at night, when she finally entered the room, she could hear Spike snoring away upstairs, but she completely disregarded it as she excitedly pulled out the various spell tomes.
"oooooh I can't wait!" she squeeled as she eagerly read through the tomes and scrolls, her eyes sifting through the forbidden magicks.
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Flutterhsy was cooking a meal in the kitcchen as she though happilly of her marefriend, unfortunately she didn't get to spend that much time with her, and infact was only able to see her on the cooking days infront of the kitchen window, but just knowing that she was in the same vacinity as her Dashie put her mind at ease, and it's not like she wasn't enjoying the medical knowledge she was gaining from her medic training.
Infact she was quite thankful, there were still many things she hadn't known about pony anatomy, but she was learning them quickly, on the first day she heavilly impressed the medic trainers with how quickly she could stitch trhough an open wound, although having the rubber masks on her upper and lower jaw for sanitary sake had slowed her down a bit form her usual speed,
she was still very very fast; and her chyropracty skills were extremely useful for snapping bones back into place, and her surgical percision in slicing with a scalple was admirable.
Fluttershy wasn't the only one impressing, Rainbow Dash was becoming an extremely talented warrior, the twin blade sword with its middle handle in her mouth was like an extention of her own body, she had suprising grace with it as well as brute force, and the flying tactics of the pegasi seemed to come naturally to her,
some days she would just train for strength, dexterity, and endurance, others she would get lessons on dive bombing techniques, to soar in down on an opponant and take off a head as she zipped by with the cleaving blades sticking outside of either end of her mouth, and ofcourse there were the days she learnt fencing.
The days seemed to blend together as she meshed into the training routines, going from flight training, whizing by everypony else,
to sword training, wielding the dual claymore, disarming and knocking down any who dared challenge her,
to wieght lifting, pushing her body to its absolout limit, only burst on forward as she found new reserves,
she was like an unstoppable machine, everything about warefare seemed to come naturally to her as she charged her way through training ahead of everypony else, the Sergent smiled, if only she had a dozen more pegasi like Rainbow Dash, thier air force would be unstoppable.
On the days were Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash had some time off, they were practically attatched to one another, in an adorable fashion, smooching and cuddling in a lone room somewhere out of the way, however they didn't really ever have enough time for 'fun' but occasionally they would still touch eachother.
One day Rainbow was walking through the cloud military camp as Spitfire bumped into her "oh hey Dash!" she said hapilly, having found the pony she was looking for "so Dash... can we talk?"
Rainbow nodded giddly, the two had become close friends through out thier first week, talking about flying, adventures with thier friends, and simple things such as thier likes and dislikes.
"so uh... you..." Spitfire bit her lip feeling extremely akward at asking this, she'd felt this way for quite some time, especially after the young fliers competition, and at the galla she had been to nervous to say anything, even when she saw Rainbow here, in the military camp, it wasn't until now that she finally built up the courage.
"umm... Rainbow" she turned to face the blue pegasus who looked back at her with adoring eyes.
"yea?" she asked excitedly looking at her idol.
Spitfire took a big deep breath before taking a step closer to the blue mare, Rainbow didn't flinch at the closeness, so she guessed that was a good sign; "um.. I've.. sort of... wanted to tell you somehting for a while now... and... bu-I-well..." she stumbled all over her words, but Rainbow just stood thier patiently with that big stupid grin she always got in th Wonderbolt's resense.
"I uh..." Spitfire groaned to herself, deciding that actions spoke louder then words, she closed the gap between them and planted her lips on Rainbows.
If Fluttershy had been holding something, it would have dropped, she stood several hooves away with her mouth hanging open in horror as her eyes began to watter, her legs shaking beneath her, alls she could to was stand there... just watching... Finally she gained control of herself and bolted.
Rainbow's entire world paused 'w...wh..what's happening?' she thought to herself, Spitfire's lips were still locked with hers, it was a long kiss but an innocent one.
Finally Spitfire pulled away to see Rainbow's mouth hanging open, shaking while one of her eyes twitched repeatedly "I..uh...I.-uh-uh-ah-I-uh" *BRAIN MALFUNCTION!* Rainbow fell to her side like a statue being tipped over, slamming painfully into the ground as she blacked out.
"RAINBOW!" Spitfire shouted as she quickly sifted her sight left and right before picking Dash up and rushing her to the infirmery.
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Flutterdash sat in a lone corner in a sotrage closet, tears streaming freely down her face "h-h-how c-could -s-she?" the yellow mare stuttered out to herself.
Why would Rainbow do that? betray her?! no... no... it can't be... "this... this is all HER fault!" Fluttershy growled out angrily "SSSPITFIRE!" she spat out, her body shaking with fury
"NO. PONY... NO PONY TAKES MY DASHIE!" somepony opened the closet after hearing all the ruckus only to have Flutterdash turn to them screeming for them to get out, the pony yelped as they slammed the door shut and gallopped off.
Fluttershy panted, her mind forming ideas... dark ideas... but she'd need to wait for just the right time...
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Applebloom was heading through the Everfree forest, it was very early in the morning, she still was curious as to why Hilda wanted her here so early.
"heya Hilda!" the filly exclaimed as she trotted over to her friend.
"oh... um... hi... heh.." Hilda looked down at the ground and used her hoof to play with the dirt nervously as if she had broken some rule.
"HIlda... what's going on?" Applebloom asked with concern in her voice.
Hilda cringed as if in pain, she turned away not able to face ehr friend; "i-.." she trailed off, turning to look at applebloom with tears in her eyes.
"A-apple... I.." she trailed off yet again, and now Applebloom was beginning to seriously worry
"um... you ok Hilda?" she asked gently.
Hilda shook her head miserably. "then why don' ya tell meh what's wrong?" tears formed yet again "j.. I... I have to tell you something... about... our villages..."
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Cheerilie was trotting along, she was used to getting up so early in the morning, a habbit she had formed for school life, it was ironic though because a few holidays she'd woken up at 5 in the morning and began preparing for the school day until she realised she could have slept in.
like today for instance... "*sigh* oh well... maybe I should get a book from Twilight?" she pranced towards the library, passing the mildew filled grass, and then she saw past the cobblestone road, the large tree house where the magius lived.
The teacher knocked a few times... no answer, although she wasn't too suprised, not many ponies were up at this hour, but she tried again regardless, this time she got an answer, Twilight sleepily "oh hi Cheriliee...*yawn* what's up?" she drowzily let out.
"oh! well I was wondering if you-" she was cut of by a blood curtling screem, both ponies popped their heads out to the street to see somepony running for thier life, shey also saw... Twilight's eyes widened "NIGHTMARES!" she shouted, immediately she teleported to the town bell and bucked it repeatedly as hard as she could.
Ponies throughout the town began to awake from thier slumber as they noticed the deafening pang in the air, "ugh..." Applejack mumbled as she awoke, cuddled in her hooves was Rarity, the two were lying in Rarity's bed as the town bell sung out again and again.
the orange pony groaned as she sleepily got out of bed and trotted to the window, however, when she looked out she immediately was set to full alert, more of those... things! and different kinds too! they... they were raiding the village!
she looked on with horror as psions set fire to houses and the fighters.. they were KILLING PONIES! she covered her mouth as she saw somepony sprinting for their life when suddenly a thrown hand axe plunged into the back of thier skull.
"OH CELESTIA!" Applejack turned and violently shook Rarity to life. "RARITY WE HAVE TO GO NOW!"
a million worrie filled Applejack's mind, what about her friends? what about her family? APPLEBLOOM! she had no idea where the filly was, supposedly she was staying at Scootaloo's
"mmm... what is it dearie WAH!" Rarity was cut off as her marefriend dragged her out of the room "WERE BEING RAIDED!" the cowpony shouted.
"WHAT?" Rairty screemed in disbelief.
Sweetiebell came trotting out rubbing her eyes and yawning "what's all the fuss about? WAH!" Applejack snatched the filly up and threw her onto Rarity's back
"WE HAVE TO GO NOW!" the two adults ran out, and it was then that the whole realization of the situation hit her, she saw ponies running around, and bipedal nightmares cutting them down, hacking axes into them, shoving swords into their chests, and the four legged psions using pyrokinesis to sift the fire throughout the buildings turning ponyvile into an inferno.
"a-applebloom! we have to find Applebloom!" the orange pony screemed as she charged towards where Scootaloo lived "SCOOTALLOO!" she shouted as she arrived, the house thankfully hadn't been raized yet, and she soon saw Scootaloo on her parent's back
"Scootaloo! where's Applebloom?!" Applejack screemed.
"s-she's not with you?!" Scootaloo replied as she felt a horrible knot form in her stomach.
Applejack's face went pale, then Sweetiebell peeped up "um! I think she said she was going to see Hilda today!"
Applejack turned to her "who the hay is that?"
"she lives in the Everfree Forest like Zecora!" Sweetiebell replied.
Applejack nearly deflated with relief, at least her little sister was away from the danger, but this news only made Scootaloo's eyes widen, she looked at all the nighmares running through Ponyville, sacking, stealing, burning, klling, and... and Applebloom was with one of them!
the filly hopped off her parent's back on charged onto her scooter before zooming off towards the forest.
"SCOOTALOO!" her mother shouted as she and her husband sprinted off after her.
Applebloom was about to yell at them all to wait but she had her own familly to worry about, BIG MAC! GRANNY!
Applebloom turned to see Twilight and Cheerilie runing towards them "oh thank Celestia you guys are ok!" the mage let out with relief "but where's Pinkie Pie?!"
everypony looked around until the pony popped out of a barrel "HERE I AM! woah, what's going on?"
she looked at all the chaos and pandamonium. "HOLY HAY!" she exclaimed before hopping out of the barrel.
"WE NEED TO GET TO THE FARM!" applejack screemed.
the others nodded and the group sprinted out of the streed into the surrounding grassland to avoid the destruction as they charged towards the orchard, however, they stopped when a blood churtling screem sounded from Cheeriliee.
All eyes turned to see the teacher on the ground screeming in pain with an arrow sticking through her hind leg, Twilight cringed at the injury, but quickly levitated the mare onto Applejack's back.
"we have to keep moving!" the mage shouted as the party continued sprinting towards the orchard, they could all hear the horrible screems from the inner town area, soon blood littered the streets, as the ponies rushed by the houses on the edge of town, Twilight caught faint glimpses of ponies being slaughtered.
and soon a few nightmares stopped their path, Twilight swallowed and unleashed one of the new spells she had learned from Rastlin's books, a flash of light blinded the nightmares and suddenly they turned towards eacch other and each slit the other's throat. Twilight was too filled with adrenalin to properly be shockked and galopped over thier corpses leading her party to safety, her head turned back to the chaos of the town,
swords and axes ripping bodies apart, houses lighting up in a blaze, and soon she saw the remaining survivors all headed for apple achres, the only place not lit up in flames, Twilight's party merged with the rest of the townsfolk as they all headed up to the farm, and soon barricated themselves within the gates, Applejack rushed to her familly with tears in her eyes. So happy that they were unharmed.
Twilight finally let Spike off her back and commanded him to grab a letter "tell the princess we're under attack and need troops immediately!"
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Applebloom was staring at the ground, trying to process all the information she just gathered. "so... our uh, vilages... don't like eachother? so... they... wanna fight?"
Hilda face palmed herself "no... it's... my village... we've always had to take stuff we don't have so we coul survie and... now we want to take what your village has..."
Applebloom shook her head "that's silly" she said simply, not fully understanding the scenario, but Hilda did... she'd seen the horrible chaos that her barbarian culture insued..
"WELL! lookie here" a voice sounded casuing both fillies to turn thier heads to see three other fighter nightmares walking up.
"I was wondering where you went every day, out practicing shooting? you know you'll never get good, you're too much of a milk drinker to be a real fighter" the middle one who seemed to be the leader of the gang stated.
Hilda's face contorted with anger "what are you doing here?" she asked blatently ignoring the insult.
"oh just getting some fresh air, thought maybe it'd pass the time until the raid was over, oh and who's... 'what' is this?" the filly pointed towards Applebloom.
"it's freaky!" one of the other nightmare filly's let out.
"I'm Appleblom and I'm not freaky!" the tough crusader stated with a stomp of her hoof.
the leaderof the gang contorted her face into confusion until realization dawned on her "y-your from the other village!" she immediately looked toward Hilda "huh! I thought you were to cowardice to ever fight anymare, maybe you are finally growing up" she stated with a scoff.
Hilda and Applebloom both looked at eachother with a 'huh' expression, then Hilda processed what she'd said, "I'm not fighting her! she's my friend!" she shouted proudly.
"oh,... this is... perfect heh heh... hahahah!" the leader of the gang burst out laughing "'friends'? ahahaha! oh you crack me up." she pointed at Applebloom "that 'thing' is our enemy!"
Hilda quickly jumped infront of her friend "NO. SHE. ISN'T!" she emphasized each word and glared the bully down.
"y-your DEFENDING it? you're even stupider then I thought!" the ringleader shouted as she stepped towards the archer.
Applebloom was getting a little scared, all of the other bipedal fillies were a lot bigger then her, and they outnumbered her and Hilda...
"she's not an it! and you stay away from her!" Hilda demanded as she rose her fists with one hand open.
the gangleader burst out laughing as she cracked her neck "oh I've been wanting to do this for a long t-" BAM BAM! a lightning quick jab to her face followed by a powerful right hook sent the gang leader to the ground,
Hilda may not have been the best archer, but she sure as hay was a good martial artist.
the gang lead pushed herself up and shook her head with a 'what the buck?' look on her face, then she turned to her companions "WELL? WHAT'R YOU WAITING FOR!"
the two nightmares dashed for Hilda who was more than ready for them, she hopped up and jutted both legs out, kicking each fighter in the chest and sending them to the ground.
Once one of them got up, Hilda grabbed thier arm and threw her over her shoulder with a jujitsu shoulder flip, the nightmare slammed into the ground with a painful thud feeling something in her rear torso crack, then Hilda looked to the other fighter who charged her, Hilda hopped up and back while wraping her arms around the tackling mare,
and bringing them both down to the ground with Hild ontop, she moved forward and slammed her knee into the fighter's skull knocking her out, then she stood up to face the gang leader.
Applebloom's eyes were a mile wide, alls she could think was 'HILDA YOUR AWESOME!'
the gang leader lunged at Hilda with both legs out knocking the other fighter into the tree, then the gang leader crashed her shoulder into Hilda's chest cracking some ribs, before grabbing an arm and a leg, lifting the nightmare on her shoulders in a wrestling technique, then jumped to the left flipping them over as both their body weights slammed ontto Hilda's body, she coughed up blood from the impact.
"HHYYYYA!" Applebloom lunged with her hind leg out and landed it right into the gangleader's skull, the fighter fell onto her back, but then scrunched up her hoof and kicked it out into the earth pony sending her flying into a tree,
Applebloom coughed up blood feeling her body breaking in multiple places, then the gang leader stood up again when sudenly BAM! *scooter to da head!* Scootaloo's scooter smashed into the fighter's skull knocking her to the ground as she zoomed over to Applebloom and picked her up with her maw by the back of the fillie's neck and tossed her into the basket attatched to the fron of the new scooter.
Scootaloo charged off at full speed whizzing past the trees, she turned to see the agressive nightmare charging after her, turning back with a gulp, she beat her wings as fast as she could.
Once the pegasus had broken through the boarder, she headed towards apple achres, but with the nightmare close behind, that is, until Hilda tackled the fighter from behind.
The gang leader kicked her leg out at Hilda knocking her off before standing up and kicking her torso repeatedly, then she tried to stomp on her head but Hilda raised her arms to expertly block it until she reached out and grabbed the nightmare's leg, then swung her own leg up around the gang leader's neck and yanked her down to the ground, then she swung around ontop of her and locked the leg between her own, and used them as a lever while her hands presed the hoof at an odd agnle until, SNAP!
the gang leader screeched in pain, and Hilda rose from her defeated opponant, panting and blood dripping down her lips, she walked over to the screeming nightmare's head, and grabbed her braid before violently ripping it off and tossing it on the ground.
Hilda felt... good... she'd just won victory over three fighters, and with no weapons!
She would have giggled if it weren't for the burning ponyville in the distance, she grimmaced and turned towards where that other pony had carried Applebloom off to, and knowing that the pony was safe, Hilda smiled before turning and dashing back into the woods.
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all of the ponies were behind several barricades, preparing for the worst as the nightmares drew near, but then! they heard a glorious sound as a battle horn from the sky sounded off like a beacon of hope, the ponies of ponyville looked to see Celestia herself with a squad of eliet sun guardians charging down at the nightmares.
Warriors clashed, the guardians swinging thier twin claymores, impailing and slicing through the nightmares while Celestia shot out burst of light sending dozens of nightmares flying though the air at once.
Being hugely out numbered, the small raiding soak retrieted as Celestia's war band pushed them to the edge of the Forest, but their they stopped as arrows rained down just infront of the pegasi, there was no way they'd be able to get throguh the trees without loosing substantial numbers, the forest was the barbarian's home terrain, this battle was over... for now...
the pegasi landed along side a seething Celestia, she was heaving in sporatic breaths of pure rage, how DARE they attack her ponies!? and an innocent village of agriculture at that!
Celestia looked down to see a sniveling nightmare filly with a broken leg and extremely short mane, the alicorn reached over and took on eo fhte pegasi' swords and drove the blade into the creature's heart, she spasmed a bit, choking up blood in eerie gurgles, arms twittching before her entire body went limp.
Celestia spat out the blade and glared at the forest, the very teritory she'd given the nightmares as a show of good faith and now!
she looked back at the burning Ponyville, several pegasi were bringing rain clouds over the town to put out the flames.
The amount of dead corpses she'd seen through the streets running red with blood as she'd flown over... stalions, mares, even foals... Celestia's eyes filled with tears as her body shook with anger, never in her thousands of years of life had she been this outraged!
she looked to the forest again and shouted with all her anger, summoning up the old canterlot voice, the sheer power knocking over trees and tearing up the ground "THIIIISS MEEEANNNSSSS WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRR RRRR!"
END OF CHAPTER 7
AN: was anyone expecting this? is everything that was confusing before now making sense? what will happen!? why am I asking so many questions!? in case none of you knew, I'm pretty infamous for writing very bloody fight scenes, and this was MILD compared to what I normally write, but uh... it's gonna get more intense... heh heh...
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ps. does anyone think Hilda is a cool OC? I kinda like her...
anywho random quize question numbah 2. who is Rastlin, and what story is he from? answer comes with the next chapter.
peace out bronies and pegasisters!