Soaring through the air, I looked down on the ponies. After we all got introduced....the ponies were still nervous around me. Being a giant predator does that. Especially when their town just got massacred. A pang of regret went through me. I wish we could have saved more. As far as we knew these were the only survivors. It was likely others survived, but we had yet to see anyone. And with two pairs of eyes in the sky we would have seen anyone nearby. Speaking of which, my current flight partner soared her way over to me. After she got within a few feet of my wing tips, which was still pretty far, she stopped and just watched the forest with me. She hadn’t done much walking since the fight. Mostly sticking to the air. Her leg was doing good for what had happened to it. That said, it still looked pretty bad. Lavender had made some kind of healing goop to put on it and Healing Touch has put a pain numbing spell on it. The bit marks were wide and slightly long from where the teeth dragged through her flesh as the wolf pulled her. “We’re looking for ponies you know, not legs.” I snapped my head up as she spoke. Her eyes were locked ahead of her, not even glancing at me. “So, how does a giant bird end up with a mage and two....whatever they are?”
That almost sounded like the start of a bad joke. I chuckled wryly in my head. “Chirp!” I announced.
“Right, can’t talk. How about one Chirp for yes and two for no? Got it? Good.” She turned her head as something caught her eye before she refocused ahead of her. “So...” She seemed to struggle for a way to word what she wanted to ask. After a moment of thinking she spoke again. “You all were hunting that creature weren’t you? None of you seemed as surprised as the others.”
“Chirp.”
She seemed to think a moment more before asking another question. “How did you get in town unseen? The mage doesn’t seem the type to leave someone outside in the cold.” I didn’t say anything as I flapped my wings a couple times to maintain our height. “Right, sorry. Yes or no, you were stuffed into the big box the mage brought into town weren’t you?” She smirked a little at that.
“Chirp.” I said, irritated.
She seemed to pick up on my irritation easily. “Oh yeah. I was on gate duty when he came into town. That crate looked a little small.” She snickered a little as my eyes narrowed. Never again. “Alright I leave that alone. It seems like a sore spot.” She laughed a little more. “So, I’m guessing you got roped into their little quest huh? I can’t imagine you just sticking with a unicorn and some half breeds for no reason.” She confidently stated. Half breeds? My eyes narrowed at that. A little rude don’t you think?
“Caaaaw!” I stated my irritation with that statement quite clearly.
“What? You didn’t like me calling them half breeds? That’s what they are isn’t it? I know we’re all supposed to get along now but that’s a little far.” She looked down at the sisters. “Maybe it’s just my pegasi pride, but I don’t like the idea of unicorns with wings.” Racist. “That’s not bad is it? Everyone says it is. What do you think?” She looked over at me. When I didn’t respond she corrected herself. “Right. Is it bad that I think of pegasi as better than other ponies?
“Chirp!” I loudly stated. With that I glided away from her and left her to her thoughts. I checked on the group below and something caught my interest. Silver Anvil seemed to be having a conversation with Celestia. It was strange because he had said almost nothing the entire time we had been traveling. It was stranger because Celestia seemed to be blushing and acting more shy than usual. Oh you sly dog. Hitting on Celestia? I chuckled and raised my eyes up to scan the horizon again.
An hour later we spotted the first town in the distance. “Keeeeear!” I shrieked.
“What is it!?” Misty asked. She flew over to me and started scanning the ground for trouble. I rose an eyebrow and pointed my head at the small city in the distance. She squinted for a minute before she saw the town. “You can see that? That’s far off. We pegasi have far eyesight.” She bragged. “But we can’t see as far as you can as clearly. At least I can’t. I can barely see that.” She looked around the horizon and furrowed her eyebrows. “If I’m right, then Thoughts Mountain in the distance means we’re coming up to Brightshine. It’s a little mining town. Or it was, until they discovered massive silver deposits in the area. Along with a lot of gems.”
“Aaaahaaa!!” Someone yelled below. It sounded like Bullseye. I looked down to see Starswirl looking panicked and the sisters looking shifty. I swooped down to see what was happening. “I knew I recognized you lot! Your them ponies that defeated Discord!”
“What are you talking about?” Starswirl asked. “Even if we did, how would you know?”
“Because you defeated him in the middle of Brightshine!! I was hoping to visit some family before we all died to that monster, when you all popped up in the city square! Discord a statue and you three running off before anybody could react! But I’ll never f’rget those horns and wings. Never seen a pony with both since then.” Bullseye explained.
“Now that you mention it, I do remember some ponies talking about winged unicorns defeating discord. Everyone dismissed them as crazy.” Healing Touch said. “Myself included.” Misty flew down and hovered by me.
“Well, I’m sure Star here would tell us if that was the case right Star?” Stone asked him.
“Of course I would. What your saying is preposterous.” Starswirl defended.
“Well, there’s your answer brother! Let’s just continue on our way.” She started walking again, dragging her brother behind her.
“Um, we located a town. Brightshine by the looks of it.” Misty said catching everyone’s attention.
“Really? Well then, let’s not waste anymore time!” Swirl started walking rapidly in the direction Misty pointed.
“What was that about?” Misty asked me. I didn’t answer as I watched Stone and Bullseye wink at each other before following. With that I flew back up to watch over everything. “Hey!” Misty yelled as I hit her with a wing. “What was that for!?”
A few hours later we arrived at the outskirts of town. We stopped just inside the woods so we were out of sight. “Ok. Here is where we part ways. You all can go to the town over there and we will go on about our business.” Starswirl said to everyone. I stood atop a tree branch and rested for a minute. The ponies all looked at each other with raised brows for a minute.
“Pardon me if I sound rude but, it seems you needed us as much as we needed you. We helped fight off those wolves before your bird friend showed up. Safety in numbers and all that.” Bullseye stated. Bird friend? I’ll have you know I am a purebred hawk of the highest caliber. I smiled at my internal joke.
“While I hate to admit it, Bullseye is right. You guys are going after that thing right? Well I’m not going anywhere. We deserve revenge just as much as you!” Misty loudly declared.
“Besides, you might need a poultice or two if you get hurt.” Lavender gently said.
“Or a spell! I’m a trained nurse you know!” Healing happily declared. Stone Slab looked around before speaking.
“Well, I suppose I could carry stuff. I’m not a fighter like my brother, but I’m a good bit stronger.” She hit her brother in the shoulder good naturedly.
“I would like to come as well.” Silver shyly looked over at Celestia, making her blush. Starswirl looked around the group.
“Nothing I say will change your minds?” Swirl asked. Everyone shook their heads. Starswirl sighed at this. “Very well. But you all do as I say. Ok?” Everyone one agreed except Misty. She gave a pained look before finally nodding. “Good. Now, if I am correct, you and Bullseye were guards correct?” He asked Misty.
“Served for ten years.” Misty boasted. “But uh, my blades are broke. And I need a doctor for this leg before we go anywhere.”
“Yes, I noticed. We will head into town and visit the local smithy. And get you to a doctor. You don’t want that left untreated.” Swirl said. “So me and the sisters will stay here while you all go into town and get things sorted out.”
“Nice try, but no.” Stone made Swirl deflate.
“You can't blame a stallion for trying right?” Swirl asked. “Very well, let’s go.” He looked at me for a second. “Could you keep an eye on things from above? We can’t exactly have you seen.” I nodded at him and took off.
As they all walked into town, with the exception of Misty as she hovered, I couldn’t help but feel we had forgotten something. What is it? I swear I’m forgetting something major. “THE SAVIORS!!! THEY'RE BACK!!!” A random pony shouted from below. Oh....that’s what we forgot.
Oh no there just a couple other ponys that have Horns and wings just move along...
NO DUR IT THEM!
Nice chapter by the way!
FASTEST READ YET AT 8 MIN AND 34 SECONDS YES!!!
Nightwing, darling. Could you tell us of the Princess' love life?
Nightwing, don't you dare open your beak...
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Nightwing: Well you see, there was this one time-‘Thunk’ (Collapses unconscious)
Celestia: (Hides shards of shattered rolling pin.)
Well okay I suspected that might happen. Well if we get ocs in a story or just characters we know not much about and that had no time to grow in the stories, then I sometimes have a hard time to just accept a possible shipping. He just has nothing at him that I particulary like right now. Just be sure you don't rush anything with them if you make them special someponies. I can probably enjoy it at lest when I have
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what's the problem with Celestia and Luna staying there? or do they thing Starwswirls wanted to run away?
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Well, he hit her with his wing when he took off, and the don’t want Starswirl leaving without them.
Also, I’m not rushing any romances. We need to get to know Silver first. And I had planned someone hitting on Celestia before the OCs joined. I just needed ponies, I’m not good at thinking of a ton of characters.
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I guess it depens on it, if to much happens in a timeskip I will probably not really warm up with that shipping and not sure if the few chapters I expect will only follow till they are together will be enough. However it is kind of a timeskip and I guess at some point he isn't there anmoyre anyway.
I only wanted to mention that the "he is there and now like him", type of romances was never my thing.
I will see how you let it play out, till now I'm not that much of a fan of it, but only because I suspect of how it will play out.
yes but like she said "what was that for?"
I don't think it matters to me that they are OCs if we look at the romance, I can't say much about it, I just don't take easily a liking to suddenly happening romance developments between characters that are just introduced if they don't know each other more than a few minutes or hours. Either it's that love at first sight thing again or what I mentioned before I suppose.
One thing I would like you to do maybe, would you not let Celestia have a Coltfriend with any generation you use? I just don't really like it if it looks like they maybe thing of their husbands as just one of many that will follow.
It maybe looks much what I'm not a fan of, but I guess that is just because as far as I often notice not to many people say what they don't like.
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I'm not sure if it would be better if you show a bit of the intereaction between Celestia and what's his name, or not depending on when the next timeskip is going to happen.
edit: Now I want to see it again that some animal is on search for a partner and is pestering him for a short while. This time I don't mean it as a romance but because I'm curious what the others would say to that, his group I mean.
Not to be racist or anything, but pegasi deserve to be the ruling race in Equestria, as they are the best race.
I'll have you know bird, but I am a full bred floor piece made from 100% real oak wood!
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Well, maybe hit hit her on accident. Or maybe because she was being racist ealier. The world may never know. Also, I don’t plan to much of a romance between Celestia and silver. And when they were in the woods, it wasn’t love on first sight. He was simply complimenting her on how she looked. More of a crush I guess.
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hhhmmm I thought it was a different pony he hit, but maybe I really haven't looked right. Well either you don't want to say it right now and want to suprise me/us, or your actually honest and didn't thought much about it while writing it down.
To me it just looked like "Twilight was walking down the road, then she stoped a moment to punch an orange that was left on a table nearby, after he nefarious act Twilight contionued to walk down the road" something like that. I probably couldn't image he would just hit her for no reason.
hhmm okay, well without saying it the only thing I could assume was that you maybe to it like the others often do it, since some stuff just repeats itself and I didn't knew about his personality.
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Lol, poor orange.
Despite the short chapters, this is really good. I look forward to what you have in store for us.
just a side note on crows, they can imitate human voice pretty closely given enough exposure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ0yrG-Yz88
I doubt it would be enough for conversation, but you could probably have nightwing figure out how to say simple words. especially if they don't have too many consonants like yes or hello
I like this story! its a unique concept and cant wait to see how you expound on it.
A few typos I picked up on
Thoughts Mountain should be capitalized because it's a title.
There's a bit of a jump or lack of words before or after Discord a statue.
I think you mean forget.
Fighter.
This was an excellent chapter and its shaping up to be an awesome story!
I thought of this with the last paragraph
(Curse you internet for not having it clipped!!)
I thought of THE SAVIOR HAS COME!!! from TFS's playthrough of DBXenoverse.
Wait
The is stone slab and stone sslab?!
Nope... but there is a hint of specisism in there
I just realized that Night Wing is like a Phoenix but instead of Fire it's Ice! huh looks like there's an opposite to everything I guess.