Thinking quickly I changed to the mask of translation.

“Could you repeat the question?” I asked, the one that spoke hesitated for a moment.

“I-I said, what in the name of the Celestial Mother are you?” he asked, hesitantly.

“My name is Vuur Koning” I said “the taller amongst our group are called Toa. The herbivores are called Equestrians, or simply ponies. The cross between reptiles and ponies are called Kirin and the young winged one is a dragon”

“Why have we not seen your kind before?” another asked.

“Did any of you see a giant floating object being pulled by a great flying reptile?” I asked, they nodded “I’m the captain of that ship”

“Where do you come from?” a younger one asked.

“We come from a land in the north” I said “from beyond the forests” their jaws dropped.

“Impossible” one said “nothing exists beyond the great forest”

“Well how do you explain us then?” I asked, they didn’t answer at first. Eventually the first one spoke, a troubled expression on his face

“This is a matter for the Celestial Mother” he said, he then turned to walk away before looking back at us “come on, we will take you to our leader” they then led us on a long walk towards a tribal city of some kind, with several different types of raptor-like people. Most of them eyed us like we were their next meal.

“I have a bad feeling about this” Minion said in English, we were eventually led towards a primitive temple of some kind, the Raptor stopped us before we could enter.

“Please wait here” he said to us, he then turned to his fellow raptors “make sure the others don’t go after them” he then walked inside, once he was gone the other types of raptors started to circle us as one, a predatory look in their eyes, the raptors that were with us glanced around nervously.

“I have a really bad feeling about this” Minion said, readying his cannon, the rest of use followed his example and drew our weapons, Garnet stepped forward and changed his arm into a flame claw before sending forth a spew a flames, causing some of the raptors to jump back in surprise.

“Garnet!” I said, he looked at me sheepishly before backing down, he didn’t change his weapon back though. I turned towards the raptors and activated my mask of translation “we do not wish to fight you”

“And yet you carry weapons” an aged female voice said from behind us, I turned around to see an older raptor, holding a staff in one claw.

“They are merely a precaution” I said, stowing my blade, I them bowed “would I be correct in assuming you are their leader?” the raptor nodded.

“Yes” she said “how can you speak our language?” I tapped the mask.

“this mask lets me talk in most languages” I said, I glanced at the crowd eyeing us hungrily “do you think we could continue this inside?” the raptor nodded and beckoned with a claw, we followed her inside the temple where several grey raptors were standing guard with swords and shields. The leader sat down on a throne and gestured for us to sit.

“Please, sit. You are guests” she said “quite important ones, it seems”

“We are merely travellers, seeking new lands” I said, sitting down cross legged “I can tell you our story if you like” their leader gestured for me to continue, soon after I started even the stoic guards were gathered around to listen. A few hours later I finished my tale, and all of the raptors sat there, wide eyed.

“Truly remarkable” their ‘Celestial Mother’ said “can you really control the elements like you claim to?” I stood up and the guards made to stop me but the Celestial Mother stopped them with a claw gesture, I concentrated for a few moments, making a ball of flame appear between my hands. I then started to manipulate the flames, making it form likenesses of all the people that I had met on my journeys. Tirek, Discord, the Elements of Harmony, the Griffin king and finally, an impression of Celestia raising the sun. Once I finished I took an unsteady step backwards and panted slightly, apparently the guards weren’t too pleased with my display.

“Such images are heresy!” a guard yelled, before charging towards me, sword drawn. I quickly drew my sword just in time to block his attack. The Celestial mother didn’t look displeased, but at the same time she made no move to stop the guard from attacking me. I parried his sword away and took a step back. We began to circle each other, waiting for the other to make the first move. The Toa quickly moved out of the way.

“I meant no disrespect” I said, the guard roared and charged, I parried each strike with expert ease. But eventually I’d had enough and sent forth a stream of flames, causing the guard to jump out of the way, he went to strike me with the sword but I struck him on the wrist with the flat of my blade, causing him to let go of the crude blade. I flicked my wrist, causing his blade to go sailing through the air, I caught it and pinned both blades against his throat. I heard clapping and turned to see the Celestial Mother applauding us and chuckling.

“Impressive” she said “not many can beat a Grik in single combat” I passed the blade back to the, Grik it seemed, he nodded toward me before walking back to stand guard.

“Grik?” I asked.

“A Grik is a type of Kothrah” the Celestial Mother explained “there are several types; Kig-Yar, Jackals, Tagranesi, Zebesians, Miako and Grik” that night we ended up staying in the settlement, we even ended up forming an alliance between the Kothrah and Equestria, and the next morning, when we went to leave, the Celestial Mother stopped us. Stood near her was one of each type of Kothrah.

“Allow me to present the best fighters of each type of Kothrah” she said “I would like you to take them with you, as a gift, from one nation to another”

“Oh” I said “well, thank you, thank you very much” after a brief introduction we headed on our way back towards the ship, there was Hij Black-scales; the Grik. Gold-quills; the Kig-Yar. Blood-claw; the Maiko. Shield-arm; the Jackal. Bright-stripes; the Tagranesi and finally Red-crest; the Zebesian. I used the walk towards the ship as an opportunity to explain something’s

“First of all” I said “you cannot kill whilst on my ship, nor can you kill any of my crew ever”

“What about food?” Hij Black-scales asked.

“Food will be provided” I said “I’ll also have someone teach you our language”

“But we can understand you just fine” Gold-quill said, I deactivated the mask of translation.

“Are you sure?” I asked in English, I then reactivated the mask

“Ah” Bright-stripes said “I see what you mean” we were getting close to the ship when I heard a roar and before we realised what was happening we were surrounded by a large group of dark-skinned, 40 ft. long therapods, possessing some rather nasty claws on their fore arms.

Next thing we knew we were being dragged through the forest by our feet, or tails in the case of the Kothrah and Equestrians.

“Sod’s law strike’s again” I muttered, crossing my arms. I then got an Idea, I was being pulled by the rearmost…whatever it was. So I pulled out my phone and began sending a message to the Jörmungandr, I smirked before hiding my phone. After several hours, during which I got a really sore bum, we ended up getting dragged to a large city and into a dungeon of some kind, once the Therapods were gone I turned to one of the Kothrah “What’s going on?” I asked, using the mask of translation.

“They are Stone Cutters” Hij Black-scales said “they have brought us here to fight in their arena tournament” I sighed and leaned against the bars of the cell.

“Fucking great” I muttered in English “hardly been here a day and we’re already captured by Roman-dinosaurs” Garnet and Ruby walked over to me and Autumn, a scared expression on their faces.

“Mum, Dad” Ruby asked, her eyes watering “are we going to die?” my heart broke at that point and I held my arms out towards them.

“Come here” I said, they walked over and snuggled up to me and Autumn, I looked at the orange pegasus and saw that she felt exactly the same as me. I saw Minion pull an acoustic guitar out of his hammer space, he noticed the look I was giving him.

“What?” he said, shrugging “it’s for musical emergencies” I shook my head before continuing to comfort the two Kirins, Minion started to pluck out a bluesy, freestyle tune as we all sat there, waiting for the inevitable. Vinyl rested her head on Minions shoulder as he continued to play and Aurora rested in his lap. Some of the other prisoners started to hear the music and looked towards us, surprise riddled their faces when they took in our strange appearance. After a few minute a Stone Cutter stomped towards our cell. I switched to the mask of translation.

“Oiy” the Stone Cutter said in what sounded like a Scottish accent and hit the bars with his claws “quit yer noise, yer time’ll come soon enough” Minion stopped for a few seconds, before changing his playing style. He then proceeded to play ‘Inmate 4859’ by Sabaton, smirking whilst looking at the Stone Cutter, the Therapod growled before stomping off, muttering under his breath in his own language. I began to sing along in English.

“Inmate in hell or a hero in prison? Soldier in Auschwitz, who knows his name? Locked in a cell, waging war from the prison, hiding in Auschwitz, who hides behind 4859?” eventually Minion finished the song.

“What was that music?” Bright-stripes asked, I then began to tell the story of Witold Pilecki (pronounced Vitold Pileskee) in their language. Eventually a Stone Cutter walked toward our cell and opened it, he jerked his head towards the arena entrance. We stood at the gate, waiting, I checked to make sure the Stone Cutter wasn’t looking before a typed something on my phone. The gates opened with a rumble and we all walked out, our heads held high. Once we reached the center of the huge arena myself and the other Toa surrounded those that were unarmed in a protective formation. Garnet stood beside me with his right arm changed into a smaller version of my sword, I draw my sword and pistol and the rest of the Toa drew their weapons.

“if we don’t make it” I said “I just want to say it’s been an honour fighting alongside you all” the other Toa nodded in agreement, I looked towards a podium, where a male and female Stone Cutter wore stood, I nodded to them and they gave a signal to start, a whole bunch of gates started to open and one exploded n splinters as a very large Stone Cutter, riddled with scars, burst through the gates and charged towards us.

“Scar!” I yelled and he jumped around to face the Therapod before unleashing the full force of his twin Gatling gun upon the Stone Cutter, who promptly fell to the ground. Silence reigned throughout the arena, before the other Stone Cutters charged towards us, oblivious of their fallen comrade. I plunged my fire blade into the ground and called up a stream of lava, Boris began to manipulate the winds, causing a tornado, I turned towards him and sent a stream of fire into the tornado, turning it into a fire twister, Autumn disappeared and a few seconds later a Stone Cutter fell to the ground, a wrist blade plunged deep into the Therapods neck, Garnet began taking pop-shots at any Stone Cutters he could aim at using his cannon.

“I thought Toa weren’t supposed to kill intelligent life” Garnet said.

“The ability to speak doesn’t make something intelligent” I said “these guys obviously don’t know when to quit” more and more began to pour into the arena, until the tides started to turn in the Stone Cutters favour. Just as a Stone cutter was about to lunge for me it was shot down by an AA gun round, I looked up the see the Jörmungandr floating above. I heard a sonic boom and a white blur slammed into the ground in an explosion of light and fire, sending Stone Cutters flying in all directions

"ENOUGH!!!" Princess Celestia boomed in her royal Canterlot voice, her mane was flaming a deep red and she proceeded to levitate all of the Stone Cutters, sending a pillar of flames into the air as she did so, she yanked the alpha Stone Cutters over to her “WHY DO YOU MERSILESLY SLOUGHTER INOCENTS, FOR SPORT!?” the two alphas didn’t answer, stricken with fear, she promptly flung them both into a far corner of the arena and began lifting herself into the air, she then began to talk in their language using her Royal Canterlot voice, I was pretty sure the entire valley could hear her, I looked at the Kothrah and smirked, there jaws were wide open in shock.

“Allow me to present my friend: Princess Celestia” I said in their language “ruler of an entire nation and immortal with the power to move the Sun”

Celestia be pissed