My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Friends from Unexpected Places

Chapter 25

Prophecy of Doom

A rune in a shop in the outskirts of Ponyville sparked to life. A rift opened up above it. eTu`nes’ molecules came out of it and materialized into himself in the center.

“oh, man.” he groaned, holding his stomach. “it feels like my insides are on fire.”

“yeah. Guess I should’ve warned you about that.” Hoofdini’s disembodied voice said. “move off the platform, please.” ETu’nes jumped off the rune and onto the floor. One spark later, Hoofdini appeared in front of him. “WOO! That always gives me a rush.” eTu`nes held his mouth, feeling like he was going to vomit. “yeah, I forgot to mention that using that will mess up your insides. That’s why I never allow a pregnant woman to use it. Don’t worry, it’ll get better in a hour or two.”

“Right.” eTu`nes groaned. “Think I’ll hold back on eating. *Gags* for a long while.” he ran off into the shop and down the left hallway.

“bathroom’s down the left hallway, 3rd door on the right.” eTu`nes ran down the other hallway, holding his mouth.

1 hour later, a much better eTu`nes left the shop and looked at Ponyville for the first time. “wow. Quite a tranquil place. Much better then the noisy FeatherTop.”

“yeah. This is a quiet place to settle down and raise a family.”

eTu`nes spread his wings and took to the air. “keep that thing warmed up. I’m just gonna be a couple hours.”

“un…” Hoofdini was going to say something but eTu`nes was long gone. He shrugged. “okay.. I was just going to warn you that people might react to you being a Dragon.”

It has been a full year, to the day, when Derpy disappeared. One full year, and they still didn’t believe it. Derpy’s mother, May Grey, still believes she’s still alive, so does Celestia, but they haven’t been able to find her. About a month after she disappeared, the bullies who tortured, Lyra Heartstrings and Octavia Philharmonica, revealed that they tortured her badly and that they may have forced her to leave. The family hated them for making her leave but knew that hating them won’t bring Derpy back from… wherever she was.

Derpy’s sister, D.D., looking at a picture of her they had placed on top of a fireplace. “Derpy… where are you?” she sadly asked. She got up and walked out of the den, leaving her parents behind.

“oh, Daring.” May said to herself, watching her daughter walk out. She sat back and looked at a token Derpy left behind. “*sigh* Derpy… Darling… where are you?”

Comet Skies, Derpy’s father, looked though a photo album of Derpy and Daring when they were babies. “where could she have gone?”

Daring walked past the main door when a knock came from it. She walked over to it and opened it up. “Hi, Daring!” Lyra and Octavia happily exclaimed.

Daring looked at them, wanting them to go away. “What do you want?” she angrily asked. “You want to torture me to the point that I run away?”

“What?” Lyra asked in surprise. “no. we just came by to see if you wanted to hang out at that new place that opened up down the street, un… Sugarcube Corner, I think it’s called.”

Daring angrily stuck her head out. “Not. Interested. Now leave before I call the cops.”

“Daring, we said we’re sorry.” Octavia said. “If we could go back in time and prevent it from happening, we could.”

“well, you can’t. and I want you to LEAVE!” Daring started to slam the door shut but a foot blocked it. The thing odd about it was that it had claws. “huh?” she slowly opened the door back up to see a black dragon standing there. Lyra and Octavia shook in fear as they held each other. Naturally, she freaked out. “MOM! DAD!” she yelled.

Comet and May walked to her and saw the Dragon. “AHH!” May screamed.

“What is a dragon doing here? What do you want?” Comet angrily asked.

eTu`nes held up his arms. “I mean you no harm, Mr. Comet Skies.”

He knew his name? “how do you know my name?” he asked.

“Are you here to rob us?” May fearfully asked.

“no, I am not, May Grey. I’m here peacefully.”

“How do you know MY name?”

Daring fearfully shook, looking the imposing dragon over. When she reached the arms, she noticed the shell bracelet, recognizing how it’s made. “where did you get that?” she asked.

eTu`nes looked at his arm, knowing she meant the bracelet. “your sister gave this to me.”

“Sist… you know Derpy?” Daring asked, filled with hope. May and Comet looked at him, all hopeful. Even Lyra and Octavia were hopeful.

“yep. That’s why I’m here. I know where Derpy is.”

18 Years Later…

A week has passed since Eris unintentionally used her powers to bring old friends of Requiem and her gang to Equestria. They are Fox, Lloyd, Emil, Riku, Hiccup & Toothless, Spyro & Cynder, and Lina & Gourry & Zelgadis & Amelia. (I went though what series last chapter. Try to keep up.)

In the aftermath of that, Celestia was about ready to kill Eris because she was a Draconequus and because she had the same name as her own daughter Erys but Dash stopped her, saying that Eris isn’t like Discord. Hoping it’s true, Celestia has Eris placed under Dash’s care as a mother.

Finding living arrangements for the new guys wasn’t that difficult. Applejack offered them the barn since harvest season was over. Come Spring, however, they’re gonna need to find a new place to live.

Though it was only a week, it seemed like 3 MONTHS. Some are feeling the pressure of being stuck on a world inhabited by happy-go-lucky ponies.

“hmm… so, that would be A and… ah, that’s it.”

Halo is hard at work, working on translating the writings they found in the abandoned city in the Everfree Forest. He was so busy that day turned to night.

“mmm… maybe if I put that there and move this here…”

A tired Twilight walked down from above dressed in a robe. “Halo…” she yawned. “are you still working on that?”

“yep.”

Twi yawned again. “Come back to bed.” she wrapped her hooves around her coltfriend. “Me and Starlight are lonely.”

Halo’s face turned red when she grabbed him from behind. “un… I think I can take a break.” he turned back and kissed her on the cheek.

Twi seductively chuckled. “good.” she sighed as she looked down at the paper. “so, what have you been able to translate?”

“not much. Just the word ‘Beware’. and it repeats a lot.”

“beware?” Twilight half asked in fear.

“yeah, but I’m not sure what it is for. Could be a past warning for a flood or something; I don’t know. Could be anything.” Twilight glanced over at the picture they took of the mural with the giant dragon. Just looking at the picture scares her to death.

“Hope it’s not that thing.” she said under her breath.

A little chirping bluebird flew off a branch and landed on the railing of the Apple farm barn. It continued to chirp and hop around on the railing.

“Shut up.” A fireball came from within the and turned the bluebird into roast chicken. “I need my beauty sleep.” Lina muttered in her sleep.

Every one of the newcomers were still fast asleep, each dreaming fond memories of their home. Unfortunately, one cold trough of water will ruin that for them. It splashed over them all, waking them up and complaining.

“Rise and Shine, newbies.” Applejack proudly proclaimed. Aura and Zilver picked up the trough and tossed it aside. “It’s another gorgeous Autumn day in Equestria.”

“for about 4 more days, then Running of the Leaves hits with Winter a couple weeks after.” Zil added. “better grab some blankets.”

Spyro spit out some water. “what was that for?”

“well, you all looked so peaceful sleeping, we decided to ruin it.” Aura said with a evil snicker.

“that and ya’ll need to get to work.” A.J. interrupted.

“WORK!?!” everyone exclaimed in surprise.

“yeah. We may be stuck here but we gotta pull our weight. Some of the natives got some jobs ready for you around town.” Aura said. “now come on…” he clapped his hands. “…chop chop.” everyone sneered at him with death in their eyes. “ey ey ey. No sneering. Now get up and come on. You got work to do.” he walked off with A.J. and Zilver.

“First chance we get, let’s turn Aura into Bologna.”

Water dripped down in a foreboding dark cavern. It hit puddles far below it in a steady ‘drip, drip, drip.’

Dark fire suddenly appeared in mid-air. A certain human with terrible split-personality syndrome walked out of the fire and on thin-air.

“yoo-hoo. Oscurita. Yoo-hoo.” Aqua called out. “I think he bailed.”

“no, he’s here. I sense him.” Ignissaid. The cave shook and rumbled as a large body moved in it. “there he is.” Ventus said with a slight chuckle.

A pair of red eyes opened wide and stared directly at Orochi. “well there. How’s our favorite toy doing?” Tenebrae sneered. Oscurita snarled at him.

“my my. Quite a temper. You weren’t like that when we first found you near death.” Terra snickered. “of course, like I said, you were almost dead.”

Oscurita snarled again, more angry this time. “Shame we took your ability to talk. Of course, you didn’t have much to say when we met.” Fulmen sadistically joked. “but that’s beside the point.”

“we’re here to finish this, once and for all.” Lucis said as he took over. “that’s right, it’s time to complete your conversion over to our side. So you have one attachment left to this world. That’s not going to halt this.”

The leader personality, Glacies, took over and raised his right hand, which glowed with dark fire. For the first time since he turned into this monstrous form, Oscurita was worried.

Halo worked hard on the translations from the mural and tapestries. He was working on the one with the dragon first since it frightened him the most.

Twilight was outside, putting Riku and Fox to work.

“Okay. I want you two to remove anything that doesn’t look like it belongs in the tree.” she told them.

“just this little tree?” Fox asked. “Pbbt. Easy peasy. This will take 10 minutes tops.” he pulled out his staff and aimed at it.

Twilight stopped him. “without setting it on fire.”

“aw, man.” Riku said. He sent his Keyblade away. “looks like we’re doing this the hard way.” he said to Fox.

“it shouldn’t take more then a hour, tops.” Twi said. She walked back to the library door.

“great. Lucky us. We do all the work.” Fox sarcastically said. “why doesn’t she do it?”

“pregnant.” Riku quickly said as he walked to the tree.

“oh.”

“this… is… embarrassing.” Lloyd whined. With some pull from Sparkler, she was able to get them jobs at Cavern on the Green. As Janitors. “I’m so glad that Colette isn’t seeing me in this lousy get-up.”

“I don’t know. This sort of grows on you after awhile.” Emil said as he looked himself over. “I think Marta would’ve liked this.”

“She’d like you in a chicken suit.” Lloyd muttered. He gave a groaning sigh and lowered his head. “there’s someone worse off then us, right?”

There is but it wasn’t Hiccup & Toothless. They were liking their job as mailmen.

“well, this isn’t all that bad. Simple, easy, something fit for us, right bud?” Hiccup asked Toothless. Toothless growled in agreement as he scratched his head.

“here you go.” Derpy said as she flew over. “a package for you to deliver. 213 Sycamore Lane. Think you can do it?”

Hiccup scoffed. “Can we do it, she asks?” he climbed on top of Toothless and grabbed the package from Derpy. “let’s show this world the fastest animal in existence.” Toothless gave a smirk. “ready?” Toothless crouched in preparation. “Let’s go!”

Toothless shot out of the post office, leaving behind a mini-tornado that sent everyone spinning. After just 30 seconds, Toothless and Hiccup returned. “un… where is 213 Sycamore Lane?” Derpy shakingly handed him a map. “Thanks.” Toothless shot off again, leaving behind a shock-wave.

“he would give Dash a run for her money.” Raindrops groaned, caught in a precarious position.

Spyro and Cynder helped Bahamut herd some sheep into a paddock.

“That was easier then expected.” Cynder joked.

“it usually is.” Bahamut said. He flipped and flew on his back. “this place isn’t like Warfang. There’s some pretty easy jobs here.”

“we noticed.” Spyro said. “and it’s quite beautiful and peaceful here. More so then the Valley of Avalar.”

“yeah. This place is better then Warfang in that regard.” Bahamut said. “but nothing will beat Sapphyre’s beauty.”

“you really miss her, don’t you?” Cynder asked as she flew over.

“I dream of her every night and I’m sad when I don’t see her when I wake up.”

“yep.” Spyro answered for him.

A hopeful Bahamut prayed to himself. “I wish I could see her again; her sparkling sapphire scales, her gorgeous emerald eyes, her slender and great body…”

“we get it.” Spyro and Cynder both said, not wanting to hear anymore. They get enough of that from each other.

Trixie lead Lina and her friends to the center of town. “now, the Mayor asked me to put you to work. And I thought of a good one for you potty-mouth’s.”

“Lina’s the one with the mouth.” Zelgadis said.

“That’s not true, Zel!” Lina exclaimed.

“it’s true.” Amelia and Gourry said.

“hey!”

Trixie groaned as she pinched her eyes. “this is giving me a headache.” she shook her head and got back to work. “So… you’ve been tasked with cleaning up the town a--”

“The entire town?!” all 4 exclaimed.

“shouldn’t be to hard for magic users.” Trixie said. “I’d do it myself but I’m not that skilled.” she said with a mean smile.

Everyone groaned as they went to work. “We’re gonna get you for this, Pony.” Lina snarled. Trixie mocked her, knowing she was making empty threats. And if not, her girlfriend is a ruler of Equestria. She’ll send Lina to jail.

Speaking of Luna, guess who arrived. A shadow flew over Trixie. She looked up and smiled. “Sorry for the delay, Trixie. Celestia was babbling on and on. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.”

“I understand. Twilight’s the same way.” Trixie joked. Both chuckled. “just glad you could make it, Luna.”

Hearing that word made Lina go wide-eyed. “uh-oh.” her friends said, fearing the worst.

“l-l-ll…”

“is she okay?” Luna asked.

“GYAH!!!” Lina ran off as fast as she could. “keep her away from me!”

A horribly confused Luna and Trixie watched as she ran off. “was it something we said?” they both asked.

“Lina has a sister who’s also called Luna.” Amelia said. “whenever she hears that word, she freaks out, no matter how it’s used.”

Trixie and Luna looked at each other. They both had the same idea for this situation. “Princess?”

“Princess.”

The day passed on by quicker then anyone expected. First sign that winter was almost here. After their jobs were done, the newcomers slogged to the library to rest. Plenty of room there for rest. Plus, movie. This weeks presentation: Gremlins 2.

Rainbow Dash held up a card with a circle on it in front of Eris. “you see this? This is called a circle. Can you say ’circle’?”

Eris blinked at the symbol. “sircle?”

Dash smiled. “yeah, that’s right. Sircle.”

Fluttershy watched this display and smiled. “Dash has really grown into this role as a mother. It fits her.”

“I think that’s what Celestia thought to.” Satoshi said, playing checkers with a surprisingly calm Pinkie. “maybe.” Pinkie jumped all of Satoshi’s pawns except for one and landed on the other side. “King me.” Satoshi’s mouth dropped. He’s getting his butt kicked by a super-hyper pony.

Toothless groaned as he walked in and plopped down on the floor. “poor guy.” Hiccup said as he slid off his back. “We’ve been flying non-stop all day. Even Night Furies need rest.”

“no argument.” everyone replied in unison.

Ash shook his head ‘no’. “they’re capable of taking down foes with powers of gods yet they can’t do a simple task.”

Halo continued working on the translation, something Twilight saw as sad. “come on, Halo. The movie’s about to start.” Halo gasped. He was finally done but what he had translated scared him. “What’s wrong?”

“it’s a prophecy.”

“Prophecy? A prophecy of what?” Requiem asked, unintentionally getting the attention of everyone in the room.

“a prophecy of doom.”

“Doom?” Everyone asked in surprise.

“what doom, exactly?” Spike asked.

“the doom of the world.”

“the doom of the world!?” every pony exclaimed.

Glacies raised his arm and aimed it at Oscurita. “The time has come for you to seize your true destiny.” dark fire swirled into the palm of his hand. For the first time in his existence, Oscurita was afraid.

Glacies snickered evilly as…

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…the fire shot out of his hand and at the monster, striking it in the heart.

At everyone’s insistence, Halo read the prophecy, and it wasn’t something they wanted to hear.

‘Lowe and Behold, the Might of Oscurita, the God of Destruction.’

“Oscurita?” Riku muttered. That name sounded familiar to him.

‘His mighty black wings shall rain death upon the world, ultimately leading to it’s awesome destruction.

His minions of shadow shall spread upon the land, killing all before the world’s ending.’

“that sounds familiar.” Jax muttered, thinking back to the day they first met the ponies.

Oscurita roared in pain as the dark fire continued to shot into his heart. He slowly felt himself being stripped away of what made him into him.

His memories raced though his head, recounting the days of his youth, including a Pegasus.

His eyes shot open and glowed red.

‘His roar shall shatter the skies, raining death down and killing all.

His role of death shall be brought about by a force of evil from another realm: a eight-headed beast of dark intent.’

“Eight-headed beast?” Satoshi muttered, looking at a equally worried Sora. Req glanced over to the picture of the mural.

‘naught can be brought to stop the Might of Oscurita;

the Demon of Death, the God of Destruction, the Harbinger of The End.’

Everyone was dumbstruck by that. Oscurita? Eight-Headed beast? Harbinger of The End? This was a lot to take it.

“Pbbt.” Emil went. “it’s just a prophecy. Half the time, those don’t come true.”

“I wouldn’t be so sure.” Requiem muttered. She held up the picture of the mural and the dragon on it. In her other hand, she summoned up a orb of darkness. It hovered over to the picture and washed over it.

Oscurita’s body began to pulse.

“He’s resisting the change. Abort, Glacies.” Ventus pleaded.

Glacies stopped what he was doing but the monster continued to pulse. “his ties to this world are too great. We have no choice but to kill her; the last tie.”

Oscurita roared in pain as the pulses became erratic.

The orb Req summoned washed over the picture, leaving only the eyes intact. Her friends reacted, knowing full well who it was.

“Recognize anyone?” she said as she held up the picture of the monster of shadow.

“That’s the monster that stranded us!” Bahamut exclaimed.

The pure power of darkness inside him reached it’s peak and the pulse’s fastly became one steady ‘beep’. he roared to the sky as the darkness shot out of him.

The entire planet violently shook. Tremors opened up around the world, leading to nothingness below.

Just east of Ponyville, a beam of darkness shot out of a mountain and pierced the sky.

Celestia watched from the palace, worried about what was going to happen.

Elsewhere, a being with holes in her dark legs and rapidly fluttering wings watched the event and smiled. She finally had a secret weapon for her plan.

The group ran out to see the beam shot into the sky.

“I’d hate to say it, Halo…” Requiem began to say as the wind picked up. “…but I think that Prophecy is true.”

Thunder rumbled from where the beam touched the sky, resulting in a violent display of lightning.