My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Of Ponies and Humans

Chapter 16

Scaling the Mountain

48 Days after Zero Hour

After receiving the letter from Cadence; Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Halo, Zilver, Shadow, Derpy, Requiem, Aura, Ash, Jax, Bahamut, Spike, and Sora left for the Gryphon Kingdom to find the Reversal Spell for the human-turned Ponies. What they don’t know is that this journey is going to be a lot tougher then it sounds.

They arrived in the kingdom with no trouble but are informed of a curfew in place due to the impending threat of a slave trade going on. They are to meet with the king tonight and find out where the reversal spell to this predicament is.

There, Dash had a very brief reunion with Gilda and met back up with her friends from her foalhood. Also, Twilight finds out she’s gonna be a aunt when Cadence reveals she’s pregnant… and was for 3 months prior to the Changeling’s botched invasion. Guess even Ponies can’t resist the call of the wild when it hits, huh?

Now, after many days of waiting and searching, the location of the Reversal Spell is about to be revealed, and with Trixie, Fluttershy, and Marble on their way, this is gonna get worse before it gets better.

Upon meeting with the king Zaltan, who’s very laidback for a ruler, and who‘s daughter who summoned them who turned out to be Gilda, informs them of a fortress Nightmare Moon had in the area during her uprising. Hopefully, there’s a reversal spell inside that can change them back. And soon cause it turns out this spell has a side-effect. In 50 days, the affected will die by a brain tumor. It’s been 48 days and Derpy’s starting to feel the effects.

They have no time to waste.

On the way, the humans ran into a old foe from one of the worlds they visited: the Green Death, a massive dragon from Berk. They quickly defeat it with unexpected help from Gilda and Jax‘s signature spell, Indignation. the enemy destroyed, they continue on their way to the mountain.

The train from Ponyville rolled into the capital city. It hissed as it slowed to a stop. The doors on the passenger cars opened, allowing the people to depart.

On one of the back cargo cars, one of the doors was forced open by Trixie and Marble. “oh. Finally. We made it.” Trixie groaned as she fell forward face first to the station floor.

The loudspeakers beeped as a announcer lady spoke. “welcome to FeatherTop, the Capital City of the Gryphon Kingdom. Due to recent events, there is a curfew in effect that starts as soon as the sun sets. Keep that in mind as you enter our glorious city and please, enjoy your day.”

“Recent events?” Fluttershy wondered.

“probably that slave trade Cadence mentioned in her letter.” Marble guessed.

“whatever. Let’s just get going.” Trixie said as she walked off. ‘Shy and Marble followed after her.

The 3 exited the station, taking the opportunity to stretch their tired limbs. “Man, that was a long train ride. I thought we were gonna be stuck in their forever.” Trixie grunted as she stretched.

“you and me both, lady.” Marble groaned.

A sudden flash of light suddenly shone, followed by a powerful earthquake and a massive explosive plume of steam and electricity.

“w-what was that?” a nervous Fluttershy asked.

“Something big, that’s what it was.” Marble jokingly retorted.

“and something tells me we’ll find Twilight and the others in that direction.” Trixie said. She started towards the direction of the plume. Fluttershy and Marble carefully followed after her.

“is it just me or is Trixie leading us into danger just so she can apologize to a failed love?” Marble whispered to ‘Shy.

“I guess so. But people have gone on journeys for other reasons. Besides, you heard Trixie. It’ll just eat away at her until she does do it. Besides, we made the decision to come along.”

“for lamer reasons then apologizing, I might add.” Marble scoffed. “by the way, that feeling still there?”

“yeah.” ‘Shy looked up at the explosion’s aftermath. “and it got worse.”

The mystery man with the bad case of multiple personality syndrome still sat on top of the tower, still looking though the deck.

“well well well. Looks like a old foe didn’t work out much, Glacies.” the pink-haired personality chuckled.

The hair changed to silver. “then maybe you should give it a try, Fulmen.”

Hair changed back to pink. “perhaps I will.” he flipped though the cards and came across something intriguing. “a old foe didn’t work, so let’s see how they fare with a oversized Corvus Corax.” he pulled out the card and flicked it out.

Zilver’s mouth dropped to the ground when he saw how big the lonely mountain is. “oh… sweet… Celestia…” he gasped as he strained his neck to try and look up. “this is insanely big! I could see why Nightmare Moon built a Fortress on top.”

“I’m guessing this is as big as a Rocky Mountain. Maybe even a Andes.” Sora strained as she poured water on the campfire from last night.

“translation?” a nervous Pinkie asked.

“it’s gonna be one long climb.” Jason said.

“we’d be halfway up by now if it weren’t for you all on the no-fly list.” Gilda angrily said. “guess we’ll taking the long way up.”

“oh. Goodie.” a less then enthusiastic Jax said. “Sure hope there’s a path.”

The ‘path’ was a narrow niche into the mountain that curved upward all the way to the top. There wasn’t even any safety rails to keep them from falling off the side. It took them half a day just to get halfway up.

“oh, I feel so confident now that we’re hanging on the edge. Literally.” Shadow joked.

Gilda, Jason, and Dash flew on up, making sure no one would fall.

“So, Gil. Why did you suddenly decide to help us?” Dash asked.

“w-what?” Gilda started blushing in embarrassment. “Who said I was helping you?”

“um… the fact you helped us beat that horrific monster yesterday, for starters. And I know you. You wouldn‘t do these kinds of things without good reason. So, spill, what changed your mind?”

“un…”

A sudden shadow cast over their side of the mountain, surprising everyone.

“there supposed to be a eclipse today?” A.J. asked Twi.

“no. and there’s not supposed to be one for a couple of weeks. So what could’ve…”

“AHH!” Pinkie exclaimed, looking up at the sun. everyone did the same thing and got the same reaction.

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHglQRvbzOc

MLP:FIM Fighting is Magic: Rainbow Dash Stage Theme

A massive bird flew down from the sun and towards them, cawing loudly.

“BIG RAVEN!!!” they all exclaimed. The bird flew right by them, creating a big gust of wind. Everyone dug in to keep themselves from falling off.

The bird cawed as it flew to the other side of the mountain.

“That’s one big birdie!” Halo exclaimed.

“No…” Aura smirked and pulled out his lance. “that’s a all-you-can-eat chicken dinner.” he looked up to Bahamut, who smirked back.

“you read my mind, Aura.” he smirked back.

The oversized cockatoo came from around the other side and cawed as it swooped in to kill. Aura and Bahamut weren’t prepared to counter-attack when it returned.

A rainbow streak shot in front of the bird, getting it’s attention. It distracted the beastie long enough for it to ram into the cliff, causing a slight rock slide.

“Hey, ugly. Deal with someone that can put up a fight!” Dash boasted. Dash flapped it’s wings and took to the air.

The raven shook it’s head, replacing it’s caw with a shriek. It flapped it’s wings rapidly and flew towards Dash.

“Dash!” the ponies yelled out.

Bahamut jumped off the cliff, spread his wings, and took off after tookie-tookie. Aura’s back began to glow red.

The oversized Polly flew after Dash, who was flying too fast for the bird to keep up. “better like next time, you oversized Turkey.” Dash gloated as she bolted to the other side of the mountain.

She flipped onto her back and looked back to see that the over-blown parakeet wasn’t perusing her anymore. “hehe. All in a day’s…” The Raven came around from the other side and flew right towards her. “WORK!”

She turned around and moved her legs and arms rapidly but the bird bit down on her wings before she could get anywhere. “OW OW OW!” she yelled in pain. “You better not clip my wings!” she exclaimed as the bird flew back to the others. The bird flew by them and headed for the top. Dash noticed that Bahamut and Aura were gone. “where’d they go?”

Something covered in blue fire hit the Raven in the back. Hard. It shrieked in pain, letting Dash go. She tried flapping her wings but the overgrown chicken broke ‘em. She yelled as she fell to the ground.

Bahamut flew up from below and caught her. She grabbed hold of his tail and held on. “Thanks for the save, B.” Dash panted.

“no prob.”

The raven shrieked as Aura jumped off. He swung his lance, sending a streak of blue fire at the bird. It hit, causing it to shriek in pain. Wings of blue fire came out of his back, suspending him in mid-air. Bahamut flew by and dropped Dash off on his back.

The dragon coated himself in fire and rolled into a ball. The fire wheel slammed into the raven’s chest, sending it up into the sky.

Aura suddenly appeared beside it, spun his lance as fast as a game disc in a console, and swung it like a baseball bat. The raven was sent cascading into the top of the mountain.

Aura dropped Dash off at the top and he and Bahamut flew up into the air. Both encased themselves in fire as the raven shook rubble off it’s body and shrieked.

Aura and Bahamut spun around and fell towards the giant bird like a double helix. Their fire combined as they towards their target.

Ash jumped up onto the next part of the path and grabbed Shadow’s hand when the mountain suddenly and violently shook. They all looked up to see a wall of fire cast out over the side, followed by what Gilda and Jason are seeing as a mushroom cloud.

“I think they just took out Polly.” Sora joked.

End Song.

“okay. 1... 2...3!”

Ash tossed Applejack up first onto the top of the mountain. She, Gilda, and Jason, helped Ash up, then Twilight, then so on and so forth.

“methinks we reached the top.” Requiem joked.

The top of this lonely mountain was as flat as a pancake with a small forest and a small pond. Night had already fallen when the rest of the group arrived up top.

“where’s Aura, Bahamut, and Dash?” Twi wondered.

“Over here!” Aura called out. They all looked and saw the trio and the cooked remains of the bird. The overgrown chicken was cut up by Aura and Bahamut. They were biting into what was the birds leg.

“hey. Could’ve saved us a piece.” Ash joked as he headed over.

“there’s plenty to choose from, Ash. We got some wings, another leg, the breasts, the thighs. Take your pick.” Bahamut said. He burped and sighed in relaxation.

“Guess that attack cooked this goose.” Jax joked.

Sora face-palmed. “the worst joker in the galaxy, ladies and gentlemen.”

“At least I try!”

Req groaned and rolled her eyes. She and Ash walked behind them both and pushed them towards the cooked poultry.

“They are really powerful.” Halo said in awe as he and everyone else started over.

“no doubt. They have more power then the Princesses combined.” Applejack said. Twi stopped in her tracks and thought for a moment. They were powerful, powerful enough to defeat a giant dragon and a giant raven in mere minutes. they could easily overthrow Celestia, Luna, Cadence, Zaltan, and every other leader on the planet. That made her suspicious. She glanced up at everyone chatting, Aura and Bahamut already bragging about how they just took out the raven. Just because they were nice doesn’t mean their intentions are.

“Twi. Hey, Twi.” Applejack snapped her fingers in front of Twilight’s face, snapping her back to reality. “you okay?”

“yeah. Just thinking about something.” the 2 started for the group.

“well, you should know that Dash got injured during the brawl with the raven.”

“oh no. what happened?”

“it bit down on her wings. According to Requiem, it severed the veins. She ain’t gonna fly for awhile, even after she turns back.”

“dang. poor Dash. Flying’s everything to her.”

“well, Req’s trying to fix it with some healing spell of hers. Seems to be working quite well.”

“wait wait wait. A healing spell?”

“yeah. Req called it Healing Light or something like that. Dash still won’t fly but at least it’s for a few days then never.”

“ah. Right.” Twilight’s suspicions went away when she heard that and couldn’t help but smile.

The raven’s card reappeared and slipped back into the deck.

“nice choice, Fulmen. A giant avian is much more dangerous then a massive dragon.” the blue-haired personality said.

“it least I tried, Aqua.” the Fulmen personality replied. “what’s your excuse, having your period or something?”

“HEY!”

A sudden whoosh from behind distracted them from their argument. They looked to see a man in black armor walked out of a portal of dark fire.

Begin Song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHq8bMQKeeA

Tales of Symphonia OST - Mithos

“oh, come now Orochi. Are you arguing amongst yourself again?” the man joked.

Orochi suddenly got up and bowed. “Lord Tsylatac. What are you doing here?” all 8 voices asked.

“Lady Kyra wants you back at the tower. Says she’s got a new assignment for you on Termiris. Says it requires your ‘personal’ touch.”

Orochi couldn’t help but smile. “Termiris? That backwards medieval planet? Whatever for?” the red-head personality asked.

“figures you would ask, Ignis. There’s a situation brewing in one of the villages. Seems they’re planning a revolt against our local advisor. You’re to take care of this uprising before it gains a foothold. Clear?”

“but in case you forgot, we’re a little busy here with our plan for this planet.” the brown haired personality said.

“I am well aware of it, Terra. Hopefully, this uprising won’t take more then a hour for a mighty Japanese God of Destruction to quash. Right?”

“it will be done, My Lord.” Glacies replied.

Orochi disappeared in a flash of light, all his belongings disappearing with him, including the orb.

The Black Knight looked to the mountain. Inside his helmet, he couldn’t help but smile. “it’s gonna be a pleasure to see you again… Serenity.”

He too disappeared but in the same way he appeared; in dark fire.