The Master of a Rotten Vale
Chapter 13: The Lair of the Beast
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Dude why am I acting like some noble and royalty while pretending to be sad near ponies?...
In the Everfree Forest
Celestia's POV
Why am I acting this way towards him? He is not even a pony, and even less alive... I think? Is he alive? Or dead?
"So little Princess, how has it been?" He asked in a casual matter, I smiled then said.
"Not much, besides that Equestria is at peace and that my sister is back thanks to you."
"Oh? I did nothing to bring her back, and you shouldn't thank me but thank your little ponies." He said whi!e pointing at Twilight and her friends with one of bis mangled claw.
"I already did and if it wasn't for you telling me that my sister would return a millenia later, they wouldn't be able to know where to look." I replied still smiling.
"And talking about that, how did you know when Night- well Princess Luna would come back?" Twilight questionned making me frown at the mention of 'Nightmare Moon' ,well part of it's mention, but it was a good question. How did he know?
"Hm, I know many things but perhaps you could say it was just a hunch" He responded casually, making us glare at him, but shrugged it off.
"We are approaching, Jho, please go tell the others I would arrive with guests" He said and ordered, 'Jho' did as said and went ahead while making the ground shake at every steps.
"Stop" Jhon said to us.
"We are being followed" He said with a growl while turning to look behind us.
Then, we saw an Ursa Minor coming out of the tree, it was twice as big as Jhon who just glare at him. They kept glaring at each other until they roared in unisson. The Ursa Minor's roar was powerful, making some of the leaves of the trees fall. But it was much much weaker than Jhon's, whose roar made the ground shake and some of the trees fall. It was so powerful we bearly heard the Ursa Minor's roar.
Then the Ursa Minor jumped on Jhon, who just stood there unmoving, but then our eyes widen when we saw the Ursa fall mid-jump, making the ground shake with a loud *THUMP*. Then it stood up and stood still, until Jhon spoke.
"Go, and make sure to not come back" He said, full of authority that rivals mine. The Ursa Minor nodded then walked off.
"Ok, It's safe now, let's go" He said, returning to his casual tone. RainBow Dash was hyperventilating, AppleJack was just shocked and kept staring at Jhon, Rarity was in her 'shining armor knight' fantasm, Pinkie Pie was... Just Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy smiled at him and Twilight looked like she was about to explode.
"Dude, That. Was. AWSWOME" Rainbow Dash exclaimed while doing 50 loop around Khon in less than 5 seconds.
"Welp, tha' is some incredible thing you did there!" AppleJack said, now admiring Jhon.
"Oh my yes! You did somethinf very heroic, nopony can stand up against Ursa Major" Rarity exclaimed, now fantazing about Jhon.
"Umm... Thank you for not hurting the poor Ursa Major, his not hurt right?" Fluttershy said while saying to last part with puppy eyes. I swear I could hear Jhon muttered about 'dying of heart attack' or something, before I could point that out I was cutted by a Pink ball shooting towards Jhon.
"OhmygodthatwassocoolyouwerelikeROARthenhewaslikeMiawbutthenhejumpedonyoubutyoudidn'tmovethenhestoppedcomingtoyouinmidairbutthenyouorderedhimtogoawayandnevercomeback *GASP* weneedtomakeyouathankyouforsavingusPARTY!!!!" Pinkie Pie said faster than anything.
"You didn't need to say what happened and thank you for the party but I don't think I look like something you should see in public."
"Awwwww, can I at least make you a party at your home?" Pinkie replied with a oittle tear threatening to leave her left eye.
"Maybe, I'll see" Jhon replied while turning away.
"Wait, before we continue, can you tell us what you did and how you did it to that Ursa Major?" Twilight said, eager to know the answer.
"First it's not an Ursa Major, it's a Minor" He said shocking everypony, except me because I know. "And second, let's just say I possessed him for a little while and third, you see this gas?" he said, making a ball of ssaid gas. "It's called miasma, it's like the gas you find near corpses, well I can control the miasma, and spores of a fungus." He said while pointing at a little fluffy bulge under his falling skin.
"Ok, but that doesn't really answer my question, you said you possessed it, what do you mean by that?" Twilight said.
"Well this miasma and fpores act like some virus, so when it infect anything, I can control the anything it infects" He said in a casual matter, that shocked us all, if he has the ability to control anything, what would he do if he was an enemy of Equestria.
"But, but, I DON'T SENSE ANY MAGICAL SIGNATURE FROM YOU!!!! HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?!!!!!" Twilight exclaimed, no, exploded.
"Let's just say that I'm not from this world, end of the story" He said sternly while turning around and continued, leaving behind a mind blown Twilight, I can't really blame her. We passed the Castle and it seems like we are following the canyon that is under the Castle, we went down the canyon at not a particularly place and we ended up in front of a wall, we looked at him confused.
"We are here, please stand back" He said and we did so, making us more confused until the ground started to shake and the well in front of us started to crumble.
What we saw was exactly what he described his home to be, a ruin. Everywhere we look, we could see rotting corpse and miasma, we tried not to vomit at the sight, some kinds of flying bird with missing eyes or wings laying around, bit of flesh everywhere, unrecognizable things so much they were crushed, back bones of unknown things that is used as a path. Then we saw a flying kind of bird, bigger than normal ones, flying around, when it spotted us it flew straight at us, making me charged my horn to blast it, but instead, it flew straight at Jhon to do a hug.
"MASTER!!!!" it exclaimed, it sounded female.
"Hello there little girl." Jhon replied, trying to make the 'little girl' leave him. Then we saw a whole group of yellow kind of lizards jumping on him to do a hug too.
"Master, it is good to see you" Another female voice said from behind us with a seductive tone, when we looked back, we saw a bigger yellow lizard, a bit bigger than me.
"Hello Ana, please make a cave for our guests." Jhon replied, it made me wonder, why would he ask her to make a cave? She doesn't seem like a digger, but she start digging at a wall making it crumble.
"Please come, it may seem ruined but it doesn't smell at least" He said from inside, I entered and was suprised that it didn't smell awful, and it seems like Jhon is making sure that the miasma doesn't touch us, why?
"Jhon, why are you making the miasma go away? Isn't it your 'otherself' if we can say so" I questionned him, he looked at me then said.
"The miasma is indeed kind of like my 'otherself' as you said, but it is deadly when concentrated, and this whole area is oozing miasma, it would make a simple manticore crumble and die, adding it's corpse to the countless one in here"
It was shocking, the fact that this gas could kill when concentrated was terrifying, but it also made me smile that he made sure not to let it kill us.
"Well then thank you for not letting it harm us" I said while smiling at him.
"But, how can we walk throught? I don't think my little ponies can take it." I said while looking at Twilight and her friends, who nodded, well not RainBow Dash who flew proudly.
"Oh that's right, wait a second" He said while looking at the path covered by countless corpses of seemingly everything, but then, they all shook, then moved and stood up, it was terrifying, some had completly disembodied head that just floated in mid air, other were just lower parts of the body standing up. Then they all made way while bowing, it was like a whole army of death was bowing to us.
"Here, it should be ok, please don't mind them, they would be right back how they were when you will leave my little 'kingdom'" He said, reasuring Twilight and her friends, who entered and were intimidated by the size and number of living corpses bowing to us, some were still taller than me when bowing.
"Welcome to the Rotten Vale!" Jhon exclaimed, and all of the corpses cheered.
Next Chapter: The Lair of the Beast (part 2) Estimated time remaining: 30 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Here's the Chapter, it's part one if someone wondered.
I still got nothing to say besides that I'm getting more bored as time passes, so that may mean that at some point I would cancel the story.
I'm still not sure so don't lose hope that this story would end cancelled.
Till nect time!