Chapter IX:The war council

Equestria, Canterlot, year 1001 C.R.

The ride back to Canterlot was all silent. No one wanted to say anything until they reached their destination. Celestia flew on her own and everybody noticed that she had a very serious look on her face. After about an hour of silence they reached Canterlot castle. The dinosaurs and ponies disembarked and as the sun princess landed in front of them she said, once again in a serious tone:

"Alright, now everyone and everypony into the council chamber immediately!"

The tone of her voice made the gang of 7 really nervous and somewhat even scared, Petrie being the prime example. Cera the asked Littlefoot in a whisper so that Celestia wouldn't hear her:

"I wonder what got into her?"

"I don't know Cera."- Littlefoot answered also in a whisper-"But I think it may have something to do with Red Claw's arrivel."

With that everyone began to follow the sun princess to wherever she was going. It took about ten minutes but at last they made it to the council chamber. As they entered they noticed that Luna was in there as well and she had the same serious look on her face as her sister. As the doors closed and everyone took a seat at the large round table Celestia began:

"Alright. Now first of all, on behalf of our guests, I would like to apologies for the way I have spoken to you all earlier. But when it comes to troubles like this we must all put on our game faces, so to say. Now, Littlefoot."-she said as she looked to the young dinosaur-"I believe that those three creatures from earlier came from your world, correct?"-Littlefoot only nodded nervously-"Then what can you tell us about them?"-Littlefoot was now really nervous since he didn't know what would Celestia do to him and his friends if he would tell her about Red Claw. But he also didn't want t know what would happen if he wouldn't tell her. So he made up his mind and said:

"Ahem, well,…uhm…the big sharptooth that you probably saw earlier is called Red Claw. In our world he is the biggest and badest sharptooth ever. Killing everyone in site in the Mysterious Beyond (the land outside the Great Valley). And the two smaller sharpteeth, fastbitters as we call them, are Thud and Screech. They serve Red Claw and do whatever he tells them. That's basiklly it."-Littlefoot finished and Celestia's lookd hasn't changed a bit. Then she asked once again:

"Did you and your friends faced him before? And if so, how did you defeat him?"-her tone was also the same, serious and somewhat cold.

"Uh…yes, we have faced him before."-Littlefoot nervously began-"And w-we defeated him w-with anything a-and everything we had."

"And what is that you used to defeat him?!"-Luna joined in, but her tone was higher-"TELL US!"-she yelled with the royal voice and the, to everyones surprise Cera jumped in:

"Will you cut it out! Can't you see you're only scaring both him and us?! And besides, what does the last part even matter, now that Red Claw has changed into the giant monster-thing?!"-everyone was quite surprised at how Cera just jumped into the chat and defended Littlefoot from the princesses. Even the two princesses were surprised at this

Luna was about to say something to Cera (probably with the royal voice) but Celestia stopped her and said:

"She right little sister. We only needed to know about this Red Claw and his minions. And Cera I also right about another thing: we were beginning to scare them."

"*sigh*Yes you are right my sister.-Luna said and then turned to Littlefoot-"I apologies for yelling at you Littlefoot. Please forgive me."

"Uhm…OK I forgive you I guess."-Littlefoot said-"But I really thought that you were going to do something bad to me and my friends after I finished explaining."

"Don't worry Littlefoot. Nopony is going to do anything to you or your friends."-Celestia said this time in a much more softer voice.

"Uhm, pardon me princess,"-Twilight finally got up some courage to speak-"but what exactly happened to Red Claw and those two dragons?"

"Yes, she's right princess."-Shining Armor also joined in-"I mean, after we combined our magic blasts, instead of getting rid of Red Claw it only made him worse."

"Yes, I know Shining Armor. But in order to explain we will have to show you. So follow us."-Celestia said as she and Luna began to lead everyone of to an unexpected area.

They followed the regal princesses outside as they lead them through the courtyard and to the Canterlot Archives, specifically to the Starswirl the Bearded wing. Once inside the dino gang was amazed by all the scrolls and books that lay there. Alie of course thought that if she could somehow muster enough strainght in her to perform magic then maybe she could learn all of this too. Her train of thought however has stopped when Celestia pulled out and old scroll and levitated it to Twilight, who read the title out loud:

"'Fusion Spell'?"

"Yes. One of Starswirl the Bearded's most unusual and sometimes dangerous spells"-Celestia added

"Starswirl the Bearded?"-Cera asked

"A big hot-shot unicorn."-Rainbow Dash answered

"As odd as it may sound, Starwsirl the Bearded created this spell in a slight accident. He wrote that by combining two magical blasts that are the same the target would either be fused with a nearby living creature or object or would kill it. The later did not of course happen to Red Claw as we have all seen."-Celestia explained and then out of shear curiosity Ducky raise her hand and asked:

"Uhm, excuse me, but what was the accident he made with this spell?"

"Well to put it plainly little one:"-Luna began-"He created the Cockatrice by fusing a small dragon with a chicken."-this of course confused everyone. Especially the dino gang since they had no idea what a Cockatrice was and they didn't even want to know.

Then Littlefoot and Ali noticed that Twilight hung her head low and after a minute she said:

"I'm so sorry princess. This is all my fault. I never should have taken that shot. And now, not only does Red Claw have an entire army by his side, but he also became more powerful."-the she began to gently cry, while her big brother put his left hoof around her and embraised her in a hug and saying:

"Come on now Twily, remember it's my fault to. I'm the one who took the shot to, remember? So don't blame all this on yourself."

"He's right darling."-Rarity added-"And besides…"

"…we'll help you fix this."-Fluttershy finished

"All of us will."-Cadance added with the other ponies nodding in agreement

"And since Red Claw is our enemy aswell, we'll help out too."-Chomper said determendly with the whole gang nodding

"Yeah! We'll help you kick some sharptooth butt!"-Cera added with a smirk

Then they all heard a loud horn being blown. Celestia, Luna and the other ponies knew exactly what that meant: they are coming.

"Sooner then you think Cera." Celestia said and then they all ran out to prepare for battle.