Chapter #4Nox 3 times! (On the ceiling if you want me~!) by: Mac: The Editor   Nyx's eyes widened as she beheld the Alicorn slumped before her. "Huh-buh wha?!" She thrust her wings down, propelling herself to check on the... colt? 'I thought Alicorns could only be female,' She thought to herself.
"Ohhhh...." The Alicorn groaned as he tried to move, and Nyx leaned in close to check him over. His royal black coat made it difficult to see any wounds, but he had the faint traces of scars faded after years of growing and healing, and a slightly burnt stench permeated the air, likely the effect of a miscast spell.
"Are you alright, uh..." Nyx tilted her head, stopping herself from saying 'dude,' since she wasn't familiar with him.
"... I'm fine," the colt answered in a soft rumble, like the gentle beating of a drum. "I just... oww... didn't cast a spell right." He looked up at Nyx, not seeing her wings. "Why are you in my... er, Ponyville's Castle?"
"Your castle?" Nyx' wings flared, the hairs of her coat bristling slightly at the gall of this... this stranger saying that the castle she and her friends have been working on for so long was his! "This is mine and my friends' castle! We've been fixing it up for months!"
The colt wasn't listening any more, instead staring at her wings. "That's... that's impossible..." Nyx was about to throw a very strong rebuttal at the unwanted guest- namely, 'it is so possible!' - when he reached out and brushed one of her wings with a hoof. "Only stallions can be Alicorns..." He stopped poking at her wing and brought the hoof to ground, pushing himself to stand. "How in the name of Solaris' beard are you a filly Alicorn?"
Nyx blinked, briefly wondering who Solaris was before regaining her composure. "Well, of course I'm a filly! All Alicorns are female. Princess Cadance is female, so are Princesses Celestia and Luna." Nyx tapped a hoof against the ground with a self-assuring hmmpf.
The colt worked his jaw for a second, before replying slowly, "You mean... Prince Rythmus, Prince Solaris, and Prince Apollo?" The colt just shook his head, snorting dismissively. "Whatever. I'm done for today. I need to get home."
"Where do you live? What's your name?" Despite her confusion on how this impossible colt could exist, she still wanted to learn more about him. Her years as Twilight's daughter had done nothing to slow her desire to learn more.
The colt struck a heroic pose; his nose thrust into the air, his wings spread, and a sly smirk playing on his lips. "My name is Nox, and I'm the Hero of Ponyville!"
Nyx gaped for a second before shaking herself out of it and glaring at 'Nox'. She was going to show this... this boy who's boss, and she was going to do so in the most diplomatically amazing way possible! "Nuh-uh!"
"Yeah-huh!"
"Nuh-uh!"
"Yeah-huh!"
"Nuh-uh!"
"Yeah-huh!"
"Nuh-uh!"
"Yeah-huh, times a hundred!"
"Nuh-uh times infinity!"
Nox, fuming over his sudden verbal loss, turned to look away from the frustrating filly- only to see her cutie mark was a shield, just like his. "Hey, you have a cutie mark like mine!"
"Really?" Nyx looked at her own flank. On it was a midnight blue shield, with a waning crescent moon stamped in the middle. On the colt's flank was a similar shield, though the crescent moon was waxing, not waning. "Well, they are similar... but mine's cooler!"
"No way!"
Yes way! I got it for doing something super cool, and some other stuff."
"I got mine in a cooler way, though. I did something super-duper cool to get it!"
The two glared at each other, ready to shout out their greatest offenses and defenses possible (once again, being 'uh-huh' and 'nuh-uh,' respectively), when they heard the unmistakable sound of a draconic growl. "S-spike?" Nyx called out fearfully, Nox's question of "S-spines?" coming at the same moment.
A large, red, smirking dragon lumbered into the room, followed closely by a pair of bigger dragons. "Well, well, well," The red one said snidely. "Look at we found. Snacks," he and his cronies laughed darkly.
Nyx and Nox' initial fear washed away, replaced with anger at the intrusion in the castle. "Hey, dunderheads!" They shouted in stereo. "Get outta my castle or I'll stuff your faces with Mud cakes!"
As the two Alicorns blinked at each other in surprise, the red dragon laughed. "Oh-ho, this snack bites back! Let's see if it's less feisty in the belly."
The dragons all moved into the room, and Nyx an Nox gulped, backing into the corner by a large, ornate window. "N-nox..."
"Y-yes?"
"Should... should we run?" Nyx dropped into a slightly awkward battle stance as three... four... five dragons all lumbered into the large room, trapping them in a corner between a window and a wall.
"Well, I... I think that we should f-fight, right? We don't want them ruining the castle! What do you think?"
Nyx' stance shifted a bit as she tried to keep all the dragons and her fellow Alicorn in her vision. "Well, I think that..."   indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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