Hello hello hello everyone. I know that your thinking this is a long chapter...that's because it is. I promise that I will try to keep them shorter from now on to make them more user friendly. if you take the time to read this you will probably have questions to ask. I'm fine with that. Just send me a PM.
but besides the unpleasant I'm also working on another story but it may be a hike before I can upload that one sadly. This opening chapter has action. Maybe too much but it will allow me to write the next few chapters easier. That and it gives the feel of one of those bad luck days. Anyways I'm going to need the intro and start the chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own mlp. I own my character. The big shiny boat that goes bye bye for now. And this intro.
The sun was setting low over the sea. I watched as the orb slowly sinked into the blue green waters and turned them a crimson red. A loud popping sound behind me brought me out of my trance and I remembered where I was. The USS Valkyrie. The ship was newly built and I smiled at the fact I helped build it. "Hey" I heard someone say behind me. I turned to see a man in a blue jumpsuit running across the deck of the ship. "How can I help you?" I responded kindly. "We need your help down on deck 4. Busted fuel lines." The man replied sticking out his hand. I took his hand in a firm handshake "Sure thing." I said as I turned "Let me grab my bag." I said jogging of to a table set up one the deck.
I grabbed my pack and ran back over to the man with a smile. "What's so funny?" He asked with a confused expression on his face. "Haven't been on this boat for a whole day and they already broke something." I said chuckling. The man grinned at that and turned around waving for me to follow him. I put my pack on and took off after the man. It took us about five minutes to reach the elevator for deck 4.
As we reached deck 4 and the elevator doors opened the smell of smoke grabbed both of our attentions. "This wasn't happening before I left!" The man panicked sprinting down the corridor to the room the smoke was billowing from. "Wait up!" I hollered chasing after the man while taking my backpack off. I stopped just outside the door and began searching through my pack for my repair kit and fire-extinguisher. I heard the door opening and saw the man walk out carrying a man on his back and dragging a woman out by her arms. "There's...fire...people still inside." I heard the man sputter in between coughs. "Grab another fire-extinguisher in my backpack we-..." The rest of my sentence was cut off by the sound of an explosion.
I heard the woman scream as fire flew through the open door engulfing her and the man that were just saved from the fire only to be lost in the explosion. The man that brought me down to deck 4 was thrown back into a wall and knocked unconscious. I myself was thrown down the corridor and was slammed into the now closed elevator doors. My vision started to blur and darken as I heard sirens going off and the intercom system come on. I was struggling to stand back up and help in any way I could but everything sounded far off and I was too weak to stand. I fell against the elevator doors willing my mind to clear along with my vision.
I could hear a woman's voice but could not understand anything she was saying. I heard another explosion and the resulting shockwave threw my head back into the elevator doors again and everything went black. I experienced what seemed like a dreamless sleep. It was like a was staring into a dark abyss but I began to see something. There was a dim light in the distance. The light began to slowly get brighter and brighter and soon consumed everything in my vision. I woke with the feeling of something hitting my face. I jolted up from my position only to be pushed back down my a hand. I still had a bright light impairing my vision and I began to get a severe headache.
"Wha- where...where am I? I asked slowly. "Your in the medical bay right now." A woman with a gentle voice responded. My vision was still blurred and my head was throbbing like crazy but I still managed to slowly sit up in the bed. That's when I remembered. "There are people trapped in deck 4 we have to help them!" I said trying my best to stand but I only managed to collapse onto the floor. The woman helped me back into the bed and my vision slowly began to clear. "There...there was a man in a blue jumpsuit that tried to help is he alright?" I asked with a concerned tone. "Well, if you are speaking of Mr. Joseph he is quite alright but he suffered some bad trauma and bruising." The woman said with a worried tone. "Were...were we the only ones that...that.." I couldn't finish the sentence as I stare blankly at a wall. "That survived." The woman finished my sentence.
"Sadly yes you were the only two that survived the explosion." I hung my head in defeat. "I..I could have saved them...if only I had moved faster I could..." I broke down and began to cry because of the shock I was experiencing. Suddenly a large explosion rocked the ship. Sirens began to wail and I could hear people running in the corridor outside the med-bay. The woman, who I now assumed was a nurse, ran off to a computer terminal and began typing something I couldn't see.
My mind and vision began to clear and I began to look around the room. I glanced over to the bed that held Joseph and saw him sleeping peacefully. I heard a loud gasp and turn to see the nurse backing away from the console with a hand over her mouth. "It...It says we are under attack!" The woman wailed now beginning to cry. I cursed myself under realization that the ship had weapons but was heading to a port to be outfitted with ammunition.
"How could this have happened?" I whispered. "All these people including myself are going to die. The ship may have been nearly indestructible but that was mainly due to her weapons systems" As I finished my sentence the ship shook again and I heard the screams of men and women as they were being hit by shrapnel from the explosion. Suddenly a large explosion shook the ship and I felt her begin to list to the port side. "No." I whispered to myself in shock. "How can this be happening?" Without warning the wall opposite of Joseph erupted into a ball of fire and deadly shrapnel. Out of instinct I quickly rolled off my bed towards the wall that didn't get blasted apart.
I heard a loud scream and pieced together what was happening. I slowly stood up starting to feel the ship list even more. I looked to where the computer console was and what I saw shocked me.
The computer was spewing sparks and shrapnel coated the wall. The thing that scared me the most however was the nurse. She had a large piece of shrapnel piercing he stomach and pinning her to the wall leaving her dangling in the air. I felt myself gagging and didn't try to hold it back. I feel onto the floor and began to shake uncontrollably as I began to sob. "It's not fair...it..it can't end like this." I cried as I lay of the floor in a fetal position.
That's when I heard it. A small voice in the back of my head begging me to stand up. I was still in shock from the explosions earlier and what I had just witnessed so I didn't know if it was real or just my imagination. As I rose I didn't bother to look to where Joseph was. I knew he was gone and so was the nurse.
"Go into the corridor." The voice whispered in the back of my head. Knowing this was the end I did as the voice commanded and entered the corridor. It's not like I had anything to lose anyways. I was going to die along with everyone else on this ship. I looked left and right down the corridor and didn't like what I saw in either direction. To my left was a large fire that blocked the whole corridor and to my right was the blackest water I had ever seen. The voice once again began to speak in the back of my head. "Choose the course thou will take for both shall decide your fate. Fear is a tool that many use to scare and to your right darkness and shadows shall you find there. Fire is brave and rules all it consumes but weak it becomes when one becomes two. Choose your fate and let not thy heart be troubled for whichever thou choose your joy shall be doubled. So choose your fate and let destiny decide, what you shall follow and that from which you hide." The voice said in a strange riddle.
I was thrown off by the voices riddle but I knew I was going to die either way I looked to the left and saw the fire begin to swirl into the circle and as I glanced right the water began to do the same. The voice made both sides sound inviting, or as inviting as something can sound when your world is being destroyed around you, but I was still lost in thought. I reached into my pocket and pulled out a gold coin. A family heirloom that I always kept close to me. "This has never failed me before why would it now?" I mumbled as I tossed the coin into the air. I had decided heads was the fire and tails was the water.
The coin seemed to stay suspended in the air for what seemed like hours. The coin finally landed on the ground and began to bounce around. The coin began to spin and I knew it was about to help me decide my fate. The coin's spin began to slow and I saw the picture of an eagle glaring up at me. "Tails it is!" I shouted sarcastically as I picked the coin up and placed it back in my pocket. I took a deep breath as I turned towards the water. It began to swirl faster as if it knew I had chosen it. I glanced over my shoulder and saw the fire begin to return to normal. "Strange." I whispered to myself as I reached to edge of the water. I heard a final explosion and a loud groaning noise as the ship began to sink deeper into the water. "Here it go's." I whispered to myself as I jumped into the water, but something was wrong. It felt as if I was falling through something... The sky? Whatever was happening it didn't feel like I was drowning. I closed my eyes and the world began to turn a bright white and then everything went dark.
The world around me seemed to be spinning but all I could see was utter blackness. The sudden realization of what was truly happening caused me to panic. I began to flail my arms and legs to fight to reach the surface for air, but something was off. I felt a slight breeze and no resistance on my arms and legs. "That's weird." I whispered to myself as I was trying to piece together what was happening.
That definitely shocked me as I had expected to take in a mouthful of water. I took a deep breathe and let out a sigh of relief. "At least I'm not dead...or am I?" I said as I pinched my arm. "Ow!" I yelled. Definitely still alive. I could no longer hear the screams of innocent people and the groan of metal as the ship sank. Something was wrong. Why wasn't I drowning? And why wasn't I in the ship? That's when I heard it again, the strange voice in the back of my head. I heard it whispering something but I couldn't understand it.
Ever so slowly the voice began to get louder. "The path has been chosen and the fabric of space undone. For a new chapter in life have thou begun." The voice whispered softly. " What or who are you?!" I screamed into the empty void. I still felt as if I was falling and began to grow sick. "I am nothing but yet I am here. I have been called your deepest fear. The void is ending and the fabrics undone. For your journey has just begun." The voice spoke in a darker tone this time and it scared me. "Get out of my head!" I screamed covering my ears trying to drown out the whispers. "You cannot escape your fate. For with destiny you have a date." The voice whispered with a slight giggle which threw me off.
All sound seemed to leave the void as did the voice in my head. "Finally." I breathed in relief. "That voice is out of my freaking head." I then focused on what the voice was telling me. What could it mean? I said spinning around since I'm falling I guess this must be-" I was cutoff mid-sentence by what I saw. The void seemed to be...unraveling itself?
As the void continued to "unravel" I began to see something. A small speck off dark green. "What in the world?" I whispered. As suddenly as it appeared I was pulled into into it. "I hate gravity!" I thought angrily to myself as my gentle free fall began to accelerate into a rapid descent.
As I began to near the ground I was able to depict things more clearly. "Certainly that's not...it can't be..." I said puzzled. "How do I end up falling towards a damn forest when I was just on a ship in the middle of the damn ocean!" I screamed angrily. I knew there was no way I was going to survive the fall...unless... I began to set my plan into motion. It was risky and many believed you would die on impact but it was my only chance. I pointed myself to a large blue dot in the middle of the forest as I began to descend toward it. I tried as best as I could to slow my descent before I reached the water but nothing I tried to do worked. I closed my eyes and whispered, "Please let this work and let that water be deep." As I drew in a lung full of air and got into a diving position.
The impact felt like punching a brick wall but I pierced the water none the less. "I'm alive!" I screamed inside myself overjoyed that I had just completed the impossible. Then a searing pain shook my body as the force of the impact overwhelmed me.
I had to fight not to take in a gulp of water as I desperately wanted to take in a gasp of air. As I swam towards the surface memories of what had happened beforehand began to creep back inside my head. "No, it's over...there nothing you could have done." I said to myself trying to calm my nerves as I broke through the surface of the water.
I pulled myself out of the water and began to take in my surroundings. "Ok... I'm lost in the middle of a freaky looking forest and I have no way of contacting help." I huffed stating the obvious. "Well I need to try to find civilization so I can get help and warn them of the attack." I said talking to myself trying to keep from thinking of the deaths I had witnessed earlier. I stood up and began to walk towards the tree line.
I had been walking through the woods for about 15 minutes before the trees started to thin. It felt as if something was watching me but I shrugged it off. The trees broke completely and I walked into a clearing. The clearing however did not look very inviting jagged rocks and vines covered in thorns littered the ground and the meadow had a dark feel to it and even a storm cloud was overhead. The moon cast an eerie light through the clouds and everything in me screamed something was wrong.
What I heard next sent shivers down my spine. An ear-splitting roar drowned out any other sounds and the trees on the other side of the clearing began to shake. "What in the-" I was cut off mid-sentence when a giant creature burst from the forest. A massive creature that had the body of a lion, wings, and a scorpion tail stared at me with glowing eyes. "You have got to be kidding me!" I mumbled under my breathe as I took a defensive stance. I didn't know if I was just having a bad day or if I had serious problems with karma.
The beast began to charge across the clearing towards me. I quickly devised a plan of avoiding the creature and I honestly didn't think it was going to work. "3...2..1 Now!" I counted in my mind as the creature leaped at me with razor sharp claws. As I leaped out of the way the tail of the behemoth came down and cut a large gash in the front of my shirt barely missing me. "Where have I heard of these things before..." I thought to myself as the monster turned and prepped itself to charge again. That's when I remembered what it was... A Manticore.
All those old legends, everything that I was told in history about these ancient creatures and how they never existed was being proved wrong."Shit." I mumbled to myself "I just survived a huge free fall, the sinking of a ship, and That thing is what is going to end me! Seriously! This thing isn't even supposed to be real!" I hollered at the top of my lungs even though I knew no one could hear me. The manticore bared it's teeth revealing razor sharp fangs.
I simply sat on the ground knowing I was only delaying the inevitable as I glared the beast in the eyes with cold defiance and hatred. "You want me...here I am. I've went through enough crap today."
The manticore leaped at me and I closed my eyes preparing for the pain that would soon follow. I closed my eyes tighter waiting for the beast to reach me but it never came. I slowly opened one eye followed by the other. A large plume of smoke was rising merely inches in front me and I breathed a sigh of relief as I looked towards the ground.
I began to laugh hysterically to myself. "Karma, are we even now?" I questioned through chuckles "or do you have some other messed up shit to throw at me?" I began to look up again after I caught my breath and what I saw made crawl backwards. "I guess I spoke too quickly" I gulped picking myself off the ground. Two sets of glowing eyes could be seen through the smoke. I pinned myself against a rock and I knew there was no way I would escape this time.
"What are you?" The two figures asked in perfect unison. "Answer us!" The voices boomed in such a loud voice that I could feel wind coming from the figures. I began to laugh hysterically as I answered the two concealed figures "Do you honestly have to ask or do your eyes betray you. Are we not the same thing? Or maybe you were wondering who I am? Well I'm going to be honest." I began starting to feel slightly insane. "Because after the shit-storm I just went through I think my mind has turned about as bad as your eyes!" The smoke began to turn black and began to wisp and twirl around the two figures. "You dare speak to us in that manor?" The voices shouted once again in perfect unison but the voices sounded darker...angrier and I knew I had pissed them off.
A black smoke began to swirl around me and soon I was engulfed in it. My vision once again began to fade. "You have got to be kidding..." My sentence was cut short as my body collapsed and a bright orb surrounded us. In a brilliant flash of light the clearing was empty and the sounds of the forest once again began to take control.
Even though I had blacked out again I still seemed to have some control of my conscious. I began to lazily put together the days events and tried my best to come to peace with all the deaths I had witnessed. I also began to wonder who the voices were and if they were connected to the one in my head and how something from mythology was alive in real life. That's when it appeared again... the voice.
However something was different this time. The voice seemed to be talking normally instead of in riddles. "Ye have come far troubled one." I heard the voice say. "Thou's mind is clouded with fear and death." "What does it matter to you!" I shot back. Even though I though I was talking to a figment of my imagination it somehow felt...real or was it truly real. "Ye would be surprised how much it does." The voice stated "and how I can help thee." "Your..your not real...your just a voice in my head!" I stammered. "Am I now... Well then if ye art having a hard time trusting what we are saying then ye might not want to rise from thy slumber." The voice said bluntly. "Your...trying to trick me... It's all lies.. All of it!" I screamed at the voice. "We shall see." The voice said simply as a wisp of silver smoke hit me between the eyes.
As soon as the smoke hit me I began to awaken. For some reason I could not open my eyes and I felt as if I was strapped to a table. "Great." I thought. "Can anything else go wrong?" I said to myself but I realized I should have kept my mouth shut because I began to hear voices talking in the distance and they were getting closer. "Well, why not end it all strapped to a table. My day has been "uneventful" after all." I thought to myself sarcastically. I could hear the voices right outside now. I gulped in fear of what might happen to me and I began to hear a door handle turning.
As I lay strapped to the bed I tried my best to take in my surroundings. I could hear the people right outside my...door. "Ok so I'm in a room of a building." I thought to myself. The voices stood outside the door for a few more minutes and I could only collect partial parts of their conversation. "You said he...not from here...dangerous...manticore...tests..." I pieced together they were talking about me and they now wanted to perform tests on me. "You have got to be-" my thoughts were cut off as I heard a doorknob beginning to turn again. "Well, I guess this is it for me... I'll just become someone's lab rat." I sighed to myself as the door opened.
Thinking I could buy myself more time I decided to pretend I was still asleep. Around five people walked into the room and I could hear them clearly now. "You said you found him where, mam?" I heard a man with a monotone voice question. "The Everfree forest." A woman responded obviously holding herself highly but her voice was still kind. "That's weird." I thought to myself. "I swear I heard around five people enter the-" I once again was cutoff mid-thought. "Gaurds!" I hear the women command "Take post outside this room let no one in." "Yes mam!" I heard two guards salute in unison. "Great...they have guards so much for escaping." I thought. "Sister, certainly thou dost not wish to perform experiments on this creature." I heard a soothing female voice say.
At hearing that two things crossed my mind 1: At least someone is trying to protect me and 2: Who speaks like that? "No sister, I only wish to ask "it" questions." She put an emphasis on "it" and that threw me off a little. "Why in the world would they call me an it?...last time I checked I was a perfectly normal human being." I thought to myself.
I once again felt a presence in my head and I knew it had returned. "What does it want now?!" I thought angrily to myself. "Only to help thee." The voice responded. "Oh great now you can read my thoughts!" I shouted in my head. "Yes, but only because ye have allowed it." "Who ever said I wanted you in my head?" I questioned the voice. "There isn't time to argue...I don't trust those that surround thee." The voice replied quickly. "Wait how do you know where I am and who surrounds me? Your only a voice." I said puzzled. "Trust us we are more than just a voice that haunts thou's mind." The voice answered.
I didn't think anything else to say to the voice but reality hit me like a brick. "No! That's physically impossible!" I shouted at the voice. "I see thou art starting to piece everything together." "You..you can't it's..no there is no way we could speak like th-" the voice cut me off. "There is no time thou must trust us!"
I felt the forces that were keeping me pinned to the table begin to fade. "Strange." I thought to myself. I decided I would take a calculated risk as I sat up in the bed. I once again began to get a terrible headache and I began to rub the back of my head. I slowly opened my eyes but the intensity of the lights in the room left me blinded. "Dim the lights." I heard the woman command again.
The lights dimmed and I rubbed my eyes trying to clear my vision quicker. "Who the hell are you peo-" I stopped mid-sentence at what I saw. "Wha- what... What the hell are you things!" I screamed at them. My vision was still blurred but I could still see the shapes of creatures that were not human. "We mean you no harm." I heard the male voice say calmly. "And what the hell makes you think I would trust you!" I shot back climbing out of the bed. "Please we ask that thou would only grant us a moment of thou's time." I stopped trying to find a way to escape. "I don't know who you are but you have been in my head the whole day and I want some answers!" I shot back rudely. "We doth not know what ye speak of." She replied giving me a pleading look to stay quiet.
As we were speaking my vision finally began to return to normal and I stood in shook as I took in what was before me. In front of me I saw 3...ponies. Or the one I presumed was a doctor was, the other two had wings and horns "What in the-" my sentence was cut off by the sound of the door flying open as the guards rushed into the room. "Halt!" They ordered "Come no closer!" They repeated as they began to walk towards me. "Stay back." I demanded in a strong voice. The guards hesitated but they still continued to advance towards me somehow levitating spears in front of them. "I said stay back!" I yelled swinging an arm in front of me attempting to stop them.
What happened next scared me but left me in awe. As my arm crossed in front of me it began to look as if black colored lightning was streaming down it. As my arm neared about the half way point of my swing a beam of black energy flew from my hand and knocked everyone in the room excluding me to the ground.
Medical instruments began to fly around the room and a few scalpels and scissors flew into the wall and stayed lodged there. All of the "ponies" in the room stared at me in shock. "He... He can controls magic!" "Fascinating!" The male pony that was dressed as a doctor exclaimed. "I must study him further." The pony said as he rose from the ground and began to walk towards me. "I said to stay back!" I yelled as the blackest smoke I had ever seen began to billow from my hands.
The pony stopped dead in his tracks. "Control magic." I thought to myself. "Theres no such thing." I held my hands up to my face and began to shake uncontrollably. "Wha-... What have you done to me!" I screamed at them in panic. "We haven't done anything to you." a large white pony with wings and a large horn replied calmly. "Lies!" I screamed in utter rage. Black smoke then began to billow from the edges of my eyes and I felt something pulling me towards a wall. As I neared the wall I stuck my hand out and left it mere inches from the wall. The smoke seemed to flow from my hand and began to cover the wall. Something was bending my will...something dark...something powerful.
Through my blind rage I began to think of the smoke more as shadows than smoke. I don't know why but part of me longed to stay and speak with them, but the rest of me wanted to escape... to get away from it all. Soon the wall was a moving rectangle of shadow. I turned back at them and the pony that had been speaking in my mind was looking at me with teary eyes. "I'm sorry." I thought as my conscious began to return.
I forgot about the evil presence considering I had more pressing matters on my mind. "I forgive thee now go... Go through the portal thou hath made and I will find thee tonight so that me may speak." The pony whispered inside my head. "Portal?... is that what I did?" I whispered to myself confused by everything that was happening. I gave a slight nearly unnoticeable nod but I could tell she saw it because her posture relaxed. I turned to the wall and began to walk through it. "Stop!" The white pony commanded. "How about no." I shot back sarcastically as I walked through the portal.
I heard a surging sound and just before the portal closed a bolt of golden energy shot through it. Out of reflex I spun around and caught the bolt right before it struck me. I saw one of the guards had risen from the ground and was staring at me with pure hatred. The shadows began to flow from my hand and covered the bolt. When the bolt was fully covered it began to absorb into my body. I smirked at the guard as the portal closed between us.
The bolt however was not the only thing being drawn into my body. All the shadows that surrounded me after I had walked through the portal began to swirl around me like a vortex. I held my hands upward and the shadows began to absorb into me. From my perspective it look as if a tornado was being sucked into my body. "Ok now this...This is awesome!" I said as the last of the shadows were drawn into me. I nearly forgot everything that had just happened out of sheer amazement at what was happening.
Only seconds ago I had become enraged that this was happening to me but now... Now if felt... Normal. Somehow absorbing the shadows made me feel stronger... faster... smarter. I smiled to myself as I began to take in my surroundings. To put what I saw lightly... I almost shit my pants. My smile quickly left my face as I began to put a plan into motion. I was in a meadow but it wasn't the meadow that scared me. It was what was in it. I was surrounded by what looked like wolves... except... These seemed to be made of...wood and other parts of the forest.
I smirked to myself. "Looks like I'm going to get a few splinters." "I wonder what else these new "powers" can do!" I shouted out loud for only myself to hear. I entered a defensive stance as the "wolves" crouched and prepared to leap. "Here we go!" I screamed as the wolves leaped. "I'm "dying" to see what I can do." I thought sarcastically as the beasts flew towards me.
As the wolves were leaping through the air towards me I knelt towards the ground. "I wonder..." I thought to myself as I placed my hand on the ground. I focused intensely on the ground where my hand was placed and time began to slow. As time seemed to slow everything around me went silent and I could feel a rush of energy surging into me. I then pictured my powers as an extension of my body and what I had planned actually work.
A large ball of shadows surrounded me and exploded outwards sending the wolves flying across the meadow...so thats what they actually were...shadows. The one thing I didn't expect however was what the shadows would do to me. As I looked upwards to see what I had accomplished I noticed my vision seemed different...as if I was looking through something, a visor of some sort. It also felt as if I was wearing something on my head.
I imagined my vision clearing and the thing in front of me disappeared and it felt as if the weight was removed from my head. "That's stra-" I was cut off mid sentence as I lifted my hand up in front of me. "What the hell is this!" I yelled in shock only to be snapped back to what was truly happening by a loud snarl behind me. I turned around and saw the wolves massing behind me but something was wrong. There were less this time. But something was different. They had grown...larger and looked stronger. "Why is everything trying to kill me here!" I screamed in disbelief.
Just as I was about to engage the wolves again bolts of silver energy pierced the air beside me and struck the wolves. The wolves turned into smoldering piles of ash and I spun quickly to face the new threat. Three ponies stood another 10 feet behind me and I recognized one of them from earlier. "Come here to capture me again?" I questioned with venom in my voice. "Quite the opposite really. I did make thee a promise." The pony responded. "Lunar guard leave us we no longer require thou's protection." The pony ordered.
The two guards snapped a crisp salute and seemed to fade into thin air. I relaxed realizing she didn't come to recapture me. "What can I help you with then...ummm?" "Luna! My name is Princess Luna, but ye may simply call us Luna." The pony finished for me. "Oook Luna, well for starters I want some answers." I prodded. "What is it that thou seek?" She offered smiling. "Why have you been in my head all day?" I asked going for the easiest answers first. Luna gave me a puzzled look. "What do you mean all day?" "I only spoke to you when thou entered Equestria and when you entered the void. I stood in silence for a few minutes taking in what had happened to me and pondering what she had just said. While I was pondering what she said I began to take in what the shadows did to me.
The shadows had covered my body in a jet black armor that shone like the brightest of gemstones. The armor looked as if were alive and moving but it was solid to the touch. "I like thou's change of attire." Luna complimented bringing me out of admiration for my new armor. "It also bears my crest. " she finished "Umm, thanks." I responded sounding confused.
I guess she was speaking of the crescent moon on my chest because she had a similar symbol on her flank. Upon further examination I found a large sword on my back with a shield sitting on top of it. I grabbed the shield and stared at it and an awkward shape began to form out of it. A crested moon began to appear on the shield in a deep crimson red. "Strange." I whispered to myself replacing the shield. Looking toward my waist I saw a few patches and what I thought to be some daggers or throwing knives but I wasn't sure. I wasn't able to take in the rest of my armament before a loud snapping sound in the woods behind us grabbed our attention. "We'll have to continue our conversation later Princess but for now I think we should ru-" my voice was drowned out by the sound of a very large roar. "I agree" Luna shouted over the roaring.
I began to run as fast as I could across the meadow and the princess began to fly into the sky. "Are you serious!" I thought to myself. "She can fly away from danger but I haven't been able to avoid it all day." I screamed to myself in disbelief. I continued to run not daring to look back but I could feel the ground shaking and I knew something was chasing me...something big. Something...deadly.
"This is just my lucky day" I thought to myself sprinting as fast as I could thought the forest. I was weaving in between trees and bushes every few seconds but I could hear the creature just crashing through them"I've survived a ship being destroyed, a manticore, a bunch of...talking ponies, some wolves made of wood, and what ever the hell is following me now." I summed up in my head.
I did however weigh out the fact that I had my newly discovered powers and gear, but it wouldn't be any good to me if I was dead. "Wait." I said aloud to myself. "If I was able to control the shadows by thought then maybe..." I began to think about having some sort of wings on the back of my armor that I could control, and to my surprise it actually worked. I had trouble getting them going but I eventually got the hang of it.
As I rose into the air I turned to see what was chasing me. I couldn't see anything at first so I stopped a little over the top of the trees just inside another small clearing. Everything in the forest stopped moving. The forest itself seemed to stop moving as if everything was listening and watching with me. I stared deep into the tree line waiting.
I began to think that whatever was chasing me had stopped and given up it's pursuit. But I was wrong. Without warning the trees at the edge of the forest exploded into massive splinters and began to fly into the air. I pulled the shield off my back and pulled it in font of me. I made the shield grow larger so it would protect my entire body and keep my shadow wings from being ripped to shreds.
The splinters pounded hard into my shield and I was struggling to keep from dropping it. After what seemed like forever to me the splinters finally stopped and I returned my shield to its normal size. As I lowered the shield I was finally able to see what was chasing me. It looked like...a bear...but it was massive, bigger than anything I had ever seen.
It's body was blue and translucent and it appeared to have star constellations on it. "What the hell is that thing!" I shouted to myself trying to hear myself over another roar. "That is an Ursa Minor." I heard someone say behind me. I spun in mid-air to see Luna flying behind me. "You sure do like sneaking up on me." I said to her with a slight smirk. "'Tis my specialty" she began "I am princess of the night" she finished with a smile.
"Well then your majesty" I said still smirking "How do you suppose we beat this...thing?" I asked getting serious. "Tis no problem" she said "Watch." Luna flew down towards the ground and landed in front of the Ursa Minor. "What are you doing! How do you even plan to fight off this thing?!" I yelled out shocked that she would put herself so close to this creature. She looked up at me trying to mimic my smirk and then turned back to the beast. "With magic" she said in a booming voice that nearly drowned out the Ursa's roar even though it was right in front of her. I was still weary of this magic concepy but after everything that had happened to me today I was believing to think that anything was possible.
Luna's horn began to glow a dark blue and soon a blue ball of energy was sparking and flashing on top of her horn. The Ursa raised its paw and was about to bring it down on Luna when she fired the bolt of energy at the creature. The paw was mere inches from Luna when the bolt struck the Ursa. A bright orb surrounded the creature and it began to shrink.
I saw Luna breathe a sigh of relief as if she knew as well as I did how close the Ursa came from striking her down. The orb continued to shrink and in a wink of light disappeared as if it never existed. I sank back to the ground and walked up to Luna. I never thought I would see something colored a midnight blue turn pale but Luna managed. She collapsed to the ground in utter shock and I rushed to her side to make sure if she was alright. As I neared her side she looked up at me still pale and began to speak. "I believe I may have been cutting that a little close." She said with a weak smile. I chuckled lightly and walked over to where the creature had disappeared. "What did you do to it?" I asked puzzled. "I sent it back to it's mother" Luna replied standing back up.
She was beginning to regain some color but she still looked shocked by her whole experience. "Ahh ok I see...wait what do you mean mother?" I questioned confused and slightly scared by what she had just said. "You mean that thing was just a baby?" I said shocked. "Yes" Luna began "Like I said that is an Ursa Minor. The battle thou hast had with the timber wolves surely awoke it from slumber. It's mother is known as an Ursa Major and it's size would dwarf the minor, trust us."
I stood for a few minutes contemplating what she said and came to the conclusion we at least needed to get the hell out of this forest. "Luna, I would recommend that we get out of this forest before something else tries to kill me, or us." I said calmly. "We agree with thou's judgement. Please place your hand on my shoulder." Luna said in a serious but kind tone. I stood staring at her with a confused look before she finally said something to me. "Don't worry. We don't bite." She said with a slight giggle.
I shrugged my shoulders guessing it would be of no harm to me to do what she said. As I placed my hand on her shoulder she began to charge her horn again. Blue wisps of energy began to surround us and I was about to remove my hand from Luna's shoulder but she gave me a reassuring look and began to speak in my head. "Don't worry it's only a teleportation spell. Thou art completely safe." She whispered assuringly in my head. I nodded slightly at her and began to think of where we were going even though I truly had no idea.
For no reason I made the helmet appear back on my head so I would have a complete look. I had to admit to myself that I thought I looked pretty bad ass wearing the armor. After the blue wisps of energy had made a complete bubble around us there was a bright flash and I closed my eyes to block out the light. When I opened my eyes we were in front of the gates of a castle on the side of a mountain."Wow" I said simply amazed at what I was seeing.
"Welcome to Canterlot and before we go any further we would also like to know thy name" Luna said turning to me. "Wayne" I said "Wayne Jacob Strider" I said my full name turning towards her. "Any other questions?" I asked in case she wanted to know anything else. "At the moment no." Luna began "There will be time for that but for we must deal with mine sister. She doesn't trust thee as I do."
"Great" I said simply. I began to walk through the gates but I felt a searing pain shoot through my leg. I looked down to see spear sticking through my leg. "Son of a-" I grunted beginning to reach for the spear. However, my armor beat me to it and snapped the piece of the spear not imbedded in my leg off as it began to mend itself. I felt another searing pain as the armor removed the piece imbedded in my leg and pushed it out of the armor.
I began to feel shadows creeping into the wound to stop the bleeding and they even made me feel as if nothing happened. I drew my shield and sword and glanced by to see Luna with a hoof to her mouth in shock. I quickly turned back and began searching for the assailant.
"Show yourself!" I yelled looking for my attacker. I heard a laugh and turned to see the unicorn that had shot the bolt at me earlier walking out behind a booth that was selling apple based pastries. I saw an orange colored pony jump out from behind the booth and hide behind some barrels. "You" I hissed becoming even angrier at the fact this guard was my attacker.
The shadows began to swirl around me and my armor began to change with my mood. Too say the least I was addicted to games before I built the USS Valkyrie and I had played maybe a little too much Skyrim and I guess the armor formed to an image or idea I had in my head. My armor began to appear like daedric armor but it was sleeker and it looked more menacing. I placed the sword on my back and slid the shield over it. The guard threw another spear and I threw my arms up in a X shape in front of me.
The spear struck my forearms but instead of piercing through like last time the spear was ripped to shreds by the spikes that had appeared on the front of my armor. The guard took a step back slightly shocked that I could do that. Him throwing another spear at me really ticked my off and I threw my arms down to my sides. As I did so a large blade shot forth from each forearm.
The guard getting more nervous that I was doing these things began to throw spears more frantically. And with him using his magic to throw them they had more force than normal throws. As fast as he was throwing them I was struggling to keep cutting them apart before they hit me. The guard hefted his last spear and prepared to throw it. I was already getting closer too him and he was getting extremely nervous. As he was starting to throw the last spear he had he stepped on what I assumed was an apple fritter and fell off balance.
The spear went past me and even though I tried my best I wasn't able to hit it. I turned to see where the spear was flying and I saw it flying straight at Luna. I reacted as quickly as I could and stabbed the blades into the ground at my feet. Shadows began to flow from my body and into the ground. I could feel myself getting weaker every second I was trying to perform the spell. I concentrated as hard as I could and began to surround Luna with the shadows.
I was now putting all my energy into my "magic" as I was calling it now and prayed it would work. Instead of a bright flash the world seemed to dim for a few seconds but it quickly returned to normal. I looked towards the wall by which Luna was standing and saw the spear sticking into the wall where she was, but she wasn't there.
Enraged by what had just happened I turned back to the guard to see him crawling backwards in fear. I retracted the blade on my left arm and walked up to the guard. I picked him up by the throat and held him in the air in front of me. I poised my right arm and stuck the blade in between his eyes.
I saw him gulp in fear and shut his eyes. I raised the blade high into the air when I heard hollering from an ally beside us. "Stop" I heard the voice call "Please Wayne don't do it." I stopped in my tracks. It was Luna. My spell had actually worked and she was still alive. I released the unicorn and he fell to the ground gasping for air. "Luna!" I yelled out in joy that I hadn't killed someone innocent by just trying to save them.
After all I wasn't a pro at controlling my new found abilities and I could have vaporized her for all I knew. "your alright" I finished jogging up to her retracting my other blade. "Thou hast saved us and we art grateful you spared the guard's life." Luna said obviously scared from what she had just witnessed.
Upon her mentioning the guard I turned around and saw him trying to crawl away. I had seen the guard levitating things so maybe I could do it as well. I held out my hand and focused on the guard. I still felt extremely weak but I was being stubborn wanting to see what I could do. A black shadowy aura surrounded my hand and the same aura surrounded the guard.
I thought of it as using the force and eventually managed to bring the guard to us. I dropped him in front of us and he looked at Luna with pleading eyes. Upon seeing me however he huddled into a ball and began to shake in fear. Luna began to talk to the guard and I pressed up against a wall exhausted by everything that had happened today.
As I relaxed my armor began to return to normal. I felt the searing pain in my leg again and I looked down to see blood flowing from my armor. "Fantastic!" I said sarcastically as I began to collapse. The last thing I remembered was Luna using another teleportation spell. The combination of pain, blood loss, exhaustion, confusion, and fear had taken a toll on me and I blacked out.
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