Hello everybody, Gold here, with another chapter of Six. There is a very special message at the end of the chapter, make sure you check it out. Let's do our thing and get to the reviews.
Flutterlikeanangel: I will tell you now, spoiler alert everybody, no major characters are gonna die. They do have a lot in common.
Alex: Thanks! And here it is!
ShiningShadow: Mature Tails is the best Tails in my opinion. There's just so many things you can do with him that "canon" Tails couldn't. I'm gonna talk about romance after the reviews.
Inkwell: I need to read that comic, lol, it sounds so cute. I actually hadn't really considered the whole friendship is literally magic thing...thanks for reminding me.
Quintus: Long review is long lol. Hehe, your story is kinda like mine. I wrote a book in a notebook that was horrible too. Happy Post-Thanksgiving lol.
Capt: I'll have to look up the naginata and see what it looks like. I'll talk about shipping later.
BADA: Happy Post-Thanksgiving! I have always wanted to see a turducken lol.
Hightemplarr: Yeah, now imagine them doing that for every mission they had to do on Mobius lol. That's the thing about the ponies, they are positive as hell. They are gonna be pushed to the limit of that positivity, and you will have to wait for what happens.
Kirby: They are fillies, they really don't know that much. Plus, they didn't really experience the whole thing, they don't even know how many actually died, only the six and the Mane Six do.
Tails: Okay...don't really know what you mean by 'mine'...
SubZPhantomX: I don't know if I would even let you in. You need a story dude. I may put you in Complete Chaos just because you took the time to PM me about it, but not this story. And thanks, I appreciate the feedback.
Cheezel: This chapter is gonna be more on the calmer side of things, but I got some action and tension planned for it. I'm trying to make it as natural and realistic as possible while keeping the ponies in character. They are positive as hell, but that is gonna be pushed to the limit in this. I think Applejack for that line was the best thing to do, she can be brutally honest and sees things as they are. For me, she's actually one of the more mature ones of the Mane Six, next to Twilight.
A couple of people mentioned shipping and romance, I'd like to address that. Yes, it is a Tails and Twilight shipping. However, do not expect it to happen soon. I'm not gonna pull another Eonic Harmony lol. That romance was terrible, just saying. But, do not expect it to happen quick. Also, I'm keeping the romance strictly to those two. Sorry Aura and Blade, I have a lot of ideas planned out and on my plate for this story, it would really be difficult doing three romances in a war-driven and dark story. I have enough trouble with doing one shipping as it is, coughEonicHarmonycough. Anyways, let's get to the chapter.
Disclaimer: I own nothing except Gold, the Eon, the plot, etc. All OCs belong to their respective owners.
Gold the Fox Presents...
Six
Chapter Nine
A rooster could be heard emitting its morning call as Celestia's sun rose over the horizon. The sunlight stretched over the town, awaking some of the citizens and making some of them get under their covers for another hour of blissful sleep. At Sweet Apple Acres, the Mobian six were still sleeping peacefully in the barn. Aura had fallen off the haystack and was now sleeping on the ground with his face pointed upward. He had woken up in the middle of the night because of it, but he quickly fell back into his sleep, disregarding his new location. The book fort were Unknown was sleeping had fallen on top of him. He had accidentally kicked it in his sleep, but he didn't wake up because of it. Everybody else was in their sleeping positions that they had fallen asleep in. but again, the only exception was Tails. He was awake, laying down on top of a hay-pillow he had made up, staring at the ceiling of the barn. He actually did not fall asleep at all. After getting the book from Twilight, he went back to the barn and read the first couple of entries. The first stories explained something about a character known as Nightmare Moon, which he knew who that was because of the books he had read prior. Tails still wanted to ask the ponies about it, but he had to wait. The next couple of pages were almost meaningless to him. While they did shed some light on the experiences of Twilight with her friends, it didn't really offer much besides that. It felt too...perfect. He couldn't really believe every pony acted the way Twilight and the pothers acted to each other, always friendly and positive. After reading those, he decided to stop for the night. However, he didn't go to sleep.
He had decided to not go to sleep because it was easier to just be tired and eventually wake up during the course of the day, rather than go threw the nightmares that happened while he was sleeping. War had a nasty effect on him, on all of them even, and one effect was nightmares. Tails never really knew whether his friends had nightmares or any other ailments because of the wars they fought, but if they did, they never seemed to show them. And it wasn't repetitive nightmares that he could get over. It was a new nightmare every night he actually would sleep, a new horror to live through, a new sick and twisted world he would have to endure until he finally woke up. But this night, he didn't go to sleep. Tails had rings under his eyes from not sleeping, even though he had done it many times before. It almost felt normal now, but it really wasn't. His left ear twitched as he heard someone moving. It was Aura, sitting up from his sleeping position on the ground.
"I see you fell off your bed." Tails pointed out, putting his hands under his head while still laying down.
"Yeah, I rolled off. Didn't bother me that much, just woke me up." Aura said, a little groggily. "How'd you sleep?"
"Just normal." Tails lied with a shrug, it was better to lie than to hear his friends worry about his sleep.
"Well, that's good to hear." Aura said, nodding a little and then turning his head to where Gold was sleeping. "Think he is gonna sleep on his normal schedule?"
Tails chuckled a bit, "Most likely, he will sleep until eleven like normal. Sleeping in while a war is going on."
"I don't blame him, I would sleep if I could as well. Speaking of time, what time is it?" Aura asked curiously.
"It's about seven o'clock." a feminine voice answered from the barn door.
"Morning Applejack." Tails greeted the farm pony, turning his head toward said door.
"Mornin' to all of y'all." she greeted back.
"Do we have work to do or something? We can wake the others up if you want." Aura asked, sitting up a bit more.
"Nope, Granny decided to let you off the hook for today. Figured you would be tired after fighting a battle." Applejack answered the hedgehog.
"Well that is very considerate of her." Tails acknowledged.
"She did want me to tell y'all that she is making apple pancakes for breakfast. So you better get 'dem while they are hot." Applejack mentioned, backing out of the barn.
"Again, very considerate." Tails said as she left, and getting up from his position on the ground.
"They do seem to be that type of hard-working and nice family. If we weren't fighting a war and just had thousands of ponies die, I would say that we are having a great time here." Aura mentioned.
"I heard something about pancakes?" Blade inquired, who was now awake after hearing they were having breakfast.
"You heard correct." Tails answered.
"Sweet. HEY UNKNOWN!" Blade yelled to the sleeping Unknown.
Unknown violently woke up, making some books fly out of the pile he was covered in.
"What?" Unknown nonchalantly said.
"We are getting breakfast." Blade said, which made Unknown smile.
"I would've appreciated if you guys didn't yell and let me sleep, but we are getting free breakfast, so I'll let you off the hook." Glimpse said, he woke up because of Blade yelling.
After all five of them woke up, they all looked at the one who was still sleeping, Gold.
"You know, he could sleep through a whole battle and not hear a thing." Aura said.
"Or...you know...die while sleeping because of a battle." Glimpse muttered.
"Okay, that was not funny. Someone wake him up." Tails said seriously.
"I'll get him." Glimpse said, walking over to where the fox was sleeping.
Glimpse summoned his sword into his hand and gently started to move it toward Gold's tails. As soon as it got close, Glimpse found that Gold had grabbed the blade.
"What the hell did I tell you." Gold muttered, half-asleep.
"Good morning." Glimpse said with a smirk, banishing the sword and walking away.
"Gold, wake the hell up, we got people...ponies, waiting on us." Tails half-yelled.
"I'm awake, calm your damn tails." Gold said with a grain of salt.
After everyone was awake, they all walked over to the house of the Apple family and knocked. Applebloom was the one to answer and gave all the Mobians a big smile as she welcomed them into the house. She lead them through a old-looking living room and to a dining room with a large dining table in the middle. On the table in each of the spaces where there was a chair, there was a plate with three large apple-slice filled pancakes, with each one overflowing with syrup. The Mobians gawked at the beautiful pancakes and immediately sat down in the chairs. However, they kindly waited for the Apple family to sit, which perplexed them how they sat, but they didn't think too deeply about it. Also at the table at each plate was a cup of the Apple family's famous apple cider, with no alcohol in it of course. (A/N Yes, it is assumed that the apple cider in the show has actual alcohol in it or whatever. It has the foam on the top in the show.) Eventually, the Apple family came in and took their places and they began to chow down on the scrumptious pancakes.
"Again, thank you for the meal, we all really appreciate your hospitality." Tails said to the Apple family, with the rest of the Mobians nodding in agreement as they were busy eating.
"Well, it oughta be right to let y'all have some. Y'all are fighting for Equestria, y'know." Granny Smith responded.
"Yup." Big Mac simply stated.
"Hey, uh, quick question, do you guys have any orange juice?" Gold asked, after just finishing his first pancake.
The room went completely still, the silence was deafening. The entire Apple family just stared at the arctic fox in a mix of awe, anger, and confusion. Tails secretly kicked Gold's leg and glared at him, making the fox yelp quietly.
"Uh...hehe...what he meant to say was that the apple cider is great. See?" Tails said with a nervous chuckle, glaring at Gold and kicking him again.
"Right!" Gold immediately said, drinking all his cider very quickly. "Amazing!"
Applejack eventually chuckled and said, "Sugarcube, you are lucky that these drinks ain't got any alcohol in them."
"Wait, what?" Aura said, hearing the word alcohol from her mouth.
"Our famous apple cider is usually made with it. But seeing that is is tah mornin', we left it out. Don't want y'all to be fighting a war drunk." Applejack reiterated.
"Wait, how old are all you ponies?" Tails asked curiously.
"Well, Ah'm eighteen. Twilight and Fluttershy are as well. Pinkie and Rarity are seventeen and Rainbow is actually sixteen." Applejack informed the Mobians.
"And what the hell is the drinking age here?" Glimpse asked.
"Sixteen. Most ponies are responsible enough to not over do it." Applejack said.
"Well, anyways, the breakfast was delicious." Aura said.
Suddenly, a knock was heard at the door and Granny yelled, "Come in!"
it was Twilight who decided to come in and check up the Mobian group, since it was their first time actually sleeping in Equestria.
"Good morning everypony." she said happily, which everyone and everypony greeted back. "How was your study session guys?" she asked.
"Boring!" Gold yelled out.
"It was an enriching experience. We are gonna do a little bit more tonight if you don't mind, we will have the books back to you tomorrow." Tails informed her, again glaring at Gold's comment.
"Perfectly fine with me. What did you think of the book I gave you?" Twilight directly asked Tails.
"You know, I liked it, but it is just that...I don't think I can believe it." Tails said with a sigh.
"What do you mean?"
"Well. I can believe that that is how you girls act with each other, you all seem to be a very closely knit group of friends. But I don't think that every...pony can behave that friendly toward each other." Tails stated.
"Of course you can! That is how everypony usually acts!" Twilight argued back.
"It's...I'm sorry, but it's naïve. No one society can act like that all the time." Tails said, crossing his arms.
Twilight growled under her breath for a moment, but then just sighed, "We will talk about it later. Anyways, I came here because Alex came to me wanting to fight one of you."
"Uh, may I ask why?" Aura asked.
"I don't know, he just wanted to. Probably just to test you and himself." Twilight said with a shrug.
"Well, I don't want him hurt, he's a good fighter. I can put him up against one of us, preferably one of us who is weaker." Tails thought out loud.
"Then I guess it's Gold versus Alex." Glimpse said.
"Who said I'm the weakest?!" Gold retorted.
"We have tested it before. Out of all of us, you have normal close combat ability, while the rest of us are better. Your Eon doesn't do base damage on anyone, it's based on how 'dark' they are. It doesn't even affect me, and it barely affects any of us, since we aren't that dark. The one thing it is really good for is healing us, so you are kinda like a support." Glimpse theorized.
Gold stood up out of his seat quickly, making his seat squeak on the floor, "I can shoot an arrow straight through your eye."
"True, you are good with the bow. But again, most of the damage is Eon, with a metal tip, so some damage. Our energy affects basically anyone." Glimpse said sitting with a shrug.
"Can you both please shut the hell up?" Tails said irritably.
"What, do you agree with him?! That I'm just some support guy that is only here to heal your sorry asses?!" Gold said angrily.
The room went silent the second that morning.
"How about we just go see Alex, and Gold can fight him. Not because he is the weakest, but because he can basically regenerate himself and heal Alex if need be. No one ends up hurt." Aura said calmly.
The room still stayed silent until Tails spoke.
"Yeah. That will work. Gold, you good with that?" he said, not looking at Gold while saying it.
Gold just glared at the fox and started walking toward the door and muttered, "Whatever. Let's go."
Alex was just waiting in front of the library, a little ways from it in fact, just whistling. He had asked Twilight to go ask one of the Mobians if they could fight him. And indeed, it was so Alex could test himself and the Mobians. He looked in the distance and saw a group walking toward him, which he assumed were the Mobians. It was indeed the Mobians plus Twilight and Applejack.
"Hey Alex. You want a fight, you got one. You will be fighting against Gold." Tails said to the stallion and Gold stepped up.
"Sup." Gold simply said.
"Okay, cool, thanks for agreeing. So...how hard are we going?" Alex asked, cracking his neck.
"As hard as you want. Just don't shock me to death, alright?" Gold said with a chuckle. "Are you okay with me using my bow?"
"Actually, I don't really want a weapon fight. More like a hand to hoof and energy fight. Plus, not really fair considering that I don't have a weapon." Alex said.
"Alright then. Hey, maybe I can get Tails to make a weapon for you. Anyways, you wanna start?" Gold offered.
"Eh, why the hell not?" Alex said with a shrug.
Alex sent a orb of electricity Gold's way, which was easily dodged by the fox. While dodging, Gold sent three Eon orbs at Alex, two of which missed and the last one hit. It was the first time Alex had been hit by Eon, and for him it hurt a little, since he did have some sort of a dark side to him, which most of everyone did. However, it wasn't significant. Alex stomped on the ground with his two front hooves and then sent a bolt of electricity at Gold. Gold jumped to the side to evade it, but when he hit the ground, he felt electricity surge through his body. Alex had sent some electricity through the ground by stomping on the ground, and it caught the fox completely off guard. While the fox was being shocked, Alex started to run at him, with his front hooves glowing with electricity. Eventually the electricity from his hooves started to form a dome over his head, creating a small cone in front of him.
"Volt Tackle?" Unknown questioned.
The fox had gotten rid of the shock and saw the rushing stallion. Gold jumped into the air, doing a split over Alex to dodge. However, a bolt of electricity from the electric cone came out and zapped Gold in the back, despite the dodge. The zap sent Gold forward onto the ground a bit, but Gold did a roll on the ground to get back up. Alex turned around from his rush and sent three bolts at Gold. Gold put up a Eon shield around him. The electricity caught onto the side of the barrier and stayed on it, being slightly attracted to the Eon energy. Gold threw the barrier forward at Alex, which hit him with both electricity and Eon at the same time, causing some damage. The electricity didn't do much, but it was a large amount of Eon. After fighting off the pain, Alex shook his head to see Gold holding his hands forward, with a blue light forming in them. He assumed Gold was charging something so he went for the electric tackle again, running forward, and forming the electric cone.
"Eon..."
Alex kept rushing forward, hoping to hit Gold before he could pull off the attack. However, Gold was charging too fast.
"BLAST!"
The beam of Eon energy erupted from Gold's palms as the move known Eon Blast. Alex prepared to take the hit, but he seemed to be going through it just fine. He was slowed a bit, but a lot of the Eon was actually sticking to his electricity that formed in front of him. The streaks of lightning in the cone became longer and were turning a cool looking blue. Gold finished his Eon Blast only to get headbutted in the chest by Alex, with all the electricity and his own Eon hitting him. Gold flew back a couple of feet and landed on his back on the ground. Alex stood where he hit Gold, panting from using all that electricity at once at a fast pace.
"Are...are we done?" Alex asked panting.
Tails piped up from the peanut gallery, "I think you may have knocked him out."
After he had said that, Gold sat up very quickly and said, "No he didn't. But we are done. Good fight." Gold said, standing up and walking toward the stallion, "I didn't know Eon and electricity would behave that way together."
"Neither did I. I guess that's another thing we can add to the report on Eon to things that react with Eon." Tails said.
"You know what I want to see? A Gold and Glimpse fight." Blade said randomly.
"Are you insane?" Aura whispered to him. "They will either kill each other or destroy a building."
"Sure, why not. Let off some steam." Tails said, which made Aura deadpan.
"Why am I the only logical person here?" Aura muttered to himself.
"Okay, let's go. I'll prove to you that I am not weak." Gold said, quickly getting into Glimpse's face.
"We have done this tons of times before. It won't be any different." Glimpse said back. "Let's see if you actually stick to what you say and put an arrow in my eye."
"Let's."
The two fighters zoomed a little ways from each other and were about to attack when Tails interrupted.
"Weapons only." he said.
The two fighters looked at him and then back at each other and shrugged. Glimpse summoned his Chaos sword and Gold got his Eonic Bow out. Gold quickly pulled the Eon string back and fired an arrow straight for Glimpse's eye. Glimpse parried the arrow down to the ground with his sword and calmly started to walk toward Gold. Gold kept firing arrows quickly at Glimpse's eye, with each one being parried. Then, Gold changed it up by aiming at Glimpse's leg and shooting. The arrow whizzed by Glimpse's leg, making a cut in it that surprised Glimpse. Glimpse suddenly rushed forward at the fox and did a downward slash at him. Gold turned his bow around and blocked the sword with the solid metal of the bow, making a high-pitched clang sound. Glimpse applied more force to his sword, which was met with more force by Gold. Gold quickly put an arrow onto the string and fired almost at point-blank, whizzing the arrow past the hedgehog's ear.
"C'mon Goldy, you can do better than that. Gotta be more than a support." Glimpse taunted.
"Shut up." Gold said with gritted teeth, pushing up against the sword.
"It's the arms of a bow versus my sword, eventually the sword will break the bow." Glimpse said.
Gold put another arrow onto the string but did not fire. Instead, he took the arrow off and held it at the end where the pointy part wasn't and slashed at Glimpse's leg. The arrow created a deep gash on Glimpse's leg, making Glimpse lose slight control of his sword. Glimpse's sword went off the side of bow and and found itself lodged into Gold's shoulder pretty deeply. Gold groaned because of the pain and took out the blade and moved back a few feet, holding his shoulder.
"Seriously, Glimpse?!" Blade yelled out.
"What! We are fighting!" Glimpse yelled back.
"No weapons, close combat only." Tails said now, seeing how much damage they did to each other with weapons and fearing even worse.
Glimpse shrugged and banished his sword away, as did Gold with his bow while still holding onto his shoulder. Gold did a heavy sigh and then let go of his shoulder, wincing a bit after. Both fighters rushed forward then, Gold aiming to punch Glimpse in the head and Glimpse with a kick to Gold's chest. Glimpse's kick connected first, stopping Gold's attack and pushing him back a bit. Glimpse aimed a punch at Gold's head, which Gold ducked under. Gold grabbed Glimpse's arm that was above him with one hand and punched Glimpse's chest with his other free hand. Gold then sent a kick at Glimpse's side, which Glimpse took. Glimpse got his arm free from Gold, while Gold stood up kicked and jumped, fearing a sweeping leg attack. Glimpse changed his mind and kicked high at Gold's leg, making Gold lose his balance in midair.
"By the way, Miles, I was wondering what everyone's strengths are." Alex asked the fox as they were watching.
"A good question. Getting to know your allies, a very good idea that is." Tails said to Alex.
"Well, I've been in situations like this before, so I know what I am doing." Alex reminded him.
"Good. I'll start with those two who are fighting. Glimpse is more close-combat than anything. His sword and fighting skills usually seem to be his main thing, and he knows when and how to use his energy, called Chaos. However, he seems to be very adaptable. He is pretty good with Gold's bow when he puts the Master Emerald shard in it." Tails said.
"Uh huh." Alex said, wanting him to continue.
"Gold is well...more support than anything. He's decent when it comes to close combat, but his energy, Eon, is very trivial and specialized for evil things, not people like us. However, he is one of the most accurate of all of us, especially with the bow, and he has one of the most important things of this team, healing. He can take a lot of damage and live since he can slowly regenerate himself, and he is very useful for when we get injuries or innocents get hurt." Tails continued.
"And everyone else?" Alex asked.
"Blade is a very fast and very vicious fighter. He goes all out for any fight, but has a lot of tricks he can use. His Dragon shouts that can do a whole host of things, and the chains on his swords, which can be used as a ranged weapon. But he mostly likes to just go and fight, throwing in a shout here and there."
"Aura is also very adaptable. He has swords too, but he can use them for long range. He is also a energy or powers user, being able to control the aura. Very good at hand to hand, and also good at using his powers. Very reliable for when Gold or Glimpse are doing...well, this." Tails said, pointing at the two opponents fighting.
"And lastly, Unknown. He's our wild card. You will never know what he does. He could open a portal that sucks all the enemies in or get very creative with his fighting style. I swear, none of us will ever understand the creature known as Unknown." Tails said with a chuckle at the end.
"And what about yourself?" Alex asked.
"I'm not gonna gloat, you will just have to guess by yourself." Tails said, going back to watching the fight.
The battle between Gold and Glimpse had been going back and forth in the mean time, with each fighter scoring a few hits and then getting some right back at them. Glimpse faked a punch at Gold, which Gold tried to block but was fooled. Glimpse ran around Gold to his back and kicked him to the ground by sending a kick to the back of his knee. Gold fell forward onto the ground and felt Glimpse stomp on the back of his knee again. Gold attempted to get up, but got stomped on again. Glimpse did this a few more times with satisfaction.
"Alright Glimpse! That's enough!" Tails yelled out.
Glimpse stopped for a moment and looked directly at Tails. Glimpse stomped on the back of Gold's knee one more time while looking right at Tails and then walked away.
"There, you good now?" Tails said.
Glimpse just walked past Tails and Tails looked at the fox on the ground. Gold started to get up on one leg and the put the other foot down, but Gold yelped and limped forward.
"You'll be fine in ten minutes. You'll just regenerate." Tails yelled at him and then turned to the other Mobians, namely Glimpse, "Was that necessary?"
"We were fighting! What the hell do you want me to do!" Glimpse answered.
"Maybe show some respect for your friends." Twilight decided to speak up and say.
Glimpse didn't say anything but let out a hmph. Twilight kinda felt like she actually said something that he didn't retort to. Then, another feminine voice randomly called out.
"Hey Dad!" somepony yelled out.
A mare that looked about the same age as Twilight in her friends walked toward the group, namely Alex. She ha d a orange-like coat of fur and a yellow mane and tail that had black streaks running through it.
"Oh hey, Golden Dawn, how was the party?" Alex answered.
And that's where I'll leave it today. Next time, we get to know Golden a little more, finish the day and learn of a new battle. Alright, time for some news.
On December 20, 2014 at 3 PM EST (2 PM CST, 1 PM MST and 12 PM PST) I will be participating in a LIVESTREAM! THAT'S RIGHT FOLKS, A LIVESTREAM! I will be in a livestream with IcyAngels, my good friend. She will be doing a chapter of her AWESOME story and I will be doing a SUPER SPECIAL Complete Chaos chapter! How special? You will have to wait and see! The point of the livestream is to ask us questions, give us ideas and just have a good time! You will be able to hear my voice and help me with a Complete Chaos chapter in a very special way. Also, you will be able to give us ideas and help IcyAngels with her story! Please come on out to IcyAngels Youtube account to watch us and chat with us on Saturday!
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