Metei – This story will have elements of the Naruto universe. I do however have plans for Naruto and is fuzzy companion later on.
KineticKaiser & Cf96- A wise Jonin said look underneath the underneath. There will be more back story with Silver Mail in the coming chapters
Crio - Ice Battle Arch-Mage- Thank you I be updating roughly once a month.
Twilight and Silver Mail quickly made their way back to the library. Twilight put Spike to bed and began to search for her books on the Elements of Harmony. Meanwhile, Silver Mail went down stairs to grab his supplies. Upon reaching his room he grabs his saddlebag, checking himself in the mirror before he heads back upstairs. This was supposed to be an easy assignment. I hope I can keep Twilight safe through this. He thought, taking a deep breath before he climbs the stairs to rejoin Twilight.
As he ascends the stairs back to the main level, he hears other voices. Oh great, this just keeps getting better and better. Entering the main level his suspicions we correct, the five other mares that they ran into today were all gathered around a table as Twilight read from one of her books. "...last known resting place of the five elements was in the ancient castle of the royal pony sisters. It is located in what is now The Everfree Forest."
"Twilight you ready to go?" he asked as he approached the table. As he glanced around the table he could see something in each of their eyes that told him that these mares might be coming with them and if that were the case this assignment just got a little more troublesome.
Twilight nodded as she set the book down. "We better be going. Take care everypony." As she got and started to head to Silver who was by the door waiting.
"Where do you think you are going? We are coming with you." Rainbow Dash said as she flew over to them as the others follow her.
"I appreciate the offer, but I'd really rather do this on my own and the only reason he is coming is that he is assigned to protect me." Twilight replied hoping that would prevent the others from coming.
"No can do, sugarcube. We sure ain't lettin' any friend of ours go into that creepy place alone. We're stickin' to you like caramel on a candy apple."
Silver could see no way out of this, sighing he leveled a hard look at all the mares in front of him, "You ladies probably know the dangers of the Everfree Forest and you all saw who we're going to be up against. I want you mares to take a good hard look on the inside before you follow us. If you still want to come I won't stop you and I'll do my best to protect you as well." With that he exited the library with Twilight. After only taking a few steps he glanced behind them to see that the other were coming along. I hope they truly understand the danger that we probably will face.
"You sure that was wise Silver?" Twilight whispered as the other ponies followed. Silver only nodded as they continued toward the Everfree Forest.
When they arrived at the forest entrance, Silver noticed that Twilight had fallen back a bit and was engaging in small talk with the other ponies. Turning around he gave them the same hard look as he did when they were in the library, "This is your last chance to leave." After waiting a couple of minutes he saw that none were going to leave. "Very well, let's continue."
The seven of them continued on their way into the Everfree Forest. Silver in front while the six mares behind him chatted about the dangerous of this place. During his training Silver was told about this place and the dangers that lurked inside. He had hoped that it would be only him and Twilight to enter these woods; since he knew it would be tough for him to protect the others without resorting to his last resort. On the other hand one stallion with the six mares might make most stallions jealous if these were different circumstances.
Silver stoped when he heard Rainbow Dash behind him trying to scare the rest of the group with the unknowns for the forest. Before he could say anything, the path they were walking on collapsed sending the six mares down the embankment. Silver froze for a second before he slid down the embankment after them. He was Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash rescue Pinkie and Rarity, Applejack caught herself on a root, but Twilight headed for the edge of a cliff. His eyes widen as Applejack let go of the root she was on and was able to grab ahold of Twilights forehooves as she dangled over the cliff. As he got closer to the edge of the cliff he heard Applejack tell Twilight to trust her and let go. "NOOOO TWILIGHT!" He yelled as saw her let go and heard her scream. With anger in his eyes he was about to yell at Applejack as he got to the cliff edge, but she motioned for him to look over the edge. Peering over the ledge he saw that Fluttershy and Rainbow safely caught Twilight and were safely at the bottom of the cliff. "Thanks Applejack." He said weakly as his anger turned to regret and fear. Applejack smiled at Silver and led him down the cliff face.
Reaching the bottom of the cliff Silver rushed over to Twilight, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I am." She replied clearly still shaken up from the ordeal.
They all took a few minutes rest to calm their nerves before heading off again. Silver once again took point as they continued toward the resting place of the Elements of Harmony. After the events that just occurred Silver had to keep his eyes peeled for anything.
Rawr
Silver stopped dead, he narrowed his eyes, constantly sweeping side to side.
"What wrong Silver?" Twilight asked
He gave no response only concentrating on where he heard the noise.
Rawr
Silver eyes went wide as stared at the bushes a little ways in front of him. "Girls get back something is headed our way." No sooner than he said that a manicore jumped out of the bushed giving out a load roar. "Well I guess there is no way around this then. Stay back I wouldn't want any of you to get hurt." As Silver took a few steps forward getting into a defensive stance.
The manicore roared loudly as he continued to approach the ponies. Silver took this as an aggressive act and went on the offensive hoping to drive it a way. He dodged the first attack by the manicore which left the beast open to a kick to the stomach. The manicore angrily tryied to swipe at the unicorn in front of him, but to Silver's credit, he was more agile than the manicore and was able to dodge all his attacks. Seeing an opening, he went back in to try to take out the beast legs, but right before he was able to deliver the blow he had to roll out of the way due to an attack by the manicore's tall.
"wait"
Silver tried to go back in but was put on the defensive due to the onslaught the manicore was giving him. He was however able to dodge all the beast attacks while able to land a couple of blows which only severed to piss off the beast even more.
"wait"
This beast is tough. I haven't had a challenge like this in a long time. Silver thought as he disengaged the manicore after another round of dodging his attacks. I have one thing that could take him out, but I can't let them see it. Curse my classified status. Silver wiped the sweat from his brow as an idea formed to knock out the beast. Silver charged in hoping his plan would put an end to this.
"Wait!"
The voice that called out distracted Silver just enough so that the manicore was finally able to smack the unicorn with his paw sending him deeper into the forest. Silver landed unceremoniously about a hundred feet away into some bushes. Damn that pussycat hits hard. He thought as he slowly up. He could feel something wet on his face. Wiping his face he noticed a crimson tint on his hoof. Great now I'm bleeding, that overgrown fur ball is dead for making me bleed. Silvers eyes widen at the realization of the situation. Oh no the girls. He hurried back to where he was fighting the manicore silently praying that nothing bad has happened to them.
Arriving back at the group, Silver noticed no one was hurt and the manicore was gone. Silver let a sigh of relief, "I'm glad to see that you are all right. What happened to the Manicore?"
"Fluttershy took care of it." Replied Twilight surprised
Silver turned to Fluttershy in disbelief, "Fluttershy?"
"Sometimes we all just need to be shown a little kindness." Fluttershy quietly said.
Silver shook his head in disbelief, but gave her a smile, "Well I'm glad you are safe," he looks around at everyone else, "If you are ready, let's move out."
The girls give him a nod and they continue on their trek towards the ancient ruin that supposedly held the Elements of Harmony. As they made their way further into the forest, Silver began to feel uneasy. He had been lucky so far that nopony had been hurt, but doubt began to enter is mind and it began to remind him of a couple of his past missions, reminding him that he can't protect anyone. Shaking those thoughts from, he looked around and noticed that the area that they were in was nearly pitch black. Warning bells started to go off inside his head as he mentally prepared himself for anything that this crazy forest threw his way.
With sounds of growing coming from all direction, he turned around to make sure the girls were alright. He saw five of them huddled around each other scared of off their minds. For a second he wondered where the six until the growing got louder. He quickly spun around and backed up a few feet to get closer to the mares incase anything jumped out at them.
All of a sudden laughter was heard. Silver and the five mares that were behind him turn to see Pinkie Pie laughing and making faces at a tree. "Pinkie, what are you doing?! Get away from there!" Twilight shouted.
"Oh girls, don't you see?" Pinkie replied as she starts to sing about laughing your fears away.
This amused Silver. As Pinkie started to sing and the other mares joined her in the laughter, the area of the forest they were in started to brighten up a bit. After a couple of minutes, the girls were ground laughing without a care in the world. Silver smiled at them as he turned around, letting out a small sigh as a single tear ran down his face, "Some fears just can't be laughed away."
The group only had two more interruptions as they made their way to the Ancient Castle. Rarity cut off part of her tail to help a giant sea serpent; which in turn the sea dragon help them to cross a river, and Rainbow Dash reattached a bridge leading to the castle. Each one of these mares faced and solved a challenge on the way here, where as I was only in the way and couldn't do anything. Silver thought as they came up to the castle that held the elements.
Upon entering the old castle, the seven of them were in awe. On a pedestal, were five stones with markings on them. "The Elements of Harmony, we've found them." Twilight exclaimed happily as Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash carefully retrieved the stones and placed them in front of Twilight.
"Where's the sixth element?" Rainbow asked as she set down the last stone.
"The book said: when the five are present, a spark will cause the sixth Element to be revealed. Stand back. I don't know what will happen." Twilight said as her horn glowed.
The five mares left Twilight alone so she could concentrate. Silver on the other hoof decided to stay. Something didn't feel right with him. He'd been having this feeling that something was watching them. As he looked on, an azure looking cloud came in and formed a mini tornado. He could see that Twilight was taken back by this and was prepared to jump into the vortex to go after the elements. Knowing full well what would happen to him if Twilight to disappeared, he ran over, and knocked her out of the way and entered the vortex himself. As soon as he did the vortex vanished with him and the elements along for the ride.
Silver reappeared in a new room along with the five stone elements. Getting his bearings, he looked around to see a dark blue alicorn standing behind the elements. "Nightmare Moon, I presume." Silver said taking a few steps back.
"Foolish unicorn, what has thou have to gain by interfering with our plan." Nightmare Moon replied.
"Well first it's my job." Silver said as he let his let his magic surround him. In a flash of silvery light, the unicorn Silver Mail was no longer standing there. In place of the unicorn stood a human, in a short sleeve black gi with Princess Celestia's cutie mark emblazoned on his chest, black boots and a silver bracer on his left wrist, "second I'm not just a unicorn."
"Impossible! Humans disappeared from this area 2000 years ago." Nightmare Moon exclaimed, taken back by the human's appearance.
Silver smirked, "I, Silver Mail, member of the royal guard herby place you Nightmare Moon under arrest for the crime of kidnaping Princess Celestia. This is your only chance to come peacefully. Return the Princess and come quietly." Silver only heard the alicorn's evil laughter as he finished his statement. "Well I guess we do things the hard way," as he cracked his knuckles.
Making a hand sign, a clone of him appeared next to him. The real Silver nodded to the clone as he grabbed some shuriken from his back pouch. The clone took off left as Silver released the shuriken at Nightmare moon, going through more hand signs.
"Human Art: Shuriken Shadow Clone." The shuriken when from three to many as they headed towards his target
Nightmare Moon jumped back; charging up her magic and released a small shockwave knocking down all the projectiles headed her direction. "Foolish human is that the best you got?" Before she got a response, she saw a shadow coming from above her. She was barely able to jump away as the clone just missed her head and impacted the ground causing the clone to disappear on impact. "We will destroy you!" She said angrily as she fired a beam of magic at Silver.
Silver still had the smirk on his face as he easily dodged the beam, "Really? Is that all you got?" The taunt outraged Nightmare Moon as she continued to fire beam after beam at the human. He used the walls and pillars in the room to again easily dodge the beams of magic. After he dodged all the beams sent at him, he retook is place ten feet in front of the exit, slipping into his martial arts stance, "Well now, that was a good warm up. Let's get the main event shall we?"
From behind him, he could hear the sounds of the mares he was guarding heading his directions. This is bad. I can't go full-out with them in here. He heard gasps behind him as the six mares entered the room. "Girls it's me, Silver Mail. I'll explain later, but you girls need to get out of here. Things are about to get dangerous."
"Enough!" shouted Nightmare Moon as she let out a bigger shockwave of magic knocking the human and the 6 ponies back.
Silver quickly got back to his feet, his eyes never leaving his target in front of him, "You all aright?" He only heard five of the girls, quickly glancing behind him he saw Applejack struggling to get up. Silver returned to his gaze to Nightmare Moon only to see her eye Applejack as an evil grin appeared on her face. He quickly ran though some hand signs, causing his bracer lighting up. A blue shield seem to emanate from the bracer as Silver stepped in front Applejack right as Nightmare Moon fired off another beam of magic, trying to take out the injured mare.
As the beam of magic hit the shield, it forced Silver back a step as he was forced to expand more of his chakra into the shield. The stalemate only lasted for about a minute as Silver strength started to fade as he was driven to his knees right in front of Applejack. With sweet pouring down he glanced back to see the fear in the face of Applejack, tearing streaming down her face. Silver took a deep breath and closed his; I have to use it, even though last time I did it left me hospitalized for a couple of days.
Gate of Opening, open.
Silver smirked as he felt his energy return. Pushing his new found energy into the shield and his legs as he was finally able stand up. He could see the shock in the Nightmare Moon's as he was able to stand up and pushing back against her magic. Pushing more chakra into the shield, Silver was finally to deflect the magic beam and charged straight at alicorn.
Nightmare Moon could only stand there stunned, as Silver rushed forward with his fist cocked back. As Silver's fist connected, it sent Nightmare Moon flying back into the wall. Silver fell to his knees as the temporary chakra boost ended. He started to cough up blood as sweet continued to pour down his face, "Twilight now's your best chance to activate the elements. I used the last of my strength on that last punch."
Silver looked over his shoulder, he saw Twilight again trying to activate the elements and the other four helping Applejack to her feet. Movement in front of him alerted him to Nightmare Moon getting up. He tried to get up, but his legs felt like lead weights.
"We've had enough of this!" As Nightmare Moon fired off a magical beam right at Silver Mail.
All Silver could do was put is arms in front of him as the beam hit him, picking him up and slamming into a pillar. As the reminder of his strength fades, "Everyone, I'm sorry. I couldn't protect you," he whispers as he falls unconscious.