Canterlot Castle – Royal Chamber:
The girls were in a panic at the situation the guys were dealing with, wondering what was going on with them. Celestia was calm but Luna was still angry about earlier. "I still say he had something to do with this," Luna said in a huff.
Celestia put her wing over her sister, "Luna... please stop this... it was not Laharl's doing."
Luna shook off the wing, "Then how did he know all of that... that... stuff that happened here and that writing that we 'supposedly' can't see?" Celestia saw the writing through the glasses Laharl had... but it still concerned her about other things as well... mostly his loyalty. Her thought was interrupted by the sound of somepony hitting a wall. She looked to see Applejack repeatably bucking a nearby wall with a look of concern on her face.
Twilight walked over to try to calm her down, "Applejack, if you continue to do that, you might break your legs."
Applejack kept bucking, "Ah can't help it... Ah'm so nervous about the fella's, Ah just started doing this and Ah can't stop."
Rainbow Dash flew over and grabbed hold of Applejack's legs, "Just calm down AJ... the guys can handle themselves."
It took a bit but Applejack finally stopped bucking, "How do we know that they're alright... what if they get hurt... or worse?"
She was about buck again when Celestia came over and put a comforting hoof on her, "I think I may have a way to see if they're alright."
All the girls came over after hearing this in hopes it was true and Pinkie jumped up and down, "Ooo, ooo, ooo, can you, can you, can you reaaaaaalllllly?"
Celestia chuckled, "Of course... but it will be limited because of the dark energy coming from the Griffon Kingdom." The girls gathered around and got ready to see what was going on, Pinkie somehow had a bucket of popcorn on hand and started eating it. Celestia used her magic to bring up a magic mirror and they saw the Griffon Kingdom and what it was turned into by the demons. It looked like a horrific nightmare come to life with building destroyed, landmarks vandalized and the castle turned into a dark, thorny, grey structure. Celestia used her magic again to try to find the guys in the mirror.
Reactions to Issac:
Celestia found the image of Issac walking through the kingdom to the castle. Pinkie got really excited, "MY IZZY," and tried jumping through the mirror but landed on the other side of it. She quickly came around to see him and a lot of beings in front of him.
Rarity pointed at the mirror, "Are those the demons Laharl spoke of... they don't look that scary."
The girls thought that as well but changed when they saw the weapons they were carrying and Pinkie got scared, "Oh no... Izzy."
Then Issac made himself a little big and twirled himself around and Applejack got a strange look on her face, "Why in tarnation would he be doing that?"
Rainbow gave the same look, "Don't know but whatever it is, it's scaring those demon guys." Issac launched himself, spinning around, throwing punches, hitting and knocking all the demons in all directions, even into buildings. Everypony even Luna had their mouth's opened at what Issac did except Celestia who was more shocked than anything.
When Issac was done, the demon's disappeared in a pink light and Fluttershy asked, "Um... why did they vanish like that?"
Twilight thought this over for a moment, "Uh... I... uh... I guess that's what happens when they... had enough."
Pinkie noticed something when she saw Issac looking weak, "Oh no... something is wrong with Izzy... he looks sick." Issac came across three beings and they started talking and Twilight tilted her head, "What are they saying?"
Celestia shook her head, "I'm afraid all we can do is watch but we can't hear them. It must be do to the dark energy there." Issac had a sphere of water in his hand, jumped in the air and threw it and when it made contact, the image in the mirror shook violently.
Twilight went wide-eyed, "Was... that... magic?" She ran up to the mirror and gawked at it, "I can't believe it... that was magic... they can do magic and they're not unicorns."
Then the mirror went blank and Pinkie was sad, "What happened?"
"He must have gotten to the castle where I can't see what's going on there," Celestia answered.
Pinkie smiled a little, "Well... at least Izzy is okay." Then a new image came up on the mirror.
Reaction to Vektor:
The new image was of different demons, waiting around for something... or someone. Rainbow noticed the look on their faces, "Yeah... I'd be bored too if I had to wait all that time for something to happen." Then suddenly, green clouds emerged from the ground and all the demons fell over, coughing and choking.
Applejack grew concerned, "What's happen'in," then Vektor appeared in the middle of the green cloud, "oh," she said a little unenthusiastic, "how is he not being sick from them clouds?"
Pinkie raised her leg, "Maybe it's because he's a robot, duh."
Trixie stared at the mirror, 'What are you really Vektor?' Then there were more of the demons Vektor came across and they were shooting at him with strange weapons. Vektor hid and when the shooting stopped, he turned with one of the strange weapons and fired back, hitting twelve demons.
The shooting resumed and Applejack saw the concern in Trixie's eyes and she smirked, "You worried about him?"
Trixie snapped out of it and looked proud, "No... Trixie is concerned that if her assistant fell, what will happen to her show."
"Mm-hm," was all Applejack said as she walked away with a smirk on her face. Vektor disappeared with a smile on his face and shortly after, there was an explosion and all the demons disappeared in the same pink light. He reappeared and was captured by a big, blue monster with some kind of cannon in its right arm. Trixie grew even more concerned and everypony noticed but didn't say anything.
Vektor had his cords in the air and a black cloud appeared and shot down a lightning bolt, electrocuting the monster but left himself unharmed. The monster let go and Vektor walked on until the mirror went blank. Trixie just sat there, waiting for something to come back on but nothing did. She walked away, now saddened by not knowing if he's okay. The girls wanted to go over to comfort her but Applejack held up a leg and shook her head. Shortly after a new image came up and everypony but Trixie watched.
Reaction to Arron:
By the time he came across the demons, Applejack grew frantic and started to buck a nearby pillar. Rainbow picked her up and dropped her back by the mirror and she witnessed something amazing. Arron thrust his fist and arm into the side of a building and giant fists came out. Twilight got excited, "I can't believe something like that is even possible. How do they do those things?" Applejack was more amazed when he stuck his leg into the ground and made a giant foot and leg come out and hit a dragon that was nearby.
Arron came across more demons and it looked like he might be in trouble. All the girls grew worried when he charged into the demons but wondered why he was on the other side of them with his sword out. When he put it away all the demons fell and disappeared in the pink light. Rainbow was amazed, "How did he do that... I mean... he was so fast I couldn't see what he did."
Applejack was even more amazed, 'Ah can't believe he's this good... and why am Ah getting this feeling in m'ah chest again?' He eventually came upon a bridge and was surrounded by bats and as he shot some of them, they grabbed hold of him and lifted him up in the air. As Applejack went back to bucking the pillar, Arron did that maneuver that he showed her on the farm.
All the bats fell and he landed on the bridge and continued on. The mirror went blank again and the girls looked at Applejack who was blushing a little, "What," was all she got out.
Trixie smirked, "You are concerned for Arron... aren't you?"
Applejack shook her head, "N... n... not really... Ah'm just... wondering if... he'll come back to... work on the farm."
Trixie smirked and walked away with her nose in the air, "Trixie thinks you are such a bad liar." Applejack looked at her friends who looked away and were giggling or whistling.
Reaction to Dark Wulf:
Everypony got a little annoyed watching Dark wonder around for a while, not knowing where to go. Twilight felt a little embarrassed by this, 'I can't believe someone like him is staying with me.' Their annoyed expressions turned to concern when a group of demons came out and surrounded him. Twilight gasped as one of them tried to hit Dark but was amazed at how Dark countered and struck back.
Dark created the pulse power, sending all the demons back and one fighter came at him. The girls wanted to look away but couldn't not knowing what would happen next. The way Dark dodged all the oncoming attacks almost looked like a dance, which had even Luna mesmerized. Dark grabbed hold of the fighter's arm and punched the elbow, which made the girls wince and seeing how he finished off with a flip kick really got the girls excited.
When the female fighter came out, everypony got nervous because Dark was exposed but they were relieved when Dark took her out... even though it was in a very disturbing manner. Then another group of demons came for him but he looked like he was prepared. He charged at the demons, stuck his arm in that sleeve to his outfit, the arm came to life and silver nails came out. Rarity looked with sparkles in her eyes, "Even if those nails are dangerous, they still look quite lovely."
The way he slashed looked amazing, but then the girls saw looked away when red stuff came out of the demons. "Alright girls, you can look now," Celestia said, reassuring the girls that is was okay. When they looked again, Dark was walking onward as if nothing happened.
"Ya know," Applejack said next to Twilight, "for a feller that isn't too bright, he sure knows a lot about fightin' and what not," Twilight nodded and Applejack continued, "Ah mean... he would make a good bodyguard to ya."
That never crossed Twilight's mind but another thought did, 'Perhaps studying him will help me understand him more and maybe in the process he'll learn as well.' Dark eventually came upon some magicians wearing funny hats and Twilight started to panic, "Oh no... what if he doesn't get through?" A giant piece of ice with spikes was coming towards Dark and Twilight looked away.
She looked again to see Dark in the air with a dark orb in his hands from when she saw him earlier. He threw it and it split into dozens of dark orbs and when they made contact, the mirror went blank. Rainbow's wings started flapping, "Aw man... I wanted to see what happened."
Reaction to Laharl:
Fluttershy waited to see what Laharl would do with all the monsters in front of him. She was so nervous, she was shaking and couldn't stop. The monsters charged forward and Laharl threw something at them and when he swiped his hands, red spikes appeared in the air, piercing the monsters. She was relieved to see him okay but her worry came back when Laharl was frantically searching his coat and pulled out Spike.
Twilight screamed then fainted and Rainbow held her up while Applejack fanned Twilight with her hat. Rarity ran to the mirror, "He took Spikey-Wikey with him."
Twilight jumped up and burst into flames, "I'M GOING TO HURT LAHARL!" Water appeared over Twilight and doused the flames, causing her to drop on the floor.
Celestia walked over, "Twilight Sparkle, I do not want to hear you talk like that again. It is not Laharl's fault that Spike is there, he went there on his own accord."
Pinkie let out a loud gasp, "Oh no, there baddies waiting for Laharl." Everypony ran over to see what was going on. Laharl turned Spike into a spear and more demons came out and formed a wall. Laharl twirled the spear, held it like a javelin and thrust the spear forward, creating a giant bolt of green lightning. Laharl and Spike went on and all the demons fell and suddenly, the mirror went black.
Fluttershy was crying, "Laharl... didn't... mean... for... th... th... that... to... to... happen."
Pinkie walked over and gave her a hug, "It's okay Flutters, I know that Harlie wouldn't put Spike or anyone of us in danger like that."
Twilight walked up to her, "I'm sorry Fluttershy, I didn't mean to say that about Laharl."
Fluttershy sniffed, "I... I sort of yelled at Laharl earlier."
The girls looked confused and Applejack spoke, "Uh... how did ya manage that?"
Fluttershy sniffed and went on, "I... I told him that wh... when he gets back, h... he has to mmm... make me dinner and snuggle... if he wants to." The girls were too stunned by her response to say anything. Fluttershy looked worried, "You don't think I was too mean... do you?"
Applejack shook her head, "Naw sugarcube, Ah think it's a fair punishment."
Some evil snickering could be heard not too far away and a deep male voice spoke, "To think that Laharl is hanging around some dumb animals is fucking pathetic." Three warrior male demons came out and the one in front was wearing blue colors instead of red. They all had duel-bladed axes in their hands and slowly approached the girls, ready to strike them down. Rainbow zoomed right at the blue wearing warrior only to knock him back just a couple of inches. The warrior snickered and backhanded her, sending her flying into the girls.
He stepped forward and said in a menacing voice, "Looks like we're having horse tonight boys."
One of the other warriors sniffed around, "Hey," he sniffed some more, "anyone else smells... exotic fish."
The blue warrior stopped in his tracks with a scared look on his face, 'Oh god... not him. Anyone but him.' Out of nowhere, a shadowy figure came down and knocked the three warriors into the wall. The figure stood before the girls and princesses in the form of one of the demons.
He wore a black, baggy outfit with long, white linings on the front with black dots. The sleeves and pant legs had red linings with yellow flames at the end. His left arm had a red sash with two bones on it, forming an 'X'. He also had a red neckerchief and a headband with the same 'X' symbol on the headband, which held up his tall, blonde, spiky hair. He crossed his arms and laughed in a strange way, "Hiyahiyahiyahiya, that sure was close. You were almost fricassee horse steak."
No one said anything as the girls stared at the strange creature. Celestia carefully stepped forward to properly greet the creature, "Greetings, I am Princess Celestia, ruler of Equestria," she held out a hoof to the demon, "and you would be?"
He sent a flurry of fists to his left then to his right and looked in the ponies direction with his arms crossed again, "I go by the name Champloo, master of the 'High Heat-Style Chaos-School Kitchen Fist' style and Home Ec. Teacher of the Evil Academy," he thrust a fist forward, creating some flames, "BOOM!" The girls were taken back by his response to the princess's question.
The blue warrior moaned in pain and got up with axe in hand, ready to kill. Pinkie jumped up and yelled, pointing with her hoof, "Mr. Crazy Chef, that guy you knocked out is back up again!" He did nothing as the warrior approached with his axe held up high. Just as he was about to strike, Champloo kicked upward, sending the axe away.
He smiled as turned with his fists held back, Chef's Special: he rapidly started punching the warrior until he was a couple inches off the ground. Champloo than did an uppercut and released some sort of energy, keeping the warrior in place. Then he jumped up in the air, did some flips and came down with his right leg extended and made contact with the warrior with his foot. There was a small explosion and the warrior was gone.
Champloo quickly dispatched the other two warriors with some powerful kicks. When he was done, he stood there, laughing in that strange way. Rainbow came forward, "Woah, that was so cool!"
Champloo laughed again and spoke, "Unsuspecting bad ingredients may get in your pot sometimes, so you must counter with good ones or the dish will turn horrid in the end."
Rainbow had a confused look on her face and all she could get out was, "Huh?"
Twilight cleared her throat and spoke up, "I think what he's trying to say is that demons got into the castle and he's here to help," she looked at Champloo, "right?"
He smiled and nodded, "You are correct little horned thing."
Twilight was about to correct him when Luna yelled out, "SISTER, IF THOSE THINGS GOT IN THE CASTLE... THEN THERE MUST BE MORE ABOUT!"
Champloo laughed and spoke, "When dealing with more than one recipe, you must bring more kitchen utensils to your aid."
Celestia raised an eyebrow, "You brought some sort of backup?" His response was a toothy grin.
Canterlot Streets:
A tall man stood in the middle of the street. He wore a white coat with matching pants, long grey armour boots and fingerless gloves. He also wore a very long red scarf and had long, deep sea blue hair. With a sword in each hand, he cut through the horde of demons in the streets. He was suddenly surrounded by male and female warriors with big swords and axes in hand. They all snickered as they stepped forward.
"Come on Almaz," he said to himself, "you're a hero and you need to learn to act like one. What if the princess sees you in this situation and gets angry or worse, divorces you. You had a happy marriage for years and it all goes down the toilet right here and now." He snapped out of his episode to find that all the demons that surrounded him were so close, they were touching. 'Oh man, I'm screwed,' he thought.
When all of a sudden, the demons were frozen solid and when the ice shattered, they disappeared into a pink light. Almaz looked around until he saw a woman wearing a dark blue battle dress with matching boots that go up to her thighs. She was also wearing a small white coat with white fluff at the collar and had white gauntlets with blue gloves.
She smiled and looked at Almaz with her big green eyes, "Almaz... you need to focus. Laharl is counting on us to help."
Almaz was shaking so much, he couldn't move, "Hahaha, yes princess."
She walked over to him and giggled, "Almaz we're married, you don't have to call me that anymore. Remember, it's Sapphire." She continued to walk on and he followed as he got with her long, silver hair.
'I'm a hero, a man, married to a beautiful princess and I still act like this,' he sighed and lowered his head as he followed her, 'I'm so pathetic.'
Castle Corridors:
There was a big pile of demons stacked up in the middle of the corridors, all had slash wounds all over their bodies. Royal guard ponies were beaten down as well, but not as bad. Their wounds weren't mortal. Two female demons went by to each pony, healing and treating them. One was a busty ninja, sporting a pink and black, revealing ninja outfit.
She kept pulling out vials of medicine and applying it to the ponies, "Hold still," she said to one who was squirming, "or the medicine won't work properly."
A guard not too far away leaned over to a guard next to him and whispered, "Friends of that Laharl character?"
The other guard whispered back, "If they are helping us, they must be."
The female ninja stopped and looked over at the other demon and asked, "How are you doing over there Asuka?" The other demon called Asuka was wearing a white and pink shrine maiden outfit with the top open with white bandages covering her chest.
She stopped what she was doing and turned to the ninja, "They are making it very difficult Kyoko. It's like they don't want our help."
A guard wearing silver armour poked Asuka with his hoof which got her attention, "Are you both friends of Laharl?"
Asuka smiled, "Well... we're comrades and he asked us for help in the event something like this would happen."
The pony looked confused, "I thought demons were... bad."
Asuka shook her head and stood up, "Some of us are delinquents, meaning we love helping others with anything," she walked over to the pile of beaten demons, "especially taking out the trash." Kyoko heard that and walked to the pile and helped throw out all the demons.
The same guard smiled, 'At least there are nice beings out there. I wonder if it would have been easier if Shining was here?'
Castle Library:
Witches and skulls mages were running around, trying to look for someone of importance. A blue witch cried out, "Where is she?"
A red skull yelled back, "Stupid bitch is so small, maybe she crammed herself in one of these stupid books!" All the magical demons were knocking down all the books, even tearing through some of them to find who they were looking for. A green skull was busy when he heard the sounds of giggling nearby.
He went to investigate and found a small pink shoe with a horned skull on the tongue. "HEY," he yelled, "I THINK I FOUND HER!" Everyone rushed over only to trapped by some sort of pink force field. They tried every kind of magic to break the field but end with defeat. The sound of someone whistling to them got them to look at the center of the library.
It was a little female demon, no bigger than a twelve year old child. She wore a pink vest with an upside down white horned skull, a white skirt, black stockings, two small wings, a tail with a flat end and two pointy black horns on her head.
She chuckled and pushed her glasses up, "This is what you all get for not going to class."
One of the witches yelled, "RASPBERYL, LET US OUT OF HERE YOU SMALL LITTLE BITCH!"
Raspberyl closed her eyes and wagged a finger, "Tut tut tut... you shouldn't swear to your teacher," she pulled out a grey book with the same skull design on the cover and opened it, "time for some discipline." The trapped demons started to panic and begged her to stop whatever she was going to do.
D-Rule 1: Morality: Three pink energy orbs popped out of the book a went straight to the demons, surrounding them forming one giant orb. Raspberyl closed the book and the giant orb exploded, not leaving any of the demons there when the smoke cleared. She sighed and looked around the room and sighed, "Well... time to clean up and repair this place," she closed her eyes and made a proud pose, "just like the badass I am."
Royal Chamber:
The princesses and girls just saw what the 'help' Champloo described did around Canterlot. Twilight turned to him, "So are all of them are demons or Grimms?"
Champloo did his laugh and spoke, "Sapphire and Almaz are humans but the other three are pure demons."
Fluttershy asked in a nervous tone, "Are the other three... good demons?"
Champloo had a smile on his face, "They are delinquents at the Evil Academy."
Rarity gasped, "My word... are they hooligans who cause mischief?"
Champloo laughed, "Laharl hasn't told you how Netherworlds work, has he," the girls looked confused and Champloo went on, "in the Netherworld, doing bad is good and doing good is bad. Hence why Raspberyl and her comrades are delinquents."
Celestia spoke up, "I thank you for you and your friends help. Did Laharl ask you and the others to help us?"
He smiled some more, "He told us something bad was going to happen in this world that might involve another Overlord and ask for our assistance," Celestia smiled and Champloo went on, "so we've been hiding in the shadows here for two days straight until something like this would happen."
He laughed and Celestia's smile slowly disappeared, 'How have they been hiding here this whole time and I haven't noticed?'
Champloo stopped laughing, "Laharl did give us negative incentive to help as well," everyone wondered what that meant as he continued, "he said that if anything happens to any of you that he will make our lives more of a holy living hell by doing experiments so horrible that even Mao wouldn't take it," then he shuddered a little.
Everyone was in shock back by that last response and didn't know how to respond to it. 'Oh my... I hope Laharl doesn't really mean that,' Fluttershy thought, 'it's sweet that he cares for our safety but I think that's going a little overboard.'
Trixie spoke, "Trixie has a question. Who is this Mao character?"
Champloo had a blank face, "A very, very, very, very, very special child. Don't ever be alone with him." Now the girls were really concerned with the beings Laharl has been with.
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Author's Notes: Well here is the long waited chapter 20 for you guys. This took longer because of redoing all the other chapters and finding the right disgaea characters for this. I wanted to put in Master Big Star but I'll save him for another chapter. The next one will be more fight scenes from the Griffon kingdom. If you have an idea for a villain, please pm me the idea and I will put it in along with your name in the author's notes stating it was your idea. But hurry soon or it will be too late and of course, the good guys will win. Ciao!
