Welcome back to my little corner of and again for reading my story. Thank you Ettie and Kicklash for fave and reviews. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Depending on things I'll either answer here before this chapter or PM you if I don't want the answer to be common knowledge. Anyway…, no need to ramble this time. Oh for future note. Italic is for thoughts. Though I think everyone knows that by now. Please enjoy the show.
Ch.3 The six heroes of the dark war.
Hakumen stands silently as the Princess Celestia gets up and introduces herself and her fellow princesses. Quietly he listens to her question and for a moment, ponders how to answer this question. If the grimalkin or the harlequin was here, this would be easier to answer. "That is one of the things I can do." He says as he backs to onto one knee to bow before them. "I am known as Hakumen."
"Thank you Hakumen. Now, can you tell us how you are able to do so without altering memory and how you are able to use magic like a unicorn can though you are an earth pony?"
"I cannot completely answer how as some things would take too long to explain. On how their memories were not altered is that they became observers on the event. There total focus was on my cut into time, making them create the event themselves as well as hold onto the past."
Celestia took a moment to absorb the info before continuing her questioning. "And how are you able to do so?"
"My armor, one of the main abilities I have found of it that it can cut time"
The rest of them look at each other in worry that if it were to be stolen from Hakumen, it could be dangerous. Hakumen nods his head as to see their concern. "Do not worry. I seldom use it and the armor cannot be taken from me."
"How can that be?" Luna speaks up, skepticism bleeding into her words.
"My Soul is bound to it" Hakumen replies, making a few of them gasp.
"You mean you can't take it off?" Twilight injects into the conversation, her thirst for knowledge almost bursting through her words.
"No. It is my body. If I were to take it off" Hakumen pauses for a second. "I would die."
This answer made all of their eyes go wide. Thoughts and looks passed through the group as to wonder who would put someone through such a thing. Celestia stomps her hoof down to calm them. "This is quite interesting, but I feel we are getting off topic here. How are you able to do magic?"
"I am not able to use such power as magic." Hakumen retorts.
"But you did! You used it to hold your sword when you did that time thingy!" Rainbow dash speaks up as she jumps into the air.
"Let him explain" Celestia says calmly.
"I truly do not know what you mean." Hakumen replies, thinking back on the moments he was focusing on his technique.
"Your horns glowed and your sword was levitating." Twilight explains to Hakumen as he brings his focus back to them. Hakumen goes quiet for a few moments before replying back to this.
"The only thing I remember of such a thing is grabbing onto my blade, as so." With his warning said, Hakumen pulls his blade from its sheath. As like before, his horns glow with energy and upon the sword's hilt, two light purple energy clouds hold onto the blade. The surprise of this almost makes him let go of his sword in midair. "This is new to me"
"New? You mean that's not how you hold it all the time?"
"No. I usually hold it with my hands." Hakumen's voice trails off as he looks at his hooves.
"Hands? You mean like humans have?" Hakumen nods quietly to Twilight. She smiles as she remembers her trip to the human version of their world. "So you were human before you came here?"
"Yes, in a sense."
"What does use to being a human have to do with this?" asks white pony with curly purple mane and tail.
Twilight thinks for a moment before answering. "Well, if he was human before. It could be that whatever changed him is giving him a way to compensate for the lack of hands."
The grimalkin would probably explain that better, Hakumen thinks as they seem to nod in understanding to each other.
"Thank you Hakumen. Would you mind answering where it is you got your armor?" Celestia asks as they all calm down.
Silence fills the room as Hakumen becomes motionless. Minuets pass before his voice fills the air once more. "This tale is quiet long as I must refer to the beginning. Are you all willing to sit and listen to an old man's story?"
The whole of them look at each other and nod to Twilight and the other two princesses. After all agreeing, Twilight speaks up. "We would be glad to hear this story of yours."
"Can we have a potty break first?" The little lizard asks with his hand in the air while dancing just a bit.
"Sure, Spike. I think we could all use a break." Twilight says as the group chuckles a bit at this.
Wasting no time at all, Spike runs off and most of the group disperses except the three princesses. Hakumen stands solemnly as the trio of princesses chat among themselves, waiting on the rest to return to start his story. After a good ten minutes the rest of the group returns, Pinky pie being the last one in as she brings a bunch of popcorn bags and cupcakes to hand out while the story is to be told.
"Listen well, for I will not tell this story again" Hakumen begins. "I was once known as Jin Kisaragi. I was raised with my brother and sister in a church for we were orphans. I was a brat in those days. I always pestered my brother to play, even when our sister was sick. Life at that time seemed like it would be perfect."
Hakumen takes a look around the room, seeing he has gotten their attentions, he continues. "But then a perso- No, Not a person, an abomination known as Yuki Terumi came forth and used a spell known as the mind eater to force my young body and mind to use the sword my sister gave to me to attack and almost kill my Brother."
This made the ponies to gasp at this. "Is the sword you have with you the one that your sister gave you?" Twilight asks of Hakumen.
"No it is not. Please leave such questions till the end. Recounting my past life is not a pleasant trip down into my memory." Hakumen voices his discomfort and if you could see his face it would hold a frown. "Now then, With the Nox Nyctores Mucro Algesco: Yukianesa I cut off my brother's right arm. Then after I thought I left him for dead, I was taken to the Kisaragi family to be raised as one of their children. I rose to become the best and was made to be the next head of the Kisaragi family. I became a major in the Novus Orbis Librarium. From when I became known as the 'Hero of Ikaruga' to when I heard of the SS Class criminal known as Ragna the Bloodedge, my life was dull. I did not care for much. Not even the woman who was by my side since my school days before the military."
Hakumen pauses as her memory passes through his head. Regret fills his being as he whispers "Tsubaki" to himself before refocusing on the group ahead. "I know. I was a fool at the time. I can see it on your faces. I became obsessed with the thought of killing Ragna the Bloodedge. I left my post and hunted for him. I found him in the city of Kagutsuchi's NOL branch and I fought him and lost. I did not give up and chased him through. All the way down to the basement of the branch where the gate to the boundary stood. Even with my wounds I caught up in time to see Ragna and The Murakumo unit fall into the boundary, both of them impaled upon the sword the Murakumo unit uses. I followed after, yelling to let go of my brother."
Hakumen notices every pony's eyes go wide at the fact that Ragna is his brother. A smile hidden by his mask knew he was telling the story right. I'll have to thank the cat for teaching me how to tell a story, Hakumen through to himself.
"After falling into the boundary I found myself on a hill, with the full moon staring back at me. I couldn't move. I could hardly tell what had happened. I remember Ragna and that Murakumo unit twisting and forming into the black beast. While I was trying to figure it all out, a vampire known as Rachel Alucard came to me and asked me if I wished to gain the power of a true hero. She gave me the Susano'o unit and I was brought to the fight against the Black Beast. The Black Beast was another Abomination that ate everything and killed half the world's population before it was dealt with. I was pointed to my allies and we together fought the Black Beast. Myself, having had discarded my previous name, A Cat Beastkin known as Jubei, A witch known as Konoe A. Mercury or as we called her, Nine. Another witch/Alchemist known as Trinity Glassfille, A werewolf servant of the Alucard family named Valkenhayn R. Hellsing and finally," Hakumen pauses as his hatred level rose. "Yuki Terumi, the traitor."
The attraction to the story became razor sharp at Yuki's name. Rainbow Dash looks ready to speak out at this but Applejack stops her. Princess Celestia clops her hoof down to calm everyone and to let Hakumen continue.
"Thank you. And Yes, I know. I was always opposing to Terumi's involvement but Nine, whom I trusted, insisted we needed his power to end the Black Beast. I agreed enough when she told me she would use Mind Eater to control him. Together with the help of the rest of mankind wielding manmade magic technology called Ars Magus that Nine helped create, we defeated the beast. The Six of use was called the Six Heros. Because of this, and the fact that many mages were lost to the fight of the Dark war as what we referred to it, we could not dispose of Terumi. We were all watched, but not well enough. In time, Terumi tricked Trinity to help him remove the mind eater and then he killed Nine and Trinity and then attempted to do the same to me and the cat. However, the cat used a skill that was surprising to him and at that moment, I grabbed Terumi and threw him and myself into the boundary. I told the cat to seal us in. After we was sealed away, Terumi's body and soul fell to the deepest part of the boundary and I never saw him again. I used my will to maintain my form and mind so it would not be destroyed and scattered among the many different timelines and loops. I was going well till the Grimalkin tried to bring be out of the boundary. Something went wrong and I was lost to the boundary. I used my will to make sure I would not be destroyed and I ended up in your world." Hakumen finishes his story and looks at them expecting quite a few questions. Rainbow Dash was the first to speak up.
"So let me get this straight. The Guy who ruined your life was a hero who was bad and betrayed you after it was all said and done?"
"Yes."
"Wow. And you were able to defeat him by sacrificing yourself but you are still here." Rainbow says with a grin. Hakumen could tell from it that she approved of him.
"Who's the Grimalkin?" Twilight asks.
"The daughter of the Cat and the Witch" Hakumen replies soundly.
"You mean a cat and a pony had a child?" The yellow pegasus asks quietly.
"Human and yes. They did." Spike smiles at Hakumen's answer. If a cat and human could be together, why couldn't a dragon and a pony?
"Ars Magus sounds interesting. Do you know anything about it?" Luna asks in a toned down royal voice.
"I do know some, in my school days we had to learn the basics of it at least. I have desent knolage of it. Also my swords, both Nox Nyctores Interfectum Malus: Ōkami and Nox Nyctores Mucro Algesco: Yukianesa are of the top level of combat Ars Armagus. Ars Armagus is a more powerful version of Ars Magus."
"Could anyone use Ars Magus?" Twilight asks excitedly.
"Not everyone. There are those who cannot use it at all and those who can, it varies. But most can in some exsent."
"Oh." Twilight says downheartedly and then looks up at him again. "You also said something about vampires and werewolves? You mean there creatures like so?"
"Yes. The Harlequin and Valkenhayn are as such."
"Harlequin?"
"My name for Rachel, if you knew how she acts, you would understand."
"If I may, what are Beastkins? They sound dreadful." The white pony with diamonds on her flank asks.
"They are artificially made human like creatures with animal-like traits. More of them look to be half human or more like there animal counterparts."
"Can you imagine a pony like that?" Spike asks with a chuckle. The rest look at him seriously and he puts his head down. "Sorry."
"What do you know of the Mind eater spell?" Celestia asks after being quiet for so long. She gazes at him seriously as to judge his response.
"Not much except from being the victim of it, that Terumi is able to manipulate it to his needs." Hakumen answers with no change in his voice.
Celestia stares at him for a few minutes more, judging his answer. Finally with a smile she speaks to Hakumen. "I'm sorry about all the questioning. You see, not along ago we was attacked and our power drained from us. We barely won thanks to Twilight and the other bearers of harmony. Since then, we have been wary of even our own allies." She pauses as she looks past Hakumen to a glass stained window. "Isn't that right, Discord?"
Through one of his eyes, Hakumen watches a weirdly put together creature silently gasp and move from the window to appear next to the group. Its head is more horse like with two horns on it, the right one being a deer's antler and the left a blue goat's horn. Accompanied with a goats beard and bushy eyebrows, the creature stood on two legs, one being a lizards and the other a goats. His 'hands' are of a Lions and an eagle's claw. On its back a bat wing and a pegesus wing and a horse mane lay upon this creature's long body which ends with a snake's tail with a white tail tuft.
"You noticed me huh?" Discord says with a fanged nervous grin. "I just wished to hear what this being before us was saying."
"Yes. I can see that." Celestia says as Discord seems to back away a bit from Hakumen. "What is the matter?"
"Oh Nothing 'sept this being can probably kill me if he wanted to." Discord's voice betraying the panic he has being so close to Hakumen.
"You have no need to worry, creature of chaos, lest you do something you will regeat." Hakumen says firmly, making Discord shudder a bit as he hides behind twilight.
"I wouldn't let you harm him." The yellow pony with butterflys on her flank speaks up. Staring with a glare that would even freeze the Black Beast in its tracks, Hakumen takes a step back before regaining his composer.
"We all won't let you harm him." Twilight repeats as well. "He is our friend."
"So be it. I will not harm him." Hakumen says quickly as Discord lets out a breath of relief.
"Good." The yellow pegesus smiles from the answer.
"Now that this is out of the way, let us go rest. It has been a long day and I believe our guest would like to do so." Celestia says with a smile.
Thank you again for continuing to read my fics. I noticed something about myself these last two weeks. I seem not to have much for comedy. I look back on my attempts here and I can see it might be something to smirk at but it's not gut bursting like I have seen. I will try to work with this. Next chapter we will mostly be back to real time. Thx again and please Review. I love reviews and seeing what others think of my fic.
P.S. This story Hakumen tells is his PoV on things. And yes, somethings are lost to him in the void… but I did the best I could. Hope you like.