Cave Story
Coming Closer
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He grabs the wolf and hulls it up in time as one arrow slams into its back but the two other fly straight through the side flesh of both of his arms. He rushes forward with the wolf and throws it at the woman who backs up to avoid getting hit by her pet.
"Let's fight in the dark." He says pressing the black crystal sucking all the light from the room.
He takes the memory of where the woman was before and uses it getting real low to avoid her blind arrows from which he was running. Luckily he's gotten her further from the light or else this probably wouldn't work. Touching a different crystal, red, his hands light up on fire as he comes in with an upper cut that comes in straight contact with the woman's gut sending her in air. Another punch from his left sending her backward the middle of her dress and face now on fire.
A deep growl sounds before the cracking of ice. Yūkan looks and find his face filled with ice before being knocked down.
Damn it all to hell! He thinks feeling claws sink into his body.
He grabs the wolf melting the center of the being making the two half fall to either side of him no longer moving. He quickly gets up and presses the red gem again to turn off the fire power. He looks at the water puddle that is forming as well as rest of the frozen body now melting to join its soon water form.
He looks over at Sweetie and asks himself how she could be sleeping through this entire thing. He than realizes that the woman could of did anything in the moment he wasn't looking at her with Sweetie.
Guess I better check it out after.
His thoughts are cut off as an arrow slams into his right leg making him buckle down on it. He looks to see the woman holding part of her burnt face. All her hair is gone and the bottom part of her dress is no longer attached leaving her in her bottom undergarment and top half of her dress and she certainly don't look happy about it. She notches another arrow and begins to fire one after another. Yūkan rolls over breaking part of the arrow in his leg to avoid the death. He sprints up and starts running pressing the blue gem allowing water to pool in front of him to block the current onslaught of arrows.
He pushes out both his hand shooting water and forcing the woman backwards. He switches from blue to red to end it. He begins to land punch after punch on her body cracking bones. The woman flies down onto the ground ablaze. Yūkan turns around to check on his morphing buddy that seems to no longer be a puddle and no longer here. He smiles triumphantly as he walks over to Sweetie with a limp.
Level up. He thinks with a chuckle Wonder if I can buy myself some chakara gloves....
He kneels down on his bad leg and rolls Sweetie onto her back to see her drooling from the side of her mouth.
"Yo! Sweet!? Wake up!" He yells almost directly in her ears.
Still no response other than the sleeping noises she makes. With out much to go on he presses his red gem setting his gloves off of fire and back to normal before pinching her nose which gives him a proper response but a weird one. She coughs a puff ball flies out of it and her eyes go wide and she starts flailing hitting Yūkan in his bad leg.
Shit!
Yukan scoots back watching as the filly flips over and look around before her eyes refocus on him. She quickly hugs him whimpering almost something that sounds like an apology.
"Hey hey! Why so huggy all of a sudden?"
Sweetie takes the moment to draw in the dirt an arrow at herself and than a pony's ear.
"Oh, you could hear but you couldn't respond?"
She nods her head and throws another hug at him making him fall backwards laughing.
"Don't worry Sweet I'm not mad at you I promise! No need to hug me to death."
Sweetie ignores him and rubs her face affectionately into his neck. Yūkan chuckles and stands holding Sweetie and begins to limp walk.
"Let's keep moving S.B."
Tsumetai
Tsumetai watches as Scootaloo stands under or near Rainbowdash the entire time using the power of echo location that she ha almost perfected. It truly is something this cave is. At first none of them would've guessed it would be something like this, but now he can't even be shocked he has two ponies talking in front of him. He looks over the orb in his hand.
"So Orphean... Can you feel anything?"
No, not now at leas... wait... there is faint magic here somewhere. Wait, no... it's above us?
Tsumetai stops and looks up. He can't see the source from which the magic is working or any hint of magic what so ever.
"I don't see any."
Explosions sound from the ceiling and rocks come crashing down where he stand to in front of him. He is about to yell for Scootaloo and Rainbowdash but they seem to have already moved good distance ahead. Instead he jumps back rocks missing to crush him under its weight.
"What the hell!" Tsumetai yells walking towards the rock pile, "Are you guys okay over there!"
No response. Which does nothing to ease his conscious.
"Alright let's bust through this gargh." Tsumetai grabs his throat with his free hand at the feeling of something in his throat.
"Argh!"
Oh ho ho ho. I can't let you do that. I finally have you by yourself. Plus I'm fully in your mind. Didn't your mother ever teach you not to let strangers into your mind?
"Yaough bashard!" Tsumetai yells grasping the orb hard out of his own free will and falling to his knees starting to feel light headed.
Name calling? I thought you were far beyond that Tsumetai. Hehe don't worry I'll look for your friends. Or should I say my friends.
Darkness starts to in-crowd his vision as darkness rises from the orb. Tendrils wrap themselves around his body and seep into his agape mouth; held open against his will. He can't even scream anymore. Everything seems cut off from him. He closes his eyes and pray the others will be safe for him. Never being a prayer he's sure that God or whatever benevolent force will hear him. Though he'll never know this, this place is outside the help of gods.
*Rainbowdash Scootaloo*
Rainbowdash finds the screaming of one small brown filly to be quite annoying as she tries to find a way through the rubble behind them.
"Just give it up already. There isn't a through so we might as well keep going forward. Maybe we'll run into him again." Rainbow says flying on forward speeding up hoping to get away from the brown filly.
"But but!" Scootaloo yells following after Rainbow, "He needs us like we need him."
"No we Don't! Especially me!" Rainbow lands in front of the filly and pushes her onto her rump, "And I certaintly don't need a worthless piece of trash like you!"
"Rain... Rainbowdash? Why... Why would you."
"Because I don't care about you! The only reason I tolerated you was because he was there! Now that he's gone I can get rid of you! And if you keep following me I'm not responsible for what happens next!" Rainbow says before flying off again: this time faster.
Scootaloo sits there dumbstruck as tears slip down her dirt covered chicks. Alone and separated she curls into herself and begins to cry. In all honesty it remind her of home. Alone, sad, and utterly.
Useless.
*Twilight*
Twilight yawns watching as the black tendrils from her horn wraps around the body of Elza and Applebloom. Different mutations appear and disappear from their bodies. Horns, claws, sharper longer teeth, etc. It truly is boring, but she does want to make sure that she has good body guards during some intense situations.
"Honestly... Why couldn't humans be so much better than this... being dead makes them stronger, more agile, and seemingly better minions. Still I would've killed for a Multion or Konbez... maybe even another dragon... I wonder how my dark magic can effect Spike... I wonder how Celestia is doing... well however she is once I get out I'm a change that."
Another yawn and more transformations yield to not ease her boredom. She rolls her eyes finding that giving Applebloom multiple spikes and spiked hooves while giving the human long tendrils, four to be exact; big leathery wings, and long finger nails that can pierce through anything. Or at least she hopes.
"Now only something to try them out on."
The sound of claws scraping across the flower signals her approaching prey.
"Just on time." Twilight says with a smile.
*Applejack and Pinkie Pie*
Applejack stares into Pinkie's eyes as she looks down upon her. Things just never seem fair anymore. The toys, the yelling, the fight... and now this. Dangling looking the pony you were just yelling at in the eyes. She can't say that she takes it all back because she would be lying. She can't say she's sorry because she's not. She wishes she could take it all back though. That much she can be honest about.
"So Applejack... Still think I'm useless."
Applejack keeps her glare staring Pinkie in her eyes not wavering a bit. Clutching as hard as her good hoof can.
"Still think I'm only worrying about myself... I act like this for a reason. If I don't than I get all moppy woppy and nopony wants to be around that. Just like nopony wants to be around you..."
"Shut yer mouth! Wait till I pull myself up from here!"
"But that's the thing Applejack... How will you pull yourself up. You're only part of the mare you used to be."
Applejack doesn't dare look down. The empty in her right fore leg is enough to let her know. Now watching Pinkie walk away makes her desperate but she holds her tongue. If she's going to go out she might as well go out on her own terms. Or.
"Yea... But Its still enough to beat you!" She mumbles and yells as she pulls her torso up onto the cliff and standing or shaking more like it. She's not used to standing on three legs.
Pinkie stops and turns around a giant smile on her face, "Really Applejack? Do you think you can fight me."
Pinkie and Applejack walk towards each other knowing crushed toys away. One with an angry glare, one with a giant smile to send chills down the biggest stallions spine. Mere inches away from each other, than centimeters. Their breathes stinging the air of hatred and poison.
Both know the outcome of this fight. Yet they sill push for it. I guess it doesn't matter to either really. Even after the first punch is thrown.
Author's Note
Good god how long has it been! Sorry about the wait all the people who are still reading this. I plan long chapters soonish maybe. All happy Saint's Patrick Day
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