Return of Evil and A New Beginning

Dante got out of his bed and walked up to Chad.

“Okay” he exclaimed “First off, I don’t need to know who you are, Chad, but I do wanna know how you are standing in front of me and talking and all of that?”

“I” he paused “I have no idea. I was about to step hoof into the temple of Progenious, when my vision went dark. I then ended up in a strange village, under attack by Timberwolves. I talked to an unfamiliar creature, Zebra I think, and she said that I was in Pony-ville? She also spoke of you eight, that you can help me on this quest to stop Progenious and his wicked spells and creatures.” Dante thought for a moment.

Dante sighs “I’ll get my staff.”

The six ponies and Spike follow Dante as he headed out the bedroom door. Chad turned his head to watch the elf, dragon, and ponies walk out the door. Then, he noticed that Twilight had both wings and a horn. Being the epic hero he is, he thought right away that Twilight is a princess.

“Oh my” he exclaimed as he kneeled down to Twilight “I am terribly sorry for not acknowledging you, princess.”

Twilight’s face turned red as she became flustered. “Oh, um. That’s, alright? I guess.” She looked around and focused on Dante, hoping that he would do something, but Dante was looking down at Chad with a look as if he wanted to slap Chad in the back of the head.

“Chad” Dante yelled “Knock it off. You look like an idiot.” Dante walked out the door, with everypony and Spike, and walked down the hallway, to the main entrance.

The group of nine walked into the entrance to Ponyville where they saw Timberwolves attacking the not-so-small village. They stood there to watch the mayhem happening before them. Dante and Chad looked at each other, nodded to one another as if they knew exactly what they are about to do, and attacked the threat upon the poor village. Dante ran to the right of the group as Chad ran the opposite direction of Dante.

Dante stopped running as about twenty-two timberwolves began to surround him. Dante looked around to see all of them looking at him as if he was a succulent five-star dinner, in an evil way. They ran after Dante, only to be stopped by the swing of Dante’s staff. In one swift swing, seven timberwolves were destroyed and in pieces. The remaining fifteen stood and watched as seven of their own were destroyed. The timberwolves grew angrier and attacked Dante all at once. Dante reacted with haste as he took all of the timberwolves at once. With the staff, he struck two of them across the face, one in the chest, and came down on one’s head, destroying the skull and cranium before the whole body fell to pieces.

Meanwhile, Chad was also surrounded by timberwolves, but triple of the amount that Dante had to deal with, but with a few swings of his sword, Chad defeated more than half the pack surrounding him. After about an hour of fighting, the two warriors met each other during battle and teamed up to fight the entire pack together. But with each dozen timberwolves destroyed, more were appearing and attacking, overwhelming the two. But when the two thought that all hope was lost, the Mane 6, along with Spike, stepped in and helped them defeat each and every last timberwolf.

They stopped to celebrate their victory, when suddenly; the pieces of the defeated timberwolves were joining together. Each piece was connecting to one another to form a giant hydra. The hydra had three heads, but while it stood in front of the group of nine, more heads were beginning to form.

“Well” Dante began to say “we’re boned.” The hydra roared at them. “We need to attack each head before more start to form” Dante exclaimed.

The group of nine split up to attack each head. Spike and Applejack went with Dante, Rarity and Rainbow Dash went along with Twilight, and Pinkie and Fluttershy was fighting with Chad. With each blow, the hydra responded; either with physical damage upon one of the nine or would do something that would prevent one of the nine to attack. Dante’s group has managed to destroy a head, but another head formed after that.

“Oh, just lovely” Dante shouted “Another head to welcome us to possible death.” Dante looked around to find another solution to defeat this creature. He then noticed a weak spot in the center of the fiend’s body. “Everypony, attack the center” he cried out.

The two other groups stopped their attack on the designated heads to focus their attack on the weak spot. The Mane 6 gathered around to form a circle with Chad and Dante to step in the middle of it. Each of the six focused their elemental energy on the two warriors in the middle. The six then used their energy to blast the two towards the monster, shooting them through the weak spot, destroying it permanently. The two land on the castle balcony, only to be met by the six teleported by Twilight. They all celebrated for a minute until they were transported to a mysterious cave. They looked around in confusion, until they saw him.

“Welcome” the creature said “This is where your fate ends.” Chad stared at the creature in shock.

“It, it’s him” he said in fear “Progenious.”

“Progenious” the rest of them shouted.

“Okay” Dante shouted “So there are five heads and nine of us. So, Rainbow, Twilight, Applejack, Chad and I will attack each head. Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie, and Spike, feel free to join any of us.”

“Oh, good plan warrior” Progenious exclaimed “too bad it won’t work considering I overheard everything.”

“You” Dante shouted back “shut up. Okay everypony, attack!”

The nine all ran towards Progenious, each attacking each head one at a time, but was no effect to the hydra. Dante jumped to strike one of the heads with his staff, but another swung its head at him, hitting Dante, making him fly across the cave and hitting his head on a rock. He was unconscious for a minute, and then finally woke up.

“Uh, my head” he said. He looked around. “My vision. I can’t see anything.” He lifted his hand to notice a purple light surrounding his hand and arm. “Hm, at least I can see my aura and some of my arm.” He then looked at the battle that was happening before him. He then noticed that he can see everyone else’s auras, but there was something different with Chad and Progenious. They were all purple. It was if they were nothing but aura. “Wait” he thought to himself “that’s weird. I can only see their auras. They, they are the same as mine. But why can’t I see their bodies, yet I can see mine and everypony else’s?” Dante then remembered what the store clerk said that gave him those colored pencils.

Mystical Pencils. He also remembered what else he said. The.

“Okay” Dante thought to himself “that seriously doesn’t help.” He then thought about what the clerk said when he first went to the store for the pencils.

“These pencils are not your ordinary pencils. These have a mystical energy to them. I would not recommend them to anypony with magical powers, since the graphite within the pencils will absorb some of their energy, causing whatever they colored in to come to life and terrorize their surroundings.”

“Maybe I should’ve paid attention to that last part” he thought to himself. His headache from the impact came back, causing Dante to get angry at the fact that he’s badly hurt and could still barely see anything. “Whose stupid idea was it to enchant pencils in the first place” he shouted.

Dante ran up to the eight others fighting Progenious.

“Everypony, gather ‘round” he called “I found something out.” Everypony ran up to Dante to see what he has to say. “The utensils that I’ve purchased were enchanted. When fused with magic, the drawings that I’ve used them on came to life.”

“Wait” Applejack exclaimed “what does that have to do with fightin’ five heads over yonder?”

“Because he was in my drawings. The graphite in the pencils fused with my magical energy to bring all of these to life. So that means that Chad here is also one of them.” Chad thought deeply to himself.

“Of course, that explains why I was almost at Progenious’ cave when I mysteriously teleported to your home village.”

“So” Rainbow Dash began to say “In other words, these things that we’re fighting. They’re”

“They’re shadow creatures” Dante interrupted “And the only way to destroy a shadow creature is to drain it of its energy.”

“Then I will join it as well” Chad said “even if it means I will be sacrificing myself to do so.”

“You are a brave warrior” Dante responded.

The six ponies gathered around in a circle, with Chad in the middle. But this time, Dante was away from the circle. The six ponies focused their elemental energy to launch Chad toward Progenious. Dante was focusing his energy, but was focusing to absorb Chad and Progenious. Chad launched after the hydra, shooting right through the creature, only to be stuck in its abdomen. The creature was injured, along with Chad, who was injured on impact. The six then focused their energy on Dante to help him absorb Progenious and Chad, in which Dante succeeded.

The battle was over and the eight was transported back to the castle in Ponyville. They had a minute to celebrate.

“Hey Dante” Spike started “What are you gonna to do with those magical colored pencils?”

“Well, first thing’s first, I’m gonna burn them. Then talk to Celestia about closing that shop.” Dante walked away and back to the castle.