Chapter 1: Welcome to Muraville!
Once upon a time in the magical, random and interesting or pretty much everything land of Otakia, two powerful beings ruled over with integrity. One was a powerful homunculus known as "The Ultimate Spear", she was the judge over people who lust and carries judgement depending on how great the crime is. Her close and best friend, the co-ruler of the land was a young human with an amazing intelligence over reading countless numbers of different books, scripts and scrolls of knowledge from many different places and also has exceptional tailoring skills. These two best friends have worked together and brought peace and love all over the land for their wonderful subjects differing from shape and size. One day, the boy picked an an ominous looking book. Unbeknownst that this book holds a dreadful spell to the one who opens it, he gave it a read to increase his knowledge. As he opened the book, a purple-dark fog came from the book and enveloped the poor boy possessing and changing him entirely. He decided to wreak havoc on the lands leaving his people in suffer and despair. "The Ultimate Spear" tried to reason with him but the darkness had possessed its host's entire psychological state of mind and caused him to accuse his closest friend which seemed to power up the dark spell causing it to transform the boy into a evil and abnormal entity known as the "Dark Dictator". From there, he had caused a dreadful imbalance on the world leading to world destruction which was his goal, it seemed impossible to defeat him. With no choice but to take down her closest friend, "The Ultimate Spear" regretfully used her power to defeat her friend and seal him into the darkest voids unimaginable. Now deemed a powerful enemy never to be awakened, "The Ultimate Spear" now has to rule her lands on her own...
"But despite having a lot of weight on her shoulders, peace and balance in Otakia has been restored and kept ever since." A maid finished. "Hmm... A very interesting tale. No wonder why Mistress is a very powerful lady, but I wonder. A lot of time may have passed, but if the "Dark Dictator" returns, can she defeat him one more time?" The maid wondered to herself...
"Oh dear, I'd better return to her now." She told herself as she stood up from the small grassy knoll she was taking a break on. The maid made her way on a massively paved path leading to her Mistress' castle until three people approached her.
"There you are Virgo!!!" One of them called "Luffy's throwing a pirate party in the west wing. You want to come?" He asked
"I'm sorry, but as it sounds very inviting," Virgo apologised "I am beholden to my Mistress, I must heed her sweet call and satisfy her needs." She gave a small smile and quickly ran off in the direction she was going.
"Is that maid that very loyal to Miss Lust?" The second one asked the group
"I think she prefers to carry out orders rather than make friends." The third one concluded disappointingly as they headed off in the other direction. Virgo made it into the castle courtyard running frantically.
"I just know that there is something else that can beat the Dark Dictator" Virgo mumbled to herself as she ran through the interior, ignoring a white haired PT pilot with a big rack waving at her. The pilot was surprised as well as her purple haired colleague at Virgo who ran up the grand stairs leading to her mistress' room. On the other side of the door a card sorcerer better known as a cardcaptor carrying a present was heading to open the door until Virgo slammed the door open sending the green robe cardcaptor flying.
"Syaoran? Syaoran?" Virgo called as she looked around until she looked at the floor "Syaoran!" She exclaimed as the cardcaptor dizzily picked himself up of the floor and revealing the crushed present underneath him. "Wait... What's that?" Virgo asked. Syaoran looked at the crushed present and picked it up.
"Oh um... That was a gift for Luffy..." Syaoran answered as he picked it up and an eye patch fell out. Virgo was not amused
"Syaoran! This is not the time for this!" Virgo bellowed as she looked around "Where's mistress lust?"
"Aww come on Virgo! We have to take a break!" Syaoran complained "As for Miss Lust, she's at some important meeting so we won't see her quite a bit... What's with the rush anyway?"
"Hmm... I'm really worried about something. Do you remember the tale about the Quincy in the void?" Virgo asked
"A very old tale if you ask me." Syaoran smirked "Something about it?"
"They say that he will go free after 1000 years. I'm just worried if Mistress Lust could defeat him again. Not that I'm doubting her power but our fearsome enemy may have grown stronger from the 1000 years exile." Virgo explained
"Virgo... No one dies of old age, only when someone kills someone else." Syaoran explained cheekily. "Anyway, what is your theory?"
"Well, what I can gather here is that this Quincy in the void is actually the Dark Dictator and he will be returning soon! We must find a way to stop him before he can wreak havoc in our lands. We need to tell her right away."
"Are you really sure about that?" Syaoran asked "She's really busy with the upcoming summer solstice festival."
"And that marks the end of the 1000 years imprisonment!" Virgo finished interrupting her assistant. Suddenly, a door opened and a beautiful yet sinister looking lady walked in.
"My my Virgo. Looking very desperate I see." Lust assessed
"Mistress!" Virgo started as she bowed to Lust "See, there is-"
"Don't repeat yourself." Lust interrupted raising her hand "I have heard everything you said with Sayoran."
"Well mistress? What do you think?" Virgo asked itching for a answer.
"Virgo, of all the years you have served me," Lust started "You have been a very dutiful servant and I can fully trust you with what you say." To this, Virgo smiled from compliments from her mistress. "However, you really need to stop worrying about me." Lust chuckled to which Virgo gasped in shock. "In fact, I have a task for you to do."
Riding on a Tausendfussler transport, Sayoran re-stated Virgo's given orders
"Mistress Lust wants you to go supervise the preparations of the Summer Solstice Festival. It is located here" He pointed to a direction where the clouds revealed a small village at the direction of his hand "Muraville. She also has a very important task for you to do. Make some friends." Virgo grumbled
"Hey." Sayoran growled at his depressed partner making him depressed to "At least we get to stay in an apartment! It has been already bought for us! I heard it had a rent of 70,000-80,000 yen a month!"
"But that's the problem, I don't have Mistress Lust here with me. I need to train as hard as I can to fight against the Dark Dictator if he was to come back."
"Hang on! What about making friends? Mistress Lust told you to do that!" Syaoran protested as the transport began to descend for landing attracting the eyes of the residents there
"I understand her concern, but preparing a solid defence against the Dark Dictator is also important and I'll do that right after I finish the preparations quickly. I know that I'm not following orders but I don't think I'll have time to make friends." Virgo answered as the transport successfully landed. "Thank you fellow EFA soldiers." Virgo thanked the soldiers as she exited the transport to which the guards saluted in response.
"But Virgo, maybe the residents of Muraville have something to say. You may never know!" Sayoran explained as a pink haired girl was walking towards their direction and paused right in front of them "Come on Virgo! Say something!" Virgo got a little nervous and chuckled before she could say speak
"H-Hello!" Virgo greeted to which the pink girl gasped in horror and ran off in a different direction although during her escape, she tripped over a rock with her face hitting the road. She got up, formally dusted herself off and continued running away.
"Well that was certainly interesting" Virgo haughtily spoke and Syaoran was disappointed. The two explored the village to find the apartment they will be staying for their time here.
"Do you want to explore this place once we've settled in?" Syaoran asked
"Not likely." Virgo answered "We need to finish the preparations and then start training. I've learnt a lot of techniques for Earth Magic and have yet to test them out."
"Okay then, let's go look for them while we are at it. We need to find the detective agency Milky Holmes. Three of the detectives are part of the supervision. Shall we find their office?" Syaoran advised
"Read my mind" Virgo agreed "Let's find it." After a few minutes, they came to a large mansion with the statue of a detective holding a pipe to his mouth.
"This must be it." Syaoran explained "by the way, Mistress Lust gave you and me a figure. Mine's a purple baby dragon for some reason. Yours?"
"Hmm..." Virgo wondered and checked her only pocket in her maid outfit and pulling out a purple unicorn that has a six-pointed star on its flank. "Hmm... She said that it was the totem of magic." Virgo inspected it from side to side "Looks cute."
"My one is the totem of the messenger." Syaoran read the description tag on his figure "whatever that means." As they entered the building, a mechanical giant was stomping about and it brought its leg down near the duo scaring them entirely.
"Hey! Watch where you're going!" An girl wearing orange detective clothes jumped down from the robot carrying a small metal stick. "You would have got crushed if you walked any faster!"
"Well... um. Good afternoon, my name is Virgo and this is my assistant Syaoran." Virgo greeted
"Yeah whatever... What do you want?" She harshly replied
"W...Well um, I'm supervising the Summer Solstice Festival, and I heard that you are in charge of the food right?"
"Argh!!!! I can't believe I have to do this silly job for making food for the stupid festival! I'd prefer catching criminals with this neat robot I found!" The girl whined.
"Wait a minute..." Syaoran looked at the mechanical giant behind the girl. "Is that a Huckebein Mk-II.M!?" He cried "Why did you steal a mass-produced PT!?"
"Steal!?" The girl retorted "I said I found this! It was lying near the river when I went to my daily eating spot. Haven't you heard on the news that a lot of these mass produced gizmos kept on getting lost all over the place?"
"Oh dear... Am I getting punished?" Virgo joked.
"We'll see" The girl smirked "I'm Nero Yuzurizaki and don't forget the name either. Part of the Milky Holmes detective agency. I loathe preparing for the festival but I've already got it covered. Oh look! The rest of the catering crew are outside right now! Care to meet them?"
"Well, as if it doesn't take long..." Virgo got interrupted as Nero abruptly pushed the duo outside to the view of the group.
"Here are the group that contributed to the food for the Summer Solstice."
"I really don't think that-" Virgo started until Nero interrupted her again.
"This is Hidaki, Maka, Haruka, Michiru..." Nero explained while Virgo kept on hearing countless names with countless food thrown at her with every name spoken. Nero took a deep breath and introduced a few special individuals "Caius Ballad, Pikachu and..." Nero stuffed a green apple in Virgo's mouth. "Granny Smith! Hey! Wake up Gran!!" Nero called out to a very old pony on the rocking chair that woke up "Oh, huh? Lunchtime already? Yes, yes, I'm coming." The mare croaked as she hobbled over to Virgo's area.
"Everyone! Looks like we have a new member in the community!" Nero announced to which Virgo spat out the apple and chuckled a little.
"Well, I see that the food is all ready to go, so I guess I have to go now." Virgo announced to which the group responded with unhappy looks.
"What? You're not staying?" Nero replied "I'm really hungry and I can't eat everything you know!"
"Nope" Caius whispered to one of the people "She can eat three banquets in a day" to which the people chuckled
"I'm really busy you know, I'd love to stay though... Sorry." Virgo apologised
"Pika Pika?" A small voice squeaked below Virgo to which she looked down and saw a yellow mouse looking up with a sad face tilted to one side and blinking twice. Virgo was completely taken aback by the creature's sad face and gave in.
"Very well. I'll eat." Virgo concluded to which everyone erupted in cheer
"Well!" Syaoran exclaimed as they left the area of the detective agency. "That was very nourishing! I guess we can dominantly tick that off the list!" And put a big tick on the checklist then turned around to see what Virgo was doing, following behind clutching her stomach.
"Ugghh... I ate too much. It's like punishment to me, would still require more punishment though. In a different way that is..." Virgo stated "And that girl. Nero was it? She is such a rude person!"
"At least she told us who else to look for, two more of her colleagues who are in charge of things, however, their leader is not part of the preparations. Wonder who she was?" Syaoran asked
"Better not be the girl that gasped at us." Virgo hoped "Anyway, we are looking for this Cordelia Glauca now. She in charge of security around here. I hope she's somewhere around here."
"Hey!" A girl's voice was heard from afar. "Don't move any closer!"
"Huh?" Virgo looked up as a blonde girl wearing a blue detective getup similar to Nero's, except that it's a dress instead of shorts.
"There's a hidden pitfall a few centimeters from where you are. One more step and you'll fall!" The girl warned
"Relax. I'm a diver mage, I know there is a pitfall around when I can feel- kyaah!!!" Virgo explained while she was tapping her foot around herself and then at the mentioned spot to which the maid's lightweight step caused the ground to give way to which she fell into the pitfall with a scream. Syaoran and the girl quickly ran to the hole and peeked in
"I know that you were a diver mage before you even said it, you are a celestial spirit after all. Virgo was it? I think I read a book about Celestial Spirits and their deal with the stars above. I thought I would never meet a Celestial Spirit let alone one of the 12 Zodiac! It's an honor to meet you." The girl called out in the hole as Virgo picked herself up coughing from the dust.
"Let's save the introductions for later! Let me get back up there!" Virgo spluttered back as she tried to dig another hole in the pit but some magical barrier was preventing her from creating a tunnel in the pit.
"This is a very special pitfall. Diver mages can't sense these types of pitfalls because it is created by joke magic." The girl explained and holding a broom, poked it into the pit. "Can you grab on?". Virgo jumped for the broom but failed
"No! Can you hold down a little more?" Virgo replied. This puts the girl in a state of thinking, what should a detective do? Noticing Syaoran, she asked for his help. The girl thrust the broom to Syaoran and getting a good grip on his legs, poked him in the hole. "Now can you grab on?"
"Sort of! Syaoran! Extend your arm and let me reach the broom!" Virgo ordered which Syaoran followed, although he started hitting her face with the bushy side of the broom by accident.
"I GOT IT SYAORAN, NOW PULL UP!" Virgo screamed agitated now that her assistant has been poking her face with a dirty broom and she managed to get a hold of it. The girl managed to haul Virgo out but as she saw the dirtied look of Virgo and her now messed up hair, she burst into laughter, Syaoran took one glimpse at his maid mate and burst into laughter as well.
"Now..." Virgo sternly spoke to the laughing duo. "You are?"
"Oh!" The girl picked herself up and ceased her laughter although she was still chuckling "My name's Cordelia Glauca, I am one of the 4 young top detectives at Milky Holmes and currently taking the role for managing the security for the Summer Solstice celebration."
"Ah! I was looking for you Ms Glauca." Virgo answered "I came to check on that."
"It's all good! Nothing wrong!" Cordelia reported "Now I'd like to assess you for a little while. It won't take long!" And gave a small glance at Virgo eyeing her from top to bottom
"Listen, I'm busy and-"
"Yep! You are definitely a celestial spirit! I can sense the stellar aura around you! Since you dress as a maid, you must be Virgo, but I stated that before already. Anyway! Judging by your emotion and how you clutch your stomach, it seems you ate quite a lot and very recently too... You've bumped into Nero right? She's mostly a greedy jerk but she's good-hearted." Cordelia finished her assessment and gave Virgo's results to her
"Do you stalk me and if so, how long have you been doing this?" Virgo dreadfully asked
"Nope! I have a toy! "Toys" are supernatural abilities that only for chosen people and given when the chosen are born and each toy has a different and unique power. People who use toys for good become detectives and become thieves if toys are used for evil! My toy allows me to see and hear things that no one else can."
"Ah!!!! So that's how you could tell Virgo was a celestial spirit! As well as that sneaky pitfall!" Syaoran realised "Do me! Do me!" He jumped
"Okay! Why not? Hmm..." She focused her eyes on Syaoran "Your outfit tells me you are a cardcaptor! You have a sword on your hilt and the calluses on your hand tell me that you practice swordplay! Very good at it too since the sword you hold has gone through a lot of slicing and it still looks shiny! I say! You could even stand a chance against Stone River!"
"Wow! You amaze me!!! You've got a really awesome power you know!!!" Syaoran complimented amazed
"Aww thanks!" Cordelia blushed "We should hang out some more some other day! Right now, I can see you are very busy! Now Elly is the next person you should see, she's in charge of the construction and decoration and currently located in the town hall over there. Also, your apartment that you are staying in is near one of the town circles! It's over there." Cordelia informed giving the two directions before walking off on her own as well as sweeping the pavement along the way.
"She's so cool!" Sayoran exclaimed and played with Virgo's hair for a bit and giggling while he was at it.
"Let's just get to the town hall." Virgo glared as she walked to the hall with Syaoran trailing behind.
As they entered the town hall, they looked all around at the beautiful decoration and a massively built stage.
"Wow! It's very pretty and the stage was built already? Took quite a small amount of time!" Syaoran assessed
"The people that built this must be very strong." Virgo stated
"U...Um... T-That would be me. I-I was the only one that was in charge of the construction. I've also moved the statues sent from Shutotoshi to their correct position." A meek voice was heard in front and the two looked up and saw a purple haired girl in causal work clothes.
"Good afternoon! I'm Virgo and I'm supervising the Summer Solstice." Virgo greeted but Elly started to shy away whimpering "What's your name?" Virgo asked but the same whimpered happened again. Syaoran whispered to Virgo. "Oh that's right! You must be one of Cordelia's colleagues!" To that, Elly looked up "you know Cordelia?"
"Well, yes! I had to inspect her work, as well as Nero's too!" Virgo answered
"O-Oh I see. You're the supervisor for the Summer Solstice. I've read about the deadline. Well, like I said. Everything is in shape, except for that thing over there. Let me just get it..." Elly started to head towards a massive speaker until she winced a bit.
"Um... Excuse me" Syaoran spoke up "Are you hurt in anyway?"
"U-um, yeah." Elly said showing a large cut "I accidentally scratched myself on one of the statues."
"It doesn't look good. Let me treat it." Syaoran offered approaching her
"U-Um, I don't think it's necessary, thanks." Elly stammered, starting to turn red
"Don't worry, I'm good at this." Syaoran assured still approaching
"P-Please don't get anywhere near me!" She stuttered getting very tense and scared
"But how can I treat your wound? Let me see it." Syaoran reached Elly and pulled out a bandage. At that time Virgo immediately thought something. 'Just one person doing decoration and construction? The statues are 13 feet stall made out of pure stone, they are really heavy then and she said that she has finished it?... Oh no! This isn't good!' And Virgo yelled out
"Syaoran! Stop!" But it was too late, as Syaoran laid a finger onto Elly, Virgo could hear a scream of fear and timber cracking and at the split second, she saw that Syaoran was gone, one of Elly's arms was held in an uppercut position and a few pieces of timber dropped after that. Virgo just looked at what happened in awe and as she found out what happened, she looked up and saw a massive hole in the roof.
"I'm really sorry!" Elly apologised "I wasn't meant to do that! I swear! Please! I'm so sorry! Don't get me in trouble!" She cried and apologetically bowed many times. Virgo seized the chance to know her
"Name?" Virgo asked
"Hercule Barton is my full name and Elly is my nickname which most people call me!" Elly blubbered while Virgo remembered Cordelia speaking her name
"Occupation?"
"I'm a member of the top 4 detectives at Milky Holmes and also sole temporary member of the Decoration and Construction team for the Summer Solstice Festival!" Elly cried, Virgo remembered Cordelia's words about most of the detectives having toys so she set up the final question
"Toy ability?"
"My toy gives me superhuman strength! I can carry 500 Giganscudo-Duros with 1 hand behind by back! I can move Prism Tower all the way from Lumoise city to Crystal Tokyo and back without taking any breaks! I carried the stone statues of "The Ultimate Spear" an hour ago but I only did it one at a time so I won't scratch them!!! Please! I don't want to get into trouble! I'm so sorry about your friend!" Elle burst into tears once again.
"Well. That certainly explains what happened a few seconds ago." Virgo concluded followed with another sound of cracking timber creating another hole in the roof due to a falling body which collided like a meteor right next to Virgo. "I'll just let you finish off the construction. Don't worry, you won't get in trouble."
"O-Okay." Elly said as she saw Virgo pick up Syaoran and leave.
After treating Syaoran's wounds and changing his set of clothes, Virgo was finally satisfied that her tasks are complete.
"Ready to go train Syaoran?" Virgo said with delight
"What just happened?" Syaoran asked as he regained conciousness
"You got yourself hurt." Was Virgo's brief answer
"Well that was stupid!" A voice was heard as the source approached to meet the two. A girl that light purple hair tied in twin tails with brown ribbons as well as sporting a school uniform.
"He was treating that a person's wound and she hit him." Virgo defended
"Oh really? Must be a very shy person then." The girl concluded
"With superhuman strength." Virgo added "By the way, how do you know someone would be shy?"
"Superhuman strength? Is it Hercule Barton of the Milky Holmes detective agency?" Virgo nodded and the girl continued "For your question, I had a fair share of experiences, I know some people who are shy would hit others even though they don't mean harm." She answered as she turned away, Virgo immediately recognised that gesture.
"Some people... Such as yourself?" Virgo asked which spurred the girl "Or is it more than that?"
"U...Um, no of course not! What would make you think that huh? Something against me?"
"No not at all, but your gesture says otherwise... Are you actually shy yourself?" Virgo continued
"N-N-No! I-I don't know what you're talking about! Seriously!" The girl started blushing violently
"Oh, so it is more than that! Do you happen to be..." Virgo started
"Don't go there!" The girl protested
"a Tsundere?" Virgo concluded driving the girl into a rage
"S-Shut up! I-Idiot!" The girl snapped using the common Tsundere line.
"So what's your name?" Virgo asked
"Kagami Hiiragi." Kagami greeted immediately dropping her Tsundere state into a friendly mood. "I'm currently in my 4th year at high school and I also have a job as a Shrine Maiden."
"I just needed the name."
"Well excuse me!!!" Kagami snapped offended.
"Then do you have anything else to say?"
"Your apartment is over there, see you around." The girl harshly pointed out and left.
"You really didn't have to be that mean you know." Syaoran said to Virgo
"She didn't have to take it seriously though." Virgo protested "Anyway, we need to do some training." And hurried off to the apartment pointed out by Kagami with Syaoran catching up. The entire room was dark as they walked in. "You know, all the people here seem to delay my training time!!! I don't think I have enough now."
"Well you could say that you were busy!" Syaoran advised
"I'll keep that it mind next time. I hope someone decided not to throw a party here to delay my training time. Now where is the light?" And in response to that question, the lights immediately turned on revealing a lot of party decorations followed with the massive shout of "Surprise!!!" Scaring Virgo to death then bringing her into a disappointed sigh as a streamer spread across her view.
"Surprise!!!" A familiar pink girl yelled in front of Virgo.
"Wait... Aren't you that girl?" Virgo sternly asked
"Yep!!! I was the girl that went *gasp* to you this afternoon! My name is Sherlock Shellingford but I prefer to be known as Sheryl!" Sheryl introduced
"Right. Anything else to say? Despite going into my apartment without permission?" Virgo growled as she went to grab a small drink
"Yep!!! I'm the leader of the top 4 detectives at Milky Holmes!" And that comment caused Virgo to spit out her drink unaware that her prediction was true. "The reason why I went *gasp!* is because I normally know everyone in Muraville and if there is someone I don't know, as a welcoming detective of Milky Holmes, I would throw a party for every new person!!! Actually, I don't really throw parties, this is the first time. I mean please, who would want to use a apartment just for training? If you ask me, that's boring! Now that that's out of the way, I'm going to have to frisk you."
"Wha-wha hey!" Virgo exclaimed as Sheryl started to frisk Virgo for any suspicious material
"I'm also very cautious you know." Sheryl informed "Despite welcoming new people, I take my work seriously so I do this to everyone."
"Well just so you know that I'm the servant of-" Virgo said offended
"Oh? What's this?" Sheryl asked as she felt something in one of Virgo's pockets and pulled out the pony figure
"Hey! That's mine!" Virgo exclaimed as Sheryl pulled out her magnifying glass and further inspected it gasping in delight after she finished.
"You have a pony totem as well!?" She squealed in joy to Virgo giving the figure back "So do I! And Nero, Elly and Cordelia. A bunch of other people too! Look at mine!" And pulled out another figure from her pocket, only that this one was pink and had poofy hair. Virgo read the tag "Totem of Laughter."
"I see... How did you get this? I only thought they were given by Mistress Lust!" Virgo asked suspiciously
"When I was walking down some street, It just dropped from the sky and finders keepers makes me the owner!" Sheryl explained "But something tells me this wasn't a coincidence because my other 3 colleagues also got their totem the same way as I did! I don't know how Lust gave you that and... Wait. Did you just say Miss Lust gave you that? Do you know her personally? Oh wow! I can't believe it! I really want to know..." Sheryl kept on rambling as Virgo immediately stopped listening after Sheryl's explanation of getting her own figure to get a different drink until Sheryl changed into a different subject concerning Virgo. "Oh yeah! I invited everyone in Muraville, that includes my colleagues and other people you met!" Sheryl explained as Nero, Elly, Cordelia and Kagami approached her "We can all get together and become best friends!" At that moment, Virgo jumped and turn around. Her face filled with drink as she was trying to suppress something. She jumped as if her mouth can't take it and scurried off to the bathroom.
"Aww... She's so full of joy and happiness that she couldn't take it!" Sheryl explained as Syaoran examined the drink Virgo drank.
"Wasabi flavoured-coke?" Syaoran depicted and Sheryl tilted his hand to pour some into a cup to which she drank, much to the sick looking faces of her colleagues.
"What? It's nice!" Sheryl replied to which they chuckled. Elly then approached Syaoran
"Umm... I wanted to say sorry about what happened today." Elly apologised
"Don't worry about it. I forgive you. Did you get that wound checked out?" Syaoran asked
"Yes! I went back to Milky Holmes after the construction to get it checked out and now it's healing just as fine." Elly nodded showing her wound now treated and bandaged
"Then that's fine with me. Make sure to be careful next time."
"O...Ok, thanks for caring." Elly smiled at Syaoran
"Aww... Don't you think there is something with these two?" Sheryl sneakily whispered to Cordelia who chuckled back. As for Nero, she was busy helping herself to the party food and Kagami looked disgusted at the machine controlling detective's manners.
"Excuse me." Kagami got Nero's attention who she looked up at the caller with her face stuffed with countless sticks of Pocky.
"Oh, you want some?" Nero asked "Sorry, but I just ate them all, I'm sure there are some if you scavenge around the floor. Anyone who took them before I got here."
"Actually" Kagami corrected "I've been observing you, and you're the first one to jump onto the bowl of pocky, you do know that there are others that want them too."
"Tough for them then! Better get to the other food before I do!" Nero haughtily advised
"No need to, I got a big snack from a friend." Kagami replied, triumphantly pulling out a massive Chocolate Cornet which made Nero drool after munching and swallowing all that pocky
"G-Gimme that!" Nero greedily ordered
"You had the pocky to yourself! This is mine, greedy guts!" Kagami teased causing a wild chase with Nero in pursuit of her. "Now decide your torture." Kagami continued "Me eating the cornet all the way from the bottom to the head? Or the cornet's bottom broken off to be dipped into the head?"
"Grr!!!!" Nero angrily growled still running after Kagami.
Meanwhile in the bathroom, Virgo was trying to train via meditation with all the ruckus going on outside leading to no avail when Syaoran burst in with a lampshade on his head.
"Hey Virgo!! Sheryl started a game of pin the hat on the detective! It's so fun! Wanna play?" Syaoran asked
"No! All the people in this town are crazy!!!" Virgo bellowed "And I can't even get a single training done, and it's night time too! Can't people go to sleep!?"
"W-well ok then! But you'll be missing out on fun!" Syaoran said as he headed back into the commotion. Since the bed was in with the living room, Virgo had a mattress and blanket to rest. Then she remembered the prophecy about the Quincy. At the at the end of the 1000th year, the wolf will howl for four seconds for a warning that the Dark Dictator has been released. She hoped for the best when she will stand against him. Syaoran barged in a few minutes later with the lampshade gone infuriating Virgo. "Hey Virgo! The Summer Solstice is about to start!!!"
Virgo and Syaoran made it into the town hall where many of the villagers managed to gather. Sheryl rambled on with Virgo on how she was very excited for this day driving Virgo nuts. The mayor of Muraville, Bianca Castafiore arrived onto the podium demanding silence.
"Ladies and Gentlemen!" She boomed in a majestic voice. "Today marks the longest day of the year! The Summer Solstice Festival that we have been celebrating is right here in Ponyville!!!" And to that, the audience cheered with Sheryl jumping for joy. Meanwhile, Virgo heard the howl of a wolf and to her horror, was four seconds long. "Now, we have a special guest who comes here just to celebrate!!!" And Castafiore gestured to Nero to play the welcoming music but as Nero hit the play button, it was not the intended music, the sound system played this song instead:
The mayor immediately spun around in confusion when she heard the wrong music, but the audience seemed to cheer and scream louder than ever. One of the girls even went through a fangasm. Virgo found out from Kagami a few minutes when the music was playing that this was the theme of a very popular PT pilot.
"Wrong music! Stop it!" Castafiore ordered and Nero was trying her best to stop the music. Despite clicking the stop button, the music refused to cease while the crowd kept on screaming and cheering.
"I can't stop it!" Nero replied "The music player program! It won't stop like it's meant to. I think it's overridden!"
"Overridden!?" The mayor gasped in shock
"I have an idea!" Nero gasped. Pulling out her metal rod, she stabbed it into the sound system. "Shut up!" She commanded and the music came to a halt, much to the grumbling and "aww"ing of the crowd, especially the girls. "Play the grand entry music." She ordered and the sound system played the majestic music "we" all know.
"Now..." Castafiore continued "Please welcome our fair ruler, 'The Ultimate Spear' Lust!" With another small excerpt of music, Elly pulled the cord revealing an empty stage.
"Miss Lust is gone!" Elly screamed and everyone was started panicking. Suddenly, whips of Darkness appeared forming a dark silhouette of a man. Everyone screamed in horror, Virgo was taken back with fear as Syaoran fainted at the sight of him
"Hello my subjects! It has been a long time since I have seen you! About 1000 years now!" The shadow spoke
"What have you done with Miss Lust?" Cordelia threatened but Nero pulled her back. Ignoring her threat, the shadow continued
"Tell me. Have anyone missed me while I was gone? Has anyone looked at what is going to happen to this pitiful land? Does any of you know who I am?"
"A guessing game? I'm in! Umm... Doraemon! No? How about Sgt Keroro? Still not that? Yuno Gasai? Sonozaki Shion? Sanji? Jiggle Butt Gang?" Sheryl continued with some ridiculous names that annoyed the Shadow to the limit so Nero stuffed a whole Purin (Custard Pudding) into Sheryl's mouth, muting her. So Virgo decided to speak up.
"I know who you are, your are the legend of the tales of the Quincy in the void. You are 'The Dark Dictator'!" And some of the crowd gasped
"Hmm... It seems someone has still knowledge of me. Tell me, do you know what I'm going to do?" The shadow questioned
"You're, you're, you're going to..." Virgo stammered as she dared not to say the consequences, the Shadow grinned evilly
"I am going to wreak havoc and chaos of this Land and in the end, it will collapse and be destroyed!" The shadow declared and laughing crazily and evilly as lightning struck all around him. The crowd got frightened, the detectives and Kagami got frightened, the yellow mouse along with an angel with stockings and hammer wielding hedgehog got scared and so did Virgo as she looked fearfully in the face of the Dark Dictator.
Little Anime TV!
"Hi! I'm Virgo!"
"And I'm Sheryl!"
"Welcome to our new mini TV Show! In today's TV, we are going to talk about our origins!"
"So let's start with you Virgo. What are you and where are you from?"
"Well, I'm from the anime Fairy Tail!!! I am a Celestial Spirit where I am one of the 12 Zodiac's! I have a very kind princess called Lucy Heartfilia. She has a giant rack, but she has no sex appeal at all. She is great friends with her colleagues such as the Dragon Slayer Natsu. In fact, I think they llllllllike each other!"
"Hey! You know, I think the apartment you are living in in this story is very similar to your real mistress' apartment in the manga/anime!"
"Actually, they are alike." Virgo corrected before turning back to the readers "And now, for one last thing..."
"Lucky pony slot..." Sheryl pointed "Spin!!!!" And the wheel spun revealing three faces of Twilight Sparkle
"It's Twilight Sparkle!!!" Both girls said in unison.
Author's Note
This was a pain. Glad to get things done! The background ponies will just have a random character unless noted specially
See if you can find who's who!
Chapter 2: Fighting Together
"Hahahahaha!!!!" The Dark Dictator laughed menacingly
"Soldiers! Seize him! Only he knows the location of our ruler!" Castafiore ordered as some armed soldiers started firing on him.
"Fools! You think you can defeat me?" The Dictator taunted, pulling out his bow, he laughed as he shot a single arrow that exploded taking out all the soldiers. With the dark mist engulfing him, the mist flew away while Cordelia got free of Nero's grip and chased after the wisp though it was too fast for her.
"The entire world will be destroyed?" Cordelia fearfully said and saw Virgo running off towards her apartment. "Where's she going?" She wondered
Syaoran was grumbling in a bed until he woke up saying. "Oh no! The Dark Dictator is free! He's going to doom us alll...." Before he went back to sleep again while Virgo threw a blanket over him.
"Oh Syaoran." Virgo chuckled "You've just had a bad dream. You are still a kid after all." After putting him to sleep, she became very worried on what to do. She wondered how she can escape the Dictator's dreaded bow while defeating him. As she was freaking out, Virgo's pocket began to glow a purple aura freezing her from her crazy state of mind. She searched her pocket to find that the pony figure was glowing. After a few seconds, the light burst all around the apartment taking the house and Virgo into a complete purple trance.
"Huh? Where am I?" Virgo's voice echoed "Hello?"
"Oh! So glad that I can finally reach you!" A voice replied to which Virgo tried to find the source
"Who are you and where am I?" Virgo questioned
"Oh sorry! I forgot to show myself to you!" The voice apologised and a purple ball of energy appeared growing bigger until it made a small explosion revealing a small purple alicorn.
"Y-You look like that pony figure I have!" Virgo pointed out trembling "And why do you sound like me?"
"Actually." Twilight corrected "I am that figure, what's inside of it that is. You could say I'm a spirit living in that figure although totem or talisman sounds fitting. My name is Twilight Sparkle, the representative of magic. As for sounding like you, I have no idea. Anyway, I'm from a different universe and I managed to reach your world just in time to see that it's in turmoil."
"So what you're saying is that you transported all the way here from your world?" Virgo questioned
"Oh no! I have a physical body back in my world but I become a spirit when I travel to yours."
"Oh, so you are actually a real pony back in your world?" Virgo asked
"As much as I'd like to know all about you and you all about me, I'm afraid we don't have much time despite being in a small temporary realm where time stands still. Your land is currently in danger, you need to sought the enemy out and defeat him!" Twilight explained
"Well yes. I was going to do that anyway but I'm worried about HOW I can defeat him." Virgo replied
"I know, a Quincy corrupted by Dark Magic seems very difficult for an Earth Mage." Twilight comforted "However, there is one power that can defeat him."
"Really? What is it?" Virgo edged forward amazed that there is still hope.
"Quite simple! They are allies." To which Virgo grumbled "You may dislike it but it has it's advantages! They can assist in your attack, they can pick you up where you fall down, They will be there to comfort you if you have been down on your luck, in battle or not, allies can make life a whole lot better!" Twilight explained
"And how am I supposed to get 'allies'?" Virgo asked
"Simple! You go out and make friends with them! That's what friendship is for! There are many people around here that have very special abilities so they can become your strongest allies! I can see why a maid would be normally anti-social when they're busy serving their master or mistress, but that's how you get allies! Why don't you start with the people about to come into your house right now?"
"I'm sorry?" Virgo tried to understand
"As soon as I take you out of this realm, time will resume and a few girls will crash through that door. You should start with them." Twilight advised as she started glowing "Remember, the one who is determined to fight is the one to defeat the Dark Dictator, that is you but despite the determination, you need friends to back you up. I'll will keep in touch with you later but for now, farewell." And Twilight exploded with a ball of light engulfing Virgo and the purple apartment yet again. Virgo found herself back in her apartment which also turned back to normal.
"I can defeat the Dark Dictator?" Virgo asked herself only to come face to face with an agitated Cordelia
"And how do you know about the Dark Dictator and his return huh? Are you a spy?" She threatened only to get pulled back by Nero
"Relax! A maid wouldn't turn traitor to its master or mistress let alone a country!" Nero explained as Sheryl, Elly and Kagami entered the apartment "But you sure do know about a lot of things Virgo." Nero noted "Are you a geekhead?"
"I've read about the Dark Dictator's return and counting all the days when he's going to come back. I've been training every day to fight him ever since. Plus, that's the wrong term to describe me."
"You'll face him with the power of the ground alone?" Cordelia wondered "It sounds like you'll need a little help."
"A BIG help" Kagami corrected only for the four detectives to turn their attention to the mysterious girl
"What are you doing here citizen?" Nero gawked
"I came here to check on a person who's worried." Kagami retorted "Isn't that what friends are for? I mean, the four of you are friends, not just colleagues." The word friends reminded Virgo of the words from the pony spirit named Twilight.
"Hey! Can you still hear me?" Twilight called through Virgo's mind
"Huh? What?" Virgo looked around confused
"I can still speak in your mind but you can only speak with me using your mind right now unlike before in our little time-freezing realm." Twilight added
"Oh! It's you again. Got anything new?" Virgo replied
"I know where the Dark Dictator is, his location is now recognised in your mind. You should know where he is now." Twilight said and her spiritual presence faded from her mind
"So do you know where he is then?" Elly asked snapping Virgo's distracted attention
"For some reason" Virgo asked "Something or someone just popped into my mind the location of the Dark Dictator. He is in... in..."
"Norowa Reta!?" Everyone screamed as they reached the entrance of said forest
"The Forest of the Cursed." Virgo finished
"Well what are we waiting for?" Nero asked "I can't wait to deal some action with the mass produced Huckebein that I found!"
"Unfortunately, you have to return the Huckebein back to the EFA." Virgo said on which Nero grumbled "But I'll try and talk to Mistress Lust so she can allow you to keep it as a new owner." She added to please Nero.
"She'd better agree!" Nero hoped though in Virgo's mind, a simple thank you would have been better.
"Listen everyone" Virgo announced "I really appreciate you coming with me but I really think I should do this alone."
"Nonsense!" Sheryl rebuked "You could get hurt in there! Who would then help you out?"
"We are coming with you Virgo, it's for your own good." Elly decided
"Virgo" Twilight's voice appeared again "Let them go with you. I feel something good from them." Virgo, knowing that Twilight speaks for the better, trusted the spirit.
"Okay then, you girls can come." Virgo agreed to which the detectives punched the air and cheered with joy but Kagami had a different response
"Sorry Virgo, but I can't go." Kagami replied making the group silent
"Huh? Why?" Elly asked
"This whole type of saving the world through fighting isn't really good for me. I'm not a detective with special powers like you girls, I'm not a celestial spirit like you Virgo. In fact, I don't have any special powers or abilities, I'm just a normal schoolgirl. There is nothing I can do to help you, I'd only just get in the way." Kagami reasoned
"Rubbish!" Cordelia cheered "The more the merrier! There is a way that you can still help us! You won't be a burden!"
"Really, thanks for trying to cheer me up, but I think it would be best If I'd stay here. I'm going to help the mayor calm down the townsfolk. Good luck defeating the Dictator." Kagami thanked, her mind set on staying
"Ok then. See you on the other side!!!" Nero waved goodbye as the 5 girls made their way into the forest. Kagami sighed and started walking back to the town.
"I really care for them." Kagami thought to herself "I really want to help them! I know there is something wrong happening in there, but what can I do? Yes, I may be a Tsundere, but I'm not going to just kick in being such a softy on the inside, I need to show that I can be tough on the outside too!!! I want to help! With my own will! But I still don't feel like going and I can't do anything!" Kagami glumly concluded until a yellow aura started resonating above her stopping her in her tracks. As she looked up, a yellow ball of light was floating down towards not the grass, not the road, but straight towards Kagami, she put her hands out to collect it, the yellow light glowing continuously nestled on her palms. The light faded away to reveal what it covered amazing Kagami.
As the five walked through the forest, the group started asking questions except for Nero who's travelling in "her" PT.
"Remind me why this is known as the forest of the cursed." Elly started
"Beats me! Some kind of tale?" Sheryl asked
"Because!" Nero spoke through the Huckebein's loudspeaker followed with a stomp scaring the girls. "Legend has it, that the forest is cursed for it's own reasons." Followed with another stomp.
"Nero!!!" Cordelia scolded but she ignored her. When she says a word, she follows it with a stomp.
"Whoever, enters, this, forest, becomes, cursed, turned into a monster, hungry for blood, and, they, may, never, leave!" And with the last stomp, caused the cliff they were standing on to crumble, immediately causing the 4 girls to fall while the Huckebein put on it's mountain climbing mode.
"Well done Idiot!!!" Sheryl called as she was falling down the slope
"Sorry!" Nero called and immediately got the Huckebein to rescue the girls, Elly was the first to be collected, followed by Cordelia and Sheryl soon followed, Virgo was unfortunately the furthest and ended up dangling over a straight cliff. She tried to use her diving magic but for some reason, she was in too much of a shock to use it and some power was also blocking it. Nero was prepared to bring the Huckebein to grab Virgo but some arrow hit the Huckebein which pierced through the armor and into the systems temporarily shutting down the Huckebein's system down and rendering it immobile.
"Work dammit!" Nero yelled repeatedly stabbing the control panel with her rod.
"Nero! Save me!!!" Virgo cried, so Nero exited the Huckebein MkII.M to save Virgo by hand.
"Can you get me up?" Virgo begged, Nero looked around for a little while and answered
"Let go." Nero ordered
"What? Are you crazy?" Virgo yelled
"Listen to me! Let go! Trust me. You'll be fine." Nero comforted with a smile. Virgo looked like she was about to cry then she closed her eyes and let go. Falling with a scream, she landed with a soft thud on a floating chunk of rock levitated by Sheryl. Virgo let out a sigh of relief until the rock also dropped causing Virgo to scream a bit further until it slowed down again.
"Sorry about that!" Sheryl called "I haven't carried anything heavier than a rope before!" Using her telekinesis to levitate the rock slowly to the ground, Virgo saw the Huckebein MkII.M floating down via some jump jets.
"Thanks for trusting in me Virgo." Nero said as the five continued walking
Sheryl explained how she managed to save Virgo, Nero let her and the others out before it got immobilised, and she was then on standby ready to rescue the maid.
"Why thank you Sheryl." The maid thanked until a roar ahead interrupted them, a beast with large yellow arms, a hairy body, the face of a monkey and the tail of a live snake, Virgo knew what that was. "Oh no! A Nue!" She warned as the demon beast roared at them. Cordelia took the initiative with a swift kick to the face, only for the Nue to get enraged and roar at her face messing her hair and hat. Cordelia ran away crying so Nero was the next one to act, she fired a few photon blasts from her photon rifle but the Nue could absorb energy attacks and countered with a Zionga rendering the Huckebein MKII.M immobile again.
"Dang it!!! Your turn Elly." Nero called out to which Elly confronted the Nue with trembling fear. After a loud roar, Elly immediately lost her cool and her instincts took over, throwing a massive boulder against the Nue. The Nue recoiled against the pain but with it's further anger, countered with a massive punch sending Elly flying into the cliff face. As Sheryl picked her up, the five charged straight against the Nue in an all out attack. Sheryl using her rope, Nero's Gatling guns were ready to fire, Elly grabbed a hold of a tree she uprooted herself and Virgo used her shackle chains as whips ready to lash out. The Nue also charged himself with electric energy to blast the attackers. As they were about to collide,
"Stop!!!" A voice ordered, and the source landed between the two sides stopping them. As the dust settled it revealed a purple haired schoolgirl.
"Kagami?" They all exclaimed
"I'll explain later. Right now, there's a demon to calm." Kagami replied. Turning her attention to the Nue, she pulled out a gohei (wooden wand used for rituals in Japan) and waved at it. "Shh... Calm down it's all right." She comforted, the Nue was ready to claw the girl in front of him with his arms but Kagami countered by stroking the paw gently and proceeding to place a tag on his body.
"This tag will allow you to understand and speak our language. Now what is the problem?" Kagami asked. The Nue, looked a bit sad and hurt showed the problem, an arrow stuck on his back. "Oh dear." Kagami looked worried "Hang on a sec, this will only hurt a little." She comforted and with a firm grasp on the arrow, pulled it out. The Nue immediately grabbed Kagami and roared at her in pain.
"Kagami!" The girls cried but instead of the Nue harming Kagami, he instead cuddled her and made friendly noises
"Ooh! You're so cute!" Kagami complimented giggling then her complete expression change to shock and realisation as the smiling Nue started glowing in a bright blue light. "What? Be my ally? But I'm not an actual Shrine Maiden! It's just my job!"
"But It doesn't change what's inside of you. Instead of attacking me, you found and released the pain that has been enraging me the entire time. Your kindness has freed my suffering and I am indebted to you." The Nue replied before floating in the air and completely engulfed by the blue light and transforming into a card floating down into Kagami's hands. On the front side was a dark blue framed picture of the Nue while on the back side has the same coloured frame but a dark blue colour and half-black, half-white mask was in the middle of the frame. Kagami looked at it for a few seconds before the card dissolved into blue energy and flew into her body. "Very well, do not fail me." She harshly said as she welcomed the Nue into her heart. The girls ran up to see what happened to Kagami
"Kagami! You're still alive and here for us!" Sheryl gasped at the return of their friend.
"But I thought you said you wouldn't come." Cordelia asked
"But you did care for us did you?" Nero smirked "Ms Tsundere?"
"Hey!" Kagami objected "I have my own reasons! And it's not that I care for you guys! Well, maybe a little... But the main reason why I came for you was because of this." And she pulled out from her pocket, the figure of a yellow pegasus with a long pink mane.
"Th... That's" Elly started
"Yes. It's a pony figurine or totem as the description tag says, 'The totem of kindness.' There, I reflected on why I felt like helping you guys, even though I didn't want to. There's also another thing, but I'm not sure you'll believe me. There is this spirit living inside this figure that looks exactly the same and it sort of communicated with me." Kagami explained
"I believe you." Virgo nodded turning the attention to herself. "Because the spirit in my figure also communicated with me."
"Oh cool!" Sheryl exclaimed pulling her figure out and staring at it. "Spirit? I know you're in there! Can you talk to me? Pretty Please?"
"I don't think a spirit would show itself when you tell it to." Nero joked "still..." Pulling out her figurine, an normal blond orange pony wearing a Stetson hat "it would be amazing if they can talk to you."
"One day, they will, I hope." Elly cheered as she and Cordelia pulled out their own respective figurine to observe it. Elly's was a white unicorn with a very curly and stylish mane as if it sparkles. Cordelia's one was a cyan pegasus with a mane and tail that has the colours of the rainbow.
"That's it! I knew it!" The voice in Virgo's mind rung again.
"Twilight? Found something out?" Virgo asked
"I overheard the conversation. My friends respective talismans! They are in the hands of your companions! I knew there was something good about them. My friends can only speak to whoever is in possession of their talisman via their minds. Just like how I can speak with you!" Twilight explained
"And how Kagami can speak with your yellow pegasus friend?" Virgo clarified
"That's right. Her name's Fluttershy. I'm sure your friend Kagami would have found out her name before I told you. As for the others, I'm not sure when my friends will start speaking to them but I can guarantee you that they have to and will communicate with them."
The six girls, now that Kagami has joined the party, continued their journey into a dark wood. Thanks to the headlights of the Huckebein MkII.M, the party could clearly see where they were going.
"Why are we walking through here?" Elly complained "It's so dark! And smelly! And Icky!"
"Virgo knows where she's going and we've put our trust in her to lead us to the right place. Despite all of the mud and sweat, we have to get there. Oops!" Cordelia explained as she stepped into a patch of mud. Kagami got a fright and screamed all of a sudden.
"Relax Kagami. It's just mud!" Cordelia until she bumped into a silhouette, of a hollow glaring greedily at Cordelia. Cordelia safely escaped the Hollow's gaping jaws but she was frightened to the bone as well as the rest of the girls running and dodging the attacks of the hollow. Yes, Nero got scared even if she's in a massive PT. Until all of a sudden, Sheryl started laughing at the hollows and making faces at them confusing them.
"Sheryl! Are you crazy? Run!!!" Virgo called
"Oh girls!" Sheryl chuckled "Don't you see?" And burst out in song (Feel free to listen to the song and sing along! Different lyrics though.)
When I was a little lady and the sun was going down...
"Tell me she's not..." Virgo asked
The robbers and the criminals would always make me frown...
"She is" Elly sighed
I'd grab a rope and sneakers
And chase them round all day
But Kobayashi-sensei came and said
there is a better way...
"What is it?" Cordelia said
He said: "Sheryl you gotta use your brain
You don't have to run
You've got a toy within you
It's powerful and really fun."
~Telekinetic Blast!~
And a beam shot out off Sheryl's palms in a split second after she finished speaking disintegrating the targeted hollow. The other girls gasped as Sheryl smiled at them. Soon Sheryl was getting everyone to trust in their powers while having fun and laughter taking out all the hollows. While Virgo was whipping the Hollows to ribbons with her shackle chains, Nero blasting any hollow that gets in her way with a variety of weapons, Kagami summoning her newly befriended Nue to deal with the hollows, Elly happily smashed and crushed any hollow in her way with two large trees and as Cordelia gave eyes and ears support to everyone along with her own fighting skills and her trusty broomstick normally used for cleaning, they were all laughing and having fun using their powers to defend themselves. Sheryl was still singing as the rest of the group were having a massive hollow massacare.
So, blast off all the bandits!
Punch out all the pirates!
Snap back at the scroungers!
Burn down all the burglars!
Deal with delfalcators!
Home on the hijackers!
And basically just arrest them for their crimes and sins committed and if they think they can run away from you then they've got another thing coming since we've all got a special power that can easily take them all down and when you're done with them and the idea of using your powers to easily handle them makes you wanna... hahahaha...heh...
Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaauuugh!!!!!
And for the finishing blow on the high note, Sheryl released a massive telekinetic wave exterminating all the remaining hollows around.
The girls then started laughing on the floor after every hollow has disappeared from their sights.
"Wow..." Twilight said amazed "that pink detective's looks and attitude looks very familiar to one of my friends. Does she have Pinkie Pie's talisman?"
"Description of your friend?" Virgo asked
"Pink pony with a poofy pink mane and tail. Has balloons on her cutie mark, if you don't know what a cutie mark is, it's the picture on the pony's flanks." Twilight explained
"Yep. Sheryl showed hers to me, and has the exact same characteristics as your description." Virgo agreed. Sheryl was still laughing until she felt a pink aura and light emitting from her pocket to which she stopped and pulled out the figure to see what it was doing.
"Wow! That song you made is just as good as mine!" A playful voice complimented in Sheryl's mind.
After that fun time, the girls continued on with Sheryl leading the way.
"Did you know girls? The spirit in my figure talked to me in my mind!" Sheryl piped up
"Then that makes three of us." Kagami replied
"Blast! I want my spirit to talk to me!" Nero whined
"You'll have to be patient." Elly advised
"Virgo did say that they have to speak to us, but only when they feel like it. As if we'd gain their respect or trust to do that." Cordelia explained "Also, there's-oof!" Cordelia wasn't looking and bumped into Elly whom bumped into Nero who bumped into Kagami, then Virgo and finally Sheryl who stopped in front of a small desert that has violent raging sandstorms.
"Great. How are we going to get across this sandbank?" Sheryl asked to which they heard some crying from a massive One-tailed beast that was pounding the sand.
"Noooooo!!!!!" The One-tailed beast cried "It's horrible! I look so horrible!!!!"
"Oh dear. It's Shukaku" Virgo indentified
"The One-Tail." Kagami added "If we're going to get his attention, we'd better find a good escape plan if he's going to kill us."
"Umm... Mr Shukaku?" Virgo called out to which the beast roared at the girls
"Who dares meet me when I am in tears? You have been very unlucky to see me in this state! Death to all who sees me like this!!!!" He roared
"Woah! Woah! Hang on!" Nero negotiated "Will you let us go or let us across if we can make you happy again?"
"Hmm... Normally, I would just kill anyone who negotiated with me right on the spot. But since you are girls, I'll throw away a bit of my pride to help. Just one question, will it help me surpass Kurama?" He asked
"Yes! You can surpass him in the kindness contest!" Sheryl nodded
"Sheryl!" The girls looked at Sheryl with an 'are you kidding me?' Face, but Shukaku seemed convinced
"Very well then, I shall tell you what has happened. I was here, cleaning up some sand grains and dead bodies with my winds until all of a sudden, some arrow came whooshing past me and cut off my... my..." The tanuki beast started crying "My TAIL! WAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!" Showing his massive tail that looks like a broken stump.
"Oh my. That's really bad damage." Cordelia assessed
"Bad? It's horrible! Can't you see girls?" Elly scolded then turned to the beast
"Your sand body looks so sparkly it shines like glass!" Elly admired
"Why yes! That is true!" The beast agreed
"And those fists of yours. Big, majestic!"
"Yes it is!"
"And with that beautiful fearing face of yours! Why, it can drive me to tears for the beauty of nature and chakra!"
"Why of course! Thank you very much! All of what you said is true!!!"
"But... Now your tail. It's broken, it is a complete disgust to nature."
"Yes... YES! IT'S TRUE!!!!" And Shukaku started crying. Elly stopped for a moment to think
"This crime is unforgivable! Something very important can't be replaced can it?" Elly asked
"It normally grows back after 200 years but it can instantaneously come back if someone's else treasured item is sacrificed to change into a replacement tail."
"Very well..." Elly said "Forgive me." Pulling out a sharp pocketknife causing the other girls to gasp, she slashed at something and Shukaku roared with fear and fainted. Cutting off a long strain of her hair, Elly used this as the material to repair the beast's tail. The hair glowed green and flew to the Tanuki's broken tail on which it exploded with a green light, transforming itself into the tail of the Tanuki. Shukaku, looked at is wonderfully repaired tail and gasped in delight.
"I don't know what to say. How you have the generosity to sacrifice your precious item. You have my utmost gratitude of revitalising my pride."
"But Elly, your hair." Sheryl started, Elly's hair has now become short now that she cut most of her hair out.
"Well I don't have to be a posing model for a while and that's a good thing." Elly blushed "Besides, I'm sure it can grow back!"
"So can the tail of a Tailed beast." Cordelia whispered.
"The world would be in chaos by then." Virgo retaliated "And they'll be a massive mad tanuki crying for 200 years. Now look what Elly has done! The sand has stopped raging!" And pointed out that the sand has indeed became calm. The tanuki crouched down.
"Allow me to act as a bridge." Shukaku offered
"Thank you Shukaku!" Elly thanks as the girls jumped across. Once they reached the other side, a glow of white light emitted from Elly's pocket.
"I say!" A formal and posh voice ran through her mind "you surely have sacrificed something dear for a stranger's cause! It reminds me of what I did when I helped a stranger who is now my friend. Since we share quite a impressive similarity, I would love communicating with you from now on!" Elly decided not to tell anyone else that she can talk with her spirit now.
"Look everyone!" Virgo pointed out. "We are here, the Dark Dictator is in that castle." She pointed to what's left of a castle
"Does he even try renovating?" Nero joked
"Well he certainly doesn't." Kagami laughed "But he knows what he's doing. Just take a look! He didn't renovate the bridge!" She pointed to the bridge, where the opposite end of the bridge was has broken loose due to two arrows that severed the ropes tied to the poles on the other side, sending the part of the bridge into the foggy chasm below.
"No sweat! All we need to do is tie the ropes back on the other side of the chasm." Cordelia explained
"And how do you suggest doing that?" Kagami started "The other side of the bridge is hanging 'in' the chasm and how are we supposed to get to the other side?"
"Don't you see? We can pull the bridge back up! We could do it together or to save time, a certain someone do that job!" Cordelia planned, when Cordelia said 'certain someone', everyone immediately looked at Elly
"Wha... What?" Elly defended blushing, Cordelia continued
"The same someone can also throw another person over on the other side so they could tie the ropes once the bridge has also been thrown over by the same someone."
"S-So the special someone is me?" Elly said "Well, I do know that since I am the only powerful one here."
"I'll be the one getting thrown across the other side!" Cordelia volunteered
"I'll help as well Elly." Nero assisted "I've got a Huckebein MkII.M after all!" The plan easily kicked, after Elly and Nero pulled the bridge up, Elly threw Cordelia to the other side. As Cordelia was flying in the air, she did a few flipping tricks for style before landing neatly on the other side causing the girls to cheer. Elly proceeded to throw the other half of the bridge, managing to grab a rope before the bridge fell of the edge again with all her strength. She tied the rope firmly and tightly on one pole. Before she could make it to another, a small beeping was heard. Cordelia turned around to see a small dancing communicator beeping.
"Cordelia..." The communicator beeped
"Yes?" She replied
"Congratulations!" It chimed "we have decided to let you become one of us! The Shadow Seekers!"
"Shadow Seekers?" Cordelia asked "never heard of them before."
"We are a very confidential detective agency. Not something you would hear on the news. However, we are the best at our job, we go after the most dangerous criminals and catch them with ease! It's very exciting! And we'd like you to become our captain! Are you tired of following your own airhead leader? As well as your own agency trying to expel the four of you because you lost your toys? Twice? We provide extra care for your toys and intense training!" The communicator explained
"Wicked!" Cordelia shouted with glee "Count me in! Just let me tie up this bridge first and I'll join you guys!"
"None can do!" The communicator jumped in the way of the bridge "You have to make your decision here! Take it or leave it!"
"Cordelia!" Sheryl called, then the communicator looked at the other side where the girls are and it's screen shined yellow which seems to cover the girls and muting their voices from Cordelia
"What's going on?" Sheryl could only call but it was just muffled nonsense heard by Cordelia.
"I'm sorry..." Cordelia apologised head down. The communicator flashed as if it had won
"But I have to decline your offer." Cordelia finished "because if there is something that I want most of all as an aspiring detective, are my detective friends! No matter how much I find them idiots!" And to seal the deal, she tied the other rope onto the other pole and started running across the bridge. The communicator realised it has failed shaking and rumbling vigorously until it exploded. The explosion was caused by... You guessed it, an arrow.
"Cordelia!" The girls screamed as their blue detective friend made her way back to their side, clearing the clouds along the way.
"Thanks for tying the bridge! I thought there was a problem there!" Virgo thanked
"Relax! Though temptation may try to drag me away. I'll always be loyal to Milky Holmes and my friends." Cordelia guaranteed
"Thanks Cordelia." Sheryl thanked "I'm glad I have you not just as a colleague, but as a friend. I'll try not to be an idiot in your eyes next time!" And Cordelia laughed at that joke.
"Heh heh!" A voice echoed "Nice work there!"
"Huh?" Cordelia looked around
"Cordelia? What's wrong?" Elly asked
"I'm in your head! And I thought you were a detective!" The voice joked
"Oh! It's nothing" Cordelia reassured the other before turning her attention back to the voice. "Who are you and what was that for?" She growled
"I'm the one and only Rainbow Dash! The master of loyalty and awesomeness! And seeing that performance just now? That's was more than awesome!!! I've got quite a deal for you! May want to sacrifice something though..." The voice negotiated
"Wha? I'm not leaving my friends!" Cordelia defended
"Ha ha! I'm just kidding! Look at you! You're so gullible! But then again, I'm sometimes gullible too! Don't worry, you get to keep your friends, but here's my deal. I want you to maintain and increase that coolness and awesomeness of yours but most importantly, your loyalty towards your friends. In return, you have my respect for a cool pegasus like me and I would be honoured to communicate and assist you for life!"
"Communicate and assist me? A voice in my head?" Cordelia wondered
"Duh!!! Don't you get it? I'm the spirit living in your figure! We've got a deal?"
"Certainly! It is far better than joining a top secret detective agency!" Cordelia too, didn't tell the others since she was psyched now that her spirit can talk to her.
The girls broke into the castle door only to find the room empty.
"He's not here!" Elly assessed
"Do you think he chickened out?" Nero hopefully asked
"Even though, he'll still destroy the world." Sheryl said
"Hmm... Maybe he could be somewhere else?" Virgo wondered
"Ugh... Virgo, I have a bad feeling about this." Twilight strained
"What happened?" Virgo comforted
"The journey, this broken castle... It all seems very familiar." Twilight explained "In fact, It's exactly the same as my journey with my friends!"
"Really? So you've experienced the place before? What happens here?"
"Well, when I was concentrating, I remember that the Elements of Harmony were being taken and I jumped in, but in your case, you would probably be cap...tured... Virgo! Watch out!" Twilight warned after realising what happens next. Lines of dark mist started surrounding Virgo. She tried to run or dig out of there but the mist was too fast for her and picked her up. Everyone watch with fear as the mist carried her for a few seconds in mid-air then faded along with Virgo.
"Virgo? Virgo!" Kagami called but there was no response
"We have to find her. Quick!" Sheryl ordered
"But where could she have gone?" Elly asked as the group were running around finding clues "she could be anywhere in the forest."
"Look over there!" Nero pointed out, with the girls following the Huckebein MkII.M's finger that was pointing at a tower up ahead filled with dark mist and light.
"That must be where she is! Let's go girls!" Kagami encouraged and with a nod of the detectives, they ran on the pathway to the tower. Desperate to aid their friend.
The dark mist dropped Virgo on to the floor. Coughing out the dust, she looked forward to see the Dark Dictator sitting on the throne of the old castle.
"Well well..." The Dictator started "Well done for making it this far. I didn't think my plans to turn you back would fail." And clapped
"Dark Dictator!" Virgo threatened "It's over! Your crimes of world destruction will come to an end."
"Oh really?" The Dictator said not falling at the threat "And do you think you can stop me? You can't stop me now. Not even Lust or her servant." And in a split second, he readied his bow and fired a quick shot impaling Virgo sending her flying to the entrance of the throne room.
"Arrgh!!!" Virgo cried from the pain. The shot wasn't fatal, but Virgo knew that he did it on purpose. He just wanted to make her suffer so Lust could suffer too.
"I... I will take you down!" Virgo vowed after she pulled out the arrow and started to run towards him.
"I see... So is it a game of chicken?" The Dictator asked "Reishi absorption! Blut!" And the quincy gathered atmospheric energy and some flowed into his blood vessels. After enough absorption, he forms a spirit-blade with his energy and charged at Virgo. The two were furiously running at each other, desperate to take out the enemy. As they got close to the edge, the Dictator fatally swung his blade at the air, not realising that at that second, Virgo burrowed into the ground and rose up again grabbing him in the process.
"I have you now! Spica Hole!" She taunted and threw his body onto the floor. The impact of the Dictator against the floor was so powerful that it created a circular hole on the ground with him falling into the pit. Leaving him trapped and incapacitated.
"Ha ha..." The quincy chuckled "you got me there for a moment. A sneak attack, you really are the servant of Lust after all! She was lucky that her attack took me down, but you're lucky just to land a blow on me!" He roared climbing out of the pit unscathed.
"What? It did nothing!" Virgo cried shocked
"Do you know what a quincy is?" He rhetorically asked "A monk of destruction. I can absorb the atmospheric energy and combine with my own spiritual energy to gain power. I have also learnt a technique that can drastically increase my attack and defence. This is why you don't see any scratches on me and how I can climb out of your pitfall easily." He now materialises a spirit-mace in his hand "I have also gained a new power. One that is not from this world." And swung the mace straight into Virgo's chest "And that is why you'll never defeat me!" He yelled. Virgo was sent flying and crashed into a stone pillar.
"Wh... What is this power?" Virgo coughed for breath.
"So you want to hear about this then? Very well, I have in my possession, a figure that boosts my power passively." He said and pulled out a figure with horn and wings, the figure of a pony! "Despite gaining passive powers, it gives me real ease to continue world destruction. How? A spirit lives inside this figure, an alicorn pony named Nightmare Moon. I have made a special communication with the spirit, is called a Pony Link or P-Link for short. From that, I can communicate with her through the mind and she can pass on her powers and knowledge. But then... Why am I telling you this, when you already know?"
"I know?" Virgo asked
"Nightmare Moon not only shared her power, but also the knowledge of her world. That said, she knows that some of the ponies through her sister transported their spiritual bodies here. I know that you carry the sister's most prized student."
"Nightmare Moon?" Twilight gasped in horror "I thought Luna was on vacation!" Virgo just stayed silent
"She was furious against the subjects of her people since she her subjects always kept sleeping under her night." The Dictator explained "She wants to make the night last forever, sounds very similar to my plan of destruction. Nothing can stop me, only the Elements of Harmony can, but the six elements are scattered and they must establish the P-Link with their owner. Even so, I doubt they can defeat me."
"The Elements of Harmony... Virgo, I represent the Elements of Harmony." Twilight whispered
"Really?" Virgo picked her self up on that hope
"One of them. My other friends are with your companions, and only three of us has established our P-Links, Kagami, Sheryl and you. I don't know if they'll be coming." Twilight explained
"Oh... Is it over?" Virgo said as she slunk back on the floor in defeat.
"Since your figure is the host of the Elements of Harmony," the Dictator grinned "I might pick you off first." Virgo clenched on the floor, ready for what fate befalls her.
"Virgo? Virgo!" The countless calls of her named echoed from the staircase and as Virgo looked behind her, she saw shadows of people climbing up the stairs as well as some familiar mechanical stomping. The girls and companions that she only knew for a few hours is looking for her, searching for her safety and running for aid. Virgo's eyes opened widely at the realisation and a spark appeared for a brief moment in her eyes. Her figure also sparked as well.
"You're right." Virgo turned around standing up turning her attention to the Dark Dictator "I can't take you down."
"So you concede..." The Dictator smiled
"Alone that is..." She smiled back to the Dictator's confusion "but when I'm with my friends and the representatives of Elements of Harmony, I... No, WE can!" She said determined and introducing her five companions that stood with her.
"Ha ha ha!!!" The Dark Dictator laughed "you're not even ready yet! I can hear your voices in your journey. Only three of you has established P-Links!!!"
"Wait..." Virgo realises that their hope together was starting to falter
"You may have heard our voices out loud." Elly stood "But not our minds! I have already established a P-Link with Rarity; the element of generosity!" And a transparent white aura surrounded her.
"Four of you!" The Dictator corrected still laughing
"And I too" Cordelia added "Cordelia Glauca, have established a P-Link with Rainbow Dash; the element of loyalty!" And a transparent Cyan aura surrounded her.
"Five... Of you?" The Dictator realised
"That's right." Virgo stated "I made a P-Link with Twilight Sparkle; the element of magic!" A transparent purple aura surrounded her
"I made a P-Link with Fluttershy" Kagami said her part while copying some poses from a random anime "the element of kindness!" And with a finishing pose, Kagami was enveloped by a transparent yellow aura.
"Ooh! Ooh! My turn! My turn!" Sheryl jumped for a while and stood firm triumphantly speaking "And I have made a P-Link with Pinkie Pie; the element of laughter!" She chuckled jumping as a transparent pink aura surrounded her.
"All right!" Virgo exclaimed "take it away Nero!" But there was no reply of words. "...Nero?" She asked. Nero was sitting in her Huckebein MkII.M feeling really unhappy and depressed.
"I'm sorry girls." Nero started "but I still haven't started talking with my spirit yet." The girls gasped in horror and the Dark Dictator started laughing again. They were so close, but they still haven't got the last push to take a stand.
"I've let you guys down, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have been so greedy and rude." Nero clutched her controls tightly. "I love this place, I don't want the world to be destroyed..."
"No Nero!" Sheryl piped up "don't lose hope! We can still do it! Even without the Elements of Harmony!"
"... We can still do it?" Nero whispered
"If your trying to be tough on the outside like you were before, you've got competition with me. Don't drop your guard!" Kagami said
"... You're tougher than me Kagami?" Nero continued
"You can still do it Nero! I believe in you." Elly voiced
"Y-You do?..." She still continued whispering
"Who cares if your greedy or mean? You're still our friend and colleague, we fight together, we die together. We are all equal, our powers don't matter." Cordelia cheered
"It... Doesn't matter?" Nero cried softly
"Nero." Virgo stated "when I first met you, you were tough, forceful, hungry, threatening. That's the Nero I know, you are better than that Nero. Although you do look cute like that, believe in yourself, believe in us and... It's an honour for the Huckebein MkII.M to be piloted by you."
"Fools! You're close, but no cigar for you! I was actually expecting a challenge, but I'm just going to finish you anyway. I'll start with you, pilot of the PT. You've brought a great dishonour to your friends and failing to activate the only weapon that could defeat me. I'll make this quick." The Dictator stated raising his bow against Nero.
"Shut up!!!" Was Nero's reply
"What?" The Dark Dictator was taken back
"No wonder why everyone fears and hates you! You're a 'dicktator' more than a dictator! You always like to put people down!" She bellowed and raged. "Sure, I may not have made a P-Link or talking with your spirit, whatever you may call it. But that doesn't change the fact that I'll still fight! I've got a Huckebein MkII.M! I'll just crush you!"
"A foolish decision. Remember how I managed to immobilise your PT?" The dictator countered
"I said shut up! It's not going to happen again this time! With the P-Link or not, I am honest when I say this. I. WILL. DEFEAT. YOU!!!!!" She vowed and yelled into the sky for everyone to hear.
"That's some mighty fine fightin words sugarcube!" A southern accented voice drove into Nero's mind "And that's right! You're bein honest, and I like that! Allow me to help ya speak the truth."
"Wait..." Nero stated "Y-You're."
"Ah'm Applejack. The representative for the element of honesty. Sorry I came at a late time. Ah was busy harvesting apples and I promised my friends and you that ah would immediately talked to you as soon as ah finished. But I wasn't and ah knew things were gettin worse in yer world, but mah apple business still remained mah top priority. But that cry of will just now immediately realised that you were droppin down and plummeting hard. So ah immediately stopped mah apple kicking business and ran to go communicate with you." She introduced and apologised
"What?" Nero couldn't believe what the spirit was talking about "You think harvesting is more important than someone else's world that's about to be destroyed?" She scolded
"To be honest with ya, I don't really care about other world's an all, but if mah friends care, then ah care. So once again, ahm mighty sorry. Now do ya want to establish the P-Link?" Applejack asked
"With pleasure. I'm sick of this dictator" Nero agreed and her mind flourished with the energy from Applejack and Equestria. Once that was done, Nero remembered the battle cry. "Now where was I? Oh yeah. Now I have made a P-Link with Applejack; the element of honesty!" And to prove it, Nero and the Huckebein MkII.M was covered in a transparent orange aura. I wouldn't want to leave the Huckebein MkII.M out now would I?
"Together with the spirits of the Elements of Harmony, complete and present!" The six chanted and took pose "We are invincible!" They chorused
"Enough!!!" The Dictator yelled "you think you can win with the elements of harmony? I'll destroy you! Lunar barrage!" And shot multiple arrows at the group.
"Nice try, Magical Earthen Wall!" Virgo chanted and slammed the ground causing a rock spike wall enveloped in purple magic to shoot up from the floor and blocked all the arrows. "It's our turn now! Take it away Nero!" She commanded. Nero spotted a ripe apple coincidentally hanging from a tree that was poking in through one of the windows. Carefully grabbing it, she inserted the apple into the pilot cockpit where Nero used her own hands to take it.
"I've always loathed healthy fruits, especially apples." Nero stated
"Hey!" Applejack spoke offended
"But if it's going to make me and my PT stronger, then down the hatch it goes!" She finished, taking a bite out of the apple and munching on it followed with another bite. "All right!" Nero finished throwing the apple in a handy trash can. "Now that I've eaten, I'm all fired up and ready to kick someone' ass for immobilising my Huckebein! And some apple trees too." She joked. Picking out the Rectangular Launcher, the strongest weapon in the Huckebein MkII.M's arsenal, aimed it at the Dictator
"I've heard Rectangular Launchers are used for armor piercing, not as good as armor breakers though but that will do! Combined with AJ's ability of a powerful kick, I'm sure it can break that Blut barrier of yours! Care to try?" Nero explained and fired a few rounds.
"Foolhardy girl! I can- arrgh!!!" The Dictator was too prideful of himself that he forgot to dodge 2 of the hits before he gets the idea. He managed to dodge the rest of the shots Nero fired but he knew that his Blut power is broken and that his defence and attack is back to normal.
"Cease your fire Nero!" Kagami shouted "I'll do something about his dodging." Nero complied and Kagami stepped up. "I may not care for my friends on the outside but on the inside, I deeply worry about them. So if you hurt any of my friends." She readied her eyes, and immediately stared at him. "It is a bad mistake." The dictator was fearfully immobilised.
"Wh...What have you done to me? I can't move!!!" He cried "Your eyes... They emit fear! How can you make me vulnerable!?"
"Just making sure to keep an eye on you so you can't move!" Kagami replied "But I'm not finished yet!" And as she raised her hands, a card appeared on it. She closed her fists shattering the card and releasing the Nue. The Nue too was affected by Fluttershy's aura and really angry too.
"A friend of Kagami is a friend of mine." The Nue yelled "And if they are harmed I too, will be very angry. YOU. WILL. NOT. HURT. MY. FRIENDS!!!" He yelled as he charged up for an attack "You will regret shooting me in the back that caused me great suffering! Shock!" And released multiple lightning bolts critically hitting the dictator four times. Combined with the immobilisation of Kagami, the electric attack was anything but painful.
"Arghhh..." The Dictator spat recovering from the shock "You honestly think you can beat me?"
"Well, only if you're immobilised" Sheryl replied "And we're going to keep it that way!" And jumped in front of the Dictator, ready for her turn to fight.
"Hey! You know what I like?" She rhetorically asked "Parties! They're really fun! I'm not sure you'll like this one though because it requires you getting hurt!" And with her telekinesis, quickly tied a rope around the dictator, tightening it so he can't breathe. Then she proceeded to swing him around slamming him in the walls, floor and through every obstacle.
"Hey! It's just like Pythagoras Switch!" Sheryl exclaimed as she swung him through some pillars causing a domino effect with him receiving the hard end. For the last blow, Sheryl spun him in the air accelerating the speed every second until he was just a blur. "You know, it wasn't nice to put Hollow-bait on our pathway, It attracted quite a lot of them." She noted before slamming him on the throne causing it to crumble and badly wounding him.
"I won't hold back!" Elly stood up "It's my turn now!" Grabbing a large boulder and holding up into the air, it suddenly crumbled revealing a large round diamond and she smashed it onto the floor, breaking the diamond into a billion particles of dust and not a single shard or piece of diamond were left behind. With that, she blew all the Diamond Dust onto the dictator with even the smallest of particles piercing him. Even he cannot withstand such small but endless microscopic cuts to the body and so he was powerless against the hardness of the diamond but slashing pain was not all it brought. Interestingly, it started to freeze the dictator in place, with ice surrounding him, he can't move at all. Elly proceeded to deliver killer punches with syncopation so the dictator can't expect "How *punch* dare! *Punch* You *punch* cut *punch* the *punch* tail *punch* of *punch* Shukaku!" And with the last word, threw a wind up punch to the face dislocating the jaw followed with both her palms slamming and squishing the dictator's face discombobulating him.
"Enough Elly! I want the finishing blow!" Cordelia bellowed and as Elly passed the baton, Cordelia jumped high into the air leaving a trail of rainbow. "For tricking me to join a detective organisation that doesn't exist, I'll make this quick and painful in 10 seconds flat. I can see your weak point after all." Cordelia addressed and she dived down and powerfully struck the dictator smashing him out of the ice and into the wall... And that only took 10 seconds. The Dictator has completely taken too much damage and used a lot of his energy to fight any longer so he used what little energy he has left to breathe and try to stand himself up. A sign to show that he is defeated.
"I don't know what to say everyone..." Virgo started seeing her friends annihilate the enemy. "You've really helped me out a lot, even though I refused. Thank you... You really are true friends!!!"
"Don't mention it!" Nero chuckled "But true friends always leave the finishing blow to the one who organised this adventure and fight! Floor's yours Virgo." And the others gestured towards the dictator.
"No..." He wept
"Here goes nothing! You ready for this Twi?" Virgo asked
"As always. Let the power of friendship take its course!" She chanted and at that moment, the six pony figures glowed and rose out into the air. With a small burst, their voices can be heard all around and enlarged spectral images of them appeared.
"Great!" Twilight exclaimed "now we can all talk to each other!" And the other ponies cheered followed with Fluttershy's famous 'yay'. "Let's set the table! Virgo, find something to surround him!" Twilight ordered
"Right!" Virgo obeyed and stamped on the ground creating a cracked circle underneath the dictator.
"No!" He cried as the cracks started widening and rays of light were coming through.
"Now!" Twilight commanded "go to the person who has taken care of your talisman!" And floated towards Virgo
"Ahm ere for ya Nero!" Applejack called out galloping to the Huckebein MkII.M
"L-Let's go Kagami!" Fluttershy muttered as she flew to Kagami
"Party time Sheryl! Excited?" Pinkie pie laughed as she bounced next to Sheryl
"Let's do this together shall we Elly darling?" Rarity as she stood with Elly
"We can handle it together Cordelia!" Rainbow Dash cheered as she spun around Cordelia. The ponies were in a trance, eyes closed, where they powered up the elements of harmony with a bright light surrounding them, channelling their power through the figures to the girls who were also in a trance and had their eyes closed.
"In the name and power of friendship..." Twilight and Virgo said simultaneously then the rest of the ponies and girls joined in with the next phrase "we will punish you!!!" At that instant, the cracked ground underneath the dictator was letting in small but intense waves of rainbows, getting stronger as the ground was about to erupt.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The dictator yelled a final time before the ground erupted a pillar of rainbow underneath him engulfing and burning him. Meanwhile, the 12 girls were shining brightly as they were using the elements of harmony.
"Now Virgo. Open your eyes and release the energy." Twilight instructed and opened her eyes that was pulsing with white light. Virgo obeyed and her eyes were also filled with white light when she opened them. The light from both their eyes grew brighter and spread around the throne room illuminating and blinding everything.
The light has subsided, only the six bipedal girls were on the floor unconscious but victorious.
"Uuugh..." Virgo winced as she got up holding her head, the other six managed to get up as well
"D... Did we do it?" Nero asked, as lifted her head from the Huckebein MkII.M's control panel.
"Y... Yes!!! We did it!" Sheryl jumped for joy.
"Yes... We managed to beat the criminal!" Cordelia clenched her fist in victory.
"Not just us, we also have to thank our pony spirits." Kagami said and searched for her figure "It's gone!" Was what the girls last expected to hear. They started looking for theirs, but they were gone too.
"It can't be..." Elly dreaded
"They really are gone!" Sheryl concluded
"A sacrifice for the future of this world." Nero noted
"Did they use all their power that they can't enter this world anymore?" Cordelia asked
"Victory comes with sacrifice. But why do I still feel sad for them?" Virgo started crying "They've done so much for us... We owe them a great debt... Now we'll never see or hear from them again..." She cried, the others began to weep for their new but late pony friends... Until Sheryl heard some giggling in her mind.
"Oh silly! We're still here you know!" Pinkie laughed. Sheryl immediately stopped as she heard her laughing pony friend
"Pinkie! You're still here!" Sheryl cried in delight for everyone's ears to hear "Girls! They're still here!" Everyone immediately concentrated to see if they are there and sure enough, they were.
"Twilight!" Virgo shouted with joy. "I thought you were gone!"
"Don't worry. With our power combined with yours, I just imbued everyone's talisman's power into the accessories and appliances that you girls use. It's just that I thought the talismans were a bit heavy and that your strength could be put to better use!"
"Hmm really?" Virgo asked and started searching herself to see what it was. As she rests her hand on her headpiece, something else was there too. She pulled out the headpiece to find a beautiful purple Alice band attached to her headpiece. The head band even had Twilight's cutie mark in a straight pattern around it.
"I changed my talisman into an Alice band with my colour and cutie mark on it and attached it to your headpiece. If you don't like it, I can change it to another thing!" Twilight explained
"No..." Virgo stopped "I actually like it, it fits nice and looks attractive! Even though most people wouldn't see it... Thank you." She thanked and put the Alice Band-Headpiece back on her head.
"Wow Elly! It's beautiful!" Kagami complimented
"I know!" Elly agreed clutching her hair which has magically grown back long again. "I can go back doing my art model job now! I'm never getting rid of this hair."
"No! Not that!" Kagami spat "Your wrist protector!" She pointed
"Huh? I don't have a..." Elly protested and stopped for a moment or realisation to look. Pulling back her capelet, she saw the wrist protector on her inner shirt. It was sparkling with purple and white diamonds. Rarity's cutie mark was distinct on the middle of the wrist protector on the upside of Elly's wrist.
"I know it doesn't go well with your fashion of green but you'll have to keep it on so I thought I'd put it underneath the capelet.
"Thanks for keeping the fashion!" Elly thanked "And yes, it really is beautiful." And as she turned her attention back to Kagami, she noticed another thing. "Kagami! Your serafuku(Sailor Fuku: It's a common style Japanese school uniform worn by female students.)!" Kagami looked at what fate has befallen her school uniform. The ribbon tied to her blouse is now a bright yellow instead of red with a 3 pink butterflies on the visible bottom ends of the ribbon.
"Oh! You're kidding me!" Kagami complained furiously. "This colour does not go with the uniform! I would get in trouble with the teachers and get laughed at by everyone!"
"O-Oh! I'm really sorry!" Fluttershy fearfully apologised "If it doesn't go well, do you want me to ask Twilight to dye your blouse and skirt yellow too?"
"NO!!!!" Kagami yelled
"P-Please don't hurt me!" Fluttershy sqeed "It's just that there is nothing yellow on you and I didn't get a choice! It's Twilight who did it... I can change location if you want to..."
"Yea um... No! It's fine! I don't think I would mind it for now. It's not that I wanted look like this... And I do not look cute with the yellow ribbon." Kagami muttered blushing again.
"You actually do look cute with it Kagami." Elly added
"Shut up! I-Idiot!" Kagami replied
"Hey look!" Sheryl piped up revealing her magnifying glass. The once ordinary frame and handle of her special magnifying glass has now transformed into something beautiful but twisted pink. The Handle has a color swirl of Pinkie Pie's body and mane while the frame was also pink and had tons of stones that look like party balloons just like Pinkie Pie's cutie mark. "It's so funny!"
"I know right?" Pinkie replied chuckling. Meanwhile, Cordelia admired the badge of Rainbow Dash's cutie mark on her hat.
"It's so awesome!!!" She complimented "Makes me look cool!"
"I'd say 20% cooler." Rainbow Dash corrected
"And why not 100%?" Cordelia asked
"Because that's only reserved for me!" Rainbow Dash replied. Nero climbed out of her PT admiring her metal rod. It has turned into a shiny orange with a picture of 3 apples, Applejack's cutie mark.
"It's very nice. Is this a new metal?" Nero asked
"Adamantium." Applejack replied "It's a very tough metal. Could pierce through anything or anyone!"
"Hey Virgo." Nero then turned her attention to the maid "you know, I always thought that you would be some stuck up, emotionless and a boring maid asking for punishment every time someone requires your assistance. I know you like to get ordered around, be a soldier then! However, with that adventure you dragged us along, maybe you're not that bad." She shrugged
"I was born this way" Virgo thanked
"Well done." A voice rang from the stairs. As the six turned around, the rising sun revealed their ruler Lust walking up the stairs. Everyone bowed to her before getting the command to arise.
"Mistress Lust!" Virgo gasped as she embraced her Mistress
"My dear servant. You have done a magnificent job in saving the world but I told you so that you couldn't do it alone." Lust replied
"I know now. That's why you ordered me to get some friends since I like following orders right?" Virgo asked
"Yes. And with them, they will help greatly in the future, as long as you help them back." Lust nodded
"Yeah. Friendship really is something, I've got to hand it to my friends." Virgo introduced to which the girls embraced Virgo
"Ya big lug!!!" Cordelia joked
"Yes Virgo" Twilight noted "I've also got to hand it to my friends too, who helped me at that time."
"Now, there is something that must be done." Lust announced as she started walking over to where the Dictator has it's last stand. The only difference was, the darkness snaring him was all gone and destroyed and what was left behind was a younger looking Dictator unconscious on the floor, the age of a kid. As he woke up, he was scared at the approaching homunculus and tried to back away.
"Uryū Ishida, It has been a long time." Lust mentioned
"Uryū?" Virgo exclaimed confused "The second ruler?"
"Wow." Twilight sarcastically gasped "This is exactly the same story when I came to Ponyville."
"I knew you would fall into the trap of the book. Now that you're back to normal, we should put our differences behind and rule Otakia together." Lust asked and offered a hand. Everyone started leaning closer hearing the young quincy's response, though Sheryl leaned too far and fell over. The quincy burst into tears and instead of holding Lust's hand, embraced her instead.
"I'm sorry Lust!" Uryū replied "I'm sorry that I have insulted you. There was still a soul of me when I was controlled by the darkness. I mean to take back everything I have said horribly!" He cried
"There, there." Lust comforted "I forgive you." This scene has moved Sheryl so much that she has burst into tears... For a short moment that is and came with an idea.
"You know, I don't normally do this back then when I arrest criminals and I only threw it once for Virgo, but after this awesome adventure and with my new spirit friend and all, I have the greatest idea to finish things up!" Sheryl exclaimed and the scene changed back to Muraville all of a sudden
"A party!" Sheryl exclaimed throwing up some confetti. With the entire town strung with party decorations, everyone went to celebrate the return of the two rulers back together. Syaoran went to embrace her co-worker after not seeing her for a long night. As the two rulers were pulled by a chariot, some kids threw a bouquet of flowers to Uryū which he admired the flowers. Meanwhile, Virgo was standing by ready to head back to Shutotoshi.
"Well Virgo?" Lust asked "do you have something to say before we go?"
"Yes." Virgo nodded then turned to her friends "thanks for helping through that problem just then. Unfortunately, duty calls so it's going to be a long time before we see each other again. We'll keep in touch though."
"WHAT!?" The five girls cried "You're leaving now?"
"Virgo!" Lust bellowed "that's not what I meant."
"Then what do you mean?" Virgo asked
"Virgo, you've been my servant for a very long time now. Don't you think you deserve a vacation? Actually, no. You will be getting a vacation right now!" Lust ordered
"Aww..." Virgo hung her head
"At least you've got us so you won't be bored!" Cordelia cheered
"She's right." Lust explained "One more thing Virgo. Do you remember that pony figure I gave you?"
"Oh!" Virgo remembered "Umm, well..."
"Never mind about that." Lust interrupted "that's a very nice Alice band that you got attached to your headpiece. I don't recall you buying one..." She smiled
"Well, that's the um..." Virgo continued explaining
"Don't worry, I want to show you this." Lust said revealing another pony figure. A large white alicorn with a beautiful mane. "This figure is Princess Celestia, the totem and in fact, the goddess of the Sun in her world. She has communicated with me about her student Twilight, the spirit that you look after. Don't tell me you lost her figure."
"No wait!" Virgo defended "the figure changed into..."
"I'm just kidding" Lust chuckled "I know from Celestia that she changed into that Alice Band sitting on your head."
"By the way mistress, I remember hearing that Uryū when he was the dark dictator said he had a figure too." Virgo asked
"Princess Luna" Lust answered "she was corrupted into Nightmare Moon, just like what happened with Uryū here. But Luna turned bad at her own jealousy, Uryū simply opened the wrong book. Don't worry, Luna's back to her old self."
"Very well then. I will see you again Mistress." Virgo waved goodbye
"Farewell Virgo." Lust waved back "may we meet again. Oh and Nero?" She got the girl's attention
"Yes your highness?" Nero asked
"I've heard from Virgo about your heroics in a PT. Very well done! Even better than Ryusei! Now, I give you special permission to keep any lost PT or robot you find. In return, you ought to be nice to your friends."
"Fine..." Nero grumbled as the royal transport pulled Lust and Uryū away.
"You know..." Twilight piped up "this is just a theory, but although I'm here just to observe the place, I feel like the events that happened just now is exactly like mine."
"So what you're saying is" Virgo analysed "things that already happened to you and your world is going to happen to ours?"
"That's right. But for now, I would like to know all about you and the entire land of Otakia!" Twilight exclaimed with delight
"Then you've picked the right tour guide!" Virgo smiled "we're going to have a lot of fun!" And walked towards her friends.
Little Anime TV!
"Hi! I'm Virgo!"
"And I'm Sheryl!"
"I think today's adventure was quite a blast, don't you think Sheryl?"
"Sure is! We acquired new allies and friends!"
"Yep! Just like Twilight Sparkle here! We all know that she's a bookworm, the representative of the element of Magic and she is currently a Librarian!"
"Yes! So we'll be talking about ourselves and spirits like we said before! Now for a new topic, on to the vehicle bay!" Sheryl finished
"Thanks girls! Welcome to the Vehicle bay! I'm Nero and I have Cordelia and Syaoran with me!"
"In this area" Cordelia explained "we will be talking about Nero's robots that she has acquired throughout the journey! So Syaoran, care to explain what this is?" She gestured
"Well, according to the databases" Syaoran lectured "this is a Huckebein MkII.M! The reason why it's type M is because this PT is currently being mass produced! The normal weapons of a Huckebein MkII.M contains listing from weakest to strongest, a Gatling Gun, Beam Sword, Photon Rifle and Rectangular Launcher!"
"We could also add some more weapons to it, but these are always the four weapons that you would find in a Huckebein MkII.M." Nero concluded. "This thing could also fly since it has a Tesla drive built in to it!"
"But Nero." Cordelia questioned "you've never made the PT leave the ground during this chapter!"
"How did you know about the Tesla Drive?" Syaoran asked
"One, it's energy consuming. Two, screw flying! And three, I prefer to keep an eye for my friends."
"Aww... You're so kind Nero!" Cordelia complimented
"Don't push it." Nero threatened "now we'll move on to the demon album!" She concluded
"Hello! Welcome to the Demon album, I'm Kagami."
"And I'm Elly."
"Here, we'll be talking about the demons that we or I have befriended during the adventure."
"Today" Elly introduced "we'll be showing you Kagami's first demon ally, the Nue." Gesturing to the large beast animal.
"Sup." The Nue spoke in slang just for humour.
"A Nue is a mixture of a creature in Japanese Lore." Kagami explained "The head of a monkey, legs and arms of a tiger and the tail of a snake. In the tale of the Heki, it hides behind black clouds each night to attack the emperor."
"For stats and skills" Elly continued "It is weak to gun and wind/force attacks, but it can drain electric attacks. Just like Nero's Photon Rifle! It mostly like to attack more than one enemy with it's Scratch Dance. For electric attacks, it has Zionga and Shock!"
"I think it's really cute!" Fluttershy stated
"Cute?" Rarity cried "It's a complete mix up! Even worse than Discord!"
"Well..." Elly blushed "that wraps up Little Anime TV! Now last but not least..."
"Lucky Pony Slot." Kagami pointed "Spin!!!" And the wheel spun revealing the face of Pinkie Pie.
"It's Pinkie Pie!" The seven announced.
Author's Note
Note that I make some moves up along the way for the characters, but it is a fan fiction after all! But I will also use some real moves that the characters learn, like Spica Hole.
