Unending Bonds

Unending Bonds

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I don’t own My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and I am not writing this story for any monetary gain. I do; however, own Marcus, Dameon, and any other of my own OC’s

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Unknown planet, Unknown Solar System, Unknown Galaxy

The universe is a massive place. So many stars set into place throughout it, and orbiting those stars are planets, some more hostile than others. It’s on one such planet that we begin our tale. A tale of wonder, amazement, and… just a little bit of failure.

“Dameon! Run you dumbass!” yelled one unfortunate soul to his brother.

“You think I haven’t tried that yet!? This thing won’t stop till’ we kill it, or it kills us!”

“Okay! Think! Think! Alright I got it! Dameon I need you to distract it while I get us a way out of here!”

“Already on it Marcus! Just hurry up, I’ve lived too long to get killed by a freaking giant scorpion!”

The two were currently on the run from one of the planet’s more monstrous denizens. For a comparison, it would be like standing next to a two story building...rushing at you like a freight train. The poison its glands contained and currently being coated on its barb was enough to kill over 100 average men with a single drop. Thankfully, these two were anything but average. Now as to how they got into this situation, well that’s a story for another time.

The brothers named Dameon and Marcus have been in situations far worse than their current predicament. Unfortunately, they both seem to forget just how easy it really is for them to get out of the compromising positions they so readily put themselves in. They have been, shall we say, travelling for many years, and have seen quite a few horrendous creatures in their so called travels. This one just happens to resemble the scorpions of their once home planet Earth.

“Alright Dameon! Hurry and get over here, I’ve got a portal set up… sort of.” Marcus had mumbled the last part to himself, and as a result, Dameon couldn’t call him on his stupidity of not fully finishing the set up. He quickly rushed across the dry and barren landscape towards his brother, jumping over any obstacles and dodging the swipes of the scorpion-like creature behind him. As he was coming up to the swirling pattern of colors encased within the half-assed portal, he managed to get knocked away by one of its pincers. Tumbling backwards and flipping back into a standing position, he drew his blade of choice from his back. An incredibly sharp weapon with even more incredible enchantments placed within the intricate designs of the blades dark metal. The sword seemed to gleam with the shadows surrounding it and, by all rights, should be considered overkill. Its length from pommel to tip was six feet, with the actual blade being five feet four inches. The pommel had a gem within it, named by Dameon, as eye of stars. The gem itself was something to behold, constantly swirling with the darkest of blues, reds, and oranges. Spiralling around the handle and to the guard is a silver dragon with one eye being sapphire and one ruby. The blade itself seemed to be coming from the mouth of the dragon. The metal used to forge the sword came from the dust of a once massive star that had run its course. The dust had drifted through space, slowly condensing before eventually coming to a stop at one of the planets they had visited, and being turned into the raw material used to forge the blade.

Once the creature saw that its meal was going to put up a fight, it quickly tried to poison him. As the barb was coming down above him Dameon side-stepped it and swung the blade in a horizontal motion, effectively severing it from the rest of the armored tail. While the arachnid was busy hissing and thrashing in pain he sprinted to one of its pincers and jumped onto it and continued to sprint up it until he reached a point where he could jump onto its back. Once on top of it he stabbed the blade into the top of its natural armor and stomped the handle pushing it down all the way to the guard of the blade. This only served to make it even more angry, and now it had changed its mindset to revenge instead of just getting a simple meal.

Marcus saw this and quickly joined the fray with his brother, stopping only momentarily to unsheath his weapon. The warhammer he pulled from his back was equally as stunning as his brother’s greatsword. It possessed beautifully crafted designs smithed expertly into the strange metal, and it glowed with an incredible radiance from its gold colored finish. It had a dark blue dragon spiralling along its massive handle, its eyes are a brilliant emerald and amethyst. The hammer shouldn’t have been able to be picked up with its weight, let alone be swung, but Marcus seemed to do both with complete ease. Once he had the weapon fully drawn he quickly charged up to the freak of nature currently occupying his brother. Without a second thought he brought the hammer down with massive force onto its right pincer, breaking through the exoskeleton and rendering it utterly useless. The arachnid brought its damaged sectioned tail around and hit Marcus in his side, sending him sprawling across the desert ground. Dameon took the chance and rushed across the creature; bringing up his sword as he ran, he slashed downwards into the monsters side as he jumped off cutting through its natural armor and into its internal organs. Marcus had made his way back into the fight at this point and decided that they should finish this fight now.

“Dom! Screwdriver! NOW!” Dameon heard Marcus yell over the thrashing of the monster scorpion. He rushed towards his brother and when he reached him he jumped onto the end of his hammer. Marcus continued his current swing and let his brother hurtle off of his hammer, and while Dom was in the air, he started to spin rapidly with his sword extended. When he reached the enemy, he bore a hole completely through it and came out the other side, falling to the ground only breathing slightly more than usual and covered in blood.  Eventually, it stopped thrashing and fell to the ground, completely lifeless, with a resounding thud. Dameon had snapped his fingers and instantly himself, his weapon, and his armor were all wiped clean of any blood or gore. As he made his way back to his brother there was a distant rumbling that didn’t go unnoticed by the two.

“Okay, we should’ve done that at first, and hurry up. Whatever is making that noise can’t be friendly.” Came Marcus’ voice from beside his brother, who had finally caught up to him. They made it in front of the portal and prepared to step through its threshold.

“Alright Mark, on three.”

“One.”

“Two.”

“Three!” They stepped through the portal… which still wasn’t complete.

Canterlot Castle, Equestria

Princess Celestia sat upon her throne in the castle, absentmindedly finishing up last minute paperwork before she allowed herself to make her way to the dining hall. It had been another grueling day listening to the requests and proposals of her subjects. She cared deeply for them, but sometimes they don’t bother to listen to themselves and understand just what it is they ask of her.

“I don’t know how I managed to make it so long by myself like this. The fact that Luna is back and helping me now takes a huge burden off of myself,” Celestia said to herself as she flipped through another report. The workload had been reduced significantly since the return of her sister, Princess Luna, who mostly sticks to herself. Celestia being the only pony she really talks to. It isn’t because of her unwillingness to talk to anypony else. It is actually other ponies unwillingness to talk to her because they think she is still the oh so dreaded Nightmare Moon.

 The way history had portrayed her as Nightmare Moon was off by a great margin, in fact. She had indeed been slightly jealous of her sister, she would be lying if she said she wasn’t, but something so far fetched as to have an emotion turn her into that evil mare is a ridiculous thought. The fact of the matter was that a she was more or less possessed into doing those things by a creature that only wanted to spread destruction wherever it went. Everything said during the fight between Nightmare and Celestia wasn’t said by Luna at all, and she was forced to watch it all from the backseat of her own body. When she was banished, the elements put her into a deep sleep to keep her safe while the creature silently waited for its time to strike again. By the time the Nightmare had returned and had been destroyed by the elements, Celestia had managed to telepathically tell Luna to act out the whole apology. Luna had agreed to the fact that outright telling everypony that quite a bit of the history they knew about the ordeal was completely fake, wouldn’t be an incredibly wise decision, and if she was being completely honest, she for some reason liked the fact that she had to go through this redemption. It, in her opinion, showed her integrity and willingness to keep on fighting, something she greatly adored in herself. The historians that recorded the original incident had known what actually happened, but they were not the best of ponies and had actually disliked Luna a great amount. So when the chance to ruin her good name came up, they jumped on it.

While Celestia thought about past events Luna had managed to sneak her way into the throne room and beside Celestia while staring over her shoulder. She eventually decided to make herself known and leaned down beside Celestia and whispered a single word into her ear.

“Boo.” She quickly put her hands behind her back and innocently whistled a random tune. Celestia had jumped and let out a very high-pitched shriek while managing to hit her head on the back of the throne.

“Lulu, must you do that every time you come to talk to me?” Celestia said while releasing an annoyed groan towards her sisters childish behavior.

“Well, seeing as how you manage to jump every time I do it hmmm yes. The time you stop getting scared is the time I stop doing it.” Luna couldn’t help herself and eventually started to giggle at her sister’s annoyed expression.

“Okay, well, looks like it’s going to be a long while before you stop because no matter what I try it never seems to help.” Celestia had eventually started to giggle along with her sister while she finished the last of her paperwork.

“Come on Tia I’m hungry and I know you are too. Let’s go eat.”

“No, you go ahead I still have to finish a few things up before I go.”

“Alright your loss, but I heard the chefs are baking your favorite caaaake.” Luna said in a sing-song manner.

“Well, when you put it that way...alright lets go so i can get that ca-” Celestia started to say. She didn’t get to finish; however, as she heard distant screaming slowly growing closer.

“Lulu do you hear that? Come, let’s see who could possibly be screaming right now, they might need some help.” Celestia said as she made her way to the windows in throne room.

“Tia? Do you see that?” She was pointing to two small dots in the evening sky as she said this.

“Yes, I do, and they appear to be headed straight for us.” They both made their way away from the window with slightly worried expressions as the two figures approached at a frightening pace.

Above Canterlot Castle

“MARCUS YOU FUCKING IDIOT! HOW COULD YOU NOT SIMPLY FINISH THE SET UP!?” Dameon was busy yelling at his brother as they were falling at terminal velocity towards a precariously perched castle.

“OKAY, I GET IT! SORRY I WAS MORE CONCERNED FOR YOUR DUMBASS NOT GETTING POKED BY A POISON BARB!”

“HOW SWEET! LOOK JUST BRACE FOR ONE HELL OF AN IMPACT, AND HOPE WE COME OUT OF THIS WITH OUR PRIDE INTACT!” They finished yelling at one another close to two-hundred feet above the castle, and were busy covering their heads with their hands and tucking into themselves to try and lessen the impact. They came barrelling into the castle, busting through the roof, and into the throne room floor leaving a large crater for each of them and a massive cloud of dust. It took the brothers a few minutes to get their bearings and realize exactly where they just crashed, and by the time they did, they were ecstatic.

“Holy...I don’t think that portal was such a fluke anymore Mark.” Dameon finally found his voice after staring wide-eyed at his surroundings for a minute or two.

“Yeah, me either… ooooooooowwwww… oooow… ow. Bro that fall sucked so much.” Marcus had finally gotten up and managed to put some weight on his leg before it started hurting. He had most likely just bruised it badly, and it would heal rather quickly.

“Is it just me? Or does this look like an overly sexy castle?” Mark said while rubbing his shin.

“It isn’t just you Mark, and since this is a castle, let us hope to all that is even remotely holy that the beings that created it are still alive.” At this remark, Princesses Celestia and Luna decided to make themselves known to the two that had crashed into the palace.

“Well then you would be granted your wish, young one.” Came the melodic voice of Princess Celestia. Unfortunately, neither of the man-children could manage to hold their laughter in at what she had said.

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA… oh… young that is… heh… that’s great.” Mark retorted sarcastically. Both he and his brother eventually settled down enough to at least climb out of the craters, and fix them for being so rude.

“Sorry lady, but you wouldn’t understand where we are coming from. You are the first voice me and my brother have heard besides our own in over a millennium, and we welcome it greatly. But I don’t think you reserve the right to call us young, for one so young yourself.” By the time Mark had finished talking both of the craters they had made were completely fixed and looking brand new. He had just started to turn around when some kind of humanoid horse things, all wearing golden armor, brandishing spears, and having very pissed off looks on their faces appeared in front of him.

“Well alright, I’m guessing you guys would be the dominant life form on this planet? While I agree your enthusiasm to guard whatever it is you’re guarding is commendable. Not one of you would be able to even slightly harm me or my brother here.” Mark finished while waving a hand towards his brother to come over to his side. These horse guys weren’t very intimidating, and their height did nothing to help it. Marcus was seven feet and one inch tall while Dameon was six feet eleven inches. These guys came up to around five feet ten inches on average, and it was pretty funny to the brothers to see the uncertainty in their eyes.

“I would appreciate if you kept such smug comments to yourself before you go assuming things. I would honestly like to find out more about the two of you. It isn’t every day you get two more old and powerful beings come crashing down into your castle now is it?” Luna had finally decided to allow her own input into the conversation, and it was at this time that the two brothers decided to finally take notice of the equally tall beings within their presence.

“Wow… ya know, for humanoid horse things, you two are pretty cute.” And a resounding facepalm was heard from beside Marcus.