Teino: New beginning

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Teino awoke slowly and groggily from an unfamiliar bed. He kept his eyes closed for a moment in silent hopes that what had happened was all a dream and he could open his eyes and be in a hospital bed, or better yet, his own bed.

He had certainly thought it was a dream, once he escaped from his blind rage the day before. He cracked his eyes open a little bit to discover a room where all the walls were covered in bookshelves, there were some desks with books stacked high on them. He looked behind him after feeling warm, moist air on the back of his neck. He saw that he was in bed with a pony with a horn on its head and wings at its sides. The foal recoiled heavily at his newfound “friend”.

He fell off the side of the bed, rolling around to get away from the purple creature that Teino thought had been doing something horrible to him. To his surprise, she didn’t do anything to come after him. She simply snuggled closer to the warm pillow. He then looked down at himself, realizing for the first time: “I’M A PONY!” Then, he had another epiphany from seeing his disproportionately small body compared to his head. “I’M NAKED!” He shrieked in horror as he imagined what the purple horse had done to him. He then wrestled those thoughts into submission.

He thought about the ponies he had seen the day before. ‘None of them were been wearing clothes,’ he reasoned, ‘so it makes sense I guess to not wear clothes.’ He pulled his tiny hooves away from his groin, revealing that he would not be exposed, mostly because he didn’t have a groin anymore. ‘Right, trapped in a nudist colony of horses with no clothes, not that it matters.’ He inspected himself for injuries, before getting up on his hind legs.

Still wary of the world he was in; he teetered in the direction of the stairs, since it’s hard to walk like a human when you’re a horse. He promptly fell down the stairs in a way that you might expect from a slinky. Making it over to the door, he heard hushed voices. ‘Military! They’re here to take me away I bet!’ He quickly changed forms unintentionally from a strange alicorn foal to a seven foot tall, gray, vulpine, bipedal creature with a tattered red long-coat and jet black cuirass. He had padded hands that ended in large claws.

He opened the door and flew out at supernatural speeds, bounding over the street and onto the roof of the house opposite the carved out tree he had been staying in.

The toothy grin he had put on quickly faded as a voice carried over yelling “The Gray Fox! Guards, capture him! I will be supporting you myself!” He identified it to be a medium sized alicorn with a blue coat and a mane that looked to be the Milky Way itself. She squinted at him as if trying to figure out why he was there. He simply twitched his bushy white tipped tail towards her. The largest one, another alicorn, with a coat that was pure white and a mane that looked like the aurora borealis, stepped forward. “You are powerless to defend yourself without your toy staff to help you!” Teino just glared at her for speaking a language that he couldn’t understand. He bounded to the next roof as a Pegasus appeared over the edge and a white unicorn teleported to the roof. Both sported thick armor and were closing in on him. He managed a “Screw o-AAHG!” in a British accent as he bounded to the next house, only to be tripped midair by Princess Luna. He spun around and landed on his back with the wind knocked out of him. While struggling to get air back into his lungs, the unicorn from before picked him up with his magic, and slammed him down into a dead end alleyway.

“We have you surrounded and you have no way out, criminal. Surrender peacefully and we won’t hurt you!” The Pegasus yelled into the alleyway. When he simply sat there, gasping for breath, they closed in. “Gray Fox? Who the hell do you think you’re dealing with?” The guards closed in, one of them geared with a halberd, the other with his horn aglow. Teino attempted to get up, but the guard with the halberd panicked and thrust it in-between his ribs.

Teino let out a howl of agony. Luna whispered something to Celestia, who simply nodded before lighting her horn up. Sparkles surrounded the agonized creature who was screaming every bad word he could think of, and suddenly they could understand him. “AAAGH! Holy f***ing s***! It hurts so much! Get it out! Get it out or you shall feel the wrath of Teino! Almighty shape-shifter and destroyer of… hospitals!” The guard pulled the blade from the wounded creature, which incurred another scream and for large green prongs to sprout out of his neck. His legs melted away, green and red flaps jutted out, and he became longer and more serpentine. His lips pulled back to the point of non-existence. The whites of his eyes became a bottomless void of black. Yellow geometric patterns went along the sides. Before the princesses was the most ferocious looking serpent they had ever met.

“BEHOLD THE POWER OF RAYQUAZA AS THE WRATH OF TEINO UNFOLDS AND RAVAGES THE LAND!” His voice boomed across Ponyville. He opened his mouth, forming a ball of energy twice the size of Luna. He fired it directly at the guard who had stabbed him, and fired. The guard was vaporized almost instantly, leaving nothing but a small crater and his singed wings. Shining armor braced himself for the next attack that would be coming for him next by putting up his strongest directional barrier in the direction that Teino was in.

Unfortunately, the attacker disappeared and reappeared instantaneously ( cue mass effect leaving earth song) behind him, smashing him into the wall and impaling him on his pearly white claws, just as Twilight turned the corner.

Her jaw dropped at the sight. Her brother impaled on the claws of a massive green serpent that had even Luna and Celestia gawking at its power. The creature released her brother and flew off. Armor landed with a wet thump. He was soon joined by Twilight. She sat on her haunches next to her brother, careful not to touch the blood pooling underneath him. “Twi… Twilight!” he said in a raspy voice. “What is it? Do you need something? I can, I can get you anything you need!” she reassured him.

“Twilight, promise me that you’ll stay with your friends, keep that thing from causing a disaster. Twi, I’m not gonna make it. You’re going to have to do this on your own.”

“But you can’t leave me! No! Stay with me! I need you! No! No…” Her voice faded out as tears ran down her cheeks, and her brother let out one last breath. He then closed his eyes. (end song) Twilight turned to the princesses who were looking down in a half mourning, half ashamed looking way “YOU! YOU COULD HAVE SAVED HIM! YOU HAD THE POWER AND YOU DIDN’T USE IT!”

“We tried but-“

“YOU DIDN’T TRY! You, you just stood by and watched him die like there was nothing you could do…” Celestia draped her wing over the young alicorn. “All will be explained in time, my little pony, all in time.”

Meanwhile over Ponyville…

Teino was furious. Unfortunately for Ponyville, this was not pure, boiling rage that overrides everything else and doesn’t allow someone to think. No, this was far worse. This was a cold, calculating fury that could overwhelm the most glorified tacticians. He let out a shock wave. A few seconds later, hundreds of burning meteorites descended from the sky, exploding on contact with the ground. One rent a hole through the bakery, another tore a thick limb off of the library, and one buried itself in Mayor Mare’s desk. About sixty of the explosive rocks pock marked Sweet Apple Acres, while the rest severely damaged everything else in town. He loosed a dragon pulse that shattered windows all the way to the edge of Canterlot. A wicked smile cracked the legendary beast’s face. This form contained so much raw power, he could take over wherever he was, and live as the most powerful being in all the land! Even the princesses had been powerless to stop him. He stopped to think about the occurrences in the alley. He remembered seeing the stallion’s marking before somewhere…

Then, the answer came to him in a flash of sorrow and self-hatred. It was the mark of his portal, except with a shield behind it. He also recognized it from the purple one he had seen, for hers had been exactly like his portal. He put the pieces together, figuring out ‘Oh shit that was her brother!” His form slowly melted away, revealing a large Absol with pure white wings and two curvy horns, one much larger than the other, unfurling his wings and gliding down towards the place he had killed Twilight’s brother, intending to right the wrongs.

Twilight watched his approach. She was alone because the other princesses had gone to stop the meteorites. ‘Maybe this is one of those legends I read about where the ancient Nordies said that those who died a warriors death would be retrieved by a mysterious creature called a Valkyrie, and be taken to a paradise.’ She thought to herself.

The angelic looking creature drew closer, its horns lit up, producing an eerie lighting over the grim setting. Twilight left the side of her dead brother, looking at what she thought was a Valkyrie expectantly. Teino felt a pang of guilt and remorse for the poor mare. He touched each of the remains of each with his larger horn, enveloping them in white light. While doing this, he let out a beautifully sad melody that he later decided to call the “Perish Song”. Then, something strange happened that no one understood. After reforming, the two former stallions stood up. Both of them spread their new wings. They were both Absols with wings, although both were tiny in comparison to Teino. They quickly explored their new bodies, finding their single horns and wings. The Shining Armor looked around and smiled at Twilight, who ran over to hug him, but was stopped by a massive paw. She looked at Teino.

“You must not interfere with the process.” He replied to her look telepathically. She nodded understandingly, and backed away. Teino tucked each of them under his armpits (legpits?) and flapped his wings once, somehow floating away from the single flap from his massive wings. She stared after them, as they headed into the direction of Cloudsdale and the now setting sun.

Teino moved towards the city in the clouds that he had seen earlier in Rayquaza.

Rainbowdash heard a knock on the door. “Ugh, who would be knocking on my door at MIDNIGHT?!” The knocking continued even harder now, forcing her out of bed. “I’m coming; I’m coming, just hold on a second!” She fumbled around in the dark and found the lamp. Turning it on, she grumpily stomped over to the door, slamming it open. “Rainbowdash here, waddaya want?” she asked, even though she couldn’t see them clearly through her bleary eyes. “Hello, Rainbowdash.” A voice reverberated through her mind. She immediately shook her head clear of grogginess and looked up at the massive, winged and horned feline in front of her, along with two smaller ones. The slightly larger one of the two small ones came forward and said “Hey Rainbowdash! Long time, no see!” In the voice of Twilight’s brother, Shining Armor. Rainbow dash just sat there with her mouth open and the largest one scrutinizing her confusedly. He closed her mouth for her, and walked in with the other two in tow, closing the door behind them. “Rainbowdash, I must request something of you.” She snapped to attention, turning to face her new visitors. “And why should I do anything for you mister… Horny Cat with wings?!” She realized how stupid and weird that had sounded the instant after she said it. “Because this-“he points to Shining Armor “-Is the brother of a friend of yours, and he is dead. I request that you take care of him and his friend, and keep them safe from the public eye and any dangers. You cannot tell anyone about them, not even your friends.”

Rainbowdash reminisced for a second before she gave a small salute and a wink. “Can do sir!”

“Remember: Keep them secret, Keep them safe.” and with that he pushed himself out of the doorway, leaving her alone with two previously deceased royal guards, now become cats.