The Slayersby Emerald ShieldChaptersCh.1 Appearence of The SlayersCh.2 A Dragon? AWESOME!!!Ch.3 White RabbitCh.1 Appearence of The SlayersTalon wasn't having a very good day. Talon, being a wild eagle, was hunting for mice to bring home to his family for dinner. He didn't have any luck so far, probably because that pink blast from that city on the mountain caused all the mice to hide underground. Seeing the Ghastly Gorge coming into view, Talon thought that the mice in there probably hadn't seen nor sensed that blast! Swooping down to the gorge, and then flying to the ground and then landing on the ground, Talon began looking for the white little beings. Not seeing anything in particular, Talon walked across the bottom of the gorge. Five minutes later, he heard an echo. "Are you sure about this Ray? Last time you did this we ended up inside a closet... naked" The echo was of a female voice! She sounded rather worried. Before Talon could think about this some more another echo appeared. "Don't worry Shade, my calculations are one hundred percent perfect, now shut up, I gotta concentrate" This one was male and sounded rather monotone. "If I know Ray, then he can do this, I taught you two everything I know about magic, and if anyone can pull enough Eternanos together to punch a hole through space, it's Ray" A third voice said, this one sounding almost fatherly, stern yet kind. Talon, being the curious eagle he is, waited for some more voices, none more came. Getting rather bored, Talon was just about to fly away when a swirling mass of blue appeared thirty feet in the air. "Oh SHIIIIIIT!!!" The third voice from earlier sounded from the mass of blue. Soon what seemed like the owner of the voice fell from the portal. Followed by two more things. One of the tree landed on it's feet whilst the other two face-planted into the ground. After that the portal quickly closed. The one that landed on it's feet, rose to it's full height, standing at five and a half feet tall, the being was bipedal, had sky blue hair in a mohawk, and blue'ish purple eyes. It wore blue sneakers, black sweat pants and a black tank top. From the roundings the being had Talon decided it was female. The other two beings slowly got up. The second tallest of the two stood at precisely six foot tall, had dark green hair which went up in spikes, and dark green eyes as well. It wore shiny red metal boots, dark green cargo pants, and a blue hoodie with a green flame where it's heart was. This one along with other looked more bulky and rough around the edges, Talon decided these where male. The last stood at a startling seven feet tall, had grey hair ending in pink which hung lazily over it's head, and pink eyes. It wore grey shoes, blue cargo pants and a grey t-shirt with a what looked a pink diamond over its chest. All three beings wore backpacks that matched their color schemes. The female looked around a bit before hitting the shorter male upside the head. "Damn it Ray! You did it wrong again!" The female said. "Look at it from the bright side, at least we didn't end up naked in a closet" the short male offered. The female got a blush over her face before yelling. "Easy for you to say!" "Now now simmer down you two, if you want bash each others face in do that when we're home. Ray got a grip on the Eternanos yet?" The tall male asked. "No, strange, I can't seem to get a grip on the Eternanos here, they're much... smoother, then usual" the short male identified as Ray said. "Smoother? But that could only be if there are a lot of Mages here, and only five percent of the world population is a Mage, right?" The female. "Indeed Shade, only five percent. Well it doesn't matter, let's just explore a little bit" the tall male said. "Sure why not" The female identified as Shade said. "I'll get us outta this gorge... Core Switch; Flight Core" Ray said as a dark green magic circle appeared over his chest. Ray then grabbed onto the other twos arms and lifted of into the air, bright blue flames jetting out from under his boots. "This is way past weird" Talon thought as he lifted of to go home, preparing himself for telling his family there will be no dinner tonight. (1 hour later) "Just where did you take us Ray?" Shade asked with a puzzled look on her face as the three humans walked through the forest located next to the gorge they appeared in. "I... don't know, this place doesn't match any maps of earth I have" Ray replied with a stunned look on his face. "Tino? do you know anything?" Ray asked the large man. The large man known as Tino said nothing. "Dad?" Shade asked. "Oh sorry gang I was mesmerized by four incredibly powerful magic signatures north-east of our location" Tino said. "How powerful?" Shade asked. "Let's just say that the most powerful is about as strong as me" "What!? Then it must be a god!" Shade yelled, surprised that there can someone as strong as her father. "It is, from what I could make out it has the very power of the sun behind it... the second most powerful seems to have the power of the moon, both of these are immortal... Ray fly straight up and see if you can see where the powers are located" Tino said as the three stopped walking. "Right" Ray said as he flew up with the same blue flames under his boots. Flying high enough he could see a MASSIVE city hanging from a far off mountain. "That's gotta be held up by magic" He said to himself as he looked around a little more, spotting a small town to the north outside the forest, he then cut the flames and fell to the ground, leaving a small impact crater on the ground as he landed. "And?" Shade asked. As he got back up Ray said. "I don't know how, but there is a massive city hanging from the side of a mountain, that's probably where those signatures are located" "Hmm, probably. Anything else?" Tino asked. "Yes, small town north of the forest, perhaps we should go there?" Ray answered. "Yes, we will, what time is it by the way?" "It looks to be four in the afternoon from the position of the sun" Shade answered after she looked up for a little bit. "Well then we'll set up camp here for now, that fine with you guys?" Tino asked. "Yeah sure" Ray replied. "Again, why not" Shade said. And with the that the three dropped their backpacks to the ground and chose everything they would need to survive a night in the forest. (The next morning, 11 am, Canterlot castle dining room) The morning after the wedding, the mane six, Princess Luna and Celestia, and Cadence and Shining Armor, were simply sitting in the dining room eating breakfast, like nothing had happened the day before... well, all except one. "And did you see how I bucked those changelings to next week! It was so awesome!" Rainbow Dash said with an expression of pure glee. "Yeah Dash we saw it all right, we were there 'member?" Applejack retorted, annoyance apparent in her voice. "I know but IT WAS AWESOME!!!" Dash yelled. Loudly. Before she could say anything else, princess Celestia magically tapped her spoon against her glass. Gaining everyponies attention. "Now, on to more pressing matters" Celestia spoke. "You felt it too, didn't you sister?" Princess Luna asked. "Yes, yes I did" Celestia replied, knowing exactly what her sister meant. "Felt what?" Twilight Sparkle asked, not liking that she was being left out of something. "Yesterday, right after the Changelings were disposed of, three incredibly powerful magical signatures appeared out of nowhere, now first I thought this was the work of three Changelings trying to slow their fall. But the signatures were to powerful to be that, now I would have gone to investigate myself, but with Equestria almost being taken over I couldn't. They started moving soon after I noticed them, and after an hour they stopped moving, my guess is they set up camp in the Everfree" Celestia explained. "The Everfree!? I hope they're safe" Fluttershy said, her voice rising ever so slightly. "This morning they started moving again... towards Ponyville. My question to you six is; would you find these creatures, and if possible, determine if they are hostile or not?" Celestia asked, indicating the mane six. "With all due respect princess, but, wouldn't in be better to send the royal guard? If they are as powerful as you say then they must be found and be taken in for questioning about why they're here" Shining Armor said. "That might have been the better option yes but if we would do that we could anger them into attacking us, and that wouldn't end pleasantly" Celestia retaliated. "... Fair enough" Shining Armor said. "So you're asking us to find three, potentially hostile, incredibly powerful creatures and if possible befriend them am I right?" Dash asked, being as blunt as ever. "Yes that is correct" Celestia replied honestly. "Well, we're-" "We'll gladly take this task upon us princess" Twilight said quickly, having closed Rainbows mouth with her magic. "Are you completely sure Twilight? This could be very dangerous" Celestia warned. "Yes I'm sure" Twilight replied with a smile. "Very well then" Celestia said with her own smile. And with that the subject was dropped and everyone went back to their regular topics. (1 hour later, train station) "I am expecting a full report when you befriend the creatures Twilight" Celestia said as Twilight was about to step onto the train to Ponyville. "Don't worry princess, I'm sure we can find those creatures and befriend them" Twilight said with a smile as she stepped onto the train. "I certainly hope so" Celestia thought as the train left towards Ponyville. Author's Note Hope you guys like it. Like I said in the description, this is just a side project Emerald Shield out Ch.2 A Dragon? AWESOME!!!(Everfree, 9 am) That same morning the three humans woke up early, well, Tino did anyways. "I can't believe how those two can sleep for that long, well, Shade anyways Ray is just on stand-by to regain some energy" The large man thought as he sat at the edge of their small camp, the camp was rather simple, consisting only of three basic travel mattresses, meaning they're rather thin, and a campfire. "I can't believe it's been eleven years, so much has happened already my dear Shade" Tino said to himself. (Flashback, eleven years ago, orphanage on earth) "Are you sure mister Fable? I already told you she's, different" A small woman said. Next to her stood a man, he was seven feet tall, had brown hair, green eyes, and wore a black business suit, and looked like he was in his mid twenties, it was Tino in disguise. You see, on planet earth only roughly five percent of the population has the ability to use magic, their bodies are much more resilient then a normal human body, and a Wizard has crazy colored hair and eyes. Wizards were looked down upon by the rest of society, mostly because most Wizards were disowned at a young age by their parents, they turn to a live of crime. "I am, I want to see this girl" Tino said, his full name was Florentine Fable, but in the crime world he was known as Tino. "And I know what you mean by different, just because she's a Wizard doesn't mean she's a monster, now take me to her" "R-right this way mister Fable" The small woman said as she led Tino to an iron cell door at the end of a long hallway. The woman knocked on the door. "Elizabeth! Someone's here for you!" The woman yelled through a small hatch in the door. "Go away" A soft and obviously sad voice said back. "Someone's here for you damn it! He might adopt you!" "I don't want to hurt anyone... go away" The voice said again. "You try, I don't give a damn about that kid anyway" The small woman said as she walked away after giving the keys to the door to Tino. Without a second thought Tino opened the door, in the far corner of the room was a little girl sitting with her back to him, her sky blue hair a stark contrast with the gloomy mood of the room. She didn't look older then nine years. "Hey, it's okay, I'm not gonna hurt you" Tino said as he put his right hand on the girls shoulder. "I said go away!" The girl yelled as she turned around, a pulse of raw magic throwing Tino flat on his ass. "Oh no! No I didn't mean to! Please don't hurt me!" She yelled in fear as Tino stood up and closed the door. Walking over to the cowering little girl, Tino took a knee in front of her, and let his disguise drop, his hair turning grey and pink again, and his eyes turning pink as well. "...You're... like me?" The little girl said, her blue purple eyes filled with confusion. "Yes, and I promise I won't hurt you, in fact, if you let me, I'll teach you how to use your magic, sound good?" Tino said with a smile. "R... really? This isn't some joke by the other kids?" The girl asked full of hope. Tino shook his head. "Mind telling me your name kid?" "...Elizabeth, Elizabeth Park" Elizabeth said extending her hand. "Florentine, Florentine Fable, but you can call me Tino" Tino said as he shook the girls hand. The girl smiled as she suddenly hugged the large man. Hesitant at first, Tino slowly gave in and hugged the girl back, they stayed like that for a couple minutes before Tino let loose and stood back up, re-activating his disguise with his magic. "Wait here a little bit I gotta sign the adoption papers" He said as he walked back out the door. Leaving the girl standing there with the biggest ever smile on her face. (End flashback) "So much has happened in those eleven years, and then four years ago we discovered Ray in an abandoned military facility, but that's a story to relive another time" Tino said to himself. Just then Shade woke up. *yawn* "Morning dad, sleep well?" Shade asked siting up with her legs crossed, not bothering to put on different clothes then the ones she slept in, all of them slept in the clothes they wore yesterday anyways. "I slept fine, better then ever actually, you?" Tino said. "Same" Shade said as she looked around before spotting Ray's still sleeping, she softly stood up and creeped over to him. Once she stood next to Ray's resting form she slammed her foot down next to his head as she yelled. "Wakey wakey Raymond it's a beauti-" She couldn't end that sentence as Ray's fist literally extended upwards and hit her in the face. Hard. All the while Ray mumbled. "Shatup Shade 'm resting" "Why you little!" Shade yelled almost beginning to strangle Ray. "You know that won't work right?" Tino said more as a statement then a question. "I know... it's just, he can be such a jackass sometimes" Shade grumbled as she walked back to her mattress and sat down. "Don't worry, everything'll be fine, we'll be back home eventually, I promise" Tino said. "Hit the nail in the head as always" Shade said with a sigh. "You sure though, for all we know we're on an entirely different planet!" "I'm sure, it might take some work but we'll get home.. I promise" Tino said with his hand over his heart. Shade smiled at that. "Good" Then Ray stood up, the soft buzzing of 'tired' servo motors accompanying his rise. "Morning Tino, Shade" He said as he made his head spin around in 360 degrees a couple times. "Oh that feels good in the early morning" Ray said as his head stopped spinning. "Finally awake?" Shade asked. "Stupid Shade, you know I don't REALLY sleep do you?" Ray stated with a smug grin on his face. Shade promptly retorted with grumbles. (Ponyville, 1.30 pm, library) "So, how powerful do you all think the creatures are?" Twilight asked the rest of the mane six. The six of them had returned to Ponyville about a half hour ago, and were now sitting in Twilight's library conversing about the three creatures that were supposedly very powerful. "Well they can't be THAT powerful if the princess isn't going after 'em herself right? Right?" Rainbow offered, looking a little more scared then she wanted herself to look. "That's a good hypothesis Rainbow but princess Celestia told us that she couldn't go herself because she had a lot of duties right now, so that idea is out of the water" Twilight explained. "Ah think we should just get it over with an fin' those darn things" Applejack retorted. "Yeah! That way I can throw them a party quicker!" Pinkie Pie yelled. At that everypony, even Fluttershy, promptly facehoofed. "Pinkie darling, we don't even know if they are sentient" Rarity deadpanned. "What! Why would they be sentries that's just stupid!" Pinkie dumbassed. More facehoofs all around. "Whatever let's just find those things" Rainbow said as she flew out the door. "That's probably the best course of action" Twilight said as she and the rest walked out the door, well, Pinkie hopped but still. (2 pm, Everfree forest) "Are you sure we're going the right way Twilight? I don't think the creatures would be this deep in the forest" Rarity worriedly said. "Don't worry Rarity, I might not be as tuned in to magic signatures as the princess but even I can pick up three incredibly powerful ones" Twilight assured her. Soon enough the mane six heard a female voice from deeper within the forest. "I that a dragon!? AWESOME!!!" Fluttershy eeped as she hid behind Applejack. "Who was that?" Rainbow asked to nopony in particular as a massive dragon roar rumbled through the forest. "Looks like a basic fire dragon, you take it on Ray" Another voice came from within the forest. "They're gonna take on a dragon!? Are those ponies crazy!?" Twilight yelled as she and the rest picked up the pace. Soon enough they came upon a cave only to hear something from within. "Core Switch; Dragon Lacrima... ROAR OF THE..." Twilight's eyes widened as she realized what it was. "Everypony duck!!!" She yelled as she magically threw herself and the rest flat on the ground. "PLASMA DRAGON!!! Not a second after a beam of dark green what looked like fire passed over them almost cooking them alive. It stopped as fast as it came. "Is everypony alright?" Twilight asked, only to hear Rarity scream. "RARITY!!!" The remaining five yelled as they turned to Rarity... only to see her perfectly fine. "My hear! Look what it did to my hair!!!" Rarity yelled as she held her now burned hair in her magic. Everypony let lose a breath they didn't know they were holding, because it was SO awful to have a little bit of your mane burned away instead of being melted into a puddle. "What was that!?" Rainbow yelled. "THAT, was Dragon Slayer magic!" Twilight said in complete and utter shock. "D-D-D-Dragon Slayer magic!?" Fluttershy said at a normal tone. "Yes, but, but how is that possible!? Dragon Slayers grew extinct four hundred years ago!" Twilight yelled with even more shock. "Hold on a sec, what's a Dragon Slayer?" Applejack asked with a confused look on her face. "A Dragon Slayer is a pony or a griffin or any other being that has natural magic, that wields Dragon Magic to defeat it's opponents" Twilight explained. "Dragon magic? Dragons have magic?" Rainbow asked, not understanding why a giant fire-breathing lizard would need magic. "Yes they do Rainbow, but that's not important right now, let's go the creatures might be in here!" Twilight said as she trotted into the cave, the cave, surprisingly, was mostly untouched, one would think that a breath like the one just now would melt everything in sight but no, the cave was fine... somehow. "Dude that was AWESOME!!! Did you see how that dragon went like; ROOOOOAAAR!!! And you were like ROAR OF THE PLASMA DRAGON!!! Oh that was awesome!" The mane six heard from within the cave, soon they saw the source of the shouting, the three humans we all know were in the middle of a large chamber filled to the brim with gold and gems. There they saw Tino sitting on a separate pile of gems actually MUNCHING ON THE GEMS. Quickly though Ray noticed the six of them. "Are those.. ponies?" He said with a surprised look on his face. "Oh my gosh they're so cute!" Shade said making a pouty face as she held her hands against her cheeks. The mane six said nothing as they were shocked with the fact that the beings could talk... and found them cute. Ray was not amused as he loudly clapped his hands together, shocking the mane six out of their stupor. "Don't worry, we won't do anything to hurt you" Tino said calmly as he kept munching on gems. "How... how can you eat gems?" Twilight asked hesitantly. "Oh my gosh they can talk!? AWESOME!!!" Shade yelled only to be silenced by Tino holding his hand in the air. "I don't think that's the reason you're here is it?" Tino asked calmly, now munching on a diamond. "Oh right, sorry" Twilight said sheepishly. "Me and my friends here were tasked by the ruler of our country, princes Celestia, to find three incredibly powerful magic signatures that appeared out of nowhere, I take it you three are the owners of those signatures?" "Well the three of us are some of the most powerful wizards on planet earth so I guess we are" Shade said after calming down a bit. "Earth? What's that?" Rainbow asked with a confused look on her face. "Just like I thought, we're not on earth anymore" Ray said followed by him sighing. "Again, what's earth?" Rainbow asked again. "Earth... is our planet, it's our home, where we come from" Tino sadly said. "Then, what are you doing here?" Rarity asked. "Shall we be honest with them?" Shade asked Ray and Tino. Ray and Tino looked at each other then back at Shade, and nodded. "On earth, the three of us are... not that famous, I'll just say it like that" Shade slowly said. "Why, aren't you three powerful wizards? Doesn't that make you famous?" Twilight asked. "On earth only roughly five percent of the population has the ability to use magic, and that's not a good thing, most wizards are disowned by their parents and put in orphanages at a young age" Tino explained. The mane six all gasped at that. "But why? With magic you can do such great things!" Twilight exclaimed. "We're simply tools" Shade said bitterly. "On earth the three of us are known as The Slayers, a trio of Slayers protecting our country from dragons, but even though we do that, when we walk on the streets the chance that we're called sins is far greater then us being called saints" Tino bitterly added. "... It's probably best if we drop this topic, what are your names?" Twilight asked. "I'm Elizabeth Park, but everybody calls me Shade, I'm the Shadow Dragon Slayer" Shade said. "My name is Raymond Ruvio, but my friends know me simply as Ray, I'm the Plasma Dragon Slayer" Ray said. "... And my name is Florentine Fable, better known as Tino, father to Shade and the Seraph... God... Slayer" Tino said, hesitating on the end. "GOD SLAYER!?" The mane six yelled. "Yes, I have the power to... *sigh*... take down a god, never did get to test it though, and I hope I never will have to" Tino said, having stopped eating gems a couple minutes ago "Okay, I'm not gonna go to deep into to that, but father to Shade? Aren't you a little to young to be?" Twilight asked. "Tino adopted me when I was nine years old, he was twenty five at the time, I'm currently twenty and he's thirty six" Shade explained. "And how old are you?" Twilight asked Ray. "As far as I know I'm four years old, that needs a little explanation, I lost my memory four and a half years ago" Ray said. "Oh, that sucks" Rainbow said. "It does, but luckily four years ago Shade and Tino found me at the facility I woke up, they helped me rediscover my past, and trained me" Ray explained. "That's very generous of them, to help a complete stranger" Rarity said. "Before anything else, what are your names?" Tino asked. "Oh I'm sorry, my name is Twilight Sparkle, and these are Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity and Pinkie Pie" Twilight said indicating her friends. "Weird names" Tino said. "Like you have a normal name!" Rainbow retorted. "Actually, Florentine, Raymond and Elizabeth are pretty popular names in the griffon kingdom" Twilight deadpanned. "Oh, I didn't know that" Rainbow guiltily said. "Hmm, now, do you three mind coming with us?" Twilight asked the three humans. "Where to?" Shade asked. "The town of Ponyville" Twilight simply said. "... Nah, I think we'll stay here" Shade said again. "What!? You mean to stay here!? In the Everfree forest!?" Fluttershy exclaimed. "Got a problem with that?" Tino asked. "Yeah of course we do! The Everfree is full of predators and monsters!" Twilight yelled. "...We'll be fine, trust me" Tino said with a genuine smile. "FINE!" Twilight yelled before she stomped of, grumbling all they while. "Twilight!" Rarity yelled as she and the rest of the mane six followed their friend. "Are you sure you're gonna be fine?" Applejack asked as she looked Tino straight in the eyes. "Yes, we'll be fine, we can handle ourselves" Tino said with nothing but honesty in his eyes. "... Okay then, I'll Twilight to calm down then" And with that Applejack followed her friends. "Now, let's liven up the place shall we?" Tino said with a smile as the mane six disappeared from view. Author's Note I meant to get this out yesterday, oh well, one day doesn't hurt to much right? Now you might be asking, "where did the dragon go?" It vaporized, yeah, that's how hot Ray's plasma attacks are Emerald Shield out Ch.3 White Rabbit"Now, let's liven up the place shall we?" Tino said with a smile as the mane six disappeared from view. "And how do you suggest we do that?" Ray asked already knowing the answer. "Alchemy of course!" Tino replied with a smile as he stood up, walked over to his backpack which was standing against a wall to the right with the backpack of Shade and Ray. Crouching down he opened his backpack, which had the same symbol on it as he had on his t-shirt, and fished out a white chalk-stick. Walking over to the middle of the room he drew a magic circle on the ground with a diameter of about four feet. "What do we make first?" Tino asked. "What about actual beds? I'm getting sick of those travel mattresses" Shade said. "Sure thing" Tino said as he walked around before spotting a large treasure chest standing at about seven feet tall and ten foot wide. "Is there anything in here?" Tino asked himself as he walked up to the chest, steps of gemstone bursting from the ground lifting him up as he walked up to it. He opened it. "It's completely filled with gems!" Tino yelled as his mouth began to water. Licking his lips he snatched an emerald out of the chest and ate it. "So good! I haven't had an emerald since we raided the Louvre two years ago!" He then, with barely any effort at all, levitated the chest up and dumped it's contents on the ground before setting the now empty chest right-side-up on top of the magic circle. He then walked to the new pile of loot and fished out a couple silver and gold bars and threw 'em in the chest. He then walked to the magic circle and put his hands on the outer edge. With a flash and an explosion of steam, three perfectly fine beds were now standing next to each other in the magic circle. "This gonna be good!" Shade said as she and Ray each drew magic circles on the ground as well, both of them looking for things to trans-mutate. (Ponyville, a half hour later) "Spike, take a note please" Twilight said as she entered her library. "Huh what?" Spike said as he woke up from napping on the couch that stood in the library. "I want you to take a note please" Twilight said as she impatiently tapped her hoof on the ground. "Oh sure" Spike said as he whipped out a piece of paper and a quill. "Dear princess Celestia. Me and my friends have successfully made contact with the three creatures and have asked them to come with us to Ponyville. They didn't comply and are instead staying in a cave in the Everfree forest. They call themselves The Slayers, and their names are Elizabeth 'Shade' Park, Raymond 'Ray' Ruvio, and lastly Florentine 'Tino' Fable. Elizabeth is a Shadow Dragon Slayer, Raymond is a Plasma Dragon Slayer, and Florentine is a Seraph God Slayer. As of right now I know not how they arrived in the forest. But I do know that Raymond took out a fully grown dragon by himself. I eagerly expect your decision on what must be done. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle" Twilight said as Spike scribbled everything down before he rolled the letter up and breathed a bit of fire on it to send it away. "It's on it's way" Spike said as the letter's smoke traveled through the window. Not a minute later Spike burped up another letter. "This soon?" Twilight said as she took the letter in her magic. As she read it her eyes widened until she screamed. "WHAT!?" And ran out the door. "I wonder what that's about?" Spike said as he picked up the letter. "We're on our way, wait in front of library. Cadence" Was all it said. "Huh?" Spike said as he walked outside, seeing a set of two chariots already closing in on Ponyville, Twilight already standing at the spot he presumed the chariots would land. In the following seconds the rest of the mane six arrived at the site as well. "Whatever" Spike said as he walked back inside. "Did you get letters as well?" Rarity asked as they all came within earshot of each other. "You too?" Applejack asked as she fished a letter out from under her Stetson. "Yeah me too" Rainbow said as she took out a letter as well. *gasp* "What if we were all invited to a super awesome party!" Pinkie said in a, for her, moment of clarity. "I doubt that Pinkie, I think they're coming here to see Tino, Ray, and Shade" Twilight said as the chariots landed in front of them. Carrying, indeed, Cadence, Shining Armor and both Celestia and Luna. The mane six bowed as Celestia and Luna stepped off of the chariots. "Rise my little ponies. We are not here to visit" Celestia said. "In fact we would like to see these 'Slayers' Twilight told us about in her letter" Luna said. "I'd rather immediately start questioning them" Shining Armor chimed in. "Now now dear, I'm sure they're nice ponies" Cadence said. "Well if you want to see the three of them follow me please" Twilight said as she started walking to the forest. "I would like you four to come with us, we can't be sure they aren't hostile" Shining said to the four guards that pulled the two chariots. The Slayers are unknowns, Shining Armor doesn't like unknowns. With that they all started walking to the forest. (Everfree Forest, forty-five minutes later) "We're almost there" Twilight said as they could see the cave, where the three humans were staying, coming up. "Guards, stay on edge, we don't now if we can trust them" Shining Armor said. "I think they'll be nice ponies I've already told you that. A large flash of light came out of the opening of the cave. "Holy fuck!!!" They all heard coming from the cave. "That was Ray!" Fluttershy said as she took of to the cave, the others following her. When the group of ponies came into the cave they could see Tino and Shade looking up the sealing. "You alright up there?" Shade yelled toward the sealing. Which was pretty high. "Experiment... Failed!" The voice of Ray sounded from the sealing. "What happened!?" Fluttershy said as she reached Shade and Tino. Tino simply pointed upwards. "Oh my gosh!" Fluttershy exclaimed as she looked upwards, seeing Ray literally sticking out of the sealing from the waist up. "Wait, what experiment?" Twilight asked. "I tried to use matter displacement magic in conjunction with anti gravity. As you can see I got stuck in the sealing" Ray answered. After that Celestia lightly coughed to gain attention. "And who're you?" Shade asked. "It's quite alright guard" Celestia said as she saw that one of the guards was about to yell at Shade. "I am princess Celestia, I along with my sister princess Luna rule the country you now reside in" "So?" Shade said. "Now, now, Shade you should always treat authority with respect. Besides the cops, or the army" Tino said. "Sorry she's still young" He continued. "It's quite alright. Can I assume you are the leader of this little group of yours?" Celestia said. "Yes. Florentine Fable at your service, everybody calls me Tino" The large man said with a bow. "I'm Shade, that idiot up there is Ray" Shade said as she pointed upwards with her thumb. "I heard that!" Ray said as he broke out of the sealing, landing flat on his face behind Tino. "On a different note, what did you mean not respecting cops or the army?" Shining Armor asked with a curious expression, Ray standing up again. "We don't like them, simple as that" Ray said. "Don't they protect you we're you come from?" Cadence asked. "...No, we're hunted by them" Tino said. "Why? Are you evil!?" Shining asked. "Wow, wow, where did that come from!?" Ray yelled. "Yeah, what did we ever do to you!?" Shade continued. "All I want to do is keep my country save!" Shining said with a stern expression. "I've met many who said those same words, they don't walk amongst the living anymore" Tino deadpanned. "What!? You've killed!?" Cadence yelled, Fluttershy jumping backwards towards her friends as the four guards formed a semi-circle before them. "More then enough to see that you are not a threat to me and my family" Tino continued. "That isn't true! Princess Celestia is the most powerful of all!" Twilight yelled. "Then we are here to tell you, that you're wrong" Ray said with a toxic expression. A deadly silence filled the chamber. The only ones that remained stoic were Celestia and Luna. "Well. This turned out great didn't it?" A deep, disembodied voice said. "Who's there!?" One of the guards yelled. "Show yourself!" Shining Armor continued. "Ugh, you're no fun at all" The voice said as a black mist appeared. Out of it stepped an alicorn, black coat, black mane, pure white eyes, and a white scythe for a cutie mark. "No, not now" Celestia and Luna said in synch with shocked and afraid expressions. "Oh but it's the best timing ever. Considering I just found three prime subjects for my program" The black alicorn said. "Who're you!?" Rainbow Dash yelled. "Me, oh I'm just the humble Grimm Reaper of course. Call me Death" The black alicorn evidently known as Death said with a wink. "No way!" Shade said, the hints of a smile playing at her lips. "Yes way!" Death said with a smile of his own as he walked over to the group. He easily outclassed Celestia in hight, standing at a healthy six-foot two-inches, if you count the horn, opposed to Celestia's five feet horn included. "Oh no, don't tell me you're gonna-" Luna tried to say. "Oh but I will. Slayers, how would you like to have purpose again? To stop your years of petty theft, although I have to say you're raid on the Louvre was amazing to watch, and have a job protecting people? To help me cleanse this world of all that is wrong and evil?" Death said as he cycled between looking at Ray, Shade and Tino. "Wait what!?" Tino yelled. "How do you know about-" Ray tried to ask. "I watched your memories. I am the most powerful entity in the known world you know" Death interrupted. "You watched our memories!?" Shade yelled. "Oh I did and they were quite... something. Especially the one where you ended up naked in a closet" Death said chuckling, his chuckle was warm, but at the same time hollow. Shade blushed furiously as she made a move to punch Death in the face, which he blocked by taking a hold of her hand. "Don't do that. A bee only attacks when attacked himself" Death cryptically said. "Sorry, I didn't mean to" Shade said as she retreated back. "Are you serious though? You want us to help you fight crime?" Ray asked. "When said like that it makes my organization sound like its full of Goody Two-Shoes. But that's the point yes" Death replied. "A chance is what I'm offering you, if you don't want to join me you can either A; fight crime on your own, or B; continue thieving your way onto my most wanted list. If you choose option B you won't live longer then five years from now, just pointing that out" He continued. "So either way we have to fight crime if we wish to live our lives out?" Tino asked. "Yup" Death said nonchalantly. Tino looked at Shade, she nodded. He looked at Ray, he nodded as well. "Well then. We accept" Tino said as he extended his hand. Death shook his hand. "Slayers, I welcome you, to White Rabbit" He said as he and the three humans disappeared in a shroud of black mist. "Princesses, what did we just play witness to?" Shining Armor asked. "A realization, that they really are more powerful then me and the Elements of Harmony" Celestia said. "Say what-now?" Applejack asked. "Death only accepts warriors that are more powerful then the Elements in his organization" Luna said. "...Wait" Twilight said. "WHAAAAT!!!!?" Author's Note Sorry if it feels a little cut of at the end. Oh and a new chapter yaaaaay! Emerald Shield out
Ch.1 Appearence of The SlayersTalon wasn't having a very good day. Talon, being a wild eagle, was hunting for mice to bring home to his family for dinner. He didn't have any luck so far, probably because that pink blast from that city on the mountain caused all the mice to hide underground. Seeing the Ghastly Gorge coming into view, Talon thought that the mice in there probably hadn't seen nor sensed that blast! Swooping down to the gorge, and then flying to the ground and then landing on the ground, Talon began looking for the white little beings. Not seeing anything in particular, Talon walked across the bottom of the gorge. Five minutes later, he heard an echo. "Are you sure about this Ray? Last time you did this we ended up inside a closet... naked" The echo was of a female voice! She sounded rather worried. Before Talon could think about this some more another echo appeared. "Don't worry Shade, my calculations are one hundred percent perfect, now shut up, I gotta concentrate" This one was male and sounded rather monotone. "If I know Ray, then he can do this, I taught you two everything I know about magic, and if anyone can pull enough Eternanos together to punch a hole through space, it's Ray" A third voice said, this one sounding almost fatherly, stern yet kind. Talon, being the curious eagle he is, waited for some more voices, none more came. Getting rather bored, Talon was just about to fly away when a swirling mass of blue appeared thirty feet in the air. "Oh SHIIIIIIT!!!" The third voice from earlier sounded from the mass of blue. Soon what seemed like the owner of the voice fell from the portal. Followed by two more things. One of the tree landed on it's feet whilst the other two face-planted into the ground. After that the portal quickly closed. The one that landed on it's feet, rose to it's full height, standing at five and a half feet tall, the being was bipedal, had sky blue hair in a mohawk, and blue'ish purple eyes. It wore blue sneakers, black sweat pants and a black tank top. From the roundings the being had Talon decided it was female. The other two beings slowly got up. The second tallest of the two stood at precisely six foot tall, had dark green hair which went up in spikes, and dark green eyes as well. It wore shiny red metal boots, dark green cargo pants, and a blue hoodie with a green flame where it's heart was. This one along with other looked more bulky and rough around the edges, Talon decided these where male. The last stood at a startling seven feet tall, had grey hair ending in pink which hung lazily over it's head, and pink eyes. It wore grey shoes, blue cargo pants and a grey t-shirt with a what looked a pink diamond over its chest. All three beings wore backpacks that matched their color schemes. The female looked around a bit before hitting the shorter male upside the head. "Damn it Ray! You did it wrong again!" The female said. "Look at it from the bright side, at least we didn't end up naked in a closet" the short male offered. The female got a blush over her face before yelling. "Easy for you to say!" "Now now simmer down you two, if you want bash each others face in do that when we're home. Ray got a grip on the Eternanos yet?" The tall male asked. "No, strange, I can't seem to get a grip on the Eternanos here, they're much... smoother, then usual" the short male identified as Ray said. "Smoother? But that could only be if there are a lot of Mages here, and only five percent of the world population is a Mage, right?" The female. "Indeed Shade, only five percent. Well it doesn't matter, let's just explore a little bit" the tall male said. "Sure why not" The female identified as Shade said. "I'll get us outta this gorge... Core Switch; Flight Core" Ray said as a dark green magic circle appeared over his chest. Ray then grabbed onto the other twos arms and lifted of into the air, bright blue flames jetting out from under his boots. "This is way past weird" Talon thought as he lifted of to go home, preparing himself for telling his family there will be no dinner tonight. (1 hour later) "Just where did you take us Ray?" Shade asked with a puzzled look on her face as the three humans walked through the forest located next to the gorge they appeared in. "I... don't know, this place doesn't match any maps of earth I have" Ray replied with a stunned look on his face. "Tino? do you know anything?" Ray asked the large man. The large man known as Tino said nothing. "Dad?" Shade asked. "Oh sorry gang I was mesmerized by four incredibly powerful magic signatures north-east of our location" Tino said. "How powerful?" Shade asked. "Let's just say that the most powerful is about as strong as me" "What!? Then it must be a god!" Shade yelled, surprised that there can someone as strong as her father. "It is, from what I could make out it has the very power of the sun behind it... the second most powerful seems to have the power of the moon, both of these are immortal... Ray fly straight up and see if you can see where the powers are located" Tino said as the three stopped walking. "Right" Ray said as he flew up with the same blue flames under his boots. Flying high enough he could see a MASSIVE city hanging from a far off mountain. "That's gotta be held up by magic" He said to himself as he looked around a little more, spotting a small town to the north outside the forest, he then cut the flames and fell to the ground, leaving a small impact crater on the ground as he landed. "And?" Shade asked. As he got back up Ray said. "I don't know how, but there is a massive city hanging from the side of a mountain, that's probably where those signatures are located" "Hmm, probably. Anything else?" Tino asked. "Yes, small town north of the forest, perhaps we should go there?" Ray answered. "Yes, we will, what time is it by the way?" "It looks to be four in the afternoon from the position of the sun" Shade answered after she looked up for a little bit. "Well then we'll set up camp here for now, that fine with you guys?" Tino asked. "Yeah sure" Ray replied. "Again, why not" Shade said. And with the that the three dropped their backpacks to the ground and chose everything they would need to survive a night in the forest. (The next morning, 11 am, Canterlot castle dining room) The morning after the wedding, the mane six, Princess Luna and Celestia, and Cadence and Shining Armor, were simply sitting in the dining room eating breakfast, like nothing had happened the day before... well, all except one. "And did you see how I bucked those changelings to next week! It was so awesome!" Rainbow Dash said with an expression of pure glee. "Yeah Dash we saw it all right, we were there 'member?" Applejack retorted, annoyance apparent in her voice. "I know but IT WAS AWESOME!!!" Dash yelled. Loudly. Before she could say anything else, princess Celestia magically tapped her spoon against her glass. Gaining everyponies attention. "Now, on to more pressing matters" Celestia spoke. "You felt it too, didn't you sister?" Princess Luna asked. "Yes, yes I did" Celestia replied, knowing exactly what her sister meant. "Felt what?" Twilight Sparkle asked, not liking that she was being left out of something. "Yesterday, right after the Changelings were disposed of, three incredibly powerful magical signatures appeared out of nowhere, now first I thought this was the work of three Changelings trying to slow their fall. But the signatures were to powerful to be that, now I would have gone to investigate myself, but with Equestria almost being taken over I couldn't. They started moving soon after I noticed them, and after an hour they stopped moving, my guess is they set up camp in the Everfree" Celestia explained. "The Everfree!? I hope they're safe" Fluttershy said, her voice rising ever so slightly. "This morning they started moving again... towards Ponyville. My question to you six is; would you find these creatures, and if possible, determine if they are hostile or not?" Celestia asked, indicating the mane six. "With all due respect princess, but, wouldn't in be better to send the royal guard? If they are as powerful as you say then they must be found and be taken in for questioning about why they're here" Shining Armor said. "That might have been the better option yes but if we would do that we could anger them into attacking us, and that wouldn't end pleasantly" Celestia retaliated. "... Fair enough" Shining Armor said. "So you're asking us to find three, potentially hostile, incredibly powerful creatures and if possible befriend them am I right?" Dash asked, being as blunt as ever. "Yes that is correct" Celestia replied honestly. "Well, we're-" "We'll gladly take this task upon us princess" Twilight said quickly, having closed Rainbows mouth with her magic. "Are you completely sure Twilight? This could be very dangerous" Celestia warned. "Yes I'm sure" Twilight replied with a smile. "Very well then" Celestia said with her own smile. And with that the subject was dropped and everyone went back to their regular topics. (1 hour later, train station) "I am expecting a full report when you befriend the creatures Twilight" Celestia said as Twilight was about to step onto the train to Ponyville. "Don't worry princess, I'm sure we can find those creatures and befriend them" Twilight said with a smile as she stepped onto the train. "I certainly hope so" Celestia thought as the train left towards Ponyville. Author's Note Hope you guys like it. Like I said in the description, this is just a side project Emerald Shield out
Ch.2 A Dragon? AWESOME!!!(Everfree, 9 am) That same morning the three humans woke up early, well, Tino did anyways. "I can't believe how those two can sleep for that long, well, Shade anyways Ray is just on stand-by to regain some energy" The large man thought as he sat at the edge of their small camp, the camp was rather simple, consisting only of three basic travel mattresses, meaning they're rather thin, and a campfire. "I can't believe it's been eleven years, so much has happened already my dear Shade" Tino said to himself. (Flashback, eleven years ago, orphanage on earth) "Are you sure mister Fable? I already told you she's, different" A small woman said. Next to her stood a man, he was seven feet tall, had brown hair, green eyes, and wore a black business suit, and looked like he was in his mid twenties, it was Tino in disguise. You see, on planet earth only roughly five percent of the population has the ability to use magic, their bodies are much more resilient then a normal human body, and a Wizard has crazy colored hair and eyes. Wizards were looked down upon by the rest of society, mostly because most Wizards were disowned at a young age by their parents, they turn to a live of crime. "I am, I want to see this girl" Tino said, his full name was Florentine Fable, but in the crime world he was known as Tino. "And I know what you mean by different, just because she's a Wizard doesn't mean she's a monster, now take me to her" "R-right this way mister Fable" The small woman said as she led Tino to an iron cell door at the end of a long hallway. The woman knocked on the door. "Elizabeth! Someone's here for you!" The woman yelled through a small hatch in the door. "Go away" A soft and obviously sad voice said back. "Someone's here for you damn it! He might adopt you!" "I don't want to hurt anyone... go away" The voice said again. "You try, I don't give a damn about that kid anyway" The small woman said as she walked away after giving the keys to the door to Tino. Without a second thought Tino opened the door, in the far corner of the room was a little girl sitting with her back to him, her sky blue hair a stark contrast with the gloomy mood of the room. She didn't look older then nine years. "Hey, it's okay, I'm not gonna hurt you" Tino said as he put his right hand on the girls shoulder. "I said go away!" The girl yelled as she turned around, a pulse of raw magic throwing Tino flat on his ass. "Oh no! No I didn't mean to! Please don't hurt me!" She yelled in fear as Tino stood up and closed the door. Walking over to the cowering little girl, Tino took a knee in front of her, and let his disguise drop, his hair turning grey and pink again, and his eyes turning pink as well. "...You're... like me?" The little girl said, her blue purple eyes filled with confusion. "Yes, and I promise I won't hurt you, in fact, if you let me, I'll teach you how to use your magic, sound good?" Tino said with a smile. "R... really? This isn't some joke by the other kids?" The girl asked full of hope. Tino shook his head. "Mind telling me your name kid?" "...Elizabeth, Elizabeth Park" Elizabeth said extending her hand. "Florentine, Florentine Fable, but you can call me Tino" Tino said as he shook the girls hand. The girl smiled as she suddenly hugged the large man. Hesitant at first, Tino slowly gave in and hugged the girl back, they stayed like that for a couple minutes before Tino let loose and stood back up, re-activating his disguise with his magic. "Wait here a little bit I gotta sign the adoption papers" He said as he walked back out the door. Leaving the girl standing there with the biggest ever smile on her face. (End flashback) "So much has happened in those eleven years, and then four years ago we discovered Ray in an abandoned military facility, but that's a story to relive another time" Tino said to himself. Just then Shade woke up. *yawn* "Morning dad, sleep well?" Shade asked siting up with her legs crossed, not bothering to put on different clothes then the ones she slept in, all of them slept in the clothes they wore yesterday anyways. "I slept fine, better then ever actually, you?" Tino said. "Same" Shade said as she looked around before spotting Ray's still sleeping, she softly stood up and creeped over to him. Once she stood next to Ray's resting form she slammed her foot down next to his head as she yelled. "Wakey wakey Raymond it's a beauti-" She couldn't end that sentence as Ray's fist literally extended upwards and hit her in the face. Hard. All the while Ray mumbled. "Shatup Shade 'm resting" "Why you little!" Shade yelled almost beginning to strangle Ray. "You know that won't work right?" Tino said more as a statement then a question. "I know... it's just, he can be such a jackass sometimes" Shade grumbled as she walked back to her mattress and sat down. "Don't worry, everything'll be fine, we'll be back home eventually, I promise" Tino said. "Hit the nail in the head as always" Shade said with a sigh. "You sure though, for all we know we're on an entirely different planet!" "I'm sure, it might take some work but we'll get home.. I promise" Tino said with his hand over his heart. Shade smiled at that. "Good" Then Ray stood up, the soft buzzing of 'tired' servo motors accompanying his rise. "Morning Tino, Shade" He said as he made his head spin around in 360 degrees a couple times. "Oh that feels good in the early morning" Ray said as his head stopped spinning. "Finally awake?" Shade asked. "Stupid Shade, you know I don't REALLY sleep do you?" Ray stated with a smug grin on his face. Shade promptly retorted with grumbles. (Ponyville, 1.30 pm, library) "So, how powerful do you all think the creatures are?" Twilight asked the rest of the mane six. The six of them had returned to Ponyville about a half hour ago, and were now sitting in Twilight's library conversing about the three creatures that were supposedly very powerful. "Well they can't be THAT powerful if the princess isn't going after 'em herself right? Right?" Rainbow offered, looking a little more scared then she wanted herself to look. "That's a good hypothesis Rainbow but princess Celestia told us that she couldn't go herself because she had a lot of duties right now, so that idea is out of the water" Twilight explained. "Ah think we should just get it over with an fin' those darn things" Applejack retorted. "Yeah! That way I can throw them a party quicker!" Pinkie Pie yelled. At that everypony, even Fluttershy, promptly facehoofed. "Pinkie darling, we don't even know if they are sentient" Rarity deadpanned. "What! Why would they be sentries that's just stupid!" Pinkie dumbassed. More facehoofs all around. "Whatever let's just find those things" Rainbow said as she flew out the door. "That's probably the best course of action" Twilight said as she and the rest walked out the door, well, Pinkie hopped but still. (2 pm, Everfree forest) "Are you sure we're going the right way Twilight? I don't think the creatures would be this deep in the forest" Rarity worriedly said. "Don't worry Rarity, I might not be as tuned in to magic signatures as the princess but even I can pick up three incredibly powerful ones" Twilight assured her. Soon enough the mane six heard a female voice from deeper within the forest. "I that a dragon!? AWESOME!!!" Fluttershy eeped as she hid behind Applejack. "Who was that?" Rainbow asked to nopony in particular as a massive dragon roar rumbled through the forest. "Looks like a basic fire dragon, you take it on Ray" Another voice came from within the forest. "They're gonna take on a dragon!? Are those ponies crazy!?" Twilight yelled as she and the rest picked up the pace. Soon enough they came upon a cave only to hear something from within. "Core Switch; Dragon Lacrima... ROAR OF THE..." Twilight's eyes widened as she realized what it was. "Everypony duck!!!" She yelled as she magically threw herself and the rest flat on the ground. "PLASMA DRAGON!!! Not a second after a beam of dark green what looked like fire passed over them almost cooking them alive. It stopped as fast as it came. "Is everypony alright?" Twilight asked, only to hear Rarity scream. "RARITY!!!" The remaining five yelled as they turned to Rarity... only to see her perfectly fine. "My hear! Look what it did to my hair!!!" Rarity yelled as she held her now burned hair in her magic. Everypony let lose a breath they didn't know they were holding, because it was SO awful to have a little bit of your mane burned away instead of being melted into a puddle. "What was that!?" Rainbow yelled. "THAT, was Dragon Slayer magic!" Twilight said in complete and utter shock. "D-D-D-Dragon Slayer magic!?" Fluttershy said at a normal tone. "Yes, but, but how is that possible!? Dragon Slayers grew extinct four hundred years ago!" Twilight yelled with even more shock. "Hold on a sec, what's a Dragon Slayer?" Applejack asked with a confused look on her face. "A Dragon Slayer is a pony or a griffin or any other being that has natural magic, that wields Dragon Magic to defeat it's opponents" Twilight explained. "Dragon magic? Dragons have magic?" Rainbow asked, not understanding why a giant fire-breathing lizard would need magic. "Yes they do Rainbow, but that's not important right now, let's go the creatures might be in here!" Twilight said as she trotted into the cave, the cave, surprisingly, was mostly untouched, one would think that a breath like the one just now would melt everything in sight but no, the cave was fine... somehow. "Dude that was AWESOME!!! Did you see how that dragon went like; ROOOOOAAAR!!! And you were like ROAR OF THE PLASMA DRAGON!!! Oh that was awesome!" The mane six heard from within the cave, soon they saw the source of the shouting, the three humans we all know were in the middle of a large chamber filled to the brim with gold and gems. There they saw Tino sitting on a separate pile of gems actually MUNCHING ON THE GEMS. Quickly though Ray noticed the six of them. "Are those.. ponies?" He said with a surprised look on his face. "Oh my gosh they're so cute!" Shade said making a pouty face as she held her hands against her cheeks. The mane six said nothing as they were shocked with the fact that the beings could talk... and found them cute. Ray was not amused as he loudly clapped his hands together, shocking the mane six out of their stupor. "Don't worry, we won't do anything to hurt you" Tino said calmly as he kept munching on gems. "How... how can you eat gems?" Twilight asked hesitantly. "Oh my gosh they can talk!? AWESOME!!!" Shade yelled only to be silenced by Tino holding his hand in the air. "I don't think that's the reason you're here is it?" Tino asked calmly, now munching on a diamond. "Oh right, sorry" Twilight said sheepishly. "Me and my friends here were tasked by the ruler of our country, princes Celestia, to find three incredibly powerful magic signatures that appeared out of nowhere, I take it you three are the owners of those signatures?" "Well the three of us are some of the most powerful wizards on planet earth so I guess we are" Shade said after calming down a bit. "Earth? What's that?" Rainbow asked with a confused look on her face. "Just like I thought, we're not on earth anymore" Ray said followed by him sighing. "Again, what's earth?" Rainbow asked again. "Earth... is our planet, it's our home, where we come from" Tino sadly said. "Then, what are you doing here?" Rarity asked. "Shall we be honest with them?" Shade asked Ray and Tino. Ray and Tino looked at each other then back at Shade, and nodded. "On earth, the three of us are... not that famous, I'll just say it like that" Shade slowly said. "Why, aren't you three powerful wizards? Doesn't that make you famous?" Twilight asked. "On earth only roughly five percent of the population has the ability to use magic, and that's not a good thing, most wizards are disowned by their parents and put in orphanages at a young age" Tino explained. The mane six all gasped at that. "But why? With magic you can do such great things!" Twilight exclaimed. "We're simply tools" Shade said bitterly. "On earth the three of us are known as The Slayers, a trio of Slayers protecting our country from dragons, but even though we do that, when we walk on the streets the chance that we're called sins is far greater then us being called saints" Tino bitterly added. "... It's probably best if we drop this topic, what are your names?" Twilight asked. "I'm Elizabeth Park, but everybody calls me Shade, I'm the Shadow Dragon Slayer" Shade said. "My name is Raymond Ruvio, but my friends know me simply as Ray, I'm the Plasma Dragon Slayer" Ray said. "... And my name is Florentine Fable, better known as Tino, father to Shade and the Seraph... God... Slayer" Tino said, hesitating on the end. "GOD SLAYER!?" The mane six yelled. "Yes, I have the power to... *sigh*... take down a god, never did get to test it though, and I hope I never will have to" Tino said, having stopped eating gems a couple minutes ago "Okay, I'm not gonna go to deep into to that, but father to Shade? Aren't you a little to young to be?" Twilight asked. "Tino adopted me when I was nine years old, he was twenty five at the time, I'm currently twenty and he's thirty six" Shade explained. "And how old are you?" Twilight asked Ray. "As far as I know I'm four years old, that needs a little explanation, I lost my memory four and a half years ago" Ray said. "Oh, that sucks" Rainbow said. "It does, but luckily four years ago Shade and Tino found me at the facility I woke up, they helped me rediscover my past, and trained me" Ray explained. "That's very generous of them, to help a complete stranger" Rarity said. "Before anything else, what are your names?" Tino asked. "Oh I'm sorry, my name is Twilight Sparkle, and these are Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rarity and Pinkie Pie" Twilight said indicating her friends. "Weird names" Tino said. "Like you have a normal name!" Rainbow retorted. "Actually, Florentine, Raymond and Elizabeth are pretty popular names in the griffon kingdom" Twilight deadpanned. "Oh, I didn't know that" Rainbow guiltily said. "Hmm, now, do you three mind coming with us?" Twilight asked the three humans. "Where to?" Shade asked. "The town of Ponyville" Twilight simply said. "... Nah, I think we'll stay here" Shade said again. "What!? You mean to stay here!? In the Everfree forest!?" Fluttershy exclaimed. "Got a problem with that?" Tino asked. "Yeah of course we do! The Everfree is full of predators and monsters!" Twilight yelled. "...We'll be fine, trust me" Tino said with a genuine smile. "FINE!" Twilight yelled before she stomped of, grumbling all they while. "Twilight!" Rarity yelled as she and the rest of the mane six followed their friend. "Are you sure you're gonna be fine?" Applejack asked as she looked Tino straight in the eyes. "Yes, we'll be fine, we can handle ourselves" Tino said with nothing but honesty in his eyes. "... Okay then, I'll Twilight to calm down then" And with that Applejack followed her friends. "Now, let's liven up the place shall we?" Tino said with a smile as the mane six disappeared from view. Author's Note I meant to get this out yesterday, oh well, one day doesn't hurt to much right? Now you might be asking, "where did the dragon go?" It vaporized, yeah, that's how hot Ray's plasma attacks are Emerald Shield out
Ch.3 White Rabbit"Now, let's liven up the place shall we?" Tino said with a smile as the mane six disappeared from view. "And how do you suggest we do that?" Ray asked already knowing the answer. "Alchemy of course!" Tino replied with a smile as he stood up, walked over to his backpack which was standing against a wall to the right with the backpack of Shade and Ray. Crouching down he opened his backpack, which had the same symbol on it as he had on his t-shirt, and fished out a white chalk-stick. Walking over to the middle of the room he drew a magic circle on the ground with a diameter of about four feet. "What do we make first?" Tino asked. "What about actual beds? I'm getting sick of those travel mattresses" Shade said. "Sure thing" Tino said as he walked around before spotting a large treasure chest standing at about seven feet tall and ten foot wide. "Is there anything in here?" Tino asked himself as he walked up to the chest, steps of gemstone bursting from the ground lifting him up as he walked up to it. He opened it. "It's completely filled with gems!" Tino yelled as his mouth began to water. Licking his lips he snatched an emerald out of the chest and ate it. "So good! I haven't had an emerald since we raided the Louvre two years ago!" He then, with barely any effort at all, levitated the chest up and dumped it's contents on the ground before setting the now empty chest right-side-up on top of the magic circle. He then walked to the new pile of loot and fished out a couple silver and gold bars and threw 'em in the chest. He then walked to the magic circle and put his hands on the outer edge. With a flash and an explosion of steam, three perfectly fine beds were now standing next to each other in the magic circle. "This gonna be good!" Shade said as she and Ray each drew magic circles on the ground as well, both of them looking for things to trans-mutate. (Ponyville, a half hour later) "Spike, take a note please" Twilight said as she entered her library. "Huh what?" Spike said as he woke up from napping on the couch that stood in the library. "I want you to take a note please" Twilight said as she impatiently tapped her hoof on the ground. "Oh sure" Spike said as he whipped out a piece of paper and a quill. "Dear princess Celestia. Me and my friends have successfully made contact with the three creatures and have asked them to come with us to Ponyville. They didn't comply and are instead staying in a cave in the Everfree forest. They call themselves The Slayers, and their names are Elizabeth 'Shade' Park, Raymond 'Ray' Ruvio, and lastly Florentine 'Tino' Fable. Elizabeth is a Shadow Dragon Slayer, Raymond is a Plasma Dragon Slayer, and Florentine is a Seraph God Slayer. As of right now I know not how they arrived in the forest. But I do know that Raymond took out a fully grown dragon by himself. I eagerly expect your decision on what must be done. Your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle" Twilight said as Spike scribbled everything down before he rolled the letter up and breathed a bit of fire on it to send it away. "It's on it's way" Spike said as the letter's smoke traveled through the window. Not a minute later Spike burped up another letter. "This soon?" Twilight said as she took the letter in her magic. As she read it her eyes widened until she screamed. "WHAT!?" And ran out the door. "I wonder what that's about?" Spike said as he picked up the letter. "We're on our way, wait in front of library. Cadence" Was all it said. "Huh?" Spike said as he walked outside, seeing a set of two chariots already closing in on Ponyville, Twilight already standing at the spot he presumed the chariots would land. In the following seconds the rest of the mane six arrived at the site as well. "Whatever" Spike said as he walked back inside. "Did you get letters as well?" Rarity asked as they all came within earshot of each other. "You too?" Applejack asked as she fished a letter out from under her Stetson. "Yeah me too" Rainbow said as she took out a letter as well. *gasp* "What if we were all invited to a super awesome party!" Pinkie said in a, for her, moment of clarity. "I doubt that Pinkie, I think they're coming here to see Tino, Ray, and Shade" Twilight said as the chariots landed in front of them. Carrying, indeed, Cadence, Shining Armor and both Celestia and Luna. The mane six bowed as Celestia and Luna stepped off of the chariots. "Rise my little ponies. We are not here to visit" Celestia said. "In fact we would like to see these 'Slayers' Twilight told us about in her letter" Luna said. "I'd rather immediately start questioning them" Shining Armor chimed in. "Now now dear, I'm sure they're nice ponies" Cadence said. "Well if you want to see the three of them follow me please" Twilight said as she started walking to the forest. "I would like you four to come with us, we can't be sure they aren't hostile" Shining said to the four guards that pulled the two chariots. The Slayers are unknowns, Shining Armor doesn't like unknowns. With that they all started walking to the forest. (Everfree Forest, forty-five minutes later) "We're almost there" Twilight said as they could see the cave, where the three humans were staying, coming up. "Guards, stay on edge, we don't now if we can trust them" Shining Armor said. "I think they'll be nice ponies I've already told you that. A large flash of light came out of the opening of the cave. "Holy fuck!!!" They all heard coming from the cave. "That was Ray!" Fluttershy said as she took of to the cave, the others following her. When the group of ponies came into the cave they could see Tino and Shade looking up the sealing. "You alright up there?" Shade yelled toward the sealing. Which was pretty high. "Experiment... Failed!" The voice of Ray sounded from the sealing. "What happened!?" Fluttershy said as she reached Shade and Tino. Tino simply pointed upwards. "Oh my gosh!" Fluttershy exclaimed as she looked upwards, seeing Ray literally sticking out of the sealing from the waist up. "Wait, what experiment?" Twilight asked. "I tried to use matter displacement magic in conjunction with anti gravity. As you can see I got stuck in the sealing" Ray answered. After that Celestia lightly coughed to gain attention. "And who're you?" Shade asked. "It's quite alright guard" Celestia said as she saw that one of the guards was about to yell at Shade. "I am princess Celestia, I along with my sister princess Luna rule the country you now reside in" "So?" Shade said. "Now, now, Shade you should always treat authority with respect. Besides the cops, or the army" Tino said. "Sorry she's still young" He continued. "It's quite alright. Can I assume you are the leader of this little group of yours?" Celestia said. "Yes. Florentine Fable at your service, everybody calls me Tino" The large man said with a bow. "I'm Shade, that idiot up there is Ray" Shade said as she pointed upwards with her thumb. "I heard that!" Ray said as he broke out of the sealing, landing flat on his face behind Tino. "On a different note, what did you mean not respecting cops or the army?" Shining Armor asked with a curious expression, Ray standing up again. "We don't like them, simple as that" Ray said. "Don't they protect you we're you come from?" Cadence asked. "...No, we're hunted by them" Tino said. "Why? Are you evil!?" Shining asked. "Wow, wow, where did that come from!?" Ray yelled. "Yeah, what did we ever do to you!?" Shade continued. "All I want to do is keep my country save!" Shining said with a stern expression. "I've met many who said those same words, they don't walk amongst the living anymore" Tino deadpanned. "What!? You've killed!?" Cadence yelled, Fluttershy jumping backwards towards her friends as the four guards formed a semi-circle before them. "More then enough to see that you are not a threat to me and my family" Tino continued. "That isn't true! Princess Celestia is the most powerful of all!" Twilight yelled. "Then we are here to tell you, that you're wrong" Ray said with a toxic expression. A deadly silence filled the chamber. The only ones that remained stoic were Celestia and Luna. "Well. This turned out great didn't it?" A deep, disembodied voice said. "Who's there!?" One of the guards yelled. "Show yourself!" Shining Armor continued. "Ugh, you're no fun at all" The voice said as a black mist appeared. Out of it stepped an alicorn, black coat, black mane, pure white eyes, and a white scythe for a cutie mark. "No, not now" Celestia and Luna said in synch with shocked and afraid expressions. "Oh but it's the best timing ever. Considering I just found three prime subjects for my program" The black alicorn said. "Who're you!?" Rainbow Dash yelled. "Me, oh I'm just the humble Grimm Reaper of course. Call me Death" The black alicorn evidently known as Death said with a wink. "No way!" Shade said, the hints of a smile playing at her lips. "Yes way!" Death said with a smile of his own as he walked over to the group. He easily outclassed Celestia in hight, standing at a healthy six-foot two-inches, if you count the horn, opposed to Celestia's five feet horn included. "Oh no, don't tell me you're gonna-" Luna tried to say. "Oh but I will. Slayers, how would you like to have purpose again? To stop your years of petty theft, although I have to say you're raid on the Louvre was amazing to watch, and have a job protecting people? To help me cleanse this world of all that is wrong and evil?" Death said as he cycled between looking at Ray, Shade and Tino. "Wait what!?" Tino yelled. "How do you know about-" Ray tried to ask. "I watched your memories. I am the most powerful entity in the known world you know" Death interrupted. "You watched our memories!?" Shade yelled. "Oh I did and they were quite... something. Especially the one where you ended up naked in a closet" Death said chuckling, his chuckle was warm, but at the same time hollow. Shade blushed furiously as she made a move to punch Death in the face, which he blocked by taking a hold of her hand. "Don't do that. A bee only attacks when attacked himself" Death cryptically said. "Sorry, I didn't mean to" Shade said as she retreated back. "Are you serious though? You want us to help you fight crime?" Ray asked. "When said like that it makes my organization sound like its full of Goody Two-Shoes. But that's the point yes" Death replied. "A chance is what I'm offering you, if you don't want to join me you can either A; fight crime on your own, or B; continue thieving your way onto my most wanted list. If you choose option B you won't live longer then five years from now, just pointing that out" He continued. "So either way we have to fight crime if we wish to live our lives out?" Tino asked. "Yup" Death said nonchalantly. Tino looked at Shade, she nodded. He looked at Ray, he nodded as well. "Well then. We accept" Tino said as he extended his hand. Death shook his hand. "Slayers, I welcome you, to White Rabbit" He said as he and the three humans disappeared in a shroud of black mist. "Princesses, what did we just play witness to?" Shining Armor asked. "A realization, that they really are more powerful then me and the Elements of Harmony" Celestia said. "Say what-now?" Applejack asked. "Death only accepts warriors that are more powerful then the Elements in his organization" Luna said. "...Wait" Twilight said. "WHAAAAT!!!!?" Author's Note Sorry if it feels a little cut of at the end. Oh and a new chapter yaaaaay! Emerald Shield out
