The Watcher Ch.1 Awakening.
I faded into consciousness feeling a lot heavier than when I went out. I looked around and noticed that I was in a small stone room with bars on the windows and doors. At this moment in time I started hyperventilating because y'know I thought I had been fucking kidnapped of arrested overnight.
That was when I noticed what looked like a fucking horse in the other corner. Woah scratch that thought and praise the sun. This thing was a Pegasus......... Unicorn......... Thing. The hell? Is its..... Oh my god it's hair is made of an aurora. With the sun tattooed on each ass cheek.
By this time I noticed it had woken up and somehow hadn't noticed me yet, it looked around and that's when I assumed it and me had the same thought, why is it here. It slowly started to notice me, and I was not ready for what happened next.
"Where am I? What are you?" It asked in the most soothing voice you could ever hear from one that is terrified. I couldn't stop myself and answered in the weirdest way ever, which also brought me to notice what I was wearing.
"I am known as the Throne Watcher, me and my partner kept guard over the Throne of Want, waiting for either our king to return or for one more worthy to emerge." I was wearing the exact same equipment as the one that had caused me so much grief, in a cell, with a talking pegacorn. "I know not how I arrived here, this is certainly not Drangleic." She nodded in vague understanding.
"I am princess Celestia of Equestria. This appears to be an entirely different realm from wha I'm used to, I feel no connection to its sun." She spoke as calmly as she felt necessary. "It seems neither of us belong here, and we both have somewhere we need to be, let us depart."
She spoke with the authority of royalty and I felt compelled to agree with her statement we both rose and I went to the cell door, it was locked. I saw someone run by, he looked somewhat familiar, he tossed a key through the bars to me as he went. I didn't even have time to thank him before he was gone.
"Well that was peculiar." Celestia stated. I nodded and set us free from our room into the rest of the asylum. I was the throne watcher. In Lordran. Sweet.
We quickly found our way to what was surprisingly challenging to get passed. A ladder. She was quadruped so she wouldn't be able to climb normally, and there wasn't enough space for her to fly. I couldn't leave her so, I knelt and gestured for her to get on my back. She seemed embarrassed, but accepted.
Once we made it all the way up we noticed these giant doors. Naturally we pushed them open, and immediately regretted it. I spun back while a giant hammer crushed the area I was just in, I drew my sword and held it in front of me. It went to swing again and I dodged under it while Celestia flew over, kicking it in the face on the way over. Me and her were getting ready to strike it in the back. When the man from before leaped overhead. And brought down an axe on the fucking demon's head.
He jumped off and threw a fireball into its face during the descent. The shock knocked the thing off balance and Celestia bucked its right leg out from under it. As it fell I brought my sword up through its eye and the entire beast disintegrated instead of crushing me.
Me and Celestia were catching our breath while the other guy looked like he was just getting ready for a morning jog. He was in the middle of opening the door.
"Hey, who are you?" I called out. He just finished opening the door and ran to the edge of a cliff. He turned to us.
"The name's Vendrick, and I'm gonna put an end to hollowing." He said before falling off the side only to be caught by a giant fucking crow. Fucking show off.
"He said his name was Vendrick, is it common for your people to have the same name?" Celestia asked. I shook my head and she continued. "Nevertheless I suggest we follow the crow, you helped me, it's my turn." She knelt forward giving me easy access to get on her back. I was nervous because I thought my armor may be a bit heavy, but she just shrugged it off. Her wings opened and holy shit, that crow ain't got shit on her.
I had to hold onto her mane which I'm glad doesn't have nerves in it (although I don't know how I managed to grab it), as she broke the fucking sound barrier I looked behind her and it almost looked like she was farting rainbows, whaddafuq. We passed the crow and landed in the middle of Firelink Shrine.
Celestia POV
"Well now, aren't you an interesting creature." I followed the creepy voice to another biped dressed in chain mail.
"I am an alicorn, ruler of light." I said to the imp, deeply unsettled by his presence.
"Interesting, yes, very much so. Perhaps you will assist us, as light seems to be fading from this land." He laughed creepily for a moment. "Not that it matters, I doubt anyone could fix the curse." What's this about a curse, hollowing, is it the same? I look to Watcher, he doesn't seemed fazed, which means that this curse has been going on for a while. What is it? These are questions for once we've settled in.
"Let's set up camp here, it seems a good location to do so. It seems to be a crossroad of sorts." I hear Watcher say as he ignites the small fire in the center of the area. Vendrick drops down from the crow as it flies overhead.
"Not even going to ask how you flew that fast sunshine, you guys set up here, I'll go on ahead and see if I can open up a few more pathways." Watcher turned to him with a bewildered look on his face.
"You're not gonna rest?" He asked.
"The cursed don't get tired, at least not physically, besides I have a job to do." He said before scaling the side of a cliff.
"Alright then, well Celestia. If we're going to help eachother let's start here and get to know eachother." He said before offering me a seat next to him.
The Watcher, Chapter 2
(1 year 4 months later) Celestia POV
I went down the hall and called my bird Philomena, as she appeared in a plume of fire, I thought back to the threat made on Canterlot. Along with the wedding between Shining Armor and Cadence. I sent the invitation along with a message to meet me when they arrive
I only hope this works.
(Present Day) Watcher POV
"So..... You're an un-aging, sun controlling, pony princess?" I asked in shear disbelief, because this was ridiculous.
"Yes that's correct." She replied with a completely straight face. "You haven't told me much about yourself aside from your profession."
"I don't remember much from before that time, the curse takes your memories, starting with those you love." I said clenching my fist. "But.... It seems I'm cured, even though that's supposed to be impossible without having lit the first fire." She responded to that with more questions and eventually I ended up reciting the prologue to Dark Souls 1.
"That's dismaying, the dragons of Equestria are far more civil than the ones here. And our demons are all locked behind the gates of Tartarus." Wait... Tartarus? Does she have a way to get to my world, maybe there are two entrances to hell. Maybe more. Regardless, we first have to find a way to reach her world.
"The demons here are merely misunderstood, they became monsters because of how they were treated." I spoke with complete certainty.
"Oh?" Sunshine wanted me to go on.
"Because of their grotesque appearance and outstanding strength, people were afraid of the demons, and hunted them." She sat with an expression of understanding. "They wanted nothing more than to protect that which created them, the flame of chaos, so they rarely leave the ruins even now. Those that have merely serve as a deterrent to enter the ruins. The only real difference between then and now is that they attack anything that isn't a demon now."
"The poor things." No later than when she said that, we heard the whirring of a mechanism, I head up to the elevators and sure enough, there's Vendrick, hollow and beaten to hell, but he was still there.
"Woah dude, you okay?" I asked, helping him to the bonfire.
"Mother. Fucking. Gargoyles." He said before collapsing at the fire. The flames reawoke him, I went over to the well and retrieved three black sprites from a corpse, Celestia was appalled. I handed him one and helped him crush it, even if he was healed he had to still be sore.
"You stay here Vendrick, rest a bit, you've earned it." He could only nod as he closed his eyes and slept. He still seems so familiar. "Celestia," I say as I turn to her, "let's go."
Celestia POV
Vendrick, he is a skilled warrior, but to see him beaten so ruthlessly was unacceptable. This had to be taken care of. We went up the interesting device into what seemed to he a Parish. Watcher held his sword up to eye-level, slid his hand along it, and it started to radiate power.
He sprinted up the stairs and we were stopped momentarily by what seemed to be a knight. Without hesitation, Watcher kicked the knights shield leaving him open, and drove his sword clean through its neck.
This violence, this rage, it's so similar to Luna. Dear sister, I miss you.
In my nostalgia I almost missed him sprinting ahead again. He ran into a room and was swarmed by these, zombie like creatures with broken swords. He was fast though and dead angled the swing of his sword in a full circle, cleaving half of them in half and scarring the others.
He drove his sword into the ground and used it to swing himself around and kick two of them in the face. When his feet touched the ground again he tightened his grip on the blade, raised it above his head, and split the last one down the middle.
"Such brutality, how are you capable of this?" I was next to horrified, and I would have been had I not just been holding an hour long conversation with this man.
"King Vendrick's name inspires undying loyalty, that man helped us escape, and these things are keeping him from breaking the curse. I'm not allowing that by any measure of will." He sheathed his sword and marched farther up. We eventually came upon a wall of fog, I went to pass but he stopped me, he turned to a golden signature on the floor in a language I couldn't read. He placed his hand on it and spoke. "I summon thee glorious Warrior of Sunlight, Solaire aid us in our struggle."
The signature vanished, and from the ground rose a man clad in iron armor with a symbol of the sun emblazoned on his shield and chest-plate, all of this complimented by a golden aura he gave off.
"Greetings traveller how may I assist thee." He spoke with a kind voice, but one that gave off power nonetheless. Watcher nodded his head in the direction of the fog, then pushed through, us chasing after.
POV Watcher
I have no idea why I've been acting like this or how I fought like that, but it's awesome. As I pushed through the fog I looked at my shining sword. And at my small but powerful shield. And I knew that even in a 2v1 the gargoyles wouldn't stand a chance.
The first one shook itself free and dived down at me in mid swing with its tail. I jumped forward and grabbed the non-bladed part of its tail in the upswing and drove my shield into its jaw, then I switched hands and on the sudden descent I slashed downward with my sword cutting the gargoyle down the center of its entire body before slashing off its tail.
This was when I noticed something was very wrong, not only around me, but with me as well. One, I started feeling slower, like my normal self. Two, this was bad because it turned out that all of the statues are gargoyles. Shit
In order to make up for the sudden lack of strength, I gripped the sword with both hands and stumbled a bit. Now let me get this out of the way right now, I wasn't very special before, I had an average job with low pay. I hated my family in comparison to my friends. But I always had one thing, I could easily fight with nearly any weapon, on an adept level.
All of this being said, I had my ass handed to me as I turned around. I took the flat of a tail axe blade to the face and was sent flying straight into the bell tower wall, making a dent. And that's when everything went black.
Celestia POV
I watched him sail into the wall in almost slow motion, all but helpless to stop it, as the gargoyles started approaching Watcher, Solaire ran forward and leapt. The gargoyle had its wing impaled by Solaire's blade. Only for him to be smacked off.
The creature brought up its halberd and I moved on instinct. A surge of magic flowed from my horn and collided with the gargoyle, melting its wings to its torso and sending it into uncontrolled flight off the roof. A gargoyle went to immolate me with fire, and was struck with a lightning bolt thrown by our new friend.
The gargoyle dropped, the lightning bolt shattered its entire head. I looked around and analyzed everything ; there were seven gargoyles left (all angered by our existence), Solaire was on the other end of the rooftop from me as I was in front of Watcher, and the former was approaching a claymore impaled into the ground. Why would he need that?
That question was quickly answered as he ripped it out of the ground and THREW it across the rooftop to me, I caught it with my magic and readied myself for what was to come. The magic was weaker in this world and I couldn't afford to waste powerful spells.
I flew over one of their heads and swung down with the claymore as hard as I could, but it brought up its halberd and blocked my strike with the shaft. I use my momentum to spin myself around the weapon and thrust my horn through its temple. I quickly pulled my horn from its skull and flew over to Solaire, readying my new sword into a fighting stance.
Watcher POV (last scene)
I woke up in what looked like the throne of want, but I was on the ceiling. The fuck?
"Finally we may talk." I turn around, startled, and stare at myse- I mean, the Throne Watcher. "Your first assumption was correct too, we are part of the same being right now."
"What the absolute fuck."
"I'm not sure how this came to pass either, but you have control of my body. I've been helping whenever I could, but doing more than talking puts a strain on my soul."
"How the fuck are you so calm about Y'know, not having control of your own goddamn body."
"I haven't had control of it for nearly a millennia, so seeing someone with an amount of decency come in ownership of it is almost euphoric." He said with a sigh. "I've been slowly transferring my knowledge of sorcery to you, in case one day I am no longer here to help."
"Uhhh, thanks?"
"You're welcome, now I ask that you wake up. And in regards to the princess, protect her, her purity is something I have not seen for a long time." He then looked as though he was about to remember something. "By the way, my staff of wisdom will be in your bottomless box." And with that I started being pulled back towards reality.
Celestia POV
The gargoyles began surrounding us and I knew that short of using all the magic available to me at the moment, this would be very close.
All at once the gargoyles readied their weapons and flew at us, weapons ready and maws gaping with fire.
"GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM THEM!!!" A ray of blue energy flew through each and every one of the beasts, harshly burning most, and cleaving through a few already damaged ones.
I quickly look over and see Watcher holding a large staff with a bluish-green gem atop it, while he himself was literally shining with power. He brought the staff above his head and it glowed briefly, before his head was surrounded by 5 orbs of magic. He then placed the staff on his back before drawing his sword and sliding his hand across it. This time was different though, this time it didn't just glow with power, it crackled with it as lightning sparked around the blade.
He charged forward like a beast, one of the remaining three gargoyles got in front of him and was immediately skewered by the orbs. Watcher pushed through, without losing any speed, spinning himself in mid air and splitting the next ones' skull in two. The moment he hit the ground he pushed up with all the fury of a god, cracking the roof and entirely goring through the last one, his blades lightning meeting the flesh like butter.
In the next few moments, his demeanor changed entirely. What I would come to know as "Unleash Magic" suddenly subsided, he collapsed on the ground, dropping the sword and spitting up blood.
I turned to Solaire to ask him for assistance, only to see him quickly fade away. I used my magic to move Watcher's arm around me as I helped him up.
Watcher POV
FUUUUUHUUYUUUYUUJGJDHUFJRJUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!! My everything hurts, I knew that using Unleash Magic drained you're health, but I didn't think I would feel all of the fucking damage. Oh god.... Oh god..... I think I can taste my own esophagus.........
"You're gonna be alright Watcher, you're gonna be fine." I heard Sunshine say as she lifted my onto her back, and I couldn't say anything, so I just hugged her tightly. Falling into blissful unconsciousness.
