Chapters Kuzan scratched his head staring at his surroundings with a puzzled expression. He was obviously in a forest filled with lush green trees, completed with animals darting back and forth and a bright blue cloudless sky. No the forest wasn't what was confusing him but rather the location.
He was pretty sure that he was sleeping on Camel as they drifted on the ocean so how did he end up in a forest?
Kuzan sighed, wishing for once that he had a log pose on him. The former Admiral knew the oceans well enough to travel without one but he never expected to end up somewhere even he didn't know about. "After this, I'm buying one so this won't happen again."
He swung his knapsack over his shoulders and began to walk in one direction. By his logic, if he kept walking in one direction then he was bound to end up outside this forest and from there, he'll search for civilization. If he's lucky then maybe he'll encounter some locals in the forest and get some answers.
Trixie ran for her life, cloak in tatters and several cuts across her body. The blue mare ran through a bush, getting several more cuts in the process but her panic override her pain and told her to keep running from her pursers.
"Pony getting away!" A Diamond Dog howled, running on all fours while another smaller dog rode on his back. In one paw he held a small spear while the other gripped the collar, a dozen spears rested in a quvier on his back.
"Alpha wants to have pony for lunch!" It said, his threat no less frightening by his squeaky voice. "This what happens when you kicked Alpha's gems! You get hunted!" He threw his spear and managed to hit Trixie's left hind leg, making her scream and stumble in pain. In return the unicorn magically lifted a tree branch and threw it behind her, hoping to hit her pursers.
However the larger dog weaved around it and kept his pace while the smaller one pulled out another spear, taking careful aim. Trixie left out a sob of despair, feeling her injury from the still impaled spear slowing her down. She knew that the next throw will be a cripple or kill and she honestly couldn't tell which was worse!
'Oh Celestia and Luna and every other deity that is out there! If you sent help in any way or form then Trixie promises to change her ways!' She prayed desperately, tears running freely from her eyes as the pain and exhaustion began to catch up with her. 'No more boasting! No more bullying other ponies! No more lying! Just please please please send Trixie help!'
CRASH!
"AH!" Trixie fell back on her rump, clutching her bleeding nose. What did she run into, a boulder? The unicorn looked up...
And up.
And up.
"Sweet Celestia," She whispered as she gazed up the imposing figure before her. Aside from the ursa minor, it was taller than anything she ever seen and wore clothing all over it's body with round green glasses that hid it's eyes. Despite that, Trixie could tell that it was looking at her.
"What that thing?" The voice of one of the dogs reminded her that she was still being hunted. "Minotaur?"
The bigger dog shook his head. "No too scawny to be minotaur but who cares! We bring blue pony alive, we get extra gems. You kill thing and I get pony." The small dog quickly took aim and threw his spear at the creature's chest.
Kuzan raised an eyebrow, surprised that the smaller dog creature would have the nerve to attack someone like him with a spear of all things. Granted there was a chance that they had no idea who he was but still surprising nonetheless. He reached for the spear and easily broke it off, ice covering it's tip. Judging from what he was seeing, the two dogs were hunting this unicorn who decided to hide between his legs.
"Before you throw another one of those spears, can any of you understand me?" He already heard the two speak to each other in barks and growls but he hoped that it wasn't the only language they knew. The blue unicorn spoke in what sounded like a mix of neighing and actually words so they all had to be intelligent to a certain degree. Their eyes also held too much emotion for them to be simple animals.
Unfortunately it looked like that none of them understood him if another spear hitting his chest was any sign.
Kuzan sighed in annoyance. Maybe he'll have better luck with the unicorn so time to get rid of these two. He held up a hand, the two dogs oblivous to their fate as they charged him.
"Ice Time Capsule."
Trixie stared in shock at the two diamond dogs, both of them frozen perfectly in mid charge while a line of ice led to the creature she was hiding under. She let out a startled cry as she felt cold fingers gripped around her barrel and lift her up, bringing her face to face it. It was only then that Trixie realized how frightening it was, with no way to tell if it was amused or annoyed with her and the fact that she was in the grip of something that could freeze dogs without moving from it's spot wasn't helping.
It spoke again, words sounding vaguely Equestian but mixed in with something else she couldn't understand. Trixie shook her head, hoping it would get the message.
It, or he if the fact that the facial features seem too male to be a she, frowned before reaching and-
"OW!" Trixie screamed as he pulled out the spear that was still in her hind leg. Suddenly she felt a cooling sensetion and looked to see him freezing the wound. Once he finished, he positioned her so that she was resting comfortably in his arms. Her exhaustion made it's comeback and before Trixie knew it, her eyes were beginning to close.
Just before sleep claimed her, Trixie mumbled out. "Thank you."
Kuzan heard what he assumed was a 'thank you' from the unicorn as it, or she if what he felt was correct, drifted off to sleep.
'Poor girl must have been running for a while,' He thought as he kept his pace, making sure not to wake up his passager. 'And she feels like she hadn't had a proper meal in a while. The ice on her wound shouldn't cause any lasting damage but I'll have to clean up the smaller cuts later to prevent infection.
A thought suddenly came to Kuzan. 'Maybe she's one of the locals here and gotten separated from the rest? If so, I should bring her back as a show of good faith. That way I'll won't be mistaken as a enemy.'
It was only then he realized his situation. Here he was, a former Admiral in completely unknown terrority carrying an intelligent blue unicorn to safety after saving her from two kind of intelligent dogs...
Oddly enough that doesn't even sound weird to him. If anything, this was probably one of the more normal situations he ever found himself in.
Author's Note
I hoped you enjoy this and expect more in the coming days! Both Kuzan and Trixie has always been favorites of mine so I just had to put them together! How will Kuzan react to Equestria? How will Equestria react to Kuzan? Find out next time on DRAGON BA-
*Gets smack by Kuzan*
Wrong series kid.
Right sorry! I'll see you all later and if you spot any mistakes, then please tell me so I can fix them.
It'll be better if you got an...what you call them?
An editor?
Right one of them. Stop being lazy and find one.
THATS REAL FUNNY COMING FROM YOU, YOU LAZY BUM!
Trixie woke up to the smell of something declious being cooked. She opened her eyes to see the giant from behind hunched over a wok, cooking over a fire as he threw some vegetables in. A quick look around revealed that they were in a small clearing with the moon and stars overhead, incidating that she's been asleep for a while.
The smell once again reached her nose and made her stomach rumbled loudly, a blush appeared on Trixie's cheeks as it did. The giant looked at her and chuckled before putting some vegetables on a plate and held it out to her. While still wary of the giant's intentions, she grabbed the plate with her magic and greedly devoured it in seconds.
'How long has it been since Trixie had real food?' She thought, not caring at all on how she might have looked in the giant's eyes. 'Months? In fact how long has it been since Trixie was caught by those dogs?'
A cough from the giant caught her attention and Trixie blinked when she saw him holding up what appears to be a frozen symbol. No not just a symbol, a question mark! He gestured to it before pointing at her and Trixie quickly understood what he wanted.
"My name is The Great and er-," She cut herself off, remembering her promise and if there was some mysterious force that was watching her, Trixie did not want to anger it. "My name is Trixie," The blue mare saw confusion on his face before trying once more.
This time, he said it himself. <"Trixy?"> She shook her head before trying again, making a show of emphasing on the way her mouth moved. It was lucky that her career, well former career , required her to know at least more than one language for audiences that spoke other languages. This wasn't the first time she had to communicate with someone that didn't speak Equish but fortunately it seemed that whatever language the giant spoke, it seemed similar enough to Equestian for certain sounds to be the same.
<"Trixie?>"
Said pony was surprised at how fast he learnt how to say her name although it was rather choppy as if he couldn't make certain sounds. Still he managed to do so, making Trixie smile and nod her head. She then pointed at the question mark and him, wanting to know the name of her savior.
Kuzan was very grateful for the lessons about First Contact that his teachers taught him. There was always new nations that the World Goverment were encountering and thus all Marine officers above rank of vice-admiral had to learn how to deal with a First Contact situation peacefully. It was commonly assumed that all Marines soldiers spoke the same language but that only applied to the majority.
Marines recruited from more isolated islands or nations often spoke their own language and had to be taught English as a required course. While encountering people that spoke other languages were rare nowadays, it still happened enough times for it to be a course for recruits to learn on how to deal with situations when both parties couldn't understand each other. Speaking through actions was fairly simple and easy enough for anyone to understand.
It was a stroke of good luck that Kuzan aced that course and still remembered on what to do meaning show that you mean absolutely no harm and present them with something they might like. In this case, food and treatment for the unicorn but she seemed to have ignored the latter for the former. The former admiral was glad that he had stocked up on supplies before ending up here somehow.
He saw the unicorn, Trixie he mentally reminded himself, pointed to his question mark and then to himself, a gesture that was easy to understand.
"My name is Kuzan. Kuzan." He emphased his mouth movement like she did and was impressed that she managed to sound out his name rather well with the exception of certain sounds. It appeared that whatever she spoke was smiliar to English meaning that the language barrier could be gone in weeks if they kept this up on a daily basis. Even faster considering that Kuzan was hailed as a prodigy during his time as a recruit.
Kuzan pointed to the wok then to Trixie and got a very eager nod in return. She levitated the plate back to him, encased in a magenta colored aura and while most people would do a double take at something like this, he have seen much weirder than this. While her abilities could be because of a devil fruit, something told him that it wasn't.
Flap. Flap. Flap.
He frowned as his sharp hearing caught the sounds of several things heading their way. Judging from the sounds, whoever was heading their way would be here in a few minutes. Just enough time to make sure Trixie wasn't in harm's way.
Kuzan stood up, went over to Trixie and picked her up and placed her in the branch of a tree. He ignored her look of surprise and made sure that she was comfortable.
<"Well well well what do we have here?">
Kuzan turned toward the voice and saw what appeared to be three dragons and rather pathetic looking dragons at that. Really one looked too fat to even hover, another looked like it was on a bad diet, and the last one was attempting to look bigger. The effect was kind of useless when the person you were trying to intimidate was much bigger than you.
<"A pony and something hanging out in our woods,"> The leader took a step forward while Kuzan held up hands up, palms facing out. He really didn't want to get into a fight, he retired to get away from all that. <"I just had a bad night so I'm going to blow some steam off by having some fun with you two.">
Trixie was scared and she wasn't afirend to admit it outloud. Her reason for her fear was three teenage dragons, each one ready to inflict pain to her and Kuzan. While he was able to handle those dogs easily, dragons were a whole another level even if they were just teenage dragons.
"We need to run!" She tried to reach out to poke Kuzan and almost fell off for her troubles. "Please! You can't beat them! They're dragons!"
Kuzan ignored her and instead stepped forward, making the dragons laugh despite the sheer height difference between them.
"Looks like the thing is going to fight us!" The red one said, sharp teeth fully visible in a grin. "Alright then bring it on!" He flew forward, his powerful wings allowed him to cross the distance between him and Kuzan in seconds. Trixie wanted to look away but couldn't as the red dragon raised his claws and brought them down on Kuzan.
Who caught both of them effortlessly.
Trixie's jaw dropped open and her eyes were wide as they could be while the red dragon had an expression of complete surprise, both claws stuck in Kuzan's grip.
"What the AHHHH!" He screamed as his claws froze before Kuzan let him go, the ice extending up to his elbows. Trixie looked at Kuzan and saw that mist seemed to be coming off of him.
"Garble!"
"We'll help you!"
The two other dragons flew to their leader's aid but-
""
Several spears made of ice impaled themselves into their wings, quickly grounding them with cries of pain. They landed right near Garble and each of them looked up to Kuzan with fear in their eyes. Now a heavy mist was coming from him as ice slowly appeared on parts of his body. To the dragons, it was absolutely terrifingly but to Trixie, it was shocking.
Dragons were well known for their resistance to extreme temperatures but it seemed that the ice Kuzan can make was cold enough to affect even them.
Garble regained his courage and attempted one more attack. "Eat this you freak!" He puffed up his chest, ready to unleash his fire and his two friends did the same. Trixie felt fear and dread creep up in her heart once more. If Kuzan controlled ice then it would be no match against the flames of one dragon, let along three!
""
A wave of cold washed over Trixie as the temperature dropped low enough for her to see her breath. The blue mare looked around and whispered, "Incredible."
Everything around them was frozen, so much that she couldn't even see where the ice ended. Trees, grass, bushes, everything besides branch she was on had frozen over in a second.
Not even the dragons were spared as they were frozen solid, stuck in their poses on the ground as they prepared to unleash their flames while Kuzan stood over them. He turned away from them and brought her down from the branch, hooves meeting the cold ground, making Trixie shiver. He ignored her and gather his supplies in his bag before throwing it over his shoulder.
"Go." Trixie nodded her head and allowed herself to be picked up once more. What he did next surprised her just as much as his 'fight' with the dragons. Trixie was pressed against into Kuzan's arms as the world around her became a blur, the gasp of surprise from her gone into the rushing wind. Looking up, she saw that Kuzan didn't even look troubled by the speed they were going at.
'Strong enough to stop a dragon's attack, ice cold enough to freeze three of them and acres of forest, and now he can move at speeds faster than even most pegasus!' The unicorn slowly eased into Kuzan's arms, eyes closing as she leaned into him. 'Just how powerful are you?'
In the weeks ahead, she would get her answer and not in a way that anyone could have thought possible.
Author's Note
Well that was fun! I hope you all enjoyed it and if you have any questions, leave them in the comments for me to answer.
I got a question; why don't you have an editor yet?
I'M STILL LOOKING OKAY! Speaking of which, any editors out there want to help me out? I'll be very grateful for it. I'll also be trying to make my chapters longer in the coming days ahead.
And before anyone who lack One Piece knowledge wondered how Kuzan so effortlessly curb-stomped Garble and friends, keep in mind its three teenage dragons vs a highly trained and very experienced former admiral. In OP, an admiral is one of the most powerful characters in the world. The outcome was already rather obvious.
Kuzan sighed as he idly torn some grass from the ground and threw them to the wind. It was late in the morning when they finally reached the end of the forest and on the outskirts of some town. Unfortunately Trixie insisted that he stayed behind because, if he understood her correctly, Kuzan's appearance might cause a panic.
She also asked to borrow his trench cloak for some reason. Unfortunately Trixie kept tripping over it whenever she walked move than a couple feet...or would it be hooves for her?
The former Admiral leaned back and watched the clouds be moved around by pegasi, eyes closing behind the glasses he wore.
'Eh I need to catch up on my sleep anyways.' With that in mind, Kuzan fell into a deep slumber in seconds complete with a bubble coming out of his nose.
'Head down, avoid eye contact and just look for where Twilight Sparkle could be,' Trixie thought as she walked through Ponyville, the site of where all her bad luck began. The showmare cursed when she nearly tripped over the cloak again. 'This thing might be useful for hiding Trixie's identify but its a pain in the flank to walk with!'
The only reason why Trixie was because Kuzan asked her to and considering that he saved her life, she really couldn't say no. From what little words she understood, Kuzan wanted to return to a 'Grand Line' and required a log to do so... She assumed it wasn't the kind of log she was thinking otherwise that problem would have been solved long ago.
Deciding that it would take too long to look for Twilight's home, Trixie asked a random pony, making sure to disguise her voice. "Excuse me but do you know where a Ms. Twilight Sparkle lives?"
The pony, a stallion with an hourglass cutiemark, smiled at her. "Why yes! She lives in the treehouse just down the block and around the corner. Careful though, last I heard is that Twilight was doing an experiment so she might not want any visitors."
"I'm sure she'll make an exception for Tr- I mean me," Trixie mentally hit herself for nearly exposing herself. "Thank you Mr?"
"Oh just the Doctor will do," The stallion gave her a polite nod and went along his way. "I wish you lucky in the future Ms. Trixie because you're going to play a big part in it."
Trixie said a goodbye to him and followed his directions, glad to see that her disguise wor- Wait a minute... How did he know her name and what did he mean by 'playing a big part in the future'?
The former showmare looked down the road she just took and didn't see any sign of the Doctor. Trixie shook her head, mumbling under her breath. "What a weird town."
"Well that experiment was a failure," Spike commented as he and Twilight walked out from the basement, both completely soaked. "You know, exactly what were you trying to do Twilight, other than give the two of us a second morning bath?"
Twilight casted a quick spell to dry the two of them off. "I told you Spike, I was trying to replicate the storm that Everfree had a few days ago. What was supposed to happen was a small easy to control storm that I could study."
"Which somehow turned the basement into a swimming pool," Spike smacked his lips, frowning at the salty taste left in his mouth, and made his way into the kitchen to prepare breakfast. "Why couldn't you just ask Rainbow Dash or a pegsai for help?"
"I tried but appentantly the storm affected all the clouds in the nearby area, making them just like Everfree's clouds. From what I got out of Rainbow Dash, all available Pegsai were called to Cloudsdale to help move all the new clouds into place; even Fluttershy got called to help." Twilight sighed in disappointment. First all her friends had to cancel the picnic due to various reasons and now her excitement at figuring out what kind of storm the Everfree had made resulted in the flooding of her basement.
It was lucky that Twilight moved everything out before beginning her experiment but it didn't change the fact that they just gotten a salty bath.
The two of them heard knocking from the front door, making the librarian smile. 'Maybe helping somepony find a good book will brighten my day.' Walking over to the door, she pulled it open and happily greeted whomever it was.
"Welcome to Golden Oak Library! How may I help you?" A very familiar face greeted her making Twilight gasped in surprise. "Trixie! What-" A hoof found itself in her mouth as Trixie leaned in and whispered.
"Trixie will explain why she's here once we're inside," Quickly moving into the library Trixie removed her hoof, idly wiping it on the floor. "Now you may be wondering why Trixie decided to return but first I require your help."
"My help?" Last time she saw the showmare, she was sure that Trixie would rather eat her own hoof than accept her help. "Why do you need my help?"
The blue unicorn thought about it for a second before she spoke. "Well you see Trixie has this friend that requires a *sigh* log."
"..." Twilight just stared at Trixie for a full ten seconds, her expression filled with surprise and disbelief. "So a friend asked you to find me and request for a log?"
Trixie rolled her eyes at her, annoyance clear as day on her face. "He didn't ask to find you, Trixie just assumed that you might know what he was talking about. Just allow Trixie explain everything a bit more-"
"Hey Twilight who was at the door?" Spike came out of the kitchen wearing his usual apron and his eyes widen when he saw Trixie. "I know you! You're that crazy showmare that led the Ursa Minor into town!"
"If Trixie recalls correctly then it was two foolish colts that led that Ursa Minor into town, not Trixie. Another thing is that Trixie isn't crazy!"
"Well its still partly your fault for bragging to everypony so," The young dragon tried his best to look imtimidating but with the apron on, it was like saying a parasprite looked scary. "What are you doing here?"
"Apparently to ask me for a log as a favor for a friend," Twilight said still in disbelief at Trixie's request, making Spike suddenly laugh and Trixie glare at her.
Spike wiped a tear from his eye, still chuckling from the unexpected answer. "You came to a library to ask for a log? It may be a tree and all but-"
"Let Trixie explain!" She yelled, stomping her hooves in frusation. "First is that Trixie's friend speaks in another language and while it's similar to Equestian, there are some words he simply cannot sound out."
Twilight brought a hoof to her chin in thought. "What race is your friend then? Maybe I could cast a translation spell to help him learn our language faster."
Despite popular belief, there was no such thing as a true translation spell due to many different factors involved. One was anatomy problems as certain races simply couldn't pronounce some words in other languages and another was miscommuncation like a pony saying what they think is a compliment but is actually an insult. The only reason why translation spells were called such was because they helped one learn another language much faster than normal. A griffon that never spoke Equestran before could learn how to do so in the span of three months through usage of the spell and constant practice.
Trixie opened her mouth to respond only for sudden realization to dawn on her face. "Trixie just realized that Trixie doesn't know what exactly is he," She scratched her head in embarrassment, a sheepishly smile on her face. "Trixie can't really describe him much except that he's bipedal, always wears clothes and tall enough to make minotaurs look short. Maybe Trixie should take you to meet him instead."
Twilight nodded her head, summoning her saddlebags and packed a few books on different races of Equis in them along with a couple bits. "That would be better. Come on Spike, I'll just buy breakfast for us." However, just before they left the library, the trio felt the whole tree shake. "What the-"
CRASH!
"TWILIGHT!" Bulk Biceps yelled, brushing off splinters of wood and ran up to the startled unicorn, a hole perfectly in his shape made from his sudden appearance. "We need your help outside of Ponyville!"
"D-did you just run through my wall!? Why didn't you just use the door!?"
"No time to explain! We got to hurry!" Without warning, he suddenly grabbed the mare, placed her on his back, and ran back outside. Unfortunately he did the last part by crashing through another wall, making a second hole. Trixie and Spike shared at startled glance before running after the muscular pegasi.
Meanwhile with Twilight, she was currently holding onto Bulk Biceps' thick neck to prevent herself from falling and yelling into his ear. "Why do you need my help? And why did you run through my walls twice!? "
"I don't know all the detail but- YEAH!" The white pegasi plowed through as he made a turn. "Appentantly Fluttershy might have killed some sort of rare creature!"
"WHAT!" The volume was enough to make him flinch and nearly trumble but Bulk managed to keep running. "Fluttershy?! As in 'couldn't even bring herself to kill a weed' Fluttershy?! How did she of all ponies managed to kill something?!"
"I don't know! I just came to see why was everypony screaming about then Dash told me to get you to see if you could help!" The two were now outside of Ponyville and approaching the outskirts of Everfree. Thanks to the amount of pegasi flying toward one spot, Twilight quickly teleported and appeared right in the middle of the group.
She had to hold back the urge to vomit.
The creature that Fluttershy 'killed' had it's upper and lower body completely separated, the despression of a tree trunk in between the two parts. It's long limbs were spread out and it's head gazed upwards toward some dark storm clouds. Many pegasi were shouting at each other at what to do ranging from 'stitching it back together' to 'getting it to the hospital.' Not to far away, Fluttershy was crying into Rainbow Dash's shoulder, her cries of sorrow enough to make Twilight tear up just from listening.
Dash met her friend's eyes and waved her over. "About time you're here Twilight! Listen, I have no idea how really good you are at magic but can you put this thing back together!?" She motioned toward Fluttershy who was crying hysterically and showed no shows of stopping. "I keep telling Fluttershy that it wasn't her fault and that she couldn't have noticed the creature there when she accidently kicked the storm cloud and made it shoot out lightning. But she keeps blaming herself!"
"ITS ALL MY FAULT!" The pink maned pony sobbed. "I'M A HORRIBLE MURDERDER!"
"No you're not Fluttershy!" Dash looked at Twilight and mouthed. 'Please try!'
Twilight swallowed the lump in her throat and looked at the bisected creature. She had study medical magic before but Twilight doubted that she could put a bisected being back together. Then she heard Fluttershy cry even harder, if it was even possible, and the purple unicorn steeled her nerves.
She was Princess Celestia's student damn it! And if there was a chance to even save this creature then she would give it her all!
"Give me some room!" Twilight yelled over the crowd and they obeyed, all watching nervously as she got close to it. Twilight mentally went over everything she ever read about medical magic, anatomy, and everything else even remotely related to putting something together and gathered her magic.
The crowd watched in awe as Twilight whole body glowed with magical energy, all of it focusing on her horn. Even the Everfree Forest was silent. She opened her eyes, pure white from power, and spoke.
"I need absolute silence and no surprises of any kind," Everypony, even Fluttershy who finally managed to stop crying, nodded their heads. "Okay I'm going to start now-"
The creature's upper body suddenly shot up, startling Twilight so much that she shot all the energy she gathered right into the sky.
"Mommy whats that?" Ditzy looked where her daughter Dinky was pointing and saw a pillar of light shoot into the sky.
"I think Twilight is just practicing some magic."
"Oh okay." The mother and daughter duo went back to enjoying thei time together riding the rides of Manehattan's summer carnival, completely free thanks to Cloudale paying for everything. Ditzy had to hide a smirk, remembering how desperate those head pegasi were to get rid of her.
'Who said that being a flying disaster was all bad.'
Kuzan had no idea what was going on. One moment he was having a good dream about sleeping on a beach and the next, he woke up to see bunch of brightly colored ponies surrounding him. All of them, especially the purple one, were giving him looks of shock and horror.
He yawned and scratched his head, wondering why they were... Oh thats why they were staring at him. He gotten bisected in his sleep...again.
As his lower body reformed, Kuzan waved to them and said, "Arara. Don't worry, this happens a lot whenever I sleep. Now," Lower body fully formed, he stood up and towered over them . "Do any of you sell Log Poses? Preferably New World ones."
And that is when the screaming started.
Author's Note
I HATED this chapter. Three rewrites until I finally found a way that I enjoyed and I'm still kind of not happy with it! But I kept you all waiting long enough so enjoy!
"How *huff* can Twilight *huff* run with you on her back!?" Trixie yelled as she slowly came to a stop near a ruined stand, completely out of breathe. Her passager, Spike, crossed his arms and glared at her. Well more like a pout really.
"Hey! Are you implying that I'm fat?" He got off her back, much to the blue mare's relief. "Because I'm not! My scales are just getting thicker."
"Scales don't jiggle whenever they move!" Trixie growled and sat on the ground. This day was slowly turning into a disaster. First Twilight was taken by a pegsi with muscles far too big to be on him and second was that helping Kuzan was now delayed until she could find Twilight again. What next? An alien invasion?
"ZOMBIE ATTACK!"
A hoard of pegasi flew over their heads, yelling at the top of their lungs. Like a spark, it ignited the flames as ponies all around them began to panic with only a few actually trying to get information from whatever pegsi that came close.
Trixie blinked. 'Okay no more asking what could happen next because if an alien invasion does happen, Trixie will take full blame for that...Mentally of course'
Kuzan has been in some strange situations before, being an Admiral meant that you were bound to encounter the strange on a daily basis. It gotten to the point where he could easily shrug off whatever strange event that life threw at him.
Right now, however, he could honestly say that this situation was a bit strange even for him.
First off, he was holding a blue pegasi by her rainbow color tail who was trying, and failing, to hit him with her hooves. She attempted to kick his arm or hand but a quick hardening of Haki solved that. Another pegasi, this one with a pink mane and yellow coat, was hugging and crying in his legs for whatever reason. The last one, another unicorn like Trixie, was alternating between staring at him and his former lower half and strands of her mane was slowly popping out of place.
The two pegasi were saying things but they were speaking too fast for him to catch most of their words. He did get 'zombie', 'kick', 'sorry' and 'hugs and kisses' from them. The unicorn was silent so far but the look in her eyes was staring to look too similar to Gekko Moriah. He would tell them to stop but with the language barrier and their current conditions, he really doubted that they're going to listen.
He sighed and looked at the town, mentally hoping that Trixie would come back and deal with her people. Or would it be ponies?
'I just hope she comes back soon,' Kuzan eyed the purple unicorn who was now rubbing her hooves together with a crazy smile. 'If that unicorn tries to pull a Moriah, I will defend myself.'
"This is just great! Not only Kuzan was mistaken for a mere animal , he's being called a zombie!" Trixie yelled as she ran through Ponyville with Spike holding onto her. Although she wasn't one to make friends, Kuzan had saved her life, twice if one counted the dragons' encounter, which put him in a very good light in Trixie's eyes. Even if they had met only several days ago.
She just hoped that Kuzan won't take being called an animal too harshly. If he could freeze three dragons and acres of forest in an instant, Trixie didn't wish to see what he could do to a pony. Once they made it out of Ponyville, the two made way to Everfree's outskirts where they saw a large figure standing in the disance.
"Whoa he's big." Spike said, eyes wide as they got closer. Trixie gave him a brief description on their way here but seeing someone this big upclose was way different from hearing it from somepony. The duo stopped once they reached him and laid their eyes on a strange sight.
Rainbow Dash was hanging upside down and kicking Kuzan's hand with all her might while Fluttershy was hugging his legs like they would shatter the moment she let go. Twilight, on the other hoof...
"Spike! You're right on time to help me!" Twilight's mane was disleveled and her eyes had that look from back when she didn't have a friendship report for Celestia. "I really need your help with this magical impossibility!"
Trixie heard the young dragon mumbled "Not again," before he cleared his throat and said, "Uh Twilight maybe you should sit down first?" The blue unicorn do not like that caution tone in his voice. She only heard that tone for whenever somepony was instructing others on something dangerous.
Twilight gave off a borderline insane giggle. "Sit down? Why would I sit down when this creature," She waved a hoof at Kuzan who noticed and waved back. "Is a walking contradiction to a major law of medicial magic. I mean look at it's lower half over there," Now she pointed at...Kuzan's lower half which left Trixie and Spike gaping at they stared at it and Kuzan. "Not only is it able to harmlessly shrug off being bisected but also regenerate from it like nothing even happened!"
"Did you know he could do that?" Spike whispered to Trixie who shook her head. "Trixie only knew he could control ice." 'And strong enough to effortlessly stop a dragon's blow.'
"You see, one cannot simply regrow lost limbs because the magical strain would kill a pony before the bloodlost does. What this creature just did should have killed it three times over but here it is! Still standing!" She gave off a slightly insane giggle, not noticing Spike who got off Trixie and getting close to her. "I must figure out how it could have done that and see if I could relipicate it! Spike I-OW!"
Twilight jumped a foot in the air and fell to the ground, holding her side. Spike stood next to her with a raised claw, ready to pinch her again if the first one didn't work. "You okay now Twilight?"
"Uh yeah. Ouch," She winced and looked at her assistance. "Did I just-"
"Yep."
"Oh ehehe," Twilight giggled, embarrassed and a little shamed that she had another episode . She looked at Trixie who looked a little disturbed at what just happened. "Hey Trixie, did you see all-"
"Yes, yes I did," Trixie's deadpan voice made her wince at that fact that yet another pony was now aknowledgeable about her episodes . "And let Trixie just say that Trixie was one minute away from knocking you out and dragging you to the nearest mental hospital," She sighed and rubbed the space between her eyes. "Well at least you can help Trixie with her friend now."
Twilight nodded her head, her attention focusing once more on Trixie's situation. Her study on the creature can be delay for a while. "Okay then, is he nearby?" When Trixie raised an eyebrow and pointed at the creature behind her, it didn't take long for the librarian to figure out what she meant.
"Wait so he's the friend you were talking about?" Twilight looked at the crea- er Trixie's friend and gulped in fear, nervousness and embarrassment. She remembered that he didn't speak their language so thankfully most of her rant and calling him an it went unnoticed.
Trixe nodded her head. "Yes this is Kuzan and we met in Everfree Forest after he saved me from some Diamond Dogs."
"Wait Everfree Forest?" Spike replied, surprised that they met there of all places. "What were you two doing in Everfree Forest in the first place?"
The blue mare winced at the memory. "Well lets just say that after Trixie's Ursa Failure as ponies started to call it, Trixie's life went into gutter and met some bad company waiting there. Trixie accepted her first job offer in months and it turned out to be a ponynapping ring run by Diamond Dogs," She sighed as she remembered her time as a slave. Being forced to work day in and day out in dangerous conditions and under the threat of harsh punishment can change anypony. "Trixe only managed to escape thanks to luck and Kuzan's saving Trixie."
The duo went silent at this, remembering the time when Rarity gotten taken by Diamond Dogs. After that Twilight did some research on them and what she found surprised her. It turns out that not all Diamond Dogs were bad and others actually had good relations with Equestria. The pack that they encountered was a Feral Pack which were Diamond Dogs that still followed their old race's ways namely slavery, plundering, and destroying small towns. Their modern counterparts, Tame Packs, were Diamond Dogs that embraced modern times and discarded their more darker traditions. Whenever a Tame Pack and a Feral Pack would meet, fighting between the two was certain as they hated each other with a passion.
The Feral Pack that ponynapped Rarity was a new one and not as...harsh as others would normally be to their slaves. If anything, Rarity was very lucky to get taken by them and not say, the Flesh Hounds. That bit of reading still gave her nightmares.
Trixe shook her head and went up to Kuzan who was still holding Dash's tail and being cuddled by Fluttershy. "Kuzan, this is Twilight Sparkle. She might be able to help you." She made sure to emphasize her words and was glad to see him nod in understanding.
"Wait a minute! You're going to help this zombie Twilight?!" Dash yelled, stopping her efforts at getting free of his grip. "We need to destroy his brain like how Daring Do did in her adventure to the Forgotten Valley!"
"Dash if what Trixie said is right then Kuzan needs our help getting a log." Twilight said to her friend.She frowned at saying Kuzan's name, unused to pronouning it.
"A log?" The rainbow mane pegsai hung upside down and crossed her forelimbs, a puzzled expression on her face. "Why would anypony need help getting a log? Hay there's one right over there!"
The purple unicorn sighed. "I'm assuming that he means something else and that log is the closest translation or maybe there is a word before or after it. Listen just stop trying to hurt him because I kind of doubt you'll do any lasting damage."
"Fine," She still shot a glare at Kuzan. "But I'm still keeping an eye on you because I'm not trusting anything that Trixie brings into town," Dash then looked down at Fluttershy who was still hugging his legs, face buried in his clothes. "You feeling better now Fluttershy?"
The animal loving pegsai gave a nod and looked up at Dash, eyes slightly red from her earlier shock. "Y-yes I'm just so glad that Trixie's friend is alright," Her voice was even softer than usual but they could still make out the happiness and relief in her tone. It also appeared that she heard their converstion. "When I found him completely bisected by that tree I shot with lightning, I- I-" Just when it looked like Fluttershy was about to cry again, Kuzan did something that surprised all of them.
He let go of Dash's tail, reached down and petted Fluttershy's head.
'Glad to see that worked,' Camel loved it whenever he petted him on his belly and it seemed that it applied to these ponies as well. He didn't wish to see the yellow one break into tears so he gave petted her on the head to calm her down. Luckily it worked and she looked at him with a smile and quickly wiped her eyes.
Kuzan nodded and looked at Trixie. "Do you get the log pose?" He made sure to do the same thing in emphasizing his words and saw her shake her head. She said a few words and caught 'language barrier', 'missing words' and 'problems' so he assumed that not all of his words gotten across when he asked her to find him a Log Pose earliar.
Crack!
The former admiral frowned when he heard something coming from the forest behind him and turned to see several dozen glowing eyes coming from it. They were all narrowed in hate and, upon seeing their cover blown, they stepped out to reveal...
'Timerwolves?' Kuzan raised an eyebrow at that. Wolves that were actually made of wood and even sounded like normal wolves, snarling, growling and drooling included. 'Huh they would fit right in on those island size plants where everything tries to kill you.' He fondly remembered the first time he landed on one of those island sized plants as a teen and nearly gotten eaten by a couple of trees. 'Ah good times.'
Focusing back on the present, he saw at least two dozen Timberwolves come out of the forest in various sizes. The smallest was taller than one of the ponies while the biggest came up to his waist. The Alpha seemed to be one with moss growing over most of it's body along with scars of pervious fights. It eyed him with a predator's intelligent before barking at several smaller wolves.
Given their orders, the smaller wolves ran at the group who reacted in different ways. The blue pegasi looked ready to fight while the other ponies were able to bolt but before the wolves could even get halfway there...
"Ice Time Capsule!"
This time, he made sure to widen his area of effect and managed to get all of the in coming wolves, freezing their legs in place. Unfortunately for them, ice and plants didn't go well and the moment they tried to break free, their limbs shattered like glass. When they hit the ice covered ground, the glow in their eyes died and the bodies instantly fell apart.
The Alpha growled at him before it's eyes began to glow brightly. Suddenly several trees were pulled from the ground and flung at them, causing the ponies and dragon to scream in fear.
"Ice Block: Partisan!"
Kuzan launched a wave of spears at the incoming volley. The first ones that impacted froze the trees on contact, making the others that followed easily shatter them.
The Alpha narrowed it's eyes at him, analyzing him from what it saw so far before barking at it's pack. This time several wolves were engulf in a green glow along with a good number of trees and the remains of their kin. The wolves engulf in a green glow were taken apart and lifted into the air, forming a bigger one using the trees, it's fallen kin, and themselves. It let out an earth shaking howl and charged them.
'Smart wolf. It wants to see what I'm capable of from a distance so won't risk dying by biting off more than it could chew,' Kuzan sighed and pointed an arm at the charging giant. 'Maybe this will convince it that it should find another meal.'
"Ice Block: Pheasant Beck!
A massive wave of ice, even bigger than the wolf itself, flew at it in the shape of a pheasant. The pheasant smashed through the wolf effortlessly and continued it's path toward the Alpha who's eyes widen in what he assumed was fear and surprise. It bared down on them like a real bird of prey and either froze, destroyed, or did a combination of both to any wolf that gotten caught in it's way.
He then heard something drop behind him and turned to see a colorful group of ponies staring at him, eyes so wide he was surprised that they didn't fall out. They all held a blunt weapon in their hooves ranging from a wooden post and bats to sticks and...was that paddle? What little armor they had on looked like they just took stuff from their kitchen.
Judging from their looks, he had to guess that they just saw his little fight with those wolves. Naturally they were thinking that he might do the same to them so he had to disarmed this situationa as peacefully as possible.
"Arara. Don't worry I'm not going to hurt any of you," He raised his arms in a peaceful gesture, palms facing forward. "I just need a-"
And that is when a rope was thrown around his hands and took them clean off when they were pulled.
When Applejack first heard about a zombie attack, she was one of the first to voluteer to check it out. She left her brother to watch the stand while she and several others went to check out this 'zombie'.
Honestly, after what she just witness, a zombie attack would actually be better.
This thing just took out a whole pack of Timberwolves in just one attack and it didn't even look the slightest bit winded. If anything, Applejack bet that it looked bored after that one sided battle. So when it raised it's forelimbs up, she reacted in the best way she knew how.
She threw a rope over it's forelimbs and pulled, completely surprised to see them break off. The unexpected lack of resistance almost made Applejack fall back but she managed to keep her balance.
One mare, appentantly encouraged by her action, yelled out. "Quick! Destroy it's brain before it bites somepony!" As one, the mob of ponies charged at it while some unicorns threw rocks using their magic. Forelimbs regrown, it didn't even flinch as rocks hit it's body, even after one found itself in it's head.
"STOP!" They grinded to a halt as Fluttershy stood in front of them, along with Spike, Dash, Twilight and...Trixie?
Yup that was Trixie, glaring at the mob alongside Fluttershy.
Fluttershy's glare was actually scary enough to make them take a step back. "How dare all of you! Attacking Kuzan without any reason!"
"B-but we do have one!" A stallion said, clutching a bat. "That thing is a super zombie! Just look at what it did to those timberwolves! If we don't stop it now, then it'll spread it's undead plague to all of Equestria!"
Trixie glared at that stallion who flinched back a bit. "If any of you paid attention then you would have seen that Kuzan was protecting us."
"How do we know that its just fooling all of you? Waiting for the right time to bite!"
"Yeah! And what are you doing back here after that Ursa Minor incident?"
"I bet she brought that thing so she could try and show off again."
To her credit, Trixie's only reaction was her left eye twitching but she maintain her composure. "First off is that Kuzan isn't a thing nor a super zombie, he's a living being. Two, if Kuzan wanted to attack anypony, he would have done so already," The more of Kuzan's abilities she witness, the more frighten she became at the possibility of antagonizing him in any way. So far, he hasn't shown even one mildly aggressive act against her or anypony but it become very clear that no pony would be able to stand against him in a fight. "Three is that Kuzan requires help and what kind of ponies would all of you be if you turned down some...one's request for help."
It seemed that her words gotten through as several ponies in the mob looked at each other before laying down their weapons. Trixie sighed in relief.
'Alright this is good! Maybe this day won't get any worse,' Trixie's eyes widen as she gave herself a facehoof. 'Trixie did not just think that. Please whatever power up there don't make this day wo-'
"CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS ZOMBIE SLAYERS!"
An orange filly on a scooter pulling a wagon with two more fillies came out of nowhere and smashed into Kuzan, breaking him apart like glass.
Trixie watched horrified as he fell in pieces...and felt something within her snap when the pegsai parked her scooter on his remains.
"Whoa what'd I hit?" Scootalo asked, looking around and noticing the horrified looks that everypony was giving her. "Uh is something wrong?" The orange pegsai screamed in surprise as she was pushed off Kuzan's remains by Trixie, Fluttershy and Twilight, all scooping up bits of him.
"What do we do!"
"I don't know! I never read on how to treat someone after they were shattered into pieces!"
"Well try something Twilight! You're suppose to be good at magic so fix Trixie's friend!"
While Twilight and Trixie argued with each other, Fluttershy was vainly trying to put him back together with Dash and Applejack scolding at the trio not too far away.
Suddenly the pile of Kuzan's remains twitched, causing Fluttershy to take a step back. "Uh everypony? Look." Although her voice was still low, it still caught everypony's attention and what happened next made their jaws drop.
A figure slowly grew out of the remains, gaining more and more features by the second. Forelimbs and a head, followed by a body and legs and soon Kuzan stood above them, looking as if he didn't just do something that not even magic can allow anypony to do. Everypony simply stared at him in shock and awe as snow gently fell from above.
"AWESOME!" Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom and Scootaloo ran to Kuzan with eyes shining in excitement, acting as if they didn't just crash into him a minute ago.
"Can you do that again mister?"
"Ah bet he can help us with our ice slide cutie marks!"
"You're almost as cool as Rainbow Dash!"
Kuzan simply raised an eyebrow at them, shrug and pet the trio on their heads.
Author's Note
Wow that was a long one. Over three thousands words making this my longest chapter yet! Kind of proud of that. So what do you think of that chapter Kuzan?
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