Worlds of Harmony & Conflict

Chapter 3

Although new to the contract, the simplicity of the jutsu made the technique seem like a whole different creature when compared with the normal summonings. Whereas summoning a creature for the first time was more a shot in the dark than anything else, the second his chakra became focused with the intent to call an alicorn from wherever they resided, Sasuke instantly knew what his choices were. At least the basics of them.

There were four creatures that he could choose from, the smallest/youngest/weakest of whom he had already met when examining just what kind of creature the scroll was attached to. Considering her temperament, Sasuke doubted she would be of much use. The one at the top of the list wasn’t an option either. Such creatures that were thought of as the head of their species were either exceptionally old and useless, or so gigantic in mass their close quarters combat capabilities were of limited use.

So Sasuke went with the second to the top in terms of summoning hierarchy. At the most, it should have been small enough to fit inside the riverbed. However, if it was capable enough, Sasuke saw no harm in using it to assist him in combat against an opponent that seemed unable to die. A second later, the back of the creature appeared beneath him, and he landed on…a dark purple dress?

The smoke cleared with a wave of the creature’s wings, and the alicorn raised a silver-shooed hoof. “GREETINGS HUMANITY I AM-BWAAA!” Luna exclaimed as she felt the impact of feet upon her spine and fought to stay aloft while turning her attention the human standing atop her, with his feet! She had been ridden before, but just being stood on was a bit much for her. “Do you mind?”

Luna’s anger dissipated and her mind froze as she looked at the face of her rider. His eyes were different than what she had been expecting, appearing more as an open flower than the spiral or tri-crest that Indra had possessed, and… Is that blood? Luna asked herself as she noticed the dark red stain running down the face of the human’s left eye.

Sasuke frowned at the creature he landed on a crouch atop of in confusion. It was considerably smaller than what he had been expecting. Maybe I should have summoned the biggest one instead.

Over on the side of the bridge, the man called Madara Uchiha frowned at the appearance of the summon. “What kind of summon is that?” he mumbled as his Sharingan took in the creature’s appearance and odd chakra display.

It looked to be a small horse with wings and a dark coat, that had a horn jutted from its head. However, the true oddity of its existence was the outpouring of chakra that was keeping it aloft and dancing in its mane. Its coloration was of every pigment in the visible spectrum, but didn’t seem to be quite right for element manipulation. It just looked…wrong.

Not far from Madara, Karin also frowned at the sight of the new alicorn. Like the Uchiha, the former member of Orochimaru’s organization could detect chakra, but her senses were more akin to a sense of smell and touch rather than vision. Although the oddity of the alicorn’s energy still made her unsure as to its full capabilities, she could tell it was stronger than the purple one that Sasuke had called on earlier…much stronger.

From his place on the middle of the bridge, Danzo didn’t much care about the appearance of the summon, and as the eyes on his arm weren’t connected to any optic nerves to pass images to his brain, he couldn’t see chakra with them. He also didn’t care about the creature’s appearance enough to pause like Sasuke had. Instead, he saw the opening that presented itself, and took it.

The old man slapped his hands together for a long-range wind jutsu, and drew in a breath before releasing a blast of air that served as a blade coming from his mouth.

A flare of chakra that his Sharingan detected at the edge of his vision was all Sasuke need to snap himself out of his surprised disappointment over the dimensions of this new summon and get his head back in the battle. He almost went for Susanoo by reflex, but the presence of the alicorn offered other options that would allow him to conserve his chakra. “Barrier!”

“Pardon?” Luna replied with a frown to the human’s abrupt command, and if there was one thing a princess knew, it was how to recognize a command. “I am not some-”

“Damn it!” Sasuke cursed before crouching as low as he could and calling on his bloodline’s special ability with both of his eyes rather than just one. The skeletal figure of the Susanoo sprang into being around him, and its skeletal arms formed in time to intercept the wind attack before it could slide through the opening in the Susanoo’s ribcage.

Attack and dense collided in an explosion of power, and when the smoke cleared, Sasuke sat on the horse creature’s back unharmed, the bones of his chakra golem managing to contain the mass of the alicorn along with his own body.

The explosion banished Luna’s hesitation, and she frowned at the man standing on the bridge. It had been a long time since she had seen human magic at work, but the purpose of its workings had been obvious. “He just…tried to kill us.”

Several years of instincts kicked in, and Luna took in her surroundings in an instant. The place that she had been summoned to was not a meeting of leaders as Twilight had surmised they were to be called. The oddity of that was filed away for later, combat was not a time for conversation. She was in the air next to a large stone bridge with a human riding her, one attacking her, and two more standing off to the side. She recognized the boy atop her as the human Twilight had spoken with from her descriptions, and the redheaded female was also present. However, the youngest alicorn hadn’t spoken of a man in a black robe adorned in red clouds with a spiral orange mask that covered all but one of his eyes.

The second thing she did was take a measure of her attacker, the shock of his appearance nearly brought conscious thought back to the alicorn’s mind before she was done processing the information her eyes had gathered. The older human’s right arm was covered in red eyes that looked exactly like Indra’s did before the death of his wife. While Luna knew that some humans could be born with oddities, not even in the most outlandish tales the alicorn had heard of could such a thing transpire as eyes growing on a biped’s arm. “His right arm, why is it like that?” the Alicorn of the Moon growled. “I wasn’t aware humans could have eyes in that location. And his visible eye is not what a child of Indra should possess.”

“Who’s Indra?”

Such an oddity as the lack of knowledge about one’s ancestor was unexpected, but understandable considering the length of time that had passed. “He was the first of your line.”

“Well…that’s interesting,” the human replied as his tone became cold. “As for the old man, his name is Danzo. I don’t know how he did it, but he wasn’t born like that. He stole eyes from the corpses of my family and implanted them in his arm.”

Luna fought to keep her composure at the explanation. The barbarism of such an act caused the alicorn’s teeth to grind for a moment as she counted the optical organs on the human’s odd appendage that she could see, then factored in the positioning to ascertain the maximum amount he could have. If they were spaced evenly throughout the front and back, it would have made a total of ten of them. “And now he seeks yours?”

“No. I’m the one hunting him,” Sasuke corrected his summon.

It was a sentiment she could more than understand. “I believe I will require an explanation as to the events that led to the this point. Things are so much different than what I was expecting,” the alicorn said. “However, hearing such a thing was done…I will not allow it to go unpunished. You and I shall vanquish him together. Then, you will explain to me why things are not as we understood them to be.”

Sasuke let out a snort. “That’s why I summoned you.”

“The next time he attacks, deconstruct your creation and I will teleport us in past his zone of defense,” she told him.

“Better idea,” Sasuke mumbled before he focused his chakra in his eye and closed it for a second to let the power build before he opened it and looked at Danzo. The man burst into black flames once again, but the effort at using his Amaterasu at such a range while his Susanoo was in effect made the ninja wince.

Luna’s eyes went wide at the display. “That’s…” she mumbled before feeling the human on her back dug his fingers into her. This boy…the pattern in his eyes is different, but that is the power of Indra. The alicorn looked back with a frown, but the expression of anger quickly turned to one of concern when she noticed the boy’s heavy breathing and flushed face.

I see no injuries…is he unwell then? Luna wondered before she flew over to the massive stone bridge to land. “Boy, are you alright? Drop this…construct and-” the alicorn cut her own words off when she saw the form of the brigand that had been consumed by the child’s magical flames suddenly disappear, taking even the fire with it. “What trickery is this?”

A disturbance in the air made Luna spin her head around to find the ancient human standing behind her, a ways off from where he had died, completely unharmed. It had been years since she had experienced the human’s illusion magic that could fool not only the eyes, but all five senses. Still, the alicorn remembered the odd experience in herself that it caused in herself. It was a feeling she was not under the effects of at the moment.

“It’s been quite some time since I’ve seen Amaterasu,” the elder ninja said. “You truly are Itachi’s little brother.”

The name of his brother on the lips of the man who engineered the death of the Uchiha reignited Sasuke’s anger, made cool from the appearance of the horse he was currently crouched on top of. “I told you,” he seethed as he dived deeper into his hatred and seized onto it like a lifeline. With it, he could ignore the stabbing pain the Susanoo caused his body, the burning sensation in his left eye, and the exhaustion threatening to bring him down from continued use of his techniques. “NEVER SPEAK OF MY BROTHER AGAIN!”

Despite the risks, he poured more chakra into his Susanoo and a new layer of defense was added to the construct, completing its ethereal skin as a bow grew on its left hand, while the two arms on its left that were connected at the joint gained a black flame in one hand, and an arrow in the other. “DROP DEAD!” he shouted before the giant arrow was loaded and released, flying through the air too quickly to be dodged at the close distance where Danzo had reappeared. The size of the shaft cut the man in half when it struck.

Luna frowned as she felt the power radiating from the child atop her. It had been years since she had last felt the workings of ninjutsu, but alicorn memories were built to remember things clearly despite the passage of time. The emotions that accompanied the boy’s power were disturbing in the extreme. The child was awash in a visceral hatred that seemed almost all consuming.

“Boy…” Luna paused, recalling the name that Twilight had given her. “Sasuke Uchiha. Calm yourself and still your mind. Lashing out like this in the middle of combat is a foolish decision.”

The advice didn’t seem to go well when she saw the human’s sneer. “What the hell does a horse know about strategy?”

“I have lived for over three thousand years child,” Luna informed him while holding in her temper. “I have fought alongside the progenitor of your line, and battled against the first human to ever wield the magic you call ninjutsu. So be smart and take advice of a seasoned warrior when she tells you to keep calm. And I’m a pony. Horses are much taller...and possess more girth than is needed.”

Sasuke frowned at the horse…or pony, then looked back up as Danzo’s body faded from view. He reappeared beside it completely healthy once again. This time, before Sasuke could move to strike him again, the mare underneath him spoke once again.

“Save your chakra child. Twice you have struck him down to no effect. I can feel your strength beginning to wane. If you continue to charge in recklessly, you merely play into your opponent’s hooves-er, hands… Apologies, it has been awhile since I have conversed with humans.”

As much as he hated to agree with the horse…after examining things from earlier in the battle, he had to admit that she had a point. Sasuke had turned Danzo into a corpse five times now, and the man simply reappeared after each death. On top of which, most of the old man’s opening attacks had been weak. Looking back, it was obvious he had been using himself as a target for Sasuke to waste his chakra on; and his Mangekyou Sharingan techniques were extremely costly when it came to chakra. Even simply maintaining the golem currently encasing the two of them took a great deal of energy to keep it standing around.

The situation reminded Sasuke of his first real mission, the one that had brought him into the Land of Waves, before the truth about Konoha had been revealed to him. He and Naruto had fought a boy with the ability to hide himself in mirrors constructed from ice. After being trapped in a dome formation of them and activating his Sharingan for the first time in combat, the battle had become a race to discover just how the mirrors worked while Sasuke’s eyes and the boy Haku’s ability stalemated the other.

It was a race he had lost because he had let his emotions get the better of him, and Sasuke foolishly jumped in the way of an attack to protect Naruto from a barrage of Haku’s senbon with his own body.

And now he found himself making the same mistake, with anger in place of concern.

Sasuke let out a sigh to help clear his head. “Okay then. Can you put up a barrier like the first alicorn I summoned?” he asked. “The purple one?”

“I assure you my defensive magic is far superior to that of Twilight Sparkle,” Luna replied with a smirk.

The ninja let his Susanoo dissipate, and a second later, a clear dome of energy surrounded the pair. Thankfully, it had enough room in it for Sasuke to remove himself from the alicorn’s back. Luna took the moment of safety to begin removing her dress. A pity, Ms Rarity was hoping I could expose a whole new world to her fashions.

A second after she had freed herself for proper movement, Luna felt the foreign human magic impact her shield, and she turned in time to see the last three blades of wind from a larger barrage strike the defensive magic to no visible effect. Still, the attack on her self while she was preparing for combat struck a nerve. “Dost thou mind brigand? I am attempting to get naked here!” she shouted before casting off her dress and teleporting it back to where they had come from.

Sasuke raised an eyebrow at the pony’s actions, and took one small step away from her.

On the other end of the bridge, Danzo frowned at the strange summon. Creatures that could use ninjutsu weren’t uncommon, but he had never before heard of one like the kind that stood before him. Apart from its defensive abilities, it was also counseling Sasuke on using caution, whereas most summoned creatures usually followed their owners commands unless the ninja they were partnered to didn’t have the beast’s respect. Mostly because it was passed along via family ties or other foolish reason.

He raised his arm to count the number of Sharingan still active. The eyes in his palm, and the two on his forearm were used up and closed. There was also the Sharingan in the eye hidden within the bandage on his face, but he needed to save its power for Madara, and there was a good eight minutes before it would be ready to be used again.

Danzo considered his options. With his best chance at bringing everything to a close eight minutes away, he needed to stall for time. Logic dictated that if Sasuke had relented in his assault, the best move would be to simply deactivate his current jutsu, and wait for the boy to make his move, then reactivate it before Sasuke could bring his full power to bear on the old man.

However, the unknown that the new combatant represented made Danzo cautious. With her to hide behind, Sasuke could conserve his chakra and be an actual threat even after the eight minutes had passed. And I don’t have time to waste just standing around and considering my options, Danzo reminded himself while looking at his arm.

I’ll go on the offensive for now, and attempt to remove the summon while trying to think of something else, the old ninja thought before he formed the handsigns and bit his thumb to summon his own inhuman ally. If the barrier they were in couldn’t be breached with his own power then Danzo would simply have to augment it.

Luna frowned as she felt the human’s magical energies surge, and then her eyes widened as a large creature that looked like an orange hairy elephant with tiger claws for feet appeared in a puff of smoke. That’s…

It…appeared to be the same magic that the Sisters had developed with the Sage and his children to call the ponies back one day but…there were several minute differences from what Luna could see. What is this? That magic was only supposed to be used to call us home! How can another have it? And why is the summoning tied to that…that thing?

The appearance of the baku made Luna grit her teeth. The Princess of the Night and Guardian of Dreams had thought she had killed all of the baku’s kind before her departure from her homeworld. Although not strictly a creature of dream realm, the devouring creature would wander the waking world, drawn by the negative emotions of ponies and humans and eating those who were in throes of such darkness whole to increase its magical power. From what she remembered, it also had an incredible suction ability, able to consume whole houses simply by inhaling.

“Ground yourself!” the princess called out in warning.

Then, it raised its trunk, and began to draw in air as such a speed that Luna found herself having to fight to keep her footing. With the danger of her situation apparent, she looked over to her human companion, and frowned when she saw the glow of chakra surrounding his feet was keeping him firmly rooted to the ground. It always had annoyed her that ponies couldn’t make their grip stick to such an extent as humans could.

Luna’s eyes tracked the movement of their opponent as the older human jumped from the baku’s back, over its range of suction, and sailed overhead. As Luna doubted human’s had managed to develop true flight while she was away, the alicorn saw her opening and decided to take it. “I’m dropping the force field. Deal with the monster while I keep the old human busy!”

“Tch, still giving me-” Sasuke cut himself off when the barrier disappeared right before Luna vanished in a flash of light. “-orders,” he finished before looking to the creature attempting to pull him in with a wind element attack.

As he clasped his hands together in a combination of hand-signs to mold his chakra, Sasuke decided that he liked the purple alicorn better. She was childish, but possessed an innocence he had seen in a very long time; if ever. Not to mention Twilight wasn’t nearly as bossy as…whatever the dark blue one was called.

After his chakra was molded to the proper element, the teenage ninja took in a deep breath and breathed out a large blast of flame. The grand fireball flew forward, devouring the baku’s wind chakra and growing stronger before it flew into the creature’s mouth to explode and consume the tiger-elephant chimera’s head in flame before the summoning was undone by the monster’s loss of chakra and the corpse was pulled back from where it came.

In the air above, Luna reappeared at a higher altitude than her target, and frowned at what she could see from her new angle. As she had guessed, there were ten eyes on the man’s arm, but half of them had closed. The oddity was noted a second before she focused her magic to construct a spell, and unleashed it on her unsuspecting opponent.

Beneath her, the human cried out in more surprise than pain, and Luna watched as his body was forced to a state of well below freezing before the cells in his body were completely overrun by a level of cold not even seen in the arctic. Then she wrapped the man in her magic and lowered them both to the ground as the baku’s body disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Ah, so that it is difference in our methods, the princess told herself as the smoke cleared to reveal nothing in its wake.

The battle over, she turned to her companion and smiled. “And that fare child, is how you do it,” Luna told the human with a satisfied smirk. Frozen as this Danzo was, whatever magic that was allowing him to revive from death would be countered by the simple fact that he wasn’t dead!

As the human child frowned at her brilliance, Luna raised a silver clad hoof to admire herself in its magically preserved cleanliness that allowed for a perfect reflection. “While petrifaction might have been considered by my sister, anypony who is versed in human magic knows that our transmogrification spells can easily cancel one another out. But a magically based change in temperature is-”

“GET DOWN IDIOT!”

Luna frowned at the interruption, and then at the boy. “Do not interrupt thy elders when they are explaining their genius child!” Luna shouted back before she felt a disturbance in the air, and looked back in time to see the human had replaced his frozen form with one that was normal…as well as created a sword made from wind that was based around a small pointed dagger with no guard.

Oh pony feathers, the goddess managed to think before the strike came toward her, too close to dodge or teleport away from in time. So, Luna called up her pegasus magic to form as good a defense around herself as she could with the half a second she had, and hoped that it would be enough to stop the coming decapitation. If only I had time to block it with my wings.

Then the man’s head burst into a conflagration of black fire, and worry became moot.

Not wanting the self-resurrecting human to simply appear behind her again, Luna teleported back to her companion’s side, and let out a breath she hadn’t known she had been holding. “Apologies and thanks,” she mumbled. “I believed by restraining him in ice, I could avoid triggering his ability. It would seem his regeneration is a bit more complicated that that.”

Sasuke grunted. He wanted Danzo dead, not captured. “Maybe cutting off his arm would work,” the ninja mumbled as he reached for the short sword he kept secured at his belt.

“Separating the source of the magic before it can activate seems a good idea as any at this point,” she mumbled. “Although, there is an oddity I noticed while in the air. Five of the ten eyes that decorate his arm have closed, and I can feel no power coming from them.”

The news got Sasuke attention, and he looked across the bridge at Danzo. The recent use of his techniques had taken a toll on his eyes, but he could still make out enough to see the stolen Sharingan when he was using his own. However, his own count came up with a different number than the alicorn. “Don’t you mean four?”

Luna looked back to the older human. “Yes…one of the eyes on his arm closed since last I looked,” she mumbled. But what does it mean?

58...59...60... From her place on the sidelines where she had been watching the battle, Karin frowned as the eye on Danzo’s arm finished closing. I thought so…when Danzo first engaged Sasuke, there was that weird alteration to his chakra, and each one of those eyes on his arm began closing, one after the other. At first she had thought it was caused by the old man dying, but after Sasuke killed Danzo three times in rapid succession and only one eye closed, that theory was thrown out.

Which meant… “Sasuke listen!” she shouted. “Each one of those eyes on his arm closes after exactly one minute, and his chakra takes a huge dip. It’s his Sharingan! Once he loses the last of them in four minutes, he’ll be vulnerable again! Just stay away from him until then!”

Back on the main part of the bridge, Sasuke let out a disgruntled breath. “So that’s what’s going on.”

“If that is the case, I can easily keep us safe until then,” Luna told her companion.

Sasuke considered the idea for the moment reviewing the fight in his mind. It was then he noticed an irregularity. “Wait…if Danzo only has four minutes of his invulnerability left…then shouldn’t he be attacking us?”

The question made Luna frown at her opponent. “Yes…considering the time constraints, that would be the correct action for him to take,” she mumbled. “But he doesn’t. Meaning that all of this is just a play for time. However, with his ability, it may not matter what action we take.”

“Wait a second,” Sasuke mumbled to himself as he remembered that at the start of the battle. Danzo had used a hand sign combination Sasuke wasn’t familiar with. Which means he’s not familiar with the jutsu enough to use it on instinct. On top of which, Karin’s words had given him the other third of the information he needed to defeat Danzo. If his chakra reserves decrease every time an eye closes, then he must need to spend more power for each use of the jutsu to keep it going. If we don’t attack, he’ll just stop using the jutsu.

The younger ninja smirked at the older one. “I’ve figured it out old man,” he yelled. “All I have to do is sit here behind a barrier, and just wait for your time limit to run out.”

Danzo scoffed as the boy looked over to his summon to say something before they hid behind their barrier again. For a moment, he considered attacking to keep up appearances, but decided to simply wait it out. Izanagi, the forbidden visual technique of the Uchiha clan that allowed the user to turn his wounds into an illusion and even undo his own death had a high cost in chakra, and even with his trump card, Danzo knew he’d have a hard fight on his hands considering that the Sharingan in his right eye socket could only be used once every few hours.

The boy was powerful, but ultimately meaningless in the grand scheme of things. It was Madara that Danzo needed to eliminate. For that, he was willing to die.

The seventh Sharingan on Danzo’s arm closed, and he didn’t bother renewing the jutsu. Three minutes until I can use Kotoamatsukami, the old man told himself as he resisted the urge to raise his hand to his face and touch his real trump card.

One…two…three…four… Sasuke counted to himself as he kept his eyes on Danzo’s arm. He continued counting to himself as he tensed his arm and tightened his grip on the sword in his hand. “So…what’s your name, anyway?” Twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine…

“I would have thought my cutie mark would have made it obvious,” Luna replied.

Sasuke spared a second to glance back at the short horse’s rear. Thirty five…thirty six… “So, you’re Tsukuyomi.” It wasn’t a question, but a statement. That particular oddity about his meeting with Twilight Sparkle he had remembered quite well. Thirty nine…forty…

The horse smirked. “That was the name I used when I last walked these lands, yes. However, these days I prefer the simpler name of Luna.”

As they approached the minute mark, Sasuke frowned at his target. “Get ready.”

Luna smirked and dropped her magical shield. “And here we go.”

A frown crossed Danzo’s face at the removal of the barrier, tensing for the possibility of an attack. So, they think to attack me now that I’ve deactivated Izanagi? No…they won’t know if it works or not for another few seconds, and I can already be activating it again by the time they realize the tru-

Danzo’s thoughts were cut short when an explosion rocked his ears and the man’s back was consumed in flames before the force of the blast sent him flying forwards. A second after he was launched into the air, there was a slight jerk on his shoulder, followed by a sharp pain before he hit the ground.

He tried to move his legs to no avail, then the old man looked over to his shoulder to see his arm had been completely severed at the joint. “W-What…happened to me?”

“Oh! Oh! Might I be the one to provide the gloating explanation?” the dark horse asked a man standing behind Danzo as she looked forward. “It has been such a long since I’ve been able to provide a gloating explanation! Um, that is still the custom when addressing a fallen enemy, is it not?”

Sasuke blinked at the odd question. Although, he wouldn’t put it quite the way Luna was talking about it…when he thought about it for a second, shinobi did tend to goat when they explained things to a defeated adversary. “Very well.”

With permission given, Luna pointed at the prone foe and barked out a single laugh. “HA! Thou was too overconfident, hiding behind thy rebirthing magic while ignoring the dangers of our own! With the explanation given by the girl of strange hair and poor eyes, Sasuke did deduce that thou had to will thy technique to continue at the passing of every minute.

“However, when you stopped attacking and simply stood around, twas I that deduced you were simply stalling for time!” she went on. “And considering how frantic you were to achieve victory in combat before you ran out of eyes, whatever thou art waiting for must occur after thy invincibility has expired. So young Sasuke called out our false one plan to fool you into a sense of security…and thou didst fall for it hook line and sinker!

“Then, young Sasuke did use the magic of his eyes to create a perfect illusion of he and myself standing there waiting, whilst what we were really doing was teleporting a note of explosion behind your back while you were vulnerable and still thinking we were waiting for the eighth eye to close. Twas a gamble, but a bet that was most hedged.

“But I do digress,” Luna mumbled before sticking stuck a hoof out towards her fallen foe! “Thou didst underestimate thine opponent, and it has cost thee dearly!”

The display of the horse talking down to the crippled man made Sasuke wonder if all ninja really did sound like that after a battle. Then, he looked at Danzo with his Sharingan and focused his chakra through one of them. A second later, the man’s body erupted into black flames, and the pony who called herself Luna leaped into the air to fly away from them.

Then, Sasuke’s eyes detected something unexpected. Several seals around Danzo’s body activated, and streams of blood bust forth in multiple directions to paint the seals in the air around him.

“Sasuke! Get away from the body, it’s booby trapped!” the man in the orange mask called out.

Sasuke crouched to leap away from the corpse before the jutsu could activate, but the second he lowered his legs for a jump, there was a strange sense of vertigo, and the next thing Sasuke knew, he was standing next to Luna outside the radius of the seal Danzo had created. The unexpected movement almost made him stumble, and he put his hand on the horse’s back for support.

A second later, the destruction trap Danzo’s death had triggered activated, forming a sphere of blood that completely annihilated everything within a twenty foot radius of the corpse in all directions. When it cleared, the man’s flaming body dropped through the hole in the bridge that his trap had created, and into the river.

From his position on one of the bridges pillars, the man who called himself Madara Uchiha frowned. He had seen during the Kage summit that Danzo’s right eye had been the one Shisui Uchiha had possessed, a Mangekyou Sharingan with the power of absolute hypnosis. It was something he would have liked to have taken for himself, but the flames of Sasuke’s Amaterasu would consume the body even while underwater.

Although, the riverbed would probably slow down the spread of the fire so such a large patch of land wouldn’t be put to flame as the last time Sharingan users had battled each other. Still, about a mile's worth of the surrounding area wouldn’t be habitable inside a week.

Back on the bridge, Luna looked at her companion with concern. Although he had brought her into the conflict, she couldn’t ignore the fact that twice during the battle he had acted to preserve her life: once when she first appeared, and a second time when she believed the man with too many eyes had been contained.

Still, with the battle won, she needed to find out what was going on. Twilight had spoke of a summit that was to occur later in the day, but Luna had found herself called to help defend against a highwayman. On top of which, two of the humans Twilight had described were absent, and a new one in a robe and orange mask had appeared.

The most logical explanation was that Twilight had been wrong about the timing of the summit, or the brigand had beset Sasuke’s party before they reached it…or, as Sasuke had said, he had come across the older shinobi’s trail and hunted him down, or perhaps Danzo had come across Sasuke and found him too much to handle, then became the hunted rather than the hunter.

And there was also the matter of the bastardized spell that she had seen, used to summon the baku. Luna needed to know how such a magic had come about without the intervention of the Sisters.

For all these questions and more, she would get answers for before returning home.

Luna looked over to the young human and frowned when she noticed his legs shaking. “Are you alright?”

“I’m fine,” he grunted as his eyes went dark, and he pushed himself upright.

A second after the boy answered Luna, the man in the cloak leaped down from his perch, and the alicorn was able to catch sight of another odd Sharingan that had more of a pinwheel design as opposed to Sasuke’s flower. “You overused your eyes again in this fight. Tell me, can you even see at all now?”

What? Luna asked herself.

“I have enough light left in my eyes to finish things,” Sasuke grumbled without looking back towards the other Uchiha. “We should head on to the Hidden Leaf.”

A deep chuckle came from the man in the robe as Sasuke stumbled a bit before catching himself on his knees. “You can barely see or stand, and you think to travel in your condition? Return to the base with me and rest, we can deal with the village another day. Losing a useful ally such as yourself would be a setback to my plans.”

Sasuke turned to glare at Madara. “We are not allies.”

Tired of being left in the dark, Luna stomped her hoof on the ground hard enough to crack the bridge’s stone and got the attention of both humans. “I demand explanation!” she shouted before whirling to face the boy who called her. “Twilight Sparkle said that my sister and I were to be called to a meeting with your world’s leaders! Yet I find myself having to battle a brigand upon being transported, and what does he mean you can barely see?”

The man who called himself Madara regarded the horned horse for a moment, and decided to answer her question as a roundabout way in helping to convince Sasuke to take his brother’s parting gift. The boy would be useless as a tool if he didn’t have use of his sight. “Ah well, I see no harm in telling you,” he began. “After gaining the Mangekyou Sharingan, an Uchiha eyesight begins to wane. The more we use its power, the faster the darkness consumes our light.” He looked up to regard the boy. “Of course, there is a way around that for you, thanks to your brother.”

Luna looked back at the boy in shock. “The magic of your eyes causes you to go blind?” she demanded while keeping down the sickening sensation that made itself known in her stomach.

In her long life, Luna had made few friends. Before her banishment, she became enamored with a pegasus filly that had lost her eyesight when she was young. The pain and hardship such a disability had brought about had touched the alicorn’s heart and made her feel deeply for any creature cursed to such a fate. And if all who possess such eyes go blind…that would mean Indra… She swallowed the bile rising in her throat. He was losing his sight, and I simply abandoned him!

Sasuke turned a bit to look back at the robed figure with a scowl. “I told you that I have no desire to undergo transplantation.”

“And what makes you think you’ll be able to achieve your goals as you are?” Madara countered calmly. “Two of your comrades have fallen, and you can barely stand. Patience is what is needed now.”

The tension of the moment hung in the air as the two shinobi locked gazes…and was quickly broken when the final human arrived yelling Sasuke’s name at the top of her lungs. “SAAAAAASUKE! We’ve got incoming! There’s a group of four ninja headed straight for our location, and another two chakra signatures behind them. I think the first group also has a tracking hound with them judging by the feel of its chakra. They’ll be here in less than three minutes!”

Luna looked at the humans around her, both annoyed at the oddity of the situation and angry at the recent development. She had no intention of leaving until getting an explanation as to why things were so different than what was expected.

“I have no more need of you, return to your homeland until next time,” Sasuke told the alicorn, only to have the creature give him an outright glare in response.

“You do not give orders to me, child! And I will remain until my questions have been answered!”

The man in the mask looked over to the strange creature that was arguing with its summoner, and then over to Sasuke. “Do you truly think yourself capable of dealing with an ANBU squad in your condition? There is no need to remain here. I will transport us back to the base where you can recover…and think over your decision concerning Itachi’s eyes.”

Sasuke grit his teeth, but finally nodded. “Fine, let’s go.”

As she felt the space shift around her, Luna noticed the masked man’s mystical energies focused on his eye. A second later, the world became a swirl of color and dimensions, and she found herself standing in the grave of some giant beast. Its bones extended into the ground, creating a framework for the beginnings of a tunnel off to her right.

A new suspicion over the event caused her to speak. “Tell me stranger, was that your Mangekyo Sharingan that transported us?” Luna asked the robed man.

“Yes.”

“Do you all have different talents hidden in your eyes then?” she continued as a theory began to take shape in her mind, demanding more facts before a conclusion could be reached.

The man regarded the alicorn’s question for a moment, and saw no harm in answering truthfully. She was a summon, if an odd one, and thus played by a different set of rules than ninja. For her, simply curiosity was probably just that. “Yes and no. While those that gain the Mangekyou Sharingan do tend to have unique abilities…there have been known to be…repeats every generation or so.” It held more true for families, but he had no wish to get into a genealogy discussion.

Every generation or so, Luna told herself before she looked to the boy in front of her. He had the same businesslike demeanor, hardheadedness, and more than a bit of a chill to his personality that she remembered…as well as the exact same magic that Indra possessed, despite proof that such power was not often repeated.

The only explanation Luna could grasp was… Oh my friend, it is you come again, she told herself while falling behind the others as she gathering her magic. A second later, she released a stunning spell that nearly filled the cavern.

“WHAT?“ Sasuke shouted as he turned and attempted to leap away, but with his stamina exhausted, the beam struck him before he cleared more than a foot off the ground.

As the human in front of her collapsed into unconsciousness, Luna drew in more of her power and her eyes alit with their bright glow before she regarded the human in the mask and Sasuke’s redheaded companion as they took up defensive positions. “You will perform whatever procedure that child requires to restore his eyesight, NOW!” the alicorn shouted, causing the land around her to tremble.

The man who others called Madara Uchiha gave a minute shrug. Well, whatever gets the job done I suppose.

Sakura Haruno took her hand away from the pouch containing her knockout gas bomb and glared at their squad’s tracker, putting her plan to ditch the ninja she was with and face Sasuke herself on hold for the moment. While most people would have laughed at the idea of a girl with pink hair being scary, the boy with the red fang makings on his face still back away from her when she scowled at him. “What do you mean he’s not there anymore Kiba?”

“Just what I told you,” the dog trainer said as he did his best to put his pony-sized dog between him and the irate kunoichi; which was a bit hard as the dog knew about Sakura’s terrible temper and was wisely trying to put his master between himself and the human. “Sasuke’s scent has been on a steady decline for a good minute now. It’s like when you get done with a bento box, the food’s gone but you can still smell what you had for lunch for awhile.”

The group’s pale pretty boy with short blank hair looked towards the tracker ninja with the more wild appearance. “Then he’s on the move?”

Sai’s question got a shake of the head from Kiba. “No, or the scent wouldn’t be going down as fast as it is, even if he was outpacing us. This is the same thing that happened last time, when we caught a whiff of Sasuke and Itachi.”

Sakura didn’t need to hear any more. She stopped for a moment, and clenched her fists. After thinking about things for a moment, she continued on. “We should still go and see if there’s anything we can find out about where he’s gone.”

Half an hour later, Sakura was starting to regret her decision. Not only had they come to another dead end, but Sakura’s squad leader and old teacher Kakashi had managed to catch up to her and was giving the girl a scowl with the one visible eye that wasn’t covered by his Leaf Village forehead protector.

On top of which, just a few scant minutes after Kakashi came and finished the search of the area, Naruto had arrived. He looked a bit out of sorts, but it looked to be more than simple depression as far as Sakura could tell. When she had asked him about it, Naruto explained the area around them felt eerily different, like something had messed with the nature chakra in the area and it was giving him a headache.

“So, the trail ended here then?” the elite ninja asked the middle-class shinobi that he had followed to the bridge that marked the entrance to the Land of Iron. While most of it was still standing, a sizable chunk had been taken off its far left side, although the destruction left too smooth a radius to have been caused by an explosion.

Kiba nodded. “Yeah, all we managed to find were these,” he said before dropping several arm shackles with sealing formulae imbedded in them. Aside from the fact the designs came from Konoha, the jonin couldn’t tell anything else about them. “No blood, or anything else.”

The oddity had Kakashi frowning. “A fight that ruined a bridge large enough to drive two carts of oxen across, and you didn’t find a single drop of blood?”

“Well a few drops, sure,” Kiba admitted. “But…nothing anywhere near what a body should have lost. Do you think whoever fought here got captured?”

It was a possibility that Kakashi had to admit to. Still, what would be the reason for-The man’s thoughts were interrupted by a shout from the blond shinobi in the orange and black jumpsuit standing next to him. “Hey! What’s with all that steam down there?” Naruto shouted as he looked at the river.

Kakashi resisted the urge to tell his subordinate to be quiet so the older ninja could think, but the area Naruto was pointing towards drew his attention. It was barely noticeable, but…steam was rising from the middle of the riverbed, and there was a faint trail of bubbling water leading away from the same area. What is that? Even if there is some sort of underground magma flow, the water shouldn’t be heating up that quickly.

The jonin clapped his hands together several times, then used a water technique to temporarily divert the flow of the river from that section of the ground. When the water rushed around the area and receded completely, what Kakashi saw made his fists clench. The black flames had more than halfway consumed the ninja from the head down, and began to spread at an accelerated rate now that they had been exposed to air. Still, despite the fact the body was horribly mangled and missing an arm, but he could still recognize the dead man from the remaining hair and bottom half of his clothes.

“Black flames,” Sai mumbled. “It would appear that Sasuke has gained his brother’s abilities.”

Kiba frowned. “Okay but…just who was that guy?”

“It’s Danzo,” both Kakashi and Sai spoke at the same time, with the older ninja adding, “the sixth Hokage…Sasuke…killed him.”

The younger ninja stared down at the body that was quickly consumed by the flames now that they were no longer impeded by the water while Kakashi raised his forehead protector to access his transplanted Mangekyou Sharingan. “I need to absorb the fire with my Kamui before the it spreads too much to be removed.”

As Kakashi took care of the black flames of Sasuke’s Amaterasu, Sakura found herself needing to hold onto the edge of the bridge that hadn’t been destroyed. Although she had held onto a sliver of hope since Orochimaru had died that Sasuke would return to the Leaf, after hearing about him joining the Akatsuki, his attack on the Kage summit, and now the assassination of a Hokage…it seemed that even if Sasuke had wanted to come back, it was impossible now. “Why…why would he do this.”

“Danzo was at the center of a conspiracy to kill the Uchiha Clan because of some stupid politics that were going on in the Leaf since the day I was born...literally.”

All of the younger ninja looked over to the blonde that had spoken in a tone that hardly seemed like the Naruto that Sakura knew.

A second after he spoke, Kakashi looked away from the destroyed body that quickly became covered by the river. “Naruto! I told you to keep that secret!”

The blonde ninja looked back at Kakashi and glared. “And why should I?” he demanded before he threw his arm out to point at where Danzo’s corpse had been visible a moment before. “To protect him and his damn reputation? You told me that the Leaf needed stability, but if that means following a fucking monster, lying to my friends, and betraying everything I stand for, then…even the thought of it makes me want to throw up right now!”

“Unity is more important than the truth Naruto,” Kakashi told him before looking at all the other ninja standing around there. “And I expect all of you to keep this to yourself.” However, judging by Naruto’s clenched fists, Kakashi doubted that was going to happen.

Before the confrontation could escalate, Sakura stepped between the two and held up an apologetic hand. “It’s okay Kakashi-sensei, Naruto’s just feeling a little weird from the strange chakra in the air, right Naruto?”

The blond ninja looked back down at the water burial that Danzo had been subjected to, and grit his teeth. Part of him understood what Kakashi was saying, that they needed to survive the coming war, and for that they needed to stand together, but…for some reason, a new feeling in the pit of his stomach was threatening to make the young ninja lose his lunch over just thinking of such a thing.

After all, they were the Leaf Village, the ninja that held their comrades above all others, and yet…here they were, willing to follow a man who had willfully killed an entire clan because they disagreed on who should be leading the village. As much as he looked within himself, Naruto couldn’t help but feel sickened by the fact such a man had been called Hokage, if only for a day.

“How long before he will be able to see again?”

The man who called himself Madara Uchiha looked up at the strange creature sitting on the other end of the dark makeshift operating room that he had thrown together to meet its demands. As much as he tried to hide it, the thing’s presence was…unnerving. Its very hair danced with an odd chakra, and despite the fact that summons relied on their own energy reserves to remain where they were at, the horned horse with wings seemed completely fine after over an hour of sharing space with the humans.

“This is his first transplantation so…three days at the minimum, maybe as much as a week. I’ll be going now,” he said before turning to leave. “Girl, inform me when Sasuke awakens.”

After Madara had left, Karin turned to look at the sleeping teenager. Most of Sasuke’s clothes had been removed before the operation had begun, and the female ninja licked her lips at the sight of his bare chest. However, since they weren’t alone in the room, she couldn’t take better advantage of the situation. The summon looked to be guarding him like something akin to a mothering bear. “So, how long till he wakes up?”

Luna regarded the human for a moment before turning her attention back onto Indra’s reincarnation. “An hour,” she answered. Then, she looked back up at the human with the red mane. “Tell me child, do you know much about this boy?”

The question threw Karin off a bit. “I guess,” she hesitantly replied, careful not to say yes, but not giving an outright no. “Why?”

“I wish to know about him…and this world, and you, I suppose,” she added as an afterthought before letting out a single laugh before forcing a smile to appear on her lips. “Apologies, if I am guarded. The other man…unnerved me a bit. Come, tell me about yourself. It’s been millennia since I last met a human, and I am curious to see what has changed in my absence.”

Karin blinked at the alicorn’s sudden change in demeanor, but…the creature seemed…well, she knew it was far from harmless, but there didn’t seem to be any harm in letting it know what it wanted to know. “Well, you’re asking a lot but…I’ll try to keep things as simple as I can. Tell me, what was the last thing you were here for?”

The alicorn’s face became serious for a moment. “The last time I walked these lands, my sister and I assisted in the destruction of a beast with ten tails before befriending the sage’s children and leaving for a new home when things refused to settle down.”

“…I’ll give you the abridged version of history then,” Karin mumbled in an uneasy tone before beginning with events as far back as she knew. “Shinobi used to be divided by clans until a new system was developed where several clans gathered into a single military unit to work together to strengthen themselves and try and bring more order to things while lessening wars. The results weren’t what they were expecting. While small, constant conflicts became a thing of the past, war took on a whole new meaning when dozens of clans fought each other in battles that included thousands of shinobi. These new wars completely redrew the maps every time they occurred, and brought down nations. On top of which, without ninja scattered throughout the world, bandits of opportunity began raiding the unprotected villages that couldn’t afford to hire ninja to protect themselves.

“That’s where my personal story begins,” Karin continued with a sigh. “A man I once met told me my family was from a minor ninja village that the Uzumaki Clan created themselves, before it was destroyed. So, I wasn’t raised as a ninja, not at first at least. However, the village that my family fled to was destroyed by bandits. I sensed them coming, and hid before they arrived. Afterwards, a man named Orochimaru found me, and showed me how to use my abilities to detect the presence of others from miles away. So I followed him…until he was killed.”

Luna let out a regretful sigh. “I apologize for bringing up bad memories. His loss must weigh on you.”

Surprisingly, Karin shook her head. “I owed the man my life and allegiance, but he was no saint,” she said before looking down at the unconscious boy. “To be honest, none of us are. Orochimaru was considered a monster by his own village, but then…it was a bunch of murderers calling a man evil while their own hands dripped with blood. To me, he was the man who saved my life and gave me purpose, so I followed him. It was as simple as that.”

“And the boy?” Luna asked as she inclined her head towards Sasuke.

Karin smirked. “It’s kind of the same thing with him actually,” she said. “The first time I met Sasuke, he saved my life from a man-eating bear, probably doesn’t even remember it. Then one day, he came to join Orochimaru’s organization, and I was so happy. The beautiful boy that saved my life could be with me. Then things happened, and Orochimaru died. Sasuke set off on some personal business, and I followed him along with two others…the ones your purple friend probably told you about. And now we’re here.”

“And this business is?” Luna asked.

The redhead sighed. “Sasuke wants to assassinate the leadership of one of the major ninja villages,” she explained. “That man you saw on the bridge was one of them.”

Luna lowered her head and shook it in dismay. So, things have not changed at all since we left, she told herself before looking back up to the girl. “And the summit I was told of, what is that?”

“The Kage summit?” Karin asked. “Right…well… Another war is on the horizon, and the villages are coming together to fight the biggest war in the history of the ninja world. To be honest…it’s a little scary.”

“And what side do you fight for in this conflict?”

Karin let out a laugh. “We’re not exactly ones that play by the rules,” she said with a smirk. “I follow Sasuke, and Sasuke just wants to get his hands on the people who…hurt him a long time ago. We don’t really care which side wins. They’re all just as dirty to me. To be honest, I think this world would be better off if they were all to simply die.”

The feelings that Luna felt creeping up after hearing the girl’s explanation of things were mixed. There was a great deal of disappointment upon hearing that humanity had yet to find its way free of the darkness that it had been plunged into after the Tree of Life sprouted. Apparently, there were not yet ready for reunification. But…she was happy to see her old friend was still around in a way, and…separated from the mass of conflict.

She decided to remain until he awoke to inform the boy of the development regarding his eye transplants, and the return home to give Celestia the bad news. But then…why kill myself waiting? Luna asked as she brought her magic to bear in order to undo her sleeping enchantment.

A second after her spell was cast, she felt a shiver in the air and looked deeper into the human’s underground hideaway. “Strange.”

“What?” Karin asked.

“I feel a familiar presence that I have not encountered in some time.” But… how is that even possible?

Obito Uchiha, believed by the world at large to be the ancient ninja Madara Uchiha, made his way deeper into his private scandium before the telltale sound of his oldest partner came from the empty behind him, followed by the creature itself simply stepping out of the wall.

A creature of half black skin and a mangled white side that accounted for half his body, the Black Zetsu was the true director of the Akatsuki. Obito had been there to see his creation, before the real Madara Uchiha had died and passed his task to the younger Uchiha.

“Why do I detect the presence of a harmonic being within these walls?” Black Zetsu demanded.

Obito frowned from behind his mask. “A what?”

“An alicorn, it would looked like a horse, but possessed a long horn and wings as well as a special type of ninjutsu unknown to humans.”

The fake Madara looked back in the direction of where Sasuke was resting. “In his recent battle, Sasuke summoned a creature like you described,” he said while fighting to keep his voice steady as the absurdity of the coming statement threatened to make him burst into laughter. “It followed him home, so I let him keep it.”

Black Zetsu whirled on his long-time partner in a fury. “You fool! You let this generation’s incarnation of Indra come in contact with an alicorn when we’re so close to finally achieving our goals? We have to dispose of them at once!”

“What? Why the sudden panic?” Obito asked as he followed the Black Zetsu down the hallway. “What’s going on?”

“Why did you do this?” Sasuke seethed in anger as he touched the bandages covering his eyes.

Although he couldn’t see her, Luna frowned at the boy on general principle for his ungrateful nature. “You were going blind. So I took measures to stop it.”

The boy’s hand clenched in anger for a moment before he turned his head in Karin’s general direction. “And you just sat there and did nothing to stop them?”

“Stop Madara Uchiha and that thing?” Karin asked as the pointed towards the pony, then realized that Sasuke couldn’t see what she was talking about and groaned. “Don’t see what the problem is. Hell, I only need glasses, and it still drives me insane half the time.”

“Don’t try to pin your own weakness on me!”

Karin sighed in relief when Sasuke…probably glared at her and she didn’t die. It seemed that she would have a few days to talk him out of his latest bout of anger. By then, he would hopefully see the sense in what the horse had done, and be thankful for it.

All in all, the young woman didn’t know what to make of the situation they were currently in. After Orochimaru died, Sasuke gathered them up to track down Itachi. Karin had understood the motives behind that, everyone knew that the older brother had murdered the entirety of Sasuke’s family several years ago before fleeing the Leaf. Then, when Itachi died, something in Sasuke changed. All of a sudden, he wouldn’t hear of anything negative to be said about his brother, and declared his intentions to destroy the Leaf village. Anger and resentment turned to outright hatred, and he had started taking foolish chances that had gotten Jugo and Suigetsu killed.

Not that Karin cared about those idiots…not at all. One was a complete psychopath, and then there was the real crazy one. She was better off…without them.

The presence of a new chakra signature in her immediate area made Karin turn around to find Madara coming up behind her. “Oh it’s you…uh, Sasuke’s awake,” she said before the man quickly reached out with his left hand and seized Karin by the throat. What is- was all the managed to think before a kunai appeared in the man’s other hand that he jammed into her brain.

Luna sat stunned for a fraction of a second as she watched the girl drop dead from the knife that had been pushed into her skull. Then, the alicorn stood up in a rage as she spread her wings and glared at the oddly dressed man. “WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?”

“What’s going on?” Sasuke demanded as he turned his head back towards Luna.

‘Madara’ was the one who answered. “I’m afraid you’ve gone and done something none of us were expecting Sasuke. So I’ve been ordered to kill you now.”

A second later, Luna snatched the boy from the operating table he was sitting on with her magic, and pulled him back to the ground near her hooves before she glared at the offending human while Sasuke slowly got to his feet. “You and what army?”

“This one,” Madara replied before Luna felt the surge of magical energies coming from the cave around her.

Then, she saw them.

They came out of the walls, dozens of them. The freakish white creatures may have looked remotely human, but Luna knew that they had been stripped of such a title eons ago when the Empress attempted to plunge the world into an endless dream.

Kaguya’s tree-spawn, here? How is that even possible? They were sealed away on the moon with the beast! Luna mentally shouted as her mind raced with what the return of such creatures meant. “What is this?” she demanded. “How is it that those things walk this world once again? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE YOU FOOL?”

“Why, I’m saving the world of course,” the man who called himself Madara replied as several of the creatures finished emerging from the ground as if it were water. “Now, kill the alicorn and the boy.”

Luna grit her teeth and looked around. Tree-spawn were not powerful, but using her full might inside such an enclosure was risky at best. On top of which, she had the child to think about…not to mention question about what the buck was going on! If the children that had been reborn in the Tree of Life were once again roaming the land, things were far worse in the world of humanity than anything Luna had previously imagined.

“I think not,” the princess replied before jumping up to wrap her hooves around Sasuke’s shoulders along with her wings when it came to his waste. Then she activated the recall part of the summoned spell and disappeared in a puff of smoke, taking the boy with her.

Celestia paced around the throne room despite the fact that showing such distress was probably worrying the two other princesses in the room, and Twilight’s friends. Of course the scowl on her face didn’t help either, but the worry, annoyance, and outright anger that had been building up over the past several hours since Luna had disappeared was beginning to boil over.

“How long has it been now?” she asked the room of ponies. Of course, Twilight was the only one around to answer.

“Two hours, twenty eight minutes, and fifteen seconds…well, eighteen seconds now, nineteen…twenty.”

Celestia resisted the urge to groan and held up a hoof to forestall her former student’s continued counting. “Yes, thank you Twilight.”

The lack of another summoning disturbed Celestia greatly, and for several reasons. While she had to admit that Luna was more…familiar with humanity and had a better relationship with the creatures in the past, the Moon Princess was…well…

Celestia took a deep breath, and forced herself to calm down. From what Twilight had said, humans had become a peaceful group of creatures. They had not just abducted Luna to do Heavens knew what to her. Luna was probably just enjoying the spotlight since her role in Equestria was still a bit less than she would have like it to be.

After all, Luna was the alicorn that got along with humans while Celestia had been too put off for their penchant for violence. They had the same fiery passion she had most of the time, and similar quick tempers.

Luna liked humans.

In fact, she loved humans…

Celestia sighed, and looked down at the dress that Luna had teleported back with a frown. Okay, so there may have been some rumors about some interspecies relationships going on, but I never actually believed them!

On top of which, it had barely been three minutes, three bucking minutes! How in the hay could Luna have…have started participating in acts that did not require clothes that soon?! Celestia knew humans, she knew their customs, and the removal of a garments signified the beginning of intercourse!

The Alicorn of the Day let out another sigh to try and cool her temper. Just because there had been a few rumors back in the day didn’t mean Luna just going to jump a human at the drop of a hat to-Celestia’s continued attempts to calm herself down when a puff of smoke and a displacement of air accounted the return of Equestria’s Princess of the Night. However, the relief of having Luna return was quickly overshadowed by the creature she was currently locked in an embrace with.

It was mostly naked human male with bandages over his eyes…

Then, the younger alicorn looked up to the older one. “Sister, we are in a most precarious position!”

“Yes, I can see that,” Celestia mumbled.