Chapters Looking around for any possible threat, Malekh was on edge. Any the training that he had to go through made sure he was always on edge. Wasn't always fun though. But he still made sure to focus on everything that he could. His partner who was just trying out was watching the other side of the building that they were staking out at. He hadn't earned a name yet but he was trying desperately. Malekh was just like him at one point but rose up the ranks, now he was a legend in his branch of the CIA. Whenever he was called for an assignment he made sure it was done perfectly with no trace that he was there.
Of course that usually meant killing the target, hiding the body, and teleporting the fuck out of there. Only a handful of times he was caught and had to fight his way out and even then he only got out with a few scrapes and bruises. But he never left without making sure that he killed who he was supposed to and maybe a few guards that got in the way.
"I got movement." The trainee reported making Malekh turn around to look. Sure enough their target made himself known. "What do we do sir?" he asked
"I want you to keep me covered as I go get a closer look." Malekh said pointing down to an archway that was relatively close to the target. "How good are you with that sniper of yours?" He asked eyeing it.
"Pretty good sir, I was one of the most accurate of the trainees." He said a boastful smirk coming to his face.
"Well let's see how well that aim is then. Wait for my signal and take the shots I point out to you. Got it?"
"Yes, sir."
He jumped down to a small platform and then down to the ground with little to no sound and made his way to the archway that he had pointed out. Seeing a guard at the entrance gave him the opportunity to get his wrist blade bloody so he took it. Slowly creeping up on the guard he was just about to stab him I the back when he was shot in the head with a bolt.
He turned to glare at the trainee only to realize that he wasn't there anymore. Looking around the rooftops he saw him across the pathway from their target, with a smirk on his face lining up the shot. As he was doing that Malekh was quickly moving through the crowd trying to get to the front to give him a distraction.
As soon as he was in the front he gave the signal and the bullet went flying.
Into Malekh's chest.
Princess Celestia and Princess Luna where sitting in the sitting room where they always have their afternoon tea. It's more of a time specifically reserved so that the two sisters could talk. But suddenly the sky seemed to go into a heavy overcast.
"What is this?" Celestia asked looking out of the window and into the sky as a tornado seemed to start forming. "GUARDS!" She called.
One of the royal guards stationed at the door opened it and looked at her. "Yes your highness?" He asked.
"Why is there a tornado forming in the middle of the Everfree forest?"
"I do not know Princess." He replied after a moments thought.
As soon as the tornado touched the ground it suddenly dissipated leaving no trace whatsoever. This baffled the two alicorns greatly so as a precautionary measure Princess Celestia sent ten guards to investigate the site that of the touch-down.
Malekh was lying on the ground wondering what just ripped through his body. All he remembered was the bullet somehow breaching through his vest and a sharp pain, then, nothing! Like his body just registered the pain like a pinch. But for some reason he could barely move.
Trying to move his arm caused such a great level of strain that he could only get it an inch off the ground before it hurt too much. "What the absolute FUCK happened!?" He asked to no one in general, so, naturally he was surprised to get an answer.
"I don't exactly know but it looked like you just got out of a shredder!" A voice from his left exclaimed.
He tried to turn his head only to realize he couldn't. So, he did the only logical thing to do in this situation, "Who are you?" He asked.
"That's not important. But what is important is that we get you to see the Princess' before they get too impatient." But before he got too close he asked, "What are you? I've never seen anything like you before!"
Malekh was then picked up by what looked to be a pink glow. "So you guys have magic?" He asked not really curious. Just wanting to start a conversation.
"Yeah, do you?"
"A little. But I don't think I can do much in this condition."
That got him to chuckle. But then he stopped and asked, "So seriously. Some kind of hairless ape or something?"
That puzzled Malekh. 'What does he mean? Am I not where I thought I was?' He thought, but decided to play along thinking that I was just some kind of test. So he responded with, "I'm a human, male, about six-foot-three, I wouldn't say that I'm buff, but I am toned well enough." He stopped then continued, "Is that enough for you?"
"Hehe. That's actually more than I was expecting." He chuckled and then said, "You really aren't from around here are you?"
"What do you mean by that? What is 'here' exactly?"
"Here is the Everfree Forest. As for where you are exactly... about three kilometers from PonyVille." He said, causing Malekh widen his eyes in shock.
"I'm not in Italy? How is that possible? Last thing I remember was getting shot then... nothing!" He mumbled to himself.
Back in the castle Celestia and her younger sister, Luna where waiting in the throne room where they told Shining Armor to meet them if his squad found anything. So they where there, waiting.
Finally after about two hours of waiting Shining Armor trotted in with what looked like a hairless ape in his magical grasp. He bowed and set it down in front of the two sisters before saying, "It said that it was something called a human. But don't know what that is so... I'm just going to take it's word for it."
"I'm a 'he' not an 'it'. I thought you got that already." He said with his eyes closed.
The Princesses went wide-eyed at the revelation that this creature could speak. But not only that but their dialect as well. So with that in mind they tried communicating with 'him'.
"What is your name?" Celestia asked slightly tilting her head at him.
"Yours first lady." He responded with a grunt.
Again they went wide-eyed. Not only that it was true that he could speak but his blatant disrespect!
"YOU WILL SHOW US RESPECT CREATURE!" Luna yelled using the 'Royal Canterlot Voice' making him jump.
"OW!" He yelled back. "You almost blew my fuckin' ear-drum out with your yelling! Cool your shit!" By now he had raised his arm to his ear and stuck his finger in it.
"Please excuse my sister, she wasn't expecting that response exactly." The white alicorn said, shooting a small glare to Luna. "Anyway I am Celestia, co-ruler of Equestria, and the one that yelled is my sister Luna, the other co-ruler."
"Well. That was an interesting turn of events. Well my name is Malekh, and uh... I served in the CIA of my country - before I was betrayed - and now I'm here, I guess." Before Celestia could say anything he continued with, "Do any of you know healing magic? My body hurts like a bitch. And apparently I survived a tornado, or some bullshit like that."
"You know of magic?" Luna asked.
"Hey she's not yelling anymore! That's great! But yeah I know of magic." He replied, showing clear signs of aggravation and overall grumpiness. "I have some, but I need to be healed before I can do anything. If I do 'might die. Don't really want that. Yet." He added.
The Princess of the day nodded and said, "Shining, can you take our guest to the infirmary and stay with him to see how he reacts. We don't want another panic in there."
"What's that supposed to mean?" The human asked.
"Nothing, just a precautionary measure. For your safety, and others." She answered with a smile that he couldn't see.
"Yeah, sure..."
Well this is where I go back to my statue before Sun-butt notices and gets angry and calls her student on me... The rest of this human's story is just that - HIS story. In other words I'll let him tell it. Buh-by for now!
-Discord
Author's Note
As always constructive criticism is helpful!
Wait... DISCORD brought him here?! Well let's see where this goes eh?
A/N: If you haven't already guessed it: this is a first POV story. However, I will change to third. There will be warnings so anyone wont get confused.
I was woken up by something poking my side. It felt kinda like a pencil or a pen, but I couldn't tell. I didn't want to open my eyes just yet due to the fact that I wasn't where I remembered. But what did make me open my eyes was the poking going somewhere that I'm not comfortable being poked. "Whoa now watch it!" I yelled, slamming my eyes open.
Next thing I knew, there were spears pointed right at my face. "Stand down, creature." One guy yelled. I raised an eyebrow at him and pressed my finger to the tip of the spear, drawing blood. He grunted and pulled the spear back.
I chuckled, looked at my finger and said, "Don't worry, just seeing if I was really awake or not." I sighed and continued with, "Apparently I'm in some kind of weird place with anthropomorphic people... Fuck it! I'm not even gonna try to think about it." With that I laid back down and closed my eyes. "So why are you all pointing spears at me?" I asked after about five minuets of silence and me getting poked again.
"The princesses say that the amount of power you posses makes you a possible threat." One guard said. Then he chuckled and said, "But you look weak to me."
I looked at him, back to the purple one that kept poking me, and back to him. "Can she stop? It's really starting to get on my nerves." I said pointing a thumb back at her.
"No!" She yelled. "You're a new species that needs to be studied!"
I sighed, stood up, and walked to the doors. All the while getting yelled at by the guard and Purple over there. Over the yelling I said, "So are you going to take me to these princesses of yours? Or am I going to have to find them myself?" That said, I walked out the door, immediately get flanked by two guards, and led around the castle.
The walk was uneventful and soon we where standing in front of a giant set of double doors. One door with the sun on it, and the other with the moon. The doors open and I am greeted with two other mares -As I found out they are called. One was white, with a horn, a set of wings, purple eyes, and hair that flows like it's in a breeze. Her hair was made up of the colors; pink, green, and blue in a rainbow pattern. She wore a golden dress that reached all the way down to the middle of her shins, a golden necklace with a purple gemstone in the middle, and a golden crown with the same gemstone as her necklace.
To her left was a dark mare with wings and a horn, her hair waves like the other's but the color is blue, and teal eyes. She wore a midnight-blue dress that reached down to her ankles, a black necklace with a white crescent moon, and a black crown.
But above all that I felt their power. It was great. Almost stronger than me. Almost . But I found something strange. They were holding their power back! I chose to keep quiet about it though. However, when they both began to walk down to me I let my power creep up to thirty percent. But yet even then, I could level a mountain easily.
They stopped dead in their tracks and looked at me, wide eyed. But the blue one was first to recover and asked, "Dost thou want to intimidate us?"
Old English... Great I thought. Aloud I said, "Maybe, maybe not. That all depends on what you want." The blue one's eye twitched. I smirked. That's when the white one stepped in.
"I don't think that we where properly introduced, I am Princess Celestia, and this is Princess Luna. We co-rule Equestria." She said with a serene smile. It was unnerving. That smile said a lot but so little. Whatever.
"Oh! You where the one that yelled at me!" I yelled pointing at the blue one. Her eye twitched again.
She took a deep breath and said, "Yes. We are the one that yelled at thou." I just chuckled. And hey! It got her eye to twitch again!
I began to laugh and said, "I think I'm going to call you twitch!" Then she did something I wasn't expecting. She spoke normally.
"Okay, I'm done! You're an idiot! I'm going in my room and going to sleep. Don't bother me if you want to stay here." With that she began to walk away but I stopped her.
"I'm sorry. I was only having a little bit of fun, and I kinda don't always know when to stop. But uh, if it helps, I'll try not to mess with you again, Princess." I held my hand out, hoping she would except it. And she did!
"I guess I may have overreacted a little." She said shaking my hand. I chuckled again and left it at that. But I couldn't quite walk away... She was still shaking my hand... aaaaand now it's awkward. She leaned in and whispered, "I'll get you back for this however." With that she let go and walked out the door. I shook my head and walked back to the center of the room where Celestia was still standing with that same smile. SERIOUSLY it was getting annoying!
I sighed and said, "Okay, drop the fake ass smile." She raised an eyebrow.
"What makes you think it's fake?" She asked.
"When you do what I do and for as long as I've done it, you learn how to tell." Her smile falters a little and she begins to... giggle? I'm not joking she was giggling like I said something funny! Finally she stopped and got serious. Dead serious.
This bitch is crazy! I thought.
"Since you got my sister to leave, I can ask my questions." She walked over to a set of chairs in front of a coffee table and said, "Come, sit." So I sat. "What did you do before you got here?"
"I was a CIA deep cover operative. They called us solders but the government saw me and my crew as weapons." I said idly cracking my knuckles.
"What do you mean by that?" She asked.
"They basically treated us as such; When they had a job for us, we didn't have a say-so in whether or not we went, if we got injured, we needed to pay with our own money to get helped, and if one of us died... we get a replacement the next day." After explaining that, I looked over to Celestia, and she had her mouth hanging open and eyes wide. "You're gonna catch flies like that Celestia." I said after a while of silence.
"How could they treat you like that?" She asked.
"Humans don't naturally have magic. The person that taught me was killed in a raid, and the government found me and took me in." I chuckled and continued with, "Now I'm here. With you. In this weird, fucked up, place."
"That's pretty sad actually. What do you plan on doing now? If you can't go back home?" She asked.
"Well I can't go home actually." At her raised eyebrow, I said, "I was killed by my own teammate and now they all think I'm dead. I'd rather keep it that way." Oddly enough she seemed relieved by that little bit of information. But I dropped it. For now. "As for what I want to do? I kinda want to just let it all go, I guess. Find a home, and just stop." I chuckled. "But, knowing my luck, I'll have to do some bullshit stuff every week or month. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if you needed me to do some bullshit here. I'd actually prefer that... Doing nothing will get boring." I yawned and looked at her. She seemed curious about something.
"Are you a carnivore?" She asked, narrowing her eyes at me.
"No. I'm an omnivore. However, I don't need meat everyday. Me personally, I can go about a year without meat."
"What do you mean, you personally? Are all humans omnivores?"
I nodded my head and silently looked around the room. "So how old are you exactly?" I asked. Random I know, just felt like knowing.
She giggled a little bit before asking, "Don't you know it's rude to ask a lady her age?" I rolled my eyes at her and gave her a dead-pan stare. She sighed, "Six-thousand and twenty-three." My eyes widened.
"You don't look a day over maybe twenty-four!" I exclaimed.
"Oh? Are you flirting with me now?" She asked raising an eyebrow.
I just chuckled before saying, "If that's how you want to take it." I looked back over to her to see her looking me over. I smirked and asked, "So now your checking ME out, eh?" Her face took on a devious look and I immediately knew I made a mistake.
"Guards, leave us." They hesitate but did as she asked. The look dropped. "How old are you?"
"How old do I look?" I asked.
"Maybe around... twenty-six? Thirty?"
"Huh. The last guy said twenty-four." I chuckled and told her, "My magic keeps me alive for one, and also I take care of my body. I eat right and all that bullshit. With that said, I'm about... one-thousand, five-hundred, and twenty-seven."
Her eyes widened. "Really? And your magic keeps you alive?" I nodded. "Wow." She paused before saying, "And you expect me to believe you?"
I raised my eyebrow before saying, "Yes, I do. It's the truth, after all." I sighed and explained, "Like I said, humans don't naturally have magic. So one of the side effects of learning certain magic is lifespan. The magic I learned first, gave me about.. two-thousand years of life. And apparently when you learn all six, Combat, Healing, Chaos, Harmony, Hate, and Love, you have the CHOICE to become immortal. I was young and stupid, the choice is irrevocable, and I chose to be immortal." I stopped and sighed again before continuing with, "I watched as my family, loved ones, and friends all died, while I lived on. The worst part is when I was three-hundred I had enough and tried to kill myself... Only to find out I couldn't." I chuckled.
"How do you laugh when you've been through all that?" Celestia asked.
"Easy. Don't focus on the past. Yes, you will get scars from it, yes, there are some things worth remembering, and yes, there are lessons from it, but you always have to focus on what you can do to make sure to live your life to the fullest." I chuckled again and said, "There was this stupid phrase back where I'm from that the young people would say, 'You only live once'. I took that as saying, 'Don't let your past ruin your chances of making a future'."
"I've never heard it put like that. Maybe my little ponies could learn a thing or two from you."
I couldn't help but laugh right there. "Really?!" I asked. "My-my little p-ponies?! THAT'S w-what you-you call them?!" I asked between laughs. Taking breaths to tried to calm my nerves, and stop giggling like a child, I said, "That has to be the funniest name a ruler has called their citizens."
"Yes, yes, laugh it up. They seem not to mind too much."
"That's because you RULE them! They respect you and defer to your judgement. It's not a matter of whether or not they mind, it's because they will let you call them anything you want and not give a single fuck." I said, resting my elbow on the table and pointing at her."
"Yes, well, let's change the subject shall we." She said. I could see a slight pink in her cheeks but didn't say anything about it. "What type of magic do you favor? Over all the others." She asked. This is what I was kinda trying to avoid.
I snaped my fingers and a black and white sword appeared in my hand. My sword was billowing in a purple and red fog that, to me, looked pretty bad-ass. "The magic that this blade is made up of are hate and chaos." Her eyes widened and her hands glowed a golden aura. She pointed them at me and a rainbow-colored beam shot at me, engulfed me, then dissipated. Nothing happened other than that. "Do you not remember what I said? I control all forms of magic. Harmony magic has no effect on a harmonic being." I said standing up. "I won't be a threat, unless you give me a good reason. I swear."
She lowered her hands and I made the sword disappear. "Now then! That's outta the way, what now?" I asked, putting my hands in my pockets.
Celestia was still eyeing me wearily but replied anyway, "Now I want you to meet my student, Twilight Sparkle." She began to walk towards the door but stopped, "Don't show her that sword. Or the hate magic." With that she opened the door, and lo-and-behold that purple demon that was poking me was there. "Twilight, this is Malekh. Malekh, this is Twilight Sparkle." Celestia then walked back to the throne room and slammed the doors shut.
Well... Shit
Her eyes lit up and she tried to reach for my arm but I pulled back. "What are you doing? I still need to study you!" She said reaching for my arm again.
Pulling back again I said, "Not just no, but hell no."
"What makes you think you have a choice?" She said reaching AGAIN for my arm.
I turned back to the doors and opened them. "Celestia, can you get someone to show me to my room please?"
I heard a gasp behind me and turned to see Twilight with her hand to her mouth. "Show some respect for her! She is a princess after all!" She said.
"Psh, I don't give a fuck! I've killed kings, queens, and a whole fuckin' royal family. Plus I'm not from here, so she's not my ruler, she your's." I said turning back around. To see Celestia herself looking at me with a raised eyebrow.
"Is that so?" Was all she asked.
"Yup." I said.
"Well then, let's get to your room then." She said, walking past me.
"Wait, so your gonna show me to my room?" I asked, wondering why she was doing it, and not a guard.
"Yes I am. Is there a problem with that?" She asked walking away.
"If I did you probably wouldn't care, huh?" I asked following her.
"No, I wouldn't."
"Meh."
"Princess Celestia! I still want to study him some more!" Twilight yelled. I sighed.
"No, and if you try to force me again, I'm calling rape on your ass." I said pointing a finger at her. Said finger was then grabbed and she tried to pull me down a side corridor. "RAPE! RAPE!" I yelled. Not as loud as I could, but loud enough. The effects were immediate.
Every guard was looking at us and our little group (except me) was wide eyed. Oh, and Twilight was blushing up a storm. She let go of my finger and began stuttering. Badly. Couldn't even understand a singer word she tried to say.
Finally Celestia said something, "Twilight, calm down. He was only messing with you. He didn't it. Right Malekh?" That last part was with a death glare.
"In my defense, I told her I would do it. Yet, she decided to try and test me. Not a smart game-plan if you ask me." I said shrugging.
After the little episode in the hallway (Twilight was still reeling from that one.) I was led to my room by Celestia. And this room was BIG! I mean, bigger than three standard school classrooms, big!
Anyways!
I walked into the room and flopped on the bed. It was amazingly soft. I began to doze off after about ten seconds of laying on it! But I couldn't. Twilight decided to speak her first coherent sentence at that exact time.
"S-so are we just going t-to leave him, P-princess?" She asked.
"Well, it seems that he might fall asleep in a few more seconds... So yes, we are going to leave him." Celestia replied.
Heh. Thought you could pull a fast one, eh Sparkie? I thought. Aloud I said, "Well, it would be nice if you two leave... I'm really tired so. Yeah. Bye!" With that I shifted to where I was on my side.
"Sweet dreams, Malekh." I don't know who said it.
"Haven't had any in a hundred years." I mumbled. Sadly, someone heard me.
"I'm sorry."
"If there's anything I hate, and there are a lot of things, pity is in my top ten." I said waving my arm.
The last thing I heard before falling asleep was, "Fine then, grumpy much?"
Waking up, I had a mild panic. Before I realized where I was, and what was happening. Sighing I stood up and looked to the window to see that it was night. Sighing again, I walked over to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. My light brown skin showed visible scars all over my torso and arms, my face was partially covered by my messy jet-black hair, my only visible eye was a deep grey - almost silver, and had a scar going from the top of my eyebrow to my cheek-bone, my hair alone went down to my shoulders and was straight when combed - which it wasn't now. As I began combing my hair, I started doing something I hadn't done in a long-ass time. I started humming a song . It was a little ironic how that same song was the song running through my head when I fist lost control.
I was walking down the street thinking about how much of a mistake I made. I was angry with myself and only a small push would set me off. Said small push came from a mugger in a side alley. I won't write that down though. It's quite a long story.
Anyways. As I finished combing my hair I walked out of the bathroom and sat on the bed. Bored.
Very bored. Yet wide awake. So I chose to explore a bit. Y'know, walk around the castle. At night. Maybe get something to eat. At night. Or see if anyone is up. At night.
As I walked out of my room I noticed something else: My black cloak was down to the back of my knees. (My cloak shows how much power I have at disposal.) That and two guards at my door. I nodded to them as I walked out and one of them snorted. The other one just kept looking forward, not moving, blinking, but not moving. Like a mother-fucking statue... Creepy as fuck.
As I walked down the hallway I noticed some doors that I didn't before. Some doors had a sun on them, while others had a moon. My door had a sun, which I was guessing meant something important. It was around the three minute mark that I came across a set of spiraling stairs going up, and down. Me, being me, I walked up the stairs.
When I reached the top there was an even larger hallway with two giant doors on each side. The door on the left had a sun emblazoned on it, while the other had a moon. I studied each door for a little bit before looking at the four guards standing at attention in front of them. On one side of the hallway the guards in front of the sun-emblazoned door had golden armor and were white with blue hair, and on the other side the guards in front of the moon-emblazoned door wore black armor and where a dark grey with black hair.
As I walked up to the sun door all four of them looked at me with emotionless masks and their grips on the hilts of their swords. I whistled a low single note and nodded. They looked at me funny before shrugging and going back to staying still.
I was about to turn around when both doors opened and Celestia and Luna walked out. Both looked at me curiously and I just said, "I got bored and started wandering around. I kinda got a little lost and wound up here." I paused as they started giggling at me. I shook my head and asked, "What time is it anyway? I'm getting hungry."
"It's five-thirty now," Luna said. "We need to do our duties and we will lead you to the dining hall. I think Twilight has someponies she wants you to meet." She said that last part with a devious little smile that I saw all to often in my teammates before they pulled a prank on me.
I didn't want to think too much on what she was planning but I couldn't help it.
Walking around the castle led by the two princesses normally would feel strange for me, but recently I haven't felt any different. I actually felt kind of happy. Like a giant weight has been lifted off of my shoulders, but I also felt another felling. A deep setting sense of dread. Like at any moment shit will hit the fan and I might be smack-dab in the middle of it. It didn't help that the princesses were talking about some creature named Discord. Apparently he is the literal embodiment if chaos itself. He was trapped in stone by them a few thousand years ago, before Luna was banished to the moon.
Wait...
Banished to the moon ?! That seems like a bit much to me. But I don't know the entire story other than that Luna went crazy, Celestia banished her for one-thousand years, she came back, and Twilight and her friends cured her. The same Elements of Harmony that banished her also cured her of her insanity, I guess. Pretty cool. Wish they could help me though.
My first mental break-down happened when I was ten. My dad was shot right in front of me and my mom just ran away without me. She didn't even come looking for me! The police found me a few days later, starving, dehydrated, and physically and mentally exhausted. But when my mom saw me she shut down. Wouldn't talk, cook, move, or even sleep. Eventually my mind shut down to, and I went borderline insane for about a week.
Or so I thought. When I began learning magic my instructor told me that I had to clear my mind and meditate. That only gave me another break-down. All the memories of that night were pushed to the forefront of my mind and replayed. All the pain, sorrow, and hate began to ravage my body all over again. I lost consciousness after about two minuets of it all.
After all that, my break-downs seem to become frequent. Nearly every two years or so, I have a random break-down and have a miniature seizure. Doctors said that my mind might not be able to take it much more and I'll go insane. That was one-hundred years ago. Magic helps keep my mind intact, but there are still times when I lose it. I only fear for the people around me when that happens. Last time that happened, I was in Iraq. Let's just say I was a really big factor in winning the war.
Anyways! Enough depressing shit!
We walked into the dinning room and I immediately recognized Twilight and her brother, but there were five others at the table. The first one that caught my attention was a pink blur that appeared right in front of me. She had blue eyes and pink hair that poofed like cotton-candy. She was wearing a pink shirt with blue jeans and yellow shoes. She had no wings or a horn which led me to believe that she was an earth pony.
"Hi! My name is Pinkie Pie, but my friends all call me Pinkie! What's your name, how old are you, and what are you?" She asked, mouth going a hundred miles an hour.
"I'll explain later." I said walking past her.
Next was a blue pegasus with rainbow-colored hair, rose eyes, a blue shirt that read, 'Twenty percent cooler' in all capitol letters, a black pair of shorts, and white track-shoes. She looked at me with a bored expression for a little before snorting and turning away.
Next was an orange earth pony with yellow hair tied into a pony tail. Ironic right? She wore an orange plaid shirt, blue overalls, brown boots, and a stetson.
"Howdy partner, Ah'm Applejack." She said in a southern accent that reminded me of Texas.
"'Sup." I replied.
Next to her was a yellow pegasus with long pink hair. She wore a pink shirt with a white bunny on it, blue jean-shorts, and white shoes.
"H-hi I-I'm Fl-fluttershy." She said in a quiet voice.
"Hello." Was all I said.
Lastly was a white unicorn with purple hair that was curled at the end. She wore a fancy purple hat, a purple dress, and black high-heels.
"I must say, your clothes are absolutely hideous!" She exclaimed, in a posh voice that you would hear in snooty ass movies.
I looked down to my clothes; black steel-toed boots, black jeans, a purple shirt, and my cloak. My cloak was black on the outside and red on the inside.
"Well nice to meet you too." I said crossing my arms.
"I'm sorry, it's just that black, purple, and red don't go together at all! I'm Rarity by the way." She said, walking over to me. "Take off that coat, and let me see your shirt please."
"No." I said walking over to an empty seat.
"Why not?" She asked going back to her seat.
"I'm not at full power yet, so it won't come off. Plus when I was trained, we didn't make our cloaks, or anything like that. It's basically made out of my own magic. Also, it's forbidden to take them off unless we are with loved ones or people that we trust with our lives." I explained leaning back in my chair and crossing my arms.
"What does it look like when you are at your full strength?" She asked.
I pointed to Celestia and said, "Like her hair, flowing. It stays the same colors, but the end looks tattered looks like black fire on both sides." I said.
"Where is your power level at now?" Celestia asked, raising an eyebrow at me.
I looked down and noticed my cloak was down to me ankles and said, "About ninety-nine percent. Give me an hour and I should be at full power." Just as I said that I felt a slight pang in my chest and my it began to flow, looking like black fire. "Or now apparently." I said standing up.
"You're power's just as strong as Princess Celestia's." Twilight said.
"I'm hiding most of it. This is only ten percent of my total power." I said.
All of the eyes in the room went wide, even Luna and Celestia's.
I pointed to Celestia with one hand and Luna with the other and said, "They hold their's back too. I can feel it. They use blockers, I see four of them on each of you. But, it leaks out. That's how I'm able to tell." They both looked at me with raised eyebrows.
"How can you tell how many blockers we use?" Luna asked.
I pointed to my eyes and said, "Everything magical glows to me. Power blockers, enchanted items, and cursed items. I can also tell what kind of enchantments are on the items. But I can't tell what kind of curses. I can only tell that it is cursed." Celestia and Luna were nodding their heads.
"So what? He's strong. But is he fast?" Asked the blue one.
"Define fast." I said crossing my arms.
"Breaking the sound barrier." She said, a smug look coming onto her face.
"Tch, that's slow. Fast, is breaking the speed of light." I said leaning back in my chair again.
"Not possible." Twilight said.
I stood up, cracked my back, and flash-stepped around the table and behind her. "Is that so?" I asked.
She jumped. "You just teleported." She said glaring at me.
I looked around the room and spotted a table with napkins on it. I began to walk over to it and asked, "Does teleporting cause a trail of air to follow where you go?"
"No." She answered.
I stood on one end of the table and flashed to the other, causing all the napkins to disperse.
Their jaws dropped but the blue one got a smug look again and said, "You can't fly though."
I focused my energy and began to float off the ground and flew around the room. "I'm sorry what were you saying?" I asked when I landed by my seat.
"How can you fly without wings?" She asked still dumbfounded.
"An ability I picked up twenty years ago." I answered.
The rest of the day went on boringly. I was getting more stares that usual by the servants, maids, and guards as I was walking around the castle. I pinned it on my cloak flowing. But as I progressed through the castle most of the maids' stares changed to something I wasn't quite comfortable with... They were looking me up and down, some biting their lower lip, and a few of them winking at me. Wasn't a very comfortable experience.
After about two minuets of wandering around the castle I got to my destination. My room. I was thinking about finally doing something to it. Maybe add a few decorations that suit me better than gold and blue. But first things first. Shower.
Canterlot Castle 10:35 A.M. Dining room after Malekh left Third POV
All six girls were chatting among themselves before Rainbow Dash raised her voice. "I don't trust that guy one bit!" She yelled.
Everyone else stopped and looked at her. No one said anything for a while because they were all thinking to themselves about Malekh. Applejack looked up at the ceiling and sighed. "Ah don't either, sugarcube. But we gotta get ta know him a bit more before we jump ta any conclusions." Everyone in the room nodded their heads in agreement but Rainbow Dash.
"I still don't think the princesses should let him just roam around the castle with no one watching him." She said crossing her arms and shrugging.
"I think it's really nice of the princesses to trust him so much." Fluttershy said scratching her head.
"I agree with you there, darling. But maybe they are being a little too kind?" Rarity asked raising an eyebrow.
"I think he's a really cool guy!" Pinkie Pie yelled. "He seems nice and fun to be around!"
"Maybe the princesses are trusting him so much to teach us a lesson?" Twilight asked. "I mean maybe he could show us a thing or two later on." She said getting a small twinkle in her eye.
"Or maybe I'm letting him roam around because I know what it's like to be in his position." Celestia said walking in the dining room, followed by Luna.
"He is lost and in pain, but we think that showing him trust and friendship could help his situation be more comfortable." Luna said putting her hands on her hips.
Immediately everybody in the room got out of their seats and bowed. "Rise, you don't need to be so formal right now." Celestia said.
Rainbow Dash was the first to recover and asked, "What do you mean, you know what it's like to be in his position?"
"I have been lost before. It is not uncommon to get lost in places you do not know." She replied taking a seat.
"We were just small foals when we were separated. Our parents tried to find Celestia but couldn't. Finally after about three days, we found her in an alley in Trottingham. She had a major magic outburst." Luna said. "The same one that if I'm not mistaken caused you to hatch Spike, right Twilight Sparkle?" She asked.
"Yes that is correct." Twilight answered. "But that outburst was caused by Rainbow's Sonic Rainboom. What caused your's Princess Celestia?"
"I was only a foal. Young alicorns tend to have outbursts due to the amount of magic dwelling inside their bodies." She answered.
"But what do you plan on doing about Malekh?" Twilight asked.
"If he chooses to he can go with you six to Ponyville, or he can stay in Canterlot." Luna said.
Canterlot Castle 12:46 P.M. Malekh's room First POV
After doing everything that I could to make my room more... room-y. I laid down on my bed and tried to relax. Sadly, someone else had plans for me.
There was a knock on my door and one of the guards poked his head in. "The Princesses want to see you in the throne room." He said.
"Alright." Was all I said before standing up and walking out of my room. Once out I turned to the guard that knocked and asked, "Can you take me there, I don't really feel like getting lost again." He nodded and we were off.
When we got there the doors opened and the six that I met earlier where there as well as Celestia and Luna. The second I walked in the blue one zoomed in my face. "I'm watching you, punk." She said, narrowing her eyes at me.
I rolled my eyes and walked past her.
Twilight walked up to me scratching the back of her head. "Sorry about Rainbow Dash. She can be a little brash at times."
"Don't worry about it. I knew a lot of people that were like that." I said waving a dismissive hand. "As long as she doesn't start following me everywhere I go. Then I'd have a problem." I joked. She didn't get it though.
Applejack walked up to me and asked, "How old'r ya?" Random as hell. I looked over to Celestia and she was shaking her head with a slightly pained expression.
I looked back to Applejack and said, "I'm twenty-seven."
She narrowed her eyes at me and at that time I was glad I had the best poker-face in my team. She nodded and turned around. She walked up to Twilight and said something along the lines of, "He's tellin' the truth." But I just shrugged it off.
But apparently he decided that now was a good time to bother me. I felt it coming on and tried to fight it. "Let me talk Mal, come on! You never let me have any fun!"
"Letting you have fun is letting you kill people! I am not letting you out Sephtis!"
"I don't want to kill anyone this time! Just to talk. Please?"
"Are you okay Malekh?" Celestia asked. I was doubled over clutching my head out of impulse.
"Yeah. Just a headache." I said.
"Let me talk. Let me talk! Let me talk!! LET ME TALK MAL!!!
"FINE! Make your own body though. I don't want them thinking I'm insane."
"Oh Mal, you've been insane for a long, long time. You just don't want to admit it."
"Fuck you."
I felt a steady warmth flow out of my eyes and down my body. I heard a few gasps and steps but most of all I heard Sephtis. "A thousand years locked in your subconscious can kill someone, Mal.
I looked to my left and he was there in his purple foggy body that he made. I looked around the room at the stares I was getting, but Celestia seemed the most curious. "And who are you exactly?" She asked.
Seph chuckled and said, "I'm Mal's alter ego in a sense. He used to let me out when we went on missions when he couldn't handle killing. Sadly I blew that by hijacking his body and going on a small killing spree.
"A small killing spree is around fifty people. Not five-hundred." I said chuckling.
"See? I told you we would laugh about it someday!" He said putting a foggy hand on my shoulder.
"YOU KILLED FIVE-HUNDRED PEOPLE?!" Twilight screamed. "Why would you do that?"
"I was emotionally compromised and my anger transposed onto him and amplified it." I said sighing.
"What got you so angry?" Celestia asked.
"We were sent to kill the man that killed my parents. They tried talking me out of going, but I wouldn't listen and let him out on the town." I chuckled and said, "On the bright side, that was the day Seph officially earned his name."
"And what name is that?" Rainbow asked, fear etched on her face.
"Sephtis. Greek for death." He said chuckling.
"How can you give someone a name so dark?" Rarity asked.
"I named him the first day he showed up. It was the first day I went insane." I said crossing my arms.
"Insane?" Celestia asked.
"Did anyone catch what I said when I made my dramatic entrance? Malekh lied. He's not twenty-seven, he's-" I cut him off by placing my hand on his face.
"He's right. I'm not twenty-seven. I'm actually one-thousand, five-hundred, and twenty-seven." I looked around the room at all the skeptical faces but Celestia was shaking her head. "Why didn't you want me to tell them in the first place, Celestia?"
"Because, Twilight." She said.
"Wait, you're not lying?!" Twilight exclaimed.
"Nope, he's not lying. I've been with him since he was twenty-seven. So for one-thousand and five-hundred years." He said. Emphasizing how old we are.
"How?" Twilight asked.
"Magic." I said.
"No really, how?"
"No really, magic."
"Wow. Can I study you?"
"Hell no."
"Please?"
"No means no."
"I'll drag you." She warned.
"And I'll call rape again."
Her face burst out into a blush at that one and she started stammering. I smirked triumphantly but that small victory was shot down by Rainbow Dash.
"Bwahahaha! Y-you called rape on her?! That's hilarious!" She said. I don't know why but her laughing about it kinda killed it for me. Nevertheless she laughed at it for a good five minuets before Applejack slugged her in the arm. Hard. Her laugh turned into a whimper in two seconds. "You didn't have to hit me so hard, AJ." She said.
"Well ya wouldn't shut up and the princess looks like she wanna talk." Applejack said with a small smirk. I looked over to the princess and sure enough she had a face that said one thing; business. Sadly Seph was still there.
"Can it wait? I kinda want to explore! Mal here has only wandered around the inside of the castle. I wanna see the outside!" He said. When you've known Seph for as long as I have, you can tell when he is up to something.
"Hell no." I said.
"Why not?" Celestia asked.
"Yeah, why not?" Seph repeated.
"I don't trust you after the last time I let you out. Especially when you have a body of your own. Get back inside." I said crossing my arms.
"Yes dad." He said, knowing that I cringe every time he says it. I heard four snickers and saw three confused faces.
"Dad?" Celestia asked when Seph was completely inside my head. After all these years it still feels awkward as all hell when he goes back in.
I sighed. "Yes. Dad. I created him with my own magic and hate, so in a sense he is my son." I shrugged and began walking around the throne room. "This is a lot of fuckin windows here." I said after looking at all of them. But one caught my attention. It looked like a chimera. It had the head of a goat, one deer antler, one goat horn, a fang, beard, right arm of a lion, left arm is a claw of an eagle, right leg of a lizard or dragon, and left leg of a pony. Looking at it I can only think of one word. "Chaos." I said out loud.
"That is Discord." Twilight said from behind me. "The spirit of disharmony and chaos."
"Celestia, the choice is yours, but if you want true harmony, free him." I said turning around to look at her.
"WHAT!?" All six mares screamed in unison.
"Are you workin' for him?" Applejack asked.
"I knew you couldn't be trusted!" Rainbow screamed.
"ENOUGH!" Celestia yelled, silencing everyone in the room. "I will think about it. But first I want to talk to you about the things you had when you came here."
"Like what?" I asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Like this." She said as she pulled a key out of her pocket. But not any other key, it was glowing.
"He's here." I said reaching for the key.
"Who?" Celestia asked.
"The Doctor."
Author's Note
Yes, he seems overpowered right now doesn't he? Stronger that Celestia, flash stepping, (got that from Bleach if you didn't realize that) and he can fly! What the fuck right? I have plans on using that.
Doctor's Visit and A New Look
Side Note:
"Doctor who?" Twilight asked.
I smirked and remembered the same line he told me when I asked that, "Exactly." Her face contorted and she repeated the same question over and over until she understood what I was getting at.
"Doctor Who?" She asked. "That's his name? What kind of name is that?"
"His name. Now can I have my key? I need to find him before he leaves." I said looking to Celestia and holding my hand out. She set the key in my hand and immediately it began glowing brighter. That's when I heard it. That damned whirring that is, the TARDIS. Everyone looked around the room for the source of the noise but I kept looking ahead. The whirring stopped and I heard his voice again after so long.
"Mal! It's good to see you again old friend!" He said wrapping me in a hug the second I turned around.
"It's been what? Two hundred? Three hundred years, Doctor?" I asked hugging him back.
"Too long for you. Felt like three days for me." He said chuckling.
"Yeah, well, time is an interesting thing." I said slapping his shoulder.
"Um, I don't mean to be rude but, who are you?" Twilight asked, stepping forward.
The Doctor turned to me and sighed. "I was afraid you would end up here." He said shaking his head. "I was hoping somewhere else. But no! I never get what I want! I mean look at me! I'm still not Ginger!" He exclaimed waving his hands around. "Anyways! I, am The Doctor. Time traveler, savior of worlds and all that jazz."
"Seriously? You still pull that shit everywhere you go? Still picking up women with that? Or is it the mysterious thing that gets them?" I sarcastically remarked. "I mean seriously! You told me that once and I walked away from you. Now you tell some random girl and what do you expect?"
"Malekh!" Celestia yelled. "I understand that this is a kind of reunion to you, but we need to hurry this up a bit."
"Oh, Celestia! Good to see you. How have you been?" He asked. Celestia looked taken back while I just face-palmed. “Oops, wrong timeline.” He said looking to his watch. Everyone else was snickering at him while my hand stayed on my face. Slowly I pulled it down and glared at him.I really don’t want to be in the way when they hit the door again. I said pushing it open.If I can’t hold them any longer, then yes, you can help. I knew I was probably going to regret that decision but I had no other options.Hey Seph, guess what? “We’re going outside.” “You’re so childish sometimes.” “Whatever.”
Canterlot Castle, Equestria Princess Celestia and Luna in throne room 2:36 P.M. Third POV
Above Lake Tahoe Reno, Nevada Malekh and the Doctor 2:45 P.M. Malekh’s POV
As I was walking a few doorways had people in them with weird eye-stalks growing out of their fore-heads. I shrugged and continued walking for a few minuets before coming across a door that read, "HOLDING CELL #1"
"Doctor perhaps?" I thought opening the door. I was wrong. Very wrong. In this room where maybe around twenty Dalekhs just standing there doing nothing. So, I backed the fuck out of there as quickly and quietly as I could. "Fuck that shit." I mumbled once I was out of the room.
"Do what now?"
I honestly wasn't expecting that so I whirled around with my sword already drawn. Only to see that it was The Doctor. Should have known too. But I didn't.
"Don't fucking do that." I said dismissing my sword. "How did you get out?" I asked rolling my shoulders. He smirked and pulled out his favorite tool that he owns; the sonic screwdriver. Not needing to hear his bragging I walked ahead took point.
"What do you think we should do?" I asked after a long moment of silence. As we kept walking I turned a corner and saw around ten Dalekhs all doing... something. I could never tell what they do. I held a finger to my lips signaling to The Doctor to be quiet. I slowly crept around the corner with one hand glowing a pale-red and the other black. As I got close to the first Dalekh I tapped it with the red hand and clenched my other hand. Doing so made a sonic dome that cancelled all sound within it. So as the Dalekh slowly melted and crumpled on itself no one heard it. I did that to three others before I ran out of cover to hide behind. So, sense all the other Dalekhs where close together I conjured a gravity grenade and threw it at them. Kinda self-explanatory what it does; it creates a mini black-hole and sucks anything within a ten-foot diameter towards it and, due to the massive gravitational pull it uses, crushes it.
After all that, The Doctor came from behind the corner, a sour look on his face. That look was then turned to a glare. Said glare was directed to me. I sighed and said, "Don't give me that look, I had no other option."
"You were smiling. The entire time." He said crossing his arms. Truth be told, I didn't realize it, but I was.
I sighed, shrugged, and said, "Let's just get out of here so I can blow this ship to hell. Then we can talk about me smiling every-time I kill someone." I walked over to one of the many consoles in the room and began searching all the data. "I might need your screwdriver, Doc." I said after about thirty seconds of no success getting into the mainframe. But before anything else happened, we where teleported. When my vision refocused from the unexpectedness of that, I noticed we where on a raised platform and all around us were Dalekhs and one giant Dalekh. Who I could see his face. His ugly, shriveled, one eyed, tentacles growing out as some nasty-ass beard looking face. I almost lost my lunch! If I ate any lunch.
"You are the two that have been a thorn in our side for too long. Now you must be exterminated!" The big one yelled. I dead-panned and looked towards The Doctor, who was yawning.
"Before you do that!" I interrupted. "Can we get something to eat? I didn't eat lunch and I'm starving." All eyes where on me. Just like I wanted. So I continued, "I think I'm gonna kill the biggest guy here and leave. Maybe get a hot-dog."
"You think you can kill me? Human, you know nothing, you are weak and fragile, while this armor is stronger than any element known across the galaxy." The big guy said. My stomach rumbled. Good timing too.
"Bitch, did you hear that? That was my stomach. I need food soon. So, yes. I'm going to kill you. In about three seconds flat." With that said, I jumped in the air and launched myself at him. I was well aware that I was being shot at by the Dalekhs, but I was going to fast for their aiming to keep up with me. By the time I got to the big guy's leg, my sword was out and I was charging the blade with destruction magic and holding it reverse. As I slashed through his leg, I noticed a black trail following my sword and smirked.
"This will be interesting." I thought as I threw my sword at the glass bowl holding the giant Dalekh's head.
"This might make a big boom..." Seph said.
Right when he said that a giant explosion erupted where my sword made contact. By the time the smoke cleared, there was only three giant metal legs, and a shit-ton of shrapnel left. No blood, and a gaping hole in the hull of the ship. I heard The Doctor mumble something under his breath, but I didn't catch anything other than, "There's that smile again." I looked at him and gave my most innocent smile I could. He just rolled his eyes at me and walked over to the platform we teleported on.
"As you can see, my friend has just obliterated your first in command, and blew a hole in your hull." He paused and glared at me. I just raised my hands and shrugged. He continued, "I think that you should all just leave. Now. And if you don't, I will let him destroy this entire ship and all of you." He crossed his arms and began tapping his foot. A thing he did that annoyed me, and he knew it.
A blue colored Dalekh floated down in front of us and said, "We will leave this time, but be sure of one thing; we will exterminate you one day." With that we were teleported back down to the ground, outside of the ship.
I looked up and sighed. "You didn't have to do that," The Doctor said from next to me. "and you were smiling again!"
"Be glad I don't blow their ship out of the sky for taking us like that." I said turning around and walking away. "Let's go back to Equestria before Celestia and Luna get really pissed." I said opening the door to the TARDIS.
"Why do you want to stay there and not back here on Earth?" He asked stepping in after me.
I paused to think about that. I really didn't know for a second. Then it hit me, "There is nothing for me here anymore. My team thinks I'm dead , and plus, I feel like there is something tying me there. Like there is something bad coming and I'm needed to stop it. It's complicated." I shrugged.
"I was afraid you'd say that." The Doctor said doing his thing, pressing buttons and switching levers. We stopped and he looked at me, a solemn look on his face. "This is your choice, I can take you back and you can live a different life. Or you can stay here. Either way, we will be seeing each other again very soon."
I chuckled. "I want to stay here. Settle down here. Fight here. This is a new start for me, yeah a little different from what I am used to, but I can adapt. Plus I need to forge a new sword before my power starts acting up again." I said stepping out. "See you soon, Doc." I said as that damned whirring started again and the TARDIS was off.
I turned and was immediately face-to-face with a rainbow haired angry demon. "You lied to me. You said that Twilight was stuck and needed my help. You didn't tell me that you were the one that put here there in the first place!" Rainbow Dash said jamming a finger in my chest.
"I didn't lie, I just withheld the truth." I said snapping my fingers. "She should be free now. Or I just blew something up." Her eyes widened. "Nah, she free now." She sighed and glared at me one last time before flying away.
I turned around again and was faced with Celestia and Luna. "At least they aren't all up in my shit" I thought. Aloud I asked, "Do you have a forge here in the castle?"
"Yes we do, why?" Celestia asked back.
"I kinda blew my sword up and caused a giant-ass explosion in the process, so I need to make a new one." I said shrugging. Luna's eyebrows rose and Celestia had a face of surprise.
"You blew up your sword, and caused a massive explosion?" Luna asked crossing her arms.
"Yup."
"I don't believe you." Celestia said narrowing her eyes at me.
"Ugh, fine, can you show me to the forge or do I have to find it myself?" I asked beginning to get a little irritated.
"I will show you... But first it's time for dinner." Luna said.
"Sweet, I'm starved." I said. My stomach showed it's agreement by growling loudly. Both sisters giggled and began leading me to food.
As we were walking, Celestia turned her head at me and said, "You look and act so young, yet you are old, well old compared to the citizens of this world, and you even caught some of the eyes of the maids," The next part wasn't disturbing to me but had a little effect, "and guards, male and female."
"What can I say? I have that effect here too." I said. "Wait, is it okay if we stop at my room for a little bit?" I asked stopping right in front of my room door.
"Sure, we have a few minuets before dinner starts anyway." Celestia said nodding.
I walked in and left the door open. "You two can come in, I'm not getting undressed. Completely." I said taking off my cloak and shirt. I looked in the mirror and saw Celestia looking at me with a blush she was trying to hide under a concerned face.
"What happened to you?" She asked talking about the many (and I mean many) scars littering my torso. I shrugged and began focusing my magic into my hands.
"I served in the military in my world. Getting scars aren't very rare." I said sitting down on my bed. "Now I need to concentrate for this little bit right here."
"What are you going to do?" Luna asked finally stepping in my room and immediately bursting into a blush.
"Making new clothes. I told everyone that I would only take off my cloak in-front of loved ones or those I trust. But, I'm ditching the cloak thing and making a trench coat instead. I'm only doing this because I want to start a new life here and I need to use some power before it gets out of control." I said clapping my hands together and pulling them apart, creating a black trench coat that was the same color scheme as my cloak, that was now burning in a corner, and set it down next to me.
"What do you mean? Why would your power go out of control?" Celestia asked.
"I told you, my sword is gone. The reason I need to make a new sword soon is because it acted like a seal for my power. If I don't recreate that seal on a sword, my power will begin to destabilize." I explained repeating the earlier action of clapping my hands and pulling them apart, except this time, a black tee-shirt appeared that I put on. Sadly, it didn't feel like my old one, which was made of cotton, but that one was all sweaty and grimy. Next I put on the trench coat and rolled my shoulders getting used to the different weight. "If that happens, I could accidentally level this mountain by flopping on my bed." I said yawning.
I looked over to Celestia and Luna to find them both standing there with their faces completely red and Luna was shifting her weight from left leg to right. I sighed and walked past them into the hallway. "Let's go, perverts." I said standing in front of my door looking at them. It was at that time that I noticed that they had tails too. I only noticed this now because I never looked. Until now.
"Eyes up stallion." Celestia said turning around and walking out into the hallway with Luna.
"Yeah, yeah. Couldn't help myself. I am male after all." I said following them once again to the dining room. The next question was unexpected completely, and I almost tripped on myself when I heard it.
"Who's is better?" Luna asked.
"W-what!?" I stuttered. I never stutter. Ever. First time for everything I guess.
"Who has the better flank, Mal?" Celestia asked, joining her sister in taunting me.
"No comment." I said walking ahead into the dining room.
"Aw, you're no fun." Celestia said. As I sat down I looked over as she passed and when she saw me looking, swayed her hips a little. I sighed and looked away, rubbing my face.
No one was in the dining room at the time so I gave my answer, "Celestia, your's is bigger, but Luna's actually looks more firm. So it's a tie for me." Celestia and Luna both blushed and looked at each other and then back to me. "What? You asked." I said smirking.
Then Twilight walked in and immediately glared at me. "You glued me to place and left me there!" She screamed pointing at me. She walked up to me and gave me a look that said it all, 'I will kill you if you do that again'.
"Yes, yes I did. Only because you let your curiosity get in the way of your better logic. You wouldn't take 'no' for an answer so I had to make you." I said leaning back in my chair. "You act like a little kid, going wherever your curiosity leads you and when someone says you can't go somewhere, you throw a fit and try to get in anyway. That's the reason I called rape on you." Her face flushed and she turned away walking towards her seat. The others came in not to long after and all sat down. Twilight held her glare at me and as did Rainbow, but I didn't give two shits about them. My mind was racing. First I really needed to make a new sword and second I was thrown for a loop when Celestia and Luna ganged up on me like that.
"Women are confusing as hell." I thought sighing and placing my hands behind my head.
"I see you've changed your wardrobe, Malekh. But I'm hurt you didn't ask me to make it. I would have made something so much better." Rarity said breaking a long silence, that I was actually starting to enjoy. But alas, she had to break it.
"I don't care what you would have made, Rarity, I only made this to use up some of my reserves. Speaking of which, where the hell are the waiters?" I was expecting someone to call me rude but nothing happened. Then I followed everyone's trail of sight to a white-furred guy with blonde hair.
"No one eats without me, the waiters where told not to take orders until I sat down. Now, I do believe you are in my seat, ape." He said pointing a finger at me.
"I'm sorry, did you just call me an ape?" I asked standing up and turning to stare at him. "Who do you think you are? Walking around here all high and mighty. Hell even Celestia and Luna don't do that, and they rule over everybody in this room, except me." I said crossing my arms.
"Me?" He asked sarcastically. "I'm Prince Blueblood. Nephew of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. You are you, ape?" Again with the ape thing!
"Tch, new guy in town. My name is Malekh, and in my world, I was considered a demon by some, and an angel of darkness by others." I said sitting back down.
"We aren't in your world now are we, ape? Now get out of my chair." He said taking a step forward.
"No, we're not in my world, and I'm glad. I had so much blood on my hands there it wasn't even funny anymore. However, what hasn't changed, is that I am still that same person. So, I'm not getting up. There are three more chairs around this table if you really want to sit down." I said leaning back and putting my hands behind my head.
"If you don't get out of my chair, I won't let anyone eat." He said smirking like he won something.
"Moron." I thought shifting to get to a more comfortable position. I looked over to Celestia and asked, "You can get the waiters out here to take orders right?" She nodded and raised her hand. Immediately three maids came out and began taking orders. Blueblood huffed and stormed out of the room. I paid no mind to the glare he gave me as he walked out since I was too busy ordering my food. But with nothing on the menu that I liked I just ordered a salad.
"That was not the first time someone stood up to him," Celestia said beginning to eat her food, as did I. "He might challenge you to a duel or just attempt to humiliate you and if not then he will just be a bother to you."
"He's like a child, if he doesn't get what he wants, he throws fits and tries to intimidate people. I've dealt with a lot of people like that. They piss me off to an extent. Depends on how persistent they are." I said eating the last of my salad. I waited for Celestia or Luna to finish their food, which was taking a long-ass time, so we could go to the forge so I could make a sword. I began getting a little impatient but they finished by that time. "Let's go, I need to make this sword already." I said tapping my fingers on the table.
"Why do you need to make a sword?" Twilight asked. I looked at her for a little while, thirty seconds, before she got the hint. "Can I come watch?" She asked.
"Nn-sure." I said standing up. "We just gotta wait for Celestia and Luna and then we can go."
"Why don't you call them by their titles?" Twilight asked crossing her arms. "It shows that you don't respect them."
"Twilight it doesn't-" Celestia started before I cut her off.
"I don't call them by their titles because it's just that. Their titles. Words that are given to someone by someone else. I don't care about titles. The only time I will call someone by their title is if they are on by bad side. You really don't want to be on my bad side."
"Why not?" Rainbow asked raising an eyebrow.
"I kill people that are on my bad side." I said. "If you get on my bad side then that means you did something that made me really angry. Angry enough to hold a grudge against you. That is a feat that only four people have managed. Do you want to know what they did?" I asked. Silence was the response so I gave the answer, "They harmed my family or those that I loved, or they attempted to."
"Well then, that is very uncouth." Rarity said. "Sometimes you just need to talk to them and work it put like civilized adults."
"Not everything can be solved by talking alone. Sometimes there is a need for violence and bloodshed, but there are times that you can just talk it out yes. But the world isn't full of those times." I said. "Now, lets go make me a new sword!" I said smiling.
"Right," Celestia said. "follow me." So we did. Me, Twilight, Luna, and Celestia. All so I could make a sword. I already had the idea in my head as to how it would look .
Author's Note
Elucidator sword is from the Manga/anime Sword Art Online author is Reki Kawahara and all rights go to him... I'm a huge manga reader so expect there to be a lot more references in this story to multiple mangas.fortsonisaac@gmail.com or PM it to me... Please?
Vampires and Equestria's Christmas
After about ten hours of hammering, Celestia finally decided to say something, "Are you tired, Malekh? You've been working pretty hard on that sword, I bet you're exhausted." But to be honest, I wasn't tired at all. Sure my arms were a little sore, but nothing a little rest couldn't fix.
"No, I'm fine. Thanks for worrying though." I said hammering one last time on the blade. I had the hilt, guard, and blade done but now I had to put it all together. But before I did that I had to do one last thing to the blade. Since it was still hot and very easy to cut into, I set a rune to make the blade indestructible. I did it for my last sword, but that one didn't work apparently since it broke. Truth about that though, is that I half assed that rune. This one, I was adding all the power needed to make it work right. I carved the rune in, and got to work pouring magic into it.
For about thirty minutes, nobody moved or said anything as I poured over ten percent of my magic into the rune. Once it was done, I set everything in place and put the sword together. I examined it for a few seconds before setting it down. "Now all I need is a sheath." I said as I turned around and went through the leather that they had in the forge. I found a sturdy looking sheath that was already made and fit my sword that was a deep-black. "Perfect!" I exclaimed as I sheathed my sword, and strapped it to my back.
"How does that help keep your magic in check?" Luna asked eyeing my back.
"It will, once I perform a certain ceremony that needs to be done in my room." I answered rolling my shoulders to get used to the new weight on my back. The sword alone weighed about fifty-five pounds and with the sheath, about sixty pounds all together. So I had to get used to that weight. Sadly though, it was lighter than my other sword which was seventy-two pounds. However; that meant that I could move a lot faster with it. I had to do a few practice runs just to be sure I didn't have to do anything to add weight. That would be a drag.
"What ceremony, and why does it have to be in your room?" Twilight asked tilting her head to the side.
"The ceremony of taking the Seal of Power from one sword to another. It has to be in my room because the amount of power it requires will leave me drained, tired and a little grumpy." I said beginning to walk out of the forge.
"You're always grumpy." She muttered.
"I'm not grumpy, you just don't understand my sense of humor." I said smirking. She just scrunched up her face and stuck her tongue out at me, so I said, "Your face might get stuck like that." She didn't stop. So I placed the same spell that stuck her in place, on her face!
That rhymed... Anyway!
She visibly tried to move her face but couldn't so, she tried to yell at me but it all came out muffled. When she was able to open her mouth just enough to get words out, she said what she wanted to, "Malekh, what did you do to me?"
"I didn't do shit. I warned you that your face would get stuck, and it did." I said shrugging my shoulders and barely holding back a chuckle. Celestia was also biting her knuckles to keep from laughing. Or yelling at me, either way she was biting her knuckles.
"Re-reverse the spell Mal." Celestia said letting out a small snort of laughter. I paused.
"When did you start calling me 'Mal'?" I asked raising an eyebrow at her. She looked at Luna who had the same expression of curiosity, only pointed at me. "What?" I asked completely confused at this point.
"I called you that yesterday." She said slowly then blushed a little and said, "When I asked you who's flank was better." At that Twilight stopped her mumbling and had her sill locked expression pointed at Celestia. I sighed and snapped my fingers and removed the spell on her face.
"You asked him what?!" She yelled her face morphing into one of shock and surprise at an instant.
"Huh, I guess I didn't hear you." I said shrugging.
"Probably because you were too busy staring." Luna said blushing a little herself. At that Twilight began to stutter out random questions. Obviously her brain was shutting down from the fact that her princesses were more normal than she thought.
"Yeah, I guess I was." I said absently. When I looked over to them they were both blushing pretty hard. Celestia, having white fur, had the most noticeable blush adorning her face. I smirked and walked past them with my hands in my pockets. "Let's go. Or do you not want to go into my room?" At that both of them snapped out of their fantasies and looked at me. "Let's go, you to Twilight."
New York, New York
2:50 P.M.
Third POV
As a silver haired girl walked down the busy streets of New York, people kept their distance from her. She just looked too out of place, silver hair pale skin and most of all, her red irises with slit pupils. Making her look like a cos-player, but that's not what they were avoiding. The fangs that were slightly sticking out of her lips that was keeping people away. But as she kept walking, she drew... unwanted attention. Mainly that of three men, all very well built and had sinister smirks on their faces.
But as they drew closer to her a sudden white flash exploded in front of them, pushing them a few meters back. When they regained their senses, the girl was gone. The only thing left was a large crater in the middle of the side-walk. As they looked around they heard a mysterious voice that said, "Better luck next time." Then a light chuckle as the voice faded. When they looked around again, nobody else seemed to hear the voice but them. So, they ran.
Canterlot Castle, Malekh's room
3:00 A.M.
Malekh's POV
As I held my left hand on my new sword, my right hand was on my old, and broken sword. I concentrated and pulled the power that I placed into my old sword and forced it through my body, and into the new sword. As that happened, my arms began to glow a bright red, then a soft blue, pink, then finally a deep black. When the seal was placed on my new sword the remnants of my old sword turned to ash and blew away.
"That's done." I said already feeling tired and overall drained. When I tried to stand up, I fell right back on my ass. "Well, who wants to help me get into my bed?" I asked looking around. The first to respond was Celestia with a motherly smile on her face. I just chuckled and let her pick me up with her magic and set me in my bed. I smiled at her and closed my eyes. The last thing I remember was Luna with a devious smirk on her face. I tried to open my eyes but I couldn't so I just let sleep take me.
The next day
10:35 A.M.
As I opened my eyes I felt a slight weight on my left arm. When I tried to turn my head to look, I noticed weight on my right arm to. When I was able to get a good look, I was rendered speechless. There, on my arms where Celestia and Luna. Celestia on my right and Luna on my left, both asleep and snuggled up on me. I couldn't move without waking them and I couldn't teleport since they where using me as a pillow. So, I closed my eyes again and tried to find sleep again. Sadly, I wasn't lucky.
After about thirty minutes of laying there not moving Celestia began to stir. When I looked over to her she yawned and opened her eyes. "Mornin' sleepy head." I said as her eyes widened and a blush broke out on her face. In my tired mind I could only think of one thing. Sadly, being to tired to stop myself, I said what I was thinking aloud, "Man, you're beautiful when you blush." By the time I caught what I had said, her blush deepened. "Shit, did I say that out loud?" Fuck I was tired.
She nodded and crawled off of me so fast I thought she would wake Luna up. But apparently she is a heavy sleeper so she didn't. "I'm sorry, I got worried and came in here when you didn't wake up, but I fell asleep. I don't know what came over me." She said as she sat up and looked at Luna. "I don't know about her though. She wasn't there when I fell asleep." She said. Then she blushed again and said, "By the way, thanks for the compliment." With that she winked and left my room.
I groaned and slammed my head into my pillow and with my free arm, pinched the bridge of my nose. I looked over to Luna and tried to pry her off of my arm, but she had a vice-grip on. So, I poked her nose. It took a few times, but finally, she scrunched up her face and rolled over, freeing me. I immediately jumped up and ran to the bathroom before she could wake up.
I took care of my morning business and walked out. Only to notice that Luna was sitting up with her arms over her head, stretching, and yawning. Being the second time someone yawned in-front of me, I couldn't fight the yawn that built up in my throat. When I opened my eyes again, I saw Luna staring at me with the same blank expression that Celestia had, only her blush was better hidden by her blue fur, but it was still there.
"Mornin'." Was all I said as I walked over to the full-body mirror and looked at myself. I tsked when I noticed that my trench-coat looked more like a normal wind-breaker jacket. "I guess I gotta wait a few hours before I do anything." I said as I walked over and sat at the foot of my bed. I looked over to Luna to see her staring back at me with that same surprised expression. "Are you done staring, or do you want a show?" I asked smirking. Her blushed deepened and she shook her head. My smirk grew and I decided to play with her a little while she was still in my room. "Aw, so does that mean you think I'm ugly, or are you too good for me?" I asked.
"N-no it's not that!" She exclaimed and looked away as her blush grew, along with my smirk. If that was possible. But I had to stop, my body wasn't very happy right now, and I was really hungry.
"Can we get something to eat, I'm starving." I said as I stood up and walked over to the door. "Celestia already woke up and left, so she might be in the dining room. We might as well meet her there."
"Y-yes, we should do that." She said as she stood up and followed me out of my room.
When we reached the dining room, I wasn't surprised to see everyone else there. But I was surprised to see Blueblood there glaring at me from the chair that he claimed as his. I sighed and sat at the seat to the left of Celestia, much to the barely visible displeasure of Luna. Celestia tiredly smiled at me and continued eating.
"You can't be still tired can you?" I asked her as I began eating the oatmeal that the servers brought out for me. I leaned a little closer so that only she could hear me and said, "You slept on me and were wide awake when you dashed out." To that she blushed and kicked me under the table.
"Tell no-pony about that." She warned. "Or the next time, it won't be a kick to your leg."
"Ooh, someone's grumpy when she's tired." I quipped as she glared at me. "Oh come on, don't give me that. It won't do anything other than make me pick on you more." She kicked me again, only this time it was hard enough to make me grunt. "Okay, I'll stop."
"Thank you." She said as she put on a sweet, innocent smile. I rolled my eyes and winced when I felt a stinging sensation on my ankle and lower calf. When I looked, my trench-coat was all the way down to my feet again.
"Huh, that was faster than usual." I mumbled as I raised an eyebrow.
"What was that?" Celestia asked as she looked at me with a curious eyebrow raised.
"Nothing."
"Uh-huh."
A sudden tremor rattled through the castle, shaking everyone and everything. Nearly knocking me over as I tried to stand up. When it was over, a guard slammed the doors open, a panicked look on his face as he looked at Celestia and said, "Princess, there's another one!"
Celestia's eyes widened and she asked. "Where?"
The guard shook his head and said, "Same place as the one that brought Malekh." Pointing at me he then said, "It looks almost identical as well. We may have another human in Equestria!"
My face hardened. "If he or she survives then you might have something more like me. Which could be a good thing or a bad thing." I looked at the guard and cracked my knuckles with a dark smile and said, "Take me there."
Celestia looked at me and raised an eyebrow. "Are you sure you want to go?" She asked as I began walking towards the, now shaking, guard.
"Yes, and I want only this guard to accompany me." I said as I stood next to him and held out my hand. "What's your name?" I asked.
"Blue Twist." He said.
"Why him?" Celestia asked.
"Because he has wings and he knows the location." I said as I shook hands with the guard, who looked like he wanted to piss himself.
Rainbow Dash flew in-front of me and narrowed her eyes. "I'm going to." She said.
"Hell no. I only want one person with me and that spot's taken, sorry." I said turning around and walking out of the door and towards the nearest window that just happened to show the carnage that was wreaked all along the landscape of a forest. "Never mind, stay here and I'll go alone." I said as I jumped out of the window and began flying towards the center of the carnage.
When I reached the center I was surprised to see a woman. She had silver hair, pale skin, and the only remnants of her clothing left her barely decent. Thankfully I saw her breathing so that lead me to believe that she was still alive. So I took off my coat and placed it on her before picking her up and turning around. But as I turned I noticed something. Her breathing was short and ragged. She had lost a lot of blood and was cut badly on her stomach. If I didn't help her soon, she would definitely die. So I flew back to the castle at mach-two speeds and came in through the window I got out of.
When I got back inside I turned to the first guard I saw and yelled, "Get a room open now! She needs medical attention!" To that he ran down the hallway and lead me to an open room that was relatively close to mine.
"I'll go get a doctor." He said as he began to rush off but I stopped him.
"That won't be needed. Thank you for your help. Go get the princesses though and bring them here." I said as I set the woman down on the bed. I immediately sparked my hands with light-blue healing magic and got to work on the gash on her stomach.
By the time Celestia and Luna got there I was already onto healing the smaller cuts and scrapes on her arms and legs. I was so concentrated on healing this random girl, I didn't notice her eyes staring at me. When I looked up at her I noticed them. Red irises with slit pupils. My own eyes widened and I groaned.
"Just to be sure you are what I think you are, open your mouth." I said biting my knuckle and sighing. She did what I asked, but very hesitantly and, sure enough, two elongated canines or fangs. She was a vampire. "Well shit." I said as I stood up and walked over to the vanity that was in the room. Picking up a pair of scissors I asked, "What's your name?"
"E-Elena." She said as she looked at the scissors in my hand. Her eyes widened and she tried to crawl away.
"I'm not going to hurt you, Elena." I said as I sat down on the bed. "Come here please." Slowly but surely, she crawled over to me and sat down next to me. I got the scissors in one hand and shifted closer to her. "I hate doing this." I mumbled as I slit my wrist and held it up to her face. Her eyes widened and she pulled back a little.
"I can't let my wrist just bleed here all day." I said as she swallowed. Again, slowly she came close to my wrist and opened her mouth. I felt her fangs dig into my wrist as she drank my blood. When she pulled back her eyes where wide and she was panting.
"It's sweet." She said as she came close to me again, though this time faster. When she got close to my neck she stopped. "May I?" She asked.
"Go for it." I said as I tilted my neck to let her get to it. Though this time she was a little more rough, she was still gentle.
"Why are you letting her do this?" Celestia asked as she stared at the scene with a worried look on her face.
"Because she's a vampire that's lost a lot of her own blood. I don't want her to die, do you?" I asked. It was a little awkward talking with two fangs sticking into my neck. When I began to feel a little light-headed I said, "Okay, I think that's enough for now. Anymore and you'd suck me dry." At that she sighed and retracted her fangs and sat back, away from me.
"Okay... Let's get you some new clothes. Don't want you walking around naked all day." I said rolling my neck. When I poked the area she bit I was genuinely surprised to feel no pain. When I looked in the mirror I noticed that the only evidence that she bit me was a purple mark. It made it look like I had a hickey, but luckily my coat had a high collar so it hid the mark. "Alright, I can't believe I'm saying this, let's go see Rarity." I said walking to the door. When I opened it, she was right there in the middle of the hallway trying to look nonchalant.
When she saw me giving her a dead-pan stare, she smiled. "Is there anything you need?" She asked.
"You are so sad." I mumbled. "Get in here, you know what's going on." I said opening the door all the way. She strode in with her nose in the air like a stuck up bitch. "If you can't see with your face pointed up, you might fall." I said sticking my leg out, tripping her. "Told you."
"Mal!" Celestia yelled sounding genuinely angry. But when I looked over at her, I could tell she didn't approve of my actions.
"What? I didn't do shit!" I said holding my hands up.
When Rarity finally picked herself off of the floor, she glared at me with enough intensity to make a bear run. I just shrugged her off and walked into the room where Elena was still sitting on the bed. I looked at her and put a finger to my lips, signalling her to stay quiet. I walked over to her and whispered in her ear, "If she sees your fangs, she'll flip her shit, so don't smile too big or anything. Sorry, but that's how it is until I can find a way to hide it."
"What about my eyes or hair?" She asked. I looked at her and chuckled.
"Your hair won't be much of a problem, and your eyes I could just cast a simple illusion spell to make them look normal." I said.
"Okay... Where are we?" She asked.
"We are in a place called Equestria, where anthropomorphic ponies live. No humans, no vampires." I paused. "That I'm aware of." I turned to Celestia and called her over. When she got to the bed, I asked, "Are there any vampires in Equestria?" She put her hand on her chin in thought
"Yes, but they are very rare in Canterlot." She said after a few seconds.
"There you go." I said turning to Elena. A few seconds later, Rarity finally came to the bed, with enough supplies to make twenty dresses.
Point being, she had a lot of supplies...
"The fuck is all this shit?" I thought but, I didn't want to talk about it. So I walked over to the door, turned, and said, "I'll give you time to make her clothes, just have it ready by lunch please?" She looked at me, then to her watch and back to me.
"Only because you said please. But I'm angry with you for tripping a lady!" She said narrowing her eyes at me.
"Yeah, sure, whatever, thank you Rarity." I said closing the door behind me and going next door to my room. I automatically laid down on my bed and sighed.
"What's wrong? You just got your blood sucked by a sexy vampire, and you're sighing like you're irritated." Seph said.
"You've been quiet lately. I forgot you where with me again." I answered avoiding his question.
"Yeah, well I've been floating around your head just being bored. It was better in your sub-conscious. It was quiet, and I could do whatever I wanted."
"I can send you back. It's a simple spell, it won't be hard."
"I'll think about it... HEY! Answer my question!"
"What question?"
"Why are you irritated?"
"I'm not."
Whatever. I think I hear someone coming, I'll go back to floating around."
"Yeah, you do that." I covered my face with my hands as there was a knocking at my door. I stood up and walked over to it and what do you know? It was Celestia. "She's getting a little clingy..." I thought as I opened the door and walked back to my bed.
"Lunch is in an hour, and I wanted to tell you something." She said stepping into my room.
"You just did." I said laying down.
"Something else." She said. By her voice I could tell she was a little irritated, but not annoyed.
"What?" I asked putting my hands behind my head.
"We have a holiday here in Equestria tonight called Hearth's Warming. That being said, tonight when we go to Ponyville for the festivities, me and Luna will introduce you and Elena to the general public." She said looking at me.
"Okay, only one question." I said. She nodded telling me to go ahead. "What do you want us to do till you introduce us?" I asked.
"Just stay inside the carriage until you hear either me or Luna introduce you. I know that Elena isn't human like you, but I don't want to cause panic by saying that she is a vampire so I'll have to say that she is human." She explained. I nodded and stood up stretching a little before walking to the door.
"I'm going to check on Elena and tell her." I said opening the door. She nodded and walked out after me going the other direction.
I knocked on Elena's door and less than three seconds of waiting Rarity opened the door. "Yes?" She asked.
"Is Elena ready? Or are you torturing her still?" I asked putting my hands in my pockets.
"It's not torture, it's fashion!" She said putting her hands on her hips. "Yes, I finished her clothes."
"Okay, I need to talk to her about tonight so you can go do whatever." I said. She gave me a look and walked off. I walked into Elena's room and saw her sitting on the bed looking at the wall. I just simply told her what Celestia told me and that lunch was in a little bit.
"Okay, so where are we going to live?" She asked looking to me. I shrugged my shoulders and scratched the back of my head.
"I haven't put much thought into it. I might stay in the castle or go and stay in Ponyville." I said. "Anyways, let's go to lunch." She nodded and we left.
When we got to the dining room, everyone was there and sadly, so was Blueblood. He scrunched his face up when he saw me and turned away. I sat down next to Luna this time, much to the displeasure of Celestia even though she tried to hide it.
"I wasn't expecting them to like me like that. Ugh, that could be a pain." I thought as I ordered a simple egg salad sandwich. "At least they have some foods that I'll eat."
"They might have a lot more if you ask." Seph said again breaking his silence.
"I might. Though, I don't know about Elena. Now I gotta worry about her getting the food she wants.
"You worry too much. That's why you've been getting caught off guard lately."
"Are you okay, Malekh?" Elena asked. "You zoned out there for a while."
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just tired is all." I said beginning to eat my sandwich.
After lunch is when things got a little interesting.
Blueblood stood up and immediately glared at me. "I challenge you to a duel, ape!" He shouted pointing at me. I looked over at him and groaned.
"Give me a break Bluey, I had a long day so far, and I really don't want to fight." I said leaning back in my chair a little.
"What's wrong? Scared of what I might do to you?" I asked sounding like the cocky bitch he is.
"If anything, I'm scared of what I might do to you." I said making him step back in anger.
"You think you can hurt me? I laugh at your sense of humor." He said chuckling.
I sighed and stood up. "If I have to fight you to get you to shut the fuck up, then so be it." He smiled and led me outside to a courtyard with two tables already set out with multiple swords and other weapons. Blueblood picked up a typical saber and pointed it at me.
"Pick your weapon and fight me, ape." I said doing a few tricks with the sword.
I thought of something interesting for this little duel so I made it known. "If I win, you have to call me by my name and Elena as well. But, if you win..." I trailed off, letting him finish the thought.
"If I win, you have to be my servant for two months." He said smirking.
I thought about it for a few seconds before smiling darkly. "Deal." With that I began to look at the swords that were placed on the table. I chuckled when I saw a katana that was so light, I would probably lose control of it and fight sloppy. But one sword, caught my attention. This sword was huge! Almost as big as my old one, but when I picked it up, it was the perfect weight.
I looked over at Blueblood to see him with a scared look on his face. When he saw me looking at him, he straightened out, and glared at me. "Are you ready ape?"
Right before I answered, a voice cut me off. "Wait!" When I looked over I saw a white unicorn with electric blue hair (or mane) running into the courtyard. "I will be the referee for this duel." He said as he stood between me and Blueblood. "Princess Celestia and Princess Luna as well as the rest of the ponies present are watching from the balcony and can overrule my judgement if needed. Now, I understand you two made a bet?" We both nodded. "Okay, then I will be sure that bet comes into play the second the match ends. If the loser wants a rematch, they will have to wait a month before the match. Also, the swords are blunt and have no ability to stab or cut. Is all this understood?" We both nodded again. "Then meet in the middle and shake hands." We did as told and took our places twenty feet away from each other and got in a fighting position.
Blueblood crouched low and had the saber out in front of him; an offensive position. I held the sword reverse-grip in my right hand and pulled it behind my back. I had my left hand out in front of my face. My right leg was back and my left leg forward; my personal defense position.
"What kind of position is that? You're wide open for attack!" I heard Celestia yell. Blueblood scoffed and dashed towards me. His swing was a right slash. Perfect. I pulled my right arm forward and clashed swords with him. An almost deafening clang rang out as the swords clashed. Nobody else said a word as me and Blueblood went back and forth each trying to best one another. I had switched to a normal grip on the sword after the first strike and had gained the upper-hand quickly, coming with quick steady strikes as I pushed him back.
Finally after about two minutes of striking, I saw a small opening and lunged at him. He tried to block the attack but was too late, the sword I was using was already pointed at his throat. The referee blew a whistle and called the match.
"How can you move so fast with a sword so big?" Blueblood asked as he backed away from me. I just shrugged and set the sword back on the table.
"When you train your body for as long as I have, you notice how heavy a certain sword feels and take a liking to that weight." I looked at the ref and held out my hand. "What's your name?" I asked as he shook it.
"Shining Armor. I'm the one that brought you to Canterlot after you crashed into the Everfree Forest." He said letting go.
I was about to say something before a very loud, "SHINING!!!" cut me off.
I looked at Shining and patted his back. "That's my sister." He said as Twilight slammed open the door and stomped over to us.
"I feel bad for you." I said chuckling.
"She's not as bed as she seems. She can just overreact when she-" He was cut off by Twilight punching him in the arm. "Gets upset." He finished, grimacing.
"You don't write me or even try to talk to me anymore!" She yelled crossing her arms. I poked her arm to try and get her attention but she was too focused on yelling at her brother. I just shrugged and pushed her arm lightly. "What Malekh?" She asked facing me with an irritated glare. I just pointed at Celestia.
"Twilight," Celestia said. "leave your brother alone for right now, he still has some things to do with Mal and Blueblood." Twilight groaned and looked at Shining one last time before hugging him and dashing off.
Shining turned to me and Blueblood and sighed. "Now, you both made the deal, Blueblood, you have to agree to call Malekh and Elena by their names and not anything else. However, after one month, you can choose to make a rematch. Is that understood?
"Yes. But be sure of one thing, Malekh ; I will make a rematch, and I will make you pay for this humiliation." Blueblood said tuning around and storming off.
I sighed and sat on the ground. "Thank God that's over." I said. I turned to Celestia, who was now down in the courtyard along with everyone else, and asked, "What time is that holiday thing?"
"In one hour." She said smiling down at me. I shrugged and stood up.
"That's cool. I'll be sure I'm on my best behavior." I said sarcastically. After dusting myself off I looked at her.
Celestia let out a small laugh and walked away. Before she got back into the castle she turned around and said, "I'll give you two then to think about either staying in Canterlot, or going to Ponyville."
"Going to Ponyville might help me get my bearings about this world..." I thought as I began to walk into the castle. "However. staying in Canterlot for a little longer can't hurt." I had to think about it some more. I had an hour so that should be enough time.
Walking back into the dining room I was met with looks of awe by Twilight and all her friends. Rainbow Dash stared at me for a few seconds and when we made eye contact she glared at me before huffing. "I'll admit, that was a pretty cool fight. You know how to hold your own. But, that doesn't mean I look at you any different. You still have to prove to me that you are trustworthy." She said crossing her arms.
I just shrugged. "I didn't fight him to get you to trust me. He was just getting on my nerves." I said walking out of the dining room and into the hallway that led to my room. Elena was close behind, but didn't say anything. When I looked back at her, she was looking around the hallway with mild amusement. I chuckled and shook my head.
"What?" She asked sounding a little irked that I laughed at her.
"Nothing. You just look so curious. It's funny." I replied shrugging.
"Sure... Anyway, what are we going to do about Celestia introducing us to the public so early?" She asked coming to my side.
"I'm just gonna go with the flow. I don't know what you're going to do." I said.
"Have you decided where you're going to stay then?" She asked looking at me.
"Nope." I said popping the 'p'. "Have you?"
"Well, I was thinking, and I decided that I would go where you go." I looked at her and she blushed a little before saying hastily, "You're the only human here and plus I would feel a little lost!" I chuckled again.
"If you want to stay with me that's okay. It might help me having you around." I said. When we reached our rooms I got a sudden thought that might help us a little more. "If I go to Ponyville, I'm asking Celestia to buy us a house. Two bedrooms and two bathrooms."
"That would be good. If we do that, I'm decorating.~" She sang holding up a finger. I just chuckled again and nodded.
"Okay, Elena. You can decorate if we move to Ponyville." I said opening the door to my room.
One hour later...
I stepped out of my room hoping to catch Celestia before we left for Ponyville. Trying to find her by myself was a bit of a hassle but after asking some guards directions, I was able to find her in the castle dock. I stepped in and greeted her with a simple two finger salute as I walked up to her.
"Hello Malekh. I was just about to send a guard to get you and Elena." She said smiling.
"Yeah, well he'll have to worry about waking her up and not me." I said rolling my shoulders. I had my sword on my back and when Celestia saw it she raised an eyebrow.
"Why do you have that sword?" She asked pointing at it.
"I have it because it can't be too far away from me with the seal in place. I have about two miles without it before the seal breaks. If that happens I have to replace the seal and that would be a little too much work right now." I explained. "Oh, there was something I wanted to talk to you about."
"What is it?" She asked.
"I wanted to ask if you could either buy a house or have one built for me and Elena in Ponyville if we decide to go there." I said.
"You haven't decided where you're going to stay?" She asked.
"No, not yet. I was going to stay in Canterlot for another week and hopefully have my decision by then. But wherever I do stay, I need a job." I said crossing my arms and looking at the ponies working to get everything ready for the trip.
"Well, what do you want to do?" She asked.
"Something where I could fight, or travel. I love military work." I said turning to her.
"I might have something you could do." She said smiling. It was then that Elena came out escorted by a guard behind her. Also Twilight and her friends also came out and walked next to me, Elena, and Celestia with Luna still not being there yet. I looked over to Ponyville and noticed snow. A lot of snow.
I whistled and said, "That, is a shit-ton of snow." There was snow on top of buildings and in the streets. Circling the town was so much snow that it looked like it could bury it. The edge of the forest was so packed with snow that it climbed some of the trees.
"That can't be good." I heard Celestia mutter. I looked over to her and began to shiver. At an instant, the temperature dropped like ten degrees and was still dropping. The wind picked up and snow began to blow past us. Inside the wind we heard a bone-chilling howl causing me to draw my sword on reflex.
I glared at the quickly forming blizzard and tensed. There was something moving in the snow. It was too far into the blizzard to see it clearly, but I saw it. It looked like a wolf.
"Did ya'll see that?" Applejack asked from behind me. I nodded my head and clenched my hand on my sword.
"Yeah. We need to get inside. I don't know what that is, but it doesn't look friendly." I said taking a few steps back when I saw it again. "That thing is getting closer, we gotta go NOW!" I yelled when it lunged at me. I barely dodged in time. "This thing is fast." I mumbled to myself. I looked back to see that Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie, Rainbow, Fluttershy, and Applejack where running towards the door to the castle. Celestia was next to me and charging magic into her horn.
"Shit, this isn't good! Celestia, get inside! I'll be right behind you!" I call over the wind. She looks at me and nods before turning and running towards the doors. I turn and follow swiping at the creatures that get close to me or Celestia.
When we get close enough to the doors that we can see inside, I see Twilight point at something behind me and mouth something. When I turn one of the wolf things latches itself onto my right shoulder, causing me to drop my sword in pain. Not having my right arm in use, I charged my left hand with wind magic and speared it, knuckle deep, into the wolf's head. Howling in pain, it released my arm and died. I looked back and saw three others already dashing towards me.
I picked myself up, along with my sword, and continued to run for the doors. "Oh my gosh, are you okay Malekh?" Twilight asked when I dashed into the doors.
Panting, I charged my left hand with healing magic and pressed it to my shoulder. It took a lot not to scream right there. My breathing quickened and I collapsed to my knees. "Goddamn that fucking hurts like a bitch!" I screamed as my wound closed up.
"That doesn't look very good, Mal. Let's get you to the infirmary." Celestia said walking up to me.
"No, I'll be fine." I said when it closed completely. I tried to stand but I immediately fell back down. "Okay, help me get to my room and then I'll be fine." I panted as my vision began to get blurred.
A very soft, "Oh, my." was the last thing I heard when I lost complete consciousness.
Author's Note
I am soooo sorry for the long wait!!!!