Demon Slayer and Pony
Chapter 2: Everfree
Previous ChapterNext Chapter"So, you are telling me that your mother is the biggest one here?" Grizzly said to the Ursa Minor as it gave a small grunt. "But, there are dragons in this place. One of them is almost as big as she is!" the creature let out a huge growl.
"Ugh, I can already see the face of this stupid druid when he gets to know that he was right all along," Grizzly then sighed. "Let's just hope I will be dead for the moment when he finds out about this.
"But for now, let's meet your mother, shall we?" the Ursa Minor growled in response.
"Don't worry, she can't be this scary! Besides, even if I die, it's highly unlikely I will be back before you say that Mefisto has eaten Baal's cookies and went to Diablo for help.
"So, after you Ursa Minor."
"Listen, guys, I know that this isn't our forest. But, its scent is making me go wild! So, remember Omega our plan I and Beta will go ahead when you hold back to provide our safety before something unknown will get us," says my oh-so ever-optimistic Alpha before we begin our first hunt in this new world.
You ask how I know this isn't Sanctuary? It's because I talk with this piece of fuck of an "author", and I know some shit of things that will happen to my master soon.
Of course, I won't give you any spoilers. Sometimes, I will reveal something spicy to you for mere fun of this.
Okay, but back to hunt. We begin, as always, by them going into a bush, leaving me alone on the highest hill in the area (Oh, don't worry! I like to work alone, after all. Being the weakest but smartest from the pack doesn't make you a very social wolf.) I was sniffing air of this "Everfree Forest", waiting patiently for my first encounter with this so-called cockatrice. I was unable to hide my smile when I thought of the look of these two in their stone suits. So the moment when I heard the whine of Beta, I went down to help my only friend (Poison Vine which was currently tied around it) in an attempt to subdue this mix of snake and chicken.
"Hello, little birdy! Could you be nice and take your spell from this pair of lovers before my friend here will sting you? After all, you are already dead. So before this, you could manifest your respect to winner.
"Ah! And don't even try to use your magic on me after my fight against Mefisto! I have stolen part of his essence, which is what makes me immortal and to be able to absorb any power that I am exposed to. So, I am already able to turn them back myself, but I want to give you a chance to die with honor of a mighty predator with you was before our meeting." I told him (Because it was dude) before he nodded and took his spell from my pack and I mercifully broke his neck giving him quick death.
And if you want to know, besides you dear readers, nobody even a master doesn't know about my powers. Of course, he is very suspicious that something is off. After al,l he is unable to go into my mind anymore, so he would have to be stupid to not suspect anything. But I want to hold it to myself for a little more time. It's very funny to watch them fight, knowing that I can do it two times as fast, and they don't even know that. It's just so precious.
"So how you two like your first encounter with this forest fauna hmm?" I asked them smirking on their confused look.
"Very funny, Omega. It's still good to know that you are still here to save our asses when things go south. So since it was your kill, you can take the first bite. Anyways, do you want a chicken or a reptile part?" Alpha told me.
""Haha, you still remember the fact that I am unable to eat meat after this Mefisto incident right?"Yeah, I know. Kinda strange but true. In exchange for my powers, I had to become the only known solely herbivore wolf in the whole wide world. It's something for something, and I can live with this.
So after they had their fun and a quick meal, we took our asses to check this forest further. Ugh, it's gonna be a long night.
I sighed. Being a leader is so boring and tiring! I say "Jump!", they jump. I say "Follow me!", they are following. Why can't they show me some more initiative of their own? I am asking for too much?
So, we were tracking this fucking boring path. He told me to hope to meet someone or something on the way. And when I was about to lose this small hope of mine, I went upon a smell of the wildest magic in all my vast memory; And it smelled like the scent of other spirit wolves. If I didn't know what Death looks like, I would think that I died again and went to heaven.
"[color=#be4343Listen guys, we have company. So, be ready for fun," I said to this bunch of idiots and readied myself for an encounter with this new creature. When I saw the first of these wolves being built completely out of timber, I wasn't even surprised at this strange oddity.
"Hello I am alpha from this pack. Who's yours?" I began as an old wolf tradition orders me as the intruder on their territory.
The biggest one answered. "Grrrrrrrrrr." Oh glorious day, so polite he was that it may be a beginning of a great friendship.
So, now to not fuck this. "Thank you for your kind words. May I ask, why haven't you matched your territory in any way known to wolves?" I asked him. After all, wolves must know when they are going into foreign territory, and their smell wasn't on any tree that we passed on the way here. I also really doubt that they would leave it behind the river that was close by.
"Auuuuu" he answered. It appears they are spirit guardians of this whole forest, so there isn't any need for them to leave marks on it.
"Oh forgive me for this intrusion. We were summoned here by strange powers, so we were unaware of the rules in this place." I said to him. "So what now?"
"Uauuu," What a great host of him to let us in and the rest of my companions stay here without a fight for domination! How long ago was it when met someone like him? The last one was He who collected my pack in Tristam.
"Thank you, oh mighty one! But, I must let you know that I was sent here to investigate what is at the end of this path," I told him sincerely. He may even help me with my task.
"Wrrrrrr," Oh great, there's a village of natives here, and they will take us to see it if we prove them that we are stealthy enough to not disturb them by our presence.
To be polite, I accepted. "Ok only how?"
"Auuuuuuuuu," Great! Now I have to show them that I will be able to pass three trials. I have to kill a manticore, take an egg from a phoenix, and go between a bunch of crakadils, not disturbing any of them. I just love these kind of challenges.
I smirked and said, " Let's do this."
In the castle that has been abandoned for over a thousand years, there weren't many guests. But, this day made it very unique, as today was the first time that it was about to change. About twelve hours ago, its first visitor exceeded the threshold and was still, very emotionally, looking through all the nooks and crannies of this majestic structure.
"Fuck, I think I'm gonna hate this castle," said our oh so cheerful Hero.
"Raven, how many traps have I already went through?"
"Man, with the last one it will be about seventy-two Cra. Even in a monastery, there weren't so many Cra. You have broken your record, Cra Cra," answered his first of many friends.
"No shit? It was a rhetorical question dear genius," Druids spend most of the time with animals that are unable to answer. They also tend to talk to themselves, and this one was particularly good in this field. "Of course I remember! How many it was myself,"
"But really, what is wrong with this place? Just after the entrance, there is this strange monument. Everywhere, there are some kind of references to ponies. In the library, there isn't even a single book in a known language. And in general, this is the weirdest ruin that I've ever been in. How is this castle still standing anyway?
"The only good that I know about is that wherever we are, this world has the most beautiful moon I have ever seen. It almost looks like as if some beauty was watching me from the skies,"
Of course, what could be the answer to his little friend on his question? "Dude magic, magic everywhere." said the bird on his shoulder.
For that kind of an answer, Druid could only do one thing. He facepalmed.
"You don't say? Yes, this is another rhetorical one," he sighed. "Okay, that was our last chamber anyway. So, I will just go to this strange throne room to check on the others. While I will meditate, spirits will hide in the shadows while your three will be waving in the air. If someone is coming, inform me so I can deal with the situation. Got it?"
"Sure Dude no problemo. Cra" as said, they went to take their specific positions while Druid sat on the throne under a blue tapestry and went into his trans to look into the minds of his charges.
Raven got a full view of the region and castle alike. When he ended his bird's eye view sight, It came time to check the wolves.
Kill this whole manticore - easy, get phoenix egg - piece of cake, don't let yourself be spotted by cragadile... This isn't so much fun as I thought. These beasts, they are huge have good sight, smell hearing and if there is in them something more of crocodile than they jaws then they can use their six senses to feel my presence if I will be too harsh in my passage. Well, who doesn't risk, don't win.
My idea for this task is simple if I can't make it quietly I will just use a bait to distract them long enough to pass undetected. Simple.
As a bait, I've used this stupid egg to lure its parents into cragadile's den to let this living fire get under lizard skin and when they weren't looking in my way I simply carry my pack under their noses.
My plan was successful just very time-consuming and when my dear Timberwolves have finally led us to the village border it was already long after midnight.
"Thank you very much for all your help my friend, when we are done here we won't forget to mention about you guys to Him when we will be back in the ruins"
"Auuuuuuuu"
"Oh don't mention it. This game of yours, it was a real pleasure. So see you next time." I say my goodbye. and took my team to town.
"Ok guys split up and search the area for anything suspicious." At the time when we reached the highest building in town I gave my regular order and took my way towards this big tree from which I heard some noises to check it first.
The closer I approached, the more home-like vision this tree had on it. It has doors, many windows, a small balcony and from inside you could saw bright lights. So it wasn't so strange to say that it was occupied. No, what shocked me was who occupied it. They're having some kind of party were a bunch of equines that were using His language. I had to use a great amount of sheer will-power to not pass on the spot.
But when night air has finally cooled my head. Inside this home, between all these horses I spotted five very different individuals.
First was this blue, winged one with the most colorful mane known to the world that was flying under the ceiling. Second hiding in the corner was this yellow one with pink mane also winged. Next was this white, horned, violet maned, dancing in the center of the room. Most important was this funny pink blur of energy that looked on me once in a while almost as if knowing that I was watching them. And last was this orange one with this hat on blond mane.
I don't know exactly how, but they had this strange aura around them that very much resembled this magical tree from this cave, only they were weaker and looked like each was only part of whole as if they were destined to become somewhat whole.
Then I felt one more aura that seemed to come from the upper part of this tree. So I've used my agility to get onto the balcony and check who's the source of this particular one. What I saw was this new one that was currently in the middle of a talk with some kind of purple lizard creature. This horse was one of the horned kin have purple coat and navy blue mane with a streak of dark purple and pink in it. But what caught my attention the most was that she had a great amount of magic within her, almost as much as this mysterious Omega from Dire band has. Of course it's still nothing compared to Him, but there were only this few demons specialized in magic who can compare to Him and only this Sorceress that accompanied us was even more powerful, (Of course I can't count evil trio cause they mana comes from worst depths of Hell). So I spend about the next six hours watching citizens until this party had come to an end and they started to en masse vacate this possession. I went then to the border of the forest, to join my team.
"So after this quick reconnaissance, I believe that its time to bring our intel back to Him to announce our discoveries of this new land, assuming of course that He haven't already check it Himself. Any question?" As I make our next object clean and not hearing any objections, we went back to report all gathered this night information, after all, there were only minutes to dawn.
"Can you guys tell me one more time: how the hell for 5 minutes when I didn't look, were you able to anger this beast hard enough to make it chase as about..." I looked on the moon position, (with actually haven't changed since the moment that it switched place with sun.) "9 fucking hours hmm?" I asked these two idiots. Oh, I almost forgot we were currently trying to outrun this fucking Hydra that of which this fucker "author" forgotten to tell me. I probably could take him by myself but if I want to stay incognito for little more I will have to think about something that doesn't need demonic powers and stolen magic to work, if only I could get some time to think.
"You know how Beta is sometimes. She just had to try water in this swamp. How could we know that something this huge was sleeping inside it and that it doesn't like to be scratched on the eye?" Said my dear Alpha giving me her biggest puppy eyes.
"Sigh* ok just stop it already sigh*, but still I have ENOUGH! We have to stop him, after all, how long can you be angry for awakening even so brutal." And with a little miracle, I got an idea.
"Listen I think I know what we can do." I quickly make reimbursement of one hundred and eighty degrees "If we can't escape from him we must use his strength what means hight and heads against him. Just choose one and make it attack the other one. Like that." Then I went and jumped on hydra until I get on his last left head blocking his vision and when he tried to shake me off it the one next to it tried to bite me, and then actually get some of the head that I was standing on while I just went on the attacking one and slide with my claws and fangs on it neck tearing its throat open. Meantime rest of pack took care of other heads that now hydra was bleeding from last still conscious head and limping back to his swamp, probably discouraged further revenge.
"Woohoo we get this fucker!" And of course beta has to comment sigh*.
"Ok we did it. But now it's time to come back to master and knowing you two neither of you probably don't remember right way, do you?"
"Umm noope."
"Sigh* I thought so. Well, your lucky that someone does." Then like on command, my dear friend come out of the ground.
"Hey there buddy thanks for not killing this hydra." I nudged him on welcome. "Could you be so nice to show as the shortest way back to master. After all, it should be dawn in 30 minutes." So when he nodded we took our way back to the castle, while I have only one thought in mind: How good that this hydra was such idiot.
"Thank you for this little sparring of ours, but unfortunately, it's time for me to go. Bye Minor. Goodbye Major."
"GRAAAAAAAA" Said very happy but slightly weary Ursa major.
"I know who You are. You are "Mare in the moon", Nightmare Moon!"
Author's Note
What you thought that I will show you Grizzly's fight against Ursa? Please it will be showed in one of the next chapters if you will let me know to make it.
Next chapter "First encounter" there will be finally some more ponies and one suprise.
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