The Element of Honor!
NIGHTMARE!
Previous ChapterNext ChapterI looked at my sheet of paper. The ominous piece of paper. I knew this wouldn't be going well. Fuck. I took off my hunting jacket just leaving me in my pure black top. I hadn't noticed until now that in this world it looked pitch black. No darker. Like colours were more vibrant. More colourful. Blue was more blue. Red was more red. Black was more black.
I picked the piece of paper up and folded it into a quarter of what it was. I then put it into my pocket and removed my weapons from me. Well all except my knife. The handsome bastard. I could keep it hidden. I hoped nothing would happen. "Moirai, please tell the evil spirits to go fuck off for a while." That was my prayer done for the night. I had my knife concealed and I was ready. I put on my polished boots. I had borrowed some of Lyra's hoof polish, which worked wonders. I made sure my hair was okay, perfect as always. Finally I can go down stairs. "Hey Lyra." I gave a little wave.
"Oh hey Cole, you ready?" She asked before she looked up to me. She gave a whistle and then insulted me "Wow, if you look like this. I wonder what the good looking humans look like." I responded to with the middle finger. She didn't get it but she knew it was also an insult, sort of. "Hey, don't be like that it was a compliment." She gave a little laugh.
I knew it was a joke, but I decided to play along with the 'I'm really offended' routine. "Well what did you mean by that, then?" I mockingly said. We probably could continue this for hours so I decided to stop it because we had somewhere to be. If we didn't I could of continued it for weeks. "Well we gotta go now if we want to be on time." I said looking at my watch which was spinning anti-clockwise. Of course I used the sky for telling what time it was, it was still light but probably a few hours away from sunset.
Once we stepped outside we saw a lot of ponies that were here. I didn't notice any of these from earlier. "Lyra who are these?" I asked for reasons of, who the fuck am I telling i'm an alien? And that was good enough to bring up questions.
She looked around for a bit and then answered. "From the looks of it, ponies from towns and cities nearby." Okay thats a good enough answer. I know who I'm dealing with now. None of them seem hostile to me. Some of them saw me and waved and I waved back. Smile and wave boys, smile and wave. I did just that. They all seemed friendly and excited for the Summer Sun Celebration. Well except one paranoid looking unicorn. She looked more paranoid than I did before.
We got to go in the back so not everyone knew I was there. Once we got there I went to look through the curtains. There was a lot of ponies, I mean a good 200, 300 I couldn't fight my way out if I needed to. Let's just hope it doesn't come down to that. It was about half an hour until I was going to go on the stage. I was getting nervous now. What if I got it wrong? What if they didn't like me? What if they asked a question that I couldn't answer?
My incredibly paranoid thoughts were interrupted by Lyra, who was in the party with the rest but just came backstage. "You look nervous." She said. I was about to tell her I'm not, a lie. "Just calm down, you won't buck up!" She reassured.
I started to warm up. I could do this. I find my way out of anything that gets thrown at me. "Yeah, I know. I can do it, I'm awesome."
She just smiled and giggled. "Okay I gotta go now before people thinking I'm fooling around with the awesome alien." She said. I grimaced a bit, sure they are smart and can consent. Then again, there too much like ponies off my world. They might think like me, but they still resemble animals. Probably the same but with me.
I heard hoofsteps behind me. It was Mayor Mare. "Your on in five minutes." She said before walking on stage. She went up to a microphone set up on the stage already and coughed to get everyones attention. "Mares and gentlecolts, welcome to the Summer Sun Celebration. I hope you all excited for the festival because we have a few acts lined up and a special announcement tonight. The reason why we Celebrate on this day is beca-"
She was interrupted by a carriage crashing through the roof. Okay now I'm sorta pissed. Not only will I not get a go someone is vandalising the place. the Mayor was thrown to the side I was on by magic. I went to check on her. Her foreleg looked strained. "What happened?" I asked. I started hearing a loud mumbling that was caused by this intruder. The light was still flooding in from outside.
Once all the ponies were quiet she started speaking. "Hello, my beloved subjects." Yeah right, evil bitch. "It's been so long since I've seen you precious sun loving faces." Wait it seems like something is missing.
The raspy voice of who I call Spectrum bitch said. "What are you doing here?" Okay change of plans. This definitely was not meant to happen. Theres something off with this.
I looked at Mayor Mare who was in pain. "I'll be back in a minute, right see you in a bit."
I looked through the curtains and saw a large black alicorn on stage. She had a purple helmet on and a now angry face. "HOW DARE YOU INTERRUPT ME!?" She shouted. Bitch just flipped a switch. What's with these ponies and mood swings.
She began to charge up her horn to probably shoot down a rainbow. Nope, I'm not gonna let that happen. She may be a colourful bitch, but she doesn't deserve to die. I charged out and tackled the alicorn. This gave all the ponies a chance to leave. All of them left except 7 of them. The alicorn looked pissed as hell now. "HOW DARE YOU LAY YOU APE HANDS ON ME!?" She shouted so loud that everyone had to cover their ears to stop the pain.
The other ponies stayed back as I was in a one on one with the crazy bitch. "How loud do you have to fucking shout?" I said clearing out my ears. "And I'm not an ape!"
She started to glare at me. "I WILL MAKE THIS LAND ETERNAL NIGHT?!" She boomed around the room. Everyone else gasped. I didn't really care, but she was asking for so little since she was evil.
Now this was going to be fun tormenting her. "Did I ask what you want, no. Why, because you're not getting it!"I said. I knew I pissed her off because she tried to shoot me with her magic. "HAHA, Bitch jokes on you, I'm immune." I said. I probably shouldn't because then she threw a shamash at me. "Fucking cheat!" I called as it pinned me to a wall. Good job the two ends were longer or I would of been impaled.
She chuckled evilly. "You cannot stop me foolish child!" The shamash seemed lodged in the wall so I couldn't get out and KICK HER ASS! Not pun intended. "I WILL TURN THIS LAND INTO ETERNAL NIGHT AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME!"
She was about to vanish when a pink mare popped up in front of her and shouted "STOP WITH THE BUCKING CAPS LOCK!" Every living being in the room stared at her confused. I know I was, how did she know about caps lock it was from my world. The alicorn decided it was her time to depart from us and turned into a purple mist and went through the hole she just made.
Lyra quickly went to check on Mayor mare while the ponies already there help me out of the shamash. There was six of them. One was a normal pony she was orange and wore a stetson over her blonde mane. The other normal pony was pink with a frilly pink mane like candy floss, a little girls dream. There was two unicorns one was the paranoid lavender one with a purple mane from before the party. The other one was a with unicorn with a royal purple mane. Then there was the two pegasi that I had already met.
The orange pony came over and took the candle holder off the wall freeing me. "Y'all right?" She asked in a southern American accent. How the fuck she have that, she's in a different world.
I grabbed the candle holder out of her hooves. Still don't know how she held it. "Yeah, I'm okay." I held the lamp up. "Now I'm going to shamash a bitch up." I hoped they liked my pun. When I looked at them they all were shaking their heads. "Oh fuck you then. Well see you later." I muttered before I ran off out the door.
I was outside thinking now. Okay so if I was a big purple mist where would I go? I'd still be in the air probably. I looked up. "There you are, I'll see you soon. But the question is: han you candle me?" I said putting the shamash in the air. Note to self: Use bad puns when people are there. I started following the purple mist flying through the sky.
I would definitely be making good time now. I was running while looking up in the air at the purple mist. This couldn't end well. And as it turned out my conscience was right. While I was running I fell off a cliff into water. When I landed I landed on my stomach so all the air was forced out my body. That along with sinking meant I almost drowned. When I swam up I was the purple mist had met its destination in some sort of tower. All I needed now was to get to that tower.
I looked around and found that either way I would have to climb a cliff to get back land. So now I would have a profession in climbing mountings soon. I sighed with the little air I could get while I was in water and started a climb. One climb and five minutes later I was back on land. I had climbed the other side so I would be closer to finishing this little challenge and so I wouldn't have to work a bit harder.
I walked into a nearby forest that was in the path of the tower. The trees in the forest looked eerie as hell, but it looked pretty much safe to go through. Oh how I was wrong. I found a stick and tried to pick it up. I was met by howling and the stick didn't move. Before I knew it I found myself surrounded by wooden wolfs. They each took turns at scratching and biting me. Soon I found my knife out and in a wolf's head. I ended up fighting back against the wolfs having my knife covered in sap. One fight and six wolfs later I was able to get out of the woods.
I soon found myself face to face with a castle, which the tower was at the other side of. I walked through the entrance and found myself in a library. I may be a nerd but I know that old libraries aren't good things. I looked around the dusty library where I found a shelf that looked new. I looked around that shelf and found a copy of Playboy annual 2015. I don't know how but an adolescent teen doesn't question that logic. I tried to pull the book out when the whole book case flipped around and trapped me. Oh, it's fucking on I want that book. I started plunging my knife into the wall, cutting through the wood of the book case. Eventually I cut a hole out of the thing and kicked in down. I was back on the other side. I looked for my book and found it. I spread my feet to the place where I couldn't be flipped around. I grabbed the book and pulled as hard as I could.
When I pulled it I could feel the book case pulling back so I grabbed the book with both hands. More pressure was put on by the book shelf. "Give.Me .My.Book!" I said. Now my feet were placed onto the wall. The book was finally coming free. The book slipped out of the bookcase while I was still up on the wall. "Shit!" I shouted as I fell back and landed on my head. "Ouch!" I said pissed off. I wasn't pissed off too much though, I had my book now. "Time to look inside the masterpiece!" I said. I put my hands on the front page and the back page and slowly pried them apart. The whole room glowed brightly with a gold tint as you could hear a choir in the background ready to celebrate the book. Once the glow had disappeared I saw that the book was empty. Now I was pissed off. I threw the book at the closest window that was a stained glass window. I didn't get a good look at it before it shattered with an almost satisfying smash. Once the window was breaking I heard a click and then bricks started falling from all walls and the roof. This part of the castle was breaking down. "FUCK!" I shouted as loud as I could while exiting the wall at the other side I came in.
I was pissed off to the max now. My eyes were blaring red and I couldn't hear anything, but I was at the tower. I ran up the stairs which there was about 30 million of. Once I had made it, there was already 6 ponies up there. HOW THE FUCK? I ran into the room where it seemed like they were waiting for something. I starting running towards the black alicorn with my fists clenched, it may of startled her because she shot near my feet and knocked me out the nearest window. "Fuck!"
When I was thrown out the window I was plunged into water. I don't know why I had been thrown OUT OF A FUCKING WINDOW, but it was a good shot. However, this bitch had pissed me off too much and it was time for revenge. I ran around the edge of the castle and got back to where the ruins of the library was. I climbed over all the ruins and look at the tower. Nothing had happened yet, what are they waiting for.
I finished climbing over the ruins and made a mad dash to the tower. Once I got the the entrance I was met by the stairs of impending doom. How anybody could climb these I was oblivious to it. I began my ascent of what would be my grave (due to being unhealthy) and climbed...and climbed...and climbed....more fucking climbing....not finished yet....299.9 billion stairs later and 45 heart attacks I was up. All of the ponies in the room looked at me while I was trying to catch my breath.
The lavender unicorn ran over to me and help me onto my feet. "Cole are you okay?" She asked.
I didn't waste a second to respond "Yeah, fucking stairs!" I half shouted, still out of breath. Then it hit me. She called me Cole. I've only told 2 mares my name and that was Buttercup and Lyra. No-one else here should know my name, unless I forgot telling them. Which I didn't tell them. "How, how do you know my name?" I asked now freaked out wondering whether or not to go on a medium show to see if they knew how.
She looked at the butter pegasus and nodded towards her. "Fluttershy told us." She said as if it was a written in stone fact that I told Fluttershy. She looked at my now frowning face and understood what my bundle of beauty you call a face was getting at. "Did she not tell you?" And the last horse finishes the race.
Now this was getting more freaky. The doctor, who seemed to be now shying away. (S'all in the name) Knew what my name was. "Fluttershy, is it?" I asked waiting for one of her friends to correct me, They didn't so I carried on asking the mare who was covering her face with her mane. "How do you know what my name is?" I asked.
She looked up, she had tears ready to flow. I'm feeling really bad about this, I mean I just want to sit down and hug her 'till the tears go away. No bad brain, stop thinking girly stuff. "I found it on the piece of metal on your necklace," She said. Metal on my necklace. Oh, my dogtags. Fuck you dog tags you betrayed me.
I sank down until I was almost on her level, however she had sunk down already. I was now resting my ass on my heels. I put my hand out to Fluttershy's head and gave her a little scratch behind her ear and I was rewarded with a friendly sound that I still cannot describe. "Thanks thats all I needed to know." I changed my voice to a friendly one and stood back up. I looked around and all of the ponies in the room were looking at my hands. Like thats not freaky. I decided to end the stare fest for the fight that was ahead.
I coughed to get their attention. "Are we gonna do this or what?" I asked a bit to confidently. She still hadn't seen my knife which meant I had one trick up my sleeves.
"YOU SHALL NEVER WIN AGAINST THE NIGHTMARE!" She bellowed throughout the whole tower. "I AM YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE!" She boomed.
I had to stop her there, she wasn't my worst nightmare or anywhere close to it. "You not that scary." I said calmly shrugging my shoulders. "I mean there are things a lot scarier than you. You're like a little girls dream!" I said a bit louder.
Now I had pissed her off completely. She shot a beam of magic at me, which I just flicked away like a fly with a swatter. Man, the idiots never learn. "YOU WILL PAY FOR YOUR INSOLENCE!" She shouted. She was now fueled with rage and spite, which wasn't enough. If you had a wildcard like me on your side then she had no chance.
I decided I would get her hope shred it up and use it as saw dust. "Give up already! You can't win!" I shouted with a bit of laughter coming off them words. Now I ran at her I was going to wait until I'm close to pull out my knife and be like 'SURPRISE!' Then I found out my idea was terrible, is when she shot me back into the wall. Well no knife game for me.
"YOU CANNOT DAMAGE ME! YOU DO NOT HAVE THE ELEMENTS OR HARMONY!" She was now about to go into rage mode, but it seemed as she thought she had the upperhand.
"Hey that rhymed!"
"But we do!" The lavender unicorn said triumphantly. There was now six crystals floating in the air.
"HAHA! DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH!" But you just did! "YOU HAVE NOT GOT THE LAST ONE!" She shouted.
If this was mocking something then there would be a lot of 'Naaaah's and a lot of 'Yeahaaaa's coming up.
"Yes we do!" The lavender unicorn bluffed once again. It seemed like there was only two beings in this room who fully understood what she was talking about. A seventh one started to appear but Nightmare moon decided to throw one of them a the lavender unicorn. Shit it's now or never. The crystal was nearing and it seemed as if time was going slow. As I got close I dived at the unicorn and pushed her out the way. It was at the moment she realised what was going on because her face dropped in a second. I felt a really sharp pain in my chest as I hit the floor. "COLE!" I heard the unicorn shout before running up to me.
I got to my feet without looking at my chest afraid of what to find. "I'm okay!" I said as the lavender unicorn was trying to help me up. All of them came a step closer as a felt my chest. I looked down and found one of the crystals imbedded in my chest with blood squirting out the sides. I was getting light headed and was about to fall. I managed to stay on my feet. I heard someone about to say something but I cut them off quickly. "Listen, judging by how far this is lodged in I don't have much time." I said I heard gasps around me. "But you can't take me anywhere because we don't have enough time. I tried to see once again but the world was getting darker, fast. "I've done nothing in my life and I want to do something before I die, so I'm not just some kid." I said now falling to my knees. I didn't have enough time so I wanted them to make sure my life doesn't go in vain.
The other Element had already been smashed as I heard a gasp next to me. I wouldn't be long now my vision was dark and I was struggling to see now. "You can't destroy the Elements." The unicorn said in a matter of fact tone. "I have the Elements right here." She said. Guess I dying confused.
"What?" Nightmare Moon shouted but asked. You not the only one, for now.
My blood level was seriously low now I was about 30 seconds away from dying. A normal human in this situation would have already keeled over, but I'm a stubborn one. "AppleJack,who reassured me when I was in doubt, represents the spirit of... honesty!" She said, I felt my body getting a tiny bit stronger but it wasn't enough.
The unicorn started talking again. "Fluttershy, who tamed the manticore with her compassion, represents the spirit of... kindness!" I got a bit stronger again but all this would be for naught.
"Pinkie Pie, who banished fear by giggling in the face of danger, represents the spirit of... laughter!" Once again I was stronger, the light slowly coming back, however it kept fading as well.
"Rarity, who calmed a sorrowful serpent with a meaningful gift represents the spirit of... generosity!" Yes generosity, but they just wouldn't let me die. This pain is killing me, well almost.
"Rainbow Dash, who could not abandon her friends for her own heart's desire represents the spirit of... loyalty!" Yes too fucking loyal, let me die already. Be a loyal friend.
"Then theres me, the Element of magic. Me and my friends make the Elements together."
NightMare Moon started laughing. "Oh, I was scared for a moment there. Remember that was only six Elements and if you're smart you would have worked the seventh Element out" Oh when you die you'll meet me in hell. Then you're in for a world of pain.
"That's where you downfall is. When you threw the Element you threw it at the Element bearer. The final Element is the Element of Honour! Cole didn't die because of his will, it was keeping him alive." Fuck you will you just have to be better than to let me die don't ya? "He wanted to risk his life to see that justice was served." I swear right now unicorn you sound like Batman. "So he is the last of the Elements." I felt the pain in my chest go away. I looked down at my chest, it was still in there but it was a different shape (Of a sword and a shield) and the wound had stopped bleeding.
It felt as if my body had been refilled, all the blood was back. The one thing was though, I was still running off adrenaline. This could really hurt as soon as I stopped running off adrenaline. After the unicorn had finished her speech we rose into the air.
All of the crystals were glowing. The necklaces, the crown and the piece of crystal stuck in my chest. We could all hear Nightmare Moon screaming "No! No! Please stop!" Well that was not a choice now. Evil bitch. A rainbow light started forming and was shot at her. She ended up turning into a purple alicorn filly.
Once we had been put down from the force the purple unicorn asked "Is everypony okay?"
The skittle monster responded with "Ow my head!"
Yeah get stabbed in the chest. I walked over to the window and started breathing heavily . I was still really light headed and felt like I was gonna faint. They carried on their conversation while I was thinking 'Oooh look it's water!' I ended my night by jumping out of a tower into a deep salt pond. I landed straight on my back, man that was gonna hurt in the afterlife. I was underwater for a second before the salt pond acted like the Red Sea and floated me to the surface. I immediately fell asleep.
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