The Monster of God

The tension in the meeting could be cut with a knife. Alexander and Shining both sat opposite of each other ready cut the other down on the drop of a hat. Trixie shot a glare at Twilight for a moment. To say the former show mare turned Holy warrior was mad at was a understatement.

Celestia herself wondered if this was a terrible idea. ‘No this is for the best… I hope.’

The long amount of silence was soon ended when the Alicorn princess decided to speak. “I believe all of you… especially you Father Anderson… have some questions as to why we have called this meeting.”

“Yes I was going to ask that myself.” Anderson said not taking his eyes off Shining Armor.

“In the last few years, the dark underbelly of Equestria and allied nations have been rising to a level not seen in centuries, and while that wouldn’t usually be cause for alarm two things have came up that has me worried.” The cloth over something was elevated off revealing a stone statue.

The statue was of Discord, the spirit of Chaos and once, the almost conqueror of the whole planet. “I have discovered that this.” Celestia conjured a blast of magic hitting the statue. Instead of a ancient eldritch abomination appearing stone was seen flying. “Is a fake.”

“So let me guess they stole it while you were incapacitated by your dragged sister?” Anderson asked, Celestia gave a nod.

“Most likely, seeing how Discord is not changing the water into soda or making the sun boil us alive it’s safe to assume they have plans for him that doesn’t involve realizing him.” Celestia then looked at Shining. “Also this morning I received word that the building that you received your “upgrade” has been raided with the notes and formulas missing.”

“Oh that’s just great… Shining, looks like you just gave Equestria a new problem with your stupidity.”

“Hey, don’t be blaming me for this, father.” Shining snarled. “I’m only holding back the urge to attack you because my sister is right there. Do you honestly think I wanted more monsters to be popping up?! The formula was suppose to be for helping guards recover from near life threatening injuries like if you lost a foreleg. Not create monsters!” Celestia shot Shining a glared.

“Really?” She pulled out a folder causing him to shut up. “I don’t like it when my council, my guards and my school are going behind my back, creating God knows what under my name for the safety of my people without me knowing.” Shining stayed quite at being caught in a lie.

“Now then, as I was saying… The reason why I called all of you here is not to fight over what is right or wrong, but to actually do something about it.” The princess spoke. “We all have a common enemy, therefore we should actually be working together to stop it. Would you agree, Father Anderson?”

“Yes I do... The question is, does Shining?” He asked glaring into the glare Shining gave him.

“Fine, I will do it but not because I like it, but because Celestia believes it’s for the best.”

Twilight raised her hand. “What about us?”

“The Elements are our last line of Defense, if anything happened to them or even one of you we would be at a huge disadvantage, for the time being I will have to keep the barriers both a secret and ask that you all stay underground.” Celestia answered.

“Smart move, can’t have the fix-everything-gems be rendered useless now can we.” Anderson said.

“Therefore, I propose the creation of a secret union between all of us. An organization to where we can fight the monsters that might be knocking at our doors.” Celestia replied. “It’ll be a secret section of the royal guard, only obtainable by the most… trusted of soldiers and anypony that Father Anderson takes under his wing. Because I have a feeling that there's a little more to this that you may want to inform us… Especially with Shinings new… changes.”

“Vampire.” Anderson answered, “That’s what Shining is and anyone else who gets the same treatment as him.” His glasses glowed as the light reflected off them. “We might have a war on our hands now.”

“Is that the same as Batponies?” Celestia asked. “There the ponies that serve as Luna’s personal guard and serve during the night only.”

“No the method Luna used is benevolent, they don’t drink blood, never age, regenerate from having their head chopped off or any other dark supernatural things, no a Vampire is a monster straight from your nightmares given form.”

“If I may… besides what he said… there are some other things I might need to note.” Shining spoke up. “I can walk through solid surfaces. Like walls or the floor.”

“Really? How about you test it out?” Anderson asked.

Shining thought for a moment. He had a smile “Sure why not? Anyone know where Flash Sentry is?” Shining was meaning to whip him into shape.

Flash Sentry dozed off at his post guarding the magical vault again while the others were in the middle of another game of blackjack. Suddenly a hand shot out through the wall behind him. “HEY KIDS!! WANNA SEE A DEAD BODY!?” Shining said with a sadistic smile. Flash’s group awoke screaming in fear at this.

A few minutes later, Shining re-entered the room from the wall with his hands in his pockets. “Ah… good times.”

“Well then this does present a terrifying development.” Celestia said, if vampires could phase through anything. Nothing was save.

“Oh don’t worry Tia, if anything Shining one of a kind, I suspect the vampires we will be faces won’t be as deadly as him.” Celestia raised a eyebrow at this. “Even if they had the equipment to create more of the Vampires and the notes, it’s possible they don’t have the means to create the same formula. If anything we will be dealing with probably mass produced lesser Vampires.”

“Well, that’s a relief… Hey, I was just wondering about this… but I don’t believe we have a name for the organization.” Shining said, looking at Celestia before directing his gaze at Father Anderson. “Does anypony have any possible suggestions?”

Anderson thought for a moment. “How about Hellsing?”

“NO NO NO NO NO!” Shouted the voice in his head.

‘SHUT UP!’ He shouted back, ‘I don’t want to deal with you got it you sick parody of everything wrong with the church taken up to eleven got it!’ Silence was in his mind. ‘Good.’

“I like it. Your thoughts, Princess?” Shining asked.

“I believe I am also in agreement. Father Anderson, thank you.” The Alicorn spoke to him.

“Your welcome.” Anderson said with a slight bow. “Well if that’s everything me and my apprentice will be leaving, good day princess.”

“May you stay safe in your travels ahead, Father Anderson.” Celestia replied. Shining himself only rolling his eyes a little as he waved goodbye to the priest and his apprentice.

Anderson himself waved goodbye, but once outside of the room, his apprentice turned to him. “So… what do we do now?” Trixie asked,

“We going to investigate a scene of a crime.”

“Trixie knows where this is going.” Trixie said mostly to herself.

Hours later they looked over the ruined laboratory pulling up any clues. “Trixie is you find any notes that still lying around burn them we don’t need them getting their hands on a complete formula alright.” Anderson said as he picked up a page of them. With a lighter he burned it denying the burglars a part of it should they come back.

“Um… Father? You may want to take a look at this…” The apprentice said, holding up a small stone with a symbol on it. “I’m feeling a lot of magic from around this. Maybe it’s some kind of artifact?”

“Maybe, or it could be apart of whatever happened in the experiment.”  However, when the priest simply touched it, something began to echo inside his head. A voice. Of another person… one that sounded like that of a teenaged boy.

I am Nicko. The Rune Slayer with a kind heart. The power that's in my grasp and that you control will become the power that the darkness will fear. May there be light on the roads that you travel.

‘What the hell was that?’ He attempted to inspect it to figure out more of it.

“Trixie smells something burning…” Trixie voice cut him out of it as he turned to see a fire starting from the paper he dropped.

“I’ll finish with this later.” He said pocketing the object. “Let’s get out of here.” He said grabbed trixie they smashed through the window right as the flame became an inferno.

“You okay, Father?” Trixie asked, noticing the expression on his face change when he had touched the stone only moments before they ran out of there.

“I’m fine, we should get back to the church.” Trixie joints could feel the oncoming pain of training.

“So… what exercises are we doing tonight?”

“How about I just set free several wild beasts and see how long it takes you to subdue them.”

“That doesn’t sound so hard…”

“Without a weapon or magic.”

“Trixie retracts her statement.” She sighed apologetically. This was definitely going to be another long night.