Stories of the Legendary Humans
The Legend of the Inkblot Imp: Part 1
Load Full StoryNext Chapter"I demand that this... This hoodlum be apprehended immediately! He completely ruined my art show and sullied my work with his paint brush, painting male genitalia and rude remarks over my artwork!" The noble said with anger in his voice, he even brought one of his works and it was indeed ruined. The original work was a painting of Canterlot Mountain from a bird's eye perspective, now it was covered by a crudely ink-drawn penis and had 'Nice painting, but your still stupid!' painted below the penis.
"Not this again." Celestia thought to herself. She was fully aware who did this because this is the third report this week involving the infuriating little gremlin. Ponies called it the 'Inkblot Imp' for it's amazing ability to breath life into it's own and even other's creations of art, but it doesn't do this often as most of the cases involving this either involved the royal guard or Luna, the imp enjoyed infuriating ponies but it especially loved teasing Luna. Celestia still remembered the memory Luna projected for her while she was asleep...
Luna had just started to wake up, Celestia's sun sinking over the horizon signaled her to raise the moon for the night. Her horn glowed brightly, illuminating the darkness of her bedroom, and with a burst of light she teleported to the balcony. Luna activated her magic and the moon rose from the horizon, along with the countless stars of her night. However, she wasn't done with that alone, her horn glowed again and she began to arrange the stars to form constellations. She shaped animals, objects, even certain ponies that she knew at one time or another; it's just something she liked to do with her limitless time as ruler of the night. "Hmm... A few minor details here... A star there..."
Voom!
"Ah!" Luna was knocked back by a sudden force, which revealed itself to be a Pegasus Sun Guard. "What in the name of Equestria are you doing!?" She received her answer in the form of a large bird that tailed the guard. The bird itself was not normal, it appeared to only be a black outline and anything that wasn't was paper white and completely void of color, it was like a drawing that hadn't been colored in yet. The bird resembled a Crane with the large wing span and long beak and the lanky legs drifting below it, a figure was mounted on it's long neck, but from her view it was just a shadow in the night sky. The bird ceased it's chase once it drove the guard far away from the castle and turned toward Luna's balcony. It flew overhead and slowly depended onto the railing, the bird's large talons firmly latched onto the rail as it folded it's wings to roost. Luna was astonished at the bird's size, it's beak alone looked to be about half her body length and the sheer height of this thing trampled her sister's in comparison! The figure on the bird's neck jumped off and landed on the balcony, then the bird burst into a black substance similar to sludge or a really thick ink. It didn't fly far enough to reach Luna but there was still a mess. The figure itself was not like the bird, it had natural coloring like everything else but it was definately not a pony. It was a bipedal creature that wore an open robe that was a little to long for his height resulting in the robe dragging behind him, from the robe's opening it wore underclothes that consisted of a T-shirt and pants with no shoes, revealing it's strange feet. It looked directly at Luna, it's face hidden behind a wooden mask that had two eye holes and a zig-zag line going across the bottom, it was likely a carved-on mouth since a tongue was also carved on like it was sticking out of the side of the mouth, it was cute in a strange way. The last thing worth noting was the short, rough black hair it had on the top of it's head. The two simply stared at each other without making a sound, the figure tilted it's head to the side displaying curiosity. Luna now noticed the staff in it's hand, it had spiral grains embedded in the wood with the tip ending in a silver ring, the ring separated the wood from the fine hairs that had a black liquid dripping from the tip. All in all it looked like a giant paint brush.
"... Ehehehehe." The creature giggled, a tone of mischief was present in it's laugh. From the pitch of the giggle Luna assumed it was a child, possibly explaining it's short height and mask design.
"Who are you, little foal?" Luna asked. The creature in response lifted it's mask up just enough to reveal it's mouth, it stuck out it's tongue and blew a loud raspberry at Luna. "W-what I... Why, I never!" The creature giggled and lowered the mask, then it ran at Luna. Before it could make contact it brought the staff down and slammed the tip onto the floor, then it jumped and effectively pole-vaulted over Luna using the staff. It ran to the door while Luna was distracted, but she soon got her act together ran after the creature. "Stop, I command you!" She made it to the hall and saw the creature running down the hall, the night guard looked very confused. "Don't just stand there, after the intruder!" The guards saluted and charged after the creature without hesitation, easily out-speeding the thing. The creature swiped the floor in front of it, covering the area in a slick goop. It jumped in it and began skating using the goop's slick surface, quickly picking up speed and leaving a trail of black slime in it's wake. The Unicorn guards tried avoiding the slime but one misplaced hoof turned the grounded guard into a pile of ponies.
"Ack! Stupid slime!" The guards got off of each other and tried running again, but their hooves were already coated in black slime along with random spots on their bodies. They couldn't move without tripping over themselves so it was up to the pegasi to apprehend the intruder.
"Halt in the name of the moon!" The creature started picking up speed, then it jumped and started spinning at high speeds. As it spun the brush sloshed goop everywhere and in all directions. The pegasi couldn't avoid the onslaught and were grounded, covered in the black substance.
"Oh Celestia, it got in my mouth!" A Pegasi shouted, being the unlucky one who landed face-first into the slimy substance. The creature landed with grace and halted his momentum, turning around to see all the guards wallowing in the slime in an effort to chase the creature.
"Ugh... Guard, cease your chase and rest." Luna teleported to the intruder directly, it showed no signs of flinching, in fact it seemed to act a tad eager. "I suppose if you want something done right you must... How you say, do it yourself." The creature was...Well, it didn't act afraid nor did it show any hostel signs, it just giggled slightly louder and longer than last time with a little skip to it's step. "Do you find amusement in toying with me?" The creature nodded vigorously, then began skating away from her. Rather than going fast, it seemed to swerve from side to side in a lazy way, it truly didn't fear Luna in the slightest! "Hmm... So you want to play? Fine," Luna took off after the creature using her wings to avoid the slime. "The game is chase!"
"Ahahaha!" The creature laughed with a slight echo to it's voice, it would've been cute had the echo not make it creepy as all hell. It pushed the head of the brush against the floor like a hockey stick, creating a surface for it to slide across for as long as it wants while adding to the already large mess of the hall. A wall was fast approaching and the creature was going too fast to stop on a dime.
"I have you now..." The creature swiped the brush causing a blob of slime to fly and hit the oncoming wall, it didn't slow down, rather increased it's speed! "What in Equestria is it doing?" The creature ran right into the wall, and dove through the slime like it was a portal! Luna dive-bombed into the slime in an attempt to-
Crack!
"............" Luna went face first into the slime, and didn't go through the substance. No, she flew right into the solid wall at high speeds, a sickening crack sounded from the impact and plopped onto the ground shortly after. Her face was literally black and blue with red all over, as her nose bleed mixed with the slime and her own indigo fur. She slowly stood up and placed a gentle hoof on her nose, then regretted it when a sharp pain spiked in her poor muzzle. "Owch......"
"Ahahahaha!" The echoed laugh of the creature could be heard right above her, she looked up and saw the mask of the creature staring down at her, sticking out of the rippling goop like it was a pool of water. It leaped out and landed back-first into the slime that coated the floor and began playing in it, drawing faces, flinging the stuff around, wallowing in it like a pig, it even started sliding around on it's rear end, all the while giggling like a little foal as it played in it's artificially created filth. Luna saw this and she felt her heart swell slightly, then the swelling immediately stopped and was replaced with the burning rage that she had against this... This thing! The thing in question looked over to Luna's seething glare and giggled, then it does the unspeakable. It scoops up a good amount of goop and throws it right into Luna's face. "Ahahahaha!" The creature laughed, seeing visible steam coming off of Luna's head. It grabbed it's brush and booked it before she exploded in rage, skating on the sludge as fast as it could go.
"I'LL HAVE YOUR HEAD FOR THAT!!!" The creature looked back to see Luna approaching at blinding speeds, the creature drew a circle in the air and surprisingly the goop stuck to the thin air! It then drew a short line coming from the side of the circle and ended the line with a smudge with smaller smudges surrounding the large one. It reached into the painting and pulled out a large cherry bomb with a lit fuse, the bomb painting disappeared and the creature tossed the explosive at Luna. The bomb went off mid-flight and a blast of slime nearly coated her, but she put a force field around herself before it could catch her in the blast. "You... You can summon objects!?"
"Ahahahaha!" The creature drew something different this time, a large rectangle with 'TNT' written on the front. It reached in and pulled out exactly that, a box filled with sticks of dynamite! If it was anything like the cherry bomb, this would leave a VERY big mess to clean up.
"Oh sweet mother of Celestia!" The hall ended and they reached the throne room, the creature standing in the middle of the room with the box of lit dynamite. "N-Now let's not do anything we'll regret... Thing? Just put the box down..." Luna asked with the nicest tone she could muster, the creature tilted it's head to the side, still holding the box.
"... I like you," The creature said. "Your a much better play-mate than the guards."
"P-play-mate!?"
"Yep! Your really fun to play with... But," The creature jerked the box up, the sticks of TNT flying in all directions. They were everywhere, dotting the throne room floor with the fuses growing short. In Luna's state of panic she took her eyes off the creature, and when she looked to the center of the room where it originally stood it was no where to be seen! She looked all around the room, but all she accomplished was wasting precious time. The creatures voice echoed in the room, the source's location unknown due to the echo. "Ehehehe... Bye." With that last message echoing through the air, Luna put up a force field and braced for impact!
BOOM!!!
"Your Highness!"
"Wha!? Where!?... Oh, sorry, I was lost in a memory." Celestia explained.
"Day court is over for today, you are dismissed." The guard told her.
"O-Oh! Already!? Where is the noble I was talking to?"
"He left a few minutes ago in a huff of rage, he was the last pony so court is dismissed rather early today." The guard said.
"I see... Well, report back to your post then." Celestia ordered, the guard did a quick bow and returned to his post. "Sigh... The mess one child can make in a single night amazes me..." Celestia told herself, remembering the black gunk that coated the halls and throne room along with the initial clean-up. "Oh well, I'll just put a bounty on this creature's head after I enjoy my cake." Celestia journeyed to the kitchen and made sure no pony was in the room, she opened a bread box and hit a small hidden button in the back of said container that opened a hidden passage in the wall. "Oh, I can't wait to feast on you my... Delicious... Cake?" Just like how Sonic 06 turned out, what was left of her cake was a sad mess, but unlike Sonic 06, it didn't have an epic final boss theme which makes this cake even sadder. She saw a small creature sitting against the enchanted preserving pedestal that her cake had sat upon, eating a chunk of the delicious treat. It had scraggy black hair with green eyes and had icing around it's mouth. Celestia didn't know what it was until she saw an over-sized paint brush next to it. "You!"
The creature looked her way and smirked, lowering it's mask. "Ehehehe... Bye." The creature grabbed the paint brush and drew a large rectangle with a dot on the left side on the wall, he grabbed the dot and the wall opened up like a door, it ran inside and closed the door behind it. Celestia ran to the wall and tried to open it, but it was just wet paint! Then a mysterious voice sounded in the empty room, but she knew who it really was. "Oh... And tell Luna I said hi, Cake Flank... Ahahahaha!..."
"........." Celestia had visible stress veins poke out of her head, she exited the secret room and was heading straight to the royal sketch artist.
Author's Note
The imp is not Bowser Jr. nor Shadow Mario, but I based it off of them from Super Mario Sunshine. Also, here is the mugshot that Celestia had published.

I know, I don't have the drawing skills of a japanese manga writer, but that isn't my type of drawing style, I prefer cartoonish as you can see in the above drawing. Yes my handwriting is bad, I tried to be as careful as possible but even at my best it's still sloppy, so I'll translate what it says in the comments section. Now that that's out of the way, I'd like to add that character suggestion ideas are all welcome, who knows, they may give me an idea of what to write! If you do type me a suggestion and I create a human based on the idea I'll be sure to mention you in the Author's notes!
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