The First of Many

"I'm through saving the world.”— Jak, The Hero of Haven City.

PoV: Jak
Location: Spargus arena
Time: 11:30 A.M.
2,000 years ago
One year remaining until games events

After I had talked with Damas, I had stayed in my room for a little while longer. I knew I didn't have time to grief over the loss of my old life, so I geared up and told the guard I was ready.

He guided me towards a lift and took us down. Once it stopped, we walked out of it and headed towards the Arena.

On the way, I could see the residents of the city weren’t only Ponies. Zebras, Minators, some bipedal dragons, Changelings and Griffins could be seen occupying some vendor stalls and walking around.

After a few minutes of walking, we finally made to the entrance of the Arena and I waited for Damas.

I've waited for a few minutes and saw Damas walking towards me with a kirin wearing armor following behind him.

“Be ready, this is real combat and losing means death.” He said as he pulled out something out of his pocket.

“Win the first match and you'll win a piece of the battle amulet and access in and out of the city.” He said, handing the first piece of the amulet to the kirin.

“I'd say good luck but then luck won't help you.” Damas said as he turned around and walked away.

“Citizens of Spargus, today we have a new arena match but this one is for citizenship!” I heard Damas shout out as the door opened.

“The challenger must face against fifty marauders, if he wins he will have his first piece of the battle amulet!” He said again, earning the cheers from the crowds. Once I stepped outside, I saw the stadiums floor was lava and had a large metal platform in the middle of the lava.

Soon an elevator platform appeared and I walked on it, allowing it to take me down.

Once down at the platform, I could see a few ammo boxes scattered around and a sword near one of the boxes.

“Is the challenger ready!?” I heard Damas shout and I gave him a thumbs up. I then heard a loud horn and the doors to some of the platforms opened.

Marauders soon jumped out and surrounded me. Some of them aimed their guns at me while others were standing ready with their swords.

The Marauders fired their guns at me. I saw time slow down to a crawl and moved out of the way for the shots to hit some marauders.

I then had a small headache as time went back to normal. The bullets hit the Marauders, leaving them lifeless on the ground.

The Melee wielding Marauders saw this and looked at each other then at me. They then charged, wanting to avenge their fallen comrades.

I grabbed the sword of the nearest one and used it to stab another Marauder. I then took out the Scattergun and fired at the one trying to get his sword back, leaving large hole in his chest as blood started to spill out.

I looked at the gun and back at them with a smirk as I pumped the gun, readying another shot. They charged at me as I aimed at them.

Once they got close enough, I smacked one with the back of the gun, knocking him out cold. I quickly turned to the side and fired another round, sending three to burn in the lava.

Through it all, I couldn't help but laugh, and when I did it only made even angrier. I turned around to fire again but soon felt a sharp pain on the left side of abdomen. I looked down and saw that one of them had stabbed me.

I didn't have time to think as I saw another sword being impaled to my other side. I was then pushed to the ground.

“It seems this may be it for the newcomer.” I heard Damae say as I felt a strange feeling start to consume me.

I looked at my hand and noticed it grow sharp claws as the skin on of my arm was turning pale. I felt the same thing happen to my legs. I closed my eyes as it began to hurt like a bitch and felt something grow out of my forehead.

Throughout the entire situation, I could feel one thing, Pure unadulterated Rage. I then lost consciousness.

PoV: Damas

‘He lost like so many others, but he did get cocky and that was his down fa-’ I stopped that train of thought as I saw the newcomer stand up with both sword still embedded in him. I could see he looked different, almost as if he had transformed.

The Marauders took notice of this and started to attack him but what happened next, was something a demon would've done.

The Newcomer pounced on a Marauder and started clawing his mask off, allowing him to do the same to the Marauders face. Once he was done with the first one, like a blur he ran towards another unsuspecting Marauder and stabbed his claws in his neck.

I had seen many things in my life, but this is one thing I never thought I'd see.

He had Dark Eco, it's a wonder he still lives. I kept watching the fight, no, this massacre.

He had grabbed one and ripped him in half as if the Marauder was a wishbone. I could hear the crowd gasp in surprise as he did that.

He had climbed up one of the pillars that dispenses ammo and jumped off it, putting his fist on the ground first and creating a large shockwave that had consumed the remaining Marauders.

Once the shock wave dispersed, I saw that there wasn't any more marauders, he had won and he let out an animalistic roar before passing out.

“Sig, get him to a doctor. I need to know what just happened and I need that from the horse's mouth.” I ordered my bodyguard. As he walked out, I could faintly hear him say something.

“I don't get paid enough for this.” I heard Sig say.

“You don't get paid at all.” I said with a smirk, earning a laugh from him as the door closed. I then looked back at the newcomer and narrowed my eyes at him.

“What are you?” I asked no one in particular as I stood up and walked out of the royal balcony.

PoV: Jak
Location: Castle Under section, Everfree
Time: 10:00 A.M
A week later
The present

After telling Twilight a little about myself, I had decided to enroll Nyx at the school while I was there. Afterwards I had to avoid Pinkies parties, I'm not a party person.

Rainbow Dash had challenged me to a race the next day and ended up losing, she kept demanding for a rematch the rest of the day, giving me a large headache as well.

I had asked Rarity if she could make some clothes for me and she agreed without a second thought, excited to work on another species.

Celestia and Luna has visited me to check on Nyx, at first they were skeptical on her sudden reformation but realize that they were wrong in trying to antagonizing her. After a few hours, I could tell that Luna liked the idea of being an older sister and was overjoyed to hear Nyx call her Big Sis.

Twilight had come by to see Nyx and to try to get more of my past out, to no avail I might add.

I’ve managed to find and activate the blue Eco basin, turns out it was under the castle, a few miles deeper than the Under section. After closing the Eco basin, the whole room lit up and showed me a map of the locations of the blue eco vents.

Luckily none were in Ponyville and the majority were at the Forest.

One Twilight's friends, what was her name? Fluttershy, yeah. Fluttershy had told Twilight about recent sightings on some animals she's never seen before and Twilight recommended to talk to me about it.

Fluttershy arrived at the Under section, and let me tell ya she was terrified. After calming her down enough to talk, she had began to describe some of the new animals she had seen.

She has mentioned that there was an animal that looked more like a dog but had traits from a crocodile, so I told her what it was and said that the name of those animals are Crocadogs.

She had also described a few large creatures with colorful feathers, primarily the colors blue and yellow, for those who don't know it's a Flut-Flut bird. I told her that it was completely harmless unless you attack first.

She had also told me about a monkey like bird that was flying towards town, something about seeing a friend. I knew who it was, so I thanked her and left to Ponyville.

After arriving in Ponyville, I've began hearing some ponies talk about a very rude bird flying around town looking for somepony or more accurately, someone.

Last place he was seen was on the road to the library, so I made haste towards Twilight's home.

Arriving at the door, I could hear a loud squawk on the other side followed by a voice with a Spanish accent speak.

“You want me to feather you upside the head, I will do it!” I heard the voice say as I opened the door and was greeted with the sight of a pissed off Pecker.

“I did not come here in search for him only to hear this bullcrap!” Pecker shouted as he flew up to Twilight's face. I walked up to him, grabbed his tail and yanked him back.

“Who's the wise gu-” He stopped as he saw me with an angry look.

“Not even time can stop you, huh Jackie boy?” He said with a sheepish laugh.

“Nothing can stop me, except Surprise but she was different.” I said with a smirk.

“You will not believe how long I've been looking for you!?” He shouted as flew up to me and started to furiously shake my head.

“You know I'm getting too old for this crap!” He shouted as he flew away and landed on a perch.

“Um, what's going on?” I heard Twilight ask. I turned to look at her while Pecker looked around the library.

“Twilight, I'd like you to meet Pecker, the Moncaw. He's an interpreter by trade.” I said to her.

“Moncaw?” She asked.

“Yes yes, my mother was ‘wild' in her younger years.” Pecker said with much annoyance.

“So what are you doing here, Pecker?” I asked the Moncaw flying between me and Twilight.

“Hmm let me see, a bunch of blue eco vents just suddenly open, that was enough proof for me. So, I packed up and flew my feathery ass over here!” He shouted again, rubbing his ass as if it hurts.

“I almost lost my ass, literally!” He said as he flew back up to the perch.

“So, he's a friend of yours?” Twilight asked.

“In a way, yes.” I said as I rubbed my temples.

“So I'm take it you're staying?” I asked the Moncaw.

“Believe it, elf boy!” He shouted as he flew away, narrowly missing a dark eco spark.

“If that's all, I'll be heading back now.” I said as I turned to the door.

“Applejack needs help with picking a few apple trees tomorrow morning, a few bits are in it if you're interested.” I heard Twilight say.

“I'll do it, but keep the money.” I said as I opened the door and walked out. I heard the sound of rapid wing flaps and felt something perch up on my shoulder.

“She seems nice.” I heard him say.

“Your point?” I asked the annoying Moncaw.

“My point is that I might not be able to see emotions like Onin but I can tell she holds a certain place in your heart. Almost as if you told her something about yourself.” He said, I felt my face start to warm up as he said that.

“Whatever.” I said to him as I walked back to the castle with Pecker on my shoulder.

Author's Note

As promised but I can't help but feel as if it was still short but meh.

Crocadog

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