Chapter 21. Ship Master.

I walked around the ship, checking on all systems and making sure all of it was working in top condition. I don't want anything coming apart when we enter the storm. As I walked around the ship with Raven at my side, much more scared of me than usual, probably because I freaked her the fuck out a few hours ago. It is good to know that she was still trying to find a way to control me. That thought is welcoming to know that she still cares about me enough to still want me to be her slave. As we walked around the ship, I had to make sense of all the information that my fragment had acquired.

With Celestia as a tyrant that even this universe's version of Discord had to try and stop her. How he did it was a bit useless in the long run, but it set the stage for the inevitable. With all the work that my fragment had done in the world. I was quite happy with him and all that he had done, but now I have to pick up the slack where he left off, and at seventy-five percent power. Though, it is concerning that Celestia has my eye which held the other twenty-five percent power, but the second she comes back to Equestria from her trip in the mirror. She will struggle on trying to keep that power to herself as the eye will want to return to me, its perfect host.

We both came up to the forge on the ship where we found that Luna was exploring. We both stopped in the doorway and watched her frown in confusion to the thousands of Runes that I placed on the smelter, hammers, and forge. I could tell that she was trying to understand their purpose, and was failing. I would tell her that my entire smithy setup can make anything and everything. From swords that could kill angels to guns that can obliterate demons. That this is the birthplace of the two weapons she fears most, but I have to hold my tongue for now. There is no telling what she would do if she were to try and activate the runes without an affinity for them, as one wrong activation could kill her instantly.

"Ahem!" I coughed out loud, causing her to jump in surprise. She turned towards me with a sheepish smile and backed away from my smelter.

"I wouldn't touch anything in here without my permission and supervision because if you activate one wrong rune. It will kill you if you are not immune to its effects," I scolded her. She took a step back in shock and stared at the smelter with new found curiosity, then back to me like she was caught stealing from the cookie jar.

"I was just curious as this place seems to be the most used out of all of the rooms on the ship," she said as she walked over to me and Raven.

"You are correct as this is the place where I made most of my weapons and armor. I spent more time here working on my arsenal that flying the ship, which we should be getting to the bridge as we are about to enter the storm," I replied and turned around and began walked to said bridge.

"O-Of course, ship master, but can I ask what those Runes are for?" she asked.

"Those Runes are in the language of the ancients. Those Runes also hold Tartarus together and keep the demons held within. So don't mess with them as they will kill you if you don't know what they mean, and no I won't teach you how to read it. If you want that knowledge, you will have to find the forest known as, FernGully and gain the information from the great tree known as, Gandalf the white." She gave me a disheartened frown and kept quiet for the rest of the walk.

Luna sat on the bridge of the ship with Winter, the black dragon waiting at the helm for Captain Black Rose to arrive. She marveled at the immense complexity of the ship as it was far more advanced that what Equestria has. The unique technology and power output of the ship could very well power an entire city! That alone could revolutionize aviation in mere months when it took hundreds of years, however. As much she wanted to explore the ship to see what kind of unique thing that it could do. All she could focus on was Winter's eyes and aura.

Luna knew that there was something different about the dragon. He was much more confident and open about things, but those were small in comparison to what his aura around him was like. Before they entered the ship, his aura was weak and small. Like a timid flame that could easily be snuffed out. Now it was like a mountain of fire, threatening to burn the entire world. It was no ordinary fire either that she felt. No, his aura was not only destructive but kind and gentle, like his fatherly and wise eyes that sent chills down her spine. His new aura was the color of an azure flame. Warm to the touch, but can burn through anything that dares play with it.

Then there are his eyes. Like his aura, they changed. They weren't just cold and calculating anymore. Now they held much more. Like his aura, they were warm and kind that held wisdom that no mortal should ever have. Those eyes were also like looking into a protective fathers soul. Luna instantly knew that he has a child from this fact, but there was more to it. It was like if she were to ask the question to learn where his child was. Then she will be killed on the spot regardless of what he thinks of her. But there was something else, something that shouldn't be there. If one were to look long enough into his azure eyes, they would lose themselves to the endless void held within.

'A common aspect for a Knight of the Void,' Luna thought, knowing how dangerous it was to dare meet the gaze of a void walker. And if Winter was, in fact, a Void Knight, then his mere presence will destroy the world.

Luna silently watched as Captain Black wing entered the bridge with a scowl on his face. Luna saw Winter take notice of the scowl as she backed away slightly towards the table with a coffee pot and several cups on it. The two Captains stopped in front of each other in front of the helm and went into a staring contest for a moment before the Black grunted and looked away. Winter smirked as he turned to the Captains chair to watch Raven spin around on it before laying down and closing her eyes for a nap. That's when Black decided to say his peace.

"What the fuck did you do to my crew?" Black hissed at the amused dragon in armor.

"Insurence, which has the side effect of subconsciously influencing individuals into revering the one who placed said insurance on them," Winter said flatly before turning back to the helm and hitting a button on the main console, causing the ship to lurch suddenly and pick up speed she never thought was possible.

"Insurence? Isn't our oath enough?" Black growled in resignation.

"Not after the stunt you tried to pull when Luna showed up, but if it makes you feel better. You are also under the spell as well," Winter said in a much more intimidating tone the caused Black to back away to the sudden change in atmosphere.

"T-That was..."

"Don't bother trying to save your ass!" the dragon almost shouted. "That was strike one with you Black, and unless you want to meet the same fate as your sister. I suggest you keep betrayal off of your list of bullshit because you are the only one that has survived this long after such actions. And if you want to know what happened to the other people that betrayed me. I sent them into slavery with a pack of Diamond Dogs who owned a brothel where every kind of race could go to for some fun." Winter hissed at the trembling Captain.

"Y-Yes, my Lord," the Captain replied in a soft whisper before backing away from the livid dragon. Winter huffed in response and turned his attention to the storm that was approaching at insane speeds.

Luna froze at the storm and wished that they didn't have to go in for a reason that Winter won't tell them. The storm was as long as the coastline of the eastern sea of Equestria. Thousands of lightning strikes could be seen in the dark clouds that tower into the sky like black monoliths that threatened to devour any and all who enter, but that wasn't the worst that she could see. Just as Winter touched the steering wheel for the ship to manually fly it, a giant sea serpent jumped out of the water and flew into the clouds. The serpent was easily ten times the size of the ship, and could fly.

Luna knew such horrors existed in the storm that they were about to enter, but seeing it for real made her more fearful of the storm than the Captain of the ship, but that quickly changed when she saw the biggest most insane smile that the black dragon had plastered on his face. It was like seeing a child in a candy store and was told that they could have all the candy they want for free and that thought upset her.

Luna wanted to tell the Captain to turn around and find another way, but she couldn't because of what he might do to her. She knew that he has the power to add her to his HiveMind spell, and permanently make her his slave. She knew that is what he will do to her if she tries to stop him. The only thing that she could do was pray to mother Faust that nothing bad will happen and that the journey will not end with the death of so many.

I smiled in the pure, childish joy of what I just saw as I directed the ship to follow the hurricane grade winds of the storm. The serpent that came out of the storm looked exactly like a colossus from my favorite game of all time. It had the half-stone half-fur combo too! The serpent had friends that protected the island as well. Then this trip was going to be like a trip to Dindywhirl!

Luna gave me a strange look before backing away and began tying herself into one of the empty chairs of the room. Black also had the same idea before he made sure Raven was secure in the Captains seat, but that didn't matter at the moment as I felt the ship begin to be pulled into the storm.

I cracked another demonic smile as I hit the accelerator and guided the ship into the storm and watched as we were slowly engulfed by the pure darkness that only lit up to flashes of lightning. I put the ship into autopilot and prepped my scythe as I was going to need it in a few minutes.

Luna gave me a strange look before the sound of rain hitting the hull of the ship like bullets signaled me that it was show time. I walked over to the emergency door of the bridge with Lupus in hand, getting ready to defend the ship from whatever hides in the storm. If that serpent was any indication, then bid monsters was on the list to look out for. Just as Luna and the others were about to say something, I gave them a salute before I opened the door and jumped out.

"Divinum Praesidium," I said, casting a spell to protect me from everything as I walked on the hull of my ship to the bow. I smiled as lightning flashed, revealing silhouettes of thousands of giant creatures that lurk in the storm as the wind and thunder kill all sound to nothing but loud, defining booms of pressure. Rain threatened to blind me and prevent me from gaining any traction on the hull of my ship. The roars and screams of monsters that brush up against the ship was awe inspiring. The weight of my armor didn't hinder me, the rain didn't hinder me, nothing in the storm hindered me as I wait in a vigil for my first opponent that dared try to stop us from reaching the island.

Then, in a flash of lightning, a creature much smaller than I thought would strike first stood on the bow of my ship in a suit of armor that looked like something out of, Warhammer. Its face was completely hidden behind a mask that looked like it could breathe underwater. It's oversized pauldrons looked more like of a hindrance than protection. And how it was slightly shorter than me despite the giant boots that gave it an easy, one-foot height boost.

I cracked a smile as I watched it pull out a sword that looked like it was made out of lightning from its sheath and pointed it at me like it was challenging me to a duel. With a flick of the wrist, I twirled my scythe around my body like I was dancing with it. I stopped it with the main blade to my right foot pointing out, and the pommel blade over my left shoulder in my preferred stance before I bolted at the Space Marines knock-off.

The knock-off had the same idea and rushed at me too as the roars of the wind and thunder permeate the area. The light coming off its lightning blade helped me see where he was when there was no lightning to illuminate the area as we close blades in a deadlock.

I smiled at the masked figure as a flash of lightning showed the better details of his face mask before I pushed him back on the slippery surface.

He stumbled for a second before we locked blades again. I groaned that the knock-off was a lot faster than he appeared, but I didn't let that fact throw me off. This time, he pushed me away and I went sliding back before I rolled to the side, barely dodging a down swing that left a bad mark on the hull of my ship.

He didn't let up though as he thrust his blade into my chest as I was recovering from the initial roll. I flicked my scythe around my back in a quick parry, causing his blade to go flying into the air. I smirked at the knock-off before I brought the staff down on his head while he was distracted.

The knock-off wasn't as quick as I thought he was as he took the full force of the swing and collapse down to one knee. I placed the main blade to the throat of my attacker as his sword came back down and landed in my free hand and began to shock me. I smiled at the little sword then to my opponent who sounded like he was laughing from within his helm, but that died when he saw that I was fine and dandy.

"Sorry mate, but I am immune to all lightning based attacks. Try again next time," I said before I knocked him out and teleported him into the dungeon of the ship with a teleportation crystal I made a few hours prior.

I moved back to my original position at the bow to see if there were any more strange people to fight. As I walked back in the horrible storm, the ship flew off course, causing me to fall off the hull and watch as a ginormous creature come out of the water. I opened my wings and took to the sky. I flew back to the ship as every single monster began attacking The Aria. The weapons systems came on, killing anything that got to close as it adjusted back into its original trajectory. Creatures, the size of small buildings attacked the ship while the big one that bitched slapped it a hundred miles away gave me its full attention.

The giant that was the size of Canterlot mountain and looked like Malus from Shadow of the Colossus, but a hundred times bigger. It's giant black arms glowed from hundreds of yellow rings that adorned it. Its entire body looked like a building had sex with an animal. Malus 2.0 lifted one of his arms and pointed its hand at me. Before I could react, balls of lightning shot out of its hands, hitting me square in the chest.

I dropped out of the sky like a rock as my body seized up from the insane amount of voltage that thing shot at me. If it wasn't for my protection spell that I placed on myself, I could have died. I leveled out and flew as fast as I could around him, making a plan to kill the creature before I become its dinner and my ship its fleshlight.

I weaved back and forth as the oversized Toys-R-us shot an endless stream of lightning balls at me while I searched for a way to take him down. I looked over his body, prodding for a weakness. The only spot I could find, however, was its head. As much of a cliche that was, it was the only chance I had as my ship was struggling to deal with all of the creatures attacking it. Even Luna who was outside of the ship was having a hard time. I grunted as the wind tried to force me into the water and bolted towards the creatures building-body to avoid its ranged attacks.

I dodged a few more shots before I closed my wings and began to climb the creature. Malus didn't like that one bit and tried to shake me off. I would have been having so much fun with this, but that fun died when he slapped my baby out of the sky.

I grunted as the rain and blinding flashes of light coming from the lightning in the sky made it near impossible to climb the beast. The beast itself didn't like that I was now on its back heading straight for its neck. Another monster didn't like that either and jumped onto the back of Malus just a few yards below me. I groaned in frustration as the cat building thing from, El Dorado the animation began to chase me on the back of the monster.

I jumped to a ledge that would give me a better footing and pulled out Silence and took aim at the new monsters green, stone eyes, and pulled the trigger.

*BANG!*

The creature screamed in agony as half of its face tore off to the bullet that could take down an Apache Helicopter, in a single shot, but the monster kept climbing. All the while Malus tried to shake us off his back.

I jumped to the ledge above me, barely dodging a claw that dug into the back of Malus. This cause the beast to shake more violently, causing the other creature to lose its footing and giving me the opening I needed to get rid of him. I shot at the cat things paws as it tried to regain its placement, but it couldn't. My shots caused the creatures claws to disintegrate, making the creature fall off of Malus's back and back into the ocean from whence it came.

"One down, a fuck-ton to go," I sighed as I put Silence back into the hammerspace and went back to climbing.

Winter! Where are you! We need your help! shouted Raven from the link we were connected by as I grunted my way onto the head of Malus, who was now shaking like he was listening to heavy metal.

"Hold the fuck on!" I shouted as I thrashed back and forth on the creatures head as he tried to throw me off.

If you hurry the fuck up now! You can have your way with me! Shouted Raven through the link as I was flung from the top of Malus's head and into the air. I raised a brow to that before I unsheathed Nix and, with a powerful flap of the wings. I slammed my blade into the skull of Malus, causing him to burst into black flames, incinerating him within seconds.

I watched from afar as the thing that was Malus 2.0 fall back into the ocean.

"Two down, a fuck-load more to go," I sighed as I turned to The Aria and saw the Luna was struggling with a bunch of small, rock-tigers trying to get into the ship. I groaned in annoyance and flew over there, just as the ship was leaving the storm and back into open air.

I landed on the hull as the ship left the storm and an island came into view. The rock-tigers took notice of me, and all five of them charged at me. I sighed and lifted my hand with the palm facing at the tigers. Once they were halfway towards me I said, "Crepitus," causing all five of them to explode into nothing but rubble. I collapsed to on a knee, knowing that I was on the verge of complete mana depletion. Luna came back out of the ship while sporting a suit of armor that I have never seen before, but made her look immensely sexy. I gave her a warm smile as I stood back up to great the sexy mare in armor.

"Hey, beautiful. Nice weather we're having, eh?" she stopped just a few paces away from me with a big red blush.

"What's wrong? Tall dark and handsome make to hot for you to approach without blushing like a little school girl?" I chuckled, causing Luna's blush to deepen.

"N-N-NO! I just wanted to make sure you were alright! That's it! No bad thoughts about you and I in bed! I swear!" Luna blurted out like a smooth criminal, telling me that she has a thing for dragons and dragons that could kick her ass.

"Sure you are, Woona~" I teased, causing her wings to go full retard. "Your twins don't lie either," I chuckled pointed at her wings. Luna's face went completely red as she struggled to hide her wing boner. I laughed for a moment before she kicked me in the stomach, just as the ship stopped at the beach of the island.

"You are the worst!" she pouted as she pinned me to the hull of the ship. I rolled my eyes as we went from being serious about the monsters to cheeky lovers. Since I was currently single and bored. I smacked away her hoof playfully, causing her to fall on my face. Her eyes went wide as I pulled her into a kiss, but then the closed as she leaned into my embrace.

Confirming she does have a thing for dragons.

Author's Note

I love all of you for your amazing suport. This is also the real chapter for this so enjoy!

What I believe this luna's armor is like. Do not own.