Grimoire of Equestria

by microdrago

Drastic Change

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I.. I felt weird. I hadn't been in control in a long time. If it wasn't for Luna whispering and cooing into my ear, I'm pretty sure I'd have some kind of breakdown. I didn't feel right, and everything had more detail than I last remember seeing. But that could be a side effect of not being around. Luna had me locked into a tight hug, sitting me on her larger body like a big teddy bear. Her body was quivering, most likely from the many emotions she was going through. At her touch I felt a bit calmer, so I returned the favor, and nuzzled her neck a bit. Just like last time she jumped slightly, she probably wasn't expecting me to move. She moved away slightly and looked at me, eyes all watery.

"I missed you.." She said softly, resting her head under my own. I reached out and started to gently run my fingers through her mane.

"I missed you too Luna." I replied leaning my head down.

"Aaawwww!!" A small voice came from in front of us. For the first time since I woke up, I looked away from Luna. I was taken back by a Butter-Yellow Pegasus mare standing in front of me, with a smile and wide slightly watery eyes. Next to her was a Pink Earth pony jumping up and down. I quirked an eyebrow at her ability to do so on all four hooves without bending her knees.

"Wowee! Princess Luna has a Special Somepony! I've gotta throw them a 'You've Found Your Special Somepony' party! Oooh, what kind of cake do you like?! From your hair I'm gonna say Mint! Is your favorite color Green? Cause you've got Green hair and have you-" She was abruptly stopped when and Orange hoof was shoved into her mouth.

"Consarnit Pinkie, he aint gonna be able to answer you if you don't give the feller a chance!" The Orange mare scolded Pinkie. I couldn't help myself and I cracked a grin at Pinkie's direction, that mare knew how to have fun! I could feel it in my soul! I let out a small laugh, that Jostled Luna, but didn't make her move.

"Well, in order, Ive never had Mint cake before but it sounds fantastic! My favorite color is in fact Blue, but Green is definitely up there, And I know what you wanted to ask next, and no, I've never tried dying my hair color a different color." I said, my grin widening at Pinkies look of wonder. Her wonder disappeared, as she started to grin herself. Almost like she realized something. We looked at each other for a few seconds before we both raised an arm/leg and fist/hoof bumped, chuckles escaping the both us.

"As entertaining as this is Princess, who is this?" Another female voice called from the right of us. I looked to see a Purple pony, with Purple hair, and a dark Pink stripe running through it and Purple eyes.. Purple much?

"This, my dear student is Hazama, not to be mistaken for the creature we just fought, Yuki Terumi." With her saying that, she paused. She turned to me and looked me in the eyes. I could see it. All her sadness, and regret was just sitting there, pooled up inside her eyes. "Hazama, I am terrible sorry for what I have done to you. You saved my sister, from what she has told me, three times, and all I did was make you out to be a monster.. Can you ever forgive me? Could we ever-" I cut her off.

"Done." This caused Luna to jolt from her spot, looking at me with wide eyes, as was Celestia.

"W-what?!" Celestia muttered, almost disbelievingly.

"Its done, your forgiven. No need to beg." I said waving the notion off like it was nothing. Celestia looked a little broken, if her mane staying in one spot was anything to go by. My attention was grabbed by Luna, who pushed my head towards her.

"Just like that?" She also looked confused. I heard a sigh, and looked to Celestia to see her holding a hoof to her face.

"After all that time getting that speech ready.." She muttered. I turned my head to Luna to find her chuckling to herself.

"But, who is he?" The Purple one spoke once again. This seemed to draw Celestia from her external mutterings, as she focused again.

"Right, sorry Twilight. Hazama came to us a long time ago, apparently from another world." A shocked gasp came from Twilight, "After a fight that I started, he ran off after saying a few choice words. Later that night he came back, looking tired and defeated, asking for help." She kind of trailed off, looking into the distance with a far off look in her eyes.

"What happened next, your Majesty?" A White Unicorn mare called out next, her eyes almost twinkling. I cocked an eyebrow, I wonder how much she would tell them. There's no way she would admit to what happened. She seemed to come back from her day dream, her voice a little shaky.

"Sorry, as I was saying, he looked a little roughed up, and he asked for our help. Apparently he had an entity in his head that was trying with all its might to take over. Being the fool I was, I didn't believe him. Instead, I tricked him, and told him that if he helped in our war with King Sombra, we would help him. The war started the next day, so he had no time to rest. But even then, in the midst of battle, One of King Sombra's traps activated. Causing all our magic to leave us. When King Sombra attempted to end Luna's life, Hazama saved her, at the cost of his own safety. It was during this time, that the monster in his head decided to take over." Meh, close enough. "His power dwarfed Hazama's when he was released, and he soundly defeated King Sombra. Before he could launch his final blow on Sombra, he was stopped by Luna. Weak as she was from the trap, she believed in Hazama. But Terumi, who now had control, attacked Luna, and threatened to kill her. He would have succeeded were it not for Hazama stopping him from the inside. In an instant he collapsed and returned to the Hazama we know. I didn't see that however, and at the time, I was already planning to kill him for what he tried to do to Luna. A week later, he woke up, and him and Luna hit it off. I overheard my sister talking about her feelings for him, and went into a rage. I threatened to kill him where he lay. Luna didn't take kindly to that, and her own darkness took control. One that Hazama had warned her about, and was probably going to warn me about it too. Nightmare Moon, as you now know her, ran to Hazama's room and ripped off the hat acting as a seal. The two caused a big ruckus in town, while each did they're own thing. Terumi devastated the town with his Green energy attacks, while Nightmare moon took control of the Sun from me, and covered it with the Moon. Unfortunately Terumi's actions have been made into a sort of folk story, that Ponies tell they're foals to keep them in line." I nodded slightly, she was explaining a lot more that I thought she would.

"And there you go!" I chimed in. "Celestia used the Elements on us, and I was banished." I said trying to move the conversation away from-

"But, if you were both blasted, then why was Princess Luna still around?" The White mare said, eyes still sparkling.

"Ah, well.." I started

"My beloved here." Luna interrupted me, hugging my head to her chest. "Expelled the demon from inside me, and threw me out of the blast range." She looked so happy I couldn't help but smile.

"Eeeeeeek!!" A squeal made me look up, and I saw the White one looking at us with stars in her eyes. "A truer romance couldn't have happened between you two! Oh, I'm so jealous!" She continued to rant about the makes and breaks of fairytale romances. I sighed at the feeling of Luna nodding her head vigorously with the other mare as they discussed romance. I squeezed out of the grip, and stood up. I looked over to the group of ponies, and realized I only knew half of they're names. I cleared my throat to get their attention.

"Well, I guess proper introductions should be made. My name is Hazama, a pleasure to meet all of you." I said with a small bow.
Everybody seemed to blush a little, when I said this.

"O-oh, sorry! My name's Twilight Sparkle! Element of Magic. This is Spike." She held up a small Dragon " These are my friends." She said as she waved them on.

"The name's Applejack, Element of Honesty and such." Applejack said as she tipped her hat.

"My name's Rarity darling, Element of Generosity." She said with a slight bow as well.

"Ooh! Ooh! My turn! My names Pinkie Pie and parties are my thing! Everybody should have at least one a day!" She jumped around while talking, and my smirk came back.

"You've got something in your mane." I said non-chalantly.

"Oh, I do? Sorry gimme a sec.." As she reached into her mane she suddenly jumped and electricity zapped her. Landing back on the ground, blinking owlishly, she gave me a smirk. Shaking the black soot from the shock, she took out the Joy Buzzer.

"When did you get that in there?" She asked excitedly. I put my hands in my pockets, and shrugged.

"I don't know what your talking about." I say with a smirk. She erupts into a laughing fit, that ends with her wiping tears from her eyes.

"Oh, your going to be fun!" She said, her smile threatening to break her face in half. I looked to see everyone else standing there with shocked faces. Luna was the one exception, she was smiling warmly at me. I just realized, that I was acting normal again.. Huh, must of just been in my head.

"HEY!" A scratchy feminine voice called out from above us. I looked up and saw that a Blue Pegasus with a Rainbow mane was hovering about 10 feet in the air. Which would explain my not seeing her. She had her hooves crossed, like she was being impatient. "My name's Rainbow Dash! Fastest flier in Equestria, and Element of Loyalty." She stated proudly, before pausing. She glided to right in front of me, and stared into my eyes, or the squint that represented them at least. She backed away with a smirk on her face. "If the Princesses trust you, then I do too." She suddenly started to shake, almost like she was cold. "I saw you in the barrier thing, you moved fast, but do you think your faster than me?" I noticed Twilight roll her eyes. "We should race sometime!" She said holding out a hoof. I looked at it, then her. A smirk once again appearing on my face as I fist bumped her hoof. After she flew away, I noticed the Yellow Pegasus hiding behind Twilight and Spike.

"Hello there, What's your name?" I asked without walking closer, she already looked like she was going to jump out of her skin. She was even shaking, so much, that I thought I saw Pinkie put some kind of milkshake onto her back.. I'm going to like it here.

"My name's Fluttershy.." She said, barely above a whisper. I didn't hear here, but sweet Jesus I couldn't ask her to repeat herself..

"Come now Fluttershy, a little louder for the dear" Rarity pushed gently.

"M-My name's Fluttershy.. I'm the E-Element of Kindness" There it was! Only slightly louder, but I could hear her this time.

"Its nice to meet you Fluttershy, I hope as we become friends you wont be afraid of me anymore." I stated simply with a smile. I watched something strange happen. She froze up, and I could feel sadness mix with her fear...

Since when could I do that?! Sensing emotions.. Come to think of it, I've been doing it this whole time, and I didn't even notice! From Celestia's sadness, to Pinkie's mischievous feeling. I shook my head, Fluttershy had just moved to be right in front of me, I needed to pay attention.

"I-I'm not afraid of you Mr. Hazama, I'm just afraid of new ponies in general.. Well that and scary things.. But your not scary!" She said with such conviction that I couldn't help my eyes opening slightly. The moment was ruined when a Pink blur appeared in front of my face. Pinkie was currently holding one of my eyes open, to look at them.

"Oooh! Your eyes are the color of a lemon! Can I lick it?" She said. I chuckled, as I plucked her off of my shoulders.

"No Pinkie, you can't eat my eye." I said. Pinkie pouted for a second before breaking out her smile and bouncing back to where she was standing before. I noticed the sun was setting, and looked to see Luna passed out. Hmm.. I could have sworn she was a night crawler. Oh well, must have been a big day. I walked over to her, and gently picked her up. Even though she was bigger than me, she seemed to curl up into a small enough ball so I could hold her safely. Her head drooped under my neck, as I turned to Celestia.

"We will be back soon Everypony, My sister, Hazama, and myself need some time to rest. In Hazama's case, probably some adjusting as well.

"Goodnight Princess!" Twilight franticly waved, along with her friends, as we disappeared in a burst of golden light.

----Canterlot Castle----

I stood in front of a door, one marked with Luna's Cutie Mark. My confusion was answered by Celestia.

"This is Luna's room, for the moment, 'Your' room in next to it." She said staring into my eyes.

"Alright, I get it, no sleeping with Luna! You don't have to treat me like a kid about it." I scoff, opening the door and placing Luna under her covers. When she cuddled up to her pillow, I noticed it was awkwardly 'Me' shaped. I laughed lightly, as I kissed her on the forehead. She smiled a bit in her slumber. I walked outside and closed the door behind me. Coming face to face with Celestia, I waited. She looked like she wanted to say something.

"I.." She stopped.. Shook her head, and started again. "We really missed you Hazama. If it wasn't for you I would have had to rule by myself for a thousand years.. I don't think I could handle that, knowing I put my sister on the moon.." She shivered a little. "With every ounce of my heart, thank you." She said looking away. Without even thinking about it, I placed my hand onto her cheek, and gently turned her head to me. She seemed to lean into my touch as I talked.

"Listen, I was just doing what I thought was right, with or without the repercussions for my actions, I would do them again. Start forgiving yourself for what you think you did wrong. You didn't do anything aside from making sure your country was out of harms way. Stop hurting yourself on my behalf. Besides.." I took my hand away from her cheek, laughing as she stumbled a bit. "If I have to look out for myself, Luna AND you.. well I might just run myself ragged.." I said with a smile. I went into my room and went to close the door. "Of course, I wouldn't stop myself from doing it anyway, goodnight Tia" I finished with a smirk, as I closed the door. I happened to miss the slight blush on Celestia's face.

I walked into my room, and laid down on my bed. It was rather comfy, yet I couldn't shake the feeling that something was terribly wrong. I could feel everything more.. Fully? Its hard to describe. I can still feel the soft fur of Celestia's cheek on my hand. And my vision was much sharper, but I couldn't place what was wrong..

"That would be the Elements fault." Terumi's voice called out from my own head. I jumped up, looking frantic. I couldn't fight him off now!

"What do you want?!" I asked viciously.

"Just helping.. I guess.. As of right now, I cant do much of anything, aside from apparently talk to you." He said. He sounded a bit, off? Yeah, I'll go with off..

"What do you mean?" How are you talking to me? What's going on?!" I all but screamed.

"Jesus, keep your fucking voice down! You'll wake up Nightmare!" He hissed at me. "Now listen.. Something happened with that stupid Rainbow. It caused us to mix further.. I didn't know that was possible, but its what happened. What your seeing is a bit of what I see the world as, you know, as a Ghost?" I could almost feel his smirk... So that's' it! The sensing emotions thing, and the vision increase. But that didn't explain the way things felt.

"Wait, I remember the whole 'Ghost thing' from Blazblue, but why does everything feel like its the first time I touched it?" I asked, calming down a bit.

"That would be me" I heard Nightmare call from inside my head as well. Great, like it wasn't crowded enough already. I rubbed my temple, a pain I didn't realize was there creeping in.

"It seems that part of my Alicorn being has been merged with you two as well. Aside from me knowing that the three of us cannot be separated, I don't know what else this has done." ..Okay, this was only getting more and more convoluted the more this went on. The headache getting worse by the second, I found myself sitting on the bed.

"Yeah, so anyway, I need you to do me a favor. I know we haven't been on good terms." At that I couldn't help the scoff that came from my end. "..Anyway, as I was saying. We've all been molded together close than before, so that means that my abilities as a 'Ghost' are now yours, to an extent. That means that if you ever find yourself running low on energy, and feel like you cant hold yourself together, just let me out for a bit. I swear by the Grimiore that I wont try anything stupid. We all share the same body, and fate. You'll find that using this body will be harder than normal." He sounded so serious that I almost believed him. He wasn't getting out even if I had to fade away to nothing! No more chances!

My head felt like it was splitting open, evn the colors were beginning to swim in my vision. I laid down, finding myself biting my lip as I closed my eyes.

"I know you and Dearest aren't close, but I implore you to listen to him. I think those stupid Elements did far more harm than good.

"Jeeze, what was your first clue?! The headache or the blinding pain??!" I almost screamed, the pain making me tear up. Something was definitely wrong.

"Headache?" Asked Nightmare.

"Blinding pain?!" Terumi actually sounded worried for a second there.. I reached up to wipe some blood off of my mouth.. Blood? Oh great, my nose is bleeding.

"What the hell's going on?" I asked right before a bout of pain brought my vision into blackness.

Did.. Did I just pass out?

Did I just pass out again?! I've been doing that a lot lately. I sure hope that doesn't become a habit.

The Next Day

Waking up with the sun in your eyes sucks. Waking up with the sun in your eyes and somebody screaming in your head, sucks even more. I rolled over and sat up, stretching slightly to wake myself up. I go to get up, only to fall to the ground. Hoh? My legs are missing.

My legs are gone?!

"The fuck are my legs?!" I screamed frantically.

"About time your sorry ass got up, been yelling at you for hours!" He sounded pissed.

He may be pissed, but I was panicking. And panicking wins out every time.

"Where did my legs go?! Why cant I feel anything?!" I screamed frantically.

"Listen! I told you that our new body would be harder to use. You need to be constantly feeding it energy, or strong emotions to keep it stable." He said calmly.

I what?! That was ridiculous! The amount of energy that required was absurd, let alone the fact that I have no idea what he means!

"Just coat the body with energy like you would an attack, and it should do the job." He said. I quickly charged energy around my whole body, and noted the instant change. Feeling came back in my hands, and my legs were regenerating. Once I had my legs back, I checked and made sure they worked right, I slowly worked on reducing the energy output. When I got it to reasonable levels without me losing parts, I let out a sigh of relief.

"I thought you said we were only part 'Ghost'?" I grumbled.

"You are, you actually have a body in general. Do you know how hard it is to keep something you don't have?" He said, referring to the fact that in Blazeblu, Yuki Terumi had no legit body, and had to will himself one using negative emotions. This just keeps getting better, doesn't it?

"So now that you understand, will you listen to him?" Nightmare asked. She sounded scared. I let out another sigh.

"Fine, but your not getting out! Not a chance in hell am I risking that bullshit again." I said rubbing the bridge of my nose.

"...What if I told you I was sorry?" I could almost feel his rising despair.

"You almost killed Luna." I deadpanned.

"..I'm sorry?"

"..."

"..."

"Fuck off" I grunted, getting off the bed.

"This is what I have to deal with now?" Nightmare groaned.

"You do know, that means he tried to kill you as well, right?" I said, getting Nightmares attention.

"...Oh Dearest!" Nightmare called to Terumi in a sickly sweet tone.

"You dick!-" I smirked as the connection seemed to stop. Thank god, I needed some personal space after all this.

"Now, what was I supposed to do today?" I asked myself, looking out the balcony window.


Author's Note

There we go, hope you like it!

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