The Nephalem
A Nephalem and a Jötunn part 3: Between a Jötunn and a Hard Place
Previous ChapterAfter a bit of time, I met Jason outside the town walls, cracking my neck as I quickly ran through all the ways the monk would fight in the games and let out a slow breath as I got into a fighting stance, my knuckles glowing with holy elemental power. I had no idea what to expect but I still smirked. The mares had all come to the town’s entrance to watch the scuffle, Songbird, Clover and Luna, for some reason, were closest to the action, sitting with tense anticipation.
“So, Mr Hughes, you ready to start this off?” I asked, watching the man closely but still giving a friendly smirk.
“Are you?” Jason kept his hoodie on, his eyes following my movements.
“Does the pope shit in the Vatican?” I said, taking a small step forward, keeping my stance.
Jason cracked his neck getting into his own stance. He winked and suddenly, I was thrown into a wall. “Think you can trust your eyes?”
I fell from the wall and cracked my back. “By the gods, that hurt. Seems a might have to be more adaptive.” I said before launching at Jason and bringing my glowing kick down on him. He caught my leg, tossing me into the ground. I grunted, jumping back to my feet before throwing a few punches at him as fast as I could and then going for a head butt.
Jason countered my punches, ducking down and ramming his shoulder into my chest. I coughed and stumbled back a bit before trying to punch him again, shaking my head slightly to clear my vision from a bit of haze.
“That all?” Jason asked, grabbing my fist and twisting it.
I grunted before looking up to the sky, a beam of light striking me, healing everything and knocking Jason back a bit. I then launched with greater speed giving faster and faster punches and kicks before aiming my right palm for his face.
“Feel the wrath of Ytar!” I yelled, a pulse of holy energy hitting Jason before I started breathing heavily.
Jason tumbled away, and after a few moments rose back to his feet. He grimaced, a large burn going across his face. He flicked his wrist, releasing a bit of magic, the burn quickly healing. I took a deep breath and took another stance waiting for the next nove of the, obviously superior, warrior.
“Okay, you don't totally suck.” Jason narrowed his eyes,cracking his knuckles.
“Well gee…” I said regaining any energy. “thanks for the vote of confidence, Jason.”
He grinned, suddenly in front of me. He punched me in the gut, knocking me back with a burst of wind. I rolled with it before jumping to my feet, trying to keep my balance. I leapt toward Jasone in a blink with a punch to his cheek. He took the punch, hitting me with a fire ball.We I prepared myself to burn but the flame just went around like a twister not harming me at all.
“How’d I do this already?” I mumbled before a man of fire formed from I the flames, causing them to disappear.
“I have been sent by the Ytar.” came it's crackling voice “I am an elemental. Here to assist in battle.”
The fire being then looked to Jason, it's yellow eyes burning passively. It then tried to hit him with a flaming punch.
Jason grabbed its fist, freezing it solid before shattering it. “They do know this is a sparing match right?”
I just sighed. “In all honesty, I'm not sure. I hardly knew what the Angels were thinking in the game besides hating demons. The pantheon really can be strange at times.”
The elemental looked at Jason again, regrowing his arm before looking to me.
“We are sorry Nephalem.” it crackled
“My name is Ren, you know.”
“Apologies, Nephalem.”
I sighed before I gestured him to sit with the others and looked at Jason.”
“Sorry. Where were we?” I asked back as I back stepped.
“I dunno, are they gonna interrupt again?”
“Honestly, I'm surprised they even interrupted in the first place.” I said holding up my stance again.
Jason rolled his eyes, casting a trio of spells on himself. He grinned, his body flashing yellow. He darted forward, moving like he was in fast forward.
“Is that a fucking haste spell?!” I shouted trying to dodge any hits he launched.
“Along with Shell and Protect.” He slide his leg behind mine, sweeping it off the ground. He grabbed my neck, driving me into the ground.
I coughed and looked at the warrior.
“Hey Jason, do you know what the best thing about being a monk is?”
“Can it save you from taking Ultima to the face?” Jason asked, bringing his other hand up, a strange, multicolored distortion dancing in his palm.
“Oh you cheap ass-” I started before I summoned another strike of holy energy to hit up, hoping to cancel the broken spell.
“Ah, ah, ah.” Jason shock his head. “Do you want me to leave a crater? This happens to be the version that destroyed a planet.’
“Of course you’d have the most broken incarnation of the spell.” I sighed, “So, what do I do to make you dispel the damn magic nuke?”
“Nothing. I win.” He got up, extinguishing it by closing his hand. “Git gud scrub.”
“Can I haz alcohol now?” I said before getting up and cracking my back.
“Yeah.” He nodded, smiling at me. “it's all on me.”
“Nonsense!” shouted Luna pulling them both into a hug, pressing her D cups into the two of us. “The merriment shall be on us! Never have we seen anypony, stallion on mare, fight with such strength!”
I just swallowed hard before I was pulled away from her by Songbird and Clover, who then pressed into either side of me with a squee. Luna smirked as she pressed her chest into Jason more with a look of triumph.
We all went into a pub, run by a bubblegum pink pony with a red, curly mane and in a bar wench outfit. She was darting, table to table, bringing various drinks to tables. She then jumped in front of the group, full of energy.
“Hi, I'm Surprise, what can I get y’all?” she said with a slight southern accent.
“Whatever the hardest drink you have is.” Jason took a seat, putting his feet on the table.
The mare took off to the bar to get the drinks together as the rest of us sat down. I sighed, putting my elbows on the table and put my head in my hands as the two mares flanked me on either side.
“What? Don't like having sexy woman hang off you?” Jason questioned, raising his eyebrow.
“It's not that.” I started with a weak chuckle, “I just can't get the thought of my world out of my head. I thought I saw Diablo’s black stone before I was ‘displaced.’” I looked to Jason with serious eyes. “I thought all of this was supposed to be a cartoon or a game not both and not real.”
“It's the multiverse,” Jason explained, shrugging. “Everything and everyone exists somewhere out there.”
“So you were being serious about the multiverse?” Clover asked, wide-eyed. “Starswirl has been talking about it for the past few months but I thought it was my teacher just spouting nonsense.”
Luna rose her eyebrow at Jason. “Doeth thou mean to say that thou art from another universe?”
“Of course that’s what he’s saying, silly.” Surprise exclaimed from behind Jason before starting to set down a drinks ranging from ones that looked like vodka to mead. She giggled at the surprised look I had. “Oh, you’ll get used to this kinda stuff, sugar. Also, welcome to our town.” She finished with a wink.
I took a swig of my drink and let out a hum. The familiar taste of the cornmeal based drink that is whiskey. I kept drinking as Luna tried her best to “woo” Jason. I knew that if there was one meme I thought I'd embrace, it'd be the next line I mumbled.
“Curse these ponies, they’ll drive me to drink.”
Songbird giggled as she began drinking her amber drink and Clover sighed contentedly sipping her clear drink.
“Comin’ on strong aint ya Luna?” Jason asked, all ready on his eighth drink.
The princess giggled with her cheeks taking on a slightly red tinge.
“Art thou saying you object?” she slurred finishing her fourth before running her tongue up the glass. “I doth love a stallion that's nice and strong.”
“Oh no, I like it.” He winked at her. “Never been with an alicorn before.”
“Well, perhaps we can fix that?” She hiccuped with a singsong voice.
Clover rolled her eyes while the princess wasn't looking and Songbird giggled more, her own cheeks beginning to tinge and her head resting on my shoulder. I rise an eyebrow finishing my fifth drink looking between Clover and Jason.
“Are we the only ones here with a higher alcohol tolerance?”
“No.” spoke Clover, after finishing her second shot and sipping a water, “I know my limits and don't drink enough to get drunk.”
“Normal drink doesn't affect me.” Jason shrugged. “I got a goat for the good stuff.”
“Good stuff?” I asked, starting my next drink.
“I milk a goat for Mead, what do you think?”
“Wait, wait, wait. You have the full Viking mythos in your world?!” I shouted with wide-eyes, “What does Yggdrasil look like? What about Niddhögr? What's Surt like in real life?”
“Yggdrasil is a tree of incomprehensible size that floats in the void, I sealed Muspelheim, and Nidhogg just naws on the roots, every waking second.”
“I mean, what does it look like? I've heard he’s supposed to be a worm, serpent or dragon. Sorry, just love the mythos of nearly every place out there.”
“I dunno.” Jason shrugged. “I don’t like to go into the void that often.”
“The void was the area between universes, right?” I said, as a very tipsy Songbird finished off my nearly forgotten drink.
“Yeah, mortal beings can't survive there.”
“So since it’s the void, does that mean it's infinitely big or infinitely small?” said a slightly tipsy Clover as Luna nuzzled into Jason’s neck.
“Probably both.” Jason chuckled, putting his arm around Luna.
“So, you wouldn't happen to have any of this ‘good stuff’ on you, would you?” I asked before looking into my empty glass with a slight frown.
“You couldn't handle it.” Jason shook his head.
I gave a slight glare to the Jötunn. “Is that a fact?”
“Yeah, yeah it is.”
Surprise refilled my glass and I drank giving a grunt of annoyance. It took a few more drinks before the alcohol finally started to take effect, giving me that warmth that settles in your stomach. I gave a content sigh and the mares on either side of me did the same with a smile. Luna,who had become a bit more than tipsy giggled and snuggled into Jason.
Jason scratched her ears, sipping at his last drink.
“You might want to stop that, man.” I chuckled, “Keep that up and she might just ravage you.”
Luna pouted at my words but, nonetheless, leaned her head into Jason’s fingers’ ministrations giving off a bit of a warm sigh as her wing draped over the Jötunn.
“So,” Songbird slurred with a giggle, “what are your ur herd mates like mr god?”
Clover rolled her eyes but payed attention, nonetheless, her interest piqued.
“Who do you want to know about? I have three.” Jason it his cup down, looking at us.
“Three?!” I exclaimed, nearly spitting out the last of my drink. “That’s quite the harem. Who are they?”
“Rarity Belle, Chrysalis and the third is more of an extended thing. A displaced in the form of Vash the Stampede.”
“Nice group, man.” I said as Surprise poured me another glass. “So, how’s the one in the different universe working out? I assume you and him at least get some alone time?”
“I haven't seen him in years.” Jason shrugged. “It was a blackout drunk kinda thing. Didn't expect to ever get Loki'd.”
“Are you referring to when Loki became a female?” I asked looking him up and down before taking a drink of my whiskey. “That musta been a sight.”
Luna giggled bubbly. “Turned into a mare? Now I wish I could've seen that.” Jason gave her a smile, shifting into a rather appealing female version of himself. She just looked at him with wide eyes for a moment, her wings snapping open before she coughed and barely managed to put her her wings down. “Change back. Then you, me, relations. Now!”
The other mares giggled at their princess’ reaction before Songbird nuzzled my shoulder. I merely looked at the Jötunn, my face gaining a new hue of red. I couldn't even start a response to what I saw Jason do except a few, tongue-tied attempts.
“I don't need the watch to shape shift,” Jason explained, changing back.
“That. Was. Pretty hot, Jason.” I said before I chugged the rest of the drink. “Does that mean you can turn into the aliens without the watch too?”
Before anything more could be said, the door to the pub slammed open and an old unicorn stallion came in with an old toga, messy and stained, his mane frazzled from lack of sleep and an uncaring attitude for one's appearance, who started to mumble to himself various randomness and magical equations. He quickly looked at our table and he darted over, looking Jason and me over closely, much to my surprise.
“Professor?” Clover started, Luna face palming at the unicorn’s actions.
“Yes, yes, Clover, I’ll check over your findings later.” he said, going back to his inspection. “I knew it!” the unicorn shouted with a manic grin, his eye twitching, “I knew there were beings from other dimensions here! The ether analysis was right!”
The unicorn then took out a few needles and made like he was going to take some blood, on reflex, I punched the random pony who looked completely shocked at my actions. I looked to Jason for backup and gestured to the lunatic.
“Starswirl,” Jason introduced.
“Oh. Yes that would be me.” The unicorn said, shaking off his shock. “The smartest unicorn to grace Equis.” He said, with a grin before bringing up the needles again. I glared at him as he approached.
“I don't care who you are, no sticking any needles in my arm without reason!” I growled, causing Clover to caress my arm in an attempt to calm me down.
“This is for science, creature!” he argued.
“That's not a good enough reason to take my blood! What next? A sperm sample?”
“Don't be silly!” Starswirl scoffed, “Hair and tissue samples are next.”
I groaned looking to Jason. “He’s not how I was expecting he’d be.”
“Oh? Just how didst thou perceive, Ser Starswirl?” asked Luna with the other mares looking at me confusedly.
I just looked at them all a bit, my mind rapidly sobering up.
“Oh, you know, more…scholarly?” I said weakly not wanting to compare him to a character that isn't even born yet. “I mean, not so…personal bubble popping?”
Starswirl just chuckled and look at me like an idiot.
“Oh, come now, creature. This is all for science. I cannot be bothered with such ridiculous things as ‘space.’”
Luna just perked up and looked at Jason.
“We hath our own experiment for you.” she said hotly, nibbling the Jötunn’s ear. “What say we test thou’s...stamina?”
“I think you’ll give out long before me.” Jason smirked, putting his arm around her.
“Didst thou just issue us a challenge?” Luna smirked back while giving a playful glare.
“No, just simply stating a fact Luna.”
“Well,” Luna replied with a huff, “we shall prove thou wrong!”
Luna then pulled Jason out of the bar shouting something about the fun being doubled, much to my amusement as well as my chagrin. I slowly pushed my chair out and got up before Starswirl put his hand on my shoulder.
“Now, now,” the coock began, “we have some tests to run on thou as well.”
“I apologize, Ren,” Clover said with a strained smile, “ please just humor him? I’d be grateful if you did.”
“I think she means sexy times follow…” giggled Songbird.
“I said no such thing!”
“But you were thinking it.”
I just tiredly sighed at the back and forth before I nodded.
“Fine.” I said, “but just blood, okay. Also, I'm not just some animal.”
Author's Note
Well that happened. Anyone see that coming?
As always, thank you to Shagohad12 for doing this crossover with me. If you guys want to read his stories on Jason and haven't yet, Please read them, they're awesome! He just started another story with Jason it has a great first chapter! Back to the story, however, it looks like Jason gets some fun while Ren gets his blood drawn. Sometimes life can be so cruel! The story will be picking up starting the next chapter. I have quite a few ideas swimming around my noggin (too bad, there's no lifeguard) and I'm sure some of you will like it. Will it have an impact on the future of Equestria? Will there be sexy times at some point in it? Will the princesses have tea and crumpets? Wait, what? Well, anyway, some of these will be answered and more in the next chapter.
