Shifting light

by Lucaridis

I'm combat ready

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Author's Note

I get the feeling I could have described the mane 6 better. If you feel like it just imagine them as your own human version of them.
Next chapter we might find out what are main character looks like.
Mabye sometime in the future we will even find out why he's such a dick aswell.


I'm combat ready

"So this is Ponyville. I assume it looks better without the fire and destruction." I say to Srew Ball who is standing beside me with the most depressed expression ever.

"...Yeah. You're not a very nice person, are you?" She asks me with a hint of worry. Probably thinks i'm going to destroy the place.

"It's a matter of perspective." I tell her before adding "You may want to stay here. The forecast predicts rain, Crimson rain." and with that statement I jog forward toward the villige while trying to come up with a speech to give to these diamond dogs.

Upon entering the village I notice that no one is around but there is a strong scent near the middle of the village and it smells like Earth and shit so assume it's the diamond dogs.

After a minute of sprinting through ponyville, thank God and or blacklight for infinite stamina, I see what is happening. There seems to be a few hundred, brightly coloured people all gathered in the middle of a market and they are all surrounded by the ugliest creatures in existence, in human standards anyway, until I realised thst they are human aswell.

In the middle of them though, is some sort of demon creature. It's hard to tell because it's wearing a cloak but I can see horns coming from underneath it and the claws it has for hands. Since it's obviously the leader of this attack, I pull out Jackal, aim for the back of its head and pull the trigger only for some retard dog to walk in the bullets path. He was dealt a swift and bloody punishment as his brains sprayed all over the ground and his boss.

Every single one of the dogs lost their shit at that, although their boss was shouting orders, trying to regain control, unsuccessfully at that. Since it's a little sad to watch them fumble around like a shit ton of rabid animals I decide it's time to step in.

"Hail friends. How can I kill you today. Bullets, fire, lightning, void or maybe you want to be eaten. The last one sounds fun." My entrance gained the attention of the guy in charge and a quite a few of the dogs.

"Who! Are! You!" the guy says, definitely a guy by the voice. Sound like sandpaper having sex while doped up on helium.

"I'm the man who's going to fuck you to death." I tell him, getting a really weird look from him. Don't see what the problem is, it happened to the Canadian president so why not this guy.

"Enough of this! Diamond dogs... Kill that man!" and like world war fuckin' Z I'm rushed by a horde of animals.

So I run at them as well and as I reach a few metres in front of them I activate fist of havoc. Coating myself in lethal electricity, lunge forward and smash into the ground, fists first sending a shockwave of lightening death forward, incinerating the dogs at the front. With this display of power they all stop charging me. But I don't. Still charged like a true striker I shoulder charge the closest dog and him and five of the people behind him meet their end. Seeing that they don't have a change a winning with me covered in Arc they back away. Noticing this, I stomp the ground causing an area of effect storm surge killing off the first few rows of the dogs at the cost of the super to end.

The dogs see this and they run forward again like a shit smelling, horde of Leroy Jenkins. Not being one to disapoint I charge again and punch the first one to take a swing through the face instantly consuming him. This scares the shit out of most of them, giving me an opportunity to draw Jackal and Casull and start shredding into them.

For the next minute or two all you can hear are the screams of the damned and blood and gore flying everywhere. The whole thing was beyond terrifying... For the dogs anyway, I was having the time of my life. All the blood I stood on was being drawn into my body through my feet invigorating me with even more strength than I already have.

After I stop shooting I can feel quite a bit drained thanks to the continuous fire I was placing the dogs under. As I look around I see that there are barely any dogs left, if they started at five hundred there was at least four hundred or more casualties, fatalities or not.

The man in charge notices me slouching and seems to believe that in my tired state he can beat me because he is walking forward with this smug ass expression on his face.

"If you give up now I can promise you a quick death. So why don't you just stop." If I was anyone else, I might have charged forward to try and kill him, but had an idea.

"Counter offer. You an' me, one-on-one, No weapons. If you win, you can do whatever you were going to do and if I win I can kill you all. sound fair?" I tell him and from his face I can see he is considering the proposition.

"Alright. But don't be upset when I kill you." at that I smile.

"Same to you. By the way, magic is acceptable." As a suprise he holds out his hand for a handshake. Which I comply with. A deals needs a seal and I'm not kissing the guy.

Both of us walk away from eachother, roughly ten paces then turn around to face each other. He removes his cloak letting me see what he looks like.

He, as I expected, looks like a demon. Standing around six feet tall with grayish skin and onyx horns emerging from his head. He has blood red eyes with white irises. He is wearing a gladiatorial outfit. Bare chested with a metal shoulder plate on his left shoulder, leather straps keeping it on him. A studded leather kilt was firmly attached to his waist and from what I remember of the Scottish I laugh a little as you apparently go commando when wearing a kilt. Finally, he had fairly plain sandals.

"Do we count to three or..?" I say drawing off at the end to see what he wants.

"Down from three."

3!
2!
1!

And with that we charge eachother. I slide towards him with the intent of kicking his knees in dying light style but he jumps over me and his momentum and the blood soaked ground don't agree with him and he slipped on his ass.

Seeing the opportunity I get back to my feet and run for him again, with the ground being damaged because of my heavy footfalls, and when I get to him I try to curb stomp the guy in the face but he rolls out of the way in time for my to crush to dirt Road beneath me. He doesn't dodgge unscathed however as I use earth bending to raise a pillar get him in the solar plexus and sends him flying back to where we started.

Looking around I see the crowd of prisoners looking at me in awe and the diamond dogs looking in fear.

With my momentary distraction the demon gets a hit off on my by clawing my chest. The wound is superficial as ever since I acquired dermal armour i've kept some of it active, just under the skin and since no biomass was lost in the attack I felt no pain either.

My lack of reaction suprised him enough to be able to give him a strong punch to the throat sending him flying backwards, grasping his throat, gaging and coughing up blood. With him lying on his back I walk forward until I'm above him, looking him in the eye and I can see the fear. If he could speak he might of been begging but I doubt I'll find out. Wishing to show the man the error of his ways I place foot on his chest and start applying pressure.

I look at him under me. Struggling like a worm, trying to lift my foot off of him bit the more he tries the faster I press down. Another few seconds and I feel and hear his ribcage breaking and he immediately starts to cough up blood since his lunges were likely punctured. Knowing i've won I stare around at the town seeing that I have be actively cleaning it by absorbing the blood. I look at the crowd and see staring in shock, probably not expecting me to collapse the guys ribs.

I look back the demon and remove my foot from his chest. I decide to give the man peace of mind by stomping on him head and consuming him. Oh boy, the pain from that was... Unfun.


In a dark cave there is a large red light in the middle of it and it is constantly pulsing like a heart beat. To my immense suprise a voice calls out.

"Go to Ponyville and kill the Elements of harmony and everyone else who stands in your way." it says in a cold but feminine tone and getting right to the point

"Of course, anything you say." I tell her without hesitation.

"There is a diamond dog clan near the villiage, they have been recently wronged by the elements. Gaining their assistance won't be too hard as long as you say the right things.

"I will leave at once." I say, getting excited about the prospect of a slaughter.

"Remember, don't fail."


Well that wasn't unnerving, ah well, not my problem. With the pain if the memory infusion fading away I open my eyes only be greeted with a towns worth of people staring at me. Turning away I see the remaining the dogs running for the hills.

All of a sudden my ears are greeted with clapping and I see everyone from the village looking at me with smile and the occasional cheer, honestly it looks like they're going to burst out in song, which would be freaky, but not unwelcome. I feel like I should say something to them.

"Thanks for the applause but I'd appreciate you stoping know. I know you're all happy you're not dead an' stuff but really I just did what any other person with my capabilities would do." Judging from the fact it's geeting quieter I'm guessing they heard me. I probably shouldn't tell them I was testing myself rather than saving them.

"You actually did it!" Says a familiar voice from behind me and as expected Screw Ball is there with a massive smile that practically radiated sunlight

"Yeah, I did. I guess I'm pretty cool." Rather than replying she runs up and hugs me. She can't see it but my face is twisted into a grimace. "Okay... Child, let us end this contact." I tell her, lifting her up and setting her down a few feet from me. She give a small pout but goes back to smiling.

"Ahem, excuse me." I turn around to see the girls from the manticores memory.

The first girl had dark blue or purple hair with a magenta and hot pink streaks going through it, she has lavender eyes and pale skin. She seems to be wearing some form of personalised school uniform, it's mainly lavender in colour with black patterns going across her jumper, her dress shirt underneath it was plain white. Her skirt was black with a purple stsrburst.

The next girl gave the stereotypical farm girl. She had long blonde hair tied in a ponytail, green eyes and tan skin. She a had a red, Short sleeved flannel shirt showing her muscular build and a tattoo of three apples. She had denim shorts and a pair of boots.

After her was a rainbow haired girl with reddish almost purple eyes. She had a tank top on that shown her tattoo of a cloud shooting tri-coloured lightening. She was wearing sports pants that ended half way down her calf and some running shoes. She way also flying with cyan coloured wings.

After her was a smartly dressed woman. She had long, curly purple hair that had to have taken hours to prepare and two blue orbs for eyes. She had an dress shirt with the first couple of buttons undone that was tucked into a constrsaining skirt that ended right below her knees with a trio of diamonds on it and on her feet were a pair of hight heels, she also had basic black stalkimgs.

The next girl looks ready to explode. She had incredibly poofy and curly pink hair, baby blue eyes and fair skin. She was wearing a blue shirt that said 'SMILE' in big yellow letters. She had a short yellow skirt with tree balloons stitched into it. For shoes she, like Screw Ball, had high tops athough these ones were pink.

The next girl was had long, silky pink hair with bright blue eyes. She was wearing a yellow, turtle neck jumper with three butterflies stitched into it ovee her right breast. On her back I could tell that she has two yellow wings. She had green jeans and blue shoes that seemed to be decorated with little animals.

"Yes?" I say to the purple one that acquired my attention.

"We would like to thank you for saving Ponyville." Oh, thats nice, I guess. Don't really care about her thanks though

"Suuure... Anything else or can I go now?" she seems upset with my lack of fucks but quickly returns to smiling

"I'm Twilight Sparkle." I could have guessed, she looks like her pony version so there was only so many things she could have been called aside from changeling.

"mmgh, hi. Chris Licht. A pleasure killing for the sake of your town." I tell her and while it may have sounded sarcastic it was the honest truth. Probably wouldn't like that answer though.

"We're trying to thank you, you don't need to be so moody about it." says Rainbow Dash, if memory serves my correctly. I can tell I don't like her already.

"Sorry, not used to being thanked for murder." I tell her with a smirk which seems to bother her more than it should or less given the context of what I said. "You're welcome, I suppose. Anything else I should kill while I'm here. Your worst enemy, best friend, orphanage or a hospital, it's all the same to me." Now that drew reactions from everyone and most if the were shocked and or scared.

"W-well, I was hoping to ask a few questions? If that's alright." Twilight asks me. I stop to think about it for a minute, I mean, do I really want to tell her everything.

"I'll ony answer the questions I want." I tell her and she smiles anyway, probably happy to get anything with the attitude I'm coming at them with. So it is justified that she's happy about that.

"Well first lets introduce you to my friends." I already know them and I doubt we'll actually be friends so this is rather stupid but if It moves this along faster I'll deal with it.

"You've already spoke to Rainbow Dash." The girl in question just give a nod.

"This here is Applejack." Said person reaches over for a handshake.

"Howdy partner, you sure made a mess o' those dogs." I suppose I did. While we are shaking hands everyone seems confused. "Well, your certainly are strong. If you ever need a job Sweet Apple Acres 'll welcome you." I was then that I noticed that she actually seems to be trying to really shake my hand with great enthusiasm, no doubt capable of dislocating someones arm if not careful, lucky I don't have any bones.

"Next is Rarity." then she motions to the girl that looks like a receptionist from a half decent porno.

"A pleasure, darling." egh gag, what the fuck sort of accent is that, is it British. Fuck, i'm British and I can't even tell. It's like one of those shit impersonations.

"Hello." I say with a curt nod, shit accent or not, might aswell be somewhat polite.

"This here is Pinkie Pie." Twilight says, gesturing to the girl and she seems to be vibrating on the spot.

"Hi-there-i'm-Pinkie-Pie-do-you-like-parties-or-cakes-Cupcakes-maybe-even-muffins-you-seem-like-a-muffin-person-so-do-want-one." As she finishes the sentence se produces a muffin from her hair and hands it over. I'm going to admit, I understood everything she said but I'm not going to grace her with an answer. So I smile and nod. I Also take the muffin but I'm pretty sure eating won't do anything.

Then Twilight points to where Fluttershy is hiding and again introduced her. "Over there is Fluttershy." I stare in Fluttershy's direction for a few second noticing that she isn't that well hiden before looking over to Twilight.

"You wanted to ask me questions." I say to her, hoping to continue forward and get everything over with so I can look for things like a house fly, catch it is going to be a bitch but the increased reaction time will hopefully be worth it.

"Ah right. Sorry about Fluttershy, she doesn't handle new people very well." Twilight says before beginning to walk in the direction of what, I assume, is her house. Eveyone else walks away though. They have their own personal lives so it is to be expected especially after it getting interrupted by the demon guy, Malreth, is his name appearantly.

Walking to Twilights home was peaceful, aside from the odd thank you, and I prefer it to be that way, athough I get the feeling that at somepoint in the future my love for peace and quite is going to be challenged by a need to fight something, probably will be those demons, but I suppose that isn't so bad if I get to consume them. Malreth actually gave me really good mutations and I'm thankful for that, I got:

I also got a few skills from the diamond dogs that got consumed like:

With these new skills I find myself feeling more confident in my ability to make things die. Honestly, I feel like doing a real version of Bulletstorm, if you're gonna kill you might as well do it in style.

As I'm walking with Twilight I just notice that Screw Ball is standing beside me and even with superhuman abilities I never even noticed her. She sees me staring and looks up only to give a smile and look forward again.

Weird.

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