Shifting light
Princesses of Sol and Void
Previous ChapterNext Chapter"Princesses!" and like Goku's space shuttle, gravity must have increased tenfold because everyone immediately dropped to the ground. Practically grovelling at the feet of the new comers. This made it awkward as I was the only one not my knees and everyone knew. Not like they're willing to do anything about it as trying to correct me might lead to their death and yet they're not going to defend me as it's their princesses they'll be speaking against.
Lets get this over with.
"Hi there, wonderful weather we're having, is it not?" everyone lost their shit. Unlike the diamond dogs, it was all silent 'What the fuck are tou doing' type of lost shit. The tallest princess didn't seem to mind. In fact she was smiling. The other one looked ready to kill me.
"You Dare address us so causally, knave." Ow, very Ow. Sensitive hearing might not be so good. White noise and pain. Oh, wait nevermind, it's all gone now. Even the eldest sister (I'm assuming sister.) was grimacing at the volume of her voice.
"I believe what my sister is trying to say is 'Why are you not bowing like everyone else?" well at least I know for certain that this is Celestia and Luna, at least personality wise.
"There are currently, only two ways to make me bow. Earn my respect or force me to my knees. For both your sakes I hope you try the first one. It would be a realm shame if a fight broke out. I don't think I'd be able to hold myself back for the sake of everyone in my way." Of course if a fight between us were to happen Celestia would likely teleport us somewhere barren to decrease accidental deaths.
"You seem confident you would win." is my confidence misplaced... Yes, yes it is. Truefully I doubt I would win a fight with them. One-on-one, mabye, it could go either way, but definitely not both of them at the same time.
"You never know what could happen in a fight. Anyway, you came here for something, yeah?" this is unlikely a suprise visit consdering Luna's here and she looks like she did after her purge. Hmm, season one then. Unless the timeline is really fucked.
"True, Twilight sent a report detailing the attack on Ponyville and its rescue. Am I correct in guessing you are the reason Ponyville is still standing?" yeppo, might as well play nice with the princesses, they are the only other immortals here..
"Yeah, I found a kid in the Everfree and she asked for my help. Feeling generous I went and helped out." that sounds reasonably trueful. Still debating whether I should tell them it was a test for myself. Nah, what they don't know won't kill them.
"Well, for that you have our thanks, right Luna." Seems Luna is still a little salty. What did I expect though. She probably taking out some frustration on me, learning a thousand years of history will piss anyone off.
"Aye, we thank thee for aiding Ponyville." aannd now she's cheerful, weird. Hole up. Everyone is still bowing. Jesus, do the need to be... Nevermind.
"Do you want to tell everyone they're free to stand." I ask not fully enjoying everyone on the floor.
"Right. You may all rise." seems she never noticed, not as perfect as they think. Well, she is a human now. That's to be expected.
"Anything you wished to speak with me about." lets be honest, if they wanted to meet me they could have asked Twilight to bring me to them. I wouldn't have went, but still. They likely need something and require it fast enough for both of them to leave the castle.
"Yes. Do you mind if we speak in private?" that I can do. Without speaking a word I walk past them and out of the party. When I'm outside the princesses leave sortly after.
"Sooo, whatcha need?" They look at eachother before nodding. Which is getting pretty damn paranoid. Preparing for a possible fight I get into a half-assed combat stance of putting my left foot behind the right and twisting it at a ninty degree angle incase my first move should be a dodge.
"Twilight Sparkle informed us that you use light as a means to to vanquish your foes." It's going to be strange listening to her switch between old and mordern English.
"Yes? What of it?" that sounded rude. Oh well. Celestia and Luna look at eachother again, though it's more of a we know something you need to know type look. If that's even a thing.
"Well you show us? We would like to be sure before we tell you." tell me what? Ah fuck it, I'll find out soon enough. What should I do. Which one glows the most. They want light. Right before I select the one I want an unnaturally loud roar/Screech breaks the relative silence we were in. And looking over to the Everfree forest I see another demon walk out.
This one doesn't seem to be as intelligent as the other one but I can tell I might cause some problems. It steps into the moonlight, yeah, the party has been going on that long, and what I see makes my eyes widen significantly and a single confused thought rushes through my head.
Xenomorph?
No, it's not, but it's similar enough the biggest difference is that it doesn't have those things on normal Xenos back and its head is human in shape with no eyes and a set of razor sharp teeth where lips would be.
"How about a demonstration?" I say looking back at the princesses, they seem to be ready to fight themselves, but there is a confused terror that's being pushed down so they can focus. By focus I mean stare at me like i'm an idiot.
"You don't expect to fight that thing off. It may be wild, but I can sense the magic pouring out of it from here. It'll kill you." This thing has magic. Fuck. The hell. Yes. I want- no I need to consume it. Here's to hoping magic is a biological triat.
"Trust me. I can take it." they back of a bit. Likely because of the unholy smile that has made its way onto my face. Taking that as a reason to go ahead, I run toward the Xeno clone.
As I get closer and closer it seems to sense my presence and turns toward me, giving a hostile hiss before getting down on all fours and then starts crawling toward me. We finally meet, It pounces up, but instead of getting my throat it gets a fist to the face and I flys backward. Unfortunately it managed to wrap its tail around my leg before hand, this causes me to get dragged along with it.
As I land on top of it I can help but realise thing is stronge enough to actually move me. My thoughts were cut off when I feel something enter my throat and it takes a moment to realise it bit me. Then the pain starts as it actually tears out my throat causing biomass to fly everywhere. There are a few shocked gasp in the distance, certainly more than two people meaning I have an audience. I ignore them, regenerate my throat and then grab the creature by its arm and crush it causing its, suprise, acidic blood to coat my hand. Starting a battle between my skin melting and regenerating.
Getting up off the creature and it doing the same while cradling its arm. The little shit turn around to run, but I activate shadowshot and I hit its leg, blowing it off, and causing it to collapse. It immediately rolls with the fall and throws its unbroken arm at me and an ice spike flys at me an impales my in the gut. I just tear it out and shatter it over the things head, good thing I can still get adrenaline.
As I lays there, bleeding out, I wonder how to go about consuming it. Getting an idea I walk over to it's lost leg, surrond my arm in durmal armour, and pick up the lost limb, noting the acid doesn't work that well against it, and consume it. Seeing it leaving minimal damage I harden the armour I usually leave under the skin and consume the main body, it still hurt, and recived some interesting mutations, like:
- Magic cells, you can now take in the ambient magic of the world and charge your cells with them giving you the ability to use magic.
- Acid glands, turn biomass into a corrosive liquid or gas.
- High impact shell, this armour upgrade makes it so dermal armour can ignore damage from attacks that move at incredible speeds or hit dangerously hard, like a bullet or a trian.
- Scent, people and animals give certain smells depending on their intentions.
- Echolocation, use sounds to see all aroind you.
- Hunters scent, combining scent and echolocation sends out a pulse that tracks down a certain smell, such as a person, for miles around.
- Wall crawl, can stick to surfaces.
- Bladed tail, a tail that can glide through flesh with ease.
- Cold immunity, can thrive in the most extreme blizzards without any discomfort.
I'm liking this, so much stuff. Hunters scent seems similar to that pulse thing thing you can do Prototype 2 so that's good. Don't know when i'll use it, it is still useful.
Through the memories I managed to get from it, it was suppose to find out what happened in Ponyville and report back. It isn't getting that chance, Ha.
Moving on, I look back at the princesses only to realise that they were surrounded by everyone from the party. I stare for a second not really sure what to do, déjà vu anyone, I decide I would be best to talk with the princesses again after all, that is why I decided to fight it.
"Sooo, whatcha think?" I ask them, now curious as to what they wanted to tell me before we were interrupted by the quasi-xeno.
"So that's what light can do." that wasn't a question, I wonder if she's talking about the consuming.
"Shadowshot, the bow, was made from light. That thing at the end was different." or is it, Blacklight. Black-light. light. Ha, not so different after all. Never would have guessed, imagine it, Guardians of earth going around and consuming Fallen, Hive and cabal. No Vex though, they're machines.
"Well then, what are going to show you hasn't been seen in over a thousand years." How, specific. Mabye it's actually trillions of years old. Rather than taking me to some secret cave that holds Excalibur or some crap like that, they just summon a small book. Although the real suprise came from what was on the front of it, it was the Destiny's symbol. Looks remarkably like a figet spinner, with the middle and top removed and a small line where they used to be.
I flip open the book to read the first page and see that it is a small description of what light is and who and what can use it. Although it doesn't say how you can learn to use it. The next page is a Titans striker sub-class. It tells you what a striker can do as well and provides a picture of a Titan performing a fists of havoc. I flip through the book and see that it shows the same thing, more Sub-class descriptions and pictures depicting their supers. Then the last page came an I wasn't sure the hell to think about it. There was Genteks logo with a biohazard sign behind it with the words 'Not all light is good.' Likely referencing Blacklight.
"Where did you get this?" Like seriously, where the fuck.
Celestia answered " We aren't too sure why, but a thousand and some years ago someone broke into our old castle, injured anything that got in his way, walked into my court and dropped the book and turned away and walked out." oooookay, certainly a strange story.
"Who... Was this?" I ask feeling a bit like I know the answer.
"We aren't sure. When I ask who he was he just stated 'Guy who has yet to be named.' he also said that we I should prepare for the arrival of this world greatest hero and I most horrifying Villain, but he made it sound like the hero and villain were the same person." motherfucker, it was the same guy that sent me here. That means he got here a thousand years before I did, gave them that book and then sent me here. It also implies that he new what I was going to choose... or he can time travel. What's this shit about being a hero though, I'm as heroic as cancer. Sure i've done heroic things, but the main factors for doing them were selfish. I also won't be a villain, a violent force of nature, but not a villain.
"In light-" Ha, pun "-of current those events and your own actions today we have decided to see you adequately rewarded for saving the lives of everyone in Ponyville." You know what, I don't even care anymore, if people want to believe i'm a hero, fine, let them. "For you actions you will be granted the title of noble and, if you wish, you will be knighted." That's a lot of stuff, I think. Being a noble, don't know what that gives me but fuck it, it can't be bad if it's a reward. Being knighted though, this means I'll be defending Equestria from threats and fighting in wars. I'm okay with that. Let it happen.
"Sounds fun, I'll accept both." Wonder how many Knights there are. It's far too peaceful for there to be many. Ha, too peaceful. My hundreds already and it has only been a day.
"Wonderful, you will need to come to Canterlot for it. Knighting services are held within the castle, throne room." A fair enough, might even meet sme fellow Knights. Not looking forward to the nobles though, they're kind of pricks.
"Well then shall we be off?" Before Celestia gets to answer Luna cuts in before her cusing some suprise for her.
"May we have words with thee before we leave for the capital." didn't expect that, but it should be important if she's keeping the family out of it. Naughty, barely back from the moon and already keeping secrets.
"Sure." Luna and I walk away from Celestia who is just standing there, though she shrugs and walks off in Twilights direction.
"We wish to offer you a job." I swear to God if this isn't fun I will Lord Boros her back to the moon
"Depends on what it is." I say with a suspicious glare, although she doesn't seem to care about all that shit and keeps speaking anyway.
"We believe that Equestria hath gotten weaker, over the thousand years that we hath been gone. We want for thou to perform missions that would stop threats before they get out of hand." ohhh, hell yeah, dis gon be gud.
"So you wish for me to be Equestria's black hand, Alright sure." and another suprised face. Didn't expect me to agree no doubt. I shall be the be the greatest knightsassin
After our conversation we walk back over to Celestia who is just finishing a conversation with Twilight. She looks over and see us coming and says her goodbyes with Twilight then walks over to us.
"Are you prepared to leave now." she ask, Luna and myself just nod and follow Celestia over to the center of the town before they light there hands in a Gold and Teal glow before everything goes blindingly white. Deciding to test Scent I activate it and I'm suddenly see that i'm beside two green auras with a few other yellow ones all over the place. I'm assuming green means ally and yellow is neutral.
My eyes finally regain their sight and I look around to see Canterlot in all it's glory. Currently I'm seem to be on a balcony of some sort, looking over the entire city. Good view.
"I take it you like the view." says Celestia from behind me and I give her a small nod. Sure it's a good view, how could it not be, it's a city of marble. I might be slightly bias, but I like marble. So yeah
"I shall have a servant escort you to a guest room, you can stay in there until I get you a more permanent place of residence." coolio, don't really need a house, the Everfree was good enough.
After waiting for about five minutes of waiting the door finally knocks. "You may enter." and in she comes.
Standing at the door was a girl roughly in her early twenties, with fairly Tan skin, Caramel hair and pink eyes. She was wearing a ehat I assume is the castles maid uniform since their is no other reason for her be wearing one. Altogether she looked plenty nervous. First time receiving direct orders from her princess perhaps.
"Y-you asked for me, Princess?" did that sentance sound weird. No, but it did. You asked for me. Asked for. Hmm, that wiuld mean thst Celestia specifically wanted her... Or it was a slip if the tongue.
"Yes, would you be kind enough to show my guest to one of the gues rooms?" Celly asks her. Hearing her orders she looks aroind the room and sees me... Then blushes? The fuc- Oh wait, nevermind, I look like Lucifer and he's pretty high up on the handsome scale.
"Of course, you highness." she says,slipping into a somewhat professional tone. Good for her. I get up an walk towards her and as I'm right infront of her I stare he in the eyes for a bit, to see whst see would do, which is blush again.
"I'm assuming you're green." she looks at me with a confused glance before shaking her head.
"N-no, i'm Swift Feather" What. Oh, green. Equestria and their adjective based names, Goddamn.
"Chris Licht, you seem fun, so you get the privilege of calling me Light. Or Nazi." I rather not be called Nazi, but friendship traditions dictate that, at least one of my friends has to.
"Shall we be going then?" ahah, my weirdness has made her less shy. Great, maybe I can kill boredom with a conversation.
"Lead the way." ands so she did. We had a normal conversation on the way to the room so I was happy with the results. I might even have a second friend, this is good, four more and I'll have more friends here than in my old life... Why hello nostalgia, we haven't spoken in a while. Ah yes I do remember my family and yes I still don't care for them.
Moving on from that, we arrived at my destination, technically i've been here for fifteen minutes, but I was talking with Swift. I bid her goodbye and walk into my temporary room and notice that it's pretty swanky. A large bed, two nightstands on eath side, cupboard, vanity set, private bathroom and a large window.
First order of business, closing the blinds and curtains. The second, go to sleep.
Christ, this bed is comfy.
Author's Note
Welp, tell us whatcha think. May or may not take a a few days break from this. To think about the story and what I want to add or change about its future.
If you have any ability idea's for blacklight or his newly acquired magic feel free to say.
