Shifting light

by Lucaridis

Knighthood and noble-ness

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Ope Ope no Mi = top banter

Seriously, it's fun as fuck to create your own personal universe that overlaps the one you're currently in and you get to control everything inside it. I'll admit it was a little difficult to get the hang of at first, but having abilities to manipulate space and time to a degree shouldn't be easy to control without quite a bit of practice.

Anyways, I currently find myself walking through Canterlot, y'know as you do. Only to come across a... Shall we say not entirely clean house. It doesn't look like it belongs in Canterlot anyway, it might fit in with another city like anywhere, but Canterlot. Somewhat recognising it, I allow myself a smile.

"It's time to dance with the moon." walking over to the house I knock on the door and wait for a little. Seeing no progress I knock again. "I can stay here for at the most five more hours, I can assure you, I can be incredibly stubborn when I want to be." I didn't expect that to work, but what do you know, it did.

"What do you want?" I sense anger and sadness. How can I sense these things? I'm not a changeling.

"I say as your house and was like "Whoever lives there must be a sad person." and what do you know, i'm right. Sooo, you going to tell good ol' unlce Licht what's up?" Why am I trying to do this again. Is it because it took Twilight five seas, mabye. Is it because I actually care about the well being of other people, certainly not. In all likelihood, it because I. AM. SO. FUCKING. BORED.

"Why should I tell a complete stranger anything?" thus Moon Dancer lass sure uas a good head on her shoulders.

"My name is Chris Licht, I currently reside inside the castle, I like understanding things down to the molecular level and right know I only have two definite friends. What do you say, want to be lucky number three." I think I can hear her defeat, hahey, true human persistence strikes again.

The door of her house opens and I finally see what the human Moon Dancer looks like.

She has Red hair with two purple highlights of different shades that is also tied upward and not like a ponytail, this literally pointing up to the sky, purple eyes surrounded by thick, rimmed, Black glasses. She is wearing a dark grey/blue turtle neck sweater and has a black skirt that ends just above her knees. On her feet are a pair of black, possibly artificial leather, school shoes.

Overall, she's looks like a serious book nerd, but that was to be expected, this is someone who saw Twilight Sparkle as a role model. She also doesn't seem completely livid meaning that her hatred for Twilight hasn't completely cemented yet, that's good. I'm won't do anything about it though, if someone blew if any of my parties for anything short of they literally died, I wouldn't be too happy with them either. Question is, does saving the world from eternal night giver her a pass, probably.

"Are you going to come then?" Huh, she's letting me in. Ha, I'm making more progress than. Granted, she doesn't hate me like does and or will Twilight. Walking forward, I take a step into her house and follow her into her living room/library thing. "You wanted to talk about something?" I'll admit this might get annoying.

"You seem depressed, figured I'd help." True enough. Hell, if Moon Dancer becomes interesting enough I may even give her a devil fruit. What one would I give her, though.

"I don't need help. You are just wasting you're time." That's kind if the point. Ope Ope no Mi is fun and all, but I get bored easily, too easily and i'm almost certain yhe princesses wouldn't appreciate their subjects disappearing.

"How about this, I let you... Study my abilities before Twilight and if that doesn't work I owe you a favour." Of course, i'm talking about light not blacklight or bending or my new spacial control.

"What do you mean Twilight?" I new that would catch your interest.

"Twilight Sparkle, you might know her. She is Canterlot, after all." If that glare has anything to go by she knows what i'm talking about.

"I know her. I can't say I like her that much." she didn't want my help and yet you mention the cause of her problem and she starts talking.

"What did she do?" it's shicking how good I am at faking sympathy. I should take up acting classes.

"I was having a party thrown and out of all my friends, I was hoping Twilight would show up, but instead she blew it off like it didn't even matter!" This is getting dicey and loud.

"Do you know why she didn't come?" I can't believe i'm doing Twilights job. This isn't my friend andbshe has nothing to do with me and yet I help anyway.

"Appearantly she had an assignment from the Princess." she knows thst much, more knowledge than I thought she would have.

Did you know... That it was Twilight and a few other individuals that stopped Nightmare Moon from bringing about eternal night." Best nit say she made new friends otherwise Moon Dancer might flip shit and no one wants that. Especially the clean freaks. "Celestia also gave her a permanent residence in Ponyville for some reason." it isn't lying it's omitting details for the sake of getting what I want.

"I didn't know that. I never expected Twilight of all people to save Equestria." Moon is being unexpectedly trusting, great. Makes my job far easier than it has any right to be.

"Yeah, people can be surprising. Here's a surprise for you. Did you know that i'm being knighted later today and Twilights likely going to be there." I have no idea if you need a ticket to join an event like a knighting, but I would hope not, I mean, I would give everybody the chance to meet the people who are supposed to protect their country.

"I'll see if I can make it there." Why is she so trusting... does it really matter.

"Wunderbar. Well, I gotta do stuff. Like getting clothes for this event and some other things. See you there." making my way to the door I think back on if just leaving like that was rude, likely. "Oh, yeah. One Last thing, if you somehow have any friends, invite them as well." If I wasn't rude before, I definatly am now.

Leaving her house, I walk the streets of Canterlot trying to think if I should change what i'm wearing for the sake of the knighting. I settle on yes.


I'm currently sitting in my room and think on when this thing is actually going to start. To stave off my boredom I look towards the boxes that have been left over, there's a lot of them.

Walking over to one of them I pull it open and see another weapon. At first, it looks like a gold and red Lance of some sort, but anyone that's an anime fan would recognise this sword to some extent.

Ea

Loki sure does like overpowered weaponry, you just have to wonder how strong Loki is when he considers a sword, that is rumoured to be the embodiment of God, a piece of garbage that he can just throw away. I mean, i'm just holding the thing i and I can feel it's power pumping through my body. Either way, I can't help but smile, if the swords rumours are indeed true then I have a literal God in my hands.

Feeling genuinely excited about the boxes of power I move on to another one. Opening it if find something that I legitimately did not expect.

An Omnitrix.

I say an Omnitrix because it doesn't look like any of the variations that I have seen. This one is primarily grey with an orange tint and the part that glows is also orange. Looks good, to be honest. Reaching out I realise that this doesn't latch onto my arm so I place it on like you would anyother watch. The moment I put it on the watch there is a hiss and it clamps down over my left arm and speaks.

"Versatrix online - scanning weilder - Blacklight: Evolutionary chimaric mutation, an infectious agent that can reproduce only inside the living cells of other biological organisms. The synthetic female voice tells me.

"What's a Versatrix?" is it wrong of me to assume it can talk to me.

"A Versatrix, like the Omnitrix, is capable of turning the wearer into different beings, only the Versatrix does it from across many universes, unlike the Omnitrix, it can also turn you into other people from the same species as long as they are scanned. Again, unlike the Omnitrix that is designed for knowledge and understanding, the Versatrix is designed with combat in mind. Another thing to note is that the beings you transform into are not personalised like and Omnitrix. When you turn into something you become them with your mind in place instead of their own." Alright, so it's a tool for war rather than knowledge. I can get behind that, I don't understand the feature for turning into people from the same species, but whatever.

"Give an example of what I can become." If what it is saying is true then I can become different people without the need to consume.

"Alduin, Ulquiora Cifer, Galen Marek, Kaneki Ken, Lancelot (Berzerker) and all Jinchuriki to name a small few." thats pretty cool and yet there is even more where that came from.

"I've noticed that all of the people you have told me are male, i'm assuming I can't take female forms then?" a valid question, there is a shit ton of highly destructive girls out there.

"Incorrect, you may take on a female form. Seras Victoria, Cinder Fall and Undyne are females forms you may take." fair enough, need that Gender equality people.

"Thanks for the information, Verse." That's right, I named it, Sue me.

"Not a problem, Sir." what a well mannered A.I.

*Knock knock*

"It's open!" I shout at the person on the other side of the door and to my pleasant not-so-suprise is Swift standing there, honestly it's like she's my personal maid. I'm not against that.

"Princess Celestia has requested to your presence in the ball room." ball room? It is bigger and I guess if someone where to get knighted there might be a party... Social gathering, the place is going to be full of nobles.

"Sweetness. Lemme gets more appropriate clothing on." I walk over to the mirror and change my current clothes to that of a basic suit minus the blazer and with a suit vest. It has a white and green colouration, as I said, basic. "Lets-a go." I say, channeling my inner Italian.

"Of course." How bland, she seems to have dulled down. I hope it wasn't the prank, surprisingly enough I already consider the girl a friend, meaning her life automatically more valuable than mine. Then again I can't die, well, i'm very hard to kill. Either way, a life is an adventure and all adventures end inevitably and unfortunately someone else has to end mine. Enough with this sad shit, I get it, I get depressing sometimes, but that was way to philosophical and depressing for me.

After a good while of walking in silence I suddenly realised something, no rehearsals. I get that this isn't a wedding or anything, but still. I have no idea what to expect. That might be the reason, if you don't know what to expect everything you say will be from the heart because you don't have a predetermined answer for everything thst happens, Heh, Celestia may not actively defend her Kingdom, but I must admit she has the mind of an veteran chess master and then some.

Looking out one of the windows, I see a large amount of nobles making there way inside the castle, good thing i've never had stage fright.

Eventually we make it to the ball room and outside of it are two guards, standing there like the bland and boring statues like always.

"Well, I'll be seeing you later, Chris. Good luck in there." she isn't coming in, so sad. Ah well. Call me noble 6 because I've watched all my friends die in separate occasi- FUCK OFF DEPRESSION. Jesus fucking Christ, can't a guy go a full year without reminding himself of shit like that.

Anyway. As I approach, the guards open the door and I walk inside only to see abroom full of nobles, standing off to the sides of the room to allow me a straight line up to Celestia. Speaking if, she's standing there with that smile, y'know the serene, i'm everyones mother type smile.

I decide it would be best to walk forward so with my hands behind my back and head held high, I begin my one man march toward the stage that Celestia is using. I won't say i'm nervous, but I will say i'm uneasy, paranoia keeps people alive after all. Finally after about half a minute I make it to the stage.

Walking up it I stand infront of Celestia, I stare her in the eyes and unfortunately I know what I am meant to do. Begrudgingly, I lower myself until i'm on my right knee, bowing to Celestia. This sickens me.

"People of Canterlot and beyond, may I present to you all Chris Licht, Warrior of light and most importantly, hero of Ponyville." Oh shit, someone wants to fuel the hype train. "This man single handedly defeated an force of five hundred diamond dogs from taking everybody from Ponyville and forcing them to work in their horrid mines." lets be honest, the demon was planning to kill them all, but we can't have that becoming public knowledge. "So today we are to honour this brave soul with the titles noble and knight." A round of applause, expected yet loud, too loud.

"Chris Licht, do you vow to protect Equestria and everyone in it with your life?" I think she has this backwards, don't you ask these questions first and then tell everyone about the titles. Fuck it.

"I do." I here by announce you husband and wife, hahaha.

"Do you vow to uphold the law and bring justice to those who are deserving." ye, a special justice called kill everything.

"I do."

"It's going to be so hard to have real fun when everyone knows my face, oh wait, I can change that. Next question is where is Luna, I feel like she doesn't like me. Offering me a job then never talking to me, rude much.

"Then, as of now, you shall be known as Chris Licht, noble of Equstria and knight of light." Now here's a question. Back in medieval Europe, wasn't the rank of knight on par or higher than noble or am I completely wrong.

"It's an honour, Princess." so much formality, so dull. Kill me... Again.

"Now then everyone, please, enjoy yourselves." Thank the almighty Gods it's over. It was shorter than I thought. I was expecting to kneel there for about an hour or so.

"That wasn't so bad, now was it." Celestia, I should flay you, but your interesting, in a harmonic way. So your boring, but not.

"No, it wasn'ea that bad. Shorter than I figured." welll, that drew a giggle from Celestia

"That's what they all say. I assume you wish to mingle with everyone." Not really, I kinda want to give the Versatrix a spin.

"No, but i'm going to do it anyway because I find self-harming to hilarious." at least Blueblood won't be here. Now that I think about it, Loki said he turned him to a girl for whatever reason. Not like he had a dick anymore. It was probably a sympathetic favour.

Walking down from the stage I walk about the hall, waiting for someone to approach me. It took longer than I thought, but it eventually happened, only it was by Spike. Awesome.

"Hey bud, how you doing?" je looks depressed. This is in season one and we aren't at the Gala. Spike is likely upset right now because he didn't get to show his friends around the the castle and parts of Canterlot, similar to how he got upset at the Gala when he got ditched by everyone.

"Everyone left before I could show them around, like I wanted." I'd pity you, but you wouldn't like that.

"I'm not doing anything, aside from dying of boredom." I haven't even managed to live past my human life expectancy yet and this bored. I dread the possible centuries to come.

"Do you want to just hang out then? We don't have to leave here since this is your party, but we could just talk." better than what I was planning anyway.

"That sounds pretty good. Wanna learn how to fight?" yep, that took him by surprise. " Not now, obviously, in the future, Besides, it's good to know how to fight. Builds character... Or is that discipline." knowing how to fight is important for something. Not dying, that's it.

"I-I guess, if you're willing to teach. How hard can it be." Hello Murphy... Yeah... His name's Spike, a young boy with a dragon aspect... Kind if broke a universal rule, your one to be precise... Thanks, bye.

"Sure bud. Now then, lets suffer through this horrible waste of time together." Hmm, I told Swift, might as well tell Spike. "Hey Spike?"

"Yeah?"

"Did you know, that i'm a virus capable of shape-shifting and eating people whole while gaining their memories because of said consumption." I don't think he believes me, ah well. He's not getting a public showing.

"Oookay? That's cool, I guess." definitely doesn't believe me.

"Anyway, lets get started."


Finally, it's over. I'm a little upset that Spike didn't get a chance to stay long. Left about halfway through and left me to deal with the nobles. The weren't as bad as I was expecting, but the were still self-obsessed pricks.

Looking around I seeb Celestia beckoning me over to her. Feeling as bad as I am, I took my sweet time walking to her. I got there eventually.

"Yo, wot can I do ye fir." Needless to say, I got a raised eybrow for the weird accent.

"I just needed to tell you that mist Knights are often placed in towns or cities outside of Canterlot I was wondering where you would like to be be stationed?" Might as well go with what she secretly wants.

"I'll stick with Ponyville, i've there before and it's beside the Everfree meaning that it needs constant protection." Celestia, you shouldn't smirk like yhat around people who know you.

"In that case, the is a house already available for you. Here's the address." A little piece of paper, hope I don't lose it. "Your home also has some servants there to help you with cleaning." she definitely planned this, it's 100% obvious now.

"Thank you, I'll try not to burn the place to the ground. Ha, I guess that's what the staff are for." or to spy on me, it's incredibly doubtful that Celestia fully trusts me. Speaking of moving to Ponyville, i'm starting to feel like a fanfiction protagonist. Now that's a scary thought.

After a little bit of smalltalk we said our goodbyes and made are way to our respective rooms and settle in for the night. Well, Celestia did anyway.

"How the fuck am I suppose to get the boxes of almighty power back to Ponyville." and with that brand new dilemma, Chris found out that he doesn't actually need to sleep.


Author's Note

Honestly I don't know what to wright here.
There are still boxes of supreme hyper fuck-shitery. So if there is anything weapon ir otherwise you want Chris to have and he can have it.
Remember to point out my mistakes so they can be fixed at somepoint in the future.

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