Fear Takes Control
FlashBack
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Heres another chapter! Also, whoever suggested we need a editor... no. I can't bothered to look for one.
FlashBack
Betty hacked the last of the plunder vines, smirking. The tree, weak, tried to fulfill it’s end of the bargain… but couldn’t. It didn’t have enough power. Betty smirked as it started going cold. “Goodnight, tree.” Betty said with a giggle.
“Now, nothing can stand in our way, my little Kumu.” Betty giggled. “I guess FEAR is the true magic…” She said, before breaking out into laughter. The tree was scared, but kept it to itself, so that it’d live. Betty smirked to it, before walking out. Kumu went to follow, but fell, convulsing.
Betty turned around, seeing him convulsion. “K-kumu?!” Betty asked, worried, kneeling next to him. Kumu convulsed, slowly growing. He grew, and grew, until he looked… like her, really, but male, similarly colored clothing, minus the skirt.
“K-kumu? I-i-i-is that you?” Betty asked. He looked at his hands in shock and surprise, numbly nodding.
“S-s-so you c-can talk, right? Try.” Betty said.
“B-bet...b-betty…” Kumu said, smiling widely. He looked at her, hugging her. If it was any other pair of kids, this would be much more… cute. Uncaring for the trees reaction, the two stood, Kumu shakily walking with Bettys help out of the cave.
“Well… at least you have a body now… wanna make the castle of two sisters our new home?” Betty asked. He weakly nodded, not used to his new form. “Heh, remember the complaining about losing your body when we first got here?”
He nodded again, chuckling a little. “Yeah, when I always said at least you're still male?” She asked, making him smirk, before stumbling, almost falling. Betty wrapped her arms around him. He hugged back, head on her chest. Betty froze, blushing. He didn’t notice or care, eyes drooping tiredly.
Betty carried him inside of the castle, finding a bed and getting in with him, the two falling asleep.
In Canterlot
Celestia walked back and forth quickly, having sent the letters and was now panicking. “Princess, what was that?” Twilight asked.
“It was Betty. It is… stronger.” Celestia said simply. “Stronger than when we sealed it.”
“T-t-t-that w-w-was b-betty?” Fluttershy timidly asked.
“I don’t understand how she got so strong so fast!” Celestia said.
“Maybe she stashed two suuuper strong souls away somewhere to use later?” Pinkie Pie suggested. Celestia's mane turned into fire.
“IT FED MY PARENTS TO THAT...THING?!” Celestia shouted, using the RCV by accident. All except Raindow Dash and AppleJack got afraid at this, the two getting mad with her, one out of loyalty and the other our of knowing how it felt to have lost her parents.
“I’m going to enjoy having that thing starve in it’s prison!” Celestia snarled. Fluttershy wanted to speak against this, but couldn’t, too scared.
“W-w-what do you mean, s-starve?” Twilight asked.
“The thing said it needs the ‘souls’ as sources to feed her.” Celestia told her. The ponies gasped at this. “I think it's time we all rest. It has been a… stressful day.” Celestia said
The next day, with the now twins of fear….
Betty and Akumu woke up from their sleep in the old castle, cuddling. Akumu was a bit smaller than Betty, being under her chin as they cuddled. Betty got up quickly. “W-w-w-well, I’m g-g-gonna go look for things,” Betty said, brushing her skirt off as she left.
Akumu felt sad her leaving. What did he do wrong? Why was she so quick to leave? Betty was feeling awkward and embarrassed, having not seen a human-like figure for years… but also a lot of love to Akumu. Maybe… falling in love.
Twenty minutes later, she came back with Inspiration Manifestation. Her smirk was huge as she came in, reading it, the green on it pink. Betty walked over. Concentrating, she summoned a hoverboard, pink, that was big enough for the two of them. Dismissing it, she turned to Akumu.
“So, what do you want?” She asked. Akumu just looked at her with a cute head tilt. Betty hummed in thought, before cackling. She went to make a fierce diety mask… but Akumu was eating the book. The mask was made, and Akumu got a small power burst. Akumu then ate the mask, boosting both of them further.
Betty then made a bag of senzu beans, so they could use that instead of the HATE, a scouter, one for both of them, both pink. “Here comes the big stuff…” Betty mumbled. Walking over, she concentrated, struggling but managed to make a Hyperbolic Time Chamber out of the door.
Betty then tried to imitate the fidelius spell from Harry Potter to hide it. She didn’t know if it had worked, but hoped it did.
“W-w-where are we? I-i-i d-don’t r-remember coming here…” Akumu said. He looked around, only seeing a void and whimpering.
“Well, Akumu, we’re currently in the home base of the fear twins, the castle of the two sisters,” Betty said, Akumu suddenly seeing everything again. In the distance, a certain mix-matched creature felt proud.
Betty suddenly fell to her knees, panting. That took a lot of magic, and she wasn’t used to the drain. “That was… a lot more… magic then… I thought it’d be… is it… because… I’m not… a pony?” She questioned to herself. She was going to pull out one of her twenty beans, but those took a decent chunck to make too, and she’d be fine by tomorrow anyway. All she was gonna do today was help Akumu with his new body anyway.
Akumu looked flabbergasted at the power display. He got up, trying to go to his sister, but fell to his hands and knees.
“Kumu!” Betty said tiredly, forcing herself up. She was magically tired, but still had some physical energy, going over and helping him to his feet. Slowly, they made their way inside the chamber, it looking just like the one from the show, but had a control panel in the house.
“I… combined the two training places… from DBZ… this can do what both can… but we control it… and there’s no limit… on how high it… can go...:” Betty told her brother.
“This… is amazing…” He said to her, looking amazed.
“I also removed the limit on how many times someone can stay here or enter.” Betty said. Akumu looked at her, tilting his head, wondering how. Seeing her still exhausted, they supported one another to a bed, and Akumu got in with her, cuddling again.
“The royal sisters will never harm you again…” Betty whispered, hugging him close.
With the royal blisters
“Did you feel that, sister?” Celestia was asked by Luna, both looking afraid.
“Yes. I fear soon we may need to resort to… drastic measures.” Celestia said.
“It felt as if a bit of reality was ripped out. We thought only discord could do such a thing.” Luna said.
“I felt that book in the magic used. I believe that, for the sake of everypony, it may be time to…” Celestia trailed off, looking away, hating what she was thinking of. Each kingdom has a ‘god’ in control, Celestia and Luna in control of the ponies, the Dragon Lord of the Dragons and magma, and so on.
However, it was proven that this status meant next to nothing to Betty… as seen with Celestias parents, who were the strongest. “If we are gods, I fear Betty is a Primordial of FEAR now.” Celestia said.
“Sister, I think it is time we used… that.” Luna said. She didn’t need to explain, both knew what needed to be done to gain the power needed to fight the threat. They felt it disappear then, but did not trust this for a moment. Their minds were set. They would perform an ancient ritual, that their parents had been interrupted in doing.
What would this ritual do? It was simple. It would, at the sacrifice of some lives, reach into the void, and summon something to strengthen them and six others, in exchange… for the souls used to summoned it.
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