Subject: Dax, A.K.A. Daxinuim Berlian
Time: 3:54
Mission: Find a way to survive 1002 years back
Goal: Find a safe spot and contact other beings in the same situation as you

Oow, what happened this time? Cracking open my eyes I could see… a plaza. Not just any plaza either, the one I had defeated Grey Hoof in. Looking around I couldn’t see any of the town's local brain munchers. As I quickly got into a fighting stance just in case of a surprise attack, I spotted both books sitting there with a binding around them. Just like ‘Dad’ had given me, UMBRAMANCY AND HOW TO USE IT and Bestiary of Equestria and surrounding countries. Huh, so that wasn’t some weird day dream? I grab both books and look around for anything else when I caught sight of something else.

It was one of the zombies that composed the town, but it was one that was familiar, Mitta. But something was off about her. She didn’t seem to recognize me. After sitting there with her staring at me, it clicked. She had said that she had seen me at least a thousand years ago, but this Mitta seems to not recognize me. I needed to go quickly though, because I could hear shuffling coming from the other side of the plaza.

After a few seconds, I made my decision ran straight towards Mitta. However, my decision was a second late if the enraged screams and yells were anything to go by. I ran past Mitta while shoving the letter from before into her hands as I ran to what I hoped was the exit. As I continued my escape, I ran into one of the other ones who had apparently patrolled the town that came face to face with me, until Xavier came out of the sky and tore its esophagus out. After that we continued to the towns main entrance using the back alleys.

We had finally made it out of the town when I tripped on something. We were a few miles out so I could take a break in our mad dash to base, or whatever it was during this time and age. As I sat down on a tree root sticking out of the ground I caught sight of an odd looking marble like seed. I had a compulsive feeling to pick it up.

As soon as I did I felt like the world had slowed down around me and there was a male voice speaking, “If you find this… then chances are I’m alive. Please summon me. I could use the temporary break to be away from the Mist. All you gotta do is plant this seed and offer strong prayers…”....Whoa...So that’s what it’s like to hear from one of the tokens,er, at least I think this is a token.

Well, I’ve got nothing to lose! I whistle to grab Xaviers attention and nod my head towards the vicinity of the castle. As we set out again I felt happy to finally see someone in the same stew pot as I was.

Turns out the surrounding area around the castle was a bustling city. I saw tons of ponies, but mostly unicorns, if their horns were anything to go by. As I walked past them they looked at me with mostly with curiosity. Why? Because I was hiding my muzzle with my scarf. Damn, my scarf was good for this sort of thing! Even when it isn’t necessary! Anyways, I had finally found the castle, which was still smack-dab in the middle of a roundabout chasm. Wait, there’s something else.

I could feel what could only be described as a massive illusion that was right next to the chasm. I pulled my goggles over my eyes before using magic sight to see through the massive illusion. As I looked at the massive stairwell cut into the chasm face the only thought running through my mind was the fact that I didn’t notice this before. It was powerful for sure, but to last a thousand years? I haven’t heard of something like that before. Well, as I’ve said it before, I’ve got nothing to lose.

As I called down Xavier from his flight above the city I turned to look at the guards in front of the arch leading to the blindingly white castle, but they acted as if I never existed, which frankly, creeped me out. I just assumed it was a part of the illusion. Whelp, down we go!

While I took the steps Xavier decided to fly around and land on the bottom. When I had finally reached the entrance at the bottom I could see faint glowing ahead, perhaps bioluminescent fungi? Well, whatever it was, it provided enough light that I could see perfectly in the dark cavern. After a few minutes of wandering the cavernous cavern, I spotted the source of the light, a small grove of glowing trees. Though the biggest one had odd indentations in its bark.

There also was several patches of empty dirt. But what caught my eyes was a small hill that was completely barren of any life. I smiled as I calmly walked over to the little hill and dug out a shallow hole and placed the tiny seed in it. I covered it with the dirt and stepped back, then I kneeled before it and prayed, “Please let me find my sister safe and sound, so that I may once more hug her, or something like that,”

After a minute that nothing happened I scrunched up my muzzle in confusion a bright glowing orb shot out of my chest and into the sprouts hill before fading away to reveal…. a sapling?

Suddenly from out of thin air, there was floating orb of light that slowly descended down to sit there in front of me. The orb glowed softly before briefly flashing and then revealing a young blue-haired humanoid, he was wearing a leather brown vest and a sleeveless gray shirt that was tucked under his belt, he wore blue baggy pants and brown leather shoes, he looked to be around twenty. On his right wrist was some sort of red gauntlet with a green gem in the center. On the front of the gauntlet was a short but pathetic looking spike that hardly looked like it could hardly be used as a weapon. The last two bits of detail for me to notice was that he had blue eyes, I even noticed the back of his leather vest was a flame symbol.

After observing our interesting fellow displaced, I held my mechanical hand out for a handshake, and gave a friendly, “Howdy!”

“... What exactly were you Displaced as?” the young blue haired asked as he held out his hand to shake mine.

I chuckled at that before answering, “It’s my own thing, a monster hunter. Kinda ironic because of me being part demon… but that’s that! Who’re you?”

“Vahn, it's not my real name but this whole Displaced business forced me to remember it differently,” Vahn said in a slightly annoyed tone of voice, “but it does have its perks.”

“Perks? What kind of perks do you have besides having your memories being messed with?” I asked, really not wanting my memories being messed with, especially if I was a displaced like that.

“Oh, no, none of that, just my name... Oh, and before I forget, please don’t freak out if you hear her voice, but this is Meta, my Ra-seru,” Vahn explained before his gauntlet started to glow a gentle red.

“Greetings, I am Meta,” a voice reverberated in my head.

After making sure I wasn’t hearing things I waved my hand in Vahn’s direction with a brief, “Hello?”

“She’s right here,” Vahn said with a chuckle as he raised his arm that had the gauntlet. It took my brain a few seconds for me to realize where it was coming from.

Suddenly, another orb of light floated from above, in a pattern that is best described as ‘a drunken Scot trying to walk straight’. It stopped a bit higher than the one Vahn came from, and flashed, revealing a blue-haired female, wearing a beautiful white dress, with a rainbow colored gauntlet that is mostly blue, and holding onto a white-colored metal staff.

Unlike Vahn, who appeared standing on the ground, she appeared above the ground in a belly-flop-esque position. When she opened her eyes and looked down, she looked surprised, and then that is when she fell down.

I then realized she is about to fall… onto me! I widened my eyes as I felt the weight of the woman crashing upon me. I was able to withstand the weight but now I had a woman draped over my shoulders like a scarf. After gently pulling her off my rather square shoulders I set her down next to Xavier who started sniffing her, right before he starts licking the odd ladies face.

“Ooh boy...” Vahn said, as he made his way over, “you alright, Azura?”

“Yeah, yeah,” Azura said, waving her hand towards the direction of Vahn’s voice, “I just wasn’t expecting to drop in unannounced.”

Then she looks around, and asked, “Also, what licked me? I felt-” her eyes widened as she noticed Xavier.

Azura was now, suddenly, behind Vahn looking at Xavier with fright filled eyes, “What in the light of the Dawn Dragon is that?!” she asked with a squeak in her voice.

I blink as I realized she was talking about Xavier, “He’s Xavier, my familiar...Oh! He’s a genetically modified horror, or just Horror, ain’t he cute?” I scratch the part where his carapace meets his fur and he practically melts in my hands.

Azura looked at Xavier then to me, a forced grin apparent on her face, “Yes… cute…”

“Well, not the worst I’ve seen, compared to the Serus,” Vahn said as turned to the side to check on the sapling, “Ah, I see you planted the first Genesis seed too,” he commented with a smile.

My smile faltered into a confused look, “What on earth is a Genesis seed?”

“The token you planted,” Vahn explained as he checked on its health. “Within the year it will grow with prayers ‘til it reaches ten feet.”

I was taken aback by that. Ten feet in a year? “Grows really fast if you ask me. Erm, how big would it grow in a thousand years?”

“That’s about it, ten foot. Unless me and Azura revive it, then it’ll be much taller. How much do the ponies here pray? A year is just on average if they casually pray,” Vahn explained.

I grimaced at that. “Erm, well you see… This place wasn’t exactly made to be found…”

“What do you mean?” Azura asked as she looked around, “And where exactly is ‘this place’?”

I look around at the large cavern before saying, “It was a cavern not meant to be found if the massive illusion was anything to go by…”

“Well, the tree doesn’t look evil or anything… right? The ponies here shouldn’t really take it as a threat, it's meant to help against anything evil, well at least not yet but eventually it’ll grow big enough to radiant its power gently,” Vahn explained before looking over at me. “I hope I didn’t mess up something here...”

I think about the way the Illusion was designed and said, “No, I think the illusion is to protect the tree, er, trees from harm, though that be an issue if I’m able to break it, but in all honesty, it was made to protect the trees.”

Azura looked around at the other trees, then at the cavern walls, and looked to her multi-colored gauntlet and spoke, “Mule, echo-location.”

The gauntlet glowed for a brief moment letting out a few high pitched ‘pings’, before a voice resonated, a different one from Meta, “Location identified as: Everfree Forest, caverns under the old Castle.”

I looked at the gauntlet before uttering a question that had been plaguing my mind since Meta had first spoke, “Um, what are the gauntlets?”

“They’re called Ra-Serus. Remember when my token mentioned the mist? Our partners protect us against the serus who have gone insane from its effects,” Vahn explained.

As I took in the information more questions swirled through my mind, such as, “What on Earth is a Seru?”

Vahn raised his right arm into the air as the gem of Meta glowed softly. Something started to form in front of me, taking on a strange shape. It had the head of a bird but it had no eyes and feathers, it had a long chain-like spine ending with two sharp looking blades. It floated above the ground by some power. “This is Gimard, a fire type seru,” Vahn explained

I looked at the oddest looking bird I’ve ever seen when Xavier leaped between me and the odd bird and started growling with a murderous glint in his eyes. I knelt down and scratched his sweet spot before asking, “How does one get a Seru?”

“Well, you’d find plenty back in my home world, but I can give you a seru. However, you’ll need to re-tame it since it’ll under your ownership or whoever you want to give a seru too...” Vahn explained. Gimard started to explore the cave like that of a curious animal exploring its territory.

I rise rise an eyebrow in concern before voicing them, “ What do you mean when you say, ‘re-tame’ them?”

“Well, you don’t have a Ra-seru to control them plus I’m the first owner, so they don’t know how to react to being taken care of by others,” Vahn explained.

I think about before asking, “How would one show that they can be trusted to a Seru?”

“Well, a lot of them are pretty much like animals except more like Siamese cats where its hard for it to trust another. So try taming it like you would to a wild animal. There are some however are that intelligent as a human,” Vahn explained as he reached out toward Gimard, the creature returned to him and was absorbed back into the Meta.

Now that intrigued me, “What do you mean some are as intelligent as a human?”

Meta’s gem glowed again, only this time a weird purple and yellow creature with an eye appeared, it looked like a bit of like a jester too. It looked toward me and bowed in greeting. “This is Puera, a dark type seru the strongest of the two, category three,” Vahn explained.

As I inspected the creature I looked towards Xavier to see how he would react to Puera, but oddly enough the only expression on his was curiosity and what almost...joy? He must be happy to see something also out of place in this crazy place. After a few minutes of awkward silence I stuck my hand out and said, “Howdy there Puera”

Puera let out a strange squeaky language I couldn’t understand as it shook my hand. “It can’t speak our language but it does understand it. Now, if you were to bond with it or allow it to fuse with you, then you would be able to hear its voice in your language,” Vahn said as the black jester suddenly ran over to Xavier.

As Puera ran over to Xavier I let it happen because I had a certain gut feeling for this sort of thing and it was a-churning that I let this happen. As Puera stopped in front of Xavier he poked out one of his fingers and gently pressed Xavier’s nose. The only thing that happened was the large lick Xavier gave Puera. I turned towards Vahn and asked, “How come he’s perfectly fine with Puera, but freaked out when Gimard came out?”

“That, I don’t know, but I will tell you that Puera is quite friendly, just don’t let it play a card Death Game unless you want to take a chance of killing or healing yourself or whoever it is playing with,” Vahn said, he raised his gauntlet and gave a tug motion when Puera start taking out its card, the mental command from Meta made sure that it didn’t. “But if you can give it a different deck to play with, its powers won’t be as deadly depending on what kind of cards you gave it,”

I smirked at that, another person to play cards with? I always enjoyed card games, came with having to pass time in cars for long trips. I smiled at Puera before ruffling it’s little hat and said, “Puera sounds like my kind of guy! But others might freak out if he was to follow me everywhere, you said something about a gauntlet?”

“Ra-serus can control the Serus, however you’ll have to control it differently, prove to it you’re worthy of taking care of it. Would you like to try, or would you like me to explain all of the other Serus?” Vahn asked with concern. Puera however suddenly looked up at Vahn in surprise and fear.

I knelt down a few feet away from Puera and waved and said, “L-looks like we’ll be stuck together eh?” The little jester ran away and clung to Vahn’s leg.

“I’m sorry bud, but he does want to take care of ya. Give Dax a chance, plus you might like it here since the Mist isn’t here to drive you mad,” Vahn said as he patted the jester’s head. Vahn got up and looked at me, “now, Meta is going to release her hold, so Puera might be a little confused at first.

I stepped back and to give Puera some room and not scare him. As Vahn told Meta to release her hold over Puera, I had a last thought to make Puera at ease. I motioned for Xavier to come to me due to Puera being at ease near him. As he was let go from her hold he looked around as if he finally noticed how big the cavern was. He started looking around before alighting on me and Xavier and rushing over as if something might crush him in an instant. When he finally reached us he leaped into the air and started squeezing my chest and trying to cover itself with my jacket. After a few seconds it calmed down and simply stayed there. I sent a confused look over to Vahn and quietly asked, “What’s wrong with him? He wasn’t like this earlier…”

“It’s reverted a child a little bit, so it may take some time for him getting used to the sudden change, but eventually it will be like before, an intelligent, playful, but mischievous seru.” Vahn explained as Meta watched the exchange between me and Puera.

I looked at Puera before a thought crossed my mind, “Is Puera his name or is it his species name?”

“Species name,” Vahn answered as he looked over to Azura. “You’ve been awfully quiet...”

“Just been thinking,” Azura stated, then looked between Xavier and Puera, “first I might think that being a Seru of the Dark aspect might be why Xavier was comfortable with the Puera.

“Also,” Azura continued as she looked over to Vahn, “would you like me to show him one of the Water Serus or not?”

“Go ahead if he’d like a look,” Vahn answered as she took a seat on the ground.

Azura’s gauntlet, Mule if I remember what she said correctly, glowed blue, and before them appeared to be similar to an adult male lion mainly colored dark-blue for the color of the ‘mane’ and light-blue for its face and body. A prominent feature was the forked spikes on its head.

“This is Freed, a Water attributed Seru,” Azura stated, “this one here has been brave and calm in many of our adventures.”

I grin as I look over the fierce looking water Seru. After a bit of staring at the cool looking lion look-alike I asked, “Cool, but, umm, why are you showing me it? Unless you just wanted to show off of course”

“Well, you did ask what a Seru was and I believe showing one would of been better than explaining it, and if I did, we were would all day considering there’s seven elements to a Seru, each element having two or four serus each. Azura showed Freed to you and there’s... Quite a lot,” Vahn explained.

I chuckled as I agreed when my stomach started growling. I chuckled again before saying, “I don’t have any food, and you guys would probably cause a panic of a new and unknown species infiltrating, so I’m going topside and grab some food, alright?”

Vahn had a slight frown on his face. “Shame, thought this was a lucky break from the Mist, but I suppose it’s better than nothing,” Vahn said.

I nod as a pat my leg for Xavier to follow as I secured the jester in my coat.

~~~POV Switch: Third Person~~~

As Dax walked up the stairs, Azura returns Freed into Mule and Vahn remained sitting on the ground. He takes a soft breath of the clean air that had no traces of the mist. There is a soft silent conversation between Meta and Mule.

“Vahn, I believe it would be of best interest if we take a look of the outside through a Seru’s eyes,” Meta said.

“Wait, you could do that?” Vahn asked with a raised eyebrow. The blue-haired boy doesn’t recall the original Meta being able to do that.

“Yes, although it is something we’ve never done. You see, during our travels, I’ve noticed a strange energy within me. I’ve been experimenting, although I’ve been doing it while you two were asleep as to not spend too much of this energy. We have learned a few things we’d like to try,” Meta said as the green jewel glowed.

“Wait, we?” Vahn asked.

“Indeed,” Mule said suddenly, “the both of us have this energy and have been seeing what it can and can’t do.”

After Mule finished explaining, Meta summoned a winged Seru that looked like a gray bat.

“That’s Vera, the Light Seru,” Vahn stated, recalling the memories of all the times it healed them in times of need.

Then Mule summoned a floating blue colored, centipede-esque Seru.

“And that’s Gola Gola, the Fire Seru,” Azura stated, remembering when she had saved it from the mist.

Both Meta and Mule’s gem glowed softly as did the Seru’s eyes.. Soon enough, the eyes changed to match the gems now that they were in control of the Serus. Without a word, Vera flew out into the open world, causing a few ponies to jump back in fright.

Gola Gola approached Azura, and Mule said, “It would be quite odd for a creature looking like Gola Gola to exist, could place a fitting, magical disguise on them?”

Azura nodded, then closed her eyes in concentration, began to vocalize her song again as she held out her hand towards Gola Gola, making him appear more like a giant serpent.

Gola Gola then took off towards the castle, causing some ponies to shout or scream in fear.

~~~POV Switch: Dax’s~~~

As I returned to the surface I came face to face with one of the guards. Again, he didn’t bat an eye at my appearance or anything. I simply chuckle and poke his cheek to see if he was even alive, but to my surprise he snorts and blinks his eyes in rapid succession and looked around warily before resuming his stance.

I smirk as I place my scarf over my canine like muzzle before looking up at the circling silhouette above me and nodding in the direction of what smelled like food. As I neared the stands holding the food I stop and dig around in B.i.t.i.s. and grabbed a bag as large as my head and proceeded to grab a handful of crystals to barter with and stepped in front of the stall to see… BACON!?

Right in front of me was a griffon who was selling what I assumed was freaking bacon! I was salivating at the thought of having crispy bacon again when a claw waved in front of my with a confused, “Hello~? You in there mister doggo?” I straightened my back before promptly shoving eight of the crystals and pointed at a stack of bacon with a, “these for those my good sir!”

The griffon gave me a weird look before grabbing the crystals and muttering, “Damn diamond dogs are always so eager for this stuff…” Then grabbed the crispy bacon before placing it in paper like bag and handing it to me with a look between sour and amused. I for one didn’t really care how he acted, I was focused on the delicious meat before me.

I walked away with a purchase of a lifetime as I started weighing decisions whether to go back to share or not when I caught sight of an out of place being. It was a large semi albino bat, but its eyes were glowing in a certain familiar color. “Vahn? What are you doing out here? Er, your seru anyway...”

I looked at the bag in my mechanical hand before pulling out six strips and handed it to the bat after saying, “Give this to Vahn and Azura, or if you’re in direct control, share.”

The bat nodded before taking off towards the cavern once more. I turned to see an expectant Xavier. Sigh, if this keeps going I’m not going to have any left! I toss him a couple of strips to sate his appetite before waving him back towards the sky. I kept walking along I noticed several poster on a board of wood pinned to a wall. Though none of them really caught my eye one did, a ‘royal’ invitation to a tournament in town that will be hosted by the royal sisters themselves. I rolled my eye until I saw the prize for the tourney. An authentic dragon egg to do whatever you want with it.

I let that sink in. A dragon egg? Even having one in possession could be extremely dangerous for both the dragon and the owner of said egg, not to mention if certain people got a hold of it. I grab the paper for later and started rushing back to the cavern buying two apples for Vahn and Azura. As I neared the entrance I felt an odd tapping on my shoulder. I turn to see-HOLY GOD ON A CHEESECAKE! WHAT IS THAT THING!?! Unfortunately I freaked out right next to the stairs. All aboard the pain train! THUMP!

Oow, I have to seriously stop getting up like this… I crack open my eyes to see both Vahn and Azura munching on their apples. I also saw Xavier napping in the corner, but that struck a thought in me as I turned back towards Vahn, “How long have I been asleep?”

Azura wipes her mouth clean of the juice from the apple before replying, “A little a bit over an hour.”

“I had Vera heal you but you must of hurt your brain,” Vahn said with a frown.

I groan as my head starts throbbing, most likely from the fall. Oddly enough I can’t remember what made me fall...Hmm. Whatever, OH! “Before I forget! I think I’ve solved the prayer issue for the tree!”

Vahn looked over at me curiously. I smile as I wave my hand at the small sprout saying, “Why don’t we link it with something that gets tons of prayers every single day? Like a church!”

“That would help it out, but what if someone feels the new energy in this area?” Vahn asked with concern.

I smile, “I’m pretty good at hiding things from others, this should be pretty easy!”

“Alright, I trust you can keep the Genesis Tree secret once it grows, but make sure its passive growth, otherwise it’ll glow a bit too brightly,” Vahn warned.

I nod and ask before it gets too late, “How can I call you guys, er... guy and gal, back later?”

“Simple, just place your hand on the sapling or tree, close your eyes, then talk to us in your mind. But if there are others watching, just act like your praying,” Vahn said with a smile. “Oh, before I forget… Puera can turn into an armor piece and fuse with one part of your body, your dark powers will increase, allow you to use the same death game, enter dreams and even make your own. Just be careful as the dream is as real as the real world. I mean that’s what Puera told me. He’ll start off small piece of armor but eventually grow until he can cover more parts of your body, even into a suit, whole armor, or light clothes. Or if you train him hard, the two of you can become one for a whole new form. ” Vahn explained.

I nod in understanding before the token gives me an Idea. “Here, let me try something.” I reach out and focus on Vahns magic signature and trace it back to his dimension before letting the intended object lay in his hands. His token, The Bestiary to Equestria and surrounding nations. I hand my duplicate token to Vahn and said, “Contact me anytime bud.”

“Awesome. We’ll call on ya if there is ever a tough boss, or if you just want to go adventuring. We’re still trying to clear out the mist by reviving the other trees. Azure? Is there anything you’d like to say or do?” Vahn asked as he finished the last bit of bacon.

Azura nodded then looked at me before saying, “Don’t forget that even if you just want to talk or be with someone, just contact us, OK?”

I nod and give her a thumbs up before realizing, “Er, how do I send you guys home?”

“Just say ‘our contact is complete’ and we’ll be on our way.. Well..” Vahn said before turning toward Azura, “Azura came by accident, so she might have to grab my hand or something..” he said unsure of how she got pulled by accident with him.

Azura, quickly, gripped Vahn’s hand tightly without saying a word, with him being just as quiet, as Azura stated, “Ready.”

I looked at them and gave them a sad smile before saying, “Our contract is complete.”

“Take good care of Puera, I’m curious of how your bond with him will go.” Vahn said as their Serus, along with Vahn and Azure, were surrounded by a golden ring. With a brief flash, the four were gone.

I smile down next to the small mischievous one-eyed jester and grab my B.i.t.i.s. and pulled out my sleeping bag and layed down with Xavier next to me as I dozed to whatever nightmares may plague my sleep......

Author's Note

Hello! This chapter was done with DisplacedWriter's and TheUltimateBrony-Class-S's Displaced characters. Azura is Ultimate's while Vahn is Displaced's. Check out Ultimates story the blue-haired Maidens Sacrifice, but Vahn has a story coming in whenever Displaced wants to, so that isn't there yet. And please point out errors, but enough of my blabbering, enjoy!