The Tales of Kione

Unwanted Luggage

Kione looked out over all the sleeping ponies, glad that his enchanted music did its job once again. He stepped off the stage and started to search through all the ponies.

‘Where would a General sleep, I wonder… Over there!’ He pointed to his left, right at a pony wearing a very expensive set of armor.

He reached into the General’s saddle bag, and pulled out a small, tightly wrapped, package. He quickly put it into his suits pocket before he sneaked away from the mansion. He could of sworn he saw a bipedal creature in one of the alleys, but not having time to waste he carried on.

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He walked into a nearby forest, down one of the many trails, until he reached one of his many hideouts. A simple cave. He walked inside, coming face to face with his cloaked ‘contact’.

“You will keep up your end of the deal when I hand over this package, correct?” He asked his large cloaked counterpart.

“Yes, your secret is safe for the time being. Now, how about the package?” Kione set the package on the ground, and kicked it over to the figure, effectively letting it sliding into the cloaks shadows.

“I think the meeting is adjourned, for now,” said the figure, before disappearing in a bright flash.

Kione turned around and walked towards to the exit, only to immediately stop and conjure a glowing hoofheld harp as he saw a bipedal creature in front of him, blocking the exit.

The creature had some sort of armor covering it’s body, it had a messy, red mane on top of it’s head, along with a jagged horn. It’s eyes were red, though the other eye looked dulled, as if the creature was blind in that eye. A pair of wings peeked over it’s shoulders, resting around it’s neck was a ragged, red scarf. A cloth rested around it’s legs and waist, like some sort of clothing… pants was it? It was about 1.8 meters tall.

“Who are you and what are you doing here?” Kione asked, with a slight curiousness, as he observed the strange being in front of him.

“My name is Red. Miss Dandelion sent me to look for you. You must be… Kione?” The being, now named Red, looked slightly confused about the situation he was in.

“That is right, but I don’t believe Dandelion would trust someone who looks like you,” Kione said.

‘Play at him Kione, let us see how much we can juice from him.’

Red grinned, “Of course she wouldn’t trust me when I look like this! That’s why I make myself look like this!” He transformed into a red pony, probably to keep his name usable. Red seemed slightly disappointed when Kione wasn’t affected by the transformation. If anything, Kione was even for curious.

“That is an interesting ability you’ve got there, but how did she tell you to go look for me?”

‘There is absolutely no way they could have awoken ahead of schedule, unless…’

“Well, after someone had put almost everyone to sleep, I’m assuming that was you, I woke them all up. She asked me to look for you, but now that we’re talking, why did you put everyone asleep. And just who was that cloaked figure?” Red seemed to be quite satisfied with his answer and question. Kione would have none of that.

‘Keep playing with him Kione, if anything, he could be a big help in our future plans.’

“Are you sure it was me? It could have been someone else.”

‘Side stepping his question, Kione? Oh, you are devious!’

“True, but I saw you sneak away from the mansion, and whoever you were talking to has something to do with it.”  Red seemed like he was sure he would win this argument.

Kione, however, was having a raging battle inside his mind.

‘How could you have let someone see us!’

‘There was no time to cover our tracks!’

‘All right, all right, try to lead him off of us; you know what to do if we can’t.’

“So you saw me walk away, who says I had put them all to sleep?”  Kione really hoped he could lead him off.

“I-I… Fine. You win. Now come with me, or I’ll force you,” said Red, he seemed mad.

‘It seems our red friend doesn’t like losing.’

“Good, but I want to have one thing set straight: I wasn’t here, and nothing happened. Okay?” Kione didn’t want to hurt anyone, but if someone kept asking…

“Oh? Why? It’s not like you did anything wrong, right? Or was what you were doing against the laws?”

‘Damn it.’

“No, but…” ‘Kione, do it!’ “I…” ‘Don’t you dare ignore me, you know it must be done!’ “Ugh, I didn’t want to do this, but I have no choice.” Kione conjured a acoustic guitar behind Red, and whacked him in the head, effectively knocking Red out.

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Kione dragged Red through the woods and into another cave. He set Red aside, and tied him up. Kione went out again to look for some food. He found a berry bush, and other greens that could make an effective meal.

When he got back to the cave, he went to work at starting a fire, and wait for Red to wake up.

When he awoke, Kione had just finished adding some wood to the fire.

“I can’t believe he just knocked me out like that! I’ll get that bastard back for this.” Kione went up to him and poked his shoulder.

“You know, I’m here too. I can’t just have you running around, telling everyone about what had happened, and what you had seen,” Kione replied annoyed that he had to have Red travel with him.

Red rolled over with a grin on his face, “Oh? So you did do something against the laws.” He finally seemed content with himself, until he noticed something was missing from the whole equation.

“Wait, you mean that you’re leaving, and taking me with you?”

“That’s right, now if you’ll excuse me, I’m having dinner.” Kione went back to the campfire, and started eating his homemade salad.

Kione heard a low rumble off to his right, as he looked over to the source of the noise he saw Red drooling.

‘That’s just disgusting.’

‘True, but we don’t know when the last time he ate was.’

“Hey, can I have some?”

With a sigh Kione got up and gave half of his meal to Red.

“Fine, but next time, make your own.” He walked back to the fire, leaving Red to his own devices.

“Thanks!”

Kione heard the familiar fizzle sound as Red transformed to his bipedal form, he easily slipped out of the ropes, and walked over to the fire. Kione glared at him through his mask, which promptly stopped him.

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“Where are we anyways?” Red asked, Kione turned to face him after finishing his meal.

“That’s for me to know, and for you to never find out. Now for my question, what are you?” Kione was once again intrigued.

"Apparently I'm the result of MPD. I'm another person inside the body of changeling king Black. I don't know why he looks like, so don’t ask. And my memory goes back only four days. Strangely enough I seem to remember things about animal, creatures and some things about Equestria." Red took a deep breath. "And what are you? I know what a pony smells like, and you smell way different."

“I’ll let you figure that out for yourself. Get up, we’re leaving.” Kione stood up and put out the fire, before walking outside.

“Okay, where are we going?” Red got up and followed him.

“Manehattan, and maybe you should do something about your looks.”

“Oh, right!” Red transformed back into his red pony and walked along side Kione.

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“I’m bored.”

Kione sighed, “This is going to be a long walk.”

‘Oh, why did I agree with you on tacking him with me?’

'I thought he could help…’

‘I hate you.”

AN- Thanks to everyone for likes and favorites! If you want to read from Red's POV go here.