Chapters Adventurous, traveler, and quite-medieval family, The Sword Family. They’ve been to many unknown places in Equestria along with the other adventurers and travelers. Also famous for treasure hunting, they’ve gave five ancient non-Equestria treasures to the famous museum in Fillydelphia, three from last year and two from two years ago.
One fact about this family is that they possess the so-called Stand. A fighting spirit of the one who has enough strength (both physically and mentally) to possesses it. However, it is impossible to be seen by non Stand user.
The family lives near the coast of Fillydelphia, it’s very peaceful and they can get to the nearest port in no time. Beside, the view is beautiful and very guaranteed to take a break from reality.
The second child and son, Darah, is a pretty active family member. Since the day he discovered his Stand ability, he is motivated to be as strong as his big brother and parents, and at the same time supporting his sister, Clash.
At early morning, the sound for breaking woods can be heard as Darah is practicing. His determination is way bigger than his brother’s Stand power.
“Urraaaaaargh!”
The screams, breaks, and punches are heard by everypony in the house. Darah always practices hard in the early morning. He screams louder as he unleashes his Stand, Sweet Death and attacks the targets.
“C’mon!” Darah says as he starts to move very agile and quickly.
His sister, Clash gets awake by Darah’s screams. Knowing that his brother, Darah is practicing, she brings him a couple of bottles of water. Somehow, Darah doesn’t realize that Clash is there. She then proceeds to sits under a tree and watches his brother practicing, she eventually falls asleep.
As Darah turns around agily, he finally notices that Clash is sleeping. He stops his practice for a while and gently bringing her back to her bed, deciding to be quieter.
“Sorry for the inconvenience, sister. Have a nice sleep.” Darah kisses Clash’s forehead and goes back to the side yard.
“I need to be faster with my Stand. The family’s speciality!” Darah motivates himself as he continues to practice. As he tries to be quieter he is more focused, thus increases his and his Stand’s precision. Darah is on fire right now.
He pushes himself to the limit. Now Darah is more agile and has better precision than before. He catches his breath before walking around for cooling down. Suddenly a flame appears in front of him, forming up a unicorn mare.
“Hard practice again, honey? You woke up the entire house. Even your dad woke up for a second before sleeping back.” Pierce giggles as she tries to keep her eyes open.
“Aww, sorry about that.” Darah smiles nervously.
“Don’t apologize, keep practicing.” Pierce smiles. “Just try to not wake us up.”
“Hahaha, I’ll practice in the field then.” Darah turns around, heading to the field.
After thirty minutes of practicing in the field, Darah goes back and eating breakfast with his family. At afternoon, he and his family are going to Thrylos Vivlio. Before going on an adventure, they always read a book or more, mostly about legends and folklores.
In the middle of the trip, Darah gets uneasy as the car’s radio plays a song that triggers his psychotic personality.
“Gah, forget it.” Darah lets out a sigh.
“Don’t worry, Darah. I felt it too. Still learning tho.” Clash tries to cheer Darah.
“Hehe, thanks, sis.” Darah’s compliments makes Clash blushes in happiness.
The street is not-so-crowded, probably because most ponies are currently working. The family finally arrive at Thrylos Vivlio, their most reliable library in Fillydelphia.
“Alright boys and girls, we have arrived!” Sling says as he drops Pierce, Dikarb, Darah, and Clash then parks the car near the library.
Thrylos Vivlio is famous for its collection of legendary, folklore, history, and many more books. The Sword Family is one if its loyal customers.
“Good afternoon, young stallion. What can I get for you?” A mare greets him with a warm smile.
“Any of our usual books, please.” Darah looks around for any book that interests him.
“Coming up!” The mare leaves Darah, allowing him to search on his own.
There are many books that get his attention but the family only gets the best one. Thus, Darah only borrow one, even then he only reads it. The mare returns, bringing five books.
“Sorry, sir. But these are the only ones we thought are the best.”
“That’s okay.” Darah picks one that interests him the most. “I’ll take this one.”
“Thank you.” She smiles then returns the rest of the books.
“Wish I could help you ….”
Darah goes to the cashier, the waiting line is not long so he should be able to buy a drink later since he has been thirsty looking for a book for the family’s next adventure. Darah pays 70 bits for the books he borrows.
As soon as Darah leaves the cashier, Clash runs to him and drags him somewhere in a rush.
“Easy!”
“You’ll like it, brother!” Clash says excitedly.
They ends in a section full of ancient Equestrian books, exactly what they need. Their brother, Dikarb is already there, choosing which books to borrows.
“This section, of course, Darah. Of course ….” Darah sighs as he stare at the shelves.
“Ah, there you guys, now help me. Remember, something new,” Dikarb says as his siblings starts searching.
“The Tale of Ulatumian . Brother! I think you may be interested in this one.”
“Oh really?” Dikarb walks to Darah and looks at the book.
“Hmm, not bad.” Dikarb reads the description behind the book.
“An ancient underground city...blah blah blah. We’ve been to many places, including the cave city of Mağara. Meh, I’m not interested in it.” Dikarb puts the book back on the shelf.
Darah finds another book and shows it to Dikarb.
“The Sky Oasis …no. Sparkle! Are there any good books in here?”
Searching for more, he finally sees a book that catches his attention.
“The Light and Dark . I’ll take it, I guess.” Dikarb puts the book into the bag the pays it at the nearest cashier.
After borrowing the books they wanted, they buy soft drinks and rest in the front yard while waiting for their parents.
“Hey uh, Clash. Uh...what book did you borrow?” Dikarb asks question to Clash to make himself doesn’t get bored.
“Almost had one, but mom told us to save the money, right? So yeah, it's about a band, anyway.” Clash smirks.
As Darah walks in circle, Pierce and Sling come. Pierce is bringing a medium-sized plastic bag, she seems to bought some supplies for their travel.
“Got anything? By the way, Clash, help your mom, please,” Sling stops to talk with Dikarb and Darah.
“Not really, dad. Only got these two, technically three but the third one is because I just wanna read it.” Darah gives one book to Sling.
Sling giggles from Darah’s desire to read. At the same time, Sling reads the first book's title and description, “Nature Fog Town , a floating town that has many expert herbal doctors and has earned its reputation for being one of the best medical knowledge (especially in herbal medic) in the world of medic.
Despite being Cloudsdale-like, the town architectures have built roads for any creatures to walk on, so no fear of falling down hundreds of meters above the ground.” Sling laughs.
“Exactly! What about the other one?”
Darah gives the book that Dikarb borrows to Sling.
“Alright, what is this? The Light and The Dark .”
“Just a story, I guess.”
Sling reads the book a bit, “Hmm, not bad.”
Breaking their time, Clash shouts from the car, “Guys, let’s go home!”
“Ohoho, right. Let’s go, boys. Coming up!”
The family goes home, the soft instruments playing on the car radio makes the childrens of Sling and Pierce falls asleep. Pierce sighs and smiles, she turns her head to Sling.
“Have you bought the tickets, honey?”
“Of course, I have!” Sling laughs softly to not awake his childrens. “Five tickets, Almania, even the hotel.”
Pierce lets out a happy giggles, “Perfect.” Pierce rests a hoof on Sling’s shoulder.
Sling smiles, “All we need to do is prepare. Also the ship will sail at this week’s Friday.”
“That’s two days from now. Thank you.”
“You’re welcome, sweetie.”
Suddenly, a motorcycle passes the family’s car at high speed.
Sling sighs, “Ponies these days, for the sakes of the princesses…”
“Whatever,” Pierce says.
Sling continues to drive his family home.
[End of Chapter 1]
The family arrives home safely. Everypony wakes up except Clash who is still sleeping soundly.
Pierce sighs and smiles, “I’ll take her. You boys bring these.” Pierce carries Clash then fire teleport to her bedroom.
Meanwhile, as Sling, Dikarb, and Darah carries the groceries Pierce bought, Darah becomes curious.
“So, what are we gonna do next?”
“I don’t know. Practice with your Stand again or whatever you’d like to. Anyway, we’re going to Almania at this Friday at noon.”
Dikarb half smiles, “Oh yeah.”
After carrying the groceries, Darah changes his clothes into his track clothes, “Dad, I’m going to take a walk at the park. See you!”
“Careful, son!” Sling watches Darah trots to the city, going to the park.
While trotting into the city, Darah enjoys the view of the coast and the farms on the hills in the distance. Before he arrives in the city, Darah puts his mask on. He doesn’t like smoke. Upon arriving at the park, Darah takes his mask off and continues trotting.
In the park, Darah sees a gray pony smoking and throws the cigarette to the grass. Nopony stops or warns him from smoking and littering. Darah asks one of the local about the smoking pony.
“Excuse me, sir. Why’s nopony stops him from smoking?”
“He’ll beat you like a crusher, and also toasts you. That’s why.” The pony sighs. “Sorry, I can’t help you in any way. He’ll beat anypony.”
“Thanks,” Darah says as heads to the smoking pony.
“Excuse me, would you please to not smoke and litter? It bothers a lot of ponies.”
The pony stops smoking and throws the cigarette to the grass, slowly walks to Darah, “What’s your problem? The junk boys will clean them, anyway.”
The look on the pony’s face is menacing, he stops in front of Darah.
“Please, do-”
Suddenly, he delivers his hoof to Darah’s face but Darah quickly blocks it. He immediately does a spin kick and kicks Darah on his stomach. Darah flies a little before landing on the ground in such pain. Darah knows he has to react fast or he will gets beaten by the pony.
The pony jumps to Darah to perform a fatal blow. Suddenly, what appears to be a knight-like pony with swords as its front limbs blocks his attack.
“What the ...?” The pony whispers, surprised.
His face turns into anger as he unleashes his Stand, Storm Rider. A blue cheetah made purely from lightning, electric currents spreads near it. It swings its claw to the right front leg of Darah’s Stand, Sweet Death. The electricity Storm produces electrify Sweet, the damage that Sweet receives transfers into Darah.
“Gah!” Darah holds his right leg as it has been electrified.
“Stand user too? Your Stand won’t survive against me. Tsk, we will surely electrify you.”
“He’s right. Sweet Death is protected with iron armor. Obviously, we’ll be electrify by him.” Darah thoughts. “But…, when it landed its claw on Sweet, it felt solid. So, that means...sure !” Sweet Death quickly charges its left sword to Storm.
This surprises the pony, Storm immediately blocks the attack. Unfortunately, its action resulted on having its front legs pierced. This makes the exact same wounds on the pony’s front legs. Laying down with pierced wound, he is incapacitated, yet Storm is still standing from the pony’s strength. It then continues to attack
As the pony breathes angrily, more scars are added onto him. While Darah gets electrify more and more. They are dying by each other’s attack.
“This is not good. Even if Storm Rider electrifies him, his Stand is able to pierce me again. I have to flee .” The pony thoughts as he tries hardly to stand up.
As its last attack before fleeing, Storm jumps at Sweet and spins very fast. Electric current forms near Storm as it gets closer to Sweet.
“Not good! If I don’t block, I’ll be dead. But then again…. ” Before Darah could finishes his words, Storm is already in front of him. Still spinning very fast.
Having no more choice, Sweet thrusts its sword into still-spinning Storm. Resulting of the sword successfully pierces Storm and the pony. But, this also electrifies Darah very badly that his legs starts to turn black and roasted. The battle is finished.
Darah drops and nearly black out. One of the pony that witnessed the fight calls ambulance. He runs to Darah and the pony, trying perform first aid on them despite having low experience on medic.
“Help these ponies, please!” The pony shouts at the crowd. Some more come to help, they bring Darah and the pony outside the park and wait for the ambulance to arrive.
Due to blood loss, the pony blacks out. Luckily, the ambulance arrived. Two unicorns heal the pony and Darah, they lift the two dying ponies and bring them to the hospital.
Meanwhile in Darah’s house, Sling wonders why Darah is not home yet.
“He never runs for this long. Is it traffic jam or it could be….”
Sling’s drives his motorcycle to the park, only to find the aftermath of the fight.
“No...it could be another victim but not my son. But...gah. I want to check it but the police .”
Sling steps back, a dark purple kukri appears on his hoof. He then throws it to the blood and grasses.
“No, no! No! Darah!”
Sling panics and immediately head to the hospital where Darah is taken to. Arriving at the hospital, Sling parks his motorcycle then rushes to the hospital. He tries to keep calm and ask the receptionist.
“Excuse me, ma’am. Do you know Darah?”
“Yes, sir. Hold on.” The receptionist searches Darah on her computer. “He’s in the ICU room, sir.” As the receptionist about to say the reason, Sling asks another question.
“Where is it? Where’s the ICU?” Sling starts to breathes heavily.
“Over there, sir.” The receptionist gently points to the left.
“Thank you.” Sling runs to the ICU room.
When he arrives at the ICU room, he realizes that he’s not allowed to go in. Being powerless, he can only wishes on the doctors and Princess Cadance to save Darah. Twenty five minutes later, Darah is out from the ICU, he’s being taken to a room. Bandages cover his entire front legs.
“Excuse me, doctor. I’m the father of this patient. Is he going to be fine?”
“Don’t worry, sir. He’ll be fine. He only needs to recover from being electrified too much on his front legs. For now he’s unable to walk properly.”
Sling relieves, “Thank you, Princess Cadance. Where is his room?”
“Please follow me, sir.”
The doctor leads Sling to Darah’s room. Along the way, Sling is thinking what happened to Darah.
“Doc, what happened to him?”
“He got electrified. Witnesses said he was fighting somepony. I don’t know who that pony is and how your son got electrify. His front legs-”
“Okay, I got it. When I was in the park, I saw some blood.” Sling realizes something. “Oh wait, never mind. Should asked that to the police.”
The doctor reads the paper, “I think...the pony he was fighting is also here. If this is the pony you’re wondering, he has at least three pierced wounds and has blacked out due to blood loss.”
“Pierced wounds, let’s see. Sweet has two sword legs and protected by iron armor .” Sling thinks. “Doc, do the wounds are caused by sword?”
“How did you know that?” The doctor looks at Sling in confused-and-surprised face.
Sling giggles, tapping his head, “I’m right, nopony would use sword to fight in here, especially with all the guns Equestria now has. No wonder now, it’s definitely Sweet .” Sling whispers.
“Sir, here’s your son’s room. I’m sorry but he’s shocked and have to stay for at least a week.”
Hearing the doctor’s words, Sling becomes restless as he gets more worried and he may have to cancel their trip to Almania. After thanking the doctor, Sling calls Pierce and tells her that Darah is in a hospital. After hearing what Sling says, Pierce immediately becomes anxious for Darah. She quickly put on her dress and fire teleport downstairs.
“Dikarb! Dikarb!”
“Yeah, mom?” Dikarb peeks from the kitchen.
Pierce runs to Dikarb and speak quickly, “Dikarb, please take care of your sister. I have to go to the hospital.”
“What, why?”
“It’s Darah, he’s in the hospital.”
Dikarb feels his heart rots by itself, he breathes to calm down, “Well then, should I take you there?”
“Stahl can take me, right?”
“No, Stahl can only go to ten meters from me. The streets are dangerous and I’m having trust issues with the taxi drivers.” Dikarb turns off the stove before putting on his jacket. “Beside, Stahl is too big on the road. I’ll take you there.”
“No, you stay here and take care of your sister.”
“She’s eighteen, mom. She’s not gonna wander off.”
Pierce sighs, “You’re right. Don’t drive too fast then.”
“And try to be careful, will do.”
Dikarb and Pierce heads to the hospital carefully.
“Seeing royal guards everywhere makes me wanna leave this city. If I can go to where Kirin lives, or Mt. Eris .”
When Dikarb and Pierce stop at a traffic light. A blue car suddenly drifts ahead of them with a police car chasing behind it, right after the chase gunfire can be heard.
“Considering buying an armoured car?”
“In this case, maybe.”
After the chase, Batalyon Bravo 1 vans and trucks arrived at the traffic light where Dikarb and Pierce are at. The personnels start to place blockades while letting civilians pass before the road is closed. As Dikarb drives, he can hear the conversation on one of the personnel speaks on his radio, the vehicles sound disturb Dikarb’s hearing.
“...Over.”
“R…. Section Four is has been locked down. Over.” The personnel turns left.
“...The...re. Ove….”
Dikarb and Pierce drive out from the short traffic jam and continue their way to the hospital. Along the way, they see more Batalyon Bravo 1 personnels guarding the streets. As Dikarb drops Pierce on the sideway, one of the personnel comes to them.
“Excuse me, sir and ma’am. What is your destination this afternoon?”
“The hospital, sir. Our son just got in here.”
“Alright, but be aware. The streets is going on a lock down until 03:15 PM. I advise you to park inside and don’t go out until further notice from us.”
“Will do, sir.” Dikarb parks his motorcycle inside the hospital parking site.
As Dikarb is about to turn, he sees Sling’s motorcycle being moved by one of the personnel into the parking site. Dikarb tells Pierce about it and Pierce tells Sling via phone.
“C1, alright.” Sling closes the call. “Dear Princess Celestia and Cadance, I’m so tired of this gangster and criminals.”
While Dikarb and Pierce search Darah’s room, they hear a personnel speaking via microphone from outside. Minutes after it, the streets become very quiet. They finally find Darah’s room and go in.
“Oh, Darah, sweetie.” Pierce bursts into tears as she sees Darah. She hugs Sling who’s gently tapping her to calm her down.
“At least he’s still alive and….” Dikarb looks at the life support device. “Even at condition like this, he’s quite stable. That’s kind of bright side if you think about it, mom.”
Pierce stays quiet while still mourning about Darah.
[End of Chapter 2]
“I see. You’re...right, I guess,” Pierce says as Sling calms her down.
“We just have to wait until the streets are clear.”
The three then become silent, waiting for clearance from the units that guard the streets. Minutes passed, Dikarb decides to take a nap.
Meanwhile at the family’s house. Clash wakes up from her sleep, she goes downstairs to find the house completely empty.
“Where’s...everypony?”
While Clash is looking around, she finds a piece of paper on the table next to the office phone.
“Clash, we’re going to the hospital for a while. If we don’t come back later that means the gangs are back in action.
-Love, Pierce .”
After reading the note, Clash dials a number and call Pierce. Asking for what is happening.
“Yes, Clash? Are you alright?”
“I’m very good, mom. Just woke up. Actually, what is up in the hospital?”
“Your brother, Darah. He got into a fight and got electrified very badly.”
Clash covers her mouth with her hoof in shock, laying her right knee on the table to support her, “What? How did he…?”
“I have no idea too. You better stay home. Stay calm too, please.”
“Alright, mom. Be careful out there too.”
“You too. Much love.”
“Love u too, mom.” Clash puts the phone back and goes into the living room to watch the news.
However, once Clash turns on the TV her mind changes. She immediately switches the channel into her favorite channel then listen to musics for a long time.
Meanwhile on the street. A family is currently stuck in the middle of battle zone. Luckily for them, a team of special unit has been detached to secure and takes them info safety.
“Effect, can you protect us?”
“I guess.”
“Seite, c’mon. Not this again!” Frost says as he is getting a little annoyed from Seite’s odd behavior.
“Well, I’m- I mean he is trying to protect us! Can’t you see him?”
“Seite, dear. We’ve told you many times, we can’t see your astral friend.”
“Ouch, you’re right, mom…”
As the family awaits the rescue unit. Sound of two cars stopping is heard, followed by steps of about seven ponies...or creatures.
“You two! Guard over that window! Me and Schwill will take crates over here! The rest guards the staircases!” The voice echoes loudly through the whole floor.
As the furious stallion finishes his word, the first thing he sees is the small office where the family is hiding. He kicks the door and bust it open, finding the hidden family.
“Ey, look what we got here! Some bugs to squash!”
“Don’t you dare say bugs again! Ya hear me?”
“Shut up, you bug! This is perfect…” The stallion grins as he’s taking the family as hostages while moving the crates inside with a white pegasus.
Unknown by them, Seite has something up his sleeve. As soon as the furious stallion turns his back, a table flies to him and hit him very hard, resulting him to collide with the wall. Seeing his friend collided onto a wall, he pointed the gun’s muzzle at the family.
“What did you do to him, huh?!”
After the pegasus said that, Seite stands in front of his family, “Try me!”
“Don’t make this situation hard, kid. I hate murdering foals.”
Despite the threat, Seite keeps his ground, full of confidence and anger. Suddenly, a bullet flies and landed next to Seite’s father’s head.
One of the pony that guards the windows shouts, “Oy! I can hear the cops! They’re about one block away!”
“You only have one warning left!”
“Please don’t…” Seite’s mom hugs Seite’s father, fearing that one of them or all of them will be shot.
“Dramatic Effect!” Seite shouts as a red-and white-mechanic, young-foal-sized unicorn appears.
It then punches the floor so hard and quickly, breaking the tiles into pieces. And suddenly…
BAM!
The flying tiles pieces land into the pegasus’ upper body. Due to the knocking power, he steps back a few times before getting punched ultra fast, sending him flying through the window. Noticed by the others, they fire without thinking twice at the family.
Effect quickly punches the air right before the bullets arrives at them. Suddenly, the bullets that were shot gets deflected and fly randomly. While the bad ponies are confused Effect attacks them, knocking everypony and successfully defended Seite, his family, and Frost without killing anypony.
“I don’t know what just happened, but what just happened?!” Frost gets very confused as to what just happened.
“Me neither, kid. But Seite’s astral friend that he called Dramatic Effect. He has helped us many times - and sometimes, he saved us.”
Frost looks at his best friend, “What are you?”
Shortly after that, the rescue unit arrives and pick the family and Frost, taking them to safety. And also taking the bad ponies previously as prisoners, strapping their weapons, equipments, and the crates.
Back at the hospital, Pierce starts to worry about Clash.
“Sling, dear. I uhm, I need to return to Clash.”
But, sweetie. The streets are still dangerous!”
“So is Clash. I’m afraid that those gangster ponies get to her and...oh my gosh - I don’t wanna know!”
“Calm down, would you? Please.” Sling slides a hoof up and down on Pierce's back, trying to calm her down.
“Dear, you do know that our house is outside the city and those criminals are only doing business inside the city.”
Pierce catches her breath and considering her returning to Clash, “I’m just being very anxious, am I?”
Saddened by the words Pierce said, Sling hugs her, leaning his head against hers. Pierce lets out a sigh from her mouth and wraps her legs around Sling’s back, unleashing the worries she had.
Five hours later, an announcement is finally made. The streets are finally safe. Moments later, Darah wakes up from his long sleep. Seeing this, Sling, Pierce, and Dikarb hugs him one by one.
“Hey y’all. How are you doing?”
“Legit, a bit scared to death, especially mom.” Dikarb replies.
“Aww, hush it.”
“Well, at least you’re quite fine and awoken. Now we just need to wait until you’re in better shape!”
“Also,” Dikarb changes the topic. “We’re not going to Almania.”
“Wait, what? Why?” Right after Darah finishes his words, he realised that he himself is the reason of their canceled trip. “Oh, forget it.”
Out of curiosity, Dikarb asks Darah a question, “Hey, Darah. What exactly happened to you?”
For a moment, Darah tries to remember the shocking fight that made him and the other pony enter the hospital.
“I think,” Darah closes his eyes. “A grey, white-maned pegasus.”
“Hold on,” Sling says as he stands up and use his Stand on Darah to identify the pony, and perhaps trying to find him.
“While I was walking with a doctor that took care of Darah’s attacker, he said that he has pierced wounds. Now I know exactly how he looks like.”
“Well, can your Stand tells which room he is right now?”
“Unfortunately, son, I can only replay events in my mind. We’ll have to find him by ourselves.”
“Wait, why do we need to find that pony?” Pierce asks.
“Oh, nevermind then.”
After a few minutes, Dikarb and Pierce decides to go home, leaving Sling and Darah alone. As soon as they leave the hospital, Sling goes downstairs and search the pony that attacked Darah. Downstairs, Sling heads to the receptionist and ask about the pony.
“Excuse me, ma’am. Do you know the name of the latest ponies who were in the ICU room?”
“Just a moment, sir.” The receptionist then searches the names of the latest ponies who were in the ICU room. “Sir, their names are Darah and Fury Flash.”
“Do you know where Fury’s room is?”
“On the second floor, Delta 12.”
“Thank you, ma’am. Have a nice afternoon.” The receptionist smiles as reaction.
After knowing the name of the pony that attacked Darah and the room he is in, Sling goes there. Once arrives, Sling thinks of a way to get inside Fury’s room without being noticed..
“If I just go in...what if he’s awake? ” In the middle of his question, Sling’s attention turns to the small window that makes the patient is able to be seen from the outside of the room.
Making sure nopony is around and suspicious, Sling takes a quick look at Fury, who hasn’t opened his eyes due to the damage he got. Seeing Fury hasn’t awake, Sling opens the door, quickly and silently goes in.
Now that Sling is inside Fury’s room, he has to be very careful with his steps and surrounding. Carefully, he summons his Stand on his hoof then slowly hover it at Fury’s body. Getting every information he can as fast as possible.
“Nice. Got ‘em. ” Sling whispers as he slowly heads to the door.
Right before his hoof reaches the door handle, the door is suddenly opened from outside. Having only milliseconds of gap, Sling quickly gets into the bathroom, leaving the door a little open to peek. He then waits for the doctor to get further into the room so he can escape.
Once the doctor checks Fury’s condition, Sling goes outside without being noticed by the doctor. Sling then catches his breath from the small stealth mission he just finished.
“Close call…,” Sling says in small voice.
To calm himself down, Sling buys a soft drink then goes back to Darah’s room, taking a rest.
At the family’s house, Pierce and Dikarb arrives safely. Turning off the motorcycle, they hear something inside of the house. Already taking guess, Pierce giggles a bit before going inside with Dikarb, finding that Clash is currently dancing to the music from the TV.
Realising that she has been found dancing, Clash feels a bit awkward and lets out a nervous giggle.
“I love you, Clash,” Pierce says as she shakes her head and smile.
“Aww, mom.”
“Just continue, dear. But please don’t be loud.”
“Well, technically I didn’t become a loud mare.” Clash replies before continuing her dancing.
As for Dikarb, he changes clothes then attempt another try to make a food from the recipe book, hoping that he will have a better result. Meanwhile for Pierce, she takes a nap in her room, relieving the stress and worries she had today.
Few weeks later, Darah is able to walk back normally. One day while shopping, Darah accidentally bumps into somepony.
“Sorry, sir,” Darah says as he looks at the pony he bumped.
“No need to-” As the pony turns his head to Darah, he is surprised by the presence of him.
Flashback floods into their mind as the two ponies meet again, staring each other.
[End of Chapter 3]
Author's Note
OC featured: Frost Spark, owned by @SpaghettiDo on Twitter.
As Fury realises Darah bumped into him, fiercely, he walks to him before grabbing his neck and pinning him to the rack beside Darah.
“Last time, you defeated me. Now, let’s have a rematch,” Fury says as he stares menacingly into Darah’s soul.
Choking, Darah tries his best to reply, “This...could be...done...easier.”
“Well, this sure will be easier.” Fury replies as Storm Rider is summoned, growling.
Suddenly…
BAM!
As soon as Fury lands on the floor, the old mare hits him a few times more as punishment of being rude. After she’s done, she hugs Darah and wishes him fortune for his life. Recovering, Darah and Fury stand up. Once Fury stands up, he tries to balance himself while getting angry from what just happened to him.
“I’ll get you later…”
Darah rolls his eyes, feeling a bit annoyed over Fury’s urge to revenge, “How long have you been like this?”
“Let the lightning strikes you a million times, I’ll kill you!” Fury replies before suddenly leaps onto Darah.
With his fast reflex, Darah dodges and quickly run outside. Not wanting to lose his prey, Fury chases him at very high speed, eventually grabbing his tail. Unleashing Storm Rider once again, it sends its claws to Darah. But before it could manage to land a strike, Sweet Death cuts Darah’s tail, giving Darah a little more time to flee.
“You won’t get away…” Fury throws away the tail part that got cut then continue chasing Darah.
While dodging ponies on the way, Darah thinks of a way to stop Fury.
“What should I do? What should I do? How did they do it in movies ?” Darah thinks as he comes into a trisection with a traffic lights that have the green light on.
Running through the crowds, Darah finds a car in front of him. But just in time, he summons Sweet Death and holding onto its shoulders before Sweet Death jumps above cars, using its sword legs to support itself and Darah.
“Sorry!” Darah shouts at the ponies who got their car scratched or a bit damaged.
Continuing his escape, Darah still thinks of a way to stop Fury. As Darah runs through the streets, a friend of him witnesses them.
“What’s up with Darah now?” He changes direction into them, driving to Darah.
Once close enough, he shouts, “Get on!”
With that said, Sweet Death helps Darah to get on his motorcycle. The motorcycle bumps a bit as the result of Darah’s landing, however, he balances the motorcycle the drives quickly.
“What’s up, mate?!”
“Bad!”
“What do you mean by that?!”
“Did you see the grey pegasus? He’s chasing for a harsh revenge!”
“Really, mate?”
“Yeah! Just get me-”
Out of nowhere, the motorcycle gets slashed, followed by Fury maneuvering to come back at them. Darah and his friend fall into the middle of the road, where there are many cars driving by, Darah quickly gets up. Unfortunately, he finds that his friend landed on a car bumper. The shock makes him nearly unable to move properly. Darah then gets him into the park nearby and put him under a tree.
After putting his friend, Darah runs into a pony then ask her to call for ambulance and taking care of him. Agreed, the pony trots to Darah’s injured friend to give him first aid treatment and calling ambulance shortly after. Meanwhile, Darah takes a position to counter Fury. Summoning Sweet Death, Darah concentrates and soon, Sweet Death’s sword legs are covered in fire. Later, Fury finally makes his return by quickly flying for Darah, ready to give him more strikes.
Once Fury is close enough, Sweet Death slashes the air, throwing parts of the flames that cover its sword legs. Surprised, Fury makes a sharp turn, but alas, his tail and left hind leg catched fire.
“You’ll pay for this!” Fury says as he comes back around, this time flying very low to get higher speed.
As Fury is getting closer and closer, Sweet Death throws more flames as defense. However, Fury doesn’t give a single care of himself as he flies through the thrown flames. After flying through the flames, Storm Rider slashes the ground.
“What the?! ” Fury thoughts as Darah is no longer standing on the place he was before.
Still on fire a bit, Fury flies up and manuever around the park in search for Darah. For a while, Fury hasn’t found any clue of Darah’s whereabout. As he’s flying, a thought comes in his mind.
“What if he’s hiding in the tree leaves? Of course! The only hiding spots are the trees! ” Like an eagle, Fury’s eyes are focused at the trees.
Quickly, he goes into each other and let Storm Rider slashes through the leaves and branches in hope of injuring Darah very badly. One by one, the trees are getting their leaves and branches cut. At the same times, Fury lets out a cry loudly as Storm Rider cuts more and more trees.
Approaching another tree, already aiming for the upper parts, Storm Rider gets its claws ready as they’re getting closer and closer. In the middle of slashing, Sweet Death and Darah suddenly jump into Fury, getting him to finally falls into the pool nearby.
Landed safely, Darah walks to the fallen Fury. Knowing that if Storm Rider is summoned, he would get electrified, Fury got nothing more to do as his wings and legs are a little crunched from the landing. Tasting another defeat, Fury helplessly sits while watching Darah walking to him with eyes that are staring his.
“Here we go…. Finally defeated. I’m done for… ” Fury thoughts as his eyes are closing, waiting for the final moment.
However…
“Hmph!” Darah grunts as he lift Fury onto his back.
“What? Why…? Why are you carrying me? ” Fury questions of what’s happening right now.
“I’m sorry for this, but, let me take you to my house. My family knows better on how to treat your wounds,” Darah says as he walks to his house, carrying the injured Fury.
As Darah walks back home, the pony that helped his friend earlier tells him that his friend has been brought into the nearest hospital. Darah then thanks him, and giving him a sweet smile as a reward. The pony smiles back.
“Hey, Firey. Now that you’ve defeated me, what are you going to do to me?”
“You didn’t hear me? I’m taking you to my home and let my family take care of your wounds. Really, half of your tail and-” Darah cuts his reply once he sees the burnt wound on Fury’s hind legs.
The wound has made part of his hind legs to turn black and feeling numb. The skin can even be easily torned without pain.
After 25 minutes of walking home while carrying an injured pony, Darah finally arrived at his house. Sling that was relaxing outside while drinking coffee and enjoying the air, gets surprised.
“Darah, what happened?”
“Dad, stuff happened. I’ll telk y’all later. For now, he needs to be taken care of.” Darah’s answer confuses Sling a bit. “By that, I mean he needs to be healed. He got very nasty burnt wounds. Just look at these.”
Darah turns around to let Sling sees the injuries Fury has. Black, tornable-skin legs, and burnt tail, combined with some more injuries from the branches makes Sling feels super disgusted.
“Oh my Luna! Get him in quick!”
Inside, the family takes care of Fury with herbal medicines and serves him some foods. Fury almost can’t hold the pain as Pierce puts the leaves and tying them up before wrapping the wounds with bandages.
“Well, guess the pegasus that attacked my brother, have to stay here for a while. Probably a long time.”
Hearing from what Dikarb says, Fury gets shocked as he will be unable to do his thing. Not even seeing his house.
“For the cloud storms, I’m so done for.” Fury complains.
“Anyway, you didn’t leave something on in your house, right?”
“I don’t think so.” Fury replies.”I hope so, cus if not I’m losing my precious house. ”
For weeks, The Sword Family takes care of Fury. Darah even goes with his friends to Fury’s house to keep it clean and safe. Slowly, this changes Fury’s behavior. One day, when Fury is able to walk again, he, Dikarb, and Darah goes for a trip around the city. Even though they are cool with each other, Fury is still quiet as a breeze.
As he’s looking out of the window, watching things and ponies pass as they drive around the city, Fury wants to say something, however, bitterness fills his heart. Slowly, he spits out the words.
“Hey..., Darah.”
Darah turns his head to Fury, “Hm?”
“So uh, are you the type of pony that wants to get a revenge?”
“Well, I don’t really know about that. I’d rather just go with life.
“I see. Please forgive what I’ve done.”
“Yeah. Right….”
Silence then fills the car for a while, until Fury spits out some more words from his mouth.
“I'd rather forget about it too. So please, let’s don't talk about it anymore. I don't want to remember either."
Silence fills the car once more, this time for longer. In the middle of the silence, Dikarb gets curious about some gangsters and criminals in Fillydelphia, thus he asks Fury some questions.
“Hey, Fury.”
“What?” Fury replies while looking out the window.
“Do you know any gangster, or maybe some criminals in here? Since you were...you know.”
“Not much, but do you know the recent city assault?”
“Mhm.”
“It was by Creda.”
“Creda, Creda. Where did I hear it? ”
“If you wanna ask, it used to be an economic organisation, y’know, business and stuff. But, if I remember correctly, I think they changed when the new system applies. Dunno why though.”
“Thanks. Anymore for us to hear?”
“From what I know, there’s this gangster that is unlike the others, I don’t understand the way they work that much. Pretty much helping the poor by raiding the rich.”
“Kids story.”
“Exactly.”
“I managed to spot one of the member. Yellow pegasus, wears glasses, and….” Fury suddenly gets cut from telling few more thing about the yellow pegasus.
“Gah, I forget. Sorry.”
“Don’t need to. That’s quite enough.”
“Eh, anyway, can you take me to my house? Miss it, man.”
“Alright, Fury. Darah, call your friend and tell him to pack his stuff.”
“Righto.” Darah answers as he calls his friend, waiting for him to pick up the call.
Once Darah’s friend picks up the call, Darah tells him to come at Fury’s house and packing his stuff.
“Yeah, I’ll meet you there.”
“Alright alright. Gimme minutes.” He says then close the call.
After Darah called his friends, Dikarb drives them to Fury’s house, going deeper into the city, guided by Fury. As Dikarb turns right, a traffic jam hampers their trip. Dikarb puts his head on the wheel, grunting.
Meanwhile for Darah’s friend, he has arrived at Fury’s house and is now waiting for Darah. However, for the past 10 minutes, he hasn’t see any sign of him coming. Taking cover from the sun, he calls Darah.
“Yo, bro. What’s with the trip?”
“Traffic jam.”
“A’igh a’igh.” He closes the call, and goes inside, packing all of his stuff.
Finally out from the traffic jam, Dikarb puts his hoof on the pedal harder, not going to waste more time. Finally, they arrive at Fury’s house. A rather two -stories, apartment-like with a garage on its side. Darah and Fury hops out before Dikarb parks the car somewhere close.
After parking the car, Dikarb catches up with the other boys. Helping them to pack up and cleaning the house. In the middle of packing and cleaning, a dark gray unicorn walks into car, looking around before using magic to crack the window and opening the lock. Once inside, he turns up the engine by using a spell, stealing it.
As Dikarb goes out to dump a trash bag, he sees his car is being stolen.
“Stahl Beast!” Dikarb says as he summons his Stand, a steel wolf about the size as a car with some spikes on its back and tail.
Dikarb quickly hops onto it, “I hate this….”
Once done, Stahl chases the stolen car, going for its side so Dikarb can stop it. As he’s approaching, the unicorn thief sees Dikarb floating in midair without using any spell or magic. Creeped out, he drives the car faster. But unknown by him, the current car speed is no match for Stahl’s speed, thus Dikarb is able to get to its side easily. He then jumps onto the top of the car and call back Stahl.
Using magic, Dikarb pins the unicorn onto the seat. Reacting, the unicorn uses his magic to throw Dikarb onto the sideway. Landing quite hard, Dikarb stands back and summoning Stahl again, chasing after the car. This time, he tries something different. As they’re close, Stahl jumps into the air and grabs Dikarb before throwing it into the trunk. While flying into the car, Dikarb break the back windshield with magic and covering his head with his legs, landing onto the backseat.
Knowing that Dikarb has landed on the backseat, the unicorn drives the car into the right and left to prevent Dikarb from getting him. However, Dikarb uses this as advantage as the unicorn turns left and suddenly getting a punch in the face, cracking the window a little, making his head bleeds and dizzy. He then gets more punches from Dikarb until he crashes the car onto a pole. After the crash, Dikarb gets out and throws the unicorn out.
“Get off!” Dikarb says before driving the car back to Fury’s house.
Back in the house, the house is a lot cleaner with some stuff in the guest room, waiting to be returned to their original place. Going out to get some air, Darah is surprised by the absence of the car. He knows that Dikarb went out but didn’t return inside, which worries him.
“Dear Cadance, please let my brother return to our family, and our car too.”
After sending a prayer, Dikarb returns with the car, quite wrecked with cracked and broken windows and windshields, especially the back one. Not to mention, the messy interior. Darah gets surprised again, staring with wide open eyes like a fog lamp light going through fog.
“Wha….”
“Carjacker. Are you done?”
“Y-yeah, just need to get them inside the car.”
“Good. Now let’s get ‘em in,” Dikarb says as he walks pass the surprised Darah.
Going back inside the house, Darah picks his stuff and putting then inside the car. Darah’s friend does the same. After putting his stuff inside the car, Darah and Dikarb says goodbye to Fury and his friend.
“Thanks for taking me home and cleaning my house, man. Big respect.”
“Yo we’come.”
“Yeah, no problem. Stay safe now. And don’t be a bad guy.”
“How do I look like to you? Gangster?” Fury smirks.
“Somepony. Now bye.”
Fury put a hoof in the air.
“Bye too, Wind. Thanks for helping.”
“Yeah, my dude. Cya!” Wind says as he climbs inside his car and drive back to his house.
Watching his friends drive back home, Fury locks the door and make himself some fast foods, going to watch the TV.
Meanwhile, as Wind is driving, he receives a call from Kurv.
“Hey, Wind. Where are you?”
“Coming.” Wind closes the call.
Instead of going home, Wind goes to someplace hardly known by anypony in the city.
[End of Chapter 4]