Something Differentby Joy StickChaptersChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3, Part 1Chapter 3, Part 2Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Good news and bad news...Chapter 1Chapter 1 WARNING: May contain spoilers for future Joy Stick's Story chapters. (Remember: Though the Story is in First-Person, Joy Stick is not narrarating.) I awoke with a start. I was in a cold-sweat. Another frickin' nightmare. I lifted my upper-body up, with my lower-body still in my sleeping bag, and checked my surroundings. The campfire I started last night was no longer burning. It still seemed pretty dark. How long was I sleeping? I grabbed my pocket watch from my satchel next to me. "Broken. Lovely." I say, pissed that my new watch broke. I look at my surroundings again. I see my all of my friends in their sleeping bags, forming a circle around what was a campfire. Tyran- my best friend since first grade- was snoring obnoxiously and so was his dog, Iron Flame. Xavier- a draconian- was not in a sleeping bag around the campsite. He instead sat next to tree, with his stetson hat over his eyes. Cid was just lying there, aiming one of those new "Automatic Pistols" into the sky, in his sleep. Lets hope it isn't loaded. Link was just sleeping, hugging tightly an Epona plushie. He mumbles in his sleep. "But I wanna ride the pony." I gotta get this photographed! Haha! I look over to 24-89... well he doesn't sleep. He just lies there, in a full steel suit of armor. I have never seen his face... But yeah, he never sleeps. And then there was Anthia. Oh, God. Anthia. She's known me since middle school. When we were first introduced she had a look in her eyes. When we first met, I knew... I knew... She had a major crush on me after only knowing me for a few minutes! Am I that sexy?! Oh, right. The story. *Ahem* And then there was Anthia. I observed her, like I did everyone else. "MMmmmm" OK. She's making random noises in her sleep. Everyone does that. "Mmm. Elijah." Wait. WAT "O, mmmm" What is this- I don't even- She continued to speak in a tired, dreamily tone. "Mmmm *Moaning Noises* Mm." OK. Remind me not to ask her what she was dreaming about! I scoot away from Anthia's direction. And I look toward Thunder Rush. Oh, yeah did I mention I own a dragon? No? Oh... Hey! I have a pet dragon! He begins to stir. He then wakes up, and looks to me. 'Sup, Eli? "Mornin' , Rush" Dragons have telepathic abilities in case you didn't know. He looks around a bit, and sniffs. What do we got to eat? Do we still have that jerky Cid made the other night? "Yeah, I'll go grab it." I finally get up. For a third time, I look at my surroundings. And this time I notice something of interest. The forest we took camp in... changed, or something over-night. It almost looked... cartoony. I walk over to our food sac and ice box. I pull the jerky out from the food sac and thow it to Thunder Rush. He devoured it in a single bite. "Yah don't even savor it.", I say to him in a comical voice. Don't need to. Dragons don't eat for taste. We eat to survive. I just stare at him, my right eyebrow raised. Unless its chocolate! he 'says', pointing at me. I just chuckle. "Alright. Its been a few minutes since I woke up. Time to wake up the rest of the group." I monologue. I walk over to Cid. He stopped waving his pistol around a few minutes ago. I am about to poke him awake when I remember what happened the last time I tried wake him up. So I turn to Xavier's direction and walked to his tree. I tapped him lightly on the shoulder. He awakes. "Huh. What?", he says still very tired. "Its mor-" I'm cut off when Xavier's 2 inch long claw goes up against my throat, just microns away from cutting open my neck. He then interrogates me. "Who are you?! What did you do to my collueges?! What's the square root of infinity?! WHEN DID YOU LAST CHANGE YOUR UNDERWEAR!?!?!?! I jump back from Xavier's claw and unsheathe my multi-tool knife, in case he jumps at me. Maybe I should've awoken Cid, first... "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" I blab out rapidly. "Xavier! Its me! Elijah! You know the guy that helped you kill the werewolf that attacked your village!" Just then, a silver-tipped arrow whooshes past Xavier and I, and hits the tree. Xavier's head was 3 inches away from the projectile. "For the love of the Gods... SHUT THE FRICK UP!" I look behind me and see my good friend, Link, holding a bow in an offensive stance, ready to fire again. I can tell he intended to fire right next to Xavier's head. He's such a show-off. He has large, purple bags under his eyes, and I think he's still asleep... Xavier looks at me again. He speaks. "Uh... Sorry, mate. You know me in mornings." "Yeah... No I don't! I know Cid in the morning and he does something much, much, much worse. But that was still pretty bad." Another arrow whooshes past me. This time it hits Xavier's leather trench coat, bouncing off harmlessly. "Ugh. Just shut up." Link groaned. "I am trying to get some shut-eye. And you two 'kumkwats-for-balls' are not making it easy!" Link threw his bow on the ground and pulled out 2 bombs, murder in his eyes. He must really want his beauty sleep. Thunder Rush laughed (in his mind) when I thought that. "We'll shut up." Xavier and I say in unison and fear. Even though Xavier was admittedly the definition of bad @$$, you'd never want to get into a fight with Link. He was master swordsman (see what I did there?), master archer, and master spell caster. All at the age of only 17. He. Will. Mess. You. Up. "Good." Link finished with venom in his voice. He collapsed on his sleeping bag, clutched his plushie, and began to suck his thumb, like a boss. Xavier and I looked at each other, and back to Link, both of us snickering at the sight. Obviously, all of the ruckus caused by the past few minutes woke everyone up (except for 24-89. He just sat there the whole time watching, apparently). Tyran got up and exhaled an enormous yawn and asked "What's for breakfast?". Iron Flame barked at his master in approval. Cid woke up next. He got up and greeted everyone, and walked to the ice box and sat on it, began loading both of his guns, followed by sharpening his axe. Anthia came next. She rubbed her eyes. She then turned to me, smiled, and greeted "Good Morning!". She repeated the act to everyone else in the group, but she clearly put more effort into the one meant for me. 24 finally got up. He grabbed a whet stone, drenched it with water, and began sharpening his 6 foot long sword, all without saying anything. A man of few words. Link was still sleeping during the whole morning routine. "OK. Well, I know everyone is hungry. And all we have is fruits and carrots. So, Link and I will go hunting for breakfast." Link just snorted in his sleep. Silence. We all look at each other. Tyran speaks up. "OK. Who's gonna wake him?" *** After getting 24-89 to wake up Link, and convincing Xavier to let me use his scoped repeater crossbow, Link and I headed off into the forest. *** 20 Minutes of Failure Later... "Well, crap." Yeah. What Link said. Crap. It has been a little over 20 minutes and we have found nothing. No birds. No squirrels. No rabbits. No squabbits. NOTHING. We have barely heard a sound since we've entered the dark parts of the forest. Link mentioned earlier he "Felt" something watching us. Or hunting us. I told him he needed to lay off the Chateau Romani and keep his mind on the task. Now we are just walking. Armed with a Hero's bow and a crossbow. Ready for anything. The only thing that would startle us would be a whole village of talking, pastel-colored ponies. And chances are we we won't encounter such a thing. Foreshadowing?!? *** Link and I eventually found a wild boar. And it kicked our butts. So we quit and decided to pull out the fishing rods. After a few minutes of boredom, rage, and shooting fish with arrows, Link and I finally got one fish for each party member. We walked back to the camp site to find 5 very hungry looking people. Well, 3 people, a lizard, and an emotionless steel statue, plus pets. "Where the heck have you been?!?" Tyran yelled as he jumped up from his spot. "We have been waiting for food for 8 hours!". Oh, silly Tyran. "We've only been gone 2 hours, T." Link deadpanned. "Anyway, we failed miserably at hunting, so we ended up launching arrows at a bunch of fish." Anthia joined in the conversation. "Well, thats lazy." Link countered the insult. "So's an elf who uses magic to cheat." Quite a successful trolling, Link. Anthia's cheeks flushed and she turned away, remembering the time she used a love potion on me. *Shudders*. What a weird Tuesday... *** One Breakfast Later... "Ugh. I'm bored. When can we get back to saving life as we know it?" Link is such a smart @$$. I forgot to mention the 7 of us were chosen by the Heavens to save Life as we know it, didn't I? It'll take to long to explain, so I won't explain it... yet. Anyway... "After you shut up and help us pack!" I yell back, laughing. "Myaaahh!" What the?... "I don't wanna!" So immature. "Yeah. And why?" Link looks to me. He closes his eyes and smiles. "I'm too lazy." A large smack echoed throught the forest. That was a world record facepalm, enacted by me. "Ugh." Link sighed. "SOMEONE?! ANYONE?! BE IN DANGER! IS ANYONE IN NEED OF LIFE-SAVING OR MONSTER SLAYING!?!" Link yelled to no one in particular. I walk up to Link's long, pointy ear. "WHAT ARE WE YELLING ABOUT?!?" He wasn't phased by the yell at all. But Iron Flame put his snout on the ground and covered his ears. Smart dog... Link looked at me, as if I never yelled and spoke. " I'm bored. I need to kill something, followed by saving someone's life." Everyone stared at him. Cid spoke up. "You been drinking milk again haven't you?" "Why is everyone saying that?! I've been sober for 3 months!" 24-89 Finally spoke his first words the day. "And you do remember what happened 3 months ago after you drank the Chateau Romani, right?" Link would've kicked him if it wasn't for the fact that 24 was wearing 2 inch thick, steel armor (and 2 inches is pretty thick when it comes to armor), so he settled with "Shut up!". Just then we all heard a scratchy-voiced, but definitley feminine scream. It was then followed by a a huge, threatening roar. Link tensed up and pulled the legendary Master Sword and Hylian Shield from his back. "Well, that works, I guess." I say, unsheathing my sword. Link became serious. When not in combat, he's a huge smart @$$. But someone's life is in danger, he becomes a demon of war. "The scream was 1.5 kilometers North East. We need to head in that direction. Thunder Rush, you stay here and guard the belongings from any bandits or hungry animals." Link ordered sternly. Thunder snorted. He stood up. I don't have to listen to you. Why can't I help? Link looked at Thunder with daggers in his eyes. Almost as fast as light, Link ran up to the dragon's face. ''Cause I'm the Hero of Time." He said flatly, yet ominously. Threat acknowledged. Thunder took a defensive position around the campsite. He began to voluntarily hyperventilate, charging up his fire. We turned North East. The seven of us ran to where we heard the scream and roar. *** We've been running for about 3 minutes. Cid was far behind us. Dwarves weren't exactly built for running. We continued running at a fast pace when Anthia asked "Guys! What if when we reach our destination, its a house and all we heard was... indoor sports like last time?" I admit it was a plausible explanation, but we had to check. Someone could be getting mutilated by Shadow Soldiers. No. Shadow Soldiers do more than the Xetronuvian Council thinks. I thought this as I remembered the time our group came across a village burned to the ground. I suspected, probably everyone else too, that the villagers were killed or enslaved. What we found was far from the truth. We walked through the ruins to find that each one of the village's inhabitants was... Crucified. I think everyone of us cried that day. It was the first and only time I saw 24-89 show strong emotions. But I shed the most tears that day. I saw a little boy, still alive, lashed onto a cross. His eyes were crimson from crying. He said something inaudible to everyone but me. "Help." My heart split in half. A five-year old child, going through the most pain anyone could endure. And there was absolutely no way we could save him. I was behind Cid. I pulled his pistol from it's holster. Bang. A single shot into the child's temple. He died instantly, no pain. I entered an emotional rampage immediately after. I repeated the act on every villager, dead or alive. Xavier and Tyran had to hold me back. I had a nervous breakdown. 24-89 struck me on the back of the had, causing me to pass out for 13 hours. When I came to, my friends told me what had happened. I didn't sleep for weeks. But I can't let that happen again! I found myself crying as I ran. I ignored Anthia's question and ran faster. *** We finally arrived to where we heard the scream. "What the heck is that?!" Link yelled pointing at a winged lion with a scorpion tail. Xavier spoke next. "That, mate, is a manticore. Part of the 'Very Pissed' variety I might add." I agree. This manticore did not seem happy. Oh. THATS what was hunting us. I look around looking for the source of the screaming. But all I see are 2 pastel-colored pegasi. I assume they are mates. They were both oddly colored. A black stallion with a blue mane, and a cyan mare with a rainbow mane. Besides the stallion's black coat, both the pegasi's colors were extremely unnatural. What was really out of place, though, was the fact that both pegasi had a strange looking tatoo on either side of their flank. Anyway, I see the stallion bucking the crap out of the manticore. The stallion has multiple wounds, and is slowly bleeding out. I can tell the pegasus has yet to be stung by the manticore's large scorpion tail, because he doesn't have a giant, green, puss flowing, wound anywhere on his body. And even if he did, he would've passed out in seconds after such. And would've died an hour later. And what I saw next was really interesting. The 2 pegasi were using humanoid noises and emotions. The stallion kept grunting every time he took a hit. And everytime he did take a hit, the rainbow mare shed another tear. Humanoid emotions? Coming from equines? Maybe I should lay off the chateau romani. But I don't drink that crap. So everything I'm seeing is real, unless I'm dreaming and thats highly unlikely. I hear a scream. I snap back to reality. I see the rainbow one scream. I also see the black stallion on the ground with a giant, green, puss flowing wound coming from his side. D@mn it! I jinxed it! A few nanoseconds after I see the stallion go down, I see Link run up to the manticore at the speed of sound and cut it across the back. The slash didn't go very deep, but the manticore didn't exactly like it. It roared in pain, turned around and swiped at Link. After it epically fails, Link sheathes his sword. He throws his shield at the manticore like a boomerang that won't come back. It comically hits the manticore in the face. It bellowed in pain. Link began to taunt at the monster. "Aw, don't cry. Its only a major concussion!" Link jumps 10 feet into the air somehow and brings out his bow. He fires 2 arrows before falling. As he touched the ground, the manticore whacked link in the face with his tail. The stinger didn't get him, though. Despite the situation, it was hilarious. Until it turns to us. With its back turned, I see the rainbow mare fly to the stallion, trying to keep him awake. The manticore roars at us. Tyran brings out his two-handed, 30 pound iron hammer. Link gets back up and unsheathes the Master Sword, using both hands and no shield. Anthia clenches her fist and lightning begins to form around it. Cid, feeling pretty bad@$$, equips his axe, instead of his rifle. Xavier just stands there and does nothing. 24-89 takes his sweet time and pulls out his 6 foot long sword. I had my basic, 39 inch long, steel sword equiped from the start of the run. We ran. We ran at the monster. We ran as fast as we could. It does the same. I look behind me and see Xavier standing there, calmly; an icon of tranquility. I look back at the manticore. It was running incredibly fast. I look back to Xavier again. He's doing something different. I see him drawing his gun. Now this was no ordinary gun mind you. Oh, no. This was a Blystone Industries, .72 'Dragon Slayer' revolver; On the barrel, engraved in gold was " 'Till Death Do Us Part ". The weapon was specifically designed for piercing the near indestructable scales of the great, winged, serpents. But when dragon hunting became illegalized, the Dragon Slayer continued production; except it was used for putting very big holes in small to medium sized animals. And thats just what it did. I hear a crack of thunder. But I knew. I knew it was the giant bullet fired from the mighty Dragon Slayer revolver. I looked at the manticore again. The head was gone. The frickin' head was GONE! It didn't fly off, no no. The head was completely obliterated! The body ran 3 more feet after that before collapsing, motionless. Lifeless. The six of us, the dog, and the rainbow mare all looked at Xavier in all his bad@$$ery. He looks at us, holstering his giant handgun. "What?" We all continue to stare at his awesomeness. That was seriously the single coolest thing I have ever seen any living being do besides watching Link using a bomb mask and surviving. He looks back us. "What have I told you, mates? You don't @#$% with the mail man." Heh. I remember that. His trademark phrase. Xavier was courier way back when until the party and I (then it was just Tyran, Anthia, Link, and I) saved his whole village from a pack of werewolves. He agreed to help us save the world from holocaust. And everyone in our group, even 24-89, a knight of the Xetronuvian empire, a knight of the world's second most powerful nation (first being Anopia), knew... never to get in a fight with a courier, particularly Xavier. And then what happened next changed my life forever. "OK, guys. That was probably the most coolest, radicallest, awesomest thing I've ever seen. But can you help me get my coltfriend to the hospital?" Who the heck said that? I look around. And see the mare looking at me, great concern in her eyes. Wait. Don't tell me a horse just asked me t- "Hello!" the mare yells in my face. "You gotta help save him. I don't know who you are, or where you came from, but you gotta help him! Please." She begins to cry. Being confused out of my mind will have to wait. I nod to the pegasus, and run over to her 'coltfriend'. I sling him over my shoulder and ask the mare "Where's the nearest town?" "Ponyville. Follow me!" she orders. I do so. I look back at the group and they all stare, dumbfounded. "Come on guys! We can all brain dead later, we got a life to save." They all snap back to reality, nod, and follow. As we run, I feel the stallion stir. He speaks. "Who are you?" he asks. He opens eyes a bit. "What are you?" I look to him and smile. "A Friend in Deed." END OF CHAPTER 1 Author's Notes _________________ My second story. Yay. I know I'm no where near done with Joy Stick's story, but I could't get this out of my head! Probably none of you besides 'RandomReader" know whats going on. It will be explained in a few chapters. This is a crossover fic, but it is not crossing over with anything offical. I came up with the idea of an imaginary kingdom with technology similar to 1905 Europe. And I threw Link from LoZ in the mix 'cause he's just that awesome. But he's also a smart @$$. Who else likes that I did that? Thanks for reading! New chapter coming soon, after chapter 3 of Joy Stick' Story. Notice Rainbow Dash's line: "You gotta help save him. I don't know who you are, or where you came from, but you gotta help him! Please." Why doesn't she ask WHAT they are? *Cough* My Little Dashie reference *Cough* Important Note: Xavier: Australian accent Cid: Russian accent Thunder Rush: Boston accent Chapter 2 We continued running to the quote on quote "Ponyville". The pegasus stallion slung over my shoulder lost conciousness a few hundred yards ago. I may not know him, but I hope he will be alright. I've accepted the fact that there is apparently a civilization of talking, pastel-colored ponies. Believe me, I've seen weirder. Have you ever been inside a behemoth's stomach? Yeah, I didn't think so you lucky b@stard, you... But what I really want to know is: How did we get to this new world? We didn't cross any borders, I checked the map. The only explanation is we were transported by means of a portal or other form of Witchcraft and Wizardry. My guess is we are in an entirely different dimension. But enough of random thinking. We have a side-quest to complete. Main Objective: Alert King Norris of the Shadow Armada invasion from the North. Delayed. Current Objective: Get pegasus stallion to hospital for medical attention. Find a way back to Xetronuvia. [Optional Objective]: Leave stallion to die. Kill mare and scalp for rainbow mane. Plunder village of near defenseless equines for supplies and... meat. Ignoring the optional, my friends, the mare, and I continue running (and flying) out of the forest. I see a light; an opening out of the forest. When we pass through the opening, I am slightly blinded by the sun. If I were to guess, I'd say its about 9:30. I see a town off in the distance. I can only assume its Ponyville. "Thats Ponyville over there! Please hurry!" The mare says. I was right! I began to run faster. But not fast enough. We should've gone back for Thunder Rush. He would be very useful for this situation, considering he's the fastest, winged, creature I know. MORE FORESHADOWING?!? *** We finally arrive at the village, recieving probably hundreds of weird and terrified looks. But thats to be expected. We're probably aliens or monsters or something to these people. Er, ponies. I see a pink pony make a large gasp. She probably knows this stallion or something. Oh, Elijah. You don't know what Pinkie Pie has planned for you. I ignore the author's voice from the back of my head and continue to run. The hospital comes within view. I run much faster, while holding the stallion, tightly. We reach the hospital, and run around to the back; to the emergency room. The rainbow mare pushes open the door and yells "Somepony, help!" . A stallion runs in, accompanied by 2 mares. I can only assume that its a doctor and 2 nurses. The doctor stallion eyes at us a few seconds and says "Meh. I've seen weirder." He seemed comfortable with our presence. He threw on a serious face and looks towards the pegasus stallion. "Nurse Redheart, get the table, stat!" he orders to the white mare, she trots off. He turns to the other one. "Nurse Sweetheart, get the oxygen tank! Its gonna be a long day!" The mare nods to the doctor and goes into closet. He looks at the stallion and curses under his breathe. The 2 mares return, put the black stallion on the metal, wheeled, table and placed a long rubber tube connected to a strange metal canister, which I'm guessing is an 'oxygen tank'. The doctor pushed the table quickly to a room where he would probably do surgery. My friends and the mare ran with the group to the room. The doctor and nurses open the doors and push table inside. We just wait outside. The rainbow mare tries to get in as well, but the doctor blocks her. "I'm sorry miss Dash, but you must stay out here for now." The mare doesn't like the answer apparently. "Look here, Whooves, that is my best friend! My coltfriend! The love of my life! I will not just sit here and wait while you ponies cut him open and mess with his guts!" First Impressions of the rainbow mare: Tomboy, probably a bad@$$ daredevil, overprotective girlfriend, er, 'fillyfriend'. "I'm sorry, miss Dash. I cannot let you in." Without another word, he closes the doors, and locks them. 'Dash' kept pounding on them. 24-89 puts his gauntleted hand on her shoulder and looks at her. She looks back. As if the look said, "Stop. Everything will be fine." she nods and goes and sits down next to me on the bench outside of the room. After a few minutes of awkward silence I decide to make conversation. "I'm sorry about your 'coltfriend'. We did what we could for now. You have my condolences." I tell her, sincerely. She looks at me and says "Thank you. For everything you've done, even though you don't even know me or him. I should be the one saying sorry, for putting you in danger like that." This pegasus just put me in the perfect position to boast. And I shall do so! "Are you kidding me? My team and I have fought and killed much larger monsters than that manticore. It doesn't even deserve the title 'Manticore'. More like 'Pussy Cat'." I say. She softly laughs. Then I remember something and facepalm. "My friends and I just saved you and your coltfriend's lives and I don't even know your names!" I look to her. Shes smiles a bit. "I'm Rainbow Dash. My coltfriend is named Joy Stick." she says extending her hoof. I'm not sure whether to pound it or shake it. But I just shake her hoof to be cautious. "Elijah." I say. "Elijah Matthew Octavius." She eyes me with a strange look. And then comments "Thats a weird name." "So's 'Rainbow Dash' " I counter with a smirk. I make sure not to also say 'Joy Stick', as it would turn out badly. We just stare. To break the silence, I made a gesture that told my party to introduce themselves. They all did so. "I am Isaac Jaiden Augustus. Just call me 'Tyran'." "I am Anthia Esmerelda Daedalai." "24-89. Pleasure to meet you miss." D@mn, so close to finding out his real name! "I am Xavier Ba'Barok Kayshun Seledok." "Name's Link Enn Park." (See what I did there?) "I am called Cid. Cid Vladimir." Rainbow Dash just stared. "Are our names really that odd?" Anthia asked, sadly. "No, no. They're good names, I guess..." Rainbow's voice trailed off when she heard a chainsaw like noise coming from the room. This is where she burst out crying and leapt into my chest, causing me to blush a tad, and causing Anthia to get a bit mad (Rhymes! Rhymes everywhere!). She kept crying into my shirt. I just hugged her, trying to make her feel better. "Everything will be all right." I tell her. I sure hope I'm right. Just then another pony came rushing in. "Where is he? Is he alright? What the buck are those things?!" He points to the party and I. "It doesn't matter. Where's Joy Stick?!" he finishes. I point to the room. "He's in surgery. The doors are locked, though." "Holy crap it talks!" the butterscotch pegasus says. I then introduced the party and I to the stallion, apparently Joy Stick's younger brother High Score, and explained the current situation to him. He was holding back alot of tears. He then failed miserably and broke down into tears. Link, yes Link, kneeled down and hugged him. "I know how your feeling. I know what its like to lose a loved one. But we won't let that happen." Link reassured, High Score. "How do you know?", Rainbow Dash asked. Link pulled a bottle with a strange red liquid inside it. " 'Cause I have a potion." He said with a stupid voice and smile. Everyone in the hallway facepalmed (and facehoofed?). "WHYDIDYOUNOTUSETHATBACKATTHEBATTLESITE?!?" I yell at him. Another nurse trots by and "Shushes" me. "What? I didn't think the situation was that bad." Link answered. High Score punched him in the face and Rainbow Dash bucked him from behind, sending him to the floor. I look above Link's head and see 6 of 14 'hearts' disappear. Wow. Dash bucked him hard. "Not 'bad'? Not BAD?!" Dash yells. How come no one shushes her? "I don't think he just uses chateau romani. I theorize he uses something else to mess with his senses." Xavier said as he brought out Link's 'Magic Leaf' from under his stetson. "That's meant for gliding on gusts of wind! Its not a drug!" He exclaims. Everyone laughs. Even Rainbow Dash and High Score. Now that we have the potion, everything should be fine except for... "OK. Now how are we gonna give the Doctor the potion?" Tyran inquired. Everyone frowned. The doors were locked and made of solid iron for some reason. 24-89 stood up. "Everyone calm down. I got this." He said bringing out a 6-foot long, 10-inch wide steel sword. I knew what he was going to do. Time to break out the popcorn and watch. 24 turned to the the doors. With one quick slash, the doors were cut in half, but they were still in position. Not a problem for 24-89. He just kicked in the doors and they went flying to the back of the room. The doctor and nurses looked at 24 in shock and awe. He through the potion at them casually, Nurse Redheart barely catching it. "Pour a quarter of the potion on the wound. Have him drink the rest. He'll be fine 8 and half hours after words. Give him an anti-venom shot as well. Just in case." 24 explained the procedure to them. Though reluctant, the M.D.'s obeyed. "And sorry about the doors. I'll personally repair them later." *** We waited that entire 8 hours. I forgot my book and radio at camp. The party and I exchanged information on where we are from, what and who we are, and et cetera with Rainbow Dash and High Score. And finally. The black pegasus stallion, Joy Stick, rolled out of the room in wheel chair, smiling. Rainbow gasped loudly and flew very fast to the stallion, and began kissing him all over. "OHMIGOSHIWASSOWORRIEDDON'TEVERDIEAGAINPLEASEILOVEYOU!" Rainbow Dash said at the speed of light. High Score just gave him a bro-hug and said "I was worried about you, big bro." Joy Stick hugged Score. He turned to Rainbow Dash, grabbed her, held her low, and kissed her directly on the lips, surprising her. He lifted his head. "I love you, too." "d'AWWWWW!" Rainbow Dash and Joy Stick turn to us. I turn to Anthia and make my trademark "Seriously?" face. She blushes and shrugs. Joy Stick puts Rainbow down and wheels himself towards us."Thank you... For what you did. You saved Rainbow Dash and I's lives. I owe you. Big time." "No need, Joy Stick. Its our job to save people's lives. Or in this case, 'ponies'. And we do it without pay." The author speaks to me in my mind. Then where do you get your supplies?! I don't know! You're the author! You tell me. "Still. I feel like I need to repay you. And I will NOT take 'No' for an answer." He stated. " *Sigh* If you insist." I agree. Rainbow Dash speaks up. "We should probably get the girls and Storming Shadow at the treehouse and tell them what happened. And to introduce you guys to them." Joy Stick speaks again."Yeah. Who and what are you guys anyway?" I look at him and say. "Lets wait until we get to the treehouse. This'll take a few hours to explain." "Probably so." he responds. Link joined the conversation. "Hey, guys. You know what I just noticed?" "Ugh. What?" "We left Thunder Rush and all of our supplies at the camp site." I look at him in disbelief. "Well. Son of a bi- " END OF CHAPTER 2 Author's Notes _________________ Yes. Xetronuvia's king is Chuck Norris. Deal with it. Link knows what its like to lose a loved one? Hmmm... No its not Zelda. 'Storming Shadow' is ChoccieWings' OC and Joy Stick's best friend. RainbowStick is best ship, don't deny it. The story has a romance tag. This will not be Elijah + Anthia. Just you wait. Hope you enjoyed the chapter! There is more to come. Chapter 3, Part 1"...Lets wait until we get to the treehouse. This'll take a few hours to explain." "Probably so." Joy Stick responds. Link joined the conversation. "Hey, guys. You know what I just noticed?" "Ugh. What?" "We left Thunder Rush and all of our supplies at the camp site." I look at him in disbelief. "Well. Son of a biscuit!" I exclaim calmy. Yes, you can do that. I continue. " *Sigh* OK. Lets go get him." "Alrighty then. Rainbow and I will gather the girls and Storm to the tree house, while you guys get... Whatever Thunder Rush is." Joy Stick plans. "Thunder Rush is a dragon." "Oh, really? That makes 2 dragons in Ponyville." Only 2? Back in Alabior there were at least 30 dragons. Another dimension, another difference I guess. "Okay. Lets go get dragon. We also need to pack camp." Cid says. "Right." Tyran, Anthia, and Xavier say in perfect sync as they nodded. *** After going back to the camp. We packed up our supplies, and spending 2 hours trying to wake up Thunder Rush. We fly back to Ponyville. We got quite a bit of terrified screams. I don't know if it was us, Thunder Rush, or both. We walked to the tree house where we were told to meet Joy Stick and his friends. "Sorry, Thunder. You are gonna have to stay out here. Considering you are 23 feet long and won't be able to fit in the house." I say in a Smart @$$ way similar to Link. Not a problem, boss. "Just make sure Iron Flame doesn't get into trouble." I know, I know. Why can't the mutt go in anyway? "He's not house trained AND there are ponies everywhere. Not to mention he's a frickin' grey wolf surrounded by talking horses." He nods. I turned away from Thunder to my friends. They are a few feet from the door. They all look very uncomfortable, even 24. "I see all of you are still trying to process what is happening." I state. In response I get a big "Yep" from everyone except Link. "You have no trouble comprehensing this?" I ask him. "I've seen some weird crap, Elijah. I've seen some weird crap. Have you ever been inside a giant fish's stomach?" "No. But I've been inside a behemoth's stomach. And let me tell you: Not. Pleasant." "Have you ever fought a Dead Hand? When you were only 11 years old? Mind scarring, dude. Just plain mind scarring." (Dead Hand: A monster from Ocarina of Time that proves Zelda isn't a kid's game.) Silence "Okay. You've seen some creepier things than I have. I guess that explains your reflections on this situation." "Thank you." Link finished and sighed. He actually looked like he was about to cry. Link had a very rough childhood. Just thinking of one monster he had to fight in his childhood is driving him to tears. But, I'm just stalling. Time to go into the treehouse, I wouldn't be surprised if Link didn't want to go in if you know what I am referencing... "Well. Lets go in." Xavier says opening the door. The tree house is dark. I see nothing. "Just dandy. I don't think anyone's home." I say. "Thank you, detective. We couldn't of solved the case without you." Link I swear to my God AND your gods, I am going to hit you if you keep being a smart @$$. I turn to the wall behind me to feel for a light switch. I find none. So I began to snap my fingers. Once I created a spark, a small, lighter-sized flame appeared in my hand. I look all around the wall. Nothing. Oh, wait here's one. I switch it. "SURPRISE!!!" yelled that pink pony I saw ealier plus another 50 or so ponies. "Gah! What the @#$%!" Xavier yelled. In matter of 5 seconds, he pulled out his revolver and placed it against the pink pony's head. He pulled the trigger. Chapter 3, Part 2Chapter 3, Part 2 *CLICK* The group, Rainbow, and I all sigh heavily. The other 51 ponies in the room (including Joy Stick, we didn't tell him how the manticore lost its head) had faces that said "lol whut?". The 7 of us and Rainbow knew what the Dragon Slayer could do to someone. But, thank God, Xavier forgot to load it. Just then, a big, gray, unicorn with crimson and yellow eyes walked up to Xavier. "Excuse me. I don't know what that object it is, but its clearly a weapon. Now, I suggest you take it off my wife's fore head before I turn you into a taco." He said calmy. Oh, crap. He's serious. Xavier holsters his gun hastily. The other ponies murmur for a moment and go back to enjoying the party. "I apologize." Xavier starts "She just startled me is all. And last time I was startled, I was nearly eaten alive. I'm just very paranoid. Sorry what I almost did to your mate, mate." The unicorn eyes Xavier for a moment, and then breaks into a crooked smile. "No problem, my boy! No harm done. But if any harm befalls Pinkie or any of her friends, I will turn you into a taco and eat you." "I am guessing pink pony is-" Cid is cut off by a pink blur bouncing up in down in front of Xavier. "HI IM PINKAMENA DIANE PIE BUT YOU CAN CALL ME PINKIE PIE OR JUST PINKIE HOW LONG ARE YOU GUYS STAYING IN TOWN ARE YOU KNEW IN TOWN YOU MUST BE BECAUSE I KNOW EVERYPONY AND I MEAN EVERYPONY IN PONYVILLE BUT YOU GUYS DONT LOOK LIKE PONIES WHAT ARE YOU GUYS ANYWAY IT DOESNT MATTER AS LONG AS YOU ARE HERE OH I KNOW WE ARE GOING TO BE THE BEST OF FRIENDS WELL ENJOY THE PARTY OH YEAH DID I MENTION I THREW THIS PARTY JUST FOR YOU NORMALLY I WOULD OF INVITED EVERY ONE IN PONYVILLE BUT THIS DUMB OLD TREE ISNT BIG ENOUGH WELL ENJOY THE PARTY AND DONT WORRY DISCY WONT HURT YOU UNLESS I TELL HIM TO BY!!!" The pink mare said in one breathe, at the speed of light. "- Pinkie. What just happened?" Cid continued, asking no one in particular. No one answered. We all just stood there dumbfounded, as we watched 'Pinkie Pie' canter over to the desserts table at 760 miles per hour. Anthia snaps out of her trance and commented " 'Discy', huh? ". The unicorn laughs. "My name is Discord." he holds out his hoof and each of us shake it (not at the same time of course). "Pinkie began refering to me as 'Discy' a few weeks into our dating. I paid no objections." "And now you 2 are married?" Anthia asked, eating up the romance. "Indeed, so. After only 2 months of dating, I knew she was the one for me. And I proposed. I am the happiest stallion alive." Discord said, dreamily. I smile to him (I may or may not eat up romance stories as well...). "Well, I am very happy for both of you. I'll try to make sure none of my friends maim any of your friends or Pinkie. If they do, turn them into tacos by all means. I'll even help dispose of said tacos." I say with a chuckle. He begins to laugh. "Haha! I sense much chaos in your soul, my boy! You and I will get along just fine. Well, I best be off. I am going for a drink." He says before trotting off. "Wait! Is there vodka?" Cid asks Discord nods. Cid grins, devilishly. "Heh heh. I'll see you guys in a few days." He says, following Discord. We all look at each other. "I'm not waking him up if he has a hangover!" Tyran declares. Everyone but me repeats the same. "Frick." Is all I say. So we began to mingle. The ponies got used to us rather fast. Something about "Love and Tolerance". We looked like we were used to the fact that we were in a universe of talking ponies. But we all had "Poker Face" training. Courtesy of the monks from Ravengate. All of us were still getting use to this. We conversed with random ponies, answering questions in which rose more questions. I met this one sea green unicorn with a lyre for a 'Cutie Mark' as I found they were called. She asks too many questions. And she. Won't. Stop. Staring. At. My. Hands! It was torture, basically. My sanity was saved when the party ended. All that was left was my group, Rainbow Dash, Joy Stick, High Score, Pinkie Pie, Discord, a dragon we were introduced to as Spike, and 7 other ponies: Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Ditzy Doo (whom I found out is dating High Score), Fluttershy, Big Macintosh (whom I found out is married to Fluttershy) Applejack and Storming Shadow (it was clear that those 2 had huge crushes on each other, but didn't know the opposite felt the same way.) They were all nice 'people'. And then they started asking questions. Ah, crap. Author's Notes: _______________ ChoccieWings, you wanted me to ship you with AJ right? I don't remember How is Discord a unicorn stallion? I will write a story later one, explaining. Oh, yeah. DISCORDPIE! Yeah. Cid is a stereotypical Russian. If this offends anyone I will try my best to change it. Ahem. FLUTTERMAC! This will be updated more than Joy Stick's Story probably. Please check out that story as well. See you later. Chapter 4Chapter 4 (IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! The whole story was just beaten thoroughly by my editing. I suggest you read the whole story over again. Thank you.) After a few introductions, and a bit of convincing that Xavier won't eat 'everypony', the questions began. To make things go faster, we decided to answer questions in seperate small groups. Here we go. Twilight and Spike - Me "So first things first" Twilight used a telekinesis spell on a notepad and quill. "Wh-" Twilight was cut off by Spike. "What they hay are you?!" he asked a tad loudly. Twilight glared at him. "Spike, don't ask something so rude." I come in. "Its OK, Miss Sparkle. I've been given worse." She blushes a bit at me calling her 'Miss'. I see Anthia looking over from her table with Joy Stick and Rainbow Dash, her nostrils flared. "Don't call me 'Miss'. Just 'Twilight' will be fine. And I have to ask as well: What are you?" I grin. "I am what's called a 'Human'." I tell her. She mumbles something along the lines of 'So Lyra isn't insane'. "And what of your friends?" She asks. "Well, Tyran is a Human as well. Anthia is an Elf. Link is a Human-Elf Hybrid. Cid is a Dwarf. And Xavier is a Draconian." "What about... erm... 24-89? And what do the numbers mean?" " 24-89 is part of the Xetronuvian military. I'm not sure what race he is, or what he even looks like." "What do the numbers have to do with being a soldier?" I chuckle. "No. He's more than a soldier. He's a Knight. '24-89'. 24th batch, 89th unit. Thats where the numbers come from." "Batch? What do you mean? He's a Knight, right? Fighting giant monsters, going on quests, saving damsels in distress, getting knighted, having a squire, fighting out of loyalty instead of getting paid, and such? Not a pastry." I just laugh hysterically at her description. "What kinda Knights do you have here? The one's from fairy-tales? Not even close Twilight. Knights have a much darker background than in stories." She raises an eyebrow. "How so?" *** Applejack and Storming Shadow- 24-89 "...I was kidnapped by military officials when I was 4. Went through brutal and deathly training. Got verbally and physcially abused. Was heavily augmented with chemicals to give me stronger bones, muscles, make me smarter, make me able to carry a 6 foot long sword, and wear 1000 pound armor. Got verbally and physically abused some more. Was deployed into combat when I was 15. Killed 437 enemy soldiers and confirm the kills by engraving a notch on my gauntleted arm. Was forced to take an oath never to fall in love. AND I've been called '24-89' so many times, I've forgotten my own real name." Applejack just stared at 24 and Storm's eye twitched at an alarming rate. "Hey, you asked." *** Twilight and Spike- Me Again... Twilight heard that entire bit of that explanation and looked like she was about to puke. Spike just fainted. "Your government takes children away from their families to become soldiers?!?" "Knights; big difference. And yes. Hey, I'm not the one who writes the laws. And thats one of the things not even the King can 'un-decree', for lack of a better word. Its part of the original Code of Laws." I explain to her. She faints too. "Aw, crap." *** Rarity- Xavier (this won't end well...) "I meant no offense. That hat is simply dashing. But that coat..." "Its not meant for fashion. Its meant for keeping me from getting killed." Rarity recoiled a bit at the explanation. "Why is your country so dangerous?" "I honestly haven't a clue. Just have a weapon handy and be wearing some decent armor, and you won't get slaughtered by any bandits or monsters. Or just stay in a village or within the Walls of Xetronuvia City." "Right then... Uh, what was your occupation before your 'big adventure'?" "Well, first I was a sniper in the army. After getting shot in the head by an enemy sniper and surviving, I took up preaching." "Oh, a clergyman? What were your beliefs if you don't mind me asking? "I preached in the name of the lord Jesus Christ." "I have no idea who that is." "Didn't think you would. Anyway, I became a simple courier after a cult burned down the church." "A religious center was set ablaze by a colt?!" "Yes, bu-" Xavier's eyes widened at the epic misunderstanding and began laughing hystarically. "What's so funny?" "Colt and cult! Hahahaha!" "What do you me-" Rarity realized what happened as well and joined in on the laughing. After about 20 seconds of laughing it died down. "Anywho. I've been meaning to ask, darling: What is your coat made of, anyway?" "I believe its made of rhino leather." Xavier only just realized what he said. "I'm sorry, but did you say... leather?" "...sh!t..." *** Rainbow Dash and Joy Stick- Anthia "... And then I said 'I love you, daddy' and he said 'I love you too, Dashie' and then we left. I've never seen him since." Rainbow sobbed. "THATS THE SADDEST STORY I'VE EVER HEARD!" Anthia broke down into tears, along with Rainbow Dash and Joy Stick. *** "OK, OK. So a stalfos walks into a bar *snickers* and asks for a beer and a mop!" Link fell on the floor laughing. Big Mac and Fluttershy just stared at him. Link got up and looked back at them. "You guys have no sense of humor." He says. "Or maybe you're just not funny." I yell from across the room, trying to get Twilight awake. Big Mac chuckled, and Fluttershy was hiding behind her mane, like she has been all night. Link noticed this. He kneeled down to eye level with Fluttershy. "Eep!" Link smiled and silently d'AWWed. "Do I scare you Fluttershy?" He asked sincerely. He's not completely a smart @$$ you know. Link can be a nice guy. Whenever he wants to... "I'm sorry. But... yes. You're really-" Link rose up. "Eep! Scary!" Link chuckled. "How come you are scared of me and not Xavier? He's a freakin' lizard." "I heard that, ears!" Xavier yelled. Link chuckled and looked back to Fluttershy. "W-well, um. He's close to animal. And animal caring is my talent. I'm used to very type of animal. Except for full grown dragons." Don't introduce her to Thunder Rush... "So, you're like a vet?" "Kind of. I do care for the animals if they are injured. But I'm you could say I'm they're mother." "So, do you like your job?" "I wouldn't call it a job. But yes. I love it." "What kind of animals do you have?" "I have Angel bunny. He's so sweet." Its a lie! He's a minion of the Anti-Christ!!! "He sounds like a nice rabbit." You've just sealed your fate. "What other animals do you have?" "Well, I have a few lizards, some hamsters, bunnies, alot of chic-" Fluttershy barely finished her sentence when Link ran for a room and locked it. He was in a corner, in a fetal position, crying, and sucking his thumb. "Not the chickens. Not the chickens. Why are they in this dimension, too?! Oh, Gods..." Big Mac and Fluttershy stood there dumbfounded. "Why didn't Ah get any lines?" Big Mac asked nopony in particular. *** Discord and Pinkie Pie- Cid "So, Cid... Do you always get drunk like this?" "Only on Wednesday." "Today is Saturday." "I know." "...OK, then. Is there any war or other kind of chaos going on in your dimension?" Cid chuckles. He looks to Discord and Pinkie. "When is there not?" Discord's ears perked up at this. "Oh, really? People don't seem to get along very well in your world, do they?" Pinkie was listening intently on the conversation while sipping on some hard cider. Cid slammed his mug of vanilla vodka on the counter. "The... men we fight are not people. They are but poltergeists. Possessing suits of armor. They have no mercy! They don't just slaughter their victims! They lash them on to crosses! Why am I yelling?! I forget. *Sigh* I need more vodka..." Discord just stared with an eyebrow raised. Pinkie just continued sipping her cider unphased. Cid sips on his new mug of vodka. "OK. I am going to throw up and pass out in own vomit." He does so. Pinkie speaks up. "I like this guy!" *** Ditzy Doo and High Score- Tyran "So... How many monsters have you killed?" inquired High Score. "More than I count. At least more than 110." "What kind of monsters are there in Xetronuvia?" asked Ditzy "We got a quite a few. Goblins, trolls, behemoths, zombies, giant spiders. The usual." High Score looked at him in horror. "Sp-spiders?" "Looks like somepony's scared of spiders." "Terrified." "Do you have Diamond Dogs?" asked Ditzy. "Never heard of 'em." "What about hydras?" "The team and I have defeated 2." "2?!?" the couple exclaim in unison. "They aren't that hard to kill. Just disable the middle head - the one with the largest brain - with either ranged weapons or spells. And then do whatever the heck you want to the other ones; they won't be much of a threat without the middle head." Tyran explained. "Alrighty then... Score we should go home now. Dinky and Sparkler are probably hungry." "OK, Ditzy. It was nice meeting you and your friends, Tyran. But we gotta go." Tyran smiled to them, nodded, and pulled his guitar out of nowhere. "Goodbye, then." "See yah later." Replied Ditzy. "Goodbye. Probably gonna see you tomorrow?" "Probably so, my friend." Tyran says as he starts playing 'Korobeiniki' on his acoustic. High Score nods. He and his fillyfriend say goodbye to everypony and everyone and leaves. *** So everypony left to their homes for the night. WE had nowhere to go, and both Twilight and Spike were still unconsious. So we decided to crash in Twilight's basement. We knew she wouldn't mind. Now we just gotta figure out a way home... End of Chapter 4 Author's notes. ____________________ 'Korobeiniki'. Also known as 'Tetris' Youtube Video 6 likes and 7 dislikes as of the posting of this chapter. Both heads and [CENSORED]s are gonna roll. ... Not much else to say. Chapter 5Chapter 5 You could've saved her. Its your fault she's dead. "No." She's dead because of you. You left her behind to complete your quest. "No, no!" The only person that understood you. Gone. And you are responsible. "Shut up!" She was the only person you loved. And you abandoned her. You don't even know if she felt the same way about you. How sad. "Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!!!" *** Link woke up, and found himself yelling. He lifted himself up. Surprisingly, no one woke up. Except fo- "You had the same nightmare again didn't you?" 24 asked. Link turned to him and said nothing. 24 sighed. "Its not your fault, Link. You couldn't've saved her. You had to continue to save your kingdom from destruction. If its anyone's fault, its his. 24-89 didn't say 'his' name. But Link knew exactly who 24 was talking about. Ganon 24 was about t- Oh, yeah. And FORESHADOWING!!! OK then... 24 was about to lie down when Link spoke up. "It was different." "Come again?" "The nightmare was different." Link couldn't tell, but 24 was raising an eyebrow. "How so? "The voice... it was different. A woman was speaking." 24-89's interest piqued. "Who could it be?" "I don't have a clue." 24 just sighed again and lost interest. "Look Link. You can't keep beating yourself up for what Ganon did to Saria. Its in the past now. She's gone in someplace better than the Hell we call home. Its time to move on." Oh, How I Love FORESHADOWING! "I'll try, 24. I'll try." Link sighed. 24-89 grabbed his sword and sheathed it. He opened the door to the upstairs and left without another word. Where does he always go? Link thought. 24 came back down. "I go pay respect to the things we kill." Wait. Did he just... "Yes. I totally did." Link just stared as 24 as he left again. "OK. Creepy." Link looked around the basement to his comrades. All were unphased by his yelling. "Everyone is still asleep. I should probably check on Twilight." Link left the basement and walked towards Twilight's room. He came to the door and put his ear up to the door. Don't poke a hole in it. Link looked up to the ceiling and said "Shut up." to the author. He began to listen. ... He hears a soft- and rather cute- snoring. He grins and quitely d'AWWs. Link walks towards the kitchen and looked to his options. "Hmm. Guess'll make breakfast for everyone." Link begins going throught the pantries and other kitchen areas to make the morning meal. He set out the supplies on the table and looked to the clock. 5:57 AM "Whelp. Time to get started." *** 6:39 AM Twilight got out of bed. She felt very wobbly. What a weird dream she thought. She looked to Spike, who was still sleeping and snoring in his basket. She turned around and continued to the bathroom and took a short, hot shower. After feeling a little more awake, Twilight decided to help herself to some hay-o's. She trotted downstairs and thought she smelt something burning. "Oh, not now." She galloped downstairs to the kitchen only to be greeted by a tall bipedal clothed in green; cooking pancakes. "Oh, so it wasn't a dream." Twilight smiled. Link turned to her. "Gooood mornin'. How'd you sleep?" "Just fine. Are those pancakes?" Link usually would made a wise @$$ remark. But something in his mind kept him from doing what he does best."Yes, they are. First batch ready for you, Twilight." Link brought out a plate and placed 4 pancakes on it with maple syrup. Twilight sat at the table and used her magic to lift up her fork and try her food. "Oh my Celestia, these are amazing!" she complimented with her mouth full. "Thanks." Twilight just continues eating. "The group and I didn't have anywhere to go, and you were unconcious. We crashed in your basement for the night. I hope you don't mind." "Not at all. You and your friends can stay as long as you like until you find your way home." Link looks at Twilight in feigned sadness. "Aw, when we find the way back you're gonna kick us out? You make me sad, Twi." Twilight giggles. "You know what I mean!" Link smiles and continues on his creation. Twilight sees Link using the stove and making pancakes like an expert. "How are you able to use the that kind of stove so well? Your dimension has technology a few centuries before ours. Yet you are cooking on a stove you are unfamiliar with." "Its a gift. If you were 11 years old and live in a dangerous forest, you gotta be resourceful. Thus making me a very fast learner." "Your world is just plain cruel." "Yeah, I know." "So... its like your special talent?" Twilight asks. "Excuse me?" "Your special talent. You know? A cutie mark." "Nnnope. Don't have one." "Wait. You are 17 and you don't have your cutie mark?" "No. There just isn't cutie marks in our dimension. Unlike here in Equestria, people where I come from get to choose what they are good at and make that their 'special talent'. They can even choose multiple things to be good at. No cutie marks at all, though." Link explained. "Thats stupid." Great way to show love and tolerance, Twi "Yeah, well so are Saturday morning radio shows." Twilight just looks at him. "A radio show is something like a book being read on a radio. I'm guessing you don't have those here?" Twilight shakes her head. "We have television, though." "I have no idea what the heck that is." "Didn't think you would." Twilight takes another bite of her pancakes. "How did you get to Equestria, anyway? Link turns to her. "I really have no idea... Because magic, I guess. It seems to be happening to us alot." Twilight almost choked on her pancakes. "Are you okay?" Link asked, legitamitely concerned. "I... I t-think I know how you got here." "How's that?" This is the part where I come up from the basement. First person again. Don't deny it, you missed me. " *Yawns* Mornin'." "Ah, good to see you are awake, Eli." greets Link. "Never call me 'Eli'." I say, my voice said in multiple, deep, harmonies. (A/N: I'm serious. Never call me 'Eli'. Ever. Or Slender Man will come for you.) He laughs. "Or what?" "It will involve a bunch of chickens." Link shrunk away from me and looked back to the stove. He passed me a plate of delicious looking pancakes. Link has always been a good cook. "Thanks." I tell him. "No chickens. No chickens. I'm in my happy place. I'm in my happy place." I raise my eyebrow to him. He smiles sheepishly and turns back to the stove to continue his masterpieces. I try some of my pancakes. Sweet Mary and Joseph. Its... beautiful. I feel my eyes slightly tearing up at the paradise known as Link's pancakes. OK. This is getting too dramatic. The pancakes were utterly amazing, alright. "Eh, they aren't bad." Poker face training by the Ravengate monks. Works like a charm. "The sparkle in your eyes says differently." So I still need to work on the eyes... "OK. The pancakes are a blessing from Heaven." I say to Link before I eat my breakfast at incredible speeds. "It may or may not have to do with the fact I wore the Golden Gauntlets while making these." He gestured to the gloves gilded in gold on his hands. "Don't those just make you able to carry 12 tons?" "Little known fact of the Gauntlets: They also make you cook like a chef from Alysium." (A/N: Alysium, a nation North of Xetronuvia that is famous for amazing food and reliable armor.) "Hm. Oh, do you know where 24 went? Did he leave for wherever again?" I ask him. "Yeah. Apparently he goes and 'pays respect' to any monster or dangerous animal we kill." "How do you know?" "I asked." "I've asked before and he didn't give me so much as a look." Link remembers the talk he had with 24-89 he had this morning. "Lets just say he was sympathetic this morning." It took a few seconds for me to realize what Link had meant. "Oh." Twilight was quiet this whole time. " 'Oh' what, if you don't mind me asking?" Link just continued on the other batches of pancakes, ignoring her question. She turns her head towards me. "Whats wrong with him?" "Its a very personal topic for him. Its best we don't delve into it, for sake he doesn't have a nervous breakdown." "That bad, huh?" "Worse." 24 came walking through the door. "Ah, glad you could join us!" Link regains his spirits and wise cracks to 24. "Shut up before I cut you in half." he says, casually, going down into the basement. "Will do!" Link yells back, trying to avoid getting 'halved'. "You and your friends are weird." Twilight remarks. "Tell me something I don't know." I reply. "The square root of infinity is infinity." she says in a matter-of-fact voice. "The question was rhetorical, but thanks for the info." I'll tell Xavier later... 24-89 walked up from the basement, and was followed by the rest of the group. Link gave each of them a plate of pancakes. And each of us said the same thing: Best. Pancakes. EVAR! (A/N: You are probably wondering how 24-89 eats without revealing his face. On 24's helmet, there is a 'door' that is over his mouth that can be opened so he can eat and drink without revealing his face.) *** 7:31 "WAT?!" "I think I accidently teleported you and friends here. I'm sorry." I sigh the heaviest I can. Link and I stayed in the treehouse while the rest of the group decided to explore Ponyville, and Spike went with them. I'm quite surprised Anthia didn't want to stay here with me. Twilight was telling us that it might've been her fault that we are here in the first place. "How do you know it was you?" Link asked. "I was testing out a spell that could conjure anything I needed. Spike accidently burned some of my new books and I needed something to relieve my stress. After I tested the spell, I saw a big, green, flash occur somewhere in the Everfree Forest." "Why didn't you just get a-" I put a hand over Link's mouth before he says something he'd regret. Oh, God, he's licking my hand! I take my hand off of his mouth and wipe it on my pants. He smirks but doesn't continue his sentence. Twilight just looks at us. "You 2 are idiots." Link and I just shrug at the comment. "So you needed something to relieve your stress... and you got us?" Link asks. "Apparently, so." A few seconds of silence ensued. "You aren't mad are you?" Twilight asks with a sad look that would make 24-89 d'AWW. I smile to her reassuringly. "Not at all. Besides, if you hadn't teleported us here, Rainbow Dash and Joy Stick wouldn't even be alive." I say to her She seems a little happier now. "I still feel a bit guilty." Link comes in. "Don't be! Everyting is fine. I'm sure the others will forgive you. I can't seem to find a single thing wrong with Equestria besides the chickens. I can tell for the rest of the time we're here, we will have a blast!" Link isn't a smart @$$ around Twilight. This is VERY suspicious... Twilight is now feels better about herself after what happened. "Thanks, Link. You're a good friend." She goes up to Link and tries to hug him. But she along with everypony isn't that tall. Link is reluctant but he kneels down to return the hug. "Its what firends are for." Link says. Twilight releases Link from the friendly hug. "Come on. Lets go find your friends and the girls and go to Sugarcube corner." Link and I nod to her as we walk out the door. I lean towards Link's ear. "You like her, don't you?" Link blushes and punches me in the arm. And he forgot to take off the Gold Gauntlets. *a single manly tear* "Shut up." He says, smiling. "This is gonna be a long stay." I sigh. End of Chapter 5 Author's Note's __________________ The amounts of FORESHADOWING in this chapter is overwhelming! That is all. Chapter 6Chapter 6 (I again suggest you read the whole story all over again before proceeding. Potatoes.) Twilight, Link, and I explored Ponyville. Most of the ponies have already gotten use to us, but a few stayed on the other side of the street. We continued our exploration until we arrived at 'Sugarcube Corner' where we found the rest of our group, Spike, and the 'girls'. Big Mac, Joy Stick, High Score, Storming Shadow, and Ditzy Doo were all at work, and Discord was nowhere to be seen (No, sadly not foreshadowing). So the team was at one table with Spike and the five mares, Twilight, Link, and I were at another. We had a good conversation going and then it took an interesting turn... "Wait. You have a daughter?" I asked. "Yes. Her name is Nyx." Twilight replied immediately with no hesitance. "How come I've never seen her around your library?" Link inquires. "She currently goes to Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns." I raise an eyebrow. "Wait. That sounds like a college. How old is Nyx? "Its not a college. More like a private school. And she's 9." My eyebrow raised a few more millimeters. "9? Aren't you like, 21, give or take?" "Yeah, 21 and a few months." "Where's the father?" I say without thinking. Frick! I probably just walking into something too personal! "There is no father. Nyx is adopted." WHEW! "Oh, OK." I say, relieved. " 'Certainly explains a few things." Link says next in his smart@$$ way. A few seconds of awkward silence later... "Out of curiousity: How old are you guys?" I give Twilight a quizzical look. "Why does it matter?" "It doesn't. I'm just curious." Its an odd question. I am about to answer when I get a rather trollish idea. "Miss Sparkle, are you flirting with me?" She blushes. Alot. "N-no! I'm just curious as all!" Link and I laugh hystercially. "I'm just kiddin' with you." She glares daggers straight into my soul. *Shudders* "Right. *Ahem* Uhm. Tyran and I are both 16." "I'm 17 going on 18." Link comes in. I continue. "Anthia is 15 1/2. Cid is 37. Xavier is 103. And I have no idea how old 24-89 is, but then again we know none of his physical traits besides the fact he is almost as strong as the King." "3 of you are only teenagers and you are trying to save the world?! And did I hear 103 in that sentence?!" "Yep." Twilight wrinkles her nose. "Well, I've figured out this much: Ponies, Humans, Dwarves, and Elves age the same. Can't say anything about Draconians, though." "You asked us for our ages just to figure that out?" "Pretty much." I give Twilight my best 'Seriously?' face I can muster up. "Anyway, you said something about ponies and Xetronuvians aging the same? I call bull shizam on that claim." "Why do you say that?" Before I could respond Link comes in again. "Its because ponies in Xetronuvia reach sexual maturity before the age of 4; and they can't speak or reason for that matter." "Thanks Link. Twilight absolutely needed to hear that." I say to him, sarcastically. "You're welcome." Link replies, enthusiastically. Twilight had the most confused look I've ever seen. Then she speaks. "You know? I don't wanna know." Awkward Silence "Lets go to the rest of the group, shall we?" Twilight asks. "Oh, yes. Lets." Link agrees. The 3 of us move over to the other table; right in the middle of an interesting conversation... "...It just keeps me safe! I didn't know we'd end up in land of ponies!" Xavier tries to explain. "You have a coat made of leather! I simply cannot let this go!" Rarity pressed on. "Its made of rhino leather. You don't even know what a rhino is!" Rainbow Dash comes in. "You did tell us that they were creatures with a single horn. As in UNICORN!" "Hey guys! Guys!" Everyone and everypony turnd their attention to Link. He puts his hands together. "Good now that I have all of your attention: Shut up." he says coldy. The icyness in his voice forced the Draconian and the Unicorn to oblige. Cid speaks up. "Has anyone seen pink pon-" as if on cue, Pinkie Pie pops out of nowhere with a tray of brownies. "I have treats~!" she says in a sing-song voice. Cid looks shocked for a few seconds before grabbing 2 brownies. "I found her. Elijah, where is dog and dragon?" "I have no idea. 'Probably should find them before anypony gets killed." I reply. "You know a dragon?" Fluttershy and Spike ask in unison. If I respond truthfully, Fluttershy will cower in fear for the whole time we stay. And Spike will be offended that I have a dragon as pet. I can't lie. I'm terrible at it. And I hate lying regardless. Frick. This is gonna take awhile. "Uhm-" "HHEEEELLLPP!" Before I could explain. A small, crying, grey uncorn filly with a blonde mane comes rushing through the door. "Dinky!" Rainbow exclaims, hovering over to the filly, whom I assume is 'Dinky'. "Auntie Rainbow! Scootaloo, Applebloom, and Sweetie Belle are in trouble!" Rarity let out a bored sigh. "What did you 4 crusaders do this time?" "W-we didn't do anything!" Dinky sobbed. "We were in the Everfee For-" "Nah what in tarnation were you 4 doin' in the Evefree Forest?" Applejack asked in a stern tone. "We were trying to get our outdoor survivalist cutie marks." Dinky fidgeted with her hooves. "Never mind that. What happened?" Rarity inquired. "DIAMOND DOGS! They were ponynapped by Diamond Dogs!" "WHAT?!" Rainbow exclaimed. "Y-yeah! They were ens... enzl... um..." She struggled to find the right words. "Enslaved?" Twilight offered. "Yeah! The Diamond Dogs enslaved them!" ME: THEY. Link: DID. Xavier: WHAT?!? I slam my hands on the table and lift myself up. "OK. Sh!t just got real." Xavier says nothing as he loads spare bullets into his revolver. I see Link slowly tense up. He's going bad@$$ again... "Do you know where they are?" he asks Dinky. "Uh... Yeah! They are in a cave, on a mountain, in the Everfree Forest!" I nod and turn to the group and 'The Mane Six', as I've taken to calling them. "You all stay here. Xavier, Link, and I are going to... have agressive negotiations with these 'Diamond Dogs'." "I have no objection." Cid takes a bite of his brownie. "God, these are good! Anyway, I have objection. I stay and drink." he finishes as he brings out a bottle of cheap whiskey from his jacket pocket. "Dude, why can't I come?" Tyran asks me. " 'Cause this mission just became personal." "How so?" I ignore his question. "If this is personal, Elijah, I won't stand in your way." Anthia reassures me. "So will I." 24 agrees. Tyran pouts immaturely as he brings out his guitar and begins playing "Legends". "We're coming too!" I turn my head to the voice. I see Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash trotting towards us. "No." I say "Its gonna be too dangerous." "Well, ah don't care! Applebloom is mah sister, and ya'll can't keep me from helpin' tah save her!" Applejack tells me. "The same applies to me. Sweetie Belle is my younger sibling and I have the right to aid in this mission. And I have a personal bone to pick with the Diamond Dogs." Rarity gains a vengeful grin. "She may not be my sister, but I love Scootaloo like a sister. I would DIE to save her!" Rainbow gives her speech. I raise my eyebrow a 3rd time. "I have no choice in this, do I?" "Unless yah wann git bucked in yer stallionhood, Ah reckon you don't." It only takes me a second and a half to figure out what Applejack meant by 'stallionhood'. I sigh. "OK. The 6 of us will go to the cave and find your sisters." I turn to Xavier and Link. "Guys, remember: We need to use diplomatic ta-" Link cuts me off. "@#$% that! These guys enslaved little girls! I'm going to take each one of their heads off and take pictures of the heads doing embarrassing things to each other!" Whoa, he's not kidding. I look back to Dinky. "You're going to have to come with us, as well." "W-why?" "Well, we don't know the way." "B-b-b-but its scary there!" "You were in there earlier..." "Its still scary!" "Dinky, we need to save your friends. You are going to have to trust me. I promise you won't get hurt. I'll keep you safe." She's still crying a bit, so I kneel down and hug her. "Its alright. But we need you for this mission. I promise, if anything tries to hurt you, I will set it on fire." Subtle, I know. "OK." Dinky agrees in a Fluttershy level voice. "I don't think Ditzy will approve of her daughter going on this trip." Rainbow comes in. "Probably not. I will take full blame if Dinky's hurt, and if so, then Ditzy can buck me in the face." "Shall we depart now?" Rarity pipes in. "Lets collect supplies first. We leave in half an hour." Xavier says. We all nod. "I'm gonna go find Thunder Rush. We're gonna fly." Author's Notes: ________________ Past Sins reference! GASP! Sh!t just got real. Those Diamond Dogs are screwed. Chapter 7 is already a quarter written so it should be out soon. Joy Stick;s story is still at a writer's block. -__- That's all folks! Good news and bad news...Ooo. I'm not dead. How convenient. Anyway sorry to break this to you all, but Something Different will be cancelled. "BUT JOY-!" I DON'T CARE! This story is finished! FOR NOW! "Really, Joy Stick?! :D" Yes, now shut your faces. It will come back eventually. But have you guys ever wondered what happened BEFORE this fic came out? What happened with the team before they came to Equestria? Well now you can find out. I am now writing an original story where you can find out. However there will be like 78.3 changes. But yes, I am now writing the story "for realsies" this time. The story is called "Connected Fates" and it will be released on deviantART. Here is my account: MegaBLYSTONE on deviantART I wrote the epilogue first, so those who read it are hooked and want to know what happen before that. Here it is! The following story is rated FIMU-14 The content may not be suitable for FIMFiction users ages 14 or younger Blood Violence Mild Language Various Cliches Bad Writing and Storyline Viewer discretion is advised. Connected Fates- Epilogue It has been 5 years since Elijah Matthew Octavius defeated Lord Purgatory, lost his brother a second time, drawn the sword known as the Hand Of God, and overall saved the planet Alysium. And now he has been experiencing depression. Elijah feels incomplete. He had lost so much during his year long journey, including a brother and a friend. He remembered the words of the old monk, M'k'shael. "The only to defeat sorrow, is to defeat yourself." For years Elijah didn't know what he meant. But now, he has figure it out. Elijah begins to meditate. The ritual he is about to conduct demands 100% concentration. The sound of a fly could disrupt the ritual and leave Elijah as a vegetable. Luckily this was... taken care of earlier. Elijah meditates to the best of his abilities, until he feels his very soul and spirit leave his body. He is startled by this but adjusted to the change quickly. Elijah then finds himself in a plane of non-existence. A black and purple void of absolutely nothing that look like it continued to the edges of the universe and beyond that. The only thing in sight was the large, flat, floating, stone platform he was standing on. And a shadowy figure meters away in front of Elijah, sitting on the ground with it's head down. Elijah hesitantly attempts to approach the figure, not knowing anything of what he is seeing. He manages to get closer to the shadow... ...When it abruptly raises its head, only to reveal a matte black face, glowing red eyes, and a mischievous if not devilish grin. The figure jumped to it's feet. And smiled to Elijah. Elijah gasped and his eyes widened. He saw the face of the shadow. The shadow... was himself. Only in a much darker tone, and a much more evil presence. Elijah only then realized what the old monk 5 years ago meant. "The only way to defeat sorrow, is to defeat yourself." Defeat Yourself. "Oh, boy." Elijah sighed sarcastically at the cliche floating in the airless void. The shadowy doppelganger holds his left arm out and a sword appears out of nowhere in his palm. Elijah is shocked at the reveal of the sword. The sword being the one his enemy wielded 5 years ago. The sword called the "Key of Purgatory". Elijah knows that the doppelganger has obvious intentions of killing him, and quickly our protagonist begins searching his body for a weapon, but is unable to find his throwing knives or sword. The figure hold out his right hand, and another sword appears. Elijah was very frightened. He was unarmed, and the doppelganger apparently had dual swords. And then Elijah recognized the sword in the shadowy figure's right hand. "The Hand of God." Elijah murmurs under his breath. The doppelganger tosses the Hand of God to Elijah, he barely catches it. "Heh, guess you really are my 'evil twin'. You always fight fair." Elijah compliments to his doppelganger and his following of the Warrior Code. The doppelganger chuckles and shrugs. The two then ready themselves in battle stances. And begin to circle each other, waiting for the opposite to strike first. Elijah maintains a serious face, while his twin has a crooked, mischievous, if not psychotic smile. The two warriors study each other, looking for a weakness in their defense. But it is a battle of equals. Both are skilled swordsman and have near flawless defenses. So naturally, the dark twin grows impatient and attacks Elijah abruptly and randomly, catching him off guard. The doppelganger rises the Key of Purgatory above his head and slashes downward to Elijah's arm. Elijah manages to advert the blade with his own, allowing his arm to stay attached to his shoulder. The hero jumps at his doppelganger with a vertical slice, only to find that the doppelganger can teleport the bastard, which leads to Elijah's sword striking the stone ground, making an obnoxious clanking sound. Elijah bites back a curse. He turned his body around where the doppelganger currently stood. The doppelganger stands there with a smug face, and then runs to Elijah with an attack to the legs which is quickly deflected by the good swordsman. Elijah thrusts his blade towards the area where his doppelganger's heart would've been. But the dark assailant casually moved his body out of the way, diagonally, and slices at Elijah's arm. Elijah dodges the attack mostly. There was now a shallow gash where skin once was, but Elijah would have to deal with it. Our protagonist turned to face his antagonist. But the doppelganger was nowhere to be found. "Say whaaaaat?" Elijah stretched the 'what'. He turned his head in every direction, but still couldn't find the rival swordsman. Maybe he's behind me, and turns whenever I turn. Elijah tested his theory by thrusting is sword behind him. Nothing. Elijah then noticed something unnatural about his shadow. It had a pair of red eyes. Elijah's eyes widened and he jumped away, but not before yelping like a little school girl. His shadow began to take humanoid shape and form back into the doppelganger. The doppelganger laughed maniacally, taking amusement in his good twin's fearful face. He almost had me there... Hey, that wasn't fair fighting! The doppelganger had stopped laughing and stared at Elijah. And he stared back. And the void was calm. Both opponents stood near motionless, swords drawn in front of them, ready to harm. But they both knew... The battle was going nowhere. It was a battle of equals, and if one is able to beat their equal, then they would be better than them self. But the fight must continue. Elijah's only way out of the void was to defeat his dark opposite. And if his spirit died here in the void, Elijah would've died in the Physical World. Elijah stepped out of battle stance and began throwing fire balls at the doppelganger. He continued to do so while running in a circle around his dark twin. The doppelganger, however, kept on dodging the flames. Eventually, he then began throwing fire balls of his own, only they were blue. Elijah continued running in a circle, only he stopped throwing the fire balls. Elijah stopped running altogether. The doppelganger stood there, meters away from Elijah, doing nothing. The doppelganger wondered what his twin of flesh and bone intentions were. The clever protagonist smirked. He used what chi he had left running through his veins and pointed his index and middle fingers at the Hand of God, and flames spewed out of his finger tips. It was as if Elijah's hands were the mouths of dragons. The legendary blade had fire illuminating around it. A common, yet deathly, technique used throughout the planet of Alysium: Fire Sword. For once in the battle, the doppelganger had fear struck in him. The doppelganger attempted to do the same, but was quickly overwhelmed by the fire blazing Hand of God in Elijah’s nimble hands. The doppelganger continued averting attacks by the suddenly vicious and determined Elijah. Eventually, the dark one closed his eyes and slashed at one of Elijah’s legs. There was a shout of a great pain. When the doppelganger opened his eyes, he could see his opposite lying on the ground. Both of Elijah’s hands were gripped on his leg. The doppelganger had cut one of the main arteries, and Elijah was doing the best to stop the bleeding. Elijah repeatedly let out grunts of pain, and though he would never admit it: squeaks of agony. The doppelganger made a face of triumph shouted out a victory yell. His moment of triumph ending, the doppelganger slowly stepped towards the hero in agony. Elijah was close to passing out, and in only a few minutes, he would die of blood loss; causing his physical and spiritual body cease to exist. The shadowy antagonist finally neared Elijah, only feet way. Elijah looked up to his attacker, defeat in his eyes. Realizing death was near, Elijah lowered his head, preparing to be struck down and transition to the next life. He waited. And waited. And still waited. Elijah looked up to see the doppelganger offering his hand; offering to help Elijah stand up, despite his leg. Elijah is hesitant, but takes the hand and stands up. The two warriors now stand, and step a few feet away from each other. The doppelganger had one sword in each hand. He throws the Hand of God to the ground and kicks it. The blade slides to Elijah’s feet and he looks down towards it. The sword’s blade glows; a sign it recognizes its master’s presence. Elijah raises is head to his twin, giving him a quizzical look. The doppelganger speaks his first words. “Pick it up”. The doppelganger’s voice was spoken in harmonies. 3 voices talking over each other, saying the same exact thing. The dark and ominous tone of his voice didn’t make the situation any better. Elijah still had a quizzical face. He didn’t know if he could fight on a bleeding and pained leg. In fact, Elijah probably couldn’t. The doppelganger grew impatient. “Pick up the sword. I will not fight an unarmed warrior. Even a worm such as yourself.” He insults. Elijah puts the back of his hand on his forehead in mock offense. “Oh, why don’t you twist the sword while it’s in there?” he says sarcastically. “Believe me, I plan to.” The doppelganger replies readying his sword. "Heh, you just called yourself a worm!" Elijah realizes. The shadowy figure gives a confused face. "How do you mea-?". The doppelganger stops himself and facepalms. "I suppose I did, didn't I? Always the joker you, or shall I say 'we' are." He said, slightly amused. The opposites end their surprisingly friendly conversation abruptly and take fighting stances. They stare intently at each other. It was like looking into a screwed up, fun house mirror. In a few moments, the two swordsmen ran at each other. Though Elijah had a limp, he still ran as fast as he could. The two swing their swords as they past each other, and a loud clank fills the void. Elijah swung his sword horizontally, but his opponent jumped backwards. The doppelganger thrusts his sword forward only to have it averted by Elijah's. It went on like this for what seemed like hours, but was only for a few minutes. The battle was still going nowhere. And the doppelganger had just about enough. "I have had just about enough of this!" he exclaims. See? I told you. The doppelganger breaks into a sprint; running straight for Elijah. Elijah sees the apparent attack. As well as its flaw. He was running with his sword outward to his right, leaving a gaping mistake in his defense. Elijah was almost sorry for what he was about to do. The doppelganger was only a few feet away now. Elijah reared his sword back and let out a yell. The doppelganger was running too fast. He too saw the flaw in his attack. A single tear fell from the mirrored one's eye, as he ran his where his heart should've been right through the blade of the Hand Of God. Silence. Elijah and his dark twin stood there, as if they were statues. The blade in Elijah's hand sat still in the chest of the dark of the doppelganger. A gurgling sound could be heard, before the doppelganger's chest burst out an impossible amount of black blood. Elijah's face was wet and clothes were stained in black. So bloody his clothes were never. The Hand of God and the Key of Purgatory both disappeared in flashes of light and shadow. The doppelganger stops spewing blood and begins limping towards Elijah. Elijah is not sure what to think of this. And only steps closer. Out of random, the doppelganger embraces Elijah in a hug, catching him by surprise. He whispers into Elijah’s ear. “It is done.” The doppelganger then falls to the ground. And his body disintegrates into smoke, leaving only clothes behind. Elijah stands emotionless, looking to what remained of the dark one. He begins to feel the effects of blood loss and passes out on the ground. What is 'Done'? Elijah wakes up, still in a meditating position. It was apparently night time. The battle lasted hours by the looks of it. Elijah sees his wife in bed, sleeping (they have only been married for a year). She probably didn’t want to disturb Elijah. He did take meditating a little too seriously. Elijah grinned and got up. He walked out of the bedroom, through the hallway, and into the kitchen. Elijah poured himself some milk and heated it up a little bit with his fire magic. He gulped it down rather quickly. He took a seat at the table, trying clear his mind of what just happened. Elijah decided sleep should help. It has been a long night. Elijah washed out the cup and put it back in the cupboard. He walked back into the bedroom, to see that his wife, Sarayu, is atanding up and rubbing her eyes. Sarayu yawned and said, “I see you’re finally done. I was getting worried about you.” “I was worrying too, believe me.” Elijah chuckles and Sarayu laughs softly. "What happened, exactly? During your meditation?" Sarayu asked with a look of concern. Elijah frowned. His eyes were actually watering up, though he didn't know why. "I don't want to talk about." he turned his face away slightly. Sarayu wouldn't have it. "Talking about it will make you feel better~.", she says on a sing-song voice. Elijah only turns away more. "Why do guys never want to talk about their feelings?" Sarayu mused. "Because magic." Elijah says with a smile. His wife glares at him. "Will you ever stop saying that?" "I've been saying it for 7 years, try and guess the answer." Elijah tests Sarayu. Another death glare. "Thats it. No sex for a month." Sarayu crosses her arms. "Worth it." "Ugh, you're hopeless." "So I've heard." "Do you want to sleep on the couch, too?" "..." "I didn't think so." Sarayu smirks in triumph. The couple look at each other and begin laughing hysterically. Elijah walks toward his wife and pulls her into a passionate kiss. He pulls away. "I love you." Sarayu smiles. "I love you, too." Sarayu's smiles a bit more, but becomes a frown and she turns away from Elijah. “What’s wrong?” he asks. “Elijah, while you were meditating I found out something…” she trails off. Elijah is confused. What could be wrong? Oh, wait. “Sarayu, are you…” Sarayu’s expression gains a soft smile and nods. Elijah falls unconscious abruptly. This gives the vampire wife a bit of a shock, but she begin laughing hard right after. She gives a content sigh, lies back down with the passed out Elijah, and wraps her arms around him. “Good night, Daddy.” Sarayu says, jokingly, before falling back asleep. The End
Chapter 1Chapter 1 WARNING: May contain spoilers for future Joy Stick's Story chapters. (Remember: Though the Story is in First-Person, Joy Stick is not narrarating.) I awoke with a start. I was in a cold-sweat. Another frickin' nightmare. I lifted my upper-body up, with my lower-body still in my sleeping bag, and checked my surroundings. The campfire I started last night was no longer burning. It still seemed pretty dark. How long was I sleeping? I grabbed my pocket watch from my satchel next to me. "Broken. Lovely." I say, pissed that my new watch broke. I look at my surroundings again. I see my all of my friends in their sleeping bags, forming a circle around what was a campfire. Tyran- my best friend since first grade- was snoring obnoxiously and so was his dog, Iron Flame. Xavier- a draconian- was not in a sleeping bag around the campsite. He instead sat next to tree, with his stetson hat over his eyes. Cid was just lying there, aiming one of those new "Automatic Pistols" into the sky, in his sleep. Lets hope it isn't loaded. Link was just sleeping, hugging tightly an Epona plushie. He mumbles in his sleep. "But I wanna ride the pony." I gotta get this photographed! Haha! I look over to 24-89... well he doesn't sleep. He just lies there, in a full steel suit of armor. I have never seen his face... But yeah, he never sleeps. And then there was Anthia. Oh, God. Anthia. She's known me since middle school. When we were first introduced she had a look in her eyes. When we first met, I knew... I knew... She had a major crush on me after only knowing me for a few minutes! Am I that sexy?! Oh, right. The story. *Ahem* And then there was Anthia. I observed her, like I did everyone else. "MMmmmm" OK. She's making random noises in her sleep. Everyone does that. "Mmm. Elijah." Wait. WAT "O, mmmm" What is this- I don't even- She continued to speak in a tired, dreamily tone. "Mmmm *Moaning Noises* Mm." OK. Remind me not to ask her what she was dreaming about! I scoot away from Anthia's direction. And I look toward Thunder Rush. Oh, yeah did I mention I own a dragon? No? Oh... Hey! I have a pet dragon! He begins to stir. He then wakes up, and looks to me. 'Sup, Eli? "Mornin' , Rush" Dragons have telepathic abilities in case you didn't know. He looks around a bit, and sniffs. What do we got to eat? Do we still have that jerky Cid made the other night? "Yeah, I'll go grab it." I finally get up. For a third time, I look at my surroundings. And this time I notice something of interest. The forest we took camp in... changed, or something over-night. It almost looked... cartoony. I walk over to our food sac and ice box. I pull the jerky out from the food sac and thow it to Thunder Rush. He devoured it in a single bite. "Yah don't even savor it.", I say to him in a comical voice. Don't need to. Dragons don't eat for taste. We eat to survive. I just stare at him, my right eyebrow raised. Unless its chocolate! he 'says', pointing at me. I just chuckle. "Alright. Its been a few minutes since I woke up. Time to wake up the rest of the group." I monologue. I walk over to Cid. He stopped waving his pistol around a few minutes ago. I am about to poke him awake when I remember what happened the last time I tried wake him up. So I turn to Xavier's direction and walked to his tree. I tapped him lightly on the shoulder. He awakes. "Huh. What?", he says still very tired. "Its mor-" I'm cut off when Xavier's 2 inch long claw goes up against my throat, just microns away from cutting open my neck. He then interrogates me. "Who are you?! What did you do to my collueges?! What's the square root of infinity?! WHEN DID YOU LAST CHANGE YOUR UNDERWEAR!?!?!?! I jump back from Xavier's claw and unsheathe my multi-tool knife, in case he jumps at me. Maybe I should've awoken Cid, first... "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" I blab out rapidly. "Xavier! Its me! Elijah! You know the guy that helped you kill the werewolf that attacked your village!" Just then, a silver-tipped arrow whooshes past Xavier and I, and hits the tree. Xavier's head was 3 inches away from the projectile. "For the love of the Gods... SHUT THE FRICK UP!" I look behind me and see my good friend, Link, holding a bow in an offensive stance, ready to fire again. I can tell he intended to fire right next to Xavier's head. He's such a show-off. He has large, purple bags under his eyes, and I think he's still asleep... Xavier looks at me again. He speaks. "Uh... Sorry, mate. You know me in mornings." "Yeah... No I don't! I know Cid in the morning and he does something much, much, much worse. But that was still pretty bad." Another arrow whooshes past me. This time it hits Xavier's leather trench coat, bouncing off harmlessly. "Ugh. Just shut up." Link groaned. "I am trying to get some shut-eye. And you two 'kumkwats-for-balls' are not making it easy!" Link threw his bow on the ground and pulled out 2 bombs, murder in his eyes. He must really want his beauty sleep. Thunder Rush laughed (in his mind) when I thought that. "We'll shut up." Xavier and I say in unison and fear. Even though Xavier was admittedly the definition of bad @$$, you'd never want to get into a fight with Link. He was master swordsman (see what I did there?), master archer, and master spell caster. All at the age of only 17. He. Will. Mess. You. Up. "Good." Link finished with venom in his voice. He collapsed on his sleeping bag, clutched his plushie, and began to suck his thumb, like a boss. Xavier and I looked at each other, and back to Link, both of us snickering at the sight. Obviously, all of the ruckus caused by the past few minutes woke everyone up (except for 24-89. He just sat there the whole time watching, apparently). Tyran got up and exhaled an enormous yawn and asked "What's for breakfast?". Iron Flame barked at his master in approval. Cid woke up next. He got up and greeted everyone, and walked to the ice box and sat on it, began loading both of his guns, followed by sharpening his axe. Anthia came next. She rubbed her eyes. She then turned to me, smiled, and greeted "Good Morning!". She repeated the act to everyone else in the group, but she clearly put more effort into the one meant for me. 24 finally got up. He grabbed a whet stone, drenched it with water, and began sharpening his 6 foot long sword, all without saying anything. A man of few words. Link was still sleeping during the whole morning routine. "OK. Well, I know everyone is hungry. And all we have is fruits and carrots. So, Link and I will go hunting for breakfast." Link just snorted in his sleep. Silence. We all look at each other. Tyran speaks up. "OK. Who's gonna wake him?" *** After getting 24-89 to wake up Link, and convincing Xavier to let me use his scoped repeater crossbow, Link and I headed off into the forest. *** 20 Minutes of Failure Later... "Well, crap." Yeah. What Link said. Crap. It has been a little over 20 minutes and we have found nothing. No birds. No squirrels. No rabbits. No squabbits. NOTHING. We have barely heard a sound since we've entered the dark parts of the forest. Link mentioned earlier he "Felt" something watching us. Or hunting us. I told him he needed to lay off the Chateau Romani and keep his mind on the task. Now we are just walking. Armed with a Hero's bow and a crossbow. Ready for anything. The only thing that would startle us would be a whole village of talking, pastel-colored ponies. And chances are we we won't encounter such a thing. Foreshadowing?!? *** Link and I eventually found a wild boar. And it kicked our butts. So we quit and decided to pull out the fishing rods. After a few minutes of boredom, rage, and shooting fish with arrows, Link and I finally got one fish for each party member. We walked back to the camp site to find 5 very hungry looking people. Well, 3 people, a lizard, and an emotionless steel statue, plus pets. "Where the heck have you been?!?" Tyran yelled as he jumped up from his spot. "We have been waiting for food for 8 hours!". Oh, silly Tyran. "We've only been gone 2 hours, T." Link deadpanned. "Anyway, we failed miserably at hunting, so we ended up launching arrows at a bunch of fish." Anthia joined in the conversation. "Well, thats lazy." Link countered the insult. "So's an elf who uses magic to cheat." Quite a successful trolling, Link. Anthia's cheeks flushed and she turned away, remembering the time she used a love potion on me. *Shudders*. What a weird Tuesday... *** One Breakfast Later... "Ugh. I'm bored. When can we get back to saving life as we know it?" Link is such a smart @$$. I forgot to mention the 7 of us were chosen by the Heavens to save Life as we know it, didn't I? It'll take to long to explain, so I won't explain it... yet. Anyway... "After you shut up and help us pack!" I yell back, laughing. "Myaaahh!" What the?... "I don't wanna!" So immature. "Yeah. And why?" Link looks to me. He closes his eyes and smiles. "I'm too lazy." A large smack echoed throught the forest. That was a world record facepalm, enacted by me. "Ugh." Link sighed. "SOMEONE?! ANYONE?! BE IN DANGER! IS ANYONE IN NEED OF LIFE-SAVING OR MONSTER SLAYING!?!" Link yelled to no one in particular. I walk up to Link's long, pointy ear. "WHAT ARE WE YELLING ABOUT?!?" He wasn't phased by the yell at all. But Iron Flame put his snout on the ground and covered his ears. Smart dog... Link looked at me, as if I never yelled and spoke. " I'm bored. I need to kill something, followed by saving someone's life." Everyone stared at him. Cid spoke up. "You been drinking milk again haven't you?" "Why is everyone saying that?! I've been sober for 3 months!" 24-89 Finally spoke his first words the day. "And you do remember what happened 3 months ago after you drank the Chateau Romani, right?" Link would've kicked him if it wasn't for the fact that 24 was wearing 2 inch thick, steel armor (and 2 inches is pretty thick when it comes to armor), so he settled with "Shut up!". Just then we all heard a scratchy-voiced, but definitley feminine scream. It was then followed by a a huge, threatening roar. Link tensed up and pulled the legendary Master Sword and Hylian Shield from his back. "Well, that works, I guess." I say, unsheathing my sword. Link became serious. When not in combat, he's a huge smart @$$. But someone's life is in danger, he becomes a demon of war. "The scream was 1.5 kilometers North East. We need to head in that direction. Thunder Rush, you stay here and guard the belongings from any bandits or hungry animals." Link ordered sternly. Thunder snorted. He stood up. I don't have to listen to you. Why can't I help? Link looked at Thunder with daggers in his eyes. Almost as fast as light, Link ran up to the dragon's face. ''Cause I'm the Hero of Time." He said flatly, yet ominously. Threat acknowledged. Thunder took a defensive position around the campsite. He began to voluntarily hyperventilate, charging up his fire. We turned North East. The seven of us ran to where we heard the scream and roar. *** We've been running for about 3 minutes. Cid was far behind us. Dwarves weren't exactly built for running. We continued running at a fast pace when Anthia asked "Guys! What if when we reach our destination, its a house and all we heard was... indoor sports like last time?" I admit it was a plausible explanation, but we had to check. Someone could be getting mutilated by Shadow Soldiers. No. Shadow Soldiers do more than the Xetronuvian Council thinks. I thought this as I remembered the time our group came across a village burned to the ground. I suspected, probably everyone else too, that the villagers were killed or enslaved. What we found was far from the truth. We walked through the ruins to find that each one of the village's inhabitants was... Crucified. I think everyone of us cried that day. It was the first and only time I saw 24-89 show strong emotions. But I shed the most tears that day. I saw a little boy, still alive, lashed onto a cross. His eyes were crimson from crying. He said something inaudible to everyone but me. "Help." My heart split in half. A five-year old child, going through the most pain anyone could endure. And there was absolutely no way we could save him. I was behind Cid. I pulled his pistol from it's holster. Bang. A single shot into the child's temple. He died instantly, no pain. I entered an emotional rampage immediately after. I repeated the act on every villager, dead or alive. Xavier and Tyran had to hold me back. I had a nervous breakdown. 24-89 struck me on the back of the had, causing me to pass out for 13 hours. When I came to, my friends told me what had happened. I didn't sleep for weeks. But I can't let that happen again! I found myself crying as I ran. I ignored Anthia's question and ran faster. *** We finally arrived to where we heard the scream. "What the heck is that?!" Link yelled pointing at a winged lion with a scorpion tail. Xavier spoke next. "That, mate, is a manticore. Part of the 'Very Pissed' variety I might add." I agree. This manticore did not seem happy. Oh. THATS what was hunting us. I look around looking for the source of the screaming. But all I see are 2 pastel-colored pegasi. I assume they are mates. They were both oddly colored. A black stallion with a blue mane, and a cyan mare with a rainbow mane. Besides the stallion's black coat, both the pegasi's colors were extremely unnatural. What was really out of place, though, was the fact that both pegasi had a strange looking tatoo on either side of their flank. Anyway, I see the stallion bucking the crap out of the manticore. The stallion has multiple wounds, and is slowly bleeding out. I can tell the pegasus has yet to be stung by the manticore's large scorpion tail, because he doesn't have a giant, green, puss flowing, wound anywhere on his body. And even if he did, he would've passed out in seconds after such. And would've died an hour later. And what I saw next was really interesting. The 2 pegasi were using humanoid noises and emotions. The stallion kept grunting every time he took a hit. And everytime he did take a hit, the rainbow mare shed another tear. Humanoid emotions? Coming from equines? Maybe I should lay off the chateau romani. But I don't drink that crap. So everything I'm seeing is real, unless I'm dreaming and thats highly unlikely. I hear a scream. I snap back to reality. I see the rainbow one scream. I also see the black stallion on the ground with a giant, green, puss flowing wound coming from his side. D@mn it! I jinxed it! A few nanoseconds after I see the stallion go down, I see Link run up to the manticore at the speed of sound and cut it across the back. The slash didn't go very deep, but the manticore didn't exactly like it. It roared in pain, turned around and swiped at Link. After it epically fails, Link sheathes his sword. He throws his shield at the manticore like a boomerang that won't come back. It comically hits the manticore in the face. It bellowed in pain. Link began to taunt at the monster. "Aw, don't cry. Its only a major concussion!" Link jumps 10 feet into the air somehow and brings out his bow. He fires 2 arrows before falling. As he touched the ground, the manticore whacked link in the face with his tail. The stinger didn't get him, though. Despite the situation, it was hilarious. Until it turns to us. With its back turned, I see the rainbow mare fly to the stallion, trying to keep him awake. The manticore roars at us. Tyran brings out his two-handed, 30 pound iron hammer. Link gets back up and unsheathes the Master Sword, using both hands and no shield. Anthia clenches her fist and lightning begins to form around it. Cid, feeling pretty bad@$$, equips his axe, instead of his rifle. Xavier just stands there and does nothing. 24-89 takes his sweet time and pulls out his 6 foot long sword. I had my basic, 39 inch long, steel sword equiped from the start of the run. We ran. We ran at the monster. We ran as fast as we could. It does the same. I look behind me and see Xavier standing there, calmly; an icon of tranquility. I look back at the manticore. It was running incredibly fast. I look back to Xavier again. He's doing something different. I see him drawing his gun. Now this was no ordinary gun mind you. Oh, no. This was a Blystone Industries, .72 'Dragon Slayer' revolver; On the barrel, engraved in gold was " 'Till Death Do Us Part ". The weapon was specifically designed for piercing the near indestructable scales of the great, winged, serpents. But when dragon hunting became illegalized, the Dragon Slayer continued production; except it was used for putting very big holes in small to medium sized animals. And thats just what it did. I hear a crack of thunder. But I knew. I knew it was the giant bullet fired from the mighty Dragon Slayer revolver. I looked at the manticore again. The head was gone. The frickin' head was GONE! It didn't fly off, no no. The head was completely obliterated! The body ran 3 more feet after that before collapsing, motionless. Lifeless. The six of us, the dog, and the rainbow mare all looked at Xavier in all his bad@$$ery. He looks at us, holstering his giant handgun. "What?" We all continue to stare at his awesomeness. That was seriously the single coolest thing I have ever seen any living being do besides watching Link using a bomb mask and surviving. He looks back us. "What have I told you, mates? You don't @#$% with the mail man." Heh. I remember that. His trademark phrase. Xavier was courier way back when until the party and I (then it was just Tyran, Anthia, Link, and I) saved his whole village from a pack of werewolves. He agreed to help us save the world from holocaust. And everyone in our group, even 24-89, a knight of the Xetronuvian empire, a knight of the world's second most powerful nation (first being Anopia), knew... never to get in a fight with a courier, particularly Xavier. And then what happened next changed my life forever. "OK, guys. That was probably the most coolest, radicallest, awesomest thing I've ever seen. But can you help me get my coltfriend to the hospital?" Who the heck said that? I look around. And see the mare looking at me, great concern in her eyes. Wait. Don't tell me a horse just asked me t- "Hello!" the mare yells in my face. "You gotta help save him. I don't know who you are, or where you came from, but you gotta help him! Please." She begins to cry. Being confused out of my mind will have to wait. I nod to the pegasus, and run over to her 'coltfriend'. I sling him over my shoulder and ask the mare "Where's the nearest town?" "Ponyville. Follow me!" she orders. I do so. I look back at the group and they all stare, dumbfounded. "Come on guys! We can all brain dead later, we got a life to save." They all snap back to reality, nod, and follow. As we run, I feel the stallion stir. He speaks. "Who are you?" he asks. He opens eyes a bit. "What are you?" I look to him and smile. "A Friend in Deed." END OF CHAPTER 1 Author's Notes _________________ My second story. Yay. I know I'm no where near done with Joy Stick's story, but I could't get this out of my head! Probably none of you besides 'RandomReader" know whats going on. It will be explained in a few chapters. This is a crossover fic, but it is not crossing over with anything offical. I came up with the idea of an imaginary kingdom with technology similar to 1905 Europe. And I threw Link from LoZ in the mix 'cause he's just that awesome. But he's also a smart @$$. Who else likes that I did that? Thanks for reading! New chapter coming soon, after chapter 3 of Joy Stick' Story. Notice Rainbow Dash's line: "You gotta help save him. I don't know who you are, or where you came from, but you gotta help him! Please." Why doesn't she ask WHAT they are? *Cough* My Little Dashie reference *Cough* Important Note: Xavier: Australian accent Cid: Russian accent Thunder Rush: Boston accent
Chapter 2 We continued running to the quote on quote "Ponyville". The pegasus stallion slung over my shoulder lost conciousness a few hundred yards ago. I may not know him, but I hope he will be alright. I've accepted the fact that there is apparently a civilization of talking, pastel-colored ponies. Believe me, I've seen weirder. Have you ever been inside a behemoth's stomach? Yeah, I didn't think so you lucky b@stard, you... But what I really want to know is: How did we get to this new world? We didn't cross any borders, I checked the map. The only explanation is we were transported by means of a portal or other form of Witchcraft and Wizardry. My guess is we are in an entirely different dimension. But enough of random thinking. We have a side-quest to complete. Main Objective: Alert King Norris of the Shadow Armada invasion from the North. Delayed. Current Objective: Get pegasus stallion to hospital for medical attention. Find a way back to Xetronuvia. [Optional Objective]: Leave stallion to die. Kill mare and scalp for rainbow mane. Plunder village of near defenseless equines for supplies and... meat. Ignoring the optional, my friends, the mare, and I continue running (and flying) out of the forest. I see a light; an opening out of the forest. When we pass through the opening, I am slightly blinded by the sun. If I were to guess, I'd say its about 9:30. I see a town off in the distance. I can only assume its Ponyville. "Thats Ponyville over there! Please hurry!" The mare says. I was right! I began to run faster. But not fast enough. We should've gone back for Thunder Rush. He would be very useful for this situation, considering he's the fastest, winged, creature I know. MORE FORESHADOWING?!? *** We finally arrive at the village, recieving probably hundreds of weird and terrified looks. But thats to be expected. We're probably aliens or monsters or something to these people. Er, ponies. I see a pink pony make a large gasp. She probably knows this stallion or something. Oh, Elijah. You don't know what Pinkie Pie has planned for you. I ignore the author's voice from the back of my head and continue to run. The hospital comes within view. I run much faster, while holding the stallion, tightly. We reach the hospital, and run around to the back; to the emergency room. The rainbow mare pushes open the door and yells "Somepony, help!" . A stallion runs in, accompanied by 2 mares. I can only assume that its a doctor and 2 nurses. The doctor stallion eyes at us a few seconds and says "Meh. I've seen weirder." He seemed comfortable with our presence. He threw on a serious face and looks towards the pegasus stallion. "Nurse Redheart, get the table, stat!" he orders to the white mare, she trots off. He turns to the other one. "Nurse Sweetheart, get the oxygen tank! Its gonna be a long day!" The mare nods to the doctor and goes into closet. He looks at the stallion and curses under his breathe. The 2 mares return, put the black stallion on the metal, wheeled, table and placed a long rubber tube connected to a strange metal canister, which I'm guessing is an 'oxygen tank'. The doctor pushed the table quickly to a room where he would probably do surgery. My friends and the mare ran with the group to the room. The doctor and nurses open the doors and push table inside. We just wait outside. The rainbow mare tries to get in as well, but the doctor blocks her. "I'm sorry miss Dash, but you must stay out here for now." The mare doesn't like the answer apparently. "Look here, Whooves, that is my best friend! My coltfriend! The love of my life! I will not just sit here and wait while you ponies cut him open and mess with his guts!" First Impressions of the rainbow mare: Tomboy, probably a bad@$$ daredevil, overprotective girlfriend, er, 'fillyfriend'. "I'm sorry, miss Dash. I cannot let you in." Without another word, he closes the doors, and locks them. 'Dash' kept pounding on them. 24-89 puts his gauntleted hand on her shoulder and looks at her. She looks back. As if the look said, "Stop. Everything will be fine." she nods and goes and sits down next to me on the bench outside of the room. After a few minutes of awkward silence I decide to make conversation. "I'm sorry about your 'coltfriend'. We did what we could for now. You have my condolences." I tell her, sincerely. She looks at me and says "Thank you. For everything you've done, even though you don't even know me or him. I should be the one saying sorry, for putting you in danger like that." This pegasus just put me in the perfect position to boast. And I shall do so! "Are you kidding me? My team and I have fought and killed much larger monsters than that manticore. It doesn't even deserve the title 'Manticore'. More like 'Pussy Cat'." I say. She softly laughs. Then I remember something and facepalm. "My friends and I just saved you and your coltfriend's lives and I don't even know your names!" I look to her. Shes smiles a bit. "I'm Rainbow Dash. My coltfriend is named Joy Stick." she says extending her hoof. I'm not sure whether to pound it or shake it. But I just shake her hoof to be cautious. "Elijah." I say. "Elijah Matthew Octavius." She eyes me with a strange look. And then comments "Thats a weird name." "So's 'Rainbow Dash' " I counter with a smirk. I make sure not to also say 'Joy Stick', as it would turn out badly. We just stare. To break the silence, I made a gesture that told my party to introduce themselves. They all did so. "I am Isaac Jaiden Augustus. Just call me 'Tyran'." "I am Anthia Esmerelda Daedalai." "24-89. Pleasure to meet you miss." D@mn, so close to finding out his real name! "I am Xavier Ba'Barok Kayshun Seledok." "Name's Link Enn Park." (See what I did there?) "I am called Cid. Cid Vladimir." Rainbow Dash just stared. "Are our names really that odd?" Anthia asked, sadly. "No, no. They're good names, I guess..." Rainbow's voice trailed off when she heard a chainsaw like noise coming from the room. This is where she burst out crying and leapt into my chest, causing me to blush a tad, and causing Anthia to get a bit mad (Rhymes! Rhymes everywhere!). She kept crying into my shirt. I just hugged her, trying to make her feel better. "Everything will be all right." I tell her. I sure hope I'm right. Just then another pony came rushing in. "Where is he? Is he alright? What the buck are those things?!" He points to the party and I. "It doesn't matter. Where's Joy Stick?!" he finishes. I point to the room. "He's in surgery. The doors are locked, though." "Holy crap it talks!" the butterscotch pegasus says. I then introduced the party and I to the stallion, apparently Joy Stick's younger brother High Score, and explained the current situation to him. He was holding back alot of tears. He then failed miserably and broke down into tears. Link, yes Link, kneeled down and hugged him. "I know how your feeling. I know what its like to lose a loved one. But we won't let that happen." Link reassured, High Score. "How do you know?", Rainbow Dash asked. Link pulled a bottle with a strange red liquid inside it. " 'Cause I have a potion." He said with a stupid voice and smile. Everyone in the hallway facepalmed (and facehoofed?). "WHYDIDYOUNOTUSETHATBACKATTHEBATTLESITE?!?" I yell at him. Another nurse trots by and "Shushes" me. "What? I didn't think the situation was that bad." Link answered. High Score punched him in the face and Rainbow Dash bucked him from behind, sending him to the floor. I look above Link's head and see 6 of 14 'hearts' disappear. Wow. Dash bucked him hard. "Not 'bad'? Not BAD?!" Dash yells. How come no one shushes her? "I don't think he just uses chateau romani. I theorize he uses something else to mess with his senses." Xavier said as he brought out Link's 'Magic Leaf' from under his stetson. "That's meant for gliding on gusts of wind! Its not a drug!" He exclaims. Everyone laughs. Even Rainbow Dash and High Score. Now that we have the potion, everything should be fine except for... "OK. Now how are we gonna give the Doctor the potion?" Tyran inquired. Everyone frowned. The doors were locked and made of solid iron for some reason. 24-89 stood up. "Everyone calm down. I got this." He said bringing out a 6-foot long, 10-inch wide steel sword. I knew what he was going to do. Time to break out the popcorn and watch. 24 turned to the the doors. With one quick slash, the doors were cut in half, but they were still in position. Not a problem for 24-89. He just kicked in the doors and they went flying to the back of the room. The doctor and nurses looked at 24 in shock and awe. He through the potion at them casually, Nurse Redheart barely catching it. "Pour a quarter of the potion on the wound. Have him drink the rest. He'll be fine 8 and half hours after words. Give him an anti-venom shot as well. Just in case." 24 explained the procedure to them. Though reluctant, the M.D.'s obeyed. "And sorry about the doors. I'll personally repair them later." *** We waited that entire 8 hours. I forgot my book and radio at camp. The party and I exchanged information on where we are from, what and who we are, and et cetera with Rainbow Dash and High Score. And finally. The black pegasus stallion, Joy Stick, rolled out of the room in wheel chair, smiling. Rainbow gasped loudly and flew very fast to the stallion, and began kissing him all over. "OHMIGOSHIWASSOWORRIEDDON'TEVERDIEAGAINPLEASEILOVEYOU!" Rainbow Dash said at the speed of light. High Score just gave him a bro-hug and said "I was worried about you, big bro." Joy Stick hugged Score. He turned to Rainbow Dash, grabbed her, held her low, and kissed her directly on the lips, surprising her. He lifted his head. "I love you, too." "d'AWWWWW!" Rainbow Dash and Joy Stick turn to us. I turn to Anthia and make my trademark "Seriously?" face. She blushes and shrugs. Joy Stick puts Rainbow down and wheels himself towards us."Thank you... For what you did. You saved Rainbow Dash and I's lives. I owe you. Big time." "No need, Joy Stick. Its our job to save people's lives. Or in this case, 'ponies'. And we do it without pay." The author speaks to me in my mind. Then where do you get your supplies?! I don't know! You're the author! You tell me. "Still. I feel like I need to repay you. And I will NOT take 'No' for an answer." He stated. " *Sigh* If you insist." I agree. Rainbow Dash speaks up. "We should probably get the girls and Storming Shadow at the treehouse and tell them what happened. And to introduce you guys to them." Joy Stick speaks again."Yeah. Who and what are you guys anyway?" I look at him and say. "Lets wait until we get to the treehouse. This'll take a few hours to explain." "Probably so." he responds. Link joined the conversation. "Hey, guys. You know what I just noticed?" "Ugh. What?" "We left Thunder Rush and all of our supplies at the camp site." I look at him in disbelief. "Well. Son of a bi- " END OF CHAPTER 2 Author's Notes _________________ Yes. Xetronuvia's king is Chuck Norris. Deal with it. Link knows what its like to lose a loved one? Hmmm... No its not Zelda. 'Storming Shadow' is ChoccieWings' OC and Joy Stick's best friend. RainbowStick is best ship, don't deny it. The story has a romance tag. This will not be Elijah + Anthia. Just you wait. Hope you enjoyed the chapter! There is more to come.
Chapter 3, Part 1"...Lets wait until we get to the treehouse. This'll take a few hours to explain." "Probably so." Joy Stick responds. Link joined the conversation. "Hey, guys. You know what I just noticed?" "Ugh. What?" "We left Thunder Rush and all of our supplies at the camp site." I look at him in disbelief. "Well. Son of a biscuit!" I exclaim calmy. Yes, you can do that. I continue. " *Sigh* OK. Lets go get him." "Alrighty then. Rainbow and I will gather the girls and Storm to the tree house, while you guys get... Whatever Thunder Rush is." Joy Stick plans. "Thunder Rush is a dragon." "Oh, really? That makes 2 dragons in Ponyville." Only 2? Back in Alabior there were at least 30 dragons. Another dimension, another difference I guess. "Okay. Lets go get dragon. We also need to pack camp." Cid says. "Right." Tyran, Anthia, and Xavier say in perfect sync as they nodded. *** After going back to the camp. We packed up our supplies, and spending 2 hours trying to wake up Thunder Rush. We fly back to Ponyville. We got quite a bit of terrified screams. I don't know if it was us, Thunder Rush, or both. We walked to the tree house where we were told to meet Joy Stick and his friends. "Sorry, Thunder. You are gonna have to stay out here. Considering you are 23 feet long and won't be able to fit in the house." I say in a Smart @$$ way similar to Link. Not a problem, boss. "Just make sure Iron Flame doesn't get into trouble." I know, I know. Why can't the mutt go in anyway? "He's not house trained AND there are ponies everywhere. Not to mention he's a frickin' grey wolf surrounded by talking horses." He nods. I turned away from Thunder to my friends. They are a few feet from the door. They all look very uncomfortable, even 24. "I see all of you are still trying to process what is happening." I state. In response I get a big "Yep" from everyone except Link. "You have no trouble comprehensing this?" I ask him. "I've seen some weird crap, Elijah. I've seen some weird crap. Have you ever been inside a giant fish's stomach?" "No. But I've been inside a behemoth's stomach. And let me tell you: Not. Pleasant." "Have you ever fought a Dead Hand? When you were only 11 years old? Mind scarring, dude. Just plain mind scarring." (Dead Hand: A monster from Ocarina of Time that proves Zelda isn't a kid's game.) Silence "Okay. You've seen some creepier things than I have. I guess that explains your reflections on this situation." "Thank you." Link finished and sighed. He actually looked like he was about to cry. Link had a very rough childhood. Just thinking of one monster he had to fight in his childhood is driving him to tears. But, I'm just stalling. Time to go into the treehouse, I wouldn't be surprised if Link didn't want to go in if you know what I am referencing... "Well. Lets go in." Xavier says opening the door. The tree house is dark. I see nothing. "Just dandy. I don't think anyone's home." I say. "Thank you, detective. We couldn't of solved the case without you." Link I swear to my God AND your gods, I am going to hit you if you keep being a smart @$$. I turn to the wall behind me to feel for a light switch. I find none. So I began to snap my fingers. Once I created a spark, a small, lighter-sized flame appeared in my hand. I look all around the wall. Nothing. Oh, wait here's one. I switch it. "SURPRISE!!!" yelled that pink pony I saw ealier plus another 50 or so ponies. "Gah! What the @#$%!" Xavier yelled. In matter of 5 seconds, he pulled out his revolver and placed it against the pink pony's head. He pulled the trigger.
Chapter 3, Part 2Chapter 3, Part 2 *CLICK* The group, Rainbow, and I all sigh heavily. The other 51 ponies in the room (including Joy Stick, we didn't tell him how the manticore lost its head) had faces that said "lol whut?". The 7 of us and Rainbow knew what the Dragon Slayer could do to someone. But, thank God, Xavier forgot to load it. Just then, a big, gray, unicorn with crimson and yellow eyes walked up to Xavier. "Excuse me. I don't know what that object it is, but its clearly a weapon. Now, I suggest you take it off my wife's fore head before I turn you into a taco." He said calmy. Oh, crap. He's serious. Xavier holsters his gun hastily. The other ponies murmur for a moment and go back to enjoying the party. "I apologize." Xavier starts "She just startled me is all. And last time I was startled, I was nearly eaten alive. I'm just very paranoid. Sorry what I almost did to your mate, mate." The unicorn eyes Xavier for a moment, and then breaks into a crooked smile. "No problem, my boy! No harm done. But if any harm befalls Pinkie or any of her friends, I will turn you into a taco and eat you." "I am guessing pink pony is-" Cid is cut off by a pink blur bouncing up in down in front of Xavier. "HI IM PINKAMENA DIANE PIE BUT YOU CAN CALL ME PINKIE PIE OR JUST PINKIE HOW LONG ARE YOU GUYS STAYING IN TOWN ARE YOU KNEW IN TOWN YOU MUST BE BECAUSE I KNOW EVERYPONY AND I MEAN EVERYPONY IN PONYVILLE BUT YOU GUYS DONT LOOK LIKE PONIES WHAT ARE YOU GUYS ANYWAY IT DOESNT MATTER AS LONG AS YOU ARE HERE OH I KNOW WE ARE GOING TO BE THE BEST OF FRIENDS WELL ENJOY THE PARTY OH YEAH DID I MENTION I THREW THIS PARTY JUST FOR YOU NORMALLY I WOULD OF INVITED EVERY ONE IN PONYVILLE BUT THIS DUMB OLD TREE ISNT BIG ENOUGH WELL ENJOY THE PARTY AND DONT WORRY DISCY WONT HURT YOU UNLESS I TELL HIM TO BY!!!" The pink mare said in one breathe, at the speed of light. "- Pinkie. What just happened?" Cid continued, asking no one in particular. No one answered. We all just stood there dumbfounded, as we watched 'Pinkie Pie' canter over to the desserts table at 760 miles per hour. Anthia snaps out of her trance and commented " 'Discy', huh? ". The unicorn laughs. "My name is Discord." he holds out his hoof and each of us shake it (not at the same time of course). "Pinkie began refering to me as 'Discy' a few weeks into our dating. I paid no objections." "And now you 2 are married?" Anthia asked, eating up the romance. "Indeed, so. After only 2 months of dating, I knew she was the one for me. And I proposed. I am the happiest stallion alive." Discord said, dreamily. I smile to him (I may or may not eat up romance stories as well...). "Well, I am very happy for both of you. I'll try to make sure none of my friends maim any of your friends or Pinkie. If they do, turn them into tacos by all means. I'll even help dispose of said tacos." I say with a chuckle. He begins to laugh. "Haha! I sense much chaos in your soul, my boy! You and I will get along just fine. Well, I best be off. I am going for a drink." He says before trotting off. "Wait! Is there vodka?" Cid asks Discord nods. Cid grins, devilishly. "Heh heh. I'll see you guys in a few days." He says, following Discord. We all look at each other. "I'm not waking him up if he has a hangover!" Tyran declares. Everyone but me repeats the same. "Frick." Is all I say. So we began to mingle. The ponies got used to us rather fast. Something about "Love and Tolerance". We looked like we were used to the fact that we were in a universe of talking ponies. But we all had "Poker Face" training. Courtesy of the monks from Ravengate. All of us were still getting use to this. We conversed with random ponies, answering questions in which rose more questions. I met this one sea green unicorn with a lyre for a 'Cutie Mark' as I found they were called. She asks too many questions. And she. Won't. Stop. Staring. At. My. Hands! It was torture, basically. My sanity was saved when the party ended. All that was left was my group, Rainbow Dash, Joy Stick, High Score, Pinkie Pie, Discord, a dragon we were introduced to as Spike, and 7 other ponies: Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Ditzy Doo (whom I found out is dating High Score), Fluttershy, Big Macintosh (whom I found out is married to Fluttershy) Applejack and Storming Shadow (it was clear that those 2 had huge crushes on each other, but didn't know the opposite felt the same way.) They were all nice 'people'. And then they started asking questions. Ah, crap. Author's Notes: _______________ ChoccieWings, you wanted me to ship you with AJ right? I don't remember How is Discord a unicorn stallion? I will write a story later one, explaining. Oh, yeah. DISCORDPIE! Yeah. Cid is a stereotypical Russian. If this offends anyone I will try my best to change it. Ahem. FLUTTERMAC! This will be updated more than Joy Stick's Story probably. Please check out that story as well. See you later.
Chapter 4Chapter 4 (IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT! The whole story was just beaten thoroughly by my editing. I suggest you read the whole story over again. Thank you.) After a few introductions, and a bit of convincing that Xavier won't eat 'everypony', the questions began. To make things go faster, we decided to answer questions in seperate small groups. Here we go. Twilight and Spike - Me "So first things first" Twilight used a telekinesis spell on a notepad and quill. "Wh-" Twilight was cut off by Spike. "What they hay are you?!" he asked a tad loudly. Twilight glared at him. "Spike, don't ask something so rude." I come in. "Its OK, Miss Sparkle. I've been given worse." She blushes a bit at me calling her 'Miss'. I see Anthia looking over from her table with Joy Stick and Rainbow Dash, her nostrils flared. "Don't call me 'Miss'. Just 'Twilight' will be fine. And I have to ask as well: What are you?" I grin. "I am what's called a 'Human'." I tell her. She mumbles something along the lines of 'So Lyra isn't insane'. "And what of your friends?" She asks. "Well, Tyran is a Human as well. Anthia is an Elf. Link is a Human-Elf Hybrid. Cid is a Dwarf. And Xavier is a Draconian." "What about... erm... 24-89? And what do the numbers mean?" " 24-89 is part of the Xetronuvian military. I'm not sure what race he is, or what he even looks like." "What do the numbers have to do with being a soldier?" I chuckle. "No. He's more than a soldier. He's a Knight. '24-89'. 24th batch, 89th unit. Thats where the numbers come from." "Batch? What do you mean? He's a Knight, right? Fighting giant monsters, going on quests, saving damsels in distress, getting knighted, having a squire, fighting out of loyalty instead of getting paid, and such? Not a pastry." I just laugh hysterically at her description. "What kinda Knights do you have here? The one's from fairy-tales? Not even close Twilight. Knights have a much darker background than in stories." She raises an eyebrow. "How so?" *** Applejack and Storming Shadow- 24-89 "...I was kidnapped by military officials when I was 4. Went through brutal and deathly training. Got verbally and physcially abused. Was heavily augmented with chemicals to give me stronger bones, muscles, make me smarter, make me able to carry a 6 foot long sword, and wear 1000 pound armor. Got verbally and physically abused some more. Was deployed into combat when I was 15. Killed 437 enemy soldiers and confirm the kills by engraving a notch on my gauntleted arm. Was forced to take an oath never to fall in love. AND I've been called '24-89' so many times, I've forgotten my own real name." Applejack just stared at 24 and Storm's eye twitched at an alarming rate. "Hey, you asked." *** Twilight and Spike- Me Again... Twilight heard that entire bit of that explanation and looked like she was about to puke. Spike just fainted. "Your government takes children away from their families to become soldiers?!?" "Knights; big difference. And yes. Hey, I'm not the one who writes the laws. And thats one of the things not even the King can 'un-decree', for lack of a better word. Its part of the original Code of Laws." I explain to her. She faints too. "Aw, crap." *** Rarity- Xavier (this won't end well...) "I meant no offense. That hat is simply dashing. But that coat..." "Its not meant for fashion. Its meant for keeping me from getting killed." Rarity recoiled a bit at the explanation. "Why is your country so dangerous?" "I honestly haven't a clue. Just have a weapon handy and be wearing some decent armor, and you won't get slaughtered by any bandits or monsters. Or just stay in a village or within the Walls of Xetronuvia City." "Right then... Uh, what was your occupation before your 'big adventure'?" "Well, first I was a sniper in the army. After getting shot in the head by an enemy sniper and surviving, I took up preaching." "Oh, a clergyman? What were your beliefs if you don't mind me asking? "I preached in the name of the lord Jesus Christ." "I have no idea who that is." "Didn't think you would. Anyway, I became a simple courier after a cult burned down the church." "A religious center was set ablaze by a colt?!" "Yes, bu-" Xavier's eyes widened at the epic misunderstanding and began laughing hystarically. "What's so funny?" "Colt and cult! Hahahaha!" "What do you me-" Rarity realized what happened as well and joined in on the laughing. After about 20 seconds of laughing it died down. "Anywho. I've been meaning to ask, darling: What is your coat made of, anyway?" "I believe its made of rhino leather." Xavier only just realized what he said. "I'm sorry, but did you say... leather?" "...sh!t..." *** Rainbow Dash and Joy Stick- Anthia "... And then I said 'I love you, daddy' and he said 'I love you too, Dashie' and then we left. I've never seen him since." Rainbow sobbed. "THATS THE SADDEST STORY I'VE EVER HEARD!" Anthia broke down into tears, along with Rainbow Dash and Joy Stick. *** "OK, OK. So a stalfos walks into a bar *snickers* and asks for a beer and a mop!" Link fell on the floor laughing. Big Mac and Fluttershy just stared at him. Link got up and looked back at them. "You guys have no sense of humor." He says. "Or maybe you're just not funny." I yell from across the room, trying to get Twilight awake. Big Mac chuckled, and Fluttershy was hiding behind her mane, like she has been all night. Link noticed this. He kneeled down to eye level with Fluttershy. "Eep!" Link smiled and silently d'AWWed. "Do I scare you Fluttershy?" He asked sincerely. He's not completely a smart @$$ you know. Link can be a nice guy. Whenever he wants to... "I'm sorry. But... yes. You're really-" Link rose up. "Eep! Scary!" Link chuckled. "How come you are scared of me and not Xavier? He's a freakin' lizard." "I heard that, ears!" Xavier yelled. Link chuckled and looked back to Fluttershy. "W-well, um. He's close to animal. And animal caring is my talent. I'm used to very type of animal. Except for full grown dragons." Don't introduce her to Thunder Rush... "So, you're like a vet?" "Kind of. I do care for the animals if they are injured. But I'm you could say I'm they're mother." "So, do you like your job?" "I wouldn't call it a job. But yes. I love it." "What kind of animals do you have?" "I have Angel bunny. He's so sweet." Its a lie! He's a minion of the Anti-Christ!!! "He sounds like a nice rabbit." You've just sealed your fate. "What other animals do you have?" "Well, I have a few lizards, some hamsters, bunnies, alot of chic-" Fluttershy barely finished her sentence when Link ran for a room and locked it. He was in a corner, in a fetal position, crying, and sucking his thumb. "Not the chickens. Not the chickens. Why are they in this dimension, too?! Oh, Gods..." Big Mac and Fluttershy stood there dumbfounded. "Why didn't Ah get any lines?" Big Mac asked nopony in particular. *** Discord and Pinkie Pie- Cid "So, Cid... Do you always get drunk like this?" "Only on Wednesday." "Today is Saturday." "I know." "...OK, then. Is there any war or other kind of chaos going on in your dimension?" Cid chuckles. He looks to Discord and Pinkie. "When is there not?" Discord's ears perked up at this. "Oh, really? People don't seem to get along very well in your world, do they?" Pinkie was listening intently on the conversation while sipping on some hard cider. Cid slammed his mug of vanilla vodka on the counter. "The... men we fight are not people. They are but poltergeists. Possessing suits of armor. They have no mercy! They don't just slaughter their victims! They lash them on to crosses! Why am I yelling?! I forget. *Sigh* I need more vodka..." Discord just stared with an eyebrow raised. Pinkie just continued sipping her cider unphased. Cid sips on his new mug of vodka. "OK. I am going to throw up and pass out in own vomit." He does so. Pinkie speaks up. "I like this guy!" *** Ditzy Doo and High Score- Tyran "So... How many monsters have you killed?" inquired High Score. "More than I count. At least more than 110." "What kind of monsters are there in Xetronuvia?" asked Ditzy "We got a quite a few. Goblins, trolls, behemoths, zombies, giant spiders. The usual." High Score looked at him in horror. "Sp-spiders?" "Looks like somepony's scared of spiders." "Terrified." "Do you have Diamond Dogs?" asked Ditzy. "Never heard of 'em." "What about hydras?" "The team and I have defeated 2." "2?!?" the couple exclaim in unison. "They aren't that hard to kill. Just disable the middle head - the one with the largest brain - with either ranged weapons or spells. And then do whatever the heck you want to the other ones; they won't be much of a threat without the middle head." Tyran explained. "Alrighty then... Score we should go home now. Dinky and Sparkler are probably hungry." "OK, Ditzy. It was nice meeting you and your friends, Tyran. But we gotta go." Tyran smiled to them, nodded, and pulled his guitar out of nowhere. "Goodbye, then." "See yah later." Replied Ditzy. "Goodbye. Probably gonna see you tomorrow?" "Probably so, my friend." Tyran says as he starts playing 'Korobeiniki' on his acoustic. High Score nods. He and his fillyfriend say goodbye to everypony and everyone and leaves. *** So everypony left to their homes for the night. WE had nowhere to go, and both Twilight and Spike were still unconsious. So we decided to crash in Twilight's basement. We knew she wouldn't mind. Now we just gotta figure out a way home... End of Chapter 4 Author's notes. ____________________ 'Korobeiniki'. Also known as 'Tetris' Youtube Video 6 likes and 7 dislikes as of the posting of this chapter. Both heads and [CENSORED]s are gonna roll. ... Not much else to say.
Chapter 5Chapter 5 You could've saved her. Its your fault she's dead. "No." She's dead because of you. You left her behind to complete your quest. "No, no!" The only person that understood you. Gone. And you are responsible. "Shut up!" She was the only person you loved. And you abandoned her. You don't even know if she felt the same way about you. How sad. "Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!!!" *** Link woke up, and found himself yelling. He lifted himself up. Surprisingly, no one woke up. Except fo- "You had the same nightmare again didn't you?" 24 asked. Link turned to him and said nothing. 24 sighed. "Its not your fault, Link. You couldn't've saved her. You had to continue to save your kingdom from destruction. If its anyone's fault, its his. 24-89 didn't say 'his' name. But Link knew exactly who 24 was talking about. Ganon 24 was about t- Oh, yeah. And FORESHADOWING!!! OK then... 24 was about to lie down when Link spoke up. "It was different." "Come again?" "The nightmare was different." Link couldn't tell, but 24 was raising an eyebrow. "How so? "The voice... it was different. A woman was speaking." 24-89's interest piqued. "Who could it be?" "I don't have a clue." 24 just sighed again and lost interest. "Look Link. You can't keep beating yourself up for what Ganon did to Saria. Its in the past now. She's gone in someplace better than the Hell we call home. Its time to move on." Oh, How I Love FORESHADOWING! "I'll try, 24. I'll try." Link sighed. 24-89 grabbed his sword and sheathed it. He opened the door to the upstairs and left without another word. Where does he always go? Link thought. 24 came back down. "I go pay respect to the things we kill." Wait. Did he just... "Yes. I totally did." Link just stared as 24 as he left again. "OK. Creepy." Link looked around the basement to his comrades. All were unphased by his yelling. "Everyone is still asleep. I should probably check on Twilight." Link left the basement and walked towards Twilight's room. He came to the door and put his ear up to the door. Don't poke a hole in it. Link looked up to the ceiling and said "Shut up." to the author. He began to listen. ... He hears a soft- and rather cute- snoring. He grins and quitely d'AWWs. Link walks towards the kitchen and looked to his options. "Hmm. Guess'll make breakfast for everyone." Link begins going throught the pantries and other kitchen areas to make the morning meal. He set out the supplies on the table and looked to the clock. 5:57 AM "Whelp. Time to get started." *** 6:39 AM Twilight got out of bed. She felt very wobbly. What a weird dream she thought. She looked to Spike, who was still sleeping and snoring in his basket. She turned around and continued to the bathroom and took a short, hot shower. After feeling a little more awake, Twilight decided to help herself to some hay-o's. She trotted downstairs and thought she smelt something burning. "Oh, not now." She galloped downstairs to the kitchen only to be greeted by a tall bipedal clothed in green; cooking pancakes. "Oh, so it wasn't a dream." Twilight smiled. Link turned to her. "Gooood mornin'. How'd you sleep?" "Just fine. Are those pancakes?" Link usually would made a wise @$$ remark. But something in his mind kept him from doing what he does best."Yes, they are. First batch ready for you, Twilight." Link brought out a plate and placed 4 pancakes on it with maple syrup. Twilight sat at the table and used her magic to lift up her fork and try her food. "Oh my Celestia, these are amazing!" she complimented with her mouth full. "Thanks." Twilight just continues eating. "The group and I didn't have anywhere to go, and you were unconcious. We crashed in your basement for the night. I hope you don't mind." "Not at all. You and your friends can stay as long as you like until you find your way home." Link looks at Twilight in feigned sadness. "Aw, when we find the way back you're gonna kick us out? You make me sad, Twi." Twilight giggles. "You know what I mean!" Link smiles and continues on his creation. Twilight sees Link using the stove and making pancakes like an expert. "How are you able to use the that kind of stove so well? Your dimension has technology a few centuries before ours. Yet you are cooking on a stove you are unfamiliar with." "Its a gift. If you were 11 years old and live in a dangerous forest, you gotta be resourceful. Thus making me a very fast learner." "Your world is just plain cruel." "Yeah, I know." "So... its like your special talent?" Twilight asks. "Excuse me?" "Your special talent. You know? A cutie mark." "Nnnope. Don't have one." "Wait. You are 17 and you don't have your cutie mark?" "No. There just isn't cutie marks in our dimension. Unlike here in Equestria, people where I come from get to choose what they are good at and make that their 'special talent'. They can even choose multiple things to be good at. No cutie marks at all, though." Link explained. "Thats stupid." Great way to show love and tolerance, Twi "Yeah, well so are Saturday morning radio shows." Twilight just looks at him. "A radio show is something like a book being read on a radio. I'm guessing you don't have those here?" Twilight shakes her head. "We have television, though." "I have no idea what the heck that is." "Didn't think you would." Twilight takes another bite of her pancakes. "How did you get to Equestria, anyway? Link turns to her. "I really have no idea... Because magic, I guess. It seems to be happening to us alot." Twilight almost choked on her pancakes. "Are you okay?" Link asked, legitamitely concerned. "I... I t-think I know how you got here." "How's that?" This is the part where I come up from the basement. First person again. Don't deny it, you missed me. " *Yawns* Mornin'." "Ah, good to see you are awake, Eli." greets Link. "Never call me 'Eli'." I say, my voice said in multiple, deep, harmonies. (A/N: I'm serious. Never call me 'Eli'. Ever. Or Slender Man will come for you.) He laughs. "Or what?" "It will involve a bunch of chickens." Link shrunk away from me and looked back to the stove. He passed me a plate of delicious looking pancakes. Link has always been a good cook. "Thanks." I tell him. "No chickens. No chickens. I'm in my happy place. I'm in my happy place." I raise my eyebrow to him. He smiles sheepishly and turns back to the stove to continue his masterpieces. I try some of my pancakes. Sweet Mary and Joseph. Its... beautiful. I feel my eyes slightly tearing up at the paradise known as Link's pancakes. OK. This is getting too dramatic. The pancakes were utterly amazing, alright. "Eh, they aren't bad." Poker face training by the Ravengate monks. Works like a charm. "The sparkle in your eyes says differently." So I still need to work on the eyes... "OK. The pancakes are a blessing from Heaven." I say to Link before I eat my breakfast at incredible speeds. "It may or may not have to do with the fact I wore the Golden Gauntlets while making these." He gestured to the gloves gilded in gold on his hands. "Don't those just make you able to carry 12 tons?" "Little known fact of the Gauntlets: They also make you cook like a chef from Alysium." (A/N: Alysium, a nation North of Xetronuvia that is famous for amazing food and reliable armor.) "Hm. Oh, do you know where 24 went? Did he leave for wherever again?" I ask him. "Yeah. Apparently he goes and 'pays respect' to any monster or dangerous animal we kill." "How do you know?" "I asked." "I've asked before and he didn't give me so much as a look." Link remembers the talk he had with 24-89 he had this morning. "Lets just say he was sympathetic this morning." It took a few seconds for me to realize what Link had meant. "Oh." Twilight was quiet this whole time. " 'Oh' what, if you don't mind me asking?" Link just continued on the other batches of pancakes, ignoring her question. She turns her head towards me. "Whats wrong with him?" "Its a very personal topic for him. Its best we don't delve into it, for sake he doesn't have a nervous breakdown." "That bad, huh?" "Worse." 24 came walking through the door. "Ah, glad you could join us!" Link regains his spirits and wise cracks to 24. "Shut up before I cut you in half." he says, casually, going down into the basement. "Will do!" Link yells back, trying to avoid getting 'halved'. "You and your friends are weird." Twilight remarks. "Tell me something I don't know." I reply. "The square root of infinity is infinity." she says in a matter-of-fact voice. "The question was rhetorical, but thanks for the info." I'll tell Xavier later... 24-89 walked up from the basement, and was followed by the rest of the group. Link gave each of them a plate of pancakes. And each of us said the same thing: Best. Pancakes. EVAR! (A/N: You are probably wondering how 24-89 eats without revealing his face. On 24's helmet, there is a 'door' that is over his mouth that can be opened so he can eat and drink without revealing his face.) *** 7:31 "WAT?!" "I think I accidently teleported you and friends here. I'm sorry." I sigh the heaviest I can. Link and I stayed in the treehouse while the rest of the group decided to explore Ponyville, and Spike went with them. I'm quite surprised Anthia didn't want to stay here with me. Twilight was telling us that it might've been her fault that we are here in the first place. "How do you know it was you?" Link asked. "I was testing out a spell that could conjure anything I needed. Spike accidently burned some of my new books and I needed something to relieve my stress. After I tested the spell, I saw a big, green, flash occur somewhere in the Everfree Forest." "Why didn't you just get a-" I put a hand over Link's mouth before he says something he'd regret. Oh, God, he's licking my hand! I take my hand off of his mouth and wipe it on my pants. He smirks but doesn't continue his sentence. Twilight just looks at us. "You 2 are idiots." Link and I just shrug at the comment. "So you needed something to relieve your stress... and you got us?" Link asks. "Apparently, so." A few seconds of silence ensued. "You aren't mad are you?" Twilight asks with a sad look that would make 24-89 d'AWW. I smile to her reassuringly. "Not at all. Besides, if you hadn't teleported us here, Rainbow Dash and Joy Stick wouldn't even be alive." I say to her She seems a little happier now. "I still feel a bit guilty." Link comes in. "Don't be! Everyting is fine. I'm sure the others will forgive you. I can't seem to find a single thing wrong with Equestria besides the chickens. I can tell for the rest of the time we're here, we will have a blast!" Link isn't a smart @$$ around Twilight. This is VERY suspicious... Twilight is now feels better about herself after what happened. "Thanks, Link. You're a good friend." She goes up to Link and tries to hug him. But she along with everypony isn't that tall. Link is reluctant but he kneels down to return the hug. "Its what firends are for." Link says. Twilight releases Link from the friendly hug. "Come on. Lets go find your friends and the girls and go to Sugarcube corner." Link and I nod to her as we walk out the door. I lean towards Link's ear. "You like her, don't you?" Link blushes and punches me in the arm. And he forgot to take off the Gold Gauntlets. *a single manly tear* "Shut up." He says, smiling. "This is gonna be a long stay." I sigh. End of Chapter 5 Author's Note's __________________ The amounts of FORESHADOWING in this chapter is overwhelming! That is all.
Chapter 6Chapter 6 (I again suggest you read the whole story all over again before proceeding. Potatoes.) Twilight, Link, and I explored Ponyville. Most of the ponies have already gotten use to us, but a few stayed on the other side of the street. We continued our exploration until we arrived at 'Sugarcube Corner' where we found the rest of our group, Spike, and the 'girls'. Big Mac, Joy Stick, High Score, Storming Shadow, and Ditzy Doo were all at work, and Discord was nowhere to be seen (No, sadly not foreshadowing). So the team was at one table with Spike and the five mares, Twilight, Link, and I were at another. We had a good conversation going and then it took an interesting turn... "Wait. You have a daughter?" I asked. "Yes. Her name is Nyx." Twilight replied immediately with no hesitance. "How come I've never seen her around your library?" Link inquires. "She currently goes to Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns." I raise an eyebrow. "Wait. That sounds like a college. How old is Nyx? "Its not a college. More like a private school. And she's 9." My eyebrow raised a few more millimeters. "9? Aren't you like, 21, give or take?" "Yeah, 21 and a few months." "Where's the father?" I say without thinking. Frick! I probably just walking into something too personal! "There is no father. Nyx is adopted." WHEW! "Oh, OK." I say, relieved. " 'Certainly explains a few things." Link says next in his smart@$$ way. A few seconds of awkward silence later... "Out of curiousity: How old are you guys?" I give Twilight a quizzical look. "Why does it matter?" "It doesn't. I'm just curious." Its an odd question. I am about to answer when I get a rather trollish idea. "Miss Sparkle, are you flirting with me?" She blushes. Alot. "N-no! I'm just curious as all!" Link and I laugh hystercially. "I'm just kiddin' with you." She glares daggers straight into my soul. *Shudders* "Right. *Ahem* Uhm. Tyran and I are both 16." "I'm 17 going on 18." Link comes in. I continue. "Anthia is 15 1/2. Cid is 37. Xavier is 103. And I have no idea how old 24-89 is, but then again we know none of his physical traits besides the fact he is almost as strong as the King." "3 of you are only teenagers and you are trying to save the world?! And did I hear 103 in that sentence?!" "Yep." Twilight wrinkles her nose. "Well, I've figured out this much: Ponies, Humans, Dwarves, and Elves age the same. Can't say anything about Draconians, though." "You asked us for our ages just to figure that out?" "Pretty much." I give Twilight my best 'Seriously?' face I can muster up. "Anyway, you said something about ponies and Xetronuvians aging the same? I call bull shizam on that claim." "Why do you say that?" Before I could respond Link comes in again. "Its because ponies in Xetronuvia reach sexual maturity before the age of 4; and they can't speak or reason for that matter." "Thanks Link. Twilight absolutely needed to hear that." I say to him, sarcastically. "You're welcome." Link replies, enthusiastically. Twilight had the most confused look I've ever seen. Then she speaks. "You know? I don't wanna know." Awkward Silence "Lets go to the rest of the group, shall we?" Twilight asks. "Oh, yes. Lets." Link agrees. The 3 of us move over to the other table; right in the middle of an interesting conversation... "...It just keeps me safe! I didn't know we'd end up in land of ponies!" Xavier tries to explain. "You have a coat made of leather! I simply cannot let this go!" Rarity pressed on. "Its made of rhino leather. You don't even know what a rhino is!" Rainbow Dash comes in. "You did tell us that they were creatures with a single horn. As in UNICORN!" "Hey guys! Guys!" Everyone and everypony turnd their attention to Link. He puts his hands together. "Good now that I have all of your attention: Shut up." he says coldy. The icyness in his voice forced the Draconian and the Unicorn to oblige. Cid speaks up. "Has anyone seen pink pon-" as if on cue, Pinkie Pie pops out of nowhere with a tray of brownies. "I have treats~!" she says in a sing-song voice. Cid looks shocked for a few seconds before grabbing 2 brownies. "I found her. Elijah, where is dog and dragon?" "I have no idea. 'Probably should find them before anypony gets killed." I reply. "You know a dragon?" Fluttershy and Spike ask in unison. If I respond truthfully, Fluttershy will cower in fear for the whole time we stay. And Spike will be offended that I have a dragon as pet. I can't lie. I'm terrible at it. And I hate lying regardless. Frick. This is gonna take awhile. "Uhm-" "HHEEEELLLPP!" Before I could explain. A small, crying, grey uncorn filly with a blonde mane comes rushing through the door. "Dinky!" Rainbow exclaims, hovering over to the filly, whom I assume is 'Dinky'. "Auntie Rainbow! Scootaloo, Applebloom, and Sweetie Belle are in trouble!" Rarity let out a bored sigh. "What did you 4 crusaders do this time?" "W-we didn't do anything!" Dinky sobbed. "We were in the Everfee For-" "Nah what in tarnation were you 4 doin' in the Evefree Forest?" Applejack asked in a stern tone. "We were trying to get our outdoor survivalist cutie marks." Dinky fidgeted with her hooves. "Never mind that. What happened?" Rarity inquired. "DIAMOND DOGS! They were ponynapped by Diamond Dogs!" "WHAT?!" Rainbow exclaimed. "Y-yeah! They were ens... enzl... um..." She struggled to find the right words. "Enslaved?" Twilight offered. "Yeah! The Diamond Dogs enslaved them!" ME: THEY. Link: DID. Xavier: WHAT?!? I slam my hands on the table and lift myself up. "OK. Sh!t just got real." Xavier says nothing as he loads spare bullets into his revolver. I see Link slowly tense up. He's going bad@$$ again... "Do you know where they are?" he asks Dinky. "Uh... Yeah! They are in a cave, on a mountain, in the Everfree Forest!" I nod and turn to the group and 'The Mane Six', as I've taken to calling them. "You all stay here. Xavier, Link, and I are going to... have agressive negotiations with these 'Diamond Dogs'." "I have no objection." Cid takes a bite of his brownie. "God, these are good! Anyway, I have objection. I stay and drink." he finishes as he brings out a bottle of cheap whiskey from his jacket pocket. "Dude, why can't I come?" Tyran asks me. " 'Cause this mission just became personal." "How so?" I ignore his question. "If this is personal, Elijah, I won't stand in your way." Anthia reassures me. "So will I." 24 agrees. Tyran pouts immaturely as he brings out his guitar and begins playing "Legends". "We're coming too!" I turn my head to the voice. I see Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash trotting towards us. "No." I say "Its gonna be too dangerous." "Well, ah don't care! Applebloom is mah sister, and ya'll can't keep me from helpin' tah save her!" Applejack tells me. "The same applies to me. Sweetie Belle is my younger sibling and I have the right to aid in this mission. And I have a personal bone to pick with the Diamond Dogs." Rarity gains a vengeful grin. "She may not be my sister, but I love Scootaloo like a sister. I would DIE to save her!" Rainbow gives her speech. I raise my eyebrow a 3rd time. "I have no choice in this, do I?" "Unless yah wann git bucked in yer stallionhood, Ah reckon you don't." It only takes me a second and a half to figure out what Applejack meant by 'stallionhood'. I sigh. "OK. The 6 of us will go to the cave and find your sisters." I turn to Xavier and Link. "Guys, remember: We need to use diplomatic ta-" Link cuts me off. "@#$% that! These guys enslaved little girls! I'm going to take each one of their heads off and take pictures of the heads doing embarrassing things to each other!" Whoa, he's not kidding. I look back to Dinky. "You're going to have to come with us, as well." "W-why?" "Well, we don't know the way." "B-b-b-but its scary there!" "You were in there earlier..." "Its still scary!" "Dinky, we need to save your friends. You are going to have to trust me. I promise you won't get hurt. I'll keep you safe." She's still crying a bit, so I kneel down and hug her. "Its alright. But we need you for this mission. I promise, if anything tries to hurt you, I will set it on fire." Subtle, I know. "OK." Dinky agrees in a Fluttershy level voice. "I don't think Ditzy will approve of her daughter going on this trip." Rainbow comes in. "Probably not. I will take full blame if Dinky's hurt, and if so, then Ditzy can buck me in the face." "Shall we depart now?" Rarity pipes in. "Lets collect supplies first. We leave in half an hour." Xavier says. We all nod. "I'm gonna go find Thunder Rush. We're gonna fly." Author's Notes: ________________ Past Sins reference! GASP! Sh!t just got real. Those Diamond Dogs are screwed. Chapter 7 is already a quarter written so it should be out soon. Joy Stick;s story is still at a writer's block. -__- That's all folks!
Good news and bad news...Ooo. I'm not dead. How convenient. Anyway sorry to break this to you all, but Something Different will be cancelled. "BUT JOY-!" I DON'T CARE! This story is finished! FOR NOW! "Really, Joy Stick?! :D" Yes, now shut your faces. It will come back eventually. But have you guys ever wondered what happened BEFORE this fic came out? What happened with the team before they came to Equestria? Well now you can find out. I am now writing an original story where you can find out. However there will be like 78.3 changes. But yes, I am now writing the story "for realsies" this time. The story is called "Connected Fates" and it will be released on deviantART. Here is my account: MegaBLYSTONE on deviantART I wrote the epilogue first, so those who read it are hooked and want to know what happen before that. Here it is! The following story is rated FIMU-14 The content may not be suitable for FIMFiction users ages 14 or younger Blood Violence Mild Language Various Cliches Bad Writing and Storyline Viewer discretion is advised. Connected Fates- Epilogue It has been 5 years since Elijah Matthew Octavius defeated Lord Purgatory, lost his brother a second time, drawn the sword known as the Hand Of God, and overall saved the planet Alysium. And now he has been experiencing depression. Elijah feels incomplete. He had lost so much during his year long journey, including a brother and a friend. He remembered the words of the old monk, M'k'shael. "The only to defeat sorrow, is to defeat yourself." For years Elijah didn't know what he meant. But now, he has figure it out. Elijah begins to meditate. The ritual he is about to conduct demands 100% concentration. The sound of a fly could disrupt the ritual and leave Elijah as a vegetable. Luckily this was... taken care of earlier. Elijah meditates to the best of his abilities, until he feels his very soul and spirit leave his body. He is startled by this but adjusted to the change quickly. Elijah then finds himself in a plane of non-existence. A black and purple void of absolutely nothing that look like it continued to the edges of the universe and beyond that. The only thing in sight was the large, flat, floating, stone platform he was standing on. And a shadowy figure meters away in front of Elijah, sitting on the ground with it's head down. Elijah hesitantly attempts to approach the figure, not knowing anything of what he is seeing. He manages to get closer to the shadow... ...When it abruptly raises its head, only to reveal a matte black face, glowing red eyes, and a mischievous if not devilish grin. The figure jumped to it's feet. And smiled to Elijah. Elijah gasped and his eyes widened. He saw the face of the shadow. The shadow... was himself. Only in a much darker tone, and a much more evil presence. Elijah only then realized what the old monk 5 years ago meant. "The only way to defeat sorrow, is to defeat yourself." Defeat Yourself. "Oh, boy." Elijah sighed sarcastically at the cliche floating in the airless void. The shadowy doppelganger holds his left arm out and a sword appears out of nowhere in his palm. Elijah is shocked at the reveal of the sword. The sword being the one his enemy wielded 5 years ago. The sword called the "Key of Purgatory". Elijah knows that the doppelganger has obvious intentions of killing him, and quickly our protagonist begins searching his body for a weapon, but is unable to find his throwing knives or sword. The figure hold out his right hand, and another sword appears. Elijah was very frightened. He was unarmed, and the doppelganger apparently had dual swords. And then Elijah recognized the sword in the shadowy figure's right hand. "The Hand of God." Elijah murmurs under his breath. The doppelganger tosses the Hand of God to Elijah, he barely catches it. "Heh, guess you really are my 'evil twin'. You always fight fair." Elijah compliments to his doppelganger and his following of the Warrior Code. The doppelganger chuckles and shrugs. The two then ready themselves in battle stances. And begin to circle each other, waiting for the opposite to strike first. Elijah maintains a serious face, while his twin has a crooked, mischievous, if not psychotic smile. The two warriors study each other, looking for a weakness in their defense. But it is a battle of equals. Both are skilled swordsman and have near flawless defenses. So naturally, the dark twin grows impatient and attacks Elijah abruptly and randomly, catching him off guard. The doppelganger rises the Key of Purgatory above his head and slashes downward to Elijah's arm. Elijah manages to advert the blade with his own, allowing his arm to stay attached to his shoulder. The hero jumps at his doppelganger with a vertical slice, only to find that the doppelganger can teleport the bastard, which leads to Elijah's sword striking the stone ground, making an obnoxious clanking sound. Elijah bites back a curse. He turned his body around where the doppelganger currently stood. The doppelganger stands there with a smug face, and then runs to Elijah with an attack to the legs which is quickly deflected by the good swordsman. Elijah thrusts his blade towards the area where his doppelganger's heart would've been. But the dark assailant casually moved his body out of the way, diagonally, and slices at Elijah's arm. Elijah dodges the attack mostly. There was now a shallow gash where skin once was, but Elijah would have to deal with it. Our protagonist turned to face his antagonist. But the doppelganger was nowhere to be found. "Say whaaaaat?" Elijah stretched the 'what'. He turned his head in every direction, but still couldn't find the rival swordsman. Maybe he's behind me, and turns whenever I turn. Elijah tested his theory by thrusting is sword behind him. Nothing. Elijah then noticed something unnatural about his shadow. It had a pair of red eyes. Elijah's eyes widened and he jumped away, but not before yelping like a little school girl. His shadow began to take humanoid shape and form back into the doppelganger. The doppelganger laughed maniacally, taking amusement in his good twin's fearful face. He almost had me there... Hey, that wasn't fair fighting! The doppelganger had stopped laughing and stared at Elijah. And he stared back. And the void was calm. Both opponents stood near motionless, swords drawn in front of them, ready to harm. But they both knew... The battle was going nowhere. It was a battle of equals, and if one is able to beat their equal, then they would be better than them self. But the fight must continue. Elijah's only way out of the void was to defeat his dark opposite. And if his spirit died here in the void, Elijah would've died in the Physical World. Elijah stepped out of battle stance and began throwing fire balls at the doppelganger. He continued to do so while running in a circle around his dark twin. The doppelganger, however, kept on dodging the flames. Eventually, he then began throwing fire balls of his own, only they were blue. Elijah continued running in a circle, only he stopped throwing the fire balls. Elijah stopped running altogether. The doppelganger stood there, meters away from Elijah, doing nothing. The doppelganger wondered what his twin of flesh and bone intentions were. The clever protagonist smirked. He used what chi he had left running through his veins and pointed his index and middle fingers at the Hand of God, and flames spewed out of his finger tips. It was as if Elijah's hands were the mouths of dragons. The legendary blade had fire illuminating around it. A common, yet deathly, technique used throughout the planet of Alysium: Fire Sword. For once in the battle, the doppelganger had fear struck in him. The doppelganger attempted to do the same, but was quickly overwhelmed by the fire blazing Hand of God in Elijah’s nimble hands. The doppelganger continued averting attacks by the suddenly vicious and determined Elijah. Eventually, the dark one closed his eyes and slashed at one of Elijah’s legs. There was a shout of a great pain. When the doppelganger opened his eyes, he could see his opposite lying on the ground. Both of Elijah’s hands were gripped on his leg. The doppelganger had cut one of the main arteries, and Elijah was doing the best to stop the bleeding. Elijah repeatedly let out grunts of pain, and though he would never admit it: squeaks of agony. The doppelganger made a face of triumph shouted out a victory yell. His moment of triumph ending, the doppelganger slowly stepped towards the hero in agony. Elijah was close to passing out, and in only a few minutes, he would die of blood loss; causing his physical and spiritual body cease to exist. The shadowy antagonist finally neared Elijah, only feet way. Elijah looked up to his attacker, defeat in his eyes. Realizing death was near, Elijah lowered his head, preparing to be struck down and transition to the next life. He waited. And waited. And still waited. Elijah looked up to see the doppelganger offering his hand; offering to help Elijah stand up, despite his leg. Elijah is hesitant, but takes the hand and stands up. The two warriors now stand, and step a few feet away from each other. The doppelganger had one sword in each hand. He throws the Hand of God to the ground and kicks it. The blade slides to Elijah’s feet and he looks down towards it. The sword’s blade glows; a sign it recognizes its master’s presence. Elijah raises is head to his twin, giving him a quizzical look. The doppelganger speaks his first words. “Pick it up”. The doppelganger’s voice was spoken in harmonies. 3 voices talking over each other, saying the same exact thing. The dark and ominous tone of his voice didn’t make the situation any better. Elijah still had a quizzical face. He didn’t know if he could fight on a bleeding and pained leg. In fact, Elijah probably couldn’t. The doppelganger grew impatient. “Pick up the sword. I will not fight an unarmed warrior. Even a worm such as yourself.” He insults. Elijah puts the back of his hand on his forehead in mock offense. “Oh, why don’t you twist the sword while it’s in there?” he says sarcastically. “Believe me, I plan to.” The doppelganger replies readying his sword. "Heh, you just called yourself a worm!" Elijah realizes. The shadowy figure gives a confused face. "How do you mea-?". The doppelganger stops himself and facepalms. "I suppose I did, didn't I? Always the joker you, or shall I say 'we' are." He said, slightly amused. The opposites end their surprisingly friendly conversation abruptly and take fighting stances. They stare intently at each other. It was like looking into a screwed up, fun house mirror. In a few moments, the two swordsmen ran at each other. Though Elijah had a limp, he still ran as fast as he could. The two swing their swords as they past each other, and a loud clank fills the void. Elijah swung his sword horizontally, but his opponent jumped backwards. The doppelganger thrusts his sword forward only to have it averted by Elijah's. It went on like this for what seemed like hours, but was only for a few minutes. The battle was still going nowhere. And the doppelganger had just about enough. "I have had just about enough of this!" he exclaims. See? I told you. The doppelganger breaks into a sprint; running straight for Elijah. Elijah sees the apparent attack. As well as its flaw. He was running with his sword outward to his right, leaving a gaping mistake in his defense. Elijah was almost sorry for what he was about to do. The doppelganger was only a few feet away now. Elijah reared his sword back and let out a yell. The doppelganger was running too fast. He too saw the flaw in his attack. A single tear fell from the mirrored one's eye, as he ran his where his heart should've been right through the blade of the Hand Of God. Silence. Elijah and his dark twin stood there, as if they were statues. The blade in Elijah's hand sat still in the chest of the dark of the doppelganger. A gurgling sound could be heard, before the doppelganger's chest burst out an impossible amount of black blood. Elijah's face was wet and clothes were stained in black. So bloody his clothes were never. The Hand of God and the Key of Purgatory both disappeared in flashes of light and shadow. The doppelganger stops spewing blood and begins limping towards Elijah. Elijah is not sure what to think of this. And only steps closer. Out of random, the doppelganger embraces Elijah in a hug, catching him by surprise. He whispers into Elijah’s ear. “It is done.” The doppelganger then falls to the ground. And his body disintegrates into smoke, leaving only clothes behind. Elijah stands emotionless, looking to what remained of the dark one. He begins to feel the effects of blood loss and passes out on the ground. What is 'Done'? Elijah wakes up, still in a meditating position. It was apparently night time. The battle lasted hours by the looks of it. Elijah sees his wife in bed, sleeping (they have only been married for a year). She probably didn’t want to disturb Elijah. He did take meditating a little too seriously. Elijah grinned and got up. He walked out of the bedroom, through the hallway, and into the kitchen. Elijah poured himself some milk and heated it up a little bit with his fire magic. He gulped it down rather quickly. He took a seat at the table, trying clear his mind of what just happened. Elijah decided sleep should help. It has been a long night. Elijah washed out the cup and put it back in the cupboard. He walked back into the bedroom, to see that his wife, Sarayu, is atanding up and rubbing her eyes. Sarayu yawned and said, “I see you’re finally done. I was getting worried about you.” “I was worrying too, believe me.” Elijah chuckles and Sarayu laughs softly. "What happened, exactly? During your meditation?" Sarayu asked with a look of concern. Elijah frowned. His eyes were actually watering up, though he didn't know why. "I don't want to talk about." he turned his face away slightly. Sarayu wouldn't have it. "Talking about it will make you feel better~.", she says on a sing-song voice. Elijah only turns away more. "Why do guys never want to talk about their feelings?" Sarayu mused. "Because magic." Elijah says with a smile. His wife glares at him. "Will you ever stop saying that?" "I've been saying it for 7 years, try and guess the answer." Elijah tests Sarayu. Another death glare. "Thats it. No sex for a month." Sarayu crosses her arms. "Worth it." "Ugh, you're hopeless." "So I've heard." "Do you want to sleep on the couch, too?" "..." "I didn't think so." Sarayu smirks in triumph. The couple look at each other and begin laughing hysterically. Elijah walks toward his wife and pulls her into a passionate kiss. He pulls away. "I love you." Sarayu smiles. "I love you, too." Sarayu's smiles a bit more, but becomes a frown and she turns away from Elijah. “What’s wrong?” he asks. “Elijah, while you were meditating I found out something…” she trails off. Elijah is confused. What could be wrong? Oh, wait. “Sarayu, are you…” Sarayu’s expression gains a soft smile and nods. Elijah falls unconscious abruptly. This gives the vampire wife a bit of a shock, but she begin laughing hard right after. She gives a content sigh, lies back down with the passed out Elijah, and wraps her arms around him. “Good night, Daddy.” Sarayu says, jokingly, before falling back asleep. The End
