Equestrian Hearts: The Guiding Key
Chapter 3: Black Heart's dark plans
Previous ChapterWorld: Equestria
Location: Twilight Sparkle's castle
Orange Wonder listened as Twilight and Roxas explained their parts of the situation then Twilight asked what that shard thing was. "A Chaos Shard. A usually corruptive mineral only found in a specific location, think of it as something that can have a specific trait tied to it and whoever picks it up becomes filled with that trait," Orange Wonder explained causing Twilight to nod her head, "I see, so those aren't exactly good to have around, right?" the princess asked as Orange Wonder nodded.
Then Heartless showed up. Orange Wonder let Roxas deal with them but she felt a familiar presence. Orange Wonder looked out and saw the one and only Black Heart, "So you've shown your face, Orange Wonder. I knew we'd find each other eventually but not in these conditions, I see you've upgraded that weakling of a Rapier to the Vengeful Rapier, not that it matters one bit. You know full well that you can't defeat me with that dinky weapon you refuse to use," Black Heart said as he laughed out loud as he opened a Dark Corridor, "Goodbye, pathetic Nobody."
Black Heart went through the Dark Corridor leaving Orange Wonder and Roxas confused, especially Orange Wonder who thought that Black Heart wanted her to find him. "Was that who I think it was?" Roxas asked but Orange Wonder didn't say anything... Orange Wonder... you just let your heart get away... Orange Wonder couldn't believe herself... "Black Heart... why?" She mumbled to herself as she rushed out to the town proper. Finding more of the Chargers and Tankers as well as a new one that had a Chaos Shard attached that she called a Demon Claw cause it looked like a severed claw.
Orange Wonder defeated the enemies and took the Chaos Shard from the Demon Claw. A young filly, who looked similiar to Orange Wonder as she normally looks, had seen the battle, she dashed off, exicted to tell her friends of the pony who could beat those monsters. Orange Wonder just smiled as she was just... doing... the right... thing...
Is what I'm doing the right thing? I'm... hurting sentinent beings... aren't I? Orange Wonder thought to herself as she got out a journal and looked through it, finding it having filled itself with new information.
Charger
Number killed: 24
An entity without a Chaos Shard enhancement, no representive trait.
Tanker
Number killed: 12
An entity without a Chaos Shard enhancement, no representive trait. Defeating one takes a long time with its defenses.
Chaos Shooter
Number killed: 8
An entity representing hatefulness. It has amazing aim with its gun, keeping distance won't help much.
Demon Claw
Number killed: 1
An entity representing clinginess. If it grabs you, be certain that it dies soon or you might never be let go.
Vengeful Hunter
Number killed: 1
And entity representing vengefulness. Its shotgun is always loaded so even if it misses, it can fire again without reloading. When it fires into the air, it'll summon Chaos Shooters so be careful.
As Orange Wonder closed the journal, she ran farther as she sensed lots of Chaos Shard energy near a famrland, as she got closer, more and more Demon Claws, Tankers, and Chargers appeared to slow her. She killed them fast as she kept rushing, finding Roxas and Twilight standing outside a treehouse as the orange pegasus filly was tossed out... she knew... a yellow filly, with her eyes now a insincere grey, trotted out and gave Orange Wonder a stare. "Well well, looks like a little filly wants ta play hero? Ah'll show ya what happens in that situation... Orange Wonder."
Orange Wonder knew that voical pattern, she knew it well. Orange Fool. "What are you doing here, Orange Fool?!" Orange Wonder asked causing the possessed filly to laugh. "Ain't it obvious? Doin' mah job like the mare ah'm s'posed ta be. Like a mare of Chaos Castle. And if it wasn't thanks ta that cloaked filly fer clonin' my thoughts and personality ta a Chaos Shard, ah'd neva have gotten ta chance ta kill ya like we should 'ave when ya declined the castle." The two looked at each other like mortal enemies. When the filly jumped down, Orange Wonder drew her Vengeful Rapier as Demon Claws rose from the ground, buy Scootaloo had no issue defeating them as Roxas used his magic to attack Orange Fool.
"Ya'll really think ya'll have a single chance ta win? Ah'm Orange Fool fer a reason because ah show others the folly of their actions!" Orange Fool said but Orange Wonder had words to say...
"Carelessness. Carelessness is the greatest folly of anyone. No matter who you are, if you're careless then you're most probably going to lose."
Orange Fool looked at Orange Wonder in curiousity, as if that reaction was... unexpected. Which it was. But also as if she knew that the Nobody pony wasn't saying everything she needed. This distraction allowed Orange Wonder to get close and extract the Chaos Shard from the filly. And that was the Chaos battle out of the way. Orange Wonder stared at the Chaos Shard as she held her Vengeful Rapier to it creating the Fool's Rapier.
