Two Sun Goddesses

Chapter 1: Yami Returns

So, did you find out who I was in the story? Sheesh, you guessed right! What? You want to hear another story about Amaterasu? Alright then. This story takes place before Akuro returns and Chibiterasu is born. It all took one month after Yami’s first defeat…

On the land of Nippon, a little green sprite was laying down on the ground in Shinshu Field.

“Man, I miss that fur ball…” the green sprite named Issun said to himself “I’ll get to the celestial plain… one day. The one month she’s been gone feels like a year. Boy, being a celestial envoy sure is tough! I have to travel from Kamiki village all the way to Sei-an City. After that, I have to go all the way to Kamui spreading the word around about Ammy.” the tired sprite muttered to himself as he watched the sky.

“Sure is a nice day… Hey, why are the clouds getting darker?” he asked himself as he noticed a large amount of clouds suddenly appear in the once sunny sky. Right then, a small group of green imps appeared before him.

“Ah!” he cried out and jumped up. “Where did you come from? I thought Ammy took care of you guys!” he began panicking as he jumped around. “Back off! I’ve got my trusty sword Denkomaru!” he threatened, pulling his small sword out.

Suddenly, Issun felt himself being grabbed into something warm, sticky, and disgustingly familiar.

“Ammy?” Issun asked as he recognized the feeling of Wolf slobber. The white wolf Amaterasu spat Issun out of her mouth and quickly took care of the green imps with her Solar Flare Reflector.

“Ammy! What are you doing here?” Issun asked. The goddess barked something at him.

“What? Yami returned?” he asked, sweat beading if his face. “But I thought you defeated him only a month ago!” he protested. Amaterasu whimpered.

“So he somehow kept a part of himself alive and was revived? And you have a feeling he’s around here somewhere?” Amaterasu nodded “Okay Furball, but this time, I’m coming too!” he jumped onto Amaterasu’s snout. Ammy barked happily and raced to the moon cave.

“Hey Ammy, why do you look like Shiranui?” Issun asked her as they raced across Shinshu Field. Amaterasu barked a few times “Woah, so all that praise went into you and you got your true form back? That’s great! Good thing I was here to help you, huh Furball?” he asked. Amaterasu barked back to him.

When Ammy and Issun reached the Moon Cave, they stopped. “Woah, there’s a really eerie feeling about this place! We should be careful Ammy!” Issun warned. "But, I think we should rest for a bit, to catch up for old times sake". "How have you been ya big Furball?" he asked. Amaterasu barked, wagging her tail. "Thats nice to know. Hey, how did you even get back to Nippon? I thought I saw you and Waka heading back to the Celestial plain!"

Amaterasu barked a few times. "So, the half-baked prophet is back in Nippon too then... You know, even after the prophecy that Waka gave me to help you, I'm still pretty mad at the guy. I mean, come on! He tormented me and got me to try and get on that boat!" Amaterasu barked one time and whimpered a little.

"Yeah, I'm fine Ammy. You know what this reminds me of? That one time where we were in Oki's house back in Kamui! We haven't had much time to rest at all during our travels. I guess this is one of those few rare moments to do so eh Ammy?" Issun asked. "I really hate demons. Especially Ninetails. I mean seriously, what kind of demon just takes a busty babe's body and uses it to get to Queen Himiko?" he asked again, thinking back about their previous adventure.

Amaterasu barked in response. "Yeah, I guess it was really clever to impersonate someone who could get close to Queen Himiko." Issun admitted. "But still, that's just plain evil! It was even more annoying when we gave the fox rods right back to her. We worked so hard just for Queen Himiko to die."

"I guess we’d better get going huh Ammy?" Issun asked. Amatersu nodded and went up the stairs and the tree over the gap in the stairs, she barked something at Issun. “Yeah, you’re right Ammy, this place should be swarming with demons to guard Yami. So where are they?” he asked, the last part to no one in particular.

Amaterasu and Issun then made it to Orochi’s throne and spotted Yami’s final form floating it the middle. “So that’s what he looks like? Jeez Ammy, I didn’t expect Yami to be a giant metal hand!” he said. Yami spotted them and fired a missile directly at them. But Amaterasu managed to dodge it, only burning a little fur. “Woah! He looks like he was as strong as Orochi the first time we faced him! Lets show him what you’re made of!” Issun said.

Amaterasu growled and leaped into battle. Once she got close, Yami quickly summoned a small tornado and it hit Amaterasu, but it barely did anything. “He’s still weak enough to finish. Quickly Ammy, get him!” Issun commanded. Amaterasu shrugged off the tornado and used her Tundra beads to shoot a few of them from long range.

After that, Yami got into a familiar stance, ready to use his laser beam on them. As it swept the battlefield, Amaterasu simply jumped over the beam. Once Yami had finished, he raised his hand and revealed his orb for another attack but Amaterasu used power slash and caused the giant to fall down stunned. Amaterasu used her reflector to deal a good amount of damage to the small orb.

Once Yami began to recover, Amaterasu used her mist technique with her Celestial Brush. While time was slowed, Amaterasu attacked with greater ferocity toward the weakened Yami.

After many hits, Yami had had enough; he flew away from Amaterasu’s reach and opened a dark portal. After the portal was completely open, Yami slowly floated though.

“Oh no! Yami’s trying to escape, after him Ammy!” Issun called. “Like I say, leap before you think!” he said and Amaterasu jumped though the portal. Once they were through, Amaterasu and Issun looked around, only to see dense looking trees all the around them “Hm? This doesn’t look like anywhere in Nippon! I don’t even see Yami around here either!” Issun said. “Maybe we should go around and ask some of the villagers around here.” Ammy barked in agreement, curious about the strange environment that they were in.

Suddenly, just as the portal behind them was about the close, a familiar blond haired man with a strange hat was standing near them. “Bonjour ma chérie” the man said. “Oh great, it’s the half-baked prophet again! What do you want Waka? And where did you come from?” Issun demanded, his usual green sprite color turning red. “Not much, I’m here with Amaterasu to take down Yami once again. Didn't you notice how there weren't any demons around the Moon Cave? I was busy taking care of them while the two of you caught up. I should go. But first, I have a prophecy for the two of you.” Waka said and did a few moves “The Elements that will help can only appear when you help them.” Waka said.

“Hehe. Pardon, ma chérie, I’ve been out of practice for so long.”

“What’s that even supposed to mean, elements of what? Nature? Ammy’s powers?” Issun asked, hopping up and down angrily. “That is even something I don’t quite understand.” Waka said, putting a hand under his chin as he considered his prophecy.

“I am quite sure that you will find out soon enough. Au revoir, baby.” Waka said and flew off. “Darn that half-baked prophet!” Issun said bouncing on Amaterasu’s head as his red colored sprite turned back to green.

Amaterasu whimpered something to Issun “Yeah, I didn’t really understand what his prophecy was even supposed to mean. I mean, are we supposed to cherry bomb our way out of here?” Issun asked and noticed something. “Hey Ammy, I think I see a road over there. Let’s go follow it. Maybe it’ll lead us to a town or something” Amaterasu barked in response and proceeded to follow the road.

“Heck, we might have just ended up really far beyond Nippon with all these trees here. I’ve never seen so many dense and dark trees in one area before. The only place I can come up with that might look like this is Yoshpet but that’s all the way north with snow!” Issun said jumping off to inspect a nearby tree. “These trees don’t even look like they’re from Nippon either.”

Amaterasu barked something and inspected the tree too. “I guess we really aren’t in Nippon then.” Issun said, jumping back on Amaterasu’s head. “Hey Ammy, I think I see the exit from here. Let’s just get out of this forest, fast.” He said. Amaterasu nodded and sprinted out of the forest into the dark and grim day.

“Hey Ammy, don’t you think it’s a little strange that there are a lot of stone pony statues?” Issun asked as after about 25 minutes of walking, they found a lot of strange statues along the way, all looking at the sky fearfully. Amaterasu barked in reply “You have the feeling that Yami managed to revive all of his minions? You don’t think this could be Orochi’s work do you?” Issun asked.

As if in reply, a large and terrifying roar was hear. Issun shuddered and looked at a nearby statue with 3 apples on its flank, strangely, it had a cowboy hat on it. “I wonder why there’s a hat on this statue?” he said to Amaterasu when she went over to inspect it.

“Hey Ammy, if this is Orochi’s work, don’t you think we should have run into a few stone villagers by now? We’ve being seeing a bunch of stone ponies.” Issun said as they passed by a unicorn statue with 6 stars on its flank, looking like it was running away from something.

“Weird” Issun muttered to himself “If this is Orochi’s work, it seems that his curse is weaker than before. All these ponies look like they barley turned into statues. Just drawing the sun from a high point should be enough to get everything back to normal. Then we can find out where all the villagers are and maybe find another busty babe. Hehe” Issun said to Amaterasu.

Amaterasu yawned, not really interested in finding someone like Ninetails. Nevertheless, Amaterasu barked in agreement with Issun and raced toward the town, noticing a tall and easy to scale building in the center of the town.

In the strange town, the two of them noticed a very important and strange detail: There were pony statues everywhere but not a single human statue anywhere in sight. Issun and Amatersu just shrugged it off, thinking that any residents in the town just went to hide in their homes and just happened to have many workhorses. “Hey Ammy, do you think once you draw the sun back in the sky, everything will be fixed? I know I said earlier about the curse being weaker but what if the souls inside the villagers are trapped? I don’t think Sakuya would have one of her Konohana trees here!” Issun said once they reached the top.

“Well, here goes nothing right Furball?” Issun asked. Amaterasu nodded and slowly drew the sun in the sky. Once the sun was back, the dark air disappeared and the day became sunny again. “Great job Ammy!” Issun congratulated, bouncing up and down on her head. “Now, lets go meet the people that live here!” he said. Amaterasu barked in agreement.

“Hey! What’s a timber wolf doing on the town hall?” asked a voice from behind them. “Huh?” surprised, both he and Amaterasu turned around. Before them, flying in the sky, was a strange blue Pegasus with a rainbow mane. The Pegasus flew up to them. “Hm?” she said, getting a closer look at the sun goddess. “You don’t look like any ordinary timber wolf. You’re not made of wood… Just fur like a dog.”

“Hey! Wolves are canines you know!” Issun stated angrily.

The blue mare backed off a bit in surprise. “Woah, a talking bug”. Issun just bounced in anger at the statement, turning red “Why does everyone think I’m a bug? I’ll get you for calling me that!” he threatened, pulling out his sword and slashing it at the mare. “Okay, jeez you really need to cool down.” the rainbow mare said. “The name’s Rainbow Dash! Who are you and… what are you?”

Issun then stopped bouncing, the red light surrounding him turning back to normal. “I’m Issun! A wandering artist and celestial envoy! I’m a poncle, not a bug!” he replied.

“And this here is Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess!” he finished and Amatersu laid down and yawned.

Rainbow Dash look at Amaterasu “That thing is supposed to be Celestia?” she asked, not really taking it seriously. “Hey, I don’t know who the heck this Celestia is, but Furball here can control the sun! Heck, she brought back the sun and revived you guys! But enough of that, what are you supposed to be? And who is Celestia?” Issun demanded.

“Well, I’m a Pegasus, fastest one around Ponyville too! Celestia is our sun goddess, she raises and lowers the sun!” the mare named Rainbow Dash replied. “Right…” Issun said, not believing there could be another sun goddess. “Hey Ammy, as soon as we get out of this town, let’s go meet this Celestia. Maybe she’s supposed to be the element that helps us. Sounds like she pretty much does what you do. Also, I guess there aren’t any people around here, it’s just all ponies from what I see.” Issun whispered to Amaterasu.

Amaterasu barked in agreement. “Well, it’s obvious that you guys aren’t from around here at all. I think I might know somepony who may be able to help you. And luckily, she lives pretty close too.” Rainbow Dash said.

“Alright, but who is she? And why are there so many mares around here?” Issun asked, looking around as the town began buzzing with life again. Rainbow Dash just shrugged, flying a little away “I really don’t know. But anyway, my friend’s name is Twilight.”

Author notes

thanks to The Grimm Reaper for helping me edit this story!