Two Sun Goddesses

Chapter 3: A Few Introductions

“Susano? Is that really his name?” Twilight asked, looking at the sleeping form of Susano sleeping in her lab. “Well, I found him wandering into town a few days ago. When I went over to greet him, he was saying I was a D-man… whatever that is.”

“It’s actually demon. But it’s all good, Pops is probably really confused right now. Can you untie him, uh…” Issun paused, having suddenly forgotten the purple unicorn’s name.

“It’s Twilight Sparkle.” the mare replied and looked at the snoring human. Her horn started to glow, as did the bonds around Susano’s hands. “And yes, I can do that.” she continued as the same glow from her horn appeared around Susano’s ropes and they loosened.

“Woah Ammy! Did you do that?” he asked, surprised to see the ropes suddenly fall.

“Uh, that was me.” Twilight said with a little confusion. “What do you mean by Ammy doing it? Is that the name of that weird looking timber wolf you have there?”

“Hey! Ammy’s sensitive about her faults! But yeah, that’s this fur ball’s name!” Issun replied, looking at Amaterasu who happened to be asleep.

Twilight went up to Amaterasu curiously. “What a strange timber wolf. She looks a lot like a dog, except she has a physique like that of a timber wolf. Is she a new kind of creature?” she asked while Amaterasu opened an eye and yawned, going back to resting.

“Well, you see…” Issun began when suddenly; a pink pony with a bunched up mane appeared seemingly out of nowhere.

“Twilight! Twilight! My pinkie sense is telling me that we’re going to have another doozy!” the pink mare said and went over to Amaterasu, who raised her head in surprise at the sudden appearance of the energetic pink pony.

“Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh” the hyperactive pony said, bouncing up and down like Issun. “What is it? Is it a timber wolf? Did you try to make a timber wolf into a dog Twilight? Whats this glowing green bug doing here? Did you try to enchant a bug to light up in the dark? We should have a party! I’ll call it the ‘Great job for making a timber wolf have fur and a glowing bug! Or maybe something else? I know! I should invite everyone over here so they can see this!” The pink pony rambled on.

“Pinkie!” Twilight yelled, silencing the pink pony.

“Yes Twilight?” Pinkie asked.

“First of all, I did nothing to them. And second…” Twilight said.

“I’m not a bug! I’m a poncle! Heck, I have no idea what a timber wolf even is! Also, Ammy here is a sun goddess!” Issun interrupted angrily.

“Wow, a talking poncle! I think you two are the doozy I was talking about!” Pinkie said, looking at the angry poncle.

Issun just sighed “But how did you get here in the first place? There was no way you could just appear here out of nowhere.” he said with a hint of confusion.

“I’m going to go get everypony here! I’d bet Fluttershy would be really excited to see Snowy here!” Pinkie said and left as quickly as she’d come.

“How did she do that?” Issun asked and laughed a little. “Heh, like we haven’t heard the name Snowy before” he commented.

Twilight chuckled. “Trust me Issun, you don’t want to know how she does that. But anyway, I have to ask, what is Ammy?”

“Well, Ammy’s full name is Amaterasu. I just like to use her nickname; Ammy. It makes it easier to address her!” Issun said, calming down from the encounter with Pinkie. “But on what she is, she’s the sun goddess from the Celestial plain! She controls the sun, the moon, and other things too!” Amaterasu, noticing the conversation had returned back to her, just yawned and rose to her paws, shaking her fur.

Twilight frowned a bit. “That’s pretty interesting. We have a sun goddess here too but her name is Celestia. She can also control the sun and the moon.”

“Yeah, we heard about her from someone called Rainbow Dash.” he explained, “Celestia sounds a bit like Ammy here but missing a few things. Ammy can also control things with her Celestial Brush. Hey Ammy, why don’t you show your blooming powers on that dead plant there?” he suggested, jumping over to a dead flower in a pot.

Amaterasu barked and the world froze for her as she drew a circle around the dead flower. Once she finished, the flower returned to its healthy state. Twilight looked at the now healthy flower in surprise. “How in Equestia did you do that? That’s just amazing!” Twilight said excitedly. She went over to Amaterasu’s tail, inspecting it. “Do you mind if I take a few notes on her powers?” she asked.

Amaterasu let out a small bark of annoyance but barked again in agreement. “Ammy says sure but we’ll have to go outside.” Issun translated for the bookworm pony.

Twilight nodded. “Alright. I think I know a good spot to try it. The area outside the town centre is pretty large and clear. Plus I think since Pinkie is bringing the rest of my friends over. Showing your powers would be the perfect time for me to examine them.”

“Alright! Come on Ammy, let’s go!” Issun said, jumping back onto her. Amaterasu barked and headed outside.

Twilight smiled as she watched the poncle and the sun god head out of the library. Going upstairs, she looked around and saw Spike organizing some books. “So, how did it go Twilight?” he asked.

“It was pretty interesting. Amaterasu and Issun offered to demonstrate some of her powers to show us. But first, take a letter Spike.”

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As Twilight and Spike made their way to the centre of town, she noticed a large crowd gathering around something and when she reached the front, she found her friends already there watching Issun and Amaterasu, who were just sitting there waiting.

“Oh Twilight, you’re finally here. Would you care to explain why these two are sitting out here?” Rairty asked her.

Twilight looked at her, mildly surprised. “You’re not going to ask who or what they are?”

Applejack looked at Twilight and shook her head. “We already heard it from Rainbow and Pinkie Pie. Ah think that’s enough information.” she said, looking back at the strangers.

Amaterasu barked, wagging her tail as she saw Twilight and went over to the small crowd of ponies. Twilight’s friends backed away warily. “Sheesh, these guys are pretty scared of us. At least they’re not as afraid as the guys in Kamiki Village 100 years in that past. But anyway, hey Twilight! Do you want us to show you what we can do?” Issun asked.

Twilight shook her head “Just wait for a moment. I sent a letter to the princess and hopefully they’ll both come soon enough.”

As soon as she finished speaking, a large white alicorn with a rainbow mane along with a dark blue alicorn with a starry night sky mane came in on a chariot pulled by guards. “Whoa, so I’m guessing the large white one with the rainbow mane is Celestia! Heh, she’s pretty much your counterpart eh Furball?” Issun asked as everypony around them bowed. Amaterasu barked in agreement and looked at the two regal sisters. “But who’s the other one?”

As the two alicorns made their way over to the sun goddess and poncle, the dark blue alicorn looked at the wolf questioningly. “So thou art a sun goddess like thy sister?” she asked. The white wolf tipped her head to the side in confusion.

Celestia smiled. “What Luna meant to say was; are you the one that can control the Sun?” she explained, looking at the midnight princess.

“Oh that!” Issun said, “Yeah, this here is Ammy! She can do a lot of things! Why don’t you show everyone some of your more harmless brush techniques? Let’s start off with Crescent and then Sunrise!” Amaterasu nodded and drew the moon in the sky, startling everypony when the sun suddenly disappeared and the moon took the sun’s place.

“How have thou replaced thy sister’s sun with thine moon?” Luna asked, clearly shocked as she stared at the moon.

“Oh, that was easy! It was just Amaterasu’s crescent technique!” Issun explained. “Hey Ammy, how about we show them your sunrise brush technique?” he asked. Amaterasu barked and drew the sun back in the sky.

Celestia looked at the sun with great interest. “That is amazing. Only Luna and I can control the sun and moon! You seem very familiar Amaterasu.” she added in the end as all the townsfolk and Luna looked at the bored wolf in awe.

“We have a lot more brush techniques with us too! Let’s bloom that tree over there!” he said, bouncing over to a dead tree nearby. Amaterasu then performed the bloom technique on the tree while Twilight studied it.

“Amazing!” the lavender pony said as she took a few samples of the revived tree. “This tree was compeletly dead and you brought it back to life! That bloom technique could be useful!” she said.

“Yes well, I think that is just impossible! I don’t believe such a pure white wolf could possibly do all that!” Rarity said grumpily despite admiring the wolf’s coat.

“There’s another thing bloom can do to! We can also use it to cheer people up! Why don’t you show them Ammy?” The poncle asked. Amaterasu barked and drew bloom around Rarity.

“Why… This is simpily divine! I feel so happy! Almost as happy as Pinkie Pie.” she said in a now cheerful tone.

“Yeah, cheers others right up!” Issun said bouncing back to Amaterasu. “There are a lot more powers that Ammy has but these are pretty much the basics. The rest are used more often when we fight demons! Uh… Rainbow Dash there saw us fighting some earlier!”

Rainbow Dash smiled “Yeah! That fight was so awesome too!” she said excitedly. “Hey… why did it get cold all of the sudden?” she asked as everypony there started shivering.

Amaterasu looked around suddenly, alert as suddenly, a team of two green imps, one red imp, and two blue imps appeared in front of her, making a large red barrier appear around the sun goddess and the demons. “Oh boy, here we go again Ammy!” Issun said.

Amaterasu barked and leaped at the green imps, taking both of them out easily and using their flora finishers in a matter of seconds. “Hey Ammy, how about we give these guys a show they’ll never forget? It’d be the perfect time to show them some of your moves!”

Amaterasu barked in agreement and attacked the red imp, once she made contact twice; the imp raised its instrument to protect itself. The goddess then power slashed it, destroying the imp’s weapon and stunning it. Amaterasu then finished it off with her reflector and used its flora finisher, causing it to burst into flowers like the green imps. Suddenly without warning, the blue imps dived bombed the pair, breaking a little of Amaterasu’s godhood barrier. “Alright folks! This one is galestorm!” Issun yelled to the surrounding ponies around the barrier.

Amaterasu growled and drew galestorm, knocking the imps down. Amaterasu rushed forward and finished off the blue imps before they could recover. Amaterasu then used galestorm one last time on them and the two imps disappeared, the items they had drawing towards her. Once the last imp was finished, the barrier disappeared and the whole crowd of ponies surrounded them.

“That was amazing!”

“Oh my… Are you all right? If you don’t mind me asking that is…”

“That was so awesome!”

“That was simply fantastic!”

“Ya all right their partner?”

“Good job Amaterasu! That was the best fight ever!”

Celestia and Luna then approached the Okami. “You have done well Amaterasu. I have to say; those were some impressive moves there with your divine instrument. It goes well with those markings you have there,” Princess Celestia said.

“Wait, you can see Ammy’s true form?” Issun asked, surprised “I guess it makes sense, seeing as how you’re celestial beings and all.”

Applejack looked at Celestia with a confused expression on her face “What do ya mean you can see Ammy’s true form? She looks like a timber wolf with white fur to us!”

Celestia chuckled “Well as Luna and I are celestial beings, we are able to recognize Amaterasu’s true form. And I have to say Amaterasu, you look amazing” she said.

Rarity looked at the wolf “Is there a way so we can see her true form?” she asked.

“Well, there are 2 ways. One way is to truly believe in Ammy. And the other is just seeing from a painting.” Issun said bouncing over to the now sleeping Amaterasu “I drew this picture awhile back, about a month ago when Ammy had to go do something.” He continued throwing some paintings of her.

Twilight picked up one of the paintings and the rest of her friends crowded around her “Ammy looks so awesome in this picture!” Rainbow said.

“I must say, with that mirror on her back in flames, it does match well with the rest of her.” Rarity said, noticing the reflector.

“If I can, can I keep this picture?” Fluttershy asked. “But it’s okay if I can’t.”

Issun jumped over to them “Nah, it’s fine. If you guys want, I can give you all copies of this picture! I am a wandering artist after all! Plus I’ve got some extra left over from before!” he said.

Rainbow went over and picked one of them up “This is so awesome! I’m going to put this up in my house!” she said and the other ponies around them said similar things.

Celestia levitated one of the pictures over to herself “I’d like to keep one of these too. The artwork has a lot of feeling put into them,” she said.

Issun bounced back to Amaterasu. “Heh heh, yeah. I made them to have the people of our world believe in Ammy when she was in deep trouble. When we all prayed, Ammy was restored to full strength.” he said.

Suddenly, a large and familiar roar was heard throughout the whole town. A battered group of armored ponies ran over to Celestia, coming from the nearby forest where Amaterasu, Issun, and Waka had come from. “Your highness! We have just come back from the Everfree forest. The one making all the noise is a large and strange dragon called Orochi! We tried to attack it but we couldn’t make a single dent in his hide with our weapons!” one of them said.

“Orochi? Bah! We can take care of him easily. Just tell us where he his and he’ll be gone!” Issun said, drawing out his sword. Amaterasu woke up and barked in agreement.

“Fido? What are you doing here? Also, what happened?” A voice asked behind them.

Amaterasu, Issun, and all the ponies around looked at the source of the voice. Sitting there was Susano, now awake and carrying his golden wooden sword on his back.

“It’s the monster! Everypony run!” one of the ponies cried out.

Soon, it was just Amaterasu, Issun, Celestia, Luna, a few guards, Twilight and her friends left with the confused Susano “Hey pops! So you’re finally up, huh?” Issun asked.

Susano yawned. “Yeah. I was in the middle of ridding this town of demons! This has to be the work of some demon like Orochi!” he said. “Looks like I woke up in time from my secret technique, Susano Sleeping-Monk style!”

“Woah there pops!” Issun warned as the celestial princess lit up their horns, prepared to attack the human. “You just ended up in some sort of different place! These guys are friendly! Also, how the heck did ya get here anyway?”

Susano looked at them carefully “Well, I was practicing using my Celestial Cleaver in Kamiki Village when suddenly, a hole opened up near me and sucked me inside!” he said, putting his hand to his chin as he thought back.

“Oh. Well Susano, I think we might need your help for a few things. Orochi is back and he’s terrorizing this village!” Issun said.

Susano started shaking. “O-Orochi is back?” he asked composing himself. He cleared his throat “Of course I’ll help! But I need some practice first, I feel a little weaker after going through that hole.”

Celestia and Luna smiled, powering down their horns. “Then it’s settled, The Elements of Harmony, Susano, and Amaterasu will go to the ancient castle. Luna and I hope you know how to take care of him?”

Issun bounced onto Amaterasu. “Yeah, no sweat! Me and Ammy already took him on two times together!” Amaterasu barked in agreement.

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Thanks goes to The Grimm Reaper for helping me edit this story!