Two Sun Goddesses

Chapter 4: The walk to Orochi

“Susano style blade of truth!” a voice yelled out throughout the small town of Ponyville as a lone figure sliced a dummy in half. The figure took a few deep breaths as the top half of the dummy fell down to the ground “I think I’m starting to get the hang of things again” he muttered.

Amaterasu and the mane 6 wandered up to him once he finished, wanting to check up on how he was doing.

“Hi Susano!” Pinkie said cheerfully as she bounced around him.

“Are you ready to head out pops?” Issun asked as Susano put his sword on his back and faced them, crossing his arms.

“What?” He asked, a little surprised from the visiting group. “Yes, I’m ready to go fight Orochi once again.” Susano said, putting his sword onto his back, making his way over to the group.

“Great! Now let’s quickly head over to the entrance to the Everfree Forest! Celestia sent me a letter saying that she sent one of her toughest guards to help us. Though I wonder why she only sent one.” Twilight said, levitating a letter over to them with a hint of confusion.

“There’s no need to worry! Furball here can deal with any trouble that we face!” Issun said bouncing up and down on Amaterasu’s nose.

“What are we waiting for? Hey Ammy, since we have to go there quickly, I challenge you to a race! I’d bet even you as a sun goddess can’t keep up with me!” Rainbow Dash said with a smug look.

Amaterasu barked and got into a crouching position “Heh heh, you haven’t seen Ammy race anyone! Heck, she might be even faster that you!” Issun said.

“I can’t believe you would think of racing at a time like this!” Rarity said as she and the rest of them started walking toward their destination.

“All right then. Ready, set, go!” Rainbow Dash yelled as she and Amaterasu sped off toward the Everfree.

Applejack shook her head; amused “that’s our Rainbow Dash alright. Quick and with a love for races.”

Susano laughed, “That rainbow pony is going to have a hard time racing against Fido, she even beat the fastest mail carries in Nippon! I don’t really know how she does it but your friend won’t find Fido easy to beat.”

Rainbow Dash was flying at ease, passing around trees easily. She chuckled to herself with a smug grin “That Ammy won’t be able to catch up with the fastest flier in Equestia that easily. No matter what powers she has.” she said, confident she was winning.

Suddenly, a white blur flashed beside Rainbow and soon found Amaterasu running neck to neck with her, slowly gaining speed.

“Hey, I’m impressed Ammy, didn’t expect you to catch up with me! Guess I can’t go easy on you huh?” Rainbow Dash asked and started flying faster.

Amaterasu barked and, unknown to Rainbow, she then used her mist bush technique and soon was ahead of Rainbow by a few yards.

Rainbow looked at Amaterasu in amazement “What the hay?” she asked and started speeding up even more to do a Sonic Rainbow when she suddenly realized that a lone guard was waiting for them was a little ahead.

Rainbow Dash grumbled a bit with the guard being in the way and kept at a maximum speed to avoiding making a Sonic Rainbow but to her surprise, Amaterasu won.

Amaterasu barked, her tail wagging at Rainbow Dash who was slowly hovering over them. “I…Lost!” Rainbow Dash said in utter shock.

Issun bounced on Amaterasu’s head. “Hey, that race wasn’t that bad. You actually race a lot faster than most of the mailmen back at Nippon! Heck, some of them cheat by throwing stuff at us.”

Rainbow flew down onto the ground; looking down and kicking one of her front hooves lightly. “I hate losing!”

“Aw, Cheer up Rainbow! You were going against Full-Throttle Ammy here! Ammy’s the fastest thing in Nippon!” Issun continued, “Besides, if Ammy didn’t use some of her powers, heck, we’d probably lose.” he said

Rainbow Dash looked up and cheered up a bit at this information. “Yeah, I guess so.”

A sudden cough interrupted them. “Excuse me but are you the Elements of Harmony? Princess Celestia sent me to help out.” the guard was a mare.

Rainbow and Amaterasu both looked at the mare, a Pegasus guard. “Wha- oh yeah. The rest of us are going to be coming along soon.” Rainbow said, looking back at the direction they raced from.

The guard dipped her head and soon, the rest of the mane 6 and Susano came.

Issun looked at the guard. “So now that we’re all here, how come that princess only sent you? Don’t you guys have some sort of army or something?” He asked her with interest.

“That is a good question. However Amaterasu and Issun, I’ll be all the help that you need.” The mare simply said.

Twilight stepped forward from the group toward the mare. “Well, what’s your name?” she asked the armoured mare.

“My name? My name is Sky Light,” she said, wielding a spear that she had.

Rainbow Dash smiled. “Cool name. By the way, my name is-“

“Rainbow Dash.” Sky Light said and looked at the group from left to right “You’re Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Applejack and Fluttershy.” she said to each of them easily and Fluttershy gave a small sound like a greeting. “You’re Pinkie Pie, and you’re Susano.” the Pegasus guard finished.

“Whoa lady, slow down. How did you even know our names?” Issun asked with a hint of suspicion while Amaterasu tipped her head slightly to the side.

“I was briefed by Princess Celestia quick details about who I was meeting and what they looked like.” Sky Light explained and looked toward the direction to the old castle in the forest. “Enough talking, shall we continue our chat while we head

toward our destination?” she asked as she bounded a little toward the old castle.

The whole group agreed. “Why of course silly! That’s why we have to go get that meanie Orochi guy! If we don’t then maybe that yellow maned person like Susano will have to take care of Orochi by himself! Also, did you know that he can fly with that awesome hat that he has? How cool is that? I mean, Fluttershy and Rainbow can easily fly but that yellow maned guy can fly pretty far too! Maybe not as fast as Dashie but he can still fly! I wanted to talk to him but he flew away before I could get to him…” Pinkie said, continuing to ramble on.

Sky Light and the group looked at Pinkie with confusion, unable to really hear what she was saying with the speed at which she spoke. “Erm…” Rarity said, looking over at Pinkie who was still talking. “I think she means that we should get there fast”.

Sky Light nodded to them. “Okay then, let’s move on forward.” she said, taking the lead while everyone followed behind.

Amaterasu looked back at Pinkie who was still rambling away. “…And then I said oatmeal? Are you crazy?” Pinkie said but stopped, realizing everyone was going ahead without her. “Whoops, my bad.” she said, smiling as she and Amaterasu rejoined the group.

Twilight looked over at Amaterasu and Issun as they and Pinkie joined back to the group. “So Issun, What’s it like in your world?” she asked.

Issun jumped off of Amaterasu and then onto Twilight. “Well for starters, the animals back home don’t talk at all. Heck, this Everfree Forest place reminds me of a place I used to live… except with a lot more snow and cold.” he explained. “Plus, your town really reminds me of Kamiki Villiage!”

Twilight smiled once he finished. “I’d love to study the differences between our worlds. Your world just seems so foreign! Just think of all the possibilities if we can learn from each other!” Twilight said, getting a little excited.

Issun and Susano chuckled. “You have no idea about the bad things in our world too. There are so many foul demons just running amok! Earlier, one of the demons’ leader killed Queen Himiko, one of our rulers, but Fido here managed to defeat her.” Susano explained as Amaterasu wagged her tail and barked.

“Heh, yeah! Fox-face was just destroyed by Ammy!” Issun added in.

“A fox?” Fluttershy asked, surprised and frightened at the thought of an animal getting hurt.

“Ah, don’t worry Flutter! It wasn’t like any of your animals that you have at your house! It was just a nine tailed demon fox.” Issun explained.

Twilight looked a little crestfallen “Oh. I guess your world does have its violence after all. But I’m pretty sure we can defend ourselves.”

Issun chuckled, jumping back onto Amaterasu. “Yeah, I guess you can.”

After a long conversation, the group of 8 finally reached a large broken building, a familiar barrier blocking their way in.

“Dang it! There’s something blocking our way in!” Issun said while Amaterasu tried to paw at the barrier.

Applejack looked inside through the transparent barrier and saw something dark and swirling around in a circle near the pedestals where the Elements of Harmony once were. “Uh, ah think ah see something strange inside there. It’s swirling around like some sort of cloud or fog.”

Susano looked in as well and reeled back a bit. “That looks like the same thing that brought me to this world!” he exclaimed.

“But there’s something off about it though.” Issun said, studying it. “It feels like it’s cursed or has a lot of demonic energy coming from it…”

“Hey! Maybe Orochi hid himself behind that thing! After all, the guards did look like they were in complete shock when they came back! Heck, maybe they went into that portal!” Issun continued.

As soon at the poncle finished, there was a familiar flute tune that played in the air and the whole group looked around, searching for the source in confusion.

“That is correct my bouncing friend.” A familiar voice said as the music died out and a figure suddenly appeared before them, facing away from them. The figure then faced Amaterasu “Bonjour ma chérie” The figure said, facing them.

“Waka! What are you doing here?” Issun demanded angrily at him. Twilight and the others looked at the Moon Tribe man curiously while Rarity looked at him, surprised at his clothing.

“What am I doing here? Perhaps I’m here just to help you along?” Waka said with a small shrug. “I see you have helped the Elements of Harmony. That is good Amaterasu.” he continued.

Twilight stepped forward “how do you know who we are?” she asked, confused.

Waka looked at the purple mare “How? I’m a prophet, it allows me to glimpse at the future. Quite handy most of the time, especially for Amaterasu.”

Amaterasu barked. “Bah! We don’t even need your stupid prophecies! Whenever they do happen! It’s too late!” Issun grumbled.

Waka chuckled. “Is that so? Well, I love saying prophecies to the two of you. You have so many enemies ahead and it will get quite difficult. In fact, that reminds me why I came here.” he said, pulling his flute out and a beam of light green energy came out of one end of the flute, startling the ponies and Susano while Amaterasu got into a battle stance, growling at Waka. “I haven’t tasted your power for a long time. Perhaps you would like to show me Amaterasu?” he challenged her.

Amaterasu growled at him. “You’re on pretty boy!” Issun yelled at him. “Come on Ammy, let’s give these folks a show they’ll never forget!”

Then, a large barrier surrounded Waka and Amaterasu. The ponies and human gathered behind, watching in worry at the battle that was about to take place in front of them, talking about the strange blonde man.

Starting the fight off, Waka floated up a little off the ground and did a tornado spin at Amaterasu. Amaterasu slowed time down and dodged out of the way just as Waka hit the barrier. Instead of stopping, Waka continued to charge after them using his energy sword as a tornado.

Amaterasu growled and put 3 cherry bombs around Waka as soon as he was finished, throwing him off of his feet and onto the ground, stunned.

Amaterasu, slowed down time as she rushed over to Waka and hit him many times with her Solar Flare. The ponies watched the fight from outside the barrier, noticing Waka getting badly hurt. Rarity looked worryingly at him. “My, their little scuffle will get his clothes all dirty!” she said.

Waka then got up and threw three small swords at Amaterasu. Caught off guard, Amaterasu got hit by two of them but managed to hit the third back with Power Slash.

Waka landed on his back, stunned once again and Amaterasu ran back, trying to deal as much damage as possible. Then, it was over. Waka recovered and the barrier surrounding them disappeared. He jumped onto a tree branch, watching as the ponies surrounded Amaterasu and praised her. “My my,” Waka said, sweating and breathing heavily. “you sure have improved greatly since the last time we fought.”

Twilight faced Waka. “Why can’t you just be friends with Ammy? If the two of you are allies, why do you fight?” she asked him.

Waka looked at the purple unicorn. “It’s simple really, to improve is to challenge yourself with things to do. Amaterasu has strengthened as well and I wanted to see it for myself.”

“Oh my… Are you all right? I-If it’s okay for me to ask?” Fluttershy said quietly to Waka.

Waka shrugged. “Not only did I come here to face Amaterasu, I have a prophecy to deliver too.” he said. “Listen carefully to the young maidens calling, the voice of worry will bring you home.” Waka said, doing a few motions.

The 7 ponies and Susano looked at Waka in confusion. “What exactly does that mean?” Sky Light demanded.

“Only time will tell. I’m pretty sure you know what to do to get though the barrier?” Waka asked Amaterasu.

Amaterasu barked, “Yeah we remember! We remembered how you stole that Serpant Crystal from us too!” Issun said angrily.

Waka shrugged “Once you find the Serpant Crystal, come back here and I’ll open the doorway.” he said and disappeared with a few shimmers of where he was just standing.

“Bah! That prophet makes no sense at all! Who even is the maiden anyway?” Issun asked angrily.

Rainbow Dash looked around. “I don’t know but we need to get to your world as fast as possible!” she said, worry in her eyes.

“Yeah! Once we beat that meanie Orochi, I can throw us all a “Giant 8 headed demon dragon is now gone party!” Pinkie said in her usual enthusiastic mood.

Issun smiled. “Well, wouldn’t want to miss that party after missing the Kamiki Festival right Ammy?” he asked her. Amaterasu just barked in agreement at Issun’s words.

Author notes

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