Two Sun Goddesses

Chapter 5: A Familiar Place

As the group searched around the castle, Issun just sighed in frustration “This is just hopeless! How the heck are we suppose to get back to Nippon?” he asked the group in his frustration.

Twilight thought carefully for a while, thinking back to the encounter with the strange man “Well, Waka did say something about a maiden calling. Maybe, we should wait here for a bit and try to hear for it.”

“I guess we can try that. But my pinkie sense is telling me the portal is behind those bushes!” Pinkie said suddenly as she bounced toward them.

“Pinkie what now? What’s that?” Issun asked Twilight as Amaterasu tipped her head to the side in confusion.

Twilight giggled in response “Don’t ask or try to understand it, it’ll make your head hurt” she said to the confused poncle.

“Oh” Issun said, puzzled “Well, I don’t want to get into any of that so I’ll trust you guys for that.”

Twilight smiled “Everypony…err everyone come back here please!” she called and soon, the group all returned together from their own searches as they gathered around.

“Did ya find the portal Twi?” Applejack as when they were all together again.

Twilight hesitated before giving Applejack a nod “Well, Pinkie says that her pinkie sense tells her it’s over there” she said and pointed toward the mentions bushes.

Sky Light went over to the bushes to check it out and stopped, hearing a young woman call out “I think I can hear somepony calling” she said to the group.

The whole group stayed silent and listened carefully “Susano? Where are you?” a faint voice called out from between two trees behind them.

“That sounds like Kushi!” Susano said suddenly and ran over to where the direction of the voice was coming from “Im coming Kushi!” he called out, running, before suddenly disappearing.

The ponies, poncle, and wolf looked there in shock once he was gone “whoa! Where the heck did pops go?” Issun asked to no one in particular.

“Ah dunno. Should we investigate?” Applejack asked, worried and the whole group nodded in agreement to her.

“We should. I wonder what could have happened to him. Do you think that area might be where the portal is?” Twilight asked, stepping forward and looked at the group

“But darling, what if it’s not a portal and something bad happened to that ruffian Susano?” Rarity asked, clearly worried as she looked around at the group.

Ammy then suddenly got into a attack stance “Oh no Ammy, not again!” Issun cried out before Ammy leapt into the portal and the two of them disappeared.

Twilight sighed, “Come on girls” she said and looked at the 6 other mares.

They nodded. Rarity was a bit hesitant “But what is even on the other side of that thing?” she questioned.

Rainbow Dash smirked as she fly next to Rarity and flew toward it “Only one way to find out!” she called out before flying in and disappearing.

“wee!” Pinkie happily said as she bounced toward in the portal and disappeared right behind Rainbow. Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rarity soon went in too after.

Soon, Skylight was the only pony left and sighed, checking her equipment before entering the portal after the others, wincing slightly at a sudden brightness that covered her entire vision as she entered the foreign world.

Twilight groaned in pain, her eyes closed as she layed on the ground in the foreign world. She forced her eyes open as she took in what she saw in the world, finding herself on some sort of wooden platform on a cliff. As she looked around, she only saw the ponies but no sign of Amaterasu and Susano and panicked, getting up.

“Amaterasu? Susano?” she called out, waking the others from her shouting.

Fluttershy looked around a bit fearfully “A-are we in Ammy’s world?” she asked to no one in particular.

Sky Light has her eyes closed in pain but responded immediately to Fluttershy’s question took a good look around them, spotting a large tree in the distance. “I believe so, I don’t remember anywhere like this on an Equestrian map”

Pinkie smiled as she bounced around tehm“Wee! A new world! I wonder what kind of parties are here!”

Twilight sighed “Pinkie, we’re not here to have parties with Ammy’s people.” She said.

The party pony looked a bit down “aww” she said before suddenly cheering up “Hey! What if afterward, we can through a ‘we saved two worlds from Orochi’ party!”

Twilight chuckled a bit “I guess maybe afterward we can do that”

Applejack looked around the group “Uh Twilight? Where are that Susano guy and Ammy?” she questioned.

Fluttershy spoke “um. I think they went that way. They left tracks here from where they were” she said quietly as she flew over to the spoken tracks.

Sky Light went over and inspected the tracks, narrowing her eyes slightly as she took note of them “She’s right, those are their foot and paw prints alright” she confirmed.

“Should we really keep following those two in their world? Who knows what could be out there!” Rarity spoke with worry in her voice as she looked around the area. "We might even get lost and dirty!"

Sky Light frowned, the light blue pegasus looking at the sky, seeing the moon high up in the sky. “Stay here” the guard ordered “I’ll scout ahead to look for them and if not, hopefully receive aid from the natives in this land”

Twilight nodded as the other ponies gathered themselves up from the ground “Agreed, stay safe Sky Light”

Sky Light gave her a small nod before heading down the path from the wooden platform. Once she was out of earshot, she sighed a little as she continued down the stone path “ I wonder where those two could be” she muttered to herself before glancing back at the large blossom tree in the distance “And I wonder why this place seems familiar… It’s not like Equestria has a surplus of giant blossom trees…”

In Kamiki Villiage

“Susanno!” cried out a woman with a comb shaped hair as she spotted a familiar wolf and man come down from the path.

“Kushi!” the man called back in excitement as he ran faster, leaving a small dust trail behind him while the wolf and small poncle on her head looked on with amusement.

“Well, there goes Pops. As much as Pops is useful to us, we need to get that Serpant Crystal!” the poncle spoke and soon after, Amaterasu barked in agreement. “Right! But where would it be? I think Princess Fuse has it, doesn’t she?” Issun asked with a hint of uncertainly. “After all, we don’t know what exactly happened after we used it on the Moon Cave’s entrance”

Ammy looked on silently in the village before barking something to Issun. “Hrm? You want to bring something for the Equestrains? That’s a great idea Ammy! We should go get them the Orange’s cakes! I’d bet they’d enjoy that!”

Amaterasu barked again in agreement before heading over to Mr. and Mrs. Orange’s house, Mrs Orange in there as usual.

“Hello there Amaterasu!” she greeted the wolf warmly “My, it’s been a long time since we’ve seen you! After the Day of Darkness, I’d thought that you would’ve gone to the Celestial Plain! Here, have some of my cakes for your travels” she said, handing some over to Amaterasu.

Amaterasu wagged her tail, giving her a grateful bark before heading outside of the house, the food kept in her inventory as she started heading back to the ponies.

As the two of them headed back up toward the wooden platform, they were surprised to see Sky Light sitting by herself along the path under a few trees as she looked at the view.

Amaterasu tipped her head slightly to the side before heading over to the mare, wondering why she was there as she made a bark.

At the sound of the bark, Sky Light turned around in surprise, spear in her hoof as she pointed it at Amaterasu and the wolf jumped back in surprise. “Woah there Sky! It’s us!” Issun said quickly to her, trying to diffuse the situation before anyone made a wrong move.

Sky Light lowered her weapon, letting out a relieved sigh “Sorry, training with the guard has put me on the edge, I'm aiming to become Captain of the Royal Guard you know” she added.

Amaterasu sat down during her explanation, looking at her with curiosity “Captain of the Royal Guard?” Issun asked her.

Sky Light nodded, chuckling lightly “Yes. It’s a tough position to achieve and other guards are always competing for that spot” she said thoughtfully “Heck, there was even one kid that I can think of becoming a Captain, I think his name was Shinning Shield or Armor… I don’t really know but he’s becoming pretty popular with the Unicorn Division. For me, I aim to be Captain of the Pegasus Force obviously” she said, spreading her wings a little to show them.

Issun and Ammy looked at her with curiosity “That’s great and all but why tell us this?” Issun asked her with interest.

Sky Light froze a little, not knowing how to respond to how she blurted out her ambitions. But she then shrugged “I don’t know actually… Never really told anyone about it before but I felt that I should tell you about myself…” She muttered, looking away as she wondered to herself, why exactly she told these aliens all that information "Maybe because even after knowing you two for a little while, you sure have a way to get ponies talking to you".

Issun thought about what she said before shrugged afterward “I can see that. Well anyway, what are you doing out here?” he asked her.

She looked back over at him “Huh? Oh… Well, I was going to look for the two of you after we came into the portal onto a wooden platform after you but I guess now that you’re here, I don’t have to."

“Oh” Issun responded in a bit of surprise, “Hope you guys had a nice landing. Me, Ammy, and Susanno didn't. Well, we also brought some food for you guys from Kamiki. Come on before the food spoils” he said. Amaterasu barked in agreement before continuing up the path to where Twilight and the others were waiting.

Sky Light stood there for a minute, reflecting on what she has spoken about to the sun goddess and poncle ‘Why did I suddenly tell them that… Could it be that they?... No… Impossible… They never met me before and I’m sure that it wasn’t those two who helped me all those years ago when I was a filly…"

“Hey Sky! You coming or what?” Issun’s voice driffed over to her, snapping her out of her thoughts.

"Yeah! I'll be right there!" She responded back to him. She sighed, then gave her head a small shake, closing her eyes as she focused on what she was suppose to do before looking back and following the pair back.