Kanji Tatsumi: Equestrian Bad Ass

Kanji froze. That god awful voice waxed into his ears again, “Everypony in this town is sooooo weak. Why doesn't anyone know how to put up a real fight? Ah well. If ponyville can't provide a real fight, perhaps some pony else will.”

The human turned towards the source of the shadow's booming voice. Over towards the edge of town a massive spire had risen. Columns of smoke wafted through the air and the tower itself looked like it was made of obsidian.

And centered above the tower, a patch of smoke had merged together and a distorted image of Shadow Fluttershy grinned down at them from upon it. Kanji glared and clenched his fists. “Come on Pinks, we've got work to do. NO ONE messes with my huggable pony.”

Pinkie shot out of Kanji's shirt like a cannon and gave the human a salute, “Okie Dokie Loki!” Kanji normally would have questioned how she had gotten in his shirt...but right now...he had more important shit to do.

And with that the group of friends charged head long towards the menacing spire that towered over pony ville.

…

Kanji and his friends looked down at the swirling pool of blackness that the spire sat on top. Just like with Pinkies Playhouse there was a drawbridge leading across the inky blackness to the spire. Up close however, the spire was far more intimidating.

Two pikes rested on either side of the drawbridge, with skulls from all sorts of animals and species stacked on them, including dragon skulls. Kanji squinted, trying to peer into the darkness of the spires entrance.

The teenager took a cautious step onto the bridge, followed by another and another. The teen waved over the rest of the group and they all crossed the bridge in silence. After what felt like an eternity of being scared out of their wits, they finally reached the ebony doors at the end of the draw bridge.

And it didn't take a detective to figure out that if the ponies in the group weren't scared before...they were horrified now. The massive ebony doors that kept them out of the black spire was covered in misplaced and mismatched furs from all sorts of animals. Rabbit furs, mountain lion furs even...even pony furs.

“Don't look at them. Just keep moving.” Kanji said quietly over his shoulders to he ponies...and Naoto. All that met him in response was a whimper. The youth braced himself against the massive ebony doors and pushed with all his might.

The human groaned as the doors gradually creaked open. Kanji took one peak through the door before he completely opened them and muttered to himself, “Well shit.” Before the human continued opening the doors, “Alright every pony listen up. You are not going to like what you see inside. So either grow some balls and ignore it, or turn around.”

“BUCK NO! THAT'S OUR FRIEND IN THERE!” Was the unanimous shout that roared into Kanjis ear. The human sighed before thrusting the doors open. Everyone behind him, including Naoto, gasped in shock.

The long narrow hallway the stretched out before them was dimly lit by primitive looking braziers and torches, but the lighting was the least eerie thing about it. Pelts and furs of all creatures imaginable, lined the walls of the hallway. And dangling from the pitch black ceiling were the skeletons of the creatures that wore the furs hanging from the wall.

Some were absolutely massive, and Kanji could swear that was a dragon dangling from the ceiling directly above them. Kanji took one step inside the dimly lit corridor and immediately a group of four shadows darted out of the blackness of the hallway.

Were they supposed to be...cave ponies? Warrior ponies? Bandit ponies? All four of the shadows were pony sized shadows that had a deep red glowing eyes. In their hooves they held various axes, spears and war hammers in their front hooves and stood upright on their hind hooves.

Kanji called over his shoulder, “Hey Pinks! Get over here! We got work to do!”

In less than a millisecond the pink party pony popped out of the group and landed next to the human. “Alright Pinks. I don't know a damn thing about your persona except its name, so call 'er out and do your thing.”

Kanji turned towards the group of shadows in front of them, “ROKUTEN MOH!

FATAL END!” The massive sword of his persona fell upon the center shadow obliterating it.

Pinkie shimmied in place, her usually silly smile replaced with a look of determination. The party pony hopped into the air, “PONYSONA! WARAI MESUMA!” The jester colored mare flashed in existence behind her summoner, happily giggling into a forehoof.

Kanji opened his mouth, prepared to give an explanation on how to figure out  how to use her persona when she suddenly shouted, “MARAGI!” Warai Mesuma jumped up onto her hind hooves and danced a little jig before showing her rear to the shadows and sticker her tongue out at them. Three small balls of flame engulfed the shadows and the other three shadows collapsed onto their backs.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLL RIGHT PINKS!!!! LETS KICK SOME ASS!” Kanji roared as he charged forward into the group of downed shadows.

“Okie Dokie Lokie!” The pink pony giggled as she bounced towards the group of shadows. When human and pony reached the group of shadows a humongous cloud of dusk kicked up, obscuring them from sight. Grunts and “HIYAAA'S!” emanated from the dirt cloud as well as the sound of hooves and fists smashing into shadows.

The cloud of dust dispersed revealing the human and the party pony standing amongst vanishing shadows. “Come on everyone! Flutters is waiting on us!” Kanji shouted at the dumbfounded group.

Kanji pointed a finger at Twilight, “Hey Twi, use your magic stuff again and lead us to Flutters!”

Twilight nodded before frowning in concentration. The mare groaned in effort as a minute passed without her horn doing a thing. “I-I'm sorry guys, somethings interfering with my magic.” Kanji simply shrugged, “So what? We're flying blind now lets do this!” The hyped teenager roared as he spun around and began sprinting down the excessively long hallway.

“H-hey Kanji I got a question fer ya? About dem shadows??” Applejack asked aloud from behind him.

“Yeah?”

“Why'd they fall down like that when Pinkie hit them all with that 'mar-aragi'?” The orange mare questioned.

“Many shadows, but not all, have inherent weakness to the various elements. One knows when he has discovered a shadows weakness when that particular shadow collapses.” Naoto spoke up from somewhere behind him.

Kanji blinked in surprise, “Yeah what she said.”

“Hey Pinks get up here we've got company!” Kanji called out.

The teenager skidded to a halt as another shadow strode out of the blackness of the hallway.

“Is that shadow...riding a manticore?” Naoto asked aloud.

The shadow in front of them was intimidating, to say theleast. There was a massive lion with a scorpions tail and bat wings that was entirely devoid of any color except for its two black orbs that were its eyes. Riding atop it, was a shadow pony that was pitch black, contrasting sharply with the pure white manticore. In one hoof it held aloft a menacing barbed spear while its other hoof pointed at them menacingly.

“Warai Mesuma! Agi!” Pinkie giggled aloud as he persona flashed into existence. Her shadow reared up onto her hind legs before falling down onto her flanks, laughing hysterically the whole way. A ball of flame started to form only to reflect back and hit Pinkie.

“Oof!” Pinkie gasped as she fell to the ground. “Owie! What happened?” The party pony asked as she shakily stood back up.

“While some shadows are weak to certain elements, some shadows are downright immune to any attacks based off of that element. Some will absorb the element, healing themselves while others will simply reflect the damage. It's why you have to be careful when fighting new shadows.” Naoto  gave the long winded explanation calmly.

“Ziodyne!” Kanji shouted.

A massive bolt of lightning struck down upon the shadow, engulfing it in a brilliant flash of white light.

The manticore roared in indignant fury and its rider let out a cry of fury. Before the ziodyne even dissipated fully, the shadow charged straight at Kanji.

The rider ran Kanji through with the wicked and barbed lance, while the maticore swiped him with its massive front paw. The teen roared in pain as he was sent flying through the air.

“Kanji!” The group cried out in worry. But before any of them could run to Kanji, Pinkie happily shouted, “GIGGLE AT THE GHOSTIES!”

“Consarnit Pinkie! Now's not the time fer singing!” Applejack scolded.

“Wait everypony look!” Twilight shouted, pointing a hoof at Kanji. A brilliant flash of white light engulfed the human.

“OOOOOOOOHHHH YEAH!” Kanji roared as the teenager charged forward, “FATAL END!” Rokuten Moh flared into existence before slamming its mighty blade into the shadow and its mount.

Before the shadows could even fully recover Pinkie happily bounced into the air, “It's Dakka Time!”

A filly-like Pinkie Pie literally popped out of nowhere onto Warai Mesumas back. “YOU GROTS DIDN'T THINK YE SAW THE LAST OF ME DID YA?! DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA HAHAHAHA!”

The miniature Pinkie Pie began to chuck...cakes? Yet when the cakes hit their mark... Kanji couldn't stop the roar of laughter from leaving his lips as the cakes literally exploded, sending streamers, balloons and confetti everywhere.

After the hail of cake fire, the shadow and its mount roared in agony and faded out of existence. “OI THAT'S ALL YA GROTS!” The filly Pinkie Pie shouted before quite literally popping out of existence leaving a shower of confetti raining down from where she had appeared on Werai Mesumas back.

“Come on girls! We've got work to do!” Kanji called out, already running down the hallway.

Everypony gave each other a sly grin before sprinting off to catch up to the human.

…

Five. Floors. Five damned floors without a sigh or even a hair of either shadow Fluttershy or the real Fluttershy. Kanji and Pinkie had fought through hordes of the shadows including these weird ass wood looking wolf things.

“Damnit!” Kanji shouted aloud.

“What's wrong Kanji?”  Pinkie asked, the trace of of worry in the question was plain for all to see.

“We've gone five floors up in the thrice be damned spire and we haven't seen a damn sign of Flutters anywhere!” Kanji said a little too angrily.

Pinkie opened her mouth to say something but immediately began twitching uncontrollably. “OOOOOOH TWITCH TWITCHY! THIS ONE'S GONNA BE A DOOZY!” Pinkie Pie shouted.

“What are you talking about Pinks?” Kanji asked incredulously.

The group rounded the corner of the all too narrow hall and skidded to a halt.

“That.” Pinkie said breathlessly, pointing a hoof at shadow Fluttershy.

….

The chamber was massive. Well...massive was an understatement. Kanji was sure, you could fit Ponyville...the entirety of the town in this one room. Which struck the teenager as odd considering how the spire didn't seem that wide from the outside.

But that wasn't what caught Kanji's attention the most. What creeped him out, and everyone else too from the looks of it, was the massive collection of fully intact dragon skeletons. The damn things were everywhere. Dozens of 'em. Some were larger than others, some no larger than Kanji.

But they were freaking everywhere, and Shadow Fluttershy was smirking down at them from atop the largest dragon skull Kanji had ever  seen. (These were the only ones he had ever seen but that's not the point)

The dragons skull by itself was larger than Kanjis house back home in Japan. Shadow Flutters followed Kanjis gaze to the skull she perched atop of, “Oh he is a beut isn't he? It's a shame I'm not the one who got fight him.”

“But oh well, that isn't as important as my other...priorities. For one, you've been meddling. And I don't like that. How am I supposed to drown Equestria in the perfect war, the perfect fight, if you keep killing all of my boys. I'm sorry that you have to go but...wait I'm not sorry at all! Hahahaha!” The trail of laughter echoed throughout the massive chamber as shadow Fluttershy hopped off the skull and with a flare of her wings she hovered to the ground... just as the dragons skull slowly began to raise itself.

“Have a nice meal Skelly!” Shadow Fluttershy cackled in delight as she trotted out of sight, laughing the whole way through.

But Kanji and the gang couldn't care less. They were far too engrossed in watching the behemoth skeleton of a dragon raise itself to its full height. Skeletal wings unfurled themselves to their fullest, both wings were easily as large as the train station itself back in Ponyville.

The massive skeletal dragon let loose an ear-shattering roar that seemed to shake the very foundations of the colossal chamber. “YOL....” The dragon raised its head into the air, “TOOR SHUL!” The skeletal dragon bellowed as an inferno shot out of its gaping maw.

“Look out!” Kanji bellowed as he rolled to the side, the flames scorching the very ground where he was standing not a moment before.

“ROKUTEN MOH! ZIODYNE!” The teenager shouted at the top of his lungs. The massive bolt of lightning that struck down made the skeletal dragon roar with fury.

“FO KRAH DIIN!”  The dragon roared,  but Kanji was prepared for the infer- no! What the hell!?!? The teenager barely managed to roll out of the way as the ground he was perched on became engulfed in a block of ice.

“HEY YOU LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE YOU BIG BULLY!” Pinkie hopped into the air pointing a hoof menacingly at the massive dragon. “IT'S PARTY TIME!”

Warai Mesuma whinnied happily before digging into her jester outfit before pulling...something... out of the depths of her pocket. The persona then held it up to her snout and began...blowing into it? What the? After a minute of everyone, dragon included, staring at the persona blowing up...wait...did she just blow up a damn balloon.

Sure enough both Pinks and her persona giggled uncontrollably as they released the balloon. Said balloon began to drift lazily at the dragon who Kanji could swear on his life was grinning. When the balloon got within a couple of feet of the dragon after an agonizing amount of minutes it popped. Revealing an overly excited filly Pinkie taking shelter within.

“HAHA FOOLED YA YE STOOPID GROT! HAR HAR!” The filly Pinkie then reached into her mane and pulled out a massive pie. The pie...was...easily as big as the dragons skull. Wait...what the hell?!?! Kanjis simplistic brain was overloaded with questions.

How the hell did she store it? Where in god's name did she get a damn pie that big?... How was Naoto handling it?

The youthful teenager turned to find...yup....Naoto couldn't handle the lack of logic and had fainted.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!

An ear shattering explosion resounded throughout the hall. Kanji looked up at the source to find that filly Pinks had slammed the pie into the dragons face which had...exploded...like a bomb.

Filly Pinkie was free falling through air giggling like a filly, which makes sense actually, before poofing out of existence with bits of confetti and streamers flying through the air where she had vanished.

That's when Pinkie fills YOUR view...of the computer that is...as your reading this. God damnit Pinkie stop breaking my fourth wall.

“I'm sorry I just gotta take care of this real quick.” Pinkie shouted at me incredulously.

“NO!” I shouted right back. This was my story and I wasn't dealing with this blatant disrespect.

“YES!”

“NO!”

“YES!”

“NO!”

“NO!”

“I SAID YES AND THATS FINAL!” I huffed and puffed, beaming with happiness at my victory.

“Okay I'll, do it just like you wanted chief.” '

“Wait what?”

“TheresonmyponysonaissocrazyandweirdiscusTheFluttershyGuywantedmyponysonatobelikestraightoutofacartoonandstuff.We'retalkingbugsbunnyandloonytoonesstuffrightthereMaybealittletomandjerryandscoobydooandpowerpuffgirlsandsamuraijackandohyougetmypointgottagobye!!!!that'sallfolks!”

….

Okay.

Now where was I....the pie explosion filly Pinkie falling...Oh yeah!

“Holy shit Pinks...” Kanji blinked as Pinkie and Werai Mesuma giggled, rolling on the floor uncontrollably.

“That...was amazing.” Kanji finished breathless.

“Thanks Kanji! TheFluttershyGuy thought it was pretty good too which is we he gave Warai Mesuman that power in the first place!” Pinkie Pie giggled out as she popped out of the humans jacket only to submerge herself and pop out of Warai Mesumas jester cap.

“FOOLISH MORTALS!”

“But it wasn't enough Pinks.” Kanji said simply as the skeletal dragon fanned the smoke away with its massive wings.

“DID YE TRULY THINK YOURSELVES CAPABLE OF KILLING ME! BAH! MORTALS HAVE GROWN ARROGANT I SEE! GAAN LAH HAAS!” The dragon roared straight at Kanji and all of a sudden the pumped teenager felt so weak.

Kanji dropped to his knees, barely able to keep awake from the sudden loss of nearly all of his energy. “So...weak...” Kanji barely managed to choke out between heavy breaths.

“GIGGLE AT THE GHOSTIES!” A familiar flash of white engulfed Kanji and the teenager felt his youthful vigor return to him.

“GAAAAAAAAAAAH! ZIODYNE!” The teenager roared triumphantly and sure enough a massive bolt of lightning struck the shadow.

The dragon roared in indignant fury, “YOL TOOR SHUL!” A massive inferno escaped its maw and seemed to worm its way through the air towards the teenager even as the human sprinted directly away.

“ITS PARTY TIME!” Pinkies shouted echoed throughout the massive chamber. The dragon immediately clamped its jaw shut, shutting off the inferno. The dragon whirled around to find a balloon already drifting towards it.

“I WILL NOT FALL FOR SUCH CHILDISH TRICKS AGAIN MORTAL FOOL!” The dragon roared as it swiped the balloon with a massive claw.

Only for dozens of filly Pinkies to disgorge themselves from the balloon.

“HAR HAR JOKES ON YOUZ AGAIN YA STOPPID GROT HAR HAR!” A chorus of filly Pinkies shouted that same thing at the same time before reaching into their manes and pulling out regular sized pies.

All of the filly Pinkies cackled maniacally as they began to pepper the colossal dragon with exploding pie ordnance fire.

“COME ON KANJI FINISH IT WHILE HE'S DISTRACTED!” Pinkie shouted from the other end of the room.

“ROKUTEN MOH! FATAL...END!” The massive persona hefted its mighty blade and swiped the blade horizontally at the dragon. The strike connected, severing the dragons head from its neck.

“Come on guys! Fluttershy still needs us!” Pinkie Pie shouted as she bounced towards the door on the other side of the dispersing shadow.

….

“Maragi!” Pinkie shouted happily. In an instant, all three of the shadows surrounding the group of friends were engulfed in flames. The three bear-like shadows roared in indignant fury.

The lead one charged straight at Kanji. The teenager barely managed to dodge the bears massive paw and the boy could feel the swish of the air as the claw whizzed by him.

“MAZIODYNE!” Kanji roared. Three brilliant flashes of white light engulfed all three of the shadow bears.

The teenager wasted no time in picking up the pace as he darted down the hallway. “Hey...do any of you notice that the shadows are getting more and more animal like?”

“Well, Fluttershys talent is taking care of animals and she does love them to death. So to be honest, I'm not surprised at all.” Twilights voice peeped up from the back of the group.

Kanji simply grunted in response as he spearheaded the groups charge into the inky blackness of the spire.

…

“This...this isn't right I don't like this.” Kanji growled as he slowed down to a slow walk. The teen took one step at a time, cautiously peering into the inky black of the hallway. The torches that lined up and down the hallway did seemingly nothing to stem the tide of darkness.

“What is it Kanji dear?” Rarity questioned from somewhere to his right.

“We haven't seen a single shadow since we've come to this floor. And it's already been about fifteen minutes of a straight walk down the same hallway. It's no wonder that Kanji is cautious.” Naoto peeped up from the teenagers left.

Kanji could only hope that his blush was obscured by the pitch black of the hallway. The youth took another step forward only for his face to smack into...something. The teenager growled before holding a hand up to his face.

The teen muttered a string of curses, ignoring the peppered questions from the rest of the group, the youth felt the thing he had stepped face first into...

“Hey guys...this is a door.” Kanji barked over his shoulder before pushing against. The human didn't get the door halfway open before a chilling voice washed over him.

“Well, I was beginning to wonder if you'd ever show up.” Shadow Fluttershy cooed.

…

“Flutters!” Kanji roared as he darted towards his cuddly pony. Said pegasus was quivering in fear, forehooves over her eyes in utter terror.

The teen looked up in fury at the shadow before him. Shadow Fluttershy say atop a throne made of the bones of all sorts of various creatures. And to top it all off, the arrogant bitch was laying down on the throne. Her rear legs dangled over one arm rest while her other half rested against the other half. The shadow grinned down at the group with half lidded eyes, “Oh my, so many ponies and only two are actually worth my attention. Kanji Tatsumi...Pinkie Pie...step forward if you will.”

The shadow inspected her forehoof with a bored expression on her face. Kanji angrily took a step forward with Pinks right next to him. “Alright get down here and fight you coward!

The shadow looked at them out of the corner of her eye, “Oh my! So eager! But we haven't had any fore play yet! Oh well. But first I'd like to ask a few questions from my friends. Hey Dashie! I got a question for ya.”

Rainbow Dash soared over to the shadow, “Only my friends can call me Dashie! Not some shadow spy.”

Fluttershy put a hoof to her forehead and cried out in false melancholy, “Oh Rainbow Dash, your words wound me so!” The shadow let her hoof dangle back against the throne before rolling her eyes, “Not. But I do have a question for you. Do you remember when Gilda bullied me in the town square?”

Dashs response was a simple snort.

“Do you want to know why I ran away?” The Shadow was smiling devilishly now and Fluttershy, the real Fluttershy was crying even harder into her hooves.

Shadow Fluttershy suddenly hopped off of her throne and laughed maniacally as she faced the group head on. “IT WAS CUS I WANTED TO BEAT THE SHIT OUTTA HER!” The shadow roared in laughter.

“I ADORE IT! I ADORE IT ALL! THE FEELING OF BEING INA FIGHT, VERBAL OR PHYSICAL. THAT FEELING YOU GET WHEN YOU'RE IN A CONFLICT! I LOVE IT ALL! THE TASTE OF BLOOD IN YOUR MOUTH! THAT FEELING WHEN YOU HOOF MAKES CONTACT! OH MY CELESTIA!” The shadow moaned aloud as if in orgasm.

“THAT'S NOT TRUE!” The real Fluttershy roared as she stood straight up. “THAT'S NOT TRUE AT ALL!”

“Oh? Is it not? Tell me. How am I unlike you at all? You and me Flutters...” The shadow cocked a lopsided grin, “...Are one and the same.”

“NO! Flutters! Don't you say it!” Kanji roared at the pegasus.

“I'M NOT YOU!” Fluttershy roared at the top of her lungs.

The shadows grin grew to an abnormal size, “Yes....you're right. I'm my own pony. My own...shadow...”

A swirling pool of darkness formed beneath the shadow. And tendrils of black shot out of the pool, digging into its skin. Slowly the shadow was engulfed purely in black, writhing tendrils of darkness.

After a painstaking minute of waiting the dome shattered revealing the new Shadow Fluttershy. What emerged was a humanesque woman at least twice Kanjis size with long flowing pink hair. She wore padded fur armor and had a cape made of...mismatched pony pelts. Adorning her head was an iron helmet with two horns sticking out of either side.

Strapped to her back was a massive battle ax and in her hands she held two blood stained war axes with wicked and jagged edges.

“I am the shadow. The true self.” Echoed the shadow.

“Come on Pinks it's ass kicking time!”

“Okie dokie lokie!” The party pony hopped over to Kanjis side.

Warlord Fluttershy roared at the top of lungs before charging straight at Kanji, both hand axes held high in the air over her head.

The teenager rolled to side the moment those war axes slammed down at him, “ZIODYNE!”

“AGI!” A massive bolt of lightning and a ball of flame engulfed the warlord at the same time. Warlord Fluttershy simply laughed, “Is that you got?!?! FUS RO DAH!” A wave of force sent Kanji soaring through the air. The human landed on the ground as the air left his lungs in one swoop.

Two armored boots thudded right next to him, obscuring his vision. “I had such high hopes for you too.” Warlord Fluttershy cooed.

“It's party time!” Pinkie Pie shouted.

“Ha. HAHAHAHA! What do you think a balloon could do to the likes of me yo-”

POP!

“HAR HAR FOOLED YA YOU GROTLY SQUIG!”

Kanji barely maned to raise his head in time to see the massive pie connect with Warlord Fluttershys face an- KABOOOM!

The human was sent soaring through the air from the explosion...only for Warai Mesuma to catch him right before he fell. The human looked up to find Pinks persona staring down at him with a humongous smile on her face.

Warai Mesuma giggled before...licking up the side of Kanjis face. The human blinked...in utter confusion.

“Come on Kanji  Wanji! Now's not the time to be playing!” Pinkie giggled at the human as he stood up.

Over about twenty feet and by the throne was a very angry warlord. “YOL....TOOR SHUL!” A massive inferno left the warlords lips straight at the pair.  Kanji frantically sprinted away from the fire only to notice that Pinkie had grabbed the Warlords undivided attention.

Kanji grinned before actually saying, not shouting, “Ziodyne!” Another massive bolt of lightning engulfed the enraged warlord.

Said enraged Warlord whirled around to glare daggers at the teenaged human. “IT'S PARTY TIME!”

Both Kanji and the Warlord turned their heads to the balloon that wafted lazily towards the warlord. “Your a damn fool if you think I'll fall for that again.” The warlord chucked a lazy war ax at the balloon...

Dozens of filly Pinkies popped into existence, “HAR HAR FOOLED YAH AGAIN! HOW CAN YA BE THAT STOOPID  , EVEN FOR A GROT!?!?!”

The filly Pinkies let loose a torrent of exploding pies on the target. Kanji took the chance to hop back a few steps. “PRIMAL FORCE!”

A roar of pain emerged from the familiar dome of white that engulfed the warlord. A cloud of dust formed at the spot where both Kanji and Pinkie bombarded the warlord.  After a moment of silence the warlord shouted from within the still settling cloud of dust, “DUR NEH VIIR!”

A ball of purple appeared in front of Kanji and after a mere second...the human was staring down a dragon. This dragon was constantly oozing some green slime and he reeked of rot and decay. “I have heard thine call and I have come!” The dragon roared menacingly before rising into the air with powerful flaps of his wings.

“Quickly kill him. I want to mount all of their heads on my wall.”

“As you wish!”

…

Kanji dodged yet another inferno as the dragon he faced let loose that same shout. “YOL TOOR SHUL!” Damnit! This was taking too damn long! He'd been fighting this stupid lizard for over fifteen minutes. And Pinks needs help. Flutters needs help.

“PRIMAL FORCE!”

“Ha ha! Arrogant Mortal! Do you really believe you stand a chance of defeating Durnehviir? The guardian of the soul cairn? You truly are foolish indeed.” This...this was a waste of time...if Kanji didn't smash this things head in soon...Flutters... The human looked over at the collapsed pegasus at the foot of the throne and a torrent of righteous anger flowed into him.

“SHUT UP YOU DAMN OVER GROWN LIZARD. I'VE GOT MY FRIEND TO PROTECT! ROKUTEN MOH!” Kanji roared at the top of his lungs. But instead of calling for another ziodyne or primal force, the human mentally ordered his persona to grab the rotting dragon.

Durnehviir roared in surprise as Rokuten Moh wrapped both of his hands around the dragons neck. The dragon viciously kicked and roared at the persona but the persona simply ignored it. “LETS END THIS! FATAL END!”

The persona hefted its massive blade before slashing straight at Durnehviirs wiry neck. The blade cut clean through severing the head from the neck. “FATAL END!” Kanji roared. Rokuten Moh dropped the dragon that was beginning to fade from reality before charging straight at Warlord Fluttershy.

Said Warlord turned her attention away from Pinkie for a fraction of a second to find a massive persona swinging its blade down. A cloud of dust billowed out from where Rokuten Mohs blade struck home. Kanji couldn't help but grin. “ENOUGH OF THESE CHILDISH GAMES! IT IS TIME FOR BOTH OF YOU TO DIE!” Warlord Flutteshys declaration caused Kanji's grin to drop in less than a fraction of a second.

Warlord Fluttershy emerged from the dust cloud swinging her massive battle ax great arcs, “COME ON OUT MY PETS! TELL ME EVERYTHING!”

Out of seemingly nowhere hordes of little birds, rabbits and other small creatures swarmed around both Pinkie and Kanji, doing nothing but sniffing and examining the two persona users. After what felt like an eternity of being felt up and sniffed by swarms of small animals left and rushed over to Warlord Fluttershy.

The warlord knelt down to a knee so she could hear what ever it was the small critters were telling her. After a minute the warlord smirked, “Thank my little ones. None of you will be dinner tonight. I promise.”

“ZIODYNE!” Kanji roared before the shadow was even fully upright, the bolt of lightning struck down only for... the warlord to simply step away. A humongous, cocky grin on her face. “AGI!” The burst of flame was dodged by the warlord, who was laughing uncontrollably now.

“TIME TO DIE!” The warlord roared at the top of her lungs as she charged straight at Kanji.

…

Naoto was struggling to watch the scene before her. Kanji and Pinkie desperately fought against the warlord but she dodged and avoided everything they threw at her. Damn. Damn damn damn damn. Those damn critters had scanned these two, just like Rises shadow had done to her friends long ago. Damnit.

The detective clenched her fists and teeth in frustration. She had never felt so useless in her life. She was needed here and now and she couldn't do a damn thing. Why? Why couldn't she call on her own persona.

NO.

It was not going to end like this.

Naoto gritted her teeth and reached within herself. The teenager tugged at the power of her persona, egging it on into coming out to fight. That's when she felt. It was subtle. So very subtle. Almost impossible to notice. But she felt it. She could feel it. It was like...like a pair of scissors waiting to cut the ties to the connection to her persona at the last possible second.

NO!

WHATEVER YOU ARE YOU WILL NOT DENY ME! Naoto mentally roared at the force that was trying to sever the connection.

“PERSONA! YAMATO- TAKERU!”

…

Kanji looked over to where Naoto had shouted from. Blood trickled down his lips and he felt the grip of Warlord Fluttershy on his shirt slacken only slightly. There.

There was Yamato-Takeru. The humanasque persona was small and agile looking with a weird ass looking helmet head. In its hand it held a long katanna and its sleek silver and gray british like military uniform contrasted deeply with the darkness of the chamber.

The shadows grip on Kanjis shirt just enough that when he kicked her in the gut, the surprise she had from it, let him drop and roll.

The teenager darted away, “NOW NAOTO!”

“MEGIDOLAN!” Naoto shouted at the top  of her own lungs. The world flashed white as massive balls of white energy rained down upon the unfortunate shadow.

“NOOOOOOO!” Warlord Fluttershy roared at the top of her lungs as she was engulfed within the attack.

After a moment of waiting with baited breath, the dust finally settled to show shadow Fluttershy reduced to her normal self. The shadow just sat on her haunches staring at the now awake Fluttershy.

Kanji opened his mouth to tell Flutters the speech he had told Pinkie but Fluttershy engulfed her shadow in a humongous hug. “I-i-it's true. I-I-I love a good fight. I was just so scared of my f-f-friends rejecting me for it that I hid it. You...you really are me...and I'm you.”

Shadow Fluttershy smiled at her real counterpart before giving her a gentle nuzzle and glowing a brilliant pure white light.

After a moment, in place of shadow Fluttershy...was the most beautiful and feminine woman the teenaged human had ever seen. She had long, flowing pink hair that rested down at her feet. She was garbed in a simple Roman toga with a breast out in the open. But no one paid it any attention. She was too damn beautiful to care. All sorts of small animals and critters, from birds to rabbits sat perched all along her body. The woman knelt down to Fluttershy before giving her a quick kiss upon her muzzle.

“Shinsetsuni Uxocchaa. The Kindly Watcher.” Kanji said simply. Nothing else needed to be said as Fluttershys persona faded away slowly leaving nothing but a smiling Fluttershy.

“K-Kanji? Naoto?” Kanji and Naoto both tensed at the sound of Rises voice echoing throughout the empty chamber.

.To Be Continued...

Before you guys yell at me and tell me that I'm late. Know this. When I was originally gonna post this two days after the previous chapter, I looked it over and thought to myself...this is a pile of shit. SO... I wend back and re-did about...98% of it. The only similarites are the damn names and the dragon shouts. What? I'm addicted to skyrim. Did you think I could pass up on this oppurtunity? Btw all you skyrim pc fans look up the mod T3nd0s Skyrim redone on the nexus. By god...this mod made me WANT to restart ALL of my characters. Just pure epicness in  a little mod package, seriously go check it out. Peace P.s. some errors may have sneaked into it still .If someone is interested in doing some proof reading for me, to catch those mistakes I miss, well I'd be pretty damn pleased..and thankful...youd get cupcakes....just saying...