Flame, Soul, Rage, and Draconis

Chapter 1: Flame awakened, and the enemy revealed!?

Waking up never felt so….Good before. Groaning, I sit up and stretch my arms. Even with my eyes closed, I noticed several different things. One, I felt lighter. Two, my body feels weird. Three, I feel something on my back that feels natural for some reason. Four, I’m on grass, and I can hear leaves swaying in the breeze. And five, I CAN’T FEEL MY FUCKING TOES! Opening my eyes, I immediately look to see why. I don’t have toes. I don’t even have feet! ‘FUCKING HOOVES!? WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT!?’ That’s when I noticed my clothing. Olive colored Cargo pants, an Olive green long sleeved and hooded linen shirt, a leather vest and leather bracers. ‘My fucking Halloween costume? Wait a minute…Is this..?’ Plucking at my exposed hands, I find my answer. ‘Fur. I have blood red fur…..Why am I not freaking out about this? WHY DOES THIS FEEL NORMAL!?’ Just before I could voice my concerns, I took a look around me. I was in some sort of clearing in a forest. ‘But…There aren’t any forests in Miami…Hey, what the fuck is on my back anyways?’ Looking over my shoulder, I couldn’t help but gasp. Wings, the same color as my fur. ‘HOLY SHIT! WINGS!?.....Ok, now THAT is a plus.’ Chuckling, I take another look around, only to find something I didn’t notice before. Leaning against a tree at the edge of the clearing was a wooden Long bow. Hanging from a low branch was a quiver, medium sized by the looks of it, with around twenty to thirty arrows in it. Couldn’t exactly tell from the distance. And then there was something poking out of a hole in the tree. Trying to stand, I immediately fall on my ass, grunting. “Ow….Note to self. Learn to walk again.” It took me a good few minutes, but I managed to regain my ability to walk. Making my way over to the bow and other items, I inspected them thoroughly. The bow was sturdy, finely tuned as well. The quiver had twenty eight arrows in it, and a set of hooks to attach the bow to. And inside the tree was my father’s bayonet, sheathed of course, and a belt to attach it to. The blade is a total eleven inches of pure steel. Double-edged, regular front, and a saw tooth back. THis blade could rend through a body like scissors to paper.

Frowning at the blade, a sudden thought occurred to me. ‘Everything here feels so real. If this isn’t a dream….Will I ever see my family or friends again? Or Hunter for that matter?’ Sighing, I put on the belt, attaching the bayonet to it so it’s on my right side. I prefer drawing the blade swiftly. Attaching the bow to the quiver first, I sling it onto my back so the bow and arrows are coming over my left shoulder. “There….Now due to my appearance….Oh god if I’m where I think I am…Wait…What’s that?” Listening carefully, I locate the sound coming from my left. Grunting, I pull my hood over my head so its shadows cover my eyes. ‘I need a mirror. Gotta know what I am.’ Moving towards the sound causes me to exit the clearing and come upon a dirt road. The sound growing closer, coming from my left still. ‘Sounds like thunder….Or a mob…HAS to be the second option. No clouds.’ Hiding behind a tree, I peek out to see it isn’t a mob, but four bloody ponies running side by side. Two regular ones and two Unicorns. ‘I FUCKING KNEW IT! I’M GONNA KILL YOU EVAN! FUCKING EQUESTRIA! Wait. Does that mean I have one of those marks too?’ Looking all over my body silently, I don’t find one. ‘Meh. So be it.’ Watching as the ponies pass by, I catch their features and items. Gods above, thanks to Evan and the actually entertaining fanfics I read about them, I recognized them. The one on the left most side was a pure white Unicorn mare with a two-tone electric blue mane and tail, wearing purple shades and a bloody music note on her flank. ‘That one HAS to be Vinyl Scratch.’ The only thing odd about her was that she had a fucking cannon looking thing coming over her left shoulder, some sort of grip in front of her mouth,  and wires running down her back to something that looked like a cassette player, which then went to a large battery strapped to her right hind leg. The one on the middle left was a dark brown Earth Pony mare with a darker, well-kept mane and tail, brown eyes, and some sort of Musical note on her flank. ‘I think it’s a Crescendo or something like that?’ She wore a bowtie, and had a fucking short sword sheathed on her back so it came over her right shoulder. ‘I must be dreaming. Octavia with a sword!?’ The one in the middle right was a unicorn with a mint green coat, minty mane and tail, yellow eyes, and a bow and full quiver on her back. ‘Shit. Lyra. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!? She sees me she’ll go nuts!...If the fics are true. Why are these girls armed!?’ The right most one had a cream-colored coat, Dark blue mane and tail with a pink stripe going through them, and three candies on her flank, or so I could guess, since she had friggin’ satchels covering her flanks. ‘That HAS to be Bon bon. But what’re these four doing out here?.....Fuck it. Time to find out.’ Using the trees as cover, I started after them. Luckily, they didn’t hear me running, probably since all of their hooves combined were louder.

After a while, we came to a clearing, one Evan forced me to see once. ‘Of course. The bridge leading to the Old Castle. Why the hell not?’ Waiting at the edge of the clearing, I watched as they went across the bridge one at a time. Once they all crossed and were out of sight, I bolted across, resuming my stealthy pursuit. Once across, I went back into the cover of the trees, following the clearing till the castle was in sight. The four mares were standing next to the open front doors, two on each side, looking in. Shrugging, I made my way to the side and looked in through a shattered window. The first thought in my mind was simple. ‘What. The. FUCK!?’ Inside was the Mane 6 themselves, but five were on the ground bruised and beaten. Counting them and identifying them, I found that the ones downed were AppleJack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Fluttershy. What made me freak was that Twilight was being held by the throat, by one figure I NEVER expected to see. His body and clothes like that from a Medic from TF2, the only difference was his clothes were  pure black and blood splattered, a Bio-hazard symbol on each shoulder, a gaunt face with a goatee, wearing a red bandana under his swept back hair, was a game character I know well. ‘Khawl….Holy fucking shit…..’ Shaking my head, I lean forward to listen in.

“You and your friends are finished Twilight Sparkle. Your Princess won’t save you now!” Twilight coughed and spoke weakly. “You’ll…Never win Khawl….The power of Friendship…Will prevail…” Khawl shook his head and grinned. “That is where you are wrong my dear. Soon, I will have conquered your world.” As soon as the evil laughter started up from Khawl, I moved away from the window. “I gotta help. I ain’t from here, but Khawl was one of our characters...Help or walk, help or walk….Fuck me and my Good Guy personality.” Walking stealthily towards the front, I peek around the corner to see I’m behind Lyra and Bon bon. The four of them were arguing about how to get the Mane 6 away. Clearing my throat, I stepped out of cover. “You know, I may be able to help you out there.” Their response? A cannon, sword, and magically held Bow in my direction. Shooting my hands into the air, I grinned sheepishly. “Listen, no time to explain, but I may be able to get them out alive. Just trust me. Please.” It was Bon bon who spoke the one question I was expecting the most. “Why should we trust you? You look like a Human!” Grunting, I pulled back my hood, revealing my face which elicited several gasps. “’Cause I may be the only chance you got. I’ll try to trick him. If it goes bad, charge in. Please, let me try.” It seemed good enough for them, since Vinyl pointed to the open doors. “Fine, but get to it buddy. I’m watching you closely.” Nodding, I set my face to a neutral expression, pulled my hood back over my head, and pulled my bow out, holding it in my right hand. Walking inside, I see Khawl about to rant at Twilight again until he notices me walking towards him. What made me nervous the most, was his grin of pure joy. “Ah! My newest soldier arrives! The spell worked perfectly then! Tell me, do you know your purpose here?” It took all my strength to stow away ‘TO FUCK YOU UP!’ and say, “To serve you, my liege.” To perfect it, I gave a small bow, stopping in the middle of the room.

This just caused him to chuckle, then toss Twilight towards me. Again, all my will power to not catch her as she bounced and skidded across the floor till she was right in front of me, lying on her left side and staring at me in fright. “Good. Your first order is to kill that Unicorn, then her friends.” Looking into her eyes, I frown, pulling and arrow out of my sheathe and notching it into the bow. Pulling back the string till the arrow tip was about to pass the front of the bow, I aim at Twilight. While she whimpered, I did the one thing I was good at. I gave her some hope. Smirking, I gave her a wink and raised both brows twice. She just blinked. To finish it off, I astonished everyone. I shifted my aim to Khawl and let the arrow loose while yelling, “FUCK ALL BITCHES!” This caught him off guard, I could tell, since the speedily aimed shot managed to embed itself in his left shoulder. “Agh! How dare you!? YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO OBEY ME!” Grinning, I pulled back my hood with my left hand. “I’m sorry. I don’t even bother to take your orders into consideration. Especially since you’re a COLTCHASER!” The last word hit him like a missle, cause his face contorted into one of pure rage. “YOU!” “Me! Hahaha! How’s it hangin’ Khawl? Miss me!?” My idiotic grin remained plastered on my face as he pulled the arrow out of his shoulder. “I’m going to enjoy doing to you EXACTLY what you did to me, TRAITOR!” I couldn’t help but laugh. “Traitor!? Look who’s talking Jack ass! And besides, last time, you couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn! How can YOU, kill me!?” Truth be told, he probably could, but my mind was mushy at the moment.

The last outburst did it, because he pulled a long sword from somewhere and charged me. Sighing, I tossed me bow away and drew my Father’s bayonet back-handed, swinging it to the left, blocking his over-head strike. But god DAMN did it hurt! Once he backed away, the girls began to stir, each one turning to stare at me and him. Once he charged again, we merely became two bladed tornadoes. Blocking, dodging, parrying, attacking, and repeating the dance. Neither of us noticed Vinyl and the others coming in. That is, until we locked blades again and she whistled. “Hey boys! Guess what!?” We both looked at her to see her cannon aiming at us. “Let’s drop the bass!” ‘Oh FUCK NO!’ Leaping back, I just managed to get out of the way as she bot down on the grip in front of her mouth, firing the cannon. Once it fired, the entire castle shook with mutha fucking WUBS! A light blue beam fired from the cannon, hitting Khawl squarely in the chest and sending him flying into a wall. ‘Oh. My. God…..’ I looked at her and grinned. “Dude?” “Yeah?” “That was awesome. I want one.” “Ha ha ha, yeah no.” ‘D’aw….Oh well.’ Shrugging, I looked at Khawl, struggling to get out of the wall while the Mane 6 were recovering. Just as Khawl managed to get out, the Mane 6 had gotten up and from SOMEWHERE, my guess being Pinkie breaking the laws of physics, produced the Elements of Harmony and were preparing to fire. Khawl snarled and looked me dead in the eyes. “I will kill you for this. Slowly.” Then, with a snap of his fingers, he was gone. The girls powered down, and I went to retrieve my bow. Once I grabbed it, I heard hooves coming from behind me. Looking over my shoulder, I see it was all the ponies walking towards me. Chuckling, I sheathed my bayonet and attached my bow to my back, stood, pulled my hood back on, and faced them, my expression back to neutral. Twilight came up to me and smiled kindly. My facial expression did not budge, by in my mind, I felt like I might die from the levels of actual cuteness. ‘Why are these girls so damn cute!? GOD DAMN IT HAS EVAN INFECTED ME!? I’M A FURRY, a Good one who doesn’t like the sex thing, just to walk around in a fur suit BUT STILL! MOTHER FUCKER!’ She bowed her head, as did all the others.

“Thank you for saving us. For a moment, I thought you were with Khawl.” As soon as they raised their heads, Rainbow dash was in my face, glaring daggers. “YEAH! Why did you wait till the last moment!? You could’ve stepped in and saved her easily!” Before anypony else could react to this, I held up my hand for silence. “I had to wait until she was away from Khawl. Any other moment would have put your friend at a deadly risk. One must think, then strike.” If I wasn’t keeping neutral, I’d have sage-nodded. Instead, RD kept glaring at me while in my face, till AppleJack pulled her down by her tail. Spitting her tail out, she stepped forward. “Sorry partner, Rainbow can get suspicious. Ah’m AppleJack by the way. This here is Pinkie pie, Rarity, Vinyl Scratch, Lyra, Bon bon, Octavia, Fluttershy, and ya’ll already know Twilight and Rainbow Dash. What’s yer name feller? And…What are you, if ya don’t mind me askin’.” Blinking as everypony was introduced, what struck me were the questions. ‘Shit, think think think! AHA!’ Keeping my expression, I removed my hood once again and bowed. “I am Ignition, and I am an Anthromorph pegasus. Granted, I was not a Pegasus before, but I am not one to complain. And it was an honor to help.” Standing straight again, I noticed Lyra staring at me curiously, and the others smiling at me, except for Rarity. “What I’m wondering Darling, is how Khawl knows you, and you him.” This got everypony’s attention, and Rainbow Dash got in my face again. “Yeah! Spill pal!” Growling, I grab one of Rainbow’s forelegs and pull her to the ground, going face to face with her. “Get in my face like that again, and I WILL smack you. It is against my honor to hit those of the feminine sex, but gods above do I HATE anyone with an ego, so keep yours in check.” Letting go, I stand tall again to see mixed expressions, all staring at me still.

Sighing, I move over to a sturdy looking section of the wall and lean against it, the group following me. “Sorry. I have anger issues and prefer my personal space to be kept sacred unless necessary. As to how I know Khawl….We were teammates once. Friends…” They all gasped at me in shock, except Rainbow, who tried to get in my face again, but Applejack stopped her. Nodding in thanks, I looked to the ceiling, making up bits and pieces to make this sound as real as possible. “It was me, him, and two of our closest friends. We worked with several other teams, trying to keep out world in Harmony, spreading Justice throughout the land.” I would have continued until I heard Popcorn. ‘Has to be Pinkie.’ Clearing my throat, I continue again. “We worked together for a long while, but one day, we decided to transfer Khawl to another team to max that teams combat strength. He thought we were getting rid of him, so he retaliated, violently. He nearly leveled an entire city to get to us. Once he did, he caught us by surprised and knocked us down, as he did to you…Funny. Like I did here, one of our allies came in and saved us, disarming and beating Khawl till he retreated. We followed, me and the other two from our squad. We stopped him on a bridge when I threw a knife, hitting him between the shoulder blades. He pulled a detonator. He was about to blow the city sky high, kill thousands of innocents. What happened next shocked even me. Our squad leader pulled a gun, a hand cannon basically, and put a bullet in Khawls head. It saved the city, but with a heavy cost to our hearts. We buried him and moved on. Things started to quiet down, so the other teams resigned and we gained a new member. It was the four of us. Now, I guess I was transported here to be a soldier for Khawl. My guess, the spell was random, and as luck would have it, I was picked and brought here. Then…Well you all know the rest. Any questions?” Looking back down when I got received none, I was shocked. Most were crying. All but Vinyl and Rainbow. Rainbow just looked at me sadly, Vinyl….Shit I couldn’t see past her shades. What shocked me more was that they all came up and hugged me around the waist. “Oh darling, I’m terribly sorry that happened to you!” “Shoot sugarcube, that must’ve been tough on ya.” “Oh you poor thing.” “Don’t worry, we’ll be your friends!” “We’ll try to help you get home. I’m sure the Princesses can help!”

I couldn’t believe it. They believed me, and were trying to comfort me. Smiling, I knelt down and hugged them all back. “Thank you for your support, but it is water under the bridge. Now, I’m here, Khawl is the enemy, and there is a world to protect.” Standing, I made my way towards the door, forcing to stop when Octavia moved in front of me. “Where will you go?” Shrugging, I really hated the idea of torturing these gals with my presence. “Wherever my travels take me. This is a new world to me/ I have no home here/ ‘Tis the roads I must follow.” I can still use Haiku’s. YES. Trying to move past her, all the others get in my way. This time, Twilight speaks up. “You can come to Ponyville! I’m sure we could find you a place there!” AppleJack next. “Heck, you can stay in my barn until we find you a home!” My jaw dropped. Holy fuck, Evan and the fics were right. These gals like you, they consider you a friend and help you out. Sighing in defeat from the mere looks on their faces, I nod once. “So be it my newfound friends/ To your town we go/ I shall accept your offers.” Grinning at their puzzled looks, I just explain. “I like poetry. Is this a crime?” They blink and immediately shake their heads. Motioning them to lead on, we leave the old castle and start on our way through the forest. Twilight and the others were launching question after question at me, but I answered what I could. Most of it was personal, but I didn’t mind. For some strange reason, I continued to NOT freak the fuck out. I trusted these gals. But even with the comfort of newfound friends, my mind couldn’t turn away from the ones back on Earth, and my family.