Flame, Soul, Rage, and Draconis

Flame: Back into the fire….

My sleep was dreamless, but no less refreshing, especially on the comfy ass couch. That was all shattered by a female voice saying “Wake up.” ‘Guess it’s morning. Time actually flies in dreamland. ZE SANDMAN LIED TO ME!’ Opening my eyes, it was too late to realize how stupid that was. I was immediately blinded. Shutting my eyes in response, I grunted, waiting for the splotches to vanish. Once they did, I sat up, opening my eyes slowly, getting accustomed to the light in the room. Rubbing my eyes with my palms, I looked around to find a Black mist hovering inches from my face. Before I could yell in surprise, it pressed itself to my mouth. It felt like a hoof was against my lips. The voice was definitely female, and spoke in a whisper. “Shh! Get up, you and your friends got trouble. My name is Dawn, and I helped your friends find you. I know this is sudden, but you need to trust me. Can you do that?” I nodded once in response, watching the mist vanish, as did the pressure. Standing up, I stretched as Dawn disappeared into the kitchen, coming back with my bayonet somehow. Also, somehow tossed it at me. Catching it, I immediately attached it to my belt, but didn’t bother with my hood. “Ignition, thank you. Who’s the enemy?” “Khawl.” ‘Already!? FUCK!’ “Are the others up?” “I’m going now. Wait in front of the library.” I bolted out the door in response, closing it when I exited, and making my way straight to the library. The moon was still out, so it was either morning or around midnight. Once I got to the library, I took a seat and waited. After a while, Kyle came running, hay falling off him in small clumps. I helped clean him off as we waited. David arrived just as we did, Dawn in tow. Once he was with us, she flew into the library through the cracks in the door. Not even five minutes later, Evan came out silently, closing the door behind him. He was obviously nervous. We all were. Dawn let us know where he was coming from. The entrance to the Everfree forest. ‘FUCK.’ She also told me to come find her later at the abandoned castle I fought Khawl the first time. ‘This better not be a trap….’

We wasted no time, bolting straight to the forest entrance. It took us awhile, and the sun had replaced the moon as soon as we got there. When we did get there, none of us were winded or sweating. It was so weird. ‘Oh well…New world, new land, new rules, PINKIE, and physics. Just fucking physics.’ Just as I finished my thought, five wolves stepped out of the forest with glowing yellow eyes. As they started moving towards us, I could see that they were made of twigs and branches. “Timber wolves. Completely wood, but their teeth are still dangerous. Watch it.”  The guys nodded. Right after the five wolves cleared the forest, Khawl came out with a claymore in his right hand, and another blade sheathed at his left hip. I took a step forward when a saw him. Kyle did the same. When I saw him, the edges of my vision turned orange everywhere. A familiar feeling from last night emerged. Pure hate. I had felt it while fighting that guard. Putting a damper on it, I watched as the wolves stopped somewhat sixty feet from us, Khawl continuing on. When he was around thirty feet, I drew my father’s bayonet, back-handed. Kyle drew his claymore as well, and Khawl stopped, actually smiling. With a single twirl, her transferred  his grip on the claymore from a normal hold to a back-handed one, before stabbing the blade into the ground past the tip. I looked to Kyle, only to see his eyes having turned green, his pupils vertical slits with tinges of purple appearing around the edges. ‘Wish I had a camera. Looks badass…’ My thought ended when Khawl spoke. “Friends! It is good to see you are alright! It is not good however, to see you safe in this one’s company!” with that, he pointed at me with his outstretched right hand. I responded by pulling my hood over my head with my left hand. He continued. “Know this. He is an imposter! He and the kind he has had you meet are frauds, who want nothing more than to destroy all humans!” My grip tightened. ‘Excuse me mother fucker, I believe you are cashing illegitimate checks.’ “Join with me! We can save the human race from these monsters, destroy them at every turn! Make your choice now, choose justice, or turn against your race, led by the illusions of this bastard!” I looked around , noticing that David, Evan, and Kyle were all talking about it. ‘What…? They think he’s….Telling the truth…?’ My fears were confirmed when they all nodded and walked passed me. Khawl smiled sadistically. “You lose, imposter.” “Guys…?” I couldn’t believe it. I let the hate go, let it flow through my body and start to warm it up. It was comforting, like the touch of an old friend. What happened next astonished Khawl, the wolves, and me. Mainly Khawl and the wolves. The guys all charged past Khawl, letting forth battle cries! (In order, Kyle, David, and Evan.) “FOR NARNIA!” “FOR TIMMY BITCHES!” “FOR EQUESTRIA!” A shadow burst forth from the forest. Dawn! Her mist entered an unsuspecting wolf, taking it over. Its eyes turned dark as night, and spikes pointing to its rear appeared from its back. With a feral snarl, the Dawn-wolf tackled another, going into a tumble with it. Kyle killed another by slicing its head in half with his claymore, sending tree sap all over the ground. David and Evan jumped a wolf together while Kyle went after the last one. I couldn’t help but laugh. Khawl scowled as he pulled his blade out of the ground. “What is this!?” I stopped laughing and grinned under my hood. “The return of TEAM GHOST MOTHER FUCKER!” With that, we charged each other, blades locking almost instantly. “Team Ghost? But that would mean…” “Yup! I’ll let you guess who is who. No hints.” We both broke away from each other, beginning that deadly dance we never finished last time. It seemed like ages of attacking, blocking, dodging, and parrying. After a while, a sudden pressure came from my chest, adding to my already extremely heated body. Breaking away, I gasped, suddenly feeling the need to let forth a primal roar. I didn’t block it. I let forth said roar skyward, only to be dwarfed by a large explosion, but to aftershock. Looking back at Khawl, I see him, the guys, and the Dawn-wolf, whom had just finished off the timber wolves, all staring at me in complete shock.

I looked over myself and new why. I was on fire, but I wasn’t burning. Lifting my left hoof, I saw that where I stood, the grass was burnt and smoking. “…..” I looked at Khawl and grinned, then at the guys. “No idea what’s going on, but I think I’m going to name this guys!” I looked back to Khawl and pulled back my hood. "IGNITION FLARE!" Not the best name, but better than FLAME ON! I can’t just up and steal that!’ Looking at my father’s bayonet, I was surprised to see it unfazed, except for, of course, the blade glowing white hot from the heat. Go figure. Looking back at Khawl, I only laughed as I charged him. “And this….” As soon as I got close enough, he swung overhead again, intent of cutting me down. I swung my blade at his in an attempt to parry. Instead, my blade cut right through his near the guard, sending most of the blade flying over my shoulder. I had an opening. Bringing the blade in with a backwards swing, I plunged it into his stomach, eliciting a gasp from him. “IGNITION STRIKE!” I then noticed the blade at his left hip. Grinning, I gripped its hilt with my left hand, putting myself in a cross hold. From up close, I could see the black leather grip, which was also unfazed by my fire. Planting my right foot under my father’s bayonet, I kicked Khawl off, freeing both blades. While Khawl stumbled back, I expected him to fall. Looking to the blade I claimed from him, I found it to be a single edged sword, the blade completely midnight black, straight, with a circular golden guard. When I heard Kyle scream my name, I looked just in time to receive the rest of Khawl’s claymore to my gut, causing the flames to go out, the orange about my eye sight to disappear, and the hate to vanish, all at once as he pulled it out. I fell back in shock, staring up at him and his malicious grin. “It ends now, Vlarrion.” ‘Heh. So that’s what he knows me as. My steam profile.’ When he was about to strike me down, I found just enough strength to strike out with the blade I took from him. The result was blood everywhere, the rest of his blade and his right hand from the wrist up to fall on my chest. Khawls cries filled the air as he stumbled back. “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! My hand! Argh, you win again, you little runt! AAAH, I will get you for this!” With a snap of his fingers, he was gone. I sat up, finding strength from him running even though pain became fresh in my mind, but I didn’t care. I didn’t even notice his hand and the rest of his blade fall from my stomach and into the grass. I didn’t notice myself dropping the new sword and my father’s blade either. I just stared at the spot where Khawl just was, now a small puddle of blood.

The guys came running over while the Dawn-wolf ran into the forest again. The guys shook me, yelling my name. I look at them slowly, one at a time. “I did it…..We did it….We sent him running! We…” I never got to finish when the dizziness hit me, causing me to fall back again. One of the guys caught me and laid me down slowly. I found it was David, him and the guys crowding my vision, worried expressions on all their faces. “Bryan!? DUDE! Keep awake man, come on! Just don’t shut your eyes!” ‘David yelling at me to keep awake? Why? He afraid I won’t wake up to kick his and the other’s asses for the stunt they pulled. “IGNITION! OH shit, someone get Nurse Redheart!” The guys moved from my vision, and eight familiar ponies entered my vision, all looking at me and the blood on me. Vinyl, Octavia, and the Mane six. Twilight got closer to my face. “Ignition!? Are you okay!? What happened!? Vinyl, and the girls found you and the others gone, then were heard an explosion and saw a pillar of flame and….Oh sweet Celestia your bleeding badly!” I grinned up at her weakly, shakily brought my right arm and made a two fingered pistol with it, my voice quivering. “We saw Khawl….We fought him and a….small pack of timber wolves…..And then…”I pressed down my thumb against my index finger, like a hammer striking the bullet in a pistol. “…We kicked his ass back to wherever….He’s hiding….See that hand…?....Yeah, that’s his…Ima go night night now…..I’m tired as fuck….” I let my arm fall to my side, the guys entering my vision, towering over the girls, all of them yelling “Ignition! Don’t fall asleep!” Just before the darkness sped up, I saw Lyra and a pony in a nurses outfit cloud my vision. To let ‘em know I would be fine, I said one last Haiku before it all went dark. “To battle we went today/ Came back with a prize and pride/ Time for me to rest….” And then, darkness took over everything.