Space is Heeeeere! -Kamen Rider Fourze-
Space is Heeeeere! -Kamen Rider Fourze-
Space, the infinite resource of Cosmic Energy.
Equestria has developed technology far beyond the least necessary for life and ponies achieved the evolutionary step of going to the satellite that princess Luna raised every night, the Moon.
The Over Space Technology Organization (OSTO for short), established a laboratory on the moon. The experiments were proceeding well, and ponies found a high-tech artifact that, reverse engineered, made them step further in evolution, and develop even better technology thanks to the infinite earth resources brought to the OSTO by the ZECT Company, the one who produces every technology from the space shuttles to the hoof clocks. The project was led by the princess herself, yet an accident destroyed the laboratory, along with the artifact... Maybe.
Sweetie Belle was slowly walking to Sweet Apple Acres, to meet with her friends Apple Bloom and Scootaloo. The sun was high, as it should be in the early afternoon. Warm light hit her white coat. Even if they were grown mares, Scootaloo didn’t have her cutie mark; something, though, was telling the white unicorn this meeting had something special reserved for this. She left soft breeze pass through her mane and smiled, happy to meet again a friend.
She rolled her eyes and stared at their clubhouse... That assemble of wood seemed so old. Nostalgic feelings filled her mind, from times they laughed, to when they experimented and spectacularly failed to get their cutie marks... together. The unicorn shed a tear and called the names of her best friends.
“Scoots! AB!”
Both mares, within the clubhouse, jumped out from the main entrance. They eagerly shouted her companion’s name and landed near her. Scootaloo, being a Pegasus, landed gracefully, while Apple Bloom landed with a heavy thump on the grassy ground.
“How much time passed from our last meeting?” said Scootaloo.
“Two years!” replied happily Sweetie Belle.
“Ah’m so happy for ya!” yelled the yellow farm pony.
“Of course I am too” nodded Sweetie Belle, before hugging her friends.
“Scootie, dear, did you get your cutie mark yet?” asked politely the unicorn.
“Not yet... but this time I’m really sure I’ll get it. Come in the clubhouse, I’ll show you what I mean.” replied the Pegasus.
Scootaloo and Apple Bloom entered the old place but Sweetie didn’t see them from the window. She nodded and slowly trotted to reach the entrance. More memories emerged as she put a hoof in front of another and when she opened the door she found... nothing. Nothing but a bright light with some bleached colors here and there. It seemed like a tunnel made of pure light.
“This is friggin’ awesome!” gasped the unicorn.
She blinked, and narrowed her eyes to see what seemed to stand at the end of the white horizon... Scootaloo.
“Scoot, what does this mean?”
“Come on and reach me!” replied the Pegasus with an enormous smile.
Sweetie Belle trotted quickly to reach Scootaloo and reached her. They trespassed a hi-tech hermetic door that closed after they both entered the complex.
“What is this place?” blabbered the unicorn, looking at the walls and all the technology that surrounded the place. Computers everywhere, mechanic tools, raw wires and chips were scattered everywhere.
“Do you remember the incident that happened on the OSTO station on the Moon?”
“The Explosion that happened on the laboratory Princess Luna set here during her study of the cosmos. Nearly all the complex was destroyed, but the scientists escaped... Wait a sec...” gasped the unicorn, widening her eyes in shock,” Are we in that very same station?” shouted the unicorn, realizing what her winged friend was saying.
“Yes, in part. The complex was nearly completely destroyed, but this zone survived, somehow. Look from the window if you don’t believe me!”
Sweetie Belle took some seconds to understand what and where she was, but looking from the window dissipated her doubts completely.
Outer space... she could see the whole planet where they lived, as all the oceans, tiny and big, the scattered pieces of green, but what caught more the unicorn’s attention were the stars... From this out of atmosphere perspective they seemed so near...
“It’s gorgeous... but how?!” sighed Sweetie Belle, still looking enchanted at the sight of the outer space.
“I don’t know it for sure, but somepony sent me a little switch. I activated it without knowing what it was and I threw it in the club out of anger because I didn’t know what the heck it could do... and it linked Equestria to the Over Space Technology Organization base remains on the moon. I found much information about the projects, they tried to reverse engineer a thing called the Core Switch and they succeeded in creating that purple thing,” said the Pegasus, pointing her hoof to a little thing on a desk. It had four little switches on its top, an LCD screen and a lever. It was made of purple clear plastic.
“You see it? That is the Fourze Driver. The Astroswitches, as well as the driver itself are made from technology infused with cosmic energy, and...”
“Scootaloo? How do you know all of this crap about space?” asked Sweetie Belle, surprised.
“I... wanted to join those guys on the moon, I love space!” happily said the Pegasus. “I’ve studied everything I needed but then this mysterious explosion happened and...” Scootaloo shed some tears of rage that fell on her cheeks, “And some cruel joke of destiny destroyed my dreams!”
Apple Bloom knew of the Pegasus’s passion for space, and then she posed a hoof on her purple mane and reassured her with a kind tone, “Don’t give in to despair... or ya’ll become a Phantom.”
Scootaloo moved her hoof on her face to wipe away tears and replied
“The monsters born from despair and extreme magic potential? They are just legends...”
“No, Scoot... They’re real... and real are those who protected us from creatures that became wild and evil... the Kamen Ponies! And here, stored in a PC of the lab Ah found some things about ‘em. Profiles of them, behavior and even times when they can be found in day... and this gorgeous clip... “Said Apple Bloom, before taking a seat. She invited her friends to sit too, and took some popcorn, sweets and homemade apple cider and sat with them. She pressed a button on a remote and a big white screen descended from the ceiling.
“That’s so awesome!” said Sweetie Belle.
“And the big part hasn’t even started yet... ya’ll drool in no time!” hissed the farm pony with a mischievous grin.
The movie started... it was blurred, like it was done shaking and with a cheap camera but it was enough clear.
Night, a pony was walking in a lone, dark street of Ponyville.
Nopony else was there until a pony with stained glass-like tattoos showed from nowhere. Suddenly he started blabbering something,
“Food... vital energy...” he hissed with a withered tone
“Fangires are forbidden to attack other beings for stealing vital energy, right?” Asked Scootaloo.
“Indeed, they are, but, look at the fangire in the clip... He seems so enraged and starving for killing a pony...” said Sweetie Belle, drawing herself closer to a bored Pegasus to relieve some fear.
“Then the fun begins is right here!” exclaimed Apple Bloom.
Indeed, the fangire materialized his Active fangs, glass like items that pierced the prey and sucked all of his energy, leaving a fragile transparent being on the cobbles.
“What in the name of Celestia took in you, beast? You killed my dear Raining cloud!” yelled the pony with the camera.
She was shaking more at every second’s passing. “So sweeeet... I feel that nopony will care about you...” said then the fangire, before transforming into his true form, a big blue monstrous pony made out of stained glass. He was going to kill the camera lady, until somepony’s hoofsteps were heard in the silent night. The mare that was filming directed his objective to the source of the voice: a unicorn was standing not too far from her.
“You’ll not kill anypony more... Kivat!” she shouted, without losing her composure.
The unicorn was cloaked, and in the dark her face was hidden. Suddenly, a little, bat like creature arrived flying and shouted with excitement,
“Kivatte go!”
Instantly, he bit the neck of the pony who called his name. Stained glass like tattoos emerged on the mare’s face and neck, lit for a second by a full moon’s ray that penetrated the cloudy sky. Around her formed an elegant grey and red armor that had a vague impression of a bat-like creature escaped from a nightmare. The only detail that was enough clear in that dark figure were the enormous glowing yellow eyes, shaped like bat wings. Suddenly, the screen went black.
“The Fangire Royal Family’s blazoned armor...”
In that exact same moment, the movie stopped and the room went lit again.
“That’s all?” Asked Scootaloo, widening her eyes with surprise.
“Yeah! I wanted to see if that pony was saved!” added Sweetie belle.
“The mare probably fell on the ground, shutting off the camera by breakin’ it, but... Ah found that the route in the clip was the same that a few years ago was found with an enormous bat insignia during a morning.” calmly explained the yellow earth pony.
“Then the incident where shards of a killed fangire and that bat carving on the ground was...”
“That pony’s fault, perhaps.” said Apple Bloom, very calmly.
“But shouldn’t we advertise the royal guards? I am sure that they will do something about the fangires that lose themselves and this... this murderer!” exclaimed Sweetie Belle.
“Well... with the help of Pinkie Pie, Ah found that she saved many ponies, during the night, but’ even during’ the day! She is a street hero!”
“Shouldn’t we find her? Maybe she can help me to finally get a cutie mark!” Exclaimed Scootaloo, excited.
“Probably we should avoid her... She is suspected of murder, we should try to get your cutie mark without messing with ponies like her.” said the white unicorn, killing instantly the enthusiasm of the Pegasus.
“Maybe you are right... Come on, should we stay here or we get a cutie mark for me?!” exclaimed Scootaloo, trying to get her friends to help her.
“But from where do we start?” pointed apple Bloom.
“Obvious point... We will start from the Moon!” said the orange Pegasus, eager to get her cutie mark.
“Yeah! The cutie mark crusaders are together again!!” they exclaimed in unison.
***
An alicorn dressed in an elegant tuxedo was walking around Ponyville. His mane, once brown as the ground, was now dull brown, coursed by a silver trail. His coat was a light tan and his cutie mark was the Sagittarius constellation.
He was slowly walking on the cobble floor, showing a grin that only he could understand.
A Pegasus was just walking from within a little alley, and stopped in front of him.
She had a white coat, green eyes and blonde mane, and had a scorpion-constellation-like cutie mark.
“Sagittarius sir... I have executed the orders.” she said, nearly falling in reverence.
“Another pony will soon experiment evolution!” said the Alicorn, with his eyes turning from blue to red, both sclera and irises, and expressing a maniac grin.
“Who was he?”
“Oh but he is here...” she replied, blinking her eyes slowly.
A pony hybrid with a swan slowly moved himself near to the ponies that were talking. He was white feathered, had some armor here and there and had blue glowing eyes. He was a unicorn and, lighting his horn, he lifted a switch and pressed the button atop of it.
His wings disappeared and he showed his green coat and his yellow eyes.
“Miss Scorpion...”
“Yes, Cygnus?” replied the white Pegasus
“I feel extremely powerful when I use the Switch but I go berserk... I don’t like it! Ah, and the switch just said ‘Last One’ when I deactivated it this time. It’s safe?”
“Yes, it is. You evolved way past a pony when you achieved the Cygnus power, so it’s completely safe.” replied the alicorn with superiority.
“And my berserk?” said the unicorn, showing a worried expression and stomping on the cobble floor.
“That is something that you should work on. The Cosmic Energy only enchants your feelings, so you should know what gives you rage.” pointed the tan alicorn, not losing his completely calm and rational expression.
***
Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Apple Bloom, dressed in spacesuits and opened the door to outer space. They crossed slowly, savoring the moment of passing from the safety of an emetic laboratory to the infinite cosmos’s embrace. Apple Bloom and Scootaloo had done this few more times before, so they were calm and more enjoying than Sweetie Belle that was shaking in her spacesuit.
“Come on, or you’ll lose the falling stars!” exclaimed Scootaloo.
“Falling stars?”
“Yeah, today was the day!” said the yellow pony.
“Okay... a hoof next to the other and...” whispered to herself the unicorn, before taking courage and jumping.
“Uooohoho I feel so light!” said Sweetie Belle.
“You are in a place that hasn’t even a quarter of the gravity of the Earth, so it’s obvious that you feel light. Reach us now!” Said Scootaloo through the transceiver.
Sweetie belle used her leaps to reach her friends, and when she reached them, she saw that they were sitting on the lunar ground and they were looking at the stars.
She sat along with them and looked at the same point as them, scanning the sky to find the first falling star.
“Oh, look!” said the Pegasus, pointing the sky with a hoof, “I saw one!” she exclaimed.
“Where?!” said apple bloom, looking around. “Oh here it is!” she exclaimed, looking at the falling stars.
They slowly became more numerous as the seconds passed, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders stood in awe at the cosmos’s show.
“Magnificent... This is sooo beautiful when it’s seen from the space, holy Luna!!” sighed Sweetie belle in bliss.
“We said it too the other time.” replied Scootaloo, not moving her stare for the space’s star fall
“Yeah... how couldn’t one say this when...” said Apple bloom, looking at some stars. Her expression changed to blissed in shocked, when she saw the Cygnus constellation’s stars shining a dark red light.
“That is not a good sign!” exclaimed the orange mare, shaking her hypnotized friends and bringing them back on the earth... pardon, the Moon. That can mean only one thing, Apple...
“Yeah, we must test the Furze Driver...”
“This seems so alien! Talk in my language!” exclaimed the white unicorn, angrily.
“We will explain everything on the way, let’s return to Ponyville now!”
***
“Thunder, what happened? Thunder!” exclaimed a mare, hugging the green pony. He was covered in white streams of matter like a spider web, he was unconscious. Instead, he was looking at his body through Cygnus’s body. An alicorn and a Cygnus hybrid with black eyes and feathers everywhere. On his body were placed the stars that formed the constellation in night sky, shaped in blue glass hemispheres and the brightest star, Deneb, bigger and colored magenta, placed on his left black wing.
Big brother, why you activated that switch? You knew that it would make you go berserk!" yelled a blue unicorn. She was crying but she managed to yell at the monster in front of her. Her brother, the one that should have protected her was just standing in front of her and was lying on the floor, with his other body left unconscious.
"Stop right there, Cygnus Zodiart!"
Cherry instinctively moved her eyes to the unicorn mare that had the courage to stop the monster.
She was a unicorn with a violet mane, her voice was beautiful. Next to her were a yellow earth pony and an orange Pegasus.
"The Cutie Mark Crusaders will stop you!" yelled Apple Bloom.
She ran next to Zodiart and tried to buck him, but he elegantly jumped in the air and spread his wings. He hovered for a second and then he quickly and heavily landed on Sweetie Belle, that felt painful and some strange noises on her back. She screamed of pain as he jumped on her, while using magic to bind her on the ground.
"Bloom, how does this thing work already?!” asked Scootaloo.
“Put it on the waist, flip the red switches and flip the lever!” exclaimed the yellow mare.
Scootaloo made what she said. She was in mid-air, facing Cygnus, as she put the Fourze driver on her waist. The Pegasus moved her right forehoof to flip the red little switches from right to left, triggering a countdown from the Fourze Driver.
*Three*
*Two*
*One*
She moved her right forehoof on the lever on the right and the left pointing to the air. Scootaloo moved the lever and said “Henshin!” that meant “Transformation”, what triggered the activation of the driver. A bright light made of Cosmic Energy create a white spacesuit around the Pegasus with a hoover on the back, orange stripes and silver cover on the chest. On her hind hooves she had a triangle and an X shaped protection, and on her forehooves a circle and a square ones.
On her head was a helmet-like shaped space shuttle with orange eyes, and as she looked what happened, she yelled out of excitement:
“I don’t know what this is, but Space is awesoooome! I am masked pony Fourze: Let’s do this stallion on stallion!”
“Stallion on stallion?” asked Apple Bloom, ignored by all the ponies around her.
Scootaloo pressed the button on the orange switch that was on the circle base atop the Driver and an orange rocket formed on the right forehoof of the mare, announced but the Driver that said in a techno voice *Rocket on*.
The Pegasus flashed through the air, propelled by the missile, and hit Zodiart with a heavy punch. He flew back for some meters but with his wings stopped in midair, giving Scootaloo enough time to bring the injured Sweetie belle to Apple Bloom. The Pegasus activated two switches this time, the square radar and the x launcher. She stood on her hind hooves, pointing the black radar to Cygnus and when she saw the writing ‘lock-on’ she pressed the activation lever, that made the driver announce “Launcher-Radar Limit Break”. Missiles parted from Scootaloo’s right hind legs launcher and reached their objective (and some infrastructures); exploding spectacularly and heavily damaging the Zodiart, making him explode.
“That was easy! AND SO FREAGGIN’ FUNNY!” yelled the orange mare, hovering in mid-air flapping her covered wings. She then flipped the red little switches on the Driver upwards, shutting off the Fourze system. When she reached her friends they were staring at her flank, with their eyes wide open.
“Am I hurt?” asked Scootaloo, without knowing what had happened.
“You have a cutie mark!!” exclaimed Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom, smiling happily.
“I have it? Lemme see...” said the Pegasus. Indeed, she had one, a rocket missile, with eyes, shaped like the Fourze helmet.
“My talent...Is being Fourze? Space really is awesome...”
A little filly and a unicorn moved themselves near to the cutie mark crusaders, and the he said
“H-hey?”
“Who are you?” replied Sweetie.
“I... was the Zodiart...”
“WHAT?!” yelled the Crusaders, shocked”
A Pegasus gave me a black thing and eerily said me ‘Make a wish upon a star...’
I pressed it and I found my body becoming that monster that you defeated. Thank you, miss...”
“Scootaloo, sir. And that filly is your sister?”
“Yes. I destroyed the school where she was in rampage because bullied made my sister cry every day. I wanted to make my sister happy, but deeply, I wanted to destroy what gave my sister pain. And I have done it... I understand if you are angry to me-
“We aren’t.” said Scootaloo gently. “We had the same problem and you probably were doing it for the good, but were just the wrong way. We have forgiven you, right, girls?”
“Uhhm yeah.” whispered Sweetie Belle.
“Sure! Ya were doing’ it for your sister!” said Apple Bloom.
Scootaloo raised a hoof and pointed to Thunder that nodded without knowing what that gesture meant.
"I ain't biting, hoof bump!”
The green unicorn moved his hoof to Scootaloo’s one, and touched it. Quickly, the mare moved her up and touched Thunder’s by swinging it down, and she did it from under to up.
“It is a sign of friendship that me and my friends created when we were school fillies. It means that you are my friend too!” said Scootaloo.
“Can my sister...?” whispered Thunder with an extremely soft tone.
“Yeah!” exclaimed Scootaloo, moving near to the filly.
“What is your name?”
“Cherry, Miss Scootaloo”
The mare and the filly made their sign of friendship and then departed. While on the way to Sweet Apple Acres, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle had some impelling questions to do.
From when Scoot is space-addicted? From how much time she and Bloom were going to the space station?
When they reached the clubhouse and went again to the space base, Sweetie belle took courage and made the questions.
“I was here the first time not more than two months.” Said Scootaloo, while activating again the Fourze system to use it as space suit. The white unicorn was nervous about it, and still sore by the hits of Cygnus, but after following her into space along with Apple Bloom, Scootaloo answered the question about her space interests. When they sat together, the Pegasus started to explain why she got interest in the space.
“When I found out that Dash didn’t want a student to teach how to fly hypersonic, and she didn’t have any interest in me being her fan, I tried to find something new, refreshing and interesting to do. In Twilight’s Library I found a book about space and I fervently have read it many times.
‘Blessing of the Stars, by Mitsuaki Gamou’ was the title. The story was that of a Pegasus that promised to be an astronaut to a friend that died of cancer. The promise itself was that he would go into space and befriend extra Equestrian life forms, and in the end he accomplished to go in the space, and on the moon he saw the ghost of his friend, smiling. After that, I became interested in space phenomenons and stuff, and the dream of becoming an astronaut formed in me. The stars Shine upon us and forever will with their Light...”
“It’s so beautiful!” exclaimed Sweetie Belle, shedding some tears”
“Don’t cry, or you’ll flood your space suit!” said sarcastically Scootaloo, before bursting in laughter, as w well as Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle. They didn’t see that some stars were again burning in red light...
***
In a red painted room, where curtains revealed a seat, an alicorn stood on a red soft seat. He was looking at the ceiling, that someway enchanted was projecting a real-time starry sky.
His eyes were glowing crimson as he saw the Cancer constellation glowing in red, shining through a magenta nebula.
“Another Horoscope will soon be born...” he said, before grinning. “Stars shine forever upon us, and they warm us with their shining embrace...”
Next episode...-pardon, chapter:
Princess Kiva
Princess of the Night -Kamen Rider Kiva-
Princess of the Night -Kamen Rider Kiva-
The fangires are beings made of stained glass and a dark soul that starves for life energy. Some of them are just suppressing their desire, thus live in peace with ponies. But some of them had formed a blood oath with a race named kivats, that provided them the powers to create extremely powerful armors whose users, the Queen, the King, as well as the prince of fangires, are named Kiva. Kiva exists from the time of Nightmare Moon and maybe even more, and is normally known as enemy of ponykind. But probably just depends on the user...
***
1000 years ago or sometime near
The princess of the night, Nightmare Moon, was walking into Canterlot’s streets. Revered as a ruler, Nightmare Moon walked through the streets looking at the ponies that bowed in front of her closing their eyes, fearing the stare of their princess.
The walk, though, was in a usual time for the black alicorn, who preferred the darkness of the night she crafted every day after the sunset. The amount of life that was active in day was amazing, yet disgusting... Her subjects were spitting on the night caringly crafted for them by sleeping during it, and making the world empty and cold. Nightmare Moon was sad because of this, because she loved her subjects as much as Carinae, her beloved sister and goddess of the sun. The ponies were joyfully working, and enjoying their lives only during the daytime. Apart from sex, or crimes, few things more could be heard or seen after the sunset. She sighed at the sight of two foals enjoying their plays, that were saying things like ‘I love the day’ or ‘I hate to go to sleep during the night, I would love to play during the nighttime!’
“During the night time...” nodded the alicorn, slowly moving herself nearer to the foals.
Both were blank flanks and had the same coat color, green, and the mane of the female one was blue, the male one was red. Both were earth ponies that looking that the princess was staring at them, bowed immediately.
“Raise your heads, I would like to talk with you.” said the princess, with solemn, yet gentle voice.
The foals obeyed and stared at the princess. She was black, she had beautiful wings and a pointed horn, her sclera was teal like her eyes, just a bit paler. The detail that hit them the most was the attire that the princess was wearing, a black duster made of a skin that seemed to be draconic, with a big drawing on the left sleeve.
“Princess Moon, w-what do you w-want from us?” asked the filly.
“I would like to talk with you about the nighttime. Why don’t you exit during the evening and night to play, I heard that you would like it.”
“Mother says that during the night, fangires take away ponies and murder them, so is better for us to stay home...” whispered the colt with a shaking voice.
The fangires attack other ponies... Partly it was true, but most of the ones killed ponies for life energy already felt guilty, yet Carinae executed them, and declared that the fangires must show their stained glass face to be distinguishable from the normal ponies. Moon felt a surge of rage tear through her body that revealed her fangire nature. Impressing markings appeared, white thorns with some red and teal spots between them. The signs were perfectly symmetrical seen from the front of Moon and parting from her cutie mark and extended all over her body, reaching the muzzle with two red points. Her eyes were exactly like before, a very uncommon trait even for fangires, and was a sign of so-called purity.
“Thou hast any problem against the fangires? They are beings exactly like thou, no less! Carinae declared her law against fangires even for thou, yet still you do not appreciate us by living the night as part of the day!”
Moon was full of anger and the little foals were shaking from fear, hearing the Canterlot voice of the princess, as well as discovering that she was a fangire. A very enraged and all-powerful one.
“Do not kill us....” whispered the colt, tightly hugging his sister, and crying with his eyes shut.
“We hast heard enough!” boomed The alicorn before recovering control and flying away.
“Why... why we fangires aren’t accepted? We aren’t bad...” thought the princess, shedding tears. She flew up enough to not see the ground anymore, and landed on a cloud, focusing less and less on what happened just some minutes before. She didn’t take it as insult to herself but thinking that her fangire brothers were considered criminals wasn’t good to hear as well as think.
Moon looked at her left forehoof’s bottom and with her magic she removed the black paint that always put to cover the emblem she had.
“What does this mean? And why do I have it?”
*Present day*
Luna was upset for the last pony that came in the throne room during the night, asking to purge the fangires. She had yelled at him with enough vehemence to wake up Celestia that was sleeping on the other side of the castle.
She sighed and slowly trotted to Celestia’s bedroom. The castle at the night was not as living as the day, but Luna always found somepony to chat with, to relieve the anger and the bore of the night court. But what she always found relaxing was playing the violin into her room or near to her beloved sister. As most of the nights, Luna entered the room, slowly, savoring the change from an alien environment to a friendly and warm one.
“Celestia!” exclaimed Luna, jumping on the bed where her sister was laying.
Celestia’s purple, loving eyes stared directly into her sister’s cyan ones, blinking as she smiled.
“Another one has asked for Canterlot to be purged from the fangires, isn’t it?” calmly asked the alabaster pony.
“You heard everything, but I repeat it: another half-minded pony has come to ask me to purge them. I obviously sent him to fuck off without any mercy. Those guys send me into berserk!”
“Ahaha, I know it, dear sister. It sent even mother Carinae to berserk. She loved every single pony like a son, until she disappeared...
“Ehi Tia, want to know a thing? Screw him, I want to play for you, tonight, your smile has calmed me enough to deserve a majestic display of my violin talent!”
Luna lit up her horn and opened a showcase in her sister’s bedroom, lifting a violin. On its top, instead of a common curl was sculpted a rampant alicorn.
“My my, this violin always amazes me with its form and sound... it really is beautiful without any doubt.” said Luna, caressing it with her muzzle
She then lifted its bow and posed it on the violin’s strings. It moved smoothly and created an incredibly peaceful melody that invaded both sister’s ears, and showing an amazing talent of the alicorn with the instrument. Celestia saw her sister on the bed, near to her and creating a so romantic atmosphere, that she didn’t resist her urge and draw herself closer to Luna. She had closed eyes to concentrate on the violin play and Celestia opened her mouth and for a moment she drooled in front of the masterpiece in front of her. Not the violin, nor the melody, but Luna. The alabaster goddess poured her tongue out and licked her sister’s horn, making her lose focus and produce a piercing screech instead of a complicated acute.
“Tia! Not while I am performing!”
“I’m sorry; I don’t know what took over me...”
“Don’t be, this is... Well, a form of love too, so you can do it... provided that you advertise me before!” said Luna, smiling and shuffling a laugh at the sight of Celestia blushing.
“I will...” Replied Celestia, recovering control and laughing elegantly, still blushing.
***
Moon’s night was always a mix of meetings, writing letters and signing documents and many other excruciatingly boring duties. The only thing that could raise her mood was crafting the unappreciated night as well as playing the violin. That exercise to relieve the stress gave birth to an unbelievable talent that Nightmare Moon expressed through piercing notes of anger that resonated with her soul after the days of unappreciation and insults to her species.
As always, the alicorn took a violin from the royal orchestra’s closet and started to perform.
“Screw him, that racist, screw the day and every bucking prejudice...” thought the princess, pressing the bow onto the violin’s strings and starting to move it. The bow was a low quality one, Moon could know it from the slight harshness of its movements, but the violin was well made, and its color was black. The only violin that she liked from all the orchestra was this one, the Black Sky, property of Soul Key, a Pegasus that made many concerts and played as solo during orchestra performances. Suddenly, the bow broke during the performance, thus making her a little angry. In the complete silence of an enormous hall, Moon felt some hoofsteps and instinctively moved her head to the source of the slowly paced noise.
An alicorn with an extremely pale sky blue coat, blue mane and a blue star cutie mark slowly reached her. The unknown pony stared into Moon’s teal eyes with her red ones and forced a little smile.
“Broke another bow, Moon?”
Nightmare gasped bored and calmly replied at her sister.
“Eta Carinae, this isn’t a good moment for me, but if you want to listen...”
“I can always be here for you. Oh and that notes were magnificent, but I could feel that you were angry. Why, be like that, dear sister?”
“My subjects does not appreciate my night, they use it only for crime or to make love. And they hate the fangire race... They were safe when they weren’t forced to show their markings. My most loving subjects, even if I don’t know why, are hated!”
“Oh... can I do something for you?”
Moon wanted desperately to have sex with somepony or to reach at least the orgasm to release her nerves. Even trusting the violin into herself could do something for her, in that moment. But suddenly, a pony entered the hall. He saw that Moon and Carinae were very near, with their lips near to merge with each other’s.
“Big trouble, your majesties!”
“Calm down, and tell what has happened.” said the goddess of the Sun.
“Fangires! They are attacking the-”
“Castle? Uhh what a bore, this is the third time in a week.” sighed Moon.
“Hear me, grey pony, follow us and see how we rulers do the things.
“Yes, your majesty.”
The two alicorns reached the gardens without losing their composure and coolness, despite the guard urging them to haste on the spot. The fangire was attacking ponies and those that were unfortunate were sucked of their life energy.
“Beginning of a Dawn, Light through the Clouds, Eagle fangire, stop on the spot!” boomed Nightmare moon, telling the full name of the enemy instinctively, never hearing about it before.
The fangire was a yellowish hybrid between a unicorn and an eagle that had glowing red eyes.
"Queen... I finally found you..." he whispered with a consumed voice. He was visibly shaking and the princesses were struck by his behavior.
"We are the princesses of Equestria! You will be punished for killing our subjects!” announced solemnly Carinae.
“But, for your crime, death would be too sweet. We have an idea for those who defy the law...” added Nightmare Moon.
Both princesses’ horns started to glow, Moon in blue light, and Carinae’s in teal light. Both of the Goddesses were touching each other’s horn with their own, thus making few sparks appear.
“By royal decree...”
“You will be sealed in a crystal for the next two hundred years!”
From the princesses, a beam of white energy departed, hitting the Eagle fangire on the spot almost instantly. He slowly became a blue-ish little ball, with his control over his body and mind
inevitably diminishing, until all of his being was sealed and put into sleep.
“We are sorry to carry punishment on you, but you deserved it. Rest enough to wake up with a different behavior, scum.” said the sky blue alicorn.
The word scum... Hearing it from a so caring and loving pony that was Carinae, shocked more than a little Moon that fell on the ground and took the crystal sphere between her black hooves.
“You aren’t scum; you just strayed from your path... You will be forgiven someday, when the pain you caused will not affect nopony anymore. And you will be able to choose again between good and evil.” whispered Moon, caressing the shining body.
The insignia on her left hoof started to glow, stronger at every second’s passing.
A voice echoed into the garden, the crystal being the source of it.
“Queen... That’s the Queen insignia... free us fangires!”
Moon became perplex at what the fangire said. True indeed, on her hoof was the writing ‘QUEEN’ but she couldn’t understand why she was called queen by the fangire.
“It’s just some kind of decoy, I think. Leave it be and take the ball.” said Carinae, blinking and scratching her head with her shining sapphire horseshoes.
“Why? And what are you going to do with it?” replied Moon.
“Mmm... I got it! Right into the basement of the castle he wouldn’t harm other beings!” exclaimed the blue goddess of the sun.
“It’s probably safe keeping the traitors there...”
After a few hours, Nightmare Moon was resting herself in her bedroom. The sealing spell always put a bit strain on her magic capabilities, so she wasn’t able to cast magic for a few hours after. She could still fly and, looking at the sky from the highest tower of Canterlot’s royal castle gave her always a marvelous sight of the sunset.
“The sun... It’s my sister’s, yet I would love to move it at least once. But my duty is to craft Night, and I will always do it, no matter what. But what that fangire said was interesting... This insignia on my hoof appeared from nowhere when I once... Killed another pony, giving up to my wish of life energy. Aaah, whatever, eventually I will understand what that thing means...”
Suddenly, the alicorn heard a little whistle. It wasn’t a pony one, and seemed nearly alien.
“Who is there?” Yelled the princess
a round little creature approached the princess. He flew thanks to little hovers, and it had red eyes and a strange high pitched voice.
“Queen, and my mistress, I am named Sagark.” I am the fangire royal family’s armor of the Ruler, Saga.”
“What? What are you?!”
“I am here to protect you, and now that I accomplished to find you, I will grant you the power to slain traitors, as well as protecting your race. You see this little thing on my head? It is the Jacorder, the ‘key’ to activate my powers and a weapon as well.”
“But whatever are you or for whatever reason are you here, you found the wrong pony!”
“You are a fangire, my mistress. You are the Queen of them!”
“No! I am not!”
“You will soon discover that my words are true, Queen.”
“Whatever!”
***
A pony was walking in Canterlot’s streets during the night. He had a yellow coat, orange mane and green eyes, and its cutie mark was a little tree. He was aware that his race was menaced and for their sake they would need to hide the markings on the face, disobeying Celestia’s law. He even found a pony to slain, and slowly she approached him.
He didn’t knew that her who inherited Kiva was going to kill the fangires who attacked ponies, and she would always knew if this happened. In fact, while Luna was resting herself in Celestia’s bedroom, the violin she loved, the ‘Moon’s Pray’, started to emit a sound from its thicker strings.
“So it’s happening again. Why the violin tells me when to attack, where... but more than everything, why it seems to... to talk to me? No one hears that the violin plays on its own or that he says me to protect ponies...
Anyway, I will protect ponies again, as I always have.”
Luna lit up her horn and teleported away, into the main plaza of the city. Even if she was nearly a kilometer from the castle, into her head she could still ear the violin telling her to fight. Fight for what? Peace? Execution? Luna never knew why, but she just destroyed traitors of Equestrian rule.
She quickly found that a Fangire was just killing another pony and she yelled in her royal Canterlot voice an unmistakable treat:
“Thou shall not kill anypony! By royal decree of the princess of the Night, you shall stop immediately or you’ll face consequences of your actions!”
The Eagle fangire completed his transformation and hit the pony with his Active Fangs, effectively killing him.
“Thou had thine chance to survive and thou wasted it. Kivat, come to us!”
“Yay, Kivert myself!” exclaimed a voice from nowhere. Suddenly, a little gold bat appeared. He had an emerald on its forehead, red eyes and he was very different from a common bat.
“A kivat? That could mean that you are...”
The bat-like creature opened its mouth, showing his sharp grey fangs, and when saying ‘Bite!’ he bit Luna’s neck. White markings shaped like thorns, with red and yellow stripes between them formed onto Luna’s whole body, parting from the bitten spot. Into her waist, chains of energy merged and reshaped as a blood red belt.
“Henshin!” exclaimed Luna moving Kivat-Bat the 3rd with her telekinesis, onto the Power Roost to complete her transformation into Kiva, the royal princess’s armor. His body was covered in black mail onto was placed a red chestplate with grey bat wing-shaped shoulder pads that were chained. Her left hind leg, from the knee to the hoof was covered by two metallic bat wings tightly chained as well. Onto her muzzle and face formed a black helm with red plates, as well as enormous yellow eyes.
“Exactly. Behold Us, Kiva!” boomed Luna.
The eagle fangire tried to hit the princess with a buck, but she counter bucked and effectively pushed him back and broke his leg a little, making some glass shards flying from the monster.
Luna attacked relentlessly, using swift hits from her red covered forehooves and little lightings from her horn. Luna was hit by a headbutt and cornered on a wall, but she managed to run unto in and hitting the fangire on the face with a knee. The Eagle flinched and moved dizzily backwards, and was hit again with a princess’s fist. The fight developed through Canterlot’s small routes and many walls were damaged by the fighter’s actions, until Luna and her yellow enemy reached an alley large enough to allow more movements for the princess.
“Say your prayers if you have, monster.”
Luna lit up her horn ant raised a little thing similar to a whistle from the right side of her belt. It was a ‘fuestle’, an item that provided some kind of boost to Kiva.
The princess moved it into the perched Kivat’s mouth and he used it after saying ‘WAKE UP!’
The creature moved himself from Luna’s waist and hovered around her, whistling through the item a little melody. Luna was standing on her hind legs and she was ready to burst her enemy with the move that every fangire feared, a Moon Break, and Luna was named ‘Darkness Moon Break’. Her ‘sealed leg’ opened itself ‘breaking the chains’ and revealing a crimson armor and three green gems that were glowing. The bat wings were open, showing crimson ceiling as well.
The sky covered itself in red clouds and the moon seemed to become red and waning, despite being full just some seconds ago, as Luna jumped in air lifting her over the ground for three meters. Her wings were sealed during the transformation, but it wasn’t a problem accelerating while going downwards, as Luna hit the fangire with her leg with an enormously powerful one-leg front kick. The ground shook for a second and an enormous bat insignia appeared on the ground where the hit was dealt, and then the fangire exploded, with his soul disappearing from reality.
“Kivat, you can delete the transformation” said the princess, calmly.
The creature moved from her belt and hovered around her, while the armor dissipated into glass shards.
“That was awesome as always, Luna!” he said, happy.
“I know, but I would rather avoid killing them...
Some voices were making a vague noise in the night, sign that she kicked with enough strength to wake the neighbors.
“Geez, I have to teleport. Thank you, kivat!” said the princess, teleporting somewhere far away from the fight field.
The next day...
Celestia was resting on her bed and found that Luna was sleeping on her bed, wearing a smile. The white alicorn moved slowly from her bed, leaving her sister sleeping peacefully. Celestia trotted happily from her bedroom to the throne room and a pony quickly approached her with a terrified expression.
“What affects you, dear subject?” gently said Celestia, trying to calm the pony. He was a fangire guard of the castle, with grey coat and blue eyes.
“Another was killed! Another of us was killed tonight. Again, she or he left only few traces.” explained the guard.
“May you take me to the spot?”
Yes, your majesty!”
*some minutes later*
Celestia examined the carving on the ground with her magic. No living being was big enough to create such an enormous footprint, neither a being with a foot like that ever existed, but...?
The goddess of the sun moved to the crowd and said solemnly a fearsome message:
“This carving and the fangire murder was done by a being that probably will kill you on the spot if you are enough unfortunate to find during the nighttime. In fact, he or she has done everything by him or herself thus is considered a criminal.”
The Cutie Mark Crusaders were between the crowd, and Apple Bloom spoke to the princess about the clip she found.
“Perhaps that she attacks fangires who break the law of truce between us ponies and the other beings that inhabit Equestria. Yet still, she is a murderer and if you find her, you MUST run. Avoid every contact possible.”
“Princess!”
“I want you to be safe, so please, not try to find-”
“Kiva. She is Kiva, right?”
“Yeah... avoid her until find her or proofs of her innocence.”
“Kiva was always renowned as the title of the fangire royal family’s head, thus she is an enemy of ponykind. But this time, she presumably attacks fangires who try to kill ponies or already have. Who is she? Is she an enemy of an ally of ponies? Don’t tell me that Moon had a daughter who inherited her title, please...” Thought the princess, before shaking her head and spreading her wings, ready to depart. Before she left, the fangire guard that brought the princess to the spot took the word and said:
“Your Majesty, there are two news for you, one is good, and the other... well, is plain bad.
“Tell me. The good one first, anyway” said Celestia, putting a sarcastic smile on her muzzle.
“The good one is that the Intercept for Attack project has been completed.”
“So the IXA equipment is finally ready. The bad one?”
“Down in Ponyville, a pony was found sliced in half by an extreme explosion, and we found a bat insignia identical to this. We believe that the murders are related.
“So there are two of them... I wonder if we can end this series of murders...Shit!”
“Princess! Don’t worry, we will find who is doing these atrocities and the city will not cry anymore!” boasted a white unicorn with a blue mane.
“Who are you?”
“Octavia & Scratch’s detective agency and music store. We are musicians and a single detective... as well as a single Kamen Pony!
“Kamen pony?” asked the princess, surprised from the strange name.
“Kamen Pony?! Awesome!” yelled in unison the Cutie mark Crusaders, realizing that they found one of their ‘teachers’.
Scratch shook her body and pointed a hoof to the princess, and said her favorite catchphrase.
“Whoever has done those bad things, and has made the cities cry, is going to count up her sins!”
“If you can find her and bring her to me, I would be really happy.”
“We will!” said Scratch.
Next Rider:
“I am your brightest hope, The Ringed magician, Wizard!”
