Monster Hunting is Magicby Blazing Hell DasherChaptersA new fear introduces itself (Revised)A New ArrivalFirst Day In EquestriaPreview of Chapter 4The Duel WIth BluebloodA new fear introduces itself (Revised)All rights of Monster Hunter series go to their according creators All rights of My Little Pony: FiM go to their according owners Monster Hunting is Magic A new fear introduces itself Ceadeus Species - Elder Dragon Element- Water Signature Move - Water Blast Size- 5837.2 cm That was what I had to fight to protect the Moga Village two years ago. One of my hardest quests that I had to complete for the protection and safety of the village. During the time I been assigned to Moga Village as their hunter I have been slowly connecting more with the villagers. This i- -BONK- "WAKE UP LACKEY" I open my eyes to see the oh so loving Cha-Cha standing over me, with a somewhat large Great Jaggi bone that we carved a while back in his hands. "I wasn't sleeping Cha-Cha." I rubbed where he hit me on the head. The one time I closed my eyes without my helmet i might add and I get suddenly get jumped by my friend (despite getting called his lackey all of the time no less). "What do you want?" "I want to hunt!" Cha-Cha shouted to me. "We just got back from hunting a Rathian and an Rathlos. Don't forget you weren't really helpful during that quest." "I hunted them, Lackey helped!" 'Ugh, never going to stop being so full of yourself are we?' "Fine, but I'm going to get some chow in me first. Go ahead and play with the village children okay?" "Cha-Cha no play! Cha-Cha train kids!" "Okay okay, just go." Cha-Cha nodded, threw the Great Jaggi bone next to the collection of masks that we have and waddled out of my bedroom. I lazily got out of my bed and stretched my somewhat aching body. I turned to my bed stand and grabbed my Vangis helmet that I earned from fighting Deviljhos. I sighed "Lets get this day started shall we?" I muttered to myself and headed out the door. When I stepped out of my sleeping quarters, I watch the busy life of Moga village. Oversea traders making deals with the chief junior, the Store keeper chatting away with her customers, the fish trader having a discussion with one of the oversea crew-mates on which fish is best (which seems to be a heated argument from the looks of it), and the guild keeper having a causal conversation with the village chief. I headed over to the chef to get a filling meal in myself "Hey Katt, whats cooking on this excellent morning?" As I say sitting on the wooden chair. "Ah! Welcome Hunter! We have a nice selection of things for today. Here's a menu for what we got cooking." I nod and grabbed the menu out of his paw. I browsed through the menu to see what he had, but already knew what I was hungry for today. Dragon meat and Goat cheese. That combination always gets my stomach gurgling for it all of the time. I placed the menu on the table and said "Can I get Dragon meat and Goat cheese?" "A wonderful combo to pick, makes your skin hard as rock, but makes you feel twice as healthy,anything for you fellow customer! That would be 250G please!" I nodded and grabbed my pouch,picked three 100G coins and handed him the gold coins into his furry paws. "Keep the change friend." "Thank you as always hunter! I shall be back before you can say boiled rathlos entrails!" I chuckled at what he said and watched him prepare my meal. Watching him cook always make me drool through my helmet as I can smell the dragon meat being cooked. -10 minutes later- As I feel content from the meal, I see Katt grabbing the plate and start to clean the plate from the little bits I left. "Katt, I say this once and again. You are amazing at what you do." He beamed from my comment. "It's only thanks to you that I can cook with real dragon meat! When I was still on the ship, I had nothing but fish to cook with!" 'heh, a cat that hates fish' "Well, I love to continue to chat but I gotta get started with my day." I stand up off from the chair and patted my stomach from the amazing meal. "Have a bountiful hunt!" I start to walk towards Junior to see how he is today and see how things are with the village. I stopped in front of him on his 'chief tower central' and looked up and waved " Hey J, how are things with you today?" Junior looked away from his clipboard and smiled "Ah, hello friend. The day has been calm and trades have been excellent with nobles continuing of buying our honey." I grimaced at that "Are nobles still into the 'fat' phase? No offense but I hope they stop buying the stuff or they might explode." He just laughed "I say let them enjoy what they are doing. This phase is getting the village the gold it needs!" I just shrugged "So Hunter, what do you need today?" "I was going to ask you that actually." He nodded and looked at the papers on his clipboard. "It seems that we need about two Great Jaggis for their frills." "So two Great Jaggi frills?" "We also need some raw meat." I gave him a thumbs up "Consider it done my friend." "We thank you Hunter!" I nodded and was now wondering where Cha-Cha ran off to now. I noticed a village children running by me, I decided they must be following Cha-Cha. Yup. I caught up to Cha-Cha and heard him talking about our last quest and decided to see what he was saying now. "So Cha-Cha and Lackey were fighting giant dragons,Cha-Cha was using Lackey as a diversion while I used my magical powers to strike the dragons dead!" They children then started going crazy from the amazing ending that he came up with. I decided that was enough and grabbed him. "Come on Cha-Cha, I need your 'magic' for our next quest." Cha-Cha squirmed from my grip and started excitedly dance "What shall Cha-Cha this time?Diablos?Jhen?? -GASP- will Cha-Cha conquer a Uragaan?" I rolled my eyes from him being so self-absorbed "No Cha-Cha, we're just hunting some Great Jaggis today." "Cha-Cha wants BIG monsters! No puny monsters for the great and powerful Cha-Cha!" I just ignored him as we walked up to the Guild Keeper. The Guild Keeper is really just a village girl working with the MH Guild so Hunters can accept quests legally and the the Guild Keeper monitors what kind of quests that the Hunter is able to complete with current armor and weapon built. After slaying the Ceadeus, I think I was more than qualified to do any quest that she had to offer for me. "Hey Keeps (Keeps is the little nickname that everyone started calling her when she came back as a official Guild employee) how are you today?" "Hi~ Hunter! Things are fine today, I have some quests lined up for you today!" "Yeah, Junior filled me in that there's a few quests that some villagers needed for today." She starts nodding excitedly. "Yup! A strong Hunter as yourself can easily take care of some Great Jaggis." "Well... I'm going back to my sleeping quarters to prepare myself, who knows will pop out while hunting." "Okay! I'll be here waiting then." I headed by inside my sleeping quarters to go to my chest that has everything that I have saved that I thought that was going to be useful for me in my adventures as a Hunter. I already knew what I wanted since almost all of the time, I grab these items unless I'm hunting bigger game. I decided to bring my alatreon revolution (Great Sword) with along with complete armor setup of Vangis. I looked into my pouch of items to make sure I have everything. Okay, I am ready now. I hurried out back to Keep with Cha-Cha in tow. "Sorry about that Keeps, with everything ready now I am ready to grab that quest." "Hehe, of course Hunter (grabs the quest off the board behind her and stamps the seal of acceptance onto it) have a bountiful hunt today!" We headed to the boat that will lead Cha-Cha to our newly accepted quest. I hope nothing will go wrong. -At a different dimension- "Sister, have thou also felt the disturbance?" Luna ask her older sister "You know you don't have to speak like that way anymore sister." Celestia responded back to her younger sister "We-I know sister but it is such a huge change compared 1,000 suns ago..." Luna started to remember the night that she fought her sister as Nightmare Moon. The very being corrupted her to hurt so many of her ponies. "But you didn't answer my question sister." Celestia slowly went back from the window and headed to the throne with Luna. "Yes sister, I do feel it, and I do not like it one bit, and knowing my student, she would have also have felt it and will ask me what's wrong in the morning. I just do not know how I will respond to her. I do not want to worry our ponies in just a feeling that can cause panic and fear into them." The sisters then continued to discuss this till they arrived at the throne room. The beautiful room has been known as the 'Throne of the Goddesses' . At the end of the large room showed two golden thrones with the left with the picture of Celestia's cutie-mark on the top of the hoof crafted throne. As similar to Celestia's, Luna's throne had the dark and elegant cutie-mark of the moon glowing its blueish tint. Luna then spoke "What shall we do about this sister? We can not ignore something like this." Celestia nodded "You are correct sister. For now we must go to the Royal Records and see if we can find at least a hint of what this 'disturbance' is. I will search for it after my royal duties are finished." ----------------------------- -Back to the dimension of our favorite hunter- Our hero (and Cha-Cha) just finished their quest and arrived back to the Moga Village. By the time they have finished their quest, the sky has grown dark and was riddled with glowing stars and beautiful bright moon that glowed for tired Hunters and villagers to guide them back home. "What. The. Heck Cha-Cha!" I said to Cha-Cha who, despite doing a long and tiring quest, seem to be full of energy. "Lackey did good today! Lackey should feel honored to hunt with me!" as Cha-Cha said while walking back to the sleeping quarters. Cha-Cha and I both walked into the sleeping quarters and sat onto the bed after a long and tiresome quest. "Oh please Cha-Cha. I did all of the work, which wasn't bad at all, till you came running towards me, with an Deviljho in tow!" "Cha-Cha was distracting him for Lackey!" "Whatever Cha-Cha, I need some sleep after taking down that Deviljho." He just nodded and left my quarters so I could just rest. I didn't even bother to take off my armor as I just slunk into the covers and placed my head on the pillows. I let myself to ease into the darkness as I start to drift. . . Fire. Flames are everywhere. I was on the bed when I woke up to see my sleeping quarters started to burn. I jumped out of bed and ran outside. I didn't expect to see what I saw. Bodies. Bodies of everyone I know, on the ground with blood silently spilling through their lifeless bodies. I ran towards Keeps and see if she was still alive. "KEEPS!KEEPS, WAKE UP." . . .nothing. Despite my cries, she won't respond back. I softly placed her back down where I found her and looked into the skies to see if whatever did this is still here. With the smoke rising into the dark sky, I cannot see anything but I heard: "ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRRR" I turned a 360 degree to look for the source of that roar. I have fought gigantic monsters.Serpents that swam in lava as if it was water. Even giant sand Wyrens, and I have never heard that roar before. BOOOOOOM I was flown forward from the blast that happened right behind me. Slowly, I got up and turned around and saw, where my quarters was, replaced with what I would suspect to be a demon dragon that crept from the deepest parts of cave that makes Alatreon look small. "So... You are what the prophecy was able to bring to me? Rubbish. You are nothing but a worm squirming till crushed." I pulled out my Alatreon Revolution and ran towards him. He started shooting fire beams at me. I side-stepped the first beam and rolled out of the way of the second beam.I then ran on top of some debris and jumped right over his head and slashed at his head. The dragon reeled its head roared in pain, the hunter then jumped backward to be out of the way of the angered dragon and examine the damage he dealt to the dragon. 'Thats not normal' thought the hunter. What the hunter saw was that instead of red blood oozing from the dark monster was actually darkness, physical darkness seeping out of its head. "You seem more bothersome than I thought. No matter, after learning what you are capable, I have nothing to worry now. After saying that, the world seem to start becoming more and more distorted, the warrior then started become disoriented then collapsed. Darkness over came him as he fell to the ground. Author's Note Hello and welcome to my very first story of my very first chapter! I would like to say please rate this story fairly and appropriate, but please give me a little slack for now since this is the very beginning of my crossover. "You better be nice or Cha-Cha will hunt you!" "Cha-Cha, don't hurt them!" "I threaten so they rate fair!" -facepalm- "Please excuse him for his behavior and have fun reading my story!" A New ArrivalAll rights of Monster Hunter series go to their according creators All rights of My Little Pony: FiM go to their according owners Monster Hunting is Magic The Arrival of the hunter "Twilight, Twilight! There's a scroll from the Princess!" said Twilight Sparkles number one assistant as he headed up to Twilight's main study room. As Spike entered the main study, he realized that Twilight had another all-night study session. "Twilight get up!" shouted Spike. "No, Mr.Smarty pants, I already finished reading that version of the Griffin Encyclopedia..." mumbled a sleepy, purple pony. Spike sighs and walked through the scattered books that were all over the large room, he leaned to Twilight's ear and whispered, "Twilligght, the Princess is here~ ." Twilight suddenly shot up and shouted "What?!" "Just ki-" "OH NO! Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! I have to take a shower and, fix my mane. SPIKE DID YOU SERVE THEM TEA?!" said a scattered unicorn. Twilight turned to Spike to see him on the ground with his claws on his stomach and rolling on the ground laughing his tail off. "Spike! This isn't the time to laugh! Did you serve the Princess tea yet? Oh no! What kind of tea did you give her?!" Spike caught his breath and stood up. "Twilight calm down, the Princess isn't here, I just said that to give you 'motivation' to wake up." At this point Twilight is giving Spike a glare, that makes him get straight to the point. "But... she did send this scroll." Showing Twilight the scroll that he had in his left claw. "I'll get you back for that one Spike...Well, can you at least read the scroll to me while I put everything away?" "No problem Twilight." Spike cleared his throat and opened the scroll and said: Dear Twilight, I am in need of your assistance of welcoming a guest from a far away land. He has not arrived here at Canterlot, but after a few days of arriving, I want him to meet everypony in Ponyville and teach him the ways of the magic in friendship. I will warn you Twilight that he is not a pony or any kind of creature you know. He is a person of high importance in where from he is from and has a different culture opinion. He will be arriving in a different type of armor that you know from the Royal Armor Guards in Canterlot. In the end, please prepare everyponys schedule in a week time for arrival of my sister, myself, and our guest. He will be also living with you during his time here. From your mentor, Princess Celestia Spike rolled up the scroll and placed on the desk. "Who do you think this guest that the Princesses ha is?" As Twilight placed the last book in the shelf, she turned around and placed a hoof on her chin "Hmm..well, I have no real clue Spike. She said it wasn't a being that we know of. I wonder who and what kind of being this 'guest' is." As Twilight started the preparations for the Princesses, Princess Celestia and Luna met at Celestia's personal study room to discuss the final preparations of their plans "Sister, when do you want to summon the Hunter in our world, and shouldn't Twilight know about the situation?" asked the Princess of the night. "Very soon dear sister, after we spend some time making the final adjustments of our spell, we will summon him here and it would be for the best that Twilight learns when the time calls." said Princess Celestia. "Do you really need to send him to Ponyville sister? I am not distrusting your decision but I don't think that will be the best place to be at for this type of situation." "Do not worry Luna, sending him to Ponyville will be good so he can befriend the girls and work together for whatever seems to be coming." Luna thought for a minute after her sister responded with a understanding response. "Shall we start creating that when he arrives in our world Celly?" Celestia did not answer her question quickly, as she pondered on what the decision can possibly decide on the fate of their two worlds. "...yes Luna, we will need everything we have to stop the force that is coming..." A few days later "Do you still get those dreams Hunter." asked by a worried fish merchant. " Y-yeah... I don't what they are about... The first one was that wyvren dragon. Then after that was vision like dreams, that I saw theses creatures with wings and a horn on their head. I don't know what it means, but I feel like its getting worse..." explained the Hunter. "Hmm... It's seems that you need a vacation." "A vacation? Sorry, but I don't do vacations. I never heard of a Hunter taking a vacation, besides... I can't leave everyone in the village alone, I want to keep everyone safe. After what happened with my last family, I want to protect everyone." "Hon, after you defeated ceadous back those two years again, everything has been calm like a fish in a pond. We have been living such a calm life since then, take a break, for everyone sake." I pondered after that statement, I started to wonder: Do I need to get a vacation? Is the dreams only affecting me due to fatigue? I don't know anymore but I think I can do it I suppose. "Heh, I suppose I could take a few days off for now. I have to talk to the guild master before I do anything." "Don't worry hon, I think he'll let you off for a few days." smiled the merchant. "I'll talk to him tomorrow I suppose, I'm going to talk to J and see if he has anything for me today, if he doesnt then I'll just head to bed." "You do that Hon!" waved a happy fish merch. I just walked away waving without turning. I headed towards J to see if he had any new quests for me. I see him talking with a villager, something to do with kids drawing Cha-Cha pictures on their walls. Funny, but crude I suppose. I waited for them to finish up. After the villager walked away I called for J to catch his attention. "Hey J, got any new quests for me today?" "Ah, Hunter... How are you feeling today? More weird dreams?" "Yeah, but its nothing to bother myself with. After today I'm going to take a few days off to collect myself. I have ask the head chief before I can confirm anything." J just nodded, as he understood my dilemma perfectly. "Well hunter, your in luck. Theres no quests from any of the villagers for today so you can call it an early one for tonight." "Huh, okay. I'm going to talk to the head chief before I call it a night though." I was just about to go before J told me to stop. "Don't worry about it my friend, I'll tell my father for you. Once I tell him, you'll have a nice and relaxing days off." :I smiled back to J and said "Thanks J, I owe you one." "Think nothing of it my friend! If anything, you owe me a meal from Katt!" I chuckled and walked back to my living quarters. I sighed and removed my helmet and pulled the covers from my bed and lied down. For some reason the pillows feel extra soft than usual. I didnt pondered about this too long till I crept into the darkness of my dreams. I wonder what will I be in for this time. "Sister, the Hunter has finally fallen asleep. We should start performing the spell now if we wish to make it easier for ourselves." said a eager Princess. "Very well Luna. I shall summon him while you bring his chest that holds all of his inventory and equipment, understood?" "Of course dear sister, thou have repeated yourself several times before." said by a rather annoyed Night Princess. "Being careful never killed no pony Luna. Now, shall we begin?" asked Celestia. "I am ready to send the chest sister." as Luna was saying this, she closed her eyes and focused on her horn, as it started to glow a dark blue glow. "Very well then. Concentrate to send him into the main guest room." Celestia closed her eyes and concentrated to transfer every cell, every molecule of being of the Hunter. Hours later "Yawwwwwwwwn ah, I feel better than I usually do when I get up... Wait... Where am I?" As the hunter said, while he was looking around the room. The room was large compared to the Hunters sleeping quarters. The room had a large bed that could fit three people sleep, and still be comfortable. There was a highly detailed table with gold carvings etched into the frame, and instead of chairs, there were cushions to sit on. There was a mirror, sliding door that lead to a collection of different types of elegant and expensive looking clothes. The silks of the clothing glistened off the light reflecting from the windows, but the Hunter was too uninterested on what the clothing were about. He continued to the next room which was the bathroom. The bathroom had the same type of design as the room before it. A sink, toilet, and a bathtub that seemed to more spacious than the ones I saw when I visited Loc Lac city. The toilet... seemed a little to low for standards also. He walked back to the bedroom, then saw what he knew what was his: his chest that he first obtained when he arrived to Moga Village. It has everything that he has ever obtained during his stay and is still surprised how everything can still fit in one chest. As the Hunter walked to his chest, he heard a knock at the door. "Come in." said the Hunter. What he saw, he felt that he was still dreaming. Two creatures with a pair of bird like wings and a spiraling horn on their head. The smaller creature was a dark blue colored with wavy hair that looked like it was flowing in the wind. It had abnormal sized eyes and seemed to be younger the other creature next to her. The other creature was much taller than the blue creature, the taller creature had a sense of nobility of it. She had hair that consisted of blue, teal, and pink. Both of the creatures had what seemed to be a chest plate that the smaller creature of a moon and the taller creature of a sun. My concentration was broken when I heard the tall creature cleared its throat. The creature then said "Hello Hunter, I am Princess Celestia and this is my younger sister Princess Luna. I want to be the first one to welcome you our world and our country. You are in the world of Terra and your are in Equestria, specifically in Canterlot, where you are residing at this very moment." "What." First Day In EquestriaMonster Hunting is Magic Chapter 3 First Day In Equestria “W-where am I” asked surprised Hunter Celestia clopped closer to him and tried to be eye leveled with the hunter, surprising her that he is much taller than her. “As I said before, you are on our world that is called Terra. On this planet, you are in the Country that is known as Equestria.” “Okay… and why am I here?” Luna now spoke next “We have used a spell to summon a warrior who is fierce but kind to protect our world, and the spell has chosen you to be our protector in our time of need.” Hunter had his arms in front of his chest absorbing the new found information. “And I had no say in this?” Both sisters looked uneasy, as they did not know that the Hunter would be against the idea of protecting others. The three sentients stood there quietly, trying to find questions to ask next. Our Hunter was the first one to speak. “By the way, what are you creatures? Where I am from I have never seen the likes of you, well… Kelebi maybe, but never the less.” Celestia spoke up quickly so the awkwardness would hopefully dissolve. “To answer that question, I must tell you about the species of our kind. We are over all known as 'Equines' and there are three common branches of Equines that is normally called ‘ponies’. "There is the Earth pony, which lacks both horn and wings, such as my sister and I have, but Earth ponies are more in tune with the Terra and are in charge with the foundation of all that is earth and things that are grown. They are also in charge in the growth of food that is gathered and sold at local markets." "Pegasus or Pegasi (for plural), is the second pony branch that, unlike the Earth ponies, have wings. Pegasi have the natural ability to control the weather. Pegasi are depended on to keep a balance of correct amount of each certain weather for all over Equestria. Being able to control the weather, the Pegasi also have the ability to move clouds with their hooves to move the weather when they need to. Earth ponies depend on Pegasi to give a certain amount rain to help grow fruits, vegetables, and anything that grow from the ground.” Celestia stopped to make sure Hunter is able to absorb the information so far. Hunter just nodded as showing the princess that he’s ready for rest of the needed information. “Then there is Unicorns. Unicorns have the natural ability to use magic. Magic is something that all ponies have but, unlike Earth and Pegasi ponies, Unicorns can control their magic more freely. Unicorns can do many different types of spells with their horns. The basic thing that all ponies learn to do is the spell ‘levitation’, which means lightness. Levitation helps most Unicorns do everything much easier, but since they depend more on their magic, Earth ponies and Pegasi ponies have more of a physical advantage over the Unicorns. I have started a school for Unicorns that have more magic than normal unicorns, the school is called ‘Celestia school for gifted unicorns’.” “And where do you and your sister come in the picture?” asked an interested hunter. “My sister and I come from a forth branch of the Equine race. The branch is known as Alicorns. Alicorns have both traits of Pegasi and Unicorns. Alicorns are born with insanely large amount of magic that we are able to do things that even the most powerful unicorn cannot accomplish, Alicorns are also immortal; can live for eternity, but can die from any mortal wound.” There was a paused with a painful look on Celestias face when she continued the next part. “..But thousands of years ago, there was a griffons(Griffons are half-eagle, half-lion creatures. ) and pony war that many proud alicorns rose for the war. My sister and I have been in it, behind our parents that led the army. Many honorable alicorns fell to protect our country, now leaving my sister, another alicorn Princess, and myself that are the surviving alicorns that are known to exist." Silence crept into the room as the two alicorns mourn for the lost ones that nopony remembers. As the time past, Celestia lifted her head and looked at the Hunters helmet that he was wearing. “Please Hunter, we do not want the ponies to understand deaths of loved ones as my sister and I have sadly experience… we beg you Hunter of the Moga Village, please help us in our time of need…” The hunter just stood there with his arms crossed and pondering in his head about what he just learned. ‘I know the pain to lose loved ones… I can’t let others know that feeling, no one or no anything should ever know it…’ As he said this, a small memory of his past became visible in his head. The memories brought him to remember what had happened to him when he was child. His mother was a retired Arena keeper and his father was a widely known monster hunter, it was because of his father that he wanted to raise the sword to protect others. One night after his father came home from slaying a Rathian for a quest of a neighboring village. They had a bountiful meal and earned quite a bit of zeni from the quest. After finishing their meals, there was an explosion outside and a roar that just looking at my father, I can see blood rushing away from his face. “Maya! Get yourself and **** out of here! There’s a Rathalos right outside! It must be here because I killed its mate…I’ll distract it for you two!” “You can’t kill a Rathalos by yourself! I know how to fight, I will join you.” I don’t know what my father said but he seemed to let her join him as my mother was rushing me to our basement under the kitchen table. Mom flung the table across the room and sung the basement door open. She gently led me into the basement, sounds of metal clashing and the Rathalos roaring echoing through the basement. Mom led me to the very back of the room, I could see the fear in her eyes as she tried to comfort me. “****, please stay here while we take care of this wyvern okay? If you don’t hear from us… I want you to know that we love you so much and we are very proud of you son. “ After that my mother rushed out of the basement and closed the basement door and then I heard shouts, roars, sounds of our home getting destroyed, and then silenced. I remembered crying in the corner behind the random things we kept in the basement. When I thought it was safe, I climbed through the mess and slowly made my way to the door. I slowly opening it, and having to use my full strength to get whatever rubble off the top of the door. What I saw was a disaster. There was no home left to claim, everything was destroyed. Rubble of once lovely home was now a pile of debris scattered everywhere. Flames covering most of the place and trees around our home were caught on fire. I scanned the area for my parents, hoping that they are still alive. It took me about half an hour to find them… I have never screamed that loud in my life, or ever will again. I found my parents bodies together, charred but recognizable. They were all bloodied and so damaged that I knew they didn’t make it, but they had a grin on their face, and saw their hands holding each tightly. I didn’t dare to touch their bodies as I thought that their bodies would crumble with the added weight. “Mother! Father! NO…WHY! Why… please, don’t leave me alone…” **Celestia** As my sister and i waited, we became more and more anxious for the response that we were waiting for, due to his unique armor and helmet, we cannot see if he was looking at us. As I gazed at the armor that he was wearing, it was so unique compared to our guards, that it showed its fearsome, and intimating appearance to its enemies. The red part of the armor seemed to faintly glow a bright red, as if that the armor was alive. After looking at the armor that he wore, I trailed my eyes to his humongous weapon that seemed to be the shape of a hilt of a weapon. It seems to be as long as the Hunter, possibly more, which makes it completely impossible for normal ponies to even think to fathom to hold, never the less to swing and use it correctly. The hilt section seemed to glow a unworldly dark purple, I must make a note on what kind of materials he made to use to make this weapon. After moments of silence, the Hunter suddenly started to move his arms from being crossed on his chest and slowly moved them towards his helmet. He slowly removed his helmet, revealing a face with smaller eyes and abnormal small head, his eyes were a sparkling like silver color with different types of sizes of scars on his face, there were a scar on his left cheek going from his ear to his jaw line and another scar right under his right eye and a short black mane just long enough to reach his neck. He silently turned around to place his helmet on the bed and turned back to my sister and I. He waited to speak till he said "...I know the pain of losing your love ones more than you think... and I also wish that no one to know that feeling." He then placed his right fist over his chest,smiled and said "As long it is to protect those who needs protection, I will fight for citizens of Equestria." I looked at my sister and smiled "With that, we welcome you, Hunter of Moga Village, to our country of Equestria." He removed his fist from his chest and said "One thing though, I wish to say this: Please, no titles, but call each other as who we are, living beings." My sister and I looked at each other, and knowing our answer without even discussing about it, I replied " We accept this, what is your name? It would be ironic if your name would to be Hunter." "Heh, Hunter the Hunter. No, my name is Alex." "Well Alex, I think we all had a eventful evening don't you think? You should settle down for the evening since we have much to show you tomorrow. I will tell everypony in the castle that we have an ambassador from very far away so, at least they won't gallop away from the sight of you...." I scanned his armor as I remembered something "...and could you switch to a less intimating armor? I don't think our ponies would be that happy if I brought a monster in our castle." At me mentioning about his armor, he looked at his armor and walked to the chest that Luna brought when we summoned him. He seemed to start to rummaging through the things in the chest, already seemed to be looking for his armor for tomorrow. "Hmmm...(as he says while pulling out various of armor) "Whats the season right now?" Luna caught this question before I could say anything. "It is the season of winter, so in a month that we will have Winter wrap up." "Hmm....then I should pick my Barioth set with Wyvren Blade 'flare' long sword..." Luna had a look that she seemed curious of what he was talking about, incidentally I have also become curious of the things that he had in his chest. "Okay, I got my armor that I'm going to wear tomorrow. Is there anymore to say or should we call it a good night?" I decided to ask about his things in the chest "I had a question if you don't mind me asking." "Not at all, ask away." "What is a 'barioth armor' , and with the current armor that you are wearing, may I ask how you have obtained the resources to make such strong looking armor?" He immediately dug through his pouch that seem to contain a few random items, he then pulled out a brownish book out. "This my friends, is my journal. As you may know, I am an Monster Hunter, and which I go around slaying creatures that people need help with. Being said I have obtained very rare resources while fighting with the monsters that I am able to make armor and weapons from them. Here, let me show you a picture and description of the monster." He then opened his journal and hoofed (or should I say 'handed'?) it to us. I enveloped it with my magic and levitated it with my magic. The page the journal was on had a picture of a monster on the left and had what seemed to be personal description: The dreaded, nomadic Deviljho have no specific territory of their own. Their muscles swell if provoked, revealing old wounds. Needing to feed constantly due to high body heat, they can hunt nearby animals to extinction. Note to self: Do not piss off Deviljho DevilJho Saying that I was not surprised would be a lie. The creature was so fiendish, it seemed to be from the bottom levels of Tartarus. "Is that Barioth? If so, where is this monster from?" "Well, actually, you know the armor I'm wearing now? (I just nodded) Well, this armor is made from his scales and other resources that I can only obtain from fight that creature. Here, it'll show you how many I slain and captured." I looked to the spot where he pointed in his journal. It showed: Slayed: 19 Captured:21 Luna and I were utterly shocked that he was able to defeat a monster at that caliber "How are you sized up to the Deviljho?" "Hmmm.... I guess a quarter of his leg? Around that for sure." Now knowing the length of creatures that Alex has been able to defeat and able to capture seemed impossible, but he is proof of such by not being killed. "Well Alex, we are thankful of agreeing of accepting of being in Equestria. My sister and I must be getting now. Tomorrow we wish to show you the castle." Alex looked at the window and realized that the sun seemed to setting. "Yawwwnn~ Yeah, after today I need to get some shut eye." My sister and I said our goodbyes and left the room to set the sun and raise the moon. **Alex** As I watch both Celestia and Luna trot out the room, I turned to my chest and started taking off my armor and placed each part into the chest. I checked my stash of 1,154,875 Zeni and wondered if I could still use it as currency. I bet gold coins are still the universal currency. I placed the Zeni back into the chest and crawled into the bed. The bed... much softer than the bed at my sleeping quarters back home! I feel that I could just sink in to it. As I placed my head on the pillow I start to wonder what things shall unfold for the future. "Oh fun this will be." I muttered before falling to sleep. Preview of Chapter 4As Alex turned to see a white unicorn with blonde mane, white coat, and a top part of a tux. With him, who has been looked like she has been through a lot, was a earth pony with brown straight mane, and a light blue coat. " I apologize your Prince I-" she earth pony was interrupted with a hoof from the unicorn. "Quiet servant! Did I tell you to speak?!" Alex thought to himself 'This won't do at all.' The earth pony quivered into a ball, as the unicorn was continuously hitting the earth pony with his hoof. Alex immediately raised from the cushion he was sitting, walked across the dining table (which he got a nasty look from Shining Armor) and ran to the earth pony, and grabbed the hoof from the unicorn. "Hey! Stop hurting her, what kind of man would hit a woman like that?!" The unicorn seemed shocked that the bi-pedal ape grabbed him. "GAH! THIS APE JUST GRABBED MY HOOF! Who released this stinking ape in this castle! I shall have them thrown into the prison for this!" Alex's blood is now boiling at this point. "I said, who do you call yourself to hit a woman?!" The unicorn pulled his grip from Alex's grip and snarled at him. "HMPH, if you must know, I am Prince Blueblood, I am part of the royal family that lives in this very castle. Now, I must beat this useless pony of where she is in this world!" Blueblood was readying himself to hit the poor mare, but was stopped as Alex grabbed him by his tux and raised him eye level. "I won't let you touch her with your stinking hoof, you piece of garbage." Blueblood then lost it. "ME?! GARBAGE?!! I WILL LET YOU KNOW THAT MY FAMILY HAS TITLES THAT YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE!" Alex tightened his grip on the tux that Blueblood was wearing. His anger was rising of hatred towards the unicorn. Alex then remembered of all the monsters that he has slain and captured to protect the people who had called for his services. The cries of hope from the time he first went to vanquish the monster Ceadeus, who, not even the Monster Hunter Guild knew about. "Titles... Titles are what you earned by doing the deeds that you did to help others. Titles are what you wear proudly from the things you have done in your life. I have slain thousands of monsters, that you or even the princesses could stand against. For doing those accomplishments, I myself have titles of my own Blueblood... do you want to know what they are?" At this moment, Blueblood was enraged but also curious of what the bi-pedal answer was, so he asked with venom in each word. "What are your titles ape." Alex felt his eyes flared in hot anger. He said in pride. " I am Alex, Protector, Savior, He who banishes the monsters, The god of the seas, Champion, but I am not known to use theses titles, except for one title, one title that ALL have known me since the very beginning. They call me... Monster Hunter." Author's Note Hi everyone! I wanted to submit a small preview (but a rough draft though) of chapter 4 since it will be somewhere around 10k. I am a bit slow at the moment due to school and with being sick. Sorry for this little bump in the road, but please bear with this! Thank you everyone for bothering themselves for reading my stories! The Duel WIth BluebloodMonster Hunting Is Magic Chapter 4 The Duel with Blueblood Note: Thanks to Dream Weaver for proof-reading and editing! As the sun blissfully comes over the horizon, everypony are quickly are all about. Everypony is, while our hero is slowly getting out of the bed, getting dressed into the armor that he placed out the night before, and then equipped his trusty Alatreon Revolution to start the day. As Alex was about close the chest lid, he heard a knock at the door. “Come in.” Alex said. The door opened to reveal a unicorn pony with dark blue and blue highlights. He also had gold plated armor on his body. The unicorn looked surprise about the creature and quietly said “The Princesses did spoke the truth.” Alex ignored the statement that he heard from the unicorn and said “Hi. I’m Alex the Hunter. May I ask what your name is?” The unicorn realized of what he said and grinned from the manners of the guest that the Princesses brought to the castle. The unicorn replied “Hello Alex. I am Captain Shining Armor, but you can call me Armor. The Princesses sent me to tell you that breakfast is going to be served soon and they wish you tell be in their presence to meet the others of the royal family.” Alex grinned and said “Nice to meet you Armor, it is nice to meet you. I suppose it is the best time to head out I suppose?” Armor nodded “Yes. We do not wish to keep the Princesses waiting do we? I’ll show you the way.” Alex agreed and headed out the room with Armor, shutting the door behind him. Both Alex and Armor were walking down a few corridors tell Armor first spoke up. “May I ask, what kind of creature are you? I have never seen your kind before in Equestria.” Alex answered his question with honesty. “My kind is called Human beings. We are not known is Equestria or anywhere else on this world. Your Princesses called for my help in a situation they believe would be resolved with my certain ‘talents’ you may say.” Armor’s interest peaked drastically due to hearing that Alex was from another world. He was also was curious about the help that Alex was here to help with, as Armor thought that his guards were fit enough for whatever situation would call fit. Armor felt that he wanted to know more Alex’s ‘talents’ as he doesn’t seem to be in a career for something simple as a gardener or a construction worker. Armor took a glance of the weapon that was Alex’s back. “May I ask about what is your ‘talents’ are? I can tell you’re some type of soldier with that monstrous looking of weapon on your back, but I have never seen that type of weapon before.” Asked Armor. “Well, to answer your first question, my ‘talent’ is to slay monsters that would harm others, I would also accept a job that called to capture monsters also. As a Hunter, I have to accept quests that a normal person would be too scared to achieve. To answer your second question, no, I am not a soldier. As I said before, I am a Hunter that gets paid to hunt monsters. To answer your last question… This weapon is known as a “Great sword”. A Great Sword is under the branch of the term ‘Blade Masters’. This certain Great Sword was created by using the various of materials from a certain dragon in my world that is called “Alateron” which is a dragon that can control various of different elements to fight with, its actually one of the worst dragons in my world.” Armor stopped in place to sort out all of the information that the ‘human’ just causally just said to him. Armor was too surprised in the fact that a creature such as Alex could even fight a dragon and live to tell the tale, and be so causal about it! Armor resumed trotting through the corridors with Alex till they have stopped at a pair of tall wooden doors. Before they entered though, Armor stopped Alex from entering to tell him a bit of information before seeing the Princesses. “Before we go in Alex, I want to let you know that I think you are a great stall-human, but you will meet with my soon to be brother-in-law that is the worst kind of unicorn I have ever met. When my fiancée and I announced that we were to be married, he sent out several remarks that day on how I am “disgracing the royal bloodline with my dirty blood.” I just wish to prepare you on how he will be. Just to let you know on what’s his name is, his name is Blueblood.” Alex understood where Armor is coming from. His visits to Loc Lac city earned him glares for picking the career of being a Monster Hunter. The higher class would often call him varies of things that he wishes not to be repeated. He finds it ironic that the people that would berate him for his job would often come to him for capturing gigantic monsters that they would boast about capturing themselves. “I understand Armor. I will let you know I have had my fair of stubborn idiots, such as the one you have described just now. I will however, if he harms anyone but your case, ‘anypony’ I would do everything in my power to make him pay for it.” Answered the Monster Hunter. Armor grinned at Alex’s response. “Let us hope it would not come to it, but most likely Princess Celestia would handle the situation. Now shall we get some breakfast in ourselves? I don’t know about you, but I’m quite hungry.” Armor turned and used his magic to easily open the doors, revealing a dining hall that could easily be used to service 100 ponies. Both Alex and Armor walked into the dining hall to be greeted by both Princesses of the castle, and an alicorn that Alex has never met before. Both of them headed towards the Princesses and Armor bowed and said. “Good morning your Princesses, I have done what you requested and brought Alex here to join us for breakfast.” Both Princesses grinned on how the Captain greeted them but Celestia responded. “Thank you Shining Armor for doing this request, please sit with your fiancée and have some breakfast.” Armor nodded and headed to the cushion that was next to who Alex presumed that was his soon-to-be wife. Celestia turned her head to Alex and said. “Good morning Alex. How was your slumber last night? My sister and I hope you rested well for the day.” Alex nodded and said “The bed was much better than I have slept where I used to, thanks to that, I feel much more rested than I usually do, so thank you, both of you.” Luna was the next to respond. “You are most welcome Alex. Please sit next to us and join us for breakfast today. We shall introduce you to our niece once you sit down.” Alex answered by sitting down on the cushion next to Luna. Due to being so tall, the dining hall table only went up to Alex’s stomach while he was sitting. Celestia turned to the pink alicorn that was with Armor and said “Cadence? I wish you to meet a ‘person’ that will be joining us for breakfast today.” Cadence nodded and gave a quick “Yes auntie.” Stood up and trotted to where Alex is. “Alex, I wish you to meet my niece, Mi Amore Cadenza but more casually known as Cadence. (Celestia then turned to Cadence and said) Cadence, I want you to meet Alex, he has traveled a long lengths to travel here and will be here for a while.” We traded greetings and she trotted back to Armor and then asked “So Mr.Alex… where are you from? You must’ve a bunch of stories from where you are from.” Alex chuckled about what kind of stories that he could tell. He has stories that could last for days about his adventures of slaying monsters. Cadence picked up on Alex’s chuckle and asked “Did I say something funny?” Alex waved his hand (which both Armor and Cadence were confused about what that was) and said “I do not want to be seem rude, just that my stories are a bit…lengthy, and please, just call me Alex, because I am not one for titles and such.” Cadence smiled and said “I understand where you are coming from, just don’t say that to my brother or he would talk your ears off. May I ask what you have done in the past?” Alex was about to answer her, till the doors to the dining hall were slammed open. Alex turned his gaze to the doors to see a unicorn that screams high class trash. The unicorn had a top part tux on, and a blonde mane that stayed in place, no matter how much the unicorn moved. The unicorn had three different of ponies following him that Alex presumed were butlers and maids. “Good morning Auntie Celestia and Auntie Luna how are you t-WHAT IS THE MONKEY DOING HERE?!” pointing a hoof at Alex. Alex looked around to see where this ‘monkey’ was. Without any luck, he turned his gaze back to the unicorn and pointed to himself. “Auntie Celestia, I do not think having this animal would be hygienic for us all!” “Blueblood, you are disgracefully talking to our guest that is from far away. We have personally requested for his presence to be here, so when you say remarks about him, you are also saying things about us. So sit down and prepare for breakfast or we shall ask you to leave.” Said Luna. Blueblood was utterly in shock that his aunties would want a monkey in the castle that wasn’t on a chain. Without saying a word, Blueblood headed to the cushion next to Celestia and sat down. ‘This is just as bad like that moment when I found out the bad-blood of a unicorn asked my sister in marriage!’ Thought Blueblood. Celestia looked over at the table of everypony…and human and said “Now that everypony is here, shall we have breakfast now?” (Celestia turned to the butlerpony) “We are ready for breakfast now, please send them in.” The butlerpony bowed and left off to send the food in. Moments later unicorns came in with breakfast, levitated with their magic. The food was spread out with several of different things such as scrambled eggs, toast, pancakes, hash browns, oats, grass, orange juice, milk, coffee, and flowers. Alex was quite surprised about the spread that was in front of him since he had to Katt make his meals or he had a simple cooked meat to keep him full. Alex then noticed that all of the ponies were using their magic to obtain their food, and he knew just reaching out for the food would be too rude to do, he decided to just wait and get some food from his chest back at his room. While sipping her cup of tea, Celestia looked at Alex, who had no food on his plate and had his eyes closed. ‘Does he not want any food? Did something happen to make him ruin his appetite?’ Wondered Celestia. After setting the cup back to the table, Celestia asked “Are you alright Alex? Is there something wrong that you would not like to eat?” Alex turned his head to her and said “Oh, everything is fine. It’s just that I don’t have magic like everyone else and that I don’t want to reach over to grab food, so I’m going to wait and eat some food that I have in my chest.” Blueblood thought it was a good time to interject “Hmph, a monkey like you should understand where he belongs.” “Blueblood!” Celestia shouted. “Luna has already told you to be respectful towards our guest, yet you act out once again! I will give you one more chance to act civilized or you shall be sent to your room bedroom!” Blueblood decided to stand from his cushion and begin to walk out the room in an anger fit, before reaching the door, he bumped into a maidmare that was preparing to take the dirty dishes away. Plates fell, causing them to shatter right next to Bluebloods hooves. This caused Bluebloods anger to reach its boiling point as he now thrashed out on the poor maidmare. “You stupid mare! You might’ve ruined a hooficure that cost more than you make in a year!” The mare rushed down to pick up the shattered dishes. “My apologize Prince Blueblood, please let me cl-“ The maidmare was disruptively by Blueblood smack her in the face with a hoof. “Dirty my hooves will you?! Since you dirtied my hooves, might as well teach you a lesson!” Blueblood continually beating the poor maidmare, Alex saw this foolishness of a being to harm another, stood up, and rushed to the maidmare in need. Right before Blueblood could hit the poor pony again, Alex crushed the hoof with his mighty grip that could easily swing a gigantic Great sword. “Let me go now you monkey….” Bluebloods anger was soon replaced by being frightened by the look that the Hunter was giving him, a look that he has used several times used to stare down death over and over again. Alex reached his boiling point with Blueblood. “What kind of being are you to hurt a woman?! What gives you a right to do that?!” Alex shouted to Blueblood in anger. “SOMEPONY HELP, THIS BEAST IS ABOUT TO HURT ME!” His cries for help fell on empty ears as the guards were enraged with what the Prince was doing, but could do nothing do to the Social Status of the Prince. "I said, who you call yourself to hit a woman?!" The unicorn pulled his grip from Alex's grip and snarled at him. "HMPH, if you must know, I am Prince Blueblood; I am part of the royal family that lives in this very castle. Now, I must beat this useless pony of where she is in this world!" Blueblood was readying himself to hit the poor mare, but was stopped as Alex grabbed him by his tux and raised him eye level. "I won't let you touch her with your stinking hoof, you piece of garbage." Blueblood then lost it. "ME?! GARBAGE?!! I WILL LET YOU KNOW THAT MY FAMILY HAS TITLES THAT YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE!" Press this to play the song that I added that fits this moment. Alex tightened his grip on the hoof that Blueblood was about to hurt the pony with. His anger was rising of hatred towards the unicorn. Alex then remembered of all the monsters that he has slain and captured to protect the people who had called for his services. The cries of hope from the time he first went to vanquish the monster Ceadeus, who, not even the Monster Hunter Guild knew about. "Titles... Titles are what you earned by doing the deeds that you did to help others. Titles are what you wear proudly from the things you have done in your life. I have slain thousands of monsters, that you or even the princesses could stand against. For doing those accomplishments, I myself have titles of my own Blueblood... do you want to know what they are?" At this moment, Blueblood was enraged but also curious of what the bi-pedal answer was, so he asked with venom in each word. "What are your titles ape." Alex felt his eyes flared in hot anger. He said in pride. " I am Alex, Protector, Savior, He who banishes the monsters, The god of the seas, Champion, but I am not known to use theses titles, except for one title, one title that ALL have known me since the very beginning. They call me... Monster Hunter." After Alex gave the inspiring speech, all of the ponies in the room, Alicorn and not absorbed of what he had said. ‘I now know that we have chosen the right being to be here to fight the darkness away now. A being of courage and right sense of justice to defeat the being of the darkness.’ Celestia then smiled after thinking in her thoughts. Blueblood thought differently though. Blueblood whipped his hoof out of Alex’s hand and ran away with a good distance and said “You do not scare me monkey! To show you your place, I challenge you to a duel!” All of the servant ponies and guard ponies gasped in response of what Blueblood had said. The Princesses, on the other hoof, looked at each other and raised an eyebrow, since they have not seen a duel for over 2000 years. Alex looked to Celestia and Luna, and asked. “How does a duel here work Luna?” (While asking this all of the ponies in the room [besides Celestia] gasped once again as how causal the creature said their Princess name.) “A duel has not been declared for over 2000 years. A duel consists of two ponies fighting till the point one is dead or gives up. The challenged can pick the time, and the place for where the duel is to begin. Other rules goes that if there is one Pegasus, they cannot fly around, while if there is one unicorn, the said unicorn cannot encase the challenged or challenger in a levitation spell. The challenger may be able to add prizes into the challenge if he sees fit also.Knowing how this was before the time of peace, the rules must be changed to be acceptable for ponies of today to be able to watch it.” Luna said. “We can use tools and any weapons that we want to use?” “Yes.” Luna stated. “Then I accept you challenge Blueblood. I will put you in your place, which is in the trash.” Alex said with a smirk. “Then state where and when monkey! I will show you that I am your undoing!” Blueblood said with malice. Truth to be told, Alex didn’t know any places to choose from since he just arrived yesterday. Alex turned to Armor and asked “Hey Armor, do you have any interesting place for us to duel at, something that is big and open, like Bluebloods ego.” “How dare you!” Blueblood yelled. Ignoring Blueblood, Armor thought to himself about decisions about what would be a suitable arena for the two. After thinking for a few minutes, Armor came to with a resolution. “What about the training arena for new guard ponies to practice? Its right behind the palace and it’s not that far from here. It would empty because academy for training would close around this season.” Alex turned back to Blueblood “There you go. In one hour, meet me at the training arena being prepared to fight.” “Hmph. I shall make sure to make you grovel to my hooves after my victory.” Blueblood said before leaving the dining hall to prepare for a ‘certain’ thing for the duel. After Blueblood closed the dining hall doors, Alex pulled out a green potion and knelt down to the injured maidmare. Before he said anything, the mare jumped and wrapped her hooves around him and said “Thank you thank you thank you, whoever you are, thank you for helping me!” The earth pony said. The earth pony then released herself from the Hunter, with a small blush on her cheeks. “No problem pony. I have something for the injuries you got from that turd.” Alex handed a potion to the pony to drink. Nodding, the earth pony grasped the glass bottle with her hoof and gulped the potion in several loud gulps. The effects of the potion were immediate, the cuts and bruises she had from the beating from Blueblood was vanished. “W-wow, I feel so refreshed that I can get back to work!” said the pony. “You got to hand it to potions, simple but effective.” Alex was given the now empty bottle and placed it in one of his many pockets all over his armor. Alex then looked at the pony and said “By the way, I never got your name. My name is Alex.” “Oh I’m sorry; I forgot to tell you too! My name is Quick Step.” Celestia trotted from behind Alex and was wearing a worried expression upon her face. “Are you okay my pony? Do you need to be sent to the infirmary to heal?” Celestia asked. “O-oh no your Princess, you do not have to bother yourself with me. Alex here gave me something that healed me back up in an instant.” Quick Step said. Celestia let out a relief sigh. She was now puzzled with what Alex had used to heal one of her ponies in a quick amount of time. “Never the less, you may have the rest of the week off, paid for of course.” “T-thank you your highness, I will head out now then if you excuse me. Alex, thank you again, I will tell the other ponies about what you have done today.” Quick Step said then trotted out of the room. After Quick Step left the room, Armor, Cadence, and Luna trotted to Alex to ask him their questions about what they witnessed before them. “I must say Mr. Alex, you really showed my brother where his place is .” “I don’t know about that but he didn’t seem that frightened. Besides, I can’t stand to see others hurting other people.” Alex said while crossing his arms. Armor was the next to speak. “Is there any way to see the creatures that you have fought? I would like to see them first-hoof.” “Well, I have some drawings of them but that’s about it.” Alex said sadly. “Excuse me Alex, but I can be at service to help you with that. If you wouldn’t mind, I would use a spell to transfer memories to one being to the next.” Luna said. “Sure Luna, we can do that, but can we wait till after the duel, since I need to get ready for it after all? I want show you something then ask you a question about Equestrian economy set up.” Alex said while walking. As the hero and three ponies walked/trotted to the guestroom, they were all exchanging small talk till they arrived into the room that Alex is currently staying at. As everyone filed into the room, Cadence was completely in puzzlement on how Alex was going to deal with her younger brother. She went to the cushions that were by the table in the room and placed her rump onto the soft cushion, following her was both Armor and Luna. “So Alex, what kind of plan do you have for the duel with my brother? He probably won’t be difficult to beat, but I think he would have a few tricks up his sleeves.” Alex started to strip down from his armor, not feeling uncomfortable since he had his under armor to cover himself. He started to place the barioth armor back into his chest as he said to Cadence. “I don’t have any to use, except for what I have done in the past quests with monsters, I will scan him while fighting and see how he works, after that, and I’ll be set.” Alex pulled out the Vangis armor out and started getting the armor on. “Oh by the way, can I ask a question to anyone that cares?” Luna placed down her cup of tea (with her magic) that she had teleported from the kitchen. “What is the question that you have Alex?” Alex pulled out a single coin of zenni from his chest and threw it to her, which Luna caught with her magic. “Does a gold coin in this world have any economic value at all? If not, then I am pretty much poor again.” Luna studied the coin, looking at the coin in every detail. She passed it along to Cadence, which she grabbed with her magic to study it also. “From looking at the detail of the coin, it has the different writing on it, probably from your world, but it can be used as gold from this world. May I ask how much gold coins that you may have?” “I have about over a million of gold coins in my chest saved up from my adventures. Is that decent amount?” Alex equipped his helmet on and turned to the ponies that were waiting for him. This is the first time he saw creatures were able to have their mouths gaping like theirs. Armor was the first one to come back to his senses. “Th-that’s more than a decent amount! That can buy you a castle easily, how have you ever obtained that much of gold in a lifetime?!” Armor shouted in shock. Alex cocked his head in confusion. He was confused on how there was a huge amount of difference of the currency is in their own worlds. “In my world the economic currency is that most things are sold in few hundreds to hundreds of thousands. Quests in my world offer in the same way. Basically, I accept the quest, complete them, get thousands of gold, and buy things that you would seem to be too expensive.” All of the ponies now seem surprised once again with how the economy worked with at Alex’s world. “Well I can worry about money in another time since I have to get ready anyways.” Alex placed the inventory that he is going to use for the duel with Blueblood into all over his armor, he now started to feel the effects of his armor and of the decoration jewels activating. He pulled out a steak and devoured it quickly in front of the herbivores in front of him and now felt his stamina doubled. He turned to his guests and said “Shall we head to our dearest friend Blueblood? I think we shall start this little duel and afterwards, get on our separate paths.” Alex said with a grin. The training field was located in the back of The Canterlot Garden, which helps the newer guards to train vigilantly, while being calm being one with nature. However, the spectator left section is now filled with several of rich ponies (curtsies of Blueblood) wanting to see the fight of Prince Blueblood against an ape-like creature. On the other side of the spectator section was filled with servant ponies, guards on their breaks, and normal citizens that were brought by Quick Step. She caught wind of what was happening when her friends that work at the castle told her about a strange bi-pedal creature accepting a duel with the ponies hated. Alex was being led by Armor outside to the training arena when they all noticed the unexpected ponies waiting for the duel. “Uh Armor, what is this? I didn’t anticipate that there were going to be spectators for today’s duel.” Alex said while walking. “There shouldn’t be spectators for it. I will be right being right back; I’m going to see how the duel was leaked.” Thus left Alex with Cadence and Luna. “It appears that the duel is about to start soon. We shall teleport you to the arena. Cadence, can you please go to my sister that Alex is here and ready for the duel to begin? I think a lot of ponies want to see this.” Cadence then teleported away, leaving both Alex and Luna to themselves. “May I ask you a question before I teleport us, are you going to…kill Blueblood, cause the duel can only end in a forfeit or death. Can you please don’t kill him; because he may be annoying but ponies have not experience death for over a few thousands of years. What I am asking, please make him forfeit so the ponies of Equestria won’t be afraid of you. It will help you in the long run.” “Well, I wasn’t planning to kill him, just planned to scare him and teach him a lesson of not being a jerk to others.” “Oh, well that works then; we shall take you to the located area then.” Alex nodded and then both of them were teleported to the acquired area. When they appeared to the needed location, Blueblood was seen using his magic to pick from the weapons that is available for him to us. Alex started to do some stretches while Blueblood was fussing over what weapon to use. After a few minutes of deciding (and yelling at a servant randomly), everything was set. Ponies were waiting in anticipation of start of the match, Princesses were sipping tea as they were watching, a certain grey mare eating a muffin, tension was felt in the air as the duelists were staring each other down. Armor trotted to the middle of the arena, quickly learned about the basics of a duel from Princess Celestia, Armor knew what to say to start things off. “Okay pony and…human, I want a clean honorable duel, only way of winning is to make the other forfeit or to…kill them. I do not want any audiences to get hurt because of this duel, do I understand? Now…. Begin!”
A new fear introduces itself (Revised)All rights of Monster Hunter series go to their according creators All rights of My Little Pony: FiM go to their according owners Monster Hunting is Magic A new fear introduces itself Ceadeus Species - Elder Dragon Element- Water Signature Move - Water Blast Size- 5837.2 cm That was what I had to fight to protect the Moga Village two years ago. One of my hardest quests that I had to complete for the protection and safety of the village. During the time I been assigned to Moga Village as their hunter I have been slowly connecting more with the villagers. This i- -BONK- "WAKE UP LACKEY" I open my eyes to see the oh so loving Cha-Cha standing over me, with a somewhat large Great Jaggi bone that we carved a while back in his hands. "I wasn't sleeping Cha-Cha." I rubbed where he hit me on the head. The one time I closed my eyes without my helmet i might add and I get suddenly get jumped by my friend (despite getting called his lackey all of the time no less). "What do you want?" "I want to hunt!" Cha-Cha shouted to me. "We just got back from hunting a Rathian and an Rathlos. Don't forget you weren't really helpful during that quest." "I hunted them, Lackey helped!" 'Ugh, never going to stop being so full of yourself are we?' "Fine, but I'm going to get some chow in me first. Go ahead and play with the village children okay?" "Cha-Cha no play! Cha-Cha train kids!" "Okay okay, just go." Cha-Cha nodded, threw the Great Jaggi bone next to the collection of masks that we have and waddled out of my bedroom. I lazily got out of my bed and stretched my somewhat aching body. I turned to my bed stand and grabbed my Vangis helmet that I earned from fighting Deviljhos. I sighed "Lets get this day started shall we?" I muttered to myself and headed out the door. When I stepped out of my sleeping quarters, I watch the busy life of Moga village. Oversea traders making deals with the chief junior, the Store keeper chatting away with her customers, the fish trader having a discussion with one of the oversea crew-mates on which fish is best (which seems to be a heated argument from the looks of it), and the guild keeper having a causal conversation with the village chief. I headed over to the chef to get a filling meal in myself "Hey Katt, whats cooking on this excellent morning?" As I say sitting on the wooden chair. "Ah! Welcome Hunter! We have a nice selection of things for today. Here's a menu for what we got cooking." I nod and grabbed the menu out of his paw. I browsed through the menu to see what he had, but already knew what I was hungry for today. Dragon meat and Goat cheese. That combination always gets my stomach gurgling for it all of the time. I placed the menu on the table and said "Can I get Dragon meat and Goat cheese?" "A wonderful combo to pick, makes your skin hard as rock, but makes you feel twice as healthy,anything for you fellow customer! That would be 250G please!" I nodded and grabbed my pouch,picked three 100G coins and handed him the gold coins into his furry paws. "Keep the change friend." "Thank you as always hunter! I shall be back before you can say boiled rathlos entrails!" I chuckled at what he said and watched him prepare my meal. Watching him cook always make me drool through my helmet as I can smell the dragon meat being cooked. -10 minutes later- As I feel content from the meal, I see Katt grabbing the plate and start to clean the plate from the little bits I left. "Katt, I say this once and again. You are amazing at what you do." He beamed from my comment. "It's only thanks to you that I can cook with real dragon meat! When I was still on the ship, I had nothing but fish to cook with!" 'heh, a cat that hates fish' "Well, I love to continue to chat but I gotta get started with my day." I stand up off from the chair and patted my stomach from the amazing meal. "Have a bountiful hunt!" I start to walk towards Junior to see how he is today and see how things are with the village. I stopped in front of him on his 'chief tower central' and looked up and waved " Hey J, how are things with you today?" Junior looked away from his clipboard and smiled "Ah, hello friend. The day has been calm and trades have been excellent with nobles continuing of buying our honey." I grimaced at that "Are nobles still into the 'fat' phase? No offense but I hope they stop buying the stuff or they might explode." He just laughed "I say let them enjoy what they are doing. This phase is getting the village the gold it needs!" I just shrugged "So Hunter, what do you need today?" "I was going to ask you that actually." He nodded and looked at the papers on his clipboard. "It seems that we need about two Great Jaggis for their frills." "So two Great Jaggi frills?" "We also need some raw meat." I gave him a thumbs up "Consider it done my friend." "We thank you Hunter!" I nodded and was now wondering where Cha-Cha ran off to now. I noticed a village children running by me, I decided they must be following Cha-Cha. Yup. I caught up to Cha-Cha and heard him talking about our last quest and decided to see what he was saying now. "So Cha-Cha and Lackey were fighting giant dragons,Cha-Cha was using Lackey as a diversion while I used my magical powers to strike the dragons dead!" They children then started going crazy from the amazing ending that he came up with. I decided that was enough and grabbed him. "Come on Cha-Cha, I need your 'magic' for our next quest." Cha-Cha squirmed from my grip and started excitedly dance "What shall Cha-Cha this time?Diablos?Jhen?? -GASP- will Cha-Cha conquer a Uragaan?" I rolled my eyes from him being so self-absorbed "No Cha-Cha, we're just hunting some Great Jaggis today." "Cha-Cha wants BIG monsters! No puny monsters for the great and powerful Cha-Cha!" I just ignored him as we walked up to the Guild Keeper. The Guild Keeper is really just a village girl working with the MH Guild so Hunters can accept quests legally and the the Guild Keeper monitors what kind of quests that the Hunter is able to complete with current armor and weapon built. After slaying the Ceadeus, I think I was more than qualified to do any quest that she had to offer for me. "Hey Keeps (Keeps is the little nickname that everyone started calling her when she came back as a official Guild employee) how are you today?" "Hi~ Hunter! Things are fine today, I have some quests lined up for you today!" "Yeah, Junior filled me in that there's a few quests that some villagers needed for today." She starts nodding excitedly. "Yup! A strong Hunter as yourself can easily take care of some Great Jaggis." "Well... I'm going back to my sleeping quarters to prepare myself, who knows will pop out while hunting." "Okay! I'll be here waiting then." I headed by inside my sleeping quarters to go to my chest that has everything that I have saved that I thought that was going to be useful for me in my adventures as a Hunter. I already knew what I wanted since almost all of the time, I grab these items unless I'm hunting bigger game. I decided to bring my alatreon revolution (Great Sword) with along with complete armor setup of Vangis. I looked into my pouch of items to make sure I have everything. Okay, I am ready now. I hurried out back to Keep with Cha-Cha in tow. "Sorry about that Keeps, with everything ready now I am ready to grab that quest." "Hehe, of course Hunter (grabs the quest off the board behind her and stamps the seal of acceptance onto it) have a bountiful hunt today!" We headed to the boat that will lead Cha-Cha to our newly accepted quest. I hope nothing will go wrong. -At a different dimension- "Sister, have thou also felt the disturbance?" Luna ask her older sister "You know you don't have to speak like that way anymore sister." Celestia responded back to her younger sister "We-I know sister but it is such a huge change compared 1,000 suns ago..." Luna started to remember the night that she fought her sister as Nightmare Moon. The very being corrupted her to hurt so many of her ponies. "But you didn't answer my question sister." Celestia slowly went back from the window and headed to the throne with Luna. "Yes sister, I do feel it, and I do not like it one bit, and knowing my student, she would have also have felt it and will ask me what's wrong in the morning. I just do not know how I will respond to her. I do not want to worry our ponies in just a feeling that can cause panic and fear into them." The sisters then continued to discuss this till they arrived at the throne room. The beautiful room has been known as the 'Throne of the Goddesses' . At the end of the large room showed two golden thrones with the left with the picture of Celestia's cutie-mark on the top of the hoof crafted throne. As similar to Celestia's, Luna's throne had the dark and elegant cutie-mark of the moon glowing its blueish tint. Luna then spoke "What shall we do about this sister? We can not ignore something like this." Celestia nodded "You are correct sister. For now we must go to the Royal Records and see if we can find at least a hint of what this 'disturbance' is. I will search for it after my royal duties are finished." ----------------------------- -Back to the dimension of our favorite hunter- Our hero (and Cha-Cha) just finished their quest and arrived back to the Moga Village. By the time they have finished their quest, the sky has grown dark and was riddled with glowing stars and beautiful bright moon that glowed for tired Hunters and villagers to guide them back home. "What. The. Heck Cha-Cha!" I said to Cha-Cha who, despite doing a long and tiring quest, seem to be full of energy. "Lackey did good today! Lackey should feel honored to hunt with me!" as Cha-Cha said while walking back to the sleeping quarters. Cha-Cha and I both walked into the sleeping quarters and sat onto the bed after a long and tiresome quest. "Oh please Cha-Cha. I did all of the work, which wasn't bad at all, till you came running towards me, with an Deviljho in tow!" "Cha-Cha was distracting him for Lackey!" "Whatever Cha-Cha, I need some sleep after taking down that Deviljho." He just nodded and left my quarters so I could just rest. I didn't even bother to take off my armor as I just slunk into the covers and placed my head on the pillows. I let myself to ease into the darkness as I start to drift. . . Fire. Flames are everywhere. I was on the bed when I woke up to see my sleeping quarters started to burn. I jumped out of bed and ran outside. I didn't expect to see what I saw. Bodies. Bodies of everyone I know, on the ground with blood silently spilling through their lifeless bodies. I ran towards Keeps and see if she was still alive. "KEEPS!KEEPS, WAKE UP." . . .nothing. Despite my cries, she won't respond back. I softly placed her back down where I found her and looked into the skies to see if whatever did this is still here. With the smoke rising into the dark sky, I cannot see anything but I heard: "ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRRR" I turned a 360 degree to look for the source of that roar. I have fought gigantic monsters.Serpents that swam in lava as if it was water. Even giant sand Wyrens, and I have never heard that roar before. BOOOOOOM I was flown forward from the blast that happened right behind me. Slowly, I got up and turned around and saw, where my quarters was, replaced with what I would suspect to be a demon dragon that crept from the deepest parts of cave that makes Alatreon look small. "So... You are what the prophecy was able to bring to me? Rubbish. You are nothing but a worm squirming till crushed." I pulled out my Alatreon Revolution and ran towards him. He started shooting fire beams at me. I side-stepped the first beam and rolled out of the way of the second beam.I then ran on top of some debris and jumped right over his head and slashed at his head. The dragon reeled its head roared in pain, the hunter then jumped backward to be out of the way of the angered dragon and examine the damage he dealt to the dragon. 'Thats not normal' thought the hunter. What the hunter saw was that instead of red blood oozing from the dark monster was actually darkness, physical darkness seeping out of its head. "You seem more bothersome than I thought. No matter, after learning what you are capable, I have nothing to worry now. After saying that, the world seem to start becoming more and more distorted, the warrior then started become disoriented then collapsed. Darkness over came him as he fell to the ground. Author's Note Hello and welcome to my very first story of my very first chapter! I would like to say please rate this story fairly and appropriate, but please give me a little slack for now since this is the very beginning of my crossover. "You better be nice or Cha-Cha will hunt you!" "Cha-Cha, don't hurt them!" "I threaten so they rate fair!" -facepalm- "Please excuse him for his behavior and have fun reading my story!"
A New ArrivalAll rights of Monster Hunter series go to their according creators All rights of My Little Pony: FiM go to their according owners Monster Hunting is Magic The Arrival of the hunter "Twilight, Twilight! There's a scroll from the Princess!" said Twilight Sparkles number one assistant as he headed up to Twilight's main study room. As Spike entered the main study, he realized that Twilight had another all-night study session. "Twilight get up!" shouted Spike. "No, Mr.Smarty pants, I already finished reading that version of the Griffin Encyclopedia..." mumbled a sleepy, purple pony. Spike sighs and walked through the scattered books that were all over the large room, he leaned to Twilight's ear and whispered, "Twilligght, the Princess is here~ ." Twilight suddenly shot up and shouted "What?!" "Just ki-" "OH NO! Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! I have to take a shower and, fix my mane. SPIKE DID YOU SERVE THEM TEA?!" said a scattered unicorn. Twilight turned to Spike to see him on the ground with his claws on his stomach and rolling on the ground laughing his tail off. "Spike! This isn't the time to laugh! Did you serve the Princess tea yet? Oh no! What kind of tea did you give her?!" Spike caught his breath and stood up. "Twilight calm down, the Princess isn't here, I just said that to give you 'motivation' to wake up." At this point Twilight is giving Spike a glare, that makes him get straight to the point. "But... she did send this scroll." Showing Twilight the scroll that he had in his left claw. "I'll get you back for that one Spike...Well, can you at least read the scroll to me while I put everything away?" "No problem Twilight." Spike cleared his throat and opened the scroll and said: Dear Twilight, I am in need of your assistance of welcoming a guest from a far away land. He has not arrived here at Canterlot, but after a few days of arriving, I want him to meet everypony in Ponyville and teach him the ways of the magic in friendship. I will warn you Twilight that he is not a pony or any kind of creature you know. He is a person of high importance in where from he is from and has a different culture opinion. He will be arriving in a different type of armor that you know from the Royal Armor Guards in Canterlot. In the end, please prepare everyponys schedule in a week time for arrival of my sister, myself, and our guest. He will be also living with you during his time here. From your mentor, Princess Celestia Spike rolled up the scroll and placed on the desk. "Who do you think this guest that the Princesses ha is?" As Twilight placed the last book in the shelf, she turned around and placed a hoof on her chin "Hmm..well, I have no real clue Spike. She said it wasn't a being that we know of. I wonder who and what kind of being this 'guest' is." As Twilight started the preparations for the Princesses, Princess Celestia and Luna met at Celestia's personal study room to discuss the final preparations of their plans "Sister, when do you want to summon the Hunter in our world, and shouldn't Twilight know about the situation?" asked the Princess of the night. "Very soon dear sister, after we spend some time making the final adjustments of our spell, we will summon him here and it would be for the best that Twilight learns when the time calls." said Princess Celestia. "Do you really need to send him to Ponyville sister? I am not distrusting your decision but I don't think that will be the best place to be at for this type of situation." "Do not worry Luna, sending him to Ponyville will be good so he can befriend the girls and work together for whatever seems to be coming." Luna thought for a minute after her sister responded with a understanding response. "Shall we start creating that when he arrives in our world Celly?" Celestia did not answer her question quickly, as she pondered on what the decision can possibly decide on the fate of their two worlds. "...yes Luna, we will need everything we have to stop the force that is coming..." A few days later "Do you still get those dreams Hunter." asked by a worried fish merchant. " Y-yeah... I don't what they are about... The first one was that wyvren dragon. Then after that was vision like dreams, that I saw theses creatures with wings and a horn on their head. I don't know what it means, but I feel like its getting worse..." explained the Hunter. "Hmm... It's seems that you need a vacation." "A vacation? Sorry, but I don't do vacations. I never heard of a Hunter taking a vacation, besides... I can't leave everyone in the village alone, I want to keep everyone safe. After what happened with my last family, I want to protect everyone." "Hon, after you defeated ceadous back those two years again, everything has been calm like a fish in a pond. We have been living such a calm life since then, take a break, for everyone sake." I pondered after that statement, I started to wonder: Do I need to get a vacation? Is the dreams only affecting me due to fatigue? I don't know anymore but I think I can do it I suppose. "Heh, I suppose I could take a few days off for now. I have to talk to the guild master before I do anything." "Don't worry hon, I think he'll let you off for a few days." smiled the merchant. "I'll talk to him tomorrow I suppose, I'm going to talk to J and see if he has anything for me today, if he doesnt then I'll just head to bed." "You do that Hon!" waved a happy fish merch. I just walked away waving without turning. I headed towards J to see if he had any new quests for me. I see him talking with a villager, something to do with kids drawing Cha-Cha pictures on their walls. Funny, but crude I suppose. I waited for them to finish up. After the villager walked away I called for J to catch his attention. "Hey J, got any new quests for me today?" "Ah, Hunter... How are you feeling today? More weird dreams?" "Yeah, but its nothing to bother myself with. After today I'm going to take a few days off to collect myself. I have ask the head chief before I can confirm anything." J just nodded, as he understood my dilemma perfectly. "Well hunter, your in luck. Theres no quests from any of the villagers for today so you can call it an early one for tonight." "Huh, okay. I'm going to talk to the head chief before I call it a night though." I was just about to go before J told me to stop. "Don't worry about it my friend, I'll tell my father for you. Once I tell him, you'll have a nice and relaxing days off." :I smiled back to J and said "Thanks J, I owe you one." "Think nothing of it my friend! If anything, you owe me a meal from Katt!" I chuckled and walked back to my living quarters. I sighed and removed my helmet and pulled the covers from my bed and lied down. For some reason the pillows feel extra soft than usual. I didnt pondered about this too long till I crept into the darkness of my dreams. I wonder what will I be in for this time. "Sister, the Hunter has finally fallen asleep. We should start performing the spell now if we wish to make it easier for ourselves." said a eager Princess. "Very well Luna. I shall summon him while you bring his chest that holds all of his inventory and equipment, understood?" "Of course dear sister, thou have repeated yourself several times before." said by a rather annoyed Night Princess. "Being careful never killed no pony Luna. Now, shall we begin?" asked Celestia. "I am ready to send the chest sister." as Luna was saying this, she closed her eyes and focused on her horn, as it started to glow a dark blue glow. "Very well then. Concentrate to send him into the main guest room." Celestia closed her eyes and concentrated to transfer every cell, every molecule of being of the Hunter. Hours later "Yawwwwwwwwn ah, I feel better than I usually do when I get up... Wait... Where am I?" As the hunter said, while he was looking around the room. The room was large compared to the Hunters sleeping quarters. The room had a large bed that could fit three people sleep, and still be comfortable. There was a highly detailed table with gold carvings etched into the frame, and instead of chairs, there were cushions to sit on. There was a mirror, sliding door that lead to a collection of different types of elegant and expensive looking clothes. The silks of the clothing glistened off the light reflecting from the windows, but the Hunter was too uninterested on what the clothing were about. He continued to the next room which was the bathroom. The bathroom had the same type of design as the room before it. A sink, toilet, and a bathtub that seemed to more spacious than the ones I saw when I visited Loc Lac city. The toilet... seemed a little to low for standards also. He walked back to the bedroom, then saw what he knew what was his: his chest that he first obtained when he arrived to Moga Village. It has everything that he has ever obtained during his stay and is still surprised how everything can still fit in one chest. As the Hunter walked to his chest, he heard a knock at the door. "Come in." said the Hunter. What he saw, he felt that he was still dreaming. Two creatures with a pair of bird like wings and a spiraling horn on their head. The smaller creature was a dark blue colored with wavy hair that looked like it was flowing in the wind. It had abnormal sized eyes and seemed to be younger the other creature next to her. The other creature was much taller than the blue creature, the taller creature had a sense of nobility of it. She had hair that consisted of blue, teal, and pink. Both of the creatures had what seemed to be a chest plate that the smaller creature of a moon and the taller creature of a sun. My concentration was broken when I heard the tall creature cleared its throat. The creature then said "Hello Hunter, I am Princess Celestia and this is my younger sister Princess Luna. I want to be the first one to welcome you our world and our country. You are in the world of Terra and your are in Equestria, specifically in Canterlot, where you are residing at this very moment." "What."
First Day In EquestriaMonster Hunting is Magic Chapter 3 First Day In Equestria “W-where am I” asked surprised Hunter Celestia clopped closer to him and tried to be eye leveled with the hunter, surprising her that he is much taller than her. “As I said before, you are on our world that is called Terra. On this planet, you are in the Country that is known as Equestria.” “Okay… and why am I here?” Luna now spoke next “We have used a spell to summon a warrior who is fierce but kind to protect our world, and the spell has chosen you to be our protector in our time of need.” Hunter had his arms in front of his chest absorbing the new found information. “And I had no say in this?” Both sisters looked uneasy, as they did not know that the Hunter would be against the idea of protecting others. The three sentients stood there quietly, trying to find questions to ask next. Our Hunter was the first one to speak. “By the way, what are you creatures? Where I am from I have never seen the likes of you, well… Kelebi maybe, but never the less.” Celestia spoke up quickly so the awkwardness would hopefully dissolve. “To answer that question, I must tell you about the species of our kind. We are over all known as 'Equines' and there are three common branches of Equines that is normally called ‘ponies’. "There is the Earth pony, which lacks both horn and wings, such as my sister and I have, but Earth ponies are more in tune with the Terra and are in charge with the foundation of all that is earth and things that are grown. They are also in charge in the growth of food that is gathered and sold at local markets." "Pegasus or Pegasi (for plural), is the second pony branch that, unlike the Earth ponies, have wings. Pegasi have the natural ability to control the weather. Pegasi are depended on to keep a balance of correct amount of each certain weather for all over Equestria. Being able to control the weather, the Pegasi also have the ability to move clouds with their hooves to move the weather when they need to. Earth ponies depend on Pegasi to give a certain amount rain to help grow fruits, vegetables, and anything that grow from the ground.” Celestia stopped to make sure Hunter is able to absorb the information so far. Hunter just nodded as showing the princess that he’s ready for rest of the needed information. “Then there is Unicorns. Unicorns have the natural ability to use magic. Magic is something that all ponies have but, unlike Earth and Pegasi ponies, Unicorns can control their magic more freely. Unicorns can do many different types of spells with their horns. The basic thing that all ponies learn to do is the spell ‘levitation’, which means lightness. Levitation helps most Unicorns do everything much easier, but since they depend more on their magic, Earth ponies and Pegasi ponies have more of a physical advantage over the Unicorns. I have started a school for Unicorns that have more magic than normal unicorns, the school is called ‘Celestia school for gifted unicorns’.” “And where do you and your sister come in the picture?” asked an interested hunter. “My sister and I come from a forth branch of the Equine race. The branch is known as Alicorns. Alicorns have both traits of Pegasi and Unicorns. Alicorns are born with insanely large amount of magic that we are able to do things that even the most powerful unicorn cannot accomplish, Alicorns are also immortal; can live for eternity, but can die from any mortal wound.” There was a paused with a painful look on Celestias face when she continued the next part. “..But thousands of years ago, there was a griffons(Griffons are half-eagle, half-lion creatures. ) and pony war that many proud alicorns rose for the war. My sister and I have been in it, behind our parents that led the army. Many honorable alicorns fell to protect our country, now leaving my sister, another alicorn Princess, and myself that are the surviving alicorns that are known to exist." Silence crept into the room as the two alicorns mourn for the lost ones that nopony remembers. As the time past, Celestia lifted her head and looked at the Hunters helmet that he was wearing. “Please Hunter, we do not want the ponies to understand deaths of loved ones as my sister and I have sadly experience… we beg you Hunter of the Moga Village, please help us in our time of need…” The hunter just stood there with his arms crossed and pondering in his head about what he just learned. ‘I know the pain to lose loved ones… I can’t let others know that feeling, no one or no anything should ever know it…’ As he said this, a small memory of his past became visible in his head. The memories brought him to remember what had happened to him when he was child. His mother was a retired Arena keeper and his father was a widely known monster hunter, it was because of his father that he wanted to raise the sword to protect others. One night after his father came home from slaying a Rathian for a quest of a neighboring village. They had a bountiful meal and earned quite a bit of zeni from the quest. After finishing their meals, there was an explosion outside and a roar that just looking at my father, I can see blood rushing away from his face. “Maya! Get yourself and **** out of here! There’s a Rathalos right outside! It must be here because I killed its mate…I’ll distract it for you two!” “You can’t kill a Rathalos by yourself! I know how to fight, I will join you.” I don’t know what my father said but he seemed to let her join him as my mother was rushing me to our basement under the kitchen table. Mom flung the table across the room and sung the basement door open. She gently led me into the basement, sounds of metal clashing and the Rathalos roaring echoing through the basement. Mom led me to the very back of the room, I could see the fear in her eyes as she tried to comfort me. “****, please stay here while we take care of this wyvern okay? If you don’t hear from us… I want you to know that we love you so much and we are very proud of you son. “ After that my mother rushed out of the basement and closed the basement door and then I heard shouts, roars, sounds of our home getting destroyed, and then silenced. I remembered crying in the corner behind the random things we kept in the basement. When I thought it was safe, I climbed through the mess and slowly made my way to the door. I slowly opening it, and having to use my full strength to get whatever rubble off the top of the door. What I saw was a disaster. There was no home left to claim, everything was destroyed. Rubble of once lovely home was now a pile of debris scattered everywhere. Flames covering most of the place and trees around our home were caught on fire. I scanned the area for my parents, hoping that they are still alive. It took me about half an hour to find them… I have never screamed that loud in my life, or ever will again. I found my parents bodies together, charred but recognizable. They were all bloodied and so damaged that I knew they didn’t make it, but they had a grin on their face, and saw their hands holding each tightly. I didn’t dare to touch their bodies as I thought that their bodies would crumble with the added weight. “Mother! Father! NO…WHY! Why… please, don’t leave me alone…” **Celestia** As my sister and i waited, we became more and more anxious for the response that we were waiting for, due to his unique armor and helmet, we cannot see if he was looking at us. As I gazed at the armor that he was wearing, it was so unique compared to our guards, that it showed its fearsome, and intimating appearance to its enemies. The red part of the armor seemed to faintly glow a bright red, as if that the armor was alive. After looking at the armor that he wore, I trailed my eyes to his humongous weapon that seemed to be the shape of a hilt of a weapon. It seems to be as long as the Hunter, possibly more, which makes it completely impossible for normal ponies to even think to fathom to hold, never the less to swing and use it correctly. The hilt section seemed to glow a unworldly dark purple, I must make a note on what kind of materials he made to use to make this weapon. After moments of silence, the Hunter suddenly started to move his arms from being crossed on his chest and slowly moved them towards his helmet. He slowly removed his helmet, revealing a face with smaller eyes and abnormal small head, his eyes were a sparkling like silver color with different types of sizes of scars on his face, there were a scar on his left cheek going from his ear to his jaw line and another scar right under his right eye and a short black mane just long enough to reach his neck. He silently turned around to place his helmet on the bed and turned back to my sister and I. He waited to speak till he said "...I know the pain of losing your love ones more than you think... and I also wish that no one to know that feeling." He then placed his right fist over his chest,smiled and said "As long it is to protect those who needs protection, I will fight for citizens of Equestria." I looked at my sister and smiled "With that, we welcome you, Hunter of Moga Village, to our country of Equestria." He removed his fist from his chest and said "One thing though, I wish to say this: Please, no titles, but call each other as who we are, living beings." My sister and I looked at each other, and knowing our answer without even discussing about it, I replied " We accept this, what is your name? It would be ironic if your name would to be Hunter." "Heh, Hunter the Hunter. No, my name is Alex." "Well Alex, I think we all had a eventful evening don't you think? You should settle down for the evening since we have much to show you tomorrow. I will tell everypony in the castle that we have an ambassador from very far away so, at least they won't gallop away from the sight of you...." I scanned his armor as I remembered something "...and could you switch to a less intimating armor? I don't think our ponies would be that happy if I brought a monster in our castle." At me mentioning about his armor, he looked at his armor and walked to the chest that Luna brought when we summoned him. He seemed to start to rummaging through the things in the chest, already seemed to be looking for his armor for tomorrow. "Hmmm...(as he says while pulling out various of armor) "Whats the season right now?" Luna caught this question before I could say anything. "It is the season of winter, so in a month that we will have Winter wrap up." "Hmm....then I should pick my Barioth set with Wyvren Blade 'flare' long sword..." Luna had a look that she seemed curious of what he was talking about, incidentally I have also become curious of the things that he had in his chest. "Okay, I got my armor that I'm going to wear tomorrow. Is there anymore to say or should we call it a good night?" I decided to ask about his things in the chest "I had a question if you don't mind me asking." "Not at all, ask away." "What is a 'barioth armor' , and with the current armor that you are wearing, may I ask how you have obtained the resources to make such strong looking armor?" He immediately dug through his pouch that seem to contain a few random items, he then pulled out a brownish book out. "This my friends, is my journal. As you may know, I am an Monster Hunter, and which I go around slaying creatures that people need help with. Being said I have obtained very rare resources while fighting with the monsters that I am able to make armor and weapons from them. Here, let me show you a picture and description of the monster." He then opened his journal and hoofed (or should I say 'handed'?) it to us. I enveloped it with my magic and levitated it with my magic. The page the journal was on had a picture of a monster on the left and had what seemed to be personal description: The dreaded, nomadic Deviljho have no specific territory of their own. Their muscles swell if provoked, revealing old wounds. Needing to feed constantly due to high body heat, they can hunt nearby animals to extinction. Note to self: Do not piss off Deviljho DevilJho Saying that I was not surprised would be a lie. The creature was so fiendish, it seemed to be from the bottom levels of Tartarus. "Is that Barioth? If so, where is this monster from?" "Well, actually, you know the armor I'm wearing now? (I just nodded) Well, this armor is made from his scales and other resources that I can only obtain from fight that creature. Here, it'll show you how many I slain and captured." I looked to the spot where he pointed in his journal. It showed: Slayed: 19 Captured:21 Luna and I were utterly shocked that he was able to defeat a monster at that caliber "How are you sized up to the Deviljho?" "Hmmm.... I guess a quarter of his leg? Around that for sure." Now knowing the length of creatures that Alex has been able to defeat and able to capture seemed impossible, but he is proof of such by not being killed. "Well Alex, we are thankful of agreeing of accepting of being in Equestria. My sister and I must be getting now. Tomorrow we wish to show you the castle." Alex looked at the window and realized that the sun seemed to setting. "Yawwwnn~ Yeah, after today I need to get some shut eye." My sister and I said our goodbyes and left the room to set the sun and raise the moon. **Alex** As I watch both Celestia and Luna trot out the room, I turned to my chest and started taking off my armor and placed each part into the chest. I checked my stash of 1,154,875 Zeni and wondered if I could still use it as currency. I bet gold coins are still the universal currency. I placed the Zeni back into the chest and crawled into the bed. The bed... much softer than the bed at my sleeping quarters back home! I feel that I could just sink in to it. As I placed my head on the pillow I start to wonder what things shall unfold for the future. "Oh fun this will be." I muttered before falling to sleep.
Preview of Chapter 4As Alex turned to see a white unicorn with blonde mane, white coat, and a top part of a tux. With him, who has been looked like she has been through a lot, was a earth pony with brown straight mane, and a light blue coat. " I apologize your Prince I-" she earth pony was interrupted with a hoof from the unicorn. "Quiet servant! Did I tell you to speak?!" Alex thought to himself 'This won't do at all.' The earth pony quivered into a ball, as the unicorn was continuously hitting the earth pony with his hoof. Alex immediately raised from the cushion he was sitting, walked across the dining table (which he got a nasty look from Shining Armor) and ran to the earth pony, and grabbed the hoof from the unicorn. "Hey! Stop hurting her, what kind of man would hit a woman like that?!" The unicorn seemed shocked that the bi-pedal ape grabbed him. "GAH! THIS APE JUST GRABBED MY HOOF! Who released this stinking ape in this castle! I shall have them thrown into the prison for this!" Alex's blood is now boiling at this point. "I said, who do you call yourself to hit a woman?!" The unicorn pulled his grip from Alex's grip and snarled at him. "HMPH, if you must know, I am Prince Blueblood, I am part of the royal family that lives in this very castle. Now, I must beat this useless pony of where she is in this world!" Blueblood was readying himself to hit the poor mare, but was stopped as Alex grabbed him by his tux and raised him eye level. "I won't let you touch her with your stinking hoof, you piece of garbage." Blueblood then lost it. "ME?! GARBAGE?!! I WILL LET YOU KNOW THAT MY FAMILY HAS TITLES THAT YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE!" Alex tightened his grip on the tux that Blueblood was wearing. His anger was rising of hatred towards the unicorn. Alex then remembered of all the monsters that he has slain and captured to protect the people who had called for his services. The cries of hope from the time he first went to vanquish the monster Ceadeus, who, not even the Monster Hunter Guild knew about. "Titles... Titles are what you earned by doing the deeds that you did to help others. Titles are what you wear proudly from the things you have done in your life. I have slain thousands of monsters, that you or even the princesses could stand against. For doing those accomplishments, I myself have titles of my own Blueblood... do you want to know what they are?" At this moment, Blueblood was enraged but also curious of what the bi-pedal answer was, so he asked with venom in each word. "What are your titles ape." Alex felt his eyes flared in hot anger. He said in pride. " I am Alex, Protector, Savior, He who banishes the monsters, The god of the seas, Champion, but I am not known to use theses titles, except for one title, one title that ALL have known me since the very beginning. They call me... Monster Hunter." Author's Note Hi everyone! I wanted to submit a small preview (but a rough draft though) of chapter 4 since it will be somewhere around 10k. I am a bit slow at the moment due to school and with being sick. Sorry for this little bump in the road, but please bear with this! Thank you everyone for bothering themselves for reading my stories!
The Duel WIth BluebloodMonster Hunting Is Magic Chapter 4 The Duel with Blueblood Note: Thanks to Dream Weaver for proof-reading and editing! As the sun blissfully comes over the horizon, everypony are quickly are all about. Everypony is, while our hero is slowly getting out of the bed, getting dressed into the armor that he placed out the night before, and then equipped his trusty Alatreon Revolution to start the day. As Alex was about close the chest lid, he heard a knock at the door. “Come in.” Alex said. The door opened to reveal a unicorn pony with dark blue and blue highlights. He also had gold plated armor on his body. The unicorn looked surprise about the creature and quietly said “The Princesses did spoke the truth.” Alex ignored the statement that he heard from the unicorn and said “Hi. I’m Alex the Hunter. May I ask what your name is?” The unicorn realized of what he said and grinned from the manners of the guest that the Princesses brought to the castle. The unicorn replied “Hello Alex. I am Captain Shining Armor, but you can call me Armor. The Princesses sent me to tell you that breakfast is going to be served soon and they wish you tell be in their presence to meet the others of the royal family.” Alex grinned and said “Nice to meet you Armor, it is nice to meet you. I suppose it is the best time to head out I suppose?” Armor nodded “Yes. We do not wish to keep the Princesses waiting do we? I’ll show you the way.” Alex agreed and headed out the room with Armor, shutting the door behind him. Both Alex and Armor were walking down a few corridors tell Armor first spoke up. “May I ask, what kind of creature are you? I have never seen your kind before in Equestria.” Alex answered his question with honesty. “My kind is called Human beings. We are not known is Equestria or anywhere else on this world. Your Princesses called for my help in a situation they believe would be resolved with my certain ‘talents’ you may say.” Armor’s interest peaked drastically due to hearing that Alex was from another world. He was also was curious about the help that Alex was here to help with, as Armor thought that his guards were fit enough for whatever situation would call fit. Armor felt that he wanted to know more Alex’s ‘talents’ as he doesn’t seem to be in a career for something simple as a gardener or a construction worker. Armor took a glance of the weapon that was Alex’s back. “May I ask about what is your ‘talents’ are? I can tell you’re some type of soldier with that monstrous looking of weapon on your back, but I have never seen that type of weapon before.” Asked Armor. “Well, to answer your first question, my ‘talent’ is to slay monsters that would harm others, I would also accept a job that called to capture monsters also. As a Hunter, I have to accept quests that a normal person would be too scared to achieve. To answer your second question, no, I am not a soldier. As I said before, I am a Hunter that gets paid to hunt monsters. To answer your last question… This weapon is known as a “Great sword”. A Great Sword is under the branch of the term ‘Blade Masters’. This certain Great Sword was created by using the various of materials from a certain dragon in my world that is called “Alateron” which is a dragon that can control various of different elements to fight with, its actually one of the worst dragons in my world.” Armor stopped in place to sort out all of the information that the ‘human’ just causally just said to him. Armor was too surprised in the fact that a creature such as Alex could even fight a dragon and live to tell the tale, and be so causal about it! Armor resumed trotting through the corridors with Alex till they have stopped at a pair of tall wooden doors. Before they entered though, Armor stopped Alex from entering to tell him a bit of information before seeing the Princesses. “Before we go in Alex, I want to let you know that I think you are a great stall-human, but you will meet with my soon to be brother-in-law that is the worst kind of unicorn I have ever met. When my fiancée and I announced that we were to be married, he sent out several remarks that day on how I am “disgracing the royal bloodline with my dirty blood.” I just wish to prepare you on how he will be. Just to let you know on what’s his name is, his name is Blueblood.” Alex understood where Armor is coming from. His visits to Loc Lac city earned him glares for picking the career of being a Monster Hunter. The higher class would often call him varies of things that he wishes not to be repeated. He finds it ironic that the people that would berate him for his job would often come to him for capturing gigantic monsters that they would boast about capturing themselves. “I understand Armor. I will let you know I have had my fair of stubborn idiots, such as the one you have described just now. I will however, if he harms anyone but your case, ‘anypony’ I would do everything in my power to make him pay for it.” Answered the Monster Hunter. Armor grinned at Alex’s response. “Let us hope it would not come to it, but most likely Princess Celestia would handle the situation. Now shall we get some breakfast in ourselves? I don’t know about you, but I’m quite hungry.” Armor turned and used his magic to easily open the doors, revealing a dining hall that could easily be used to service 100 ponies. Both Alex and Armor walked into the dining hall to be greeted by both Princesses of the castle, and an alicorn that Alex has never met before. Both of them headed towards the Princesses and Armor bowed and said. “Good morning your Princesses, I have done what you requested and brought Alex here to join us for breakfast.” Both Princesses grinned on how the Captain greeted them but Celestia responded. “Thank you Shining Armor for doing this request, please sit with your fiancée and have some breakfast.” Armor nodded and headed to the cushion that was next to who Alex presumed that was his soon-to-be wife. Celestia turned her head to Alex and said. “Good morning Alex. How was your slumber last night? My sister and I hope you rested well for the day.” Alex nodded and said “The bed was much better than I have slept where I used to, thanks to that, I feel much more rested than I usually do, so thank you, both of you.” Luna was the next to respond. “You are most welcome Alex. Please sit next to us and join us for breakfast today. We shall introduce you to our niece once you sit down.” Alex answered by sitting down on the cushion next to Luna. Due to being so tall, the dining hall table only went up to Alex’s stomach while he was sitting. Celestia turned to the pink alicorn that was with Armor and said “Cadence? I wish you to meet a ‘person’ that will be joining us for breakfast today.” Cadence nodded and gave a quick “Yes auntie.” Stood up and trotted to where Alex is. “Alex, I wish you to meet my niece, Mi Amore Cadenza but more casually known as Cadence. (Celestia then turned to Cadence and said) Cadence, I want you to meet Alex, he has traveled a long lengths to travel here and will be here for a while.” We traded greetings and she trotted back to Armor and then asked “So Mr.Alex… where are you from? You must’ve a bunch of stories from where you are from.” Alex chuckled about what kind of stories that he could tell. He has stories that could last for days about his adventures of slaying monsters. Cadence picked up on Alex’s chuckle and asked “Did I say something funny?” Alex waved his hand (which both Armor and Cadence were confused about what that was) and said “I do not want to be seem rude, just that my stories are a bit…lengthy, and please, just call me Alex, because I am not one for titles and such.” Cadence smiled and said “I understand where you are coming from, just don’t say that to my brother or he would talk your ears off. May I ask what you have done in the past?” Alex was about to answer her, till the doors to the dining hall were slammed open. Alex turned his gaze to the doors to see a unicorn that screams high class trash. The unicorn had a top part tux on, and a blonde mane that stayed in place, no matter how much the unicorn moved. The unicorn had three different of ponies following him that Alex presumed were butlers and maids. “Good morning Auntie Celestia and Auntie Luna how are you t-WHAT IS THE MONKEY DOING HERE?!” pointing a hoof at Alex. Alex looked around to see where this ‘monkey’ was. Without any luck, he turned his gaze back to the unicorn and pointed to himself. “Auntie Celestia, I do not think having this animal would be hygienic for us all!” “Blueblood, you are disgracefully talking to our guest that is from far away. We have personally requested for his presence to be here, so when you say remarks about him, you are also saying things about us. So sit down and prepare for breakfast or we shall ask you to leave.” Said Luna. Blueblood was utterly in shock that his aunties would want a monkey in the castle that wasn’t on a chain. Without saying a word, Blueblood headed to the cushion next to Celestia and sat down. ‘This is just as bad like that moment when I found out the bad-blood of a unicorn asked my sister in marriage!’ Thought Blueblood. Celestia looked over at the table of everypony…and human and said “Now that everypony is here, shall we have breakfast now?” (Celestia turned to the butlerpony) “We are ready for breakfast now, please send them in.” The butlerpony bowed and left off to send the food in. Moments later unicorns came in with breakfast, levitated with their magic. The food was spread out with several of different things such as scrambled eggs, toast, pancakes, hash browns, oats, grass, orange juice, milk, coffee, and flowers. Alex was quite surprised about the spread that was in front of him since he had to Katt make his meals or he had a simple cooked meat to keep him full. Alex then noticed that all of the ponies were using their magic to obtain their food, and he knew just reaching out for the food would be too rude to do, he decided to just wait and get some food from his chest back at his room. While sipping her cup of tea, Celestia looked at Alex, who had no food on his plate and had his eyes closed. ‘Does he not want any food? Did something happen to make him ruin his appetite?’ Wondered Celestia. After setting the cup back to the table, Celestia asked “Are you alright Alex? Is there something wrong that you would not like to eat?” Alex turned his head to her and said “Oh, everything is fine. It’s just that I don’t have magic like everyone else and that I don’t want to reach over to grab food, so I’m going to wait and eat some food that I have in my chest.” Blueblood thought it was a good time to interject “Hmph, a monkey like you should understand where he belongs.” “Blueblood!” Celestia shouted. “Luna has already told you to be respectful towards our guest, yet you act out once again! I will give you one more chance to act civilized or you shall be sent to your room bedroom!” Blueblood decided to stand from his cushion and begin to walk out the room in an anger fit, before reaching the door, he bumped into a maidmare that was preparing to take the dirty dishes away. Plates fell, causing them to shatter right next to Bluebloods hooves. This caused Bluebloods anger to reach its boiling point as he now thrashed out on the poor maidmare. “You stupid mare! You might’ve ruined a hooficure that cost more than you make in a year!” The mare rushed down to pick up the shattered dishes. “My apologize Prince Blueblood, please let me cl-“ The maidmare was disruptively by Blueblood smack her in the face with a hoof. “Dirty my hooves will you?! Since you dirtied my hooves, might as well teach you a lesson!” Blueblood continually beating the poor maidmare, Alex saw this foolishness of a being to harm another, stood up, and rushed to the maidmare in need. Right before Blueblood could hit the poor pony again, Alex crushed the hoof with his mighty grip that could easily swing a gigantic Great sword. “Let me go now you monkey….” Bluebloods anger was soon replaced by being frightened by the look that the Hunter was giving him, a look that he has used several times used to stare down death over and over again. Alex reached his boiling point with Blueblood. “What kind of being are you to hurt a woman?! What gives you a right to do that?!” Alex shouted to Blueblood in anger. “SOMEPONY HELP, THIS BEAST IS ABOUT TO HURT ME!” His cries for help fell on empty ears as the guards were enraged with what the Prince was doing, but could do nothing do to the Social Status of the Prince. "I said, who you call yourself to hit a woman?!" The unicorn pulled his grip from Alex's grip and snarled at him. "HMPH, if you must know, I am Prince Blueblood; I am part of the royal family that lives in this very castle. Now, I must beat this useless pony of where she is in this world!" Blueblood was readying himself to hit the poor mare, but was stopped as Alex grabbed him by his tux and raised him eye level. "I won't let you touch her with your stinking hoof, you piece of garbage." Blueblood then lost it. "ME?! GARBAGE?!! I WILL LET YOU KNOW THAT MY FAMILY HAS TITLES THAT YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE!" Press this to play the song that I added that fits this moment. Alex tightened his grip on the hoof that Blueblood was about to hurt the pony with. His anger was rising of hatred towards the unicorn. Alex then remembered of all the monsters that he has slain and captured to protect the people who had called for his services. The cries of hope from the time he first went to vanquish the monster Ceadeus, who, not even the Monster Hunter Guild knew about. "Titles... Titles are what you earned by doing the deeds that you did to help others. Titles are what you wear proudly from the things you have done in your life. I have slain thousands of monsters, that you or even the princesses could stand against. For doing those accomplishments, I myself have titles of my own Blueblood... do you want to know what they are?" At this moment, Blueblood was enraged but also curious of what the bi-pedal answer was, so he asked with venom in each word. "What are your titles ape." Alex felt his eyes flared in hot anger. He said in pride. " I am Alex, Protector, Savior, He who banishes the monsters, The god of the seas, Champion, but I am not known to use theses titles, except for one title, one title that ALL have known me since the very beginning. They call me... Monster Hunter." After Alex gave the inspiring speech, all of the ponies in the room, Alicorn and not absorbed of what he had said. ‘I now know that we have chosen the right being to be here to fight the darkness away now. A being of courage and right sense of justice to defeat the being of the darkness.’ Celestia then smiled after thinking in her thoughts. Blueblood thought differently though. Blueblood whipped his hoof out of Alex’s hand and ran away with a good distance and said “You do not scare me monkey! To show you your place, I challenge you to a duel!” All of the servant ponies and guard ponies gasped in response of what Blueblood had said. The Princesses, on the other hoof, looked at each other and raised an eyebrow, since they have not seen a duel for over 2000 years. Alex looked to Celestia and Luna, and asked. “How does a duel here work Luna?” (While asking this all of the ponies in the room [besides Celestia] gasped once again as how causal the creature said their Princess name.) “A duel has not been declared for over 2000 years. A duel consists of two ponies fighting till the point one is dead or gives up. The challenged can pick the time, and the place for where the duel is to begin. Other rules goes that if there is one Pegasus, they cannot fly around, while if there is one unicorn, the said unicorn cannot encase the challenged or challenger in a levitation spell. The challenger may be able to add prizes into the challenge if he sees fit also.Knowing how this was before the time of peace, the rules must be changed to be acceptable for ponies of today to be able to watch it.” Luna said. “We can use tools and any weapons that we want to use?” “Yes.” Luna stated. “Then I accept you challenge Blueblood. I will put you in your place, which is in the trash.” Alex said with a smirk. “Then state where and when monkey! I will show you that I am your undoing!” Blueblood said with malice. Truth to be told, Alex didn’t know any places to choose from since he just arrived yesterday. Alex turned to Armor and asked “Hey Armor, do you have any interesting place for us to duel at, something that is big and open, like Bluebloods ego.” “How dare you!” Blueblood yelled. Ignoring Blueblood, Armor thought to himself about decisions about what would be a suitable arena for the two. After thinking for a few minutes, Armor came to with a resolution. “What about the training arena for new guard ponies to practice? Its right behind the palace and it’s not that far from here. It would empty because academy for training would close around this season.” Alex turned back to Blueblood “There you go. In one hour, meet me at the training arena being prepared to fight.” “Hmph. I shall make sure to make you grovel to my hooves after my victory.” Blueblood said before leaving the dining hall to prepare for a ‘certain’ thing for the duel. After Blueblood closed the dining hall doors, Alex pulled out a green potion and knelt down to the injured maidmare. Before he said anything, the mare jumped and wrapped her hooves around him and said “Thank you thank you thank you, whoever you are, thank you for helping me!” The earth pony said. The earth pony then released herself from the Hunter, with a small blush on her cheeks. “No problem pony. I have something for the injuries you got from that turd.” Alex handed a potion to the pony to drink. Nodding, the earth pony grasped the glass bottle with her hoof and gulped the potion in several loud gulps. The effects of the potion were immediate, the cuts and bruises she had from the beating from Blueblood was vanished. “W-wow, I feel so refreshed that I can get back to work!” said the pony. “You got to hand it to potions, simple but effective.” Alex was given the now empty bottle and placed it in one of his many pockets all over his armor. Alex then looked at the pony and said “By the way, I never got your name. My name is Alex.” “Oh I’m sorry; I forgot to tell you too! My name is Quick Step.” Celestia trotted from behind Alex and was wearing a worried expression upon her face. “Are you okay my pony? Do you need to be sent to the infirmary to heal?” Celestia asked. “O-oh no your Princess, you do not have to bother yourself with me. Alex here gave me something that healed me back up in an instant.” Quick Step said. Celestia let out a relief sigh. She was now puzzled with what Alex had used to heal one of her ponies in a quick amount of time. “Never the less, you may have the rest of the week off, paid for of course.” “T-thank you your highness, I will head out now then if you excuse me. Alex, thank you again, I will tell the other ponies about what you have done today.” Quick Step said then trotted out of the room. After Quick Step left the room, Armor, Cadence, and Luna trotted to Alex to ask him their questions about what they witnessed before them. “I must say Mr. Alex, you really showed my brother where his place is .” “I don’t know about that but he didn’t seem that frightened. Besides, I can’t stand to see others hurting other people.” Alex said while crossing his arms. Armor was the next to speak. “Is there any way to see the creatures that you have fought? I would like to see them first-hoof.” “Well, I have some drawings of them but that’s about it.” Alex said sadly. “Excuse me Alex, but I can be at service to help you with that. If you wouldn’t mind, I would use a spell to transfer memories to one being to the next.” Luna said. “Sure Luna, we can do that, but can we wait till after the duel, since I need to get ready for it after all? I want show you something then ask you a question about Equestrian economy set up.” Alex said while walking. As the hero and three ponies walked/trotted to the guestroom, they were all exchanging small talk till they arrived into the room that Alex is currently staying at. As everyone filed into the room, Cadence was completely in puzzlement on how Alex was going to deal with her younger brother. She went to the cushions that were by the table in the room and placed her rump onto the soft cushion, following her was both Armor and Luna. “So Alex, what kind of plan do you have for the duel with my brother? He probably won’t be difficult to beat, but I think he would have a few tricks up his sleeves.” Alex started to strip down from his armor, not feeling uncomfortable since he had his under armor to cover himself. He started to place the barioth armor back into his chest as he said to Cadence. “I don’t have any to use, except for what I have done in the past quests with monsters, I will scan him while fighting and see how he works, after that, and I’ll be set.” Alex pulled out the Vangis armor out and started getting the armor on. “Oh by the way, can I ask a question to anyone that cares?” Luna placed down her cup of tea (with her magic) that she had teleported from the kitchen. “What is the question that you have Alex?” Alex pulled out a single coin of zenni from his chest and threw it to her, which Luna caught with her magic. “Does a gold coin in this world have any economic value at all? If not, then I am pretty much poor again.” Luna studied the coin, looking at the coin in every detail. She passed it along to Cadence, which she grabbed with her magic to study it also. “From looking at the detail of the coin, it has the different writing on it, probably from your world, but it can be used as gold from this world. May I ask how much gold coins that you may have?” “I have about over a million of gold coins in my chest saved up from my adventures. Is that decent amount?” Alex equipped his helmet on and turned to the ponies that were waiting for him. This is the first time he saw creatures were able to have their mouths gaping like theirs. Armor was the first one to come back to his senses. “Th-that’s more than a decent amount! That can buy you a castle easily, how have you ever obtained that much of gold in a lifetime?!” Armor shouted in shock. Alex cocked his head in confusion. He was confused on how there was a huge amount of difference of the currency is in their own worlds. “In my world the economic currency is that most things are sold in few hundreds to hundreds of thousands. Quests in my world offer in the same way. Basically, I accept the quest, complete them, get thousands of gold, and buy things that you would seem to be too expensive.” All of the ponies now seem surprised once again with how the economy worked with at Alex’s world. “Well I can worry about money in another time since I have to get ready anyways.” Alex placed the inventory that he is going to use for the duel with Blueblood into all over his armor, he now started to feel the effects of his armor and of the decoration jewels activating. He pulled out a steak and devoured it quickly in front of the herbivores in front of him and now felt his stamina doubled. He turned to his guests and said “Shall we head to our dearest friend Blueblood? I think we shall start this little duel and afterwards, get on our separate paths.” Alex said with a grin. The training field was located in the back of The Canterlot Garden, which helps the newer guards to train vigilantly, while being calm being one with nature. However, the spectator left section is now filled with several of rich ponies (curtsies of Blueblood) wanting to see the fight of Prince Blueblood against an ape-like creature. On the other side of the spectator section was filled with servant ponies, guards on their breaks, and normal citizens that were brought by Quick Step. She caught wind of what was happening when her friends that work at the castle told her about a strange bi-pedal creature accepting a duel with the ponies hated. Alex was being led by Armor outside to the training arena when they all noticed the unexpected ponies waiting for the duel. “Uh Armor, what is this? I didn’t anticipate that there were going to be spectators for today’s duel.” Alex said while walking. “There shouldn’t be spectators for it. I will be right being right back; I’m going to see how the duel was leaked.” Thus left Alex with Cadence and Luna. “It appears that the duel is about to start soon. We shall teleport you to the arena. Cadence, can you please go to my sister that Alex is here and ready for the duel to begin? I think a lot of ponies want to see this.” Cadence then teleported away, leaving both Alex and Luna to themselves. “May I ask you a question before I teleport us, are you going to…kill Blueblood, cause the duel can only end in a forfeit or death. Can you please don’t kill him; because he may be annoying but ponies have not experience death for over a few thousands of years. What I am asking, please make him forfeit so the ponies of Equestria won’t be afraid of you. It will help you in the long run.” “Well, I wasn’t planning to kill him, just planned to scare him and teach him a lesson of not being a jerk to others.” “Oh, well that works then; we shall take you to the located area then.” Alex nodded and then both of them were teleported to the acquired area. When they appeared to the needed location, Blueblood was seen using his magic to pick from the weapons that is available for him to us. Alex started to do some stretches while Blueblood was fussing over what weapon to use. After a few minutes of deciding (and yelling at a servant randomly), everything was set. Ponies were waiting in anticipation of start of the match, Princesses were sipping tea as they were watching, a certain grey mare eating a muffin, tension was felt in the air as the duelists were staring each other down. Armor trotted to the middle of the arena, quickly learned about the basics of a duel from Princess Celestia, Armor knew what to say to start things off. “Okay pony and…human, I want a clean honorable duel, only way of winning is to make the other forfeit or to…kill them. I do not want any audiences to get hurt because of this duel, do I understand? Now…. Begin!”
