MLP:Guardians

'General Disclaimers'

Book the Twentieth aka night of nightmares.

Nightmare night was essentially Halloween, and some kind of offering from church. I decided to keep my candy, considering she was my enemy any way. I let the others do what they wanted, and we had some fun at the games, and then the carnival, the carnival looked like the best part of the night, until I remembered that I hadn't seen any ponies working on it and I hadn't even heard anything about a carnival until I saw it, I could tell exactly where this night was going very quickly as Applejack asked where Applebloom and Mac was. I pointed to the carnival that she apparently hadn't noticed and said that we would try to run and get help. And help we did find (Namely ourselves if you couldn't guess by now). All of the sudden there was a ringing through the town that drew everything to in front of the carnival there was what looked like a strange patchwork pony with big yellow eyes. I had gotten a faint feeling of what it could be when Veronica From what I can gather that would be Violet gasped, I glanced and saw Vivi floating looking suitably frightened.

"Fillies and Gentlecolts," the strange pony began, "I must welcome you all to the Carnival of Chaos. I urge all of you to come in and spend what is the best night of any night to join in on the fright. Because if you don't." At this Vivi and several of the foals flew up and hovered beside her, "I'll just have to keep all of these lovely little ones for myself, oh and this one," She brought out Macintosh from inside the carnival, "Will be mine for all of eternity." She walked up beside Mac and nuzzled him. I tried to formulate a plan but was coming up with a blank. I sighed and stepped up, "How do we get them back," I asked. "Simple," she replied with a smile, "win." And with that she and all of the hostages were gone. All of the gathered looked at me as I clenched my fists with a smile, "Alright," I said quietly, "you want me to win your little game? I'll do it my way." And with that I charged into the carnival. A few brave souls joined me, including Ace, AJ, Dash, and Rarity, while the others that were about to enter were cut off by a barrier that only Veronica and Twilight got past.

We had decided to split up with myself going to the obvious trap of the big top. Stepping inside another barrier set up preventing me from leaving. Just then spotlights shone upon the tight rope and three figures where lit up, two hanging and one standing over them. My heart sank as my brain processed the image before me, Vivi and Pip were hanging under the tight rope while above them, "Hello, my love," Hope said flirty, "Its been so long since we've seen each other." "Nowhere near long enough," I replied quietly as I gripped my head trying to get her voice out of my head from the last time. I heard her land near me as she picked up my head, "Is your head hurting you my love," she asked, a smile growing on her face, "Should I make it all better for you?" She brought one hand to her heart and it began to glow yellow. I quickly backed away from her before her hand could make contact with my head as she began to frown, "What's the matter my l-" "Quit calling me that," I loudly interrupted, "Not after what you tried to do to Vivi." She looked like I had just insulted her hair, which was the disgusting shade of grey. "But I was just trying to protect you from falling in love with another girl." "SHE'S TWELVE," I replied angrily, "AND YOU ALMOST THREW HER OFF A CLIFF!" She paused for a moment before smiling again, "Semantics," was all that was said as she charged me.

Fighting Hope is among my top two least favorite things to do in Equestria her fighting style involving those stupid gauntlents that I was barely able to dodge and counter. Not that countering did much as she blocked my own strikes. The only other trick I had up my sleeve was the Dark Gauntlet but without a clear strike it was likely to atomize the bones in my arm before I could hit her, besides she would just use it as an excuse to claim that I subconsciously loved her and I wasn't putting up with any of that. I could try to get Vivi and Pip down but she would just knock me back to the ground. I decided to try something crazy and summoned the power of the rainbow moonstone. "What are you doing darling," Hope asked, "Using the power of the stone? It won't work because you're not being loyal to the one you love." She was right, partially. I couldn't access its power, due to being in the carnival. I cursed as she charged me again and again I dodged. There was nothing for it. Pip and Vivi had overcome any sleeping enchantment placed on them and were struggling to free themselves.

I thought quickly and shouted up to Vivi, "Ride the wind." And with that I threw my sword at the ropes that were binding the two of them together. Success as Vivi and Pip fell and Vivi used her magic to slow their fall to stop them from suffering from gravity. Hope pointed to me and yelled, "THAT'S NOT FAIR! YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT!" I smiled and shrugged and she charged me, which Vivi countered by using fire to stop her. She turned to Vivi and said, "You little bi-" that was as far as she got when I made contact with my Dark Gauntlet and sent her flying until she was a twinkle in the sky. I looked after her and said, "There are children present." I dismissed the power of the Dark Gauntlet and gave Vivi a thumbs up which she returned with a smile. I thought about how I was going to get my sword back as something came flying back at me. My blade sunk into the ground behind me as a black cloaked figure appeared in front of me and placed his hands on my neck. I felt myself being picked up and tried to see inside the hood, and what I saw terrified me. Eyes full of malicious intent and a feel of pure evil made me stop struggling out of fear. The hooded man chuckled as he raised me higher as my vision began to blink out and I heard an explosion, a rush of wind, and the figure disappeared within a few seconds of each other. I held my neck as I gasped and looked at what had saved me, to be fair she might not have been much to look at but to me, at that moment, she was the most beautiful woman in the world to be fair he almost died. "Thanks," was all I could manage as the girl turned back to me. "Secondary objective complete, moving onto main objective," she stated in a dull monotone. I silently picked myself up as I went to my sword and returned it to were it belongs. Vivi and Pip ran up to me as the girl left. I told Pip and Vivi to leave, which she did reluctantly. I then exited the main tent and began to wonder what the rest of the night would bring.

Author's Note

If you're wondering about the time skip I'm having trouble translating parts of the journal. Give me some time and I'll get it sorted out.