Rude Awakenings

Place: Dream, Time: unkown, POV: Dante

I found myself floating in darkness, similar to when I first arrived in equestria. Just as before, that same platform appeared out of nowhere, everything was the same. "I know i'm dreaming, but why this place again." I said. I began to walk around to try and find a way out. When I begun to approach the center however, three pedastals came out of the ground.

Although they had nothing on them at first, objects began to appear on them. One held a shield, another held a sword, and the last one held a staff. Before Icould figure out what was going on at the time, a mysterious voice sounded.

"Pick one, and you shall gain power." the voice said.

"What the fuck is going on here, and who the hell are you?" I asked.

"You will know who I am in time, but now, you must pick one." anonymous said.

"Alright then." I said as I walked up to the sword.

"Is this the power you seek?" anonymous said. I nodded to confirm. The sword suddenly disappeared, while anonymous said "You have chosen your power, now you must give up something in return."

I knew this was familiar, but I couldn't remember what was familiar about it. I only had the shield and staff to choose from. So I chose to give up the staff.

"Is this the form you choose." anonymous said.

"Yes, it is."

"Then your path is set."

When he finished his sentence, a pathway had formed, so I decided to follow it. When it ended, I found myself standing on a platform similar to the one I was on a minute ago. Only this time, it had applejack on it instead of me. I proceeded to the center, when I found myself surrounded by ponies that were black as night, with yellow eyes full of anger(similar to a shadow heartless).

I began to panic because I had nothing to defend myself with. When one sprang to attack, I suddenly saw a flash of light. When the light cleared, I saw in one of my hands, a sword, but not just any sword, it was the sword known as rebellion.

"You now have the power to defend yourself." anonymous said.

But before I could say anything, I had woke up.

Place:Sweet apple acres. applejacks room, Time: 9:00 Am, POV: Lightning

My first thoughts were 'who the hell woke me up?' when I turned my head to see applebloom, scootaloo, and sweetie belle. Then, I knew what was happening and what they were going to ask.

"Hey Lightning, these here are my friends Sweetiebelle, and Scootaloo." Applebloom said.

Just acting like I don't know them "Well its nice to meet you 2." I said.

"We just wanted to ask you something." Applebloom said.

"Sure, Go ahead." I said.

"Do you want to join our club?" Scootaloo asked, hastefully.

"What club?" I asked in my 'confusion'.

"Our club is called the Cutie Mark Crusader." Sweetie Belle said.

"What do ya'll do in this club?"

"Well my two friends Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo and I try everything we can to get our Cutie Marks as quick as possible."

You don't wanna know how badly I wanted to say what I really thought. But instead I said "No thanks, i'll figure it out when my time comes. The joy of finding a cutie mark is to find it over time, if you find it as quick as possible, then where is the joy in that.

"But everypony else in our class has their Cutie Marks, and these two ponies keep teasing us because we don't have our cutie marks." Sweetie Belle said.

"Well thats because you let it tease you. Back when I was younger, ponies always teased me for not having a Cutie Mark. It would make me sad, but one day I realized how to make it stop. Do you wanna know how?"

"How?"

"I did nothing. if you just ignore them, they'll stop finding the joy in teasing you, and they'll just stop for good."

"Thanks, now we have to get back to crusading, bye."

"See ya'll later."

With those three gone, I began my search for applejack. I found her out by the north field.

"Hey applejack, i'm gonna walk around town for a bit." I said.

"Alright, see ya later lightnin."

"Okay, catch ya later AJ."

"Huh?"

Before she asked me what I meant when I said that, I bolted off towards ponyville. When I got into town, pony began to stare at me again, like they were seeing something I hadn't. I decided that I didn't want any attention, so I dropped another smoke bomb. It had worked just as it was supposed to. While the smoke was covering, I had managed to escape, and proceeded to carausel boutique. I was of course greeted by rarity.

"Welcome to carasoul boutique. How may I he-, oh hello there Lightning." Rarity said.

"Hey Rarity, What are you doing today?" I asked.

"Why, I have to make a dress for a very important client."

"Well, thats interesting. Let me guess who the client is. Saphire Shores?"

"Yes, how did you guess?"

I knew what was going to happen today. "Any way that I can help you?"

"No thank you I can handle it on my own, unless..."

"unless what?"

"Unless you'd like to help me obtain some gems for the dress."

"Well, sure, I'd love to help you."

"Excellent, now follow me."

"Alright then Rarity." I knew what was going to happen today. But what I didn't know was that this time it would be different, and not in the good way. We found ourselves at the same field a few minutes later. At which time, Rarity activated her gem finding spell, and ya'll already know where this was going to head. Anyways, we found lots of gems, then Rarity came across the gem that was in the tree. This is when it had changed, because instead of finding a diamond dog in the tree, she found a creature who's appearence haunts me to this day.

While I was listening to some music, I heard Rarity scream. I rushed to where she was, when I saw here running towards me. Thats when I saw the creature, it was hideous, but I recognized it. It was a lesser stygian from DMC.

"Rarity, run back to ponyville, and warn everypony." I said.

"Alright Lightning, but what about you what are you going to do?" Rarity asked.

"I'm going to try and stop this thing, or at least delay it long enough for somepony to come help. Now, GO!"

"Alright"

After Rarity left, it was just me and the lesser stygian. I knew I couldn't stop this creature, but I needed to make sure everypony was ok. I rushed towards the creature, only to be knocked back by its blade. I kept doing this until I had run out of energy, and couldn't get back up. It approached me to deliver the finshing blow. I knew that this was be my end and accepted it. It brung its blade down upon me, but before it hit, there was a flash of light. When my vision returned, I was in human form and holding the sword rebellion. I knew what to do now.

I rushed the creature and delivered a quick 5 slash combo(hacker). When it was knocked to the ground, I began to focus my energy to the blade. Once the stygian got back up, I slashed, which sent out a beam of energy and did this two more time(overdrive). The creature was defeated, and I reverted back to my pony form and lost consciousness.

When I awoke, I found myself in a hospital bed. I was surrounded by Twilight, Rarity, Rainbow dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Fluttershy. Twilight and Rainbow dash had looks of concern on there faces.

"Are you okay?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Yeah i'm fine, a little hurt, but fine." I said.

"How did you destroy that creature?" Twilight asked.

If I told her, i'd have to tell her everything.

To be continued. So what did ya'll think, question, comments.