Equestrian Heroes

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Naruto x Rarity x Twilight x Fluttershy x Applejack x Pinkie Pie x Rainbow Dash x Ditzy x Luna x ? x ?

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For Normal Speech

Inner thoughts, Text read, Italics used to represent characters speaking in different language.

Demonic rage, Demonic characters, Kurama Speak

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Story Start

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Catrina waited with disdain as her servant was taking longer than expected. She was going to need the potion to be at the height of her power if the adult unicorns proved more troublesome then she expected.

"Servants," she roared. "I hunger! Bring me food, this instant!"

With that two fluffy creatures, one yellow and one purple that came up to the tall feline's waist arrived. Their limbs pink and fleshy.

The creatures came in carrying trays of fish meat and berries. She took the saw fish meat and ate while she prepared the brew in her cauldron. A while later, a blue one of these creatures entered and gave a light bow.

These were Bushwoolies, brightly-colored furry creatures known her their near inexhaustible stamina yet diminished thought capacity. They were far from the brightest of creatures.

Chumster, Hugster and Wishful had far from the best lot in light. Serve an abusive master or become food for the vicious creatures of the land.

With the brew settle she laid on the massage table that was in the room. For one such as her the magic user was one that focused on gaining power and setting up herself to experience the best of life's comforts.

With that command Chumster and Hugster, not that she would ever know, never bothering to ask their names, to commence massaging her.

"Lower," she ordered the creature to bow. "Lower!" She would command him unto his face was pressed into the ground. She darkly chuckled at this display of absolute obedience. "What is it slave?"

"Rep h-has returned master." the creature groveled from the ground.

"Well its about time. Send him in," Catrina sighed. If it wasn't for that creature's devotion to her and his useful shape shifting duties she wouldn't bother for him as nothing more than a common slave.

Then again that's what the bushwoolies were for.

Obedient and docile. Bushwoolies just didn't have ambition. Hence they were better off serving masters with strong wills.

The bushwoolie ran back and opened the enchanted doorway to the cave entrance. In stalked in a dark green lizard with flame orange hair in clothes more befitting your common village barter in unflattering shades of sunflower yellow and dirt brown.

"Catrina I've brought the ingredient for the Witchweed potion." The reptile said as a faint blush appeared on his cheeks as he gazed upon the object of devotion.

"It's about time." Her hand glowed with an intense marine-blue aura as she summoned the bag from Rep's hand. Summoning up more magic Catrina summoned vials which scooped up liquids from the contents of the cauldron as she made way to the brewing room.

Deeper within the cavern base was the machine used to make her witchweed potion. Powered by crystals that were uncommon in this region, but rarer in most parts of Equestria.

Every component was important for the powerful solution that gave her power. And with enough unicorn horns her powers would be increased tenfold.

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Catrina exerted caution as she spent a few hours observing her targets. She waited until night fall before enacting her plan. With everypony falling asleep, including the one adult who was supposed to be keeping watch she cast her sleepy spell over the encampment. Searching tent by tent she began pilfering the unicorns.

Rep who once more proved his usefulness shape shifted into a dragon about the size of a large wagon. Unfortunately changing size for the shapeshifter only came with a partial addition of strength as a result of burning up so much of his energy to generate the increase mass leaving far too little to effectively nurture his muscles for additional strength.

So with the young unicorns tossed on Rep's back Catrina began double checking the effectiveness of her magic when she sensed something off about the black furred filly. She tried to cast the spell again only for it to wain and fizzled out fruitlessly.

It didn't make sense. Even adult unicorns who had fine control of their magic shouldn't have been able to ward off magic such as hers so well. This one could prove a problem. Digging into her pocket she brought out a magic suppressing horn ring.

She slipped it on the filly's horn only for magic to spark out from the filly and cracks appeared on the ring. 'By Nekomata's fire what is this brat?' The magic user was filled with dual feelings of apprehension and excitement. The potential headache she was foreseeing were being drowned out by her excitement at what boosts of power she would achieve.

That didn't last long as that very filly had near effortlessly threw off her sleeping spell. With that she screamed alerting some of the other ponies of the camp that somehow threw off her sleep spell as well.

Catrina cursed her luck. How was that black fur filly able to wake up from what happened? But it was far too late. Having already a plan b and c set in motion Catrina enacted the first one. Slowly and silently she had commanded the weather in the area, clouding the above area with dark clouds to follow her command in case nosy Pegasi were flying through the area.

The magic user commanded the weather to blast the ponies off their hooves and disorient them.

"Hands off the kids you damn freak!" Rainbow Dash had burst from her tent being the quickest to react. Catrina had launched a shot of thunder from the cloud to which the pegasus avoided easily.

Catrina's heart nearly stopped at how quickly the pegasus closed the distance between them. At last second barrier that absorbed the force of the her hit and blasting the pegasus backwards was the only thing that saved her. Seeing the force of the attack blast away a dozen trees nearly left her in a stupor.

"Rainbow hang on!"

"Cheerilee, you Good Heart, and Tender Hand get the kids out of here!"

The commotion woke up everypony else. Panic and screams were rapmant as the adults tried to calm down the children.

A Lavendar Unicorn?

Orange pony in a Stetson hat?

Of all the fucking ponies to run into. The bearers of the Elements of Harmony. Catrina was no stranger to the events that occurred the last two years. Being an observer and doing her best to stay out of the conflict and merely grave robbing or stealing corpses for potion ingredients. Before the war she was a simple witch relying on the potion for any amount of power and to keep her youthful, but now she had the magical capacity of a magic user from a strong blood line and that was without her potion.

And that's when Plan C came into place. Snatching the black filly that shook off her spell from Rep's back she aimed her hand at her causing the bearers to stop in place. "Unhand her this instant!" Twilight's horned teemed with magic so brightly that it was brightening up the area.

"Stop moving pest!" The feline hissed at the confused and frightened filly who desperately wanted to call out to Twilight to save her but found her voice paralyzed.

"Sweetie Belle! Nyx!"

"You leave them alone bully!"

The other crusaders found their path barred by Amethyst. "Don't get in the way! Let Twilight and the others deal with this!" She tried to usher them away as the crusaders wanted to argue, but the mares stern look silenced the protests in their place.

Amethyst had never been part of a hostage situation. She had never seen one, but a cornered and desperate criminal was a dangerous one.

Catrina had spent a good deal of time preparing for the day she would be unfortunate enough to run afoul of such a force. Especially since she often sent Rep out to obtain news. "Rise my golems!" She called out as four beams of energy erupted.

One from the air.

One from the earth.

One from the nearby lake.

One far off from behind the horizon.

Segments of what looked like Larimarillian had begun to appear in different shades forming with vibrant energy as they began to form. The creatures began to take shape as the Larimarillian began to form along with the boulders making the bulk of its body with the larimarillian making the joints and cores of the creature. The glow from the Larimarillian gave off a distinct color and glow to the corresponding golem. A deep blue golem emerging from the lake. A green-blue slim one floating in the sky. A massive hulking green-blue one emerging from the ground. And from the trees an intense heat began to fill the area as a white from teeming with flames made its way. They were each ranging from forty to fifty feet high making them at least four stories high. "Grind them to dust! Leave the Unicorns in one piece!"

The will-less giants did as commanded and began their attacks. What made the golems so dangerous was that Larimarillian was a rare and powerful ore known for its magic absorbing capabilities. Certain breeds of magic eaters would build their nests out of it as the crystals would absorb bits of ambient magic from the environment without stop which helped developed such creatures ability to absorb magic at a higher rate then it would have occurred naturally.

Catrina was confident because not only were not all the bearers there, they also seemed to lack the fabled Elements of Harmony. Without the legendary artifacts surely they would not be much of a danger.

That was her thoughts until Twilight Sparkle spoke. "Okay girls, Divide and Conquer!"

Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow gave an acknowledgement of right before shooting into action. The spellfire erupted from Twilight's horn in rapid succession faster than the white golem in front of her could react. While it was busy absorbing that it did not expect the mare to double cast and began tearing the ground it was standing on from right under it encircling it in a tornado of earth segments as it began pelting the creature back and forth.

Rainbow Dash flies so fast the majority of the grey clouds that blanketed the sky was displaced into nothingness. The remaining clouds fell under her command as a combination of her pegasi abilities and sheer force of will broke Catrina's hold as she began pelting the green golem with lightning bolts. The intense heat from the lightning began causing cracks in the golem as it began to fall.

The golem Applejack found herself facing had tried to crush the farmer using a segment of earth it ripped up not expecting a single swing of the mare's leg to shatter the earth into segments. What followed was a rapid assault of rapid punches that launched the segments back into the golem causing it to stumble and land on the ground. She landed on the ground on her hands and used all her strength to buck the thing, causing cracks to form in its form as it was sent across the area towards where Rarity was fighting.

Rarity's horn blazed as she began summoning segments of crystal from the ground below. With a mere snap of her fingers she shattered most of the clunky rocks into pin point needles. As the thing charged her she merely waited until it got into position. Right before it could hit her it was pelted from three different sides. From behind, the left, and above by the damaged golems.

"C'est fini!" Rarity cooly stated in french as she let the sharpened gems fly as the intensity of the impact from the sharpened crystals shattered the golems.

'What are these ponies?' The princess's pupil she could understand but the others?

Ripping gems from deep underground through pure telekinesis?

A striking force exceeding ten tons casually?

It was time to rethink her plans and make her retreat. Thankfully enough her golems were not so easily destroyed as the destroyed remnants began to reassemble. They combined into one larger golem composed of the four colors now reaching near eight stories in height.

"Aaw horsefeathers! I thought that was too easy!" Rainbow remarked as they readied for a round two.

Catrina took the chance to climb on top of Rep's back. "Don't just stand there gwaking you fool! Get us out of here!" Catrina ordered as Rep's head snapped up from its daze position of watching the fight. "R-Right away Catrina!"

"N-No! Let us go! Stoop!"

"Hold still you stupid child." Catrina cast a spell that made the filly's body began to fill sluggish. "Your magic better be worth it brat to cause me this trouble!" How could a mere child's defenses fight off her magic so effectively. Rep began to take off only to yelp when a hail storm of gem shards flew in his direction. "You idiot!" Catrina clung to one of his wings causing him to flap awkwardly as he spun side ways tossing off the rest of the kids. "Creature stop them at all cost!" She commanded the golem.

"Aaah!"

"Ooow!"

"What happened?"

"My head!"

The Unicorn children who were almost foalnapped had started to come to. The pain from the fall triggering the release of the spell. While the spell might have blocked out noise, pain was still an apt cure in releasing its hold.

"No Nyx!" Twilight cried as she was in mid spellcast when she noticed the intruder was about to take off with Nyx. Rainbow's last second intervention prevented their leader from being smashed by the large golem's hand.

"Get the children. Ah got this!" Applejack hollered as she threw up her hands just in time to catch the behemoth's fist. The force of the blow caused the ground to crumple under Applejack and forced the mare to one knee.

"Not alone you will not!" Rarity said as she created a copy effectively cutting her reserves in half, but getting the children to a safe place was her foremost priority.

"Twilight! TWILIGHT! Help!" The filly flailed and called out to her newly minted mother in a panic. "Twilight! TWILIGHT!"

"Shit! MOVE TWI!" Rainbow's voice filled the area as the two of them avoided blasts of fire from the golem creature. Since Golem's weren't known for their magic it was obvious that the spell-fire must have been stored within the creature along with whatever magic it had to make it an effective combatant.

Each time Twilight tried to focus the creature amplified its attack to lethal measures. The command to leave the unicorns in one piece must have been rendered mute with the witch focusing on her escape.

Nyx's cries were getting fainter as they flew further and further away.

She wasn't going to make it in time. She was going to lose Nyx.

That was when one cry had pierced the sky.

"MOMMA!"

That very cry had pierced Twilight's psyche. Something deep within Twilight began to surge.

Nyx needed her mother.

Nyx needed her.

She had to protect her.

Nopony...no one...nothing would...TAKE HER DAUGHTER FROM HER!

It was as if night itself had faded as Twilight's power exploded outwardly in a thick shining brightness. Her hair floated in the air into smoky embers as her fur brightened to its white coloration.

The other bearers were stunned at this. While Twilight's transformation was sudden it was not unwelcome and with that Rainbow Dash spoke the words on all their minds. "Oh that witch is fucked!"

Twilight spun and used her magic to shield the fist of the attacking creature. "With a mineral hardness of 4.5 without that protective aura you would not be able to stand up to a common sword. Let's do something about that shall we?" Twilight's magic extended as her will quickly took over and enveloped the creature. The magic ceased to be as the creature simply began to crumble into lifeless rocks.

Now there was only one thing left to do. In a blink Twilight had teleported. Even with the alicorn's magic suppressed she could hone onto Nyx's signature. In a pop she appeared on the shifter's back.

"Mom!" Nyx cried out joyfully. Though for the moment Twilight had to ignore her daughter until the threat was neutralized.

The stunned witch's face betrayed she had not expected that and with that Twilight made her move. The last thing the witch experienced was the fist of an enraged mother unicorn smashing into her face and rendering her unconscious.

Sorting Algorithm of evil. Something I wanted to subvert. No fun in all the training and growth if there isn't any showing for it. So what would have been a major threat for the bearers early to mid season one was at best a mid boss.

But yeah this arc here was a headache. A real struggle for me to write for some reason. Anyway with this bit out of the way I think I can finally continue to one chapter a day or every other day updates now.

We're 12 chapters away from one of the big moments and I'm excited. In the original version Catrina and Sonnambula were combined into one person. Changed that mind for that headache, but it might be something I could do later down the line.