Zaanne
Chapter 22: (Zaanne) the aggressive/passive fight
Previous Chapter Next ChapterAlright, my own chapter for once! Much better than being mixed with one of Gabe's. Always with Scootaloo or Gabriel, but why no love for Zaanne? I think they're racist against green people!
I guess we start at when me and the human switched out. Have ever been on a roller coaster that broke halfway on a loop, then it suddenly lurches forward at full speed? That's how it feels to change from a mental to physical being. It's awesome!
As soon as I took control, the white dressed alien rose her rapier again, but Rayden got to her before she could go into magic missile mode again. Her swing at him missed as he rolled under it, spinning backward and jabbing her in the side with his hoof. There was a light blue explosion and Weiss was tossed back.
"Zaanne," Gabe yelled. "Dragon fighting time!"
"Bitchin'!" Random word, yes, but it seemed unreasonable enough to say. With a flap of my wings, I was airborne. Apparently I'm one hell of a pilot, without even trying. I weaved through tree branches and broke into the sky within seconds. The dragons had begun to yell at eachother in reptilian hisses as I landed on a cloud.
Nobody seems to see that I actually do plan some things. I held onto a pile of thicker clouds and compressed them, making one larger, far darker cloud. Grabbing that, I flew far above the Dragons' heads.
Big Red was spitting fire and growling out at the green guy. In the back of my head, I could understand what they were saying, which I found odd.
"This village is my meal!" Big Red's eyes bored into the lightning dragon. They were nose to nose now (or muzzle, what do dragons have?), one filled with anger and another with an insane glint in his eye. I let them argue as I gathered more clouds, creating an ultra condensed mass of water.
Green dragon hissed back in a series of thundering booms. "The monkeys said it was mine and MINE ONLY!"
"I need some more." I muttered to myself. My plan would only work if I could completely douse a house. So far I could most likely give someone a light car wash. Looking back down, I could see the Ice dragon blowing frost over some trees, getting a little too close to comfort to Rayden as he fought.
As badass as I am, Ray had a few nice tricks. It looked like He was going with his wing blades as his primary melee weapon, using miscellaneous rockets to keep them separated. Weiss's blade had changed colors, now swinging in a red streak. Each slice cut a tree clean in half when she missed her slices at Rayden, which was nearly every try. Hippy had summoned some fire and lugged balls of heat at the pegasus. Little Green hissed like a firecracker and strode slowly toward them.
I had a brilliant idea that would most likely get all of us killed, which wasn't my first idea. Gabe normally did the planning, but I know how to piss people off!
I waited until the ice dragon got bored enough to take flight and hopped through the air after him. As of getting about ten feet to his back, the air tinged in cold. The area turned into a blizzard. The only reason I hadn't forced to death was because of the crystal heating my body.
Gabriel loved it, laughing and singing in my head like we were in a winter wonderland. He was raised in Texas by a hockey fan, so he's pretty, well, chill with being a popsicle.
I barreled through the snow that he seemed to create from nothing and landed next to a spike. It was the size of a small skyscraper, glowing and giving off the most of the cold aura.
I put a hoof to it and closed my eyes. "Scan," i told myself. Immediately, the crystal responded, sending information into my head about the dragon.
It's a monster that spends most of it's time in the colder climates, like outside the crystal empire. Ice dragons bland with the snow and let it collect over it, making a form of igloo until prey comes near. It uses it's teeth only to eat, preferring to use it's ice breath to freeze the victim before eating it. It's heart runs from generating this extreme cold, like a being made of dry ice, only... Actual ice.
That all popped into my head within seconds. The beast didn't seem to notice me on his back, but he did spot the cloud of black in the sky. Not being one to let it rain, he took after it. That made my job easier and harder.
Summoning as much heat as I possibly could, I concentrated it into my hoof and punched the spike. I imagined the heat spreading, melting down anything that got in it's way. With a loud CRACK, the spike popped off the dragon and fell back to me.
The demon lizard shrieked and shot sideways from my cloud. I flew into the air and extended a hoof. With the thought, long ropes shot out and entangled the spike. They immediately became caked in frost, but held tightly.
100% power left, Ship warned, though I already knew that. I'm not sure how, but I figured out a lot of the crystal just by being around it. I gripped the spike and flew to the cloud. The stupid block was a million pounds, but I lugged it up to get above to the cloud. Careful not to have them touch, I commanded the ropes to catch fire, melting the icy water into the miniature mass.
It swelled into a huge bundle of cumulonimbus, distilled of it's magic ice powers now.
"That's how you make a rain cloud!" The ice dragon had landed and reared it's neck to the broken spike, breathing lividly. "Now to make it rain!"
The other two dragons were still going at it, calling each other weak and roaring out into their faces. I stood on my cloud and jumped repeatedly on it.
The darkness cleared as heavy rain fell down. I directed the cloud at Big Red, and The water doused the scarlet dragon's aura immediately, just as planned. Seconds later, part two of my plan started. Green's lightning aura kicked into overdrive with so much water on the other, coursing Red with electricity.
"What did you just do?!" Gabriel asked aloud.
"I made a fucker shoot a fucker using anothah' mothah' fuckah'!!!" The ice dragon had apparently caught wind of my plans and was in the air again, inhaling deeply. I could see a blur of green and purple in the far distance behind him.
"It was super effective!" I turned and hopped into the air, bucking the cloud to get immediate liftoff. There was a sound of thunder and also one of a pissed off dragon getting zapped in the face.
Green dragon stared stunned at his brother, who had fallen backwards into the forest. His entire front smoldered and twitched with some lightning shooting about. Rayden had taken down Hippy and began a laser-on-sword fight with Weiss.
Weiss had grown accustom to the offence, though, and switched to having a white sword style. Now, when she pointed at something, a white platform would appear for her, letting her hop randomly around Rayden and slash at his armor.
Suddenly something hit me. That wasn't his fight. Even if he could win the battle, those assholes weren't after him, they'll just get back up, waiting to fight the one they wish to catch. The one who they tried to be, who they first transformed into. They saw Gabriel, but they felt someone else. Ship wasn't there yet, they could have easily stayed inside of the crystal if they really wanted that power, right?
No, they were after me, that was my fight.
I stared to the town, in complete lockdown in the distance. I recalled the destruction of both schools, how Gabriel had his heart blown up because of some people looking for me. The idea that i could have caused this kind of destruction for a being that wasn't even half human made my blood boil for some reason.
"If they want me, then that's what they'll get." I realized I had spaced out just in time to avoid the white dragon's burning cold breath.
"Get the dragons first!" Gabriel shouted. "Scootaloo can help Rayden again, they're an easy match for us."
"It's not your decision, human!" The aliens pissed me off the more I thought about them. Why come for me? Why destroy the world? Why use dragons?! Obviously i had something to do with the crystal, maybe if I could find that blue pony from the dream, he could recollect my memory. first, dealing with the lizard demons.
The plan to stop the dragons from fighting hit immediately. "Gabe, do that talking thing you do!"
"What talking thing?" The red dragon stood, now beyond any definition of upset and glaring up at me. I wanted him to think big green zapped him on purpose, but it apparently failed considering I now had two enraged and one confused dragon flying after me.
"That thing that seems to make everyone stop fighting!" The beasts flew in a circle around me, considering how they could deep fry me for a pre-Ponyville snack.
"I don't know what you're talking about!"
"Who are you talking to?!" The white dragon hissed. That was it; Gabe's talking trick. When we were fighting the aliens the first time, he just asked a question, and they completely paused the battle. In the dark room, they were ready to obliterate us, instead we had a good ten minute chit-chat with the bad guys. Gabriel actually sucks at being social, but he still likes people, and for some reason, they like him back. Weird, eh?
"Gabriel, he's my assistant. Welcome to Equestria, everyone!" I smiled to the towering demons, giving my best hosting look. "May I take your coats?"
"We don't have coats, it's just scales." Frosty the Hothead flew closer, eyes revealing a cold heart that belonged to him. "You shouldn't be worried about that, instead consider why shouldn't I kill you on the spot."
"Oh, because those stupid humans told you to?" I laughed, half forced and half in real amusement. Project manipulation sprang. "You do know they're using you!? Why should an almighty dragon have to follow the commands of such weak creatures?"
"They know where a large group of delicious ponies like you are at." The red one smiled greedily and hissed. "I'll get them all!"
"Again, another fine point they didn't talk about!" I took to the air and got face-to-face with the red dragon. "It's not just for you, is it? The hippy probably stated that you would be coming alone, did she not?"
I've never seen an almighty being look embarrassed, but he seemed to give such an expression. "Uhh... Did they?" He looked to his brethren, who had their shoulders raised with confused looks on their faces.
I was aware of Scootaloo entering the fight under me, which was totally supposed to be my fight, but I kept eye contact. "Now, think. If you came alone, you'd get several thousand ponies to yourself. But no, you have five other monsters, born of greed, ready to snatch up whatever you try to keep for yourself!"
I backed up as the idiots stared each other down. The auras grew stronger, though Big Red still retained the spark from Big Green.
The green dragon spoke, now in a weird accent. "You two are not stealing my treasure!" White hissed at Red, who Roared at Green, who boomed at White.
"The real treasure is not of the town, it is of having you guys fight, which you are doing now. Get it in your head that the humans set you up. When you get to town, there's no doubt that the princesses will come and defeat you all!"
Apparently Celestia and Luna had a reputation on dragons. They reared their necks and shouted out bad names for Sunbutt and Mooner. The white one hissed, "They are evil, ponies of alicorn magic!"
Green one apparently got more distracted than the other two. "How did you know what I spoke? That was in pure dragon tounge."
"Sounded like you came from Canada to me."
Ship explained that one. "The TARDIS you tried to make might have put a natural translator in your head, along with the time dreams."
"Too convenient, if you ask me." The dragons now looked down at the aliens. Hippy had gotten up and fought Scootaloo, while Weiss began to get a few good blows on Rayden. The jet rockets sparked and smoked, far too overheated to use. The armor had been covered in gashes and dents, though Ray was in fairly good shape, besides a good sized cut on his cheek.
"Those guys sent you all to attack ponyville and eventually each other because they were looking for me. If they get me, there's a very good change they'll just try and kill you too."
"NONSENCE!" Red sneered, "nobody can defeat an elder dragon such as us!"
"Well, wanna help us take them out? Saves you the trouble of being back stabbed and it gives you a meal you will rarely get." I sat on a cloud and rose my hooves up. "It's a win-win thing here!"
The trio considered, then started to glide to the ground battle. Scootaloo had gotten a good kick to the side of her head and spiraled off her scooter, which she set on fire.
"You know," Gabe started, "out of all of this, we're the only ones left uninjured."
"Oh, we'll have to fight the dragons after they take care of the aliens, plus they still have Applebloom." In the back of my head, i knew the crystal still had 100% left, considering I hadn't done anything with it outside of making it rain.
"Also, the aliens are my problem to deal with, I'll be the one to take them down. With a flash of light, Rayden and Scootaloo appeared to my sides.
Ray fell back, exhausted, since he didn't have anything to regenerate his stamina. "Ugh..."
Scootaloo looked as tempestuous as my storm cloud, her purple eyes darkened as she stared down at the dragons, who were currently bad-mouthing the aliens. "They took Applebloom..." She hissed silently.
"You two need to brighten up, it's just one pony." I tapped Rayden's forehead and transferred some of the magic energy to wake him up.
Scootaloo gave me that evil eye that only a girl could give. "We have the power to find her, where did that dragon go?!"
"He's in the mountains, but you won't be able to pinpoint him until that event in the future takes fold."
Ray's armor now switched back into the weapon staff, which he turned into a back pouch and slung it over him. "Where's rainbow? Isn't she going after her?"
Gabriel sighed, "'She', 'her', they're both pronouns that describe the same type or person, which is confusing. Zaanne, if all you wanted to do was zap dragons then talk to them, why couldn't i have done that?"
"Because i knew that you can't fly well, you also don't know how to control the weather, so I had to do that. You can have the body back, but remember something."
"What?" He asked, immediately regaining control.
When we face the aliens, in the end, it won't be Gabriel who they want to kill. You're only a side problem to them. The one they want is good ol' Zaanne, and that's who they're gonna get!
Next Chapter: (S) Amputee Twister Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 21 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Due to my only way to edit this story (school) being taken out of my options, i can't do so until further notice.
Also this chapter almost included a scene of prince Artemis crossdressing, thanks to my stupid memory and the powers of copy/paste appearing.