Guardian Chap 13

by ~Sunjian54

The Equestrian Guardian

Chap 13

"This is sooooooo boring…" Scootaloo complained. She had been complaining the entire time since they had arrived and David's nerves were very close to breaking. Although, Scootaloo did have a point, most of the Air spells he had learned were not very interesting. They usually just included whipping up a gust of wind, or creating air projectiles. "Okay, 5th spell…. Air Cutter?" David read confused.

The picture showed a pony swinging its hooves in a horizontal swinging motion on the page, but try as he might David could not make the spell work. "Hey David." Applebloom called. "How fast can you pull that sword out of the cover?" she asked. He turned and smiled at her. "Well first it's called a scabbard not a cover. 2nd I can pull this thing pretty fast just watch." He carefully placed his hand on the grip of the blade, and with one quick flip of his wrist the sword shot out of the scabbard. As it did however a thin silver wave shot out from it and cut the nearby tree in half! The CMC jumped and David finally realized what the spell had meant. "I get it. When I pull the sword out of its scabbard the air shoots out and cuts anything in its path." He said as he returned the sword to its place and picked up the book to see that the spell had been checked off. As he was beginning to read the next spell something caught his attention. A strange black pony had been watching them from the forest where David's air cutter had just chopped down a tree.

"Applebloom… all of you go home." He said placing his hands on sword. "But we…" Applebloom started to say. "GO NOW!!!" David shouted jerking his head back to yell directly at them. They stood and quickly ran, but not before Applebloom called out that she would get AJ and come back. David took off running after the strange pony in the forest demanding it to halt so he could see who it was. The figure continued to lead him deeper into the forest. The forest grew darker and darker as he followed the figure, but his focus was completely on the figure and nothing else in the world around him could distract him. His legs burned from exhaustion and his arms were cut from the vines and thorns that had been hanging from the trees he had run through, but he kept running until the figure stopped in an empty clearing.

"Alright… who are you… and why were you spying on me and the CMC?" He sputtered as he gasped for air. The figure refused to answer, but its body began to radiate dark wisps of what appeared to be energy. "Hey I'm talking to you!" David shouted as he approached the figure with his sword drawn. The figure suddenly turned and blasted him with a burst of dark energy, throwing him into a nearby tree. David stood to his feet tasting blood most likely from the force of hitting the tree but what shocked him the most was the face of his attacker.

"T-Trixie? No it can't be." The figure was indeed Trixie, but her pale blue body was now a dark purplish black, her hat and cape a deep crimson and her eyes a glossy emerald. "Is the Guardian surprised to see Trixie?" She asked glaring at him. "Actually yes, I thought I kicked you out of Ponyville for good." He said retrieving his sword from the ground. "Trixie has returned once again Guardian, but this time she is not alone." At the word alone a strange black lifelike shadow seemed to remove itself from Trixie's body stretching out to cover over her completely, only to have it hover over her like a dark cloud. "Cut the charade Nightmare Moon. I know it's you!" David shouted gripping his sword even tighter. The figure's "head" appeared with green eyes and the helmet that were all too familiar to David. "What's the matter Nightmare? Couldn't take me on last week so you went and corrupted Trixie to give yourself a better chance?" He taunted. Nightmare laughed, her voice echoing in David's soul. "I did nothing Guardian. She came to me, and I gave her what she wanted. My power and my soul." She finished.

"WHAT!!?? Trixie are you insane? Do you know what you've done? You've basically handed your soul over to the devil!" He shouted. He couldn't help yelling. Trixie was being completely stupid; she had given her body to Nightmare Moon just to get revenge on him and Twilight? Was she that desperate? "Trixie wanted the power Guardian and now that she has it. She's going to destroy you." "One day maybe, but not today!" He shouted as he ran back toward the forest, only to have the vines and thorns grow and block his path. "I thought the Guardian was a brave warrior, not a COWARD!!" Trixie screamed as she used her new dark powers to lift David off the ground with a dark hand and continuously beat him against the ground. "This is for humiliating Trixie! This for driving Trixie to Despair!" She continued to shout reasons for smashing his body into the ground. David could slowly feel himself losing consciousness, and if he passed out they could really kill him. Trixie finished her assault by throwing him into another tree, this time knocking his sword from his grasp and sending it flying into the air.

As the sword impaled itself into the ground David could see the faces of all the friends he would leave behind reflected in the blade. "AJ, Rainbow, Pinkie, Rarity, Fluttershy, the CMC, Spike, Luna and Twilight. I'm sorry; I guess I couldn't protect you after all." "Oh don't worry human." Nightmare sneered. "You'll see them again. After Trixie's done killing them all of course." David's heart started racing. "That's right; the Great powerful Trixie will kill all of them." It felt like a fire was building in David's chest. "Oh why stop there Trixie? Why not destroy all of Ponyville?" The fire was raging in his body his teeth grinding in anger. "Trixie agrees. She'll destroy all of Ponyville and then kill Twilight Sparkle with the Guardians own blade." The fire engulfed his entire being; his anger felt like it would explode! "Oh the look on Twilights face will be one to remember Guardian, and the best part is that you're failure is the reason she's going to die." Nightmare said. That did it.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" David felt a strong energy surging through him causing him to scream, his anger pulsing through him and causing drastic changes to his appearance. His silver eyes turned a dark black, his hair grew long, white and wild, his teeth became razor sharp and a dark energy surrounded his entire body and it felt good. "I'm going to make both of you pay dearly for what you've done to me… No… No… I'm going to KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" His voice screamed with pure hatred.

The energy around him turned into a vortex his elemental powers running crazy all around him. Trees were scorched and up rooted by his earth and fire powers. Ice crystals were thrown at hurricane speeds impaling themselves in the ground and forest around him. While Air cutter blades sliced trees down by the dozens. The biggest change however was the Guardian blade, which had changed from a shining white to a dark black and was now in a dark energy radiating red scabbard. He slowly picked the sword up from the ground and turned toward Trixie.

"Are you scared Trixie? You should be, because I'm not myself right now and my sword wants blood!" He said giggling psychotically as he talked. "What's happened to him?" Trixie asked frightened. "His anger at our taunting, and the burning desire to protect the one's he loves has awoken the shadow element. He's now the Dark Guardian." Nightmare Moon said terrified. She then pulled herself from Trixie and fled in horror. "WAIT!! You can't leave Trixie alone to fight… him." She said with tears in her eyes as she now faced the evil that had awoken in David. An evil she knew that she had awoken, and would now feel its wrath. Next Chapter: Chapter 14 Estimated time remaining: 3 Hours, 54 Minutes