"ARE YOU INSANE!!!"
Chapter 2: Let's Fight!
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Here's another chapter, yes there will be some errors here and there, but I wanted to get this one out. I don't want these chapters to be too long. Also this all starts at season one of MLP:FIM. Also, Kenpachi will, at some point, have his full power, but not yet.. One more thing, this entire story will basically be fighting with some other stuff thrown in.
“Well… I think we’re lost.” I say as I stand in the middle the woods, looking in every direction I could trying to find some sort of indication of shelter or civilization, it’s been dark for a while now.
Yachiru stuck one finger in the air, “Leave it to me Ken-chan, my nose can find us some kind of food to eat!” she announces to the world, most likely alerting every predator in the area of our location.
“That really isn’t our main priority right now, but I could go for some grub right now,” I smile in anticipation, “go for it Yachiru!”
Shortly after that she perks up and points left, “I smell water that way Ken-chan, that means there might be fish!”
For some reason I feel so excited and I do something I was not expecting to do, almost as if I’ve done it a hundred times over, my muscles all tensed, and it felt like they all focus on my legs, and in a flash the world got slower, birds and bats barely moving, leaves falling with almost no movement whatsoever, and I was running without any thought besides where she pointed, all with this crazed smile plastered on my face. It just feels natural.
“We're almost there Ken-chan, faster, faster!”
I start to smell the water as well, that combined with Yachiru's encouragement makes me run even faster than before until I see a river and instantly stop causing everything around me to return to normal, dust kicking up in the process.
“Good job Ken-chan!” the small girl jumped off my back, “Now I can catch us some fish!” she runs over to the river bank and stares at the water with a cute smile.
I don’t see anything here but river and trees, but if I know one thing, it’s following a river should lead to civilization. “Hey Yachiru I’m going to follow this river for a bit, see if I can find anything, stay here alright it’s pretty dark.”
“Sir yes sir!”
Hmm which direction should I go? Right, I’ll go right!
This overwhelming speed thing is a little jarring, but damn if It’s not efficient. I’ve had to cover at least a kilometer by now and it’s only been a few seconds since I left Yachiru (in real time). Still haven’t seen much- wait what’s that?
I stop at what looks to be a path leading deeper into the forest. Should I go back to get Yachiru? No, she will be fine on her own for a little while, as long as she stays put at least. Well, time to go deeper into the rabbit hole. Well time to go! Everytime I do this I ignore it for some reason. I just can’t get over how natural this feels to move at this speed with little to no effort. It’s actually quite fun! But why am I so accepting of all of this, everything that has happened today has been, well absolutely jarring and confusing. I should be asking more question, panicking, angry, or all of the above… but I don’t feel any of that. I actually feel happy for some reason, and also very eager. Eager to find someone, to fight them! To find someone from wherever the heck we are, see if they are strong, and have some fun! I mean I should be working on how to get back home, but playing is important. You can work anytime. Wait, what's that now?
In front of me is what looks to be a castle across a canyon, a very ruined one, but a castle nonetheless. It looks fairly old, but I think someone has been here recently, but I can’t quite tell with all this fog. Wait there is a bridge over to the left, perfect! I flash step over to the other side to get a better look, but there are these… things in my way. They look like tiny horses wearing black and purple spandex with a yellow bolt of what I will presume to be lightning, and yellow goggles.
“Stop right there creature! Where do you think you’re going?” said the smallest of the three.
I just stop and stare with a look of confusion, “Well I believe I’m going to that castle over there.”
The larger one on the left walked up to me, trying to look intimidating as possible even though he came up to my abdomen, “That’s not going to be happening, now turn around and go back to wherever in Tartarus you came from freak!”
My look went from confused to irked, with my lip lifting in disgust, “Well I AM going to that castle whether you like it or not you little shits, now out of my way!” I start to walk towards the castle, pushing the small horse in front of me to the side, which caused the one on the right to fly at me, wait they have wings? Well no matter, it flew at me trying to tackle me down with great force, but all I heard was a crunching sound and it disappeared in a puff of dark blue smoke. After that the other two also disappeared in a puff of smoke. “... well that was interesting.” I look back up at the castle, “Now why were they trying to keep me out of you?” I run up to the entrance and then walk inside.
The inside looked worse than the outside, as if it could collapse at any moment. It also felt errey, almost like an abandoned house. After walking around with only the sound of my footsteps to accompany me I hear an irritated growl come from deeper within the structure. I make my way to where I heard it to find what looks to be some kind of throne room with tattered banners all around that depicted the sun and moon. In the center was some kind of art piece holding concrete balls with gem like designs carved on them. But what caught my eye the most was the taller pitch black horse thing with wavy starry like mane and a tattoo on it’s flank which depicts the night sky and crescent moon. It looked angry destroying and ripping apart the banners that had the sun on them.
“Argh! I want nothing to do with these! They just irritate me more and more when I look at them!” she yelled, or at least I think it’s a girl, sounds like one. “But I need to calm down, my plan is almost complete afterall! Celestia is sealed away within the sun, the elements are worthless in their current state, and eternal night is at hoof! So long as everything keeps playing out this way there will be no one strong enough to stop me, Nightmare Moon!”
For some odd reason I just got really excited all of a sudden. I wonder how strong she really is? Well might as well make myself known. I walk out of the hallway and start advancing towards her. “So you’re the strongest huh?” I ask aloud causing her to jump and turn around. She has both wings and a horn huh? That's a thing I guess.
She looks at me with a shocked expression, “What? Who are you and how did you get in here without me knowing?!”
I just feel even more irritated and furrow my brow in anger, “It doesn't matter who I am, just answer the question!” I yell in anger.
She gets into a defensive stance flaring her wings, “Yes I am the strongest what is it to you!”
My frown turns into a smile “You know everyone who searches for power,” I unsheathe my zanpakuto and throw it’s sheath to my left, “without exception,” I get into an all too natural fighting stance, “also searches for battle.” I then point my sword at her causing her to jump backwards with a scythe appearing out of thin air. “What about you? Do you fight to become more powerful? Or do you want more power so you can fight?!” I then charge at her, the bells in my hair ringing madly as she quickly moves her weapon in front of her blocking my light strike with the handle of it.
She gives me a panicked look, “What do you think you are doing! Are you insane!?!”
“Sanity? Sorry, but I don't remember having such a useless thing in the first place.”
Yachiru sat near a fire she made and was cooking some fish on it, humming a happy tune to herself with some drool escaping her mouth. She was very excited to eat these fish and couldn’t wait for Ken-chan to get back from exploring. She perked up for a moment after hearing some voices coming from the woods. They all sounded like they were female. She should check out the voices, for that would help find some sort of civilization for both her and Ken-chan, but the fish! What should she do!
“Dang it!” she quickly dumps the fire into the water using a big branch and takes the fish with here as she runs over to where she heard the voices to find a group of ponies talking to some kind of serpent think crying about it’s mustache. The one with the purple mane and tail took one of it’s scales and cut off a good portion of her tail, sounds like a girl at least, and then attached it to the serpents torn mustache. They all start praising the white one while the serpent rejoices. Taking a bite of the fish while think of what to do, she hummed in delight, revealing her position in the bushes. One of the ponies, specifically the yellow one with the light pink mane, heard her and turned towards her.
“What are you?” the yellow one asked coming closer to her with a curious eye. Yachiru just kept eating the fish without fear. “What’s that you got there? Did you catch yourself some fish huh?” she cooded, petting Yachiru on the head making her smile.
“Hey what are you doing there Fluttershy? Come on we have to go!” called out a brash voice. Yachiru found the source of the voice to be a light blue pony with a rainbow mane and tail with wings.
“Sorry,” called out the one now dubbed as Fluttershy, “I was just giving this little cutie right here some attention.” she said softly, still petting Yachiru on the head.
The rest of the group came over to see what they were doing and they all dawed when they saw her. She finished up the last of the fish, forgetting about some of it for Ken-chan.
“What is it? I’ve never seen anything like it before?!” said the purple one.
“I’m Yachiru!” announced the little girl to everyone.
Fluttershy’s petting stopped as she stared along with everyone else.
“Did it just talk? I reckon it just talked.” Said the orange one with the blonde mane and tail wearing a stetson. She also smelled like apples.
“I should be asking you the same thing! When did pony’s learn to talk?” asked the small girl not really confused, but just playing along with them.
“What are you doing here darling?” asked the white one that cut off her own tail.
“Me and Kenny are lost, so while he went to find help, I stayed and caught us some food!” she went to hold up the fish, only to find bones. “Wha! But- I- I ate them all! Oh no I at them all! Now I’m mad, who are you all!” she pouted, causing her to be more cute than anything.
The white one spoke first, “I’m Rarity dear.”
Purple step up, “I am Twilight Sparkle.”
The blue one was next, “I’m Rainbow Dash, Fastest flyer in Equestria!” she boosted with a pose.
“I’m Applejack little critter.” said the one in the stenson.
“And you are Fluttershy!” said Yachiru pointing to the yellow one who nodded. She then felt the ground underneath her move as she rose into the air.
“AndI’mPinkiePie!NicetomeetyouYachiru,doyoulikecupcakesIlikecupcakesIcangeyouawholebunchofthem!” burst out Pinkie Pie, excited to meet something new.
Yachiru grew a great big smile, “I love cupcakes! I actually just like sweets in general.”
Pinkie gasped dramatically, “We are going to be such good friends!” she said while hugging the small girl.
Twilight walked up to her, “What are you doing out here, and who is kenny?” she then shook her head, “Wait no time, we have to stop Nightmare Moon! Come with us Yachiru so you’ll be safe, I’m sure we can find your friend.”
At that moment there was an explosion and quake followed by a burst of magic energy racking everything with such great force.
“WHAT WAS THAT!” yelled RainbowDash.
Yachiru chuckled, “Whatever it was, I bet Ken-chan is there fighting it.” she says with a knowing smile.
“Hurry up girls let’s go!” says Twilight.
I unison they all say, “Right!” including Yachiru.
I’m sent flying through the castle walls by a blast of some kind of energy, but I flip mid air and push off the next wall behind me and launch myself towards my enemy, grabbing her face and then dragging her on the ground for about twenty feet down a hall before chucking her into a wall, causing a part of the castle to crumble, laughing the entire time while doing it.
“Whatever you hit me with hurt quite a bit,” I tell her while cracking his neck, “but I think you underestimate how durable I really am!”
She launched herself full force out of the rumble at me, only to get blocked by my smiling ass, “What are you and why won’t you die!” a light like last time comes from her horn before a small orb appears and starts growing, acting quickly I headbutt her causing her head to jerk and misfire the orb and the ground causing it to quake again. I push her away before slashing her across her muzzle, splattering blood on the wall next to us, and for some reason making me feel very disappointed.
“You can even take a lazy slash like that without taking damage…” I put my zanpakuto up on my shoulder while watching her recoil from the pain, not even making an attempt to get back up as blood ran down into her mouth. I just sigh and start walking away.
“Where do you think you’re going! We are not done here!” she screams out, shaking the castle walls, causing some of it to crumble.
I look over my shoulder slightly, “We are done here. There is no reason for me to fight a weakling like you.” I start walking again, “You can’t cut me, overpower me, outlast me, or do anything that would actually make this battle fun, so I’m done here. You’re just too weak.” I can hear sobs coming from her as I enter the main room again, and turns out Yachiru is there with a group of epilepsy horse things.
“Kenny!” She runs over to me and stops about a foot away from me, “I found these nice people and they helped me find you!” she looks behind me and points, “Who’s that?”
The technicolor crowd in front of my gasped and I turn around and see my former opponent practically force herself into the room, trying to hide her tears and remain intimidating.
“You think I’m weak…” everything just felt like it got a little more heavy, and the air seems thicker now, “I'M NOT WEAK! I’LL SHOW YOU WHO”S WEAK!”
At that moment a shockwave of some sorts bursts outwards from her knocking everyone back but me and Yachiru. She hid behind me while I put up a hand to cover my eye so no dust gets in it. But when I put my hand down, everything changed. She was now decked out in a full suit of armor, I don’t think even a single part of her was left uncovered, with blue and black energy spewing out from every opening. The armor looked sturdy, sharp, and it was all colored a dark purple. Around her floats four spinning crescent blades, and in front of her now double sided scythe.
In a new, power enhanced voice she yells, “IT'S YOU!”
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