I finally process the situation and I go with my gut on this one, ignoring the other voice I apparently have I decide to save her, after all if she is strong enough to cut me, she’s worth keeping around. But how do I save her, if that beam is hurting her and keeping her still, what are the chances of it doing the same to me. It would be too late if I went after those six, plus they seem to be protected since the rainbow one’s wound is gone, and I believe the white one was missing her tail right? Well it’s back.... ah fuck it.

I run at the beam raising my sword and focusing on moving this power I feel to the blade, awwing at how my vision is turning yellow I swing the sword as hard as I could at the beam's path in front of Nightmare, hoping my idea will work, because I definitely can’t stop now. A destructive wave of yellow energy is released at the bright rainbow beam, ripping and tearing at the ground, releasing a shockwave that made the beam fluctuate before the wave made contact.

As the two energies struck each other it did exactly what I was hoping it would do, it disrupted the beam for a brief moment, creating a gap to which I could get in and get out before being hit by it, and I plan to do just that. I kick it into gear seeing Nightmare and some other thing, but that doesn't matter to me. I quickly grab Nightmare, who now looks even more battered than before, and continue to run before I tripped trying to hit the brakes before running into the wall.

I wrap my arms around her and tuck her into my chest, flipping to my back as I skidded across the ground and hit a pillar, causing it to collapse on me. I now throw Nightmare under me as I take the brunt of the damage.

Everything starts to settle as I hear chatting and complements, along with Yachiru running, probably over to me.

‘Smooth move idiot.’

‘Piss off.’

I hear a collective gasp, and shifting movement before I feel another being appear, along with a clip clop of hooves. Another gasp.

“Luna are you ok?!” I hear a new voice say in a panicked, yet soft voice. Who the hell is Luna?

After that I heard something about a sister and surprise. I hear some labored breathing and look down at Nightmare Moon. She seems to have none of the injuries she sustained from our battle, but she looks just as beaten. Her entire body has singe marks, her entire body is smaller, but not too much smaller, and she looks younger. Also her mane is a deep purple instead of the starry sky pattern it once had. But still, she looked terrible when it came to damage, and her breathing tells me there is a bit of internal damage, I need to get her out of here.

‘You saved her life already, just leave her.’

‘And just leave her here to get killed by the ones who already tried to kill her?? How about no.’

I stand up and shrug off all the ruble, holding Nightmare in my arms. Good thing I’m now VERY durable, or that would have all ended badly. I feel somthing hop on my right shoulder and hug my neck.

“That was a great fight Ken-chan-” she stopped speaking and looked down, “and you saved her too! Never let a good opponent go to waste huh?”

“I guess you could say that.” I smile and turn around to see that group all surrounding some big white horse thing with a horn and wings, along with a smaller blue one, with half a horn and broken wings. Actually that blue one seems to have the same amount of injuries Nightmare had, horn missing and all. It seemed to be breathing slowly, with the white one crying, surrounding it in a golden glow saying “Please don’t die. Please don’t die.” over and over again.

I look down to my left and see my zanpakuto's sheath and ask Yachiru to get it for me, to which she smiled and nodded her head and did so, even sheathing my zanpakuto and agreeing to hold it for me while I carried Nightmare and she rides on my shoulder.

I hear air being displaced, I quickly dodge to my right, seeing a rainbow blur pass by my face before it hit the wall behind me.

“Rainbow Dash!” I hear someone yell In worry before the same voice yelled, “Nightmare Moon!” Before I could check the owner of the voice the one now dubbed Rainbow Dash got up and charged at me again, to which I head butted her causing her to fall down unconscious.

I turn my attention back to the group to see them all staring at me in shock, except for the white one who looked very pissed, “You dare hurt not only my sister, save a monster, but harm my subjects as well! I, Princess Celestia, will not stand for it!” she fires a blast of fire at me, and I quickly dodge it, seeing as how is melted through the castle walls I decided I was in no position to fight at this current moment, so with a heavy ‘and angry’ heart I ran out of the castle and into the forest.

“I think we’re lost. Again.” I deadpan talking to myself since Nightmare is still out cold, and Yachiru fell asleep. I groan, feeling a bit tired from all the walking and running.

“To be lost in this forest is a fate most bleak, perhaps I might offer the refuge you seek.” I hear someone rhyme. I look to my left and see a weird looking zebra with a mohawk for a mane and gleaming bands of gold ringing her neck, it sounded female as well. She waves a hoof, signalling me to follow her. I decided I have no better options, plus nothing to really fear, so I start walking in her direction. We walk slightly for a good ten minutes before some weird hut comes into sight. It’s made out of the some sort of tree, with tribal masks on the outside, and bottles hanging from the branches from twine. It had moss in various places that glowed an eerie yellow, along with the flickering of candles coming from the windows. She walks up to the door, “Come in.”

I stare a bit more, “Alrighty then.” I shrug before moving forward.

I lumber my way in, having to duck to not hit my head on the doorway, which was high, but not high enough. The zebra closes the door behind me as I look around my new environment. Very tribe like if you ask me, with herbs, spices, and masks everywhere. I see some weapons as well on the far wall, consisting of traditional African weapons like a Akrafena, Mambele, and a Iwisa ’from one weapon lover to another I can respect having a lot of them.’, along with a cot in the right hand corner. ‘Why is this place so cluttered?’ I walk over to the cot and place both Nightmare and Yachiru on it. I turn around to look at the place some more, trying to get a feel for my host before my eye sets itself onto something interesting, a short length zanpakuto on a katana stand, and a folded white haori with a symbol on it, the symbol for the fourth division in the Gotei Thirteen. I look over to the zebra to find her gone, I highteen my guard before I hear her voice.

“It seems you are surprised by my uniform, trust me when I say so am I with yours.” she says before walking into the room from what I guess is the kitchen, carrying a platter on her back with a tea set. She sets it all on a table before taking a seat on the ground. “So tell me who you are, and I might help you go far.” she pours two glasses, one she places in front of herself, and one se places on the other side of the table, which I guess is for me. I walk over and take a seat.

‘I’ve got the body, guess I should use the name.’

“The name’s Kenpachi Zaraki,” I calmly state, thumbing my chest, “Captain of the Eleventh Division in the Gotei thirteen, and you are? Oh, and by the way, drop the rhyming and shit, it’s annoying.”

She chuckles, “I guess I will comply for the time being. I am Zecora, Captain of the Fourth Division of the Gotei Thirteen, so I know you are definitely not the eleventh captain, since I know the eleventh captain already, but yet you were an official captain's uniform? How is that might I ask?”

‘You dare question my rank little zebra?’

“Because I am a captain. Who is it that you say is the captain? I’ll kill the bastard!” I say, feeling really angry all of a sudden. I take a sip of my tea.

She giggles, “With that much emotion you mustn't be lying about your rank… so that means you are not from around here.” I give her a questioning look, she leans over and looks at what I assume to be Nightmare, “ Seems your friend is hurt, would you like me to heal her? It is my specialty.”

“Are you going to try anything?” I ask giving her a look that seemed to make her a bit defensive.

“No, if I’m not a fighter anymore. I’m a healer now.” she responds getting up a grabbing some bottles for a shelf.

‘She’s not a threat.’

“... alright then, go ahead, I’m too tired for this right now.” I scratch my head.

“There is another bed in the room next to you if you want to rest. If you want I can stitch up the holes in your uniform as well if you’d like. If so set them down beside the bed and I will mend them.” she tells me while gathering more supplies and setting them down next to Nightmare.

I get up and yawn, “Alright then, thanks.” I walk over to the cot and grab Yachiru before turning to Zecora. I then grab her muzzle and lean down so I’m right in her face, “Just know if I find out you hurt either her or Yachiru here, I will rip you to shreds like a chew toy, got it?” I threaten her, to which she nodded slowly in response.

I stand back up and walk to the other room, ducking again before walking over to a surprisingly large bed. I set Yachiru down and then undress down to my bandages and a pair of white boxers. I fold my uniform and lay it beside the bed before lying down myself. I close my eye’s and reflect on all the crazy things that has happened today.

I feel something land on my chest, ‘must have bumped into one of the cluttered shelves, whatever this is it feels oddly course’. I pick it up and bring it to my eye to find some kind of orb made from very shiny gold sand. I look at it confused before it started to morph. It startled me a bit, but then it kept changing into multiple things, all completely unrecognizable before it just quit and stayed an orb. I give it one final look before clutching it in my hand, “I wish I had some answers…” I then close my eyes, feeling like the events of everything I’d done and felt since I first woken up in this place had decided to take their toll all at once, and clocked out.

Author's Notes:

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Also special thanks to RealityDowngrade for helping out with this chapter, seriously this person is great!