The Unexpected Adventure
Chapter 17: Frank's 'Dog' fight
Previous Chapter Next ChapterAfter I have departed from Aston, I made my way towards the center. I have been getting these weird 'visions' that Jayden was in fact dying. I could stop it because a while back, I was looking at some books from the Canterlot Library. These books were specifically about Star Swirl the bearded, but something came to me when I was reading them.
-Canterlot Library (The day after the estrus incident)-
"What do you mean there is one last book on Star Swirl?" I asked.
"There was a book he didn't want to be published because it would tell the truth of what really happened to him." Celestia said.
I had decided to check with Jayden after the whole.... Celestia trying to get his balls type of deal and Twilight decided to join me. After I found out that Jayden survived, but was scarred, I was relieved. After we got done with talking to Luna and Jayden, we made out way to the Library. When we showed up we had found Celestia having a read on Star Swirl. Twilight and I were with Celestia talking about the subject of Star Swirl because I was a 'fan' of his spells. Then the subject about one last book that wasn't published. It was about how he had passed on in this world.
"Why are you telling this to us Celestia?" Twilight asked.
Celestia smiled, "It was something that simply passed my mind."
"It must have been the estrus maybe?" I chuckled, but was bucked by Twilight in the gut.
Twilight glared at me and I shrugged, "Sorry, please continue." Twilight encouraged.
Celestia cleared her throat, "It is a long story, but I'll try to keep it short; for it is a melancholy. Star Swirl the bearded was suppose to be immortal, but something changed. He fell in love with an Earth pony, named Aura Comet, and they have forever been together. Once they told their vows of marriage, they wanted children, but something happened. When one of the foals were born, the child fell ill and wasn't going to make it into the beautiful world. Aura was devastated by this news, but Star Swirl decided to make a spell that could save his newborn Unicorn foal which was a female." Her horn glowed as a book teleported that had no title and set it onto a table next to her. She continued, "He did a spell that was so powerful that even I as a Alicorn would never use. The spell is called Transfer; it gets a cutie mark from a pony to another to give him/her another chance at life."
Twilight and I exchanged glances when she mentioned the 'Transfer spell'. Both of us never knew how Star Swirl died, but we heard that he was never 'found' in the cemeteries of Equestria. Rumors from old newspapers told that he was forever walking around Equestria changing forms like Discord, but were false overtime with some "Royal truths" from Celestia and Luna.
"I thought Star Swirl passed away by an illness of some sorts." I said.
Celestia nodded, "That is true, but he was dying because he transferred his cutie mark into the child to save her. He slowly deteriorated and time started to catch up to him and the rest his studies were never recorded. He spent his last days with the filly until she was eight, he requested to be buried near Canterlot. Aura Comet, which became a maid for the castle, raised the filly and she introduced her to me which made me happy. This filly was named Daisy Swirl and she grew up to be a great mare. That was when she found out the truth about about her father; she got depressed about the whole thing, but some thing else happened. A spirit of Star Swirl met up with her saying that to just keep living on and with that she continued her generation by having a family in her thirties. I believe that she was telling the truth because I was skeptical about the situation. Overall I know the newest born child which resembles Star Swirls cutie mark; she calls herself the great and powerful, but never really did discover her 'real' talents.
Twilight gasped, "TRIXIE?!"
I jumped in, "Trixie is a descendant of Star Swirled the Bearded?!"
Celestia only nodded, "She came to me several times wanting to know about her past and when I told her this story, she never believed it. She earned her cutie mark, but only did stage shows for other ponies. I believe she learned her lesson when she met up with you the second time Twilight and came to me for guidance about her real talents."
"Where is she now Celestia?" Twilight asked.
"She is training with Luna during the night because she is fond of them. Now if you heard my story, I predict that you both want to look at his final book?" She asked.
I snapped my fingers so the book would appear in front of me and I started to read the current spells. The sacrifice of your special talent can kill yourself, but to save another pony in return.
"Frank, can I have a copy?" Twilight asked.
"I'm sorry Twilight; Star Swirl cast a spell to prevent any sort of spells that would copy or destroy it. It was very important to him." Celestia stated.
I finished skimming the 'Transfer' spell and passed it to Twilight, "Don't get any ideas, Twilight." I said.
Twilight puffed her cheeks as she snatched the book from me with her magic. Celestia and I giggled as Twilight read through every page.
'If Jayden is dead, I can use that spell because I have three cutie marks.' I thought. It was true, I had Celestia's, Luna's and Cadence's cutie marks on my person, but it seems like it didn't affect the princesses at all. Which is a strange occurrence that seems to be happening a lot lately.
I made my way into another court yard when I heard an explosion of some sorts. I look to the sky to see a beam destroying a building and the anti-magic field disappeared. I smiled, 'Way to go Logan.' The court yard was about a half a mile long and I found a flight of stairs leading up to the center of the building. I felt all sorts of bad magic radiating through the sky making the it have a tint of red. I hear something was screaming in pain, but it was behind me and it didn't sound like Jayden at all.
I turn to see a dark figure zapping a diamond dog on the field. I walked towards them and the figure disappeared into thin air. The diamond dog stood there like it was lifeless in a sense, but it started to move. He faced me and smiled.
"Are you called Frank?" He asked.
"Who wants to know?" I questioned.
"The name is Arthur and I was sent here by my master to prevent you to get to your friend." He stated.
"Sorry, but that's not going to happen." I said.
He instantly disappeared and I raised my right hand to block a super fast paced punch. There was a boom, but it wasn't Arthur. Something in the distance caused the whole place to shake and I felt Aston's presence from about a half a mile away. 'What was tha-' my train of thought was interrupted with a fist colliding with my face. I was so distracted by the explosion that I never thought that it would shake the ground. It seems that Arthur wasn't phased by the shaking and just kept on fighting. I flinched when he pushed me back, but I returned a punch that threw him across the floor. Once he was back on his feet, he sprinted towards me and I snapped my fingers to cast Chakra into my veins. I clenched my fist as Chakra flowed into it; I felt a powerful punch was coming my way. I got into a offence position and threw my fist as he did as well. When our fists collide, there was a an explosion of darkness spewing out of his fist that was surrounding him, and there was blue like liquid spouting out of my fist that was also around me. It was like a Yin and Yang, but it was totally different from a perspective. Even with some of my magic converted to Chakra, we still had equal ground which made me worry. Fortunately, my power was able to get through and it deflected Arthur's fist to hit the castle wall behind me.
I sighed, "You going to give up yet?"
He snarled, "NO!"
Arthur tried to sprint towards me, but I moved fast enough so I was in front of him. His eyes widen when he saw a blue sphere coming towards his torso. "Rasengan!" I shouted. The orb impacted Arthur and he shouted as blood was coming out of his mouth. The crater on the wall turned into a hole and it caused the debris to stab the ground. I jumped out of the hole as Arthur kept on groaning in pain, but when I landed on my feet, he was standing up like the pain didn't even phase him. 'Did he recover quickly?' I thought.
I blinked and I felt another fist colliding with my face. It shot me into the ground on my back and I saw that Arthur is on top of me. He then threw a bunch of random punches to my face, chest, arms and legs. It seems that Rasengan did some damage to his brain, but it could be that he wanted to damage me as much as he could. He got to his feet, jumped up into the air and tried to fire a fist into my face. I lifted my right hand and a sphere that looked like a Shuriken came out as my eyes felt different. I sat back up and shouted, "Rasen Shuriken!" I threw the Shuriken towards the dog and it sliced him in half. I felt something rattling my brain and it was someone who I didn't want to listen to.
'He's not dead yet. He has dark magic.' Night Shade commented.
I got up to my feet and was about to say shut up mentally, but I felt another punch impacting my stomach. 'How did he reassemble himself?' I asked myself. I was thrown across the floor into a new wall causing it to crack into several pieces. He was right in front of me and was growling like a wild animal. His eyes were pure white and I could barely sense any life force inside him. Arthur raised another fist and threw it into my face. In response, my eyes almost bulged out as I groan in agony. Everything was now in slow motion and I was pulled, mentally, to see Night Shades face again.
'The most powerful being in Equestria and he can't handle a single over powered Diamond Dog.' He commented.
'Shut up.' I said.
'If you don't fight seriously, then I'll take over again.' He warned.
'Don't have to tell me twice.' I said.
After coming back to my senses, I jumped into the air, away from Arthur, but he jumped after me. I got my hands into a cross and shouted, "Shadow clone Jutsu!" Five of me appeared as they ran into Arthur and all of them threw a bunch of punches at him. It failed, but it was only meant to be a distraction; I made four more shadow clones in addition to my five and I made one Resan Shuriken with the use of magic element. It was successful and I threw it into Arthur, but when the Shuriken impact him, all the dark magic that was inside him burst into an explosion. I tried to shield myself in impact, but it was too late, I was engulfed inside the thick darkness.
'Perfect.' Night Shade said as I slowly lose consciousness.
-Night Shades Point of View-
The pure dark magic was all I need to change back into my form and with it, I took over Frank's mind. Now he was unconscious and I was free to do whatever I pleased until he wakes up. 'Time to feed Wrath.' I thought. I sensed that Arthur was in fact still alive and my lips quivered in excitement. My hands shuddered in the pure pleasure of what I was thinking to destroy this particular Diamond Dog. The dust finally settled and all the dark particles were absorbed to my being. Right in front of me was Arthur, still angry that he got defeated, but was not done with the fight.
He sprints towards me and I did the same, "YOU WILL BE RIPPED APART LIMB FROM LIMB!!" I laughed.
I straighten up my left hand and stabbed his right shoulder. I managed to go through his skin, dislocate and shatter his socket bone, and with my right hand I ripped out his arm like it was nothing. I didn't see the blood coming out of his shoulder because I was too busy looking at the raw fresh flesh that was in my hand. My teeth got sharper and I devoured Arthur's right arm. I stopped running, turned to Arthur, who was howling in pain; I smirked as I licked my left hand that was covered in his blood.
"That was a nice appetizer, but Wrath wants the main course." I smirked.
Arthur turned his head and was crying, but I didn't care. I was walking towards him with the intention of killing him slowly, and painfully as I eat him up. I slowly laughed as my shadow was covering Arthur and my vision became blurry because the pure pleasure of eating everything was too much for my brain to handle.
-Frank's point of view-
I awaken, my eyes dart around the area. I was covered in blood.... Arthur's blood. 'Not again...' I thought. I then started to puke out some blood, but it wasn't mine..... Oh god... It wasn't mine... All the body parts, the skin, the intestines, the liver, the heart and the bones are all separated; all of it was ripped into smithereens and none of it was recognizable. It was all looked like a blood smoothly was spilled on to the floor and I was about to puke because of the smell, but held it back because Jayden is about to go through worse if I don't recollect my senses. 'I'll have a little chat with you later Night Shade.'
'Thank you for the food.' He said.
'You sick bastard.' I thought.
There was no time to think about the situation; I snapped my fingers to get the blood off of me and made my way towards the flight of stairs that were in front of me. In the middle of the stairs was a hole in the center. I walked into it, looked up and heard Jayden grunting in pain at the top. I jumped into the air and flew to the top floor to land on my feet.
Walking past the double doors, I see Jayden in a confinement like he was Mr. Incredible and he was looking bad. I looked around my surroundings, but there was a sudden flash and I look to see that a TV screen was flashing 100%? 'Oh no!' I thought. I ran up to Jayden, pulled the cuffs off, and got him into a sitting position while his back was on the wall.
"Jayden?" I asked.
No response, I felt his pulse and there was no pulse, "What happen to you?"
"He helped me with my plan." A voice said behind me.
I turned my attention to the voice and the guy who was sitting on a chair where the screens were at was none other than ----. Wait what?
"Well it's been a long time ----." I said, but the last word was mute.
"I don't go by that name anymore, but you can call me Despair." He said.
"Alright Despair, what have you done?!" I demanded.
I put my left hand on Jayden's hand were his cutie mark was and held it in place. I closed my eyes as I cast Star Swirl's spell on Jayden and when I reopened my eyes I stood up to face Despair. He merely smirked when I was slowly walking up to him and lifted him up by the collar.
"You don't scare me, I just killed your friend there to open a portal to mix your world with this one." He explained.
He suddenly disappears from my hands and I turned to see that he was next to a switch. This switch was connected to a huge tube filled with ice blue liquid containing moving pictures of Jayden from his childhood. I felt my right hand was pulsing and it was mentally connecting to Jayden.
Despair put his hand on the switch and continued, "Watch as this world crumble before you into a untamed chaos that Discord himself cannot control!"
I quickly teleported to where our faces were close; my rage was uncontrollable and I punched him away from the switch. I felt my left hand was now burning like it had an internal rash that I couldn't scratch. He jumped towards the screens and pushed a button. All the memories from the tubes started to drain into something that I couldn't locate, but I punched the tube and it didn't do anything. I got my right hand and make a Rasengan and smashed the tube into pieces. The Rasengan was still in my hand and it absorbed all of Jayden's memories into it. With this in my hand, I transfer it into my left hand which was still burning and the final phase was about to begin.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" Despair shouted.
I look at him as I pointed the top of my left hand towards Jayden who didn't move, "Crashing your party." I said.
A pure ice blue beam fired at lightning speed towards Jayden; he stuttered around and was let out gibberish like he was being put through electricity. I felt my 'Lunar' powers disappearing and it was being transferred into his being. Jayden's eye's open when the beam receded and stood up in a fighting position. I look at my left palm and Luna's cutie mark completely disappeared.
"Impossible." Despair said pointing at Jayden who didn't look too happy and continued, "HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?!"
"Dues Ex Machina bitch." Jayden said pulling the middle fingers at Despair.
Next Chapter: Wrapping up and something unexpected Estimated time remaining: 7 Hours, 2 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
In college it seems that all the instructors want to have everybody, including me, to have homework so nobody can't have any free time, but I fought through that shit so I can type this chapter. Anyway, that will be it because the collaboration chapter will have even more fighting! Spring break is here so I have some time (will be busy with family) to type the next chapter.