The Unexpected Adventure
Chapter 36: Frank Goes Berserk
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"As you wish." Night Shade said without my permission.
I've done a horrible deed once again. I made a deal with Night Shade and the price of the deal wasn't nice. The price for Night Shade to fight against the Doppelgänger(I call him Dave), he has to separate from my body by magic. He was so gracious to let me watch from his perspective as my own friends were being engulfed by the enemy.
Before I could say anything, Night Shade lunged forward. In a quick succession, he grabbed my friends hand and hoof to only pull them out of the silver prison. The Doppelgänger shrunk back into his normal size and turned to face me. His stare felt like he was staring at me specifically.
"So," Dave spoke, "Revealing your true self in order to save your friends?"
I wanted to speak, but I knew that Night Shade had control. "Frank is too weak on his own. I'm here for a rematch. I knew something was up when I defeated Chrysalis at the mall, but didn't tell him anything." He laughs, "I myself have saved up a whole lot of emotions from when the Earth ended and destroyed most of the population. It tasted amazing."
Dave smirked, "You think your power of kept emotions can defeat me?"
I nod internally which made Night Shade smirk, "I can count on it." He looks at my friends who are unconscious and back to him, "You're going down."
Dave laughs maniacally and lunges forward to throw a punch. Night Shade dodged down flawlessly and impacts his torso. Dave flies towards the ceiling, lands on the ceiling on his feet to only jump back at him. He just stands there, while Dave comes down at him face first. Then he hold sup his fist and once it touched his face, Dave split into two silver bodies.
"AHH!" Dave shouts in pain as he tried to reform his body on the floor.
Night Shade scoffs, "Your not even worth my time."
There was a gagging growling noise from the puddle and once Dave was into his form, his forearms and legs were blades. I could see his smirk as Night Shade pulls the sword that I got from Derick out of the ground.
"Interesting...." Night Shade spoke and waves the sword, "Entertain me."
The smirk from Dave was wiped off and I could tell that the steam was bubbling internally. Dave swung his sword, which extended towards my body. Night dodged once, twice and a third time until he got slashed on the shoulder.
"Huh, not bad." He commented on Daves attacks. He glanced at his shoulder where I saw black blood bleeding out of my shoulder. His attention turns to Dave and frowns, "I was having fun, but you ended it, let's get serious now."
Dave roars as he jumps in the air to throws several blades toward Night Shade. He deflects two blades and lets the other blades scathe his skin. I feel the pain that Night Shade had, it was excruciating, but it wasn't anything that I've faced before. I look away from Night Shade's view to sit on the cold floor surrounded in darkness. I covered my eyes with my hands as I tried to get away from this fight. I know I was ready for this kind of fight physically, but I wasn't mentally.
Then a little flashback of myself being beat up by bullies in middle school came into mind. I shook it off and focused back on what Night Shade was doing. He was sword fighting Dave that was slowly winning. He couldn't dodge the stabbing that it was throwing at him, the belly, shoulder, leg and thigh were open to the other side. I curl myself in a ball, trying to fight the pain.
'It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt...' I said to myself repeatedly.
~Why do you do this?~ Asked an entity.
The voice was male and gruff, but somehow it was relaxing. I glanced around the black area to find nothing, I blink to see a little light a few feet across my face. It had no form of a body, just a little ball of light like a fairy.
I gasped as another stab impacted into Night Shade, 'I don't know...' Then another flashback hits my head with the same bully that took the form of Dave continuously tries to hurt me with comments and punches me into a wall. No one bats an eye when it happen's, until a teacher pulls him off and takes him to detention. Though I knew that he would be back tomorrow to get me when he gets out.
~You're troubled by something.~ It said again.
I sighed, 'I hate being bullied....'
~Why is that?~
I cringe when I heard Dave roaring and stabs Night Shade in the belly. 'I wanted to be left alone. I didn't ask to be called names because of what I liked to do or how I wanted to be when I was a teenager.'
~Maybe I could help you some way.~
My eyes open to the light, "How?"
~Just grab me and let your worries flow away~
I look to Night Shades point of view to see that he was pinned by multiple swords by Dave. "I'm going to finish you off!!!!!" He shouted.
My attention turns to the light and I lightly say, "Alright, but tell me your name first." I could barely hear my own voice because on the other swords stabbed into the vocal chords.
~My name is Wrath.~
I smirked as blood escaped through my mouth, "Lend.... Me... Strength..."
~As you wish...~ The light hits my chest and my consciousness ended.
I was awakened suddenly to the sound of roaring. My eyes had blurry vision when they first opened and when I tried to wipe them with my hands, I couldn't feel them. Panicking, I tried to move my body, but got my neck moving around instead. I blinked several more times to focus my vision because the next thing I heard was Dave being beaten into a bloody pulp.
"GAH!!!!" He shouted as something impacted him.
I held my eyes closed to let in the moisture within my eyelids and opened them. I was able to see now, and what I could tell, I wasn't in the church or at the altar. For a second, I was able to see myself move past a window with my reflection. For what I saw, it disturbed me. My body was pulsing with a dark aura, most likely dark magic, my arms and legs were huge to the point where they're inhuman. My face was deformed by the sharp teeth that were poking out of the lips. I was a monster, no, I've become a monster because I trusted yet another voice inside my head.
~We are one.~ Wrath said.
"I can't move." I said.
~It will be over soon.~ He replied.
"YOU SON OF A-" Dave's voice was cut off by my arm punching him in a fast motion. This threw him across the town, I could hear multiple impacts of him going through ten walls. Now that I look around, we were currently in town and there was no pony insight. I sighed, 'Its for the best if they didn't see me.'
The monster that was controlling me moved forward towards Dave, my enemy, my bully. Though why do I get the feeling that this is wrong? He and others have hurt my life to the point where I couldn't recover and made me into an introvert. For a moment, the monster stopped when I thought about this, but continued anyway as it seemed unfazed.
~Having doubts?~
"No, just thinking."
I could sense that he smirked, ~Very well then.~
When we passed through the last wall, I saw Dave was struggling to form back into his normal state. Part of his body was slightly melting into the ground. Which was good, the sooner he's gone, we can get this done and over with. Then he started to laugh.
"Is this how I die? Does my kind die if they can't complete their cycle?" He laughs more, "Also, being crushed by something instead of someone is very cowardly!"
'Shut up.' I thought.
He stands up and points to me, "Frank, you had that power all along, keeping it to yourself and unleashing it to defeat me? HAH! Don't make me laugh, this is just pure fear! You formed these beings because of how scared you've become!"
"SHUT UP!!!" I shouted as it was translated into an ear popping roar. The right arm slashed through Dave, his silver liquid splattered across the wall. It didn't stop there, however, Wrath got close to the liquid and stomped on it multiple times. The grunts and yells coming from it was muffled.
"You think you can just stomp me like that?!" Dave shouted.
The liquid grabbed a hold of our right leg and crawled up towards our face. It was stopped when a purple beam struck Dave and us at the same time. Both of us grunted as the sudden pain strikes my head. Dave slithers down to the ground in his liquid state and doesn't move. Wrath turns around and my heart stopped when I saw Twilight facing us.
"Stop this fighting!" She demanded.
~She hurts us.~ Our body moves forward towards Twilight
"She isn't an enemy!" I shouted, but only heard echos. He came to a stop where our arms can touch her. 'Run Twilight!!!' I mentally shouted.
~Threat to us.~ He raises his hand and gets ready to strike.
"NO!!" I shouted as his hand began to descend towards her.
It was inevitable, though, she cast a shield around her and the hand was deflected. 'Thank Celestia.' I thought.
I could see that Twilight was crying, "You're scaring me, Frank. I can't bare to see you like this."
I frowned, "I'm... Sorry Twilight. I don't know if you can hear me, but I..." I choked, "Didn't have no choice."
Then Wrath roared and caused an earthquake around the area. Twilight screamed as her ears slowly were bleeding by the sound and couldn't control her magic to keep the shield up. Wrath threw another punch towards her, it shattered the shield and impacted Twilight's barrel. There was no sound when Twilight was hit and thrown across the floor.
"Twilight..." I said as she landed on the floor like a lifeless rag doll, "TWILIGHT!!!" I shouted.
~Target only down. Need to finish enemy.~
I mentally snapped at what he said and tried to get control. Wrath took a step forward, but I shouted with all of my might. "STOP!!" He did and before I was able to say something, I felt something go through our chest.
*SLICK*
"You thought you can take me out so easily?" Dave said from behind.
~Losing strength.~ He grunted.
I felt my arms were coming back and so were my legs. It wasn't much, but it was something. I moved Wrath's arm and snapped the blade off of Dave. I dropped to my knees and felt the blade, that was still inside, was melting into my blood stream.
"That was a delicious dark magic treat you gave me." He raised his arms, "Now to separate your personalities!!!"
'He can do that?!' I mentally shouted as the silver started to circulate into my blood stream in a quick succession.
The feeling of your veins being clogged and unclogged from a foreign object was uncomfortable and unsettling. The hole that was caused by dave started to expand. I felt my soul being tugged to the left and I knew what he was doing. It was some sort of mitosis and it was painful. The lungs burning for oxygen, bloodstream in boiling point and also I couldn't even move.
"Nice!!! It's beautiful!!!!" Dave shouted.
The left side of Wrath became smaller and it suddenly pulled me out in a quick matter. I landed on my body, face down and for a second, didn't know how to move. This feeling, when I was out, can only be described as being reborn. I felt slimy with red blood mixed with Wraths blood and I was naked. I turned around to see that Dave stopped the spell and Wrath stood there as he was split in half.
Dave sighed, "He was a great opponent, but it wasn't you. It was thanks to her," He pointed to Twilight who was bleeding at her head and barrel, "I was able to do one more trick and it paid off."
I tried to get on my feet, but I lopped down to the ground. The realization hit me that I could barely move and could only crawl with my arms. I heard Dave walk slowly towards me and I crawled with my life toward Twilight.
"Yes. Go towards your Alicorn dying lover and hold her in your arms as I kill you." Dave smirked.
I didn't say anything because I already made my way towards Twilight. As soon as I touched her, she was cold. I crawled up and put my ear against her barrel, there was a very light heart beat. Twilight felt my body touching her and she opened her eyes to look at me.
"Twilight..."
"F-Frank?" Twilight said groggily.
"Shh..." I ran my fingers through her mane.
"It's so.... Cold." She said.
"I'm here, Twilight, please stay with me."
"I.. Can't see you..."
Tears were coming down my cheeks, "Don't panic, your with me now."
I glanced down her flank and saw her cutie mark was fading I look at her and saw that her energy was slipping away.
"Please..." I pleaded.
"I love... you." She whispered.
I sighed as I cast my spell, "I love you too." I held my hand towards her flank and said the magic words, "Transfer."
Cadance's cutie mark left my chest and became the background of Twilight's cutie mark. The energy of magic that I had before, dissipated. Now I was cutie markless, I turned around to see that Dave was right in front of me.
"You sacrificed your cutie mark to save her." He lifted his hand towards my face, "How... Admirable."
I closed my eyes, "You can kill me, but you have to leave."
He nodded and smirked, "I have no intention on killing pony's." His hand formed into a blade, "Any last words?"
'Yes, I've accepted my fate of dying by the hands of this being that has the form of my past bully.' I thought. Then all of a sudden a blink of memories came forth, it showed the good times I had with my friends before I went into the fandom of My Little Pony. It was thanks to him... God, it was thanks of him I was able to become happy... I heard footsteps behind me and I could tell that someone was coming.
I opened my eyes with a determined face which confused Dave, "I don't think they will let you."
"What?" He asked as Jayden shouted and threw his scythe into him. "GAHHHH!" Dave shouted in pain.
"TAKE THIS!!!" Rayn shouted and fired a beam towards him.
He backed up but was caught by a huge hand. It seems that Wrath was still alive and was holding Dave into place with what magic he had left. My vision was interrupted by a cloak going over my head. I grabbed it and covered my naked body.
"You certainly how to tear everything out there." Jayden commented.
I scratched the back of my head, "Sorry."
Ryan shook his head, "No, we're sorry that you had to go through this and transform into something to save us."
"Again I'm sorry." I said as a bright yellow glow flashed in front of us.
It was Celestia, Luna, and Discord. The sun goddess immediately came to Twilight and read her vital signs. Luna went to Jayden to watch Dave and made sure he doesn't move.
Discord snaps his fingers and I felt clothing coming on me, "Honestly, Frank, what are we going to do with you and your darkness."
I looked at him and pointed to Wrath, "He's the darkness now."
Discord quickly scanned me with his red eyes, he and Celestia gasped, "What did you do?!" They demanded.
"Twilight got hurt and I transferred the last cutie mark to save her and Dave separated me from my personalities to finish me off." I explained.
Without a word, Celestia teleported Twilight away. It only just took a few moments before she teleported back and walks up to me, "Thank you for saving her."
'Even though I was the one who almost killed her...' I mentally thought. Then another subject came into my head, "Wait, why are you here?"
Discord smirked, "The energy that this Dave was putting out disabled our magic. That's why we couldn't even fight against him, but you did something to him that canceled his energy."
Then is came to me, "It must have been where I realized that I shouldn't let him get to me because he isn't my bully anymore."
"He was connected to your emotions and memories then?" Ryan asked.
I nodded, "That must have been it."
"YOU FOOL!!!" Dave shouted.
We turned our attentions to Dave to see that Wrath was holding nothing but a ball of silver.
"Your personalities are trying to take over my body!!"
"Shit..." I said aloud.
"What?" Jayden asked.
"A shit storm is about to happen."
"Fuck." Jayden and Ryan said at the same time.
Next Chapter: Final Battle And Ending Estimated time remaining: 55 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Some of you are probably are confused about what just happened and I'll explain:
A long time ago, around 2006-07, I was repeatedly bullied for just being myself and it caused my head to make imaginary friends(Night Shade and Wrath). It was really weird when I tried to remember it, it was all hazy, but most of my actions were made due to these two. It caused an internal war within myself and I hated it. It's also the reason why I've become an introvert.
Anyway, this stuck with me until the middle of 2007 and I made friends, actual friends.
As I moved to different places, Japan, England and USA, I made more and more friends along the way. The friends that I killed off were the ones who betrayed me and as I was writing this chapter, this war resurfaced.
This my fellow readers is the result of the war. It's still going on and will be finished when I get the last collaboration chapter done called Final Battle.
On the side, bullying is no joke.
It almost made me into a bad person, but it was thanks to my family and friends that I was able to get through it. If you know someone out there that is getting bullied, help them out.
Talk to them and cheer them up. If you make friends with this person, whether it's a male or female, the bullying will slowly subside. Tell them to ignore them and they will too, later on.
This worked for my friends and I, but I don't know if it's going to work with everybody else.
I didn't know if this helped, but I hope you guys understand that I've been through a lot of shit over the years.