Tales of Illumination, book 1: Awakening
by Mondays Dawn
First published
Another HiE fic, or would it be a DiE fic... or mabye a HtG.. eh, whatever, pleasereadandcommentonit
(Formerly named "Code Black") (pic, title, and description changed on 7/17/12)
My name is Terrance Markie. After my family was brutally murdered right in front of my, I was saved, and now i am in a new world, the world of my dreams, the world... of MLP. This story is about my journey in equestria, and about what i have become in the process.
Chapter 1
A/N: Cloud Nova/MaDmAN12435 here, first of all, this is not my way of canceling my other fanfic “The Breach,” I just felt like writing something new, so I’m writing an HiE fic, in case you don’t know, this stand for Human in Equestria. Also, this chapter is the most violent thing I’ve made so far, in fact I’m a little surprised I made this so gory, but it was needed to properly set the scene for this character’s past, and I’d rather get it out of the way now than partway through the story. On with the story!
Chapter 1
-_Location unknown_-
‘Wha-where am I?’ ‘What’s with these chains!?!’ ‘Oh god, where’s my family?!?!’ These were the first thoughts which passed through my head when I awoke in a dark room, chained to a wall. I could hear crying from somewhere in the darkness which surrounded me, and the chains were bone chillingly cold. Then, a light came on throughout the room. After my eyes adjusted, the room I was in horrified me: the room was mostly a bright grey, that which wasn’t was red with the blood of corpses that filled the room. The poor souls had died in brutal ways, some looked as though they were torn in half, others had wounds that looked like the muscles themselves exploded, and a small number had the muscles completely peeled off, and their bones broken. There were bodily organs everywhere, from intestines, to hearts and kidneys, even lungs, you name it, it was probably there on the ground or nailed to the wall. I looked to my right and my heart sank, I saw my family chained up next to me; my mom, my father, even my little brother, who was crying his eyes out. ‘Well that explains the crying,’ I thought to myself bitterly.
Then, a door to the room opened, and a man (at least I think it was a man) wearing all black leather, down to gloves, and a black gas mask, walked in to the room. My heart stopped when I saw what he held in his hand: a WASP gas injection knife. ‘If my memory is correct’ I thought to myself ‘that knife injects large amounts of gas into whatever it stabs causing it to…’ gulp ‘…explode.’ The man first walked up to my father, whom right in front of, he pulled out 8 metal bands, putting two on each limb, 1 at each elbow and knee, and another at each shoulder and hip, all of them tightened to the point where the skin seemed to nearly break. The man then stabbed my father in the arm, and injected the gas, causing his forearm to explode, blood got on my face, as I was closest to the explosion, a scream of pain fell from my father’s lips as the man stabbed him eight more times, once in each area a band protected, and once in his chest.
The man then walked up to my mother, but rather than pulling out bands, he instead slit her wrists down to the bone, and pulled on the muscle, tearing it clean off, I was taking all my willpower not to vomit up what little I had after watching the previous death. With each large bone, he broke it and sucked on the hole, I assume that he was sucking out the bone marrow, either that or he has a REALLY weird fetish, when all of the limbs were mangled and destroyed, he stood up calmly, replaced the gas canister in his knife, and stabbed her head, causing it to explode all over my little brother, who was crying his eyes out. The man walked up to him, looked right into his eyes, and said, “I hate crybabies,” whilst stabbing him in the throat, the gas explosion instantly killing him.
Then the weirdest thing happened, spears that looked like they came from the “man’s” shadow, blood dribbled from his mouth as he looked down, this was followed by a large flash of light, which came out of the wall in the form of a ball. (Accidental rhyme lol)
I heard a loud voice boom “Well, looks like I arrived a bit late… oh well, I guess I will just give you the gift I would have given him”
“Him who?” I asked, with a curiosity which felt like if I didn’t know I would die.
“Who? Why your brother, I was going to give him a chance at life in a different universe, but as you’ve lost everything, and he is… deceased,” the voice said, who I assumed was the glowing ball in the center of the torture chamber, “I guess nobody would be mad if I brought you instead, isn’t that right, ‘Cloud Nova’?”
Holy shit, how does this glowing ball thing know I’m a brony? I thought to myself, and then it dawned on me what this being may be.
“Wait… are you… god?” I asked it, a slight light appearing in my eye.
“What? By Odin’s beard, man, how could you mistake a simple spirit for a god?!” The ball spirit thingy asked, obviously enjoying the compliment it thought I gave it, but slightly pissed that I actually couldn’t tell the difference.
“Never mind,” I said, “not important. Anyway, what was this ‘world’ you planned to send my brother to, and now plan to send me to?”
“I assumed you would have guessed by now, a world where you would have guessed by now, it’s a world you have seen a few times before, I believe it’s residents call it ‘Equestria,’ ring any bells?”
… Wow, I suddenly feel even worse about what just happened… I wonder if that has to do with the fact that my brother died right before he could have gone to Equestria… yeah, that’s probably it. I thought to myself grimly.
“I see, I accept this ‘gift’ you are so generously offering me,” I said, a mix of sadness and joy in my voice.
“Very well,” said the spirit orb, you know what, I’m just going to call it ‘wisp’ for now. Anyway, wisp then said, “I cannot change your form, but I can put you in any point of the world Equestria is in. Also, as I am not made of any physical matter, I cannot get anything you may want, so what you currently have is what you have, nothing more. So, where would you like to ‘land’ might I ask?”
A small grin crept across my face, despite my new depression, and said “I would like to go, to the edge of the Everfree forest, near Ponyville.”
“Ok, coordinates set, just to let you know, you will not be arriving as a pony, but in your current form, I know not of any ways that you could change, but good luck anyway!” Said the wisp.
Wait, I thought, I’m going as a human… shit that’s going to cause a small panic among the ponies… eh, I suppose it’s a decent price to pay for visiting the world of my dreams, I just wish my family could have lived so they could come with me…
“Ok, now, I wish you an enjoyable life, and a soft landing,” The wisp said.
Wait… Landing? I thought to myself as the world I knew and despised disappeared around me.
-_About 300 feet above entrance to Everfree Forest_-
When my eyes adjusted to a new form of light, it didn’t take me long to realize that I was falling, and fast. I immediately tilted my body towards the softest thing nearby, which sadly was a lake, straightened myself out, arms stretched toward the water and pointed, and, remembering what my swim teachers taught me, relaxed as much as I could to prevent injury.
I just hope this lake isn’t that shallow. I thought to myself bitterly.
I pulled out my phone, which I doubt would be of any use here anyway, and threw it at the water, which created slight ripples, which I believed helped to prevent injury. I then immediately hit the water, and broke my hand doing so.
I swam using my uninjured right hand to the edge and pulled myself out, I looked at my reflection to see that I looked the same as before I came here, same long black hair, same brown eyes, somewhat tanned skin, hell, the only difference was that my acne was gone. I then walked in the direction of what I assumed was Fluttershy’s cottage, which I saw from my good view of 300 feet up or so in the air a moment before. I walked with a blind hope that she could help my hand.
Sorry for the gore, I don’t plan on putting in any more scenes with as much in it. Also, I know, HiE fics are very mainstream, so what? I felt like making one, so I made one, besides, I don’t think that very many have done a DiE story yet (what this will become, I will tell you what the d stands for when the time comes.) I own nothing but me, oh wait I’m a minor… never mind! MaDmAN12435, Dropping out!
Chapter 2
Ok, so far so good. This chapter is basically filler. On with the chapter!
Chapter 2
-_Everfree forest edge_-
I slowly walked towards where I remembered I had seen Fluttershy’s cottage while I fell, my broken hand was a large hindrance, as was several bruises all over my body, I found that my right ankle was sprain, so I grabbed a stick to help me walk, the problem being that this made it slower, so I decided to leave the stick and keep limping there.
After a good 30 minutes or so, I managed to get to the cottage. I approached the door, tripped and… knocked with my face… As I lay there, pondering my existence, the door opened, and I saw that not only Fluttershy was in her cottage, but most of the mane six, due to the pain I felt, I couldn’t focus on what they were saying, just that there was some shouting about a “strange creature”… oh, I see, that’s me that they are yelling about then? I then saw a pony that could only be Fluttershy step out, and I fought through the pain to say “Please, help me,”
In response to my voice, I heard some surprised chatter from inside. Fluttershy looked at my body one time, and ran back inside, her eyes wide. Well, I thought, that was the last thing I expected, I mean; she is the element of kindness after all. A few seconds later, Fluttershy returned with a small basket of medical supplies, and began to work. Oh, I thought that makes a bit more sense than what I thought she was doing.
First, she began to try to realign the bones in my hand which had broken, it was painful, but I grit my teeth and lived through it, she put several sticks on the back of that hand, probably to keep the bones aligned, and wrapped it in a bandage. She then got to work on my foot, for which she had me flip onto my back, held my foot straight… somehow, and wrapped it in a bandage, but much, much tighter than the one on my hand, but I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to be.
When she was done, I stood up, leaning on a post, and putting all my weight on my uninjured, left foot. I smiled at Fluttershy, and said “thank you so much, I have no way of repaying you though, miss.”
Fluttershy looked at me, smiled, and said “Oh, it’s no problem, but I’ve never seen anything like you before, what are you?”
“A human, as for my name, its Terrance Markie,” I said, still holding a smile on my face. (which was starting to become a little painful) I’m surprised, Fluttershy isn’t being very… well, shy right now… what is up with this? I thought to myself, utterly baffled.
“Oh, I’m Fluttershy,” she said, and begun to walk in, “Please, come in.”
Is this really Fluttershy? I’ve never seen her act so… brave in the show, why here, is it because im not a pony, or a dragon? Meh, probably that, I thought as I walked in slowly, still with a slight limp.
Fluttershy’s cottage was exactly how I remember it from the show. My train of thought was interrupted when I saw several ponies in the living room: Rainbow Dash, and Twilight Sparkle. YES, I thought, whilst pretending to be emotionless, my 3 favorite ponies other than Derpy are here! I coughed to clear my throat, and said “hello,”
This then lead to everypony (wait… did I just write… meh, whatever) staring at me. I then heard Rainbow Dash say “Wait, it can talk?”
“Of course I can talk, why wouldn’t I be able to?” I asked, fake annoyance on my face, I wanted to act as though I knew nothing about them you see.
“No, it’s just we didn’t expect you to be capable of speech,” said Twilight, eyes wide as she stared at me, “and, while I’m at it, what are you?”
“My species is Homo-Sapiens, or humans, and my name is Terrance, Terrance Markie, and you are?” I asked.
“My name is Twilight Sparkle, and would you mind if I asked you some questions about yourself?” Twilight asked
“Go right ahead, I got nothing better to do,” I said.
“Ok,” said Twilight, “first of all, where are you from? I’ve never seen anything like you before in my life,”
I smiled, it was such an obvious question, I responded with, “Well, I’m from a different world, known as earth, the country I’m from is called the United States of America”
“Really? That’s interesting,” Twilight said, writing everything I said, and probably everything I did, in a notebook, “So, how did you come to be in Equestria?”
“Well, I was warped here by a strange ball of light, which said it was a spirit, if this is true than a creature called a ‘wisp’ teleported me here, as a second chance at life.”
“Wait,” Twilight said, suddenly stopping her writing, and looked at me, “What do you mean ‘second’ chance at life?”
“You really don’t want to know,” I said, “so what is your next question?”
“Well, I was hoping you would tell me about your people,” Twilight said, readying her quill and papers.
“Well, humans are an omnivorous species, this means that we can eat either plants or animals,” there was a slight cringe when I said this, “Although our kind can survive on just one. Humans have a natural instinct to fight each other, it’s sort of a flaw with our entire race. Many of my people are good people, but most of those in positions of power are often corrupted by the power they hold. My country itself elects a new leader every four years, although their leader is normally just a way for the entire country to pass any blame onto someone else. That’s really all that I can say off the top of my head, if I think of anything important later, I will let you know, anything else?”
“Well, there is one more thing,” She said, “You said your people have a natural instinct to fight each other, is it… dangerous?”
I sighed at this one, “Twilight, you have no idea, in the 2 wars my country is fighting right now, there thousands of soldiers dying every day. Hundreds more die from muggings, where someone will beat up or kill a random person, and take their money. Some people will even torture random strangers to death, like what happened to my family…” in the last sentence my eyes started to well up.
“I’m sorry Terrance,” Twilight said, “I didn’t know.”
“No, its ok,” I said to her, “In fact, I doubt I would have opened up this much with anyone else, thank you.”
On that note, I collapsed on the couch I was sitting on, and all was black.
I own nothing! BWAHAHAHA!
Chapter 3
To those who have read this so far, I thank you for reading chapter two, and not leaving after reading the gory end of Terrance’s family. On with the chapter!
Chapter 3
-_Fluttershy’s cottage_-
I awoke to something poking my side, which upon opening my eyes I found to be a white rabbit, whom I recognized as “Angel”.
“Yes? What is it?” I asked the rabbit… well, I guess I’ve gone insane here… I immediately thought.
Angel then pointed at the door, outside which Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy were there, as well as Lyra it seemed. Well, that will cause me to have to answer quite a few more questions I guess. I suddenly heard a small growl, wondering what made it, I looked around, then I figured out what it was; it was my stomach. In other words, I was really hungry. I then stood up, my ankle felt rather good, it seemed like it was not going to be much of a problem, my hand however, still hurt like hell, but it wasn’t as bad, I walked into what looked like Fluttershy’s kitchen, and looked for something to eat, quickly finding a few apples, and a banana. I ate the fruit in about 4 minutes or so, and walked back into the room I was sleeping in, and looked out the window, to see Lyra walking away. Good, I thought, that’s one less thing to worry about.
I sat down, and noticed something a little… odd, shadows seemed to bend under my gaze, upon small experiments with this, I discovered I could cause the shadows of small, inanimate objects to disconnect from that which it’s from, and change to my will, whilst experimenting, I made the shadow of a small ball be reshaped to be the shadow of a small knife, like a pocket knife. The moment my gaze left it, it went back to being that of a ball though.
After a small amount of playing with the darkness, I remembered something from right before that wisp arrived in the torture chamber. I began to change the shape of the ball into that of a knife again, and tried to make it come out of the ground, a sudden sound broke my concentration on the shape, and it all went back to a simple circular shadow. I turned to see what the sound was, and saw that the door was left open, and that the animals were slowly moving towards it, I then got up, and walked up to the door. Before I could shut it however, I noticed something in the Everfree forest. I exited the cottage, shutting the door behind me gently, and began to walk toward whatever it was that I saw, and it ran further into the woods, stopped turned back to me, and made a motion almost… like it was waving to me…, I remembered the feel of what I did before, I moved the shadows away from… whatever it was, to reveal a rather surprised looking Lyra. Who let out a small “EEP!” at suddenly being exposed, but other than that seeming to have her wits about her.
As I haven’t told anyone who I am, I decided to feign ignorant as to who she was, and said “Who are you and who did you beckon me into the forest?”
“Um…” Said Lyra, still a little confused by her sudden exposure “My name is Lyra, I have studied your kind, so when I heard there was one at Fluttershy’s cottage, I immediately went there, and they flat out denied you being there, so I waited to see you for myself, when I saw you in the window, I opened the door with my magic, and then made wide movements to make myself obvious, that way I could speak with you.”
“If they hid the knowledge of my existence from an entire town, how come you know about it?” I asked, greatly intrigued by this.
“well, as we were talking, I saw you through the window,” Lyra said, blushing a little with embarrassment.
“I see, now I thin--” I started, but was cut off by a loud roar to my right. I quickly turned to find a Manticore running toward me, I immediately focused my power on trying to solidify the darkness, as I knew I couldn’t outrun the damn thing, when it was about a foot away, it stopped, I opened my eyes to see poles of darkness sprouting from the ground, I focused again on my power, and another shadow came to life, this time in the form of what I presumed to be a javelin, which I threw with all my might at the manticore, striking its right back leg, and pinning it to the ground, oddly, there was no blood, even though it went through its flesh.
“Well, I guess it’s about time I run.” I said, beginning to run, and saw that Lyra was quite a bit ahead of me, Must have run when the manticore first arrived. Not surprising, that thing sent shivers down my spine. I thought to myself.
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-_area outside Fluttershy’s cottage_-
When I got out of the forest, I was immediately greeted by stares from the mane six, who were just walking up the path to the cottage. “What in the hay are you?” Said Applejack.
“Well, miss, I am a human being, by the name of Terrance Markie. Is there anything else you would like to know?” I said.
“Yeah,” Said Rainbow Dash, “Why are you running out of the Everfree Forest, last time we saw you, you were in Fluttershy’s shed!”
“Oh, that… Well, I saw something in the bushes on the edge, I went to inspect, whatever it was ran further in, I followed it, and discovered it was just that blue unicorn you were chatting with, I believe her name was ‘Lyra’ or something like that, then we were attacked by a manticore, which we both managed to escape, and now I’m here.” I said, completely leaving out any mention of my powers.
“We told her we knew nothing about you, how did she know about you being there?” Asked Twilight
“She said she saw me through a window whilst talking to you, Twilight,” Was my response, “what were you talking about anyway?”
Twilight sighed, saying “Lyra came up to the door, saying that she knew we were hiding a strange creature, and that she wanted to see it, so we told her we knew nothing about it, to keep your being here a secret. Then after about two minutes, she just randomly left, I guess now it makes sense sort of…”
Oh, “That makes sense,” I said.
“wait a second,” Rainbow suddenly but in, “You said you were attacked by a manticore, and your uninjured, how did you get away from it?”
I sighed, and said, “I was hoping to avoid talking about this, but I used a… power of mine to keep it away from me.”
This got everyone to stare at me again, “Wait, what power?”
“I may have the ability to create solid objects out of shadows, and reshape them to my will.” I said, slightly embarrassed at this.
“Wait, you can control darkness?” Twilight asked, I nodded in response, she then said “I think princess Luna might be a bit more interested in this than Celestia in this case.”
“True that,” I muttered, before saying, “So, shall we head back to the cottage?”
-_Back at the Cottage of Fluttershy_-
When we got back to Fluttershy’s cottage, I was pretty much forced to show them my powers, so I walked up to a small shadow, which bent under my gaze, I began to shape it to be a claymore, and then I bent over, and pulled the shadow blade out of the ground, the blade had a small hole in it, but that was my own choice. I then showed that It really did work as a material, I changed its form to a small knife, cut up some onions, garlic, and potatoes, put the ingredients into a frying pan, and cooked it, then I made my shadow into a fork, and ate my potatoes. By this point they were staring, and Twilight was writing a letter to Luna about my powers, asking what they were. In my opinion, she was probably asking Luna because her powers revolve around darkness as well.
I then got an interesting idea; I took two large shadows, and tried to indirectly connect them, like a portal system. After a few minutes of attempted creation of shadow paths, I made a small portal from Fluttershy’s coffee table to the area under the couch; it was a small success, but a success none the less. I then began to feel a little light headed, and collapsed into a path of darkness which appeared as I fell (like the ones Organization XIII used in kingdom hearts 2). I remember nothing else of that day.
HA! That’s right! I’m not telling any of this story from anyone’s perspective but mine! AND I OWN NOTHING! MaDmAN12435/Cloud Nova Falling Out!
Chapter 4
Hello disloyal fans! Or those who just like the story so far but hate me as a person, your welcome here too. Anyway, you’re probably wondering what DiE stands for, well, that’s a secret for now, and it shall be revealed when I decide to do so. On with the chapter!
Chapter 4
When I woke up, I was surrounded by what seemed to be darkness, a flowing, semisolid darkness. I remembered I had just discovered I could make passageways of darkness, I collapsed and… I fell in one. I then got an idea, I had always wanted to meet one of the OCs I had created, of course, if they knew that I created them, that may cause a paradox, so I decided that if I do succeed at this, I will not reveal myself. I thought of my OC, Cloud Nova, of the kingdom of Haven. If my memory of the world map I saw was correct, then haven was southeast of Equestria, but first, I had to find a way to walk on clouds. Then, I got an idea, and created an exit portal to a town north of Ib’Xain, called Ovisica. The darkness began to take shape, and I walked out of the abyss.
-_Street of Ovisica_-
My eyes took a moment to get used to the small amount of light that was left of the day, as it was what seemed to be sunset, unless the sun rises in the west here that is, I haven’t really paid any attention to that. I then found a dark alleyway, this made me smile, as I finally found a good amount of darkness, I walked into the ally, and began to condense the dark energy into a small, compact disk, which I could move with my mind, and reshape with ease. I modified the shape to that of a Jak II hover board, with spots to hold the foot in place, and tried it out Due to it being controlled with my mind, it wasn’t a hover board, just looked like one, it was able to float at any height, and move well over the Jak 3 jet boards “turbo” mode. I stepped onto it, it was solid, I made it rise a few feet, and moved out of the ally. By this time, the sun had set, and therefore, darkness was able to move out and about with ease, making this the perfect time to test the true extent of my power. I began to create small “dark thrusters” (think the iron man thrusters, but pitch black, and looking like a liquid) around both of my arms and legs, as I changed my hover board back to its basic size, and began to fly using my dark thrusters. Within a few seconds I could not even see the town I appeared in, I pushed my dark thrusters to maximum power, and could see forests and mountains pass under me in an instant, I stopped right before reaching what i believed I believed was Prance. I then created another dark passageway, like the one I accidentally used in Fluttershy’s cottage. I set the other end to be 400 feet above Ponyville. I sped through at amazing speeds, and a phrase came to mind: “light believes it is the fastest thing around, this is not true, ‘for wherever light goes, darkness shall be there first’.”
-_400 feet above Ponyville_-
Upon exiting the passage of darkness, I felt a bit, rejuvenated, I felt rather relaxed there, I then aimed all my dark thrusters straight up, and shot up at a speed beyond that of light, within a few seconds, I had reached the highest I could go without feeling too weak from oxygen shortage, and turned off my thrusters, replacing them with large, bat like wings (obviously also made of the darkness).
The feeling of the wind in my ‘wings’ was amazing, I had a new respect for the hang gliders of my world, I now knew why they do it: the wind in your face, and the adrenaline, I felt so much pumping through my veins that I started to bleed darkness from within myself! I pulled in my wings, and went into a plummet toward the ground, the darkness began to form around my face, forming a mask/helmet of some sort, I could see through it, I saw the darkness forming an armor of some sort all over my body, the wind was thin enough that could let it through the helmet and chest area of my armor. A second before I hit the ground, I extended my wings to their maximum length, and pulled up, landing on top of a tree, the sun was rising. My darkness was weaker due to the sun above, so I couldn’t do that again until the day was over again I guess.
I dismissed my shadow armor and wings, and pulled out my “Dark Board,” which, due to my lowered powers, was basically just the turbo jet board from Jak 3. I strapped my feet in, and jumped off of the tree, landing smoothly, and sped down the road, hoping to see as much as I could of the world.
After a few hours, I realized something important: the map I saw and so often used in fanfics was inaccurate, very, VERY inaccurate, by going south, I managed to find a border between Equestria and another country, even though my map said that the southern border of Equestria was at the ocean shore. Obviously, the map I used was outdated a few million years. Oh well, I thought, at least I found something new. And sped towards what I saw: a forest, a dense, thick forest, filled with raw darkness, not just simple shadows, in there, I would be able to use my full power.
-_Mysterious forest_-
(Yes, that’s right; I’m not even going to name this! And what are YOU going to do about it? ... actually, don’t answer that, I don’t want to know.)
The forest was amazing, as soon as I entered, I shrunk back to normal size my dark board, created claws and long fall boots out of darkness, and began to climb up the mighty trees that surrounded me, I was shocked at how well I had adapted to this worlds environment, it was perfect, it was-
*SCREEEECH!*
-…dangerous. A large claw just now raked the part of the tree where I was about to move to, and it left a rather large gash in the wood. This made me realize: this world was very, very violent when you consider the sheer power the beasts that are here, I mean, fully grown dragons that will kill for a small bruise, hydras that try to eat you alive (both things from the show there), and now, a freaking pterodactyl, which could tear through me inthalf a second with no trouble. … Well, I thought, I guess that means it’s time to find shelter. I then proceeded with a good drop to the ground, donned my armor of darkness and a blade, and searched for a good cave to convert into a home.
Yeah, sorry for making my chapters so short, it’s just I have a short attention span and… this is all I could make in a single sitting. Next chapter, the meaning of DiE is going to be revealed I think, although I may decide against that.
Hello disloyal fans! Or those who just like the story so far but hate me as a person, your welcome here too. Anyway, you’re probably wondering what DiE stands for, well, that’s a secret for now, and it shall be revealed when I decide to do so. On with the chapter!
Chapter 4
When I woke up, I was surrounded by what seemed to be darkness, a flowing, semisolid darkness. I remembered I had just discovered I could make passageways of darkness, I collapsed and… I fell in one. I then got an idea, I had always wanted to meet one of the OCs I had created, of course, if they knew that I created them, that may cause a paradox, so I decided that if I do succeed at this, I will not reveal myself. I thought of my OC, Cloud Nova, of the kingdom of Haven. If my memory of the world map I saw was correct, then haven was southeast of Equestria, but first, I had to find a way to walk on clouds. Then, I got an idea, and created an exit portal to a town north of Ib’Xain, called Ovisica. The darkness began to take shape, and I walked out of the abyss.
-_Street of Ovisica_-
My eyes took a moment to get used to the small amount of light that was left of the day, as it was what seemed to be sunset, unless the sun rises in the west here that is, I haven’t really paid any attention to that. I then found a dark alleyway, this made me smile, as I finally found a good amount of darkness, I walked into the ally, and began to condense the dark energy into a small, compact disk, which I could move with my mind, and reshape with ease. I modified the shape to that of a Jak II hover board, with spots to hold the foot in place, and tried it out Due to it being controlled with my mind, it wasn’t a hover board, just looked like one, it was able to float at any height, and move well over the Jak 3 jet boards “turbo” mode. I stepped onto it, it was solid, I made it rise a few feet, and moved out of the ally. By this time, the sun had set, and therefore, darkness was able to move out and about with ease, making this the perfect time to test the true extent of my power. I began to create small “dark thrusters” (think the iron man thrusters, but pitch black, and looking like a liquid) around both of my arms and legs, as I changed my hover board back to its basic size, and began to fly using my dark thrusters. Within a few seconds I could not even see the town I appeared in, I pushed my dark thrusters to maximum power, and could see forests and mountains pass under me in an instant, I stopped right before reaching the border of Prance. I then created another dark passageway, like the one I accidentally used in Fluttershy’s cottage. I set the other end to be 400 feet above Ponyville. I sped through at amazing speeds, and a phrase came to mind: “light believes it is the fastest thing around, this is not true, ‘for wherever light goes, darkness shall be there first’.”
-_400 feet above Ponyville_-
Upon exiting the passage of darkness, I felt a bit, rejuvenated, I felt rather relaxed there, I then aimed all my dark thrusters straight up, and shot up at a speed beyond that of light, within a few seconds, I had reached the highest I could go without feeling too weak from oxygen shortage, and turned off my thrusters, replacing them with large, bat like wings (obviously also made of the darkness).
The feeling of the wind in my ‘wings’ was amazing, I had a new respect for the hang gliders of my world, I now knew why they do it: the wind in your face, and the adrenaline, I felt so much pumping through my veins that I started to bleed darkness from within myself! I pulled in my wings, and went into a plummet toward the ground, the darkness began to form around my face, forming a mask/helmet of some sort, I could see through it, I saw the darkness forming an armor of some sort all over my body, the wind was thin enough that could let it through the helmet and chest area of my armor. A second before I hit the ground, I extended my wings to their maximum length, and pulled up, landing on top of a tree, the sun was rising. My darkness was weaker due to the sun above, so I couldn’t do that again until the day was over again I guess.
I dismissed my shadow armor and wings, and pulled out my “Dark Board,” which, due to my lowered powers, was basically just the turbo jet board from Jak 3. I strapped my feet in, and jumped off of the tree, landing smoothly, and sped down the road, hoping to see as much as I could of the world.
After a few hours, I realized something important: the map I saw and so often used in fanfics was inaccurate, very, VERY inaccurate, by going south, I managed to find a border between Equestria and another country, even though my map said that the southern border of Equestria was at the ocean shore. Obviously, the map I used was outdated a few million years. Oh well, I thought, at least I found something new. And sped towards what I saw: a forest, a dense, thick forest, filled with raw darkness, not just simple shadows, in there, I would be able to use my full power.
-_Mysterious forest_-
(Yes, that’s right; I’m not even going to name this! And what are YOU going to do about it? ... actually, don’t answer that, I don’t want to know.)
The forest was amazing, as soon as I entered, I shrunk back to normal size my dark board, created claws and long fall boots out of darkness, and began to climb up the mighty trees that surrounded me, I was shocked at how well I had adapted to this worlds environment, it was perfect, it was-
*SCREEEECH!*
-…dangerous. A large claw just now raked the part of the tree where I was about to move to, and it left a rather large gash in the wood. This made me realize: this world was very, very violent when you consider the sheer power the beasts that are here, I mean, fully grown dragons that will kill for a small bruise, hydras that try to eat you alive (both things from the show there), and now, a freaking pterodactyl, which could tear through me in half a second with no trouble. … Well, I though, I guess that means it’s time to find shelter. I then proceeded with a good drop to the ground, donned my armor of darkness and a blade, and searched for a good cave to convert into a home.
Yeah, sorry for making my chapters so short, it’s just I have a short attention span and… this is all I could make in a single sitting. Next chapter, the meaning of DiE is going to be revealed I think, although I may decide against that.
Chapter 5
GUESS WHOS BACK BITCHES! (Sorry, I just and a really, REALLY large urge to type that :P, besides, this story is rated M anyway, where’s the harm in a little bit of swearing?) I have decided to name the forest Terrance is staying in the Lost Woods. Anyway, on with the chapter!
Chapter 5
-_Lost woods, 2 days after previous chapter_-
Day 3 in the forest I now call home, ‘I’m surprised,’ I thought to myself, ‘I’ve already gotten used to this place, found sources of food, and even made a decent shelter out of a cave system.’ I was on my way to the lake from which I had been getting my water, this being my first time going there during the day. For some reason, the creatures of the woods were normally active at night, making water and food runs more difficult in the dark, even if my powers were at their max then.
Upon arriving at the lake, I conjured a bucket of shadow, walked up to the lake to draw water, looked down, and… screamed at what I saw. I stopped when I realized what I was looking at: my reflection, I looked completely different, my skin was white, my eyes, fingernails, and hair were pure black, I had white HORNS coming out of the sides of my forehead, and I had some sort of bulge in the back of my shirt. Said shirt then tore open, revealing a pair of pale white wings, similar to those of a bat, small black spikes were on the edges of where I assumed my bones were, both on the top, and on the bottom.
Searching for any other changes, I quickly took off my shoes and found one more, my feet had changed their new shape was rather… odd, to say the least. Each foot was like a bird’s talon, splitting in three directions at my heel, one directly to the back, and two going forward, each with, surprise surprise, more black claws at the end. All of the black parts of me seemed extremely sharp, I then proved this correct with a small experiment on the trees nearby, which, with a single flick of my wrist, they fell. Oops, I thought as the local, oversized predators began to circle around me, both on land and sky. “Oh fuck it,” I said “I’ve been wanting to test my power for a while now,” a dark aura began to surrounded my body. I fired this at the beings above me, knocking them down, I then took to the air, letting the dark aura burst out full power in every direction. This did nothing, so I powered my darkness into my legs and ran, all the whilst thinking ‘WHY MEEEE?!’
After a good twenty minutes, I had outrun most of the beasts, and slain the one that remained. Right then, I could have sworn that I had heard a slightly different version of “Darkness of the Unknown.” A smile began to creep across my face, which then turned into me laughing until I began to choke on the very air. I stood up, and took the meat of the one I had defeated, and used a dark passageway to get back back to my cave system… thing. Upon arrival, I hastily lit a fire, and began to cook the strange animal that had attacked me, I muttered to myself a small chant while I cooked the food, it went as such: “More heat! More heat! Tender, juicy, roast meat! Watch the fun, until it’s done!” (Yes, I just plagiarized Deltora Quest :P).
The meat of those creatures I soon discovered were more like that of a fish than most creatures of the land, both in texture, and smell, the taste, however, was similar to a combination of shrimp and beef. What I did not roast to eat in one meal, I dried into jerky, and as I was packing the meat away, I noticed something.
Odd, there seems to be a lump in the back of my pants, I thought, as I tore a hole in the uppermost part of my leggings. And I saw it, a small, thin tail, with the same white skin, and a puff of black hair at the end. I had now become a monster out of my own worst nightmares. I began to think aloud, “Hmm… well, as I’m no longer human, I don’t really need my name anymore. I mean, Terrance? I’m surprised my parents gave me that. How about… ‘Vintage Moon’? No, no, I’ll just shorten my normal name; I mean ‘Terra’ sounds a little demonic, doesn’t it?” I said to myself, followed by memories of my families “Untimely deaths,” and I felt sadness wash over me, I sat down, and did something I hadn’t done in weeks: I cried my heart out.
A few hours later, the last of the meat was done, the fire was out, and I was bored. I had modified this place to keep anything from getting in, other than enough light to see, which wasn’t much. I decided to visit those of Ponyville, after all, those whom I met before are probably wondering where I went anyway, it would be better if they didn’t worry. About me, I opened a path of darkness, and stepped through.
-_Everfree forest, height: bloody ridiculous distance from ground_-
When I exited the darkness, I was above the Everfree forest, surprisingly the same point I landed at before, and I spread my wings and flew towards the edge of the forest closest to the town, not wanting to cause a large problem, I decided it would be best to speak with one of them that I know, and opened a portal to Fluttershy’s cottage.
-_just inside the forest near the cottage_-
The pathways were really starting to get to me by this point, as I rushed through them as fast as I could; not wanting to spend too long, or else I might never leave, the darkness dissipates whatever goes through it, in simpler terms: darkness make other thing darkness. On the other side, I ran out, wings tucked against my body, I was still wearing the jeans I had brought, but my shirt was destroyed, so I left it in the cave. Not wanting to scare Fluttershy, which is a task within itself, I decided to give myself a small injury… on the head… with a large, heavy sledgehammer made of my darkness. Upon falling on her door step, I blacked out from the pain of both my new wound and the spot where I slammed into the door being the same. My last thoughts being ‘Why the hell do I do this to myself?’
Yup, DiE stand for DEMON in Equestria. It will be getting a bit… Hectic now, with my schedule, so now updates to this story are going to be rather random, just a small warning to you. Also sorry for the delay, I was out of ideas for a couple of days. MaDmAN12435/Cloud Nova Dropping out!
Chapter 6
On with the chapter!
Chapter 6
-_Unknown Location_-
Upon awakening, I noticed two things: First, I was in a normal, human body, and was no longer a demon. Second, I was in what looked like a cobblestone room, with a crescent moon embedded in an oak door near the bed. This obviously wasn’t Fluttershy’s cottage, so ever the logical being, I began to freak out. For some odd reason, none of my power would activate, it was as though I was abandoned by it. I ran to the door, and was about to try to slam it down. Then my brain began to work properly again, and I tried to use the nob… it was unlocked.
Outside the room was a stone hallway, small stained glass windows placed roughly 2 meters from each other. As I walked through the hall, I began to feel a sense of both calm and worry come over me simultaneously. I felt as though I had been here before, which was impossible as far as I know as I have no memories of being in a building quite like this one.
At the eventual end of the hall there was another Oak Door, this one had a mark that looked along the lines of earth. The door creaked open, and stood face to face with… myself.
‘Well’ I thought ‘That settles that, I’m insane, and I’m seeing things, now to close the door and walk away,’ and went to do just that, but before I could do that, he (I?) stuck his (My? Meh whatever I’ll just say ‘he’) foot in the door.
He said “Welcome, it’s been so long sense you were here last… partly because you have never been here before, but that’s beside the point. Anyway, welcome to your subconscious, I am your conscience, and I am honestly shocked you’re here, no living person should be capable of visiting such a dark recess of their mind”
“Well my powers ARE based around darkness,” I retorted, my conscience seemed shocked at this.
“Darkness? You really think your power is darkness? Shows how much you know. I’m getting off track here, anyway, I need to tell you that--” Suddenly, a large light appeared in the center of the room, it expanded, and I woke up.
-_Fluttershy’s cottage_-
I awoke again with a slight ‘Thud’ from rolling off the couch, and stood up; I was once again in the body of a demon, and that dream replayed in my mind. Whilst pondering its meaning, I noticed three things: first, I was once more in Fluttershy’s cottage. Second, I saw a gray Fluttershy standing over me. Third, she was holding a green onion quite menacingly (Japanese remedy for colds: shove a green onion up you’re a**, no seriously, that was an actual thing there, it’s scary). The third one nearly scared the brown solid waste product of the bowels out of me, so I jumped up with a slight girly scream, ran to the window, and defenestrated myself (defenestration: the act/art of throwing something [often someone] out a window, also the sport of kings in the sense only kings can get away with it), followed by a good run to the forest.
‘Ok,’ I thought to myself, ‘NEVER go there when she is discorded… wait… Discorded Fluttershy would require discord to be free again… well damn’ by this point I was sprinting, as my wings were bound by an odd material: it was a metal, very thick and tough, but light. From this I concluded it was either titanium or mithril, and as titanium should be impossible to make here, that left only one real option. ‘Think man think, ok, discord’s magic swap’s the ponies personality polarity, so kindness becomes cruelness and so on, so maybe I could remove that darkness from them?’ With this new idea in mind, I turned on heel, and ran back towards Fluttershy’s cottage.
Upon reaching the bushes at the edge of the clearing where Fluttershy’s cottage was built, I began to focus on what I could do to approach the cruel, sadistic mare. The main idea that came to mind was an ability out of Jak 3: dark mode invisibility, I began to focus on making light pass through my body and pants, after a few seconds, I opened my eyes, and found myself mostly invisible, I say mostly because I had an outline for some reason, I then tried to erase that as well, once I had done that, I snuck in.
Fluttershy had cornered a poor, sick deer in the corner, holding her green onion high, I quickly jumped into action, running forward, I placed my hand on her head, and focused on moving the darkness which was plaguing her into the forest. This seemed to work, as her coat and mane colors began to return. She dropped her onion, and feinted. You see, darkness isn’t like light, if you remove it too fast from someone, it may cause some harm, this was when I realized this for the first time. It had also taken quite a bit out of me too, I felt a bit light-headed, and began to assure the deer that it was ok, and that no green onion would be harming it now. The deer seemed to take my word for it, and left the building, leaving me and a sleeping Fluttershy. I picked her up in my arm and carried her to her bed, where I laid her down, and put a blanket over her. I then proceeded to walk downstairs and sat down; pondering the dream that still haunted my thoughts.
About two uneventful hours later, a sleepy Fluttershy walked downstairs, and let out a small “eep!” at the sight of me, which caused me to face palm, an action I immediately regretted as my fingernails cut my face, and I poked myself on my horns. I grit my teeth in pain, and muttered “ow,” as I felt a warm, wet feeling going down my face (Its blood, you sickos). At the sight of this, Fluttershy’s eyes went wide, and began to stare at me.
“Um…” I said, “Could I please have something to wipe up my… blood?” I noticed my blood didn’t exactly feel like normal blood, and was a bit grittish, I wiped what I could from my eyes as Fluttershy left the room, and saw something a little odd: my blood was pitch black. ‘Wow, that’s pretty odd’ I thought ‘I don’t think my blood is supposed to be that color…’
“Oh, um… right,” Said Fluttershy, who then quickly left the room, only to return a few seconds later with a white towel.
“Thanks Fluttershy.” Those words hung in the air for a few seconds, before the silence was broken by a loud crash outside. We ran… well, not ran, but more walked very quickly, to the front area, where there was a small meteor shower of small stars, each burning their way into the ground. My mind then began to stop right there, so I couldn’t tell you exactly what happened, but it basically goes like this: I picked up Fluttershy and ran, and I ran fast, mostly screaming “WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” for a large portion of the run from the stars. Their light counteracted all of my darkness, so I had absolutely NO idea what to do.
I began to try to get the metal thingy off my wings as I ran, I did this by not swinging my arms as I ran, and wrapping my wings around my left side to the front, I began to try something in sort of a “make or break type” idea I had about my dream, rather than gather darkness, I began to gather the light into a highly condensed, golden blade, which I used to cut off my wing restraints, nicking one of my black spikes, which began to secrete light for a few seconds, before going black again. I spread my wings and flew faster than ever before, headed for Ponyville, with a golden field around me of the light (still holding Fluttershy, don’t forget about her.)
After about a minute or so, I noticed that light takes a lot more concentration to maintain shapes of than the darkness does. In other words, it was taking quite some energy to maintain my shield, I was approaching the town at a good pace, and no mini stars seemed to be falling at the moment, so I landed right in a dark alleyway, put Fluttershy down gently, and said “What has happened while I was gone?”
-_Ponyville_-
Fluttershy gave me a look of confusion that basically said, “Who are you?” To which I nearly face palmed again.
“It’s me, Terrance!” I said, thereby confusing Fluttershy even more, but before she could ask anything, I quickly explained what I knew, which was that my powers had changed my shape into that of a being that resides in darkness, and that I recently discovered my abilities also control light. It then somehow turned into me telling her how I came to be here, as that was when I first used my power, by the end of which I was nearly to tears.
By the end of my lecture, Fluttershy had a look of shock, sadness, and care. She pulled me into a hug with her wings, and softly murmured into my ear “It’s alright, its ok to cry, let it out,” as I sobbed into her… I think it’s a shoulder, no way to know for sure I think.
I haven’t fully decided on where to go after this mini ark, mostly because I don’t plan anything! I would love a couple good suggestions, please leave one in the comments. MaDmAN12435/Cloud Nova Falling out.
P.S. I used to create clever jokes, but then I took an arrow to the right frontal lobe of the brain.
Chapter 7
Ok, the basics of this ark have been set up for me, and the request for you to recommend things is on what I should do after, I just realized how vague I made it sound, sorry. Anyway, on with the chapter!
Chapter 7
I have no idea how long I cried into Fluttershy’s shoulder, but when I was done, I felt better, more in control of my body.
I began to try to focus on solidifying the light again, as I had done before. This time however, I was working with both the light AND the darkness, simultaneously, to create a sword, its curved handle and the symbols carved into the blade were made from the cold of the darkness, whilst the blade and spike at the end of the handle were made with the burning heat of the sun (if you lived in Saudi Arabia, you would know what I mean), its blade was curved as well, roughly shaped as a scimitar, with the OFFICAL transmutation symbols for creation, light, and darkness embedded in the sides (the official ones are not the ones from full metal alchemist).
“Now that is a good blade, no weight at all!” I said whilst giving it a few test-swings, I slowed down before saying the next part, “now I just need to learn how to use a sword. You know, while I’m at it…” I then created a spear with a dark shaft and a lighted spearhead, a mace and morning star which the smashy bits and chains were light, and the handles were darkness, a dark bow and arrows with light arrowheads, and finally, a suit of semisolid dark armor which would technically be light armor, as it has no weight. After creating this arsenal, I noticed my tail was gone, and my wings were a little smaller in size. Ignoring this, I turned to Fluttershy.
“If you don’t mind, I would like to guess what’s happening, Discord has escaped yet again, right?” Fluttershy nodded. “Ok, do we have any idea where he is?” Fluttershy shook her head, “Well that’s a problem… Eh, I’m sure we will find him eventually if we just wander about.” Fluttershy’s eyes widened almost as much as when I explained the ‘untimely demise’ of my entire family.
“Wait,” Fluttershy said, “we're going to be l-looking for Discord?!” as I began putting on my armor and condensing my weapons.
“Not we, I.”
“Why?” a small amount of malice gleamed in my eye.
“I plan to put an end to this in a way that most wouldn’t wish on their worst enemy!” I said as I strapped on a belt of darkness with all of my weapons on it, now fully armored. She gulped.
“What do you mean ‘wouldn’t wish on their worst enemy’?”
“That’s obvious,” The air around me darkened as I created a portal to Ponyville center and said “Death” as I entered the pathway, closing it behind me as I heard “wha-” and then all sound stopped as my unnatural darkness exited that part of the world.
-_Ponyville Town Center roof spike_-
I exited the darkness with the utmost caution, if it weren’t night, my black armor would have stood out like a sore thumb. I quickly began my search for the rest of the main six, I found 2 of them almost immediately, first I found a semi grey Rainbow Dash looking very, very nervous atop a cloud, second was a pure grey Pinkie Pie beating the crap out of several ponies in the street, I decided to go after pinkie first.
I dropped from the roof on my dark board, which I added a small orb of light at the bottom of it, for propulsion purposes, and floated right above Pinkie, I then removed my board from the immediate area, and dropped on the currently grey pony, and focused on removing the darkness from her, I could feel my wings get smaller again, and Pinkie turned… well, pink, what other color would she become? She then turned, saw me in my “shade” armor, gave off a large gasp, and ran off. My shade armor is semisolid darkness wrapped around the entire body and is about as thin as a pair of jeans, and is shaped rather violently, with spikes coming out of a great many parts, so she probably didn’t know it was me inside.
I decided it would be easier to get Rainbow Dash if I had some help, so she is last. I had already “freed” Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy, so that leaves Applejack, Rarity, and Twilight. Twilight has the strongest magic, but if she is discorded, then she will be magically weakened, so I decided to go after her next. I walked to the library to find a note on the door, it said the following:
To whoever read this,
We apologize for the inconvenience, but due to certain circumstances which shall not be named, the Ponyville library is closed until further notice.
‘Well damn’ I thought to myself as I removed my scimitar, which I dub “AngelBane”, ‘guess I have to “break” in.’ and began to cut through the wall, only for it to explode on contact with my blade, I managed to get a shield up fast enough that It stopped the majotity of the force from the blast, but I still got enough to launch me across the road. I got up and ran back to the semi-destroyed library, and looked inside, I could see that all the books in the room were safe, and there was a familiar orb of light in the center of the room; the wisp was floating there, calmly generating its warm light, which melted all my dark armor and items, I removed all my light items at will, and approached it.
“Well, it’s certainly been a while, hasn’t it?” I asked it. It has no emotion from what I could tell so far, as it had to face, or body, and its voice was void.
“Indeed, I thought I should let you know what you… may have caused to occur in this world.” This interested me greatly.
“Wait, what could I have caused here?” my voice was less of a confused and more of a ‘tell me what you know!’ tone.
“Well, you see, when a being crosses dimensions, they cause large disruptions in all things, light and dark, order and chaos, magic and mundanity, and so on. The point is, your arrival sent out rather large waves of chaos, which could have awoke something from its sleep.”
“Let me guess, Discord?”
“not directly, no”
“So then what DID I do?”
“You awoke a being which replicated the dimension-crossing waves, and that caused a couple other humans to be brought here, for some reason these ones also got powers from this, and their not knowing how to use them properly is causing… disruptions that may have caused Discord’s power to be slowly escaping, within a few weeks he will escape if this keeps up.” The wisp said in a ‘matter of fact’ tone.
“Well why don’t you do anything about it?” I responded in a worried tone
“Simple: I’m dead, that’s why”
“Fine, spirit, what do I have to do?”
“Ok, well first of all according some… friends of mine, these people are constantly moving around, I assume if you just were to go around in a flashy way, they will find you instead of the opposite.”
“So, I am to make my existence as obvious as I can, right?”
“Yes, glad to know we’re on the same page here.”
“Likewise, one last question; why did you contact me now?”
“I knew you would come here eventually, so I just waited here, and also, only the 3 of your kind that are here can see wisps. Just thought you should know”
“Ok, well, I guess I’d better go find these… people,” as soon as the words escaped my lips, the being disappeared, and all my dark items returned. I re-infused my light into every one of my items, and created a small design of light on my armor, which was basically lines that went along my bone structure, making me appear as a glowing skeleton, I pulled out my dark board, which I infused light into, but am still going to call a dark board as that sounds cool, the light was basically a disc in the bottom, which left a streak of light in the air wherever it flew, I decided this was flashy enough for now.
‘now, first things first, fixing up the mane six’ I thought to myself. And went up the stairs, to find an unconscious, grey twilight. I removed the darkness from my hand, and put said hand on her head, and then released the darkness from her as much as was possible, her color returned, and I defenestrated myself once more, landed on my board and flew off, looking for the mane six and the other four humans.
I think that was a decent place to leave this chapter, anyway, I have midterm break this entire week, so I can update this a bit more often for a week or so, to those who like this fanfic so far, thank you, to those who don’t like it, but are reading just cause, please tell me why you don’t like it, and I will consider changing it, and no saying “I don’t like it because he isn’t a pony,” because that is ridiculous, he has the powers of light, and, by connection, darkness. MaDmAN12435/Cloud Nova Falling out!
Chapter 8
On with the chapter!
Chapter 8
‘So freaking bored,’ I thought to myself as I sped along the sky, leaving a trail of light behind me due to my dark-board’s “trail disc”. I had removed the darkness from each of the bearers of harmony but rainbow dash, which had somehow turned me back into a normal human, but they said they could take care of that, so I was left with trying to find those idiot humans who woke up discord.
All of a sudden, a large could of smoke appeared around me, and I felt something push me off my board. As I began to slowly fall to the ground, single syllable escaped my lips as I fell:
“FUUUU-”
I felt a… wet sensation all around me, I opened my eyes and say thati had landed in an orb of water a few hundred feet above the ground, I quickly equipped my dark thrusters and burst the water orb and floated to the ground, where I unequipped those and my helmet, equipped AngelBane, my shield, and my other weapons, and shouted into the area around me, “who’s there?” …no response… “Look, if you are there, I don’t want to harm you, and will only do so if you attack me, please show yourself, and I will un-equip my weapons.”
I heard a slight voice to my right, and created a small orb of light in that direction, I quickly saw a group of two humans. One was a female about my height and looked like she was of Asian descent, she seemed to be secreting smoke from her hands, her hair was an ashes white, her eyes I couldn’t see from behind a pair of goggles, she wore what looked like a school uniform, a white polo shirt with a crest I don’t recognize, navy blue slacks, dress shoes, and she had a black messenger bag. The other human was a man, about a head taller, and looked like he was of American descent, he wore a white shirt underneath a leather jacket, he also wore jeans, and skater shoes, he had a burlap sack over his shoulder. His hair was a neon green, and was sopping wet.
Upon sight of them I asked/shouted “What the fuck was that for?!” and began to rant about what was wrong with knocking me off of my board when I’m hundreds of feet off the ground.
The man cut me off after about five minutes, by shouted at the top of his lungs: “Shut up and CALM. DOWN.” I stopped my rant and just stared at him, I then pieced things together.
“So, let me guess, you’re the one who caught me in that orb of water and nearly drowned me, right?” I asked. He seemed a little insulted
“I only did that because SOMEBODY was falling to their death!” he retorted.
“Yeah, because it’s not like I have powers that allow me to FLY or anything, huh?”
“Both of you be quiet, I think I heard something,” said the girl, as her smoke wrapped around all three of us, and I heard her say “lie down, their near, don’t let them see you,” at this, I immediately removed all my light items, and kept just my classic form dark armor, and a black version of AngelBane. I heard something talking,
“Look, I don’t care if they escaped, what I’m telling you to find them, they are the only ones here, got it?” I heard a voice more like a growl say. I peeked out of the smoke to see some diamond dogs, I quickly set up a large flash of light a few miles away. The flash distracted the diamond dogs, who then ran off to investigate.
As soon as they were gone, I stood up and brushed myself off, and patted the smoke out of my outfit, I removed all my darkness based armor, to discover that my skin had gone white again from using just the darkness, and that my horns were starting to sprout out of my forehead again, and my hair was growing at an astonishing rate; it was already halfway down my back. I conjured a small dagger of pure darkness, and cut off my hair at where my neck was. I then dropped my hair to the ground, where they sizzled on contact with the earth, and evaporated into a black mist that floated up and dissipated in the air.
I quickly turned to the other humans, and asked “so, what are your powers? mine is Lumokinesis, or control over light and darkness”
“well,” said the man, “I can create and control water.”
“Ok, hydrokinetics is nice, what about you?” I asked the black haired woman in front of me.
She shrugged, and said “I can do the same thing, but with smoke”
“Thought so, so we are a Lumokinetic, a Hydrokinetic, and a Typhokinetic, are there any others?”
“Not that I know of, no,” said the woman.
“… Ok, one last question; what are your names?”
“Well, I thought that considering that we obviously aren’t on earth now, we could have new names, so I’m calling myself ‘Shade’ from now on,” said the woman.
“Well, if we’re going to go with that, call me Aqua,” Said the man looking at me, “And you are?”
“You’re going to hear it sooner or later, but my real name is Terrance, or Terra for short, but if we are coming up with names that have to do with our powers, call me Lumos.”
“So… now what?” Asked Shade.
“Well, we need to find shelter for sure, we don’t need to worry about a water source due to my power, either of you guys know anywhere?” Said Aqua.
“I could create a pathway through the darkness to my cave on the southern border of this country,” I suggested.
“Wouldn’t that take a while?” Shade asked, obviously confused.
“Have you ever played Kingdom Hearts II?” This seemed to confuse Shade even more.
“Yes, why?”
“Just think the pathways of darkness from that.” At this both Shade and Aqua seemed a little embarrassed.
“Oh,” said shade, who now understood what I was saying.
I then opened a pathway, with its destination being my cave, and handed them each a shard of my darkness, connecting them with a material similar to my hairs, and said, “Do not let go of this if your life depends on it, I made it so this will absorb all darkness that would instead flow into you. As for me… it escapes from me when I use my light-based powers.” They nodded and we stepped through.
The darkness ended at the mouth of my cave, which I had forgotten to barricade before I left. I turned around to Shade and Aqua.
“Wait here, I’ll make sure nothing got in,” I said, and, conjuring AngelBane, I walked into the cave fully armored in darkness and light , Inside I found that another of the creatures that had attacked me at what was my water source a few miles away had made this its den, it was alone, so i banished the light parts of my armor and sword, replacing it with darkness, snuck up behind the beast, and stabbed it in its skull. It was dead before it knew of my existence.
_-20 minutes later-_
I had finally checked the entire cave, and killed everything that had made said cave its den, and moved their bodies to one section with help from Aqua and Shade, who were both as exhausted as I from the heavy lifting.
“Ok, if you want any, their meat is actually quite good. You just have to cook it a bit,” I called to Shade and Aqua, who hesitantly began to try to make their own cuts of meat, Shade covering hers in willow smoke beforehand to give it a different flavor. After a few minutes of watching them stumble around trying to cook, I used a concentration of light to cook them all instantly, and we began to eat our monster steaks with cutlery made of condensed darkness, and as I said, it was delicious, think of the best steak you’ve ever eaten, now try to make it better in your mind. It was about 20 or so times better than any steak I’ve ever eaten.
After my meal, I proceeded to cook and dry the rest of the meat of the beasts, making a rather nice jerky, and stored a decent amount of it in Shade’s and Aqua’s bags, both of them had just work and school stuff in them, so we decided to just wrap it all in a small leather sheet made of the skin of the animals, and put it in the corner.
Once the meat was cooked, and removed from the skeletons, I began to use a serrated knife of the light with a dark handle to try to shape the bones into a position that would be decent for sleeping, the first two times I failed horribly, the third and fourth times however, were successful. I was now out of material for making the bone beds. This led to me telling the others I would be back… and going to a furniture store. I then stole a bed, three mattresses, and 3 sets of sheets. I then warped back with my loot in tow, and set up the three beds. The others were happy when I told them that I had beds ready, and went to sleep almost the moment they touched the mattress of their own beds, Shade was given the bed I stole, and me and Aqua took the bone beds. I then drifted into a black sleep once more.
You know, I just noticed, I’m always ending the chapters with him going to sleep now… meh, it works. MaDmAN12435/Cloud Nova falling out.
Chapter 9
Good morning/afternoon/evening/night readers, hope you have enjoyed it so far, by the way, notice how using pure darkness is what changes him into a demon, so what would happen if he uses pure light, I’ve already got a slight idea, but it needs some fine tuning. Anyway, on with the chapter!
Chapter 9
-_One week after last chapter, Lost Woods_-
A dreamless sleep, floating in your own mind without even a thought as to what it is, other than the knowledge that it never ends, even if you wake up. This is how my sleep had been for few days since I found Shade and Aqua about a week before. They had proven to be invaluable allies, and quite good at using their powers, so I know that they aren’t who the wisp was talking about, after confirming this, I told them about it, as well as what I looked like when I’m in my dark form. My hair had to be cut almost once a day to keep it from touching the ground, as it was growing faster and faster as the days went by, on day 4 we decided to use the hair that had survived it to make into a whip, as it was only able to be cut by my dark form fingernails, I decided it was a good idea to have some weapons that aren’t just energy, which is a point we all agreed on.
Our roles in the group had spread out as such: I was the hunter, and the cook, with some help from shade as apparently she was studying at a cooking school in France when she was sent here, so she knew quite a bit about edible plants and spices that could be found in the area. I also was the travel expert. Aqua was in charge of the water supply, and guarding the cave whenever I was out or asleep. Shade’s jobs were the following, if I was out hunting, and something important happened, she was to let me know by sending a large cloud of smoke into the air in a spiral. She also had to find edible herbs and other plants for us to eat.
Due to our powers, we had no reason to make fires, as I could warm anything with my light, or go on runs to the rivers or lakes in the forest thanks to Aqua’s power, which almost always had horrible creatures sitting there, waiting for some stupid animal to walk under them. Also, thanks to the animals that had inhabited the cave upon our arrival being covered in meat and almost no fat, we rarely had to go for much food, other than the plants that are required for survival.
I had been practicing to use my light powers most of the time, and also searching for the other two humans; I never told Aqua and Shade much about it, only that I was ordered by the being that brought me, and therefore them, to this world to find the four humans that had crossed by mistake. If I told them about them accidentally awakening an elder god of chaos, they would likely freak out. If that happened.
So anyway, on this particular day, after I was done practicing with my powers, I felt a bit odd, and everything looked a little brighter than it normally was, yes we were in a world based off a cartoon for little girls, but even for that it seemed bright, I ran to the nearest body of water, a lake, and splashed some cold water on my face, when I saw my reflection, I couldn’t believe it.
I had another form! My skin was pale, but not quite white, my hair had turned a sky blue, my eyes were glowing white, my feet were normal as far as I could tell. I also had large white bird wings. I assumed this was from using just the light, and decided to see what my new form could do.
As I focused on the light, I felt sudden bursts of pain throughout my entire body, and a bright light secreted from the pores, turning into crackling electricity upon contact with the air, still a brilliant white.
I focused this “lightning” into my arm, and tried to do what I had seen done in the InFamous games, I tried to make a electric grenade. I failed and it exploded instantly, so I instead tried just shooting small bolts of lightning at a nearby tree, it left a hole roughly the size of my fist into the tree I began trying tricks, like making them ark, this did not work either, and they just went in an unpredictable direction when they did turn. I decided I would work on this another time, and tried a few other things, including shooting volts of light from my eyes, which led to a bit of blood coming from my eyes, but I personally think it was worth it. I had an eye beam! This got me thinking about what else along those lines I could do, I held up both my hands, and began to test different amounts of light, and how much I could channel at a time, this led to me being propelled at a very high speed through the air, and oddly enough, out of the woods I called home.
I quickly turned myself around and opened my wings, soaring upwards, I then crashed into a rather confused looking bird, which flew off squawking in a distressed tone. I ignored this bird and continued over the lush green fields of the world, and eventually decided to land to catch my breath in a nearby tree. At the last second I recognized it as a maple tree and curved up, and landed a few feet away from it, as I had no plans for being covered in the sweet sap. I made a mental note of the location in case I ever wanted some decent syrup.
It took me a few seconds after nearly hitting the tree to realize that I had no control over where I was going, and that my body was moving on its own. I could have blamed it on that explosion making me fly on instinct, but that’s a pathetic excuse. I then began to wonder why what I saw was going a little red, I couldn’t hear anything from around me, and everything was moving too fast for me to see... ‘oh shi-’ I thought as I burst into flame from moving so fast, whats weird is I felt no pain, and it didn’t appear to be damaging me, so I let it go after a few seconds, wondering exactly how fast I was moving to burst into flame. This was heavily dependent on what my maximum velocity is, as well as air pressure, and--
My thoughts were interrupted as I crashed into a mountain, luckily for me, the flames blocked most of the force, and I managed to get just some broken bones in my arms and ribs, I began to flow my light into these areas, trying to heal them like in the game Jak 3. Surprisingly this worked out fine, and I was fully healed, the only difference was that my hair was now a pure white rather than the sky blue of a moment ago, and was getting in my face. I quickly reverted to my neutral form by creating a pathway back to the cave, I noticed that I could heal using my light when I was in my neutral form, by heal, I mean speed up the natural process, and dull the pain. This made the small walk slightly easier.
TIME TO EXPLAIN SOME SHIT! First: because I thought it would be a bit difficult to explain how his dark form looks, I delayed it as much as I could, but now, I’ve finally decided to explain it in as much detail as I can, click this link: http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/176/7/6/dark_jak_by_butterscotchwm-d3k07to.jpg now, add to this picture large, white bat-like wings, with black tips, change the hair to black change the skull to this: http://i.ebayimg.com/t/GIANT-RAM-HORNED-SKULL-SKELETON-STATUE-FIGURINE-FANTASY-/02/!Bkmn2-!Bmk~$(KGrHqUOKjcEs6mnmri9BLYO-TJw!g~~_35.JPG , change his outfit to a black semisolid armor, and give him a white lions tail with a puff of black fur at the end, and replace the dark eco electricity with a burning flame. If second link does not work, copy and paste it into the browser instead.
Second: My charictar was wrong about what his power is, His power isn’t Lumokinesis (control of light), its Twilikinesis, (control of twilight matter, [no, not twilight sparkle… I mean like in LoZ twilight princess the twilight relm, that kind of twilight] to create… screw it, here is a link: http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Twilight_Manipulation, be sure to also read http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Light_Manipulation and http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Darkness_Manipulation to understand what he is truly capable of), he knows none of this though, and will likely stick to what he does know until he accidentally stumbles across one or two, but I don’t plan on overpowering him, that would make it too difficult to come up with good antagonists, for Shade’s power, click here http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Smoke_Secretion, and for Aqua’s power, click here http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Water_Manipulation (he does not have ‘water mimicry’) BE SURE TO READ THE ‘LIMITATIONS’ SECTION ABOVE ALL!! Anyway, next chapter: we meet the other humans. Just thought I should say I’m accepting power ideas for the other two humans. MaDmAN12435/Cloud Nova falling out.
Chapter 10
Dear Readers,
I apologize for not updating sooner, but i have had a terrible case of writers block, and have had exams until earlier this week, so now i'm updating the story again, so as always, ON WITH THE CHAPTER!
P.S. i have now finished designing the light form's body, but shall not reveal the complete version just yet :P
Chapter 10
-_Cave home place that i shall now call the cave of origin, right after chapter 9_-
Upon exiting the darkness into the cave i call 'home,' I noticed it seemed a little empty. I shouted out for Aqua and Shade, when neither responded I walked/limped to the mouth of the cave, and saw 4 sets of footprints leading away from the cave, two I instantly recognized as Aqua's and Shade's shoes, but the other two were obviously human, but didn't belong to anyone i know, this left me curious, and utterly baffled, i mean we are the only hu-
Right then, my mind decided to begin to work, Oh wait, i thought, face-palming all the way they must be the footsteps of the other humans, who i think the wisp said... oh shit, are they trying to find others and force them to help awaken discord?!
Upon thinking this, i switched into my dark mode, and flew at my maximum speed (dark flight stabilizers ftw) right above the footsteps, to a point where they suddenly stopped, I looked around for more footsteps, or any sign as to which way they went. After a good thirty seconds of looking around, i heard something laugh above me, and i turned just in time to see a club hitting me in the face.
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(i recommend listening to this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7GWf3e_I3w [anypony know how your actually supposed to do it? cause I don't])
-_unknown location, unknown time_-
"Ugh, where am I?" was the first thing that escaped my lips when i awoke, i then remembered what had happened, and jumped up, opening my eyes to see where I was: i was in a cage, a few miles away from the mountain Canterlot sits upon. I heard a voice shout "Oi, Syth! The bastard woke up!" Followed by the sound of someone approaching from behind, I spun around to see a black unicorn, and a woman, with deep orange eyes, like two rising suns, she had silky, strait green hair, worn in a side ponytail, which i find a little weird. Her skin was a healthy red, and she was a little taller than me. She wore an outfit that seemed to be a bunch of cloths thrown together, and on her feet she wore ordinary sandals. I must admit though, that even though she knocked me unconscious, i do find her a little... i guess attractive would be the best word for the situation.
Upon her approach, i looked down, and immediately understood why i was in a cage: i was in my dark form. I looked up again at the approaching woman, and said, "Before you say a-"
"SHUT UP DEMON," she shouted at me, causing me to nearly black out again, oh, and my ears were bleeding. She continued with, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN THIS WORLD? IT WAS PEACEFUL BEFORE YOU SHOWED UP!"
"I could say the same to you!" I yelled back, "I'm not even a real demon! I just change into this form when i use my power! Watch." I then began to slowly meld back into my neutral form.
Upon sight of the start of my transformation, she drew a small knife from her back, and dropped into an attack stance. But slowly left the stance as she saw my wings fold back into my body, my skin color going to normal, etc. Then, i got a 'devilish' idea, and began to channel the light only, i felt a rather different pair of wings sprout from my back, white an feathered, along with my hair growing, which turned white from what i could see, wherever i looked seemed to brighten on sight, and i also grew a few inches taller. I looked at my captor, and gave a warm smile. In immediate response, she dropped to one knee, and said, "forgive me for threatening you, great one." This pushed me over the edge, and i began to laugh at the top of my lungs.
"Oh, that was worth it," i said between laughs, "I never said i was an angel either, but i sort of am the one who brought you here."
"Wait, what?" she said, standing up again "what do you mean you brought me here?"
"Well," I began, "according to the wisp that brought me here, my arrival created ripples between dimensions or something, those ripples woke something up, which created more ripples, which led to more cross dimensional traveling, which is creating more ripples, which are soon going to awaken Discord, and it dosent help that one of the four humans that were dropped here is TRYING to wake him up, the idiot. Does that answer your question?" She seemed a bit shaken by the last bit, but was calm, and ready to respond.
"Yes, but now i have more questions."
"Which are?"
"First: who and what are you? second: what did you wake up?"
I sighed, "I only know the answer to the first one, I am Lumos the human, my ability is the control of light and darkness, as you can see, my physical appearance is directly controlled by how much of each i use at any given instant." After a moment i added, "Lumos isn't my real name, its more of a code name thats based off what my power is, me and two others don't use our real names around each other, and you are?"
"you know, i never considered using a fake name, but I've used my real name enough that it would only hinder me to use a fake one." She fixed her posture a little and gave an overdone bow, saying, "My name is Claire. That's all I've used and it's all I will use. I am from Canada, and am religious, so could you please exit that body."
I looked down and blushed a little, seeing that i had forgotton to change back, as i reverted, i asked, "So, I'm going to assume that you have a power too, as everyone I've met so far has had one, so whats yours? Aqua can control and create water, and Shade can do the same with smoke."
She looked at me, and began, "I-"
*BOOOOoOOoM*
I looked off to the side, and saw a rather odd explosion coming from Canterlot in the distance:
Akward... i thought, Wait... that dosent happen naturally... i think, so it probably one of three things, one: discord has escaped, two: his power is leaking out in a rather amusing way, or three, it is a natural occurance, i'm going to go with the first or second one for now, and if it is the third... I shuddered, and began to focus on creating my dark thrusters, i added some light tracker discs to it, blasted open the cage i was in, and said a single thing before i took off for the city:
"Follow me,"
After note: I AM NOW A VEGETARIAN! In other news, i will for a little bit only be updating my stories on this site, and not on Fanfiction.net Anyway, next going to be a bit less boring for those who actually like the story. Madman 12435/Cloud Nova Falling Out.
Chapter 11
Dear disloyal fans, I apologies once more for the long delay in updates, I had some bad writers block. At least I’m posting chapters 10, 11, and 12 in one day, right? So... yeah. On with the chapter
Chapter 11
Terra/Lumos’ POV
As I flew towards the… odd explosion, I noticed it unclenching its fist, and trying to swat me away. I dodged easily with simple up and downward movements at first, but then the hand exploded again, knocking me out of the sky and sending me spiraling to the ground. As I fell, a single shout escaped my lips: “FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU---”
*whump*
Oh, I’m sorry ground, I didn’t see you there.
I rose slowly, trying to heal myself while calling forth my dark armor with white half spheres sticking out of the palms, AngelBane, and the rest of my arsenal, all my weapons -which were fully condensed to their minimum size which was only a little bigger than a switchblade- all hanging at my side, I immediately reached for my spear.
A scream of pain erupted from my mouth as I obtained an extremely painful headache, and a pair of broken ears, which I gripped as I fell to the ground again. This time, I looked around carefully before I got up, still trying to heal myself, with my ears as my top priority. I saw a man standing over me, he had a black bandana over the top of his head, wore a short sleeve black shirt, with blue jeans. He had eyes which… wait, are those ripples forming in his eyes? Oh right, descriptions, the “white” of his eyes were a pitch black, the irises were a sea blue, and finally, the ripples on his eyes, which started at his pupils, as well as the pupils themselves, were both white as a perfect cloud. Also his body was a sort of thin, bony build, but his muscles were obviously underworked, and were sagging a little bit.
I reached for AngelBane again, only for him to open his mouth, which created such a loud noise that my ears nearly broke again, I quickly grabbed my ears once more, and began to scream in pain, my vision was turning red from the blood flowing from my ears into my eyes, my screams began to dull as I healed my ears with my light, which is when the man spoke.
“Well, now that you’re done with the screams, I suppose I might as well tell you this: you’re going to die here. You see, the death of one of our kind is required to awaken the great one, and I’m not letting this chance pass up!”
My mind then went nearly into overdrive, asking and trying to answer its own questions ‘who the fucking hell is this guy? Who is the “great one”? Oh right, he must be the one trying to awaken Discord. What is this guy’s power?’ But all that made it out was “Who…?”
The man simply shook his head slowly, and said “I might as well grant you that,” Oh hey, no accent! That’s odd actually… oh wait he is still speaking, “my name is Carlos, and I am a sound master, and I could hear you coming from miles away, after all, with power over sound, one has great hearing, and a great VOICE!!” Shouting the last word so loudly that I believe it would have given the royal equestrian voice a run for its money, immediately breaking both my ears again.
This time, I didn’t heal the wound. Instead, I dulled my pain and stopped the bleeding with my light, hardened my dark armor, drew AngelBane, and charged, shouting “Onward and forward, to victory, and DEAAAATH!”
I charged forward, with AngelBane in one hand, a shield of light in the other, and a full outfit of dark armor. My first strike was aimed at his legs, but he opened his mouth, and my arm felt a sudden pain, and I could swear I would have heard a loud crack had my ears just now not broken. I made my dark armor hold the sword in place while I used my light to mend the bones as fast as I could while dulling the pain. My blade made a cut in his lower left thigh, almost all the way through, the man just grinned, and said something, but I couldn’t hear it with my broken ears, even if they weren’t, I probably wouldn’t have listened, I swung my blade again, only for him to knock it out of my hands, I then gripped my mace, and swung at the man’s jaw, knocking him to the ground. While he was down, I gripped my mace as hard as I could in my hand, and held it above me, ready to stop the man who had nearly awakened Discord. Only for another blast of pain to occur in my gut, only this time, it was a bit of a sharper pain, followed by a wet sensation covering my skin. I looked down to see… AngelBane coming out of my stomach, a warm liquid came up my throat, out my mouth, and flowed down my jaw. I then proceeded to fall on the other man, the blade impaling us both. I managed to convert all of the light energy in me into healing the wounds after dissipating AngelBane from me, starting with my life threatening wounds, then my arm, and finally my ears. A bolt of lightning struck nearby, and it began to rain… chocolate milk? As the rest of my strength left me I heard a maniacal laughter coming from above me.
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Clare’s POV:
The chocolate milk rain stung my eyes as I flew toward Canterlot. ‘Ok, let’s see, ‘ I thought as I mentally mapped out escape routes and how I would hide if I am seen ‘if I’m caught by the guard, I will likely be either tortured, or dissected for the sake of science, so I think I’ll take as much of an advantage as I can, ok, maybe… well fuck me…’ That last part was my reaction to what I saw in the garden, Lumos was lying on top of another person, a sword made of light stabbed through him, and a certain deity of chaos floating over him, laughing.
I quickly fell into the bushes, and began editing the gravity in the air around Discord, who immediately stopped laughing, and squeaked as he fell to the ground, leaving a two foot deep hole in the ground, in that way that’s shaped exactly like the character in a cartoon or something. I then floated him up again, and pulled his body in five directions with as much force as I could. Discord screamed with pain as his skin, flesh, and bone tore into many pieces, his grey blood flowing all around the area, covering Lumos and the other human, who were right below… wait a second…
‘Where is that sword, the one that seemed to be made of light? And that dark stuff that covered Lumos?’
I ran over to the body pile, and was shocked by what I had found.
I barely recognized Lumos. He had extremely long, Shiny silver hair, but that wasn’t what shocked me, he had two pairs of wings coming out of him, a large pair of angel wings out of his upper back, and a smaller pair of his white, and black tipped batwings coming out of his legs, folded in so they looked like a design on his pants. He also had his horns and tail, but his normal skin, and both white and black energy arced over his body in random places, but mostly around his head and chest, speaking of which, it had an odd symbol on it. His nails were Pitch Black, and about two inches long, like claws. I wonder, was he always this fit? He also seems to have grown a couple inches… height wise, not his… how do I put it… member, you perverts. Damn, why am I blushing now? I should hide him and the other guy, before the guard gets--
“Stop right there, criminal scum! Nobody breaks the law on MY watch.” (A/N: couldn’t resist lol)
--here… ‘Well fuck me…’ I was surrounded a matter of seconds. In response, I opened up a tunnel that went almost strait down underneath the bodies by forcing different particles of dirt and whatever this pavement stuff is away from each other, and jumped in behind them, closing it behind us to buy time. I then increased the gravity on myself to fall faster, and got in front of the other two, grabbing them, and then changing the direction of the tunnel to head at level directly forward. I wouldn’t have been able to see if Lumos hadn’t been glowing somehow. I don’t remember him doing that before, maybe it’s because he is in a pitch black environment… eh, whatever. I then proceeded to charge for the exit of the mountain.
Aqua’s POV:
-_ Meanwhile in the lost woods cave_-
My thoughts raced while I waited for the return of Both Lumos and Shade ‘I wonder where Lumos is right now? I saw him running full speed out of the cave, but where did he go? Not only that, but it was also right after I went to go out to get food, and now we have no way of cooking it, and he’s been gone for HOURS, I guess I will settle for jerky for now but still… ow! Bit my tongue… Why did Shade follow him? Should I have followed? No, no, it’s a good thing that I didn’t, after all, if we all went, who would watch the cave?’
A couple hours later, Shade returned with a rather fat badger slung over her shoulder, and told me she was nearly the “toy,” of a kappa, (A/N: if you don’t know what I mean, then for the love of your sanity, don’t look it up, I’m not mentioning that kind of shit here. If you DO look it up though, you might as well also look up the Popobawa [yes that is spelt correctly], and imagine if you met both at the same time what would happen to you. The least explicit way I can say it is it’s a real pain in the ass) at which I laughed, only to get a glare and a punch in the chest, damn she’s strong. Man, I hope that Lumos returns soon, it’s nearly been the whole day, normally he only leaves for a couple hours at most. May Luna guide you back to us, Lumos...?
OMFG I FOUND A WAY TO USE CLIFFHANGERS IN THE MIDDLE OF A CHAPTER!!!! Oh, right, the authors notes, here they are -v
A/N: First off, nice going Lumos, you did almost nothing to stop Discord, though you did stop that mysterious guy from living through it. On a semi related note, just because Discord has died, doesn’t mean he’ll never me mentioned again, even if he was but one bump in the road in the Tales of Illumination… Yes, that’s what I’m changing the name to, also I’m editing the description as well, and it’s not that accurate right now.
Lumos’ new shape is a plot device I do plan on using, how? Lol, I’m not telling you! On the other hand… still no
I apologize for my low writing ability; I will try better in whatever future there is for me.
Also in case you haven’t guessed it yet, Clare’s power is true gravity manipulation, she can make things heavier, lighter, condense objects, change the gravitational pull on objects, change the direction of gravity on herself and other things, causing flight (sort of), and in combination with Lumos’ darkness manipulation, can create a black hole, from which even light cannot escape.
Anyway, I will be posting this chapter, as well as 12 at the same time if I finish both before my vacation is over, thereby finishing part one of this story. In other news, I am no longer using my Fanfiction account after I finish posting chapter twelve on both, to those who have given me advice for what I need to fix, who sadly amounted to about 3 people on Fanfiction.net, and I think one of Fimfiction, I thank you for it, I will give names in the next chapter. MaDmAN12435/Cloud Nova falling out!
Lumos: Why did you have me change? I liked my old look!
Author: Well its… wait, how did you get in here?
Clare: You left the door open, stupid.
Author: not you too…
Shade: actually… we’re all here…
Pinkie Pie: Me too!
Author: God fucking damn it, I’m out of here.
Aqua: hey, where are you going?
Author: To write chapter 12 on a computer you guys ARENT possessing!
Lumos: Pfft, good luck, we’re on the internet, dude.
Author: … Touché. *sits back down begins to write* but I swear I will have my revenge for this.
Chapter 12 (Arc 1, ending)
Well, here we are, at the end of arc one. Any form of criticism and comments is welcome (trolling included, as I am one!). On with the finale!
Chapter 12, arc 1 finale
Journal entries of Lumos
Entry 1, Unknown day, unknown time
I get the feeling I should have started one of these when I first arrived. Oh well, better late than never, huh? How long has it been since I first arrived here? I think it’s been about two weeks now, no way to be sure, after the first few days I’ve stopped counting, When I woke up yesterday in the cave, I was shocked three things, first, by the fact that Clare had carried me back to the cave herself. Second, the fact that she killed Discord by tearing him limb from limb. The third thing that surprised me was my new body, I must admit though, it’s pretty badass. There is one small drawback though: I seem to be unable to change back from it. By what I was told by Clare, Discords blood was spilt on me and the other human, who I… ‘kindly’ explained was the one trying to awake the fucker. While the blood killed him, somehow it only changed my form… Maybe, I absorbed a small amount of his power? I suppose I could get back to you on this.
-Lumos the human
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Entry 2, unknown day, unknown time
Well, its official, I obtained a new power from discords blood, I can now make a strange grey material, I make it by fusing my light and darkness, like how I made AngelBane, only this metal I create cannot conduct electricity, I cannot unsummon it, I can’t edit its form once I’ve made it and for some reason, it reacts violently to anyone touching it but me. If you want to know what I mean by “violent,” I mean the only other person to touch it (Aqua,) obtained a nasty cut from when he wanted to see what the metal felt like. I have tried multiple things with this new material, and have so far made a new sword with it, discovered its roughly as hard as a diamond, and that they seem to generate magic, I have no clue how any of this works, so please don’t ask, but I now have a way of using magic! Tomorrow, I plan to test this shit out!
-Lumos the human
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Entry 3, unknown day, unknown time
Today our cave was found by the royal guard, who were there to arrest me and shade for breaking into Canterlot, setting Discord free, and stealing a bed, three mattresses, and some sheets about a week ago (end of chapter 8), at which I requested two things: the first was that they didn’t touch any of my metal things, and second was that I wanted to plead my case to the princess. They agreed to the second since I was coming along willingly, and as for the first, well, one of the guards wanted to see how good my weapons were, and nearly died, had I not stopped the blade by touching it. Note to self: make sheathes for my new items. Clare was also arrested, but for other things, grand theft, highway robbery, and burglary. Who would’ve guessed? I managed to hide my journal from them, and am now writing this entry in my own blood. Odd how it’s turned black as ink… oh well, either tomorrow I can be released after pleading my case to the princess, or this will be my last entry. My only regret is letting my family die on that day, had my powers awakened sooner, I could have saved them.
-Lumos the human
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Entry 4, unknown day, unknown time
Well, I was wrong, I’m not free yet, and I’m not dead. It turns out I’ve still got two days till my and Shade’s trial, which is scheduled right before Clare’s, which means I’ll be able to request witness to events of importance in the case, I have asked for a calendar, so that I could begin to put down the date and time. We are being kept in the maximum security section of the dungeons, but Clare, Shade, and I have cells right next to each other, and the food isn’t bad, and I haven’t had anything with hay in it, I guess that they listened when I told them we can’t digest it properly.
-Lumos the human
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Entry 5,
The guards found my journal today, turns out their fine with it, and even gave me a quill and ink, what nice guys, tomorrow is the trial, damn I wish Phoenix Wright was here right now… no, wait, he would probably be arrested here too… never mind. Not anything else to write about today, with any luck, tomorrow, I will be writing in this from the outside world once more.
-Lumos the human
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Entry 6,
Today in court, Celestia surprised me, she knew all about what had happened, and in fact just wanted to talk to me. I discovered that my new power was known as Twilikinetics, which is the control of a very specific kind of matter, which had a sort of “magic fingerprint,” or something. As for my new body, she confirmed that I had absorbed Discord, all of his power. She could not tell if I had absorbed his mind though. She claimed I had become what my people call a god of neutrality. Lol I’m like Guthix. Anyway, I did plead for Clare in her case, and even the princess was surprised that she was the one to kill Discord, and nearly threw up when she found out how. Anyway, we were put under surveillance by the elements of harmony, especially me, as she needed to know if I had truly absorbed Discords mind with his body. That’s all for today.
-Lumos, the God of Neutrality
Entry 7, Wednesday 12th, June 2012 5:50 PM
Today I finally found a calendar, and discovered that time passes almost exactly the same as it does in my world, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 12 months a year, etc. and that today is Wednesday, and the first day of my third week in this world, I promised I wouldn’t run off again, like I did the other times I had met them, our pairings for guardians were simple, as I could fly, I had Rainbow Dash. Shade, to her disappointment, got Rarity. Aqua, who I’m not sure how he got there, was paired with pinkie pie for no apparent reason, and Clare was with Twilight, Since Fluttershy was a bit of a pushover. That isn’t even the greatest part, the GREATEST part, is that I almost beat Rainbow in a race, although I get the feeling that this body could have beaten her had I better control over it, and had I used my dark thrusters. I don‘t plan on making another entry in this for a few days.
-Lumos, god of Neutrality.
P.S.I can stand on clouds, yay!
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Entry 8, Sunday 16th, June 2012 10:00 PM
Well, tomorrow we no longer have to be watched, but… I don’t know, I’m kind of getting used to it. I mean, getting to hang with magical talking ponies has a bit of an effect on you. I don’t want to leave, so I’ve decided to make myself a home near Ponyville, the ponies here seem to have gotten used to me. The only question is what to make it out of, a cloud house would be great, because I could move it at any time, But I much prefer sleeping on a rock for some reason, maybe I should ask if I can put physical objects in clouds, and if so, how. That is all for today,
-Lumos, god of Neutrality.
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Entry 9, Monday 17th, June 2012 11:58 PM
This morning, Rainbow found my Journal, and taunted me all day, until I made her read it, after that she was full blown laughing at it, also ive discovered that I, in fact can put inanimate objects, such as rocks, into my new cloud house. Speaking of my house it looks like utter crap in comparison to Rainbow’s Cloud Palace so far. Later today, I went to Twilight’s place to ask some questions about whether or not some countries, such as Vaporia, Evisica, Haven, and Canada, the last one I was joking on, but it turns out that there is a country by that name here, I then asked if there was a mention of a pony called Iron Blitz in any of her books, who, as it turns out, was in a history book that was being checked out, by my oc, Stormy Night, the assassin (twilight didn’t say the last part, but I already knew it, after all, she IS my oc.). This has given me the goal to try to find each oc I’ve made, right down to my ponysona, Cloud Nova of haven, who, if he is true to the history I gave him, is currently in Cloudsdale, and talk to each one of them, but before I embark on that, I must create my house, and find some form of a job.
-Lumos, god of Neutrality
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Entry 10, Wednesday 19th, June 2012, 7:45 PM
Today I finished my house, I had some help designing and building it from a few Pegasi, who I am now working for in exchange for the help, so I guess I have a job now too, I now do odd jobs for a group called the “Wind Reapers.” What they do I still do not know, but I know that it’s profitable, as I only need two days’ work to pay it off, and after that I make 100 bits a week I work 7 AM to 6 PM at one of their places, pretty much as a bouncer. I know all that matters to me: I know where, who, and what I am, I know what I do, and I know what I can do.
Just as Celestia is of Law, and Discord was of Chaos, I am the keeper of balance.
-Lumos, God of Neutrality
AN: Eeyup, he became a mother buckin Neutral god, meaning that he has to keep balance in the world; this includes creating very minor, controlled chaos to keep law from becoming too overpowered. In other news, I haven’t decided if the oc hunt will be something I write out or just an untold story between arcs. Until the next arc, MaDmAN12435/Cloud Nova Falling out.
May we meet again in the next arc
Author: I appologise, but the charactars could not arrive to say goodbye, they have just stepped out.
*A muffled shout comes from the box next to the author.*
Author: *kicks the box* well, bye! See you next Arc! That is, unless I decide to create a few filler chapters.