Magic: the Gathering, Friendship is Magic -I think?-
Chapter 14: Chapter 14: Some old faces just can't stay dead
Previous Chapter Next Chapter“So Scootaloo has been kidnapped about ten minutes ago and the first person to go to is me, umm why?” I asked her. I let her in and gave her a glass of whisky, in which I had a opened bottle of from before. She scowled at me.
“She’s been kidnapped and that’s what you’re asking, why I came to you!” I shrugged.
“Well you’re the captain of the guard of Ponyville and you have a whole group of guards that you can call on, and I believe you have a way to get a message to Tia if needed.” Amber put her head in her hands and groaned.
“I do but I have no one as night duty, I sent a message to get some of the lunar guard to come but that will take some time and I don’t have a instant message to the princess., and I panicked I didn’t know anyone here very well and you’re the only one that I know.” I stared at her for a moment and pinched the bridge of my nose. I got up to get some coffee.
“I’m not trying to say anything rude but you’re the captain of the guard, I think you can handle some asshole who thought this was a good idea.” Although the fact he or she can teleport is was concerning.
“I know! Again I panicked, if it was anypony else I would be fine but this is Scoots, my little sister!” She looked over to the clock. “And besides I don’t have a lot of time, she needs to take her medicine in a couple hours.” I stopped and looked a Amber.
“Medicine? What medicine, she’s sick or something?” She shifted in her seat and looked at the half full drink.
“She’s… she has this rare disease that only affects pegai, it makes it that they can’t fly anymore and as they grow they start getting pain in their wings, she has medicine for the pain but doctors say that she won’t be able to fly, ever.” She put her head in her hands again and started to cry. I sighed and thought about it. Here was a mare who just had her sister who’s sick kidnapped and asking me to help her and I just question her why me out of everyone. Smooth asshole, smooth.
I looked at the blanket she brought with her. It was blue with a yellow lighting bolt on it. I guessing that she’s a wonderbolt fan. I went over to it and picked it up.
“This belongs to her?” I asked her. She looked at me with puffy red eye and nodded. “Right so I’m going to see if I can find her with a spell, it’s simple and I will know where she is to tell you.” As I said that I focus my magic and cast my spell. My vision went dark for a minute then it cleared and I saw that I was over my home. I shoot forward fast in one direction. After a minute I was getting to a set of mountains than I felt like I hit a wall. Odd.
After pushing for a bit I broke through the wall and continued on towards some sort of cave. I frowned at it. Uggg this place, I have bad memories of this place. Stupid zombie dragons.
I pushed on into the cave. I remembered it was like a simple big room place that can fit a dragon and then some. What I didn’t expect was a double metal door on one wall. I pushed through the door and saw it leads to a room with lab equipment in it and right in the middle of it all was Scootaloo laying on a table sleeping.
“Well, well, well, what do we have here? Some unwanted eyes that’s peeking into my lab. Oh no no no that would not do.” I turned and saw a man in a black lab coat. What shock me was his face. He wore a mask that only had one eye to make him see. He leaned forward and I saw that his eye was red.
“I guess you wanted to know where this child was. Well now you know.” He laughed out loud. “Come find me Jace, it has been too long since we lasted seen each other.” He waved his hand and my vision went dark.
When I could see again I was back in my home. Amber was watching me.
“Jace are you alright?” She asked me. I stared at the bleaket dumbfounded. Then anger as I slammed my fist to the table.
“That BASTARD! I thought I got rid of him a long time ago.” I got up and went to my room to grab my stuff. After I my stuff and change to my black trench coat and boots I walked out to see Amber looking worried.
“Jace what’s going on? What do you me you got rid of him?”
“It’s a long story that I can tell you on the way, it’s was a good idea that you came to me first.” I moved past her to the door.
“Jace do you know who took my sister?” I stopped then turn to look at her.
“Yeah I know of him and believe me that we should get moving, if we don’t then Scoots illness is the last thing she will be worried about.”
“So he’s something called a planeswalker and his name is Vlad, what does he wear a cloak and say ‘I vant to suck your blood!’?”
“Dear lord I wish, it would make things easier.” We trudge through the forest towards the cave of the zombie dragon. On the way I told Amber about Vlad.
“So other than the vampireish name what does this Vlad want with my sister?”
“Well like I said, he’s a planeswalker but he only focus on two mana pools, Blue and Black. He’s also a scientist and he wanted to know how to become an immortal.”
“So he research for a way to live forever.” I nodded to her as I blinked over some trees that have fallen.
“He research it and found a way, but something change. He then wanted to build an army to rule all the planes. He got close at times but there was someone there to stop him.” I frowned at the memory of the last time he tried.
“Ok but that doesn’t answer my question, why my sister.” I thought about it for a second.
“Well he wanted to build an army right, instead of summoning one he took anyone man, woman, children or animal and fused them with monsters.It doesn’t matter who it is we are all just a ingredient for his army.” I watched as Amber face paled.
“So he’s going to turn her into…” I nodded. “You said you stopped him before right.” Again I nodded.
“Yup, I killed him.” Amber smiled a bit, “About ten times, see this is why I hate immortals, they just don’t know how to stay down!” I grumbled a bit at that. I impaled him, burned him, cleaved his head in two, threw a spear into his heart, Ripped his heart out, made a monster eat him and threw him into a volcano, and making the volcano implode onto itself and STILL he kicking.
“So if he’s immortal, how do we kill him?” Amber asked. I thought about it for a minute as I used some magic to move some trees.
“That just it we can’t, if we straight up kill him he would just come back, I seen him locked up one time but that didn’t work. The only way is to find a way to take his immortality then kill him.” I raised my hand to her, “And yes there are times that people tried to do that but failed, he’s slippery.” We continued on until we got to the cave. I pulled her to a set of rocks to hide. I peeked over to see some homunculus and zombies and some that are a mix of the two.
“Well it seemed that he’s been expecting us.” I saw Amber pull out some knifes but I stopped her with my hand and told her to wait. I place my and to the ground and saw the black gem glow a bit. I’m going to get some nightmares later but for Scoots it’s worth it.
I poured the mana and summon my creature and waited. After a few moments there was a rat. Then two rats, then four, then eight then…. you get the idea.
I order them to attack and well let’s just say that a swarm of flesh eating rats is not a pretty sight to behold. I looked at Amber and saw her go green from the sound of screaming and squeaks. After a few minutes of nightmarish sounds we got out of our hiding spot to see that there was nothing but bones. I saw one rat gnawing at a bone.
“I really didn’t want to hear that.” Amber said as she place a hand on her stomach. “I think I’m going to be sick.”
“Black mana, it’s has the most messed up things.” I moved over to the mouth of the cave. I place my hand to it and felt a wall. I curse out loud.
“Of course he has a wall up, he never make it easy.” I dropped my bag down and looked at the moon. As I could guess it was around 4:30 ish in the morning. It took us about three to four hours to get here and it’s going to be a few more to get this wall down.
I pulled out a pen and paper and started to write a note. After I was done I rolled it up and using my magic I sent it away.
“What was that?” Amber asked.
“Our reinforcements just in case.” I looked up to the mouth of the cave. “There’s a wall here to keep us out, it will take some time to bring it down.” I said as I prepared for a long counterspell.
“How long do you think it will take?” She asked. I frowned.
“I’m not going to lie to you, it will take a couple hours at most, Vlad knows his shit and this is going to be tricky.”
“Can’t you just make a opening for us to get in.”
“I could but won’t.” Amber grabbed me and brought me to eye level. For a Pegasus she’s strong.
“WHY NOT, MY SISTER IS IN THERE WITH THAT MONSTER AND YOU WON’T OPEN THE WALL UP!” I looked her in the eye and put my hand to her’s
“If I open the wall up for one or both of us to get in then the wall with close itself and we will be at a disadvantage, this is his turf and I want a way out.” I place my other hand on her shoulder. “Amber I promise you that we will save her, just give me some time.”
She just stared at me for a minute then let go and walked away for a from me. I went back to my bag and pulled out something that I got from a friend from a while back.
A three barrel hand gun and man did she look pretty.
This thing didn’t look much but hell when it fires, it shoots and hits like a hand cannon plus with the enchanting I done on it can punch holes through anything, I call her Fate. She was coloured black with bronze lines along the barrels, at the front of the barrels were three dragon heads. Hang off the handle was a keychain with Odin's symbol.
I hold fate in my hand and walked over to to Amber and handed her the gun.
“Here you may need this.” She looked at me and at the gun. She took it with a shaky hand. “Careful, it’s loaded and when it fires it packs punch.”
“So what do I do with it.”
“Well I’m going to bring down that wall and when I do I’m going to rip this place apart and stop Vlad. If I don’t stop him you will shoot him, that will get him, maybe.” She looked at the gun and to me then nodded as I gave her my holster. I returned to the magic wall and got started to do the counter spell. This is going to be a long night.
PoV Rainbow Dash
Place: Cloudsdale, after the Rainboom and standing in front of Princess Celestia
I can’t believe that I did it! I just did a rainboom! Something that was said to be impossible to pull off. Sure I did it when I was younger but that was a fluke. But now I just did it again and saved the Wonderbolts and Rarity from falling. Now I’m standing here in front of the princess about to get my metal.
“To congratulate both her victory and heroism of saving lives, I give miss dash the junior flyers reward. Congratulation.” She handed me the metal. I looked at it and saw my face in it. It was so shiny! I turn to see my friends smiling at me. I looked around and saw Moonlight smiling at me. I felt butterflies in my stomach. Weird. I turn away and felt my cheek heat up a bit. Wait why am I blushing?
“Well I hope I will see you at the Grand Galloping Gala in a few weeks, I think you will-” The princess was cut off when a letter appeared beside her. She grabbed it. “Odd I made sure that no letter will come to me, how odd.” She took the letter and opened it. Twilight came up to me and looked worried.
“Princess Celestia what’s wrong?” I looked at the princess as her face went from normal to wide eyed to pale. She looked up at me and then around. I got a bad feeling when she looked at me. She tune to the guard beside her.
“Sergeant I want you to get as many guards as you can and prepare to head to the dragon cave near Ponyville, I will head on ahead.” The guard saluted and ran off. I looked at her and the note. What going on? Did something happen?
“Celestia what’s going on?” Moonlight asked. The princess shifted a bit and looked at her.
“Something has happened, I need to get there soon.” She began to move away. I stepped forward and grabbed the note and ripped it out of her hand. Sure it’s crazy for me to do that but I need to know what’s going on.
“Rainbow No! Don’t read it!” I ignore for warning and started to read it.Tia
Something has happened here. A filly named Scootaloo who’s Captain Amber Stream little sister has been kidnapped by someone I know from my past. We’re at the cave of the zombie dragon I told you about. Bring as many guards as you can, I don’t know if I could stop him but a few groups of guards will help. Come as fast as you can.
-Jace
P.S: Don’t tell Rainbow Dash about this.
I read the letter over again to make sure. The sound in my ears faded as I dropped the letter. Scootaloo has been kidnapped. That can’t be right, this must be some sick joke right? I looked at the princess and saw her not laughing and I knew that Jace doesn’t tell that many jokes. I felt someone stabbed me in the heart. I heard a gasp as I saw Twilight read the letter.
“Rainbow I understand what you are going through but I must ask you to stay here, it’s too dangerous for you or any of you to go.” Celestia said. I felt my whole body started to shake. Scoots got kidnapped and the princess wants me to stay here because it’s too dangerous. I faced Nightmare Moon and a zombie dragon and survived. I don’t bucking care if it dangerous, Scootaloo is in trouble and I going to help save her. I spread my wings and took off like a rocket.
I heard shouts from behind me but I ignore them and headed towards Ponyville. I heard a loud boom from behind me. I just did another rainboom, good I need more speed.
“Don’t worry Scoots, I’m coming and when I do this guy will pay for kidnapping you.”
PoV:Jace
After a couple of hours of figuring out how to take this wall down (and cursing myself) I finally got it and used my spell on it. I told Amber to hide. As soon as she hide I fired my spell.
The wall shined for a minute and then crumbled. I was about to go in until I heard the sound of laugher. I then saw a figure in a black lab coat and a white mask on.
“Ahh Jace it’s so nice to see you again, it been so long since we last visited.” He said. I grind my teeth a bit.
“Hello Vlad, still have that mask and coat.” I said to him. He chuckled at me.
“Oh you know how it is, everyone doesn’t understand it. Oh well.” I could feel him smiling at me. “So have you come here to consider the deal I told you about.”
“What you mean join you to rule all the planes.” I crossed my arms. “Yeah I’m going to pass on that.”
“Oh why not.”
“You’re insane, that’s why.” He stared at me and started to laugh.
“Ahahaha! Oh but Jace everyone is insane.” I shrugged my shoulders.
“Well your more so.” I frowned and watched him. “I came here for two things.”
“And those are?” I pointed behind him.
“There’s a pegasus in there, I want to know why.” Vlad tilted his head.
“Well you see Jace there’s these beings with so much power that could rival a god, I want them to be part of my army.” I frowned at him. “But alas I don’t know their biology and there’s only three of them and I want all three.”
He started to chuckle a bit. “Then I found out that they take on the traits of these three… pony races, then I had an idea, what if I take some of the other races and experiment on them and compare notes and after I got enough data I would then experiment on them.”
“You didn’t answer my question, Why do you have Scootaloo!” He looked at me and tilted his head to the other side.
“So that’s it’s name, well I have to start somewhere don’t I, I must admit it was almost a perfect specimen to work with, but it did have the nerve to have some illness, but lucky to be me to work around such a problem.” I grind my teeth. This guy is sick. “You did say that you have two reasons for being here correct?” I nodded.
“Yeah, the first one is the question and the other,” I pulled out my sword. “Is to kick your ass and save Scootaloo.” He just laughed at me.
“Oh Jace I don’t see that will be possible, but if you somehow do beat me, it will still be under my control.” I snarled at him.[center“You know, you talk too much.” He shrugged at me.
“Well I guess I can’t reason with you Jace, oh well,” He then summon some zombies and homunculus. “I guess you with just me another experiment of mine.”
I frowned at him and started my own summoning. I saw the black gem lit up as I summoned some Knights of Shadows and a Hell knight.
“My my Jace those are minions of black mana, you have change.” I snorted a bit.
“Well I don’t use black mana so often, only if I’m cornered or I’m really pissed off, and guess what.” I casted a fireball and hold it in my hand. It was burning black. “You really pissed me off.”
“Well than, I guess we shouldn't wait any longer, un guard!” He rushed me as his monster followed as I did the same.
My knights fought with his zombies/homunculus, and well it turns out how you think. I saw that some of his creatures having trouble with my Knights of Shadows, normal monsters can’t kill them since they were made out of shadows. One zombie tried to claw at a knight just for it to go through it and the knight cut it’s head off. I was winning for a most part but Vlad saw this and cast a spell. Whatever it did made it that his creatures can hit the shadow knights.
I fought with Vlad. I had my sword that glowed with a white aura and he had two bowie knives. We were at a stalemate, for a guy who preaches about him experimentation he knows how to fight with a knife. Err two of them. I heard a couple screams as two of my knights fell. The other two and and the Hell knight were still fighting strong.
“Jace you seemed to be out of practise at summoning minions, where's the Jace at can summon armies from hell to lay waste to anyone that stands in your way?” Vlad said as her parried my strike. I hate to admit it but he had a point, I usually can do better than this when it comes to summoning. I guess I’m maybe out of practise but I still have some tricks. I shot out a green spell towards the hell knight and saw is grow a bit. Giant growth never fails as I saw the knight kill two zombies, but I’m not done, I used the same spell on my left hand and fant a slash and got in close and delivered a left haymaker to his left side. Normally I would've sent him flying with that, but as my fist connects to him it felt like I was punching a steel wall. The hell was all I thought as he kicked my away.
“Nice try.” I heard him say. I turned to see that the other two shadow knight fell to more zombies. There was now seven zombies vs my Hell knight with a giant growth on. I smiled a bit as I saw the Hell knight burst in hellfire. Note to anyone who fights a hell knight, don’t fight one all by itself. I saw it took on the seven zombies and it took out three of them with one swing and another two with the back swing. It grabbed one and crushed it in it’s hand and about to turn as the last on jumped on it’s back and started to bite it. The Hell knight took it’s blade and plunge it into itself, killing itself and the zombie. I looked at Vlad and saw that he also took damage from the hell knight. Oh yeah it also does that as well.
“Well I guess I underestimated you Jace but now,” He snapped his fingers and ten more zombies appeared, “you are outmatch.”
I thought quickly and summoned five groups of rats. I heard Vlad laugh at me.
“Really Jace, rats you can do better than that.” I smiled at him.
“I know,” I plunge my sword into the ground and it glowed green. “OVERRUN!”
All of my rats glowed green and began to swarm. Fighting one rat was easy enough and not as scary. But a swarm of them and are empowered, that’s just down right scary. I watched as my rats went after his zombies and eat them to the bones. In the matter of minutes all the zombies were now just piles of bones and the rats were looking at Vlad as if he’s there next meal. In which I let them loose on.[centerVlad backed up a bit as the rats closed in and did something I didn’t expect. He bent over and I saw that something was moving underneath his coat. He screamed and something shot out from him. I pulled up a bubble and saw spikes hit my shield. I also saw the my rats were impaled by the spikes. I looked at Vlad and almost puked. He was not human, or pony or anything. He was some sort of mutant bug. He chucked a bit.
“Well I guess I can’t hide it anymore, well I was hoping to use you as an experiment but I guess I have to eat you now!” I watched as his form began to shift and grow bigger. After a minute of bone snapping sounds and clicking he turned into a bigger bug, mutant, thing.
“Hehehe, how do you like my new form Jace? I been, experimenting on this for a bit.” He clicked a few times. I blinked a few times at him.
“I think you're more messed up than before.” I blinked and got hit by him, it, whatever it is, it hurts. I was thrown back and hit a wall. I cased my fireball at it and hit it square in its chest. It didn’t flinch.
“Is that the best you can do.” It shot out something from it’s hand and grabbed me. Then for a few minutes it used me as a rag doll.
Then it threw me on the ground and stepped on me. I screamed in pain as few of my ribs broke. It leaned down that me.
“So Jace, any last words?” I coughed up some blood and looked at him, it, in it’s eye.
“Yeah, you look butt ugly, so much so that zombies cringe at the sight of you.” It stared at me and shook this head.
“Out of everything that’s what you say, I will enjoy eating you.”
“OH NO YOU DON’T YOU MOTHER BUCKER!” It looked up as a rainbow blur slammed into it’s head and made it back up a bit and off of me. I blinked away got to a kneeling position. I had trouble breathing. By the maker I hurt, I think one of my lungs has a hole in it. I uses a heal spell and began to breath normally. I turn and saw R.D hovering mid air holding her foot, hoof, whatever.
“Ow, ow, ow, ow, what the buck is that thing made out of.” She saw me and flew over to me. “You ok Jace.” I nodded a bit but scowled at her.
“What are you doing here!” I yelled at her. She just frowned at me.
“I’m trying to save Scootaloo and saving your butt, by the way what the buck is THAT!” She pointed at it.
“I have no idea, some sort of bug.” I caught the sight of Amber a few feet behind it. Then a plan began to form.
“Rainbow can you distreat it for a few minutes, don’t fight it just annoy the living crap out of it.” She looked at me and grinned.
“You got it, I hope you know what you’re doing.” ‘So do I’ I thought as she flew over to it. “HEY YOU BIG BUG! I BET YOU CAN’T CATCH ME!”
It roared and took a swipe at her. She dodge it and began to taunt it some more. I jabbed my sword and began to focus my blue mana. If it was normal size it would take no time but it’s as big as a giant so more time. I heard Rainbow yell and saw her got hit by it and loomed over her. It was about to jab at her but I unleash my spell. Blue chains shoot out and began to wrap around it. It couldn't move after that, and it gave Dash time to move out of the way. It looked at me and chuckled.
“Is that the best you got Jace?” I saw it glow blue and the chains began to break. I smiled at it.
“No this is, NOW AMBER!”
“WHAT!” It turned its head to see Amber holding Fate with both hands. The beast just chuckled “What, that’s it? What can that peashooter can do to m-”
It didn’t finish as Amber pulled the trigger. A blast came out of it the threw Amber backwards and she hit the wall of the mountain. The blast hit the beast and it screamed. At first nothing happened, then it started to glow as a supernova exploded out of it. The nova covered it and I could hear it screams from in it. After the nova subsided and there wasn’t anything there. No corpse, no bones, no nothing.
I casted another heal spell and walked over to Dash and healed her to than walked over to Amber who is still wide eyed.
“So, how you like her?” She blinked at me and handed the gun back.
“You weren’t kidding about that punch.” She groans a bit. Rainbow walked over and looked up to the sky. I turned and saw Tia coming in a chariot with some more surrounding her. I heard Amber gasp.
“Oh Celestia, Scootaloo!” We all ran inside the cave and saw the metal doors. I ran up and kicked it opened (With a giant growth spell as well). What the first thing I saw was the table with Scoots on it. I walked over to it and looked at her. She looked normal at least. I also saw some runes around her. Something Vlad had said came back to me.
‘If you somehow do beat me, it will still be under my control.’ Now I know what he meant. I curse out loud and began to look through his notes.
“Jace, what’s wrong? What’s wrong with Scoots?” I heard Amber Asked me. I found a page about the runes and I just curse some more.
“It what Vlad said to me, he mind fucked Scootaloo’s head so that she will be under his control.” I moved some stuff around to make space.
“But we killed him I think, that was him right?” Rainbow asked. I nodded.
“Yeah but he’s also immortal, he’ll be back, I don’t know when but soon.” I made a runic circle around me and the table and stood in front of Scoot’s head.
“Jace, what are you doing?” Amber asked as I place my hands on her sister’s head.
“Well since Vlad fucked up her head, I’m going to un-fucked it.” I began to cast my spell and my vision faded as I went into her mind.
So. Much. Rainbow. Sure Dash did say that Scoots were her number one fan but I didn’t know how much. As soon my vision return the first thing I saw was Rainbow Dash doing a stunt. As I looked around I saw more pictures of her doing more stunts. So she has a whole room dedicated to her hero, that’s kind of cute. I looked at the walls again. But WAY too much rainbow.
On one wall was a single picture of Dash and Scootaloo hugging. I have see a lot of stuff that gives people nightmares but this is one of those ‘Dwww’ moments. Below it there was a sign which said:
Rainbow Dash:
Hero
Friend
….Mother
That last one made me think for a second. She thinks Dash as a mom. Well she has been taking care of her for a long time I guess it makes sense. I found the door out (Which is also rainbowed) and went through it. I came out into a living room. There was only four pictures here. One of Scootaloo herself, another of Amber Stream. The last two were two ponies I never seen before. One was a Stallion with purple hair and cyan fur with orange coloured eyes, the other was Rainbow.
Well not really her. The mare in the picture looked like rainbow but she had orange fur, dark green hair and purple coloured eyes. Both pictures had a suit of armor beside them. They are also both pegasi. I’m guessing these are Scoots and Amber’s parents. I look at the mare and remember the sign in the room of Rainbow.
‘I guess she doesn’t just look at her as a hero.’ I thought. I continued on to different rooms. It took me a few minutes until I got to a door with a sign with Scootaloo’s name on it. It was dark and if I listened closely I could hear voices in there. I grabbed the door handle and opened the door and walked in.
There was nothing here. The whole room was dark and devoid of anything. I looked around and spot who I was looking for. Scoots was huddled in the middle(?) of the room crying as a voice bombarded with threats. I moved over to her as I began to hear the voice more clearly. It was Vlad’s voice.
“You will kill them all.”
“You are mine!”
“You are Nothing more than A Thing!” I frowned at the voice. ‘He sounds like a ray of sunshine and rainbows.’ I kneeled down to Scootaloo.
“Hey there Scoots, love what you done with the place.” I mentally slapped myself for that. ‘IDIOT!’
She looked up at me with tear stained eyes.
“J-Jace? Is that really you?” I nodded and she threw herself at me and hugged me. “Please Jace make it stop, make the voice stop!”
“I will Scoots, I will but I need you trust me.” She nodded as she sobbed into my shirt.
“Just take the voice away.” She whispered. I moved her in front of me and started to pour magic into her. I started to search for spells that Vlad placed in her mind. After some time I found them deep in her subconscious. I started to try to remove them but as I got close the room started to shake and Scootaloo screamed in pain.
“Jace! It hurts, why does it hurts?!” I looked at her and felt the spells and I cursed under my breath. Vlad knew that someone would try to get rid of the spell so he made them that if they were going to be destroyed they would send a backlash will go off on her, destroying her mind. I heard a laugh from around me.
“You think it would be that easy.” I started to rack my mind to figure of a way to get rid of the spells without hurting Scoots. An idea popped into my head. If I can’t stop the backlash what if I just redirected to myself. I place my hands and began to open my mind to hers. I saw Scoots look at me and then behind me.
“Jace, who’s the blue robed lady behind you?” I blinked at her. Blue robed lady? I turned around and sure enough there was a lady wearing a blue robe with a gold teardrop on her hood.
‘I must say, the idea of taking the the spells from this young one and destroying them is not only dangerous but it will leave you nothing more than a shell. Dead if lucky.” I frowned and looked back at Scoots.
“If I do take the backlash, would Scootaloo be safe?” I asked the robed lady.
“Yes but there’s another way, you could change the spells that would let her be under your control.” I narrowed my eyes a bit. That was a possibility. I could change the spells that she could follow me instead of Vlad. I would turn her into my puppet.
“If I do that I would be taking away her free will, she would be not be in control of her body, she’ll be watching the world as a passenger in her own body. If I did that I would be no better than Vlad, so if you’re going to ask no I’m not changing the spells, I would rather die then do something like that.” I began to move Vlads spells over to my mind and I started to hear his voice whisper in my head.
“You would rather die and let someone live then change a mind control spell, in the past you have used mind control spells on others.” I paused and thought for a moment. She had a point.
“I’m not going to lie about that, yes I used mind control spell to get others to do what I want them to do, I make them leave me alone and forget about events that happen but I seen so much in my life that make me no better than Vlad or anyone else.” I looked at he robed lady. “But she hasn’t seen what I saw, did what I have done so if I have to die for her to live than I would do so gladly.”
The lady didn’t say anything. I looked back at her and saw that she was gone. I went back to moving the spells over. After a bit I got all of them and I could hear Vlad’s voice as if he was standing beside me. I took a deep breath and began to cast some counterspells. I stopped as I felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned and saw myself. Well me if I was a girl.
“Sup” Jess said.. I blinked at her. How? “What? Can’t a split-personality that was made from a flower and blue mana can’t talk or help you.” Again I blinked.
“Should I even ask?” She just looked at me and then at Scootaloo and back at me.
“Just shut up and cast your spell, Vlad is starting to give me a headache.” I rolled my eyes and cast my spell. I felt the spells break and a build up of magic for the backlash. I closed my eyes and waited. One Mississippi, two Mississippi. I opened one eye and saw that nothing happened.
“What did you expect to happen, your head to explode.” I looked over to Jess to see her hand out stretched and glowed blue.
“Yes, it felt like a game of russian roulette.” I tooked some breathes and looked around the room. It didn’t looked like a dark room anymore but it looked more like a, cave?
“So kid you feeling better.” Jess asked Scoots who nodded.
“I don’t hear that voice anymore and I don’t feel pain anymore so thank you Jace and…” She gave her a confused look.
“Jess” She replied. Scoots nodded at her as I frowned.
“Hey Scootaloo,why is your room look more like a cave then a bedroom.” I waited for a moment and didn’t hear anything. I turned to her but saw that she disappeared. “Ummm that’s not good.”
“No shit sherlock, did you see what Vlad did to her?” She asked me. I shook my head.
“No, did you?” I asked her. My fight or flight sense was going off and it was saying to get the hell out of there.
“Jace I’m part of you head, everything you know, I know so how the living hell do I know something that you don’t.” I scowled at her. I was going to say something but then a giant roar came down from deeper in the cave.
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We turned and saw a red dragon charging at us. I don’t know if it’s mad or it’s hungry. I didn’t want to find out.
“OH SHIT!!!” We both yelled and hauled ass out of there.
PoV:Twilight
Place: Some lab in the Zombie Dragon cave.
We arrived at the dragon's cave two hours after noon and I saw the place a wrecked. Some weapons laid on the ground, piles of bones and blood splattered around, some spikes and impaled rats the size of a small dog in which I became nause at the sight. Fluttershy and Rarity fainted at the sight.
“What in tarnation happened her?” I heard Applejack asked. I turned to see what she was looking at. It was a giant crater in the ground. I got close to it and felt some sort of magic in there. It felt wrong. I turn and headed towards princess Celestia who was heading towards the cave.
“Princess, what happened here?” She looked at me with a look of worry.
“I don’t know my dear student but I believe we will get answers from my uncle.” I nodded to her but shifted a bit. I knew Jace for a couple months now but I’m still can’t get used to the fact at his Princess Celestia and Luna’s uncle. Wait doesn’t that mean he’s also Moonlight’s uncle as well?
We all walked into the cave (All but Fluttershy and Rarity) and say the metal door. There was some sort of glow coming from inside the room. The princess marched towards the doors and opened them and stopped. I came up beside her and looked into the room and gasped.
It was a lab of some sorts, it looked like my lad under my home but it was much more dark than mine. Both Rainbow and Captain Amber were standing to the left of us. Both of them had tear stains on them. But what made me gasp was what was happening in the middle of the room. Jace was standing over Scootaloo's head with both hands on her head. He was glowing like the time he went (and this is what he said) full on raging demon but instead of glowing red, he was glowing blue. His eye were a solid blue and there was runes floating around him. His skin and clothes were also bluewith runes flouting on him and changing every second. I heard voices coming from somewhere in different languages that I don’t know.
I stared at Jace and only one thing that came into my head as I watched him.
Knowledge.
He had told me that before with his red mana, he was the incarnation of fire and rage. I guess that this was his other form for his blue mana, an incarnation of knowledge and magic. (If you consider magic the colour blue) Slowly the runes and voices faded and Jace turned back to normal. He jumped back a bit and looked around in surprised. He looked at us and blinked a couple times.
“Oh, hey there everyone.” He said nonchalantly. He took a step forward and stumbled a bit. Applejack grabbed him before he could fall. “Okay then, must of used a little more mana then I thought.” He looked over to Applejack then you us. He whispered something to her. She looked over to us and shook her head. He nodded and reached over for a chair.
“Uncle are you alright?” The princess asked him. He waved her off.
“Yeah I’m fine, I’m fine just need to go a rest. In a few days I will be fit as a fiddle.” He looked over to Rainbow and raised an eyebrow. “I don’t if I should thank you or yell at you for coming here.”
“Hey! Scootaloo was in trouble, I had to do something.” Jace just shrugged at her. “By the way what was that, thing before.”
“That is what happens when you let a madman work on himself.” He rubbed his face a bit.
“Is he dead? He kind of blew up back there.” I looked at Dash. Blew up? What happened here?
“I wished he was but he’s an immortal, he’ll be back, I don’t know when but it’s not soon.” He looked grim for a minute then look over to where Scootaloo laid. “Well at least he didn’t get her at least, A.J help me up.”
Applejack shoulder him up and walked him over to the table. We all move over to the table as well. She laid there sound asleep. Jace frowned a bit. “Vlad put in spells in her head to make her his puppet luckily I went in her head and removed them, though she may have a bit of a headache.” He put his hand on her shoulder and smiled. Then he frowned and looked closer. “The hell?”
We all looked at one another as he put his hand under her wing and pulled back. He had a fist full of orange feathers. Everyone looked shocked at him.
“Jace! What the buck!” Rainbow yelled at him. He didn’t look at her, instead he grabbed the filly and move her in a sitting position.
“Someone hold her.” Amber went to hold her sister as Jace moved a bit to get behind her. He looked at her wings for a minute and poked at one of them. Move feathers fell out.
“Jace what’s wrong with my sister?” Amber asked.Jace didn’t answer. He moved over to another table with notes and started to look through them. I walked over to him.
“Jace what’s going on.” I asked him as her pulled book and began to look through it.
“Vlad didn’t just put spells into her head, he did something else. He like to combine creatures together to make something new, the question is what did he put in Scoots.” He stopped at a page and read it. I looked at his face and I couldn’t tell what he was thinking.
“Jace, ya need to look at this.” We both turn to the table and saw what she was saying. Scootaloo wings lost almost all of her feathers and instead of featherless wings, there was wings made out of leather looking material.
PoV Jace
Dragon wings. She has dragon wings, Vlad put some dragon DNA into her and her cells didn’t reject the DNA. Now looking at her there are some differences to her. Her fur was darker reddish orange, darker hair. Her wings were bigger than Rainbow’s by a bit (get you heads out of the gutter) and looked strong.
I looked at the page of the book I was holding. It was a newer book and there wasn’t many pages filled so I went to the last few and read them. There was formals and some notes on others stuff but what stood out was a name.
Hellkite Overlord.
I read that name a few more times. How the living hell did Vlad get DNA from a Hellkite Overlord. They are monster that are rare to find and see. Mostly because they kill and eat anyone who comes close. I heard some groans from the table and saw that Scoots was waking up. I moved over to her to look at her eyes. She opened them and groggy looks around and then at me. She had draconic purple looking eyes.
“Mmm Jace? Is that you?” She asked me I nodded with a small smile.
“Yeah kid it’s me, so is everyone else.” She looked at everyone. Amber gave her a big hug. Rainbow was rubbing her eye to remove the tear stains but gave her a sad smile. Tia looked at me with a smile. Scoots looked at me blinked a few times.
“Wow, it’s so bright in here, is it daytime?” Everyone looked at each other with a look of worry. I just chuckled a bit.
“Kid you're in a dim lit cave with bad lighting, the reason you can see much better is the same reason with your wings.”
“My wings?” I nodded to her right side one and she looked at her wing. Her eyes went wide at the sight of them.
“Whoa, that’s cool!” She said as she extend them a bit and retract them. They kind of remind me of Sylph a bit. “How did this happened.”
I frowned a bit and saw everyone looked uncomfortable. Pinkies hair deflated a bit.
“Umm well you see sugarcube.” A.J began but I waved her off a bit.
“How old are you Scoots?” I asked her.
“Umm thirteen, well twelve and a half my birthday is in a few months.” I nodded and looked at her.
“You remember that voice in your head.” Her eyes widen and nodded. “Well he did this to you, he was going to turn you into a weapon.”
“JACE!” I heard Twilight yell at me. I looked around and saw everyone looking at me with either shocked looks or angry ones.
“What! She'll find out sooner or later, better to get it out sooner.” I looked back at the filly and saw her looking scared. I gave her a calm look. “Don’t worry, he’s not around to hurt you, you’re safe.”
She calmed a little bit and turned to look back at her wings. I stood up and stretched a bit. I with all that adrenaline now gone I feel so fucking tired. I realize that I didn’t get a full night's sleep and I feel a little grouchy.
“Alright since everyone is safe I think it’s time to go home, some of us were up since three or four in the morning for some reasons. Kidnapped or otherwise.” I wicked at Scoots and moved towards the door. I got there and turned and usher them out. Everyone got out of the lab and I closed the door. I place my hand on it and cast a spell on the door. A rune lit up and I backed up and quickly went out of the cave. Tia was waiting for me.
“Uncle can I have a word with you.” She asks me.
“Walk and talk and sure.” I moved passed her and she followed.
“It’s about the filly Scootaloo.” I looked at her and my eyebrow raised.
“What about her?” I counted in my head a bit. 83, 82,81…
“Can you fix her, I mean turn her back into a pony again.” I frowned a bit and shook my head.
“Sorry I can’t Tia, it’s not I don’t want to or that I don’t know, it’s just I can’t .” I looked at Scoots wings. 62, 61, 60, 59…
“What do you mean you can’t.” I sighed a bit.
“Vlad mixed DNA from a Hellkite Overlord, a very powerful dragon that’s known for being almost unkillable.”
“How so?” She asked me. 51…
“A Hellkite Overlord has the power to regenerate itself, and with its DNA in her her cells with adapte to those cells so if I try to remove them they will just regrow in her body again, it’s like if I cut off her wings they would just grow back quickly after even her cells.” I stopped in thought. If the Hellkite Overlord cells are doing that then that means. 39…
“Hey Scoots can you do something for me.” I yelled out to her. She stopped and looked at me.
“Sure, what do you want.” I pointed at her wings.
“Flap your wings a few time.” Both Dash and Amber shot me angry looks as Scoots looked at me curiously.
“Umm why?”
“Just because.” I cast a spell on the timer to increase its time. I was going on ten seconds. She looked at me and at the others. She then stepped forward and spread her wings a bit and flapped once. She shot up into the air about ten feet. Both Amber and Dash was surprised at her then snapped out of it and raced up to her as she was screaming back down. She landed and had the look of being scared and wonder.
“How did I?” She asks as I walked up to her.
“I’ll answer your question with another one, how do you feel?” She blinked at me then her eyes went wide and tears began to form.
“Nothing.” I raised an eyebrow. 46, 45…
“What do you mean nothing.” Amber asked. Her tears were running down her face.
“No pain, none whatsoever, and I flew that means.” I placed my hand on her shoulder and looked at her.
“Come by my cottage in a day or two, I think you need some rest.” She nodded and we all moved on. I saw some of them look at me with confusion. I waved at them and gave them the I’ll tell you all later look.
“Uncle what happened.” I rolled my eyes at her and gave her the cliff notes. 32, 31…
“She has a illness that making her unable to fly but now with the Hellkite Overlord cells in her they are repairing her from the inside, even the ones that made her unable to fly.” She looked at me in wonder.
“That’s means…” I nodded.
“With all that has happend today there’s a silver lining.” I smiled at her. 19, 18… Whoa we gotta get moving. We got into the carriages and flew off.
“Uncle what about the lab? What are you going to do with it.”
“I already took care of it.” I looked back to the cave and raised my hand and spread out my fingers and counted down. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… and I armed pump once as the place exploded. I looked back in front of me as Tia looked at me in shocked.
“Don’t worry, no one lived there to begin with.” We didn’t say anything on the way back home.
I opened my door and just went to my bed and flopped on it. I closed my eyes and slowly fell asleep.
Ahhh home sweet home.
Yeah it's nice to be in a good bed.
What the! Jess how are you-
I'm in your head remember, you just didn't get to hear me.
Ugg now I got to listened to you now?
Yup! But not right now, I'm tired as fuck and I want to sleep
I didn't answer her, I was to tired to answer.
Next Chapter: Chapter 15: A normal day (No really it is!) Estimated time remaining: 5 Hours, 40 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
And here's Chapter 14! If you are all wondering Scootaloo is now a Longma (A half pegasus/dragon hybrid) and also Jess! The fem-Jace is now a thing.
YUP! I'm a thing! And I don't know if I should take offence on that
Ummm I'll see you all in the next Chapter. :)
HOLD IT BUSTER!
AHHH!