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Hunter of Ash and Cinder

by ExoDemonG

Chapter 16: Tales of the Belle

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Jace.


“So you think this will work?” I asked Yrne as she was busy looking over some blueprints.

“I’m sure it will work, it will take some time to build but with the new tech and engineers we have well built something to pinpoint other worlds by the rift.” she explained.

“Right so how long with it take to build?”

“About… two days if we pull all-nighters.” she answered. I nodded and left her to start building. I headed back to the main room, when I got there I saw that Isaac and Stella were gone.

“Huh, now where did those two go?” I said to myself. That is when I felt a ping of chaos for somewhere nearby. “Oh what now?”

I teleported where it was coming from and saw a figure holding Isaac up by the neck. He was saying something and it was in an angry tone. I felt the chaos from him.

“Oi, what are you doing?” I called out. The man glanced at me.

“What does it matter to you?” He asked, sounding annoyed as he did.

“Well he’s a friend of mine and I don’t like it when they are getting hurt.” I told him. He turned to face me and I saw something that made my blood cold. He was holding Stella by the hair with his other hand. My hand twitched a bit and he seemed to have seen that.

“I'm here for this brat only.” He said before dropping Stella. “Now if you'll excuse me… ” He said, snapping his fingers as the air itself tore itself and created a tear. “I have things to do.”

I looked at Stella as she didn’t move. My anger rises a bit more as I put my hand in my pocket and pressed a button. A pulse went out around us as I saw the tear wiggled a bit then closed itself. The man turned around to look at me with anger.

“Like I said, he’s a friend and I don’t like it when my friends get hurt, or kidnapped.” I told him.

“You have no idea who you're messing with.” He said in a dead like tone. I raised an eyebrow.

“Do you?” I said.

“You're wasting my time.” He said as the tear reformed behind him, this time it looked more violent than the last one. I stared at him as he turned to the tear, and I got a stupid idea.

“Oh well if you're going to run away then that’s fine.” I said out loud. He stopped and looked at me.

“Are you really going so low as to taunt me? Pathetic.” He said.

“Says the guy who can’t fight, just saying.” I said. His response was that of a grin as his grip tightened around Isaac’s neck.

“Do keep going. I seem to enjoy this.” He said as Isaac struggles to breathe. I stared at him for a moment as the plan came together.

“Why are you here?” I asked him as I pressed the button a few times. The tear did the same thing and closed again. “Also don’t try to reopen it, I’ll just close it again.”

“I'm here to take this trouble maker back where he belongs.” He answered with a bored expression.

“Trouble maker? I think you got the wrong guy.” I said to him.

“Really. I'm here for Isaac Solar Parker and I hold him in my hand.” He said, giving another squeeze to Isaac's neck.

“Oh is that so, well then.” I began as I pulled a dagger out from my other pocket. The man looked at me oddly before I threw the dagger at Isaac. It hit him in the arm which turned him into ash. “Now he’s ash.” With a sigh of annoyance, he took hold of Isaac once again.

“What were you hoping to accomplish?” He asked.

“Buy some time.” I said. He looked at me as the sound of a gunshot saw heard. Gascoigne came up from behind him and chopped his arm off. He grabbed Isaac and put some distance from him.

“That, was too close you know.” he said as he looked over Isaac.

“It worked out in the end.” I said. He shook his head as he put his hand out, some mist came out and the marks around his neck started to fade. “Now, who are you.”

“I'm known as the Mad King but my name is Ryan.” He answered.

“Well Ryan, I think if you just talked to Isaac instead of dragging him by his throat, things would have been a bit better.” I told him. What he did next make the blood run cold as he placed the sole of his boot atop Stella. “I don’t think that you should do that.”

“It was a simple pick up.” He said, tapping his foot. I bit my lip as I tried to think of a plan.

“Hey Jace, do you feel that?” Gascoigne whispered at me. I frowned then felt what he was talking about. I felt warmer.

“You're awake.” The supposed Mad King said as he removed his foot from Stella. His gaze was not focused on me but at someone behind me. Looking behind me, I had to squint as whoever it was had a powerful glow around him. The temperature kept rising up. The glow died down a bit and revealed Isaac or at least I think it was.

“Well… that’s uhh new.” I said. I looked at Gascoigne and he shook his head.

Without a word and a blink of an eye, both Isaac and The King were face to face and both held each other's fists. It looked like a stalemate as both were not moving.

“We've been through this song and dance before.” The Mad king said as the fur of his cape caught fire. As this was going on I used some of my chaos to slowly grab Stella. Dark purple mist surrounded her as she sank into the ground. a moment later she was right beside me. I picked her up and hand her to Gascoigne.

“Take her to the Workshop right know.” I told him. He nodded and took Stella and headed off. I turned back to the other two to see what’s going to happen.

“I expected the Sun to be more of a challenge. I guess I wa-” Ryan was cut off by sharp right hook followed by a quick left uppercut that sent him a few feet away from Isaac. The latter quickly manifested a bow.

He drew back the string as an arrow was formed and ready to be fired. The arrow lit up in a fiery glow before being launched towards The Mad King.

Quickly reacting, The Mad King grabbed the arrow before snapping it on two. He growled before being picked up again by a very fast Isaac. The latter kept delivering quick jabs onto his stomach. After the seventh jab, The Mad King had about and took hold of the incoming eighth jab before violently twisting Isaac's wrist, earning what could be described as a roar of pain. As if ignoring the pain of his broken hand, Isaac raised the wounded king before unleashing a torrent of fire from his roar.

The torrent could be seen going through the clouds until the armored hand of the King blocked Isaac's mouth.

“Shut up.” Was all he said before delivering a downwards kick. The boot of the King connected to Isaac's spine and a crunch was heard before the former was let go.

Isaac landed on the ground with a loud thud while Ryan, The Mad King, landed in front of him. He bent over and grabbed Isaac by the neck once again, this time with killing intentions.

As The Mad King began to strangle Isaac, I tried to come with some way to help but to no avail. I was helpless as I watched Isaac struggling to breathe.

“Have anything to say?” The King asked, allowing Isaac to speak by loosening his grip.

Y-yeah, what's tall, insane and has a hole through their chest?” Isaac asked, earning a frown from the man who held him. “Answer… you.” With a bright flash that blinded me and loud bang that made my ears ring, I was stunned to say the least. The heat, it rivaled that of the sun's, if not more.

As my vision returned, I was greeted with Isaac standing above The Mad King. I looked towards the fallen King and saw a large hole at the center of his chest. I heard a tree fall and looked towards the direction it came from.

What I saw made my eyes grow wide. The forest burnt and scorched.

You lose.” Isaac said. A chuckle was the response he got from the fallen king.

“I'm a man of my word.” He said rather cryptically. He kept chuckling as his body was slowly covered in rose petals. After his entire body was covered head to toe, the rose petals then seeped out blood before being blown away by the wind. I looked around as I walked over to the fire being.

“Well, that was something.” I said. Isaac, without warning, fell onto the ground. The fire that once covered his body was gone, leaving the badly battered and bruised Isaac unconscious.

I sighed and picked him up as started to head to the workshop. “Where do I keep finding people like you?”


I sat in the infirmary with both Stella and Isaac. Isaac seemed fine other than feeling warm and well literally burning himself out. Though his clothes barely survived, what remained of his shirt now covered his waist and reached up to his knees, giving a sort of monk-like look.

As for Stella, she to was fine but it still made me feel terrible. She could've gotten hurt or worse. I shook my head to banish the thought, as I did Isaac groaned and sat up. He looked around at his surroundings.

“Again, seriously?” he asked annoyed.

“Trust me, you get use to it.” I said.

“So, did I win?” He asked.

“I think so since you turned into the sun's fury and kick the Mad king's ass, so yeah I think so.” I said to him. He raised as arms in the air but stopped midway as he looked ready to throw up only for nothing to happen.

“Winner.” He said before lowering his arms.

“Yeah, better not over exert yourself.” I told him. At this moment Stella sat up with a groan.

“Why does my mouth taste like rotten candy?” she asks while sticking her tongue out. Isaac turned to look at her.

“Are you alright?” He asked with genuine worry.

“Other than my taste buds yeah, I’m fine.” she said. She looked around at the room.

“What happened?” Isaac stayed silent.

“Just, some things that I didn’t see.” I said softly. I shook my head as the events replayed in my head. “I’m sorry.”

“No, it's my fault. I let my guard down.” Isaac said in a sad tone.

“Ugg! It’s no one's fault! Stuff happens and that’s it.” Stella yelled. She crossed her arms with a huff. I couldn’t help but start to laugh.

“We just got told by a thirteen-year-old.” I chuckled.

“Thirteen and a half.” Stella added.

“That's still thirteen.” Isaac said as a matter of factly.

“Don’t you start, Nyx keeps pointing that out all the time.” Stella said.

“A friend of yours?” He asked. Stella just shrugged.

“Friend, half-sister, whatever you want she’s like her mom as Dash likes to call her an egghead.” Stella said. Isaac nodded, though confusion showed from the way he looked.

“What’s up? You looked confused, or maybe a head injury? I got someone coming to give you a once over.” I said to him.

“No it's just, I feel like I should know who that is, Dash I mean.” He said.

“Maybe, since you're from another world there’s would be different versions of the people you would know.” I told him. He shrugged before laying back down. A knock on the door drew my attention. “Come in.”

The door opened and an old man walked in. He looked around and saw me, I smiled at him. “Ahh, Doctor Gordon it’s good to see you. I hope I’m not-”

“Don’t say it, I was just going to see some of my family but as a doctor I-” he stopped and looked at Isaac. He sneered at him. “Boy, I told you not to get into trouble but look what you do.”

“Fuck off.” Was all Isaac said.

“Swear jar.” Stella said. Isaac glared at her as Gordon sighed.

“No one listens to me, alright shut up and let me take a look at you.” he said as he went and grabbed his head. He did some check ups on him and after a few minutes he was finished. “No broken bones, your throat is a bit sore by someone choking you and somewhat drained both physically and magically. There're some bruises as well so I’m giving you a bag of those rocks because you’re going to need them and this.”

He pulled out a jar of black stuff and hand it to him. “This will help you regain your magic and heal your throat. Take one teaspoon and wait one hour and you’ll be fine. Lastly, and for the love of the makers listen this time, don’t go looking for a fight until the end of the day.”

“-mother was a tailor
She sewed my new blue jeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Fillyppines…” Isaac sang out. Gordon sighed as he opened the jar and took out a teaspoon. The liquid wasn’t much of a liquid, it was some sort of tar that jiggled a bit. He looked at Isaac and grabbed his head and pried his mouth open. Jamming the spoon into his mouth I watched Isaac’s face went from normal to green, to blue, to white, then back to normal. Gordon let him go as he pulled the spoon out and wiped it, Isaac was gagging by what was forced down his throat.

Isaac coughed and hacked but after a minute or two, he resumed singing as if nothing happened. Odd one.

“That should do it, I’m going back and please don’t bring me if this asshole gets hurt again.” Gordon said with a frown.

“Swear jar!” Stella yelled.

“Don’t care.” Gordon said as he left. I sighed a bit and leaned back.

“Well he’s as cheerful as ever.” I said. Isaac looked at me with a frown. “You're not much of a nice person with doctors are you.”

“Don't get me wrong, I respect Doctors and all but after ending up in the hospital can only go so much before becoming annoying.” He said with arms behind his head.

“Right, well let’s try not putting you into the hospital for a third time, Doctor Gordon maybe one of the best doctors around but… he’s not the happy nice ones, he’ll probably bind you to a bed and make sure you won’t move until the day is done.” I told him.

“Well unless those bonds can withstand five thousand, seven hundred and seventy-seven Kelvin, then I'd like to see him try.” He said. I looked away as I thought about it.

“They… probably can…” I muttered. I shook my head and looked at him. “Anyway I was coming to get you to tell you that it will take some a few days but we got a way to send you home.”

“I don't care how long it takes, as long as I'm able to get home, I'm happy.” He said. I nodded and stood up.

“Well I hope you’ll comfy for the next two days because that is what the builders need to build it.” I told him. “I, for one, have stuff to do so I’ll take my leave.”

I headed out of the room and went to mine, I opened to door and went to my desk. I saw some fliers with reports and new bounties that I need to look over. I began working for some time until I heard a knock on the door. I looked and saw Stella standing there.

“Hey, what’s up Stella?” I asked her. She looked up at the roof.

“The roof?” she said. I rolled my eyes as I went back to work. She walked up to me. “Okay, I was just here to say thanks.”

“No worries Stella.” I said to her without looking.

“Umm, I have to ask there was… three of you that came to help?” she asked. I stopped what I was doing and looked at her.

“What do you mean?”

“Well, I heard your voice and Gascoigne's but I heard a third, a female.” Stella said. I frowned a bit.

“What did she say?” I asked.

“Umm… she said, ‘Relax young one, everything will be alright.’” she said.

“I… yeah, there was a third, she helps with getting you here.” I lied to her. I hid my emotions from her as she stared.

“Right, anyway I’m going to see Nyx.” Stella said before leaving. I looked back at my work, well tried to.

She’s starting to hear her…” a voice said in my head. I frowned at this.

“You don’t know that, it could be anything.” I muttered.

Jace, you know it, it happened to you when I was forming. She’s one of us and you can’t deny it.” Grakos said. I clench my fists at the thought.

“I just want her to have a normal life.” I said softly.

She has your blood, she would never have one.” he said, his tone was much different. A bit… softer.

“One can try right?” I said. He didn’t say anything so I went back to work. After another ten minutes of working and on the last page I heard another knock. This time it was Isaac. “Hey, how goes it fire head.”

“How original.” He said in bemused tone before shaking his head. “I was looking for you, you've got visitors looking for you.” He said before covering his mouth as he coughed.

“Are you okay?” I asked.

“I'm fine, my throat just feels sore.” He answered. I was going to object to that statement but didn't get the chance. “Before you say anything, no that medicine didn't work but it's just a sore throat, no big deal.” He said. I nodded before remembering something from the fight.

“Before you go, why did The Mad King refer to you as The Sun?” I asked, curious to know why. He opened his mouth to speak but closed seconds later as he peeked out the hall.

“I'll tell you later.” He said before leaving. “Oh and before I forget…” He said, his head poking through the side of the door. “... You should've said Human torch.” With that he left.

Rolling my eyes I looked at the last form I needed to sign and head to the job board to put up new bounties. Sure we have stuff advance to be hologram or something but I like it old school. I picked up the bounties and headed to the main room.

When I got there I was greeted with the sight of both Twilight and Spike. The librarian wore a purple shirt and sweatpants, also a white lab coat which meant that she was working on something. Spike was wearing a red T-shirt with some jeans as he looked nervous. Why is it that everyone nervous when here? It’s just a building.

“Twi, are you sure we can’t just call him? This place gives me the creeps.” Spike said.

“This is important Spike, those explosions from earlier stirred the Mayor a bit.” Twilight said. She saw me and let out a breath. “Jace, have you-”

“Seen the explosions? Yes, didn’t you say there’s was traveling performers coming through?” I asked as I moved to the job board. I put the jobs up and looked over at the pot of now cold tea.

“No!... well yes but that wasn’t what I mean different ones.” she asked.

“Someone one blowing some off some steam.” I said. I wasn’t lying, I don’t know what was up with Isaac at the time so I thought of that.

“Jace I’m serious!” Twilight yelled.

“And I am as well, there was some fuss going on, someone blew off some steam and that’s all.” I told her. She stared at me for some time.

“I having the feeling that you’re not telling me the whole story.” she said. I picked up the pot of cold tea and poured it into a bucket to deal with it later. I set the pot back in the fireplace.

“I think you looking into things too much, I had it handled and no one got hurt.” I told her. She stared at me as I started to hear someone walking down the hallway. I saw Isaac walk in with his hands in his pockets.

“Oh, hello.” He greeted with a two finger salute. Twilight looked at him then at me, than at me. She groaned a bit as she rubbed her head.

“Called it.” Spike said. I looked at Isaac with a smile.

“They know me so well.” I said. I walked over near him as I pulled down a book. “Remember same people but different names and mindsets.”

“Whatever.” Was his reply. I rolled my eyes and opened the book.

“Hello, I haven’t seen you before are you new to Fairgate?” Twi asked.

“You can say that.” He answers with a shrug.

“Well nice to met you, I’m Twilight and this is my number one assistant Spike.” she introduces.

“Yo.” Spike said with the same two finger salute.

“Isaac Parker, nice to meet you.” He said.l

“If I could ask where are you from, are you from the other towns? From outside of Equestria?” she paused for a second. “Or way out of town?”

Isaac looked at me with a cocked eyebrow. I shrugged a bit. “It’s the last one Twilight.”

“Ohh..” she said. She looked somewhat surprised at this but Spike didn’t.

“Scoots owes me ten gold now.” he said with a grin.

“I'm not going to question it.” Isaac said after a brief moment of silence.

“Right… so how’s your world is like? Is it similar to this one?” she again paused for a moment. “How’s the… uhh ‘other’ me?”

Isaac again looked at me again.” She… knows?”

“Yup, most of the people here know about other worlds and what not. Kind a hard to hide it when you see monsters appear out of nowhere.” I told him.

“Point taken.” He said before looking back at Twilight. “Why is that you ask?”

“Oh well, after learning there’s other versions of me and my friends I wanted to hear what they are like in their world, sure I seen a few versions of them from time to time yet it’s fascinating to hear about them.” she explained.

“This all started when she found out that one version of her married a demon that’s the Lord of Hell and had kids.” Spike added. Twilight looked at him bright red.

“SPIKE!” Twilight yelled at him bright red.

“What? It’s true.” he said. I chuckled a bit as some good memories came to mind. Then one other one as I looked at the safe.

“Got to get a bigger safe.” I muttered as I listened in to what happens next.

“Well to answer your question, she's more or less like you minus the ears. She's the student of my mother and as for what Spike said, she and I aren't a thing, or at least we think so.” Isaac said.

“Wait, student to your mom? You’re Princess Celestia's son?” Twilight asked.

“Yeah, why?” Isaac said. Twilight stared at Isaac for some time before looking at Spike.

“You know, I should be more surprised by this.”

“I know, I guess it’s really not that surprising after the first it.” Spike nodded.

“Indeed.” Twilight nodded.

“So what are you two here for?” Isaac asked.

“Weird explosions happened some time ago that made a lot of people scared and panicking. We came here because,” Spike looked over at me. “Jace is the only one that draws trouble.”

“Guilty as charged.” I said.

“Those weren't explosions, those were solar flares.” Isaac said. Twilight blinked at him.

“You… know them?”

“I might've…been the one that caused them.” Isaac said. Twilight stared at him for some time.

“Say, mind if you come with- OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!” she started yelling as Spike reached up and grabbed her ear.

“No Twilight, no running half a million tests on new people.” Spike deadpan. Isaac looked at the two of them as Spike gave him a sheepish smile. “No one told me that being part of her family and her assistant that I’m the one that makes sure she doesn’t do dumb stuff.”

“As much as being experimented on terrifies me, I wouldn't a few questions.” Isaac said with a small laugh.

Twilight smiled as she got loose from Spikes grip. “Well a few questions would be fine, so the first question-” she began but got cut off.

“Oh Twilight~” a sing song voice rang out. I turned to see Rarity standing in the doorway. She wore a white dress shirt with a purple skirt. Her hair was tied back with a purple bandana. “There you are.”

“Oh… hey uhhh, why are you here?” Twilight ask nervously. I saw Isaac narrowed his eyes at Rarity. I walked up behind him to whisper.

“What’s up with you?”

“I'll tell you later.” He answered in a hushed tone. I nodded as I looked back at the other three.

“Oh darling, I was looking for you to do some fittings and measurements.” her expression changed as she frowned. “But for the last week you been avoiding me.”

“Oh well you see, I been busy and had other things on my mind and…” Twilight stuttered a bit as she talked.

“Well you’re not doing anything right now so.” she walked over and grabbed Twi’s shoulder. “This is a perfect time for it.”

“Well not really a good time, you see I… uhhh… GOTTA GO!” Twilight said as she turned around to dash off but didn’t go far as Rarity grabbed her by the collar and pulled her back, literally dragging her.

“Ah ah ahh, no running dear. It will take only a few- oh.” Rarity said as she saw Isaac. “Hello, didn’t see you there.”

“Hey.” Isaac said. Rarity walked over to him, dragging Twilight along, as she looked at him and scrunched her nose.

“Oh now this just won’t do.” she said.

“What?” He said in confusion.

“Your clothes darling, they look like you got hit with a fireball.” she shook her head. “I can’t stand around and let you walk around like that.”

“Okay?” Isaac said. She smiled at him and put her hand on his shoulder.

“Mind coming with me to get something more… fitting.” she said.

“Alright, as long as I get something to wear by the end of it.” Isaac answered with a shrug.

“Excellent, now come with me.” she said as she walked towards the door, dragging Twilight with her.

“Jace! Help!” Twilight yelled. I thought about it and looked away.

“Nope~”

“DAMN IT JACE, WHY DO YOU ALWAYS DO THIS YOU SON OF A B-” she was cut off by Rarity punching her in the head.

“Now now, that’s not lady like to say Twilight.” Rarity said. She looked down at Twilight. “Oh, I knocked her out. Well this makes things easier.”

I watched the three of them walk/dragged out of the Workshop. I looked over at Spike as he sighs.”

“I got to make sure Twilight is alright.” I put a hand on his shoulder.

“You are a good brother Spike.” I said to him. He shrugs.

“Someone has to.” he said as he ran out. I was now alone. With nothing to do.

“I think I’ll go get some lunch or something.”


Isaac Parker


It has been about an hour since we left to Rarity’s boutique. During that time, I had caught her getting a few glances of me as we walked through town before arriving. After we had arrived, the fashionista wasted to no time and had began taking my measurements.

“I've gotten my measurements before and I'm very sure it doesn't take this long.” I told the woman holding the measuring tape in her hand. She giggled at me.

“Oh darling, there’s a motto that I always follow, ‘Measure twice, cut once.’” she said as her tape wrapped around my leg. “It also burns time so she would wake up.”

She pointed at the couch that Twilight was laying on, knocked out.

“And I understand but this is the fourth time you measured me.” I told her, feeling my arms ache for holding them up for so long. She blushed a bit.

“Hehe, well you see…” I rolled my eyes at this. “I kinda have a bit of an OCD to this sort of thing.”

I blinked at her answer before shaking my head with a sigh. She looked at me with a frown. “What, did you think, that I was feeling you up?”

“No, I'm very exhausted and keeping my arms up like this doesn't help.” I told her.

“Why not use those arm rests near you.” I blinked and looked behind me. Sure enough there were two armrests things that I could put my arms on. “Well there’s no real point since I’m done.”

She stood up and walked over to a computer. I put my arms down and sighed as the soreness went away. I looked around at the place and saw that it was somewhat the same as the one back home, although one thing did stand out. On the wall hung a sword.

I was taken out my thoughts by a familiar meow. Looking down at my feet, I saw Wisp laying beside me.

“Where were you?” I asked her as I gently picked her up. The only response I got from fiery cat was bemused look.

“Right, sorry. I didn't mean to change but what else was I supposed to do.” I told her, earning a shrug from Wisp.

“Well I guess someone is a cat person.” I heard Rarity said. I saw her walk over with a card.

“In some ways, yeah.” I said to her. She looked over at the sword.

“Surprised that you see a weapon like this in a clothing store?” she asked with a smirk.

“Sort of.” I answered. She giggled at me.

“Everyone always ask me about it. The reason is that I made it.” she answered. I blinked at her.

“Cool.” Was all I said. Rarity’s eyes shifted a bit at me.

“Funny, when others found out that I made stuff other than dresses and suits, like armor and weapons, their more shocked.” She said.

“I don't judge what you make, which is why I didn't ask.” I told her.

I opened my mouth again to speak but closed it soon before looking at Wisp.

“Your point?” I asked the fiery feline. This earned a weird look from Rarity but I ignored her questioning look.

“I still don't see how that's relevant.” I told Wisp with a raised brow, earning a bemused look from the cat. We both stared each other down before it donned to me what she had meant and groaned, causing the feline to smirk victoriously.

“You won't let me live that down, will you?” I asked her, earning the shake of the feline’s head. I frowned and looked back to a now very confused Rarity.

“What?” she asked.

“What, what?” I asked back. She pointed at the two of us, slowly a cat like grin grew on her.

“Is there something interesting that happened in your past?” she asked.

“Interesting, no. Stupid, yes.” I said.

“Oh this, I have to hear.” she said. She put the card into a slot in the wall and walked over to a table. She offer me a seat at said table.

“Wisp was just reminding me of the time I nearly died of a heart attack because of my childish curiosity.” I told her, taking a seat at the table. “How was I supposed to know it was a fake?” I mumbled to myself before glaring at Wisp.

“To shorten it up, I used to live in the streets as a kid and because of said lifestyle, I had to find a means to gain some coin and resorted to stealing. It was a candy shop and it was the nearest place that had food at the time so I not only took some candy but I had also found a safe and inside, pointing directly at me, was a life like replica of Harrison Clockwork’s very own Hand cannon.” I told the woman in front of me. Her eyes widened a bit but didn’t say anything, letting me continue.

“The owner either liked the way the gun looked or they had an interest in Clockwork's inventions, either way I was scared shitless and ran without looking back. The day after Wisp here had found out that it was a fake and well, this.” I finished, gesturing towards the laughing feline.

“I… see, I don’t really see why it’s so funny? You were a kid and you saw a gun pointed at you, you had every right to be scared.” Rarity said.

“I never said that it was funny, only stupid and the reason Wisp finds it funny, she likes dark humor.” I told her. She eyed me for a second before shaking her head.

“I think, I'm just going to leave that be.” she said. I shrugged as a bell chime went off. I turned to see a couple walk in. “Excuse me for one moment.”

She walked over to the couple and began talking to them. I looked back at the table and saw a tea set. I picked up the teapot and felt it full with some kind of tea. Looking back I saw Rarity taking measurements of the guy. As she did this I saw the other woman watching this with a slight frown.

After the measuring Rarity did the same thing as for me, make a card, put it into a slot’ and… some thing. I notice a rack of clothes sitting on the other side of the room. After a few minutes some clothes appeared at the left side of the rack to which Rarity went and grabbed. She took them and began talking but the woman quickly grabbed them, hook her arm through her partner's arm, and left the building.

Rarity had a smile on right until they left, then it turned to a sad frown. With a sigh she walked over to the table and slumped down in front of me. There was a long, awkward pause of silence before she spoke up.

“Do you think I'm attractive?” she asked. I raised an eyebrow at this.

“That came out of nowhere. Something got you upset?” I asked her. She sighed a bit.

“One of the things I love to do when I’m not making dresses is talking to people, or as some would say, listen to gossip. There’s a lot of dirt on other people that I know but I refrain from spreading them.” her expression darkened a bit. “But… I have heard gossip about myself and one that’s been floating around is that I’m some man stealing whore.”

She pinched the bridge of her nose and shook her head. “So that’s why I asked. You’re not from around here so you wouldn’t really know.”

“And why would people call you that?” I said, leaning a bit onto the table. “What started these rumors?”

“Because for a while I was doing just that, I just never realized it until after the Gala.” she looked away for a moment then frowned. “I had to admit, he did make me see these rumors. But he’s still a dick.”

“And because of these rumors, your social life as slowly gone down hill?” I guessed. Wisp sat there, staring at the both of us as we conversed. Rarity shrugged at me.

“I wouldn’t say it’s going down hill, I’m seeing what others see me.” she took a sip of her tea. “It also says a lot of my love life and the fact that I can’t get myself a boyfriend, after two attempts, which both failed, I decided to… look for different hobbies.”

“It's fine if you don't want to go into detail about your hobbies.” I said before taking a deep breath. She just chuckled.

“Why should I? You already know what it is.” she said as she puts her hands in front of her mouth. I looked at them and saw what look like burn marks and cuts on them.

“So you've taken smithing as a hobby? That's actually pretty cool.” I said to her with a small laugh. She grinned at me.

“Well with my family being well known blacksmiths one does learn a few things, also they knew how to make a pretty good looking dress, not a lot of people knew that one of the main skills you need when making armor is to know how to sew” she said. I smiled at this.

“Cool.” I said. She blinked once before her eyes lit up.

“Talking about sewing, I already brought out some clothes for you.” with that she stood up and walked over to the same rack, she pushed it over to the table and grinned at me. “Now to find out which work for you, those tattoos are somewhat amazing to look at and I tried to find something that would go good with them.”

“That was fast.” I muttered under my breath before standing up and looking at the clothed. “I'll need a couple of minutes to try them on.”

“Take your time darling, there’s a changing room over there.” she said pointing at some doors. She looked over at the couch to see Twilight still knocked out. “I didn’t hit her that hard?”

With a shrug, I grabbed the clothes and moved towards the changing room.


After ten minutes of choosing on which I should take. I finally came to the conclusion of taking the forest camo jeans and a light grey tank top.

After discarding the remains of my old clothing, I walked out of the changing room. I looked over to the table from before, I could see Wisp laying on the chair I sat on.

She took noticed of me and got off the chair before waiting beside me. I sighed with a smile and picked her up before sitting back down. I heard someone walking into the room as I saw Rarity walk in with some robes. She stopped and smiled.

“See, now those just look fantastic on you.” she said.

“Of course they do, their made by a true artist.” I said with a chuckle.

“Oh, aren’t you smooth.” she said. She walked over to me and bent down that her face was a few inches in front of mine. “If you came here a few years ago I would've tried becoming your girlfriend.”

“Maybe I should've.” I said in a joking manner.

“Maybe… Well, can you hold on to these for a moment, thank you you’re such a gentleman.” she dropped the robes on my lap and walked away quickly to the couch beside it was a bucket of something which she picked up. She shook her head and looked at me.

“You might want to cover your ears.” she said. I covered them just in time for her to dump the stuff, which is water, on Twilight. She bolted up and screamed at the shock. She blinked a few times and looked around, I moved my hands away from my ears.

“What happened? Why am I here?” she asked.

“Why you're here for your fitting for your dresses darling, as for why you were knocked out you were acting unlady like.” Rarity said as she walked over to me and took back the robes. “Now put these on and get ready, we have a lot of work to do.”

Twilight face looked worried as she heard all that. “But… I have a lot of work too-”

“Your work can be put on hold, you have dresses to try on and I’m not taking no for an answer.” Rarity looked over at me. “Isaac it has been so nice to talk to you and… thank you for listening to me, I kind of needed it.”

“No thanks needed, it was the least I could do.” I told her with a nod.

“Well still. Oh and don’t worry about paying, they are a gift from me as a new friend.” She paused for a moment then winked at me. “They are also fireproof.”

“Finally, someone who gets my need for fireproof clothing.” I said, looking at Wisp. before looking back at Rarity. “Thanks.”

“No problem darling. Now if you don’t mind leaving, Twilight and I have some business to deal with.” Rarity said. I looked over at Twilight as she looked at me with a pleading look.

“Sure thing.” I said before taking my leave. As I walked out the door with Wisp in tow I heard a nervous laugh coming from behind me.

As I walked out of the store I saw a few buildings down what looked like a food joint with a sign of a flame and sword. Out front sitting was Jace eating. I started heading in that direction towards him. As I got there he looked up and saw me.

“Hey there. You look good.” He said.

“You've got your fashionista friend to thank.” I told him. He smiled as he took a bite out of his sandwich.

“Yeah she’s good at what she does.” he said after swallowing. “So what do you think of your first time in a different yet oddly familiar world?”

“Feels like home.” I answered with a smile.

“Well it kind of is, you’re just looking at it in a much different way.” he said.

“Can you blame? I've only just arrived today.” I told him with a shrug.

“Welcome to my life.” he said. He looked to the side and tapped the table a few times. He then looked at me. “So, mind answering two questions for me?”

“Sure.” I said as I pulled a chair out and sat down.

“First question, back at the workshop you had a look when Rarity showed up, what’s that about?” he asked.

“It was nothing major, it's just that the version I know has a strange obsession with me. I guess after having to deal with her for five years had me be suspicious.” I said while rubbing the back of my head.

“And now that you talked to her?” He asked.

“I can safely say that my suspicions were just me being an idiot.” I said, leaning backward onto the chair.

“It happens.” his expression changed to more of a serious tone. “Why did The Mad King refer to you as The Sun?”

“It's, uh, It's what I am.” I told him. He blinked at me as he rolled his hand at me.

“Wait, that’s it? You're ‘The Sun’” he said. I sighed as Wisp rubbed her head against my shirt.

“It's more than that.” I told him. Sadness evident in my tone. “I'm supposed to be some sort of personification of the Sun. I'm The Sun in a human body.”

“Well you got the Wrath and Fury of the Sun to the ‘T’.” he said. I looked at him, unamused.

“Really?” I asked with a groan. He simply shrugged.

“I call them what I see them.” he said before taking another bite.

“Right, so is that all?” I asked.

“One last thing, I can say that you're Tia’s… sun.” he said with a grin. I groaned while Wisp pawed her face.

“Why did I even bother.” I said to myself. Looking over at Wisp, I sighed. “You shut up.”


Jace, Two days later


I stood front of the Rift gate while the last few tests were run. I imagined Delsin’s Rift gate and chuckled at the size of it. While his took most of a large room this one was about a third of the size. It looks a lot like a stargate.

Isaac and Stella stood beside me as the Rift Hunters worked on setting everything up. Isaac wore the same clothes from two days ago with a backpack full of more clothes. Rarity gave him more of her special fire proof clothes which he was really happy about.

“How long till everything is ready?” I asked.

“A few minutes sir, got to calibrate everything.” one of the hunters said. I nodded to him, I looked at Isaac as he stared at the gate.

“So this will take me home?” He asked. I nodded.

“Yes, this gate will send you back. Now the way we are going to do this is doing modernizing an old spell.” I put my hands out in front of me. “I’ll keep this short, this spell was used to open a way into another world by having two items, one here and one there, and make a like to the other world.”

“Okay, how do you know if it'll work?” He asked, still looking at the gate.

“I used an unstable version of this and it worked fine, and we ran tests.” I answered. Isaac looked at me.

“That still doesn't fill me with confidence.” He said in his normal bemused tone.

“It’s better than his normal way of doing things.” Stella said.

“And that is?” Isaac asked.

“Trial and error.”

“Hey!” I yelled.

“What, it’s true.” she said.

“It’s true to me, not everyone else.” I said crossing my arms.

“Right~.” she deadpanned.

“I'm doomed.” Isaac muttered to himself.I rolled my eyes as I stood in front of him.

“There’s one thing I need from you.” I told him.

“What's that?” Isaac asked as his cat, Wisp, appeared seemingly out of nowhere.

“A piece of you.” I said bluntly. He stared at me for a moment. “Oh don’t look at me like that all I need is a bit of blood or some hair.”

He blinked a few times before hissing in pain. Wisp, after hearing what I had said, scratched Isaac by the arm. I saw a bit of the blood started to drip down from it.

“That would work.”I lifted my hand up and felt the blood followed. I willed it into a vile and hand it off to one of the hunters. “We could've used a bit of your hair but blood is stronger.”

“Can we just please continue.” Isaac said while Wisp licked the scratch causing it to sizzle and heal. I looked back at the hunters as they set up the last bit of the machine. I heard the hum of it working.

“Hey, this is for you.” Stella said. I turned back to see her handing something over to Isaac.

“What's this?” Isaac asked.

“Something to remember us by.” she said. Isaac knelt down with the item in hand.

“I wouldn't need anything to remember you, these past couple of days were some of the most memorable days I've had and I doubt I'll ever forget it. But thanks.” He said to with a smile. Stella smiled back.

“Well, it does look cool.” she said. She raised her head with a grin. “I always out do myself.”

Isaac laughed before putting on the necklace. He then stood up and ruffled Stella’s hair a bit.

“Catch ya later, kid.” I heard him say before looking at the gate. The gate sparked a few times and opened, literally it looked like something from Stargate. I looked over at Isaac.

“See you around.” I said. He nodded and began to walk towards it before stopping just a few inches away. He took one last and glance.

Without warning an armored hand took hold of his shoulder.

“Found you.” With the those words, those two simple words, he was pulled into the gate. It shimmered a bit and closed, an echoing laughter was heard soon after. I stood there in shock until my brain caught up.

“Get the gate open NOW!” I yelled.

“Sir we can’t, the systems overheated. If we tried the gate will explode.” one of the hunters called out. I slammed my fist on the wall. Damnit.

“Jace?” I looked over at Stella. She looked scared and worried. “Is… is he going to be alright?”

I looked back at the gate and sighed. “I don’t know.”

Author's Notes:

DUN DUN DAAAAA!
If you haven't realized it yet but this and the last few chapters were a crossover with Legion.



See you all in the next chapter :)

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