I groaned awake. Damn, I didn't have enough mana to use Reflect before his attack.....not that it would have mattered. Damn it! I really am nothing special. I looked to my side to see I was the first one awake of the eleven of us here. I stood up and summoned Oblivion and Oathkeeper. Damn it, I want the power to defend those I care about, and I can't even defend myself! I walked over to a tree at the edge of the clearing before bringing my Keyblades down onto it. I continued like this for I don't know how long, all I know it was Twilight who stopped me by grabbing Oathkeeper in mid swing. I turned to her and she just gestured to the tree....it was barely splinters by this point. Twilight just wrapped her hooves around me and held me...I unsummoned the blades and just stood there for a time.

It was a while before everyone was up and we were let off for as long as we needed to reflect on what we learned about ourselves. We could continue when we were all ready. Apparently the only pony who truly passed was Pinkie unsurprisingly...but she did the same thing I did and said she'd stay. We got our asses handed to us, and he's not even number one. I need to be better.

Before we all left Rarity said to meet her at her shop so that's where I headed, having nowhere else to be until the training starts again. I entered the store to hear Rarity in the back. "One moment!" She came out with a bundle in her hooves. "Oh Eclipse! Just the stallion I wanted to see!" She held up a coat and presented it to me. It was a silver gray with a black trim, reminding me of Final form slightly. I got closer and I realized it wasn't silver, it was metal stitched into the fabric for protection. I also noticed a huge spell matrix ranging from an air spell so I could breath in space, to enhancing the hardness of the metal without making it brittle. There was a few more but that don't really need to be explained, but there was one that I couldn't figure out. "I had Pinkie talk to her family to get some Orichalcum+. The material is the strongest, most flexible metal to date, and is a surprising accepting to magic."

"Wow...Thank you." I said taking the coat in my hooves.

"Don't thank just me darling, everyone pitched in a bit, even the princesses helped. That coat has probably the most worth of anything in this world now."

"What was the other enchantment I noticed...it was so different than anything I've ever seen."

"Ah...that is a little something Twilight came up with, but it took all of us together to work, even the four of us who can't use magic. It'll grant you traits from each of us, passively increasing everything about you! However, if one of us is with you, you can choose to activate what Twilight calls a Drive form. We will be turned into magic, our hearts joining your own to give you enhanced traits of that pony, example Twilight you would lose how much you can take darling, but your magic prowess would be among the stars!"

I put on the coat to find it fits perfectly, not tight so to feel uncomfortable, but not loose either. "I can't thank you all enough."

"Don't thank us just yet darling, we still have another lesson with that Justin today. Although I think things will be a little different now that you can even the odds so to speak." She said with a smile. “You go ahead and head over to Justin, I just need to finish up a few things here, but it may take a while.”

I walked out of the shop and decided to take the scenic route to the training field. After all, It’s a nice day out...don’t want to be knocked out throughout it entirely. I started to hum a little to myself when I stopped...and heard the unmistakable sound of a Door to Darkness. “Not one fucken day…..” I sigh as I head in the direction of the sound.

Who I saw exit it… I froze in shock. “So… you’re the one they call Eclipse?” The man said. He was Human….but that’s not why I froze. Standing there in the woods was a man I had only seen a handful of times, a few times on the TV back on earth...and once during my deep dive. It hadn’t clicked...how could it have. How are you supposed to cope with this!

My father...is Josh Ventral!?

I shake my head, clearing my thoughts as I summon both my keyblades “So what if I am?”

“Then that means, according to your DNA we got during that little Heartless attack, you’re my son.” He replied nonchalantly.

Play it cool... Play it cool damn it! “Well, sorry, My dad on earth left my mom before I was even born, so yea.”

“Yeah… that sounds about right. What was her stage name?”

“How am I supposed to know? She tried to keep it hidden from me as long as possible, but with strangers entering the house every now and then, you pick up on things.” I say with no emotion, scanning the battlefield for every advantage.

“Well that’s a shame. So… how’s it feel to know you’re a Ventral? To realize that generations of killers run through your blood?”

“Bluntly or sugar coated? I like blunt so I’ll say this. It feels like everything lines up while braking at the same time. I hate it.” I raise my keyblades to a ready position.

“You just haven’t found your Killing Mood yet.” Josh looked up, and I saw what he was looking at. A pegasus, just flying by. Before I could act, he pulled out a pistol and fired. She fell dead not far from me… I- I’ve seen her in town… what was her name? Why can’t I remember her name!?! “We were born to kill, it’s what we are… the human demons.”

I stare at the body, my darkness for the first time in my life stirring...but my light is as well. Why Can’t I remember her name, why is my heart acting now, what the hell is going on?! “Human demons...sounds about right for you and your family...But frankly, all I see is a wolf away from it’s pack.” The words just slipped out...I can’t control my body right now. It was instinct.

Josh smiled. “So you can feel your beast stirring, fighting for your mind, body, and soul. You are a Ventral.”

I felt my heart trying to tear in two, but I broke through the haze. “I wasn’t referring to myself you know, I was refering to you. Rule number one of wolf’s hunting, never hunt alone. And that's exactly what you’ve done. You're alone.”

Josh was still smiling. “Yet you’re alone right now too pup. Just a lost pup, who has yet to taste blood yet… just like nephew Zeke.”

Wait...Zeke is technically my cussion? No, now is not the time to focus on that! “There's a difference between all of us you know. Zeke from what I’ve seen avoids killing. You revel in it. Me? I frankly don't care. I don't care who you are. I don’t care that you're my sperm donor. I only care about one thing…” I glare at him, my darkness finally listening to my light as both found a target… for now. “If you are a threat to my new friends.”

Josh sighed, pulled out his other pistol, and looked at me. “Then you are no different than nephew, a tame dog who only kills when his master needs him most… But…” His gaze went towards Ponyville. “Can you kill this Demon wolf pup? Before he kills off that farm?” He was gone in a nahze as screams came from town.

“Damn it!” I yell as My darkness practically howls in my heart, having lost its prey as I run towards Ponyville, my light to tired to reason anymore.

I saw Josh on top of a roof, above over a dozen corpses. “Like it pup? How weak, how slow you are to protect your masters treasures?” He said with a manic chuckle. “I know I do.”

I practically roar and Flash Step to him, going with the intent to kill him. He crossed the line, and now he’ll pay!

As I drew in, there was another haze, but I couldn’t tell, it was like he had something in front of him, something… purple. “Go on, kill the wolf, but kill me or not, she dies either way.”

“Twilight...sister…” something cleared up and I looked to see her smile she summoned her keyblade into Josh as she disappeared. I blinked as I noticed my clothes were now a lavander. I felt...I felt like I could cast anything. “There is one thing you forgot, oh father. No wolf in a pack is defenceless. But a wolf is stronger with it’s pack. I’m never alone, not anymore. Yes, I feel a need to kill you, and I want to. But I’ll do it protecting my pack!” I yell as I point both keyblades at him.

He kicked me though the house we were on top of before I finished. “You monologue too much.”

“That's my line.” I wheeze out as I stand up. I point both keyblades at him, yelling “MEGA FLARE!” as one per keyblade shoot out with the intent on killing him.

He just took the impact of both hits. I was blinded at first, but when it left the house was destroyed… oops… and he was standing across from me… scan showed his hp… didn’t even move. “Toasty, but not what I was hoping.” He sighed. “Tame dog… and of my own litter… heh, I still know you have it in you to kill… all it takes is for you to be alone… and enraged.”

“We all have it in us to kill, but you just enjoy it. That’s what makes you different.”

He sighed again. “Another failed product of the Ventrals…” There was another haze, I saw him in front of me, his hand on my chest as a burning feeling, like hot metal on skin, was burning on my skin. When he pushed me back, I managed to see the scar… it was the word, Failed Product, branded across my chest. “That makes two of you mutts I gotta put down.”

“Sorry, I heard there's a alpha with rabies that need killing. Could it wait?” I say glaring at him through the pain.

“You’re tough at least.” A DTD opened behind him. “But still not even worth a chase.” Josh said as he walked into the DTD.

“By the way….Mom still love you. Thought you should know.” I said as it started to close. Right before it vanished, there was gunshot as a bullet shot out and hit me in the arm. It burned worse than the magic branding and pulsated with darkness.

Thankfully it wasn’t messing with my head...but I really wanted to tear out my arm as Twilight Canceled the Drive. She had a small cut on her but that is all. “Eclipse..dont worry! I-I’ll take you to Justin! He-he’ll know what to do about the darkness! Hold on!” She said as I Simply stared as the place my father left

You let my prey get away……

Again, thanks to BioQuillFiction for not only allowing this plot twist, but also helping out with Josh's lines....now this is interesting. Asks discord for some popcorn as I pull up a chair