[Displaced] A Forced Hero (Old, Non Canon)
Chapter 7: Nightmare. (Xover 3 - Chara) -Edited-
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*Chapter Edited by Azure*
If you feel that this chapter is too longer, I will split it into two. I know alot of you are shocked or surprised at the chapter's word count. Welp, we pulled an all nighter due to inspiration burst and it refused to cease till morning came.
BIG WARNING. This Displaced Chara is foul mouthed and has a twisted mind due to the world she came from. I apology in advance for her actions.
As we walk through Ponyville we heard a commotion at the edge of town. I saw Chara running towards where we heard the commotion, pulling out both knives one glowing red and the other glowing green.
“Chara, wait!” I said reaching out, but it was too late as she was gone. I let out a sigh as I reached back to pull out a Fighter’s Shield and my Ordon Sword, I dashed forward to where she went.
By the time I got there, I could already she that was in a fierce battle against wild Lizalfos. She already had two knifes out, one of them conjured into a green shield. She was giving those monsters a run for their money. Suddenly, all of the scaled reptiles tried to pile up on Chara, I was about to help her, but a sudden explosion of green energy exploded, vaporizing all of the Lizalfos. There was nothing left except for the black mist that they were created from.
“Chara!” I yelled as I ran up to her. I kneeled down to check on her injuries. My attention was drawn away from her however when a Dynalfos slowly approached us brandishing a thick blade. From the looks of it, it seemed to be the leading general of this attack.
The Dynalfos spoke in a strange language that was a mix of grunts and growls, I had to assume it was issuing a challenge toward us. So I accepted it by raising my shield and sword.
“Go on, lizard breath!” Chara said from her position exhaustion clear in her voice.
The Dynalfos’ attention was drawn to Chara’s voice, the evil apparent within its eyes, but it did not dare attack nor did it react. Judging From its expression, it was like someone was talking to it. I was starting to think that maybe Chara’s big show from earlier might of scared him. Suddenly, it lets loose a gurgling scream before leaping high into the air, it retreated to the South West, never to be seen for the time being.
Slowly, the pony folk came out of hiding, their eyes full of gratitude but also full of fear. “No doubt this might of attracted the Sun Princess..” I commented under my breath that only Chara heard me. “She always comes here after things like this, but this time it was nothing thanks to you being here.” I got down on one knee. “But this time, I won’t be performing a disappearing act.”
“I should have been able to do hundreds of those attacks.” Chara said, still breathing deeply from the ordeal. “I guess I'm still exhausted from battling for two days straight in my universe” giggling a little at the end.
“You might of been fueled by Determination and Adrenaline at the time, but now seeing you’re not fighting to free slaves, you won’t be able to use that drive until you’ve rested up. Either that, or try to find something else that can keep you going. I’ve been fighting those things for ten years, I did it to protect those people, I can never live my life knowing people died when I could've done something.” I said as I scooped her up in my arms just like the child that she is.
Soon, the air is filled with the sound of flapping wings. “Look! Its princess Celestia!” a pink colored mare cried out, pointing her hooves to the sky. I looked toward where she pointed and soon, I saw here flying over here as fast as she could, she was fully decked out in golden armor ready for a battle. Good thing for her that she arrived too late.
She lands with grace near us, her eyes go wide when she sees me. “It's you..” She said with a gentle motherly voice. She looks around slowly, as if expecting that I was just an illusion. “You’re staying this time, hero?” She asked.
“Yes, sorry for avoiding you for so long.” I replied, she looked at me with confusion in her expression.
“Is that sun butt?” Chara replied tiredly, causing the crowd to gasp.
“Show some respect, child!” A green pegasi yelled with a glare. Celestia raised a beautiful wingspan out in an attempt to bring order before things got out of hand.
“It's alright, It's not the worst thing I've been called.” She said as she lowered her wing, she slowly approaches me but she seems to be eyeing the child with caution. “Child, I sense you have a lot of power for someone so young, are you the same as he?” She asks Chara, of course she’s comparing her to me.
“Yeah, I'm a displaced but I was not displaced in this Equestria.” she said, causing the crowd to mutter amongst themselves. “Long story short the multiverse is a thing and my Equestria is a lot different than this one seeing as you don't keep slaves.” She said before letting out a yawn, she rolled in my arms to get comfortable. “Now, I'm going to sleep, K sunbutt?”
Celestia went silent after this, she looks up at me, her eyes begging for answers.
“Like she said, it’s a long story, Celestia. Overall: We’ve been forced from our own worlds into different Equestrias. This girl, Chara is from a different reality.” I explained to her.
“Oh… Oh dear..” She whispered. “That.. kind of makes sense, I can see that both of your auras are different now that I get to see you up close.. “she said. I then proceeded to tell her what I knew, my reason for avoiding her, why I’m here, why I’m different, and why I held such power.
“You didn’t have to hide from us.” She said, she raised her wing and placed it over my shoulder. “I care for everypony on my Equus, no matter how different you look.. However, for the sake of tough love, I will protect them if others mean harm..." She said with a smile. Honestly, I was skeptic of this behavior of hers, she’s putting trust in two strangers she barely knows.
“Mind explaining, Princess?” I asked.
“I’ve been around a thousand years, I wield the elements of harmony as I am still connected to them, I know who can be trusted and who is lying. I still have the power to protect my little ponies at all costs.” She leans toward me and whispers.…”Although my royal duties tend to keep me busy, but now that you’re here.. Hero, I can rest a little easier.” She said, then looks toward the young girl in my arms, she was silent for a while. “I sense she has been through so much. Was her Equestria really this bad? Tell me, hero… What was I like in her world?” Celestia asks, her tone of voice told me she was in disbelief, like she couldn’t believe that her own grace would be vile in another world.
I took a deep breath and proceeded to tell her Chara’s world’s ruler. Celestia’s expression had shown disgust, then disbelief, and at last a small bit of depression. She looks back over at Chara, feeling sorry and ashamed.
“Not to worry, I brought her here so that she can at least find peace here in Ponyville…” I chuckled softly. “Even if there is danger around..”
She lets out another sigh. “You don’t know half of it, hero. Try being in my horseshoes for a while.” She says with half-hearted joke. “I will try to arrange a home for you here. Tell me, is there anything you prefer?”
“Well.. I don't need much, just home essentials. Everything else we can get on our own.” I suggested. She bows her down as her horn glows.
“Done, all you need to do is visit the Town hall, fill out a bit of paperwork, pay a few bits, and you’ll be told about the available homes. Are yo-” But before Celestia could complete her sentence, suddenly we heard Chara mumbling in her sleep. ”First immortality then the b******”
All Celestia could do was stare, she couldn't believe her virgin ears of what she just heard. “I believe she needs rehabilitation… A LOT of rehabilitation..” she suggests with a disapproving nod at Chara.
“Before I return to Canterlot, tell me your name, Hero.”
“Most call me Link, but you can call me Jeff.” I said. I know Chara is probably gonna be upset at me, I mean I got to keep my original name while Chara… well, she lost hers. Hey, don’t ask me why I'm a special case, I'm just a confused Displaced.
“I’ll call you Link, your other name sounds too otherworldly..” She suggested and I simply shrugged at her.
With a flap of her angelic wings, she ascends toward the sky. “Oh, and Link? Next time the monsters attack, could you try lure them away before you fight? It’ll cost less for my ponies to pay for repairs.” She says before taking off toward whichever Canterlot is.
The crowd of ponies soon.. disperse and return to their daily lives, some of them mumbling under their breath how Celestia should hire guardponies.
With nothing else to do, I head on over to Town Hall with Chara in my arms sleeping peacefuly, it might even be the first time she got a decent rest.
Welp, I don’t think I need to explain this part, I mean it's just paperwork, nothing exciting about that, but I managed to get them signed and paid for and Mayor Mare- Ok, I couldn’t take her seriously with a name like that.
Afterwards, I had chosen the house that was south outside of Ponyville in a nice quiet area near a small forest that was a lot less wild than the famous Everfree Forest, I mean it still had the local animals, but they were more of the normal kind of wild that I don’t mind.
I carried Chara as she quietly slept in my arms, her expression filled with nothing but peace. This quiet area will have some benefits for her as well, allowing her to not only practice her power, but to also have a breath of fresh air away from her chaotic world.
“Chara, wake up.” I said softly, giving her a slight nudge with a leather gauntlet hand.
“Noo.” she whines cutely in my arms, making me chuckle.
“Come on, Chara, don’t you want to see your home away from home?” I asked her.
“No.” She said quietly trying to stay asleep” Nothing short of a f**king Majora or Ganon is going to wake me up”
“Wait.. Ganon? Majora?” I asked confusingly. She was suppose to have a peaceful dream, not dreams of His past enemies. I let out a sigh and carried her inside the new home, it was a simple log cabin with a fireplace, a slightly primitive kitchen, a few empty rooms that won’t take long to fill in. There were a few pieces of furniture left behind by their previous owner.
Suddenly there was a loud hard banging on the front door, Chara opened one eye and began to speak. “Someone's either suicidal, stupid, or deathly courageous.” She got down from my arms, muttering something to herself about lemon juice and razor blades and seeing how high they can squeal.
“Don’t be like that, grump.” I said as I turned around to open the door, finding it a bit off that someone would be knocking the moment we just entered, I mean jeez we didn’t have time to get settled in. Maybe it's our neighbors?
“Grumpy!? I'm way past grumpy.” She said as she pulled out what looks like a weird cross between a flashlight and a mixer with razor blades on the inside. “Now where's my lemon juice and salt.” she muttered to herself.
“Good thing there isn’t a Displaced Toriel, otherwise this would just get nasty..” I softly commented to myself. “By the way, your friend.. What was his name? I hope he finds my token. No doubt he’s worried about you.” I said as I reached down to grab hold of the doorknob.
“Yeah he probably is.” she said, softly pulling out a clear bottle filled with a yellow liquid. “But this won't be the first time we got separated, last time we got separated I ended up fighting Cadence.” She said. “But he'll be all right, zalzar can take on Celestia. He's got six Souls after all”
I raised my hand to tell Chara to keep her voice down as I didn’t want whoever was at the door to know about who we were, except Celestia. “Hello?” I said with the front door fully opened.
A young white stallion wearing what appeared to be a courier outfit was at the door. “Message for ya.” He said, handing me an envelope with the Royal Seal stamped on the front. “Good day.” He flew off. I broke the seal and read the letter inside. “Please forgive me, but I never got your name. Here in this letter is an enchanted dragon ring, it acts similar to the dragons of Equestria, except you don’t have to take care of it. Any and all letters you wish to send can be delivered with the ring, just apply warmth and it will send it by dragon fire.
Your faithful ruler: Princess Celestia”
“Hay link where's the guard that delivered that?” Chara asked in a tone that was a little too innocent. “I really wanted to meet him and show him my favorite toy.” She said pulling out the device I saw earlier only this time it had straps and a glowing Gem attached to it.
I placed the dragon’s ring into my pouch. “I’d rather not have a scared pony on our hands and have Celestia’s trust.” I said, not trusting Chara’s antics.
“Aw but this device was specifically made for males in mind.” She whined out “I got one for females too if you want to see.” She said reaching into her inventory.
I blinked. “I don’t like the way you worded that..” I said, I hope I wasn’t misunderstanding what she said.
She pulled out an automatic drill with what looked like a dildo made of razor blades instead of the drill "So what do you think?” she said in an innocent voice.
“What the hell, Chara?!” I screamed in shock. “Put that away!” I said, that was just embarrassing to see a child pull THAT out, it just didn’t look right!
“Ahh, but I worked hard to make this.” she said her voice full of disappointment but still putting that monstrosity away.
“You need to remember, this isn’t your Equestria, I mean I doubt the ponies even do any of.. Well, that!” I said, rubbing my forehead in an attempt to clear the vile image of what happened.
“Yeah you're right I need to keep in mind that this isn't my Equestria and I don't have to make people sing like canaries here.” she said sounding a little better.
“What do you think of the home? Speaking of which, I need to go and get some firewood. Winter Is Coming and I'd rather be prepared before the pegasi bring the snow. “I said to Chara.
“Wait it's supposed to be cold?” Chara asked me with confusion written on her face.
“Well, yea. You didn’t notice? I mean I’m not wearing this cloak just for looks.” I said. How did this child not notice the temperature of the air?
“Oh no my clothes have an enchantment that makes them the perfect temperature for me there's also an enchantment that repairs my clothes” she said as if that didn't matter.
“...Unicorn magic? I mean I don’t recall anything in Undertale having that.” I said.
“Oh no Zelzar enchanted it.” She said. “Zelzers magic mutated after he absorbed Luna's soul.” she said pulling out her phone
If I had a drink, I would spit it out in reaction. “I understand that ponies in your world enslaved others, but surely there must of been at least some who were against the idea, right?” I asked.
“No there wasn't, even the future bearer of the element of kindness called me a product, remember” she said in a cold voice.
“...Element of kindness? Is that something like what Celestia mentioned about the elements of harmony? Also, I think there must of been some sort of dark power at work in your world. I mean Bearer of kindness wasn’t exactly ‘Kind’ back then.” I said in a deadpanned voice.
“Actually it is one of the elements of ‘harmony’ and she was already the bearer of kindness in my world. Oh, there is a dark power in my world but she's been in rule for over a thousand years.” she explained in the dark tone of voice.
“If that time does come, could you promise me you won’t do the same? I mean if this world does bring its own version of that bearer. “I said as I reached over to one of the old tables, reaching over to push the dust off of it. It made me wish I had the Gust Jar from Minish Cap, it would come in real handy right about now.
“Hey Link you want to go hunt some monsters?” she asked putting her phone away.
“..After I get prepared, Chara.” I said, stepping outside. “Won’t take long, it’s just gathering branches, logs, kindling. Getting it home will be no problem.” I chuckled softly. I will admit, despite being ripped from my own world and sent into another, I am enjoying the powers that came with this body.
“Okay, let me get ready too.” She said pulling out a pendant in her knives the pendant was a gold heart shape with a red glowing heart-shaped Jewel on a Golden Chain with ruins running up and down the chain.
I shrug my arms. “Don’t take long.” I suggested before reaching into my pouch to see what I could use as a substitute for an axe.
I saw Chara heading towards me, she had a knife holstered hidden underneath one of her pant’s leg. She still had the pendant from earlier. “Oh, I'm already ready.” She said standing there with her arms crossed “And they say girls take forever.” She looked smug as she stated that last bit.
I raise my eyebrow at that comment. “Was that a jab at your gender or were you originally a male?” I said as I started to walk toward the thicker part of the woods.
“I was both an adult and a male before being displaced,” she said in an irritated voice “but because Chara is the gender that people think she is and I always thought she was female when I was displaced, I was turned into a little girl.” she finished.
“Jeez, talk about losing your manhood.” I said with a cringe, the area around us starts to change growing thicker with trees, but not as thick as the everfree forest.
“Yeah but it's not all bad at least, I can't die and I probably will never age as well.” she responded. “Plus back in my universe this was the perfect disguise, you have no idea how many times I've stabbed people in their sleep thanks to them underestimating a
‘little girl’” she finished with a proud smirk on her face.
“You can still feel pain, that is something you can’t ignore. I mean really, you’re not wolverine or deadpool.” I said.
“True, I've always had a high pain tolerance even before I was displaced, I even shattered a bone in my foot and it didn't even take me thirty minutes to get over the pain” she said in the small voice lowering her head a little.
“Before or After you got Displaced? There is another advantage I just realized about being Displaced. Since those aren’t our bodies, we don’t have things we had in our previous life. Like.. Like for example, say you lost your arm in a war, now you’ve got it back.” I said. I think I might of used a bad example though.
“It was before I got displaced and my pain tolerance has only risen since I was displaced. You're right about the advantages of getting a new body since I was displaced, it has been nothing but a blessing to me.” she said sounding a little energetic.
I stop walking before taking a look around. “While I do like what I am, I would still like to go home though..” I said, my voice going a little sad. “This world isn’t mine, plus it's getting more and more risky every time I fight any of the monsters here. I may have the body of a legendary hero, but I can still die of mortal causes.” I said followed by a sigh. “If only this body worked the same as Him, just use a fairy and bam, all better. Know what I mean? Link can get hurt but he didn’t have to live with broken bones, scars, etc.” I pointed at the right side of my elven ear. “I still have the claw marks from when I first fought Timberwolves when I first arrived here.”
“I don't really have anything to go home too, my mom hates me while my ‘friends’ either betray me or used me. The rest of my family pretty much abandoned me while I was barely making it from day-to-day before I was displaced” she said.
I frown at that. “Except for one of them your friend, Rezas back in your world counts, right?” I ask, hoping to change the subject and filter out the negative energy in the air.
“Yeah but we were displaced together so that really doesn't count.” she said with a sigh.
I reached into my pouch a pull out a bag of powder. I hum in thought as an idea was forming, I walk on over to a thick fallen branch, I kneel down to examine it. “I wonder..” I say, reaching into the bag, I grab only a pinch of it to use on the piece of wood. It makes an odd sparkling sound upon being sprinkled over the branch.
Chara raises an eyebrow at what I'm doing. She waits for a minute before responding. “Okay why is the wood sparkling? That's not natural.” She approaches cautiously. “I swear if I die because of this I'm stabbing you in the dick.” she said, annoyance coloring her voice.
The branch glows softly before morphing into a wooden replica of an axe, same exact size as its counterpart. “Ok, now I know what the Magic Powder does.” I say with a good laugh. “I thought it would turn into a monster or something. I mean in the game when you use it on enemies, it changes their shape to something harmless. Apparently, this got changed for some reason.” I say.
Chara stares at me in disbelief before screaming “YOU IDIOT, YOU USE AN UNTESTED ITEM IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE!” before I can get a word in edgewise she continued “SURE I'M UNABLE TO DIE,BUT YOU CAN STILL DIE.” she said with tears in the corners of her eyes.
“Hey, it’s Magic Powder, the worst it can do is drain a small amount of my magic, the stuff isn’t that powerful. Besides, it could've been a little bit worst than this, it could've turned into a small Deku Scrub or a newborn Deku Baba.” I said, frowning at her burst of anger. “I didn’t mean to scare you like that.”
“But you didn't know what it could do! For all you know it could have made Timberwolves!” She said, voice still filled with righteous rage.
“I had to take a chance, nothing ventured nothing gained. This Magic-Powder came from the game, not here.” I said, picking up the wooden axe and reached over to rub the top of her head.
We finally reached a clearing when Chara said. “Link listen, do you hear that?”
My hylian ears perk up as I listened. No sound, no chirps of the birds singing their song, no wind nor the sound of animals moving about. “..This can only mean one thing. Either there’s a predator around, or the animals are sensing something..”
“50 bit says it's a trap.” Chara said with a smirk pulling out both of her knives before walking straight into the middle of the clearing.
“I don’t have bits, Chara. Close I can give you is a large purple rupee worth fifty.” I whisper to her as I followed her, my hand shooting up to grab the hilt of my Ordon Sword, however if it turns out to be a greater threat then I'll switch to another sword.
We were soon surrounded by over a thousand monsters Chara proudly exclaimed “Haha, trap.”
I mentally face-palmed at this, all I wanted to do was gather firewood and relax, but nope, evil doesn’t take a vacation. I slowly look around me to check what kind of monsters we’re dealing with.
Looks like they brought out the big guns as I notice they were all armored monsters of Dark Nuts and Iron Knuckles, the good thing is that they’re all slow moving.
We suddenly heard two crackles from above when I noticed the witches from the spirit Temple above us.
Chara set for my side “Haha, they really must hate us.”
I stared in disbelief at what I saw… No, it can’t freakin’ be… It just can’t be! “The hell are those two doing here!?” I said in a whispered shout.
“You child, the one with a green and yellow sweater! You are a threat to our master's plans and must be destroyed.” one of the witches said.
I had a fierce deadpan expression on my face. “Her? A threat? I’m the one who’s taken down every monster!” I yelled with anger in my voice.
“Yes but this child wiped out an entire platoon and from the memories of the monsters that escaped we noticed she was exhausted so she's more dangerous than you” the other sister yelled at him all the while Chara was giggling beside me.
I was silent at first, but soon a soft chuckle escaped my mouth and soon it turned into a full blown laugh. No doubt the Twinrovas would have a confused expression on their face. “You obviously haven’t seen what I’m capable of…” I said with a smirk. Yea, I’m getting cocky, but after fighting The Batter, it’s made me realize that I need to stop being cautious in a battle and just go for everything I’ve got.
There is something else that told me that those aren’t the same witches, assuming they’re from the same land of hyrule. Something tells me that they’re not working for Ganondorf, otherwise they wouldn’t have bothered to go after someone else, I’m the wielder of the Master Sword here after all. This has to be the case of why they’re not taking me seriously as I’ve yet to use all of my items, oh the expression on their faces if I were to put on the fierce deity mask now.
Chara suddenly spoke up from beside me with a raised eyebrow
”You know that would be intimidating if you were well … intimidating.”
I had to agree with Chara, they weren’t exactly intimidating, but they weren’t exactly pushovers, they can at least put up a fight, even more so if they decide to fuse.
“Are you mocking us?” said twin one.
“No no no no no...pft yeah.” was all Chara said in response raising one knife as it turned yellow, once fully charge, it unleashed a fierce bolt of energy, blasting straight through one of the Dark Nuts. At that moment, I could have sworn I heard in the background ‘Shot through the heart’ in a sing-song voice.
“Attack!” One of the witches screamed as all the knights rushed forward, Chara’s knives took on two different blue colors. one was light blue and the other a dark blue. She swung the dark blue knife sending out a buzz saw of energy while aiming her light blue knife, a rope of light blue energy grabbed into the still spinning saw before she started dragging it around slicing them like a hot knife through butter. All the while, her body started to cover itself in a black substance.
I sighed softly as the knights charged us, this place was going to end up in a chaotic mess after this. So I might as well go all out. Reaching into the pouch, I pulled out a weapon I hadn’t used before.
I bet Chara or the idiotic knights are gonna be taken back by this. At first, the weapon was small as I pulled it out, I held it with both hands. Suddenly, it grows back to it’s original size, a big ball and chain was in my hands.
With a grunt, I began swinging it in a circle. Once I built up enough momentum, I threw it with all my might at the knights charging me. There was a loud metallic crash as the spiked ball slammed into them. They all went flying like a bowling ball hitting the pins.
Suddenly, I heard a pained yelp from behind me, making me quickly turn to see Chara impaled on a sword. Slowly her body disintegrated as if she was made of light. There in her place was a heart with an crack down the middle. It soon shattered like fragile glass. “Gods, Chara..” I said with a groan, I know she can defy death but that was no excuse to get careless. One of the witches crackled out in joy, but it was short lived when a golden star bathed the battlefield in an golden light. Suddenly, a black ball of energy slammed into the witch with the fiery hair, almost killing her on impact.
I quickly returned my attention to the fight as one of the Iron Knuckles tried to slam their axe into my side, I reacted by back flipping away and putting some distance. If only we weren’t in a forest, I would unleash Din’s fiery wrath upon their behinds!
Chara appeared beside me. “Got any plans in that head of yours Link? Anything, Really I don't like dying as I've already done that enough.” Chara asked, her tone of voice was casual as if she was asking about the weather.
I ran a list though the many times in my head until a plan formed. “Only one. How fast are you in baiting? I need you to draw they're attention, try to get them to group as close as possible.” I said, reaching into my pouch. I pulled out a Bomb Bag and handed it to her. The moment she takes it, I reach back into my pouch and pulled out the Hero’s Bow. “If you’ve played any Metroid games during or after Super Metroid, you’ll get the idea.” I quickly explained as both Dark Nut and Iron Knuckle were starting to close in on our position.
“No problem” she said with the best troll face I have ever seen before she cut her hand over her mouth and screamed. ”Hey armors. your mamas were f*** toy's and your daddys were homos!” there were no words to describe the rage that I saw in their eyes after that.
Every single one of the armored beasts took the bait, quickly going after her. All the while she was singing “Trololo” As Chara did her thing, I nocked an arrow into my bow, pulled it back and took aim. I started to channel my magic into the tip of my arrow, soon it was sipping with raw freezing ice. Once the enemies had gathered close enough, I released the string, the arrow glows a fierce white as it sailed straight toward the group.
The sound of music reached my ears as the arrow explodes on impact, like hearing a drawn out note from a harp string. The Ice Arrow created a chain reaction as it began to encase the armored monsters in one huge block of ice. “Chara! Take out a bomb and drop it in the center, now!” I demanded.
She doesn't just take out one bomb or two, she literally takes out the whole damn bag and lights the fuse on all of them simultaneously. She skips out of the blast singing ‘you've been trolled’.
The whole army shattered into a million pieces, each one exploding into pieces of debris and mist. I threw my arm into a fist pump, gratefully for remembering the combo, just freeze them and shatter them with explosives. I looked up toward the sky, expecting a reaction from Koume and Kotake. “You mess with my friend, you mess with me!” I exclaimed.
“Yeah I mean anything less than Ganondorf is Cannon Fodder to me.” Chara said in an arrogant voice, she was angering the witches further.
Annoying those two were easy, especially since those two can argue with each other if a disagreement comes up, like who is older. I was going to shush Chara when she mentioned Ganondorf, but I changed my mind. Those two sons of witches will think I told her about him.
I watched in silence, wondering what their next plan of action would be. Because honestly, summoning more monsters won’t do them any good, I know every single one of them and how to take care of them.
“How dare you compare yourself to Lord Ganon, you little brat!” They both screamed at the same time.
“Oh I don't think you get it,” Chara started “I'm not saying that Ganon could stop me. I'm saying he could stall me.” Chara finished.
“There’s also the fact that I.. Oh, I don’t know… KILLED you two witches and your master before?” I said. It wasn’t exactly a lie, but it wasn’t the truth either, I did kill them in video game before, but not as Link. But that can be arranged though if those two don’t leave us be.
“You'll get yours when our new master is free!” one of the witches said before they both started to fly away before Chara sent a slash of determination straight at the blue haired hag cutting her arm off “Don't you dare run away from!” me Chara screamed at them.
Once the two trouble makers were out of sight, I stepped forward, slashing the air twice, then twirled my sword back before sheathing it, making it let out a loud *shing* sound. I probably did that kind of half-arsed compared to the original TP Links, I did it as this was a worthy victory.
Suddenly, Royal Guards burst from the foliage as they were attracted by all the action. The leader stepped forward and asking about all the commotion coming from here. Before I could answer, Chara spoke up before me. “If you and you're incompetent guard got here earlier maybe I could have killed those b****** and their f****** armored monsters.”
The leader took offense to this, quickly making his way to Chara. “Watch your mouth, kid!” he said with a sneer. Chara smirked back and said “Besides I don't see any of you fighting an entire Army of armored monsters with just two people and winning so get on our level you f****** scrub.”
“Why you ungrateful littl-”
“GUYS!” I quickly stood between the guard and Chara. “This is not the time nor the place to be arguing. And besides, Chara, we don’t know how far Celestia lives, it took a while for them to get here.” I said.
Chara turned to me and whines. “But I love taunting the noobs.” Pouting and crossing her arms.
I turned my head to look at Chara to give her a look worthy of a father’s glare.
Chara looks back at me “Which part of what I said is not true to the fact that we, two people, took down an army of armored monsters, or the fact that if they were here we could have killed those two witches.” she said with her arms crossed and a pout on her face.
“Those two witches can keep coming back, assuming they are the same..” I whispered to Chara.
“Wait.. Witches? Oh for Celestia’s sake..” He said, face hoofing. “Alright, did they give a name? Like Mad Doctor? Crazy Eye? Black Mage?” He asked, listing mostly pony names.
“No but they did lose an arm courtesy of me.” pointing at the arm that she cut off earlier and giggling when some of the turned green.
“Ah, good, that kind. Which species was it? Minotaur or Dragon?” He asked.
“It was neither of those noob,” Chara said once again interrupting me “They're from a species called Gerudo basically an entire species of thieves.” she finished.
The leader gave an unamused expression followed by a sigh. “So they’re an elusive species like your friend there..”
I gave a nervous chuckle. “Except in this case, they’ll be active near me or ponyville..”
He takes out a sketchbook, I then proceeded to describe what they look like, what they need to be careful of, and what they’re capable of doing. “Alright, so I just need to get a few anti-element spells and an army to counter their summons. If you ever find them again, do not, I repeat, do NOT engage them again, I need to go report this to Celestia, then come back with Earth Ponies to fix up this area.” He said, turning around to face his squadron. “We’re returning to bas-” The leader stops when Chara speaks.
“Hey noob before you go you need to watch out for certain masks that have dark magic in them.” Then Chara precedes to describe all the boss masks from Majora's Mask
“Mask menaces as well?” He grumbles something about them not paying him enough for this. “By the way.. CHILD.” He spits the word like venom. “My name is Silver Bullet, and you WILL remember it if you know what’s good for you.” He said, his horn flaring up in the same name as his namesake. “I am her top General and you WILL respect my authority!”
“Hahahahaha I barely respect sun butt and she is in control of the Sun and Moon! What makes you think I would respect you.” Chara said with barely suppressed laughter.
He loomed dangerously close to Chara, so I stepped in again between the two, he glares at me before snorting out from his nostrils. He turns his attention back to his teammates. “We’re returning to base.” He said, throwing one last glare at a still laughing Chara before leaving.
“I don't think I've ever gotten anyone that livid before.” Chara said falling onto the ground and giggling.
“Well, he is a General, he’s probably a veteran as well, shaped and formed from war. Who knows what he’s been though.” I said with a shrug. I take a look around as I took out the wooden axe. “Now.. Where were we before this whole thing exploded?” I said with a smile. Although, it’ll be easier to gather wood since most of the trees were knocked down or damaged. “Uh.. Chara? Question. You always come back from death, does any of your wounds leave any scars or any indication that you were hurt? Or does your body pretty much return to a time before the damage?”
“Link, I'll never be able to get scars trust me I should know. I've been ripped in half, I've been impaled, struck by lightning, thrown in a volcano, you name it I've had it done to me and I don't have a single scar from any of it.” she said with an emotionless voice that just sounded wrong coming out of a child's mouth.
“Well, there is one thing you do keep.” I said as I raised my hand to tap the side of Chara’s head softly. “Your mind, or at least a small part of it.”
“Yeah I guess you're right, I do keep some scars.” she said with an emotionless chuckle.
“Anyways,” I said, making my way to a dead log. “Let’s finish up here before evil rears their ugly head.”
As we were finishing up Chara asked “Hey link did you notice how they said their new master?” an emotion started returning to her voice.
“Yea, I DID!” I said, swinging hard down on the log to split it in two. I quickly reached into my pouch and pulled out two silver gauntlets, both of them donning a red gem in the top middle. I slip them both on before I resumed chopping wood, I can feel my strength increasing through the enchanted pieces of armor, this will make it much easier.
“You know they've got to be someone powerful if they got those witches to abandon Ganon,” Chara said thoughtfully “I can only think of 3 people strong enough to do that, one of them you know which is Majora, the other 2 you wouldn't know because they're not from the Legend of Zelda. They're called Nightmare Moon and Discord, you already know about him so I'll tell you about Nightmare.”
I interrupted Chara. “Hold it.. You mean the mare of the night? The dream walker herself? She’s been trying in desperation to make me suffer, I had to force myself to sleep during the day and be awake during the night because of her constant damn harassment!” I said, anger far to clear to not be noticed. “I still remember our first meeting when she demanded that I kill Princess Celestia.” I said. Killing the innocent is something I never do and I'd rather be dead and resurrected as a zombie before you can even get me to do it.
“Do you think Celestia has a spell to connect our dreams together? If she does then I can help you out with that.” Chara said in a serious tone of voice.
“I don’t know if she does, but we’ll ASK-” I slammed my wooden axe into another log, splitting it more easily, although the wooden axe was having trouble handling the pressure, I'll need to focus on the more older looking wood. “-When we get the chance, it'll be awhile because you know, royal duties and all that jazz.”
“Just tell her that The Nightmare Moon is invading your dreams and that I can help I know for a fact she will rush.” replied Chara.
“Then that leaves three things. First, find where she lives, travel there, then see where she lives or what throne she sits.” I said as I placed the logs into my pouch, they shrink in size and slide in easily.
“Don't you remember the dragon ring she gave you, that'll send a message straight to her.” she replied with a deadpan voice
I mentally face-palmed at that. “I forgot..” I said with a sigh. Yea, I definitely need a vacation.. If I ever get one. “Then all we need to do is buy a… Quill, paper, and ink pot
“~No need~” Chara said in a sing-song voice pulling out a pen and paper and handing it to me
“...Jeez, just how overly prepared are you?” I asked with a shake of my head, putting the axe down. I sat down on a dead tree trunk and wrote out my message including my name, and of course explaining my race so she doesn’t ask later. I reached into my pouch to retrieve the ring. “So.. how do-” suddenly the letter ignites in an green flame “-OLY HYLIA!” I let go of the letter as it turns into an green mist.
“When she said dragon flames, she wasn’t kidding..” I said, checking over my hands to make sure nothing got burnt.
“So now we wait, by the way are you okay?” Chara asked trying to see if my hand was okay.
“Just a little spooked, I know she said dragon fire but I didn’t know it could send letters.” I said, reaching up to rub the back of my head. “You learn something new.”
“Yeah but I know all about this universe and the canon events that are to come,” Chara started *you do realize that we're in a little girl's show right or did you come from a universe without My Little Pony in it?”
“I’ve heard about it, but when you live a busy life, you usually don’t have time for that. I never considered this world would be exactly that, I mean.” I moved my arm through the air to gesture about the world. “This place is a lot more serious for a ‘Kid’s Show’.”
“Yeah but this universe has Zelda monsters in it and you know how the Zelda cast love their dark things,” Chara sad seriously “seriously Majora's Mask with all about the five stages of grief!”
I shook my head. “Wait.. Grief? I’ve beaten the game before, but I didn’t come across any stages of grief.” I swung my axe to break another log, the last I need. Just in time too, the wooden axe just broke. Memories of the game flood my mind, making me realize something, I wonder if the song could work here? Although it's too risky and I’d rather not end up on day one of my arrival.
“Yeah it's all about the five stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance,” Chara said Counting each one with a finger “You didn't notice it in the game, clock town at the beginning was denial, the Deku scrub area was anger, the snow area was bargaining, I don't remember what the rest were but at the end of the three days when the moon is falling down that's acceptance.” Chara finished.
I frown at her explanation as I was picking up the pieces of wood and placing it in my limitless pouch. “Never saw it like that, but..” I shrug my arms, not saying anything more on the subject. Something cold lands on my nose, making me look up toward the sky.
It’s snowing, talk about ironic timing. Were the pegasi watching us or something?
We arrived back just in time to see Celestia land in front of us. “How long has this been going on?” She demands with urgency.
“For ten years.” I said to her while also explaining to her that I had avoided her by sleeping during the day and being awake during the night, oh sure, it was risky but the nights did hold beauty.
Celestia goes quiet as she contemplates this. “But why you?” she asks and I just shrug in response. “But Chara here has a plan to try and get back at he-”
“No.”
“What?” I asked in confusion.
“She’s too dangerous…” She said with hesitation.
“...But if I don’t, then I won’t be able to sleep in peace, Celestia. I’m behind on Chara’s plan, and besides I’ve been through worse.”
“You don’t understand, Link. She is very powerful, she can make dreams into a reality, she can inflict wounds on you in your dreams.” She explained, sending an uncomfortable chill down my spine. What she just said kind of reminded me of a scene from The Matrix where you can die in the matrix.
“Oh please sun butt!” Chara piped up
“I have a way to fight back against her, it's actually how Zelzer killed my world's Luna so all we need is you to connect our dreams and I can I bring her down.” Chara said Crossing her arms and huffing irritably
“...W-what? H-how..” She took a step back from Chara, making me look at my friend in curiosity. “No, I won’t allow it, Chara..” She said with a shaky breath.
“Am I missing something here?” I asked.
“Oh you're missing everything” Chara said to me before turning back to Celestia. “Besides I'm not going to kill her just make sure she knows that she's not a god in the dream world.” she said with a malicious smile on her face.
Celestia approaches Chara, looming over her with a glare. For just a split second, you could've sworn her hair was on fire. “She is my sister, Chara. She is very well versed in Dream Weaving and dangerous with it, even after a thousand years. What do you possess compared to her?”
“There's a thing that the humans have created called the internet, it's a metaphysical thing that stores movies, videos, books, music and pictures. Now, there are people who put things on the internet that would give you nightmares. Would you like to see one of the tamer things that I've seen and usually laugh at.” she said with a malicious smirk pulling out her phone and typing in “Saw Trap Videos”.
“Did you not hear what I said, she can make those dreams real and I’m not talking about her using your fears. She, she..” She stopped talking, her normal calm demeanor was fading as sadness was shown on her face. “Nightmare Moon is controlling my sister.. She will not hesitate to kill you or Link, dying in your own dreams means dying in the real world.”
Her last words made me take a step back. “Seriously?”
“Sun butt I've been killed millions of times already and I come back I always come back!” she all but screamed at Celestia “But dying is such a b****.” she whispered to herself at end.
“W-what? Death isn’t something to joke about, child.” She said, a spark seen in her hair, I reach up to place a hand on her shoulder.
“It's a long story, Celestia. Remember what you said, Chara holds powers like me, she… can’t exactly die, she comes back inside of a star every time. No matter how severe the death.” I explained to her.
“If you don't believe us I'll have Link prove it to you.” Chara said before turning toward me. “Go ahead, show her.” was all Chara said before turning to face Celestia looking directly in her eyes.
“No, I believe him..” Celestia said with a sigh.
“...Celestia?” I said, reaching into my pouch to pull out a beautiful blue ocarina. “If things go wrong..” I said, holding it up. “I rewind time with this. Yes, I know,” I waved a hand. “Just another insane thing, it's no different than you having the power to control the sun and moon.”
Upon hearing that, she sighs again. “...Alright, but.. How will you subdue her?” she asked.
“Hey doesn't that Ocarina have a song to change it from day to night to” Chara interrupted Celestia
I blinked a few times. That was a song I had forgotten, but even if I did remember it back then, I don’t think Celestia here would appreciate it if I took her job. “Right, why do you ask?”
“Oh nothing really just wanted to see what sunbutt thinks about that,” she said before turning to Celestia “so what do you think about that song sunbutt?” she asked in an all too innocent voice.
Celestia was getting a headache at this point, she knew they were powerful, but to defy laws like that reminded her of… Starswirl the bearded. “...What exactly do you plan with the song, why did you ask him of that?”
All Chara did was put on a troll worthy smile not saying a thing, she was filling everyone with dread.
“Uh.. right. Celestia? I’ll need to bring the night here before we put our plan into actions.” I explained.
“It’s too soon for that, you’ll be confusing my little ponies.” She said.
“Actually…” I raise the instrument near my lips. “They won’t. Chara? Grab onto my cloak, please.”
“Alright alright,” Chara said grabbing onto my cloak “but I'm using the song of storms in Ponyville at least once and you can't stop me.”
“Of course you would.” I said with a chuckle, she probably could do it regardless, the song itself applies it's magic regardless of the instrument. I place the ocarina’s mouth piece to my mouth, taking only a moment to reply the notes in my head.
The song was short and quick, bathing me in an orange glow. Suddenly, the sun lowered and the moon rose, causing Celestia to snort in annoyance.
“Hey, it's only affecting the flow of time, not the sun and moon. I wasn’t sure of its range, so I made sure Chara was close in case it worked different.”
Celestia simply stared at me, her lavender eyes glowing in the darkness. I raised my hand in self-defense. “Hey, it's only for the best, Celestia.” I said. Honestly, I couldn’t tell if she was staring at me in disbelief for disobeying her, or if she was considering if I was a threat. I know that look in her eyes, it was the look of a mother willing to protect her child.
Chara spoke up from the side me with a serious look on her face. “Celestia don't do anything to my friend here, you really don't want me as an enemy in my universe. My Celestia's twice as strong as you and I was trading blows with her. I'm on your side because Link is on your side.”
“Chara. Don’t compare me to yours…” She said, slowly breath in and out, you can hear her counting to ten.
“I'm just warning you don't mess with my friend or you're going to have a bad time.” Chara responded toying with her pocket knife.
“Chara please stop making hostilities,” I said with annoyance in my voice. “Just… chill, ok?” I honestly didn’t want Chara being like some sort of guardian.
“Okay but if she hurts you I will not be held responsible for what I do.” Chara said with determination fueling her voice.
I let out a soft sigh. “What’s the plan, Chara.” I said, dropping the subject for the time being.
“First we lure her into a shared dream, then when she's in the dream you wake up and I drag the nightmare possessing Luna into my mindscape.” Chara said giggling with a malicious gleam and her eyes.
“And you promise you won’t harm her or her mind?” Celestia asked in a concerned motherly tone.
“My only target will be the nightmare” Chara said with a straight face before continuing to rub her hands together like a James Bond villain.
“Pinkie promise?” Celestia asked, it was something she learned from a certain pink filly, the promise itself did hold a mysterious form of magic, even if it is a little silly.
“I pinky promise that my only target is the nightmare” Chara said and repeated the silly motions looking thoroughly annoyed.
Celestia smiled at that.
“Alright, all we need to do is lie still while Celestia monitors us.” I said as I headed inside, there was an old bed I saw that will need replacing as soon as possible, the thing was out of date.
“Make sure you get out as soon as she enters the dream.” Chara said seriously before laying down.
The bed itself was very thin and uncomfortable, Celestia had to help us out but casting a spell that used hypnosis to guide the target into a deep sleep. Both of us fell asleep on the old bed.
At first, everything was dark, silent… The sound of a humming laughter echoed throughout the dream realm, giving it a shape and form. Soon, me and Chara found ourselves in an onyx colored palace, everything was black, but for some strange reason everything had a glowing outline just to show it was even there.
“Well Link it's time for you to wake up now.” Was all Chara said before she Whirled around and punched me in the balls with all of her strength.
However, Chara’s fist meets dead air, apparently Celestia heard her and pulled me out. I blink in confusion, but once I fully returned to the world of awakening, I sigh in worry.
That same laugh is heard again, the area now being filled with a venomous mist, causing Chara to cough..
“Okay b**** enough games time to see who the real demon is.” Chara said as she pulled out her knives.
The mist swirls around, causing something to rise up and take on a solid form. It was the upper body of a horse while the rest was white mist, her body had an ethereal glow to it. Her body was mostly black with purple outlines, you couldn't even see her face, it was nothing but glowing eyes like the moon and a creepy smile that would rival the Cheshire cat.
“Well if it isn't the parasite herself,” was all Chara said looking as arrogant as ever you. “I thought you'd be, you know, scary. But I guess I was wrong.” Chara said smirking at the nightmare.
It said nothing at first, but she begins to loom closer, it slowly circles around her, as if checking for something out of the ordinary, but all she found was just any other mortal, a being with fears. She takes a deep breath of the aura that radiates from her, absorbing the fears and growing in size, soon taking on a more horse-like appearance, she’s much taller than Celestia now. “And who would you be?” She asks, her voice was emotionless except for the amusement tugging at the corner of her smile.
“Greetings I'm Chara the demon that comes when you call my name,” Chara introduced herself as going for the full creep factor.
The nightmare suddenly tilts its head to the side, only to go further then that, her neck bending around as if she was the crooked man.
“And you've been messing with my Toy. I don't like it when people touch my stuff Nightmare, so you leave my toy Link alone or I'm going to show you why I'm called a demon.” Chara finished looking Nightmare dead in the eyes.
Through the dream crystal, I was staring in disbelief at her words, I sputtered when Chara called me her toy. “Chara, what the hell!” I exclaimed, but I know she didn’t hear me, why did she do that? It sounds so damn awkward hearing it from a child.
Celestia had a disgusted look on her face.
“Your toy?” the nightmare asked with amusement in her voice. “He was going to be my own personal assassin, it’s a work in progress to get his will to break~” She returns her head back to normal. “But you’re in the way of my revenge, filly.”
“do I look like I give two s**** about anything a two-bit horror movie reject like you would want.” she said with a raised eyebrow.
“Oohoo-hoo-hoo. A Feisty one~” She says with a loud purring, she raises her head high and stares, her eyes darting as if seeing something in her vision, she grins even wider than before. Her tail turns into mist and swirls around, and soon, one of Chara’s fears manifests into being.
Another girl appears around the same age as Chara except the heart floating in front of her was pink, soon the heart takes on a different shape, wrapping around like a protective guardian. The look in her eyes, or at least the one Chara can see, looked just as demented as Chara’s own.
Betty stands there with a happy but twisted smile on her face, she giggles loudly as if her parents promised her a brand new toy.
Chara takes a step back “Yo-you’re not real, y-you can't be in this universe, it's impossible!” Chara said with a slight stutter in her voice. “G-Get yourself together Chara i-it's not real remember what sunbutt said she can use your fears against you.” Chara whispered to herself regaining some confidence.
“I wouldn’t be syncing yourself if I were you..” She said, and with a flash of her own eyes as if they were Sans. Suddenly, Betty attacks, her friend Kumu, the pink ball quickly shape-shifting into a strange spear-like sword that is capable of ripping the souls from their hosts.
She dashes forward with weapon in hand, she thrusts it into Chara’s stomach. Despite it being a dream Chara actually felt that, pure pain and shot through her as she bled. Betty raises her head, giggling madly.
Chara brings up her knife and slashes at Betty trying to take her head off in one go, but she misses. “I won't be beat as easily as Frisk, Betty.” Chara said barely staying on her feet. “Because I won't hesitate to kill you.” She finished, coughing up a little bit of blood.
Betty doesn’t response, still having that same demented glare to her expression. You can hear Nightmare in the background, giggling at Chara. Betty raises her boot before strongly kicking Chara off of her weapon.
Chara stumbles backwards but stays on her feet one knife glowing green the other one glowing purple. As Betty went in for another strike, Chara throws up the Green Knife creating an energy Shield before swinging the purple knife, trying to get Betty with her own attack.
The Nightmare is clopping her hooves together, clearly enjoying this far too much. “Let’s make it interesting~” She says, her eyes flashing again. Using the memories in Chara’s mind, she’s somehow given Betty a new power.
Betty smirks as she raises her hand, her left purple eye flashing. Chara’s attack connected, but Betty didn’t react. Suddenly, a rather familiar skull appears, its left eye is glowing like Betties while the draconic skull's right eye socket began to bleed, in as if to hint at a certain dead pun-making skeleton. The maw of the skull opens wide, gathering pure raw power, prepared to not only blast Chara, but also herself. Betty, after all, cannot die.
"No, no you f******don't,” Chara screamed “don't you dare use the f****** comedian's attack on me!” Chara finished trying to get out of the blast radius.
As the skull’s blast finished, Betty is nowhere in sight, that is until she reappears giggling madly, she appeared as if she was a glitch in the matrix.
Chara suddenly raises both of her knives as they took on a sickly black color, a giant ball of concentrated hatred appeared above her as she suddenly said ‘bigger’ and it doubled in size. She repeated this process five times with it finally being the size of the Earth's moon before we all heard her say ‘perfect’ sending the entire thing at both Betty and the nightmare.
The Nightmare stares in pure delight, madly giggling the same as Betty, the powerful attack glides head on, creating a powerful explosion. Slowly, the dust clears. Nightmare is still standing, while Betty has vanished from the area.
-Shink-
...There she is behind Chara, her scythe embodied deep into her back and shown through on the other side.
“I-i-i” result Chara said for a few seconds before her knives vanish into thin air. Chara just started grinning as an inky black substance began leaking from her eyes and mouth.
Nightmare was giggling so much at this point. “Again, again, again!” she demanded. Betty obeys this, raising her hand to force Chara’s heart to glow blue, she sends the poor soul flying into an invisible barrier. Meanwhile, in the real world, Chara is bleeding from her mouth and nose. “Chara!” I screamed at her. This wasn’t worth it anymore, I ran over to her sleeping body and was about to shake her awake, but Celestia stopped me.
“It’s a bad idea to wake her up while Nightmare Moon is in her dreams, or else risking her being possessed.” Celestia explained, I stared at her in disbelief.
Chara just kept on grinning as if nothing was happening.
Nightmare’s wide smile soon faded into a frown. “That’s not fun..” She said. Betty attempted to improvise by creating a ring of floating skulls to appear around Chara, all of them blasting her at once.
Chara just continues to grin insanely as the attacks kept on doing less and less damage. “Congratulations nightmare,” Chara said in an overly happy voice “you did something even my Celestia couldn't do you broke my ‘host’.”
The nightmare blinks in confusion, then flashes her eyes. She was originally growing bigger, her tendrils were even coming out to grab hold of the dream realm Chara created. However, due to Chara’s fears fading, she was beginning to lose control. “No fun, no fun, no fun!” She yells, stomping her hooves in a childish-like manner.
Nightmare Moon shoots a tendril out at Chara, piercing her head and attempting to pull out any other fears that could help her turn this around.
But she found nothing, there was no fear, no hatred, no Love, not even kindness. It was nothing but an empty void. “Ahh having trouble there little nightmare?” Chara asked tilting her head to the side. Chara was floating there, appearing to look like she laying on an invisible floor. She had her arms crossed over her chest with a smug look on her face. Her eyes were glowing ablaze.
Betty begins to flicker and soon vanishes. The castle behind Nightmare suddenly vanishes out of the dream. “This isn’t fun!” She screams, suddenly taking on a rather vile demonic form, her eyes glowing like the red moon. She lashes out her tendrils at Chara, the whips of darkness were solid and made only of herself, they weren’t as powerful due to Chara’s fears being no longer there.
“What's the matter little nightmare wannabe? Not getting what you want?” Chara told the Nightmare as if she was talking to a baby. Despite being whip lashed by Nightmare’s tendrils, she was showing no pain, the wide gash that the whip created quickly faded away.
With every attempt to bring pain to Chara, it was becoming weaker and weaker by the second. Her nightmare dream form begins to flicker again and again, her hold on Chara’s dream realm was quickly fading.
With a loud scream, she swings a larger whip down on Chara, but Nightmare vanishes in a burst of black particles.
Meanwhile in the real world, I breathed out in relief, happy that Chara grabbed a hold of her fears, but now I was a little scared. What did Chara mean by ‘Her host’?
With the battle over and Celestia no longer sensing Nightmare’s presence, she dispels her magic to allow Chara to return to the waking world.
“Chara?” I ask with a soft worried voice. As of now, Chara was one of the only connections to resemble my world, and I’d hate to lose a good friend, even if her mind is twisted due to being a Displaced.
“Uhhh, anyone get the name of the b**** that hit me?” Chara asked while holding her head.
“Good to see you back.” I said, although my voice was a few volumes down.
“Chara..” Celestia began to grab Chara’s attention.
“Yes sunbutt?” Chara asked with annoyance glaring out of one eye.
Celestia raised her hoof, only to suddenly softly hit upside Chara’s head. “That was reckless, you allowed your inner darkness to affect you!” Celestia said in a scolding motherly tone.
“Let me tell you a bit about myself sun butt you see you can measure someone by their L.O.V.E or their Level Of Violence and mine is the highest a human can get, so my power literally comes from my inner Darkness. So you can take your little lecture, shine it up real nice. turn that b**** sideways and shove it straight up your ass.” Chara said with a deadpan voice and a straight face.
Celestia raised her hoof as if she was about to hit Chara again, except she stopped. Suddenly, she pulls out the unexpected and… hugs Chara?
“Look, filly.. You may have not came from my world or were born of it, but as the royal of Equestria, I must protect my little ponies at all costs, even those who aren’t a pony themselves.” Celestia said, her voice now sounding gentle. Even I was surprised by this sudden gesture, jeez talk about tough love.
“Look sunbutt I didn't need anyone's help before I was displaced and I certainly don't need help now.” Chara said before getting up and leaving the room.
Celestia lets out a soft sigh. “That filly’s been through too much.. Even the hug from me didn’t melt her ice..” She said with sadness on her voice.
I reached up to place my hand on her shoulder, but she suddenly turned to hug me tightly. Seems Chara hit a bit of a nerve with her. I frown at this and slowly hugged back. She was suppose to be a powerful ruler, yet to show this weakness? I guess losing your own sisters can do that.
After a moment of silence past, she let go of me before looking at me with a serious look. “Link.. Who was that other little girl?” Celestia asked.
I scratch the back of my head. “Well.. Uh.. From the world she came from, her Celestia created a magical structure of a little girl to match her in power in strength, except for one thing. She was made to kill Chara and deny her star’s abilities to resurrect her.” I explained. She nodded in understanding. “Give her a while, she’s just very shaken up at the moment.”
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