The Faceless Ones
Chapter 1: Chapter 1: They Have Awoken (Part One of Four)
Load Full Story Next Chapter~~~Location: ???, Manehattan~~~
~~~Time: 21:08
~~~POV: The Keeper
Manehattan, not much different from the Manhattan I know back home, aside from the carriages, everything seems to be the same around here.
I suddenly have feeling of anger, which is my mental warning bell of my job having to be done, another child and their parent to save. I have this ability to be in an area that doesn't exist, while somehow being in a location that does exist, and from here, I have watched over the ponies whenever it is my turn to be out.
I start walking in the direction of the one who would bring harm to a child and their parent, and suddenly the world shifts around me and I'm at entrance of an alleyway, I check my surroundings to make sure nothing saw me, and walk down the alleyway. As I'm walking, I pull my extra large meat tenderizer out of my belt and prepare to bring an end to this thing, this... animal that was once like any other pony, that lived a life with a family, an education... why is it that nothing ever seems to change?
I turned the corner and there they were, at the end of the alley, a grown earth pony stallion and mare, standing side-by-side, prepared to defend the filly... no, their filly, from this... this monster of a pony. The filly crouched on the ground, crying for it to stop, as the unicorn stallion in front of them levitates his knife above his head, rage filled my body with energy. I walked up to the unicorn, as the earth ponies noticed me and looked with horror, the unicorn oblivious to this until I grabbed him by the neck, I looked to the parents and the filly, and then back to the unicorn in my hand.
"You," I said, a dark tone to my already deep and gruff voice, "you have attempted to rid this child of their innocence, their parents..." I felt the energy I have emanate from my body, giving me a demonic aura, "...their sanity.
"You will pay for your crimes..." I held up my spiked hammer, and turned towards the brick wall, which seemed to become liquid once I turned towards it, "...in my world."
"Noo... wait..." he gasped through choked breath, "please... let me..."
I release him from my grasp, he thuds to the ground, and he gasps for air, I leave him to recover for a few moments.
"T-tha- *cough* thank y-you *cough cough* I-" he stutters as he has coughing fits.
"I believe you were trying to explain something?" I stated impatiently, arms crossed.
"*cough* R-right," he clears his throat, attempting to rid himself of his coughing fit, "I... I *cough* didn't want to do this... but I have to, to save my family."
I let arms hang by my sides as I felt another pang of anger, "I believe you, I've just been informed of them, they are in danger, and only I can get to them quick enough." I look over to the other three in alleyway, "All of you need to run there are more on their way and they won't show any mercy," I look back to the unicorn, "and you have to protect them from those that have your family. Now GO!" I point down the alleyway.
"I will try," the unicorn nodded, then with a pleading look, "please, save my family." He then gestured for the others to follow.
"Thank you," said the earth pony mare, tears in her eyes as she ran past, the stallion following behind with the filly in hoof.
I nodded and, as soon as I saw them leave the alleyway, I walked into brick wall, back into my dimension, then ran in the direction my anger directed me towards and the world around me warped once again.
I now found myself just outside of a warehouse and trudged forward, my anger being my guide to save the innocent family, and entered the warehouse. I sensed them within the middle of the warehouse and I could see why, the normal way there was complicated to get through. Though when I'm trying to save others, I make my own path. I charged through walls of crates filled with trinkets, gems '...ow', one literally with dust '...who and why?', before finally arriving in the center.
I looked around and noticed that there were seven other ponies besides the pegasus colt and mare, who were both tied up at the wings and hooves, and gagged with duct tape. They all looked at me in horror, as I brought my spiked hammer up and rested it on my left shoulder, and then I moved quickly to grab one of the other ponies, an earth pony stallion, and threw him at a pegasus mare sending them both into the ground with a THUD.
The other ponies, besides those tied and gagged, were shaken out of their stupor and came charging at me; behind me were three unicorns, two male one female, in front of were an earth pony and a pegasus, both male. I grabbed the closest one to me, the pegasus stallion, and used him to bat away the next closest one, the earth pony stallion, and threw him at the unicorns, though it missed them, it provided as a needed distraction.
I cut the ropes off of the ponies and removed their gags and told them, "Run," as I was slammed into the nearby wall of crates with a spell. As I cleared my thoughts, saw a tail disappear around a corner, making me smile within my safe-for-a-head, and returned my attention to the remaining three unicorns. I got up and brushed myself off and walked towards them, getting to back up a few steps all the while glaring daggers at me, though that front was slowly, but noticeably deteriorating. I held up my right hand and let my energy flow through it and it let out a wave of dark red energy, causing two things to happen: disabling any magic users' magic within the area besides my power, and causing the floor beneath me and them to turn into a portal to my realm.
"We will finish this in my world," I stated as we all slowly sunk into the floor, "there, you will be shown what it truly means to suffer."
~~~Location: Central Park, Manehattan~~~
~~~Time: 1:01~~~
~~~POV: Third Person: Omniscient: Puzzle Solver~~~
Today was quite the interesting day, a few ponies had requested the help of Royal Guard for attempts on their lives, and one of them admitted that they were forced to and almost successfully killed three ponies. That one pony was given a small sentence of 5 days of escorted community service. The Royal Guard went to the warehouse with three of the ponies to apprehend the suspects, only to find four of them tied up and the other three stock-still almost as if they were dead. They were still alive and they were put through many tests, only to find nothing but possibly a case of a severely traumatic event, they responded to nothing and were hospitalized until they either passed or returned to being somewhat normal.
Right now, Problem Solver the earth pony, was reading the paper as he thought about all that happened last night, how he barely dodged the grace of Death, yet, was saved by what appeared as a being with terrifying abilities and an unusual weapon.
'I wish I could thank him,' Problem thought, 'he saved my wife, my daughter... and me.' he thought this as he continued to read the paper, he flipped to the next page and noticed a small paper with familiar looking safe drawn on it. Curious he picked it up and flipped it over to find a message written on it, and as he read it he could swear he could hear it speaking to him: 'Your safety is all the thanks I need, just avoid trouble if possible I'd rather not have to save you again, but if you are unable to... we may meet again. Until next we meet, The Keeper, Safe Head, or Mr. Safe.
One of the Four Faceless Ones.'
Problem looked around, as he felt he was being watched, and noticed in the distance, beside a tree in Central Park, was a bipedal being with a safe for a head standing beside it, seemingly looking right at him. A frisbee that was thrown had gotten in the way for a moment and when it was out of the way, he was gone.
Next Chapter: Chapter 2: They Have Awoken (Part Two of Four) Estimated time remaining: 2 Hours, 20 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Heyya guys, had this story idea in my head... couldn't get rid of it so, i just thought I'd throw it out there, see what you guys think. Tell, how was it? Did you like the this chapter where you get to see The Keeper in action? As always, if there are some errors in the chapter(s) or if you have some constructive or creative criticism, please comment down below.