Tales of Illumination, Book 2: Distortions
Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Lumos to Lux
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Ugh, where am I? … While I’m at it, who am I? I thought when I woke to a plain white room. What is that symbol over the bed? My eyes were fixated on a symbol that was carved into the headboard of the bed frame. I looked down to see I was wearing a suit of black robes. “Why am I getting so much deja-vu from this?” I said out loud.
“Ah, you’re finally awake, we were beginning to worry you wouldn’t get up.” I heard from my right, I turned to see a man in a similar cloak, he had longish silver hair. “Welcome, I am Xemnas, of Organization 13.”
“Organization 13?”
“We are the group that controls all nobodies, though for some reason, we cannot control you. Those of us who actually know about the biology of nobodies are trying to figure out why that is, as well as why you kept your old form.”
“My... Old form?” I asked confused. A sudden sharp pain in my head caused me to collapse, gripping it, and images flashed before me, none of them made sense, but I remembered three things.
1) I have control of light and dark
2) My name is Lumos
3) My ‘Incident’ and splitting.
I stood up slowly, making sure to use the bed for balance, “What just happened?” I asked, only to see Xemnas standing a few feet away, a look of confusion on his face. The look quickly disappeared and was replaced with a stoic look.
“I don’t entirely know myself, some of the organization regained memories in a similar way to what just happened, so... do you remember anything?”
I thought for a moment, before saying “My name, and my... power.” I said, searching for the right words.
“And you are...?” Xemnas asked.
“Lumos, god of Neutrality. I can control light and darkness, solidifying them.”
“That’s... interesting. Could you show me this?”
I focused for a moment, and a blade of light appeared in my right hand, accompanied by one of darkness in the other.
“Can you do anything else with this ‘ability’ of yours?” Xemnas asked curiously.
I thought for a moment, and slammed both together, forming a dull grey blade of solid metal, “Twilight matter. Created from light and darkness in perfect balance... Wow, how do I even know that?”
“It doesn’t really matter, anyway, just in case, we will call you ‘Lux’ for now, so that no one knows who you were. Now, lets go show you around.” Xemnas said as he led me out of the small room.
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Journal of a Nobody: Entry 1:
I won’t write the details of the first four days, which were just getting used to the organization. I’ve remembered how my metal works, and how to infuse powers in them, but thats about it. I’ve managed to convince Xemnas to lend a small amount of his power to creating a new weapon with me, I call it the Nihl, since Xemnas’ power is Void control, which is basically antimatter. Anything Nihl cuts will disintegrate within a matter of seconds. I have also noticed something rather odd, all the members of this organization sound and look exactly the same. Something... just seems off.
~Lux
(These ‘Journal entries’ will be at the end of chapters starting with entry 2 in chapter 9.)
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Umbra’s POV
<Ok, hows this one?> I asked, holding up my sixth attempt at making Akumu a silenced MP5 smg.
“You forgot the firing pin, again.” Akumu said, rolling he eyes.
<DAMN IT!> I shouted, throwing it at the nearest tree, I then charged it with chaos, making it explode.
“Umbra, calm the fuck down.” Akumu said, drawing the sword I made him. “If it’s that difficult, just stop for now. It’s not like I’m gonna need it right now. Is Noctis here? Is Die here? Are Lumos or any of his other parts besides you here?”
I took a few deep breaths before responding, <No, they aren’t...>
“Then I don’t need it right now. I want it, but I can wait until you can focus. Maybe trying to create all these weapons in a row was a bad idea?” he said with a calm demeanor.
<Maybe.>
“And besides, Lumos is probably nothing more than a dusk right now. He’ll be easy to kill, and once he’s gone, we can take all the time in the world to finish off Malum and Mirum.”
<No, Lumos kept his original shape, I can tell you that much, and since Mirum is a heartless, he and Malum could form a whole new person, if they tried.>
“Well even if he did, and even if they do, we’re the most powerful Heartless that ever existed, except for maybe Ansem, but since he’s not around anymore, we’re top darkness dogs.”
<You know, you just gave me an idea...> I said with a sadistic grin.
“Oh, do tell.” Akumu said with a grin of his own.
<Did I tell you about the artificial keyblade when I was talking about KH?>
“You didn’t need to. I guessed that was the one you used on Noctis to separate us, good job by the way, you couldn’t even kill him.”
<Well, that was just a physical copy, what I did used a huge amount of my own energy, the actual key to the heart was never completed. It was built out of six hearts>
“What, we need seven or something?” He asked sarcastically.
<Wrong, we’re going to forge our own blade. A blade of sin, and I know just where to start...> I ‘said,’ as my grin widened.
“Oh, don’t keep me in suspense, where are we going? Also, why do you use that mind thing, why don’t you just create a mouth for yourself or something?”
<I can’t edit my physical appearance so easily.>
“Fine, then allow me.” He said, drawing his sword and advancing toward me, I rolled my eyes.
<I already have a mouth, it just isn’t designed to talk. Besides, with this I can tell you what I’m planning without others knowing my plans.> he stopped, and put away his blade at this.
“Yeah, well what about when you’re thinking about those magazines. I couldn’t get to sleep for hours cause you kept getting those damn images popping into your head and broadcasting them in your sleep!”
<Who said that was accidental?> I grinned.
“Oh, you sonova...No, not gonna let you win. I’m gonna calm down, and think about ripping Noctis’ throat open.”
I let out one of the few sounds my mouth could make: a deep, bark of a laugh, <Anyway, we’re headed to a different world, more specifically, a different Equestria, the ‘Elements of harmony’ each contain a sin of their own as well. So does the dragon the element of magic has for an assistant. Seven hearts, seven sins.>
“So, a new dark keyblade. And since we’re using the elements, how about we give it the name ‘False Harmony’.” Akumu suggested.
<Not a bad idea, anyway, the reason we’re going to a different Equis is because if we used this one, Noctis, Die, and the rest would notice, and we would be rushed, and may slip up. On a different world, we have all the time we need.>
“Wait, what if the princesses of that world come after us for going after all of them? We’re strong, but I don’t feel like going up against the two who control the sun and moon just yet.”
<The controlling of the sun and moon weakens them quite a bit for a time, so if we attack at dawn or dusk, we’ll have more time.> I ‘said,’ and began to form a different weapon in my hands.
“Not necessarily. Remember, the rules are always slightly different at the very least in each Equestria. They may be weakened by it here, but what if it has the opposite effect there?”
<... A fair point, but then again, what if we go to a world where both are already dead?>
“I would say you’re crazy, then I would say I’m in.” He replied, smiling like a madman.
<The biggest problem is the way we arrive there. If we arrive in a menacing or ominous way, we’ll be attacked quickly, and the elements can turn shit to stone.>
“Ha. Then we’ll arrive incognito, as they say. Let ‘em think we’re there to help or some shit like that, then when their backs are turned, slice, out with their hearts.”
<Not a slice, but more a pull.> I corrected <Anyway, the first sin to locate would be ‘Envy’ or ‘Pride’. Both would be helpful in the harvesting process.>
“Well, Noctis only met those ponies briefly, but I’d say that Applejack bitch represents pride. I could feel it radiating from her. If she’s got as much pride in the world you speak of as she does here, then we’ve got our ‘Pride’.”
<Indeed, her pride is more than the average amount, and after that, Rarity holds ‘Envy,’ which would be the second stop. Rainbow Dash holds ‘Sloth,’ which we should get quickly after the second, otherwise she could be a problem later.>
“Oh, and how would a lazy bitch be a problem?” Akumu asked in a confused tone.
I remembered the ‘Sonic Rain-nuke’ <How about her having enough power to replicate a Nuke?>
“Ha. You said she’s sloth, she’d probably be too lazy to use it.”
<Sloth is being lazy, yes, but I have seen it before, if it were used on us... we would be splattered over several streets.>
“Ugh, fine. So, calmed down yet?”
<Yeah, Also, here.> I tossed him the crossbow I had been working on. <It’s a decent enough weapon.>
“Yeah, and I can mod it later. Ah, the joys of knowing almost everything there is to know about weapons.”
<So, shall we begin the hunt?>
“We shall...”
<Indeed,> I ‘said’, picking up a sword with darkness infused, and created a dark passageway with a single swing of it.
“Ok, you have to teach me that.”
I grinned, <That’s a maybe, come on, grab what you can and lets go.>
After nearly a minute in that frozen hell, we walked out of the passageway in the branches of a large tree. Thankfully, Umbra hand made a platform out of darkness right before I could fall.
“So, where to, since I have no fucking idea where I am right now.” Akumu whispered.
<Quiet, anyway, we’re right now in the branches of the tree making up the Ponyville Library.>
“Ponyville? What kind of retarded name is that!? And who builds a library in a tree? What are they, elves or something!?”
<The kind people give to a town in a show whose target audience was small children.>
“Oh. Ok then. It’s still a retarded name, though.”
<It’s a pun of the name of a real city on Earth.>
“Oh? What’s the city called, and can we blow it up or something when we’re done here?”
<If we were going to blow up every city there is a pony pun of on this world, it would take years. Trust me. Anyway, we need to get to Sweet Apple Acres to get our first ‘sin.’ Sweet apple acres is a farm just outside town, and before you bitch about me not having the passage go there, I could only choose the general area of an interdimensional warp.>
“I wasn’t gonna bi...well, maybe a little.” He admitted.
<Now, I think it’s night right now, or the branches are closer together than I thought they would be. If it’s the first, I can get us to the farm in a matter of seconds. If it’s the second, then we’ll have to wait for night if we want to stay stealthy.>
“Seriously? I’ll just pop my head out and check.” Akumu said, beggining to put up his head before I could pull him back down.
<Thats not a good idea, if it is day, then you would be seen. I can think of a better way to check.>
“Then do it before I go stir-crazy!”
<Yeah, yeah.> I said, as he slowly poked a sword through the branches, resulting in a single bit light coming through, coming from a street light, <It’s artificial light, we’re lucky it’s night here>
“Alright then. Let’s get to...wait, where are we going again?”
<Farm called sweet apple acres.>
“Oh. Sounds more like the name of a brothel to me.”
<Oh I wish,>
“Eh, when we’re done here, let's find a world where it really is one.” He said, before jumping out of the tree and hitting the ground running. I just followed on the platform I made, shaking my head.
<What a waste of energy...>
“I heard that!” He said, appearing behind him as I switched from my smoky form to my solid one.
<I know,> He ‘said,’ as small amounts of darkness wrapped around our feet, and the platform sped up at an astonishing rate.
“So, where do you think little Knocky and his friends are?”
<Either A: looking for us. B: looking for Lumos, Mirum, and Malum, or C: Noctis is trapped in his heart, and the others are trying to get him out.> He paused for a moment, before the darkness began to slow. <We’re here.>
“I doubt that C is true”
<Hey, we can hope, can’t we?> I asked as the platform dissipated beneath us, and we dropped onto the ground. I floated down while Akumu fell like a rock, landing on his arse.
“Ow. Dammit, I am so outta practice. Stupid Die with her stupid seal, I should’ve been in charge of this body for six years, but instead, I get locked in the weakling’s mind, then you get me out, and I’m too new to using the body to be effective outside of combat.” Akumu complained.
<Well, now you get all the time in the world.> I ‘said’, <Anyway, it’s about time we collected ‘Pride.’> And with that, I put a glove I had made void of any soul on my right hand, it was black with a single white line down the middle.
“Nice glove. Is a blade gonna pop out? Can it make stuff burst into flames if you touch them with it?”
<No, the specialty of this glove is called ‘Soul Trap.’ You can guess why.>
“It traps the soul of whoever you hit with it within the glove, correct?”
<We have a winner. Also, Unlike stealing the heart, the pony will keep going without a soul for about a week. So the moment we take our first soul, the countdown starts.>
“So, we’ve got a week to do it? Easy munny!”
<Indeed, we only need one, maybe two nights maximum. My point in telling you is that if the princesses find a way to follow us, we’ll have a week’s head start.>
“We won’t need the extra time. Even if they find us, they won’t be able to do a damn thing.”
<Indeed, in fact, I’m beginning to wonder how strong their souls would be... >
“Well, I’m wondering why we ran from Noctis. I mean, I know he had a keyblade, but he’s a weakling, and he can’t even use that body, he has no practice with it.”
<We were in the world of his HEART though, he can edit anything within their.>
“Yeah, but he didn’t know that.”
<Knowing him, he would have eventually figured it out.>
“Even so, he’s still a weakling. But enough about him. Let’s get to soul stealin’!”
<Indeed, I remember Lumos reading something about Applejack having a... ‘connection’ with the trees. So we don’t even need to go inside really.> I ‘said,’ while walking over to a tree, and looking for the best apple amongst the branches.
“Oh, well I’m starving. So I’m gonna grab an apple now.” Akumu said, reaching towards the branches and plucking a juicy apple from it.
<You know, I was just thinking the same thing.> I ‘said,’ whilst grabbing one of the brightest, shiniest apples off of a tree.
I heard an angry roar come from behind Akumu, and I turned to see a bright orange pony with a yellow mane running right at him. I warped next to her, and stuck my gloved hand into her gut. Her eyes faded a bit, and she collapsed.
<’Pride’ captured. Creating sinblade of pride.> I thought-spoke, as a ball of metal appeared in my left hand. The metal shaped itself into a misshapen black keyblade with a golden handguard upon touching the gloved hand. <Next stop: Envy>
Cool. Hey, since she doesn’t have a soul anymore, does that mean she’s technically a zombie? Can we order her around and stuff?” Akumu asked, eying Applejack.
<Almost, but no, it would be better if we didn’t, otherwise we would have a bright orange pony following us around for a week.>
“Only if we ordered her to follow us. We could just order her t-”
<No, thats not what it is, the first to give an order to a soulless is automatically bound to them, until one dies. Think of it as an honor sense.>
“Oh. Ok then.”
<Now then... Next is... whatever the name of the clothing store the wielder of ‘Envy’ works and lives at. Lets go.> I ‘said’ as I created a new dark platform beneath us, which began to fly over the town. We were outside of a building that looked more like a carnival attraction than a clothing store.
“Why is it shaped like a darkness damned merry-go-round?”
<Children’s cartoon, remember?>
“Fuck the children if this is what they want!”
<Lets just get this over with,> I said as I dropped us through a dark passage, and into the room we could see.
“And you say you can’t do precise.” Akumu said with a smirk.
<I said I can’t do interdimensional transport precisely. Never did I say Local is difficult.>
“Meh, whatever floats your boat. So, where’s this Envy girl anyway? I wanna do it this time. Gimme the glove!”
<Very well, just be sure to jab with it. Also, upstairs.> I ‘said’, tossing him the glove from before.
“Oh yeah, bitch is gonna get punched!” Akumu said loudly as he started towards the stairs.
<Just be quiet about it.> I reminded him as I followed him up
“I don’t need to be quiet, I’ve got a soul stealing glove!” he retorted.
<It can only hold one soul at a time. By the way.>
“Maybe so, but if anyone else comes in, I’ll just kick their asses.”
<Fair enough.> I replied, before opening the door to Rarity’s bedroom, in which the ivory pony was sleeping. Akumu walked up to her, slapped her awake, and smiled as he shoved my gloved hand into her chest. When her eyes were completely dull and lifeless, he removed the glove, and tossed it to me.
“That was fun.”
<These ones have been too easy in my opinion.>
“Yeah. I get the feeling someone’s letting us do all this. Like they’re pulling strings or something to make sure we succeed. I don’t like it.”
<Yeah, Lumos got that feeling a lot ever since he absorbed Discord.> I ‘said,’ whilst putting on the glove <Envy captured, creating sinblade of envy.> As a larger, jeweled keyblade appeared in my hand.
“So, Sloth next, since you’re so scared of being nuked?”
<Again.>
“Again? When did you get nuked a first time?”
<Happened to Lumos, but I know how it feels since I have all his memories of it.>
“What does it feel like?”
<Its like being hit by a cannon ball traveling at the speed of sound.>
“Well alright then. We’ll just avoid ‘inspiring’ her.”
<There are two ways we could go about this one. First, we attack during one of her many day time naps, second, we attack at night, at night, I have no clue what it is she does, so it’s possible it would be safer to attack during the day, although if she is awake at night... Well, at least we get a challange.>
“Hmm, I’m gonna go with attack at night. But we’ve gotta find her first.”
<Well, we can check her house. All I know for sure is that if she isn’t there, she will be flying somewhere.>
“Alright then, lead the way. I wanna get this over with so we can get out of this shithole.”
<You and me both, I want to get making heartless too.> With that I warped us out and put us on another dark platform.
“I just want to kill those idiots.” Akumu said as we arrived neared the house of one Cyan pegasus. “DAFUQ! How can a house be made of clouds!?”
<Somehow pegasi have the ability to walk on clouds, some sort of passive magic.> I said <Lumos made one on his world, though there aren’t rainbows coming out of it. Also it looks more like storm clouds. Aaaaand I just realised something.>
“Yeah?” Akumu asked.
<If someone manages to get Noctis out of his, DtH? Anyway, if someone manages to get him out, and they help him come after us, wouldn’t Ven and Clare try getting back-up from Lumos’ world?>
“I would hope so, otherwise it wouldn’t be much of a challenge. Also, who would they get to help?”
<Well, there is a fire/lightning user, a poison user, a water user, an earth user, and a smoke user.>
“Well, I already know who I like the most among them.” Akumu said, grinning.
<Oh, do tell.> I let out the creepiest grin I could.
“Well, the poison user of course. Think we could use their own poison against them if they come along with the little ragtag group?”
<Well, using her and shade’s power, Lumos made a dagger that can kill in 5 seconds from the cut. But that is lost to us.>
“How come?”
<Lumos put it somewhere in the dark realm, a random spot. It would take years to find, so all we can do related to it is pray we don’t step on it.>
“Ok, I officially hate Lumos.” Akumu said as we finally reached the house.
<Yeah. I know that feel.>
“Hey, will we be able to stand on these?” Akumu asked as he put a foot onto one of the clouds. I made sure to grab him before he could fall through though.
<Lumos had wings, remember?>
“Dammit. I hate clouds.” He said, and made a huff of disappointment.
<I’ll check, Since I’m Lumos’ heartless I shou-> I was cut off by falling through the clouds, I quickly made a dark board under me, and lifted myself back up.
<Fuck that was a close one.>
“You don’t have wings. That sucks.”
<Thats because when I was Sanguine I tore them out. Dammit why did I do that?!>
“Oh. Wish I could’ve seen that. It would have been awesome.”
<Eh, it wasn’t that interesting, anyway, I’ll lower you to the ground, and then check the house.> The platform began to descend as I went up toward the floor of the house.
“Awww, I wanted to see you rip her soul out!” I heard Akumu whine.
<Yeah, yeah, I’ll be back shortly,> and with that, I lifted myself into the house of clouds.
It took three minutes to search the place, and guess what? It was all wasted. Thats right, she wasn’t. Fucking. There.
<She isn’t here.> I landed in front of Akumu, <Guess you get to see me tear out the soul after all.>
“Well, I got something to show you first.” He said, holding up... wait...
<Wait, Isn’t this Noctis’ blade?>
“Yup. Idiot had to give it up, as well as his human form and his ability to control the Lunar Orb’s powers, in order to keep his heart. Turns out I got the blade.”
<Do you have anything else of his?> Umbra asked.
“Dunno. Lemme check.” Hw said, reaching into his arm and pulling out several glowing orbs. “Oh FUCK YEAH, WE HAVE MATERIA BITCHES!”
<Not so loud! But still, nice! Which ones we got?>
“From what I can tell, every single one he brought with him when he went to kill you. That means we’ve got Firaga, Firaga Burst, Blizzaga, Thundaga, Shadow Flames, Curaga, and-SWEET, WE GOT YOJIMBO!”
<Nice, but... Do we have a way to pay him?>
“Only if we can’t find his weak spots. We find those, all we need to do is kick ‘em and he’ll either do exactly what we want, or...” He rubbed the back of his head. “He’ll try to kill us.
<Wait, so I could have done that and Noctis would have been able to have him fight me? DAMNIT!>
“Noctis doesn’t know about it. Besides, he’s too goody-goody to ever use it even if he did know.”
<Eh, he would probably turn on us quickly, so maybe we should just start stealing money wherever we go as well as kill, steal souls, and make heartless.>
“No need.” He said, pulling out a small leather object. “I got his wallet!”
<I thought it was empty...>
“Are you kidding? Noctis has several million gil saved up from missions and such.”
<Wow, talk about plot convenience.> I’m looking at you, authors.
“Yeah. I really don’t like this feeling of invisible helpers, despite how lucky it makes us.”
<I’m sure it’s just that we’re paranoid.>
“Talk to the hand, cause the face ain’t listenin’.”
<Whatever, lets just go find our next sin for collection, since ‘Sloth’ isn’t here. We can get both ‘Wrath’ and ‘Greed’ from the library where we first arrived.>
“Sure thing bossless.”
<HA! I see what you did there!>
“Yeah, cool. So, to the tree again?”
<Eeyup.> My ‘voice’ did a southern accent.
“What’s with the sudden accent?”
<It’s a joke about one of the people on this world, who only really ever says ‘Eeyup’ or ‘Nnope’.>
“I see. So he’s retarded?”
<No one knows. Anyway lets get going.>
“Sure.” He said as I warped us back to the library.
<Since there are two souls, it would be best if we each tried to harvest one at the same time.>
“So you have a second glove?”
<I always make backups.> I said as I tossed him my spare glove, which was left handed.
“Nice.” I said, putting on the glove. “So, Wrath or Greed for you?” I asked.
<Depends, do you want to steal the soul of a baby dragon or a purple unicorn?>
“I want to steal the soul of the one who shocked Die. Despite the fact that I hate her guts, I still desire revenge against the one who hurt her. Stupid remnants of Noctis’ emotions.”
<... We could use those emotions, you know.>
“Oh, how so?”
<The Unversed. They are personified emotions. Anyway, the one you want is ‘Wrath,’ which is in the purple unicorn.> I said before walking up the stairs, Akumu followed until we got to the front door. He opened said door and looked into the room, inside which slept the unicorn Twilight Sparkle, and her draconic assistant..
<On 3.> I said, positioning myself over the dragon.
“1.”
<2...>
<FIVE!> I mind shouted, and shot my hand into Spike’s chest, tearing out his soul.
“The fuck?” Akumu said, before rushing the now awake unicorn and jamming his gloved hand into her, and pulling out the soul.
<Sins captured, making sinblades.> I said, an orb of metal appearing in my gloved hand, which became a metallic red, and formed a simpler keyblade than the others did. Then another orb dropped into the gloved hand of Akumu, which formed a different, sadistic looking blade of sin.
“The fuck was that? Five?”
<Reference to a glorious comedy group, dubbed ‘Monty Python.’>
“Well fuck Monty, and his Pythons.”
<Whatever.> FUCK YOU I DO WHAT I WANT!
“So, we’ve got four sins now. All we need is Lust, Sloth, and Gluttony, and we’re done. And it hasn’t even been one day yet? Seriously, this is definitely too easy.”
<Assumed wielder of ‘Lust’ lives outside town, so that one should be easy since we can make all the noise we want there. ‘Sloth’ is nowhere to be found at the moment, but we’ll deal with that in the daytime. So that leaves Gluttony.>
“Fun. Hey, on the off chance that we lose, what happens to the sinblades?”
I thought about it for a few moments, before eventually saying, <I don’t know, this isn’t anything like the keybade of hearts, which dissipated when Sora turned himself into a heartless with it to free another. So I can assume that if we complete the final form of the blades, which would be, as you called it ‘False Harmony,’ that it really shouldn’t disappear, since it’s souls and not hearts that made it.>
“So we’ve still doomed a world by eliminating its heroes. I like it. Even if we lose, we win.”
<Indeed, so then, to gluttony?>
“Sure, so where’s she hiding?”
“HI! I’M PINKIE PIE!”
Akumu jumped back as a pink blur jumped out from between us, I instantly recognized this as Pinkie Pie.
<Well, that would be her. The only pony to truly defy any and every law of physics.>
“Um, what are you talking about?” Pinkie asked, tilting her head to the side, and raising an eyebrow.
<... You can hear me? Even though I’m using private though-speech?>
“OOOH, is that telepathy, are you psychic? Can you tell what I’m thinking-oOOH can you control my mind? Are you controlling it right now or are you making me think you’re controlling my mind or-OOOOH nice gloves!” She said at a mile a minute.
I put on a showman’s smile, <Would you like to take a closer look at them?> I asked.
“Maybe later, right now I have to-*GASP*-, I totally have to throw you a party!” She said, bounding off, leaving an after-image.
“Umbra.”
<This... Isn’t good, If that party is thrown, we’ll be revealed to the whole town.>
“Actually, we could turn this to our advantage.” … It could? Oh yeah...
<... I see what you’re getting at, if we get ‘Lust’ before hand, we could get both ‘Sloth’ and ‘Gluttony’ at the party, right?>
“Yeah. So, to Lust’s house?”
<Indeed, this one should be the easiest.>
“How so? Is she gonna try and seduce us or something?”
<No, she is generally depicted as weak and powerless in comparison to the others. Now then lets go.> I ‘said’ as I warped us to the cottage of Fluttershy.
“Woah, that’s a lot of animals.” Akumu said, probably just creeped out by all the eyes staring at us.
<She’s basically the town veterinarian. Just be careful of the carnivorous ones.>
“Oh, come on, what harm could they possi-AGH, GETITOFFGETITOFFGETIFOFF!” He yelled as a white furball attached itself to his leg and immediately started chomping on it.
Umbra pulled Angel bunny off his leg, <False alarm. It’s just her pet rabbit.>
“Rabbit? RABBIT!? IT’S MORE LIKE A FUCKING SAHAGIN WITH THE WAY IT TRIED TO CHOMP ON ME!”
<Eh, whatever.> he said as he crushed Angel’s throat.
“Good riddance, now where’s th-”
“ANGEL! YOU MONSTER!” I heard Fluttershy’s voice exclaim.
<You were saying?> I asked as I jabbed my hand into her chest, and tore out her soul.
“So Lust is ours. Now we’ve got two to go.” I said as Umbra created yet another sinblade.
<Then we’ll have the full set. Lucky thing the pink one is obsessed with parties. Unless this is the ‘Cupcakes’ universe...> I thought with a shudder.
“Something tells me I don’t wanna know.” Akumu said with a raised eyebrow.
<In the cupcakes universe, one of the ponies, the pink one from before, is a psychopath killer who butchered the wielder of ‘Sloth,’ and made her into baked, frosted goods.>
“Dude, I want to kill every living thing and even I think that’s fucked up.” Akumu shivered.
<Well you weren’t serving meat to a herbivorous communities disguised as pastries.>
“Good point.”
<If this IS that universe, we leave quickly and never return, collecting ‘Sloth’ and ‘Gluttony’ from another world.>
“Wait, if this is that universe, wouldn’t Gluttony have already turned Sloth into cupcakes?”
<Thats what I just said.>
“No, you said we’d leave and get them from another world, I pointed out that if this is that universe, then sloth is dead. Though I doubt that she is.”
<Yes, so we can go to an alternate version of this world and find ‘Sloth’ again.>
“Well, I think Sloth is alive here. Trust me, I know psychotic, and while Gluttony is crazy, she’s definitely not psychotic.”
<Good, I don’t want to risk being pullen apart by a madmare with a chainsaw if we go to the party.>
“Why did you say pullen? It’s pulled.”
<Speaking habit.>
“Ah. Let’s get to wherever this party is before we die of old age.”
<Best way to find a pinkie party is to not try. Lumos learned that lesson the slow way.>
“Oooookaaaaaaay?” Akumu said in a ‘The fuck does that mean?’ kind of tone.
I sighed, <Summarization of events: Lumos spent three hours trying to find it, moment he gave up, it happened.>
“Wow, that’s...weird. The moment he gives up, lady luck smiles on him? Does that happen to him a lot?”
<Not really, no.>
“Ok then. So where to next?”
<It doesn’t matter really, the party is always random... I think I’ll go to the forest for a little bit, let out some anger on the local wildlife.>
“Well, I’ll go back to town, maybe see if the library has some useful information, as unlikely as that is.” He said, walking towards the town. “If you need me, yell ‘I NEED AN ADULT!’ with that mind thing.”
I chuckled, <Ok, just beware of flaming unicorns.>
“Wait, what? What do you mean flaming unicorns?”
<The purple unicorn you took wrath from can make herself catch fire with no harm to her own body.>
“Um, how would she do that without her soul? She’s essentially an empty husk.”
<Magic is biological here, not spiritual, there are glands in the brains of unicorns made for holding magic.>
“Ok then. Well, see ya Umbra. Don’t kill too many of the forest’s inhabitants.”
<Whatever.> He said as he flew off on a dark platform.
The forest creatures were more than happy to attack me, making it all the easier to slaughter them one by one. After the first few manticores, they eventually stopped attacking, and began to run from me on sight.
That’s right, run away. Know fear!
I summoned Pride, and stabbed a manticore with it. Somehow this quickly turned it into a Living Bone heartless.
Interesting, so just one sinblade has the power of the six heart version of the keyblade of hearts. I thought to myself. My look of thought was replaced with a wicked grin. Might as well start making my army!
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Not much to say, so the answer to the last riddle was 'a towel.' Here is todays riddle:
It's more powerful than God.
It's more evil than the devil.
The poor have it.
The rich need it.
If you eat it, you'll die.
What am I?
Sorry to anyone who's religious if this offends you.
~Cloud Nova/Madman12435 Signing out.
