The Wolfman of Ponyville.
Chapter 6: Banishing the curse and a new gift ( Edited)
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Standing before us was the once awe-inspiring castle of the two sisters. Though that was a thousand years ago, now it looked as though a giant had a drunken brawl with a dragon over a race joke gone wrong. Oh well, time to get shit done.
" Alright, girls this it, the moment that you have been preparing for the last four or so hours, while I have been preparing for this since I was born." They looked shocked to find out I've been training since I popped out the velvet curtain. But shocked faces or not I stepped through the threshold towards my destiny, the girls following me right at my heels.
" Hey, Joe not that I'm afraid or anything, but how do we take down Nightmare Moon?" Twilight asked with curiosity.
" Simple. you girls are the embodiment of the elements, so therefor the elements will choose their bearer." The girls stopped in their tracks right then and there. The looks they gave me ranged from shock to doubt.
Twilight was the first to speak out of her stupor. " What are you talking about? How could we possibly be the elements? This got me to give a little chuckle.
" Well, Twilight lets look at the facts so far." I pointed to AJ. " Applejack told you the truth about a situation where a lie may have been preferred." I pointed to Fluttershy. " Fluttershy was kind to a monster who was in pain." Next up was Pinkie. " Pinkie laughed away the evil-looking faces off the tree's for Pete's sake." Now Rarity. " Rarity gave up part of her tail to fix another's mustache." Rainbow's turn. " Rainbow almost got stabbed because she wouldn't leave you guy's for a position as captain." Now I looked directly into Twilight's eyes. " And from what Spike told me, you have more magic in you than five unicorn's combined. So yes I believe that the elements are meant for you." The information that I provided seemed to dawn on all of them.
" Well damn, when you put it that way who can really argue."
" Exactly, so here's my plan so far, we find the element's, I draw out Nightmare, and then you girls use them on her. Then once everything is done we all go out for some frosty chocolate milkshakes." They all seemed to approve of this plan, although I think Pinkie was more interested in the victory shakes. " Okay, let's take this hallway and see if we-"
" Sorry to put a pin in your little plan, but I believe I have a better one." We turned to the source of the voice, though we already knew who it was. Right in front of us stood Nightmare in all her dark glory, holding much to our shock, the elements of harmony. " Did you fools really think that we would allow you to entrap us in our moon once again? Well think again! With that statement, she proceeded to smash the elements into rubble.
We all stared at the event that just unfolded before us with horror and dread. It seemed that the very tools we needed to get the job done, have been destroyed. " Okay girls, time for plan B."
" What's plan B?" Twilight asked.
" Improvise." At that, I turned around and without even removing my clothes turned into the Wolf then lunged for her. " Round two." I latched onto her with my claws clamped around her flank. What I'm an ass man. She tried to shake me off her by bucking me in the balls. Let me tell you, just because you're indestructible doesn't mean you don't feel pain. And believe me, it worked. I let go of her only to clamp down on her tail.
" Oh you miserable bastard, how dare you to attack the royal flank." Baby I'm about to do worse than that.
Twilight's Pov
He was off like a bolt of lightning. He was determined to stop Nightmare Moon at all costs. And I knew that deep down I had to help him. But without the actual elements how could we possibly do anything. Suddenly I felt a pull coming from one of the piles of stone. It started to glow a soft purple and levitated slowly into the air. My eyes wandered over the other ruined elements to see they were all doing the same, though each had a different color about them.
Suddenly the pile that glowed purple shot straight towards me at an alarming speed. I closed my eyes awaiting the inevitable pain, but it never came, instead, the shards were circling around me as if I had a gravity field around me. I looked behind me to see that the same thing was being done to the other girls. Then, as if things couldn't get any stranger the shards formed around their necks, turning into a necklace, though mine swirled around my head turning into a tiara. And at the center of each piece of jewelry, was a gem, shaped into our cutie marks. The elements of Harmony.
" Oh, wow. These are beautiful." I would have gone into more detail but suddenly a form crashed next to us. I went to investigate only to find Joe in his wolf form. " Joe are you alright?"
" Peachy, considering my ass is getting handed to me by a Disney villain reject." He looked at me and the girls with a surprised look. " Where did you guys get the jewelry?"
" These are the elements. They latched onto us while you were fighting Nightmare."
He seemed to perk up at this when suddenly a dark form slammed into him.
" You will not get away so easily. You will pay for laying your filthy paws upon me." Nightmare was back for another fight . Joe turned to her with a smile.
" Admit it, you like it rough." Gross.
Before Nightmare could respond Joe launched her forward with his legs acting as a springboard. Joe immediately got back up and looked to us. " Alright, plan C. I'll hold her down while you guys fire up the elements alright." Without waiting for us to respond he turned to where he launched Nightmare Moon. " Alright, super, let's go."
Joe ran down the hall at incredible speed leaving us in the dust. " Alright, girls you heard him let's go."
" Alright, finally some action."
" Yeehaw, time to put an end to this rodeo."
" Oh, my"
" If it will put an end to all this then, by all means, lead the way."
" Hasta la vesta, baby."
We all looked at Pinkie after that remark but quickly ignored it. We thundered down the hall where Joe had disappeared into. We wound up entering what had once been the throne room to the sight of Joe wrestling Nightmare to the ground. He seemed to slightly struggle with her as she kept firing lightning bolts from a conjured up cloud onto his back. We took this as our cue to act. I started to channel magic into the element sitting atop my head to activate the others. Within seconds we all started to float above the floor with our bodies slightly giving off a bright aurora of light.
" Joe, hold her down, it's about to work," I shouted at him so we could finally finish the job. But, no sooner had the words left my mouth, than the elements fired down on them both in a swirl of a rainbow beam.
" No, Nooooo." Nightmare screamed as she was consumed in the blast. Unfortunately, Joe was also hit with the blast. Then suddenly a blinding light was washed over us all.
Joe's Pov
White light. Don't know how else to describe white light so I'll just leave it like that. I turned my head, looking for something other than white, sadly I was greeted with more white.
" Well, I guess this must be heaven."
" Not quite my friend." A voice rumbled through blank landscape nearly scaring the crap out of me. Though I did have a little turtle head poking out.
I tried turning into my wolf form only to have nothing happen. Okay, now I'm in trouble. Summoning what courage I had left I yelled " Who are you? Where is this place?" Cliche I know but it works.
" I am the spirit of Harmony itself, and the place is actually inside your mind."
I had to take a double-take at that. I was speaking with harmony itself. Inside my head, gods above hope it didn't see any porn. The being whose very elements we just used to banish the evil that consumed princess Luna. Speaking of.
" Hey" I decided that my normal voice could get to her. " Do you know whether or not Luna is back to her self?" The question seemed to linger for a while before it answered.
" Why not ask her yourself?" I looked ahead at the empty space in confusion until I heard a noise behind me. I turned around only to gasp at the sight before me. Before me, stood a light blue alicorn no taller than any other pony. She had a short mane and night-themed regalia.
She looked at me with realization and fear, no doubt she was able to see me while under the Nightmare influence.
" Please do not hurt us, twas not our fault. Ah, crap. Better diffuse the situation before it gets out of hand.
" Hey, hey it's alright I'm not going to hurt you." This did very little to comfort her. " Umm, would it help if I said I can't wolf out in this place?" That got her to immediately perk up.
Tentatively she approached me. " We...wish to thank thee for releasing us from that horrid corruption. How can we ever repay thee for this noble feat?"
" Let's hold off on repayment until we're back at the castle." I lifted my head to speak to Harmony. " What is it that you want from us, spirit?"
" From the princess, I want nothing. She has suffered enough. Luna looked relieved to hear that she need not do anything to repent. " AS for you Joseph." It knows my name? " I shall grant you two gifts. The first is a weapon crafted by the dwarven blacksmiths of Svartalfheim. Suddenly a table made of stone appeared in front of us. On the table, laid a weapon of unimaginable power and beauty, a two-handed ax carved in sacred runes.
" The second gift is power." Power? What power could this spirit possibly give? " Since it was an alicorn you saved, so shall the power be equal to that of an alicorn.
" Wait, what?"
Before I could protest any further a boom rung out throughout the blank world. Out in the distance, I could faintly see a rainbow-colored orb traveling at tremendous speeds. Heading right for me.
" HOLY CRAP."
back at the castle Twilights Pov
I don't know how long we were out for. It was most likely just around a few minutes to an hour, but it felt like forever. I looked around to see if the other's were alright. Slowly, one by one they all started to wake up. Dash was the first to speak up.
" Ugh, my aching head...what happened?"
" I.....I think we...did it." Looking around, it seemed as though that we succeeded in our mission. Off in the far corner where Nightmare and Joe had been, now stood a young-looking alicorn and Joe with shockingly enough a pair of wings on his back.
Joe's Pov
" Gods what the hell happened." I begrudgingly awoke from what seems like a four-hour jaeger binge. I started to get up till I felt something on my shoulders. I look over to see that attached to my back is a pair of black wings, I reached out a hand to examine them only to feel a twinge in my hands. It was not a twinge of pain, nor was it soothing, the best I can describe this feeling is raw and natural. I looked to my hands to see they glowed a fiery blue.
" Joe, is that you?"
I looked up from my hands to see Twilight staring at me with wide eyes. No doubt she had questions, unfortunately, I had none to give at the moment. I stood up at my full height and as if on instinct my wings unfurled to their full twenty-foot spread. That's going to get some getting used to.
" Sweet Celestia. Joe, those wings of yours is simply divine." High praise? Now that I do like.
" Thank you Rarity, and I must say that your tail seems to have been given back its former glory."
" EEEEK my tail, oh how I missed you."
Before more could be said a bright light started to shine towards the east. It seemed with the defeat of the Nightmare the sun can finally show its faces. Out of the light from the sun, a second light appeared. this second light came through the window, touched the floor, and materialized into the one and only, Princess Celestia. One by one we all started to bow.
" Princess Celestia!" Twilight ran ahead to embrace her mentor.
" Twilight, my faithful student, I knew you could do it." They gave each other a hug and nuzzle to comfort themselves. She looked up from her embrace and her eyes went wide when she saw me. " Joe, what is the-"
" Celestia now is not the time nor the place for this. Besides, I think that she might need your attention more than me." I pointed behind me towards Luna. She followed my direction and gasped.
" Luna?"
" Sister?"
A silence fell upon the room. They just kept staring at each other, Luna with fear, Celestia with a quivering lip. Everyone stared at the two for what seemed like an eternity. I was about to intervene when Celestia sprang to her hooves and ran up to her younger sister.
" Oh Luna, please forgive me. I didn't want to put you on the moon. I just wanted to get rid of the darkness. I'll do whatever you want, just please forgive me." Whoa, now that's some groveling.
Luna Squirmed out of Celestia's death grip. " Sister please, you're embarrassing us." She turned to me and came up to me. " Noble knight, I wish to thank thee for releasing us from our darkness."
" It was my pleasure to have served in aiding in your release your highness."
" Be it as it may, I wish to give you a reward for your service."
" And what might that be?"
" Simple, lessons on how to control your newfound alicorn powers."
" What?" Everyone screamed as though I grew a pair of wings. Oh right.
" Luna, what do you mean alicorn powers? Joe, what does she mean?"
Guess it's time to tell the story. " Alright, I'll tell you, though you might want to have a seat, that goes for you girls too." I pulled over a large stone pillar that had fallen over some time ago. strange thing is, it felt like it weighs about the same as a baseball would, strange indeed. " Alright, everyone situated?" Everyone gave a nod and Pinkie had some popcorn. " Okay, this happened right after the rainbow light show hit us."
20 minutes later
" And that's pretty much it up until this point." Silence, that's all there was after my story. " So, questions?"
Twilight was the first to ask. Shocker. " Are you able to use magic, I mean you don't even have a horn."
" That's what these hands are for Twi." I lifted my hand and blue sparks flew out from my hand. " Does that answer your question?"
Pinkie was next. " Can I throw you a 'inhales' congratulationsyouranunstoppableGodlikebeingwhohaswingsmagicandstrengthtobootandcannowdothesesuperdoopercoolstuff party?" It took me a moment to register what was said. When it finally did.
" Sure Pinks, whatever and whenever, you want."
" Think you'll let me teach you to fly?" I looked to my wings then back to Dash.
" Sure, but, we do this twice a week, and we listen to some much-needed training music. Deal?"
" Deal." We shook on it to seal the deal.
AJ spoke next. " Where are you gonna hunker down while ya'll are here?" Now that is a good question. Where will I stay?
" I don't know, I'll think of something though."
" Well, if ya want, you can alway's stay over at the farm. We could use a strong farm-hand around." She gave me a smile with half-lidded eyes. Oh, mama.
" I'll consider it." I gave her a wink and a smile. She responded with a blush.
Rarity asked me something while holding my shredded shirt. " What are you going to do about this?" Damn, that was a Foo Fighters concert shirt.
" Well don't worry about it I have a few extra shirts on me."
" Do you still have your wolf form?" Fluttershy seemed to think I was a totally different beast now.
With a slow exhale, I became the wolf again, only this time with my wing's intact and claws burning with a blue flame.
" Does this answer your question?"
" Eeep." Flutters hid behind her mane to ease her nerves.
" Alright alright, I think that's enough questions for now. What say we head on back to town?"
" Yes, I believe that would be best. we have much to tell the local populace."
Lady, that's the understatement of the century.
Next Chapter: Click it or ticket ( Edited) Estimated time remaining: 24 Hours, 8 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
I know it's the leviathan ax, but so what? like none of you have ever wanted something like that. By the way, the wolf was supposed to have black fur.
Any way clip of the day.