“Alright so I felt that from here, what is this bastard doing?” Zeko thought as he sprang through the forest floor, referring to the sudden burst of energy he’d felt while walking which made him change his pace quickly. Despite being covered in sand he wasn’t showing any fatigue or lack of speed in traversing the terrain. Suddenly an aura flared up and caught Zeko’s attention. “That’s not even what I felt before!” The sand demon rushed for the source of the energy and entered a portion of the forest with more spaced out trees. He came upon a massive figure

“Looks like you- What the fuck?!”

(Perspective: Jack 1st person POV)

He’s covered in that sand... how the HELL?! He must’ve done it after I left Dio alone. Whatever, I’m about to-

“You have the choice to leave.” That shook me for a second but his... eyes? At least that’s where they should be, and why is his face red? “You can go back to wherever you came from now and you won’t get hurt.”

He... He’s not trying to tell me that... who the HELL does he think? For a second I blacked out but when I came back to the real world, so to speak, my shin was steaming and Zeko was planted into a tree. I decided that I’d already dug my hole, “Hah!” And might as well start the fight so I walked to him and grabbed his... This is hair?! Feeling it now I can see that the crimson and maybe some of the sand on his head is hair, I feel like so many girls would kill to have-

“You made your choice!” The stars in my vision helped me cope with sailing through the air and the landing was soft since it was in a canopy and since I’m so tall, falling to the grass didn’t take long. I managed to notice that Zeko was coming at me like a train in time to avoid losing my head, the tree wasn’t as lucky.

(Perspective: Third person)

“Give em an inch and they’ll take your head.” Zeko thought while chopping through a tree in trying to hit Jack. The giant figure snapping up with flames surrounding his hands.

“Let’s do this!” Jack punched Zeko in the chest, turning the sand it contacted into glass. “Sand’s still sand I guess.” He tried to remove his hand but it was encased in a fresh layer of sand allowing Zeko’s tail to knock Jack off his feet and push him backwards.

“Shukaku called it his ultimate defense, this might prove him right.” Zeko got onto all fours again while Jack put his hands up defensively. “This is going to be excruciating...”

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(Remains of the Castle of Two sisters)

“Just stay together girls!” Twilight said as she fired a bolt of magic through an oncoming Draugr, stopping it permanently. Her friends were either fighting off the other undead or in one yellow Pegasus’ case, avoiding any fighting at all costs.

Rainbow Dash was crashing into her opponents and using her far greater speed to blitz them before their weapons could hit her. “Kinda tough when they keep splitting us up.” As she spoke more of the Draugr got in the way of her and Rarity who was using magic to hurl rocks at her attackers after Pinkie Pie blinds them with cakes that she pulled from her hair.

“Fus-“

“What’d he say?” Applejack questioned while tying up a pair of Draugr.

“Ro Dah!” A wave hit Applejack and sent her straight into the rainbow haired Pegasus who was grappling with a Draugr. The two wound up on the ground.

“What happened?” Rainbow Dash asked, dazed from her friend hitting her while Applejack struggled to get up.

“Hi los dilon!” The better armored soldier raised his sword in preparation but when he swung it downwards he found that his arm was missing from the elbow upwards.

“What in tarnation?” The undead soldier was decapitated and a fireball incinerated the nearby Draugr

“My apologies but you seemed to be in distress.” Kosanu jumped into view and landed on a Draugr, smashing its skull in the process.

Twilight made her way to the shinobi and saw that he was missing his arm and had an eyepatch. “Kotetsu! What happened to you?”

“I’m not Kotetsu, I’m Kosanu and I’ll tell you what happened some other-“ He moved her and split kicked a pair of Draugr in their chestplates. “Be more aware of these creatures, they don’t seem to-“

A roar cut him off and made those on the battlefield look up and see a massive green dragon with a spaded tail and a frilled neck. “Hear me and feel fear, Zu’u Sahloknir.” The seven living fighters regrouped and stood in defiance of their enemy.

“We might have to use the elements, I’ve never seen any kind of dragon like this in my books.” Sahloknir started to fly downwards with a gleam in his eye, he opened his mouth to speak to Kosanu’s alarm.

“Fo- Krah Diin!” What could be described as a breath of snow and ice left the dragon’s mouth, tore through the Draugr and headed for the group but before Kosanu could react, Twilight created a barrier around them. The ice breath pelted the barrier and cracks started to form, but luckily the attack ended.

“Hey uh, Kosanu, you think you can hold him off so we can do the magic thing?” Rainbow Dash asked but Kosanu shook his head.

“If I had two eyes I could, I wouldn’t even need two arms but without both I’m not able to properly analyze distance. Of course I’ll still give it my greatest effort.” His hand was coated in electricity.

“Pahlok joore, if you think that you could- Dii viing?!” The dragon’s right wing had a spear of lightning piercing it that created a hole causing Sahloknir to make a crash landing.

The Mane six looked satisfied at the turnaround but Kosanu turned back to them to deliver an important piece of information. “His hide is much more durable than I made it seem, I will try to give you time for whatever it is you need.” As soon as Kosanu brandished his blade a massive beam overshadowed that portion of the forest and headed straight for the sky to the horror of Twilight and her friends. Fluttershy lost any confidence she’d been showing and hid behind Rarity who stared at the sky and the clouds that were split from the devastating beam.

“It seems my master is having trouble.” Sahloknir craned his head and neck to look at where the attack came from. “However, you must die first.” He looked back at the group and saw that Twilight put up a barrier around her and the other girls with Kosanu standing in front of them.

“It seems that I’m in the way of that goal.”

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(Perspective: Jack 1st person POV)

Thank you Reverse Flash! I had to tap into the speedforce to dodge that one. Looking back at the trees and sky and seeing the power of that move he used makes me glad that I’m this fast.

“You dodged a tailed beast bomb? Pretty surprising.” Zeko almost sounded happy that I got out of his way but I’ll let him see the difference in our speed, tapping into my speed again I flanked him and kicked his side but... he looked at me from the corner of his eye... he didn’t see that did he? He spiraled into a tree, I took advantage and shot a powerful gout of flames from my hands towards him.

“That hurts! Try this one...” He tanked through it and crashed into me, literally since he had glass on himself. That just pissed me off but a jab to my face made it worse.

“I’m gonna-“ Now his foot met my cheek. Once I recovered I used my speed to blitz him from every side, almost at the same time and his sand was chipping off. “Can’t do much if you can’t keep up little man?” He stopped moving so I just kept attacking and I started breaking through his armor, but that deep inner voice told me that I should get as far away as I could but I ignored it and shot a bolt of lightning at him.

(Perspective: 3rd person)

Zeko was blown back by the lightning but stayed on his feet as his armor fell off and revealed his orange chakra cloak. His enemy stood cockily across from him. “I guess you really are just a kid if that got to you.” Zeko made a series of signs and a cloud of parasprites appeared from smoke, now they had two Rinnegan and dispersed across the area. Zeko turned and jumped at Jack with a fist cocked back and smashed into the ground, missing his swift opponent.

“Too slow.” Jack has his leg reeled back from behind Zeko but before he could strike

“Gotcha.” Zeko’s fist slammed into the giant’s mask and made him stumble backwards.

“How’d you? That doesn’t make sense!” He tried to use his extreme speed to surprise Zeko again but was kicked in the stomach. “You can’t be serious?”

“I can see what direction you went but I couldn’t tell what you’d do.” A parasprite landed on Zeko’s shoulder. “But by using these little guys I can have more than one pair of eyes. Making it simple here; I can see our fight from almost two hundred angles.”

“But how can you actually trace me? I’m moving so fast that I can search an entire room in the time it takes you to blink!”

“My eyes can pick up any movement you make and sometimes what you plan to make, when I fought Dio I saw what he did while time was froze when it ended and the second time I saw him, so unless you move so fast that time doesn’t apply...” The two lunged at each other and clashed fist to chakra rod. Jack punched Zeko in the face and followed with a flurry of fireballs. “Your speed doesn’t matter now.” Zeko appeared at Jack’s side and stabbed him with his chakra rod

“Damnit.” He coated his arm with flames but a headache stopped him midway. ”What the, why am I seeing his eyes?!” Zeko’s eyes were visible as Jack was slowed down by the energy imbalance, giving Zeko a chance to appear at his side and place his hands on him.

“Almighty Push!” Powerful winds appeared from the strength of the attack, the trees were uprooted and Jack was sent with them. “I’m gonna have to fix that later. Wait something just entered Ponyville, I’m gonna have to wrap this up.” The armor fell off and the sand returned to the gourd

(Perspective: Jack first person POV)

So there’s a desert past that forest that’s good to know and shit what I’d give for my healing ability to be what it was, I pulled that black rod out in the air and the wound’s just starting to close. Based on how long I was in the air I should have about a minute until he shows up so how can I- Oh COME ON! He was standing about a hundred yards away!

“Sand coffin!” That stupid sand came out of the ground and started wrapping around my leg! Wait, I’m not stuck to the same rules so maybe...

“The World!” I felt everything slow down and eventually stop, I stopped time itself so I got up as fast as I could and ran to him. “Looks like I’m in control.” I kicked his arm with as much force as I could and watched it bend. A sudden tingle up my spine told me, “Time’s starting back up...”

(Perspective: Third person POV)

Zeko skidded across the ground and stopped facedown in the dirt with Jack approaching from behind. “This has been one special day so far but only one of us is seeing the sun rise.” He pointed his hand at Zeko’s body and charged a lightning spell. “It’s been fun to say the least.” He shot the spell...

And missed but Zeko’s attack was just being started as a black orb pulled the arc of electricity into it, and started taking chunks of the ground as it rose to the air. “What can your speed do against gravity?” The ground beneath Jack was pulled towards the sphere. And the giant of a man regained his footing

“I only need to get back some, The Wor- Agh!” Zeko’s elbow slammed into Jack’s mask and knocked him onto his back. “I’m definitely... Why is everything clearer on the right side of... No...” Jack reached for his face and felt that part of his mask shattered from Zeko’s strike and he started to hyperventilate as a response while he was pulled against the floating rock mass and buried under more earth.

“You’re the strongest guy I’ve fought since I’ve been here, even the fake me didn’t hurt me as bad.” Zeko looked at his broken arm. “But it looks like you can’t handle being seen, if you can’t get past something like that then it doesn’t matter how strong you get.” The ground continued to be pulled upwards and formed a colossal sphere of rock, almost the size of the Canterlot Castle. The terrain was unrecognizable, craters littered the ground and trees were scattered around despite it being a desert.

The Planetary Devastation was finished and remained suspended in the air, Zeko shifted to his sand demon form once more and started shaking his tail violently. “So you need another one? Looks like the fight’s done to me.” The inner demon spoke in a taunting manner. Suddenly red and blue orbs burst from the sand tail and floated around Zeko.

“Shut up so I can get this over with.” Zeko opened his mouth and the orbs gathered in front of it, creating a purple orb that expanded in size until it was as big as Zeko and it started to shrink down to the size of his head. “Tailed Beast Bomb!” He fired the orb at the floating mass of rock and once it collided

*BOOM*

The explosion shook the ground and winds pushed sand and dust away. “Let’s get back to the girls.” Zeko turned right as a massive blast of rainbow magic filled the sky. “That looks like it missed.” His sand armor fell off and revealed his clothing to be okay but his skin was turning red. “This is going to hurt tomorrow.” He started to heal himself as he headed for the source of the blast.

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“It seems that imprisoning him was truly the best course of action.” Sahloknir had holes in his wings and half of his spade tail was cut off, the surrounding area was either partly frozen or had small flames being put out by Rainbow Dash. The dragon was trapped like a prisoner in the stocks with his neck and forelegs being bound.

“Niid! Zu’u fen vaaz hin zii!” The dragon said angrily, while Twilight’s horn and hands glowed.

“I don’t know what he’s saying, is that your language?” She asked Kosanu

“Can’t say it’s anything I know about.” Zeko emerged from the thicket and walked in front of Sahloknir. “So how’d you manage to beat a dragon this time?”

“Well I managed to strike his wing and-“

“Yol toor shul!” A burst of flames went straight towards Zeko and enveloped him but the shocked looks were replaced with relief as the fire was absorbed into his outstretched hand.

“I needed that.” Sand came from the ground and ensnared the dragon, lifting him from the ground. Zeko started to walk off with the Mane six in tow while Kosanu stayed behind. Twilight wrote a letter to Celestia during the walk while Pinkie Pie explained what happened in her own unique way.

“There were these bad guys and we fought them but then they had us and that guy showed up but then the dragon came and heshotitoutoftheskysoweused-mmf mm mfmf.” Applejack’s hand gave them a break from her erratic voice but as they walked into Ponyville the girls examined the rain and figured it to be a result of the invasion but Zeko attached Sahloknir to the ground and examined a problem.

“Where the hell is Dio’s body?!” He frantically searched the spot he buried the vampire but found nothing. “There’s no sign of him so either; he got up from what I did, his body was destroyed and the sand was disturbed, or something took him... I swear if we get a... vampony problem I’m going to lose it.”

“Are you looking for something darling?” Rarity asked while Fluttershy spoke to Sahloknir as Twilight wrote in a notebook, the dragon’s mouth being muzzled by a chakra rod through the roof of it.

“No, just realizing that it’s going to come back on me later. Hey do do think you could make me another kimono?”

Rarity pondered for a moment before nodding. “I most definitely can, it’s dreadful to see you wear the same thing for so long and variety won’t hurt. I do enjoy the Neighponese culture as well.”

“You made this a few days ago and I’m just wearing it now.” He rolled his arm, shaking the echo of pain away.

“Doesn’t hurt either way does it?”

“If you can get it done today that’d be great but can you make it a few sizes bigger than mine? It’s actually for some...pony else.”

“Well you aren’t the only one who wears that style, I’ve been getting orders just like it since you were recognized as a hero.”

“I guess you can’t escape being an idol... unless you’re creative.” Zeko thought while looking at Sahloknir.

“You can’t claim my soul mortal, only another dovah or the dovakiin could kill me.” The dragon thought angrily but Zeko only smirked.

“Who said I’d kill you?”

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Author's Notes:

And here’s part two, I’m sorry it took longer than expected but something came up in my family and I had to put this off for a few days.

If you have any questions about the chapters, characters, or story thus far don’t be afraid to ask and I’ll see you next arc