I turned around to see the magnificent book flipping through page after page right in front of me. The grin on my face got even wider when the pages stopped and the book once again landed on the front cover.

I walked over and turned the first page, then the next. The first page still said 'Chastiefol', but the next said "Teleportation dagger?" Shortly after the words came out of my mouth I once again got all the info the ability had to offer, which for some reason wasn't a lot this time. I then heard a thud come from just in front of where I was standing. Taking a step back, I looked down to see a rather sharp looking black dagger. I picked it up and started to examine it. It had a circle at the but of the sword. The handle was also black and had one line rapping round it self like thick black rope. Almost like a spiral, but covering/making up the entire thing. This lead down to a regular blade that seemed to be rather small but sharp. In-between the pommel and the blade was a basic black guard that only just stopped you from cutting itself but it still did its job. The whole thing was mat black and seemed to be rather light.

I twirled my new equipment around in my hand a little before abruptly throwing it at the wall directly to my right. It was a clean shot and was stuck exactly where it was intended to. I then clenched my hand and thought of the thing I wanted to do and suddenly found my self on the other side of the room next to the wall the dagger was in. I turned to my right to see my arm fully extended with my hand firmly gripped onto the weapon.

Then the thought clicked. This must be from 'Dungeons and Dragons'. It's too similar to the blink dagger not to be right? I then got an idea on how to test that. I made my way back over to the book and where I was previously standing and then stopped. I then reached out my hand and swiped at the air as if I was catching a fly. After I had made this motion, I felt a slight weight difference in my hand and then saw the dagger was now there. I turned to the wall where I left it and found that it was gone, and now currently in my grasp.

This was going to be too useful for words. The combat possibility's are endless! Not to mention I can never lose it! Hell, I could even............ Before I finished that thought I had a realisation along with a great idea.

With all of my training gear still on and with my dagger still in hand, I made my way outside and out of the front door. I saw it was now coming to about lunch time judging by the position of the sun, which meant it would be rather difficult to test out my theory now. Meh, I'll just train later. Man if my plan works.

I then made my way back inside and left my new weapon on my kitchen counter. Another thing, I need to see whether I can make my own configuration of my spirit spear. A more compact version would be nice. You know, something I can walk around with in my jacket pocket or something without people constantly asking what it is. That sounds like a problem for future me though. Soon as though I can't do the more destructive training, I began to see whether I could switch between configurations without calling them out. Shouting really isn't my thing.

I spent the next 6 hours training. I am a very patient guy and I know that there isn't much else I can do so training was really my only option. Plus, after about three hours I started to be able to do it. Which meant I needed to practice as much as possible whilst it was still fresh in my mind. With all of that training I could probably do it twenty percent of the time, but that's not enough in a fight. Therefore, I decided to dedicate one hour everyday before bed to practice it. It was now getting to about eight but the sun still hasn't gone down which tells me its probably spring or summer, seeming as though none of the leaves are falling either. Which meant I still had a bit of time to kill, and I'm getting pretty tired of standing still and forcing a spear to transform with my fucking mind.

I hadn't eaten much today so I decided to kill some time and drop by the café/bakery thing in town. I think its called Sugarcube Corner, which isn't very promising considering I don't like sweet things. Hopefully they have me a pastry and a nice cup 'a jo. I unequipped all my gear and began making my way over, now wearing my earlier attire of black jeans and purple shirt. The walk wasn't long and I got there without any distractions which was nice. I opened the door to the odd shaped house to be greeted by a familiar pink haired girl behind the counter.

"Hey there! Welcome to........" She paused and got an exited look on her face, "Hey! It's you! Your the grumpy guy that just moved into Ponyville!"

With a forced smile, I responded with, "Hey Pinkie." She then ducked under the counter and then appeared right in my face.

"Now then," She began, "Why did you run away from me!" She was poking an eye out at me as if interrogating me. I had to make something up so I wouldn't have her asking me question after question. So, I began chatting out of my ass.

"Well you see, being Baron of Ponyville, the princesses had me work on some urgent business" Before any remark could come out of Pinkies now bewildered face, I heard a southern accent chime in from my right.

"With all due respect sir, that's a lie an' you know it." I turned to face the woman and found that it was Applejack. Then it hit me. She's a fucking lie detector! Fuck! "So why'd you really up an' leave?" Well it's not like I can lie to her, and I wouldn't want to hurt this pink things feelings for no reason. So I said,

"To be honest with you, I hate social interactions." After I said that Pinkie looked from me then to Applejack. Probably for confirmation.

Then the southern woman spoke, "Ah see. Ah suppose that understandable."

Then the Pinkie chimed in, "Well that still doesn't excuse you from pretending to be the Baron of Ponyville." Still using her playful tone whilst eyeing me up only a foot away from my face.

"Actually," I started," I am the Baron of Ponyville." After that, Pinkie stepped two steps back and was wearing a shocked look on hear face, it was so damn cute! She then turned to look at Applejack and she simply nodded. With a quick look back to me, she dropped to the floor in a begging position and started rambling nonsense.

"I beg of thee my lord! Thou doth not wish to cause thee annoyance! I humbly ask for thou forgiveness o' great one."

In a bored tone, I simply said, "Get up." She quickly scrambled to her feet and took a very professional yet fearful stance. Like I had done before, I gave looked at her uninterested and then began to make my way past her. As I did this I spoke. "Phoenix is fine." I then heard/sensed Applejack get up and whisper something into Pinkies ear. I could definitely hear what she said if I was to focus on their conversation, but they must be whispering for one reason or another. Either way, it must have pleased Pinkie because I began to hear her jump up and down behind me.

At this point I was at the counter and began to order. "A coffee please. Black no sugar. And a plain croissant." I could get this stuff at home but I like the feel and atmosphere of a café.

The man at the counter began with, "Sir..."

Instantly cutting him off, "Phoenix." I said with a small smile. Man these people shore do love there hierarchy's.

He began again, now with a small smile cause he realised what type of person I was. "Phoenix, don't you think it's a bit late for coffee?"

"It's going to be a long night."

With a slight chuckle, "I see, please take a seat. We'll be with you shortly." With a nod, I turned around to find a seat. Applejack was now back at her spot, she motioned with her hand to the seat opposite her in her booth. Internally groaning, I put on a fake smile and made my way over to the spot she gestured to. I mean, it's not like I could have just said no.

Now sitting down, we didn't converse at all. She was the one person I had met so far that picked up on the fact that I am not not one for small talk. So we just sat there, enjoying each others company whilst Pinkie was peaking her head over the counter and sneaking looks at me. It was surprisingly nice. Being a loner for two years wasn't bad. In fact, I hated most of humanity, but the people here are rather pleasant, even if some of them are rather touchy.

My order finally arrived. I noticed that Applejack didn't have anything so I tared my croissant in half and then picked up one side. I held it in front of me and gave her a look as to ask a question without asking. After seeing this, she smiled and shook her head. But as if we were in some kind of anime or story, her stomach rumbled rather loudly. I gave her a knowing smirk and she blushed a bit. I put the piece of food on the plate I had and slid it over to her. Still blushing slightly, she gave a nervous chuckle and said, "Thank ya kindly." This was nice. Someone that got me.

We stayed there for a while finishing our food and me my coffee. After I was done I got up and spoke. "I best be off." I then put the designated money on the table. I found a decent stash of cash in the draw of my bedside table.

Standing up as well, she replied with, "It was nice eating with ya Phoenix. I guess I'll see you around." She was smiling and looked quite contempt. I then figured I'd better fix one of my habits. I slowly raised my hand for a handshake. It would seem this world had quite the amount of touchy people. I probably need to get used to it, and the best way to do that would be to get used to it with people you know. I say 'know' lightly considering I've been here less than three days. She returned the gesture and said, "Huh, RD an' Rares said ya weren't a fan a' physical contact?"

"I'm not. But I need to kick this habit sooner or later. And I'd rather do it sooner."

Her face slightly lit up at that, "Well that's good ta hear! One day you'll have to let me hug ya!" I was right, this place is reeeally touchy feely.

I replied evenly with a smile, "One day." I then let go of her hand and took a step back. "Well, until then."

"Until then" And with that I was off. I made my way back home and crashed on the sofa. They were so damn comfortable it was scary. After a moment of laying there I got up and began to get ready for my training. Now equipped with my training clothes from before, Chastiefol on my back, dagger in hand, and my charming good looks, I made my way out of the house. At some point I'm going to need to speak to rarity about getting a holster for my dagger (that I should probably find a name for).

Now just outside my house, I looked up at the magnificent moon that was right in front of me. A more magnificent site, you'd be hard pressed to find. I then began to take a stance with my dagger in hand. I was in a position you'd use to throw a javelin, and in this case, a dagger. I made small adjustments to my stature until I felt I was ready. With an incredibly fast launch of my arm and turn of my waist, the dagger was no longer in my hand. I looked off into the distance to find the clouds I had thrown it through had parted for it along with the air particles in front of me. It was an odd site but soon went back to normal. I stood there waiting for about a minute just in case before I felt satisfied with the time. And with a quick clench of my hand, I was no longer on Equis.

Taking in my surroundings, I found that my plan had worked. I was now standing on complete stone with nothing to be seen for miles. This was definitely the moon alright. I figured if people could spy on me when in the Everfree than I don't really have anywhere to train. However, I think people would be hard pressed to find me here. I noticed that the moon had normal gravity in this world, along with being smaller. But most importantly, it had oxygen. Here I was thinking I'd have to train whilst constantly healing myself.

First things first, "Spirit Spear Chastiefol, fifth configuration!" Three hundred kunai soon formed around me like a wall to prevent anyone from getting past me. With the use of my hand signs, I gathered all of them in front of me in a ten by thirty rectangle. I then released them and they all fell down onto them ground. Like before, I managed to raise about one hundred just like before, whilst the others lay still on the ground.

For the next hour or so I spent time going through formations and slowly adding more until I got to around one hundred and fifteen, maybe one hundred and twenty at a push. This was more difficult than I thought it would be but over time I should be able to control maybe two hundred, and even possibly all three hundred, but I highly doubt it. Deciding to move onto something else, I began to work on my air bending. More specifically, my flight. Frociesta already gave me the basics. Stuff like simple levitation, but I needed to: fly, control my kunai, use hand to hand combat/weapon. So yeah, I had my work cut out for me.

I then spent the next the next hour or so flying around rather intricately as to get a better feel for it. I also practiced a bit of mid air CQC so I could get a feel for it, it's gonna take a bit of getting used to but like with my kunai, it would be worth it. During this time I also tried out levitation my kunai and flying at the same time. It wasn't as difficult as I thought it was going to be, but I did fall quite a few times.

I ran through random things for another half an hour or so, such as the configurations I hadn't tried and 'Kings Disaster'. I managed to create a small plant which, given that the moon is made of pure rock, is pretty impressive.

I would've continued for longer, however, I suddenly got a really bad feeling in my stomach. Something wasn't right. Looking up towards Equis, my eyes focused on the planet to see if any thing was wrong. I already realised my eyes were incredibly perceptive and could see for hundreds maybe thousands of miles if I wished. Almost zooming in, I saw all the residents of Ponyville flooding into the barn in Sweet Apple Acres. Scanning some more, I found a group of five cloaked unknowns slowly walking through the town. That was all the information I could gather before Bans instincts took over.

I reached into my pocket to grab my dagger and instantly threw towards Ponyville. Judging by the small male cry I heard soon afterwards, with my godly ears, I figured I'd hit my target. Clenching my fist, I found that I was now back in Ponyville and on the back of one of the cloaked figures. It didn't take long for me to figure out that these were fangs. I pulled the blade out of his back and then straight into the side of his neck. Kicking away from the new found corpse, I eyed the other four as I reclaimed my weapon by making a fist.

"Hey guys. Now how can I help you today?" I was answered by all four of them growing different fucking kagune! These aren't vampires. There fucking ghouls!!

Link to kagune types

The one furthest to the left had a koukaku, along with the third one along. The one furthest to the right was an ukaku user and the last one had bikaku. They were all yellow and appeared to be rather basic. None of them had any unique features which meant they were probably B rank or lower, so not much of a problem.

The ukaku user began firing multiple yellow shards towards me whilst the two koukakus began making there way towards me for close quarters combat. Weaving past the projectiles, I met the other two half way. Our encounter began with one of them going to sweep the leg and the other one going for a jab at my face with his kagune. Not a bad strategy I must admit, but they picked the wrong guy to use it on. Jumping over the leg that was coming for my shins, I twisted my body mid air to dodge the jab and deliver a round house kick to the side of the ghouls head sending him into a building to my left. I think I was completely horizontal at some point in that kick. Landing back down, I dodged a slash to my waist from the one that had attempted to sweep me. Little did he know, I had sent Chastiefol behind him. And just like that, his neck and body were no longer one entity. Narrowly dodging the shard that was sent my way, I turned to see the bikaku making its way towards me as another wave of crystals came from behind him. I could tell these two had been fighting together for a while and were vey familiar with this strategy. His kagune split into two at the end to create a snake tong, which gave me a rather clever idea. May as well have fun with this.

The onslaught of projectiles suddenly stopped and the bikaku stopped to see what was wrong, only to find a massive pile of earth spikes where the ukaku once was. The remaining ghoul turned back round to me and I spoke. "They were getting quite annoying." I heard the sound of teeth grinding behind his cloak (which seemed to be magic considering I couldn't see any of there face). They began to charge me again. I stood still and let them reach me, which led to multiple tale strikes coming my way. The bikaku had now split his tale in two and was striking with a wide range of attacks in no particular order. However, I just stood and slightly moved my body out of the way of the attacks and occasionally swiped one away with the back of my hand. I was waiting for something., and that thing finally came. He/she went for a pincer attack at my upper chest, probably wanting to at least cut off my arms, but I cut it off by putting both my hands out and grabbing both ends of the kagune. I couldn't see this guys face but I assume it reads something along the lines of 'oh shit'. I quickly tied a triple knot with both tales. They soon began struggling but I used my pure strength to prevent escape. Grabbing the newly formed knot, I began rapidly spinning. After a few seconds of this I let go of my grip and sent him launching over the Everfree, which is were I assume they came from. With that, I smacked my hands together and whistled, slightly impressed by my handy work.

Well that sure was something. Normally, I probably would have killed that last one, but who ever sent them needs to know that there's a new guy on the block. One that can dispose of about anything that they send. Going over to the now non-existent wall that I sent one of the koukakus, I crouched down next to the ghoul that was laying in the rubble. Feeling his pulse, he was still alive, just unconscious. That was exactly what I was hoping for. I pulled off the hood to reveal a middle aged man. Nothing too particular about him. I then began searching through his mind with kings 'mind reading'. I didn't find much before his face suddenly exploded all over my clothes. Looks like they didn't want people to get access to there knowledge.

"Ah shit!" I said, spitting out parts of face from my mouth. I didn't find much but there was one bit of interesting information. Before I could finish my train of thought, I heard a large amount of foot steps coming from my right. Standing up and turning towards all the ruckus, I saw all of Ponyville running towards me (minus a few parents who were busy covering there children's eyes). Nine people were in front of the rest, seven of which I recognised. It was: Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow, Pinkie, Thunderlane, and Blossomforth. The other two were a small boy, no younger than thirteen, and the other one seemed to be the girl from the forest that I had followed here.

When they finally reached me, they all immediately began asking questions about my health and were circling me as to check for injuries. With a bored expression on my face, I raised my hand for them to stop. After they all did so I spoke. "Yes I am fine." Then turning to the lieutenant, "Any damage to the citizens and or buildings?"

He slightly sighed at that and spoke, "Thankfully, other than the wall you threw that fang through, there was no damage done and no casualties."

I quickly corrected him, "These things are not fangs, they are ghouls. I am quite familiar with them."

He looked a bit shocked at that but then a smile came to his face. "Well the more information we have on them the better." I nodded to him as to say that we'd be having a conversation in the future, and then turned back to the rest of the group who seemed to be dying to speak.

Pinkie was the first one to speak up. "Are you sure your ok Phopho!" Terrible nickname but right now I can't be asked to correct her. "Those were some really powerful monsters!!! Even the princesses struggle with that many!!!!" She got progressively louder as she spoke.

"Well then I hate to break it to you, but your princesses aren't very strong." Come on, I could have done that in a split second if I chose to.

They all had bewildered faces on and some of them seemed offended, namely Twilight, Thunderlane and Blossomforth. Not sure what Twilight was annoyed about though. She soon spoke up, "Do you even know who you're even talking about! They are the all powerful goddesses of the sun and moon!!" After she finished, I heard a familiar motherly voice come from behind me.

"Indeed we are, but compared to someone of his calibre, we're mere children. So don't be upset my dear student." Student? I guess that explains the reaction. At this point Celestia and Luna were stood next to me as we all faced them.

I then spoke up. "I meant no offence your majesties. I simply said as I thought. I'd be very surprised if you could handle that group as easily as I did."

Luna giggled at that, "Don't get us wrong, we could have handled that group. Well maybe not as easily as you and probably not in this form but it wouldn't be much effort to dispose of them." What did she mean by this form? Could she transform or something? Maybe I didn't give the princesses as much praise as I should have.

"I see."

I turned once again back to Thunderlane and said, "Could you have someone dispose of these bodies? I'm in need of a shower."

Twilight cut in, "Quit being so informal in front of the princesses! It's as if you don't know they're here!"

Deciding to fuck around with her, I replied with, "What princesses?" I began to look around and purposely skip over where the princesses were standing. "Are you ok Twilight? I think you need to lay down." Every laughed or at least sniggered at that. Everyone except Twilight of course.

Before Twilight could respond, Celestia chimed in, "It is quite alright my student. We are most informal with him and in return him to us. We rather like his attitude to be honest.

"I try." I said with a smile. "Well if you don't mind. I best be off."

"Do you wish to not celebrate your victory?" Luna asked.

"I'm not one for big gatherings, and it's been a rather long day." As I said that I looked up to the magnificent moon that was out tonight, which confused a few of them judging by the looks on their faces. "However, I do wish to speak to some of you tomorrow. Rarity, Thunderlane and the princesses. You can expect a visit from me at some point in the future."

Rarity spoke. "Oh! Well you know where to find me!" She said with a large smile.

Thunderlane spoke next. "You can usually find me in the head office of the barracks. If not then try the Everfree borders."

"Noted."

Then Celestia spoke. "Try Canterlot castle. I inform the guards of your future arrival and I'll have them escort you to us. Not that you need the extra bulk." She finished with a smirk.

"Arigato." Everyone except Twilight gave me a confused look. Realising my mistake, I instantly ran home.

I grabbed a quick shower, threw on some boxers and a pair of jogging bottoms, and crashed on the bed. My still unnamed dagger was on my bedside table along with my book of notes and my book a powers. Chastiefol was in its pillow form in the corner of the room and my charming good looks were still on my person. Before I drifted to sleep I began to think of names for my dagger. Only to come up short. So I just let sleep take me instead.

Hey guys! Thanks for reading!
First fight scene was a bit difficult to write but you can definitely expect more to come!
As always, any criticism is welcome good or bad!

Also, drop you name suggestions for the dagger in the comments and I'll see what sounds best!