King of Velrain
Chapter 11: Every man for himself!
Previous Chapter Next ChapterThe Princesses, prince, Elements and the doctor were all gathered in the hospital room, waiting to see if Alex was alright.
"Sister, Luna, now would be a good time to speak." Celestia said rubbing one of his hooves subconsciously before pulling back.
"Yes it would. Now are you certain he is in control?" Luna asked glaring at him intensely.
"Yes, otherwise she would have used him to overpower us. She knows that I care for him as I do one of my subjects and she knows that the Elements wouldn't work."
"What do you mean the Element's wouldn't work?" Luna asked looking at her sister in shock.
"While he is unconscious now, I dug through his memories of the last few days and found he had made a deal with her. And that the Elements would not work but for a few seconds."
"How is that possible? They are the strongest things in existence."
"It is apparent they are now obsolete if we should need to use them on him. He is stronger, physically, against them."
Luna just looked back at him eyes full of worry before bowing her head slightly in sorrow for what was in his head.
"Greetings wench."
Her eyes shot open and they all saw a mass of swirling purple mist start to come out of Alex's nose.
"What do you want?" Luna asked coldly pointing her horn at the cloud.
"For him to wake. We cannot view his memories so there is no entertainment. We have tried speaking with him, but he is stubborn." She said staring down at him before her eyes flicked up towards Celestia. "He thinks highly of thou, half-sister."
Celestia was temporarily stunned before retaining her composure.
"How so?" She asked her own horn charging.
"He envy's you, for reasons we cannot fathom. His thoughts about thou art... unique."
She blushed slightly before replying with an audible gulp.
"They wouldn’t happen to be.. a bit... raunchy?"
All the ponies and draconequiss's mouths nearly detached from their jaws before Luna spoke up.
"Why would you, by your name, want to know that!?" She yelled blushing at the already known answer.
"I would like to know! Now hush, you have no right to tell me what I should not know of about relationships. Especially since you had to be drugged by one of the Elements to get in bed!" Celestia snapped making Discord and Luna blush while their kids looked confused.
"We think it would be best for us not to share around foals." Nightmare said looking over to the young prince and princess.
"So, mooney; why aren't you trying to take him over right now?" Discord asked holding something behind his back.
"We wish to do so, but we cannot. He is still in control; he shows greater will than any other foe. We admire him for it." She said giving a slight nod.
"So... what's with the whole, creepy cloud thing?" Apollo asked putting one of her paws though Nightmare's chest.
"We cannot take form without a host. Now desist that immediately!" She yelled making Apollo pull her paw out.
"Don't you yell at my daughter! That's mine and Luna's job!" Discord said before taking out what he had been hiding.
Before Nightmare could react a banana cream pie went through her face and hit the window behind her.
Everyone in the room, minus Alex, gave him a questioning look.
"I wanted to see if I could nail her." He shrugged.
"I thought... you were married?"
They all turned to see Alex cracking open an eye and snickering a little.
"I'm glad you are awake." Celestia said smiling.
"I'm glad you stopped rubbing my hoof." He chuckled making her blush.
"Can we enter again?" Nightmare asked impatiently.
"No one's stopping you. Hop in." He said opening his mouth.
She gave a shudder and went through his esophagus and into his lungs where she then went into his blood and into his brain.
"Did you just eat Nightmare Moon?" Twilight asked.
"I don't know. Hey why does my arm... hurt?" He was asking before raising his front left leg up.
He had atleast six catheters in it.
He slowly started to frown before smiling and soon that turned into laughter. The whole time he was pointing at it laughing like an idiot.
"Alex... are you alright?" Celestia asked worried while backing away.
"Would you all just step out for a teensy-weensy bit?" He asked smiling wide showing off his serrated teeth.
"W-Why?" Twilight asked getting behind her mentor.
"No reason. Could you just leave for a few seconds? Good, now go on, shoo." He said playfully motioning them out with his free hoof.
They all slowly went out and closed the door behind them
Celestia was the first to speak. "I hope he's-"
"AAAAAAHHHHHH! EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF!" Alex yelled from within the room making the hospital shake on its foundation.
They all were slightly scared to go in but soon went after they head the sound of glass breaking.
Celestia nearly took the door of its hinges before falling off the new ledge placed in the room.
Or what was left of the room.
It seemed Alex, in his horror stricken state had used too much strength when he had jumped through the window and taken the floor out. Fortunately there was no one underneath.
"He really hates needles." Discord said flying around the disaster zone. "A lot."
"Do you think we should go after him?" Luna asked watching a small trail of dust grow smaller in the distance.
Soon the sounds of dogs, angry doctors and nurses were heard and not soon after, they were giving chase.
"I think it would be wise to warn them." Discord said before flying off to watch.
In Ponyville, the residents were enjoying a nice calm, non-apocalyptic day for once.
Until a frightened alicorn came running through while being chased by a swarm of doctors carrying needles.
"Keep those bloody things away from me!" Alex yelled back at them.
"Come back! It’s only a little sedative!" One of them yelled back.
He stopped to look back before a single needle lodged itself into the trunk of the tree he was standing next to. He began running again taking every twist and turn to avoid them.
He went down to Sugarcube corner and turned down the alleyway.
He was trapped.
He was trapped for a few seconds before he ran through the wooden wall. All the customers were startled to see a male alicorn crash through the wall and even more startled to see a pack of doctors and nurses follow.
One lone mare was crying over the loss of her prized pastry.
"Why the muffins! Why!"
Outside Alex was running towards the library before a swarm of pegasai in white lab coats made him halt. He turned and saw there was no way out.
"Back off! I-I'm warning you! I will hurt you!" He yelled frightened for once in his life.
"Please, just go back to the hospital-" one of the Doctors said accidentally taking a step forward.
"I said stay back!" He yelled blasting the patch of ground near the doctor.
"Ready the dart guns!"
"Try it you asshole! And see what happens when you corner an animal!" Alex yelled back.
"Aim!"
He charged his horn and a large storm started to brew over head while a red rune formed around his hooves and the ground split in two places next to him.
"F-Fire... What the Faust is that!?" The doctor yelled out in fear.
Two bony dragon heads started to crawl out of the ground and soon were standing over all the residents, bone leaking ethereal flames. And the red rune around Alex started to seep black mist that formed into two giant blades, each with a width of a house and just as sharp as the tension in the air.
"You can take your needles and shove them right up your ass! Now back off!" Alex yelled readying the two blades.
"I-I think you're cleared for release. I think our job here is done... d-don't you agree my fellow colleagues?"
They all nodded before running off screaming.
He let out the breathe he was holding and let the storm fade, the dragons crawl back into their hole and the blades disappear.
"Now maybe I can get some-"
"Alex! Hey Alex!" Discord yelled out coming down.
"... Peace. What do you want?" He asked frustrated.
"I want to take you back to the hospital." He said grinning.
Which soon vanished as his front teeth were knocked out.
"Fuck you! And fuck you're needles!" Alex yelled before flying off.
"I see this isn't going to be easy... maybe I just need bait?" He asked himself before an idea struck him. "Ooh Celestia..." He sang quietly.
Celestia was cleaning the rubble off her coat when Discord came back at the same time as a group of scared doctors and nurses.
"I'm guessing he didn't come back?" She asked looking at him, who was doing circles around her head.
"No, but I know how to get him back." He said stopping to face her.
"How?"
"Like... this!" He yelled out the last part before a frying pan met her head.
She slumped to the floor unconscious.
"Discord... did you use the frying pan on my sister?" Luna asked looking over the edge. "You did! We are-"
She was cut off when the pan met her head and she slumped over the edge.
"Might as well get the ice bath and the blanket on the coach now." He sighed. "Now I need to get them checked in."
He carried Celestia to the front after fixing the room they were in, leaving Luna's head stuck in the floor. When he went into the lobby he was met by a barrage of chairs and tongue depressors being thrown at him.
"No more alicorns in this hospital!" One of the doctors yelled out producing surgical equipment. "Now take them and leave!"
"Are you refusing to service one of your nation’s rulers?" Discord asked smirking at how to get him to refuse doing treason.
"Get them the buck out! I don't give a buck if there my mother! Just! Get! Them! Out!" He punctuated each word with a scalpel being thrown at Discord.
"What is wrong with you!?" Discord said running out as they moved onto beds.
Now he just stood there holding a sleeping Celestia.
Another idea came to mind when he thought of how him and Luna met.
"A damsel in distress would be perfect." He clicked his tongue.
"What's-What's going on? Where am I?"
"Sleep!" He yelled hitting her over the head again.
Alex was hiding in a tree. The library to be exact.
"I hope he isn't to mad at me." He said to no one.
"That was impressive magic thou hast done. Most powerful indeed." Nightmare said coming out.
"It barely drained me at all. What's so hard about it?"
"Thou hast just risen the dead, manipulated the clouds and created blades from energy. It was most impressive, we art honored to have thou as our host."
"No one likes a brown-noser."
"What does-Wait listen, does thou hear that?" She said looking towards the door.
"What is what?" He asked opening the door. "All I see is a giant star-what the hell! What is that!?" He yelled staring through the doorway.
At the Ursa Major going through town.
"Now would be a good time to use thine new spells." Nightmare said going back into his mind.
He rushed out and went to confront the monster head on.
Outside two screams were heard. One a manly but girlish scream followed by an enraged feminine, yet, heavenly one he instantly recognized.
"Celestia!" He nearly yelled in shock running at full speed.
He came upon his princess hogtied with Discord wearing a cape, top hat and a fake black mustache that he was stroking on one end.
"What the hell is going on!?" He asked frantically untying the princess.
"Discord knocked me out twice, hogtied me and is now using me as bait for the most dangerous thing in Equestia!" She yelled getting up.
"You did what!?" Alex yelled making Discords eyes grow wide in fear.
He was about to attack himself when a giant red tinted paw made Discord go sailing across the street and into a building.
"Celestia I would highly recommend that you leave... now." He growled.
"I will not leave my subjects in harm’s way! Even you cannot beat a fully grown Ursa!" She said.
"I wasn't asking." He said quietly before teleporting her away.
The monster roared before spotting Alex.
Who was flying up to smash the things head in with his war-hammer.
It swiped at him and sent him barreling down to the ground. He got up and charged it's feet, dodging swipe after swipe all the way. Once he reached its feet he climbed up to its annoyance. Once he got to its ankle he reared back his back legs and bucked.
There was a sickening snap that echoed throughout the town and soon a loud roar. But even that was cut off as Alex smashed his war-hammer into its jaw.
"Come on! I thought you were supposed to be a predator! Not a fucking pushover!" He yelled at it.
It leaned forward and caught him in its jaws. And what a mistake it had just made.
Its teeth busted out through the front leaving bony shrapnel in its gums. Even worse is when a few teeth came back and started to go down its throat, cutting it all the way. It heaved and heaved until the last one was out. It had never felt pain like this at all.
And it had just begun.
It felt a sharp pain in its chest, it looked down to see part of its skin was poking out at an odd angle before ripping and letting part of a rib out along with a torrent of blood. It roared in agony and soon that was drowned out when it felt its spine snap, immobilizing it.
Soon it felt something in its throat. What came out was an angry blood soaked alicorn wielding a war-hammer which the top had opened up reveling a flat black surface that sparked with electricity.
"If you come back here I will end you!" Alex yelled his horn growing green while it's wounds healed slightly. "Now leave!"
It stood and stared at him before raising its paw.
He struck out with his hammer hitting it in the chest, letting the shock wave follow to obliterate the creature.
It happened in a split second, the bear’s eyes widening in fear and soon it was being thrown back faster than any Pegasus could fly, itself in the air turning to mush before a large mess littered the ground.
"Now someone’s got to clean this piece of shit up." He groaned before opening the ground letting two skeletal dragons emerge.
"Clean this up and make sure there's nothing left." He said before they took off to clean what was left of the bear.
He turned around and saw an entire crowd emerging from their homes, horror and bewilderment on their faces. Discord was even up and staring at him in shock. He groaned rubbing his head and cleaned the blood off himself with a small wave of force from his hammer.
He started to walk towards the crowd. They made a path for him and he just lowered his head out of shame. And there he just sat down at a bench in front of the fountain.
And a small grey filly came up to him.
"Why did you kill it?" She asked.
He sighed out of exhaustion. "If I hadn’t then it would... it would have... destroyed the town. I felt like I needed to stop it."
And another pony came over. He was full grown.
"Did you do it to protect us?" He asked.
He looked over to the tan colt with a spikey brown mane and bowtie.
"Yes... and now I suppose now you all think I'm some kind of blood thirsty monster?" He said in sadness.
"N-No... Why would we think that? You saved the town."
"But I killed it."
"It may have been gruesome, yes, but you gave it a choice and it made the wrong one. You only did what you thought was best, and what you did was for the best. None of us hate you." He said putting a hoof on his shoulder.
"What?" He asked looking at the colt in surprise.
"Come on everypony! Let’s give it up to... What is your name?"
"A-Alexander..." He trailed off not believing what he was hearing.
"Let’s give it up to Alexander! Three cheers for Alexander!"
And the crowd started to smile before hoof pumping the air.
"Alexander! Alexander! Alexander!" They all cried out.
"Alexander!" One voice above all else range out making them all stop to see Celestia flying down, anger in her eyes.
"Celestia! What's going on!?" He asked looking back at the crowd in confusion and amusement.
"You have a lot to explain... where’s the Ursa?" She asked landing in front of him.
"Let’s give another cheer for Alexander! The Ursa slayer!" A colt from the crowd yelled causing another cheer from the growing crowd.
Celestia's eyes grew to the size of dinner plates before looking back at a confused Alexander. "Would you mind explaining what they mean by that?" She asked unsure if she heard them right.
"I just got rid of the thing and now they're cheering for me! I don't have a bloody idea what's going on!" He yelled throwing his hooves up in the air.
"You killed a fully grown Ursa... how?"
"With my war-hammer! Now what's going on!?"
"Alexander... I should charge you with murder," She started making the crowd gasp and grow silent. "But, I think you deserve this."
She leaned in and wrapped him in a hug while kissing him on the lips. It lasted for three minutes before she pulled back leaving him panting.
"Maybe... I should... kill more of them..." He half-wheezed half-chuckled.
"Just shut up, and don't you ever do that again! You had me so worried!" She said before burying herself into his shoulder crying.
And just as suddenly pulled back in disgust.
"Alex! Where have you been! You smell disgusting!"
"Well you... smell like roses! So hah!" He said smiling.
"She's right! You smell horrible!" Said the tan colt backing away.
"Hey you try getting eaten and coming out through a bloody mouth and see how you smell!" He yelled back.
And soon the entire crowd took a good whiff and fell to the ground like dominoes.
"I don't smell that... bad..." He drifted off before smelling himself where he then fell to the ground.
Celestia stood there with a small smile before taking him back to the castle for a bath.
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