Poke Fans in Equestria
Chapter 4: Chapter 4(redux)
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Back in Canterlot
"Sister, calm down. We sent our best warriors to make sure our little ponies are safe." Luna says to a very nervous Celestia. Luna was currently trying to calm her sister, who had been panicking ever since the the letter was sent.
"I CAN‘T CALM DOWN!" Celestia snaps at Luna with her own royal Canterlot voice. She notices her sister cringe at her volume. "I'm sorry sister, I just can‘t believe she's returned. And we're both powerless to do anything about it."She sighs out.
*Knock-Knock*
"May I have permission to enter?" A stallion‘s voice says from the other side of the door.
"You may enter." Celestia says before the stallion walked in. It was her most trusted guard captain and new nephew Shining Armor.
"I've sent the troops to Ponyville as you asked, princess."Shining says."But I have a question, why send all your guards to Ponyville?" The pure white coated unicorn asks.
"I guess we should at least tell him, sister." Luna says while turning to her now relaxed sister.
"Your right, Luna. Might as well tell you about the story of the Parasprite Queen." Celestia says. "Please take a seat, it‘s going to be a long story." Shining nods and walks over to a soft pillow to sit on.
"Stay a while and listen, because what I’m about to tell you goes back over two thousand years ago." Luna says.
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"Great... juuuuuust great, now I have to wash my mane again." A young Celestia grumbles after having chocolate poured all over her, even though she drank some of it.
"Oh come now, Tia, it was only a little joke. You can‘t be that mad at me can you?" A young but strange voice says coming from nowhere.
"Discord, I’m not mad. It’s just that, this is the third time I've had to wash my mane today, mostly due to you." She says the last part quietly. A flash of light popped up out of nowhere and out came a strange creature with the body parts of every animal you could think of. The young Discord floats upside down to get a closer look at Celestia.
"Ok fine, I'll clean it up." He says while somehow vacuuming the chocolate milk out of her hair with a feather duster. "There all better, now can we get to the matter at hand here, you know how much I hate court room time." Discord grumbles the last part because it's too 'orderly' for him to stomach.
"Ok seriously can you stop talking, author."
Wait... what you can hear me?
"Why of course I can, I am the god of chaos."
Well unlike you, I’m trying to tell the story to some people. So, if you would kindly not break the fourth wall before-
"Hey, who's breaking the fourth wall without my permission?" Pinkie Pie says while jumping out of nowhere.
Oh god...ok before you both make people hate this, can you please stop breaking the fourth wall so we can keep going, please?
"Ok, as long as the fans don’t hate me for it." Pinkie says as she dashes off to who knows where.
"Ok fine, but it better be getting good after this." Discord says while pointing at nothing.
"Umm...who are you talking to?" A very confused Celestia asks while cocking her head to the side.
"Oh no one just talking to the narrator." Discord says before being tackled by a runaway messenger.
"Oh, I’m so sorry Mr. Discord, I didn't mean to run into you." The pegasus messenger says hurriedly. "But I have a very important message for the both of you." He says as he hooves the letter to the princess
"Thank you Hanatarō, but who is this message from exactly?“ She says while looking over the timid pegasus.
"It‘s from Princess Luna, and she said that it was very important." He says with a bow." I don’t know the details, but she looked like she just saw a great beast of some kind." He tells them as they both look over the scroll.
Something is wrong in the forest, I don’t know what it is, but all of the creatures there are running from something. I'm going on ahead so when you get this letter, go north of the castle.
Sincerely,
Princess Luna
"Well might as well check it out right, Tia?" Discord asks with a look of seriousness on his face.
"Yes, I have a bad feeling about what's about to transpire." Celestia says, readying a teleport spell.
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Celestia and Discord have been flying for hours trying to find Luna and whatever she was looking for. After a while, they decided to stop and take a break when all of a sudden, a massive roar was heard and they saw something flying at them at high speeds.
"Umm, do you see that?" Discord asks as the projectile stops in midair a few yards behind them. They both turned around to see an injured Luna.
"SISTER!" Celestia yelled as she flew over to her injured sister. She sighed in relief because she only saw a few bruises and scrapes. "Sister, what did this to you? No monster here could even get a scratch on you!" Celestia asks her sister.
"I think I may be able to answer that." They all turn towards the speaker. What they saw shocked them, even Discord.
"What are you?" Celestia asks looking over the strange creature.This creature looked like an ordinary pegasus at first glance, but up close it looked horrifying. It was obviously a mare, but its wings were that of a flies. It’s eyes were pure green with some black lines going through them at odd turns, it had bug antennae coming out of her head, and some sharp outer jaws coming out of her jaws.
"Oh me?" She says with a fake look of shock on her face."Well I’m The Parasprite Queen, a being with an insatiable hunger." She says while motioning to a giant white cloud. "And these are my babies, who look extra hungry." The queen says while petting one of her children. "Now, even though we namely eat crops or any food we come into contact with," She puts on a very menacing grin. "We do eat living beings from time to time. Like ponies, griffins, diamond dogs, even dragons if need be. And looks like we found more for our breakfast." She says while commanding the parasprite to attack them with her antennae.
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"We fought for hours and hours, but thanks to Discord being...well Discord, he brought us the Elements of Harmony and we manage to banish her to the deepest, darkest corners of the Everfree. But she managed to escape, and now she wants to kill all of our little ponies." Celestia says while looking down. She couldn’t bring herself to look at them after being unable to see this horrible thing happening again
"Buh...the...HUH!?!"Shining manages to say after hearing this. He didn’t know what to do about something that was most likely on par with the princesses, Discord, and the Elements all together at the same time.
"I know that it's hard to understand nephew," Luna says, trying to get the stallions head back on straight. "But it’s all true, and now we need to do something that we never thought we would have to do again."
"Do what your highness?" Shining says after shaking his head.
"We have to bring Discord back." Celestia says. She got a look from her guard captain seemingly asking if she had gone crazy, but she gave him a smile to show that she was all business.
"You're kidding...You're kidding right?" He says with hope that they were kidding about this thing.
"I’m sorry, but we are not kidding. Even though we wish we were." Luna says the last part quietly wishing the exact same thing Shining Armor.
"So let me get this straight. You want to release Discord so that he can help you fight this beast, while you sent my sister on another adventure that could most likely kill her." He says mulling over what she said. She briefed him on what his sister and her friends were doing before hoof but now..."ARE YOU NUTS!?!" He yells at both of the alicorns.
"I understand your worry, but this is the only cause of action we have. We're too weak to fight her again, we're not a part of the Elements anymore, even Discord would have a rough time against her." She lowers her head. "But this is the only way that we can hope to have a chance against this monster." Celestia says bringing her head up to look at her nephew.
"Well might as well if it’s our only option." Shining says with a defeated sigh. He hoped that there would be another way but there is no other way to stop this.
Somewhere outside Canterlot
"Hmph...you really think bringing back Discord will help?" A cloaked pony says to herself. "Well your sadly mistaken, for you and all who stand in my way will be nothing but bones when I’m done with them." The pony then sends out a menacing laugh and disappears into thin air.
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Back with our hero and heroines.
"Your first challenge is..." Geno says while moving us through the tree's. We then see something that I never thought we would see.
"Umm...is that who I think it is?" I say while staring at a silver haired being with a black wing, same colored clothes, and a
very long katana.
"Yes, your first test is to beat Sephiroth." Geno says in a serious tone-even for a wooden doll.
"So what are the rules?" Twilight says, making sure that there's nothing to hold us back or something.
"Only one rule...stay alive." The doll says while jumping back and blending in with the trees.
"So...I guess I'll go first." I say while cracking my knuckles, my fists burning to life.
"Say goodbye to your future." As he draws his sword and steps into a fighting pose
"Not in your life Sephy." I say while getting in my own battle pose.
Sephiroth dashes into a downward swing against me but I manage to dodge it and I use Fire Punch. He easily avoids it and does a multi slash attack which a try to guard it but I still get hurt by some if the slashes. I jump back and try to think of what to do next.
"WOLF! Kick his ass, Wolf!" Roxy cheers with the other ponies. That got me psyched, and my hands blazed even more with determination to beat this bastard.
I try to throw a roundhouse kick but he jumps to dodge then calls out “To the promised land,” and points his sword down. I try to run from the attack, and barely dodge, said attack left a crater where I was standing. He then swings his sword to create many shock waves, I side step and through a Fire Punch which hits him square in the chest. He flies back a bit but is still standing,he then calls out “Octaslash”, his sword glows purple and slashes at me eight times. I dodge five slashes, but two graze me and the final one hits me across the chest. A spout of blood pours from my chest while I try to stop the bleeding with my left hand, I try to throw a Low Kick, a simple sweep to the legs. It pulls him off balance and he stumbles around trying to regain his footing. With him distracted with his balance, I dash forward and throw another punch, but it felt...different. When I connected I saw it was covered in electricity and was now shocking Sephiroth from the inside out. I just learned Thunder Punch! But I’m not sure that would be able to stop him. I manage to jump back, but I landed on my knees from exhaustion and blood lose.
"My visions getting blurry,I don’t even think I can stand up right now...crap." I think as I see Sephiroth lean on his sword from the punch, but he's still standing."Crap...I’m not sure if I’m supposed to kill him or not but might as well end this with all I’ve got left." I manage to stand up with a lot more effort than I hoped for.
"So...you think this will be the final attack?" I manage to say through my panting
"I think so." Sephiroth says without as much effort as me
We both manage one last attack. Sephiroth throws out another shockwave attack trying to save some strength for later if he misses. I just barely dodge it and dash forward while one of my fists gets engulfed with fire and the other with electricity. This is the time I do something I really wanted to do.
"SHO!" I shout out as my Fire Punch connects with his gut.
"RYU!"I punch him in the chest with my Thunder Punch which causes him to cough up blood.
As I charge my final attack, my tight fist starts to glow a bright blue Is that...I start to think as I continue with my final punch.
"KEN!!!!" I shout at the top of my lungs as I sends him flying into the air with what I believe to be Sky Uppercut. I swear that when the last punch landed he was smiling. Not a smile that he's going to win, but a smile that someone would give a old friend after a good fight.
"Congratulations, you won the first trial."Sephiroth says as he starts to disappear.
As I touch the ground, I fell flat on my face laughing while everyone else rushes over to me with worry and fear in their eyes.
[BATTLE END]
"What kind of bull were you trying to pull, Wolf!?!" Roxy says while looking over what injuries I had. In reality, I had a few shallow cuts on my arms and legs, a little deeper ones my arms, and a massive gash running from my right shoulder blade to my left hip. "Oh god, I’m not sure if we can patch that wound up." She says in fear of what would happen to me. My vision started to get even more blurry, but I could still see them as they turned me over to see my wounds.
"Don't worry about it Roxy." I try to say but cough up blood in the process. She starts to freak out even more.
"Don't talk you idiot, or you'll be even worse." She cries out at me. But there was something...weird about how she said that. It felt like...something, I’m not sure.
"Well all I need is to hear your beautiful voice to make me better." I say a little easier that time, trying to hint that she was doing something to heal me.
"What do you mean by that!? You’re dying and I’m not sure if we have anything to get you back into shape." She says crying, not getting that her voice is softer and and is slowly mending my cuts and gashes.
"No no no, don’t cry," I say while trying to not make her cry. "I hoped I didn’t have to say it like this but," I whisper to myself, a slight degrading tone mixed in as well. "Do I need to spell it out to you? You’re healing me just by talking." She looks at me with teary eyes like I was going crazy from blood lose. "I think you’re learning Heal Bell or something, I’m not sure but its healing me all right." I say with a little less strain but it still hurts.
"You mean I’m healing you with just my voice?"She looks me over and sure enough my wounds are healing gradually with every word she spoke."This is amazing!" She cries out jumping up and down giggling like a school girl.
I start to laugh at her adorable actions but it still hurts."It hurts to laugh, hehe-ow-hehe-ow-hehe-ow." I say while I’m my laughing pain fit. She stops and calmly talks to me over the fight.
"You know you're crazy, right?" She says like I did something wrong.
"Yes,yes I am." I say jokingly. we both laugh while I’m still in pain.
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!"Twilight screams at me for no reason.
"The same answer I would give you if I had to answer Pinkie Pie,"I say while pausing for effect."I have nooo idea." Which earned me a hoof to the face. Didn’t hurt but still. "Hey what did I do?" I say. Twilight opens her mouth but soon closes do to 'I have no idea' syndrome.
"Thats what I kinda thought." I said while standing up. Which was a bad thing because it hurt a lot."Ow" I grunted in pain but I still stood up anyways
"You should lay down and rest, that wound still looks pretty bad." Fluttershy says with concern.
"No," I say."We don’t have much time left until this new enemy appears and we're the only ones that can stop her."
"No you need to rest."
"He's right you know." We all turn towards Geno who was standing towards a new found path."We do don’t have much time, all of you need to see Master Bahamut immediately." He says motioning us towards him.
"See? Told you." I say.
"Ok now that the whole shock of what happened is out of my system, can I ask you something?" Twilight says to me.
"What do you need?"
"Why did you want to bring Spike? I didn’t bother to ask before because of all the things that were happening, especially how fast it was going."
"Well he needs to be out of that stuffy library, no offense to either Spikes work or that I don’t like libraries. I mean, I love libraries but even you know that he shouldn't be in there while all of us are on a death defying mission."
"Yeah well..."
"It's ok, Twilight," Spike starts. "There's a few things on why I should be joining you guys." He says while counting on his claws for reasons."One: I helped save the Crystal Empire. Two: whenever you’re out and about, I’m stuck in the library. Three: I need to learn more things than cooking and cleaning. And four: I have a feeling I’m connected to this 'Bahamut' person in some way. I don’t know, but it feels like I know him from somewhere." Spike finishes his explanation.
"Well Bahamut is the king of the dragons." Roxy says offhandedly. That caused all the ponies to stop in their tracks with their eyes as wide as dinner plates.
"You...you mean that Bahamut is a dragon?" Twilight says with obvious fear in her voice.
"Don’t worry he's a nice dragon." I say trying to calm them down."If he was Celestia’s teacher than he's oughta be nice so don’t worry guys." I say. I hear I collective sigh of relief as we continue our way.
"Are you ready for test two?" Geno says
"We were born ready." Spike says with enthusiasm.
"Good so test two is..."He says while leading us to another clearing.
"Aw crap." I say while looking at Darkrai.
"Are you sure these are the ones?" The god of nightmares asks the doll.
"Yes." He says while slipping through the tree's and out of sight.
"Soo...who wants to go first?"
To be continued...