Cantervania

by General Flutterguy

Chapter 2

The pony was holding a dagger. She was curled in a ball. She had a rainbow coloured mane. She also wore an eye patch. Sparkle moved towards the pony. She slowly moved her hoof towards the Pirate. She got slower and slower as her hoof got closer. As soon as Sparkle touched her, she suddenly uncurled and made an incredibly loud gasp.
"It's okay," the vampire hunter assured. "I am Sparkle Belmont. I am here to kill Drac-luna."
"M-my name i-is Rainbow Grant." The pirate was shivering and trembling as she talked. "M-my family was killed by Drac-luna. I had a terrible dream; I saw a skeleton."
"Yeah, that must have been one vivid dream," the vampire hunter said sarcastically. "Are you out to defeat Drac-luna as well?"
"I am," she said triumphantly. Maybe we should work together.
"I usually work alone," Sparkle stated. "But I think I'm going to need all the help I can get." Both ponies spit on their hooves and shook. They moved forward on their adventure towards Drac-luna's castle.
"Since when did you come on a mission to defeat Drac-luna?" The curious pirate asked.
"I was summoned to defeat Drac-luna as a last resort. No one Transylvania trusted us because of our super pony abilities," the mighty vampire hunter replied."
"Well..." the pirate answered, "I guess I'm fighting alongside a Belmont..."
Sparkle had an insulted look on her face. "...We should keep moving before more zombies come.
"Hold on. There's a candle up there," the blue pony pointed at the castle wall beside them. She started to climb up the wall. She was almost up the wall, when she started to slip down. "I'm a little out of practice at climbing walls."
"Couldn't you just fly up?" The Unicorn asked.
The blue pegasus looked at her wings. "Oh, huh huh." The pirate blushed.
Sparkle rolled her eyes.
The pegasus flew up to the candle, and holy water dropped out of it.
Sparkle picked it up. "Yes!" She said in a triumphant voice.
"A capsule of holy water???" The pirate asked in confusion. "How the hay will that help us???"
"You'd be surprised," The unicorn said confidently. She started to move forward with a happier look on her face. "Maybe if I just..." she started talking to herself, "If I use this holy water on the monsters, I could completely disintegrate with one touch of this thing. But I only have five capsules, so I'd better use them wi-"
Rainbow Grant ran up to her gasping for breath in the loudest way possible. "Sparkle, I can't keep up with you if you run that fast, I feel so out of shape. I feel like I've been still for so long, but I don't know why?"
Sparkle remembered the skeleton. "Yeah, it's a mystery."
"Are you accusing me of being slow?"
"No, I just have to keep moving if I'm ever going to stop Dra-"
"DON'T... say that name!"
"Are you trying to help me or not?"
"Maybe I should defeat her on my own!"
"Fine then!"
"If we keep arguing like this the task will never get done!"
"Well that's your..."
The two ponies kept arguing and arguing, and as they kept fighting, zombies were coming out of the ground...
"And that's another thing! I defeated the..." Sparkle looked around her.
"You were the one who... oh pony feathers... what do we do?"
The vampire hunter thought about it for a second; "Run!"
Both ponies ran right through the gaps in the defense surrounding them. They kept running as they got chased.

They got cornered into a wall. Sparkle was thinking about what to do. But then she remembered the holy water. She through it on the ground. The glass capsule broke and the holy water melted all of the attacking zombies.
"Whoa, how did you do that?" The Blue pony asked. "That's so awesome!"
Sparkle pulled out another capsule. "Grant, this is holy water; it destroys evil within almost an instant. Most ponies think that holy water is just a legend, but it will protect us." Sparkle looked forward. There was a stone statue of a pony wearing a sorceress robe. She started to move towards the statue, but then a giant fell from the sky. It was holding a hammer. Sparkle lashed her whip at the giant, but it didn't do any visible damage. The giant growled at her, and slammed it's hammer right on top of her. Sparkle was knocked out.
Grant gasped. "Sparkle!" She ran up to the giant. The giant slammed it's hammer down, but Rainbow Grant was too fast. She jumped onto the giant's back. The giant tried to struggle, but the agile mare would not let go. She stabbed it with her dagger. It howled in pain, as it tried even harder to get her off, but she had her hooves gripped tightly around the monster's neck. However, the monster realized what it's problem was, and reached for the pegasus on it's back. It through her forward, and she crashed on the ground.
Rainbow shook her head and looked in front of her. She could make out a large figure charging towards her. "I think now is about time to move." She jumped out of the way and tried to fly onto its back again, but this time it was too smart for her. It swung it's arm in Grant's general direction. She flew out of the way and dodged the giant's bulky arm. She soared straight into the giant's heart area (if it had one) and stabbed it with her dagger. The giant roared with pain, and it disintegrated into purple dust. The dust formed into another red orb.
Grant ran over towards the fallen vampire hunter. She put her hoof to the hunter's hoof. "Sparkle Belmont, are you alright?"
Sparkle opened her purple eyes. She looked upward. "Whe-where's... ho-how did you... what happened, where's the-"
"The pirate put her hoof to her mouth. It's okay, I defeated it. When you got knocked out by the hammer, I took over and destroyed it."
The vampire hunter's eyes started to water. She got up and put her hooves tightly around the pirate.
She backed up a little bit, but after realizing the reason of action, she returned the hug.
The purple mare was comforted by the pony's hooves around her. Her cold body was warmed by the heat of the blue mare's inner chest. "Thank you," the vampire hunter said in a weak voice. She was so relieved to be okay from the situation, and was so happy to be with her friend. She felt bad about arguing with her before.
"No problem," the pirate assured. "By the way," she began while releasing her hooves from the secured mare, "There was an orb that formed after I defeated the giant. If by any chance do you know what that thing does?"
Sparkle had a flashback to when she first rescued Rainbow Grand from being possessed by the skeleton. "Touch it, it's safe."
Grant moved up to the red orb, and a lightning bolt came crashing down on the statue of the mare in the robe! The statue came alive, and fell forward. It was a yellow mare with a pink mane. She was wearing a blue and white robe.

Comments

[SuperGiantRobot]

"Get lost,Nightmare moon! you don't belong on this world!"

"It is not by my hoof that I am returned from the moon to wreak havoc. I have returned to be shown tribute!"

"Tribute?! You steal Equestria's sun and make the ponies your slaves!"

"Perhaps the same could be said of all villains!"

[General Flutterguy]

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Good one!
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[Beerforce]

Wow, the grammar and awkward sentences make this whole thing read like the intro to Castlevania 3. The dialogue is quite silly too. In fact all of the writing seems like it belongs in an NES game or a Konami game manual. Normally this would be a bad thing but in this case it is actually kind of brilliant. I don't know if it is intentional or not, but I want to see more. This gets a like and a fav.

[nintendogeek7065]

A castlevania 3 based story. Looks like it might be interesting. Also I think your like one out of three whole people on this website that actually a castlevania based story/crossover.

[General Flutterguy]

2695264Thank you so much!!!
I don't know if everything was intentional. If you could be a little more specific, I could answer your question. This is supposed to be a comedy, so there is probably be some intentional silliness.

[General Flutterguy]

2695289I hope you enjoy...

[nintendogeek7065]

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I'm just glade to see some more mlp fics involving one of my favorite game series.(pre-reboot i still on the fence about the los titles) Also did notice some of the sillyness in your story but I agree Beerforce on this. the fact you went a Konami game from nes era gives you bit of leeway when comes to the subject matter.(That and Konami always put a decent amount of humor in there games I.E. MGS,Goemon,ect so it works out pretty well)

[Beerforce]

2695299 I don't know how exactly to explain it. The way some of the sentences are worded just seem strange. The narration reminds me of the opening text scroll from Castlevania 3. There are some occasional errors, but most of the sentences are grammatically correct, if a bit odd. It is as if it were translated from Japanese by Konami in the '80s. The dialogue seems like it wouldn't be out of place in an NES game either. Or in the wonderfully hammy Castlevania Symphony of the Night. I can't imagine any normal person (or pony) saying some of these things. They sound like things a video game character would say though.

Also, Sparkle's actions and dialogue make it seem like she is aware that she is in a world that operates on video game logic instead of a serious quest to stop an evil, powerful foe.

[General Flutterguy]

2695380Well... the opening for Castlevania 3 was definitely intentional. But I was trying not to make it seem too much like a video game. You probably noticed that I left hearts out. That would have been just weird. "Oh, hey, I just got a heart, now I can use my side weapon." "Hey, I just got a double shot!" But I was going for funny. If you find it funny, I guess I'm succeeding!

[nintendogeek7065]

2695380 You hit the nail right head with that statement. It dose feel like a 80's Konami game. Of course most Konami games come with a good amount of ham and cheese. That's part of their charm. (witch is why I'm on the fence with los. Dark vania stories are all well and good but los seems to be trying to hard in my opinion.)