"-always weaker than me, I*****!"
My eyes snapped open, and were momentarily blinded by the sunlight as I woke at the feeling of being stabbed in the gut. Gripping the area served to remind me of my dream. A cry drew my attention away from myself, and to the group in front of me.
Even as my eyes met those of my betrayer, they vanished in a burst of white light.
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Every pony held their breath as the golden haze exited the creature and made its shimmering way towards the still body of their Princess. With the sound of skin and muscle tearing, small amounts of blood flew from the light cuts and bruises spreading black and blue. For a moment, they all sanctioned a sliver of hope, that the alabaster Alicorn wasn't seriously injured. For a moment, they believed that everything would be fine.
With a sound akin to ripping paper, a gash started from the top of her forehead and travelled down to her brow, cut the eyelids in half, continued down her cheek to her jaw and disappeared only to continue its journey down her chest almost instantaneously shattered that hope.
"Sister!" Luna cried out, racing back to Celestia as blood sprayed from the newly opened wound onto the ground.
"Princess!" the six Elements yelled out in shock, Twilight most of all.
'I... I can't...' Her world seemed to be shaking as she spotted the bloody mar on her mentor's perfect coat. Turning back to the creature, which now seemed to be twitching erratically, before gripping it's stomach for some reason, she took a deep breath and made her choice.
'I'm so sorry... I don't want to... but I have to protect my friends!'
"Girls, NOW!" yelled Twilight, as she focused on the bond that the Elements provided, eyes squeezed shut to maintain that concentration. Feeling each of her friends as they connected to the flow of Harmony, her eyes shot open to see a horned mask of bone... and vivid, almost glowing yellow eyes staring back at her.
The power of the Elements of Harmony surged through them and in that instant, Twilight 'heard' the thoughts of her friends;
'No freaks gonna hurt the Princess and get away with it!'
'This thing ain't gettin' near my family!'
'Oh, dear... I hope this doesn't hurt it...'
'I refuse to let such a barbarian walk where they may!'
'Ooooh hereitcomeshereitcomeshereitcomes!!! Super Rainbow Party Cannon, GO!'
With the sound of rushing wind, the Rainbow of Harmony* arced above their heads...
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I watched as a freaking rainbow appeared from nowhere above the six ponies' head and shot up to come down on me.
'They don't seriously think a rainbow's gonna- AAAARRRRGH!' Instinct bellowed as he cut himself off, the rainbow having somehow wrapped itself around me once it reached me and began causing me to roar in pain myself. Looking at my arm, my eyes widened as flakes of my skin slowly began lifting away and crumbling to dust. Though it was difficult to see, I think there may have been another colour under it...
My rage surfaced as I looked to where the ghostly flames of the six were. Crouching slightly, I charged a Cero that grew to it's normal size in moments before firing.
Only for the rainbow to somehow wrap itself around the beam and break it into nothing.
'Shit!' Instinct snarled, 'How the hell could that have happened?!'
Charging another Cero, I released it before charging and firing another right behind it. Both met the same fate as the first.
'Oi, if you don't do something soon we're dead!' Instinct snapped.
Bracing my feet more firmly, I did something I'd never tried so far - I charged a Cero, and kept charging. Doing so, I saw how the so-called "anti-magic cuffs" affected me; After the usual charge time, it was difficult to force more energy into the Cero. With a roar, I kept straining to cram more and more energy in while drawing more up from somewhere deep within myself, the red flames appearing around me and keeping the rainbow at bay.
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Unseen by all, each of the cuffs began cracking, minutely at first but steadily becoming larger until...
With a vicious retort, all five shattered at almost the same time. And the results were instantaneous.
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Celestia came to at the feel of a wet cloth dabbing at her face. Flicking an eye open, she saw her sister's worried face, as well as a white cloth tinged a dark pink coated in a midnight blue aura. She winced as memories of what occurred surfaced in her mind, grateful to be alive even as the burn of her wound made itself known to her.
Hearing the relief of Shining Armour and a filly she identified as Rarity's sister, she looked around to blink at the absence of her student and her friends. Looking to Luna, she asked, "Luna? Where are-"
Something struck her on the muzzle as she spoke, drawing her attention to a shard of a blackish-silver metal about the size of a bit. The curvature, as well as the colour seemed to ring a... ring... Her eyes widened as the dots connected. Forcing herself to stand up, despite a few cuts on her haunches and legs stinging at the movement, she saw where her student and friends were.
Hovering above the ground slightly in the five-pointed gem shape, a rainbow being channelled from them to a spot where it cocooned around the creature, the red flames from earlier forcing the cocoon from wrapping it entirely. She took all that in, for the next moment everything changed.
The cocoon suddenly bulged out one side, a spherical lump the size of a beach ball expanding instantly. As the rainbow began trying to break the magic down, she saw what it was.
"No... it can't be..." Celestia whispered, eyes widening in horror at what she saw. For there, the beach ball barely connected to his horns, stood the creature, some patches of his black-marked white skin being eroded away. She looked into his eyes, almost hidden as they were in the vivid red of his magic, and saw pure, unfettered rage. She immediately knew his intent, but was too late.
"No... please..."
Time slowed, as with a screeching, rumbling whirr, the ball of magic exploded into a beam as thick as an oak tree trunk towards the source of the rainbow, rings of the multicoloured beam expanding and dissipating along the length of the streak of red. In the centre, Twilight looked slowly back at her teacher, a look of fear on her face as her glowing eyes wept a single tear.
"TWILIGHT! NO!" Celestia screamed as time resumed it's torturous pace, and the beam struck into the Elements of Harmony, and a massive mushroom explosion of vivid red with streaks of rainbow sounded like thunder as it consumed the six.
That moment echoed on forever, even as she numbly became aware of Luna dropping to the ground beside her in shock. As the magic and smoke slowly cleared away, all that was evident of there being six, healthy young mares, each with their own quirks, the bearers of the Elements of Harmony, the champion fighters that fought Nightmare Moon, Discord and Sombra and won...
Was a smoking, soot-coated crater.
OH MAN!! way to leave us on a to be continued. no fair man.
this is like episode 5 of attack on Titan holy shit
..........well that's what they get for fucking with a vasto lorde
Nice chapter! Can you tell me after what Episode this is officially happening?
I'm not pointing fingers here but....... "This Is Totally Luna's Fault".
3822233 Ahhh... sorry. Promise that everything'll be cleared next chapter.
3822248 Heard good things, know the plot but never seen it. So, I guess I'm doin' something right?
3822277 Depends - you talkin' MLP or Bleach? Cos I quit watching MLP a long time ago at around the end of S2. But, regardless... I coooouuuuld... but I ain't gonna ;P Sorry, but just like a magician, a good author
rarelynever gives away the plot too easy!3822299 Oh totally.
3822320 Or you could re-watch MLP because so Cannon Villain can actually be very fun to deal with by Hollow-Ichigo.
I mean, Hichigo vs. 'Equestria Girls' will kick ass!
And watching Sunset Shimmer being pummel to the ground by Ichigo will be totally fare, considering how much of a bitch she was.
3822425 ... Could... Ain't gonna.
Sorry, but in Yin Yang terms, MLP has too much Yang and next to no Yin. Too positive, too happy for a cynic like myself.
They'll totally get chains of fate and become soul reapers. The elements themselves will be zanpakuto or some shite.
I PREDICT THIS
3822477 Please don't let that happen... That would be awful.
As for the story so far... I'm on the edge of deciding whether I like it or not. On one hand, It's nice to see the ponies get humbled and to realize that not all opponents are going to bend over and take a rainbow enema without putting up a fight. On the other hand, you're using the most frustrating plot devise to continuously drive your story forward: "Let's make bad judgement calls."
Now, this doesn't usually bother me... if it is only used once, but this is like the forth time that it's happened with the same group doing it over and over again. Beside the facts that these girls are suppose to be paragons of virtue, represent Equestria's belief in the whole, "love and tolerate," thing, and are studying Friendship, there is still the simple fact that they should have learned their lesson by now. I find your justification for there continued poor decisions a little weak on that front.
So, yeah, not really sure which way to cast my vote yet, hopefully something happens soon that will make it fall in the like-worthy category in the next chapter.
...Oh, and the slow head turn and single tear right before "death," ... classic.
Considering Ichigo can see the dead this should be interesting if he actually killed them.
3822753 ... Okay, I agree that would be interesting...
3822746 Well, yeah. I already know my own shortcomings with this story with certain points, but all I can think of to rebuke is that, if they were scared of Zecora for being a striped pony, how scared do you think they'd be of a borderline god? In my defense, it's 3 a-effing-m, I've had a hell of a day and I'm still awake for some goddamn reason...
Also, yeah - I thought so too - it was actually a last minute addition, if you'll believe it
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Hichigo actually does have a name. He was given the name White by Ichigo. It is in the latest arc of the manga, around 550~560 chapter wise.
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The Zecora point is difficult to argue because it can be used both ways. One way you could say that, because they had that experience and wrote a friendship report about it, they should be using the lesson learned in their interactions with Ichigo. The other way could be in pointing out the fact that these ponies never seem to remember the things they supposedly learned after that episode.
Like the whole, not listening to Fluttershy about the bats and using magic to change their appetites. This goes completely against the parasprite episode two fold. 1) using the same magic again where the first time resulted in disaster, and 2) Not listening to a friend... Especially when talking about their field of expertise.
But, yeah, hopefully the bad decisions will end after this... Well except for Celestia or Shining attacking out of grief, that would be one of the few times where the justification is pretty good.
think they got teleported? I think they may have been banished along with ichigo due to his powers suck them along with him or something like with nightmare moon or something since the dang rainbow doesn't really kill. that be interesting~!
Good fucking riddance.
GOD DAMNIT!
So he was having another memory-dream? I was wondering why 'Instinct' was the only one around in his inner world.
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He didn't get banished, did he? The chapter doesn't say, but he should still be there to hand Luna her worthless ass. Celestia hasn't really done anything
3822866 what the rainbow can't stone it move things really really far away and he was in the middle of that light show maybe he got out maybe he decided to do a if he going out again take them with him kind of things I don't know I just thought it be interesting to see the ponies in hollow land with them seeing helpless soul ponies turning into hollow and the horror of that barren land....
3822763 I know, 'Hichigo' is just a preference.
3822957 k just making sure.
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But he wasn't going down. The Elements were still trying to do whatever it was they were doing (my guess is trying to purge the Hollow from him, the same as with Nightmare Moon) when the Bearers got turned into a smoking hole in the ground. It didn't seem like the light show was making any progress either once the remaining limiters broke, so I don't see how it could teleport him at all.
It would be pretty fun if they ended up in Hueco Mundo though. Let the bastards see what Hollows without Ichigo's restraint against killing are like.
Please please please don't 'fix' them by just having them suddenly change their tune and him just accepting it. That really would put the story straight into Shittytown. We're here now, and what they did will have to be addressed. Some serious Heel Realizations are in order, at the very least.
Ohhhh, me likey explosions!
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good read!
EoH weren't enough to stop Ichibeast?
In the words of Nappa from DBZA: "Haha, pointless"
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Holy shit! this was one hell of a ride, bit annoyed you left us in a cliff hanger, still look forward to the end.
#%*@ IT! tHX FOR THE TO BE CONTINUED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3846395 Uhm... Welcome? -.^*
3840750 Trust me, ride's still goin'.
3823058 Oi, oi - I understand that my writing's faulty, but I'm not THAT bad... am I?
3822866 ... I'd just like to comment that I read your first two lines in Michael "Rage Quit" Jones' voice. And nearly shit myself laughing at it.
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You mean the "please don't" part? Not really, but I'd argue it's a legitimate concern - I've seen far too many stories go straight into the crapper that way, even ones that were otherwise very good. Better to say "I'm worried this might happen, here's why it would suck" now, rather than wait until it happens and having to say "I hate this, here's why it sucks" later.
I had to look that up, but I have to admit it fit the tone I was going for almost perfectly.
3847575 Hm, it IS a legitimate concern, that I won't deny. So, thank you for bringing it to my attention.
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lol I'm just kidding. Keep awesomely writing please!
well fuck.. that didn't work as planned at all..
Never mess with freakin' HICHIGO!