Guards, guards everywhere, left, guards, right? Guards, Forward? Sunbutt and more fucking guards, I knew just from the look on her face that I wouldn't be able to fake my way out of this.
My hair was black again and I moved forward in slow strides, no weapons were visible on my person, Celestia used to act very rashly a thousand or so years ago, but over time I noticed how her period seemingly wore off.
Twenty meters left before i'll reach her, some may argue that what i'm doing is stupid, but I want to show her just how much she and her sister had hurt me, even if it meant dying, if you discounted the guards this may very well have been a stand-off between to cowboys or something, the guards tensed up as I moved closer.
Ten meters.
I could literally see the fear in the guards eyes, I hadn't exited my spell after all, even with my slow regeneration it's still quick enough to easily cancel out the drawbacks of the spell, I ran my tooth over my teeth, smiling a little as the taste of blood made itself known, that mare weren't the best kisser, but the metallic tinge in my mouth made up for it.
I stopped two meters in front of Celestia, sat down, and began eating a salad that had been left on a table.
She looked at me like I just lost my marbles, I can understand how it may seem to her; Number one wanted in the entire world, the blood of thousands upon my hands, were sitting here, eating a salad with a smile.
Snapping out of her little episode, she glared at me, I met her glare with ten times the force, remember earlier how I told you about Jasper's glares? That guy never really needed to fight, a glare would scare away the cops.
I rose and stood at my tallest height, I'm sadly not very tall though and only reached slightly above her, but it's a primal fear that all creature's have, watch out for the big baddies, herbivores had this times six.
She didn't waver much though, she just tried to step up her glare a notch, which failed when I respectively increased my power of the glare.
I'm actually a friendly girl, at heart, it's just I never feel like acting nice, last time they had caught me with those blasted elements I were in the middle of a... Questionable activity, and singing Ready to Die by Andrew. WK while torturing someone tends to make you lose yourself, I still blame Luna for making me tip like that, all because she wanted immortality like her sister, she saw only one solution; Take it from someone that has more of it then they need, a percentage of eternity is still eternity, after all.
We thrust forward as if suddenly set on fire, her large broadsword that seemed older and stronger than time itself clashed with The Vorpal Blade, both swords shifted under the blow, my Vorpal Blade got blood red at the tip, only a small part of the rose out there, and sunbutts Titan's Fury caught on fire, a large brilliant flame went out of the sword at the next slash, slightly scorching my blade.
I jumped backwards as far as I could, gaining about Fifty meters of distance as I waited for Celestia to approach, I knew her sister were observing through the cloud spell, it didn't surprise me that Miss Sunbutt didn't want her precious sister in danger.
I barely had time to dodge as the sword went over my head, severing the hat from my head as I did a backflip, landing on my hands I got the hat on my foot, as I got back on my feet I found the hat on my head, with a grin I opened my Deck of Cards, and pulled out a Knight of Spades, pure luck really, and put it on the ground before she knew what I was doing.
I felt the power surging into my body, if there's one thing i've learned from playing video game's it's that you should always save your ace's for the bosses.
With a mad dash I swung my sword with all the power I could muster towards her head, sunbutt's Fury blocked the blow, but some of the flames seemed to extinguish as my own sword were halfway in on the roses.
"Paint it red, Celestia." Her eyes went wide as I pulled out a normal paint brush, seemingly dry, and slapped it across her face, red paint stained the majority of her body, still wet and dripping I dropped it on the ground, where it would disappear to god knows where.
She grabbed me in her magic and threw me across the street into a house, multiple destructive spells following.
Idiotic.
Groaning, I managed to pull out my umbrella just in time to reflect her fire spell, dodging out of the way for the second one I reflected the third, of which I found to be acid as the ground beneath me started to fizzle.
The surprise on Celestia's face was priceless, I grabbed a camera I always had on me, and took a picture of her just a mere second before the fireball collided with her.
"That, was a doozey" I said, knowing that Celestia would teleport to me in a second I readied the Vorpal Blade, she did not disappoint as the Titan's Fury nearly took my head of, before I caught it in my mouth.
That's right, I bit down on a sword.
That was on fire.
The fire didn't harm me very much though, as the entire blade seemingly extinguished instantly due to shock from the user, I spit the blade out at her hoof and took a stance with the Vorpal Blade.
"Come and get me, slut." In the corner of my eyes I saw a bunch of Unicorns charging some manner of spell, I smiled as the gigantic, blue and sparkling ball of energy came at me, pulling out my umbrella I relished the 'oh shit dawg' look on their face's as the spell was slung back at them, sadly, doing this granted Celestia the opportunity to stab me in the chest with her fiery sword, the surprised look on her face that she actually hit me told wavelengths of how used sunbutt were to killing, that's right, she nearly fainted.
Standing her ground though, she pulled the sword out of me and tried with a final badass speech as blood dripped out of the wound, I could feel myself phasing, but I still had my largest Ace in my sleeve.
"For your crimes against Equestria, Gryphonia and Zebrica, your vile acts against nature and the murders of... Six thousand, nine hundred and sixty two-" she glanced at the fried unicorns and frowned "- seventy five ponies, five hundred and thirteen Minotaurs, one thousand and five hundred twenty six Zebras and two thousand five hundred and ninety two Gryphons, I here by condemn you to death for the murder of eleven thousand, six hundred and six beings, and as a binding of permanent peace, your corpse will be given to the Gryphons." Eleven thousand... It really makes you think, I felt damn proud of myself, but I decided it was the time to activate my vice card, but not before I got to say my own badass line.
"Make that... Six thousand, nine hundred and seventy five ponies, and two Alicorn." I smirked as I activated my Hysteria, the wound instantly sealed itself and I went whiter than a ghost, blood started spilling out of my eyes and I felt a familiar weight on my back, putting The Vorpal Blade on my hip, I pulled out the weapon on my back.
The Hobby Horse slammed into the ground with a neigh as I missed Celestia by a few inches.
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(Celestia, ten seconds before Alice spoke.)
It's... It's finally done, the most wanted murderer in the entire living word, the biggest scar on this planet, is dying, I guess a thousand years in stone made her rusty.
My sword impaled the ground as I took a deep breath, and almost gagged at the smell of blood.
Then, to my horror, The Lady of Madness spoke.
"Make... That... Six thousand... nine hundred and... and... seventy five ponies... two Alicorns." My eye's went wide as she turned white, the wound gone, her eye's were blacker than the depths of Tartarus, and seemed to cry blood.
She sheathed her sword, there were only one rose left unpainted on it, and pulled out something from her back.
I only reacted out of instinct as a giant oh Faust why pony head embedded itself in the ground, it gave of a happy and loud neigh as I narrowly dodged it, Alice were not done however, as she kept flailing the giant head around, I found no time to give of a counter attack, the last remaining unicorns in the guard were firing of magic spells at her, but she just pulled out her umbrella and deflected them without breaking a beat, eventually I tried to dash for Titan's Fury, but a giant blunt force interrupted me as it slammed into my back, a searing pain shot through my spine and I swear I heard something snap, if I were not moments away from passing out, I would have told Luna to stay away.
(Alice, Present.)
Slam, slam slam. Deflect, slam slam deflect. Slash, deflect slam. Deflect slam slam deflect. my mind worked in perfect harmony as I went through the attacks, sunbutt dashed for her sword after a while, I managed to slam my Hobby Horse down on her spine, time seemed to slow down as I added more pressure until I heard something snap, satisfied I slipped a gem onto her sword, so she wouldn't be able to grab it with magic.
I knew Luna and her guards were coming from behind, but my Hysteria had a mere fifteen seconds left, using these seconds I pulled out my pepper grinder and began mowing down guards, they dropped like Boltflies, some got their wings clipped and other's just got their brains pierced.
Five seconds left.
Putting my pepper grinder back in my hat, I made a dash for the outskirts of the city, the speed combination of Fate and my Hysteria allowed me to make it to the edge in just a few seconds, jumping of the edge I began to float towards The Everfree, I used to have my house there, built underground by some Dragons and Diamond Dogs when I slaughtered their Alpha.
I smiled at the memory, and kept descending into the forest, aiming for the mountain.
I hit the toe of the mountain, just like I wanted too, and moved my way around, feeling around for my entrance.
I felt a thin stone wall, smiling I reared back and slammed my first into it, breaking the surface and revealing a large, large iron door with a very complicated combination code, with a small snicker I put in the code, Ace, Diamonds, Knight, Spades, King, Clubs, Queen Hearts.
The door opened and air sucked in, blowing away some of the dust that had gathered over the centuries, with a critical eye I inspected the untouched dust and nodded in approval as I made my way down the staircase, making sure to close the door behind me, my venture downward were a long and boring one, it took nearly two hours to reach the bottom of it, then another three hours of avoiding traps to reach my house, it looked exactly like I remembered it, and I smiled.
And upon entering she sees a tour group of ponies casually wandering through her house.
Another Edit: I currently have 112 favorites on the story, and I really can not individually thank you all, that is if you want another chapter.
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That's... Actually a really good thing to do, show people she's not the mindless killer i'm making her out to be.
Edit: Fun Fact, I actually press the Dislike button on my own stories :P
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Wait....IT IS!!!!
Good story, but I'm afraid I can't hit the like button. It would mean a Norwegian made peace with a Sweed, and that is simply unacceptable.
So that hat is bigger on the inside?
3977858 Aaw come on. I'm a Finnish person and I could click the like button.
Even if the Svedes are a bunch of fuckers.
3977858 we understand. We wouldn't want your tainted like anyway
Du stavade kungen fel i sammanfattningen.
3979040 oh yeah? Well we are gonna wipe the ice with you in the semi today
3979518 Oh fuck you too!
And no you will not.
3977858 Actually, a few hundred years ago my family came from there :P
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3979518 Stop arguing, both of you, else i'll be forced to remove both your comments.
3979787 sorry. But I think we are more poking fun at each other more than anything.
3979793 Yep.
We'll win anyway.
sucks balls.
While the concept of a malideus esque villain shaped after Alice madness return is extremely enticing the way you are executing things out it's bland to say the least. I don't know what are you doing in later chapters, but you should have explained why she what she does, how did she learn all of it and most importantly what made her be such a gigantic psycho bitch towards the ponies, and everything else for that matter. Otherwise all it's left is an overpowered mary sue that won't even grace us with a back story.
But don't get me wrong your writing style is decent enough, the only thing is that it would be pretty dangerous for the story if it continues as it is, why don't you don't give us some more ancient story. Now that she is back in her cave she could recall the past as flashbacks as she is looking at the various trinkets in there.
3980022 Aye', i'm planning on that, it's just hard to write the backstory right now since i'm planning on doing that with another writer, but i'm sure I can squeeze it into the next chapter, after all, backstory is important, and her psycho bitchiness... Well there's more than decent excuse to that.
3980022 Edit: Another thing, a *Mary Sue* is "A character with no opponents matching her power, can solve anything and everything whilst being Little Mr/Miss Perfect." Brad from Equestria Girls is your Mr. Perfect, add super power and he's the spitting image of a Mary Sue.
3978010 Like you have no idea.
... yeah. What really hurts this story is your ignorance of the show-don't-tell principle and a grammar that's considered bad at best and a kobold's scribbles at worst. And that's coming from somebody whose primary language ISN'T English.
Alice does seem like a decently deep and complex character, but what I pointed out makes a good reader unable to enjoy that.
A decent beta is mandatory if you don't want to be mocked a la FelixDawn in the future, Shade.
3981084 that sentence has multiple meanings.
3981843 Bad grammar? Humor me, please, I think my A in English would disagree with you.
Also, big surprise, my primary language ain't English either! It's Swedish!
"Show don't tell"
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3981902 No kiddin' buddy.
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Mrs. Shade. We meet again.
3984572 Agent Smith, how can I help you today? The trail of freshly backed cookies are in the far end of the room.
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I'm fine. Just looking around for defect clones.
3984683 there eating the cookies so why don't you do both
3979514 Nä, när Kungen går "Derp" så blir han Knugen :P
Ready to die? I love that song! Also, no girl, you're DEFIANTLY crazy. Good for you.
4001189 The Shade what dress Is Alice wearing because only two dresses from Alice: Madness Returns have hats and are the "Hattress" and the "Late but Lucky" dresses so which one is it?.