Lina Inverse didn’t want to open her eyes just yet. Whatever her head was laying on it was very comfortable, like a bouncy pillow or something. She fought against wakefulness but the memories of how she landed where she was in the first place just couldn’t be prevented from reasserting themselves.
Fact was, she didn’t remember going to sleep. She did remember that fight against undead ghouls in that temple…and then an explosion and nothing. Finally she decided to give up and open her eyes. She found that her head was actually resting on the generous bust of…
“NAGA?!” she shouted.
“Five more minutes papa…” mumbled Lina’s self-proclaimed rival, as she grabbed Lina in a ridiculously tight hug and then rolled on the side, clutching the diminutive sorceress like a plush toy.
“Can’t…breath…Naga...” came the muffled cries of Lina inverse from between Naga’s chest pillows.
Raindrops was tending to the cloud cover over Carrot Top’s farm, making sure the carrots were going to get enough rain, when she heard an explosion, seemingly coming from Whitetail Woods.
“What the…”
“Lina! Why are you so mean to me,” complained the Naga from her position on the ground, tears streaking down her soot-covered face.
“You deserve twice that for the stunt you pulled back there,” replied Lina, standing with her back to Naga on the other side of the clearing.
The two, once properly awakened, had found themselves to be in the middle of a small clearing in some sort of forest they didn’t recognize. Lina could swear the last forest they had been in had been more coniferous.
“How could have I known that old mirror was a magical artifact?” asked the dark haired sorceress, siting up and crossing her arms.
“We were in a place called Temple of the Magic Mirror!” shouted Lina, turning back to glare at her unwanted travel companion. “Why did you have to go and hit the darn thing with a Freeze Arrow?!”
Naga turned her head away, pouting, “I was trying to hit that icky undead thing! Why do we always end up in stinky dungeon with slimy monsters anyway?”
“I do it for the treasure, who knows why you follow me.”
“I follow you because I’m your rival off course! If you can do something then I must do it too!” said Naga, dramatically pointing a finger at the redheaded sorceress. “Doesn’t mean I have to like it though.”
Lina put a hand to her forehead in frustration. “Whatever… maybe now you can tell where you’ve dragged us. I don’t remember what happened after the mirror blew up.”
“I didn’t drag us anywhere, I don’t remember anything either.”
"That's just great," said Lina, sarcasm almost visibly dripping from her voice."That mirror must have been some sort of teleportation artifact. Who knows where we ended up because of you!"
"It's not my fault those ancient folks can't properly label their magical doodads. Don't blame me for the shortcomings of our forefathers Lina, that's terribly unfair," replied Naga as she stood up.
"You're the one who blasted it and got us lost who knows where!"
"What is done is done," replied the scantly clad sorceress, before a grumble from her stomach interrupted her. "Why don't we find a place to eat instead of standing around assigning blames to each other?"
"You mean blame you?" Replied her petite companion, glaring at her, before her own stomach protested. "You got a point on the food thing. Let's ray wing out of here."
Naga agreed with a nod, but before the two could cast anything, they heard a piercing female cry reverbating through the woods.
Lina gasped."Someone's in trouble!"
Naga shrugged. "It's not our problem, besides I'm hungry."
"Maybe she's being attacked by bandits, and bandits mean treasure!" Said Lina with a greedy glint in her eyes.
"And maybe food!" Said the other, rubbing her exposed stomach.
"And even possibly a reward!"
"Let's go!" They both said, dashing in the direction of the cries.
They weaves between the trees, scattering birds and confused bunnies in their wake.
"Stay back, leave me alone," they heard the same voice as before say.
"We go when you pay," replied a gruff, and rather stupid sounding, voice.
Lina smirked. "Sounds like bandits alright."
They could see the trees thinning and three figures with red vests standing in the middle of what they assume was a road in the woods.
"Hold it right there, bandits!" Shouted Lina as her and Naga leapt onto the road behind the three figures.
Her heroic entrance was marred by the fact that she immediately froze at the scene she discovered. Three of the ugliest beastmen she had ever seen, all of different height and wearing identical red vests, where standing menacingly around a horse. Or rather a pony, seeing as it was rather short. The pony had a cream coloured coat and a two-tone mane in blue and pink, and it wore a pair of saddle bags. Of the woman they had heard through the trees there was no sign. Three bulldog faced beastmen, and even the pony, just stared at the two sorceress, seemingly just as confused by the situation as the two humans.
A gust of wind pushed a bunch of leaves across the road before anything moved. Finally it was the second tallest of the bulldog faced guys who talked first.
"What are they?" He asked.
"I think tall one female Minotaur, look at her udder," said the tallest one, pointing at Naga.
Said sorceress let out an indignant gasp while Lina chuckled at the description of Naga's assets.
"You idiot," called the short one, jumping to smack the back of his partner's vest. "Minotaurs have horns on their head, not their shoulders, they obviously monkeys!"
"Allright you jokers, enough with the name calling! Where's the girl you were threatening?" Called Lina.
"I'm...I'm right here," spoke the pony, timidly raising one of her front hoof.
Lina put a hand to her face, "Off course..." She said softly.
Naga decided to take this lull in the action would be a perfect time to introduce herself and began wit her trademark laugh. The three dog-faced crooks and the pony put their paws, or hooves, up to their ears as one.
"Prepare yourself bandits! For you face the beautiful Naga the Serpent and her sidekick, Lina Inverse!" She declared.
"I'm not your sidekick!" Complained Lina. "You know what, let's just finish this quickly!"
Raindrops was flying over Whitetail Woods, trying to find any traces of that explosion she had heard when she witnessed something that was both impressive and rather confusing.
Not far from her position there was a sudden explosion and a pillar of dirt, rock and smoke burst from the ground! It was as if something had exploded underground. She saw three Diamond Dogs, fur blackened and signature vest shredded by the explosion, flying off into the distance and disappearing over the horizon.
She wondered if the Diamond Dogs had some sort of mining accident and if they had been doing illegal mining near Ponyville again. That explosion looked like it had come from the road in the woods, so Raindrops decided to go and make sure nopony, or dog, hadn’t gotten hurt by that explosion.
When she flew over to the site she found a smoking crater, a frightened looking Bon Bon backing away from it and two lanky figure in sinister looking capes advancing toward her. She had no idea what those things were but they looked really frightening.
Raindrops did the first thing that came to her and she dived toward the two creatures.
“Get away from her!” she shouted loudly as she approached the two figures.
“Ah! Nagaprotectme!” quickly said the smaller of the two as it grabbed the other one and threw it in Raindrops path.
Raindrops ran hoof firt into the creature, sending it flying over the head of the smaller one and hitting the tree. It slid to the ground, twitching and groaning in pain with two horseshoe shaped mark on its face.
“Liiiinaaaa…” it whined.
“Hey what’s the big idea you crazy flying donkey?” asked the obviously outraged redheaded creature.
Raindrops landed and got into a charging stance “Donkey? I’ll show who’s a donkey you hairless ape!”
Bon Bon suddenly stood between her and the creature. “It’s allright Raindrops, they saved me from those Diamond Dogs!”
The redheaded creature nodded. “See? Not bad guys!”
“Now calm down, we need to track down Trixie so she can turn them back into ponies!” added Bon Bon, much to Raindrops surprise.
“Say what?” she and the mysterious creature said at the exact same time.
Here goes Equestria
There is nothing about this I don't like!
So Much AWESOME!! Please continue this, you Genius!!
Say, I just had a moment of Fridge Logic that made me think of something. In the Slayers 'verse, black magic spells like Dragon Slave and Gaav Flare are cast by channeling the power of a Mazoku, so assuming for the moment that Equestria doesn't have Mazoku or the Lord of Nightmares, does that mean Lina is just ridiculously powerful and destructive as opposed to god-tier?
Oh crap... and now I'm thinking up theories about Lina and Discord, but I don't want to say them because I just want to watch the madness unfold at its own pace.
2431426 She just needs to learn the Chaos Words for Luna and Discord. Then she can cast a real Nightmare Blade.
I love Slayer, especially the episodes with Naga and Lina, this was highly entertaining! I wonder how the duo's mroe murderous and meat eating tendencies will mesh with the ponies? hmm how will the magic work, unlike MLP magic in Slayer is drawn form different dimensions/entities hmm, maybe they are draining Equestrian's magic, or ooh maybe they can channel Celestia and Luna's power or nick Discords!
2433818>>2433866 Hmmm...
CORONA NOVA!
That's NOT my name, flat-chested monkey!
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That name is awesome! the flat chested monkey line made me completely lose it!
Slayers Magic works like this; Shamanism magic draws from the astral plans for elemental effects(fire, wind, water, earth, and spirit) and is the most common of magic in Lina's world(i think), so I think it would still work in the Lunaverse since magic energy is in the very air(I assume Lina used a simple FireBall to blast Naga).
White magic draws from a rather obscure source, but I think its the psychic leyline of positivity/goodness(Kindness/Generosity), since White magic is use for healing, purification, and protection. Holy magic draws from the power of the Gods.
Black magic draws from negativity and/or demons. I'm not sure if there's a distinction like Black magic draws mostly from negative and dark feelings, and drawing power from Mazouku is a sub catagory; or if for Black magic drawing from negativity and the Mazouku is virtually the same thing since mazouku hold dominion over things like anger, fear, and pain.
In any case, its unlikely that Lina will be able to use much Black magic(her specialty) in the pony's world. Drawing power from Discord or Corona is pretty much out because not only does Lina not know anything about them( like their unique magic signature to find and draw from, plus Corona has to be hiding hers otherwise Luna would have found her by now), but the drawing of power can be stopped if the "Draw-e" wishes it to be so and I don't see Corona sharing her power. And as for Discord, in "Crisis on two Equestrias" Luna states the she sealed up Discords statue tighter than Fort Knox, so it doubtful Lina could draw power from him.
Then there's drawing from negativity in general, and while the Lunaverse is darker and more hardcore than the Maneverse( In my opinion), its still a Pony world with not much in the way of negativity. So I think what ever Black magic spells used by Lina and Naga will be very(even laughably) underpowered, while White magic will be supercharged.
But these are just ideas, you can do anything you like.
Oh this is going to end in hilarity and fire.
This fic calls for a Naga-plushie:
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Keep up the story. let's see where this one goes. =3
I've wondered for a very long time what would happen should Lina Inverse, enemy of all who live, show up in the one place known for peace and tranquility.