Jack is a simple man, a man who runs a simple bar named the Lucky Spade. But his past with Celestia keeps coming back to haunt him. It gets even worse when he's forced to work with his enemy's prized pupil in some stupid ritual about raising the sun or some sh*t. But what happens when sh*t hits the fan with some moon demon coming back? Well he's going to do what he was trained for kick some ass.
With an annoyed groan,Jack slammed his fist onto his alarm clock almost breaking the alarm clock as he did. Slowly he emerged from his bed,making his way over to the bathroom, turning on the shower to allow the water the slow process of warming up. As he waited he went and set out his clothing for his job. White button up shirt, lemon yellow vest and black pants, and a dark blue belt. After he got done with his shower and got dressed, he went over to his dresser and opened the drawer, revealing a pair of black gauntlets and gleaming black shoes resting inside.
After Jack got dressed and ready for the day, he proceeded to make his way down stairs. As he reached to the bottom he entered his pride and joy, his beloved bar. Jack started turning on the lights for the building as he made his way down to the front bar setting up the stools so his lonely customers had a place to sit. Once finished, he went behind the bar, leaning over he started turning on the taps to get the beer going and ready for his customers. After that he got a towel wet and went to go clean the booths from the party the night before. While he was cleaning he heard the bell to his door ring, followed by heavy footsteps.
He smiled, not even bothering to look up. “Rainbow if that's you I’ve already told you and your friends not to come in before I flip the sign to open.”
“Are you the leader of the special op’s team Eclipse, Jack Wild?”
Jack slowly looked up, the smile on his face vanished as Jack turned around to find six guards and one captain standing at the other end of the bar. “I know why you’re here, and the only way you’ll take me back is if you make me.”
The guards only response was sullen silence as they maintained their gaze on the man.
Rolling his eyes, he flipped up the door and made his way to the other side of the bar, causing a few of the guards to shift in place. Turning his gaze to the young man at the head of the group, he raised his hand and extending an index finger to the soldier.
“What’s your name, son?” Jack stated coldly.
“My name is Captain Shining Armor, and I’ve been sent to retrieve you by order of the princess herself. I was hoping you would come peacefully.” Quickly, the six guards surrounded him, three of them with magic emanating from their fingertips as the other three drew swords from their belts. Jack smiled as he already knew what their plan was.
“So if I got this right, Captain,” he said, tilting his neck back and forth, resulting in two loud cracks. “ You wanted to take me peacefully, but it looks like you already have plan B up and ready to go. And if I have it right, your plan is to have these three “swordsmen”, a term I use loosely, will try to tire me out as the other three try to cast some form of high ranked magic bubble to trap me.” Before the group could even process what happened Jack clenched his fist and in an instant, all the swordsmen were double over clutching their stomachs, Jack, a smile on his face. “If that’s all these guys got then that's just sad. After all, that was just a love tap.” With another swift movement, the mages followed their fellow soldiers in writhing pain.
Jack looked up at Shining, the look of shock was not as satisfying as he thought it would be. Infact he looked like he was smiling. Jack’s smile faded when he noticed the world had become much pinker than he remembered.
Shinings smirk grew.
“You were right about the bases of the plan. We were going to capture you, but, as you can probably tell by now, I was the one tasked with casting the spell.”
Jack smiled. “Not bad kid, care to share anymore obvious information that just about anybody could figure-out by just looking at the situation?.” Jack got the reaction he wanted,Shining’s eye twitched in annoyance. His assumption was right this, kid was green, and sure as hell wasn’t used to people disrespecting him. With the Captain focus weekend, the spell weekend with it. Something Jack was about to use to his advantage. Taking in a deep breath, Jack drew back his fist and with a powerful exhale thrusted it against the barrier, shattering the pink force field right before the Captain's eyes. Before Shinning could react, Jack plowed his other fist into the young man’s lower jaw, sending him flying across the room, crashing into the floor with a resounding thud. As Shinning attempted to rise, pain latent on his face, he was quickly forced back down by a shoe firmly pressed against his neck.
“I’ve got to ask you Captain,” Jack said, leaning down to the young soldier. “Did the princess even tell you who I was, or what I’ve been through?”
Shining reached for something in his pocket, pulling out a small scroll. Jack quickly snapped up the paper, shifting his weight, he placed a little more pressure on the young Captain's throat, discouraging any dumb ideas while his attention was elsewhere.
To Captain Shining Armor
I'm assigning you to a very difficult assignment.
I would like you to head to Ponyville and go to the bar by the name of The Lucky Spade .
Inside you will find a man who goes by the name of Jack Wilder, I want you to bring him back to me.
You will know it's him by his slicked back brown hair, groomed beard, and he will be dressed in tasteful attire.
But the most distinguishing feature of his will be the gauntlets and shoes he wears. You will most likely be able to feel the magic eminating from them.
Whatever you do,do not let him remove them. The chances of you beating him will become zero if this happens. Even with them on your chances are very low. I know this is asking a lot but at this point I’ve tried just about every means to bring him back to our forces other than trying to force him back myself. Bring at least six of your best men and I recommend that you try to capture him instead of trying to fight him.(he might leave you unharmed if you do.)
Good luck and be careful, yours truly
Princess Celestia .
Jack sighed as he crumpled up the note and removed his foot from the captains neck, offering his hand to him. Shinning accepted the offer, taking the mans hand and hoisting himself from his feet..
“Pick up your men and don’t come back.” Jack said, staring into the young man’s eyes. “If I find you near my bar again I will break you like a twig.”
Taking the advice to heart, Shining levitated his men up and floated them out. Before he left he turned to back to Jack.. “What are you” he asked. “and why does the princess want you?”
Jack simply laughed. “I was the weapon she lost control of. As for the reason she wants me, she fears the possibility of the weapon she created destroying her country.”
“You can’t actually do that. Can you?” Shining asked, his voice latent with apprehension.
Jack tossed him the letter. “You’ll just have to wait and see.”
Shining left soon after, leaving Jack alone in his bar.
Jack sighed, he looked at the clock in his bar. It read *8:30*. He would have to open the bar in thirty minutes. He didn’t want to, he was in a bad mood after having to deal with those losers. But he had to, if he wanted to make any money that is. So, after about ten minutes of vigorous cleaning, when the clock hit *9:00* he was ready to open. Within twenty minutes he already had people filling up the building . In the mitts of the commotion, Jack see’s a little wall eye girl with a letter in hand. She walked up to Jack, a smile on her face. and he started a conversation with her.
“Hey Derpy, how's the family?”
“Good, everything been going pretty well, no complaints in a while.”
“Good to hear. What's that letter you got their?”
“Its some fancy looking letter. Mind if I read it to you, it might make it sound every more exciting.”
Jack gave a small chuckle and shrugged. “Why not, go ahead Derps.”
Derpy cleared her throat. “Dear Jack Wild, the royal community would be most grateful if you, yourself would except the most honorable job of providing drinks for the summer sun celebration which, will be held in your town this year.” Derpy and just about everybody in the bar heard, and were instantly excited to hear that their favorite bar tender was asked to do this job. Jack on the other hand was ready to punch a hole in his wall.
Snowflake and Berry bunch patted him on the shoulder’s. “Dude, congrats man that’s a huge honor.” said snowflake.
“You know I wasn’t going to go to that thing but if you're serving I guess I haft to go.” Berry gave her friend a big smile as she was excited for him as well.
This was the last thing Jack wanted to do but he couldn't very well say no to his friend and customers wanted him to do it. He whispers under his voice “damned sun bitch.” and with a big fake smiles he yelled. “Let’s do it!”
Jack didn’t want to get up today. It was the day the inspector came to check on the preparations and frankly he didn’t give a damn. That doesn't mean he didn’t do his best job at it, after all, Jack took pride in his work no matter how much he didn’t like it. He remembered back after Ditzy read him the letter, it turned out the inspector would come to his bar first to see the drinks he made for the celebration and see if it was safe for minors. And with his luck he will have to show the inspector where everyone else is since his place was really the only place you can find with ease, other than the place holding the actual celebration. Jack felt that having the celebration would be saved for last.
So, after Jack got his daily routine out of the way and opened the bar, people started coming in. He started to relax he thought as he started serving people at the bar, “Maybe the inspector won't come and I don't have to deal with this whole thing.” However, seeing as fate was a fickle mistress with a cruel sense of humor, moments after that thought crossed his mind he heard a feminine voice .
“Are you Jack Wilder?”
Jack Turn around to see a young girl, twenty one if he had to guess , she was about five inches shorter then him at his hardy six three. Jack couldn’t see the bottom half of her because of the bar but the upper half was just fine. She wore a bright purple sweater vest with some weird star thing on it, she had a white long sleeve shirt underneath. After he got done with how she was dressed he looked at her face. Her complexion was rather pale, almost like she’d never seen the sun before, she had dark purple eyes and her hair was the same color as her eyes with the addition of the pink streak.
Jack smiled at her. “Thats right, and if your looking for a drink girly, I'm going to need to see some I.D.”
“Actually sir, you’re not too far off.” She handed Jack her I.D it read.
Twilight Sparkle resident, Canterlot, age 21.
Jack stopped after that and back tracked to Canterlot, Jack sighed. “If I was a betting man I would say you're the inspector.” He tossed her back her I.D.
She looked at him and smiled. “Good guess, I’m here to inspect the drinks you prepared for the celebration.”
Jack sighed as he raised his left hand, lifting his index finger. “Give me a second.” Jack went underneath the counter grabbing three bottle filled with strange liquids. One bright green, one light blue, and the last one a dark red. He placed them on the counter with a glass. Jack poured the green in first then the blue and lastly the red.
Twilight looked at the drink in awe the, liquids didn’t mix but instead rested on top of each other.
“Drink up.” Jack said, giving her a cold look as he spoke.
Twilight grabbed the glass and downed the whole shot. Her eyes widened with amazment, each drink had an explosion of flavor.It felt warm at first like the first day of Summer, it was probably that red stuff. The next taste was a wild cold feeling, not too cold but just enough to be refreshing, like when you take a cold shower on a hot day. The last taste was calming and freeing, like laying in a field. When she was done and all the flavors had cascaded over her tongue, she was left with a feeling as though she had experienced all the good parts of the year with one drink.
“What is this?” She asked, still recovering from the drink. “It’s impossibly good!”
Jack smiled. “The red stuff is called the Devil's Kiss, which is an enchanted water that can liquify fire. The stronger the flame the better the flavor, lucky for you I finally fixed the pesky burning problem thanks to the blue stuff. I put it on top so it can warm you on the way down. The Blue stuff is what I like to call Wild Chill, it's flakes of Never Melting Ice and Poison Joke soaked in soapy water to take care of the poison. Then I had them drained of all it’s liquid with the ice, then waited for it to mixed properly. And lastly the green stuff I call Nature’s Soul, it’s made out of the sap of a living Timberwolves.”
Twilight looked at him in wonder. “How in the world did you think to make all of this?”
Jack smiled as he put the bottles away. “I’ve been to almost every place in all of Equestria, when travel like I did you pick up a thing or two.”
Twilight smiled.”What made you want to serve this drink?”
Jack rolled his eyes in annoyance. “This celebration is about starting fresh and experiencing the new year. What better way than having the years season come to you in their best form, taste?”
Twilight nodded in agreement, she held her hand out for Jack to shake. Jack grabbed it giving it a gentle squeeze, making sure not to hurt her.
“Thank you Jack, these drinks will do nicely, I hope you have a nice day.” She pulled her hand back from Jack, gently rubbing it. His grip was still too tight.
“No problem.” Jack said, relieved that she was leaving, and from the looks of it, wasn’t going to ask for his help.
However, as she stepped through the door, not a second later she turned around and walk right back through the doors “Um, I'm sorry to ask this, but could you show me around? I know you're busy but you're the only one I know who I can at least kinda trust.” Twilight said, a sheepish grin on her face as he gently rubbed her forearm. “After all, Celestia picked you to help, so you can’t be all bad.”
Jack rubbed his face, he knew this would happen, why did he have to go and jinx it. He sighed as he got out from the bar. “You serious kid?”
Twilight said nothing, only giving a sheepish smile as she nodded.
“ Fine, Berry!” As he called, an average sized woman with purple colored hair wearing a light purple shirt and blue jeans jumped up from her seat a few feet away.
“What’s up Jack?”
Jack tossed the woman a set of keys. “Watch the bar, and don’t do anything stupid or I’ll add it to your tab, got it?”
Jack walked out the door as Berry went behind the bar, Twilight followed him out soon after.
“Thank you again for doing this.” Twilight said, following closely behind the bartender. “I wouldn’t have asked if I didn’t need it.”
“Forget about it,” Jack said, huffing out his nostrils. “ Let's just get this over with.” Jack didn’t want to do this but he didn’t want to have her wander around town for hours. While Jack’s mind was elsewhere, he was caught quite by surprise when he felt himself knock into something scaly. Jack looked down to see a small purple and green dragon in the dirt.
Twilight walked over to help the little dragon up off the ground.
“This runt of a dragon your’s?” Jack asked, getting a little testy as his face got a little hotter. He looked down at the little dragon to see he was glaring up at him.
“Hey,” the reptile said. “Watch where you’re going, dude.”
Jack bent over and covered his mouth , picking him up in the process. “Thats enough out of you.” Jack was getting ready to throw him if not for Twilight stopping him with two two frantic hands grabbing his arm.
“WAIT!” Twilight shrieked.
Jack looked at her. “So, this runt is with you?”
“Yes, please don’t hurt him, his name is Spike, he’s my assistant and I must insist that you put him down!”
Jack sat him down and watched as Twilight rushed over to check on the dragon.
“Are you alright, Spike?” She asked, gently brushing him off and looking him over.
“I Would feel a lot better if this guy stop calling me runt and apologised for kicking me.” Spike got all big and pouty as he looked at Jack.
Jack scoffed.”I’m sorry for kicking you, but I’m not going to stop calling you runt. Compared to most dragons I’ve seen you’re a runt kid, so suck it up.”
“That’s a bit rude don’t you think, mister um… what was your name again?” Twilight asked, dawning another sheepish grin.
“It’s Jack, and for the record, when did I say I wasn’t rude?”
Spikes glare hardened, but as he stared, his gaze suddenly lightened as a cold sweat started dripping down his neck as he looked up at Jack. What was this? Fear? Terror? Whatever it was, Spike didn’t like it and all he could do was lock eyes with Jack as he backed away.
“What are you trying to do there Runt?” Each world was clear and cold, like someone just opened a freezer door and it was below two-hundred degrees.
“N-n-n nothing.” Spike barely managed to get those words out, it felt like he was falling under a paralysis spell. Lucky for him Twilight intervened.
“Alright boys, let’s get going.” Spike broke out of the the spell Jack had him under as the began to walk.
“Where to kid?” Jack asked.
Twilight looked at her scroll,levitating the parchment in front of her. “It says here that we should head over to Sweet apple Acres.”
Jack Nodded as he started to lead the way. He smiled as he let out a small chuckle. “This is going to be fun, it’s been awhile since I showed my head there. ”
It took them about thirty minutes to get them to the entrance of Sweet Apple Acres, apple tree’s as far as the eyes to see . Jack told Twilight it would take them about five more minutes to get to the farm house. They walked in silence the for the first few to minutes till Jack finally decided to break the silence..
“What did Celestia tell you about the people she picked to help in the celebration?” He asked, not bothering to look at her.
Twilight was caught off guard by Jack’s sudden inquiry.“Well, I know that you're in charge of drinks, a girl name AppleJack is in charge of food, and that she’s a terra being which means she’s very strong and is very good at working the earth, as most terra’s are. Then after her we will meet a girl named a Rainbow Dash -obviously an elemental- whose job is weather control. And she’s tasked with making sure that the sky is clear for the event.” Twilight Stop talking as her eyes turned to Jack. The man seemed to become more uneasy as they approached the barn. Then she notices something from Jack his left ear was twitching it got worst as they got about thirty feet from the barn house.
“She should see me about now.” Jack mumbled, Twilight looking to Jack in confusion.
“What do yo-,” she was cut off as the door flew off it's hinges as a blonde hair girl with a stetson on her head, checkered shirt, cut off jeans and cowboy boots came charging out holding a medium sized table, sporting a vicious scowl.
“JACK!”
Twilight looked at him as the girl threw the table at him with surprising speed. Twilight was ready to catch it with her magic, but to her surprise Jack was perfectly calm. Twilight was a little shocked as Jack caught it with one hand and gently placed it on the ground. He proceeded to repeat the act twice more as the matching wooden chairs joined the table
“Jack, todays the day ah beat you.” The girl Spoke with a southern accent. She walked up to the table as she rolled up her sleeves, Jack did the same as they both sat down.
“Jack, what's going on?” Twilight asked, eyes nervously darting back and forth between the two.
The blonde hair girl looked up at Twilight and smiled as she stood up , extending her her hand to be shaken.“Oh, sorry bout that, ah done forgot my manners. My name is AppleJack, but most folks just call me A.J.” Twilight grabbed A.J’s hand. She soon regretted it after thinking her shoulder was just dislocated by the tremendous amount of force put forth by woman.“As you can see, me and Jack here got a little score to settle.” She sat back in the chair and put her arm on the table. “For the longest time ah haven’t been able to beat his arm in a game of arm wrestling, but that changes today.”
Jack scoffed at her. “Sure kid, whatever helps you sleep at night.” Jack grabbed her hand and set his arm down, ready to go. “Twilight, would you and Runt judge this so she doesn't flip out over it later.”
A.J smiled. “Please, I got ya’ll this time.”
Twilight put her hand on top of there’s at this point just trying to go with the flow. What they didn’t notice was that more people were coming out to watch the event that was taking place.
Twilight got them ready. “ Three..two...one GO!” She let her hands go, the veins in A.Js forearm bulged, as she fought against Jack’s strength. But Jack just sat there, holding her hand in that one place, displaying little to no effort.A.J on the other hand was struggling quite a bit, as the veins in her neck looked like they would pop any second. Jack yawned as he slowly pushed her arm down until it touched the table.
Spike climbed up on said table and he yelled. “Jack is the winner.”
Jack stood up trying to leave but felt something pull on his shirt. He turned around to see A.J ready to go another round. Jack took his hands and rubbed his temples. “A.J, as much as I would like to sit here all day and beat you, I'm on a time crunch. You see I left Berry incharge and I already feel like she’s downed half of my stock.” Jack gestured to Twilight. “Now, if you don’t mind I have show the inspector hear what food you have so that we can move on.”
At this point the number of people surrounding them were around thirty and all of them gave a collective whine of disappointment as they dispersed.
A.J stood up and walked over to Twilight, an ear to ear smile on her face. “Well, sorry for all that, I guess this isn't the ideal way you wanted to check the food for the celebration now was it?”
Twilight smiled at the farm girl. “It’s alright, as long as the food is good everything should be fine.”
A.J smiled as she draped her arm around Twilight’s shoulder. “Well then, how about a taste test?”
(30 minutes later)
Jack and Spike were grinning as Twilight tried to hold in the mass amount of food in her stomach. She groaned as she glared at them once again, seeing Jack’s ear twitch.
“I’m so happy my pain is funny to you two.” Twilight growled.
Jack smiled. “Not our fault you didn’t have the guts to say no.”
Spike laughed. “He’s not wrong Twilight. Why didn’t say you already ate or something?”
“When did you get on his side Spike, I thought you didn’t like him?”
Before Spike could respond, a blur slammed into Twilight, knocking her into a puddle of mud. She looked up to see a dark pink eyed, rainbow haired girl wearing a blue tank top, black tights and sneakers with two bright blue transparent wings jutting out of her back.
They both stood up, both wet and covered with mud.
The elemental girl started floating up and laughing. “Sorry about that, here let me help.” She flew up onto the sky, bringing a dark storm cloud and started jumping on it. True, this helped her get the mud off, but now she was soaked. “Oops, here, this should work.” This time she flew around her making a small tornado. Although this did make her dry, now her hair looked like a swarm of bee’s had a party in it. The elemental started laughing at her, Twilight was not amused.
After almost a minute of laughing she finally calmed down. “Sorry about that, my name’s Rainbow Dash, what’s yours.”
“Her name’s Twilight Sparkle,” Jack said, “and she’s the inspector for the Celebration.” Jack walked up behind Rainbow and wrapped his arm around her waist.
Rainbow eye’s widen at Jack touch. She quickly pushed him off with a flustered look. “Jack, what are you doing here?”
Jack laughed. “I’m introducing the newby to the people in charge of preparations for the celebration.” Jack smiled at her as he stepped to Twilight side. “Aren't you supposed to have cleared the sky by now? The celebration is tomorrow.” Jack raised his right hand and pointed his index finger to the sky to the many clouds still hanging around. “And from the looks of it, the job was to much for you kid.”
Rainbow Dash eyes widened at the poke at her pride. She got into Jack’s face, floating a few inches off the ground so she was a little taller then him as she looked down at him. “Listen here you, I know for a fact that you’ve seen my skills first hand. And I know, that you know, that I could do it in ten seconds flat.”
Jack smiled at her as he poked her in her stomach. “I don’t know kid, you’re lookin a little pudgy to me.” Jack added with a smirk.. “If you can’t that's fine, but why don’t you prove me wrong?”
Rainbow Dash cheeks turned a furious shade of red as she huffed at Jack. “Fine, you asshole, I”ll show you, in fact, I’ll do it in nine seconds.”
Jack shrugged in response, causing Rainbow to redden even more. As she flew into the sky with remarkable speed, she punched and kicked each cloud, dispersing the puffs with each jab. . The whole sky was clean of every cloud in the sky.
Jack smiled as she floated down in front of him striking heroic poses and sporting a smirk of her own. “I told you I could do it.” Rainbow huffed.
“Oh I know,”said Jack, “but it's so fun, and even easier to screw with you.” Jack laughed as he slapped his hand on her shoulder. “Well, we should be going, let's go Twilight.”
Twilight was still trying to figure what just happen as Jack grabbed her by the arm, but, seeing as the sky was clear she didn’t pay much mind to it. Spike quickly followed suit.
Twilight's’ day so far had been rough as they walked into the ballroom the Celebration was being held as Spike checked decorations off the list while they walked in. “Beautiful,” the little dragon said.
“Yes,” Twilight said. “They are quite nice aren't they, this should be fast.”She said, looking over to Jack.
Jack laughed. “Sorry to break it to you, but he’s talking about her.” Jack pointed down the hallway to see a gorgeous l woman wearing spotless white pants suit, with long luxurious purple hair combed, brushed and groomed for ultimate perfection. She looked back up at Jack to see his ear was twitching again.
At this point Twilight found it odd, why did his ear keep twitching?
Twilight walked up to the woman as she noticed that she had light blue magic coming from her hand as enveloping several ribbons in the same blue aura, holding them in front of her face . “Good afternoon.” Twilight started for her only be cut off by by the woman.
“Just one moment please, I’m in the “zone” so to speak.” She brought a big red bow covered in sparkles to her face . “Ah sparkles always does the trick, does it not? Rarity you are a talented one, now how may I he-.”She started before gasping in sheer shock at the monstrosity that was Twilights hair. “Oh my stars, darling whatever happened to you cheveu?”
Twilight tilted her head in confusion, only to look up at her hair. “Oh you mean my hair?”
Jack started chuckling. “I’ll give you a hint,it rhymes with crash.”
Rarity looked over at Jack with a glare in her eye. Jack quickly froze up as she hastily approached him. “Jack, I can’t believe you would let this happen with the amount of pride you take in your own appearance , and your bar.”
Jack smiled as he shrugged. “Sorry, but I thought it would be funny, and in my defence, I was pretty right.”
Rarity glared at him for a few more moments before taking Twilight by the wrist and started to drag her away. “Rarity, where are you taking her?” Jack asked.
“Where do you think darling? Im taking her to boutique to fix her hair and maybe give her a makeover, with her pale skin she could use some makeup.” Twilight was about to interject but Jack got in front of them.
“Now Rars, I know how much you love giving makeovers, but she’s busy, plus you won't let her go if you think she has any juicy gossip about her home.”
“Now sweetie, Jack, why would I not let her go, where is she from?” Jack didn’t say anything he was smart enough to know when to keep his trap shut… Spike on the other hand.
“She’s from Canterlot.” Jack almost punted Spike then and there.
“We are trying to get that stupid list done not make it take all day you stupid runt!” Jack shouted at Spike
“Why, what’s going to happen?” Spike asked, confused.
Jack pointed to Rarity as her eyes widened in awe at Twilight.
“Canterlot?!” The fashionista squealed. “Darling you simply must tell me all about living in Canterlot.” Rarity gushed with the enthusiasm of a girl who just got asked out by her crush. Jack tried to grab Twilight and run, but before he could, Rarity used her magic and enveloped the man in a blue aura, causing Jack float in the air as she proceeded to open a nearby window and ever so gently toss him out of said window.
“Why would you do that?!” Twilight asked beyond confused at why this very lady-like woman would do such a brutish thing?
Rarity smiled at Twilight. “He’s fine dahling, he’s as tough as steel and then some. But to be frank I didn’t want him pressuring me to let you go out with hair like that.” She gestured to Twilight’s hair as she walked out of the hall Spike following in pursuit.
After several minutes of Rarity forcing her into new clothing, hairstyles, and asking her non-stop questions about Canterlot, Twilight finally had a moment of silence as Rarity left after Rarity left the room to retrieve an emerald for a dress Twilight was modeling at the moment.
“Psst.”
Twilight and Spike looked over to see a slightly scuffed up Jack waving his hand signaling them to hurry up. At that note, Twilight took off the dress, put on her regular clothing, and ran out with Spike under her arm. They quickly fleeing before Rarity realized they were gone.
(A few minutes later)
The three were on a dirt road by the time they stopped running. Twilight was dog-tired as Jack looked as cool as ice. He put his hand on Twilight's back as he began to speak.
“Sorry if she freaked you out. When ever she sets her mind to something you can’t really stop her.” Jack smiled at Twilight as she caught her breath.
“It’s alright,” she said through heavy deep winded breaths. “Let just get going. the next person is an elemental named Fluttershy.”
“Yeah, I know everybody on your list,” Jack said, removing his hand from Twilight. “I just didn’t know the order, after all I am working on it with them after all.”
Twilight nodded. “That makes sense,” she said looking at her list.
Jack put his right hand on her shoulder and with his other hand pointed down the dirt road. “If you follow this road you should find Fluttershy very easily. She likes to practice down this road by some weird looking tree that grows alongside the road.”
Twilight looked at him confused.
“Aren’t you coming with me?” she asked.
“Sorry kid, I got to get back to my bar. I'm scared Berry might have drank away my stocks of alcohol at this point.” And with a pat on her shoulder and a small nod to Spike, he left.
Jack was walking for about twenty minutes now and he figured he had five more till he reached the bar. But he decided to take a small detour down a dark ally way. Jack looked around to see garbage cans and boxes. He looked at the brick wall that was in front of him and turned around to see the entrance, the walked through was about fifteen feet from him now. “I know you can hear me, so you best get out of the shadows before I make you.” Jack smiled as he heard laughter coming from, well everywhere, until a bunch of shadows came together to form a massive woman that was at least seven feet tall. She wore black armor that covered her whole body excluding her face, biceps, thighs, and her stomach. Her hair looked like the night sky as it flowed down her back moving as if it had wind blowing through it.
She kept laughing for a little bit after showing herself until she spoke with one of the strongest voices Jack has heard in awhile. “Hello mortal, We are not surprise you could sense Us from the power We’ve been feeling from you.”
“The name’s Jack Wild, and do whom do I owe the pleasure?” Jack asked, looking her dead in the eyes.
She smiled, revealing a nasty set of fangs as she stared down at him.s. “Do forgive Us, We forgot Our manners, you see We’ve been away for far too long. Our name is Nightmare Moon and We have an offer for you Jack.”
Jack quirked an eyebrow.
“And what would that be, Miss Moon?”
“We would like you to be Our general in the revul-,”
“No,” Jack interrupted, a hint of rage and annoyance in his voice.
She sighed, giving an annoyed huff in response “Very well then, We have another offer for you then.”
“What?”
Nightmare Moon smiled at him. “Don’t interfere and We will spare this whole town from my wrath.”
Jack started to laugh hysterically, clutching his stomach. Nightmare Moon looked at him furiously, almost as if she was ready to pop a blood vessel. “What is so funny, Jack Wild?”
Jack looked up at her and wiped a tear off his face. “Its funny that you think you’re a threat. I know exactly who you are, Princess Luna.”
The dethroned ruler flashed over to Jack, closing the distance in seconds grabbing Jack by the throat, throwing him up against the wall to his left, and pinning him against it.
“How do you know that name?!” She asked, furry dripping through every word.
Jack smiled at her as he grabbed her wrist with his hand and started to squeeze. Her grip slowly loosen as her wrist started making crack and popping noises, releasing himself from her grip as she fell to her knees. Jack smiled down at her “You think you’re a threat to me?” Jack threw her to the brick wall. Jack loomed over her crumpled body. “But I like the fact that you have the gall to come to me and ask me to betray my friends, then you tell me to sit out of the up coming fight. When you start your war, you better be damn well sure that you can stop me at the start. Because if you don’t, you're the one I'm coming for first.” Jack slams his fist into the brick wall, his arm sliding in like butter.
Nightmare Moon held her wrist, the black armor covering it broken and shattered blood dripping from it. “How dare you!” She screamed. “You insolent man We shall make an example of you when We conquer this miserable kingdom !” Jack smiled a devil's grin at her as he turns and walks away.
“Good luck with that.” he said as Nightmare Moon vanished back into the shadows.
When Jack got back to the Spade his suspicions about Berry Punch were true as he found passed out on the table of the bar with one of his new concoction loosely her handl. Lucky for her it looked like she managed to drink most of it so she wouldn’t get any side effects, maybe.
He looked over at the bar stool to see Vinyl (who was sporting a white tank top, black cut off jeans, and white and blue shoes) and Octavia sitting next to her (wearing a grey sweater, a long white sleeve shirt, black pants and shoes and a stylish pink bow tie). He went behind the bar, grabbed Berry by her waist and threw her over his shoulder. He looked over to Vinyl and Octavia.
“Were you two just going to leave her here passed out?”
Vinyl shrugged as Octavia spoke. “Jack, she was like this when we got here. Why did you even leave her in charge, you know she’s a little hard to control with the liquor.”
Jack smiled as he carried Berry upstairs, he looked back at Octavia. “ I leave her in charge cause I felt like it. Eside, it makes her tab just that much bigger.” He continued up stairs with a light sigh, knowing full well that he’d probably not see a bit from her any time soon.
He smiles as he whispers under his breath. “Drink as much as you like Ber, I owe you that much.” Jack opened up his door to find something was wrong. His room it felt off, Carefully he walked over to his bed and placed Berry down. He slowly turned around and began inspecting his room. Walking over to his bookshelf that was next to his door, he looked it over finding the only odd thing was that far too many books there still needed to be finished. Feeling satisfied, he proceeded to his desk, one of the few thing he brought with him when he left his old job. The desk itself was nothing special, two drawer on the left side, each about ten inches high and eight inches wide. At the center of the desk there was a drew the length of the desk but no more than three inches tall. In the center of that drew was a lock. As Jack grabbed the drawer his eyes widen as the drawer slid open easily. He quickly opened it to see his fears were realized, inside the desk was nothing other than dust and a square outline that was about seven inches wide and eight inches long. The look of dread was all too real in Jack's face .
Jack growled to himself. “How the Hell did they know about my book.”
“What book?”
Jack turned around to see that Berry Punch was awake.
“Berry, how long you been up?” Jack asked, quickly turning to face her.
“Long enough to see you're upset about something.”
“Yeah, don’t worry about it. How did things go with the bar?”
Berry rubbed her head. “I may have had one to many, but other than that everything went well.”
“You didn’t happen to see if anybody went up here did you?”
Berry shrugged. “Nope, I don’t know why you would ask. Nobody’s stupid enough to try to cross you.” She said, stretching herself over Jack’s bed. “After all, if they knew what I know nobody would come near you. Does not the King stand above the rest?”
Jack pulled the chair out from his desk and sat down, turning it to face his slightly tipsy friend. “I can’t even remember when I got that nickname. Has it really been five whole years since we left?”
“Yeah, aren't you glad I came with you now?” She said, propping herself up to face Jack. “Just you and me starting fresh in a brand new world..”
Jack Scoffed.
“Wouldn’t exactly call returning to your hometown ‘brand new’. ”
“New for you, wasn’t it?” Berry asked with a slight smirk which quickly vanished as she yawned and collapsed back onto the bed. “Hey if you don’t mind I need to sleep this stuff off, whatever it was. Do I even want to know what that shit was? ”
Jack laughed as he stood to his feet. “It would be best if I didn’t tell you, you might not try to kill me then.” Jack proceeded out the door, gently closing it behind him..
Arriving back at the bar, Jack’s gaze was immediately drawn to pink haired ball of energy that was Pinkie, who was handing out flyers to his customers. Jack walked over to her and taped her on the shoulder. In response, the young woman let out a startled squeak as she jumped into the air and promptly into Jack’s arms.
“Hey Jack,” she said, an ear to ear smile on her face as she gazed up to the man with her luminous blue eyes. “I got some great news. Want to guess?”
“There's a new person in town, you're throwing a party in their house, and you're inviting people.”
Pinkie giggled as she wrapped her arms around his neck. “How did you know?”
“I spent the last three hours taking her around the town. She’s the inspector for the festival.”
“Well that’s great, you made a new friend! The party for her will be in two hours and I want you and everybody in town to be at the library.”
Jack smiled as he placed the girl down. “Alright you crazy ass ball of cotton candy. you’ll see me there, promise.”
With that, the young girl squeed and rushed out of Jack's bar in at unthinkable speeds, leaving behind a pink blur in her wake. .
The next two hours went by in a flash. Jack was just in the flow of work as like every other day. Food orders here, a couple drunk fights, and drinks all around. By the time Jack got to the party it had already started and from the looks of it Pinkie hadn’t been kidding. It looked like almost everybody in town was crammed inside of that tree. When Jack knocked on the door, he was surprised to see a visibly tipsy Fluttershy greeting him.
“Oh hey J-Jack.” Fluttershy stuttered.
Jack looked her over with her green wool sweater and blue jeans. Jack smiled as he could smell the Bourbon Cupcakes on her breath. “Kid, how many those Bourbon pastries you Have?”
She processed to pull one out of her pocket. “These have Bourbon in them?”
Jack walked by her, patting the tipsy girl on her shoulder. “Just be carefull, wouldn’t want you waking up on someone else's roof. .”
Jack went in to see Pinkie's party was just like any other. Streamers, balloons, pastries and a shit ton of happy people.
Eventually he came across an elated Spike with a lampshade on his head. Jack walked over to him giving him a nudge. Spike looked up in response, frowning as he realized who it was.
“What do you want?” Asked Spike.
“Haven’t seen Twilight, where is she?” . Spike shrugged.
“Probably in her room,” he said, pointing to a door on the opposite side of the main area . “She’s not big on the whole ‘socialization’ scene.”
Jack thanked the dragon for the information and went to go see Twilight.
Jack opened the door to the room, poking his head in too find she was looking out her window, mumbling something to herself. Jack walked up to her and thumped her on her ear, causing the girl to jump.
“Jack?!” she lightly yelled. “What are you doing here, how’d you get into my room?”
He shrugged.
“Pinkie invited me to your party and I was wondering where the girl of the night was.”
Twilight frowned, crossing her arms with a huff.
“You obviously don’t know when someone wants to be alone.” She said sitting back down in her spot.
“You do know there’s a party just outside that’s just for you, right?”
Twilight rubbed her ear trying to make the pain go away. “I didn’t ask them to.”
Jack sat down next to her as he looked out the window to see the beautiful night sky. He looked down to see that Twilight had a certain book about the two sisters “Twilight, you're a student of Celestia, so I got to ask you something. What do you think of her, what is she to you?”
Twilight froze at the question, turning to him, surprise evident on her face “Weren’t we just talking about why I didn’t want the party?”
Jack shrugged. “Conversations change,. Humor me, would ya”
Twilight took a deep breath as she collected her thoughts . “Well, she’s an Arcane being, to me she’s my teacher my friend someone I’ve known my whole life. She’s like a god among people, just look at her she has the power to raise and lower the sun and moon.” She said, excitement and glee dripping from each word. “I can’t even imagine how much time and effort she had to put into getting that strong.”
Twilight looked at Jack with a look of confusion as he began to laugh. He wiped away a tear as he turned back to her.
“Sorry for laughing Twi, but you do know she’s not a God, right? She can be tricked,bleed, die just like everyone else. And the truth of the matter is ,anybody can reach her level of power.”
Twilight looked at him, her jaw agape and her eyes widened. “What do you mean? No regular person could ever reach her level!”
Jack smiled. “No regular person could do it, true. But there’s a trick to becoming irregular. When I was younger I was told of a story about three brothers that didn’t like that the idea of the Arcanes in charge. So the middle brother got an idea, he would find a way to unlock a power to make them surpass them. And over many years of training they found a way to do it.
Eight was the magic number, eight gates inside the body that block the flow of magic, and when they're open all hell will break loose. But eventually they got control over the power and stood tall and fought like there was no tomorrow. The middle brother opened the eighth gate and it was said he killed six Arcane beings in eight minutes.”
Twilight’s eyes widened as Jack told his tale, her gaze fixated on the man as a twing of fear ran up her spine.“I suppose you’re going to tell me that he killed the rest of the Arcanes as well?”
“He didn’t,” Jack stated matter of factly. “You see the name of the eighth gate is call the Gate of Death. You can probably figure out why. The last gate is inside your heart, and when you activate it, it works your body so much that, well, your body can’t handle it for more than eight minutes but the power output is beyond imagination.”
“Alright.” Twilight said, a small smile creeping onto her face. “That's nice and all, but there’s no historical truth to your story. And if it was true, why is this the first I’m hearing anything of it?.”
Jack smiled. “What to say Celestia didn’t wanted anybody else to have that power outside her control? After all, that power can make a regular human as strong as an average Archmage”
Twilight shrugged. “An interesting theory, but I still don’t buy it.”
“You don’t haft to believe me, after all it's just a story.” Jack stood up and grabbed Twilight by her shoulder, picking her up off her bed with a single and placed her under his arm.
Twilight looked at, shock and frustration running through her at the sudden show of strength. “What are you doing Jack, put me down! How are you even doing this?”
Jack started walking down her stairs. “If you're going to know one thing about me kid,it's that you don’t ask questions about me. And Pinkie took the time and effort to throw you a party so you can meet new people and so you don’t feel alone while you stay here.”
He looked down to see Twilight lightly flailing in his grasp, a frown ever present on her face as she glared at him.
“The least you can do is go down there. Don’t have to enjoy yourself, but you do have to be civil.”
Jack processed to throw Twilight out of her room, following her closely behind .
Jack would enjoy the party with his friend,playing cards, partaking in drinking contest and sharing laughs with one and all. But within that party, Jack saw something he wouldn’t think he would see on Twilight face’s, a smile. A pure genuine smile.
It was the morning of the Summer Sun Celebration and everything was perfect. Well, as perfect as an event can be with most of the attendees being well over the line of tipsy. The food, drinks, decor, even the music was on point. Everybody was excited but Jack, he sat way in the back by the door just incase something went wrong for him. After all, if Celestia was going to attack him this would be the time to attack, at least this is when Jack would. Speaking of attacks, Jack suddenly got the sinking feeling he forgot something. However, he quickly pushes that thought to the side,as he looks over to see that it was time for Celestia to make her grand entrance, as a chorus of birds signaled her arrival . At that, Jack slowly stood from his chair, and made his way to the door.
Jack looked at where Celestia was supposed to be to only to find a shit ton of shadows manifesting themselves to form Nightmare Moon herself. Jack didn’t really listen to what she had to say and to be honest he didn’t care. With a tired sigh he closed the door and turned around, making his way through the crowd of shocked onlookers,firmly clenching his gauntlets. He was about halfway to her when their gazes locked. She smiled and floated down in front of him, extending her formerly damaged arm to Jack which seemed to have made a remarkable recovery.
“I’ll ask you one more time Jack Wild.” she hissed, confidence dripping from each word. “Will you join me?” Her words were clear and crisp as if speaking to a child that needed to know there place.
Jack smiled as he grabbed her hand once more and pushed it aside. His Devil’s grin came across his face as he spoke just as clear as she did. “You know my answer Lu-.” Before Jack could finish her name he was enclosed in a dark mist and whisked away with Nightmare Moon's voice booming through his head.
“If you do not wish to join Us, We shall take care of you before you become a problem.”
For two minutes Jack was flown out of town in the shadows inky embrace before the two finally stopped . Once freed, Jack quickly took a moment to survey the area. .
“So you took me to your old Castle?” He said, dragging a hand across the mossed over cobblestone and shattered stained glass. “Aren't we a little too early in the relationship to be bring each other to there home with no supervision,Nightmare moon you scandle you.” Jack said, giving the monarch a wink as he covered his mouth with the tip of his fingers at the same time gesturing with his other hand for her to come to him.
“Shut up you foolish man!” She shouted at him as a darkened blush shot across her face.
“Well you’re no fun. Any questions before we start?”
“Yes, We have three if you don’t mind.” she said as she tossed a small book at Jack as he caught. He took a closer look and quickly realized it was the book from his desk
Jack looked like he was ready to explode as Moon spoke. “I know you are able to use the Eight Gates but our first question is how did you figure out how to perform such a momentous task? Back when that fool Luna and her sister ruled they made it law so no one could learn how to use them. It's the only thing We ever agreed with those two on.”
Jack took a deep breath before he spoke.“Well, I suppose now is as good a time as ever to get some exposition out of the way. I used to be on a task force for Celestia, i worked for her since I was five and left when I was twenty three, it’s been five years since then. When I was in there the man i respect the most to this day taught me how to open almost all of the gate.” Jack gestured to the book he held. “This book is the only thing i have left of him. He took notes on every step you need to open the gates, plus a few other things.”
“I take it that's why i feel so much magic power coming from you then? The Gates brought that power out of you?”
Jack shook his head. “No that power you feel are from my gauntlets and shoe’s. You see they have two spells on them. One so that they never break from me using them. And the second is a limiter.”
Moon looked shocked at what he just said as he spoke. “Go on.”
Jack smiled as he shook his finger back and forth. “Oh come now dear, if I were to spill everything on the first date, where would the mystery be?”
Nightmare flared her nostrils at him as her brow furrowed “Fine, if you will not give Us answers, then we shall extract them through other means.”
Jack smiled. “You're just trying to get to the juice bits aren't you? Tell ya what, you beat me, and I’ll tell you anything you want, deal?”
The mare smirked “Make all the wagers you want, I’ll get them out of you one way or the other.”
Jack launched forward faster than Moon could react as he slammed his right fist into her gut sending her flying into the stone wall. Trying to regain some ground she puts up a magic shield, only for it to be destroyed by Jack in a flash as he plows his fist through the barrier .
“That all you got!?” He shouted at her as he grabbed her by the back of her neck and threw her over his shoulder into the ground. Jack didn’t give her the chance to recover as he drove a devastating blow into her gut causing the ground to break underneath them both and a spurt of blackened blood to fly from her mouth. Jack tried to back off as Moons hand started to glow with magic. She quickly enveloped the man in her aura, as she began magic to levitate him in the air quickly slamming his body into every surface the room had to offer.
“I am Nightmare Moon, you dare think US so easily beat by such a blatant frontal assault?!!” She used a little more magic to slam him into the ground with more force with a loud crash as she takes a moment to admire her handy work with a smirk. “Take that!” She yelled as she gestures her hand up for Jack to fly into the ceiling. However, her smile quickly vanished as Jack didn’t budge.
Still surrounded in Nightmares aura, Jack laughed as he stood up from his crater and started to walk towards her.
“Fun fact about levitation it’s like a fishing pole. It’s great on smaller fish, but you get one of the big ones on the line, well, you’re gonna end up with a broken pole.” Jack bolted towards Moon as she desperately tried to yank him back with her power. Each tug made Jack go back a few feet but it never stopped him from moving forward until she could see the fury emanating from within his eyes . Moon proceed to throw dark blue orbs of fire the size of bowling balls out of thin air. They went flying towards him at high speeds hitting him one at a time. But Jack kept moving forward until he was right in front of her, taking each and every blow from point blank.
Jack tried once more to plant his fist into Moon's dark blue face with his right fist only for her to barely dodge the appendage without a moment to spare, what she didn’t expect was that what Jack wanted, he quickly yanked his fist back slamming his fist into the base of her skull . She double over in pain as Jack grabbed the back of her head and pulled it down, shooting his knee up into her face. As her head went back from the hit Jack squatted down,launching himself up with both his fist slamming into her open jaw.
Moon flashed away to the other side of the room in an attempt to obtain some ground and time to recover from the abuse to her head. Jack looked over and sneerd. “You know what prinssece, after that nice warm up I can tell you this.” Jack raised his hand up holding up four fingers. “Four Gates is all I need to use to beat you. No more no less.”
Moon eye’s started to glow in rage as a pair of leathery wings shot from her back . Her fist glowed as she grabbed Jack by what was left of his vest and shirt which wasn’t much. She promptly started to fly up and through the stone ceiling until the both of them were well above the clouds.
Jack started to jolt and cringed a little after he started to feel a static pain go through him. He looks down to see that the magic around her hand’s were generating a mass amount of electricity. “If I don’t start taking you seriously I just might lose the sunny disposition I came here with, and we can’t let that happen.” Jack raised his hand up as he smacked Moon arms away. He quickly worked his way behind her as he wraped his arms around her waist and bellowed. “THIRD GATE OPEN!”
Moon couldn’t see the physical change in him but she could feel the power change as she could see a light green aura out from the corner of her eye.
“Special move!” Jack turned the both of them upside down as he started to spin. “DROPPING SKY!” The two started to accelerate their spinning as they picked up speed. Moon tried casting a spell but the way they were moving and how fast they were she couldn’t concentrate. They neared the castle as she started to swing and hit Jack but none of the hits could free her of his grasp as they crashed down.
Jack was the first to leap out of the crash sight as he clutched his dislocated shoulder and proceed to force it back into place with a solid snap. Jack looked over to see that Moon was flying out clearly mad. “You don’t like the fact that i'm beating the shit out of you right now, do you?”
Moon looked over Jack as she noticed that his skin had turned a dark red and that his eye’s had turned a milky white. “So that's the third Gate? True, your power is great, but you can’t harm me if We keep our distance so all that brute force of yours is pointless.” She raised her hand as at least Fifty blue spears no bigger than pipe’s appeared around Jack. “The only reason you been beating us is that you’ve been using your overwhelming power to beat us down and keep us off our toes. But no longer will we not let this happen.”
Jack laughed as she sent the spears at him and with a mighty shout before they hit him he spoke. “BRING IT ON!”
Jack manage to dodge about ten but received cuts from about thirty of the projectiles and the rest stabbed and impaled him. Moon floated down to his limp body, somehow still breathing.
“That what you get for thinking you can stand against a God. Let this be a reminder of a your true place in the world Jack.”She said, caressing his face as she continued to speak. “It's a shame you said no to me, you could have been great.” As she finished that Jack's hand shot out to grab her throat. Moon Panicked as she teleported back.
“What was that?!” Moon spoke aloud “Is he still able to fight?.” She thought to herself as she began to feel something very cold.
With what little strength Jack had left he spoke two words. “Fourth Gate.” As he spoke those words the magic spears were eaten by his massive aura. The holes inside Jack started closing far faster than they should have,within half a minute they were all completely sealed.
Moon looked at him, terror plastered on her face at what she was beholding. Jack smiled as he started to speak once again. “My magic increases not just my strength but healing and recovering, granted it takes a lot out of me, and I can only do it once every twelve hours.” Jack smiled at her, he sensing the presence of an approaching group he had to rap it up. “ infact I don’t really got much juice after doing that so why don’t we end this with one attack, no holding back?” Jack raised his right hand in response to Moon raising her left hand and started to collect all of her magic into that one point as a blue, purple and black orb began to form.
In one final step they launched themselves at each other. Upon colliding Jack yelled out one more thing, while doing so he was getting pushed backed by Moon . “When I worked for Celestia my team had a name for me!” Jack stop’s Moon advancement and starts to drive her back. “They called me the King of beast because a regular king could never reach my level!” Jack readied himself for his full swing, he stepped with his left foot as he threw his hips into the punch. “Because a regular king always thinks he’s the best that no one can reach him!” Jack finish his motions as he plowed through Moon’s magic landing right in her chest. “But a king of beast must always get stronger to not only protect his people but to make sure that no one can ever take his place, ever!” Moon was sent flying through the stone wall and just kept going and going. She went as far as to fly out of the castle. Unconscious she fell from the castle cliff. She would have fallen to her death if it was not for Jack using his power to launch himself to the edge of said cliff and grab her by her leg, and proceed to throw her back into the castle.
Jack to closed the gates as he made his way to Moon. Jack sat down next to bested monarque looking her over. Her armor was destroyed and mangled. Her body wasn’t much better, bloodied and bruised and many broken bones, and to top it off the spot where Jack landed that last blow was twisted and contorted as well as a little burnt from the friction of the impact.
Jack looked himself over to see his vest was nothing more than scraps, his shirt wasn’t much better so he just decided to rip them off and toss them aside. “ I hope Rarity understand why I got rid of those I don’t want to be chewed out.” Jack laughed at the thought of Rarity scolding him.
“Do you laugh at my sorry form King?”
Jack looked down to see that Moon was well awake. “No, I try not to belittle people.” Jack turned to face her so they can talk better.
“You beat me, a regular man beat me, a terra. I wasn’t even strong enough to warrant your full power.”
Jack shrugged in response. “You're not the first person I’ve beaton and you won't be the last. After all it’s was my job as a soldier to protect others so to do that I had to get strong. ”
Moon looked Jack over to see that his chest was covered in scares, many of which must have been extremely painful to have received but what really caught her eye was a tattoo of a spade but what made it interesting was that it had a sun with a white center. The tattoo was on his left arm just below the shoulder.
“Did Celestia make you get that tattoo?”
Jack looked at his arm and smiled at it. “The Eclipse? Yes, but the spade was my touch, you see my old team was called Eclipse. The symbol was meant to represent that even though we were so different we could be together to make something new. Unity, for my team and maybe for you and your sister.”
“We don’t have a sister.”
Jack chuckled “I wasn’t talking about you Nightmare moon, I was talking about you Luna.”
“Is she going to kill me King?”
Jack was put off by the question but still decided to answer.
“Yeah.” Jack answer was short and bland lacking any emotion whatsoever.
Moon did something she thought she would never do again, she cried. She knew she had lost and there was nothing she could do about her. “Thank you. It’s been a long time since someone told me the truth.”
Jack smiled at her. “No problem kid, no problem at all. It’s sad that NightMare Moon will die tonight after her sorry defeat.”
Nightmare looked at him with tears in her eyes. “If you don’t mind me asking what was the curse she gave you?”
That question made Jack’s eyes go cold and empty, it was several minutes before he gave his answer. “She tricked me, and because of that I had to leave. When I found out the truth of what she was going to do to me I run.” Jack got up and started to head to the door probably the only thing not touched in this whole fight. “The girls are here, best to let them in.” Jack turned to Moon on more time. “If you got any juice left in you instead of attacking them, destroy the elements.”
“King.”
Without turning around Jack asked. “Yeah?”
“I acknowledge you as the strongest fighter I have ever meet. Not even Celestia couldn't beat me without the Elements.”
Jack smiled as he whispered under his breath. “Thank you Queen of the night.” Jack smiled as he opened the door. He knew how the elements worked and knew they wouldn’t break easily. Before they got their Jack quickly lept outside the castle just outside of earshot so that he could relax for a few minutes.
Jack could still make out a few words such as as “dead” and “hurt. After a magical rainbow blast Jack made his way back to the castle to see the most of the girls had golden necklace with oddly cut gems in them. They all surrounded a small figure Jack could only assume was Luna since Moons energy was gone. Jack looked over to Twilight and A.J’s shoulder to get a better look of Luna.
The younger princess was much smaller and wore the exact opposite of Moon. Instead of wearing black armor she wore a long blue elegant dress. Her hair was even different it it was short and blue.
Jack looked over to the window to see a blinding light come in through the window. As the bright light went away it revealed Celestia herself. She was just as tall as Nightmare Moon. The dress she wore was pure white with a embroidery of the sun by her left uper thigh. The dress went well with with her rainbow magic flowing hair.
Twilight ran over to her and gave her a big hug as Celestia spoke. “I knew you could do it.”
Twilight backed away with a look that had little sadness in it. “But you told me it was an old fairy tale.”
Celestia gave her a gentle smile as she spoke. “I told you that you needed to make friends I saw the signs of Nightmare Moons return and I knew you could defeat her. But you could not do it until you let true friendship into your heart.”
“Can you just make up with Luna already, I would really like to get back to my bar and get a drink.”
Everybody turned to see Jack was right behind them with his arms crossed.
Everyone but Celestia and Twilight jumped onto Jack in a big group hug. Jack couldn't make out what they were saying but it was along the lines of. “Are you o.k?” “What happened to your cloths?”
The all stopped their questioning when Celestia started to talk to Luna.
“Princess Luna.” Luna jolted her head over to look at her sister a look of shock and sadness falls upon her face.
“It has been a thousand years since I have seen you like this, time to put our differences behind us we were meant to rule together little sister.”
“Sister?” The six girls spoke at once confused at what she just said.
Jack looked confused at the girls. “You all heard the story about the mare in the moon, it clearly stated that Nightmare Moon is her sister. I don’t know why you're shocked about that.”
Celestia ignored Jack as she continued to speak. “Will you accept my friendship?”
The tension in the room was think. Before Luna spoke Jack yelled out with tears in his eyes. “Will you just accept her offer already!”
Luna embraced her older sister accepting her apology. Pinki handed the hanky she used to wipe away her tear over to Jack so he could wipe his away.
Luna broke the embrace from her sister and walked over to Jack as she gave him a hug as well. “We thank you King for stalling Nightmare Moon so that the Elements could get here in time. As a token of our gratitude let us give you this.” She pulled Jacks head down as she firmly planted her lips upon his. The look of shock on everybody was priceless.
“Well aren't you forward.” Jack smiled as he pull Luna in close.
“If you're done sucking my sister face then I need to talk to you Jack.”
Jack looked over to see Celestia in front of him. “I got nothing to say to you.”
Everyone was ever more shocked at Jack outburst. Twilight quickly confronted Jack.
“Jack?!” she blurted. “You can’t talk to PRINCESS Celestia like that! Apologise at once!”
“It is fine Twilight I do not mind. But Jack you do need to hear me, it’s about the new generation of soldiers.”
Jack glared at her. “If your talking about the soldiers you sent to bring me in I already met them, and I'm afraid to tell you that they suck.”
“I don’t mean them Jack.” Celestia jestered to Jack's tattoo.
Jack eye’s widened as he realized what she meant. “You’re joking right? You're making a new Eclipse team?”
Celestia smiled and nodded. “ I have an offer for you. I want you to train them, and in-exchange you will never see me again.”
Jack thought about it for a second as he spoke.“How long do i have to do it for.”
“Until you think they are ready.”
Jack smiled as he gave his choice. “Fine i’ll train the snot nose brats but only if you agree to never contact me after words got it.”
Celestia laughed. “You got yourself a deal Jack.”
“CAN YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!” Jack looked over to see Rainbow Dash shouting at them.
“I guess you guy’s have a right to know. I guess i’ll explain, come on let's walk and talk.” Jack made his way to the door to his way to the exit.
It’s been about three days since Jack told the girls about his powers and answered most of their questions. But at one point Jack just got tired so he stopped answering after around twenty questions. After the fight with Nightmare Moon Celestia told Jack that one of the new Eclipse members would be coming to his bar today. She told him that they would come bearing the Eclipse symbol and that they were in the age range from fourteen to seventeen. He didn’t know the time they would show but he knew it was today. It’s been three hours since he opened the bar and no new faces it was ten thirty by the time a new face came through his door.
She was a young girl no more than sixteen if Jack had to guess, she was five eight one hundred sixty five pounds. She sported short spiky black hair and sunglass. Jack wondered if she was a douchebag, after all the only people Jack knew that wore sunglasses inside were douchebags or the blind and she didn’t look blind. She wore a black shirt and blue jeans. She walked over to Jack and looked him over as he stood behind his bar.
“You want something kid, cus if you don’t then you need to step away from the bar.”
She tossed Jack a piece of paper with the Eclipse symbol. “Are you the man that's supposed to be training me? If you are you don’t look like much.”
A vane in Jack’s head bulged out as he covered her mouth as he leaned in and spoke. “Shut up and go sit down in a empty booth.”
“Fine,” she said removing his hand “but don’t take long. I don’t want to be here any longer then i have to.” Walking over to the empty booth that Jack gestured for her to sit down.
Jack rubbed his face as Berry walked over to him.
“That one of the kids the old boss sent?”
Jack looked up at her and simply noded.
“How many more?”
“There should be four more coming. I think they should be staying at a local hotel while I teach them, as well as go to school.”
“Why are they going to school, kinda dumb really? They should only focus on training, no?”
“She’s giving what little time of a normal life they have left to them.”
Berry shook her head in disagreement. “That's a mistake she need’s to make them soldiers not kids.”
“Maybe she just wants to give them what we didn’t have, a childhood.”
Berry didn’t like the idea of these kids with pasts that they had no idea of just coming here, it could end very poorly. Not to mention the enemy’s they’ll make, this is not a job one takes lightly.
“So what are you going to do now? You can’t close this early, it’s only ten thirty.”
Jack stood up and made his way to the kitchen as he opened the door he looked back at Berry. “Im going to make her some food, she has had a long trip she’s gotta be hungry.
Shade was sitting in the booth for fifteen minutes growing more calm with each passing moment. Normally she’d be anoud by the fact that it took her hours to get to this run down town and bar. To top it off the guy that was supposed to teach her looked like nothing more than some boring bartender, and not some super soldier as she was lead to believe. The only strong looking one was some steroid filled man with a mohawk, and he didn’t even seem like much. Five moves tops, and she could beat him, the bartender on the other hand would be more like five seconds.
Shade’s attention was drawn to the woman Jack just got done talking to as she walked over to her, taking the seat in front her. Shade couldn’t figure out if she just wanted something or if she was sizing her up.
“You think he’s weak don’t you?”
Shade was caught off guard for a second. How did she know what she was thinking. Before Shade could talk Jack’s companion spoke again.
“That’s why Jack is so dangerous. His body is full of limiters including those gauntlets and shoes of his. They make him appear weak but don’t you dare underestimate him because if you do. You will die.”
Shade narrowed her eyes at Berry. “He’s supposed to train me, so I guess he can’t be that weak.”
“If you have your doubts why don’t you challenge him? After dinner of course.”
“Dinner?”
As if on cue Jack walked out of the kitchen holding a plate and a glass of water, Berry got up and patted Jack on his shoulder as she went back to her drink. He placed the plate of food and glass of water on the table. To Shades surprise she had no idea what had been placed before her,The piece of food was bacon wrapped around something with parsley on top coated in red wine and soy sauce. It smelled delicious as she took the knife and fork that he gave to her and cut a piece off and eat it. As she took her first bite she noticed an explosion of flavor. With each bite her appetite only grew, and before she new it she already finished.
Shade looked at Jack with a look of astonishment. “What was that?”
Jack smiled as he sat down where Berry was. “I’ll tell you kid but first you gotta do something for me alright?”
“What would that be?”
“Mind telling me why you got those glasses on? ”
Shade didn’t see anything wrong with the request, especially since this man was supposed to teach her.
“My eyes are sensitive to light so I keep them on so I can see easier.”
Jack smiled. “So far so good.” He thought to himself. “Alright kid I got one more question for you.”
“And that is?” Shade was happy about that, she didn’t like the fact that she was already being questioned.
Jack smiled his devil grin as he spoke. “What do you got?”
“What?”
Jack said it slower this time, as if she was a kid who still didn’t know how to speak. “What made you so special that Celestia made you come all the way out here in the stick to be trained by an old soldier?”
“For one I was trained in martial arts and how to wield various weapons since I was little-”
“You know what, I changed my mind, let's do something else.”
Jade was was caught off guard by this surely “That was rude.”
“Yeah I know but I was getting bored. I’m not used to listening to what people have to say when I know it’s going to be a long list. So let's just go talk with our fist instead. It's faster and I find it easier to understand people that way.” Jack proceed to stand up and toss his keys at Berry for them to only bounce off her head and land on the counter.
Shade just looked confused as he made his way to the exit. Jack looked back over to her as he gestured her to follow him.
[Just outside the Everfree]
“Alright kid this should be far enough. Now for this sparring match I would like it if you went all out.”
Shade raised an eyebrow at this. This man didn’t even know if she had any powers that would threaten his life but he wanted to go all out? “Alright, don’t die.”
Jack laughed as he slipped his shoes and gloves off. “If I lost to a snot nose brat like you I couldn’t call myself a soldier.”
Shade charge at Jack with blinding speed. She would not be mocked by some two bit bartender. Shade’s fist collide with Jack's face with enough force to break stone. She smiles as she watched the man fly into a nearby tree smashing it into pieces.However, her smile quickly fade as her eyes widen as the man stands back up with a stare that could kill.
“I made a mistake kid, I thought you were gonna be some skilled fighter or something and you have nothing to back it up other then that.” Jack brushed himself off as he faced her. The look on Jack’s face made Shade uneasy, no not uneasy this was something else, a feeling she has only felt from her father. True killing intent.
“Don’t get me wrong kid but without some form of power your skill will never get you far enough in the world of combat.” Shade was put off by his voice, even though she still felt his killing intent he sounded as if he was praising.
“Now let me show you the power I’ve gain to make my skill even greater.” Jake took a deep breath as he spoke. “Second gate, open.” There was no change in his appearance not even a little. Jack smiled as he gestured with his right hand for her to come at him.
Shade launched herself with immense force towards Jack leaving an indent in the ground. Shade release a onslaught of punches at Jack. To the untrained eye it would look like Shade’s arm were gone and gusts of wind were flying at Jack only for the wind to not even get close to him. “How is he doing this?” Shade thought to herself. He was dodging all of her blows as if they were nothing. Shade’s eyes widened as she noticed something that really pissed her off. He was started to laugh.
“This is fun kid, you far exceeded my expectation.” Jack’s eyes narrowed as Shade felt the murderous intent again as Jack continued to speak. “Let’s see what else you got.” Jack hand’s finally left his side as he used the palms of his hands to redirect Shade’s fist with ease. But to Shade it felt a little more than that, just on the outside of Jack’s hands she could see a blue aura.
Shade was caught off guard by the sudden pressure below her ribs as she looked down to see that his left hand’s index finger was plunged into her. She was caught off guard by the sudden burst of power sending her flying back into the ground. Shade collected herself as she stood up and faced him again. “Alright that was a nice evaluation let’s get going shall we?” Jack smiled at her as he turned his back on her and started to walk away.
Shade’s eye’s narrowed in rage as she charge at him. This man challenged her and he’s leaving? “I will not let you leave so easily!”
Jack turned his head and looked at Shade for a split second as he vanished for him to reappear behind her. Shade tried to turn toward to face Jack only for her to fall to the ground. Her entire body didn’t listen to her no matter how hard she tried not even her a finger would move.
“You see your probably wondering, what the hell did he do? Well I’ll tell, I literally punched all the magic out of you.”
Shade’s eye’s widen in shock at what Jack just told her. Was that even possible, she knew of cases where people had their magic drained out of them but that involved machines or variance spells. But to do it with your fist, is that even possible?
“If you're familiar with the way magic courses through body’s then with the right hits you can force magic out of the person body. The only problem with that is that everybody has one hundred and eighty different points for your magic to course through and there all in unique spots for each person. But let’s say someone would perhaps send a wave of magic through that person body to help locate them. But when would someone do that, maybe when that said someone did it when he jabbed you in the ribs with his finger or maybe sent magic through your fist when blocking them with his fist .”
Shade was shocked at what she was hearing. This man had won this battle before it started without even making a fist he already won none the less. This man was someone that she could Respect. “I just want you to know kid that you're not week. Infact with my training you will be next to impossible to beat by the time i’m done with you.” Jack started to walk away as before he told her two more thing. “Don’t visit me till next week, by then your team should be here, and one more thing.” Jack’s voice was cold and empty as if all the life in it was gone, and the only thing left in him was death. “If you ever try to betray to me I will destroy not just your body but mind. And i’ll make sure after i’m done you’ll stay down longer than ten minutes.”
Shade had the next ten minutes to think over what her teacher has told her.
“My master gave me a list of thing’s of what not to do.”
“Yeah so?”
“Waking him up is the second thing on that list.”
“What’s the first?”
“Touching his beard.”
The second voice Jack heard was smooth and elegant, the first voiced seemed to just piss him off. Jack didn’t know why he was hearing voices in his bedroom but he didn’t like it. He had a long day yesterday meeting his first disciple. After his spar with her he quickly found out when he got back to the Spade that Snowflake got into a fight with some asshole brat and his friend and that it ended with them breaking a table. From what Jack heard Snowflake almost lost an arm over it. Jack didn’t really hear the whole story, as he was far to focused on the damage. Even though Snowflake said he would pay for the table it still pissed him off that some stupid punk would do this type of shit, kids these day’s.
“Well I would really like to talk to him,” whoever is talking. “We’ve been watching him sleep for like an hour now. I’ve already raided his fridge so there’s not much to do now.”
“I really do hope i’m just crazy cuzz if there are really two people in my room right now there will be some serious problems that I will fix by force.” Jack slowly sat up looking up to the two kids, one sitting on his desk and the other in his chair. Jack with his sleepy mind and without his enchanted weight on he unconsciously started to force his magic pressure onto them.
The two kids fell to their hands and knees unable to lift themselves up from Jack’s power. They reached behind into their back pockets and both tossed Jack a piece of paper with the Eclipse symbol on them. Jack rubbed his face as he got control of his power letting the two kids stand. The boy that was on the floor closes to the desk had blue eyes and black hair, his body visibly toned and quite lean , he had clearly gone under some form of formal training. He wore a white sleeveless vest with black pants and shoes with two blades strapped to his hip. But what made this boy truly interesting was that he was missing his right arm.
His friend was standing next to him, he had long brown hair that went past his shoulders tied in a ponytail. The boy’s eye’s were a very light shade of green close to that of a pear. Out of the two so far Jack liked this kid the most do to the fact of how he dressed,he wore a flawless Navy blue suit. It was something of true beauty, he knew he’s seen this craftsmanship before but were he couldn’t place. Infact this boy just seem familiar in general, but why?
Jack looked over at his clock to see that it was one in the morning. Jack quickly shot the two kids a stare that froze them in there tracks. “Do you have any idea, how Goddamn late it is!?” Jack’s voiced seemed to shake the room and the two kids to the very core. The brown haired kid gathered enough courage to opened his mouth to speak only for Jack to interrupted him. “To Goddamn late for this shit!” Jack stood up out of his bed he had nothing on other then his blue striped boxers. This of course revealed his heavily scarred body. The kids looked him over in horror and awe of Jacks scars. He walked over to his dresser to grab some pajama bottoms and a white undershirt. As Jack was grabbing his things he looked over to the kids.
Jack noticed that Ponytail was focused on a scar just below Jacks tattoo, three band like scar’s deeply ingrained in his arm.
“Do either of you know what a scar means?”
The boy’s were caught off guard by the question. They looked to the other for the answer but only got a blank response. Until the boy with the missing arm seemed to recall something.
“The meaning of a scar is to remind the person who got it that they were not good enough at the time and need to get better.” Jack snapped his head to look at the kid making him break out in a cold sweet. The boy was relieved of this feeling when Jack started to laugh. When Jack stopped laughing he looked at the kid with a smile that would make the devil jeloush.
“You know Club, don’t you?”
The boy nodded his head in agreement. “He was my master before he and Celestia told me to come and train with you for the time being. He was teaching me how to be a swordsman.” Jack put his hand on the boys shoulder as he laughed once more this time with far more gusto.
“I’ll tell you this much boy, I never liked the meaning that Club gave to scar’s. You can take this to the bank kid because in my eye’s a scar mean that you were stronger than what ever tried to kill you.”
Jack smiled as he made his way down stairs past the boys. “Now let's go talk down at the bar.”
Jack got behind the bar as he grabbed out three glasses and a strange bottle filled with a clear glowing liquid. He poured each of them a glass. The boys were hesitant to pick up the glass of, whatever it was. Lucky for them Jack was the first to take a drink. The Boys soon followed suit to quickly find the drink was, unsettling.
One arm ran to a trash can near by and quickly expunged the foul liquid as well as any food . As for ponytail struggled with all his might just to swallow back down what was fighting to come back up. Jack smiled at the boys as he slowly spat out his drink that he held in his mouth into his cup with a decepted grin. “Well it’s nice to know that batch is a fail. It was probably the Ursa Minor fur, that shit ain't good for nothing other than armor and keeping you warm.” Jack grabbed the bottle and looked it over. “I hate to waste it but if I drink it my stomach may kill me.” Jack just shrugged it off and slid the bottle over to his left as he looked at the two kids trying not to die. Jack laughed at his soon to be students pain. “So now that we got the awkward atmosphere out of the way, what are you two names?”
One arm raised his head from the trash and with a exhausted gasp spoke. “ Sensō.”
Ponytail slowly sat up from clutching his stomach and followed suit of Sensō. “Cordone.”
Jack looked at Cordone his mind finely clicking the piece why Celestia sent him, why he was so familiar. Jack reached over to the bottle containing the white liquid and threw it at Cordone. Cordone didn’t even flinch as the bottle froze in the air inches from his face. The bottle quickly fell into three equal pieces, the white drink falling to the floor. Jack began to laugh the smile on his face going from ear to ear.
“How did you know that I would stop it? Did Celestia tell you who I am?” Sensō looked up from the trash wondering what happened only to see that not even he could cut the tension in the air.
Jack covered his mouth trying to stop the laughter. Cordone and Jack eyes met what Cordone saw in Jack's eyes made him take a step back. In Jack’s steely gaze he wasn’t sure what he saw but it he didn’t like it. “Your Heart Chord’s son.” Jack made his way out from behind the bar as he continued his conversation with him.
“I knew I recognized you from the moment I saw you. You're the spitting image of your father from you hair to your power.” At this point Jack was squared up with Cordone standing a whole head above him. “How old were you?”
Cordone eye’s widened at the question. Celestia told him that Jack knew his father but how much?
“Ten, I was ten when he died. Nobody ever told me how he died, not even my own family, my siblings, mother, nobody. But maybe you will, so tell me King of Beast, how did your musician die?”
When asked this question Jack froze, he didn’t want to remember, he tried for five years to forget. He started back to his room as he looked back at the kids. “That's a story for another time Cordone but as for Sensō, I’ll let the punishment to your stomach be payment for destroying my table but you're on thin ice.”
Sensō looked away from his trash can and up at Jack. “How did you know it was me who destroy the table?”
“You're the only person with a sword here for miles. It’s not hard to connect the dots. Like I said, I’ll let it slide so no more stupid stuff, understand? Of Course unless you want to test out more drinks?” They couldn’t see it but the two boys knew that Jack had a smile on his face that would scare the scales off a dragon. The boys left as they heard Jack's door click shut.
Jack sat on his bed his hands rubbing the tears out of his eye’s. Jack looked at his hands remembering the blood that stained them. Jack raised his hand up rubbed the band scars below his shoulder . The only scars he never could stomach to look at. He felt the groove’s of the scar’s three lines, he remembered in such clear detail, the memory of the pain was still fresh in his mind. Jack smiled as a image of Celestia shot through his mind. “You're playing a dangerous game sun bitch. Let's see who wins.”
Jack was making his way down the market. He was looking for ingredients for the food in the bar. It’s was Saturday he normally took these day off to enjoy himself or to go shopping like he was doing now. After a few hours of shopping and a few more arguing over the price of cherries, Jack decided to take a nap break at a nearby park underneath a tree. At this point he had most of his supplies and it was such a lovely day, how else could one enjoy it other than napping straight through it?
Jack awoke from his nap, rubbing his eye’s he noticed something strange in the air. A uneasiness he hasn't felt in this town before, at least by anything human. Jack looked up to see a cloaked girl, standing at the other end of the park. Most of her face was covered ,only her jade green eyes pierced the shadow cast by her hood, accompanied by a few locks of the womans red hair.
As Jack rose from his spot, the woman responded in turn, making her way out of the park. In the eyes of any normal citizen l, what Jack did next would seem like teleportation, but in reality it was merely a hop skip, and a jump that landed him right in front of the mysterious woman.. Jack grabbed her by the collar of her hood and lifted her into the air . “Listen missy,” he growled, “ if you're one of the kids Celestia sent to me to train then, let's get the introductions over with because I got better things to do then watch another audition for the talent show!. Just by your appearance I can already tell that you're going to be a pain in my side.” The child didn’t respond, Jack decided to give her a little shake to see if he could get a response. “Great, the broody silent type, just what I-” Jacks eyebrow raised when a small doll fell out from the girls cloak.
His demeanor quickly changed as he began to fully grasp the situation. He’d only assumed this girl was here for him, for all Jack knew, she could have been a park goer with sensitive skin, hence the cloak.
As he looked around, Jack felt the eyes of the other park members upon him. Looking back to the girl, he released a small sigh and placed the young woman back onto her feet.
“Sorry about that kid, guess I shook you a little too hard.” Jack reached down to pick up the doll,only to stop inches from it. The doll was blue had black hair, yellow eyes and wore a pink little dress. Jack looked in the doll's eyes, and it looked back. Magic flowed to the tips of Jack's fingers as he readied to crush the doll. And what ever was in it, Jack was going to see to it that it was destroyed.
As Jack was about to grab it a green tendril wrapped around Jack's wrist and wiped it back. Jack’s eyes narrowed as he traced the tentacle back to the girl's hand. Jack shot a small burst of magic through her own stream, causing her magic to destabilise and burst. Her eye’s widen in shock of the display of power, she has clearly never experienced anybody do that to her before, and she didn’t like it.
“That was a pretty good spell kid, you're strong.” The girl quickly turned her attention back to Jack. She was quickly un-nerved by the fact that he had developed big toothy grin on his face. Of all the facial expression he could have given her, a smile was his choice?
“Do you know what’s in that doll, kiddo?” Jack hoped to hear no, but alas this hope was dashed.
“There is a demon in my doll, Nightbeam. Because of Nightbeam I can hear my friends Starlight, Darklight and Shadow.”
Jack’s eye twitched, he kicked the doll back up to the girl's hand as he started to remember less than fond memories of demons he has ran into in the past. Jack proceeded to throw the girl over his shoulder and dash back to his groceries muttering only one word. “Nope.” He then took the girl and her doll to the library.
When Jack got to the library he promptly threw the door off its hinges and in doing so scared Twilight half to death, and causing Spike to fall out of his bed from upstairs. Jack set his groceries down and threw the girl at Twilight.The only word of warning she received was. “Think fast.” After tossing said girl at Twilight, before should even think of articulating a very strongly worded protest of the situation, Jack started making his way towards Spike,which prompted the young dragon to make a mad dash for his life. Twilight only caught a second of this due to the mystery girl hitting her in the face, but she could just make out Jack kicking Spike in the air and catching him.
Spike, now firmly in Jack’s grip, struggle desperately with all his might to fight back even to go as to breath fire at Jacks face. This action abruptly halted when Jack gave the purple reptile a squeeze , eliciting a surprisingly adorable squeaky noise. Jack gave a chuckle at his new discovery, then quickly dismissed it for the task at hand. He need to talk to the Sun Bitch.
“Listen Runt,” Jack hissed, “I need your magic flames to send a message to Princess Sunburn, now!.” Jack and Spike’s locked eye’s as Spikes breathing slowed down.
“How do you even know about my flame’s?” Spike asked,terror still ripe in his voice.
Jack rolled his eye’s “I keep tabs on everyone in town for my own reasons, but I’m not here to tell my life story to the town iguana.”
At this point Twilight was over the initial shock of the situation, and quickly stood to her feet, firmly clamping a hand on Jack’s shoulder and spun the man around to face her. was “Jack,” she hissed in a unsettling mixture of confusion and anger, “what is so important that you would rip my door off, throw a person at me, and then promptly assault my friend!?”
Jack turned around surprised at himself to see that he actual did rip the door off. He just shrugged it off as he pointed to the the girl,now sitting on the floor.
“Jack, you ripped my door off to talk to Celestia about a teenage girl!?” Ignoring Twilight Jack made his way to Twilight’s bathroom and covered her mirror with his magic. Jack then proceed to twist the little dragon in his hands, as one would to obtain the sweet remainder of toothpaste from a long ago overused tube of toothpaste,causing the young drake to spew his signature green flame.
“Jack what are you doing!?” The girl Jack threw made her way to the bathroom just in time to see Twilight’s continued freak out.
Jack rolled his eye’s . “I’m going to go talk to sun bitch. To do that before my groceries go bad i'm going to use Spike fire to open a portal directly to her location.”
As he spoke a small green portal began to form on the mirror and grow until it took up the full frame. A image of Celestia and Luna on their throne’s appeared before them. Jack quickle shoved his hand through the image and sure enough, as he pulled his hand back, the Princess of the Sun was pulled througr.
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Celestia was having a long day. Her workload has double if not tripled from the fact that Luna has returned. Many nobles have not liked the sudden appearance of a second ruler and the inevitable power shift. Celestia was actually in the middle of one of the famous noble temper tantrum when a green flaming portal appeared. She instantly knew the magic to be Spike’s flames but it was much too big to be his flames. To her great surprise a fist came out and pulled her into it, leaving a rather confused younger sister abruptly alone.
Jack pulled Celestia’s upper body out of the portal holding her up by her shoulder so he can get a better look at her. When Celestia looked up to see Jack’s less than pleased expression, she promptly returned the gesture with a look of disgust of her own.
“What do you want Jack?” She asked, a low growl accompanying each word. “I'm in the middle of something.”
Jack simple grunted raising the hand holding Spike and dropping him so that he could direct her attention to the girl. “You sent me a demon child Sun Bitch, why?”
Celestia rolled her eyes and scoffeds. “Why do you think Jakie, to train her.”
Jack pulled Celestia up to eye level as he continued to speak. “Why didn't you send her to Club or some monk, anybody other than me? You know very well how I feel about those ‘things’.”
Celestia smiled at Jack as she glances over to see Twilight,the young woman in a state of perpetual shock and confusion. “I figure I would throw her in with the bunch. After all wouldn’t, the King of Beast be able to train one animal?”
“NightBeam resents that name.”
Celestia and Jack looked over at the girl, slightly surprised that she finally spoke up.
“The demon?” Jack finally asked.
“Yes, he doesn’t like being called an animal. Beside, if you don’t want to train, us we can leave, it makes no difference to us.”
“Hold up!” All eyes quickly turned to to Twilight..
“Jeez Twilight,” Jack said, cleaning out his left ear with a pinky.”We’re all right here, ya don’t have to yell.””
Twilight stared on baffled, baffled at the scene before her. Only to see that the other two started to nod in agreement with Jack.
Twilight’s left eye gave the slightest twitch as magic grew in her hands. With her magic she quickly picked Jack and the random girl up and proceed to throw them out the doorway ( a task made significantly easier with the lack of a door) . Twilight loomed over them with a very infuriated look plastered upon her face, as she proceed to float the broken door and stick it back where it was.
“Twilight, why are you being so rude?” Jack asked in a dry tone. “ I thought better of you. Plus I still need my groceries please.”
Jack’s groceries proceed to hit him in the back of his head.
“I don’t have time for this Jack I have the gala to think about.”
Jack froze at the mention of the gala, he had so many fond memories of the gala. At least at the after party. Jack stood up and looked at the girl sitting next to him.
“What’s your name girl?”
“Eclipse.” she stated, void of any emotion.
“Well Eclipse, looks like I'm stuck with you so I might as well deal with it. Your training starts next week.” Jack proceed to leave, groceries in hand, hoping that the kids will be ready by the time the gala come around. Or how he likes to remember it, the gathering of Kings.
