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// The Capture of Seven-Tails 
// Story: Star Knight and the Nine-Tailed Fox 
// by Rakoon1 
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	A few days had passed after Bubble Sweet have been captured and, at that moment, the Lord of Chaos and his villains had just extracted Six-Tails from her. In their hiding place in Arimaspi’s territory, Bubble Sweet’s dead body fell to the ground, while the sixth iris appeared on the Demonic Statue.

"You know, I wish Arimaspi hadn't been captured before extracting this Tailed Beast” Ulysses said, yawning. "We took a lot longer this time."

"Stop whining" Adagio said. "Do we have to hear you say the same thing over and over again when there are only three more Tailed Beasts to capture and seal?"

"Hey, I don't like to be standing in the same place for more than a few minutes" Ulysses said. "And I'm holding up pretty well so far."

"Master, what do we do now?" Grogar asked to the Lord of Chaos. "There's still three Jinchuriki to capture, but now, since they caught Arimaspi, we’re quite few, compared with our enemies."

"Don't worry about that" the Lord of Chaos said. "I have it all figured out."

"And have you decided which of us will capture the next Jinchuriki, my lord?" Chrysalis asked. "I just want you to know that you can count on me for this task."

"Do you really think you could do something like that?" Ulysses asked. "Please, you were almost toasted alive by Two-Tails."

"And you had such a hard time capturing Four-Tails you had to use a lot of energy that practically served as a beacon to everypony who were in the neighborhood."

That comment made Adagio take a laugh and say to Ulysses:

"Looks like she caught you with this one."

Ulysses's face twitched with rage, but before he could say anything, the Lord of Chaos said:

"That's enough! Stop with the arguments. You know how they give me headaches. I already know who will capture Seven-tails, so you all can stop sucking up."

"And can we know who is the lucky one, my Lord?" Grogar asked.

"All in due time, my dear Grogar" the Lord of Chaos replied. "For now, we will wait. After all, we've been drawing too much attention to ourselves, especially with the capture of the last Jinchuriki. Let's give our enemies an opportunity to strengthen the defenses around the remaining Jinchuriki, give them a false sense of security. And then when they least expect it, we attack!"

The other villains seemed pleased with this idea of their master.

After the Demonic Statue disappeared and the Lord of Chaos dismissed his villains, he returned to his throne room, where he sat on it. He turned to a figure who was in front of the staircase, kneeling and with his face hidden in the shadows.

"Those days sealing Six-Tails left me exhausted, so I need to rest" the Lord of Chaos said. "Make sure I'm not disturbed by insignificant issues."

"Yes, my Lord" the mysterious villain replied.

"And I want you to start practicing your skills" the Lord of Chaos said. "I've already got your first mission and it is not necessary to say that success is imperative."

"You can trust me, master" the mysterious villain said, rising up and opening a pair of large wings. "After all, I'm your General of Chaos."

Days passed with spring finally taking over winter’s place. It was amazing to see how the grey days, full of clouds and rain, turned into beautiful spring days with a warm and bright sunshine and the flowers blooming.

In the duchy of Maretonia, located by a river, the young Jinchuriki Silver Mist tried to once again sneak off to venture himself into the world beyond the limits of the duchy. However, when he was about to leave, Silver Mist was intercepted by his bodyguards who had no choice but to take him to the presence of his uncle and aunt, the Duke and Duchess, at the palace.

In the throne room, Silver Mist was before his uncle and aunt, who were sitting on their respective thrones. The duke, Kyrippos II, was an earth stallion of noble poise with moderate tangelo coat, dark gray mane and light arctic blue eyes. He was outfitted with an adorned turquoise cloak with a plum color headdress with gold adorns and a long fake beard. The duchess, Ice Mirror, was a unicorn mare with a light gray, moderate fuchsia mane and light cerulean eyes. She wore a purple cloak and, on her head, there was a large tiara in the shape of a half circle.

"It's unbelievable!" Kyrippos said in a disapproval tone. "After telling you several times about the danger you are into with the Lord of Chaos behind you, you still want to play with fire."

"If you think I'm going to stay in this palace without doing anything, that’s because you know me really bad" Silver Mist replied.

"Don't you understand that you can't walk around without the necessary precautions?" Kyrippos asked.

"You mean a Jinchuriki like me" Silver Mist said. "But there are other Jinchuriki who walk freely, without having to be limited to four walls."

"And what happened to those Jinchuriki?" Kyrippos asked cynically. "At this time, they are all dead as they were captured by the Lord of Chaos!"

Ice Mirror placed her hoof over his husband’s, as if telling him to calm down. He responded to her request and then the duchess continued:

"We're just concerned about your safety, Silver Mist."

"If that is so, then you should have turned me into a Jinchuriki to begin with" Silver Mist replied.

"We had no other option" Kyrippos replied. "At the time that your predecessor was on the verge of death, you were the one who had greater compatibility with Seven-Tails. And even if it were not the Jinchuriki, you're still my nephew and I promised your parents I'd take care of you and I intend to honor my promise."

Although Silver Mist wanted to say something, it seemed that he changed his mind and came out of the throne room, followed by his bodyguards.

"Don't you think you were a little rough with him, my dear?" Ice Mirror asked. "After all, he just wants to see the world."

"We both know that with the threat of Lord of Chaos to capture all the Jinchuriki, we can't let that happen" Kyrippos replied. "It's hard for me to make this decision to keep him locked up in the palace, but there's nothing I can do."

Silver Mist left the throne room, but instead of staying at the palace as his uncle told him to do, he decided to leave, using his insect wings to fly. The guards followed him closely, flying.

"Silver Mist, don't you remember what your uncle, the duke, said?" the first guard asked.

"Relax, I'm not going out of Maretonia" he replied. "I just want to get some air to clear my head."

And they arrived to a deserted area of the duchy, where Silver Mist and his guards landed. Silver Mist took a deep breath and said:

"There's nothing like a whiff of fresh air."

"We should go back to the Palace, Silver Mist” the second guard said.

"Yes, your uncle will be very displeased when he gets to know you're gone" the first guard added.

"Relax" Silver Mist said. "After all, what is the probability of a villain showing up here right now?"

"I dare to say it is quite high" a voice answered.

They turned and saw with great astonishment an alicorn stallion hovering a few hooves above them. He had moderate red coat, coatless reddish brown hooves and red eyes, where the darkness glowed. A dark armour was protecting his body and there was also a helmet that concealed most of his face and involved his horn. A flaming mane left the part under the same helmet.

"An alicorn?" the second guard asked. "But there is only one known male alicorn in this worldin this current time: Prince Star Knight."

"Impossible…" the first guard said.

The alicorn made a gesture, while he accessed to dark magic, and pointed the hull and the two guards were pulled towards him, rising in the air. They were trying to move, but they couldn’t, as if a powerful and invisible force was pulling them towards the alicorn. When they reach his edge, the alicorn said:

"You talk too much."

And, with a simple gesture, the two guards were reduced to dust, much to Silver Mist’s shock. After this, the alicorn came down and landed softly on the ground, staring to Silver Mist, who was still shaken by the death of his guards.

"Who... Who are you?” he asked, with heavy breathing.

"My name doesn't matter" he replied, calmly. "You can call me General of Chaos. And I'm here to capture you... Seven-Tails."

Silver Mist swallowed hard and began to pull back.

"Don't try to run" the General of Chaos said. "I will always reach you."

"That's what we're going to see" Silver Mist replied.

And, having said that, Silver Mist exhaled a fine powder that was sent in the direction of the General of Chaos. Then, when the Jinchuriki accessed to his magic, the powder emitted a light so strong that blinded the General of Chaos temporarily. When the light faded, the General saw that Silver Mist was moving away as fast as possible by air.

"What a desperate Jinchuriki" he said. "Why can't he just accept his fate and let himself be caught with no resistance?"

And he took off, rising up a few meters, and then pointed one of his front hooves to Silver Mist, applying the same attractive force he applied on the guards. The Jinchuriki quickly felt the strength pulling him back to the place where the General of Chaos was. He tried to resist, as much as he could, flapping his wings rapidly, but that wasn't enough to prevent him from being pulled back to the General, who grabbed him by the neck with the hoof.

"I told you I would always reach you" he said.

Silver Mist tried to access some of his special spells to get rid of the General of Chaos, but he wasn't able to. It was as if his energy was disappearing quickly. It didn't take long to figure out that it was because of the General, who was absorbing it, weakening him quickly.

"You should have heard your uncle and have stayed inside the palace" the General of Chaos said. "Although, I don't think that was going to make any difference."

The General of Chaos absorbed so much energy from Silver Mist that the latter eventually faint. The General dropped the Jinchuriki and he fell to the ground, where roots showed up and got him as binds. The alicorn landed next to him and said:

"Mission accomplished."

"If I were you, I wouldn't be so sure" a voice said.

The General of Chaos turned and faced Golden Paladin.

"Step away from the Jinchūriki" the General of Peace ordered.

"Make me... General” the General of Chaos challenged.

Golden Paladin didn't like the way how he addressed to him, so, by instinct, he accessed to his magic and summoned a chain that burst from the ground. It wasn't one of his gold chains, but rather a chain made of steel.

"Oh, so that's your famous iron nature" the General of Chaos observed. "It's funny, I thought you would use the gold chains you make from your light nature."

"Those serve mainly to seal or contain" Golden Paladin replied. "But you're not like the other villains. I can feel it. You are a threat to peace, a far greater threat than any one of them. The only being that overcomes you is the Lord of Chaos. Delete you only would serve to ensure the peace that I protect."

"So what are you waiting for?" the General of Chaos urged. "Come on, great leader of the Generals of Order. Do your worst."

Unable to endure the General of Chaos’ taunts, Golden Paladin, with a gesture, made the iron chain attack him. However, when it was about to hit him, the General of Chaos made a gesture and the chain simply was pushed back by an invisible force.

"I see…" Golden Paladin said. "So, just like you can create attractive forces, you can also create repulsive forces."

"And I can see you're really observant" the General of Chaos commented. "Let's see if it's worth anything."

And he fired a magical beam against Golden Paladin who quickly defended and then created more steel chains that he used to attack the General of Chaos. They were executing successive attacks, since Golden Paladin knew he couldn't let his opponent have time to think. 

It was then that he noticed something that intrigued him. The way the General of Chaos was defending the attacks involved his repulsive ability, but also normal dodging. It made the General of Peace ask to himself what the reason for him not being using always the repulsive ability to defend himself was. So he concluded that there was a possibility that there was a minimum time interval between each use. If he could figure out how much it was, maybe Golden Paladin could use it to defeat the General of Chaos.

After great effort, Golden Paladin managed to figure out the interval and put his plan into motion. With a new attack, he forced the General of Chaos to use his repulsive force and, at the time he executed it, a golden chain came up under him and wrapped him, trapping him.

"Smart" the General of Chaos said, always maintaining the same calm tone. "I can assume you found the weak point of my repulsion and attraction spells."

"You can't use that power during an interval of five seconds after using it once" Golden Paladin said. "It's not an ideal interval, but I did it anyway. And with my golden chain, you can't use the repulsion spell to let yourself go. So…"

And Golden Paladin made appear from one of his hooves a steel blade that he then took with his magic as a sword.

"Now, you can't escape my attacks" Golden Paladin concluded.

But at that moment, the General of Chaos simply went through the golden chain, releasing himself from it like it was nothing.

"But what the..." Golden Paladin started, not wanting to believe in what he just saw.

"I think you're going to have to work a little more, if you really want to defeat me" the General of Chaos said.

And he started moving quietly to Golden Paladin. He reacted by creating with his magic small steel spheres that he fired as projectiles, but it seemed that, when they approached the General of Chaos, they just disappeared. And, suddenly, he appear ahead of Golden Paladin and gave him a punch so hard threw him back a few hooves.

"Now, you just let me down, Golden Paladin" the General of Chaos said. "I expected a little more from you. But, you know, I'm not a bad guy and I'm going to give you what is yours."

And, having said this, he accessed his magic and the spheres that Golden Paladin had just fired reappeared and continued their trajectory, this time in the direction of the one who fired them. They hit Golden Paladin, who moaned in pain, while he was lying on the ground.

"I hope the next time we meet, you don’t disappoint me so much" the General of Chaos said to him.

After having said these words, he went back to the edge of Silver Mist and then disappeared with him.

After a few moments, Mirror Coat came through a mirror portal of his and saw Golden Paladin lying on the ground.

"Golden!" he exclaimed, approaching his fallen leader. "Don't worry, I'll take you to the infirmary of the Light Castle."

With some effort, Mirror Coat raised Golden Paladin up and created a mirror portal and passed through it with the wounded General.

In the infirmary, Twilight and Blue approached the bed where Golden Paladin was being handled by Leaf Mane.

"How are you, Golden?" Twilight asked.

"Don't worry, Princess, I'm fine" Golden Paladin said, a little weakly. "I'm a little sore, but I'm going to be fine."

"Fortunately we, Generals, are immortal" Leaf Mane said. "The injuries that he had could have been lethal for a normal pony. Also it is no wonder, since he got hit by his own attack."

"Please, Leaf Mane, don't make me feel more humiliated than I already am" Golden Paladin said.

"But what did really happen?" Blue Sword asked.

"All I know is that I felt a stir in Maretonia and I went to investigate, for the case it was an attempt of the villains to capture Seven-Tails, but I only arrived in time to see Golden Paladin lying on the ground" Mirror Coat told.

"The villain that I faced, the villain who captured Seven-Tails, is completely different from the villains we faced so far" Golden Paladin said.

"He must be, for leaving you in this state" Blue said.

"What do you mean by different?" Twilight asked.

"What I mean is that this villain was an alicorn and a General" Golden Paladin replied.

That revelation left everypony speechless.

"I know, I had the same reaction when he said who was" Golden Paladin said.

"This is bad" Mirror Coat said. "A General, no matter his or her alignment, is already quite powerful. But a General alicorn? It's too much."

"Maybe if we face him at the same time we can subdue him" Leaf Mane said.

"I think he's too smart to try to confront us all at the same time" Golden Paladin said. "But I was able to analyze a part of his capacities. Mirror Coat, I believe you can analyze the rest."

"I will do my best" he replied.

"And we need to be on high alert" Twilight said. "With the capture of Seven-Tails, there are only two Jinchuriki mission. The Lord of Chaos is increasingly close of Star."

"And let's make sure he doesn't come to him" Blue told her. "Don't worry, Twily. Everything is gonna be fine."

In the throne room of the Lord of chaos, he was sitting on his throne when the General of Chaos appeared at the bottom of the staircase with Silver Mist, still unconscious at his hooves.

"Master, as you requested, I brought you the Jinchuriki of Seven-Tails."

"Perfect" the Lord of Chaos said. "I knew you'd be able to do it. Was there any problem?"

"The General of Peace tried to intervene, but I dealt with him" the General of Chaos replied.

"Wait, are you telling me you defeated the leader of my brother’s Generals?" the Lord of Chaos asked, surprised. "Wow, this is too good to be true! It's like a dream come true."

"In the end, he was able to discover the secret of my attraction and repulsion spells" the General of Chaos said.

"It's okay, just this little dispute between you two only proves that I made the right decision to choose you to be my General" the Lord of Chaos said. "Now, we only have two Jinchuriki to capture and when I take control of their Tailed Beasts, the Pony Reality will be all mine!"

And he cackled devilishly.