//------------------------------// // Arc 1 Chapter 2: Introductions // Story: Ring eyed Shinobi // by Seeker Of Knowledge //------------------------------// “I know I’m just supposed to carry him but after seeing that he isn’t actually a pony, I’m just too excited with the new research opportunities.” Twilight thought. “Twi you ain’t gettin any funny ideas are ya?” Applejack asked scaring her out of her stupor “Oh! Uh...nope, no ideas here Applejack.” She smiled trying to hide her lie “Of course ya got em, I think I can carry ‘im back. Doesn’t look to be too heavy, maybe ya can go help Wall with that weapon.” She said leaving no room for argument Twilight sighed knowing she wouldn’t get to conduct any field research, but remembered that the opportunity will be back while walking over to Wall where he was eyeing that strange club. She heard him muttering to himself “I just don’t get it, how can he call this a sword?” he asked himself. “It doesn’t look like any sword I’ve ever seen.” Twilight added before beginning to analyze it with her magic. “It seems that underneath the wrappings are...” She stopped once she noticed her magic was being drained quickly and this caused her to fall on her flank “Miss Twilight!” Wall rushed to her. “Are you ok?” “I’m fine, it just felt like my magic was being drained faster by the second.” She said still feeling lightheaded “So I guess we have to carry it by hand, well if he could do it so easily then I shouldn’t struggle too much.” Wall said before picking the weapon up by the handle “I take that back some, it almost feels like I’m carrying another stallion. We might have to figure out a diff- AGH!” Twilight heard him get cut off and came in worry and looked at his hands “Are those cuts on your palm?!” She asked in total shock wondering how that happened when Twilight noticed the handle of the sword had spikes on it “That bucking sword just sliced my hand!” He nearly screamed in frustration, the others rushed over to see what happened “What happened to the Captain?” Pinkie questioned, her mane slightly straightening “I-I don’t know. He tried picking the weapon up and complained about the weight then it just a spike went through his hand.” Twilight said as she healed his wounds “Who said that?” Fluttershy asked causing the rest of the group to look around not seeing anything that could speak “Fluttershy, nopony else is around. And we didn’t hear anything.” Twilight said getting concerned with her friend’s mental health A rustling noise catches the group’s attention as they look down at the mysterious boy’s weapon and see it shifting “It just said ‘you aren’t my master’” Fluttershy squeaked out before hiding behind Pinkie Pie “Ok that thing can move and can talk?!” Rainbow said with a panicked expression before backing away The sword grew a spike from under a wrap and vaulted towards Applejack “Applejack look out!” Everyone yelled as she jumped to the side and dodged the weapon “That was too close fer me. Good thing ah didn’t drop ‘im.” Applejack said in relief “Wait, if the weapon just said something about a master then...” She said before yelling; “APPLEJACK! Put the colt down!” “Are ya sure that’s such a good idea?” Applejack nearly deadpanned while saying that “Yes, the sword just wants to go back to him.” She said as she slowly began to put him on the sand below them. Almost immediately the sword bounded at him again and landed next to his arm “I heard it again, it said ‘Wake up’” Twilight heard Fluttershy whisper as I saw something She’d ask about as soon as the opportunity arose. The handle of the sword wrapped around the boy’s forearm and slowly transferred a bit of some energy to him. =================================== Zeko’s head was ringing as he woke up trying to remember how he blacked out. “Ok so I remember meeting some people and they told me something that I couldn’t handle... but what was it?” “You figured out you’re in a different world silly!” An energetic voice said, breaking his personal silence “Wait who said that?” He asked as his vision came back revealing an excessively hyper Pinkie Pie.”I did!” The she said before getting pulled back by Applejack “So is everyone here a different color?” Zeko pondered remembering that all of the guards were male and white in color “Now Pinkie don’t get too close to ‘im, he might try and hurt ya.” She said with a strange accent I decide to play a trick and put myself about 20 feet behind them and leave a sand clone in my place “I don’t think he’s so tough, I could mop the floor with him any day.” The blue one with rainbow hair said before getting ready to push my clone back down “Is having that hair possible in any world?” Rainbow Dash prodded the boy but her typical cocky expression was changed by one of pure shock as he and his blade turned to sand “I-I di-didn’t think he w-was so out of it.” She said fighting back the urge to break down entirely as her friends stared in horror “Is he d-d-dead?” Twilight asked as Rarity and some of the guards fainted from shock “It looks like he’s passed to me.” Zeko said from behind Twilight who turned and screamed along with everyone else. After that they stood defensively. “Hold on a second, let’s try this again ok?” Zeko said trying to calm them down before he lost any means to figure out his situation “Now that wasn’t very kind of ya.” Applejack retorted “How’d you do that?” Rainbow asked happy that she didn’t kill a child “Let’s get names out of the way first. I’m Zeko Kusanabe, I already know Fortified Wall so what are your names ladies?” He asked with a calm demeanor as to not seem flirtatious “You’ve got some nerve talking to us as if you desire a mate!” Rarity nearly yelled. “Rarity calm down, he’s just a colt he doesn’t mean it that way.” Twilight said trying to calm her now irate friend “Rarity I assure you that while you are an attractive female, I am not flirting with you.” She blushed at hearing this. Pinkie Pie decided to jump in at this point; “Well my name’s Pinkamena Diane Pie but you can call me Pinkie Pie and these are my friends Rarity, Twilight, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack!” She pointed to each mare in order “Well I guess it’s nice to meet you all, now I know there are questions and I’ll answer 3 on the way.” “On the way to what?” Twilight asked taken aback by this sudden cooperation “Your princess, she believes meeting me is important so lead the way.” Zeko responded with a nod in the direction they came from This was a surprise to everyone since they had heard him decline before but he had changed his mind so quickly. =================================== “So how did you get here?” Twilight asked holding a quill and a notebook jittering from anticipation. “Well it started with my friend sending me to his pocket reality.” Zeko stated but looked around and saw the looks he was receiving.”I should explain, you see my friend has something called the Sharingan in his left eye which basically grants a person who has it amazing power depending on the variant.” “So that means th-“ she was cut off by Zeko,”No you couldn’t have one, you have to have the blood of the person who first created it.” He said causing Twilight to droop her ears “His Sharingan gives him the ability to send things or people to his Kamui dimension, which he did to me.” “How did you escape?” She asked because his description made it seem that nothing could leave the realm “I had to overcharge my Rinnegan.” Zeko said almost bored, which caused Twilight to show a confused expression so he decided to demonstrate. “Ok look at my right eye.” Twilight complied as Zeko closed his eyes but when he opened them the right one resembled water with black ripples. “How did you do that?” She asked nearly speechless. “Like I said, the blood of the creator. But that can’t be my only question. Who’s next?” Zeko asked the group “What can that eye thing do?” Rainbow asked. “Well as a whole it can give godly power to someone who masters it.” Everyone stopped at this and stared at him. “Well I’m not even close to mastering it.” Everyone but him sighed in relief. “There’s 6 different paths to master and I’m not even at 1 yet so don’t worry about me overthrowing your nation.” He started throwing a hand up for emphasis “What kinda magical powers does it give ya?” Applejack asked skeptical of the information. A noise came from a bush causing everyone to focus on it. “So there’s 7 weird wolves in there.” Zeko said “Oh no, Timber wolves!” Applejack said as the wooden wolves left the overgrowth. And creeped towards the group. “Elements stay back we’ll handle this.” Fortified Wall announced as his soldiers moved forward but were stopped by an outstretched hand. “I can handle this.” Zeko said as he walked towards the wolves. “I hope you aren’t looking to be eaten.” Wall said in mild surprise that a child would stand against a pack of timber wolves. “I figured it was time I got to cut loose some.” He responded before turning back to the wolves. “So lets see how tough a wood wolf is.” The shinobi thought as he reached for Samehada... =======