Book 1 Chapter 3: Bonds Forged, Truths exposed
Arc 1: The values of Friends
Last time on our story we witnessed a fierce race between some of the fastest beings in the world racing to avoid or catch the other, although weakened Sazuka managed to avoid a fatal blow and simply crashed into the ground. With Scootaloo a bit confused as to where her teacher would be this day she wasn't going to question it, simply going to School as she did most days. Now the newest chapter of our adventure, begins now!
Don't stop, don't stop, we're in luck now!
Don't stop, there's so much to be found!
We can find paradise,
All we have to do is go, go free your soul!
Sazuka is seen flying high above with both Fluttershy and Scootaloo alongside ainbowdash, their auras exploding as they dash further along and higher above in the heavens.
Mysteries abound, made of a deep energy (energy)!
Foes all around, but I will go fearless and free!
I'll give you strength, you give me love, that's how we'll live! (mamoru yo)!
My courage won't fade, if you're with me, my enemies can never win!
We will fight for love and glory,
We will live to tell the story,
There is nothing we can't live through,
Nothing ever dies, we will rise again!
From the darkness rises a black energy, Sazuka battling some oddly shaped dragon-like foe with their fists clashing as behind we see Twilight unleashing a torrent of magic at the Changelings, Applejack bucking a few high into the air with rainbow crashing them into the ground below.
Don't stop, don't stop, we're in luck now!
Don't stop, keep your spirit proud!
And ride upon the wind,
All we have to do is go!
Don't stop, don't stop, we're in luck now!
Don't stop, there's so much to be found!
We can find paradise,
All we have to do is go, go free your soul,
Sazukas hair is lighten with a tinge of a odd golden color with her aura burst open and her eyes gone, before her is a strange bipedal being as the black magic swathed before them the two clashed and the energy erupted all around them.
DRAGON SOUL!
From the sky comes down Sazuka in her base form giving Scoots a hug with a peace sign as the mane six, the princess's, the students and many others all pose for a photo with a click sounding as the energy explodes around Sazuka into a golden color for a brief moment.
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Last time on Sullen warrior, we saw our hero ty to evade capture at the hands of a pegasus with the training of Scootaloo halted for the time being Our hero must rest although, unknown to them a friendly couple had noticed the fallen creature and aided them to the hospital. Now, the adventure continues!
The darkness around her filled with her a sense of relief, on one hand if she was dead least she would see her parents once more but this wasn't the reality she deserved, far from it.
With her eyes fluttering open she noticed a white blur, upon her eyes focusing came the bright colors shimmering from the light outside, wincing at the light she shook her head and sat up noticing some bandages around her hand, arm and even on her leg, from the bandages she could assume she was hurt but what had the idea of helping her out. In the room she could see bright white almost a searing color into her eyes with a light beeping in the background, she could only vaguely hear it as she tried to get up feeling her side singe with a shot of pain as she clutched it feeling her heart thump in her chest.
The pressure she felt build in her chest could only be pushed out with harsh exhales, trying to push aside her own weakness before a ringing in her ears sounded. In her blurry vision a white mare shined brightly, mouthing words she could barely hear herself and while tying to stand up two more arrived quickly putting the weakened warrior back onto the bed.
"Where....am I?" The woman could only mutter out, her vision all a messy blur as one of the ponies spoke something, writing it down before the nurse it seemed like mouthed something else before her ringing faded. Her hands rubbing her eyes attempting to clear the blur, her eyes teared up as she blinked it away before asking "Who...are you?" The mare only nodded at the question before speaking.
"I'm simply a nurse, Nurse Redheart ma'am. I apologize for the momentary ringing you've been resting for around 2 days now, we weren't sure how to help you so we did our best with pain reducing medicine and patching up cuts and wounds on your body. You're quite lucky the lady, you have several bones that looked to be cracked or even damaged in some areas although in such a short amount of time your body had miraculously repaired these damaged areas and then seemed to reinforce them." The nurse herself rather excited at the prospect of a healing patient, must come with the job Sazuka supposed. Her mother spoke high of those in the medical care industry.
"I do apologize for any issues I may have caused but I would like to be allowed to leave if its alright, my body can't sit still for very long, I must return to my home."
The nurse chuckled shaking her head "I am sorry but no, we aren't sure you're fully healed much less in working order. Your body may have healed well but we don't know if this is temporary but we can-" Her mind felt just as fuzzy as the words faded as she fell back to her slumber, her mind overcome with the drugs filtered into her system.
In her head all she could see was the black void of her sins, her hands covered in the blood of the innocents before her, Screams from the bowels of hell roaring at her with fury. The energy flowed around her wildly as a blackened aura shined and exploded around her body, her muscles growing larger and her shirt becoming more strained, her hair sticking up with her eyes glowing a golden-brown color. The ape had been unleashed as the heat covered her, she tried to reign it in, her own aura shinning through as her hair flowed back and forth with energy, her fist pounding into the ground below as a red aura collides within the set, flashing bright colors as her eyes narrowed with her mind trying to force the power under control.
"This power is mine and mine alone, I will not let you slaughter another family...I swear it!" She grit her teeth, the words laced with venom as the energy flowed around her body as her aura relaxed soon becoming a pure red as her eyes remained...focused. The Oozaru raged from within damming this child from the pits, the beasts fur stood up as it snarled in her direction.
The beast charged, first releasing a beam from its maw aimed at the girl as she vanished just narrowly avoiding it, the blast exploding a brilliant display of primal rage and color. "You claim my power as yours? what a pathetic display, removing your emotions in favor of pure instinct, can you even understand what I'm telling you child?" It snarled at her as the beast felt the singe of a blow on its hand, grinning from ear to ear it chomped down on the girls hand, the blood spilling as quickly as the bite hit, the girl feeling the intensity and the instincts rise from within, kicking the Oozaru's eye with enough force to shatter her own.
The beast screeched in agony as it charged in once more, though tearing the girls fist, this was all in the mind of a broken girl after all. One who would submit and become the soldier she was destined to be! The two beasts clashed, one filled with pure instinct the other a raging beast with no control. The roaring beast glowered down at her as her body shook, the power bestowed to her rejected by her will, in a snap the energy fluttered to a sputtering zero.
The beast snarled as it prepared a blast from its maw, tearing through its throat as the energy grew larger and larger while its jaw cracked from the pressure releasing a massive blast, the energy singed the area as it roared past her, her tail shaking in the brimming excitement building in her heart. The energy crackled around her body as she clenched her fists tightly. This instinct building in her, she never liked fighting others, not even those who deserved it. This was no different, even as she couldn't fight the urge to continue, she couldn't help but hate herself.
The beast snarled as the blast made contact in a puff of smoke the monster roared, beating its chest as the energy flowed around it. From the smolder rose her once more in this state of pure instinct. The roaring beast smoldered with a fire that formed into a blazing aura, a state of pure fighting bloodlust, the desire to battle, the desire to break them, break herself eve if it meant she could battle.
The beast snarled and prepared a second blast, only that blazing heat shined with her movements as the first contact was her fist on the leg snapping it, the monster howled in agony willing itself to continue as the second blow came, a pressurized tap on the arm, below the elbow just enough for it to be useless, although temporary. It could feel the blazing heat behind the next blow to the gut leaving it lurching and heaving saliva onto the ground awaiting her final blow, to its joy the woman hesitated her own will overriding this state.
"You claim to be stronger, wish that it were so simple to just get a power-up and overcome your troubles child, but you will never understand such gifts fitting for one who calls themselves a human."
Outside her own mind, the doctors noted her own vitals dropping then rising in rapid succession, this normally wasn't a sight to behold. This....thing, whatever it was looked like it was pain. Her body was healed at least in the doctor's mind, Doctor Hooves to be exact, a kind fellow who often was associated with his love of ponies and their science. The kind doctor wasn't one to discount that this thing, if it was an alien then their biology might not be responding well to the pain suppressant medicine.
She had been given enough to keep a griffon drugged up for a month and her body still rejected the medicine, like a wild beast in a cage. The room was on watch, two security guards on stand by given the special case of this patient and 2 rotating nurses, Nurse Redheart and Nurse Shy, hopefully this person's condition would improve but as it looked, the sweat and the intense heat from her body, that odd color surrounding her body and the pain rejection it appeared as if by all medical reasons that her body was too alien to be treated at least by normal standards.
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Far from the hospital was a confused and somewhat worried Scootaloo, she hadn't seen her teacher in a few days now and that got her worried. Sure they haven't known each other for long but to vanish just like that after a pinkie promise? it felt wrong. Though she could just be busy, still she worried for her teacher even if they weren't too close.
The young filly's thoughts were broken by her teacher calling her name, the filly looked to her bright teacher who smiled although she could see the annoyance in such a smile "Scootaloo, though the clouds are lovely today I would ask that you please pay attention alright? you may day-dream at lunch." The teacher sighed but tuned back to the lesson although the filly did pay attention it remained in the back of her head about her teacher.
As the time passed soon came time for lunch and heading out the filly found herself at the table with her friends still trying to think of what her teacher could be or more apparent where she was. Her thoughts were broken by the earth pony lightly patting her back "Oh sorry Applebloom just not feeling great I guess...Sorry if I'm not as hyper-active as normal."
"Oh that teacher? Ahm sure she's fine scoots, probably just sick is all!" The filly felt it weird for scoots to be this worried about someone she had only recently met but if this thing was truly the only one of its kind, on some level she could see why scoots worried for them.
"yea scoots besides, the way you manifested that uh Ki stuff, I'm sure your teachers ok!" Sweetie belle herself didn't know if they could truly keep it a secret but between these three they knew better than to break a promise.
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Back in the hospital the power raged from within, a snap and the nurse's rushed to the room as the woman's body shimmered in a bright aura as her eyes shot open a flaming heat steaming from her body as the energy coursed into her hand, the woman shakily got her legs up as she tried to shakily adjust her own weight trying even to stand up with the nurses shouting at her to get back in bed, her own hearing nothing more than a fuzzy haze.
The energy burning like the sun in her heart, thumping back and forth as she could feel her own body ripple with energy. The very essence of her body shinning, she had to get out, she felt too constricted! With the guards quickly aiming to get her on the bed although barely able to wrestle the woman onto the bed the issue was clear.
Though her fiery energy calmed down, Doctor whooves who himself was pre-occupied and later finding the guards out of breath and the two nurses although dazed not hurt, he didn't feel it right this person remained in their care. They had no real idea how to treat them and even if they could, He wasn't willing to risk it and so although against standard protocol had a letter sent to the canterlot courts who he hoped would reach the queen's and they could offer aid.
Sazuka could barely feel her own Ki much less the energy brimming off of her hand, her hand convulsed as the growth began. The slow ripples of the clothing as she mashed a fist into the stand shattering it upon impact, her eyes flashing a blood red as a snarl escaped her jaw. Her energy reigned itself as the aura glowed brightly to the nurse and doctor's shock as her hair fluttered up and down it what appeared to be a light show to observers.
The blazing aura shinning from her body terrified all but one, Nurse fluttershy despite the doctor's protests and yells she quietly went to the woman's aid and put a hoof to her body and softly spoke "I um....Don't meant to intrude ma'am but I hope you know, you're going to be ok. You will make it." The gentle voice, the soft touch and that calming voice although quiet in the raging ape's mind it felt soothing, akin to home, mother and father.
Her mind slowly winding down as her vitals soon taken after had been noted as having risen over previously low levels although nurse Fluttershy for the time being would be the main nurse for this patient although Whooves felt a bit silly having asked for the queen's aid, although it couldn't hurt to try.
Nurse shy in question herself squeemish, she wasn't sure why she did that but she couldn't help but want to help such a poor thing, it looked to be battling more than just medicine, probably from helping animals near the everfree. She has noticed some animals talking about some strange fire popping up in the woods.
From the left side of the bed the nurse felt her patient's odd hoof softly clench the bed, with a pant of effort the thing sat up and though she was unsure how to approach this thing, she knew right now she needed to be there. it looked lonely.
She wasn't sure if the patient could speak but gently spoke to her "I hope I'm not being too forward when I ask this but are you ok?" The patient looked to her own garb, noticing the lack of an outfit and from the shadow were two bright eyes almost a pure yellow color, like an animals.
"I......I just wanted to ask where my outfit was....Its rather important....." The meek response wasn't unexpected especially after an attack like the hours before but this was was most unexpected, a meek outside who seemed more gentle and more scared than anything.
"I'm terribly sorry, but it seems there was a mix-up with that particular area. A friend of mine, Miss Rarity, graciously offered to assist. She's quite renowned in the fashion world. I'm confident everything will be ok....If it's not too much trouble, could I ask about what you are?
"I guess....it reminds me of my mother and father, they've been....away for a time and I haven't seen home in quite a while now. it's one of the few things that ties me to that home....I apologize for the request but is there any chance I can get food soon? I'm not the most familiar with medicine, not even from my little home but I'm quite hungry..."
The mare gave a small smile and nodded, exiting and though not the most appealing when she returned she had a tray consisting of milk, crackers, orange juice, and a small piece of bread. The mare was rather shocked to see this person or female, as they were keenly aware of that when undressing her how she woofed down the food and smiled lightly.
From Sazuka's view she wasn't the most happy with this, she would've liked some rice and a big pound of meat but if anything they were ponies so meat probably wasn't the most widely eaten meal even by the most noble. Although still weak she did have some nice sleep even after her struggle, maybe that was the pain medication talking but it felt relaxing like the wilderness. Her tail waved in the wind as it coiled around her waist, the mare next to her smiling, it felt at peace even for this short while though the prospect of leaving still remained on her mind.
She had been practicing for these two weeks she's been to this world by now but she couldn't feel their energy much less Scootaloos something just needed to click right? What could be the missing piece be, she tried to hone her own sense pressing her ki into her senses and trying to amplify them for a short duration but no such luck. She did feel stronger but there wasn't the time to worry on that, if anything she needed to figure out how to sense these people, even if it was magic the ability to perceive them was key.
Though she was sure she looked weird to be just thinking to herself like this, but it couldn't be helped. Her rampant Ki was also a issue, no matter her training so far she didn't seem to aid in controlling this rage if there was a more docile method of improving this she was more than happy but currently that option seemed useless. If she had the proper output of Ki and the proper enviornment it was possible but she wasn't sure if it would work. Keeping her hands still and her heartbeat slowing as the vitals dropped the nurse alerted the doctor to the problem who rushed in although to their surprise she seemed fine.
In Sazuka's mind she was trying to channel that energy, it was risky but if she could just learn how to focus it, wield it more like a tool than a weapon. To Doc whooves, he wasn't sure how to act instead just asking they monitor and alert him if anything negative occurs. Asking that Nurse fluttershy remain here for the time being, apologizing even for her being put onto another shift.
The mare only gave a small smile and shook her head "Sir you know when you hired me, I don't mind helping others especially one who's in the situation she's in, if anything I'm just glad to be here." The stallion chuckled at those words and nodded before levitating his board and paper onto his hoove
"Now I must preface this nurse, you understand that as a newly discovered creature it is our job to help them, not to exploit nor to make them feel uncomfortable even to the queens...I just hope that we both agree on this." The stallion's normally kind face vanished in a moment, a stern and cold doctor taking his place. Although the nurse remained steadfast only giggling at the idea.
"I know doctor, I took that oath and many others when I began this job, I won't let our patient down much less you." The mare smiled to which the stallion did in return.
For the next few hours the nurse remained near the patient, close to ensure their vitals were stable while the patient laid in their bed, quiet yet fine all the same and to the mare that's what mattered right now. For all seemed right in this world at the moment, in the shadows brewed an ancient power long cast aside by the royal queens which once was thought erased. Until now.
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Deep in the forest a brimming light shined into the air as a power of both pure flame and one of pure black sparkled into the earth below. Formed of a shadow and the very sun she once ruled laid a Alicorn filly. Although weak the filly could barely sustain this form, it was much to weak and could not handle her full strength.
The creature felt a surge of pure energy as its aura exploded for a brief moment before lapsing, nearby was a small camp although the filly could barely sustain her own body she required sustanence and this would do, even if she needed to steal.
The filly was of an average stature and beholden to her mish-mash of features was a cloudy-fiery mane with a galaxy-like pattern filling her very mane. The rest of the body was almost invisible although it was covered in a broken and regal ancient armor befitting one of ruling status, the strength needed to lift such things was virtually never heard of.
The filly could barely hear the words of her mind pushing her forward, revenge, power, reclaiming, thy birthright. These words formed into her mind although had little meaning as the filly crashed into the bed of the camp and took the residence as her own, in time she would regain her might, she must.
Book 1: Chapter 3 Part 1: End