Swift felt his heart race as he watched the red eyes of the dark pony stare directly at him. The odd color and design was something that he had never seen in his entire life. He could feel his body slightly tremble at the freakish sight, "What are you?"
Kisame just continued to grin at the frightened Ponies that surrounded them, "You have never seen a sharingan I presume."
Itachi's face did not move a single muscle as he glanced between the three guards before him. He Took a few steps forward before stopping to look at the frightened faces of Applejack and her friends, "Do you fear my true eyes?"
Applejack just backed away, pulling Applebloom into an embrace. Rarity put a hoof over her forehead before falling backwards and fainting. Fluttershy continued to tremble behind all of the others. Spikes eyes were so wide that they seemed to distort the shape of his face. The other Apple members just stared in disbelief to what they saw.
Applejack's eyes then shifted from fear to determination, "Look, ah don't know what y'all want, but don't you even think about hurtin mah family."
Itachi looked back and forth between the young farmer and her trembling sibling, "You fear that I will bring harm to your sibling and would sacrifice anything to protect them, correct?"
Applejack was caught off guard by the question, "Ye-yeah, yeah I would."
Itachi sat silent for a moment, "You show bravery, but you are of no concern to us in the first place."
Through the now crowded street, Blitz and Blaze pushed their way into the center behind their leader. Before they asked what was happening, their eyes locked on to the two ponies in the cloaks. blitz Stared at the two, searching over every detail that he saw, but stopped at the odd looking eyes of the one, "What is with his eyes?"
Swift quickly looked over to his allies before turning back, "I... I don't know."He had no idea what kind of pony had eyes that changed in any way unless they were powerful unicorns or the princesses themselves through immense magical surges. However, he would not allow this odd anomaly to keep him from doing his duty. Shaking his head clear, he glared at the two strangers, "Who are you? What is your purpose here?"
Itachi closed his eyes, slowly turning his head back towards the guards, "I will not waste my time in attempting to explain to you who we are or where we came from, but I will ask you to tell us the location of something we desire."
"And what would that be?"
Itachi's eyes opened up, his sharingan gazing at the Pegasus, "Where is the creature that you call Discord located?"
Gasps escaped the ponies in the street that heard the name of the spirit mentioned. Many residents of the town still remember the chaos that he brought upon their community the last time he was released upon the world. Rainbow dash couldn't hold her mouth closed from the shock of the freaky looking gaze of the pony, and having to remember All of the things she experienced at the claws of the spirit of chaos. "what do they want with him?"
Barren stepped forward, "Why do you want to know where he is?"
"If you tell us the location, I will leave this village peacefully." Itachi replied.
"And if we refuse?"
Itachi sat quietly for a moment before speaking up again, "It appears you already made up your minds."
Kisame put his hoof over the yellow hilt of the sword and pulled down, causing the large weapon to fall forward and land on the ground, "Well Itachi, it looks like our intel mission will have to be cut short. Can I at least have some fun here before we head back?"
Itachi looked at the five guards, his eyes registering the weaponry of the soldiers; swords were placed on the sides of each guard. His sharingan then glanced up to the horn of the one yellow guard, sensing the flow of energy flowing inside of it. 'this must be those horses Zetsu said can perform their own form of jutsu.' he thought to himself.
seeing that they shouldn't be a problem, Itachi stepped back, leaving Kisame before the others. The large blue stallion laughed at the five before him, "Alright now! Who wants to go first?"
Swift took a step back, signaling the others to do the same; he did not want to get into a fight with these odd ponies without knowing who they were. Something about them gave off the feeling that they were more than just a normal pony. Looking around, he saw his other guards backing up, except for one.
Blitz knew that charging head on into a fight without knowing the strength of his opponent was always the worst thing to ever do in combat; then again, he was never the one to ever follow what was the right thing to do. Reaching down with his mouth, he clutched the sword he had with his teeth and pulled it out of the sheath. Looking back up, he unfolded his wings and took off towards his larger foe.
"Blitz, no!" Blaze yelled out, but it was too late. His friend was already flying at the strangers.
Kisame grinned, "You’re a brave one, aren't you? This is going to be enjoyable." opening his mouth, he gripped the handle of his blade in his own teeth. Swinging his head forward, the enormous sword whipped around straight at the smaller Pegasus.
Blitz turned to block the incoming swing, but the moment the sword connected with his own, his eyes went wide when he felt himself get launched to the right into the side of a nearby house.
Storm gasped in shock at what he saw; the large pony didn't even seem like he tried to swing that hard, and yet Blitz was tossed like a rag doll. He looked around to see many ponies in the streets running away out of panic of not wanting to get caught up in the fight.
Blaze growled in anger at seeing his friend tossed to the side. He rushed forward next, charging up his horn. After a moment, a bright beam of yellow energy shot out of the tip, rushing forward through the air. Kisame jumped to the side to dodge the attack, but was cut off when Blaze maneuvered to cut him off.
Using his magic, be enshrouded his sword with it, lifting it out of his sheath into the air. Kisame stared curiously at the feat, wondering if this power of theirs worked like chakra back in his world. Thinking this made him chuckle through the sword he had clutched.
Barren charged forward beside Blaze, both of them eyeing down their opponent. From the side of the street, Blitz shook Himself from the previous impact before hopping up from the rubble and joining by Blaze. He stretched out his leg to loosen up the stiffness, "I gotta say, I did not expect him to be so strong. Felt like I was thrown by a manticore right there."
Barren shot an angry look over to the Pegasus, "You're going to end up dead if you do another stupid charge like that. We have to work together."
Blitz just rolled his eyes at the pony, but did accept the advice, "Got it."
Swift turned to Spitfire, who sat opened mouth from shock to what she was seeing, "Spitfire, go right now to Canterlot."
Snapping out of her trance, she flipped her gaze over to the guard, "Wait, why?"
"You need to warn The princess that we have found the strange ponies that she was asking for. Tell her that she needs to prepare the guards for anything. And also tell her to place security around the statue of Discord."
Nodding in agreement, she turned and took off into the sky back towards the great city, leaving the town of Ponyville. Rainbow felt that Spitfire should not go alone, not to mention she did not want to deal with another freak pony. So she decided to follow suit and flew after the wonderbolt captain.
All at once, Barren, Blitz and Blaze all charged at Kisame. Barren and Blitz were the first to attack, both of them swinging their blades in rapid succession, but to their surprise, the large stallion was just as fast as them; he easily swung the giant sword like it was nothing, blocking each of their swipes. Blaze came in next, his magic enshrouded blade swinging faster than the others.
Kisame had to now struggle to keep the three away; while he was fast and the sheer size of his blade provided good protection, a three on one fight was still tough.
Blitz came in again, his sword striking the side of the giant wrapped weapon. Then, the strangest thing happened; he magic holding the sword up disappeared around it, making the blade fall to the ground. He sat dumbfounded at what just occurred, "What the... Where did my aura around it go?" the other two jumped back as well, unsure what was happening.
Kisame suddenly started laughing out loud again. He could sense the energy around the horses sword had been absorbed into his Samehada. That's when it hit him; the energy used by these creatures was equivalent to chakra for the sword. He then noticed that the other two guards from behind were behind the first three now. Grinning, he put his sword over his back, then stood up on his hind legs and put his front hooves together.
The guards all cast glances at each other, unsure what was happening. Before they could say anything, Kisame slammed his right hoof onto the ground, and out of nowhere water began spreading out from where he touched, "Water style: shark bomb!"
Storm's eyes went wide when out of the puddle ruptured a giant blast of water in the shape of a shark, "What is this magic!?"
"This can't be magic, they're not unicorns!" Swift yelled out.
All five guards jumped out of the way before the large water blast hit them. Landing back on the ground, they all stared in awe to what they were fighting; this pony had somehow used magic without having a horn of his own.
Swift began thinking inside of his head to what he had heard from before, 'Rainbow said she was attacked by a pegasus that sent out clay that blew up. Now we are fighting a pony that can create and shoot water from thin air. I see why the princess wanted us to look for these ponies.' His gaze then turned to the dark pony with the red eyes, "I can't even imagine what powers he may have.'
Kisame smiled up to the startled guards, "You are pretty quick for weaklings."
Blitz glared at the water shooting pony, "I'll show you who is weak!" gripping his sword again, he flew forward. Kisame grinned and clutched his sword with both hooves. Swinging laterally, the sword went straight for Blitz's head, forcing him to duck down, causing his helmet to fall off. Swinging up, his short sword slashed the side of Kisame's face, cutting off the metal forehead protector.
Kisame winced from the sharp pain, then tried to bring his sword back down. Blitz dropped his sword and rushed forward into His opponent’s stomach, knocking his grip loose over the Samehada. Before Kisame could react again, Blitz jumped up and grabbed his head and brought down his own so the two collided.
Kisame's eyes went wide from the headbutt. He stumbled backwards several steps, feeling blood dripping down from the fresh gash on the top of his head. He growled when he saw the Pegasus standing there, seemingly unfazed from the hit, "Why aren't you bleeding?"
Blitz turned his neck, giving off a refreshing pop. He then cast a grin towards the blue pony, "Just a very thick skull if you must know." he turned to have a quick glance at the helmet cutie mark he possessed.
Kisame snarled at the cocky pony, "You will pay for that." reaching back down, he wrapped his front hooves around his sword and lifted it up.
Blaze smiled at seeing his friend successfully hurt the large pony, “You see? We can beat him!”
After watching Kisame let his guard down, Itachi decided he had stood around long enough. Walking forward, he caused all of the other guards to suddenly tense up, seeing that they would have to fight the other member.
Deciding to take action, Swift looked at the others, “Alright now; Blitz, Blaze and Barren, you take on this large one. Storm, we will handle the other.”
Barren seem to shake at the order, "But sir, we shouldn't separate."
"We don't have a choice. Now come on, we can do this!"
Nodding in agreement, the group separated into their units. Swift stopped several yards away from Itachi, making sure he had a small window of time to react if this pony also had the ability to shoot some form of attack. Before he could say anything, Itachi began to speak up, “I will give you one more chance; tell me the location of Discord, or you will suffer pain beyond death itself.”
The cold tone in his voice sent a chill down the guards backs; if he was bluffing about what he was threatening, they could not sense it. Storm could feel his legs slightly shake at the words that echoed inside of his head, ‘What if he is stronger than the other one? We won’t stand a chance.’
Swift just kept his stare locked with Itachi’s, his eyes never moving once, “Never.”
“Hmm, I must say, you do believe in what you are doing is right. However...” he paused to slip his left hoof inside of his robe, “now I will force you to tell me where the creature is.”
Faster than either of the two could see, his hoof whipped out of his cloak, throwing several kunai blades in their direction. Reacting in the last second, they each jumped away from each other, taking to the air. To the right, Swift lifted to thirty feet in the air. Itachi put his hooves together, "Fire style: Fireball jutsu!"
Swift panicked as he saw a massive fireball erupt from where Itachi was, 'Fire? So this is his power.' banking hard to the left, he narrowly missed the incoming blast, feeling the heat of it as it passed. Panting a sigh of relief, he looked back down to see the dark pony staring straight at him, not moving an inch.
Flying to the left, Storm dropped down to a few feet off the ground and went straight for Itachi, to his surprise, didn’t move, ‘What’s he doing? Is he not going to dodge?’
Itachi just watched for a moment as the pegasus flew towards him. Reaching in once again, he took another kunai and threw it into the ground ten feet in front of the incoming pony. Just as he suspected, the flying pony did not see the burning tag attached to the back of the blade as he passed over it.
BOOM!
The sudden explosion made Swift stop mid flight and look that direction. What he saw made his heart fall into his stomach; dropping out of the smoke cloud was Storm, his body nearly completely scorched and his left wing partially blown off. His head hung slumped onto the ground, not moving in any slight way.
Swift felt something boil deep inside of his chest. He stared at the bloody body of his good friend and comrade sprawled across the street. "You... I'll kill you!"
Shooting forward, he swung his sword wildly at Itachi, his slashes moving in wide arcs. Ducking and weaving underneath the swings, Itachi pulled out a Kunai and slipped it into his mouth. He moved his mouth back and forth, the dark blade blocking many of the incoming swings.
Driven by rage, Swift kept coming at him, throwing his entire weight into every swing he had. In an instant, he dropped down, kicking at one of his opponents knees and causing him to stumble backward. Seeing his chance, he swung upward, connecting with the Kunai and knocking it out of Itachi's mouth into the air. "Die!" Swift screamed despite having a sword in his mouth. Lunging forward, he felt the end of the blade sink into Itachi's chest.
Letting go of his weapon, he stepped back to see the sword plunged deep into his adversary. Swift began smiling at his victory, "Now you will be one to suffer at my-"
Itachi did not show any form of pain on his face as he stared ahead, then body suddenly started breaking apart. The black pieces then solidified into multiple crows that flew off into the air. Swift's heart was beating a mile a minute inside of him, "Wha- what's going on?"
You are trapped inside of my genjutsu." a voice said from behind.
Slowly turning around, Swift met the gaze of Itachi not three feet from him. He wanted to run back, but it felt as if his body was locked in place. His muscles weren't responding to what he wanted to do, "What are you doing to me!?"
"I am inside of your mind; no matter what you do, you cannot escape. I warned you what would happen if you did not give me my answer. Now I shall obtain it beyond simply fighting you."
"How- how did you do this?"
"The moment you looked into my eyes, your fate had been sealed. Now, experience pain beyond anything you can possibly imagine." Itachi's eyes opened up wider. Then, the three Tomui pattern expanded throughout the center of the eye, forming a solid, windmill style pattern.
"Behold the power of the Mangekyou Sharingan."
Swift felt an odd rush come over his body as he stared into the eyes, as if he was being pulled by some unknown force. He then felt his mind slip into darkness.