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// For the Will of Jashin 
// Story: Akatsuki in Equestria 
// by chaos2012 
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"Hurry, get him on the train!" Blitz yelled out from the front of the traveling group.

Following closely behind the Pegasus was Barren. He steadily trotted towards Ponyville station carrying the unconscious Swift on his back. Right behind him was Blaze, who was using his magic to lift the damaged Storm through the air. Bringing up the rear of the group was Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Spike.

Blaze frowned as he turned to see the group of mares and young dragon following him and the other guards. Spinning his head around, he gave them a stern look, "You shouldn't be coming with us. We have important business to deal with, and we can't have anypony interfering."

Rarity huffed at the statement, "Well now, good sir. That is quite rude of you to attempt to brush off a lady like that."

“I am just trying to point out that we have a serious situation on our hooves and we should not have you girls tagging along."

"Hold on there partner..." Applejack shouted out, "We girls are the Elements of Harmony. We done saved Equestria twice already, and our other friends are in Canterlot. So we are goin'!"

"Blaze, come on. They do have a point. They should be coming with us." Barren said from in front.

Blaze frowned at first, but grumbled an agreement. After narrowly escaping more fighting with those two ponies from earlier, he was relieved that they made it out with such little injury compared to what they might have received, although the same could not have been said for Swift and Storm. While they were in very bad shape, they were both alive.

Despite knowing they would, mostly, recover, a feeling of fear lingered in Blazes chest; he had never even heard of an earth pony that was capable of performing any form of magic, yet these two were performing feats that rivaled or surpassed the power of any unicorn he had ever seen before. Not only that, they were creating attacks from their hooves and mouth, something that was completely unheard of.

What scared him the most was that dark pony of the two they came across. Those burning red eyes seemed to stare straight through his own soul. Whatever that pony did to Swift, it was some form of power that he had never seen before. It gave him chills just thinking what else that pony might have done if the battle had continued longer than it had.

Coming up to the train station, Blitz ran ahead through the crowd of ponies lining the entrance to the ticket booth. trotting up to the front of the train, he knocked on the door to the engine. The door opened up to a tan earth pony in blue overalls, "What do ya want?" he said in an annoyed tone.

"I need this train to be ready to leave in three minutes for Canterlot." Blitz ordered.

The conductor glared down at him, "This train isn't scheduled to leave for another twenty minutes. We have to allow the passengers to board."

"This is an emergency. Do it! By order of the Royal Guard."

The conductor was not happy with the order, but he knew better than to disagree with the guards. Whistling out, he waved his hoof to the assistant at the caboose to signal him to prepare to leave.

Blitz nodded in approval and went back to open the door to the car behind for his approaching company. All of them filed into the large cart one after another, except for Blitz and Blaze. Barren turned around and gave them a questioning look, "We have to go. What are you waiting for?"

Blaze levitated Storm over to one of the couches inside of the train and gently placed him down. "You take all of them to Canterlot and warn the princess. Blitz and I have to go and inform Shining on what has happened."

Spike stood up and walked towards the guards, "I actually already told the princess what happened."

The three conscious guards simultaneously turned to him, "How?"

Spike grinned at their reactions, "I sent a letter to her right before I left Ponyville. I can use my fire to magically send her messages."

Blaze smiled, "Alright then. Swift had already sent Spitfire to her, so Princess Celestia will have a good idea on what is going on. Now, we have to get going." walking to the open door, he signaled his friend he was ready.

Blitz nodded and flapped his wings to pick himself off the ground. Floating over Blaze, he placed his hooves under his partners forelegs and picked him up. After a second, he banked upwards and flew up into the sky back towards his captain. Barren watched as the two left before returning inside of the cart, “Alright, we have to notify every guard in the city what is happening.

“Speaking of telling ponies...” Pinkie Pie interrupted, “Why didn’t any pony tell me there were two new ponies in town? i didn’t get to meet them!”

Fluttershy shook in her seat, “Um, I don’t think you would want to meet these ponies.” she whispered.

“Not want to meet them!? I wasn’t able to throw them a party!”

All the other ponies facehoofed at Pinkie’s reasoning as the train began to move.

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Shining Armor stared curiously at the white pony as it sat there with the strange necklace in its hoof. He had no idea what it was doing sitting there so casually in the presence of royal guards. Turning to Rain, he signaled him to be prepared for anything that might happen.

Kakazu sat there staring at his partner. He hated that Hidan always took his time when doing this prayers before going forward into battle. Being one of no religion, he didn't understand the point of worshiping something that he could not ever see. He always sought after things that meant value to him and actually had a physical meaning to it.

After a moment, Hidan reopened his eyes and smiled at the group of ponies in front of him. He looked over each one for a moment, wondering what kind of a challenge they would bring him. As he down and picked up his scythe, he grinned, "Alright now, which of you would like to serve as a sacrifice to Jashin first?"

Many of the guards gave strange looks at each other as if hoping someone among them knew what he meant, but all they knew for sure was that it was a threat. Two brown earth pony guards, Rock Kicker and Spear Tip, clutched their swords between their teeth and slid them out of their sheaths. The others followed suit after, except Neon, who surrounded his blade with a magical aura.

Shining Armor did not carry a sword with him. Instead, his horn began to glow, bringing a small cloud of maroon magic into being in front of him. After a moment, the cloud shifted into a short curved sword. His conjuring technique was one that he had learned recently, and he preferred to use his own magic over steel any day. "Drop the weapon or we will force you to." the captain growled.

Hidan chuckled at seeing them prepare for battle. He took several steps forward before stopping, "Hey, let me start out at first Kakazu. I want to see if they are any good."

Kakazu rolled his eyes at his request, "You are going to get your head chopped off again, and I'm not going to sew it back on this time."

Hidan flipped around and beamed at his partner, "I fucking told you to not bring that up again!" his blood was boiling as he remembered fighting that group of shinobi from the hidden leaf; being held immobile by that young student of that one jonin with those Chakra blades. despite being victorious in the end, he turned forward again to focus mind away from those images and back on his new targets.

Shining Armor was confused at what the two ponies were talking about. ‘Head chopped off? What does he mean?' he thought to himself. Before he could contemplate further his thoughts were suddenly disrupted by the red scythe rushing through the air at him. "Everypony scatter!" he yelled out.

The group of guards all jumped to the side as the large weapon crashed into the dirt where they were. Hidan quickly grabbed the steel cable that was attached to it's hilt and whipped upwards, tearing the three blades out of the ground and pulling it back to him. Catching the handle in his mouth, he charged forward and went straight for Rain and Spear Tip. Swinging his head side to side, he slashed at them at speeds that seemed impossible for a weapon of that size.

Spear and Rain were both having trouble just to stay up. Their swords were blocking the incoming swipes, but the force they were getting hit with was nearly knocking them out every time. Hidan was laughing through his blocked mouth as he was fighting. He loved to see the fear on his opponents face as he came for them. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Neon charging at him. Grinning, he jumped up twenty feet into the air above the group.

Neon froze as he saw the pony in front of him launch into the air. "What is this guy?" he said to himself. No normal pony could ever jump that high.

In the air, Hidan released the scythe from his mouth and clutched it between his hooves. Bringing it over his head, he dropped down to the ground, "Woooo!" he screamed out in excitement. Neon barely jumped out of the way in time to dodge the strike as it crashed into the ground. Still holding on the hilt, Hidan flipped over the top of it and gave a powerful kick right to he unicorns face.

"Gah!" Neon yelled out from the pain as he fell backwards. Looking back up, he saw Hidan charging right at him. Trying to get up, he charged his horn and shot out a yellow Beam of magic.

Hidan quickly jumped over to the side to avoid the attack. Landing back down, he threw his scythe right at the frightened unicorn. He grinned as he saw the pony too scared to move, "Nice knowing you!"

A glowing sword came out of nowhere and hit the incoming scythe out of the way. Hidan looked to the side to see Shining Armor rushing forward and Swing his conjured sword at him. The captain's eyes were filled with anger at the strange pony before him. Not often did he want to take a life, but at this moment, he felt it was necessary to do it to protect his comrades.

Hidan sneered at the incoming pony. Ducking and weaving, he evaded the swipes of the captain before bringing his right hoof back and striking the captain square in the jaw. Shining stumbled backwards several steps from the hard hit, causing his sword to dissipate from his distraction from the spell.

Hidan laughed at seeing the sword disappear "You aren't so tough for a captain. Your shitty little team of yours will never stop-"

The feeling of steel entering his side cut the Jashin worshiper off. Looking down to his side, he saw Rain clutching the end of the sword that stuck out of his side. Shining Armor stood up and stared at the pony in front of him, his gaze filled with anger, "I told you to drop your weapon. Instead you tried to kill my comrades, so you will suffer the consequences."

Hidan sat quietly for a moment before grinning at the captain, "This isn't that bad of a punishment."

Shining Armor's eyes went wide at the response of the pony. Rain did the same thing as he stepped back away from Hidan, who acted as if noting happened to him. Shining stared at the sword that stuck out of the pony. "What in Equestria is he?" he shakingly asked.

“I don't know. I stabbed him directly through his heart. There should be no way that he should be alive." Rain responded.

Hidan bent his head down and bit down on the hilt of the sword and pulled. The blade made a sickening wet slurp as it was pulled out of his body. Grinning, he tossed the bloody blade on the ground by his feet and chuckled, "That hurt, you know. I think that you should try and experience this pain with me."

Kakazu sat silent as he watched his partner enjoy the terror that he caused in the other ponies. While he wasn't one to look for fun during combat, it did bring him amusement to see others become terrified from learning Hidan's ability. "Hm Hm, if they are afraid of his power..." he chuckled to himself, "they won't be able to even fathom mine." Not wanting to sit out anymore, he began to walk towards the ponies.

Hidan saw his partner coming over, causing his face to scrunch up, "Kakazu! I told you to stay out of this! I want these bastards to suffer my way!"

"Why should I have to sit out the entire time while you are the one doing the killing..." Kakazu snapped, "Like you said, this will be a good chance to test our powers."

"Hmph! Fine..." Hidan frowned. He turned back to the guards that still stood there shocked, "that flying blue one is mine though. I want him to die first."

Rain felt fear grip him once again as Hidan bit down on his scythe and charged forward. Not having a sword this time, he flew up into the air to try to get away from the seemingly demonic pony. Hidan laughed as he jumped over the group of startled ponies after his target. 

Shining was shocked at how fast Hidan could move, but he quickly shook off his trance and looked over to the other two white Pegasus guards, "Cloud Top, Cross Bow, go aid Rain now!"
The two Pegasus nodded and quickly flew after the crazed pony. Cloud dove over and picked up Rain's sword before joining his partner. Neon began to run after them before he was stopped by Shining, "You stay here." the captain ordered.

Neon was confused by Shining's action, "Rain needs our help. That pony is not normal!"

"We have another problem to deal with." shining stated as he watched the approaching masked stallion, "There is something extremely weird about this one."

The final unicorn of the battalion, Lightning Flash, a teal colored Pony with a black mane and tail, turned to the captain, "What do you mean, sir?"

"There is something about him that is making me feel strange." Shining answered.

"Those solid green eyes of his would make any pony's skin crawl." Neon replied.

Shining felt creeped out by the strange ponies looks as well, but it wasn't that which made him cautious, "No, it's not that. I can't put my hoof on it, but I have a feeling this pony is much stronger than the other one."

Meanwhile, Rain flew past a large tree and lifted himself forty feet into the air. He knew that pony couldn't follow him this high off the ground. Smiling, he turned around, "Your freaky jump trick won't reach me from here." Hidan continued to run after him, then suddenly turned and ran straight at the tree, "What is he doing?" Rain said to himself. What he saw next made his heart skip a beat.

Jumping forward, Hidan landed on the dark trunk of the tree, and was standing on the side of it! He ran up the side, reaching nearly equal elevation to his target and then kicked off hard and seemingly flew through the air with his scythe clutched in his hooves, "Now die!" 

Cross Bow flew up at the last moment and collided into the side of Hidan, causing both of them to tumble to the ground. Rain was so shocked that he didn't notice Cloud Top until he was bumped in the side, "Huh, what?" 

Cloud extended out his hoof, holding Rains sword in it, "You dropped this back there."

Rain grinned and took the sword with his own hooves. Both him and Cloud dropped down to the ground and landed by Cross Bow, who had already untangled himself from Hidan. Trotting by his ally , Rain smiled, "Thanks Cross, you saved me while I was dozing."

Cross chuckled, "Don't worry. Just hit me up with a drink later and we'll call it even."

Hidan glared at the ponies. He wanted to do his ritual soon, for he was never one who wanted to disappoint his god. He raised his scythe over his shoulder, "I will kill all of you eventually, but I am going to make sure I take you first!" he snapped as he pointed a hoof at Rain, "You caused me pain, and you did not experience it with me! I will make you go out painfully when I offer you." 

Before any of the Pegasi could respond, Hidan rushed forward again and brought his scythe down over them. Jumping sideways, Cross Bow tried to slice up, only to be met with Hidan's back led coming from the side and bucking hard into his helmet. His head spun from the hard impact and the rattling of the metal against skull.

Cloud tried the same technique, except he was stopped by the steel cable that shot out from Hidan's sleeve. The windy cable wrapped around  his sword and pulled backwards, ripping his blade out of his grasp. He then felt the hard hoof of Hidan coming up and give a strong uppercut to his chin. Cloud felt his teeth crack together as his head whipped backwards from the strong punch.

"Rah!" Rain grunted as he charged Hidan with his sword. The akatsuki member grinned as he pulled his scythe out of the ground and swung it around towards the incoming pony. Rain clashed his sword against his opponents blade multiple times, creating bright sparks with each hit. After the sixth hit, he was able to slip his sword in between two of the long blades of the scythe, locking it in place. Twisting sideways, he pried the weapon out of his enemy's grasp and threw both weapons to the side.

Rain saw his opening an charged, "Try and fight me without a weap-"

Hidan flipped his right foreleg forward, revealing a short, black spike he had hidden inside of his sleeve. Whipping it out, it suddenly extended out to triple its origional length before he swing it forward to slash his opponents throat.

Rain instinctively raised his own foreleg out of self defense, getting in the way of the incoming spike. "Ahh!" he screamed out as the sharp tip cut deep into his flesh. To his surprise, another strike did not come after, but instead Hidan jumped back away. Confused, Rain turned to see his comrades recovering from their hits, "You two alright?"

Cloud put a hoof to his jaw as he shifted it several times to try to loosen the pain, "I'm alright. Caught me pretty good with that hit of his. How is your leg?”

Rain glanced down to the gash, “It’s not too bad. I can manage.”

All three Pegasi turned to look at Hidan. He was just sitting there, grinning at them while holding the spike in his hoof. Ever so slowly, he brought the tip up to his mouth, allowing his tongue to lick off the blood.