A Lampent's Lament in Equestria

by Iridescence T Wind

Rainbows and Wolves

Twilight had seen the rainbow maned pony collide into her new lamp friend with an expression of mixed shock and horror. Watching the Lamp hit the wall with a sickening crunch and stay there completely knocked out from the roughly hundred miles an hour impact from behind. She turned an furious glare onto the Pegasus pony she knew as Rainbow Dash, who from impact was half buried face first in a cloud. Twilight shouted, "RAINBOW!" sending a signal into her horn to gather energies required to drag the rainbow maned Pegasus cloud and all down.

"Woah!" Rainbow Dash struggled and pulled herself out from the cloud which promptly disintergrated by itself, "Somepony catch a number on that carriage?"

Twilight glared at her friend, "That wasn't a carriage you hit. That was Ponyvilles newest resident and now look at him!" She gestured with a hoof at the knocked out Lampent known as Soul Light.

Rainbow raised an eyebrow staring between Twilight and the Lampent, "A Lamp Twi? Are you sure you’re okay? How is a Lamp 'Ponyvilles newest resident'. Very funny Twilight."

"First of all, he is not a Lamp, but a Lampent! Secondly he was conscious and moving until SOMEPONY," she glared at Rainbow Dash, who in turn folded her wings and looked slightly off to the side sheepishly, "Knocked him out with that crash! I am starting to think you like crashing into ponies and birds and other creatures!"

"Well throw some water on him an-" Rainbow dash began, but was cut off as Soul's subconscious registered it and his eyes shot back into their rounded shapes as he launched up into the air leaving a small streak of fire behind him eliciting a pair of startled exclamations of the word 'whoa'.

Twilight stared at the steam of fire that had come out of Soul as he rocketed up into the sky, she could hear him shouting quite loudly, "AHHHH WATER EVIL!" Rainbow Dash realizing her own jaw had dropped open shut it with a hoof before turning to Twilight and stating in disbelief, "What the hay was that?"

Twilight shook her head and looked at rainbow, "That was Soul Light, the Lampent. I also think you scared him away."

Twilight and Rainbow Dash watched the trail of fire arc off into the distance. Twilight's eyes widened as she realized something, "Uh...Rainbow?"

"Ya Twilight?"

"Isn't he flying towards the Everfree Forest?"

"Uh...I don't know. But if he can use fire, don't think we need to worry about him as much as him burning it down. I think Fluttershys bear friend would be upset with that."

"What? Why him of all of her creatures?"

"Don't you ever read magazines? Smokey, the bear?"

"Uh...No? Magazines aren't books. They are gossip and badly written news reports..."

"Geese Twilight, you need to spend less time with books and read up."

Twilight stared at Rainbow, "Since when did you read something other than Daring Do?"

Rainbow stared back and deadpanned, "Wonder Bolt issues, Duh. I love the pictures and posters they put in the magazines."

Twilight deadpanned as well her tone practically dripping with the tone of 'I should of guessed’, “Of course. Wonder Bolts how silly. Now if you excuse me I have a letter to send to Princess Celestia. And you have an apology to give to Soul Light." Twilight trotted off leaving Rainbow Dash to eventually fly back on her merry way home after the typical dash response of, "I'll do it later" to nopony in particular.

Soul first became aware of his subconscious reaction to the word water as he was rocketing down towards the forest. As his mind caught up with his body he slowed down the fire trail behind him extinguishing as he stopped using a Fire Charge. As he came down he slowed himself coming to a gentle halt inches away from the ground. He blinked; rather glad he had not made yet more damage to the environment. Scanning around him he could see that he was already halfway between Ponyville and the bridge he had first woken up by. Well he was heading off towards the bridge anyway; might as well keep going to it.

Soul Light started off at a brisk pace towards the bridge. The task before him was not one that would take a lot of concentration and he found himself pondering the events that had happened today. Positives... Soul began, Inhabitants friendly, no slave culture of Pokemon known, potential....friends? He paused over the word, considering it,No, Acquaintances, reserving personal judgment for later date. The darker side of his mind pointed out the negatives much to his own displeasure,Not many Pokemon here, Inhabitants are capable of extraordinary feats including magic and flight.He was completely unaware of the three pairs of glowing eyes watching him and slowly surrounding him.

Soon he arrived to the simple stone bridge that crossed the still pitifully small stream and sighed, breaking out of his thoughts and floating up to rest on the top of the bridges half wall that prevented ponies from falling off the edge. He pondered if he should make a form of bed, and if so where. On the bridge would be no good for ponies or animals would easily see him there. Under it wouldn't work, for if there was a storm he would be flooded out. He pondered about making a bed next to the bridge instead when his train of thoughts were interrupted by a smell worse than a Muk, "Oh Palkia forbids what is that smell!" he exclaimed aloud, it was bad enough that he could see it too! Following the direction he could see it coming from he found himself staring into a pair of glowing eyes. He heard a pair of growls around him and he looked to and fro seeing another pair of eyes on his left and right. They slinked towards him in predator growls of a hunting beast revealing their forms.

The beings surrounding him were all made of wood that had no source of connection points or similarity. Each was a assortment of different types of wood piled up and floating to resemble that of a wolf. Vaguely he remembered what one of the books he had read called them Timber Wolves, while not the strongest or fiercest creature in the Everfree forest, they were the most infamous of it. The leader of the trio of Timber Wolves was closer to a house in size, how he had missed something that large following him was beyond him. Either it had waited here for him or that these wolves were a lot sneakier than the book had let on. He braced himself for combat entering a defensive pose with his metal arms.

The first wolf, the alpha raised and smashed a claw downward towards Soul. Soul flew backward putting all three wolves in front of him, his speed surprising the wolves. The alpha was unphased and used his attack as an opportunity to start moving forward and paused as Soul's eyes glimmered with a mischievous side of him breaking through with the starting of combat, "Flame Charge."

Instantly Soul was cloaked in flames and began charging forward towards the trio of wolves. The smaller wolves had a look of shock at the sudden appearance of their mortal enemy of fire was introduced into the combat. Both still had a look of shock as Soul plowed through their leader leaving a gapping hole on fire in the biggest ones chest. Soul twisted around in the air starting flame charge again and blasting back into the Alpha Timber wolfs head as it began to turn around still not dead despite the giant hole in its torso. If it wasn't dead before, it was certainly dead now.

As the Alpha began to collapse its remains catching on the hungry fires of Soul Light's the two smaller wolves began to run until an invisible force knocked them back into the zone of battle. Their shadows were preventing them from leaving, as if caught by an rope to stay in radius of the now Battle crazed Lampent. Soul raised his arms and began forming a large black ball in between them before sending them out in a scattering shotgun effect speaking rather excitedly, "Dark Pulse."

The wolves tried their best to dodge the scattering of dark fragments but only one survived the barrage presented to them. The other was completely shattered into a small assortment of wood that began to piece itself back together before being burnt to a crisp by a pillar of fire from the terrifying Lamp before it. It had its back turned, and it was floating down low enough to be struck at. The remaining wolf lunged slashing rapidly with its clawed frontal paws in a fury of swipes... That phased right through the Lampent as if it was not there. This is just not fair! The wolf growled as the Lampent turned to face him, It's lust for battle that the alpha had started was ending after killing the other two wolves. The Timber wolf was very afraid. What had started as a hunt of a seemingly insignificant creature had turned out worse than if they had tried to challenge a dragon. Less than ten seconds had gone by and now the situation they had so cleverly thought of had been reversed. The Timber wolf was at the mercy of this strange being, and it didn't look like much of a future was ahead of it.

The Lampent shook its frame from side to side clearing the blood colored haze that had clouded his vision as he fought; he stared upon the remaining wolf. He let go of his shadow tag and floated away, still facing the wolf, back to the bridge and sat on it. He almost laughed at the look of disbelief on the remaining wolf's face and stated in the universal language of those who couldn't speak the civil tongue but rather one word, "Lamp." [Go now, and you may live, do no harm to equestrian citizens or I will find you and personally end you and send you off for judgment to the underworld.]

The wolf whined in response, [What about Meat birds?]

"Lampen?" [What? you mean the normal birds? Don't want to know about that. But try not to harm those either. While souls like those are gathered automatically I tend to dislike seeing bones everywhere.]

The dog barked looking slightly cheered up, [Will do. What about my pack?]

The disgruntled Lampent rolled his eyes conveying with body language, [What about them? I sent their souls off to my lord for judgment during that fight.]

The Timber wolf looked at him quizzically as if he was stupid or something before making a formal growl, [You beat pack leader and his mate, by pack law that makes you pack leader.]

Soul Light took on an expression between shock and disbelief, "Pant." [You can’t be serious, Me a Leader to a Grass type dog? I am not even of the same body type let alone elements.]

The timber wolf shook its head, [I am serious, you’re a pack leader of well... Me now...]

Soul sighed, [Let me guess, you won't go away either?]

The Timber Wolf let out a toothy smile, [Yup.]

[Fine then, tell me do you have a name?], Soul asked feeling curious of whom his new companion was called.

[A name? What is a name?]

This was going to be a long night...

Twilight sparkle read over her third letter that evening again; she had checked it for spelling errors, after the first one had turned out a mess. She had also checked it for ink stains since that was the fate of her second letter when she prematurely rolled it up then unrolled it to sign it finding out that the ink was not dry yet. In the candle light it read.

Dear Princess Celestia,

This is both a friendship report and an letter of request. Today I have discovered that the strangest creatures can still be friends if they want to be, even if they are not a pony or griffon. This is also why I have decided to ask you about the creature I am intending to make friends with. It is called a Lampent but it won't say where it is from though. He says he is something called a pokemon, or creature with extraordinary power. While that type of creature is not exactly uncommon bearing with Timber Wolves, Ursa Minors, dragons and etc. I want to ask you if there is a book on these creatures and if so why haven't I found any in the library here or ever heard of such a creature before now?

I will be sending my compiled notes with this letter in chance something similar shows up. In the mean time I have checked the map and I have not found the place it said it had originated in. "Kanto Region."

I hope to learn more and will inquire more with this entertainingly shy creature in hopes to learn more.

-Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle.

P.S. How is my big brother Shining armor doing in the guard? Mind sending my B.B.B.F.F. a hello if you’re not busy?

Satisfied Twilight stapled her notes to the scroll and had spike send it off to her mentor before heading to bed herself. Hopefully there will be more answers in the morning to the dozens of questions that were running through her head. Research would have to wait for once, since her subject was in an unknown location at the moment. Time to get some sleep; sleep sounded nice…