//------------------------------// // Peach 3 // Story: PEACH! // by ChromeRegios //------------------------------// Ichigo dodged the manticore which barely hit him on the chest in retaliation. He then taunted the beast in an attempt to provoke it to attack. “Over here, ugly!” Ichigo shouted while pointing at his chest. The Manticore grows even more enraged before charging at him while it gained speed. Ichigo released out a smirk and disappeared in front of the Manticore. Confused as to where the strange creature had gone, the manticore looked everywhere to find its prey when, all of a sudden, Ichigo popped right on top of it. He sliced it in haft which spurted blood all over him. Twilight and Applejack both looked at him stunned and amazed at the same time. Just before Ichigo walks away and barely took a step...the ground begins to shake. Ichigo looked behind only to see an infuriated gigantic bear with stars all over its blue fur to resemble the starry night sky. The last Getsuga Tenshou he released had slammed into its cave which woke it up. Because of the rude wakeup call, it’s not in a very good mood... “Great this just keeps better and better...” Ichigo groans as he goes to fight another fearsome monster. Ichigo attacked it with Zangetsu only to be tossed to the ground by a swipe of the gigantic bear. This got Ichigo frustrated and stood up quickly as he was thrown down. He raised Zangetsu and charged his Spiritual Energy into it... “GETSUGA TENSHOU!!!” The bright crescent energy slices through the bear, but only damaged it slightly. The bear became more furious and stomped down near Ichigo. He dodged the earth-shaking slam inches to his previous position. “Ichigo!!” Twilight yelled, getting his attention. “What?! Kind of busy here!!” Ichigo shot back; he was already annoyed by this monster and now he was to deal with this purple pony? “It’s an Ursa Major!”Twilight informed him. “You can’t beat it, even with your giant sword!” The Ursa was so irritated and angered that it went ballistic. Its color turned from blue to dark red, its claws grew twice as large and its fangs grew as well... It let out a horrifying roar, sending fear to Twilight and Applejack. Ichigo just smirked. “Is that all?” he said out loud. He then points it at the creature and gets his spiritual energy at maximum... “BANKAI!” The atmosphere became heavy as his spiritual pressure overwhelmed Twilight and the Ursa alike. Since Twilight has magical abilities, she can fully feel Ichigo’s pressure. The moment he releases his full power and transformed to his Bankai state, Zangetsu became smaller and his clothes changed. “Tensa Zangetsu!” The pressure made the Ursa tremble but not enough to run away and let what happened to its cave slide. It still wanted to get revenge. “What are you doing?! You made your sword shorter! You can’t possibly beat it no-” Before Twilight can finish her sentence, Ichigo disappeared in a flash. Twilight only saw his flash before looking back at the Ursa who suffered slashes all over its body. Then he did the impossible in front of Twilight and Applejack. Ichigo lets out another Getsuga Tenshou that was twice as large as before. It sliced through the bear, decapitating it and severing all its body parts. Twilight couldn’t believe it. Ichigo just did the impossible for all ponies to do. It took ten unicorns, earth ponies and pegasi to bring down one Ursa Minor let alone an Ursa major, and Ichigo had just destroyed one in a single slash of his large sword or at least...that’s what Twilight thought, Twilight was amazed...yet scared at him at the same time... Ichigo walks out of the carnage as his clothes reverted to the uniform Twilight saw him wearing earlier. “Did I scare you?” Ichigo asked the two mares looking at him and nods, still frightened. “What did you just do?” Twilight said, looking at the corpses of the two beasts. “I killed them; do you prefer they killed you both?” Ichigo asked, in a sarcastic tone. Twilight just nodded, not arguing over the concept. “You two looked like a messed up meat bag” he commented as he picked them both up. “H-hey! Let us go!” Applejack yelled as she cringes through her wound, not knowing that she has one at first. “Don’t struggle or I WILL leave you here!” Ichigo just can’t stand it when he helps someone and give a fuss about it. Applejack just went silent and lets him carry her. Twilight went silent as well and looked at Applejack, giving her a signal to play along. Later that day... Ichigo brought them from a small hospital on the town... All the ponies are gawking at Ichigo as he went for the entrance of the hospital... This got him even more irritated. “GET A PICTURE!! IT’LL LAST LONGER!!!” Ichigo shouted, making the other ponies back up. “Hmp! Thought so...” Ichigo ignored the staring candy-colored ponies and went to a pony wearing a nurse’s uniform. “Yo! You’re the nurse here?” Ichigo asked. “Y-yes... I’m Nurse Redheart” she said as she slightly trembled in response to his Spiritual Pressure. Ichigo noticed her reaction so he hid his power and lowered the gravitational pull of his pressure which made every pony feeling easy. Ichigo left the two on the nurse’s care. Twilight looked over to him as she smiled in gratitude. Ichigo just shunned this and went outside. All the ponies are still gawking at him, but in a calmer state now.. He sat on a bench and looked at the sky as he reminisced what happened earlier. Just as he was about to fall asleep, he heard a gasp behind him. Ichigo opened his eyes and looked back. There staring back at him was a pony, only smaller and has a red bow on top of its red mane. They both looked at each other for a bit before Ichigo broke the silence. “What do you want short stuff?” he asked the staring filly. The only response he got was a loud scream, followed by bouncing and words that kept on and on... Despite of Ichigo being faster than anyone could blink, he couldn't even understand what this filly is saying. After a bombardment of words, the filly ran away. Confused and twitching in irritation, Ichigo stood up and walked out to town, following a road. As he was walking through, the road split into two before him. One path leads to a forest while the other leads to a vast line of apple orchards. He scratched his head and just went straight towards the forest. As he was nearing the forest, he came across a cottage.Not too small.. but not too big as well... Ichigo rose a brow, a bit curious who lives in there. At the corner of his eye, he saw a fence and in that fence is a chicken coop, big enough to space some chickens in there. “Ah, finally, a decent person to talk to!” Ichigo said with a smile on his face. He knew for certain that he can talk to a fellow human now. He walked to the front door/ with Zangetsu at his back and knocked at the door. No answer. He knocks again with the same result. Ichigo looked through the windows and tried to see if anybody was in the house, but all he could see are bird houses and small animals running about the house... Ichigo gave a very funny face to see these things running around the house all willy-nilly. “Is this guy... an animal lover or something?” Ichigo asked himself as he facepalmed at the strange sight.. “If this is a zoo, I definitely don’t wanna go inside this place.” He walked towards the front porch and looked around and spots multiple animals lingering all over the house’s surroundings. Squirrels, rabbits, birds... you name it; it’s there. “Okay, it’s official. It’s a freaking zoo!!” Ichigo proclaimed as he walked back to the town. Just when he was about to leave the property, he heard a very defining roar echoed to the forest, followed by the flutter of birds in the tree line. Feeling that something was amidst, he turned back and ran back through the forest. As he was making his way through, he caught a glimpse of a snake hissing. He tracked where the noise came and went to that direction, as he went to the clearing he saw a giant snake-like creature with almost five to six heads that cornered a yellow pony with wings. Ichigo felt a sudden burden over his spine... “Do I need to save EVERY one of these things I see in trouble?” he asked himself but he still charged in to save the winged pony. “HEY CREEP!!” Ichigo shouted at the multiple-headed snake. The creature turns to glare at him and lets out a hissing roar. “I didn’t even know snakes could hiss and roar at the same time!” he taunted the monster. It took its attention away to the yellow pony to focus on him. Ichigo gripped Zangetsu and flew upward. The monster attacks by extending its neck trying to land a hit to Ichigo. However, because of his comparatively smaller size and sheer speed, Ichigo was too fast for the monster to keep up. Ichigo dived down and cut off one of the snake’s heads. It released out a pained wail that echoed throughout the land. Ichigo landed just beyond the wailing beast. Just when he was about to do the Getsuga Tenshou, the yellow pony shielded herself against Ichigo to protect the beast as it stared at him for quite a while. Ichigo don’t know what going on with this one but the monster was beginning to recover and was just about to attack. Ichigo wasted no time and sped to the creature. He performed the Getsuga Tenshou which instantly killed it. “Look kid, if you protected that jerk longer, it could have killed you.” Ichigo placed Zangetsu back behind him. The young mare was already tearing up. “Look, worry about yourself. Don’t mind what I did. If I didn’t kill it, would you rather die instead of that thing?” Ichigo asked, in a calm orderly fashion. It seemed the yellow pony understood him as she wiped her tears away. “It’s rude for me not to say my name, right?” Ichigo asked. The pony just nodded “My name is Ichigo, Ichigo Kurosaki.” “I’m Fluttershy...” replied the yellow pony. Meanwhile, somewhere deep in the Everfree forest, another dark portal appeared. Animals crept together to see what was happening. Before they realized it, tendrils started to snatch and drag them one by one through the hole. The soft whimpers of the animals in pain could be heard before they succumbed to the dark void…