//------------------------------// // Chapter 10:Enlightenment // Story: War in Equestria: Eclipse and Dawn // by Akasuna no Sasori //------------------------------// Chapter 10: Enlightenment After the battle was over, Deidara picked me and the other Akatsuki members up and flew us back to the shack. While we were flying, a startling thought entered my mind: where was Obito? “Hey, where’s Obito?” I asked. “He’s taking care of Princess Celestia.” Replied Kakuzu. “Why is he fighting her before killing the other one?” I said. “What other one? We’ve killed all the other leaders.” Said Sasori. “Not the purple one...” Everyone’s eyes grew big. “We did forget to kill her!” Said Kisame. “This isn’t good. If we fail to kill all of the ponies’ leaders, they might revolt.” Said Itachi. “We have to ignore Obito’s orders! We need to kill her!” I said. “If we don’t listen to him, he will kill all of us.” Said Nagato. “If we don’t kill her, he’ll still be angry with us. If we kill her, then he may show leniency.” I said. “He’s right. It's our only choice.” Said Kakuzu “Well, then we better head back to where we last saw her.” Said Deidara. “She was in that field where I found Hotaka at...” At the mention of Hotaka’s name, I looked away and closed my eyes. “Leave him be. He still hasn’t fully gotten over it, yet.” Said Itachi. Everyone stopped talking for the rest of the trip until we landed at the field. “This is where I last saw the purple Princess.” “Well, she’s not here not and I doubt there are any clue to her whereabouts.” Said Kakuzu. “We can’t find her this way. We need to draw her out, somehow.” Said Itachi. “Well, we could always kill another one of her friends, which seems to be every one of the ponies here.” Said Hidan. “Did Hidan actually just say something intelligent?” Asked Deidara. “Hey! Shut the fuck up! I can come up with good ideas every now and then, too!” “Enough! Let’s find one of her friends that Kisame and Itachi didn’t kill, and use her to bring the purple Princess to us.” Said Pain. “We don’t know where any of them are. We should just return to the shack, and wait for Obito. If we aren’t there when he gets back, he’ll be even angrier.” Said Sasori. “I agree, let’s go back.” Said Kisame. “Very well, let’s just hope for all our sakes’ that this isn’t a wrong decision.” Said Pain. - - - - - “You’re my executioner? I don’t think you have the heart to defeat me!” Said Celestia. “How does heart have anything to do with it? I have the skill to kill you!” Said Obito. “Skill isn’t all it takes to defeat your opponent!” “You’re right, a skilled fighter needs to match brain with his brawn, and I am such a fighter!” Obito put his hooves on the ground creating a seal. “Summoning Jutsu!” A large rock golem began to rise from the ground in front of Obito. Its’ body was a reddish color with spiky rocks jutting out of its’ shoulders and collarbone. Its’ eyes were covered by a white cloth. “This one is different from the others that were summoned.” “This is the Gedo Statue, and only two people I know of can summon it. One of them, obviously, is me.” “He shouldn’t be difficult to overcome!” Celestia charged her horn, and shot out five energy bolts in quick succession. The statue blocked the first four with its’ arm, but the fifth one evaded and hit the statue’s cheek. Even so, it wasn’t shaken up in the least. “I should’ve expected as much. You ponies have powers not even have I can comprehend.” The statue’s arm swung outward at Celestia, but she easily flew out of the way. “This monstrosity is too slow to fight me! Why don’t you fight me yourself?” “Good point. I hadn’t calculated the Gedo Statue being too slow to engage you. “ Obito called back the Gedo Statue, and Celestia flew back down to face him. “You would’ve preferred to fight the Statue, believe me. I will be a far more challenging opponent.” Obito removed the white guitar-like object from his back and planted it at his side. “Now, burn!” Obito waved the object at Celestia, creating “gusts” of fire that raced towards the Princess. ‘A fire fan?’ She thought as she flew into the air, dodging the fire. “You can’t win by dodging everything!” Two more gusts were shot into the air at the Princess, who dodged them again. “I said,” Obito’s fan began to glow blue with chakra, “STOP DODGING!” A giant wave of fire exploded from the fan into the sky. Celestia tried to make a shield to block the attack, but was enveloped by the flame. When the wave of fire subsided, Obito saw Celestia still standing! “How?! There’s no way you could’ve survived that without taking severe injur-” He stopped himself when he saw the Princess’ wings. They were burnt black and most of the feathers had been incinerated. “Without flight, you won't’ be able to dodge any more of my attacks. It’s over, Princess!” Obito sent another gust of fire at the Princess. But he forgot that the Princess still had her magic, and she created a small shield to block the attack. “Well, it’s been proven already that you can’t block my earlier attack, so let’s just try that one again!” Obito whipped up another giant wave of fire and fanned it toward the Princess. Celestia knew she couldn’t block it, so she sat down waiting for it-the end. ‘I never thought I would die like this. No pony has ever been strong enough to kill a pony Princess, and yet these ponies have killed many. My sister is dead, Cadence is dead, and I’m about to die. This means he was right. Warriors do need strength to defeat their enemies; and I just wasn’t strong enough for him.’ The fire wave moved even closer towards her. ‘I wonder what happened to Twilight? Did she ever find the Elements? I don’t know if it matters now. I doubt they will be able to defeat these ponies.’ The fire wave was inches from Celestia. ‘I hope Twilight is OK. If at least one Princess is alive, Equestria has a futu-’ The wave collided with Celestia. Obito watched intently as the fire burned brightly, then faded away revealing what happened to the Princess. She was dead, her body burnt to almost nothing. Obito walked, laughing, towards the Princess’ body, and knelt down beside her. “After everything that happened, you still didn’t surrender. I don’t understand it.” Obito noticed the Princess’ crown was still as shiny as it was before he killed her. “That’s interesting. How is this crown not destroyed?” He picked it up and looked it all over. While he was, a bolt of purple energy hit him in the side; knocking him off balance. “YOU MONSTER! How dare you kill her, and then loot her body for her crown!” Obito stood back up, laughing. “It’s you. The purple Princess.” “My name is Twilight!” “Your name is no concern of mine. My comrades and I can recognize you as “the purple Princess” just as well.” “You’ll pay for this!” “No I won’t, and you know it. You know that if I can kill your superior, that I can brush you away without much effort.” “Tha- that’s not true!” “Don’t believe me? Then let me show you.” Obito used the Kamui and teleported behind Twilight. “Boo.” Twilight couldn’t react quick enough as he plunged a kunai deep into her neck. “AAAAHHH!” She screamed, as she fell onto the ground beside her mentor. “See? Without much effort, at all.” “With my death, the succession of alicorns will end! You’ve just ended a race! How can you live with yourself?!” “How can you still talk so clearly with a kunai in your neck?” Twilight’s adrenaline stopped flowing and she began to succumb to the pain in her neck. “As for your other question, I don’t care, really. We’ll be leaving your world soon, anyway.” “Yo- you can’t.” “What do you mean?” “Do- don’t you thi- think we would’ve disc- discovered a way to ge- get to ot- other worlds by now?” “You’re lying.” “I’m dy- dying. I have no reas- reason to lie.” Obito’s rage began to boil inside him. “We will find a way! We will not live in this pathetic land forever!” Obito unleashed his rage on the defenseless Princess and incinerated her just like his first victim. Obito looked at both of his victims, then used the Kamui to leave the Dragon Dominion, and return to the Rising Dawn HQ. He reappeared in front of the shack. He heard voices inside, so he walked in to see the other members of Akatsuki. “I assume the invasion of Canterlot went smoothly?” All of the Akatsuki stopped talking and faced Obito. “It did. All of the enemy leaders have been neutralized except the purple Princess.” Said Itachi. “No, she’s dead. She tracked me down while I was fighting with Celestia and I killed her.” “This is good news. Does that mean we won the war?” Said Kakuzu. Obito shook his head. “Not yet. The dragons are burning down Ponyville right now. Once they finish with that, then all pony settlements will be gone, and then we will have won in Equestria.” “What do you mean, ‘in Equestria’?” Asked Hidan. “The enemy leaders had soldiers that weren’t from around here. The minotaur must be from elsewhere along with the buffalo.” “No, the buffalo live in a small tribe in the desert south of here.” I said. “Well, then the dragons will go there next. But overall, we have won this war. It won’t be long before all the other nations surrender to us.” “So what do we do now?” I asked. Obito turned away from us. “Now, we say farewell to our allies. They are going to be rewarded with Equestria. It will be split among them.” “So we aren’t staying here?” Asked Deidara. “No, but I still haven’t found a way to get back. So that is a priority for us.” Obito walked out the door, and the rest of us were left alone. I say that, because I felt alone. This war had gone against all of my beliefs as a person, and as a member of the Akatsuki. I was stressed, and I needed some air. “I’m going to get some fresh air. I’ll be back.” I said. The others didn’t respond, and I walked outside the shack to the dock. I let my legs dangle in the water as I thought about what happened. I never understood why Obito had done what he had done, but one thing was certain. If we ever got back to Konoha, I was going to leave the Akatsuki. I needed to atone for what I had done here by doing some good. I sat for hours, and soon the sun began to set over the water. “How beautiful.” “Not as beautiful as revenge! This is for the Princess!” - - - - - ‘The scene was hard to describe. To this day, I still can’t understand the brutality behind the attack. I don’t even know who killed him. All I know is that peace finally reached that troubled boy. It was what he needed.’ “Nagato! It’s time to seal the Six-Tails!” Said Obito. Nagato turned his head. “I’ll be out there momentarily.” Obito left, and Nagato turned to the book he had been writing in. “Rokuro, I hope your story makes an impact on people. What you dealt with, is unbearable.” Nagato laid down his pen, and closed the book. The book had a single phrase etched into the top: ‘Rokuro’s Journal’. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Just in case some people didn't understand, I got a few messages about this and I wanted to clear it up. Basically, this whole story was being read by Nagato. Rokuro had written down what happened to him, and Nagato filled in the parts where he was, and everyone else was. In other words, the whole story (even the 5th Great Ninja/Pony War) was just read from a journal! Talk about a twisted ending, huh? Somehow, they found a way back to Konoha, but I felt that wasn't important to the story, so use your imagination and figure out how they did it. This is the end of the story of Rokuro. I hope everyone enjoyed reading it. This is the ending song for this chapter, and, the whole saga.