//------------------------------// // Mission 1: Duel of the Ursa // Story: Devil hunter among Ponies // by Dusk Stalker //------------------------------// Authors notice: Still under construction, still working on it as fast as I can, don't worry I am not giving up on the old readers, to the new readers enjoy. :) Ponyville. The joyous town of Ponyville was in an exciting mood, as are its usual days. Pegasi flying everywhere were either moving the clouds, hanging out with other ponies on the ground, or in the case of one ditzy-eyed pegasus dealing with the daily mail duty that was required. Unicorns and Earth Ponies were at stalls or lounging around enjoying the day that Celestia gave them, they took it in like one takes in knowledge. But that train of thought was interrupted by a certain yellow pony running down a street at top speed and screaming at the top of her lungs. "What the hay did I bump into?" All she wanted was a day with her friends, a day to hopefully earn her cutie mark. But this was just enough to put the little filly into a fright. The little yellow pony thought to herself, as other ponies in the vicinity were worried, some were too busy to even recognize that the little yellow earth pony was scared witless like she just came face to face with a dragon. She could only run as the options were laid out in front of her. Her big sister, Applejack, was on her mind, but she would rather attack then try to find out what it was capable of so the most logical and safest option for her was Twilight Sparkle, she could have something that may know what this creature was and what it was capable of. Sure, she loved her big sister, but she would rather be safe than sorry when seeing what this creature could do. "I sure hope Twilight is home." The little yellow pony thought as she took the next left, praying that she would have the answers to what she just bumped into. On the border of Whitetail and Everfree Dante was walking, taking in the sights of the forest, of all the things he saw in his job this took the cake by a landslide. The demon hunter could only look around the forest, hearing birds chirp happily and squirrels running around gathering nuts and the aura the forest gave was calm and peaceful. For all Dante knew this was one crazy dream or it was hell, for all he cared, he thought it was both. The half-human could only look suspiciously at the surroundings and only one thing entered his mind, which was pretty much his number one goal that he was focused on, he needed to get out of here, he didn't care how, he just had to. Suddenly, as he could look, the scenery with every step changed from a colorful and peaceful forest, to dark and twisted clearing, eerie and malevolent in its scene. Dante sighed rubbing the side of his temples, "In every movie or story, the only way out is through the most dangerous and ancient way in any place.” He shrugged his shoulders, “Seems legit and pretty fun to me." As Dante ventured on deeper into the forest, he came upon a large clearing, black twisted as the rest of the forest with some green adorning the trees, an idea popped in his head to many, this was the most crazy idea ever, to him, but it was at least something. That and he needed something to curb his boredom. “Hey! If any creatures or demons are here." He pounded his chest, grinning in anticipation as his voice rose up to a yell, ”I'm right here! COME GET SOME!" His call was answered by a thundering stomp that came from behind him, he turned to see a giant bear, purple cosmic skin moved on it's own as it was eyeing Dante. It's claws were long and looked like it could cut a car in half without even trying, the most noticeable feature where it's yellow eyes, leering at him. It stomped both his paws on the ground that screamed, 'Get the hell off my lawn!' Dante could only smirk at the bear, just by the look of things, he just wandered into its territory. Least for him, it was something to curb his nerve for a fight. “Wow Smokey, you must have taken A LOT of ‘roids'." The bear stood right in front of Dante its bellow was like a metal concert that had its volume turned up to a hundred. The demon hunter kneeled down like he was trying to tempt a puppy, “Aww someone's angry, looks like you need a hug." The bear then charged and raised one of his paws up in the air, falling down with tremendous speed. Once it made contact, a huge pillar of dust rose to the sky, sending wildlife scattering everywhere and the birds flying out of the area in fear, the bear turned around leaving nothing but a giant crater in the middle of the clearing as the bear left in victory... "Wow, I guess your type of hug is smashing the nearest thing, huh?" The bear was looking around, wildly to find the source of the voice and low and behold, Dante was leaning on the trunk of a tree, perched on a branch, smirking at the sight of the giant cosmic bear, "I thought bears were famous for their hugs." The bear got into position to fight as he scrapped his back legs on the ground, the bear let out another bellow towards the half-human. "So, you wanna dance?" Dante whipped out Ebony and Ivory and leapt towards the giant cosmic bear. "Then lets dance!" Golden Oaks library. Twenty minutes before Dante's fight. Right near the center of the town was a giant tree, in which was Ponyville’s library. Inside, books were lined up from wall to wall, each row stacked neatly among the numerous shelves, there was also a lavendar unicorn with a midnight blue mane and a pink highlight running down her mane, on her flank was a star big star surrounded by five other little ones which was her cutie mark and a young purple dragon with green spines with a couple of books in one hand making his harrowing journey up the ladder. "You almost done Spike?" "Yep, just one last book to put away." Twilight looked up to see Spike reached the last empty spot of the book shelf, at first, she had duties to attend to while Spike was cleaning, but through all that time Spike has been by her side, she decided to help him out with his chores which he didn't mind in the slightest. Spike was grinning widely he thought he would never get his chores done this early and the fact Twilight was helping with them was a blessing. The baby dragon was at the top of a ladder, placing the last book in gently, savoring the moment... "TWILIGHT!" The front door opened with a loud bang that caused Spike to fall off the ladder and the rest of the books to tumble down from their respective shelves. Twilight turned around to see a tired and frightened Applebloom. " Twi *pant* I *pant* creature *pant* tall..." "Applebloom please take a few deep breaths, take your time." Twilight conjured up a chair for Applebloom, she knew that taking a few deep breaths and collecting your thoughts was usually the best way to remember every detail as best you can. In about a few minutes, she then inhaled a huge gulp of air and said what she just seen. " I saw this weird monkey thing!" "Weird... Monkey thing?" The unicorn was now officially curious, normally she would have dismissed this as an hoax and say to Applebloom that their was no such thing, but seeing the sight of a frightened Applebloom got her curiosity and worriment peaking through, she asked, "What happened ?" Applebloom put a hoof to her chin thinking back to the moments before she saw the creature, being fatigued a bit made her mind a bit fuzzy "Well... Me, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo were in the Whitetail Woods tryin to get our tree-hopping cutie marks." "Tree hopping? Why would you do such a thing?" "Well we all saw this pony in the Whitetail Woods doing all these amazin stuff and so we all decided to try it out, but me and Sweetie Belle agreed it was a little dangerous so we decided to call it a day." Applebloom explained. " What happened next?" "As soon as Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were out of the forest, I heard a voice." This got Twilight's attention and she started to get excited, the only sentient species were dragons, griffins, river serpents and some other equine creatures. "What did the voice say?" Twilight's eyes were twinkling at this bit of news, but part of her wouldn't surprised if it was just any of the creatures that went through her head. “Well, ah heard the voice say something about 'being in a six year old's dream' or something like that." Applebloom said, this sparked Twilight's attention even more. "Did you manage to see what it looked like?" Applebloom nodded, "Yea, the critter was tall and stood on two feet like Spike and his mane was all white." Twilight turned to the nearest bookcase and went through the first one, Applebloom was waiting patiently in her chair as Twilight kept scrolling and scrolling through each book for the past fifty minutes, the element of magic was excited with the prospect of discovering a new creature, so many doors that can be opened and discovered on the spot, but that thought was drowned by a sudden feeling of knowing that this creature could be hostile and could threaten Equestria. She gave a sigh when she couldn't find anything that fit the description, as she turned to Applebloom. "Can you get your sister, please? This may be big." Applebloom nodded as she ran out the door, she forgot one important detail though Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy weren't in town today due to them going to visit their parents in Cloudsdale yesterday. Twilight gave out a sigh, she thought that the others would help out a great deal. As she levitated a scroll and pen to her, thinking what she could say. Dear Princess Celestia. It seems that a new creature has appeared and has frightened one of your youngest subjects, I fear that this creature may be a danger to all of Equestria, and I hope you can answer this letter as soon as possible. Sincerely, your faithful student, Twilight Sparkle. Twilight rolled it up and sealed it up. "Spike can you can come here real quick, I need you to send something off." "..." "Spike?" "..." "SPIKE!" She turned to see a distraught Spike looking down at his hard work, now completely scattered across the floor, "All these books... It took me so long, and now... It's...Its..." He raised his fist into the air yelling out this. "NOOOOOOOO!!!" Twilight rolled her eyes, "Spike I can help you clean this up later, but for now can you please send this!" Spike picked up the scroll and blew out his fire, instead of the letter disintegrating, it disappeared in a green mist floating outside towards Canterlot. Twilight then felt the ground shake as she ran outside to see a crowd of ponies gathering around, looking towards the Everfree Forest, pillars of dust skyrocketed towards the sky as each one appeared every two seconds and tremors shaked Ponyville.Twilight hoped Princess Celestia would answer as soon as possible, and to her luck and prayers, a letter appeared in front of her and it was short and sweet. Stand back, I am teleporting right now! A giant ball of white light appeared right next to Twilight, the light grew brighter and brighter until it disappeared to reveal a tall white pony with wings and a horn, her mane flowed in the wind with the colors of pink, green, and blue and it was almost mesmerizing to the pony eye. What also graced her head was a small golden crown complete with a golden necklace, the most notable feature were her magenta colored eyes that carried the motherly and wise aura of an old ruler. She looked down at Twilight, despite the other ponies not paying attention because of what was happening in the Everfree Forest. Waiting for that next surprise from out of nowhere. "Now what is the-?" Celestia was interrupted by another eruption of dirt as her attention was now on the forest, she could feel the tremors even from Canterlot, suddenly, an ear shattering roar attacked the air around as each pony was covering their ears except for Princess Celestia. "It can't be...not an Ursa Major." She said to herself, whoever was facing it in the forest was either pretty brave or pretty crazy. Or both. Everfree Forest. Trees were bent backwards from the force the Ursa Major was putting out, Dante was hopping from tree to tree, just toying with his enemy, every tree that he went to was either crushed or ripped from the ground by the cosmic bear. The demon hunter was literally having a blast with the Ursa Major, laughing and whooping every time the Ursa missed or almost made a clean shot at Dante. He fired Ebony and Ivory right at his enemy’s leg, as it tripled over in pain and slid as it left a small ditch in it's path, but it got up as fast it went down and its wounds on its leg were instantly healed. "Well," Dante said avoiding another swipe from the Ursa Major, "This is getting fun!" He dodged another paw by sliding underneath and shooting the paw in the process as the bullets pierced though the starry material like a knife to paper, the Ursa Major immediately lifted its paw in pain and was roaring at Dante, he got up and was now looking at the bear, "Well Smokey, " He twirled Ebony and Ivory right into their holsters. "Any other tricks you got hidden under your sleeve?" The Ursa was getting furious, it bristled in the back as it slammed its two paws on the ground leaving small craters right where the paws made impact. Dante sniggered at this and pulled out Rebellion, as soon as he did that the Ursa Major was now in a red aura its eyes changed to an almost bloodthirsty look, its claws grew another foot, and its back had grown giant spines arching downwards, his aura never left him as he let out one more giant bellow. "Well, well, well!" Dante clapped, "You’re upping the ante, I like that!" He tilted his head to the side, "But you know your original look was better, now you look like a seventy year old shit who hasn't gotten laid." It finally had enough, it charged towards Dante, its speed increased tenfold and it was getting closer and closer with each step. The on of Sparda put Rebellion on his shoulders and was waiting for its strike, all of a sudden, it slammed its front paws into the ground leaving a bigger crater in its mark, but no sight of Dante as the dust cleared. The bear grunted satisfied as it turned its back on the crater, but was suddenly surprised to see Dante a hundred feet in front of it, his trademark smirk never leaving his face. The Ursa Major sped towards Dante with intent of killing him, it had enough with these games, and its bloodlust increased with every step almost like a berserker's fury. It was about ten feet away from Dante and everything felt like it was going in slow motion. It had to finish it as he set up an attack, a calm Dante stood unphased against the Ursa Major as it was about a couple inches away from him. But all of a sudden, its enemy was gone and the Ursa Major tumbled to the ground, it turned to see Dante behind him and a giant wound on its body, blood dripping from Rebellion, "Well that was disappointing, you were all bark and no bite." Dante shook his head, " Pretty pathetic." It got up but stumbled a bit from the wound, all it could see was Dante holding up two fingers. "But since it seems you can understand me, surprisingly enough, I am going to give you two choices in the matter." He held up one finger, the Ursa's eyes were on that finger. "Choice one, you can leave now and lick your wounds without having any worry about me kicking your ass." Dante held up his second finger, "Choice two, I can and will kick your ass all the way back to your cave, its your call pal." The Ursa's choice were clear, it wasn't going down, not like this; so it did the smart thing in it's mind and ran into the forest, its footsteps thundering off in the distance. Dante could hear the footsteps getting fainter and fainter until silence greeted the clearing, he sheathed Rebellion and turned around, "Now, which way was I going?" He looked around the clearing to see it bare and all the trees bent backwards, Dante clapped both arms to his side in disappointment. “Son of a bitch." Chapter proofreaded by LyonAzakura Authors Notice: Phew Mission 1 Done, for any old readers who read this before. let me know what sentences I forgot to add. For new readers, I hoped you enjoyed the chapter and don't be afraid to comment. And again for the old readers, I am really sorry I deleted this on accident.