//------------------------------// // Mission 6: Reutrn of the Boaster(Updated) // Story: Devil hunter among Ponies // by Dusk Stalker //------------------------------// Authors Noitce; Nearly halfway their, you can't stop progress:), gotta keep going, Let's rock baby! The streets were full of happy ponies going about their day, enjoying the sun that Princess Celestia gave to them, but the sun rays seemed to be very different, more joyful and bright than the ponies seemed to notice it. But their train of thought stopped as all eyes were now on Dante, who was walking down the street, back at home. everyone would ignore him and continue the cycle of their lives as they bumped into him with no apology. But even with everypony eyes on him, he felt like it was nothing but a breeze passing through; He couldn't feel it as he took in the surroundings. This town felt bigger than what he saw from the border of the Everfree Forest. He could feel the eyes of the ponies staring at him, some fled back into their shops, some stayed out and waved towards Dante, knowing from Princess Celestia that he wasn't going to harm anypony, and to Dante's horror, though he didn't show it, some were blushing and giggling as he passed by. “Ooookay... Thats gross and weird." Dante said looking towards the group that was blushing and giggling, he picked up his speed as he went further into town, to his disdained luck, he got the same reactions, with less blushing and giggling, from others. "Of all the luck I have in the world... It now sucks ." He wished he could have luck with women just by walking by them in his world, but it seemed his prayers weren't answered. "Son of a bitch ." In the park where many colts and fillies were playing ecstatically with their friends, there were two colts playing with a red ball with a star in the middle of it, one of the colts was a white pegasus with a red mane and the other was brown earth pony with a green mane, both joyful as their ball bounced back up in the air as they were running around to where it was going to bounce next. But, as the ball made its next bounce, the brown earth pony jumped up and bucked it to far as it was sent sailing through the air and rolled up right next to a red unicorn with a black mane with two dice's as his cutie mark, and next to him were two more unicorns, one of them was a sickly green colored one with a white mane and a briar of thorns as cutie mark, and the other was an earth pony with a black coat and green mane, his cutie mark was a pair of boxing gloves. “Phew, thanks mister." The young pegasus flew up to get the ball, but it was suddenly yanked away from him from a smirking unicorn. “Please mister, can we please get our ball back." The little earth pony walked up right next to his friend. “Sorry shrimp's." The sickly green unicorn stood in front of the red unicorn, a rude demeanor radiating off him, " You snooze, you lose." “What does that mean, mister?" The pegasus asked, the sickly green unicorn and the black coat earth pony only chortle, "You hear that, Loaded Die? These runts don't know the basic rule." The sickly green unicorn turned to Loaded Die, who could only snigger at this. “But what does it mean, mister?" The pegasus asked again, Loaded Die took a few step forward, “It’s simple, you snooze." He suddenly shoved the pegasus to the ground his body could only tumble out of the air and land like a pile of rocks, “You lose!" The whole gang was laughing pounding the ground with their hooves as the earth pony got his friend up and both were staring at them confused and scared. Loaded Die could only levitate the ball higher, "You know... I'm keeping this... Bane, Thorn Heart... Say hello to your new punching bags." He gestured to the two ponies, the black coat earth pony, Bane, and the sickly green unicorn, Thorn Heart, walked forward to the young ponies, they were shaking. The locked their legs back at the colt's as they closed their eyes, both Thorn Heart and Bane were in glee as they looked upon the young colts, then their kicks were launched as the only thing they could do was shield themselves with their little hooves and could only imagine the pain... But nothing came up, as they heard hooves hit something, they both opened their eyes a bit to see Dante holding both their back hooves as they could look in shock. Loaded Die could only laugh as he sneered upon Dante, “Well, it looks like the monkey is up and about, I thought they put you in a cage." "Well, I saw your little game and decided to be a ref," Dante smirked as he pushed back the stallions and could only watch as they got up and stood next to Loaded Die, a crowd started to form around Dante and the others, the two young colts scooted into the crowd and could only observe,"So... When the things got a little rough, the ref decided to intervene." “What do you want, monkey?" Loaded Die asked, his cohorts could only laugh at the insult, but not surprisingly, it didn't affect Dante. “Well, I am going to give you two choices." He held up his index, “Choice one, you can leave and give them back their ball and pretend this never happened." He held up the second finger and it seemed his smirk turned into a grin, "Choice two, you see that tree?" Loaded Die and the others turned to see a grand oak right behind them, looming and providing comfortable shade for any pony laying underneath, all three of them scoffed at this, but Dante continued, "I can tie you up there and decide to use you as a piñata, and I bet these guys and chicks here." He gestured to the whole crowd, “Wouldn’t mind getting a whack at you... Your call, stooges." Loaded Die stepped forward, his answer was simple, “We pick choice three." All three of them charged at Dante, “Prepare for the beating of your life, monkey!" All three of them jumped up at Dante, they only thing they could see... Was a grin. Fifteen seconds later. “Wha... What just happened?" Loaded Die could only look spaced out; all he could remember was a red flash. “I don't know- OW!” Bane yelled out in pain as a stick met his side from a blue pegasus, a few ponies decided to stay back and deal with them. “I *OW* am *OW* trying *OW* to *OW* get us out of here! OW!!!!" Thorn Heart bellowed in pain, the pony folk only took one whack as the gang was hanging by their tails on a branch, shame was overwhelming them, as Dante was leaning on the closest building, he yawned, "So," Everypony stopped to hear what Dante had to say, "You three learn your lesson yet?" They nodded in unison, the air was suddenly silent, all eyes were on Dante. "..." "..." “Nah I think you haven't." Dante brushed them off as a crowd started to swarm around them, he picked up the ball and stopped in front of the young pegasus, both eyes were wide in amazement. “Thanks mister!” The earth Pony said, Dante gave a small smirk and ruffled both their manes as he got up, “So, what's your name kids?" “Oh." The pegasus got up and flew right up to Dante, “I’m Wind Zephyr and this is Trough." He gestured to his friend who gave a grin to the demon hunter. He gave one more smirk as he turned towards the road, “Take care of yourselves kids and watch that ball, will ya?" He continued his trip down the road, Zephyr bumped Trough in the back a little and gesturing with his head towards Dante, “Hey mister... We didn't got your name." Dante stopped in mid step, he could just ignore him and just kept going down the road, but the town was bound to know his name anyway and he twisted his head barely to the colts, “Dante." both colt's saw only a red flash disappear in front of them, wondering how he did it, but they would never forget Dante and what he did. Zephyr and Trough could only look at where their savior stood, both of them nodded as they ran back to the field, continuing where they started. "I still want to know how he did it so fast though ." Zephyr thought as he was walking back with Trough to continue on, smiles adorning their faces. “So you did see him come this way?" Twilight asked the nearest pony, a yellow unicorn with a purple mane with a coffee bean cutie mark on her flank, she witnessed the whole thing; the trio came down from the tree twenty minutes ago, the lesson sunk into their heads and their pride was broken. The unicorn could only put a hoof to her chin, “Yeah, I did see him, he did a number on those three." Rarity gasped along with Fluttershy. “Can you please tell us what happened?" Twilight further asked worried that he may have caused more harm than she expected, the others seemed to have mirrored her reaction, all worried. “Well, Loaded Die and his gang were picking on two poor colts who just wanted their ball back, when they asked nicely, Loaded Die shoved the young pegasus to the ground, he told his goons to beat them up, I could only just stand there, I was too horrified and shocked to even step in, but before they could do any harm, he came along." The mane six could only let out a great exhale of relief, he was only trying to help. “Thank Celestia, Dante was only helping." Twilight said, the yellow unicorn nodded in agreement, "Yes, this 'Dante' then gave them a choice to either give up or attack him, as soon as they attacked, it all ended just before it began and before we knew it, Loaded Die and his gang were suddenly hanging up by their tails as Dante turned to the crowd and said, 'Go crazy if these guys did anything bad to you.'" “That is a little... Brutish, don't you think?" Rarity asked, the unicorn could only shrug, “Eh, they had it coming, just hope they aren't hurt too badly." She walked away back to her shop as Twilight groaned into her hooves, “Who knows where he is right now." “Don’t worry sugarcube, we'll find him." Applejack assured Twilight, giving her a pat on the back and the result being a grinning Twilight, Applejack could only return it "No matter where he is, we'll find him, ya'll can assure that." She said to the others, who again, returned the grin. “Wow, that was awesome!" They heard a voice coming down the road; they could see Wind Zephyr and Trough walking down the road with the ball on Zephyr's side. “Yeah, what he did to Loaded Die's gang was pretty brave." Trough said. “Yeah but, Dante was a weird name for somepony like that." Zephyr said, all of a sudden a cloud of dust appeared in front of them revealing a panting Twilight, “You-know-Dante?" She said it so fast that it could even be equal to Pinkie's speed. “Yeah, he saved us, why?" Zephyr said, Fluttershy came out of the back of the group and asked gently, “We were just wondering if you knew which direction he went... If you don't mind telling us." "Yeah, " Trough cut in politely, "He was heading down the street towards the center of town, also, Trixie is there... If you guy's are wondering, her show is going to be awesome if she is called the 'Great and Powerful Trixie!’" "We’re sorry, but we gotta get home now... Bye." They both said in unison as they galloped up the street. Twilight took in a slow deep breath and relaxed, until her pupil's diluted to the size of dimes. "Oh no... No no no no." "What's the matter, Twilight?" Rainbow Dash asked, Twilight's mane started to grow uncontrolled and messy(Think of her hair in Lesson Zero). "Trixie is in town!" She raised her voice towards Rainbow Dash, it was tense and uncontrolled volume wise. "Ooooh, Trixie? It sounds like a candy!" Pinkie Pie said, she never met Trixie so that was just the first thought that came to her. "Pinkie, Trixie is another unicorn, she just boast out anything she can think of." Twilight explained to Pinkie, she remember the time Snips and Snails brought the Ursa Minor, which everypony thought was an Ursa Major, when Trixie couldn't defeat it she ran away from Ponyville. The reasons of her return were puzzling, but it hit her like a sack of potatoes if she met Dante. "Come on girls, we gotta hurry!" Twilight motioned for them to follow as they ran to the center of town, hoping they weren't too late. At the center of the town, a crowd gathered around a fixed caravan, the wood was polished but it still showed the scars of what happened to it a long time ago. Some of the ponies were very curious to see what was going on, most had faces of annoyance and disbelief knowing what was coming up, the rest were confused but stayed to see it anyway. Suddenly, the caravan flipped open revealing a moderate sized stage and a light blue colored unicorn with a wizard hat adorned with stars and a cape that matched the pattern of the hat. She had the flair of a boastful and energetic nature and it seemed to annoy most of the ponies now. "The Great and Powerful Trixie has returned!" She announced to the crowd as she was standing on both her hind legs. "But you stink!" Somepony yelled from the crowd, Trixie frowned as she shook her head and ignored the crowd's insults after she was done. "I, the Great and Powerful Trixie have returned more in tuned with her magic and have defeated the Ursa Major!" She yelled. "Bullshit!" Everypony in the crowd looked around wildly for the new voice, along with Trixie who was surprised to, also looking for the new source of the voice. Trixie then froze at the sight of Dante, leaning on a tree in the shade, the crowd also turned to look at what Trixie was staring at. Trixie suddenly regained her composure and cleared her throat, "Well, it seems that this monkey doesn't know the full extent of my magic," She raised her voice a bit towards Dante, "My magic shatter mountains, and yet you, a simple mutant monkey, can't comprehend the magic I have at my disposal!" "Hmm, sorry what was that? Couldn't hear you over the massive amounts of bullshit coming out of your mouth." Dante said cleaning his ear and flicking the substance to the side. Trixie was nearly livid with anger as she charged a spell at Dante and sent it flying, as soon as the spell was about to make contact, he swiped it away and it was sent sailing towards the sky, sparks were spreading out everywhere in the sky, captivating everypony eyes except Dante, who was smirking at a shocked Trixie. "Nice trick, do you do parties?" As Trixie was about to charge another spell, Dante suddenly was in front of her, kneeling down, she could only back up in fear as the crowd could watch, Dante then balled up a fist and sent it flying to Trixie, her eyes were closed waiting for the hit to come, for pain to enter and swarm her body. But it didn't come as Dante's hand was hovering near Trixie's hat, Trixie looked confused, but her confusion was answered by Dante flicking off her hat. He could only let out a chuckle, "You thought I was going to kick your ass?" Dante slapped his knee in amusement, the look on Trixie's face magnified it, "I'm not gonna kick your ass." Trixie let out a sigh of relief that this creature wasn't going to hurt her. Dante leaned in close to her ear, "I'm gonna let you perform your party tricks, whatever you do from their." He got up and leapt off to the foot of the stage, he turned unleashing a tiny bit of killing intent towards Trixie, "It's your call." He disappeared right in front of Trixie leaving nothing but a small gust of wind. Trixie snapped out of her stupor and rapidly shook her head, "You see!" She announced to the crowd, "I, the Great and Powerful Trixie have sent it away!" "But he didn't vanish , he just left and say that those were only party tricks." A stallion yelled from the crowd, Trixie scoffed the stallion as she could only look at the crowd, boasting still clouding her vision. Yes, well, the Great and Powerful Trixie-." She was interrupted by a tap on her side, she looked at her side to see nothing until she looked down to see a paper airplane, she opened it up and was suddenly fuming as she read it. To Trixie I can hear your bullshit from about a mile away, who knew your voice could reach that far? But beyond that, keep your ego to a minimum so that your bullshit won't suffocate the town. From Dante She crumpled the letter and threw it in the nearest wastebasket near the stage, "Who does he think he is?!" She literally had steam escaping from her ears. But she couldn't let the crowd down or leave them confused and more annoyed than they were at her, she took in the crowd and swept her cave up preparing to dazzle the audience. "The show must go on." Far North. The blizzard outside picked up speed, pelting the outer walls of the cave, the inside wasn't as different as the rest of the outside, desolate and cold. A black obsidian throne was in the middle of the large cave entrance, Dreadwing watched the blizzard outside, so many memories of this country were now forgotten, but he could remember snippets of it when he was still here. He closed his eyes and took in the cold, he could still see a bright light appear in front of him with the familiar draconequus appearing from the light. "Thank you, thank you very much ladies and gentlemen." Discord said bowing to the invisible crowd, Dreadwing could only stomp his hoof on the side of his throne. "You have them?" "Yep." He pulled out a purple box from under his arm, Dreadwing levitated it towards him as he opened up, gazing upon the Elements of Harmony, he could see his reflection in the gold frames, but his reflection was pale at best, he took it in as he gave a small grin, "Well done... It seems she lost her touch now, hasn’t she?" Dreadwing set them aside next to his throne, "Stolen ideas from me... And not powerful." "But boss." Discord got into a nineteen twenties voice with overalls and a hat to match, "These are the big cheese, the main page, the whole shabang." "I know... But these aren't the true elements, there are others, it seems this current ruler stole my original plans." He could remember them being used on him, the hard work he toiled over for. "There was another set before these, more ancient, more powerful, and from my own design." He got out of his throne. "So, what are they?" Discord asked, the cave gave the answer as it gave out another moan of fear and despair, the wind seemed to pick up speed as Dreadwing approached the mouth of the cave, he could feel the wet touch of the snow hitting the mouth of the cave. Dreadwing turned his head to Discord, the smoke coming from his eyes poured out even more, he finally took a deep breath in and gave the answer. “The Elements of Purity." Chapter proofreaded by LyonAzakura. Authors Notice; Annnd cue it. phew that was one long crunch, Again people don't be afraid to comment, for the old readers if you can let me know on any sentences. Again agian, don't be afraid to comment. :)