//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 // Story: Rosario + Pony // by Dawn Flower //------------------------------// Chapter 3 An Ursa Minor and a Vampire Inside Sugarcube Corner, ponies were running around screaming, terrified of the beast that was waiting for them just outside of these walls. Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy both took to the air to try and get everypony to calm down. While they were doing that, Yukari, Mizore and Ryō joined up with Tsukune, Moka and Kurumu, who were gathering near Twilight to hear more about this Ursa Minor. When they were all gathered, Tsukune finally spoke up. “Twilight, just what is an Ursa Minor, anyway?” Twilight turned to face him. “An Ursa Minor is a star beast. They take the form of a translucent bear and they stand about four stories tall. They’re normally peaceful creatures, which is why we don’t usually deal with them very often; but a rampaging Ursa Minor is a dangerous and terrifying beast. They’re…” She got caught a bit in her mouth before she could continue with what she wanted to say. “They’re monsters.” Monsters. That last word stuck with them. The six former Yokai students all looked between each other and nodded in affirmation. They knew what they needed to do. The six of them then all turned towards the door and broke into a gallop. When Twilight saw where they were headed, she called out to them immediately. “Wait, stop. An Ursa Minor is incredibly dangerous.” They didn’t listen. They made it to the door and burst outside. --- As soon as they got outside, they saw the Ursa Minor immediately. It looked exactly as Twilight had described. It easily towered over the buildings in town. It was both blue and see-through at the same time. With the night sky behind it and the constellation markings on its fur, it looked like it had actually crawled out of the night sky. When they got outside and saw the star beast, they all started walking towards it, while taking in the sight in front of them. This creature wasn’t like any monster that they had ever seen before back at Yokai Academy. As soon as they started trotting towards it, they were able to hear the door of Sugarcube Corner open behind them again, and Twilight and a few other ponies from inside poked their heads out. “Quick, come back inside before it sees you,” Twilight whispered just loud enough for them to hear her. She then cast her gaze over to the Ursa Minor that had come into town. Something was wrong. The last Ursa Minor that came to Ponyville just looked upset, but this one looked completely enraged. Twilight then quickly looked back to the group of former students. “Get inside, quickly!” she said much louder than before. Rainbow Dash looked down at Twilight, who she was hovering over in the doorway. “Hey Twilight, you beat an Ursa Minor before. Can’t you just do it again?” “No, Rainbow Dash. That last Ursa Minor was just a bit cranky. This one is in a full blown rampage.” The Ursa Minor turned away from a building that it was attacking, and it noticed the six ponies from Yokai. It then growled at them and began charging towards them. More ponies were at the door and windows of Sugarcube Corner now, watching them. Twilight quickly gestured towards them again. “Quick, get inside. Hurry.” They didn’t even turn back to face her. Tsukune then turned back to face Twilight. “Don’t worry, Twilight. We can handle this.” He then turned back around to face the rampaging Ursa, along with the rest of his friends. When the Ursa Minor was closing in on them, Kurumu was the first one to act. She quickly unfurled her wings and dashed off into the air. The Ursa Minor tried to swipe at her as she was passing it, but she quickly banked to the right to avoid it. It then tried swiping at her again, but she simply moved about in the air to avoid it. Kurumu hovered in the air, just out of reach of the Ursa, while she tried to come up with a plan. “I can’t just keep dodging his attacks. If I’m gonna win, I have to attack.” She then looked back at her wings as she hovered there. “I still have my wings so I should still have my succubus powers. I just have to concentrate.” She then concentrated really hard and tried to summon her sharp nails. Then, the next thing she knew, the feathers in her wings had become razor sharp. She lifted up her wings to get a better view of her new weapons. “Yeah, these will do just fine.” She then glared down at the Ursa Minor with a devilish smile on her face. She then whipped out her wings and flew down towards the Ursa Minor. It swiped at her with its claw, but she avoided it easily. She then moved in closer to it and slashed at its side with her razor sharp wing. The creature screamed out in pain of its injury. The wound cut deep, enough to draw blood. Kurumu flew up high and came down again for another attack, her wing now stained with blood. However, the beast was even more enraged now. It started swiping at her with its claws even more aggressively. She just managed to avoid being hit, but right now that was about all she could do to avoid being hit. She couldn’t find an opening to attack. Kurumu flew up higher to get out of swiping range of its claws, but the Ursa Minor then stood up on its hind legs to increase its range and strike at her. The beast was about to swipe at her, when a huge pot just suddenly appeared out of thin air. The Ursa had just enough time to look at it and become confused when it smashed against its head. The ponies watching this were all confused at this and they momentarily forgot about the danger because they were lost in confusion. Twilight looked down from Kurumu to the other former students, and she saw that Yukari had stepped forward. She had a look of fierce determination on her face. Her horn lit up in a pink aura and another pot appeared above the Ursa’s head and it smashed upon impact. The Ursa shook this off and became enraged again and it had noticed that Yukari was the one causing this. It roared in her direction, but she just dropped another pot on its head. The Ursa shook it off and roared back at her again, but she just dropped another pot on its head. The Ursa was now really annoyed. It didn’t roar this time and instead charged right for Yukari. Yukari was worried. She thought that her pots would be having more of an effect on it. The Ursa was about to leap at her, when suddenly Mizore stepped in front of Yukari and stared down the Ursa Minor; she looked serious now. She then lowered her head and started concentrating and her horn starting glowing in a light blue aura. Just as the Ursa was about to make contact with her, a huge blast of snow erupted out of Mizore’s horn and froze the Ursa in place. The Ursa’s angry expression faded and now it looked confused. It tried to move its claws that were stretched out in front of it, inches away from the two unicorns, but then it saw that they were completely frozen, along with the rest of its body. Yukari stuck her tongue out at the Ursa Minor, while Mizore just stared at it with a stoic expression, which showed just a hint of satisfaction; but not a smile. The Ursa became enraged again and snarled at them angrily. It then put all of its anger into its muscles and burst out of its ice encasing, sending shards of ice everywhere. Once it was free, it reared up and roared again. Mizore and Yukari both raised their hooves to shield their faces from falling ice shards. While neither of them could see it, the Ursa raised its front paw to strike at them; however, just then, Kurumu suddenly flew down and grazed the Ursa on its attacking claw, halting its attack. The Ursa stepped back for a second in pain, while the three former students took the time to steady themselves. After a five second cease fire, the Ursa Minor and former Yokai students resumed their fight. The Ursa continued trying to swipe at the three of them as they moved around, trying to battle it. Kurumu swooped overhead and came down to strike at its sides with her wings when it was distracted. Yukari continued dropping pots on its head to keep it off balance, and Mizore froze it to slow it down. To the side of the fighting, Ryō stepped out ahead of Tsukune and Moka, watching the fight more intensely. “There’s got to be something that I can do to help them.” She then looked at Yukari and Mizore while they were fighting and she noticed that their horns were glowing. She then glanced back at the growing number of ponies watching from the doorway. She then turned back to face the Ursa Minor, and she raised her eyes up to look at her forehead. “Unicorns can use magic with their horns,” she whispered under her breath, which she remembered from the book. She then shut her eyes and concentrated hard. A small, green flame, like from before appeared on her head, and in another second, a horn appeared. She opened her eyes to look at her forehead and she smiled. She then threw her gaze back towards the others engaging with the Ursa Minor. She then pulled her head back and her horn started glowing in a silver aura. She then fired a beam from her horn and it struck the Ursa Minor in its side, causing it to tip over slightly. The Ursa elicited a slight shriek of pain. It got back up on all fours and it turned to face Ryō. Kurumu used this distraction to sweep down and strike it on its side again. When it let out another shriek, Yukari quickly dropped another pot on its head and Mizore froze it some more. Ryō then unfurled her wings and flew off into the sky. She flew up several feet and stopped just short of the Ursa Minor, right next to Kurumu. She nodded at the succubus and then she turned back towards the Ursa. She lowered her head again and fired another beam from her horn at the creatures head. The four of them all worked together, striking at the Ursa when it was distracted. They had the advantage now. Yukari’s horn started glowing again and another pot started forming above the Ursa’s head. Kurumu descended to strike the star bear again; however, just before she made contact, it swung its huge claw at her. She pulled back just in time, but the sudden change in course caused her to collide with Ryō while she was charging up another attack. The two fumbled in the air and were pushed back into the pot that Yukari had conjured. This caused Yukari to lose her concentration, and the pot disappeared and Kurumu and Ryō fell to the ground, landing on top of Yukari. Mizore was distracted by this and turned to face the pile of her friends. The Ursa used this as an opportunity to strike while she was distracted. It raised its huge paw and swung it to strike her. She was hurled into the growing pile of her friends and the force of the blow knocked the pile of them several feet away. They were all exhausted and struggled to stand up. The ponies standing in the doorway all gave worried gasps at the sight of this. The Ursa Minor then stood up on its hind legs and roared triumphantly. Moka stood beside Tsukune, gritting her teeth, with a worried expression on her face. She couldn’t take it anymore. She then broke away from Tsukune and ran forward, towards the Ursa. “Uhhh, Moka,” Tsukune called, with a hoof stretched out towards her. Moka stopped a few feet in front of the Ursa and stared right at it. “Just stop all of this fighting, right now!” she said in a mixture of fear, worry and anger. The Ursa Minor looked down at her. It then snarled at her and roared again. It then got back down on all fours and rushed towards her, raising its paw to strike her. Moka was frozen in fear with a look of horror on her face; she couldn’t move. The ponies at the door all gasped. Tsukune then started rushing towards Moka to try and protect her; with his life if he had to. When he was close to her, so was the Ursa Minor. As the star bear’s claw was inches away from her, he then jumped to try and reach her first, to try and push her out of the way. “Moka!” Tsukune jumped in front of Moka and the bear, milliseconds before its huge claw had reached her. When she saw Tsukune between her and the Ursa, her eyes widened in fear even more. Just when all hope seemed lost, Tsukune’s hoof barely grazed against the rosary that hung around Moka’s neck. Then, as if he had tugged at it with all of his might, the rosary fell from her neck. Moka was then immediately engulfed in a huge, bright pillar of light. The light shot into the sky and the force of it pushed the Ursa Minor back. Tsukune fell back in the opposite direction, and landed with the other former students, who were beginning to wake up now. When the rosary seal over her breast is removed Moka’s innocent self disappears and her inner vampire awakens. Completely engulfed in the light, Moka suddenly began a physical transformation. All four of her hooves started growing longer, so that she now stood almost twice as tall as she did before. A pair of large wings then burst out of her back; however, unlike Kurumu and Ryō, her wings were more demonic than feathered. Her coat darkened to a darker shade of green and her long mane then gradually started changing colour from pink to silver. When the transformation was complete, the light faded and she kicked her hooves into the air, striking a pose. Her eyes were closed. The Ursa Minor stood back up, looking confused. It then dropped its confused look again and roared at her. It then began charging towards her. The ponies standing in the doorway were all left completely speechless after what they had just seen, and couldn’t react any further to what was happening now for the time being. The former students however, who had all regained themselves and stood up, just looked on with smiles on their faces. They knew that the fight was coming to an end now. As the Ursa drew closer, Moka finally opened her eyes to look at it. Her eyes were now blood red, instead of their usual green and they had a cat-like slit. After she finally laid her eyes on the massive, rampaging bear charging right at her, she then simply smiled arrogantly at it and said, “Well bear,” she spoke in a different sounding voice from before. “I think it’s about time you learned your place!” She then unfurled her wings and moved faster than most of the ponies watching in awe could follow and appeared under the Ursa Minor. She then lifted her front hoof and punched the Ursa right in the stomach. That one punch held so much force in it that it completely knocked the wind out of the star bear and pushed it back several feet. Before the bear even had a chance to catch its breath, Moka suddenly zoomed towards it again and hit the Ursa square in the face and sent it blasting off again towards the Everfree forest. There was a twinkle in the distance and then it was gone. After the Ursa Minor had been defeated, time suddenly froze around everypony and Kou appears in front of your view again. “Hey there, everyone. I ended up in this world too. Anyway, this chapter's fight took a total two thousand one hundred and one words. Whee!” He then flew away again and time returned to normal. When the fight was over, Moka rose back on to her hooves and looked ahead at where the Ursa had blasted off. She then looked down at her new body. “Well, it’s good to see that even in this new world I still have my powers.” She then turned around and saw Tsukune just standing there, staring back at her like he always did when they met like this. Moka smiled when she saw him, but it was different than how the other Moka smiled at him. She then started walking towards him. “Hey there, Tsukune. Long time no see.” “Uhhh, yeah,” Tsukune stammered out as she walked closer towards him. He quickly regained himself though. When Moka was standing right in front of him, she looked down at his new form. He was an earth pony, with a peach coloured coat and a mane that matched his usual hairstyle and colour. He was half as big as she was right now and he sported no cutie mark. She then snickered at his new appearance and smiled, as she picked up her rosary and raised it towards her. “You look ridiculous,” she stated bluntly. She then attached her rosary to the chain around her neck again. It attached immediately. As soon as the rosary was in place, she immediately shrunk back down to the size that she was before. Her wings disappeared as well and her eyes and mane returned to normal. She lost consciousness as this was happening and she started falling to the ground. “Moka!” Tsukune shouted out as she fell down. He then stepped forward and grabbed her before she hit the ground. The former students all picked themselves up and made their way over to Tsukune and Moka, while the ponies standing in the doorway of Sugarcube Corner slowly made their way out of the doorway and towards this strange group of ponies. As Tsukune held Moka in his hooves, she started to wake up and she opened her eyes slowly. Her eyes were green again. “Tsuk-Tsukune?” she whispered quietly to him, almost like it was a question to if he was really holding her right now. Tsukune looked back at her with a smile and a blush on his face. “Moka.” “Oh, Tsukune.” “Oh, Moka.” Moka grabbed Tsukune’s shoulder with her hoof and started leaning in closer to him, but she hesitated slightly before saying something this time. “I’m… so thirsty.” Tsukune smiled back at her at in glee, but then his face suddenly shifted in mood. “Wh-what?” Moka then closed her eyes, pulled Tsukune in closer to her and bit him on his neck to suck his blood. “Aaaaahhhh.” Tsukune suddenly screamed out. Kurumu, Yukari, Mizore and Ryō had all reached where the two of them were sitting when Tsukune screamed. They first all stopped where they were, and looked confused, but not that confused at what was happening. They then all smiled and started laughing between each other. After several seconds, Moka stopped and turned back to look Tsukune in the eye. “It was delicious. Thank you.” Tsukune quickly regained himself and looked back at Moka. “It was no problem, really.” He then gave her his hoof and helped her stand back up. The other former students then quickly re-joined them. When they were all together again, they then all looked back at the growing crowd of confused looking ponies. Ponies were still coming out of Sugarcube Corner, but some had elected to stay inside, thinking that this group could be even more dangerous than the Ursa Minor. The ponies that had come outside all just stood there in silence, staring ahead at this strange group of six ponies that had almost single-hoofedly defeated an Ursa Minor and sent it flying off into the Everfree Forest. None of them dared to speak. After almost a minute, this silence was finally broken when Pinkie Pie suddenly blurted out, “Did that bat just talk?!” To be continued…