Guardian of the Everfree

by KaBar42


Meet the Parent. Part 2

Guardian of the Everfree
Chapter 10

“What? You’re not being serious. Who the fuck are you!” I demanded of the white horse, apparently named “Faust”, in front of me. The horse looked at me with the same regal look as before.
“Dante, I promise you, I’m telling the truth.” She spoke. Bullshit.
“Alright, tell me something; why would you fucking bring me here? A better question would be, how? I’m apparently resistant to whatever force you fucking unicorns use!” I was curious, but angry at the same time.
My curiosity being my apparent resistance to their mysterious forces; my anger being that if she was telling the truth, the fact that if she did bring me here, that means that this bitch fucking pulled me from my family and friends.
She seemed to realize this. So she attempted to curb both of these at the same time.
“I brought you here, Dante, that is true. You have a right to be angry and I shall attempt to explain why and how.” She stated with confidence, yet somehow retaining her tone. She continued.
“First let me tell you who I am. I am Faust, Creator of Anima and it’s people, regent of the planet.” She stated, quite humbly I might add. She continued.
“I brought you here, Dante, because I need you. There is an evil coming, a dark evil. You are the only on Anima that can destroy it, Even I am rendered helpless against it.”
“So you brought me here to defeat an ancient evil? Sounds like the beginning of ever of shitty story ever.” I snarked. Faust retorted.
“You, Dante, do not wield this power alone. You’re entire species has the ability to destroy it. It consumes magical planets, and Earth is the only planet where magic is void. Thousands of other planets have been consumed by it, but Earth is the only planet that is safe from it. It does not dare go to your planet, in fear of being destroyed by your people.”
“So why me? Why not a spec ops agent? Why just a grunt?” I questioned.
“Aaron, Dante, was my fault. He was the first human I brought, not knowing what would happen. Travelling through the wormhole killed him. I later figured out that this wormhole caused brain trauma to higher brain functions. Sapient life is killed, unless they somehow have a lower brain fuctions at the time. Dante, you were hit by the mortar, your body went into shock and you proceeded to fall into a coma. But your body is not your body.” She stated.
What? Not my body, Aaron’s death was her fault, I’m in a fucking coma!
“What the fuck do you mean! Not my body! What do you fucking mean!” I yelled, than continued. “What do you fucking mean; you’re being too fucking vague!”
“Your real body, Dante, is currently at the Baptist Healthcare Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. You are on life support in a Persistent Vegetative State. Your sister, due to you giving her POA, is refusing attempts to take you off life support. It currently seems as though you will not recover from the state. I had to craft you a new body, and pulled your soul from your body and placed it in the new body. As your soul is the only part I could effect. I made your new body immune to all magic except mine. Had your normal body come, you would still be immune to all magic.” She stated.
My face paled. I had to ask. “Will I- will I recover? When I leave this world?” She looked at me. A portal formed about twenty feet in front of me. She spoke.
“I will not keep you here, Dante, the choice is yours. But remember, if you leave you will damn an entire planet to death.”
“Can’t you just pull another human over?” I asked.
“I am currently on the fringes of my energy, Dante, if I send you back now I will not recover enough energy to pull someone over to Anima. It will arrive before I regain this energy.”
“You don’t have have limitless energy? Aren’t you supposed to be a God?” This doesn’t make sense.
“I am a sub-set, Dante, your world is ancient. The Creator made your planet as the first intelligent planet. I had to beg The Creator to allow me to bring you over.”
“Wait, The Creator? Who is that?”
“The Creator, Dante, is.” She stated simply.
“God, Allah, who?” I asked.
“The Creator, Dante, is all.”
“So he is God. Alright than.”
“What is your choice, Dante, go back to your family and damn an entire planet? Or save a planet?”
I began to walk to the portal, Faust looked downtrodden. I stopped at about fifteen feet and thought about it again. This is an entire planet, I’m acting like a coward. I’m a fucking Devil dog! I don’t run away from the sound of danger, I run towards it and make it my bitch! I turned around.
“I’ll help you, if you can guarantee me something.” I said. Faust’s ears perked up.
“Anything, Dante, anything to save my minotaurs and my gryphons and my ponies and my zebras and my dragons! Anything to save my children!” She pleaded.
Wow, what a 360. She dropped the regalia, but kept that quirk of saying my name in the first sentence.
“After I do what I need to do, you send me back.”
“Yes, Dante, yes, yes,yes,yes!”
My right eyebrow raised. How did she go from wise ruler to little child? Doesn’t matter.
Faust quickly calmed herself and looked at me with a happy face.
“You will wake up, Dante, now. And to make the ponies warm up to you, you will help a group. I will be able to assist you by acting as a guide, and you will have the needed gear.” She stated.
Wait a minute, needed gear. I quickly managed to put two and two together and everything seemed to fit. “Were you the TARDIS box?”
I managed to speak as my vision began to narrow, and light started filtering in. Right before I passed out, she said something.
“Yes, Dante, yes.”

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I woke up, violently. Quickly pushing myself up, I noticed a few things. My AK was gone, and there were three small equines staring at me. All of them had scared looks on their face. They were atleast fifty feet away in a V formation. Getting a longer look at them, I noticed that they were fillies, that or the equine version of midgets. I’m betting they’re fillies. Wait, are they females? Despite having an equine body structure, these equines were strangely humanoid. Humanoid in the sense that they have human features. Such as the shocked look. Or, atleast, I think it’s a shocked look. Oh god, I hope its not the equine version of bedroom eyes. Some voice popped up in my head.
“Stop thinking like that, Dante, they’re just fillies.” What the fuck? Oh, wait, its just Faust.
The three fillies were still frozen to the spot. They seemed like an odd trio. One was an orange Pegasus with a purple mane and tail. Along with purple eyes, with no stifle mark. The other was a white unicorn with bicolored mane and tail. One side was a medium pink, and the other was medium purple. Surprisingly doesn’t hurt my eyes. Her eyes were an emerald green, yet again missing a stifle mark. Odd, but could just be a coincidence.
The last one was an Earth Familiar equine. She was a… butterscotch yellow? Along with a red mane an tail, Her eyes being a… gold? This one is difficult. She to, had no stifle mark. So it wasn’t a coincidence. And the major thing was that they look so fucking adorable!
Wait a minute. Why am I worrying about three fillies? I need to find my fucking AK. I rose to my feet. Hearing a shriek I turned to the trio of fillies. They were still in a V formation but the butterscotch Earth familiar, who had been leading the trio, was now cowering with her hoof covering her eyes, with the the other two fillies doing the same. How were they bending their legs like that? Fuck, I can’t leave them out in this forest. If the incident with the government head a couple of days ago was any indication, these equines were afraid of this forest.
Remembering how I dealt with scared dogs back in Kentucky, I knelt and held my hand out. I tchked a few times to draw her attention. She looked over at me, and saw my hand. She took a minute to think, while still cowering, she eventually started moving though. Her friends tried to hold her back, but she pushed on. She kept her head down, while her friends were yelling in their strange equine language that sounded like it consisted of snorts, grunts, and whinnies. She slowly closed the distance. Hopefully they were like dogs and would calm down when they had your scent. She was about to nuzzle my hand, but the worst possible thing happened. An oversized grey paw shot from the ground and wrapped itself around her left hind leg.
She looked up at me with a shocked and scared look. I noticed her friends were also grabber from underneath.
Fuck.