//------------------------------// // chapter 8:rudely interrupted (WARNING:not yet filtered through editor) // Story: Dark Souls:the descent into friendship // by star dust pony //------------------------------// Twilight pokes Sparks with a stick after seeing him simply collapse. "Did he...fall asleep?" She listens closely and hears a very soft snore. "Yup, he's asleep." She tosses the stick out the window as Rainbow dash chuckles. "I didn't even know he needed sleep, I just thought he fell asleep when he got hurt too much like by your spells." Rainbow lifts up Spark's arm and puts the shield on the table. "Now lets just see what we can figure out about this big guy." "Uhhh Rainbow dash I don't think he'd appreciate having his things touched." Twilight says while furrowing her brow. "Oh calm down egg head, I'm not taking it im just examining it." The rainbow maned Pegasus starts looking at the design of the shield which is mostly made up of a dragon with not much details drawn on its side, but this one was more ferocious looking than any dragon she has ever seen. "Wow I guess one thing we have in common is that both our kinds have dragons in their world same as us." Twilight takes a look for herself. "Huh I guess your right." Twilight takes a closer look at it, noticing a slight glow. "Wow...its enchanted I guess Humans and Ponies think alike when it comes to magic." She gently removes the shield to look at it closer. "Yea I told y-." Suddenly the Train shakes violently as it starts up and the lights go out for a moment and when they come back on both Sparks and Rainbow are gone. Twilight's eyes go wide as she jumps up. "RAINBOW DASH?!?! SPARKS?!?! WHERE DID YOU GO?!?!" Her eyes dart around looking for her friend. "...We're down here." Rainbow's voice groans out from the ground with sparks on top of her, still asleep. "Keep this in mind:always check below you..." Twilight chuckles nervously as she levitates Sparks off Rainbow dash and put him back in his seat. "Are you okay?" Twilight hands her a hoof which Rainbow takes and gets up. "Yea im fine, Thanks egg head." She smirks and returns to her seat. Twilight rolls her eyes and sits down, looking out the window and after a few moments...her eyes go wide..."...R-Rainbow dash...we have a problem." "What?" Rainbow looks outside only to have the same reaction as She sees swarms of changelings rapidly making their way towards ponyville, The same place the train is going. "WE GOT TO GET THEIR QUICK!!!!" "Wait, RAINB-." Twilight couldn't finish as Rainbow dash zooms towards the conductors room and a few moments later the train is speeding faster than ever. "GAH!!" Sparks jolts awake, Looking around. "Whats going on?" Twilight gulps and points outside. "The changelings are back for payback, we'll tell you what they are later." Sparks only slowly nods as the train arrives in ponyville and he gets up. "...I'll be right back." He walks off the train with ponies starring at him, most of which know his new role...and now they were seeing if he can do what he was instructed. Sparks walked into the middle of town as the black cloud like swarm slowly approaches...then stops when they catch sight of him, now curios they surround him and stare at him. "What is it?" A changeling poke out as it levitated up to Sparks's face. Sparks looked at it through his helmet. "...I'm your new worst nightmare." He smashed the changeling's face in with the sharp end of his shield as he pulls out his trusty sword. "You dishonorable insects are too weak to even face your old nightmares...now just imagine what im going to do to you." The changelings did not seem phased as they hissed at him, very few of them actually showing fear...but that was only thanks to the queen controlling them from the hive. "It works with the ponies, KILL IT!!!" As a changeling yelled out the others charged their horns...crack Sparks's metal foot smashed into one of their heads...shlink and his blade beheaded the one next to it as he gracefully dodged the rather slow moving magic blasts, Countering each one with ether a smash of his shield, a kick to their heads or using his sword to remove their limbs. "You are soft and weak, the most you can hope of doing is irritating me." He used his arm to clean the blood off his blade as the changelings he struck are laying ether dead or in incredible pain as blood pours, their internal intestines sloshing out as the others quake in fear. Twilight stared in shock at the scene as one of the changelings whimpers out. "D-don't just stand their GET IT!!" One of the ones behind sparks snapped out of the fear and rammed its horn in his back. "GAH!!!" He looked behind him. "...Cute...your horn may hurt me but i'v experienced worse." He grabs the changeling's horn and snaps it off as it screams. "Wow your horns are not very sturdy...no wander it merely feels like a jab...I was impaled by bigger and sharper." He turns to the others. "Now, pleas leave, because I was resting and thanks to you im still sleepy, now you can ether leave..." He lights the ember in his hand. "Or I set you all on fire." "WAAAGGHHH RETREAT RETREAT RETREAT, WE NEED MORE CHANGELINGS!!!" One of them yelled out as it flew away, the others soon to fallow. "...Good...now if you'll excuse me." Sparks falls backwards and flops on the ground and is sleeping again. Twilight trotted through the mess of changeling carcasses, never have seen such a gory and vile sight, everyone else was already vomiting or gagging...she was not far from joining him. "Well...as disgusting as this is...and I hate this kind of violence...it still helped I guess." She finally gave in and cringed as the contents of her digestive system decided to make a violent exit through her mouth. "Ooohhh this is still disgusting." Hours later after the mess has been cleaned up and Twilight left sparky to rest in her house the town gathered to discuss what they had just seen. "Pleas pleas everypony just calm down theirs no need to panic, Pleas remember that the...eh 'human' was only doing his job." The mayor spoke out to the crowd. "YEA BUT AT WHAT COST?!?! IT JUST KILLED THOSE THINGS AND I DON'T WANT MY FOAL TO SEE THAT KIND OF VIOLENCE!!!" A angry stallion yelled at her from the crowd. "Yes yes I know but their was no other way, The changelings would have done worse...and frankly, not to sound cold hearted...but this violence is reality, we may live in a land of peace but remember their are still ponies and now humans that go through the worst of life to make sure we are living a life of happiness, its the cold truth, im sorry." The mayor gives a small sigh. A little filly on the head of her mother raises her hoof. "Is the human going to do the same to us?" She buried her head into her mother's mane for a little comfort. "Ummm no sweetie, hes a good Pearson and only wants to scare the big bad scary things away." The mayor says with a re-assuring smile. A cloaked stallion in the back speaks out. "...Yea...but we can fix more problems if we say...just send him to the changeling hive." Everypony's attention turned to the grey stallion in the dark hood...as he grinned...and both Twilight and Rainbow dash knew that this...was not going to be good.