Chapter 9: facing your father's rival
It was almost getting dark as the sun was setting over grand freedom empire. Some ponies were still out and about on the streets, while others were on there way home. Kain was on his way home as he walked down the street as he saw his house in the distance, "*sighs* finally" he said as he walked up to the front door and placed his hand on the door knob.
As he turned the handle he then glanced down to see a letter.
"huh? What's this?" kain said as he picked up the letter and saw that it was blank, No adress, no to or from, it was just blank. Kain raised his eyebrow as he then started to open up the letter and read it:
Dear old friend,
It's been so long since I last saw you. I have been waiting and waiting for so long to finally see you once again, and now I have the chance. Meet me at the old cave in the everfree forest so we can catch up on old times.
An old friend of yours.
P.s you must come alone
Kain blinked a bit he knew almost everyone in grand freedom empire, he tried to remember who this person was that he had somehow forgotten about but nothing came to mind. Kain shrugged as he then looked back at the front door of his house, he wanted to tell his parents about this but the letter stated for him to come alone. Kain pondered in his head on what to do.
"hmmm, I really should tell them about this" he said "but then again the letter does say to come alone. Besides I'm sure this will be quick", he then placed the letter in his pocket as he then took off into the everfree forest, as he ran from the city he didn't know that the letter fell from his pocket.
EVERFREE FOREST
Kain walked around the forest as he looked at the trees standing tall above him as he saw the night sky within the tree branches, as he kept walking he then looked in front of him to see a figure wearing a brown robe and hood over his head covering up his whole face in darkness.
"welcome my dear friend" the figure said.
Kain stood a few feet from the figure as he then placed his hands in his pocket "uhhh hey" he said in a uneasy tone "so your the one that sent me that letter huh?".
The figure nodded at him "indeed that was me".
Kain was about to say something but the figure raised up one of his arms "don't worry, I'm sure you have a lot of questions for me. But I think that we should find a more safer place to have our conversation" the figure said as he then looked to the left "over there is a cave not to far from here, let us go there so that we may have our talk about the past". The figure then walked away from kain as he went to the cave as kain followed him.
The walk wasn't as long as they had reached there destination. The figure and kain the stopped at the caves entrance, kain then turned to the figure as the figure then nudged his head to the entrance "go right in, I'll follow you" the figure said.
Kain kept glancing at him until he then looked at the cave then back at him, the figure then sighed "don't worry I'll follow you, trust me" he said.
Kain sighed as he then started to walk inside, as he walked inside he saw that there was a few lit candles on the ground that led in a straight line. He kept walking until he reached a large dead end circle.
"what the?" kain said "what is this?".
As soon as he said that he then heard footsteps behind him as they came closer and closer as he quickly turned around and pulled out his Yamato katana and blocked the attackers weapon. The attacker then backfliped away from him as he grinned at him "heh, impressive. Just like old times" the figure said.
"who the heck are you!?" kain said with a glare.
The figure then stretched out his right arm showing off his machete katana "you don't remember me huh? You don't remember your old friend vanish? How disappointing of you, seeing as I still remember how you killed me!".
Kain looked at him in confusion. He never killed anyone in all of his life "what are you talking about! I never fought with you nor did I kill you! You got it all wrong!" kain said, the figure then sighed as he then placed his hand over his hood "really now, well then. How come I still have this!".
The figure then took off his robe showing his scared bare chest and the many cuts on his arms and face "you did this to me 16 years ago!" he said "you and I fought multiple times. And during one of our fights I almost killed you! But I lost that chance to a human. Then I tried to take over equestria, but I was killed by you and ever since then I have been waiting to take my revenge against you!" he then lunged at kain as he tried to cut him but kain kept dogging all of his attacks that he could throw at him.
Kain's back was then to a wall as he saw vanish then raise his sword above his head and brought it down at him. Kain then quickly pulled out his Yamato katana blocking vanish's attack "ah that's it" vanish said "now we can fight as warriors". Vanish then backed away from kain as he then looked up at the caves celling, vanish smiled darkly.
"take a look above you" he said, kain glanced at vanish as he looked at the celling over his head "I made sure to keep you out of the moon light so you don't pull off that other special attack of yours".
"other special attack?" kain thought. He didn't know that his father had another special attack other than the famous sonic rainbow blade, a technique that kain tried his very best to learn as a child but always failed to pull it off. Kain then held his katana firmly in his grip as he ran at vanish trying to strike him down.
Vanish then ran at him as well as there swords clashed making a few sparks fly.
KAIN'S HOUSE
Rainbow dash was walking back and forth in the living room as her friends were trying there best to comfort her as Clayton and the others were outside looking for kain. "oh were could he be?" rainbow dash said as she kept pacing the room "this isn't like him to not come home".
Twilight then walked over to her friend and placed her hoof over her shoulder "don't worry rainbow dash" she said "the boys said that they they were going to look for him all around the city, I'm sure he's going to be just fine". Rainbow dash looked at twilight with a small smile until pinkie pie then ran up to her "or maybe he's gone on a super awesome adventure!" she said. Hearing that made rainbow dash's face turn pale with fear, the thought of her own son going alone and doing something dangerous was one of her fears. Ever since kain was born rainbow dash and Clayton both promised to never let kain do anything reckless or dangerous without them watching him.
They both had major fears of anything happening to there son, and they would go by any means necessary to protect him.
Rainbow dash then started panicking as twilight then gave pinkie pie a glare "not the best choice of words to say pinkie pie" twilight said. Pinkie pie then scratched the back of her head "ops hehe" she said, the front door then opened as the girls then saw there husbands walk in. Rainbow dash then quickly ran over to Clayton as she then held onto his shoulders.
"anything? Did you find him?" rainbow dash said with a worried look on her face.
Clayton then held up his hand showing rainbow dash a letter "your not gonna like it" he said as he handed her the letter, rainbow dash then took the letter and opened it as she read what it said.
"what!?".
Her friends ran over to her "rainbow dash what's the matter?" rarity asked her.
Rainbow dash then looked at everyone "kain, he's in the everfree forest".
"the everfree forest!?" the girls shouted.
Rainbow dash nodded.
"what in the hay is he doing in the everfree forest at night?" applejack said. "I don't know, but we better get to him and fast" twilight said. Rainbow dash then crumbled the letter "your darn right we have to find him! And this person that sent this letter! I swear if I find my kain hurt-".
"well have time to ring somepony's neck latter dashie" Clayton said "right now we just have to get to him", everyone nodded "clayton's right, but we can't go into the forest. We might get lost or can't see anything" dillon said. "good point, I'll contact princess celestia and Luna and ask them for element zero" max said. The others nodded as max started to contact her.
CAVE
Vanish was standing over kain as he watched the boy catch his breath, kain was covered in cuts and bruises as he panted on one knee. Vanish frowned "pathetic" vanish said as he then kicked kain in the chest as he hit the back of the cave wall, kain then tried to get up but vanished then stabbed him in the arm "is this all you have to offer me Clayton? No witty remarks? No sneak attacks? No sonic rainbow blade? Huh? Is this all you have to show for yourself!?". Vanish then grabbed kain by the neck and throws him across the other side of the cave wall.
Kain glanced over to his katana as it was on the ground a few feet away from him as he started to crawl over to it since he couldn't feel any felling in his legs. As he crawled over to his weapon he then saw vanish walk over to him as he then stepped on his hand and started to crush it under his boot. Kain yelled out in pain as he tried to ignore it and reach for his sword "you think I'm going to let you get your weapon" vanish said as he kick his Yamato katana away from kain.
"c-crap, just my luck" kain said.
Vanish then picked him up as he placed his machete katana back into it's sheath, he then slammed kain into a wall and started to beat him across the face.
"this is for my humiliation that you gave me!" vanish said as he swung his fist into his ribs "this is for my death! This is for my dishonor as a warrior! And this is for not being able to kill you all those years ago!", his final blow landed in kain's cheek as kain fell to the ground unable to feel anything in his face or his body.
"no way....there's no way that I'm going to give it up here" kain thought "I'm not going to let this guy win....I....I will..beat him". Vanish then leaned down to him as he raised his head up "your slipping Clayton, after all of these years I thought you would have improved by now" vanish said "oh well, it doesn't matter anyway". He then stood up and pulled out his blade as he held it above his arms "for you it's over!". As he was about to end kain's life he the then felt the roof of the cave shake.
"what! What's that noise?" he said.
Kain then started to laugh a bit as vanish glared at him "what's so funny? What did you plan?" answer me!".
Kain then then slowly picked himself up as he stood on his knees "ba-backup" he said, suddenly the roof of the cave then came crashing down above them. Vanish covered his head as the parts of the cave fell around him and kain. As the cave stopped collapsing vanish then looked up to see a large mecha kneel over him and kain.
"w-what is that?" vanish said in a shocked and some what feared tone. Kain then glanced at the mecha that stood before him as he smiled a bit "element....zero" kain said as he then pasted out. Vanish backed away from the mecha as the body of the robot opened up as rainbow dash and Clayton jumped out of the cockpit and rushed over to there son's aid.
"my baby!" rainbow dash said as she held onto kain closely to her chest, she then glanced over to see no other then vanish "no way! Your back!? But I thought-".
"you thought wrong you whore!" vanish said "now then release Clayton at once so that we may catch up on old times" he said.
"with pleasure!".
Vanish then looked to his side to see kain's sword coming down at him as he block the on coming attack "but out of this human!" vanish said "this is between me and Clayton! Not you!". Clayton then kicked him and slashed his face making a scar go all the way down to his lip.
"ugh! Damn you human! How dare you!" vanish snapped as he backed away in pain, Clayton then spun the Yamato katana over his head as he then held it out aiming it at vanish "how dare me? I should be saying that to you, you got some fucking nerve to be going after my son!" he said.
This caught vanish totally off guard, the person that he had just beaten was...clayton's son?.
Vanish just looked at him stunned "wait! You mean that...the person that I just tried to kill, was..your son!?".
"that's right. But don't worry my old friend, because I can't wait to try and kill you!". Clayton then took off his assassin robes showing him wearing a black long sleeve shirt as he then charged at vanish while he was still in shock as he then grabbed his face and slammed it into the ground. Vanish felt the sharp shards of small rocks scrap and cut his skin as Clayton then held him in a choke hold and started to squeeze his neck as hard as he could.
"your going to pay for hurting my son kain vanish" Clayton said as he tightened his grip around vanish's neck, vanish felt every ounce of life being chocked out of him as he then tried to move his arms and legs "m-maybe another time" he said as he head butted Clayton in the face making him let him go as he teleported away from the fight.
"dammit, he got away" Clayton mumbled under his breath, he then ran over to rainbow dash who was holding there child. Rainbow dash had tears coming down her face as she held her son in her hoofs, Clayton then placed his head on kain's chest for a bit as he heard small breathing and a strong heart beat.
Clayton sighed as he looked up at rainbow dash who had a worried look "it's alright" he said "he's still breathing. He's gonna be ok", this made rainbow dash smile as pulled her into his arms.
NEW PORT CITY
Vanish teleported back to the old city as he Then transformed back to his pony form and held his face with his hoof "unbelievable! Clayton has a son! A SON! As if it already wasn't bad enough! I swear if I see Alucard I will-". There were suddenly a sound of footsteps echoing ever closer from behind him "you called?" alucard said with a smile.
"YOU!" vanish roared as he then swung his weapon at him with his teeth "why didn't you tell me!".
Alucard raised an eyebrow at him "tell you what?".
Vanish then tried to strike at him again but alucard dogged it "why didn't you tell me that my enemy had a son!", this caught alucard's interest. "oh? So your enemy has a bore a child to carry out his families legacy, fascinating" alucard said.
"it's not only that" vanish add.
"oh? What else is there to tell me?".
"they also have a weapon, a robot called element zero".
Alucard then smirked a bit "so the mane six have a weapon of there own hmm?" alucard asked, vanish nodded at him. "I see, well I guess will just have to make one for our side". He then pinned vanish down to the ground as he held out his hoofs as alucard then stood over him "and since your the one that saw it, you'll be the one to command such an honor" he said "now I just have to take the images of the weapon out of your mind". He then made his horn spark "hold still, this is going to hurt a lot".