//------------------------------// // Thief and Preparation // Story: M.L.P .hack// Xth Vol 1 Awaken // by GundamBrony //------------------------------// In a dark abyss, Twilight looked around for any sign of anything come, but so far only darkness. She then proceed to walk around the hallow abyss until she saw something that she thought that it come from the mirror world she went before : a young girl with a white dress and a white hair. "Who are you?" she asked only to nothing came out from her who she then stared at her with a neutral expression. "Why are you here?" she asked her again only the same result. Then the mysterious girl smile at her and begin to speak in a tone that somewhat similar to Princess Celestia, "You are the one." "Huh?" she tilted her head in confusion. "You are the one who can help him; To find what he lost in those memories." she explained. "Him? Who are you talking about? Who is that colt or stallion are you mention?!" she frantically asked her but she ignored her and kept explaining more. "The book cannot be open by mere magics; It can only open by the trials that he faced with you and your friends. However, it only revealed to you alone for every pages only appeared to the chosen one." "Only me? Why me?" she asked. The mysterious book cannot be open by any Equestrian magics? And why only her that her friends cannot see the pages? But before she can asked more question, a bright light engulf the dark abyss and the young girl. "Wait! Please, who is the pony that I had to help him?!" she begin to disappeared too as everything glared off in a flash. She shot up from her bed, sweating from that dream with the strange girl, breathing quickly and heavily. She then saw Spike, looking at her worried. "Twilight, calm down! It's just a nightmare that you're having. You ok?" he said as he gave her a wet cloth and a cup of water. "Yeah, I-I'll be all right, thanks." she wiped of the sweat from her forehead and taking a sip. She then gaze at the sun rising from the blankets of the night skies, becoming dawn. "Are still caught up with the mysterious book?" Spike asked, placed his claw hand on her shoulder to comfort her. "Yeah, there was a strange human girl with a white dress told me that it cannot be open by any Equestrian magics; only by the trials by a guy that can help recover what he lost in his memories." she explained, still shocked by her dreams. "So this 'human girl', like the one from the mirror world, appeared in your dreams and told you that this book can recover memories of a stallion or a colt?" she nodded. "Twilight, you've been thinking about that book so much." he walked to his bed and wrapped himself in his blanket. "Get some sleep, will ya? A goodnight sleep will take your mind off of it." And with that, he fallen into a deep sleep, leaving Twilight gaze at the window. She got out of her bed, walking to it and open it, to let the cool breeze blow away of the nightmare that she had. Just who is that girl.......and why she asked me to help one guy that I don't know who? Does this guy had some connection to the strange anomalies? Guess I'll figure that out by tomorrow. she thought as she return to her bed, closing the window and went back to her deep sleep. However not noticing through the window of Ponyville, a shadow blur swiftly around the library, as with a quiet tactics, it sneak past them and headed down to the library. A azure aura then levitate some of the books as one point when it pulled out of the shelves, it almost dropped to the floor but caught it already before the impact. Then it then look upstairs to see if either Spike or Twilight was awakened but so far they still on their deep sleep. Then it found the mysterious books and quickly took it and rushed out to the window with all of the books now on it's possession it stole. In the Carousel Boutique, Rarity was sleeping soundly with dreams of her award winning dresses that going to be the biggest thing for Canterlot. Her dresses were onto the dress form mannequins with gemstones that she might asked 'Spikey - Wikey' to helped her finding some (and perhaps using her skills to annoyed the Diamond Dogs to find more gemstones). Then the clothes were now enveloped in the same azure and quietly removed from the mannequins and floated downstairs and as the door now enveloped by the same color open the door outside and closed it quietly once the clothes is outside. Then the dark mist swiftly away from the Carousel Boutique. In the Sweet Apples Acres, the crickets were playing their music as the apples orchard now ripen with red juice apples ready for the Applebucking season by tomorrow. However the dark mist quickly headed to one of the trees and taking shaped of a pony, he created a azure sword and with great force, cut the apple tree which he caught it under the azure aura and doing again through half of it and quickly headed to the next town. In the Sugarcube Corner, the same azure aura now enveloped a huge cake and just like the Carousel Boutique, the door open it quietly and now under the dark mist possession as with all of the stuff that it stole, it now quickly headed to the Everfree Forest. Once the dark mist reached to the waterfall, it set it down all of the stuff as the dark mist now transformed back into a familiar orange clad pony. "Got all of the stuff, Night. Now we can use it to prepare to get the Elements." John said as he use his hoof and swipe and take a bite of the cake. "Thanks for leading me with your magic." "It's no problem, John. Although I lend you some of mine, you need to be careful of excess it." Night replied sat down with him as she too start having some cake. "I mean to ask you, why you stole these clothes? These thing might not be useful for your mission." "No they not, but they provide as blankets for us." he then gave her one of the clothes to her. "For comfort and warmth." "John........" she muttered. "You don't had to do this for me." "I had to, Night. You being suffer far too long and I do everything in my power to give hope and a second chance in life as a individual pony. After all, that's why I'm here, right?" he said which she lower her head down. "We'll talk about this latter. Good night, Night." he then use one of the clothes and turn to his side for better sleep condition. "Yeah......Good Night." she then turn to her side and remember of him deciding to steal the resources. Flashback At the cave, while Night slept peacefully, John stared at the ceiling, thinking of what Night is actually is. Night is actually Nightmare Moon, a monster of darkness once tried to envelop Equestria into a eternal night, but now she starting to become a living being who also having suffer containing her dark side. And now, he, a rare alicorn colt with a amnesia want to help her to give a second chance to live life in Equestria with a strangest power that he had to do it along with those strangest memories somewhat coming back. He got to his four hooves and quietly shake her. "Night, wake up. Night." She stirred from her sleep and gaze at him. "John, why are still up? It's almost midnight; you should get some sleep." "I know, but can you lend me some of your magic?" she shot her head up at his request. " I'm going to Ponyville and steal some stuff from it." "Why?!" she asked him incredulous yet trying to keep her voice low. "What made you think that insane idea? Don't you know that your going to label as a thief from all ponies?!" "I know but if you can lend me some of your magic, then I can use your mist power to take some of the stuff without being seeing; like I become the shadow of the night." "John......." concerning from her voice raised. "Listen, the more we hide and waited for who knows how long to master my powers, the harder that we going to survive here if the season comes; If I can use some of the spells, I'll might learning faster and get the chance to save you from your dark half." he explained with a hint of reasoning. She then look down on the ground, thinking of this idea until she sighed. "All right." She got to her hooves and use her magic as a dark purple now enveloped him as it touches his horn as his eyes now glowed with dark purple as his horn absorb it and turning it into the familiar azure blue color along with his eyes too. After that, he panted a bit feeling the effect of the magic that Night lend him. He then use his horn and imagine himself turned into a mist as his horn flared up and he become the dark mist. "Thank you, Night. I promise I won't be that long." And with that he now headed outside of the cave, leaving her alone as she had a soft smile now turn into a sadden expression. End Flashback "John.....you had a good soul and a good heart." she muttered quietly to not let him hear her. "But your choice to help others is on the wrong path. I know you and I now understand each other, but you also suffering yourself to handle all of the burdens by yourself and if anything happen to me. That's why I need to entrust to them that they can show you the right path and share all of your burdens." She then quietly drift back into her deep sleep for the new morning. The next morning, as the sun raised up in Ponyville, the bright light stirred Twilight from her sleep as she turn to her side but open her eyes a bit as she yawn a bit. She then make her bed neatly and headed to the mirror only to found her mane to be in a mess. She use her brush to make it back to her beauty neat form as with a satisfied smile she then headed to Spike's bed and shake him. "Spike, wake up." she whispered which at first he turn to his side, then open his eyes, groggily. "Morning already?" he scratched his back as he yawn a bit. "Well better go make breakfast for us, Twilight." With a nodded, both of them headed down stairs only to found Twilight to had a widen eyes and mouth at a agape at this sight. She then trotted to the sight where the mysterious book was placed only to found that it was gone. "The mysterious book is gone!" she exclaimed as she frantically searched from the bookshelves. "Uh, Twilight, it's not just the mysterious book is gone! Some of the books from this section is gone too!" Spike pointed out as she trotted to his side and saw half of the books were missing too. "Oh no no no no no no!" she then walking around in circle, gone into panic. "Princess Celestia and Princess Luna entrusted me to uncover the secret of the mysterious book and now somepony stole it along with the two other books! How am I going to explain to them? They might that I failed at this important task! This is bad, what am I-" Her sentence was cut short when Spike grab her shoulder and shake her, snapping out of her panic mode. "Snap out of it!" "Huh?" "Listen, you don't want to end up of what happen last time right?!" she nodded for her that she never seen him with a glare from him, so seriously. "Good, now we need to calm down and tried to think of what happen." "Your right, Spike." she then place her hoof onto her chin, trying to think of this scene. "Ok, so somepony stole the mysterious book, meaning that somepony own that book. And," she look at the empty shelves. "also stole five books of commonly use of using basic magics." "But what would anypony want with them?" Spike asked. "These books are hardly borrow for unicorns fillies who now starting to use magic." Just as she about to think more, a high pitched screamed was heard, causing Twilight and Spike to clamp their ears blocking of that scream. As outside, ponies did the same as the scream echoed through out the town. Twilight and Spike now trotted outside and follow the screamed to the location of Carousel Boutique where both of them enter and saw Rarity fainted. "Rarity!!!!" Both of them helped her get up as she starting to breath quickly and heavily, like she saw something horrifying or something else. "Twilight!!! And Spikey - Wikey!!!!!" She grabbed both of their cheeks with a shocking expression. "Thank goodness you came!! Somepony stole all of my award winning dresses!!!!!" She showed them the empty mannequins to where once the hard working clothes that she worked on. "All of my hard working design and ideas, now gone!! THIS! IS! THE! WORST! POSSIBLE! THING! EVER!" she screamed as she brought out her chair and cried onto her pillow. Spike patted on her legs to sooth her while Twilight did the same. "Oh, Rarity I'm sorry that your award winning dresses were stolen. But we also got one of our stuff stolen too." Twilight sympathetic said which Rarity then look at them with her mascara dripping down a bit. "Some of our books were stolen along with the mysterious book too." "Oh, darling, I'm sorry that you also got your stuff robbed too." Rarity said, wiping her tears and patted her shoulder which she smiled. Then Twilight shot her head up with a idea. "Wait, if your stuff is stolen along with ours too, then that's means....?!" The others realize that idea as they dashed out of the Boutique and headed to Sweet Apple Acres only to found that they saw Applejack coming to them. "Twilight!! Rarity!! Let me guess somepony robbed something from your homes?!" Applejack asked which they nodded. "Well you not going to believe this but you had to come to see this!" As they now followed her to Sweet Apple Acres, what they found is something worst that made their mouth at agape at this sight : half of the apple trees were now cut and only left is the bark of the trees. Who ever did this had a powerful magic to do something awful. Applejack then bring her hat to her face to cover her straying tears but couldn't hold her choked sobs. "Oh those precious trees, now gone! Our families' bread and butter now gone!" She then put her hat back, with a angry scowl. "Why when I get m'ah hooves on who ever did this, I'm gonna buck him for ruining m'ah farm!" She then buck another tree with a great force, venting out her anger and sorrow. Both ponies then tried to comfort her, Spike patted her legs along with Rarity and Twilight placed their hoofs on her shoulder. "I'm so sorry about that darning but you can try to replant new apple trees to replace them.", Rarity console her which she sighed and had a soft smile. "Your right. Thanks Rarity." she turned to Twilight and Spike. "You too Twil' and Spike." With taking deep breaths to calm the anger, Applejack said, "We better go check with the others. Had a feeling that they might be robbed too-" As on cue, another high pitched scream was heard from the distance. Knowing of that familiar scream, they now headed to Sugarcube Corner only to found when enter, Pinkie kept screaming just like how her cake, the 'MMMM' was mutiuated when enter the National Dessert Competition on the train with the other entranst, as the others turned they found that one of the cake, or rather a familiar cake that they know from a while ago, was stolen too. Applejack clamp her mouth to stop the screaming with a annoyed expression. "Pinkie! Calm down and stop screaming like a Banshee!" "Okay!" she muffled and calm down with a big gasp for breath. "Pinkie, did you also got one of your stuff stolen too?" Twilight asked which she nodded. "Yes, one of my cakes that I tried to recreate, the 'MMMM' was stolen too! And I thought that it might be the other entranst from before but I realize that they'll never do that consider that they take pride on their creation desserts. So I tried to find clues but some reason I couldn't because who ever stole it might use magic and-" "Wait!" Twilight interrupted her sentence. "You said that the thief stole it using magic?" She nodded. "Well, duh! I would never lie! I made a Pinkie Promise not to lie to my friends!" "So some of the pieces are together, " Twilight muttered using her mystery skills as Applejack, Rarity, Spike, and Pinkie Pie take glanced at her. She then face her friends, "Girls meet me at the library. Bring Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy along too. I think I know what happen." They all nodded as they exit out of the Sugarcube Corner to meet up with her at the Golden Oak Library. At the waterfall, John gave a big yawn and stretch his legs in a cat manner as he scratching his mane, feeling drooping. He then head to entrance and start drinking some water from the fountain and getting soaked from his head to his body, feeling refresh. After shake off the coldness of the water, he then start to around the forest and getting more grass, water, and fire woods. Once he got enough, he then headed back to the cave where he saw Night, still sleeping peacefully as he then placed more fire wood on the fire, igniting the bright flames. He then use a stick to move the fire to let it consume more of it. He then heard a groan as he spoke out, "Glad your awake, Night. Have a good sleep?" "Well, being a mist like pony, I'll say I did." she walked to him slowly. "So you went to get more woods and rations?" "Well I had to; for our home." he replied, wrapping some of the grass into the sticks and start to roasting it in a rotisserie style. He then grab the mysterious book and show it to her. "Night, this is the book that gave me the data drain power and...the new style that I starting to be fond of it." She levitate from his hoof and start to use her magic open it but unfortunately, it remained shut; she even tried to use any magic that she can think of, but so far it remained the same. "No use, this book is impossible to open it, even with my magic to open it." She then returned to him in which much to their surprise, John actually open it. "Wha-?" "I don't believe it....." she muttered. John then turn the pages only to find that all of the pages were still blank. Blank, blank, blank, blank.......wait. He then squinted his eyes and saw something that his mouth at agape. Words. The first page is now with words. "The book. How- what?!" he stuttered at this revelation. For the first time, a page was written on the book. But how? Nopony ever wrote on to it. He then start to read the passage : For my time everyday, I woke up in my small yet comfort room. All I had in it was a computer and a special set, allow me to set my life onto a new world. A new world that was brought with legends that defies data and magic or rather becoming one. Ruled by a goddess that gave birth, death, and rebirth, this world was brought new legends throughout years. Only one name for this place that hopefully to take the mantle of the legendaries heroes, the one that saved many people from comatose and death, Dot Hackers.............THE WORLD. "The world? Dot Hackers?" Night asked in confusion in which John shrugged in the same manner before close the book. "Never before I hear those before?" "Neither do I; But......," he paused to think about the dream. "I do believe that I heard those names in my dreams only because the side effect of the book." "I see." "Looks like breakfast is ready." he headed to the campfire and start to pass out roasted grass to her as both start to eat. Night bright her eyes with something that she never felt........pure happiness. "Wow, John I didn't know that your good at cooking; That was awesome." He scratch the back of his mane in embarrassment. "Thanks, but I didn't how or why. Guess that I got so many hidden talents." "It's that true, then what's your mark represent?" she point to the hexagon shaped cutie mark on his flank. "Are you good with shapes?" "To be honest, I just woke with this, so I don't remember how I got it." he sincerely apologize to her. Once they finished their meals, she start to teach him how to use some of the spells that he got from the book. From the basic teleportation, he ace very quickly, teleport places of the cave, then the basic levitation, he practice using the pebbles to lift out, she taught him that he needs to feel of lifting them like his hooves. Next is a self defense beam attack, as usual he able to fire his azure beam magic which had a raw power, indicated by a blast on the wall. After for like 20 minutes, he then start to flipping through the pages to find a spell that can assist him in his preparation of his mission but so far he done all of the easy spells that he did, until he found the last pages that was........well written in not pony language. "Night, can you tell me of this spell?" he asked her as she trotted to his side. "I can't even understand of this one." She widen her eyes at this spell and said, "That I can't help you with this." "Why?" "This one is the most dangerous spell that pony ever use that it was forbidden. It allows you to engulf yourself with a flames and use it whenever the user desire. So far nopony every unlock that spell nor how to control it.", she explained. "Hmmmm....." he then start to think about it, wonder if.......he can control it. Just as his right hoof touch the pages, his 'bracelet' starting to do something to the pages : the 'data' start to scan the pages and with it, a magic screen pop out of the pages, then decoded the non pony language which both John and Night were surprise at this. "Guess that my 'bracelet' is very special." he muttered as once it finished decoded the instructions, John found it why it's hard for anypony to use that forbidden power : to use any elements requires a sheer amount of magics and a strong mind to use such that spell. Despite that, he then said to her with a determination, "I'm going to use it." "What?" she flabbergasted at his decision. "John, that spell is forbidden to anypony use it because it can cause so much strain on your alicorn magic." "Even so, I'll had to use it. If I need the strength to help you get a second chance, then I'll do whatever it takes to give you a new hope.", he set the book down as he start to cast it. He ready his horn, grunted as his horn now engulf in a azure blue aura, start to chant of this spell as his azure blue aura start to sparks azure flames as the spell as once he finished chant it, his eyes glowed brightly start to float around as his horn shot up azure flames then consume him in a vortex. Night shielded her eyes using her wings, then a bright glowed blasted out the vortex as John floated down, panted. With his eyes open, his eyes now had the azure blue flames as his hooves start to cover in the same flames as his eyes. After that, he then put out the flames, returning to normal and gave her a grin. "That wasn't so hard." "How did you-?" she stuttered at this revelation. "Well, to start my 'bracelet' able to absorb of the spells, acting as a backup generator and by letting myself feeling 'a spark', I'm able to control it well." he explained to her, showing her 'Twilight Bracelet' now covered in the azure blue flames. "Wow, to think you are the one who actually now control the flames in your body." she amazed by his attempt then look at his bracelet. "That bracelet is truly special." "Yeah," he gaze back to it. "truly a remarkable item." He then turned to another book and start to flipping the pages until he found a certain spell that list as : Creation Spell. He then read the headlining of it; so far this spell can allow you to create anything from a certain objects. Then a flashed from his mind showed Kite from the dreams holding the twin daggers. After that, he look at the apple tree, which half of the apples start to fall down and some are wither away. Then an idea came as he then trotted to it and now lower his horn and cast the spell. The azure aura start engulf the tree, cutting the tree and the branches, as a various aura of blacksmith tools start to turn the tree, into a wooden daggers different from the one that he saw in his dreams. Instead of the S shaped guards it now had a curve guards and the blade doesn't have the ancient text to it and the handle now have a orb with a spike protuted on top of it. With that, he use his magic once more and with his bracelet, a metallic aura rushed through the wooden daggers along with the data from his bracelet, transforming it from the wooden blades, handles and hand guards into real metallic silver blades, metallic black handles (the orb spike transform into metallic silver) and the hand guards now in a metallic dark brown guards. He levitate the new weapon creation and examine it. It was light weighted and very sharped; much like the one Kite use it. He then focus on his new azure flame powers to connect to his new twin blades then at the right time, his daggers now lighted up with the same azure blue flames. "What is this weapon you made?" Night came to his side and examine the new weapon. "Judging by the design, I say that it require you to wield it using your magic." "Actually, I want to use it from my hooves." he replied, standing on his hind legs, then surprising he grabbed it from his hooves, putting them in a reverse grip easily, and then doing various battle pose. "Why are you in your hind legs?" Night asked him, confused by his action. "I don't know. I just felt like I want to stand like that." he replied as he then turned to the opening of the cave. "C'mon, Night. My training isn't going to start by itself." With him heading out, Night just smiled at about to follow him but then a sharp pain struck her, causing her to clutch her body and knee down as this pain, gritted her teeth. She then look at her hoof which is now starting to envelop in a deeper blacken aura as she use her magic to dissipate the dark aura, taking deep breath as she got back up. She then continue to headed outside, with an echo from her head rang, I had to hurry.......time is running out........... At the library, all of Twilight's friends gather here and sat as they explained to each of the stuff that the thief stole from them however it turns out from both of the pegasus that the thief didn't steal something from both Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash which at first that Pinkie piped up thinking that maybe the thief isn't a pegasus which Twilight rolled her eyes, knowing that unless that the thief might use a cloud walking spell to cast, it would be impossible to get to Rainbow's home and maybe the thief don't had value on stealing something from Fluttershy's cottage because of the animals living here. She then makes a point out of the situation of the mysterious book's connection of lost memories, the young human girl chosen her to help him, and the thief might had a connection to it. "......So that's it. My hypothesis is that whoever this thief is, may had the power to open the mysterious book and each of the things that our possession that we have is stolen is......" she paused to get the right statement. " ..........something to survive so he can unlock the secret of it." "So your tell me that pony thief is the key to the mysterious book and this 'human girl' that's somewhat similar to the portal world, chosen you to help him because of these lost memories?" Rarity said, understanding her explanation which she nodded. "But why? Who's this girl that chosen you?" Fluttershy asked as Twilight lowered her head. "I don't know.......but all I know is that she had a white hair, white clothes and skirt and her voice sounded similar to Princess Celestia." "A girl that's similar to Princess Celestia?" Rainbow said, earning another nodded from her "Don't you think that it's a dream that you had, Twilight?" "Well, I thought so but the way she appeared in mine isn't coincidence; I never met this girl during in the portal world with Spike. As if she appeared when......." she raised her eyes in realization "when we founded the mysterious book during the strange anomalies happening in Equestria." The others gasped at her statement. Everything that happen around of these strange anomalies resolve around with the mysterious book and the thief who stole it 'back' from them. But what these anomalies means? What do they had a connection through the book and the thief? And this girl, just who is that? Why she's sounded similar to Princess Celestia? Do they had a connection? No, that wouldn't be possible......or is it? "So how we're going to find that thief?" Applejack asked "How we're going to find him if we don't know who is or where does he live?" Twilight sighed, "Honesty, I don't know. But until then, we need to report of unusual thing going around to the Princess." The others nodded as they now exit out the library, leaving Twilight and Spike alone of this situation. She sighed as she began to order new replacement of the books along with reporting of her and her friends have their stuff including the mysterious book and the connection to thief along with the mysterious girl in her dreams to Princess Celestia. "Are you sure you want to this, Twilight?" Spike concern of her decision. "We had no choice, Spike. If those events happen because of that book, then we need some assistance and to find that thief and interrogate him of his connection of that book and the strange anomalies." With Spike breath out his emerald dragon breath along with the letter heading to Princess Celestia, she and Spike gaze at the afternoon sun now bathed Ponyville. In the Everfree Forest, each of the trees bears a marks, marks that no timberwolves can scratch that hard as quietly as above high of the trees, a blast of data burst out, waking out the animals under their sleep and scatter from that noise. From that data burst, John in his orange clad suit now in his hind legs perfectly without losing his balance as his hind legs shuffled and bend, getting ready in a battle stance, holding his newly twin daggers in a reverse grip. His eyes now bore a knife at a tree and with a quick dash, he now slash the bark of the trees with quick thrust and switching his left reverse grip and impale the tree with great force. Then with his battle cry, he slash it upward and pull out his left dagger from the tree and switch it back to reverse grip, he then cut the tree in half, tumbling down. After catching his breath, he wipe the sweat off of his head. "Ok, I getting hang of attacking but I need to fight something that can attacked me so I can defend and read their movements to counterattack." "Looks like you're doing well." Night came out of the forest with a hint of impress. "That magic that you cast, able to be faster than a normal pegasus." "Looks likely." he muttered before he turn to her. "I still need to practice more if I want to start my mission. Do you think that you can create dummies that can fight me?" She nodded as she lowered her horn as a dark blue aura covered her horn, then with a grunted she cast something out of her horn as three misty like beings were created : one became a pony, the other changed into a griffon, and finally the third one transform into a dragon. With them now ponce at him, John got into his battle stand, twirling his weapons then grip it as he charged at them as the pony mist use its hind legs to buck him but then he blocked it using his weapons as he jump out of the way, then the griffon mist use its claws to slash him, only to him to block it as he deliver him a roundhouse kick as the dragon roared as it breath out crimson fire from its mouth at him but instead of dodging out of the way, he stay in his position as switching his reverse grip to normal, he slash the flames in a v style, reflecting the flames in a diagonally direction, surprising Night at this technique. Then as his blades now envelop in a azure flames as switching to reverse grip, he charged at the dragon as it tried to swipe him away but with a jump from him and landed on the back, he strike it with great speed as his azure flames able to do more damage than his regular strikes as with a hammering blow from his knee kick, the dragon stumble from that attack and fall down. With both the griffon and the pony charged at him as he kept blocking his attack as when the pony about to buck him again, he jump out of the way, making it to buck the griffon instead. With the griffon stun a bit, he turned to the pony who then charged at him head on as with a back flipped, he dive down to the back, pluming it down to the ground as he gave another knee kick from the griffon when about to swipe him as he strike it with a sword dance causing it to knee on its knee next to the others. Then as he put his weapon away, he then use his bracelet as the familiar winged star middle data cannon was formed as he target all of them with a scream, he fired it as purple datas impaled all three of them as it absorb it back to him but instead of turning them into stones, what happen to them is they now transformed into their baby forms. "All right!" he said, as the misty beings now turned back into mist and returning them to Night. He turned to her back to his four legging hooves and nodded. "I'm able to switch my function of my bracelet." "Mmmm....." she nodded with a smile. "Looks like you're able to use well without taking a life away from a being." "Yeah, but my guess that it's more than just one function." He showed her bracelet showing different types of effects. One of them is the life steal turned into stone, the Regular function, the other ones that he used on, the Chimis function able him to revert them back to their newborn or baby forms, and the final one something that he cringed at this function, able to extracts the life away from a being and destroy them, the End function. "Each of them had a effect that can be beneficial to help me with my mission. Only the End function is like the last resort as knowing that it takes life and destroy them; something that I will not use that accursed function." "John, you may not like to use it, but when you facing dangers that you only had one choice to make, one that require you to take one life away to save the others, you need to use it whatever you like or not." Night explained to him which he sighed sadly at that statement. "I guess so...." he muttered, not liking that idea but no choice to accept it. "Good, now I think that's enough training, John." she said, turning back to the forest. "We should headed back home to do it again tomorrow." With a nodded, he followed her as before that, he stare at the skies now setting in the dusk with a never ending determination look. Knowing that he needs to be ready to go on his mission. The mission to save his dear friend's life and give her a second chance to live........to live.........even he'll banned as a criminal. I promise that I'll stay with Night to my life ends. Whenever she goes, even in the deepest darkness, I'll be there too........... his thoughts raced as he catch up to her to home.