//------------------------------// // gathering the elements // Story: Dimensional Clash // by BloodHive1998 //------------------------------// "Wow! Your wings are COOL!" Rainbow Dash said as she circled her dimensional counterpart, Night Blood. "Yes I know, you day-dwellers always say that, until you find out what I do." Night said in a bored tone, seeing as she had been unintentionally grounded by Rainbow Dash. "Was that an insult?" "Yes, and before you even say it, I'm not turning you into a vampony just so you can get bat wings. Princess Nightmare Moon, and even Midnight, have both ordered that none of us feed off a pony from this dimension, much less turn them, as it would only aid in that evil stallion we're after's plan to destroy both by doing just that." "Quite your bickering Rainbow Dash and Night Blood, we need to get moving." Midnight Defiance hissed, all ready not liking the element of Loyalty being around her dimensional counterpart. "Fine." the two said in unnatural unison "So, who's next?" Midnight asked Twilight. "I'm thinking Apple Jack, she's my element of honesty." Twilight said as they headed for Sweet Apple Acres. "Hey Defiant Shadow, looks like we're meeting up with your counterpart next!" Midnight yelled behind her, since the Rainbow and Night were still talking. "So what's Apple Jack like?" "She wouldn't lie to save her life, aside from that she has the natural ability to tell if somepony's lying. She's also pretty strong from working on a farm." "That's a lot like Defiant, but she likes to deceive you into doing something that leads to the truth." "Why would you need a farm, don't you only drink blood?" "No. While it's true that we need blood, pony blood to be precise, to survive, it's not our only source of food, we're also omnivores." "Oh, so do you have any idea as to who this stallion is?" "No, I only know that they're a black magic wielding Pegasus vampony." "His name's Death Vine." Silver Night said as she came up out of the shadows. "Huh?" Midnight asked, rather shocked. "He was banished to the Night Eternal Dimension by Celestia and her siblings after attempting to literally unleash Tartarus upon our Equestria, Celestia figured that letting him do so in another dimension would be better, the problem is that the Night Eternal Dimension is the home dimension of the Blade of Severed Destruction, a devastating blade that can cut anything, even time." "Where did you find that out?" Twilight was shocked. "The Canterlot Archive." "Where?" Twilight had read all the books in that part of the castle and had never come across that information. "The secret room that can only be accessed by diving into the hour glass within the Starswirl the Bearded wing without thinking of anything." "There's a secret room?" "It's a castle, yes there's a secret room. I would have suspected Celestia to tell her 'Most faithful student' all about that little section of the archives, I guess I was wrong. Also it helps that I was there when he was banished, remember, I'm older than even Nightmare and Luna." "You're trying to make me betray Celestia." Twilight said angrily. "You did that after practicing black Magic, per your own request, Celestia did tell you not to practice such arts didn't she?" "How do you know all this again uh... wait I never got your name." Midnight suddenly asked. "I'm Silver Night, Celestia knows me as Midnight Heart. I'm the princess of the forbidden, I have access to any and all forbidden parts of, well, anything, even the Tree of Harmony, unfortunately I don't know that much about friendship." "Is that why you were with Twilight and Tranquil when we got here?" "Actually I was with Twilight to teach her a few Black Magic spells and Tranquil teleported in right as you all got here." After about ten more minutes of walking, the group got to Sweet Apple Acres. "Hmm, I didn't think the place would have the same name as my own farm." Defiant said as Apple Jack came out. "Hey every pony." Apple Jack said. "Hey Apple Jack, we need you help and it's not just Equestria that's in danger this time." Twilight said. "Hmm, who're all of you." Apple Jack motioned to the group of vamponies off to the side. "I'm Defiant Shadow, I work on the Sweet Apple Acres of my dimension, which is one of eternal night, anyway we're here because a vampony from our dimension has used some ancient sword to enter this one and plans to cause a dimensional paradox that will destroy both, we were sent by Princess Nightmare Moon to stop him." "Then we should hurry and get Fluttershy so she can join us." The group headed for Fluttershy's cottage after that. "Oh is Fluttershy my dimensional counterpart? It looks like were heading to where my home is in my dimension." Blazing Moon asked "Yes, though she's a bit shy so be careful." Twilight warned. "Oh don't worry about that, before Nightmare Moon adopted me I was too shy to even open my wings around others, now I'm much less shy, though that doesn't mean I'm not shy, I'm just not as shy. What I'm meaning to say is that I'm sure I know how to approach her." "You're Nightmare Moon's daughter?" Twilight asked in absolute shock. "Well of course, didn't you catch the 'Moon' at the end of my name, it's not some random word used to finish my name." It wasn't long before the group got to Fluttershy's home and only ten minutes later her and Blazing walked out calmly. "Wow Blazing, I know you're the Element of Kindness/Cruelty, but getting a pony that seems extremely shy to just walk outside with you is quite something, how'd you do it?" Midnight asked. "I just promised to help her with her animals for a weak without the Cruelty part of my element." Blazing said. "And you actually believe it'll take a week to get rid of Death Vine?" "No, but you did store a years worth of blood for us and this place has plenty of foods so I figured we could stay for a while afterwards." "Not going to happen." "You know Midnight, it would give you a chance to do something not even Princess Nightmare Moon could do, learn about how a different dimension works." Defiant said. "You make a good point." I hate her sometimes Midnight thought. "Okay so shall we go to Rarity's, Fluttershy asked we meet up with her next. Though from what she told me, I doubt Blade Hex will get along with her, even though they're dimensional counterparts." "Are you serious?" Rarity asked in astonishment once she heard that Blade Hex preferred to have her mane a little messy (just like any vampony) "Well it's easier than worrying about your appearance while hunting your prey." Blade Hex countered. "Well I would never engage in such a barbarous act." "You've never found it necessary to hunt and kill a living thing, much less a pony who stole your daggers." To emphasize her point, Blade Hex whipped out both her daggers. "Blazing please diffuse this battle before it gets to bloodshed." Midnight said. Blazing nodded and stepped up for a moment. Blazing cleared her throat, which got both Rarity's and Blade's attentions, then opened her eyes, which had been closed. The room cooled dramatically as the two arguing ponies froze, both staring into Blazing Moon's eyes. "Both of you stop bickering about your preferred ways of life. You may be dimensional counterparts, but you're not the same pony, just accept that you're both different." Blazing said in an odd echoing voice that seemed to burn into the soul. After Rarity and Blade nodded, Blazing blink a few times and her eyes, which had seemed to gain an even brighter red glow than usual, returned to their normal intensity. "W-was that y-your stare?" Fluttershy asked. "Yes, and trust me, when you insult Blade's choices, it's the only thing that shuts her up, I'm a lot more willing to use it then I suspect you are." "Sorry about acting that way Blade, I just overreacted." Rarity said. "Understandable." Blade said. "I will help all of you, but it may be a bit before I can, Captain Night Wind of the Night guard requested custom armor, so I need to finish that and I'm only half way through." "You're working on armor, may I help? I'm an armor crafter in my dimension." "Just armor?" Rarity raised an eyebrow "Well nopony is crazy enough to request cloths from a vampony, to many chances to lace them with something to track the pony, and no vampony wears cloths, they create drag and slow one down, giving a higher chance of escape to prey." "Understandable darling, I guess we can work together to finish it." Four minutes later, much to Rarity's surprise, they were finished and left to go find Pinkie Pie. Almost the second they stepped out, Shadow Death and Pinkie Pie appeared out of nowhere. "Hi guys, I found Pinkie and she was all like *gasp* 'you ;look like me before I got my cutie mark, and I was all like *gasp* you to, and then we started talking and we realized we had talked a lot before and then we came here because we knew you all were waiting for us and waiting isn't fun and-" Twilight and Midnight started talking to tune the rambling mare out. "So Shadow Death is like Pinkie?" Twilight asked. "Unfortunately yes, she's also a hitpony loyal to princess Nightmare Moon. I've given up understanding her since I learned about her Shadow Sense, which allows her to sense something occurring in the near future. You wouldn't believe how crazy trying to understand that was." Midnight said. "I think I can, I tried to do the same thing with Pinkie when I learned of her Pinkie sense." Twilight said.