//------------------------------// // One of These Days... // Story: The Equestrian Omni-Knight // by Azure5555 //------------------------------// “Twilight, can you hear me?” “Yes master.” “Good, I'm being moved into the library's basement now. It's going to be increasingly difficult to keep psionic contact without fully breaking my prison until you arrive. But I will attempt contact with our quarry, please be safe.” As the box carrying me landed with a thud on the hard stone floor, I heard the movers voicing their concerns over my overbearing weight. Once alone, I used my growing freedom to test my boundaries as well as my mental focus. Int Roll: 80 Can you concentrate your energies into an astral projection, or shatter your fragile bindings? 63 :Your binding begins to shake as dust falls- DEFY! : You defy the outcome with a cost of 116 SP. Too close for comfort! But I've managed to create a mana ghost. To the moon!! (Armor: Shadow of Doubt, Shield: Nightfall's Banner, Weapon: Anagogic Luminous Blade) I rose from the bottom of the tree, visible to no being as proved by one of the movers whom I phased through. The outside world much the same, as I began to rise-and fall as a set of jaws had me by the bottom of my ethereal cloak. I hit the ground hard. “Holy hell that hurt!” *GASP! “A ghost!” I take a look at my assailant and find a mound of cotton candy in my face. “Oh...Pinkie Pie,” “Yep-perooni~ but I don't know who you are! Is it weird being dead, what do shadows taste like, *GASP* CAN YOU STILL TASTE!?” “Not dead, kinda chalky, and yes I can still-” Now, despite not having a physical form at the moment, and despite the 2-ton ball of fun not being able to see where my mouth was supposed to be, she managed to stick a cupcake in my mouth. Quite the feat really. “This is really good! What's in it?” “Some of your shadows,” Pinkie Pie said with a wide grin. Not gonna dignify that with a response. “Hey it's been fun, but seeing how nopony else knows I exist, how bout' keeping this between us for now?” “Okie dokie! By bestest friend!” She hopped off as I set my eyes on my real target: The Nightmare Symbiote! - The Moon - My shadowy form falls gently on the lunar surface, it was safe to assume that since no normal living being could see me, the denizens of the moon would be as blind to my presence- “HALT INTRUDER!” “I just had to jinx it...” Immediately, a small squadron of about six shadow serpents began to converge on my location. I sensed that they were in no way corrupted shadow creatures, merely beings coated in their own darkness. I decided to make a spectacle of it all. “Come at me assholes! You too Larry!!” “My name is Shadowfright!” “INVOKE...DOUBT!” I disappear into the floor of the moon and erupt into the first shadow guard to reach me. I could sense his resolve waning as doubt flooded his mind. I left him to think about his loyalties and his inevitable defeat. The second and third beasts strike at me as I reached the apex of my rise. My Banner blocks an oncoming claw from the left as my sword catches the other on my right, a burst of mystic light blasting my assailants on to the lunar floor. “Orb of Light, Radiant Rampage!” The second, now recovered, once again attempted an assault with the fourth guard. The attempt was met with a large golden fist followed by several blasts of radiant light. “Which only leaves Jerome and Larry-” “MY NAME. IS . SHADOWFRIGHT!!!” Oh he mad though... “By the Lost Deck of the Oversoul!” A small rectangular cartridge magics itself onto my wrist as Jerome tries and fails to calm his angered companion. 'Cause I'm feelin' the flow` YEAH THIS DUELIST IS SET!' “Draw! Inflict control!” A purple tentacled eye appears over Larry's face as he stops mid rampage, mere centimeters before me. “Sleep,” The beast fell before me hard. “And then there was one.” “Wait no, I-” Jerome began to plead but I immediately bade him to stop. “No one's dead J. Just unconscious,” “Wh-why are you here?” “The Nightmare symbiote. I know she's here, and I know you all changed your appearance so as to pledge loyalty to her,” “How do you know our names?” “Good question, I'm a watcher. It's my business to know. Forget the darkness of your heart and live no longer in fear. Please.” I leave him to his thoughts as I make my way to the castle. Much of the same monster mashing goes on as I made my way through the heavily fortified structure. - Throne Room - Two large double doors decorated with black moons bars my passage to my target. Strength Roll : 90 FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 42 : Your leg strikes the double doors with as much power as you can muster but buckles at the fact you fought so many monsters on the way her- D.E.F.Y!!!!!!! (God damn-it.) You defy the outcome with a payment of 980 SP “Ho...KIKOU SHO!” My strength may be lacking, but I have SP in spades! The doors are quite violently unhinged by my massive aura ball, startling the shadow princess before me. “No...it can't be...Demon!” “Believe it Moon Pie, but enough of the pleasantries. I'm sure you know why I'm here,” “To kill me!” “Yes to-wait what no! I'm here to recruit you!” “And what sick plan would you have me partake in?” She said with much disgust. “...You killed my men (and various women) in cold blood and I'm sick?” “Your point?” “Wow...you're a dick. Just... *SIGH* Radiant Rampage...” “Radiant what?” A large golden two armed orb of light slams Nightmare Moon right in the jaw, slightly knocking the symbiote from it's host. “Tell me something Luna, you fought your sister, and it wasn't because there wasn't any pony that appreciated the night. Every member of the Iron Claw loved the nigh-” “YES! The Iron Claw band of rebels! They not only loved the night as do yourself, but they thrived and basked under the moons light!” This wasn't the symbiote in control, this was Luna herself. “Even as they suffered they saw YOU in their dreams. They showed me what my sister had done to them too late for me to right their wrongs! Too late for me to see my own bloodstained hooves!!” The symbiote began to regain control again through Luna's rage. “Demon, what is it YOU want?” “The same thing Luna wants. Justice. If your willing, I have a plan...”