//------------------------------// // Fluffs and Pupas! // Story: Ancient Warriors: Stag Beetles of Light and Darkness! // by ShogunWriter106 //------------------------------// Dried leaves in the Everfree Forest crunched as Daguva continued to walk with Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Silver Spoon, and Diamond Tiara, however they look rather traumatized as they shook with fear. After Daguva gave the group of fillies the tour of the Cube, they bumped into Surprise by accident. Introductions and explanations were made, promises were spoken, and the results.... "Remind me not to let Surprise go near that Musashi Eyecon!" Daguva whimpered, "I think my eyes need to be bleached three times 10 times infinity!" "Us too!" Apple Bloom quivered. "Why was that Ghost Eyecon in the Arena Snackbar!?" Scootaloo exclaimed before she shuddered as she turned slightly greenish orange, "I think that eyeball blinked at me!" "I didn't know she could use that sword in that kind of way!" Silver Spoon shrieked as she quivered, "I feel really bad for that training dummy!" "Tell me about it!" Diamond Tiara stated before she hurled into an empty brown paper bag, "What were those ghastly things?!" "Kids, I'm sorry you had to see that traumatizing hologram!" Daguva apologized as they walked up to a tree hut before he knocked on the door, "Hopefully Zecora might have something to deal with that!" As they waited for the door to open, Daguva suddenly got a strange sense of déjà vu when a brief image of a knight appeared in his head for a moment. "Why am I suddenly craving bananas?" Daguva muttered as the bushes behind the group rustled for a moment but he didn't noticed. The door creaked open to reveal a zebra wearing a brown tanktop, brown kahkis, and a necklace made from alligator teeth. She walked out to see who was knocking and her eyes widened for a moment before she stepped to the side to let the group inside her hut. "Zecora, I'm sorry to bother you right now!" Daguva apologized as he scooted the fillies inside, "These fillies saw something in the Cube that greatly disturbed them! Do you have anything that can calm them down?" Zecora went into a thinking pose before she walked off to a cupboard and started to rummage through it, "Sudden shocks and fears are hard to be cured, but I have something that will make the fillies feel more secured." She pulled her hands out to retrieve a large blanket and wrapped it around the terrified fillies. "This will be difficult to remedy, but it will go away with some aroma therapy," Zecora stated as he grounded some flowers into potpourri. "And to combat this dreadful woe, we should give them and you some hot cocoa." She then gave a cup to Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo who begin to guzzle it down their throats while Diamond and Silver drank theirs carefully. Daguva was about to sip his when a pink blur shot by and the delicious liquid in the mug was gone! "What?" Daguva gaped before he poured himself another cup, only for it to disappear as well! He narrowed his eyes as he pulled out a mousetrap and placed it in the empty cup before pouring himself another and pretended to drink... SNAP! "Ah HA! Gotcha'!" Daguva triumphed as he grabbed the scruff of a rather fluffy creature while she whimpered from the mousetrap induced pain, "What are you, you little, yet adorable creature?" "That, my friend, is a very rare Fluffly Pony, I thought the myths were pure baloney." Zecora explained as she walked over to remove the mousetrap from the creature's mouth. "Really? Then what is this one doing here- GAH!" Daguva started to ask, but the hand he was using to hold the Fluffly Pony suddenly sank into her fur with his entire body. The fillies shrieked with horror until Daguva was suddenly spat out on the floor with his eyes expressing a loopy, horror-filled daze as he got up and stumbled to the couch while blabbering incoherent noises. "Daguva, what's wrong?" Sweetie Belle asked as she shook his shoulder hoping, but he remained completely unresponsive. "Somebody get his brother Kuuga, before Daguva's mind will be stuck in a permanent samba," Zecora suggested. "Okay, what is going on with my brother and why is he mumbling nonsense?" Kuuga inquired as he waved a hand in front of Daguva's eyes and snapped his fingers, "He doesn't get scared like this unless he was subjected to something horrible beyond comprehension!" The Fluffly Pony made a brief razzberry in response. "ZIP IT YOU PILE OF FLUFF!" Kuuga snapped as he growled at her, "I don't know what you did to my brother, but unless you know something to snap him out of it, you are going to experience a shaving so bad you'll be shivering for a month!" Kuuga took Zecora's staff as it changed into Rising Dragon Rod as he transformed into his Rising Dragon Form and twirled it for a moment until a green glow suddenly enveloped it, halting its movement. "Hey! Who's doing that?" Kuuga growled as he turned around, only to find something standing behind him that made Zecora and the others stand back in shock. It was a black pony with a crooked glowing horn and insect wings wearing a tattered dress with holes in her hooves, "And you are?" "My name is Queen Chrysalis," The black pony stated as she used her magic to wrench away the staff away from Kuuga's hand as it transformed back to normal before it hovered to Zecora, "and I highly suggest you shouldn't attack my housemate! Even if she is covered with more fur than usual and has a couple of items stuck in it." "Wait, Queen Chrysalis?" Kuuga perked at that statement, "That name rings a bell... Aren't you the Changeling Queen that feeds on love with the rest of your hive? It's been years since I've last seen you." "Yes... Indeed it has," Chrysalis noted as she dug her hand in the Fluffy Pony's fur before pulling it out to retrieve a electronic tablet. "What's that?" Kuuga asked. "It's a device some peculiar white pegasus gave me when I was walking around in this forest earlier this morning," Chrysalis explained, "I'm not sure what it does but Fluffle Puff seems to enjoy it as she played on it for hours!" "What game was she playing on?" Kuuga asked as he took the tablet from Chrysalis's hands and started to look through it, but then Fluffle Puff swiped it away and hugged it towards her light pink fluffy coat and jeans. Kuuga raised an eyebrow in confusion and tried to reach for it again, but a familiar white hand grabbed his hand. Kuuga turned around to see Daguva has snapped to his senses looking more horrified than ever! "Don't look in there if you value your mind!" Daguva warned. Kuuga stared at him for a moment before he slowly retracted his hand away from Fluffle Puff. "Okay," Kuuga simply stated knowing when his brother warns him like that he should listen to him. Kuuga cleared his throat and turned to Fluffle Puff, "Fuffle Puff, I am sorry for snapping at you earlier and I hope you forgive me for doing that. It's just I was worried about my brother, which I'm sure you will be worried for Chrysalis or any other family members you might have. Come to think of it... do you have any siblings?" Fluffle Puff blew a simple razzberry and just nodded. "Really? You're just going to answer like that?" Kuuga asked to be sure. Fluffle Puff nodded and licked Kuuga's face much to the rider's discomfort as he gently took a hankerchief offered by Zecora and wiped the slobber off him. "Does Fluffle Puff always communicate like this and does she ever talk at all?" Daguva asked Chrysalis calmly as he watched Fluffle Puff mess around with the tablet for a moment before she placed it back inside her fur, "How much stuff is inside her?" "She carries pretty much everything," Chrysalis answered amusingly with a smile on her face before it turned serious as she whispered to Daguva quietly, "I found them." "Them?" Daguva repeated in the same quiet tone, "You mean the-" "Yes, they started to act up when you awakened with your brother," Chrysalis explained as she pulled out two gems colored white and black respectively as they glowed gently in the setting sun outside. Daguva took the gems from Chrysalis's hands as Kuuga walked up to Daguva's side while the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Diamond Tiara, and Silver Spoon were being escorted by Zecora back to their homes. "So," Kuuga stated as he examined the gem, "I guess this is one of the signs the Crystal Empire will come back in the near future." "Signs?" Chrysalis asked questioningly while Fluffle Puff stood next to her with a curious gaze. "There are two to be precised," Kuuga explained as he pulled a chalkboard out of nowhere and drew two objects on it. Each of them being a pair of gems and a couple being wedded, "The first will be when the gems of Light and Darkness will start to glow and the second will be a couple being wedded in Canterlot. After that, it will be an uncertain amount of time before the empire rises from its slumber." "And we have to deal with him, right?" Daguva stated as he punched his hands together in anticipation. "Relax," Kuuga said as he gently placed a hand on Daguva's shoulder, "Twilight and her friends will know what to do when that time comes, however we must prepare for what might come during Sombra's awakening. There's a good chance his darkness might awaken something in the Badlands!" "What is it?" Chrysalis asked as she clasped her hands in anxiety. "It is a being of darkness revived and summoned by a wizard from fragments of Daguva's and my power from which we have defeated long ago," Kuuga gravely explained as he looked out the window as he spoke three words with graveness, "Go-Gadoru-Ba!" "Who is Go-Gadoru-Ba?" Chrysalis asked. "He's..." Kuuga started to explain, but then he and Daguva heard a familiar voice in their heads. Kuuga! I need some help! Bring Daguva and Surprise! We need back-up here! "Oh James, really?" Kuuga groaned as he facepalmed before he quickly dashed into the Cube of Infinite Storage and brought out Surprise with him who, for some reason, is covered in crumbs! "Come on! Let's go! Chrysalis! We'll be back! Just need to take care of something!" With that said and done Kuuga (who was carrying Surprise by the coat) and Daguva vanished in a flash of light and darkness respectively leaving behind a confused Zecora, Chrysalis, and Fuffle Puff! Meanwhile in the Badlands, a coffin bearing a mark of a kabuto beetle within the caves shook a little before settling down after a second.