//------------------------------// // The Return of Kitsune // Story: Pony Ball: The Saga of Kitsune // by Matthew Stone //------------------------------// New Moon was on her own that one night when searching the dark mountains for another element. While Dissonance was on another assignment with Pico, Nate, Kendra, and Ekko, she has been pretty determined to see what she can find in the perilous hills herself. She had to fight off a couple of bloodthirsty bears, but it’s all worth it to pump up her adrenaline.          Eventually, she comes across a cave entrance that’s carved and shaped like a diamond. He grabs out her flashlight, and holds her sword to be ready for another fight. Smoke comes out of the cave, it could come from a feral dragon.          “The night is still young.” she hums while entering.          Her feet pace slowly like hooves from a spy horse. As she’s inside, the hall of the cave flutters with rabid bats dripping out the nasty phlegm from their mouths. This makes her hold back her vomiting, as her mouth puffs up from disgust. She then notices another entrance coming towards another section of the cave. She goes through the carved doorway made explicitly from dragon claws.          In the room, gold bits and crumbled pieces of diamonds scatter on the floor. She can see a gleam at the corner of the room, guessing that the next element may be hidden there. She has recalled that her friends gathered all the elements from all other cities, finding the seventh. The one she’s looking for may be the last, but it’s all not the same with Kitsune gone. She weeps again, thinking about the loss of her best friend.          As she goes to the corner, she steps on something squishy. She looks down, as her eyes widen at the inferno image of burning fire on flesh! A DEAD DRAGON! And its intestines are ripped out from the stomach of the beast. Its eyes are also peeled mercilessly, with white ooze goring out.          “He didn’t put up much of a fight…” a voice giggled in the cave room, “But now I’m more excited for a REAL one.”          New Moon grasps her sword in panic, and thrusts around to se what’s behind her. COSMOS! The twisted pony with her mangled hair paces towards the hero pony, as her creepy grin widens, exposing her bloody teeth.          “Lovely pose…” Cosmos remarks at New Moon, “I’ll be looking forward to ripping off your knees.”          “Why are YOU here?” the alicorn demands, “I assume killing that creature is not all you were looking for…”          “Quite right.” the crazy villain in front of her cackles, “And that… element… whatsoever… is coming home with me…”          “Just try… you monster…” New Moon scowls.           The confrontation begins, as Cosmos releases her first attack. It may be similar to what Kitsune has learned, but she quickly opens up with a Psycho Dog technique. Her eyes glow red, and her teeth become fangs! As she rushes forward to New Moon, the alicorn leaps backward to swing her sword. But Cosmos jumps to miss the swing, and comes behind the purple pony. Before New Moon could react, Cosmos kicks her in the back of the head.          This stuns New Moon, but she manages to swing the sword again to strike Cosmos by the face. The crazy pony screams as the side of her cheek marks the scar. New Moon swings again, ripping out Cosmo’s left eye with the blade. The villain wails, as her glowing right eye starts to beam out a ray, pushing New Moon back to have her crash against the cave wall. New Moon reflexes again, before a couple of crumbling rocks from above fall to crush her.          Luckily, she misses their landings, and jumps up again to avoid the next kick by Cosmos. The beast’s fangs try to bit at the alicorn’s feet, but the pony slides to miss and kick Cosmos in the chest. The enemy falls back, feeling the crushed diamonds scratch her clothes.          “YOU DARE RIP OUT MY EYE?!” Cosmos shrieks.          “It’s not like a had a choice!” New Moon retorts.          “You don’t even know what I’m capable of!” Cosmos warns.          “You’re nearly wounded…” New Moon tries to reason, “Just give in. You can’t win this fight.”          Cosmos grins, making the alicorn suspicious.          “You’re right… I can’t win… but…”          Cosmos suddenly tosses a ray out of her hoof, having its aura go around the dead body of the feral dragon she killed once before. The corpse’s eyes then open slowly, as it’s pupils grow very thin with blood changing it’s color to devil red. It’s hand the stretches its fingers like rubber.          The dead being rattles as the fingers bend like they have superpowers. They wrap around New Moon’s neck and limbs, throwing her to the grown to pin her down. She screams in horror, as Cosmos’ dragon pet starts to open it’s mouth, preparing to devour her.          “Little guy is pretty hungry.” Cosmos grins, “Looks like he can eat a snack.”          New Moon weeps, worrying this may be her end.          SLICE!              A sudden karate chop pounds out one of the teeth to the corpse, having the monster fall it’s head back as blood squirts from the gum. Cosmos gasps in disbelief, as the figure then rushes to rescue New Moon from the zombie dragon’s grasp. New Moon looks up, wondering who came to her aid.      “Kitsune…” she whispers.      The resurrected fox smiles down at her.     “KITSUNE!” Cosmos stutters, “Impossible! I heard you were dead!”     “Just got a little visit from Acree, a brief mentor.” Kitsune smirks, “She gave her approval for me to have one last chance.”     “Well…” Cosmos sneers, “I better make sure you’d waste it, then…”     Cosmos screams the command to her zombie dragon, as it flies over to now target Kitsune. The fox flies backward to miss its swipe, ready to try his new moon. He breathes slowly, remembering what he learned from his training.           “Better use my super transformation abilities…” Kitsune hums.     Thunder starts to boom around him, as light surrounds his body like an angelic bird. He flies up again, missing the next swipe from the dragon’s claws. He then sparks out electric volts to spark against the claws, shattering one of them into dust.     “NO!” Cosmos cries, “My poor pet!”     His next move dodges another swipe from the zombie creature, as Kitsune activates his electric sparks to move upwards in his hands.     “MEGA VOLTAGE!” Kitsune roars.     The lightening then blasts out from both his palms at they strike the forehead of the beast. He then makes a mighty hit with his fists, combining the incredible strength with electric watts surging into the cells of its brain. Of course, the zombie dragon makes a move that briefly traps Kitsune for a moment too.     Making a huge breath, it breathes out a boney ooze ball to knock the fox towards the ground. It then paces over to corner him, only to give Kitsune a chance to charge his power, feeling the surge pump blood into his heart once more. The final move Kitsune makes is SUPER lethal, that Kitsune wouldn’t dare use it in a martial arts tournament.     As the Dragon tries to bite the fox’s head off in the corner, Kitsune dodges under, and thrusts his hand up into THE DRAGON’S CHEST!           “URK!” the zombie dragon coughs.     It was to New Moon’s shock that she just seen Kitsune punch his fist straight into the heart of the zombie, having LOTS of blood bleed out the hole of the monster. This causes the zombie dragon to shrink, having bones pop out of the body until they disintegrate. Finally, even when covering Kitsune, ooze spills onto the floor, riding the slave that belonged to Cosmos.     The villainous pony drops backwards, as she looks angrily into his god like eyes.     “WHY?” she demands, “I DO WANT TO CARE FOR YOU! WHY DO THIS?”     “How do I put this delicately?” Kitsune hums, “YOU’RE A SOCIOPATHIC PSYCHO-BITCH! You’re overly obsessed with me and you can’t take a hint that I’m not into you. I already am in love with someone else. And your evil schemes are nowhere near charming! Even as you were a kid… you where still under my enemy’s control…”     “Even if I was villainous…” Cosmos scowls, “You still should belong to me.”              “But I never will." Kitsune sneers.     “Well…” she giggles, “Typical. I guess I have to kill you then.”     “Stand back.” Kitsune cautions to New Moon.     As New Moon does, Cosmos floats upward and flies really fast to punch the fox into the jaw. Kitsune then fights back by firing an electric spark to her chest, shaking Cosmos’ breasts in the process. Cosmos prepares to make her aura blasts, until she sees Kitsune powering up his energy really fast!     His certain Kaiō-Ken powers up twenty four times, as he sets higher up onto the ceiling of the cave. Cosmos cackles in ignorance, and floats upward to follow him. She swings forward her blast to try and rip his face off. Kitsune’s aura suddenly blocks the attack with a blue smoke pushing back the blast. The attack reflects back to Cosmos, melting off part of her skin. She then looks at her enemy in pure horror now.     “KAIO!” Kitsune screams.     His yellow blast from his palm hits Cosmos, going towards her chest again. The blast has her plummeting to the ground, making a crater as the blast pins her down to sink deeper and deeper. As the pain grows, her hellish anger starts to rise.     As Kitsune’s move is finishes, she lunges upward again. She flies at Kitsune, punching again and again as he dodges her attacks with relative ease. She then glances at New Moon at the bottom of the room.     “We’ll see who has the real broken heart here…” she laughs.     She then makes her aim, as she dives down to try and kill New Moon. She makes a glowing aura to pin the alicorn to the ground, as Kitsune’s girlfriend struggles to get free. Cosmos laughs, showing no mercy as she thrusts her hoof upward to make New Moon’s heart the bull’s eye. "TIME TO DIE---“ Cosmos starts to say.     In a split second though, Kitsune flashes in front of the villain to protect the alicorn. It’s time. He finishes the battle by bringing up his Spinning Chi Ball. He opens his right palm and faces it upward, and places his left hand around his right arm for support. Then, he gathers the surrounding energy into his right palm and shapes it into an energy ball. Then, as the ball levitates into the air, Kitsune uses his index and middle fingers to direct the ball into heading straight at Cosmos, pummeling her multiple times!     The strikes are like fireworks, as they finally strike her in a colorful way! With that, one last explosion is made! Blood spurts, as Cosmos explodes into thousands of pieces, just as the  fire dies down! The last strike is done. Cosmos has just been killed. The villain… is no more…     Kitsune then floats down slowly, pacing his feet onto the ground. The aura dies off, as he turns around to see New Moon. He helps her up to her feet, as she hugs him.     “You didn’t need to kill her…” she whispers.                “She was going to kill you…” Kitsune said, “And her criminal record…”     Suddenly, the ground rumbles. The two look around the room, as they realize the battle has damaged enough of the cave. Rocks begin to crumble, as huge slabs of natural rock fall along with it!     “HANG ON!” Kitsune yells, as he picks New Moon up into his arms!              He runs as fast as he can, as his two tails support the stamina of his speed. The alicorn looks up at her knight in shinning armor, running through the hall of the cave as more debris of rocks begin to fall. They’re almost at the exit of the cave.     Just a little faster…     RUMBLE!               CRACK!                 BAM!                 Dead? No. THEY’RE OUT!                 Kitsune looks behind him, as he sees that he and New Moon are probably a couple miles away from the mountain that shifted into anew shape after that fight. He sets his lover down, as she lands on her hands in knees in shock. She looks up at him, still in awe.     “You okay?” he asks.     “You… were dead…” she repeats, “I still can’t believe it.”     “Just to make sure, did you retrieve the final element?” Kitsune asks.     New Moon pulls it out of her pocket. It’s glowing bright gold. The fox grins, seeing the diamond shape of the treasure.     “Great… almost done.” he sighs.     “Kitsune…” New Moon smiles, getting up.     “Yeah?” the fox answers.     New Moon then leans over to kiss him on the cheek.     “Welcome back.”