//------------------------------// // Meet the Monsters // Story: Warriors of Ikebukuro // by Hidemain //------------------------------// Twilight paced back and forth impatiently waiting for her mentor. Luckily her friends have mostly calmed down when they learned they could get Fluttershy back, though that didn't stop them from worrying about her. Pinkie Pie was was playing tic-tac-toe with Rarity while Applejack and Rainbow dash proceeded to hoof wrestle each and do various other sport related events. Twilight herself felt absolutely horrible, but maintained hope that she would be able to bring her friend back safe and sound. The tell tail flash of signified the arrival her mentor. Twilight and her friends looked up to find the two regal princesses standing side by side. They rushed to greet them. The young alicorn hugged the sun goddess. "Thank Faust your both here." Celestia nodded to her before motioning for her friends to rise. "How long has she been gone?" "Two and a half hours." Twilight moved back to her friends the princesses in tow. "I'm just going to need you to syphon your magic through my horn to perform the spell. It will take alot of magic but with you and Luna here this should be simple." The princesses nodded and took their place. Twilights friends and Ditzy making a semicircle around them with twilight in the middle. "When you're ready Twilight." She nodded and began charging her horn. "I'm ready." Celestia and Luna lit their horns and tendrils of magic reaching out towards Twilight's horn making it glow brighter. "I NEED MORE!" Twilight screamed as the wind around them started to pick up quickly deafening their ears. "Woah nelly!!" Applejack yelled ducking down holding onto her hat. The rest of the elements making similiar pleas as the wind whipped around the group. Twilights horn continued to glow brighter and brighter, until finally she released a flash. "OK We're Good!!" Twilight yelled over the wind but the alicorn sisters didn't here her as they continued to pour magic into the spell. Twilight growing worried began frantically waving at them to stop. "WHAT'D SHE SAY?!" Luna sceam/asked her sister. "I DON'T KNOW KEEP POURING IT!!" The alabaster alicorn replied. Twilight struggled to get close to them so they'd hear, but it was too late. The two alicorns had already overfed the spell, and Twilight could only hope her friend arrived safely. Suddenly an explosion rocked everyone in the area back several feet. Celestia was the first back on her hooves to survey the seen. Where twilight was focusing the spell was a large crater, dust and smoke obscuring the scene. Twilight and her friends were thrown it various positions while in random states of disorder. With a strong flap of her wings the sun alicorn pushed the smoke away revealing a sight that would make any normal pony run for the hills. Before her was the oddest combination of creatures she had ever seen. Six of them looked like run of the mill ponies but each seemed to have a somewhat off putting aura about that Celestia couldn't place. Among them were three pegasi two earth ponies and a unicorn. It was the other four that caused her pale and tense. Out front was a what looked like a young changeling queen with red eyes and mane talking with a green and white drake that looked a few years older than spike. Also talking with the group was a young pegasus stallion with a beige coat with golden mane and eyes wearing a yellow bandanna. His cutie mark was stylized top hat and bow tie seeming to representative of a gentlecolt. The loudest of the group was the four ponies off to the side. Consisting of two pegasi stallions a unicorn mare and an earth pony stallion. One pegasus had a white coat and blond mane wearing a blue hoodie his cutie mark was that of a bottle with a flame on top. The oddest part of the pegasus however was his seeming permanent Cheshire grin that hid his eyes. He was in an oddly pinkie pie-like debate with the purple unicorn wearing a news boy hat. Her mane was black and her cutie mark was what looked a black and white comic book with a small hammer and chisel in the back drop. The last two of the four was the other pegasus with a brown coat and slightly darker short mane wearing a red vest and gold necklace. His cutie mark was a circle with a line running through the middle. The last was a dark faded blue earth pony wearing a beanie with brown eyes his cutie mark that of a what looked like a minotuar fist with a comic book action star behind it. Standing behind the rest was a headless centaur mare wearing a black jacket with black smoke coming out of her neck with an overly cheerful and affectionate light brown earth pony in a lab coat clinging to her. Standing next to her was a golden diamond dog wearing a butler vest and light blue sunglasses with his arms crossed smoking a cigarette. But the most shocking of all was Fluttershy actively -if nervously- talking to with the with the headless centaur. --- Fluttershy was the first to figure out what happened and shook away her shock. Sanding up she froze. Before her were ten strangely familiar ponies all coming to at their own rate. While at first scared she knew immediately who they were when her eyes fell on the headless centaur. "Celty?" The centaur stood over the pegasus and waved silently confirming her suspicions. "Oh thank goodness you scared me." Fluttershy looked around and ran over the golden diamond dog. "Shizou... right?" He nodded. "Fluttershy... weird." The commotion next to them alerted their attention to the rest of the group who gaining their bearings. Walker and Erica seemed to be taking it the best, while the rest just seemed to be confused. They all quickly got their bearings and were talking among themselves. A gust of wind blew the smoke that had obscured their vision. To the Fluttershy the being before was her Princess and friend to the others was just another strange sight for them to behold. "GET AWAY FROM HER!!"