(Isaac's POV)
It had been a few hours since I had been freed, and I was just bumming around the edge of the Everfree Forest, watching the events of the Season 2 premiere play out before my eyes. As Discord was blasted by the Elements of Harmony and turned to stone once again, I simply turned on my heel and walked the other way.
"I wonder when they're going to start coming after me?" I muttered, as a flash of golden flames enveloped my form. In a second, I had assumed the form of a manticore. Not long after arriving in Equestria, I discovered I could copy the abilities of any living organism through direct physical contact. Unfortunately, the story behind this discovery isn't so grand...
(Flashback to 1,500 years ago)
"AAAAAGGGH!" I screamed, running from a fucking manticore! As in the weird hybrid thing that doesn't exist in the real world but does in Equestria. Yeah, I somehow ended up there. Seriously, what was up with this day?
The reason I knew this was because I eventually came up on a clearing with the Castle of the Royal Pony Sisters. If that wasn't enough , it wasn't abandoned yet! There were royal guards patrolling around it and everything. So I was in Equestria at least one thousand years before canon starts.
After my initial joy wore off, something else occurred to me. If what happened to me was anything like what happens in fanfiction, I wasn't going home anytime soon unless I figured out how I got here. Even if I did, there would be no guarantee I could get back.
Sorry, I got off track. Now where was I?
"SOMEONE HELP ME!" Ah yes that. To explain how this happened, apparently I wandered into his territory when he was hungry as far as I can tell.
Luckily, manticores were somewhat slow and in this new body I could outrun my pursuer easily. The bad part was that I still hadn't adjusted to it, so I couldn't run fast. Plus there was the-
*THWACK!*
-tripping and falling. On the up side, failure was not an option and adrenaline kept me moving. My breath came out in short pants as I hurriedly got to my feet, sometimes tripping again. Thankfully this guy liked to play with his food, seeing as he wasn't running as fast as he could. How did I know this? Well when I looked back at him he had this amused smirk on his face. What a dick.
As I continued to run, fatigue started to set in and I started slowing down. If I forced myself to go faster, there was no doubt that I would start tripping up even more.
Is this going to be how I die? Eaten alive in Equestria by a manticore before I even got to meet anypony?
God I'm already saying that crap. Eventually, my running space ran out and there was only a cliff.
"Fuck..." I muttered, panting with my hands on my knees. A growl alerted me to the fact that my pursuer was going in for the kill.
I quickly turned around to see the manticore slowly prowling towards me, the smirk gone from his face.
"Nice kitty. Come on you don't wanna eat me!" I tried reasoning with it. Cartoon logic says it should be able to at least partially understand me, right?
My words had no effect, and I slowly started moving sideways, the manticore's eyes following my movements carefully.
"You're not stupid are you? We're by a cliff! If you jump me now, I'll just roll out of the way and you'll fall to your death!"
He made a sound that was probably his equivalent of a scoff, then flared his wings.
"Oh yeah, you have those. And you can tell I can't fly yet, right?"
The smirk returning to his face was all the answer I needed. I fell onto my butt in exhaustion.
"Well... FFFUU-" Before I could finish my swear, he pounced. Admittedly, I screamed little a little girl.
I grabbed him by the jaw in what I thought was a futile attempt to hold him at bay,I didn't expect what would happen next.
A shocking sensation coursed through our bodies, stopping us both cold. New strength filled me as I managed to turn him off the cliff. His roar echoing in my ears as he fell, his wings probably stunned temporarily.
I was hyperventilating as I crawled away from the edge of the cliff, the shock sensation intensifying. I felt something within me changing.
"Shit..." I hissed as I felt my teeth... growing?! I looked down at my fingernails. They were growing, sharpening, heck they even felt tougher!
Then it intensified on my back and tailbone.
"FUCK!" I screamed. It felt like someone was ironing my back! After that was the tearing I could hear and feel. Eventuallly, I passed out from the pain...
When I woke up I had fangs,claws, a scorpion tail, and a second pair of wings. You can imagine how well I reacted to that. But once I calmed down and realized what I did, a whole ocean of possibilities appeared in my head. All I needed to do was touch someone or something and boom, what was once their's became mine.Of course I eventually sought out the changelings, just so I could look at least semi normal.
Now I just have to prepare.
(3rd Person POV)
"Well, I'm glad that's over." said Twilight Sparkle with a sigh, the Element of Magic worn proudly on her head.
"Agreed, that was just dreadful." replied Rarity.
Pinkie Pie couldn't be happier "And, now that it's over, we can have a VICTORY PARTY!" she was already bouncing off the walls with excitement.
"Though I can't shake feelin' we're forgetting somethin'." Applejack continued, scratching her head with a hoof.
"What else is there? We beat that chump Discord, Ponyville is back to normal, case closed!" Rainbow Dash said, eager to get this day over with."
"No, she's right! Remember what Discord said in the vault just before he left?" Twilight answered, her eyes widening in realization.
(Flashback to Earlier Today)
"...then find the Elements back where you began. Now if you excuse me, I have to free a friend of mine who was also stuck in stone." On that note, Discord vanished from the stained glass windows with a chilling laugh
Everypony gasped. Well almost everypony, Fluttershy just squeaked and made herself small.
"Wait a minute, that jerk has friends?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"And if'n he does, why wasn't he there helping him out?" Applejack continued.
"It's not surprising, really. Discord was such a ruffian that he probably drove what few friends he had away." Rarity answered with a flip of her mane.
"Maybe he was hiding somewhere in town, watching from the sidelines?" Fluttershy suggested.
"If that's true, then we're not out of hot water yet girls. We need to comb Ponyville for this guy, ASAP!" Twilight declared, taking leadership of the group once again.
"Right!" the others replied with a decisive nod. On that note, the six of them began their search.
I just hope we can find him before he causes any trouble... the purple unicorn thought, biting her lower lip in worry.
Oh come ON!!! Seriously??! A cliffhanger ri... oh for Pete's sake!! well at leat it was good, for how short it was.
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Sorry, this is my first fic so I'm not good at this yet.
4267885 for a cliffhanger you can't get a better stopping point! As for your first story since I don't know otherwise I'll have to believe you but be ready for some to simply say 'BULLSHIT!'
4267920
I personally think this is crap. I have written stories before for school assignments but that's about it.
I'm enjoying this story a fair bit apart from a couple of things that could have been done better:
You tend too tell a bit too much. Instead of showing us through description.
Same thing showing up in that flashback. Discord being the trickster that he is, I'd have expected for him to be a little bit more ominous with his words.
But other than that? I likey .
So he's overpowered...and drop dead gorgeous and intelligent and makes all the right friends-
I'm sorry, but that's too Gary Stu. Too unbelievable and too much. We've got Vulcan, Malideus, three dozen others, we don't need another insanely superpowered villain on the site. It's overdone.
4267927 it's to early and to little to the story to believe one way or the other that it is crap. Now, are there stories that you can tell with this little? YES but not this one, more chapters are needed. So, more please
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True, but this isn't meant to be all that serious.
Say, have you ever heard of Caesar Zeppeli? He's a character that attacks through bubbles, which are also imbued with the power of the sun simply by the nature of his powers.
4268080
Oh really? Elaborate please!
Good story. I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes.
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In the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure's 'verse', there is something called 'The Ripple', accessed through your breathing rhythm if you were born with the predisposition to it. It is essentially the condensed power of the sun in living beings. It allows many things right off the bat before any proper training whatsoever, like increased stamina, enhanced healing and overall health, greater strength, longevity, and making your very fists vampire-killing weapons.
The interesting part comes with the Ripple's affinity for water and organic materials, like oil, spit, wine, soap, some types of cloth, and blood. By directing it in a 'Chi'-like manner, the user can stick to wet surfaces (even if they are smooth and covered in oil, though it requires much concentration, strength and care), or even manipulate them; the first character we're introduced to that uses The Ripple can make something like wine he spat hold a disc-like shape and cut through objects - again, making its sole touch deadly to vampires.
(And assorted things to living beings, like puppeteer-ing pigeons and weak-willed non-ripple users with their consent.)
Caesar Zeppeli carried a pair of gauntlets that held soapy water and some holes and mesh cloth. With The Ripple and the movement of his arms and hands, he could make bubbles of many sizes, imbued with the Ripple so that they followed his will - like following a path and striking like punches (and his skill, training, and plain strength made those particularly hard punches). Most often, though? That will was to make them spin like buzzsaws, with The Ripple reinforcing the surface to make them cut through things (vampires have as much resistance as wet paper, though the 'pillar men' super-vampires were much more dangerous), or even use their disc shape to lens sunlight in such a way that many, many beams of it are concentrated into a single spot, trying to hit a vampire that hid in the shadows.
He last used it after being mortally wounded to make a bubble of his blood, containing his life-force and remaining Ripple-power so that our protagonist would have better chances against his enemy.
A W E S O M E. cautiously excited. Waiting for more!
at this moment I'm 50/50 but I'll fave it to keep an eye on it
This story is awesome!I've read mulitple of those stories mentioned in the description but this is a nice slight change
4268114 I like your story so far. Hey want to check out my story Ace Combat: Divided Feelings?
Lookin' forward to future chapters, my friend!
4268862 Way to self-promote.
Okay, this is actually some good stuff.
They're gonna be searching for days before they finally give up on looking in Ponyville. XD
4267981 In this case it was a character created by a prompt. Other crap the super power lottery spat out include a mummy who can transfer heat to and from things, possibly in beam form, can control reflections and do crap like Mirror Master, CREATE VOLCANOES, and absorb any chemicals with no negative effects. Yup. I believe the phrase "no, I'm a greenlantern who uses ACID instead of light" also came up at some point.
Some of them are duds, like the Angry Angelic Demonic Imp of Chastity, and others get being a dragon with double immortality, being covered in animals or bugs of some sort, can talk to spirits and can induce treachery in his enemies.
Angel King is kind of low on the "oh god this is horribly broken" scale as skewed by that thread. I'd say treat anything that comes out of it as a parody.
PLEASE NO! No flashbacks please! To many of these kinds of fics end up dedicating entire chapters to flashbacks when we ultimately know the end result. I mean, if you want to do flashbacks, go ahead, I just find them a bane to my existence.
Your very first story and you got featured!
Congrats!
Ahhh...the LOHAV never gets old...
More please
MOAR!
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OOOOOMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGG
MOAR
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So are half of the other main characters in the LoHAV. Your point is?
4269816 It's shit.
4269848
I can't excuse my writing, but look at the Superpower Lottery Challenge thread, and just see all of the combinations that are more OP than mine. Heck, roll your own. I dare you.
4269874 How about I don't do that, and instead ask you why you thought this was a good idea.
4269917
I thought it would something fun to do.
He'll go chapters and chapters thinking bubbles are a lame power, then it'll turn out to be his greatest single ability.
You have my attention. Now let's see what happens next.
Keep up the good work. Deus tecum.
Don't use the bolding and capitalizations for emphasis that's what italics are for.
another story to add to the list of, how long do I have to wait for teh updates.
...I think Discord would be a tad more subtle that just saying hes gonna release someone else out of the blue
4481316 Discord doesnt cover his plans, or try any strats over 5 minutes in the future
How did the Elements petrify Isaac in the first place? It is strongly implied in canon that the Elements don't do jack against someone who isn't A) evil or B) chaotic, and who is also either a purely magical existence (like Discord or Nightmare Moon, who was clearly an evil magical anomaly).
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Isaac was both evil and chaotic 100 years ago.
4891908
100 years ago? Just want to be sure I read that correctly. Wouldn't that be 1,000 years ago? ... Or something?
5783574
...im not the writer so im gonna make a "refrence" to a show
1000 years is just more dramatic then 974 years....
This is good
Hmmm, now that I think about it, would the elements even work on him? He doesn't seem evil or particularly chaotic now. He probably got stoned in the past because he was running with Discord. Somehow.
If you ever feel up to continuing this story, I found some things you might want to quickly edit. Missing space, a second end-quotation mark, and a missing period.