New threat
The beaming morning sun assaulted my eyes with its bright rays.
I groaned as I shifted around in my oversized bed in hopes of escaping the light. However, no matter which position I shifted into, the sunlight pestered itself right back onto my face.
I stretched my hands out and yawned, my eyes steadily opening in the process. I finished my stretching with a satisfied sigh as I sat up on my bed.
I scratched my head and weakly stood up, my feet almost giving out on me as they were pushed down by gravity. I stumbled and wobbled before regaining my sense of balance.
My eyelids drooped as I quietly strode over to my bathroom, my shoulders also feeling heavy.
"I will never be a morning person.", I groaned to myself.
After slowly entering the bathroom, I headed towards the sink with about as much enthusiasm as a snail. I then rotated the faucet labeled with a bold "C" and proceeded to splash cold water on my face.
It wasn't as effective in waking me up as I hoped, but it did the trick. I shuddered the cold feeling off and continued with my usual morning sequence.
Brush my teeth, strip, fill bathtub, bathe, dry awkwardly in pony underwear, and put clothes back on.
After a while, I had completed all these tasks, now being completely awake and aware. Well, as awake and aware as a snail can be.
With much more effort to my movements, I exited the bathroom and headed straight out of the bedroom as well. Spark had already taken his position outside as expected. I raised my eyebrow at the fuzzy fellow, his eyelids seeming a little lazy today.
"Seems like mornings are a mutual enemy for us, huh?" I teased while nudging his shoulder.
"So it seems," he chuckled.
I gazed at him in amusement to his response. After a few moments of silence, it seemed that he too, realized the abnormality.. though I really wouldn't have minded if he didn't.
"Whoops!.. uh, I mean.." he paused to clear his throat. ".. so it seems, sir!", he corrected.
I couldn't help but smile at his brief loss of formality, the majority of these folks proved to be very pleasant individuals. I hoped that this didn't seem too presumptuous of me, but I was beginning to empathize with Celestia about these ponies.
Sure, some of them were hopeless idiots, but it didn't overshadow the fact that they all bore a genuinely happy outlook on life. It was so fragile too, but that's precisely why it was something worth protecting... but perhaps I was just getting too far over my head here. Welp, whatever.
"How about we go get some breakfast?", I suggested.
Spark nodded and began to lead the way, but I quickly caught up to him. If we were only going to the dining hall, we could simply walk side by side instead of the usual leader and follower routine.
We advanced down the typical route, my eyes awkwardly glancing at a certain door as we passed it. She couldn't possibly still be in there could she? I sure as blazes wasn't planning on checking though, her mere presence was the harbinger of disaster.
I slid into a self-embrace and shivered as I recalled the catastrophe that transpired last time I saw her.
I attempted to harden my nerves with mild success as we headed down the stairs. When we arrived down, I noticed that over at the end of it stood a certain purple alicorn with her back turned. I looked in pleasant surprise, was Twilight a resident of this castle too?
I then proceeded to quickly pace over to her.
"Well, if it isn't Twilight!", I deliberately called.
She turned towards us, giving me a clear view of the psychopathic expression she had on her face.
"Woah!", I yelped as I halted and took sight of the incredible bags under her eyes. Not to mention the huge, forced grin she had plastered on as well.
"Hi there!...You look great today.. STOP LOOKING SO GREAT!", She yelled into my face, her right eye twitching in coherence to her crazy demeanor.
"T-thanks?.. and uuh, are you... ok?", I asked as sweat dripped down my cheek.
"Of course I am! Why wouldn't I be ok!? Are YOU ok!??", she yelled while pointing a hoof towards me in an accusative manner.
W-what in the emperors name..?
I delved into her obviously distressed eyes while nervously smiling. I then glanced over to Spark who seemed perfectly oblivious to her maniacal demeanor. As my eyes made contact with his, he gazed away and whistled nonchalantly. That traitor!
I slowly turned my head back towards Twilight and I directed her a troubled smile.
"Uuuh.. Lets go inside shall we?", I insisted while opening the door for her.
She trotted inside, eyeing me the whole length of the way with her twitchy eyes as she did so. Spark followed after her and soon, I did as well.
The dining hall was completely empty today, save for the usual bunch of guards in the corners. Actually, the security seemed like it may have been doubled.
Spark went off on his own direction to eat while me and Twilight headed towards the usual guest tables. We sat across from each other around the mid-section of the table.
I questioningly ogled at her, my gaze being answered by a nervous, psychopathic grin.
"Twilight.. you don't really seem like yourself today..", I said.
"I d-don't know what you're talking about!", she responded, beads of sweat trickling down her face.
Twilight was definitely the type to lose every single round of lava poker wasn't she? I sighed in annoyance to her stubborn façade and deadpanned at her.
"I guess I'm just imagining it.." I said with a hint of sarcasm. "..Aaanyway, what brings you here so early?"
The question seemed to have snapped her from her crazy atmosphere. If only temporarily, she took to a worried glance as she contemplated an answer to the question. At least now she didn't look like she just accidentally killed somebody in cold blood.
"To be honest, I don't know that myself. The princesses requested for me to come to the royal palace immediately. But when I arrived, they insisted I eat before hearing the 'terrible news'." she sullenly responded.
"Gah! Im just so worried! What if something happened!? What if a giant meteorite is on its way right now!? What if all of Equus is on the verge of being burned to ashes by an imminent burst of gamma rays, which approaches at the speed of light from a distant supermassive black hole!?"
She was way beyond simply "overthinking" this situation!! How can one even assume that a gamma ray burst would even remotely be the case!?
"Calm down, Twilight! I don't know why you'd overthink it to this extent. You DO realize that the chances of us getting hit by a gamma ray burst are like a one in quadrillion chance right??"
"But it's not impossible!"
To this, I facepalmed.
"Ok, lets just think about this rationally. You're a princess too right? Its probably just some sort of urgent diplomatic agenda. No meteorites, no black holes, just important princess things."
Once again, I didn't know if I was helping or not for Twilight began to slip into a depressing sulk. As to what it was that brought forth this sad gaze of hers, I did not know.. but man, was she a landslide of emotion or what?
"Important princess things, huh?", she moped.
"Did I say something wrong?", I asked worryingly.
"..No. Its just that... Every princess has a unique purpose to their coronations.. but it feels like I have no purpose to serve for Equestria of my own, even though I have these pesky wings on my back.."
"..I just don't know if this whole princess thing was meant for me."
I didn't think that Twilight had these types of issues. Wasn't the fact that she was a princess dictate her responsibility of ruling over land? Or could it be that princesses in this world all have different and unique reasons for being princesses?
Well, Celestia DID raise the sun.. and Luna also raises the moon. Surely this must mean that Twilight also had something to contribute, she just didn't know it yet.
"Hmm, doesn't the fact that you are currently a princess at all speak for itself? If my guesses are correct, then you DO have a purpose. This is just the sort of problem where you'll have to wait for the answer to come to you naturally, entirely of its own accord.", I explained in a calm collected tone.
The words weren't exactly my own, but it was still genuinely good advice. Special thanks to Mr. shady old man on my sixteenth birthday, I really wish I could've spent more than just a day with the old coot.
Twilight put a hoof to her chin as she pondered over my advice.
"Do you really think so?", she asked.
I smiled and nodded my head. I then glanced at the waiter who approached us with food-filled plates. I examined the contents, inside being scrambled eggs with bacon shaped.. grass maybe?
I wasn't touching that part but the scrambled eggs appeared to have been delicious.
"Bon appetit.", he said while placing our plates in front of us.
Twilight and I began chowing down with equal sloppiness. It was sort of amusing how she was a princess and ate like this, but dear Sozin! Was this egg freaking delicious or what?
Its awesome quality and taste compelled me to take a small bite of the bacon shaped grass. But I immediately regretted it as I spat it out onto an empty spot on my plate. Quality or not, it tasted like straight up grass.
"Nwot gwonna weat zhat?", asked twilight while her mouth was full.
I stared with interest towards her absolute lack of manners before tossing the grass bacon over. She caught them in her mouth and comically gulped them down without chewing. Not sure how that worked but it got me to release a small chuckle.
The chuckle didn't last long however, for the the aroma of herb-filled scrambled eggs had me back to stuffing my mouth in no time. After a good while of fast eating, both I and Twilight were finished with our meals.. to which we both released a hearty sigh of satisfaction.
"Well then Kurama, I best be on my way to Celestia and Luna.", pardoned Twilight while hopping off her seat.
"Ill take you there.", I offered. "Not like I have anything better to do."
Twilight smiled and gave me a nod of appreciation for my hospitality. We then made our way towards the exit, Spark springing up from his table as he saw us leave.
"Its ok, Private! Finish your meal, I'll be sure to head back to my room after accompanying Twilight!", I mildly shouted from across the dining hall.
Spark shrugged and sat back down while Twilight and I walked out the door. We headed down the path to the throne room, Twilight seeming to know the area like the back of her han-.. hoof.
After some unexpectedly fast-paced walking, we arrived at the double doors leading to the throne room. I opened it for Twilight and motioned her to go in, once she did, I followed after her. Might as well say hi to Celestia and Luna before I return to my boring room.
I glanced towards the thrones, a third unidentified pink alicorn accompanying Luna and Celestia. We both eyed each other curiously as Twilight ran off in her direction.
"Cadence!!", excitedly yelled Twilight while embracing the pink alicorn.
This "Cadence" fellow embraced her back briefly before abruptly pulling away from it.
"I'm afraid we can't spend too much time on greetings this time my dear sis", she said.
She then turned towards me.
"You must be Kurama."
Now I wasn't some sort of oblivious fool. I could see the expressions on all three of their faces, something was seriously wrong.
"I'm sorry, should I leave?", I asked apologetically.
"No, it may be for the best if you were to listen to this as well.", answered Celestia in her behalf.
"We must hurry. Twilight and Kurama, follow us.", said Luna as she and the other two fast-trotted towards the exit.
Me and Twilight glanced at each other in confusion and nervousness before following behind.
Celestia enveloped the book which we were all circling around with her magic, then opening it soon after.
"Tirek and his brother Scorpen came here from a distant land, intent on stealing Equestrian magic. But Scorpen soon came to appreciate the ways of Equestria, even befriending a young unicorn wizard.", began Celestia.
"Scorpen urged his brother to abandon their plans. When Tirek refused, Scorpen alerted us to Tirek's intentions.", continued Luna.
"Scorpen returned to his own land, and Tirek was sent to tartarus for his crimes. But it appears he has found a way to escape.", finished Celestia.
"We believe it happened when Cerberus left his post at the gates.", said Luna.
I took a quick minute to gather my thoughts on the situation. It appeared that this "Tirek" person was vanished to the equivalent of hell on this dimension and managed to escape? I would have immediately labeled him as awesome if he wasn't made out to be such an evil being.
Tirek, huh?
My eyebrow raised as the deep, manly voice echoed through my head.
What, you know him?
A fine example of a specimen. I wish he had been the one to come across me instead of you, brat.
BLEH. Too bad!
Tch. Are you a child? Annoying fool.
Well I'm right though. You're stuck with me whether you like it or not. Also you seem weirdly calm today.
I am in quite the favorable mood. If Tirek has really escaped, then it's only a matter of time before he steals all Equestrian magic and annihilates you all. Heh. It was due time you were put down, Scum.
This guy must have seriously been trouble if Disem thought this highly of him.
"But that was a long time ago, why is he just now starting to steal magic?", asked Twilight.
"His time in Tartarus left him very weak. He has just now, gained enough strength to use his dark powers.", answered Celestia.
"But with each passing moment, he grows stronger still.", said Luna.
"Do we have a safe way to take action against him without endangering any lives?", I asked.
"Yes, and I know just the princess who could stop him.", answered Cadence while confidently glancing at Twilight.
Twilight swiftly picked up on what it was that she was hinting at and began to take the duty upon herself.
"Yes! Ill find him and-"
"No Twilight." Interrupted Celestia. "I'm afraid I must call in another to stop Tirek.."
"Discord"
Twilight, Cadence, and even Luna all gasped at the mention of that name. This only served to confuse me even more than I sort of already was.
"Discord?", I asked.
"He is a former enemy reformed into a friend.", answered Luna.
"But why.. Discord?", questioned Twilight.
"Because his magic allows him the ability to sense whenever there is a magical disturbance in the air.", responded Celestia.
"Now go Twilight, spread the word for no one to dare step a hoof out of their homes until this situation is resolved.", she finished.
Twilight had quite the distraught expression as she nodded and slowly trotted towards the exit, her head hung low.
"Kurama, feel free to return to your chambers as well.", said Celestia.
I turned towards her and gazed deeply into her eyes with a worried look.
"Sure.. but if something comes up-"
"I know. At this point, I am not entitled to keep you in the dark. If something were to come up, I'll make sure to send word to you immediately.", she reassured.
I smiled and walked over to Cadence.
"Sorry, last time we weren't able to properly introduce each other were we?"
She smiled and extended a hoof.
"Princess Mi Amore Cadenza, at your service.", she greeted.
"Kurama Li Feng, the pleasure is all mine.", I returned while shaking her hoof. I then began to wave goodbye as I exited the room.
I closed the door behind me and attempted to recall the path we took from the throne room. After a while of retracing my steps, a poof of white light suddenly sparked in front of me.
It swiftly left as it came, it's only remnant being the seriously screwed up looking creature left in front of me. And I mean SERIOUSLY screwed up, the damn thing didn't have a single pair of body parts that matched.
"Oh? And just what are you supposed to be?", he asked in a sarcastic tone.
"That's MY question pal!", I rudely answered.
He snapped his jacked up fingers, a graduation gown suddenly having been summoned onto his long slender body.
"In all my years as a passionate scholar, I have never seen such a thing as you.. Kurama is it?", he said while gawking at my chest.
"How did you know my name!?", I hissed.
The graduation gown then disappeared as he rolled his eyes.
"Just what do you mean? It says it right there.", he said while pointing at my chest.
I glanced down at a name tag which stated "Hello my name is Kurama... PS. Discord is awesome". When the flying flicker did that get there? Was it this guys doing? wait.
"You're Discord!?", I loudly asked.
He put one of his inter-species fingers onto my lips and hushed me.
"Oh please Kurama, use your inside voice. Some of us have royal business to attend to.", he said while poofing a tuxedo onto his body, a suitcase and a bowler hat also having been animated from thin air.
"Chao~"
Before I could question him as to what sort of physics-altering deity he was, Discord disappeared with another bright poof of magic.
"W-what just happened..?"
After being stunned in confusion for a few moments, I resumed the tread back to my chambers. When I arrived, I greeted Spark who stood on his usual spot and entered it.
I skipped over to my bed and sat on it, focusing my eyes intently on the door. If that thing was truly the one who we were depending on, then things were bound to go terribly wrong.
I don't know how he can manipulate physics in that manner, but one thing's for certain. That guy was the last thing you'd want to put your faith in. Yes, he was the most troublesome type of despicable individual.
"A person who truly rejoiced in hitting others with the most unexpected twists, like betrayal perhaps.."
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...This chapter, and really most of this fic is just... Odd. He's meant to be a fire bender, yeah? ...Better be from Legend of Kora's era (Which he's not if a war was on the table) to even know what plumbing is. Most of the setting of Avatar is rather feudal. No modern ammenities aside from a few parallels to modern things. Those didn't pop up until Kora. There's also the fact that he speaks like any modern person... Not QUITE in line with the setting he's meant to be from. There were bits of modern slang in the source material, but they were used few and far between. Concepts like trolls, things like the word asshat... It really just throws all this out of wack. And all that's not even touching on the pacing. Its like the textual form of a Jezz ball on speed. Using things like *clears throat* is just wrong too. This is NOT a screen play. Don't write things like stage directions. "He paused, clearing his throat." would have worked just as well and sounded a hell of a lot better to read.
death by troll!!!!1
6367040 hmm you do have a huge point.. ill make sure to fix that as soon as i can. And you said that the pacing was too quick?
6367040 actually, thanx a whole bunch bro. Im new to this and the lack of negative comments may have spun me out of control. While your comment isnt really negative, it actually states huge problems which i was entirely oblivious to and will try my damndest to correct. As for the pacing, is it because i dont add timeskips or because i simply transition too fast to next events?
I want to know how he knows what a fedora is, and how the crunchy fuck you mistake AJ's hat for one!
6367847 ill make a complaint box for the story. I deeply regard ALL feedback regarding my mistakes and will do everything in my power to correct them. If anyone has something that you just have to point out no matter what, then unload it all in the complaint box that ill be making over at my blog space. Am deeply sorry for those few parts and i hope that you can still enjoy the story
6367607
Just letting us readers know how much time has passed between chapters if there is some time skipping would help a lot. Much like what I said with that stage direction style of writing, don't just smack down a date though. When writing, its a case of show, don't tell.
6367939 gotcha.
The next Villain that soon?
I read something about a timeskip, i hope you haven´t done to much, it already feels like everything happens to fast, rushed maybe.
You should let them have a short brake, it looks like they would have to fight another Villain after only two days of peace.
If your going to have the Tirek thing next, i hope Kurama can assist much, since he don´t really use Magic, and he has that flame thing, so maybe he can do a bit more, than attack him once, and getting knocked out by one ghust of wind.
I just know a certain story where it happened like that.
I know that Tirek is more or less one of the only Villain, where it probably would not matter how strong the Human is, at least if Tirek is at full power, but one it doesn´t have to happen, but more important, that still doesn´t mean that Kurama can´t help.
He isn´t Discord, and as much as i know, Tirek can only attack with blast, or strong physical attacks, nothing like some tricky magic.
Kurama would still be able to distract him i believe, however after that i would suggest to let him meet more characters, or let him start a few more friendships, befor any short of new Villain.
Please don´t use to much time skips, like " three months later", there could happen to much, and it would feel odd to have to much sudden changes.
Maybe that Tirek accident, could give Celestia a reason to be interessted in him, or for Kurama to comfort Celestia, i guess you could do something with it.
6367607 not sure if you just mentioned yourself, because of my more or less poor english, but if you continue like that, it probably looks like you woudl rush the story.
I don´t mind to wait if i get something better for it, and you don´t have to add one problem after another, i think you could make it interessting with some other things, like him learning more about Equestria, some slice of life, or just the start of the romance between him and Celestia.
I would like to ask for that type of Celestia, that probably never thought someone would be actually brave enough to try to court her, since her ponys seems to think to highly of her, and doesn´t dare to approach her, because of something like love.
Maybe she is just confused about why she is so interessted in Kurama since she had her last Coltfriend in the far past, or she never was able to have a real relationship, because she was forced to work to much since she was very young.
Just some suggestions, and something i would like to see for a change.
6368870 youll see how itll go down. Tirek is gonna be the only canon villain, but not the only villain. Also, it may feel a bit rushed, but kurama came to their world after the Equestria games. And the whole tirek thing just happens to be soon after that. After i get it outta the way, ill take it way slower.
6369059 Anyway i have to apologize for one thing, you maybe already named the second accident, but this is the first Kurama was allowed to help, so i was wrong about the second Villain.
I just want to correct my own mistake right now.
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Sometimes it isn't about perfect grammar its about your personality and how you say things....look at Shakespeare. ...he made up words to describe things, plus you aren't Kurama and that's probably the word he was thinking of at the moment.....
i really doubt kurama would know what a gamma ray burst is..
i kinda doubt twilight would know it
6397332 I wouldnt put it past him
even the mayans had a good enough sense of astronomy to make a calendar based on it. Plus Egyptians built the three pyramids to perfectly aline with stars that we really dont understand how they were aware of. Id say the fire nation is way more advanced than them and Twilights an egghead, and its just a bit of headcanon though it may really be a real stretch..
6397378 The Egyptians used a pendulum string to decide where to build the pyramids, plus water, logs, and pack animals to move the stone from the quarry to the site, then slave labor in place of animals, but still logs and water. Also combined simple machines, like the fulcrum, the lever, and the pulley, then a lot of smoothed stone over top. The incans just observed the movement of water and tried to improve their quality of life with it, hence the copper sewage system, while the Mayans used a solar calendar, rather than the lunar calendar we use currently.
6435844 Stupid there were no slaves in Egypt. The egyptians had a belief that everyone owed the pharo and so they sent one man from there household to help build the pyramids.
6452493 So indentured servitude, usually for life. After all, they were buried with servants, warriors, various animals, and any one they had hired.
6452636 Thats close. They could still life their life normally, it's just that they felt the owed the pharoh. And because of this they when told to would do what the pharoh says.
please write more chapters.