Star Knight and the Nine-Tailed Fox

by Rakoon1

The End of the War

After cutting the Lord of Chaos’ arm, he exclaimed to Star:

“You little brat!”

Star then summoned and threw at the Lord of Chaos’ arm two black rods to prevent him from getting it back.

Shining, look at his grandfather’s ashes couldn’t help but think that, although he still had some power, he was left behind again.

“Why, grandpa?” he asked. “I know that you protected me because you cared about me, but what am I doing here?”

At that moment, a light started to come out of Star Shield’s ashes and Shining saw his bell appear and approach him. The white unicorn was able to feel his grandfather’s power and will at that bell. He was giving him the power he needed to fight. That caused Shining to smile and say:

“Thank you… grandpa.”

Blue, who was levitating himself, tried to attack the Lord of Chaos with his light sword. But he was able to defend and throw him back. Sensing someone approaching from behind, he turned and saw Star exclaiming:

“Let’s do this, guys!”

He had with him eight other clones and the nine started to create nine Spiraling Stars with the energy of each tailed beast.

“Yes” Shukaku said, while his clone created a magnet natured Spiraling Star with sand.

“You bet” Matatabi said, while her clone created a Spiraling Star with blue flames.

“Eeyup” Isobu said, while his clone created a water natured Spiraling Star.

“All right” Son Goku replied, while his clone created a lava natured Spiraling Star.

“Understood” Kokuo answered, while her clone created a vapour natured Spiraling Star.

“Sure thing” Saiken said, while his clone created a Spiraling Star with soup bubbles.

“Let’s do it” Chomei said, while his clone created a Spiraling Star with scale powder.

“Yeah” Gyuki replied, while his clone created a ink natured Spiraling Star.

“Here we go!” Kurama exclaimed, while he and the original Star created a wind natured Spiraling Star.

And all Star threw their respective Spiraling Stars.

“No…” the Lord of Chaos, while he was hit.

A big explosion happened and, when Blue started to fall, Star went to catch his father.

“Nice, Star!” Twilight exclaimed, very happy and proud, after seeing that.

But then she noticed the Lord of Chaos. Although he had scratches all over his body and armor, he was still able to fight. At that moment, a white mass, similar to the one that Petal Sprout was made of, started to come out of the Lord of Chaos. That mass expanded and took the form of the heads of all the nine tailed beasts inside him. He rapidly concluded that the energy of the tailed beasts inside him started to react with Star’s last attacks, which were charged with the same energy. The white mass covered him up also and the form of an animal similar to a rabbit appeared, having the nine tailed beasts on its back.

“What’s that?” Star asked. “He turned into that thing!”

“It doesn’t matter” Blue said, levitating thanks to Star’s black matter. “Now, it’s easier to get close.”

The beast roared and then tails similar to those of Ten-Tails came out and tried to attack them. One of Star’s clone put the original and Blue out of the way and was gabbed, being then absorbed.

“Dad…” Star said.

“Yes, I know” he replied. “Just be careful, Star.”

Twilight was also dodging those tails, but she was too tired to us her magic and had her wings too hurt to fly, what turned her into an easy prey. When she was about to be caught, Star exclaimed:

“No, mom!”

But when he prepared to go help her, a protective barrier appeared around her and then a pony shape made of light appeared and take her to inside.

“Wait, what is that?” Star asked.

“Star, just look” Blue pointed.

The young colt looked and saw that, at the pony’s head was Shining, along with Twilight.

“Uncle Shining!” Star exclaimed, while smiling openly.

“Shining, but how did you…” Twilight asked.

“Just a little parting gift of our grandfather” Shining said, while motioning to the bell that once belonged to Star Shield.

“His bell from when he was Grogar…” Twilight said.

“Now I can finally help you” Shining said. “I don’t have to sit around and watch.”

He approached Star and Blue and the latter said:

“Nice timing as always, Shining.”

“Thank you, Blue, but I guess we should focus on the battle” Shining replied. “It’s still not over yet.”

After he said that, the beast attacked with another tail.

“Here it comes!” Star exclaimed.

Shining then casted beams through the light pony that cut through the tails.

“Good, now we don’t have to fear being absorbed” Star said.

Suddenly, the ground cracked and energy started to arose and being absorbed by the beast and it expanded and turned into a gigantic black sphere of supreme nature. The Lord of Chaos reappeared beside it, with his severed harm regenerated, from the white mass that was still around the sphere.

“You dared to hurt me…” he said. “Now you shall pay for that! Thanks to this dimension, I can absorb energy directly from the ones trapped in the Eternal Nightmare Curse. Thanks to that, the tailed beasts inside me are now stable and I was able to produce this much of supreme nature, a giant sphere that contains all the natures of magic. Prepare to disappear!”

“That is just like mine, but much larger” Star said.

“And it’s growing rapidly” Blue observed.

“We can’t definitely make it disappeared to the Nothingness Realm, even if we combine our powers” Shining said. “We could try and go out of here temporally, but, if that thing becomes too big, we won’t be able to return here.”

“In order to stop that…” Twilight started.

“…we need to defeat the Lord of Chaos” Star completed.

“And I have a plan for that” Shining declared. “Gather around.”

Seeing them planning, the Lord of Chaos said:

“What fools you are. I am amortal. You can’t kill me. I’m the root of all Destruction. Compared to me, you’re nothing but bugs. But, in order to win here, I just need to kill either the young alicorn prince who has my brother power or the alicorn princess who possesses the original light. The question here is… which one will I kill?”

The remaining clones tried to protect Star, but he abandoned their protection and exclaimed:

“You will not win! Never!”

“Star, don’t forget the plan” Blue told to his son. “Let’s attack together. He’s scared of the power the Lord of Order gave you, so his attention must be divided. Take me part of the way. I have power to levitate the rest of the way.”

The young prince nodded and the two advanced. Seeing them advancing, the Lord of Chaos created spikes on his back, preparing to do that attack again. This time, he attacked Shining and Twilight. They couldn’t believe the speed of that attack that hit the light pony, with one penetrating it towards Shining.

It pierced through Shining, who started to get out of the light pony, but he, for the Lord of Chaos’ surprise, created a light sword. The truth was that Shining also got the power over the Nothingness Realm from his grandfather’s bell and that allowed the pass through the spike. He then stroke the Lord of Chaos on the shoulder, creating a big scratch on his armor, what caused him to star falling.

He prepared at the hand of the other side a spike and pointed to Star who was approaching from one side, while Blue was approaching from behind him. He didn’t have time to escape to another dimension, so the Lord of Chaos did what he had to do. Using the severed arm that was bond by Star, he prepared another spike and opened a small portal for it. Another one appeared behind him, allowing the attack to go hit Blue.

The Lord of Chaos fired one spike, hitting Star who started to turn into ash. The one that appeared to be Blue turned into Star, revealing to be a transformation spell, who prepared to attack. The Lord of Chaos realized they should have traded when the clones shielded them. That meant that one from behind was the real one. And he attacked with the severed arm, whose spike crossed the portals. But Shining, who was still in midair, made it disappear to the Nothingness Realm.

After that, Blue teleported from behind Star’s other clones and appeared beside the Lord of Chaos, ready to attack. During that moment, the Lord of Chaos tried to think on the best dimension to go. He couldn’t go to the ice dimension, as Star’s blaze nature, along with Blue’s power as General of Balance, would burn through it. Then he tried to escape from above, but Twilight then appeared there and exclaimed:

“You won’t go anywhere!”

And she, along with Blue, attacked with a strong punch.

While seeing Twilight, Blue and Star attacking together the Lord of Chaos, while he was falling, Shining smiled, as that was a perfect team work of a family.

“Now, Star!” Blue exclaimed.

“Do it now, son!” Twilight added.

“All right!” the young colt replied.

And he hit the Lord of Chaos at the stomach with the hoof with the mark the Lord of Chaos gave him and shouted:

“Be gone!”

And he activated the power the Lord of Order gave him and light started to get out of the Lord of Chaos’ body, while the latter started to feel an immense pain.

“No!” he exclaimed. “It can’t be…”

And golden chains immerged from the body, ravaging through the space and pulling out the darkness inside that took the form of the real Lord of Chaos who was now involved by the chains.

“No, I can’t be sealed away like this!” he screamed, while starting to get loose. “I’m the Lord of Chaos! I can’t end up like this!”

And the chains started to pull him in to a portal, where Discordia appeared.

“No, this can’t be happening!” he continued to shout.

The Lord of Chaos was then pulled in the portal, what closed, while he screamed:

“NOOOOO!”

After that happened, the eye on the hat of the Lord of Chaos’ artificial body started to close, while it turned into the white mass from before.

The Lord of Order then felt his power being used and got to know what happened. He made a slight laugh and said:

“So… he actually did it… Now, we just have to bring them all back.”

The ground of the mountainous dimension started to crack and pieces of it started to raise on the air and heading to the Lord of Chaos’ artificial body, including a piece that had the severed arm. The giant black sphere cracked as well and crumbled away. The body turned into something similar to the Ten-Tails, with the heads of the tailed beast and the beast before getting out. While that happened, Star was able to secure his father, mother and uncle. The tailed beasts immerged and landed from their respective white mass, included the lighter Kurama.

“We’re finally out!” Gyuki exclaimed.

“Kurama!” Son Goku called. “Your jinchuriki’s pretty good.”

That caused the nine-tailed fox to just give a smile. And then they all looked, as the Ten-Tails body was involved by the debris of the ground, while the remaining beast’s head spitted something to the ground that turned out to be Hepheus, now with his original colors. The Ten-Tails was completely involved by the debris which took the form of a satellite that rose into the air, like a moon.

Everyone gathered together and then Star, who returned to normal, said:

“Now, it’s time to go home” Star said.

“Yes, but how can we return?” Twilight asked. “It was the Lord of Chaos who brought us here.”

That statement made Star to exclaimed:

“That’s right! This is bad, really bad!”

Seeing that, Son Goku commented:

“He does whatever needs to get done, but he can still be a little childish sometime.”

That commented made the smile that Kurama had disappear.

But then, at the battlefield of the war, the Lord of Order, along with the six Generals of Order of the Light Kingdom prepared a summoning spell and, when they executed it, everyone at the mountainous dimension disappeared, only to appear where the summoners were, with the four ponies appearing before the Lord of Order and the tailed beast around. They looked a little confused, mainly when they saw the other Generals who were still under Hepheus’ spell.

“Golden… Leaf Mane… and Mirror Coat…” Twilight said.

“They’re all well” Blue said.

“I broke the curse on them so they could help us bring you back” the Lord of Order said.

“Thank you, my lord…” Twilight said, while bowing.

“You don’t have to thank me” he replied. “Say that to your son, as he was the one that made everything happen when he sealed my brother.”

“Well, I could only do that thanks to everyone’s help” Star told, while looking to his parents and uncle. “Wait, with the Lord of Chaos now sealed, does that means we don’t have to worry about him anymore?”

That caused everypony to look at the Lord of Order for answers, but he said:

“You indeed did what many before you, including your mother, couldn’t do: you defeated my brother, taking his freedom to wander my Creation. He’s now forced to follow the natural order. However, don’t get the wrong idea, young colt. We still have to deal with the damages he made and the villains that still serve him and you can be sure that my brother will scheme to break the seal, while keep trying to dive everything in the Pony Reality into chaos.”

“If that happens, we’ll be there to stop him” Twilight declared.

“Yes, because that’s what we do, right?” Blue said.

“Of course it is” Shining replied. “We won’t let our guard down, if that means to keep the peace we fought to conquer.”

Star smiled and nodded, agreeing with him. He then turned to the lighter Kurama and called, while approaching:

“Hey, Kurama! Were you lonely being separated from me? I missed you!”

Irritated by the way his jinchuriki was talking, Kurama exclaimed:

“Don’t talk so loud! I was lonely! You have half of me inside you, remember?!”

That argue between them made Son Goku to drop a loud laugh. Even the Lord of Order chuckled and said:

“Just look at Kurama, all embarrassed and flustered. But this is exactly what I had envisioned, that one colt with a great light would be able to even make the tailed beasts cooperate.”

That caused Twilight and Blue to smile with pride.

“Even my grandfather’s doing was Star’s doing” Shining told.

“I see…” the Lord of Order said. “Then I shall see that for myself once I get to Harmonia.”

At that moment, Star Shield’s bell shone and then disappeared.

“My grandfather’s bell…”

“He shared with you his power so you could fight my brother” the Lord of Order said. “He knew that you didn’t quite feel up to the task. But now, that power is no longer needed. But be sure, Shining Armor, that your grandfather’s resides in your heart.

That caused tears to appear on Shining’s eyes and he said, while bowing:

“Thank you, my lord…”

“And now…” the Lord of Order turned to somepony lying nearby on the ground, what turned out to be Hepheus, and approached him. “Hepheus… You took an immense deal of sacrifice. You made so much for everypony… and yet you got only abuse from my brother, who just turned you into his puppet and made you end like this. With both the tailed beasts and Ten-Tails’ husk removed from you, you’ll probably die… But I think you deserve that second chance I promised you long ago when you betrayed your original master to save ponykind.”

And the Lord of Order caused him to get involved by light and, when it disappeared, he had become the pegasus he once. The Lord of Order said, turning to Star and the others:

“He’s now healed from any injury and he’s cleared from my brother’s influence. I didn’t removed his memories about him being the General of Chaos, as I know that they’ll remind him to be who he really is. I hope I can entrust him to you all… and Celestia.”

“Of course, my lord” Twilight replied.

At that moment, the sun rose up, illuminating everything with its light.

“What a good way to start a day…” the Lord of Order said. “And I’m glad that it will be the last to be initiated by me in a long time.”

“And it’s the first day of our freedom” Son Goku said. “I’m going back to my former home before being taken by Stonult.”

“I’m going to seclude myself in a forest” Kokuo told.

“We can finally return to our homes” Chomei said. “It’s like a dream.”

“Eight-Tails, what are you going to do?” Kurama asked.

“Me?” he said. “Well… I think I going to go back to Hawthorn. Even he can sometimes be annoying, I guess I got used to him. So, what about you? What will you do?”

Kurama didn’t know exactly what to say, telling:

“I will…”

And he put his eyes on Star. As if knowing what he was feeling, the Lord of Order told to all tailed beasts:

“A little piece of each of your energy is already inside Star. In short, Star is now like a gathering place for you. If you want to discuss something, you can speak to each other through your energy inside Star. Kurama…”

That caused the fox to look at him and the Lord of Order said:

“I know our relationship isn’t the best, after everything that happened to you and the others, but I’d like you to stay inside Star as the overseer of the gathering place.”

“What?”

“It’s no longer a hardship for you anymore, is it?”

There was a pause and then Kurama replied:

“Just for you to know, I already forgot what I told you back then… Father. So, if you say so, I guess I don’t have other choice but to stay with that brat.”

And the other tailed beast started to laugh, as they already knew what Kurama meant by that. But the prideful fox, who didn’t like to be laugh at, exclaimed:

“What?! What’s so funny?!”

“Still not upfront with your feelings…” Kokuo said. “You haven’t changed at all, Kurama.”

That caused Star also to give a laugh.

“The war is finally over…” Twilight said with a smile, while leaning on Blue. “I can’t believe it.”

“Not quite” Golden Paladin said. “We still need to reverse the curse.”

“That’s right!” Star exclaimed, turning to the Lord of Order. “Can you tell us how to do it?”

“It’s obvious we’ll need all the tailed beasts” Kurama said. “But how specifically? Do you need our powers?”

“No, you’re fine” the Lord of Order replied. “Star has the energy of every tailed beasts, the jinchuriki of you all. He can use that. Beyond all that, you’ll need wood nature and a great power over emotions” he replied. “Fortunately, we have here all the ones with those traits.”

And Leaf Mane and Heartbeat approached Star.

“We’re ready when you’re ready, Prince Star Knight” Leaf Mane said.

“Yeah, but make it quick” Heartbeat said. “I’m dying to go to my room again.”

That caused Star to drop a chuckle and then he charged his horn with magic and the two Generals did the same. Their magic combined and rose up into the air, spreading quickly.

Once they did that, all the plants came down and they withered, with the bandages being undone and releasing everyone that had been caught on the curse. That happened both in the Pony World and the Enchanted Forest. Everyone was released. That spell had also effect on the remaining clones of Petal Sprout, who died liked dry plants.

The ones who had been sealed away, like Blaze and Glacier who were inside the Crimson Gourd, were released, while Kurama was sealed by Golden Paladin again in Star, what caused him and his other self to become one at last, while Gyuki returned to Hawthorn. Celestia was once again reunited truly with Hepheus and, although he still had a long way to make up for what he did as the General of Chaos, he had finally made his way back to the one he loved.

With all that, one thing everyone, both ponies, deer, griffons and dragons alike, knew… the war had come to an end.

Author's Note:

One more chapter.....