Moeru Tengoku

by KukriRyuTsukino

III - Hokuto no Tentai Nagareboshi

Canterlot City, Earth

Tomas - FPOV

Of course, the Bacon Girl did try to talk to me, though I ignored her. A guy with goldenrod skin and blue eyes as well as navy and pale navy streaked hair glared at me momentarily. I glanced over my shoulder noticing the intrigued look on her face as well as the small smirk that crossed her face before she hugged the guy. “Flash Sentry, quarterback for the football team, though I’ve never held much interest in those sports. I’m more the runner, though my style of running could translate into cross-country running. Unfortunately for these jock jokes, my style of running is one they could, perhaps, with enough practice, manage…. Though I doubt it,” I thought, very aware that Latoias couldn’t hear me.

I haven’t forgotten the connection between us, though I have to wonder if the other Embodiments are known by their respective Guardians. We will see in time, I’m sure. A small smirk crossed my face as whilst I had ignored Bacon Girl, whom I knew was named Sunset Shimmer due to mutters and murmurs, I had heard what she’d said.

“What’s with the funny glove? I mean, it’s tacky and ugly,” she’d commented. Obviously, she was unaware of its true nature. However, there are things that I’ve found are in it that I suspect that Anthony Stark put into it secretly. I half crouch not far from the gym and flex the cybernetic fingers, the tips of the fingers sharpening into claws of black fibers. I assume they’re nano-fibers, but I don’t know for sure. I flex them again, retracting the claws into semi-normal nails, if fingernails were a deep copper whilst skin was a deeper tone of gold. I smirk slightly as I twist the arm, noticing the streaks of red underneath the forearm; seems that Anthony Stark has a fondness of red and gold, though being the infamous Iron Man, if rumors are true, would explain that.

I could definitely feel something in the air, almost being drawn to the prosthetic and the gemstone within. It wasn’t noticeable, but I’ve always been sensitive to energies, both light and dark. I have noticed posters for a ‘Fall Formal’ dance, though I’ve never been that big a fan of dancing. I let my gaze drift to the rearing horse statue before my eyes narrowed slightly, noticing a very slight surge of energy within the air. It felt almost like a cork being released from a bottle… or a doorway being opened. I did notice that very few of the students noticed it, though ‘Bacon Girl’ a.k.a Sunset Shimmer did, her head tilting slightly. “If you knew, Sunset…. you wouldn’t be so full of yourself,” I whispered, noticing her ears twitch at my murmur. Being that she’s only two spots ahead of me and one to my right, she probably could hear me, if her hearing was sharp. This Coach Spitfire reminds me quite a lot of Haruka-onesan, though not quite as… blunt.

A small smirk crosses my face at the fact that we are playing dodgeball. I think I’ll do my best to rile ‘Bacon Girl’ up a bit. Of course, I’m on the same team as Fluttershy and Rarity as well as a country looking girl named ‘Applejack, but call me AJ’. I darted forward at the whistle, grabbing two balls swiftly, noticing a chromatic haired girl smirking at me with soft cyan skin before I flicked the ball at Sunset Shimmer, who ducked, before firing the ball in her hands at Fluttershy as I slid over, catching it just a few inches shy of Fluttershy but noticing Sunset’s eyes narrowing in annoyance before I flicked it suddenly at the chromatic haired girl, who blocked the ball with the one in her hands before she launched it at Rarity, who narrowly ducked it before catching the girl off guard.

“Gotcha, Rainbow!!” Rarity called with a grin before a ball narrowly missed her, deflected by my thrown ball before I heard Fluttershy cry out softly as she was hit. My eyes narrowed fractionally as I scooped up the ball that had rolled near my feet before launching it. To my mild surprise, it bounced off Flash Sentry’s shoulder, then caught some guy called Thunderlane in the chest.

“Nice shot, there, kid!!” I heard Rainbow’s slightly scratchy voice yell before laughing. Rarity caught a few students by surprise with quick, accurate throws, I note out of the corner of my eye. “Possible baseball or softball skill? Or something else?” I thought with mild interest.

I noticed a ball flying at my face before I instinctively fell backwards, bouncing on my palms as I unconsciously flipped back onto my feet in a kip up, narrowly evading a ball aimed at my lower back as I regained my feet.

More than a few students whooped and whistled in surprise at the acrobatic tactic before my hands snapped up, catching one ball before deflecting a second as I noticed a girl with mint green skin walking away, apparently the thrower, before I pushed off, twisting before firing the ball at Sunset, catching her high in the abdomen before she slid several feet on her back.

I noticed the coach darting out as students gathered the balls up as Sunset sat up, glaring at me. “Greed and hatred aren’t going to get you anywhere. They will only harm yourself, in the end,” I sighed, turning away.

I exhaled softly, rolling my shoulders as I turned away before my ears twitched slightly at Sunset's scoff. A very faint smirk crossed my face. “She'll learn, either through opening that shell of hers willingly… or it will be shattered the hard way,” I thought. I noticed those three students, one with brilliant raspberry eyes, luminous vivid orange hair with brilliant yellow streaks, and pale apple green skin. The other two had moderate mulberry eyes and moderate raspberry eyes with light arctic blue hair with moderate persian blue stripes done up in a ponytail high on her head and arctic bluish white skin. The one with moderate mulberry colored eyes had moderate purple hair with light brilliant aquamarine streaks in twin ponytails on either side of her head and pale, light grayish fuchsia skin.

My eyes narrow on the ruby amulets. To my senses, their auras, felt, to me, much like a solar eclipse. It was like something was blocking and diluting the true strength of their auras. “I can almost sense something about those amulets… they appear harmless… yet… if I’m right, they’re diluting what these three are truly capable of… not to mention how familiar their auras feel to me, though I’m certain I’ve never met these three before. It was almost like meeting Haruka-nee and Michiru-nee, yet different,” I muse as I tore my gaze away.

“You don’t have to look away if you don’t want to… after all, we’re amongst the most beautiful in the school,” the wavy orange and gold streaked haired girl said with a smirk. “We could make it fun, you know, considering we do need to clean up after class,” she said in a saucy tone.

My eyebrows rose slightly. I smirked slightly as the girl with twin ponytails elbowed the wavy haired girl’s abdomen, apparently annoying her.

“What, Aria?” the girl said.

“Adagio, as tempting as that idea is, we should wait until later… though we do have the music class near the end of the day, and study hall is so boring even with Sonata acting like an airhead,” Aria said, huffing the last two words as she stretched them dramatically.

“We could get tacos!!” the ponytailed girl said in a bubbly tone.

“You have music for your next to last class? So do I. Wonder who is stronger with the guitar,” I quipped. Adagio smirked at me.

“Is that a challenge? Because both Aria and I play that and bass respectively,” she challenged.

“I play both myself, though obviously not both at the same time, though that could make for an interesting instrument,” I replied with amusement.

Adagio chuckled. “We’ll see, though I have to admit, I’m curious if you have any talent. Hope you can work up a good sweat later,” she said with a challenging yet playful smirk.

I was mildly surprised when the ponytailed girl hugged me suddenly.

“Though I act like an airhead, I’m smarter than my sisters often account for. I just like messing with their heads… well… everyone’s heads, really, it’s funny to see their reactions when I shock them with something unexpected,” she said softly before backing away with a childish, slightly louder than necessary, giggle.

“All right, though don’t be too embarrassed later. Gotta admit that the outfits for you three are rather flattering,” I quip. I smirked as all three of them blinked, looking down at their outfits. Adagio’s outfit was a warm, yet soft light purple tee shirt with dark blue shorts, while Aria’s was a deep bronze tee with dark burgundy shorts. Sonata’s was a rich royal blue with navy shorts.

Sonata looked amused at my teasing, while Adagio looked unamused, and Aria just snorted as she smirked.

“Then I wonder how you’ll react later,” she quipped.

I cocked my head, a small smirk crossing my face. “React to what?” I deadpanned innocently as I slipped through the gymnasium doors.

I thought I heard Adagio and Aria snickering while Sonata snorted. “I wonder how he’ll..” was all I caught as the doors swung shut, apparently from Sonata. I frowned slightly, thinking of those necklaces. I had a bad feeling about them, like they were meant to do something that even those three didn’t know about. Strangely, I also had a strong sense like I’d seen them before, but couldn’t recall from where, precisely.

I blinked, feeling the same odd pulsations in the air I’d felt that morning. This time, however, I tilted my prosthetic so that a small screen opened in the top of the forearm, exposing the gemstone ‘heart’ at the left edge of the bluish purple screen, barely visible as the screen lit up, so it hid the ‘heart’. Energy wave signatures and code flickered over the screen before I cocked my head. “Intriguing. So there is something about the ‘Wondercolt’ statue that seems to radiate an energy similar to that which I’ve felt around that…. Stephen Strange… who is friends with Haruka-nee’s godfather,” I muttered under my breath.

It was neither new nor old, I noticed, though the vibrations of the energy weren’t malicious. If anything, they were the opposite. They were certainly different but as they did not seem dangerous or hateful, I saw little reason to bother with them. Hmm…. seems they are drawn to the Sunstone Ruby, or something from this ‘mirror’ is. I can feel the energy of it flowing through my body. It feels like a warm summer’s day’s heat, to my senses.

I turned away from the statue to see Fluttershy, Rarity, that girl AJ, and the chromatic girl as well as the odd, bubbly pink girl, sitting not too far away. Rarity’s gaze spots me before she looks surprised as I notice Fluttershy spotting me almost at the same time, though strangely, her cheeks tint a rosy gold tone for some reason.

My eyebrows rose slightly, though I was a bit surprised when both AJ and the chromatic girl whom introduced herself as Rainbow Dash, pulled me over to join them. However, I made sure to hide the scanning screen on the prosthetic’s forearm.

Author's Note:

Whatever will follow? It is mere days before certain events begin to occur.