Chapter 14: Family matters pt.4
*Ronin POV*
After teleporting away, I found myself in the middle of the room at the top of the tower. As my eyed adjusted to the room's dim lighting, I couldn't help but be shocked at the sight.
I had found the princess, but in quite possibly the worst situation I had ever seen. She was cacooned in the center of the wall on the side, but had these spider webs surrounding the cacoon. Each web string had some kind of odd dew on it that looked like it was made from the same stuff as the cacoon.
"What the hell?" I said as I carefully maneuvered my way to the Celestia (That's what her name was, right?) As I made it to her, I noticed her face was contorted in some kind of rage/fearful expression.
Swiftly, I made an upwards cut through the cacoon, careful not to hurt the captive, and immediately got flattened by the falling princess. She regained consciousness quickly and looked straight down at me.
"You're Raidens...But why did you save me?" She asked as she looked straight into my eyes. I couldn't help but notice we were literally inches from each others faces, yet I couldn't tear myself from her purple eyes. I smirked and responded.
"Well, sunbutt. While you were napping, the lieutenants of chrysalis's army have been causing a revolt against both sides. It's honestly confusing me to no end." She gave me a confused look.
"Confusing? what do you mean by that? She asked as the room creaked a little, as if someone was crawling on the ceiling
"Its just, Chrysalis and Tak told me that Equines have been attacking changelings for centuries without proper reason, but with all the ponies I've seen, none of you have fit that description. Yet at the same time, changelings ARE suffering." I slowly sat up as she plopped down next to me in some sort of ponyloaf. "I want to help them so bad, but it feels like I'm not hearing the whole story." I say, noticing a sad gaze from Celestia.
"I never took you to be one with patriotism, Ronin. I had purely thought you to be a merciless killer in our lands." As she said that, I glared at her.
"I don't kill without reason!" I spat. "Those guards that day drew their blades among their captains orders to subdue and kill me. Is it really fair to judge me for your own militaries lack of ability to protect themselves from threats?" She closed her eyes in thought before answering.
"I can see where your coming from, but our country is a land of peace. We do not stand for violence or war at all." She sighed as she turned to me again. "However, I see that ignoring those things will only make us weaker. But let me ask you, how would you go about training those who don't have the art of war?" She finished as I thought carefully. An idea sparked in my mind.
"I would set up a military training base in each populated area, a place where one can train those soldiers in special ways such as covert ops or explosive warfare." I said as she nodded to show she was listening. "Since your kind have three types of ponies, you would need at least nine camps, three for each species type. You would also be wise to have other species among those ranks, like having dragons train with pegasi, minotaurs train with earth ponies, and changelings with unicorns. If these species could learn from one another, your country and your world would benefit better from it." I finished as her eyes were wide from the information as she digested it all.
"I have never thought of that before. but how would we even start something like that?" She asked me as I stood up.
"Its easy, just make a petition and have a officer in each camp that can specialize in each area." I said as she stood up as well, looking towards me with a smile. "For now, though, lets go kick some ass." She chuckled at this before we heard a maniacal laugh from above us. We looked up and barely had time to jump (or in Celestia's case, teleport) out of the way of the falling Arachnid.
"Weeeeeeelll weeeeeelll, if it isn't our little puppet! Fiiiiiinally starting to realizzzzzze you've beeeeen had?" Volt choked out false sadness. My eyes narrowed with rage.
"What do you mean, Volt?! How have I been tricked?" I asked as Celestia appeared next to me in golden armour and a helmet with her symbol on it. Volt laughed again.
"HEHEHE, Itssss sooo sad. The knight wiiiith a buuuuurning passion to prooootect those he cares about, beeeing told a soooob story byyy a little boy." He scurried straight up to me, suddenly talking way more normal and in a way deeper tone as his eyes started glowing red. "You've been lied to, boy! Changelings may have fought ponies, but ponies didn't bring their fall, they did that to themselves!!" He cackled as I started to shake with rage. Celestia took a step forward and summoned a mace with her magic.
"Your kind are truly monsters, lying to a lost being like that!" She said in a deep tone as Volt cackled again, though this time he seemed more angry.
"MY KIND?! I am not a changeling, princess scum. I am a Antiarachnid! We were powerful beings that went to war with the griffons of the west, yet I found refuge pretending to be a changeling stuck in this form." He said as my eyes widened.
"Wait, that means your not one of the lieutenants?" I asked as he smiled.
"Oh, I'm a big boy alright! but unlike the other three, I didn't need that fools mind control to do bad things, I feed on Equines for FUN!!!!!!" He roared as I drew my blade.
"So, your telling me that not only have I been lied to by the two changelings I trusted the most, but I also have been targeting the wrong species as well!!!" I yelled at him. Oddly enough, he stopped cackling and looked at me with regret.
"You know, out of all the lieutenants, I was the one that pittied you the most. You were new in this world, and didn't need to be a part of this. but that's how fate works, I suppose." He started crackling with lightning. "Now, let me cure you of your pain and heartache with the sweet embrace of DEATH!" he roared as an electric wave rippled towards us.
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Celestia teleported next to me and put up a shield around us, nullifying the shockwave. Volt frowned as his legs extended at us, one piercing the sheild and slamming me into a wall, a second one latched onto me and sent lightning through my body.
"AGGGGHH!!!" I yelled as my head titled back in agony. I heard a swift chop as Celestia had cut off the arm. With a screech, Volt fell backwards and crashed through the wall, falling out the tower. Celestia looked to me, worry in her eyes.
"Ronin, can you stand?" She asked me as I slowly made my way to my feet. The armour I wore slowly fading. I looked at it in shock.
"Why is my armour disappearing?" I asked as she looked at it, but before she could reply, a loud laugh came from outside. We ran to the hole in the wall to see volt flying around the tower with wings on his back. Celestia turned to me.
"Get on." She said, motioning her backside. I hesitantly got on as we took off after the maniac. He saw us coming and started shooting bolts at us. I patted her back as I stood up. feeling her magic support me.
"Keep flying, I'll deflect the bolts!" I yelled over the sounds of thunder as Bolts started coming my way. I spun by blade around in an almost windmill motion as the shots were sent into the ground or nearby towers. Celestia finally caught up as Volt turned around and sent an extended leg at me. Celestia horn glowed as she chunked me onto the leg. But instead of falling, my feet stuck to the leg.
"Go!" She ordered. I gave a 2 finger salute and ran down the leg at Volt, who shot some black gunk at me, I ducked underneath it, hearing it splat nearby, and went for his other legs.
"W-wait PLEASE NOT THAT SWORD!!" he screamed, but I ignored it as I made it to his body and started cutting limbs, each one producing a loud yell from Volt. I quickly spun around and plunged my sword into his back and drug it down his backside, eliciting a loud scream of pain from him. He looked to me in a mix of rage/glee.
"You may kill me, but I'm taking that princess with me!" He roared as one last leg shot out and shot through celestia wings, shredding them. She let out a scream before plummeting faster than Volt.
"Shit! Celestia!!" I yelled as I jumped off Volt and dove towards her. As I neared her I noticed her horn was black. That gunk from before! I said as the ground ground was quickly approaching. I noticed Celestia looking at me with fear.
That's when I felt this odd feeling in my gut. It was that feeling you get when you feel like you must do something. I took a deep breath and focused my body, not noticing the black aura surrounding my back. Celestia did though, and let off a gasp.
FWOOM!
Black wings with icy blue edges protruded from my back. I felt a rush of energy leave me as they slowed our descent to a safe speed as we landed in the courtyard. We landed in a two person/pony pile on the ground. For a minute, neither of us moved, until I started laughing. Soon Celestia joined in and we just were cracking up until Volts dead corpse landed not even ten feet from us. We looked at the corpse, reminded of what we needed to do.
Celestia got off me as I stood up, testing my wings. They were cool looking, and seemed to work. I turned to her motioned to Volts body.
"What hell was that!" I yelled. She looked him in disgust before answering.
"He was an Antiarachnid, a species similar to changelings in form change, but only to amplify their spider bodies to kill prey. I would have never thought one was still alive after all these years." She said as she saw I had no armour on anymore, just the black jeans and shoes I had wore when I had arrived. "Let me fix you up a bit." She said as her horned glowed. A golden light surrounded me as I felt a tickling sensation. I looked down and gasped.
I now had a silver chestplate on with dark blue on its edges, the visor I used to wear now replaced with a Spartan like helmet that was the same style as the plate. My jeans were now adorned with light blue shards that almost looked like ice. I noticed the chestplate had Celestia's mark on it. I gave her a smirk.
"You already branding me as your personal soldier?" I asked with a wink as her face became red. she recovered quickly and walked by, bumping me with her flank.
"Careful now, Ronin. Never give the enemy any ideas." She said with a purr as she walked towards the castle. Unable to tell if she was joking or not, I simply shrugged and followed her in.
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Raiden POV
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After handling Tremor, I had been running through the castle towards the throne room when I heard a loud crash outside the castle. I turned on a dime and went to the source of the sound to see Celestia and Ronin walking into the castle, except Ronin was wearing armour with Celestia's mark on it. then I sae the wings and my jaw dropped. I looked at him with a raised eyebrow.
"What happened to you?" I asked as he smiled at me.
"Welp, saved the princess. Then we killed a super spider. Now I'm her husband!" He said, earning a whack to the back of his head by Celestia's hoof.
"I said nothing of the sort, Ronin!" She growled, yet I saw a slight blush on her face. I saw her wings were torn and gulped a bit.
"Are you going to be ok?" I asked her, motioning the wings. She looked at them and smiled before her horn glowed. The wings slowly came back together as if they were being sowned.
"I'll live. but we need to get to the throne room, its time for all of this to come to and end." Celestia said as we nodded and ran towards the throne room, ready to take on anything that stood before us.
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... my Kane,Ronin subduing all the mares.
Also
been
Other then this, great chapter.
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Fixed! and thanks!
Why does he want the whole story now?
Technically, he is.
He does realize the reason they attacked was because he kicked his brother into a wall, right?
Wow, that’s actually pretty smart. I mean, some fans would have come up with that plan or something similar, but I don’t think any of the other characters would have thought of that.
How did they do it to themselves?
I mean, that’s kind of his own fault, though.
Wait, so were all the lieutenants and colt different creatures before being changelings?
Again, his own fault. Also, is he talking about chrysalis and the prince?
What gunk?
Didn’t he already know that?
Why is she giving him that?
Do you mean she folded them?
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Question answering time (doing it in order now!)
he wants to know the whole story since lieutenants seem to be attacking changelings as well.
Yes, but he never attacked them. (its a brother thing)
The selfdestruction of the changelings will be explained....soon.
Yes, each lieutenant (except volt) was cursed. volt is just a maniacal killer.
yes, hes talking about Tak and Chrysalis
the gunk was shot past him a paragraph or two from that quote
he's mentally trying to process killing a mega spider.
He saved her life by using his new wings
She sewed them togethor magically to heal them.
Author's Note:
Well, we are slowly aporoaching the conclusion of this story Arc. However, the story itself is FAR from over. With Celestias aid, can the brothers fight their way to the throne room to assist Nicholas and the others?
I already know the answer. Of course they can! They will defeat everyone, and everyone will live happily ever after!
Sorry for Chrysalis ... she's been betrayed again. Ronin changes his shoes and feels light. As if this is his usual everyday day!