Thursday Dec 22 b
The frigid air outside of the mall gave Sunset a bit of a shiver when it first hit, making her thankful she took the offered coat from Susan. It was kind of surprising to see all of the cars parked out there, yet Sunset didn’t really see anyone milling about except for what she assumed was a mother with a very young daughter as well as some teenage boy both heading into the mall from slightly different directions. She couldn’t help but wonder if all of these people were in the mall.
“What do you know about Will?” Irma croaked as they walked down the sidewalk, but they actually had to walk a bit since they parked pretty far away. They did manage to get a spot not far off from the picnic area which, unsurprisingly, was empty. The area was actually clean of snow thanks to the roof overhead where people from the food court could sit when they wanted.
“Irma, I’m still trying to figure out where to start.” Sunset sighed as she stopped walking. “Susan, do you think you can put my guitar in the car while I take Irma over to the picnic area to talk? Nobody is around with the cold so I think it should be safe to talk there.”
“Are you sure you will be okay honey?” Susan asked, a look of worry etched into her face.
“I will be, don’t worry.” Sunset said, gingerly handing over her guitar to Susan.
“I’ll be right back.” Susan said, giving Sunset a hug then turned to Irma. “Irma, what Sunset says might sound unbelievable, but what she tells you is the truth.”
Susan felt a little worried that Sunset was facing Irma by herself with their discussion, or at least the start of it. It did sound like Sunset just needed a few minutes alone to get started and did want Susan to come back as she didn’t ask to wait for a call to return. Susan hurried out toward her car to stow the instrument and was nearly there when she felt as if somebody was watching her. It sent a shiver down her spine as she finally got there and carefully put the gig bag in the back before making sure the car was locked up.
Playing with her keys, she looked around debating if she should just get in the car and drive back to where the girls were. She decided she was being silly as she wrote it off as being paranoid, or even as another shopper probably staring at her. She was used to the looks after all, she was a little taller than average putting her at almost a head taller than her daughter at the moment as well as being very attractive.
Yet, something seemed off to her. Swallowing as she saw a large shadow pass by her, she thanked whatever instinct that came over her, making her jump out of the way as the car she was passing exploded in a ball of fire, barely missing her. She still felt the force of the explosion and heat as it washed over her, yet thankfully left her unharmed. Looking up, she wasn’t sure how long that would be as there, floating above her was a man made of ice and a woman made of fire.
“Nerissa wants the Heart.” The woman growled angrily.
“Give us what our Mistress wants, or suffer.” The man added.
“I don’t know what you are talking about.” Susan said, taking a step back as she looked at the two in fear. She could hear sirens coming from the distance, but a purple dome appeared over a large portion of the lot, blocking off any sight to the outside world, with the only light being what was cast from the dome and the woman made of fire.
“Then I guess we do this the hard way.” The fire woman chuckled darkly as she created a large fireball over her head. “It isn’t like we need the mother of the keeper to find the brat.”
“Ms. Vandom!” Cornelia screamed in horror as Taranee and Hay Lin were running toward her as the fire woman unleashed the large fireball at Susan.
“MOM!” Sunset screamed as she appeared in front of Susan with a ‘POP!’ sound as if out of thin air, crossing her arms as if to shield her from the fireball. The woman watched in horror as the fireball engulfed Sunset as Susan and four teenage girls watched helplessly.
“You will pay for that!” Cornelia said, tears falling as she glared up at the two laughing.
“She shouldn’t have gotten in our way.” The iceman laughed. “Give us the location of the heart and Nerissa will have mercy. Otherwise, you all die!”
“So, Irma, nice weather we’re having.” Sunset said as she stuffed her hands into the coat’s pockets while looking around everywhere but at Irma.
“No, not really.” Irma said crossing her arms, “You said you would tell me about Will.”
“First, I should apologize to you. When I learned the truth, I wasn’t sure I wanted anything to do with any of you.” Sunset croaked out, her throat feeling very dry at the moment.
“What does that have to do with Will? What truth?” Irma demanded, her eyes tearing up, making Sunset kick herself mentally.
“Please listen until I’m finished, then you can ask questions.” Sunset said, finally locking eyes with Irma who after a few moments slowly nodded in agreement. “I found out I had a mother that loved me, something I dreamed about my whole life yet I didn’t want to deal with my past. I didn’t want to deal with girls I personally didn’t know even though I guess you could say they were my best friends at one point in time. I didn’t realize what was wrong, or at least what I thought was wrong the whole time.”
“Are you okay? If you need a few minutes we can take a break.” Irma suggested, the gesture actually touching Sunset as the girl was willingly sacrificing immediate answers to give the firey haired teen a moment of respite.
“No, I’m fine.” Sunset said, wiping the tears in her eyes away. “I was feeling old insecurities and fears that those friends were happy I was gone. That my mother didn’t want me, it’s why I can’t even call her mom despite knowing we love each other very much. Seeing you on the verge of breaking down made me realize that regardless if I’m ready to face my past or not, you deserve at least some closure. You deserve to know the truth.”
The two were interrupted as an explosion caught their attention and looked toward it before looking back at each other. Silently they nodded and ran toward it with fear growing as a dome was forming and they barely made it inside as it closed around them. They saw Susan staring in horror at a large fireball heading right at her and Sunset realized there was just no way to reach her in time making it seem as if time had frozen around the teen. Old instincts kicked in and she used a simple teleport she learned as a unicorn to appear in the fireball’s path though she had no idea what to do about it. It didn’t matter as all Sunset had time to do was scream before the fireball engulfed her. “MOM!”
She didn’t feel any pain as the fire washed over her, burning all round her as she stood in the center. She could feel the warmth from it even as it left her hair, clothes, everything about her unharmed. She felt so powerful at that moment, almost as powerful as she did back in Equestria when she surpassed all of her peers in her chosen specialty in magic. With a grin, she realized she had full access to her unicorn magic as the fire was making her feel her mana pathways blazing brightly throughout her entire body. And to top it off she had the advantage that shocked even Princess Celestia if the fire washing over her was any indication. After all, there was only two ponies known in Equestria that were immune to fire, and one of them was the Princess herself. The other, the student of the sun and magical prodigy extraordinaire.
Sunset was ripped from her musings in shock as she heard the strangled cry from Cornelia, “You will pay for that!”
“She shouldn’t have gotten in our way.” Tridart laughed cruelly. “Give us the location of the heart and Nerissa will have mercy. Otherwise, you all die!”
An evil grin spread across Sunset’s face as she decided it was time to show these foolish elementals what happens when they attacked someone she loved. And maybe with a little theatrics could put the fear of the Sun into them. Giving off the best maniacal laugh she could manage, everyone on the battlefield froze, including the guardians who were preparing to transform. All eyes turned to the flaming pyre that shrunk down and absorbed into Sunset.
“You think your pathetic little matchstick could hurt the student of the Sun? Lady, I burn hotter than the Sun in the middle of July, and I’m about to show you what real fire is!” Sunset snarled as she summoned flames above both hands that everyone could feel the heat from. She threw a fireball with each statement as she glared at the fire elemental who looked scared out of her mind. “Don’t!” Fireball! “Touch!” Fireball! “MY MOTHER!” A double fireball Ember managed to dodge only for it to strike Tridart evaporating him instantly.
“How? How can you be so powerful?” Ember screamed in horrified panic as the other girls only stared in awe.
“I’m about to show you, GUARDIANS UNITE!” Sunset screamed in fury, thrusting out the Heart and transforming all the girls. Though unlike usual, their outfits were a little different while their wings were bigger. The five's outfits seemed to cover a little more skin as well as had their elemental symbols on their top with Sunset's having the most changes. Gone was her skirt and replaced with a bodysuit. Sunset’s top was a light purple with her elemental symbol in a darker purple that was displayed on her chest. The sleeves of her top split at the elbows and flared open and past her hands. She also now sported a pair of elbow length, black fingerless gloves with a gold bangle resting loosely on her wrist. Coming down from her middles, the light purple angled down to right above her waist to show off a blue area of her suit that went down to her thighs ending in a wave-like pattern with the tips of the waves right below her waist. The body suit then covered the rest of her legs with a light blue color that went down and covered her feet. Her hair stayed much the same, but her bangs now extended past her face to frame her face.
Cornelia’s hair didn’t change much at all, besides being longer, her new look was the simplest of them all however. The top above the waist was the same light blue from Sunset’s suit that fully covered her arms and hands with her symbol on her chest in the darker blue and also had a gold ring on her wrist. The suit turned a pinkish/purple at her waist that went down her legs.
Taranee’s top was very similar to Sunset’s, but the sleeves stopped just past her shoulders and left her arms bare, but did have a pair of gloves that covered some of her fingers, but left the ends open. And like Sunset’s, her symbol was the same darker purple and also on her chest. However her top, while curving down like Sunset’s, left her belly open. Her dreadlocks greatly grew in number and extended all the way down to match Cornelia’s hair length. She now had a blueish and tight mini-skirt that ended just at her waist, but had her legs covered in lighter blue and turquoise striped leggings that went down to her feet.
Irma’s hair grew as well, but not as long as the others, stopping a couple inches past her waist. She now wore a blue top that showed off her shoulders with her symbol a darker blue on her chest. The collar of her top showed off a bit more of her neck then Cornelia’s did. Irma’s now had gloves as well, but hers started halfway down her upper arm and went all the way down to her hands, covering them much the same way as Sunset’s and Taranee’s. Her top though covered her upper body that turned into a long skirt that opened on either side that let her move her legs around. Her legs also had the same leggings that Taranee's has.
Hay Lin’s hair grew to the same length as Cornelia’s, but was parted down the middle, letting her bangs frame her face in a way similar to Sunset’s, but one side was longer the other. Behind her hanging bangs she now had two buns on either side of her head above the ears. Her top was sleeveless and blue like Irma’s, alongside having her own symbol on her chest, but had the collar split open a bit to show off a tiny bit of her neck and stopped halfway down her chest. Covering her arms and wrist was a long strip of cloth that wrapped around her arms and matched the color of her top. She also had pink-ish/purple strips of cloth covering her lower belly that turned into a long skirt around her waist that covered her legs. She also had a set of legging, but hers started a bit lower than Taranes’s and Irma’s, but ended at her feet just like theirs did. She also had a set of fingerless gloves, but hers didn’t go very far up, just past her wrists and was under the strips of cloth that were around her arms.
Besides them all having their element symbols on their chest, their wings had changed as well. Not only were they bigger, but instead of being yellow fading to blue at the edges, these were mainly blue that faded into yellow and looked to be significantly stronger then their previous wings.
“Will!?” All the girls cried out with shocked voices while Sunset glared at the fire elemental as the dome started cracking.
“Irma! Hay Lin! Put the fires out!” Sunset ordered as she risked a glance back at her mother, who was watching in worry. “Cornelia! Taranee! Protect my mom!”
“On it boss lady!” Hay Lin saluted before flying off and creating vacuums around the smaller fires, depriving them of oxygen and putting them out while Irma used her powers to drown the larger flames before they could spread to anymore vehicles.
“Stay away from me you monster!” Ember screamed as she was throwing fireball after fireball at Sunset who just kept absorbing them and closing in on the last elemental, her fists crackling with lightning.
“Boo!” Sunset snarled as she shoved her face inches from Ember who shrieked and flew off bringing the dome the rest of the way down. She flew back to her mother where Cornelia and Taranee was watching in awe and Susan was crying holding her hands over her mouth with worry clear in her eyes. Irma and Hay Lin quickly joined them as the barrier finally shattered into pieces where they could see police surrounding where the dome was. Sunset quickly grabbed her mother and told the others to touch her before she teleported them all to the only place she could think of, their living room.
“Oh sweetie, are you okay?” Susan asked, checking over Sunset searching for burns, cuts, bruises or any evidence of what just happened.
“I’m okay Mom, are you okay?” Sunset asked with worry doing the same.
“Y-You called me mom?” Susan asked as new tears formed, only these were tears of happiness.
“Of course I did, you’re my mom and I love you.” Sunset said, feeling drained all of a sudden. She realized teleporting them all before the police caught them was probably pretty dangerous as it drained a lot of power. “Can you do me one favor?”
“Of course, honey.” Susan agreed, happy everything seemed to be okay and that Sunset was finally calling her mom.
“Catch me.” Sunset said as she finally fell forward in a dead faint making Susan catch her as the teen and the other girls changed back to normal.
“A little help would be nice.” Susan said, breaking the girls from their shocked state as the girl who looked like Will changed back to the fire haired teen. They all rushed to help the woman get Sunset over to the couch to lie her down.
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Well, Mister Ice Elemental has gone out with a ... YANG
, possibly permanently...who am I kidding, unless his hidden master performs resurrection in this exact place and collects all scattered by fireball essence Tridart is deader than dead. It is also funny to see a fire elemental escaping from a fire user (I know Sunny has much wider scope of abilities but for this fight she was basically a pyromancer) ... well it is a smart decision even if driven by fear. After all even elementals immunity can be bypassed with a big enough amount of element or better element quality or by secondary effects such as concussive force.
Susan had shock of her life and also great instinct, after all, it is not paranoia if they really want to get you.
And now there is a high chance that all the plans for Susan's magic awakening/training became top priority
... next to the military arsenal hidden in a bracelet
. There is no kill like overkill
.
Police sirens as the dome was raising? Either the quality of the police force has gone considerably up ... or someone tipped them off that there will be a corpse ... and both are probable...
Purple dome?
That almost (93.6% sure) confirms for me that a secret villain is a member of the Kandrakar council, a big purple barrier was their schtick.
And also those idiotic elementals and their master unknowingly made a mistake: Sunset and Susan know that Nerissa knows who has the heart so she would not need to send those two idjits to search for it, adding to that fact that Shagon is actively fighting elementals showing that they are not Nerissa servants anymore. In conclusion hidden villain just showed that he/she exists and wants Nerissa to be scapegoat. Besides there aren't many who know the identity of guardians, even less that know their family, and surprise surprise, the council is among those people.
Well avoiding the topic of probably destroyed car and guitar (there were a lot of stray fireballs in the air) girls probably had both shocks of their short guardian career and show of badassery that is ... a lot beyond them.
Sunset faces magical and emotional exhaustion
( I think it's more of going berserk with her held-back emotions than her not using big magics for a long time that fell her down, besides she was feeding off flames in addition to heart power so that should mitigate magical costs to a minimum so yeah I think it's emotional exhaustion over magical one).That's going to put her at least for a two days rest.
And
for evolution ... even if it's just outfitts for now.
Again good . I wonder when twilight will show up
And here goes omakes number five and six:
A Band Idea
It was the afternoon after school, and Cornelia asked the rest of the guardians for a meeting, place: Irma's garage. When asked why she just said it was "appropriate for plans".
"Ok girls," Cornelia said. "As our leader..."
"Who died and made you a leader?" Interrupted Teranee.
The entire group looked at her gaping, Cornelia looked like she wanted to strangle someone.
Teranee blushed "Sorry, wrong saying."
"Well it's not like Will is dead," said Hay Lin "She just changed her birth race, her human memories sealed themselves, and she goes by Sunset Shimmer-Vandom. It's simple reincarnation, it does not require one to die ..."
"Hay Lin, it does exactly that." Interrupted Irma.
"It does?" Hay Lin asked."Huh, that explains why dad and grandma were facepalming when I said that."
"Back on track,"said Cornelia"As the strongest guardian..."
"Technically, "interrupted Hay Lin"It's Sunset, then either me or Irm..."Her further words were cut off by a gag made out of vines.
"As I was saying before those interruptions," continued Cornelia "I decided that we need something to bring morale and our teamwork up so I thought about one activity that all teens must do..."
"Makeover?" Irma asked.
"Homework?" Then Teranee.
"Petty acts of vandalism?" And Hay Lin after cutting her gag with an airblade.
"Music Band, teens make musical bands," Cornelia said holding her nose bridge between her fingers. "And we are in the perfect position for a theme, japan has magical girl idols and bands, but the U.S.A. has none of those, we are in clear."
Pinkie Pie was having a nice afternoon working her shift at Sugar Cube Corner with ... Pinkie Pie her teacher/assistant/student (it depends on the situation/dimension). Thinking about the people's reactions caused her to giggle, definitely much better reactions are here instead of in Ponyville where at worst it was blinking, and at best it was either shrugging or asking about the mirror pool, but here there are so many reactions, and smiles ... well most of them, there are some hiccups with shouting about the end of days. The worst hiccup was Mr.&Mrs. Cake, they had those big grins and started laughing like that meanie Joker and then started foaming and someone called an ambulance saying something about shock, but they are now better after two weeks in hospital, they just take those funny blue pills and mumble about "...finding a happy place...", it's such good advice for everyone. Pinkie's musing was interrupted by a combo: itchy eardrums, shuddery kneecaps, and fairy dust from eyebrows ... Rarity needs to know about that, she looked at the clock, still two hours to the shift end ... it can probably wait...
"But we need at least one more member for the band and so I propose..." Cornelia said before she was once more interrupted.
"Sunset?" Asked Hay Lin "She has experience with music, magical music, and musical magic and already was playing in a band..."
Pinkie received another combo: Body shudder, sticky fingers, and a hallucination of a phoenix song... oh crapperoni.
"Pinkie I need to go, there is a friend in danger of stealing,"
"Sure thing Pinkie, I just do shift for you for you." Answered Equestrian Pinkie.
"Thanks!" Shouted Pinkie before she ran through the wall disregarding it, and all others that were on her way to Rarity.
Pinkie continued mixing dough for cookies,
"Silly Twilight," She thought."I don't need to talk to Pinkie about that Anony-thingy if she's that caring about her friends."She darkened for a split second. "It's not like I'm the better one after wedding..."
And then she was once more happy-go-lucky singing under her nose and slightly swaying those human flanks in rhytm.
"No, we will not take Will time from her mom." Said, Cornelia.
"Didn't she ask to call her Sunset since she has no recollection of being Will and spending around two decades as Sunset?" Asked Irma.
"Let's focus on the band topic."Cornelia avoided answering.
"I was thinking about..."
"Twilight Sparkle?"Interrupted Teranee. "She plays the keyboard and has a nice voice..."
"HELL NO!" Shouted Cornelia spitting fire ... literally. Irma used some water magic to douse the now slightly smoldering carton box. Since that "Pink-Skin-Incident-that-not-many-seem-to-remember" Cornelia became ... quirky. Not in a mental way but in a way that she seems to be doing weird things in emotional outbursts. To this time girls noticed steam escaping her ears when she was peeved, when there was a sale in her favorite shop she disappeared leaving behind herself outline made from dust, and there were floating hearts when she was looking at a poster of her favorite boy's band.
"Maybe Caleb?"Asked Hay Lin. "He can play the guitar."
"Thank you Hay-Hay, that is exactly who I was talking about."Cornelia said with noticeable relief.
Because girls had nothing better to do for afternoons, and the last weeks were calmer they agreed to the band idea
Irma asked her strict father if they can use the garage for their band, she was expecting rejection but instead, her father got that "far-away" look, there was a tear on his cheek and he agreed mumbling something under his nose.
Hay-Lin "borrowed" instruments from the school orchestra.
They then contacted Caleb who had nothing better to do so he agreed.
Who knew that spending your entire life as a rebel and then ending said rebellion with help of mainly several superpowered teens leaves you without knowledge about what to do with your life?
It was ... a loud suburban afternoon of the next day, or at least it was in the Lair family garage. If someone would look outside their window, they would see two unusual people, and not because of their skin coloration. Truth be told those two people would have issues recognizing themselves. What was the reason for their presence? Knowledge granted by Pinkie Pie...
Rarity was stalking the street dressed in a dark purple leather jacket with shoulder spikes, a t-shirt with a burning unicorn skull, purple leather trousers, leather cuffs with spikes, leather boots with spikes, and in her hand was a baseball bat with velvet-covered handle and upgraded with ruby spikes instead of nails. Her nails were painted black and her hair were partially shaved and made into a tri-color punk rock style. If she would describe herself she would say that she looks ready to rip someone's spine and be fabulous doing that. Next to her was Fluttershy dressed in a dark-green trenchcoat with green tinted tuxedo hidden under it, leather boots, yellow-tinted Lennon
glasses, and a summer hat with a green bow. Normally Rarity would not advise to anyone wear that but Fluttershy said that she got it from her father as "A part of legacy..." and only needed resizing ... and cleaning from all that grey dust and red stains that Rarity was not sure it was ketchup stains. Well, at least when she was working on that, she got many clients that ordered noir clothes and looked at that green trench coat with respect.
One would ask why those two girls were dressed like it was time for filming "Mad Max teams up with Van Helsing" movie? Well, the answer lies with Pinkie Sense messages. She relayed to Rarity that they have competition for their magical girl's band, which would merit intervention with interlopers on its own and it was up to Rarity as their band enforcer (Rainbow doesn't know a thing about show-business politics and left that role to her, even if she wanted to be enforcer because that sounds cool.) to do that. She already had plans to persuade their upcoming competition with some words to change their theme but then Pinkie said that they might try to poach Sunset before they had a chance to make up to her, and that changed plans from "delicate persuasion" to "vandalizing intervention". Fluttershy joined since she was getting a new sweater, heard all of that, and chose to also "Show those copycats what happens when they try to steal a friend ... even the one that she already failed."
Pinkie could give them only the city and that it was a suburban area so Fluttershy brought with herself some bats for scouting ... which were covering their ears and practically begging to be let go back to Canterlot, which Fluttershy obliged seeing that it was not exactly hard to find their targets. Girls easily sneaked into the bush next to the garage window ... and promptly agreed that this band is not a threat either on the music scene or in "stealing Sunset".The only people worth attention were the only male with a guitar who was nicely "shredding" on it, and an asian on drums who was decent. What made them decide was the rest of this band, in a particular blonde singer, who was worse than Snip&Snails during Battle of The Bands...ok not that bad but still not good... They still stayed to observe just to be sure.
Inside the garage "The Magicals" were training for their upcoming debut ... which Cornelia promised to announce after this session.
"Okey, so you know about the fantasy convent that happens in the city after "The twilight fans convent" was demolished and canceled during preparations two weeks ago ?" Cornelia asked.
Girls and Caleb all nodded and except Hay Lin shuddered.
"Ohh but I like those books..." Hay Lin pouted not noticing disgusted reactions from the rest of the garage occupants, that were thinking about ending their friendship here and now ... oh and two girls outside, where one was aiming a gun and the other a hatchet with velvet covered handle and head made of crystal, both girls were mumbling about "...putting her out of misery..."
"...they are soo badly written satire of romance that it is the best comedy that I ever read ." All witnesses in and outside of the room stopped their thoughts of execution and instead decided that such innocence needs all the protection in the world.
"... right." Cornelia continued. "Anyway, there is going to be a contest for amateur bands and it's ideal for making our debut."
"And are you surethat Nerissa won't try to mess this up for us?"Asked Caleb.
"No one saw Nerissa or Shagon since about a month ago when she has gone ballistic on that bookshop, maybe she's on a vacation?" Asked Irma.
"Whatever that is, nothing will stop The Magicals."Declared Cornelia and the rest cheered.
Rarity and Fluttershy outside were going back, admitting that band members inside were right about the "stopping part", mostly because there was no need for anyone to do that.
A Convetional Mess
Shining Armor was having a very long and hard day before him but it was necessary to protect his LSBFF from harm, the fact that he already failed her once (How was he supposed to know that Cinch was crazy and was harming Twily? It's quite normal for teens to exaggerate when they say that a teacher is evil, and besides he had exams on his head when she was saying that Cinch was evil ... ok maybe he should listen when his sister that puts teachers on a pedestal says that one is less than perfect...) was quickly forgotten when he had a greater threat for his sister good and he was looking at HIM. This ... this nerdy scrub that thinks that is good enough for Twily and can make her happy after that Crystal Prep scandal (Shining Armor was completely ignoring how his sister was happier and laughing much more often since meeting "That Filthy Worm"considering that no one who doesn't meet his acceptance can have either permission or ability to make her happy.) Shining Armor tried to show her that he's no good punk but it's rather hard when he doesn't even have a black mark on his school record much less a criminal one (Fun fact: Police in Sheffield has forms for getting access to criminal records "For concerned fathers&brothers"). And that's why he's here looking at his sister "obviously" forced to wear such revealing clothes. next to that smiling pervert, working as event security ... dressed as a Wookie. Someone may ask how exactly that happened, well the answer is simple: Shining Armor after stealing Twilight's diary (for her owngood) learned that she and TFW have plans to go to this event while cosplaying and so he found one of the normal guards, hitting him with tranquilizer dart (He borrowed that one from mother, she normally uses it to take father for her "Not-extreme-at-all" hobbies), stole his ID card and then assumed guard identity ... under cheap wookie cosplay.
That last part is necessary because if TFW sees him he will act as the perfect gentleman, and even if his LSBFF has a problem seeing anything beyond the book it would be better for him to be unrecognized. Shame that Cadence couldn't join him (Apparently when you take over a school that was run like a military dictatorship, you need to supervise psychiatric help for students ... and some teachers, and that takes time.) so he could finally convince her that they are not perfect pa... and he lost the sight of them while thinking. Shining quickly chose to abandon his post under the scene and go for a "patrol" straight for the books parlor, convinced that Twilight and TFW are already there ... Besides that part of the convent is a long way from the scene, and that blond from "The Magicals" group has an awful singing voice.
Twilight was not feeling comfortable, mostly because while standing in the entrance line one wookie bodyguard tried to murder either her or her boyfriend with his looks. Seeing that Martin shifted himself between her and that madman's eyesight, he was so considerate like that. She corrected her cosplay, which was made rather quickly at home: plastic elven ears, green robes that covered everything, a necklace that she got from Martin and staff made from a piece of wood from the garden with a glued glowing crystal on top (That cost her three big mac's with additional bacon on "black market trade"), while Martin ... well he looked like true Norse berserker with that nice fur armor and handmade helmet and dwarven style axe. Shame that Sunset wasn't there but she said that she had something important to do.
It was a nice day in Vandom's dwelling ...
"Git gut scrubs!" Shouted Susan.
...especially considering cheering from inside the titanic pillow/book fort that replaced the saloon. Inside the fort on the sofa mother and daughter were sharing a very important activity: Winning an online shooter tournament.
Both were quite happy with their day from inside blankets with controllers in hands, Bluetooth headphoneµphone in use, and having expletives on tongues, even Ray was happy with his position inside Sunset's hair. Their third team member was also quite happy but Sunset couldn't deny the feeling that that voice on voice chat and those archaic speech patterns were somewhat familiar.
"Huzzzah, and I take ye another checking point for our team."
Shouted their teammate with nick "Princessofthemoon12".
"...meh it's probably no one I know." Sunset thought before letting another expletive when her mother stole another kill.
"So another destruction of that sparkpires stuff, what a terrible shame am I right?"
Twilight was brought of her musing by two convent workers talking.
"Yeah such a shame, but it was something new this year."
Said the second of two workers checking entrance cards.
"Oh really?"
"Yeah instead of usual suspects, the manager says it was some black-haired witch and guy with a golden mask. And she even had some gizmo for shooting electricity..."
Twilight easily recognized the description, "Who would have thought that Nerissa also hates those books?" Twilight shuddered ashamed that she even shares the name with those book series but she will rather burn all the copies in the world before changing her name, she was first dammit. She still remembers when the book betrayed her, she saw as her mother was reading these books and she became curious, oh how she regrets even picking that...that abomination. Her next step was burning those books in the kitchen declaring that they will not harm any other person...then her parents called the exorcist suspecting demonic possession. She will admit that maybe she overreacted by spitting and cursing that book in thirty-seven different languages in the presence of the exorcist but after three days of exorcising when he checked it, he did exactly the same.
"It seems I need to find Nerissa's address to send her gift basket."Twilight thought finally entering the building with Martin.
Fortunately, that Wookie bodyguard disappeared. Unfortunately, Cornelia was on the scene doing crimes against music.
"So you want to show her up?"Asked Martin with a knowing look.
"What? I mean yes ... but it's your time in the schedule to decide what we are doing..."Twilight answered.
"And we will spend the time showing Cornelia up," said Martin with a smile" besides, it's important for you to have as much fun as I'm having with you."
Twilight beamed while blushing, truly a perfect considerate boyfriend, why no one snatched him earlier she will never know.
At that time Irma sneezed on the scene, but it didn't change the quality of the performance in any noticeable way.
Nerissa was having a month that could be described as "Mood Swings".
First, she was bored so she has gone to a bookshop to get something in between her plans for "power increase and possible world domination" and sleeping. She went to the shelf with recommendations and pick up the first one from the supernatural genre. Needless to say, after reading barely half of the book she burned it, searched her magical knowledge for a safe method to scrub her memories, and not finding it she took out her frustrations on the bookstore. She didn't like the shop clerk's reaction that it was the fifth time this month, he should be crying dammit. The next day she got this nice idea to erase the city of Forks from existence ... the problem was she was never good with geography ... and her servant was even worse. After a couple of days of stealing atlases and kidnapping a local geography expert, she was on her way to Forks. She could already taste her frustrations worked out with the nice aroma of fire and brimstone...that is until she noticed that the city was already stripped to bedrock, the area was smelling like napalm and citizens were rebuilding it. She never felt such disappointment, but she could at least ask locals about who did that and then send the culprit some nice roses. There she got shocked since she asked the owner of the shack outside the crater that was Forks: Leah Clearwater.
Yeah turns out that up to a decade earlier those vampires and "werewolves" were real, and the book series was Bella Cullen's autobiography meant to show the world how much of a goddess she was as a vampire. It was going well for her, and Forks citizens were pissed by the books ... that was before HE arrived.
He had green skin and a manly mustache. He was dressed in a green trenchcoat and tuxedo, his eyes were covered by glasses, and on his head was a green fedora. introduced himself as a "...concerned father of the little girl that cried because of those books or Mr.Shy if you prefer..." but the locals named him a hero:
"The Verdant Bucker"
Cullens and in particular Bella were dismissive of a single human ... that is until in a long fight he slaughtered them all without a shred of remorse causing widespread devastation to the city. After the battle there arrived thousand of vampires and when The Verdant Bucker asked if they want revenge, they instead cheered for him, and proclaimed him and his descendants as "friends and honorable members of the vampire race" for getting rid of "those sparking scrubs that were causing issues with mascarade".Local "werewolves" were objective to the slaughter ... but then arrived true werewolves and gave them a choice of stopping using that moniker or total slaughter. Considering that Leah was the last "wolf totem warrior" it wasn't that hard to guess which option was picked.
Nerissa was going back to Sheffield severely disappointed by the fact that she could not work out her frustrations.
Then a couple of days later she discovered that there will be a convent for those books fans nearby and needless to say that she took Shagon and worked fast. She got to the hall where the convent would be held and let loose laughing all the way, she had better humor after all of that destruction but she was disappointed when the hall manager sat with a popcorn bucket instead of you know, screaming in terror?
And now she was perplexed by the fact she got gift baskets with sweets, wine, and some nice books.
The first one was delivered by bats with a "thank you" card for "demolishing that convent", the second was delivered by werewolf pups with the same card, and the third was delivered by ... a bunny with a similar "thank you" card from The Verdand Bucker II.
What was the most perplexing in all of that however was the fact that this bunny somehow broke exactly forty bones in Shagons body when he was trying to pet little bugger,
"Oh well, he will regenerate by the time I finish the first book." Nerissa thought ignoring the pain-filled moans of her servant.
As for the musical contest, "The Magicals" got place number four ... out of five, which Cornelia pronounced as great success ... that is until she heard that Twilight&Martin karaoke duet took third place. Either way "The Magicals" got a couple of local gigs in oncoming months but then Caleb got an "epiphany" when one of the scenic lamps fell on his head and he left the band that disbanded later after two weeks, relegating them to the same Sheffield history card as some musical hijinks of "CHYNK's" such as joining "The Beatles" tour as bodyguards/back up singers when they defended them from larvek attack, or Yan Lin and Nerrisa stealing Elvis toupee.
As for Caleb, he choose to create his first Meridian rock band with Tynar and Vathek and later became a multiversal band with the joining of Zambalan treant Vibrelm and their lyrics master ... Garble. They were not as appreciated at first but during their ending tour they were celebrities and after a couple of hundred years an inspiration for rock bands across infinite dimensions to transcendent boundaries ... but that story is unimportant.
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Yep, but there was a reason to their madness to some extent. Just too bad the reason was more desperation than actual logic by the villain.
lol, was wondering if anyone would notice that reference. I'm still debating how much more use icepick and matchstick has to the villian. I'm also debating if I should wait until the very end or go ahead and start giving more clues and maybe even show who the villain is. I love seeing Sunset as a pyromancer, but for the sory she is much more than just that thanks to the Heart and what happened with Princess Celestia. Let's just say Sunset is the only person on Earth who could probably go swimming on the sun and survive.
That's true and Susan needs to start listening to her instincts much more. She will definitely be getting training soon as well as a nice Christmas gift. As for the dome, you do have a point. Kandrakar does rely on those things too much to the point they would rather use them than deal with the problem before it grows out of hand.
You are very right about trying to get Nerissa used as a scapegoat, just need to decide if I should show the plotting little plot or wait until the end for a bit of shock value at who it is.
I'm unsure of the fate of the car for the moment, but I just can't do that to Sunset, her guitar will have survived.
As for Sunset, there will be questions...oh there will be questions.
I debated keeping Sunset down for longer, but I just couldn't do it. She'll up up and around in the part posted in a little while thankfully. Just too close to Christmas to keep her down for long.
Yep, out of all of them though I think Will is the changes I like the least for the new powers arc in the comics that Sunset more or less forced a little too early. It will cause a few problems for the girls though.
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Thanks, Twi will be showing up very soon. Not in tonights part, but she will for sure either in tomorrow nights or the next one at the latest.
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Sorry, forgot to say this about the cops. Since this attack was at the mall the first signs of trouble a patrol car that was around the mall responded and called in for backup. So for once they were able to make it on the scene pretty quickly, though an early tipoff still cant's be discounted.
And sorry, I'm having trouble answering reviews tonight because every time I type two words I have to stop because of crap going on around here.
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) had from the convention being trashed to it actually being real with the posers being smacked down pretty harshly which they deserved. It took me a couple minutes to try and remember what it sounded like Fluttershy was dressed as but when I heard the Verdant Bucker...well, if I was drinking something at the time my monitor and keyboard would be ruined lol. While Hellsing was ok, Hellsing Abridged was a pure masterpiece.
I have to say I loved both of these omakes, and I can't help cheering all the bad luck Twilight (the books
The band idea was a great idea and I can see Cornelia actually trying to pull that. And Shining playing wookie and stalking Twi and Martin was cute, with Martin blocking the wookie's view of Twi was even cuter. And I agree, the sparkly vamps of Twilight aren't true vamps and should be smacked down and put out of their misery. Go Verdant Bucker I & 2!