Rainbow Dash lives an exciting life and is swiftly becoming the most daring, awesome pegasus in all of Equestria. She would gladly give it all up, though, just to confess her love to Applejack.
Clink! Cl-Cl-Clink! Several chaos shards littered the dirt floor of the Wasteland.
Silence.
... ... ...THUD! Rainbow's meaty body slammed down hard.
Lancie grunted, being thrown off her figure.
Rainbow rolled and tumbled through the night. At last, she coasted down the side of a hill, sliding, leaving a long bloodstreak behind her that glistened in starlight.
The pegasus slid off the crest of a hill, fell sideways, and tumbled down a gravel-laden embankment before finally settling to a stop between two large boulders.
At last, she lurched to a stop, staring skyward and twitching. Blood fountained out of her impaled figure, and her muzzle hung open.
Wincing... sputtering for breath... Lancie got up. He gasped, staring all around with wide, gray eyes. He looked down the hill, his gaze following the bloodstreak to where Rainbow's battered body lay. "Sparky...?!"
No response.
Gritting his teeth, he scampered down on all fours... tripped... slid... then regained his hoofing.
"...Rainbow Dash!" he seethed, descending, stumbling closer to her figure.
When he reached Rainbow Dash, she scarcely moved. Her limbs jerked, and her breaths came out in shallow wheezes. There was a slight flutter to her lashes, but very little else.
"Rainbow..." Lancie perched above her, shivering. His stone eyes darted to her legs, her wings, her bleeding chest. He gulped. "Rainbow, just hold on, I'll—"
Swissssssh!
Lancie turned around—CLANK! A dagger ricocheted off his forehead. "Ooof!"
Th-Thump! Romulus landed, snarled, and slammed his talon hard into the granite statue.
Lancie rattled off with a grunt, settling somewhere past the boulders below.
"My contracts... my money... all gone!" Romulus spat. "And for what?!" He turned towards Rainbow Dash, seething. "Just to dwindle in the shadow of a loyal piece of shit like you?! Grnnngh!" He rushed forward and kicked her.
A tiny whimper escaped—but that was it. Rainbow rolled limply down the hill, past the boulders. She coughed and gurgled up blood.
Romulus marched towards her. He hissed through his beak. "You think you had everything covered. But you didn't. Listen closely, my little pony." Schiiiing! He brandished his blood-stained scimitar. The blade glimmered with moonlight as he approached the skewered pegasus. "With your last dying breath... with the fragments of hearing still left in your ears... hear me and hear me well." He stood over her, raising the blade high. "I am going to eviscerate you... gut you like a pig... and then I'm going to track down every living thing that pretends to call you a friend... and feed you to them before gutting them too... slowly... intimately... with the smell of their own insides wafting across their noses as I make them curse your name." His one good eye narrowed. "That... is my solemn promise..."
A dark shadow rippled overhead.
Lancie craned his neck to the sky. Wincing, he shuffled deep into the shadows.
"I'll see you in Tartarus, bitch," Romulus spat, and brought the sword down—
CRACK! A pair of dragon claws snapped the scimitar just milliseconds before grabbing Romulus' tiny figure in a vice-like grip.
"Grnnkkk—gaah!" The assassin let out an avian shriek. His limbs were restrained tightly against his body. Within seconds, he was being hoisted up... up in the air. His lower legs and tail dangled as he was held up before Blood Fire's snout. "Mrrffnngh—aaaugh! Let me... grnnngh... go!"
"... ... ..." Blood Fire stared the griffon down. "... ... ...hrmmmm..." His iron-jaws curved into something resembling a smile.
From far uphill, along the edge of the crater, the matriarch's voice boomed: "Blood Fire, my son! Have you got a flesh and blood offering?"
"Indeed I do, mother," Blood Fire said, wings flapping. He lifted up with Romulus in his grasp. "And it will make you proud."
"Come here, my child, so that I may anoint you..."
"Grnnnkkk... wait... mrnnfghh—no!" Romulus hissed, wheezed. He struggled and fought against Blood Fire's iron grip, but it was no use. He was carried up beyond the mists, where even his panicked shrieks were stifled. "Let go of me! Don't you... don't you dare—No! Grkkkt! Nooooo—graaaacuhkkk—spfllktkttt!" And all was indecipherable sputtering, gargling, and then silence.
Lancie panted... panted. Crawling out of the shadows, he gazed up at the edge of the crater.
"Mmmffnngh... L-Lancie..."
Jolting, he tunred about. On panicked limbs, the statue scurried back down and past the boulders.
He rushed towards Rainbow's battered body just as a violent wave of involuntary spasms began.
"Sparky...!"
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...And so ends Romulus.
Rest in bloody droplets, scumbag.
Well, there's one big thread tied off nicely.
But...!
kek
Yes.
This chapter is good.
Woohoo.
...Welp
Sunset Shimmer
Don CanterTop DogSquidgyAataxe
RomulusFlim/Flam
out of 8 threats...
1 is redeemed
4 are dead
1 is grounded
2 are unaccounted for
There's a 3rd chapter today? Please? I must know how this ends up.
Don't leave me hanging off this cliff!
Shit's going down.
I can honestly say I was expecting what happened this chapter, but at this point I'm not 100% sure where you'll go from here.
I think this is the most excited I've been for an Appledashery update in a long long time.
On one hand Romulus has met a fitting end, on the other Rainbow is in really bad shape. Is this the part where she tells Lancie to forget about her and go back to Ponyville to heal Applebloom?
6572008 Rest in pieces! >:)
Lancie pls
Well, I guess we get to see just how much Lancie can do with this many shards.
6572008 My thoughts exactly.
The dirty SOB more than had it comin'!
6572031 Yeah, where are the Psycho Twins? They're both still gunning for her.
Among others.
6572060 Well put.
And it's the two that are unaccounted for (the Psycho Twins) that I'm really worried about.
Rainbow is badly wounded, dying, and helpless.
It doesn't really look very as far as defending herself from those two dirtbags goes.
And I'm not really sure what Lancie could do in this case.
Other than pray very hard.
6572090 Eeyup. And Lancie is going to be torn from a) choosing to save her, b) granting her wish to save Apple Bloom, or c) become Discord and wreck havoc.
For c, he'll consider it, because that was his plan all along, but he wouldn't do it.
For a, he wants to do it, but is torn after RD tells him to save Apple Bloom.
For b...well, I'm not sure if Lancie has enough juice to save both Apple Bloom and RD.
So I'm going to have to go with d. He'll become Discord, but save the two dying ponies.
...and then he'll wreck havoc, Elements of Harmony concealing him, and then the story ends, where it'll now connect to the main cannon episodes of the show.
Someone just had to jinx it.
Too good for him...
And now, the fun part: waiting 48 hours for the next update!
6572591 Oh shit... I totally forgot that's how Skirts update system works....
crap.
He did this on purpose.
Kk
Now, grab your shit Lancie.
We never saw Romulus' body.
6572591
6572750
Not this time. None of the other stories got a double update. JE just wanted to have that extra short, cliffhanger chapter.
6573273
Yeah, looks like it. I guess Skirts isn't that much of a jerk.
...Well, okay, he totally is, but at least he's choosing not to be this time.
Man, talk about mood whiplash.
Help us, Lancie. You're our only hope!
Hiya! Yeah, Appledash Girl here, um, ya, so, I don't remember allowing you to mess with my emotions like that. Its greatly unappreciated.
Anywho, we all know that Lancie is gonna save Rainbow now that he has the shards.
right?
6574541 Not now that you jinxed it!
6574658 GOSH DARN IT, I FORGOT!
Ugh shit, guess he wasnt fuckin' around.
There's still hope. There's still hope. Just gotta calm down.
I've had my daily heart attack, that's for sure.
This chapter in a Nutshell
1 thick-skulled pigeon assassin was sacrificed in this chapter.
You should really prepare some tissues.
Seriously..
I rest my case from last chapter
Hmm, Blood Fire did not also grab Rainbow's body. I guess he's pleased with her for leading him to his mother and getting Aatxe out of the leader position.
7073016 Or maybe it's cuz he thinks she's dead and he's looking for fresher fare? *shrugs*
Karma is awesome when it's instant.
... I'm waiting to see how Dashie gets out of being a fuzzy blue shishkabob though.
Well I guess that solves that problem...