I stood with my eyes closed as I listened to the heavy hoofsteps moving past outside the doors towards the throneroom outside the closed doors of the side passage. I'm not here. I am a hole in the air.
A shadow of nothing. Think empty thoughts.
The ground trembled beneath my hooves as the massive centaur moved past.
I was terrified. I couldn't afford to be, but I was. The hoofsteps slowly moved away and I could hear the gates of the throneroom opening and then closing again.
Pushing the door open I exited and turned to follow, taking a slow deep breath. Focus. If I fuck up, I'm dead.
What's more importantly, if I fuck up, Luna and Celestia are dead. Cadence and Twilight. Everyone loses forever. So no pressure or anything.
Pausing I took a quiet and deep breath, gathering all my fear into a tiny little ball and pushing it away. Then I gathered my magic and lashed out at the doors. The doors crashed open with a loud bang as they hit the walls and I stalked inside.
“Tirek! You will not touch them!” I roared, floating my four spears around me as I entered. The Princesses by the thrones looked towards me in pure surprise, even Tirek looked back at me in surprise.
Luna mouthed 'No... no please...'
I looked away, focusing on Tirek. He chuckled and turned towards me, “Who is going to stop me? You, little pony?”
“I am Blank Page. Consort of Princess Luna, Warmage and negotiator with the Hive. Take one more step towards them and I will fucking murder you. And mark my words, it will be a murder not a fight.”
Tirek just laughed and stepped towards me, the ground shaking at his step, “Her consort, was it. Perhaps that can help convince them...”
I didn't wait for him to get close, I set a spin on my spears around their axis and launched them at him as I dodged to the side, pulling my cloak free and flying to block his view as I sent my chakram spinning after them along with a pair of daggers in an arch.
Tirek ignored the spears and them just bounced off his hide, raising his arm for the daggers and chakram. I didn't let him, I dodged them around his arm and stabbed towards his eyes.
He ducked and twisted his head as he reached out faster than I thought possible to catch the weapons and throwing them to the side, breaking my hold on them.
Pulling another pair of daggers from my belt, I floated them next to me as I faced off towards him. They started to trail frost as I infused them with ice magic.
Tirek just chuckled and then moved towards me fast. Faster than his massive bulk should be capable of. Pulling magic around myself, I threw it from here to there and suddenly I was behind him, gathering up the spears as I finished the teleport, spinning as I launched them towards him before even orienting myself again.
I gasped for breath and dove to the side as he caught one of the spears and launched it back at me hard enough for it to land tip first into the stone floor.
He was almost at me and I gathered my magic around myself again and I was a couple of meters further away once more, stumbling as much from exertion as from disorientation, sweeping my magic to gather up the fallen chakram, spinning it around myself as I rolled onto my hooves and danced back with the sound of the medallions of my necklace hitting each other, just barely avoiding his hand as reached for me.
My weapon lashed out, spinning against his massive forearm.
It actually drew a line of red and he roared, pulling his arm quickly back, looking at it. I readied myself and moved slightly to the side before sending it spinning at him again.
With a annoyed snarl he opened his jaw and I lost control of the metal circle. He caught it in his hand and then simply squeezed before dropping it onto the floor, all twisted up.
I quickly looked around and reached out for the closest dagger when I suddenly couldn't move anymore.
Suddenly there was a massive wham and I was laying on the floor, the world spinning around me, leaving me wondering what the hell just happened.
The floor shook beneath me and my left frontleg protested in pain as I tried to move it.
“Enough playing.” Tirek growled and reached down with his large arm, picking me up and I screamed as it moved my left frontleg.
I felt grinding motion in it before it was drowned out by sheer pain. Something in there was broken.
You would be surprised about the things you notice at strange times. Tirek smelled badly. Like seaweeds.
I tried to kick him.
He just chuckled and squeezed a bit harder, making me gasp for breath as he turned back towards the Princesses, “There. Perhaps we should continue. You were about to tell me where your magic is.”
Cadence looked away. Luna and Celestia stared at me in horror before Luna slowly shook her head, “...No...”
“You are certain?” Tirek asked with a ugly grin, “Tell me what I want to know and I'll just take his magic. I'll even send him with you to Tartarus... if not...”
Luna ground her teeth, tears dripping down her cheeks as he looked at me. It hurt more than my arm to see her like that.
“...We'll tell you.” Celestia said quietly and Luna looked at her in surprise, “Put him down. I'll tell you what you want to know.”
Tirek nodded with a smirk before opening his massive jaw at me and I could feel it. Pain racked through my body as my golden magic started to flow from my horn into his mouth. I could see all the way down into this throat.
Game over.
I win.
I predict detonation within him.
Hmm...I predict that he made a spell with sunset that will reverse his magic draining and give the magic to Celestia and Luna. Or that his magic will go in Tirek and make him explode with the fiery intensity of a thousand suns.
dark magic? human explosives? poison? all 3 because page is sneaky?
Well, now, mister Page...What is it that you've done?
I am very eager to see what the mind of a human and a talented unicorn came up with.
Dude, I think I wouldn't be able to sleep until I read next chapter...
Page doesn't have golden magic does he? Sunset has something to do with this... My god please Hiver give us 3 updates a day you magnificent bastard.
Ponies rely too much on magic, so I suspect that he has cooked up a nasty human idea with Sunset's assistance.
that's dark.
Cliffhanger, of course it would be a cliffhanger.
Hmm, it'll be interesting to see where this goes.
My theory:
Page is gonna slash the inside of his throat/stomach open with the chakram.
But it's just a theory
My guess is that he was wearing the Elements of Harmony.
I have a feeling that Tirek is about to have a very bad day. Though, if Tirek is defeated now that means no Discord reformation, no rainbow power and no castle for Twilight.
I've waited and waited and waited for this part since the first story, and now that it's here....
It's better than anything!
Well worth the wait!
7395244 meh
We also thought Sunset wouldn't be reformed and yet here she is.
Wait... Page teleported? I thought he couldn't?
Also: medallions? Plural?
Their is something a foot here!
I've read this chapter four times in the last hour! Fan boying the fuck out and I don't care who knows it!!!
7395146 Um I hope you are trying to be funny because if not well....you would be....Nah you are most likely either confused or trying to be silly.
At this point in the show Twilight had to give the Elements back to the tree of harmony to save equestria and the Prinsesses from the plunder vines that Discord planted roughly 1,000 years in the past. And the same thing happens in this story. So how could he be wearing them? Especially when they are with the tree.
7395244 Except for the no discord reformation, I am entirely ok with that.
One small caveat.
No magic table, means no page smacking some people upside the head for following what a table tells them to do.
Except for the fact that the portal is closed, I'd say C4 down the gullet is how he does this.
Wait, I know what is going to happen!
He and Sunset shimmer planned to make Tirek regurgitate all the magic of Equestria. Blank Page magic have been enchanted to be the equivalent of a magic lassative! Tired will vomit all the magic he contain on Black Page and *Blam!* Alicorn, he saved the day.
later he will be coronated prince for becoming and alicorn, to the ponies was told that he archived alicornhood when he reached the deepest meaning of his cutymark and destiny just like twilight sparkle, however that is a lie because being blasted with super enchanted magical vomit by a centaur is not exactly a exemplar method for reaching royal status.
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Honestly, a railgun is simpler than a normal gun. Especially with bull pony magic letting you directly set up a magnetic field. Granted, making one last is complicated, but a one-shot -you weapon that just needs to make chunky centaur salsa? Easy-peasy.
Granted, there may be a case of magic explosion epicenter syndrome, but that's okay.
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I think I remember Luna talking about teaching him several chapters ago; I guess it must have happened off screen.
7395609 Hmmm I thought he never got the knack for it. Hence I wonder if he got a power boost. Oh well, speculation.
7395447 As much as I love that idea, I hope it doesn't happen.
I feel like Page is about to drop a bomb down Tirek's Throat. Also wasn't page's magic a different color. I think he just pulled a grand ruse. This is going to be epic.
7395671 *she. That's sunset not page :P
MOOOOOAAAAR NAO PLEASE!!!
Hey Hiver!orig05.deviantart.net/697a/f/2016/197/c/2/blank_page___consequences_by_sipioc-daaa8a8.jpg . A Tribute!
Cover page if you want, at least until somethings better comes along.
It's skitter/sunset in disguise and page is ready to drop da hammer on him
(As in that 40 foot tall anti-centaur hammer celestial locked in the basement and forgot about)
Well, he ran into the danger yelling his name as loud as possible... Just as he promised to do... You waited for a really long time to drop this on us, didn't you?
He Leroy'd his attack but with the added twist of a plan
yes
So, right after Tirek pulls Page close to him to absorb his magic, Page opens his mouth and says:
"You need to ease up out my face 'fore something bad happens to you."
...
"Too late."
BTW, I'm going to call it now, Celestia gave in first because she s Page. Definitely.
Checkmate! High gamble, victory is the prize!
????? Um shouldn't that be I lost? Or something like that?
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Cliffhanger. He did win that one. :D
You see, Page went in with a Plan. Capital P "Plan", too.
A human concept known as kamikaze I assume?
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Sometimes to win you just have to make the opposition lose.
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That has been kinda obvious for a few chapters now.
The fight basically:
Time has come to end this threat: