Filly Fantasy- Requiem of Ponies

by Velocyty Spectrym

PART V

The four of us stood before the ruins of our forgotten world. The earth had turned to sandy loam, the sky was blackened by many tempests, and the world was dark. Time no longer existed in this world, and no life, be it animal or vegetation or pony, was anywhere. Our world was bound to Desolation once more, and the planet was covered in a thick aura of Apocalypse.

Silemn floated in the air, and, bewildered at our survival, said, “The End had come. I destroyed all of the life on this planet… Why do you remain here?”. Applejack mounted Kohai so she was prepared for battle and said, “It is in our will. We fight because we must. We must fight so the world does not die.”.

Silemn said, “Abandon the love of your futile planet. Look around you… I have killed all but you four. There is nothing to recover, because you have lost it all. Canterlot is now a mangled ruin of wrought iron and marble. I shall take everything… I shall inherit the universe unto my bloodstream. You have lost.”.

Rarity said, “So long as we can fight, we have not lost.”. Silemn laughed spitefully and said, “Then I shall quickly ensure your deaths…”, as he hurled Ultima towards us. We counter with five High level Esuna spells and destroyed it. Silemn laughed, “You think you can just defend against me? Your Spectra runs thin, and my power is endless.”.

Applejack said, “Then we go down fighting!”, as she starting firing Kohai off at Silemn, doing very little damage despite the power of the weapon. Rarity joined in, as she leapt off the tower and dug Firebrand into Silemn, gashing his hide and trying her best to hang on. I shouted out to Rainbow, “We’ve got to help! Grab Sefyr and Oblivion and fire on all cylinders!”.

Rainbow picked up the weapons, and leapt off the tower. Silemn starting weaving away from Kohai’s gunfire, and the weaving motion caused Rarity to be flung off of Silemn. Rainbow used the incoming Rarity as a makeshift step to vault off of, making her able to close the distance between her and Silemn.

Upon landing on Silemn, Rainbow started to viciously tear away at Silemn, slicing many of his wings to bits, barraging him with an endless onslaught of metal. Rainbow tried her best to move from the gunfire of Kohai and the blade of Firebrand, as well as the Firaja I was slamming Silemn continuously with.

Silemn became enraged, and the moment Rainbow came into view, he grabbed her and flung her forcefully at the tower, smashing the tile of the tower. Silemn said, “Enough is enough. Your weak weapons are merely irritating. The blood of a god will not be on your hooves this night!”.

Silemn summoned Tornado and blasted all of us off of the tower, as well as disarming us. Rainbow thought about the weapons on the tower, and said to me, “Twi, I have a plan. Get all the Spectra we have and follow me!”, as she dashed off towards the castle. I raided Applejack and Rarity of their Spectra and tailed Rainbow as best I could, though I was far from where I needed to be.

As Rainbow gracefully scaled the tower, I tried to clamber up to where she was. Needless to say, the body of an old librarian isn’t a fit one. Rainbow, as far past her prime as she was, still bested me with incredible ease. Rainbow waited for me, and pulled me into a room of the tower when I had caught up. I asked Rainbow, “Dash, please tell me you have a good plan… We don’t have much hope left.”.

Rainbow said, “The weapons we received were legends on their own, but the plaques I read indicated they shared common features and fates. They all were surrounded by violence and ill intent, their original wielders made grave errors that cost their lives, and they all represented facets of their destined wielders. We are going to combine the weapons into one great sword… Kohai as the pommel, Firebrand as the tsuba, Sefyr as the right part of the hilt, Okos as the left part of the hilt, and Oblivion as the handle and blade… they shall become one weapon.”.

Silemn heard us speaking and said, “You scheme in what you believe is the quiet. I tire of everything you and your kind are. I have given the chance for you to repent for your wickedness, but now I know this planet cannot be saved from its sin. So I shall end your world now, so that its darkness will fade away.”.

We watched Silemn as he summoned energy through his veins to his hand, forming a white ball of fire. He hurled the fireball towards the ground, where it burrowed and destroyed the core of the planet. The tower and a great amount of earth below it went into freefall, before the sinking earth plugged up the hollow core of the planet. But time grew thin, for the earth was being boiled by the mantle of the planet, causing the planet to slowly collapse.

In the force of the event, Rainbow and I had been knocked out. When I came to, my vision was blurry, but I distinctly saw Rainbow before me. Her body was scarred, bruised, battered, and scraped. Every part of her was stained with blood. She asked me, pained, “Twi, you okay?”. I nodded, and sighed painfully at this turn of events. Rainbow said, “Don’t worry… it’s all going to be alright.”.

I asked Rainbow, “Tell me, how can everything be alright? We’ve lost so much… we have lost so many of our friends, we have nearly lost our own lives, and we are sitting here on a planet that is about to die. Unbelievable… this all started with trying to get a book shipment, and now I am laying here… the planet is dying and I am slowly sinking to my fiery death. How did it all go so wrong?”.

Rainbow said, “I don’t know. Years ago, we had such passion in our lives… but where did that end us up? Twi, strange things happen with destiny… all this hurt had to happen for a reason. We went in our downwards spirals, but each of our miseries was what led us to this important path… to save the world. Without these pains and these suffering that transpired, we all would have died by the hand of Silemn. Look at the unity we once had as friends… and look at how every bit of that is worth fighting for.”.

I told her, “Rainbow… I don’t want to die. Not like this… forgotten and alone.”. Rainbow laughed, put her bloodied hand on me, and said, “Twi, trust me, you aren’t dying alone here. If you die, I die. I’m sure not happy about it, but what happens… happens.”. As she finished, I heard a loud creaking sound, and the tower suddenly collapsed, smashing the floor and ceiling when it landed hundreds of feet into the dark abyss below.

When I awoke, I saw something amazing… a true stroke of grace. I pointed above and said joyfully, “Rainbow, look! Look!”. Rainbow looked to the ceiling and saw exactly what I saw: The weapons. Rainbow said, “This is perfect! Now we just need to get them.”.

I felt something off though… I was laying not on stone, like Rainbow. I was laying on dirt… the same kind that had been collapsing this whole time. When another slab of dirt had presumably melted below, I would fall into the mantle of the planet. I felt my body slipping, and I said, “Rainbow?”.

Rainbow looked over as the dirt collapsed from under me, and I was starting to fall, Rainbow grabbed my arm with her hand. Rainbow said to me in panic, “Hold on, Twilight!”. I looked below at the mantle, several hundred feet below me, and said, “Do you really think I have plans of letting go?”.

Rainbow said, “It’s alright, I will save you!”. I simply said to her, “No, you need to get the weapons… It’s a sacrifice you need to make. I beg you, Rainbow Dash, save the planet!”. Rainbow’s face was etched in fear as my hoof started to slip, due to the slippery blood on Rainbow’s hand.

Rainbow said, “I can’t do it, Twilight. I have let too many ponies die. I’m not letting anypony else die. I’m tired of having lives on my head… ponies that died in vain. I hear their pain and agony every night… I see their horror and their screams of anguish and fear every night in my dreams. For eight years, I have been haunted by the revenants of their memory, the forgotten and the obscure who sit in unmarked graves. I will not let that happen to another one of my friends… You shall not become a memory!”.

Rainbow then yanked me up, and I crawled over to solid ground. Rainbow then fired a Fira at the ceiling, causing it to disintegrate. The disintegration released the weapons, and Rainbow started to put them together in exactly the order she spoke of: Pommel, Tsuba, Right half of hilt, Left half of hilt, Handle, and Blade.

Rainbow held the awkward and massive weapon, but it didn’t stay that way for long. Soon, it became a bright white, and in a blinding flash, the sword morphed into a beautiful, graceful rapier. The pommel was an incredibly beautiful sapphire, the cup hilt was made of diamond with crisscrossing bands of wood with metal studding, the handle and blade became a dark amethyst, and from the back of the blade emerged many spikes that were much like saw teeth. Rainbow then said, “Let’s climb to the surface and end this… once and for all.”.

We were well on our way to the top, slowly ascending by following the few stairs that remained and leaping from one pile of rubble to another. The task was long and arduous, and for the most part, me and Rainbow kept a pretty solid silence. But, me being me, I needed details on the plan that I knew admittedly very little about.

Rainbow somehow sensed my confusion, and said, “The blade is a legendary blade named Kanyo. It is a seven foot rapier by now, one foot for every weapon in it and one foot for every five millennia since it was forged. The power of the blade is incredible, but it is not enough to defeat Silemn alone.”. I asked, “If it is not powerful enough, what would make it powerful enough?”.

Rainbow responded, “A while back, I mixed up 350 Spectra vials in our Apothecas… the amount needed to make to be able to cast one Forbidden level Apocalypse and one Forbidden level Ultima. That is where you come in. You will load the vials up into your Armariums, and you will cast Apocalypse and Ultima at each other, making the spell Rapture. When the spell Rapture forms, you will fire it at Kanyo, and Kanyo shall beam with pure magic. Then I will kill Silemn.”.

I asked, “Why didn’t we do this earlier, then?”. Rainbow said, “It’s not just that we didn’t have Kanyo… I do not know of anyone who has the power to cast Rapture. I had to make sure you were ready. Even so, I’m not sure you will live through it. Do you understand what I mean?”.

I nodded to Rainbow Dash to show my understanding, and we continued on up the tower. I don’t know what has transpired on the surface, but I assume someone as cocky and arrogant as Silemn would simply be waiting for the destruction of the tower to complete. Though, it is hard to say he is vain, as his power is difficult to overestimate.

We slowly but surely made the way to the top. Before we stepped to the outside world, Rainbow told me, “Twi… I may be good at heart, but so long as I am unredeemed, I am not worthy of honour by anyone’s name. I just want you to know that we may not make it out of this alive… but if I am to die and you are to live, do not display my tombstone in valour.”.

I responded, “I understand, Rainbow. I just hope this works…”. With that, me and Rainbow walked out of the tower and went to the ruins of Canterlot. Silemn saw us and yelled out, “Why won’t you die? Give up! This wretched land is not worth fighting for!”. Rainbow drew Kanyo and said, “If there is one thing I know for sure… it is that you are wrong.”.

“Silemn covered his body in the power of Aura, and said, ‘Dear child, do not say I am wrong. Prove it. Prove there is a single thing worth fighting for on this unholy earth and in this ungodly water. Prove your wickedness can triumph over my holiness!’. I tossed Twilight a bag full of Spectra vials and said to her, ‘Twi, load up all the Spectra and use the spells!’.

Silemn just was waiting, almost as if to mock what he thought was our impotent plan, for Twilight to load the fifty vials in. She asked me, ‘Rainbow, you ready?’, and I gripped Kanyo forcefully with my hand and hoof, saying, ‘I have been ready for eight years… Fire!’.

Twilight focused all her thought and energy as Twilight pointed the Armariums straight at each other. The power of Ultima and Apocalypse in their truest glory collided, releasing explosive amount of mystical energy that were hardly contained within Twilight’s force field that she had put up to direct the spells. The spells merged, and a beam of smoky bright blue wisps appeared… the sign Rapture had formed. Twilight then fired Rapture at Kanyo, the force blowing her body into the combine from earlier, which was hundreds of feet away.

I felt an unspeakable power flow through Kanyo as it gained an aura of blue fire. Bands of Holy surrounded the bladed, electrifying the very air around me. Silemn said to me, ‘A nice effort, but a parlor trick in vain!’, as he cast Ultima at me. When it came near, I just swung my blade in an arc to the side, and the Ultima erupted into a violent explosion upon hitting a mountain, and I returned to my previous stance.

Silemn yelled, ‘You malicious and sinful horse, why do you still fight? Why persist in a world that must be destroyed and reborn in the holy fires of light? Why do you defy me? Your cause means nothing, for you stand for NOTHING!’. And to me… the answer was simple.

I told Silemn, ‘You can destroy my body, and you can destroy my world, but you can NEVER destroy my heart! Deep inside, there is a flame in me that never goes out! I will always carry on, no matter what odds lie against me! I do not do this for glory, and I do not do this for honour, and I do not do this for recognition!’. Silemn asked, ‘Pray tell, child… why then do you fight me?’.

I took to flight with an iron grip on Kanyo and as I approached Silemn, I roared out, ‘I do it for forgiveness… and I do it because it is right!’. Silemn began to prepare to charge the most powerful spell he knew, Forsaken, so that he could kill the planet in a single blow.

Before Silemn could finish charging his spell, I swung Kanyo through his body vertically, shearing his body in two. As the corpse of Silemn slowly fell, it erupted into Rapture, and with a single blast of destructive force, it returned life back to the world. Everyone came back… animals, plants, and ponies alike. Even Scootaloo had been revived, as I could see.
The fire and smoke would soon clear to reveal a world that could be rebuilt. We had triumphed, but I was not rid of my chains… the guilt remained. When I landed back on the solid ground, I said to myself, ‘My price is not yet paid… There is still a life that must be rebuilt.’.”

“I walked toward the combine, to find Twilight lying on the ground… dead. Spitfire looked to me and said, ‘I am so sorry, Rainbow. Rapture killed her when she cast it.’. I did not respond, but merely gashed my arm on the combine blade Spitfire was impaled on, creating a large wound. Spitfire didn’t say anything, but just watched whatever I was trying to do.

I took off the hub cap of one of the wheels for the combine, sat it down, and let my blood drip into the hubcap. I started feeling very dizzy after several minutes, as I was processing my blood and turning it into orange Spectra. When I was done, I felt very weak, as I loaded the Spectra in my Armarium, filling it to the brim. The wound kept pouring out blood, but I didn’t care.

I focused all my will and power to cast Full-Life on Twilight. Then and there, the last of the Spectra was being used… With me would die the last pony who knew the secret of making Spectra without using Cloudsdale’s facilities, which were now in ruins. Time grew thin as my blood kept gushing out and my body became weak, but I finally was able to cast Full-Life and resurrect Twilight from her untimely death.

Twilight opened her eyes and looked at me. She said to me, ‘Rainbow, did we beat him?’. I nodded and said, out of breath, ‘Yeah, Twi… we beat him. Silemn is dead.’. Twilight saw my wound, and saw that I was dying fast. I said, ‘Don’t bother. We are out of Spectra. I used my own blood to make the Spectra needed to save you…’.

I continued, ‘Twilight, I’m leaving this world as we speak. Soon, I will join the fallen in death. I won’t be here to rebuild this world, and I’ll die with the knowledge I will never be able to see Equestria in its former glory again… Now that you live again, I am at peace. My guilt is no longer here; it is gone and I shall die happy. You, Spitfire, Applejack, Rarity, Scootaloo… all of you need to make this world ascend from the ashes… because I won’t be able to.’.

Twilight teared up upon hearing this, and as Spitfire weakly pulled the combine blade out of her own body, the two walked up to me and spent their time with me in my last moments. It felt nice to know others were there for me in my last moments of life… a life now complete in love and happiness.

The world started to grow black, and I said my final words, ‘When I die… remember me for all that I was: A loyal, honest friend.’. I hardly heard Twilight speak these final words to me, ‘And the only one who would die for what is right…’. I knew not what would be said of me and my life after I passed, but I know I could never have been the same.

I gave Twilight my last account of this part of our journey, and I hope one day that is put to pen and paper. Not in vanity, but in memory, that I may live on in the minds of others. My legacy is barren, but not fruitless. As the sound and the light faded, I drifted slowly into the tranquility of my seemingly eternal slumber until the Day of Judgment. In my last words, I say only this: My life was the price to pay to rebalance the scales… and I shall remain the Requiem of Ponies.’.”