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// Arrovak's Retreat 
// Story: The Legacy Of Darkness 
// by Darkness 1 
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Arrovak then landed in front of everypony, and used his magic, to restrain everypony with some kind of magic bond, as Rainbow Dash said, "I didn't know this bastard could use magic!?"
Twilight said, "I'm not sure any of us knew!"
Arrovak manically laughed, as he held some of his hooves high into the air, and as he finished laughing, he put his hooves down, and said, "How predictable!" He then looked at everypony with a mocking sad face and said, "And how pathetically sad, even for Darkness and Princess Luna's so-called children! So much for Darkness's living legacy! HA! PATHETIC! I've had better foes, when I faced the Gods Of Equestria, which by the way, after I'm done with this puny little planet, and this universe, I'll pay all of them a visit , and all of you, who will all be dead by then, in the spiritual realm, and destroy all of you once and for all!"
Violet Winter, who struggled to break free from her magic bonds, said, "Does your friend, Parallex, know about this?"
Arrovak got close to her, and said, "Yes, but what he doesn't know, is that he is nothing more than a pawn, in my ultimate plan. Once this world, this universe, the Gods Of Equestria, all of it, are destroyed and what's left, under my rule, I will dispose of him, just like I would any other regular minion! hahahaha! And the funniest part is, the giant behemoth of an idiot, doesn't even know, I'm playing him for a fool! I need him to help me, because I am not strong enough to take out your precious Gods Of Equestria, or all of you, for that matter, in my current state right now, but once I have gathered all the required power for myself, there will be no living or spiritual thing, that can stand against me! Mwahahaha! AHAHAHAHA!"
Just then, a voice from behind Arrovak said, "IS THAT SO, TRAITOROUS, LYING SCUM?!"
Arrovak moved away from Violet Winter, turned around, and saw Parallex, floating in midair a little above him, and Arrovak's composure changed, as he nervously said, "I-I don't know what you are talking about....! My trusty villainous companion!"
Parallex spat in Arrovak's face, and said, "SAVE IT! FOOL! I HAD JUST ARRIVED TO SEE HOW PREPARATIONS WERE GOING, AND I HEAR THAT YOU ARE PLAYING ME FOR A FOOL, AND THAT I AM NOTHING MORE THAN A PAWN IN YOUR SCHEMES! PLUS, THAT YOU PLAN TO DISPOSE OF ME LIKE SOME STANDARD GRUNT IN YOUR ARMY! I WILL NOT BE USED BY SOME WEAKLING, NOT NOW, NOT EVER! PREPARE YOURSELF, SCUM!"
Arrovak said, "You have it all wrong, my friend! I was simply downing these fools spirits! These fools think that they can defeat me! Plus, they all used some sort of magic spell, that I have never seen before on me, to force me to say those weird things!"
Parallex paused, and then said, "If that's true...then..." He then went over to everypony, and said, "Well, well, well, we meet again, but I will not fight you here, there are things myself, and Arrovak must attend to." He then got very close to everypony, and breathed noxious fumes, as he said, "THE VERY NEXT TIME WE MEET, I WILL MAKE YOU BLEED! I WILL MAKE YOU ALL SUFFER TO THE POINT, YOU WILL WISH AND BEG FOR DEATH, AND I WILL BRING YOU ALL BACK ALIVE, AND DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN, TEN TIMES OVER!" As Parallex finished speaking, he began to fly off, and said, "Come, Arrovak, we must not let them interfere any longer, our final preparations must be complete."
Arrovak said, "Yes, yes, quite right. In just a moment, I'm going to give them all a chance to prove to me, if they truly are puny, or perhaps, they might pose any threat, before I waste any more soldiers or time on them. If they prove they are puny, then they will die here!"
Parallex turned around, nodded, and said, "Fine, but make it quick, we don't have much time to lose, the hour is almost upon us."
Arrovak said, "I know." Parallex then flew off into the distance, and out of sight, as Arrovak lifted one of his hooves, and released the magic bonds, as he backed away a bit from everypony, as he stood on four of his hooves, and used his other ten, and drew out massive golden swords, and said, "COME, PUNY PATHETIC PONIES! SHOW ME YOUR TRUE POWER! OR DIE HERE IN DISGRACE! MWHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Lightning and different hues of purple magic surged around him, above him, and around the fort, as he had engulfed the outside of the fort, within ten miles of distance, with massive, swirling surges of power, as he had also lifted the fort high into the air, as everypony got back up on their hooves.
Violet Winter said, "This is it!"
Solar Blaze said with a smirk, "Now this is what I call a fight!"
Twilight said, "We must win!"
Rainbow Dash said, "It's now or never!"
Snowshy said, "Everypony is counting on us!"
Everypony then got their battle stance, and drew their weapons, or readied their strongest spells, as Arrovak laughed uncontrollably, as he grew in size, to the size of eighteen of the world's biggest skyscrapers, and began slamming his swords on the roof of the fort, and said, "COME! SHOW ME WHAT YOU ALL ARE TRULY MADE OF!"
Everypony all took deep breaths, and charged at Arrovak, as he himself, remained still, and within mere moments, they all began to attack Arrovak. He effortlessly, blocked blow for blow, strike after strike, spell upon spell, and he said, "If that's all you have to offer, it wasn't even worth turning into my ultimate form! Is this the fearsome group of ponies, I had been hearing so much about?!" Arrovak then said in a mocking voice, "Doesn't seem all that fearsome to me! HA!"
Solar Blaze, who was in the middle of a sword attack, said, "He's mocking us!"
Rainbow Dash said, "No crap! We know!"
Snowshy said, "Everypony! We need to focus of self-confidence together, and bring forth the sword! It's our only hope! Fighting him like this, will get us nowhere, and we will all be dead, if we don't do so now!"
Everypony stopped their attacks, and backed far away from Arrovak, and as he saw this, he said, "What's this? Already trying to run away? Look around you! There is no where to run!"
Everypony ignored him, as they all closed their eyes, put their heads down, and focused as hard as they could, until a blinding bright light appeared in front of them, as Snowshy could barely make it out the shards of the sword, forming, and coming together. At this point, Arrovak, backed away a little, and shielded hie eyes. After a few more moments of this, the light faded, and sword had completely formed, and then broke into several weapons, which floated in front of everypony. As Arrovak's vision went back to normal, he looked at everypony, as saw that they were now all holding weapons, that had each of their own individual colors, and he said, "Ha! Is that all that was!? All that, for some 'pretty, colorful', new shiny weapons!? Ha! That won't be enough! And it still won't save you all from your fate! HURAAAAAAHHHHAA!"
Arrovak then charged at everypony, at a frightening speed, as everypony remained still, and as Arrovak attacked everypony with all his swords, everypony deflected every single one of them, with little to no effort, and the force of it, sent Arrovak sliding backwards quite a ways. As Arrovak used one of his swords, and put in into the roof of the fort, to stop himself from skidding, and as he came to a stop, he then he took the sword from the roof of the fort, and stood there, looking at everypony for a minute, as he said, "Well, it seems those 'shiny' weapons of yours, are more than mere trinkets." He looked out over at the distant horizon, and then said, "It would also seem, I have underestimated you all quite a lot. Make no mistake, I will not be doing that again." He then looked back at everypony, and said, "But alas, our fight, will have to wait for another time.......The time has come....and I cannot afford any more of my time, to be wasted on this...." He jumped into the air, and eight brilliant, golden fiery wings came from behind his back, and he took to the skies, as he looked down at everypony, and said, "If you all manage to survive when we next meet, if we meet again, that is, let us finish this fight....ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!! HAHAHAHA!"
As Arrovak let out those words with a chill, and he took off, and was soon out of sight, as the swirling power faded, and the fort floated back down to its original place, as everypony released their focus, the weapons broke into light shards, and faded away. Rainbow Dash slammed her hooves on the roof of the fort in anger, and said, "Dammit! Dammit! Dammit! We had him! We had him! Right we wanted him! We could've taken him out! Right then and there! But he had to run off like some common coward!"
Violet Winter only said, "Because he is now very afraid of us now."
Snowshy said, "And that means, we have become a  very big threat to him, and to his plans."
Solar Blaze, said, "And I can bet, that he will now stop at nothing, to keep us away from him, no matter what the cost."
Applejack said, "I was going to say the same thing."
Twilight said, "Cheer up, Rainbow Dash, and everypony, for that matter. If we got him to run from a fight, that's a good sign, and he now that he sees us as a threat, and something even he fears, it means we might have a chance to defeat him, but only because we do so together."
Rarity said, "That's right, without any one of us, we won't stand a chance."
Fluttershy said, "He might also try and break our friendships with each other."
Violet Winter said, "I agree, it is a possibility, we need to keep in mind. He could possibly come up with a plan to do just that."
Rainbow Dash sighed, and said, "Yeah, you're right, Violet Winter, you all are right. But still....dammit! We were so close!" And she slammed her hooves on the roof of the fort once more.
Solar Blaze said, "Believe me, I feel the same way, but anger will not defeat Arrovak."
Everypony nodded, and Rainbow Dash nodded as well, as Snowshy said, "I agree with Solar Blaze, this is not going to help us. First, we need to figure out where Arrovak has gone, and take down anything that gets in our way to get to him."
Rarity said, "Well, that's sounds like a plan to me!"
Twilight said, "Hold on just a second everypony, do we know where Arrovak has even gone?"
Just then, the fort began to shake violently, as Pinkie Pie said, "Perhaps we should get off the fort, and out of here first!"
Twilight saw all the allied ships, in an area, not too far away from them, as she pointed out the ships, and said, "We should head for the ships, just over there!"
The fort then began to collapse and crumble down, as everypony struggled to retrain their balance, as Applejack said, "If we're goin to do that, we better do it now!"
Violet Winter said, "All those that can fly, hold on to those that can't, and get over to those ships!"
Everypony that could fly, picked up those that couldn't, and took to the skies, as the fort, completely collapsed in nothing more than a big pile of rubble and ruins, and made the island it was on, begin to sink into the ocean, and to the bottom of the sea. Minutes later, everypony landed on Fluchuette's ship, as Fluchuette came up to them, and said, "We all saw Arrovak fly off. What happened over there?"
Violet Winter said, "Long story, but we need to go after him, any ideas where he might have went?"
A voice in the crowd of ponies said, "I think I can help with that."
Everypony looked in the direction of the voice, and saw that it was Darkness who had spoken, as everypony in unison, "You do?"
Darkness said, "Yes, and I had a bad feeling, that Arrovak might run away from you all, once he saw just how powerful you all were, and run to his secret island of operations."
Silver Sky said with sarcasm, "Oh gee, what a surprise, another stinking island, wonderful! Just what I wanted to hear!"
Fluchuette said, "Careful Silver Sky! Do you know not who you speak to?!"
Darkness waved it off, and said, "No, no, its perfectly fine, and I completely understand. However, it's not my or anypony's fault, that Arrovak seems to have some sort of obsession with islands."
Nopony didn't know what to say, until Silver Sky spoke, "Huh, didn't know that he did."
Fluchuette said, "It's called humor dufus."
Darkness said, "Enough! We are wasting time like this! Just follow me, and my fleet, and we'll track Arrovak down!" He then turned around, and began to head back towards his ship, and then stopped, and turned back around to everypony, and said, "I just hope I'm right, or we're all screwed." And as he finished speaking, he and the rest of the heroes got back on their ship, and began to take off to the east.
Fluchuette was stunned, as she said, "Even Darkness has doubts about Arrovak's island location? That's not possible! Darkness the great hero, doesn't have such doubts like that!"
Rainbow Dash shook her head, and said, "You really need to pay more attention to his books then."
Twilight nodded, and said, "That's right, he is just like the rest of us. It may be hard for you to imagine, but take away what you think you know him for, and think of him, just like you, or any of your kind, for that matter, and you will see, he's no better or lower than any of you, or any of us."
Fluchuette took a minute to process this, and then said, "You're right, when this is all over, I really do need to pay deeper attention, to when I read all of Darkness's books again, the more I hear, the more I see just how much I missed the point of all those books...."
Rarity nodded, and said, "That's the beauty of it all, you must look beyond what you think you know and understand, and look at his point of view, and imagine, you are looking through his eyes, that you are in his mind, thinking like he would, and when you do, it will all become much clearer, and you will understand."
Everypony nodded, and then Fluchuette said, "I appreciate it, thank you everypony. Now, we best be off, we can't let Darkness have all the fun, can we now?"
Everypony gave warcries, and hurrahs, as everypony went to their stations, as Snowshy stayed on Fluchuette's as the others, went to their respective ships, and all ships began to take off, in the direction Darkness and his fleet were, all they were in high hopes, that they would find the location of Arrovak's island in time, before all was lost.