//------------------------------// // Chapter 33: A Luna! Kill It With Fire! // Story: The Last Human // by Blackdragn18 //------------------------------// It’s already time for Luna’s training; we were walking down the path to the arena. True to her agreement, Luna wasn’t complaining. In fact she seemed almost excited. “Okay Luna, are you ready for your training?” “We are ready.” “Good, today we are going to work on your form when it comes to using a weapon.” We spent a few hours working on her accuracy and control until she was very fluent and able to defeat a trained guard in a sword fight. “Good work Luna! We’re done for the day. I’m gonna go take a nap.” This is weird there are some guards carrying different boxes to Luna’s room. Celestia was standing near the staircase that leads to Luna’s room. “Celestia, what’s going on?” “Hello Sean, well you see Luna has always loved games.” “Yeah.” “Luna recently discovered things known as video games. They are imported from the zebra’s.” “Sounds like fun.” “I thought you’d like the idea so I got both you and Luna the systems and some games.” “Awesome.” So those video games are pretty fun. Luna seems to really enjoy them. We’ve been playing games together. Of course we still train every day. We’ve been training for two months now and it is time for her final test. I’ve decided to make an interesting angle for the test. I am planning to make it video game themed. I will make a huge castle. She’ll fight guards and I will be the “boss” of it. I have made Celestia make a castle using magic and cast the same spell that was put on the arena so the guards and Luna can “die”. The castle was awesome, it was as large as the palace, except it was made of black bricks the path to the door had dragons along it and the door handles were shaped like my dragon forms horns. I had Celestia lead Luna to the castle I told her what she was going to have to do she seemed excited by the idea. I had some guards bring her a crate. In it was a sword, a custom made helmet, body covers, and leggings the armor was all black. The Sword had a black blade, and the hilt was shaped like a crescent moon. “Well see you if you make it to me.” I then grew wings and flew to the top of the castle. Luna used her magic to put the armor on her body, the helmet covered the top of her head, the body armor covered all of her torso, and the leggings surrounded all of her legs. She lifted the sword and put it in the sheath that was built into the armor. She walked up to the front door. The main gate was very intimidating, it was two large doors, they were pitch black with the carving of a dragons face in it. She used her magic and opened the gate and set off. Luna had been traveling through the castle for an hour. Luckily its design was very straight forward. The guards were pretty easy to beat. Finally she reached a large door. It had three large serpentine dragons arching over it and the handles were shaped like curved horns. She guessed that this must be the door to where Sean was. Bolas! She is taking forever to get here. Maybe I can get that voice in my head to talk to me. He sorta of lacks a sense of humor but it’s better than sitting here. “Hey voice, can you hear me?” What!? “No need to yell, I’m just bored. So have you found any new powers or anything?” You seriously bugged me because you were bored?! Whatever, to your question yes actually. “Awesome! What is it?” Now that you’re more dragon than human we can use small amounts of dragon power without full transformation. The most fun is if you relax and just let go we will get all the strength of the dragon body but keep the agility of your human form. “Sounds fun, I’ll have to try it on Luna.” Good for you. Now leave me alone. “Jeez someone is pissy.” I heard that! Luna used her magic to open the door when she walked in she saw in the center of the room there was a throne that resembled Sean’s in the throne room of the palace. The ceiling was at least eighty feet tall and the entire room was a dull gold color. There were windows all along the walls that were similar to the ones in the palace. They seemed to be telling a story. They showed what looked like some sort of battle that ended with three dead serpentine dragons a dead black one and a hideous green monster dead. All that was on the left of the room. On the right there was what looked like the life story of Sean. In the center behind Sean’s throne there was a picture of those three serpentine dragons from before. They made a half circle, at the top there was a pitch black dragon and a green one. In the center there was a larger armored dragon with curved horns. And there sitting in the middle of the room was Sean he was wearing some strange armor. He had guards on his forearms and biceps, his entire lower legs were covered in gold armor, his thighs had armor that when it went towards his knees pointed out. He had a long gold plate that went from his chest to his knees. On his hands he had what looked like gold gloves with claws at the tips of his fingers. Luna pointed her sword towards him but he didn’t even look at her. Upon further inspection she realized he was asleep. This is going to be an easy win. She thought. Luna snuck up to the throne she lifted her sword and prepared to bring it down on his head. But he suddenly moved kicking her in the face. The kick sent her flying across the room. “Hello Luna, I thought you’d never show up. Good try with the killing me in my sleep.” he got up from his throne. “Now allow me to explain some rules to this fight. I will be able to use all of my powers including regeneration. However, if you manage to inflict a fatal blow on me you win.” Luna got back up. “Seems fair enough.” Let’s give this a shot. Sean closed his eyes when he opened them Luna was surprised. His eyes had gone from their usual purple to an emerald green. “Let’s get this party started!” his voice was also slightly deeper. Sean turned his hands both into the usual large serrated blades and leapt at her. Luna managed to dodge just in time. He seemed to be faster than usual. She then jumped towards him and swung her sword at his head. Sean blocked with his arm. He tried to knee her in the face but she teleported away first. Luna pulled out some throwing knives she had taken off a guard’s body and shot them at him. Sean put his left arm in front of him and deflected most of them. One managed to get into his shoulder, and another hit a part of his knee that had been exposed. When he lowered his arm he saw Luna flying at him with her sword extended. Sean jumped back. He landed on one of the walls. He then pushed off and launched straight at Luna. She tried to dodge, but Sean managed to cut part of her shoulder. Sean rolled behind her and spun around swinging his arms in an X motion. Luna jumped and swung her sword he ducked but she managed to graze his chest. The swing managed to cut part of his chest plate. He turned his hand into a dragon head and shot a column of fire at her. Her armor managed to keep her from being cooked but sent her flying into the wall behind her. Realizing that the armor was just weighing him down, he grabbed his chest plate and tore it off; he did the same with the rest of the armor. While he was throwing a knee cover off Luna saw a chance. She lunged at him he tried to avoid her but she managed to cut his arm off. Sean’s arm began to grow back. Luna wasn’t going to give him time to recover. She decided to go on the offensive. She kept attacking cutting him in multiple places. His regeneration was having a hard time keeping up with all the injuries his body was taking. However, Luna started to get a bit out of breath and the swings began to slow down. With one pretty slow overhead swing aimed for his head he managed to block with his right arm. He then changed the shape of his blade so that her sword went further into the blade. Sean then changed the shape again completely enveloping Luna’s sword. Next he drained the magic from the blade making her lose her grip on it. Sean then gave a nasty upper cut to the jaw which sent her flying into the air. She managed to recover before she hit the wall. She looked down at him to see him take her sword and break it in half. He threw the halves on the ground. She decided it was time to try a new approach using the magic she was best at. Luna concentrated and began to turn the entire room pitch black. Being the princess of the night she could see perfectly in the dark. The other half of fun was the fact that it also showed the enemy their greatest fear. She saw Sean standing there and knew now was her chance to end this. She flew down towards him picking up a lot of speed as she went. By the time she reached him she should be going fast enough to blow him to bits. Then something unexpected happened. Sean jumped up and landed on her back. He then folded her wings they were now heading straight for the ground. Just before they reached it Sean jumped off of her and she only face planted into the floor. She lost her concentration and the room lit up again. Sean looked at the dust cloud Luna had made. He smiled that was pretty simple did she really think a sad little spell like that could beat him? Then one half of Luna’s sword flew at him. It he easily dodged it. But then the other half of the sword came flying at him and punctured his chest. The impact knocked him down; the sword had missed his heart so he was still alive. Before he could stand back up multiple knives came and stabbed all over his body. There were so many injuries that it basically overloaded his power and he was stuck there if only for a short while. Luna walked out of the dust cloud looking rather proud of herself. She levitated the blade of her broken sword and pointed it at his face. “Now Sean, before we win this fight we want to know how you managed to ignore the powers of my spell. Even our sister can’t resist the powers. “Wow you know nothing. First of all the darkness is easy to beat with dragon eyes. Plus that little fear trick you use doesn’t work because all my fears I have conquered over the centuries.” “Interesting. Now we will be ending this fight, it’s over Sean.” “Aw how cute you think that you’ve won.” Sean’s eyes then began to get smaller and the irises and pupils were being enveloped by the emerald green. His teeth also began to sharpen. Luna knew what was coming. “Oh no you don’t, we will not let you transform.” She swung her sword down at him. But he tore his arm free of the knives and blocked it. He then jumped up freeing himself from the other knives. His body started to transform and he began to grow. His index and middle finger fused together as did his ring and pinky. Then he grew to sixty feet and transformed completely. Luna looked up at the massive dragon that now towered above her. That explains the high ceiling. It looked down at her and let out a roar that knocked the door behind her off its hinges. Luna started to try and think. She could hold her own against the human form that was only a bit bigger than her. But she didn’t know how she would be able to beat a sixty foot tall dragon that was also considered the most powerful dragon in the world. Then she had an idea. Larger creatures are slower so she may be able to out speed him and find a weak point. She shot up into the air. Flying around his head she shot magic bolts at him. He tried to knock her out of the sky but she was too fast. “Ha! That massive dragon body is nowhere near fast enough to take us down!” suddenly a massive wing expanded in front of her. She didn’t have time to react and ended up flying right into it. In her daze a massive hand smacked her into the ground. She tried to get up but the muscles in her body had frozen from the shock of the blow. She looked up at Sean. He opened his mouth and shot a fireball at her then it was done. Well that was pretty fun. Haven’t had good fight like that in ages. I shrunk back to my human form and walked over to Luna’s charred body. I picked it up and head out the door I had knocked over. I walked past multiple guard bodies. Eventually I walked through the front door. When I got outside. I turned to the right when I rounded the corner of the castle there was a button. I pressed it, the palace began to spark, and then a magic field came from the center and spread out over a large radius. Then the castle dissolved. That button was basically a reset button. I destroyed the castle and released a spell to heal and revive all the ponies in the radius of it. I felt Luna’s cooked body return to normal. I then carried her back to the palace. Celestia and I were sitting in Luna’s room waiting for her to wake up. I was sitting on a couch in her room playing games. Celestia was sitting on a chair watching. I told Celestia about the test and all that. After about an hour of waiting Luna finally started to wake up. I heard her get up and walk over to a chair on the other side of the couch. I looked over. “Hey look, baked pony is awake!” I felt a pillow hit the back of my head. I looked back to see Celestia glaring at me. “What?” “So how badly did we fail?” Luna looked down at the ground looking upset. “You didn’t fail you passed with flying colors!” I threw my hands in the air. Sadly the games controller flew out of my hand and crashed through a window. After a few seconds there was a thud and a guard screaming. After listening to the guard screaming and swearing we went back to talking. “But we lost, how can we have passed.” “Simple. You were guaranteed to lose that fight. You can’t hope to beat perfection. After all you still did better than Celestia ever could.” Luna ended up smiling at that. “HEY!” I looked back to Celestia she was glaring at me. “I could totally beat you in a fight!” “Of course.” I rolled my eyes. “You can beat up anybody you want.” I leaned over and patted her head condescendingly. She growled at me and walked out of the room. Luna and I shared a laugh at her reaction.