Chapter 9 – For the last
Spike's voice comes fully into play as the wooden door slams shut in front of you.
"Twilight! I couldn't find Shinning in the crowd! And and Sombra has gotten closer! Cadance can't hold the spell much longer! And I called your name but you didn't call back! And and I came down here and you two are just staring at the door!?"
Spike's panicked child like voice is cut off from you as Twilight wraps her hooves around you. Your body feels completely drained but you support her weight as you feel her wet teary eyes on your fur.
Her voice is sniffly as she talks, "I...I..."
You wrap your hooves around her as your own tears start to form in your eyes, "Shhh..."
Spike's once pained voice is brought down as he looks at the two sobbing ponies in front of him, "T-Twilight is everything ok?"
The lavender mare brings her red puffy eyes from you as she nods her head, "E-everything is fine Spike...Sombra put a spell on the door that makes you live out your worst fear..." Her voice cracks up again as she looks back to the door, "B-but I think I can break it."
Her horn glows a bright soft purple as a steady stream of its light swirls into the crystal emblem above the door. The room brightens up a little as the door cracks open.
Twilight gallops over to Spike who stands on the last stairs of the staircase as she gives him a hug.
You turn your head from them as you place your hoof to the door. But as you do this the crystal stairs that Twilight and Spike stand next to quickly slam into the walls.
Spike trips a little but he's held up by Twilight's hug as the room gets a low cloud to it.
You back up from the door as Sombra's laugh jiggles in the back of your mind. Your body is still fatigued but you set your mind up ready for anything as you look at the door in a sharp thought, I didn't come all this way to be killed by a shadow.
The door slowly creeps open as a white light shines behind it. Your eyes are focused on the door as the sound of hooves clapping against the crystal floor echos from the room.
But your mind and body preparing didn't help as you watch the sleek black mare walk form the bright room behind her. The pony's voice is raspy and a ghostly echo as she talks, "hello...hows Violeta doing?"
Twilight's mouth drops a little as she looks over the same pony you look over. Chrysalis’s mane has its full green-blue length to it and her legs have very few riddled holes in it, the devilish mare's eyes have their green glow that set in contrast to the white background behind her.
You take up your posture as you watch the bug queen swaying her head around the room.
"No answer?" She gives a smile as she pokes her eyes toward you both.
"Well I guess I...-" At the first move of her leg you send a straight bolt of purple magic towards her, but the screaming chimed bolt smacks against the wall and echos an ear ringing sound throughout the room.
Chrysalis seems unfazed as she turns her face from Twilight and Spike to you, "Shall we my little pet?"
You blink at her comment as you nod to Twilight, "Twilight did that spell break the door?"
She's silent for a moment as you call back to her, "Twilight?"
The lavender mare takes her eyes from the sleek black figure as she stammers out her words, "I..I think so..."
You don't take your eyes off of chrysalis’s smile as Twilight's words sink into your mind, "Twilight get out of here."
She pauses for a moment before you call back to her again.
Chrysalis moves herself from the door as she talks, "Why not, Sombra will be here soon anyways." She lets out her annoying laugh as she stands away from the door, "...Go on now, make your feeble attempt at saving yourself."
Twilight glows her horn a bright purple as she brings Spike close to her with her hoof. But she doesn't take her eyes off of you as she stops her walk, "We're going home today right?"
You nod your head to her as your eyes shift a little.
Twilight and Spike walk past the waiting mare as they duck into the room and close the door behind them.
As the wood of the door touches the stone wall Chrysalis’s voice picks up, "Now than w...-"
Her voice is again cut off as a bolt of magic is set towards her from your heart pounding body. A dark green veil covers her body as she lets out a laugh, "my my, some pony is angry hm?" She flicks her tongue a little as she lowers her horn, "Feed me my little human." Her own stream of green magic is sent back to you as her horn sparks up in a loud bubble sound like Sombra's.
Your action is quick as you close your eyes and jerk your head forward, the spell is countered as you let your own stream of magic blast against hers. The dark crystal room is a vibrant green as she holds her horn low and begins to walk forward almost unaffected by your counter, "Tell me human, with no horn how much does that spell drain your body?"
You grind your teeth as you try to dig your hooves to the slick ground beneath you, but you're still hurt leg buckles a little at the pressure. The spell that you hold starts to give way as Chrysalis moves her cloud clapping hooves towards you.
"AHHH!" You jerk your body from it's spot as her stream overpowers your hold and is sent back to the wall behind you. The ricocheting magic echoes through the room as your heart beat slams in your ears, but you hold your eyes to her as her horn gives no leeway and starts up in a glow again.
A flash of her magic is all you can see as you again jump with your bad leg to avoid the spell.
She erupts in a laugh as she talks, "Don't run!"
Another bolt is sent running at you as you jump from it, but you don't completely miss it as you feel the burn hits against your tail.
"Bow before your queen human."
You give a shifty laugh as the sound of your heart is the only thing still audible in the room, "Why because you gave me a haircut?" You hold the self confidence to your arrogant and pointless comment as Chrysalis losses her smile, "How dare you!"
Her horn starts up but before she can act you charge at her.
Shes taken by surprise at your change of attack and is knocked out of your path, her horn stops its glow as you quickly turn yourself back to her in a shout. A sharp bolt of fire is sent towards her and strikes its intended target as she lets out a bellowing yelp.
Your breathing is sporadic but you're able to bring your mind to a halt as you send another more controlled bolt to her.
Again another pained call escapes her muzzle as it strikes against her, but she stays on her hooves.
Your body feels weaker than ever and your mind is starting to have trouble thinking over your adrenalin pumped heartbeat but you manage one last bolt of strenuous magic towards her.
As the bolt hits against her sleek body, with one last pain filled scream the mare’s figure vanishes in a puff of black smoke similar to Sombra's.
You fall to your front legs as you try to take in your victory. At every breath your eyesight fades a little and you feel at any moment you're going to faint. A slight tingling sensation rolls over your snout as you look to the dark crystal floor your collapsed to, a few drops of hot blood collect to your nose as they drip to the dark floor your blurry eyes still hold there gaze to. Your front legs that rest in front of you are covered in dirt and your hurt right leg now has a visible bruising to it.
As you collect your breathing you let your tired eyes close for a moment as you try to rest. But the moment of reprieve never stays as a faint feminine yell comes from the closed door behind you.
You push against your hooves as you bring yourself to a stumbling gallop through the door.
The room is a white blueish light that seems to be coming from far above you. You lift your head up as you stare past the spiral staircase in front of you...th-there's no way I can make it up these stairs...
You hear a faint rumbling echoing down from the top as you hold your mouth open still looking up...you close your eyes as you try and picture the top of the stairs...come on please...think....cold ground...crystal white stairs....open sky...please just teleport come on, come on... After a few moments of your mind battle you hear a faint whistling sound around your ears as the floor beneath you becomes soft...thank you...
"Spike!!!"
You open your eyes as you watch the little purple dragon trip off the edge of the platform you stand on you can't bring yourself to scream as the floor beneath your hooves rumbles and cracks to jagged stones poking out from the ground. You jerk your head to the blackish red stone round wall in front of you as you start in a gallop.
The sky around you is no longer covered in the blue dome magic and has now taken on an orange end of the world feel. Sharp jagged stones continue to pop up around you as you adjust your gallop to there popping, but your mind and body have kicked into high gear as you focus on the obscure mare in the round stone prison.
You press your body against the stones as you call out, "Twilight!"
The lavender mare brings her sad face to a crack in the stones as she talks in a low serious voice, "You need to go..."
You shake your head as the rumbling around you gets louder, "I-I won't leave you..."
She shakes her head back to you as she talks, over the sounds, "Don't do it for me than."
You look over the stones in front of you as you look for an opening but after your eyes search around them you're unable to find one, even the top of this stone cage seems to be closed in. You bang you hoof to the barrier as you yell, "I'm not losing you! I have lost too much of me already!"
Twilight gives a low forced smile as she place her hoof to the rock outcrop, you try to reach at her hoof but the hole is not big enough.
A low chime is brought to your ears through the still rumbling ground, but you don't look down as you still stare at Twilight. A bright blinding blue light runs past your face as you start to the stone in between you. You have to squint your eyes for a moment as it runs past you but as it does the ground under you stops its trembling and the stones in front of you disappear.
You and Twilight stare at each other in a confused shock for a moment...but the feeling only last a moment as you rush to each other in a happy sob filled hug.
You kiss at her neck as you hold the hug.
There's a loud boom over head and you both break your hold for a moment as you watch a stream of lights shooting up from the tip of the crystal castle.
As the streaming moves over the city you bring your hooves around the mare again as you talk, "Twilight...I...I don't..." You crack up a little as you try to talk, "I don't know how to say this...."
She blinks her red puffy eyes to you as you continue to stutter, "Twilight...it seems like things are never simple for us...even the simplest things almost get us killed..." you both give a sniffly laugh as you continue, "Twilight...make this one thing simple, marry me?"
The lavender mare in your hold blinks at you for a moment not knowing what to say, and after a few seconds of your heart pounding she finally finds the words...only she doesn't say a thing as she brings her head close to yours in a kiss.
You two hold the kiss for a moment as the lights in the sky fly through the air.
End of chapter 9