//------------------------------// // Rainbow Dash crashes (with excellent results) // Story: Chaos Rising. // by Totito30 //------------------------------// "¡¿W-What?!" Twilight Sparkle was clearly surprised "¡¿You are going to hunt them?!" "That is my plan" J´zar drew one of his swords and started sharpening it with a whetstone. "¿But how are you going to find them?" Twilight asked. "Their brother will guide me to them" J´zar looked at the silver ball in the ground. He dropped the sword and the whetstone to grab the orb "¿Are you there, Trickster?" The unexpected happened. A metallic voice answered from the inside of the silver orb. "¡Of course I am here, maggot!" Trickster still dragged each letter "¡Let me out so I can rip off thine arms and ram them down thine throat!" "I need your help first" J´zar remained inscrutable in face of the horrible threats Trickster kept yelling at him "You must lead me to your brothers" "Give me one reason to do it, and so will I" Trickster answered mockingfully. "Because if you don't I will keep you locked inside this thing until Judgement Day" J´zar said. "Fair enough. Besides, it will be very entertaining seeing my borthers murdeer you" Trickster let out another cackle. As if obeying an awaited signal, J´zar got up, picked up the whetstone from the gournd, grabbed his sword an sheathed it. He raised the orb in one of his hands. "¡Wait for me!" Rainbow Dash said, galloping towards the warrior. "¿You want to come?" J´zar looked surprised. "¡No way I'm missing this chance of going on an adventure!" she answered. "We could die" J´zar warned "And it won't be easy" "¡Hey, if it was easy, it wouldn't be fun! ¿right?" Rainbow Dash looked up at him in a rather arrogant posture. "¡Good luck guys!" Said Twilight Sparkle. Suddenly, a flash of white light engulfed the entire world, and after that, everything turned into darkness. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- J´zar and the mares landed in the middle of a common street. To their left and their right, skyscrapers standed still like grey guardians of an inmense treasure. Cars of all colours, shapes and fabrications lined the sides of the street. Beneath their feet rested cold concrete, forever silent while men and machine alike treaded upon it. J´zar rose up, and like it happens with the great felines, his sruprise quickly boiled into anger. "¡TRICKSTER!" he roared at the silver orb, and his scream crossed the street echoing in the glass windows of the buildings "¡YOU DID NOT TELL ME YOU WERE GOING TO TAKE US HERE!" "I did told thou, warrior" Trickster sounded amused "I told thou that I would, not when" "¡Now we are all stuck here because of you!" J´zar seemed less angry, but with his black armor and tall shape, he hadn't lost his imposing figure "¿Who of your brothers resides here?" "Typhon of course, the Stormcaller" Trickster answered without doubt. The sky looked leaden and angry indeed. Massive clouds colored in various shades of grey and black crossed it propelled by great winds which howled through the empty-looking street. "¿Where are we?" Twilight Sparkle asked. "Yeah ¿where?" Rainbow Dash followed. "¿Where have ya brought us?" Applejack seemed to be implying something. "First, I have not brought you anywhere. Trickster did it" J´zar tried to keep his anger at bay "Second, if I am right, this street is one of the many this city must have. However, this place seems to be dead empty, which contradicts the previous statement of this place being a city" J´zar turned around and inspected the street. It looked like any other city street, with a few shops in each sidewalk and the entrances to apartments buildings scattered between them. J´zar had treaded such places for many years, but this time the familiar location was lacking the condemning (or amused) eyes of the persons who stared at him, surprised of his armor and scabbards. "¿What's he looking at?" Applejack whispered in Rarity's ear. "Probably searching for something to use as a landmark" Rarity answered in the same low tone "¿Why?" "Who knows what's hes her fer" Applejack sounded alarmed. "He told us he didn't came here willingly" Rarity said "¿Why shouldn't we trust him?" "¿Who conceals his face but a criminal, huh?" Applejack had returned to her implying tone. "Maybe I'll ask him about that" Rarity still sounded sure on his friends. J´zar was still trying to know where to go. If they couldn't find Typhon, they couldn't trap him. But finding him would be quite hard. A lightning soared through the storming sky above him, but J´zar didn't pay attention. Due to the clouds and the wind, it was expectable for a few thunders to break the otherwise complete silence. But then, a sound of cracking wood and breaking stone filled J´zar's ear, and he knew those sounds were hardly related to lightning. "¡J´zar, look!" Twilight said, prompting him to look at the other side of the street, where the sound had came from. One of the citie's buildings was crooked, one of its base pillars blown to smithereens and a smoking hole in place of the middle section's facade. J´zar ran towards it quickly, but not so fast how to leave the mares behind. Rarity tried to catch up with him as they ran, panting due to an effort she wasn't used to. "¿J´zar?...May I...¿Ask you a question?" she said, breathing heavily. "Yes" J´zar payed little attention" "¿What's...the mask...for?" Rarity asked between breaths. "To make my enemies fear the unknown" J´zar cryptically answered. They reached the building which had been thunderstruck. The smoking hole was highlighted by a few hanging wires and the smell of charred wood. Besides the building standed the only other living creature in that dimension: A man, no taller than the average, dressed in black leather pants and dress shoes, covered by a green leather duster. The man turned around, revealing his face. There was no face. In place of it, there was only what could be best described as a raging storm. It constantly swirled, making the black smoke it was made of weave, creating new and monstrous sketchs. His hair was arranged in a bush of dreadlocks, colored icy white, as if they were made of snow, creating a furious contrast between white and smoky black. Below his green leather duster, he wore what seemed to be a gown made of tornadoes, lightnings and other natural disasters (tsunamis, eruptions, hurricanes and many more). "My name is Typhon. I am the doom of worlds" he announced "And you, J´zar, ¡will give me the orb that holds my brother!" "¡You don't speak like Luna!" Rainbow Dash said surprised. J´zar couldn't help but wonder who Luna was, but he reminded himself there were more important matters to attend right now. "¿You mean that eldritch dialect my brother utilizes?" Typhon said in response "No, I use more common expressions. If he does that, it's because he likes to exasperate his foes" "Typhon" J´zar returned to his original purpose "You must return to the Maw. If you do so willingly, I promise you your stay will be neither bad nor uncomfortable" "I will make you a proposal. Return to your dimension and we will let the Order thrive in the ashes of the Earth" Typhon answered. "Here's my counter-proposal: Go back to the Maw or I will turn you into minced meat" J´zar pulled his sword slightly out of the sheath to reaffirm his threat. "Yet again you defy the supernatural with mere steel" Typhon reached forward to grab an invisible object. A shaft materialised in his hand, and in its tip there was a falchion-like blade. The entire weapon was white and crackled with electricity. It looked like a glaive made of lightning "¡Fear the wrath of the storm!" Without waiting any other word, J´zar roared a battlecry, unsheathed both of his swords and charged forward. His descending slash, capable of splitting an ox in two was stopped by the bright glaive. The metal made a ringing sound against the ethereal weapon. It sounded like a bell being hitted with a sledgehammer. J´zar proceded with a stab to the gut, but Typhon swirled his weapon and deflected the blow. J´zar followed up with a series of quick slashes to the waist, neck and head, but all were blocked. On a particularly dangerous moment, J´zar used one of his swords to attack Typhon's ribs, while almost simultaneosuly striking at his collarbone. The god parried the sword flying at his ribs with the blade of the glaive and used the other side of the shaft to block the second sword with inhuman speed. Typhon swirled his crackling weapon and sent J´zar to the ground completely unarmed. One of J´zar's swords fell on the ground. The other one soared the air and buried into a nearby lampost. Typhon advanced, coming side by side with J´zar. He held the white glaive just hovering about J´zar's throat. J´zar tried to pull the silverish orb from his pocket, but Typhon kicked it away. "Fool" Typhon said "We do not hit the same stone twice" Typhon raised his head and looked at a speeding meteorite flying towards him. It seemed Rainbow Dash had charged forward in order to ram Typhon. The latter almost lazily swinged the blunt tip of the glaive upwards, striking the pegasus right under the chin as she was just a few inches away from him. Rainbow Dash traced a nearly perfect obtuse angle as she passed above Typhon and crashed into the smoking hole, hitting another major structural hotspot. "Another fool" Typhon pointed the glaive back at J´zar. He didn't noticed the already weakened structure was starting to dangerously bend outwards, almost about to fall. The mares had noticed and had quickly gotten out of the block "¿Any last words?" "¿Is it not amazing how falling buildings save my life?" J´zar said these words and used the only close combat technique he knew. He pushed himself towards one side using one leg, kicked Typhon in the back of the knee with the other, got up taking advantage of the momentum and ran away just as the cracking sound of metal frames and construction materials lashed through the air. Typhon was soon buried under an avalanche of debris. But J´zar knew victory hadn't been attained yet. The cairn started to shine like a firefly before exploding in a million pieces. In the middle of ground zero Typhon was kneeling, his entire body crushed under the weight of the building, holding J´zar's sword in one hand and his own glaive in the other. A metal beam pierced his chest and impaled him to the ground. J´zar approached him. When he was right besides him, the warrior ripped the sword off the god's arm and returned it to its sheath. J´zar then grabbed the silverish orb laying where Typhon had kicked it (recovering his other sword in the way), returned to the side of the god and prepared to activate the weapon. "You will fail" Typhon said lowly "You cannot stop Chaos" J´zar payed no attention and pressed the button. A blinding flash of light ensued, and Typhon dissapeared.