//------------------------------// // The Castle // Story: Paraplexed // by Everfader //------------------------------// Hovering fast in the sky in the middle of a valley with the plants surrendering to the gales at the side of the mountains. Cantorlot, the large purple shield around it missing pieces around the outskirts of the keep to the right. Gliding forwards and then slightly to the left and then straight with full force. "Yeahooo!!!" The dragon released with excitement with his voice echoing through the atmosphere. Looking down at Fluttershy to my right with a slight smile on her face. Getting nearer to the infrastructure. In the same direction lower down, a legion of soldiers appearing as black dots holding ponies captive in an over-sized metal cage being transported into the entrance. "Oh no!" Fluttershy and Spike exclaiming at the same time. "We should strike now!!!" Ordering at spike. "Man what? That's crazy there's way to many of them, we will be outnumbered!" "Do you know any other way of getting to Canterlot?" Asking spike. "I know a back entrance that will lead us directly into the palace. Its right behind the castle." "Okay Spike , you lead the way," "Gotcha!" Replying with confidence. "Lets head around the left of the castle so no one see's us." Coming to the perimeter of the keep slipping over the reflective dome with Fluttershy behind me. "Hold on everyone!" Driving around the bend with extreme velocity feeling the air ripping past my face and having a contest with my mane. "There, you see that small piece of land." A small plaza of land overhanging the u shaped gap beside the fortress. Placing my hooves on the wet green grass sticking to me with Fluttershy landing behind me. Spike, jumping out of my fur and facing thee big back wall of jutted cobblestones coming out at uneven places. The dragon, jumping around on the ground searching for something. "A switch! There should be a switch somewhere. "What does it look like." Asking spike. "A big round red one!"The dragon announcing breathlessly. "Wait! Let me use my senses." This time a aura of blue beamed around his horn as a rim of the same color highlighted about half way underneath the ground. "Oh there it is!" Spike jumping on the ground digging harder and harder with his untouched claws now filling with mucky brown muck and dirt. Fluttershy and I walking over to spike with the button revealing itself. Spike gently stepping on it. The wall falling down showing a rectangle of pitch blackness. Spike sprinting into it. "Come on!!!" Following spike with Fluttershy behind me. On of the H.I.P.S soldiers swiping down and grabbing Fluttershy. "Ooohhh no! Help me Xareth!!!" Fluttershy screaming with shock. The hostile, flying abnormally high up into the horizon and dropping her. "Aaahhhhh!!!!!!" Fluttershy screatching. Flapping my wings and striking up into the air and diving towards the secret entrance. Putting her gently into the entrance as three more of them grabbing me back with the passage closing. "Don't worry about me, I'll find another way" Instructing to them with the door shutting. "Oh we got him now!", one of them smirking with a serpent smile upon his face. Feeling rage pumping through my veins and a gravity blast launching from by body with them floating in slow motion. Readying my wing as a sword and slashing one of them into the horizon. "Nooooooo!!!" The warrior surrendering hopelessly. The others coming back into motion and flying towards the switch and destroying it with a rail beam. "You won't be seeing that dragon and that pretty mare now. With anguish opening up my two wings and charging in the air colliding the sniper and Projecting him against the wall with bits of rubble falling on top of him. "Help now!" The hurt comrade ordering the other one. The unwounded Captin swiping out a ring of tall skinny blades around his body. "You're dead meat sucker..." Charging at me I swiftly held the guard as a shield slicing into his own team mate. Colliding against the stones and falling to the ground. Picking my self up and brushing away the dust. Both of them on the ground one of them defeated. The alive one, throwing a temper tantrum. "You're gonna pay for that for I am the Sergeant of Hiding In Plain Sight fool. My Life for Mara, for your kind is a disease." The commander dropped all his blades to the ground and pulled out the potion. "Two can play at this game." Injecting the potion violently into himself. Morphing from horse into a terrifiying shadow black reptilian shaped monster with two dragon wings ripping out of his side with his coat turning to ashes. This time his eyes turning turning to almost cat-like. Morphing at least twice the size of me erupting smoky fire into the atmosphere. "Let's play" The beast gently saying emitting green smoke from his nostrils. The opponent breathing out reddish green fire at me. Jumping out of his fire blast with time slowing down and manipulating the flames with my wings catching it. Making a huge flame ring and spinning it back at him. The blast crashing back at him making him nearly fall off the cliff. Rummaging through the fragile ground towards him and throwing my wings point blank. Slashing at his belly and neck. Feeling his gravity blow knock me back against the wall. Stomping over at my direction picking me up with his slimy, slippery claws and beginning to naw on my throat. Shoving my wing into his mouth, breaking what's left of his rotted teeth. The creature letting out a painful roar and putting his front legs up to his mouth. Aimlessly reaching out flares from his stomach. Dodging them and reflecting them with my blades and hitting him in the eyes, letting out another defenseless cry. Charging up against him pushing him off the cliff. The demon hanging off the cliff wrapping its scaly black leathery tail around my right hoof pulling me down. Grabbing my back legs with his hands. Trying to slice his tail with my wings not reaching far enough. Falling down further with my hoof barely touching the patch of land. Attempting to shake him off me banging him repeatedly against the cliff Eventually my wings lining up with his tail and setting myself free. "NOOOOOOOO" The behemoth struggling in agony with his vocals reverberating into the atmosphere. Pulling myself up onto the land using my wings to aid me. Rushing over to the wall, banging on it hoping it would open, to no effect. Flying over the wall and on to the dome seeing houses and buildings tuning to ash and a bunch of black guards running towards the keep with a wooden pole. to my left seeing all of the ponies with chains around their hoofs and lining up. Crawling slowly over it spotting one of the soldiers announcing. "You have two options, you can either be killed or become a killing machine!" Seeing a blue pony in front of the line with a short brown wavy mane with a sheer sense of panic on his face. "You first." The guard instructing him with two other carrying him over to where all of the potions were lined up. "No, I do want to, please help me" The poor pony screeching while being pulled away. One of them taking the potion from the table and pouring it into a syringe. Spotting a crack in the dome to my left and flying towards it. The cadet, readying the syringe. Swooping down and grabbing hold of one of the enemies and bringing him back up and tossing him up towards the clouds. Going back down and smashing all of the glass jars with my wings with the liquid pouring all over the ground. Quickly slashing at the other two in front of everypony gasping in tension. Time slowing down, my senses enhancing as the guard's hoof to my right colliding with my stomach. Spinning my body faster and faster bouncing the enemies onto opposite sides of the dome. "Huh" All the ponies gasping in different colors, shapes and sizes staring at me as if they have never seen something like me before." "Who's that?" A young voice inquiring. Their chains attaching to a rusty wooden rotary device onto a main chain on the ground. Breaking it and setting them free. "Hey there he is get the bastard!!!" My hearing paying attention on a guard behind me letting loose a hundred soldiers right behind me. Moping back lines of mane off my face and flying upwards. Thirty winged out winged ones flying up against me with full force all grabbing on to me. Slashing my wing at them missing and forming a gap. Holding me captive in mid air as a tall one in the center above me holding up its hoof. The rangers holstering their swords. The figure flying down to me and taking off her mask, turning out to be Mara. "Come my boy. Fight at my side and I will spare you life." Mara speaking in serpentine tongues. "My mind becoming numb with complete rage and anger, watching a vision of the whole of Equestria completely destroyed with Fluttershy dead in my hoofs." "You know what you were really meant to be, You will answer to your queen!" Reaching her hoof out to me. Stretching my hoof out to hers getting closer and closer. "That's it, my boy come on , don't be shy." Grabbing onto her hand unwillingly feeling her mind inside me seducing me. "Now!" A young feminine stern voice intertwining and feeling myself transporting out of the circle. Now looking at behind the circle with Twilight Sparkle at my right and a blue pony bearing purple eyes and a shortish Rainbow colored mane and tail. "Gotcha!" The lavender pony catching me in her hoofs and placing a pink rounded force field around us. "Thank you so much Ms. I thought I was dead." Thanking her. "I saw you from the castle saw what it did out there, it was totally AWSOME !!!" The sky pony cheering to me. "Calm down Rainbow dash We are not out of this yet!" The crowds of guards turning in our direction flying towards us...