Author's Note: Remember how I said this wouldn't be happening until tomorrow? Yeah, forget that. Thanks in part to Zephyr and a bit of rest, I feel like writing again(though most of you will still be seeing this on Tuesday. Oh well. At least I get to keep up my streak.). Anyways, here comes the real final battle with Grim Blade. The part this entire arc has built up to. I plan to make this BIG... let's just hope I can do it. Now, on with the story.
Well, now's where it all comes to a boil. Graze has been freed, but now Grim is extremely pissed and ready to murder us all.
All of us stand a good few yards away from him, getting into battle positions. We all keep very careful watches on him, making sure to be ready for any tricks.
"All of you will rue the day you decided to mess with me. I'll make sure you all burn for all eternity for this." he kneels down as he charges his horn up. "Now you shall face the true power of Grim Blade of the Grave Ponies! But first..."
As Grim's horn glows, the walls and throne in the room collapse down, expanding the room's size in both height and length, even putting a huge pit around the circle platform we stand on.
We look around our new arena in awe. "Hmm, that sure is nifty." I say, slightly impressed. The others look at me strangely. I shrug. "What? It is pretty cool."
"I'm glad you like it. I like to set the stage right when killing my prey myself. It took forever to carve out all of that rock and stone, but I feel it was worth it."
Graze stomps forward and snorts as Grim. "Enough of this pointless talking! It's about time I kick your flank!"
"Yes, it is time to end it! Come at me, fool!"
(Boss Battle 10: Grim Blade. BEGIN!)
Graze begins to flap his wings rapidly while flying in place, shooting out waves of fire towards Grim. Before the flames hit though, Grim teleports away in a blue fog. As he returns to normal, he smirks at Graze. Getting frustrated, Graze dashes towards Grim.
"Ah ah ah." he says. His horn glows creating a giant hand that comes up from the ground that grabs Graze, completely restraining him. "Now what are you going to do?"
"Kick your flank once I get out of here!" Graze shouts as he struggles.
"He's not the one you need to worry about!" Zeph shouts as he's about to take off for Grim, still holding the mace. He takes off in the blink of an eye, going full speed. As Grim sees this, he summons another diamond dog, which Zephyr quickly knocks to pieces.
While Grim is busy focusing on Zephyr, Dark goes in and uses his lightning blades to slice the hand holding Graze, freeing him from its clutches.
"Hmm, quite fast, aren't you both?" he says to Zeph and Dark.
"You haven't seen anything yet!" Dark says.
"Yeah, we're just getting started!" Zeph adds.
"Well, I'll just have to fix that then." Grim starts charging his horn again and shoots a wave that completely envelopes all three of the pegasi.
All three of them look over themselves, noticing no differences on them. "Hey, that didn't do anything." Graze says.
"Oh, it did something." Grim says. "Allow me to demonstrate. Skeletal Thralls!" he summons another batch of diamond dog minions before them.
Dark waves a hoof. "Peh, no problem." he flies in right after them, but as he gets close, he's hit right in the face by a shield, knocking him down. He rubs his head. "Hey, what the hay?"
A diamond dog comes after Zephyr. As he tries to dodge, the dog stops him by clashing its sword to his mace. "Hey, why can't I dodge this thing?" Zephyr says as he's locked in a stalemate.
Graze knocks the dog off of him, but as he does, another dog swings at him, knicking his cheek. Graze blasts a bit of fire at it, knocking it back as well. "What's going on? Why are we suddenly slower?"
Grim chuckles. "My Time's Touch spell. Slows down any beings caught in it. Your speed can't help you now."
"Good thing we also have strength on our side!" Drax says as he comes in and takes down a diamond dog by Dark.
I also come in and give a good Hurricane Hoof to a skeletal dog, smashing it to pieces in an instance. "That's right!"
"Oh, well, good thing I also have something for that too."
"Say what?" we both say.
"Weaken!" Grim shoots out another wave from his horn, this time at me and Drax. "And now for the finishing touch." after that he summons a giant hand that grabs both os us.
Drax and I both struggle furiously as we try to break free of the hand. "What the buck is this?!" I say.
"Yeah, I feel so weak." Drax says.
"As I said, I also have a spell to weaken physical strength. It's quite useful."
"How's this for useful?!" Ice shouts angrily before stomping hid hooves, impaling Grim's body. "Wow. That sure seemed easy. A bit too easy..."
"That's because it was." a voice says from behind Ice.
"What the buck?!" Ice says as he turns around. He looks back at the Grim he impaled to see a simple crow. He looks back at Grim.
"Prepare for more pain than you have ever experienced in your pitiful like." he removes his shades, revealing his solid-colored eyes. "Tatsuyomi!"
Inside of Ice's mind
Ice slowly opens his eyes, seeing that his is tied to a big, stone T i an area he's never been in. As he looks around, he sees hundreds of Grim blades holding knives. The GRims starting stabbing and slashing him one by one, never stopping.
Ice feels a new and even more intense pain with each new wound, almost wishing he would just die. To Ice this entire experience feels as though it's going for ten days.
Back out in the real world
In under three seconds, Ice's body collapses to the ground, motionless. Grim puts his shades back on.
"ICE!" we all shout. That motherbucker's going down!
"You're mine!" Rhino shouts. He goes in to tackle Grim with going at full speed Res, but Grim uses his haze teleport again to dodge it. Being unable to stop in time, Rhino accidentally goes off the side of the arena.
"NO! RHINO!" we shout again. okay, now I'm pissed!"
"Grr, no more of this!" Vine shouts. "You Grave Ponies have had this coming for a very long time!" she summons a bumch of vines that constrict Grim's movement, even grabbing his horn.
Grim struggles to get free, but to no avail. "No! You can't do this to me!"
"Watch me." Vine says bitterly. She stomps down, sending up a vine that hits Grim hard in the stomach, leaving a shallow wound dripping with blood.
Grim grabs his stomach as he glares at Vine. As he's about ready to perform another spell, Orion starts flying around him, preparing to surround him in darkness. "Can't hit what you can't see!" he says.
Grim starts rubbing his chin. "Thank you for the idea!" Grim carefully starts charging his horn again. He takes precision aim and actually manages to hit Orion in the eyes.
"AH! I CAN'T SEE!" Orion shouts as he grabs at his eyes. Unable to see, he crashes right into Vine outside of the vortex.
Vine rubs her head before looking at her fallen friend. "Orion, are you okay?"
"Hello? Vine?" he says, grabbing around.
"Yeah, it's me."
"Where are you?" he grabs at the air before eventually touching Vine's face, luckily avoiding her nose. Lucky man. "Oh, there you are."
She pushes his hooves off. "Yeah, of course. What's wrong with you?" she says before pushing him off.
"I can't see a thing!"
"Really?" she glares over at Grim. "What did you do to him?!"
"Oh, just another spell of mine. He'll be blinded for the next while now." he starts pointing his horn at Vine again. "Now time to deal with you!"
"Not on my watch!" Rhino shouts from the distance. He comes shooting up from the pit before landing dwn and knocking Grim away with a strong bodycheck.
"Rhino, how'd you get back up here?" Vine says.
"Like I said, grinding with Res is fun." he answers.
Orion comes over and starts touching him. "Rhino? Oh thank Celestia, you're all right!"
Rhino looks to Vine for an answer. "Uh..."
"Grim blinded him. He can't see." Vine answers.
"What?!"
"Don't worry, it's only temporary."
"Easy for you to say." Orion says. "You're not the one who's blind."
Rhino goes over to Ice's unconscious body. "I'll get Ice to a safe place."
"Good idea." Vine says. She looks at Orion. "I'll deal with him until he can see again."
"Hey, I'm not some little kid who has to be watched over." Orion says before tripping over a rock.
Vine smirks. "You were saying?"
"Shut up."
Grim looks over at them while trying to get up. As he gets up, he sees Graze, Zephyr, and Dark standing over him. He chuckles nervously. "Hey there."
The guys all look at each other before nodding. They all buck him at the same time. Once Grim is in the air, Zephyr bucks him up again, and Dark does the same, but with electricity charged in. As Grim goes up, Graze wraps himself around him before piledriving him into the ground, creating a bit of a crater.
Having gotten freed from the hand's clutches, I fly up above Grim, his eyes widening as he sees me. Still weak from the drop, Vine gets a chance to constrain him. With my free opportunity, I spin down and give him a hard Auger to the abdomin, deepening the crater.
As I look over to check him out, I see that he escaped with another crow substitute. He grins as he looks at us. "You pitiful fools! I am the God of the Undead! Nopony can defeat me-WOAH!"
Drax cuts him off as he grabs his hindlegs from behind and starts slamming him around. Drax finishes up with throwing him away. "Puny god."
Grim groans on the ground before shakily getting to his hooves. "ENOUGH! YOU IMBECILES! HAVE FORCED ! MY HOOVES! NO MORE MISTER NICE PONY!"
He was being nice before?
Grim's horn glows incredibly bright as a big, red circle starts foming on the ground infront of him. The ground begins to shake as something begins to crawl out from it. Soon, a giant, skeletal dragon emerges from the ground and gives a loud roar.
"Um, what's going on?" Orion says in confusion. We all slowly step back from the massive monster.
Grim begins maniacally laughing with the beast now out in play. "Meet Stallord!"
And just when I thought this couldn't get any harder.
Author's Note: You didn't honestly expect this to only take place in one part, did you? You did? Well, that's just stupid. Everyone knows final bosses never have just one form. Anyway, shit's gonna get REALLY real next chapter.