Hansel and Gretel Sombra Hunters

by Kaliann25

If you're going to kill a witch, a wizard in this case, you better burn him alive

The night passed without any new incidents, the siblings stayed at the hospital until Ben woke up and after the early shock, they managed to explain him the new situation. The boy just chuckled silly.

“And I thought nothing could surprise me when I became a witch hunter. Apparently I was wrong”

“That’s the spirit boy” congratulated him Hansel. “Now let’s go tell the doctor you’re alright and then go to the Princess’ castle. We have a long day tomorrow”

They called the doctor and after the routine checks and some more, the whole group spent the night at Twilight’s castle. At the next morning they took the first train to Crystal Empire along with Twilight and Spike. At the beginning they had a few problems with the passengers and Edward’s appearance but the siblings protected their troll friend answering for him. Again Twilight liked the cooperation spirit of those guys but still was very worried about the new situation.
Also the group seemed distant and silent but again the purple alicorn interpreted it like they were scared by the idea to go directly to Sombra’s domains.

Once they arrived at the Crystal Empire, Candace and Shining Armor received them in person.

“And?” Asked Twilight scared.

“I’m afraid it’s true” mumbled Shining Armor angry with himself. “He escaped and we didn’t even realize! Damn it, he could be anywhere!!”

“But how do you knew he escaped Twilight?” Asked Candace also very worried.

“I didn’t, but luckily I found this ponies who said one of them was attacked by Sombra”

Shining looked at the witch hunters with caution, especially because of the big deformed man behind them who pulled a suspicious chariot, but he quickly noticed Ben.

“So you’re the one attacked by King Sombra”

Ben nodded weakly. After all, he wasn’t completely recover from the attack.

“And how did you survive?” Asked Candace looking at the young one.

He thought twice before answer, he knew Hansel and Gretel didn’t want to call too much attention about who they really were and what they were about to do; but he had to say something. Finally he mumbled an excuse:

“I really don’t know. He was about to finish me when… something called his attention. Something or someone, I really don’t know; so he left me and disappeared, and I really don’t know what happened next, only that I woke up in a hospital and my friends were with me”

Hansel, Gretel and Edward nodded.

“Is like Ben said, apparently he was looking for something, we only happened to be on his way”

The three monarchs nodded, yeah, it had sense; the Dark King would never waste his time with some worthless pray so he acted fast. Shining looked at Spike and gave him a parchment:

“Spike, we already sent a message to Princess Celestia but I think it hasn’t arrived yet. Would you mind, please? This is urgent!”

The small dragon didn’t need to be told twice, he took the message and sent it as fast as he could. Without nothing else to do on the train station, the three monarchs followed by the witch hunters began to move to the Palace where they could think what to do next.
When they arrived, Princess Celestia were already waiting for them.

“You got our message” said Candace stragith to the point.

“Yes and I don’t like it” she said with an unusual serious expression, something that never announced nothing good. “Where are the little ponies who faced him?”

“Right here” said Gretel calmly. “And like we already repeated like five times, yes, the one who attacked our friend was no other than King Sombra”

Celestia stared at them, the report said only one was truly attacked, it had to be the blond one. Still she was curious why Sombra didn’t got rid of the witnesses. According to the story something called his attention more than those other three, but what was so interesting that prevented the Dark King to take their lives?
She frowned.

“Listen my little ponies, I know this is one of the most invasive spells of all times; but it would be really helpful for us if you let us see your memories. Perhaps we could get a clue for what he found and if it’s dangerous to Equestria”

Gretel shook her head, still calmly.

“I prefer not. Whatever happened doesn’t matter anymore. We only wanted to know if Ben was going to be okay, and now than we know we really like to get back home as soon as we can”

Celestia sighed, still frowning.

“I know you’re very scared to be here right now, but please be reasonable. Those memories could have the key to defeat Sombra. Please my little ponies, I really prefer for you to cooperate instead of forcing you”

Hansel and Gretel exchanged a look. What to do now? If they let the ponies see their memories they could say good bye to their cover, but if they keep denying they’ll use their magic (they weren’t immune to white magic) to see what really happened and nothing would change. It was a desperate situation.
Luckily for them, unluckily for the ponies; that was the time when the worst happened: a black fog and several appeared all over the Crystal Empire, surrounded by the power of darkness.
And in the top of a black crystal tower that appeared in the middle of the main square, King Sombra appeared more powerful and threatening than ever before. He had two enchanted crystal hooves as prosthesis now but still he seemed very powerful.

“GREETINGS MY SLAVES, DID YOU MISS ME?”

The crystal ponies began to panic, screaming all over the city trying to escape from their evil king.
Back in the castle, the four monarchs couldn’t believe what just happened.

“SOMBRA!!”

Sombra grinned to them, showing the large fangs. Celestia moved backwards really scared, the King’s aura seemed different that the one she knew, much more stronger. Something happened that made him more powerful than ever, beyond of the pony limits.

“So what we have here, a meeting of the four beings I hate the most. After those humans but they’ll pay for my lost limbs on their time. Now, what should I do with you?”

The three alicorns flew to Sombra ready to defeat him but they were caught by the black fog of the King. He laughed loudly, taking Twilight in one tentacle of that black magic and putting her eye to eye on him.

“Oh, what a surprise! The owner of the dragon who humiliated me last time. When did you get the wings, sweetheart?”

Twilight tried to free from Sombra, but he sent powerful beams of black magic making her scream in pain. Celestia and Candace wanted to do something to save Twilight but they were immobilize and soon also attacked by the black magic, delighting Sombra with their own screams of pain.

“TWILY!” Shouted Shining Armor shooting a powerful lighting to Sombra, who blocked easily with a black magic wall and answered the insolence with a spell of his own.

And just like the first time they met, some black crystals appeared on Shining’s horn leaving him unable to use magic. The soldier spied from behind how the siblings followed by the enormous troll ran away from the room; and honestly he couldn’t blame them. If it wasn’t for his responsibility as the Prince and the Crystal Captain, he would run too.
Anyway, he didn’t had the time to think because a dark magic fog tentacle caught him too along with his sister, his wife and Princess Celestia.

“What a disappointment. Only one of you took the time to improve, so shame the rest of you don’t; if only you had, perhaps it won’t be so easy”

He laughed evilly and none of the four monarchs could do something to stop him now.

“And now than you are unable to do something against me, EVERYTHING WOULD BE MINE! WITH THE POWER I FOUND ON THE HUMAN WORLD, NOTHING CAN STOP ME NOW!”

“You said the human world?” Asked Celestia.

“Yes, the human world” smiled Sombra showing her Muriel’s book. “The power from this book makes me invincible. Now than I have all the power from the Great Witch, NOT EVEN THE POWER OF HARMONY OR LOVE CAN STOP ME NOW!!

He restarted his demented laughs. He was happy, truly happy…
But suddenly an arrow pierced his chest on the right side, starting the black bleeding. He screamed in pain but also in anger. Who dared to defy him?
An explosion was heard and before Sombra could react, he saw in horror how one of his prosthesis exploded in a million pieces.
The shock made him release his prisoners, and once free the alicorns flew to the ground slowly, Candace with Shining on her back.

“Seriously, what’s going on?” Asked Shining scared.

None of the three Princesses knew, but they were sure this wasn’t going to end well for whoever defied Sombra.

“WHO DARES? WHO DARES?” Shouted Sombra on the air, looking all over his subjects, who screamed and ducked in fear. It was clear none of them did, but then he finally spotted the insolents sitting on a bench on the main square: two green coated unicorns levitating with their magic some strange weapons.

“Ey! Remember us?” Smiled Hansel.

“I think we have an unfinished business with you, King Sombra” added Gretel ironic.

Sombra couldn’t believe it. No, it had to be some cruel joke.

“You… but how?”

“Apparently Muriel’s book wasn’t the only souvenir you took from our world” mocked Hansel shooting again, but this time Sombra dodged the attack.

Sombra grinded his teeth.

“How dare to defy me? DO YOU KNOW HOW YOU’LL END ONCE I FINISH YOU?”

The siblings laughed insolently to Sombra’s irritation.

“Come on! This will end in only one way: with the two of us offering a bonfire party for all the new friends we met in this colorful world” laughed Gretel.

“A bonfire we’ll make with your miserable remainings” provoked Hansel.

Sombra had enough, he launched himself to the hunters, who separated from an agile jump. Still Sombra decided to follow Hansel first, who received him with a direct kick on the arrow he still had in his chest, an arrow that penetrated deeper on him.
That move made Sombra roll over the ground where Gretel appeared shooting a second arrow to him, this time wounding his stomach. Furious, Sombra tried to tackle Gretel but she received him with a kick on the jaw, making him to spit two teeth.
Bleeding and in terrible pain, Sombra sent a new attack of pure dark magic to Hansel and Gretel. Nothing happened.

“I thought it was clear from our first encounter: we’re immune to dark magic you idiot” Gretel at the time she shot a new arrow with her ballista.

Sombra jumped away but the arrow still wounded his eye. No, why? He was so close right now… why suddenly he was fighting for his life with those two aliens he accidentally brought to Equestria?
No, he had to do something and do it now; so he transformed into black fog and tried to run away. Hansel just grinned and made an small sign to Edward with his head.
The troll pulled the chariot and uncover the giant modified machine gun the hunters spared for especial occasions.

“You have to be fucking kidding me” mumbled Sombra.

A magic aura, from both Hansel and Gretel surrounded the machine gun, that activated and began to attack Sombra who did his best in order to elude the attacks the best he could.

“Ey sis! Did you notice how much easier is operate this thing in our current forms?”

“Yeah, is just perfect, right?”

They continued torturing Sombra, forcing him to make true great maneuvers in the air in order to escape; but it was useless. At this point he was losing too much blood and he was truly exhausted. Finally a bullet passed through him making him fall crashing to the ground hardly.
And at this point the whole fight began to attract the attention from the crystal ponies who began to gather around the main square. At the beginning they were just scared, but slowly they began to cheer loudly to this new heroes who were showing Sombra who was the boss. Of course they were ponies and weren’t used to violence, especially one as brutal as that one; but during his days as ruler of Crystal Empire they learnt to hate Sombra and watching him suffering was just great.
The situation could be very annoying and angary for the King in normal circumstances; not right now that he was barely alive, crawling to Celestia looking for some protection.

“Help me” he called the Sun Princess before Hansel kicked his face again and put the modified rifle directly to his face.

“It’s over ugly” said the witch hunter. “One move and you’re dead pony•

Gretel aimed her rifle to Sombra as well and smiled to her twin brother.

“Hansel, you know we’re going to kill him anyway”

Candace, Shining, Twilight and Celestia approached carefully to the horrible spectacle.

“Please stop” called Celestia. “I don’t know who you are but as Princess of Equestria I command you to lower your weapons and stop this barbaric acts right now!”

Without moving his gun, Hansel faced Celestia.

“Are you serious? This idiot went to our world, took the Great Witch’s book, provoked us; and do you really expect to let him go just like that? No Princess, we’re going to kill him”

“NO! NOPONY DESERVES THAT PUNISHMENT NO MATTER HOW EVIL HE OR SHE IS!” Cried Candace. “AS RULER OF THE CRYSTAL EMPIRE…”

“Like we already said: we’re from the human world and we don’t serve you or any other pony” said Gretel.

Celestia gulped, she could see clearly on the hunters’ eyes that they already killed lots of people.

“Please! I don’t care who you are on your world but here in Equestria is forbidden to kill so go back to you came from and let us deal with Sombra at the equestrian way: seal him forever. That’s the only way to face evil if you can’t reform it”

Gretel chuckled.

“Yeah, right. Because seal him away totally worked the first and second time. Admit it: this guy will never reform and now is too powerful to just “seal him”. He freed once, he freed twice and now than he have Muriel’s power be sure he’ll free a third time. The only way to stop him, your highness, is to finish him now than you can”

Both Candace and Celestia couldn’t look the witch hunters to the eyes anymore. They were right, but still…

“I could never do something like that” mumbled Celestia.

“You don’t have to, just look to the other way” suggested Hansel.

Twilight looked at her mentor. Of course she’ll send away, back to their home, those two monsters. There was no way she authorize to…

“Okay. Do it fast”

Sombra whined. Did she just let those two to kill him? No!
Edward started to prepare several logs, covering it with oil while Ben prepared a torch. Sombra screamed.

“NO, PLEASE DON’T!! PLEASE DON’T BURN ME ALIVE!!!”

He tried to freed but again he was too weak and his magic didn’t affect Hansel and Gretel.

“Sorry but if you’re going to kill a witch, in this case a wizard, you better burn him alive”

Sombra cried, tried to get free. It was useless, Gretel tied and put him on top of the logs while Hansel spread the oil on his body. Sombra sent Celestia a last look in order to appeal to her mercy… but she looked away.

“PLEASE DON’T!!”

Twilight was shocked, why she stayed there looking how a pony was about to be murdered?
A familiar hoof called her attention. She turned.

“Girls!” She said surprise. “Girls go away, you don’t have to see this! Please!”

Applejack, the one who called Twilight, denied with her head.

“Sorry Twi but as soon you left we started to heard rumors about King Sombra’s return. We came to help you but when you arrived”

“We just saw those two attacking and…” Rainbow couldn’t continue and puked. She wasn’t use to that brutality.

Hansel drop the torch on the logs.
The smell of burn flesh and Sombra’s screams of pains and pleads of mercy filled the Crystal Empire. Celestia cried and puked; just as Rainbow Dash. Candace couldn’t stay and ran away along with Shining Armor.
Hansel and Gretel shared a cruel laugh.
Fluttershy cried, covering her eyes and ears; but the smell was still there. Pinkie Pie fainted of impression just as Rarity. Applejack fall over her knees shacking in fear.
Twilight was shocked, not only because of the fact she saw a pony being executed; but also because the relieve she felt as soon as she watched him dying.
Shining was also relieved. Didn’t want to admit it but in the bottom he was pleased for knowing that Sombra was dead, not to mention the crystals on his horn disappeared at the time the king sent his last breath.
At some point Gretel remembered:

“Ey, and now than I remembered, he had Muriel’s book this whole time. Okay we killed the bastard and destroyed the book, we’re done here”

Hansel nodded in agreement.
After fifteen minutes more or less, it was over. The witch hunters faced Celestia.

“That’s it. Your wizard is dead now, you are safe now”

“And consider yourself lucky. Usually we charge a lot for our services, but this idiot provoked us first”

Celestia frowned studying their auras and then opening a door to their world.

“Don’t talk to me. Go away NOW”

They nodded and began to move but at the last second Celestia materialized a bag full of gold and nodded. They took it and moved again, but Hansel stopped looking at the crowd:

“Magic can be used for good, we know that now. But those who practice the dark arts, you better watch out”

“Because we’re going after you”

And then left. It was over.

Thanks to Celestia’s efforts, the information about what happened that day lost forever. But things changed forever in Equestria.
For example: the guards who keep safe the magical prison Tartarus said one night they saw a short alicorn figure entering and taking Tirek… only to teleport him to an unknown location with a bag of gold tied to his neck. And also everypony who was found practicing dark arts mysteriously disappeared forever.

There was only one thing for sure: that Sombra was gone forever and the Crystal Empires built a monument in name of the two anonymous heroes who finished his life; much for Royalty’s disgust.

Author's Note:

Okay, first of all: I concentrated on the fight, not the ending. I know I could work a little more on it but again; this is a translation and I want to be loyal to my original version.

Read ya later!!

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