The greater power within all realms
Suddenly lights come on and shine down on an empty area. Ponies mumble and converse to themselves as they fill the stands. Pinkie Pie hops happily through the crowd as she makes her way to the ring side table. “Hello?” She taps the microphone with a hoof. Suddenly, a loud screech came out over the speakers. “Hello every pony and welcome back… To be clear, actually don’t know what's going on. There was not a fight scheduled for this week. I just got a random message stating that a Death Brawl has been scheduled in ten minutes.” Suddenly, a large figure appears in the corner of the ring. “Who is this guy???” Pinkie asks as the figure makes his way to the center of the ring.
“Greetings all the small pathetic creatures of this realm, I am Lord Khaos or better known as Oblivion.” Ponies converse amongst themselves in a confused state. Most of them simply try to figure out what the heck he was and why he was here. Lord Khaos growled in anger as he drew his sword into the realm. “I am challenging anyone… anyone among the puny creatures that feels they have even the strength to stand before my blade.” The crowd continues to look upon him with confusion and spite. “Well… Is there not one of you with the awesome might to even consider yourself my opponent?”
“I am not sure if this guy is all together. I mean, sure, this whole thing never made a lick of sense...but now, he thinks somepony is going to openly step in and fight for...what exactly?” Twilight asks looking to her friends.
“I wouldn't be so sure sugarcube.” Applejack points a hoof toward a very jittery Rainbow Dash. “Rainbow Dash don’t you…” She did not even have time to finish before the cyan pegasus took off like a bolt of lightning.
Rainbow Dash lands on the edge of the ring. “Oh yeah… it is so on!” She does a couple of jabs in the air. Lord Khaos narrows his gaze. He raises his sword when a sudden dimensional ripple forms opens between them.
“What is the meaning of this?!” A creature of shadows willed his presence into the dimension and glared at the two opponents. “Combatants cannot challenge each other outside of the Insanity. That is the eternal rules of Insanity Dimensional Death Brawl.” Shadows gaze locks onto Khaos’.
“I have simply made a request. I respected the terms of the Dimension Death Brawl. If no Creature among them is brave enough to face me I will take my leave.” There was a hint of malice in his voice. Shadows Claw emerges from his cloak a long claw pointed toward Lord Khaos.
“Hey, I accept. He's just a pushover with a ego problem. I've taken down worse in ten seconds flat," Rainbow Dash rubs her hoof against her chest. Shadows breathed a sigh he cannot stop a challenge if it was agreed upon for it was one of the unbreakable rule of death brawl. All the powers from any universe or realm could not stop this fight now.
Shadow breathes a sigh, “Very well then. In light of this, a special event shall occur.” He turns to the ponies in the stands. “I give you the first ever dimensional tyrant rules. Since the rules of looking for a fight other than combatants have been broken, it will be done under special terms. Lord Khaos you will have three days as in...three sunrises and three sunsets... in which to kill… Do you accept…?”
Lord Khaos narrows his gaze, “Let the blood of this pitiful creature spill across the arena.” The crowds all boo at the response given by the dark deity…
Twilight’s horn glows as she teleports to Rainbow’s side. “Rainbow Dash what are you doing?! Have you gone completely insane?! Somepony could get hurt... or worse! These fights they never make any sense.” Rainbow waves a dismissive hoof. “Rainbow you can’t do this alone… He is going to kill you... these creatures are not like us.”
Shadow smirks as he turns around, “Very true indeed… This match will be the first dimensional tyrant… Lord Khaos vs. the six,” Twilight, Applejack, Rarity and Fluttershy gasp. The space in the middle of the ring as all six ponies appeared.
“Hey! No fair! I want to be the announcer!” Pinkie shouts in protest. “Who is going to possibly take my place?”
Shadows sighs and he points his claw to the stand. A white mare appears behind the stand. “Hey, what gives? This is not red light district.” Vinyl says raises her glasses for a moment. The crowd roars in applause. There was another flash as another mare, this one grey with a bow tie, drops out of the sky. “Oh hey Octy guess what I just got a new gig…” Octavia rises to her hooves.
“Vinyl, what in Equestria have you gotten us into this time?” Octavia asks with an annoyed tone. Vinyl simply smiles and shrugs.
“To each new combatant, I present a gift from the realm of Insanity.” Darker Shadows form disperses as his shadows fade.
“I did not catch that. Are we supposed to get something?” Applejack asks looking back at her friends. Each of them shrugged. Suddenly a gong sounds through the heavens.
Lord Khaos roars as he swings his sword a powerful shockwave crashes throughout the arena. The six was scattered as they each broke through the realms. Ponies flee as the stands began to crumble to the ground. Vinyl and Octavia rise from behind the table. “Octy… Are you okay…” Octavia trembles as she struggles to speak but the words seemed caught in her throat.
“So it begins…” Lord Khaos laughs as his form vanishes from sight.
“What the hay is going on here…? Where is everypony?” Applejack's gaze wanders. She appeared to be in some kind of city but it was mess; cars were turned over, fires burned wild and it sounded like there were guns shooting in the distance. “Where in tarnation am I?” A figure begins to slowly make it’s way into the open streets.
“Uh… pardon me but I am not really from around here. Can you tell me where I am?” The creature gives out a low moan as it turns toward its flesh covered in bite marks and dried blood. “Okay perhaps I can simply ask some pony else…?” More moans rise from behind her as more of the creatures stumble over vehicles and barricades. “I do not like this, I do not like this at all.” Suddenly he shadow leaps out from under hear. It spins in place tell a chest rises from the ground. “What in tar nation.” It opens to reveal single object.
“What the hay is this thing for?” She bites a hold of a long black chain. She muttered through clenched teeth, she turns around as a large shadow ascends over her. Her ears go flat as she stares up at the grotesque creature. She swings her head as the creature tries to grasp her mane. The chain curls around the creature neck. She quickly steps back the chain slices through the creature neck like a fine blade. The creatures head tumbles to the ground. Applejack’s eyes widen as the creatures mouth continues to move its body flops over. More moans echo all around. “Woah nelly,” She turns and run to the nearest structure she could find.
A large explosion sends chunks of the creatures scattering everywhere. Lord Khaos rises from a smoldering crater. “There is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.” One of the zombies stumbles into the crater. Lord Khaos pays it no mind as he steps on its head. There was a sickening crunch and brain matter splatters across the ground.
Applejack bucks hard against the door at the very top of a stairwell she emerges at the top of a large tower. “Wow nelly… I got a bad feeling about this…”
“Oh do you now, why don’t you tell me all about it.” a menacing voice says behind her. Applejack quickly turns around to meet the red glare of Lord Khaos. She swallows a down a lump in her throat as he lowers his sword from his shoulders and lets it rest at his side.
“Look we ain’t looking for any trouble… If this darn sporting event or whatever, is that important then you win.” She slowly backs up as he takes a step closer, then another.
“It does not work that way, frail little creature. Sadly, there is only one way to come out victorious; One of us will fall. I am powerful being of darkness… So tell me how do you compare…?” Applejack gasps as her ring hoof loses ground she looks back only to notice she was out of space and as the creature approached her rapidly running out of time. She reaches into her saddle bag with her maw and pulls out the long black chain.
Lord Khaos roars as he raises his sword high above his head. Applejack quickly swung her chain it curls around the creatures wrist she tugs had there was a crack followed by the sound of a blade through flesh. Khaos sword fell to his side… Both his hand still gripping the hilt, “What is this?” He raises his arms dark blood flows from the wound. “So he has left you with means of defending yourself after all.”
Applejack looks down at the blood soaked chain. “Whoa!!!” She drops it and kicks it away. Her eyes widened as she turns back to creatures. She watched in shock as his severed appendages rapidly began to grow back.
“To bad it is nowhere near good enough.” He clenches his new fist tightly. He reaches out and grabs his sword once more. Applejack swallowed hard as he takes another step forward. She had nowhere to run. A voice began to whispers in her ears. Trust the shadows… jump... Applejack stood up on her hind hooves. She swallows down a lump as she removes her hat and presses it firmly to her chest. With her eyes closed her form falls backwards.
Lord Khaos watched in confusion, “What the…"
“Buck me…? Did you see that Octy she simply fell what the hell?” Vinyl rubbed her head with her hoof. “Then there was that chain… Can they do that… Octy… Octy? What the heck are you doing?”
Octavia glares at a computer screen, “Well while some just take interest in the brutality, I have decided to spend my time looking into the rules of this event.” She uses a hoof to click the mouse.
“Okay… That is way more fun then watching it… I guess… So did you find anything?” She shook her head, “No not really or at least I think I haven’t it is strange all I keep pulling up is the image of this old book. I don’t really get it.”
Vinyl shrugs, “when in doubt click on stuff. That’s what I do.”
Octavia sighs, “Of course you would.” She clicks one more time as she reads the words aloud. “The Tome of Insanity, The Tome contains only the truth of truths as it was witness since the all of creation.”
Vinyl Scratch tilts her head, “Sounds pretty damned boring if you ask me…” She turns back to the large screen. “That, on the other hand is slightly less boring.”
Lord Khaos looks down as the realm ripples, “So she has escaped… Shadows… You cannot aid them for long… My power reigns supreme!!!” Suddenly his form vanished from the realm.
“Applejack…Applejack are you okay.” Applejack groans as her eyes begin to open the worlds around her seemed so bright. She couldn’t have possibly been in the same place. “Oh thank Celestia I was worried you might have been hurt or… Well… I-I really don’t want to think of it.”
“Fluttershy…? What the hay… Where am I? Did he get you too?” Applejack asks groggily as she tries rise to her hooves.
“Oh no… You shouldn’t move… We have a stretcher... You look like you landed pretty hard. Can we get here into the cloud car without moving her too much?” Apple jack eyes widen as she notice there was two other creature with her. “Oh no I am dead or back at home on another hard cider drinking binge.” Fluttershy rubs her hooves as two strangely colored creatures resembling teddy bears approached the injured Applejack.
“Well this already seems pointless.” They all turn to the blue colored one.
“Grumpy we need to at least try after all they are our friends.” The brown colored bear replied.
“Fluttershy… What the hey is going on, what are they…?” She looks around at the three strange creatures. She notices each had a different color and a unique design on their belly.
“We’re the care bears.” they all reply in well timed unison. Applejack simply moans in displeasure as a sharp pain returns to her head.
Lord Khaos snarls as he appears in a world of bright light clouds and rainbows. “Hell hasn't enough fury…” He turns around to see several colorful bears exit there cloud homes gazing up at him in wonder. “It is as if this world was created to fuel my anger!”
“Ah he seems grumpy perhaps he needs a big hug.” One of the bears walks up to him with arms open wide. Khaos roars as he swings his sword with ease, slicing the head from the puny creature, suddenly the cloud world seemed to be field with screams. The cloud streets where filled with scattering bears. The Dark lord swings his sword freely severing the heads of those who could not flee in time. The clouds are stained red as a crimson rain fell to the world below.
Suddenly a loud explosion echoes through the sky as clouds where swept away by a mass of hell fire. “What was that…?” One of the bears ask, “I don’t know but it feels like trouble.” Another responds.
“Say Octavia tell me is there any rules against massacring an entire species on that sigh of yours?” Vinyl asks raises her glass to make she saw what she thought so did.
“No I don’t think so, this thing just sounds weird I don’t even think they are rules… Listen to this. From nothingness we all emerge to nothingness we all return. For life there is death thoughts form and thoughts fade. For all of creation there was the Beginning of beginnings and there is a end of ends.” Octavia turns from the computer screen and shrugs.
{ O.O What?! Boy, you sure know how to be a mystery... }
“Huh, weird as buck if you ask me, “Vinyl lowers her shades back over her eyes.
“It was a explosion of rainbows…” They all turn to meet the gaze of Lord Khaos. He swings his sword the ground beneath them gave war as a massive shock wave send them air born. Fluttershy spread her wings allowing her to recover in air. Lord Khaos points his finger at the group as they fell. “Hell Flash!” The air suddenly combusted with a large fiery explosion, “Fluttershy yelps as she was sent flying forward from the sheer force. The timid Pegasus groaned as she tried to stand but her legs simply cave out from under her. “Well can’t say this wasn’t fun…” She curls up in fear as and begins to tremble as a darks shadow looms over her. He raises his sword high as though a monument to his power over the weaker creatures.
A dark shadow spins around the Pegasus as he brings his sword down his blade strikes the ground. “I grow tired of these games you play Shadows…” He raises his gaze to meet the stare of a sinister creature. Its coat, tail, and mane all resembled the Pegasus. But her eyes they where glowing a bright yellow, she was snarling and growling at him like a mindless beast. “So I see…” He burst into a fit of laughter “so you think creating a stupid beast will best me…” He was cut off as the Pegasus lunged at him she sunk her teeth into his shoulder. Lord Khaos growled as he drops his sword. “Not a beast a demon…” He grasp her wing and flung her away with all his might. The creature makes a sickening crack as it collides with a tree. Yet it did not stay down its body crackles and snaps as the creature rises to all fours once more. “Demonshy… How amusing,” The creatures back was covered in blood; Lord Khaos simply chuckles and places his hand on his shoulders as he wipes away the blood the wound instantly heals. “But hell hath no fury like me.” The creature lunges at him and Lord Khaos clenches his fist. As his sword form in his grasp, He roars as he swings blood splatters the ground and Demonshy lands. Organs and blood spill from her belly. A slit begins form all the way up to the maw. The creature finally collapses, lifeless. “Two down… Four to go,” he laughs maniacally as his form vanishes from another realm.
Every pony stares silently from the edge of the ring. “Holy buck! Octy, did you just see that… how in Equestria did…? Octy???”
“For he who laith within, holds many secrets for all realms awaits behind locked doors each door a passage to another realm… Oh Vinyl sorry, this book this whole death brawl thing it is starting to make sense now.” Octavia smiles tell she notices tell she notices the concerned look on Vinyl’s face. “What???”
“Octy ponies are dying… at first I thought it might have been a fun little gimmick. But not like this, this is just really messed up.” Vinyl raises her glasses as Octavia turns the computer to face her.
“I am not so sure Vinyl. Listen to this. To that which remain shall always remain.” Octavia look over to Vinyl who simply seemed confused.
“Octy that made no sense at all. I am usually one to try making sense out of everything so that is saying something.* Octavia gives off a hiss as she places her hoof to her head. “Octy are you feeling okay?”
Octavia nods in response, “I am fine Vinyl just felt a little light headed for a moment. I think I might have been looking at the computer too long is all.*
Meanwhile...
“Oh miss Cleopatra your outfit is simply divine.” The Egyptian queen nods as she raises her chalice to her lips.
“Thank you, miss Rarity. Your work with silk is worth admiration.” Rarity smiles as servant walks up to her hold a several gold rings to match the ones that already had on her all four legs.
“Why thank you, your majesty it was no trouble at all. Just a few moderate changes nothing too complicated I assure you.” She hold up her hoof to examine the additional jewelry. “But I dare say a girl can get used to this.” Cleo chuckles slightly as Rarity gawks at the fabric and fine gems that decorated her form.
“I am glad to hear that. I have already commissioned your stay here permanently.” Cleo says as she hands the royal chalice to one of the servants.
“Oh why thank you-” Rarity pauses for a moment, “I am sorry but I can’t stay darling not that the offer is not so very tempting. But I can’t possibly stay I am need back in ponyville and I am sure my friends will miss me. Eeep-” She turns around as she notice four armed guards step behind her.
“Miss Rarity I am afraid I just can’t let a rare gem like you leave so easily.” Cleo adds with a smile. "Your fabric is divine now you will have a long happy life here in the castle." Rarity’s eyes shift around nervously. Suddenly, the large double doors leading to the chamber swings open as a guard makes his way into the room.
“What is the meaning of this?” Cleo asks, looking up at the guard as he approached. Her eyes widens as she notices the large blade which pierced the guard torso. He quivers as he is hoisted and with a single swing the blade, it finishes cutting through his form, revealing the dark presence.
Lord Khaos smirks as he stares at all the occupants in the chamber. His eyes rest on the white unicorn. “Well, well hello.” Guard surround him spears lowered ready to strike. “I take it that this is going to hurt. I believe we can make this quick. I am on a tight schedule.” He burst to a fit of laughter as they all thrust their spears forward. Each one shatters as they make contact with his form. He raises his sword and performs a 360 spin. The guards cry out as the forms split and fall to the ground. Cleo rises only to catch the burning red gaze of the assailant. “Your majesty-” Thrust his hand out toward as she begins to levitate off the ground. Her eyes began to roll back into her head. Suddenly, more guards storm the chambers armed with swords and spears. He flings his arm away Cleo falls lifeless as she collapses on the floor. “I grow so very tired of these games.” Rarity quickly takes the opertunity to sneak away as the guards cry out in pain.
“This isn’t happening, this isn’t happening, this isn’t happening.” She keeps repeating as she gallops as fast as she can through the castle. “Girls where are you?” She cries as she rounds the corner leading into another large corridor. She breathes heavily as she searches around for an exit. All the doors to the corridor instantly slam shut Lord Khaos emerges on the opposite side of the corridor.
“You are not going anywhere I hope.” He says as he raises his blood soaked sword to his side.
“Would you believe I was just searching for the little fillies room?” She asks lightly tapping her front hooves together. Lord Khaos simply smirked and shook his head. “Well it was worth a shot. SOME PONY SAVE ME!” she shouts as she rushes to the nearest door and pulls on the handle with her magic. She tries several more but much to her dismay they all appeared to be locked from the other side. Lord Khaos smirk as he begins to move toward her.
Rarity begins to back away slowly her tear filled eyes lost in the creatures demonic glare. “Why are you doing this?” He draws back his sword, saying nothing. She closes her eyes tightly as she trembles in fear. Khaos roars as he swings his blade.
“Hang on Rarity!” Khaos gazes shifts as the wall begins to ripple suddenly a rainbow blur stick him dead center sending him crashing through a door. Rarity opens an eye the gasps in shock. As Rainbow Dash begins stumbling about the place. “Dimensional loop the vortex spinning.” Rainbow shakes her head and tries to clear her thoughts.
"Rainbow Dash? How did you get here?" Rarity asks, helping the cyan mare steady herself.
Rainbow finally manages to steady herself and answers, “Rarity this no joke I've seen this thing... where there are things... Celestia, I can’t even really explain it... They told me not to worry and we are all going to be fine” She turns to Rarity. "One picked me up and threw me. Everything went all crazy, then I heard you scream... so I flew towards your voice and crashed into something.” A loud roar echoes throughout the chamber.
"I believe that is what you crashed into..." Rarity says, trembling and takes a step back. "He's been trying to kill me for the past few minutes. What have I done to him?!"
"I don't even know why you guys are in this." Rainbow growled, stepping to the white unicorns side. "It's not like you five volunteered to fight. It was just me." Lord Kaos raises his blood covered sword and prepares for it to land on his cornered prey. Rarity opened her mouth to scream as her life flashed before her eyes before Rainbow whispered something in her ear, "...Shadows has another trick up his sleeve..."
"What?!" Random shadows from all over the room circles around them and swallows them up like paper in a fire. Kaos roars as his prey disappears.
"You cannot stop the inevitable, Shadows! I will find them and I will be champion!" He let's out another mighty roar as he disappears to search the dimensions for the runaway ponies.
Meanwhile...
“What in the name of Celestia… Octy did you see what just happened? Octy?” Vinyl turn to Octavia just in time to see her collapse. Her mouth slightly gapped as she drooled onto the keyboard the ponies eyes was completely white all color faded. “Octavia speak to me! what's wrong?” Vinyl hops from her seat as she moves her friend away from the computer. Octavia continually mumbles incoherently. “Octy I can’t understand what you are saying.” Vinyl turns to the computer the screen was blank. “What the heck is going-” Vinyl freezes as Octavia falls forward once more. “No Octavia you-”
“Hear them cheer, hear them cry. Come to the place where souls can die.” Vinyl eyes widen behind her glasses as Octavia begins whispering words of insanity into her ear. “Children play and children cry. All poor little souls to die.” Vinyl leans Octavia back against the chair. A twisted grin plastered on Octavia’s face. “The truth is they are all shadows.” Vinyl looks at her in terrible confusion. “There is always one more to die, next it is Pinkamena Diane Pie."
There came a ripple in the dimension as lord Khaos stepped into another realm. His gaze scans his surroundings. He appears to be standing in a long hallway of sorts. The structure seemed old very unstable the walls and floors seem to be rotting away. He raises his foot to take a step forward the floor groans under his weight. He takes the first step the floor crackles and then gives way as he falls through three floors before striking a unforgiving surface. Dust and chunks of wood cover him. He lets out a mighty roar as he leaps to his feet.
“Ring around the rosie… Pocket full of posies… Ashes to ashes… We all… fall… down.” Laughter rings out all around him. As the sound of laughter fills the air. Lord Khaos dusts himself off as his eyes scans the surroundings.
“Dark and spiritual auras are flowing through this realm.” More laughter echoed as he narrows his gaze. "I don’t have time for this." He makes his way to a wooden door on the far side of the room. He opens it to reveal a stairwell but it was what waited at the top that brought a sinisters smirk to his face. “Why hello pinkie pie.”
Pinkie has a distant blank stare, her maw twisting up into a dark sinister grin. “Who will play hide and seek with me.” Her voice rang out with six others. Lord Khaos roars with a powerful leap he lunges toward her. Suddenly, she vanishes. There came a loud crash as he breaks through the wall ending up in a large foyer.
More laughter echoes all around and he growls as he clenches his fist tightly. “ I am growing tired of these games!” He roars out in anger and frustration. Pinkie simply laughs again and moves to stand in front of him.
"Tired of games?" she asks, her smile fading and her hair slowly becoming straighter. "How could anypony get tired of games?" Khaos stands and raises his sword.
"You will yield to my might,"
"I hide, you seek!" Pinkie runs off down a darkened hallway, giggling like a madmare all the whole. Once out of Khaos' sight, she finds a room to hide in and waits. The dark being searches for her, moving as stealthily as he can. He can practically sense her, since she did not belong in this realm. Pinkie knows he is getting closer and stifles a giggle.
"Got you...!" A swing of a sword and a roar was all it took to bring the rooms wall down. As the wall supports and bits of the ceiling rained down on her, Pinkie squealed and clapped her hooves together. She narrowly dodged a particularly large chunk of ceiling and placed a hoof on her muzzle. A jagged cut was slashed across it.
"You found me!" she dabbed at the cut and looked at her hoof. She frowned when it had crimson liquid dripping from it. "But...you play too rough..." Khaos swung his sword again, this time catching Pinkie's right hind leg. She let out a yelp and scrambled past him.
"Get back here!" Pinkie didn't giggle or stop to talk this time. She kept running and running until there was a dead end. She turned to run down a different hallway but Lord Khaos had already seen her and had a sadistic smile plastered on his lips. "Not laughing now, are we?" he chuckled, advancing on her and raising his sword once more. "What, no game? No more smiles for me?" Pinkie gazed back at him with fear and sadness in her eyes. "No last words either?"
"I do... I do have last words..."
"Oh?"
"My friends will save me."
"You think so?" He brought his sword down, slicing through that soft, pink body like a knife through butter. A faint scream escaped the mares throat before she collapsed in a lifeless heap of flesh. "What a shame to put so much faith in such sentimental emotions,"
Suddenly the realm began to shake the world essence of everything seemed to be fading. Lord Khaos narrowed his gaze as the dead pony began to lose its color. “No it can’t be-” a shadow lay across the floor and fades. “The Shadows!” He let out a loud roar of anger and frustration.
“Shadows?” Vinyl asks in a confused state.
“They are all shadows…” Octavia repeated her eyes still blank her maw twisted a horrific smile. She burst into a fit of laughter.
Twilight shakes her head as she turns the page of the tome. “These books none of it… This just don’t make any sense at all.” She turns to the entity of shadows. “Why did you bring me here.”
Darker Shadows simply turns his gaze to her then back to his tome."For even in my realm the elements of harmony is not lost. All things is a key to balance. Lord Khaos seek his own desires and doing so will disrupt the balance. He will bring about the end to all realms including his own. He is blind by his own power and pride. He rush foolishly toward his own destruction confusing as the illusion of victory."
Twilight tilts her head, “But do you not support his way of thinking. I mean no offense you look really dark and evil.”
Darker Shadows chuckles, “I guess a little colorful pony creature would be the perfect judge of that. I support the balance between the light and darkness. Good and evil… Lord Khaos forgets the realms are not all his creation. Therefore there are powers that are far greater than he thinks possible.
She turns to book then back Shadows. “Do you think we can defeat someone like him. If what you say is this tome says about him is true then. Only that which is not in but all can destroy him. It does not even make any sense.” Twilight sighs as Darker Shadows chuckles
“You will see in do time. I am sure of it-” The doors open and five other ponies enter the room.
“Well I dare say that was cutting it a little close partner. Falling off the building I don’t think I ever felt that scared in my life.”Applejack says turning to rarity.
“This creature thing is nothing but a big brute if rainbow dash had not appeared when she did we would have been goners.” Rarity adds as Rainbow Dash nods in agreement.
“One thing is for sure that mean old mean meanie pants don’t play hide and seek right!” Pinkie pie shouts in anger.
“The six are gathered once more that means he will be here soon. Twilight do you understand what it is you must do.” Darker Shadows asks as He turns to back to twilight.
“I-I don’t I sorry I truly am but nothing that has happened in the competition ever makes sense. This book does not makes sense either.” She breathes a sigh
Shadows turns his head as a large section of the castle’s study begins to warp. “Well you have until now to figure it out.” Lord khaos gives out a loud roar as all six ponies quickly rush to Shadows side.
“You sent shadows you tried to spare them from their fate why?” He grasps his sword tightly as stares down the lord of shadows. “Will you try and protect them once more.”
Darker Shadows simply smirks, “No they need no further assistance from me.” Shadows fades away leave the six Ponies and Lord Khaos alone. He roars all six ponies shout as a powerful force sent each of them backward striking the wall with a loud thud.
Twilight groans as the alicorn finally finds her feet. “So you wish to fight a futile fight regardless. Very well in honor of such bravery and sacrifice you death will be slow in pain full. I am the lord of the abyss nothing will stand in my way my power is supreme! I am the strongest power in all realms.”
Twilights eye grow wide as suddenly it all clicked. “No, no you are not you are the strongest creature of your realm… I never understood the concept realms the is tournament. I was to expand and show the realms that real power can not lay in just one. For when a single power clashes against several equal powers it will always. falter.”
Darker Shadows smiles as he waits in the arena. “So it has finally come to pass. A new awakening and further in creation. You can’t harm them anymore.”
Lord Khaos growls in anger, “You dare defy me I am the co creator-” suddenly a bright light surrounds him voices echoed all around. “What is this?!” He scans the area suddenly the voices voices gather almost sounding like cheering as the all six ponies stand tall once more. “This is impossible I am the strongest me… I am the all powerful none shall be stronger than me.” He raises his hand high a dark aura begins to form. “Fine I will destroy this entire realm and all of you in it. Suddenly the aura fades as does the red luster in his eyes. “What this can’t be happening… You am all powerful I am all mighty.”
“No you are a coward you selected the weak you built armies and you torture the defenseless. Now the world can see what you made of yourself. You have stand before the might of all realms and you don’t even compare.” Suddenly there was a powerful stream of energy flowing through the air. It curls and bens around the girl creating a powerful aura which rises through through to the heavens. “Now you and all realms will know that when the light shines evil has fallen once more.”
“No, no, NOOOO! I am not going to stand for this. I am the strongest I will not except any being stronger than myself.” He clenches his sword as tight as he possibly could with a roar of anger the he rushes forward. The sword strikes barrier of light the blade cracks and breaks as he charges forward. Persistent to strike the final blow the aura shattered through the blade and up his arm him being began to crack and crumble. His legs shatter as he falters. The light dies down. Lord Khaos struggles to stand but no matter how hard he tried he could not find his strength. “It is not possibly. It just can’t be-”
He looks up as twilight approaches him. “I did not understand it at first. It took a one who refused to see to help me understand what I was too blind to see. There is more power in one realm than any single entity. But there is more power in all the realms then a single realm.” She watches as his body continues to chip away tell the was next to nothing left of his form.”
“This is not over-” Lord Khaos groans as he finally falters his body turns to dust as he hits the floor.
“No it is just another beginning of something greater.” Her friends rush and hugs her at last the the gong sounds. As the six vanish from the realm insanity and returning to their realm. Ponies applaud and cheer as another brawl finally comes to an end.
Shadows nods to Twilight who simply smiles and nods in return. “No that on this day even the greatest will falter when blinded by their own power. The power of all the realms is far superior to any one being.” Twilight chuckles slightly
“Twilight is it just me or is that confusing.” Rainbow Dash asked looking genuinely confused.
“No Rainbow it makes perfect sense.” Twilight chuckled as the crowd continues to cheer and applaud.
“Octy you are going to be okay now right?” Octavia nod looking to here from the stretcher. She clinches her head a splitting head forms and throbs without mercy. Vinyl looks back to the arena. “What the buck is this?” She asks herself but a part of her felt to afraid to find out the answer.
Meanwhile
“The dark one has fallen but his essence can still be of use. The keep of the realms and the creator of Insanity will not escape us this time. Prepare yourself shadow lord the era of the Loc is soon upon us. Brother you are the only one whose body exist in both worlds. Go claim the power of the Shadows and the Tome set the Loc free.” A great three headed dragon release a mighty roar.