From the isles of Avalon

by The Drifting Bard


Chapter 18: Kesshite akiramenai!

never rub another man's rhubarb


Anarchy sped off, giving chase to a very frightened Twilight. I dropped the box, and simply grabbed the sword hilt. pulling it out, I simply grinned. Anarchy looked more and more like a demon of the night. he sped towards Twilight to grab her.
I kicked out my leg, catching the slightly deformed man in the groin. "Twilight, Hide" She nodded and disappeared.
a second man walked past. "Anarchy, Keep him busy... hell, Kill him if you like" the slightly scarred second man gave a snake-like grin. Anarchy jumped, and as if on cue, his talons became visible. I was fighting a griffin.


Twilight found herself running towards Canterlot, in the hopes of finding someone who could help.
"going somewhere so soon?" She heard that sick, twisted happy voice. she turned to face the scarred man.
Her hand began to glow. "s-stay back..." she couldn't mask the fear in her voice. "i'm warning you" she finished her sentence.
The man simply chuckled, before his expression went dark. she launched a spell at him, but missed. "for the Element of magic... You sure are dumb" Reaver stood before the young librarian, who's temper... flared.


I was quick on the defensive, avoiding whatever hits the disfigured Griffin could try and land. but before long, he was slowly becoming tired. "well?" I growled "is that all you've got?" at that moment, Reaver appeared, Looking dazed and confused.
he then shook his head. "switch places?"
Anarchy simply nodded and sped off, I gave chase but was soon met with a fist to the stomach. I took the hit, and swung out with the blade. he batted the blade away, and with a chuckle tripped me over. I got up to my feet, and continued to go for Anarchy. "come on, what kind of Warrior are you?" I turned around, and punched him square on the jaw and continued walking. he grabbed the back of the t-shirt i was wearing. "Let. Go." I barked, hearing a polite "no".
I simply turned around and kicked him in the face. he was still smiling that smug smile. he then kicked me across the town as if i was a pinball. I landed in the park, bleeding slightly. Rainbow Dash looked at me for a moment, and saw Reaver coming up fast. "RD, go check on Twilight" I spat out an order, she simply nodded and took off.
"Wise move, but that won't help" he then kicked me in the chest. I felt a rib crack.
I got up and took up a fighting stance. "no sword? Your plum outta luck my friend" Reaver started to laugh.


Rainbow flew over certain woodlands, looking for Twilight. "Hey! Egghead! Where are you?" She shouted, but soon heard a very grumpy sounding griffin. "Heh, Tirek will be pleased" She took a look and then swooped down just as the griffin took off. she was too late. she flew back to the resulting anger.


He sped towards me and simply threw me into a wall, hearing a few more ribs crack.
I collapsed to one knee. "heh, thats right.. Kneel... soon you'll be doing that in front of Tirek" I looked up for a moment and stood up. "just stay down," he then kneed me in the stomach. I began to get up, but was soon elbowed in the back. "Stay down!" He roared, but soon found himself on the floor.
I heard steel slide across the earth. I took a glance, and there was the Pendragon. Rainbow looked incredibly upset.
Picking it up, I steadied myself with it and began to approach. "I can barely breathe, RD" she looked over to me, seeing the t-shirt torn to ribbons. "I really don't want you to see this" Reaver threw the woman off and drew a knife.
Too late.

Rainbow closed her eyes and waited for the end, an end that never came.
instead she found herself looking at a scene from an old school samurai movie. I stood with my back to Reaver, as he fell to the ground. soon a small lake billowed out of his neck. I fell to my knees.
she ran to me quickly. "I'm So sorry Alan... I'm sorry" was all she said to me as she rested my head on her lap.


everything went black. all i could hear in the back of my head were the faint sounds of things moving and beeping machinery.


I sat there in my mindscape, simply screaming in pure rage. Arthur was back. "use it, I know you hate the emotion... but use it!" He slid me a guitar... a representation of Mahiko. I stopped screaming as it hit my foot.

Picking it up, i began to reform my mind into a less chaotic state. "what are you doing"
he watched as i threw the guitar away and summoned a sword. the sound of metal began to play.
"Doing what i should have done ages ago, gone to that place in hell, where the metal doth dwell"
Arthur saw my face contort in anger. "I swear... I will kill Tirek"