"I'll Pay You Back for All the Times You Put up with My Weaknesses."
Twilight braved the fear of her oncoming demise spelled out by the rising barrage of fire climbing the throat of the dragon, whose clutch on the two pony bodies secured the fact that they wouldn’t be able to so much as wiggle away from their roasting.
The Element of Magic knew that she didn’t have much quantity left of the quality that she embodied, looking up to the storm above charging its current for a final barrage on the dragon. In the split-second left to make a decision that would save both of their lives, Twilight Sparkle made the quickness of her wit known to yet another foe.
The lavender horn summoned the incomplete current to begin swirling down to it, angering the clouds as they roared with lighting, as they dared to strike bolts of electricity near the mare in the attempt to scare her out from her hold.
Yet Twilight shared a quality with the mare clutched in the other claw: stubbornness.
“Sorry dragon.” Twilight began to suck the electricity of the bolts into the swirl of wind as she intermixed them, staring back into the open maw of the dragon where she saw the first spits of flames. “You may remind me of my best friend, but I’ll never forgive anyone who dares to hurt my friend!”
Twilight swirled her head around as her head wobbled underneath the combined weight of the swirling current and her physical exertion, managing to aim her head forward at the open maw while keeping her head collapsing.
The second the flame collected at the back of the dragon’s throat Twilight Sparkle used the last of her magic to fire the electricity induced current into the dragon’s maw. The dragon for the life of him had no clue what the imploding force had just enter his mouth was, as he couldn’t resist the currents that sucked his lips into sealing.
The electricity charged off against the flames and rebounded off down the length of the throat, accelerating the particles of the flame into slowly expanding, only, the sole means of escape for the flames had been sealed by the winds.
The exploding flames pushed out the flexible scales of the dragon’s cheek and inched apart the bones that made up his skull, stretching out the throat of the dragon to twice its size as the flames came to fully rapture in his belly.
Both Twilight and Rainbow cried in the agony at the dragon squeezing his claws in an attempt to repress the pain, the two almost feeling their eyes popped out before the talons unwrapped around them completely as the dragon plummeted to the lands far below.
The edges around the ex-librarian's vision began to darken as all her borrowed energy vanished from her system, the only conscious act that she was still capable of was flinging herself in Rainbow direction; catching the pegasus in her lavender hooves before she had the chance to plummet.
“Just you watch, Rainbow Dash.” Twilight pulled her unconscious friend further into herself to protect her charred fur from the frigid wind, too tired to flap her wings as they fell back together to the valley between two mountains. “I’ll pay you back for all the times you put up with my weaknesses."
A large shadow washed over the duo that gained the attention of the slowly closing amethyst eyes, intaking the massive dragon who expelled a stream of black smoke from his now loose mouth. The dragon summoned all the fear his species was known for as he propelled after the falling couple using the momentum from his latest flap of the wings; the intensity of his stare lost to the prey who finally closed her eyes, smiling at fully feeling the warmth of her friends, especially the rise and fall of her chest as it confirmed that she was indeed still breathing.
The cocked back scaly arm finally discharged forth to strike the jointed prey and impale their bodies onto his talons; rendering the pests unable to escape from their deaths again.
Their bodies weren’t out of the oncoming claw’s reach as its shadow completely consumed their forms, and just as the talons thirsty for blood reached the furs of their bellies, an immediate force struck at the back of the claw which impact was tremendous enough to alter the dragon’s course entirely.
The Solar Princess didn’t even glance backward of the dragon that twirled into the mountain side, the impact against his back forcing spurts of blood to escape through his mouth, before falling once again to obscured pits below.
Celestia lowered her head with her teeth still clutching at the handle of the bloody malice, her angelic blaster wings keeping her body afloat as she looked back to the descending Elements of Harmony. The princess's poker that never once falter even in the face of negations with dragons themselves finally began to show its wear, as the Princess betrayed a smiled at seeing her Royal Guard carefully flapping their wings to slow the descent of the once plummeting duo.
“Princess!” Celestia turned to the four outfits approaching her in the sky, all who didn’t allow even gravity to stop them from keeping still to offer a salute to their beloved monarch. “All of the Elements have been collected and being delivered to the circular platform. Requesting permission to descend to the depths of the mountain pits to confirm the death of the dragon.”
“Permission rejected.” The Princess decided to allow the guards to peek through the sealing hole in her mask to the kind mare she didn’t get to express much of, smiling to her guards in a way that conveyed her gratitude for them willing to risk their lives for her sake. “A dragon of that size doesn’t stay down for long, and I was only able to do so to him because I used his momentum against him. But worry not for his return, for when we join our loved ones back on the platform, we’ll be able to use the dragon’s greed and rage to seal him into stone.”
The guard in the middle of the liner failed to flap their wings at being memorized of being a gifted such an intimate moment with the Princess, catching themselves just in time to float back in line.
Celestia offered a giggle before turning around, a moment that would forever be treasured by her guard, as she re-sealed the mask necessary for leading troops through the flames of a dragon to slash at his throat.
She pictured the dragon suspended over the bottomless circle with all the unicorns combined magic to restrain him, and all of the earth ponies arrows and spears to keep his scales weak and shedding.
When the time was right, the Elements of Harmony would join together in unitized beam that converted an evil creatures power into a sealing mechanism that would seal that said creature into stone, and in even worse cases, a liquid that could never be regenerated.
Both conscious and unconscious. Collective yet divided. Forced to scream but never having a mouth to do so with.
Celestia hoped for such a fate to any creature that dared to not only bring terror to her loyal subject but for a conclusion far worse to those who had harmed her loved embodiments of the Elements of Harmony.
The Princess and her Guard began to fly to their objective as soon as the monarch whistled that is was time to go. They pushed on through the winds that weakened due to the storm being over, as the Princess said the only line needed to make her men willing to risk death for her.
“Let’s go finish this.”