//------------------------------// // Chapter 28 // Story: Subject to evolution // by Dramize the Salamander //------------------------------// Day 180 Buzzelga and I were ready to start our echo lights detaching and floating to our sided as we got into a fighting stance read to charge at one another only for Cadence to stand between us. "Wait I hardly think this is the place for a fight don't you." Cadence said directing our attention to the ponies that were crowed around us. "As much as love to see this fight, Cadence is right you two could easily kill everypony here by accident." Acid said in an disinterested tone as she picking something out of her teeth while the ponies that were crowing us ran away clearing the scene in seconds. Buzzelga and I looked at each other and sighed. "So Cadence you got anywhere we can fight?" I asked trying and failing to keep the disappointment out of my voice. "Well we might have a place but it will take some time to set up." Cadence said with a sigh of relief before she looked at her guards for them to bow and run off some where. Hours later after the other leaders showed up and we stopped the Griffin king from trying to kill Glyph, then the Siren queen from trying to kill Jinx. Me and Buzzelga were standing in the center of an arena a good distance away from the city with our echo lights once again floating at our sides as we readied ourselves under the gaze of our spectators. "Full power Buzzelga, no restrictions understand." I said as I getting into my fighting stance. "Yeah I've got it just yield when you've had enough." Buzzelga said getting into his own stance. "So lets not waist time." Buzzelga punched the ground causing a small tremor surprising me giving him the window he was looking for as he charged with a leaping step. I stabilized my self and leapt at Buzzelga vaulting over him while grabbing some of my rubies from my wings with my magic and throwing them at him using the blast to knock myself back and Buzzelga forward before blasting him with a torrent of flame. "You done yet." I said cutting off my flame staring at the cloud of smoke a smug smile on my face. Then I felt it realizing I had jumped back I looked at the cloud to see a dark green eyes glowing in the smoke. "Not even close." Buzzelga said before vanishing, then next thing I knew I was in the wall behind me as Buzzelga was standing where I was in a new form that reminded me of Terik but with black smoke coming off his body. "Heavy let's go." Buzzelga held out his claws his echo light glowing bright until all of a sudden his great sword appeared in his left claw while a large black kite shield with Elytra's diamonds lining the edge appeared in his right. Buzzelga pointed his sword at me causing several gems to rise before they morph in to javelins all aimed at me. "Well this escalated quickly." I thought as I was dodging and deflecting gem javelins running around the arena. "Reap can you copy what Heavy did and summon my sword?" Reap gave me a confirmation pules thought our link telling to hold out my claws as I moved until I something pulling me towards Buzzelga. I looked toward him to see Buzzelga his sword plunged into the ground as a dark green light pulsed from the ground that surrounded him as his emblem glowed. I opened my wings and flew up fighting the pull until I couldn't feel it any more. "So that's how you want to play." I said to myself as my katana finally appeared in my right claw the black blade shining in the sun as I used it to deflect and destroy Buzzelga's javelins. I held up my left as I out a torrents of my hell flame and dark plasma into a castle sized bubble of my magic I had Reap create until it was full then I compressed and shaped it until it was the size and shape of a javelin before I formed a crystal shell around it. I threw my new weapon down into the arena with all my strength driving it deep into the ground. Buzzelga backed up as cracks started to spider out of the entry hole my javelin made with dark purple light pouring out before it erupted the entire arena was blown to pieces and thrown into the sky right at me. Reap shielded me as the energy column enveloped me allowing me to look around as the arena was being disintegrated. "YOU YEILD YET BUZZELGA?!" I yelled as my attack finally dissipated looking down to see Buzzelga was outside the blast range lowering a emerald shell. "NO." Buzzelga yelled back with a smile. "OK." I yelled back before looking at Reap an idea forming in my head. I had Reap fly towards the ground before took a deep breath and shooting out a giant deluges of my Corruption sludge down at him allowing him to shape and transmute it to my will forming a complete actual sized sludge puppet of my old hydra form with a few modifications to increase the power to match my new beast form. I dropped down landing on the hardened Sludge shell of the middle head as I looked down at my target. "TRY TO MATCH THIS!" I Yelled as the Hydra attacked shooting high pressure torrents of acid at Buzzelga who wore a smug grin as a giant crystal arm to rose up and protected him. "OK THEN! WILL THIS DO?!" Buzzelga transformed back to his base from as the crystal arm kept rising until revealing an body that was a mix of bear, minotaur, and dragon qualities along with three other arms. Buzzelga's golem roared as he stood on it's shoulder. "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR MY KING! COME AT ME!" "WITH PLEASURE!" Our golems exchanged blows and started to destroy the landscape around us as me and Buzzelga fought leaping from our creations to clash in the air over and over again until in a single clash Buzzelga shattered my sword and I turn blasted him away with a close range plasma blast before he could follow up with another strike. I was getting tired of this battle and started to let my power build when suddenly I felt a strange surge of energy and my body start to change and my mouth clamping shut as my senses expanded. Buzzelga seemed to move in slow motion as he charged at me with a slow swing of his sword which a caught using the tips of my claws responding with a punch of my own as I felt his chitin crack under the force as he let go of his sword and was sent flying into his golem causing it to lose balance which my hydra took advantage of knocking it over before Buzzelga could pry himself free of indent I made in his golem using his body. I flipped it sword in my hand and threw it at Buzzelga for it to land near his head imbedding the crystal of the golem. I dropped down landing above Buzzelga looking down at him as I felt my jaw loosen allowing me to open my mouth. "Want to keep going?" I asked squatting down to face Buzzelga better as I heard a voice. Nightmare mode overridden Assault mode acquired "Naw I'm good I yield." Buzzelga said before coughing up some blood as his wound healed. I helped Buzzelga up as both our golem's started to fall apart with out our echo light that returned to us. "So Drasa what do you think happened to the spectators?" "Oh yeah we had spectators." I said looking at the giant hole that was the arena. "I hope Elytra had that handled." "Lucky I did." Elytra said floating down her horns glowing as she held an irritated looking smile on her face as she brought down several platform made of ice with everyone else on them completely unharmed but shocked and my group giggling for some reason. "Sorry I guess we got carried away" I said a chill going up my spine as Elytra walked up to me putting her hand on my shoulder as she leaned in close. "Yes you did now you need to be punished." Elytra whispered before everything when dark.