Vermund was running for his dear life as he was still being pursuited by the dragon riders, ponies, baby dragon, and drancequus, who were coming in hot.
"You will not escape me yoy murderer!" Eragon bellowed. "Prepare to meet your demise!"
The dwarf spat at his direction, and he didn't stop running. "As long as Anhuin is on my side, I can never be beaten!" He shouted back to him
"We'll see about that, yoy dwarf scum!" Rainbow Dash shouted.
"Nopony foal-naps my sister and gets away with it.!" Said Applejack with our hate abd anger in her eyes.
"I will destroy you!" Rarity bellowed.
"Pfft, good luck with that." Vermund muttered. "As if any one of you freaks can try to stop me."
While running, Vermund noticed a rock and boulder trap above the direction where he was going to, and an evil smile appeared on him.
"Eat this, you filthy creatures! For Anhuin!' Then he used his sword to slash the rope as he ran by, and a crumbling sound was heard from above.
Seeing the danger, Twilight, Rarity, and Lyra used the magic from their horns to atop the rocks from tumbling any farther, and crush them to death.
"Whew. That was way too close!" Lyra said. "Thank Celestia for our magic. Is everypony okay?"
All of them replied a yes to her, and Calraeli said "we cannot let him get away! After him!"
"Right!" The ponies and Spike agreed, and they all continental to follow him in hot pursue.
More and more dwarves and Diamond Dogs appeared from many entrances, and ambushed them like a small flock of Harris hawks.
Despite these little setbacks, they all managed to drive off as many enemies and possible.
"Come back here, you miserable coward!" Murtagh shouted, closing Za'roc to a position where his fists were becoming white from the bones pushing through.
"Remember the plan, everyone!" Skalmo reminded. "Have faith in Shadeslayer." As they kept on running after the evil dwarf, they were becoming a little tired of this chase. Nonetheless, they all have a job to do." Hopefully, these tunnels have to end somewhere. This wasn't a wild goose chase after all.
Many more diamond dogs and dwarves closed in on the heroes, but despite growing a little weary, they still fought them on, and drove them away.
Completely running out of options, Vermund realized that he could not keep them off his back forever. However, he could see a light at the end of a tunnel he was climbing over. When he reached the surface, the three leading Diamond Dogs were there waiting for him as his personal backup.
"Don't worry, sir!" said Rover. "We're here to protect you!"
"Bah, what difference will it make. I'm running out of guards!" Vermund spat. "How could we possibly know how to defeat them four against a small army right behind us?"
"We have more guards than you think, sir." said Fido
"It does not matter how many of us there are, they have magic, while we do not."
"Nonsense!" said Spot. then he blew a whistle. From many holes around them, more and more diamond dogs appeared from below, and they completely outmatch their enemies. All of them were carrying battle axes and thorny scimitars as weapons." Despite the greater number on his side, Vermund was still uncertain about this.
Finally, catching up with him, the heroes emerged from the tunnel that Vermund took, with Eragon, Murtagh, and the elements of Harmony in front of them. "It's over Vermund!" Eragon shouted, pointing Brisingr at him. "You cannot win, we have won!"
"Oh, we wouldn't say that!" said Rover. "Get them, boys!" then the large battalion of Diamond Dogs charged at all of them with full zeal. Nonetheless, Eragon and the others fought back gallantly.
"You think with numbers, you can win you feeble pest?" Murtagh insulted him while the dwarf was keeping his distance like a coward. Murtagh was swinging Za'roc very swiftly, and decapitated a total of five diamond dogs. While the dragon riders, and ponies were distracted, many of Vermund's followers appeared out of nowhere, and ambushed the group.
It was already becoming more difficult for Eragon and his friends to continue fighting on like this, for they were growing more tired from trying to help the crusaders and putting a stop to this evil dwarf. The one that was still really pulling through and crushing his enemies, was Tiber Craingweast, using amazing swordplay and mastery of the arcane arts to blow away as much enemies that were coming at him.
Eragon, and the other riders somehow got a glimpse of how impressive he was doing with that blade. Lyra suddenly saw an Anhuin dwarf sneaking up on him to stab the back of the head, and immediately bucked the assassin with a powerful kick, sending him flying across the plain. Then she picked up a scimitar with her magic.
"Nicely done, Lyra." Craingweast noted. "Very impressive."
"Ah, well, you know." the green unicorn flustered a little. Then her eyes went wide when she saw a large diamond dog charge at her with full zeal. Luckily, Lyra saw him coming, and dodged his mighty battleaxe with a side-roll. She used her magic to swing the sword with her magic, and it was a brief grudge match between them. Finally, Lyra got him off guard by cutting his lower arm off, and stabbing him in the chest, making him fall dead with a loud thud.
Bon Bon was impressed to see her best friend fight so gallantly. Sure, she has seen Lyra use her magic millions of times, but never for combat, no. Just then, she saw a few more dwarves charge at him, and she rammed one to a dead tree, and another one kicked in the groin by her hooves, leaving him on his knees in pain, and the third a kick to the face, knocking a few teeth out, and him unconscious.
As the battle raged on, a certain roaring was heard in the sky. Saphira, Thorn, Vaodidr, Artvazh, Gridgorn, Mimni, and Styx all came down, looking more than ferocious than ever.
After seeing their presence, many diamond dogs fled for their lives, and hid back in the tunnels. Of course some still stayed and fight, because they weren't as big of cowards as the comrades when they saw the dragons.
"Come back here you cowards!" Rover screamed at them. "You idiots are all fired!" and he kicked the dirt. "Grr, well, at least we still have some troops left in our cavalry."
"Right boss." said Fido.
The dragons easily outmatched the Diamond Dogs that were rushing towards them with full zeal, their swords and axes in the air. All of the brutes were clawed, bitten, scorched with their fire breath, and in a few rare cases, they would eat the dwarves as their lunch.
Seeing that Vermund was not going to win for sure, he was about to flee from the battlefied, and live to fight another day. "Damn this!" he curse. "Come on, lads. Let's get the hell out of here." then he and the rest of his clan were about to escape from the battle field, but they were unexpectedly stopped by something. They looked up, and they saw Princess Celestia, Luna, Cadence, and Shining Armor, scowling down on them.
"Not so fast, Vermund of Az Sweldn Rak Anhuin." said Celestia firmly.
"Bah! I ain't afraid of you. Princess' or no Princess' I will have all of yer blood shed on my blade!" Then they were about to charge at all of them, but Shining Armor intervened and fought against them all with his mighty horn and combat skills. Finally, the other dwarves saw that they were completely outmatched, and ran away from them and hid. "You cowards! Don't leave me!" Vermund said. Indeed, he was the last one standing against the four powers of Equestria
"Stay back, your majesties. I'll protect you!" Shining said. Then he was in full combat with the dwarf. Vermund was swinging his mighty sword at the white unicorn stallion, and dodged as many attacks as possible. Then he threw a punch at his face, making Shining stumble a little, but then, he retaliated by throwing three kicks at his face, causing some mild bleeding from his nose and gums.
Vermund felt Celestia take the sword away from his hand with her magic, and he panted. "Vermund of Az Sweldn Rak Anhuin, you are under arrest for the act of murder, and foal-napping." she said. "Back down, now!"
"Or suffer even more grave consequences." Luna added.
"Are you going to do this the easy way?" asked Cadence
"Or the hard way?" Shining added, feeling more than ready for another fight.
Seeing that he could not win for sure, Vermund was running out of options, and looked back, seeing Eragon, Twilight, and their friends standing up against him.
"You three, help me!" Vermund barked at the leaders.
Then the three screamed in terror and hid back in their hovels. Obviously, they were terrified to see the most powerful ponies in all of Equestria coming to arrest them next, and didn't want to end up like their former boss.
Seeing as there were no more options, Vermund slowly got up and tried to take Shining head on, but he was ultimately thrown back to the ground again. Now he couldn't really move anymore, for he was too exhausted to try and escape. It was just then the search party of royal guards came just in the neck of time.
"Seize him." Celestia ordered, then they all gathered around Vermund and cuffed his wrists. Scowling, and panting, he looked at Eragon, and tried in vain to suffocate him, but was immediately punched in the stomach by the captain of the guards. "As punishment for crimes against the ponies in Equestria, you are hereby sentenced to life in the dungeon with no chance of parole, along with the crimes you committed in Alagaesia."
the evil dwarf bowed his head in defeat. "You fools have not seen the last of me. I will be back, and this time, I will kill ya all! I'll get more followers and comrades with me, and you will all regret this!"
"Take him away." Luna ordered, then they all watched as Vermund was being dragged away in ropes. He managed to give one last dirty look at his enemies, and then made an evil grin.
"Have fun locked in the dungeon, you creep!" Rainbow Dash said
"May you receive justice!" Fluttershy added
Then they all looked at the girls.
"Are you all alright?" Dervoc asked the Crusaders.
"Yeah. I think so." said Applebloom. "Thanks for saving us."
And they all smiled at them.
"Come on, let's get y'all home." said Applejack. The three sisters were more than happy to carry their siblings on their back to save them the trouble from walking all the way back on foot. It was a mission accomplished by the riders, dragons, and their friends once again.
"Thank you so much for taking care of this, Eragon." Celestia stated warmly.
"Of course."
"We better get back and see that Vermund never gets out the dungeon." said Cadence.
"And to clean up the dirt off of me." Shining added.
"Farewell." Said Luna. "Until we meet again." then they all vanished into thin air. The heroes were more than happy to return to Ponyville to attend any wounds that Vermund and Az Sweldn Rak Anhuin might have inflicted on all three fillies.