To Grant A Wish
POV switches, Oh Joy!
The orange pony stepped forward, and dropped into what might be a fighting stance. The two unicorns and the pink pony followed suit. The yellow pegasus was huddles at the back, and the blue one with the dye job just charged at Apex.
Apex swayed out of the way and it shot past him, when it tried to hit him a second time, Apex dodged aside again. The orange one grabbed the pegasus by the tail and pulled her down. Apex looked at the group and raised his fists. If he was going to have to fight, he could at least try not to eviscerate them.
"Rainbow!" Applejack shouted, "What the hay were ya thinking?!"
"Well I figured I'd take it by surprise."
"It was lookin' right at ya."
"Um, girls? I'd hate to interrupt your rather riveting debate, but I believe that we have other issues at hoof, hmm?" Rarity said gesturing over to the monster.
"Uh, right. So, Twi, Rarity, you two use your fancy magics to charge u that spell y'all mentioned, then Rainbow and Ah'll give it a good old fashion smack down. Pinkie, Fluttershy, ya two just fit in wherever y'all can help."
"O-ok, then."
"Okie dokie loki."
Apex looked on as the six ponies had their conversation.
'Maybe I should just leave... 'Apex thought, 'Did they forget about me?'
Apex waited for a while longer, and the ponies turned their attention back to him. They all took up aggressive stances.
'So we are going to fight.'
Apex rolled his shoulders, and cracked his neck.
'Alright, let's go.'
"All right, gals, let's do this!" AJ shouted.
The group sprang into action. Rarity and Twilight, both started to concentrate on their magic. AJ and RD prepared to charge, and Pinkie Pie...
"Pinkie? Where are ya?" AJ looked around for her pink pal.
"Hey, AJ. Over here!"
Pinkie had somehow gotten on top of the monster's head, and was waving to her friends.
"EEP!"
The monster had grabbed Pinke by her tail and threw her back at the group. Pinkie spun around, mid-air, and landed gracefully on the ground beside Fluttershy.
"Pinkie, how in th' name o' Celestia, di-"
"Don't be silly AJ. You told me to do what ever I could to help, right? SO I did! Oh, and you might want to turn around."
"Wha-?"
Applejack turned around to see a dark scaly foot speeding towards her.
'Awww, damnit.'
'Aaaand, Punt-a-Pony!' Apex thought as his foot connected squarely with the orange pony's face, sending her flying into a tree.
Apex heard an angry shout, and turned to see the chromatic pegasus flying at him.
'Damn it, to close to dodge.' Apex thought, as his body automatically moved.
Apex brought up his hand, and swiftly jabbed his fingers through the pegasus' wing. He then swung around, using the momentum of the pegasus to throw it down to the ground. He heard a flitting, turned, and found himself face to face with a very irate pegasus.
"HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU HURT MY FRIENDS!"
Twilight looked at Fluttershy, who's face was just inches from the monster's.
'Fluttershy's always brave when she needs to be.'
Then Twilight noticed something was wrong. From everything that Fluttershy had told her about The Stare, and recounts from the CMC, The Stare wasn't preforming as it usually did. Instead of cowering, or shirking under Fluttershy's gaze, the monster was shaking violently, and a stream of red could be seen running from it's nose. The monster was slowly raising it's arms, but it was having difficulties, as if it was fighting with itself just to get them to move.
Twilight returned her focus to her magic.
'Fluttershy has plenty of experience with the Stare. I'm sure she knows exactly what she's doing.'
'Strange,' Apex thought as he looked at the small pegasus, 'I suppose that this is similar to what snakes do. What ever it is it's making it hard to move.'
Apex had been trying to reach up to the pegasus, but his arms were barely responding.
'I suppose that the easiest way out of this would be to remove the connection. Since for some reason I can't close my eyes...'
Apex quickly switched his perception, filtering out the visible spectrum of light. Suddenly his arms shot up, and he grasped the pegasus by the throat.
'There we go.'
Apex held the pegasus, waiting for it to stop struggling, when he noticed that the purple unicorn shouted something. A beam of light sprung from its horn, and Apex raised his other arm to block. Suddenly a searing pain shot through the appendage.
Apex let out a feral roar and threw the semiconscious pegasus at the offending unicorn.
Twilight winced as the creature roared. She quickly grabbed Fluttershy with her telekinesis, and gently lowered her to the ground.
"Rarity, are you ready?"
"I think so."
Twilight and Rarity had been charging up a large amount of magic. It was in fact Rarity's idea. She had devised a spell that would temporarily numb a pony, so that she could work on their clothing without worry about them moving. Twilight had tweaked the spell, adding a calming effect.
The two unicorns let out the tumult of soothing, pacifying energy towards the monster. The spell left both unicorns drained of magic. Rarity passed out, and Twilight was only to barely stand up.
When she saw the monster she was terrified. The spell should have put it to sleep, or at least made it docile. Instead to was raging, howling, and thrashing about. It turned to look a Twilight, and she felt a cold sensation of dread.
'DAMN IT! FUUVGFICKFUIWHWEGSASDFGHGH!'
Apex was struggling to focus through the immense pain that had encompassed his body. He struggled to walk towards the unicorn, but the pain drove him to his knees. Apex managed to force himself up briefly, before collapsing, giving into the pain.
Twilight looked as the monster fell. She didn't know what had gone wrong with the spell, but she did know that the monster had been stopped. She carefully approached it, preparing the last remaining dregs of her power, in case she needed to force it away. Twilight gave a small sigh of relief when the monster didn't stir.
'Now all I have to do is contact the Princesses. They'll know what it is, and what to do with it.'
Twilight looked over the monster, eager to learn more about it. Hundreds of questions whirled around in her head.
'How did it defeat The Stare? What makes it so resilient, that it could shrug off one of AJ's hits like it was nothing? How was it able to doge Rainbow Dash?'
Twilight's eyes went wide when she remembered her friends injuries. She quickly turned to run to RD's side. When she turned she found herself facing the small filly that they had been trying to rescue. Twilight's heart lifted a bit as she saw the filly unharmed. The filly looked straight at her, and Twilight could see the hatred and sorrow in her eyes.
The filly let out a shriek which shook the forest.
"Nooooo!"
A wave of darkness slammed into Twilight, and her consciousness faded.
Apex woke up, and leaped to his feet, ready to continue the battle. As he scanned the area he noticed that all of his opponents were gone. Apex saw Wish standing next to him. She jumped at him, hugging his leg while blubbering.
"You were out for so long," Wish sniffled, and wiped her nose on her front leg, "I was so worried."
Apex picked Wish up, and cradled her close to his chest.
"I'm fine," Apex murmured, "There's no need to worry."
Apex continued to comfort his companion, while she cried in his arms, and he silently wondered, what had become of those six?
Luna walked slowly towards her sister's chambers, and entered, the guards allowing her to pass through unchallenged. Luna looked at her sister, who was gazing out the balcony window.
"Sister, you have felt it then as well?"
Celestia looked over at Luna.
"Yes," she said softly, "Such a huge surge of magic, and the feel of it..."
"Quite so sister. That magic was very distinct. There can be no mistake about it."
Celestia hung her head.
"But how? How could that monstrosity possibly exist?"
"We... We do not know." Luna looked away. "But We will soon find out. The unicorns of the royal guard have been attempting to locate the source, and We will be departing as soon as they have."
Celestia looked at Luna worry evident on her face.
"Are you sure? Must you do this alone?"
Luna met her sister's gaze.
"Sist- Tia, this is something We must do, by ourselves. Do you understand?"
After a moment Celestia nodded. Luna approached her sister and hugged her with her wing.
"Do not worry for us Tia," Luna murmured, "We shall be fine."
A/N
Hello! It's Back!
I know that this story hasn't updated in a really long time, but I still hope that you all plan on continuing to read it.
I had a lot of trouble with this chapter, mainly due to the fight scene. I wasn't really sure how it should happen, and this is what I ended up with. If you have any suggestions to better improve the flow than I would be more than glad to take them.
Also I have recently gotten a job, and I am working full time. I still am going to be writing, but I won't be able to get chapters out every week, I hope you all can understand.
And, as always, I am grateful for any comments, criticism, or corrections you may have.
Until next time.
~Eathlome
P.S. I've sorta ran out of ideas for deep/meaningful chapter titles, if you have any to spare that would be great.