As the ship was on its way to Tall Tale Isle, Rarity turned to Twilight, and asked, "What of our allies? Can they not give us some kind of help?"
Snowshy only said, "It's too dangerous for them now."
Violent Winter said, "Snowshy's right, and besides, our allies could only help us get to this point, they all knew that as much as we did. Have faith and courage in ourselves, and we will prevail!"
Solar Blaze said, "That's right! It all comes down to us! This is our battle now! If we fail here, all would have been for nothing! And the world, then the universe, along with the rest of existence, will be wiped out!"
Snowshy said, "Only we can do this now! It's our fight! And we, all together, shall see who wins on this day!"
Everypony, with spirits high, all yelled out together their warcries, as the ship got closer to Tall Tale Isle, as Darkness said, "Prepare yourselves, everypony, we grow near our destination."
Everypony readied themselves, as the ship was anchored close to the beach, and everypony got off the ship, and looked up, as they all saw massive surges of purple and red energy, emitting it all directions, at the top of the isle, and then they all saw to their right, and pathway, that lead all the way up the isle.
Violent Winter said, "Quickly! Up the pathway! We have not a moment to lose!"
Everypony began to run as fast as their legs and hooves would let them, as they got closer and closer to the top of the isle, and after several minutes, they reached the top of the isle, and they all saw ahead of them, floated Arrovak, with all of his hooves, stretched out to both his sides, as he looked down as everypony. Surrounding Arrovak, were eight pillars, all of them covered in red runes, and all were glowing brightly. And Rainbow Dash wasted no time, and quickly flew towards Arrovak, but was repelled by a powerful magic barrier, as Arrovak then said to everypony, "Good, you are all here, perfect! You shall all be the first ones to witness my power, and the destruction of one of your 'precious cities'! Hahahaha!"
He then casted a spell, and everypony, then had four purple circles, all around all their hooves, appear, and for those that horns, a separate purple circle went around those that had horns, and none of them were able to move, or cast spells, for they had just been magically restrained onto to where each of them stood, and then Arrovak, with a smug look of victory on his face, then drew his hooves together, and still floating, turned to the right, held out his hooves high above him, as the massive surges of purple and red energy focused together, and went straight at Arrovak, as it engulfed him, and then he lowered his hooves, as his eyes now glowed a bright purple, and his voice had changed into something of a god, as he said, "WITNESS WHAT TRUE POWER LOOKS LIKE!" As he finished speaking, he held out some of hooves several directions in front of him, while the rest of his hooves, he still held high above high above him, as he began to draw more power, as giant fiery meteors rained down from the sky, massive purple thunderstorms ravaged the world's sky, the ocean began to boil, the earth began to shake, and the isle lifted high into the sky. Then Arrovak, thrust the hooves he had high into the air, down towards the ground, and pushed the hooves he held in front of him, as far away from himself as he could, as everypony watched in horror, as massive purple and red beams of power came from the sky, and began to hit various parts of the world.
Just then, colossal shards of ice, came from the sky, and rained down upon the world, devastating everything and anything it hit, as the beams of energy continued to incarcerate everything it touched. At this moment, violent continuous bursts of purple lighting pelted the world below, adding to the devastation. Then, many enormous purple and red meteors came from the sky, each one, the size of a medium sized planet, as they hit the earth below, eradicating anything caught in the fiery explosion. Violent Winter said, "No......I know what places just got destroyed......Vanhoover, The Galloping Gorge, The Unicorn Range, The Smokey Mountain, The White Tail Woods, Los Pegasus, The Ghastly Gorge, The San Palomino Desert......The Macintosh Hills, The Badlands, Hayseed Swamps, and Baltimare City,are no more...."
Arrovak turned around, and looked at everypony, and only laughed at them, as Rainbow Dash looked at Arrovak with rage as she said, "You......you......you!.......Bastard!"
Arrovak then said, "Oh, I'm sorry.....not really! But did I say one city? Opps! MUWAHAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHAH! AHAHAHAHA!"
Rainbow Dash screaming out in rage, and then began to cry, as Rarity said, "I....I.....knew some friends in Baltimare..."
Twilight said, "You will not get away with this!"
Arrovak said, "Oh? It looks like to me, I did already!"
Rainbow Dash said, "That's it! He's going to pay!"
Violent Winter said, "I finally got it! Let me break these magic restraints, and break down the barrier!" She then focused her powers, and broke her spell-casting restraint, and then casted a spell at all the magical restraints and the barrier, and it all shattered into magical shards, and faded away.
Arrovak said, "Hmph....fine.....You all wish to die now? Very well.....face me! And claim your revenge, for your fallen pathetic friends!"
Arrovak then landed onto the ground softly, as the power he now possed, had changed his weapons as well, as drew his fiery purple and red massive swords, as everypony already had their weapons drawn, and ran towards Arrovak, as they all began to battle Arrovak. Arrovak met everypony's attacks blow for blow, with his massive swords, as he said, "Ha! Is this how the mighty 'heroes', defeated and killed Parallex? How pathetic...he had to have been sleeping on you all, because this battle bores me!" He then, with swipe of his swords, sent everypony flying away from him, and they all almost fell off the island's edge, as Arrovak laughed uncontrollably, as he looked at Darkness, and said, "And you, the proclaimed 'hero', forty years ago, doesn't seem to be much of a challenge to me! My, my, my, how far you have fallen from your former glory! Surely you, of all ponies, can be more of a challenge, than the rest among you!"
Darkness, at this point, had enough of Arrovak's arrogant talk, and he thrust himself up, and readied his massively long sword, and said, "Alright, you want a challenge huh? Fine! How about this!"
As everypony struggled to get up, Violent Winter yelled out to Darkness, "Wait! Father! Don't! He wants you to do this!"
Darkness heard, as he made his way closer to Arrovak, and he said, "I know!"
Darkness spread out his wings, and made one quick dash, and he was flying right in front of Arrovak's face, and he said, "Good enough for you!?"
Arrovak said, "Hmph...about time."
Darkness backed away from Arrovak, and got back onto the ground, and folded his wings, and then began to attack Arrovak, as the two were locked into heavy sword fighting, as Darkness began to get fiercer with his attacks. As Darkness began to made a savage attack, towards Arrovak, Arrovak laughed, and said, "Too slow!" And Arrovak, raised up his swords in defense, and cut Darkness on his right front leg, and with another one his swords, sent Darkness tumbling back towards everypony else.
Silver Sky then was able to get himself back up, as everypony still struggled to get back up, and Silver Sky then drew his long sword, and got into his battle stance as everypony saw him, and make his way closer to Arrovak, and then stopped a little ways from him. Arrovak laughed, and smirked, and said, "You just saw how I deflected the attacks of a warrior, far more skilled than you, with ease, so what makes you think, you'll have any better luck?"
Silver Sky looked at Arrovak, with determination, and a solid resolve, and said, "It doesn't matter on skill. At the end of the day, for those that fight for evil intentions only, must know that there will always be light, to banish the darkness."
Arrovak shook his head, and said, "How silly! A speech?"
Silver Sky prepared himself, and said, "Then perhaps, my sword, should do the talking then!"
Arrovak readied himself, and said, "Come and try!"
Twilight said, "No! Wait! If Darkness didn't stand a chance by himself against Arrovak, you won't fare much better! Stop this! This is madness!"
Silver Sky stopped, looked to his right side, and said, "Well, I'm not going to sit here, and let Arrovak kill you all, and have everything everypony has done during this whole time, be for nothing! No! I refuse to let it all end here in his favor!"
As Silver Sky finished speaking, he got closer to Arrovak, and as Darkness was coming to, he saw Silver Sky going towards Arrovak, and struggled to get up, but could not, because of how deep the wound was on his right front leg, so he said, "No! Wait! Stop! Don't do this!"
Silver Sky said as he stopped right in front of Arrovak, "Everypony, I thank you all for your concern, but I've made up mind, it's up to me now, to make sure you all are safe. Once you all can get yourselves back up, then you can come and help me take Arrovak down."
Darkness tried very hard to get back up, but still could not, and hit the ground hard with his left hoof, and said, "Dammit!"
Everypony else, was still trying to get back up from the edge, and all everypony could do, was watch as, Silver Sky began to take on Arrovak, as the two clashed swords, blow for blow, strike for strike.
Silver Sky's sword moves were surprisingly very good, as even Arrovak, was having some difficulty blocking Silver Sky's attacks, and Silver Sky said to Arrovak, "Hah! Your defense will not hold forever! I will strike you down!"
As Silver Sky finished speaking, he jumped high into the air, and did a side twirl, and was going to attack, when Arrovak reacted to Silver Sky's attack, by swinging all of his swords in several directions, as Arrovak said, "Oh no, you don't!"
Silver Sky had to quickly cancel his attacks, as he now had to focus on dodging all of Arrovak's attacks, as he still was in midair, he dodged one attack after another. Arrovak then changed the direction of one his swords at the last second, as Silver Sky didn't see it in time, until the very last second, as he turned around, and tried to get away from the sword. For a moment, Silver Sky thought he had, till he looked at everypony's expression, and they all had teary-eyes faces, and then he felt the intense pain, and he looked down at his chest, and saw that Arrovak's sword, was all the way through his chest, looked back up at everypony as he mouthed to words, "I'm sorry everypony..."
Arrovak said, "Not fast enough boy!" And with these words, with the sword still in Silver Sky's chest, with one savage thrust, threw Silver Sky towards everypony, as the sword left Silver Sky's chest, as Silver Sky hit the ground hard, quite a good distance away from Darkness and everypony else.
Everypony said in unison, "Silver Sky!"
As everypony else finally was able to get back up from the edge of the island, except for Darkness, who still struggled to get up, everypony rushed over to Silver Sky, and they saw the wound through his chest was rather large, as Arrovak's sword left a big hole in Silver Sky's chest, and he was wasn't moving, and then he moved his head up to look at everypony, and said, "Don't worry.....about me....right....now.....you all....must.....defeat Arrovak....first...."
Rainbow Dash said, "Alright, but don't you dare die on us! You hear!?"
Everypony nodded, and they all went over to Darkness, as Snowshy said, "Are you alright? What were you thinking, taking on Arrovak like that?"
As everypony helped Darkness get back on his hooves, and tended to his wounds, he said, "I wasn't, it was merely to buy time, for the rest of you to get back up from the edge. Otherwise, Arrovak would've sent you all falling to your deaths."
Rarity said, "You haven't changed a bit, Darkness, even after all these years."
As Darkness's wound was taken care of, he said, "Nope, and I don't plan on changing who I am now. However, as far as Arrovak's concerned...."
Violet Winter finished Darkness's sentence, and said, "I know what you're thinking, if we all continue to fight Arrovak like this, we will all die, no, it's up to just one of us now..."
Everypony then looked at Snowshy, as she saw this, she said, "Against Arrovak!? You do know that he's like, waaaayyy more powerful than Parallex ever was, right? How am I supposed to defeat somepony like him?"
Fluttershy said, "Just like you defeated Parallex. With the one thing any evil will never understand."
Darkness said, "That's right, belief in yourself."
Violent Winter added, "Belief in your friends."
Pinkie Pie said, "And most of all, self-confident in yourself, that you can accomplish anything! No matter how bad things might seem!"
Snowshy smiled brightly, and said, "You guys are the best friends one could ever ask for." Snowshy nodded, with newfound belief, and strength in herself, she had not previously known, and said, "Okay everypony! Give it all you got! As much as self-confidence, and belief in yourselves as much as you can! And pour it into the sword!"
Everypony back away from each other, and in a spread out in a row, all lowered their heads together, and poured all the self-confidence, and belief in themselves and each other they could possibly muster. Arrovak saw this, and said, "So this is how...ha...now things should get interesting..."
As the sword finished forming together, it floated down, and landed in Snowshy's front hooves, which she was holding out, and as the sword landed in her hooves, she held the sword into battle stance, as she got the rest of herself, in a battle stance.
Arrovak evil laughter echoed, as he laughed, and said, "One of you, verses me? Very well, if that is how you want it...so be it!"
Snowshy said to Arrovak, "Arrovak! Your reign of terror and destruction ends here! Only one of us, will leave this place alive! It is time to see who wins this day!"
Arrovak only said, "Indeed we shall! Come! Let us find out together!"
Snowshy within an instant, was in front of Arrovak, and then raised her sword, and began to attack, as Arrovak and Snowshy began to battle each other with such fierceosity, that shockwaves were created of each others attacks, that cut through the air, and went down towards the sea, and it sliced through the sea, like it wasn't there.
As Snowshy quickened her attacks, so did Arrovak, as he said, "You forget, I gain more power from battle, don't you?"
Snowshy said, "Oh I know that rather well, that is you'll never expect this!"
Snowshy suddenly disappeared, and a white circle began to form around Arrovak, as everypony else could barely see Snowshy as they saw that she was going around Arrovak at such speeds, with the sword put into the ground, it looked like a whirlwind.
Snowshy then stopped in front of Arrovak, backed away, and then split the sword, into ten pieces, and with the power of her will alone, they all except for the one part of the sword she was holding, floated above, all of them illuminating with a golden bright light, and began to make her way towards Arrovak once more. Arrovak tried to raise his swords in defense, but couldn't, as he struggled, he said, "What it this!!!!?????"
Snowshy didn't say anything, and wasted no time, destroying all of Arrovak's swords, as Arrovak's power began to falter, and he began to scream out in rage, and broke free from Snowshy's holy restraints, and he said, "I REFUSE TO LOSE HERE! I REFUSE TO LOSE TO YOU!" He then began to draw power from the pillars, and Snowshy began took off, and began to attack the pillars, and they all shattered, as Arrovak said, "TOO LATE, LITTLE PONY! THE PILLARS ENTIRE POWER, IS NOW WITHIN ME! NOW, IT IS HIGH TIME YOU DIE!"
Arrovak began to grow even bigger, to the size of a colossal giant, as power surged all around him, and wielded the power from his front two hooves, and Snowshy said, "We'll see about that!" And with speeds, that Darkness had never seen before, quickly made her way to Arrovak's face, and began a barrage of attacks, with the rest of the swords, and attacked him from all angles. Arrovak didn't seem fazed, and shot a massive surge of power at Snowshy, and Snowshy called the swords all back together into one, and held the sword in front of her, as the sword repelled the attack, and with one slash of her sword, directed the power surge back at Arrovak's face, which all he could do, was hold his hands up in self-defense, as the power surge exploded. At the smoke cleared a little, everypony could see that Arrovak's front two hooves had been clean blown off, and he screamed in pain, and his blood went everywhere, and thrashed around. Snowshy, saw that on Arrovak's left side of his chest, was a small, open wound, which was close by to where Arrovak's heart would be. Snowshy, wasting no time, made her way to the wound, as Arrovak continued to howl in pain and unaware of the wound, and of where Snowshy was heading. Snowshy then rose high into the air, and raising the sword high above her, and thrust the sword down towards the wound, as she came down as a frightening speed, and thrust the sword deep into the wound, as Arrovak trashed about violently, and angrily cried out in pain.
The sword found its mark, as it pierced Arrovak's heart, and Arrovak began to die, as he stopped thrashing about, and fell down, and Snowshy went to the ground in front of Arrovak's face, as everypony else came to Snowshy. As everypony got to Snowshy, Arrovak looked up at everypony, with very labored breathing, strained to speak, while coughing on his own blood, as he said, "I don't believe it!........'cough, cough, cough!' This......shouldn't be......possible.....this.....can't be happening! No! I....I....I can't lose!.....I cannot die!........I am Arrovak!......The Celestial Evil....who revels....in...battle!......How can I lose!?"
Snowshy said, "Because just like Parallex, you both fail to understand, that without any confidence and faith in yourself, not to mention, knowing that you have friends that care about you. That you can accomplish anything, and that is something evils like yourself, don't have, you all think fear and intimidation, is the key to success and victory."
Arrovak said, " How silly! 'Cough!' Friendship, self-confidence, and faith? These....things are so frail....they all could easily break....!"
Darkness limped over and said, "That may be so, but that doesn't stop us from ever to stop trying, no matter how many times it takes, our friendship, and our strength that we have with each other, will see us all through the darkest days."
Arrovak then looked at Darkness, and said, "It doesn't make any....sense! What about......the greatest evil....? The most powerful of us Celestial Evils? Darkness Night?"
Rainbow Dash said, "More or less the same thing. Plus, it was also the desire, to live to see a new dawn, a new day, and perhaps, to break the bounds that divided us all. We all prevailed that day because of these things."
Arrovak then looked back at Snowshy, and then said, "Ha! Evil....has no.....need....for friendship...and unity like that.....that is something only those that stand with the light, and.....with the Gods Of Equestria.....do." Arrovak was silent for a moment, and then said, "The light is frail....but so strong...at the same time......it defies my reasoning........" He paused, and then said, "Mark my words.....all....of you.....one day the light will fail.....your friendship will....break......your self confidence...and faith will....be lost...and the Gods Of Equestria........'labored breath', will....someday abandon...you all...and this wretched world.....and we evils...will be waiting for that day......" As Arrovak struggled to try and say more, his breathing grew more and more heavy, and then his head slumped downwards, as his eyes closed, and he grew still.
Everypony went over Silver Sky, as Darkness limped his way along with everypony, with Violent Winter, who had put the injured hoof and leg over her shoulder, and helped him along. Silver Sky was now lying in a pool of his own blood, as everypony began to tear up, and Twilight said, "Silver Sky? Can you hear me?"
Silver Sky, very weakly, looked up at everypony, and said, "I hear you.......but......it....would seem....it's too late for me now...."
Pinkie Pie said, while crying, "No! You can't die now! We still haven't even got to the party yet! After this is all over!"
Silver Sky said, "Celebrate a bit more for me...alright?"
Twilight said, "What are you talking about? You can do so yourself! Don't say such things! You'll make it!"
Silver Sky said, "Look, I've lost too much blood.....even if I did get to a hospital in time, I would only die there anyways...." Silver Sky paused, and then said, "It's been an honor, to fight alongside you all.....this whole journey....was the best moments of my life..."
Snowshy said, "What about your life back in the human world? Don't you want to go back to that? Don't you want to see your home world once more?"
Silver Sky said, "Not really.......my life there......was horrible.......both my parents.....were dead.....I was all alone.....and my adopted parents died a few years ago....and all my so called friends....they abandoned me.....no.....my best times of my life......were here.....and I don't regret a thing.....these moments here....in this world......was the best times of my life......thank you.....all of.....you...."
As Silver Sky finished his last word, it trailed off, and he smiled brightly at everypony, as his head slumped down, he drew his last breath, closed his eyes, and grew still.
Everypony began to cry deeply, as Darkness bowed his head in respect to Silver Sky, and with tears in his eyes, he said, "We will never forget what you have done for us all, on this day.....You will forever be very well known....in history....I will see to it...I promise you."
Violet Winter said, "Thank you, Silver Sky, sleep now, but we will miss you."
Solar Blaze, then picked up Silver Sky's body, and nodded to everypony, and said, "He deserves a proper hero's burial."
Rainbow Dash said, "I couldn't agree more."
The isle then, began to fall down at an alarming rate, and back down towards the sea, and the isle began to crumble, as Arrovak's body began to turn into ash, and his remains were scattered to the winds. Arrovak's spell, then began breaking up, and then it all dissipated, and faded away and the skies went back to normal as Rarity then said, "I'm happy that Arrovak has been stopped, and that his spell, has been broken, and gone now, and I know, that Silver Sky's death, weighs heavy in all our hearts, but now what do we do?"
Violet Winter said, " I have an idea."
Rarity said, "Uh oh."
Violet Winter said, "When we get close enough to the sea, we jump."
Everypony said in unison, "WHAT!!!!????"
Violet Winter looked at everypony, and said, "You all got a better idea?"
Everypony thought about it for a second, and shook their heads no, and Violet Winter said, "Alright, we're getting closer, on my count..one.....two....three...JUMP NOW!"
Everypony ran to the edge and jumped off, and they all splashed into sea, as the isle continued to crumble, and crashed into the sea, in many pieces, and began to sink into the sea.
As everypony got to the surface, Rarity said, "Okay, we got saved from that mess, so now what do we do?"
Darkness said, "Start swimming towards the nearest shore."
Snowshy said, "Are you sure you can swim? With that wound you have?"
Darkness replied, "I'll be fine, I've been through worse, after all."
Snowshy said, "I suppose you're right."
Rainbow Dash said, "Let's get going then, before we all freeze to death out here."
Nopony said anything else, as they all began to swim towards the nearest shore, which was the shores of Tall Tale City, and after an hour later, they all made it to the shore, as everypony layed there, on the sand, exhausted.
Just then, a massive fleet of ships could be heard coming their way, as Darkness got up, and said, "Looks like we got company."
Rainbow Dash quickly got up, and said, "Friendly?"
Violet Winter got up, and said, "Yeah, it's our allies."
Everypony got up, and began to try to get the allies attention, one of the allies ships saw, and began to head towards everypony, as the rest the allied fleet followed. As the ship got close to the beach, everypony saw that it was Fluchuette, who came to the side of the ship, and she saw Silver Sky's dead body, on Solar Blaze's back, but felt it wasn't best to say anything about it right now, and said, "Well, come on then, heroes! Come on aboard! We need to get you all to the celebration and remembrance ceremonies!" Nopony said anything, as they all got on the ship, and Fluchuette's ship steered away from the beach, and began to head towards Canterlot, with the allies following close behind.