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// A Fury of Flames 
// Story: This is what we do 
// by Foxgear 
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This is what we do chapter 19
By Foxgear



Rainbow stood before the mirror portal tossing a metal sphere in her hand. The sphere was a magic grenade, something she learned how to make from Maddie’s data files, among other things. She has been at home putting on the finishing touches, because who knows when you’ll need a grenade right? When Ebony sent her a mental message about the Night Patrollers on her tail. She rushed jobbed the grenade, returned to the school, waited for her other self to return. It wasn’t part of her original plan, but getting rid of the portal could be a benefit to her. She didn’t want Sixes and friends showing up again to save the day after all. 
“Now, just need to hope I made this thing right,” She mumbles uncertainly. The bomb would defiantly do something… hopefully. The portal began to shimmer and Ebony’s large head came rocketing out of the portal with Maddie tangled in her tail. Rainbow toss the bomb and waits; the portal was still shimmering and then it began to crack. She smiles as the connection between worlds was about to be destroyed. “Come here girl, give momma the amulet.” Rainbow coos, Ebony disputing the jewel from her stomach into Rainbow’s hand. She grimaces patting the snake on the snout. “Heh… thanks…ugh…”
Ebony began to hiss presenting Maddie with her tail. The mad scientist was panting hard as her lungs were crushed in Ebony’s coils, a waterfall of drool escaping from her mouth as she tries to breath. 
“Loosen up a bit girl, we don’t want to kill her.” Kneeling down Rainbow examines Maddie as she breaths in a deep sigh of relief as Ebony’s tail loosens. Rainbow examines Maddie’s head feeling something wet touch her hand, she pulls out her phone and actives her light app, there was blood on her hand! Looking closer at Maddie’s head Rainbow found a large gash on the brunette’s head, opening Maddie’s pupils and flashing her light at them Rainbow recognized the signs of a concussion. “Must have hit her head some time when you went through. You should have been more careful Ebony.”
Ebony hiss and balks. 
“Hmm, yes I know you were discovered, that’s why I was waiting with the magic grenade. Kind of had to jam it together, honestly was sure if was going to work.” Rainbow chuckles. “Well, that’s it for tonight. Let’s get going home girl.” 
Rainbow took a few steps when Ebony hisses loudly at her. “What?” She demands turning to the snake, who points with her snout towards the crumbling portal. The mirror fell away into shards revealing the colorful spiral of magic that connects the two worlds and the flaming hand that grabbed the edge of the broken statue. Rainbow flinches back as the temperature spikes, quickly transforming into a dark version of her Crystal form she obtained from camp. The visor helmet covering her face just in time for Fierce Fury to finish coming through the portal. Like his name suggests he wasn’t a happy camper. With two flames swords and wings of fire he took one look at her and Ebony and attacked!
“Oh shit!” Was the only thing she could say as she quickly forms a lightning spear. 



“I’ll fucking kill you! Ya damn snake charmer!” Fury rages pressing his fire swords against the snake’s master’s lightning spear. From the side the snake hisses and struck with it’s jaws, with his right sword he swings searing the snake across the face! It whimpers and slithers away, Maddie still coiled in it’s tail. In the area of light produce from his fire he saw the blood covering Maddie’s head. He’d deal with that when he took care of the snake’s master. He growls as he two hands his remaining fire sword, knocking her off balance. She and she was a she from what he could tell in the low light, staggers away her footing complete crap. “Tch, nothing but an amateur.” 
“Oh yeah!” The snake’s master screams back, her voice cracking. Seriously how old was she? Fury creates a sphere of fire and tosses it up into the air creating a small artificial sun, finally seeing his opponent fully. She was nothing but a child, no older then Nico’s spawn. Then he looks to the snake again it’s dark eyes watching him intelligently. Maybe he was wrong about who the master was. 
“What’s your name girly,” He demands as his sun flare touches the ground, extinguishing. “I’ll be roasting you and your pet in a minute here, I want to know what I should write on your grave.”
The girl flinch, his words having some affect on her physic. That was good. It would make this fight easier. 
“Ebony! My name is Ebony! And don’t think you can look down on me! Come here girl!” The snake bolts, flying at the girl and melting into her flesh, red wings sprout from the girl’s back, while a tail grows from her spine. Maddie still trapped in her grasp as they take off into the sky. “Think you can take me without hurting her?” Ebony taunts using her tail to wave Maddie in front of him like a puppet. 
“So, you intend to use her as a shield?” Fury asks. Ebony nods smirking as if she’s already won the battle. So, he surprises her with a smile of his own. “Good, gives me a good excuse to kill her, been wanting to do that for a while.”
“You can’t do that! Sixes and Mac wouldn’t allow that!” She screams, which really caught Fury’s attention. How did she know Sixes and Mac? 
He summons another fire sword and flies so they were both hovering over the school. “Don’t worry, I’ll just say she died in the CROSSFIRE!” Crossing his blades Fury let’s loose an attack that lights up the night sky, in the form of giant burning X. 
Ebony flew above the raging inferno, clutching her heart as it threatens to pop out of her chest, Maddie tucked safely behind her. She couldn’t believe it! He actually tried to kill her! This wasn’t like last time, Fury wasn’t holding back! She grits her teeth, thinking back to the battle she had with Kira back at the library plaza. Not even with Pinkie helping she couldn’t defeat the swordswoman. Just how much had they been holding back?
“Fuck… I can’t still be this weak! I’ll show you! And then I’ll show that old bitch!” She rages, a silver light shining from her chest. The veins in arms budge as her muscle mass sharply increases! “Yes, that’s what I’m talking about!”
Fury stares confused at her. What was she talking about? Nether the less it didn’t matter, the light coming from her chest was a bigger concern. Could she have a secondary power source? Maybe even another Alicorn Amulet? Maybe not, she wasn’t pushing out the kind of power one usually gets when they use an amulet. Still better finish her off quick, before she gets the idea to stab the green amulet into her body. That would be troublesome. 
Summoning another sword Fury flew at his prey, who seem more confident as she flew back at him, a lightning javelin in her hand, she threw it and he parries with his sword. The two elements crack and sizzle as they mix together. He boosts the power of his fire sword, overwhelming the lightning. A hard kick strikes his cheek and he’s sent veering over a block away. Now over a residential district of some sort. 
“Great, more lives to worry about.” He mutters. He took a risk attacking with Maddie in the away before, figuring if he could prove it was useless to use the girl as a shield then Ebony wouldn’t bother using her. Besides, from the way Ebony was keeping Maddie out of harms way, she was more useful alive then dead to her, which was in his favor. “Well come on girly! Show me what you got!”
She let loose a scream and let’s loose a volley of arrows at him. Smart girl, she was trying to keep her distance. Batting away the arrows with his sword Fury creates a fire javelin and toss it at her, Ebony countering with her arrows. 
“Try this!” He roars sucking in a deep breath of air, his chest glowing brightly as he lets loose a powerful stream of fire! The fire rages across the sky, blue specks of lightning assault it, but are overwhelmed by the flames, he presses the attack flying towards Ebony, who was trying to flee. He catches her by the arm, flings her around to disorient her and with his other arm presses his elbow and pushes in against her arm. There was a loud sick ‘CRACK!’ as her right arm bends the wrong way. 
Ebony howls in pain, “FUCK! MY ARM! YOU BROKE MY ARM!” 
He smirks as the tears of pain blind her vision, “That not all I’m going to break!” His right arm covered in fire he cocks back and delivers a powerful blow to her right side! Her eyes contract as three of her ribs pop and snap, blood and spit escape from her mouth as she rockets to the ground! Quickly Fury forms a fire sword and severs her tail, freeing Maddie. Carefully he descends to the ground, watching with pity the as the girl withers and screams on the ground. 
“Fuck! Fuck! It hurts! It FUCKING HURTS!” She screams, but he felt no pity for her. 
Dropping Maddie by the sidewalk he slowly approaches his prey, sword in hand, he puts the flaming tip against her throat, stomping on her leg to get her to stop squirming. “Shut up! You lost the right to complain when you robbed my friends grave! Die with some dignity for Luna’s sake!” 
She stops squirming, looking at him with shock and fear, “Kill… your going to kill me?”
“For your crimes, yes. Don’t think I take pleasure in killing weaklings, but I’ve spilt enough blood on the battlefield in my life, I won’t lose any sleep tonight.” 
“Weak! You think I’m weak!” 
“I don’t think, I know, which is why you’re on the ground and I’m about to cut off your head. Now don’t move, it’ll only get messy if you do.” 
Ebony, no Rainbow, no Ebony, could only stare as the blazing blade of fire came towards their neck! They couldn’t believe it! This is how it ends? That’s not right! She’s only be alive for what? A few weeks? No this could not happen! This will not happen!
(Pathetic child o’ mine, withering on the ground after only a few broken bones. But I suppose I have some obligation to safe my spawn, just don’t expect me to play favorites when you face your sisters) A deep menacing voice said from the bowls of her mind. Immense power surges through her body, the crystal in her chest began to grow and explain, crawling up her neck in protective skin, her bones pop back into place and mend as more bones grow atop her skin creating a protective armor. The fire blade slashes her throat, but leaves no mark, the blade itself explodes into wisps of flame leaving its owner stunned. 
“Well, that’s a surprise,” Fury comments, grimacing as the girl’s hand came up and stabbed him in the chest, her fingers extending and shooting out his back! He jumps back, ripping the hand out as flames burn around his wounds, regenerating his body. He touched his chest, one of the fingers had nicked his heart, he almost died! “Gotta love being part Phoenix. Still that was a little close, even for me.” 
Cautiously Fury observes his opponent. She was back on her feet, her breathing was slow, her form sloppy, but still dangerous. A strange bone helm began to form around her head with antlers branching out from her skull. She stretched out her right hand, turning it into a sword made of spinal bones, while her left became a cannon made of ribs. She bore an uncanny resemblance to the monster Sixes’s reported slaying in this world not long ago. Was she an offspring of some sort?
“Should have listen more closely to the report, I guess.” He mutters forming two swords. He wasn’t liking how silent she was being. He especially didn’t like the lightning flying from the powerlines into her cannon arm. “Shit…!” Was all he could say as he was blasted! 

This power! She could hardly believe it! With just a single hit Fury was a bloody mess on the street! It was amazing!
(Time is wasting Child O’ mine, grab thy creator and begone from this place. My strength will leave you soon.) Said the voice. Causing Ebony to pause. 
“Stop taking like you’re my father!” 
The voice chuckles, (In some sense I am, Ebony, was it not my influence that nurtured you into the form you are now? Or would you have preferred to remain a helpless egg in thy hosts womb?)
She grumbles stomping over to Maddie, lifting the severed end of her tail she presses the stub against it and cut mends back together. She was about to take flight when a burst of heat come from behind her. Fury’s body had combusted turning to ashes, she merely shrugs, about to be on her way when the voice in her head screamed. 
(Turn around foolish child!) She did, just in time to see a completely healed Fury flying at her, swords in hand! She ducks back the grass beneath her feet igniting into flames as the Night Patroller gave chase. His attacks were relentless, not giving her a second to charge her cannon or swing her sword. He presses down on her sword arm, keeping her from raising it, while his other hand keeps her cannon pointed down street. Fury opens his mouth and breaths fire in her face!
“It takes more than that to kill me!” Fury angrily declares grabbing both of Ebony’s arms he drags her up into the sky, his arm becoming super-heated fire as he grabs the girl by the neck a red sphere of heat forms around them. Fury smirks as he whispers, “Super Nova.” 
An explosion like no other created this night screams across the night sky, turning the night as bright as day the two titanic beings hoover in the sky. Ebony held her throat, coughing harshly, the flesh of her neck and torso blackened and cracked, her suit and armor gone and her chest lay bare. Fury hoovers several yards away, his right arm gone with flames licking at the stub looking no better then her as the remains of her bone sword were pierced in his side. He smirks at her, bursting into flames, his ashes drifting down into one of the backyards of the residence below. 
(It’ll take a while for him to regenerate after using an attack like that. I suggest you take this moment to retreat, less you get spotted.) The voice said to her as lights began to flip on in the houses below. She wonders what took them so long as she flies away. 
Ebony lands at the old building she’s using as a lair. After tying Maddie up with some old chains left by the previous owner she finds a rag and lays down for what was going to be a very painful process. Grabbing her chard flesh she begins to pull it away, shedding it like a snake. Howling through her gag continues to shed the damaged flesh and then the non-damaged. The process was slow and anguishing. Time seem to pass slowly until finally she had removed her old skin and now lay naked, but healed on the old dirty floor of the building. She let out a meek noise as her tender flesh was assaulted by the peddles and other junk that litter the floor. Still she could do nothing about them as her strength was sapped from her and she lay motionless on the dirty floor and slept. Her fingers uncurl and the green alicorn amulet fell from her gasp onto the floor. 
The soft patter of footsteps echo in the empty building and pink hand picks up the amulet. “Oh, my dear foolish sister,” A giggly voice said. “All that work, effort and scheming just to let it all slip from your hands and right into mine.” The early rays of the morning sun shine through the broken ceiling revealing the malevolent grin of Pinkamena Diane Pie. She dangles the gem over her shoulder rousing Spite. 
The pink snake rose off Pinkamena’s shoulder, her forked tongue lapping at the green gem. “Be a dear and hand on to this for me?” Pinkamena toss the gem, Spite’s jaw unhinges and swallows it whole. Next Pinkamena’s eyes fall to the chained-up Maddie. Ignoring Rainbow, she grabs the loose end of the chain and proceeds to drag Maddie out of the building. On her way out, the door she presses her hand against the wall and resumes her walk.
The building explodes behind her. 



Vice Principle Luna watches with dull and strained eyes as the hot pocket in her microwave slowly turns. She sighs, slumping to against the counter to the floor, her hair falling in a mess around her face. There was still a minute to go, too little time to get back to her game and restart another match of Fortnite, but it felt so much longer. To amuse herself she wiggles her toes, admiring her long tone legs. Her PJ’s consist of a loose blue Tee and a cotton short shorts. The fabulous life of living alone at thirty. The microwave dings, but she didn’t get up. The pocket would need to cool, meaning another minute of waiting. Reaching over to the fridge she pulls a beer from the bottom shelf of the door, closes it and pops the top. 

“What the fuck am I doing with my life?” She asks knocking back the beer. Her sister gave her Friday off to get away from the recent stresses at school. After work today, she had fully enjoyed coming home playing on her PlayStation and talking shit to her party members. Adagio hadn’t come on, which was nothing unusual. Unlike her the siren actually had a life it seems. 
Luna falls over on the floor feeling depressed. “This is going to be my entire weekend isn’t it?” 

Sometimes being an educator sucks. She couldn’t go out and party like she used too, not only because she was pass the age of drinking twenty beers in a night, but if she were to get a DWI, hook up with the wrong guy, or whatever it would mean the end of her career. She didn’t sink ten years of life to become the youngest Vice Principle in Canterlot history to throw it away for a night of fun. 
“Still it’s so boring being all alone.” She pouts laying her chin on the floor, her cheeks puffing up in what she was sure an adorable fashion. Rolling on her back she stares up at the ceiling, her hot pocket and game forgotten in her depression. “I guess things aren’t what I thought they would be when I finally moved out of Celestia’s. Can’t call Cadence, she’s up in the city and living her husband now I guess, so I can’t go out with her. I think she might be pregnant. She looked a little… rounded at the Friendship games. Then all the magic crap with Mac and others. Ah shit I still need to get hold of some of the girls and do a psych evaluation! Shit, who’s left… fuck I can’t remember.”

Luna rolls back onto her stomach. “Maybe I should go into work tomorrow anyway.  At least I won’t be bored.” The lights flicker and then short out, casting Luna in darkness. In the other room the music of her game stops. Great a power outage, she moans getting up to check the breaker. She was about to enter the basement when a glow suddenly came from the backyard. 

“The hell is that?” She mumbles walking towards the back door, stopping only to retrieve the shotgun Ferocious had given her for her birthday many years ago. It hadn’t been the most romantic gift from her ex-boyfriend, but it was useful so she hadn’t been too annoyed by it. The year after when he got her a flashlight attachment and laser sight, then she was annoyed. 

Checking the chamber, she slips on her sandals, exiting through the back door she creeps across the patio onto the grass, the tiny green blades brush her toes as she approaches the bonfire in her backyard. Fiddling with the attachment she shines the light and laser around the darken shadows, finding no one around. 

“Did some jackass just throw fire bomb in my yard?” She questions letting her arms hang, the gun pointed at the fence, she quickly realized her mistake and adjusts the barrel towards the ground. Safety first. 

The bonfire was quickly dimming, the flames lowering rapidly, too rapidly really. Luna began to see a silhouette in the flames.
“Oh god! Some threw a dead body in my yard! Oh shit! Oh shit!” She began to pace and panic, the fire dying away completely, she was still pacing when she heard a moan. “They’re alive!” Setting the shotgun side Luna knelt beside the… the… not horribly burned person? Clearing away the black ash with her hand Luna saw red tone skin beneath, perfectly fine non-burned red skin, and abs. Very nice abs. 

“Oh… um… watering hose!” Luna sprints across the yard fumbling around for her watering hose. Turning on the water she pulls the tangled mess over to the man laying on her yard and sprays him down. Stream rises off his body, so he was hot, in the literal way, because she couldn’t see his face. Speaking of which, after she cleaning off the soot covered man, she runs back to the hydrant and shut off. Picking up her shotgun she shines the light on his face, making sure to engage the safety, she was so surprised by who it was that she nearly dropped her gun! 

“Ferocious!” She exclaims in confusion. What was her ex-boyfriend doing in her yard? Naked. After falling from the sky in a bonfire? “There is no way this isn’t magic related.” She mumbles rushing back into the house she puts her gun away and runs back out to Ferocious, hooks her arms under his shoulders and beings to drag him towards the house. “Why are you so heavy!” 

After much effort Luna finally drags Ferocious into the house and lays him on the sofa. The power was back on, so that was plus. Some of her neighbors were out staring at the sky, she’ll have to ask what that was about tomorrow. She would also have to ask Ferocious what the hell is going on when he finally wakes up. 

“Hmm… I don’t know if it’s the lighting, but you look different.” She says kneeling beside the sofa. She looks at her phone, it was almost four. Screw going to work, she’s taking the vacation day. Tossing a blanket on the unconscious man Luna stumbles tiredly to her room, all but throwing herself onto the bed. As she nuzzles her pillow rolling under her blankets whispering. “At least tomorrow won’t be boring.” 

Morning came, well her alarm went off, prompting Luna to roll out of bed. Standard routine. She gets up walking into the small hallway, looks to the bathroom door on the left and then her living room on the right. Ferocious was still asleep on the couch. Last nights events play through her mind and in her semi refreshed state realizes she should have taken him to the hospital. 

“Shit, stupid sleepy Luna!” She berates marching over to the couch, looking Ferocious over. He was uninjured and she would have sounded crazy saying he fell from the sky in a fireball, so taking him to the hospital would have only gotten her a ticket to the Lunie bin or the detox. She did have a few beers last night she notes staring at the mountain of cans on her coffee table. “Way to go smart drunk Luna. Hey Feri! Feri! Wake up! You have some explaining to do!” She yells poking his abs through the blanket. It was fun. 

Ferocious grumbles in his sleep, slapping away her hand, he said something in his mumbles but she couldn’t make it out. He continues to mumble so she leans down to listen, “Nightingale… stop… still recharging…zzzz…”

“Who the fuck is Nightingale!” She jealously screams thumping him on the chest. Ferocious lets out a loud “Fine!” snatches her hand and pulls her on top of his chest and then rolls so she was against his warm body and the back of the couch. “Hey! Hey! Your squishing me! Wake up! Wake… up…” Her eyes begin to droop. He was so warm. Her eyes flutter and she snuggles against him, fast asleep. Really what could go wrong today?





Detective Ferocious and Detective Stryker Six surrounded by the staff and students of Canterlot High and the Canterlot Fire department look on the broken and burned building. The marble statue that once stood proudly was a pile of rubble, the sidewalk was cracked and melted, windows were shattered, a wall was destroyed… again, but it wasn’t just the school in shambles. The entire square block radius was in similar condition. Residents had no idea what happened, saying they were in a heavy sleep any only the intense heat woke them up. A heat so powerful that windows shattered and melted, roof shingles had curled, and grass had caught fire. Many residents were being taken to the hospital for heat stroke and burns. 

There was no logical explanation for the sudden heat event. Despite what the green students protesting behind him said. Ferocious knew the cause, he had felt it last night. The sudden surge of power that awoke him from his slumber. A magic power on par with the beast he had sensed at Holder’s boulder. 

“What did this?” Stryker asks him. He shakes his head, his eyes gracing in the direction of a distraught Celestia and the hushed chatter of Applejack and her friends. He could see her green eyes flash in their direction. Accusing and curious. 

“I don’t know,” Ferocious answers, his eyes still on his goddaughter. His fist tightens. “But we’re going to find it and kill before they get hurt again.” He marches towards their patrol car, angrily stealing the coffee of a uniform officer and guzzling it down and throwing it on the floor of the car. Bursts of flames exploding off his skin as he starts the car. 

“Bro, calm down.” Stryker tells him firmly. Ferocious shaking off his grip but takes deep breath. 

“It’s like the whole worlds going to hell,” Ferocious bites out. “First the Gilda case, then the alley attack, the camp slaughter, holder’s bolder, pushing out another gang, the houses turning to dust and now this! What the serious fuck is going on? Things were never this bad when Nico was around!”

Stryker shakes his head, “But he’s not here, Feri. He’s dead. You keep up this stress, it’ll be you next. Maybe it’s time we get in contact with Mac. The little girl seems to be calling him anyway.” He points his thumb at Applejack taking excitedly into her cell phone. Feri’s hands tighten around the wheel as they drive off, Applejack in their rear view. 

The steering wheel was smoking as Ferocious angrily bites into a cigarette the tobacco stick igniting on its own. He takes in a deep breath of smoke, exhales and looks his friend in the eyes. 

“I am not putting those kids in danger if I can help it, I’ll die first.”

Stryker lights his own cigarette, “You can’t keep them from danger. You know that.”

“I know,” Ferocious says solemnly as they pass Luna’s house. His eyes lingering as they pass by. “But I have to try, it’s my responsibility, if I don’t then there was no point in leaving her.”