Authors Notice: Another two parter Secret Mission, lots of combat in both, hope you enjoy:) (Don't worry Dante will get some action soon)
Luna's Bedroom
She woke up with a giant yawn, groggy and out of it, she woke up to perform her duties. But through her weary vision, she could see that the moon was already up and that it was already set in the proper phase of a quarter moon. She got up and brushed her mane as the bristles gently combed through her cosmic mane, one thing was on her mind, and that was Vergil, as soon as she thought of him, the same queasy feeling she had that morning returned back with a vengeance.
She waved it off as a queasy feeling as she went out to her balcony, to her surprise, Canterlot was quiet, all the lights were out and there were no bustling noises ringing from the city. She didn't know what to think as her only clue was Vergil running off in the garden, but her fatigue seemed to think otherwise. She looked down to see two shadowy figures walking down the pathway, in the skies were pegasi fluttering around, doing Celestia knows what. Her eyes traveled back to the shadowy silhouettes below, noticing one was standing on two legs who she knew was Vergil because his katana showed from the shadow, she ran out her bedroom door to Vergil hoping to spend a bit more time with him, but that same feeling hit her again.
"What is this?" Luna asked herself, "Whenever I think of Vergil, it feels like I just want to run down to him and spend more time with him...probably i'm..." she then pondered on this for a few minutes, putting two and two together, the sudden attention of wanting to spend time with him, a floating feeling in her stomach, sudden moments of blushing which she managed to hold back, then it hit her like a sack of bricks. She was in love with him.
This sudden realization was almost startling even though he was a half human and half demon, she took a moment as she leaned on the nearest desk in the hallway, it felt like a hammer hitting her straight in the chest. But somehow it didn't hurt.
Yes she knew him the most provided she knew him for four days, three nights and a hundred years in her dream cell if she wanted to count that; so it felt all sudden to her, two things were banging on the side of her head giving her two reasons.
One, of course, stuck out the most, was that he wasn't a pony, if he was, it would have made it a whole bunch easier to suck up her courage and just tell him.
The second reason was that it was sudden of course, sure it wasn't long...but somehow she felt like she knew Vergil nearly all of her life. She knew it couldn't happen, but those feelings for Vergil never left her as she got up and jogged outside.
"I guess I just have to tell him soon."
Canterlot
Vergil and Celestia were looking up at the sky seeing the guards scattering and patrolling the area, waiting for that bit of action to sling their way full force, even though they did fight the changelings, the princess did tell them with a little bit of detail what was coming, as she knew that if she told her captains what was coming, they would put themselves at more risk than what they were in.
"One is in the city, it is silent." Vergil said, making Celestia jump back, "It is waiting... patiently... something you don't see in a demon."
"How do you know?" Celestia asked, she could only wonder how it got throught the guards.
"Reason is out of the window, all I know is, he came in silently." Vergil closed his eyes, "The other, it seems is going for a more....physical approach."
"What do you mean a physical approach?" All of a sudden, an explosion rocked the whole city, as both of them turned their heads to see a giant wall of shadows slamming down towards the ground. But that didn't stop what came after that, a giant fireball rammed right through about an eighth of the city. The flames took shape of a giant demon standing on all fours with four arms protruding from his upper body, holding obsidian axes in each one, killing a handful of guards that were on the ground as their bodies were blown away like leaves.
"LAY WASTE TO THIS CITY!!" The demon bellowed, he lifted one of his axes in the air and slammed it down creating a wave of lightning and fire spreading throughout each building, shattering windows and demolishing each of them to the ground. Luckily, no civilians were caught in the attack, but it was very unfortunate for the guards.
"Like that." Vergil stated simply, like he was commenting on the weather, leaving an appalled Celestia to witness the power of the demon, "But it seems he is headstrong and weak... but the other..." Vergil's eyes looked towards the east side of Canterlot, “Is a different story...you can sense it, can’t you?” Celestia nodded, Vergil took a few steps forward, his back towards Celestia, "It seems preparations are out the window, do you wish to deal with the demon that is at hand or shall you take on the other one?"
Celestia's answer was clear for Vergil, "I wish...to protect my little ponies, I shall deal with the one we just saw." Vergil gave a solemn nod, "Fair enough... one more thing..." Celestia piqued up a bit at Vergil waiting for his answer, "Keep your sister safe." Vergil disappeared in a blur of blue, heading towards the silent signature. Celestia nodded, her duty as a ruler and a defender were now taking over as she lifted off the ground and flew towards the towering demon.
She always would do everything she could to protect not only her sister but her subjects as well, so far... she was starting to like Vergil and was glad he had concern for her 'Lulu', as she liked to call her at times.
But now, it was time to deal with the matter at hand, it would end with one being still standing.
Canterlot City Gates
Carnage was the only thing that could truly describe it, unrelenting carnage as buildings were collapsing from the flames eating away at the structures. Tores was trampling every single Royal Guard he could find, demons who got in his way were destroyed on the spot despite them trying to aid in Tores's part. But for him, this was almost a paradise to behold to feel life fall before him, to feel everything burn to nothing... to feel carnage hit his flesh, but his target wasn't them.
"SPARDA!!!!" Tores roared into the night, his undying lust for vengeance was the only thing pushing him forward. He swiped the air with one of his axes, " WHERE ARE YOU, SONS OF SPARDA? FACE ME!!!" His patience was literally torn to shreds, two thousands years of it gone with this fury.
"They won't subject to appearing to you!" Tores turned towards the source of the voice, floating a few feet from his face was Princess Celestia, righteous anger adorning her face, even though she was a afraid. Tores didn't know what to think of this, but, he had one answer to this... he laughed that it literally crumbled each of the buildings in the area to the ground that were still standing.
"You? A pathetic waste of time!"
"I cannot allow you to continue this path of destruction in my kingdom!" Celestia pronounced as her horn gave off a faint aura.
"Then make me stop." Tores challenged Celestia, "I dare you and I warn you right now, once I cleaved your screaming bloodied body, nothing will stop me from killing the Sons of Sparda."
"Then it wouldn't hurt to try!" Celestia flung a massive lightning bolt at Tores, as he swatted it off with one of his axe and used the other on his lower left hand to send a stream of flames towards Celestia. The stream of flames roared towards Celestia as she managed to dodge it by flying to the nearest roof. But before she could react for an appropriate action, another obsidian axe was whistling in her direction, cleaving through the air like butter. Celestia jumped up avoiding the axe, but to her dismay, a hand enclosed her whole body, the force of the hand was stronger and stronger as she struggled. Tores bore down on her a sinister grin on his face, "I am going to enjoy hearing your bones snap and flesh tear." Celestia couldn't go Royal Fury to break free, the pain was too much that she couldn't concentrate...she hoped that something would come... but dreariness was starting to catch up to her, as she felt cold... she hoped that this would end soon... Hope was the only thing that could save her kingdom.
All of a sudden, she felt her vision returned, as she fell to the ground, crumbling along the cobblestones and skidding along the road. Her strength was returning, but slowly, as she looked up to see Luna, in Royal Fury and a staggering Tores slamming into the buildings. Luna landed next to Celestia, "Are you alright sister?"
"How did-." Celesta grunted a bit as Luna propped her up properly, "The smoke gave it away, something was wrong, I thought Vergil or you would be here and I hoped you would be unharmed, and thank our parent's name, I managed to get here on time." Her Royal Fury mode was way different than Nightmare Moon's, mist seemed to coat her wings and blue flames surrounded the bottom of her hooves.
"Thank you." Her strength was returning to near full, she just needed a bit more time. Tores didn't seem to think so, as he got up and slammed all four of his axes into the ground, blowing out a huge stream of flames and lightning, "YOU WILL PAY FOR THAT, COWARD!" Luna didn't know what to think as she kept looking up at Tores, Celestia suddenly felt like her original self, fully rested and ready to fight, Luna felt relieved to hear and feel that her sister was up, suddenly, she felt the heat from the flames surrounding her wings to see that she activated her Royal Fury mode and she was ready to fight.
"Our first challenge sister, this will pale in comparison to the Queen of the Changelings." Celestia gave one nod to her sister, " We will fight it together, no matter what, Equestria and all our little ponies will not be harmed anymore!"
"You really think you two can defeat me?" Tores asked a bit of amusement in his voice, "You could never kill me, or my drive to kill the Sons of Sparda." That seemed to infuriate Luna as she gave a small growl,
"I will make you regret saying that!" Celestia was shocked to hear such anger from Luna, but the task at hand was more important.
"Luna, let us deal with this together." Celestia said, "We will make sure that never happens."
"Together?" Luna asked, Celestia nodded as they both lifted off leaving a small dustoff zone below them.
"Together!" Celestia cried out.
(Boss Battle 5-Tores)
A combined spell that consisted of a lightning strike and an ice beam hit Tores straight in the chest, immediately catching off balance as he dropped two of his axes. Luna bounded off one of the walls and surrounded herself in an Icy aura, tackling Tores straight to the stomach as Celestia bounded forward with an earthquake spell. Tores dashed forward with a trail of fire behind him as he sent a streak of lightning towards Celestia, knocking her back and slamming her towards a house, resulting in the house crumbling. Luna was about to attack but was swatted with the flat of one of Tores's axes, sliding back.
Celestia broke out of the rubble and lifted off in the air, piercing the air like it was an arrow sailing to its target. Her wings reached its peak as she flew down like a comet towards Tores, the demon crossed two of his axes as a vortex of fire and lightning started to appear sucking in everything in its path. Luna could see what was going to happen as she sent a two giant boulders that were ripped out of the ground and tossed them in Tores's direction. He sliced them in half, revealing that there was a bit more force with the boulders as he caught a glimpse of crystal inside of it. He realized one thing.
Celestia seemed to be the only one not available on the battlefield, he could only see Luna as the only one fighting on the battlefield.
Tores gave out a yell as a fiery twister encircled him protecting him from all damage as Luna looked hopelessly at the twister negating her ice attacks. Still no sign of Celestia as Tores continued to fight Luna solo, still cautious when Celestia would strike; Luna then suddenly stomped her front hooves on the ground as the earth below her rose up like a wave about to crash on Tores. But the twister seemed to have immediately disintegrated the stone as a hail of ash brushed against his skin. Tores charged his back legs as he lunged forward leaving not a path of red and orange flame, but blue and purple as Luna dodged the lunge by a fraction of a second, right when she was airborne, Tores was suddenly behind her, his size didn't seem to hinder the speed he was going with those blue and purple flames now taking control, lightning seemed to crackle among the blades of the axes as he sliced the air with all four axes and then batted it towards Luna.
She immediately stopped flying and landed neatly on the ground to see the effect of the attack, right where she stood a thousand invisible cuts could be seen slashing where Luna stood. Before Luna could react to Tores, she could see Celestia tackling Tores with an incredible amount of force, shockwave was enough to level a tiny portion of the city, but seeing as most of the buildings were destroyed. Tores was sent flying towards the castle walls as debris and dust filled the air. Luna could see Celestia nearly fatigued as she turned to Luna and nodded, Luna could see that a blinding white light covering her whole horn but it seemed she could barely stand as Luna propped her up as she was about to collapse.
"Luna..."
"I know." Luna said as a blinding Dark blue aura covered her whole horn and was aiming at where Tores crashed. The cloud of dust cleared from a swish of his axe as he looked down the trail where Luna and Celestia were, he charged himself, the flames were near overdrive as the blue and purple flames were blaring into a fan of flames behind him as he charged. Tores put all his energy into his axes leaving him empty, as the sparks covering his axes were coated in a electric cage.
"YOU WILL DIE!!!" The surprising fact, both Luna and Celestia were smirking, tired, but smirking still. As Celestia and Luna said in unison, surprising even Tores.
"Its over."
(Battle Over)
Both spells were sent unison as they twirled around in a strand and piercing Tores right through his heart, he slid to a stop face first as his body seemed to inflate, he struggled to get up and attack but before he could do it, his lower body start disappearing in a flash of light like wood whose bark was being burnt off from the fire, Tores gave one last look towards both of them roaring as he used all four of his arms to get himself up and charge. but his arms were burning away to as he collapsed again, inching his way forward to Celestia and Luna in a desperate attempt to kill. His body vanished, his flesh was being eaten away and rising into the air along with his head that seemed to have pasted the reaction of his present mood as he dissolved into nothing... a Demon Lord death, whose pride was broken... a worse agony for any demon, a torture not many would like to endure.
Celestia collapsed on the ground as she went out of her Royal Fury mode as did Luna, who staggered a bit but kept herself up.
"Now...that wasn't hard." Celestia said, hoping to have a little joke with it, but deep down inside she felt sad enough to know that some of her Royal Guard had died in that small skirmish, she could see the scythes of many demons adorning the area, and some Royal Guard helmets, knowing both were incinerated during the battle.
" Luna?" Celestia turned to see Luna flying towards eastern part of the city, knowing that it’s where Vergil went. Celestia giggled as she got up, which was a challenge since she used nearly all her energy to take down Tores. She looked up to the sky and gave a small smile at Luna's direction.
"Love is a fickle thing at times..."
"A fickle moment, but a truly happy one that you will never forget."
Eastern Canterlot
Vergil froze on one of the rooftops, he closed his eyes to sense that one demon was taken down, but another was faded but regenerating at a slow, calm pace.
"It seems that she had a little help." Vergil said to himself, a small grin on his face, "I had some doubts...some seems to have been erased at this moment." Basically all his doubts were gone as he took to the bigger energy signature that was close by. Vergil could tell this wasn't like the other one,this was, darker, angrier, but surprisingly calmer at the same time.
"A patient demon...that is something I do not see everyday."
Authors Notice: I went over this sorry for the long wait needed time to think of something for this chapter lol. Don't be afraid to comment and I hope you enjoyed the chapter because Vergil is next.
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PPS: Grammar's been fixed, big thanks to LyonAzakura for proofreading this:)