Today I was in Twilight's Library looking through some more spell books as I furthered my magic training. So far, I perfected difficult spells like teleportation in multiple locations, transfiguration and shield spells, I could made a bubble shield, barrier shield and a crystal shield. Twilight was very impressed. "You're doing great aiming with your magic, Sarah. Are you sure you father didn't train you in magic?"
"Well, he did a few spells here and there, but nothing like this."
"Well, I'm happy to say your magic has been growing more and more powerful. Wonder what else your magic can do?"
"Yeah. Did you get the letter back from Princess Celestia?"
Twilight sighed, "Yes, but unfortunately, she doesn't have any idea where your element is gaining these color stripes."
"Guess we'll have to find out why on our own."
"Yep." That's when Spike, Rainbow and Jack burst into the Library. "Twilight! Come quick! It's an emergency!" Rainbow Dash begged.
"Rainbow? What is it? What's wrong?" Twilight asked, bewildered.
"No time to explain you purple loon!" Jack said quickly. "You need to come with us right now! Come on!"
Without another word, we ran after the three. "Wonder what has them so freaked?" We made it to town hall where we saw all our friends. Rarity was engulfed by a blast of red magic. When the smoke cleared, she was wearing a very colour clashing, very tacky dress.
She gasped, horrified. "You beast! This shade of brown should only be used for accents!"
Mason and Applejack hurried to catch her on her back as she fainted and carried her off, Pinkie following behind.
"Come on, Applejack. We've got to get her in a nice, soothing pink, stat!"
We all came onto the scene "What's going on here?" Twilight asked.
"And what's with the red magic beam?" I asked.
"Well, well, well." A figure in a black hooded robe walked up. "If it isn't... Twilight Sparkle."
She threw back her hood and the whole crowd gasped as she revealed her features. Aqua blue fur, platinum mane, purple eyes shining with arrogance and a confident sneer set across her face. Just like when he'd seen her almost a year ago.
"Trixie!" Twilight gasped.
"Who's Trixie?" I asked.
"She's a loudmouth pony who never stops bragging about how great she is." Ren growled annoyed with her already.
"What are you doing here?" Spike glared.
"You call that great and powerful?" Rainbow scoffed from the sky.
Trixie's reply was to fire off another beam of red at Rainbow, her eyes and horn shimmering. It hit her and the result was that her left wing grew to an enormous size. The unbalance caused by this made her wobble precariously in the air.
"Hey!" I fried my magic at Rainbow returning her wings to normal size.
Trixie then blasted, Carrie, Kaede, Jack, Mason, Ren, Rantaro, Nicole and Jamie turning them into little bugs.
"AGH! I"M A BUG!" Ren cried.
"ME TOO! AAAHHH!" Jamie cried.
"What the hell?!" Jack exclaimed.
"Trixie!" I used my magic again to change them back. "Phew, glad that's over." Ren sighed.
"Stop picking on my friends, Trixie!" ordered Twilight.
"Please?" I added. "Why are you here anyway?" Then i noticed the necklace around her neck. I've seen that necklace in one of the books I've read and it was bad news.
"I'm here to challenge Twilight Sparkle to a magic duel to see which one of us is truly the most powerful pony in all of Equestria." Trixie explained. "Winner stays and the loser leaves Ponyville... forever!"
The crowd gasped. "Forget it. I would never duel you for something like that!" Twilight declared.
"Oh really?" Trixie taunted. She blasted Spike and rolled him up in a ball and was bouncing him around the place. "Spike!" Twilight cried.
"Hey, leave him alone you blue brat!" Jack growled, wanting to punch her.
"Hahaha, and what are you going to do about it?" she challenged.
Jack growled but before he could do anything I used my magic and overpowered Trixies' magic and unraveled Spike and placed him with Ren and the others. "Thanks Sarah."
"Hey! Stop reversing my magic, you human!" Trixie exclaimed angry.
"My name is Sarah." I said bluntly. Trixie gnashed her teeth. "Ooohhh, something bad is gonna happen." Ren whispered to the others and they nodded in agreement.
"Fine then, if you want think you can beat the Great and Powerful Trixie, then I challenge you to a magic duel instead of Twilight Sparkle and the rules are the same." The crowd gasped again as well as my friends.
"Fine Trixie, I accept your challenge!" I declared. This time, my friends gasped. "Alright then, the battle is tomorrow at noon. Be there Sarah, unless your scared." With that she teleported away. Ren and the others came up to me, "Sarah, what are you thinking?!" Spike said. "You can't beat her! Did you see what she did to Rarity?!" Mason added.
"Not to mention Snips and Snails, she turned them into babies. Only high level unicorns can do that kind of magic!" Twilight informed. "How could she do it?"
"Well she's obviously not a high-level unicorn. So how could she do those spells?" Kaede said.
"It's that necklace around her neck. Or should I say the Alicorn Amulet!"
"WHAT? How did she get that?!" Twilight and Jamie exclaimed.
"What is the Alicorn Amulet?" Nicole asked.
"It's a magical artifact that bestows the pony whose wearing to be bless with untold powers, but it corrupts the user the more times the pony uses it." I explained. "I read about it in one of the books."
"So that explains why her magic arua was red instead of blue." Ren said.
"So all we have to do it take it off, easy." Rantaro said. I shook my head, "You can’t. The only pony who can take it off is Trixie due to the magical lock on it."
"Great, now what?" Rainbow said. "With those kinds of spells, you won't stand a chance again her!"
"Maybe you should forfeit?" Fluttershy suggested.
"I'm not backing down. I'm going to the magic duel." I declared determined.
"But Sarah-" Carrie spoke.
"I have to defend you guys from her and that amulet. And I have to do it alone. Besides she didn't exactly say I couldn't only use magic." I smirked.
"What do you mean by that?" Kaede asked.
"You'll see." I smirked. The others looked at each other wondering what I had in store for tomorrow.
The next morning, I awoke to a bell ringing? "What the-?" It sounded like it was coming from Sweet Apple Acres. I immediately got my clothes on and rushed over. I got there and found all my friends present as well, "This is a Code Red Sweet Apple Acres emergency, I need all hooves, claws and hands on deck!" Applejack declared.
"What's going on, farm chick?" Jack scoffed, "I was in the middle of eating!"
"I'm sure it no big deal, Jack." Rarity said.
"No big deal?!" Applejack exclaimed. "Then get a load of this!" She lead us to a part of the orchard where there was a really big hole and three smaller holes! Trees were uprooted or laying feet away like they were literally pushed out of the ground. "Holy cow! What happened here?!" Mason exclaimed.
"No idea, all I heard was some digging and the next these holes were here." Applejack replied. I examined the holes closely and found a white spike with red shading on it. As well as grayish spikes also with red shading. My eyes widened a little. "Oh dear, this is bad." I commented.
"Sarah... do you know what did this?" Kaede asked.
"It was-"
"The Screaming and Whispering Deaths, two deadly dragons that can burrow underground, am I right?" Nicole informed.
"Right, Nicole."
"Screaming Death? Whispering Death? What the fudge are those?" Jack exclaimed.
"They are dragons. Very very dangerous dragons and from the looks of these holes. They here in Equestria." I replied.
"Uh-Oh, so what do we do?" Ren asked.
"Nothing much now. We have to wait until they either revealed themselves or leave."
"A-Are you sure?" Jamie asked nervously. I nodded.
"Now we better get you prepared for your magic duel today at noon, darling." Rarity reminded everyone.
"Right." We all went to Twilight's Library where I preformed difficult spells easily. "Good Sarah, let's just hope that it'll be enough to beat Trixie."
"Yeah, we don't want you to leave Ponyville... again." Carrie added.
"I'll be fine." I said. Suddenly, I felt my nose twitching and I sneezed and I felt something shot out of my horn and a loud BOOM! I sniffled, "Excuse me. Huh?" I saw the table in front of me was scorched for some reason and my friends had shocked and surprised expression. "What?"
"Y-You just-" Jamie stammered.
"You just shot lightning out of your horn?!" Ren finished.
"Lightning?" I asked. "How? I never had that before."
"I don't know, but that is strange." Rantaro said.
I felt a sneeze coming on again and I sneezed and this time it hit the door, burning it to ashes! "Now you can shoot fire from your horn?!" Rainbow cried in amazement. "Awesome?!"
"But how?" Fluttershy said.
"Maybe it's another power of your Element?" Ren suggested.
"I don't think so, if it was then the Element would have glowed along with her horn, but it didn't." Jamie stated.
"Well... we have not time to figure this out. It's almost noon." Nicole said, looking at her IPad. "Time for the magic duel." I nodded and we all headed to Town Hall where we found Trixie with her eyes glowing red. Ren and the others stood in the crowd. "Well, well, well, looks like you actually have the guts to face me." Trixie taunted, but I didn't fall for that and I blinked at her.
"No comment, huh?"
"No talk.. just duel." I said.
"Fine then. Snips, Snails." The two boys came before Trixie and she blasted them, turning them into babies. She turned and smirked at me. I whistled and Storm, Moonshine and Winter came at my side, surprising Trixie. "Wait, you can't have them involved?!"
"You didn't say anything about you I involved in this duel." I smirked. "Show them."
Storm and Winter blasted their fire attacks into the sky which swirled around my horn and I blasted it back into the sky, making fireworks out of them. The crowd awed at the display. "Oh yeah!" Trixie said. She used her magic to make dark storm clouds appear in the sky and they covered all of Ponyville. I concentrated and shot the clouds with my newly discovered lightning magic, turned them into regular dark clouds. The crowd cheered while Trixie gnashed her teeth in anger. I smiled and changed into a Jaguar and leaped into the sky as Storm flew into the sky. She blasted her magnesium blast at her but I used the power of my element to stop it in mid air and I spun around and around with the fire circling me, like a ring.
"Incredible!" Ren cried.
"She's amazing!" Mason added.
"Looks like the newbie is gonna come out on top." Jack smirked proudly.
I slowly descended to the ground and launched the fire into the air where it exploded, making lots of sparkles. The crowd went wild and Trixie was not happy at all. Her eye glowed even more red. "That's it!" she yelled loudly. "It's time I put you in your place!" she growled, but before she could do anything the ground started shaking.
"What is that?!" Jamie whimpered.
Suddenly, behind Trixie burst four dragons. The Screaming Death and three Whispering Deaths.
Whispering Death: These dragons were 95 feet long and 7.6 feet tall with a 26.8 feet wingspan. The Whispering Deaths resemble a giant gulper eel than a Screaming Death,with bulging eyes, spiny face and six rows of rotating teeth in their mouths. They also greatly resemble a serpentine Deadly Nadder, but with no legs and only spikes decorating their undersides. They can breath rings of fire from their gaping mouths that are full of deadly rotating teeth. And their roar was like this.
Screaming Death: This dragon was 365 feet long and 16 feet tall. They are born every 100 years. It is a Titan Wing version of the Whispering Death. It is a heavily mutated, albino Whispering Death. It is white in color, has large red eyes, a longer and a more massive body, and larger tail than an 'average' Whispering Death. It also has three rows of teeth, but they are aligned differently than those of the Whispering Death, set in a chin reminiscent of a Red Death. They have rows of frilly spines that line the edges of its unsegmented underbelly. They can shoot large, explosive balls of fire. And their roar was like this
All the ponies screamed in absolute fear of these beast. "Oh my stars!" Rarity cried in horror. "I'm guessing that's a Screaming Death and the Whispering Deaths." Ren whimpered.
The Screaming Death roared and blasted fire balls at the gang. "Lookout!" Jack cried. They all scattered as the ball hit the ground, leaving a large crater in the ground. I saw one of the Whispering Death moving towards Trixie! "Trixie, move!" I pushed her out of the way and blasted the Whispering Death with my magic, making it roar in slight pain.
"What do we do?!" Jamie screamed in fear.
"I'll handle these beasts!" Trixie said, moving towards the dragons.
"Trixie, are you crazy?!" Twilight cried in worry. "They'll kill you!"
Trixie scoffed, "Oh Please, the Great and Powerful Trixie can handle anything." The Screaming Death growled and blasted Trixie with it's fireball. Covering it in soot and destroying her cloak. She coughed a ring of smoke. "Yeah, right." Rantaro grunted.
The Screaming Death stared Trixie dead in her face. She she did the only logical thing she could think of.... run and scream!
"AAAHHHHH!" she bolted away as the other ponies did the same thing. I knew these four could easily destroy Ponyville and I had to stop them. I mounted Winter, "You guys, get everyone to safety, I'll take care of the dragons!" I said.
"What?! You can't deal with those brute alone!" Rarity cried.
"No time! Now go!" Winter flew into the sky followed by Moonshine and Storm.
Ren's POV
"You heard her, let's go!" Rantaro ordered.
"No one asked you, you bastard!" Jack snarled.
"BOYS?!" Twilight cried. "No time to argue, let's go!"
Twilight and the girls ran off followed by me and the others. We got all the ponies into their houses as quickly a we could. "Is that everyone?" I asked.
"Yes." Twilight replied. We all heard a roar and looked at the sky to see Sarah fighting the Screaming Death and the three Whispering Deaths. "D-Do you think she'll be alright?" Jamie stammered.
"We just have to hope and see." I said.
POV Ends
Me and Winter blasted the Screaming Death while Storm and Moonshine dealt with the three Whispering Deaths. The Screaming Death roared and lunged at us, but Winter bolted out of the way. The Screaming Death fired it's fireballs at Winter, but I created a shield around us both, protecting us from the fireball. "Plasma Blast." I ordered and Winter blasted the Screaming Death.
"Just hitting it isn't working, we need to lead them away from Ponyville. Come on everyone, to Ghastly Gorge!" My dragons flew off to Ghastly Gorge with the Deaths following right behind. Ghastly Gorge was a gorge filled with perils, such as a windy cave, bramble bushes and quarry eels. Winter and the dragons flew right into Ghastly Gorge. "Alright dragons, let's use their size against them shall we?"
My dragons roared in agreement and we flew right through the Gorge with the Deaths right behind. The Screaming Death was struggling to fly through thanks to it's larger size while the Whispering Deaths were maneuvering easily. Winter and my dragons rushed through the Gorge entering the a windy cave. Winter, Moonshine and Storm easily flew through the cave cause of they were aerodynamic, so the wind didn't push on them a lot. The three Whispering Deaths were another story. They all were struggling with the winds and were thrown out of the cave and crashed into a wall. The Screaming Death just busted through the cave. I looked back. "Three down, one to go."
The Screaming Death was getting closer and I looked ahead to see a dead end up ahead. "Perfect." I said. "Faster, girl." Winter sped up as well as the others as the Screaming Death increased speed as well. We got closer and closer to the wall and at the last second.... my dragon flew up and the Screaming Death slammed into the wall, making lots of rocks fall down. "Watch out!" I cried.
My dragons dodged all the falling rocks, but I got hit in the head with a boulder and fell off of Winter. My Light Fury's roar was the last thing I heard before everything went black.
Third Person POV
Winter, Moonshine and Storm gasped as the scene of the avalanche that occurred. Worse of all, Sarah was in there somewhere! They had to get help. Storm flew off quickly to Ponyville and found Ren, Twilight and their friends. "Storm?" Twilight called. Storm landed and started roaring in distress, running in a circle. "What's up with the Nadder?" Rantaro asked.
"Something must be wrong?" Ren suggested. Storm nodded flew off towards the Gorge. "Come on."
Twilight and the others followed her to Ghastly Gorge. "So Storm, what the matter?" Twilight whipped out he binoculars and looked in the gorge. "Oh no, there's been an avalanche in there!" she cried.
Storm kept roaring in distress and Winter and Moonshine came on to the scene. "Winter, where's Sarah." Winter nudged towards the avalanche in the distance and Twilight put the piece together. "Sarah's trapped in the avalanche?!"
The dragons nodded and everybody gasped. "Oh no, we've got to get her out!" Carrie said.
"And we will." Twilight said. "Come on." Winter and Moonshine landed and allowed Ren and his friends to mount them four on each. Jamie, Ren, Nicole and Rantaro were on Winter while Kaede, Carrie, Mason and Jack were on Moonshine. Rainbow and Fluttershy flew after the dragons while Twilight teleported the rest to the scene.
The dragons landed and everybody gasped in horror. "Oh my stars, she's in there?!" Rarity cried.
"Yeah, come on!" Rainbow started moving rocks out of the way, "We've got to find her."
Twilight and the others helped in anyway they could to remove the rocks, to find Sarah. Winter, Moonshine and Storm moved he rocks, using their feet, Rarity and Twilight used their magic while Applejack and Pinkie Pie kicked the rocks. Suddenly, Ren moved a rock and noticed a small peach horn! "Guys, I got her!" he cried.
The others came over and saw the horn, "Come on." Ren and the others moved the rocks surrounding Sarah until most of her was free and Jack pulled her out. She was in bad shape; she had a large bruises on her forehead and she was covered in scratches and bruises. "Oh my." Fluttershy gasped.
"We've got to get her to the hospital, now!" Nicole cried.
"Right." But before the could move, the rocks nearby started moving and the Screaming Death burst from the rocks, roaring in anger. "Oh man!" Jack whimpered.
Sarah's dragons roared at the Screaming Death. The Screaming Death flew into the sky, but it came down with a THUD. "What the-?" Ren said. "What's wrong with it?"
Fluttershy saw that one of it's wing was slightly red, "It's wing is hurt!" The three Whispering Deaths came over and got underneath the Screaming Death and carried it off. Sarah's dragons growled at it, "Woah, your three. It's hurt, let it go." Applejack said. "Right now, let' get Sarah to the hospital."
Everybody nodded and the humans mounted the dragons which took off in an instant to rush Sarah to the hospital.
POV Ends
Beep...
Beep...
Beep...
I groaned softly as I heard a familiar beeping sound. I slowly opened my eyes to see Ren, Jamie, Kaede, Jack, Carrie, Mason, Nicole and Ranatro all looking at me with relived expressions. I looked at my left arm saw the cast with my dino bracer on the nightstand next to it. "Ugh... what happened?"
"You got caught in an avalanche." Ren explained. "Luckily, you only got a broken arm."
"Well, that explains the pink cast on my arm." I said.
"That... was really brave of you... luring the dragons away." Jamie stammered.
"Yeah, you got some guts for a scrawny little newbie." Jack said with his toothy grin.
"I'm not scrawny! I'm thin!" I exclaimed.
"You're scrawny in my book, newbie."
I rolled my eyes. "So how long will I be in here for?"
"Only for three days." Mason replied.
"So where are my dragons?" I asked.
"They are back at the home-ship. We'll tell them you'll be out soon." Ren said.
"Alright... what about Trixie and the Alicorn Amulet?" I questioned and that's when they all gasped. "We completely forgot about her!" Ren cried.
"Great that pest could be anywhere and she still has that corrupting amulet in her possession!" Jack exclaimed. "She could be anywhere by now!"
"Actually, she's right here." a voice came.
We turned around and saw Nurse Redheart, a white pony mare with a pink mane and a Red Cross sign as her cutie mark, with an unconscious Trixie on a stretcher. "Woah, what happened to her?" Kaede asked.
"She passed out cause of her burns." Redheart explained. "Now, we tried to remove the amulet but it's locked on her."
"She's the only one who can take it off, so what do we do?" Carrie asked.
Suddenly, my element glowed brightly. "Huh? Now what?" Jack grunted. My element sent out a beam of white light at the Alicorn Amulet and it magically removed the amulet from Trixies' neck and it fell to the floor. "... Did you element just remove the amulet?" Ren asked.
"Yes, yes it did." Jamie replied. "That's a new one." Redheart picked up the amulet, "Well, I better send this off to the Princess for safe keeping. Have a nice afternoon everyone." With that, she wheeled Trixie away to be examined by the other nurses and doctors. "Well... that's one way to solve a problem." I said bluntly.
"Good. Now if you will excuse me, I'm leaving." Rantaro said.
"Hey, where are ya going?" Jack asked.
"Anywhere but here, so see ya." Rantaro left the hospital, leaving Jack steaming. "Ooooh, I want to punch that bastard so hard!"
"Jack, please don't." I pleaded giving him puppy dog eyes. He growled, giving a light blush. "W-Whatever... only because your too soft." I smiled.
"Alright, you eight, Sarah needs her rest, You can come and visit her tomorrow." another nurse said walking in.
My friends nodded and they exited the room, leaving me to get some rest and let my arm heal.
Three days, later and my arm was healed completely and I was released from the hospital. Winter, Moonshine and Storm were happy to see me up and walking again. Now, I was in the food court, having an ice cream sundae. It was vanilla with fudge on it and with sparkles and a cheery on top. I licked my lips, getting ready to take my first bite when I felt something or someone breathing on my neck. "This isn't for you, Jack." I said and the biker turned and whistled innocently.
"I know you wanted it." I said.
"Not true!" I looked at him with a deadpanned stare. "... Maybe?"
I shook my head and went on to eat my ice cream sundae and it was delicious! After finishing my sundae I took the elevator to the living/dining room where I found Ren and the others. "Hi Sarah." Ren greeted.
"Hi guys."
"How's your arm?" Carrie asked.
I felt my arm a little, "Better, but Redheart said don't over use it or it'll break again."
"Well.. that's good." Mason said.
Knock Knock Knock
"...Wonder who that could be?" Kaede wondered. Kaede went and answered the door revealing an unexpected visitor. "Trixie?!"
Yes, it was her in the flesh with a remorse look on her face. "What are you doing here?" Jack snarled.
"Jack... be nice." I warned.
"Why? She tired to get you exiled from Ponyville!" he yelled but one growl from me and a change into Rage me, calmed him down immediately. "Trixie, what are you doing here?" I asked in a gentle tone.
"Trixie wants to apologize for her behavior. I treated you all horribly while I was wearing that amulet. Can you.. forgive me?"
"No." Jack replied bluntly, receiving a kick from me, sending him back. "Ignore him." I said, "And yes I forgive you."
"Really?" Trixie asked.
I nodded, "Everyone deserves a second chance Trixie, no matter what they did." Trixie smiled at me and gave me a hug and I hugged her back. "Thank you." she whispered.
"Your welcome." We separated and Trixie turned and went on her way. I closed the door and looked at my friends. "You did good, Sarah." Ren praised.
"Tch!" Jack scoffed. "i still say you shouldn't have forgiven her."
"Everyone deserves a second chance." I repeated with a smile on my face.