Chapter 9
Back on the hill, the remaining survivors of the destruction could only watch as their own village, their own home, was being burned and destroyed by a still unknown force. The only thing the survivors know about the attackers is that they have a airship named Avalon, floating above their once peaceful village. The smoke from the fire was covering said ship though, obstructing its image from their sights. What was more odd though, was the sudden ceasefire from the cannons.
The ship itself seemed to stop firing on the already decimated village. What are they doing? Did they leave already? Does that mean it’s safe to go back to the village... well, what used to be the village.
On the top of the hill was the mayor of the town, Angel Hoofingten, overlooking at her once prized town. The young, white unicorn could only stare at the fire consuming her home and everypony in it. Tears flowed from her golden eyes as she knew that she could do nothing for this town now until the airship finally flies away.
She heard heavy hoofsteps stepping closer behind her, only to see it was Dragon’s gate’s own guard captain and her close friend, Stone-Edge, who seemed to be carrying a small foal on his back. The brown earth pony stopped next to the mayor, looking her right in the eyes.
“What should we do now, Ma'am?” The captain asked, waiting for his orders.
“...You can speak freely Stone. The town’s gone, and so is my position in it.” She responded solemnly.
“If you insist,” Stone then turned to the rest of survivors, looking over their sad expressions. “Who do you think is attacking us?”
“I don’t know...”
“Should we attack back?”
“I don’t know.....”
“Or should we just stay here like fools and die waiting for an answer?!?”
“I DON’T KNOW!” Angel shouted at the captain. She wasn’t used to these types of situations. The last event that caused catastrophe on Dragon’s Gate was the second dragon raid, when the last mayor was eaten by a big red dragon. The only reason they even survived that attack was because some ponies decided to attack back, with the Lancelot in the lead of the retaliation. If only they were here now.
*BOOM*
“OH FOR BUCKS SAKE!!” Angel screamed, having enough of this. She soon say the airship through the smoke, slowly losing altitude. Did something happen to...
Wait! We can use this to our advantage! We can see who’s attacking us!
“Captain Stone-Edge!” Angel said with sudden authority.
Hearing this new attitude come from the mayor, the captain stood at attention, ready for his orders. “Yes Ma’am!”
“Bring any pegasus you can find to help bring some clouds in and stop all this rain! Then take any surviving guards and as many volunteers that you can and go to where the airship is most likely to crash. The crew of the ship would most likely still be inside it, so I need you to go and arrest them for further questioning. Is that understood?”
“Yes Ma’am!” Stone-edge Saluted then went back down the hill to the remaining villagers. "Ok you lot.." Angel drowned out to rest of the captains barking words.
Angel looked back and the slowly crashing ship, seeing it lead to the center of the town. Angel closed her eyes and prayed to celestia that things can finally start to go back to order soon.
Lancelot, wherever you are, please help us.
~~~~~~~~~~ Meanwhile ~~~~~~~~~
“FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK-” WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED? One minute, I’m trying to understand what the hell that griffin said about Ragnarok, the next I see Rex and Lancelot duking it out and then crashing through the airship, WITH ITS CRASH COURSE AIMING RIGHT AT ME!
Now, I know what you're thinking: ‘Oh, but don’t you have your speed magic to help you move faster?’ Gee, Einstein, I never really thought of that. Let me just move real fucking fast with A DAMN LIMPED LEG AND BRUISES ALL OVER MY BODY TO AVOID THE DAMN THING! I’M SURE I’LL BE FAST AS HELL!!
I continued to limp away towards the right, being smart enough NOT to continue running straight with the ship following me. When I was at a distance away from the ship, I turned to see that it had finally landed neatly near the village...
*CRASH*
Ok, so the ship crashed into the town hall, which I’m presuming it to be the center of the village. I started to limp towards the intact ship, when suddenly a shadow looked like it was walking towards me. It was hard to make out, but for a moment, I actually believed that it was Rex coming back.
Boy, was I wrong...
Emerging from the smoke and fire was a crystal covered pony, leering at me with its red eyes. He seemed to have lost all emotions, all except anger. He was glaring at where I was standing, slowly walking closer and closer. I could honestly say I was shitting myself with fear from this monster. When did he get this powerful? He wasn’t this strong when I first met him!
Before I could do anything, Lancelot shifted his right hoof, making the earth shake for a bit, then momentarily stop. I look around trying to figure out what exactly he was doing, until green crystal spikes shot out from underneath me, trapping my body and arms. I futilely tried to move my limbs, but I couldn’t do anything at all. I look back at the green crystallized stallion as he was now right in front of my body, staring into my eyes.
He lifted his right hoof to his right, where soon crystals formed and shaped his hoof into that of a sharp sword.
“Now... I shall do what his majesty commended!” The terrorizing pony said in a trance. Wait... his majesty? God damn it, HE IS IN A TRANCE, ISN'T HE?!? I bet it has something to do with that damn Ragnarok! Wait... What the hell does he have on his chest?
On Lancelot’s chest was a shining amulet from before. It was a green diamond shaped crystal, with gold rims and chains surrounding the pony’s neck. I realized that once that amulet started glowing, that was when Lancelot started using his crystal magic... Meaning once it's off....
Before he could make the final blow to me, a group of armored ponies (with the exception of a few griffins and diamond dogs), turned the corner and was trying to comprehend what they were seeing. I bet it looks weird, with a crystal pony about to kill a trapped dragon, with a crashed airship in the back.... Wait now that I think about it, where’s Rex? This damn pony didn’t kill him... did he?
“OI! You lot! What's going on here?” A tall brown earth pony said, interrupting my thoughts. Lancelot just turned his head towards the group, producing the guards to gasp at seeing his face.
“Lancelot? Is that you?! What in bloody tartarus is going-” The pony was disrupted by a sudden crystal wall erecting from the ground, blocking the group from disturbing us.
“None shall get in the way!” The dragon slayer shouted.
Move you idiot!
I can’t! The damn crystals got me trapped!
Your a fucking dragon with magic shields! Think of some latin to break this already!!
…..
You don’t know any, do you?
...... wait, I got something! The crystals are controlled by magic, meaning...
“Disrumpat magica!” ‘Disrupt magic!’ My shields glowed for a few seconds, until a small shock wave emitted from the magic shields, causing the crystals that were once trapping me to now be nothing more than minerals on the floor. With my body now freed and new adrenaline rushing through my body, I couldn’t help but grin like a madman at this pony. I know his weakness, and once I get that damn crystal out of the way, he’s so dead!
I reached out with my arm and yanked the necklace off of his body while his attention was still towards the crystal wall. With the amulet off of him, I expected all the crystals to disappear or something of the sort, but they were still attached to his body and the wall was still up. Oh well, I can still beat his ass!
Lancelot shoved me with one of his hooves, then looked at me with his blood-colored eyes and slowly stood on his hind legs, readying himself almost like a human, his sword-like hoof aiming at me. “I’ll send you to hell, you overgrown pest!” Wait a sec... ponies say "tartarus", not "hell"... meaning...
Did you finally figure it out yet? He’s human.
Lancelot’s a human?!?! What the hell?!?
I’m more surprised that you forgot about the power that Celestia gave you.”
So those green flames from earlier, they show who's human in this world? How was I supposed to know?!
You should’ve noticed that he was different from the other ponies. I mean come on! A pony dragon slayer? Really?
….. Shut up!
Shouldn't you be focusing on the pony rushing you now?
...Wait what? “GAHHHHHHHH!”
Indeed, Lancelot saw me distracted and took the opportunity to strike. With my defenses lowered, he pushed me back towards the nearest building behind me, having me drop the amulet, and him holding me up against the wall as he had his crystal sword cocked back to strike. Yahhh... no, it's not gonna be that easy bub.
"Hehehe, guess what?" He gave me a puzzled look, cocking his head to the side. I then blazed my hands with the black flames that I love oh so much. I then uppercutted him, having him take a few steps back.
"HADOUKEN!" Hehehe, got ya. Wait is it raining? Looking up, I see some pegasus moving clouds through the smoke, to put out the fire around the town and of the crash site. Guess the villagers are more confident now that the ship crashed. I look back to see something that made me grin again.
The crystal around his face was have detached themselves, some even falling off his face now. Guess this means I can break off all those crystals off him. This should be easy...
"Hadouken? Your... h-human?" His blue eyes were looking at me with signs of compassion, totally different from when I first saw him and how he's acting now, while he had a faint hint of a smile. Is the control over him over? Is there hope we can stop this and he can just help me get my brother? That hope was dashed when his eyes flickered back red, and he let out a wordless scream that echoed through the town. Some of the pegasus that were over us flew away from fear, leaving the rain clouds above the crash site and above our heads.
"Right... that would've been too easy... Ok then..." I shifted my body as I took a fighting stance, noticing my legs were more tolerable of the pain. Guess dragon blood helps with healing. I glared at the now raging pony, as he shifted in his bipedal form into a similar one, sword hand still formed. We stared at each other as the rain ran down our bodies, no noises being made except of that of the rain's pitter patter on the ground.
This bastard stole Drew from me when he was so close, ruin a whole village, and killed off my only damn friend in this god forsaken world! You think I'll just let him go after all that? Yah...... no. Not that easy. This fucker is GOING TO PAY!!!
[HEY! LISTEN!]
"HEAVEN OR HELL?!?" I shouted, finally getting impatient of the silence.
"THIS SHALL BECOME YOUR GRAVE!!!" He shouted back, suddenly rushing me with some crystals glowing. He jabbed with his sword, as I blocked with my left shield. I brought my black flaming claws and shot forward, aiming for his pony, but the bastard grabbed with his hoof, only breaking a few gems off his body.
How do they grab without fingers?
Really?!? Isn't it obvious? Just use your head!!
If you insist...
I brought my head back, then headbutted him straight on his exposed face. With me having the shield head, it barely effected me, but the bastard was now bleeding from the attack.
While he was still dazed, I grabbed his bleeding head and shoved his face into the mud, repeating a few times for good measure. "ACCELERO!" 'Acceleration!' With his face still full of earth, I ran across the street, dragging him behind me as I sped through the rain. Then as we closed towards a building, I lifted him in front of me and slammed him into the wall, having him gasp for breath. I then dropped him to the floor and looked at him now.
His face was covered with blood and mud. Most of his crystals were off him, only a few stubborn ones being on his forelegs and back. Looking behind me, I see a trail of broken crystals spread out across the street, with a trail of his blood skidding on the mud.
"Hehehe, you made quite a mess. shame loser has to clean u- GAHHHHHHHHHHHHH" I felt a sudden pain on the left side of my ribs.
"Segmentum..." 'Slice' I heard a weak voice said from behind. Bastard knows magic! How though?
Pushing myself away, I see that his crystal sword seemed abit more sharper than before, as well as glowing and covered with my blood. I guess the gems have magic in them as well. Oh fucking joy and I thought things weren't interesting enough. I grabbed my sides as the blood started to fall down my wet scales.
He dashed at me, slashing his sword with every step he took. I dodged and block as best as I could, though his relentless swings made it more difficult to catch a break. He kept swinging until he made a small opening, exposing his gut. Big mistake!
Curling my fire hands into a fist, I jabbed at his now exposed spot, causing him to lose his second wind. While still gasping for air, I grab the sides of his head with both of my burning claw and brought my knee up to his snout, having him recoil back from the pain. Looking at him, he had burn marks all over his face, steam coming off of his fur. Even the rain didn't help soothe the burn marks, I bet.
He roared at me, frustrated at his fruitless efforts to end me here and now. I let out a fierce roar of my own, shaking the ground a bit from the shout. The force of my roar made him stumble back a bit. I was mostly playing around, but it felt so good to let out all that anger.
Unfortunately, I had my eyes closed while roaring, so when I stopped to breathe, I expected that he would be stunned to move or at least a few feet away from the blast of the roar. I was proved wrong though when the pony slashed across my chest diagonally, breaking a few scales and leaving a scar there. I tried to grab hold of his damn foreleg, but he dodged my grip and jumped back to avoid any more tries.
Alright, I'll just have to be fast enough so I can hit him so more. Let's try something...
"ULTIMUS ACCELERO!! 'Ultimate Speed!' My shields more glowed ferociously, as I felt more energy run through my body than before. I took a step and....
[end song here.]
ZOMGIMGOINGTOOFASTHOLYFUCKINGSHITTHISISSOCOOLYETICAN'TCONTROLTHISSHITSOMEBODYHELPMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Luckily I was in front of the earth pony, so when I took the step, I ran full speed and crashed into the pony, stopping me from going any further and halting my magic. The force of the speed made us tumble for a bit on the dirt.
When I stopped playing ragdoll, my back was on the mud, feeling the rain hit my face. I stared up towards the dark clouds as I suddenly felt extremely exhausted now. Why though?
Wow. Didn't think you would use that much magic. Sheesh, now your all out of juice.
So... I'm this tired because I overused magic?
Eeyup
Fucking joy. I should've known that before I did that stupid move.
As I continued to pant for air, I turn my head to my right to see Lancelot out for the count as well, with all his crystals gone and off him. I was starting to lose sight as darkness soon overcame me. The last thing I saw before losing concious was a familiar white dragon landing between me and Lancelot. Heh, lucky bastard made it out alright. That makes one of us.