//------------------------------// // Chapter 18: Battle of the Throne Room // Story: The Guitarist // by Kiniro //------------------------------// The Guitarist. Chapter 18: Battle of the Throne Room. My worst fears were upon me, and not only upon me, but now the world of Equestria was to bear the brunt of this great evil if we could not stop it here. "This is where we stop you, Satan Morroc!" I yelled out. "We shall see about that young bard." Satan Morroc. "But will you survive to prove it?" Satan Morroc began to glow in his bright red aura. "You don't scare me!" I stood in front of Satan Morroc, slightly nervous but I had my resolve and readied my guitar to meet him. "You're reign of terror ends today and I promise you it will be by my hands!" "Foolish Midgardian! You make me laugh you aren't even ready to fight me." Satan Morroc laughed demonically and hit me with his hand and I fly across the room and hit the wall. "Ow... heh-heh.... is that all you got? Why not take me out with one swift stroke?" I challenged Satan Morroc "Are you that stupid to tempt me?!" Satan Morroc yelled. "I believe that traveling between the worlds has made you weak, that's why you haven't taken me out! You're stalling!" I yelled, stalling for time myself trying to channel my energy prior to playing the one song I knew would defeat him. "We have your flank Kiniro!" Yelled Celestia, as she flew up to challenge Satan Morroc, and began to attack him with beams of magic from horn. "Yes we have you covered!" Luna followed Celestia's lead attacking Satan Morroc with her magic. "You think that you two are enough to challenge me?" Satan Morroc yelled out. "Celestia! Luna! Use the strength that the Lutie Apple gave you!" I yelled out to them. "Focus your thoughts and channel the reserve energy that it gave you!" Suddenly I saw both Celestia's and Luna's Beams of magic become stronger and brighter. "We may not be able to defeat you ourselves, but we are enough to to keep you down!" Celestia screamed out. I slowly picked myself from the wall which I had crashed into, I was hurt, badly, but I could still move, and I still could do what was asked of me. "Time to make it happen!" I thought to myself, and I brought my guitar forward to began to play it."Girls! Help the Princesses, they need to keep Satan Morroc down while I finish channeling my magic to perform the song of Ragnarok!" "You heard the Minstrel! Lets go girls!" Twilight screamed. The Elements of harmony together began to glow in a white aura as their power grew and their eyes began to glow to match the aura and they all charged toward Satan Morroc and in a burst of an instant six ponies true power came out, a magic beam one of each color of the rainbow began to form and as it shot out from their bodies, the colors mixed to form a rainbow itself. "We need to buy Kiniro more time!" Applejack yelled out and with those final words, the rainbow beam hurled forward at Satan Morroc. "Its working!" Yelled Rainbow Dash. "It has to!" I heard Fluttershy squeek. "You will not take our home from us you brute!" Rarity yelled out. "We will help Kini no matter what!" Pinkie Pie screamed. The beam was spectacular, every element of harmony producing its own colored beam, to form a rainbow and pinning Satan Morroc to the ground. This had to work I thought to myself, and it was going to. "Keep him down! I'm almost ready!" "We are doing our best young Kiniro!" Called out Celestia. "But we can not hold for long!" Luna yelled out. "But we will do what we can!" Twilight screamed. I knew I had to act soon. I began to play the initial chords of Ragnarok, but as I began to play I had the strangest feeling that I was being watched, but I had more important things at hand. I continued to play the song the best of my ability, but my injuries were keeping me form doing my best, but I had to press on. My guitar had began to glow blue as I got to the mid point of the song. "You think that this pathetic attacks will keep me down?" Satan Morroc shouted out. "I will first over power your rulers!" With a bright flash of red, a beam targeted both Celestia and Luna and with swift stroke brought them out of the sky. "NOOO!" I yelled out, to see Celestia and Luna land beside me. "We tried our best young Kiniro, we will be ok, but you need to defeat him soon." Celestia said with a soft voice. "Kiniro... I brought you here for a reason... please fulfill your destiny and bring this great evil to its knees..." Luna had then passed out. The one who saved me... She was hurt...and I hope she wasn't gone but I would make sure that her sacrifice would not be in vain if she parishes today. "SATAN MORROC!" I yelled out and with a sudden burst the song had been recognized and my guitar glowed a much brighter blue. "You will not take this world like you have attempted to take mine!" The blue aura of the guitar engulfed me and I felt a sudden surge of energy! "And you will stop me you pathetic being?!" Satan Morroc shouted. "I will try and if I die I will bring you to hell with me!" The Aura grew stronger and stronger as I continued to play the song. "Get him Kini!" I heard Twilight call out to me. "You think your pathetic attacks of this magic will stop me?" Satan Morroc called to Elements of Harmony. "Such a waste! But I shall show you!" Satan Morroc's Red Aura began to grow bigger and bigger. "You are nothing but a pathetic bunch of life forms!" He hit the six ponies with the side of his arm knocking them all back. "Don't you dare touch them!" I screamed, and then another sudden burst of energy began to flow through me and the Aura had gotten much bigger than I could remember when I faced off against this demon in the fields of Morroc, as I continued to play the song and surveyed the Elements of Harmony to see if they were still able to fight. "Are you all ok?!" I called out to them. Only to see all of them arise but Twilight. "TWILIGHT ARE YOU OK!?" I yelled. But I had got no response. "GIRLS GET HER OUT OF HERE NOW!" I shouted to them. "We won't abandon you Kiniro!" Rainbow Dash screamed. "DAMN IT TAKE TWILIGHT AND FALL BACK!" I screamed, to only see the ponies nod in agreement and they all struggled to move Twilight to safety but they were able to move back as far enough behind me as possible. "YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD! YOU MAY TAKE MY WORLD BUT I WILL BE DAMNED TO LET YOU TAKE THIS ONE!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, and at this point the guitar began to play itself as it had before and my aura continually grew bigger. "Now prepare to meet your demise you pathetic musician!" Satan Morroc yelled as he fired his aura at me. Just like before in Morroc fields, my first thoughts was I wasn't going to let history repeat itself. "NOT THIS TIME YOU SON OF A BITCH!" I yelled. My aura had still had not stopped growing, but I was running out of time, the song of Ragnarok was coming to a close, even though my guitar was playing itself. "My my but have you forgotten that your song is almost over!" "That maybe, but that won't stop me from killing you!" I yelled out once more, and as the final chord was hit on the song of Ragnarok a blue beam from my aura met to challenge his. Both of us on the ground causing scorch marks on the tile in the throne room. Both beams continually fought for dominance, but I had realized I still had the power from the song of Ragnarok imbued in the guitar, in me. "How is this possible?!" Satan Morroc yelled. "Don't you get it? I have found the proper way to channel the song! It took me a long to realize what it was! But it was the one thing that caused me to harness this songs power the first time I used it and I had forgotten because I had lost what I most cared for! Fighting for not just truth and justice! BUT FIGHTING FOR THE ONES I CARE FOR! MY FRIENDS! AND FOR THOSE THAT I LOVE!" With those final words I aimed my guitar as I channeled what energy I had acquired and pointed it to the beast. My guitar began to glow brighter and brighter, and I began to levitate upward, while my beam still challenging his. "THIS IS FOR TWILIGHT YOU HEARTLESS BASTARD!" I screamed and with a single chord play from my guitar, the guitar fired the energy that had been channeled into it. Satan Morroc attempted to fire a second red aura beam at me, but it weakened him and he could not challenge both beams at once. "You can not defeat me! This is not possible!" "DEAL WITH IT, YOU SON OF A BITCH!" I screamed and with that final scream I felt one last sudden surge of energy powering both the aura beam and the beam from my guitar. Quickly over taken both of his beams and over took his red aura that was protecting him. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo.... " I heard Satan Morroc scream out in agony until his voice faded from the sound of the magical beams that I had fired at it, and with a sudden flash of my blue aura I found myself blinded and deaf. I felt every bit of energy being drained from my body with that last flash, and I felt me fall from my levitated state to the ground. Was I dead? Was everything ok? Did I save my world? Did I save Equestria? I felt something constantly nudging me, slowly my eyesight return to me. To see the two Princesses and the Elements of Harmony staring down at me, except Twilight. I got up as quickly as I could, and felt a great pain over take me through out my body, I must have been badly injured. As I stood up looked over to the position where Satan Morroc one stood, only to see charred marks on the floor from the aura beams that were fired at him, he was finally gone. But the celebration was short lived when I suddenly realized that Twilight had been hurt. I barely heard myself say "Where is Twilight?!" All I saw was the ponies pointing with their hoofs toward a specific direction. I saw them trying to talk to me but I could not hear. So I just followed their queues to where they were pointing. I rushed over to where Twilight lay motionless on the ground. "No... please god no..." I embraced the purple unicorn. "God no.... please no... don't let her be gone..." I held the purple unicorn closer and closer and I began to tear up. "SOMEONE CALL SOME HELP!" I yelled at everyone. "Please god, don't let her be dead. You can't let me lose her!" I screamed out. "I love her damn it..." I said softly and buried my head into her, crying immensely and I held her tightly. "Ugh....." I heard moan come from the fallen pony. "TWILIGHT! PLEASE BE OK CAN YOU HEAR ME?!" I yelled out. "I'll be... ok... I promise..." Twilight said softly and she opened her eyes and gave me a small smile. "Thank the gods! You're ok! I almost thought I lost you!" I held her close. "We will take care of her Kiniro, you must leave soon the portal is closing!" Luna called out to me. I just nodded in agreement. "I guess this is goodbye my love... I'm glad we had what we did for this short time." I responded and kissed her forehead. "I love you Kiniro... please be safe." I heard her say softly. I looked over to the portal, realizing my time had come. I swung my guitar over my shoulder in preparation to enter the portal. "Everypony, Princesses and to you Twilight, even though I must go as Celestia has deemed it impossible for me to stay here in Equestria, I have learned something extremely valuable. I have learned that the power of friendship, and having not just allies who stand beside you but friends who stand by your side is the most powerful thing you can ever have. I appreciate everything that you all have done for me to help me get to this point, and I know me being here threatened your Kingdom and your world, but together we fought and defeated a great evil, as friends. And to you Twi, I'm glad what we had together for this short time, and I want you to know that you will have a special place in my heart, you all will." "What a precious little speech" I heard a familiar voice call out to me... End of Chapter 18.