The only reason I was still conscious was because of my panic. And the pain from what definitely had to be a broken snout or at least nose. But both made it very hard to concentrate. I was engulfed in darkness, unable to cast any kind of spell because of that. I did notice that we were in a hallway three floors lower than what we used to be a few second ago
But I could still hear the bat-like screeshes coming closer and closer. And as they got closer I could also start hearing what sounded like claws scratching the floor. I quickly looked around in the hopes of finding somewhere to hide or a not buried in rubble Cosmo's. Which wasn't the case as he was very buried. Under rubble. And a bathtub.
I turned around after hearing a screech that was louder than the rest. The creature responsible for the sound had gotten close enough that I could see his slightly glowing eyes even in the dark. I was about to run in the opposite direction, but I could see more of those creatures coming from that direction because of the glow of their eyes.
I climbed up the pile of rubble in the center of the hallway. Maybe having the high ground might give me a bigger chance of surviving. This hope was quickly dashed as another creature jumped down from the hole in the ceiling, only noticeable because of the thud it made as it landed.
I could feel tears streaming down my cheeks, caused both by fear and pain. The scared and terrified Trixie was facing an awful dead. I desperately tried to make some light with my horn. Maybe it would blind them.
I managed to create a tiny pathetic light for a few seconds. Just enough to see a pipe poking out in the pile of rubble. In a short moment of lucidity I knew that it could be used as a weapon. I picked it up, as the tiny light went out. I held the sturdy pipe in my front right hoof.
I could see her. I could see Twilight looking at me, with a smirk on my face, taunting me. It might have been caused by the pain that I was feeling, probably. But I could see her. See her blasting those creatures away with a few spell. And I couldn't live with the idea that she was better than me. Not again.
My fear was slowly being replaced by anger.
The simple THOUGHT of Twilight surviving what I couldn't enraged me. I had done so much. Spent so much money, travelled so much, fought so many monsters, made so many enemies and so much more. I didn't care if it had been two years since Trixie had last seen Twilight or that she had become a Princess, The GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE was NOT going to let those creatures stop her.
My fear, Trixie's fear, was being replaced by utter hatred.
I stood up on my two hind hooves, holding the pipe with my two front hooves. It may have been dark, but I could see the glow in their eyes and hear their growls and screeches. Those things thought that Trixie was helpless. They were wrong. I was now reinvigorated by my hate for Twilight.
The first creature that leapt onto me had it's front teeth smashed in by a pipe. Another one lept from the hole above, stupidly screeching as it did. I heard it coming and barely dodged, cutting myself on splinters. I felt too much hatred to even feel pain. Two glowing orbs were getting closed. I flung the pipe in between them, sending their owner tumbling back whining.
Two others jumped at me. Making so much noise that I could hear where they came from. I turned around, hitting one in the throat sending him flying in the other one. A smarter and sneakier one managed to get close enough and grab one of my hooves. I slammed the pipe on his hand, hearing it break, before slamming it again in it's snouth.
I would survive this. I would go back to Equestria. And I WILL give Twilight what she deserved.
Another one took a hit from my pipe beneath it's jaw. One jumped down from the floor above. I hit it while it was still in the air. They got wiser after I broke the arm of an eight one. They stopped jumping at me.
They were moving around me, as more and more joined them, for a whole minute. I kept my ears up listening for any sound. I was extremely lucky that those things were so loud. If not I would have been taken by surprise by the first one.
I tried to guess which one would jump at me by looking at their eyes. But I couldn't look at all of them at the same time. And I was exhausted and numb. At least I didn't feel any more pain because of the numbness.
It looked like one of them was about to jump. I braced myself to hit it. I then saw the two orbs that were its eyes get off the ground and into the air. A big screech was then heard before it reached me, distracting the both of us. It went of course missing me.
A loud banging could then be heard. More rubble and splinters fell from above. The banging got louder and louder and as it got close enough a light appeared above me. It then got brighter. I slowly looked up, sweating bullets.
A big glowing eye stared back at me. It shined bright enough that I could get a proper look at it's long elongated snout and big teeth. It also had four arms, which were holding it up through the hole in the ceiling. It was big enough to swallow me whole. It's eye looked around taking everything in.
Any courage I had and all of the hatred I felt had disappeared like a bad magic trick (Like what happened in Baltimare). I Lost all my remaining dignity as my bladder was emptied. Any hope I had was just gone, poof, nothing left.
As I was about to start crying, as the creature looked back at me with a hungry glare licking its lips, the rubble underneath me started shaking. I steadied myself, to avoid falling. Fortunately the big creature was also distracted by it. The rubble shifted as if something was digging itself out from it.
Cosmo's then popped out of the pile. Very rapidly. So rapidly that I couldn't dodge it, as his snout hit my snout. Breaking it even more. Causing both of us to scream in pain.
After managing not to fall from the pile and steadying myself I took a good look at Cosmo's. His snout was crumbled and a darker ethereal liquid was seeping out of his nose. He then grabbed a sink covered in the same liquid and threw it at one of the tinier creatures. Which were now easier to see because of the two new light sources.
"Why are ponies so fragile!?" He shouted as he held his snout clearly in pain. He then looked up and around seeing and then at my sweating, bleeding, pissed body. "Oh." Was the only sound that came out of his mouth.
As the bigger creature prepared to lunge, he quickly touched my bloody pipe and put his hand around my horn before lunging at the creature. Cosmo's grew in size and looked more lizardlike and slender before slamming into it. Both he and the bigger creature, let's call it cyclops as it had one eye, wrestled each other and fell on one side of the hallway crushing some of the tinier creatures. They tried to scramble away as the two giants fought, biting and scratching at each other.
My horn and pipe were glowing. My pipe then turned in a mace. It felt very comfortable in my hooves. I felt pain in my horn, but I could also feel my magic coming back. I tried using a light spell and it worked. It hurt but it wasn't too straining.
I smiled and looked at the creatures. They were putting their arms in front of their eye to shield them from the bright light. They looked like strange elongated bats without wings and longer legs and arms ending with bear-like claws.
"BOW BEFORE THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE YOU MISERABLE BEASTS!" I used a voice amplification spel. It scared them but they didn't bow. I quickly used a pain killing spell and an energy spell, which basically like drinking two barrels of coffee in one go. It also tasted like coffee. My amulet was shining as I casted those spells.
Now that I felt much better I lunged at the nearest creature. Oddly enough I kept the mace in my hooves instead of levitating it, but that wasn't important.
They took to long to properly react. By the time that they actually attacked me I had already send four of them flying with my mace and another one with a spell. The first ones that lunged at me slammed into a quickly casted shield. I then let the shield implode sending them flying. I dodged an attack from my left, thanks to my heightened senses. I then slammed my mace into the creature breaking it's arm into pieces.
The remaining ones then got wise and ran and The wounded ones crawled away. I stood upright, panting. Those spells would only temporarily relieve me. I then heard clapping from behind me. I turned around and saw Cosmo's clapping.
"Wow. I'm need to say that of all the people to have ever summoned me, you are by far one of the more impressive ones." His slowly shifted back into an alicorn. "Trixie is nothing but impressive. Though Trixie is also thankful for the timely save."
He let out a chuckle and then grabbed his snout. "I'm happy to help. I would have helped sooner, but getting hit by a sink in the face is extremely painful, even for beings like me." He then twisted his snout back in place. It sounded horrible but I would love for my own snout to be unbroken. His other wounds started healing. I looked behind him and saw that that part of the hallway was in ruins. The only sign of the cyclops that I could spot was a very detached arm.
I put the mace on the ground, as it hadn't turned back into a pipe, and sat on the ground. I opened my spellbook and tried casting any healing spell that I had. Cosmo's also started helping me, healing multiple of my wounds. He didn't say anything about the fact that I had soiled myself, which was smart of him. Oddly enough the past events, which started like five minutes ago, made me feel stronger.
If I could defeat those things, then my chances of taking my revenge on Twilight would be higher. Actually... "You said that the creatures here wouldn't be dangerous?" I inquired. He shook his head.
"I said that the native creatures weren't much of a danger, like those tiny ones. The big one isn't from here just like us. And they usually don't c..."
He was suddenly interrupted as holes were blown into walls, more pieces of the ceiling collapsed and hundreds of screeches and screams could be heard from all around us. One side of the hallway was engulfed in flames. Dozens of beings covered, not made out of fire, crawled out the fire.
Creatures tiny and big (but none as big as the cyclopes) crawled out of every hole rushing toward sour direction.
Cosmo's stood on his hind hooves, his front ones turning back into clawed hands. I could feel a lot of magic emanating from him, clearly preparing to cast multiple spells. I also stood on my hind legs, grabbed the mace, my mace, into my right hoof and prepared my spells. My amulet glowed maliciously. I thought about Twilight and about how I would get my revenge.
And they stood in my way.